sa S diatothoiute
by Lorene Janssen
THE BETHEL CLARION
Vol. XXIV — No. 1 BETHEL INSTITUTE, St. Paul, Minnesota September 22, 1944
"Deeper Life Week"
October 2--6
"Deeper Life" week will be held
this year from October 2 to 6.
Missionary Eric Frykenberg will
be the speaker and will conduct
services daily in the chapel and
every evening from 6:00 to 7:00.
Missionary Frykenberg has spent
several years in India, and has
had many rich experiences and has
tested the power of prayer. It is
hoped by the committee that this
week will prove inspiring to every
Bethelite.
Coming ...
On Thursday evening, Septem-ber
28, Mr. Sven Liljeblad of Swe-den
will present a special lecture
on Swedish Folklore in the College
Chapel. Mr. Liljeblad has been
very active in the establishment
and maintenance of the Folk Art
Museums of Sweden.
On October 3, 1944 at convoca-tion,
Mr. Bert Harwell, National
Audubon Society lecturer, will
show all-color motion pictures on
travels he has made from coast to
coast over the mountains,
prairies and valleys of the nation.
Mr. Harwell has amazing whist-ling
ability, and with his lecture
will give whistled imitations of
bird songs.
Bethel Adds
To Faculty
Bethel has several new mem-bers
added to her faculty this
year. They have been asked some
of their first impressions of life
at Bethel.
Miss Johnson who teaches Fresh-man
Composition and American
Literature says she finds Bethel
to be nothing but the very best
and knows she will like it very
much. She has seen no one that
she doesn't like.
Rev. H. P. Archard who teaches
Spanish says, "I think Bethel is
delightful and I find the students
very attentive".
Mrs. Sjordal is an old Bethelite
and is teaching Swedish this year.
She says, "Bethel is just like home
to me".
Mr. Swan Engwall is a new
teacher in the Christian Workers'
Course department and also teach-es
sociology and general psychol-ogy.
Mr. Engwall is very enthusi_
astic about Bethel and says, "If
the students enjoy it half as much
as I do, that's just fine."
Rev. Omark is another old Be-thelite
and is a new teacher in
the Seminary. He enjoys work-nig
with young people because of
the many possibilities of it. He
says, "I owe much to Bethel be-cause
of what it has done for me."
Students Appear
From Everywhere
Bethel College, since its origin
thirteen years ago, has gr-own with
surprising rapidity. This year with
an enrollment of 177 it has reach-ed
the peak in college history. Of
this number 123 are freshmen and
54 are sophomores. Attendance in
the seminary keeps up well too,
tnd there are 56 students enrolled
in that department.
Of the 221 students enrolled at
Bethel, there are 136 girls and 99
men. Students have come from
all over the world, two from India,
one from Ireland, and one from
Rumania. Also they come from
every part of the States. Minne-sota
leads with 69 students, not
including the 38 from Minneapolis
and St. Paul.
Bethel Students have various
ambitions for their life work. The
majority of the students will be
preparing for definite Christian
work. There are 138 preparing
for work in home churches and on
mission fields. Thirty-seven girls-are
preparing to enter nurses'
training, 10 students are pre-medi-cal,
and then there is one girl
whose ambition is to be a "farm-er's
wife."
"An unhappy gentleman, resolv-ing
to wed nothing short of per-fection,
keeps his heart and hand
till both get so old and withered
that no tolerable woman will ac-cept
them." So says Hawthorne.
But not so in the lives of many
Bethelites for whom wedding bells
have rung merrily this past sum-mer.
June ninth seemed to be a
favorite day for taking the nup-tial
vows. Among those choosing
this date were Miss Enid Platts,
former speech and English in-structor
at Bethel, and Verne Var-hus
of Minneapolis. Also wed on
June 9 were Warren Magnuson
and Margaret Johnson. FrOm Du-luth
came the news of the mar-riage
of Henrietta DeCamp to Mel-vin
Swanson. While down in Io-wa,
Truman Halvorsen claimed
Verna Jorgensen as his bride. Also
this summer Joyce Nelson chang-ed
her name to Mrs. Richard Slei-ter.
