Dr. Anton Pearson, the scholar, examines familiar Old Testament
manuscripts.
Eight Youth Missionaries
Learn Of Job Locations
Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. Wednesday, May 11, 1966
Noted Gospel Singer, Recording Artist
Performs In Bethel Fieldhouse Concert
Class Presidents, chosen in Friday's class election, Senior Tom Hagen, Junior Rick Welch, Sophomore
Craig Carmean.
Seminary Scholar, Theologian Dies,
Lists Noted Roll of Accomplishments
Dr. Anton Pearson, 56, of 1663
Van Buren and professor of Old
Testament Literature at Bethel
Theological Seminary for 20 years,
died at Bethesda Hospital early
Tuesday, May 3, 1966. He had been
in declining health for some time
and was hospitalized in recent
weeks.
Dr. Pearson was born in St. Paul
New Year's Day, 1910. He gradua-ted
from Central High School, was
elected to Phi Beta Kappa as a
sophomore at Macalester College
and received his B.A. degree cum
laude. He engaged in graduate
studies at the University of Minn-esota.
Following graduation from Be-thel
Seminary in 1936, he was
pastor of a church in Oakland,
Neb., for four years, and then
entered Southern Baptist Theo-logical
Seminary at Louisville,
Ky., for doctoral studies concen-trating
in prophecy and Hebrew.
He received his Th.D. in 1948.
His thesis was entitled "The
Problem of Date and Unity of
Habakkuk."
Dr. Pearson served as principal
of the Alberta (Can.) Baptist Bible
Academy 1943-45 and began teach-ing
at Bethel Seminary in the fall
of 1945. He has concentrated in
Old Testament courses including
Bible archaeology, theology and
both Biblical nad modern Hebrew
and Aramaic.
During this period he also has
taught Biblical Hebrew at various
times at the University of Minne-
Festival Choir
Sings 'Elijah'
In choosing the work to be per-formed
at its Annual Spring Music
Festival, the Bethel Music Depart-ment
has gone to the realms of the
major oratorios to select Felix
Mendelssohn - Bartholdy's master-.
work, Elijah. The Festival Choir
will present the work at a concert
for the public Friday evening, May
20, in the Bethel College field-house.
The Festival Choir is composed
of the members of the College
Choir, Male Chorus, and Women's
Choir, as well as other members
of the student body, staff, and
faculty.
Accompanying the choir for the
performance will be a symphony
group combining the Bethel Or-chestra
with professional musicians
obtained especially for this occas-ion
by a grant provided by the
Recording Industries Trust Funds
through the cooperation of Local
#30, American Federation of Mu-sicians.
Soloists for the performance are
headed by Mr. Oliver Mogck, col-lege
instructor in voice and assoc-iate
professor of music. He will be
joined by seven student soloists
who are members of the school
choral groups.
The performance will be direct-ed
by Mr. Julius Whitinger, chair-man
of the Department of Music.
Minds meet Tuesday, May 17 in
the Lower Level Lounge of the
College Building as the Philosophy
Club and Pi Gamma Mu sponsor
a symposium on the topic which
drew many to Dr. Butler's Found-ers'
Week seminars and is a social
force that meets with cheers and
experimentation on many United
States campuses, "The New Mora-lity."
sota and at Northwestern Lutheran
Seminary in Minneapolis.
Dr. Pearson was a member of
Central Baptist Church where he
has served on the deacon board
and in other positions including
Sunday School teacher.
He also served as board member
of the St. Paul Council of Churches
and taught in its leadership and
race and religious workshops; he
had served on the social action
and education committee of the
Minnesota Council of Churches; he
was a member of the Fellowship '
of Reconciliation and had served
as member of the board of the
Minnesota Baptist Convention.
Dr. Pearson spent two periods
in Israel in additional study and
research—a brief period in 1954
under sponsorship of New York
University and the National Asso-ciation
of Professors of Hebrew
and, again, on sabbatical leave in
1961-62 when his family accom-panied
him.
During this later period he
traveled throughout Israel visit-ing
libraries, museums and en-gaged
in post-doctoral studies at
Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
In August, 1962, he attended the
Under the sponsorship of the
Religious Committee, Christian re-cording
artist Dick Anthony will
be on campus for a concert in sa-cred
song Thursday evening, May
19, in the fieldhouse.
Mr. Anthony studied for several
years at Bethel and is now minister
of music at the largest church of
the Baptist General Conference,
First Baptist Church of Lakewood,
California. Thus he is well-ac-quainted
with the college.
Originally from Illinois, An-thony
did sacred recordings
there with the well-known singer
and trombonist Bill Pierce. Also
while residing in Illinois, he
served on the staff of WMBI,
the radio voice of Moody Bible
Institute in Chicago.
