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Vol. XXIX—No. 5
Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota
Tuesday, November 27, 1951
Choir Presents Messiah in Chapel Dec. 7th
In a recent letter to the Bethel student body from Jim Merrill,
CYF evangelist in Germany, Jim stated that a Neo-Nazi party is mush-rooming
in Germany. The letter reads, "Nationalism is resurgent in
Germany ... The Germans tell me tharmore genuine Nazis have been
made since the end of fighting than during the entire time Hitler
was in power."
Living only twenty miles away
from the Iron Curtain, Jim has
observed that Germany is "still
the land of tension." To the Corn-munists
says Jim, Christian work
is a "thorn in their eye." "The
Commies are desparate to get
ahold of West Germany ideologi-cally
and politically." Jim's letter
indicates that to some extent he
is under surveillance by Commun-ist
agents and finds it necessary
to, as he says, "avoid street 'acci-dents'
and dark streets in the
evenings."
Jim touched somewhat on the
economic condition where he is in
his statement that "Money is
scarce, coal is almost not to be
had, churches and halls are either
cool or cold." "Now that winter
is here again", says Jim, "I live in
my overcoat."
All reports of his return to
America have been news to him,
Jim said. Nevertheless Jim re-marks,
"I want badly to see Amer-ica
again, and shall return when
God decommissions me as point-edly
as He sent me. I know no
other answer—but I will be back!
It will probably be the fall of '52
or '53."
Nationalism Is Resurgent In
Germany Says CYF Evangelist
Miss'y Confab
Opens Dec. 27
At Illinois U.
Between fifteen and twenty stu-dents
are making plans to attend
the Third International Student
Missionary Convention sponsored
by the Student Foreign Missions
Fellowship of Inter-Varsity Chris-tian
Fellowship at the University
of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, Dec-ember
27 to 31.
Outstanding features of the 5-
day conference are messages by
such men as Dr. Samuel M. Zwem-er
of Princeton Theological Sem-inary,
Rev. Paul J. Lindell, Home
Secretary for World Missionary
Prayer League, Dr. T. Stanley Sol-tau,
pioneer missionary to Korea,
our own Dr. W. Robert Smith,
personal interviews with 80 mis-sionary
representatives from a
multitude of fields and many mis-sion
boards, surveys of geographi-cal
divisions of foreign missions,
surveys of the types of missionary
work, small discussion groups and
prayer groups. The theme based
on is "By All Means — Proclaim
Christ."
All interested in sharpening
their missionary outlook—as well
as missionary volunteers and un-decided
— should see Florence
Voth (box ). A bus will leave
from the Twin Cities at an inex-pensive
rate. The cost for room
and board for the five days is ap-proximately
$20.
New in this year's handbook is
a listing of the time for every
church service of the General Bap-tist
Conference churches in the
area. Information regarding the
health service has been expanded.
A new section on the values of
student church membership has
been included. Also never before
included in the book is a listing
of information pertaining to the
Bodien residence.
The handbook is designed pri-marily
to help the user find infor-mation
regarding students, all
campus organizations, student per-sonnel
services, places of interest
in the Twin Cities, libraries, and
dates for campus events.
A calendar is found in the back
section of the book which names
all the events and their dates per-taining
to each month, and which
also leaves space for the user to
fill in extra activities that have
yet to be scheduled.
Elving Anderson, assistant pro-fessor
of zoology, has been in
charge of publishing the book,
with Helen L. Peterson, staff mem-ber,
being his chief assistant.
411eottian?ieteiaa#ts!
In the bulletin "Questions
and Answers" released by the
Veterans Administration Nov-ember
9, two items will be of
interest to the veterans on
campus. Question: I'm going to
school under the GI Bill. Could
I drop out for about six weeks
to take a job in a department
store during the holiday season
and then return to class after
the first of the year? I started
my GI Bill schooling before
the July 25 cut-off date, and I
don't want to do anything that
might deprive me of future
training, but I could use the
money.
Answer: Under the law, you
would not be permitted to drop
your GI studies to take a job,
and then return to training
a f t e r w ards. Post-cut-off-date
rules require veterans to re-main
in continuous training, ex-cept
for interruptions for rea-sons
beyond their control, such
as vacations, illnesses and the
like. An interruption to accept
employment would not be con-sidered
beyond your control.
Question: Can I convert my NS
LI term policy to a permanent
life insurance policy offered by
a commercial insurance com-pany?
Answer: No. Your NSLI term
insurance is convertible only to
one or more of the six perman-ent
plans issued by VA. They
are Ordinary Life, 30-Payment
Life, 20-Payment Life, 20-Year
Endowment, Endowment at age
60, and Endowment at age 65.