Oh yes, John "Knobby" Ber-
On Tuesday morning, Septem-ber
12, 1944, the fall term of our
Seminary opened officially with an
extended chapel service. The mes-sage
of the morning was given by
Dean K. J. Karlson who as dean
of the Seminary gave the opening
message for the nineteenth time.
Other pastors from our state and
locality also spoke.
Dr. Karlson's message was pre-ceeded
by a song service and spe-cial
numbers by Lloyd Nordstrom.
The message itself was based up-on
Galations 1:15, 16, drawing
from the life of Paul. The early
dedication, separation, and mis-sion
of Paul was portrayed and
then applied to the preachers-to-be
who were in attendance. From the
later student comments it was
quickly understood that his mes-sages
were a "real starter" for
the year.
Following the message the visit-ing
pastors were given an oppor-tunity
to express themselves.
Their greetings and admonitions
were also well received by the
audience. The service began about
10:00 and proceeded for approxi-mately
two hours.
geson and Gladys Peterson are
now Mr. and Mrs. Another fellow
missing this year from the "bache-lor
club" is Roger Youngquist who
took Harriet Anderson as his
bride.
Perhaps being treasurer for the
Male Chorus gave him some valu-able
experience in figuring expens-es,
at least Robert Norstrom and
Veona Magnuson must have decid-ed
that two can live as cheaply as
one. Another Bethel couple re-peating
the solemn "I do's" were
William Hagstrom and Ethel Ahl-quist.
Incidentally Cupid did his bit
down in Rockford, Illinois too,
where Margaret Appelquist and
Stanley Paulson were united in
marriage by the bride's father.
Surprised? Well, we were too and
we believe that it was a fitting
climax to a summer of Bethel wed-dings.
Freshman week activities began
with the annual freshman picnic
at Battle Creek Park on Thurs-day,
September 7. Games were
played which acquainted the new
Bethelites with one another and
Kay Shimatsu as chief chef.
Friday evening, Septerber 8
was game night in the college
building. The freshmen were giv-en
another chance to get acquaint-ed
with each other and upper
classmen.
On Sunday, the new students
were given a chance to visit a
Twin City church and attend the
Young People's Rally of the State
Conference at the Central Baptist
church in the afternoon.
Friday evening, September 15,
was kInown as Jludgment Night
when the freshmen were duly ini-tiated
into Bethel's family. Among
other numbers was a skit portray-ing
freshmen girls in Miss Nel-son's
office at different stages of
their freshmen year, and finally,
of the reunion when they returned
as sophomores. After the sopho-mores
had been patient with the
"freshies" all week the tables were
turned and the freshies were the
"patients" during their initiation.
Refreshments were furnished by
Arlene Peterson and Gladys Biller
of "Pete's Retreat".
Freshman week activities were
in charge of the College and the
Student Council.
B. W. A.
installation
Faculty wives extended the offi-cial
welcome to the Freshmen
girls when they entertained at the
first B.W.A. meeting of the year
held in the reception room of the
Dormitory, Thursday, September
Installation of officers took place
at which time the following offic-ers
were assigned to their new
duties: Alma Iblings, president;
Lily Johnson, vice-president; Bar-bara
Edson, secretary; Jane Lar-son,
assistant secretary; Gladys
Biller, treasurer; Miriam Nelson,
assistant treasurer, and Miss Effie
Nelson, advisor. Everyone partici-pated
in the candlelight service.
Big and little sisters were in-troduced
at this meeting. Maxine
Olson and Arlene Peterson are
Big and Little Sister chairmen.
New Bethelites Arrive
Dean Karlson Activities Welcome
Opens Seminar y Freshmen
For 19th Time
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ONE DOLLAR A YEAR
As a Sophomore . • •
by Jane Larson
After what seemed to be an endless summer waiting for Bethel
days to roll around again, I finally found myself back in the dear 'ole
familiar surroundings. Familiar—yes—but strange. Many faces were
missing replaced by new ones set with bewildered eyes expressing
eagerness and determination. These were new Bethelites—freshmen.
