THE BETHEL CLARION
Vol. XXI No. 2
BETHEL INSTITUTE (St. Paul, Minn.) October 7, 1941
Women Install
Year's Officers
Candle-light Ceremony
Initiates 8 Man Cabinet
On Thursday afternoon, October
9, a candle-light installation service
for the B. W. A. will be held in the
reception room of the girl's dor-mitory.
The meeting will be con-ducted
by Miss Nelson, B. W. A.
faculty advisor.
The officers who will be instal-led
at this service are: Miriam
Johanson, president: Phyllis Karl-son,
secretary; Gertrude Carroll,
assistant secretary; and Lily Olson,
treasurer.
The four cabinet chairmen are:
Irene Nelson, Esther Ostby, Alice
Schouweiler, and Rosaline Ander-son.
To acquaint the freshman girls,
who are not familiar with the cus-toms
of the B. W. A., with the
organization, the following items
are listed as of special interest to
them:
1. Every girl who attends Bethel
Jr. College or Bethel Seminary
is eligible to be an active mem-ber
of the B. W. A.
2. Wives of faculty members and
wives of students are eligible
to be associate members.
3. Dues for active and associate
members are twenty-five cents
per semester.
4. To maintain an office in the B.
W. A., a girl must maintain a
"C" average, and must have at-tended
Bethel for at least one
semester.
Quiet Talks
Chapel Chatter
Of course, there really isn't
"chatter" during our morning de-votional
service . .. but we wanted
to call this column "chatter" be-cause
that is how we define
friendly conversation. And our
talks with you, and our talks with
God ought to be on a friendly
basis.
MONDAY .. .
Throw yourself into the Lord's
work and help others to turn to
Him . .. Dr. Hagstrom.
TUESDAY . . .
Remember the looks of life?
Look in and view your heart. Look
for and to Christ. Look into His
Word. Look down and be Humble.
Look ahead to Christ's coming.
Rev. David Anderson.
WEDNESDAY .. .
When you say you have no time,
it means you choose to do some-thing
else . . . President H. C.
Wingblade.
THURSDAY . . .
Ninety-eight per cent of Ameri-can
childhood believes salvation
comes through moral goodness
Campus Activities
WHEN WHAT
Oct. 8 Honorary Dinner
H. C. Wingblade
Oct. 9 B W. A.
Oct. 14.. "Roots of Civilization"
Convocation
Oct. 15 Miss'y Band
Oct. 17 Homecoming
Arians Rashly
Promise Rising
Thirty-four girls, all members of
the Arian Chorus, have promised
to meet in the College Chapel every
Tuesday and Thursday morning at
seven-fifteen.
Nels Stjernstrom is the director
of this group. Rehearsals are held
every Thursday afternoon. Joyce
Johnson, who handled- the assign-ment
of student director last year,
will do so again.
The group is looking forward to
the time when they may hold a
recital in the reception room at the
Girl's Dormitory.
Girls who aspire to sing together
in trios are asked to know four
numbers before asking for an au-dition
with Mr. Stjernstrom. One
such trio already has organized.
They are: Mary Ellen Lundquist,
Alice Wingblade, and Joyce John-son.
Dinner Reception
To Honor New
President
An informal dinner and reception
wil be held for President H. C.
Wingblade and his wife tomorrow,
October 8.
The students and faculty, as well
as the school board and their
wives have been invited to attend.
Mrs. Hagstrom, of Minneapolis,
who has definitely been given the
assignment of cook in the Girl's
Dormitory will assist Mrs. Olson
in preparing the food.
Musical selections will be given
by June Hedman, Glen Anderson,
and Harry Abrahamson.
LaVerne Johnson has been asked
to play a trumpet solo and the
Male Chorus will sing.
Eighty per cent of the children
who do go to church never hear
the way of salvation.
Twenty-seven million children in
America do not go to Sunday school
. . . Harriet Olson, Child Evangel-ism
Center.
FRIDAY . . .
The African stretcheth his hand
to God . . . Dr. Hjalmar Ostrom,
retired missionary.