In addition to work as vocalist
and pianist, Anthony has served as
musical arranger for Jack Wyrt-zen's
Word of Life Quartet, fea-tured
regularly on Wrytzen's ABC
television network program Song-time.
This winter he was sent by
the World Vision organization to
Seoul, Korea, where he used his
talent in training the Korean Or-phan
Choir.
The First Baptist Church of
Lakewood called Mr. Anthony to
Leading the philosophers' parlay
will be three Bethel professors of
varying disciplines and persua-sions:
Dr. Roy Butler, professor
of philosophy, Tom Cornell of the
anthropology department, and from
the Seminary, Dr. Clarence Bass,
professor of systematic theology.
The evening session will begin
at 8:30 p.m.
International Congress for Old
Testament Scholars at Bonn, Ger-many.
He was a member of the National
Association of Professors of Heb-rew,
the Academy of Religion (N-ABI),
the American Oriental So-ciety
and the Society of Biblical
Literature and Exegesis.
He has published a number of
articles which have appeared in
national religious periodicals and
was author of Commentary on
Ezekiel in the Wycliffe Bible Com-mentary
(1962) and of several
articles in the forthcoming Wy-cliffe
Bible Encyclopedia. At the
time of his death, he was in the
process of writing a short commen-tary
on Ezekiel for Baker Publish-ing
Company and writing for the
revision of the International Stan-dard
Bible Encyclopedia.
His survivors are: his wife,
Alberta, two sons, Dean and
Mark, and two daughters, Esther
and Sarah, all of St. Paul; a
daughter, Mrs. Jared Dorn of
Carbondale, III., a sister, Mrs.
Harold Berntsen, and brother,
Edwin, of St. Paul.
Services were held at Central
Baptist Church Saturday, May 7,
with burial at Roselawn Cemetary.
be its minister of music several
years ago. In the interim, he has
developed ten performing choirs,
with a total membership of over
500 singers.
Unique parts of the church's
musical program include his
handbell choir and the Jubilee
Choir composed of members 50
years of age and over. Recently
A rash of write-in votes failed to
make a significant dent in the
plans of declared candidates for
office in Friday's class elections.
The voting, which elected next
year's class officers and Student
Senate representatives, showed in
only one case a write-in candidate
recording a win.
The seniors of '66-'67 put Tom
Hagen, a native Twin Citian, into
the president's chair. His 35-vote
tally outdistanced the effort of
Bruce Armstrong, who recorded 16
The student missionary project
for this summer is taking shape
with most of the appointees now
knowing where they will be work-ing
and approximately what they
will be doing.
Ken Collins will be working
closest to Bethel. His assignment
the Lakewood Choristers sang
under his direction in a well-attended
sacred concert at the
Hollywood Palladium.
The Religious Committee, in ob-taining
Dick Anthony for this one
evening appearance, hopes to cap-italize
on the talent of an artist
who has been appreciated by mem-bers
of all denominations.
votes. Serving under Hagen will
be Daryl Runion, vice president,
Bonnie Carlson, secretary, and Al-lan
Nasman, treasurer.
Nasman, a New Englander,
fought the only successful write-in
campaign, chiefly through an
effective and widespread publi-city
program. Yet voting statis-tics
for the treasurer's post, for
which no one had declared a
candidacy by petition, showed 13
other persons receiving write-in
support. Nasman's 24 votes clear-is
to the Net Lake Indian Reser-vation
in northern Minnesota. His
work will be mostly with the
young people there—among other
things he will teach a Bible school
class and organize a baseball team
for the youngsters.
The Ralph Olsons will also be
working in the north country with
the Eskimos in Sand Point, Alaska.
The rest of the appointees who
have received their assignments
will all be working in some capa-city
with the Wycliffe Bible trans-lators.
Monty Okken, a seminary stu-dent,
will be doing compilation
work with Wycliffe near Mexico
City. Cindy Meyer and Steve An-derson
will also be working near
Mexico City in some type of office
work for Wycliffe.
Diana Christianson and Ruth
Phillips have also been placed by
Wycliffe—they will be doing office
work in Colombia. Nelda Gustafson
and Kathy Swanson still have not
received definite placements, al-though
they will most likely be
working with Wycliffe or with the
Latin American Mission.
ly gave him an advantage over
all other contenders, however.
Iowan Rick Welch will lead next
year's juniors. As the only declar-ed
candidate for the presidential
spot, he collected 67 votes, al-though
six other persons receiv-ed
scattered write-in support.
