Reflections 1965 december

Covcr: Entitled "Rest on tke Flioht Tllt(l EOypt," ThiB dl'awil1g of flte Hnly Family is by Lars Kittleson, assistant pl'o/essor of art.

The lIJork i8 based n'� It tkeme uRed by RCllau/8allce pail(terll to cUpict all earthly paradiae where 1'CSt ;8 fa/Illd in the midst of trouble a�l s t rifr.

Regents Make Major Decisions To all Alumni and Friends: A

I write my Christmas greeting this year, my mind goes back to the courageous founders who, almost

exactly seventy-five years ago, were making the decisions to launch a new educational institution in the name of the Christian church. Their resources consisted chiefly of vision, faith and courage. But they felt they were doing God's work; hence, despite staggering discouragements, they doggedly pressed on. • There was a connection between Christmas and PLU in 1890; and the same vital connection exists today.

In a profound sense, Christian higher education had its origin in the Bethlehem manger. From its incep­ tion, PLU has been an arm of the Church; it still is. As day succeeds day from Christmas to Christmas, we testify to the entire intellectual world that learning and Christian commitment can go hand in hand. Our long-range objective is to establish under the aegis of the Church a distinguished center of learning where­ in all truth is pursued and Christ's name is revered as the one which holds all things together.

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University has come a long way since the basement of Harstad Hall was dug in 1891. Perhaps the best mea­ sure of the distance travelled is the series of decisions made by the Regents at the meeting held on No­ vember 1 and 2, 1965. To the brave men who made decisions about the founding seventy-five years ago, the actions taken on November 1 and 2 would have appeared incredibly fantastic. They will unquestionably affect the strength and prestige of Christian higher education in the Northwest far into the future.

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important of all, the Regents decided to proceed with the construction of the new library forthwith. Un­ less something totally unforseen arises, the earth movers will be operating by December 15, and the library will be in use the second semester of next year. This is glorious news! Since we face the task of raising about $550,000, everyone who respects or loves the University is urged to become involved in the fund-raising process, The total cost of the building will be about $1,650,000 . • Next, in view of the sharp rise in enroll­ ment, the Regents decided to erect two new dormitories - one for women and one for men. The new women's dormitory will rise west of the dormitory now under construction on the site of the former Stuen, Rasmussen and Bergum residences. The latter dormitory was named Stuen Hall in memory of Ole J. Stuen,

Pacific Luthe1'a,n Unive1'sity Bulletin Reflections Editorial Board

Hauge Di'Yl'ctD1' 0/ Alumni Relations

Lawrenee J.

VOLUME XLV

Richard D. Kunkle New8 BurMI� Chic!

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NUMBER VI

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DECEMBER 1965

Publio ked Six Times Anm.mlly by Padfic Lutheran Ulli1,ersity P.O Box 2068, Tacoma, Wa hington 98477 Second (Jl.ruJs Po.�tage Paid at Tacoma, WCMhirlgtOll

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who served the University in various capacities for almost fifty years. Stuen Hall will be in use in Septem­ ber, 1966.

The new men's dormitory will be erected on the lower campus on the east side of Yakima

Street across from Columbia Center.. The two new dormitories will be ready for use in the autumn of 1967.

Their combined cost will be almost $3 million. They will be financed with government loans.

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second women's donnitory win necessitate moving the Health Center, architects ar.e being appointed to plan an enlarged Health Center elsewhere.

Architects are also being engaged to redesign the old li­

brary for the new uses to which it will be put. Definite decisions have not yet been made concerning the func­ tions to be served by the old library.

Another major decision made by the Regents relates to the plan

for a University Center. This much-needed building will eventually house the major dining facilities of the campus, the bookstore, social and recreational areas, the post office, and student government and activity

rooms. It will undoubtedly take at least a year to program and design this building. The architectural firm of Bindon & Wright has been engaged, but

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definite schedule for construction has been set.

total cost of all construction referred to will be about

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million. Our work is cut out for us.

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the picture of ow' physical plans as we look toward Christmas, 1965. The prospect is both exhilarating and sobering. If we were solely concerned with the teaching of chemistry, English, history, mathematics, and all the other disciplines we would not need to face the challenge implicit in our program, for the task would be ably performed by the state. But we

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not solely concerned about the academic disciplines. Our basic

concern relates to the equipping of educated leaders to serve the Church and society under the banners of Jesus Christ. This task the state cannot assume. This is the task of Christian men and women; they alone can do it. • Let us therefore find new faith and courage as we kneel before the manger in the weeks ahead. If we honestly seek to carry out our great task in Jesus' name, we cannot fail.

Sincerely, ROBERT MORTVEDT, President

ST. LUC A: The Festival of Lights

VIGNETTES OF HISTORY One of the most colorful traditional events which takes place on campus each year is the Lucia Bride Festival. Usually held the first Saturday in Decem足 ber the Festival dates back to 1948, and ushers in a series of Christmas festivities on the ca pus.

A coed, chosen by stu dent vote, reigns over the Festival as Lucia Bride. She wears a full-length white gown, set off with a bright red sash about her waist and a crown on her head holding eight white candles.

The first FLU observance of this event was a simple one. Lola Murk was the Lucia Bride and the sponsoring group was the Viking Club. The Rev. E. Arthur Larson of Tacoma, who was a part-time teacher of Swedish, was the adviser. The observance was confined to the women's dormitory (then the top three floors of Harstad Hall) and Miss Murk went from room to room serving Scandinavian Christmas cookies and coffee t the students.

In 1953 the Spurs, sophomore women's service organization, took over the Festival and made it an all-school event with a program in the Chapel. To open the event the Spurs, dressed in Scandinavian costumes and bearing lighted tapers, march down the Chapel aisles to the stage singing "Santa Lucia."

They then sing carols in Scandinavian languages.

The student body president lights the tapers on the crown on the Lucia Bride nd the story of the orig足 ination of the Lucia Bride tradition is read. Several musical selections are given by student talent.

Following the program, the Lucia Bl'ide and her two princesses process out on the campus an the 100-foot Douglas fir campus Yule tree is lighted.

Then they go over to the Classroom building where Scandinavian Christmas delicacies are served. The event attracts a capacity throng each year.

Other campus Christmas traditions which date back over a quarter of a century include the dra足 matic presentation of Charles Dickens' "A Christ足 mas Carol" and the music depart ment's Christmas concert.

THE LEGEND OF ST, LUCIA: Lucia was a golden haired maiden who lived in Syracuse, Sicily, in the fourth century. While she was still a child, she prayed for the salvation of her parents, her friends and for all the people who lived in the white marble palace which was her home.

When Lucia was seventeen years old, she was engaged to be married. The wedding was to take place in the fall of the ame year. However, Lucia's mother became critically ill with fever during the summer. Lucia prayed intensely that God would restore her mother to health. She even promised that if God would grant her this recovery, she would give her entire dowry to the Church. The Lord did answer her prayer just as she had asked, and Lucia kept her promise to Him. She gave her entire dowry to the poor.

When Lucia's fiance heard what she had done, he was enraged. Consumed by a fierce pagan hatred, he turned her over to the soldiers who were persecuting the Christians of the day. They 2

attempted to burn her at the stake, but though the flames enveloped her, they did not burn her. At la t her betrothed thrust his sword through h er heart.

Before her lips closed and the light in her eyes went out, he was transfigured by such an intense inner light that the soldiers, the prefect , and her betrothed fell prostrate, as though they had been struck by lightning. And so Lucia, the bringer of light died, illumined by a heavenly glory.

In old Swedish legend, Lucia appeared some time later on a winter night along the shores of Sweden's largest lake. She distributed food to the people who were starving because of a great famine that year.

It is said that the old people used to whisper that the Lucia Bride, clothed in white and crowned with light, appeared each Dec. 13th between the hours of 3 and 4 in the morning. They declared that they could see her moving across icy lakes and snow路 covered hills carrying food for the folk of the parish.

Shortly after Lucia had been t here, the days grew longer, so it was believed that she brought the end of winter and the return of light to those long dark months.

