Making reproductions of antique toys, employing the foundry technique, is one of the many interesting hobbies of Prof. Alvin Willems. Macollege’s assistant professor, in industrial arts and mechanics.

Prof. Willems considers this hobby in the line of art although there is a lot of technology involved. He thinks that if people recognized industry as an art they would appreciate it more. He also says that very few people realize that foundry is the sixth largest industry in the United States.

The procedure Prof. Willems follows in his hobby is to first make a sand mold using the original antique toy as a pattern. Then the replica is cast in aluminum using the mold he has made from the original toy as a pattern.

It was only three years ago that Prof. Willems started, making replicas of antique toys. Although progress was slow at first he now has at the present made copies of 25-30 different toys.

Difficult Finding Antique Toys

He indicates that you can't buy the original copies but they

Brethren youth will have an opportunity to see Congress in action, observe t h e Supreme Court, visit a United Nations Meeting and other important government agencies on the annual Brethren Youth Seminar to be Feb. 1-6, 1959.

The seminar is open to all youth 14 years and older. The cost will be about $40 plus travel to and from seminar. Travel will be by chartered bus.    

An advance registration of $8.50 must be mailed by Jan. 18 to the Youth Department. 22 South State Street, Elgin, Ill.

Seminar speakers include legislators. government executives, diplomats, representatives of foreign governments, leaders of labor. management, agriculture, press, racial groups and church groups.

In Washington visits will be made to the Senate, the House of Representatives, committee hearings, the Supreme Court, the White House, the State Department. various foreign embassies, the National Service Board for Religious Objectors, the Library of Congress and the Archives.

Visits in New York will be made to the United Nations Building, its council and committee meetings and to various foreign delegation headquarters.

Spec Takes A Vacation

The next issue of the Spectator will be published the second Friday after Christmas vocation, There will be no Spectator published during the week of semester exams.

Spec Seeks New Editor

Prospective editors for the Spectator are being considered now by the Board of Publications for the second semester campus editor position.

Applications for the position may be submitted by any regularly enrolled student who is interested in becoming editor in chief of the Spectator in three semesters.

Campus editor advances to managing editor alter one semester and then to editor in chief the following semester.

Sherland Ng, chairman of the Board of Publications, is receiving the applications. Anyone who has a question about the position may talk to her, to any of the present editors, or to Mrs. Homer Brunk, advisor.

Student Council, of which the Publications Board is a committee. employs the editors. The editor in chief receives a salary of $80 which may be increased to $100 for the semester if the paper has a profit.

Present campus editor is Faye Fields, sophomore from Wichita, Kas. Harold Connell, sophomore from Brooklyn. Iowa, is the present managing editor, but will be the editor in chief next semester.

JoAnn Negley, junior from Durham, Kas., will retire from the editorial staff at the end of the present semester.

Eight Debaters Attend Tourney

Eight debaters attended the Southwestern Debate Tournament December 12 and 13 at Winfield. Kansas. Those participating were Richard Bittinger, James DeVine, Richard Ferris, Mary Ann Guthals, Larry Hayes.

Don Hollenbeck, Chester Peck-over, and Joan Walters. All Debate teams won one or more of the five rounds of debate. The ladies reached the octofinals but were eliminated in the quarter finals.

Richard Bittinger received one of the eleven excellent ratings in discussion while James DeVine and Larry Hayes won preliminary rounds in the extemp contest. Both lust in the semifinals, however.

Macollege placed seventh of all the schools there out of 47. There were 130 teams present. Teams came from as far away as Arizona University and Dartmouth in New Hampshire.

Southwestern University of Springfield. Missouri won the sweepstakes in the debate. Prof. Hayes and Prof. Bechtel accompanied the debaters and were judges at the tournament.

Children's Open House To Be Sunday Night

Children's Christmas Open House, sponsored annually by the Children's Department of t h e Church School, will be held this Sunday evening. It will take the form of a Christmas Open House with the emphasis on family and fellowship with refreshments rather than gifts.

