Clarion 1948-10-08 Vol 28 No 02

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Vol. XXVIII—No. 2 Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota
October 8, 1948
Senior Class Organizes 198 Freshmen Boost College and
eminary Enrollment to New High
With a small increase over last year's total Bethel has again set a new record for enrollment as a total
of 516 students have registered for this year. There are 440 students registered in the college and 109 in the
Seminary, there being 33 duplicates.
The freshman class is again the largest group with 198 members. The, sophomores class is slightly smaller
with a total of 164. Leading in the senior college is the junior class of 37. The initial senior class if 10 con-sists
of men.
Classes Elect
New Officers
On Monday, September 27, 1948
class meetings were held during
the Chapel hour. Chief business of
all classes was to elect officers
for the coming year. The first
Senior class of Bethel College is
very unique in that it is composed
of men only. Senior officers elect-ed
are President, Roy Dalton; Vice-president,
Charles Germany; Sec-retary,
George Johnson; and Trea-surer,
Henry Peterson. The faculty
adviser chosen is Mr. Eugene John-son.
The Junior class eldcted Ro-bert
Daly, President; David Os-terberg,
Vice-president; Trudy
Lehman, Secretary; and John
Soneson, Treasurer. The faculty
adviser is Mr. Samuel Schultz.
The Sophomore class elected
their officers shortly before school
closed last May. They are Gordon
Platt, President; Myrtle Rehnberg,
Vice-president; Marilyn Fredrick-son,
Secretary; and Wesley Fors-line,
Treasurer. Student Council
representative is August Wagge.
The faculty adviser is Elving An-derson.
The following list of officers
were elected by the Senior class
of Bethel Seminary, Sept. 21, 1948:
Rueben Dahl, President; Wallace
Norling. Vice-president; Leonard
Carroll, Secretary; Walton John-ssoonn,
, Treasurer; Lee Kingsley,
Chapel Committee representative;
Sherburne Ray, Student Council
representative. Dr. Pearson has
been chosen as their faculty ad-viser.
Constitution Is
Amendedby Men
"When I experienced salvation,
I found pardon, peace, purpose,
power, and everlasting prospect,"
was Dr. Vance Havner's testimony
at the Men's Dormitory Associa-tion's
first meeting of the year
held. Oct. 6.
The constitution was read and
amendments passed providing re-presentation
on the dorm council
for the college senior class and
the seminary middlemen class.
James Rentz was elected semi-nary
middleman representative and
Bob Sandin, senior representative.
Alexis Holds First
Meeting Oct. 19
The Alexis Literary Society of
Bethel Seminary open to all pre-seminary
students now studying in
Bethel College will meet October
19 in the seminary chapel. The
meeting will begin at eight o'clock.
Wives or sweethearts may also
attend.
On the program for the evening
is a model business meeting, dur-ing
which The First Imaginary
Baptist Church will extend a call
to a new pastor. It will be one of
those meetings in which anything
can happen, but helpful and con-structive
criticism will prove in-valuable
to attending students in
real-life situations which develop
in the work of the ministry.
After the chapel program is over,
the Society will go to the coffee
shop—reserved that evening for
Alexis—for a candlelight singspira-tion
and refreshments.
Federal Support
Of Education Is
New Debate Topic
Resolved: That Congress Should
Grant Funds For the Purpose. of
Supporting Education in All Tax
Supported Schools, is the collegi-ate
debate question for the current
year and which is the center of
thought for many Bethel Students
who are participating in the debate
class and who, together with stud-ents
from last year's squad, will be
attempting soon to make the squad
for this year.
Harold Berntsen, debate teacher
who is working for his degree at
the University of Minnesota, is at
present planning round robin de-bates
among the students in pre-paration
for the coming tourna-ments.
Dr. Havner Climaxes
Meetings Tonight
Another Deeper Life Week, one
of the climaxes of the fall activi-ties,
will come to a close tonight
as Dr. Vance Havner brings the
final message of this week .
Dr. Havner, an outstanding evan-gelistic
speaker,
lives in Greens-borro,
North Car-oilna
and h a s
been active in
preaching t h e
gospel since an
early age. To his
messages, which
are generally de-votional
in na-ture,
he has added his well known
unique humor to produce an in-teresting
and effective ministry
during this week.
The morning chapel services
have been led by Bud Peterson and
the evening services have been
under the direction of Ralph Lar-son.
The Melody Twins Duet, composed
of Roy and Everette Johnson; the
Half Notes Trio from Simpson Me-morial
Church; the Eastern-aires
Thio, composed of Kirsten Linder,
Sally Tierney, and Hazel Swartz;
and the St. Paul Bible Institute's
Girls Trio and quartet provided
music for the first two days.
On Wednesday Dorothy Nelson,
soloist, and the Northwestern Bible
School Male quartet sang. The Vo-lenteers
Trio, Bud Peterson, Les
Larson, and Len Anderson provid-ed
music on Thursday morning.
The Bethel Male quartet sang on
Friday morning.
This evening, as Dr. Havner
closes this weeks meetings, Adora
Norlander, Soloist, will provide the
music.