Cities and villages in modern Sweden to this day herald the Christmas season by re-enacting the story of Lucia. The Lucia Bride selected visits various households at dawn and serves hot coffee and cakes.

Often she is accompanied by boys and girls of the parish who assist her and sing carols. Some of them carry torches to light the way.

It is the custom in many homes in America, also, for the oldest daughter to rise early in the morning of Dec. 13 t don a white robe with crimson sash and a crown of white candles. She makes the rounds, bringing them hot coffee, saffron roll , and ginger cookies efore they get out of bed. If this family is large. Lucia' brothers dress as Star Boys and attend their sister.

Two Views on Civil Disobedience

Civil disobedience can be a genuine Christian principle. Note: I say "can be," not "always is."

Christian civil disobedience is always carefully hedged by several qualifications: First, it is a matter of conscience, where one feels his only alternati e is to "obey God rather than men." Second, no estab­ lished legal means are a ailable whereby the goal of conscience can be achieved. Third, the Christian civil disobeyer is willing to suffer the penalty for his civil disobedience.

The question of elvil clisobedi nc 10 statute law hrls b 'en one 0 vilal c ncern to Chri-11an citizens throughout hbtory. It has been pointed up very sharply in the Unit d Stntes In Ihe current civil righ tru gle. Two PLU professors have discussed thi' subject on campU!i recently in convocation addre ses and in a debale be for e a sluden 's ( rgan­ izatlOn. The men have prepared statements of their views p cially for Reflections. Theil' statement on thl. 'ital question fol1o\ :

THE CHURCH A

Biblical and Church history are replete with examples of such civil disobedience: The Exodus it elf was civil disob dience against political lavery.

Jeremiah suffered the dungeon for refusing to ce se counseling Israel to surrender to Babylon. Second­ and third-century Christians suffered martyrdom for refusing to swear b the Emperor. Elector Frederick disobeyed the Edict of Worms and secretly sheltered the condemned Luther at the Wartburg. None of these instances were obvious cases involving religi­ ous liberty to believe and preach the gospel of Christ, but rather were what the government called "political issues." Yet civil disobedience resulted, because religious people felt it was also a matter of conscience. (Le. the voice of God, however much his conscience may need education).

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L� 'i.'fullt Pl'o!CI-;.,w/, of R li{,;oll In the interests of brevity, we must begin by accepting as an obvious f ct, not only that America has a ritical civil rights problem, but that changes must be made. Few, if any, would defend the system which has condemned blacks to abominable schools and dwellings because of boycotts or intimidation that prevent buying homes in better areas ne r bet­ ter schools. Probably none of us would maintain the unbelievably 1 w percentages of Negro voter regis­ tration in the South due to legal subterfuge or fear.

The second real issue is the Church's role in civil rights. "Let the Church be the Church" is the motto on which we all can agree. Likewise, "Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's and unto God what is God's." This makes it obvious that the Church, as Church, should not take sides on political e onomic, or social issues, per se. But it also means the Church must peak out on moral issues. For the Church to withdraw from moral issues because they also hap­ pen to be political or because men disagree on them, in favor of restricting itself to Churchly "worship" where all may agree, should be unmasked for the spiritual fraud it really is. The Old Testament prophets established the J udaeo-Christian tradition firmly on the side of ethical monotheism: the one true God is moral Himself and on the side of moral­ ity in human affairs, and any "worship" of Him is wrong worship if it does not denounce the unrighte­ ous and uphold the righteous. The Church is never for or against Democrats or Republicans, labor or management, etc. But the Church is against unrighteousness and for righteousness!

We can probably all agree that the Negro has often been denied justice in our land, and that our governmental machinery should be thrown into the cause of approaching this long over-due justice.

The only real issue at this point is whether the civil rights movement may ever use the less ideal means of mass pressures r even civil disobedience of statute law, when the admittedly preferable means of legal machinery break down and fail to a hieve justice. We who support the principle of ci i1 disobedience in ex eptional instances, contend that the passage of three generations since the Civil War i an intolerable halt in justice for the American Negro.

No responsible person, including a civil rights sup­ porter of civil di obedience, denies that justi e must normally be sought, and injustice rectified by estab­ lished legal means. But to advise that civil rights jusii e must only be sought through already-estab­ lished channels of law is a cavalier ignoring the fact that legal redress requires several elements: the right t vote, right of assembly for effective petition, education to appreciate and use the established herit ge, and money to carry out legal and legis­ iati e battles, plus the protection of the law so that one may use th other means without fear. The American Negro has usually lacked all or most of these - and has been largely helples to achieve justice by law.

All restrictions of the Church's voice on moral issue that are also political (or economic, ocial or scientific) must founder on history's examples of pre-Civil War slavery and the Nazi Genocide of Jews Who of us will say most American churches were wrong in making slavery a moral issue on which they spoke up - even though m st church .

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What other attitude toward responsible civil dis­ ob dience can be taken by those who are the heirs of the American Revolution and the .French Revolu­ tion? The American and French revolutions were necessary civil disobedience precisely because the evolution of ju. tice under law was stopped lip.

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An individual of any race by virtue of his citizenhip has a claim to his civil rights identical with that of every other citizen. Special civil rights for any racial group are clearly contrary to the Constitution of the United States.

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The lawful exercise of civil rights should be pro­ tected and lawful exercise of civil liberties should not be interfered with simply because we do not approve in some instance of the way they are being exercised. For example, freedom of speech and free­ dom of assembly are for advocates of unpopular as well as popular causes. For a second example, a property owner probably has the right to decline to rent his property to people with children if he wishes -it is his right to make this choice, not ours. One is at liberty if he has the time, means and inclination to vacation at Fairbanks, Alaska, in January; it needn't be my cup of tea.

Daily all 0 er the United States we see and hear reference to "civil rights." We seem to be in the midst of th phenomenon as pervasive as the very atmosphere we breathe. There are seemingly end­ less examples of charges and counter charges, marches and demonstrations, even riot and murder.

They constitute a dismal swamp of discord.

What, in all this we must ask, is the responsibility of the Christian citizen?

I believe to even discuss intelligently this ques­ tion of responsibility we must attempt to clarify the issues, and alas, if the so-called civil rights con­ troversy is a dismal swamp of discord - then popular understanding of the issues is a dark, in­ penetrable vine-covered jungle of confusion. I dare say that for the majority of people the term "ci il rights" conjures up a confused welter of images including school integration, sit-ins, pray-ins, demon­ st ations, pitched battles between pickets and police, burning crosses, o-called freedom songs and the endle s marching.

There is scant excuse for unlawful conduct in the name of civil rights or liberties. In theory, a citizen in the exercise of his civil rights and civil liberties is by definition acting in a lawful manner. However, in practice there are certain complications. The citi­ zen must pay a price if he is 'to enjoy his civil rights and liberties, this price is to protect his fellow citi­ zen in this other fellow' exercise of rights and liber­ ties. Without thi� reciprocity Eomebody gets left out.

Unfortunately, there are numerous instances where the exact limits of civil rights are not clear, and the philosophy of developing constitutionalism (that is, the notion that the judiciary should from time to time reinterpret the Constitution in the light of changing social, psychological and political insights.) embraced in recent years by the United States Su­ preme Court has added tremendously to these in­ stances where the law is not clear. Only as test cases reach the courts can some doubtful points be­ come matters of settled law. There are circum­ stances in which someone must break a law for the constitutionality of that law to be tested. One or more cases will normally suffice, and mass defiance of law is not necessary or justified in settling the legal or constitutional question. For instance, in order to test the legality or arresting for tresspass someone refusing to leave a restaurant at the re­ quest of the proprietor, a case involving one individ­ ual is sufficient to clarify the law. Mass defiance and efforts to fill the jails, if justified, have to be defended on other grounds.

What are civil rights?

In the language of government and politics these are certain rights which people enjoy by virtue of their citizenship. Civil rights are thus legal in na­ ture, and they exist precisely b cause they are re­ cognized and protected by the state. In the context of American government they are properly con­ sidered a m tter of constitutional law because they are to he found tated in a constitution - the Con­ stitution of the United States, a state constitution, or possibly in both of these. In addition, civil rights may he implemented by appropriate ordinary leg­ islation.