Sunday morning's topic will be, "A Lover's Quarrel With Life,"-presented by Rev. Harry K. Zel ler, Jr.

"God's Silent Heroes", an article appearing in the January 1959. Coronet magazine, is about the history of the Church of the Brethren and the Brethren Volunteer Service Program. Service projects all over the world arc covered in the article.

While Mr. Theodore Irwin, author of the article, made visits to some of the projects, he came to the Brethren Service Center in New Windsor. Maryland.

Vena Catherine Wray, freshman and former B. V. S.er from McPherson, was on project there at that time and came in contact with Mr. Irwin as he interviewed several volunteers on that project.

Mr. Irwin, in another part of his story, points up the work done by "normal controls" at the National Institutes of Health in Be-thesda, Maryland, a suburb of

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Washington, D. C. Approximately 20-50 volunteers are on project here.

Experiments are run on these people followed by comparisons of the ill and the well. Roberta Varner, freshman. Kansas City. Mo., and Roger Killian, freshman, Byron, Ohio, have both spent some time with them.

Bettie Crain of Waterloo. Iowa who attended for one year at McPherson ('57 - '58), is at the institutes now. A similar project is found in Ann Arbor, Michigan, at the University of Michigan.

The article mentions the founding of the Church of the Brethren and the celebration of its 250th Anniversary.

This magazine may be found in the college library by students who wish to read the article.

In the sixth annual Kansas Col-lege Athletic Conference Tournament. Dec. 22-24, Sterling College will be the guest team this year. Each year 7 of the 8 conference teams plus one outside team play in this tournament, sponsored by the Shrine Club of McPherson.

In the games this year. Bethel will meet College of Emporia at 1:30 p.m. and Baker and Friends will meet at 3:30 p.m. on Monday. Dec. 22. Bethany and Sterling will clash at 7:30 and at 9:00 the same night. McPherson and Kansas Wesleyan will battle to complete the first round games.

The Bethel-C. of E. winner will meet the Bethany Sterling win-ner Tuesday night along with the Mac Kansas Wesleyan winner!  in a contest with the Baker-Friends winner. The losers of the two brackets will meet in the: afternoon games.

The championship game will be played Wednesday afternoon. Dec. 24. at 3:00. The consolation winner will be decided in a contest preceding the championship game.

While most students take a break during the Christmas holidays. the Macollege cagers will be working for more marks in the “Won" column, December 19 and 20 will come with the Bulldogs playing at Enid, Oklahoma in an effort to beat the Philllips University team.

The 22-23-24 of this month will be occupied by the KCAC Tournament at McPherson. At the end of the year, the 29th. the Mac cagers will travel to Nebraska to battle the Nebraska Wesleyan cagers at Lincoln. The Bulldogs were beaten in a close game last year at Lincoln. 62-61.

Before returning to Kansas, the Mac club will journey to Hastings, Nebraska to meet in a court battle. The Bulldogs will then return to McPherson, having completed their road trip.

Fifth and seventh place will be decided in games played in the morning on Wednesday.

No games will be played on Christmas Eve. The games plan ned for Wednesday night will bet played in the afternoon and af- ternoon games have been moved up to the morning so the tour- nament will be completed about 5:00 p.m. Wednesday evening on, the 24th.

Each team plays three games in the tournament and helps experience the teams in early season games as well as provide basketball fans a view of the KCAC basketball teams during the holiday. The tournament is one of the most successful of its kind in this state, as its large crowds at the past tournaments have shown.-

Officials of the tournament games will be H. E. Hamlin and Jim Peterson of Emporia. Dean Groves of Salina, and Johnny Overby from Wichita. The head timekeeper for night games will be Fred Carpenter and Guy Hayes will be timekeeper of the games played in the afternoon.

Over 200 People Attend Formal

Nature is but a name for effect whose cause is God.