Johnson Heads
Gospel Teams
Christian Service Activities are
being reorganized this year under
the direction of the Religeous
Council and Eugene Johnson, Di-rector
of Religious Activities on
the campus.
Instead of dividing the student
body into about twenty teams, as
was done in previous years, the
council is trying to organize sever
ral teams which are more specia-lized
to be sent out to represent
the school and Christ and at the
same time organize other groups
for less experienced students in
which they may gain experience
and practice.
At present about six teams have
been organized, working on the
basis of beginning with a nucleus
of two or three pevsons and build-ing
a team of a group who work
well together including talents for
speaking, reading, piano playing,
and various special music.
Other ideas which are being de-veloped
and around which teams
are being built include a short
play of the, Second Coming of
Christ under the direction of Bob
Malcohm; a program, built on the
slides, belonging to Fred Benke.
presented in the chapel program
last Friday, may also develop into a
team. Programs such as these two,
for which there are already several
requests on file will be developed
primiarily for young people's soci-ety
programs.
Another new idea in this de-partment
is that of students for
service developed as a result of the
many calls which come into the
school for students to serve in var-ious
capacities, expecially in the
Twin Cities. Through this service
many students have been placed
into active service althrough at
present there are still many open-ings
by Mr. Johnson.
Baptists 84%
Of Enrollment
Twelve different faiths, together
with twenty students listed as non-denominational
and ten undesigna-ted
students compose the student
body this year. Baptist young
people, 431 of them in comparison
to 354 last year with almost the
same enrollment, are predominant.
The Baptist are followed by 17
Covenant, 11 Presbyterian and 11
Missionary Alliance young people.
Also represented are the Lutheran,
Free, Reformed, Mennonite, Church
of Christ, Methodist, and Congrega-tional
faiths and the Salvation
Army.
diaotecomuff Nati. 6
The Student Council last
week appointed the following
committee chairmen to work
with its vice-president, John
Dischinger, on the formulation
of plans for the annual Home-coming
event to be held Nov. 6:
Marge Helgren, Decorations;
K a r 1 Lachler, Advertising;
Ralph Larson, Program; Wel-come,
Jim Rehnberg; Social,
Harold Christenson.
The seminary classes taper in
the same manner as the college
with the juniors totaling 60, the
middlemen 28, and the seniors 10.
According to the dean's offices
there are 11 special students in the
seminary and 31 special students
in the college.
There are 292 returning students
on the campus as compared to 224
new students, and this group con-sists
of 327 men and 189 women.
The number of veterans attend-ing
school this year under the GI .,
Bill or Rights is 155. Of these, 118
are old students and 37 are new
on the campus.
When asked where their homes,
IN ere, the answers ranged from the
commonplace of Minnesota to Fin
land. Minnesota- leads with 227
students on the campus, Illinois
with 63, Iowa 35, and Michigan
with 32 follow respectively. Forei-gn
countries represented are Eng-land,
Finland, with one student
each; and Canada, with three de-presentatives.
College Societies
Vie for Members
The race is on. Collegiate socie-ties
were organized on the even-ing
of September 29. The large
turnout of charter members was
an indication of the solid back-ing
and support which the upper-clossmen
are giving to the success
of the collegiate societies.
Keen rivalry exists between
the Lords and Ladies and the
Lads and Lassies. On the even-ing
of September 29 an attitude
of enthusiastic anticipation was
felt. Each group was seething
with ideas, plans and programs
to outdo the other in presenting
a more interesting social pro-gram
for ,,the freshmen and new
students. On the evenings of Oct-ober
15 and October 22 when the
Lords and Ladies, and the Lads
and Lassies shall present their
respective programs with the
purpose of winning the approval
of the potential members and
having them join the respective
collegiate societies on Rush Day,
October 28.
Recognizing that there has been
alack of opportunity in the past
for discovering and developing
leadership among Bethel students,
last year, the Student Council en-trusted
the task of laying the pre-liminary
groundwork for collegiate
societies to a committee.
Boy-GirlRatioSlips
.16 from Year Ago
Bethel men are again losing their
predomiance on the campus—there
are 327 men and 189 girls in school
this year—there is a preportion of
1.73 men per girl as compared to
1.89 last year.
In the Freshman class the men
have only a 10 point edge,-104-94;
the sophomore class is composed
of 105 men and 59 girls, a total of
164; and the Junior class has 29
men to 8 girls. The college Senior
class, the first in history, is com-posed
of 10 men—and only 10 men.
In the Seminary, there are 12
girls, 3 middlemen and 9 Juniors,
or a preportion of about 7 men
per girl.
Left to right: G. Johnson, R. Dalton, C. Germany, H. Peterson.
—Courtesy of St. Paul Dispatch
This year marks the beginning of Bethel Senior College history
as Bethel's first college senior class organizes for its years activities.
The class, composed of ten students, all men, met last week for the
election of officers. A few items of business were discussed although
no definite decisions or plans were made for the year.
