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KEITH BILITZ-Uncle Hugo coached the soccer team to recognition and a first-place finish this year. After all that, a person would think he’d want to dress a little nicer. Baggy double-knit pants and tennis shoes are fine for high school, Keith, but this is NWC. Despite his success at being named Coach of the Year, he rides the ulcer circuit. Keith’s face is soft as a cow’s muzzle, but he sports a moustache just the same. He’ll still hang out at his brother’s house in Milwaukee next year when he goes to the Sem.

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MARK BIRKHOLZ—Human villainy personi­ fied, this Philistine is the tyrant of third-floor Wittenberg. Beauty-shop Birky got a perma­ nent in December that refuses to grow out.

This Saginaw Stroll’s fan always has a dis­ gusting amount of mail waiting for him from New Ulm. In three attempts, he has yet to complete a NWC baseball season. Birch is the possessor of possibly the worst collection of records in the Midwest and frankly, his room is a pigsty. The man with hair the color of a bushel of carrots says he tolerates his room­ mate Jeske because “Well, somebody has to put him to bed.” Engagement ring? Birk blushes and says no, but we know that’s his coy little way of saying yes. In summer he works as a mover and in winter he tries not to get rusty. Sem, at last!

GREGORY BORK-Grcg’s an old Wisco boy and you can tell. He still wears wire-rimmed glasses and looks as if he should be toting a sign that says “Give Peace a Chance.” He got his long David Cassidy locks shorn this year for a more conservative, blow-dry cut. GB is a major figure in band and enjoys beating the tar out of a drum set. Chas’s roommate is one of the Chosen Nine in the Hebrew elective and just may be “P's” favorite disciple. A rumor was blowing around for a while that Greg was seen up here on a weekend, but that's so un­ believable that it’s silly. St. Gregory the Grease will like it in pastoral Mequon, where he can take long quiet walks by himself.

DAVID CLARK-Dave worked at Welcome Inn because he couldn't get a job at the Gobbler.

It was here that this Bob Seger fan crossed paths with his heart-throb Bonnie, who is studying to become a lawyer. Whether that means she’ll wear the pants in the family we can’t say. We hate to say Dave is losing his hair, but the sun reflecting off his head in Advanced Comp burnt a hole in one of Prof, Quam’s already torrid ties. Dave’s a real soccer fanatic, but he’s no fun to play with because all you have to do is look at him the wrong way and he gets hurt. This Detroit-MotorCity boy will haul his Beatle albums to the Sem. Continued on page 2

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THE BLACK AND RED! MAY 1979, Volume 83, No. 1

The Class of ’79 Rides Out On A Rail Luther’s Small Catechism:............

Its Development and Lasting Value

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An Ott Point of View.....................

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Albert Einstein: Centennial of a Genius

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Keep the Home Fires Burning

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The Five-Year Vacation Plan

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Continued from cover known in the dorm; two minutes with Tom whaling away on a guy’s back is guaranteed to leave the fellow walleyed and partially paralyzed. He’ll be getting closer to his West Bend home when he drives his wheezy Maverick to Mequon.

JERRY EWINGS-Big Jer comes to us from Jim Falls, Wisconsin. To get an idea of what we’re dealing with here, a wild Jim Falls Saturday night is spent down at the filling station jumping on that wire that makes the little bell ring. Jerry co-wrote the Campus and Classroom column two years ago and proved conclusively that he wouldn’t know a joke if one came up and bit him on the nose. Corn’s roommate hung out in Wartburg this year. The possessor of a real “Vic Tanney" waistline, Jerry also has a real luxurious moustache. Now you tell one. Scm-bound.

TIMOTHY GUMM-This cradlcrobbcr lives in a pink cloud of champagne bubbles and high school romance. Tim was at the wheel of the black Charger that sent the snow Muehlhaeuser's head tumbling to the earth at Bonecruncher. Tim's roots are in Becrtown, but dis­ appointingly he opted to be a moldy Prep.

Lake Mills Linda and Marlboro are the only things in life that Tim cares about. The picture of Love-bunny will grace a Seminary desk in fall.

DOUGLAS FREE-“Dog” calls Nebraska home, although they deny it. He’s done his best to be a Catholic converter this year.

Falstaff is the only thing for a Cornhusker, right, Doug? He rooms with Whitcy when Voss goes to school here. He and his brother make quite a pair when they work construction together in the summer. Big Sal is Dougie’s pal. He hit Daytona for the first time this year but said there wasn't any corn growing down there so he didn’t like it. “Dog Chow’’ has a new CARE package from Grampa and Gramma every two days. He’ll go to school with Keith again when summer’s over.

TIMOTHY HENNING-Five years on one campus is a long time, isn't it, Tim? Here’s a Wisco product that they can be proud of.

Mr. Band himself calls Dousman home. Tim scored one goal in four years of soccer, but he was keyed, so we all clapped. Showboat’s roomie is engaged and has to wear high-water pants until the ring is paid off. He must be allergic to the dye in socks, because the only ones he wears are white. Tim's singing voice is an annoying falsetto that’s bound to give you bad cramps. Hebrew elective, hey, Tim? Nowhere else but Sem after all this.

THOMAS FRICKE-Jim’s boy is easy to pick out -always smiling and cute as a bug’s ear.

Tom gave up Mom’s cooking this year and moved across the street to room with Bozo.

The Trojan third-baseman will have Shanny for a brother-in-law pretty quick, so he’d better get used to lending money now. In summer Tom drives a Budwciser truck and hangs around with Zoogie. If he can survive another summer of that excitement we’ll see him at Holy Hill.

DENNIS HIMM-Denny’s a real hustler on the basketball court. You can draw your own con­ clusion about him off the court-he's engaged.

His home is Chesaning—home of Farmer Pete’s People-Pleasin’ Meats. Why he tells anyone that, nobody knows. Denny and Kay are taking the long walk down the aisle together this summer, so he’ll be brown* baggin' it to the Seminary next year. The dormitory barber, Denny is a milk and yogurt tester at Carnation during the summer months.

Lucky he’s studying to become a pastor now.

THOMAS GUMM-Big “T” is a coed big brother. Every other collegiate on campus would give his left eyeball just to talk to Tina, but Tom treats her like just another of his groupies. Thomas R. Gumm has a nasty habit of taking perfectly lousy photographs, but he has fun running around on the sidelines during football games looking like a man with a mission. Tom “Do You Want to Know How Bad I Feel?’’ Gumm is a masseur of wide re-

CHARLES HUEBNER-Chuck “Me and Bruce Jenncr” Huebner is another of those bother­ some shutterbugs. Chuck’s given a number of fellows serious feelings of inadequacy because of his constant running to stay in shape. En­ gaged to his girlfriend, Chas is—maybe you 2

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Mr. Warm-Up Suit always wants to know in advance EVERYTHING that will be on a test, to preserve his weighty G.P.A. He’s a Saginaw boy, but so is Birkholz, so that ‘‘don’t mean nuthin’.” Chuck once quit cross-country in the middle of a race. B.F.’s squeaky voice will be heard in the Sem dorms come fall.

fun.” On account of his disastrous jaunt up to Alaska last summer, he’s been poor so long all his pride has been ground out of him. Yepske’s sources of inspiration? Check out Rod Stewart, Clancy, Louie, or Jackie. Tom comes home to Papa in fall, if he can get his ’56 Olds started.

Pity this guy moving all his stuff out of the dorm-even Dean said his room was incredible.

DAVID HUEBNER—Bozo’s the funny man of the class and his love life bears that out.

Hucbs figured he’d show Tom Fricke the ropes about living in a dorm this year. Dave holds one of the lamest records on campus-that of being cut from three sports in one day. Dave ‘‘My Dad’s a Dean” Hucbncr spends his week-

RICKY JOHNSON-Rick claims to have once gone out with Miss Minnesota. Sure, Rick, and Gullywhomper looks like Clint Eastwood.

Please, no more of that silly talk. Mr. WellTanned Yankee came bopping back from Alabama after spring break this year. Rick has naturally wavy hair, which is nice if you want to make a living doing shampoo commer­ cials. He’s a Winona boy who is one of NWC’s recruiting stalwarts. His high-tenor squawk­ ing can be traced to Wartburg Hall. This Chevellc-driver dominated Plitz Greek class, but Rick would probably shine at a wake, too.

He’ll drag that heavy G.P.A. to Ozaukee County in September.

TIMOTHY KANT-Thc editor of the Black and Red makes a habit of getting absolutely no sleep at night, making up for it by snatching all he can in class. “Lips” says he wants to get his “Pillsbury Dough Boy” bod in shape this summer, but we won’t even gratify that with a response. Tim owns the most pitiful auto­ mobile imaginable and to make matters worse he’s defensive about it. “Cutco” thinks he’s got class because he covers all his albums with plastic wrappers and rooms with Larry O. Right, Tim. “Lippage” is a big music fan and still loves to relive the happy hours he spent at the Cheap Trick concert. Actually, Cutco’s a horrible little man who spills things on him­ self at lunch. That’ll be Tim’s AMC with the hood up in the Seminary parking lot.

ends going to Grandma’s or playing RISK. When Dave heads to New Ulm, he has a good reason -he lives there. Bozo’s a touring chorus man who likes to paint houses in the summer, so he’ll be the one wearing messy clothes to class in Mequon.

THOMAS JESKE-Thomas John Hammer Jeske amassed quite a list of accomplishments over his last (finally) year at NWC. First, he convincingly shattered John Berg’s long-stand­ ing “Most Consecutive Nights Spent in the Library” record. Then he slugged it out with Schumann for the “Longest Period Between Showers” mark. Tommo, a charter member of the “No Respect Body Smashing Club,” has this for a motto: “If it doesn’t hurt, it’s no

PETER KIECKER-Peter flashbulbed to star­ dom as a fearless “enforcer” in city-league basketball competition. Dame Rumor says that the sparks fly when Karen drives down to see old Mr. Five O’CIock Shadow, which is funny because when Pete smiles he shows his teeth like a hog that has a corn-cob stuck in its craw. Kiecks is a “Big Stick” in baseball and a 3

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big “Hard Guy” who likes keeping the coeds in line. Peter is an R.A. over in Augsburg, but he hasn’t had a shower since the last time he got caught in the rain. Pete “Are My Contacts In?” Kiecker can’t cope without his “eyes.” Not to see him stagger around groping for them is to miss one of the great thrills of life. “Disco Pete” has a green Javelin that has on occasion been seen in front of Timmel’s and will be seen in Mequon come fall.

NORVAL KOCK-Norv is known as Mr. Excitement around the dorm. He rooms with Koly, which has got to be a laugh a minute.

He was the senior class president and this year that didn’t turn out to be all it was cracked up to be, did it, Norv? An “Intramural Board” perennial, his hockey cohorts know him by his French rink name of “Jean-Guy." He enjoys picking away on the gee-tar and thinking up ways to avoid doing his German. One of the yellow-shirted “Fluffics” of the I.M. circuit.

Non' grew some mean muttonchops after spending last summer out in Wyoming with the antelope and Mouth. Everybody’ll like him in Mequon, even if lie is moving to New Ulm. DAVID KOLANDER-Koly walks funny.

That’s one thing a 3.99 average can’t hide, kind of like a bald spot. Koly has owned the football MVP award for three years and is a sterling representative for the class of ’79 as valedictorian. The only things he ever failed at were Krissy and Marie, but maybe they didn't want to be seen in that raggedy old Ford he motors in. Koly must be Dean’s buddy, because he never gets busted for anything. A native of Monlello, Koly patterned his life after Dave Voss, and it shows. Those famous spikes will join a lot of famous others in some Seminary closet.

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MICHAEL LOESCHER-If Mike’s mind is made up, arguing with him is like trying to swipe a hunk of meat from a pit bulldog. He takes his frustrations out on the hockey rink, where his helmet has rubbed the carpet on his head threadbare. A Greek and Hebrew whiz, Mike also enjoyed playing Texas Chainsaw Commentator in Quamposition class. Mikey is an R.A. over in Augsburg and he goes with Pope’s niece. “Joe Tact” looked sharp in his

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(Lare will vouch for himself.) Larry closes in on the Portenicr homestead when he carts ills WFMR Listener's Guides to Thiensville.

soccer champions’ shirt this spring. Mike’ll squint at Sem blackboards next September.

PAUL MUELLER-Paulie bought a rock for Julie this spring. What do you suppose the jewelry store clerk thought when he parked the Duraclean van right outside the store? The old man of the Mueller litter up at NWC, P.M. thinks he has a speech impediment-he has to stop to breathe. Paulie is a referee who enjoys sleeping in a bed of nice, soft hay. The owner of the “Muellermobile,” he fancies himself an intramural all-star and enjoys discussing psychology rationally with Prof. Scllnow.

Boston music will float out over the Mcquon prairie when the Mule arrives.

LARRY PONTEL-Pontius is about the biggest “plow” imaginable. Can you take a 25-year-old ministerial student seriously, who listens to the soybean reports on the radio at 5 A.M.? In psych we’d diagnose this guy as schizophrenic with paranoid tendencies: as Joe Persecuted, he's second only to T. Gumm. Scheibs' buddy likes to hunt deer at Adams-Friendship and Henning's little sister at Dousman. Larry “Baby Face” Pontel has a bad knee and he can really handle a motorcycle (cough, cough).

A surprise addition to the Hebe elective, the Dean's buddy will wear his green “Wickes Pole Barns” jacket to Hoot class next fall.

TIMOTHY MUELLER-Tim and Greek do not mix, like oil and water. He used to come in the door of Plitz's classroom before tests looking like Floyd Patterson climbing into the ring for a rematch with Sonny Liston. He got beaten like a gong a number of times, but Sue still loves him. Zambia's loss is known for his good attitude and for working at McDonald’s with a crew of sixteen-year olds. Packrat’s buddy will hide behind his Cool-Rays in a Sem classroom.

WILLIAM RUNKE How did Lori break her leg. Bill? Himm's roomie smokes a pipe at the senior class countdown parties and correspond­ ingly smells like chainpagne-flavored Borkum Riff. “Bum” has hairless legs, which probably got him his job as a kitchic. Nicolet, Minnesota, is proud to call him her son and we’re sure that Lori is proud to call him her beau. Mr. Prep Canteen-Man is Sem material from the word Go. Bill will do his Groucho Marx routine for Seminary faculty wives’ get-togethers when summer's over.

DAVID NOTTLING-Kitchic Davy is going through life facing the ignominy of being Lord Kucrth’s brother-in-law. Dave “Language Elective" Nettling likes to look cultured, stuffily pulling on a pipe, but Sorum sneeringly says that Dave’s pipe only cost $2.79. A wet­ back from Texas, Snottling is every teacher’s dream student. He's just too clean-there's gotta be something on him. The Sem profs will love him, if he doesn’t get a call somewhere first.

RICHARD SCHEIBE-Scheibs is a five-year man from Wrightstown who can grow a beard in ten minutes. Listen to Rick for the complete dope on fishing. Schcibs has the gall to hang an undersize muskie on the wall above his bed.

(Shopko has meaner looking goldfish than that little snake.) Rick suffers from the Corner Pyle syndromc-his talking voice sounds like air escaping from a leaky tire, but his singing voice booms like a July thunderstorm. He’s always got a slagpile of Copenhagen in his mouth and he made a nuisance of himself playing with the can in Greek. Rick “Breaker, Breaker” Scheibe got so paranoid after the seeps hit his car that he drives around now with his windows taped. “See AH, Know All, Tell All” Scheibs ’ll breathe one big sigh of relief when the Prez hands him a diploma in May.

LAWRENCE OLSON-“Big O, little 1, little s, big O, little n” is another marginally adjusted excellent student who thinks he has to smoke a pipe and carry a pocket-watch to elevate him­ self above the rabble. Larry boasted of a tem­ perate week in Florida, but that’s fishy, coming back with no tan. “O” owns little dark-haired Mary, who he feels will make a dandy pastor’s wife some day. Larry “Where’s My Hairline Going?” Olson is an illustrious alumnus of Wisco who always wear’s Harold’s white cow­ boy hat inside Gutzi's. An authority on youname-it, Big O likes to tell people his nickname 5

DANIEL SCHUMANN-Shanny’s five years to get through NWC are reminiscent of the end of Love Story where the girl dies. He's gone from the hot-shooting, shaggy-haired idol of every Prep girl, to a hidebroken, greasy-haired old mongrel that lies in bed twelve of his four­ teen waking hours, dreaming of the Boundary Waters. Dan “I'm Going To Fricke’s” Schumann is actually considering applying for a job this summer, even though working would have a devastating effect on the time he could sleep and fish. One of the sharpest Hebrew sight translators around, “Xerox” Schumann enjoys watching all the soap operas on his color TV at noon. Between “Days of Our Lives” and “I’m Going to Louie’s,” Shuba is one busy guy. Shan has about fifteen pairs of pants,

Rick “How's the Wife and Kids, Prof?” Scheibe loads up the artist’s supplies and makes his way casually over to the Sem in September.

STEVEN SCHILLER-Mama's boy Shifty is gonna have to move from Hustisford all the way to Mequon after graduation! Maybe apron strings can reach that far. Shifto claims to be an all-star catcher in summer league baseball, where no one can check up on him. Steve “Nice Hips” Schiller was NWC's answer to Chester Marcol for the past few football seasons. Five-year-man Shifty is so tough he can smoke without coughing or even getting watery eyes. We don't want to say that biggame-hunter Shifty might be guilty of poach­ ing, but who ever heard of hitting nine geese in one day with your car? The weight-loss clinic did wonders for this kid. Dorms for the first time at WLS. PAUL SCHLEIS-Paul has a Pancho Villa moustache, which is kind of rakish for a guy who plays in a polka band. Another in a long line of stellar Manty alumni, Paul likes to wear a black vest to class; maybe Ben Cartwright is his idol. Who knows? Paul once roomed with T. Gumm not many guys can make that claim you know. This Mishicot product used to hang out with Randy Leifer and Tek down at Welcome Inn. Next summer he’ll plug his accordian into a Seminary outlet.

RANDAL SCHOEMANN-Randy “Four-Day Weekend” Schoemann shocked all observers with a startling appearance in the Hebrew elective last January. “Ducks Unlimited" Schoemann often smells like a pack of wet hounds in his morning classes, but he’s a friendly guy, so no one says anything. We don’t want to say that “Showboat” is old, but he has brothers and sisters who are grand­ parents. “Turtlehead" likes to visit his relatives when he goes fishing at Fox Lake, and relaxes in his spare time by selling Kirby vacuum clean­ ers. That should be a dandy way to pick up a few extra bucks once he gets a parish of his own. The “Boat” from Cambria-Friesland High School hangs up pictures of girls that he hasn’t seen in seven years. “Gullyboat” can room with Henning in the second floor of the Sem dorms.

but they’re all tan corduroys. When Debbie lets him out of her sight, he “borrows a few hogs” and heads to Timmel’s. “Spare Tire” Schumann isn’t into any cheap formica trip— he buys real wood antiques for his hope chest.

Mr. NASB “And he wotteth not” Schumann says “Shim’s at Sem-ought to be pretty cool.”

DONALD SEELHOFF-When Seel goes hyper trying to find guys to work on short notice for Duraclean, he looks like a flitting bat that somebody injected with methedrine. Seel is a big hunter, but there is some question as to allowing a “gun-toting” Seelhoff out in the field. If Don “If It Moves, Blast It” Seelhoff decides to hang around till May 23, he’ll graduate Magnum cum Laudc. When Seel gets called on for translation in class, you better be ready, because he bellows like the foghorn 6

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Onalaska, Rog always showed unquestionable taste in not wearing one of those obnoxious black and white team jackets. Rog drives a bus full of screaming little monsters to school for relaxation. They have an Aramaic elective at Sem, Rog.

-at Port Washington. Brenda’s boy is still Owosso’s lesser known son, giving way to roomie Mueller. Seel can pump iron in the Sem weight-room tills fall.

DAVID SEELOW-Davc “Let's See, Let’s See” Seelow is a puzzler. The “Packrat” still thinks it’s cool to let his shirttails hang out in class. Never one to talk your ear off, Davey must have done some fast talkin’ somewhere along the line, because he’s engaged. He’d like to fool people into thinking he’s quiet and reserved, but then how come he has WZMF bumperstickcrs on his melon-colored Chevelle?

Not to intone that this little guy could lose a few pounds or anything, but when he slipped and fell down in Value Village last fall, every clock in the store struck. His comatose campus behavior must be caused by a kink in what­ ever vessel leads to the pineal gland. Scheibs could give Dave a few lessons in writing smaller— eight words to a page for a senior is cause for concern. Sem material all the way.

E. ALLEN SORUM—Ego Allen Sorum ad­ mittedly fancies himself quite the manabout-town. A1 comes from Seattle, Fun City, so we had no reason to doubt this, until we heard that he celebrated New Year’s last December sucking on an ice cube and sniffing a bar rag. When midnight came, he ran to the front door, flipped the porch light on and off twice and gave his dog a Milk-Bone. A1 hit Daytona this year for the first time and did some effective canvassing. After A1 donated blood this year, he got a card from a family thanking him for saving their dog’s life. He has had three “near Mrs.” in his five years in the Midwest and is going on his fourth-but this time it’s for REAL. His engagement ring is like a traveling trophy. A1 “I’m a sensitive guy” Sorum works on the docks in Seattle, where sensitivity abounds. He gave Lisa a pair of engraved brass knuckles for her birth­ day. His Bravura aftershave has netted him many a good tip at the Gobbler, but it can’t get him an “A” for the schmaltzy papers he writes in Quamposition. A1 has spoken in tongues, but so has Whitey Voss. Disco jeans and Dingo boots’ll be just fine for Sem class attire, Eddie.

JEFFREY SEELOW Jeff really came into his own as a multi-faceted talent this ycar-at least that’s what Jeske told him, trying to con this former Prep into co-editorship of the floundering MNEMA. Anyway, it worked.

Second-floor Jeff lias a real green thumb; he and roomie Tim have to lop their paths out of the underbrush each morning with machetes.

Jeff is the founder and maintainor of the senior “Pat and Gladys’” countdown gigs. A Milwaukee boy, Jeff reaps the benefits of his decision to go to school in Watertown -all the coeds know him. A touring chorus mainstay, he was always recognizable in his plaid shirt, sitting by the door in Greek. He can try to fill out his beard in the fertile fields of Mequon next school year.

PHILIP SPAUDE-“Trigger” threw a jolt into more than one prof during the third quarter when he skyed for a near 4.0 average. “The Horse,” he of shaggy mane and long skinny leg, has a medicine cabinet that rivals Mallach’s Pharmacy. A sight to bring tears of laughter to the eyes of a mother superior is “The Horse” doing the “Trigger Trot” to his favorite song. Trigger “Road Trip” Spaude claims to be a rock, but any girl can have him lowing and eating clover in two seconds.

Trig demolished his Opel this fall, but you can bet Horseflesh will have something up on jacks at the Sem.

ROGER SLOAN-“Ummm,” Rog took the Church Latin elective; “Ummm,” then Rog took the Hebrew elective. Your hair would stand up straight too, if you had to wake up every morning to Rawerts' yodeling and sing­ ing Gene Autry songs at the first hint of rosy dawn. Rog is fond of high-water polyester jeans; but if that’s all we can come up with on him, that’s good. Although a product of

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announcer in America this last year. A chapel “organ-grinder” from Michigan Sem, Denny’s bus driving was the highlight of the senior Amie art field trip last fall. The Strong man makes his home in Remus; but on the other hand, Dan Schmclzer lives there. Denny likes to make sure he’s captain of any intramural team he's on-that way he knows he’ll play.

Next year Denny can get mad at Sem guys for parking in his spot.

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KEITH TULLBERG—Sue, Robin, Cheryl, Amy, Carrie, Lisa, Kay, and now it’s Denise, right, Hcuth? Keith “Sweet Pea” Tullbcrg painted Wyoming red with Norv Kock last summer. KT, a big NASB fan, rooms with Harold in the corner on third floor, where he spends a lot of his time hanging out of the window and hawking coeds. Hcuth is a great goose hunter—too bad he cleans them in our shower rooms. He sold his bashed-up Mustang to Wilks, so now Sweet Denise will have to give him a ride to the Sem. The Total Man has more “cool” in his little finger than the whole city of New Ulm.

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ROSS ULRICH-Ross generally wanders around in his own little cloud. Seep chasing netted him a “Cindy” this year. Ross “Tire Man” Ulrich throws up more air balls in basketball than Quinn Buckner, but don’t laugh at him or he’ll total your face. Often seen with cigars that appear to belong to him merely by right of salvage, “I AM ROSS” is a graduate of Baraboo High School, class of ’57. Prof. Baumler’s Greek protege, Ross loves Miller and atomic bean dip with his Doritos. “Mr. Hard Guy” lounges around his Augsburg pad telling stories to coeds about how he was a freshman back in ’72.

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another example of a Trojan making good in the community. He settles his dumpy body in Arcadia, California, during summers, where the only tan he gets is from the refrigerator light. Nice stash, Ylvis. See ya on the hill in September.

guy Prep, “Mr. What Happened to My Car?” Wilkens is known as the terror of Maranatha.

Steve “Shoot the Geese While They’re on the Water” Wilkens takes an inordinate number of history electives. It won’t take long for this boy to move his arsenal from Newburg to Mequon, unless he goes via UW-Eau Claire.

Class of ’79 dirty laundry hung by: Ross Ulrich Steve Wilkens A1 Sorum Tom Jeske Larry Olson Mark Birkholz

PAUL YLVISAKER-Ylvis is known for being out of every test and exam before the rest of us ever get to page two. How the kitchen staff ever lets this Winston chimney touch food is beyond us. Paul was the big winner in Piggly Wiggly Bingo this fall-

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450 years ago this month Dr. Luther’s Small Catechism first came off the press.

This beautiful booklet of twenty-odd pages, this “sermon for children,” has served our church and our God well. Many of us here today know every precious word of it by heart.

Yet, few of us probably know very much about its development or how it came to be written.

This anniversary year is a very proper time to look at the story of the Catechism. We will note both its development and also how it applies to us as Christians today.

Just because Dr. Luther had “refomed” the Roman Catholic Church didn’t mean that all of a sudden those who followed his Bible-

based teachings knew everything that Scrip­ ture had to offer them. In actuality, many didn’t even know the basics. Most revealing of the sad state of religious affairs was the socalled Saxon Church Visitation, which Luther and his co-workers, Philip Melanchthon, Justus Jonas, and John Bugenhagen, headed during the winter of 1528. The visitation was designed to determine the spiritual and confessional condition of those churches in the outlying areas of the German province of Saxony which had broken away from the Catholic Church and wanted to become “Lutheran.”

What Luther saw was almost unbelievable.

In one church the parishioners refused to learn 9

the Lord’s Prayer because it was too long. One church hadn’t celebrated communion for three or four years. Another church had no Bible, because the last one had burned in a fire twenty-six years earlier. One of the priests couldn’t recite the Lord’s Prayer or the Apostles’ Creed without looking at the text.

In addition, open sin was prevalent. Some priests lived with and cohabited with their cooks or maids; others were alcoholics. The people followed suit in all too many cases.

“Alas,” Luther would afterward exclaim, “what misery I beheld! The people.. .seem to have no knowledge whatever of Christian doc­ trine, and many of the pastors are ignorant and incompetent teachers.” They needed instruc­ tion. They needed a catechism.

It wasn’t because of any inactivity on Luther’s part. He had been preaching and thinking about catechetical instruction for the previous twelve years. Already in 1516 he had preached a series of sermons to his Wittenberg congregation on the Ten Commandments.

The next year he published a brief explanation of the Commandments in wall chart form. In 1520 an explanation of the Apostles’ Creed appeared, and in 1522 Luther issued a Booklet of Prayers, in which he included his “Short Forms” of the Commandments, the Creed, and the Lord’s Prayer, which had been written during the previous four years. Sermons on the three remaining parts of our Catechism, Baptism, Confession, and the Lord’s Supper, were preached in 1525 and were incorporated into the prayer booklet later the same year.

So, in 1528, when Luther reported back from his church visitations and realized the desperate need for instruction-both of clergy and parishioners-he had all these resources to draw on. During the first five months of 1529 Luther compiled his materials in the organized form we know today, the first twenty-one pages of our church body’s Catechism. It was ready to go out to the people on May 16.

This is how the Small Catechism or, by definition, handbook of Christian doctrine, developed. Now, how does it apply to us?

Luther said that “whoever does not know it cannot be numbered among the Christians.”

What about such a claim? Can knowing what’s in this little book determine whether we’re

Christians or not? When we realize that the contents of the Small Catechism are taken directly from God’s Word and that the chief parts of the Catechism arc a brief summary of God’s plan of salvation for us, we know it is worth the high value Luther placed on it. The Ten Commandments, the Creed, the Lord’s Prayer, Baptism, the Lord’s Supper, Confession and Absolution: these are the heart of our faith. Together with their explanations, they show us what it means to be a sinner, what it means to be justified by faith in Christ alone, what it means to be a child of God, and what it means that God, who once revealed Himself to us through Christ, continues to come to us in His Word and through the sacraments of baptism and the Lord’s Supper. As Christians, catechism doctrine is important to us.

For this reason alone the Small Catechism is worth memorizing, that is, if we want to begin to obtain the greatest benefit of God’s message to us. And then, and much more importantly, we should come to understand its every word. If, as we say in the explanation to the first commandment, “We should fear, love, and trust in God above all things,” and yet do not realize that love for God means to put money or a big name or even fancy clothes lower on our list of priorities, then we have not understood in our heart what our lips say in words. Understanding is the vital follow-up to rote memorization.

We can best memorize and come to under­ stand if we have been diligently taught. Since Luther intended the Catechism primarily for children, he urged the cooperation of the parents. It is, after all, the parent’s duty to bring up their children in the “nurture and admonition of the Lord.” They should sit down with their children and question them according to the words of the Catechism.

“What do you believe?” “I believe in God the Father almighty, maker of heaven and earth.”

“What does this mean?” “I believe that God has made me and all creatures, giving me my body and soul, eyes, ears, and all my members, my reason, and all my faculties,” and so on.

And then the parents are to help the child understand exactly what that does mean.

Today we are fortunate enough to have Chris­ tian day schools to assist the parents in educat10

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others? No, we dare not boast or complain that we know enough or have heard enough of the Catechism. For, with Luther, we know that “we shall never finish learning it, because it does not consist in speech, but in life.” Our catechetical instruction is an on-going life­ long process. We can thank God that we don’t have to memorize the entire Bible to receive it!

ing their children in God’s truth.

But, it doesn’t end there. We never cease being children. Luther himself said that al­ though he was a Doctor of Theology, he still recited the Small Catechism word for word, like a child, whenever he could. So with us.

If we do not keep up with what we learned in those catechism classes long ago and do not continue to grow in the knowledge and under­ standing of that instruction, how can we teach

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bint oP View ^^ince becoming editor of this tribune, it ^^has come to my attention that some students don't understand B & R policy. In the interest of clearing up some misunder­ standing, a word of explanation is in order.

As for selection of the staff, the procedure is as follows: the outgoing editor appoints a new editor, subject to faculty approval, the new editor then draws up a list of about thirty potential staff members; after the list has been approved, the editor puts together the staff from that list. Those included on the list are generally past staff members and those whom ' the editor asks to join the staff. After the new staff for Vol. 83 had already been drawn up, several people expressed interest in the B <6 R to me. Having had a little difficulty in putting together a staff, I was obviously not pleased to find out that there were people who were

interested in being on the staff, who had not been considered. Please, if anyone is interested in being a member of future B & R staffs, inform the editor. It is impossible to know, on your own, everyone who is interested. Mem­ bership on the B & R staff is not by invitation only. The B & R is interested in anyone who is interested in it.

There’s also the matter of who gets his writing published in The Black and Red In the words of Tricky Dick, “Let me make one thing perfectly clear”: ALL students of the college are encouraged to submit material to the editor. All submissions are viewed in the same light. Preference is not given to staff members over non-staff members. The B & R is the student publication of Northwestern and as such is open to all students of the college.

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literary work. That forum can become rather uneventful if it's patronized by the same few people all the time. If you think the guys on the staff are dull, drab and uninspired-show us up!

As everyone knows, the Centennial of the Alumni Society is upon us. To those who think that all the Alumni do is build bell towers, you're wrong. As Dr. Kiessling records in his very entertaining history, Centennial Memoir, both the founding of The Black and Red and its expansion from a quarterly to a monthly production schedule were due to the

benevolent workings of the Alumni Society.

As new editor of this tome, then, it behooves me to address a word of congratulations to our austere progenitor, the Alumni Society. The Black and Red celebrates with you as you ob­ serve this milestone in your history and wishes you continued prosperity. May you continue to support and further the interests of your Alma Mater. Congratulations from The Black and Red. GREG OTTERSTATTER

ALBERT EINSTEIN: CENTENIAL OF A GENBLJS !

■^his year we are marking the centennial of • Northwestern College's Alumni Society.

While our relatively small circle of friends con­ siders this an important celebration, the rest of the world is also celebrating a centennialthe birth of Albert Einstein. Einstein, bom on March 14, 1879, is one of the greatest scientific minds the world has ever produced. It was he who came up with the famous theory of relativity, along with a few other theories, which gave a new direction to modem physics.

In fact, he is considered one of the fathers of the nuclear age, which is weighing on the minds of all Americans right now, especially in the wake of the incident at Three Mile Island just a few weeks ago. For this reason I would like to take a look at Albert Einstein: the man, his theories, and their influence,

and then evaluate him in the light of our Christian faith.

Albert Einstein, bom to Jewish parents in Ulm, Germany, was a rather peculiar child.

He did not learn to speak until age three; but then already at age five his father gave him a pocket compass, and the boy was totally fascinated by the fact that the needle always pointed in the same direction. At this age, he claims that he already felt that, as he said, “Something deeply hidden had to be behind things.’’ Then during his educational years he attended a number of different schools, but he never put any real effort into his schoolwork.

In fact, he was called a “lazy dog’’ by some of his teachers. He failed a number of exams in secondary school-most people feel he did so on purpose-and consequently he was forced to 12

clock on the spaceship, if he could see it, would appear to be moving more slowly because of the time it takes light to travel.

Another important discovery that came out in Einstein’s papers was his theory that energy and mass arc interchangeable. This equivalence he explained in the famous equation E = me", with E being the energy in the form of light produced by a given mass, m, multiplied by the velocity of light squared. What this meant was that even a small amount of matter has the explosive power of tons of TNT. This is what opened the door to the nuclear age, and made Einstein one of the most influential fathers of physics.

take a seemingly insignificant job as an exam­ iner in the Swiss Patent Office in Bern. But this job proved to be important for the young genius for two reasons. For one thing it gave him plenty of free time which he could devote to scientific investigation. And secondly, as John Wheeler, a physicist at the University of Texas and a longtime colleague of Einstein’s, points out, his boss at this job had a tremendous influence on the working of Einstein's mind.

He had to learn to look through complex new inventions to find the simple, central reason for which the invention would or would not make the grade. Wheeler claims that this ability to find the simple, central point was the reason that Einstein, rather than a scientific or mathe­ matical expert, was able to come up with the theory of relativity. It was during the time of this job that Einstein developed his famous theories.

Now let’s look briefly at the theories them­ selves. In 1905, at the age of 26 years, Einstein published a scries of papers which contained these theories. One of these theories concerned the Brownian movement of microscopic parti­ cles in liquid or gas. This theory confirmed the atomic theory of matter which was proposed

by Robert Brown, a British botanist. Another theory dealt with quantum mechanics. Ein­ stein, following the ideas of Max von Planck, stated that light is made up of tiny particles called quanta. Now Einstein theorized that these quanta, when they strike the atoms in metal, will cause the atoms to release energy.

This is called the photoelectric effect, and the results of his discoveries in this area are used in quite practical ways today, as in sound motion pictures, TV, and “electric eyes.”

A third theory in this publication was his special relativity theory. This was a bold and controversial item when it first came out, because it demolished the basic assumption of Newton, namely that time is absolute. This special relativity theory now claimed that both space and time are relative to the motion of the observer, and the only remaining absolute is the speed of light. In other words, time is considered a fourth dimension which can change, depending on the observer’s frame of reference. For example, a person riding a spaceship assumes that his clock is keeping normal time. But to an observer on earth, the

Even after this famous publication, how­ ever, Einstein’s theories were not totally accepted by all scientists. It was not until after his general relativity theory of 1916 and the experimental proof of that theory in 1919 that he received world-wide acclaim as the genius that he was. This general relativity theory contained a number of equations that related time, space, mass, motion, and gravita­ tion. One of the major ideas was that light could be forced to bend by strong gravitational force. To check the validity of this claim, some physicists photographed the light pattern of a star which had to travel nearby the sun on its 13

way to earth. The only time they could do this was during a solar eclipse, so during the eclipse of 1919, they proved that Einstein’s theory was correct, by finding that the star’s light did bend near the sun. For his amazing work Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1921, but he would not accept the money, and gave it instead to his ex-wife and her family.

Albert Einstein was a genius. He carried quite a bit of influence in the field of physics.

His theories opened up the main branches of modern physics, and he was especially signifi­ cant in getting the nuclear age under way. He was the man who wrote a letter to President Roosevelt at the beginning of World War II, advising him to give government aid to develop­ ing nuclear weapons, because he had heard that the Nazis were working on their own atomic bomb. We all know the horrifying results of this A-bomb, and no one felt worse about the destruction it caused than Albert Einstein. But we must also give him credit for opening the door to today’s nuclear reactor, which is gradually becoming one of our major

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Yes, Albert Einstein was a genius. But he also was without orthodox religion. He believed in a God who was in control of the absolute law and order of nature, but “not in a God who concerns himself with the fates and notions of human beings.” As Christians we can appreciate some of his work in the theories of physics, but not his beliefs, or lack of beliefs, in religion. While Einstein and his fellow scientists argue about the origin of the world, we can thank our God for all the beauties of His wondrous creation. It has been said somewhere along the line that there are only twelve people in the world who really understand Einstein’s theory of relativity.

But just because we are not among the twelve, we need not feel ashamed. For we understand what is more important-that as children of God we have salvation through His Son, Jesus Christ.

DAVID HUEBNER

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(T^t was 2:00 o’clock in the afternoon. The shades were pulled down almost to the bottom of the window. A small stream of light filtered through the shades as it became the stairway of hundreds of dust particles dancing their way across the bedroom. In the kingsized brass bed the rays of light converged on

the husky form which lay there. The light crept steadily up the blankets ’til it found its rest on the bristly face of this sleeping man. Wally tried to pull the blankets over his head, but that didn’t help. He knew it was time anyhow, so he might as well get up. With a deep yawn Wally pulled the covers back and sat up. He 14

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reached over to the bedpost and pulled his trousers off it by their black suspenders. As he knelt down to pick up his socks from under the bed, he noticed the smell of fresh fish being fried in the kitchen.

“Erna, don’t burn the fish!” Wally loved to tease his wife. Erna knew just how to take the teasing too, slic’d come right back with a quip of her own. Today was no different.

“Oh, Wally, don’t you worry If I burn anything, it’ll be those stinky socks of yours.”

“Well, that’s the way it is when I’m on my feet all day; the feet take the beating.”

“1 think the department should chip in and buy you a year’s supply of good work socks then.”

Wally pushed open the swinging door to the kitchen and entered. He went to the faucet and drew a long, cool drink of water.

“Ah, that’s the best drink ever made, good ol’ water.”

Now he put down his glass and quietly stepped up behind Erna, who was busy frying at the stove. He reached out and pinched his wife firmly on the behind.

“Is that you Wally?” was all she said, with a sneaky grin on her face.

“Well, it ain’t Franklin D. Roosevelt!”

Wally put his arms around Erna and gave her a long hug. Then he reached down and snitched a piece of fried perch from the pan.

“Boy, that was good,” he said as he went into the pantry. Reaching up over the counter, he grabbed a stale, half-empty bag of Geiscr's potato chips. Next he got a butter knife and with a dab of butter made himself a potato chip sandwich. Erna set the table and they sat down to eat. Both folded their hands and prayed.

darkies were foolin’ around in the alley and I had to break it up. They were playing craps, I guess, but one musta been losing pretty bad ’cause they got to wrastlin’ around. I heard ’em, so I went and broke ’em up. I didn’t have to take ’em in though, just told ’em to stay off my beat.”

“Well, I’m glad you weren’t hurt. By the way, we got a letter from ElRoy this morning.

He’s in Guam.”

“Yeah? Why don’t you read it to me.”

Erna got up and walked into the living room to get the letter. Just as she picked up the letter, the door slammed in the kitchen and in walked Art, their 12 year old son.

“Hi, Pa, how’s it goin’?”

“O.K., sit down.”

“What for, pa? I didn’t do nothing’.”

“I didn’t say ya did anything, did I? I just said sit down.”

Erna reentered the room with the letter and began to read it to Wally and Arthur.

ElRoy, their oldest child, was serving in the Navy on a minesweeper in the Pacific. ElRoy had enlisted after he graduated from high school in 1941. He never failed to write home frequently to keep the family in touch with his situation. The letter began...

Dear Ma, Pa, Arthur and Maesy, I hope this letter finds you in good health and with God's blessings. I'm writing this letter in my rack at about 3 a.m. It’s been pretty quiet around here tonite, but I just can’t sleep so I thought I’d drop you guys a line. We’ve been stationed here for two weeks now. When we first arrived there was quite a bit of shelling going on, but now it’s pretty well calmed down. 1 think we’ve beaten the Japs back pretty well, but they’re still hiding out in those caves on the island I guess.

Marines are still getting killed every day try­ ing to smoke 'em out of those caves. We’re pretty busy finding mines in this harbor.

Those Japs sure left us with a mess.

“Come, Lord Jesus, be our guest, and let these gifts to us be blessed. Amen.”

They ate their meal as they enjoyed each other’s company. It had been a long night on the beat last night, and Wally enjoyed sharing some time with Erna for a quiet meal.

“How did it go last night?” Erna started.

“Oh, all right I guess. We had a little trouble down by Schuster’s but nothing too bad.”

“Did you have to use your gun?”

“No, just the billy club. A couple of

Well, enough about me. How’s everybody back home? Is Art behaving? Is Mae still in school? 1 sure hope you and Pa are feeling good. I miss ya and I wish I were there. I realize though that this is where I should be right now. The Lord is taking good care of me and soon this war will be over and we’ll 15

all be back together again. Well, I’m sending some money home for you to buy Ma that electric stove she’s been wanting and Arthur a nice toboggan. I’ll be sending more later for Pa’s gift and one for my little sister Maesy too.

Well, I guess I better sign off for now ’cause I gotta be on duty soon and I do need some sleep. Take care and God Bless!

Loads of love, ElRoy P.S. Like the song says, “I’ll be home for Christmas, if only in my dreams!”

Ema folded the letter gently and tucked it back into the envelope. Her hands trembled slightly as she did so.

Wally sat in his chair with his hands on his lap. Arthur looked up from the table and sneaked a glance at his Ma and Pa. For a long time no one spoke. Then Wally broke the silence.

“Fold your hands!” He bowed his head and prayer, “Oh, give thanks unto the Lord, for He is good and His mercy endures forever. Amen.”

Art sheepishly looked toward his Pa and asked, “Pa, can we get my toboggan today?” Wally looked over to Ema and after a moment he laughed consentingly.

“I guess so. You and your mother can go down by Mitchell Street and see what you can get. But I’d better get going to work, or the Sarge will be calling to see what’s become of me.”

Ema smiled and handed Wally his gun and holster as he got up to put on his blue woolen police jacket. He buckled the size 44 belt and pinned on his badge proudly.

“Tell Mae to be home early tonite.

She’s only 16 years old anyway, not 21.

There’s too many hoodlums out at night around here for her to be traipsing around so late.”

With that statement he put on his rough, fatherly face and moved toward the door. He stopped and turned to kiss his wife goodbye. Then he tapped Arthur on the head and said, “Be good now and mind your mother.”

“I will,” promised Art with his fingers

firmly crossed behind his back and mis­ chief written all over Ills face.

“Be careful, honey,” reminded Ema. “1*11 wait up for you tonite.”

Wally closed the door and walked down the stairs and out past the ash cans to his blue ’34 Buick. He carefully backed the car out into the alley and slowly drove away. As he drove, he kept looking down at the silver-banded moonstone ring on his right hand. It had been a gift from his sailor-son. It was made by hand by a native in the Philippine Islands. Wally couldn't help humming that familiar melody, “I’ll be home for Christmas.” Big tears began to well up in those loving eyes, and he had to wipe his face with his handker­ chief several times before he reached the precinct station.

Wally pulled into the station parking lot and, finding his usual spot, parked his car. He pulled on his hat and went into the station. But when he got inside he noticed something very strange. The whole office was pandemonium. There were papers floating down from the ceiling and every­ body was laughing and singing. Grown officers were dancing in the hallway and paper airplanes whizzed through the air.

Wally grabbed one of the officers by the sleeve.

“What the heck is going on?” The officer turned with a grin and slapped Wally on the back.

“Haven’t you heard yet? The Japs just surrendered, ain’t it great?”

Wally blinked, “Could it be so?” He was stunned for a moment. The idea was so immense. Then he turned and ran to the phone booth. He fumbled for a nickel as he began to dial. He must tell Ema. A thousand thoughts raced through his head in the moment it took to place the call. Then, as if drawn by a magnet, his eyes spied a small gold star in a window in a house across the street from the station. It was the sign of the loss of a member of that household in the war. Wally choked back tears of both sadness and joy. His family had been lucky. It was finally over and ElRoy was coming home, maybe even in time for Christmas.

