Vicial Schaal Pap
Pictured above tre violinist Valdeko Kangro, cellist, Kaljo Raid,
and pianist Miss Mildred Bisgrove, Bethel faculty members, who appear
together tonight at the Bethel spring Music Festival, held at the Central
Baptist Church starting at 8:30. Others on the program include C.
Howard Smith, organist, and the Bethel Male Chorus and Chapel Choir.
Board of Education Names Lidbom
To New Post of Business Manager
Mr. Harold Lidbom has been named to a newly created post on our
campus, with the title of Business Manager, by action of the Board of
Education at its last regular meeting. The rapid growth of the school
with the multiplicity of business activities involved has, in the opinion
of the Administration and the Board, led to a .need for this addition to
the administrative staff.
All we like sheep
have gone astray; we
have turned every
one to his own way;
Vol. XXIX—No. 12
Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota
Friday, May 23, 1952
Musicians Stage Spring Festival Tonight
Estonian Scholar
May Join Faculty
The Board of Education at its
meeting May 14, approved an invi-tation
to an Esthonian scholar, now
resident in Sweden, to become a
member of our faculty as Assistant
Professor of Classical Studies. He
is Dr. Ervin Roos of Stockholm,
a Ph. D. from Sweden's Lund Uni-versity.
The action of the Board com-pletes_
campus plans for Dr. Roos
to join our faculty by September
of this year. In recommending Dr.
Roos to the Board, Dean Carlson
explained that careful classical
scholarship has become rare in
America, and indicated that he
knew of no comparably capable
candidate who would be accept-able
to our program. If Dr. Roos
decides finally in favor of our
school, he will handle courses in
Greek, Ancient History, and related
subjects.
The new appointee is a personal
acquaintance and friend of Messrs..
Kangro and Raid.
Dr. Ohm Speaks at
Commencement June 6
Dr. Arnold Ohrn, general secre-tary
of the Baptist World Alliance,
will speak at Commencement ex-ercises
for the Seminary and Col-lege
graduating classes, held in
the First Baptist Church of Min-neapolis,
Friday night at 8 o'clock,
June 6th.
Mr. Lidbom comes to the new
post with a wealth of business ex-perience
as store manager and
Area Supervisor with Gamble -
Skogmo Corporation. Mr. Lidbom
is also widely known and apprecia-ted
through his two years of vol-unteer
evangelistic work in "God's
Invasion Army", and as a result of
his effective work on the campus
during the past two years.
The new position is designed to
coordinate and supervise the busi-ness
activities of the school through
all of its agencies, including the
dormitories, the dining hall, and
the coffee shop, as well as the
maintenance program and the pur-chasing
for the school.
All School Picnic
Set for June 5
Thursday, June 5, is the date
set for the all school picnic at Tay-lors
Falls, fifty miles north east of
Saint Paul. With books, • studies,
and finals over, it's the perfect
time for hiking, canoeing, volley
ball, soft ball and fellowship with
friends before parting for the sum-mer.
Buses will be provided for all
who Wish transportation. The re-creational
program will be handled
by Elmer Fisher, the devotional by
Herb Hage, and the food by Roger
Bergeson.
The affair will officially begin
right after noon and will continue
through a short devotional period
after the supper hour. A picnic
supper will be served at the regu-lar
prices. The entire school fam-ily
is invited to attend.
WILL WE DO IT?
Will we meet our goal this
year? Whether we do or not is
up to you! Over $1,000 remain
to be taken in. Will today's
offering together with next
week's net us $1,077? That's
what we need, and there'll be
no more offerings after next
week. Here's how everything
stands.
Offering to date $5,922.30
Remaining on goal 1,077.70
Above last year's goal 922.30
Average offering
per student 12.21
Needed per student
to meet goal
2.22
During exam week offerings
may be placed in the suggestion
box in the first floor hall of the
college. The progress toward
the goal will be posted each day
on the Christian activities bul-letin
board.
Class Day Honors
Seniors Wednes.
Seniors of the college and semin-ary,
as well as Junior College
graduates will be honored at Class
Day activities next Wednesday
morning, starting at 11:15 p.m. in
the college chapel.
Valedictorians Harvey Swanberg
of the college seniors, and William
Brice of the seminary graduating
class, will give graduating speech-es.
Dr. Wingblade will address the
classes and the alumni will bring
a greeting.
Other activities on the program
include presentations of class gifts,
awarding of scholarships and prizes
and singing by the Bethel Male
Chorus.
6 Seniors Attend
JC Honor Banquet
Six Bethel honor students, mem-bers
of the graduating class of the
College, were honored last Monday
night at the annual Court of Honor
Banquet sponsored by the St. Paul
Junior Chamber of Commerce.
