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(photo by Malmsten)
Four beards and how they're growing are the primary concern of
these illustrious competitors in the annual Sno-Daze beard growing con-test.
The champion beard-growers will receive a medal (plus additional
benefits such as a kiss from the sno-princess) during the half-time acti-vities
at the basketball game Saturday, Feb. 8. Beards enhance Bethel
men (from left) Don McKelvy, Dr. Roy Dalton, Elias Shibly and Earle
FBI Agent Huelskamp
To Probe Communism
Bethel College Learnhi Resour Ce the CIA
Volume XL—No. 13
Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. Wednesday, January 15, 1964
'Winter in Old Europe'
Brings Puppets, Sports
"Communism and the Academic
Community," an address by F.B.I.
agent Bernard L. Huelskamp,
opens the second semester convo-cation
schedule on Thursday, Feb.
6, at 10 a.m. in the fieldhouse.
Huelskamp, a native of Kansas,
attended elementary and high
schools in Dodge City and King-man,
Kan. In 1942 he entered the
University of Wichita in Wichita,
Kan., and subsequently attended
Creighton university in Omaha,
Neb., where he received a bachelor
of science degree in commerce in
1949 and a bachelor of laws de-gree
in 1951. He is now a member
of the Nebraska state bar.
From April, 1943, to February,
1946, Huelskamp served in the
United States Army air corps.
He entered on duty as a special
agent with the FBI in June, 1951,
and following a period of training
was assigned to the bureau's Phila-delphia
office. In September, 1952,
Form Society
Bethel's International fellowship
has survived all the necessary
red tape and is now ready
to begin its activities. It pre-sents
its first program on
Monday, Feb. 3, in the college
auditorium at 7 p.m.
Headed by David Mbiti, presi-dent
of the fellowship, the commit-tee
has spent many hours thinking
out ways in which the foreign stu-dents
here can contribute positive-ly
to the social life on Bethel's
"International" was chosen in-stead
of "foreign students" because
it is intended that all students
should feel welcome to join and
to bring off campus friends.
One formal and one informal
meeting is being planned for each
month. At the formal meeting,
films, lively and interesting speak-ers
and exotic music will be offer-ed.
For the informal gatherings,
mixers, conversation-type meetings
and plenty of fun will be the rule.
At their first meeting, the con-stitution
will be read and the aims
and objectives of this fellowship
will be presented. It is hoped that
a film on the Carribean (especially
for those homesick for warmer
climes!) will be available.
he was transferred to the field of-fice
in Washington, D.C.
Assigned to the FBI headquar-ters
at Washington, D.C. in Octo-ber,
1956, Mr. Huelskamp is pre-sently
serving in a supervisory
College Choir
Offers Album
"Let All the Nations Praise," a
record by the Bethel college choir,
will be released in the Twin cities
in about two weeks. The album
title is the name of the song the
choir sang for the late President
Kennedy during their spring tour
last year.
It is hoped that the record will
reach people who might not ordin-arily
buy a Bethel choir record.
Other selections included in the
record are "The Eyes of All Wait
Upon Thee," "Jesus, Our Savior,
God's Son Incarnate," and a selec-tion
arranged by Robert Berglund,
"No Other Plea."
Berglund, director of the group,
anticipates that this will be the
best college choir record yet pro-duced.
Christian Dynamics is re-leasing
the record on a national
Twenty-first annual invasion of
the campus by Bethel founders is
due Monday through Friday, Feb.
17 through 24. Meeting to discuss
"The Church's Ministry to a Chang-ing
World," conference attenders
will be challenged with important
questions on the church's ministry
to the contemporary world situa-tion.
Opening the week's activities will
be the traditional banquet on Mon-day
evening at 6 in the fieldhouse.
Changes in the format of the
afternoon meetings will be evi-dent.
Extended and opened to the
entire conference attendance, each
meeting will feature a meeting led
by a Bethel faculty member with
an open forum discussion follow-
Sno-Daze 1964 will reveal a "Win-ter
in Old Europe" atmosphere for
the weekend of Feb. 7 and 8. Class
competition in snow sculpturing,
the crowning of a sno-princess, a
puppet play, skating, tobogganning
and a basketball game are planned
Friday evening's activities begin
at 8 in Jax restaurant, located at
20 street Northeast and Univer-sity
avenue, Minneapolis. Preced-ing
the banquet the 1964 sno-prin-cess
will be crowned. A puppet
play, "The Cheats of Scapin," a
seventeenth century French com-edy,
will be presented following the
dinner by Dr. Peter Arnott, pro-fessor,
playwright and puppeteer.
Associate professor in the de-partment
of classic and dramatic
SPAN Selects
Study Areas
Chile, Egypt, Thailand and Yugo-slavia
have been selected as Stu-dent
Project for Amity Among
Nations (SPAN) study areas for
the summer of 1965 as recently an-nounced
by Gerald Bongard, SPAN
Executive secretary.
About 50 students from ten Min-nesota
colleges and universities
will be selected in April for the
two-year, scholarship-aided pro-gram.
Applications will be opened
this month.
SPAN's major goal is to foster
friendship and understanding a-mong
nations everywhere. SPAN
tries to attain this through its
unique independent study pro-gram.
Each student will work at
an approved project of his own
choice, thus learning about other
countries and peoples.
In the coming summer SPAN-ners
will study in Algeria, Colum-bia,
India and Poland.
Participating schools are: Augs-burg
college, Bethel college, Carle-ton
college, Gustavus Adolphus col-lege,
Hamline university, Macal-ester
college, St. Cloud State col-lege,
St. Olaf college, the College
of St. Thomas and the University
of Minnesota.
Headquarters of SPAN are on
the campus of the University of
ing. Due to begin at 2 p.m., the ses-sions
are scheduled to run for 90
Autonomy and the church will
be the topic for Dr. Gordon John-son
in the Tuesday afternoon ses-sion.
Dr. Virgil Olson will speak
on the church and ecumenicity on
Penetration of the church into
modern social structures will be
presented by Dr. Ivan Fahs on
Thursday. Friday afternoon will
feature Dr. Alphin Conrad speak-ing
on the church and the gifts
of the Holy Spirit.
An inspirational message each
day will be given by Dr. Stephen
Olford, pastor of the Calvary Bap-tist
church, New York city.
art at the State University of
Iowa, Arnott visited Bethel's
campus in the fall of 1962 to pre-sent
"Medea" and "Faustus." Ar-nott
has toured extensively in
Great Britain and the United
States performing for universi-ties,
colleges and drama festi-vals.
Activities Saturday morning and
afternoon will include an old fash-ioned
winter picnic with skating,
traying and toboganning at the
new campus site in Arden Hills.
Concluding the weekend's events
will be a basketball game against
Bemidji state college at 8 p.m. in
the fieldhouse. Winners of the
beard growing and snow sculptur-ing
contests will receive awards
from the sno-princess during spe-cial
halftime activities.
A girls' basketball team coached
by Eunice Murra will demonstrate
their skill, and the princess and
her court will be presented.
Freshmen and sophomores will
select three girls from each re-spective
class as Sno-princess
candidates at tomorrow's class
meetings. The primary and final
elections will be held when
classes begin for the second sem-ester.
Tickets will be on sale Tuesday,
Feb. 4, at $7 per couple in the stu-dent
center. This price includes
the entire weekend's activities.
Headed by general chairman Jan
Bowman, the committee consists
of Donna Rose and Marilyn Swan.
princess coronation; Marilyn Fahs
and Pat Jaynes, banquet; Marion
Dr. Gordon G. Johnson has been
chosen dean of Bethel seminary,
replacing retiring Dean Edwin
Omark. The action is subject to
final approval by the Baptist Gen-eral
conference when it meets at
Rockford, Ill., from June 27 - July
1, 1964.
"After many long months of con-sidering
a dozen candidates for the
Dr. Johnson
position of dean, a joint committee
of the board of education and fac-ulty
finally decided on Dr. John-son,"
stated President Lundquist
in a recent seminary chapel.
He continued that "the joint
faculty-board of education corn-
Tall, halftime; Dick Fredrickson,
Saturday snow activities; Paul Lar-son,
entertainment; Mel Backlin,
finances; Doug Bjork, publicity;
and Phyllis Larson, snow sculpture.
Registrar Holds
Tally Cards
Registration will begin tomorrow
with the rush to the registrar's
office to pick up tally cards for
limited courses. All registration by
students presently enrolled at
Bethel should be completed by the
of exam week, Jan. 24. Incoming
students will register on Jan. 28,
the day before classes resume.
Each student should first make
an appointment with his adviser
to work out his schedule. The work
sheet, initialed by the adviser,
must be completed before tally
cards will be issued. It is not
necessary to wait until registra-tion
begins officially to have this
conference with the adviser.
After completing his registra-tion
forms, the student may pre-sent
them at the registrar's office
at any time during office hours
Monday through Friday, Jan. 20 to
24, to obtain his fee statement.
Late fees will be charged against
anyone who does not clear his
statement on or before Wednes-day,
Jan. 29. Previous bills must
be paid before second semester
registration may be completed.
mittee based their final decision
on the following five criteria:
the individual's spiritual commit-ment
to Christ;
"The individual's inclination to-ward
scholarship; the individual's
administrative ability; the individ-ual's
alertness to educational peda-gogy
and current trends in the
field of education;
"The individual's ability to ade-quately
represent the seminary be-fore
the conference and the pub-lic."
