The Lord is not
slack concerning
his promise . . .
Peter 3:9
IT ISN'T THE NUMBER OF
MESSAGES YOU LISTEN
TO THAT COUNTS — IT'S
THE NUMBER YOU HEAR
WITH YOUR HEART.
Beiltea School Pafze4
Vol. XXVII—No. 9
Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota
Friday, February 24, 1950
Communistic Views to Bethel to Receive Added
Be Quaker's Topic Enthusiasm from Visitors
Mr. George Watson, midwest sec-retary
of the Fellowship of Reconci-lation,
a Quaker organization, will
speak at Bethel March 7 on Chris-tianity
versus Communism.
He is sponsored by the Progres-sive
Discussion Group and will
speak to the P.D.G. in the after-noon
meeting. The evening session
is open tol all. Mr. Watson is a
young Canadian minister, enthusi-astic
about the historic Quaker
ideals of complete pacifism and
love in all human relations.
His tour from March 1-10 will
cover many local colleges as well
as the University of Minnesota. A
former P.D.G. speaker, Dr. Ren-shaw,
also of the F.O.R., aroused
the group's thinking along those
lines some time ago. John Dischin-ger,
working in behalf of the Dis-cussion
Group, was influential in
securing Mr. Watson as speaker at
this time.
Meetings of the P.D.G. are usual-ly
closed to any but society mem-bers.
However, the pertinence of
Mr. Watson's subject to present
world affairs and his view of paci-fism
caused the P.D.G. to schedule
him for a meeting open to all stud-ents.
Students Present
Gospel at Bedside
This year Bethel began a hospital
visitation program which enables
students to enter Twin-city hos-pitals
and present the gospel to
patients through song. B-Etta
Mayer, a Bethel student and mis-sionary
candidate for the Confer-ence,
is in charge of this work.
All hospitals were first contacted
by letter and groups then went out
prepared for various types of ser-vice.
The most effective method
of presenting the gospel in these
hospitals has been through the sing-ing
of old, familiar hymns that of-times
brought tears to the eyes of
patients who were reminded there
is a God in heaven Who cares for
them.
Resulting form
movie, "Stromboli",
who did the work.
The action has
In view of this fact, the following
tion of the action. Primarily it was
used as an opportunity to propa-gate
the gospel. About 7,000 tracts
were distributed in four days and
less than ten per cent were thrown
to the ground.
The second purpose was the pos-sible
awakening of lay Christian
leaders to their responsibility in
such matters. The third and minor
purpose was a protest against this
particular situation.
This was mainly an individual
project, originating with Ray Lev-ang
and carried out by students
from the Seminary and College,
nurses from Midway Hospital,
young people from Temple Baptist
Church and a few other groups in
the city. Jim Murk, who was a
leader of the group, said of the
adverse critics, "We think their
opposition is sincere—but sincerely
wrong."
Spire Staff Chooses
Photo Contest Winners
Winners in the Spire photo con-test
were Margery Holm and Jean
Lindbloom.
Margery, placing first in the
student life grouping, won three
dollars and Jean won a two-dollar
prize with pictures of office activi-ties.
The pictures will appear in
the 1950 Spire.
Envelopes will be passed out in
chapel whereon students may indi-cate
their desire to have their
names stamped in gold on their
Yearbooks. Cost of the personali-zation
of yearbooks will be fifty
cents.
on campus.
as explana-sessions
carried
Council Initiates
Publication Inquiry
A publication committee consist-ing
of Roger Hedberg, Ray John-son,
Perry Hedberg, and Dave Os-terberg
has been appointed by the
Student Council to determine
whether there is a need for a pub-lications
board on campus.
The purpose of this committee is
to discover the ways in which such
a board could improve the publica-tion
departments and the method
by which this could be accomplish-ed.
The appointment of this commit-tee
was motivated by the desire of
the members of the publication
organization to improve the testi-mony
of the printed page.
The committee is not a board,
but if a publication board is found
desirable, it will be made up of
students and faculty members to
fulfill the above, mentioned objec-tives
and to discover any other
possibilities of such a board.
That God owns all things and
that we as Christians are stewards
of all that we possess, whether
that be time, talents, or material
things, and hence we must be re-vived
in the field of stewardship
was brought out by Rev. Alphin
Conrad. Dr. Fickett emphasised
Christianity as a seven-day-a-week
life while Dr. Whitesell explained
the task of evangelism.
Professor Clifford Larson spoke
daily on Christian education and
Dr. Lockyer's discourses concerned
practical necessities of Christian
living. Add to all this the mission-ary
challenge of Rev. Sten Lind-berg
and it is easy to see that the
program for the week was one
touching all aspects of the Chris-tian
life.
Founder's Week, held annually at
Bethel in honor of Dr. Alexis Ed-gren,
founder of Bethel Seminary,
serves as an' obviously unifying
factor in conference relationships
between the states.
PROSPECTS TO VIEW COLLEGE
LIFE
Friday morning will be spent
visiting the various class rooms
and attending the Chapel service.
