DEAN CARLSON
UP 111 1! !
"Are you leaving Bethel?" is the question that I face frequently
these days. Clearly, the question comes with a wide variety of facial
and vocal expressions. Well, here is my answer: it is "Yes and no".
.I have consented to serve as Executive Director of the Baptist
Joint Committee on Public Affairs. That office has been set up to
serve as the channel or clearinghouse for Baptist considerations of
national public affairs. It is representative of the major Baptist fel-lowships
of the country, including the Southern Baptist Convention,
the American Baptist Convention, and both branches of the National
Convention, as well as a number of other groups which have more or
less provision for participation. The office does require residence in
Washington.
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For we are His work-manship,
created in
Christ Jesus unto
good works, . .
. . . which God hath
before ordained that
we should walk in
them. Eph. 2:10
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Vol. XXXI — No. 3
Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota
Friday, October 23, 1953
Dean Carlson Accepts National Post
Bob Brucato
Passes Away
Bethel students, college and
seminary alike, were saddened
last Thursday at the news of the
death of Robert Brucato, Semin-ary
senior. He was stricken on
October 9 witl? bulbar polio and
taken to Ancker Hospital, where
he died Thursday morning.
Surviving Bob are his mother,
Mrs. Brucato, of Duluth, his wife
of a month, the former Mrs. Jean
Larson, and two children, Sarah
and Cary.
Bob was a graduate of the Un-iversity
of Minnesota, Duluth
branch. He entered Bethel Semin-ary
in 1951. This past summer he
held a student pastorate at Grand
Rapids, Minnesota, and was plan-ning
to hold a similiar pastorate
during this school year.
The funeral was held last Sat-urday
afternoon at one o'clock in
Bethel. Baptist Church, Duluth,
his home church. His pastor, the
Rev. Marvin Samuelson, conduct-ed
the service. Miss Doris Moberg
sang two numbers. Among the
eight pall bearers were four of
Bethel men, associates of Bob's
in the Seminary: Willard Nuss,
Lee Gidings, Russel Johnson. and
John Olson.
Interment was in the Forest
Hills cemetery, Duluth. At the
service at the grave, the Rev, Wil-liam
Turnwall, who had been
chaplain for Bob while he served
in the National Guard, led in
prayer. A Bethel quartet, David
Clark, Carolyn Clark, Curt Fauth,
and Roy Walters, sang.
In spite of these developments I
am not ready to say that I am leav-ing
Bethel. My future status with
the school has not yet defined. My
vital interests in Bethel will cer-tainly
be maintained, and I will
stand ready at all times to cooper-ate
in the furthering of this insti-tution
to which. I have given
twenty-six years of my life and
which we have all come to love.
Through these years I have seen
the Lord at work on our campus
— in lives, in a building program.,
in faculty growth, in curricular
development, in student organiza-tions,
and in the spiritual atmos-phere
on campus. Regardless of
where I might be living in the fu-ture,
I will continue both to work
and to pray for continued bless-ings
on this campus. I will be here
in spirit, and I suspect that I will
be here often in body as well.
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FMF Urges
Missionary Letters
"A letter each month from Beth-el
for every Conference mission-aryfamily."
This is one of the goals
set by the Foreign Missions Fellow-ship
for this year. All the students
may participate in this missionary
service as it is not limited to those
who are planning to serve in for
eign fields.
Addressed envelopes may be pur-chased
from Dorothy Iblings for
ten cents (10c) each. Students may
select missionaries to write to, but
it is not necessary to be personally
acquainted with them. There will
be special emphasis made for this
project each month, but the envel-opes
are available at any time.
The questions may be asked —
"What do we say?" "What can we
write about?" Almost all of the
Conference missionaries attended
Bethel, and they are interested to
hear about all the happenings on
campus. They want to know about
the athletic contests, the parties,
the chapel services and the special
meetings; in short they like to hear
about everything concerning life at
their school. Home churches and
pastors will in many instances pro-vide
a contact. Tell them future
plans, whether for missionary serv-ice,
teaching pastoral work, or
whatever. Ask them questions; dis-cuss
spiritual problems with them.
They will answer the letters as far
as it is possible, but the FMF ad-vises
that often it takes three
months for the answers to arrive.