Officers who were elected for the year include Roy C. Dalton of
Seat Pleasant, Maryland, President; Charles C. Germany of Chicago,
Illinois, Vice President; George S. Johnson of Rockford, Illinois, Secre-tary;
and Henry Peterson, Ellendale, Minnesota, Treasurer. Dave Tutt,
St. Paul, Minnesota is student council representative and Eugene John-son
is faculty advisor.
Other members of the senior class are Harold Christenson, Musk-egan,
Michigan; Robert Sandin, Carney, Michigan; Vernon Anderson,
Midale, Saskatchewan, Canada; and Vernon Olson, Montrose, South
Dakota; Leonard Sutton, Saum, Minnesota.
The Clarion States Policy in
Regard to Collegiate Societies
The coming of collegiate societies to Bethel campus has brought
opportunity for amateur politicians to exhibit their prowess in winning
new-comers over to their point of view, and ultimately gathering them
into their society. The Clarion will try to present impartially the merits
and demerits of all groups.
The feature writers are evenly divided between the rival organi-zations,
and have free reign to use their columns to the advantage or
disadvantage of their respective societies. Morrie and Hazel represent
the stronghold of the Lords and Ladies, while PatAr Perry and Dave
Osterberg will endeavor to tell why the Lads and Lassies are the super-ior
of the four.
Give them all your crafty ideas and suggestions as how to best_
"put over" your society in the eyes of the new-corners through The
Clarion before Rush Day, October 28. Truly, we live in a competitive
society.
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THE C L A R I O N P'ri day, October g,
by Morrie Engstrom
'Noticed last week we had a five column paper. Last year we had
a four column paper, but this year I understand we have a "Fifth Colum-nist"
outfit. I hope this article isn't printed on the outer edge, because
that's where the "fifth columnists" are.
Women! Women! Women! There are girls all around the Bethel
campus. If you fellows are wondering about the names, here are a couple,
presented in letter form.
Dear FRANZ:
SATHER, how are you? I'd° like to JANKE very must for the letter.
1 had my MALM REED to me after I ROSE this morning. We enjoy
REDIN your letters. I was GLADER than ever to get it. BETTY late
than never. SHIRLEY GLADYS can be to hear of your LITTIE W4NTER
trip to that BERG. Bet you are glad
to be HOLM in your WOOD-HOUSE
again. Some of my FRANZ
took a trip once. They had poor
food. Burnt FRENCH fries, ham-burgers
too WELDON, even the
BU N ESS burned; HARI NG that
tasted ALETA like MUSKA; and
Shreaded ALLSTON. The waitress
said, 'WANDA buy a duck?" It
would be a JOY, they thought.
Maybe that would PHYLLIS. The
food gave them a PANEY, but they
managed to GRIBJBELL it down
DALEY. The water was CLARYCE
mud, so they would always TIP-PETT
over. When they finally did
LEAF this resort, the weather was
LOIS it had ever been. Much KOH-LER
in a small HAMLETT, I
guess. Going home the CARMEN
sang, "Oh sweet Miss TIERNEY of
life at last I've GUTSCH E." One
lady butted in on the singing, but
her mouth would WIDEN so much
when she sang that she TEATERS
off the seat. She had to HALVER-SON
hold her to keep her from
LANDEN on the floor. It takes a
lot ELNERVA to LOVAAS bad
singing as that. Her singing could
r,'t WINIFRED. Fred would only
say, "AUDREY up and blow away.
I can't waste my LOVONNE you,
but OLLIE MAE. Furthermore,
DAHL say you're LEWI'S in the
head.
ALLEN his friends are here. Al
just said, "MEYER looking fine."
I felt like telling him his new
SLACK suit fits LUCY on him,
but thought I'd better LEGGETT
go and not MARTHA friendship we
have. WILMA friendship with him
last forever? Quite a contrast. He
fat. EILEEN. IRIS always a skinny
guy.
AVIS just going ye close now.
If I wrote more than the GANG-WISH
no telling what they'll
FAYE. OLGA and leave you now.
Say ALOHA to all my pals. OMAN,
just saw JOANNE his wife say What did the freshmen them-good-
bye. SEAQUIST him good-bye. selves have to say on the subject?
This is the ARDYCE letter I They rang out in a chorus, "What
have ever written. a relief!" when they heard about
Love, tile discontinuing of the old cus-
Morrie tom.
The story of Mary and the precious nard (Matthew 26:6-13) with
which she anointed the Lord Jesus is familiar to all but it has lessons
of abiding value. In it we see pure unselfish love expressing itself freely
and sincerely. To the Master, Mary's act was important-because He saw
behind it her devotion, and He declaren that wherever the gospel was
she had done would be told for a
of love was revealed in the anoint-
The Power of Love
Initiations—are they gdod or bad? This subject has been in the
center of discussions ever since school started and here are the view
to our roving reporter.
Intellects Reflect
points of some of the students as told
Verona Gribbell _ thought t h e
Freshman Reception this year was
a much better way of initiating the
freshmen as compared with the
party held last year.
As an upper clansman, Paul Wick
missed not being able to watch the
fun this year that is always con-nected
with the initiation of the
freshman.
r
Campus Politics: At the Stud-ent
Council meeting last week
it was voted to make an initial
grant of $200.00 to the collegiate
clubs—$50.00 to each local. Your
Council has been in session once
a week since the quarter began.