Johnson qualifies as dean with
a well diversified background of
educational experience and ac-tive
leadership in the Baptist
General conference.
His formal academic training in-cludes
an A.A. degree from Bethel
junior college; a B.A. degree from
the University of Minnesota with
some work at Harvard; a B.D. de-gree
from Bethel seminary; a Th.
M. degree from Princeton semin-ary;
and a Th.D. degree from Nor-thern
Baptist seminary.
Before assuming the position of
professor of homiletics at Bethel
in 1959, Johnson served in three
conference churches.
He has chaired the conference
board of foreign missions. In ad-dition,
he has been both vice-moderator
and moderator of the
conferences, as well as president
of the board of trustees.
Founders Week Delegates
Face Contemporary Issues
Joint Education Committee
Elects Johnson Seminary Dean
Each year Bethel loses several outstanding prospective
students to other schools. This is nothing to cause great alarm
when qualified by two important statements. There need be
no alarm if the particular individual has received complete
information about opportunities at Bethel. There need be no
alarm if the particular individual has been given a financial
opportunity to attend. However, these two qualifications can-not
always be defended as true.
This year the immediate need for a broad base of finan-cial
support for the new campus has spurred public relations
activity to the most thorough heights in the history of the
school. Every other week The Standard carries news from
Bethel. Newspaper releases, magazine advertisements and at-tractive
posters further spread information. Speakers, gospel
teams and choral groups represent the school in many places.
Just last Saturday another group of church representatives
visited the campus to inspect the facilities.
All of these activities are good and necessary. However,
individual prospective students must also be contacted. The
fact that the conference is relatively small makes personal
contact with outstanding conference high school students
possible. This contact could be made in a number of ways.
Firstly, the public relations department could work through
local church leaders to learn about prospects. Once these
people were discovered an invitation to the campus could
be extended and pertinent information could be mailed.
Secondly, alumni could be called upon to serve as con-tacts
with prospective students. Since they are to some greater
or lesser extent informed about campus activities, all that
seems to be lacking is particular encouragement to use their
Finally, the student senate has a responsibility to seek
ways to inform high school students about Bethel. Last spring
during the senate campaigns several candidates made promises
concerning senate involvement in public relations. No appar-ent
action has been taken. Either this matter has been con-demned
to the sluggish probing of an uncalled committee or
it simply has not been considered. The idea as presented last
year is certainly worthy of better treatment than it has been
Additional expenses found on a private college campus
not encountered at a state-supported institution are a prac-tical
concern for prospective students. Scholarship offers
from other schools often make the decision not to attend
Bethel considerably easier. Although Bethel's program of
assistance for students already on campus is quite extensive,
entrance scholarships for freshmen hardly exist.
Four $500 scholarships are offered Bethel freshmen by
the Baptist General conference' board of bible school and
youth. Several of the district Conference youth organizations
offer smaller scholarships. These are the only formal scholar-ships
available. The result is that many students who could
benefit from experience here and who could make a contri-bution
to the school attend classes elsewhere. As expenses
continue to increase the situation will only become worse.
Measures should be taken to encourage ontstanding indi-viduals
to consider attending Bethel. Even expansion to a
new campus should not interfere with progress in the area of
financial aid. The college should seek additional scholarship
funds, perhaps from industry or a group of industries. Alumni
could be encouraged to sponsor scholarships for needy fresh-men.
Whatever the source of money, it must be realized that
funds must be made available. Bethel cannot afford to lose the
conference's best talent.
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Lack of Scholarships
Drives Students Away
WednesdayJanuary 15
Ziebarth Rates Soviet Schools , ,
by Phil Larson
E. W. Ziebarth, dean of the col-lege
of liberal arts at the Univer-sity
of Minnesota, spoke on "Edu-cation
in a Divided World" in a
Bethel convocation last Thursday.
Ziebarth had recently traveled
10,000 miles throughout Russia.
His lecture was a description
and judgment of the values which
have determined Russia's educa-tional
system as he saw it, in con-trast
to the educational system of
the United States and the values
it supports.
Following an allusion to J. F.
Kennedy's statement that the
Honest to God by John A. T. Robinson.
The Westminister press, Philadelphia. 1963.
by Jim Spiceland
Language and theology have
never really been reconciled since
the divorce that took place at the
tower of Babel. Many honest men
have labored long and hard to
bring about a reconciliation, but
it seems that this goal is never
reached. Bishop Robinson's Honest
to God is a contemporary remin-der
of this sad fact.
Divided into seven chapters, the
book uses an orderly, logical philo-sophical
method in attacking and
tearing down most of the doctrines
and concepts that Christians hold
"Reluctant Revolution" is the
misleading heading of the first
chapter. It contains a discussion
Dear Editor:
In the last issue of the CLARION
Bill Damberg pointed out what he
felt to be a very critical need —
that being the recruitment of more
ministerial students for static
Bethel seminary.
In my opinion a far greater need
is the adequate placement of the
graduates currently coming out of
our seminary.
I refer Mr. Damberg to the last
two issues of the Bethel Seminary
Quarterly wherein is mentioned the
real need in this area of place-ment.
Though there are few seniors
this year who have as yet decided
to enter our seminary there are, I
have been told, a good number of
underclassmen who are anticipat-ing
training there.
When our seminary graduates
must turn to other denominations
—for instance the Christian and
Missionary Alliance, for places of
service, what may I ask will be
the care of Bethel seminary grad-uates
when it has an increase in
Allen Rogers
On the assumption that your
school has a paper (some don't)
we are extending our congratula-tions
to one Paul Goodman, who by
his initiative and fine sense of
fleecing has struck a blow for col-lege
students everywhere. Nothing
gives us more pleasure than to see
the townies take a beating.
On the assumption furthermore
that such imagination might imply
an interesting college and conse-quently
an interesting paper, I en-close
a couple of copies of the
Fenn paper and suggest an ex-change.
Again, congratulations to Mr.
Goodman, who thought Big.
R. A. Ellis, Editor
Fenn college
Cleveland, Ohio
battle between the free world
and the communist bloc will be
won or lost in the classroom,
Ziebarth demonstrated the clash
between the Soviet Union's em-phasis
upon strengthening and
perpetuating the state organi-zation
and the United States'
emphasis upon developing the
In the U.S.S.R. the rigid authori-tarian
plan of society and the com-pulsive
fetish of productivity seem-ed
to limit what one studies, what
one explores, perhaps even what
one chooses as a vocation; "there
of the philosophical views of the
world and universe in Biblical
times in contrast with the pre-suppositions
of our time which
are based on a more scientific-empirical
view of reality.
Since our world-view is obvious-ly
a superior key to understanding
the mysteries of our existence, the
author reluctantly suggests that
we abandon the Biblical concep-tion
of God if we desire to com-municate
the Christian message.
If the reader finds that speak-ing
of the Christian message
without the Christian God is a
confusion of language, he has
only to read on for further en-lightenment.
True Christianity is not a sup-ranaturalistic
view of life at all.
This misconception is a vestige
of man's more immature years
when he viewed all of the universe
in terms of the home, with "Dad-dy"
always out there in the back-ground.
If we are to get on in our theo-logical
dialogue, we had better
have the courage to face the facts:
the traditional God never existed.
True Christians are atheists! Lan-guage
seems to break down com-pletely,
however, when the Bishop
exhorts ". . . God is teaching us
that we must live as men who can
get along very well without him."
Having done away with these
truths, the Bishop leads us on to
more positive ground. Not hav-ing
found God out there in space,
we had better leave the scien-tists
behind, as they have failed
us. The best men to help us as
we search for God must be the
contemporary theologians, and
Paul Tillich says that God is the
"ground of our being."
Ground of being is an existen-tial
concept, meaning that the
"place" where we are conscious of
ourselves and all of life is God.
If God is the ground of our being,
the being of each of us and all of
us, then the highest thing we can
do is life for others.
This is Christianity, in its pur-est,
deepest, truest form. This is
Christianity understandable to all
ages, says the Bishop. And this
Christianity, if rightly understood
and practiced, will do away with
the need of outmoded legalistic
moral systems as Jesus predicted.
Having discovered the essence
of Christianity, the church will
no longer need most of the tra-ditional
ordinances and sacra-ments.
In fact, maybe someday
the organized church itself will
Evangelical Christians are con-cerned
that they be tolerant of
the theologies of our time. We do
not want to have people categorize
us as fundamentalists. And we
want to be positive and to love.
Robinson's book, however, has
made the gospel so relevant to
the natural man that it is no longer
is no freedom of choice in the
full sense."
Furthermore, efficiency does not
become an end in itself to the Am-erican
industrialist; the United
States is unwilling to reduce its
more basic values for the sake of
efficiency. Indeed, democracy is by
nature less efficient than a totali-tarian
state like that of Nazi Ger-many
or Communist Russia.
The Russian citizen is fitted
into the huge complex where
there is a temptation to be in-terested
only in fulfilling the re-sponsibilities
of a job, where he
knows little about the whole or-ganization
that has engulfed him.