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^f/^arm weather (at last) appears on our campus and along with it, spring sports.

For a while it seemed that the snow and ice would never leave, but by the end of Easter break the last remnants of the Winter Carnival snow sculptures had finally disappeared.

as MSOE cruised to an easy 5-0 victory.

MBBC 10/2 NWC 3/7 On April 21 the Crusaders from Maranatha took the quick trip across town to meet the Trojans. Defensive trouble in the first game again led to our downfall. Maranatha jumped out to a quick 6-1 lead and, despite a home run

by Pete Kiecker, the Crusaders were never challenged. The Trojans captured the tail end of the doubleheader as they sealed up their defensive play. Three bases-loaded walks by Maranatha sealed their fate as the Trojans went on to win 7-2. Denny Himm sparked the offense by going 3-for-4 and freshman Steve Soukup picked up his, and the team’s, first victory.

BASEBALL The baseball team was perhaps affected the most by the cold weather, since indoor practice space is extremely limited. This year's team boasts eight lettermen who should form a strong nucleus for the team. The pitching staff lacks experience and depth, with Jim Jankc and Fred Krieger the only returning lettermen, but there are some good looking rookies.

MSOE 3/5 NWC 2/0

Marquette 8/4 NWC 4/0

After only two days of outdoor practice, the Trojans ran up against defending con­ ference champs MSOE. Jim Janke received the starting nod and pitched a solid three-hitter, only to absorb the loss as three unearned runs scored in the final inning. In the second game, the cold Milwaukee breeze silenced the Trojans

Baseball wasn’t meant to be played in Milwaukee before June, as fog, rain and a 40° temperature hampered play all afternoon.

Marquette handled the situation better and swept two games from the Trojans. Errors again plagued the Trojans as they slipped and 17

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Rebuilding is the key word for the tennis team this year since only two lettermen are returning. The team consists of: senior, Dave Huebner; juniors Bruce Bitter and Dan Balge; sophomores Pete Zietlow and Joel Peterman; and freshmen Carl Balge, Paul Birsching, and Matt Crass.

After a warmup match with the Carroll JV’s which the Trojans won 5-2, the NWC netters traveled to Appleton for the Lawrence Invitational. The Trojans ran into some stiff competition and were able to salvage only two matches.

In their first head-to-head competition the Trojans blitzed Lakeland 7-2. Zietlow, Bitter, Huebner and both Balges took their singles matches, and Zietlow-Bitter and Dan BalgeCarl Balge won their doubles matches.

GOLF Although the golf team lost four fine seniors, they have picked up a large crop of talented frosh. Six out of the eleven team members are freshmen. What could have been an off year may prove to be a promising one.

Because of their lack of experienced players, the team may start out slowly but should im­ prove rapidly as the year progresses.

TRACK There is more depth on this year’s team as eighteen track men turned out for Prof.

Hahm’s first year as head coach. After a few indoor warmup meets at Carroll College, the team headed for Concordia-River Forest on April 7. Although the team took fourth, the mile relay team (K. Mueller, Gieschen, Beck, and T. Spaude) and Jack Kelley (High Jump) took firsts. The Trojans also placed strong in the 440 as Beck, Mueller, and Goldschmidt took second, third, and fifth.

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At De Pere on April 28, the team fared somewhat better in their triangular with St. Norbert and Michigan Tech. Even though they had no firsts, the Trojans scored many points on seconds. Dan Marshall took second in the discus, Eric Zimmerman in the shot put, John Beck in the javelin, Phil Gieschen in the 440 hurdles, and the mile relay team also came in second. The team returned to St. Norbert College that Saturday for a six-team invitation­ al. This time around, however, the Trojans only managed a second in the 400 meter relay.

The UW-Whitewater Invitational on April 24 proved to be too much for the mis­ matched Trojans as they finished last to UW-Whitewater, UW-Oshkosh, UW-Stevens Point, etc.

in second with five losses. Harry’s team has now won three straight intramural champion­ ships and are the favorites in softball!!! You other captains take heart; Harry loses a lot to graduation.

We would like to take this opportunity to congratulate the fans and athletes of the senior class. For four or five years they have been actively supporting and participating here at school, helping to keep the sports traditions at NWC going.

Since this is this year’s last edition, it is time to remember that fall sports will be ready to get underway as soon as we get back. It should be an exciting fall, with two conference champs defending their titles. The football team, fresh off an 8-1 season, will be sporting an offense that has ten out of eleven starters back. The soccer team (9-1-1) will also be defending their WCSC championship with a strong group of returnees. It should be a great fall -see you then!

INTRAMURALS In volleyball, the team captained by Harry Acker (NWC’s version of the Wizard of Westwood) captured the coveted shirts with only one loss. Dan Marshall’s frosh team came

RICH GURGEL

The Five-Year Vocation Plan

continues to pop up every now and then, it may be interesting to know how a “FiveYear Vacation Plan Special” views his past “vacation.”

My year off was preceded by the all too typical confusion of a college freshman. We all have many periods in our lives when we don’t know the answer to a pressing question.

K /lost Northwestern students are familiar with 'V’terms like “Five-Year Special,” “FourYear Special,” or the “Five-Year Plan.” But what shall we call the educational meanderings of someone who doesn’t survive four or five consecutive years of study? For want of a better term let’s call it the “Five-Year Vacation Plan.” Because the urge to “take a year off’ 19

The coveted decision can elude us for quite some time. That’s what seems to make the last years of high school and the first year of college so difficult for so many people. During those years we have to decide, “What will I do with my life?” Students at Northwestern can’t help but realize that theirs is not a takeit-or-leave-it choice. The seriousness of the next step down life’s road is staggering.

Things might not be so depressing if there weren’t so many other things to think about.

Sadly enough, our natural desire to make a comfortable living often helps cloud the pic­ ture. Then there are the parents, friends, and relatives back home who can’t understand why anyone with intelligence would waste it on the ministry. Who really wants to lead such a dull life anyway? Why not have the limelight without the pressures? Meanwhile, the grass on the other side of the fence seems to grow greener and greener.

If my case is a typical one, it’s about the time when a person decides there is no place on earth he would rather be, than away from

Northwestern, that he begins to talk about “needing time off to think.” For some it goes no further than talk. A few, however, find it easy to make the necessary arrangements for their “vacation.”

The circumstances of the year off naturally vary with the individual. The outcome, how­ ever, can only be one of two things. Either the man returns to Northwestern, or he doesn’t.

What has happened in the past will probably not come as a surprise to anyone. During the 1975-76 school year an unusual exodus from Northwestern occurred. Some men left for academic reasons, to be married, for disci­ plinary reasons, or to enter different occupa­ tions. But the most frequent single reason for requesting permission to leave was “Career Indecision.” Of the twenty men who were in that group only four have returned. Apparently our school doesn’t gain much appeal from an outside perspective.

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And there is no real relief from pressures either. Everyone out there has his own set of worries and problems. They don’t have morning and evening chapel devotions to pro­ vide guidance and strength.

One change in perspective may not be noticeable until after a student’s return. If he had entertained any notions that he was a better candidate for the ministry than his classmates at Northwestern, he would see him­ self more clearly after a year away. Every individual in the class ahead of him when he returned would be living proof that the prob­ lems and pressures of Northwestern aren’t insurmountable. They would be the men who had faced their frustrations and returned in spite of them. If anyone doesn’t deserve to be at this school of the prophets, it’s men like me who once put their hand to the plow and then looked back, A man’s personal weakness isn’t the only thing that confronts him when he spends a year among the workingmen. The workaday world is teeming with daily evidences of an urgent need for the very Savior whom the “vacationer” hesitates to preach. Men are searching, some of them frantically, for the

my former classmates enroll at the Seminary next fall could seem to some to be just cause for retrospective disappointment. But permit me to become rather personal here and explain why this is not the case.

My “vacation” was an answer to the guidance I was seeking. The Lord heard my prayers as I spoke with my parents, pastor, and other mature, well-established adults who could help me with some levelheaded advice.

It was not a hasty decision. There had to be time for the Lord to speak to me in His Word on Sunday and in private devotions. The thought that most men who take a year off don't return was constantly on my mind. But when it came time to decide, the answer was there. The Lord’s will was done.

That year has become for me a very vivid illustration of God's patience. There was no evident reason for the doubts that plagued me. The Lord had richly blessed my freshman year at Northwestern. Yet it was more of an adjustment to college life and new personal circumstances than I expected. When August rolled around and I looked back at the past school year, I found that Northwestern had become a scene I couldn’t face. It became more and more apparent that serving the Lord as a happy layman might be more productive than moping along as a troubled pastor.

But I wasn’t alone in my confusion. We never arc. God’s strength is made perfect in our weakness. And when we find ourselves at rock bottom without any idea of where to go, His answers to our cries for help show us how true this is. The Lord shaped the events of those months to help me up again. On one occasion He spoke to me in His Word with a message that my pastor hadn't even intended to direct to me. He shook me with the thought that if we don't use the talents the Lord has given us, we soon lose them. My reluctance to go was reason enough for Him to take away my talents. In this too He showed His mercy.

One cannot come away from such an ex­ perience without a much different view of things. It doesn’t take long to realize that the grass is usually browner out there than it sometimes looks at Northwestern. A fortyhour work week leaves little time for much else. Many who leave the school to think and

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message he could be bringing if only he would trust the Lord to carry him to the work and support him once he begins it. It makes one rather uncomfortable to watch men stumbling hopelessly in the dark when he has no other reason for not turning on the light of the Gospel except irresolution.

The Lord, however, doesn’t need to stop at simply directing a wayward student back to school. He isn’t compelled to settle for messen­ gers who go where He sends them out of fear, or because of a guilty conscience about doing secular work instead. Fear which once smother­ ed desire the Holy Spirit replaces with trust to follow willingly where He leads. Weak knees are made strong. Stammering tongues speak plainly. And eight long years of study begin to appear an extremely inadequate period of preparation for carrying such precious news.

Because so few men return from taking a year out to think, the immensity of the risk should be clear. Once a student has departed after spending some time on this campus, what guarantee does he have that the oppor­ tunity to come back will ever present itself again? God was never bound to give us the privilege of full-time service in His Kingdom to begin with. A second chance may never come.

The story is told of a man who sat in his pastor’s office weeping. He was sixty-five years old and ready to retire—a cause for celebra­ tion to many. But he looked back over his life with sadness. The road to the ministry had once lay open before him. For no justifiable reason he had walked the other way into a life which seemed to him at present to be a total waste. His pastor could do little more than point out the ways in which he served his Lord as a layman. A portion of his life still remained to use for his Savior. But the regret could never be completely erased. Such a gentleman would readily urge us to face those latter years of our lives now while we stand at the crossroads.

He would agree that it is better to be indeci­ sive about one’s future while moving toward the highest of callings than to be going no particular direction at all.

Although the Lord’s patience may allow a

person to experience the elation of returning to Northwestern, he will have new crosses to bear.

It may be very difficult to concentrate on studying after a time away. He will be a stranger to the half of the student body which enrolled during his absence. His former class­ mates will already seem two years closer to their goal. But to be a year behind them won’t be as much of a loss to him as it will be for the congregation which must wait one more year before a man is ready to feed their hungry souls.

It’s not to be expected that these observa­ tions will make men jump for joy at the thought of coming back to Northwestern next fall. For many this big decision is too real to brush off in a minute or two But if it con­ tinues to weigh heavy on you, please consider this. As heirs of God’s kingdom we enjoy the privilege and the responsibility to live our lives for our Savior who bought us with His blood. He rightly tells us, “You are not your own.” His instruction is the same to layman and pastor alike: ‘Whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.” Hearts filled with faith would like nothing better.

Because He understands that we often don’t know how to serve Him, He tells us to pray for His guidance. His promise is especially comforting for us who, like David in Psalm 32, don’t know which way to turn. The one who secs all time at a glance says, “I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you and watch over you.” When He bids us pray, ‘‘Thy will be done,” He also promises to give us the hearts we need to accept that will cheerfully and even joyfully.

No one can answer the big question for us.

The Lord has given each of us one life to use for Him. Whether we reach the pulpit or occupy a pew, He guarantees success if we stay close to Him in His Word. If the Lord leads a man to be a layman, he need never be ashamed that he left Northwestern. But if He will give us the ministry, let nothing stop us from reach­ ing that highest goal.

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bleachers just in time for the coeds’ cheerlead­ ing tryouts.

Arbor Day has sneaked up on us and gone amid complaints from some of the juniors that a few of the crews were stacked. But at least we can use the west door of the Chapel-Arts building again. Whew! The stench hovering around that area was eliminated when a crew uncovered a cache of curing Iutefisk hidden nearby. The rake handles bent like divining rods. All campus Scandinavians are under surveillance, as are the local anglers who hung their stringer from the bell tower. We take umbrage to think that they could possibly mistake our monument for a fish cleaning shack.

Not only late, this spring has been wet also, a meteorological cliche that has caused some difficulties, especially for those using the outdoor athletic facilities. Lifeguard Steve Witte has been asked to supervise all matches on the southern-most tennis court. No inflatable toys, running, or throwing sand is allowed. All intramural softball games will last one hour, or seven innings, or whenever a team has lost four players in the right field quagmire, whichever comes first. One of the teams in the heated race for the shirts has recently signed on the

The crocuses first unfurl the buds of new-born spring the lawns stretch and yawn to have their backs scratched again.

The dainty April drizzle stains the sidewalks’ colored mesh with buds and leaves and hecatombs of trodden smashed worm flesh.

Yes, spring is finally upon us. The tell­ tale signs are everywhere. “La Machine” is all tuned up and has already won the starting pole position for the Mudwhuppy Memorial Five Hundred, even though the janny pit-crew took time out to do a little landscaping. The crows have left, driven off the the Chefs longing eyes after hamburger hit SI.75 a pound, and the cedar waxwings haven’t yet returned in force. The sun-worshippers, though, are out in force, trying to catch the best angle of the golden rays to unravel their bodies. Steve Olson took to his favorite spot on the football

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The most puzzling question, however, that comes up every spring, is “What is the purpose of that most myterious machine in the janitor­ ial stable, that cylindrical apparatus with finger­ like projections that they tow around campus punching little holes in the ground?” Specula­ tion has produced a number of answers, such as: the jannies are prospecting for buried wal­ nuts left by the squirrels; they arc making those little packed pellets of dirt so we have something to throw at each other walking to and from the cafeteria until the trees begin bearing berries again; or perhaps to provide escape holes for straying worms returning after a night fling in the rain. Yet the most plausible answer comes from a member of the dorm staff who adamantly believes that the jannies arc about to begin planting cigars.

By now you’re probably wondering how we ever got to be C & C writers, so here go our qualifications: We think wc can safely say that, other than our own occasional buffoonery, neither of us has had any real experience what­ soever in writing such a humorous extravaganza as the C&C (encouraging isn’t it?). Mr. Carter, hailing from the land of notorious frisbee throwers, was wondering whether the faculty would accept him, but E. Allen Sorum said it was okay, so apparently the Madman is in. Mr. Dose, coming from the land of Andrew Burfeind, quickly gained the approval of the faculty after his eloquent recitation of a few of Pindar’s lyrics.

Also, both of us were runners up in the Francis Schaeffer look-a-like contest, having been surpassed only by a member of the faculty who, although he wears no knickers and his beard is not yet gray, is more intellec­ tually suited and has the gestures down pat. It seems that we do have the attention of at least one authority on comedy, as we unsuspectedly ran across in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream: The lunatic.. .and the poet.

Are of imagination all compact.

One secs more devils than vast hell can hold; That is the madman...

And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. (Act V, Scene I)

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on Tutor Kuerth too much, since his graduat­ ing class did vote him Most Likely To Recede.)

How about a fine for using student desk chairs in the dean’s office or tutors’ rooms? Other fines could be for posting the minutes late, being absent or tardy to meetings, letting the jannies loose in the halls before 7:55 a.m., or for ordering any more Jerry Lewis flicks for movie night.

At a recent canteen committee meeting a new schedule was drawn up for next year. As has been obvious to any Wittenberg dormers afflicted with the chronic grumbling munchies.

Voss’s gastronomical dispensary of gourmet delights has been operating this past year with somewhat erratic hours. The punctuality of our dear departed Schlitz is sorely missed as hunger-craven connoisseurs of the junk food cuisine rumble their discontent over the housephoncs when the posted time says “feed bag,” but the locked canteen says “chew on the furniture.” Things seem to be straightened out for next year, however, as the following new schedule will begin and be adhered to con­ scientiously, thereby dispelling any confusion whatsoever.

With this prophetic literary blessing we accept the challenge of C & C confidently-our one year mission: to explore strange new chortles, to seek out new laughs and new cachinnations, to joke boldly where no bloke has joked before. . .Whoosh. . .Ooh ooh, ooh ooh ooh ooh ooooh.. .

The one thing we do have in common is the “special” distinction of being five-year men in our junior year. However, it seems we are being left behind by most of our Junior Gentiles as they arc dropping like flies with each new engagement. After Lonnquist, Salzwcdcl, Cornell, McKenncy, and Rawerts, that’s five out of eight, which leaves only the two of us and Buffalo Bob Smith-thc three Great Pyramids. On second thought, even the pyramids have started to crumble; perhaps we should use a more lithic analogy.

Otts, the new efficient young editor that he is, thought of a much more ccomonic way to publish the B&R. Next year it will be mimeographed and posted on the bulletin boards of both dorms and classroom buildings.

Also Otts was having quite a time trying to think up a catchy name for his editorial column, so we came up with a few suggestions for titles of our own: Ink Otts Otts and Tittles Too Ott to Handle Polka Otts When You re Ott You 're Ott Ott to be Going Ott to Trott Ott to be Enough Some Like it Ott Sowing Wild Otts

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Tuesday through Friday A.M. ................ 9:45 to 9:55 (When the key can be found.)

3:30 to 3:45 Monday through Firday P.M. (Unless there are intramural football or softball games, in which case the canteen will be opened briefly between alternate quarters or innings.

Afternoon canteen will be closed on February 2nd for Ground Hog’s Day.) Monday A.M........................

7:50-55-8:00-05-10-15 to 8:30 (On Wednesdays and Fridays of every other week following a full moon that happens to fall on a Saturday, except during Leap Year when all days are rotated a quarter turn toward Canis Major, the canteen will stay open ten minutes longer than the reciprocal of Norm Burger’s birth date.)

With the ever-threatening arm of justice hanging over us in the form of Dorm Council fines, and as each violation is lucidly described in the D. C. minutes, it seems that no one is safe from yellow journalism on our campus.

We thought of some D. C. fines we’d like to see administered, and if the D. C. really got hard up for cash, they could use some of these on each other. For instance, the secretary could be fined for slander and defamation of charac­ ter. Or, any member of the council could be fined for wearing his hairline too far back on his forehead. (Now, I guess we shouldn’t pick

@10:00 ad infinitum, or ten minutes after the last pizza is ordered, whichever comes first.

(If intramurals conflict, this time will be pushed back one or two hours, and if the Duraclean van breaks down, add on another fortyfive minutes. Occasionally pizza is served on the second floor stair landing in Wittenberg. See Tom Rawerts for details and bring a fork.)

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On Monday and Thursday nights when the canteen inadvertently remains closed, a case of Tidy-Nap Dispenser Napkins will be left out for those who would like to exchange their linens.

And so “Campus and Classroom’’ of Volume 83 slowly eases into port after its maiden voyage. Not to be ended so soon, how-

ever, since we felt that in honor of the special Alumni day coming up we would like to add a little something to the festivities. After playing with several ideas, we decided to publish a special NWC-Day Supplement of old classic articles of recurring interest from past volumes of the B & R. Because of the production delay you will have to wait around on campus for a week after graduation to pick up your copy.

Some of the reprinted articles include: Kindergarten-Does Watertown Need One? In Defense of Saturday Morning Classes Shall We Ban the Six O'clock Reveille?

Ragtime Music -The Devil's Handmaiden What’s Wrong with 210 Credit Hours?

Off Campus Leaves—A Modest Proposal Should We Drop Tenth Year Latin?

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can lie beneath the heading “Deaths” or “Retirements” for the alumni editor? It just isn't fair.

Anyhow, for the fans of this column, it’s now under new management. Many thanks to all the contributors for getting their responses in on such short notice; anyone is encouraged to contribute if he hears any synod news.

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City, OK, just celebrated its 10th anniversary.

Its pastor is Rev. Paul Knickelbein (’42).

-On March 18 the 100th anniversary of St. Matthew’s, Freeland, MI, was observed.

Its pastor is R. Holtz (’37).

—St. Mark’s of Flat Rock, MI, celebrated its 25th anniversary on March 11. Rev. Edgar Herman (’58) serves as its pastor.

-Rev. Conrad Frey (’35), who currently serves as president of Dr. Martin Luther College, observed his 40th anniversary in the ministry on April 22.

CALLS -Rev. James Naumann (’69) of St. Mark’s Sterling Heights, MI, has accepted a call to Trinity, Temple, TX. He will be installed on June 3 of this year.

-Rev. William Russow (’63) was installed at Faith Lutheran Parish, Faith, SD, on April 13. He formerly served Our Savior at Freeport, IL. -Rev. Donald Dengler (’66), formerly of St. John’s, Cornell, WI, was installed at Winnett, MT, on April 6.

—Rev. Larry Zwieg (’59) from Redeemer, Merritt Island, FL, was installed as Associate Executive Secretary for the General Board for Home Missions on April 19, 1979.

-Rev. Louis Sicvcrt (’67) former pastor of Christ our Redeemer, Denver, CO, accepted a call to Grace Lutheran, Sioux City, IA. He was installed on January 28, 1979.

-Rev. Jerome Endcrle (’69) of Redeemer Lutheran, Council Bluffs, IA, accepted a call to Christ Lutheran, Grand Island, NE. He was installed on April 29, 1979.

-Rev. Paul H. Wilde (’49), who served as Dean of Students, NLA, was just installed as pastor of Salem, Escanaba, MI, on May 5.

-Rev. John Vogt (’67) of Jacksonville, FL, is being installed at Emmanuel First of Lansing, MI, this month.

—Rev. Gary Richmond (’70), from South Dakota, received a call from Divine Grace of Lake Orion, MI. -Rev. Norval Kock (’48) of First German, Manitowoc, accepted a call to St. John’s, New Ulm, MN. He has not yet been installed.

-Rev. William Kirchner (’68) of Woodville, WI, accepted a call to Grace, Ringle, WI. -Rev. Robert Krueger (’68) from Mandan, ND, accepted the call to teach at MLPS, Prairie du Chicn, WI. -Rev. Robert Sawall, presently serving in Lubbock, TX, will be commissioned for Indonesia on June 10, 1979.

DEDICATIONS -A new church, Shepherd of the Plains in Lubbock, TX, was dedicated on May 6. Its pastor is Rev. Robert Sawall.

-Good Shepherd Church of West Bend, WI, dedicated a new church, gym, and a remodeled school on April 29, 1979.

-Resurrection in Aurora, IL, dedicated its education building on April 22, 1979.

-A new school was dedicated by St. Mark’s Lutheran of Lincoln, NE, on April 22. Pastor Kenneth Bode (’66) serves as its pastor.

-The dedication of the remodeling of St. John/St. James, Recdsville. WI, was cele­ brated on May 6. Rev. Harlyn Kuschel (’67) is its pastor.

- Cross of Glory, Washington, MI, just dedicated its church. Rev. S. Valleskey is its pastor.

-Abiding Word, of Orleans, Ontario, dedicated its church on January 21, 1979, with Rev. D. Priebe (’70) as its pastor.

-Grace of God, Long Island, NY, dedi­ cated its parsonage on January 14. Paul Schweppe (’70) serves as its pastor.

ENGAGEMENTS -William Stuebs (’70), Trinity, Cambellsport, WI, was engaged to Carol Bauer, a teacher at St. Luke’s, Oakfield, WI. -Robert Meiselwitz (’75) is engaged to Cynthia Akright of Benton Harbor, MI.

ANNIVERSARIES

DEATHS

-Gethsemene Ev. Lutheran of Oklahoma

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April 3, 1979, at St. Petersburg, FL. He had retired after having served 47 years in the ministry. He was buried at Zion Lutheran, East Farmington, WI.

ember 16, 1978. Rev. D. Hartley (’71) serves as its pastor.

KURT EBERT

RETIREMENTS —Rev. Edwin Weiss (’37), who formerly served St. Paul’s, Neosho, WI, retired from the active ministry on April 22, 1979.

-Rev. Karl Krauss (’18) retired from his ministry at Emanuel First of Lansing, MI, after 58 years of service in the same congre­ gation.

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BIRTHS -A daughter was bom to Pastor Steve Degner (’69) and his wife on April 9. She is their second child.

-Andrea Gail, bom to Pastor and Mrs. Elton Stroh (’74) on December 2, 1978, in Kansas City, MO. -Sarah Louise, bom to Pastor and Mrs. Vergil Micheel (’67) on November 12, 1978, at Burke, SD. -Elisabeth Marie was born to Pastor and Mrs. Roger Wahl (’72) on January 9, 1979, at Mission, SD. -Michelle Lynn was bom to Pastor and Mrs, Larry Lemke (’71) on March 1, 1979, in Greeley, CO. —Sarah Elizabeth was bom to Pastor and Mrs. Norris Baumann (’73) on March 11, at Winner, SD. —Rev. and Mrs. Gary Pieper (’68) were blessed with the gift of a daughter, Cari Ellen, on January 16 in El Paso, TX.

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-The re-dedication of Garden of Gethsemane, Omaha, NE, was observed on Nov-

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s the summer of 1865 drew to a close, a small Lutheran college under the jurisdiction of the Wisconsin Synod opened its doors for the first time at the comer of College and Western Avenues in its newly erected facility. Hopes were high on that fourteenth day of September as the dedi­ catory services were conducted, but none could have been higher than those of Adam Martin as he began his short term as president of the “Lutheran College in Watertown.”

President Martin was a man with a dream—a dream of a great university in Watertown. In one of his early advertise­ ments Martin states that “the university offers opportunities for a thorough and complete course of college education equal to any in the land.” As evidence of these expectations the name "Northwestern University” was chosen. (At first “Wisconsin University” was proposed.)

Reality, however, had other plans for the future of this school. Monetary troubles forced Martin to concentrate his efforts almost solely on keeping the college from failing as his dream slowly faded. Adam Martin agreed reluctantly with the Synod that the main purpose of the college which it supported should be to fill the pulpits of the Synod so desperately lacking clergy.

Nevertheless, as former president E. E. Kowalke points out in Centennial Story, it was Martin’s belief that “the college should produce men who can without shame or embarrassment take their place alongside the best in the land.”

One hundred and ten years later, one could speculate as to what Adam Martin might think were he able to return to the college today. When he left the college in 1869, he felt his dream of a great institution of learning was not compatible with the Synod’s goal of an institution training pastors for the church.

Though today this school’s sole purpose is to train pastors for the Lutheran Church, and though our college is still small, yet it fulfills one of its earliest goals, namely, “a thorough and complete education equal to any in the land.”

Martin’s dream and the Synod’s goal live on together. We should thank God that one hundred and fifteen years after the school’s opening neither of these two objectives is com­ promised for the sake of the other. That is why today North­ western College plays an important role in producing some of the most thoroughly trained and best-educated pastors in the country.

TIMOTHY BUELOW

THE BLACK AND RED SEPTEMBER 1979, Volume 83, No. 2

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next class. The problem has been minor, though, and there hasn’t been an overabun­ dance of tardiness.

From the students’ point of view there arc some advantages and some disadvantages.

The school day is no longer spread out through the entire morning and until 3:15 in the after­ noon. The latest that students are in class is

^-Oast spring amid moans and groans of sleepy ' “seniors to be,” the faculty proposed and adopted a new class schedule for future years at Northwestern. When all other explanations failed, the unanimous conclusion was that the new class schedule would better prepare stu­ dents for the coming Sem schedule. After a couple of weeks of “new schedule reality,” we have an opportunity to weigh its value on an objective balance.

The first question that arises is: “Is the new schedule serving its purpose?” The two major purposes put forth are 1) to promote a more prompt attendance record for the prac­ tice sessions of band and chorus and 2) to prevent the log jam in the cafeteria over the noon hour, which has often been the cause of the tardiness. The new schedule eliminates the noon hour as such, and allows students to eat dinner during free periods which exist be­ tween 11:20 A.M. and 1:00 P.M. The first purpose has been met well. There has been no problem with tardiness at band and chorus practice sessions, now scheduled at 2:25 each day except Friday. The second purpose has also been served, although somewhat less adequately. The lines for dinner are by no means as long as they used to be, extending all the way out of the cafeteria door and fifty feet down the sidewalk. However, the line is still fairly long during the first of the three “lunch” free periods and some students have been slightly pressed for time to get to their 38

2:30 P.M. (disregarding band and chorus), and often a person has only morning classes with the afternoon free. Although some may look on this with disfavor, because it means studying at night instead of during a free period immediately before class, I believe the majority of the students enjoy the free after­ noons. Some will also complain that they des­ perately need that extra fifteen minutes of

sleep (classes now start at 7:45 A.M.), or that band and chorus are more of a drag in the last period of the day than they were as a break in the middle of the day. Yet, I think the pros outweigh the cons and the new schedule has, for the most part, met with student approval.

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Their interests clash: the bourgeoisie wants to extract as large a profit as possible from their machines and workers, the proletariat wants as large a wage as possible from their employers. Communism believes in the even­ tual ascendancy of the proletariat over the bourgeoisie and dedicates itself to the fur­ therance of the proletarian cause.

Communists assign guilt to the bourgeoisie and wish to eradicate it. Marx accuses the bourgeois class of impoverishing the working class: “The average price of wage-labor is the minimum wage, i.e., that quantum of the means of subsistence, which is absolutely requisite to keep the laborer in bare existence as a laborer.” The communist views the bour­ geoisie as the source of all the evils in the world and wishes to eradicate them.

The founder of Soviet communism equated the bourgeois or capitalist class with insects: In his essay “How to Organize the Competition” (January 7 and 10,

\ A/hy do some people wrestle and sweat v with heavy barbells? They do it to strength­ en their muscles. The phenomenon of improv­ ing something through stress or practice exhibits itself in several areas of human exist­ ence, Third-graders memorize adding tables in order to become more facile at addition.

English students write compositions to learn by doing. Society also can act in this way.

Whether a government rules with a gentle touch or an iron hand can help determine the character of its people. The Soviet Union is a country where the government rules with an iron hand. As a result, Soviet communism acts as a character intensifier.

The character-intensifying nature of Soviet communism originates from the Marxist theory of class struggle. According to Marx, man is a product of his economic environment. There are two classes—the bourgeoisie, those who own the means of production, and the pro­ letariat, those who labor in the factories.

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The extension of the term “insect” expand­ ed through the years after the revolution.

At first it included only the former capi­ talists, but soon it began to include under­ productive laborers. When peasants rebelled in 1920 because they received no compen­ sation for crops taken from them, they were included in the term “insects.” Soon “criticism of the system” qualified one as an insect.

Eventaully, on account of the paranoid desire of the Soviet government to purify their

severe forms of harassment: “canceled disserta­ tions, annulled degrees, demotions, dismissals, expulsions, sometimes even deportations.” This purging has had different effects: at times it has improved character, at other times it has worsened it. Let us first examine those whose character became worse.

In his essay, “The Smatterers,” Alex­ ander Solzhenitsyn points out one charac­ ter flaw induced by years of communist reprcssion-“participation in the lie.” How could the years of Stalinist terror have arisen over 200 million people if there had been a degree of even passive resistance among the people? How can the repression of human

society from all bourgeois elements, the insects were found everywhere and shipped off to prisons and labor camps. At one time, Lazar Kogan, a labor camp commander, said this to a prisoner: “I believe that you personally were not guilty of anything. But, as an educated person, you have to understand that social prophylaxis was being widely applied!” “Social prophylaxis” referred to the practice of select­ ing insects at random in a neurotic hope of preventing counterrevolution.

This purging of insects has taken vari­ ous forms throughout Soviet history-ranging from death, hard labor, imprisonment and internment in a psychiatric hospital to less

rights continue at its present state in the Soviet Union? By “participation in the lie” Solzhenitsyn refers to the practice of looking the other way or even helping out when an innocent man is rushed off to jail or when someone’s human rights are abused.

The stool pigeons were one type of people that helped bring innocent people to jail.

Solzhenitsyn records an occurrence that took place while he was in the Lubyanka prison. He had shared a cell with some other prisoners and a stoolie named Geogi Kramarenko. When a newcomer, Viktor Alekseyevich Belov, was thrown into the cell, he had an unusual story about how he had thought that he was going to 40

forcing them to carry out their work with greater effort and creativity.

A type of literature in the Soviet Union known as “samizdat” gives us an indication of the effort that human rights activists there have to exert in order to keep their movement alive. The official media won’t publish material critical of Soviet society and reject other manuscripts if the authorities happen not to like them for some reason or other. So writers that the official media reject have to resort to “samizdat” if they want their work pub­ lished. “Samizdat” literally means “self-pub­ lishing.” It refers to the practice of spreading written material by receiving a manuscript, typing one’s own copy, and then passing the manuscript on for another to repeat the pro­ cess.

An example of a journal produced by “samizdat” is “A Chronicle of Current Events,” which records various violations of human rights in the U.S.S.R. Natalya Gorbanevskaya, the founder of the “Chronicle,” has this to say about the difficulty of the production of the journal: The incredible volume of information from the camps and prisons.. .is, of course, so precious that even I can never get used to it. Perhaps the West­ ern reader sees this as normal, perhaps he thinks that this information gets to us via some ordinary, official channel, by post-but know how difficult it is, how complex and almost impos­ sible, and how it reaches us thanks to the gigantic efforts of all the people involved. ..

become the Tsar of Russia in 1953. A certain man had come to his mother with a strange prophecy concerning her year-old son. Twentyseven years later, that same man drew Viktor aside and told him that he was going to be emperor. Viktor took him seriously and began to prepare for his job. He wrote a proclamation and read it to four of his fellow workers of the People’s Commissariat of Petroleum. Kramar­ enko was very attentive during this part. After Viktor’s story was finished, Kramarenko made an excuse to leave the cell and reported this information to the prison authorities. As a result of his informing, those four workers from the People’s Commissariat of Petroleum were arrested -merely for failing to turn in Viktor for his proclamation.

Besides turning some people into stool pigeons, the character-intensifying nature of Soviet communism made thieves more brazen.

In the second book of his Gulag Archipelago, Solzhenitsyn notes that the thieves were called “socially friendly” elements in the official terminology of the Soviet camp system.

Because the authorities considered the thieves as enemies of private property, they regarded them as the least harmful types of criminals, much less harmful than the political prisoners.

As a result the thieves had great power in the labor camps. They lived off what they stole from the other prisoners. They had a system where they could get off working during the day-they managed to get the output of other prisoners ascribed to them. Solzhenitsyn records the following instance of this occur­ rence: In 1951 at Oimyakon (Ust-Nera), the thief Krokhalyov was freed and took on a job as a coal miner at that same mine. He never even lifted a sledge, but the mine foreman recorded a record output for him-by stealing from the zeks [prisoners].

How different from our country this is! In the U.S., a writer can publish pornography or statements which severely castigate the govern­ ment with ease, but writers in the Soviet Union have to struggle to publish information concerning basic human freedoms.

In the “Afterword” to his Gulag Archipelago trilogy, Solzhenitsyn cites the effort he had to undertake in order to see his work to comple­ tion. He had to conceal his letters and materials, disperse them and do everything in secrecy.

He even had to camouflage the time he spent working on the book. The whole book never once lay on the same desk at the same time.

And he states, ‘The jerkiness of the book,

Krokhalyov had learned how to become a better thief because the Soviet authorities had considered the thieves as socially friendly elements and had given them free rein in the labor camps.

Soviet communism can bring out bad character, like theft; it can also enhance good character. By censoring the work of human rights activists, the Soviet government has enhanced the character of these activists by 41

its imperfections, are the true mark of our persecuted literature.”

Soviet persecution of human rights activists also takes other forms than censorship. Con­ sider the case of Malva Landa, a member of Helsinki Monitoring Group. (This is a group in the Soviet Union which monitors Soviet com­ pliance with the Helsinki agreement, an inter­ nationally signed document of basic human rights.) One day there was a mysterious fire in Landa’s apartment. Landa admitted that the fire might have resulted from a cigarette. But it was clear from the beginning that the trial was being conducted in a biased fashion.

Witnesses gave testimony concerning a film which Landa denied having in her possesion: one said it was dark in color, a second said it was black and white, a third said it was brown, and a fourth said it was yellow. Despite this and other discrepancies in the testimony, Malva was convicted of careless destruction of state property, fined 2,500 rubles and sentenced to two years in exile. The soviets also like to get rid of dissenters by placing them in psychiatric hospitals, as in the case of Vladimir Pavlovich Rozhdestov. The following is part of the trial transcript: Prosecutor: What other slanderous things did he say?

Voronin [a witnessl : That workers’ pay is low, that there is no meat or milk in the shops, that there are no rights like in the West, that some exhibition in Moscow was tom down, that the system of elections is undemocratic.

Prosecutor: In other words, he deni­ grated and slandered the Soviet way of life?

This transcript shows that the Soviet system cringes at a small amount of criticism. In this case it reacted by forcibly interning Rozhdes­ tov in a psychiatric hospital in connection with the diagnosis, “paranoid schizophrenic with delusions of reformism.”

In spite of efforts to silence them, human rights activists in the Soviet Union continue to do their work. The list of activists includes people like Andrei Sakharov, Igor Shafarevich and Evgeny Barabanov, who continue to appeal to the West, protest to the Soviet authorities and circulate “samizdat” in behalf of the persecuted.

Someone might say that there are also human rights activists in other countries—for example, the United States. But these activists, as concerned as they may be, lack what the Soviet activists have—a struggle. While Jane Fonda went to Hanoi and came back with hardly a slap on the wrist when the war in Vietnam was going strong, activists in Russia were losing their jobs and their freedoms for much less radical statements.

The character-intensifying nature of Soviet communism can also be seen in the case of Christians-a subset of the human rights acti­ vists, if you will. While Christians in the United States enjoy freedom of religion in theory and practice and are free to spread their mes­ sage to others, Christians in the Soviet Union must cope with a regime that considers religion an “opiate of the people.”

A ban against evangelization is contained

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When this article is examined in connection with another article which bans meetings for the teaching of religion, it becomes clear that Soviet law bans preaching directed towards unbelieving citizens or persons of other religions.

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Solzhenitsyn commented on this facet of Soviet society in his graduation address at ‘‘Life’s complexity and mortal Harvard: weight have produced stronger, deeper," and more interesting characters than those gener­ ated by standardized Western well-being.”

Personally, in the tradition of ‘‘standardized Western well-being,” I would prefer watching television to laboring in a Soviet camp, but the Soviet citizen in the labor camp has this to say for himself: his character has gone through a refinery.

1973 Zoya Petrovna Radygina was deprived of her children because she had given them a Christian upbringing. In the 1973-74 school year, a school teacher, Mrs. Valcravicienc, ridiculed Leonas Rosinas in front of the class for going to church with his mother. The teacher also threatened his mother that, if she continued to take Leonas to church, Leonas would be intimidated by his classmates. On October 5 Leonas returned home beaten up, pale and complaining of a headache. An am­ bulance took him to the hospital. While on military service Vanya Moiseyev was tortured and killed on account of his Christianity.

But through this persecution Christians have become stregthened in their faith. This consequence is natural, for Romans 5:3 states: “.. .we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character, and character, hope.”

An Amnesty International report on prisoners of conscience in the U.S.S.R. states that ‘‘it has been remarked many times over the years that some of the hardiest and most upstand­ ing inmates of Soviet prisons and colonics are devout religious believers.” Christians still carry on their work in spite of persecution.

Gennady Shimanov remained a Christian despite attempts by the Soviet authorities to rid him of his religious beliefs by interning him in a psychiatric hospital and administering tranquilizers to him. In the fall of 1977 mem­ bers of a congregation in Nakhodka declared a hunger strike in protest of a propaganda cam­ paign directed against them in response to their request to imigrate. Because of a lack of Bibles and other Christian literature, I. I. Levin, D. I. Koop, Lyudmilla Zaitseva and Larisa Zaitseva constructed their own print­ ing press and ran a clandestine printing opera­ tion until they were arrested in March 1977.

They had done such a good job in building the press that a Soviet investigator remarked that the machine was unique because it could print on both sides of the paper. Comparable Sovietproduced printing presses could not match that process.

If the character-intensifying nature of Soviet communism had not been in effect, Levin and his friends would not have had to expend their creativity on their printing press; activists like Sakharov would not have to risk loss for helping their fellow man. Alexander

BOB SMITH The principal source for this essay was Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago trilogy.

THOUGHTS ON TIME that pinnacle of time called present is only a fine line between the former and morrow where is past there-a remembrance, history where is future thcrc-plans or dreams seems nothing’s real a moment turns past fast as futurity becomes NOW

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^MFe’re back again. Let’s face it. We are back again. It’s not as if we should be back, or that we’d like to be back, or even that it would be nice if we were back. We are back. It’s not as if the editor wants us to be back, or that the faculty would be happy to see us back, or that the student body could care less whether or not we came back. We simply are back, and our backs are against the wall, dodging insults and less than constructive criticism while trying to turn out witticism after witticism.

But no self-pity from these writers. We bravely face up to the herculean task of Finding, much less kicking the campus funny bone, laying our necks on the literary chopping block under the guillotinesque threat of monthly deadlines.

Deadlines-not due-dates mind you, but deadlines. Not end-lines, or “passed away” lines, or even “he only sleepeth” lines, but DEADlines. How cold, how final! Is that any reflec­ tion on the end product?

Now that we are back, our minds can’t help turning to more pertinent, academic questions, like: Can I have seconds if I’m hun­ gry? or Are there any really foxy coeds on campus this year? or What can I expect to get out of my college education? Henry David Thoreau also wondered about the usefulness of a college education and came to the conclu­ sion that the most valuable experiences on

campus arc frec-especially the much cherished opportunity to “converse with the most cul­ tured of your contemporaries.” Assuredly Thoreau’s college years were not that different from our own, and we can see many instances of this cultured interaction in our own daily conversations. Why just this morning in the bathroom, through dribbling mouthfuls of pepsodent foam, we were discussing Freud and the Oedipus complex-you know, the psycho­ analytical theory in which we have the sub­ conscious urge to trounce our father in cribbage, and the insatiable desire for our mothers chocolate chip cookies. The female equivalent of this theory is, of course, the Buick Electra complex, in which a daughter is subconsciously driven to total out her mother’s Ford station wagon in order to be able to drive her father’s Buick.

Also, around the dinner table at the cafe­ teria, one of the most popular topics of dis­ cussion is complex syntactical problems.

After emitting a resounding fortississimo belch, a student remarked, “You ain’t gonna tell me that that there whatchamacallit wem’t a geni­ tive of source, cuz I knows a genitive of source when I sees one. That was unmistakably clear­ ly a partitive genitive following a supplemen­ tary participle not in indirect discourse.”

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replied, stuffing his face with a yogurt sand­ wich, “Yous guys wouldn’t know a partitive genitive from a hole in the ground.”

“Don’t go usin’ that ad hominum stuff on this joe. No true Dcmosthenean rhetorician of the likes o’ me couldn’t never stand for such barbaric tactics.”

Certainly a student living off campus misses such cultural enlightenment. We could include many other examples of great minds in action around the dorm, but in our opinion we needn’t go any further to prove Thoreau’s point. Wunderbar, Gcscllschaft!

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THE OLD ELM Lately it seems anniversaries of one type or another have been coming at us from all corners of the calendar. The country's bicentennial bash still lingers in the mind, as well as the Synod’s 125th and the Northwestern Day celebration last spring commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Alumni Society.

Yet, unfortunately, some days of significance pass by with nary a jingle of glasses raised in toast or even a meaningful wave. One such day was September 6, 1979, forty years to the day since one of the Synod’s mighty pillars bit the turf-the Old Elm. History does not always do justice to great individuals and time appears to have been especially unkind to this sylvan patriarch of our campus that for many years stood proudly between the Sprinter and College Avenue. Our efforts to institute an “Old Elm Day” met with little enthusiasm; the special commemorative slivers sold poorly and only several aged neighborhood dogs turned up for the ceremony.

This special day could easily have escaped the attention of the writers of this column also, had it not been for a magnificent stroke of archeological luck rivaling that of Heinrich Schliemann at Troy and Mycenae and of Howard Carter at the tomb of Tutankhamen.

While excavating at Tell-Bathcsda for some bargains from the Truman dynasty, as chance would have it, a nickel rolled into what appeared to be a pre-LBJ era ziggurat of neomodemistic melmac dishes. Imagine our sur­ prise when we carefully removed the top layer and found the remains of a garage sale dating from before the Korean War, including a zoot-

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suit chain and the hub-cap from a ’47 DeSoto.

Excitedly we kept digging down through the pile, uncovering ration books, war plane collector cards from Lucky Strike cigarette packs and even an original recording of Bing Crosby singing “White Christmas.” Then came the moment that all archeologists dream about. We were just breaking through into the strata of the post-Depression era, sometime during the Roosevelt dynasty, when we came upon a little wooden urn, simple looking and unpretentious. Yet when we dusted it off, painstakingly reassembled the several broken shards, and touched up the fresco of a tree on its exterior, we began to realize what a monu­ mental piece of history we may have un­ covered! Our only clue for dating the container was a puzzling inscription which we finally translated, using a system called Linear P & G, as reading “NWC Old Elm.” And so, intrigued by our discovery, we brought the artifact back to school and began researching.