This class in general was the
most conservative in utilizing
write-in tallies, however, giving
the bulk of its attention to those
who had previously announced
cont'd on page two
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Bethel Campus Requires
Sign • f • ! icant Idea Exchange •
the CLARION Wednesday, May 11, 1966 Procrastination Pervades Campus,
Gams Impetus From 'Spring Fever
cont'd from page one
candidacy. Joyce Miller will be
secretary, Lois Peterson treasurer,
and Rick Peterson vice-president
of the class of '68 next year.
Craig Carmean of Wheaton,
Illinois, swept 130 votes out of
138 cast in the election for next
year's sophomore class presi-dent.
Craig, like the juniors'
prexy Welch, was the only an-nounced
campaigner for his post.
Eight other freshmen received
one vote apiece.
Other elected leaders of next
year's sophomores are Craig Peter-son,
vice-president, Joyce Lehman,
secretary, and Linda Engquist,
treasurer. The two girls fought the
closest campaigns of the elections,
Joyce defeating Trudy Peterson by
nine votes and Linda winning over
Virginia Berry by two.
In the elections for class repre-sentatives
in Senate, only two of
those serving this year returned
to office. Both are active female
senators, senior Kathy Harvie and
sophomore Jaci Clark.
Joining with Kathy as senior
representative is Dick Olson,
who with her won by a substan-tial
margin. Voicing the views
of next year's juniors will be
Ken Smith, Dave Anderson, and
Dave Ahlquist. Irene Mattson,
Sheila Soderstrom, and Roger
Johnson will support the sopho-more
cause, together with Jaci.
As in the other races, the Senate
contests included a wealth of
write-in voting. Seniors gave sup-port
to 13 write-in candidates,
sophomores 14, and juniors 4.
Increased voting by the present
(ACP)—What is the "art" of
procrastination?
The Mount Mirror of Mount St.
Scholastica College, Atchison, Ken-tucky,
explains it this way: The
setting is a college library, and
you are a student. Your comps
are in a week and you haven't
begun to study. You have four
big papers to write before you
can even think about studying
for the test. The time is ripe. The
hour is at hand. And it's spring!
You look at the stack of ref-erences
in front of you. You
open a book, pick up your pen
and place it on the blank paper.
Then you look out the window.
And you keep looking out the
window for a long time. An
almost evil smile comes to your
face. From whence has come
the inspiration? But you have
made the decision. You will
waste the whole afternoon!
You put the cap on your pen—
the pen that will not again see
the light of this day. Then you
plan, not detailed planning, but
enough to keep the afternoon from
having no direction whatsoever.
You pick up your books and
walk into the magazine section of
the library. On the way, you sar-donically
convince that apprecia-tive
friend, who has even more to
do than you do, to go with you.
Together, you leaf through
magazines, keeping in mind not
It was announced at the annual
SPAN banquet, held in the Coff-man
Memorial Union of the Uni-versity
of Minnesota, that Dr. Ron-ald
Youngblood has been chosen
to lead the SPAN group traveling
to Israel in 1967. Bethel students
Mark Watkins and Jonathan Lar-son
were chosen earlier to be a
part of this group.
Bethel won another honor at
the same affair when it was an-nounced
that Joan Meckley was the
McPherson Scholarship winner for
the Ethiopian group. This honor
is awarded to the member whose
preparation is judged to be out-standing
by the group advisor.
The keynote address of the ev-ening
was given by Professor Mit-to
read anything assigned for
class. Magazines such as HORI-ZON,
HOLIDAY, TRAVEL are
good. They seem to have little
to do with you, now.
Then, if the weather is agreeable,
go outside. Find some place you'd
like to be and sit there. Or better
yet, just amble or ramble or min-gle
or wander, whichever you and
the weather are in the mood for.
Say it is a warm spring day and
you and your friend decide to
ramble. Now rambling, too, is an
art. To truly ramble you must
have no fixed goal whatsoever in
mind. You just walk slowly, or
skip slowly, and look at things,
turning a corner occasionally.
At some time during your
ramble, you will find yourself
back where you started. This
probably means you are through
rambling for the day.
The next thing to do is sit down
and rest. You are no doubt very
tired. Go some quiet place nearby
and get some liquid refreshment.
Then tell someone what you did.
If you happen to have sadistic
tendencies, tell someone who was
working all afternoon but didn't
get anything done. These are the
people less apt to respond to the
tales of your escapades with cut-ting
remarks.
Then comes the worst part of
procrastination — the hangover.
But remember, it is an art. The
chell V. Charnley of the University
of Minnesota School of Journalism.
Those in attendance from Bethel
were Linda Olson (Argentina), Joan
Meckley (Ethiopia), Carol Staples
(Czechoslovakia), Mark Watkins and
Jonathan Larson (Israel).
