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me XLI—No. 24 Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. Wednesday, May 18, 1966
Mendelssohn Oratorio Presentation
Highlights Campus Musical Evening
Edgren Dormitory residents be-gan
preparation for the end of
the school year with their annual
Spring Smorgasbord held Monday
evening, May 16 at 9:00 p.m. in the
dorm.
This event, at which officers
were elected and the annual Stapp
Award presented, precedes a re-ception
for housemother Mrs. Alta
Holland next Tuesday, May 24.
Nominees for the dorm execu-tive
posts which were voted on
Monday were Jim Berry and Bob
Olson, president; Rick Peterson
and Paul Erickson, vice presi-dent;
Jim Erickson and Jim Pet-erson,
secretary; John Cowan
and David Ahlquist, treasurer;
and Herb Bowers, chaplain.
The David Stapp Award, named
after an outstanding dorm resident
who died while attending Bethel,
presents its winner with $200 to-ward
college expenses for the next
year.
The smorgasbord, a highlight of
the year at Edgren, featured a
typically large assortment of cold'
cuts, ham, salads and casseroles,
bread, and beverages for the hun-gry
residents.
In charge of preparation of the
food was Mrs. Margaret Ander-son
of the Coffee Shop staff.
Serving the food were junior
and senior girls residing in Idaho
Manor Apartments.
The ceremonies following the
meal featured the announcement
of the election winners and the
Donald Anderson, senior music
major and voice pupil of Mr. Gar-vin
McGettrick, will present his
senior recital Monday evening, May
23, in the Seminary Hall Chapel
at 7:30 p.m.
Assisting him with the program
will be Miss Norene Shephard, who
will perform a piano rhapsody as
well as accompany Mr. Anderson.
The program will open with
a tenor aria from Handel's ora-torio
SEMELE, "Where e'er You
Walk." This selection is fol-lowed
by "Pur decesti, o bocca
bella," written by the early
Italian composer Antonio Lotti,
CORRECTION NOTICE!
Recording artist, Dick Anthony,
will not appear in a Thursday
evening concert as announced in
last week's CLARION. He will
appear instead during the morn-ing
chapel hour.
Stapp Award recipient. In addition,
Assistant Dean Owen Halleen pre-sented
the rotating trophies which
have been introduced as prizes for
the Dorm basketball tourney and
track meet. The winning floors
were Basement, New Wing and
Third Floor, Old Wing respectively.
'Mom' Holland's reception
next Tuesday afternoon is plan-ned
in appreciation for the hard
work and kindness of a much-appreciated
housemother. Mrs.
Holland will not return in the
fall, for she plans to be married
this summer.
The event, scheduled for 2:00 -
4:00 p.m. in the dorm, will include
refreshments of punch and coffee
cake.
In charge of arrangements for
both these events have been Dick
Schultz, Dennis Rockford, and
Doug King.
Roger M. Evans, Bethel senior,
has been named first-prize winner
in the Bethel Bookstore's recent
Student Library Contest, according
to an announcement by Robert
Bergerud, Bookstore manager.
Roger will receive as his prize $20
worth of books of his choice.
Another senior, Stanley Olsen,
was named as second-prize winner
and two songs from Robert Schu-mann's
DICHTE LIEBE, includ-ing
the oft-praised "Ich grolle
nicht."
From Anton Dvorak's Biblical
Songs, Don has chosen to sing
"God is my Shepherd" and "Lord,
Thou Art My Refuge." Another
Handel number, this one "Total
Eclipse" from the oratorio Samson,
follows.
Miss Shephard then takes the
center of the stage to play "Rhap-sodie,
Op. 79, No. 1" by Johannes
Brahms. A sophomore piano stu-dent
of Mrs. Garvin McGettrick,
Norene is also a music major.
Vocal music again takes the
fore as Don presents his final
section of numbers, all by con-temporary
composers.
These are "The Roadside Fire"
by Ralph Vaugh Williams, "Sure
on This Shining Night" by Samuel
Barber, and "When I Think Upon
the Maidens" by Michael Head.
A busy period of rehearsals cul-minates
Friday evening, May 20,
in the piesentation of Felix Men-delssohn-
Bartholdy's epic oratorio,
Elijah, by the College Festival
Choir. The musical event begins
at 8:00 p.m. in the Fieldhouse.
Singing the role of Elijah will
be Mr. Oliver Mogck, associate
professor of music and instructor of
voice. Student soloists who will
join him are LaVon Brauer, Fran-ces
Malmsten, Dennis Port, Albert
Hawker, Patti Wahlen, Jim Mag-nuson,
and Nola Schmiess. Con-ductor
is Mr. Julius Whitinger,
and piano accompanist Miss Norene
Shephard.
