LEARNING RESOURCE CENTER
BETHEL COLLEGE
Dear Wormwood, to be presented as part of the 1963 Home-coming
weekend activities, is the subject of a conference including
director Dale Rott, Jerry Oas, Pauli Larson and Vince Bloom.
Weekend
Cast Prepares
Wormwood'
Rehearsal for Dear Wormwood,
the first dramatic presentation of
the year, has been in progress for
over a week and is making "fine
progress" according to director
Dale Rott.
Based on the book Screwtape
Letters by C. S. Lewis, the play
is to be presented Oct. 24 and 25
Government
Offers Grads
Travel Grants
Government grants are now
available for graduate study or re-search
abroad. These grants pro-vide
round-trip transportation as
well as tuition and maintenance
for one year.
Two other types of grants are
available. One is the joint U.S.
grant, offered co-operatively by
the U.S. and a foreign country. The
U.S. provides the travel, and the
foreign country provides tuition
and maintenance. The other grant
is the travel-only award, which is
awarded with maintenance and tui-tion
scholarships awarded by a uni-versity,
private donor or foreign
government.
To be eligible, the applicant must
be a U.S. citizen; have a bachelor's
degree or its equivalent in profes-sional
training; language ability
equal to the demands of the pro-posed
study project; and good
health. It is preferred that the ap-plicants
be under 35 years of age.
For interested students, further
information may be obtained from
Webster Muck.
Lists of countries offering op-portunities
in a particular field,
are available from department
heads. Deadline for filing applica-tions
is Dec. 15, 1963.
in conjunction with the homecom-ing
events. Tickets will be on sale
for $1 Oct. 17. All seats are re-served.
Since the Oct. 25 perform-ance
will be primarily for alumni
student tickets will be sold to the
Oct. 24 performance first.
Cast in the title role, Worm-wood,
is Steve Seidl. His prob-lems
as a young fiend during
his first "soul snatching" assign.
ment on earth provide the focal
point for the action. Screwtape,
a senior devil played by Alson
Toays is intent on aiding and
advising Wormwood in the intri-cacies
of snaring a soul.
Paul Goodman portrays Michael
Average, the youthful draughtsman
to whom Wormwood is attached.
The battle between good and evil
forces is accented by the appear-ance
of attractive, God-fearing
Judy Macadam, played by Phoebe
Netterlund. Pauli Larson as Slum-trimpit,
another of Satan's fiends,
does not hesitate to attack Judy,
even though she is walking close
to God. Mike's mother, played by
Barbara Grounds, is used in Satan's
scheme to appropriate souls for
himself.
The play probes deeply into the
problems of temptation in the life
of a young person, exposing the
means Satan uses to produce spir-itual
frustration.
For example, while talking to
his pastor, Mike questions the abil-ity
of a person to receive the Holy
Spirit because of the hypocrisy in
the lives of those who supposedly
have this gift. Wormwood urges
him to more questioning, negativ-ism
and sin, and Mike at times
gives in.
Mr. Rott plans a unit set with
heights, levels and stairs sug-gesting
the change of locality in-stead
of complete set changes for
the presentation.
Jerry Oas is serving as stage
manager; June Erickson, assistant
stage manager; Nancy Robertson,
sound; Marilynne Anderson, make-up;
and Arlene Gustayson, costum-ing.
There are still opportunities
available for those interested in
working with lighting effects.
Cabot Dow and John Halverson
are presidential candidates in the
freshman class election to be held
Friday in the student center. Bal-loting
will be done between 10:40
a m. and 4 p.m.
Thursday night candidates for
each office who survived last Fri-day's
primary will take part in a
campaign rally. Beginning at 7:30
p.m. in the fieldhouse, candidates
will be nominated and given an
opportunity to address the class.
NOMINATION SPEECHES are
required to be not longer than
one minute and acceptance speech-es
no more than three minutes.
Presidential candidates will bore
the audience with five minute
speeches. Dramatic demonstrations
following a candidates speech must
be staged in two minutes.
Dow hails from Sunnyside„
Wash., where he served as presi-
Trojans Face
Royal Eleven
Homecoming captures the cam-pus
Oct. 24 through 26. Theme this
year is "Impressions from
Autumn." "Tromp the Trojans" is
the by-word for the football game
Saturday afternoon, Oct. 26. Co-chairmen
of the entire weekend are
Elizabeth Carlson and Marcia Dan-iels.
Crowning of the queen at the
coronation reception Thursday,
Oct. 24 at 4:30 p.m. opens festi-vities.
