College bulletin 1952 november

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FALL

1952

NEWS BU LLETI N PACIFIC

Ed.

Jacobson Fall New Business Manager Here per cent

After 40 years of co ntinuous s(wicc at Pac i fi c Lutheran, Ok Stuen has retired as th� college librarian and has acc('pted the pos ition of executin> se cret ary of thl.' Alumni Association. It is the feding of the alumni board fo rnia, and even four from Hawaii. A large proportion of the students that Mr. Stue n with his many years of s ('rvice to the students of PL , an: Lutherans. value in this With all buil din gs and grounds in will be of inl' stima bl A-I shape, and a top-flight faculty new undertaking of th" association, N,'wly elected officers of the alumni and staff on hand, along with an en­ thusiastic and s elec tive student bo dy, board are William K, Ramstad, presi­ 1952-53 is showing all prospect of dent; Carl T, F ynboe, vic c -pr e s i de nt ; br'ing: one of the best y('ars in the college's 59 -ye ar h i story,

is

hall

higher this fall than at

is

serving

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1,300 meals

a day,

Included in this year's roster are it was an­ E, Hauge, 292 freshmen, 168 sophomores, 133 dean and registrar. This year's 846 j uni ors, 134· se ni ors, -1 graduate stud­ Arriving in Parkland in August to ents, 97 spec ial students and 18 ex­ becomc the ncw business manager of compares with 804 in October, 1951. tension s tuden ts . The freshman class leads all others the c ollege was Edward Jacobson, Many studt'nts have come co nsid­ treasurer of St. <.. laf Colleg e, N orth- by showing an ill erease of 74 stud­ erable distances to attend PLC, in­ ents. In the whole student body, mcn field, Mi nn . , for thl: past 25 years. cluding a large number from Cali, 66 ber by women outnum In the P.L.C, post, Jacobson will ,\Ithough t hi s is not the largest assume some of the duties of Dr. Eastv'lld, who since 1943 has been not total enrollment in PLC h istory, the onl\' the presid,'nt but also the bu si- pinch is being felt in the college's dormitories and dining hall, because ness manager. the nu mber of on-campus students . Dr the on selection. Commenting Eastvold declared, "PLC is very for- has reached an all-time high. the same

nounced

tunate in acquiring th" serv ices of Mr. and I feel that the College will 1)<' well �crved by him . " Bt'sides handl ing the financial af' fairs at St. Olaf, Jacobson also <.:01. : leetcd the college meomc, �upervlsed . ' th,' 'lecountmg and off ice, was sec re taTy of th" fi nance committee o f th" hoard of trUS!!:I'S and fi nan cial advis­ er for thl'l'e studt'nt publications. Jacobso n t\'raduatcd from SI. Olaf ill 192� and also studied at the Uni. vnsity of NIinncsota. A s on, Jack. is a stud"nl at P.L.C. this year. During Dr. Ea;;tvold's term as f in­ '('n lIncial he�ld, thl' net ass.- lS have incrcas,'d from $268,000 to $:!,500,­ (Jon, Enrollment has skyrockt,tcd from th,' wartime lo w of 144 to ncarly I,noo. (Total last yC<l1' 1190, w hich ill,lu(ks SUmrn(T School).

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Ole Sluen, Veteran d IPLCite: Appointe Alumni Secretary

women's

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Philip

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New Building Wins Praise from Visitors