Practice Pipe Organ
Installed In Field House
Twice as many students are able
to take organ lessons this year be-cause
a used Kimball pipe organ
was recently installed in the field
house.
Until now only four or five stu-dents
have been permitted to take
lessons because they could use the
chapel organ for practice only when
the classrooms adjoining the chap-el
were vacant.
According to C. Howard Smith,
assistant professor of music, nine
students are now taking organ les-sons.
He estimates that the prac-tice
organ is being used sixty hours
a week.
Photo by Ralph Carlson
representative, Virginia Nepstad,
sr. class, Ronald Palosaari, vice-and
Curt Fauth take care of gen-eral
arrangements. Carolyn Dahl-quist
heads the refreshment com-mittee,
and Rodney Erickson and,
Gordon Olson are in charge of ad-vertising.
Now being planned is the an-nual
halloween party which will
be held on October 31st,
with tentative plans of either a
barn party or a hayride.
Al].of the homecoming events
were planned and carried out by
members1 of the social council.
Ronald Palosaari had charge of
the Friday night "Social Silliness"
The approximately 3,000 alumni
could establish a $25,000 fund, he
further stated. At present the fund
contains between four and five
thousand dollars. .
Detaled information will be
mailed to the alumni within the
next two months.
Rev. Nordstrom said that the
fund project will enable the alum-ni
to help in a concrete way those
students who experience real fin-ancial
needs while at school.
"I believe," stated Rev. Nord-strom,
"that this is an ideal proj-ect
for the alumni. They can un-derstand
better than anyone else
the needs of students."
The study covers the case his-tories
of 540 patients at the Uni-versity
and their families, which
Mr. Anderson, with one or two
assistants, has been examining to
discover the relationship between
heredity and breast cancer. At
times this project has entailed trips
to all parts of the state to get in-formation
by means of personal
interviews. The results of the re-search
have been to show very little
correlation between the two fac-tors;
that is there is very little ev-idence
that breast cancer runs in
families.
Mr. Anderson expects to receive
his Doctor of Philosophy degree in
December, after he has completed
the publication of the research re-port
and met with the examining
committee.
Scientific genetics, Mr. Anderson
said, began with the work of Greg-or
Mendel in the middle nine-teenth
century, but his work was
forgotten until about 1900. And it
is only in the last ten years that
human genetics has come into its
own as a separate discipline. The
Dight Institute, where he has been
working, is one of six in the United
States which is devoted to the
study of human genetics.
program, and Virginia Nepstad a-long
with other members of all of
the committees made arrange-ments
for all of the activities on
Saturday of homecoming.
Alumni Association Establishes
Student Memorial Loan Fund
The Student Memorial Loan Fund, adopted by the Alumni Council
at its meeting, Friday, October 9, will be the major project of the
Bethel Association this year.
Rev. Lloyd Nordstrom, vice-president of the association and a
member of the Finance and Promotion Committee, said the committee
hopes for a ten dollar donation from each alumnus.
I. to r. Rodney Erickson, seminary
chairman; Cai Fernlund, vice-pres.,
pres., jr. class.
The Social Council, one of the
councils working under the Stu-dent
Senate, is responsible for all
social activities on campus. Plans
are under way for a more well-rounded
social life at Bethel, with
Christian fellowship as the main
aim.
Chairman of this year's Social
Council is Virginia Nepstad, col-lege
senior. She is assisted by
committee members chosen from
both college and seminary classes;
Don Stipe and Dale Nystrom
are in charge of the entertain-ment
committe and Cal Fernlund
Bethel Prof. Addresses Scientists
V. Elving Anderson, chairman of the biology department of
Bethel College, addressed a conference of geneticists held in Bethesda,
Md., just outside Washington, D. C., on Oct. 8 and 9, presenting the
results of his study of the genetics of human breast cancer.
The conference on methods and problems in human genetics, the
first of its kind, was sponsored by the National Institutes of Health.
It was attended by about 50 American scientists and two from Europe.
Mr. Anderson was presented to the group by Mr. Sheldon C. Reed,
his advisor at the Dight Institute for Human Genetics of the Univer-sity
of Minnesota, to present the results of the study which he has
been supervising since 1948 as part of his doctoral work.