The Festival Choir singing in
this performance numbers 175
singers. Included are the mem-bers
of the College Choir, Male
Chorus, and Women's Choir, as
well as other students and staff
members who wish to partici-pate.
The Bethel Orchestra will com-bine
with professional musicians
obtained through a grant provided
by the Recording Industries Trust
Fund to accompany the singers.
This venture is made possible
through the cooperation of the
American Federation of Musicians,
Local No. 30.
Elijah ranks with Handel's Mes-siah
as one of the most popular
and must beautiful oratorios. Its
composer, active during the first
half of the nineteenth century,
in the contest. He will be allowed
his choice of $5 of books. In a sur-prise
decision, the judges elected
to present a third prize award of
two book plates to Sandra Kron-holm,
Bethel freshman.
Judges for the competition were
Philip Van de Voorde, assistant
librarian, who has had a good
Roger Evans
deal of study experience in the
field of bibliographies or book
comparisons and Miss Jeannine
Bohlmeyer, English professor.
Upon completion of their de-liberations,
the two formulated
conclusions as to the success of
the contest.
Mr. Van de Voorde offered these
comments: "The libraries were
judged on the basis of how many
'solid' titles they contained. The
judges felt that some students
were very selective in listing titles
infused it with Baroque, Classical,
and Romantic elements.
The dramatic quality of the
work causes many to say it re-sembles
an opera even more than
an oratorio. Dramatic fervor
that would personalize the words
of the singers was one element
Mendelssohn himself wished to
send through the work.
The oratorio had its premiere
at a music festival in Birming-ham,
England, on August 26, 1846.
It was joyfully received by the
premiere audience, causing Men-delssohn
to write: "No work of
mine ever went so admirably . . .
or was received with such enthu-siasm."
The story of the oratorio covers
the entire history of Elijah's work
as prophet. Beginning with his con-frontation
of faithless Israel and
wicked Ahab, it continues through
the encounter with the priests of
Baal at Mount Carmel to his later
persecutions by Jezebel and his
final ascent into heaven in the
fire-chariot.
Among the many memorable
choruses and solos of ELIJAH
are the prophet's arias "Lord
God of Abraham" and "It is
Enough," the alto solo "0 Rest
in the Lord," and the choral
numbers "Help, Lord" a n d
"Thanks Be to God."
From its propitious beginning in
1846, Mendelssohn's Elijah has en-of
high quality, while others lack
discrimination in the building of
their libraries."
The two listed, along with Mr.
Bergerud, several recommendations
which have been accepted as plans
for next year's contest. It will be
held earlier, shortly after Christ-mas,
so that students who are un-aware
of the contest when the
school year begins can bring vol-umes
from home which they wish
to list.
The change in contest date is
due to plans to enter the first-prize
winner next year in the
cont'd on page four
The Bethel Bookstore wishes
students to know its hours policy
after the completion of regular
class sessions and therefore has
announced the hours that the store
will be open beginning with the
first Study Day, Thursday, May 26.
Regular hours will be in effect
during he first two Study Days,
but the store will be closed all
day on Monday, May 30 and Tues-day,
May 31, the first two days of
Exams Week. At this time, the
staff will be taking inventory.
When the store reopens Wednes-day,
June 1, regular hours will
be in effect, and students will be
joyed that enviable combination of
beautiful music and important
thoughts for communication that
has endeared it to audiences the
world over and makes its perfor-mance
an important event in the
Bethel year.
School Banquet
Nears Fruition
Bethel students are encouraged
to plan now for this year's All-
School Banquet, scheduled for a
week from this Saturday, the even-ing
of May 28, at Dayton's Sky
Room in Minneapolis. Dinner will
be served at 6:30 p.m.
Tickets go on sale this Friday,
May 20, in the Coffee Shop from
10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. They will
also be sold the following week on
Monday, May 23, Tuesday, May 24,
and Wednesday, May 25 at the
same hours.
For Bethelites carrying a regu-lar
study load during the entire
year, tickets can be obtained
free, since the price has been
paid through tuition fees. Stu-dents
with less than 12 credits
will pay $3.00, the fee also being
charged for guests.
Second-semester students will
only be charged one-half of this
figure, or $1.50. It is important
that all those planning to attend
obtain their tickets early, since
there are a limited number of
tickets available.
Dress for the banquet is semi-formal.
The program planned is
centered around a musical called
"Try to Remember." It chronicles
the special and not-so-special
events of this year at Bethel, and
was authored by a committee head-ed
by senior Fran Malmsten.
Senior art major Jud Nelson
also will offer a special presenta-tion
as part of the evening's
entertainment. Jud, who is also
co-editor of the COEVAL, plans
a special approach to entertain-ment
that cannot be readily cate-gorized
into any as-yet-known
art form.
