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Royal Players, Daryl Berg, Dale Cope (behind the mask) and Jill
Graham enact a scene from "Christ in the Concrete City", one of the
dramas to be presented during their California tour.
me XLI—No. 21 Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. Wednesday, April 6, 1966
College Choir Views Eastern Coast;
Presents Musical Variety In Concert
New Senate officers were an-nounced
on Friday, April 1, at the
Koflee Kup game.
The new executive officers are:
Jim Kiem, President; J. David Liv-ingston,
Vice President; Teri
Mounce, Treasurer; Jim Hammar,
Campus Co-ordinator.
The new Senate member-at-large
representatives a r e David
"Stretch" Snyder, Linda Olson,
Bob Olson, Dick Schultz, and Ron
Stone. On May 1 these newly elect-ed
representatives will assume of-fice.
These announcements took place
at the half-time of the rip-rousing
Senate-Faculty basketball game. In
a very competitive game, the facul-ty
won by 2 points.
Half-time entertainment was pre-
Placement File
Lists Openings
Students: Interested in job op-portunities
for the summer? Sen-iors:
Interested in opportunities
for permanent jobs after gradua-tion?
Mrs. Hardle reports that so far
the placement office has more
openings than there are interested
students. Many graduating teach-ers
have found jobs through the
employment office.
There are also a number of
other excellent opportunities still
available in such areas as sales
and management training.
Some of the companies looking
for qualified students are: IBM,
General Mills, General Motors, Fri-den
Business Machines, Kinney
Shoes, F. W. Woolworth, North-western
Bell Telephone, State
Farm Insurance, Hartford Insur-ance,
a n d Northwestern Mutual
Life Insurance.
There are also openings in Chris-tian
establishments. Youth for
Christ, Harvest Publications, and
Scripture Press need editorial as-sistants.
Many churches are look-ing
for Christian education and
youth workers.
Requirements for this type of
work are college graduation with
some Bible training, but not nec-essarily
seminary training.
If you are at all interested in
these or any other possible job
opportunities stop and see Mrs.
Hardle in the employment office
soon. Remeber — a few minutes
spent may become very worth-while.
sented by a faculty and student
German band. The Cumberland
Singers, and Eric Borgeson also
sang several numbers.
Contest Judges
Are Announced
Mr. Phillip Van de Voorde, assis-tant
librarian, Miss Jeanine Bohl-meyer
of the English department,
and Mr. Cal Mortenson of the
Speech department were announc-ed
as judges by Bookstore Mana-ger
Bob Bergerud for the upcom-ing
library contest.
Due to the lack of time, Bethel
will not enter the national Amy
Loveman contest. Bethel's win-ner
will, however, compete locally.
Because of this change, the dead-line
has been extended to April 29.
Students may bring books from
home and married students may
also include the wife's books in
the husband's collection.
Heading for Southern California
during Spring vacation will be six
Bethel dramatists and their direc-tor,
Professor Dale Rott. The troupe
consists o f Jill Graham, David
Stagg, Roger Inoyue, Daryl Berg,
Dale Cope, and Mary Ruetten.
Jill, a sophomore, is a Drama
Emphasis major. She has acted in
campus productions of Family Por-trait,
Dr. Faustus, and The Church
Militant. She is also a member of
the Parable and Dialogue Sermon
troupes and has received a perfect
"One" record in the Oral Inter-pretation
Division of the Forensics
Stagg, also a sophomore Drama
major, has acted in FAMILY
PORTRAIT and DR. FAUSTUS
and is also Vice President of the
Royal Players. He is an active
participant in Oral Interpreta-tion
contests and acts as Tour
Roger Inoyue is a Speech major
anticipating a teaching career. A
junior, he is very active in the
Royal Players.
For another junior, Daryl Berg,
this is a second tour. He has won
oral interpretation contests, par-ticipated
in many campus produc-tions,
and is treasurer of the Royal
Dale Cope as a freshman has
inkrolved himself in music and is
also very active in the area of
drama. Mary Ruetten, sophomore,
The College Choir is once again
preparing to embark on its annual
spring tour. Preparations have in-tensified
in recent weeks with the
choir giving several local concerts
in Conference churches in the Twin
Cities area.
Beginning an Eastern tour, the
choir will present its first concert
tomorrow in Grantsburg, Wiscon-sin,
and move progressively east-ward
while giving concerts in
churches along the way.
Although concerts will be pre-sented
in Wisconsin and Michi-gan
while traveling to the coast,
the bulk of the concerts will be
in New York, Connecticut, Mas-sachusetts
a n d Pennsylvania.
Concerts on the return trip will
also be given in Ohio and Illi-nois.
A program of music from various
traditions appears in this year's
repertoire. After the choral invo-cation,
"Spirit of God Descend
Upon My Heart," the initial sec-tion
will present two numbers
written in the Renaissance period.
The principal work of the choir,
"Christ Lay in the Bonds of
Death." a cantata by J.S. Bach,
will comprise the second section
of the concert.
This seven-part cantata seeks
to portray musically the charac-ter
of Death, the ccntention be-tween
Life and Death, and then
the rejoicing possible because of
Life's victory over Death, accom-plished
through Christ's atoning
Dr. Berglund has selected three
passion hymns from The Cruci-fixion
by Stainer to form the third
section. The "Twentieth Century"
section will present three contem-has
been in three campus pro-ductions,
and is secretary of the
Royal Players.
Twenty-three performances are
scheduled, ten of which will be
in California. The tour repetoire
includes Conquest in Burma and
Christ in the Concrete City.
In Conquest in Burma, the chal-lenging
acts of Burmese mission-ary
Adoniram Judson are brought
to life. The love and sacrifice of
Ann for her husband is written
beautifully. The humor in court-ship,
the intrigue of politics, the
porary compositions, including one
by Director Berglund, "I Will
Praise Thee, Oh Lord".
Several Negro spirituals are list-ed
next as optional numbers on
the concert program. These in-clude
"Ain' Got Time to Die,"
"Sometimes I Feel Like a Mother-less
Child" and "Didn't My Lord
Deliver Daniel." This section will
feature the Bethel Chamber Chor-ale,
a group from the choir, as well
as different smaller ensembles
composed of choir members.
"Sun of My Soul" and "Softly
Now the Light of Day," two ar-rangements
by Dr. Berglund,
will form the last section of the
concert with the choir giving a
The College Choir has been
able to acquire a new concert
shell and a new set of risers as a
result of donations made by friends
and members.
Early last semester the choir
considered the need of a new
concert shell that would be less
unwieldly and less time consum-ing
in setting up, and dismantling.