Dear Wormwood will be
performed that evening at 8. Stu-dents
are encouraged to attend this
performance, rather than the Fri-day
presentation.
A special homecoming chapel
service will be held at 10 a.m.
Friday. "Dear Wormwood" will
be presented at 8 p.m. while a
hootenanny for students will be-gin
at 8:30 p.m. A pep fest at
10 p.m. concludes the Friday
activities.
All three dormitories have open
house between 10 and 11 Satur-day
morning. The Royals face the
Northwestern college Trojans at
1:30 p.m. in the homecoming game
at Midway stadium.
Half-time activities will include
traditional presentation of the
homecoming queen and her court.
Trophies will be awarded in the
campus decoration contest, with
entries from each class and the
dormitories.
Speaker for the 6:30 p.m.
homecoming banquet Saturday
will be the Rev. Ray Applequist.
Rev. Applequist is the executive
secretary of the general com-mittee
on chaplains and armed
personnel in Washington, D.C.
Special music for the banquet
will be provided by other alumni.
Homecoming committee chair-men
are Linda Brodd, publicity
and programs; Dick Fredrickson,
campus decorations; Don Allison,
pep fest and half-time; Miriam
Carlson, banquet; Judy Carlson,
coronation reception; Rod Tyberg,
business manager; and June Erick-son,
play.
dent of his sophomore and vice-president
of his junior class in
high school. President of the
Central Washington state Bap-tist
Youth Fellowship association
and his local church fellowship,
he was also chaplain of high
school Christian youth fellow-ship.
Halverson makes his home in
Youngstown, Ohio. He has served
as president of the Middle East
Conference Youth Fellowship as
well as his local youth group. He
was sophomore class president and
president of the high school Bible
club. Twice a district champion in
speech competition, he was one
of the top ten in the state of Ohio
in original oratory his senior year.
Doug Ainsworth of Cedar Rapids,
Iowa, and Tom Anderson of Min-neapolis
are vying for the vice-presidency
and duties as class so-cial
chairman. Debbie Peterson
from Waukegan, Ill., and Kathy
Swanson of Rochester, Minn.,
clash for the secretary's chores.
Mike Anderson and Wendell
Plucker are seeking control of the
treasury of the class of 1967.
SEEKING the position of class
representative in the student sen-ate
are Jim Palmquist, a resident
of St. Paul and Mike Peterson of
Whittier, Calif.
Presidential candidates in the
primary included Doug Kelley,
Phil Linden, Rod Mason and
Daryl Sanborn in addition to the
two winners. Jon Splinter was
an unsuccessful candidate for
vice - presidential nomination,
while Susy Bauer and Sue Ster-rett
were defeated in the secre-tarial
primary.
Cheryl Alen and Robert Hanson
missed treasurer's spots on the
"The Christian Pastor in the
Space Age" will be explored by
Rev. J. Lester Harnish, D.D., dur-ing
the annual fall seminary lec-ture
series, Oct. 15 through 17 in
the college auditorium. Mr. Har-nish
will discuss the following
Dr. Harnish
topics as some essentials in an-swering
God's call:
"A Committed Man," Tuesday,
Oct. 15, at 10 a.m.; "A Compelling
Motive," Wednesday, Oct. 16, at
10 a.m.; "An Authoritative Mes-sage,"
Thursday, Oct. 17, at 10
a.m.; and concluding with "A Spir-itual
Objective," Thursday at 1
p.m.
Pastor of the First Baptist
church, Portland, Ore. Mr. Harnish
is a graduate of Wheaton college
and Eastern Baptist Theological
seminary. He holds honorary de-final
ballot, and Gordon Ellison
and Kathe Feldheim did not re-ceive
enough votes for selection
as candidates for class representa-tive.
Posters covering the campus this
week are not permitted on depart-mental
bulletin boards, in the li-brary
or in classrooms. All posters
must be removed from the student
center for balloting Friday and all
posters must be taken down by
Saturday morning.
Several duties face the new offi-cers
immediately after election:
dues must be set and collected; a
budget must be adopted; an advisor
must be chosen; and decorations
for homecoming must be planned.
The president and the representa-tive
are ex-officio members of the
student senate.
YGOP Meets
To Organize
YGOP will hold an organiza-tional
meeting Thursday, Oct. 10
at 6 p.m. in the president's dining
hall. Officers will be elected to
the positions of vice-president, sec-retary
and treasurer.
Bill Damberg, seminary student,
is club president. Planning to hold
monthly meetings, the group will
also discuss plans for the coming
year.