Civil rights should be distinguished from civil liberties, which in the context of American govern­ ment and 1 w refer to the freedom to do anything not prohibited by law.

Civil rights should be distinguished from natural right which are rights thought to be appropriate to all human beings. Natural rights are philosophical or religious concept, and although one may believe in them, as natural rights, they are not pro­ tected by law. In the event that an assumed natural right comes to be recognized and protected by law, it then becomes by virtue of this recognition and pr tection a civil right.

I am alarmed over many actions being taken in the name of civil rights. These would include not only riot and arson, but also civil disobedience, mass demonstrations which substitute intimidation for persuasion, and the preaching of disregard for so-called "U11just laws," I believe resort to these methods only sets back the cause of civil rights.

Civil rights in the context of the United States have nothing at all intrinsically to do with race.

Civil rights are possible only in the context of law and order. They can not exist in a state of anarchy. Civil rights are secure only so long as the politically organized community is able to pro­ tect them, and the protection is impossible without an orderly and law abiding citizenry. No mob ever guaranteed the civil rights of its members.

Those who seek justice need to be told that justice is found under law - not in civil disobedience, in­ timidation, lawlessness, or violence.

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ew Residence Unit Named Ole J. Stuen Hall and then in Tacoma. He rejoined th faculty in 1921 and was associated wi t h the institution until he died

The residence unit fo r women now under con­ struction on campus will bear the name Ole J. Stuen Hall, it was de­ ci ded by the Board of Regents at its meeting in

on June 20, 1953 .

In addition to his teaching duties, Stuen became assistant librarian in 1931. In 94 he was appointed librarian and professor of Norwe gian . He was li­ brarian until 1952 and then served as al umni sec­ retary.

Active in Church and communit y life, Stuen was a member of Trinit y Lutheran Church, Pa rkland, and was secretary of the con gregation for 17 y e rs.

He was one of the founders of the Parkland Light and Water Company in 914 and was a member of ils hoard of directors for 36 years. For 20 y ears he was t reasurer . He was one of the founders of the Parkland Golf Club (n ow the Col lege Course) and served as secretary of the organization for many years. Together with George Fisher and Dr. J. U. Xavier, he laid out the Parkland co urse. He was a charter m ember of the Parkland Communi ty Club and served as secretary for most of its history.

Back in 1891, the Rev. Torbjorn Larsen, promi­ nent in early history of PLU and one of the first trustees built a ho me on the corner of S. 121st St. and Yakima where the new Stuen Hall is being built. In 1921 Stuen and family moved into this home ,and in 1925 they purch ased it from Mrs. Elsa Jurgen sen , a widow. This wa the Stuen home until 1955 when Mrs. Stuen sold it to PLU. The resi­ den ce was used for student housing for se vera l years and then converted into facllity office . Last su mer it was raze d to make way for the new dormitory.

The Stuens had fow' children and all of them attended PLU. They include: John Stuen, Seattle; Dr. Mark Stuen , Tacoma; Elizabeth (Mrs. Howar d Willis ) , AubUl'n; and Anita ( Mrs. Neil P tthoff ) , Port Townsend. There are 15 grandchildren, two of whom are students at PLU. These are John and Thoma on f John Stuen.

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The Stuen name first appe ared in Pacific Luth­ eran University records in 1902 when a letter dated February 4 came Ole J. Stuen from Kendr i ck , Idaho.

Addressed to Nils J. Hong, then president of Pacific Lutheran Aca demy , and written in Norwegian , the letter hom Stuen was an a ppl ica tion for admission.

Stuen had immigrate d from Norway a f ew months before and was working on his uncle ' s farm.

Stuen, who was b orn June 12, 1881, in Opdal, Norway, e ntered here in the fan o f 1902 and t he fol lowin g year entered the Univer sity of Washing­ ton. lt was a l on g hard pull for the young immigrant who was en tir ely on his own. He wou ld go to sc ho o l for a year and then work for a year. A ta l e nted ath­ lete, he played on t he varsity basketball team at the University . By 1912 he finished his work at the University with a ma ster of arts degree.

In 1913 Stuen j oined the faculty at PLA as a teacher of German and mathematics and athletic coach. Th Preceptress and English teacher t hen was Miss Agnes Hou g en ,who had j o i ned the staff in 1 9 1 2. Stuen and Miss Hougen were married on August 1, 1914, and she l'em a iued on the fa cu lty for two more years.

Stuen tau ht until 1918 when the s hool was clo eel and classes were held at Columbia College in E vere tt . For the next three years he worked f r the United States Customs Service, first in Sea ttle

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Pr Id nt ev Da lid C. Wold '56 S ttle, Washingto"l (1967)

Vice President J ecald Sheffels '54

Govan, Washington (1966)

Lawr�nc.! J. Haus:;e '50 Tacoma, WlilJungton (ex-officio)

Term f ." pire<; May, 1966 Marv Harshman ',J2 Pullma . Washilll�ton

Term Expires May, !HI7 Arthur Broback '52 Tacoma, Washington

T",m Expires May. ]968 Guctaf Anderson '48 Mercer Island, Washington

Dr. Ri( 11' rd �ngton '47 Phoeni', A, zona

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Donald Monson '39 Olympia, Washington

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PaJI Larson '40

Helen Nordquist '57 Tacoma, Washington

Dr . E Strldn 5(1 Bellevue, W.tshinl;to

Bertrum Myhre '36 T.\coma, Washington

E. Robert Stuhlmiller '57 Edwall, Wash ngton

R�v. Luther Watness '49 Portland, Ore n

Repre. nlativrs to tt. . 1 r h ersity Board of Regents Rev. Lowell Knut"on .'iI, Everett, W"shington (. 66)

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Herman Anderson '31, Tacoma, VI ashinJrton (19ii7'

William Coffman, Senior Class P resident

FOUR RECEIVE ALUMNI SCHOLARSHIPS PLU alumni have extended a helptng hand to four students through the Alumni Scholarship Fund an arM of the Annual Alumni Fund.

Selected by the Alumni Board with assistance from the financial aids officer of the University, 19li5-66 Alumni Scholars are Diane Brandt, MIchael McKean, Naomi Gjehe:n and Daniel Hill. The selec­ buns were based on the University's criteria for scholarship consideration.

Naomi Gjelten and Daniel Hill are both fresh­ men, who entered PLU with honors at entrance, Naomi is from Van Nuys, Calif., and Daniel from Colton, Ore.

In 1fl64 the Alumni A'sociation selected only one scholar� hip recipient, Miss Brandt, with the remain­ ing f nds being placed in the Alumni Scholar. hlp Endowment F md.

This year 'lbout half of the $3.965 given to the fund, $1,800, was ay, arded to the our scholars vit the remdmder bt>ing pJnced in the endowment fund.

A tot .. l of $'1,477 is noy" in the latter fund.

Under the pro'lsions of the Alumni Scholarship Fm_ I program, an alumni scholar will continue to receive aid aeh y ar at PLU as long as he main­ tains the required academic standm'ds.

It is hoped to build the endowment fund to the point where the interest each year will produce sev­ eral Be olarships.

MISS Brandt is a :ophomore from Douglas, Wash.

She .5 mujoring in elementary education, and is aeth iI, campus activities, notably motion choir and her dorm council.

Mike McKean is a sophomore from Aberdeen.

He is majOl'ing in speech and political science, and plans to go on tu law school upon graduation from PLU. He is a member of the Intercollegiai. Knights, men's suphomore honorary.

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M. Tetlie was ordained into tl e ministry of

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I"V 'nternship was spent with the Lutheran ) i n N '. Guinea. He will serve two congrega­

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tlO'1;5 in Alice, Texas.

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Clara Tl ne recently returned from an -wec.:k trip ar u nd the world.

1934 Leonard C. Wesson, former Alumni Board mem­ Whli appointed general manager of Alaska Cruise

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1948 Harr'ett (Root ) Nor"m and her f.lmily are living in June u, Alaska, where her hus band, Walt, is Finance Director and City Clerk. Fully recovered from '1 recent illne ·S. Harriett urges friends to visit when gomg to Alaska.