Christmas Vesper
Features Music
By Chapel Choir
Taking charge of the Christmas
vesper service Friday afternoon,
December 14 at 4:00 p.m., the
Chapel Choir under the direction
of C. Howard Smith, associate pro-fessor
of music, will sing a variety
of Christmas numbers including
"Carol of the Bells" by Leono-vitch
and "I Wonder As I Wan-der",
an Appalachian Carol.
In addition to the eight num-bers
by the choir, the Chapel
Choir Trio, Carol Bessey, Lois Mit-chell
and Barbara Mullin, will give
several selections, and Bailey An-derson
will perform at the cello.
The speaker of the afternoon will
be Dr. Robert Smith, giving a
short devotional message.
The choir will also bring its pro-gram
to Central Baptist Church,
St. Paul, on Sunday evening, Dec-ember
2.
it will appear
December 6 at
Payne Avenue
p.m.
IceRink Will Becom e
Winter Sport Center
Are your ice skates sharpened?
You'll soon need them to fit into
the popular winter social set of
Bethel College life. According to
the Student Council, volunteer
labor under the direction of Ed
Erickson and Alan Espelien is
now being solicited to build a
skating rink across from the girls'
dorm to the south. When the tem-perature
remains consistently be-low
the freezing level, St. Paul
fire department will flood the rink
—and the fun will begin. The rink
will be equipped with lights to
provide evening skating pleasure.
To enhance the atmosphere there
is all ikelihood that music will be
provided.
GameNightSolves
Winter FunQuery
Game night is the Student Coun-cil's
answer to the student's ques-tion:
What do we do on unevent-ful,
cold, snowy, winter week-ends?
On available Friday and
Saturday nights during the winter
the boys lounge will be the place
for game night activities.
Facilities for ping pong and bad-minton
will be available in the
recreation rooms, while games
such as checkers, monopoly, car-oms,
may be played in the lounge.
Pat Noland is the chairman of
the game night committee. Work-ing
with her are Delores Olson,
Eunice Huith, Pat Alms, Lola
Kleinsasser, Dorothy Lofgren, Dar-lene
Dorow, Ralph Thacker, Jay
Fernland, Dwight Winkleman, El
wood Erickson, Don Lindgren and
Jim Lemon. The upper classmen
listed will serve as chairman of
various sub-committees.
B Club Organizes
At Dec. 5 Meet
A meeting to organize the
Bethel "B" Club is scheduled for
Wednesday, December 5, at 3:00
P.M. in room 105 in the college
building. All seminary and college
students who have earned a major
letter in any college sport on cam-pus
is an active member of the
club, according to Phil Carlson,
chairman of the organizing com-mittee.
Important among the business
to be carried on at the meeting is
the election of officers for the
club. Plans for improving athletic
awards and methods of awarding
will be a major item of business.
Kuehn, sopranos, Anna Newell,
contralto, Earl Larson, -tenor and
K. Roy Hallman, bass will be the
featured soloists performing the
ariosos, airs and recitatives of
their respective voices. The choir
will give eight selections, "And
the glory of the Lord," "And He
shall purify," "0 Thou that tellest
good tidings," "For unto us a
child is born," "Glory to God in
the highest," "His yoke is easy,"
concluding with the "Hallelujah
chorus."
Consisting of about eighty voic-es
from the college, seminary and
Twin City churches, the Oratorio
Choir is directed by Miss Mildred
Bisgrove, associate professor of
music. Mr. C. Howard Smith, as-sociate
professor of music, at the
organ and an eight-instrumental
ensemble of campus players dir-ected
by Mr. Kangro, instructor in
music, will accompany the group.
Weekly Monday night practices
have been held in the college
chapel since the first of October.
ATTENTION—ARTS CLUB
MEMBERS!
There will be an important
business meeting of the Bethel
Arts Club Monday night, Dec-ember
3 at 8:30 P.M. in Room
110 to discuss the election of
officers and to plan the Chapel
service in charge of the Arts
Club during the week of Dec-ember
10-14. All members are
requested to be there.
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November 2640—Exams
November 29—Basketball game at
Eau Claire, Wisconsin
November 30—Freshman sleigh
ride
November 30—Freshman tests and
new student registration
December 1—Basketball game
with Luther at Minnehaha gym
December 2—Chapel Choir Con-cert
at Central Baptist Church
December 3—Classes begin
December 4—Swedish Club
December 4—Basketball game at
Superior, Wisconsin
December 6—Oratorio Choir at
Bethlehem Baptist Church
December 7—Oratorio Choir in
the chapel, 8:30 P.M.
December 8—Basketball game
with Itasca at Minnehaha gym
December 9—Oratorio Choir at
Payne Avenue Baptist Church,
7:45 P.M.
December 10—Spanish Club
December 11—Blood-mobile day
December 11—Hagstrom Social at
Lidbom's home
December 13—BWA, 3:00 P.M.