Club aims for this year include
promoting the Republican party on
campus, supporting a candidate for
the presidential nomination, pro-moting
the need for Christians in
politics and participating in the
Minnesota College Republican fed-eration.
grees from Wheaton and California
Baptist Theological seminary.
A world traveler, he has au-thored
the books, We Prepare and
Preach and Help in Troubled
Times. Having previously served
four large city churches, his pre-sent
congregation numbers about
2,000 racially integrated members
and is recognized for its unusual
record of stewardship giving.
Senior Class
Parties in Hay
Ding's Riding academy in Min-neapolis
will be the site of the
first senior class party of the year
on Saturday, Oct. 12. Class mem-bers
are to meet at the college
parking lot for rides at 7:30 p.m.
A hayride, food and fun will high-light
the evening's activities.
All who plan to attend must
make reservations in the coffee
shop or with cabinet members by
Wednesday, Oct. 9. There will be
a charge of $.75 per person. Sen-iors
are welcome to bring guests.
ALL NEED TESTS
All students, faculty and staff
personnel are to report to the stu-dent
lounge of the college building
Tuesday, Oct. 15, between 10:30
a.m. and 2:30 p.m. for the Man-toux
(tuberculin) testing. Free of
charge, the testing is required of
everyone.
Bethel College Learning Resource Centel
Dow, Halverson Seek
Freshman Presidency
the CLARION
Volume XL — No. 4
Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn.
Tuesday, October 8, 1963
Offers Play, Game
Prominent Baptist Pastor
Brings Lecture Series
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the CLARION Tuesday, October 8, 1963 White Christians Must Awaken
Student Summer Project To Plight of American Negro
Needs Chapel Offerings
Soon the reglious committee of the student senate will
decide where the chapel offerings will be spent. A project
sending students to mission stations for the summer is being
considered. This would be a very worthwhile way to spend
the money.
Under the plan now being considered, students would
apply to a screening committee. This committee would have
members from the religious committee, faculty and admini-stration.
Students would have to be returning to Bethel the
following fall. Applicants should be at least considering mis-sion's
service.
Limited by cost to mission fields in this hemisphere,
the committee is considering needs in Brazil and the Virgin
Islands. Conference missionaries in these places have been
contacted and are in need of help. The committee is also con-sidering
sending students to Alaska and the Aleutian Islands.
In all of these places the arrangements would be the same.
Students would be given round trip tickets and room and board
for the summer. They would serve for about ten weeks with
no salary. Activities would vary greatly from place to place,
but would include such assorted tasks as carpentry, door-to-door
visitation, Sunday school teaching, providing special music
and preaching.
Several other evangelical colleges carry on such programs.
Wheaton college sent 17 students to South America last sum-mer
to serve in various capacities. Barrington college in Bar-rington,
R. I., sent eight students to areas in both the United
States and Latin America. Calvin college in Grand Rapids,
Mich., sent 57 students to new churches in Canada and the
United States. In all these programs the same two goals were
stated: help the Christian workers in the area and encourage
prospective Christian workers with practical experience.
In the projected Bethel program, it would appear rea-sonable
to set the same goals. In addition, the students re-turning
to the campus after a summer with a missionary could
be expected to share their experiences with others. Although
some might argue that an equipment project like last year's
would be better, it appears that these needs are at least
partially met by the LIFT program. For the college, sending
a group of personal representatives would bring benefits
to the missions they visit, to the representatives themselves
and to the student body.
Transportation costs for the students to Brazil would be
about $600 apiece. For the representatives in the Virgin Is-lands,
the cost would be about $200 per person. The total cost
for sending out six to eight students would be about $2,500.
Since money for this proposed project will come from the stu-dents,
their opinions should be made known to members of the
religious committee. Their decision will be reviewed by the
chapel and spiritual life committee before it is presented to the
student body.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
l Ora 26* T DREAD SEEING THAT KID RAISE IRIS HANV
by Jim Spiceland
In the summer of 1619 a ship
with a most significant cargo an-chored
in the harbor of James-town,
Va. It was a cargo that
through the years has been a
thorn in the side of complacent
Christians, and
by the summer
of 1963 was driv-ing
many of us
to re-examine
our Christian
values. This re-examination
is
proving to be a
very hard mat-ter
That ship left twenty black Af-rican
slaves in the village of James-town,
and when it sailed away it
left a shadow across Protestant
aaneta
aid
6eared
by Marcia Wood
A number of very interesting
fine arts activities are continually
open in the Twin Cities area. Most
of the art exhibitions and some of
the concerts are open to the public
without charge. Others may be en-joyed
for a minimal admission
charge. All are easily accessible.