Male Chorus Elects
Lundquist President
Stjernstrom Directs Group
In Fall Rehearsal Schedule
Under the directorship of Nels
Stjernstrom twenty-nine voices will
sing in the Male Chorus this year.
President of the chorus is Carl
Lundquist; vice president, Francis
McOlash; secretary, Elving Ander-son;
treasurer, Robert Perrin; fin-ancial
secretary, Warren Johnson;
and the librarian is Robert Paul-son.
Francis McOlash is temporary
student director and the pianist is
Elving Anderson.
The chorus includes in the first
tenor section: Warren Johnson,
Walter Julien, Gordon Larson, Inge
Larson, Lloyd Mattson, Laurence
Nydegger, and Gordon Thompson.
Second tenors are: Elwood An-derson,
Elving Anderson, Dale
Bjork, Bernard Hammerbeck, Eu-gene
Johnson, rancis McOlash,
and Howard Olson.
First basses include: Arden
Finke, Truman Halvorson, Paul
Larson, Carl Lundquist, Dury Mil-ler,
Robert Paulson, and Roger
Youngquist.
Second basses : Harry Arbaham-son,
Haddon Anderson, NeltoL
Friesenberg, Sidney Larson, Gene
Nyman, Robert Perrin, John Peter-sen,
and Ted Van der Veer.
Regular rehearsals will be held
every Thursday afternoon in prep-aration
for an annual concert tour.
.L' guy AM- &ohs
Opt speecit g Science
Since last spring about fifteen
new books have been added to the
library. Five speech books contain-ing
after dinner and other speeches,
five zoology books, and five chem-istry
books have found places on
the library shelves.
Of all the new books added
"Magic in a Bottle" by Silverman,
which is "the true narrative of ten-wonder
working drugs of the
doughty men who, wittingly or un-wittingly,
discovered them," proved
to me the most fascinating.
This tells the story of the drugs
of morphine, quinine, cocaine, nov-ocaine,
digitalis, ,hormoes, the life
giving vitamins, and the wonder
drug, sulfanilamide. These weighty
discoveries are described with a
rare sence of humor and by a
method through which we gain a
keen appreciation of human beings
and their character.
Miss Nelson hopes to obtain
many more new books soon.
—11obert Christianson
Homecoming Is
Called Oct. 77
Dahlquist, Banquet Speaker;
Sports, Dorm are Featured
October 17 has been announced
by Student Council president, Dury
Miller, as official "Homecoming"
day at Bethel.
The alumni classes as separate .
units have been challenged by the
publicity committee (Elving Ander-son,
chairman) to stage a reunion
of their entire class. An hour and
a half has been set aside (3:00-
4:00 p. m.) for the various classes
to reunite over coffee-cups in the
Coffee Shop.
Reverend Lloyd Dahlquist of
Waukegan, will be the principal
speaker at the evening banquet,
according to a statement by Grant
Samuelson, program chairman.
Special music will be provided
by the Bethel Male Quartet, Harry
Abrahamson, Francis McOlash,
Truman Halvorson, and Laurence
Nydegger, the Bethel Male Chorus,
and the Bethel Band.
An interesting note of the Male
Chorus number will be the fact that
Chorus alumni will be asked to
sing and the Chorus on that eve-ning
will be enlarged by graduated
members.
The day's theme is "Measure
of Christ." This theme will prob-ably
be carried out in the decora-tions
for the banquet. Truman
Halvorson is the chairman of the
decorations committee.
Warren Johnson is supervisor of
banquet arrangements; Bob Dis-chinger
is chairman of the souvenir
committee.
Athletic contests, softball (Sem-inary
vs. College) and basketball
(Alumni vs. Varsity) and a double
tour of the Dormitories will fill
the heavy schedule planned for the
day.
Twenty-five Piece Band
Practices Under McOlash
At the present time there are\
approximately twenty-five mem-bers
in the Bethel Band. The offi-cers
elected at a recent meeting
are Elving Anderson, president;
Ruth Nelson, secretary; Elwood
Anderson, librarian; and Ellwood
Norquist, assistant librarian. Fran-cis
McOlash is the student director.