Then did I realize I was now a member of the class known as "wise"
sophomores. I used to wonder how that must feel but admit I have
experienced nothing different in the way of feelings. Perhaps (I hope)
it takes a while for that wisdom to creep in.
At any rate, just the idea of being a sophomore is a satisfaction.
It is the reward of a lot of hard work, adjusting one's self to college
life—and a lot of fun.
As we sophomores gather in groups here and there, our conversa-tion
invariably turns to reminiscing. Never shall we forget our fresh-man
week, the Deeper Life services with Rev. Martin Erickson, "Home
On The Farm" at Homecoming, the farewells and then reunions at vaca-tion
time, Founder's Week, the J. S. Banquet, and last but not least,
when we bade farewell to our upper classmen.
It was a great year but we look forward to another just as full and
rich. Freshmen and sophomores will soon become indistinct and we'll
all be bound together as one big Bethel family again.
Now on behalf of all sophomore girls may I say "A very hearty and
friendly welcome to all our new Bethel friends!"
EXCERPTS FROM LETTER:
"I am in Memphis, Tennessee, going to Aviation Radio-man School.
I am glad I have the chance of going to a school because if you don't
go to school your chances of a rate are very slim. All Navy rates from
July 1st on are only temporary anyway, which means that your rate
can be taken from you for little or no reason and at any time.
I go to school 6 days a week and for 8 hours a day. My day starts
at 6:00 in the morning and goes until 9:30 at night. I'll have to admit
that school is tough and that when I get back to Bethel I'll have
learned a great lesson. I know that I will appreciate Bethel more. My
devotions have led me into Galatians and in the 2nd chapter and the
20th verse I find a favorite verse of mine "I am crucified with Christ:
nevertheless I live: yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life
which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who
loved me, and gave himself for me."
JOHN ROBERT NELSON S 2/c
(Bethel-1943)
j04 a 14e.litonan gal
Hear us, we pray Thee, our Father, as we remember the girl who,
with thousands of others, has this week left home companions, dear
familiar faces, streets over which since a little child she has traveled
to church, to school, to play, that she may enter her castle of dreams
—college.
When on this night of strangeness and great loneliness the rosy
dream seems gray and the longing to go back, even for a moment, to
all that is dear, sweeps over her soul, comfort her Thou Christ, who
wast young and lonely and can understand. Strengthen her will; help
her even in her homesickness to remember the high purpose which has
led her to college; keep her ideal unveiled before her; show her the
large place of service and happiness that awaits her. Even in this mo-ment
of weakness let the knowledge that the only way by which she
can comfort herself is to forget herself, send her out to seek another
girl as lonely as she and whisper to her that tomorrow will be differ-ent.
Give her the courage to sit down and write a word of gratitude
and cheer to the father who misses her, though proud that she has gone,
and the mother who wishes her back, yet would not have her come.
If when the lights are out and the great hall is still she cannot
keep back the tears, help her to speak to Thee, to ask Thy blessing
upon all whom she loves. Turn her thoughts, we pray Thee, to the days
to come, to the friends to be, the good times in store, the great things
to be lived and learned. Thou who art Creator of a universe and the
heart of a girl, give her sleep and peace. Through Jesus Christ, our
Lord. Amen.
—Margaret Slattery in "A Girl's Book of Prayers"
OUQ. INQUIQING
PGPOQTE12•
by Marianne Schouweiler
"What do you think of the
upper classmen?"
Doug Smith—Swell, especially
one of them.
Neretta Perry—Bunch of drips!
Grace Larson—The GIRLS are
nice.
Carl A pplequist—An evil that
has to be tolerated.
Jim Anderson—Too lenient with
the "Freshman Rools".
Norma Baustiam and Jackie
Lundquist agreed—Pretty fine.
Vergie Dahlman—They certainly
look intelligent.
Maxine Bjork—How did they
get through the first year? ! ?