Time has been set aside from 1 to
3 p.m. for the various organizations
to make contacts with the new-comers
in regard to any talents
they might have which would be
useful to certain department or
organizations.
MUSICALE PLANNED
A musicale is being prepared for
3 p.m. that day. The music will be
supplied by the Chapel Choir, the
Male and Women's Choruses, the
Estonian artists, Bruce Woodman
and Wendell Anderson, and the
Courier Quartette. Dean Carlson
will give a short talk.
The collegiate societies will com-bine
their talents for the last big
event of the day at 7:30 p. m.
All plans, plus many hours of
"behind the scense" work, have
'been made possible by Dorothy Nel-son,
Beverly Harris, Florence Nor-dstrom,
Perry Hedberg, Wayne An-derson,
Harold Christiansen and
John Dischinger.
Movie Picket a Success
In Eyes of Participants
Future Bethelites Will Invade Campus
The days are getting closer when new faces, smiles and "hello's"
will be seen and heard on Bethel campus. But this added enthusiasm
on campus will be here only a matter of days, to depart until next fall,
when it will reappear as the property of the new freshman class.
March 9 and 10 have been set aside on the school calendar as
"Prospective Student Days". This project, which proved very successful
a "Bethel bull-session", the recent picketing of the
has been a success in the estimation of the group
also come in for some adverse criticism
aims have been offered last year, is made possible
Founder's Week Conference
Stresses Need of Revival
The need for revival in all areas of Christian life seemed to have
been the keynote permeating the entire Founder's Week conference. The
messages of the speakers and the prayers of all those attending the
this burden.
through the Student Council. Clifford E.
Anderson, chairman, has aimed at
presenting the visitors with a
"birds-eye" view of college life.
Guests are expected to begin ar-riving
sometime Thursday, all join-ing
for dinner at 6 p.m. in the din-ing
hall. Bethel will meet Roches-ter
on the Minnehaha basketball
court at 7:45 of that evening. Fol-lowing
what is hoped will be a vic-torious
game, there will be a time
of food, fun and fellowship in the
coffee shop.
. . . This Is the Victory That Overcomes the World .. .
BY MARILYN KORTUM
BEHIND THE STRIKING
t e s t i m on y given by the dark
haired stranger during the "Say-So"
Meeting in chapel recently lies a
powerfully motivating faith and an
undauntable spirit.
Philippine-born Amado Chanco,
who has been at Bethel three
weeks as an unassuming Semi-nary
student, is the director of
Youth for Christ, founder of ten
churches and head of two na-tives
schools in his beloved Is-lands.
He came to the United
States last September in order
to acquire additional theological
training, acquaint Americans with
the opportunities of service in the
Philippines and obtain help in car-rying
on an extensive and entirely
Faith-Supported ministry.
A Catholic for 28 years, Mr.
Chanco, was a student of the
Manila Law School, working in the
National library, when he was first
touched by the gospel. After four
months of debate with a Minnesota
missionary, Mr. F. E. Gulbranson,
Mr. Chanco finally accepted Christ.
Leaving law school he began to
preach salvation's message. With
the out-break of the last war came
also his call to the ministry and
all through the conflict the assur-ance
remained that he would be
preserved to fulfill that calling. In
four years ten churches with size-able
.congregations .have .been
founded by Mr. Chanco in the midst
of Catholicism and paganism, as
an evidence of his fruitful ministry
in the gospel. He tells of one poor,
b u t .Bible-hungry, .congregation
which paid ten precious dollars
for a worn copy of the scriptures
and how they prize its sacred
pages.
Forcefully brought home to him
during the war years, when almost
all missionary activity had been
halted by prision internment, was
the great need for native evan-gelists.
To meet this need by estab-lishing
a Philippine Bible Institute
in connection with his jungle
school amidst pagan tribes in Min-danao
became the burden of Amado
Chanco's heart. The school was
named Edenton, a pagan word
meaning Paradise Regained, be-cause
at last someone had come
who cared for a people poverty-stricken
and miserable.
Edenton boasts of seven palm-and-
bambo buildings, a staff of ten
who receive no salaries, and 100
students. Enrollment has been as
high as 160 but lack of supplies
to maintain that number forced
many to return to their pagan
tribes. The school's present pro-gram
includes elementary, agricul-tural
and high school training. Al-though
the school is so poor that
there is only one fountain pen
among its nine teachers — some-times
no soap for washing clothes
—often no garments to cover near-naked
pupils—the staff carries on,
cosidering God's work worth the
hardships.
Mr. Chanco, in his interview, re-counted
many miracles of God's
providing finances at a crisis, re-miniscent
of Dr. Orr's stories of
faith. Humanly s p e a k i n g, Mr.
Chanco says he would have quit
long ago, but because his only rea-son
for living is to serve God, he
carries on.
He is trusting the support of his
family of eight to the Lord, and is
working three hours daily in the
Bethel birary for his room and
board while here. Though appreci-ating
the advantages America af-fords,
his burning desire is to re-turn
home as soon as he can com-plete
his seminary work for he
states that the Communists are
strong in the Philippines and there
is a great work yet to be done for
Christ lest Communism succeed in
engulfing the land.