Hunger for education in the
USSR is unmatched; the subway
rider stands with technical book
in hand, an impressive number of
factory workers take correspond-ence
or evening courses, Soviet
parents are anxious for the chil-dren
to receive a good education
in order that they can better them-selves
Continuing with assorted ob-servations,
Ziebarth noticed that
Soviet teachers are adequately
but not extravagantly paid, with
automatic extra pay for teaching
past the rigidly prescribed
hours. Teachers, not students,
are blamed for poor learning.
Ziebarth considered the close
link between education and party
membership in the Young Octo-berists
or Young Pioneers the most
depressing aspect of Russian edu-cation.
While membership is not
required, social pressure to join is
almost insurmountable.
Ziebarth concluded with a plea
for the lonely thinker, the open-and-
looking skeptic, the disciplin-ed
mind, and the need for a "some-thing
more" that transcends the
mundane superficialities and tech-nicalities
of everyday life, a "some-thing
more" that cannot be de-stroyed
by fear or tragedy, in or-der
that "nations shall speak peace
unto nations."
Was Week . .
Monday, Jan. 20
8 p.m. Faculty wives.
Monday, Jan. 20 - Friday, Jan. 24
Friday, Jan. 24
8 p.m.—Seminary social. Fieldhouse.
Saturday, Jan. 25 - Tuesday, Jan. 28
Semester break.
Wednesday, Jan. 29
8 a.m. Second semester classes begin.
Friday, Jan. 31
7:30 p.m. Sophomore-junior party. St. Paul
downtown YMCA.
Saturday, Feb. 1
8 p.m. Basketball. Bethel vs. Trinity. Field-house.
Monday, Feb. 3
7 pim. Bethel International fellowship.
College auditorium.
Tuesday, Feb. 4
Sno-daze tickets. Student center.
Wednesday, Feb. 5
7-9 p.m. Boys' intramurals. Fieldhouse.
Thursday, Feb. 6
10 a.m. Convocation. Bernard L. Huelskamp,
speaker. Fieldhouse.
7-9 p.m. Boys' intramurals. Fieldhouse.
Friday, Feb. 7
8 p.m. Sno-daze banquet. Jax restaurant, 20
street Northeast and University avenue,
Saturday, Feb. 8
10 a.m. Winter sports. New campus.
8 p.m. Basketball. Bethel vs. Bemidji. Field-house.
Monday, Feb. 10
COEVAL deadline.
8 p.m. Basketball. Bethel vs. Northwestern.
Wednesday, Feb. 12
Next CLARION edition.
the CLARION
Published weekly during the academic year,
except during vacation and examination
periods, by the students of Bethel college
and seminary, St. Paul 1, Minn. Subscrip-tion
rate $3 per year.
Volume XL
No. 13
Editor-in-Chief ..................... Dave Johnson
Associate Editor
June Erickson
News Editor
Jean Dahlquist
Feature Editor
Karen Neslund
Sports Editor
Photo Editor
'Elizabeth Carlson
Don Allison
Advertising Manager
Marcia Daniels
Business Manager
Bob Larson
Circulation Manager
Karin Berg
Office Manager
Joan Anderson
Edward Avey
Opinions expressed in the CLARION do not
necessarily reflect the position of the college
or seminary.
The Inbex:
Robinson Abuses Language,
Destroys Doctrine of God
.. .. . . ■
Bethel's most enterprising capitalist to date is Paul Goodman, a
sophomore from San Jose, Calif. Baking the largest cookie in the history
of the world, he received $3,749. His stock-holders received a one hun-dred
percent dividend. Bethel, now world famous, has Goodman touring
the country to raise funds.
Band Displays Poise, Balance
In Third Pops Performance
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Sunday School 9:30 Morning Service 10:45
C.Y.F. 5:45 Evening Service 7:00
Rev. Ellis Eklof, Jr., Pastor Roberta Yaxley, Dir. of Music
Bethlehem Baptist Church
720 13th Avenue South
Sunday School 9:45 Youth Groups 5:30
Morning Worship 10:50 Evening Service 7:00
John Wilcox, Pastor Bailey Anderson, Youth Director
Miss Charlotte Ransom, Education Secretary
Youth Welcome — Bus leaves Bodien at 9:15
Pastor's Phone: UN 6-6249
2240 E. 15th Ave. Hwy. 36
Sunday School 9:45 Evening Worship 7:00
Morning Worship 11:00
College Bible Class
College Young People's Group
4111 Olson Hwy. on Hwy. 55
9:45 a.m.—Bible Classes for all ages
11:00 a.m.—Worship Service
7:00 p.m.—Fellowship and Social Hour
7:30 p.m.—Midweek Service—Wed.
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by Paul R. Johnson
Students attending Bethel col-lege
band's pops concert Friday
night were rewarded with an even-ing
of relaxing, enjoyable listen-ing.
Quality performances by solo-ists
and featured ensembles gave
evidence of fine musicianship. The
band itself was well prepared and
displayed a commendable degree
of poise in performance. Good bal-ance
and a general facility in
handling varied rhythmical pat-terns
enhanced the music.
Richness of sonority was some-what
hindered by lack of adequate
depth in the low brass. Tonal qual-ity
in the woodwinds was full and
clear, but intonation problems in
the upper ranges and sometimes
sub-par execution of the more dif-ficult
passages detracted from
their otherwise above average per-formance.
Bright tempos, which the band
handled well, gave vitality to a
number of selections, the march-es
in particular.
Henry Purcell's "Trumpet Volun-tary,"
featuring an antiphonal
brass choir, opened the concert.
Following a well-executed concert
march was the refreshingly light-hearted
"Cake Walk" and "Schot-tische"
from Bennett's Suite of
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Today is the posted deadline for
contributions to COEVAL, Bethel's
student literary magazine. COE-VAL
is still an experiment, since
this year's COEVAL is only the
third annual issue.
Purpose of the publication is to
encourage and share student crea-tive
effort in poetry, prose, music
composition or any of the visual
arts. By being an expression of the
art of a Christian community, COE-VAL
is trying to make a contribu-tion
to the larger area of Chris-tian
Is COEVAL succeeding in this
capacity? Many critics of last
year's COEVAL feel that the
publication did not express a
Christian attitude. Is this accu-sation
true? And if it is true
why is it true?
A large portion of the material
contributed to COEVAL is of two
by S. Severn Olson
Jazz lovers unite, your time has
come. After months of classical
concerts by the Minneapolis Sym-phany
and other equally good or-ganizations,
Doc Evans and com-pany
will appear at the auditorium
of the Minneapolis Institute of Art
for a session of New Orleans style
Dixieland. Only one dollar will ad-mit
the Dixieland connoisseur on
Jan. 26 at 2:30 p.m.
Tonight at 8:30 in the architec-ture
court at the University of
Minnesota the Twin City Bach so-ciety
begins its annual festival.
Under the direction of David Le-
Berge, the program will feature
chamber music.
Tomorrow night at 8:30 Dr. Hein-rich
Fleisher will present a free
organ recital at Grace Lutheran
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Wednesday, January 15, 1964
types. One is a type of supposedly
religious poetry that is character-ized
by eighteenth century poetic
diction and religious cliches.
This genre does not qualify as
art at all because of its formal
failures. It makes an even worse
failure of the Christian cause by
supposing that Christians can say
something to the twentieth cen-tury
by emulating Tennyson.
A second type of material the
editor's of COEVAL receive
qualifies at least formally as art.
However, its predominant
themes are meaninglessness and
These writers at least see the
problems in our world, but their
conclusions indicate that either
their Christianity is too superficial
to be related to their inner search-ing
or their art is really only a
church. Saturday evening at 8:30
activities move to the women's
lounge of Coffman Memorial union
for a joint recital by tenor Robert
White and harpsichordist Albert
Sunday afternoon's 3 o'clock
concert in Northrop auditorium
closes the observance. A massed
choir will present Bach's "B Minor
Mass" and other choral works.
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superficial reiteration of common
contemporary conclusions.
True, we share the external
world with our contemporaries and
we have no right to shirk our
share in man's common burden of
evil and grief by pulling the blind-ers
of a Grace Livingston Hill phil-osophy
over our ears and eyes.
But yet, our inner world is
unique—the kingdom of God is
within us. And the message of
this kingdom is a vision of hope.
And the expression of this vis-ion
is the spirit that makes art
Christian art. Why does so little
of the material contributed to
COEVAL express this Christian
vision? Is it the artists or the
vision that is lacking?
The problem is larger than the
Bethel community, it is as large
as the entire Christian community.
COEVAL is an opportunity for ex-pression
for students who are con-cerned
about this problem.
Deadline has been etexnded over
semester break to give the busiest
students time to make a contribu-tion.
The final deadline will be
Monday, Feb. 10. Contributions
from any department — history,
biology, Christianity—as well as
independent creative work are wel-comed.
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Bethel Bacdatio4e
Monday—Jan. 13-90% of
regular price
Variety of books, cloth-ing,
Bibles, stationery,
American Dances. Passing the mel-ody
and variations among the sec-tions
of the band was well done.
Mechanically adequate, the tone
poem "Sequoia" by LaGassey fell
short of its potential emotional
"Pavanne" by Morton Gould set
the pace for the second half of the
concert. It was relaxed, light and
refreshing. The solo trumpet ex-hibited
fine execution and por-trayal
of the light-hearted melody.