E est I. Hopp, for 16 years a county agricultural agent in Pierce County, and chairman of agents since 1960, W' : recently promoted to county agent supervisor for W�stern ,V(l ·hington.

1. 9 Mnurice un h Ill, vice - principal of Hudtloff Junior High School ( Clover Park) , has been elected president of the Lakewood Toastmi1'iters Club.

John Leever is technical salesman fOl' MdrDermid, Inc., manufacturers and suppliers of plating. He and his lamily live ill Pontiac, Michigan.

1950

Lin s, Lv!., and industrial-relations manager of We' ! u . s, Inc. The Akska CrUlse Lmes operates . tween Vancouver, B.C., and Alaska.

1940 D nnis Galla gh er welcomed guests at the dedi 1ion I) ' Puya llup's newest school builc'ing, Fruitland E'I Il Elementary School. Dennis IS in his 18th yeL'! as principal with the Puyallup School District.

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loan, principal of Clovf>r Park's Heartwood

01 ha� be�n name,� "Boss of the Year" for 1965

ly ' f local chapter of the American Bu�iness WomU' s Association.

Sin(;"{, Auburn, Wac hin . on, dentist, Dr. . e', ' i .' l ' m lx· o f the local "chool board and a number ( Lhl ' groups. He is married, and has three hHlr n.

1947

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1; Larson, present vice principal of Puyallup

Hi,,;h School, has been appointed principal of Puyal­ ;up's s�con d high school, scheduled to open in 1968.

Don Grah am is teacher of speech and d bate coach at Stephen F. Austin College in Nacogdoches, Tex S. Don has been at Northwestern Louis.. na Stat in a similar capacity fOl several years.

William . -; was elected est Vice-President for Wa�hington unior High School Prhcip Is' ASSOCIa­ tion for the next year.

Luther T. GabdeI. en has assumed duties as chap­ lain of the U.S. Air Force 474th Tactical Fighter wing at Cannon AFB, New Mexico. His former assignment was at Tonejon Air Base in Spa·n.

Bob Arps. 0 mer and operator of Rogers Motel south of Tacomr su Iercd major fire damage to the two-story motel m November.

Larry Money owns and operates his own insur­ ance agency in Tacoma. He is married and has two teen-age daughters.

Larry IIa ge has been elected president of the Lakewood iwanis Club.

M. Lyle Loucks hus been appointed South Pacific area sales manager of St. Regis Paper Company's newly-formed International Division. He w' 1 be responsible for the sale of a wide variety of St. Regis products in the South Pacific, including Australia and New Zealand. Headquarters vill he in San Francisco.

1952 Rev. and Mrs. William Vaswig ( Mru:dne Vohs '55) have returned r m Edinburgh, Scotland, where Bill was working tor his doctorate, to accept a call to Canoga Park, California.

Helen ( ensen ) Hauge played "Kate" in the Lis e­ wood Players production of "Taming of the Shrew" in November and December. The play marked the opening of i.he Players' new theater in Lakewood (Tacoma) .

Rev. Theol S. Hoiia d was recently in stalled as pastor of Bethel Lutheran Church, BurIen, Wa. h­ ington. His last pastorate was at Stanwood.

1953 Luther A. . , a Toledo, WashingtJn, school teacher, also serves as mayor of the southwest Wash­ ington town.

Noonan Vorvick is a couns lor and instructor at

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Th Ernest Jo son " nd g�eLtin l5'" ' 0 1 h � fr d trom Co 1 roun, Wpst Afri"a. E. . e, a I. y I ma ry, ){Iitcs 1h"lt e h· morp I pedo rP la t e ly r iI.' if> di Illech nic� Bibl a, d Crte msm to the lTlan vil ::lg r!: of TcholIire. '

1954 (oa' la in (Lc r) I"aul li. UI ing-, f I ' LC Marine ( hAl rtin, hus been n va ded t h Com nenw tit) Vi t 11f'0 11 fnr .rvic " over and be OJ r1 dut " 111 1I is lOY' tati. nec 2t th ! a val Tra ini r, g \.,;ent r i I Gre(lt Ldkes, Illi noi!::. .

1955 n' one 01 the pall pr s '11 [Iunning' ma l 'lger ill he u1 rn Food Center. Bil' is 1 1arriecl and 1<>" f lUr chikren.

Rev AIIlll N (8J I. on has l:c.n in�l ..lle(1 as pa stor of ] .!, hel':tn C hll. ch o£ the G ood S hephe rd, era­ da k, \\ a<;hingt )U Th Ar nol l , [ittl'1QtaeclL (M'r A R n '55 ) , 1arv;n L deman!::. (Cif rice , 'litt hlaldt '56 ) and Wendel StakJ...e 1 ds '58, h sted <. .:)icnic of the NOri.h Ce it 1 a] u m lll and their fa IlIlies at L'l ke 'h lan l ty Park on Aug ust 22.

195G Henry Kramer, Jr is tel chin� m. tnto!ma lic<; and shclp a1 a lk CelJtre. Minne�ota.

M rrn Simmons is <, tudying at the University of Michigan Gradt ate Schoo in the classical lar", ages depar ( lent.

1957

Sister Frieda Cratzke is serving as Il eld �t:'creta. y, Deac ne�s Service, Board of College Education and urch Vocations, L .A. Arthur lUarlinson i!::. teaching history at the new Tacoma C mmunity College.

MI . and Mrs. Mi chael Griff 'n (Agnes Hnllnnger) Iiv in Seattle, where M ich'l 1 is a prlJfe;-ional ar t ist , and Agnes wod:- ' )r th I il g Cou lty Library sys­ tt:m as an area c11ild rtm's lib rarian.

Dr. W. H. Capp!io, ass is' lilt profe. sor of religious studie at Univers.ty of C Morn' - at Santa. B... 'ba 'a anc his wF· Lois Gl irns ud '59) are in th-.r n w JrTlf , ,mel busy with enjoying a year-old daughter, Li a M- rgarit.

Dr. lichael T. O'Brien (Bev ly Denso '59) is takm � he f t ' h yp r of a pa lhology re�iden('y in the A my, and is stationed at Brooke A rmy M dical Hospi� II, Fort Sam Houston, Tlxas. B,"verly grad­ lI a t e from the Univ ity of Califc/rnia, Hastings College of La\I, n June 1965. , tJ alie 10) Bee is t aching, a 4th grad class at Mo i u ele Ble 'l1 entary ( nea r Hickam AF.B.) in Hawa i H r l.usb rd, Melvin, is an dgent with Occid�n(a Life Insurance Co. of California.

1 II 6 0_' h is Ph.D. in David K lUtson is v Divinity nlogy at the Univel' ity (.[ Chiea Sc hclol. lalvor '5. ) Rev. and Mrs. ve moved t , Anchoragl" Ah,')l <l to E', tablish a nt'w p.lcltagC' miss i .>l1 . He has been at Soap Lake for the past se v e <II years.

R v. Robpf odin of W�lnut Grove, Minnpsota, hd.. accepted a call to be 1 he new minis' l!r of st.

John's Lutheran cllUrch i n Cheh ' lis, Washington. t

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Jolm ( .yI j.;; fen ' '57 ) has R v Gcr: I d W . ccev .d a call to St. John' s Lutheran c hu . eh (LC A) in Antioch, C lifornia. lIngul'et ( . lurdo h) 0 dha , a ld her hus land h 'lve recently noved t Dayt Ull, Ohil l. when:! he h I", J (lmed the law firm (If Sm ith ch ad ('. [r. and Mrs . Jad; c\ ( . aO� ll linc lscn '62 ) , a e in Williams ONt., Mass . , V'l . � Jack eaching history at Wl1liams Coll e!;'" t\rlc ne ( IGna red) Soru m'rs has retire d from teaching after six years in the Shoreline (Seattle) District Arlene : ld her family live in Alderwood Manor. hy llis ( Ped ·J·sen ) Templin is teaching physical ed ucation at th Taco ma Community Co lege.