Early upon its agenda was the
appointment of v a r s it y team
trainers, a chapel pianist, song
leader, and organist, and a pep
squad. — Homecoming is slated
for November 6; a non-confer-ence
tilt with Emmetsburg is
scheduled.
Anaesthesia: Put away those No-
Doz tablets—you can stay awake
in class! That is if faculty and
students realize that our building
is small and classes, are crowded.
Stale air brings on the dregs of
Morpheus. See to it that plenty of
fresh air is in circulation each per-iod.
Might even mean fewer colds,
too.
Evolution: An idea began wrig-gling
last year, "We, need an-other
organization. Organized to
meet different needs!" A com-mittee
was formed to 're-search'
the needs. "Lit' societies," was
the suggestion. Maybe. Seems too
narrow in scope. "Sororities and
Frats, then?" No, a thousand
times. "How about fellow-girl
groups?" Perhaps. Getting better.
"Well, then, how about two set
of twins, each with brother and
sister counterparts?" O.K. Per-fect!
Now we're cookin'. "Col-legiate
clubs?" Yep! Fine)
Candid repeat: "A" siblings vs
"B" siblings; Arconians and La-docians
vs. Sopholadians and
Alethilassians; Lords and Ladies
contested with Lads and Lassies.
(Might as well call it "battle of
Pa and Ma against Sonny and
Sis" Same old famliy trouble the
race has seen for centuries. The
Kids are pretty clever though.
They'll win this round too, over
the Old-man and the Old-lady.
The Old Folks are of a past
generation, you know.)
Inflation: Ubung macht den
Meister (practice makes perfect),
but it's expensive-. Organ practice
hour—$.40. For beginners at five
hours per week — $2.00. Ten
weeks per quarter—$20.00. Three
quarters per year—$60.00. Advanc-ed
students at three hours per week
costs $36.00 per year.
For Vets Only
Subsistence allowance payments
of most veterans will not be due
until early November. That is the
reminder given this week by the
Veterans Administration. The VA
official also said that because of
that vast clerical task involved in
preparing and mailing thousands of
checks it is impossible to distribute
all checks the same day—there-fore
checks ordinarily should not
Bethel Male Quartet
Returns to School
The Bethel Male. Quartette, con-sisting
of Bob Sandin, Paul Leaf-blad,
Jim Rentz, and Don Patet,
has returned to school again this
year after spending the summer
touring the middle west and west-ern
parts of the country giving con-certs
to many conference churches.
The tour lasted eleven weeks
and four days, and registered 12,000
miles on the "weiner." The Quar-tette
sang in sixteen states of
which were Wisconsin, I o w a,
Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minne-sota.
North Dakota, Montana,
Washington, British Columbia,
Oregon, California, Arizona, Color-ado,
Nebraska, and South Dakota.
be considered overdue until at
least the fifth day of the month.
Sorry fellows—it will be awhile
yet.
filled the whole
Men Disregard
Diety of Christ
Just recently I read an editorial
in a Minneapolis newspaper that
called attention to the assassina-tion
of Count Folke Bernadotte of
Sweden who was the United Nat-ions
mediator in the Palestinian
crisis. It asserted that peace-loving
men the world over were sickened
by such brutal, senseless crime
which had snuffed out the lives of
eminent persons of good will—
Gandhi, Lincoln, Socrates, and the
Nazarene.
It is true, morally speaking, that
these acts of violence are hisheart-ening
tragedies. BUT, as a Chris-tian,
the realization of the cause of
such despicable deeds is far more
sickening to me. The cause, MAN'S
DISREGARD OF GOD, lies in the
editorial already referred to. Not
only has the writer relegated the
Eternal God to a place of mortali-ty,
but he has deigned to place
mortal men before Him. How it
must crush the heart of God to
be spurned by His creation!
It should also crush our hearts
as Christians that our Savior and
our Mediator should be rejoiced by
our fellow beings. The realization
of this fact brings a challenge to
us to stand fast in the Faith, for
we, by His grace, are the light of
this dying, sin-darkened world.
D. N. Osterberg
surrounded by critical people. In
Mark's account of the incident he
tells us that "there were some that
had indignation within them-selves."
Doubtless she sensed their
feelings even before Judas openly
censured her, but she was under-terred.
The Lord's comment upon Mary's
deed reveals that she prossessed a
rare degree of spiritual discern-ment,
which can also be attributed
tc her affection for Christ. Accord-ing
to Jesus, she anointed His body
in anticipation of His burial. We
cannot determine the degree of her
discernment or how much she un-derstood
about the Lord's impend-ing
death but doubtless she dis-cerned
more than the other disci-ples.
For this reason she seized the
cpportunity to perform a ministry
of love which the other women who
later came to the empty tomb had
hoped to perform. Mary's love was
not blind but discerning and fore-sighted.
Love for Christ enriches the
soul and delights the Master.
There is good reason to sing with
the poet:
More love, 0 Christ, to Thee,
More love to Thee;
Hear Thou the prayer I make on
bended knee;
This is my earnest plea,
More love, 0 Christ, to Thee.
