Proxy Poimts Out Righlights for Visitors
President Lundquist directs the attention of a group ui prospective students to various points of
interest on campus. Students pictured are Ara Lou Guston, Al Webster, Lois Larson, Dale Rundell, and
Bud Malmsten.
Tickets are now on -sale for King Oedipus, junior class play, sched-uled
for presentation on Friday, April 15, 8 p.m. Sellers include Al
Glenn, Donn Goss, Jim MacFayden, Phil Caldeen, and Dave Johnson.
Being a Greek drama requiring
very little staging, there will be a
minimum of handicaps in pre-senting
the play within the chapel.
However, Les Funk, who is de-signing
the scenery for the play,
is undertaking surrealistic effects
in both scenery and make-up.
Optimism
Takes Toll
In Education
Prospectives Crowd the Campus
Operetta Open
to All Students
Free of Charge
As a special feature for Pro-spective
Student Days the student
senate presents the operetta "Sun-day
Excursion" today at 2:30 p.m.
in the college chapel. All college
and seminary students and per-sonnel
are invited.
The time of "Sunday Excursion"
is around the turn of the century.
The scene—a section of a Sunday
Excursion coach on the New York,
New Haven, and Hartford Rail-road.
In the story four college
students are returning to their
campus after an uneventful ex-cursion
trip to the "city." Ex-pectations
were not met—and the
atmosphere of disgust prevails.
The climax centers around the
general question: Will their day
remain uneventful ?
The two coeds are played by
Marilyn Hagstrom, soprano, as
Alice, and Carol Engholm, alto,
as Veronica. The sophisticated col-lege
boys are Ron Eckert, tenor,
as Hillary, and Dale Nystrom,
baritone, as Marvin. John Ander-son,
bass-baritone, plays the role
' of Tim, the vendor.
Carol Martinson, is the pianist
for the production which is direct-ed
by Mr. Roger Bailey. Les Funk
is stage manager.
Following the operetta "Sunday
Excursion," the prospects will
meet the faculty and senate mem-bers
at an informal "Coffee Hour"
in the student center. The senate
committee hopes that many ques-tions
will be answered for the pro-spectives
as they discuss their
future education informally with
the faculty.
The Rev. Gerald Smith, religious
editor of the St. Paul Dispatch,
will be the guest speaker for the
banquet. His son, Clifford Smith,
is enrolled in the Bethel semin-ary.
Other special attractions have
not been released by the commit-tee
yet. They did explain, how-ever,
that transportation will be
available through those who are
planning to attend and have cars.
been picked as the
April 12, 6:30 p.m.
staffs will be guests
inn of Stillwater, Minn.
Spire Finished
Editor Marlys
Gives a Sigh
"It's all in at the printers now,"
says Marlys Malmsten, editor of
Spire, Bethel's yearbook. "We
took the last of the 140 pages to
the printer last Friday, April 1."
Behind the book which is now
at press lies a year of long range
planning begun last spring and
many hours of difficult and ted-ious
layout and time-consuming
tasks.
"The only task left now," ac-cording
to Marlys, "is the less tax-ing
one of distributing the Spire
on its publication date, May 27."
Concert for Choir
A weekend tour by the college
choir will climax with a concert
in Chicago's Orchestra Hall on
Saturday evening, April 23. Or-chestra
Hall is the home of the
Chicago Symphony Orchestra and
is the main auditorium for musi-cal
events in the Chicago area.
Performing along with the choir
at the concert will be bass soloist,
Bill Carle. Mr. Carle has given
command performances at the
White House and has appeared
with the New York Philharmonic
Orchestra.
The choir will leave school Fri-day
noon, April 22, and will pre-sent
a concert at Cedar Falls,
Iowa, that evening. They will also
sing at a conveniently located
conference church on Sunday.
The choir's appearance at Or-chestra
Hall is being sponsored by
the Chicago chapter of the Bethel
Alumni Association, of which the
Rev. Gunnar Hoglund is in charge.
Almost 200 visiting high school
students have invaded the campus
for Bethel's annual Prospective
Student Days scheduled for April
4-6. A busy itinerary will keep the
visitors occupied with some inter-esting
aspects of college life dur-ing
their stay on campus.
The effects of spring are al-ready
beginning to take their toll
among the Bethel intellectuals.
Last Thursday a discouraged pro-fessor
walked into his classroom
with a plan all set for the course
of the day. To his surprise none
of the students were prepared for
the agenda.
The professor uttered, "Now
you've upset all my plans for the
day!"
Quipped native Californian Don
Stipe, "Well then — let's just go
outside and soak up some sun-tan."
Over 150 prospective students
are now registered, but the regis-tration
committee has predicted
that by tonight registration will
total 200, including Twin City
guests.
OPERETTA
This afternoon the prospective
students and student body are
guests of the student senate at
a special production of the oper-etta
"Sunday Excursion," given in
the college chapel at 2:30.