The students were Eleanor John-son,
Irene Kley and Richard Dahl-quist,
all psychology majors, Ruth
Martinson and Lois Mitchell, Lit-erature
majors and Harvey Swan-berg,
history major. They were
awarded honor certificates. Thirty
other honor students from five
more St. Paul colleges were in at-tendance.
J. Cameron Thomson, president
of the Northwest bancorporation,
was the speaker for the event and
told the honored guests to pre-pare
themselves to run a "mara-tihon
race" as the free world arms
itself militarily, economically and
spiritually.
Other colleges represented were
Hamline University, Macalester
College, College of St. Catherine,
St. Paul College of Law, and the
College of St. Thomas.
Erikson Addresses
Graduates June 1
Rev. Martin Erikson, editor of
The Standard, Baptist General Con-ference
publication, will speak at
the baccalaureatte services for the
Seminary and College graduating
classes, Sunday afternon, June 1, at
4:00 p.m.
His topic is "Advantageous
Knowledge". The Chapel Choir will
provide special music for the oc-casion.
Following the service refresh-ments
will be served guests in the
Bethel dining hall.
Otto Leaves To
Work on Th.D.
Robert F. Otto, Instructor in
Philosophy in the college, will be-gin
studies in the fall at the
Southern Baptist Theological Sem-inary,
Louisville, Kentucky, in pre-paration
for the Doctor of Theology
degree. His studies there will be
extended more than a year.
Mrs. Otto will remain at Bethel
as house-mother at the Bodien
residence. Mr. Otto is a graduate
of the University of Minnesota, and
of Bethel Theological Seminary.
New Prof. Visits
Campus To Plan
Chem Laboratory
Dr. David Nelson of Iowa State
College, Ames, who was recently
appointed as Assistant Professor
of Chemistry in our department
was on the campus last week to
aid in the formulation of plans for
another chemistry laboratory. Mr.
Robert Glaser and Dr. Nelson were
busy with numerous measurements
and diagrams over the week-end.
The projected new laboratory
will provide facilities for courses
in quantitative analysis and organic
chemistry. A separate balance
room, a departmental office, and
increased storage spaces are being
planned.
Dr. Nelson is a graduate of the
University of Alberta, Canada, and
holds a Ph. D. from Iowa State
College at Ames.
The Bethel Male Chorus under
the direction of Nels Sjernstrom
will continue with "Brother, Sing
Gretchaninoff; "Salvation Belong-eth
to our God", Tschesnokoff;
"Onward Christian Soldiers", War-ing.
"Trio in B-Flat Major", First
movement, Schubert, is the number
selected by the chamber music-ians,
Miss Mildred Bisgrove at the
piano, Valdeko Kangro at the violin
and Kaljo Raid at the cello.
Choral numbers by the Chapel
Choir under the direction of C.
Howard Smith will conclude the
program; "Ye Sons and Daughters
of the King", Leisring; "Thy Truth
Within Us", Sateren; "Easter Morn-ing",
Christiansen; and "The Earth
is the Lord's", Lockwood.
Choir Plans
California Trip
With plans to spend ten days
singing in California, the Chapel
Choir is eagerly anticipating its
three-week tour during the month
of June.
The choir will leave for Denver,
Colorado, after the commencement
exercises Friday night, June 6, and
will sing three concerts in Denver
on the following Sunday. Sparks,
Nevada, near Reno, is the second
stop-over between St. Paul and San
Francisco, California, where the
choir will be singing on June 12.
While in California, the choir has
concerts scheduled at Oakland, Din-uba,
Pasadena, La Crescents, Los
Angeles, Lakewood, Yucaipa, and
San Diego. Spending four days in
the Los Angeles area, and several
days in the San Diego area, the
34 members of the group will pos-sibly
find time to visit Mexico.
Phoenix, Arizona is the first stop
on the way home, and that concert
is scheduled for June 23. Omaha,
Nebraska will be the -host for a
concert on the 25th after which
the choir will leave for St. Paul Its
present plans are to sing at the
Centennial pageants and programs,
Friday, June 27, Saturday, June
28, with the last concert Sunday
morning, June 29.
A more detailed schedule of the
concerts will be posted later.
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May 23—Music Festival, 8:30 p.m.
at Central Baptist Church.
May 24—Clarion Picnic, 6:30 p.m.
May 28—Class Day, 11:15 a.m. in
the College Chapel.
May 29 - June 5—Final Exams
June 1—Baccalaureate, 4:00 p.m. in
the College Chapel.
June 5—All School Picnic at Tay-lors
Falls.
June 6—Commencement, 8:00 p.m.
at First Baptist Church.
Organist, Choirs, Trio, Perform
At Central Baptist Church, 8:30
The music department of Bethel College and Seminary will pre-sent
four of its groups in a music festival tonight at Central Baptist
Church at 8:30 p.m.