However, funds were not available
at that time.
Soon after Christmas vacation,
Dr. Berglund, director of the choir,
suggested to the members that
they make this need a matter of
prayer and that they tell people
who might be interested in mak-ing
At the conclusion of the M.E.N.C.
Convention five weeks ago, a new
confronting of death and victory of
the Gospel is vividly presented in
inspiring words and action.
CITY is an historical and con-temporary
drama of the cruci-fixion
of Jesus Christ. Biblical
and modern characters diffuse
into one personality as the New
Testament words parallel today's
The troupe emphasizes the fact
that they do not merely wish to
provide entertainment but rather
to present a spiritual challenge.
choral benediction, "E'en So
Lord Jesus, Quickly Come."
A new feature in this year's
concert program is the use of a
string ensemble. Forming an in-tegral
part of the presentation of
the Bach cantata, the ensemble is
also used to accompany the choir
in the passion hymns and hymn
For those interested in hearing
the choir in concert who can't hear
them on tour, their Homecoming
Concert will be presented in the
Fieldhouse at 3:00 p.m., May 1.
The choir will present its final
concert in the evening service at
Brooklyn Center Baptist Church
on May 8.
light weight concert shell, used as
a demonstration model, was avail-able
at a reduced price.
By that time enough people had
contributed to the fund to make
the purchase possible and to start
a riser fund. Last week all costs
were met and the new, wider risers
Girls Triumph
In Hours Fight
The Bethel female population
will be encouraged to know that
quite drastic alterations have been
made in the regulation of their
dormitory hours.
Dormitory hours have been ex-tended
to the following: Fresh-men,
(first semester) one 12 o'clock
per week; freshmen (second sem-ester)
two 12 o'clocks per week;
sophomores, three 12 o'clocks plus
one one o'clock per month on Fri-day
Juniors will have three 12 o'-
clocks plus two one o'clocks a
month on Friday night. Seniors
will have unlimited 12 o'clocks
plus three one o'clocks a month
on Friday night.
The above recommendations were
passed by the Bodien Dormitory
Council March 22, 1966; by the
Hagstrom Dormitory Council March
24, 1966; and by the Idaho Manor
Council March 24, 1966.
The Personnel Professional Staff
of the Administration passed the
recommendations subject to review
after the first semester of the next
school year, 1966-1967, when these
regulations go into effect.
They also expressed the stipula-tion
that those who have two D's
or an F by the mid-semester period
forfeit their privileges.
There is yet time to take the
Peace Corps Placement Test. The
test will be administered this
spring on the following dates:
April 9, May 14, June 11. All
testing begins at 9:00 a.m.
The test center for Minneapo-lis
is the Main Post Office. In
St. Paul the test will be given in
Room 906 of the Main Post
College Choir sings in concert preparatory to their extended concert
tour of the Eastern and Middle Eastern states during the spring
vacation period.
Newly-Elected Senate Members
Take Bows At Koffee Kup Fete
Actors Slate Contemporary Dramas
For West Coast Spring Break Tour
Choir Gains Shell, Risers
With Benefactors' Giving
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the CLARION Wednesday, April 6, 1966 Senator Dirkson Enters Prayer Bill;
Bethel Peace Corps Total Issue May Seize Major Proportions
Arouses Anxious Worry
In glancing through the most recent version of the Peace
Corps Almanac Appendix, I came across some interesting
figures. I looked under the section, Where Volunteers Come
From—Minnesota—Bethel College. It read, current volunteers
2, returned volunteers 5, total volunteers 7. This is over the
five year span since the birth of the Peace Corps.
I read on: Carleton College, current 40, returned 28,
total 68; St. Catherine's, current 18, returned 14, total 32; St.
John's, current 17, returned 20, total 37; St. Olaf College,
current 28, returned 28, total 56.
Now those figures were food for thought. Here we are,
Christians at a "good" neo-evangelical school. We hip, hip,
hurrah with great talk about righting social wronngs, helping
the underprivileged better their stance, serving mankind
with Christian love. Great! Yet, I remind you, there were but
four young people from Bethel that responded for the chance
to take the Peace Corps Placement Test given on campus
two weeks ago.
It seems our "liberal brethren" have embarrassed us by
"putting their action where their mouth is" while we sit back
and are content merely to chew the words. "But," you say,
"we have our summer missionary project." That can hardly
be compared to devoting two full years of intense teaching,
social adaptation, and self-giving that is demanded of a Corps
The Peace Corps is a guaranteed challenge. No one says
it better than the Volunteers: "We can never again become the
people we were before we came to Africa. But, then, we would
not want to." ". . . the intransigence of our preconceptions of
ourselves and others gradually dissolved into a kind of affec-tionate
confusion." "Experience, adaptation, and realization
hammer away high flown ideals and occasionally shatter them
. . If I'm still here next year, it will because there is a chal-lenge,
a reason." ". . . there comes a day when all suddenly
becomes furiously frustrating and you want like crazy just to
get out and go home."
"This is the hardest thing I've ever done . . . You cannot
imagine the gulf between East and West, and it makes me
laugh now to think that I expected to bridge it with a smile
and a handshake." "I found a very basic joy with life that I
wish I could take back and inject into America."
The challenge is there. Can it not be effectively met by
young people with Christian ideals?
Winners Deserve Plaudits
Congratulations to Senate President-elect Jim Keim, Vice
President J. David Livingston, Treasurer Teri Mounce, Campus
C6ordinator Jim Hammar, and Senators-at-large Bob Olson,
Ron Stone, Linda Carol Olson, Dick Schultz, and C. David
The student body has chosen wisely. In view of the cur-rent
interest in senate among members of the student body,
however, we remind these elected, as they are now in positions
to formulate policy and fulfill promises, that Big Brother (in
this case the student body) is watching you!
(ACP)—The most important stu-dent
cause of all is lost in the din
of raucous rebellion, graduate stu-dent
Jay Farrington writes in the
Daily Texan, University of Texas.
This cause is paradoxical. It is
propagated by a vast majority of
students, but no marches or signs
are seen. This cause has no name,
but its voice is heard. It doesn't
shout, but its whispers decide the
fate of a nation. In short, we are
the moderate army.
We are not the new left or the
reactionary right, but we are
blasted by both. We are in the
precarious position of having
weakened our traditional ties,
but without having severed them
We question war and legistation
and religion, but rather than see-ing
them as absolute evils, we
propose an evaluation of each as
a functional organism with defects.
We abhor some dictatorial prac-tices
of University administration,
but do not propose to overthrow
it and take charge ourselves.