BASKETBALL GAME
Of interest to the students as
well as the prospectives is this
afternoon's basketball game be-tween
the varsity and the pro :
spective's team, starting at 4:00
in the fieldhouse.
MUSICAL
A large crowd of faculty mem-bers,
students, and prospectives
is expected for tonight's musical
"Notes of Spring," sponsored by
the senate and the music depart-ment,
and held in the college
chapel starting at 8:00 p.m. For
all these events the Senate has
invited the entire student body,
faculty, and administration.
FMF Features
Southern Field
at Next Meeting
The South American mission
field will be portrayed at the For-eign
Mission Fellowship meeting
to be held April 14, at 7 p.m. in
the student center lounge. This is
a relatively new field, and stu-dents
interested in its extent and
opportunities are urged to attend.
The Rev. John Wilcox, Foreign
Missions Secretary of the Baptist
General Conference, will be the
speaker and will also show pic-tures
of South America. A ques-tion
and answer period will be
provided. Another important part
of the meeting will be the election
of officers for the new school
year.
The Rev. Wilcox will be the
Seminary chapel speaker April 14
and will be available for inter-views
in the afternoon in the lib-rary
conference room.
Preceding the play will be a
brief prologue in which the pro-duction
and significance of Greek
drama will be discussed. This will
be another innovation along with
costuming, staging, and make-up.
Director John P. Woods, instruc-tor
in English, has reported good
progress in the cast rehearsals.
Cal Peterson, senior, is playing
the lead role of King Oedipus.
Working on publicity are Har-old
Richardson . and Gloria Svend-son;
staging, Phil Caldeen and
Dave Johnson; finances, Donn
Goss.
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Busy Schedule Prevails
Publications Banquet
to be Held at Lowell Inn
Again the Lowell Inn's "Garden Room" has
scene for the publications banquet scheduled for
Members from both the Spire and the CLARION
for a complete chicken dinner at the reputable
Complete plans for the banquet
are being taken care of by the
publications council. Marilyn An-derson,
chairman of the council,
has announced that invitations are
being mailed to all staff members
bers who are eligible to attend.
All other guests will pay only for
the dinner, priced at $3.50 per
plate. Marilyn also explained that
the banquet has now become an
annual affair as a means to ex-press
appreciation to staff mem-bers
for the hours of work ex-pended
on publications each year.
At Orchestra Hall II"i ckets Go On Sale
Set for April 23
For "King Oedipus"
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THE CLARION
Tuesday, April 5, 1955
Welcome Prospectives ! Choir Trip Reflections
FOR THREE DAYS this is your campus. We're glad you've come.
We want you to feel at home.
WE'RE PROUD of what Bethel has to offer. We have a steadily
expanding curriculum, a fast-growing library, and a big building pro-gram,
not to mention a faculty that's collecting Ph.D.'s by the hatful-all
this with a positive evangelical emphasis.
BUT DON'T MISS the things that really make Bethel our school.
Try to get in on a dormitory bull session or hen session, or a popcorn
party, or a few rounds of pingpong or bucketball. Join some of our
local philosophers in the coffee shop in discussing politics or culture
or the new girls on campus or the baseball team. Have patience with
the long meal lines too; you can have some interesting conversations,
there. If you can, get in on one of the dorm prayer meetings where
Christian fellowship helps to create spiritual unity among us.
MAKE SOME FRIENDS while you're here. One thing we will never
forget from our college days is the friendships we've made here: the
long, intimate talks; the companionship shared; the new ideas gained.
WE HOPE you'll enjoy the three frantic days you spend in our
company. And we hope many of you will decide that Bethel is your
kind of school.
Please Pass the Pancakes
- to Someone Else
(ACP)—Breakfast, or rather the lack of it, was the concern of
recent feature articles in the Michigan State College News and UCLA
Daily Bruin. From California came that empty feeling that the "major-ity
of Bruins are no bears at the breakfast table," with statistics
showing that more than 50 per cent of the students at UCLA eat al-most
nothing for their morning meal.
Only one per cent of the several hundred UCLA'ns interviewed,
sighed the Daily Bruin, ate what was considered a really full break-fast,
and at least 20 per cent of this group admitted they were "chroni-cally
tired."
The Michigan State News was able to find only one lone student
who confessed he actually ate breakfast every single day.
Editor's note: Aren't people funny on other campuses?
Easter Morn
If I had been there as the angels appeared from the darkness of the
tomb, would I have believed their message ? He was not there.
He had risen.
Had I been there in the garden as He appeared would I have recognized
and worshipped Him ?
Would my heart have burned, talking to the Stranger on the road to
Emmaus ? Would I have invited Him to my home?
Had I stood at the top of the mountain as He ascended, would I have
believed that this was the Savior of the world?
Rouse yourself then, my soul, to inherit His promise: 'Blessed are they
that have not seen, and yet believe."