C. Howard Smith, assistant professor of music, will begin the pro-gram
with three organ selections: "Prelude and Fugue in D Major",
Bach; "Adagio (from Chorale in A Minor)", Franck; and Tocatta "Thou
Art the Rock", Mullet.
Martin
Erikson
Baccalaureate
Speaker
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Editorial .. .
The Spire _ is out and the awards and
recognitions of a job well done have already
been made. There was one who was not
present to receive recognition in yester-day's
chapel, namely the Spire editor, Ed
Stayton.
Having our offices next to each other
we observed Ed as he spent many hours
planning for what he wanted to be the best
Spire possible. His effort from beginning to
end was backed by his firm conviction
that once a Christian Bethel student accept-ed
the responsibility in extra-curricular
work he should not falter from giving his
best to it.
We say without question that Ed lived
up to his conviction. If it could ever be
possible perhaps Ed did too good a job of
"sticking to it" for it was at the expense
of seminary studies that he did his job.
Having to reduce course work was a "neces-sary
thing" and not what Ed wanted nor
would consider right. The point is, how-ever,
that at personal sacrifice a job was
done because of a conviction that it was
the Christian thing to complete a job in the
best way possible. Ed would be the first
to transfer a "glory" to his fine staff, and
it is not our purpose to compare one against
the other. To both Ed and his staff we give
our thanks for their hard work and express
our appreciation for a book full of memor-ies
of the by-gone 1951-52 school year.
When you think of it, it isn't much that
we are able to help someone else take the
gospel where we can not. Ought it not be
expected of us too? Will two dollars be a
real sacrifice from each student for our
missionary offering? For some, surely, and
if for all, then let us make a sacrifice. Not
that we HAVE to meet a goal—but that in
meeting the goal we meet something great-er,
the need of a more effective gospel wit-ness
on the mission fields.
"The Big Night"
by Mary Radunz
T'was May Sixteenth
And a quarter to five,
And in the girl's dorm,
It was like a bee-hive.
There were girls running here
And girls running there,
Pressing their formals
And combing their hair
One of them shouted,
"Pat, may I borrow your purse,"
Another complained,
"My hair just couldn't look worse!"
The showers were busy
And so was the tub.
I'm sure that you've never
Seen such a hub-bub!
Time moved steadily on
—The first buzzer rang.
A girl jumped to her feet
—In her heart was a pang.
Soon others were ringing
—No time now to waste.
The last-minute fixings
Were done with great haste.
T'was May sixteenth,
Time, five fifty-three,
And in the girl's dorm,
It was as still as could be.
• • •
each other", then by all means they should
have prayer together. Prayer will weld to-gether
their companionship into a more
solid bond, it will smooth over points of
friction, it will deepen their love for each
other. A commonly heard statement is this:
"A husband and wife who pray together,
stay together." Divorces almost never oc-cur
in families where God is thus honored.
There may be some, however, who will
object to this viewpoint by protesting, "Isn't
God left out of the picture if we don't have
prayer on dates?" In answer to this let me
say, "Do your praying at home before you
go on the date." Every one of us ought to
kneel in prayer before a date, to ask God's
blessing upon it and to requist His guid-ance.
After you return home you may want
to pray again, offering a word of thanks
to the Lord and asking once again for
His guidance. Truly God will be honored
in this way.
Thus to sum up the whole matter, it is
my opinion that a couples should not have
prayer together on dates until they have
discovered, through a series of dates, that
they are a suitable match for each other,
and are reasonably sure that they are
"meant for each other". Then by all means
they should have prayer together, and God
will add His blessing to their friendship.
by President Wingblade
In the realm of physics, inertia is the
name given to the tendency of an object or
thing to keep on doing what it is doing—
whether it be in a state of rest or of mo-tion.
In life we tend to keep on doing what
we are doing. An act tends to initiate a
habit, and a habit tends to crystallize into
character. We cannot change quickly—eas-ily.
Habits of study and of daily living be-come
pretty much our personality. "Studia
abeunt in mores." Studies are transmuted
into character.
We will be tomorrow and ten years from
now pretty much what we are today. We
will tend to continue in the same general
direction unless some power from within
or without brings about a change.
We may recall in early schooldays plac-ing
some iron filings on a sheet of paper—
lying about without form or pattern. We
brought a magnet underneath the paper
and the disordered filings leaped into a
definite pattern, and each became a magnet
with a north and south pole.
Last summer I was at the Water Street
Mission in New York, where hundreds of
lives have been transformed. There they
were, derelicts adrift—colorless, powerless,
directionless and purposeless. The Great
Magnet drew nigh and all was changed
Magnet drew nigh and all was changed.
The life program leaped into pattern and
into eternal purpose.