Patrick Lara nnd obert .f·e own and ( perate the L- 11" Lee Nur sery oi Rainbow Valley, Fallbro. ll , Cc> lil.orniil. Arnon s1 their ;t ck are inclu(led 10,( Of) cymbidiu 1 Ol( hId. Recent visitors to i.he LMn 's ha v e 1 ,e n the• lice El lis' '58, who 1 ve in Los A oel ;,. , nd Richa rd tt;d t fdd . 'llU, wh n(' w live i1" S. n Di ego, dlel Dte .� t tendi ng Sl.n Dieg0 <

5t:Hf' 1 960 I " ic I , lr Te nrkana, Nancy (ReinviJ , Hn L ( d r1 l1e ut T(' <as, VJhere 1 e r h , )�, r Tire & R l. he!' manager or the ti e r( m Lt C Company.

Pilillip Erbuder i, dOl � gr duat£' study at Unit n Theologi cal Seminary in N�w York .

1958 Dr. 1\1. Roy Swart· is assistan1 p )f ssor ' n th de pe rtment ( f biological stl ucture at lhe Cnh er i ty of Washin rton Sch I of Medicine.

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,Tun'" 2ti, 1 Q65 : Robert B. Kirkpatrick to Beverly St im .:m '65. Parkland, Washington.

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1965: Steven J. Ma� er to Linda Jane Fuss

A !,eles, California.

J11ly 1 0 �.;5: Rev. David R. Gaenicke ' 6 1 to Linda R s a Milwauk e, Wi. consin.

July 17, �65: Fr !d H. Bin el to Edith M-" ie Wollin '62. Da enport, Washington.

Au g ust 7, 1965: Robert E. Running '65 to Sue Ell n (us� '67. Spokane, Washington.

AU b'lJ 'lt 1 1 , 1965 : John B. Roalkvam '51 to E. J 11 1m I Pea! :,un '57, Seattle, Washington.

Au lliit :W , 1965 : John L. Fasnacht to Linda Rae B ), 'er '68, .... lasgow Air Force Ba<;e, Montana.

The Hp\:, J\ thu r 0, Pedersen joined t he staff of the 'lIV r un vember 1 as an ar"sociate in alumni rela1 OJ ' Hir" principal duty is to assist with the alumni p a.c; ' of the libul") rund d rive.

A native f Blooklyn, N. Y., Mr. Pedersen is a graduate ot 1. sala College (N. J.) , rnd Luther Th�olo&I(,'l1 Se'1i":lary, St. Paul . He as done gradu­ ate work at er erdine Colleg (CaliL) .

Prior to cowing to PLU, he w. s pastor of Palisades Lutheran Church, Pacific Palisades, Calif. He has served parishes in Brooklyn, Newark, Ill., and Los Angeles. During World War II he served for three years in the U. S. Marine COl'PS in the South Pa­ cific. He is married and has a son and a daughter, .

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Se tember. l �fi5: Paul L. Urhc '64 to Anne E. 'k ' 6 5 , On -land, California.

Sf: ' . 1 1rel 4. 1965: James Balcom '66 to Mary Lee A'lc1 '�on '6� , Groton, South Dakota.

Sente lb · 1' 5. 1965: Gilhert A, Henkens III to Glenn Von Hylland '67, Bellevue, W<'l shington.

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Sept nber 19, 1965' Eugene R. Livingston to Joy Su<;an Le\\ IS '61, Sacr�mento, California.

OcV, ler 1, 1965: Kenneth D. Fredericks Kare;l Mehus '68. Seattle, Washingto·l.

6; to Rev. Arthur 0, Perio'sen

Oct )ber 9, 1965: H ermann HezingioI to Ruth L� Golu P! n '61 , Hermiston, Oregon.

Oc ·.ol �r 1 6 , 1965: Rober t B. Kiesel to Carole L. K.L'1brough '64. Tacoma, Wa_·hingto'1.

Oct bel', 1 965: Thoma s Kalnni A'11ina to Jean Marie Scharnweber '60, Honolulu, Hawaii.

November 6. 1965: Terry Michael Parr '59 to Susan A mund.llm _ 6 3, Tacoma, Washington.

N \ embt:r 1 2 , ]<)65: Dennis Kent to Marcia Van 01 ,Jan '68, Tacoma, Washington.

D EATHS

Bruce J cobson '54, his \ 'If,. Elsbeth, and four­ mnnth-old daughtf'r Laura Marlt>ne, were \jlled N ]V 1 3 when tp� light airpI..:le Bruce was pIloting , lshed near 1m 'rne�s, Calif. JacoL on radioed the k ah AillJort, ab()ll l 100 !n Iles north of San Fran1.:1.'co , t !Ht he was Iow an fuel and fighting strong win,ls. The cril sh occurred abou t 10 miles northwest of San Franci co.

The Jacobsons' othe ' two children, Lance, 4, and L ' f, 2 were with I � parents, Mr. rnd Mrs. J. Rc . nolu J<'cohson of c;.,attle. ReY�'101 and his wife, nee Mildred Nelson, u both PLU a umni.

Bruce age 30, lived in Edmonds, W' ., where he was eli tr'd m anager of the Westland Life Insur­ ance o.

Bruce was an experienced pilot who in 1958 made a 25,000-mile Hight to the tip of South A1"1erica with I ' brother, Larry, in a one-time Alaska bush plane.

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The mandate under which Bjug Harstad came to the Pacific Northwest in November of 1890 (ex­ pressed in a resolu 'OIl of the Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in Decorah, Iowa) was "to encourage the brethren on the coast to pro­ ceed with the erection of a high schoo!." Only a month after his arrival preliminary wscussions had been completed; and on December 1 1, 1890, with Harstad and four other men as original signers, a corporation was formed called "The Pacific Lu­ theran University Association." These five m n, so critically important. jn the history of the institution, were obviously laying the groundwork for an educa­ tional enterprise that would extend beyond the narrow conception of the Synod. The term " univer­ sity" would allow for a limited beginni ng as an acad­ emy but also anticipate a time when junior college and even full university status would be achieved.

Two books have been published recently by the Pacific Lutheran University Press. One is "The Lamp and The Cross" by Walter C. Schnackenberg, and the ther is "Rebirth of Norway's Peasantry"

by Magnus Nodtvedt. lIr. Schnackenberg, who is chairman of the de­ partment of history, has wri tten a history of Pa­ cific Lutheran University, commissioned by the University as a part of the celebration of the 75th anniversary year of the institution's founding.

Dr. Nodtvedt, retired professor of history has written a definitive history of the peasant movement in Norway and its leader, Hans Nielsen Hauge.

These books are available at the PLU Bookstore, at Augsburg Publishing House in Seattle and at various bookstores in the Pacific Northwest.

Reviews of these monographs follow:

Harstad, one of many figures associated with the University who come vividly to life in Professor Schnackenberg's book, possessed driving energy and a somewhat quixotic imagination. There is orne­ thing both wistful and pathetic in his passionate concern for the school; we read again and again his confident assertion (alas! not to be fulfilled during his tenure) that the Association is resolved lito pay off its debt before the end of the year." And in one of the most touching revelations in the book we learn that Harstad and several companions set off for Alaska during the wint er of 1898 to mine gold this time really certain to find means to establish the school on a sound financial basis. Of course the scheme was a failure, but it underscores the deter­ mination of these pioneers that a noble work barely begun should not fail.

The Lamp and The Cr .

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(Pucijic Llith c/"m/ Uuiv(w.<dtl! Pre.'18.

1 9(15. 3.95 ) Even knowing tha the main principle in life is change, we are surprised to discover as we read Professor Schnackenberg's brief history of Pacific Lutheran University how completely its develop­ ment has been dominated by crisis. In fact, one is so sharply aware of the succession of critical mo­ ments facing the institution that he js inclined to suspect something aLuost miraculous in its survival.

Yet, what finally impresses one most forcefully is not the events themselves - defeat · that have threatened the University's exi. tence victodes, sometimes snatched out of the very jaws of disaster.

