Above is a scene from "Servant In The House" which will be pre-sented
next Thursday and Friday nights in the college chapel. Left to
right are Tom Perrson as Manson; Ann Radunz as Auntie; and Willard
Hedberg playing the role of Vicar.
Cast Seeks Perfection
As Final Practice Begins
Behind locked doors the stage is being set. Curtain time! The house
lights dim, the audience hushes, and the curtains go up on the first
professional drama presented at Bethel! Yes, by now Servant In The
House, by Charles R. Kennedy has almost reached the peak of perfec-tion
and will be performed on Thursday and Friday of next week. The
diligent practices are bringing results and during this final week of
practice the cast is striving for the professional touch.
Oft63000 Betheti COilicial Schaal Pareit
Vol. XXVII—No. 12
Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota
Friday, April 20, 1951
Juniors Sponsor 'Servant in the House' Apr. 26-27
Those included in the cast are
as follows:
Bishop Arnold Regier
Vicar Willard Hedberg
Auntie Ann Radunz
Mary Mary Quernemoen
Robert Don Barnhill
Manson Tom Persson
Rogers Don Lindgren
Tickets have already been put on
sale for sixty cents each. Thursday
night, April 26 has been set as the
night students should attend as
the Friday night performance has
been designated as St. Paul night
when members of the twin-city
conference churches will be attend-ing.
Chorus Starts
WeekTour Today
The Bethel Girl's Chorus left to-day
on a seven day singing tour
throughout northern Minnesota and
into Canada. Accompanying them
will be the Bethel male quartet
composed of Dave England, Bruce
Woodman, Dan Seagren and Jim
Rentz.
Tonight these two musical
groups will give a performance in
Thief River Falls, Minn. Saturday
and Sunday they will be in Winne-peg,
Manitoba, Canada, appearing
at a Youth For Christ meeting Sat-urday
night. Monday the groups
will sing at Karlstad, Minn.; Tues-day
at Kennedy, Minn.; Wednesday
at Faffton, Minn., and Thursday
at Millaca, Minn.
Anderson, Jensen
Among Top Six
In U. Tournament
Wendell Anderson and Jack
Jensen, two members of Bethel's
debate squad, placed among the
top six teams at the University of
Minnesota's annual debate annual
debate tournament which was held
April 6 and 7. They won four of
their five debates to achieve this
honor. They defeated St. Olaf Col-lege,
rated among the top teams
in the nation, the University of
Minneosta, Winona State T. C., and
Mankato State T. C. Their one loss
was to the Duluth branch of the
University of Minnesota.
Jack Jensen also won an award
for high speaking ability in the
tournament. He placed in the up-per
bracket of speakers for the
entire affair to win the award.
Wendell Anderson also scored
highly in speaker points to help
give the team its high advantage
in speaking ability.
Tom Persson and Cliff Anderson
were also entered in the tourna-ment
as a Bethel representative.
They won one of their five debates
in the collegiate section.
The speech event was divided
into freshman, junior college, and
inter-collegiate sections, with both
of Bethel's teams participating in
the latter class. Schools from all
over the upper Northwest were re-presented
in the debate classic.
The tournament was the last one
of the season for the Bethel squad.
491ticadicatai extefrutioot
On Friday, May 4, during Per-iod
IV, Howard G. Grant, Ram-sey
County Agricultural Agent,
will speak to the Rural Sociol-ogy
Class of the College and
the Religious Education Class
of the Seminary on the topic,
"The Agricultural Extension
Service and the Church," in the
College Chapel. He will discuss
the ways in which the AES can
work with the rural church and
its desire to do so. Students
who are free that period and
other visitors will be welcome.
24 Volunteer
for DVBS work
To date, some twenty-four Bethel
students have volunteered to do
work in Daily Vacation Bible
Schools throughout the coming
summer. Miss Esther Sabel, faculty
member and director of the work,
said that these students will do
work in churches in Wisconsin,
Minnesota, Illinois, South Dakota,
Connecticutt, and Nebraska.
The Minnesota Women's Union
donates $500 to the support of the
workers in Minnesota. Most gener-ally,
however, the workers work
voluntarily, their transportation
room and board being paid by the
churches.
Those already to go for the sum-mer
are: Betty Anderson, Phoebe
Anderson, Dorothy Dalbey, Joyce
Hill, Charlotte Hoffman, Helen
Holle, Dorothy Lindbloom, Elaine
Holmquist, Eunice Hulth, Ann Lar-sen,
Mable Larsen, Virginia Lov-aas,
Margaret Miller, Naomi Nest-erud,
James Niles, Florence Nord-strom,
Hannah Plautt, Helen R.