The Good Old Days
by Betty Hendrickson
When we think of education we usually think of a chemistry labora-tory
or college classes in philosophy or history, but these are only
the higher steps in the stairway of education. The climbing begins on
the important lower steps where we learn the fundamentals of reading,
writing, and arithmetic without which advanced education would be
impossible. On these lower steps we also learn the discipline of studying
and the art of living, working, and playing harmoniously with other
people.
My experience in education began in a little one-room schoolhouse
which for fifty years had served the people of our farming community.
There was certainly nothing pretentious about the building itself; it
obviously needed paint both inside and outside, the steps were ready
to collapse, and the whole frame seemed to rest precariously on its
foundation; yet this simple gray-white building has left an indelible
impression on my mind because there I learned my most valuable
lessons.
My first teacher was Miss Anderson, a pretty young woman who
successfully taught eight classes in a variety of subjects, kept thirty
pupils reasonably quiet, and somehow found time to give individual
attention to each of us. It was under her patient direction that I shared
with the five other members of my class the miraculous experience
of learning to read. From then on, our library, which consisted of a
single book-case containing perhaps three hundred books, held a part-icular
fascination for me. The three volumes I remember most distinctly
were an oil-cloth-bound copy of "Black Beauty", a smaller book,
"One Hundred and One Famous Poems" with both covers gone, and
the extremely heavy "Webster's Unabridged Dictionary."
The little schoolhouse also gave us opportunity to learn lessons
beyond the realm of books. From close contact with the other pupils
we learned to respect the rights of others. We learned to share the
privileges and responsibilities of the daily chores such as carrying water
and cleaning the blackboards. We also learned the value of team work
and felt the pride of individual and collective accomplishment in schol-astic
projects as well as in the field of sports.
Progress in education has now made these one-room schools almost
non-existent. Consolidation has made possible the wide-spread use of
modern equipment and methods of teaching. I would not want to mini-mize
the value of progress, but I am glad that I had the opportunity
of attending our old-fashioned school because in its very simplicity
there was a certain elusive quality which made learning a particular
delight which I have not found in high school, nursing school, or college.
LASTING MEMORIES
by Bailey Anderson
It's so hard to realize that choir
trip has come and gone. It was
just as Doris Moberg said in her
testimony one night, "an exper-ience
in practical Christian liv-ing."
Every day was a new ex-perience.
One day we would sing
in a large non-conference church
—the next day in a private school.
One night six of us would be to-gether
on a farm—the next night
two of us would be in the home
of a policeman. These things I will
remember only for a little while;
but the minutes spent on the bus
in quiet time, and the half-hour
or so before the concerts will
probably have a far more lasting
effect. It has then that I got to
know each person and his con-cerns
just a little more. I'm grate-ful
that I had the opportunity to
be a part of the choir this year. I
trust that the "Christian love" I
began to experience will become
more manifested within me right
here at Bethel. I sum up my feel-ings
in a phrase of the song,
"Thanks to God for my Redeemer."
Woman's Rights or Man's Wrongs
by Ken Fuller
There are at Bethel certain discriminatory regulations affecting
the female dormitory residents that I feel should be reexamined in order
to determine their basis. These rules referred to are discriminatory in
that they affect only the women at Bethel. Why should the boys get
any favored treatment ? Isn't this a Baptist school—and haven't Baptists
always cried out against injustice and inequality ?
Women age 18 and above are well able o take care of themselves
and to discern between right and wrong. It has been proven by leading
educators and psychologists that girls mature at an earlier age than
boys. This is shown by the fact that women are "of age" at 18 whereas
men must wait till they are 21 to be legally "of age."
Why then impose these restrictions ? Such rules will do little more
than breed frustration and disobedience; whereas recognition of the
actual adult state of our women will help develop a more serious atti-tude
toward life and will help develop future leaders.
Let us look at a couple of these rules. One says that a young woman
must be in by a certain hour. If she is not, she is "campused," or re-stricted
to her room for a number of evenings. This obviously is not
fair. Why should there be hours for women and not for men?
Then again, look at this rule. Once a girl is in her room, and a cer-tain
hour is past, she cannot leave that room. If she does, she may be
campused. This means that she cannot go to the washroom, get a drink,
or see someone about school work without getting penalized. Again,
the boys have no such restriction.
Is this fair ? No, it is not. Something must be done, and done now
to correct this situation. Bethel's women must have the same privileges
as the men.
Editor's note: Since we believe that there are two sides to this
question, as to every question, we will welcome other contributions
both pro and con, on this topic.
Junior Class Play
KING OEDIPUS
Friday, April 15
• and Seminary
PRESS St. Paul, Minn.
DALE NYSTROM, editor; Eloise Anderson,
assistant editor.
NEWS: Marie Magnuson, editor; Carolyn
Anderson, Martha Beaty, Reta Hodgson,
Donna Hohn, Carol Schnorr, Lois Schultz,
Hope Seffens, June Sparling, Doris Welin.