In order that the band may grow
there is a need for larger instru-mentation.
If you play an instru-ment
you are urged to "come out
for band and help make it the best
in Bethel's history!"
There will be a "roll of bugles
and a ruffle of drums" every
Thursday at four o'clock when the
band meets for its regular, rehear-sal
in the college chapel.
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What's What
In the Dorm
by E. W.
"Babies will play and fools will
look on." No; it was just the splash
of water-melon during a brawl of
some of our dignified seminary stu-dents
as the desire to play over-came
them, and a pugnacious in-stinct
got the better of them.
The telephone booth was the
scene of great excitment Saturday
nite. Many a fellow rolled out of
bed rubbing his eyes, and dashed
down to the telephone Just to hear
the voice of some gal who thought
it was great sport to entertain
preachers at midnight.
Saturday Morning—"Clean linen,
clean linen, every-body out for
clean linen." . .. "Any fool can go
to bed, but it takes a real man to
get up." . . . Mark Twain.
We understand that Glen Ander-son
drives four hundred miles to
his church. In order to meet all ex-penses
he has to really stress the
offering. Last Sunday Glen thought
he would put more stress on the
need. He told his good folk all
about the need of the church and
the poor in the community, and of
his heavy travelling expenses.
Then he asked that his deacon
come forward and take the offer-ing.
The deacon passed the hat up
and down the aisle and then came
back to the front to have the gift
blessed. Glen looked down into the
hat, and up into the blue, and said
"Thank Goodness, I got my hat
back!"
The only exercise that Kenny
Norquist gets is that from jumping
at conclusions. We wonder if Lor-raine
is included in that conclu-sion?
Paul Larson was found wander-ing
around the hall the other nite.
Some one asked him what he was
doing, and he replied that he was
in a fog. We find out that he was
studying German.
True Meaning
Of Education
The term education has been
summed up by Webster as, "The
sum of the qualities acquired
through individual instruction and
social training." In other words,
education really consists of laying
hold of those facts and that know-ledge
which we gain, in and out
of the classroom, which benefits
us as to our thinking, our ability
to get along with and understand
our fellow men, and, in general,
in the building of a desirable char-acter.
Every day, in most of our classes,
we are confronted with problems.
These particular matters may not
face us in our daily life, but the
primary advantage that we derive
is that through this thinking we
become more open minded and
broaden our outlook. Each time
we have solved some problem we
are better equipped to work out
the next one more carefully and
clearly. We are not prejudiced by
another's view or opinion, but we
will learn to compare and answer
through the faculty of our own
judgment. Life is made up of a
great many perplexing problems
which we will be better fit to
solve.
Education is not merely learning
to do a thing well. It is not storing
up knowledge in the memory.
Newman states, "Education is the
preparation for knowledge and it is
the imparting of knowledge in pro-portion
to that preparation." I
believe that a great many people
are under the general impression
that education is only the acquir-ing
of head knowledge. This serves
us to no avail whatsoever unless
we prepare our minds beforehand
to comprehend to the best of our
ability this learning and to put
it into practice in the best possible
way.
Wingblade
Illuminating the Alumni
"Who pass through these por-tals,
pass forever" has been said
over and again. Contrary to what-ever
truth that may hold, Bethel
portals have been brightened once
more by returning alumni "just
peeping in."
Seen about our corridors have
been university students whom
Bethel claims as intimate acquaint-ences.
Among them are Jeanette
Peterson, Maurice Valine, Ruth
Elaine Lundquist, Joyce Nelson,
Archie Johnson, Betty Swanson and
Betty Danielson.
Bemoaning their self-imposed
exile from Bethel lads, I mean labs,
are the new nurses at Mounds, Lu-cille
Peterson, Betty Jo Anderson,
"Ginnie" Lundholm and Marion
Lindberg who have frequented old
haunts, recalling pleasant mem-ories
of days never to be lived
again.