December 14—C h ristmas Vesper
Service in the chapel, 4:00 P.M.
December 15—Basketball game
with Northland at Minnehaha
gym
Oratorio Group Schedules Concerts
In Two Twin City Churches
Friday, December 7, the Oratorio Choir will present the Christmas
portion of Handel's Messiah at a school concert in the college chapel
at 8:30 p.m. This is the second of three concerts which are scheduled
for the choir during the early part -of December. In its first concert,
Exams Force Frosh
To Board Sleigh
A sleighride is planned as the
highlight of the freshman social
planned for November 30. The
sleigh leaves from in front of the
girls' dormitory at 7:30 p.m. What
happens if there's no snow? Then
there will be a hay rack there
instead.
After the ride, everyone will
warm up around the fireplace in
the recreation room of the boys'
dorm. Food will be served and a
time of singing and fellowship is
planned.
Roger Holm heads the advertis-ing
committee for the event, being
helped by Eloise Anderson, Don
Ericson, Marilyn Johnson, Cindy
Swanson, and Dick Burton. Those
on the ticket committee are Helen
Johnson, Bev Shade, George Can-on,
Jim Baxter and Fred Thomas,
with Bev Mullin as leader.
Arrangement for refreshments
are being handled by chairman
Nancy Nelson, with Cal Peterson,
Meme Olander, Gil Carlson, Mari-lyn
Anderson, and Dorothy Lof-gren
helping.
New Handbook Answers Questions
Concerning Campus Activities
Your problem of where to find what you want when you want it
concerning campus life is all taken care of for you in the new Bethel
Handbook, distributed last Friday. For the best in music entertainment
in the Twin Cities you'll find listed on page 68 a schedule for the
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra's Sunday afternoon twilight concerts.
at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis Thursday,
8:00 p.m. For its final appearance the choir will sing at
Baptist Church in St. Paul Sunday, December 9 at 7:45
Mrs. Robert Smith, Audrey
Can't You Read, Boys?
by Don Richardson
"No! For the last time, you can't borrow my car. Now get up off my bed. Can't
you see you're wrinkling the spread. What do you think the chairs are for anyway?
And before you leave, please wipe up the puddle you made with your wet boots. Stop
pestering Maggie for ping pong balls. You can't use his paddles either. Sure, he's
got money all right, but not to spend on you. Now sit down and make yourself at
home. You're always welcome in room 118."
Time after time Don Barnhill would have to reiterate this brief statement of
policy to his ever diminishing list of friends. However, the time came when he no
longer was forced to exhaust himself with such a salutation. Now he has a sign posted
on his door.
To whom it may concern:
None shall enter this room with wet shoes or boots. Do not sit on the
beds. The chairs are for that. I have no money. You may not borrow my car.
Magnuson has money but none to loan. You may not use his ping pong pad-dles
or his balls. Aside from these restrictions you are welcome to our room.
Barnie and Maggie
As soon as Barnhill's friends are confronted with this ultimatum, they are forced
to thrust their influence in different directions. After all, Barnhill isn't the only
person at Bethel who has a car. So down the hall comes the stream of boys to Skip
Beard's room. Before they knock, their eyes fasten on a notice scotch-taped on the
door.
Dear Boys:
Here's how things are: as you know the up-keep of an automobile is noth-ing
to sneeze at these days, and since the Henry Ford Foundation hasn't come
through with my $100,000 a year endowment, and due to the degeneration of
my philantropic nature I find it expedient to discountenance your consump-tion
of my only means of perambulation.
Jim Merrill Writes Home .. .
Have you ever called work that was unquestionably hard work a "joyous grind."
That is just what Jim Merrill, CYF evangelist in Germany, has to say about his work
in training young German Christians and in conducting an evangelistic program in
Germany. In a recent letter to the Bethel student body Jim outlined the nature of his
work. The following is based on that letter.
An effective arm of evangelism in Germany and behind the Iron Curtain is the
team type tactics. An intensive youth-leadership training program is given the Chris-tian
youth, similar in nature to the training program offered recruits in God's Invas-ion
Army. Jim states that "There is now a strong corps of some 150 young Germans,
... who have been trained in the provenly effective team-type of evangelism ...
Converts are then won by their fellow lay young people, and held for feeding in the
local churches. To this end we train these high-calibre Germans."
A similarity is in evangelistic method Jim is using with that which we are
acquainted with deeper life week meetings held in olcal churches and emphasizing
Bible study. Concerning these meetings Jim says, "Some of the greatest miraclees have
come out of these weeks—weeks calculated to strengthen, polish, and sweep clean the
existing lighthouses to the furthering of their own evangelistic ministry."