Page 2
THE CLARION
Friday, October 23, 1953
Dear Editor,
I should like to address myself to the sem-inary
men and to those college men who room
in the seminary building, regarding the matter
of quietness during the chapel period. During
the days that I attended seminary chapel in
Deeper Life Week, I became aware of the
numerous distractions created by the men who
travel the stairways and those who were on the
second Boor.
Some of the disturbances I heard were these:
loud talking, •playing a stringed instrument,
heavy walking by men with hard-heeled shoes,
and very noisy traffic on the stairs. Moreover,
near the end of the chapel session, several
seminary men made a ooisterous entrance into
the building.
I am not making a plea for compulsory
chapel attendance, but I am nopeful that those
who seek the quietness and blessing of the
chapel session should not be distracted by
those few who prefer not to come. It is to be
granted that the stairways are "creaky" and in
need of padding. It is also to be granted that
one can travel the hall-way and the stairs
lightly.
Sincerely,
Maurice Schultz
Dear Editor,
I sincerely would like to know the exact pol-icy
of the faculty concerning the following
problem.
Last week was Deeper Life Week on campus
I have heard it said by students and some fac-ulty
members that during a week of special
meetings such as last week, homework is to
be kept at a minimum; yet other members of
the faculty seem to take no notice of this pol-icy
(if it is a policy) and continue to give large
assignments plus tests. The large or normal
amount of assignments could be completed
without too much difficulty were it not for the
fact that tests require considerably more prep-aration
besides that spent on regular assign-ments.
This makes is impossible for many stu-dents
(especially those who work part time)
to attend the services.
I, and there are many others with the same
problem, had three tests scheduled for last
week. Now, somewhere there lies some incon-sistency
in faculty policy. This is a very real
problem to those of us who would like very
much to learn from excellent speakers whom
we might never be able to hear again, but are
forced to forego this privilege to put in extra
study time for some courses, taught by in-structors
who seem to disregard entirely these
weeks of special spiritual guidance.
I would be grateful indeed if the faculty of
Bethel's "family" would make its decision as a
family and then take its united stand.
A Bewildered Student
Dear Editor,
I have overheard some Bethel students talk-ing,
and frankly I am troubled. These are a
few of the things I've heard.
"I'll put you on my prayer list!"
It sounds like a sincere desire from a Bethel
student to make intercession for another. But
is it? More likely it was said to some individ-ual
who crowded in the cafeteria line. Here's
another example.
"You going to prayer meeting?"
"Yes."
"Pray for me."
"Do you feel needy?"
"Yeh, I feel needy. I'm a sinner tonite."
"Did you get a blessing?"
"From what?"
"Reading the jokes In the "Saturday Even-ing
Post."
"Oh yes, I feel very blessed."
And finally this.
"But I just must have a game of rook before.
I go to bed. Can't miss my devotions, you
know."
Is this a result of being surrounded in a
Christian atmosphere in which we become so
familiar with pious phrases that they no longer
have any deep meaning for us? I wonder.
B. D.
Dear Editor:
Anyone knows that when a football team is
behind during the fourth by 56 points, it's
perfectly ridiculous to yell "win, team, win."
Yet that's exactly what's been happening at
our Bethel games. Not only that, but when
the cheerleaders come out to lead a cheer and
then spend a minute whispering and deciding
what cheer to use it shows that our cheer-leaders
either aren't familiar with the game,
or they're just careless.
Try-outs imply choosing those best qualified
for cheering — not those who have the most
seniority. However, two freshmen girls, ex-perienced
cheerleaders and stunt performers
'were put on the cheerleading squad as alter-nates,
and as yet have not been given oppor-tunity
to lead cheers.
Gripes are heard around campus that the
cheerleaders use the same yells and only one
style of arm movement repeatedly. Also, that
they watch the plays too much instead of con-centrating
on cheering.
Why not inaugerate a few changes, first, by
letting the two freshman alternate cheerleaders
do some of their yells and stunts; second, by
having more men cheerleaders; and third, by
learning more new yells. Have them printed
and distributed through the crowd before the
game.
If we effect some of these changes, perhaps
the "pep potential" that exists at Bethel will
be stimulated and expressed.
L. E.
by President Wingblade
Most of the campus personnel have by this
time heard the news that Dean C. E. Carlson
has received a call from Washington to take
over a very important position as Director of
the Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs
— which committee represents practically all
the Baptists of America, north and south.