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cap acity of 240 women

(s"(' article r uIl<; the stage ai1d said tha t he had w vc r on Pa,g-c 2). The men have filled R eprinted from Tacoma News-Tib Clover Creek Hall and Ivy Hall with I scen anything to equal it on any oth,'r Sunday August 17 1952 ' ' th,>ir total capacitv of 60 men, and college camp us . stOrIt'S Dra\vn by news " and plctures ' , . . have overflowed mto some 50 home s The Rev, Mr. Settle, foundt-r of the ' f h b d h . , . , 0 t t ' <'auty an arc Itcctura I , m the Pa rk l and d,strtct. The dmlllg workahility of the newest addition to famou s " Wi ngs Over Jordan" ,hoir the Pacific Lutheran c ollege campus, which also appeared in concert at PLC Clubs Are Active tourists from many parts of the na­ P" LC, publicly called the auditorium'' Of!(' of the most bpautiful in all r L C's clubs OInd organizations tion ha\'!' visit"d the C hapel - Mu 3 i e Ameri ca." havt lost little time in g'etting or- Spee c h buildin� this :O:;UDIITICl'. The strt'am of visitor s, accordingMuch of thr admiring comnH'nt, ac!\anized this fall; most of thnn clt-ctcd their new officers b st sprin g. .'\mo ng to regist.. !s a t the College, has in- cording to college officials, was din'ct­ the prfsidcnts (,It-cted werc Hcrb Ncve, duded \'aeationcrs from Iowa, �orth ed at the colorful dccorativc scheme Ewrt'tt, Mission Society. pr e si dent ; and Sou th Dakota, Montana, Minnc- used throug-h the building, from th,' Bdt)' Hanson, Portland, '\ssoeiatcd sota, W i s c onsin, Tr'xas, California, beautifu.l little chapd directly under Worn('n Students: Jim Kauth, K,'n- Idaho, Or.. '(on, Ohio and Illinois, In, th e 125-foot spire, to th. 17 individual piano pranic(' rooms, Last to be cCldary, and Clarence Lund, tl','.1S111newick, A rm' l' i c an Ch,'mical Society; a d d i tion t�l('IT han' bcen \' is ito t s . and ,\ Ian Hatlen, En'fctt, L ut. he r a n .-\laska, Canada, )lorwar, Cl'rmuny compit-ted IS the sp a c Io us musIC . hbr- n, Uth e r melllh'Ts arc Carl Hatit-y, I and Jalxl n. Stud,'nts Assoc iati on. ! ary. which in addition to housing all Harry Lanc;', Rev. Robnt Lutnl'Ss, Linne Society, th r' biology :;rroup, Much praise has bn>n accorded th sort;; of published music, will han' olw Earl Platt, "{H, Jo a.nna MarHlUSOS pickl'(i DOll Kcirh uf 3t::Htk: Sf.J1l1!'oo, $7jO,naO !'\11�.H.LU1{· _h ;,.ti, W�l:-' tlcdiLHl:d 1 <] lutgt' coj�l'rtioTJ o f records and .�IX T :�q � l a lis and �virs. EliElbcth Sttwn , the sophornuf(' women s hono, ry, I�"t Nfay as eonriucilng """nt of 'I th n l , l buoths eqUIpped With tllrnt�blt:s tor Wdhs, , 1 A lumni n'pn'. :'ntatin's to �Ir(' col � ,,'!t-ctl'O NIary Ensb('r� of Spokaw: day Music and Drama F,:sti,'aL AP" : ,'a chill[; of specch aile! music al'pn'C. Blue Key, lIppnciasslllcn's honor fr:l- pro,'al was ('xpn'sSI'c! p<lrtIl'ubrly by 13.11On. if'g-c , . , Board of 1rustcrs arc f UbJ Th,'odon: O. H, Karl, Ill'ad oi thl' lIagelless and Dr, Nbrtin :\�rc;()rt', tertli ty, d("Clcd Al Fink of Odt'ssa, SODIe of the nationally-famous artists i :lnd Delta Phi Kappa, th,' dormitory who ["uk part in the [c , ti\'a l. lrr�: Spc C' c h Department, has becn at ! P rof. Ted Karl is the faculty rcp""­ women's organization, chose Betty Pettina, the NI l ' l ro po lit a n Opera St:.mford univlTsity this sumrner brush- sl'ntativc to tl1l' alumni board. Roy I RiggI rs of Gifford, Idaho, star, proclaim �'d tll" :lI'�V aud i to i, �:n, ing up o n :he latest ad\'ann's i n radio Olson ' dire'ctol' of the collf'g-c Public . Dick Borrud of Hollywood, Calif., Wltlt Its scatrng e"pdClty of 1,2A , and teleVISiOn preparatory to opcmng Rc-latrons department, has been wod,­ l . is pn's id in g onT Alpha Phi Omcga, pt'l' fc ct from th., ?rtist', swndpoin�" of the fall sernestl'f. More than Sil:l,- inl! w ith th,' board in the initiation of national , .. rvicc frate rnit y ; Bill Reike Clarence Derwent, the Sh.-.kespcarian 000 wo rth of l'iectronic equipment is the new office of alumni l'xccuti"C' of C.-.shml'l'l', Pi Kappa Delta. foren- ,Ietor of Stratford-on-A\'on anrl Broad-I in stall ed and ready for usc (the gift secretary, sics fraternity; and .Judd Doughty of way fanl<', was dec-ply impr('ssed by : o f Chris Knutzen of Burlington, WaShNIl'. Stuen has C'sta b li shr· d th" new 'beoma. Alpha Psi Omega, the finc and complr-t" eqlliprnt'nt ofington), (Continued on Page 2)