PHOTOGRAPHY: Lynn Crisp.
FEATURES: Phil Caldeen and Rip Moore,
editors; Marilyn Carlson, Adeline Duncan,
Ray Harry, Ardis Larson
SPORTS: Gene Sprinkel, editor; Roger Mo-berg,
Henry Pederson, Roy Walters.
TYPING: Sandy Bleshke, Irene Emanuelson,
Darla Jensen, Mardell Nelson, Betty Nord.
PROOFREADING: Barbara Johnson. CIRCULA-TION:
Susie Kettleson, Bev Markwood.
BUSINESS: Chuck Franson. ADVERTISING:
Paul Schlueter, Bruce Richardson.
DR. VIRGINIA GRABILL, adviser.
Printed by NICOLLET PRINTING CO., Min-neapolis,
Minn. Issued bi-weekly during the
school year.
It Tees Me Off
Student's answers to the ques-tion
"What is your pet gripe?"
Mary Woo: Smoking; I can't stand
people puffing in my face.
Joyce Nelson: People who came
late for breakfast.
Dave Johnson : The prejudice
against wearing hats.
Joe Zacharias: Unfriendly people.
Ramona Prince: Conceited people.
Roy Brottlund : People.
Carroll Erickson: Studying on Sat-day.
Frances Johnson: People who snap
their chewing gum.
Fred Schindeler : Girls who save
places in the lunch line for four
other girls.
Homer Johnson: It takes an awful
lot to bother me.
SPRIG IS CUBBIG
The sun shines bright on melting
snows.
The wind a little softer blows.
Early robins peck and scratch,
Looking for early worms to catch.
A welcome warming southern
breeze
Rustles through the leafless trees.
The beauties of new life unfold.
And me ? I've got another cold.
ACP MEMBER
BETTER THAN GLAMOR
by John Anderson
Glittering New York, the ocean
surf, and all that lies east of
Chicago was what I looked for-ward
to in the choir tour. Be-cause
I had never traveled I put
the glamorous things first and
then faintly expected the Lord's
blessing. Now that the trip is
over, it's not the glamorous things
that are significant, but rather
the prayer meetings before the
concerts, and the assurance dur-ing
the concerts that the Lord was
so very near. Each day brought
new experiences that were
strength to my life in Christ. And
soon, through the fellowship of
the other Christian kids in the
choir, I began to realize my own
weaknesses instead of finding the
faults of the others. Then the
prayer, "Cleanse my heart and re-new
a right spirit within me,"
took on a daily meaning to me.
It's my prayer that I may have
this right spirit within me so that
the Lord can use me as He would.
TIME TO THINK
by Dennis Mattson
As I looked forward to choir
tour I wasn't thinking of the spir-itual
impact that it might have
but rather to enjoyment of a
trip which would entitle me to
see the east coast. Even though
this was my intention the Lord
seemed to have other plans for
me. This He seemed to reveal to
me when I was detained at Daven-port,
Iowa with an illness while
the rest of the choir headed east.
Realizing that I couldn't continue
with the choir I began to do some
real thinking. I wondered first of
all if I was really a Christian—
then, if I was, was I the kind of
Christian I really ought to be.
Finally I realized that I must
give everything I ani, or will be, to
the Lord if I'm to be an accept-able
testimony for Him. Then, to
my surprise, my recovery came
quickly and I was able to join the
group at Evansville, Ind. Looking
back over the tour now I can see
how each concert since that time
was used by the Lord to deepen
my spiritual life.
I Auto Know Better
I've been very intrigued recently by all the ads for the new cars.
It seems that nowadays you can't get just an ordinary car; it has to
be a Special Fireball Fishtail Deluxe with television in the rear seat.
It must have the Overboard Look (in two or three clashing colors) and
be the kind of car that Yale students and Men of Distinction drive.
If you buy a new car today, you will naturally get all the latest
accessories, even down to a chrome horn button. Then when you take
your friends out driving, and they gaze covetously at their surroundings,
they will eventually ask, "Isn't that a real chrome horn button?" Where-upon
you smile gloatingly and answer, "Yes, that is a genuine Cadpack-linc
solid chrome triple-buffed horn button, and it's available only on
this model."
And talk about ease in driving! Now they have power steering,
power brakes, power seats, power windows, and of course all of the
new automatic transmissions, Powerslide, Hydramush, and Dynaflop.
Nothing comes out any more with less than 220 horsepower, geared
with overdrive so that you can speed down the congested highways at
25 miles per. All they need now is an automatic pilot so the driver can
spend more time figuring out how the automatic heater works.
Progress is inevitable, of course. Don't think for a minute that
I'm an old fogey sentimentally yearning for the good old days—though
I confess I sometimes miss those little window-shades they used to
have on the sides for privacy. As a matter of fact, I scrapped my Model
A several months ago (it had been scrapped twice before I got it). I
have come to the conclusion that what I would really like most to have
in a new car is me.