Another area of Jim's work he calls "Rufer-wochen", or Rufer-squad evangelistic
meetings. "By the invitation of local groups, we go into a town with our squad, which
might be called a German-version of God's Invasion Army, "Die Rufer". Evenings
we evangelize, mornings we engage in Bible training within the squad, and afternoons
are left free for personal dealing with inquiers stimulated by the previous evening's
meeting."
Summer camp and tent work is another rich area of harvest in Jim's work. Most
o: the campers are unsaved youths. "God has seen fit to give us a seal upon this
work," says Jim, "in that we have prayed with many disillusioned youth and sent
them home under the care of local youth leaders."
Among the many busy tasks Jim has is his translating work of program materials.
"Here again," says Jim, "is another great need in Germany." Jim recently wrote
a letter to the Bethel FMF in which he thanked the student body and faculty for
what he called "their more-than-welcomed stewardship support of the work here."
He went on to say that "like all other Christian work, this work moves forward be-cause
of the interest and stewardship faithfulness of a handful. We rejoice much
more than we complain, and are profoundly thankful for faithfulness in thinking of
the work."
Thanksgiving Is Thanksliving Bathtub Blues
Skip
H E CLARION Tuesday, November 27, 1951 Pape It
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Editor-in-Chief Roger Hedberg
Managing Editor Ruth Martinson
Business Manager Jim Hubbard
News Editor Nad4ne Westin
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Feature Editor Ann Radunz
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Circulation Manager Janis Smith
Subscriptions Lois Eliassen
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Reporters Helen R. Petersen, Virginia
Larson, Nancy Schr.orr, Carolyn Clark,
Jean Danielson, Lois Eliassen, Mary
Radunz, Bob Mantzke. Morrie Engstrom,
Harry Steinbron. Al Maimstrom.
Typists Eileen McLaren, Lois Johnson,
Carolyn Dahiquist.
Issued bl-weekly during the school
year except vacations.
Subscription Price $1.50 per year
Editori al .. .
In this issue you will find articles re-garding
a recent letter written to the
student body by Jim Merrill, CYF evan-gelist
in Germany, regarding conditions in
Germany and his evangelistic program
among the German youth. This letter was
requested not only to give data regarding
evangelism in Germany but also to present
a challenge for the support of the work.
Surprisingly Jim gives no direct plea or
challenge, but we feel that what he does
say does oddly enough, challenge one to
think more deeply about his own attitude
toward serving God. We quote from parts
of his letter: see if you get what we mean.
"I feel as though it is expected that I
bring some kind of a challenge to stir the
thinking of college youth. Any momentary
enthusiasm I could succeed in stirring
would just "peter-out" in any event. If
there is not a basic passion for souls and
solid work to hold those souls, there is
then little that one can say or do in a
letter to substitute for a lack of this "basic
passion". The day must hasten when Chris-tians
sense an opportunity when they see
me. A solid, driving purpose cannot be re-placed
by a mometary stimulation, a con-trived
flare-up of interest! For this rea-son,
I make no effort to write a challenge.
The challenge is there and those who are
not blind have already seen or sensed it.
The leading of a living God must replace
the petty-politicking and self-seeking of
many a "religious-hobbyist" who ponders
his "career" in the service of the King.
As I have come to see if from this vantage
point, we must put all of our drive into
action - according to God's plans for His
Kingdom, not into our plans for a career.
The hour's need is two-fold: A world-wide
vision of the Kingdom in its closing hours,
and an utter reliance, without reservation,
upon God's sovereign right and ability to
place us within His Kingdom's enterprise.
Should a person then drop all and run in
every direction at once? I can hardly imag-ine
God leading that sort of a course of
action. You see, a life-under-leading is the
final answer!"
We do not solicit your agreement in all
that is said. That is not our point. We re-peat
one sentence and make a brief com-ment
upon it. "A solid, driving purpose
cannot be replaced by a momentary stimu-lation,
a contrived flare-up of interest!"
This, we feel, is challenge enough for all
to examine what is our driving force. Is
it 'momentary stimulation', an on the spur
of the moment affair? Why cant it more
consistently be a 'living relationship' to
Christ that is the dynamic of our actions?
Perhaps it's more the ideal than the actual,
but ought not we always, by virtue of
Christ alone, see the challenge that "is
there", regardless of where that "there"
might be?
HUMILITY
The mistakes of my life are many;
The sins of my heart are more.
And I scarce can see for weeping,
But I'll knock at the open door.
I'm the lowest of those who love Him;
I'm the weakest of those who pray,
But I'll come as He has bidden,
And He shall not bid me nay.
My mistakes His free grace will cover;
My sins He will all wash away.
And the feet that shrink and falter
Shall walk through the gates of day.
by Nancy Schnorr
How many times today have you stopped
to thank God for what he has done for
you?
