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Family tensions mount as Ken Fisher and Sam Griffith Faye Kulbitski stars as Mary Tyrone in O'Neill's "Long
portray Tyrone and son. Day's Journey."
Drama Department presents O'Neill
Bethel Co llege, St. Pau l, Minnesota
by Jan Applequist
Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's
Journey Into Night, being present-ed
in abbreviated form this Friday
and Saturday at 8 p.m. by the Beth-el
Drama Department, is a tortured
autobiography of the well-known
American playwright. How closely
the events of the play parallel
O'Neill's own life is almost irrel-evant.
That is, the action, of which
there is little or none on stage,
does not get in the way of the un-folding
of a remarkable, disturb-ing
psychological drama. In fact
specifics are not given till much
later in the play. The audience can
only sense that something terrible
has happened in the past which
has created the pervasive atmos-
Mark Mancall, a scholar special-izing
in China and worldwide rev-olution,
will visit Macalester Col-lege
March 2-6. His schedule will
include three public appearances
as well as participation in semi-nars,
classes and informal discus-sions.
On Wednesday, March 4, he will
speak on "Revolution as De-reifi-cation:
The Chinese Model," at
1:30 p.m. in Olin Auditorium. At
8 p.m. in the Student Union, he
will introduce a panel discussion
phere of tension in the Tyrone
household.
The play begins cheerfully e-nough
but little signs of suspicion,
mistrust, despair, and outright hat-red
erupt without apparent reason,
soon giving the impression that all
is not right with the Tyrone family.
As the story unfolds the awful fam-ily
secrets are revealed; the father
is a stubborn, miserly Irishman, an
actor who would leave his young
wife alone in their hotel room for
long hours. If and when he came
back after an evening's perfor-mance,
he would invariably be
drunk. The beautiful, naive young
wife who was pampered as a child
turned to drugs in order to face
the loneliness and isolation.
on "Radicalism: Revolt on the
World's Campuses." The panel will
include Macalester instructors Jer-ry
Fisher, history, and Thomas
Grissom, education, and several
others who have been involved in
radical student movements in this
country and overseas.
On Friday, March 6, Dr. Man-call
will participate in the second
of a two-day institute on the cul-ture
of East Asia, speaking at
10:30 a.m. at the College of St.
Catherine's St. Joseph Hall on the
Their sons, James Jr., and Ed-mund,
suffering from tubercu-losis
(corresponding to O'Neill
himself), had let their father's
pennypinching and drunkenness
and their mother's drug addiction
and insanity destroy themselves.
They become rounders, drunkards,
and failures, sponging off their
father whenever they ran out of
money, which was more than often.
The fourth (and final) act is the
most agonizing revelation of the
reasons which the individual mem-bers
of the family on their own
seperate paths of self-destruction.
Although intense, moody and
heart-breakingly pathetic, the dra-ma
looks, forgivingly at all the
characters even while describing
topic, "The Chinese Communist
Revolution: A Revolution in Cul-ture."
The institute is co-sponsor-ed
by St. Catherine's, Hamline,
St. Thomas and Macalester as part
of the Four-College Area Studies
Program.
Mancall will live, during his
visit, at Macalester's Inner College,
where 28 students and faculty
preceptors are involved in inde-pendent
semester-long projects.
Mr. Mancall is a University Fel-low
and associate professor of his-their
greatest weaknesses. The play
is a masterpiece of character-study,
soul-searching, abrupt mood
changes and intensity and com-plexity
of feelings—hatred com-bined
with loyalty, admiration with
despising.
For example, the character of
Mary Tyrone, the mother, (played
by Faye Kulbitski), is neurotic and
accusing. She feels everyone is
staring at her hair or her rheuma-tic
hands. And yet she is very
tender and fiercly loyal to her
family, always ready to defend any
member that is being unduly cri-ticized
by the others. She is basic-ally
a simple person who can't un-derstand
why the Blessed Virgin
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tory at Stanford University. He
received the 1969 E. Harris Har-bison
Award for Distinguished
Teaching from the Danforth Foun-dation.