Delk Receives Football Honor

Ed Delk, senior Macollege athlete, has been selected by the Williamson’s Rating Bureau, Houston, Texas, as Little All-American end for his outstanding performance in football.

The selection is based on a poll of coaches and athletic directors in this area. The bureau rates all teams for pre-season and postseason places for both small and large colleges.

Ed received other honors this season by being selected for the KCAC All-Conference Team.

‘58 Grads Choose Many Professions

Graduates of the McPherson College Gass of 1958 are now situated in thirteen" vocational areas. Fifteen per cent of the class is continuing in additional study.

Over fifty per cent of the class members are teaching in public schools. Of the class of 100, 57 are in the teaching profession, according to alumni office records.

Fifteen graduates are attending graduate schools or taking additional undergraduate work.

The breakdown by number and vocational areas is as follows: three in business, five homemakers, five in general farming, two in military service, three in voluntary church service.

One is a laboratory chemist one in insurance work, one an of fice worker, one in oil well ser vice, one in pastoral work, and one a poultryman. The vocational areas of four were unknown.

Miss Ana Rosa Rodriguez, ’58, is teaching English in a vocational high school in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. The school has 500 pupils and Ana Rosa teaches five classes a day.

In a non-conference game last Friday night, the St. Benedicts Ravens defeated the McPherson Bulldogs 59 to 53.

The Bulldogs led most of the game, until in the last period. Then the Ravens found their range and surpassed the Bull-dogs 32-29 lead at the half, to win the match.

Coach Sid Smith used only the first, five starters, with no substitutions during the game.

Ed Delk led the Bulldogs in scoring, by scoring over half of the points. He registered 26, and no fouls. Dennis Brunner was second in the scoring with 15 points.

Veale of St. Benedicts was their high scorer with 14 points.

The Bulldogs won the preliminary game over the Ravens 59 to 54.

Macollege To Be Site Of Debate Tournament

The economy debate tournament will be held on Macampus Saturday, Jan. 10. There will be about fifteen to twenty schools participating with about forty-five to fifty teams competing.

The Regional Youth Director for the Western Region of the Church of the Brethren is Kenneth Holderread. His office is in the regional office in Sharp Hall. He is under the Regional Executive Committee.

Some of the duties of the job are in helping the committee carry out some of its plans such as the Regional Youth Conference held in the spring on Macampus for the entire region.

Some of Ken’s other duties consist of promotional work for the various rallies in the region, attending some of the rallies, and leadership training, and general youth work.

Ken also heads up the Earn and Serve project on Macampus. This consists of sending students

Books on the history of various countries have been added to the college library recently.

Africa in the Modern World edited by Calvin W. Stillman provides a searching analysis of Africa as a political, social, and economic factor in the world today.

Great Britain and the United States by H. C. Allen interprets the ties between the two great nations over a period of one hundred and seventy years. It gives new meaning to the misunderstandings of the past and presents the vital current issues.

Mexico: the Struggle for Peace and Bread by Frank Tannenbaum is a survey of what Mexico is in terms of sociology, politics, economics. and psychology. It tells how Mexico came to be that way out to the various churches in the region for the summer to serve in the church in whatever capacity the church needs.

Then they get a regular job if possible to earn money to continue their college work. Ken is supposed to spend half of his time in and half of his time out of the regional office.

Ken and his wife. Elsie, live in Kline Hall. Mrs. Holderread is completing her senior year at Macollege this year. Ken will return to his college work when his job is done. The job is for two years.

Ken has completed two years of work now and he says that he plans to go to Bethany Seminary when his college work here at Macollege is over.

and ponders on what it is likely to become.

Inside Russia Today by John Gunther tells of a new. post-Stalin Russia, in which monolithic rigidity has been replaced by something much more fluid, experimental, dynamic, and perhaps. more dangerous.

The State of Latin America by German Arciniegas is a survey of the political realities of the Latin-American states in which democracy and dictatorship struggle for the control of 153,000,000

people.