You may say—Oh, I thanked God a mil-lion
times last Thursday on Thanksgiving
Day.
Yes, that may be true, but what about
today? How many times have you thanked
Him today?
Well—I thanked Him three times for
the food I had today, and I thanked Him
for a good nights rest when I had my de-votions
this morning.
Oh—you mean the Lord only did four
things for you this -day for which you can
be thankful. H-m-m-m. Then I would ask
you another question—How many of these
four prayers came from your heart? Were
you really thanking God when you prayed,
or did you just pray words that were al-most
memorized?
Thanking God isn't something that should
be done once a year, or even four times a
day. It is something that should be done
every minute of every day. Not that we
should stop every minute and thank God
for something, but that in our speaking,
acting, and everyday living, God might see
that we really are thankful for what he
has done for us.
Then—when we do pray, let's remember
to pray from our hearts and not just from
our heads.
by Mary Radunz
It was a quarter to eleven, and there
was an unusual quietness in the girls' dorm
as my room-mate and I began our evening
devotions.
Suddenly, there was a chaos of screaming
and laughing, and we saw what appeared
to be a lynching mob assembred in the
hall. As they grabbed a horrified fresh-man
girl and dragged her away, we listen-ed
anxiously for the inevitable—a loud
splash followed by a still louder volley of
screams.
Fearing we would be next on the bath-tub
"party list", my room-mate and I hur-ried
into our rooms in near panic.
Slowly the door creaked open—suddenly
I was whizzed down the hall at a terrify-ing
speed. Half enjoying myself, I watched
the amused expressions of onlookers as I
was sped away. Turning the corner, my
assailors, clad in various types of striped,
polka-dot and plaid pajamas, stopped ab-ruptly
and, without warning, dumped me
rudely on the floor. Before us was an as-tonished
group of doctors and nurses just
leaving the infirmary. After a moment's
hesitation, I was again picked up, and after
another short journey, dumped uncere-moniously
into a tub of slimy, dark-green
water. I shrieked in protest as a bucket
of icy liquid was poured over my head—
Once out of the bathtub, I was glad the
ordeal was over, and boy—would we up-perclassmen
have fun next year!
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by President Wingblade
God is always on time in His universe—
never late. The stars sing in their courses
on schedule, and stellar time is exact. Hal-ley's
comet looms into our ken every
seventy-six years.
God is always on time in the work of
Atonement. At the stroke of the prophetic
clock, Christ came into the world and gave
Himself as a ransom for many—in the
sight of men and angels and demons—
though the Lamb of God had been slain,
mystically and wonderfully, in the heart of
God from the foundation of the world.
God is always on time in the keeping of
His promises and answering prayer. I
stopped into the office of Charles Fuller,
and as we chatted, I asked him about the
income to carry on his wide-sweeping radio
work. With great enthusiasm he said: "Do
you know that in the month of October
we had five weeks with expenses of forty
thousand dollars per week. We got in two
hundred thousand dollars and two hundred
and fourteen dollars more—just enough to
fill the cup and to make it run over."
Then he said this: "God has never
failed me. Sometimes He has waited until
the last day, until the last hour, until the
last minute—but He has never failed me."
Are we on time? If we are to be like
our heavenly Father, we must also be on
time.
A man said to me: "I have spent hours
and hours waiting at committee meetings
for members who were late."
Once, John D. Rockefeller offered a
young man a position and told him to meet
him at his office at 9 A.M. The young man
arrived some twenty minutes late. The
great financer informed him that he had
transacted thousands of dollars worth of
business since nine o'clock and that the
opportunity for the young man was gone.
One characteristic of a Christian gentle-man
is that he makes it a point to be on
time for his engagements. I am sure that
that is what we all desire to be—prompt
to our classes, prompt to the prayer meet-ings,
prompt to committee meetings,
prompt in every human engagement, and,
most important, prompt in our apointments
with God.
Now is the time when we are forming
habits that will make us or break us in the
years ahead.
Left In the Lerch
by Jim Hubbard
Shortly after_ four o'clock last Saturday
afternoon certain young men were seen
to be retiring to the seclusion of their
rooms to prepare themselves for the even-ing
ordeal. Some were seen soaking in the
tub, others soaping in the shower, and
still others just "sprucing up". Saturday
was that day known to Bethel students as
Nikolena's Dag.
Some of the Nikolenas really baited their
traps with dinner at the Curtiss, and then
the party, and then more fellowship. Sev-eral
fellows including Osteo (Bolles) and
Citrus Fruit (Lemon) were quite enthusias-tic
over their eight hour dates with their
Nikolenas. As Nikolena called for her beau
it was customary that she bring him a cor-sage.