He holds a B.A. from
UCLA and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees
from Harvard. He has since been
granted Fulbright and Ford Foun-dation
scholarships and has also
studied at the University of Hel-sinki,
Taiwan Normal University,
Leninggrad State University and
in Tokyo.
Area schools host scholar of revolution
Campus reflects on Founders Week
Vol. XLV—No. 18
by Cindy Rostollan
It's over! The lines are shorter
the classes are back on schedule;
the students are once more appear-ing
in classes and the basketball
team in practicing full-court again.
Founder's Week comes annually,
and once here, it enters a field of
mixed emotions. Simultaneously,
students are greeting and avoid-ing
certain pastors, and faculty try
to reserve their opinion of the
Week until it's over.
As it was said before, it is over
now, so many have chanced their
opinions.
"Underneath the week's hassle,"
says John Larson, "there were
many penetrating thoughts and
decisions. Now our task, as it al-ways
has been, is to live what
we've learned, trusting God and
facing the consequences."
Ruth Manderson said, "I appre-ciated
being able to pray with
several Founders at the morning
devotional time. I got a different
outlook about all the Founders as
a result of the prayer time. I
did feel that classes should have
been cancelled because I had to
cut most of my classes in order
to attend sessions which interested
me."
"For me, Millie Dienert was
really great," related Gerry De-
Vries. "Her love for Christ really
radiates!"
Margie Rusche expressed herself
this way, "By disrupting the nor-mal
campus routine, Founder's
Week - besides being overly struc-tured,
boring and irrelevant to
the students —deprives students
of needed classes, time, and fac-ilities.
If it must be held, have it
during semester break, Interim,
or summer vacation."
To Linda Lovgren, "It seemed
that the Holy Spirit was really
working throughout the student
body. During Founder's Week a
lot of kids found a chance to ex-press
what has been happening on
campus."
"Being new at Bethel this year,"
began Mrs. Amanda Almer, (Mom
to the gals in Hagstrom), "I have
no other Founder's Week to corn-pare
this one to. I enjoyed it
though, for to me, it was inspira-tional.
I went to the meetings ex-pectantly,
and I wasn't disappoint-ed."
"I can't give you a definite opin-ion
about Founders Week," re-plied
Marji Sorley. "In about a
month we'll see if all the decisions
that were made during this week
are real. I'm waiting to see if these
decisions are more than the usual
re-dedication that comes with our
special meetings. If the decisions
last, then it will have been a
good week."
"Concerning the evening ser-vices,"
began Rosalie Huston, "I
felt the true action began at the
Edgren Lounge meeting at 9:45.
The evening fieldhouse service ed-ified
the adults, but the discussion
period edified the students. The
speakers came over in a complete-ly
different manner in the informal
meeting. Founder's Week meant
vastly different things to adults
and students, and I found there
was, in truth, a Founder's and a
Student's Week."
Said Dr. Robert Stein, "I'm un-sure
of the basic purpose of Foun-der's
Week. If it's for the Found-ers,
why is it during the school
year, and if it is for the students,
what do you do with missing a
week of classes? As a Christian
teacher, my job is two-fold, I must
be able to relate to my students
spiritually, but I have an academic
responsibility as well. During
Founder's Week, there is a prob-lem
of sacrificing the academic al-most
totally."
"Unfortunately," said Darlene
Chaddock, "my studies interfered
with the evening meetings, though
I did make it to chapels. I really
appreciated the missionary emph-asis
because so often it is pushed
in the corner. Though the week
was more Founder oriented than
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the CLARION Friday, February 27, 1970
Unravel the snag
--Institutionalism
This essay is for humanity, a declaration of war.
Yesterday afternoon I was sitting in my office trying to think
through one of those common everyday snags. Someone next door in
one of the music practice rooms was practicing piano and I had the
radio on. Soon this snag, which, as I said before, was just a small,
everyday type, began to grow.