The following paragraph by E. E. Kowalke concerning the old Elm turned up in his Centennial Story.

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This was a wide spreading tree, not the more common vase-shaped type of elm.

It was a noble giant with a girth of more than twenty feet at shoulder height and spreading from the tip of one branch that swept the ground on the south to the tip of the limb on the opposite side something over one hundred feet. The tree was known far beyond the limits of Watertown.

Shortly before it was removed a woman in Texas wrote to the president of the college asking for a picture and actual dimensions of the tree.

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That dear woman from Texas, we can only guess, apparently wanted to knit the elm a pair of winter socks.

We also found an account of the Old Elm’s early life in its obituary written for the Black and Red in 1939:

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About one hundred fifty years ago, when Indians abounded in Wisconsin and white men began to settle here, a tiny elm seed left its home with nothing but an overcoat. That Saturn­ shaped seedlet blew away from its parent tree and settled down perma­ nently half a mile west of the Sinnissippi (Rock River).

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a piece of the wood and turned it into the urn we have just uncovered. And so the legend lives on. We still are a little perplexed about the history of our little artifact, however, and would appreciate any information concerning it. Perhaps there are more little momentos of the grand Old Elm out there! Be that as it may, our own little piece of history is now on dis­ play in room 203 Wittenberg for anyone who may be interested.

Satisfied with its healthful environment, the small seed took a drink of water, threw off its overcoat and began a career of growing up. Sensing that every business enterprise must rest upon a firm foundation, the little seed sent a root into the ground before stepping out into the world. Then it thrust its head out of the earth and took a long sun bath.

The pround seedling grew rapidly and at the mere age of seventy-five was a robust figure with a chest measurement approximating one hundred inches.

The Boston Pops Orchestra has had its Arthur Fiedler, the Milwaukee Symphony has had its Kenneth Schermerhorn, and the North­ western College Band has had Dr. Arnold O. Lehmann. As the strains of Arnie’s Army are heard to fade, the band now marches to the beat of a different drummer. And I mean literally marches. Yes! As one musical era ends, another begins with the revival of what used to be a regular Fixture of the music department.

Who knows what might lay ahead just beyond the horizon? Mock battles again? Or-one shudders to think of such refinement at Northwestern—an orchestra once more?

For the answers to these questions and more, you’ll have to ask our fearless new band leader, “Wild Bill” Birsching, fresh off the frontier and ready to lead the band into the hearts of all our listeners out there, and hope­ fully not into the stands at half-time shows.

The marching band is somewhat puzzled about their first routine, however. Professor Birsching has so far only expressed concern about keeping up with the Watertown High School marching band and mentioned some­ thing about marching around the high school seven times and then blowing all the horns...

About this time, buildings began to appear in the vicinity. With amazement the elm must have viewed the erection of several imposing structures to its east. Northwestern College was bom— just as the elm had established itself seventy-five years previously.

From that time on, much sentiment became attached to our sturdy neigh­ bor. Some alumni will recall how they escaped detection on late evenings by hiding behind the elm when inspectors passed nearby. Many a gentleman courted his lady beneath the historic elm's branches; and many a couple sat gazing upwards, as if awaiting a blessing from the elm s outstretched limbs.

But then on Wednesday afternoon, Septem­ ber 6, 1939, weakened by storm damage and the ravages of time, the Old Elm was chopped down, as also reported in the obituary: Woodsmen, who could not spare the elm, hewed at its base all day. The final hour was at hand. So was a tense, murmuring crowd of 2000-no, only 20-students and Watertown citizens, clinging to the rope on the sidelines.

At 5 P.M. the mighty monarch of the campus wavered, desperately tried to keep upright-then toppled with a thunderous crunch to the earth. The ponderous elm shuddered for a mo­ ment-then lay silently inert.

Indeed, such a sad end for an old friend, but some sentimental person must have snatched

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But there is some speculation as to how the fire got started. Rumor has it that the dumpster fire was to be constantly fed to serve as an eternal flame in memorium to Mudwuppy— probably another alumni project. Anyway, if they were trying to burn down the dump­ ster, they failed. Some guys will do anything for a parking space these days.

An underhanded plot by the Dean and faculty to improve the student body’s per­ sonal appearance and manners has been uncovered. After making repeated attempts to encourage students to look and act like gentlemen, they have resorted to psychologi­ cal warfare-women in the classroom. The effect of the new college coed on students’ grooming habits is still debatable, but longer morning shower lines have been noted, as well as an upswing in the sale of deodorant, macho colognes, blow-dryers, and Dr. Scholl’s foot powder. Even the stalwart Kruiser has been seen consulting his Auto Mechanic’s Guide to Personal Hygiene and has turned his favorite T-shirt inside out. Certain professors who have been plagued by inattentive students have requested the use of this weapon in the hope that by having her sit in the front row middle seat she will focus the student’s attention front and center. Before this plan can become a success, however, certain practical problems must be dealt with. For instance, we’ll need a college town girls’ room, a college girls’ phy. ed. instructor, and an Ugliest Woman on Campus award. And then there is the real sixty-four 48

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dollar question-should a prep ask a college girl for a date? Well, at least she should have no problem quitting herself like a man, eh Dean?

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bint of View couple of weeks ago while standing in the '^•'cafeteria line on a Sunday noon, I happen­ ed to get hold of a stray copy of the “Wiscon­ sin Synod Herald.” My rather unfavorable position in line gave me reason to look the paper over more closely than I might other­ wise have done and in the process, it occurred to me that the subject of one of the back­ page articles might be worth a little kicking around.

It seems that synod convention authorized a “study into the feasibility of absorbing the Bethany Program into the Northwestern College curriculum.” Action on the matter will, of course, have to wait until the next biennium, but in the meantime there’s nothing in the way of a little speculation on some of the possible ramifications of the proposal.

The Bethany Program is currently viewed by some (not necessarily students) as an “easy way” into the Scm as compared with North­ western-no Latin, no German, just Greek, Hebrew and “Hello, Sem.” It’s true that many people forget that most Bethany students already have a college degree, but by the same token, with cold logic dictating that a course is

either required or not required for pre-theology students, it’s not hard to sec where the im­ pression can come from that the Northwestern student has earned something which the Bethany student hasn’t. Certainly age is a con­ sideration in determining what will and will not be required of a student. With four years of Seminary work still ahead of someone twentyfive years old or older, making his prc-theological training as efficient as possible is a prime objective. Nevertheless, to ask a student to spend an extra year in college to complete certain requirements, the necessity of which seems to be negotiable, is something of an invitation to animosity. Given the current course requirements at Northwestern (there is a curriculum study going on now), moving the Bethany Program to the Northwestern campus could cause the matter of equity to stare stu­ dents more closely in the face.

In talking about the Bethany Program, you can’t go too far without mentioning married students-that’s part of the package.

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I’ve heard it said that you can tell which Sem students went to Northwestern and which ones went to Bethany because the North­ western guys are a little “ahead” of the Bethany guys. Whether or not this is true is probably a matter of opinion, and yet it seems as though there would almost have to be some difference in the two brands of training, not because one is better than the other but simply because different schools stress different things even within the same subject areas. If the Bethany Program were moved to Northwestern, students entering the Sem would all come from the same place and would in all likelihood be more evenly matched. Three years of Greek would be three years of Greek, not three years of Bethany Greek as opposed to three years of Northwestern Greek.

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/^entcnnials seem to occur maybe once in a ^ hundred years. It was just such an event that the Northwestern Alumni Society was privileged to celebrate at the close of the 1978-1979 school year. May 22, 1979, saw the culmination of years of planning and months of work in a celebration of the gifts and blessings the Lord has provided North­ western College and Northwestern Prepara­ tory School.

Preparation for Northwestern Day began several years ago under the direction of Rever­ end Alan Siggelkow and Professor John Lawrenz, members of the NWC centennial class of 1965, who co-chaired the Alumni Society’s centennial committee. Midway through the 1978-1979 school year, on-campus coordina­ tion of Northwestern Day fell to a faculty committee headed by Professor Paul Eickmann.

Through the work of this committee many faculty and student projects and activities were carefully organized and orchestrated.

David Huebner and Jonathan Balge, presidents of the NWC and NPS student bodies respective­ ly, assisted the coordination committee. By the morning of May 22, the campus was trans­ formed.

A committee headed by Instructor James

Grunwald installed a registration booth near Wittenberg Hall, and rosters of alumni were set up just north of the Chapel-Arts Build­ ing. Senior Larry Ponte! and sophomore Mike Bicdenbendcr erected a huge stage on the north side of the Library-Science Building.

The college freshmen class, under the direc­ tion of their president Carl Balge, and Profes­ sor Jerald Plitzuweit set up seating for three thousand in the rectangle north of the library and w'est of Augsburg Hall. Professor Robert Bock’s old landmark committee provided maps and pictures of old buildings; it also placed plaques at the sites of the various edifices of yesteryear. A huge tent was planted on the lawn just south of the cafeteria to provide extra eating space and potential shelter from the elements. Chef Hanke served food to an estimated 1500 students, alumni, and friends of Northwestern. Emphasis was given to the future of Northwestern, as both schools’ recruitment committees set up displays for prospective students. Professors Lloyd Thomp­ son and Jerome Kruse organized and ran a team of students that handled the parking for the abundance of cars that arrived at North­ western. Freshman David Sellnow supervised the construction of banners that were hung in

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Gerhard Franzmann emceed more than two hours of varied entertainment. The SextaQuinta Mixed Chorus, directed by Tutor Mark Bitter, sang several numbers, and the College Forum Society presented “Alumni Symposium, 1904,” a playlet by Dr. E. C. Kiessling under the direction of junior Brian Dose. The QuartaTertia Mixed Chorus led by Professor Franklin Zabell sang a pair of songs and was followed by the tenth anniversary class speaker. Rev. Herbert Prahl, and the twenty-fifth anniver­ sary class speaker, Rev. Edward Stcltcr. The Male Chorus, under the direction of Prof.

Arnold Lehmann, sang several numbers and led the crowd in an impromptu singing of “Cheer for Old Northwestern.” The NPS Rostra Society presented “Scxta Success Story,” another playlet by Dr. Kiessling. Prof. Arlyn Boll produced the play, and Tcrtiancr Clarence Casey directed it. Following an offering, fifti­ eth anniversary class speaker Prof. Carl Lawrenz offered his thoughts on the day. The Northwestern band played five numbers, and the presentation of the bell tower followed.

Participating in the ceremony were Rev. Robert Voss, president of the Alumni Society, Rev. Reginald Siegler, chairman of the NWC Board of Control, Presidents Toppc and Zell, and Mr. Thomas Bast (NPS ’59), the bell tower designer and architect. Dr. Henry Koch (’09), the oldest alumnus present, rang the bell to officially inaugurate its use. The band concluded with Tschaikowsky’s “1812” Ouvcrture Solcnnclle.

Northwestern Day was a success for all involved. The day marked what was perhaps the largest gathering of Northwestern alumni ever. It is estimated that altogether there were more than 3,000 people on campus in the course of the day. It was a memorable event for the members of the Northwestern family.

It gave all present a chance to reflect on the blessings God has shown to Northwestern and its students and alumni, and to all asso­ ciated with the school. May the Lord continue to bless Northwestern to future centennials and beyond.

the gymnasium. Canteens were set up in several locations, both indoors and out. Students decorated the campus in various ways, built a model of the 1879 campus, served as ushers, participated in the student-alumni softball games, formed mass cleanup crews, and found many other ways to help out. Hardly a pro­ fessor or student was not involved in North­ western Day in some way.

May 22, 1979, was a somewhat breezy, mostly sunny day, except for a brief, light rain that fell in the late morning. It grew cold by evening, however, a harbinger of the blustery, chilly graduation day that followed.

The program for the centennial celebration divided Northwestern Day into four distinct parts: Fidelitas, Memoria, Subsidium, and Gratitudo. Registration began at 7:30 a.m. and continued through the day. Various dis­ plays were made available for viewing at 8 a.m. and throughout the day.

The Fidelitas portion of Northwestern Day was a service of thanksgiving held in the gymnasium. An alumni chorus, the NWC Male Chorus, the NPS Mixed Chorus, and a grade school chorus participated. Pastor Carl Mischke of Juneau, then First Vice-President of the Synod, preached the sermon, “The Typical Northwestern Alumnus,” based on Hebrews 6:9, 10. The congregation rose and sang “A Mighty Fortress” to conclude the service. A lunch followed.

The Memoria portion of the celebration included the showing of the new NWC recruit­ ment filmstrip, for which the Alumni Society provided funding, and the 1949 recruitment movie, which was both nostalgic and amusing.

The viewings were run hourly throughout the afternoon. The student-alumni softball games took place at this time also. From 1 to 2:30 and 4:30 to 6 various Prep and College student singing groups entertained from the stage alongside the Library-Science Building.

The Subsidium portion of Northwestern Day overlapped the Memoria portion. It con­ sisted primarily of the regular Alumni meeting at 3:00. The large number of alumni who attended were seated in five-year groups, spanning seven decades between 1909 and 1979.

As the sun went down and the cold came in, the Gratitudo program began. Professor

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^MJblcomc back! As another school year ^™Iooms ahead of us, it is time to take a look at this year’s fall sports. The Trojan fan should be very enthusiatic as he or she (remember guys, NWC is not an all guys school!) recalls that two defending conference champions grace our campus.

SOCCER The other conference also looking forward to a nucleus of returnees and are out to improve on a a very tough assignment.

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First off, the football team is returning a strong squad from last year’s championship club. The offense returns 10 of 11 starters and should be very powerful. The defense was not so lucky, as graduation took six starters.

The Trojans started the season in grand style by pummeling rival Milton 4-0. Freddie Kriegcr scored the first goal of the season, and Todd Goldschmidt added 3 straight to complete the scoring.

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The high hopes of the Trojans for a perfect season received a crushing blow at Appleton on September 8 as the Lawrence Vikings routed a stunned Trojan squad 48-13. The game por­ tended a close battle, but Lawrence grabbed an early lead and never looked back. Northwestern’s only scores came on two touchdown passes by Mark Mueller.

Tutor Kipfmiller and his chargers are also looking forward to a successful season. In their first meet, the Waukesha Tech Invita­ tional, Jay Bendewald finished second out of about 80 runners with a 4 mile time of 20:38.

Although the final score was not yet available, the Trojans should have finished in the middle of the pack with 222 points.

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y now most collegiates are probably B aware of the fact that there are two new professors on campus. They are Professor

under these two.

Professor Birsching is a man of consider­ able stature in the music world. Music students of the Sophomore and Junior classes may have noticed that he likes to bring a thermos of coffee to class now and then. An informant from the Sophomore class recently told me that Professor Birsching had told them in class that he drinks Sanka brand. 1 remember that his favorite brand a few years ago was regular Butternut. He obviously got bored with the caffeine quivers that students are so familiar with.

Did coffee stunt his growth? “No,“is the answer that he gave when interviewed a few years ago in NLA’s school paper: “1 was only three and a half pounds when I was born, and I think I did pretty good!”

One point that was brought up at the post­ installation reception was that Professor Bir­ sching has a habit of naming his cars with names that start with an “H” and also talking to them while out on the highway. Professor Birsching said that the “H” names started when he bought his first car, a Hudson, so that he could go see his honey, Helen (whom he is now married to). That is probably the reason, but remember, we’re dealing with someone who once bought a red Pontiac, took it out on the road, and when he discovered that it could go

Wayne Ten Broek and Professor William Birsching. They both come to us from North­ western Lutheran Academy in Mobridge, South Dakota, thereby increasing the number of profs on campus who have lived in South Dakota to eleven.

President Toppe called attention to this fact at the reception in the cafeteria which was held after the chapel installation service for the two men on Sunday night, September 9.

President Toppe also noted that since we can all assume that the spirit of John “Sparky” Brenner still lurks on campus, the number of faculty members with a South Dakota back­ ground is actually twelve, fully one-third of the entire faculty staff. The president expressed concern that so many of our profs now come from the same state that has produced George McGovern (and also, incidentally, Hubert Humphrey, who was born in South Dakota but then moved to Minnesota and made good); as a result, the political balance of the faculty itself might be profoundly affected.

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100 m.p.h., he decided to call it “Hester,” because the car was red and fast. (How about that, all you fans of The Scarlet Letter?)

By the way, the big blue Pontiac that you might see him driving around in (Hester only lasted for a little more than 100,000 miles) is called “Helga.”

Let’s switch our attention to Professor Ten Broek. He was bom and raised on the South Dakota prairie, and he of course developed some habits, as we all do, that have always re­ mained with him. For instance, his Latin stu­ dents might have already noticed that he likes to put one foot up on the bottom step of the classroom lectern, if he gets the chance to. His reason, as quoted from another old school paper: “It eases the tension, and having been raised on a farm, it is like stepping into the saddle.” (Force of habit affects us all, doesn’t it?)

Professor Ten Broek has always been known as a good fan of the Minnesota Vikings. This should suggest a good excuse for you recal­ citrant Latin students. You could say: “But Professor Ten Broek, I was so excited when the Vikings beat the Packers last weekend that I just couldn’t settle down to study!” Or, a variation of the same theme: “I was so depressed when the Packers beat the Vikings that I just couldn’t bring myself to study!”

As with many farm-raised people, Professor Ten Brock has often had a pet dog at his house.

One dog that I remember most was a huge horse of a dog, a St. Bernard called “Brandy.”

The most vivid memory I have of that dog came one January day when I was trudging towards school. It was one of those days that the plains are famous for, with the tempera­ ture hovering at —20 degrees and the wind blowing at a brisk 25 m.p.h. As I walked past Ten Brocks’ house, I saw Brandy lying on the front step, just back from its morning exer­ cise, panting as hard as it could in order to cool off. I wished right about then that I could have that kind of fur coat.

Professor Ten Broek lives several blocks away from campus, over on old highway 16.

Don’t worry about him not making it to school during the winter months, however.

He lived about the same distance from school in Mobridge and always seemed to make it to classes, whether by hook or by crook or by snowshoes.

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The'Frienclj on Campus"Progrcim: Vast Improvements

Apprehension often grips the heart of a " man as he steps onto the Northwestern College campus for the first time. Months of mixed emotions swell when he suddenly finds himself enrolled at this institution, noted for its scholastic demands. The greetings of fellow classmates returning from their summer vaca­ tions ring in his ears, but not for him. He’s not one of those forlunates who knows a few guys here. He is just a typical Freshman, mixed in with a bunch of other typicals and feelingwell, scared.

There was a day when such a young man was generally left to wrestle with his own prob­ lems of finding his way among strangers. His questions about books, buildings, activities, and scholastic difficulties usually had to go unanswered until experience erased the dis­ oriented look from his face. Northwestern didn’t make any real effort to help him.

But the attitude at Northwestern College has changed significantly in the last five years.

One evidence of this is the “Friends on Campus” Program for Recruitment which for the second year in a row involved almost a third of the

returning students in welcoming their new classmates and helping them get settled. In most cases this required a sacrifice of some of their summer vacation to write a letter to one or two of the forty-two students whose names were assigned to them as they were accepted for enrollment. Besides writing letters, these volunteers were also asked to personally seek out their Freshman friends and give them what­ ever help and encouragement they could.

In an effort to discover how effective we were in reaching these men, the undersigned circulated a survey similar to the one used last year. Answers were received from thirtyseven men. Unfortunately, five others had quit before they could be reached. As you can see below, the results of this year’s survey are strikingly different from those of the former one.

What did you think last summer when you suddenly received a letter from a student at NWC? The most frequent response was apprecia­ tive surprise. One man said, “I was glad that someone was taking the time to contact me.”

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number of times such visits were made totaled forty-seven. Awesome!

Does it help to make you feel a little more at home to have a ’Triend on Campus ” here?

Twenty-three were sure that they bcnefitted. Only nine felt that they already knew enough people not to need the extra encourage­ ment.

In what ways does it help?

“I at least knew one person when I stepped on campus.”

“It makes you feel more united knowing these people care before you get here.”

“Anyone that goes out of his way to just talk to you (when he doesn’t have to) is an encouragement.”

Do you think the "Friend on Campus” Program is living up to the purpose the name implies?

The Freshmen felt more favorably disposed to our efforts this year than last year when twenty indicated it was fulfilling its purpose and ten felt otherwise. Our second attempt brought only five dissenting appraisals, but twenty-seven who believe we have reached our goals.

How do you think it could be improved?

(Some of our “Friends on Campus” might feel that paying more visits to their Freshmen would be unappreciated. A number of replies to the above question show otherwise.)

“There should be more getting acquainted once we are here.”

“The person should spend more time talking to you and pointing out things about NWC.” “I needed to know how to reach him on campus.”

“Have them meet on the first day of school.”

“He should be encouraged to stop by and talk for a while.. .during the first two or three weeks to check up on his ‘little brother.’”

The final comment on one of the surveys adds to the measure of our success: “I have appreciated the interest of everyone on cam­ pus-fellow classmen, older students, and especially faculty.”

What more can be said? You students who gave of your time and yourselves to help our new brothers have really done well. The high percentage of letters written and “Friends” contacted attests to your faithfulness. With the

Another was very thankful for the help: “It was a good boost that I needed at the time because of doubts.”

Were there things that you were concerned about with which he could help you?

Thirteen gave positive answers while six­ teen said, “No.” Those thirteen got the help they needed for various things like the rules, classroom difficulty, “where to go,” and general campus life. One man received vastly more. He answered, “Yes, because I was not entirely sure about becoming a pastor and his letter pointed out the need and what it is like at NWC.” How many letters did you receive from him?

We really had trouble in this category last year when eighteen of the new students didn’t even receive a card. But not so this year.

Thirty men received forty-four letters. Only seven did not, and that for mostly understand­ able reasons. In most of these seven cases the Freshmen were accepted and assigned so late in the summer that not enough time was left to write.

Did you write back?

The nine incoming students who did write back and the twenty-one who did not almost match last year’s figures of seven and twentyone respectively.

How often?

Would you believe that one young man wrote four letters to his “Friend on Campus” before they even met?

Did it make you feel a little less appre­ hensive about coming to NWC to know that someone knew your name and would be here to greet you when you arrived?

Only a little over half of the students answered “Yes" to this one.

Did your "Friend on Campus" come over to say hello when you got here?

You may remember how poorly we per­ formed last year in this most important aspect of the program. Our earlier efforts produced only sixteen visits and eighteen “Sorry-noTimers.” This year’s response, however, was super. The eight who failed to make a visit were far outnumbered by the twenty-eight who did. Better still, just look at the answer to the following question.

How often has he visited you?

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increase in your efforts to welcome these men I see a rise in the spirit that flows through our student body. Such caring attitudes can only help to unite us even more in a fellowship that surpasses anything else on earth. From your few mistakes our new students can learn with us how to make the tremendous improve­ ments you made this year. By your excellent example they will sec how they can best respond when the next call goes out for volun­ teers. Such generosity with time and energy has helped us get started on what should be a very high-spirited year.

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The organizational baton will be passed on. As in a relay when a fresh runner grips that sym­ bol of unity, let there be a surge to increase the strong spirit you have evidenced. And may the Lord continue to shower Mis richest blessings on this school as students and faculty alike push tirelessly for a more positive North­ western.

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jjfgelcome to another year of alumni news!

Any and all information about our grads is appreciated, so keep it coming in even if you’re not a regular contributor. Sorry about the absence of sem notes in this issue; we hope to have all sorts of them in the next one.

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-Rev. David Clark (’68), former pastor of St. Paul’s, a mission congregation in Nashua, NH, accepted a call to serve Hope, Detroit, Ml. He was installed on September 16.

-Rev. Ronald Raddatz (’72), who had previously been pastor of Zion in St. Louis, MO, was installed at St. John’s, Sturgis, MI, on September 23.

-Rev. Daniel Westendorf (’59) recently accepted a call to an additional congregation, Trinity, of Wayland, MI. -Rev. Gene Durfey (’69) accepted a call to Mt. Calvary, San Jose, CA. He was at Cal­ vary, Dallas, TX. —Rev. Jack Kilcrease accepted a call to an independent congregation in Hillsboro, OR. -Rev. Dale R. Schulz was installed as associate pastor at Grace, Oshkosh, WI, last May 20. He previously served Amazing Grace, Taylor, MI. --Rev. Dwight E. Vilhauer now serves as associate pastor of Emanuel, New London,

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-Rev. Norval Kock (’48) was installed at St. John’s, New Ulm, MN, on June 3. His former congregation was First German of Manitowoc.

—Rev. John Graf (’63) was just installed in Hustisford, WI. He formerly served St. John’s of Sturgis, MI. i

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-Rev. Paul R. Baldauf (’74) was installed at Trinity, Coleman, WI, on August 5.

-Rev. Arno J. Wolfgramm (’64), who previously served St. Andrew’s of Chicago, IL, was installed at First German, Manitowoc, WI, on August 26.

-Rev. Phillip A. Lehmann (’70) accepted the call to be an instructor at WLA, Fond du Lac, WI, and was installed on August 27. He was the pastor at Arlington Ave. Lutheran in Toledo, OH. -Rev. George Ferch (’71) was installed as the pastor of two congregations on Septem­ ber 16: Grace Lutheran of Casa Grande, and Redeemer of Phoenix, AZ. -Rev. William Godfrey (’57), previously the pastor in La Habra, CA, was installed in North Hollywood, CA, on September 9.

-The closing of Northwestern Lutheran Academy at Mobridge, South Dakota, brought about the transfcrral of several professors to Martin Luther Preparatory School in Prairie du Chien, WI: Prof. Daniel Malchow (’49), Prof. Carl Lemke, Prof. Harold Schewe (’59), and Prof. Alan Jeffers. Prof. Victor Weyland ('37) was installed at Minnesota Lutheran High School in New Ulm on August 26.

-Rev. William Hein (’50) of Grace Church in Muskegon, MI, observed his 25th anniver­ sary in the ministry on July 8.

-Rev. W. J. Zarling’s (’35) 40th year in the ministry was celebrated by Good Shepherd, Benton Harbor, MI, on August 19.

-Rev. Ray Wiechmann (’40) marked his 35th year in the holy ministry on May 5.

—The 25th anniversary in the ministry of Rev. Reuben Reimers (’51) was celebrated by St. Paul’s of North Mankato, MN, on July 1.

-Rev. Donald Lindloff of St. John’s, St. Clair, MN, observed his 25th anniversary in the ministry on June 24.

—St. John’s Lutheran of Fox Lake, WI, celebrated its 75th anniversary on June 24.

-The 100th anniversary of St. Peter’s, Oak Grove, WI, was celebrated on Septem­ ber 16 and 23.

—A host of professors at Northwestern College observed their pastoral anniversaries on March 18, 1979: Prof. Erwin Schroeder (’35) marked his 40th, while Professors James Thrams, Paul Eickmann, James Fricke, and Donald Scllnow (’50) celebrated their 25th.

-Rev. Robert Hoenccke (’51) celebrated his 25th anniversary in the ministry on Au­ gust 5.

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-St. Andrew’s of Middleton, WI, dedicated a new chapel on February 11, 1979.

-Good Shepherd Church was dedicated in Beloit, WI, on April 1.

-Christus Congregation in Richmond, WI, dedicated its church on August 5.

—A school and parsonage were dedicated

by Trinity in Marshfield, WI, on September 16.

-St. Matthew of Stoddard, WI, dedicated both a church and a school on September 16. The school was also dedicated by St. John’s, Genoa, WI. —A school addition (gym and fellowship hall) was dedicated at St. Matthew’s of Janes­ ville, WI, on September 16.

-A new church was dedicated at Christian, DE. It is St. John’s, and is served by Rev. R. Balza (’71).

—Holy Redeemer of Port Huron, MI, dedicated a church on May 6. Its pastor is Rev. Tom Wilsmann (’73).

—A new church was dedicated on April '

-Redeemer Lutheran Church of Hettinger, ND, celebrated its 25th anniversary on Sep­ tember 9. Its pastor is Rev. Terry Yahr (’72).

-St. Paul’s of Hurley, WI, observed its 90th anniversary on June 17. Rev. Walter Hoepner (’34) is its pastor.

-Rev. Orvin A. Sommer (’36) celebrated his 40th anniversary in the ministry on Au­ gust 12. He presently serves Immanuel, Osh­ kosh, WI. -Rev. Werner H. Franzmann (’25), em., observed his 50th anniversary in the ministry on June 17.

-Rev. Waldemar F. Zink, (’26), em., also observed his 50th anniversary on July 8.

-Christ the Lord, Houston, TX, marked the 10th anniversary of the dedication of its chapel on September 2. Rev. Vilas Glaeske (’61) is its pastor.

-Abiding Word, also of Houston, cele­ brated the 10th anniversary of the organization of its congregation. It is served by Rev. Roger Plath (’72).

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-A son, Jonathan Edward Kovaciny, was bom to Pastor and Mrs. Roger Kovaciny ('72) of Tappcn, ND, on May 30.

—Rev. and Mrs. Thomas Schmidt (’65) received a son, Daniel Thomas, at Sioux Falls, SD, on July 10.

by Cross of Glory Ev. Lutheran Church, with Rev. Stephen Valleskey (’62) as its pastor.

-Peace Lutheran of Otsego, MI, dedicated a new church on September 16. Its pastor is Rev. Jeffrey Hopf (’67).

-A new church was dedicated on Septem­ ber 23 by Grace Lutheran of Tecumsch, MI, with Rev. Kenneth Strack ('54) as its pastor.

MISCELLANEA MARRIAGES —Pastor and Mrs. Glenn Wenzel (’74) adopted three children of the same family: Kevin (8), Nine (7), and Robert (5).

June was full of weddings this year. On the 17th it was Rev. Stephen Otto (’74) and Peggy Mcrcurio. The 24th brought together Rev. Jon Stern (’74) and Pat Weitz, Dennis Hiinm (’79) and Kay Rhoda, and Mark Freier (’78) and Debbie Lcng. On the 30th it was Rev. Dale Schlicwe (’73) of Emanuel, Hudson, WI, and Cynthia Pankow. Rev. Lloyd Lemke (’71) of North Branch, MI, was also married in June.

On August 26, Mark Zarling (’76) wedded Collette Sulzle.

Ordained and Installed were.

-Rev. Neil Varnum (’74) at Immanuel, St. Joseph, MO, on August 5.

-Rev. Tim Kujath (’75) at Emanuel, St. Paul, MN , on July 29.

- Rev, Robert Wilke (’75) at Shepherd of the Lakes, Fairmont, MN, July 22, —Rev. Jon Stern (’74) at Ascension, Ply­ mouth, MN, on July 22.

-Rev. Douglas Schalow (’75) at Immanuel, Woodville, WI, on July 22.

-Rev. Philip Hoyer (’75) at Christ Luther­ an, Brainerd, MN, on July 15.

-Charles Degner (’74) at Faith, Prior Lake, MN, on July 15.

ENGAGEMENTS -Engaged are Vicar David Putz (’77), serving at Litchfield, MN, and Susan Wicke, who is teaching at Brownsville, WI.

KURT EBERT

RETIREMENTS -Professor Cornelius Trapp (’31) of Dr. Martin Luther College announced his retire­ ment on June 30.

AN ASPIRATION

DEATHS —Rev. Oscar J. Naumann (’31) was called to his Lord on June 19, after serving almost 27 years as the president of the WELS. —Rev. Herbert Hackbarth (’27), em., also died on June 19 in Mankato, MN. -Dr. Paul W. Peters (’09), Prof, cm., died on September 3 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

If only I some day could pay those I serve the dedication and devotion my former teachers expressed I’d be blessed!

BIRTHS -Pastor and Mrs. Pieter Reid (’73) of Grand Rapids, MN, were blessed with a son, Jonathan James, on July 28.

-Triplets were bom to Rev. and Mrs. Lynn Wiedmann (’72) of Howell, MI, at the end of

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The Trojan* Lancer Conflict omecoming may not mean much at most colleges, but it’s very important at Northtern. And why not? Alumni from miles around return to live and relive memories long tucked away in special comers of their hearts.

When some day we students of the present return with them to our alma mater, our mem­ ories may be even more precious than theirs.

Homecoming at Northwestern today is far more than it was in the not too distant past.

They shared in the traditional Homecoming activities, like building floats, writing speeches, and lining up interesting company. But the excitement of these things fades with the mere mention of DMLC. Our rivalry with Dr. Martin Luther College is relatively new. For it wasn’t until October of 1972 that Northwestern College finally con­ sented to meet the young Lancer team on their turf. But there was no reason for a rivalry yet.

The B & R reporter who recorded the details of the game told it like this: The Trojans went down to buffalo country and forgot about the distrac­ tions long enough to post an easy victory. NWC had just too much talent and depth for the Lancers firstyear football team to cope with. It was a very warm afternoon and New Ulm’s bench was too meager to supply the fresh players that Coach Thompson could put on the field.. .The game was played sloppily in view of the fact that our gridders were penalized 115 yards.

The lopsided score of 35 to 0 tells the rest of the story.

It didn’t take long, however, for the Lancer football program to get on its feet. And with

each passing season the margin between the scores narrowed until the Trojans began to expect very different ball games. Here’s a seg­ ment from the report of the battle of 1974: New Ulm, Minnesota, .homecoming. . dedication of their new football bowl .. .an intense rivalry only three years old. The Trojans traveled over 350 miles to get to their fourth win of the season, but it didn't come easy. The Lancers were sky high for this one and really gave us a battle before finally succumbing.

With the total yards gained standing at NWC’s 230 to DMLC's 204 and a final score of 13 to 9, it must have been quite a struggle. It was most definitely a strong catalyst to the growing rivalry.

Last year the Trojans once again took the long westward trek to battle it out with the Lancers. Those who watched the game will never forget the Lancers' last long march to the Trojan five-yard line. What happened next shattered the hopes of the DMLC fans. On a Lancer fake handoff Pete Kiccker, now a famous Trojan hero, slipped through and smashed the ball loose for Steve Hein to re­ cover. After a few more minutes of action the game ended with Northwestern barely on top 13 to 9. No one knew as well as the Trojans knew how close they had come to meeting their match. And once again the rivalry got a powerful shot in the arm.

Football stories alone don’t tell the entire account of the Lancer-Trojan conflict. After ten years without games, the 1972 NWC basketball team once more contended with that of DMLC. Since then the Trojan-Lancer continued on page 70

THE BLACK AND REDI OCTOBER 1979, Volume 83, No. 3 The Trojan-Lancer Conflict

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continued from cover pay part of the price now in bad feelings be­ tween our schools. We may have to pay the bulk of it in the future.

A statement like that over a matter as seemingly innocent as an interscholastic rivalry would have shocked me a few years ago, before 1 had talked to a friend of mine who showed me the other side of the picture.

He told me that in his ministry he has wit­ nessed cases of problems related to bad feel­ ings left over from the college days of alumni from both schools. Shocked even then, I asked him if he was sure they were related to this rivalry. He said he was certain of it.

The cause of our problems may lie beneath

Classic has been a highlight of the November season. The victories on the basketball court, however, have been far more evenly distributed than those on the gridiron. The wrestlers too have increased the rivalry in hard-fought matches. Interscholastic competition between our schools is stiff.

Most of us at Northwestern have really enjoyed these contests, especially from our point of view. To take an objective look, how­ ever, puts the past few years in a different light. An outsider would get a more telling view of the situation. From his standpoint he could easily detect the feelings of a senior at DMLC who goes to the locker room after his

the surface of the rivalry. It may be related to the fact that some of us consider the preaching ministry to be the highest calling, even higher than the teaching ministry. But the ministry is the ministry. Some of its aspects may require more responsibility than others, but it is still the ministry. And when we finally assume our responsibilities of the pulpit and the classroom we won’t want to put ourselves one above the other. We will always be servants, slaves of the Gospel. We aren’t called to dominate, only to follow. And as we together follow our Shep­ herd, He will, with us as His mouthpieces, also lead His sheep. It is the high calling of the ministry to which we all aspire. And God grant

fourth loss to “those Trojans.” What would our observer have thought in 1974 when the bad feelings manifested themselves in the unfortunate “preachers beat the teachers” cheers? And how healthy would the rivalry have looked to him two years ago at the Lancer Classic in DMLC’s gym when several North­ western cheerleaders embarrassed everyone with their questionable antics? The spirit between the two schools has not always been good. At times it has been sadly antagonis­ tic. With the eyes of an outsider we would readily see that much of the blame for the bad times rests on Trojan shoulders. And the fitting question arises, “Is it all worth it?” We may 70

the kingdom of the Lord with every man, woman, and child that we can reach. Our hearts cannot be satisfied with work in other fields because there are just too many people to help in too short a time. In desiring to share the kingdom of the Lord we share in a common goal.

With this in mind we can see how rivalry with DMLC has brought us an abundance of good. The competition may possess a certain potential of problems, but in spite of all of them there is a great deal more to be gained by it.

What usually happens when our schools get together to bang heads on the gridiron, or

that Lancer and Trojan alike attain it.

If we could find a single attitude which lies at the base of all strife, it would have to be pride. And if we have had bad feelings between us in the past, it might very well be because we students at Northwestern tend to put ourselves on a higher plane of performance than just about everyone, including those who attend our sister school. Because we can't always look at our situation as an outsider might see it, we often don’t realize how our actions might be understood. This is indeed a common human malady with which everyone, especially the pastor, wrestles all his life. But in the case of the students at Dr. Martin Luther College we have a great deal more to lose by not being aware of our faults in tills matter as well as the potential danger that lies in the rivalry of the past eight years.

The students at DMLC have many prob­ lems similar to ours. They wrestle, as we do, with their feelings of inadequacy as well as interests which draw them away from their studies and their calling. For many of them the path through college is an uphill climb with an overabundance of uncertainties at the summit.

What they see in the mists beyond is an endless stream of children who will need to learn some often mundane things. Ahead lie papers to correct, tons of administrative work to be done, and continuous interruptions of their cherished supper hours to tell Johnny’s parents the assignment he promised he had written down. Besides all this, if our fellow student has been in a congregation where the teacher and pastor did not get along, he may also be dreading such strife. It doesn’t help these collegiatcs to see domineering and insensi­ tive students at Northwestern who may some day make their teaching tasks even more difficult.

Once more we ask ourselves the question, “Is our growing rivalry with DMLC really worth it?” To get lost in our excitement and desire to win, to lose our sense of perspec­ tive in our victorious revelings, could cost us much. At stake are not only our present interests, but possibly even a share of our effectiveness in building the kingdom of the Lord.

But that is where the secret lies. We stu­ dents from both schools make the sacrifices we do for only one reason. We want to share

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Even from an outsider’s viewpoint these times look very exciting. It is then that we usually enjoy some of the best fellowship to be had anywhere. How many other students with so many common interests and sacrifices can get together as we do? And it isn’t only the stu­ dents who have so much to gain by this social contact. Ask the professors and coaches whether or not they enjoy meeting future fellow workers from the other schools. Let them tell you how much they have benefited from these opportunities to sit down and enjoy old friendships as well as discuss common prob­ lems and policies. The social contacts between players and professors carry profits enough. I 71

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don’t even need to mention the other social contacts, the details of which your own imagin­ ations can readily supply.

These friendships that are born today will continue to bring us joy and satisfaction in the future. Our chances of working with teachers we already know is far greater today than it would have been before 1972. In the future, such old acquaintances with memories to share can act as springboards for cooperative work.

With the individuals we meet, wc may do a lot of work building the Lord’s kingdom in our congregations as well as in our sanctified Chris­ tian homes. Good attitudes which we foster now will stand us in good stead when the responsibilities of pulpit and classroom pass into our hands.

As men who will some day be called upon to be leaders in the Church, a great deal of the responsibility wrapped up in the Trojan-Lancer rivalry belongs to us. Wc need to be humble in our dealings toward everyone. And as leaders, we need to be showing by our example where the good paths lie.

The many examples of good sportsman­ ship in the past should be repeated over and over again. I hope that the accounts which I’ve presented of earlier games with DMLC depict the objective way the original B & R authors reported them. They all showed an obvious desire to give credit where credit was due. For example the story of last year's game ended like this. “It was an outstanding game on the part of both defenses, and a fine effort on the part of the Lancer offense.” We can find it easy to print our respect for a rising power in the pages of the Black and Red. Hut the story that is read by our opponents will always be what they see in our actions.

Such good attitudes of respect for dedicated fellow Christians will also carry over into our conduct after the games and on weekends when our reasons for seeing each other’s campuses aren’t necessarily athletic. We’ll do all we can not to give the impression that we own the DMLC campus or a large portion of the student body. And we certainly won’t want to be the cause of or participants in activities where we would be ashamed to take the Savior we both hope to serve.

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sort out the good from the bad. And there is certainly a world of good which can come out of this. As much as possible we need to encour­ age the good and lead the right way by our example. By doing so we will encourage our Christian friends toward goals which we also

share. The blessings that we reap from our rivalry today can be unbounded tomorrow as long as the blessing of our common Friend continues to rest upon it.

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On Friday, September 14, with the assistance of a crane and key members of Northwestern’s maintenance staff, the ancient landmark settled onto a spanking new concrete slab.

October 20, 1912, saw the dedication of a new gymnasium on the Northwestern campus.

This gym, the present Music Auditorium, was donated by the Northwestern Club, an organi­ zation of Northwestern friends and alumni. On that day, the Sprinter was unveiled as a gift from St. Matthew congregation of Milwaukee.

St. Matthew pastor August Bcndler, who emceed the dedication ceremony, spoke of the statue as an inspiration to Northwestern students. William Herrmann, president of St. Matthew, presented the Sprinter to the school.

It was formally unveiled by Pastor Bendler’s daughter, Irene, as the Northwestern band played “The Star Spangled Banner.” In a happy speech Northwestern’s President A. F. Ernst formally accepted the Sprinter, a work of Milwaukee sculptor, Philip Lohr.

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Will this be a weekend to make his heart pound?

Or just a classic Northwestern shut down.

Float-building keeps many from getting to bed This week Krieger’s won’t be the only eyes that are red.

The floats will be mapped out ’til everything’s right But still won’t be finished by Friday midnight.

On the Homecoming button Stormin’ Norm really toiled But his first attempt, sadly, the Dean quickly foiled.

“No good, Burger!” were the words from Dean’s lips (I guess the button said something about chips.)

In arm wrestling strong men will come to compete All boasting the best arm of pulsating meat.

They’ll strain that old arm in their several tussles So that come the big weekend, they’ll have popped all their muscles.

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Once again we will hear the sweet cry of “Button!”

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The Frosh will put on their traditional skits Which, as always, will be the absolute pits.

Come Friday we’ll have our famous car smash Maybe we’ll get this year’s car from DuraTrash.

The Friday Pep Rally is a great institution In Homecoming’s bustling social convolution.

JE will keep playing ’til they all worn their lips out Which could make some girlfriends feel rather put out.

Perhaps Madman will even mount the stage again To engage in new musical shenanigans.

Then too we’ll find out who wears the queen’s crown, An office which really won’t make her renown.

But the end can’t come to the of Pep Rally Til Dorm Staff puts on their annual finale.

That skit has a history that’s not at all hollow Recall “CinderBrenner” and macho “Apollo.”

Then straight outside to burn the “N.” And Friday will have come to an end.

By 10 o’clock Saturday the campus will bustle While out on the soccer field the guys have a tussle.

The campus is decked out, it looks pretty fit Not at all the way old timers remember it.

Floats and banners and who knows what all Even clean rooms in Wittenberg Hall!

You’d think we’re expecting the pope-John Paul.

As game time approaches, stomachs are aflutter “Ya gotta win Homecoming” is what everyone mutters.

But it’s more than just Homecoming today that’s at stake It’s DMLC-we’ve got a string we can’t break.

The drum roll, the kick off, the charge full of might Armageddon will look like a pillow fight When compared to this awesome gridiron sight.

The festivities end with the usual banquet Where long-winded speakers make everyone fidget.

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The dorms are deserted to well past twelve bells Not even the tutors within them do dwell.

But the Sunday alarm forces all to discover That this odyssey ends not at all like the other.

The student lies not in a soft bed of clover But faces the truth-The party is over

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Trojans the following weekend against the Comets. Once again Northwestern held the lead at halftime 14-7, only to see it disappear as the dynamic duo of Concordia, Strickland and McBrayer, broke loose. Midway into the fourth quarter Concordia scored to take the lead 28-21. However, NWC came storming back behind the running of Joe Dietrich to score again. But they missed the two-point conver­ sion and still trailed by a point. With less than three minutes left in the game, Concordia scored again to bring their lead up to 7 points, 34-27. Once more the Trojans put on a beauti­ ful last-minute drive, scoring a touchdown with only 20 seconds remaining on the clock. The Trojans decided to go for the two-point conver­ sion and the victory. The attempt fell short and Concordia walked off with a hard-fought 34-33 victory. Ken Frey caught two touchdown passes, and Joe Dietrich led the team with 210 yards.

Beloit The Northwestern Trojan football team has been plagued by a scries of heartbreaking defeats. The first of these defeats was at the hands of the Beloit College Buccaneers on September 15. The Trojans held their own in the first half and took a 6-0 lead into the locker room. The Bucs came out fighting in the second and scored two touchdowns to the Trojans’ one. But what was most important, they converted one of two extra points to lead 13-12. Northwestern’s last-minute desperation passes fell short, and they were forced to accept a one-point loss. Chris Poetter led the Trojan rushers with 102 yards.

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game was marred by quite a bit of confusion.