Verna Waller—They gave us
some swell ideas on how to haze
the Treshies' next year.
Jeanne Holmgren—It'd sure be
nice to be one! !
Pauline Widen—I could tell you
plenty!
R uth Gimbert—They pretend
they're forceful—but it's all noise.
Jean ette Lyster—No complaints
so far.
Dagmar Jenson and Grace Jor-genson—
Stink!
Mae Belle Anderson—I don't
want to get ruined!
Frank Shindo—Swell—but they
are rather cocky.
Wendall Lindstrom—Well, —I
think of them all right.
Walter B. Eddy, Jr.—A little
bold!
CHAPEL
NUGGETS
by Arleth Brask
Sept. 11—Rev. Martin Erickson
"The Bible is a book above every
book. I even dislike to see anoth-er
book placed on top the Bible."
Sept: 13—Dr. Wingblade
"As a student body we are go-ing
forward shoulder to shoulder
to win the victory. We are here
to receive all that we possibly can
for education and growth. We al e
here at Bethel to give influence
to the atmosphere of Bethel. We
cannot hide that which is in us,
nor express that which is not in
us."
Sept. 18—Prof. Norstrom
"The heart is the depository of
God's Love."
"Today youth needs to be gov-erned
by a purpose. Think things
through, but think them through
with the Lord."
J
10 ebitation
by Dana Larson
Colossians 1:25-29
Another year at Bethel has now
begun. I imagine that there are
many reasons for you students
coming here. Some, no doubt,
have come because of the urging
of others; some for the Christian
fellowship; some have come for
College training with a Christian
background, and then others have
come with a definite purpose in
mind of serving their Lord by
their life. My prayer, and the
prayer of all who have been here
before, is that you new students,
especially, will be able to grow
in your Christian experience while
here.
We are truly privileged to be
here at Bethel in these days and
privileged to be Blood-bought sons
of God. But this privilege, as all
privileges, carries with it a great,
inescapable responsibility. We
who have experienced salvation
through Christ have been given
the Mystery of the ages—it works
but we don't know how. Paul, in
writing to the Collossians realized
this fact and wanted to share the
mystery with others. (Col. 1:26)
Having the mystery made mani-fest
is not the end of things, but
God "would make known what is
the riches of the glory of this mys-tery
among you". What are these
riches? -Perhaps some of you have
been living in spiritual poverty
and have found defeat and loss
at every turn. The Christian life
is not intended to be that way. It
should be full, rich and joyous.
EVery Chrtstian should be that
way because "God would"—wants,
to make His wealth known to you.
What is it then? "It is Christ in
you, the hope of glory." Paul lived
with Christ in him trying to make
other men "perfect in Christ Je-sus."
He did this by "warning all
men" of the wrath to come and
"teaching every man" of Christ's
glorious salvation. This work he
did in all wisdom and truly wis-dom
or.tact is needed in witness-ing
for our Mighty Master whether
the witnessing is being done by
preacher or layman.
Evangelism is the greatest "bus-iness"
of all because Christ is the
"General Manager". But it can be
a failure too, if the instruction of
the "General Manager" is not tak-en.
Paul was "striving according
to this working which worketh in
me mightily". He didn't just work
as he was instructed but let Christ
work within and through him.
Therefore, Paul was not himself
but was Christ living in Him. As
he said in Phillippians 1:21 "For
me to live is Christ".
May the Lord guide you in your
knowledge of Himself that you
may be able to live like Paul and
be Christ to someone else.
Remember
Deeper Life Week
In Your Prayers
q4ant a liwAhmen Qpti
by Jacquelyn Lundquist
An old saying is often quoted as follows: "First impressions are
lasting ones," and I certainly want my first impressions of Bethel to
be lasting. When first arriving at Bethel, I was deeply impressed by
the manner in which we were so cordially welcomed by strangers as
well as old friends. Immediately, I knew I could anticipate a marvelous
time at Bethel for no other reason than the wonderful Christian atmos-phere
which was so prevalent.