On Oct. 10 "Recent Paintings .
USA; the Figure" will be shown
in a gallery tour at 8:30 p.m. at
Walker Art center. On Oct. 24
Martin Friedman, recently return-ed
director from the St. Paulo
Bienal where he served as U.S.
Commissioner, will give an in-formal
talk, "The International Art
Scene." The center is located at
1710 Lyndale in Minneapolis.
"Etchings by Cadwallader
Washburn" will be in the Little
Gallery from Oct. 13 through
Nov. 17.
"The Barber of Seville" will be
presented by the St. Paul Civic
opera at the St. Paul auditorium
theatre at 8:30 p.m., Oct. 17
through 19. Tickets are from $1 to
$4.
On Oct. 18, the opening concert
of the Minneapolis Symphony or-chestra
will include Bartok's "Mu-sic
for Strings" and "Percussion
and Celesta;" "Death and Trans-figuration"
by Strauss; Beethoven's
"Symphony No. 7" and "Siegfried
Idyl," by Wagner. The concert is
part of a series of three held in
Northrup auditorium at 8:30 p.m.
Tickets are available at the Twin
City ticket offices.
On exhibition through Oct. 20
at the Minneapolis Institute of
Arts, 201 E. 24th St., are 29
paintings of eight contemporary
artists from Rome. "Prints and
Drawings on a Viennese Theme"
will be on display in the print
gallery from Oct. 19 through
Nov. 17.
On Oct. 29 Robert Cacadesus
will be featured pianist in the
Schubert Club concert series in
the St. Paul auditorium theatre at
8:30 p.m.
On Oct. 29 "An Evening of Read-ings,"
coordinated by David Jones,
professor of English at the Uni-versity
of Minnesota, will be pre-sented
at 8 p.m. Admission is free.
The National Ballet of Canada
will be presented Nov. 2 by Dean
and Mary Constantine at the St.
Paul auditorium theatre at 8:30
p.m. Tickets are available for $2
at all major ticket offices.
St. Paul art center at 476 Sum-mit
avenue is featuring "DUSA
(Drawings USA) Jurors exhibition"
through Nov. 10.
Christianity which has grown in- ment if we allow this truth to
creasingly dark across the years. close our minds and hearts to
In the south the darkness has be- the culture in which we live. It
come so oppressive that one can must drive us on to understand-make
out only the faintest out- ings and applications of His love.
lines of the religion that Jesus Christ continually called His d is-taught.
And Christians in the north ciples to repentance and new
with a vaguely brighter light, have commitment. As they grew in
piously pointed fingers at southern grace and knowledge before
failures, thus bringing into sharper Him, they were given new re-focus
their own sin. sponsibilities to bear.
The Christian life of those who
refuse to bear these responsibilities
always loses its vitality, and the
most irrelevant people in America
today are Christians who are out
of touch with their Savior.
Aloof criticism of the Church
and its many problems degenerates
into meaningless cliches and al-ways
stifles creativity. But honesty
and concern must bring us to face
reality and search for answers.
AMONG THESE answers may be
this fact: We must waste no time
in discarding our historical fears
and associations of the social ap-plication
of the Gospel. Fear should
be foreign to us, yet this fear has
too long blinded us to the fact that
individuals bear major responsi-bilities
in society. The love of
Jesus must free us from all such
fears, and call us to experience
the freshness of true reality.
Christian love, when observed
working in the life of an indi-vidual
who is facing honestly
the problems and complexities
of life, is the most beautiful
thing in the world. We are a-ware
of people possessing this
on our campus and they enrich
us.
But honesty before God demands
that we confess that this is not
the case in the evangelical church
at large. While the racial situation
in America cries out for genuine
Christian love, we are busy with
our committees, cliches and con-tracts.
God help us to awake to
this situation and allow the warm
winds of the love of Jesus Christ
to refresh our people.
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Mr. Spiceland is a senior in
the college from Detroit, Mich.
A philosophy major, he has serv-ed
as freshman class president,
Edgren dormitory council presi-dent
and member of the civil
defense committee, and is cur-rently
co-ordinator of the stu-dent
religious committee.
Tha Weeh .
Tuesday, Oct. 8
10 a m. Bethel lecture series. Dr. Phenix.
Fieldhouse.
12 noon Faculty luncheon with Dr. Phenix,
President's dining room.
6:45 p.m. Student senate. Room 105.