The longer I sat focusing my mind's eye upon it, the larger it
became, for although it was a minute sort of problem, in relation to
the problems of war, etc., I had worked on a solution all morning —
off and on — going through all the proper channels, running from one
office to another, from one person and back again and was no
closer to an answer than before. (Actually I was further from an
answer because I had exhausted all my possibilities.)
I decided that such a small snag couldn't be insoluable — if I
would only apply my mind. So that was what I was doing. But in
spite of the minuteness, the longer I applied my mind the bigger it
grew until it filled the whole screen of my thoughts. Then I couldn't
see it anymore because it was too big. Soon it grew until it was
pushing my mind right out of my head. Still, no solution. Suddenly I
felt that if the music and the radio didn't stop, if this snag wouldn't
unravel, my whole body would blow up. The music continued. . . wrong
notes; the radio blared. . . off key; the snag. . . .
The Snag. . .
Suddenly my mind disintegrated.
The piano music and the radio disappeared from consciousness
and an analogy began to grow where the snag had been. I saw a
dirty dark street. Below the crumbling buildings, sidewalks were
littered with paper, cans and broken glass; the lawns consisted of
overgrown, parched weeds in some places, bare parched earth in
others. I stood there listening to the sounds.
The sound of a baby screaming his hungry frustration; a father
cursing at his wife because this was the fourth day he'd spent pounding
the streets in search of employment and the fourth week without a
paycheck; a mother alternately screaming at and pleading with her
young son, who, she just discovered, had shoplifted a transistor radio;
the quiet sobs of a young girl who was unwed and pregnant; the
silent, yet violent mindwaves of a young man frustrated with the
educational system and that feeling of uselessness.
The sound of the streets grew and I recognized the snag.
The common enemy, the snag — institutionalism. Institutions
have become a Frankenstein. Once created to serve man, men have now
made institutions their master. Our best creative efforts are mutilated,
gone unrecognized, or suffocated in the maze. If we are ever to become
what we were meant to be, we must learn to act, not react. We must teach
institutions to serve us once more. We must learn to manipulate them,
out-smart them. Institutions were made for people, and people were
made before institutions. . . the Sabbath was made for man, man was
not made for the Sabbath. Unravel the snag.
An unidentified Bethel sculptor captures the feeling "The
Snag" can cause.
To the editor:
It is tremendous to see the
movement of the Holy Spirit in
changing the lives of students here
at Bethel. Many have become very
excited about the vitality of the
Christian life. We have but God
to thank for all of this. However,
this revival of our hearts is going
to die. Consider the following:
First, Christ tells us to remain
in His Word and then we will be
His disciples. We may think that
our feelings are a taste of Heaven,
but then dependency upon feelings
is not dependency upon God.
Feelings are a tool used by God,
but we will be spinning our wheels
not knowing what to do if we do
not get into the Word. Unless we
realize that the Word of God is
the only thing we can feed upon
to sustain our renewed hearts,
then hardening of the spiritual
arteries is sure to follow.
Second, the complaint is going
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student, there was something for
everyone who wanted it."
"Founder's Week lacked the vi-tality
of last year's," relates Dave
Shupe. "It was as if missions does
not have the youth and enthusiasm
which serving Christ in our own
country might — an unfortunate
unnecessary assumption. The Sen-ate
workshop —small group dia-logue
with the visitors — was quite
profitable for the few who partici-pated."
"I thought it was good," said
Mr. Jon Fagerson, "primarily be-cause
of the student involvement.
I sensed the real spiritual drive
came from the students and not
from the Founders."
"This year's Founder's Week was
interesting, but I don't feel that it
measured up to last year's," said
Pat Chase. "I suppose I believe
that because last year's was so
student oriented. I did think this
year's week allowed a great deal
of time for fellowship and Bible
study which was fantastic. In or-der
for us to let the Holy Spirit
entirely rule our lives we must
bathe ourselves in the Word, and
then do something about it. Foun-der's
Week allowed time for this."