We recognize this as a signal honor for our
school that one of our men should be chosen
for this very important position, and it does
offer to Dean Carlson an unprecedented op-portunity
for high leadership and far-reaching
service. We certainly do congratulate him.
However, the school he has worked so faith-fully
and efficiently to advance will continue
to claim him as her own, and the hope is that
arrangements can be made whereby Dean Carl-son
will continue to be close to the school pro-gram
and share his educational insight and
administrative wisdom. We feel sure that the
Lord who has led Dean Carlson in this impor-tant
decision will lead in that matter as well.
Again we congratulate Dean Carlson and
also the school which has been called upon to
furnish such an outstanding leader. May the
future for Dean Carlson and for the school be
"bright in His light."
Let's Park
by Cliff Schroeder
The big problem of the decade seems to be
parking. This problem has come to the down-town
places, the larger manufacturing plants,
the university and the ball parks. Now it has
come to Bethel. Quite a little surprise it was
too, to Bethel, who thought she had two very
tidy little• parking lots to offer h'er motor
minded students. The lots were freshly oiled
and sanded this summer — rolled down and
smoothed.
However, all this trouble is lost to the many
drivers who can't squeeze their autos into the
lots and must abandon them to the dangers of
curb parking. We think that each of the lots
could be expanded with very little sacrifice of
either lawn or building space.
After doing some very amateurish surveying
we came to the conclusion that the north lot
could be made one row of cars wider and per-haps
four or five cars longer merely by the
use of some, what is now, waste space. The
college building lot could be enlarged to cover
the entire south end if necessary — even one
row would help.
Remember that with the arrival of winter
the streets become narrow and slippery and
we would all prefer to have our cars safe in a
cozy parking lot. The facts are that enroll-ment
has increased and will continue to in-crease
and, in direct ratio, the number of
cars at the campus will increase. So, may we
suggest that provisions for the parking of cars
be a major item in, any future alterations of
the campus?
Pe tb i6arb aped)
by Einar Gjestland
I was prating yester even with the aged
sage up on the hill, and 1 said unto him, "Good
sire, I am sore vexed." (Well he knoweth that
I consort with him only when I am of such a
disposition.) But the Old Bard smiled at last,
and as he stroked his shiny beard, I could see
a sparkle in his eyen which did light up his
visage as though he could divine from my
very countenance the nature of my affliction.
Then saith he unto me, "How art thou so des-pondent,
my son?" And ere he should get the•
wrong idea, I replied, "No sire, not this time—
tonight I am concerned about another matter."
"Well," saih he anon, "let us hear the grav-ity
of the thing that we might consider wisely."
Then proceeded I to declare upto him how
that the Royals had kept company with mis-fortune:
yea, in the last game our men had
run onto the football field with the zeal of
fighting men, but though they struggled val-iantly,
behold, the Auggies had dealt our men
another blow of defeat.
But thus saith the Old Bard: "Son, be not
troubled — wet thou not that this same loss
is but a game. Go bid thy fellows strive on.
For though they take the lesser share of the
score, nevertheless if they continue to play in
a true spirit of sportsmanship and with the
manifestations of character and fortitude such
as becometh humble men, then theirs shall be
the greater reward: for is not this attainment
worth more than a touchdown?"
Nik Dag Tip .. .
Slippery ice .. .. very thin.
Pretty girl . . . . fell in.
Gave a shriek . . . . then she sank.
Boy on bank . . heard her shout.
Jumped right in .. .. helped her out.
Now he's hers . . . . very nice.
BUT . . . . she had to break the ice!
Flies
by Pat Alms
Will they ever leave us alone? I'm speak-ing
of none other than our friends the flies,
or should I say enemies? They seem to have
nothing else to do but pester, bother and light
upon us. And we, in return, are continually
batting them away.
How can we be expected to study? In the
library, for instance, it is nothing to have one
fly or more buzzing around our head, let alone
crawling all over our history, literature, or
chemistry book, that we are trying to read.
Many times we read the next word in a sen
tence, at least attempt to, but in its place is a
fly. Even in classrooms, we have difficulty in
concentrating on what the prof is trying to say.
In the dining hall there is the same problem.
We no sooner sit down to eat our meal, than
a sudden attack of flies swarms down at our
food.
Then there is the poor switch-board oper-ator.