Tuesday, April 5, 1955
THE CLARION Page 8
Survey of Guest Students All Candidates
Reveals Their Interests to be Notified
by April 13th
for Elections
A survey of 172 applications received up through Wednesday last
week reveals that more prospective students are interested in teaching
as a vocation than any of the twelve vocations listed on the application
blank. Twenty-seven prospectives checked "Education" as their first
choice, 20 made it their second choice, and 12 their third, totaling 59
students. "Business" came second with 23 first choices, 13 second
choices, and 11 third choices, for a total of 47.
Under the category of "Extra-curriculars" 110 students checked
"Mixed Chorus," 31 "Male Chorus," and 39 "Band," as the extra-curricular
activity in which they would most likely participate in col-lege,
which indicates that music is one of the greatest interests tha
this years' prospectives have.
Other vocational interests checked are listed as follows: Religious
Education, 46; Social Work, 43; Music, 37; Ministry, 29; ,Physical Edu-cation,
24; Engineering, 18; Science, 14; Medicine, 14; Law, 10; Foreign
Missionary, 6; Journalism, 2; Physical Therapy, 1; Home Economics, 1;
and Forestry, 1.
The number of prospectives interested in the various extra-curricu-lars
ran as follows: Mixed Chorus, 110; Christian Service Teams, 84;
College Newspaper, 43; Inter-Collegiate Sports, 40; Band, 39; Mission-ary
Fellowship, 39; Intramurals, 34; College Yearbook, 33; Male Chorus,
31; Student Government, 28; Language Clubs, 28; and Debate, 13.
Easter Bunny Visits,
Gets Lost In Dust
by Nancy Schnorr
'Tis early Easter morning at Bethel and as usual, I, the Easter
bunny am busily trying to find places to hide my many brightly colored
eggs. My first stop is room 104 in the Bodien residence. "Ah! I thought,
this will be quite easy. With desks and chairs piled three feet high and
inches of dust on just everything, 'twill be simple as anything to hide
my eggs."
The next stop is right next door at 106 and just what could be
better than an egg in each cob-web. It wasn't quite as easy as I thought
though because I had to remove all of the straw and other things which
were acquired on Flossie's bells last Gospel Team assignment before
I could put the eggs in the bells. In room 103 'twas quite simple, too.
'Twas quite easy to hide a few small eggs among all of the snake-skins,
pigeon-feet, wolf-heads, clam-shells, etc.
Georgia Schultz seems to be so blind that I think that I could hide
the eggs in the middle of the floor and she wouldn't see them. After
all, anyone who can't even find a missing mattress certainly wouldn't
be able to find a few, small Easter eggs.
After finishing my task in the girls dorm, I advanced to the Ed-gren
residence. My first stop there was at Fuller's room. Among all of
the many kinds of flora it was quite easy to hide an egg or two. I
thought perhaps I could hide some of my eggs in the scrub-pails and
other cleaning implements, but on investigating the rooms, I decided
that the eggs might spoil and decay before they were found there.
In closing, I just leave this one last word with you. If you don't
find any loot from the Easter Bunny, just do your spring house-cleaning.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
by Dick BibEcT
"If you want to improve your daily papers, why don't you drop
out of school for a few days?"
Candidates for student senate
offices will be presented to the
student body during the chapel
hour on Wednesday, April 13, ac-cording
to Norris Magnuson, pres-ident
of the student senate. Norris
also stated that a complete list
of all the candidates will be pub-lished
on the college and seminary
bulletin boards one week before
elections.
Besides Roger Hedberg, Al
Glenn, and Dale Nystrom's ap-pointments
as candidates for pres-ident,
there are Glenn Ogren and
Chuck Paton candidating for vice
president; Bonnie Carlson and
Beverly Carlson for recording sec-retary;
Marjorie Peterson, Retha
Creech, and Marie Magnuson for
corresponding secretary.
Lowell Gardner and Bob Carl-son
are candidates for financial
secretary; Linden Magnuson and
Nils Friberg for treasurer.
Two candidates named for chair-man
of the religious council are
Gordon Olson and Bud Lee. Ade-line
Duncan and Carla Kern are
candidates for secretary of the re-ligious
council.
Openings in
Welfare Work
for Graduations
"Several educational stipends
for graduate training in social
work are available for the next
school year," states Mr. Morris
Hursh, Minnesota Commissioner
of Public Welfare.
These stipends are offered to
qualified students who desire to
improve their abilities through
graduate training in child welfare
and in psychiatric social work.
Payments will be made to the
student each month during the
nine months that he is attending
an approved school of social work.
If at the school of sociology at
the University of Minnesota, he
will receive $175 per month; if at
a school outside the state of Min-nesota,
he will receive $200 per
month.
In return for this financial boost
the student must agree to work in
the Minnesota public welfare pro-gram
for one year following three
quarters of graduate training —
or refund the total amount of the
stipend.