We see the University as neither
hallowed halls of ivy nor as a free
WASHINGTON (BPA) — Sen. Everett McKinley
Dirksen (R., Ill.) has introduced in the United States
Senate a proposed constitutional amendment which
he says is designed to provide or permit voluntary
prayers in public schools and other public buildings.
It was co-sponsored by 16 other Senators.
The Senator claims that polls show that 81 per
cent of the people disagree with earlier Supreme
Court rulings on prayer and Bible readings in the
public schools. Since this is an election year this
could become a campaign issue.
In 1964 seven weeks of hearings were conducted
by the House Judiciary Committee on the so-called
"prayer" amendments to the Constitution. Chief
among these was the "Becker Amendment." The
Dirksen proposal is essentially the same, except
that it is not as comprehensive.
Prior to the 1964 hearings mail to Congress was
overwhelmingly in favor of some type of prayer
amendment to the Constitution. During the hearings,
when the issues were debated, popular sentiment
shifted 10-1 against the proposals. The Judiciary Corn-mittee
took no further action then or since.
In the 88th Congress there were 115 Congressmen
who introduced 152 proposed "prayer" amendments.
There were 28 Senators who introduced resolutions.
Interest during the current 89th Congress, how-ever,
has been comparatively dormant with only 35
Congressmen introducing prayer amendments and
only one Senator up until the time of the Dirksen
Dirksen is reported to be determined to press the
by Bruce Lawson
Washington, D. C.
The United States court of ap-peals
agreed to review the $25,000-
per-day fine levied by U. S. Dis-trict
Judge Alexander Holtzoff
against the striking Railroad Fire-men's
Union Saturday. The strike
closed down eight major railroads
in 38 states.
Vietnamese riot police were
forced to use clubs and tear gas
to break up about 200 youths in
an anti-government, anti-American
demonstration Sunday.
During similar demonstrations
last week, two U. S. brigades
challenged a large North Viet-nam
force over the Cambodian
border. A major fight may be in
the making.
The French government is
threatening to remove its military
garrisons from West Berlin if they
are forced to remove their troops
we can truly handle any diet
without danger.
But our greatest accomplishment
is another paradox. We, who strive
constantly to maintain balance be-tween
the extremes, we who often
disagree with many causes are the
ones who protect the right of
dissent and the right to have
Three Bethel students won hon-ors
in the annual Minnesota Mu-sic
Teachers Association contest
held recently on the U. of M. cam-pus.
This contest is sponsored by
the private teachers of Minnesota.
The areas covered are: piano,
voice, organ, woodwind, and theo-ry.
Prior to the state contest there
was a district elimination contest.
Bethel students who won honors
were: James Magnuson, tenor and
Jonathan L. Larson, baritone, in
issue of a prayer amendment to a vote in the Senate.
He is reported to have said that if the Judiciary
Committee does not report out his bill he will attaach
it as a rider to some other bill.
In his speech on the Senate floor Dirksen said
that his proposed prayer amendment comes from con-fusion
resulting from three court cases. The Regents'
prayer case in New York prohibited official prayers
composed by a public agency. The Schempp case in
Pennsylvania prohibited the required reading of 10
verses of the Bible in schools daily. The Stein V.
Oshinsky case prohibited kindergarten school prayers
under the direction and supervision of teachers, even
though it was asserted that they were voluntary
The Illinois Senator attacked the lack of time
for children to pray in their churches and in their
homes. "Glibly and superficially," he said, "it is
argued that the place for this is in the church
which children attend once or twice a week, or in
the home" where the time is consumed in other
activities. Dirksen claimed that the "alert hours"
for children are those spent in school. "These are
the hours when the habit of prayer can best be
nurtured," he continued.
He concluded, "How strange that we spend hun-dreds
of millions of public funds every year to de-velop
physical fitness and harden the muscles of
American youth but when it comes to hardening the
spiritual muscles through the practice and rehearsal
of prayer, it becomes enshrouded in quaint legalism
and the jargon of church and state."
Here is the text of the Dirksen
proposal: "Nothing contained in
this Constitution shall prohibit
the authority administering any
school, school system, education-al
institution or other public
building supported in whole or
in part through the expenditure
of public funds from providing
for or permitting the voluntary
participation by students or oth-ers
in prayer. Nothing contained
in this Article shall authorize
any such authority to prescribe
the form or content of any
It is too early to predict whe-ther
or not the Dirksen proposal
will become a serious issue before
the nation. At first glance it would
seem that the odds are against it,
but Dirksen is a determined man,
is the Senate minority leader, is a
most astute politician, and has
large resources at his disposal.
Only time will tell what to expect
from this latest attempt at a
prayer amendment.
Happy Easter Group! Just one
sad note—this is the last CLARION
until May 4. Due to tightening of
our budget belt plus choir tour
plus the feeling that our poor
staff deserves a long-awaited vaca-tion,
we deemed this policy neces-sary.
We do anticipate, however, with
a little help money-wise from the
Student Senate to publish the en-tire
month of May.
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.
Editor-in-chief John Halvorsen
News Editor Jeff Loomis
Feature Editor Anita Palm
Layout Editor Judy Maim
Copy Reader Mae Toedter
Typist Nancy Ballantine
Circulation Joyce Lehman
Photography John Hopkins
Advertising Manager Fran Malmsten
Business Manager Gene Peterson
Advisor Wallace Nelson
Opinions expressed in the CLARION do not
necessarily reflect the position of the college
or seminary.
love club for the promotion of
We realize that the Board of
Regents should control, but we
will not allow them to strangle.
Academic freedom means free
thought, but stemming from or-der
rather than chaos. Sexual
freedom is desirable, but sexual
license is destructive.
We deplore capricious protests
since the voice of dissent is sacred.
It should be reserved for the pro-tection
of deserved liberties. We
should take care lest our shouting
over everything at once brings a
response to nothing.
For we are yet infants in free
thought. We still have many more
years of evolution ahead of us be-fore
we can run with our new
ideas. First we should learn to
walk, for now we crawl around
and take each new idea and pop
it into our mouths.
Before swallowing, we should
taste, and before tasting, we
should examine, for some ideas
could injure our young digestive
systems. Then, as we mature,
Student Holds Salient College Cause
Lies With Moderation, Not Rebellion
from West Germany when they
cease to come under NATO com-mand.
Such a move would jeopar-dize
the whole delicate military
and political balance in the Berlin
In a triumphant victory, Prime
Minister Wilson's labor party won
at least 41 Commons seats in last
Thursday's elections.
Washington, D. C.
