THE BETHEL CLARION
VOL. XXV — NO. 1
Bethel Junior College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. NOVEMBER 9, 1945
Harold Carlson Opens New
Church on Bethel Campus
Spire, Clarion, Get Start;
Anderson, Sandin Editors
Staffs Chosen:
Work Resumed
First Service Held Sunday
New Church to Be Built
On Sunday morning, November
4, many Bethel students and resi-dents
of the community, gathered
in the chapel of Bethel Seminary
for Sunday school and a morning
worship service. This was the first
such service held on the Bethel
campus.
For some time many halie felt
the need for a Baptist church in
the area north of the school. In
the spring of 1944 several met to-gether
for prayer regarding such
a work. The first prayer meeting,
under the direction of Edward Nel-son,
was held at the home of Prof.
and Mrs. R. Omark and many oth-ers
followed,
Rev. Al Bergfalk, worker for the
state conference, was approached
regarding this new work, and he
in turn presented the idea to a
state executive board meeting. A
move was made to interest some
church to be responsible for the
new field of service. Central
Church agreed to cooperate with
the conference and a joint com-mittee
was set up.
First of all it was decided to
have a Daily Vacation Bible school
to reach the children of the neigh-borhood.
Rev. Bergfalk, together
with Bethel summer school stud-ents
and workers from Central,
canvassed the neighborhood a n d
the school opened in the seminary
on August 6 with an enrollment of
approximately 65. At the close of
the school an invitation was given
to those children who did not at-tend
any Sunday school to come
back on Sunday morning. Some
of them did, and ever since a Sun-day
school has been conducted for
the boys and girls.
After much prayer the way has
opened to conduct a Sunday school
for adults as well, and also to hold
a church worship service. Approx-imately
750 letters of invitation
were sent out two weeks ago to
homes that were reached in the
community canvass last August,
and on Sunday, November 4, 135
people met in the seminary chapel.
This location is only temporary
and it is planned to build a church
in Falcon Heights as soon as pos-sible.
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SHOPPING DAYS,
UNTIL CHRISTMAS
Bergfalk Speaks
In Sem Tonight
At the chapel service on Friday,
November 2, Irwin Bjelland, treas-urer
of the Missionary Band, pre-sented
the- financial goal of the
organization. It is planned to raise
$1,000 this year for the support of
missions. Five hundred dollars will
be sent to the school in Jorhat,
Assam, and $500 will be used to
purchase moving picture equip-ment
for the missionaries who are
about to be sent out by our con-ference
board. A box and a pledge
book have been placed at the rear
of the chapel for the contribu-tions
and tithes of the students
and faculty.
Tonight at eight o'clock the first
of a series of study groups will
meet in the seminary building,
with Rev. Al Bergfalk as speaker.
Those who are especially interest-ed
in missions are invited to at-tend
these meetings, at which ma-ny
problems of foreign service will
be discussed.
The next regular meeting of the
Missionary Band is scheduled for
next Wednesday, November 14. A
gospel team made up of young
people from Missionary Bands in
various parts of the Twin Cities
will have charge of the service.
Carlson Lectures
To Debate Squad
Bethel has this year revived the
Forensic Society of former years
under the leadership of Miss La
Vone Berthel. At present there are
about fifteen participants, several
of whom are showing much ability
in public speaking.
The society will study debate,
oratory, discussion, and extempo-raneous
speaking. For several
weeks debate has been emphasized
with the group doing research on
this topic : "Resolved : That the
foreign policy of the United States
should be directed toward the es-tablishment
of free trade among
the nations of the world." C. E.
Carlson lectured to the group on
this subject on Tuesday, Novem-ber
6, and Curtis B. Akenson and
Dr. K. J. Karlson are scheduled
for future talks.
It Is planned to present several
debates here at Bethel, to send
teams to nearby colleges, and pos-sibly
to make a debating trip to
Illinois.
* * *
"If a hypocrite stands between
you and God, he must be closer to
God than you are."
Open House
Dedication
Held In Dorm
The new wing of the girl's dor-mitory
was dedicated at a service
held in the reception room of the
old section on Sunday, November
4, at 3:30 P. M. Open house was
observed in the dorm as friends
of Bethel from all over the Twin
Cities area examined the rooms
and halls of the new addition.