Only one corsage do I have a question
about and that is regarding the hidden
meaning behind Ron Nelson's corsage. The
outstanding feature was a spark plug paint-ed
with phosphoresent paint. My question
is, "Does this spark plug mean that Ron-aldo
is an old plug or does it mean that
he glows in the dark?"
As I looked back over the years to that
first Nik Dag in the late fall of 1948 I am
reminded of my Nikolena and our first
date together and how she got her man
(and by the way is engaged to him now). I
wonder how many other Nikolenas will
sell their "Digs" a bill of goods. All Sat-urday
evening I waited in my room and
in the lounge for my buzzer to sound or
for my name to be called so we too could
join the long line of Nikolenas and their
beaus in the festivities on and off campus.
Now I have to be satisfied with merely sit-ting
alone on the balcony and watch the
"goings on".
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Bouquets are in order it seems
to me for those who planned and
executed the programs for last
Friday and Saturday evenings.
Bethel social life hit a high.
Professor Ferguson's music phil-osophy
couched in laymen's lang-uage
and interspersed with humor
made a stimulating evening and
the reception afterward was nice-ly
done.
Then the Nikolena's Dag pro-gram
showed real talent and —
maybe more important—practice.
The chairman and each member
of the various numbers had ob-viously
rehearsed. I heard a visit-or
say, "At my college the stu-dents
don't prepare enough for
programs. This was terrific."
Congratulations, Arts Club and
sophomores. May the standards
you set pull our social life out of
its mediocrity.
Usually A. Critic
Dear Critic:
Bouquets are in order. They
should be given first of all to Jim
Hubbard, the man behind the Arts
Club, who arranged the Dr. Fer-guson
program. For the reception
we have bouquets for Lois Redin
and her committee.
Bob Hilton and his Nikoline's
Dag committee get bouquets. Don
Richardson, Pat Noland, Wally Ol-son,
Gloria Berhow, Ruth Chis-holm,
and the entire sophomore
class share the bouquets.
We would like to see more pro-grams
on campus of the same
quality and just as well organ-ized.
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Adam Compares Life
With Football Game
At Grid Banquet
Speaking to members of the
football team and their dates,
Coach Bill Adams of Southwest
High School, Minneapolis, compar-ed
the Christian life to a football
game emphasizing that God wants
the best players, the All-Ameri-cans,
just as a coach wants top-notch
athletes on his team.
He continued his comparison by
bringing out that in both games
there might be a purpose to pro-vide
the necessary incentive, a
fundamental set of rules to follow.
and a time-out period to talk over
problems or plan new plays.
Providing the musical entertain-ment
for the evening were Don
Erickson and Jim Baxter who sang
a duet accompanied by Doug
Swanson at the electric guitar, and
Gene Gladder who played a horn
solo. Phil Carlson as master of
ceremonies presented Coach Elmer
Fischer and Assistant Coach Har-old
Mordh with gifts as tokens of
appreciation for their work wtih
the team.
Members of the team elected
Phil Carlson honorary captain and
Bob Carlson most valuable player
of the season.
Debate Suffers From
Lack of Personnel
"Bethel defeats Notre Dame",
"University of Minnesota bows to
Bethel College". Yes, these head-lines
are possible and in the past
they have been actualities. You
see, Bethel has met these schools
and others in debate. This year,
however, the debate program has
not yet been organized. Why? Be-cause
not enough students have
come out for the team.
One earns one half credit a
quarter for between two and three
hours work each week. Also dur-ing
the year several trips are tak-en
to various meets and the ex-perience
gained is of much value.
There is room for both exper-ienced
and inexperienced debaters
on the team so don't let timidity
or fear of inexperience block your
way. Why not join up?
Those interested in continuing
the fine record of debate at our
school ought to show their interest
by contacting Maurice Schultz, in-structor
in speech, and join the
team. Are you taking part in ex-tra-
curriculars? If not, why not?
Here's your opportunity to be of
service to the school as well as
to equip yourself with a training
in speech that you will value all
your life.
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although Alm tired of studying
already, a special Messenger told
me Aunevik the final exams will
be Cumings, so it Pierce you bet-ter
Brace yourself and get caught
up on your Redin. you have to be
Sharp here and it takes a Good-man
to get one of the high Merck.
to Merritt the Wright answer you
must prepare Moore around here,
and know Winch things to memor-ize.
last year i was at my Witz end
and thought I'd Dye when they
Post the grades. in fact i went
Baty. Wood have been better had i
not been a Kramer in the last
minute Rousch when you Canon
get the tough Lexen studied as
well. I'm told exams are for every-one,
both the daughter Anderson
take them. so Weber get on the
Baltz and prepare. they say you
can't Forsman to study, at least
not Wiley is in school. there are
two types of exams. oral is where
the professor will Blair out about
20 questions and you must Doten.