President Johnson announced
that "prices are moving up much
too fast for comfort" and he
plans to call for new restraints if
necessary. Among other things
he was presumably speaking a-bout
a tax increase.
Prime Minister Hendrik F. Ver-woerd
and his segregationist na-tionalist
party won 126 of the 170
seats in the all-white House of
Assembly Thursday. It was the
greatest election victory in South
Africa's history.
Washington, D. C.
President Johnson requested
Congress to endorse an emergency
shipment of 3.5 million tons of
grain to India to help fight famine
Wednesday. He also encouraged
other nations to help India by
sending food.
Three Chicago physicians strong-ly
suggest that a man marry a wo-man
his equal instead of superior.
According to the doctors, the dan-ger
of developing heart disease
doubles among men whose wives
are from higher social levels or
better educated.
Campus Musicians Gain Honors
During State Music Competition
the vocal division. Susan Lewis
won in the piano division. The
vocal students are pupils of Mr.
Oliver Mogck and the piano stu-dent
is a pupil of Dr. Gordon How-ell.
All three of these students will
appear on the Minnesota Music
Teachers Association state honor
program at their 65th annual con-vention
to be held in Northrup
Auditorium on the University cam-pus
the evening of June 12.
Mountain Farmers ���On the edge of the Hindu Kush, one of
Asia's highest mountain ranges, in northwest Pakistan is a training
center where tomorrow's farmers are taught modern methods of culti-vation.
A mainstay of the school staff has been Peace Corps Volunteer
Willie Douglas, 27, of Tampa, Fla., and a graduate of Florida A & M
University, Tallahassee, shown here with some of his students after
a long day in the fields. PEACE CORPS PHOTO—Pakistan-10-27A
Children's Picnic Presents Need
For Bethel Students' Assistance
aceneta aid Oared
For those drama lovers who find they can never find out who and
what is playing around the Twin City area, here is a brief guide to a
few of the more popular theaters from the Twin Citian, April, 1966.
One of the few area organizations to have its own building, the
Eastside Theatre has been established in a converted mortuary located
at 311 Ramsey Street in Saint Paul. (The theatre is located on the
West side of Saint Paul; it has re-located since its name was invented).
The theatre schedules a wide variety of productions, from classics
to musical comedies to community theatre premieres of important
recent works. Performances are given most week ends. Managing
Director is Craig Scherfenberg; Director is Jack Westin. Tickets at
Dayton's or call the Theatre, 226-0625.
In its fourteenth season, this group performs in its own arena
theatre located at 1308 Stevens Avenue in Minneapolis, across the
street from the Civic Auditorium.
Known for the high quality of its productions, the theatre numbers
among its directors some of the outstanding talents in the Twin Cities.
For ticket information, call FE 6-9123.
In its first full season under the auspices of Hemline University,
the Edyth Bush Theatre remains a community theatre and is being
managed by Charles Vicinus. All plays during the 25th anniversary
year have been landmarks in American theatre history. The theatre is
located in Highland Village, St. Paul, at 690 South Cleveland; for
tickets call the box office, 699.1337. Tickets also available at Dayton's.
Managing Director of the theatre is Marlow Hotchkiss; Artistic
Director Sidney Shubert Walter. This semi-professional company is
devoted to the production of avant-garde plays and produces a number
of new scripts each season, as well as conducting a workshop and
presenting an experimental film series.
The theatre is a converted firehouse located at Minnehaha and
Lake in Minneapolis. Box office phone 721-6541; tickets also available
at Dayton's. Performances are scheduled most week ends.
Wednesday, April 6, 1966
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Page 3 Peace Corps Reports Achievement;
Force Five Years Old and Growing
An established force for world
change that has succeeded even
beyond the dreams of many of its
supporters, the Peace Corps ob-serves
its fifth birthday this spring.
In the years since detractors
ridiculed the effort as "Kennedy's
Kiddie Korps" and the "Second
Children's Crusade," and famed
historian Arnold Toynbee predict-ed,
"I believe that in the Peace
Corps the non-western majority of
mankind is going to meet a sample
of Western man at his best," the
Peace Corps has become the most
widely copied organization of its
kind in the world.
A measure of its effectiveness
is that the Peace Corps, which
simply was described as a source
for "skilled manpower," is now
talking about nation-building.
This concept is seen most readily
in Africa, where in six nations
more than one-half of all high-school
teachers with college de-grees
are Peace Corps Volunteers.
In Nigeria, one out of three stu-dents—
or more than 50,000 a year
—are taught by Volunteers. In Mal-awi
the work of less than 200 Vol-unteer
teachers has enabled the
government to triple secondary
enrollment from 2,500 to 7,600.
The Peace Corps' official birth-day
is March 1, the date in 1961
when President John F. Kennedy
issued the executive order creating
the agency. Congress passed the
Peace Corps Act not quite seven
months later, on September 22,
1961. This bill appropriated $32
million to run the agency in its
first full fiscal year, July 1, 1961,
through June 30, 1962 (the budget
is currently $115 million).
It also established three goals
for the Peace Corps: 1. To help
the people of developing nations
meet their needs for trained man-power.
2. To help promote a better
understanding of other peoples on
the part of the American people.
3. To help promote a better under-standing
of the American people
on the part of the peoples served.
The first group of fifty Volun-teers
arrived in Ghana on August
30, 1961. At the end of 1961 there
were 614 Volunteers in 13 coun-tries;
at the end of 1962, more
than 1,000 Voluteers in 15 coun-tries,
3,000 in training, and agree-ments
on record with a total of
37 countries.
What changed the cry from
"Yankee go home" to "Send us
more Peace Corps Volunteers?"
There are hundreds of small stor-ies
of personal confrontations
which resulted in understanding,
of long hours of exhausting work,
of disappointments and failures.
One fact emerges. Nations long
cynical about the motives of the
great world powers found t h e
Peace Corps approach refreshing.
In 1963 there were new pro-grams,
4,000 Volunteers in 40 coun-tries,
and 2,000 more in training.
A year later more than 6,000 were
overseas and 4,000 were in train-ing.
In three years the Peace Corps
had evolved from a promising idea
to a considerable force for assis-tance
and incentive in 44 develop-in
countries. The campaign pledge
made by President John F. Ken-nedy
to send "the best Americans
we can get to speak for our coun-try
abroad" was realized.
In some nations, the Peace Corps
has been responsible for the very ,
changes that now require it to
expand even further. In others,
natural evolution over a four-year
period has enlarged the Peace
Corps responsibilities. To meet
these responsibilities, the agency
expects to have a total of some
15,000 Volunteers overseas and in
training by mid-1966.