The familiar faces of Muriel Pet-ersen,
"Snuffy" Smith, Del Ray
Peterson, Elna Finstrom, Hazelle
Fossum, Arlene Johnson, Viola
Waihela, Stanley Paulson, Louise
Joonson, Ned Holmgren, Mary Ann
Liljenstrom, Ruth K. Olson, and
others have been welcome addi-tions
to the coffee shoppe tables
and crowded hallways.
Seeing friends from former
classes once again reminds us that
Homecoming is not far hence and
we shall see many more old school-mates
idling through the portals
of Bethel.
WHITE-WASHED
Surprising, isn't it, that a young
lady with brown eyes and an en-gaging
smile should aspire to be-come
a librarian of Medical Rec.
ords!
This diminutive lass preserves
order under Miss Nelson in the col-lege
library during the day and
peruses books at night, for reading
is her hobby. In the band she toots
Meditation
by Rodger Rendahl
. IN reading my Bible the other
day I came across a verse in I
John which read : "Now are we the
children of God."
How do you think of yourself?
As a child of the King? There are
people, it is true, who have a low
view of life. Judas selling out
Christ; men selling out virtues and
love for a mess of licentious pot-tage.
Citizens selling their votes
for selfish gain. But it is possible
also to have a high view of life.
There was a Judas — but there
was a Christ? Now are we —
What?
There is a brick, from ancient
Babylon, in a European museum,
we are told, and on it is the print
of a dog's foot set there (while the
clay was still plastic. But beneath
the dog's foot and going deeper, is
the print of the king's seal.
Man must obey God. For within
us is a strange power we cannot
explain. A power that enables us
to turn disaster into opportunity,
defeat into victory, sorrow into a
song? They stoned Stephen. He
turned disaster and death into op-portunity;
"0 God, forgive them!"
And Saul of Tarsus standing by
never quite got away from that
prayer. They put Paul into prison.
He turned his chains into a plat-form
from which to preach the
gospel.
We are the children of God, We
have the royal seal deep within us.
Let's then live like our father in
heaven would have us live.
her own horn, a clarinet; and then
she warbles in the Arian Chorus,
for music is also her hobby.
Would you like to see this fun-loving
individual? Meet me in the
S.W. corner of the N.E. room of
the college building, and I'll ac-comodatingly
lead you to her hide-out.
9Y 9k the Book!
Last Monday night on one of the dramatic radio programs, por.
tions of the Song of Solomon were very expressively read. A spellbound
listener, hearing these magnificent soul-stirring outpourings of love,
queried, "Is that in the Bible?"
Have you ever been in a position where you wished that the earth
would swallow you up? The earth really did open up and receive to its
bosom some unworthy souls. Did you know that or would you have said
"Is that in the Bible?
Could you trace the titles of some of today's best literature to the
Bible, such as GIANTS IN THE EARTH, MY SON, MY SON, GRAPES
OF WRATH, and THE EARTH IS THE LORD'S?
Every person has at fingertip disposal the opportunity of an un-limited
education. And the person who does avail himself of the Bible's
great truth and stories can make the declaration, "That IS in the Bible",
to the question, "Is that in the Bible?"
THE BIBLE
We search the world for truth. We cull
The good, the true, the beautiful,
From graven stone and written scroll,
And all old flower-fields of the soul;
And, weary seekers of the best,
We come back laden from our quest,
To find that all the sages said
Is in the Book our mothers read.
— John Greenleaf Whittier
Who's Who !
THE BETHEL CLARION
A bl-weekly campus newspaper.
BETHEL INSTITUTE
1480 North Snelling Ave., St. Paul, Minn.
Published by students every other Tuesday
except In July and August.
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR
Editor-in-Chief Alice Schouweller
Managing Editor Ruth Nelson.
Campus Editor Dave Moberg
Feature Editor Joyce E. Johnson
Sports Editor Glen Swanson
Assistant Sports Editor Roland Gustafson
Clubs Mary Jenkins
Reporters — Robert Christianson, Elbert Walker, Marilyn Peterson, Charlotte
Sandin', Marjorie Porter, Ethel Ruff, June Hedman, Betty White.
Gene Johnson, Art.