7:30 p.m. Golf demonstration. Fieldhouse.
8 p.m. Student wives. Walter Wessel's
home.
Thursday, Oct. 10
6 p.m. YGOP. President's dining room.
7:30 p.m. Freshman election rally. Field-house.
Saturday, Oct. 12
All day —Co-recreation canoe trip.
7.30 p.m. Senior class party. Ding's Riding
academy.
Sunday, Oct. 13
9 p.m. Twin City CYF singspiration. Field-house.
Monday, Oct. 14
7 p.m. Seminary wives. Bodien lounge.
8 p.m. Faculty wives. Edgren recreation
room.
Tuesday, Oct. 15
10:45 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. Man.oux tests. Stu-dent
lounge.
9 p.m. WMF. Seminary chapel.
the CLARION
Published weekly during the academic year,
except during vacation and examination
periods, by the students of Bethel college
and seminary, St. Paul 1, Minn. Subscrip-tion
rate $3 per year.
Volume XL
No. 4
Editor-in-Chief .. Dave Johnson
News Editor . Jean Dahlquist
Feature Editor . Karen Neslund
Sports Editor .. Don Allison
Copy Editor Neva Rogers
Photo Editor Elizabeth Carlson
Advertising Manager . Marcia Daniels
Business Manager Bob Larson
Circulation Manager ... Karin Berg
Office Manager Joan Anderson
Advisor Edward Avey
Opinions expressed in the CLARION do not
necessarily reflect the position of the college
or seminary.
THOSE TWENTY slaves have
grown into twenty million theore-tically
free American Negroes.
They have much to say to students
at evangelical Christian schools
such as Bethel.
We come to Bethel from our
Christian backgrounds and are
usually well-trained in the basic
doctrines of the word of God.
In the process of learning and
growing as Christian students,
we often become disillusioned
with many of our former spirit-ual
concepts. This experience,
though seemingly negative, may
be a vital part of our growing
into "the fulness of Christ," as
new and deeper understandings
should fill our lives in place of
the old.
Among these understandings is
realization of the social implica-tions
and potential of the Gospel
of Christ. We do not embrace the
historical social gospel, but the
revolutionary nature of the new
birth begins to dawn upon us. It
is not a doctrine that we must
hold to at all costs, but a living
relationship that we must allow
to take possession of us.
We have been trying to protect
the Gospel. But the Gospel of Jesus
Christ does not need our protec-tion;
in fact, we need to let loose
this power in our lives.
ALTHOUGH it is naive to con-sider
Christians wholly responsible
for social conditions, we are called
to take a stand and speak out in
our world. Many Christian Negroes
are growing impatient with the
complacency of white Christians.
Events indicate that non-
Christian Negroes will not much
longer endure. A thorough read-ing
of the Sept. issue of EBONY
magazine in the library will con-firm
this view. Negroes seem to
be saying, "You Christians are
failing to practice the Gospel you
hold so dear."
We must listen to them. It should
bother us that the South is called
the Bible belt, the home of fun-damentalism,
while it has spawned
a social system which seems to ne-gate
the love of Christ when put
into practice. Chicago, with its
many evangelical schools and large
Christian community, also has the
largest and dirtiest Negro ghetto
in the land.
We are not without responsibili-ties
as we view these conditions.
Christian people can often be
heard explaining these situations
away with neat little theories like
any other middle class American.
Could it be that we who consider
ourselves the "called-out ones" are
really victims of our culture?
AS THE GOSPEL of Christ be-comes
increasingly associated with
our political position and economic
theory, to that extent our witness
loses its power. At we get richer
and richer because we "worked
our way up," black Americans are
becoming poorer and poorer be-cause
they can't work. A popular
folk song asks, "How many times
can a man turn his head and pre-tend
that he doesn't see?" Every
time we turn our heads we are
making a mockery of the Gospel.
Our salvation has been won by
our Savior, but it is a tragic mis-understanding
of the New Testa-
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5501 Chicago Avenue South, Minneapolis
Sunday School 9:30
Morning Service 10:45
C.Y.F. 5:45
Evening Service 7:00
Rev. Ellis Eklof, Jr., Pastor
CENTRAL BAPTIST CHURCH
e4epic14 a Caiidird 2i/el-come au
ifrt Ch' with
Morning Services 9 & 11
Church Bible School 10
Young Peoples class taught by Dr. Anton
Pearson, studying Book of Isaiah.
Pro Bu Cols 5:30
(Professional, Business, College)
Evening Service 7:15
Pastor Magnuson
Bus Leaves Bodien 9:40 a.m., 5:10 p.m.