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by Bruce Lawson
Saigon
Buddhist organizations called for
strategy meetings Saturday in re-sponse
to Premier Nguyen Cao
Ky's announcement that he ex-pects
his military regime to remain
in power for another year. The
announcement may cause greater
political unrest in South Vietnam.
Washington D.C.
President Johnson has ordered
a thorough review of government
anti-inflation policies because "dis-quieting
signs are beginning to ap-pear."
Saigon
American B-52 bombers con-tinue
to bombard the main Viet
Cong supply route in an attempt
to cripple the Communist's mon-soon
offensive.
Bonn
Chancellor Ludwig Erhard an-nounced
that 70,000 French troops
may remain in Germany if they
accept a clearly-defined NATO mis-sion,
are assigned to NATO com-mand
in war, and remain subject
to German authority.
Tokyo
The army newspaper of Red
China reported this week that a
rebellious group in the Communist
party, consisting of intellectuals
and some sections of the armed
forces, is threatening the survival
of Mao Tse-tung's ideology. Ap-parently
they seek a reconciliation
with the Soviet Communists.
only trouble is that all artists,
except those who were born rich,
have to do other work for a liv-ing.
The artists of procrastination
are not well-paid people.
Letters:
Drake Rejoins
To the Editor:
I am surprised at Nelson Otto.
His undefined Christ who "came
to us free from bonds" sounds
like something from the contem-porary
religious fadists. Theologi-cal
gray is no longer attractive in
our explicit generation. Let's start
arguing on the highest level and
stop creating these poor straw men
"ex nihilo."
Robert R. Drake
Olson Regrets
Lack of Words
Ed. note—The following letter
was enclosed with Dr. Olson's
tribute to Dr. Anton Pearson
found on page three.
To the • Editor:
The enclosed is a brief, personal
touch with regards to my associa-tion
with Professor Pearson.
I am sorry that time cuts me
down to such an inadequate pre-sentation.
Tony was one of my most
respected and admired life-long
friends, and these expressions
seem so very thin—but I present
them simply, because Tony's life
was one of simplicity, sincerity.
Sincerely,
Virgil A. Olson
INV dor
Washington D.C.
Concluding a series of lectures
a t Johns Hopkins University,
Sen. J. W. Fullbright said that
both literally and figuratively
Saigon has become an American
brothel.
In response, Barry Goldwater
denounced him for citicism "that
lends aid and comfort to our
enemies", and demanded that he
resign as Foreign Relations Com-mittee
chairman.
Washington D.C.
Two Harvard biologists reported
Friday that they have discovered
bacteria which existed on the earth
at least 3.1 billion years ago. The
discovery adds 100 million years
to the age of known life on earth.
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Opinions expressed in the CLARION do not
necessarily reflect the position of the college
or seminary.
If there is one salient ingredient that has seemed to be
lacking in the life of the college this year it is the ingredient
of dialogue — dialogue with those outside our conservative.
neo-evangelical shell, dialogue that might challenge the glorious
complacency of the particular Christian tradition we have
settled into without full awareness of the alternatives, dialogue
that might force us to provide a rational framework for our
belief, dialogue that might give us also the opportunity to
share and expose that belief as tenable to those who may not
presently accept it.
However, before we can engage dialogue, we must believe
in its necessity. There is a great tendency, particularly within
evangelical circles today, to maintain a cradle-to-grave Chris-tian
fellowship. It is possible to spend our entire lives in the
evangelical wing of not only Christianity but the community
in which we will live. To do so is not only unfortunate but
disastrous.
Recall Psalm 23. "The valley of the shadow of death,"
the table "in the presence of mine enemies," the "green
pastures" and "still waters" — are these inside the fold?
I think not. Inside the fold the grass is trodden to stubble,
the ground barren, dusty and smelly from the feet and
presence of many sheep on many nights.
It is possible to remain inside the sheepfold and avoid
the valley of the shadow of death, but only at the expense of
also avoiding the grass, the water, the care of the Shepherd
who bekons us to come out and find pasture.
The metaphor, I think, is clear. The green pastures and the,
shadowed valley are part and parcel of the same experience.
On this campus exposure that comes in the form of dialogue
is a necessity to draw the Bethel Christian outside the Bethel
sheepfold.
Agreed, we may be exposing him to the "shadow of the
valley of death." But I recall the next phrase — "I fear no
evil; for thou art with me." We are also exposing him to the
green pastures and to the strength of the Shepherd.