Heading up arrangements for the
banquet is Bonnie Carlson, Bethel
junior.
welcome to come in to sell used
books.
By this time more orders of
professor's books for next fall will
be in the hands of the Bookstore
staff, which will help determine
which books will be of most value
for the store to purchase from
students, and thus will determine
the amount paid to students for
their books.
In addition, after inventory is
taken, it will be evident to the
Bookstore personnel how many
books the store can absorb.
Mr. Bergerud also announces.
summer hours in the Bookstore.
These begin June 6, 1966, and will
be 9:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Festival Choir, under the direction of Mr. Julius Whitinger, pre-pares
for the Friday evening presentation of Mendelssohn's ELIJAH.
Edgrenites' Smorgasbord
Starts Year-End Activities
Tenor Programs Varied Music
For Monday Night Voice Recital
Bookstore Names Contest Winners
As Judges Evaluate Event's Merit
Bookstore Notes Summer Hours
For Interested Campus Persons
New Counseling Facil• itieless
Appear Certain Necessity
One of the salient needs of every college student, especial-ly
the underclassmen, is the need for counseling outside the
classroom. The counseling needs on Bethel's campus cover
many areas. Certainly there is the gross need for guidance
ill directing curriculum toward vocational choices. There is
also the very necessary need for stabilizing the emotionally
distraught freshman who finds himself for the first time away
from home, lonely, independent to a large extent and possibly
failing in his academic pursuits for a variety of reasons.
We agree also that there is the need for counseling on
matters relevant to his spiritual condition. These are but a
few areas where sympathetic, directed counseling is a neces-sity.
It is quite generally accepted that some form of counseling
service must exist on the college campus.
The question we must ask ourselves now is this: In relation
to Bethel College, is our present system adequate? This en-tails
an examination of the status quo. Bethel's present
system is what may be termed "faculty-oriented." The
assumption is made that the members of Bethel's faculty are
open enough and well enough in tune with student problems
to serve as resources for students to approach concerning
their counseling needs.
Practically, as evidenced by the reaction of the student
body, this approach does not seem to be effective. Realistically,
faculty members at Bethel are not that open to students nor
that familiar with their problems. Students as well, whether
the situation is desirable or not, are not approaching the
faculty with their problems. There is a certain barrier of aloof-ness
that the student feels he cannot overcome.
Another objection frequently raised, and justly so, is
the fact that most faculty do not have the training, the skill,
or the time to devote to such counseling. The theory behind
such faculty-oriented counseling may be great, but realistically
it seems a bit ideal, and practically it is not working.
What then is the alternative? To establish a counseling
center staffed by persons trained in exactly this field who
are skilled, who do have the time and concern to sympa-thetically
deal with the problems of the 20th century Bethel
student. Time is a major factor, especially when we assume
that with projected enrollment increase, projected counseling
situations will increase.
It has been pointed out that there are presently personnel
on the Bethel campus trained in such a field who could serve
in such a capacity. Therefore the added budget expense of
hiring for this position would not be that great.
There is some concern that establishing such a bureau
would lessen the current dialogue that does exist between
faculty and students. However, it is pointed out that the
existence of a campus pastor on campus has not lessened the
faculty concern for the spiritual welfare of the students.
There is much to recommend the establishment of a Coun-seling
Bureau on Bethel's campus. We have touched but a
few areas of concern. However, it is hoped that thought can
be stimulated on this subject to the point that it can be actua-lized
in the immediate future.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
THE LAST WEEK O 5o OF 4CHOOL MY STUDENTS SEEM TO
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National Front Lacks Cohesiveness;
Vietnam Differences Lead to Strife
Several Bethel seniors have re-ceived
fellowships for graduate
study.
Three math majors have re-ceived
fellowships for further stu-dy
at the University of Minnesota.
Alan Brown, from Minot, North
Dakota, has received a fellowship
completely covering his graduate
studies. Under his fellowship he
is freed from having to do teach-ing
assistantship. Alan, who is
a physics minor, has been a
physics laboratory assistant for
the past two years.
Gene Peterson, from Willmar,
Minnesota, and also a math major,
received a fellowship from the
University of Minnesota as a math
teaching assistant. At Bethel he
has been active in debate, tennis,
and the Young Republicans.
Lloyd Osterberg, a chemistry and
math double major from Wauke-gon,
Illinois, has received a fellow-ship
for graduate study in chemis-try.
Under his fellowship he has
been appointed as a chemistry
teaching assistant.
The anthropology department
has announced one fellowship
for Mike Rynkiewich from West
Mifflin, Pennsylvania. His fellow-ship,
known as the National In-stitutes
of Health Fellowship,
also from the University of Min-nesota,
will amount to $7,000
covering a three-year period.