About Founder's Week, Jan Salz-man
said, "I feel that the week is
a worthwhile experience because
it brings us many speakers which
we wouldn't normally be able to
hear. But, I also feel that we do
these speakers and ourselves an
injustice by holding Founder's
Week during school time.
around that "I get bogged down
spiritually when the studies start
piling up." It seems that our stud-ies
quench the Spirit's movement
in our lives. Something about our
classroom experience is inconsis-tent
with the Spirit.
The Holy Spirit seeks to show
Christ as Lord of all — the crea-tor
of man in Psychology, the plan-ner
of diversified culture in An-thropology,
behind all History, the
Sun around which all the discip-lines
revolve. If He truly is the
center of all, then why do we not
learn it that way? This must be
said, that just because we have
Christian educators, Christian stu-dents,
and Christian traditions, we
do not necessarily have a Christian
education.
We go at our subjects as if they
are intellectually autonomous from
the sovereignty of God. We attempt
to appease the Spirit by a little
prayer before class and daily cha-
"In my four year's at Bethel I
have observed increased tension
and unrest among students and
faculty with the coming of each
Founder's Week. It is my opinion
that students would feel freer to
"get involved" in the week's ex-perience
if it were held at a time
like Interim, when there would
be less academic pressure."
"I appreciated Horace Fenton
and Rene Padilla," said Maurice
Zaffke, "and personally, I was able
to have contact with many Foun-ders.
(But that was because I
threw out my schedule.) I learned
to relate with people, and found
this to be valuable."
To Dean Webster Muck, "Foun-der's
Week was less person center-ed,
thus it had a different appeal.
The visitors liked it, but the stu-dents
, not being institutionally
minded, found it not as appealing.
The most attractive thing to the
students was the evening meetings
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by Maurice C. Lawson
Prof. George Cannon of our Sem-inary
will conclude his series on
the Church on Monday morning.
On Tuesday, a contemporory wor-ship
service dealing with the prob-lem
of man's loneliness and based
on the experience of Job will be
presented by a group of Seminary
students. Wednesday, the Pastor
will continue with portraits of
Jesus from Mark's gospel, with
NEW music.
Colonel Knight, selective service
director for the State of Minnesota,
will discuss the new draft law on
Thursday. On Friday, Mr. Richard
Bragg, special assistant to the gov-ernor
in charge of drug educa-tion
for our state, will speak on
the drug problem in Minnesota.
pel services. Christ must fit in
where He can. That is not enough!
The Spirit cannot be satisfied un-til
the Word is made the beginning
and continuing reference point.
Either we acknowledge that Christ
must become the source of each
idea in every discipline, or we
deny our Master His rightful place
and follow after a Lie. The revival
must be carried into the classroom.
Good News! The statement con-cerning
the death of the revival
does not have to be our fate. God
has given us the key for continu-ance.
We must realize that the
classroom as well as outside, that
key, the Word of God, must be our
ultimate Frame of Reference. All
activities must be renewed by the
Word, for then, and only then, can
we become excited and interested
—and we will be honoring God.
To Him be the glory!
Dick Halverson '73
at Edgren."
Said Shelly Danielson, "Parts
were very valuable — like Dr.
Smith's talk Friday evening on
foreign literature distribution. We
as students must realize that al-though
the approach to missions
has changed, it is still an important
work.
"However, with all the talk of
new approaches, I wish the work
and power of the Holy Spirit
would have been emphasized more.
Rather than better methods, God
needs better men. I tell someone
about Christ because He means
much to me, not because I feel it
is something I have to do."
After all that has been said, to
venture my opinion would be re-hashing
what has been already
said. Whatever you thought, Foun-der's
Week has left all of us with
definite ideas in our minds of its
worth. Every opinion is a purely
personal one.
Reporters Anne Dalton, Ruth Bogle,
Tom Ford, Dave Greener,
Jan Ullberg, Jan Urspringer,
Wibby Smith, Ron Roper
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not necessarily reflect the position of the
college or seminary.
Bethel Forum
Bogged down? God, intellect are not autonomous
Campus tosses out academics for Founders Week
Faye Kulbitski as Mary Tyrone seeks to escape loneliness
and rediscover faith through drug addiction.