THE CLARION Friday, February 24, 1950
Page 2
ON THE BURNER
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Skogman, C. Smith, E. Stayton, M. Thomp-son,
A. Weldon.
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EDITORIAL
Some Thoughts
On Picketing
Ingrid (pardon the expression) Bergman
and her producer-lover have stirred the
tongues and imaginations (if nothing else)
of America. It is most coincidental that
the birth of Miss Bergman's child should
correspond so neatly with the opening of
"Stromboli". This coincidence coupled with
the suggestive advertising brought protests
from Christian and non-Christian alike. The
picketing of the picture by Christian stud-ents
(see page 1) as it opened in St. Paul
last week started a controversy over the
value of the picketing, which raged among
the students and faculty on the Bethel
campus.
Indictments of "sensationalism". "rabble
rousing", "negative approach", "more pub-licity
for Stromboli", "bad publicity for
Christianity", "why just picket 'Stromboli' ",
"let he who is without sin cast the first
stone", etc. were gently hurled at the
pickets. Meanwhile the Twin City papers
had a field day. Indeed the publicity wasn't
the best, and some of the above charges
are valid criticizims. A protest might have
been better made in the form of a letter
placed in the Twin City papers by the
ministerial associations of the Twin Cities.
But, the situation also has a brighter
side. The people of the Twin Cities definite-ly
know that a Christian protest was made
—not against the picture, as such, but
against the type of advertising used to an-nounce
it. No matter what we think of
the method, it was, in a sense, preaching
against sin. The positive side of the protest
is the fact that over 7,000 gospel tracts
were handed out, and very few of them
were seen lying on the streets. People would
ask for a tract and read it on the spot. Let
him who has given out more gospel tracts
than that cast the first stone. Let us pray
for those who received the tracts first,
then voice our opinion about the methods.
Besides, some dear soul sent the school
$10.00 in appreciation of the pickets.
Oh, my aching back! I have just recover-ed
from being drop-kicked down the library
stairs by a bruising 115-pound college coed.
And all because I asked her a simple ques-tion
. . . 'Where do you spend your spare
time?" Along with the well-placed boot,
she sneered, "I should live so long as to
have spare time at Bethel!" Such an en-thusiastic
response, however, set my axe-grinding
wheels in motion and I hope it
will be sharp enough to cut crimson ribbon,
at least.
One of the more pleasant aspects of get-ting
an education is the ever-present field
of social relationships. Somehow, that
course finds its way into everyone's cur-riculum
even though no one registers for it.
Ah, but where to find an equipped class-room
is a real problem. By equipment, of
course, I mean comfortable furniture, radio,
absence of glaring lights, etc. In one word,
it would need "atmosphere." Now a Stud-ent
Union would be just such a place but
for that we would have to install bus ser-
Two vital issues have been raised con-cerning
Bethel's building project for the
spring of 1950. To stimulate your thinking
we have listed below varying opinions of
several of the more sagacious individuals
on our campus.
How many are in favor of installing eleva-tors
in the college building?
"Big" Bill Wright: To that suggestion I
vice hearty approval and if not a passenger
elevator, at least a system of dumb-waiters
from the coffee shop to each class room,
providing much needed stimulation along
about half way through each lecture. Of
course, there would be coffee for each pro-fessor,
too.
Pat Pope: I'm in favor of keeping the
stairs. I believe that the majority of girls
need the exercise.
Russ Baustian: It doesn't make any dif-ference
to me; but depending on who the
operator is, I might be persuaded 'to do
my studying up there or between floors!
The second issue. Should we have a swim-ming
pool on campus and where should we
put it?
Bud Pierce: Definitely we should have a
swimming pool and it should be in the
basement of the library where the stacks
are at present. Put the stacks on the third
floor of the library building and then have
a driveway into the pool, to be used on
Saturday for those who would like to wash
their cars.
Joanne Johnson: I'm all for these-pro-jects,
but oh, for an enclosed passage from
the four dormitories to the college building
and library. Some cold wintry days, a stud-
Attention All Men!
It's Whisker Week
Be it resolved that from February 27th
1950 to March 10th, all male members of
Bethel Campus will comply with request
to allow chin-whiskers to grow unaided by
any lotion or salvo and,whiskers are not
to be injured in any way by the careless
use of razors for the entire period. This
is being effected so that students (male)
will have more time for studying due to
the fact of Founder's Week occuring the
week preceding "Final Week." This effort
is being initiated with the intent to induce
greater relaxation while preparing for ex-aminations.
There will be a prize offered
to the person who succeeds in growing the
longest beard during this period of two
weeks. The faculty are invited to participate
but will not be eligible for the prize offered
Friday night March 10th at 9 P.M. in the
Coffee Shop. Lets get started. It's Whisker
Week !III
This movement is spornsored by the
Coffee Shop Philosophers, C. Larson, Facul-ty
advisor.
vice to the Coffman Union at the Univers-ity.
