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McPherson college. McPherson, kans., Friday, February 15, 1946
Keim Receives Eagle Seoul Award In Chapel
Regional Conference Begins
With Sympathy
To Dr. L. Avery Fleming and family, the faculty and students extend sympathy in this hour of bereavement.
Chapel Monday morning honored National Scout Week as Paul Sargent and a group of Eagle Scouts presented a program. Donald was honored for his faithful participation in scouting when he received his Eagle Scout badge. Paul Sargent, Scout Master, made a few appropriate remarks and gave the qualifications that were necessary before a scout could receive his Eagle badge.
Donald Keim received his scouting experience in Nampa, Idaho, but his Eagle badge was sent here to be awarded to him. Donald is a member of the freshman class. The program was closed with the singing of the Eagle song by the scouts.
Other Eagle scouts present on the stage were Billy Sheets, Thomas Hedquist, Robert Keim, Stanley Sargent, Dean Cotton, and Robert Rolander.
Orators, Please Note!
February 26. is the date set for the local anti-tobacco oratorical contest. Anyone wishing to enter should make arrangements with Professor Hess. The contest is scheduled at 4:00 p. m. in room 9.
Youth Retreat Begins Today
The Regional Youth Retreat will begin today at 2:00 in the Student Union Room. Young people from the region are gathering already for a well planned, attractive program. Don Snider, National Youth Director, heads the list of speakers to appear at the two day conference.
The climax of the conference will be Saturday evening with the banquet in the college church basement; evening meditations will follow in the church sanctuary. A large group of youth are expected to attend the sessions Friday and Saturday. The business meeting will he held Friday afternoon.
The program will be filled with discussions, singing, recreation, and fellowship. Boh Tully, the adult advisor of the region will speak on several occasions, as will Don Snider. Leland Brubaker and James Elrod will also speak at the conference. Students will provide recreational and musical leadership.
The Regional Youth Cabinet composed of Kent Naylor, president, Dave Albright, secretary, Mary Beth Loshbaugh, news editor, and Bob Tully. adult advisor, were responsible for planning the program.
Master Oratorio To Be Presented Sunday Evening
On next Sunday evening, beginning at 8:15, in the City Auditorium, the Oratorio Chorus of McPherson College will present its annual concert. The program this year will consist chiefly of standard choruses from master oratorios. Selections from the oratorio, “St. Paul”, by Mendelssohn will be featured on the concert.
The McPherson College Chorus numbers 110 mixed voices. The organization is directed by Professor Nevin W. Fisher, and Mrs. Gertrude Wilkins is the accompanist. The chorus has been rehearsing since September on this program which will be its first public appearance of the year.
The Sunday evening concert is being presented with the cooperation of the McPherson Ministerial Alliance. Church services for the evening will be transferred to the auditorium of the Community Building. Rev. W. H. Upton will preside at the concert; and offering will he requested to defray the expenses of the program.
Besides choruses from Mendelssohn’s “St. Paul”, the Oratorio chorus will sing “The Heavens Are Telling”, from Haydn’s “Creation”. “And the Glory of the Lord” from Handel’s “Messiah”, the “Sanctus” from Gounod’s “St. Cecelia” Mass, and the “Pilgrim Chorus” from Wagner’s “Tannhauser”. Soloists for the evening will be Esther Miller, Soprano, of Wieser, Idaho; Dorris Murdock, Soprano, of Eldora, Iowa; Rebecca Spear, Mezzo-Soprano, of Cedar Rapids. Iowa; Lucy Blough, Contralto, of Waterloo, Iowa; David Albright, Tenor, of Eldora, Iowa; and Gordon Corwin. Baritone. of McPherson. The Trio in “The Heavens Are Telling” will he sung by Jo B. Brooks, Soprano. Keith Burton. Tenor, and Paul Wagoner. Baritone. Miss Inga Mark of McPherson will play the violin obbligato in “Prayer” from “Cavalleria Rusticana”.
“Missionaries of Today” Is Topic For BYPD
Peace Conference At Bethel Is Successful
The College Youth assembled for a B. Y. program based on the timely topic—“Missionaries of Today.” Rebecca Spear led the group in a hymn sing using songs based on mission work. Following the singing, Ethmer Erisman gave a short inspirational biography of one of our first China missionaries. Dr. Frank Crumpacker. Next, Doris Hamer gave a biography of Miss Ella Ebbert, a missionary in the India field. Bob Kiem presented in a realistic way the life of Mr. Ernest L. Ikenberry from boyhood to manhood. The back-round music was played by Carrie Belle Lewis.