During his second year he will
be a teaching assistant. Mike has
been a Student Senate member,
captain of the football team during
Wednesday, May 18, 1966
his senior year, and was nominated
to and elected in "Who's Who in
American Colleges and Universi-ties"
for the last two years.
Bill Swenson, a political science
major from Escanaba, Michigan,
has been offered a grant-in-aid
package amounting to $1250 for
by Doug Ring
Last August, when President
Johnson ordered a military build-up,
he predicted that monthly
draft quotas would not exceed
35,000. Last month's draft was
over 45,000. It is estimated that by
1966, 200,000 Americans will be
fighting in Vietnam. But for what
are they fighting? Is this a worth-while
expenditure of money and
human lives? This is an important
question in the minds of the Ameri-can
people. In recent weeks many
have responded negatively to it.
David Miller publicly burned
his draft card last October saying,
"I believe the napalming of villages
in Vietnam to be an immoral act.
I hope this will be a significant
political act so here goes."
Recently a Quaker pacifist, Nor-man
Morrison, burned himself to
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Many other seniors are yet a-waiting
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death in front of the Pentagon to
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College students have partici-pated
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by Bruce Lawson
Saigon
American bombers did consider-able
damage to railroad yards in
Than Hoa Saturday. Than Hoa is
located about 80 miles south of
Hanoi and is a main center from
which North Vietnam sends men
and supplies into South Vietnam.
Washington, D. C.
The United States turned down
a Chinese proposal to limit the use
of nuclear weapons because it be-lieved
the Chinese did not "have
a legitimate and constructive in-terest
in disarmament."
London
Britain prepared Sunday for a
crippling strike by 62,000 seamen
of the merchant marine. The
strike, which is the first to hit
Britain's merchant navy in 55
years, would begin to strangle the
economy within days.
Minneapolis
Northwestern College has an-nounced
that in order to survive,
freedom in South Vietnam. This
position is substantiated by the
findings of a recent Post Magazine
survey, which indicates that some-what
less than 20% advocate our
withdrawal from the war. Vietnam
pacifists face an insurmountable
barrier in the inferiority of their
numbers. They provide no direct,
political threat to the continuation
of President Johnson's policy.
The gravity of the situation, how-ever,
should not be minimized.
Recent protests have had two very
serious effects: 1) the encourage-ment
of our enemies, and 2) the
demoralization of our allies and
fighting men.
The recent communist inspired
protests provided our enemies val-uable
wood for the propaganda
mill. The Hanoi press called the
demonstrations, "a hammer blow
to the Johnson administration."
Radio China, meanwhile, was ex-pressing
China's "profound grati-tude."
Exaggerated accounts, circu-lated
throughout southeast Asia by
the Reds, have led many people
to fear that our withdrawal is
imminent. The American soldier,
like the football quarterback booed
by his hometown crowd, is de-moralized
by the perplexing news
from home.
On the other hand, the Viet Cong
is encouraged to continue its bel-ligerency.
Thus, possible peace
talks are forestalled. In short, U.S.
protests against the war show a
marked tendency to backfire. They
prolong the war rather than end it.
America seems to fall victim to a
vicious cycle. College students pro-test.
Communists propagandize.
Their people respond by continu-ing
the war. The longer the war
lasts, the greater the pressure to
end it. Both governments feel com-pelled
to expand their efforts. As
hostilities increase, so do protests
in the United States. As this pro-cess
continues, the stakes in the
game of war become higher. If
this trend is not stopped, the world
could be the loser.
America must present a united
front against communism. The
same alternative presented to the
original thirteen colonies one hun-dred
and eighty years ago faces
us now. We must join or die. The
United States, greatest of all mili-tary
powers, can be defeated in war
only by herself.
it will suspend all day classes dur-ing
the 1966-67 school year. Only
adult evening classes will be held
during this time.
Northwestern hopes to reorgan-ize
and operate as a three-year
college offering an Associate of
Arts and a Bible Degree starting
in the fall of 1967.
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Doctor Quad) Bao, Vietnamese physician and friend of Semi-nary
professor Reuben Omark, is seeking aid from Bethel students in
the form of soap contributions. Rev. Omark hopes to collect 1,000
pounds for shipment to him before school recesses.
Christian Scientific Association
Seeks Undergraduate Affiliates
Omark Heads Vietnam Soap Drive;
Attempt To Relieve Acute Shortage
by Jonathan P. Larson
"Wrap every bar with a prayer",
entreated Rev. Reuben Omark of
the Seminary.
He was speaking of the soap
drive scheduled for the Bethel
Campus Thursday and Friday of
this week. The soap is slated for
Vietnam where it will be distri-buted
by a Doctor Quach Bao who
is working in the village of Cantho,
south of Saigon. The drive is an
attempt to ease the acute shortage
A book which will probably not
be found on many bookshelves
here in the United States, despite
the significance of its contents,
is Religion and Gesellschaft by Dr.