There were inklings of this desire for dialogue this year—
two Lutheran theologians and Dr. Elton Trueblood as convo-cation
speakers, philosophers of different persuasions meeting
with the Philosophy Club, an inter-faith prayer meeting be-tween
students of Bethel and St. Catherine's College. These
are steps. It is hoped we will begin to walk next year.
We would encourage the committee chairmen of next
year's Student Senate to delve into the very real possibilities
for significant dialogue available. There are colleges and
universities in the Twin Cities that would invite such exchange
and inter-action in the form of speaker exchanges, exchange
of performing organizations, symposia and discussions on topics
where our Christian faith may be relevant. From such experi-ence
we may even find our own faith-muscles strengthened.
Balloting Plunges To One-Third;
Hagen, Welch, Carmean To Lead
juniors failed to change the regu-lar
Bethel trend for less than one-third
of those eligible to cast bal-lots.
The '68-ers had 34% of the
class membership at the polls,
higher than their past showings
by some amount. The class of '67
had a 34% turnout also, but cur-rent
freshmen registered only a
27% figure.
SPANers Hold Banquet;
Meckley Attains Award
Zaa-Reade#4,7 2,4eat
Dr. Anton Pearson, friend and colleague, enjoys the fellowship of
Seminary Librarian, David Guston, on a recent Seminary Faculty Retreat.
Life of Scholar Pauses;
Colleagues Express Loss
Wednesday, May 11, 1966 the CLARION Page 3
Dean Speaks At Funeral Service,
Honors Beloved Professor 'Tony'
Ed. note—Following is a partial text of the re-marks
delivered by Seminary Dean, Dr. Gordon
Johnson, at the memorial service held Saturday
or Dr. Anton Pearson.
King David said concerning Abner, "Do you not
know that a prince and a great man has fallen this
day in Israel?" And with meaning, we say it also.
A scholar has had his eyes closed to further
earthly research, writing and teaching. A dedicated,
concerned servant of Christ is gone from our midst.
By faith we say, "God is good." Were we walking by
sight, we would say, "How can God allow this? He
means too much to us. He has so much yet to offer."
Only by faith can we utter,"God's purposes are being
fulfilled," when • we accept that fact that Anton T.
Pearson passed from our midst last Tuesday morning,
May 3.
Dr. Anton Pearson's interests and activities
were broad. But his interests were also very much
a part of everyday human experience. He loved
people whether they were scholars or children,
culturally erudite or socially neglected.
He loved his own church and felt keenly when
he could not be as active as he desired because of
the many demands upon him for broader service
in the Church. He served regularly as a teacher in
the Sunday School among college age and adult. He
was on the deacon board and completed a term on
that board just this past week.
A man with as much scholarship as Dr. Pearson
would hardly be thought of as a story-teller for
children, but he was requested again and again to
bring stories to children at vacation Bible school
and in the Sunday School, and they all appreciated
him. So much did they feel a part of him that one
little girl not long ago asked her mother how Tony
was.
The mother said, "Do you mean Dr. Pearson?"
She said, "Oh, yes, but we know him as Tony."
That may startle us, but it shows something of the
greatness of this man in touching human exper-ience.
Dr. Pearson was a man of mission. He desired
to serve Christ on the foreign mission field but could
not go because of physical limitations. His spiritual
warmth was expressed in his varied ministries.
Following his formal studies in Louisville, Dr.
Pearson became Principal of the Alberta Baptist
Bible Academy in Alberta, Canada. While there he
served as pastor and preached in many different
churches in the Prairie provinces in Swedish, Ger-man,
and Canadian Baptist Union churches. In 1945
he joined the faculty of Bethel Seminary as Professor
of Old Testament Literature where he has ministered
with dedication to Christ and concern for his students.
His attitude may be expressed in his own
words: "Our concern is to give our Seminary men
competent, warm, spiritual training in the portion
of God's Word known as the Old Testament. We
feel that it should be studied not simply as 'the
Jewish old clothes' of the gospel, but for its own
merits as well. We are intensely concerned that
our students be well-grounded in the Old Testament
itself.
For several years he lectured in biblical Hebrew
at the University of Minnesota, as well as one year
at Northwestern Lutheran Seminary.
Dr. Pearson felt a peculiar kinship with the
neglected and downtrodden. His home was always
open to those in need regardless of color, background
or economic circumstances. Several of these have
lived with the family. Canadian Conference people
found a welcome to the Pearson home every Found-ers
Week for a dinner until that group became so
large the dinner had to be served in the church.
And he loved his colleagues. Just days before
his death he said to me with a beautiful smile on
his face, "We love our whole faculty." He felt so
keenly about the Lord's work at Seminary that when
misunderstanding arose even though he was not
personally involved, he was deeply broken.