Minister of Music, Bruce Leafblad
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Church Players
Portray, Study
Puritan Society
by Dan Martinez
The Crucible by Arthur Miller is
a drama of people enslaved in their
own norms of behaviour, greed and
prejudices. The action takes place
in the Massachusetts Puritan com-munity
of 1692. Difficulties in
survival had made them a soberly
hard-working, fervently religious
and superstitious community.
As the drama unfolds, civil laws,
religious piety and fundamentals
of the faith lose their identities
to greed, prejudice, self-glory and
superstitions. Persons were abused
and victimized by a civil church
court that sought to blame and
burn "witches" for recent trage-dies
that had beset the commun-ity.
The drama ends in the famous
Salem witch burnings.
The production of this drama
by the Simpson players in Simp-son
Methodist church stressed
the ridiculous and the absurdi-ties
in the events. The audience
felt the impact of the tragedies.
However, this was accomplished
by exaggerations in the portrayal
of some key characters. Court
scenes were exceedingly forceful
and overly dramatic. Screaming
and shouting was excessive.
Highlights of the production
were good interpretations by Tho-mas
D. Brown, Ruth Granger, John
Sorflaten and Patrich Finney in
their roles of Mr. and Mrs. Proc-tor,
Mr. Putnam and Rev. John
Hale, respectively.
An attempt at modern lighting
effects and scenery was disturb-ing
at times. The total effect
was a quasi-surrealistic stage.
Generally recognized as a reli-gious
play, this production lacked
consistent depth or insight in the
portrayal of real persons in a
real situation. It contained too
many stereotyped characters ...
the innocent abused, the dema-gogue,
the opportunist, the martyr,
a villainess and the helpless con-scientious
do-gooder. However, the
result was still an excellent social
commentary. As Delbert D. Per-mann
wrote in the program:
The witch-hunt allowed all to
confess openly their sins; it was
even holy and patriotic to do so.
Let me draw an anology. Examine
closely the suppression of indi-vidual
rights and freedom, the rise
of racial supremacy, the popular-ity
of the rightist movement in our
society, and see if you can't see a
vague resemblance to the Puritani-cal
society of the 1690's.
Snelling Avenue
at Highway 36
Vade
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Party room for groups
OPEN
Fri. - Sat. til 3 a.m.
(photo by Veras)
Mrs. Olof Bodien is memorialized in this portrait, hung on the
north wall of the lounge in the dormitory that bears her name —
Bodien residence for women.
Popular Oil Commemorates
Legend of 'Mother Bodien'
by Minda Pearson
The stern-faced picture which disappears yearly from Bodien lounge
portrays kind-hearted "Mother Bodien," almost unknown to present
generation Bethelites. Her story is related by Mrs. Adolf Olson, who
carried on the work which Mrs. Olof Bodien began.
An old eccentric preacher in Dalarne, Sweden, confronted sixteen-year-
old Margareta with the advice that she marry the young school
teacher Olof Bodien. She took his advice, and they were married the
Christmas time 1878.
Two years later, with a large group of relatives and neighbors,
the Bodiens emigrated to Isanti county, Minn., where Bodien conse-crated
his life to the ministry. In 1893 they moved to Minneapolis
where Bodien pastored the First Swedish Baptist church (now Beth-lehem).
Mrs. Bodien was an ideal minister's wife, graciously making a suc-cessful
contribution in her home, her church and at Bethel. The Bodien
home was known far and wide for its generous hospitality.
Her greatest contribution was her unselfish spirit of encouragement
and far-sighted vision for Bethel academy. Serving even in the common-est
ways, "Mother Bodien" would be seen scrubbing floors on her
knees or mending linens.
Under her leadership the Bethel Women's federation was formed
in 1916. Throughout the Conference, women became interested in the
work of Bethel and contributed thousands of dollars to the school. From
this evolved the board of women's work of the Baptist General con-ference.
Dormitories for the students were a dream of Mrs. Bodien, who
died 13 years before the first wing of the dorm bearing her name was
built in 1951.
Mrs. Olson closed, "In the memorial service held at Bethel seminary,
Dr. Gordh called attention to the basic reason for Mother Bodien's un-usually
successful and unselfish ministry, paraphrasing II Cor. 8:5: But
first she gave her own self to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God."
Tuesday, October 8, 1963
by Joan McNaughton
"How was your summer?" "Was
it worth all the work?" These are
two questions that I have been
asked many times since I returned
to Bethel. For the sake of those
people who are interested and for
those who helped send me, as well
as for students who are thinking
of applying for SPAN, I will at-tempt
to answer these questions.