At the picnic on Thursday evening I am sure that each Freshie
had a swell time becoming acquainted with one another through the
games played (especially, passing the ring on tooth picks), hiking
around the grounds and also eating the good things which were set be-fore
us, but it was most inspiring to end this time of fellowship prais-ing
Christ through songs and testimonies.
For several years I have been planning to attend Bethel and during
that time I have always been interested in viewing pictures especially
of the Girls' Dormitory but through all my dreams, plans and anticipa-tions
I have never dreamed the dorm to be as perfect as it really is.
All ready many of us have gotten to know each other as personal friends
through dormitory life.
Then too, as Freshies we are having a lot of fun getting adjusted
to college life and at the same time wearing braids and trying to break
the harsh rules which our upper classmen have so eagerly bestowed
upon us. But no kidding, it has been loads of fun.
As each day passes Bethel impresses me more and more . I truly
thank God for this great opportunity and may Christ so impress us
wnile we are here that we will never stop praising Him.
140-in aq4eAhineftqeilaw
by Harvey Rakow
Thinking my interview completed, I turned, and was about to leave
the room, when the individual whose advice I sought in respect to col-lege
training said, "By the way—I think you'll find you'll like it at
Bethel!" I shall never forget the smile of satisfaction upon the face
of this former Bethel student. It seemed to reflect memories of enjoy-able
experiences—experiences that he must have had during his days
at Bethel. However; the words of this alumnus made even a deeper
impression than his smile. They literally burned into my mind.
I have been in the Bethel family for almost one week now, and I
surely am finding Bethel a delightful experience. A spirit of true, Chris-tian
industry seems to possess its faculty. As to my fellow students, I
can only say that they seem to be about the best group of Christian
young people I have ever met.
Before I close, I should like to mention that the thing that has im-pressed
me most has been the after-supper prayer meetings. These
nightly gatherings, just before we go to our studies, unify us into one,
large, happy family—a family of God, dwelling in a house of God—
Bethel.
THE BETHEL CLARION Page 3
Fem Snatches
by Mabel Anderson
September! Yes, it doesn't seem
possible, but that ninth month of
the year has rolled around again,
and of course that means that the
school bell is now in action. The
Bethel Campus is buzzing with ac-tivity
and the girl's dorm is just
as peppy as ever.
While making the rounds
through the dorm your reporter
overheard. . . Dagmar Jensen talk-ing
about the frog she found in
her closet. "I was brave," said
Dagmar, "and really kept the frog
jumping." . . . Clara Hintz admir-ing
Mary Paulson's orchid dorm
booties . . . Joy Berry wishing she
still had her 1922 Model T Ford—
"Gilbert" by name. . . Florence
Hedman and Florence Peterson re-lating
their recent shopping ex-periences
(the two "Flo's" were
going to investigate the reason
for such a long line in a certain
department at Wards when sud-denly
someone said to them—"Get
to the back of the line if you want
shells for your shot gun!" Start-ing
the semester with a bang, eh,
girls?).. . . . Juanita Barfknecht
bemoaning the fact that she
stepped off the streetcar twenty
blocks too soon. . . Gretchen
Clausen and Miriam Nelson in-troducing
their new dorm pets,
namely Thorwald and Dale Martin
. . . Arleth Brask and Virginia
Anderson already entertaining a
guest, Lucille Fisk by name. . .
Greta Fredrikson dreaming about
that certain someone (Emory Ren-dahl)
whose picture monopolizes
Greta's desk. . . . Jane Larson still
saying the same old thing—"Fel-lowship
is so wonderful". . . .
Carol La Gesse naming her pretty
pink and white cat—"Fluff. . . .
Upperclassmen welcoming all new
students. . . .
Girls, this is your column, so
how about sending some "con-tribs".
See you next issue!
It's great to see so many new
faces around the campus. We of
the Seminary bid you all a hearty
welcome. You can breathe a little
easier now that Freshman Week
is past history. Gone but not for-gotten.
If any of you suffer from
home-sickness or any other ail-ment,
come to Dr. Bill Peterson
for relief.