She not only has signal lights buzzing
continually in her ear, but also flies. Some-times
she is unable to distinguish between the
two.
We would think there would be some place
of quiet rest. Perhaps our room in which we
live may offer us that convenience. No, even
there we discover a fly. We try cautiously to
keep our windows and doors closed, yet our
clever little friends find ways to sneak in. The
question is—what can we do about these flies?
Smorgy the Silverfish .. .
I'm still at bethel. this week i crawled into the library one evening and just about
lost my left antenna. you see it was so deathly silent in there i thought the place
was empty and along came some bruiser and almost nabbed me with his crutches.
i scurried behind the desk and found the cause for the silent students. it's the new
system. here are a few samples of the rules. 1. no shoes allowed in library when
walking. high heels and heel plates forbidden. 2. students with sinus trouble must
sit at the table in the rear right corner where their breathing will not carry to the
main desk. 3. no spectacles will be cleaned in library, the scratching interferes with
ones brain waves. 4. no smiling allowed. the monitor will think someone has just
whispered to you and someone will have to leave, or a 2c fee paid for each smile.
5. following meals you may not pick your teeth in the library. the snapping bothers.
6. pencil sharpening is forbidden. if someone insists on using the sharpener it will
be attached to the flag pole and sign out slips required for its usage. 7. all fountain
pens and pencils must be approved at the main desk. scratchers will be left in the
entrance. 8. if the weather ever turns cold students must wear overcoats. no heat
will be piped into the library for the cracking of pipes does detract. 9. the unabridged
editions of the dictionary will be moved into the phone booth downstairs to eliminate
squeaking ball bearing sounds. (personally this disgusts me, i love to ride merry-go-round
on the lazy susan dictionary) 10. there will be no talking tolerated when you
occupy the walks around the library. 11. no shouting wil be allowed within 50 feet
of the building and then you must shout in a direction at least 66 1/2 degrees from any
open windows. 12. automobiles on snelling avenue will be detoured evenings until
10:00 p.m. and trucks will not be allowed/ within eight blocks of the jail, er ah library.
13. a special mute will be put on the curfew siren at falcon heights so the 9:00 p.m.
whistle will not be heard in the library. too many married students thought that was
their wife calling them home . .. . there are a lot more rules Out this sampling wil
help us toe the line. the suggestion came from wiggley the worm that the recorder
music be pitched to a tone high enough so only the dogs would hear it and thus the
students would not be disturbed. he, said there is only one trouble with that and it is
that the students studying there would probably get tired of hearing the music all
the time. i object. he can't call them dogs even if he doesn't like the present
set-up. i personally would like to help the situation. from now on i will be
taking applications for free lessons on sign language. i think communication is a vital
part of our library system.
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THE CLARION
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Women's Federation
Sets New Goals
Dr. Alphin Conrad will speak at the fall meeting of the Bethel
'Women's Federation, Oct. 29, in the Seminary Chapel. The meeting
will begin at 1:30 p.m. instead of two o'clock as in previous years. The
federation was originally )rganized through the effort of Mrs. Margar
et Bodien for the purpose of raising money to furnish the girls' dorm.
It has now expanded its program which includes the furnishing of
all Bethel dorms. This group meets four times a year, in October,
January, April and July, on the fourth Tuesday of the month. Two
of these meetings are regular business meetings.
In addition to the main speaker
• • •
on the program, each time there is
a special speaker who tells about
some phase of Bethel. Mrs. I.
Sjordal will speak at the October
meeting about the girls' physical
education /program.
The membership now consists of
all women who belong to the Con-ference
churches in the twin cities
and surrounding area, while in the
past there was a regular enrolled
membership.
There are no dues but an offer-ing
is taken at each meeting which
goes to the school.
The officers for the group are
picked to represent all areas of thd
twin cities. The officers at the
present time are the following:
President, Mrs. Albert Tanquist;
Vice President, Mrs. H. W. Malm-sten;
Secretary, Mrs. H. Lidbom and
Treasurer, Mrs. Oscar Lofroth.
50 Girls in Chorus
Every Fri. morning at 6:45, the
voices of about fifty girls can be
heard blending in some lyric as
the Bethel Girls' Chorus rehearses
in the college chapel.
This year the Girls' Chorus, un-der
the direction of Mr. Nels Sjern-strom,
has a considerably larger
membership than that of the pre-vious
chorus three years ago..