But what of the effect of the
Peace Corps at home? At the five
year mark, it has firmly establish-ed
itself as the largest producer
and consumer of language materi-als
in the nation.
The Peace Corps is putting into
the job market highly trained
young Americans able to impart
knowledge, skills, attitudes and
values that combine to create a-bility
and desire to solve prob-lems.
By 1970, returned Volunteers
will total 50,000.
The door has also been opened
to a unique Exchange Peace Corps.
A group of Indian Volunteers, all
of them English-speaking profes-sional
welfare workers experienced
in Indian community development,
last summer helped train Peace
Corps Volunteers going to India.
When the Peace Corps training
program ended, they began a year
of work in this country's anti-poverty
program. This experimen-tal
Peace Corps in reverse pro-gram
is designed to explore po-tentialities
of mutual assistance
among international programs of
voluntary assistance.
Newly Elected Student Body President
Quiets Over-optimism', Solicits Interest
Ed. Note—Jim Keim is the
newly elected president of the
Bethel Student Association.
by Jim Keim
Next year's Senate has a lot of
youth, even if it's chairman IS
40% shinier. Of the four execu-tives
and five members-at-large
just elected only one (Ron Stone)
is presently on Senate.
Only your President and vice-president
have had Senate experi-ence
before this year. The experi-ence
of the newly elected officers
is in non-Senate activities. This
means two things.
1) It may take some time before
we see the real problems as well
as realistic paths of action. The
result will be inefficiency and a
great noise of spinning wheels.
I want to enlist the help of you,
the student body. Look up your
new representatives and blow off
some steam if you think Senate
can help—even if you think we
2) We're likely to have a touch
of "new toy enthusiasm." This will
help at first, but the tinsel wears
off. Desire to be relevant will
change into concern over points
of order and parliamentary in-quiries.
My concern is not to dispense
with parliamentary form: But it
is my observation that Senators
are concerned with their work
in proportion to the interest
shown by "the masses." Thus in
a certain way YOU must prove
to us that it is, after all, worth-while.
You will be interested in a few
of the other specific ideas floating
around—a weekend of computer-matched
dates, leadership train-ing
sessions for elected officers,
inter-collegiate mixers, and more
emphasis on small social groups.
Many things are under adminis-tration
jurisdiction so Senate can
only recommend. I hope to take
positive action in creating closer
ties to the student representatives
on administration committees and
in making intramurals into living
and social units.
Communication with students
will be helped considerably by
the radio station and distribu-tion
of Senate minutes to non-
Senate leaders.
Personally I hope especially to
represent the student viewpoint
to the administration and clarify
our knowledge of major policy
(e.g., student services like the
Please have no illusions. This
will not be the best year for stu-dent
government at Bethel. Both
the Senate and student body have
been pronounced as deceased at
one time or another. This brand
new Senate will issue still-born
Jim Keim
from the ballot boxes if it senses
no interest in its work.
I call on all uninterested students
to forsake your solitary individua-lism
and join to make Bethel the
"house of God" in both its student
life and its prayer time.
by Mary Kay Huntley
There are children in the Twin
Cities who need to identify them-selves
with someone older, some-one
they can look up to. You can
be this someone for just one day,
April 30, a Saturday, from 1:00
p.m. - 6:00 p.m., approximately
fifty to one hundred children from
the slums and project areas of
Minneapolis are coming to a picnic
sponsored by the Social Action
Committee of the Student Senate.
These children attend Sunday
School where several Bethel stu-dents
are teachers.
The afternoon is to include a
trip through Como Zoo, several
of the rides, organized games, a
program and food. It is schedul-ed
for Como Park. In the event
of rain it then will be held in
the fieldhouse.
We need your help. Tomorrow
forms will be placed in your P.O.'s
which can be filled out according
to the manner in which you would
like to participate.
Darlene Palermo is in charge
of the food. She will be working
on the lunches, making sandwiches,
and then setting it up on Satur-day.
Ron Bergman, Stan Swanson,
and Dave Heuple are working out
the organized games and the pro-gram.
Here people are needed to or-ganize
the games, and on Saturday
lead them. For the programs, skits,
stories, music, etc. that would .be
on a child's level are suggested.
We would like to have a stu-dent
from Bethel for each child.
The student would be in charge
of the child for the day. Trula
Rogers is in charge of arrange..
ments. One of the forms that
will be available tomorrow is
for those who would like to take
a child. It requests your prefer-ence
as to age and child. The
children range in age from four
through junior high.
If you have any questions or
want further information any of
the above mentioned people will
be glad to talk to you about it.
Also, any faculty members who
would like to come are welcome.
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April 23
April 30
May 7
May 10
May 14
May 16
May 21
Buena Vista
Peru State
Kansas Wesleyan
Bethel College
Midland College
Northwestern College
Carleton Relays
Bethel Relays
Dual St. Thomas Meet
Dual Hamline Meet
Bethel Invitational
NAIA District 13
Northland Invitational
Storm Lake, Iowa
Peru, Neb.
University Salina, Kansas
North Newton, Kansas
Freemont, Neb.
Orange City, Iowa
Carleton College
Ramsey High School
Ramsey High School
St. Cloud
Ashland, Wis.
April 5
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April 23
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River Falls
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La Crosse
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Lion of the night. Currently
Godfrey's Donkeys have five
sets of teams touring the coun-try.
However, according to promotion
director Doug Kelly of the baseball
team, the show has not been put
on in this area previously.
The program opens with a Don-key
Derby followed by a Trick
Mule Act. Next a handful of lucky
Bethel girls will display their skills
in two eight minute halves of
Donkey Basketball.
Following an intermission per-iod,
a Bucking Donkey Contest
is slated. Next is the featured
game of the evening between
the ministers and baseball play-ers.
The men will ride the specially
trained donkeys, which wear spe-cial
pads over their hoofs. One
of the games many problems will
undoubtedly involve getting the
donkeys to move.
Upon conclusion of the game a
"Donkey" princess will present a
trophy to the best minister player.
Tickets will be on sale April
18-22 in the coffee shop and cafe-teria.
The cost is 75 cents for
children and a dollar for adults.
1966 Eaaegate Sdeduee
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Clarksville, Tenn.
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Lexington, Ky.
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other appropriate articles.
DON'T FORGET your young brother and
sister are proud you are at Bethel. Bring
them a sweatshirt.
Beillei Bodatate
by Isaac Pingleton
My dear old uncle visited Bethel this week — McGeorge Pingleton,
mayor of that honorable little borough, North Kensington, just below
the Scottish border in jolly old England. He's a rather sportsmindedr
old chap, and wanted to take a look at what Bethel had to offer foil
the spring season.