Discussing “Peace—Is This It?", a large group of college youth from Oklahoma and Kan-sas met at Newton last week-end. Bethel College played host to the Conference that was sponsored by the Institute of International Relations. The Conference was a combination of hard-thinking, stimulating talk, helpful work, and good recreation.
Saturday afternoon the Conference adjourned for several hours while the group went out on work projects. Part of the group did work in the Mennonite Relief Clothing Center in Newton, the others worked in Negro Churches throughout the city.
Those attending the Conference were Ruth Lichty, Doris Murdock, Edith and Ruth Merkey, Dale Brown, and Dayton Rothrock. The Recreational Council from McPherson supplied recreation and worship program on Friday and Saturday evenings.
Thespians Choose “Angel Street”
The members of the Thespian Club are in the midst of making plans for a play production.
The play is “Angel Street” (Gaslight), a psychological mystery. Suspense of the episode is built upon the cunning and subtility. with which Mr. Manning-ham trys to drive his wife insane. The solving of a murder, committed fifteen years ago lends an air of mystery.
Annette Ronk, senior, will act as director of the play.
Here’s What Makes the Quad Tick
day, don’t forget I warned you. There are other aspects of the Quadrangle room which are rather interesting. For instance, it seems to be a general storage room and there are all sorts of old bulletin boards and old discarded furniture laying around taking up space, but we try to ignore it.
3ut in spite of it all, we are really quite happy working there. That statement might he labeled prevarication, since we haven’t been able to find the key to it for a month. I have a feeling the key is in the room, and that it was left in there while under the influence of a subconscious desire— mainly the desire to stay off that sagging floor.
Nuff said about the room. Other difficulties sometimes seem insurmountable to the Quad staff—j such as pictures. We have recently adopted the slogan, (out of necessity, believe me) if at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try, try, again. This could go on for many pages but why bore you?
(I know what you’re thinking).
Speaking of the staff—you might like to know who and what they are. Tex Lobban has the job of business manager,—it consists of heating the business men in order to secure ads. Patronize Quadrangle advertisers, (oops, that’s the Spectator’s line.) Carl Beckwith assists Tex in her bus-iness pursuits, and believe me it is good training for the child. Then there is Susie Ikenberry, who is assistant to your’s truly (the editor), and she has a dou
Dr. Jesse Ziegler Is Speaker To SCA Group
Dr. Jesse H. Ziegler of Bethany Biblical Seminary was the speaker last Thursday evening at S C A. He was on his way to LaVerne College, California, to attend the Regional Conference at that place and kindly consented to stop off for one day at McPherson. Dr. Ziegler is professor of Mental Hygiene and Christian Education at the seminary.
His subject tor discussion was, “The Total Conquest of Personality”, and in brief this is what he had to say regarding the theme. “The life of the ordinary youth has not been completely conquered by Christ. The first line of defense has been broken and large areas of his life are nominally under the domination of Christ, hut there are many ‘pockets of resistance’. These pockets of resistance can he taken for God only by storming each of them successively. The level of the world will be lifted only when there are a considerable number of the best of youth whose lives contain no pockets of resistance but whose lives are completely under the ruler-ship of God.”
Carl Zigler. a former student at Bethany, conducted devotions and introduced the speaker.
New Student Enrolls
Robert Barr has re-enrolled in school after being in the army for several years. He will he remembered for his basketball playing when he was previously enrolled.
Rec. Council Meets
Lives of great men remind us.
Trustee Board Is In Session
Annual Meeting Began This Morning at 10:00
The Animal Meeting of the Board of Trustees of McPherson College convened this morning at 10:00. The chairman for the meeting is W. H. Yoder, of Waterloo, Iowa; the vice-president is
Wall, of McPherson; and the secretary is J. H. Fries, also
this city
The Board of Trustees which is holding its meetings in the SAR will take up the annual business follows. The annual reports will be given by the president of the college. Dr. W. W. Peters; dean-registrar, Dr. Boitnott; and the director of public relations, Reverend Frantz.
Other business that the Board of Trustees will consider is the reorganization of the trustee board. Also the appointment of committees will be made. The employment of the faculty and consideration of other business will also be cared of at this meeting.