He was a man of high spiritual concern and
dedication. He expressed special delight when we
would kneel together as a faculty in a prayer
meeting. He abhored hypocrisy so his deep piety
was not always discovered by the general public.
He was chairman of our Chapel Committee and
had unique ways of leading in worship so we genuine-ly
sensed the presence of God. When he read from
the Prophets, we felt as though the prophet were
alive. This man who combined scholar, teacher,
preacher, dedicated servant of Christ is now gone,
but his impact and the memory of him lives on.
That is especially true of his dear wife and his
five children. Other dear relatives, many friends,
his colleagues at Bethel College and Seminary, and
the students who were now studying under him and
have studied under him in the past feel keenly his
passing. "For he was a good man, full of the Holy
Spirit and of faith."
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by Dr. Virgil A. Olson
Tony is gone!
That's the way we knew him.
Oh yes, many called him profes-sor,
doctor, or even pastor or
reverend. To those of us who were
associated with him, he was Tony.
His wife and Mrs. Milford Carl-son
are twins. When his colleagues
expressed perplexity over his
wife's identity, Pearson replied:
"That's easy, my wife is the one
who has the Tony."
An irenic, pietistic soul is gone!
Those prayers of his; how can
we forget them? Intermingled
among the petitions were those
eloquent quotations from the
Psalms and Prophets.
Nor will the scene soon fade: a
man of God reverently holding a
well-worn Bible, speaking in a
modulated voice, unashamedly and
tenderly smiling, with eyes, so
very blue, which often filled with
tears as he was overwhelmed with
the love of God.
A generous, hard-working disciple
is gone!
All his life Tony worked hard.
This is why some of us feel his
life was cut prematurely short.
He never carried the light end of
the log, whether it was the long
paper route he had as a youth or
whether in later years it was the
long hours of preparation for his
teaching and writing assignments.
A conscientious Christian scholar
is gone!
One pastor confessed: "I was
brought up to think the Old Testa-ment
was a source book for escha-tological
charts until I came to
Pearson's class and met the Pro-phets."
The Bible was a living
book to Tony. He set about to know
the book, original and cognate lan-guages,
archaeology, history — all
there was to know about the Old
Testament.
Always learning, Tony did post-doctoral
studies at universities in
America and Israel. He set a pace
in scholarship that his colleagues
never could match, only admire.
My dear friend is gone!
Ah, what can I say? The office
door across from mine in the Sem-inary
seems so irrevocably closed.
It stares back at me with such
finality.
Tony has closed his books, he
has finished his last class. There
is therefore laid up for him a
higher honor, the final honorary
degree, the crown of righteousness,
which the Lord, the master tea-cher,
will give to Tony on that
Day, as well as to all who love
the appearing of Jesus Christ,
Ed. note—Dr. Carl H. Lundquist
is President of the College and
Seminary.
by Dr. Carl H. Lundquist
In the homegoing of Anton Pear-son
Bethel lost a man of God who
taught us unforgettably that the
Bible is the most revolutionary
book in the world. The Old Testa-ment
prophets lived again in him.
Their spirit shaped his attitude
toward every thing in life — his
home and church, persons in need
next door or on the other side of
the world, entrenched evil where-ever
it was found, and the world's
desperate need to hear the gospel
of Christ. Dr. Pearson was a pro-phet
with honor on the campus.
All of us who serve the Lord at
Bethel alternately have been re-buked
and inspired by his con-sistent
stand for our Saviour and
thank God for the years we have
been privileged to walk together.
On Saturday, May 14, approxi-mately
fifty Bethel geology stu-dents
will have a "working holi-day"
as they go on a field trip to
Taylors Falls, Minnesota. Their day
of fun and study will begin early
at 7:30 a.m. and continue to 11:30
a.m.
The students will ride to the
falls on a chartered bus, escorted
by Mr. Russell Johnson, geology
professor, who will point out items
of interest to the students along
Highway #8, where there are gla-cial
formations which extend from
St. Paul to Taylors Falls.
When the group arrives at Tay-lors
Falls, they will study basalt
rocks and the Cambrian rocks. In
the Cambrian formations they will
try to locate fossils. From these
sites, the students will follow the
river to Boom Hollow in North
Stillwater and then will leave for
home.
The field trip will serve to sum-marize
the laboratory work of the
geology students for the semester.
They have covered during the
course rocks, minerals, fossils and
maps. The trip thus offers an op-portunity
for them to put this
knowledge to practical use.
Besides studying rocks and fos-sils,
however, the students will
gain a little side knowledge in
bird life. Three of the fledgling
geologists are also bird watchers,
and they will point out warbler
migrations to the north to their
colleagues.