Dr. G. Arvid Hagstrom, president
emeritus of the school, Dr. Carl
G. Burton, president of the school
board, Mrs. Adolf Olson, president
of the Bethel Women's Federation,
Mr. H. Wyman Malmsten, and Rev.
Martin Erikson brought brief ad-dresses
at the service. Musical
numbers were rendered by Mr.
Gust Lundberg, Mr. Nels Stjern-strom,
and Misses Marion Lund
and Marion Johnson.
Fifty-two girls, who had been
making the best of makeshift ac-comodations
f or more than a
month, are now living in compara-tive
luxury in the new addition,
which in itself is as large as the
old building. Both sections now
have rooms for 99 students.
Brightest spot of the new wing
is the dining hall, which covers
the entire basement floor a n d
which has facilities for about 300
diners. Other special features are
a small lounge, a candy kitchen,
and a miniature chapel, all on the
second floor.
Definite figures as to the cost
of the new addition are not avail-able,
but it is estimated that the
expense will be about $65,000.
Peterson Leads
New Bethel Band
The newly organized Bethel
Band under the direction of one of
the students, Wayne Peterson, con-sists
of twenty members. Cor4et-ists
are Gust Lundberg, Sam Et-chings,
Dorothy Dahlman, Arlene
Nelson, Joyce Dubuque, Al Brown,
and Bud Siegel. The clarinet sec-tion
includes Evelyn Gates, Janet
Walker, Helen Holle, Helen Voight
and Director Peterson. Rounding
out the band are Deloris Erickson
and Dorothy Nelson (trombones),
Gloria Isaacson (saxophone), Ruth
Rask (mellaphone), Earl Lands-berg,(
baritone), Al Gustafson (bass
horn), Becky Iosty (snare drum)
and Myrtle Krueger (bass drum).
At last the staffs of the school's
two publications, the Clarion and
the Spire have been chosen and
work is now going forward nor-mally.
Nominations were made by
the student council, and were ap-proved
by the student body on
Wednesday, October 24.
Jim Anderson was chosen to edit
the annual, with Pauline Widen as
assistant editor and Don Patet as
business manager. The staff im-mediately
began working to pro-cure
advertisements and subscrip-tions
for the book. Arrangements
for photography are also being
made. Two students were appoint-ed
to make candid shots on the
campus, and group pictures will be
taken by a professional photogra-pher.
Bob Sandin was appointed edit-or
of the Clarion and he is aided
by Nettie Castle as assistant editor
and Jacqueline Lundquist as busi-ness
manager. Arrangements were
made with the Anderson Press in
Minneapolis to print the newspap-er,
and the first assignments were
made on October 29.
With an enlarged student body,
and an accelerated program in the
school, much is expected of this
year's publications.
"Treat Him" Night
Set for Nov. 16
The man-hunting season at Beth-el
Junior College opened as a re-sult
of plans made at the Girl's
Dormitory meeting for a Miss
Bethel "Treat Him" evening. It is
the privilege of the girls to hunt
up a date for the evening of Nov-ember.
16. The highlight of this
evening will be a party to be held
in the dormitory dining hall at
7:45 P. M. The girls must escort
their dates to the party, treat them
and escort them home. Yes, it
will be very interesting!
Jackie Lundquist and Doris
Johnson were chosen co-chairmen
to be in charge of the general ar-rangements,
The other committee
chairmen are as follows: program,
Mabel Anderson ; decoration, De-loris
Erickson; refreshments, Vir-ginia
Petersen; and clean-up, Iona
Smith.
Maxine Bjork is in charge of the
Date Bureau. All girls are reques-ted
to report their dates to Miss
Bjork as soon as possible. As she
has the list of all available boys,
any girl who is still on the hunt
for a man may see Maxine.
Tickets for the party cost thirty
cents per couple and may be pur-chased
from Maxine Bjork.
THE BETHEL CLARION
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1. To maintain and promote the Christian principles of Bethel
Institute.