Oliver Cromwell as a young man wrote
to a friend "I am weak as water." Then
he discovered the source of power in the
text "I can do all things through Christ
which strengtheneth me". And that weak
and rather unstable young man became
under Christ a Gibralter of strength for
England.
We are closing another wonderful year
at Bethel. Has it been a wonderful year
for you? Can you say with a great Christ-ian
of yesterday; "There is not a moment
of the day or night that I am not conscious
of another Person who is closer to me than
mine own brain, and nearer than the beat-ing
of mine own heart."
Windy City Weekend
by Carolyn Clark
Friday, May 9: Dear Diary. Here we are
in Kenosha, the first stop of our Chapel
Choir trip to Chicago. Four of us are stay-ing
together tonight and what fun it is!
With Ruth Sheet's enthusiasm about this
bursting metropolis and that surprise visit
from Ken and Roger, we've had quite an
evening. Well, we leave at 6:30 tomorrow,
so to bed.
Saturday, May 10. Dear Diary: Before
our half-hour broadcast at 11:00 this morn-ing
over WMBI, we visited the beautiful
Conference headquarters building. It was
nice to see where our Conference men
work. In spite of being pressed for time
prior to the broadcast, it went without mis-hap.
I always get a thrill as the last few
seconds tick away on the clock, the red
light flashes, and we're on the air.
This afternoon found us at the Museum
of Science and Industry. The two and a
half hours there wearied our legs but en-riched
our knowledge tremendously.
Monday, May 12: Dear Diary: Yesterday
was a big day with three concerts. We
ate dinner at Moody. We're in Rockford
tonight; the concert was good. Our Grey-hound
Broadcasting Company was busy to-day.
Such radio programs as we have on
the bus. After our brief but pleasant stoy
at Wheaton, Harris and his staff carried on
the program. "Moments with Milt" (Sec-onds
in the Slough) seems to be most popu-lar.
And Johnny and Auntie Barby really
are a hit with their hillbilly numbers.
Tuesday, May 13: Dear Diary: Home
again after having six wonderful concerts.
The Lord really blessed. Now that this
weekend is over, I just wonder if Wally
will be as con-jean-ial (five foot two blond!).
And I wonder about Nettie getting her
daily CAL-isthenics (Peterson, that is.) All
in all, it was a wonderful trip. Can't wait
till June—California, here we come! !
The question for discussion this time
is: "Should couples have prayer together
on dates?"
In answer to this question let me quote
a statement made by my psychology pro-fessor,
at a former college: "Prayer exerts
an emotional force, which binds people to-gether."
I am sure you will all agree that
this is true—prayer stirs your emotions,
and you feel strangely drawn into a more
intimate relationship with the person with
whom you have prayed.
Now let me ask you this: "Is it right for
two people on a date to allow themselves
to become emotionally attached to each
other, before they have discovered whether
or not they are suited for each other in
other respects?" I am sure you will agree
that to do so would possibly bring together
two people who are not at all suited for
each other. Emotions are often an unstable
and temporary thing. Lasting friendships
are built upon more solid foundations, such
as companionship, mutual interests, com-mon
ideals, similar goals in life, cultural
backgrounds that are more or less the
same, and so on.
Now after a couple have gone with each
other long enough to discover that they
match favorably in these respects, and are
reasonably sure that they are "meant for
student reaction Is still coming into this silver-fish office from the spring banquets
of this year. the college seniors, in whose honor the j-s was held are advising their
president trygve hogan and secretary dave friberg to meet with treasurer margaret
homeland to demand a refund on their tickets. they felt the steak was too tough. ob-jections
to the idea come from college juniors headed by class officers ray addington
and dean eliassen. freshman carol joy schnorr and nancy fernlund feel a petition
should be sent into milford shenning in the office demanding a 11:00 curfew rather
than the 1:00 hour approved by president h. wyman wingblade. it seems the residents
across from the dormitory have complained of lack of sleep while waiting up so late
to see the bodies. porch farewells. sophomore president wally hill believes their class
advisor dr. virginia otto's suggestion is the best. she advocates tandem bicycles be
used for transportation with the freshies pedaling the sophomores and the juniors
pumping for the seniors. objections have been heard. miss effie lidbom's office re-ports
some students saying they wouldn't take a back seat for anybody. the contro-versy
continues.
congratulations are in order to nels rusinko and the male chorus for their recent
successful tour of kentucky. likewise, the chapel choir, with c. howard sabel as direc-tor,
were well received during their tour.
librarian marina guston says she is very happy over the recent book sale of
choice library books. last week students were seen struggling home with an armful of
well dusted books. a warning should be given that care should be taken when turning
the pages, lest they crumble and die. many students can proudly state, "no one has
turned this page i am now turning since j. a. edgren last read the book in 1886."