At Bethel it leaves the only alternatives
of (1) finding a friend who isn't using his
car (2) violating present dormitory rules or
(3) persuading a married couple to let you
visit them for an evening. Needless to say,
these are far from satisfactory solutions
to the problem and since we have available
facilities, it is a wholly unnecessary state
of affairs. I only hope that present rumor
becomes reality and the girl's dormitory
lounge is pressed into service as a general,
chaperoned lounge where fellows and girls
can meet for a serious discussion or friend-ly
chat. After all, there are few places that
are emptier than the girl's lounge when
the fellows aren't around.
Another sad commentary on attempted
regulation of spare time is the locked gym-nasium
during daily free hours and on Fri-day
evening. In effect, it serves to prohibit
any attempt at exercise on the part of the
students who do not participate in any
organized athletics and yet are paying equal
by Muriel
ent has to walk to the out-of-doors almost
ten whole minutes during the entire day.
Ear trouble, colds, sore throats and frozen
limbs could easily be eliminated by build-ing
the suggested tunnel.
Gordon Wood: A nice place to have a
swimming pool would be in the new field
house right beside the basketball court.
Dorothy Johnson seconds the motion to
have the swimming pool in the basement of
the library. Her reason: "These books get
plenty dry at times."
Marilyn Erickson: We could use a swim-ming
pool. There are enough "drips" around
here to fill it!
The Bill Lindroths have gone all out for
Bethel's famous Indian totem. They have a
real little Indian baby in their tepee. Per-haps
that explains all those war-whoops that
have been echoing from third floor.
*
Dan Cupid really celebrated this past
Valentine Day. The girls' dorm blossomed
out beautifully! "A certain young man sent
me some flowers today," related Kay Salzer.
"Don't say 'a certain young man,' my dear.
There is none of them certain until you've
got them," replied Lola Nelson.
* * *
Here is something that may prove worth
keeping in mind for our Prospective Stud-ent
Days coming up March 9, 10.
* * * *
The beauty of the dormitory is order;
The blessing of the dormitory is content-ment;
The glory of the dormitory is hospitality;
The crown of the dormitory is godliness.
An Epitaph
To A Horse
Soft lies the turf on those who find their
rest
Beneath their common mother's ample
breast,
Unstained by meanness, avarice, or pride;
They never cheated, and they never lied;
They never intrigued a rival to dispose;
They ran, but never betted on the race;
Content with harmless sport and simple
food,
Boundless in faith and love and gratitude;
Happy the man, if there be any such—
Of whom this epitaph can say as much.
—Robert Lowe
by ANCIENT ALEX
tuition money for the use of the athletic
facilities. The organized teams, of course.
require practice time but what about the
remaining time? Someone whispered very
seditiously in my ear the other day, "Don't
you know that only the poor students waste
time playing 'four horse' in the gym?"
Really, now. I'm sure that barring the gates
is going to drive them to the library.
Perhaps there's such a thing as wasting
time wholesomely but at any rate, where's
the logic in indiscriminately depriving all
students of an occasional game of basket-ball?
As I see it, the question boils down to
the philosophy behind the present regula-tions.
Are you achieving any purpose at
all by restriction of activity with no sub-stitute?
Can you lead a student to study
by leaving only the library doors open? The
answer is obvious. An expose' of present
recreational habits might be shocking but
perhaps that might be helpful in revealing
the urgency of this problem.
This is Founder's Week. We certainly
welcome all visitors on our campus—pastors
and friends from our churches.
We do pray and trust that every session
shall bring added blessings to all who can
be present.
We remember Dr. Alexis Edgren these
days, the founder of our Seminary in 1871—
but we would look above and beyond his
face to the face of the Christ he served.
We recall the story of his conversion as
a sailor boy. In his bunk asleep during a
snowstorm he dreamt that as he was going
to a worldly place of amusement in Sweden
he saw an earthquake crawling toward him
with its serpentine fire. It was clearly
about to destroy the place, for which he
was bound and seemingly would also enve-lop
him. He tried hard to avoid it, but could
not. Then he cried to God. But in the dream,
nevertheless, it burned his side.
He awoke with a start and leaped from
his bunk—but he could still feel the heat
of the burn. He examined his body, but saw
no scar. He ran to the deck—and there in
the night, in the storm he cried to God and
was saved.
His dream had been to become a great
navigator, and he attained unto that dream,
passing examinations with the highest
honor and finally commanding battle ships
in the Civil War in America. But there was
a call that was "higher far descended" and
deeper still in his heart. It was the call to
the Gospel ministry.
And so at the peak of his prominence and
against the earnest advice of high navy
officials, he resigned and gave himself to
preach the everlasting Gospel of the Son
of God.
He helped found the Bethel Seminary in
Stockholm, Sweden, and then our Seminary
in Chicago. He was a brilliant scholar, a
great linguist, a scientific thinker, an artist,
but also a great theologian; and, above all,
a humble servant of the Christ.
Look at his likeness in our Seminary hall
and I think you will see in the face some-thing
of the love of God, the passion for
souls, and the very presence of Jesus Christ.