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transport a tion , '\Ie at thl Collt-g have underwritten his e duc ation, He comes to us, as mi ,!\ht he e xp cct r'd , ("IIl\{y Dcar Fri ends III C hri s t : tirdy penniil'ss. When he has finished I am writing to our host of friends colle�c, it is his devout plan to go t columns, (,,'crywhcrc through thcs one of Oll r Luth(-ran s('minaries dud trusting that my Illt'SsagT will be' 1" ­ then out into the Arab world to prt'ach garded as if it Wcr" a p nsonal ktter the gospt'I tv his fellow-citizl'ns, to en:r)' p e r son that will bc kind Dur ing tbe years, 194-5 to 194-7, enough tn re ;ld it, May I pre'sent to thI' friends cf th.. he worked as a clerk in the Brit"Jl Collcgr .Mr. Salim Elias Mitri, from Armv, aftc, which he rC('("i\Td an hOllm'abl" disl'harlj'. c He finish e d tho: Bethlehem of Judea. He was born on sevellth grade in the Syrian orp ha l1(' � " December 13, 19�7, within 011(' milr­ in Jerusalem and lat er completed hiS ofthe bi r th pla c " of Jesus Christ. He ,econdary edu cat io n 1Il a Sy rian was co nfir med in a S yria n orphanage orphanage which was transfe rr ed to byth" Direct or Schnilkr in 1939. His B ethlehe lTl . He l at e r attended St. m other a l id fathc.r were Lutherans. George's school, an An g lic an insti­ The en tire family is of th(- Arab tution, in Jerusalem. DIll' to financial nationality. His mother died som reasons, he c ould not continue his years a�o and his father became blind school fu rther . when h was sixteen yean, of age. Fol l owin g his army s('n'ice, h" I was introdllced to this young man when I was in Je rusale m and Beth ­ w orked wi th a refugee clinic for th lehem of Judca in the month of July, Lutheran Wo r ld Fl'deration in Beit­ 1952. Aft�r conferring wit h OUI he­ Jala . He then app li('d for a t eaching lond Dr, Moll, who heads the Luther­ position in our Lu theran school in an World Federation work in that Bethlehem a nd has been t("aching magnificent e nt erprise in Palestine, it th("re since 19+9. He taught religion, was decided that Salim Mitri hould mathe matic s, ge og Taphy, history, and come to Pacific Luthe ran Colkge, Tht' English. He was always at the top m AN OPEN LETTER FROM

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=: C om in g the farthest

dislan'·e

to attend

year is Salim ::\>1i t i, r 25, th is

PLC

whom

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Dr.

E ast \' old

III e

Jerusalem.

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Many

ot h er

students from the Ncar East and

Europe would also l i ke

to enroll at th e

college but

are pro­

ihited h by lack of finances. ally,

Incident­

SaIi

III

had

neyer heard of PLC

or even the state of Washington before Ju ly. Does he

likc

PLC? He lovcs it!

DR. EASTVOLD

Lutht'ran World

Fe<ieration paid his

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