Regular practices are scheduled
every Tuesday evening at 8 p.m. in
the seminary chapel and every
Friday morning in the college
chapel. Vi
WILLIAM (BILL) R.
SLIVKA SAYS .. . .
"I couldn't tell a gymno-sperm
from an angiosperm
until I got my College Outline
Series on Biology."
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Photos by Ralph Carlson
pen 'Letter li)otrie to family
Rebtal5Ttani51/)eroic ptimi5in
by Dale (Spoof) Nystrom, alias flat-back
Dear mom, dad, Neoma, Bud, Mary, Vera, Rodger, Darwin, Aunt Opal,
Uncle Martin, Grandma (maternal), and Grandpa (maternal, too);
Cheery greetings from Bethel! Maybe you have wondered why you
haven't heard from me in the past 35 days (it may have seemed like
weeks). But I've really been busy executing my college life from a
stretcher. It wouldn't be so bad if I could just talk.
But don't you worry, it's nothing serious!
Above is the latest picture of me in the great out-of-doors. Stand-ing
around me are my good buddies from the team. They made the
arrangements for this picture to show you how well I'm coming along.
How do you like the sport clothes? The guys on crutches had to return
them to the undertaker after the picture. It was so nice of him to loan
them out for the cnvenience of the zippers (used on corpses)
But don't you worry, it's nothing serious!
The blind buddy, Wayne, is taking the dictation for this letter.
He's a telepathist (very handy since I can't talk to him) and since he
can't see to write, he types. Isn't that clever? Then he holds the
letter in front of my eyes and if he hears the swish of my eyelashes
he knows I like it. It's surely swell of him since his telepathy isn't
much use to the team without his eyes:
But don't you worry, it's nothing serious.
The team has a great spirit this year. They cheer like crazy every
time another man is carried off the field. It makes a guy feel good.
The only thing wrong with me is I crushed my spine. I hope that
when they put the steel plates in they use some which will whistle.
love good music).
But don't you worry, it's nothing serious!
I'm sorry I probably won't be home for Thanksgiving. I think an
ambulance would cost too much. And you probably shouldn't plan
to come up for Christmas either. The rooms are expensive in the
hospital.
But don't you worry, it's nothing serious!
The doc is coming soon (he comes every day) so I'll have to close.
He checks the whole team while he feeds me my intravenous. But
he's greatly assuring and tells me each day not to worry.
He says, "it's nothing serious."
Hope to smile at you soon,
Dale
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SWEDISH CLUB
Monday, October 19, the Swed-ish
Club met for the first time
this year. Group singing led by
president Dick Johnson opened
the meeting.
Returning officers a r e presi-dent
Dick Johnson, and vice pre-sident
Bonnie Welin. Carol Pet-erson,
freshman from Minneapo-lis,
was elected secretary - treas-urer
and Ariel Obinger, former
member of God's Invasion Army,
was elected social chairman.
"Picturesque Sweden," a sound
travelog film, was shown during
the meeting.
CAMERA CLUB
The first meeting of the Cam-era
Club for this year was held
Monday, Oct. 12. Elections were
held in which Ralph E. Carlson
was elected president, Dale Ny-strom;
vice-president, Roy Wal-ters,
secretary and Ray Bohleen,
treasurer.
Principles of photography will
be discussed at the meeting Nov-ember
2, and all interested in
this area of work are invited to
attend. Meetings are held the
first Monday of each month at
8 p.m. in room 3 of the college
building.
Five Days Remain in
SnP.ushot Contest
Will this year's Spire be excit-ing
with clever snapshots, or dull
with traditional photographs?
Whose memorable moments will
he recorded in our 1954 year-hook?
This depends on you! Only
five days remain in the Snapshot_,
Contest sponsored by the SPIRE
staff. All students are urged to
send in snapshots of any phase
of college life.
This is a chance for all ama-teur
photographers to try their
wings. Besides the possibility of
your snapshots being used in the
SPIRE, you stand a chance of win-ning
a prize or your entry. Snap-shots
will be returned upon re-quest
at the end of the year.
Here are the rules:
1. Snapshots must be turned in
before 10 p.m. October 28, to
the Spire Office.
2. Snapshots must have your
name and p. o. box number
on the back.