To our Seminary faculty we wel-come
Professor Edwin Omark. Al-ready
we have learned to love him
and to know him as a real man of
God.
Well, everyone in the Sem Dorm
is pretty well settled. The furni-ture
they have in their rooms will
have to carry them through until
next June and some of the poor
fellows haven't got too much to
go on. Gene Nyman, our new
"dorm ma" is taking good care of
the fellows, however.
We have all kinds of mixtures
living here this year. Imagine
"Smokey" Hails and Sprecher as
roommates. These two can get
lonesome together now.
But what about poor Ankerberg
who has a room by himself. Don't
worry he likes living here. Don't
tell his wife but he says he's get-ting
something to eat for a change.
Incidently, many of the Sem
Students think that a home econ-omics
course should be added to
the college curriculum. What do
you think, Gene Johnson?
Have you seen the yellow tie
that that man about town, the
one and only Lloyd "Sweetheart"
Nordstrom h a s recently pur-chased?
Poor guy, he's really
changing from a conservative to a
radical. Is that how that "ring
job" affected you, Lloyd?
"Bergie" and Dana really enjoy
the boarding club this year and so
do we all. It sort of completes
our co-educational system. Thanks
for your good meals, Ma. (I won-der
how long the big attendance
at breakfast will last).
Gustav Westmo, that supersales-man
came over to school last week
for a social (?) visit. Seeing Lloyd
Nordstrom in the library and
knowing that his car was without
insurance, he called him out to
another room. Right away some-one
said, "I'll bet Lloyd comes
back with insurance". Wanting to
hear a good sales talk, I followed
him. Sure enough Lloyd bought a
policy—and so did I.
Wilbur "Knap" Erickson, who
has enlisted in the Naval Air
Corps left us last week. We're
going to miss "Knop" for several
reasons. However, he did leave
his car around. While here he got
it caught between a street-car and
a parked car so if you see a tall
thin Model A Ford around you'll
know why.
Well, enough's enough, so with
this article I close my career as
the writer of Sem Snatches and
turn the job over to another.
Stork
Called
Virginia Anderson Sept. 2
Anton Cederholm Sept 3
A. Neretta Perry Sept. 6
Mildred Lindblom Sept. 7
Rhoda Anderson • • 1 Sept. 8
Grace Larson __..Sept. 9
Earl Trude Sept. 7
Betty Person Sept. 11
Merle Bergfalk Sept. 12
Harold Carlson • •__ Sept. 12
Jacquelyn Lundquist Sept. 13
Barbara Edson Sept. 14
Carl Ekstrand Sept. 14
Margaret Anderson Sept. 18
Jeanette Lyster Sept. 21
Miriam Nelson .Sept. 21
Lois Marsh Sept. 23
Gladys Klassen Sept. 27
Freshmen
Week Finale
The Freshmen at Bethel Jr. Col-lege
were "guests of honor" at a
party sponsored by the upperclass-men
in the college gym on Friday
night.
Bill Peterson was master of cer-emonies
and the party was opened
by singing some old-time tunes.
The upperclassmen gave the
freshmen an idea how stupid and
"green" they looked the first day
of school when they came to the
Dean for advice.
The theme was in a doctor's of-fice
with Dr. (Bill) Peterson in
charge and Mabel Anderson assist-ing
as the nurse. The following
freshmen were given prescriptions
by the Doctor for the ailments that
had taken place during the week.
Virginia Peterson was first in
line to pay the consequences for
the crimes she had committed du-ring
the week. After she, like
most of the ogler girls had had
their hair up all day, hoping to
catch some of that "Nyman and
Larson stuff" running around
school, it was quickly rendered free
of curls by an unceremonious
dunking of cold water.
Bob Nelson enjoyed a delicious
repast consisting of raw liver and
Bob Daley's breath was refreshed
by the odor of a tangy onion.
Doris Engwall, Carl Appelquist,
Jackie Lundquist, and Doug Smith
were given the honor of doing the
dishes for the students and faculty
members and their families after
lunch was served.