A sometimes overlooked but
vital instrument, the French
horn, received a deserved spot
of glory in Bennett's "Four
Hornsmen." Inhibition was de-lightfully
thrown to the wind
in the musical story of "Little
Bop Riding Hood," by Foreman.
Selections from "The King and
I," by Richard Rogers and a typi-cally
fiery Spanish march closed
the concert.
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Extends Copy Deadline to Feb. 10
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Everyone would pretty well agree that basketball and football are
two sports dissimilar in almost every way. After observing intramural
basketball games over the last few weeks, however, I am inclined to
think the only major difference is the scene of action. Football is
played outside and basketball is played inside.
Minor technical differences include the shape of the ball and the
team goals involved. The ends of the games are different, but the means
used in achievement are remarkably alike. Obviously, I am drawing
parallels where they do not really exist, but what I am trying to get
across is that basketball as played by Bethel's intramural teams is not
really basketball. It is a game of pushing, slapping, hacking and tripping.
Don't get me wrong ... basketball is not a sissy sport. There is
bound to be a certain amount of physical contact when opponents
compete in such close proximity as in basketball, but when continual
contact becomes a matter of course and is virtually ignored, something
is wrong.
There are two solutions to the problem readily at hand. The most
obvious, and the least likely to succeed, lies with the individual. Indi-vidual
players could ease the situation immensely by simply making
an honest attempt to play the game as it was meant to be played. The
most evident weakness of this solution is that most guys are unwilling
to show restraint when confronted with even an accidentally misplaced
elbow. The normal reaction of the abused person is to return the
elbow at the next possible opportunity.
Another solution open, and the most simple of the two, involves
game officiating. Intramural referees, with a few exceptions, seem to
think that because IM basketball has the reputation for being an un-necessarily
rough sport, it must continue to remain as such.
Consistency seems to be the keyword in the solution to the prob-lem.
Far fewer displays of poor sportsmanship will crop up during
a game which has been provided with adequate officials who will call
a game fairly and consistently from the beginning. A lot has been
done as evidenced by the current referee rating system, whereby a
team rates its referee, but there is still much to be desired.
Basketball can be fun when it is played properly. It is up to the
individual to play the game properly, and the referee's job is to make
sure that it is played properly. Is it too much to ask that both referee
and player fulfill their respective obligations?
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the CLARION Wednesday, January 15, 1964
Royals Place Third in Tourney;
Moore Breaks Scoring Record
Don Moore's 29.2 average dur-ing
the last five games has given
the Royals a 4-1 record since the
Christmas break. They captured
victories over Northland, Eau
Claire, University of Minnesota
(Morris) and Sioux Falls while los-ing
to Central (Ia.) at Orange City,
Bethel edged out a 69-61 victory
over Northland on Dec. 14 to be-gin
the five game schedule. Moore
scored 17 of his 19 points in the
second half to overcome a 36-31
halftime deficit. Jerry Moulton and
George Palke scored 23 and 15
points respectively to lead the
Royals to their eight point victory.
Moulton's 22 points led the
Royals to a 86-78 upset victory
Wrestlers Split
Last Two Meets
Bethel's grapplers swung into
action Saturday only to be tossed
about by a powerful Michigan
Tech squad 29-8. Michigan Tech
jumped off to an early 11-0 lead
on losses by Bob Baffa, wrestling
for the first time this season, Norm
Holmberg and Wendell Plucker.
Doug King was the first Royal
winner before Tech took 13 more
points, this time at the expense
of Keith Davis, Mike Peterson and
Roger Inouye. Ev Wilkenson pin-ned
his man for five points before
Leroy Nelson succumbed to a Tech
St. Paul Bible college was the
victim in a pre-Christmas match
with the Royals held at the Mid-way
YMCA. Wendell Plucker, J.
David Patterson, Keith Davis, Mike
Peterson and Leroy Nelson brought
home the honors for Bethel in the
21-13 win.
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over Eau Claire. A well-balanced
scoring attack with five starters
in double figures gave the Roy-als
a 40-29 halftime lead and
their first victory over Eau
Claire in the history of the riv-alry.
Bethel participated with Morris,
Central and Northwestern in the
Northwestern Christmas Invitation-al
on Dec. 27 and 28. They lost
their opening game to Central
(Ia.) 74-59 and captured third place
with a 98-87 victory over Morris.
Moore's 26 points gave the Roy-als
a 36-29 halftime lead over Cen-tral.
DeBie's 25 points led a big,
poised Central attack which took
the lead on three straight passing
errors with six minutes to go.
Central sank 16.16 on their
free throws to break a Royal
press. They eventually went on
to win the tournament with a
victory over Northwestern (Ia.).
"Big Don" set a new Royal scor-ing
record and a new tournament
record as he scored 46 points to
lead the Royals in a revenge vic-tory
over Morris. Over the past
five games Moore has had a 61%
shooting average and leads the
Royals with a 19.6 scoring average,
51% shooting average and 147 re-bounds
in season statistics.
Moulton scored 17 points against
Morris as the Royals captured a
44-36 halftime lead. Dennis Clau-sen
and Virgil Smith scored 16
and 14 points respectively for Mor-ris
but were never able to catch
the high scoring Royal attack.
Freshman Dave Bjorkland's
sparkling ball handling and
Don Moore's 35 points gave
Bethel a 82-69 victory over Sioux
Falls. Bob Pickert's 17 points led
Sioux Falls to a 13-12 lead with
six minutes gone, but the Roy-als
captured the lead on Moore's
layup to surge to a 52.35 half-time
Bethel's victory over Northland
put them in a tie for first place
in the Pioneer conference with
Morris, both having 2-1 records.
The Royals lost to River Falls
last night. Bethel resumes its con-ference
schedule at Morris Satur-day
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Don Moore and friend match
height. Moore's 29.2 point average
over the last five games has done
much to keep Coach Healy's Roy-als
in the win column. Moore top-ped
the school scoring record by
dumping in 46 points against Mor-ris
on Saturday, Dec. 28.
After being idle for almost a
month during Christmas vacation,
the ten team intramural basketball
league returned to action with a
full schedule of games. The Fac-ulty
and the Jesters remained at
the top of the league with perfect
4-0 records as a result of their vic-tories
this past week.
Featuring a well balanced scor-ing
attack consisting of Dave Cox
with 18 points, leaping Lee Bajun-iemi
with 17 and Gary Wilson with
12, the Faculty coasted to a 64-51
win over the Pages. The Pages
trailed throughout the contest and
were never a really serious threat.
Roger Price led the Pages with 21
points, giving him high point hon-ors
for the game.
The Jesters galloped home in
the second half to score a 64-44
victory over the second place
Counts, after leading by only one
point, 29-28, at halftime. The Jes-
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ters attack was led by Jim Austin
and Curt Stark as they scored 18
and 17 points respectively. Ben
Obinger led the Counts with 18
Led by the outstanding shooting
of their center, Maurice Simons,
the Seminarians stayed in conten-tion
for the league crown with a
77-62 win over the hapless and
winless Barons. Simons plunked in
Nelson Named
To Honor Squad
Jim Nelson, the most decorated
player in Bethel's football history,
is not finished yet. Nelson, winner
of the most valuable player award
for the last four years, has been
notified that he has been named
to the 1963 Little All American
Membership on the team in-cludes
outstanding players from
small colleges around the nation.
Athletic departments of various
small colleges selected the players
through a poll taken by the Wil-liamson
Rating system of Houston,
Texas. Nelson received honorable
mention last year.
27 points to snare high honors for
the evening. Larry Stair of the
Barons was a close second with 26
After trailing by seven points
at halftime, the Knights put a real
scare into the Dukes as they came
out after the halftime rest and
scored seven straight points to tie
things up, but the Dukes were able
to hang on for a 51-48 victory.
John Dickau and Gordie Peterson
led the Duke attack with 22 and 13
points respectively. Stan Miller
had 22 for the Knights.
Going down to their fourth
straight defeat, the Squires were
thumped by the Peasants 65-34.
The Peasants had control the
whole game as they led at the half
28-10. Denny Port led the Peasants
with 17. Bruce Barnes was high
man for the Squires with 13.
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WorldNetDaily Exclusive
Interfaith meeting rocked by terror accusation
Muslim leader unexpectedly confronted with group's ties to parent of al-Qaida
ISNA President Ingrid Mattson
An American Islamic leader friendly with the White House who leads an interfaith-dialogue movement was unexpectedly confronted at a Connecticut synagogue about her organization's ties to the radical Muslim Brotherhood, the parent of al-Qaida, Hamas and numerous Islamic groups that aim to establish Islamic law worldwide through terrorism and other means.
Ingrid Mattson, director of the Islamic Society of North America, ISNA, was a featured speaker May 4 at an interfaith event hosted by Congregation Kol Haverim in Glastonbury, Conn., titled "How Religious People of Peace Can Transform Differences and Build Bridges of Understanding."
Jeffrey Epstein – who as president of the non-profit America's Truth Forum has researched and hosted conferences on the Islamic terror threat to the U.S – told WND he "felt it best to leave" after the president of the synagogue interrupted his second question, which had elicited noticeable gasps from the mostly Jewish audience of about 100.
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Epstein first asked Mattson to explain why there are no churches or synagogues in Saudi Arabia, noting the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom recently designated 10 Muslim countries as among the worst violators of religious freedom.