3. Members of the SPIRE staff
are not eligible.
Library Acquires
Microfilm Reader
For some time the library has
been looking forward to offering
microfilm service to Bethel stu-dents
and faculty. The service is
now in operation.
Last spring a Grissombe micro-film
reader was purchased. This
is a projector designed for view-ing
material microcopied on mov-ing
picture film.
First acquisition in microfilm
of the library is the New York
Times for 1952 with the issues
for 1953 soon to follow. As funds
permit, back files of this paper
will be acquired. Used together
with the N. Y. Times index, found
on the index table, one has ready
access to Times news items and
feature articles.
Microfilm is widely used in ac-ademic
circles as well as in busi-ness
industry and the govern-ment.
Large numbers of period-icals,
rare materials including
early manuscripts, and disserta-tions
are - microcopied. Libraries
value it because it is a partial
answer to storage problems and
because it gives wider access to
otherwise rare items.
Bethel library plans to acquire
a microcard reader later on. -
BWA Presents
Nov Style Show
With apparel furnished by
Schuneman's Department store,
St. Paul, the Bethel Women's As-sociation
will present a style show
for their Thanksgiving program.
These latest fashions will be mod-eled
by Bethel girls.
Officers and cabinet members
of the B. W. A. have made plans
for the future and recently elec-ted
three new officers to fill the
vacancies left by girls who didn't
return to Bethel this year. Chosen
vice-president was Shirley Knut-son;
assistant-secretary, Winnif-red
Stanford; and cabinet mem-ber,
Barbara Harper.
For the remaining months of
the year the programs are plan-ned
as follows: a Christmas party
in December; Mrs. Elving Ander-son
speaking on home economics
in January; February will feature
a valentine party; the faculty wiv-es
will have charge of the March
meeting and the annual spring
banquet will be held in April.
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health.
Those who did not register on
Wednesday, October 31, and are
willing to give blood, may still re-gister
with the school nurse. Dor-is
Moberg.
Arvid Berg, Donn Goss, Ronald
Palosaari. Gordon Nelson, Tom
Warden, Beverly Mullin and Vir-ginia
Larson are helping with
preparations for the Bloodmobile.
Volunteers are needed to help
work at the dorm on October 29.
Those who are willing to help are
asked to see one of these stu-dents.
Compliments of
Falcon Heights
Pharmacy
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Royals Fail 31-0
Battling against pessimism and
experience of the Auggies, the
Royals panted a 31-0 defeat at
Bethel's Homecoming game on
Oct. 10. In spite of fumbles and
even the score the grid-men push-ed
through the game claiming
their best all-around playing of
the season, thus far.
Page 4
THE CLARION Friday, October 23, 1953
Paul Berg
John Berg
Photo by Ralph Carlson
Twin Trouble By Gridsters
Bergs Fool Coach and Team
by Don Goes
Look sharp, flip a coin to decide, and the one you call John will
still be Paul. This is the way the Bergs have been confusing Bethel
students all year.
Tht Berg twin's, Bethel freshmen, own up to the fact when closely
questioned, that they were born in Chicago and have spent all their
18 years there.
Despite appearances, 5' 8", 177 lbs. John is an inch taller and 10
lbs. heavier than his counter-part. However Paul finds that his smaller
size is no disadvantage in sports activities.
The twins have a wide variety of sports interests but their first
love is water-polo; both were on their high school swimming team.
They have been a great asset to the grid team at Bethel although
neither had any football experience in high school. Both play right
guard and there is never a play when a Berg is not on the field.
9#thia-Mtata1 Stze4,14
Bethel's intra-mural program
for 1953 was ushered in on Oct.
3 when six touch-football teams,
representing various parts of the
country, vied for top honors in
this sport. The football program
is scheduled to continue for five
weeks. At present, the team re-presenting
Illinois is leading the
pack.
The Athletic Council, under the
leadership of Ronald Olson, has
outlined a broad program for
those students who are not par-ticipating
in a major sport. This
year's schedule includes football,
basketball and volleyball. Supple-menting
these team sports will be
a ping-pong a n d badminton
tournament for individual partici-pation.
Much enthusiasm has been
shown already this year and stu-dents
who haven't been active are
urged to participate.