I took him out to Hamline field. The baseball game was in full
swing. "Right good game — baseball. A bit more exciting that our ver-sion.
Much faster. Seems to require more special skills. My but that
fellow sets that ball loose. Moulton's the name? Good boy. That little
fellow at shortstop sure gets around. Swings a jolly good bat too. Seem
to be a ruddy bunch of boys out there. Ought to have a good season.
Anyway, I wish them the best."
And so it went. We took a little gander during the week over
to where the track men were involved in rather fierce competition.
"Track — now there's a sport. Takes every ounce of strength and en-durance
for as long as you can muster it. Say, that boy Hammar
seems to be quite a fellow. Amazing spring off the board. Jumps a
right good distance. Seems to have a great stride running the dash too.
These boys Malyon and Lehman do a respectable job on the hurdles.
Now that boy Norman, paces himself well. Good endurance too. Two
miles can really take it out of you. Have to be in great shape. Seem
to be a few gaps in the team though, but they should fill out before
the end of the season."
Then it was off to a tennis practice. "Tennis, that's my game. Did
right well for dear old Cambridge. What a team we had that year. Why
our number one man turned pro and stands a good chance at the Davis
Cup." It was obvious that uncle knew his tennis, and was quite proud
of the fact.
"My but that young chap deals a wicked serve. Good backhand
too. What's his name? Bill Petersen? Good boy, ought to go far in this
tennis business. Say, those other boys seem to know how to handle
a racket too. They look like a rather invincible outfit. Superficial
judgment says they ought to have a great year."
"Bethel offers quite a variety on the spring sports menu." I agreed.
"Only one thing bothers me dear Isaac." I asked what it was dear uncle
had in mind. "The teams are excellent, the competition looks rugged,
but alas the sports seem seem only to exist for the participants. Where
are the spectators dear Isaac?" I said I didn't know. His parting words:
"Ah sweet mystery of life. Such grand teams. Such great action. But
no one to enjoy it but the players." I agreed with him.
1966 7,zad Sdeduee
Donkey Game Pits Clerics, `Bat-men'
In Post-Vacation Basketball Funfest
A donkey basketball game, fea-turing
the Twin City ministers
versus the baseball team, will high-light
a fun-filled evening begin-ning
at 8:00 P.M. April 23.
The event is sponsored by the
baseball team and will help finance
their spring trip. A share of the
proceeds will also go to the stu-dent
missionary project.
Ten stubborn, long-eared don-keys,
supplied by Godfrey's
Donkeys of Crescent, Oklahoma,
will provide the central attrac-
Donkey Basketball, seen here
Bethel's campus April 23 to provide
in rather live
an evening of
action, comes to
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A presidential ticket now in hand, exuberant Democrats flooded downtown Denver today for the official start of their 2008 nominating convention, hoping to heal rifts from a bruising primary season and begin their fight to the November election with renewed focus.
Security is tight, media lines into the Pepsi Center wax and wane, and a few protesters have already been arrested, all for a convention that is predicted to have a cast of characters that number close to 100,000.
Stores lining the streets near the convention greet attendees with signs offering "liberal discounts" and mannequins welcoming patrons in Obama '08 T-shirts.
Usually these highly choreographed political extravaganza leave little room for secrets.
But this year, details surrounding at least two last-minute surprises remain blurry and have delegates buzzing.
First, came word this morning that Sen. Ted Kennedy arrived in Denver to attend the convention. Kennedy was diagnosed with a brain tumor earlier this summer and taped a video message to be played at the convention, as he had planned to stay home.
"Senator Kennedy is in Denver and plans to attend tonight's tribute to him." Kennedy spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter told ABC News' Rick Klein on Monday. "He's truly humbled by the outpouring of support, and wouldn't miss it for anything in the world."
Cutter said for the moment, Senator Kennedy plans to attend, but not speak.
Democratic Convention Preparation
Then there is the question of Sen. Hillary Clinton's roll call vote. In an effort to soothe Clinton supporters, Clinton and Obama camps brokered a deal earlier this month to place her name into nomination with Obama's to be followed by a roll call vote. As of Sunday, it was unclear whether that would happen; some Clinton insiders told ABC News that there's fear that a roll call might disrupt the party's attempts at unity.
"The roll call is in flux," ABC News' George Stephanopoulos reported on "Good Morning America" today. On Sunday, House speaker Nancy Pelosi said she understood that the roll call vote would still be conducted.
An estimated 30 percent of Clinton supporters are still not ready to back Obama, polls show. "That's the difference between winning and losing for Barack Obama," Stephanopoulos said.
Speaking to the New York delegation breakfast in Denver this morning, Clinton stressed that Democrats are united, saying that word at least nine times in her remarks, per ABC News' Eloise Harper.
"We are gathered here in Denver for a very clear and simple purpose and that is to come out of this convention energized, excited and ready to elect Barack Obama the next president of the United States," Clinton said to a cheering crowd.
But this evening, Obama's wife, Michelle, will take the spotlight, delivering the first major address of the convention.
Aides say she will try to introduce her husband to the country by telling his life story as well as endearing anecdotes about their family so that everyday Americans can identify with him.
The candidate's wife will also showcase herself as a potential first lady who is one of them: She's a fan of the "Brady Bunch" and "Dick Van Dyke" reruns.
"It will be about the Obama family and the people who inspired them," Valerie Jarrett, a longtime friend of the Obama's and a key adviser, told "Good Morning America" today.
Obama the candidate will be watching his wife from Kansas City and will appear briefly live via satellite after she speaks.
He told reporters he is still working on his own speech for Thursday, and that it will sharply criticize his Republican opponent ,John McCain, something Democratic strategists say John Kerry should have done to President Bush during his acceptance speech four years ago.
"I am still tooling around with my speech a little bit," Obama said. "Hopefully, it'll make clear the choice that the American people are going to face in November."
Green Democrats and Party Bloggers
Those in attendance range from the expected lot of Democratic heavyweights (and reporters who cover them) to the hangers-on only a modern day political convention could producing.
"Obama button!" yelled Kevin Terry, 31, of Columbus, Ohio, to Democratic delegates as they walked by the Colorado Convention Center.
Also peddling Obama pins was John Cabrera, 50 of Columbus, Ohio, wearing a USA flag cowboy hat.
"I've been in town a couple days, and you can just feel the excitement building, and I'm excited to be here," he said. "I'm basically here trying make money, pay the alimony, have fun."
This year Democrats have credentialed 120 bloggers -- more than four times as many as the 2004 convention in Boston accredited.