"I'm not a Saudi and have no say over what they do," Mattson replied, according to Epstein and two other witnesses who asked not to be named.
"We all know that the Saudi government is not a democracy and doesn't do things like we do," she said, according to Epstein. "The royal family is a dictatorial regime and has a history of human rights violations and persecuting minority religions. They don't respect women's rights."
Mattson, whose group was founded in 1981 by the Saudi-funded Muslim Students' Association, traveled last month to Saudi Arabia for a meeting of the Islamic Development Bank, according to African media.
The bank was chartered by the 56-nation Organization of the Islamic Conference in 1973 "in accordance with the principles of Shariah," or Islamic law, as prescribed by the Muslim Brotherhood, notes counter-terrorism scholar Rachel Ehrenfeld, director of the American Center for Democracy.
Mattson's national profile was raised by her prayer at Obama's inauguration prayer service, and she attended the president's Ramadan dinner at the White House.
The moderator of the interfaith gathering said there would be no time for further questions, but Epstein insisted on asking another one, noting Mattson had agreed to answer two questions.
Epstein asked: "Ingrid, how can you sincerely represent yourself as a peace partner in terms of promoting interfaith dialogue and bridge-building, when you preside as president of the Islamic Society of North America – a known operating wing of the Muslim Brotherhood which is a terrorist organization that spawned both Hamas and al-Qaida."
Mattson replied by listing her associations with the federal government, saying she worked with the CIA, FBI, Department of Homeland Security and the White House.
The synagogue president then intervened, explaining it was not the time for politics.
With the microphone still in his hand, Epstein maintained that his question was not about politics but about terrorism.
He pointed to Mattson as the leader of an organization classified by the Justice Department as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Dallas trial of the Holy Land Foundation, which was found guilty in 2008 of raising money for the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas.
ISNA was named in a May 1991 Muslim Brotherhood document "An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America" as one of the Brotherhood's likeminded "organizations of our friends" who shared the common goal of turning the U.S. into a Muslim nation under Shariah, or Islamic law.
Mattson, who also is the director of Hartford Seminary's Muslim chaplain training program, did not respond to WND's request for comment.
Chief conduit
ISNA, through its affiliate the North American Islamic Trust – a Saudi government-backed organization – reportedly holds the mortgages on 50 to 80 percent of all mosques in the U.S. and Canada.
WND previously attended a Muslim Students' Association event at which speakers called for violence against the U.S..
Islam scholar Stephen Schwartz, a Sufi Muslim known for his critique of Islamic fundamentalism, describes ISNA as "one of the chief conduits through which the radical Saudi form of Islam passes into the United States."
Counter-terrorism expert Steven Emerson describes ISNA as a "radical group hiding under a false veneer of moderation" that publishes a bi-monthly magazine that "often champions militant Islamist doctrine." The group also "convenes annual conferences where Islamist militants have been given a platform to incite violence and promote hatred," states Emerson.
ISNA raised money for the defense of Hamas leader Mousa Marzook after he was arrested and eventually deported in 1997. The group also has condemned the U.S. government's post-9/11 seizure of Hamas' and Palestinian Islamic Jihad's financial assets.
ISNA sponsored the event at New York University in February in which President Obama's top adviser on counter-terrorism, John Brennan, came under fire for controversial remarks to Muslim law students. The director of the group's Office for Interfaith and Community Alliances, Sayyid Syeed, was part of a delegation that met with the directors of Obama's transition team and discussed a request for an executive order ending "torture." Top White House aide Valerie Jarrett addressed ISNA's 46th annual convention as part of Obama's outreach to Muslims, according to the White House.
'Trying to build understanding'
The rabbi at the host Connecticut synagogue, Craig Marantz, told WND he was not familiar with Mattson's organization and its documented links to violent Islamic jihad.
"This is something I don't know about," he said. "I'm not certain of its relevance to the conversation we had on Tuesday night."
Marantz told WND that "for us to even discuss issues like that" with Muslims "we have to have an agreement to hear each other out and to recognize the concerns in such a way that we could develop some understanding."
"It's a matter of trying to build understanding, not force an agenda," he said.
Marantz said Epstein "is entitled, like anyone else, to have other people hear his concern, hear his pain, to be able to name his pain and not be ridiculed or ostracized."
"At the same time, he can't do the same to others while he's trying to be understood," Marantz said. "And this is the key to dialogue. And that's what we were trying to achieve; to introduce people to the potential and power of such dialogue."
Epstein told WND that "as a Jewish American of patriotic lineage," it was "surreal to see the terrorist-linked leadership" of a group "sworn to the destruction of both the state of Israel and the Jewish people elevated to a position of prominence" at a synagogue.
"I never dreamed that a congregation would marginalize what I had to say and consider me to be a threat to their safety – especially since all facts presented were based upon evidence from law enforcement investigations and court transcripts," he said.
The other speakers at the event were Hartford Seminary President Heidi Hadsell and Yehezkel Landau, director of the seminary's Building Abrahamic Partnerships program and faculty associate in interfaith relations. They characterized Islam as a religion of peace, asserting knowledge of other religions would help break down differences and lead to tolerance and acceptance.
Mattson argued that if Islam were a violent religion, with a Muslim global population of 1.5 billion violence would be at an "apocalyptic" level.
As WND reported, Hartford Seminary now offers training to Muslims who want to become an imam in the U.S.
The seminary launched its Graduate Certificate in Imam Education program this spring with help from the seminary's Duncan Black MacDonald Center for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, the Fairfax Institute and the Fairfax Institute's parent, the International Institute for Islamic Thought, or the IITT.
The IITT also was named in the 1991 Muslim Brotherhood memorandum as a likeminded "organizations of our friends" and is a defendant in two class-action lawsuits brought by the families of victims of the 9/11 attacks.
Hartford Seminary spokesman David Barrett said the IIIT came to the seminary with the suggestion for the imam training program.
Hartford Seminary was founded in the 18th century by members of the Congregationalist denomination to prepare pastors and other Christian ministers for service. The seminary opened its doors to the first Muslim on its core faculty in the 1990s, shortly after a decision had been made to pursue "Christian-Muslim relations."
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Hoag Hospital has been named to Becker's Hospital Review's annual list of the "100 Great Hospitals in America."
Established in 1952, the Newport Beach-based 579-bed hospital was the only Orange County facility to join leading academic medical centers, community hospitals, flagship facilities and specialty hospitals from across the United States. Hoag recently announced that it will be affiliated with a new parent organization, Covenant Health Network.
"We are thrilled to be named to Becker's Hospital Review's '100 Great Hospitals in America' list yet again," Robert T. Braithwaite, Hoag president and chief executive, wrote in an email. "As the only Orange County hospital to be included, we are honored to be both admired as an innovative world-class medical center and recognized for providing the highest quality healthcare to the community we serve."
Along with hospital nominations, Becker's Hospital Review based 2013's edition on information from U.S. News & World Report, Truven Health Analytics' 100 Top Hospitals, HealthGrades, Magnet Recognition by the American Nurses Credentialing Center, the Studer Group and the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program.
This year, "100 Great Hospitals in America" includes Cedars-Sinai Medical Center of Los Angeles, Duke University Hospital in Durham, N.C., and Mount Sinai Hospital and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City.
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Pius IX, original name Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti, (born May 13, 1792, Senigallia, Papal States—died February 7, 1878, Rome; beatified September 3, 2000; feast day February 7), Italian head of the Roman Catholic church whose pontificate (1846–78) was the longest in history and was marked by a transition from moderate political liberalism to conservatism. Notable events of his reign included the declaration of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception (1854), the Syllabus of Errors (1864), and the sessions of the First Vatican Council (1869–70), during which the doctrine of papal infallibility was authoritatively defined.
Prepontifical life and early reign
Pius IX was the fourth son of Girolamo Mastai-Ferretti, gonfalonier of Senigallia, and the countess Caterina Solazzi. He first came into prominence as archbishop of Spoleto from 1827 to 1832, a time of revolutionary disturbance. He was made bishop of the important diocese of Imola in 1832, but it was not until 1840 that he received the hat, as cardinal priest of Saints Piero e Marcellino. He was not, in 1846, the most prominent liberal candidate likely to succeed Gregory XVI; but it took the conclave only two days to determine his election and so prevent that of the conservative Luigi Lambruschini. He took the name of Pius in deference to the memory of Pius VII, who had been his friend and who had, like him, been bishop of Imola. The choice was in some sense prophetic, for "Pio Nono," as his predecessor had done, began his career as a supporter of liberal ideas only to learn from bitter experience that liberals often tended to be anticlerical. In 1846, however, all this lay in the future and Europe was agog at the unusual spectacle of a liberal pope.
The new pope was confronted by a difficult situation. All Europe, save perhaps Metternich of Austria, considered the Papal States in urgent need of reform. A memorandum of 1831 by the French, English, Austrian, Russian, and Prussian ambassadors in Rome had suggested that councils should be elected to assist in local government, that a central body, composed partly of elected representatives, control finance, and that the dominant position held by the clergy in the administration and in the judicial system be terminated. Liberal opinion clung to these measures as absolutely essential throughout the pontificate of Gregory XVI. In addition, the papacy was constantly under attack by Italian nationalists as one of the instruments through which Austria maintained its domination over the peninsula.
