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
a
rt'cord
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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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New Building Wins Praise from Visitors
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(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
�,
Dr.
E ast \' old
III e
Jerusalem.
C.
ti n
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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