The referee’s clock was not working properly, and he blew his whistle to end the game. The Senario coach insisted, however, that only 30 minutes of the second half had been played.

After the game had been continued, Senario scored. By this time Coach Scott Spaulding had checked with some others on the sidelines who had also been keeping the time. They agreed that the full half had already been played. When this was brought to the refs attention, he decided there would be two overtimes to decide the winner. The Senario coach would not accept the decision and pulled his team off the field. NWC calls the the game a tie, Senario calls it a victory, and everyone else calls it a disaster!!!!!!!!

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The Trojans closed within one touchdown early in the third quarter, but Senario came right back with two scores of their own. Late in the fourth quarter, with the Saints ahead 41-21, the Trojans scored two quick touch­ downs with the aid of an onside kick, to make the score 41-35. A second attempt at an on­ side kick failed, and the Saints held on to win it by 6. It must be said that the offense did all it could to win the game, but the defense was unable to stop the big play. Once again Joe Dietrich led the Trojans, with 215 yards on the ground. Mark Mueller also gained 120 yards.

The loss dropped NWC’s conference record to 0-2 and 0-4 overall.

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SOCCER Crossing over to the other side of the athletic field, we find the soccer team kicking a few things around. On the weekend of September 14-15, the soccer club participated in the MBBC soccer tournament. In the opening round the Trojans demolished Trinity College of Illinois 10-1. Todd Goldschmidt led the team with three goals, and Jim Janke and Kerry Krigbaum scored two apiece. The Trojans suffered a setback in the champion­ ship game, losing to Maranatha 6-1.

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Ah, what would we do without the old men from the Sem to kick around once in awhile? The soccer club took out its frustra­ tions by defeating them 4-0. Freddie Krieger scored two goals, and Dave Haag and John Kenyon added one each.

Carthage Unfortunately the winning trend was not to last. The Trojans next traveled to Kenosha, where they battled the Redmen to a 0-0 tie.

The Trojans had a staggering 64 shots on goal, but could not penetrate the Carthage net.

The soccer team returned home knowing that it had dominated them on the field, if not in the scorebook. This tic left the team with a 3-2-2 record.

In the only JV game so far, the JV’s followed the Varsity’s example and tied MBBC 1-1. Jim Janke scored the only goal for the Trojans.

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LJardly a day goes by that a person is not confronted with some sort of sports activ­ ity. Whether it be right here on campus or on the professional level, sports envelope us. In days past, the only really popular type of sport was the team sport. In recent years, though, the individual sports have grown quite a bit in popularity. As Homecoming draws near, a time when sports are the center of attraction, let's take a look at the benefits of both in­ dividual and team sports.

The real advantage that the person partici­ pating in an individual sport has is in regard to injury. One needs only to glance at the roster of any professional football team to see a whole rash of injuries. Although some are minor, many are not just nicks and cuts; they are real, down to earth, serious injuries. Even in baseball, a comparatively mild sport in respect to physical violence, there are many serious injuries. Of course, in individual sports too there will be some pulled muscles, sore arms, and even a sprained ankle or two, but the risk of serious injury is almost nonexistent.

There is another serious drawback to team sports. How long is a person able to participate in them? For most people team sports end with graduation. A small minority might get involved with some city league team, but even this will usually not last longer than the age of thirty. So, on the average, the team player stays physically fit for no more than half of his life at the most. Stimulation of the body is

just as important as stimulation of the mind.

The person involved in individual sports has a greater long-range benefit as far as fitness is concerned. Tennis, as well as golf, can be played even by people in their fifties and sixties. As for running, well, Dr. George Sheehan, who has written a book on running, still runs 78 miles a week at the ancient age of 84. Indeed, the individual sport has long-range benefits.

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year has brought us back to reality. So now we ask, “How can one avoid the infamous senior doldrums, the bane of students and source of grief for the faculty?”

In our never-ending endeavor to be not only a literary, but also a practical appendage of the student body, these writers have cornpiled this booklet of suggestions to help students, and seniors especially, to overcome academic apathy and make it through another year.

Sound familiar? Are those old gowts and oppilations getting you down? Well, we too have been suffering from our share of crudi­ ties lately, and we now know what it means to be a senior. The metamorphosis is almost complete. Those diligent little caterpillars who crawled onto campus three (in our case four) autumns ago, eager larvae devouring and inwardly digesting leaf after leaf of juicy text­ books, spun themselves into cozy academic cocoons and are now emerging and unfolding their wings. We can fly! We don’t have to study! Ah, if only it were true, this light­ headed feeling of freedom, but the “immoderate pains and extraordinary study” of another

As every scholar knows, the making of books is endless, and so it is with vocabulary lists. No sooner have you developed your sys­ tem for memorizing Metzger’s New Testament vocs when along come sloughs of slippery Semitic syllables, those memory-defying, tongue-twisting Hebrew words. No derivatives, no cognates, no hope. But don’t despair, there is another weapon in the students’ arsenalmnemonic devices, little memory jogs that one learns to use in that rote-ridden sophomore year. This procedure of attaching phrases and catchy sayings to obscure dates and emperors and committing elusive Music 20/21 themes

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During such bad times the only answer is to find some diversion and lose yourself in some mindless, rejuvenating activity. We all have our own favorite forms of recreation, but if you're looking for something new, here are a few suggestions:

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In spite of these suggestions, there still may come times when the student begins losing his grip. Those all-nighters and burn-outs happen to the best of us and little can be done other than to try to ride out the storm and wait for that great final crash. It may be of some help to know when these nights are approaching, so here are a few clues on what to look for:

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I feel that both team and individual sports arc useful. I hope this school as well as all Americans will continue to support and partici­ pate in both.

in team sports? By no means. There is one aspect of team sports that is noticeably lacking in individual sports. As the name implies, the team player docs his thing for not only his own benefit, but for the benefit of the team.

He does something that benefits others. The individual player doesn’t have this opportunity.

All that he works at, he does for his own bene­ fit, for himself.

Another benefit of team sports which is especially evident at Homecoming is the parti­ cipation of spectators. Individual sports tend to be extremely boring for anyone besides the participants themselves and those who are very much interested in that particular sport.

The team sport is just the opposite. It can be

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/itreetings to all readers of this special Home^^coming issue! And what better time could there be to hear from our alumni, many of whom will be standing around the gridiron and thinking back to their days on the Trojan squad. As a special tribute, most of this column will be devoted to those doddering duffers, the graying geezers, those cagey codgers at Sem who’ve returned to haunt our hallowed halls. But first, some miscellanea.

resides in Milwaukee, informs us that he greatly enjoyed the festivities which took place here on Northwestern Day last May. He apparently was the only member of the Class of ’20 to attend.

And now for the SEM NOTES!!!!

SENIORS -Muskrat Meyer finally found his muskrat love and sealed it with a karat.

-Mark and Colette opened a kissing booth at their wedding. It’s called “eat while we provide entertainment.”

-Gieschen still hasn’t learned how to write with chalk. (Don’t knock progress. At least he’s writing now!)

-Trinity Congregation of Coleman, WI, observed the 50th anniversary of Pastor Waldemar Zink (’26) on July 8th. He is now living in retirement at Manitowoc, WI. —Rev. Arthur B. Tacke (’12), em., was married to Thelma M. Kempf on July 22 at Zebaoth Lutheran Church, Milwaukee. For the present they will live in Honolulu, Hawaii.

-Philip W. Koehler (’42), who presently serves as the Director of Facilities Management at the University of Hawaii-Manoa, was elected an officer of three international or regional professional associations this past summer. He was elected Vice-Chairman of the Campus Safety Association; President-Elect of the Association of Physical Plant Administrators and President of the Association of Physical Plant Administrators, Pacific Region. Thus, Mr. Koehler will have the unique distinction of simultaneously leading two of the largest professional associations in the field of higher education, the CSA and the APPA. -Rev. W. M. Heidtke (’20), who presently

AND THEIR CHILDREN -Rebecca Marie, daughter of Jim (’76) and Pat Bare, was bom on July 23.

—Paul Christopher, son of David (’76) and Rebecca Hein, on May 9.

—Matthew Philip, son of Marc (’76) and Elaine Frey, on September 23.

-James David, son of David (’76) and Deb Carlovsky, on June 16.

MIDDLERS —Don Scheuerlein broke up his long-time engagement with his golf clubs.

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-Zell, Voss, and Unke: wife-hunting on the high school scene.

-Mark Freier is turning into a grizzly bear! His new-found freedom has induced him to cover his face, thank goodness.

-The Packological Argument was dis­ covered by Mike Spaudc after Green Bay’s miracle win over New England.

-After two years of being a rock, Bruce Marggraf has finally started softening up into a marshmallow. Amen!

-Mark Barenz has been spending a lot of time at Wisco, but what's the real reason, foot­ ball or the high school girls??

—John (Buck Fever) Ruege is lost deep in the Oakfield woods; no signs of life have been detected by authorities in their manhunt for him.

-After Marggrafs recent date, rumor has it he asked Shanny for a tour of the married men’s lounge.

-No Unke-heaven on earth!!

-Paul Zell enjoys life on River?

-Dave “Camp” Voss; once a prep, always a prep.

-Marggraf + Bachelor Party = ?

-Steven “Ray” Mischke - The Prince of WELS. -Earl Wales still enjoys life as the “Earl” of WELS. -Why does Frosty continue to heed the old saying, “Go west, young man?”

-Schmelzcr wants to move to California??

-Is Bruce Becker really studying medical technology, same as a nurse?

-Bill Brassow has become a very negative person-he’s constantly saying, “No!”

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-Steve “Shifty” Schiller lasted three days in the dorm: a new record.

-Sem panic hits the Seel already: setup for Homecoming at NWC. -Steve (Football) Wilkens still has a year of eligibility left. Didn't anyone know?

--After five or six years at NWC, Old Man Ulrich still hasn’t grown weary of Watertown; he insists on spending every weekend away from the peaceful tranquility of Seminary surroundings, preferring Seepcity.

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-Dennis Strong couldn’t live up to his name. He has fallen into the rut which seems to be going around.

—7 a.m. Monday morning-Does anyone know where Randy, “the Happy Wanderer,” Schoeman is?

-Unlike the Pack, GA is back (apologies to D.V.).

-Beware: Keith Tullberg is free again and on the trail of another buffalo.

-Dave Kolandcr is considering buying stock in the Dutch Masters Cigar Co.-he’s always had a soft spot for stogies!

—The continuing saga of Randall Schoeman, Young Wanderer, still continues.

-Norv Kock, alias Jean-Guy, let his romantic French blood run away with him this summer. Since he moved to New Ulm, he has learned the German word for deer (or is that dear?).

-A night class will be offered for new Scm students who are afriad of being struck by Sem panic. Guest lecturer, Keith Bilitz.

-If you think Dan “Wolf” Schumann was a slob last year, just think what’s in store now that he rooms with the man that wrote the book on being a pit—Glen Schmiegc.

-Oh boy! Next year we get Zell, Voss, Unke, and Schallert in our class. At least our class average ought to go up. (Meanwhile Paul Janke is so keyed about life at Sem this year that he’s seeing ballerinas in his sleep and craving Serbian food.

-It seems no one can get Ewing's first name straight any more. The Sem profs call him “Jim,” and this summer a girl wrote him a letter and called him “John.”

-Mike Loescher will be giving “quickescape lessons” for any interested NWC Seniors.

See him next September.

—Pity ex-Homecoming Queen Mary Portinier. Boyfriend Larry “All-League” Olson’s idea of a good time is camping in the Kohl’s parking lot.

—Remember the old days when Wilks only bagged four-legged game when he went up north?

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The eight ball bounded off the bottom cushion and soared into the comer pocket, four feet in the air. “Game!” he cried. He walked to the wall and hung up his stick.

Reaching in his pocket, Larry pulled out a package of cigarettes. He took one himself and held up the package to Jamal. “Cigarette?”

“No, thanks.”

“You’re coming to the seven-day party tonight, aren’t you?”

“I’d like to, but there’s that math test tomorrow. I need to work out some points of that tensor calculus.”

“How ’bout you, Louise?”

“You can count on me.”

“Jenny?”

“I don’t think so. I’m a bit weak on tensor calculus myself.”

“Well, do you think we’ll all make it?”

Jenny replied, “I’m sure all of us will be included among the fifty lucky ones to be assigned a ship. I know there are a hundred in our class, but there are also a lot of schlunkosstudents who eradicate their brain cells with alcohol, don’t apply themselves, have no dedi­ cation. ..”

“I agree. But it’s time for me to go. I have a party to get ready for.”

“Yes, time to hit the books. See you

around.”

“Good-bye.”

“Bye.” Larry, Jenny, Jamal, and Louise left the student union; each went his own way. Jamal had by far the longest walk back to his room.

But today he didn’t mind; the gleaming sun splashed color over the landscape and gave him a glowing feeling. He glanced over to his right and admired the tall, silvery administration building. Although it did not often display this effect, today Jamal could sec the moire patterns shimmer in full regalia. The ingenuity the architect had placed in the optical effect far outdistanced Phidias and his Parthenon.

(The Parthenon was a building of marble with columns on some long-devastcd planet or other.)

Jamal continued on down the vibrant pur­ ple walkway. Up ahead was an observation deck for viewing the starship port. Sensing that the beautiful weather had a superb panorama in store for him, he decided to mount the ob­ servation deck. The view swept Ills breath away. The starships dazzled his eyes-tall ones, small ones, slim, squat, silver, gold, emerald, jacinth, amethyst.

One ship in particular caught his eye: the Gamma-Upsilon, which had been com­ manded by his Uncle Ralph for twenty years.

(Twenty years is the limit for a starship com­ mander. He graduates from the Space Explora­ tion University at about the age of thirty and takes a desk job at the age of fifty.) His thoughts perambulated back to his first voyage continued on page 98

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continued from cover phone to his mouth and announced, “Prepare for lift-off.” Uncle Ralph turned.to Jamal.

“Do you see this lever here?” he asked. Jamal looked at the lever, the most prominent item on the control panel. “This lever is the lift­ off control. When you see this green light flash, wait five seconds, and then, when you see this light flash, pull the lever.”

Jamal gasped, “Thanks, Uncle Ralph!”

He grabbed the lever and waited for the signal lights. They flashed in sequence, he pulled the lever. The mighty engines throbbed, Jamal felt as if a giant hand were pressing him down in his seat. Then, when the acceleration ceased and Uncle Ralph took him to the observation

into space at the age of ten. Uncle Ralph, the man he most admired as a boy, had invited him for a summer-long cruise on the GammaUpsilon to the CE 36-129 Galaxy.

How excited he was when he first entered the starship port! The sight of his uncle’s starship—tall and slim, graceful, colored in gold and trimmed in black-sent goose pimples shivering through his arms and cheeks. His heart throbbed as his Dad and Mom walked with him over the black, velvety surface to the massive monument. When they reached the elevator, his Dad bent down on one knee, grabbed his shoulders, and said, “Good luck, little astronaut!”

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But then his nostalgia, shortened by the excitement of the week before graduation, faded into reality. He glanced at his watch; his daydreaming had occupied thirty minutes.

He got up, took one last look at the starships, and continued on his way.

Back in his dormitory room, as the ham­ burger he had hurriedly cooked in his microwave demonstrated in his stomach, Jamal sat down at his desk and flipped on the computer screen. Soon his mind was performing gymnas­ tics with the odd integrations and differentia-

His vivacious mother gave him a voluptu­ ous hug and said, “Have fun, Jamalion. I’m going to miss you.” Jamal sensed the trace of a tear in her sparkling blue eyes.

Jamal remembered ascending the trans­ parent elevator and waving to his parents, dressed in their Quarday best.

It seemed like only yesterday that the take­ off of the Gamma-Upsilon had taken place.

The gently pulsating engines, the taxiing to the launch pad, the lift-off. Ah yes, the lift­ off! He was sitting next to his uncle in a caressing armchair, watching him touch various buttons which emitted electronic beeps.

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down to her shoulders. Her mystic eyes sug­ tions of tensor calculus. After two hours of gested the time he had viewed the CE 36-129 this activity, Jamal was tired. Jamal flipped off Galaxy’s blue sun against the black velvet space the computer and got ready for bed.

After a few days, in which the students when he first rode with his uncle.

Then Jamal picked up the booklet which engaged in a barrage of cramming and tests, contained the usual facts, anecdotes, and the day before graduation rolled around, the day in which the annual faculty-senior banquet photographs concerning the members of the took place. Jamal was in his room showering graduating class. He was particularly interested after a few sets of tennis. He dried himself off in the character description section, a com­ and selected his best outfit. pilation of various impressions that the class­ When he had donned his suit, Jamal made a mates had written about each other. After last check of his room and went on his way to glancing through a number of paragraphs con­ the banquet. As he walked along, he began to cerning less-familiar students, he came upon think of the next day’s graduation ceremony.

Jenny’s: Tomorrow, he mused, fifty students will be elated and fifty will be disappointed. Yet anxiety did not overwhelm him; he felt that he had carried out his assignments rather dili­ gently. On most of his tests he had scored in the ninetieth percentile or better.

As he walked along, he noticed how nice the weather was. The azure sky melted into the horizon of Matreusian architecture. The vibrant beams of the sun made him wish that he didn’t have to wear his suit. Yet off in the northwest he spied two gray nimbo-cumulus clouds.

Well, the weather report had indicated light showers for tomorrow.

Soon he entered the stately colonnade of the convention hall and found himself in the hallway. The murmur of exhilarated students, parents, and faculty members emanated from the banquet room. Jamal wormed his way to \ the bulletin board to find out where he sat.

He noticed that he sat across from Jenny.

Louise was at his left, and Larry was at Jenny’s right. He went into the banquet room and pardoned his way to his seat. Jenny was the A bright girl with a forceful, yet first to spot him. “Well, good evening, Jamal!”

Then the others at the table noticed Jamal; a charming personality. A real leader, as demonstrated in the incident of the formal exchange of greetings took place. gravity-simulator. When the unit broke When the formalities had concluded, down with a student precariously Jamal said, “Jenny, are you worried?” suspended at fifty feet, she didn’t “A bit,” she stated, with the slightest panic but took measures that resulted touch of a quaver in her voice, “tomorrow in the student’s escaping with merely shows the outcome of years of toil and hopes.

It’s possible that I may not make it.” She a scratch... smiled a smile Jamal had never seen before.

At this point Jamal’s thoughts turned a She asked, “How about you?” little envious. What a nice girl, he mused.

Jamal, lost in her smile, responsed, “What?

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By the time Jamal had gone through a couple more pages of the book, the waiters and waitresses were distributing the feast.

The next morning, after a somewhat rest­ less night’s sleep, Jamal jumped out of bed and began to prepare for the graduation ceremonies.

Looking out of the window, he noticed that he would need a raincoat. The ceremonies would have to be held in the convention hall.

Upon arrival, Jamal took a place among the graduates. The murmur of a hundred different conversations quelled his nervousness to some extent, but he was too anxious to say much.

After a few minutes the university president began his address. A few minutes into the speech the fidgeting of the students became obvious. They wanted their diplomas, their assignments, not another boring lecture.

But the oration finally came to a close, the president and other important university offi­ cials prepared to distribute the diplomas and assignment letters. “The first fifty students named are recipients of starship commanding posts. Will they please come up to the table as they are called,” the announcement rang through the loudspeaker.

Jamal watched as the first twenty students received their diplomas. He hadn’t expected to be among them; there were still thirty captains yet to be named. But when the president stated, “number thirty: George Tasch,” he became a bit apprehensive. Number forty: Stephen Geiger.” By this time Jamal was suffering mental anguish at each number.

“Number forty-five: Jonquil Redman. . .

Jennifer Converse.”

Number forty-seven: Jamal was glad that Jenny had made it at Sarah Peregrine.” least. . .“Number fifty: Jamal felt his heart sink and his eyes became watery. When his name was announced as number sixty, he barely had the strength to walk to the table.

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“The Gamma-Upsilon? Why, that’s my ship! Say, why don’t we take a walk over there right now and take a look at her?”

“Sure.”

They left his room and began their walk to the ship. Off in the distance Jamal could see a few sunbeams pecking through the clouds.

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Thus engrossed in his nostalgic cogitation, Jamal had been sitting there for three hours when he heard a knock at the door. He walked to the door and opened it. “Oh, hi, Jenny.

Congratulations!”

“Thanks. I was so disappointed when I heard that you weren’t assigned a starship.

But don’t feel too bad; the other graduates still have important positions in the starship fleet. What’s your assignment?”

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Qunday evening, October 21, marked a great ^moment for the stage of Northwestern’s Music Auditorium. A professional pianist, Mr. Ralph Votapek, provided a top-notch performance-one that perhaps was the best secular happening here in recent history.

Normally the cost of such an event would be prohibitive for Northwestern. But because of “special connections” (as Prof. Franzmann termed it), the artist donated his services.

These connections were via North Trinity Church in Milwaukee. The pianist’s mother, a member of that church, and its pastor, Carl Otto, encouraged Mr. Votapek to do a concert at Northwestern. Mr. Votapek originally agreed to perform here in mid-September, however, a broken finger altered his plans. The original concert date had to be cancelled, but he kept his word to play a concert here. His concert here was his first public performance after his unfortunate accident, so it served as a “warm­ up” before commencing a concert tour. But what a “warm-up” it was-an all around tre­ mendous performance!

The wide programmatic variety was just

one of the factors that provided for an interest­ ing evening. His four selections encompassed a nearly 200 year spectrum of piano literatureall the way from the Classical Age of Haydn to the Modernist Prokofieff.

The Haydn selection was his Sonata in C Major. This work is representative of a time when the piano was used more in a chamber hall setting than in a large concert hall. The larger and more powerful characteristics of the instrument were not fully developed and therefore not employed at this time.

The second selection was one by Schumann.

By his time the age of Romanticism was sur­ passing Classicism. The piano compositions of this period often utilize a bigger and more powerful sound; the day of the piano as a solo instrument was at its height. The Schumann composition was the Davidsbundlertantze. This piece has an interesting background.

In Schumann’s day the arts were battle­ grounds for two conflicting ideologies. The two contending groups were the Davidsbund and the Philistines. The former group was com­ posed of progressives, the real Romanticists.

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The tone and spirit of the final part unequivo­ cally declare Romanticism the victor.

The second half of the concert included the age of Impressionism with Gabriel Faure as the representative composer of this era. The piano was quite popular in the day of Impres­ sionism because it is extremely well-suited to this type of music. No piano concert could be complete without a sampling of this era’s work.

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To top off this “big city concert," as Mr. Votapek referred to the program, a number of Gershwin encores provided a lighter twist.

The entire program was flawlessly exe­ cuted and artfully set forth. The concert possessed a certain liveliness and flare that made this performance a truly enjoyable and memorable event. Certainly this was a bright spot in the culture life of Northwestern. It wasn’t just another happening—but a real event!

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Duhawks were not about to roll over yet, as they scored on a 19-yard run to make it 22-14. Loras threw one more scare into the Trojans as a pass interference penalty gave Loras the ball within Trojan territory. But the Trojan defense tightened up, and the Duhawks’ last second passes fell incomplete—the Trojans finally had their first victory. Joe Dietrich led the Trojans with 108 yards rushing.

LORAS October 6 was Dad’s Day and the Trojans were anticipating their first victory. The Tro­ jans grabbed the lead early in the second quar­ ter on a 15-yard run by Mark Mueller. The game remained 7-0 until half, but Loras scored a quick third-quarter touchdown and 2-point conversion to take an 8-7 lead. The Trojans came right back, though, to score on a 1-yard plunge by Joe Dietrich. Northwestern also tallied the next score to take a 22-8 lead. The

ROSEVILLE After the long-awaited victory, the Trojans faced the league-leading Northwestern Rose102

ville Eagles. The Trojans started out on fire as they marched right down the field. The touch­ down was scored on a 34-yard run by Chris Poettcr. That was the end of the Trojan scoring, though, as the Eagles went on to score 27 unanswered points to win 27-7. The Trojans were stopped on several key fourth down situations, once inside the 30 and twice inside the 10. However, the Eagles did cash in on big plays such as a 63-yard touchdown run. Chris Poetter led the team with 97 yards rushing, and Mark Kolander picked off two passes to raise his team-leading total to 7.

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It was Homecoming once again here at Northwestern, and, as is the case in the oddnumbered years, we had DMLC as our opponents. Looking back to last year’s 13-9 squeaker, most people expected to see a close battle-they were not disappointed. After a seesaw battle of defenses in the first quarter, the Trojans took a 7-0 lead on a touchdown by Jim Hoff. The Lancers came up with a field goal in the second quarter to make the score 7-3 at half. DMLC came up with another field goal in the third quarter to tighten up the game even more. In the fourth quarter, freshman Phil Pitt intercepted a Lancer pass on the DMLC 10-yard line. The Trojans were unable to capitalize as a field goal attempt went wide.

Then it was the Lancers’ turn. They mounted a tough drive highlighted by an incredible catch

by Lancer Dave Neujahr. The drive came to a halt on the Trojan 11 with fourth down and only seven seconds left. The Lancers decided to try for the winning field goal and brought their kicker in. He had already made two. The Trojans countered by placing all the big men on the team right on the line. The kick sailed to the right by about 2 yards. In a repeat of last year, the Trojans had salvaged a 7-6 victory.

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little too late, though, as the Crusaders took the next kickoff and ran out the clock to win 21-15. The Trojans finished the year with a 2-4 Conference record and 3-6 overall.

Right from the start it was evident that tills year was going to be different. They even had matching helmets. The Trojans scored twice in the first half to take a 12-0 lead. The Warriors were not ready to fold yet, as they scored a touchdown after recovering a Trojan fumble.

Northwestern put the game on ice, though, with a fourth quarter touchdown to make the final score 19-6. The Trojan defense put on their best performance of the year, allowing Marquette only 150 total yards. Also, Joe Dietrich picked up 144 yards to put him over the thousand yard mark for the second straight season.

SOCCER MILTON With a 3-2-2 record the soccer club took the field against Milton College. The Trojans took an early lead and never relinquished it, defeating Milton 3-1.

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MARANATHA Holy Redeemer was the next opponent for the Trojans. Holy Redeemer always plays the Trojans tough, and this time was no excep­ tion. Todd Goldschmidt scored a goal in the first period for the Trojans, which proved to be their only goal of the match. But with goalie Jim Weiland and the defense playing tough, it was enough to come away with a 1-0 victory

The finale of the 1979 season was at cross­ town rival Maranatha. The Trojans jumped out to a 7-0 lead, only to see the Crusaders tie it up at 7-7 before half. It looked as if Maranatha was really going to open it up as they scored two second-half touchdowns, but the Trojans came back with one of their own to make it 21-15 late in the fourth. It proved to be too

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MARANATHA After two previous losses to the Crusaders, the soccer club was determined to defeat MBBC. However, the Trojans were unable to generate any offense and they fell to the Crusaders 2-0. The loss dropped the Trojans’ record to 5-3-2 overall and 3-2-1 in conference.

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battle more than their opponents again this year. Tutor Kipfmiller, like Tutor Brenner before him, was forced to do weekly recruiting in order to put a full team on the course.

Despite this, the Trojans had a respectable season as a team, finishing third at UW-Sheboygan and fourth at the Barron Invitational.

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For the season Todd Goldschmidt finished with a team-leading 9 goals, Freddie Krieger had 8, and John Kenyon had 6. Also, congratu­ lations to Freddie and Paul Marggraf who were selected to the All-Conference team!

Although not quite as successful as last year, the Trojans still had another good year.

CROSS COUNTRY The cross country team was forced to

JAY BENDEWALD farther back than fifth place in any meet, he won four out of eight, and finished second in two others. Jay also set a new school meet record and broke the meet record at Blackhawk Tech. One article from Sheboygan called Jay “one of the best small college runners around.” What is even better, Jay has three more years of eligibility left. The prospects for Trojan cross country look good. Congratu­ lations, Jay! RICH GURGEL

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a]Tt the beginning of the twentieth century ^the rift between Catholics and Lutherans was well defined by their “orthodox” posi­ tions. Today, however, shaky bridges are being fashioned over the oil and water while efforts continue to shore up the trusses with the clay of compromise. Cooperation is essential and the Catholic priests in Lutheran pulpits are encouraging it to receptive audiences. Together the distracted workmen participate in “Living Room Dialogs” to define their “unity in diversity.” Their success seems apparent.

The crowds are thronging to cross the bridge with signs that tell the approaching “Papa” “We Lutherans love you too.”

What do you think when you read about such things? I see red. I’d love to smash their bridge. How can anyone even consider pulling us together? Does anyone know what he belives anymore? The “little Luthers” in us want to jump up and shout, “Hey, you’re not Lutherans. You don’t even know what it means to be a Lutheran!” But what can we do to straighten things out? We still have a few years before we can mount our pulpits and open fire on the ecumenists.

Yes, sometimes we would love to force a confrontation or at least rattle a few heads together. If only we could make them see.

But something tells us this might not be the thing to do. Perhaps there are other ways we can help cure the sickness. We look around for examples to guide us.

Consider the Apostle Paul in his ministry.

Can you think of a time when he tried to force a confrontation? It might seem so at first

glance. Upon entering a city he almost immed­ iately found the synagogue to debate with the Jews. What a hot spot. Doubtless after his frightening experiences in Iconium and Lystra he came to expect powerful opposition on the Sabbath. But was his intention a confronta­ tion, or an unflinching desire to witness to the truth about his Savior?

In 1517 Martin Luther would have been shocked to learn that his Ninety-five Theses would soon shake the Catholic Church and the world. He wasn’t spoiling for a fight; he only wanted to debate the issues for the sake of love and the truth. To tear his church apart was the furthest thing from his mind. Sure, he knew there would be some opposition. Never­ theless, his people were counting on him for guidance. So he took a stand and opened the door for the Reformation.

And thus it has always been. Dissension and strife follow in the wake of the Gospel.

Those who take a consistent stand on the truths of Scripture will always be subject to abuse. There is no need for us to force a con­ frontation in an effort to make the world understand the truth. The enemy feels our presence and will find us all too soon. Will we be prepared? Are we ready now?

Some of us have already found ourselves caught up in debate with a Catholic. Skill­ fully and with confidence built on years of repetition we zero in on the basic issue: works or grace. Ephesians 2:8 is on the tips of our tongues, and we apply the message fluently.

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Catholics. In our day few people seem to realize that this is the heart of the problem.

Now the arrows whistling past us carry different warheads. The Milwaukee woman who commented on the WELS’ recent anti­ abortion resolution called us sexists. She wanted people to know that the WELS doesn’t allow their women to vote. As far as she was concerned, the decision against abortion came not from the individuals most affected, but from the male portion of our membership.

Why doesn’t the WELS let their women vote? Do we ourselves know? More and more people are beginning to ask the question.

Our pastors arc being pressed by increasing demands for answers. One young woman who asked a pastor the question received the usual answer referring to I Corinthians 14:34 and II Timothy 2:11. She wasn’t satisfied, however, and complained that he was only “parroting” the other pastors she had questioned. Of course we can say, “Well, she simply should have been satisfied with those clear words of Scripture!”

But mere repetition of Bible passages is not all that is required to calm the questioning mind.

Without knowing how the passages fit into their context, the circumstances which prompted them, and the way the rest of Scripture supports the statements we will be able to do little more than "parrot” Scripture.

We need to speak clearly with more than a cursory knowledge of Scripture to back us up.

The closer we get to the responsibilities of soul care, the more such attacks on our posi­ tion will raise disturbing questions in our own minds. We may even be led to doubt our grasp of the truth. At present we might be content to wait until we reach the Seminary, where dedicated men can infuse us with all the tools necessary to answer any query and stifle all dissent. If we do wait until that time, however, some of "s will rob ourselves of much needed comfort and strength now.

Twenty years have passed since the heated synodical conferences when fellowship with the Missouri Synod was in the limelight.

Despite the heartaches and broken friendships which resulted, some can now see the loving hand of God in the strife. The issue was so hot that everyone was forced to open his Bible to see which side he should take. The need to know God’s will was mandatory. Time and time again our Lord has used schisms to lead

His people back to the Word in much the same way as He uses trials to help individuals. Will He have to use similar problems to show us the importance of finding the answers in Scripture?

Will it take a flurry of assaults on the WELS to help us see why we stand where we do?

We may envy Luther’s position of leader­ ship and the fame he won with it. Unfortunate­ ly, we often forget that he desired neither the distinction nor the name. He didn’t appreciate it when the new Protestants began calling themselves “Lutherans.” And in the “comfort controlled” USA we can’t begin to imagine the hardships that beset the Reformer. Our ambitious dreams don’t depict the heartaches

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What then should be our reaction to the Reformation, especially in regard to the ecu­ menical reform-destroying bridge builders?

We want to fight back, but really don’t know how. The answer to our dilemma lies in the heart of the Reformation itself. Our heritage in the Reformation is an open Scripture. And the things which continue to threaten us should drive us ever deeper into its truths.

There the Holy Spirit can tell us what He

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wants us to do and provide us with the wisdom and strength to make the practical applications.

But the answers won’t come from our wonder­ ing about them while our Bibles gather dust.

Because it was God’s Word that brought peace and purpose from the chaos of Luther’s mind, we can be extra thankful that we are spending the present at Northwestern. A hundred years before Luther, reformers like Wycliff and Huss saw the importance of read­ ing the Scriptures in the original languages.

Since that time young men have spent many a long hour sweating over vocables and syntax.

1 knew one middle-aged pastor, outside our circles, who took it upon himself to learn Hebrew. He realized what a boon it would be to his ministry, but he couldn’t master it on his own. We have these years at Northwestern to study under men who are dedicated to the truth at all costs. The magnitude of this blessing may not strike us for a few years, but it is, nonetheless, a powerful aid to help us fathom the expanse of eternal truth.

Though valuable in themselves, these languages are far more meaningful when viewed in the background of history. To know what makes man tick and the weaknesses of his greatest thoughts is to understand more fully how to apply the Law and Gospel to his starv­ ing soul. And any subject with even a small possibility of increasing our abilities to help him is worth our best efforts. If Luther had used the excuse not to study because he felt a subject was inappropriate, he might never have had the mental capabilities necessary to face intellectual giants like Dr. Eck. At this point, someone might counter that it isn’t by man’s power that doctrinal battles are won. God gives the words to say and works the outcome. How true this is. But that guidance comes from the Word itself. The better we know His message and the situations for which it was written, the more the Holy Spirit can use us for His soul-saving ministry.

When we see others without the hope of the Gospel, or confused as to what the Gospel is, we should breath a prayer of thanks that we have been shown the truth. As we learn to apply the soothing balm of the Gospel to our own hearts through the trials and depressions of demanding education, the Lord increases our talents for helping others. Soon we will be leading His sheep deeper and deeper into the 108

he dreamed of the spires at Worms: Thus are those men of God, who are led by His spirit. After they have been taught the discipline of the outward man, they neglect it and look upon it only as a prelude. They are now ready to offer themselves for any real task the Lord may have chosen for them.

And when God leads them through sufferings and humiliations they know not whither, they cling to no favorite plan of their own, but still submit all things to the Lord. Thus their work will be without a name at the beginning, because they are not leading, but being led.

boundless depths of Jesus’ love.

Thus we can see that we must tighten the reins on our zealous aspirations to reform the ecumenical world. He has placed work before us that requires all our energies. We can’t afford to go off chasing daydreams. The Lord told the man in the parable, “You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things.” Once we reach those responsibilities, we will have a more realistic view of the bitter cup which Luther had to drink. He realized, just as we will, that the minister of Christ is only a tool in the hand of his God. Our present reaction to the Reformation of yesteryear and the confusion of today must be the same. Take the example of Paul and Luther and learn to follow Christ. He alone can cure the sickness of man. Today He gives us the opportunities for preparation and will send us the trials soon enough. So said the monk at the dawn of the Reformation before

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A teenager is all of these. He is in the midst of changing from a child to an adult, wanting to mature and yet not wanting to change. He wants the best of both worlds-all the advan­ tages without all the problems. A teenager is a paradox.

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that same illustrious troup who introduced to the stage such greats as La Machine and Hum­ phrey. Tutor Kehl looked almost as exquisite as Tutor Kucrth did last year in his orange chiffon dress. He tried to show modesty by saying he was glad his name didn’t appear on the picture in the Watertown Daily Times, but we all know that deep down he’s one hundred percent ham. And there is a rumor circulating that after their great debut on our stage, Pro­ fessor Sullivan and Elmer are planning to go on tour as the comedy team of Herman and Doro­ thea.

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Good thing, too, with Buelow and Kipfmiller the younger around. But if the rest of you are stuck for ideas, we came up with a few items which will greatly enhance the livability of your dorm rooms, and are not specifically prohibited (as of yet) in the handbook: waterbeds, theater pump organs, disco lighting systems, barbecue pits, saunas, hot tubs jacuzzis, stuffed pachyderms, shuffleboan courts, and private landing strips.

Of course, these innovations may suddenly appear in the handbook next year if anyone puts them in his room, but a refreshing change in the handbook once in a while would be nice.

For that matter, after umpteen years of hand­ books and Dean’s letters, perhaps the Dean might want to change his familiar slogan to something more obscure, yet meaningful, like: -Take no flannel kopecks-S. J. Perelman —An egg is always an adventure: it may be different.-Oscar Wilde -A man seldom thinks of taking Turkish baths until it is too late.-Robert Benchley —More acceptable is the character of one upright of heart than the ox of the evil-doer. from an Ancient Egyptian fable

great consternation surrounding the mystify­ ing removal of a sound panel on first floor Wittenberg. Some say it was mere vandalism, and our old friend Mr. Nobody was the purpetrator. That’s what the Dorm Staff would like us to believe, but after an exhaustive and diligent investigation, we have uncovered the truth. It seems that a passer-by had inadvertent­ ly punctured the panel, and to everyone’s amazement, a legion of accumulated sounds, absorbed over the years, began to escape, filling the hall with snatches of past conversations and assorted noises of dorm life. Some of the more harmless regurgitations were the offensivc-er, greatly irritating jingle of the jannic’s keys, strains of over-amplified Cheap Trick, im­ promptu dormitory orations from summer Synod conventions, and even a bar or two of yodeling. All well and good, but when the stu­ dents began to hear years of house-phone abuse, off-color jokes and professor impersona­ tions, conversations from clandestine dorm staff meetings, and Brenner’s secretive phone calls to his many prospective brides, then the Dean stuck his cigar in the hole and ordered the panel to be removed to avoid any further embarrassment. As they say, “If these walls could talk...”

Rounding off a fine Homecoming weekend of festivities, world famous pianist Ralph Votapck gave a dazzling performance in our very own Music Auditorium. One may ask, how could we afford an artist of such inter­ national stature? The answer is simple-he did it for nothing. What could have possibly induced him to favor us with such gratuity? Actually, he gave many reasons, including the following: —he needed the practice; —his old friend Enrico Caruso told him about the astounding acoustics of our audi­ torium; —he wanted the opportunity to play one of the finer pianos on our campus; —Professor emeritus. Dr. A. O. Lehmann, had promised him an autographed first edition of his new book. The Church Musician’s Enchiridion; —he ran into President Mischke’s car in downtown Milwaukee.

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Bob Smith—M.C. extraordinaire. Nice try, Bob. Next time start with the school song.

A late southward migration of a flock of veal-birds provided the hunters on campus with an opportunity to catch them coming through Watertown. But they bagged nary a cutlet.

The kitchies will tell you that the only way to catch a veal-bird is to dust the flock with corn starch until their gravy congeals, rendering them unable to fly. The hardest part, naturally, is getting the veal-birds to lie down so you can put the com starch on. Nice try anyway, fearless hunters!

When I consider how my mind is spent, Ere half this year is gone and I am fried, And that G.P.A. which is death to slide, Floundering on the rocks, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Synod in Mequon, Doth Quam exact day labor, sleep denied?

I fondly ask; but patience to prevent That murmur soon replies:Think not so rash!

They also serve who only grease and crash.

Before we go, we had to include yet another C and C Special Feature—The Campus and Classroom Dress Your Sprinter Paper Doll, complete with several outfits for the various occasions throughout the year. Watch for “Sprinty’s” new summer action wardrobe next spring. Buenos Snowshoes.

For this exciting feature, sec inside back cover.

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—Rev. Jerome Enderle (’69), former pastor of Redeemer, Council Bluff, IA, was called to serve Christ Congregation, Grand Island, NE. He was installed on April 20, 1979.

-Rev. Frederic Berger accepted the call to Redeemer, Council Bluff, IA, and was installed there on June 24, 1979. He had been serving Our Savior Congregation of Hart, MI. -Rev. Mark Zander (’75) accepted the call to Garden of Gethsemane, Omaha, NE, and was installed July 15, 1979.

-Christ Our Redeemer Church of Denver, CO, installed Rev. Tim Bauer as its pastor on June 10, 1979. He was the former pastor of King of Kings, Alexandria, LA. -Rev. Tim Speidel was installed at King of

Kings, Alexandria, LA, on June 24.

-Rev. Curt Seefeldt was installed to serve a mission area in Topeka, KS, on July 8.

-Rev. J. Strackbein (’74) was installed to serve Faith of Russell, KS, and St. Mark of Salena, KS, on June 24.

—Rev, Thomas Trapp (’69) was installed at the student chapel in Madison, WI, on Octo­ ber 7. He formerly served St. Mark, Stambaugh, and St. Paul, Tipler, WI. -Rev. Paul Werner (’69), former pastor of St. John, Boyd, MN, and Bethany, Granite Falls, MN, was installed as pastor of Christ, Cochrane, and Martin Luther, Buffalo City, WI, on November 4.

-Rev. John Zeitler (’69) of Cross of Christ, Coon Rapids, MN, was called as assistant pastor of St. Peter’s, Fond du Lac, WI. He was 112

pastor.

-Grace, Seward, NE, celebrated its 10th anniversary with Rev. P. Reede (’72).

installed on November 4.

—Rev. Richard DeRuiter (’73) was installed at Zion, St. Louis, MI, having former­ ly served Christ Congregation of Cambridge, MN. -St. Paul’s of North Hollywood, CA, called Rev. William Godfrey (’57) as its pastor and installed him on September 16. His former congregation was Christ the King, La Habra, CA. -Rev. Michael Dietz (’71), former pastor of Gethsemane, Davenport, I A, was installed as pastor of Christ Our Redeemer, Bend, OR, on June 17.

DEDICATIONS —St. Mark’s of Lincoln, NE, dedicated a new school on April 20th of this year. Rev. K. Bode (’66) is its pastor.

-St. Paul’s, Naper, NE, dedicated a new pipe organ for its church on March 25. Its pastor is Rev. D. Kolterjahn.

-Shepherd of the Hills, Greeley, CO, dedicated a new house of worship on May 27, 1979. Rev. L. Lemke (’71) serves as its pastor.

-St. Paul’s, Gresham, NE, dedicated a new parsonage on January 10. Rev. W. Hilgendorf serves the congregation.

-Grace, Sioux City, IA, dedicated a new parsonage on July 8. Its pastor is Rev. L. Sievert (’67).

-Trinity of Winner, SD, dedicated a new church on September 9. Rev. N. Baumann (’73) serves as pastor.

-Zion, Denver, CO, dedicated a new school on September 16. Rev. D. Bode (’62) is its pastor.

-Shepherd of Peace, Norfolk, NE, dedi­ cated a new parsonage on October 7. Its pastor is Rev. D. Lemke.

-Redeemer Congregation of Martin, SD, celebrated its re-dedication on July 8. Rev. R. Agenten (’72) serves the congregation.

-Syndoulos Congregation, Fairbanks, AK, dedicated its new church building on July 1.

Its pastor is Rev. Norbert Meier (’53).

-The new church, new Christian Day School, and new parsonage of Good Shepherd Lutheran, Sioux Falls, SD, were dedicated on Sunday, October 28. The pastor there is Rev. Dennis Hayes (’65).

-Grace Church of Tecumseh, MI, dedi­ cated a church addition on September 23.

-Martin Luther Preparatory School at Prairie du Chien, WI, was dedicated on Octo­ ber 14.

-A new pipe organ was dedicated at St. Paul’s, Algoma, WI, on September 23. Rev. L. A. Dobberstein (’55) serves as pastor there.

—The University Lutheran Chapel of Houghton, MI, was dedicated on September 30. Rev. Mark Hannemann (’69) is its pastor.

—St. John’s, Two Creeks, WI, dedicated a new church entrance on November 4. Rev.

ANNIVERSARIES -Christ the King, Bremerton, WA, cele­ brated its 10th anniversary on September 9.

Rev. Theodore Lambert (’68) serves as its pastor.

-Grace, Portland, OR, observed the 70th anniversary of the congregation and the 15th of its church building on October 7, with Rev. Warren Widmann (’59) as its pastor.

-St. Paul’s, Tacoma, WA, observed the 85th anniversary of its congregation on Novem­ ber 11. Rev. George Frey (’37) is its pastor.

-^-The congregation of Rev. P. G. Heiderich, St. Paul’s in McIntosh, SD, celebrated the 55th anniversary of its church building on September 30.

-Pastor Manfred Lenz of La Mesa, CA, celebrated his 40th year in the ministry on September 16.

-Our Savior Lutheran of Pomona, CA, celebrated its 20th anniversary on August 19.

-Mt. Calvary, Redding, CA, observed its 15th anniversary on November 4. Its pastor is Rev. Joel Prangc (’62).

—St. John’s of Frankenmuth, MI, cele­ brated its 100th anniversary on October 28.

—St. Mark’s Congregation of Watertown, WI, celebrated its 125th anniversary from September 23 to October 21.