The Revolutions of 1848
The year of revolutions began in Sicily; soon all Europe was ablaze and Pius was faced with demands, both liberal and nationalist, much beyond what he had been prepared to grant (see Revolutions of 1848). On March 14 he was compelled to grant a constitution establishing a two-chamber parliament with full legislative and fiscal powers subject only to the pope's personal veto. On March 23 Charles Albert of Sardinia declared war on Austria. For a time Pius continued to endeavour to steer a middle course, claiming in his address to the cardinals of April 29 that he was a disinterested spectator of the revolutionary activities sweeping Italy and that his program of reform was merely the fulfillment of the program long pressed upon the papacy by the powers. In the atmosphere of the time such sentiments were judged as displaying absolute hostility to the national cause, and the papacy was never again able to appear in Italy as anything other than a bulwark of reaction.
To prevent revolution from breaking out in Rome itself, Pius consented to the appointment of popular ministries, but none of the appointees was able to control the situation. A steadily deteriorating situation culminated in the assassination of one of them on November 15. A radical ministry was appointed; when the Swiss guards were disbanded the pope was a virtual prisoner. On November 24–25, with the aid of the French and Bavarian ambassadors, he fled to Gaeta in the kingdom of Naples. In his absence, elections were held for a constituent assembly; this, on February 9, 1849, declared the temporal power at an end and a democratic republic to be established. The papacy thereupon issued a formal appeal to the rulers of France, Austria, Spain, and Naples for assistance. Although it was generally considered that the pope's restoration could take place only with some sort of undertaking to maintain constitutional government in the Papal States, and although Louis-Napoléon, the newly elected president of France, was in favour of such a policy, Pius held out against any concessions and asserted his determination to exercise his temporal power without any restrictions whatsoever. The upshot of a period of military and diplomatic maneuvers on the part of France and Austria was the unconditional restoration of papal rule, and Pius returned to his capital on April 12, 1850.
The Roman question
It has often been asserted that Pius returned to Rome a changed man, that the former liberal had become a narrow reactionary. That his policy had changed there is no doubt, but his fundamental attitude remained the same. The interests of the church had always been his first concern. He had been prepared to countenance both nationalism and liberalism while they left the church intact, but experience had taught him that both led to revolution, which he had never been prepared to countenance. Furthermore, political concessions on his part had led to attacks on his spiritual power, and he considered that it could be protected only by his continued exercise of a temporal authority. Once these two aspects of his dominion had become indissolubly linked, it is easy to see why Pius considered himself obliged to oppose any alteration of his position as a temporal ruler.
In 1846 Pius had considered that a new departure was necessary to meet the legitimate demands for reform within the Papal States and perhaps also those for a change in the Italian system of states. Most of the administrative reforms carried out immediately after Pius's accession remained, and the papal territories benefited from the general increase in European prosperity after 1850. But constitutional government was never restored; the amnesty granted on the pope's return was riddled with exceptions; and to all expressions of national sentiment the papacy proved hostile. It was not that papal government was tyrannical but that it formed an absolute barrier in the way of Italian unification upon which politically minded Italians were set.
On September 20, 1870, Italian troops occupied Rome, and in October a plebiscite was held in which an overwhelming majority of the votes cast were for the incorporation of Rome in the kingdom of Italy. Pius remained for the rest of his days a prisoner, as he regarded himself, in the Vatican. He refused any intercourse with the Italian government, so that their relations rested upon a law passed by the Italian parliament in November. The sovereignty of the pope was declared to be untouched by the loss of his dominion in compensation for which he was to receive an annual sum of money. He was to be entitled to conduct his own diplomatic relations with other powers and to have exclusive authority within the Vatican itself and a small district around it. In the rest of Italy, church and state were to be separated. So, though the papacy did not formally recognize the fact until the concordat of 1929, the Roman question had been settled.
Important as the events just described were for the papacy, the doctrinal developments of Pius's pontificate, which spring directly out of these political disasters, constitute its most significant contribution. Ultramontanism began with Joseph de Maistre, as a reaction against Gallicanism and against Josephinism, seeking to free the church from the chains of secular control by binding it more closely with the papacy. Félicité Lamennais developed it by suggesting that the church would benefit from a general increase in political freedom. Gregory XVI condemned Lamennais's teaching because he saw that freedom might mean freedom to deny religion altogether. Pius IX decided in 1846 to experiment with liberalism but later became convinced that Gregory XVI had rightly suspected it. Nevertheless, if Italy taught Pius one lesson, developments in France, where the church prospered more under the liberal regime of Louis-Philippe than it had under the clerical Charles X, suggested quite the opposite conclusions to the liberal Catholics there, whose spokesman was Charles de Montalembert. On the other hand, the coming of the Second Empire stimulated the party led by Louis Veuillot, whose Ultramontanism was of the older sort, completely divorced from liberalism and seeking freedom for the church in an authoritarian state that would guard it against revolution.
For a period after 1850, Pius's policy took little heed of either brand of Ultramontanism. Cardinal Giacomo Antonelli, the papal secretary of state, followed the paths of Ercole Consalvi, Pius VII's secretary of state, in seeking to procure more favourable concordats with Catholic rulers. Such agreements might be politically valuable but were no defense against intellectual anticlericalism, and Pius became increasingly convinced that the real danger to the church lay in the modern secular ideas that the liberal Catholics were endeavouring to incorporate into its doctrines. The events of 1860 finally convinced him that the notion of a "free church in a free state" was a snare. The encyclical Jamdudum Cernimus (1861) denounced not only Piedmontese aggression but all modern political doctrines. The Risorgimento not only convinced Pius that liberalism in the church must be destroyed but also placed the liberal Catholics in the difficult position of appearing to support those who had caused him so much distress. The alternative to Montalembert's doctrine was no longer an unconditional attachment to the principles of the ancien régime but a new kind of Ultramontanism, asserting the need for concentrating church authority in the pope's hands. The ground was being prepared for the First Vatican Council and the doctrine of papal infallibility.
But first the strong liberal party in the Catholic church had to be defeated. In 1863 Montalembert was invited to address a large Catholic congress at Malines, and he took the opportunity to defend the concept of a free church in a free state and to condemn intolerance in principle. Pius was content in reply to point out that on these two points he was running counter to authoritative pronouncements of Pius VI and Gregory XVI. This was sufficient to deter Montalembert from accepting a second invitation to Malines in 1864, but his supporter Félix-Antoine-Philibert Dupanloup proved an able substitute. Meanwhile, at a congress at Munich in 1863, Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger had pleaded for the right of a scholar to pursue independent inquiry. It was clear to everyone that the church stood in need of authoritative pronouncements about its relations with the state and with modern society, and discussion began about the possibility of calling an ecumenical council for this purpose. But once again the Roman question intervened decisively in the struggle.
On September 15, 1864, the French and Italian governments came to an agreement whereby the French garrison was to be withdrawn from Rome within two years. The garrison did leave, but it returned following Garibaldi's incursion into what remained of the Papal States (1867) and was not permantly withdrawn until the Franco-Prussian War (1870). The conclusion of the September convention was sufficient to make Pius decide to take immediate action against liberalism. On December 8, 1864, he issued the encyclical Quanta Cura with, attached to it, the famous Syllabus listing 80 of the "principal errors of our times." As the errors listed had already been condemned in allocutions, encyclicals, and other apostolic letters, the Syllabus said nothing new and so could not be contested. Its importance lay in the fact that it published to the world what had previously been preached in the main only to the bishops, and that it made general what had been previously specific denunciations concerned with particular events. Thus perhaps the most famous article, the 80th, stigmatizing as an error the view that "the Roman Pontiff can and should reconcile himself to and agree with progress, liberalism, and modern civilization," sought its authority in the pope's refusal, in Jamdudum Cernimus, to have any dealings with the new Italian kingdom. On both scores, the Syllabus undermined the liberal Catholics' position, for it destroyed their following among intellectuals and placed their program out of court.
Though Dupanloup tried to explain away the Syllabus by insisting upon its context and by stressing its purely negative aspect, the Syllabus nevertheless dealt a mortal blow at liberal Catholicism, which ceased after 1864 to be the main issue taxing Catholic controversialists. While some of Louis Veuillot's followers hoped that at the forthcoming council a positive statement of the orthodox doctrine of the position of the church in society would replace the negative denunciations of the Syllabus, the majority looked upon that battle as won and so turned to the question of defining the pope's infallibility, the keystone of the neo-Ultramontane program of centralizing the authority of the church in Rome so as to escape from the control of the secular state.
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In the doctrine of papal infallibility itself there was nothing new. It had been employed to define, on December 8, 1854, the dogma of the Immaculate Conception, which asserted that the freeing of the Virgin Mary from all taint of original sin had occurred at the moment of her conception. The pope had previously made extensive inquiries among the bishops and other divines and there was little opposition to such an exercise of his undoubted prerogative. When, however, at a gathering of bishops and other dignitaries of the church in Rome in 1862 and again at another in 1867 it had been suggested that the doctrine of infallibility should be authoritatively defined, Dupanloup had led a successful opposition to the project. It was objected that such a definition was inopportune, tending to widen the breach between the church and modern society, and that it would present a one-sided view of the source of authority in the church; for while the pope possessed powers issuing directly from God, so too did the bishops, for instance, whose ordinary jurisdiction arose, not out of their nomination or institution but equally from divine origin; so that the pope's powers ought not to be defined without reference to other aspects of the nature of the church. The criticism that must attach to Pius is that he allowed the council to put aside discussion on the wider issue, which was its original program, in favour of the narrower definition. This was, of course, precisely what the Ultramontane party desired. The Ultramontanes, indeed, undoubtedly possessed the backing of by far the greater part of the church, partly because of the reaction engendered by the political misfortunes of the last decade, partly because of the immense prestige enjoyed by Pius as a result of his long and tragic pontificate, but to a larger extent because of the contemporary movement away from intellectualism and in favour of devotional religion.