Brygger exams than these i've
never Metz, but they aren't Verley
good. the written exams are the
Bessey for instead of Stayton it
you Patet down in writing Wipf
a pencil on one of the Lyons of a
piece of paper. i've Bennett my
studying so long now my Beard
is past the shaving stage; i'll have
to use a Sawtell i cut it off. grows
Fast you know. Earl have to keep
the beard though, for this Friske
weather is bad for my Hulth. Voth
is that i hear? a Bell. Oman, it's
time to leave this Bliss and get
ready for class. my aching Bach-man.
La Gesse forget about the
whole thing. what about next sum-mer?
O'Boyle i be Gladder then.
with my textbooks Forsell
travel, and maybe i Lantz in Frans
or at least i'll grab my Kopp and
coat and go back Holm to the lit-tle
Berg in my Homeland. then i
can relax by Codling down for a
Knapp, shout Goodnight, and not
even worry if i Schnorr.
Reading Highlights
Nik Dag Program
Climaxing the Nikolina's Dag
festivities at the gym last Friday
night was Dr. Virginia Lowell's
original "one-man" radio program
of continuous humor. Dr. Lowell
is the adviser of the sophomore
class which sponsored the event.
Sophomore class president Wally
Anderson, accompanied by his
ukelele led the fun-making as mas-ter
of ceremonies.
In honor of "Nikolina", the
Courier Quartette harmonized on
"When You and I Were Young,
Maggie" paraphrased for the oc-casion
by Genevieve Sutton. They
also gave their version of "Dry
Bones."
The central feature of the even-ing
was the original melodrama by
'Ton Richardson, starring Bob
ton as the Lone Ranger whose
Cheerios helped Gorgeous George
(Don Barnhill) fox Skip Beard as
Scandalous Sam, the villian, and
won for George the screaming
heroine Perilous Pauline (Pauline
Gustafson).
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Tuesday, Dec. 11, announces John Soneson, campus Red Cross Blood
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Every student is asked, if physically able, to donate a pint of blood
at this time. The Blood Mobile will be stationed at Edgren dorm recrea-tion
room, between the hours of 8:30 A.M. and 5:00 P.M.
Application to donate blood and parental release forms for students
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Bethel College. The 1951-52 team will begin the schedule at Eau
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Basketball, the oldest sport on
the Bethel athletic program, is in
its third season in the senior col-lege.
Before 1949, when Bethel
was a junior college, the cagers
were part of the Southern Minne-sota
Junior College Conference.
However, since becoming a four
year college, the cagers have been
inactive in conference play.
The fine art of throwing basket.
balls through a hoop was first
played on a Bethel floor many
years ago. The first year was not
readily avalleble for the Clarion's
roving reporter, but it is supposed
that the sport was first played
very shortly after the Academy
opened its deers thirty odd years
age. One record we were able to
dig up tells us of the 1922-23
academy team which won 7 and
lost S contests during their sea-son.
The squad piled up the total
of 214 points to the opponents 190.
Some very fine teams came out
of Bethel in the past, according to
record. In the 1931.32 season, the
cagers roared to a perfect season,
winning all ten scheduled contests.
The name Bill Adams sounds very
familiar as it appears on these
pages.
Several very fine teams were
produced when Bethel Junior Col-lege
was a member of the South-ern
Minnesota League, too. This
league boasted of as many as nine
teams at various times, and as
little as four. In 194546, the In-dians
were the SMJC champions.
A share of the title was won in
the 1947.48 season, when the
Bethel team was rated a co-champ.
Other years include: 1948-49, third
place; 1942.43, second place, and
1940-41, fifth.
Opponents of Bethel basketball
teams have ranged from St. Paul
Academy, Minnehaha Academy,
Minnesota College, Cretin, Minne-apolis
Business in 1922-23 to SMJC
opponents, Luther, Be than y,
Tracy, Rochester, Worthington,
Concordia, Waldorf, and Albert
Lea in former years.
The last years team which was
under the coaching of Del Peter-son,
present coach, won 10 while
losing 7. Previous coach to Peter-son
was Paul Edwards, now a mis-sionary
in India. Basketball has al-ways
been the main sport at
Bethel and will no doubt continue
in that capacity for at least this
year. This year's squad will con-tinue
the free lancing activities
of the last two years. Schedules
of this type include any teams in
the SMJC which will play Bethel,
plus many midwest colleges, state
teachers schools and junior col-leges.