E. J. Omark
4; em5 of Tbougbt
By President Wingblade
The story is told of an epidemic
breaking cut in a zoo, especially
among the tigers, and one after the
other died. Scientists were baf-fled
— having no explanation . for
the strange disease. Finally, upon
examination of one of the tigers,
there was found in his blood
stream a microscopic creature ex-actly
resembling a tiger. It was
the tiger's own facsimile that was
killing him.
And that is the trouble with
mankind today and yesterday. It
is the problem of self or the
"flesh" as the Bible puts it. Spell
'flesh" backwards and take off the
"II," and you have "self."
In the Old Testament, Amalek
or the Amalekites symbolized the
flesh. In Israel's experience Egypt
represents "the world," the wilder-ness
"the flesh" experience, and in
the promised land itself "the devil"
(spiritually) did not leave them
alone.
And many a Christian today is
still in the wilderness living the
carnal life of self.
Saul was commanded to exter-minate
the Amalekites, but he fail-ed
to obey God's word—with the
result that he failed ignominiously
as God's servant and king.
In the New Testament the
"flesh" is ruler out. "All flesh is
grass and the goodliness thereof is
the flowers of the field." In the
flesh dwelleth no good thing, and
no one who glories in the flesh
will be able to stand in the pre-sence
of God.
The recipe for the problem and
the disease is found in the eigth
chapter of Romans, "Who shall de-liver
me from this body of death?
I thank God — through Jesus
Christ" (Romans 7:24). It is only
as we let the Holy Spirit take full
possession and enthrone Christ in
the heart that flesh will be put to
naught.
Live for self, you live in vain;
Live for Christ, you live again;
Live, for Him, with Him you reign--
Pass it on."
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hearty thank-you to Jean Lind-bloom
for her cheery willingness
to work untimely hours in the
office to make Clarion Extras pos-sible.
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Morrie's Glories
Meditation
•
Beverly Lewis puts it this way:
"A good initiation party should
serve to acquaint the freshmen
mill the school and with the other
students."
As Wilbur Madsen looks on his
fi-esnmen days and when he was
initiated, he decides it really was
a lot of fun.
When Bob Gillquist was asked to
reflect his views on the subject,
he said, "I think initiations are all
right in their place, but should be
kept at a level that is consistent
ith Christian principles."
preached in the whole world, what
nienorial of her. A three-fold power
Ing of Jesus by Mary.
Mary's love expressed itself in liberality. She used an exceedingly
precious ointment, pouring out the entire contents of her alabaster cruse.
Someone else might have been coldly calculating, keeping a portion for
self or for another occasion, but Mary gave all. The ointment was pure
and therefore costly. Its purity is attested by the fact that the fragrance
house. We note also that Mary's love
made her courageous. This act of
devotion took place, not in her
own home but in the house of
Simon the leper, where she was
Waistt
Sam
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Last Saturday night, the Bethel Gridders lost their season opener
to Sioux Falls, by a score of 25 to 12.
Where Bethel was short on total points scored, statistics showed
that they gained more yardage rushing and more first downs than their
victors. The local team gained 213 yards rushing, 96 yards on completed
passes, and made 11 first downs, compared to 64 yards gained rushing,
228 yards on completed passes, and 9 first downs, for Sioux Falls.
Beside the two touchdowns, the Bethel gridders threatened to score
three times in the last half by being inside Sioux Fall's 10 yard line.
Goldsmith's and Goodirch's tackling ability counted for much of
the breaking up of the Sioux Falls plays.
Roy Johnson took the ball on the opening kickoff and was downed
on Bethel's 10 yard line. A series
of plays made little gain and John-son's
punt on the fourth down was
blocked and rolled back behind
the Indian's goal and was downed
by a Sioux Falls Brave to put
Bethel behind by six points. The
extra point was missed.
Committee Selects
Cheerleaders for
Current Season
by Roger Hedberg
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It is the desire of the sportstaff to give a good deal of attention
to the minor sports, as well as the major ones. Thus, we would encour-age
all golfers and tennis players who would like to be on golf and
tennis teams to contact the sports department and if there are enough
interested, perhaps competetion can be lined up for the Spring quarter.
A significant tradition held high by all of Bethel's past sportsmen
has once again been carried out this year. A spirit of Christian sports-manship
was displayed at Sioux Falls last week and it is a privilege to
support a team that it known for such qualities.
Last year grid game with Rochester ended with a score of 14-0, with
the Indians being on the losing end. The hard fought first three quarters
were scoreless, however, a steady passing attach by the Yellow Jackets
netted them two touchdowns in the last six minutes of play.
The team will be expecting the entire student body to be on hand at
Highland Park tomorrow to cheer them on to a hopeful victory. Don't
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Friday, October 8, 1948 THE CLARION Page 3
Indians Meet R
Opener Dropped
To Sioux Falls
Chester Tomorrow
Sioux Falls' kickoff went to Dan
Bloom who took it on his own 10
yard line and raced back to the 30.
After a series of plays, Johnson
punted when Sioux Falls then took
over on their own 45 yard line.