Peterson, Dorothy Riek, Becky
losty, Gloria Berhow, and Gene-veive
Sutton.
Seven to Compete
In Oratory Wed.
Seven contestants are signed up
to compete in the Dr. Alford Han-son
Oratory Contest to be held
next Wednesday night at 8 o'clock
in the college chapel. The fifty
dollar award money has been des-ignated
by the speech faculty to
be distributed in $25, $15, and $10
amounts and given to the first,
second, and third place winners.
Professor Berntsen, in charge of
the contest, has announced the
following entrants and their topics:
"Is This America" — Muriel
Thompson
"Whither Education" — Marvin
Lindstedt
"The Stamp of the Coin"—Jack
Jensen
"What is Our Christian Respon-sibility?"
— M-E- Van Antwerp
"The Most Discussed Question in
Scandinavia"—Thorlief Aunevik
"The Wall of Offense" — Henry
Quiring
"The Social Gospel — Challenge
to Evangelical Christianty"—Reu-ben
Johnson
Mr. Edward LeVau
PDG Meets Tues;
Banquet April 30
Next Tuesday evening at 9 o'-
clock in the Seminary Lounge,
former Bethel students Mel Sone-son
and Robert Sandin, will lead
the Progressive Discussion Group
in their discussion of the topic,
"The Meaning of Ethical Terms—
Or the Definition of Good."
On Monday night, April 30th,
the group will hold their annual
banquet at Webers Inn at which
time Dr. C. E. Carlson will address
the group and lead a discussion
on the topic "What are the pur-poses
for the existence of the Bap-tist
General Conference."
For the concluding half of the
program, the former Bethel male
quartet will present a vocal con-cert
of spirituals and hymns. The
quartet members are Robert Sand-in,
Paul Leafblad, Don Patet, and
Jim Rentz.
Tickets for the program will be
on sale at forty cents apiece, the
proceeds being used to purchase
the J. S. Banquet tickets for the
graduating Sophomores.
The Orations will be judged
sixty per cent for content, original-ity,
persuasivness, organization and
delivery and forty per cent for
gestures, posture, eye contact, and
variety.
Le Vau Gives
Recital Tonight
Bethel's faculty and student
body will again have the privilege
of hearing one of its professors in
music in a baritone voice recital
which will be presented tonight at
8:30 P. M.
Mr. Edward LeVau trained at
the McPhail School of Music and
the University of Minnesota before
he came to Bethel two years ago
to teach voice, vocal ensemble, and
to serve as music librarian. He has
appeared in several recitals at the
University, and at the present time
is a student of Mr. Schuessler,
Professor of Voice, University of
Minnesota.
Throughout his program, he will
be accompanied by Miss Mildred
Bisgrove and assisted by Mr.
Valdeko Kangro and Mr. Kaljo
Raid on the violin and cello, re-spectively.
His selections will be: Consolati
e spera!—Scarletti; Spesso vibra
per seco gioco. — Scarletti; Pur
dicesti, o bocca bella. — Lotti;
Yclept My Ladye Faire—Dunn;
and 0 Mistress Mine—Dunn.
Mighty Lord—Bach; Thus Saith
the Lord and But who may abide
the day of his corning—Handel.
Ich grolle nicht — Schumann;
Wohin—Schubert; Die Mainacht-
Brahms; and Fussreise—Wolf.
Songs of Travel—Vaughn—Will-iams;
May the Maiden—Carpenter;
The Cave—Schneider; Memories-
Goossen; and Tally Ho!—Leoni.
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Tonight, Vocal Recital, Mr. LeVau.
April 23, PDG, Sandin and Soneson.
April 26, 27 Junior Class Play.
April 30, PDG Dinner Meeting. Dr.
Carlson, speaker.
May 2, BWA Banquet.
May 3, Freshman Talent Program.
May 4, Missionary Chapel.
May 4, Faculty Recital (Trio)
May 8, Student Recital.
May 10, Seminary Banquet.
May 11, J. S. Banquet.
Freshman Talent Night May 3
To Mix Music, Speech, Comedy
On Thursday night, May 3rd, at 8 o'clock in the college chapel, the
Freshman class will present a Talent Night program in the fields of
music, speech and short comical drama.
Nadine Westin will start off the first half of the program with a
piano solo, followed by an organ number by Pauline Anderson. Florence
Ohman will present a vocal solo after which Jack Jensen will give a
humorous speech.
A string trio number will be included in the musical part followed
by a number yet to be selected.
A short humorous skit, written by Freshman Donald Richardson,
entitled "Romeo and Juliet", will follow the. series of musical presenta-tions.