-Faith, Platte, SD, observed its 40th anniversary on April 8. Its pastor is Rev. Charles lies (’70).

-St, Paul’s of Batesland, SD, observed its 50th anniversary on June 10, with Rev. R. Agenten (’72) as its pastor.

—The 20th anniversary was celebrated by Our Savior Congregation, Longmont, CO, with Rev. W. Westphal (’63) serving as its 113

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Percy Damrow (’65) serves the congregation.

MARRIAGE -Robert Meiselwitz (’75) wedded Cynthia Ackright on October 20, 1979.

RETIREMENT -Rev. Otto Engel (’31) retired from the active preaching ministry on October 31.

He had been serving St. Matthew’s Lutheran of Danube, MN.

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-Rachel Marie, bom to Pastor and Mrs. Philip Schwerin (’68) of Cheyenne, WY, on April 12.

—Joel Philip, born to Pastor and Mrs. Philip Zarling (’66) at Columbus, NE, on March 9.

—Adam Seth, born to Pastor and Mrs. Mark Cares (’73) in Boulder, CO, on May 17.

-Kelley Marie, born to Pastor and Mrs. John Gawrisch (’74) of Little Rock, AR, in August.

-Sarah Rosetta, born to Pastor and Mrs. John Warmuth (’74) of North Platte, NE, in August.

-Joel Paul, born to Pastor and Mrs. Jerome Enderle (’69) at Grand Island, NE, on August 22.

-Julie Marie, born to Pastor and Mrs. Thomas Speidel cf Alexandria, LA, on August 28.

-Andrew James, born to Pastor and Mrs. James Kuehl (’71) of Westminster, CO, on August 21.

-A daughter was born to Pastor and Mrs. Durant P. Shook, Watertown, SD, on Satur­ day, September 20.

MISCELLANIA

BOWLING

-Hearty congratulations go to Pastor Nonis Baumann (’73), who clubbed a long hole-in-one during league play in Winner, SD.

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Many thanks to Jeff Seelow and his entire crew of dizzy grads for this bunch of SEM 114

so he can study better when he gets out.

-Heuth’s VW just died. We’ll have a moment of silence on behalf of Denyse.

-“Horse” Spaude got his forehead re­ paired, so now he can attract cute young fillies. He even got a prayer in chapel out of it.

-What was Birky doing in a cornfield on Homecoming night?

—No more women allowed at Sem parties, thanks to Tullberg not being able to know when to say goodbye. Thanks a whole pile, Keith.

—Scheibs has been spending a lot of time down at WLC lately. It’s a new species of fish.. .Dena?

—Paul Mueller has found a new light in his night life. Two nights in a row he made it back in time for chapel-morning chapel, 7:30 a.m.

—We hope Scheibs will recover from his weekly colds, maybe by the time the lakes freeze over.

-Rumor has it that Roger Sloan is taking up writing hieroglyphics during class time.

Strangely he does it with his eyes closed.

—Mike Loescher has discovered the light in Genesis.

-After a recent trip to Holy Hill, one of the Fathers there asked Mike Loescher when he was going to enter the monastery.

-Ylvisaker has finally become a mensch?

He had a date and then another within a oneweek period.

-Will “Wolf’ Jeske ever finish the MNEMA? Bo www!

-Trigger is sporting a new 1980 fastback forehead scar. Looks exciting, Phil!

-Hey, Ross, got any Copenhagen?

-‘‘Wolf’ Jeske meets responsibilitybagging at Piggly Wiggly.

—Is Karen Klumpme attending Sem Gems, Wilks?

-Hey, Ylvis, cool (?) mustache.

—Is Tim Henning Heuth’s twin brother?

-Steven E. Schiller has recently been seen with a young chicken from egg harbor. It is said that a romance may be hatching.

-Since way back in Sexta, Jerry Ewings finally received his first Care Package. Joy swept through the section in “sharing” his treasures. He did manage to save the boxes.

-Dave Huebner likes his mom!!!

NOTES. THE LONE SENIOR -Jim Huebner can shoot from 30 feet even with twenty extra pounds!

MIDDLERS -Dan Schmelzer eats lunch outside?

—Bruce Becker: where is Decatur?

-Jack Beck is still selling Hebrew Bibles for a favorite professor.

-John Ruege finally felled a doe with an arrow. All he needs now is a sophisticated Russian tracking system. The same applies to Trigger Spaude.

-Schiltz’s experiments with livestock have become very interesting. Is he trying to become a new Godfather?

-October 31-Paul Jankc looks for his second defeat as a pro boxer.

-Excerpts from the expose’ on Tim Unke in the Fox Tail. “Tim’s favorite color is now powder blue. ..

The Wanderlust will keep Tim from marriage until his 28th birth­ day.”

-Where is Paul Zell?

-Phil Heyer has proclaimed August 2 “Gala Day!” -Instructor Unke has proceeded with a copyright on his newest literary work, “How to Disappear Gracefully.”

-Little Danny Gawrisch is using his un­ equaled classroom experience to become the intellectual giant of his new class.

-Schmelzer is falling fast-he wishes every girl could be a California girl!

-Roto bagged one dear already this year, but insists his tag hasn’t been filled yet.

JUNIORS —Ylvis has started class with Prof. Keith Bilitz-Sem Panic 01.

-Larry Olson still hasn’t taken off his tie for fear of offending his professors. What dedication!

-Scheibs had the “fishin’ fever” again last Friday; a cure is being sought for him by Doctor Becker!

-Prof. Kuske explained that he and his fiancee entered the ministry with $600.00 between them. Meanwhile, Debbie just bought a La-Z-Boy recliner for Shanny (good choice)

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Joy to the World

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Burning Hearts

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A Look at the CLC

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CAMPUS & CLASSROOM

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The Mormon Attraction

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11/hat should a staff writer contribute for the ™ Christmas issue of The Black and Red? A description of the different ways in which various cultures observe Christmas? Metaphors of mistletoe, paragons of presents in purple paper? What about the people who don’t celebrate Christmas?

People can’t celebrate Christmas unless they know what it is, and they can’t know what it is unless someone communicates in­ formation to them. The major barrier in this respect is language. Approximately 5100 different languages-ranging from Abnaki to Zulmanu-are spoken in the world. According to Wycliff Bible Translators, 3000 to 3500 languages representing at least 200 million people still need their own Scripture transla­ tion. If one assumes that the population of the world is around 5 billion, one comes up with a fraction of about one in twenty-five people who don’t celebrate Christmas because no one ever brought the gospel to them in their own language (at least as far as researchers can tell).

Another group ignores Christmas because of their religion. The following chart illustrates the major unchristian religions and the number

Religion Jewish Moslem

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Number (in millions) 15 576 0.233

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(From 1979 World Almanac.)

The total comes to around 1.6 billion. About eight people in twenty-five do not celebrate Christmas because of religious affiliation.

I don’t want to spoil the reader’s Christ­ mas by mentioning those who aren’t so fortu­ nate as to even celebrate it at all (and I have by no means mentioned all the people to whom Christmas means less than it means to us). In fact I wish the reader the best Christ­ mas ever. The more Christmas joy we have in our hearts, the more it will overflow to others.

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Burning Hearts

sure how it all started, but i ’mbeforenot Ieven found out what really happened

keep in touch while not in the same room, they had installed an intercom between the kitchen, where she was most of the time, and the base­ ment. Here he usually could be found, working with his lovely flowers-and oh, what marvelous flowers he had! His entire basement was a garden of big and little plants with their own special-colored petals. The outside of their house was luxuriously supplied with flowers too, but none so rare, so beautiful as those that George grew in his basement. Plants were his pride and joy; wherever he could put one, he did.

On one of my visits, his interest in plants brought on a dispute between them. He inter­ rupted a conversation of hers concerning a new fashion design she had just found, to make mention of his plants. An argument arose suddenly, insults flew, and tempers flamed.

At the peak of the argument, she stopped suddenly and spitefully swore she would not utter another word to him. So she arrogantly busied herself with her magazines, letters, and housework. Soon her silence tactic worked, and George offered an apology. But no plead­ ing of his could cool her seething, stubborn temper; so he finally gave up trying and went downstairs to his plants, hoping she would calm down after a while. I could see my visit was terminated, so I left.

Now, George was no amateur gardener; he was always into the most recent methods of gardening and even invented new ways to im-

between them, it was over, and George Simp­ son was no more; he was gone, and there was nothing I could have done to prevent his death.

They had lived together as husband and wife in the same quaint little house ever since their wedding day, fifty-five years ago.

At first they had enjoyed their lives together; later, that special spark of newly-wed together­ ness died, and they began to get used to each other. No more doors were opened and no more cheery welcome-home kisses were affec­ tionately given. Oh, there was still an occasional “good morning,” and they talked with each other often. But the conversations were rather dry. She talked about the latest fashions found in her women’s magazines and about letters from old schoolmates. He talked about the plants he loved to grow: “My hybrid Spanish rose is a little faded today, Dora.” or “You should be happy to know my split-leaf philo­ dendron is sprouting a new one.” She apparent­ ly wasn’t the slightest bit interested in his flowers; he wasn’t much concerned about her gossiping schoolmates or her ladies’ fashions.

Whenever I visited, the dialogue between them was not very lively. She would start up a con­ versation and end it; then he would talk about his interests.

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Electric vibrations pulsated through the soil and into the plant, in the hope of promoting growth rate. I can only guess; this invention . brought about his gruesome death.

In the evening after their argument I returned to try to complete my business. As the day grew longer and longer and the shadows lengthened into night, I walked down the lonely road, enjoying the coming cool of the quiet night. Up ahead lay their house, a black silhouette of a giant matchbox against the deepening night sky. Lights were glowing from two windows, one at ground level and one above it about six feet off the ground. As I neared the structure, I could see Dora in the kitchen hastily moving here and there. Sudden­ ly the light near the ground flashed with sud­ den intensity. It died down rapidly, and before it was gone, another flash—and another—lit up the area around the lower window. White light seemed to spark from the window and to explode without any rhythm. And through the night a faint outcry could be heard from the basement window. Meanwhile, the figure in the kitchen was hurrying here and there with strange haste. I started to run toward the house, but the sight of Dora bustling in the kitchen, oblivious to the popping light and now greatly increased wailing coming from the basement, held me back as if some morbid force was slowing my racing heart and steps.

As I reached the house, I could hear the radio blaring away in the kitchen, and the blender whining at high speed. Dora was still racing about from one cabinet to the other, unmind­ ful of the heart-rending cries coming from the room that flashed and sparked with sizzling intensity. I stopped at the door to the left of the basement window. Behind the pane I could only see the outline of many leaves growing on the thousands of plants and bushes in the room.

But the wail that met my ears! Such a wail I had never heard before. It was a cry wrenched from a heart filled with smothering fear and tortuous pain. It was a pleading burst of wasting life each time the light exploded and filled the room with white, electric energy.

“Dora!” it screamed. “Help me, please, Dora!”

“O DomTraaaa!”

I didn’t wait long at the door, but threw it 128

open and leaped up the few steps leading into the kitchen. As the door banged open, the flashing light gave a final pop, and all life in the basement died out. At the same time I reached the kitchen, Dora saw me. She said something, but I couldn’t hear her. I screamed out, “What’s going on here!” As she turned

down the radio and switched off the blender, she spoke in a calm voice: “Sit down and have a cup of coffee with me while I show you something I found in a magazine today.”

PLINT

A Look at the CLC

voted unanimously that Missouri, by her resolutions and policies, was causing divisions and offenses; but it resolved, not unanimously, to hold the decision of breaking fellowship in abeyance until 1956, when Missouri would have had a chance to react to the WELS resolution to terminate fellowship with the LC—MS if no change in Missouri's position took place before the 1956 convention of the WELS. A minority of the dele­ gates protested this action strongly, saying that in obedience to Romans 16: 17-18, once we have recognized that a church body is causing divisions and offenses, we must immediately apply the “avoid’' of the passage.

Jjvcr since I was a child, I was taught that *ihe Wisconsin Synod based all its teachings solely on the Scriptures, believing firmly in the inerrancy of Scripture. In the past year, however, I have been sternly admonished for my membership in the WELS because, as my admonishcr, a CLC pastor, put it, WELS was acting in disobedience to God’s Word. I was quite shocked, to say the least. Here is a chron­ ology of the events that brought about the CLC. -1938- The LC—MS took a small step, yet a step nevertheless, in the direction of unionism. The WELS, being a member of the Synodical Conference of which Missouri was also a member, brought testimony against them for what they were doing.

—1953—By this time the small step toward unionism had grown into a major offense because of resolutions of the LC—MS in regard to such issues as scouting, military chaplaincy, and the Common Confession. In a special convention in October the WELS resolved to continue “in a state of confession ” with the LC-MS. —1955— The WELS convention in this year

1956-In a recessed convention the WELS resolved to hold the 1955 resolution in abeyance because the LC—MS had demonstrated a turn back to the truth in their convention of 1956.

The WELS, however, would remain in “protesting fellowship” with the LC-MS until the disputed matters could be resolved.

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-1959-The congregations that had been breaking away from the WELS since the decisions in 1955 formed an organized body and called thcmsevles the Church of the Lutheran Confes­ sion. The WELS continued in "pro­ testing fellowship” as the promising hopes from the 1956 convention dimmed.

—1961 - The WELS agreed with its Com­ mittee on Church Union, which had declared an impasse, and voted to suspend fellowship with the LC—MS. -1962-Meeting between CLC and WELS representatives. Nothing was decided.

-1964-An understanding emerged that "there seemed to be no real difference be­ tween the CLC and Wisconsin in principle on the fellowship issue, at least while principles were under con­ sideration. This then prompted the CLC to call for a review of all of Wisconsin's actions from 1955 on as the top agenda item for any subse­ quent meetings. ” The WELS in­ sisted that first there must be an agreement in definition of terms before any record of history could be looked at, because otherwise the two groups would talk past one another.

-1972-A meeting between CLC and WELS representatives was held. Here is where the difference finally came out.

The CLC contended that there could be no "in statu confessionis” such as WELS had applied in the earlier years with the LC-MS.

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effort has been made to preserve the unity and until we judge that admonition will be of no further avail. The CLC says that once the brother is recognized as causing a division and an offense, he is no longer a weak brother but a false prophet, and must therefore be avoided. They say that there must be no delay between the recognition of a division causer and the avoidance of him.

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find out. So we donned our trench coats, stuck our press cards into our hats, and set out to get our story.

The trip over was rather uneventful.

Experienced foreign correspondents as we NewUlm-AP Tij ie jicoj } T< are, having covered such newsworthy events Tfepttvov rZr AdaoScryt as the annual Tivoli Island mallard migration, “What joy, what life without golden Aphro- y the moving of the Sprinter, and the public execution/hanging of a carp from the bell dite?” These words were penned by the ancient tower, we were a bit disappointed with the en poet of Troy, Miinnermus, as a rallying cry as route service on the bus. As a suggestion for he and his fellow Trojans rowed westward from future trips, perhaps the athletic department Asia Minor, across the Aegean Sea to the would consider showing movies and borrowing Olympian Games. More than once on the team a Deutschland Spiegel from the German bus we heard this same question drop from the Department. As far as the food goes, well, the lips of a pensive modern Trojan as he gazed cold turkey sandwiches were really cold, and out of the window, traveling west to his own we had to rake half the Dresback rest area test of valor and strength. What this weekend before we could get our Golden Guernsey of trials had in store, its victories and defeats, Orange Drink. But the price was right and the its laurels and its tears, it was our mission to 131

ride comfortable.

Just outside of Rochester we knew we were nearing our destination when we spotted several large, brown animals, presumably in­ digenous to the area. We consulted our Rand McNally South Central Minnesota Guide to Wildlife and Clean Rest-rooms and positively identified the grazing creatures as Bison Bonasus. Not all the travelers had such a smooth ride, however, and Jon Voss proved once again that neither rain nor snow nor blown transmissions will keep a true Trojan from making his appointed rounds, not on the trip away from Watertown anyway. In the continuing saga of the Automotive Perils of Junk-yard Jon, Voss dropped his tranny on the pavement on his way west near Dover, Minne­ sota, and was greeted by a mechanic grinning that “have-I-got-a-car-for-you” smile. So the trip was resumed in a ’71 Dodge Polara. “The price was a little steep,” Jon said, “but just listen to the list of options: radio, whitewalls, and one guaranteed New Ulm breakdown!”

On Friday night, after Bethany College of Mankato disposed of Concordia-St. Paul, we made sure we had good seats for the night’s main attraction, the annual Trojan-Lancer bucket clash. The Trojan team was cheered on by a good representation of the student body, led by the Carl LaFong Cheerleading Squad, who looked suspiciously familiar in sunglasses and cigars. (What’s the matter, no red vests to be had?) Soukup, Marshall, Sauer, Zimmy, Dietrich, and Dux put on an admirable show with not your standard fare of cheers. DMLC cheerleaders may have the looks, but North­ western never lacks in originality. One of the more memorable cheers was: We’ve got Martha, yes we do; We’ve got Martha, how T)Out you?

(To which DMLC could muster no reply.)

The crowd was also treated to Leroy’s disco steps, a crawling pyramid, and another cheer reminiscent of the Bacchantes’ ancient rite of dismembering wild animals. At one time out, our cheerleaders walked out on the court carrying innocent looking, fluffy little stuffed animals, which, to the amazement of all, they stomped on and threw into the audience.

Zimmy was especially hard on his poor blue bunny and tore its ears off.

Later, during a mid-game commando raid on DMLC, Jungle Joe Dietrich kidnapped the

nearest cheerleader. This act was obviously done in jest, and the victim was speedily returned; nevertheless, they retaliated by winning the game. Rumors were heard after­ ward that the rebel DMLC students were planning to storm the team bus and take hostages. If such an act of terrorism had materialized and President Toppe would’ve retaliated by cutting off all relations with New Ulm, as Carter did with Iran, our plight would've been much more debilitating than our country’s. The U.S. can make do without Iranian oil, but what would Northwestern do without the precious resources of DMLC? One of these resources which we journalists particularly enjoy, is the DMLC library, in which we are now sitting and writing this report. It’s Saturday and we arc surprised by the difference between our own library and the New Ulm counterpart. As we said, it’s Satur­ day and there are actually people in here study­ ing. As we walked in we noticed a large wooden statue near the entrance. It’s a rather nice statue-some famous former student we suppose. Anyway, we carved our initials into it when the librarian wasn’t looking, right next to where some guy named M. L. did it some time ago. " We just took a break and went on a tour of the stacks. We spent more time than intended, most of it in the Kiddy Lit section which we found particularly impressive and also a lot of fun. Maybe we could work out an inter-library transfer and trade several thousand pigskinbound German works for some of the popular titles from their children’s library, their puppet theater, and some instruments from their rhythm band section. DMLC also has a loan system where the students can check out paintings to hang in their rooms; we feel this practice could also be started with the North­ western library’s portraits. What student wouldn’t want a larger than life-size Dr. Ott hanging in his dorm room? The library is closing now, and as we walk out, the librarian dashes over to the end of the desk, and we are regaled with the golden tones of a xylophone.

She won’t take requests but says we can try it out if we like. After a few improvised numbers to warm up on, we’re ready for a jam session.

Now we are being asked to leave the premises.

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his opponent with a move called the “turk” and Mark Mueller’s three-foul-only perform­ ance against Concordia. Then it was up early for the trip back to Wasserstadt. As we pulled out of New Ulm, we saw their new glockenspiel imported from Germany, an obvious attempt to out-do our bell tower. Not to worry how­ ever, because I’m sure we can count on the Alumni Society to provide some new sights on campus. Several projects suggested to us were: the Great Wall of China, the London Bridge, perhaps the Great Pyramids of Egypt, or even Niagara Falls. Speaking of natural wonders, on the trip back we were treated to an un­ scheduled sight-seeing tour of South Central Minnesota, and once back in Wisconsin we dropped Coach Thompson off at the Dells.

We hear the Storybook Gardens are lovely this time of year. So long from your roving reporters.

Back in Watertown...

Five hundred fifty spoons in the dorm, Five hundred fifty spoons.

Put half of ’em back In a brown paper sack.

Two hundred seventy-five spoons in the dorm.

Believe us, even we had trouble coming up with possible reasons why anyone would want 550 spoons taken from the cafeteria. These arc the best guesses we can make: —trunk ballast for slippery winter driving; -someone’s making a replica of the bell tower with spoons, -the ghost of Cutco Kant is back and stocking up with a new supply ofspoons to sell; -one of the engaged men on campus is planning a very large family.

Now, it’s no use crying over spilled spoons, so let's look to the future. As we all know, we are quickly coming to the close of another decade, the tired and worn Seventies will soon be no more. A lot of spoons have flowed under the bridge here at Northwestern, we are look­ ing forward to a new decade and beyond.

This will be the last issue of The Black and Red for the Seventies, so we thought we’d give you a brief look at the Northwestern of tomorrow.

In another 115 years our campus coed enrollment should be up to two. Also, the freshmen still will not be able to park their sky rovers on campus and the sophomores will only be able to use theirs on inter-galactical weekends.

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The area where the most changes will take place will probably be in the cafeteria.

Veal shuttle-crafts will be one of the future favorites on the menu, but soon after that all diversity will cease. The spam loaf, pepper steak, pizzaburger patty, veal patty, and medallion steak will evolve into one general, all purpose, universal patty, and instead of changing the menu, all the diners will wear different colored glasses every night, and com­ plementary music will be piped in. In addition, an electronic metal detecting device will be installed at the entrance to prevent spoons from being taken out.

To make it easier not to forget your I.D., identification will be tattooed on each stu­ dent’s forehead. Then, as technology advances, a voice print identification machine will be used when you say hello to the food service robots (who are programmed for three words only, “One or two?”). The tattoos will be retained, however, in case of colds and late voice changes among freshmen. The final device in place of I.D.’s will be small electronic identification number transmitters surgically implanted in the nose.

Of course, future students will complain about having to take fifth-year Klingon. And when college and prep finally grow too big for the same campus, the Synod will purchase an old Catholic space station for wayward astro­ nauts. Yet the greatest changes will take place when our bodies deteriorate and eventually disappear as our minds expand, making physical movement needless. Students will become bodiless energy forms, and some of the changes we will then see around campus be: —cheaper linen fees, -janitors will no longer have to worry about keeping hot water for the showers or shoveling the sidewalks, -we will not have a student body, but it will be referred to as the student energy form; -students will no longer be required to wear the regidation gym uniform.

How many of our predictions will come true? Only time will tell, and, as they say, don’t count your spoons before they’re snatched.

JEFF CARTER and BRIAN DOSE

The Mormon ftHracfion

TjTany sects and religions have sprung up in America since its inception, but none so powerful and prosperous as The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, nicknamed the Mormons. In 1974 the Mormons boasted 3,527.040 members and 6,856 congregations throughout the United States. Today there are

also over a million Mormons of foreign extrac­ tion. The members of this church body practi­ cally control the government of Utah, a state which they themselves founded before virtu­ ally any white men had settled between Texas and the Pacific slope. But their influence ex­ tends beyond the borders of Utah. The Mor134

new denominations, so they forsook all creeds and went independent. Lucy was full of mysticism, dreams, miracles, and blights on sinners’ fields. She read her Bible daily in an effort to decide on the true religion, but finally concluded in frustration, “No church will admit that I am right, except the one with which I am associated. This makes them wit­ nesses against each other.” Thousands of New Englanders shared this universal logic of dissent.

Such was the setting for Joseph Smith’s arrival on December 23, 1805. His mother’s influence on his youth surfaced in his quest for right religion at revival meetings. Her mysticism appeared in the stories he told his family about his visions. Many of his younger days found him leading expeditions in search of buried treasure. Dreams were big in the Old West, and dreamers were plentiful.

Then in April of 1820 young Joseph had the vision to top all visions. How thrilled his folks must have been to hear that their son had seen God the Father and the Son! Fawn M. Brodie, who wrote a very objective biography of Joseph Smith, suggests that the youth may have been even more thrilled than his family when he saw how steadfastly they believed his account. Three years later he informed his astonished kin that an angel named Moroni had appeared to him on Cumorah Hill near Manchester, New York, and showed him some golden plates. He was told that they contained the sacred history of God’s chosen people in America. When his family eagerly requested to see the plates, Joseph informed them that the very sight of such holy things meant instant death. For a while they refused his subsequent offers to allow them to see.

As time went on, however, and converts began to appear, interest in seeing the plates mounted. Finally, Joseph was compelled to let three witnesses have the sacred privilege. So the three men hiked into the woods with Joseph, and, it is said, at a certain spot they were rewarded. In gratitude all three signed a sworn statement of their belief in the authenti­ city of the plates. Such celebrities naturally enjoyed extensive press coverage: According to the local press of the ' time, the three witnesses all told dif­ ferent versions of their experience, a fact that makes it all the more likely

mons are also said to own 326,500 acres of real estate, two TV stations, the Salt Lake City newspaper, a large department-store chain, and $383 million of assets in insurance companies.

The Mormons have been aggressive mission­ aries from the beginning. Here is where their zeal really shines. All Mormon young men travel as missionaries to foreign lands between their education and their careers. In 1978 there were 26,500 of them in the field. Very dedicated, they pay their own expenses and gain valuable experience in business during their tours of duty. Their initial successes led one observer to remark that Monnonism spread faster than Islam even without the fire and the sword. Through such selfless efforts the Mormons have built not just a colony or a church, but “a great agricultural, industrial, and financial empire.”

Such far-reaching success would have shocked the observers of Mormonism’s first steps. When Joseph Smith, her founder and prophet, was killed by a mob in Carthage, Illinois, in 1844, most people agreed the sect would also die. The editor of the New York Herald proclaimed, “The death of the modem Mohamet will seal the fate of Mormonism.

They cannot get another Joe Smith. The holy city (Nauvoo, Illinois) must tumble into ruins, and the ‘latter day saints’ have indeed come to the latter day.”

But Joseph Smith's church didn’t collapse; it prospered. Why was this? Still more impor­ tantly, what attracted people in the first place?

And what was the powerful force that held them so loyal to the new creed?

The Mormon story began in Palmyra, New York, not long after the War of Independence.

A spirit of irreligion coupled with unbridled optimism and anticipation gripped the new frontier. Westerners were sure that America would grow to perfection, and soon their prosperity would be unbounded. In the midst of this worldliness, violent schisms were wracking the Baptists and Methodists, creating numerous new religions. The lack of trained pastors beyond the Appalachians as well as the abundance of faith healers and evangelists with their frenzied inspirations gave rise to many self-proclaimed prophets. Organized religion was chaotic.

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Later eight more people were allowed to see the plates. The credibility of their testi­ mony is hindered by the fact that five of them were family members of one of the first three witnesses, and the other three were very closely related to Joseph himself. The story told about their viewing of the plates maligns their wit­ ness still more. The eight are said to have entered a room with a box sitting on a table.

When they lifted the lid, no one saw anything; the box was empty. But Joseph cried out, “O ye of little faith!” After two hours of in-

of King Zedckiah. Later they crossed the sea to the western hemisphere, where they built a great civilization around beautiful cities.

The Book of Mormon both prophesied and fulfilled the promise of a second dispensation of the gospel on American shores. It foretold the ushering in of the Millenium somewhere in America.

The Book of Mormon reads very much like the King James Version of the Bible. Some passages arc obvious paraphrases of Scripture.

But the work lacks the lofty style of the 1611 translation, and it is very disjointed in its sen­ tence structure. The fact that the words “it came to pass” appear more than 2,000 times

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In 1828 Joseph began the awesome task of translating the plates. For three years he gazed at his seer’s stone through spectacles he called the Urim and the Thummim while he dictated The Book of Mormon to his secretary. The result was a sacred and secular record of the ancestors of the American Indians. Spanning their history from 600 B.C. to 421 A.D., it tells of a people of Asiatic origin, of the House of Israel, who left Jerusalem during the reign

may have been one of the reasons Mark Twain appraised it as “chloroform in print.”

Joseph Smith was certain that a loving God would never limit His communication with man to only the printed page. For this reason his revelations, which he reported with remarkable self-confidence, kept occurring.

With them he continued to appeal to his con­ verts’ innate mystical curiosity. At first his revelations occurred whenever tilings weren’t going his way. They instructed his people to buy land, mortgage property, and stop their hysteria and dissent. By revelation Joseph’s wife Emma was told to accompany her hus­ band to Missouri. When the Prophet needed 136

support for his doctrine on polygamy, a reve­ lation backed him up.

The same talent for revelations which attracted so many people to Joseph also caused him a great deal of embarrassment. When his settlement in Nauvoo, Illinois, was steeped in debt, he prophesied a vast treasure in Salem, Massachusetts, to lift the burden. His treasure hunt failed and he came home penniless. Some time later it was revealed to Joseph that great blessings would be showered on the people of Zion, Missouri, if they would donate enough money for their new temple. Unfortunately, a mob had demolished Zion a fortnight before Joseph’s ill-timed revelation.

Most of Smith’s prophesies, however, seemed to be accurate. Thirty-three years prior to the event, Joseph performed his greatest prophetic feat when he foretold the Civil War in amazing detail. .. .beginning at the rebellion of South Carolina.. .For behold the Southern States shall be divided against the Northern States, and the Southern States will call on other nations, even the nation of Great Britain.. .slaves shall rise up against their masters, who shall be marshalled and disciplined for war.

On the basis of such triumphs Joseph convinced his followers to accept the authority of his revision of the King James Version, The Book of Mormon, as well as his opportune revelations. The Mormon’s Ninth Article of Faith states that they believe “all that God has revealed, all that he does now reveal, and .. .that He will yet reveal many great and im­ portant things pertaining to the Kingdom of God.”

It should be obvious by now that the original attraction to Mormonism was none other than Joseph Smith. Many people found themselves “caught in the spell of one of the most enigmatic characters of the century.”

Joseph had an intuition for knowing his followers well enough to tell them things about themselves which they thought no one else knew. A wizard with the power of sugges­ tion, he could actually make people see visions to remove their doubts. The man also possessed the endearing qualities of jollity, kindness, love of sport and good living, athletic grace, and prodigious personal charm. His handsome

features turned many a feminine eye in his direction. In all his actions Joseph portrayed a growing sense of his own destiny, which tantalized weaker spirits.

The Prophet’s comely appearance was not matched by the gift of intelligence. His school­ ing was almost nonexistent. But the wily Joseph Smith quoted Jesus’ words to lay low all efforts to discredit him on the basis of his ignorance: ‘‘I thank thee, O Father.. .be­ cause thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.” Thus he styled himself as a pastor for the poor who flocked to his feet. They loved Joseph, the man, first, and his doctrine second as Brodie states: The source of his power lay not in his doctrine but in his person, and the rare quality of his genius was due not to his reason, but to his imagination.

He was a mythmaker of prodigious talent and after 100 years the myths he created are still an energizing force in the lives of a million followers.

Joseph’s road to success was fraught with beatings and persecutions not unlike those of the Apostle Paul. Having made this connection, Joseph’s followers were all the more eager to sacrifice their very souls for the sake of his gospel. So he sought persecution, “knowing that the seeds of the church are sown in the blood of her martyrs.” At the end of the trail he found his martyrdom when a mob in Carthage, Illinois, murdered him and his brother. But such a loss only infused his people with a new spirit of purpose and unity by adding a touch of tragedy to their faith. To them “the martyrdom was a dramatic symbol that God had placed His seal upon the testi­ mony of His prophet.”

Although the Prophet’s candle was snuffed out, the attractive fire in his doctrine was flickering brightly. Gentiles continued to be drawn into the “Chosen Nation” by the humanistic bequest of Joseph Smith. Here they found purpose and meaning in life. F. E. Mayer summarizes their doctrine thus: For Mormon theology, briefly stated, teaches that man, an eternally pre­ existent soul, is placed upon earth to gain the remission of his sins through obedience to the laws and regulations laid down by the priesthood and

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One of the most seductive features of Joe Smith’s religion is the way he borrowed what he called the “germ of good” from every religion and incorporated it into his own.

Converts found many familiar terms and practices in their new faith. Immersion and the laying on of hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost; names of primitive offices like prophets, evangelists, and priests; the gift of tongues, visions, faith healing-all the most attractive features of their former creeds were handed

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back to them with an altered interpretation.

One critic referred to Mormonism as “a strange incongruous mixture of Jewish and heathen ideas covered over with Christian terminology.”

A British observer in the 1860’s noted that Smith “took much from Mohammed, more from Paul, most of all from Abraham; but in his free handling of religious notions, he had no scruples about borrowing from the Hindus, from the Tartars, from the Mohawks.” Mor­ monism, from the outset, has had a little some­ thing for everyone.

Because it appeals to man’s pride, Mor­ monism has always been a very satisfying religion. Denying original sin, Smith said that man is bom with divine attributes and can become a god himself through education and

development. The Mormon Articles of Faith state, ‘‘As man is, God once was; as God is, man may be.” If he is a late bloomer, the next life will grant him a second chance. Thus man is capable of progress toward perfection, a goal which also carries with it a kingdom of his own. There he will gather his precious family around him with the wife, or wives, of his youth. Mormons today arc fond of saying, “We lived before. We live now. We live for­ ever.”

Despite Joseph Smith’s exploitation of his own ignorance, he, nevertheless, had a love for education and learning. He appealed to reason as much as to emotion to draw in men who were disgusted with the excesses of local cults.

Reed Smoot, a former U.S. Senator from Utah, confessed, “It appeals to me as the most reasonable of all, the most soul-satisfying religion that I have encountered anywhere.”

Smoot testified that through education Joseph Smith gave his people guidance for reaching their full potential as a “god in embryo.”

The Prophet promised: “Whatever principle of intelligence we attain unto in this life, it will rise with us in the resurrection; and man, who by his greater diligence acquires more know­ ledge than another, will have just that much advantage in the world to come.” Thus, to the poor and illiterate, Smith gave a future through education, which became one of the common denominators of Mormon culture.

While it is true that Joseph Smith bucked many cherished American freedoms such as the separation of church and state, inviolability of marriage, and freedom of the press; he was, nevertheless, a Yankee product and played on the patriotic spirit of his people. The fact that The Book of Mormon was presented as a sacred history of America makes this land as important in the plan of salvation as Palestine.

Smith aroused the patriotic pride of his people by teaching that Christ also came to America, and that the Millenium will be ushered in at Zion, Missouri. His sacred account prophesies the coming of Columbus, the Puritans, and the Revolutionary War. It even supports democracy by saying that no kings are to rule America.

The government which Joseph Smith set up was an attractive force in itself. The Prophet was naturally to be the supreme authority, but all the laymen were ordained as priests and could preach. Brodie observes that success 138

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By giving each man a share in the priesthood Joseph quickened a sense of kinship and oneness with the church.

There was a feeling of common owner­ ship and responsibility which was immensely satisfying to men for whom religion had hitherto been a wholly passive experience.

To men fed up with the doldrums of or­ ganized religion Joseph beckoned with a real zest for life. One of his basic tenets was: “Men are that they might have joy.” Mormon missionaries didn’t praise the poverty they encountered. Rather, they taught that riches are good things which are guaranteed by God through hard work. Thousands came to the Land of Promise from the desolation of the Napoleonic Wars in Europe and the overcrowded beggary of England. Soon they were sending back reports of dreams fulfilled. From Pal­ myra, New York, to Missouri, to Nauvoo, Illinois, wherever the Mormon church lighted for a time, new settlements rapidly sprang up with straight roads and neat fences surround­ ing sturdy homes. Everyone was expected to work for the good of all, and everyone seemed to be doing very well indeed.

And so we see that Joseph Smith’s kingdom of God on earth was saturated with Yankee enthusiasm for earthly blessings. It was a kingdom which began very idealistically, even communistically, but survived persecu­ tion to emerge more practical than ever. The Mormons weren’t pacifists; they soon had a well-drilled military force which was a concern to the U.S. Army. William Hepworth Dixon, the British observer, imparted, “Their whole dependence seems to be on God. It is right to add-as a point within my knowledge-that they also take good care to keep their powder

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Even in our day Mormonism provides a clean way of life and a real opportunity for worldly success. Its promise of an eternal continuation of heightened earthly joys is just as tantalizing today as it was when Joseph Smith fabricated his myth. We Christians can’t argue with Mormonism’s high standard of liv­ ing or their higher moral standards. But Mor­ mons are living as if in a temporal eggshell with brightly colored walls. Their abstinence

from many of the gross sins which are guar­ anteed to bring earthly suffering, seems to pro­ tect them from many of the ravages of life.

But when the shell cracks on Judgment Day, they will have to take their place with the rest of those who attempted to climb the stairs to heaven under their own power. Not Joseph Smith or Moroni, but God Himself says that man is saved by grace through faith in Christ Jesus alone and not on the basis of his own works. If only God’s people will, by His grace, cling to that sure hope, they will find an eter­ nity, not of shattered dreams, but bliss with God beyond human expression.

MARK CORDES The principal source for this article was No Man Knows My History, by Fawn M. Brodic.

FOOTBALL

Joe Dietrich and Mark Mueller made first team; Mike Biedenbender and Eric Zimmer­ man, second team; and Mark Kolander, Phil Hirsch, and Randy Hunter made honorable mention.

Wrapping up the football season-although the team had a somewhat disappointing year, there were some high spots. Joe Dietrich finished the year with 1131 yards rushing, and was voted the most valuable player for this year’s team. John Beck led the defense with 34 unassisted tackles, and Randy Hunter was first in assists with 62. Seven players were selected to the all-conference team.

WRESTLING Having lost only one senior wrestler from last year’s team, Coach Pieper and the team are looking forward to a fine season. The first 140

45-44 lead at half. After the intermission, how­ ever, the Lancers used their height advantage to build up a lead and defeat the Trojans 87-66. Mark Kolander led the Trojans, scor­ ing 21 points.

In the second round NWC met the Comets of Concordia St. Paul. The Trojans were un­ able to keep up with the faster Comets. NWC took the loss, 72-54. Phil Hirsch paced NWC with 18 points.

The wrestlers took part in a triple dual against DMLC, Bethany, and Concordia. In the first round the Trojans met a tough team from Concordia. The Trojans held their own, but Concordia held the edge, 33-18. The second round pitted the Trojans against the Lancers. NWC demolished the depleted Lancer squad 53-6, while losing only one weight class to DMLC. In the final round the Trojans faced the eventual winners, the Bethany Vikings. The Trojans gave them a tough struggle though before going down in defeat 36-9. NWC finished third in the overall stand­ ings, just behind Concordia.

test came on November 20 against Maranatha.

Although the Crusaders had an excellent team, the Trojans gave them all they could handle.

The Trojans, however, were unable to make up for some losses in the light weights and lost by a single point, 23-22.

BASKETBALL The Trojans’ buckets team began with the usual bruising game against the old guys from Scm. The game was close for the first ten minutes, but the Trojans were able to take a 39-31 halftime lead. Sem closed to within 2 points after five minutes of the second half, but then the Trojans came on strong to record a 77-64 victory. Mark Mueller led all scorers with 20 points.

LANCER CLASSIC Both the wrestling and basketball teams made the trip up to New Ulm this year to play in the Lancer Classic. The Trojan cagers met the Lancers in the opening round. The first half was a see-saw battle, with DMLC taking a

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{"^hristmas is just around the corner, and we’re all trying to get there just as quickly as possible. But before we do, we’ve got to step over the open manhole of exam week.

Exams are one of the more unpleasant parts of the life of academia. Nobody really likes them— they’re no fun to study for and they’re prob­ 141

At the end of August when the prof is introducing the course and outlining how he intends to arrive at a final grade, he goes through a list of requirements which he sum­ marily terminates with the statement, “And the exam will count a quarter.” Nobody really bats an eye, partly because exams seem com­ fortably remote in August and partly because exams usually do count for about a quarter of your final grade, and there’s no reason to expect anything different. But actually there is a reason to expect something different. I feel pretty safe in saying that the majority of exams which I’ve written during my stay at Northwestern were not what you commonly understand by an exam. Most exams are not tests which review the semester’s material;

carry more than the usual credit. For most students, however, nothing is certain when it comes to tests. Anyone who’s bombed a test when he thought he was reasonably well pre­ pared, knows that this is the case. In view of the fact that most exams are essentially no different from any other unit test, it would appear professors have agreed that the tradi­ tional exam is not indispensable. It seems in­ congruous, then, to assign an inflated grade value to what amounts to a unit test.

A student’s natural inclination is to worry about the things which affect his grade the most and to pay less attention to those things which are of less consequence to his grade.

Somewhat in opposition to this, Northwestern students are impressed with the importance of faithful and regular devotion to responsibility regardless of relative reward. This principle has, of long standing, been part of Northwestern, and any student who attends this school is made aware of it without much delay. As a student walks to the gym, the passage on the Sprinter “in faithful effort alone true victory lies” reminds him of this philosophy, and in the classroom he knows that the most wretched of translations cannot evoke quite the same professorial glare as does the word “unprepared.” If the consistency of performJ ance is so highly valued, how is it that a single [ test rates such a major percentage of course credit? Principle seems to follow one road while practice takes another. Testing is a logi­ cal way to end a semester; it’s inflating the grade value of end of the semester tests that doesn’t make sense.

they’re unit tests covering the material of the last part of the semester. Now please don’t misunderstand, I’m not bucking for compre­ hensive exams-not by a long shot. I appreciate not being called upon to produce long-range recall. But if these “exams” are nothing more than unit tests, the likes of which we have seen several times during the semester, why do they count for a quarter of the final grade just be­ cause they happen to fall at the end of the semester? True, exams are frequently longer than the average unit test, but that is almost certainly due to the fact that exam periods are longer than regular class periods. To some people, exams might look like a good way to pick up points-they’re only unit tests but they

Graduation doesn’t seem to have cured Tom Jeske’s penchant for having his own column in The Black and Red (cf. the end of the Alumni column). Apparently Sem bulletin boards just don’t have a big enough readership to satisfy someone of his caliber. By the way, would one of his interpreters please ask Ayatollah Jeske how much longer he intends to hold the Mnema hostage.

With regard to the correction of Cordes’ article: Who dares to say that he alone has found the truth?

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1oo years ^P^ith the liolidays fast approaching, Synod news seems to be growing scarce, so we’ll keep this column slightly shorter for now.

However, once again the men of Semland have pulled through with a hoard of trivia. Many thanks to all contributors.

CALLS -Rev. Durant P. Shook has accepted the call to serve the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer. He had been at Bethlehem of Watertown, SD. His installation is to take place on January 20, 1980.

-Christ congregation of Cambridge, MN, called Rev. Alfred Jannusch (’63) and will install him in January. He formerly served in Alma City, MN. -Rev. Steven Korth (’73), who had been working in a new mission in Vancouver, British Columbia, is moving to Mt. Olive, Bay City, and will be installed on January 6, 1980.

Rev. John Gaertner (’59), former pastor of Hope, West Chicago, IL, accepted the call to Calvary, Dallas, TX, and was installed on November 25.

-Rev. Paul Knickelbein (’42) of Gethsemane, Oklahoma City, OK, accepted the call to serve St. Mark’s of Stambaugh, MI, and St. Paul’s in Tipler, WI. He was installed on December 2.

ANNIVERSARIES -The 25th anniversary of the ordination of 143

Rev. James E. Hanson (’51) was celebrated by St. Paul’s and St. Martin’s of Gladstone and Rapid River, MI. -The 10th anniversary of the Wisconsin Lutheran Campus House was celebrated in Oshkosh, WI, on November 11. Its pastor is Rev. Robert Diener (’67).

-St. John’s, Frankenmuth, MI, observed its 100th anniversary on October 28. It is served by Pastor Joel Ehlert (’60).

-Salem Lutheran, Loretto, MN, observed the 75th anniversary of its present church building, the rededication of a rebuilt pipe organ, and the newly decorated church in­ terior on November 25. Its pastor is Rev. Norbert Gieschen (’52).

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DEDICATIONS -Peace of Otsego, MI, dedicated a new church on September 16 with its pastor, Rev. Jeff Hopf (’67).

—A new church was dedicated by Bethany congregation of North Hills (Pittsburgh, PA) on November 18.

-The church addition of Grace, Tecumseh, MI, was dedicated on September 23. Rev. Ken Strack (’54) serves the congregation.

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BIRTHS —Children were bom to Pastor and Mrs. John Mattek (’74) of Belvidere, IL, and to Pastor and Mrs. Steven Ehlke of Beloit, WI. -A daughter, Tabitha, was bom to Pastor and Mrs. Paul Sullivan of Pittsburgh, PA, on

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-Dan Schmelzer is already waxing his surf board for a California Christmas.

—Backgammon: the Sem version of Bingo.

—Two more “rocks” have crumbled— Bruce Becker to Linda and Jack Beck to Mary.

Come on, guys, where’s the geist?!

-John “Deep in the Woods” Ruege gets his deer without firing a shot. Sounds as though he should go in for another kind of dear.

-P. Z. engaged? C. U. has a ring!!!

-John “Deerslayer” Ruege used his super­ natural powers to mesmerize a spike buck on November 17. John claims it’s a gift of his famous Oakfield ancestry.

-Mark Henke married October 20th.

-Bruce Becker engaged and paying off consequent betting debts.

-Jack Beck gains birthright into John Jeske’s will.

-Stanford Espcdal becomes good Luth­ eran-November 20th.

-Bruce Marggraf has been weighed on the WLC scales and found. 99?

-Paul Janke has a mystery date from the

October 14.

OTHER -Zion congregation of Reeder, ND, has dissolved as of October 31 and joined Redeemer Church in Hettinger, with Rev. Terry Yahr as its pastor.