On their third down, the vistors
completed a long pass for their
second touchdown. The extra point
was made and the score at the
close of the first period read 13-0.
favor of Sioux Falls.
In the second quarter, Daley
returned a punt from the op-ponents
40 to the 35 yard line
where the Indians' offensive abil-ity
began to roll. A pass and a
run brough the Indians 10 yards
closer to pay dirt. Johnson then
took a perfect 20 yard pass from
Daley and was dropped on the
Sioux Falls 1 yard line when
Danny Bloom then plunged over
the zero stripe for Bethel's first
score. Bennett Asplund's try for
extra point failed to go through
the uprights.
Sioux Falls then came back and
scored their third touchdown late
in the second period when another
pass, good for 40 yards, was com-pleted.
The extra point was missed
and the half ended with the Bethel
men trailing, 19-6.
In the third period, Sioux Falls
completed another 40 yard pass
which was carried into Bethel's
end zone chalking up the last
touchdown for the victors. The
extra point was missed. The In-dians
started a drive byJohnson's
return of the kickoff from the 5
to the 20 yeard line. Bloom then
picked up 8 yards through the
line and Daley and Skoog followed
with one each. The third quarter
then ended with Sioux Falls lead-ing
25-6. A play good for 40 yards
was executed by a lateral from
Johnson to Skoog. During the next
several plays the Bethel boys roll-ed
to Sioux Falls one yard line
where once again Danny Bloom
plunged over for another Bethel
touchdown. The extra point was
missed and the score stood at 25-
12.
Bethel's kickoff was run back
to Sioux Fall's 30. The opponents
tossed a pass which was intercept-ed
by Fredericks. A Bethel pass by
Skoog was then intercepted and
Sioux Falls took control again.
Sioux Falls was forced to kick and
a return to Bethel's 30 yard line
by Johnson started another drive
only to be interupted by the final
gun, ending the game, 25-12, with
Sioux Falls on top.
"Its a lot of fun," was the answer
given by freshman Tom Drury
hen asked how he liked playing
football. Tom is a member of the
Bethel grid squad and shows
plenty of driving power as he
shares the fullback position.
- Although new at Bethel, Tom
feels right at home around the
Twin Cities, as he graduated last
spring from Patric Henry High
School, Minneapolis. The young
athlete is a member of the
Fourth Baptist Church, Minne-eapolis.
Tom is 18 years old, weighs 180
pounds, stands 5 foot 11 inches,
and doesn't like to be called a
"red-head" so we'll say that his
haid is auburn. While in high
school, Tom favored the sport of
football and played three years at
the guard position, during which
he developed into a key lineman
on the first string squad. He re-ceived
a letter each year.
When asked about his purpose
in life, Tom stated that he, wants
to be a coach and Physical Ed-ucation
Instructor. A big smile
of approval came over his face'
when he said that he really
thought that Bethel was a won-derful
school. Two years is all
Tom thinks 'he will spend at
Bethel and then he wants to
either carry on his college educa-tion
at Augsburg College or the
University of Minnesota.
Like all the rest of the Indian
Gridders, Tom is anxious to get
into action on the gridiron to help
set a pace that will bring victory
to his team.
Game Will Be at
Highland Field
To get to Highland Stadium,
take the Snelling Avenue Streetcar
at the corner of Arlington and
Pascal streets, just two blocks East
of school, and go South on Snelling
Avenue to Highland Park. Get off
the streetcar at the water tower
which is at the South end of the
park and then walk East to the
football field.
Bethel students will be admitted
to the games free, upon showing
of their student activity card. Be
sure to be at Highland Stadium for
tomorrow's game as well as all the
coming home games of the season.
Remember that kickoff time is 2
p.m. and don't forget your activi-ties
card.
The school welcomes Mr. Clar-ence
D. Holstrom (above) who is
well on his way in his position as
Football Coach of the Bethel In-dians.
This season is Mr. Hol-strom's
first at Bethel. After college
days, the new mentor taught in
several highschools in North Da-kota
for eleven years, during
which time he coached several
highschool football teams, includ-ing
two undefeated seasons at
Cavalier, N. D.—St. Paul Dispatch
Photo.
Do the words near the bottom
of this article look familiar to
you? If not, you evidently didn't
attend the Freshmen Reception.
Those lines, underclassmen, are
our School Song.
It is required, by the end of
this quarter, that everyone has
memorized these words in their
proper order, so start right now.
Bethel's School Song
Stand up and cheer
Ye loyal friends and students of
our Bethel College
Hold high the torch of victories
gone before
Rah! Rah! Rah!
Give of your best and do not
rest but fight with zest
We never falter—onward we go,
To triumph now and evermore.
Freshmen, if you don't re-member
the tune just ask any
sophomore to sing it for you.
Bethel's gridmen will meet the
Rochester Yellowjackets tomorrow
afternoon at Highland Park. St.
Paul, for their first home contest
and also their initial conference
game. Rochester will be defending
their last year's 33-0 victory over
the Indians, which will intensify
the competition and prove to be
an exciting game.