Seniors interested in this pro-gram
may consult Dr. Moberg,
professor of sociology, for addi-tional
information and application
forms.
CAMPUS CALENDAR
April 5-6—Prospective Student
Days
5—"Notes of Spring"—Col-lege
chapel
6—Spanish Club meeting —
Room 210-4 p.m.
Student Fellowship—Col-lege
chapel-7 p.m.
8-11—Easter vacation
12—Classes resume
Publications banquet
6:30 p.m.
13—Student Fellowship — Col-lege
chapel-7 p.m.
14—F.M.F. meeting — Student
center-7 p.m.
15—Junior class play, King
Oedipus — College chapel
—8 p.m.
20—B.W.A. banquet.
it's a Special Assignment
GIAer's at Bethel
Thirteen former members of God's Invasion Army consider themselves
on a special assignment now at Bethel preparing for future Christian
service. Pictured above from bottom to top are Ariel Obinger, Fran
Johnson, Pearl Anderson, Bob Langelett, Roy Brottland, Mike Rucinski,
and Ben Bertel. Others at Bethel, not pictured, include Ben Cording, Al
Glenn, Ernest Kratofil, Carol Engholm, Shirley Anderson, Bailey Ander-son,
and Dale Nystrom. Seven of these served with the 51 contingent,
four with the '53, one with the '52, and one with the '49-50.
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Male Chorus Ready for Tour
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I caught
been practicing catchin'
some bees, too."
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Page 4 THE CLARION Tuesday, April 5, 1955
Twin City Fellowship
Opens for Sem Students
Student Wives
Plan Picnic
An evening of fun and enter-tainment
is in store for the Stu-dent
Wives and their husbands in
the annual Hot Dish Supper to
be held April 30 at 6:30 p.m. at
Edgren Residence.
An excellent program has been
planned including games, devo-tions,
and several skits. This event
is sponsored by the Student Wives
Association. Student couples are
urged to plan now to attend.
Student Wives'
Offering is for
Ethiopian Girls
The Student Wives will hold a
meeting April 18 at 8 p.m. in the
dining hall. An interesting pro-gram
has been planned; the offer-ing
will go to the Ethiopian girls'
School.
A Twin City Seminary Fellow-ship
is now under the process of
organization in this area. On
March 24 representatives from
five seminaries, including Bethel,
met to draw up plans for this in-tercollegiate
organization. Other
schools represented were North-western
Schools Seminary, Luther
Seminary, Augsburg Seminary,
and the Northwestern Lutheran
Seminary.
The Fellowship's founders look
upon the organization, not as an
ecumenical movement in any form,
but rather as a community fellow-ship
of seminary students by
which the schools may keep in
contact with one another.
All seminary students are in-vited
to attend the first meeting,
which will be held Thursday, Ai).
ril 14, at Luther Seminary. Speak-ing
will be Mr. Kyaw Than, as-sociate
general secretary of the
World Student Christian Federa-tion.
Mr. Than is a Burmese Bap-tist,
formerly a professor of his-tory
at the University of Rangoon.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
by Dick Bibler
Zetteta to de E ditaz Leaving Friday, April 22, the
Male Chorus will begin a ten-day
tour covering several of the mid-western
states between Bethel and
Denver, Colo. Under the direction
of Nels Stjernstrom, instructor in
speech, the chorus has approxi-mately
20 members.
The itinerary includes cities
and towns in Minnesota, Neb-raska,
Colorado, Wyoming, Iowa,
and South Dakota. Special fea-tures
of the concerts will include
a quartet, trumpet trio, and vocal
and piano soloists.
Dorms Open to
Upper Classmen
Next fall a limited number of
upperclassmen will be able to
room in the dormitories according
to a report from Miss Edith Lar-son,
assistant business manager.
All applications for the rooms
must be turned in to the business
office by April 15 for action by
the housing committee.
Miss Larson explained that for
those interested there are applica-tion
blanks at the receptionist's
desk in the business office.
Dear Editor:
The junior class wants to take
this chance to say thanks to each
of those who contributed to our
clothing drive for missionary
Holmes to distribute among the
Indians. We would like to explain
the reason why the clothing has
been left in the men's dormitory
for this period of time. We wrote
to missionary Holmes several
times and just recently received
a note that he has been very ill.
He wanted us to express his ap-preciation
for this kindness and
also mentioned that Mr. Ed Viren
would come down to Bethel to
get this clothing.
The junior class
Dear Editor:
I've felt for some time this year
that we, as a student body, should
show our appreciation to the band.
They're really doing a terrific job
—especially this basketball sea-son.
I, along, with others, I'm
sure, would like to express my
appreciation.
Thanks!!!
Bev Markwood
Dear Editor:
The below story is authentic in
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Place: A room in the men's dormi-tory.
Cast: Ray Harry and Earl Olson
(room-mates).