Romeo is played by Don Richardson; Juliet, by Cal Anderson;
Juliet's father Mr. Anderson is played by Eddie Meyer; and Pat Nolan
has the part of Juliet's mother, Mrs. Anderson.
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Campus Capers
by Marty
Cleaning the lounge in the Girls' Dorm can be quite a riot, just
ask Don Barnhill. Don will tell you that he expects to find most any-thing
in his cleaning closet. Anything from a nest of sandwiches to
limburger cheese or a puppet. The puppet was clothed in various bor-rowed
clothes from the girls on first floor.
One morning Don got out of cleaning the lounge, for he found
three girls sleeping on the couches. Don tried to wake them, but they
didn't move, so he went back home and went to bed.
Warning to Don: Some morning beware that you aren't met by
some sheeted ghosts. I talked to some gals who thought it would be a
good idea.
Sonny, the chicken has died. That is the explanation for all the
black attire in evidence some Tuesdays back. A funeral was held, with
Marie Ekstrom and Betty Jane Hjort singing a duet, by special request.
Because the ground is still too hard, Marilyn Dahlquist reports that
the chicken was (not creamed) but cremated.
It's old, but I've just got to tell you. When Mr. Dalton asked "Red"
Nelson What his folks would say if he went down in History, Red re-sponded,
"George Washington went down in history, so I guess• it'd be
all right if I did, too."
Another time when informed he'd get a zero, Marlin cheerfully re-torted,
"Well, that'll bring up my average."
Choristers Chuckle at Trials
by Carolyn Clark
Always on a choir trip, things happen that the members can
chuckle over when the trip is completed. Such has been the case on
our tour.
A Lonely Heart's Club was formed at the tour's outset. This in-cluded
everyone on the bus. By popular request, Herman Van Arsdale
was appointed as president. Ronnie (alias Roland Jackson) Johnson,
our co-pilot, ran a close second for the honor. Because the mail service
was Ixcellent, the Lonely Hearts weren't too lonely. Chuck Lindgren,
our big boy, received more letters than anyone else, nearly forty in all.
The couple times he didn't receive those "sugar reports," he was
rather blue. They must have nice girls in Duluth, Chuck.
It is surprising how the vocabulary changed in such a short time.
Nicknames sprouted up everywhere. For instance, Anna Karcher and
her frequent "Baloney!" to various situations has given her the name of
"Anner," typically Brooklyn in tone. On one of the daily "radio pro-grams"
on the bus, our next Burle Ives, Russ Baustian, was introduced
as Russ "Spontaneous Combaustian." This name continued for the rest
of the tour.
A frequent stopping place on trip has been the Howard Johnson
restaurants, well known for their famous twenty-eight flavors of ice-cream.
Al Windham admits that he has ten flavors yet to go. Perhaps,
Al, when you return to the East, you can complete the rest.
Warren Nelson has been the brunt of much teasing. Known for his
ability to be the last one on the bus, it became the custom to ask
before leaving any place, "Is Warren here?" There are always difficul-ties
in being next to the youngest in the choir.
Three years ago when the choir was first started, a system of fines
for being late to rehearsals and boarding the bus was introduced by
Mr. Smith. This year for the first time, the tables were turned on him.
It seems the service must have been slow at a Howard Johnson's on
our way along the Pennsylvania Turnpike and he got back to the bus
late. He had to pay a fine for both he and his wife, much to the amuse-ment
of the choir.
When we sang at Eastern Baptist Seminary in Philadelphia, Nettie
Dvirnak decided the tenors and basses needed some assistance. During
the male solo part in "King of Kings", Nettie sang along with them as
nice as could be, without realizing her error. Good job, Nettie.
Our direcor was taken by surprise the night we were in his home
church in Collingswood, New Jersey, when he discovered he had left
his tuxedo (red suspenders and all) on the bus, which was nowhere to
be found. It looked as if it would be an informal concert, as he was wear-ing
a sport shirt. A rented tuxedo filled the bill, and we were able to
carry out the concert in true form.
People remark about the manly fellows we have in choir, for at
least five are over six feet tall. At Elim Park Rest Home, however, this
manliness broke down. It was such a joy and blessing to sing for those
dear old people that when we finished singing there wasn't a dry eye
in the choir.
Now that the tour is over, we can look back and truthfully say that
it was one of the happiest two weeks in our lives. Along with the
humorous times, we had wonderful moments of blessing and fellowship
together.
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No doubt we have all heard and
possibly experienced the "second
wind." A runner runs and runs,
and then after a while he comes
into the discouraging state of being
all out of breath and weak, and
feels unable to run another step.