Bloggers will have their pick this year of several lounges devoted to helping them get video, blogs and photos on the Web, including one sponsored by Google with free massages and smoothies.
There is also a YouTube uploading station for videos inside the Big Tent where liberals, including Markos Moulitsas, are scheduled to speak.
"Immediately after viewing a performance or presentation, bloggers can put it out immediately to the world on YouTube," said Aaron Nelson of the Alliance for Sustainable Colorado, one of the groups sponsoring the Big Tent program.
There's a push for a "green" focus: Democratic delegates are being encouraged to pedal around town instead of driving.
The Denver 2008 Convention Host Committee, Humana Inc., and Boulder-based Bikes Belong are providing 1,000 bikes for use by residents, visitors and delegates during the Democratic convention.
"We've provided a thousand bikes here in Denver, and we will again in the Twin Cities, that people can take out and ride for free during the convention and return them to any of the seven stations in Denver and in the Twin Cities," said Mitch Lubitz, Humana spokesman. Major carmakers are also lending hybrid and alternative fuel cars for delegates and members of the press.
Security Tight
A large anti-war protest disrupted access to the convention site for about 40 minutes Sunday afternoon with a crowd of about 1,000 protesters gathering in front of the Pepsi Center in Denver.
Anti-war protesters -- carrying signs reading "Send Them Home," "No War on Iran" and "Do-Nothing Democrats" marched in front of the convention site amid police in full riot gear.
"We're here to send a message to the American public and political candidates and party activists that we need to change course in this country. We'd like to see U.S. troops and military contractors all brought home from Iraq and Afghanistan," said Kevin Cross, 46, of Fort Collins, Colo.
Secret Service and local police locked down the security perimeter about noon, shutting down the only access point for media and most staff to get into or out of the site.
That left three PBS senior correspondents trying to get in for a television rehearsal standing outside the gate in the hot sun checking their watches.
"How long have we been standing here?" Margaret Warner asked her colleagues Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff in line. "Only five minutes," Ifill said.
"It feels like 20 minutes," Warner said. "We're late for a rehearsal."
Woodruff said that despite the security challenges, she was happy to be covering this year's convention.
It is a circus, but it's an important circus," said Woodruff, a PBS senior correspondent for "The News Hour With Jim Lehrer."
"To me there's something extraordinary about the American people having this opportunity once every four years to hear from one party for a week and then the other party," she said.
Reviving Faith in Party Politics for Election
Each night of the four-day affair offers a theme -- One Nation, Renewing America's Promise, Securing America's Future and Change You Can Believe In -- each including a range of speakers from Democratic politics past and present, helping to shape the party platform and charge to November.
But what impression will the Democrats leave?
Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, has attended every political convention since 1976 and questions how much the dog-and-pony show matters to the American voter.
However, he said the Democrats' focus on the economy could go a long way in wooing working-class voters, who are key to winning November's battleground states.
"All the other issues and all the other symbols, they just pale in comparison. If people are unhappy enough about the economy they will change even if they are worried about the change," he said.
Last night at an interfaith service to kick off the convention, Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb, executive vice president of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations, spoke about "our scared responsibility to our neighbor" -- the first official event Sunday of the 2008 Democratic National Convention.
"This highlights the importance that all faiths have in a Democratic society, and that religion has a role to play in many different ways," he told ABCNews.com.
(ABC News' Jake Tapper and Rick Klein contributed to this report)


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SANTA BARBARA, Calif.—At the conclusion of finals week, the UC Santa Barbara women's tennis team (4-12, 2-1) pulled off a solid day of action against a nationally ranked No. 53 Kansas State (8-6). With the majority of the singles matches won by Santa Barbara and the Wildcats forfeiting two matches, the Gauchos secured a 4-3 win.
The Gauchos struggled in the opening action of the day as Kansas State claimed the doubles point. The lone doubles victory for UCSB came on court No. 3 by senior Kiersten Meehan and sophomore Luisa Ortiz Candido via forfeit.
The singles matches were highlighted with a shuffle in the lineup as freshman, Kaiulani Boyer took over the top singles spot as junior, April Scatliffe played as No. 2. Boyer faced a tough task as she fell to nationally ranked No. 46 Petra Neidermayerova, 6-1, 6-1. Scatliffe produced an impressive match as the junior started off with a 7-5 win in the first set. Scatliffe played through a tough third set tiebreaker, but ultimately fell in the three set marathon.
Junior, Stacy Yam turned in another productive day of action as she recorded a 6-3, 6-3 win on court No. 3. Extending her win streak to eight matches, freshman, Jaimee Gilbertson continues to shine as she recorded a 6-2, 6-3 win on court No. 4. Along with Yam and Gilbertson was junior, Paola Cos as her consistent play produced another victory by the score of 6-3, 6-2. With the Wildcats forfeiting the sixth singles match, UCSB sealed its victory over nationally ranked Kansas State on its first of three matches within five days.
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1. Petra Niedermayerova/Amina St. Hill (K-State) def. Priscilla Garcia/Kaiulani Boyer (UCSB),
2. Palma Juhasz/Iva Bago (K-State) def. April Scatliffe/Jaime Gilbertson (UCSB), 8-5
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1. (46) Petra Niedermayerova (K-State) def. Kaiulani Boyer (UCSB), 6-1, 6-1
2. Palma Juhasz (K-State) def. April Scatliffe (UCSB), 5-7, 6-4, 1-0 (12-10)
3. Stacy Yam (UCSB) def. Livia Cirnu, 6-2, 6-3
4. Jaime Gilbertson (UCSB) def. Amina St. Hill (K-State), 6-2, 6-3
5. Paola Cos (UCSB) def. Iva Bago, 6-3, 6-2
6. K-State forfeits
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In the Class AAA field hockey tournament for PIAA District 1, Mount St. Joseph Academy both came and went as the number five seed. Ranked in that position for the start of the playoffs in October 22, the Magic won their first two games and then suffered a 3-2 setback against number four Unionville High School.
In its final two district games last week, the Mount (19-4) first secured a spot in the PIAA State Championships with Thursday's 5-3 win over Conestoga High School, then came back a day later to prevail, 2-1, over West Chester's Henderson High, in match to determine the fifth and sixth seeds among the half-dozen District 1 teams bracketed in the state tourney.
Those six slots in the draw make District 1 the best represented division in the state, but the last two teams traditionally face very strong opponents in the opening round. Mount St. Joe's reward for winning on Friday is a first-round meeting this Tuesday with perpetual District 11 champ (24 straight seasons) Emmaus High School, a nationally prominent powerhouse which won its 10th state championship in 2010.