Date: Thursday morning — linen
day.
Earl: Gee, I hope I get some linen
today.
Ray: Didn't you get any last
week?
Earl: No. I put some out, but
didn' get any back.
Ray: That's funny! I didn't put
any out—but I got some back!
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Tuesday, April 5, 1955 THE CLARION
Page 5
We no sooner said our good-by's than we pulled away and every-one
began to let out all the pent-up energy from a bleary week. Nancy
Mullin's good sister packed a beautiful box of brownies for us to eat
when we grew hungry on the trip—no sooner said than Nancy whipped
out the brownies before we were out of St. Paul . . . John Anderson
followed with his "Halitosis Test". He simply blows up a plastic bag—
unzips it—sticks in his head for 30 seconds—and has 'a sure way to
find out why he has no dates . . . The "Sunday Excursion" characters
tried to practice--their inhibitions wouldn't let them—Mr. Smith was
their inhibition .. . we were greeted in Des Moines with a grand ham
dinner decorated with old Irish "Great Scott" napkins ? ? (We hit the
St. Pat season for a good week of napkins, at least) . . . Then, that
night we had our first taste of the devotional prayer time which soon
become a vital part of each day to us—time spent with God talking
abou the ask which was our portion of service for these days . . . Bev
Carlson was surely excited when she stayed with the inlaws at Daven-port,
Ia. That morning the choir made a fair haul in fines. At 25 cents
per latee we gathered $2.50. Eager Rog Moberg delighted in telling
anyone when he was late—then poor Rog was late himself—lost glory
. . . Bailey Anderson just couldn't say goodby to his woman—so she
hung around for four concerts—for Bailey . . . Dennis Mattson was
laid up from the tour for a couple of days—the night he walked into
the concert at Evansville, Ind. was one of the spiritual highlights of
the tour. The choir was singing, "Thanks to God, for My Redeemer."
There were dimmed eyes that night as we considered the reality of
answered prayer . . . Mail-call often had a nostalgic effect on Don
Stipe . . . Meme Olander claims she smelled pop corn during one
of the concerts . . . Nancy Mullin passed out again—this time it was
caramels ala Bloom . . . We found lots of scenic spots at dead-end
streets . . . We often had a king of a time at a Dairy Queen stop .. .
Shirley Anderson spent most of her free time unravelling the mess
that Glenn Ogren (Who became illustriously known as Imo) made for
her yarns . . . Nancy passed out again—this time it was some choice
conducting just per chance Mr. Smith might get ill sometime . . . The
Lord blessed Phil Caldeen's devotions that night in Chillicothe, Ohio—
it was nother spiritual turning point for several . . . Imo's mother and
sis met us in Youngstown—they were nearly knocked down by Tom
Young who was anxious to get home—it was the only time on the
whole trip he hurried . . . The weatherman took his toll on the eastern
end of the states, but Adella Bennett, Carol Engholm, and Imo played
Aunt Tillie—it's a silly game, but not dumb . . . Alden Moberg decided
if he marries Nancy she'll have to learn to eat—he sealed it with a
whisker-rub . . . Jim Hansen tried to eat all 21 flavors at one of the
pike's Howard Johnson's—he didn't make it, lost his bet, and paid for
the ice cream .. . Carol Engholm wanted her own private little harem .
with Tom (bus driver)—wearing his official Greyhound cap sealed the
deal . . . We were surprised that they didn't charge admission to see
Mr. Smith's home in New Joisey . . . We saw New York in the rain—
it was wet . . . So now we've come back. As we neared campus we broke
into the "Choral Benediction" with mixed emotions, proud that we're
Bethelites, grateful to the Lord for the many intimate things He showed
us and the way He blessed us.
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Four Students
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Norris Magnuson and Lawrence
Seiffert, juniors, and Warren We-dan
and Albert Windham, seniors,
are the four "A" students listed
on the seminary honor roll for the
winter quarter.
Over a third of the seminary
students maintained "B" aver-ages.
Listed by classes, they are
as follows:
Seniors: Clifford Anderson, Gil-bert
Anderson, Douglas Baltz, Ro-bert
Bennett, Alfred Bergsten,
Reynold Bohleen, David Brown,
Lucius Butler, Douglas Dahlquist,
Richard Dahlquist, Harvey De
Vries, Dwight Ericsson, Robert
Featherstone, Lee Giddings, Ro-bert
Goodrich, Kenneth Gunman,
Donald Hessler, Bernard Hogan,
Berge Hoogasian, James Hubbard,
Russell Johnson, Ronald Knudt-sen,
Clyde Matthews, Ronald Nel-son,
Annemarie Oesterle, Gerald
Osborn, Gordon Paulson, R. Deane
Thompson, James Young.
Middlemen: Bert Anderson, Ar-thur
Bayley, Ray Brace, Philip
Carlson, H. Bruce Chapman, John
Hiben, Herbert Moise, Johannes
Niemeyer, E. Robert Peterson, Jo-seph
Sanders, Harvey Swanberg.