'Day's Journey into Night' drama
examines humanity's neurosis
Stubborn, miserly Irishman, Tyrone, played by Ken Fisher,
drives family to self-destruction.
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by Steve Duininck
"Like The long lonely stream
I keep running for my dream.
Like an old dusty road
I get weary from the load.
Moving on, moving on."
At times It seems too overpowering to fight It. I really don't under-stand
fully why we have to fight It. Maybe someday we will all invite
It. There is something very magnetic and enchanting about It and It
is the desire to pack up one's bags, troubles, and small amount of
currency and leave for someplace in your dreams.
Most people get the hunger come springtime with all the freshness
that spring brings. I have a perpetual case of the "itch" and I wonder
if I'll ever be able to settle down to a quiet life. If my memory is cor-rect
the last time I let It get the best of me I woke up in San Diego,
the time before was Iowa, and my first expedition found me in Colorado.
I have never been sorry or disappointed for leaving but It has caused
my parents a few headaches.
I don't feel very comfortable where I am now, never-the-less I
have to discipline myself to see-it-out at Bethel College and Seminary.
But I do have plans of someday traveling around the world with all the
excitement of Columbus to see the rest of God's creation. I keep thinking
I was born in the world and not in the United States, so I would like to
see all my brothers, even those dirty Reds. It's a dream that means
fighting the Combine and struggling to push out all on my own. Maybe
it's one of the few challenges left today that takes a combination of
dreams, muscle, and will-power.
Lately I have been planning on how to disappear during Easter
but I have lots of bridges to cross and even some to build till I can
make-off in the night. Even if I don't see the traditional Florida or
someplace new I may take a trip around here. Who can tell what I'll
find? Maybe a place in the sun or a new tunnel to follow that will lead
me, learn me, and love. Everyone should leave a note to Mom and Dad
and go looking for their oasis, and if you think you've found yours drop
me a post card and the address.
by Marjorie M. Rusche
The delicacy and lightness of
fluid tone and a cascade of bril-liant
crescendos merge together
tonight in a public concert pre-sented
by Mrs. Leah Wilke.
The concert, which will be held
in the fieldhouse at 8, primarily
focuses around French composi-tions
for the piano, performed by
Mrs. Wilke. Ruben Haugen, saxo-phonist,
and Duane Tannehill, sax-ophonist
will also perform French
works. Both are professional per-forming
musicians and educators.
C. Edward Thomas will accompany
Haugen on the Tomasi "Gyrations"
number. There is a possibility that
Thomas may play a piano solo.
The concert program is mostly
Impressionist in flavor; however,
there is an overlay of Romanticism
throughout the program. Numbers
which Wilke will play are:
Papillions Schumann
Nocturne in F# Chopin
Waltz in E minor Chopin
Movements Perpetuals Paulenc
Sonatine Ravel
Scherzo Waltz Chabrier
"The music is very delicate, very
intimate, very open in structure,"
states Wilke about her program.
"Thus, the music, besides all that
I can do by, for, or with it, de-pends
heavily upon the warmth
of tone that the instrument (piano)
conveys into the room. I hope the
tone that these pieces express so
well comes through in the field-house."
In the numbers which Wilke per-forms
that emphasize lightness and
openness, mistakes are easily
heard. "You can't blur things over
with the pedal," Wilke noted, "ev-erything
must be technically per-
Friday, February 27, 1970
feet. Yet, to get to the point
in my playing where I am doing
justice to the composer's music,
I must be able not to worry about
technique, so I can sit back and
listen to the piece while I am
doing it and let it become a natur-al
thing." This high degree of art
—artlessness—separates the pro-fessionals
from the amateurs.
Wilke works under a handicap.
She has a growth on her right
wristbone which means she can-not
sustain long periods of prac-tice
or pieces which require a
great deal of forceful wrist action.
Thus, she staggers her practicing
and mostly works on pieces where
hard, driving playing is frequently
alternated with delicate, smooth,
flexible, fluid playing.