Shall we pray that Dr. Edgren's Christ
may be ours—in all His fullness.
Wind from Lind
Would you like to hear the oration that
gave Henry Nelson third place at the Moor-head
Debate Tournament, and almost won
for him a first place at the Eau Claire
Debate Tournament? Also, are you interest-ed
in hearing a humorous debate? Then
come to our next Tau Sigma Pi meeting
at 7:30 p.m. March 20 in the Seminary
lounge.
Here are the dates to keep open for an
hour of real fun in the evening: April 3,
April 17 and May 8. Tau Sigma Pi meets
then. Come and join the fun.
In talking to Dean Carlson the other day
he remarked about the main aim of Tau
Sigma Pi being one of his own main aims
in the speech line here at Bethel. It was
this : to develop Christian leadership on
campus by voluntary participation. Volun-tary
participation is stressed in our club
and no one is pressed to make a speech. It
is so designated that those who desire a
chance to speak have it. Thus a self confi-dence
may result whereby the students may
try out in Tau Sigma Pi any of the various
phases of speech. Through the club we hope
to produce more student leaders and to
encourage active participation in some
speech phase.
Our debate teams made a good showing
at Eau Claire last week and let's remember
them next week. During finals they will
be actively engaged in the St. Thomas
Debate tournament.
Come to Tau Sigma Pi March 20 at 7:30
in the Sem lounge and hear the hilarious
battle tales of Louie Nelson, told by Louie
himself in the form of an extemporaneous
speech.
ems of Tbougbt
By President Wingblade
AS THE AXE IS GROUND .. .
Honor Roll-Bound Via Locked Doors
Brainerd Defeats Indians
67-55 On Brainerd Court 9ft The Stio4t1441
Friday, February 24, 1950 THE CLARION Page 3
Cagers Play Bethany at Minnehaha Tomorrow
Cagers Win Over
Worthington 67-55
In Seesaw Battle
Last Friday night on the Minne-haha
Academy court, the blue and
white uniformed. Worthington cage
squad was defeated by the Indians
67-55.
Forward Bud Bjorndahl tossed in
the first three points to give Bethel
an early lead, however Worthing-ton
tied the score 6-6 and then
dominated the lead to remain in
front 16-14 at the close of the open-ing
period.
Worthington held the lead in the
second quarter until with five min-utes
remaining until half-time,
Greenman tossed in a field goal for
the Indians to tie the score at 22-
22 and then hit another two points
to give his team the lead. Worth-ington
again took the lead at 27-26,
but a field goal by Greenman and a
charity toss made good by Peter-son
put the Indians out in front
29-27 at half-time.
The third period started out by
Worthington tieing the score and
going out in front, maintaining the
lead during the first five minutes
of the period until a field goal by
Bjorndahl tied the score once again
at 39 all. The lead went right back
to Worthington at 40-39, but again
Bjorndahl sunk another field goal
to regain the lead for his team.
Again the score was tied at 43-43,
however, another field goal by
Bjorndahl and a charity toss by
Peterson gave eSthel a 46-44 lead
at the close of the third quarter.
In the final period, the Indians
scored 21 points, having their best
scoring period of the evening, and
they held their opponents to 11
points, to go on and win 67-55.
Bud Bjorndahl showed much skill
in rebounding the ball and tipping
in two points to tie the score or
go out ahead. Many times Bjorn-dahl
went high into the air to con-trol
the ball off either the offen-sive
of defensive back board. Peter-son
was the Indian player most
fouled and hit nine free tosses out
of eleven.
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Cooper Totals 22
Points As Girls
DeFeats Ags 47-17
Emerging from their first
scheduled game of this season
Wednesday evening, February 15th,
1950, in the Bethel gymn, the Bet-hel
Girl's Basketball team triuhph-ed
over the University of Minne-sota
Ag Campus Girls' team by a
score of 47-17.
The Bethel scoring began in the
first quarter when field goals net-ted
them 10 points as compared to
the one point made by a free throw
by the Ag campus. At half-time, a
score of 34-7 gave the Bethel girls
a 27 point lead over their oppon-ents.
Bobbe Lou Cooper, Bethel
forward, scored 14 of her total of
22 points in the first half.
The Ag Campus was held score-less
in the third quarter while the
Bethel team tossed in three field
goals for 6 points to lead 40-7 at
the beginning of the final period.
In the last quarter Bethel was held
to seven points and the Ag Cam-pus
totalled ten, 4 of which were
made by their high scorer, Bea
Benson, however, this final period
scoring spree was not enough for
the Ag girls to overcome Bethel
and the final score proved Bethel
the victors, 47-17.
Sports Sketch
Kenny Greenman, playing his
fourth and final year with the
Indian cagers, is the only veteran
on this year's varsity basketball
team. The twenty-three year old,
six foot center has had an out-standing
record during his four
years with the Bethel five, having
been chosen All-Conference SMJCC
in '47-'48. In addition, he has been
high scorer for the Bethel varsity
every year he has played; last
year Kenny scored over 300 points
and this, year he has already rack-ed
up 280 points in 15 games.