David 0. Moberg, Bethel College
sociologist.
Presently in the possession of
the Hermann Luchterhand Verlag
publishing company of Neuweil Am
Rhein and Berlin, the book is duo
for German publication in early
1967.
Translated as "Religion and
Society," the book consists of
the lectures given by Dr. Moberg
between October 1964 and Feb-ruary
1965 — the first semester
at Muenster University in West
Berlin where he was teaching
under a Fullbright scholarship.
As he explains, the semester
system there is not congruous with
ours. The first semester which be-gins
in late October and ends in
February is followed by the second
semester which runs from May
through July.
A brief idea of the book's con-tents
is possible by viewing its
chapter headings. Part One devel-oping
"Institutional Religion," pro-gresses
into "Religion and Institu-tions,"
"Structure of the Church,"
"The Church-Sect Typology," "Ap-lication
of the Church-Sect Typolo-gy,"
and "The Life Cycle of Re-ligious
Bodies."
Part Two deals with "Person-al
Religion" and discusses "Soc-iology
and Personal Religion,"
"Dimensions of Religiosity," and
"Research Data on Religious Ex-periences
and Behavior."
Much of the book's contents
overlap with that in the textbook
Dr. Moberg has written, T h e
Church as a Social Institution, al-though
there is material in each
not found in the other. Religion
and Society, however, is not intend-ed
to be a textbook as was The
Church, for German schools make
little use of texts.
It will be used instead as a ref-erence
book for ministers and edu-cated
laymen. It will likely appear
of soap in this area where present-ly
soap sells for 75 cents a bar.
It was at the International
Dinner several years ago that
Rev. Omark and his wife met
Dr. Bao. He was in America
pursuing an M.A. in Public
Health after having completed
his M.D. in Saigon.
It was through the influence of
the Omarks that Dr. Bao was led
to Christ. He attended Central
Baptist on occasion, and was ex-on
class reading lists from which
the professors draw their exams.
The process of writing this
book was understandably involv-ed
due to the language factor.
The contents, which were first
produced as lectures, were writ-ten
by Dr. Moberg in English,
then given to his aide, a German
graduate student, who translated
them.
With the completed translations
back, Dr. Moberg then had to go
over them with great care to see
that cultural differences had not
caused an incorrect rendering of
the material.
Dr. Moberg was actually hinder-ed
little with language difficul-ties
while teaching at Muenster, for
it is the practice of professors to
read their lectures directly from
a manuscript. In fact, if a profes-sor
does not read from his manu-script,
he is thought to be unpre-pared.
For Dr. Moberg, who was not
familiar enough with the German
language to give an "off the
cuff" presentation, this practice
was indeed fortunate.
While his first semester lectures
are undergoing their final polish-ing
before publication, those pre-sented
by Dr. Moberg during the
second semester under the title
"Sociology of Religious Pluralism,"
are also being considered for pub-lication.
Awards to leading actors of the
year and other stalwart workers
were made as the climax of
Bacchae '66, the Royal Players'
year-ending banquet held Friday,
May 13, in the Sveden House, St.
Anthony Village.
Named as the best actor of the
year, with little surprise to any-one,
was Bob Drake, veteran in the
group, for his starring role in the
fall production Doctor Faustus.
posed to the immediate community
a number of times.
Working in Vietnam, Dr. Bao is
responsible for the health of 5,000
civilians as well as roughly 1,000
Vietnamese servicemen. He reveal-ed
in his correspondence with
the Omarks that there was an
acute shortage of medicine in his
as well as other areas. In response
to this expression, the Omarks
began a drive for various medica-tions
that might be used.
Pastor Magnuson of Central
Baptist Church persuaded the
Ramsey County Hospital to don-ate
some medicines, and in ad-dition
to a large consignment of
ointment from Fuller Pharmeceu-tical
of Minneapolis, ten cartons
of medicine were flown by the
Minnesota Air National Guard's
133rd Air Wing to Saigon.
From there it was forwarded
to Dr. Bao at his outpost. Rev.
Omark estimates that approximate-ly
$2,000 of medicine was sent
in that shipment.
Elated by the unexpected arri-val
of these medicines, Dr. Bae
wrote in appreciation and revealed
the acute need for soap. Explor-ing
possibilities of sending soap
as well, Rev. Omark inquired of
several manufacturers and hotels
to discover that this might well be
feasible.
In addition to donations from
these sources, it was felt that
the College and Seminary at
Bethel could participate in this
drive. Rev. Omark has suggested
that either cash or a soap gift
will be acceptable.
Because the arrangements for
flying this shipment to Vietnam
are as yet quite uncertain, Rev.