The trustees for this annual meeting are Roy Frantz, Conway Springs. Kansas; J. J. Wampler, Warrensburg, Missouri; Charles
A. Albin, Ottumwa, Iowa; J. J. Yoder. McPherson. Kansas; P. L. Fike, West Plains. Missouri; W.
A. Kinzie, Morrill, Kansas; B. F. Stauffer, Rocky Ford. Colorado; E. A. Wall, vice-chairman, McPherson. Kansas; Harold Beam, McPherson, Kansas; Jay Crum-packer, McPherson, Kansas; Homer Ferguson. McPherson, Kansas; Mrs. J. D. Bright, Topeka. Kansas; W. H. Yoder, chairman. Waterloo, Iowa; W. E. Ick-es, Dallas Center, Iowa; Glenn Harris, Jennings, Louisiana; R. E. Loshbaugh, Burlington, Kansas;
B. F. Stutzman, Thomas, Oklahoma; Walter Miller, Sawyer, North Dakota; E. Floyd Crist, Quinter, Kansas; Paul E. Sargent, McPherson; Richard Keim, Nampa, Idaho; and Harvey Rasp, Omaha. Nebraska.
Chapel Program Centered Around Life of Lincoln
Annette Ronk was in charge of the chapel service Wednesday. It consisted of excerpts from Robert E Sherwood’s play, “Abe Lincoln in Illinois.” Keith Burton Played the part of Abe; Franklin Flory played the part of Mr. Mentor, one of Abe’s friends; Phyllis Strickler played Ann Rutledge; and Marilyn Horner acted as Mary Todd. The theme song of the program was “Battle Hymn of the
Republic.”
The play was very effectively and well played by the students.
They told me to write a history the Quadrangle, so I leaped happily to the library, and began to browse through the dusty pages of all the antiquated yearbooks I could find including Dandelions,
McColpas, and finally Quadrangles.
And then I made a profound decision. I decided that one does hot write a history of yearbooks, because they are history in them-selves. Of course, it probably could be done, hut not by any sleepy head like me. And any-who you don’t want to hear or read about that anyway. So, with
no one’s consent, not even the editors. I'll ramble on about the
Quadrangle in this modern age.
Did I say modern, one would think that was a gross exaggeration if they were to peek into the Quad office. Every time I sit down to write in that room, I feel like Abraham Lincoln. All I need is a shovel and some charcoal. (Poor lighting—yak, yak). Besides that, the entire Quad staff is afraid to walk into the room, because the floor doesn’t meet the wall. There is a huge gap in it. One time I was possessed with the horrible fear that I was going through into the chapel, and I realized that that would cause no end of disturbance. So, to soothe my ruffled nerves, I told Professor Hess about this dilemma, and he assured me that that crack or something had been there for many years, and that heavier bodies than mine had walked in that room, with no bad results. But
if I float down into chapel some
Ziegler Speaks To Chapel Audience
Dr. Jesse H. Ziegler, Director of Mental Hygiene and Religious Education at Bethany Biblical Seminary, used as the basis for his talk in chapel last Friday, the eleventh verse of the second chapter of Philipplans, “That every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”
He recalled to our minds the fact that it was not the universities of Germany that offered resistance to the Nazi doctrines; neither was it the newspapers. Both of these it would seem, should form the spear head of resistance; but instead, it was the church that came to the foreground to offer unprecedented resistance to that which was sure to wreck the nation. Because of this fact, Einstein, one of Germany’s leading men of knowledge, expressed a belief and a faith in the church that he never would allow himself to even think about before.
He expressed a desire that we all take Christ as the Fuhrer of our lives, which would mean the taking of Christ as Lord of all life. This will mean that from this time on our lives are to be thrown into the scales daily to weigh the constructive elements of life as compared to the desructive. It will mean being God’s man and being arrayed against the forces of destruction. It means being dedicated to the preservation of beauty, being dedicated to the right as over against the wrong. Christ being Lord of one’s life means that that person is living under discipline.
As an example of living under discipline Dr. Ziegler spoke of the Benedictines, who make three vows and keep them. One of these vows is a vow of chastity even to the extent of celibacy. Today it seems that morals are sinking to a very low level and many social students predict that worse is yet to come, even to the possibility of homes being broken faster than new homes can he established. Another vow of the Benedictine is the vow of poverty; another the vow of obedience. Under this latter vow there is no question, obedience to his superior comes first.
In closing he emphasized that the saving of civilization depends on the Christian people accepting Jesus as Lord and following the commission as found in Matthew 28:19-20. This would include the going into all nations and teaching the word of God and making disciples of all men, causing them to desire right and not wrong, and causing them to love their fellow men and to seek to preserve beauty and right rather than to destroy it.
ble duty to perform. She does what the editor tells her to do, and she lends me her shoulder to cry on when both of mine are occupied by friends. (I realize that I am assuming that I have two friends—I know I have two shoulders.)