"Greenie" originally hailed from
San Diego, California, where, for
two years, he played guard on the
Hoover High varsity. In his senior
year, 1945, his playing helped the
Hoover team to become the Califor-nia
state basketball champions.
Later, in the Navy at Pearl Harbor,
Kenny found time to keep up his
basketball.
Kenny and his wife, Betty Jo,
plan to remain on the Bethel cam-pus
at least three more years—
until he completes seminary. Ken-ny
graduates from the senior col-lege
this year with a major in
philosophy and will enter the semi-nary
this fall. After seminary, mis-ison
work and/or youth work will
probably play an important part in
the Greenmans' lives.
Illinois
Iowa
West
Michigan-Wisconsin
St. Paul
East
North Minnesota
South Minnesota
* Two Illinois
By way of review, points for the
trophy are obtained in the follow-ing
manner. Five points are given
for every tournament game won;
twenty points are given to the team
winning a tournament; and second
and third place teams in each
tournament receive ten and five
points respectively.
The final and complete stand-ings
for the first round of the in-tramural
basketball tournament are
given below:
Games
Won Lost
Iowa-Platte Va. 8* 1
Mich.-Wisc. 6* 3
Illinois "A" 5 4*
St. Paul 4 5*
N. Minnesota 4 5*
Faculty 4 5
Illinois "B" 4* 5
S. Minnesota 4* 5
East 3 6*
West 3* 6
* Played one game with faculty which
does not count points towards the
trophy.
In individual scoring in the first
round of the basketball tourna-ment,
six players have scored 100
points or more. Of the top ten
scorers, the championship team,
Iowa-Platte Valley, claimed three.
Individual scoring standings fol-low:
The second round of the basket-ball
tournament, double elimination
contest, is under way at the pre-sent
time and will continue for
approximately another month.
Clifford Anderson, chairman of
the intramural sports committee,
urges students to sign up for the
ZN,
ping gong contest which will get
under way at the beginning of the
spring quarter. Also, he states that
handball and badminton games will
be played as soon as possible. "Full
participation on the part of the
student body is desired and needed
to make the intramural sports pro-gram
a success. Any additional
sports you would like included in
the sports program or any other
suggestions for the improvement
of intramural activities will be
gladly received by your group man-agers",
Chairman Anderson advises
every student.
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Rochester Mar. 9
For the second time this season,
the Indians meet the cage squad
of Bethany Junior College of Man-kato,
tomorrow night at the Minne-haha
Academy Gym. The Bethel
"B" team will play a pre-game at
7:00 p.m. and the main event will
Start at 8:15.
Last January 13th, the Indians
topped the Bethany team 70-59 on
the Bethany court. Coach Edwards
recently stated that "Bethany is
one of the finest teams we've play-ed
this season and our coming
game with them will mean that our
team wil have to be at their best."
COMING GAMES
The last two Bethel games on
the schedule are home games. Next
Tuesday, the Indians will meet
Luther Junior College, of New Ulm
Minnesota.• Last January 14th, the
local cagers defeated Luther by a
5 point margin, 46-41. After the
Luther game, the Indians will get
over a week's rest until March the
9th, when they meet Rochester
Junior College, which they beat at
the beginning of the season 66-54.
The Rochester game will also be
a feature event on the program of
`Prospective Students Week'. Both
these last games will be played at
the Minnehaha Gym.
PAST GAMES
Last February 10th, Bethel de-feated
Austin 60-40 on the Austin
court. Pierce was high scorer for
the Indians with a 14 point total.
Greenman totalled 13 and Peterson
10.
On February 11th, at the Minne-haha
gym, Waldorf was topped by
the Indians, 68-54. Greenman's 23
points gave him scoring honors,
with Pierce and Wood following
with 13 and 12 totals respectively.
Northland Tops
Bethel, 67-58
Proving that one of the most
important factors in basketball is
height, Northland College downed
Bethel, 67-58. The game was play-ed
at Ashland, Wisconsin on Feb-ruary
15.
The Bethel quint, forced to shoot
from far out on the court could not
connect on their shots. Meanwhile
Les Howard, the big Northland
center was throwing in short lay-in
shorts to help run the first quar-ter
score to 18-10 for the Northmen.
In the second quarter, the stiff
defense of Northland continued to
hamper the style of the Redmen.
Unable to get any rebounds, the
Indians wer forced to play a slow
deliberate game very much op-posite
to their usual game. Ken
Greenman managed to toss in eight
points to narrow the gap to 29-24,
for Northland.
Fouls proved to be fatal for the
visitors in the second half as both
Gordy Wood and Don Peterson
were banished from the game with
nearly one quarter to be played.
Wood had eight points and Peter-son
seven. Bud Pierce connected
for five field goals in this half, but
to little avail as the final score
showed Northland the winner 67-
58.
Ken Greenman scored 23 points
and Bud Pierce 13, while Les
Howard was high for Northland
with 18.