It is rather the steady faith, courage, energy, and imagination of the builders: men who refused to doubt the reasonableness of their conviction that Pacific Lutheran was destined to be a first-rate uni­ versity, and who felt obliged to dedicate themselves wholly to the realization of that ideal Avoiding the cliches and stereotypes of the typical commemorative college history, Professor Schnack­ enberg writes with humor and compassion and grace.. Though other historians might see parts of the story from d ifferent points of view, none will write out of a profoundel' respect for the institution or a greater desire to tell the story truthfully and well.

The earliest chaptel'S are necessarily detailed and rigorously condensed. Beginnings are never so simple as we sometimes suppose - and always more complicated than conclusions. So it is with Pa­ cific Lutheran University. Out of a complex immi­ grant-church background, largely Norwegian, the idea of a Christian university on the Pacific Coast was born, along with a will to satisfy the need.

Almost as complex is the relationship of Pacific Lutheran Academy to her sister institutions in the area, Columbia College in Everett and Spokane College, both of which eventually closed their doors and merged with Pacific Lutheran. Yet, an aware­ ness of these influences is vital to understanding both the objectives of the institution and the course

Another of the surprising personalitites encoun­ tered in the book is NHs Hong, the institution' third President. His tenure of nearly twenty- ne years is the longest in the history of Pacific Lutheran. Quiet, gentle, and scholarly, he was persistently concerned with academic excellence at a tim when anxiety about economic survival might well have deflected his attention . During Hong's tenure as President (or Principal, the terms being used interchangeably during these years) , much of the earlier work of Harstad began to produce results, and times looked good. By 1912, a Professor Schnackenberg indicates, t he institution was for the first time financially sound; and in 1915 it experienced the best year 0 far in its short history. There were as many quali­ fied students as could be adeq uately cared ror, and the future promised continued growth and stability.

Then - it seems to have happened at Pacific Lutheran with almost malign persistence - dark days suddenly fell upon the thriving Academy. The war in Europe brought financial unrest, which af­ fected enrollments. An attempt by the Synod to merge Columbia College in Everett with the Acad­ emy, in order that a least one of them might sur­ vive. was a failure (Columbia simply would not give up) . Furthermore, because of doctrinal differ­ ences Harstad dramatically resigned from the Pacific Lutheran University Association at the ti m e of the church merger of 1917. And finally, Nils Hong re­ signed as President of the Academy in the spring of 7

1918

as least partly because he could not in con­

achieve excellence and has fostered on the campus a gen u ine Christian piety. To a degree never known before, Pacifi Lutheran is achieving recognition throughout the state and region as a pri ate Christ­ ian university strongly fo u nded i n the liberal arts and in the ideal of service.

Read only ill part, the history might seem t be essentially a ad to r y of right roads not taken, of timidity and indecision, of violent perso nal conflicts of interest, of inertia, an d most distressing of all - of i ndi fference in high places in the face of ex­ haustion and possible defeat. But read as a whole, it is an inspiring testimony to th sheer beauty of intelligence as maniiested in words and deeds f men committed to serving God with grateful hearts and enlightened m inds.

Paul M. Reigstad Associate Professor of English

science oppose his friend and pastor, Bjug Harstad, who was serving the Parkland congregation. All these events were prologue to the Academy's closing its doors in the summer of 1918, surely the saddest time in the history of the institution as Professor Schnackenberg observes.

The development of Pacific Lutheran during the twenties and thirties was steady and impressive, though not spectacular. With chapter seven of Pro­ fessor Schnackenberg's book a quickened pulse is f It, a heightened coloring noticed, for here begin the years with which he has had first-hand exper­ ience as both student and teacher. His account of President Tingelstad's tenure beginning in 1928, is moving and inspiring; intensely dedicated t o the liber I arts, intellectually humble, and spiritually poised, the new President in his inaugural add ress encourages faculty and tudents to realize their po­ tential by "suspending their j u dgments in the pro­ cess of learning until they had achieved the entire context . "

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REBIRTH OF NORWAY'S PEASANTRY: Folk L ader Hans Niels n Ha uge.

T?JI Magil l/.'; Nndl l'r.(/f. (p(l ific L lfthc ro l1 [llli1'(�J".�it lf Prells, 1.[15)

In spite of its fine beginning, however, Tinglestad's administration was soon to encounter difficulty; the depression of the thirties hit Parkland as well as the rest of the worl d . Even so, progress continued and enrollment slowly but steadily climbed. Then carne World War I I . By 1943 the student body was re uced from 265 from a high of 551 in 1941, the lowest in a decade; and at the time of Tingelst ad's retirement in 1943 during some of the darkest days of the ar, there seemed little reason for optimism w .lth respect to the future of the inst itution.

The period from 1 943 t o 1962 was

A Scandinavian actre s recently said of one of these countries that it is where a person goes to turn around and com e back . Histodans including those of the Chur h have tended to regard the Scandinavian countries in the same way and have made only a ursory treatment of their s t ry. Nor­ way , which is the country treated in the book under review, receives no more than five pages and i s men­ tioned on eight others in Latorette's 1 5 00 page A History of Christianity ; Lindsay, in his History of the Reformation disposes of all of Scandinavia in nine of the 500 pages of his second Volume (N orway is scantly mentioned in secondary fashion in the discussion on Denmark ) : and Walker's A History of the Christian Church of 545 pages of text fi nds Norway deserving of only four pages!

Magnus Nodtvedt in his Rebirth of Norway's Peasantyy goe a long way t o fill this vacu um of historical ignorance.

Readers will find the first nine chapters the most difficult t o rea d. In the compass of ninety-seven pages Nodtvedt deals with about one th ousand years of Norwegian hi st ory. After a very brief summary of pre-h istoric facts and ancient history, the narrative beerins with the Viking Age ( 7 80 - 1 030) and con­ tinues to the time of the central figure o f the book, Hans Nielsen Hauge ( 1 77 1-1824) . Any writer knows the problem of packing so many facts in so few pages about so long a period of time. Yet, this back­ ground is important and the reader is advised not to skip this portion of the book.

Beginning with page ninety-eigh t, Nodtvedt's treatment of the central figure, H. N . Hauge, is of such a quality that , except in a few in tances, the reader's interest will not lag. Until the end of the book at page 276, one finds it d ifficult to lay the book down.

Hauge emerges as one of the great heroes of Norway in the revival of its self-consciousness in the nineteenth century. After more than five cent ur ies ( 1 3 80- 18 14 ) under the shadow and much oppression under Denmark, Norway emerges once again in the spirit of her Viking tradition. This is in fact the

as Professor

Schnackenberg observes, marked by " furious activi­ t y under the dynamic leadership of President S. C. Eastvo ld . " He literally threw himself into a cam­ p ign to l' store economic stability, and his early years were marked by a dogged attention to fund raising. Impelled by a hunger for the success of his institution as intense as that which drove Harstad to Alaska in quest of gold, Eastvold stamped those years unmistakably with his dreams of what Pacific Lutheran ought to be. During the post-war period, as veterans swarmed back to the campus to .get the education for which the government was willing to pay , President Eastvold was called upon to meet cru ial problems of expanding curricula and facili­ t i es, and he worked with a zeal which has become legen dary.

Professor Schnack enberg's account of the East­ voId years is dramatic and compelling; sharply out­ lined, it will remind anyone who labored on the campus during the forties and fifties of the restless energy pervading the community, of the sometimes bitter clashes hetween opposing attitude , and of the need and inevita ility of change if a thriving institu­ tion is to continue its growth.

Pro fessor Schnackenberg carries us finally to the administration o f President Robert Mortvedt, who succeeded Eastv ol d in 1962 . If the recent years of Eastvold's tenure are difficult to assess, so are the last three-and-a-half years when M rtvedt has been in charge. This much is certainly evident: having won the respect and admiration of faculty and stu­ dents, President Mortvedt ha enlis ed the entire academic community in a continuing struggle to 8

�ssence of the meaning of the title: Rebirth of Norway's Peasantry. " Undaunted by bourgeois op­ position Hauge and his lay leaders stirred the Nor­ wegian bonder to rebuild their piritual foundat ions and the result was an aroused and reawakened people, a resurrection of the ancient passion for in­ dividual and social freedom dominant among t he Norsemen of the illustrious Viking Age (page 219) ."

istic fashion, and "he never fully u nderstood or appropriated L ut her ' s t heology with its central doc­ trinal focus on j ustification by faith and its resultant emphasis on Christian liberty (page 155) ."