I spent the first month of my
stay in Finland in our apartment
in Helsinki with two other girls
and the last three weeks of my
stay traveling around the country.
Following my eight weeks in
Finland I spent about four
weeks traveling in Europe, see-ing
the rest of Scandinavia and
some of the other northern
European countries.
My trip was valuable in a var-iety
of ways. It brought me into
contact with another culture and
language and a group of people
who do things differently than I
do. At the same time, and partly
as a result of this, I had a chance
to get a new perspective on the
United States.
In one sense I can appreciate
the U.S. more, and in another
sense I have become more critical
of it. It is an interesting exper-ience
to read about racial problems
and foreign policy in a foreign
newspaper and to view them from
the perspective of the occupant of
another country.
Although the preceeding ex-perience
may be common to most
travelers, there are some exper-iences
that are peculiar to the
traveler who, like the SPANer,
studies in one country.
SPAN's name suggests that it
wishes to have an effect on inter-national
relations. And although the
title Student Project for Amity
among Nations sounds somewhat
pretentious (especially to returning
the CLARION Page 3
SPANers), the program does have
some effect in that area.
The fact that people in any
country meet American students
who are spending time studying
their country and who are inter-ested
in their problems and their
point of view has some effect on
the negative European image of
the American tourist.
However, the main effect of
SPAN, in my opinion, is that it
produces students who have a
personal interest in people of
another country because of the
friends they have made, and a
deeper insight in the problems
of that country because of the
study they have done.
Another experience that SPAN
offers is the opportunity to do in-dependent
study. I found myself
so independent it was frightening.
The SPAN student is free to choose
his own topic, make his own con-tacts,
organize his own project and
discipline his own time.
The advisor is available for sug-gesting
leads and the amount of
material that might be available,
but the student is usually at least
as independent as he wants to be.
This situation results in the most
valuable and largest piece of learn-ing
that I or any SPANner has, an
increased knowledge of himself and
his own capabilities.
In conclusion I will say that
SPAN is not the only student
study program and it may not even
be the best one, but it is available.
With its year of language and
background preparation and its
emphasis on independent study, I
think it can be very valuable for
Bethel students.
Miss MMccNNaauugghhttoonn,, a senior
English major and member of
Lambda Iota Tau, is from St.
Paul, Minn. She studied the Fin-nish
Theater during the past
summer while in the SPAN pro-gram.
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taro Jerry Moulton had a big day
for the winners as he scored four
touchdowns. Mike Peterson scored
the other two to account for their
six tallies.
The Jesters stretched their win-ning
record to 4-0 as they clobbered
the Pages 26-0. The Pages tried to
use a rushing defense to stop
quarterback Dave Buck and the
rampaging Jesters, but they could
not make their defense work ef-fectively.
In the only other game of the
day, the Knights handed the Dukes
their second straight defeat against
only one win, beating them 13-12
in the closest contest of the day.
The win gave the Knights a 2-2
record.
Look for Hubert
the nameless lion
Oct. 26
the CLARION Tuesday, October 8, 1963
Winona Outruns
Bethel Harriers
Dale Rogers, Bethel's first fin-isher,
captured third place as the
Royals were set back 21-34 by
Winona State college last Satur-day.
The loss, run on the Como
Park course, gave the Royals a
1-2 record.
Tom Gale of Winona State cap-tured
first place as he circled the
course in 18:48. Gale's time set a
new course record by 10 seconds.
The record was formerly held by
a Mankato State runner.
Bruce Smith (19:05) placed
second, while teammates Dick
Lietzau (19:41) and Dennis Wo-dele
(19:53) finished fourth and
fifth respectively. Bill Anderson
(20:25) Winona's fifth finisher,
captured ninth place.
Bill Carlson, the Royals second
finisher, took sixth place in 20:13.
Ken Haniwalt (20:18) and Dale
Pearson (20:24) finished seventh
and eighth for Bethel with Riley
Coombs (21:02) finishing tenth.
by Denny Port
The Bethel football team found
the going rough at Valley City as
they defeated their opposition bad-ly
in every statistic except the
score. After trailing 12-7 at half-time,
Bethel came back to grind
Valley City's defense into the
ground, but was unable to score.
The Royals stepped right out
to a 7-0 lead in the first quarter.
Don Land scampered over from
the 15 and Don Peterson kicked
for the point.