The First Vatican Council opened on December 8, 1869. The opposition, consisting of the German, French, and U.S. bishops, was strong enough to prevent a definition of the doctrines and nature of the church on the lines suggested by the Syllabus; but the Ultramontane party brought forward the question of infallibility, upon which their position was much stronger. Pius intervened decisively to alter the procedure of the council on February 20, 1870, and again on April 29. The outcome was to postpone all deliberation except that upon infallibility. The decisive vote came on July 13 when 451 voted for it, 88 against it, and 62 in favour of some amendment. Thereupon the minority left Rome and the final definition was carried on July 18 by 533 votes to 2. Infallibility was confined to those occasions upon which the pope made pronouncements ex cathedra.
Pius reigned for another eight years, during which he became further estranged from the Italian government and witnessed a general outbreak of anticlericalism in western Europe. In Germany this culminated in Bismarck's Kulturkampf, which Pius condemned in the encyclical Quod Nunquam of February 5, 1875, leaving the solution of the problem to his successor. Pius died three years later, having seen in his long pontificate the creation of the modern papacy.
The exact responsibility of Pius for the events of his pontificate is still a matter of controversy, but it may be said that Pius IX took the first steps toward the modern papacy. Church and state were increasingly separated, authority in the church was centralized in Rome, and the church was ranged in opposition to some of the dominant movements of the modern age, including liberal capitalism, communism, extreme nationalism, and the racism that culminated in Nazism. Under the direction of Pius IX the papacy abandoned the political preoccupations and responsibilities imposed by the temporal power it once possessed and concentrated on spiritual and religious issues.
In 2000 Pius IX was beatified by Pope John Paul II.Ivor F. Burton Douglas Woodruff The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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What a way to run a country. Welcome to Amerika. How is the Marxist Muslim, our so-called president, and his "mindless minions" working out for you?
I'm rubbing 80 pretty hard and I don't even remember a bunch so hell-bent on destroying the USA, just as I predicted on these very pages of HDN shortly after B.O.'s inauguration in 2009. I said B.O. was put in to take us (USA) a long way down the road toward socialism. The purpose is to make it easy to meld us into a New World order.
Above, I alluded to B.O.'s "mindless Minions." Have you ever noticed so many bureaucrats with Alzheimer/'s disease?
They can't remember anything when questioned. What a bunch of crooks, and they are all far-leftists. That should tell you something.
Given the above, let me give you a heads up for the 2016 presidential election cycle. I'm not sure there will be one.
I have my serious doubts B.O. will abdicate his throne then. How so, Desbien, can you make such as outrageous assertion, you might ask.
While B.O. was a U.S. senator he publicly called for an army the equal of our military army. Why? What could be the need or use of such a large standing army except for subjugation of U.S. citizens? They darn sure don't aim to use it to secure our borders, given past and present policy.
Couple that with the buying of billions of rounds of ammo, ordering 30,000 drones for the skies over you, a large order for armored personnel carriers, etc. Nefarious aims? Probably.
Look at the bright side, B.O. only has three-plus years to get his ducks lined up. Let us pray to God that I'm not right again as in 2009.
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(Reuters) - Houston Texans coach Gary Kubiak has been released from hospital after suffering a stroke-like attack and collapsing at halftime of Sunday's NFL game, the Texans said on Tuesday.
The 52-year-old coach is expected to make a full recovery but no timetable has been given for his return to the team.
"After multiple tests and diagnostics, it was concluded Kubiak experienced a transient ischemic attack (TIA). He is expected to make a full recovery," the Texans said in a statement.
Kubiak thanked the Houston community for its support.
"I've been through an ordeal and my focus now is to get back to good health," he said in a statement. "Doctors have told me I will make a full recovery but we have not determined when I will be cleared to return to the office."
Defensive coordinator Wade Phillips took over as head coach for the remainder of Sunday's loss to the Indianapolis Colts and is expected to continue in that role indefinitely.
A transient ischemic attack (TIA) is often labeled "mini-stroke", the American Stroke Association said on its website.
"TIA is caused by a (blood) clot; the only difference between a stroke and TIA is that with TIA the blockage is transient (temporary).
"TIA symptoms occur rapidly and last a relatively short time. Most TIAs last less than five minutes; the average is about a minute. When a TIA is over, it usually causes no permanent injury to the brain."
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You may ask what's so special about it. You may be thinking you were duped with that last Hulk title and you're not going to be fooled twice. It's a sound notion, but know this: if you're a fan of superhero games, or if you're just looking for a new action game, Ultimate Destruction is exactly what you're looking for.
Everything was taken back down to square one this time around, and it seems that the developers were trying to flatter by imitation. It looks like they took everything great about last year's Spider-Man 2 -- a vast, open environment, fantastic powers, a deep combo system -- improved upon those elements that didn't quite make the grade, and inserted them into TIH:UD.
This iteration of The Incredible Hulk follows Bruce Banner as he looks for a way to rid himself of the Hulk once and for all. Supporting his efforts is his longtime friend and colleague Doc Samson. They work together to re-create the disaster that gave Bruce his alter ego and find a solution to keep the monster at bay. Opposing their operation is Emil Blonsky, special director of the military organization called "the Division" charged with the task of bringing the Hulk down. Blonsky is also the Abomination, a creature similar to the Hulk, and also created by a gamma experiment gone awry, causing him to hate Banner that much more.
First and foremost, the game's controls are incredibly intuitive and simple to pick up, but also thanks to the expanded amount of attacks, they're very deep, as well. You have your buttons assigned for specific functions including jumping, basic attacks, strong attacks, grabbing, and sprinting. For all buttons (except sprint), when you hold them down you charge up that given function; hold down the jump button, you charge it up and you can leap across the city; charge up your strong attack and you can bring down entire buildings with one blow.
Another plus is the game's side-missions. Unlike those available in the last Spider-Man game, which became repetitive and dull very quickly, and seemed that they were only there to help you gain more points to buy new abilities, the side-missions in Ultimate Destruction also serve as a way to earn points, but the big difference is that they are actually fun! They range from your average "pick up object and take it to specific area" to time trials. The unique and the best mini-games, by far, are the ones that mimic a home-run derby, a three-hole golf game, and a football field goal kick game.
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In a few short years, Jonathan Pekar has created a formidable film department at Memphis-based Ardent Studios.
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The Memphis native has quickly racked up both local and national accolades, including a MidSouth Emmy award for Best Commercial Spot for the Memphis Music Foundation. Pekar returned to Memphis after more than two decades in Los Angeles, where he worked as a comedian, producer, film director and actor, including a stint as the producer of Shark Week at The Discovery Channel.
Pekar says he has built upon Ardent's success with "Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me," a feature-length documentary on the iconic Memphis-based band Big Star. Ardent founder John Fry served as music director and executive producer, along with a team of New York-based filmmakers including, Drew DeNicola, Danielle MacCarthy, Olivia Mari and Gill Holland. Fry also recorded Big Star's records.
"There is no Big Star without John Fry," Pekar said. "I think everyone would safely admit to that."
The band never reached mainstream success in their heyday, but Big Star has been cited as an influence by R.E.M., The Replacements, Belle and Sebastian, Elliot Smith and The Flaming Lips. The documentary will show at local theaters this weekend, including Studio on the Square.
"There are so many Memphis Big Star fans, it's silly not to put it in theaters here," Pekar said. "It's really pretty cool that there are that many Big Star fans."
Pekar has unique ties to both Big Star and Ardent Studios. His father, Ron Pekar, was once Ardent's graphic designer and created the studio's logo as well as the logo for Big Star. His parents were friends with Fry and the members of Big Star.
By Pekar's account, the film was already in the "fourth quarter" by the time he arrived on the scene, but he has continued to build upon the film's success. A music video he made for the Memphis band Lucero's song "Women and Work" currently airs on CMT and he's also working on a TV show called Kids of Memphis" that will debut in December. In two years, he's worked on some 52 projects for both local and national clients.
While the Ardent film department creates everything from commercials and training videos to feature films, Pekar's personal favorites involve what he calls "edutainment" – high-quality production that blends entertainment and education.
Pekar says he chose to produce Shark Week at The Discovery Channel because he thought it would be educational.
"I didn't think I'd be pouring blood in the water and waiting," he said. "I went to USC film school for this? Ruining the ecosystem, screwing with these sharks – they are not supposed to know what cow blood tastes like."
Pekar says the dives could also be a little scary since he isn't a certified scuba diver. He'd shoot the sharks from a cage lowered deep into the water with special breathing gear.
"Doing that stuff, I was more scared of the breathing apparatus than this big thing swimming outside the cage," he said. "It's life changing to swim with an animal bigger than a Volkswagen."
Producing his new show, "Kids of Memphis" is more Pekar's speed these days. The show will feature local kids solving problems around the city.