Steinhaus Finally Does It
Royals Falter Again 25-6
by Don Stipe
Trying for their first win of the season, the Bethel Royals bowed
to a scrappy Northland eleven by a score of 25 to 6. However, the
game wasn't a total loss as the Royals scored their first touch-down.
Playing much better ball than the score would seem to indicate,
the Royals finally punched their way into the scoring column for the
first time in the current campaign.
The Ashland crew drew first blood in the first quarter with an
end-sweep which netted nine yards and six points. The Bethel eleven
dug in and held for the remainder of the quarter.
In the second period the Lum-berjacks
climaxed a scoring
drive with a center smash from
the one foot line. The pigskin
split the uprights for the extra
point. In the waning seconds of
the first half a Brunzell aerial was
intercepted on the Bethel 20 yard
line and the Northlanders scored
for the third time. Bethel left the
field at half-time behind by a
score of 19 to 0.
The Royals' first score of the
season came as a result of a com-bination
of breaks early in the
third period. Berg and Pople tore
through the line and blocked a
Northland punt. Harold Erickson,
playing sharp ball, fell on the ball
on the opponents' 19. A Brunzell
pass to Shellman and a clipping
penalty against Northland put the
ball on the one. "Toothless" Stein-haus
(who lost three during the
game) crashed over on his first
attempt for the high-light of the
game.
The final score came late in the
third period on a sustained drive
to the 20 yard line where a
Northlander broke loose and
scampered, untouched, through
the Bethel secondary and into the
end-zone.
A laurel is thrown to the Berg
twins and Bruce Steinhaus for
their brilliant play both on of-fense
and defense.
With commendable all-around
playng from backfieldman Stein- ,.i
haus and linemen Walberg (end)
and the Berg twins (guards) the
Royals plowed the turf and held
the Auggies for only one T. D. in"
the third quarter.
B-Ball Coming
November 24 will mark the
first game for Bethel's 4953-54
basketball team. Following this
will be a series of approximately
22 games. Several large teachers'
colleges, such as Bemidji a n d
Superior State. will he included in
this year's schedule. With the
fresh blood of 27 new men and
four returning lettermen (Gene
Messenger, Paul Redin, Harold
Erickson and Howard Johnson),
the team hopes to keep Bethel
on top in its year of str( ngest
competition. The first tryout prac-tice
was held October 16. How-ever,
according to Del Ray Peter-son,
coach,—it is not too late to
try out for the team. In fact, he
added, "All are welcome."
This year more individual at-tention
will be available for the
players. Assisting Mr. Peterson
will he Lynn Lundin, football
coach. Mr. Peterson expects to
spend most of his time in train-ing
the varsity team while Mr.
Lundin will coach the "B" squad.
In addition to their full schedule,
the team plans to take a trip to
Bismark, North Dakota, immediat-ely
following the Christmas holi-days.
Tentative plans have also
been made for games in Aurora,
Illinois and Mission House College
in Wisconsin. In contrast to the
rumor that games with Northwes-tern
Schools had ceased, Coach
Peterson announced that Bethel
will play Northwestern in a home
game during Founders' Week,
Feb. 18.
Blood Doners
1953-54 BASKETBALL
SCHEDULE
Nov. 24 St. Cloud T. C. (T)
28 Open
Dec. 1 Superior T. C. (H)
5 Valley City
(H)
11 Bemidji T. C. (H)
Jan, 2 Open
4 Wahpeton (T)
5 Mayville
(T)
9 Northland
(H)
12 St. Cloud T. C. (H)
16 Open
18 Bemidji T. C. (T)
23 Open
26 River Falls T. C. (H)
30 Northland
(T)
Feb. 1 Mayville T. C. (H)
6 Sioux Falls
(H)
10 Winona (T)
13 Sioux Falls (T)
16 Open
18 Open
20 Winona (H)
22 River Falls (T)
Holding the Auggies for the
On Thursday, October 29, from first quarter, optimism spirited
9 a.m. to 3 p.m., the St. Paul both the team and the Royal
Bloodmobile Unit will be set up fans. But the beginning of the
in the recreation room of Edgren second quarter squelched the
dormitory for those wishing to flame when the Auggies stole
contribute a pint of blood. across for a T. D. Only a spark
Donors must be between the was left when the half-time bore
ages of 18 and 55 and in good 18-0.
BETHEL
vs.
WORTHINGTON
November 30
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