Wilke comments on her wrist,
"This means I must work twice as
hard to gain both the ease and
strength that I want for my num-bers."
She has taken lessons for
18 years, presently practices about
3 hours a day, and teaches 55
students privately.
"For example," she continues,
"I've worked on the Papillions
number for two years and have
performed it twice already Yet
this is the first time I feel it will
be really ready for performance.
I don't believe in studying a piece,
performing it, and then saying
you've 'done' it. Music is not some-thing
you learn and then put away
on the shelf. You must grow and
mature with the music, get into
the composer's head and study it
from all possible approaches, keep
on letting the music teach you.
There is always something new
in the music, it is never finished."
Wilke chose to present basically
French music at her concert be-cause,
"I love it." She laughs,
then resumes, "The French people
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always do everything with just
the right touch. What I appreciate
most in the music is the great
deal of subtlety it contains. For
example, the Ravel Sonatine I'm
playing is very subtle in harmonic
dissonances. Also, whenever you
think the music is going to do
something, it does something else."
"This is also why it is so good
for me to play this type of French
music, its subtlety and restraint
help me develop control. It's good
discipline. I have the tendency
to over-play, be over-emotional and
over-dramatic in playing. My teach-er,
Vera Narregang, has helped me
curb this tendency, besides teach-ing
me patience and the import-ance
of thinking through a work,
and not running away with my mu-sical
intuition."
The uncertainty of the quality
of her performance is both a mo-tivation
and a hindrance 'to Leah.
"I love to play, I am compelled to
play," she states. "Yet, I have
deep-seated fears of my ability."
She draws close parallels between
the uncertainty of every perform-er's
performance and the uncer-tainty
of life. "You never really
know what's going to come out
until you do it. This is what keeps
music and performing fresh and
alive. There is no end to music,
as there is no end to life."
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to whom she used to pray to so
faithfully has deserted her, has
caused her all this agony. Faye
sees the character as "a little girl
(although she is 54 years old in the
story) who is looking for something
precious she has lost—her faith."
Shocked by their mother's addic-tion,
the two sons are nevertheless
very sympathic and often try to
assure her that she is still the same
beautiful, gracious person she al-ways
was. As a footnote, O'Neill's
health did eventually improve and
so did his mother's problems with
addiction and insanity.
From an actor's standpoint the
play is better read than performed.
Ken Fisher, who plays Mr. Ty-rone,
considers it "good literature
but lousy theater." It is long, in-tense,
full of short, scathing dia-logue
and many similar lines—
causing the audience to feel as
needled as the characters. The
play is also slow in that there is
so little action on stage.
The play is being presented as a
three credit independent study of
its director, student Robert Bryant.
For him it is truly a "long day's
j ourne y" which may end in
"night", since he is graded on the
final product.
The actors do not have this pres-sure.
The strength of their per-formances
rest partly upon the
strength of his direction and how
much effort he can elicit from
them. It is a taxing drama for
actor and director.
The play will be given at North-western
Lutheran Seminary Little
Theater. Tickets are $1 for singles
and $1.50 for couples.
Leah Wilke in concert tonight;
French flavor colors program
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Frustrating season ends
on disappointing note
Page 4 the CLARION Friday, February 27, 1970
Best season
yet ends for
wrestlers
by Bill Ankerberg
With the close of the wrestling
season this year, Bethel says good-bye
to three seniors.
Bob Olsen with a win/lose rec-ord
of 68-4-2 will be missed by
everyone at Bethel. Coach Doug
King says that Bob has done more
to raise respect for our wrestling
team than any other wrestler. Bob,
holding the best record on the
team this year (20-2) has just re-cently
turned down an invitation
to the NAIA National Wrestling
Competition. Bob is not only an ex-cellent
wrestler, but a constant
team leader and teacher in prac-tice.
Commenting on the team this
year, Bob said that he has never
wrestled with a finer bunch of
guys.
Four years ago Bob Olson and
Barry Anderson were the only ex-perienced
wrestlers on the team.
That year they had a team record
of 2-14. The following year with
the addition of Coach Doug King,
Bethel came up with a 8-10 season.