Mr. Johnson cites one final pur-pose
for Saturday's excursion. "Be-sides
helping students put their
knowledge of geology to use, they
will enjoy the wonder of God's
creation."
Geology Working Holiday' Ends
Class and Laboratory Research
by Linda C. Olson
We females, as athletic spectators rather than participators, are at
a definite disadvantage.
One consequence is that because we ourselves have not experienced
the tensions, the elations and disappointments undergone by athletes,
we may be largely unsympathetic and impatient with a man's emotional
enthusiasm over athletics.
A far more distressing consequence of non-participation is that
we females as a whole remain disunited and separated in spirit from
one another. Our friendships develop for a variety of reasons—a like
interest in music, similar backgrounds, or similar dating habits.
We are without a common and all-involving platform on which to
interrelate, and thus we find ourselves subdividing into small groups,
becoming critical, self-centered, and concerned over petty matters.
Among athletes, however, such narrowness and division is almost
non-existent. For them, athletics has become a kind of "universal
language" which binds and unifies them to each other and to all other
men. Unshaken by misunderstandings which may arise, this bond con-tinues
much as a river, undaunted by physical disturbances around it.
How exciting it is to observe on Bethel's campus these warm,
undemanding, and unrestraining relationships in operation. My own
faith in the abundance of brotherly love is renewed again and again
as I hear the exchange of meaningful nicknames, of playful taunting,
and of serious, deep conversation between this group of athletes. How
often I wish to cry out something of a plea to the female population
for unity of this same nature.
Women, Unite!
Rising Royal Trackmen
Topple School Records
They're off, with Bethel's Jim Hammar in a fast start from the
blocks as he heads down the stretch to win the 100 yard dash.
Page 4 the CLARION
Last week's action on the tennis
courts found Bethel upping their
season's team won-lost record to
five wins against one loss. The
team also competed in the Be-midji
Invitational Tournament.
Thursday, May 5, Bethel, in a
return match against the only team
to beat them thus far this season,
beat Hamline on Hamline's courts
decisively, 7-2.
The scoring went thus: Bill
Petersen won 6-4 and then by
forfeit; Tom Hulst lost 6-2, 6-2;
Gene Peterson lost 6-2, 6.2; Craig
Anderson won 6-2, 6-2; John
Tegenfeldt won 4-6, 6-1, 6-0; and
Ron Sleiter won 5-7, 6-2, 6-3.
Coach Carlson displays fine
form in executing proper serving
technique.
Bethel's baseball Royals split a
double header on Saturday with
Stout State College of Wisconsin,
winning the first game 7-4 and los-ing
the second 1-0.
Linksmen Play
Two Matches
Bethel's golf team competed in
their second tournament of the
season Friday, placing third in a
three-way meet with St. Cloud and
Bemidji at St. Cloud Country Club.
The host team finished first.
Playing for Bethel were Jim
Spurgeon, Dave Anderson, R i c k
Peterson, Calvin Harfst, Jerry
Loomis, and Lloyd Osterberg. Jim
and Dave led the Royal field with
27-hole totals of 129.
The team hit the links again
Monday in a determined effort
at taking leading places in the
NAIA state golf qualifiers. They
also face a dual match tomorrow
with River Falls at the Como Park
course.
Coach for this year's team is
Jerry Healy.
Wednesday, May 11, 1966
In doubles, the team of Gene
Peterson-John Tegenfeldt won 4-6,
6-1, 6-0, Bill Petersen-Craig Ander
son won 64, 6-2, and Tom Hulst-
Ron Sleiter won 6-0, 6-0. The meet
was close, as indicated by three
three-set matches.
On Friday, May 6, Bethel faced
Augsburg, winning 6-3. Tom Hulst
was the only team member to lose
in singles action, and that loss
came in a three-set match. Bethel
also registered two three-set wins
in singles, one by John Tegenfeldt
and one by Ron Sleiter.
In the doubles event, the only
winning team was that of Ron
Sleiter-Mark Smith 6-3, 6-3. This
was probably the closest meet
thus far in the season with
Bethel playing five three - set
matches and losing only two.
Saturday, May 7, found the net
men at the Bemidji Invitational
Saturday morning, beginning at
9:30 a.m. at the Ramsey High
School track the intramural sports-men
held their annual Intramural
Track Meet. The top three team
finishers were as follows: Squires,
49 points; Faculty, 27 points; and
Pages, 20 points. Dick Olson, com-peting
unattached, was the best
individual performer, registering
29 points.
It is worthy of note that all
Faculty points were recorded by
their lone entrant, Dan Phelps.