The "campus nut", Walter
Blaine Eddy, Jr. was given a sham-poo
which consisted of molasses
and chicken feathers.
The initiation came to an end
with the Doctor and his nurse giv-ing
Bill Thompson an operation.
It really scared some of the fresh-men.
Didn't it, Janet?
The group then went to the cha-pel
where the meeting was led by
Dana Larson. Choruses wer sung,
followed by Scripture reading and
an interesting talk by Dr. Carl-son.
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Keeping Up State Conference
At Central COAST TO COAST IN
With '43-'44 CHRISTIAN SERVICE
Bethelites
Bethelites of '43 and '44 who did
not return are scattered widely.
Eunice Anderson, June Anderson,
and Shirley Coleman have entered
Mounds-Midway School of Nurs-ing.
There are twelve who are at
the University of Minnesota. They
are: Elwood Anderson, Stamford
Widen, Howard Olson, Dale Bjork,
Delores Clauson, Gunnar Hoglund,
Marian Larsen, Robert Peterson,
Carol Rexion, Robert Otto, and
Janet Rye. Eileen Etter is teach-ing
school in North Dakota.
There are several who are in the
service of our country. Conwell
Anderson and Robert Nelson are
in the Navy and Herbert McDon-ald
and Wilbur Ericson are in the
Naval Air Corps. Stanley Yam-ashita
is in the Army Intelligence
at Fort Snelling. Margaret Swan-son
has joined the =Waves. Clar-ence
Sahlin is attending Bemidji
State Teachers' College and is stu-dent
pastor at the Lengby Baptist
Church. Wilbur Haring is also at-tending
Bemidji State Teachers'
College and is student pastor at
the Farris Chapel.
Lois Carlson is in Chicago at-tending
the Medical Technician
School. Julie Ann Ericson is in
nua*es training at the Swedish
Hospital. Stanley Paulson is at
tending the Medical Technician
School. Julie Ann Ericson is in
nurses training at the Swedish hos-pital.
Stanley Paulson is at Har-vard
University Graduate School
and Wilmer Quiring is at the Ger-man
Baptist Theological Seminary
in Rochester, New York. Melvin
Swanson is attending the Universi-ty
of Chicago and Gordon Thomp-son
is attending Macalaster Col-lege.
Irene Benson and Betty Mae
Nelson are at Cable's Secretarial
School. Dorothy Benson is also
in nurses training at Kahler Hos-pital.
J. Weston Seaquist is at the
University of Wisconsin. Mary
Oliver is a nurse at Mounds Hos-pital
and Wallace Henk is in Du-buque
Seminary, Iowa.
There must be many in the
Freshman class who have had
experience working on high
school papers. Also, there may
be many sophomores w h o
would enjoy working on the
Clarion staff this year. Let us,
therefore, urge you to sign up
for this student publication. It
is work, but it is a lot of fun.
Many thanks go to the fol-lowing
for their willing help
on this first issue: Adeline
Sivertson, Lois Thomas, Vir-ginia
Anderson, Dorothy Dahl-man,
Norma Seaquist, and Glo-ria
Anderson.
The Minnesota Swedish Baptist
Conference held its eighty-sixth
annual sessions at the central Bap-tist
Church of St. Paul, Minneso-ta,
September 6 through 10, 1944.
The Conference opened officially
at 1:00 P. M. on Thursday, the af-ternoon
was -taken up with elec-tions
and reports. In the evening
Rev. Gordon Hasselblad of Fergus
Falls gave the conference sermon,
"I Must Be About My Father's
Business".
Friday morning and part of the
afternoon were occupied with busi-ness
sessions. In the afternoon
Rev. Walfred Johnson of Worth-ington
spoke on, "The Holy Spirit,
the Administrator of our Father's
Business". In the evening Dean
Emery A. Johnson presented the
servicee's project of Bethel Col-lege
and the sermon was given
by Chaplain Carl J. Bergstrom,
Fort Knox, Tennessee, "Our Fa-ther's
Business as it Concerns
Those in the Armed Services".