This book should find a varied reading au dience .

Historians will want to study this work which, as noted above, fills a real lack in historical knowledge.

Persons not only of Norwegian but of Scandinavian ancestry will find their own self-awareness in terms of a noted heritage much increased by this book.

Above all, nearly a generation of students from Concordia C ollege (Moorhead, Minnesota) and Pa­ cific L utheran College ( now Pacific Lutheran Uni­ versity) will value this work as far more than a memento of a beloved and respected teacher.

Emmet E. Eklund Chairman Department of Religion

Hauge's great service to Norway begins with his conversion experience, his "baptism of the Spirit , " on April 3, 1 796. From this point, his life divides into three periods: his int�nse activity of evangelism f.rom 1 796 to 1804 his imprisonment and persecution under the Conventicle a c t of 1741 from 1804 to 1814 during which his health was broken and which he never recovered , and his sem.i-retirem�nt from 1814 to 1824 (although as a central figure in Nor­ way's developing nationalism, Hauge's reputation, force of personality, and wisdom continued even in this period to exert great influence) .

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As a lay evangelist, writer, businessman and eco­ nomic adviser, Hauge mad� invaluable contributions to the life of modern Norway. Here is no evangel­ ist in the usual American type. Hauge had an inter­ esting sense of Calvinist and Puritan-like sense of vocation. Christians were to express themselves in the political and economic orders of society. More than one Haugean assured leadership in the struggle for independence in both these areas.

Nodtvedt admires Hauge but not in an uncritical fasruon. Hauge was often unclear in his thought, tended to over-emphasize sanctification in a legal-

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Leslie O. Eklund, retired PL U professor administrator , died Oct . 22 at the age of 54.

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Eklund, who retired in December 1964 because of failing health, came to PLU in 1946. During his term of service to the u niversity, he served as dean of men for 16 years, was a professor of psychology and more recently the director of testing.

Born in Spring Creek, S . Dak . , Eklund spent most of his early life in Rochester, Minn. He at­ tended Mankato ( Minn . ) College and Black Hills ( S. Dak. ) Teachers College before completing work on his bachelor of science degree at the University of Nebraska. He also obtained a master of science degree from the latter university .

Eklund was a member of Phi Kappa Delta, the American Association of University Professors and Psi Chi. In April 1965, he received a citation from Alpha Phi Omega, a national service fraternity , in appre­ ciation for outstanding service in the founding of the Pacific Lutheran University Iota Beta Chapter.

He served as advisor to this chapter until his retire­ ment.

He is survived by his wife, Thelma, and a son , Leslie, Jr., who is a student at PLU. He also is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William B. Eklund of Oakland , Calif., and one brother, Bernard, of San Leandro, Calif.

Funeral services were held Oct. 26 at Trinity Lutheran Church , Parkland.

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PLU S P O RTS N OTES

FOOTBALL

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Tony Lis ter, j unior quarteback from Seattle, be­ came the first Pacific Lutheran University football playe r since All-American Marv Tommervik to gain over 1 ,000 yards on both passing and total yards.

Running on a sprained ankle in the season finale against Eastern Washington, Lister passed for 81 yards to push his season to ta l to 1,029 on 74 com­ pletions in 163 attempts. He added 194 Y81'ds on the ground d ur ing the season to give him a total offense of 1,233.

Tommervik passed for 1 , 292 yards and had a to­ tal offense of 1,884 yards in 1941, both PLU records.

Lister accounted for two PLU records during the season. He handled the ball on 43 plays in the Puget Sound game while taking part in 266 plays during the season for single game and season total plays records.

Two other PLU players added records to the log during the 1965 campaign which saw the Knight c om pile a 4-5 record as injuries cut down frontline personnel.

Bill White, 6-0, 185-pound senior end caught nine passes against Whitworth for a single game recep­ tion mark while snaring 45 for the season for a new pass catch i n g record.

Dave Nyman, the PLU kicking specialist, sent 13 straight conversions through the uprights, break­ ing his own mark of eight set in 1964. The sopho­ more kicker made 14 of 15 conversions d uring the year, upping his total to 35 out of 40, a new PLU career mark.

Ken Tetz, 200-pou d senior fullback who sat out the final three and a half games with a broken leg, finished as the team's leading rusher with 296 yards.

Gary Renggli, senior linebacker, led the PLU defenders with 136 tackles, making 107 of them outright.

The losing campaign was the ninth in the last ten years for the Knights. But, all was not on the deficit side of the ledger durin g the 1965 season .

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BAN D, C H O I R TO U R S S C H ED U LE D The C oncert Band and the C hoir of the West will make concert tours of t he west this corning winter .

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For the first time in history PLU was able to put together two victories in one season over crosstown rival Puget Sound. The two wins marked three straight triumphs over the Loggers, also a new record, and gave the Knights their first Tacoma collegiate championship since 1947.

Gone from last year's squad are forward Ken Hartvigson and guard Dennis Langston, both re­ serves.

The Knights opened their season in the Evergreen Conference Tip-Off Tournament Dec. 3-5.

The remainder of their schedule follows:

Renggli and tackle Ken Knutsen were selected by their teammates for the top PLU awards. Renggli was named as the most valuable player while Knut­ sen, who started on both offense and defense, was selected for the inspirational award.

Dec. 11-SeatUe Pacific Dec. 14-Puget Sound Jan. �Linfield· Jan. 7-8--Pacific U.'" Jan. lO-at Linfield" Jan. 14---t--a Lewis & Clark" Jan. lS-Willamette" Jan. 2l-Lewis & Clark" Jan. 22-at Lewis & Clark* Jan. 28-29-at College of Idaho"

Bob Krieger, j unior tackle, was named as the cap­ tain for the 1966 season.

BASKETBALL

Long a power in the Evergreen Conference, Pa­ cific Lutheran University .vill try its luck in another league this year as the Knight basketball team enters into official Northwest Conference action for the first time.

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31--at VVlUUnan* 4-at Pacific U." S-Linfield· 11-12--at Willamette* IS-at Puget Sound 18--at Seattle Pacific 19--at Western Washington Feb. 21--College of Idaho" Feb. 25-26--VVlUbnan· "Northwest Conference games

WIMMlNG Pacific Lutheran University will field its first swimming team this year under the guidance of Richard Alseth, head swimming coach and pool manager.

Several of the new league rivals are old faces to the PLU cagers, however, since the Knights have engaged NWC teams in exhibition action over the years. In games with NWC teams to date, PLU holds a 57-31 edge.

Alseth looks upon the first season with both reser­ vation and optimism. "Due to a lack of depth we will probably win few if any meets. However, I think we have several individuals who will make a good account of themselves."

Coach Gene Lundgaard has a veteran team re­ turning for his first swing into NWC action. Nine of the first ten players are back, including Curt Gammell, the Knights lofty handyman. A 6-6 senior from North Hollywood, Calif . , Gammell averaged 18.3 points and 12.7 rebounds per game to lead his mates in both departments.

The Knight swimmers open the season Dec. 11 in an AAU session at the Puget Sound pool.

The ll -meet schedules includes four home meets plus the Northwest Conference championships Mar. 4-5.

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Gammell was selected as the District I NAIA "Player of the Year" last season as well as being a unanimous All-Evergreen selection.

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(coll tiflrLed /I'om page 4) bodies suffered long s lits over it ? Who of us will defend the long silence of the German Church on the genocide of Jews, or condemn the minority Con­ fessing Church because it broke away finally to speak on the issue - even at the cost of splitting the German. Church's unity ? Sometimes the only choice open to the Church may be: either disunity, or else cease to be the Church, the prophetic voice of God. To suppose one can wave off the CbUl'ch's invo lve­ sues of American slavery ment in the "political'" or Nazi genocide by explaining that the Church finally got involved because it decided these were moral issues, though not on purely political matters.