2. To promote scholarship.
3. To foster more school spirit.
4. To establish a better understanding among the students.
Co-editors Norma Seaquist, Audrey Skarp
News Editor Elaine Pegors
Sports Editor Robert Nelson
Circulation Manager Robert Sandin
Business Manager William Thompson
Business Advisor Dean Emery Johnson
Typists Jean Hamlett, Dorothy Dahlman
DEMERIT SYSTEM
Does Bethel need a demerit plan? That is one of the questions
engaging the minds of responsible student and faculty groups on the
campus. In discussions on the subject two viewpoints have been ex-pressed,
but in some cases even these contrasting opinions have been
voiced by the same person. At least the topic seems to merit careful
consideration.
While as yet no detailed plan has been completed, a system of
this nature would presumably involve defining certain actions as worthy
of demerits, which would be recorded in a central file. Included in the
list could be lack of regularity and punctuality in classroom attendance,
habitual disregard of reasonable standards of behavior in the dining
hall, habitual boisterousness in the dormitories, defacing or injury of
school property, and others as defined by the group. Specified indivia-uals
and groups would of necessity have to be empowered with the
authority to assign demerits. Counsellors and administrators would
have to assume responsibility for follow-up work aimed at the correc-tion
of the item involved.
The spiritual foundations of a group, as in an individual's life,
work themselves out into a behavior pattern. In order to consider either
the individual life or the group to be truly Christian the spiritual pro-fession
and the social behavior must harmoniously represent Christ.
The problem is how to best attain this goal.
That a measure of careless, inconsiderate, and, at times, rude be-havior
is present on the campus seems to be recognized by the great
majority of the school group. No doubt, the unsocial ways of the few
would be ascribed on first thought to lack of maturity, of background,
or of consecration. This interpretation, however, leaves unexplained
the behavior of some of the students who have been on the campus for
some years and have progressed to advanced stages in their studies :
Could it be that we have too much freedom? Perhaps a demerit plan
would be of assistance by making our standards of expectation more
tangible.
It has been well observed that such a plan would be a negative
approach on our problem. Perhaps we have not exhausted the positive
means. Perhaps more encouragement and recognition of desirable traits,
more definite instructions, a more alert student public opinion, and-more
earnest prayer in these matters could afford the means of ad-justment
needed. If we are not using these to the full, we owe it to
ourselves to do so; and we owe it also to those whose contributions
make possible this school and our own stay in it, and to the Lord who
has called us to live and work for Him.
However, we have no basis for the assumption that our group is
so different from other social groups that we can dispense with the
negative approach. That an occasional individual will fail to adjust him-self
in our school may be taken for granted. For such individuals a
demerit plan would afford an opportuity of standardized treatment with
a maximum emphasis on helpfulness. For those who have fitted them-selves
to the behavior standards of the group, the demerit plan would
be an indication of successful adjustment.
Sentence SWidnafra
n the
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Page 2 THE BETHEL CLARION
"He is silently planning for you
in Love, for it matters to Him a-bout
you."
* * *
"I have thanked the Lord ten
thousand times for the roses, but
only recently, have I learned to
thank Him for the thorns."
"Faith steps on seeming void,
and finds the Rock beneath."
* * *
"Jesus is the key to all problems
of world coordination."
* * *
"For this world it is Christ or
chaos."
-By Pres. H. C. Wingblade
The great need in the world to-day
is for people who care, for
people who are vitally interested
in their neighbors, whether those
neighbors be across the street or
across the world, And it must be
a practical caring, not only theo-retical
or merely professed.
I shall never forget a scene, de-picted
long ago, of a family with
all t h e i r household belongings
stranded by a stream because of
the death of their horse. In a cov-ered
wagon they had been journey-
-
ing westward, and now they stood
check mated, as it were—the fa-ther
and several children and the
mother with a small baby in her
arms.
People from t h e community
came out to behold this poor fam-ily—
and to sympathize. Presently
a man stepped out to speak.
"Friends and neighbors, it is clear
that all of us pity this family in
their sad strait. But the question
is, how much do we pity them?
I will show you how much I pity
them," and suiting the action to
the word, he took from his pocket
a five dollar bill and held it up.
"Now, then, how much do you
pity them?"
In short order money was raised
for another horse, and the family
were soon sent on their way great-ly
encouraged.