Should You Pray?
by Willard Nuss
Vacation Variety
by Nancy Schnorr
"Oh, Boy! I can hardly wait!" "What for? That big date next week, or—
"Neither, I can hardly wait to get started carrying out my plans for this summer.
Yes, I'm sure that many of us feel the same way. Although we are sorry to have
the school year end, at the same time, we are looking forward to fulfilling all of our
summer plans and dreams.
Many students will be working to earn money for school next year. Some will be
in full-time christian service as DVBS teachers or student pastors. Others will just
be enjoying the summer and resting after a hard, laborious school year.
Bob Hilton will probably be doing a little of all three. He will be working on a
construction job in Oxnard, California. At the same time, he will be holding revival
meetings at the First Baptist Churches of Sanger and Fresno, also in California.
Pat Noland will be taking typing in a summer school—so she can get a "respect-able
job" next year. She will also be spending much of her time, sending letters to
Oxnard, California.
Al Holm is going to be a traveling salesman in the United States and Canada,
selling log-loaders. With Al's "always-happy" personality, I'm sure he will be rich in
no time.
Then as we look ahead into the summer, we see a quiet future sophomore stand-ing
under the hot summer sun with a stern gruff look on his face, waving a whip at
a bunch of poor, hard-working men. The old meany is none other than Dale Gerdin-foreman
of a construction company in Fargo, North Dakota.
We have heard a little rumor that Mae Lundblad is going "mantrapping". Hmmm.
Well, anyway, best of luck to you, Mae.
Jean Danielson will be doing church missionary work in her home church in
Warren, Pennsylvania.
Working among the young people at Big Trout Lake, we will find "Fish" as
athletic director, Pete as craftsman, and Frank Shindo as life-guard.
Eric Warnstrom will be doing evangelistic work in Canada, Minnesota, Wisconsin,
Illinois, and Michigan. Herb Skogland and Jerry Anderson will be working for the
Baptist Missions Union among the Finnish people. They will be doing DVBS and
visitation work.
Wally Anderson, Rodney Erickson, and Harris Paulson might go to Alaska with
Albin Carlson to do construction work. They are going to drive up there and take
some pews with them. If they don't do that, Wally will be going to Colorado Springs
to work on Atomic Construction,
Florence Oman will be quite interested that all of you always buy "Pure Oil" be-cause
she will spend her summer in the "Pure Oil" office in Chicago.
PICK UP YOUR SPIRE
If you haven't picked up your
1952 SPIRE be sure to do so
soon. A schedule of the time
the Spire office will be opened
on the week-end for SPIRE dis-tribution
is posted on the door
of the SPIRE office in the lib-rary
basement. If you have paid
inclusive fees for three quarters
your SPIRE is paid for. For
each quarter you have not been
on campus the following charge
will be made. Fall quarter,
$1.00, Winter Quarter $1.00,
Spring Quarter $2.00.
SWEDISH . . .
Ellsworth Holm is replacing Mae
Lundblad as president of the Swed-ish
club. Other newly elected offi-cers
are: Marilyn Anderson—vice
president, Eloise Anderson—social
chairman, and Virgil Hegel—treas-urer.
SPANISH .
The Spanish Club officers for
the new school year are as fol-lows:
president—Ritchie Peterson
replacing Dave Clark, vice-presi-dent—
Ha Anderson, secretary and
treasurer—Carolyn Dahlquist re-placing
Dorraine Anderson.
SCIENCE . . .
The Botany and Biology classes,
this spring, have taken numerous
field trips. The Botany class has
taken six and the Biology class
has four to its credit. The most
popular spot for these trips has
been Como Park, Minnehaha Creek,
and the Mississippi River at the
end of Summit Avenue. On May
14, the Botany and Economic Geo-graphy
classes had a joint, all day
trip, traveling some 70 miles and
visiting points of interest, in the
fields of the study, in the Twin
City area.
CLARION PICNIC
The Clarion staff will hold its
annual spring weiner roast at
Thompson Park tomorrow even-ing.
The group will leave by
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THE CLARION Page 3
Union Leader Urges Protestant
Support of Labor In Address Here
A local labor leader made a plea before interested history and
political science students for the protestant churches to give more active
support to labor.
He pointed to examples of the Catholic church having priests "in
the picket lines" as against what he termed a "lack of active support
by protestant ministers and churches."
Earl Drang, business agent for
several local C.I.O. unions, spoke
on campus Thursday, May 15. He
was invited to give the story of
labor unions before the Social and
economic history class. Drang gave
a history of unions and illustrated
what the union is doing today for
the relief of labor.
As part of Drang's answer to his
own question—Are labor unions
corrupt?—he said that most of the
corruptness lies with several lead-ers
of various unions locally and
otherwise, but that the member-ship
is not corrupt. "Labor prob-ably
wouldn't be so corrupt," he Foreign Missions:
said, "if the church worked closer Philippines $ 500.00
with the laboring people . . . We'd Germany 500.00
like to be able to work with the Assam 1,500.00
churches more closely." Drang as- Ethiopia 500.00
sured the audience that, "the young
generations of labor leaders is now
doing much to replace corrupt lead-ership
and still fight hard for
labor."