Business Manager Gunnar Hoglund
Editorial Advisor Enid Platts
Business Advisor Dean Emery Johnson
Entered as second-class matter October 9, 1935, at the postoffice of St. Paul,
Minnesota, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
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THE BETHEL CLARION Page 3
Split Boarding Club
Creates Dissention
Reporter Marks Comments
Within about three weeks the
girls will begin eating in the dining
hall of the new dormitory instead
of at the Boarding Club. Many of
the students regret that the two
sexes will be separated. Your rov-ing
reporter could find no one who
was entirely in favor of the change.
Typical of the comments he heard
on the subject were the following:
Margaret Erickson — "I like it
the way it is, but I'd like to sleep
half an hour later in the morning
and come to breakfast in a house-coat."
Elving Anderson —"I don't think
it (the new ararngement) will be
so hot."
David Carlson — "I don't like the
idea; I think we have more fun
together."
Helen Heitzman —"I like it just
the way it is."
Dana Larson — "I think the fel-lows
will let loose a little bit when
the girls are gone; I'm sure I will
myself."
Lois Nelson — "I like it the way
it is, but would be terrible in the
winter for us girls to walk a whole
block before breakfast."
Herbert McDonald — "There's no
place else you can get away from
them (the women), so why not eat
with them, too?"
Violet Carlson —"I'd like to try
it and see how it works out."
"Vernie" Johnson made a very
plausible suggestion, "I think it
would be a good idea to put half
the boys and half the girls in each
place."
It would seem at the present time
the students are rallying for the
Boarding club. Innovation means
progress" and this change certainly
is an innovation. In several months
this arrangement will have had op-portunity
to prove its progression.
Let's each one of us give this proj-ect
our whole-hearted support until
it has proved its worth.
DUPONT
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Dormitory Dedicated In
Sunday Afternoon Service
Swedish Churches Observe Day
As Dedicatory Sunday for All
Over fifteen thousand programs
were sent out to Swedish Baptist
churches for the dedication of the
new women's dormitory held Octo-ber
5. In these three hundred
churches to which programs were
sent, dedication and a day of
thanksgiving was remembered.
Open house was held in the dor-mitory
during the hours two
through five. The dedication cere-mony
itself was held at three
thirty.
Because of delay in delivering
the floor tile due to defense prior-ity
rights, it was feared building
completion might be indefinitely
delayed.
However, Miss Danielson of
Mounds Park called the school of-fice
and proposed that Bethel use
the tile they had procured for
building, it being of like material,
color, and pattern as that used in
the dormitory. Mounds Park was
not ready to use it as yet.
The committee arranging the
dedication was : Deans E. Johnson,
K. Karlson, E. Nelson, President
Henry Wingblade, Dr. Hagstrom,
Rev. Malmsten, and Rev, J. G.
Johnson of Elim church in Minne-apolis.
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HOMECOMING SCHEDULE
Time Event
2:00 Softball game
3:00-4:30 Class Reunions
3:30-5:00...Open House—Dorm.
6;30 Banquet
8:45-9:15 Open House—Dorm.
9:15 Basketball game
Six Gospel Teams
Being Organized
Over one hundred students have
joined their efforts to produce six
large Gospel teams of about eight-een
members each.
Glen Anderson, head of the Rel-igious
Council, reports that a very
prosperous year is in store for the
Gospel team work. Requests for
meetings are coming in very rapid-ly,
and already a Gospel team trip
into Wisconsin is being planned.
For distribution by Gospel team
members, six thousand tracts have
been ordered from two different
sources. Many souls have been won
to Christ by the 'ministry of tracts.
Only God knows what tracts, dis-tributed
by Bethel students, have
done for broken lives.
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Personals
Coach William Adam desires to
thank all the Bethel students and
faculty for their expressions of
sympathy to him in his recent be-reavement;
especially the telegram
sent him by President H. C. Wing-blade,
the flowers sent by the
school family, and the card from
the sophomore class.
* * * *
Betty White and Alice Schouwei-ler
remind their little sisters, Mar-ilyn
Peterson. Gladys Zwemke, Ev-elyn
Johnson and Alice Weaver,
and Berniece Shold that the two
"families" are "eating out" this
Friday.