SEM NOTES THE LONE SENIOR -Eckert at the end of the first quarter, quote: “I haven’t done anything lately!”

MIDDLERS -Marggraf: another rock is starting to crumble...

-Backgammon: the new craze of the Middler class, otherwise known as “Gammon Fever.”

-Don Pieper commutes to Milwaukee almost every weekend.

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-Keith Tullberg has found the girl-he knows because of the “Good Omen.”

—Last year it was “Save the Mnema.”

This year it’s “Tommo, where is the Mnema?”

-Scheibe’s been worrying about all his homework; what happens next quarter when he really gets some?

—Rumor has it that the Mnema is on the presses-maybe it’ll be back by Christmas (don’t hold your breath).

—Who straightened Birky’s curls?

-Big T. wakes up to realize he “slept” through the week of November 11th.

-When Ross Ulrich “talks,” the whole class is forced to take cover!

—Dog Free-man or mammal?

plains.

-Paul Zell suddenly solidly in the Unke camp.

-Don “The Heretic,” author of Piepers That Wheeze, has momentarily halted his tongue in polemics about the seniors and turned his attention to a manual for instruc­ tion called, How to Combine Pleasure with Business in Backgammon (or After Dinner Delightl).

—Don Scheuerlcin has been drafted into the Amy. -Henk’s breakfast has become a topic of interest for many of his schoolmates.

-On the annual Spaudc hunting expedi­ tion, Spud couldn’t concentrate on the deer— perhaps he’s the one being hunted by a special arrow?

-Phil Heyer returned from the Palms “in style”-toting a rat-infested couch he found in an alley and wearing David Johansen’s hat.

-Paul Janke is about to go into business: “Heimic’s Cut-Rate Gossip and Shut Down Service.”

-It’s so boring at NPS (but they pay so well) that Campy Ray Voss just bought a color TV at Crazy TV Lenny’s.

-Tim Unke maintains he is teaching his future wife at FVL. -Paul Zell says he’ll find his future wife on 12/30/79 when Speed wagon roars into Madison.

AND NOW... JESKE’S JOURNAL!!

-Dan Schumann donated his waterbed to the Cambodian refugees. He said if they had to suffer, he would too.

—Keith Tullberg has turned into such an old granny ever since Denise dumped him that he’s taught himself to hook rugs to take up time.

-Doug “Comhusker” Free: Merely deny­ ing that Billy Sims exists doesn’t mean he’ll go away.

—Ross “Limburger” Ulrich lives: Prof.

Spaude, take heart—Ross emptied Encyclopedics class Oust like your Hebrew section last year).

-John Hartwig writes letters addressed to a certain “Baby” in Church History class.

-Shanny’s trying to convince the NWC faculty that they should form an honor guard for him outside the NWC chapel next May 23, his wedding. Good luck, big guy.

-The Black & Red is showing just how hard it is to replace Tim Kant. At least he didn’t print articles with questionable research, i.e., Cordes’ quote (sic) “our Northwestern cheerleaders embarrassed everyone.” Simply not true.

The Bethany Program will never work at NWC. Bombers simply ask too many questions (cf. Kunde, Fleischmann). Poor Prof. Plitzuweit would never get through Acts!

JUNIORS -Uncle Hugo got a big cookie!

-Seel went deer hunting for the third week in a row and all he got was skunk(ed).

-Ylvis is getting smart-now he breaks girls’ hearts before they get the chance to break his.

-Ylvy was the first and only student to flunk out of Bilitz’s course.

—We have been seeing less of Norv this week; rumor has it, he has a second residence near Menomonie Falls.

—Tim Henning’s car is sporting a few new dents due to unidentified flying storm windows.

-Shifty Schiller-Sem’s own Flipper!

—Is Ylvis just a kitchie at heart, or is he after the Kitchie’s heart?

-Wanted: someone to second motions made by Kiecker.

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The roads are pretty bad in late spring.

Hard winters crack the blacktop like an alli­ gator’s back, and soft ground from melting frost creates empty pockets under the surface, leaving the blacktop to sag and crumble. If you go out in the woods during the spring and jump around a bit, you can see poplar saplings sway ten yards away. And where the land isn’t swampy, there are rocks. The rolling hills are salted with them, well salted, and not with just the handy variety of stones lying along the road that chase away dogs and clang off signs, nor with just the large granite boulders painted with a running display of the local graduating class, the “Jesus saves” motif, or some baser four-letter spirituality. These arc all here in plenty enough, but the common horde are just plain rocks. Too large to be called stones, too small for boulders, neither thrown nor rolled, these rocks are heaved from the fields with rounded shoulders and bent backs into piles, pagan altars to the ancient god of sweat. Although these omni­ present softball to hubcap sized rocks don’t offer the recreation or artistic expression of their cousins, they do support a thriving farm machinery repair industry and account for much of the area’s character. Swampland and rocky hillsides, not good farmland, but for those who are determined enough, it’s a living.

My living comes much easier. So easy that

I can afford to leave off heaving paper from the in-basket to the out-basket for three months a year and spend the summer coaxing tomatoes to grow on my father’s old farm. Most of the land was sold after he and my mother died, but the family kept the house and a few acres for a summer retreat. Sentimentally we have hung on to our roots in this swampy and rocky area, along with a smoky oil burner and growly plumbing. But I was determined enough to relax for the summer, so I was jouncing over the era ter-filled road toward the Nelson farm, old family friends who looked after our place while we were gone.

Approaching the neighbors’ farm, I heard the unmistakable putt-putt of the Nelson John Deere tractor, as characteristic of their place as the turtle dove’s cooing and Waldemar’s jokes. Soon I saw something crawling through the field, so I pulled over and got out, un­ successfully jumping the watcrfilled ditch, and headed toward the smoking and sputtering image that by degrees took the form of a trac­ tor pulling a wagon. Alongside walked a sixtyyear-old, stout, bib-overallcd farmer; and sitting erect and stem on the tractor seat like a Persian matron in a sedan chair was the other similarly squat bookend: Waldcmar and Hulda Nelson performing the annual spring rite of picking rock turned up by the plowing.

The couple noticed me. After pausing for a moment to pull out a red bandana and wipe the sweat from his eyes, Waldemar squinted in my direction and said to his wife, “I think it’s the Lindholm boy,” drawing out the last vowel in the Scandehoooovian fashion.

“On vacation so soon, Peter?” Wald called out over the idling tractor as he tossed a cantcloupe-sized rock onto the wagon.

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Continued from cover up again and get ready for summer.” Wald’s outstretched hand was calloused and scarred, with several blackened fingernails. Perspira­ tion glistened on his hairy forearms and had deepened the color of his T-shirt. Poking out almost perpendicular from his head were his large cars, reminding me of my father’s des­ cription: “Wald looks like a car driving down the road with its doors open.”

After nearly shaking the watch off my wrist, Wald continued, “Say, Peter, ya got a good grip. Bet ya picked lotta rock before...”

“Wald!” interjected Hulda, “You’re not gonna get Peter to..

“Jus’ kiddin. Peter, d’ya ’member when ya got chased by tlT dog and fell in th’ well?”

I knew that was coming, and as much as I didn’t like being reminded about it, embarrass­ ment or the ensuing cold or whatever, 1 looked forward to the sparkle of Wald’s reminiscing eyes each summer.

“Wald! Don’t keep...” Hulda began, but was cut short when Wald reached over and speeded up the idle. When the popping sub­ sided, she continued, “Peter, the key to your house is on the rack beside the frig, you know where. The house, we checked it last week, should be all right. There’re a few ruts in frontright, Wald? where the pickup got stuck.”

Wald in a fluid motion slid his thumb up the front of his bib’s breast pocket, popped out the red and black Copenhagen can, flipped off the lid, all with one hand, and took a pinch, carefully inserting the tobacco between his lower front lip and gum.

“Crops getting in a little late?” I asked.

It wasn’t really a question, rather a conversa­ tion prolonger. The determination of these farmers and their appetite for hard work im­ pressed me as sometimes unreasonable. My grandfather died of a stroke while picking rock, and I wanted to give Wald and Hulda a for­ givable interruption with a chance to catch their breath and rest their backs.

Hulda impatiently rolled off the tractor seat and squatted down with a hand on her knee, tossing a rock on the wagon, but Wald gladly took the hint. The tired farmer leaned against the rear tractor wheel and scraped the mud from his boots with a screwdriver.

“Ya, it’s been a wet spring. Th’ oats are in, but th* corn’ll be a couple a weeks late. We need some warm days t’dry out th’ bottom

land. Sunny days been scarccr’n hens’ teeth.”

I nodded and groped for something to say in reply, but it wasn’t needed.

“One crop ya can always count on, though.

I reckon my yield of these will be high again,” Wald mumbled in a low tone, tumbling a rock on the wagon and punctuating his statement with a spit of snoose.

It was too audible, however, and with a heave of her pantry shelf bosom, Hulda shot a glance at Wald. “Each rock is sent up by the devil to mark a farmer’s curse,” she announced.

“Yest’day ya said it was fer a spit a snoose.”

“Either way, we always got more’n the neighbors. And last winter Wald killed my potted violets in the living room. ..”

“I didn’t never spit in yer plants, Ma!” her husband interrupted, then quietly remarked to me, “Shouldn’t hurt ’em anyway.”

I laughed and decided Wald would never die of overwork, unless he swore too much.

“Don’t work too hard, now,” I said as 1 turned to leave. I wanted to be sure.

The driveway to the Nelson farm was guarded by a mailbox fastened to the handle of an old pump. Alongside was a ten-foot pipe with another box on top; “For airmail” Wald chuckles.

The farm was littered with Wald’s easy going nature and sense of humor-and rocks, of course. Concentric circles of old cars and machinery surrounded the place, telling its age like the rings of a tree. Among the recognizable heaps of brown scrap metal, there was an old wooden manure spreader sprouting grass through its rotting sides and a ‘38 Chrysler Town Car filled with clucking chickens wait­ ing for a Saturday night on the town. Farther up the driveway the lawn was long and cut in several lengths, the handle of a broken lawn mower poking up here and there. Flowers hung in pots suspended from a half buried wagon wheel and there were bird houses and decorative wind catching devices, the kind cut from plastic bleach bottles, hanging from nearly every available tree branch. A pink plastic deer sat in the grass with a hole in its neck.

The Nelson’s son Eric was responsible for that, I remembered, after he came home from an unsuccessful! day of deer hunting.

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on one side with poles, and the machine shed had a door hanging from one hinge like a loose tooth. Then there was the house itself. Hulda took pride in her home, but the demanding field work left little time. Half the two-story building was newly sided and the remaining parts were painted in three conflicting colors: robin’s egg blue, rustic brown, and a faded lime green. Hulda always changed her mind during the months between Waldemar’s attempts at getting it painted.

Looming over all stood a partially dis­ membered windmill with vines climbing half­ way up. An electric pump had taken over its duties, but the disconnected linkage remained, grinding and creaking as the breeze turned the few vanes left above. The rudder or direction blade still pointed away from the wind, and the word “Aeromatic” could be read between the countless bullet holes. The center of the “o” was raggedly shot out, testimony of Eric’s marksmanship.

As curious as all these things were, though by no means unique in this area, the one object that caught my attention immediately was the big hand painted on the side of the barn facing the road. It was curled in a pinching position, and now reminded me of dropping seeds into the ground. I had to get the garden in soon.

Later in summer it looks like it’s pulling weeds; in fall it’s inevitably writing company reports and financial reviews.

This faded hand was left from an old Copenhagen advertisement that read “Just a pinch between cheek and gum” The words were still faintly legible if you stood close enough. Under the hand, where the can of tobacco used to be, now was a blank space of recent red paint. Kids had painted someone’s backside over the can, and at Hulda’s strong request Wald unwillingly painted over the graffiti.

I walked up to the back screen door and let myself into the kitchen. On my way out, after I grabbed the key from beside the refrigerator, I noticed a toilet seat hanging by the door.

Not a usual kitchen decoration, but I’m sure a warm seat is quite a comfort on chilly morning trips to the outhouse.

Did such a life appeal to me? In a way it did, working hard and seeing every sunrise, feeling the dew lift as I walk to the barn, greeting by stomping, warm-breathing hoi155

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As 1 drove along the loose rock wall that bordered the driveway, and nearly every field on the Nelson farm (Wald’s father must have done a lot of swearing and tobacco chewing), the hardness of this life struck me. And what kind of life did they get from this land? Just a pinch, 1 nodded toward the bam as the hand dropped a few coins into Wald’s leathery palm.

My Buick seemed out of place among all the pickups when I parked in front of the store a couple of weeks later. Perhaps if I had some bales of hay in the back seat or a grunting hog

in the trunk with its snout sticking out. One bright yellow Ford pickup had drain spouts attached to the back of the cab for exhaust pipes. I suppose dripping eaves are a small price to pay for the pleasure of dressing out a nouveau Mack semi. I knew Wald was inside when I recognized his bumper sticker “Old farmers never die, they just spade away.”

The bell tinkled as I opened the door to what I was sure was one of the last remaining genuine general stores. Half of the white clap­ board building was devoted to groceries, including some brands that they stopped mak­ ing five years ago, and the other half had everything from ax handles and school supplies to a few bolts of fabric and hog feeding pans.

From the ceiling hung packaging string dis­ pensers with their white tails hanging over a

roll of brown wrapping paper. One old wood and glass cabinet held cigarettes and smelled warmly of tobacco, another was packed with medicine supplies and soaps.

Around the ice cream cooler were several farmers in seed com hats licking dripping fudgcsickles while a few kids ran around fingering the toys and playing in the bins of nails. Wald and another old farmer sat on a bench by the door reading and discussing the auction bills, lining up Sunday’s entertainment.

Not having patches on my overalls nor manure on my boots clearly labeled me as a foreigner, and Wald’s greeting made me feel a little more at ease.

“Say, Peter! D’ya know which side offen a cow grows more hair?”

By the way all the others looked know­ ingly at each other with open smiles, I’m sure Wald had just told that one moments before.

Mercifully he didn’t wait for a clumsy reply and in a quiet explanatory tone said, “The outside!” followed by a burst of snickers.

I had planned to just get the things I needed and go home, but that obviously wasn’t the way things were done around here, not on Saturday afternoons anyway. So I grabbed an apple and leaned on the candy case smeared with little fingerprints, noseprints too, probab­ ly, through which I saw covered peanuts and chocolate stars, still sold by the ounce and dropped into little paper sacks that kids clutch with white knuckles.

The talk mingled and flowed: predictions when the first haying would be finished, weather reports, stockyard prices, the local softball team. Soon the bell heralded another farmer in search of weekend conversation and, quite possibly, a few supplies. Apparently the newcomer was a bit better off than the others.

A smoldering cigar pitched and rolled in his mouth, back and forth, as he spoke, a smelly comma marking the pauses between phrases, and a gleam of reflected sunlight off his polished brass belt-buckle danced around the store as he strutted in. No bibs or greasy coveralls, but indiscriminate manure embroider­ ed his brightly colored cowboy boots.

Clearly the man was all business; it was in his stride, in his habit of jerking his head around trying to notice everything, and in the way he jumped into the group’s conversation, 156

throwing acreages and percentages around in half sentences, too busy to finish the thought.

“Johnny Gunderson,” Wald replied to my silent question, popping out his can of snoose and taking a pinch. “Got four farms already, none ofem run good: the old family place, Oscar’s, old Mrs. Larson’s, and last year he bought out Karl.”

Wald seemed to be pouting as he told me this, but with his bottom lip full, he always looked that way. Several farmers left and Wald and I shied toward a corner, but Johnny spotted us.

“Say, Wald! Just the man I'm. . .Gettin the corn in a little late, eh? Wet spring sure enou. . .

Well? Thinkin' bout the offer I. . .Do ya a lotta good, ya know.”

“Well, Johnny, I don’t think so,” Wald mumbled and pulled out liis screwdriver to clean his fingernails.

“Ya got bills, Wald, I know. . .Eric’s gone to Todd County. . .Who’s gonna run the place when. . .Ya gonna get. . .place is gettin run down.. .Hulda would like it better in town, she could. . .you’re gettin old.. .land’s sellin high.. .Ya could be a rich. . .”

“Ya, ya, ya. Th’ cow’s gonna give green milk and my ducks’re gonna climb th’ wind­ mill too. The place ain’t for sale!”

Silence hung in the room with Johnny’s smoke. A few men coughed, children gravitated toward fathers, and Johnny’s cigar raced from one corner of his mouth to the other. But persistence makes a man successful, or is it a thick skin?

“Ya could be well off, Wald, almost rich if you’d sell. ..”

“The place ain’t fer sale! If’n the Almighty wanted me a rich man, he done woulda given me bigger pockets.” A well-aimed spit followed and rang the spittoon beside the door. Wald looked hard at his hands, mumbling some emphatic Swedish that I’m sure sent up a few more rocks in his fields.

Most of the farmers remembered a few chores they had promised to do and rambled out to their pickups, including Johnny Gunder­ son, who knew you couldn’t plow with a Swedish mule if he didn’t want to move.

“Karl got 75,000 from’im last spring, Wald,” the storekeeper tossed over to Wald along with an apple. “A man can live easy on that for a long time.”

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Wald fished for a quarter and threw it on the counter. The clerk protested but picked it up after it was clear Wald would leave it there until it rotted.

“If I up and sold out, the only land I’d want t’buy is a cem’tery plot. Sure Karl got a nice place in town, but the boy’s hardly got room t’spit. I don’t want a flush toilet an’a seventy car garage. Jus’ gimme a pinch a snoose and forty or so acres so’s I can spit without hittin m’shoe.”

As Wald stepped toward the door, the clerk reminded him, “Don’t forget to get the herbicide from out back. Want me to put it on your tab?”

The old farmer leafed through his wallet, looked at the floor and mumbled as he opened the door, “Ya, better mark it down. Jus’ til the creamery check comes, mind you.”

Then with his clear Nordic blue eyes focused on me, he continued, “Ya maybe think I’m poor, Peter, but 1 ain’t. I don’t want nothin more’n I got. That Johnny there, he’s the poor one. He ain’t never happy with what’s his own.

It’s like tryin t’fill in a swamp. He's always hungry.”

Later that summer I turned up the Nelson driveway again, this time to buy some eggs.

Hulda was bent over in the garden, but she stood up and waved a handful of pigweed as I drove by. I dodged the chickens and parked in the yard next to a ’64 Chevy with wheels and blocked up on milk cans. Eric’s high school graduation tassel dangled from the rear-view mirror like the uvula in the mouth of a scream­ ing girl the boy used to take on 90 mph rides over the hilly gravel roads. A banging came from the machine shed along with some blue smoke curling in a Swedish script of expletives, distinctly Wald’s handwriting.

“Got any eggs?” I called as I walked in.

Wald looked up from the cultivator he was hammering on. “Sure, sure. I be wit’ya in a minute. This stubborn cuss needs a little more convincin.” He walked over to the work bench and got a five-pound maul. “Nothin's im­ possible. Jus’ takes a bigger hammer, that’s all. Jus’ takes a bigger hammer.”

With two quick hits, the bent piece finally fell off and Wald walked out to the chicken coop, an old Union Pacific boxcar. Emerging with a basket of eggs, Hulda met him.

“The Olsen boys are swimming in the pond

again. You know how it scares the ducks,” she said.

“Ya, okay. I’ll get rid of ’em.”

As we walked down through the pasture toward the algae-green pond, Wald rambled, “Stupid ducks. Could run’em over fore they git outta th’ road, but a couple a splashin kids gits’em so riled up, ya’d think their tail feathers’r on fire.”

We approached slowly and Wald watched a few minutes before calmly asking, “Huntin rattlers, boys?”

They stopped splashing and looked at each other. “No, Mr. Nelson. Jus’ coolin off an’ swim min.”

“That’s okay then,” Wald replied, “I jus’ don’t want ya to get hurt, so don’t bother the snakes, okay?”

“No, we won’t,” they promised.

Halfway back up to the buildings we saw the boys jumping the fence and heading home.

I couldn’t resist the question, “Wald, have you ever seen any rattlers around here?”

“I ain’t, but my dad did, right over by that pile o’ rocks.”

“Was it your dad who bought this farm?”

“No, my grandad-Nels Anderson.”

Wald grinned at my puzzled look. “Your mother’s father?” I asked.

“No. My grandad’s name was Anderson.

He came over from Sweden and a course the first-born son always took his father’s first name, ya know, so my dad was Nels-son.

And the way they got the first name was to take it from his grandad-Anders Nelson.”

“So your father was Anders Nelson, your grandfather Nels Anderson, your great-grand­ father Anders Nelson again, and so on?”

“Ya, all first-borns. Not hard to set down the family tree, jus’ start alternatin Anders Nelson and Nels Anderson. But they figured it’d get too confusin over here so they broke the chain and called me Waldemar. Eric Waldemarson.. .bet the boy’s glad we stuck with Nelson.”

At the top of the pasture near the bam we paused by the rock pile, one of the rock piles, I should say. Rocks were everywhere, thrown along boundaries and made into fences, filling in gully-washes, or just mounded in the middle of a field, making waves of growing com circle around it like green ripples from a pebble tossed in a black pond. Only these pebbles

don’t disappear; they multiply like graniteskinned rabbits. Every spring the plowing turns up another litter.

“Ya, my grandad thought he was gittin hisself a bit o’ the fertile promised land when he bought this place, sight unseen, while still draggin coal outta them mines in Nort’ Sweden.

Bet he thought his rock-pickin days were over. Ya, bet he thought his rock-pickin days were over.”

I wanted to tell Wald that if he would sell the farm and move to town, his rock picking days would be over, but I knew I’d have as much luck talking to the rocks I was sitting on.

He had become a rock himself, hard and tough, squeezed between his hard life and his need for living it. “Dumb as a rock,” is a common ex­ pression up here. And they are often unreason­ able and rather simple, but this is the land where this particular Swedish rock was sent up, because of a spit or a curse, and this is where he wanted to stay.

As I drove away I nodded to the curled hand on the bam as it dropped another rock on the pile.

One late summer night several years later, I looked out the kitchen window and saw a reddish glow toward the west. It looked like one of the common rosy sunsets, but it was past eleven so it could only mean one thing— someone’s bam was in flames. The Nelson place was the nearest farm to the west and when I ran outside I could just make out the flickering silhouette of Wald’s silo and house in front of the glowing barn.

The Nelson’s driveway was already crowded with neighbors’ cars, and the rural fire truck stood closest to the blazing bam, occasionally pumping water on the sheds that stood nearby. There were almost fifty people standing around in groups, shielding their eyes and faces from the intense heat of the fire. As the flame licked up the blackened sides of the bam and smoke rolled in thick, heavy billows from the upper windows on either end, I caught a few scraps of conversation. “Wald and Hulda got most the stock out. A couple a calves too scart and too heavy to carry still in there. All the summer hay gone. Hope the machine shed doesn’t go. They got the tractor out anyway, but the combine won’t start.”

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there wasn’t anything I could do, as dozens had probably been told already, but I just wanted to see if Wald and Hulda were all right.

They were. Hulda was standing off by her­ self, even more stem and erect, her crossed arms holding her sides a little tighter than usual, and Wald was glancing around at the people and kicking at the gravel in the driveway. The plow had cut deeper furrows in the red loam of his forehead, but his jaw was firm and not quivering.

“Well, guess I don’t halfta shingle it next spring,” Wald said, managing to crinkle a grin.

“Think I’ll go up to tlT house and see ifn I

can scare up a pinch a snoose, jus’ a pinch.”

The weather vane on the roof of the bam twirled around in the rising heat, and the Copenhagen hand was still barely visible among the flames. With the paint blistered from the heat and smoke-blackened, the hand looked old and tired. A cracking of rafters was heard, the roof saged a little more, and the hand pulled the string holding the bam together.

The walls quivered and at last crumbled, send­ ing out a shower of sparks and flying embers as the roof collapsed.

BRIAN DOSE

Mrs. ErwIn Kou/aII<e 1895 -1979

Mrs. Erwin Kowalke was called to her eternal home December 27, 1979, at the age of 86. Funeral services were conducted by Pastor Myron Kell on January 4, at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church. Mrs. Kowalke’s body was interred in the Lutheran Cemetery.

Gertrude Deebach Kowalke, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Deebach, was born July 18, 1893, in St. Paul, Minnesota. She married Prof. E. E. Kowalke on June 27, 1919. Prof. Kowalke, president of Northwestern College from 1919 to 1959, preceded his wife in death on April 30, 1973.

After her husband’s death, Mrs. Kowalke continued to live on the college campus until she became a resident of Marquardt Memorial Manor about one year before her death.

In his sermon, Pastor Kell described Mrs. Kowalke as “a gentle and good person.” She impressed people as being a lady of propriety who did whatever she could to improve the image of Northwestern. One of her lasting contribu­ tions to Northwestern was planning the placement of trees and shrubs on the campus. Although in the past few years she appeared on campus only occasionally, Mrs. Kowalke was well known to those associated with North­ western. President Toppe noted that Mrs. Kowalke felt a deep loyalty to and love for Northwestern. Even after her husband’s death, she continued to keep track of campus events. Her concern for the college was frequently reflected in her question, “How is everything at Northwestern?” Mrs. Kowalke was one of Northwestern’s most loyal supporters. She will be deeply missed.

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liiTy Alma Mater is gone. The once bustling ^*^halls of Northwestern Lutheran Academy in Mobridge, South Dakota, are silent now, lonesome for the old sounds of students’ voices and pattering feet. Today the prairie winds blow across bare sidewalks, creaking against empty dormitories and cold, faceless windowpanes.

My memories of the old school are a mix­ ture of happy times with my friends as well as troubled adjustments in my personal life while I grew to manhood. Gradually my recollections of sadness are fading away behind the bright­ ness of the good times. NLA gave me much.

But perhaps the Academy’s day of passing along the secrets of life and eternity has come to a close.

At the tender age of fourteen I left my home in Oregon, heading for a spot in South Dakota of which I had heard only a few months earlier. What compelled me to suddenly leave the security of my family was dimly apparent to me then and has grown clearer as I near my goal of the ministry. The Holy Spirit was guiding young hearts like mine toward work in the Lord’s Kingdom.

It’s almost as if I was too young and in­ experienced to be filled with apprehensions about a new place among strange faces. I remember that during the last hour or so of my first plane flight, it suddenly occurred to me that I didn’t even know how I would travel the hundred miles from the airport in Bis­ marck, North Dakota, to the city of Mobridge, South Dakota. My mother had been told that someone would be at the airport to meet me.

But as my destination neared, I wondered how I would be able to recognize my driver in the teeming airport of North Dakota’s state capital.

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The airport surprised me with its single gate and lack of bustling crowds. And I had little trouble finding the Dean of Students from NLA standing amid a group of kids my age, all asking, “Has anyone seen Mark Cordes?” To my comfort they turned out to be very nice people. In fact, they were the first to demon­ strate something which always impressed me about the students, faculty, and friends of NLA—they were uncommonly friendly.

As the days passed into semesters, one lesson followed another. But it wasn’t only the lessons in the classroom which made a deep impression on my mind. I was fortunate enough to be in a class which had an unusually high percentage of farm children, most of them from the same family. Their grandmother, Rose Rabenberg, was a hardy woman who welcomed her grandsons and me to her farm kitchen for many a Sunday dinner. Her steam­ ing dishes usually rendered us too warm and content to do anything but relax away the afternoon in her cozy living room. I dare say that the whole Rabenberg family gave me so much of themselves that they almost filled my longing for the folks I left back home. And they let me taste the blessings which come from summer fallowing, bucking bales, and making a happy life in what, to the untrained eye, may appear to be a desolate land. They showed me hospitality as I’ve seldom seen it and treated me like one of the family from the start.

How often I have wished that other young students could meet people like the Rabenbergs through a school like NLA. What better place could one hope to get a strong Chris­ tian education than among such hardy fellow Christians who would adopt him as they did 160

me? NLA taught me history, Latin, German, and a great deal about my Savior. It also taught me priceless lessons about life through some of my Savior’s people.

I have to admit that I was somewhat dis­ illusioned when I first heard that the Wisconsin Synod was considering the possibility of clos­ ing my Alma Mater. All I could think of was the untold number of students who would miss the blessings of the Academy. And it only increased my disappointment when I talked to others in the distant parts of the Synod who seemed so eager to close the school because, according to them, it cost the Synod too much per student to keep it open. All I could think was, “How much are the blessings of such a school worth? Who can fill out their price tag?” And my anger welled as I imagined a secret conspiracy to stomp out my dear school and wipe it forever from the Synod’s map.

But fortunately, there is another side to the picture than the one which first clouded my vision. Although my loyalty to my Alma Mater can only increase as I experience the results of its gifts in productive adulthood, other factors which brought about the Synod resolution demand the attention of all of us who cherished NLA. While I was a student at NLA, the enroll­ ment hung right around 120 people. Four years after my graduation it had still not topped 125.

A good share of our meager numbers came from distant parts of the West. The succeed­ ing plans to open area Lutheran high schools in the Pacific Northwest, California, Arizona, and even as close as Nebraska seem to me to have posed a real threat to the growth of NLA. It isn’t inconceivable that these new and useful ventures to increase Christian secondary education might have drained away much of NLA’s student body. Then the Synod’s outlay per student would have increased even more.

In time, the lack of students might have erased NLA from the Synod’s academy rostra without official action.

It’s not possible to put a price tag on blessings like the ones NLA gave her children.

But our responsibility to use our Father’s gifts wisely forces us to evaluate our practices and sometimes make some heartrending decisions. And inflation continues to tighten its stranglehold on every financial responsibil-

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ity, making our decisions more and more difficult.

Here are some of the questions which good stewardship compelled us to ask. Is it right to keep spending more and more money for fewer and fewer candidates for workers in our Lord’s Kingdom when we might be able to give the same blessings to more of our young people under better circumstances? With building maintenance costs skyrocketing, should we, as a Synod, keep trying to upgrade two facilities when pooling the resources of both could increase our capabilities of educat­ ing our young? Is one school the answer to pinching budgets? What is the justification for maintaining Martin Luther Academy in New Ulm, Minnesota, and Northwestern Lutheran Academy in Mobridge, South Dakota? I be­ lieve the tremendous blessings were reason enough for our sacrifices. But my feelings changed when the Lord, whose hand of bless­ ing is unhindered by inflation, opened a new door to us at Prairie du Chien.

What is the cost of building a high school these days? I can’t even begin to imagine an estimate. But Wittenberg Hall cost slightly more than a million dollars only five years ago before the surge in building costs belted us.

With that in mind the offer to our Synod to buy a basically equipped campus at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, for S2.8 million was a Godsend, to say the least.

All of this sounded just fine on paper. But my last pangs of disappointment at the loss of NLA lingered on until our NWC Male Chorus sang at Martin Luther Preparatory School’s dedication service in Prairie du Chien on October 14,1979. The sight of how tremendous God’s gift to our Synod really was, caught me off guard. We could practically drop Witten­ berg Hall right inside one of MLPS’s dormi­ tories and still have room to replace the roof for shade from the Mississippi sunshine. And the new campus has three dormitories which alone would cost far more than $2.8 million.

We can simply marvel at the fact that the Lord threw in the cafeteria, classroom buildings, both gymnasiums and swimming pool, marblestudded chapels, and vast outdoor athletic facilities for free. It still hurts me that we had to close NLA. But after seeing MLPS, I’m con­ vinced that the Lord, who placed the oppor­ tunity before us, led us to the right decision

to take it. Then He proceeded to lavish us with more gifts by providing a student body which far surpassed the projected numbers.

Needless to say, however, buildings don’t make a school or teach life’s secrets. The challenge laid on MLPS as she comes to life is to offer a Christian education and positive training so that our next generation can lead productive lives in God’s Kingdom. I personally have trouble imagining a school better able to do this than NLA and the people who supported it with their funds and their hospitality to us students. But nothing would make me happier than to see my Alma Mater outperformed in the future by MLPS. All of this is good news for those of us who arc miles away from Mobridge, South Dakota.

But there remain in the shadow of NLA, families who have suddenly lost their treasured school. Who can blame them if the specter of shipping their children 600 miles away to another school in Wisconsin deepens their sense of loss? NLA was their pride and joy.

And it passed its blessings from parents to children for almost three generations.

We are thankful, however, the people of the Dakota-Montana District are not letting the possibilities of a Christian education on the secondary level slip away. Some of their child­ ren cannot travel to Prairie du Chien or have other callings in life besides the preaching or teaching ministry. So a steering committee has been organized to lay the groundwork for opening an area Lutheran high school in the Dakota-Montana District. Progress is being made toward that goal with what seems to be considerabfe interest from the membership.

Nevertheless, the task is not an easy one.

The common problems of finances which face our fledgling area high schools throughout the Synod are augmented by difficulties which are almost unique to this prairie region. The distances which scatter the small number of students throughout the district are problem enough. But there is an almost invisible line which runs north and south about 100 miles east of Mobridge which separates the people who have generally sent their children to NLA in Mobridge, from those who, for the most part, are accustomed to enrolling theirs at MLA in New Ulm, Minnesota. Now, however, both sides of the line share common interests in a new school. A united effort from the entire 162

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Besides encouraging disunity, the vast stretches of plains may even produce an extraordinary apathy for such an institution.

While parents in many parts of our country will sacrifice almost anything to free their children from the fear of large high school race riots, drug problems, and humanism in the classrooms, parents in the Dakotas and Montana aren’t pressured by these distant forces. Small town high schools of fewer than 200 children are traditionally easier to control than their big city counterparts. The need of some parents to have the help of their children on the farm may also put the cost of a private education out of easy reach.

Motivation, more than ever, is a key factor in the success of an area high school on the northern prairies. Fortunately, there are a growing number of people who see the abundant blessings such a venture holds out for their children. They’re eager to back the project.

As in the case of the other area high schools in our Synod, however, it is not the numbers of contributors or their zeal which are the strength of the effort. Like Jonathan told his

armor bearer when they attacked the superior Philistine garrison, “Nothing can hinder the Lord from saving, whether by many or by few.” Christian training of the next generation is supported and maintained by God Himself.

He repeated His demonstration of this by lay­ ing MLPS in our laps. He is also granting suc­ cess to the new Christian day schools and struggling area Lutheran high schools almost bursting from the woodwork of our Synod in these days of near economic crisis.

The people of Mobridge, South Dakota, and their district also have the Savior’s assurance of His blessing. Maybe someday the Lord will again put feet on the sidewalks of the Academy and fill her halls once more with the voices of students. Perhaps His providence will again put faces in the windows to watch the changing seasons of the prairies in a land where the Creator smiles on fertile fields. But wherever His children find themselves, may their God richly bless the Christian parents who empty their pockets and exhaust their energies to teach them of their Savior.

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The "Me decade "

Those flourishing days of rapid westward development at the end of the nineteenth century were called the “gay nineties.” The days of recovery from World War I, when the economy was booming, were labeled the “roaring twenties.” The sixties have come to be known for their riots. As we enter upon a new decade, one reads much in the papers about the nineteen-seventies. A name which has been ascribed to these past ten years is the “me decade.” This is indeed an appropriate

name; in fact, the process of “looking out for # 1” is a major reason for many of the prob­ lems of today.

The energy situation has become more and more critical as the years of the seventies have gone by. As a Quintaner here at Northwestern, that was in 1973, this writer remembers Professor Behnke giving frequent warnings about the coming energy crunch. The general attitude at the time was that the conservation­ ists were making a big thing out of nothing.

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After all, we had always had energy, why should the situation change now? Gas prices at the time were 23 9/10 C per gallon. As it has turned out, those conservationists were blowing much more than hot air. Even today the concern of most Americans in regard to energy is not to conserve it so that there will be enough to go around, but to conserve so that their pockctbooks will not be pinched.

The emphasis, in the main, is on “how can / benefit the most from the situation?”

The American attitude toward work is another area where the idea of putting one­ self first is a problem. Many Americans today view their job as a necessary evil. It is some­ thing that must be done in order to survive.

However, survival seems to be the lesser part of the worries of the working man. Strikes have been prevalent in the past decade as a result of the pressures of labor unions. Apparently, according to some unions, a man cannot sur­ vive without a forty-foot yacht and two auto­ mobiles. There is too little pride in workman­ ship these days. Part of this is, of course, due to the rise of mass production, but there has been a shift in the American attitude too.

The emphasis now is on entertainment. “How can I enjoy myself most?” Television, a major convenience and a great good, is also largely responsible for this shift. Although some entertainment is good, too much is not good.

Then the entire attitude revolves around being entertained. Today most people would rather be “laid back” and be entertained than do anything.

On the other hand, those who do do some­ thing, do it for themselves. The field of sports is a good example. Everybody wants to be #1.1 cannot remember the last football game I watched in which someone wasn't seen rais­ ing his index finger in triumph. Good ball players have a free ride through college. Jerome Whitehead, former Marquette University star center, said that it was nothing to find $200 lying on his bed after a game. A talented athlete gets a free ride while everyone else has to struggle. It’s not fair, to say the least, and it all stems from the fact that the college wants to be recognized. “Hey, look at me!”

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extramarital sex abound, and more “gays” come out of the closet every day. The reason is that most people are interested only in their own sexual pleasure and not with the respon­ sibility that goes along with it. Consequently society has developed means to do away with responsibility. Birth control is common, and even murder, in the form of abortion, is acceptable and legal because men and women are more concerned with their own pleasure and well being than with anything else, even with a human life.

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The program Thursday night was so in­ spiring that Wittenberg became a regular “disco land,” (or was that just room 224?) and Joe College’s monologue convinced us that Eich is prime professor material for a future

call back to Northwestern. Let’s just hope all the professors he mentioned in his monologue are gone by then, for his sake. Some of the candidates got carried away with themselves though. Don’t you think breaking your nose just for a few votes is going a little too far?

But now that the UMOC campaign is over and the candidates don’t have to act ugly anymore, “Hunchie” is anxiously awaiting a return valentine from Jenny Reul, or any of the coeds for that matter. Well, at least Miss Lenz has sent hers.

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Estimating the length of the program is always difficult, and Kurt Ebert tried in vain to spread the word around to the performers to “keep it short.” So some senior psychology students doing an experiment on achievement motiva­ tion were asking Paul Birsching how many songs he thought he would do for his act, and Paul confidently replied, “I think I’ll do five songs.” Whereupon father William popped up, stifled Paul and said, “No, he’ll do two.”

One other musical act that we remember was the harmonica quartet, mainly because Billy Carter ended up swallowing his miniature harmonica and can still be heard belching in four-part harmony.

The 1980 Winter Carnival entertainment program also had the distinction of being the last one in which both Local Motion and the Madman Boogie Band will perform. I can already hear the tender sobs, the sentimental sighs, and the ear-piercing screams of relief as these two groups fade into oblivion. When contacted after the show, one member of the tertia girls singing group commented, “You won’t have Local Motion to kick around any­ more.”

Just because we didn’t have snow for snow sculptures, however, didn’t stop that ever-ingenious Dean Lindemann from thinking up a suitable substitute sculpture material in the form of the large, clumsy blocks of ice which are strewn about our campus, some in the original condition in which they were dumped.

Of course, we could just have let these icy obelisks melt, but we think there must be some better, more useful purpose for them, if not immediately, then in the future. We could: —keep them in the cafeteria freezer for ice sculptures next year.

—build an ice arena for the college hockey club.

—do something with them more directly related to the ministry, like carving them into lecterns and pulpits to send to our first mission church in Siberia.

Looking beyond the doldrums of Winter 1980, most students are making plans for the next big event of the school year, Quarter Break. Although most of you have probably already made your plans, if some are still

looking for a new and exciting place in which to do your quarter breaking, we suggest this Quarter Break Vacation Guide to some of the less known national and international hot spots: See Iran—special student rates available.

Sign up now for Afghanistan—two year tour, complete with uniform, males ages 18-26.

Registration starting soon. and our complete line of Professors’ tours, including: Prof. Scharf’s tours of the Land of the Reformation and the Holy City itself—see the actual site of the filming of the famous Luther movie.

Prof Lehmann—The wonders of Pompeii.

Pres. Toppe—See the ancient relics of beautiful Cosrinthia.

Prof. Schroeder—Tour the Sabine farms or follow the trail of Hannibal’s elephants across the Alps—goads included.

Prof. Kirst—See the Museum of Science and Industry (again) or take the long awaited tour of the telescope high atop the LibraryScience Building. and last but hardly least, Prof. Franzmann’s tour of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: 1) Suppiluliumas’s mailbox—the longest in the world.

2) The oldest known manuscrips of the ZD and ZD in the Zl and ) , a popular ancient periodical 3) The Sumerian pit brewery.

4) In Greece, Alexander's Ragtime Band­ stand.

5) The Hanging Beer Gardens of Babylon.

6) The Great Ciggurat at Ur, recently conjectured to have been an ashtray used by the ancient god O. G. 7) The Bell Tower at the University of Alexandria, the ancient Egyptian university. Some of our readers may remember hearing their famous fight song, since it has been translated from an excavated papyrus fragment: Cheer for old U.A. ay, School of the Pharaoh.

Hail on thee, U.A. ay, Let my people go! Re! Re! Re! Onward old U.A. ay, Float right down that Nile, Watch out, Cleopatra, for that crocodile!

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With the recent shakeup in the janitorial staff, the administration is now making a synod-wide appeal to men who are capable of maintaining the standard of excellence of custodial care to which our campus has be-

come accustomed. This job is not for every­ body; weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re looking for just a few good jannies.

If any of you, our readers, think you are tough enough, fill out the following job application and send it in.

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mow most of them down

mow some of them down

Are you capable of handling a Toro riding lawn mower at speeds in excess of 60 miles per hour?

Have you held or do you now hold a public office?

Can you whistle at least 16 measures of totally unrecognizable melody at a level of 90 decibels or higher?

Are you punctual enough to clean the bathrooms daily at the times when the most students arc using them?

Arc you willing to carry around at all times a 60 pound ring of keys which produces a deafening jangle at the mere thought of walking down the hall?

What phrase best describes you? bad back

wetback

be back after lunch

laid back

And most importantly, do you have any peculiar characteristics or oustanding habits which could be used for future Campus and Classroom material?

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Heights, IL, to take on the Trinity Christian Trolls. The Trolls jumped out to an early lead, and behind 28 points by Charles Burns, blitzed Northwestern 81-66. Phil Hirsch, Mark Mueller, and Mark Kolander collected 10 points each to lead the Trojans.

Lawrence Coming off the Christmas vacation, the Trojans held a 2-5 non-conference record as they made the trip to Appleton to take on the Lawrence Vikings. The Trojans stayed close throughout the first half and trailed by only five, 34-29. In the second half, however, the out-manned Trojans could not keep up with the deeper ranks of the Vikings as they fell to them 71-58. Mark Kolander led North­ western with 22 points.

Marian For the conference opener, Marian College of Fond du Lac rolled into town as the Trojans had yet another home game on January 15.

The lead changed hands several times in the first few minutes, but the Sabres were able to move out to a nine point lead at half. The Trojans were not able to threaten in the second half as they fell to Marian 93-75. Mark “The Rejector” Wessel supplied some excitement for the crowd as the 5’ 11” (standing on the Sun­ day Journal) sophomore was called for goal­ tending! Another high point in the game was Mark Kolander’s game high 32 points.

Trinity On January 11, Trinity College of Deer­ field, IL, came to Watertown as the Trojans, practically strangers in their own gym, came home for only their second home game of the season. Unfortunately, Trinity warmed up to the surroundings faster than the Trojans did as the visitors turned a 46-31 halftime lead into a 96-69 victory. Mark Kolander led the Tro­ jans with 16 points, and Mark Mueller had 15.

Edgewood The Trojans traveled to Madison for their second conference game to battle the Edgewood Eagles. Mark Mueller’s 18 first half points helped the Trojans to a 43-31 lead. The Eagles fought back determinedly, however;

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only Mark Kolander’s two bonus free throws with 24 seconds left saved the game for North­ western. The final margin was only a point, 72-71. Mark Mueller led the Trojans with 22, and Mark Kolander was right behind him with 18. The victory evened the Trojans’ WCIC record at 1-1.

Up to this point in the season, Mark Kolander leads the team in scoring with a 19.8 average. Mark Mueller and Matt Crass lead in rebounding with 8.7 and 6.9 averages respec­ tively.

Winter Carnival

This year’s wrestling team has been severely hampered by a lack of manpower. In almost every meet they have been forced to forfeit at least two of the lower weight classes. At the present time the team has only six active mem­ bers left. One of the inactive members is last year’s NLCAA national champ, Jim Weiland, who is out with a broken bone in his ankle.

What all this adds up to is a team record of 2-13. The team’s most encouraging finishes have been a victory over Gateway Tech, and a third-place finish in the Lawrence Invitational.

Below are the records of all members of the team, “past and present.”

A fine crowd turned out for Northwestern’s 1980 Winter Carnival game on January 26 against MSOE. The Trojans seemed to be en­ couraged by this as they sped to a nine point lead early in the game. Then, however, the Engineers awoke from their slumber and came roaring back to lead the Trojans by five at half, 36-31. MSOE was able to break the game open when Northwestern hit a four-minute cold spell in which the Engineers outscored NWC 11-0. In the end it was MSOE 79, NWC 57.

Mark Kolander once again led the Trojans with 22 points, and Mark Mueller added 16. The loss left the Trojans with a 1-2 conference record and a 3-10 mark overall.

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-Rev. Ronald Baerbock (’69), former pastor of Star of Bethlehem, New Berlin, WI, was installed as pastor of King of Kings, Kennewick, WA, on January 20, 1980.