Dance of the Millions by the late Vernon L. Fluharty is an analytic and objective study of the rise of the people in Columbia during 1930-56.

Economic Aspects of Argentine Federalism by Miron Burgin reconstructs and examines the economic background of the political struggles of the period from 1820-1852; defines in economic terms the doctrines and the programs of the two major political parties, and analyzes the evolution of the federalist concept in Argentina in the light of that country’s economic development.

Free India in Asia by Werner Levi is a documented study of India's position in the whole of Asia and her relations with each of the countries in the area, with emphasis on developments since India's independence in 1947.

The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States of America by W .E. B. Du Bois shows how the slave-trade and the struggle for its suppression left an impact on the entire pattern of American development.

A famous headmaster of a school said that if he saw a boy in despair over his work he always gave him a higher mark than he deserved. The following week the boy always made a higher mark himself.

last house on their "route," where they enter and sing their thanks. Next night a different family goes forth, etc., until the cycle is completed.

But perhaps some Yuletide novelties are better left abroad. We’d hate to ban Christmas as it was in Britain in 1644, when Oliver Cromwell and his Puritan followers came to power. They looked askance at the gay and noisy celebration that had become a Christmas custom. One traditional item was the Yule log.

This huge tree, chopped down with much merrymaking and burned throughout the holiday, has been the focus of seasonal revelry since the pagan sun-worshipping rites of ancient Britain, which had also taken place in December. That was enough for Oliver, who banned the whole Christmas celebration as "immoral sun-worshippe."

No doubt drab Oliver would have protested to our modern Christmas, with its blazing glory of neon lights above the main thoroughfare of most American towns.

In New York, a three mile row of lighted Christmas trees—right down the center of Park Avenue — leads to a huge cross of lighted windows high in a towering skyscraper.

Biggest blaze of Gotham glory is the mammoth tree outside Rockefeller Center. The largest Christmas tree in the world, its 64 feet of height arc illuminated by 3,000 electric candles.

The most spectacular tree of all time brings to mind the most spectacular gifts of all time — and these too. have often involved lights.

One devout Spanish king built a brilliantly lit chapel as a Christmas present for his queen. Less pious monarchs and millionaires have traditionally favored flashing jewels as Christmas love-tokens.

Macollege students in the Arts and Crafts class and the Woodworking class are making interesting projects in Frantz Hall, the industrial arts building.

Several of them are making Christmas presents. Some of these projects include book ends, book shelves, head boards and trays.

The Arts and Crafts class has made wax candles and done some leather work.

One of the interesting projects of the Woodworking class is making candle holders from the lumber of on old tree which lived on Macampus about 10 years ago.

It had been located east of the old boys dormitory but. died after college students started parking cars around it and packing the ground.

It was cut down, and sawed into lumber and packed away in

Imprisioned World Was Subject Of Chapel

Dr. Tom Jones, member of the Advisory Council for American Colleges, spoke in chapel last Friday, Dec. 12. His speech concerned the "prison” that the world lives in today.

Music was presented by the McPherson College Chapel Choir.

Walls Become Parents Of A Baby Boy

Mr. and Mrs. Rollyn Wall became the parents of a baby boy. Eric Allen, born Saturday, Dec. 13, at 8:21 p.m.

Rollyn is a freshman at Macollege.

the top of the industrial arts building. It has been drying since 1949 and is just now dry enough to work with.

Another project which the arts and crafts class and the woodworking class cooperate in making are guest books. These guest books are given free to all students who are married here in college.

These books have a wooden cover with a copper tooled image of Sharp Hall on the front cover. The students are also making a similar book with a picture of a cat on the cover for Miss Mildred Siek, professor of Home Economics at Macollege. Miss Sick happens to be a lover of cats.

There are eight students in the arts and crafts class and 28 students in the woodworking class. Both classes are instructed by Prof. S. M. Dell, professor of industrial arts education.