* * * *
All students working on Publica-tions
are asked to meet in the Clar-ion
office the third period after
lunch every Monday.
* * * *
Madame X will clear up problems
of trouble-worn students at three
o'clock in the Coffee Shop by read-ing
tea leaves in their coffee cups.
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Page 4 THE BETHEL CLARION
Alumni-Varsity
Fracas Preview
We are again approaching that
time of year when the thoughts of
all Bethel students, former stu-dents,
and friends return to Bethel.
Yes, we again are approaching
Homecoming, an annual event at
Bethel. October 17 has been set
aside as the date of this great occa-sion.
Among the things that are done
at Homecoming is the basketball
game between the varsity and the
alumni. Because of the shortness
of the time, a rule has had to be
made that only lettermen still in
school this year will be permitted
to play on the varsity squad. The
alumni have promised a strong
team with such stars as Bobby
Hovinen, Del Ray Peterson, Doll
Johnson, Stan Paulson, and several
others playing. Bobby Hovinen was
the litle man who tied up many of
his larger opponents during his
Bethel basketball playing days. Del
Ray and Don were all-conference
men for Bethel two years ago.
Stanley Paulson possesses one of
the best push shots that ever have
been shown at Bethel.
Perhaps ''Tex" Tedlund and Gor-die
Peterson will also play for the
alumni. Gordie was Bethel's cap-tain
last year.
The Varsity won the game last
year, so the strong Alumni Club
is out to avenge this defeat. It
should really be an excellent bas-ketball
game even if it is played so
early in the season. Be prepared
to come out and root your favorite
team on to victory.
"Gus"
Bethel Athletes Must Pass
All Carried Credit Hours
In the last issue of the Clarion,
it was stated that the conference
had passed a new rule on the eli-gibility
of players. This is right,
and the rule they passed was:
"Anyone who carries at least ten
credits and who passes in all ten
of these is eligible for conference
play in the Southern Minnesota
Conference. If a player carries fif-teen
and passes only ten he is yet
eligible.
This is the rule carried by the
conference at the present time but
Bethel has a rule concerning this
and did not alter it after the change
in the Conference rule. According
to Bethel's eligibility rule, a player,
to be eligible to play on the Bethel
team, has to pass every credit hour
he is carrying whether it be ten
credits or more, and a player can
carry no less than ten credits.
Dr. Hagstrom has often said, "So
let's remember, fellows, that we
really want a team this year and
the one way we can have it is to
have every player eligible. Ineligi-bility
has ruined more than one
squad. Let's study now and not
later, so we won't ruin the team's
chances."
fate Release !
By secret ballot, during a meet-ing
held last Thursday by "B" bas-ketball
men, Gene Nyman and Tru-man
Halvorson were unanimously
elected co-captains of the basket-ball
team for the '41-'42 year.
Both men have played two years
and have proven their merit under
fire.
It was decided to elect co-cap-tains
this year to cover any unfor-tunate
situations where the captain
found himself unable to attend the
game.
Those men returning for court
duty — and who participated in
electing the captains are: Bernard
Hammerbeck, Truman Halvorson,
Roland Gustafson, Gene Nyman,
and Glen Swanson.
Conference Schedule
Has Four Home Games
Incomplete as Yet
Although Coach Adam has not
yet completed the schedule for the
basketball year of '41-'42, many
strong teams have been scheduled.
Bethel is in the S. M. J. C. C. and
therefore meets the other teams in
this conference at least once, and
often twice. Coach Adam is trying
to procure games with Brainerd
Junior College and Sioux Falls Ju-nior
College.
This Sioux Falls school has just
been changed from a four year col-lege
to a junior college and should
have a very strong club. The
schedule, although it is not yet
completed, includes:
December 5, Northwestern Home
December 6, Farm School Away
December 12, Open*
December 13, Open*
December 17, Concordia Home
January 10, Waldorf Home
January 17, Rochester Home
January 24, Open*
January 30, Tracy Away
January 31, Worthington Away
February 15, Albert Lea Away
February 18, Concordia Away
February 27, Bethany Away
February 28, Luther Away
*Coach Adam hopes to fill these
open dates soon.