Juniors: Charles C. Anderson,
Bernhard Bertell, Milton Christen-sen,
John Douhan, Robert Erick-son,
Robert Grupp, Florence Ja-cobson,
Ernest Kratofil, Bud Lee,
Eugene Messenger, Gordon Olson,
Richard Troup, John Wibert,
James Wickstrom.
These honor rolls are based on
students carrying twelve credit
hours or more.
Dr. Nelson
Gets Grant
Dr. David Nelson, assistant pro-fessor
of chemistry, has received a
research grant of $1,000 from the
American Heart Association for a
year's research in synthetic orga-nic
chemistry. This grant will be
used for purchasing equipment
and chemicals for the research. He
plans to do most of his research
work this summer and will con-tinue
as much as possible during
the following school term.
,Cindem and Ron Check for Sure!
Senior, Two Sophomores
Head College Honor Roll
Three college students, Ronald
Olson, Marjory Peterson, and Lin-den
Magnuson, maintained "A"
averages throughout the winter
quarter. Ronald is a senior; Mar-jory
and Linden, sophomores.
The "B" honor roll shrank con-siderably
this quarter, the "B"
averagers numbering 49 in com-parison
to 56 fall quarter. They
are listed according to winter
quarter classification.
Seniors: David Clark, Carroll
Erickson, Marlys Malmsten, Joyce
Martinson, Barbara Olander, Ron-ald
Palosaari, Lawrence Van Heer-den.
Juniors: Roy Brottlund, Bonnie
Carlson, Donald Fuller, Donn
Goss, Jean Seldon, Winnifred
BRUCE RICHARDSON SAYS: - Before I came to
Bethel, I was a scrawny, underfed weakling.
Now, after almost a year of MRS. BOYLE'S,
BETTER BURGERS, I am still scrawny and under-fed,
but more broke. You can be the same. -
BETHEL STUDENT CENTER
THE CLARION
Tuesday, April 5, 1955
ATTENTION PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS!!
VARSITY VS. pROSPECTIVES
4:00 P.M. Fieldhouse
Above: Rollie Entz receives pointers from track coach Dennis
Beard, as Norm Moore looks on.
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Chicago Cops
`Intramural
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Despite ending up last in the
regular season, Chicago captured
the intramural playoff champion-ship
by edging West 38-36 Mon-day
night March 28. Chicago's
fast start and poor shooting in the
first quarter by West's team was
the difference as Chicago held an
eight or ten point lead most of
the first half.
West rallied in the third quarter
to tie up the score, but Chicago
kept their poise and regained the
lead. With three seconds left in
the game and Chicago leading by
three, Al Windham of West was
fouled. He made the first shot and
attempted to miss the second and
set up a possible tip-in shot for
Clarence Woods. Woods did get the
ball but his shot was partially
blocked and the game was over.
For Chicago, Sahlin scored 16
and Smith and Brunzell each scor-ed
eight. Woods was West's lead-ing
scorer with 11.
West entered the finals by de-feating
Southern Minn. in the
semifinals, while Chicago drew a
bye after the quarterfinals.
Spring Sports
Turnout Tops
The best turnout for spring
sports in Bethel's history seems
to indicate an increased interest in
inter-collegiate competition. Thus
far this spring, about 20 fellows
have turned out for baseball prac-tice,
and approximately the same
number for track. Tennis and golf
are almost definitely assigned a
spot on the spring calendar.
Dennis Beard is headping up this
years track team as player-coach.
Norman Moore and Fred Thomas
are the only returning veterans.
However, the cindermen will be
bolstered by a large group of pro-mising
newcomers. Among those
with previous experience are Mac-
Donell, Dahlquist, and Thomason
in the field events, and Entz and
Yost in track. The squad has been
working out in the gym and the
fairgrounds in preparation for
their first meet, the Carleton Re-lays.
For the first time in several
years, the prospects for a golf
team are encouraging. George
Visel will be heading up the par-breakers,
and anyone interested
in playing should contact him.
Cal Edlund will head up this
year's tennis delegation. He has
announced tryouts scheduled for
the latter part of this week. Ten-tative
dates have been scheduled.
"Bethel's baseball team looks
very good," according to coach
Lynn Lundin. "We have more ex-perience
and much more depth
than last year when we had a
successful team."
Brunzell will do most of the
catching and will be backed up by
Borg and Christenson. Any of the
three can do a capable job.
The pitching staff may have a
real surprise in Al Hubin. He
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sinker ball. If his control im-proves,
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The infield position are still un-decided.
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Fredeen, Tierney, Smith, and
the Berg twins are out for the
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The outfielders will be chosen
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Burlson when he's not pitching.
Practices have been good so far
and, if the weather remains good,
the team will be ready for Con-cordia
on April 25.
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