The locallers only game so far
this season was played last Sat-urday
when they lost 25 12 to the
Sioux Falls Braves, at Sioux
Falls. Rochester comes to the
Cities with two victories to their
credit, having won their opener
with Northland College, 14-0 and
won their first conference game
with Waldorf College last Sat-urday,
20-6.
Last week's bow to Sioux .Falls
lid not dishearten the Indians as
they proved their ability to enter
the scoring column. This past
eek, Coach Holstrom has been
intensively drilling the secondary
on pass defense and also the entire
team on the weaknesses noticed
at Sioux Falls.
A spirited Bethel eleven will be
prepared to meet Rochester tomor-
VOW to mar the Yellowjackets' win-ning
record and to preVent them
from repeating last year's perfor-mance.
Be sure to attend to cheer
on the team.
Probable Starting Lineups
Ostenberg
LE
Gave
Goldsmith
LT
Klingsporn
Goodrich
LG
Anderson
Asplund
C
Gray
Janke RG
Wegner
Brunko
RT
Berman
Sandberg
RE
Fahrman
Skoog
QB
Gillespie
Bloom
LH
Mahoney
Johnson R. RH
Vine
Daley
FB
Larson
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According to Bob Nelson, Pep
Squad leader, fifteen Bethelites,
both guys and gals, have turned
out to tryout their abilities at
throwing their limbs in all direc-tions,
yelling, and turning flips, in
order to qualify for the Pep Squad
team. A team of four regulars and
two alternates, will be picked by
the Pep Squad Committee.
Bob Nelson states that a red and
white uniformed pep squad is ex-pected
to be on hand at Highland
Stadium tomorrow afternoon to
lead the cheers of the Bethel fans,
cheering the Learn to a hopeful
victory over Rochester.
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Climaxing two weeks of welcom-ing
activities the Newcomer Re-ception
was held Friday evening,
September 24. All new persons on
the campus this season—freshmen,
some upper-classmen, several facul-ty
members, and administrative as-sistants—
were guests of honor for
the affair.
A brief program featuring a
short address by Professor Eng-wall
presented "the official wel-come"
to the newcomers. An in-formal
hour following the program
was held in the campus dining-hall
where student representatives,
deans of the two schools, and Dr.
Wingblade formed a receiving line
to greet the new students.
Souvenirs bearing the school
seal, the school colors, a scripture
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THE CLARION rriday, October 8, 1948
Finland Leader Studies at Bethel Minnesota State
B.Y.P.U. Holds
19th Convention Elect Fall Officials
An election of officers was held by the collegiate societies Septem-ber
29. The officers are to service through January, at which time a
new group of students shall be elected in order that more students
might receive experience.
Upon the students listed below rests the responsibility of initiating
and maintaining programs that shall aim to achieve the goals of col-legiate
societies: Lords—Fac. Adv., Prof. S. J. Schultz; Pres., Bob
2nd v-pres., Gordon Platt; Seer., Bob
Daley; Treas., Bud Weber; Soc.
Chrm., Pete Welch. Ladies—Advi-ser,
Mrs. Wyman Malmsten; Pres.,
Mrs. Evelyn Christenson; 1st v-pres.,
Hazel Bondeson; 2nd v-pres.,
Charlott Ekberg; Seer., Faye Sea-quiS.
1; Treas., Marilyn Fredrick-son;
Soc. Chm., Alice Ginther. Las-sies—
Fac. Adv., Mrs. S. J. Schultz;
Pres., Mrs. Betty Jo Greenman; 1st
v-pres., Violet Laven; 2nd v-pres.,
Georgene Anderson; Seer., Mrs.
Rose Peterson; Treas. Florence
Nordstrom; Soc. Chrm., Virginia
Hanson. Lads—Fac. Adv., Prof. M.
Lawson; Pres., Bob Nelson; 1st
v-pres., Perry Hedberg; 2nd v-pres.,
Dave Osterberg; Seer., John Sone-son;
Treas., John Peterson; Soc.
Chrm., Bob Hamlett.
Collegiate Societies
Introducing
Robert Sandin
A Student Leader
In this issue we are proud to pre-sent
Bob Sandin, another outstand-ing
Bethelite. This is his fifth year
at Bethel and finds him at last a
member of the exclusive set of
campus dignitaries known as Sen-iors.
(Bethel boasts of ten such
individuals this year). But perhaps
we should hasten to add it hasn't
really taken Bob five years to go
through college; he has a year of
Seminar to his credit, too. And
after graduation he plans to com-plete
two more years of Seminary
study. He has majored in philoso-phy
and minored in history.
Whether in years to come Bob will
be a teacher or a pastor, he
doesn't quite know yet, but be-lieves
it will probably be the latter.
Bob now hails from Carney in
the upper penninsula of Michigan
although his home was in Chicago
for some time. He is just twenty-one,
is interested in music, philoso-phy
and sports and has a friendly
manner and a very pleasing per-sonality.
Bob Sandin is probably most
widely known around Bethel as the
high tenor in the Bethel Quartet,
which he has been singing with,
ever since they were organized
over a year and a half ago. His
dark hair, hazel eyes, and five
feet, seven inches makes him easi-ly
recognizable in the Quartet.