"It's a feel-good show about Memphis that has a little muscle to it," he said. "It's very positive."
He plans to complete local casting within the next few weeks and will be showing the pilot to PBS, E!, The Discovery Channel, the Oprah Winfrey Network and other networks that have expressed an interest.
Other projects in the works include a short film commissioned by the Memphis Convention and Visitors Bureau. The film will celebrate Memphis' music history from past to present and will be shown at the baggage pickup area at Memphis International Airport.
An aficionado of all things Memphis, Pekar enthused about his favorite local artists and filmmakers – everyone from Star & Micey to Amy LaVere – as he played the jazzy number he composed for the film.
"It was such a tough decision, whose song do you choose?" he said. "It got to the point where I said I'd write the song and find the best Memphis musicians to play it."


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HANG TIME HEADQUARTERS — The NBA trade deadline usually serves as the conspiracy theorist's Christmas and July 4th all rolled into one. Wicked rumors, wild plots and just about anything the mind can imagine is fair game in the months, weeks and days leading up to the deadline.
It's a rare occasion that the juiciest plot is saved for the hours and days after the deadline.
But that's exactly where we are today, with the growing buzz surrounding Miami Heat superstar LeBron James and rumblings that he could return to his North Ohio roots in the free-agent summer of 2014 and conceivably play alongside Cavs All-Star point guard Kyrie Irving, the man who succeeded him as the face of the franchise in Cleveland.
I'm not making this stuff up. Plenty of others beat me to it, as Michael Wallace of ESPN.com points out:
There seems to be growing speculation — both inside and outside of respected NBA media circles — that a James-Irving partnership could become a reality should James opt out of his contract with the Miami Heat in 2014 and return to Cleveland.
For now, James laughs off the notion — as he did after Sunday's 109-105 win over the Cavaliers when he explained his motivation behind that harmless halftime connection with Irving, one of the NBA's rising superstars.
"Oh, from Kyrie," said an apparently fatigued James, who perked up when asked about dunking Irving's miss. "That was an extension from All-Star Weekend."
Exactly a week earlier, James and Irving played together on the East team that lost to the West in Houston during Irving's first All-Star appearance. Whether they'll establish any meaningful chemistry as teammates on the same roster is an issue James bypassed Sunday like a helpless defender.
"I can't worry about, you know, speculation or rumors," James said after the Heat extended their longest winning streak of the season to 11 games. "My only focus right now is to win another championship [in Miami]. What we're doing on the floor right now is what it's all about. We're playing good ball right now, trying to win a championship. So, you know, I can't worry about what people say."
It's a great attitude to have, because people have quite a bit to say about it. Greg Cote of the Miami Herald sounds the alarm in South Florida, where the subject (even in its conspiracy theory infancy) has obviously touched a nerve:
How would Miami feel if James opted out and left in '14? How should we? Would it matter if the Heat collected another title or two this season or next, or would the feelings either way be the same?
I would imagine many fans and likely most would thank James for the thrill ride and the parade(s), understand his desire to return to Cleveland, and wish him well.
I would also imagine many others would be angry and see him as turning his back on the city that embraced him when everyone else hated him. The city where he enjoyed his greatest success.
There would be plenty in either camp whether James left with one championship ring, two or even three, and it's tough to say where sentiment would mainly fall.
What I mostly think is that I hope we never find out. James is such an extraordinary talent I have no trouble blurring the line between journalist and fan in this case and hoping Miami finds a way to re-sign him. Selfishly, I would love for James to end his career here. I only wish I believed he would.
Sunday will be interesting because both his teams will be on the court when the Cavs visit the Heat: The one renting his services, and the one that still owns his heart.
It feels like it has already begun.
The Long Goodbye.
Heat fans will at least have seen this one coming, if it ever does. Cavaliers fans never imagined James would depart the way he did. And it's taken the ones who have gotten over it lots of time (and plenty of Kyrie) to steer clear of the primal instincts that accompany a breakup as brutal as the one they had with James.
It doesn't help matters when folks like Denver Nuggets coach George Karl weigh in with comments like these, to Chris Tomasson of Fox Sports Florida:
"I think LeBron is at that stage where he's challenging himself to motivate him to do something that's maybe more difficult. I could see him maybe (returning to the Cavaliers). I see (Cleveland point guard Kyrie) Irving maybe being a reason for that."
James had that classy, if not typical, response mentioned above.
"That's the first time I've heard it," he said. "My only focus now is to win another championship. I can't worry about speculation or rumors. What we're doing on the floor right now is what it's all about. We're playing good ball right now. We're trying to win a championship. I can't worry about what people say."
And ultimately, he's right. He can't worry about what people say.
That doesn't mean it'll slow the tide of conspiracy theorists who watched him react to Irving's 3-point shooting fireworks in Houston during All-Star weekend or to any other gesture that can be manipulated to support their theories.
The only thing that will silence all of this chatter is the summer of 2014 coming and going without LeBron returning to his roots!


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A fund has been set up for Madison Wallace, the Vermillion teenager who lost her life saving her little brother in the Big Sioux River in Falls Park Thursday.
Divers found the Wallace's body Friday afternoon. She was just 16. Wallace had jumped into the icy water to try to save her 6-year old brother Garrett who had fallen in. Garrett survived. Madison didn't.
Family members set up a memorial page and a fund in her memory. There, they have posted the following:
We have all been so blessed by having Madison in our lives. Everyone who knew her was touched by her sweet spirit. She was sixteen years old when she ran into a frozen river to save her younger brother from drowning, he made it out but she did not. Those who truly know Madison are not surprised by the sacrifice she made, but are deeply saddened by it just the same. Madison Wallace is a great example of one who puts others first. She lived her life on behalf of others, and she died doing the same. Madison loved to write and share her stories. She loved reading, crafting, art, playing the french horn, She has always dreamed about going on a mission to serve her church and bring others to the gospel of Jesus Christ. We are positive she will serving a mission in heaven.
On Thursday March 14, 2013 Madison went to Falls Park in Sioux Falls South Dakota to have a picnic with her family. She was playing near the river with her 6 year old brother Garrett. Garrett went close to the river, probably because he was attracted to the huge amount of foam in that area. He ended up in the river and foam. Madison rushed in to save her brother not thinking for her own safety. A passerby named Lyle Eagletail saw there was a commotion in the area and saw Madison in the river struggling to save her brother. He jumped in as well to help. They were able to save Garrett, however both of them were lost.
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Four names 'Legal Elite,' two selected as 'Best Lawyers'
White & Allen, P.A. attorneys Ramsay �Tyler� Archie, John C. Bircher, C. Gray Johnsey and Matthew S. Sullivan have been selected to �Business North Carolina� magazine�s Legal Elite.
These lawyers are chosen by their peers � more than 20,000 ballots are sent to lawyers all across the state. About 3 percent are chosen as the best practitioners, according to magazine officials.
Archie received this recognition in the area of Young Guns. His practice is concentrated in the area of bankruptcy and business litigation. While in law school, he represented and counseled several non-profit organizations as a member of UNC�s Community Development Law Clinic. His experience with non-profit legal issues includes matters related to retaining tax-exempt status, legal restrictions on non-profits and their leadership, and matters before the Internal Revenue Service.
Bircher received the recognition in the area of bankruptcy. His practice is concentrated in the area of bankruptcy and business litigation. He is a member of the Panel of Chapter 7 Trustees for the Eastern District of North Carolina, the National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees, the bankruptcy sections of the North Carolina and Tennessee Bar Associations, the Eastern North Carolina Inn of Court and the Eastern Bankruptcy Institute. He is a board certified specialist in business and consumer bankruptcy.
Johnsey earned the recognition in the area of tax and estate planning. He has handled tax, probate and estate and business planning matters in Eastern North Carolina for more than 30 years. He is a board certified specialist in estate planning and probate law and a fellow in the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel. He is a member of the Southeastern Trust School faculty at Campbell University.
Sullivan received this recognition in the area of litigation. His practice is concentrated in the areas of catastrophic personal injury, industrial accidents, wrongful death, workers� compensation, and commercial and general civil litigation. He is a member of the North Carolina and American Bar Associations, the Eighth Judicial District Bar Association, the Lenoir County Bar Association, the North Carolina Advocates for Justice and the Eastern North Carolina Inn of Court.
Johnsey and Sullivan also have been selected for inclusion in the latest edition of The Best Lawyers in America.
Johnsey was selected in the trusts and estates specialty and Sullivan was selected in the product Liability litigation�plaintiffs specialty.
Selection to Best Lawyers is based on a peer-review survey comprising more than 2,000,000 confidential evaluations made by top attorneys from all over the United States. Because no fee or purchase is associated with Best Lawyers or its selections, inclusion is considered to be a unique honor.
Johnsey received his undergraduate degree from UNC, his Masters in Business Administration from ECU, his law degree from the Cumberland School of Law, Samford University, and his Master of Laws in Taxation from the University of Florida.
Sullivan received his undergraduate degree in administration of justice and public affairs from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Va. He attended Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law at Campbell University, from which he received his Juris Doctor in 1995.
White & Allen is a full-service law firm that has offered a wide range of legal services to Eastern North Carolina since 1927. The firm has offices in Kinston, New Bern and Snow Hill.


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