Omark has requested that prayer
be made on this behalf.
Rev. Omark stated that Dr. Bao
has revealed his growth in Christ
in his correspondence. Having
read a portion in Revelation 22
concerning the "tree of life" --
"and the leaves of the tree were
for the healing of the nations.",
Dr. Bao stated, "I want to be a
tiny cell of a leaf in that tree of
life."
Jill Graham, who appeared in
all productions that were part
of the troupe's agenda this year,
won the best actress accolade for
the same play.
Receiving the nod of his fellow
actors for supporting player honors
was David Stagg, the Lucifer of
Doctor Faustus. An additional
honor, the Creative Slave Award,
went to Mary Ruetten, a member
of the touring Conquest in Burma
troupe, who also served the drama-tists
behind the scenes in various
ways, particularly in producing the
drama newsletter.
Bacchae '66 began with the tra-ditional
Sveden. House smorgas-bord
at 7:30 p.m. After dinner, the
Thespians viewed an effective film
on Chinese pantomime theatre
titled "A Night at the Peking
Opera."
Comments on this year's acti-vities
were solicited, and club pres-ident
Dave Stagg summarized the
roster of events, with particular
emphasis on the diversity of acti-vity.
Daryl Berg, next year's presi-dent,
outlined upcoming plans
with emphasis on hoping to u-nite
such diversity into a cohe-sive
and even more active pro-gram.
Wednesday, May 18, 1966
Students are invited to join the
American Scientific Affiliation, an
association of evangelical Chris-tians
concerned with the relation-ships
between Christianity and the
biological, physical, and social sci-ences,
at a special student rate.
Benefits of membership include
a quarterly journal with articles
and book reviews by top-flight
scientists and philosophers and a
newsletter issued five or six times
a year through which members
receive information about local
section projects in various parts
of the nation, activities of Chris-tian
scientists and scholars, the
annual national convention, region-al
meetings, and even job oppor-tunities.
Professor David Moberg, who
served as editor of the Journal
of the American Scientific Affili-ation
for two years, recommends
membership to all alert students
who wish to keep on the growing
edge of scientific scholarship in
relationship to Christianity.
"I have benefited greatly from
participation in the A.S.A.," he
said. "It has helped me become
aware of major developments in
disciplines other than my own,
The entire group of actors was
transferred from Bethel to the
Sveden House for the banquet in
one cramped Corvette and a far
more cramped Speech Department
van, putting that famous vehicle
to one of the greatest tests its well-worn
body has yet known.
has extended the range of my
personal and intellectual interests,
has made me acquainted with num-erous
outstanding Christians, and
has in every respect been an en-riching
experience."
Student membership dues are
only $3.00 per year for the dura-tion
of one's student status.
Persons interested in considering
membership may receive a bro-chure
and membership application
form from Professor Moberg, P.O.
Box 3.
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The first-year program begins like this.
Under D. P. Fuller, students will receive
the ground rules for biblical interpreta-tion,
and E. J. Carnell will lay the spirit-ual
and intellectual foundation for their
faith. These courses will prepare them
for New Testament Interpretation and
Theology from E. F. Harrison and G. E.
Ladd as well as Church History and
Theology from G. W. Bromiley and P. K.
Jewett. At the same time, students will
take courses in the ministry and will be
working continuously at the task of put-ting
across the eternal gospel in speech
and homiletic workshops.
In the midst of these changes one thing
doesn't change—Fuller's relentless com-mitment
to the full authority of the
Word of God and the power of the Gospel
as the only answer to the despair and
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Page 3
Professor's Latest Treatise
Views Religion In Society
Royal Thespians Proffer Rewards,
Present Drake, Graham Top Actors
by Ron Harris
There is a law which stands emblazoned on my dirty dorm wall
which states that if anything can possibly go wrong in this universe, it
will. Why else, when I am nestled in the arms of Morpheus, would my
roomate come bustling into the room, flip on the lights, and inform me
that I am to move my car off the north-south street or face the possibility
of later scraping it off the sidewalk? Why else would I discover after two
hours of grueling Greek that I had done the wrong assignment?
There is another and perhaps more precise statement of this law:
ii sets forth the innate perversity of inanimate objects. There is little
doubt that in the scheme of life, all things devoid of life are endowed
with an inherent enmity against all things animate.
This has actually been proven statistically. In going through a
deck of cards, guessing red or black, it has been shown that the odds,
which are 50% if one calls the same color throughout, become less
favorable if one tries to anticipate by changing his call.
In addition to the enmity of things man actually has a challenge
in the small creatures of the micro-cosmos — the bacteria, fungi, and
viruses; and further along, the insectia, reptilia, and mammalia. The
odds against human survival in such circumstances are enormous.