Saturday morning "Temperance
is My Father's Business" was giv-
'len by Rev. Herbert H. Parish,
United Temperance Movement of
Minnesota. The Women's Union
Service was at 9:45 with Mrs.
Bengt Anderson as the speaker.
Sunday morning, Rev. Albert J.
Bergfalk spoke. At 2:00 Rev. Ed-win
Omark spoke at the State
Young People's session. The even-ing
session closed the conference
with the sermon by Rev. John D.
Lundberg of Milaca.
Campus
Calendar
September 19 Convocation
and Exhibit on Du Pont Plas-tics
September
0 Missionary
Band
September 21 B.W.A. Instal-lation
of officers
September 26 Election of
class officers
September 28 Mr. Sven Lil-jeblad—
Convocation
October 15 Bethel day—St.
Louis Park and Payne Avenue
Baptist Churches
Bethel students were scattered
all over the United States holding
Bible Schools this summer. Hel-en
Soder and Grace Swanson
reached the western extremity.
They taught seven schools in the
Columbia Conference and have a
report of about fifty decisions
made for Christ. Helen said that
the work they did made her ap-preciate
more fully her own op-portunities
of attending Sunday
School. Maxine Olson and Gladys
Biller spent their summer on the
other coast. They taught several
schools in the New York Confer-ence.
Several of the fellows also
taught schools. Philip Johnson
taught a class of beginners at the
Rumanian mission in St. Paul—one
of four classes being taught in one
room and a closet. Phil says that
he liked it and the youngsters
certainly did like him. When he
walked he had five children hang-ing
on either hand—one for each
finger.
Other Twin City and Twin City
suburb teachers were: Lily John-
Trailer Life with
Lundh and Sahlin
After a very pleasant interview
with the very pleasant "Maurie
Lundh," the Clarion is able to re-port
the summer activities of this
gentleman and his comrade, Clar-ence
Sahlin.
These two Bethelites spent two
and one-half months teaching Bi-ble
School and holding religious
services throughout the state of
Minnesota. They visited Sandy
Lake, Reynolds, Clotho, Farris,
and the Red Lake District.
Their auto and house trailer
were furnished by the Minnesota
State B. Y. P. U. Maurice stated
that trailer life was great except
for one thing—for seventy-five
days he wasn't able to stand erect'
All the cooking was done person-ally
by Lundh and Sahlin. The
result was no weight gained on
either side.
son, Ruth Raski Lois Raymetz,
Gloria Mitchel, Virgina Anderson,
Arleth Brask, Alma Iblings, and
Merle Bergfalk. Arlene Peterson
and Alma Iblings taught schools
in and for the churches for which
they are missionaroies. Alma said
she liked her work especially well
because it is such "real pioneer
work".
Lois Thomas, Edna Sahl, Alice
Olson, Richard Sleiter, Margaret
Jensen, Phyllis JohnsOn, Helen
Holle, Adeline Sivertson, and Wil-liam
Peterson were other Bethel
students who taught Minnesota
Schools.
Elaine Ballantyne, Harold Carl-son,
and Dana Larson taught
school at Twin Lakes, Michigan.
Dana Larson and Lloyd Nord-strom
went to Victory, Michigan.
Jane Larson taught Bible School
in her home church in Youngs-town,
Ohio. The reports vary in
these schools from one and two
accepting Christ as Saviour to as
many as fifty whom Helen and
Grace, helped lead to Him on the
West Coast.
Films Introduce
The State
All Bethel students were given
an extra welcome to Bethel and to
the state of Minnesota at the first
convocation period of the year
which was on Tuesday, September
12. At that time two films cover-ing
some of the natural beauties
of the state were shown to the
student body. The first film pic-tured
a large pheasant farm as it
was in pre-war days. The other
film showed to us some of the
wild life found on a wild life res-ervation
which is located only thir-ty
miles from the Twin Cities.
These technicolor films were
furnished and introduced by Mr.
Morrison of the Publication Divi-sion
of the Department of Conser•
vation for the state of Minnesota.