In 68-69 we gained new depth and
a 8-9-1 season. This season's record
of 9-9-1 was the best in Bethel's
history.
According to Barry Anderson,
"Wrestling is good because it push-es
you to the point where you don't
feel you can go any farther, then
you find out what you are really
made of." Barry showed his make-up
at Concordia. He was losing his
match 4-3 with 30 seconds to go,
with a shoulder that had put him
in agony from the start. But in the
grips of physical exhaustion he
came through with a burst of
strength to come out on top of his
man to finish with a 5-4 score. "He
gave 201 per cent," said heavy
weight wrestler Tom Hendrickson.
Bob Downing is the third wrest-ler
the team will lose. He has
wrestled only this year, but as
Coach King said, "He was appreci-ated
by everybody. He established
the respect for our team by start-ing
off each meet."
Besides their three empty po-sitions,
the team may be needing a
new coach.
Ski clubbers
study year,
learn much
This year was a beginning for
the Bethel Ski Club. Possibly it
was not the best beginning, but it
was a good beginning. Many of the
people in the club learned a lot
about organization and possibil-ities
available to ski clubs. Now
the year (as far as the club goes)
is just about over and it is time to
start thinking ahead for next year.
It is the idea of last year's lead-ers
and their advisor Dr. Stein,
that now is the time for new of-ficers
to be elected and for a new,
complete program to be worked
out for our second year. There are
many new ideas and great pos-sibilities
and it is time to work
them out. Thus, an important gen-eral
meeting is scheduled for Wed.,
March 4 at 7:30 in Edgren Lounge.
Everyone come and help us get
our potentially great club on its
way for next year.
The Column
by Tim Weko
Winter is nearly over and although there may still be a few snow
flurries before April, there will not be anymore wrestling meets or
basketball games.
It's a nostalgic time of year; a time to look back over the season
and remember the close ones or try to forget them; a time to look at
one's personal failures and accomplishments; a time to analyze the things
that were done and the mistakes that were made in order to learn from
them, and to change the things that are changeable; a time for seniors
to say goodbye to a career, a part of their lives that can never be re-placed;
a time for underclassmen to start looking forward to next year
with anticipation and hope for future success and glory; a time to clean
out your locker and return (or not return) the goodies from the "Jock
Shop"; a time when new faces are seen for the first time in the locker
room, faces that belong to baseball players, trackmen, golfers, and ten-nis
buffs; in general it's a time of change, of flux, of enthusiasm.
If any of you want to see real enthusiasm after a long, dark, dreary
winter, I'll be selling locker room tickets for a dime each. But hurry,
the supply is limited, and there will be no rainchecks.
* * * *
This last week has been interesting. I've gotten many comments on
last week's article—some good, some bad—and while taking them all
with a grain of salt (or sand or whatever) I was reminded by one indivi-dual
of the words of I Corinthians 13, some of which follows: I may speak
in tongues of men or of angels, but if I am without love, I am a sounding
gong or a clanging cymbal. I may have the gift of prophecy, and know
every hidden truth; I may have faith strong enough to move mountains;
but if I have no love, I am nothing . . . Love is patient; love is kind
and envies no one. Love is never boastful, nor conceited, nor rude; never
selfish, not quick to take offense. Love keeps no score of wrongs; does
not gloat over other men's sins, but delights in the truth . . . Is there
knowledge? It will vanish away; for our knowledge and our prophecy
alike are partial, and the partial vanishes when wholeness comes . . .
Now we see only puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we shall see
face to face. My knowledge now is partial; then it will be whole, like
God's knowledge of me.
In word, there are three things that last forever; faith, hope and
love; but the greatest of them all is love." And when we compare our-selves
to that kind of standard, we find ourselves living a lie.
This year intramural basketball should prove interesting. The fa-culty
has fielded a very strong team with Coach Traeger, Lee
Bajuniemi, and freshman coach Tom Meeks along with Paul Redin being
the workhorses. They will be tough to beat, but if any of their opponents
are capable of beating them, the most likely is First Floor, which has
been the intramural stronghold for the last two years.