The 26 year old laborite unhesi-tantly
insisted that labor's part in Students elected Donald Dye of
politics would be continued. "We Evergreen Park, Ill., president of
are in politics" he said, "and we the Foreign Missions Fellowship
are going to stay in politics to for the next school year 1952-53.
bring about a liberal program for Assisting him in the offices of vice-our
members." president are Ed Viron from Dul-
Drang very pointedly put the fin- uth, Minnesota; secretary, Florence
ger on many industrialists as being Jacobson, Cleveland, Ohio; and
the best organizers of labor unions treasurer, John Weld from San
by their past failure to "just be Diego, California. Weld is the out-decent"
about wages, benefits, and going president.
shop conditions. Plans for the coming year in-
A period of question and answer- elude the continuation of this
ing followed Drang's speech. year's weekly Bible Study and pray-er
meeting conducted by Dr. V.
Lowell, and the posible resump-tion
of monthly Friday night mis-sionary
meetings. It has been an-nounced
that the student body will
vote on the amount to be set for
the financial goal for missionary
support next year instead of having
that goal set up by the FMF work-ing
with the Religious Council.
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Miss Oesterle Is Grateful For
Bethel's Interest In Europe
Shaking hands with old friends all over the campus, answering
over and over again all the questions about the work of the Norquists,
Jim's plans, conditions at home and what the Germans think of Eisen-hower,
I don't seem to get a chance to say what is on my heart the
most.
Thank you for all the letters and news from the campus. There
have not been enough—to be sure, but they have means a great deal
to all of us.
Thank you, students, for your interest in the relief program in
Germany. With such satisfaction we hear that you have contributed
a considerable amount of clothing through the Chicago office. When
the shipment arrives in Bremen, Kenneth's distribution list will be
waiting there. Most of the clothing will go Berlin and into the East
Zone.
Thank you for the wonderful way in which you have responded
to the need of students in the East Zone. Your contribution is being
used to strengthen the witness and work of a group of young people
who are more in earnest, more courageous and more willing to sacri-fice
than any I have met before. Count it a privilege that you have
such a share in their work this summer.
Thank you for what Bethel has given us by what it taught and
lived when we were on the campus. After trying out the tools that
Bethel had put in my hands in just that one year of study and fellow.
ship, I say from all my heart:
200 Hear Edman
AtSpringBanquet
Speaking to approximately 200
guests at the Junior-Senior Banquet
last Friday night at the Calhoun
Beach Club, Dr. V. Raymond Ed-man,
president of Wheaton Col-lege,
Wheaton, Illinois, presented
a message entitled "A Hinge of
History" in which he pointed out
God's dealing and judgment with
nations in the past, ending with
the question of how God will deal
with America.
Music for the evening was of
both instrumental and vocal na-ture.
Lorraine King, harpist, play-ed
three numbers, "Tales from the
Vienna Woods", Strauss; "Danny
Boy", and "Scandinavian Melody",
Ole Bull. Jack Markey, tenor solo-ist.
on KTIS and student at North-western
Schools, Minneapolis, sang
"Harbored in Jesus" and "Ready
for Service".
The theme "Christ the Corner-stone"
was carried out in the dec-orations
with an imitation of a
corner of a brick building on the
small stage, the cornerstone of
which was entitled "Christ", and
with the programs in the form of
red building bricks.
Harold Lind was master of cere-monies
and Ray Brace was general
chairman of the event.
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Council Announces
Fund Distribution
Checks in the following amounts
have been sent out this year for
the support of missions. This mon-ey
is the distributions of the $7,000
missionary offering taken through-out
the year.
Home Missions:
Opportunity Band $ 700.00
Alaska 700.03
God's Invasion Army 700.06
Dye Heads F.M.F.
For Next Year
Classes Choose
1952-53 Officers
Election of officers has been held
among the college classes and the
results are as follows:
SOPHOMORE-President—
Jay Fernlund
Vice-Pres.—Wallace Leander
Secretary—Mary Radunz
Treasurer—Dave Clark
JUNIOR-President—
Gene Messenger
Vice-Pres.--Bailey Anderson
Treasurer—Norris Magnuson
Secretary—Pat Noland
SENIOR-President—
Herb Moise
Vice-Pres.—John Fenderson
Secretary—Shirley Daley
Treasurer—Barbara Mullin
All State College Track Meet Proposed
Event Would Be Invitational
Open to All State Colleges
Intramural softball winds up the
schedule this week. The season,
marked by the absence of games
played, will go down as one of the
leanest of schedules in IM in the
last few years.