—Rev. Paul Fetzer (’71) was installed to serve Our Savior of East Wenatchee and Holy Cross, Withrow, WA, on January 27. He for­ merly served in Paradise Valley, AZ. -Rev. Russell Schmidt (’65), former pastor at Zion, Stetsonville, WI, was installed at Cross of Christ, Coon Rapids, MN, on Febru­ ary 10.

—Rev. John Stellick (’70) was installed at Zion, Winthrop, MN, on February 3. He had been pastor at St. John’s, Belview, MN. —Prof. Lloyd Huebner (’47) will be installed as president of Dr. Martin Luther College in June of this year. He presently serves as Dean of Students at the school.

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-Hope congregation of West Chicago, IL, installed Rev. James Ziesemer on February 10.

His previous church was King of Kings, Willoughby, OH. -Rev. Richard Raabe (’69) was installed at St. Paul’s, Franklin, WI, on February 10. His former congregation was Holy Trinity, Wyoming, MI. -Rev. Martin Janke (’51) accepted the call to David Star, Jackson, WI, and was installed there on January 13. He had been serving Faith Church in Fond du Lac, WI. -Rev. William Neumann (’72), former pastor of Faith, Elizabeth, IL, was installed at Star of Bethlehem, New Berlin, WI, on Febru­ ary 10.

ANNIVERSARIES -Prince of Peace Church of Yucaipa, CA, celebrated its 15th anniversary on December 9, 1979. Its pastor is Rev. Norman Norstrand.

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DEDICATION -St. John’s of Burlington, WI, dedicated a new church on February 3. Rev. Richard Weeks is pastor of the congregation.

-James Valley Lutheran Church of James­ town, SD, was dedicated on February 3. Its pastor is Rev. W. A. Allwardt.

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-Rev. Joel Schroeder (’71) married Ruth Carden on January 5.

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—Rev. Elmer Zehms (’37), St. John’s, Dowagiac, MI, has retired from his active ministry. He is presently living in Green Bay, WI. DEATHS -Rev. Edwin Jaster (’21) died on Decem­ ber 30, 1979. He had been living in Racine, WI. -Rev. Harvey Kahrs died on December 4.

Funeral services were held December 7 at Bethel, Menasha, WI. BIRTHS -Jason Richard Kanzenbach, son of Pastor and Mrs. Richard Kanzenbach (’74), was born on September 29, 1979.

-Peter Dale, son of James W. (’69) and Jalaine Naumann, was bom on November 25, 1979.

—Mary Esther, daughter of Thomas and Deborah Haar, was born on November 21, 1979.

—Pastor and Mrs. Richard Kugler (’68) of Yorba Linda, CA, had a baby boy on Novem­ ber 13.

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-The blacksmith reshoed Trigger with beatle boots instead of horse shoes.

-Ode To Wilks: “Wilks just got stuck through the nose, To Karen he now has proposed; Him from the boys he thus doth sever And now is lost forever!”

Anonymous -Ylvis tried to do some body work on his “California” Maverick; a real bang-up job, Ylvy!

-Dan Schumann refuses to go to classes until the hostages are freed.

-Chuck Huebner has found love to be a painful ordeal.

-Jerry Ewings is looking for free tickets to the St, Louis Cardinals’ football game.

-Correction: Jerry Ewings has free tickets to the St. Louis Cardinals’ football game!

-Randy Schoemann has become the American Gigolo. See the organist at Dalton, WI. -Shifty “Strip your Gears” Schiller is holding down a modest 150 bowling average despite Roeslein, Roeslein, you bet! (Shifty, you Philistine you!)

-Randy Schoemann’s tunc is playing on the organ at Dalton!

—Famous quotes by the man who knows every-thing, Slim Tim: “I’m a carpenter now.

I can build anything.”

‘Crash” Ylvisaker giving driving lessons.

Only S500. (Needs only two vie.., .students to pay for his car.)

-Hey Dean! Got a good deal on a late model Harley. It’s a real slick deal. Ya inter­ ested?!

-Clark is now working five days a week to pay for a rock, since he no longer is one.

—Ylvis looks like he’s getting ready for those California highways.

-Heuth, # 1 fan of Wisco College’s Girls Buckets team, claims last Saturday’s game lasted till 6 a.m. 47 overtimes.

-The Ayatollah sits in his holy city and laughs. Otterstatter, in Qom you would be dog food.

—As predicted, Wilkens was the first of the New Ulm Nine to seek reform by luring a full-time advisor and watch dog.

His first call was to serve as a tutor and to teach at Northwestern Lutheran Academy in Mobridgc. He was called to the Northwestern College Faculty in 1939 to teach Latin and English, replacing Prof. Win. Herrmann. In 1943 he was asked to direct musical activities at the college. He seived as director of music and taught Latin until 1963. During most of those years he also taught music courses at the Seminary and directed the Seminary choir.

Since 1963 he has been employed at Concordia Publishing House in St. Louis, where he is an editor. His most important assignment has been to edit the last eleven volumes of Luther's Works (American Edition).

AND NOW FOR NEWS FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE HILL...

SEM NOTES JUNIORS —'The Sem isn’t big enough for Pete Kiecker (hero of NWC).

-The Clark bar has melted.

—Diamonds are forever, and Clark’s is the only rock he’ll have anymore.

—Seel and Mary Schmelzer-is it just a vicious rumor?

-What is this we hear about Paul Schleis and his constant flow of mail to and from DMLC? -Bun’s interest in farming has grown lately— he takes his “chores” more seriously than before.

-Hey! Quit picking on Ylvis; whatever happened to picking on Sparky Brenner?

-Tom Gumm found and lost the girls of his dreams (all in two months).

-Instead of burning rubber up to New Ulm, Schleis burns pen marks writing to a Milwaukee Buffalo at New Ulm. He loves holidays.

-Ylvis was trying to widen the road on 109, but a rock in the ditch got in the way.

—Koly hasn’t moved in yet.

-Wolf likes to feed at the “Palms.”

-Ylvisaker’s last trip to Watertown was just smashing.

-Jerry Ewings has just passed the five-

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—Mr. Ulrich: Don’t you think there is something intrinsically sick about you study­ ing your Triglot down at Elroy’s?

-Trigs has been growing (?) a mustache for 14 days; maybe in another 14 we will be able to sec it.

-A1 Sorum, Lisa will still love you even after your hairlines meet at the back of your head.

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MIDDLERS -Mark Henke: Emily Post says it is not proper etiquette to lay your head on the lectern and catch 40 winks before the sermon.

-Is it true that since January 24 Scheucrlcin is in a state of manic depression? (Poor Amy’s gone.)

-Rumor has it Don Pieper was a Wolverine fan for a weekend!

-Mark Schulz is toying with student nurses’ affections.

-What! In his vast experience Mark Schulz is now finally getting the game he always wanted as a child.

-Is it true that Bruce Becker spends more time in Decatur than in class?

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Continuing breakthroughs in medicine gave him more time on earth to enjoy his creations.

And after “The War to End All Wars” he dreamed that, at last, he had worked the miracle of peace. With a few minor adjust­ ments in the social structure he anticipated a virtual end to all suffering.

It may be said that man partially accom­ plished his purpose. We middle class Americans, however, still like to think we suffer extensive­ ly. We suffer from headaches, overweight, and long lines at the supermarket. We worry about crime in our cities, drugs in our schools, and religious dissent. And yet, how many of us

have ever seen the cruel face of war? No foreign army has attacked our land since the birth of our country. The last full-scale war on American soil ended at Appomattox more than a century ago. Few scars remain. Nor do we Lutherans live in constant dread of papal attacks on our homes and families. We have no need to arm ourselves to protect our religious freedom. God has given us unprecedented peace and prosperity.

But our forefathers who lived in the aftermath of Wittenberg’s explosion found them­ selves living under darker skies. In about the length of time it has taken us to hang up our spurs and start our engines, the land of Luther languished under the Thirty-Years’ War. The armies of Sweden, France, and Spain swept across Germany, while her native sons destroyed one another—ail for the sake of religion.

Catholics fought Protestants who tumbled with Calvinists in conflicts too evenly matched for any of them to win decisively. Just when the Lutherans were about to crumble beneath the Catholic onslaught, the Lion of the North, in the person of Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, saved their fortunes. But the destruction dragged on, ruined the countryside, and almost Continued on page 182

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Continued from cover wiped out civilization in Germany. The roads were infested with robbers whose brutal depredations the soldiers loved to imitate. The people who escaped to cities like Leipzig and Magdeburg found themselves under siege five and six times and easy victims of starvation and pestilence. One commentator writes that “by the time the Peace of Westphalia brought the anarchy to an end, four fifths of the popula­ tion had perished, an even greater proportion of the wealth of the country was destroyed, and the land was virtually a desert. 200 years were needed to repair the ruin of this time.”

When Paul Gerhardt’s infant cries first pierced the air on March 12, 1607, the armed conflict was still twelve years in the future.

His father was the burgomaster of Grafenhainichen, the electorate of Saxony, and located only a few miles southwest of Wittenberg. In this medieval walled city, whose economy was based on cattle-raising, agriculture, and hop­ growing, young Paul Gerhardt grew to maturity, but not before his father died. His mother, Dorothea nee Starke, the granddaughter of a Lutheran pastor, was left to tend Paul’s many brothers and sisters, of whom we know very little. Records which might have supplied us with details went up in smoke with the church in Gdifenhainichen when Swedish soldiers burned it to the ground.

After attending elementary school at Grimma, Paul’s choice of a college was not a difficult one. Because of its proximity and Reformation reputation, Wittenberg was the most desirable place to study. There Gerhardt came under the influence of two guardians of Lutheranism, Paul Rbber and Jacob Martini.

From them the young theologian heard many polemics against Rome and Calvinism, which soon gave him a strong Lutheran backbone.

Although Paul Gerhardt qualified for the Lutheran ministry, it seems that the universal disorganization of the day left few positions open for him. So he took his talents to Berlin, where he tutored in the home of Andreas Barthold, a lawyer. Meanwhile, the war was devastating the countryside and bringing grief and sorrow to many a heart. Gerhardt was sensitive to the doubts and uncertainties which surrounded him. Like many other Christians during those tumultous times, he lifted his

eyes from the horrors of life to the light of heaven. Beautiful verses, which, no doubt, also comforted him, began to flow from his pen.

Five of his hymns, written during those years (1642-1651), are found in our Lutheran Hymnal. Johann Crilger published eighteen of Gerhardt’s hymns together with other poems in his Praxis Pietatis Melica in 1648. Thus their comfort became part of common worship for the first time. Gerhardt’s depth of feeling and his natural warmth of character are evident in stanza five of Hymn 58: Rejoice then, ye sad-hearted Who sit in deepest gloom.

Who mourn o ’re joys departed.

And tremble at your doom; He who alone can cheer you Is standing at the door; He brings His pity near you, And bids you weep no more.

At last, when Gerhardt was forty-four years old, he received his first call to Mittenwalde, where he was ordained in November of 1651. During this time he was described by friends in Berlin as a person of “well-known diligence and scholarship, of peace-loving disposition and blameless life, besides being loved and esteemed by both high and low in Berlin.” The people of Mittenwalde needed a strong, compassionate pastor to comfort them in the midst of their suffering. Swedish marauders surrounded them with violence while the cold, silent hands of pestilence snuffed the lives of their loved ones. But these Christians could not lose themselves in mourn­ ing when they sang the songs penned by their pastor. During their distresses he was hard at work concentrating comfort in a whole flurry of hymns which he published in 1653. Almost half of Gerhardt’s hymns which we find in our Lutheran Hymnal were first published in that year. He lifted the hearts of his parishioners with hymns like these: “Why Should Cross and Trial Grieve Me?” “All My Heart This Night Rejoices,” and “Rejoice, My Heart, Be Glad and Sing!” Where hearts were wracked by material losses, Gerhardt soothed them with heavenly joys.

It must have been a sad day in Mittenwalde when Probst Gerhardt was called to the Nicolaikirche in Berlin. “After fervent prayer, 182

and mature deliberation,” he entered his work as third assistant pastor in the summer of 1657. But Berlin was boiling with religious strife as Lutheran and Reformed preachers blasted each other from their pulpits. Millar Patrick in his The Story of the Church’s Song tells us: “The fashion of preaching had be­ come so predominantly polemical that the most spiritually minded conceived of its function as rather to defend an orthodox creed than to proclaim a regenerative Gospel.”

Imagine the explosion of hostilities when the Great Elector, Frederick William of Prussia, issued an Edict in 1662 to unite the factions.

He thought the Formula of Concord only fomented strife, and he appears to have hoped that his Edict would repair some of the Formula’s damage. The fact that the Elector was a Calvinist didn’t ease the tension when he tried to compel the Lutheran clergy to sign his document, thereby promising not to men­ tion doctrinal differences in their sermons.

For Gerhardt, who had been moderate in his polemics, the Edict represented an inexcusable compromise of his faith. He could not renounce the Formula. Although sick in bed, he summoned the other Lutheran pastors and urged them to stand their ground against the demands of the Elector.

The years that followed brought sorrow aplenty to the staunch hymnist. Stripped of his office and forbidden to hold private ser­ vices in his home, Gerhardt was dependent on support from his friends in his congregation.

His reply shows his true Christian fortitude: “This is only a small Berlin affliction; but I am also willing and ready to seal with my blood the evangelical truth, and, like my namesake, St. Paul, to offer my neck to the sword.”

But Satan seemed intent on pressing more than the loss of position on the troubled saint.

One by one Gcrhardt’s children had died in infancy. His wife, the daughter of Andreas Barthold, was a great comfort to him. A faithful Lutheran herself, she had urged her husband not to sign the Edict. Her death and that of another son during those trials of the 1660’s must have been quite a shock. But Gerhardt viewed her passing in March of 1668, as the fulfillment of a wish that “the Lord might soon come and release her.”

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A few months later he took his only remaining son with him to Llibben and his last parish. There Paul Gerhardt died in May, 1676.

The inscription on his portrait at Lubben rings true in its description of Gerhardt as “a divine sifted in Satan’s sieve.” But the prayer on his lips when he died gives clear testimony of who won the battle: Death cannot destroy forever; From our fears, Cares, and tears It will us deliver: It will close life’s mournful story, Make a way, that we may Enter heavenly glory.

(Hymn 523, stanza 5) We Christians in America may be relieved of many of the everyday discomforts of life, but their removal often tends to make the shocks more intense when genuine suffering does afflict us. It is during times like these that the gifts of Paul Gerhardt become a tremendous source of comfort and blessing to us who may not have noticed the power of his words before. When we are weighed down with griefs which we can’t endure, his words in Hymn 25, which appear to me to be the theme song of his life, lift us above earthly sorrow: “All things else must have their day, God's great love abides for aye.”

The compassionate and understanding spirit of Gerhardt’s hymns was relatively new in Lutheran hymnody. They form a bridge between the earlier objective hymns, which treated only the realities of faith and doctrine, and the very subjective and individualistic hymns which followed his. Sixteen of his 123 hymns begin with “I.” But we don’t find in them the weak sentimentality of many hymns which have appeared in the last two centuries.

As Ernest Ryden puts it, “Because his hymns are' truely ‘songs of the heart,’ they possess a degree of emotional warmth that is lacking in the earlier Lutheran hymns.” In them Ger­ hardt constantly emphasizes the love of God for depressed, despondent believers and weaves his comforting words around justification by faith alone. Jesus Christ is the source and center of his message.

And so the spirit of Paul Gerhardt lives on in our hymns and in our hearts. The last of his twenty-three hymns included in our hymnal is

Hymn 90. It was published in 1667, only a few months after his deposition from the ministry in Berlin. With sorrow behind him and sadness before him, he could still lift his voice at Christmas in 1667, confident of his pathway through this vale of tears. Remember the sad story of his life as you read the words of stanza three. Then you will better appreciate their significance the next time your spirit soars when you: See how God, for us providing, Gave His Son and life abiding; He our weary steps is guiding From earth’s woe to heav'nly joy.

MARK CORDES Hewitt-Chronology from Paul Gerhardt as a Hymn Writer and his Influence on English Hymnody (Mar. 12) Paul Gerhardt born at Gr&fenhainichen near Wittenberg 1622-27 at school at Grimma 1628-42 (?) student at Wittenberg. Teachers: Rbbcr, Martini 1637 Grilfenhainichen set on fire by Swedish soldiers 1642-51 (?) At Berlin; where he wrote Gelegenhcitsgedichtc eighteen of which Crliger pub­ lished in his “Praxis Pietatis Melica.”

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Pre-Trip Planning -Around November 30, find someone who’s enough of a fool to go along with you.

—December through February 20. Spend most of your summer’s earnings getting equip­ ment you’ve never used before and probably never will again.

—February 21-18. Neglect friends, grades, appearance, and all personal hygiene as you frantically try to get in shape for the trip.

—Also, spend the last weeks before Spring Break growing a scraggly beard for that rugged “Mountain Man” look.

Friday, February 29 — 12:00 p.m. Escape from last lousy class.

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-12:08 Reach 1-94, heading towards Colorado. Approach the speed of light near the end of the on-ramp.

-2:15 Exclaim displeasure with Illinois traffic signs and anything that resembles an Illinois traffic sign.

-5:00 Laugh heartily when you hear that it’s 35 degrees in Florida; tell your partner how glad you are that you decided not to go some­ place stupid like that.

Saturday, March 1 -8:00 a.m. Burn out transmission trying to climb the mountains in a fair-weather Chrysler.

-1:00 p.m. Reach partner’s house in Grand Junction.

—4:00 Go running with partner to prove to his parents what good shape you’re in.

-4:02 Drop dead on the lawn after 200 yards because of higher altitude; eagerly antici­ pate going up another 10,000 feet:

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-1:38 Revive partner’s mother who just passed out after she has seen what you’ve done to her good six-quart kettle.

Monday, March 3 -3:30 a.m. Turn off the alarm and wonder whose bright idea it was to get an early start on the day.

-4:00 Pack up car and eat the last decent meal you’ll taste for the next four days-donuts.

—4:30 Leave Grand Junction and head east.

—4:50 About twenty miles out of town, exclaim to your partner in no uncertain terms that someone forgot to pack the skis.

-4:54 Pull back into partner’s driveway, grin sheepishly as partner’s father rolls on ground, laughing uncontrollably at his son and friend. Quickly grab skis and leave.

— 10:30 Finally reach your destination near the base of the mountain. Don your skis and discover that you can’t even lift your backpack off the ground. Decide to discard the kitchen sink.

-10:35 Set off on the wrong trail right from the start; then get hopelessly lost up on a wooded ridge.

—5:05 Make camp, slam down some of your cold Erie stew; and quickly crawl into your sleeping bag before nausea catches up with you.

-5:30 Wish you’d taken that stupid trip to Florida.

Tuesday, March 4 — 10:00 a.m. Lie snuggled up in your sleeping bag until the sun threatens to burn hole in the roof of your tent.

—Spend remainder of the day on the trail pretending to know how to use your cool new $4.95 Silva compass. When you discover you’re not heading uphill anymore, turn around and find the peak of the mountain just over your left shoulder. Hurl cool new S4.95 Silva com-

pass into the nearest snowbank and head toward the peak.

—6:30 After deciding to skip supper for health reasons, agree with partner how glad you are that you decided to take a cool trip like this.

Wednesday, March 5 The Day of the Big Ascent -6:00 a.m. Refuse to acknowledge partner as he attempts to shake you out of the bag at the crack of dawn.

—6:10 Spend twenty minutes huddled in front of your lousy little backpacking stove which isn’t even hot enough to melt snow.

Console yourself with the assurance that all big-name climbers use lousy little stoves like these.

Reach timberline, totally ex­ -10:30 hausted; threaten to forsake partner when you see the peak another 2,000 feet up.

-11:00 You don’t need crampons (metal spikes used to facilitate climbing) here, but decide to put them on anyhow because they look cool on your boots.

— 11:05 Stop to remove crampons because you’ve bent all the spikes flat on hard rock.

Agree with partner that it was a good thing you had them for that particular section of the climb.

—2:15 Flop down on a level area and look up to see partner hurl his ice ax high into the air in disgust when he discovers that the peak is still a couple hundred feet higher.

—2:17 Pick up pieces of partner’s former ice ax.

-2:30 Decide to ski down because it’ll be faster than walking.

—2:33 Discover it’s about 70 miles per hour faster than walking. Wipe out uncontrol­ lably, unwrap ski pole from around your neck, then wave goodbye to one ski as it flies over the edge of a ridge into a deep valley. Decide to walk down the rest of the way rather than slalom on your remaining ski.

-5:30 Stumble back to camp, collapse in the nearest snpwbank, and vow you’ll never try a trip like this again.

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Then head to Wisconsin and tell everyone back at school what a great time you had.

That way maybe you can talk some of them into trying mountaineering for next year’s Spring Break instead of taking a trip to some boring and unenjoyable place like Florida.

-3:00 p.m. Stumble back to car, take off snowshoes, and hope you never have to look at them again.

—3:15 Sit at a secluded table in a nearby cafe, being careful not to let anyone else there get a good whiff of you.

—3:18 Sprint out of the door with partner when the 6’5” manager does get down wind of you.

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'T'^here’s a civil war being waged in our country right now. Oh, not the bloody type fought at Antietam, Bull Run, and Gettysburg; not even one involving the government. This is a war of words, and what’s more, a war of rights between the smokers and non-smokers of America. Non-smokers are parading around with anti-smoking banners; some of the more brazen partisans carry a can of lemon-scented aerosol, snuffing lit cigarettes at sight from a range of four feet or less, while others, armed with long range snippers, perform the same “snuff’ act. Smokers, on the other hand, stand behind the “smoke screen” of rights, which the tobacco industries hold up by encouraging them to “make their own deci­

sion” about smoking. As a non-smoker this writer would like to examine some reasons why smokers should quit and, more important­ ly, why many cannot quit.

In 1964 the surgeon general released a report, “Smoking and Health,” resulting in a ban of cigarette commercials on television and the “warning” on every package of cigarettes.

Last year the surgeon general issued another report, the chief conclusion of which was: “cigarette smoking is ‘far more dangerous’ to health than was supposed in 1964.” The report also concluded: -A smoker has a 70 per cent greater risk of death in any given year than a nonsmoker. For two-pack-a-day smokers the 187

risk is 100 per cent.

—Smoking poses a major heart-attack risk in both men and women. The danger of heart attack for women who both smoke and take birth-control pills containing estrogen is ten times higher than for other women.

—Pregnant women who smoke may create long-term, irreversible effects on their babies.

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breast cancer as a cause of death for women. Since 1955, lung cancer has in­ creased five-fold among women.

—To further emphasize the value of quitting cigarette-smoking, the report noted that after fifteen years, the mortality ratio for former smokers is nearly as low as for people who never smoked.

In conclusion, the report claims, “smoking is the largest preventable cause of death in America.”

With such overwhelming statistics, it would

seem that the logical thing for all, or at least all sane smokers to do, is quit. The fact is that there are still over fifty-four million smokers in America, nearly a quarter of the population.

The question arises, why?

One reason is that smoking is the American way. Our country was founded on the tobacco leaf. One of the first American colonies, Virginia, would not have survived without tobacco and today the tobacco industries have a great deal of clout. The American movie industry has promoted the smoking man as a true American, capitalizing on the tough look of Humphrey Bogart and the family man look of Fred MacMurray at the same time. The Reader’s Digest reports, “The United States consumes cigarettes at a faster rate—3970 per year for every American—than any other major country for which statistics arc available.”

The real problem of the smoking American, though, is nicotine, a poison (also used com­ mercially as an insecticide) found to some degree in every cigarette. Nicotine is not only habit-forming, it is addictive. The Reader’s Digest says: -Former drug addicts and alcoholics have found cigarettes harder to give up than heroin or booze.

—Most users of alcohol or barbiturates can tolerate drug-free periods, whereas only .50% of all cigarette users are occasional smokers.

Furthermore, Dr. Robert DuPont estimates that only 10-15% of the people alive today who ever used heroin are still addicted, whereas more than 66% of those still living who ever smoked cigarettes are currently daily smokers.

Dr. Michael Russell of the Institute of Psychiatry, London, states, “Nicotine reaches the brain within a few minutes of the first drag and then dissipates to other organs of the body within about 20 to 25 minutes (about the time between cigarettes for a pack-a-day smoker).” It satisfies something in the brain and becomes addictive to the body, and not just the psyche. One can easily imagine the difficulty a smoker has in quitting. His know­ ledge tells him that he is hurting himself when he smokes, while his brain tells him it wants another fix of nicotine to satisfy its addictiona painful dilemma, to say the least.

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United States? The anti-smoking ads will have to be stepped up. Perhaps making cigarette companies legally liable for the effect of their products would be a course some lawyers could take. Strict enforcement of existing laws against the sale of cigarettes to minors is needed. The tobacco industries could be appeased at least in part by finding alternative uses for tobacco. Finally, the best way to stop smoking is never to start. It is the only way Americans of the future will get the nicotine

BRUCE BITTER Note The article entitled The ’Me Decade,”’ which appeared in the last number, was written

by Bruce Bitter. Credit for the article was inadvertently omitted.

TkE House Welcoming porch with smiling steps Well kept and painted just to greet The feet of visitors now looks for nobody Bright morning sun of new bom day Casts rays through leaded panes of glass Held fast in woodwork fine and shines for nobody Foundation groaning under years Of bearing household weights and strains Remains so silent as it stands for nobody Ingredients of life are here And dear possessions also yearn To learn why suddenly they wait for nobody The house is but an empty shell Filled well with memories alive Inside the hearts that clean and paint for nobody John Miller

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you look down the roster, the name of only one senior appears, that of Mark Mueller. This year’s team was loaded with underclassmen— 6 sophomores and 5 freshmen—which can only mean better things to come. The team gained a lot of experience. Next year? Who knows...

Basketball Now that the basketball season has ended, it is time for some retrospect on the year.

Although the team finished with a 3-7 con­ ference mark and a 5-18 overall record, there were some definite bright spots. One of them was the 71-58 blitz of Cardinal Stritch College 6f Milwaukee on January 30. The Red Devils were 18-2 before they ran into a hustling Trojan squad. Another highlight was the sweep of the home-away series with conference foe Edgewood College.

As far as season statistics go, there were more encouraging points. As a team, the Trojans outrebounded their opponents, and also led them in assists. Mark Kolander led the team in scoring with a 20.6 average, and behind him Mark Mueller finished with a 13 point average. In rebounding, Mark Mueller cleared the boards, averaging 10.4 per game to lead the Trojans. Matt Crass was right behind with an 8.4 average. When the all-conference team was announced, Mark Kolander had made first team all-conference, and Mark Mueller was on the second team. Koly also was named MVP for the year in the conference. Congratu­ lations, Mark!

Another important fact to note is that as

Wrestling The wrestling season has also been con­ cluded for this year. The ’79-’80 version of the Trojan grapplers suffered from a lack of man­ power from the start, and numerous injuries just added to the dilemma. The team fought hard all year, though, almost defeating cross­ town rival Maranatha twice, before succumbing in two heartbreakers. Charlie Gumm had the best record on the team, finishing with a 21-9 record (.700). Greg Dorn ended up second with a 16-14 mark (.533). The same comment can be made about the wrestling team that was made about the basketball team. With only one senior, Greg Dorn, being lost to graduation, the Trojans should return with an experienced nucleus next year.

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sports season here at Northwestern, with teams participating in baseball, track, tennis, and golf. The baseball team will have some big holes left in it by graduation. The pitching staff, however, is returning intact, and if the defense can become a unit quickly, it could be a good year.

The tennis team will be strong this year as all the members except one return from last year’s team. All this could add up to a very successful year. The golf team finds itself in much of the same position-only better. The whole golf team is returning this year; that makes for a very experienced team.

The track team is also strengthened by a good backbone of returnees. A turnout of about two dozen guys greeted Coach Hahm the first week of practice. With the addition of Jay Bendewald in the long distances, the team

Intramurals Now jumping back into the gym, here’s the scoop on those exciting National and American League basketball playoffs. First off, in the National League, the top two teams proved to be those of Norm Burger and Bruce McKenney. McKenney’s team showed itself to be the hotter of the two as they took two straight from Norm’s team to win the coveted shirts. In the American League, the Division II champ, Steve Schlicht’s team, fought off the Division I champ, Chris Poetter’s team, to take the “other” championship.

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took his cut, if he had one left; otherwise there goes another unexcused absence.

It is tempting to take a sabbatical, but we felt we should find a replacement first; another writer to take over the column. This proved to be difficult. Professor Pieper, the wit of the waves and known throughout the Navy for his jocosity, is busy with baseball, and we were going to ask Mark Cordes to write a guest C&C column, but it probably would only be funny in New Ulm. At last we did assemble a panel of writers, towering literary talents all, 192

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One class that has been too interesting to miss, excuses or not, has been the art elective.

This class never ceases to amaze the students, and we have given the following quotation from one of its lectures the “Bon Mot of the Month Award.”

In the Gothic age art became much more realistic and true to life. For example, Gothic artists painted angels as they appear in real life.

The artists must also have been much more perceptive in the Gothic age, since they knew what angels really looked like.

Another award, “Freshmen of the Year,” has not been decided yet, but we have narrowed it down to three finalists. They are: Manly Ken, the balding, already burncd-out scholar of Wartburg who could easily pass as a senior; Dave “Save the Dog” Bihner, who had a rather expensive quarter break vacation—an $80 hat, $90 boots, and a $1300 car repair bill; and Mark “Animal” Mammel, who is on a weight* training program, so he can wrestle at heavy­ weight next year.

Yes, the Frosh class always does seem a little strange, but that great equalizer of character, dorm life, in four years reduces all to a common uncivilized level. In whatever state you arrive, you can expect to graduate well prepared for Sem, but woefully unpre­ pared to enter polite society. Your conduct, character, and appearance, though morally sound, will be in great need of refinement before you can begin to deal with real people, people who do not appreciate the life style we have been accustomed to here. We cannot fault parishioners for expecting their pastors to be pillars of proper etiquette in the community,

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but this ability does not come with the diploma. Outside influence, for the most part, must account for this drastic change, and it has been brought to our attention that this burden usually falls on the young pastor’s wife. In fact, we students have been advised that, as we look for a future help-meet, we

ought to consider whether the woman in ques­ tion is capable of neutralizing the effects of 4, 5, 8, or even 11 years of dormitory life. It’s no small feat making a silk purse out of a pig’s ear.

To help prepare these young ladies, North­ western will soon be offering a special course

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to all the fiancees called “Animal Husbandry: Refining the Dormitory Beast.” Also guest lecturers will be called in to discuss other areas of interest for future pastors’ wives, such as: bookshelf dusting, restoring pipesmoke damaged furnishings, cures for your husband’s hair loss.

To help you understand the scope of this problem, we offer the following dramatization.

Picture, if you will, a pastor, just out of Scm and recently married, riding home with his wife after his first dinner with the president and principal of the congregation and their families. . ..

AN AMY VANDERBUILT HORROR STORY (The names have been changed to protect the guilty.)

“John, dear, I really must talk to you about our visit this evening.”

“Yea, sure, Alice. I had a good time, didn’t you?”

“Well.. .yes, but there are a few things I’d like to point out to you. John, don’t you think you should’ve worn socks tonight? And couldn’t you find anything else to wear besides that Farah Fawcett t-shirt?”

“It’s the only thing I’ve got that goes with my striped tie.”

“Okay, but next time remember to take off all those little pieces of tissue stuck to your face where you cut yourself shaving.

And don’t you have a comb? The tossed salad was in better shape than your hair.”

“Come on, Alice; you know I didn’t have much time to get ready. I was trying to pick a text for my sermon tomorrow.”

“And your manners at the table, dear, left a lot to be desired tonight. Those linen napkins are not for blowing your nose, and that ‘excuse me from the bottom ofmy heart... ’ bit after you burped was rather uncalled for.”

“Well, little Stevie laughted at it. Ha! Ha! Ha!” “Yes, John, but little Stevie also laughed when you offered Miss Haifischkopf a pinch of Copenhagen, and I didn’t think that was funny either.”

“Neither did she.”

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give you if you snarfed the jello. The things you say at the table, John, I just can’t figure it out. Cleaning fish is just not a good topic for conversation at dinner.”

“I guess not.” ‘‘It just ruined the meal for everyone else.

And if you didn’t like the roast beef, you should’ve left it on your plate, not wrapped it up in a napkin and set it on the centerpiece.

I wish you’d learn to show a little considera-

tion, John. Your dissertation on the funeral practices of Ancient Egypt was not appreciated at all.”

“Humph.”

“One more thing, dear, why did you clap when Mrs. Bumble dropped the glass on the kitchen floor and broke it?”

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-Rev. Theodore Homeber (’46) was in­ stalled as pastor of Glory, DeSoto, TX, on March 9, and as pastor of Mt. Zion, Hillsboro, TX, on March 16.

—Rev. Frederick Adrian (’71) of Mobile, AL, will be installed at Holy Trinity of Wyo­ ming shortly after Easter.

—Rev. Gary Griep (’72), pastor at Alex­ andria, MN, has accepted the call to Our Savior of Altoona, PA, and will be installed there on the Sunday after Easter.

—Rev. Robert Beckmann (’44) of Wabasha, MN, has accepted the call to St. John’s of Belview and St. Paul’s of Seaforth, MN, and was installed there March 16.

-Rev. Gerhard A. Schaefer (’29) retired as associate pastor of Trinity Ev. Lutheran, Neenah, WI, on March 2.

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DEATH -Rev. A. H. Leerssen (’32) was called to his eternal home on March 21. He had been living in Phoenix after having retired from his ministry at First Lutheran Church of Prescott, AZ. ANNIVERSARIES -On November 11, 1979, Eastside Luther-

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an Church of Madison, WI, observed the 25th anniversary of Reverend Karl Bast as its pastor.

BIRTHS —A daughter, Anna Johnston, was bom to Pastor and Mrs. Mark Johnston (’74) on February 10, at Ipswich, SD. -A daughter, Ann, was bom to Pastor and Mrs. Carl Lindemann on February 24, at Elgin, ND. -A son, Brian William, was bom to Pastor and Mrs. Larry Nast (’70) on February 9, in Green Bay, WI. —A son was bom to Rev. and Mrs. Rick Curia (’74) on February 12.

Many thanks to all of our contributors for information for this issue, and special thanks to Jeff Seelow and the Mequon madmen for their superhuman effort in getting us this whole looney bunch of SEM NOTES SENIORS -Jim Renz, Glen Schmiege, and Rich Voswinkel are engaged.

-Don Wichman has considered engage­ ment, but no one will consider it with him!

-Keith Ray is California Dreamin’.

—Keith Ray isn’t bald anymore; But he isn’t bald any less, either!

—Renz and Ezekiel quit meeting together.

—Mark Zarling’s heart is saddened: they don’t honor valedictorians at the Sem. -Renz and Romans quit meeting together!

—Dave Russow is no longer considered small-he’s sturdy.

-Keith Ray has been putting his pontifical approval on the best calisthenics in class.

-Renz is now meeting with Pres. Schuetze!!

—The last “dog” is not hung. Two years.

Five hours a week. Slug. Slug. Slug.

-Marriage opportunity to eligible Seminary graduate on June 21, 1980. Interested parties, please contact Dave Eckert, Section 9.

have something (someone) worthwhile.

—Bill Brassow decided he wasn’t getting enough sympathy for his hand, so he destroyed his knee.

—Dave Kuehl woke up on the floor with his bed overturned. “To me, it just wasn’t that funny!” Dave commented.

—Jim Fischer will teach Hebrew grammar in fifteen years. At that time the course will reach new lows in excitement.

—Paul Zell, Dave Voss, and Tim Unke are preparing to live together in an anti-social encounter commune.

-Summer ’80-Unk gets the wanderlust, Chapter VII. “Unkc’s World Tours” has a won­ derful opportunity this summer—spend four weeks in beautiful downtown Naknek, then a week in sunny Hawaii and top it all off with six weeks in hot, dusty, sand-covered Israel.

Reservations are limited.

-Mark Schulz’s wife Michelle was buried in the trash dumpster last Sunday morning in a private ceremony.

—Jack Beck’s buckets squad knocked off Marcus Neumann’s team for the intramural championship. Jim Proeber sank a prayer at the buzzer, and Bill Natsis hindered Himm’s shooting eye by breaking his glasses.

—Paul Janke, bored by the late winter doldrums, has begun a study of III. —Tim Unke will return to WLS as its first girls’ basketball coach, in search of his second consecutive “Coach of the Year” award. In a related story, questions concerning Tim’s eligibility, refrigerator, and glass hutch may force him to return to WLS as a Junior. When reached for comment, Tim replied, “I feel so Christmasy.. .where’s my blanket.. .Grandma likes to do my wash!”

—Mark Schulz’s relationship with Michelle has turned out to be trash.

—If class attendance is any indication, Terry Balogh has followed the same path as Curt Fletemeier.

JUNIORS —Dave Kolander has yet to move in.

—Jeny Ewings really thinks he can grow a moustache!

-Once again, Rick Scheibe faithfully got

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—The word is out: TJ and Seelow did not edit the ’79 Mnema by themselves. They had help from Alfred of Mad Magazine.

-Rog Sloan’s apparent (?) lack of success with Judy keeps all rocks secure in their unity.

-Now that Lips has crumbled, can Heuth be far behind?

-In a fit of empathy, Deb decided to “remodel” her car so Shanny wouldn’t feel out of place behind the wheel, after the wedding.

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-Randall “Boat” has been transplanted with a bionic arm for writing to keep up with lecture material in Prof. O. H.’s class.

-Shifty Schiller has set a new precedent by wearing a real three-piece suit on March 14, 1980. Can the end of the world be far behind?

-Evidently the Bonecruncher game did not serve its purpose. A rumor is afloat that some of No. 6’s seniors are looking forward to Sem and G.A. -New Book: “Classes or Sleep, That’s the Question!” by co-authors Bilitz and Pontel. Calligraphy by Rick Scheibe.

-Locschcr “La Phluph” is getting closer and closer to being voted the Honorary Bomber of the Junior class.

-Did you ever see a “Horse” with a mous­ tache? Ha ha ha ha. It’s funny.

-You are very lucky, Pankow.

-Greg Bork has been carrying around wedding invitation books, but that’s O.K.He says he’s doing it for his vicar.

-Kurty.. .see you at G.A. —Paul Schleis received a stuffed rabbit from his “snow bunny” at New Ulm. Is this to say that efforts are multiplying to crumble the rock?

—Warning: Whitehead, Sousa, where are your bones?

—Just for the record—Shanny (Mavis) Schumann will never be cool.

-Ross Ulrich has been seen grocery shopping at the Piggly Wiggly in Watertown with a certain female (August is approaching sooner than usual).

—Hey Keith Tullberg! Does the winter’s fling bring an April ring?

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A merica’s national pastime has long held the '^country’s interest with sparkling pitching, fine plays in the field, stolen bases, and all the intricacies that make baseball a game of inches.

But the aspect of the game that keeps drawing people is hitting. As Ted Williams says, “Hitting is the most important part of the game; it is where the big money is, where much of the status is, and the fan interest.” It is the most important phase of the game, and during base­ ball’s 110 year history there have been some outstanding hitters: Rogers Hornsby, Joe Jackson, Nap Lajoie, George Sisler, Jimmy Fox, Honus Wagner, Lou Gehrig, and Tris Speaker, to name a few. But two names stand out from all the rest in baseball’s little more than a century of existence-Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth.

In that part of America’s grand old game which Williams calls “the single most difficult thing to do in sports,” these two men have been the subject of many a debate during the forty or so years since the last of the two hung up his spikes. “Who was better?” And the argu­ ment starts. “All Ruth had was power!” a Cobb supporter says. “Well, Cobb didn’t have any power!” a Ruth backer quips. Let’s take a look at this perpetual difference of opinion among baseball fans and try to make an honest judgment.

Tyrus Raymond Cobb, the “Georgia Peach,” was bom on December 18, 1886, in Narrows, Georgia, the son of a distinguished senator. His father wanted him to be a lawyer;

as a youngster Ty wanted to be a doctor.

As he grew he realized that neither was for him, but being a ballplayer was!

Father Cobb didn’t want his son throwing his life away at a child’s game, but his son’s desire could not be suppressed. One time Ty sold two books from his father’s library, think­ ing he wouldn’t miss them, in order to buy himself a baseball glove. But the senator did miss them, and he punished his son by for­ bidding him to play ball for many months.

Ty’s desire for the game didn't diminish during this time but grew stronger, until finally at the age of seventeen he announced to his father that he was leaving home to seek out a career as a ballplayer. His father didn’t like this, but seeing Ty’s desire, he consented and told him not to come home as a failure.

A failure he was not! After leaving home in 1904, it took Ty only until August, 1905, to make it to the majors with the Detroit Tigers. Unfortunately, his father was killed before he could see his son succeed in the big leagues.

Ty was a skinny eighteen-year-old when he played his first major league game, and things were not so easy at first. His average at the end of that season was only .240. The older veterans on the team were not kind to him. They razzed him, pushed him and broke his bats. He had to fight to survive, and his fighting character on the ballfield stayed with him the rest of his career.

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The Babe Versus the Georgia Peach.

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Changes in the NWC Curriculum. . .

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An Ott Point of View.......................

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Senior Curriculum Poll

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Continued from cover As Cobb matured and filled out physically, so did his batting average. He had a “muscular, durable six foot, 190-pound body that carried him through the wear and tear of 24 big league seasons.” After the .240 he had his first year, his batting average never again dipped below .300! Twenty-three years of consecutively hitting .300 or better is one of Cobb’s many records. Along with a strong body, he accom­ plished this with a “keen natural batting eye and excellent speed which he developed to the utmost with countless hours of practice.”

Ty Cobb had a batting stance and style all his own. He gripped the bat about two inches from the knob and spread his hands about four inches apart. He explained his reasoning for it by using the comparison of trying to hold a twelve-foot pole in your hands and trying to touch a spot on a wall. He main­ tained that one could more easily touch the spot with the hands apart for leverage. He stood with his feet about four inches apart, but was constantly shifting them for various situations. Cobb himself said, “I seldom took the same stance twice running. I intended that the pitcher never would know whether I’d chop at the ball or swing away.”

Chopping and punching the ball was Cobb’s forte. “Ty was a great student at the art of placing the ball out of the reach of the defense.”

Harold Seymour gives this description of his style. “Cobb had the knack of making a fast start and had the speed to beat out many bunt and infield rollers.”

However, when discussing Cobb’s abilities you cannot overlook one tiling, his brain.

Robert Rubin put it this way: “.. .None of Cobb’s physical abilities were extraordinary by themselves. They became so only when applied by one of the most brilliant baseball minds the game has ever known.” Cobb knew every strength and weakness of all opposing players in the league. Hs knew each pitcher’s repertoire of pitches and his own ability against each.

He knew which third basemen could be bunted on and which could not, and he used this information to make himself the great player he was.

This was Cobb’s style and it gave him start­ ling results. “Statistics are usually boring, but in the case of Cobb’s career they are mindboggling. At one time Ty Cobb held 90 major league records. That’s not a typographical

error. Ninety records.” He doesn’t hold all of these records anymore, but some which he does hold may never be broken. A lifetime average of .367, 4191 base hits, 12 batting titles, 9 consecutive batting titles and the record of 23 consecutive years of batting over .300 are all his.

After seeing these stats you wonder what man could be placed in an equal category with him. But let’s look at Babe Ruth and see if his backers are justified in their claims.

George Herman Ruth was born on Febru­ ary 6, 1895, in Baltimore, Maryland. His father, “George Herman Ruth, Sr. owned a struggling barroom at 426 West Camden Street. His son George was hanging around it when he was five years old. And chewing tobacco when he was seven. And drinking whiskey before he was ten!” Upon court order Ruth was taken from his home and put in St. Mary’s, a home for poor kids, runaways, and delinquents. It was here that he learned to play and love baseball.

Brother Mathias, the man Ruth respected most, was in charge of the home and watched over George. He set up the teams and the games played in and he helped him develop as a player. He started the boy they called “Niggerlips” as a catcher, but later switched him to pitcher, where he became outstanding.

Pitching is what brought Ruth into the majors, and he was a good pitcher. Twice he won twenty games, was undefeated in the World Series, and for many years he held the record of most consecutive scoreless innings in a World Series.

Even while he was a pitcher, people noticed Ruth’s hitting ability. He was used by the Red Sox (the team he came up with in 1914) as a pinch-hitter. Finally, in 1919 he all but gave up pitching and became a full time hitter.

The 29 homers he hit that year set a new record. The next season he was a Yankee after being purchased from Boston. It was there that he achieved his immortal success.

Books have been written about Babe’s dynamic personality, his expensive tastes, his friendliness and generosity, and his life style. All these things made Ruth the flamboy­ ant character he was, but it was his hitting that put him there to start with.

Babe was 6’ 2” and about 215 pounds. He had a large torso and skinny legs. He had great 210

arm and hand strength, which contributed to many a distant home run.

His stance was not too peculiar. He stood at the plate with his feet about shoulder width apart and pointed slightly toward each other. His hands were about shoulder height, not held too far away from his body. The bat was pointed straight up and held still except for a little twitching which would remind one of a cat’s tail while getting ready to pounce.

When he swung, his whole body went into it.

After missing, he ended turned and facing the other direction with his legs twisted under him. He held the bat at the extreme end with his little finger curled under the knob. The bats he used, “according to Hillcrich and

Bradsby (manufacturers of major baseball bats), had a fantastic variance of sizes and they were all heavy-40-54 ounces.” Pete Appleton, a former Yankee said, “He had the prettiest swing of all.”