In the first game, Dan Gross, the
winning pitcher, hurled a one-hit-ter
until the late innings. In their
half of the seventh inning, Stout
scored their four runs. Bethel col-lected
a total of 12 hits with John
Dickau and Tom Corneil each with
two hits apiece.
Two of Bethel's runs were scor-ed
on a two-run 380 foot home run
by senior Paul Nelson.
In the second game of the series,
Jerry Moulton pitched an excellent
game and lost a heartbreaker.
Bethel conjured up a scoring
threat several times during the
game but was never able to push
the runs across.
The most serious threat came in
the last half of the seventh inning.
Tom Corneil walked and pinch-hit-ter
Barney Cox singled sending
Corneil to second.
Bill England, next at bat, topped
the ball and forced Corneil out at
third in a disputed call. Moulton
subsequently singled, a hit which
would have sent Corneil home, but
Cox was thrown out at the plate
trying to score from second. Terry
Muck grounded out to end the
game.
Tournament. Here, in individual
play Tom Hulst won in the first
round, and Bill Petersen and Craig
Anderson drew first round byes.
They lost subsequently in the
second round, playing individuals
of like caliber, as all lost in three-set
matches.
The doubles team of Gene
Peterson - John Tegenfeldt also
lost in a three-set match. The
tournament was dominated by
Wisconsin State College at Osh-kosh,
a school of 9,000 students.
Coach Ed Carlson reminds the
student body that Saturday the
team plays host to Northland Col-lege
beginning at 10:00 a.m. The
matches will be played on the
Bethel and Como Park courts. An
audience would be appreciated.
Likewise, all of the Page's points
were recorded by John Carmean.
In the distance running events,
Dick Olson captured first in both
the mile and half mile with times
of 5:32 and 2:35 respectively.
Dan Phelps won the 440, 220, and
100 yard dashes in times of 56.6,
25.3, and 11.3 seconds. His time in
the 440 was close to the record
time of 56.5 seconds registered in
1965 by Keith Davis.
Freshman Craig Peterson was
victor in both the 120 yard high
hurdles and the 180 yard low hur-dles.
His respective times of 16.4
seconds and 21.5 erased the marks
of 18.2 and 23.0 set last year by
Bill Malyon.
The shot put was won by John
Carmean with a heave of 32 feet
6% inches. He also won the dis-cus
with a toss of 91 feet 91/4
inches. There was no competi-tion
in the javelin throw.
Dan Phelps recorded his fourth
first place win of the day in the
high jump by clearing the bar at
five feet four inches. Craig Peter-son
recorded his third win in the
broad jump with a leap of 18 feet
6 inches. The pole vault was won
by Roger Johnson who cleared the
bar at 10 feet.
The 880 yard relay and the mile
relay were both won by the Squires
who gathered a team of Scandrett,
Johnson, King, and Peterson.
inches. At the Carleton Relays, the
880 yard relay record was broken
by the team of Skurdahl, Moss,
Hammar, and MacDonald and reset
to 1:34.1.
At this meet the 360 yard low
hurdles shuttle relay team of
Bjorklund, Malyon and Lehman
set a new record of 41.8 seconds.
The 120 yard high hurdles record
was broken at the Bethel Relays
by Bill Malyon with a time of 15.7
seconds. Dave Pearson's five foot
ten inch high jump ties the mark
set by Tim Williams.
Ron Bergman and Dave Bjork-lund
have both cleared 12 feet G
inches in the pole vault to make
this a school record.
Saturday the team participates
in its final meet before the NAIA
District 13 competition May 16.
Also left on the schedule are the
Bethel Invitational to be held at
Ramsey High School, and t h e
Northland Invitational. These close
out likely the most successful sea-son
in Bethel's track history.
After a slow start, Bethel's track
team has come to life, breaking
records in nearly every meet. After
the three opening losses to Stout
State, Buena Vista College, and
Peru State, the cindermen have
won five successive dual meets
plus the Bethel Relays where they
defeated five MAC teams.
The 440 yard sprint relay team
of Hammar, Skurdahl, Moss and
Malyon have broken and rebroken
the school record. At Buena Vista
they lowered the mark .1 second
to 46.7 seconds.
In the next meet they knocked
it down further to 46.0. Against
Midland this was improved to
45.2 and at the Carleton Relays
to 44.8 seconds.
Oliver Skurdahl has tied the 50
yard dash record at 5.7 seconds.
Bill Malyon has whittled .1 second
off the 50 yard high hurdles with
a 6.8 second time and has lowered
the 50 yard low hurdles time to
6.1 seconds.
At Midland College, Dave Nor-man
threw the javelin 155 feet 81/2
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