Due to several factors, the teams
were halted in their softball act-ivities
after a quick start several
weeks ago. The Male Chorus trip
and the rush of the final weeks of
school seem to be the main rea-sons
for the curtailment of games.
The last three scheduled games
will involve a new revamped team,
made up of members of three
teams. As the West, Michigan, and
Wisconsin teams have not ...had
enough men to compete, these
three teams have combined per-sonnel
to form one team. They will
In a duel meet with Hamline
University at Macalester College
track, the Bethel track team was
" defeated by a narrow margin, 65-
56, on May 13. Skip Beard was the
outstanding performer for Bethel,
winning three events, placing third
in another, and running on the
winning mile relay team.
Al Christenson took two firsts
for Bethel, one in pole vault and
the other in the 220 dash, plus a
second in the 100 yard dash. Chuck
Lindgren won the High Jump.
Here are the summaries:
Mile Run: 1. Farley (H), 2. Norin
(H), 3. Wood (B), 4:53.
440 yd. Run: 1. Beard (B),. 2.
Snyder (H), 3. Moore (B), 54:1.
100 yd. Dash: 1. Beard (B), 2.
Christenson (B), 3. Tate (H),-10:4.
Bethel won their first game of
the year on May 19 as they split
a double-header with Bethany of
Mankato on the Como diamond.
Bethel took the first, 8-7, while
dropping the second, 19-13.
Both teams wasted little time in
scoring in the first contest, Bethel
scoring twice on four hits, and
Bethany scoring four times on five
blows. The Indians evened the
score in the second frame, scoring
twice on three hits.
Bethel finally won the game in
the final frame. Algene Ristow,
after the shaky first inning, set-tled
down to limit the Bethany
team to only two more hits. He
struck out eleven batters.
be playing in each of the three re-maining
games.
The schedule for the remainder
of the season is as follows:
West-Mich.-Wis. (combined)
Minnesota on Thursday (22).
West-Mich.-Wis. (combined)
East on Friday (today).
West-Mich.-Wis. (combined)
Iowa on Saturday (24).
These games will wind up the
season for the IM league. It will
also signify the end of play for
the trophy awarded annually.
Leading in the race for the
trophy is the Illinois team. Points
compiled from each IM activity
throughout the year give each team
its total. Illinois, apparent winners
of the softball division of IM, ap-pears
to have almost clinched the
trophy, followed closely by Iowa.
High Hurdles: 1. Thorgaard (H),
2. Larson (H), 3. Barnhill (B), 15:8.
880 yd. Run: 1. Beard (B), 2.
Snyder (H), 3. Nygren (B), 2:13.
220 yd. Dash: 1. Christenson (B),
2. Arms (H), 3. Beard (B), 23:1.
2 Mile Run: 1. Farley (H), 2.
Wilson (B), 3. Norin (H), 10:37.
Low Hurdles: 1. Thorgaard (H),
2. Barnhill (B), 3. Berg (B), 26:8.
Mile Relay: 1. Bethel, 2. Hamline.
High Jump: 1. Lindgren (B), 2.
Thorgaard (H), 3. Arms (H), 5' 10".
Discus: 1. Smagaard (H), 2. Lind-gren
(B), 3. Dirks (H), 131'.
Shot Put: 1. Smagaard (H), 2.
Dirks (H), 3. Thorgaard (H), 41' 5".
Pole Vault: 1. Christenson and
Paisley (tie), 10'.
Broad Jump: 1. Arms (H), 2.
Berg (B), 3. Thomas (B), 20' 81/2".
In the second game of the dou-ble-
header, Bethany slapped Bethel
19-13. A bad fifth inning cost
Bethel the game, as they saw nine
Bethany batters cross the plate to
ice the game.
Bethel hit well in the contest,
but were unable to convert the
hits into runs. The Indians pound-ed
out 14 hits, including a home
run by Wes Peterson. Peterson's
homer was one of the longest hits
of the season, the ball traveling
far beyond the outfielders.
Bethany scored their 19 runs off
15 hits. Hams pitched the entire
game for the Mankato team while
Stan Lindgren started and was re-lieved
by Ristow for Bethel.
THE CLARION
SPORTS
May 23, 1952 Page 4
Bethel Girls Drop
Two Games to NW
Northwestern School of Minne-apolis
downed Bethel in both of
the two scheduled girls softball
games this season. The girls en-countered
much difficulty in sched-uling
games and thus were limited
to the two tilts with the North-western
team.
On May 8, the Northwestern girls
squeaked by the Bethel team on the
Bethel field before a large group
of interested spectators. The game
was decided by only one run, 16-15.
Unable to score a revenge vic-tory
on May 15, the Bethel team
went down for the second time,
19-12. This contest was played on
the Northwestern grounds.