That pretty swing produced some pretty good results during his 22-year career. He ended up with 714 homers, still the American League record, 60 in one season (Roger Maris hit 61 in a longer season), 2216 RBI’s, and the American League record, 2873 hits. He led the league in homers twelve times, with one stretch of six in a row. He had a lifetime average of .342!

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start? Average? Cobb’s .367 to Ruth’s .342.

Cobb’s is the highest ever, but only seven other men outdid Ruth’s lifetime mark. Base hits? Cobb-4,191, again the highest ever. But Ruth’s 2,875 must be looked at with an extra thought.

Ruth lost possibly 600 hits in his career because he was exclusively a pitcher until 1918. When figuring his lifetime average over the years 1914-1917, one comes up with the approximation 600. That would give a total of about 3,500 for a career. Only Cobb and two others got more.

Homers? Ruth 714 to Cobb 118. A dif­ ference of almost 600. Now one may argue that Cobb was just not a power hitter. Ted

Williams uses this as one of his reasons for not naming Cobb the greatest hitter of all.

He said, “Cobb didn’t have the power, he didn’t have the great style.” But one has to decide whether 600 homers are worth 25 points on a lifetime average?

In going for homers, Babe “struck out more than he should have,” in fact, over 1300 times in his career. Williams puts that as a strike against him.

But Babe didn’t always go for homers.

When he wanted he could get the singles. One hitter described Ruth this way: Babe Ruth, for instance, was a natural left-handed power hitter, but when­ ever the defense gave him an opening,

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he could slap the ball into left field with beautiful ease. It may surprise you to know that while Babe had a record 714 home runs in his career, he also hit twice as many singles, 1517 of them.

More than 52 percent of Ruth’s total safe-hits were one baggers—food for thought. For he was the man most dedicated to power of all batters.

It may surprise you to know that it was Ty Cobb himself who said this about the Babe. One of Ruth’s general managers once predicted that Babe would give up trying for power and become a .400 hitter. Ruth never did give up his power, but one year hit .393 while hitting 41 homers. Would Cobb have been able to give up his high average and gain enough homers to make it worthwhile?

Although Ruth “sacrificed” average, he still had a lifetime .342. What would his lifetime average have been if he had gone just for base hits?

Again the question of his playing the years 1914-1917 exclusively as a pitcher comes up.

If he had been a hitter all along, it could have given him up to another 150 homers. Of course, this is all speculation.

This is not to take anything away from Cobb. Statistically he was the greatest average hitter of all time. He made the most of what lie had, and those who saw him say they will never forget him. He truly was one of the greatest of all.

But nobody combined both power hitting and singles hitting as Ruth did. Nobody comes close to him in these categories. Ruth could have given up being the greatest home run hitter of all (nobody has ever come close to his per­ centage of a homer about every twelve at-bats) and possibly been one of the highest average hitters of all time (actually he was anyway).

So Ruth is better than Cobb? It’s hard to just come right out and say that, but in this writer’s opinion he seems to be. But this is based upon the information handed down over the years by writers, players, and fans. I never had the privilege of seeing them performexcept in old film clips. More scholarly baseball people and eyewitnesses of the two may dis­ agree. But it’s difficult to think that anybody could outdo the Babe who had one of baseball’s highest lifetime averages and at the same time was the number two lifetime home run leader.

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Changes in the NWC Curriculum

7V7ot many schools offer or require the kind ** ™ of curriculum that Northwestern College does. A blend of the German Gymnasium and the American college, with a healthy dose of languages added, Northwestern’s course of study has nurtured and challenged students for 115 years. Over the years, changes in the NWC curriculum have not been frequent. In the 1920’s and \30’s there was a transition from German to English as the language of instruc­ tion. In 1960 there was a major curriculum revision and again in 1970 changes occurred.

For the 1980-81 school year several more changes have been instituted.

Beginning in ’80-’81, freshman History 10/11 will be combined with freshman Reli­ gion 10/11 into one course. This is not a great change from past practice, but the combined credit hours for the course will be reduced from nine to eight over a single school year.

Just one grade will be given in the course.

The scope of sophomore History 20/21 will be extended to include the Reformation era. In this way all students will receive an overview of the Reformation at some time in their college education. Formerly, a historical study of the Reformation was available only in the elective History 52. History 52 will concentrate on those phases of Reformation history not covered in History 21.

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The English department will also see change. The freshman English 11 course (second semester) will be lengthened to three hours per week, picking up the hour vacated by History 11. English 20 (sophomore Milton) will become an elective (English 59) and will be replaced by English 23 (Modem American Literature), which was formerly the elective English 54. English 23 will be required of all sophomores in the first semester, English 21 (Shakespeare) will be entirely a second-semester course. English 30 (junior Speech) will be in­ creased from two to three hours per week and will be offered in the second semester.

Northwestern’s Latin courses have been altered somewhat. Latin 03/04 (for Special II students) will be shortened from five to four hours per week and Caesar’s Gallic War will be added to 03 (it was previously included in Latin 02). The present Latin 10/11 course will be condensed, and a quarter of ecclesiastical Latin will be added at the end of the freshman year. The electives, Latin 50 (Roman Satire), Latin 51 (Roman Historical Works), and Latin 53 (Roman Pastoral and Lyric Poetry), will no longer be offered, due to a lack of student interest.

Sophomore Science 20/21 will add an hour to its weekly load. The additional hour will give the course a format of three hours of lec-

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The music department’s offerings also have been adjusted. Music 20/21 (Music Literature), at present studied in the sophomore year, will become a junior course. Music 30 (Church Music Leadership) will no longer be offered since much of the Music 30 ground is covered at the Seminary. The 1980-81 juniors, however, will receive the single semester course, Music 30, having already completed Music 20/21.

Thus those juniors (the class of 1982) will carry sixteen hours one semester of the 1980-81 school year and eighteen hours the other.

Juniors will also be affected by changes in the Greek department. Greek 31 (the drama­ tists and Hellenistic Greek) and Greek 36 (the second semester of Advanced Intermediate Greek) will no longer be required. However, as juniors or seniors, they will be required to take a Greek elective to fulfill their Greek requirements. This is a partial throw back to the pre-1970 Greek setup.

One final change, already instituted this school year, was the dropping of Physical

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An added feature of the ’80-'81 setup will be the addition of a freshman convocation hour in which every freshman will have a free period at the same time. The purpose of the convocation hour will be to give the frosh additional orientation to Northwestern-its programs and courses-and to better acquaint the new student with the purpose and goals of the school.

The revision of the Northwestern curricu­ lum involves, in the words of President Carleton Toppe, “no sweeping changes." The core of the curriculum remains unchanged and un­ revised. The course load of the sophomore year has been cased from twenty-one hours first semester and twenty the second to nineteen and eighteen, respectively. As always, action was taken with the interests of the students and the calling for which they prepare in mind.

The NWC curriculum will continue both to nurture and to challenge young men studying for the Lutheran ministry.

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Irom time to time Northwestern students are admonished by their professors to be more diligent in their studies. Quite under­ standably, these exhortations have only a temporary effect. Northwestern students are heirs of the so-called “classical education,”

and therefore it is incumbent upon us to pre­ serve those institutions which are characteristic of students of the classics (e.g., less than fluent translation, calculating when you will “get hit,” computing your probability for survival on the basis of professorial temperament, 214

etc.). In support of my claim that these institu­ tions are our heritage, I submit the following rather free translation of excerpts from Thomas Mann’s novel, Buddenbrooks, pub­ lished back in 1900. Any resemblance between the Latin class being described and North­ western classrooms should be attributed to the fact that both groups of students share the common heritage of a classical education.

The class became quiet and everyone stood up at the same time when the Oberlchrer, Doctor Mantelsack, walked in. He was the home-room teacher, and it was customary to have respect for the home-room teacher. He closed the door behind himself while he craned his neck to the right to see if everyone was standing, and after hanging his hat on a nail, he hurried to his elevated desk. Here he quickly nodded to the class, took his scat, and briefly looked out of the window. Doctor Mantelsack was a man of medium build with thinning gray and near-sighted blue eyes, which gleamed behind heavy glasses.

Suddenly lie turned away from the window, sighed benignly, and smiled at some of his students. It was obvious that he was in a good mood, and a wave of relief moved through the room. Everything depended on whether or not Doctor Mantelsack was in a good mood, for then one would know whether he would give in to them without reservation. He had a few favorites -two or three whom he addressed in­ formally and by first name-and these students had it as good as though they were in paradise.

They could say just about anything they wanted and it was right, and after the hour Doctor Mantelsack would talk almost humanly with them. Yet one day, perhaps after a vaca­ tion (only God knows why), one of them would be ousted, denied, done for and rejected and someone else would be called by his first name... These fortunate souls were accustomed to having the mistakes on their tests neatly corrected so that even when their papers were full of errors, they still maintained a semblance of order. But on the other papers he used broad, angry strokes, inundating them with red ink so that they made a frightful, disorderly impression. And since he didn’t count the number of mistakes, but handed out grades on the basis of the amount of red ink, his favorites came out of the ordeal with a 215

large advantage. Doctor Mantelsack didn’t bat an eye at this miscarriage, finding it en­ tirely in order and having no concern for partiality. If anyone possessed the fatal courage to protest, the prospect of his ever being addressed by first name was lost...

Now Doctor Mantelsack crossed his legs as he stood and paged through his notebook.

Hanno Buddenbrook sat bowing forward and wringing his hands under his desk. The letter B was up! Soon his name would be called, and he would stand up and not know a single line. It would be a scandal, a loud and terrible catastrophe. .. The seconds stretched out excruciatingly, “Buddenbrook.”.. .soon he would say “Buddenbrook...”

“Edgar!” said Doctor Mantelsack, closing his notebook while keeping his finger in place. ..

What? How could this be? That was Liidersfatso Luders over by the window. The letter L was nowhere near up! Was it possible that Doctor Mantelsack was in such a good mood that he was simply calling on his favorites at random and didn’t care at all about who should be called on according to the usual order?...

Fatso Luders stood up. Although he had an excellent scat and could have easily read off another boy’s book, he felt as safe as though he were in paradise and simply answered: “I couldn’t prepare because I had a headache yes­ terday.”

“Oh, are you going to let me down, Edgar?

Won’t you read me a few verses from the golden age? What a pity, my friend! Did you have a headache? It seems to me you should have told me about it before the hour, before I called on you. You’ve been having headaches recently, haven’t you? You should do some­ thing about that, Edgar, otherwise there’s a danger that you’ll start a slide... Timm, will you take his place.”

LUders sat down. Now he was universally despised by his classmates. You could see that the professor’s mood had deteriorated notice­ ably. Next hour Luders would probably be addressed by his last name.. .Timm stood up and began to read slowly, haltingly and in a monotone like a child out of a primer: “Aurea prima sata est aetas. ..”

It was clear that Doctor Mantelsack was not calling names in any order and didn’t care about who had not been hit.. .so Hanno

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began to relax a little.. .Timm sat down proudly and Doctor Mantelsack wrote a good grade behind his name.. .Hanno listened tensely for the next name to be called.

“Mumme! Once more! Aurea prima...?” said Doctor Mantelsack.

Mumme! Praise the Lord! Now Hanno was really safe. The verse would hardly have to be recited for a third time, and the letter B had just recently been hit for new preparation.

Mumme stood up. He was so near-sighted that it was impossible for him to read off a book on the desk ahead of him. He had to study and he did study. But since he was not particularly gifted and hadn’t expected to be called on today, he knew only a little and would already be stumped after the first word.

Doctor Mantelsack prompted him once, and then a second time with a sterner voice and the third time in an obviously irritated tone; but now Mumme was completely bogged down, and the professor was seized with impetuous rage. ..

Mumme sat down dejectedly. . .Hanno Buddcnbrook now felt a sort of nausea choking him. He saw what was going on all too clearly.

Doctor Mantelsack painted a bad mark behind Mummc’s name and then looked around in his notebook. Out of anger he returned to the daily order and looked to see who was up. As Hanno was being overwhelmed by this realiza­ tion, he heard his name as though he were in a bad dream.

There “Buddenbrook!-Buddenbrook!” was a roaring in Hanno’s ears, but he remained seated.

“Mr. Buddenbrook!” Doctor Mantelsack said, staring at him with sapphire blue eyes bulging behind his heavy glasses. “Do you want a good grade?” .. .Hanno stood up and was on the verge of making a foolish, grinning excuse, saying that he had forgotten to learn the verse, when he suddenly realized that the boy sitting in front of him had his book open for him. He was even pointing out the place where he should begin.

Hanno stared into the book and began to read. He read with a quavering voice. . .inten­ tionally disregarding every elision even though they were marked in Kilian’s book.. .Then he finished and there was a silence during which he didn’t dare look up. He was sure that 216

Doctor Mantelsack had seen everything and his lips were white. Eventually the professor sighed: “Oh Buddenbrook, if only you had re­ mained silent! You should apologize to the classics. Do you know what you have done?

You’ve dragged their beauty through the dust.

You've acted like a vandal and a barbarian, you unpoetic soul.. . Timm showed a bit of rhythmic feel but compared with you he is a genic and a raphsodist. Sit down! You did your work, and I can’t give you a bad grade.” .. .But the hour couldn’t pass without some catastrophe far more terrible than the one with poor, near-sighted Mumme. Petersen was translating and now and again was glancing off to the side of his book where he shouldn’t have had anything to look at.

Suddenly Doctor Mantelsack left his desk and charged headlong toward Petersen with long, unhalting steps. “You’ve got a jimmy in your book!” he said, standing right next to him.

“A jimmy-mc-no.” Petersen stammered.

“Do you have a jimmy in your book?”

“No-professor-a jimmy? I really don’t have a jimmy.. .You’re mistaken.. .Your sus­ picion of me is unfounded.” Petersen didn’t talk the way he usually did. Anxiety made him use very elegant language, with the intent of persuading the professor.

“Give me your book,” he said coldly.

Petersen clung to the book: “Believe me.. .it’s not in the book.. .1 don’t have a jimmy. . .I’ve always been honorable.”

“Give me the book!” Doctor Mantelsack repeated, stamping his foot.

Petersen wilted and his face became gray.

“Here it is. Yes, there’s a jimmy in here.

See for yourself, there it is.”

“But I didn’t use it!” cried Petersen.

Doctor Mantelsack looked at the jimmy and made a face as though he had stinking garbage in his hand. .. “You are the disgrace of the class.”

Senior Curriculum Poll

mentioned most often in the poll. Junior and senior religion and Hebrew were also mentioned often. Other required courses that received mention were various history courses, Shake­ speare, Speech, German, Science, and Library.

Electives that were listed included Biology, American and Reformation History, Hebrew,

ecently I distributed a poll to the members A*‘of this year’s senior class. Some of the questions and replies follow.

1. The first question in the poll was: “What courses did you value most?" Students listed many different courses in answer to this question. Psychology proved to be the course 217

Ecclesiastical Latin, Modern Drama, Plato, Advanced Composition, Art, Romantic Age Poetry, and Logic.

2. Another question in the poll was: ",Are there any subjects or topics you feel should be included in the curriculum?" The replies included the following suggestions, which vary in seriousness. (Or do they?)

Auto mechanics, woodshop.

Church Latin.

Business management for home & church.

Require logic.

Economics, money management.

GA survival, golf, metals, and wood shop.

Logic 02.

Speed reading, shorthand.

More language courses; Spanish, French, Chinese, social games, solitary games, and crossword puzzles.

Current American and world events.

Advanced math elective, more specialized science elective.

3. Section three called for comments.

Some commented on specific professors and teaching methods, but it was not the purpose of this poll to delve into that area. The com­ ments listed below are paraphrased unless they have quotation marks.

Expand American History and Science.

There should be two levels of math.

There should be a more in-depth course in doctrine or theology for the freshman class in order that they might have a better picture of what they are getting into.

Every course in the curriculum is sound.

The curriculum is what it ought to be.

Science and math should be more practical.

"I really think that the new flower beds on our campus had the most impact on me during my stay here.”

The value of a poll such as this is limited because the student has not yet had the chance to apply what he has learned in the field.

(See the section below entitled, “Thoughts on the Poll and the Curriculum.”-RS) “German seems to retain its place in the curriculum more because of tradition than because of practicality.”

Sem as your counterparts?

The answers: Yes—43%; No—43%; For me yes, for others no—14% 2. The question: If not, what courses would you drop?

German—3; Freshman The answers: Latin-2; Music 03-1; Latin—1; Condense Latin-1, Junior Greek-1; Library-1; Junior Music-1; Greek 31 1. (Numbers indicate times mentioned.)

3. The poll: Comment on the psychologi­ cal aspects of another year. Again, answers are paraphrased unless they have quotation marks.

“I’ve enjoyed all five years for the most part and I haven’t suffered the usual (as I hear from others) fifth year letdown blues.”

(Schizophrenic word salad) Four is preferable to five, but things work out either way.

I feel rather lost, a man without a class.

One misses the close friendship of the graduating class of the year before.

Things look worse at the beginning than they do at the end.

Thoughts on the Poll and the Curriculum Why have a student poll on the curriculum?

One reason is this: feedback helps an opera­ tion function more effectively. Feedback from experienced pastors, the Synod members, and the students themselves can help Northwestern provide an efficient education for future pastors.

Sometimes, when confronted with a stu­ dent’s dissatisfaction with some area of the curriculum, a professor may respond with something like this: “All the knowledge you can pick up may prove to be valuable to you some day.” A shotgun statement like this does not take into account that some types of knowledge may be more valuable (or just as valuable but more interesting) than other types of knowledge. To an accountant a knowledge of how to enter debits in a ledger is more valuable than a knowledge of how to score a game of tiddledywinks in Tanzania. I feel that it is important to distinguish between courses for which there should be no substitution (the basic equipment of the pastor-Biblical languages, theology, Bible study, how to speak, and how to write) and courses for which there

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could be substitution with no harmful conse­ quences and possibly even with beneficial consequences (the liberal arts part of the cur­ riculum).

Praise for NWC Looking back on it all (I can say this be­ cause as of today, April 12, 1980, I have only 39 days left till graduation), I think I have received an excellent education for the field I am going into. The courses and instructors I value arc numerous. I would like to thank many professors for their labor and dedication.

Blame However, I think there are areas in which Northwestern could be improved. One of them is the admissions procedure for special stu­ dents. One student said this in the poll: “I had 3 semesters of science, 1 semester of music appreciation, 2 semesters of English, 1 semester of logic, which could have been credited to my schedule at NWC. Only the English was accepted. From this I have the impression that the way credits transferring from other schools are considered also needs some re-evaluation.”

Policy in such instances should be standard and not depend on individual professors. I feel that Music 03 is an overextension of the remedial syndrome, the tendency to stuff students from public high schools into as many courses that start with a zero as possible. Although I had had no music courses in high school as such, I had been a church organist for more than four years, and yet had to sit in that course two hours a week and twiddle my thumbs.

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607-613 Main Street Students at Northwestern learn a lot about cultures of the past but perhaps not enough about the cultures of today. 1 say this to advocate an elective or even a required course in applied anthropology. Four and a half billion people is enough to include cultures of all sorts from tribal to computer-age, religions from devil worship to Lutheranism, ideologies from communism to capitalism. And these billions of people are those among whom we are to spread the gospel.

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student an enhanced knowledge of the world, but it could also broaden his horizons as far as missions are concerned. Reading E. H. Wendland’s book, Of Other Gods and Other Spirits, impressed this fact upon me. In fact, I would like to quote the entire Prolog of his book to back my point, but space and time do not permit. I will quote one paragraph, how­ ever.

And so my own interest in a study of African traditional customs and beliefs has been more than academic.

The subject lies at the very> heart of our work as a church in Africa. As we get to know the African better—his background, his customs, his tradi­ tional beliefs, his deep-seated problems with witchcraft and spirits—we begin to know a little bit more about the

great need which still exists for that message which we have to proclaim, and hopefully we can become more effective in applying the wisdom which comes from God to that need (pagexiv).

This is what applied anthropology is all about— the study of the customs and beliefs of a people.

I think that Northwestern has given me a sound education. But we cannot expect NWC to continue to give a sound education without the continuing labors of students, professors, and other interested parties. As Emerson said, “What your fathers have earned for you, earn again for yourselves, or it will not be yours.”

BOB SMITH

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Lady old of seventh age, Walk into the photograph, Yellowed now on brittle page; Meet the girl the camera snapped.

Surely you should know this face Captured in its younger years, Since yourself you now embrace, Holding back a flood of tears.

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She lived on and left behind Her own generation’s realm As a lone and stately pine Left from ancient forest felled.

Conversation soon begins, Common interest should make friends.

Each, however, sighs within, Viewing life from different ends.

Springtime image wonders why Autumn’s age brings hardened mind, Peering out through damning eye, Which to novelty is blind.

“Truly I will never be Somber, stuffy, senile, cold.

Living in the past as she, Formed inside a stricter mold.”

To herself grey woman asks, “Is this how I did appear, Shallow, inexperienced, In my thoughts so insincere?

“Has life’s lesson yet been learned Even in my advanced years, Or must I like her still yearn For more understanding here?”

Neither can improve her stance Though discussion lessens gaps.

For they arc one countenance, Each in different worlds entrapped.

Introduction would change fate, So the elder sadly leaves And returns to current date, Pondering what she just perceived.

On her lap her great-grandchild Glanced up at its ancestor.

Grandma then looked down and smiled: She had seen that face before.

JOHN MILLER

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We wrote, we fried, we crashed. What more can we say? This is the closing scene-the last issue of our old friend, volume 83. All that is left to do is to run the credits as the camera fades and we watch the ’79-’80 production of the Senior Class slide into the sunset. The cast, in order of appearance on Commence­ ment Day, is as follows: (With an appropriate comment by a man who knows a character when he sees one.)

DANIEL BALGE: “The royal captain of this ruin’d band.” {Henry V, III, vu) MICHAEL BARTSCH: “Go, shake your ears!” {Twelfth Night, II, iii) THOMAS BAUER: “He was a man of an un­ bounded stomach.” {Henry VIII, IV, ii) DEAN BIEBERT: “Farewell! A long farewell to all my greatness!” {Henry VIII, III, ii) TIM BIEBERT: “He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.” {Love's Labors Lost, V, i) BRUCE BITTER: “The barber’s man hath been seen with him; and the old ornament of his cheek hath already stuffed tennis balls.” {Much Ado About Nothing, III, ii) NORMAN BURGER: “Away you scullion! you rampallion! you fustilarian! I’ll tickle your catastrophe.” {Henry IV Part 2,

II, ii) ARTHUR CALLIES: “Shall I never see a bachelor of threc-scorc again?” (Much Ado About Nothing, I, i) JEFF CARTER: “Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.” {Hamlet, II, ii) JOHN CARTER: “And all the courses of my life do show I am not in the role of com­ mon men.” {Henry IV Part 1, III, i) MARK CORDES: “A splceny Lutheran.” {Henry VIII, III, ii) GREGORY DORN: “He’s not prepared for death. Even for our kitchens....” {Measure for Measure, II, ii) “Remember, BRIAN DOSE: First to possess his books: for without them He’s but a sot.” {The Tempest, III, ii) ROBERT DUEHLMEYER: “Hang him, mechanical salt-butter rogue!” {Merry Wives of Windsor, II, iii) MARK ECKERT: “Oh, for a stone-bow to hit him in the eye!” {Twelfth Night, II, v) MICHAEL ENDERLE: “He was, for all the world, like a forked radish, with a head fantastically carved upon it with a knife.” {Henry IV Part 2, III, ii) WILLIAM FAVORITE: “A rascally, yeaforsooth knave.” {Henry IV, Part 2,1, ii) ELLERY GROTH: “Enough, I am engaged.” {Much Ado About Nothing, IV, ii) THOMAS HARTWIG: “If he were opened.

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(Henry IV Part 1, III, ii) MARK KRAUSE: “He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one; Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading.” (Henry VIII, IV, ii) FRED KRIEGER: “I would not be a queen for all the world.” (Henry VIII, II, ii) CHRIS KRUSCHEL: ‘“Sblood, I am as melancholy as a gib cat or a lugged bear.”

(Henry IV Part 1 ,\, ii) TIM LINDLOFF: ‘“Tis a cruelty to load a falling man.” (Henry VIII, V, ii) ALLEN LONNQUIST: “Oh, coz, coz, coz, my pretty little coz, that thou dids’t know how many fathom deep I am in love! (/Is You Like It, IV, i) KURT LUENEBURG: “He is too picked, too spruce, too affected, too odd, as it were, too peregrinate, as I may call it.” (Love's Labors Lost, V, i) JOHN MAASCH: “He hath twice or thrice cut Cupid's bow-string, and a little hangman dare not shoot at him.” (Much Ado About Nothing, III, ii) PAUL MARGGRAF: “He receives comfort like cold porridge." (The Tempest, I, ii) BRUCE MC KENNEY; “The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bache­ lor, I did not think I should live till I were married.” (Much Ado About Nothing, II, iii) MARK MUELLER. “Sir, he hath never fed of the dainties that arc bred in a book.”

(Love’s Labors Lost, IV, ii) KENNETH NELSON: “This punk is one of Cupid’s carriers.” (Merry Wives of Wind­ sor, II, ii) STEVE OLSON: “He is as disproportioned in his manners as he is in his shape.”

(The Tempest, V, i) GREG OTTERSTATTER: “I am now full resolved to take a wife.” (Two Gentlemen of Verona, III, i) THOMAS PANKOW: “And as, with age, his body uglier grows, So his mind cankers.”

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of a song as a weasel sucks eggs.” (As You Like It, II, v) KEVIN SALZWEDEL: “He is a dreamer; let us leave him: pass.” (Julius Caesar, I, ii) STEPHEN SAUER: “I’ll purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly, as a nobleman should do.” (Henry IV Part 1, IV) STEPHEN SCHLICHT: “There is some ill a-brewing towards my rest, For I did dream of money-bags tonight.” (Merchant of Venice, II, v) LLOYD SCHLOMER: “I must to the barbers, monsieur, for methinks I am mar­ vellous hairy about the face.” (A Midsum­ mer Night’s Dream, IV, i) “Good Worts, good REUBEN SCHMITZ: cabbage." (Merry Wives of Windsor, I, i) THOMAS SCHNEIDER: “What plague have I to do with a buff jerkin?” (Henry IV Part I, I, ii) PAUL SCHROEDER: “To the gates of Tarter, thou most excellent devil of wit!” (Twelfth Night, III, i) GLENN SEEFELDT: “I never knew so young a body with so old a head.” (Merchant of Venice, IV, i) ROBERT SMITH: “And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, Never to hope again.” (Henry VIII, III, ii) SCOTT SPAULDING: “Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.” (Twelfth Night, I, v) JOEL SUCKOW: “I have a reasonable good ear in music: let us have the tongs and the bones.” (A Midsummer Night’s Dream, IV, i) JONATHAN VOSS: “What have we here? a man or a fish? dead or alive? A fish: He smells like a fish.. .A strange fish!” (The Tempest, II, ii) MARK VOSS: “Rebellion lay in his way, and he found it.” (Henry IV Part 1, V, i) RICHARD WARNECKE: “His brain, which is as dry as the remainder biscuit after a voyage, he hath strange places cramm’d with observation, the which he vents in mangled forms.” (As You Like It, I, vii) MARK WILDE: “Some report a sea-maid spawned him; some, that he was begot between two stock-fishes.” (Measure for Measure, III, ii) There they are, fifty (50)-count ‘em-

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fifty scholarly gentlemen, each oustanding in his own way—and in everyone else’s way too. And count them they did—at the Monday Night Official Government Chapel Head Count. See, even the government is concerned that we go to chapel. However, for those of you who missed it anyway, or who were dis-

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Gobbler Grubber Durant (laid off) Durant Duratrash Smiley’s Elves Ex R.A. R.A. Kitchie Piano Babysitter Assistant Housemother Night Watchman Seep Patrol Unemployed Dorm Rat Lounge Lizard Greaser Grant-in-Aid AAL Scholarship Salem Foundation Extortion Parents B.E.O.G. DORM LIFE Number of rooms in your building:.

With balcony:

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Roommate’s Name:____________________ Number of additional roommates: rat dustics.

gerbils___ newts___ ginko trees ____ refrigerators ____ bunk beds ____

Number of pieces of illegal extra furniture: office chairs _ toilets (with paper dispensers).

Number of illegal posters (those not attached to bulletin board):___ nailed How are they hung up? taped pasted glued stapled painted on, fresco style riveted Hobbies:

Trying to get excuses from the tutor Filling out census forms

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Finding the shortest two-mile jogging route Anything but greasing Crashing

STUDY HABITS What stimulant(s) do you use to stay awake while studying?

A. Coffee (with or without water added) 3) Chew on the raw beans 1) Electric percolator 2)Instant 4) Copenhagen B. Tobacco l)pipe 2) Camel straits 3) A & C cigars 4) Fvpoj j 2) Zwieg’s?

C. Food 1) Mullen’s?

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F. Pain

1) pencils shoved under your fingernails 2) eyelids propped open with toothpicks 3) sitting on a bowling ball 4) listening to Barry Manilow

Where do you sleep? 1) bed 2) desk 5) all of the above

3) lounge 4) classroom 6) none of the above

What disturbs your study habits the most?

1) Tim Mill’s blow-dryer during Bucks’ games 2) Tutor pulling the plug on the canteen hotline 3) El Paso 4) playing Arbor Day roulette—and losing 5) census forms

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Pun of the Month:

The following story was reported to us through our editor by a member of our sister school—an unimpeachable source if there ever was one. It seems that a young DMLC student was wearing an NWC t-shirt around campus. When asked why he was wearing it, he replied, "It's the only way I can get a date around here. ”

At the beginning of a recent History 53 class, Professor Scharf apologized for the miscellaneous nature of the discussion topics for the day. With a slight clerical grin he said, “I guess today will be sort of a potpourri class.”

tErojan Hatrtue, jfare t\f Wtll By yon water tower in yon Wasserstadt, Where the sun shines bright on Northwestern, Where me and my classmates Were ever wont to grease, On the bonnie, bonnie banks of Rock River.

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’Twas there that we parted on yon western trek, On our way to the school on the hill, Where in purple hue The Highland Hall we view, And the moon coming out for our spooning.

The chorus it sings and the Bell Tower rings, And the sheep-skins go out at Commencement, But the senior heart it kens It must move on to Sem, And the old Alma Mater be leaving.

Chorus: Oh! ye’ll tak’ the four year and I’ll tak’ the five year, And I’ll be t’ Sem a year later, But me and my coed will never meet again On the bonnie, bonnie banks of Rock River.

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St. Mark’s, Duncanville, TX. DEDICATIONS -On June 1, Trinity Lutheran of Temple, TX, will dedicate its chapel and fellowship hall. Its pastor is Rev. J. W. Nauniann (’69).

-St. Mark’s of Green Bay, \VI, dedicated its school building on April 27, Rev. C. W. Voss (’51) is its pastor.

CALLS -Rev. Eugene Roecker (’70) has accepted the call to serve St. Paul’s in North Mankato, MN. He was previously pastor of St. Matthew’s, Butterfield and St. John’s, Darfur, MN. —Rev. Melvin Schwark (’57) was called from his position as Dean of Students at MLS, Saginaw, MI, to serve at St. John’s, Boyd, MN, and Bethany, Granite Falls, MN. —St. Paul’s of Stevensville, MI, called Rev. Tom Haar (’71) as its pastor and will install him on May 18. He formerly served

BIRTHS -A son, Micah Joe, was bom to Pastor and Mrs. Mark Krueger (’70) in March.

- Pastor and Mrs. Roger Plath (’72) were blessed with the gift of a daughter on March 11, Tamara Marie.

-Twins, Matthew Paul and Rebekah Lynn, were bom to Pastor and Mrs. Bruce Wietzke (’75) at Hot Springs, SD, on March 22.

-A son, Paul Gerhardt, was born to Pastor and Mrs. Paul Lemke (’69) of Omak, WA, on February 29.

-Pastor and Mrs. Christian Sulzle (’72) were blessed with a baby girl, Rachel Kathryn, on March 11. They reside in Pullman, WA. —A daughter, Laura, was bom to Pastor and Mrs. Douglas Scherschel (’75) of Spokane, WA, on March 21.

KURT EBERT

Correction The title of the cover story in the last number should have read—Paul Gerhardt: Songs of a "Sifted” Saint. The original read­ ing of "stifled” was incorrect.

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MINUTES OF THE 1979 ALUMNI MEETING Northwestern College May 22, 1979

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The 101st meeting of the Northwestern College Alumni Meeting was called to order at 3:08 p.m. after much pleading by the President, Robert Voss. The meeting marked the Centennial of the society, and was held in the college gymnasium because of the large attendance of alumni, spouses, and friends of Northwestern.

The minutes of the 1978 meeting were accepted as printed in the Black and Red. The roll was called and 287 alumni responded, including Dr. Henry Koch (1909) and Pastor Arthur Tacke (1912), who had traveled from Hawaii for the festivities at Northwestern sponsored by the alumni society. A letter from Pastor Rudolph Korn (1906) was read praising the merits of Northwestern and expressing appreciation for the education and fellowship offered by the same. The letter ended with words familiar to us all: “You-rah-rah-Northwestern.”

The lead off members for the second century of the society’s existence, the class of 1979, were accepted into membership. The society’s ranks were thus swelled by 42 new members.

Honorary members received were Mr. and Mrs. Wynn Gruebling, Grace Kowalke Jungkuntz, Herman Kaubcr, and the Rev. George Pavia.

Treasurer Sylvester Quain presented the financial report (report included) and added that since the report was printed another S3000 has been contributed and can be added to the balance of S666.45. With “Northwestern Day's” contributions still to be counted, we were assured that the bell in the new bell tower could be rung without debts hanging over our head.

Since Dr. Kiessling's book, Centennial Memoir, went out, S6000 has been contributed (from 1/10 of those receiving the book).

The auditing committee of John Brenner (1973) and Roger Kucrth (1973) reported the treasurer's books to be in good order and the treasurer’s report was accepted.

Prof. James Fricke (1950) presented the ballot of the Nominating Committee. Conspicu­ ously absent from the ballot was the name of Prof. Erwin Scharf. Prof. Scharf asked to be relieved of his office as Chronicler after serving for 20 years in that capacity. He was given a rising vote of thanks by the society. The results of the elections were: President First Vice President Second Vice President Secretary Treasurer Chronicler

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An estimated 2,500 friends of Northwestern have attended the festivities on the campus, the programs, contests, memorabilia, music, and worship planned and organized by the society for “Northwestern Day.” The planning and organization of this special day in the history of Northwestern can be credited to Pres. John Lawrenz (1965) and Pastor Alan Siggelkow (1965).

The Northwestern Alumni Society acknowledged their dedicated work and its success with a rising vote of thanks. Pres. Lawrenz, in turn, had thanks for the cooperation given to the com­ mittee in so many different areas, including faculty, staff, and student body of Northwestern.

Especially singled out for thanks by Pres. Lawrenz were President Carleton Toppe (1934), Mr. Willis Hanke, Dr. Arnold Lehmann (1936), Prof. Gary Baumler (1961), Prof. Allen Zahn (1967), and Prof. Paul Eickmann (1950). Pres. Lawrenz also thanked the Board of Trustees of North­ western Publishing House and its manager Walter R. Bunge (1933) which published Centennial Memoir gratis. Alumni, who had in former days experienced Paradise Lost and On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer in Northwestern’s hallowed halls, were now treated to equal fare with an original rendering by Pres. Lawrenz, Ode To The NWCAlumni Centennial.

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In nineteen hundred and seventy-three There was a crisis at NWC. The bell, you see, No home had she.

The students were bereft.

So.. An nineteen hundred and seventy-three Our pres, received an urgent plea, Said the seniors in Angst "We agree, if but onest.

Of tradition there is nothing left!

Dear graduates all, Can 7 we forestall A fate that is worse than death?

Tear down the dorm!

- "77s Synod norm But shame, if we still the breath Of that dear bell We love so well!”

"Let's unite!” the alumni saith, "In six years more Twill be five-score Since the birth of our society.

Let‘s save the bell, Enshrine her well And then have a splendid party!”

SEEBER CLEANING SERVICES "Karpet Steam Extraction" CARPETS and UPHOLSTERY RESIDENTIAL - COMMERCIAL - INDUSTRIAL

“Will cost us much Of money and such, ” One grad had the gall to say.

Said the rest, "No! No! Were all in the dough, Thirty thousand is nothing to pay. ”

313 South 2nd St. Watertown Phone 261-7144

WATERTOWN BOWL-"18"

Seventy-four, five, six, seven.

Each year up in heaven Sainted alumni wondered out loud "Just how could it be That one wise alumnee Could have been quite so easily cowed. ”

102 W. Cady Street Phone 261-1796

Yet by seventy-eight With a year yet to wait The campus was never so proud The bell was there Aloft in her lair Playing hide and seek with a cloud.

Open Daily at 1 p. m.

BOWLING PRO SHOP

Twas nineteen hundred and seventy-nine The crisis was past and the bell tower fine.

"But, you know, ” said the treas'rer

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Chairman Bob said with nary a blink, "We'll rise up quite early Each grad boy and girly.

Make the twenty-second of May our new link "Twixt the past and the present Order weather that 's pleasant And put the Black and the Red in the pink!"

With a wee bit of pleasure, "As I look at this ledger of mine.

Thirty thousand was low.

See the black balance grow!

We'll have plenty to party and dine!"

"Just a moment," said Toppe, "Before you get sloppy And splurge all that extra long-green Recruitment‘s a need To attend to with speed!

Why not give us a film for our screen!"

Fidelitas, true, Subsidium, too, Gratitudo, memoria — all!

The future, you see, Is soon history Yet wasn’t it all quite a ball?

"Okay, ” said committee, "We’ll hire Beaver City!

Make a cinema star of the Dean!"

Seventy-five hundred was paid.

Now, Then, and Always was made.

Still the coffers looked anything but lean.

When all’s said and done May there never be one Who 'll forget this alumni centennial.

This report is completed.

Our fund is depleted.

But, remember, our dues are perennial.

"Get a tent, fry a brat!"

Blow the works! Iley, why not?”

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Several reports were then given from the floor concerning the athletic activities held in connection with '‘Northwestern Day.” As good wine grows better with age, so the Northwestern alumnus, who bested our NWC students in both golf and softball.

Pastor Donald Bitter (1951) reported for the Alumni Projects Committee. Proposed were: 1. BENCHES FOR THE CAMPUS, similar to those around the bell tower, four in number at this time, estimated cost S1400, and 2. SHOP FOR PRINTING PRESS, estimated cost to society $4,500, and 3. NEW OFFSET PRINTING PRESS, estimated cost to society $7,000.

Because of the optimistic financial report and mood of the alumni all three projects were adopted. No priority or time schedule was given for the projects.

The Chronicler, Prof. Erwin Scharf, reported the names of those whom the Lord called to Himself during the year of 1979. * 1909 — Mrs. Selma Koehler, nee Frank 1915- Miss Cora Schlueter 1917 — The Rev. Otto Gruendemann 1918 - The Rev. Karl Krause 1919 — The Rev. Louis Meyer 1922 - Prof. Dudley Rhoda 1928 - The Rev. Adelbert Voges 1929 - The Rev. Albert Eberhardt 1939 - Prof. Orville Schlenner 1948 — Rev. Otto Eckert All rose for a moment of silence in memory of the deceased.

Dr. Kiessling was asked to come forward to receive a token of the esteem of the society in recognition of his Centennial Memoir, commissioned by the society. Dr. Kiessling addressed the society, stating that only good fortune has attended this alumni centennial observance and his personal part in it, Centennial Memoir. Centennial Memoir was printed free of charge by North­ western Publishing House, distributed by the alumni society, and evoked many generous com­ ments and checks from society members. Dr. Kiessling ended with an appropriate word, “may fellowship live, grow, and flourish.”

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All present were thanked for attending our Centennial Observance by President Voss.

The meeting adjourned at 4:26 p.m.

David Sicvert Secretary REPORT OF INCOME AND EXPENSES From May 15, 1978 to May 11, 1979 INCOME: Dues Bell Tower Donations Transfer of Certificate of Deposit (& Interest) Interest Total Income EXPENSES: Secretarial Help Banquet Expenses-1978 Transfer to Business Office Fall 1978 Mailing Canadian Check Transfer Postage Committee Travel Contact Men-Postage & Supplies UPS Postage American City Bureau (New Filmstrip) Student Mailing Crew

S 1,260.00 9,455.1 2 17,016.65 101.97 $27,833.74 S

100.00 27.00 20,000.00 333.00 8.25 46.36 72.00 241.50 45.00 7,500.00 206.09

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Bulk Mailing Paper and Negative Foreign Mailing Minar Office Supplies Photo Plates—Alumni Booklets Phone Calls Secretarial Help Canadian Check Transfer Black and Red Donation Bulk Mailing Postage (Additional Centennial Booklets) Registration Badges Misc. Paper, Envelopes, Printing Paper & Cover Stock for Booklet Printing “Northwestern Today” Northwestern Day Posters Total Expenses

8.00 200.00 1.45 20.00 51.93 55.89 70.01 106.09 149.01 119.00.

69.45 $29,988.94

Income over expenses

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Balance May 15, 1978 From Income

$30,655.39 Disbursements: Expenses Balance in Bank (5/11/79)

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INCOME: NWC Bell Tower Fund Alumni Association

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$22,150.00 4,629.00 2,406.75 279.48 185.37 $29,650.60

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3,023.50 3,124.00 6,331.12 2,000.00 $32,675.67

INDEX-VOLUME 83 ALUMNI (including Sem Notes) 26, 58, 87,112, 143, 170, 199, 226

by Kurt Ebert......................

CAMPUS & CLASSROOM .23,44, 81, 110, 131, 165, 192, 222

by Jeff Carter and Brian Dose COMMENCEMENT ORATIONS 9 Luther’s Small Catechism: Its Development & Lasting Value-David Kolander 12 Albert Einstein: Centennial of a Genius—David Huebner.....................

ESSAYS AND EDITORIALS cover, number 1 The Class of ’79 Rides Out on a Rail-Tom Jeske and associates..........

19 The Five-Year Vacation Plan-Mark Cordes........................................... cover, number 2 Always Northwestern-Timothy Buelow...............................................

38 Refreshing Change-Bruce Bitter...........................................................

39 The Soviet Union: Moulding Character-Bob Smith.............................

51 Northwestern Day-Dan Balge.................... ............................. ............

54 Just for the Record—Mark Wilde...........................................................

56 The “Friends on Campus” Program: Vast Improvements-Mark Cordes cover, number 3 The Trojan—Lancer Conflict-Mark Cordes...........................................

73 The Sprinter is Moved to a New Site-Dan Balge...................................

80 Teaming up or Playing it Alone-Brucc Bitter.......................................

101 Professional Talent on Stage-Mark Albrecht.......................................

106 Reformation Reaction-Mark Cordes...................................................

109 The Paradox-Bill Schuermann.............................................................

126 Joy to the World-Bob Smith...............................................................

129 A Look at the CLC-Bruce Bitter.........................................................

134 The Mormon Attraction-Mark Cordes.................................................

160 New Life for my Alma Mater-Mark Cordes.........................................

The “Me Decade”-Bruce Bitter...........................................................

163 cover, number 7 Paul Gerhardt: Songs of a “Sifted” Saint-Mark Cordes.......................

185 The NWC Guide to Mountaineering-Kurt Ebert and Ken Frey............

187 A Monkey on America’s Back-Bruce Bitter.........................................

Conversations on the Death of a Russian Soldier in Afghanistan-RS . .

191 The Babe Versus the Georgia Peach—Tom Rawerts............................... cover, number 8 Senior Curriculum Poll-Bob Smith....................................................... .................217 213 Changes in the NWC Curriculum—Dan Balge.........................................

FICTION Keep the Home Fires Burning-Randy Schoemann...............................

14 Nebula n-Bob Smith........................................................................... cover, number 4 Burning Hearts.....................................................................................

127 Just a Pinch-Brian Dose....................................................................... cover, number 6 OBITUARY Mrs. Kowalke.......................................................................................

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An Aspiration-John Miller...........................

Autumnal Dress-John Miller.......................

Heavens Environs-Brian Dose.......................

Waterfall-Jeff Schone...................................

Sprinting-Bob Smith....................................

The Gospel is Rcstored-Timothy Buelow. ..

The House-John Miller.................................. the guitarist—John Miller...............................

Spitting Image-John Miller...........................

SPORTS

by Rich Gurgel..............................................

ETCETERA Tau Delta Theta Award..................................

Alumni Society minutes and financial report

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EDITOR...................

MANAGING EDITOR. BUSINESS MANAGER STAFF WRITERS___

CAMPUS & CLASSROOM SPORTS ART CIRCULATION MANAGER. ADVERTISING MANAGERS

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Hitachi-Sylvania, Stereo & TV Norge, Gibson & Crosley Appliances Kitchen Aid Dishwashers Jenn-Air Ranges

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TRI-MART CORPORATION WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTOR

14 Styles to choose from Sizes: 3-16

Panasonic

CONVERSE-NIKE-PRO KEDS

SHOE STORE 212-214 Main St. Watertown, Wise.

261-2395

Tobaccos, Candy, Fountain Chemical and Paper Supplies

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MSI Bank of Watertown "The Bank Behind the Town"

Lutheran Brotherhood Fraternal insurance jar Lutherans

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Photo Finishing — Cameras Black and White — Color

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