There fore it is only natural that in such an inimitable environment
man should find himself compelled into a union of desperation and
mutual need of his fellow-man. Yet mankind finds within himself his
most dangerous foe. It is quite ridiculous and I think it should be re-moved.
Now I make no inferences to calling a conference with the Rus-sians
to terminate the cold war or to castigating our political system
and its indoubitable politicking. But we could start with the little
things like — well, not being downright uncomplimentary when a
student is a few minutes late in arriving in the lunch line; or taking
your time in the post office area after chapel; or taking your glass
or cup back to the proper area in the coffee shop; or not being a
pest to the kind people who run the bookstore, coffee shop, adminis-trative
offices or teach in the classrooms.
That irreplaceable word courtesy seems to be disappearing from
our phrenetic pace of modern existence. Every so often someone will
&Tam up a courtesy campaign, with a splendid award for a noble
display of this regrettably rare quality. Only when courtesy had been
cheapened could such a concept be tolerable.
Courtesy cannot possibly be rewarded. In its highest form it rep-resents
not that which is done but that which is not done. Courtesy
is not helping an old lady across the street. Courtesy, as any salesman
will tell you on a busy Saturday afternoon, consists not of being extreme-ly
affable, but in not making a pest of yourself in any one of a half-dozen
ways.
Ron Bergman, who, together with Dave Bjorklund has broken
Bethel's pole vault record, descends after successfully clearing the bar.
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A fine showing at the Macalester
Invitational last Tuesday and the
Bethel Invitational Saturday are
the latest accomplishments of a
fine group of Bethel thinclads. The
team, paced by sophomore Jim
Hammar, is enjoying what is in
many ways the best season Bethel
has ever had.
On May 7, the team easily de-feated
two MIAC schools, Hamline
and St. Thomas, in a triangular.
The previous week Bethel bested
five MIAC schools in the Bethel
Relays.
Tuesday, Bethel was not rep-resented
by a full team, but a
number of peak performances
were recorded. A 22'3 1/2" leap
in the broad jump by Jim Ham-mar
shattered the school mark
and placed second in the meet.
He also took fourth in the 100
yard dash after recording a time
of 10 seconds flat in the prelimi-naries.
In addition Hammar quali-fied
for the finals in the 220-yard
dash but was unable to compete
because of a conflict with the
finals of the broad jump.
The 440-yard relay team of Oli-ver
Skurdahl, Dave Moss, Bob Mc-
Donald, and Hammar again cracked
the school record, lowering it to
43.9 seconds. Both Andy Lehman
and Bill Malyon recorded record
times of 15.5 seconds in the high
hurdles but did not qualify for
the finals.
The mile relay team of Dave
Bjorklund, Tim Williams, Ron
Bergman, and Dave Dahlberg
also turned in a fine perfor-mance,
posting a season best of
3:36.2 seconds.
In the triangular May 7, Bethel
equalled the total scores of its
opponents scoring — 76 to St.
Thomas' 38 and Hamline's 37.
Sweeps of the first three places
in three events led the way to the
victory.
In the broad jump the leaders
were Hammar, Williams, and Mal-yon,
while in the high hurdles
they were Lehman, Malyon, and
Bjorklund. Malyon, Lehman, and
Williams led in the 330 yard inter-mediate
hurdles.
Besides the broad jump win
Hammar chalked up Bethel firsts
in the 100 and 220-yard dashes,
with Skurdahl taking second in
both. Ron Bergman and Bjork-lund
took top honors in the pole
vault, both with a school record
height of 12'51/2 ".
Under excellent pitching, and
in spite of rather damp conditions,
the Bethel College baseball team
swept a doubleheader from North-land
College 4-2 and 4-0 Saturday
at Como Park field number two.
Northland acquired both of their
runs in the second inning. Both,
however, came as the result of an
error and were therefore unearned.
Bethel came back in the third in-ning
to even the score at two runs
apiece.
Barnett Cox slapped a long
solo home run in the sixth to
give the baseball Royals their
first lead of the game 3-2. They
picked up their final insurance
run also in the sixth as the
result of Tom Corneil's single
and Bill Englund's triple which
sent Corneil home.
Both pitchers had some control
trouble during the game due to
the unfortunate coincidence of a
downpour. Sophomore Dan Gross
Wednesday, May 18, 1966
Dave Norman placed first in the
880, while also picking up a third
in the mile run and a fourth in
the two mile run. In the weights,
Ron Pederson took second in the
discus and third in the shot put.
Other Royal points were scored
by Dave Dahlberg and Craig Car-mean
in the 440, taking second
and fourth respectively, and Dave
Pearson with a third in the high
jump. Also the mile relay team
recorded a second place finish.
In the Bethel Invitational, com-peting
against Concordia of St.