Boh Keim, cooperative freshman from Idaho, handles the sports. (We call him Sports Editor).
Mike Ruthrauff also lends her bit of ingenuity and wit and cleverness (she pays me) to the construction of the year book. As a matter of fact though, she is officially known as copy editor, the first rung on the ladder to success. (Trite, but I can’t think of anything else.) Marvin Blough if official errand boy, and divides his extra time between his janitor job and his Quad position. Photographer for this year’s Quadrangle is Wayne Bowman, and when he says smile, please do. Every yearbook involves art, even if this doesn’t sound like it so far. and that part is handled by Keith Burton, well qualified as you know.
I am terribly sorry about all this. I didn’t realize it would look like it does in print. So accept my apologies, and please don’t pass judgment on our favorite yearbook, until you are holding one in your own little hands, which will be May first, if all goes as should. Until then, come up and see us in the Quad room, especially if you’re good at picking locks.
Program Will Be Given By the Oratorio Chorus
Four new members were voted into the Recreational Council when the club met for its regular meeting on Monday evening.
Those who were voted into the club were Dorothy Frantz, Warren Hoover, John Sheets, and Carl Beckwith. The addition of the new members was made necessary by the resignation of Blair Holman, Gerald Mease, Geraldine Hedges, and David Albright.
The resignations of Helman and Hedges were accepted at this meeting; those of the two other two having been taken care of at a previous meeting.
A discussion was held about the outcome of the program at Bethel. Geraldine Hedges, assisted by her committee, put on an hour of recreation each evening the conference was in session.
NUMBER 18
Noted Speakers To Highlight Program
The Regional Conference for the Western Region of the Church of the Brethren will he held at McPherson from February 15-22 with McPherson College as host. This is an outstanding religious event of the college year, with outstanding speakers and leaders. Due to war time restrictions the conference was not held last year.
A record attendance is anticipated for this conference.
On Friday the youth retreaters will have as their speakers: Don
Snider, Bob Tully, and Leland Brubaker. Various conference sessions will meet on Saturday with a banquet at the Church of the Brethren in the evening.
Rev. DeWitt Miller will conduct the Sunday morning worship. M. R. Zigler is the speaker of the afternoon.
Mr. Zigler will also speak Monday as will H. L. Hartsough, and Leland Brubaker. There will he various interest groups meeting in the afternoon. The evening
address will be given by M. R Zigler.
Leland Brubaker, H. L. Hartsough,
and Harvey R. Hostettler are several of the leaders who will speak on Tuesday. Leland Brubaker will give the evening address.
The Chapel address Wednesday will be by Oscar F. Blackwelder, pastor of the Lutheran Church of the Reformation. Washington, D.
C. I. W. Moomaw will also have a part in Wednesday’s program.
Hylton Harman will speak in chapel on Thursday. Other speakers during that day will be I. W. Moomaw, Oscar F. Blackwelder, Mrs. E. L. Ikenberry. W. W. Peters will speak at the evening service.
Friday morning the McPherson Sr. High School Debaters will debate on Peacetime Military Conscription.
Field Men and Mission Board Members Meet
District field men and mission board representatives will open their week-end meeting preceding Regional Conference, today at 3:00. Routine matters of business will occupy several periods of the meeting.
On Saturday H. L. Hartsough, Leland Brubaker, and James Elrod will provide resource material for discussions on “Our Home Mission Policy”. The purpose of the meeting is to find a solution to some of the mission problems, and to take constructive steps to strengthen our policy in that field.
Dr. L. Avery Fleming will be presiding as the Western Region Advisory Council opens their business sessions Tuesday at 3:05 p. m. G. A. Zook, Vice President of the Council, will lead in devotions. Rev. Elrod is Executive Secretary of the group. Plans will he discussed to encourage progress in all fields of church work throughout the coming year.
Coming Events
Feb. 15. Basketball, Bethel here. Feb. 15, Faculty-Trustee Dinner,
5:30.
Feb. 15-16 Regional Youth Retreat.
Feb. 16. Regional Youth Banquet,
6:30.
Feb. 17, Oratorio Concert, City Auditorium. 8:15.
Feb. 17-22, Regional Conference of the Western Region of the Church of the Brethren.
Feb. 19, Basketball, Baker here.