The 1952 team had good material
in the personnel of the group, how-ever
lacked organization and show-ed
evidence of need of more prac-tice
time. The girls hope to have
a coach next year to line up games
as well as to direct better prac-tice
sessions and to organize gen-erally.
This years team included:
Catchers: Jan McKinney, Fern
Mattson.
Pitchers: Jean Frykenberg, Mer-ilyn
Dahlquist, Dorothy Lofgren,
Bev Shade.
First Base: Audrey Samuelson.
Second Base: Bernice Nelson,
Shirley Anderson.
Third Base: Nettie Dvirnak, Mar-ilyn
Bittner.
Shortstop: Pat Lampion.
Fielders: Joyce Martinson, Ruth
Martinson.
The positions on the team chang-ed
from time to time. Most girls
played several positions because of
substitution rules which state:
When a girl was taken off the
field, she could not re-enter the
game. However, the players could
switch positions while on the field.
Comets Blast Bethel
Concordia blasted Bethel 26-4 on
the winners field on May 12. Three
big innings, (9 run first, 12 run
fourth, 3 run fifth) provided most
of the damage for the Comets.
Bethel used four pitchers in a vain
effort to stop the Concordia team.
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Northwestern downed Bethel for
the second tim*e this year in base-ball
on May 15 on the Northwest-ern
field. The score was 7-2.
Bethel was unable to get a hit
until the eighth inning when they
bunched two hits, one by Mel Ny-gren,
and Chuck Smith to earn
two runs. Outside of this inning,
the Indians were unable to hit.
Meanwhile, Northwestern ganged
up on pitcher Algene Ristow for
three runs in the first inning for
a fast start, while adding two more
in the third, and two more in the
seventh.
Summary: Northwestern 7 runs,
9 hits, no errors; Bethel 2 runs, 2
hits, 4 errors.
Trackmen In Relays
In the annual St. Thomas Relays
which were run in the rain on May
10, Bethel participated together
with St. Thomas, Macalester, Carle-ton,
Mankato State, Hamline, Nor-thwestern,
Augsburg, St. Cloud
Teachers, Duluth Branch, St. John's
and St. Olaf.
Bethel scored six points in the
meet on these three events:
1. Chuck Lindgren's tie for fourth
in the High Jump.
2. Skip Beard's fourth place in the
220 yd. Dash.
3. Bethel's fourth place in the 440
yd. Relay.
The meet was won by St. Thomas
followed closely by Mankato State
Teachers.
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NW Thumps Bethel
In the opening game of the base-ball
season, Bethel dropped a deci-sive
10-1 contest to Northwestern
School at the Vets Hospital dia-mond
on May 8. Murphy, pitching
for Northwestern handcuffed the
Indians completely and was in trou-ble
only once, and that briefly, in
the seventh frame.
Northwestern start off with a big
six run first inning. Only two hits
were registered, but four walks and
two wild pitches aided the North-western
cause. In the fourth frame,
Northwestern scored three more,
these coming on two hits, two
walks, and an error. -
Bethel got their only run in the
seventh on Mel Nygren's hit, and
an error. The summary showed
Northwestern 10 runs, 7 hits, 2
errors; Bethel 1 run, 1 hit, 3 er-rors.
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Scoreboard
Baseball
Northwestern 10 Bethel 1
Concordia 26 Bethel 4
Northwestern '7 Bethel 2
Bethel 8 Bethany 7
Bethany 19 Bethel 13
Track
Augsburg 65 Bethel 56
Intramural
East 7 Minnesota 2
Illinois 10 Iowa 7
Softball (Girls)
Northwestern 16 Bethel 15
Northwestern 19 Bethel 12
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A track contest to determine a champion of all Minnesota col-leges,
as well as individual champions, is in the making for next
year. The track meet, suggested by coaches in a get together after
the St. Thomas Invitational Meet, seemed to meet with general approval.
However, final approval is up to
the two leagues in the state as
well as individual schools. The
Minnesota College Conference and
the Minnesota State Teachers Col-lege
Conference would have to give
their sanction to the meet.
If the meet were scheduled, it
would include all the teams in the
two conferences mentioned, as well
as the two independent colleges
in Minnesota, Bethel and North-western.
Site of the meet would
be determined later.
Many times, speculation as to
the best team in the state as well
as the best individuals in a certain
event has been put forth, but noth-ing
ever was settled. Under the
proposition put forth, with compe-tition
from all schools, the issues
would be settled in a final way.
In an article in the St. Paul
Dispatch, the sports staff thought
the idea a fine one, but gave the
idea that the University of Minne-sota
should be included in the
meet. This would undoubtedly be
the stiffest meet ever staged in the
state, with competition at the high-est
level.
Coaches are working on the ideas
in an effort to formulate some def-inite
plans for next season.
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