This leaves only the question: Who (i.e. what insti­ tution) decides whether an issue is moral? It seems obvious: Only the Church can decide, under God, whether an issue is moral . The government can decide that an issue is also political, and therefore, has political sanctions attached (as economists mu:,1; decide whether it is econom ic ; scientists, scientific, etc.) But no human agency has a priority over the Church in deciding whether an issue is moral!

Does Church involvement in issues which are both moral and political accomplish anything more than the effects of involved Christian individuals ? Abun­ dant evidence says "yes!" Commentators gen­ erally admit that the 1964 Civil Rights Bill was passed largely because of official and quasi-official Church support - the element lacking the many previous failures. The official Church voice also nerves individual Christian to stands they might otherwise not take-as millions of Christians flooded the 1964 Congress with let ers on civil rights. Con­ versely, Church silence on current issues with moral facets convinces the world the Church i irrelevant and doesn't care - e.g. Church silence on labor questions has pl'et y well convincd the labor classes that the Church has neither the concern nor mes­ sage for them. (Contrast Luther, who spoke up as a Church leader on the social, economic, and mili­ tary issues of the Peasant Revolt, because the issues were also moral!) Moreover, Church silence si­ lences individual Christians - as most individual German Christians gave in to silent fear on the Jewish question - and by silence the Church be­ comes partner to some of history's most monstrous crimes!

"But how can the Church be sure on contro­ versial issues? Will it not make some mistakes if it takes sides ?" To limit the Ch urch voice to where the Church can be certain it speaks correctly reveals a misconception of what the Church is. Only God speaks with infallible certainty ! He has not given us the option of speaking and acting infallibly. He has given us only two options, either to fall back in say-nothing, do-nothing unfaith, or to speak and aci boldly from as much light as God gives us know­ ing we will also make some mistakes. This is why Luther said, "Sin boldly !" Bonhoeffer paraphrased it: God demands bold action as the response of faith - and promises forgiveness to those w 0 become sinners in the process, Even on moral issues the Church can never say more than this (and it must say it humbly, subject to revision , and in love) : "Under God, this is the way such-and-such a majority of us see it, as of now." - But neither should the Church say less!

THE UNIVERS ITY NOTEBO O K A $9,000 Frederick Gardner Cattrell grant b y the Research Corporation has been awarded to the department of physics. The funds will be used to equip an ultra-high vacuum laboratory for studies in the general area of the physics of surfaces. Dr. Sherman B. Nornes, associate professor of physics, will direct the program. He plans to involve at least four phy ics students during each academic year with a similar group assisting with the research during the summer months.

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The new swimming pool has proved to be a pop­ ular recreation facility, nol only for the students and staff at PLU, but for the people of the surrounding COInmWlity. Statistics revealed recently by Richard Alseth, pool manager, indicated that 38,814 people used the pool during a 75-day period last summer.

Also, approximately 1,400 boys and girls took part in the Pierce County Learn-to-Swim program con­ ducted in the pool.

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PLU is cooperating with the Tacoma Public Schools in conducting an in-service course for its staff on "Teaching and the Disadvantaged." Serving on the faculty are Dr. Kenneth Johnston, director of the School of Education, and Rev. J obn Schiller, assistant professor of sociology. Objective of the course is to provide an impr vement of techniques and materials to aid the academically disadvantaged child in achieving the education objectives which will ensure his integration into the American politi­ cal, cultural and economic life.

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SMORGA SBORD FOR FA CULTY - The Bonrd of Regents gave their annual sm01'ga-sb07'd dinn er in November f01' the faculty and thei?' spouses.

Here Dt·. PcL1tl E. Bondo, right, ?'egent fTom Tacoma and Ids wife, visit with D1'. and Mrs. Kenneth Johnston, dit'e ct ot' of the School of Edu­ cation , and his wife, 12

Dean Olaf H. TholUodsgard of Bordeaux, France. has established a scholar sh ip fund at the University in honor of his parents, the late Rev. and Mrs. Ha l­ vor O. Thormodsgar d, fol'! le r residents of Spok an e.

Dean Thormodsgard , who was on the Un iver si ty of North Dakota fac ulty for 36 years , set up the fun d with an initial gift o( $ 1 ,000 with the stipul at i on that the scholar hip of 8 1 00 be giv e n annually to a FLU senior. The reCipi en t must have ttended PLU three years and have had a high sc h o l astic av ra ge in th ree years each of co urses in French and En g l ish .

The lale Rev . Thormodsgard served Luther n churches in the Spokane area fr m 1 9 05 un t il his retirement in 1923. Four o f his children attended Spokane College , an in st itut i n which m erged with PLU in 1930 .

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FOSS HALL DEDIC ATED - H. L. Foss Hall for 188 men was ded icated on Sunday O ct. 24, a t im­ pressive riles which were held in Memor i a l Gym­ nas iwn . Dr. Joseph L. K nu tson, president £ Con­ cordia Co llege (Minn . ) , gave the address at th e event whi h al 0 u shered in the 75th Anni versary year cel e brati n. The Rev. Dr . It L. F ss of Seattl e , in wh ose h n r th e res i dence hall was named, was pres ent for the occasio n. Dr. Fo , retired, w as chair­ man of the board of regents for 22 years and pres­ ident f t he No rth Pacific Distr i t of the Ame rican Lutheran C h urc h fo r 3 1 years. Members of th e Foss f mily present for the dedication, pictured above , in lud e : from left to right, fi r s t row, Ml's .

Fo 5 , Dr. Foss, Li llian Foss, Magda Foss, !VIrs .

Mcl vin Syre ( Margar et Foss) , Jean, ,Tane and Julie Frazier. Second row , Robert Svare, lVIrs. S vare (Patricia Foss, d ughter) , Dr. Ra ' m o nd Hel lickson, Mrs. Hellic k son ( A gnes Fo ss ) , Daniel Johnston , Mrs. Johnston ( E da Foss ) , the Rev . Carl Foss, Mrs. Carl Foss, G eorge Frazier Mrs. Frazier (Joan Foss) . .

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So me 275 st udent s from 24 Washington h igh schools attended the 17th ann ual High School S t u­ dent C ongress sponsored by the PLU c hapt er of Pi Kappa Delta. Dr. Peter Ri tuben, associate pro­ fessor f history, was the princ ipal s peaker . Among the resolutions adopt ed was one supporting the U.S. Government's sta nd in Viet Nam. •

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George Roskos, a sociate professor and chai rman of the depart ment of art, has been i nvj ted to enter several of hi welde d sculptlU'es in the Kentucky Guild of Artist and Cr a ftsmen 1966 travelin g art exhibit. Ro kos has submitted four of his w ork s , which will be part of t h e Kentucky Guild Tr< in carrying quality art work to Ken t u c ky residents who d not have access t such work. '"

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Over 1,600 Luther Leaguers an advisors at­ tended the third annual Luther League Day Oct. 1 6 .

Events included campus tours, Children's Theatr e presentation of " Heidi, " swimming in the new 0 1 and the PLU - Lewis & C l ark footbal l game. *

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PLU co -hosted the Northwest Universities Busi­ ness Administration Co nference held in Tacoma Oct. 29-3 0. Dr. Gundar King, assodat professor of busi­ ness administration, was president of the group dUl'ing the past ear.

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"We want to be strong in every respect, but in the academic area, the library, next to the faculty, has top priority."

Robert Mortvedt

In g atitude to God [or th e bles ings received through the yea rs , C e ntral Lutheran Church, Port­ land, voted to g ive $50,000 t o the PLU li brary f u nd over the next 10 y ears nd to spons or a home mis­ sion congregation. The latter move involve" a cash outlay of $20, 000 over a four-year p e r i o d and mort­ gag i ng Central ' s propert.y up to $100,000. O cc a si o n for the gift was th e celebration of the 15th anni­ versary of moving int Centra l's new sa n c tu ary . f the an n'i ­ President Ro bert Mort vdt was one versary speakers. In the a b o ve photo the R ev. J er­ rold M i li en , r ight , p astor of Central, and his wi fe tell Dr. Mort ed t a bout the gift.

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