Cagers Travel to Eau Claire for Opener
TH E CLARION Five Games Set In December;
INDIAN ARROWS First Home Contest Saturday
(5)i SPORTS
Claire, Wisconsin that night, where they will be opposing the Teachers
Another season of basketball has rolled around. All of basketball— quint. Usually a strong power in
the teams, the schools sponsoring them, the coaches, the individual
themselves—hope that this year, making up partially for last season,
will be a season when scandal and fixes will be unknown words. Here,
at Bethel, the sport does not reach the proportions where the cagers
are enticed by professional betters. Nor do our games produce situa-tions
where betting conditions exist. So we tend, generally, to not
think about the scandals and the fixes. However, it is up to all of
basketball, everywhere, from the smallest college up to help this year
in keeping out a menace which could ruin the game.
There Is • good possibility that hockey could be added to the
school's list of sports. There are those individuals on campus this year
who are capable of playing, and who would like to play the sport. Due
to lack of equipment, competent coaching, and a schedule, the sport
probably will not be too successful this year. But it could be worked
out the following years. Any fellows interested this year will have to
be pioneers in the real meaning of the word!
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INDIAN BASKETBALL SCHEDULE
November 29
December 1
December 4
December 8
December 12
December 15
January 12
January 25
January 30
February 2
February 9
February 15
February 18
This schedule
Eau Claire St. Teachers
Luther Junior College
Superior St. Teachers
Itasca Junior College
Bethany Junior College
Northland College
Rochester Junior College
Itasca Junior College
U. of M. Farm School
Rochester Junior College
Bethany Junior College
Northland College
Luther Junior College
is incomplete. About six or seven more
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games
will be added and these will be given in the next Clarion.
Players View Season With Optimism
by Don Barnhill
With the first game of the cage season to be played this week, the
average Bethel sports fan is wondering: "What is the team like this
year?'" Here are the answers.
The team is one of the most inexperienced of recent years. Pete
Unruh will be the granddaddy of this year's team, both in actual age
and in experience. Pete has at least three years of college ball behind
him. He will start at one of the guard spots this season. Clarence Wood,
a newcomer to Bethel this year, has two years of experience to aid
him, these being earned at a small junior college in his home state of
Washington. Don Peterson, is back on the varsity squad with one
year's previous experience. Several other players with one year's
experience are back, including Bob Carlson, Gene Messenger, Dean
Stromwall, Chuck Lindgren, Ron Nelson, and Lowry Frederickson. The
rest of the squad are all new to the realm of college basketball.
Secondly, the team is lacking in height. Don Peterson at 6-2 is the
tallest of the first five, Unruh stands an even 6-0, while the others are
around 5-10 average. Lindgren is 6-5, the tallest on the squad, but lacks
the important element of experience.
In looking over the team, most of the squad seems very optimistic.
Gene Messenger, Fergus Falls, says, "The team is on a par with last
year's squad, in addition to being deeper in reserve." Newcomer Gene
Ristow, Willmar, adds the same line of comments to Messenger's state-ments.
"Although the team lacks experience, it has plenty of fire", says
Don Peterson of Cambridge.
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Last year, the two teams did
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The home opener will follow
just two nights later, December
1 at the Minnehaha Academy gym,
scene of all home games this year.
Luther of New Ulm will be the
Indians foe that night. The Luther
cagers will be out to break a
Bethel winning trend this season.
In the past three years, Bethel has
had the upper hand in the series,
winning five of six encounters.
The Luther delegation is headed
by a sophomore sensation, Don
Hartwig, who is a high scorer and
generally regarded as an outstand-ing
eager.
Indian potentialities are as yet
unknown and presumably will re-main
that way until after the first
game. Lack of height is one known
disadvantage, also lack of exper-ience.
Put together, these two
could be enough to bring on a ser-ies
of early season defeats. How-ever,
if Coach Peterson can devel-op
his material into a compact
unit which can learn quickly by
early defeats, the squad still can
bring in a good total season rec-ord.
Several positions may yet be
filled by new enrollees this winter
quarter. Coach Peterson is hoping
Ralph Martin, last year's fine cen-ter,
may be back in school this
quarter, and possibly several oth-ers.
Then again, no additional
candidates may be gained through
this medium. Thus, much is still
in doubt. Meanwhile, daily drills
continue for the opening contest.
FINAL FOOTBALL RESUME
Bethel 6 Itasca 12
Bethel 6 Northland 13
Bethel 39 Morris 0
Bethel 0 Worthington 26
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Intramural basketball opens its
season December 1, following fin-als.
Eight teams will be fielded
this year. They are East, Faculty,
Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Michi-gan-
Wisconsin, Twin Cities, and
West.
Led by Ken Greenman, and pos-sibly
bolstered by the addition of
Bud Pierce, outstanding varsity
cager, who is not playing varsity
ball this year, the West team ap-pears
exceptionally strong. Sever-al
of the other teams will have
fine outfits to try to upset West.
The schedule, according to In-tramural
Chairman Norris Magnu-son,
will include at least two
rounds, and possibly a third. In
addition, arrangements are being
worked out to include several all-star
games with Northwestern
teams.
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