Sympathy is the highest trait of
a Christian personality, but to be
real it must be practical. James
says: "If one of you say unto
them (needy ones), depart in
peace, be ye warmed and filled;
notwithstanding ye give them not
those things which are needful to
the body, what doth it profit?"
The almost matchless pastor,
A. J. Gordon, donned his heavy
wraps one stormy night. His wife
inquired his purpose, since there
was no meeting set for that eve-ning.
The great under-shepherd
replied: "We are in bondage with
those that are in bondage." Let us
ask ourselves as students: How
much do we care? There is a way
of measuring it.
Trust
Trust and rest when all around
thee
Puts thy faith to surest test,
Let no fear or foes confound thee
Wait for God and trust and rest.
Trust and rest with heart abiding,
Like a birdling in its nest
Uuderneath his feathers hiding
Fold thy wings and trust and rest.
—Ps. 17:86
'We Like It'
NEW BETHELITES
GIVE OPINIONS
Following are statements made
by several new students at Bethel
in answer to the question, What
is your general reaction to Bethel
students.
"They really are more than I
expected them to be in Christian
spirit and consecration. It's an
inspiration to be part of them."
"I think they're just loads of
fun, but still good Christians."
"They are very zealous and sin-cere,
but .have allowed themselves
to become narrow and without ap-preciation
o f cultural activities
that are not strictly religious."
"I expected them to be sleeper
spiritually."
"They impress me with their
overflowing Christian a t t i t ude.
Everyone seems to be ready to
sing choruses at the slightest op-portunity."
"There is a definite lack of en-thusiasm
and initiative among the
majority of Bethel students. They
could really go places if they'd
only get on the beam and get
things going."
"They're not as spiritual as I
expected them to be, but on the
whole, they're swell to get along
with."
"Christian attitude, friendly spir-it,
and fine character are three
outstanding traits that I have no-ticed
among the majority of the
students."
"Their gossip mills run over-time."
Sandin Gives
Clarion Aims
After much delay occasioned by
more than usual confusion around
the campus in this our first year
of peace, we have at last printed
the first issue of this year's Clar-ion.
We regret that it was not
completed earlier, but conditions
have been very abnormal until now
and no staff was chosen. How-ever
we are now organized and
expect to put out a paper every
other week henceforth.
The aims of the Clarion a r e
threefold: to inform, to entertain,
and to edify. Our news stories on
the first and last pages are intend-ed
to inform you, the reader, of
the activities of the students of
Bethel College and Seminary. Our
feature stories are written for your
enjoyment and entertainment. Our
editorials, meditations, e t c., a r e
aimed to the edification and
strengthening of Christians.
These are our aims. If you are
not informed nor entertained, nor
edified, we hope that you will tell
us so, and that you will freely
offer comments a n d suggestions
that will make this a worthwhile
publication.
We also welcome any editorials,
articles, or other contribution you
may have, and promise to give any
of such news careful considera-tion,
although we cannot guaran-tee
its publication.
THE BETHEL CLARION Page 3
Ganstroms Wait
For Embarkation
As each day goes by and the
time for our sailing draws near,
we are becoming more anxious to
begin our new work. This letter
will contain just main information
as to how we have gotten ready
to go to Africa. Then if you have
questions, I'll try to answer them
when I write again.
We left St. Paul June 12th for
Elgin, Iowa where a state young
people's conference was in pro-gress.
We spent two glorious days
there before going to sunny Kan-sas.
On June 15th Don's folks met
our train and were more anxious
to see Norris than us. It seems
that way now wherever we go.
But we don't mind since he is a
real joy to us. He is seven months
now, has two teeth, sits alone, and
wants to stand. We spent a very
enjoyable two months on the farm
in Kansas. While there we made
out our grocery order for a year
in advance. If you make a weekly
grocery list, just multiply that by
fifty two and you will have a fair
idea of what our list was like.
Then there was the packing and
listing of all items going to Africa.
If there is any danger of damage,
they must be packed air tight. We
have done quite a bit of our order-i
n g thrOugh Montgomery Wards
since they have an export depart-ment
and consequently pack our
order for over seas. You can be
sure that saves us a lot of time.