Now Available
1950 Advance
Adventurer in Faith
by J. E. Klingberg
Bethel Coffee Shop
On February 21, in a return engagement at Brainerd, Bethel dropped
a 67-55 decision to Brainerd JC. The Brainerd team proved to be wizards
in the scoring division as they scored on 40% of their total shots. This
amazing shooting, coupled with the overwhelming height was too much
for the Indians to overcome.
Led by Perovich at guard who hit on five of six shots, the first
quarter was all Brainerd's as they assumed a 21-14 lead. The second
quarter found the Redmen still unable to cope with the situation and
the halftime score showed Bethel on the short end of a 34-25 score.
Ed Brockmen, who was Brainerd's high point man with 18, provided
the impetus in the second half as he connected for 16 of his points.
Meanwhile, Ken Greenman, did not hit on his shots, nor did the other
members of the team. The fourth quarter saw Bud Pierce, Bud Bjorndahl,
and Don Peterson ejected on fouls,
while five Brainerd players, with
four fouls, managed to stay in.
Finally two fouled with a half-minute
remaining. The scorching
barrage of Brainerd shots never
let up as they rolled to a final 12
point margin. Greenman was high
for Bethel with 18, followed by
Gordy Wood with 13.
by Roger Hedberg
Girl's basketball got off to a good start on Wednesday night, Feb-ruary
15th, when they defeated the U. of M. Ag. School girl's team 47-17.
Organization is a key-note in pre-game practice, as immediately upon
entering the court they divided up to practice lay-in shots. The team
appeared quite cool against the Ag. girls, making good their passes
and making use of their two dribble limit scoring mostly on lay-in shots.
Along with their scoring abilities, their new red uniforms, with white
lettering, makes them a team that Bethel can be proud of.
* *
Coach Edwards has remarked to me that he hasn't been satisfied
with the attendance at the basketball games this season, and of - course,
anyone who has attended our games, no doubt feels the same way. The
proper proportion to represent our student body at the games has been
low at each game and I would make a plea that more of the students
come out to these last three games of the season which are all home
games. The only better place we could ask to go to see, our games would
be to have a gym of our own, but, since this desire cannot be fulfilled
this season, I don't know of a better place to watch a game than at
Minnehaha. If you haven't been coming out, make it a point to see the
last three games and support the team.
Illinois Leads Race
For IntramuralTrophy
The Illinois intramural group is leading the race for the intramural
sports trophy, having attained this key position by placing second in
both the football and basketball tournaments. The Iowa team, which
just recently captured the championship of the first round of the
intramural basketball tournament, with its 85 points as compared with
Illinois' 87.5 points, is a close second and threatening contender for
first place.
Following is a list of the standings of the eight intramural teams
to date, and the manner in which their points toward the trophy were
acquired.
Foot- Basket- Stand- Total
ball Standings ball ings Points
30 pts 2nd-10 pts 40 pts* 2nd-7.5 pts 87.5
25 pts 3rd-5 pts 35 pts 1st-20 pts 85
30 pts 1st-20 pts 10 pts 60
10 pts 25 pts 2nd-7.5 pts 42.5
20 pts 20 pts 40
20 pts 15 pts 35
0 pts 20 pts 20
0 pts 15 pts 15
teams participated In the basketball tournament.
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page 4 THE CLARION Friday, February 24, 1950
Profs Rate Gospel Team
Student Traits Tours Midwest
News and Views German Club Gives
from StudentCouncil Valentine Play,
If you've ever wondered what
goes on in the mind of your pro-fessors
as they stand before you
and lecture, you might be interest-ed
to know on what basis they size
up a student. The question put be
fore some of the members of the
faculty by inquiring reporter Ruth-ie
Jorgenson, was: "What quality
do you appreciate most in a stud-ent?"
Here are their answers:
MRS. SJORDAHL: "Give me a
student who is alive, awake to the
opportunities of the day, who ex-erts
sincere, concentrated and co-operative
effort in all that he un-dertakes
to do."
M R. OTTO: "I appreciate the
student who has an open-minded
inquisitiveness. This does not
necessarily include the person with
the highest mark, but the person
who wonders, asks questions and
who is really endeavoring to learn
more."
MR. STJERNSTROM: "Dependa-bility,
above all else, is a quality
I admire. All other qualities are
of little value when this one is
absent."
M R. BLOOM: "Reverence. By
that I mean a deep respect for all
that should command respect. Also,
two other qualities which I admire
in a student are conscientiousness
and co-operation."
The Courier Quartet with Bruce
W o,o d m a n, instrumentalist, and
Wally Peterson as speaker, left on
a nine-day tour of five Midwest
states on the evening of Feb. 3rd.
The gospel team traveled 1,805
miles, holding services in ten Bap-tist
churches, the Pacific Garden
Mission in Chicago, and South
Dakota State Penitentiary. The trip
was made in a 1937 Pontiac under
crowded conditions, but God provid-ed
perfect spring weather the en-tire
journey.
At the services the quartet, com-posed
of Delmar Johnson, Ronald
Nelson, Len Anderson and John
Soneson, sang negro spirituals, then
several numbers of a more serious
nature leading up to the message.