The B league is, thus far, quite exciting. Where else can you go
to see a compound fractured arm, fist-fights, sudden death overtimes,
and once in a while a basketball game? Walk into the gym some Satur-day
morning —you'll have nightmares for months.
Glasses
by Rich Zaderaka
The 1969-70 basketball season
came to a close Tuesday night with
the Royals falling 54-47 to the
Red Raiders of Northwestern.
In the early going, the lead
changed hands four times before
Northwestern took the advantage
at 8-7. The Raiders doubled the
Royals total 22-11 for their biggest
lead of the game. Bethel fought
back and narrowed the gap at
halftime to 28-24.
The Royals' second half effort
got them to within one point at
42-41 on a free throw by Tim Weko
with 8:50 remaining. They were
able to score only six points after
that however, and Northwestern
coasted to victory.
Andy Feldman scored 16 points
in his final game. Dan Larson and
Bob Brodin each had 8.
Last Thursday afternoon, the
Royals followed the script that
seemed to have been written for
the basketball team this year, los-ing
to Concordia 62-61.
The Comets held a thirteen point
halftime margin. Bethel charged
back in the second period to cap-ture
a 60-56 lead with less than
three minutes to play. Concordia
reversed the advantage however,
on a fifteen foot jumper by Rich
Cloeter, and weathered the final
Royal efforts for the victory.
Saturday evening the Royals
played their final road game a-gainst
Northland, at Ashland, Wis-consin.
Bethel led 23-21 at the
helf, but when the final buzzer
sounded, the scoreboard read
Northland 57, Bethel 48.
Andy Feldman dropped 19 points
before fouling out. None of the
other Royals had more than six.
For Northland, Stan Sanuik had
16, Dick Lee and Gordy Lake had
13 each.
Each team netted twenty field
goals, so the game was settled
at the charity strip. Bethel con-nected
on only 8 of 21 from the
foul line. Northland hit on 17 of
32.
The Royals ended the season
with a record of 7-17. Three of the
losses were by one point, one was
a two point defeat, another was
in overtime, as well as several oth-er
narrow defeats.
Coach Jack Trager, looking back
Contact Lenses
over the long season stated "I
really commend the team for be-ing
able to get themselves up night
after night, because it wasn't a
very easy thing to do." He went
on to say that this effort was
praiseworthy, "because of the num-ber
of ball games that were lost
by such a small margin."
Junior guard Bob Brodin saw
the season as "personally frustrat-ing."
He said, "I never got go-ing.
I just never got on the right
track."
Junior forward Gordy Nordmark
was also disappointed by the sea-son.
Gordy said, "We're a much
better team than our record shows.
I'm looking forward to next year,"
he added.
The individual statistics for the
year were headed by a variety
of players. Andy Feldman was the
leading scorer with 338 points for
an average of 14.1. Andy also led
the team in rebounding with 307.
That gives him a career total of
662 which is the second highest
mark in Bethel history. Andy also
tied the single game rebound rec-ord
with 30 against Albert Lea
on January 17.
The shooting percentages for the
season were shared by four dif-ferent
players. Andy Feldman and
Doug Fargo were the best floor
shooters with 43 percent each. Dan
Larson and Jim Delich were the
leaders from the foul line with
marks of 67 percent.
As a team, Bethel shot about
34 percent from the field, and
around 60 percent on free throws.
Those figures were the team's
weakness according to Coach Jack
Trager.
Although the players themselves
don't really feel satisfied with the
season, a number of fans feel the
Royals played extremely well. Dale
Osterman summed things up by
commenting, "A lot of people
thought that when we lost Peder-son
(Ron) we would go down the
drain. But I think this year's
team was better than last year's."
Record-wise it wasn't, but as
Gary Hasselblad said, "There were
a number of games that could
have gone either way."
As my favorite sportscaster
said, "It was an unbelievable sea-son.
We could have just as easily
had a record of 12-12 as 7-17."