Intra-Mural Competition
After a short delay in the intra-mural
competition, because of the
forced absence of Coach William
Adam, the gym teams are back in
full swing with each team fighting
to come out on top. Those who are
ahead are striving to stay there,
and those who are behind are of
course doing all they possibly can
and playing as if they were in the
lead and not behind at all.
At the present time, Al Walker
is leading his team, the Trojans, to
victory over Melvin Wyman's team
with a 4 to 0 lead. Although Mel's
team is behind they are still striv-ing
to break the ice and they hope
to slide in to victory. All of the
players on the Trojan's and the
Wolverines are Freshmen and play
Monday and Wednesday during the
fourth period.
During the sixth period, also on
Mondays and Wednesdays, there
is also another pairing of Fresh-men
teams which are battling back
and forth. The Gophers and the
Huskies. They are captained by
Bob Bergerud and Bernie Hammer-beck.
At the present time, it is a
real battle with each team having
two victories.
The Gophers started the season
by winning the first two, but be-cause
of the speed of Bernie's Hus-kies,
ithey have come back holding
the Gophers scoreless the last two
games and winning each by a score
of 12 to 0.
The Huskies have missed the
brilliant playing of Gene Johnson,
who was injured a short while ago,
but they are doing their best and
looking forward to having Gene
back cheering his team on to vic-tory
from the sidelines if not on
the field playing.
In the sixth period on Tuesday
and Thursday, the Sophomores
have their chance to battle it out.
At the present time the Jack-rab
bits are leading over the Badgers
by 2 wins and no losses. But both
of these games have been so close
that it looks as if either one could
be the winner at the end of the
tournament. The first game being
won 6 to 0 on a last minute pass
and the second also being won 24
to 18 with about thirty seconds to
go. Both teams have good passing
ability with Bob Dischinger on the
Jackrabbits and Gustafson and Bob
Norstrom on the Badgers.
Because of this passing activity
the games have been loaded with
thrills. Of course, each team is try-ing
to win because the winner will
be crowned Touch-football Cham-pion
of the school and will play the
flashy Seminary team to see who
will reign as all- school champs of
1941.
Nyman Sets Pace of
Re-vitalized Club
Having been elected unani-mously,
Gene Nyman took over the
presidency of the B Club last
Thursday. Others elected at this
initial meeting of Bethel lettermen
were: Warren Johnson, vice-presi-dent,
and Truman Halvorson, sec-retary-
treasurer.
The club then discussed the pos-sibility
of securing such attrac-tions
as Ted Williams, national bat-ting
champion of '41, Dick Wildung,
important tackle on the University
of Minnesota football team, and
several others, as guests at various
meetings during the coming year.
Securing the reel taken of the
University of Minnesota team in
action and running it off at a spe-cial
meeting was also discussed.
"Splash parties" were suggested
and the matter was referred to the
executive committee who are in-structed
to look into the subject—
use of a pool, cost, etc.
In an effort to include all the
men in school in an organized
extra-curricular sports activity pro-gram
a committee was named to
organize a set-up whereby Bethel
moil might meet together in the
evening and play hand-ball, volley-ball,
badminton, etc., and to secure
ne ,s: equipment for such a venture.
The ambitious program of the
"B" Club promises a vital and
worth while program for the school
year. Men are asked to be on the
alert for notices of future meetings
and parties they may attend and
grow socially active in the club,
as the club program gains num-bers
and impetus.
Aggies Challenge Bethel
Recently Coach "Bill" Adam was
challenged by the Farm School
coach to play them a touch-football
game. Confident that he could get
enough good material together for
the game, Coach Adam was glad to
accept the challenge and agreed on
the date.
Later he discovered that Bethel
did not have school on Armistice
Day, so the game had to be called
off. This was rather disappointing
as the players chosen were very
anxious to play.
If it is at all possible, however,
the game will be played later, and
if it proves to be worthwhile, the
game will be made an annual af-fair.
"B" Men Lead Off With
Vigorous Sport Program