Paul, Hamline, Northland, and
Pillsbury, Bethel placed first
with a total of 116 points. Their
closest rivals were Northland
with 49 and Hamline with 48.
Bethel recorded numerous first-place
finishes. The 440 yard relay
team won with a time of 45,4 sec-
On Thursday afternoon, May 12,
1966, the Bethel golf team faced
River Falls on the Como Park golf
course. A display of fine golf led
the team to a decisive 15-6 victory.
Participants in the victory were
Jim Spurgeon, Dave Livingston,
Lloyd Osterberg, Dave Anderson,
won the game for Bethel, pitching
a four-hitter.
In the nitecap, Orlyn Lundborg
began to show his potential com-bining
with Cox and Jerry Moul-ton
for a 4-0, two hit whitewash.
All of Bethel's runs were scored
in the third inning on a walk, two
singles back-to-back by Doug Kel-ley
and Terry Muck, a sacrifice
by Bob Nolin and a series of
Northland errors. Only one of the
runs was earned.
The Bethel Royals' baseball
record now stands at 12-7 for
the season. Two more wins
brought the total to this figure
when it was learned that Upper
Iowa College had used an in-eligible
player in the two games
which they took from Bethel.
The Royals conclude their sea-son
this week, playing two games
at Owatonna against Pillsbury and
two Saturday against Eau Claire
State of Wisconsin at Dunning
field.
onds. Andy Lehman finished first
in the high hurdles in 16.3 seconds.
He also took the 330 yard inter-mediate
hurdles in 44.1 seconds.
Jim Hammar took the 100 yard
and 220 yard dashes with times
of 10.5 and 23.6 seconds respective-ly.
Hammar also took the broad
jump and triple jump with leaps
of 20 feet 2 3/4 inches and 40 feet
3 inches. Tim Williams placed
first in the high jump, clearing 5
feet 93/4 inches. Dave Bjorklund
and Ron Bergman, both of Bethel,
tied in pole vault competition,
both scaling 12 feet.
This Monday the Royals will
compete in the NAIA District 13
meet before closing out the season
Saturday, May 21, with the North-land
Invitational at Ashland, Wis-consin.
Cal Harfst, Jerry Loomis, and Rick
Peterson.
The meet was highlighted by
three scores under 80 registered
by Spurgeon, Livingston and Oster-berg.
Spurgeon was medalist with
a 74, his score including an eagle
two on the part four, 320-yard
eleventh hole. His seven iron shot
from the fairway rolled into the
cup.
Livingston totalled a 76 in win-ning
three points for his team.
Finally, Osterberg fired a 79 in
taking three more points.
Bethel's victory was very satis-fying
to Coach Jerry Healy, and
his linksmen. It avenged an earlier
defeat that Bethel absorbed at the
Tennis Record
Deflects To 7-2
In last week's tennis action,
Bethel posted a victory against
Northland, 4-2, and lost to LaCrosse
State 4-3. Their season's won-lost
record therefore stands at 7-2.
Against Northland, Bethel swept
all singles matches. Bill Petersen
won 6-3, 6-0, Tom Hulst 6-2, 6-4,
Gene Petersen 6-0, 6-0, and Craig
Anderson 6-0, 6-1.
Both of the Bethel losses came
in doubles action. Both matches
were lost, however, in three sets.
The team of Gene Petersen-John
Tegenfeldt lost 2-6, 6-3, 4-6. The/
team of Tom Hulst-Ron Sleiter lost
6-1, 5-7, 4-6.
Statistics were not available on
the LaCrosse meet.
hands of the River Falls' golfers.
This weekend the team will tra-vel
to Ashland, Wisconsin to par-ticipate
in the Northland Invita-tional.
Bookstore Hails
Library Contest
cont'd from page one
national Amy Loveman Student
Library Contest, held each year
in April with prizes of $1,000 for
first place and two $200 awards.
This year's contest was held too
late for participation in this con-test.
Entries of books for the 1966-67
contest should be classified accord-ing
to various types of books en-tered.
The Bookstore personnel
will develop suggestions for clas-sification
of volumes.
Students should also indicate
whether their complete library is
listed or not, and if not, shoulc
tell how many volumes are in the
total library.
Textbooks and casual reading,
or books which cannot be clas-sified
as of "solid" merit should
not be listed. Information con-cerning
each book which is de-sired
is its title, author, pub-lisher,
and whether it is a paper-back
or not.
Beginning tomorrow, the Bethel
Bookstore will display a number
of the volumes included in Roger
Evans' prize-winning entry in the
window fronting on the Coffee
Shop.
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Batters Crush Northland,
Post 12-7 Season Record
Royal Cleatmen Set Winning Pace,
Surmount Standing Bethel Records
Golfers Chronicle Positive Victory;
Threesome Post Sub-Eighty Scores