Bruce Woodman, baritone soloist,
also played selections during the
first part of the service. Wally
Peterson gave the message.
Many made decisions of recon-secration
at nearly every service
and a number of individuals were
prayed with. Few unsaved were in
attendence at the services, it was
reported. The team feels Christians
should strive to bring the unsaved
to hear the Gospel.
This same question put to fellow-students
brought the following res-ponses:
HAROLD LIND, president of the
sophomore class: "The quality I'd
like to see most in students is
earnestness in tackling situations
and carrying them through to com-pletion
with the happiness and as-surance
that they have done the
best they could for the task that
was set before them."
Freshman BARBARA NELSON:
"Although it isn't the easiest quali-ty
to find, I admire honesty in a
student, not only in tests and such.
but honesty in doing one' own work
even when copying someone else's
notes is much less trouble."
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At the last Student Council meet-ing
for the quarter, a committee
was appointed to study publications
on our campus. This committee to-gether
with a Faculty Committee
will discuss the advisability of
establishing a Publications Board
to coordinate our campus publica-tions.
One of the major items they will
investigate is the possibility of es-tablishing
a full tuition scholarship
for the editors of the Clarion and
Spire. This would enable students
who might otherwise have to work
outside school, to devote more time
to their editorial position.
Our publications are an import-ant
part of our campus life, and as
such, demand a great amount of
time and the greatest quality of
ability that can be given them. The
committee will gratefully receive
any suggestions that you may offer.
Help them in any way you can.
BWA Presents
Love of Christ
With the "Love of Christ" as the
theme, a program was given at
the regular B.W.A. meeting Thurs-day,
Feb. 16.
Lola Nelson, program chairman,
introduced the program. Audrey
Ekdahl and Barbara Mullin sang
two duets and Aileen Lindquist
gave a flute solo. Following the
musical part of the program, Kay
Salzer gave a short devotional mes-sage
contrasting the love that
humans display on Valentine's Day
to the constant and continual love
that Christ manifests. She closed
her talk by quoting the words of
the song, "The Love of God."
A musical background was furni-shed
by Lois Mitchell at the piano
as refreshments appropriate to
Valentine's Day were served.
The German Club was entertain-ed
by -a humorous play, a musical
selection and the reading of the
great love chapter all in the Ger-man
language, in its meeting on
Feb. 14.
The group was led in an opening
song, Gemeinsames Lied, by Presi-dent
Harvey Swanberg. Girls from
the first year class read I Corin-thians
13, and Anna Newell sang
I Love You, Dear, in German.
Students from the intermediate
class, . including . Emily . Ecklund,
Hanna Janke, Irene Kley, David
Brown and Harvey Swanberg pre-sented
the play, Einer Muss Heira-ten!"
or, One Must Marry, by Wil-helmi.
The plot, consisting of two
bachelor professors, an old maid
aunt, and a forced proposal, was
particularly appropriate for the
Valentine day theme of the meet-ing.
The play was briefed and direct-ed
for the occasion by Miss Nelson.
Following the meeting in the
lounge of Bodien Residence, was
a time of fellowship and feasting
in the dining hall.
ob'E4 'Itronli5e
To erica
One night last May when two of
us girls in the dorm were having
devotions together, I discovered
this verse in Psalm 138:8. "The
Lord will perfect that which con-cerneth
me." That same day had
been one of indecision for me.
Through the above verse I was
led to pledge my life anew to His
will and continue my preparation
for foreign missions unless He defi-nitely
led otherwise. Since then I
have seen the Lord work in count-less
ways, "perfecting that which
concerns me."
Now I understand that He has
definitely led otherwise and that
my missionary work is not to be
foreign as I had supposed. In the
years to come I hope to be doing
what I can to help the children and
young people in one of our small
Conference churches.
I can truthfully testify of the
real peace that comes in knowing
that my life belongs to the Lord
and that the future is in His hands.
Bethel Gains
Second Victory
Over Concordia
On St. Valentines Day the In-dians
tapped Concordia for the
second time this season with a
score of 60-50. Taking scoring hon-ors
for the Bethel five were Center
Ken Greenman, totalling 24 points
and Guard Bud Pierce who hit for
20. Concordia's ace forward, Mar-lin
Zobel, poured in a total of 36
points to top all scorers of the
event.
Concordia took an early lead of
4-3, which was tied by a free throw
made by Woods. Greenman then hit
for a field goal for Bethel which
gave them the lead that was
neither overcome nor tied through-out
the remainder of the game. The
first quarter ended with Bethel out
in front 15-10. A free throw by
Wood, a field goal apiece for Peter-son
and Pierce, and seven points
by Greenman gave the Indians a
half-time lead of 27-22.
During the third quarter, the In-dians
strengthened their winning
margin to seven points to lead at
the opening of the final period 42-
35. In the final period, Concordia
narrowed their losing margin to
within two points of the Indians,
at 44-42, however, Bethel pulled
ahead again to a substantial lead
to win 60-50.
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