But he keeps doggedly on, slow-ly
and laboriously, and soon some-thing
happens. There is resuscita-tion
of heart and lungs, and he is
all fresh and can carry on, as it
seems, indefinitely.
Professor William James speaks
of the "second wind" of the soul
and of the human spirit. Its pos-sibilities
are greater. Not only a
"second wind" but a third, and a
fifth, and a tenth, and almost
inexhaustable are the possibilities
of the human soul—for resuscita-tion.
But greater than the statement
of William James is that of Paul
and of the inspired Word: "I can
do all things through Christ who
strengtheneth me."
In early years, Oliver Cromwell
wrote to a friend: "I am weak as
water." Then he discovered that
passage by the great Apostle, and
the possibility there set forth, and
Cromwell became Cromwell — the
indomitable, the victorious.
And the secret and the source
will be found clearly set forth in
John 7:37-38.
Batting and infield practice got
underway at the team's first out-side
practice last Friday, at which
time Coach Peterson laid down
plans for the season to the boys
and gave them their first tips that
will prepare them for their first
game Wednesday, April 25th a-gainst
Luther.
Out to give their best in team-work
for the Bethel nine are Art
Hage, Gordy Johnson, Harold
Werts, Bud Pierce, Bob Carlson,
Ronnie Nelson, Don Barnhill, Cliff
Vennerstrom, Ken Stickler, Al
Malmstrom, Jerry Hegstrom, Rod-ney
Kjell, Stan Meyer, Don Spratt,
and Lowry Frederickson.
Jewish Student Begins Work
With Hebrew-Christian Center
One of the most interesting people on campus is, without question,
Richard Stohr.
Student at both Bethel and the University of Minnesota, Mr. Stohr
hopes to complete his college work this June. Stohr is also a licensed
Covenant minister, having graduated from North Park Seminary last
spring.
This year the work that Stohr and his wife are engaged in is con-nected
with the Hebrew Christian Fellowship Center. They hold meet-ings
for children, women, and men in the large basement of their home.
Mrs. Stohr is in charge of the children's and women's meetings.
Trying to interest both Hebrew
and Gentile students in the new
program. Stohr invites those in-terested
to attend the first meet-ing
of the "Young Messiahists" on
the last Sunday in April. Meetings
will be in the form of a regular
gospel meeting, with singing and
an outside speaker, perhaps.
Mr. Stohr, who is himself of
Jewish descent, was born in Vien-na,
Austria, where he lived until
the time of the war. He went to
Sweden, where his schooling was
continued and where he was con-verted
one Easter Sunday. After
the war, Stohr acted as a travelers'
guide and introduced groups of
students to all of Europe.
Because his father is a famous
musician—pianist and composer,
now at the Curtis Institute in Phil-adelphia—
the matter of passports
was made easier for Stohr.
Mr. Stohr asserts that there are
1,7000 Jewish students here in our
state and therefore, is certain that
this need must be met, in ways
and groups such as the "Young
Messiahists."
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Athletically minded girls are get-ting
back in the swing again as
preparations for a girl's softball
team gets underway. The organiza-tion
meeting was held Saturday,
April 14, in the college building
with about sixteen girls present.
Practice sessions will be held
every Tuesday and Saturday after-noons
between 3:00 and 4:00 P. M.
Good news for fans who enjoyed
the girl's basketball games is that
plans are being made for games
with other schools this spring.
Other girls who are interested
in taking part in this sport and
were unable to attend the first
practices are still welcome to join.
Indian Trackmen
Set Five Meets
Has track finally become a real-ity
at Bethel? It seems so, as a
number of meets have been sched-uled.
The first meet is the Carleton
Relays, Saturday, April 21, which
includes such schools as Macales-ter,
Mankato Teachers, St. Olaf,
So. Dakota St., and Carleton. A-
. mong the squad of Bethelites mak-ing
the trip to Carleton will be
Chuck Lindgren, Ron Skoog, Don
Spratt, Wayne Thompson, Cal An-derson,
Don Barnhill, Skip Beard,
Al Malmstrom, Ford Wilson, and
possibly Ed Viren.
This will be the first outing for
a Bethel track team.
The schedule:
April 21, Carleton Relays
April 24, St. Thomas and Hamline
May 1, St. Thomas and Mankato
May 5, St. Thomas Relays
May 11, St. Olaf and Augsburg
Baseball Candidates Drill As
Season Opener Approaches
When will the sun shine and the weather warm up? This question
has been asked by the baseball candidates as they hopefully watch for
the opportunity to get out and limber up their arms and lay wood to
the "horsehide."