We were expecting to leave Port-land,
where we are now with my
f olk s, by September 15th, but
found that it would take five
weeks to get my two impact wis-dom
teeth removed so we are here
until October 10th anyway. If you
write this address before we leave,
we promise to answer personally
while aboard ship, that is if we
aren't seasick all the way.
Sincerely yours,
Don and Verna Ganstrom
(Don Ganstrom graduated from
Bethel Seminary last June. We
wish him and his wife God's rich-est
blessings in Africa.)
Quest For
Pure Gold
By Lois Norberg
The very finest God did send
Down from his home in Heav'n.
Most precious treasure to the
world
That I might be forgiv'n.
My life, my all, to Him I owe
The hest that I can do.
But what, 0 Jesus, could it be,
That would compare to you.
Oh, take away the stubble, Lord,
The wood, the stones, the hay,
And in Thy hand, remold, remake.
0 Potter, I'm the clay.
Now take away all trace of self.
The Christ, may others see.
For nothing in myself is gold
0, Lord, that must be Thee.
By Pauline
With the addition of the new
wing came more girls to the dorm,
which should make more news.
Bathtub parties aren't restricted
to Saturday nights at the girl's
dorm. In fact they are so frequent
and held at such odd hours, that
Gladys Finstrom finds them a little
boring. A little difficulty, how-ever,
has been encountered trying
to get Deloris Erickson into the
shower room. Maybe she is na-turally
suspicious.
The girls aren't satisfied with
having water parties in the dorm,
but have even tried to have them
outside. Bill Haring got all wet
one night. Now he knows the
meaning of the saying "It came
down in buckets full." That's be-cause
he wasn't as fortunate as
Clarence Sahlin, who had Jackie
Lundquist protecting him from the
showers that rained down from the
second floor.
Lundholm
Ingrid Johnson and Lucille Pal-mer
were unseen peekers at the
"secret" initiation of the male cho-rds—
that is, until they were
caught. Then they were initiated
—to some Limburger c h e es e.
These two girls and their former
room-mates who lived on the sec
ond floor of the college building
were very ungracious to their male
chorus serenaders that night. The
singers were given a very wet re-ception.
`Twas the night before Hallow-een
and all through the dorm, not
a character was stirring—except
for the "four bandits", who took
advantage of the absence of their
dorm-mates and played a few
tricks. The girls returned to find
their beds in turmoil. They sought
and found the pranksters, and due
punishment was administered by
means of lipstick and perfume.
Letters From
Servicemen
Dear Friends and Gentle Hearts,
G r e e tin gs and hallucinations
from the big and bright-starred-at-
night state of Texas? I rec'd
your very welcome news letter of
August 6th this afternoon. It cer-tainly
was good to hear from
Bethel once again. If any more of
these letters are rolled off your
press, please send them to me—
As you can see by the letter-heads,
I "joined" the U.S. Infantry.
Last August 2nd I was fondly ush-ered
into the kindly fellowship of
the "people's army." I was induct-ed
in the great city of Chicago
(the word "great" refers to size
only) and then processed (shang-haied)
into Army life at Ft. Sher-idan,
north of the Windy City. On
the ninth of August we boys pack-ed
our picnic lunches and boarded
a delightfully appointed box car
for a thirty-six hour trip to "the
terrain that is ideally suited to
work out i n f a n t r y problems,"
namely, Texas. I suppose I'll be
here in Maxey for about f our
months, and then I may take a
canoe trip to the land of tea and
toys.
Well, as I draw this epistle to
a close, I'd like to say that I'm
tremendously grateful that I re-ceived
a year of Bethel's founda-tion.
The more I see of the other
side of the world (and this is real-ly
the other side) the more I ap-preciate
the genuine, wholesome
godliness of Bethel. Long live the
Swedish-Baptists.
Please greet "all" (no cracks) of
my friends and ask them to drop
me a note. Letters mean a lot to
a guy in a spot like this.
Sine Cera,
"Appel"
(Carl's address is now Pvt. Carl
Appelquist 46034858, Co. B, 105th
I.T.B., Camp Robinson, Ark.)
Sapporo, Hokkaido
"So much has happened that I
don't know where to start from.