Quite active in sports, Bob has
letters in both baseball and basket-ball.
He is to be ass't. coach to
coach Edwards in basketball this
season, and is an enthusiastic par-ticipant
in many other sports (in-cluding
handball, for which he was
vigorously practicing during this
interview).
Editing The Clarion and presid-ing
over the Student Council have
been Bob's duties in the past and
acting as Chairman of the Execu-tive
Council for the Bethel Student
Field House is, among other things,
helping to keep him occupied this
year.
Do you know what Char Ek-berg's
famous last words were as
she monitored first floor the
other night? .. . `Sh!"
It's a known fact that Shirley
Anderson is going to try a fainting
spell one of these days, because
when that happened to someone
else a big, strong, handsome lad
came to the rescue and carried
the young lady out of the room. A
word to the wise is sufficient:
Gentlemen, beware.
What is the amber liquid serv-ed
in the dining hall? My worthy
colleague (Gorey Morrie) says it
reminds him of some of the
freshmen around here-90% of
the active ingredients removed
from the bean.
Jim Hubbard (better known as
"Tubby Hubby") was asked by his
sister: "Do you ever do any study-ing?"
He answered, "Studying!
Who cares about that? I'm going
to college.'
Riddle of the Week: Professor
Lawson recently opened a Flit
bomb in the class, So now Bill
Wright Is asking everyone, "Who
serves Flit with his Lit?"
The nineteenth annual Minne-sota
BYPU convention was held
September 24 through 26 at the
Fourth Baptist church in Minne-apolis.
Dr. Bob Jones, Sr., founder
of Bob Jones university, was the
guest speaker.
The convention, which more than
200 young people attended, opened
with a banquet Friday evening.
Saturday morning sessions includ-ed
a number of group meetings
with discussions on various sub-jects
and a business meeting about
the state-wide work.
Rev. Herb Hazzard, state Youth
Director for the Minnesota Baptist
Convention presented his plan for
the year's work which included a
$2,500.
An outing at Excelsior Park
Saturday afternoon was enjoyed by
everyone and also the singspiration
held Saturday evening at the
church.
The convention was climaxed
with a Youth Rally on Sunday
afternoon. Highlights of the pro-gram
were vocal numbers from
Pruth McFarlin and the message
"God's Opportunity on Wheels" de-livered
by Dr. Jones.
Installation of the new officers
was held Sunday afternoon also.
The officers are: Jane Larson,
president; Jim Cook, vice presi-dent;
Jacquelyn Royce, secretary;
and Bob Gillquist, treasurer.
The number of students who
turned out to the organizational
meetings of the collegiate societies
was very encouraging. Interest and
enthusiasm ran high, and pros-pects
for the forthcoming year
are bright. Bert wishes to the Lads
and Lassies, but better wishes to
the Lords and Ladies. I hereby
urge all new students to join the
good society — the Lords and
Ladies.
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held. The meeting was opened by
greetings to new members by the
president, Wally Peterson. Paul
Anderson read the scripture and
led in prayer. A few minutes of
introducing was held as the mem-bers
stood up and introduced them
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The evening message was
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Placing of overshoes in the cor-ridor;
3. Keeping attic clean and
orderly.
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Rev. Sundell confering with Ramsey county welfare agent.
—Courtesy of St. Paul Dispatch
From Finland to Bethel College is quite a journey, but Samuel Alwar
Sundell feels that it was worth it to come all that way. He arrived
two weeks ago to spend a year in this country to study under a special
scholarship from the World Council of Churches. / His interests lie in
the direction of Religious Education and Government. With this in
view he is taking several courses in the seminary along with his college
work.
Rev. Sundell comes from the ancient city of Vasa in Finland. He
is the secretary of the Swedish Baptist Young Peoples' Association in
his country. Besides this he is the editor of the Swedish Baptist news-paper
"Missions-Standaret," and is serving on the city council of Vasa.
Everything about and around Bethel are of keen interest to Rev.
Sundell. He is a bit at a loss as yet to understand such typically
American institutions as football, but as anyone who has spoken to
him knows, he is out to find out all that he can. He is living two
blocks from the campus in a private home. He hasn't had much oppor-tunity
as yet to see much of the surrounding country, but he has al-ready
ventured the opinion that " you have a very pleasant climate
here." Of course, he still has one of those Minnesota winters to live
through as yet.
byy Hazel
Recently a freshman girl asked me, "Why don't they print something
funny in the Clarion?" The saddest part of it was that she meant it.
What do you say, Morrie? What's your excuse?
Speaking of freshmen, there are approximately fifteen from the East
coast this year, 99-44/100% pure girls. This is only proof of the fact that
the Male Chorus trip was a success last year.
Did you know that those flying saucers of which we have all read
have finally found a resting place in room 127 at the Girls' Dorm? You
really have to see it to believe it; and since this is such a startling
scientific phenomena, I think everyone should be allowed to witness it.
However, if some people cannot get past certain regulations,—don't tell
anyone, but it's the window with
the ladder hanging out.
Sandin; 1st v-pres., Bob Mansky;
Meeting Held by
Married Students