Before the half had ended Val-ley
City had gone on top with
two touchdowns. One of the
scores followed a Bethel fumble
inside the Royal's 10 yard line.
Before the half ended Land had
scored again, from 30 yards out,
but the run was nullified by a
penalty.
In the second half Bethel dom-inated
the play. However, four
more touchdown nullifications off-set
numerous threats. One such
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threat was a 70 yard kick return
by Jim Nelson which was called
back. Land then carried over for
another would-be score, but the
ball was again called back.
In the final quarter Roger Price Saturday's fourth round of in-broke
away for two more gallops tramural play found three of the
to pay dirt but, again, the flags four games ending in a shutout as
were flying. Finally with just sec- the Jesters and the Seminary con-onds
remaining Price drove to the tinued to lead the nine team stand-one-
foot line on a fourth down ings.
play, but could not score.
awesome 105 yards during the
defense had allowed only 133 for
Valley City. Bethel moved for
gained only eight, three on
15 first downs, while Valley City
racked up 277 yards while the
Bethel penalties.
The Royals were penalized an
Over all the Royal offense had
the Seminary team edged the Pea-sants
7-0 to give them a 3-0 overall
record for the season. The win en-place
with the Jesters. The Pea-sants
fought hard all the way only
back because of penalties.
abled them to stay in a tie for first
to have two touchdowns called
In one of the two 9 a.m. games
game, more than in all three pre- In the second game the Squires
vious games. The loss leaves Bethel slaughtered the Barons, winning
with a 2-2 record with Morris next 41-0. The win was the first for the
on the schedule. Squires against three losses. Cap-
(photo by Allison)
Gripping techniques are demonstrated by physical education in-structor
Marilyn Starr. Eagerly learning are (from left) Vince Bloom,
Marian Tall and Roger Evans. Keller golf course professional Herb Snow
will carry on Miss Starr's work tonight in the fieldhouse. The golf
demonstration, open free to all, is part of the required class work for
all freshmen. Snow tees off at 7:30 p.m.
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Rich Hallbreck (21:04), Jim Pet-erson
(21:44) and John Dischinger
(21:46) captured eleventh, twelfth
and thirteenth places respectively
for the Royals finishing ahead of
Ron Belonger (21:55) of Winona
State.
Rogers set a new Royal record
(19:21) over the 3.6 mile course,
clipping 45 seconds off his old
record. This was the second meet
in a row in which he had broken
the record which he set two
weeks ago.
Coach Glader is optimistic about
the harriers performance in future
meets. Six Royal runners took more
than 30 seconds off their previous
course times.
Next Saturday Bethel travels to
Gustavus Adolphus where they will
participate in a triangular meet
against Gustavus Adolphus and the
Mankato State freshmen. The Roy-als
will attempt to avenge last
year's defeat over a hilly 3.3 mile
Gustavus course.
(photo by Berge)
Terry Port carries the ball for the Pages in last week's intramural
football action. Bruce Erickson (left) and Roger Inouye move in for
the tag. The Jester's kept their goal uncrossed and downed the Pages
26-0. The Jesters and the Seminary are tied for first place.
Flags Wave Valley City
Past Luckless Royals
They say figures don't lie. I'm not so sure. Let's take a football
game for example, maybe one between Bethel college and Valley City
State Teacher's college. Now that we have our teams let's bring in
some figures, say Valley City 12, Bethel 7.
Valley City would clearly be the winner in this imaginary game,
if you believe that figures don't lie. Now suppose Bethel gained 277
total yards as compared to 133 yards for Valley City. Imagine that Bethel
hacked out 15 first downs to Valley City's eight.
How could Valley City possibly win 12-7 in view of the statistics?
Let's invent some unusual circumstances to explain the score. Some of
Bethel's touchdowns could be called back, maybe even as many as four.
One touchdown might be called back because two Bethel players are
off-side (the penalty could be called after the ball carrier has crossed
the goal line).
Another score might be nullified because a couple of blockers are
accused of helping the ball carrier over the goal line. A referee stand-ing
in the middle of the field might claim the halfback sprinting down
the sidelines was actually running out of bounds.
Bethel might be penalized for complaining after this same halfback
was smeared following the whistle ending the next play. Our supposi-tions
might include 105 yards worth of penalties against Bethel stacked
up against 30 yards against Valley City.
Well, I suppose hundreds of things could be imagined, but the
outcome would be the same. Valley City would have 12 points and Bethel
would have seven. Obviously Valley City would be the winner . . . if
you believe that figures don't lie. Do they?
Jesters, Seminary Preserve
Intramural Football Leads