I guess I might as well start from
the very beginning. You've no
doubt gotten my letters from Ley-te
and know what sort of unit I'm
in, etc. Well, I was one of the
forty men picked to go in the ad-vance
party on the commanding
admiral's command ship. We left
Leyte in time to hit the Japanese
mainland on the 24th of September
and we were in on the original lan-ding
on Aomori on the 25th. From
there, I went on a glorified tourist
trip around Japan. On the second
day, I was attached to a colonel
and from then on, we covered just
about every sizeable town or city
in , the prefecture. Aomori city it-self
was just about 98% wiped
out—it was really appalling. We
stayed about two days at the 8th
army headquarters in Yokohama.
Couldn't do much roaming on my
own—but we did see some of the
city. It was just about wiped out
too—just like Aomori. When one
remembers i t s former grandeur,
it's really frightening what a
(continued on page 4)
HIGH FLIGHT Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth,
And danced the skies on laughter silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun split clouds . .. and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of . . wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue,
I've topped the wind swept heights with easy grace,
Where never lark, or even eagle flew;
And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
—Reprint from the Milwaukee Journal
(Sonnet written by John Gillespie Magee, Jr., 19 year old American
flyer killed in action with the Royal Canadian Air Force. First publish-ed
by the New York Herald Tribune.)
SEM SNATCHES By Bill Peterson
T'was Hallowe'en evening and all through_ the dorm,
All the creatures were stirring, all but a worm.
Some guys were away, but the fellows who stayed
Were racking their skulls for the night's escapade.
But Pete and Forsline, Bill Haring, Sahlin,
We never would guess that these minds were so keen
As to cook up a way to enter locked rooms.
(They must have had the help of the "hags on the brooms".
But enter they did, and raised royal commotion
With bed springs, ties, pictures, and after shave lotion.
As fiendish and bloodcurdling howls filled the halls,
They smattered and scattered and splattered the walls
Of our cute little dwellings, so snug and so neat,
So they `geared to be trod on by dinosaur feet.
The "vultures" lay waiting for guys to arrive,
Who, if lifting their hand, would be giv'n "fluid drive".
We came in exhausted with thoughts in our head,
Of flopping straight into a nice cozy bed,
We groped for the light, with fatigue we were reeling,
"Welcome home" came the voice of four walls and the ceiling.
Patience is noble, we held to our reins,
Though pulse-beats of vengeance surged all through our veins.
So we dropped where we were, and when sleep kissed our eyes,
Our lips formed the plea, "More worms, and less guys."
Sem snatches again manages to get space in the Clarion. There
surely must be a shortage of news. We might say here in the first
issue, that due to the extremely high character and integrity of the
dorm fellows this year, there will be no need for take-offs or slanders
in this column, unless, of course, they prove expedient or convenient.
Character sketch; Guess who?—He's a popular fellow, he had Gladys
C's picture in his room—(sorry, due to lack of space, this will be all.)
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Page 4 THE BETHEL CLARION
Indians Triumph
In Alumni Tussle
By 46-40 Margin
By Roy Nelson
T h e Bethel College basketball
team opened its 1945-46 season on
October 26 by defeating a group
of aging alumni by the score _ of
46-40. The college quintet trailed
for most of the first half as the
alumni controlled both backboards,
and the grads held a 25-22 lead at
half-time. However, t h e varsity
spurted to the fore early in the
second half and coasted for most
of the last quarter.
Bill Adam, former Bethel coach,
led the scoring for the alumni with
twelve points, and Wally Peterson,
high point man on last year's
squad, was runner-up with ten.
High scorers for the college were
Wayne Peterson, Bud Siegel, and
Bob Nyman, who made thirteen,
twelve, and nine points respective-ly.
BETHEL
fg ft f pts
Nyman, f 3 3 2 9
Roy Nelson, f 1 0 2 2
Sandin, f 2 0 1 4
Picker, f 0 0 0 0
W. Peterson, c 5 3 0 13
Robt. Nelson, c. 3 0 2 6
Wm. Peterson, c. 0 0 0 0
Lambert, g 0 0 0 0
Sherman, g 0 0 1 0
Siegel, g 6 0 3 12
Daley, g 0 0 0 0
Total 20 6 11 46
ALUMNI
fg ft f pts
Peterson, f 4 2 2 10
Otto, f 1 0 2 2
Gustafson, f 3 0 1 6
Adam, c. 6 0 3 12
Thompson, g 3 2 3 8
Wessman, g 0 0 0 0
Sahlin, g 1 0 2. 2
Larson, g. 0 0 1 0
Dischinger, g 0 0 1 0
Total 18 4 15 40
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With several sophomores back,
and a large number of freshmen
girls showing a great deal of in-terest
and ability, prospects look
good for the girls' basketball team
this year. About twenty or thirty
girls have reported for practice
every Tuesday and Thursday eve-ning,
and from that number, the
team will be chosen in the near
future. Returning sophomores are:
Grace Jorgenson, Doris Johnson,
Betty Mae Nelson, Carol Peterson,
Jean Hamlett, Marianne Schouwei-ler,
and Pauline Widen. Dolores
Erickson, Donella Groebe, Kathryn
Nelson, and Doris Richert a r e
some of the most promising fresh-men
team material.
No definite schedule has been
made yet, but it is expected that
the girl's games will be played
preliminary to those of the varsity
team. Some of the groups with
whom the team will compete are
Northwestern Bibl e School, St.
Francis Hospital, University Farm
School, and the various Twin City
church teams.
Paul Edwards, who will serve
as coach for the group, says that
this year's girls' team will be the
best the school has had.
Having received t h e go - ahead
signal from the Policy Committee,
Coach Paul Edwards • is now com-pleting
arrangements for a basket-ball
trip to Chicago, Illinois. Ten
players will leave St. Paul on
Thursday, November 29, and re-t
u r n on Tuesday, December 4.
Games are scheduled near Chicago
with Wheaton College on Saturday
night, a n d either Elmhurst or
North Central Colleges on Friday
evening.
The trip will be a severe test for
the Indians, who will find any of
these teams, which are all mem-bers
of the conference, very hard
to beat.
The only other game definitely
scheduled is one with Augsburg
College of Minneapolis on Satur-day,
November 24. However, con-tests
are tentatively arranged with
Concordia Jr. College of St. Paul,
and Austin Jr. College of Austin,
Minnesota, which are the only
other schools of the Minnesota
Conference of Junior Colleges that
are operating this year. A more
complete schedule will be forth-coming
in a few weeks.
bombing raid can do—just about
level off a modern city. The big
problem now is the food and hous-ing.
You'll really be shocked to
hear about their rations. They get
enough rice for three bowls a day
(pre-war: eight to ten) three days
a month—then the rest of the
month, they have to live on pota-toes
and what little vegetables
they can dig up. If you remember
that rice was the basic food, you
can realize what a state these
people are in. The sugar ration,
believe it or not, is one pound per
family per year, when it's avail-able.
Around here they've had one
distribution of meat since the first
of last year. No kidding, it's real-ly
going to be a problem—especi-ally
the people who have lost their
home and all their clothing.
To continue with my itinerary—
from Yokohama, we went to To-kyo
to the grand headquarters
where we stayed for a day. Sec-tions
of the city were intact and
many of the larger government
buildingg were still standing. It
certainly was a funny feeling to
stand in front of the imperial pa-lace
and gaze across the well-known
moat at the residence of
the emperor. After that, we came
back to Aomori, caught a ferry
across the straits, landed inHako-date
and got another sleeper to
ourselves to Sapporo, where this
honorable gentleman w ill reside
during his enforced sojourn. This
city hasn't been touched at all—
at least, thats one consolation.
It's a fairly large, clean city of
250,000 but there isn't much doing.
All the cafes and restaurants are
closed because of the lack of food.
Now that the G.I.'s have landed,
practically all the stores are dis-playing
bare shelves—which ori-ginally
weren't too well stocked.
Stan Yamashita
("Conchy" also wrote, "I'd cer-tainly
like to hear from anyone
who still remembers me and would
lige to correspond with me"—
which could be taken many ways.
His address: Sgt. K.S. Yamashita
37595500, 209th ' C.I.C. Detachment,
Headquarters IX. Corps, A.P.O. 309
coo Postmaster, S a n Francisco,
Calif.)
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