Henderson will encounter District 3 champion Penn Manor High School of Millersville, a franchise which upset what is regarded as the strongest Mount St. Joseph team ever in the 2007 PIAA semifinals, then went on to finish as runner-up that year before taking the state title in 2008. During the 2012 regular season, Emmaus defeated Penn Manor, 3-1.
Seeded fifth going into the district playoffs, the Magic overcame 28th seed Upper Merion and number 12 Garnet Valley in the first two rounds. In an October 26 quarterfinal they let a one-goal lead in the second half slip away against Unionville and thus entered the four-team play-in bracket for States.
Number 17 Conestoga fell in the quarterfinals to ninth-ranked Central Bucks West, but before that they had knocked off two teams seeded above them, including the overall number one team, Spring-Ford.
The traditional nickname for Conestoga sports teams is the Pioneers, but over the past two seasons the school's field hockey squad has become better known as "the team with the boy."
Before moving to the Philadelphia area with his family several years ago, sophomore Oliver Everts grew up – and became an accomplished hockey player – in the Netherlands, where men's field hockey is a serious, thriving concern. Entering Conestoga High, the only opportunity he would have to play his favorite sport would be on an otherwise all-female team, and the PIAA actually has no rules prohibiting this (stemming from a decades-old Pa. Commonwealth Court injunction).
Even with Everts participating, Conestoga has not attained the level of Wilkes Barre's Wyoming Seminary, which won the 2010 Class AA state championship with a German-born boy on the roster. In neighboring Maryland that could not have happened; their interscholastic governing body permits boys to play during the regular season, but not in the playoffs.
Both the Pioneers and the Magic came into Thursday's tilt with records of 17-4 overall. The Mount never trailed, scoring with just 38 seconds elapsed when a drive from high in the left side of the circle by senior Ann Burgoyne was tipped in at the far post by sophomore Katie Fitzpatrick. Waiting in the same position later on, Fitzpatrick was bowled over by one of the [female] Pioneers and bumped her head on the ground. It was learned later that she suffered a minor concussion, and she didn't play the following afternoon.
Conestoga quickly erased the Mount's early lead, as senior Blake Hamblett scored with 27:47 still to play in the opening period. Burgoyne earned another assist at 25:03, when classmate Julia Mustin hit the ball in out of the air after it took a little hop off the turf.
The Magic earned penalty corners with 18 and 13 minutes left to go in the half, but the tally remained 2-1. The most promising shot on these restarts came from junior Millie Stefanowicz, but the ball rose up coming off her stick and a foul was called.
Just after the clock dropped below 10 minutes remaining, the Magic went up 3-1, with senior Emily Ehret whacking one in from near the middle of the circle. With electric power still out (from Hurricane Sandy) on the neutral field at Upper Dublin High School, the scoreboard wasn't functioning and coaches kept checking with the scoring table for updates on the time and the game score.
The half ended at 3-2 thanks to Everts' lone goal of the afternoon. With his back to the cage about 10 feet out, he received a pass from just above the circle, then pivoted and shot in one motion to pull the Pioneers back within one point for the intermission.
"He's definitely very skilled," said MSJ's Mustin. "It was interesting seeing him wearing the skirt and everything, but we tried not to let it get to us and just play normally."
A Norwood Fontbonne Academy graduate along with Burgoyne and freshman starter Eliza Ewing, Mustin is mulling over schools such as St. Joseph's and West Chester University to continue her field hockey career.
She's also been contacted by colleges in regard to her winter sport, ice hockey, and she noted "I don't know which one I'm going to play yet."
Trailing in total penalty corners 2-5 at the half, Conestoga immediately earned a corner when play resumed, but sophomore Katie Maransky cleared the ball out for the Mount, and before long the Magic were ringing the circle for a corner play of their own.
When the insertion came out to the top for Ehret, she dished to her right for Mustin, who drove the ball down across the front of the cage. At the left post, senior Ali Waters kept the ball alive to set up Fitzpatrick's second goal of the day with 3:13 elapsed in the new period. As at the start of the first half, Conestoga quickly responded to the Mount marker, trimming the lead back to one just 24 seconds later when senior Karla Di Pietro converted off an assist from junior Maggie Friel.
With a little over nine minutes gone, the Pioneers' Everts advanced down the left wing with the ball, but found his progress halted by Ewing. He made a number of other quick attacks towards the circle, setting MSJ fans on edge, but the Magic kept track of his whereabouts and were ready with back-up when he got past one or two defenders.
Right after Everts' aforementioned encounter with Ewing, the Mounties quickly reversed the flow and put the 5-3 final score on the board with 20:07 left to play. Mount St. Joe kept attacking and almost added a sixth goal three minutes later, when a deflection by Mustin went a little wide of the cage.
After taking a time-out with 13 minutes left, Conestoga generated more offensive activity, but no goals. Both Ehret and Stefanowicz cleared the ball out of the circle on Pioneer rushes late in the game. In the final minute, Everts came in along the left endline and flicked the ball towards the cage, but MSJ junior goalie Christina Black (nine saves) stopped the shot at the near post.
With action ranging quickly up and down the pitch, the match had given both teams a good workout, and that evening the Mounties found out they would be playing their seeding game the next day.
After the second contest, Mustin remarked, "I was surprised when they told us that we were playing again so soon, but I just rested up really well last night and came out ready to play."
Someone else who apparently got a good night's sleep was Black, who made 16 saves in Friday's bout on the neutral turf of Haverford High School.
The Mounties scored early and then reinforced their lead before halftime, but although Henderson didn't get on the board until the waning moments of the affair, they posed numerous scoring threats throughout the game.
The Warriors' coach, Jen O'Donnell, is a high-level NCAA lacrosse official, and her hockey team was obviously well-drilled and very determined. Both teams were already in the state tourney and destined to meet very tough opponents no matter what the outcome was on Friday, but it was nice to see that neither squad was willing to let up even a little.
Henderson, better known over the years for its lacrosse teams, would be making its first appearance in the PIAA hockey tournament.
Mustin related, "We knew that their best players were number 30 [senior Emily Torrance] and number 5 [junior Katie O'Donnell, the coach's daughter], and we were able to keep them from scoring until that goal right at the end."
At the outset, Torrance teed off twice from close range, but MSJ's Black repulsed both shots, foreshadowing what would be one of her strongest performances this season. The Magic earned a corner about six minutes in, and then kept possession of the ball when the Warriors fouled again. Ehret dribbled a few times in the middle, then drove the ball home to put the Mount on the (functioning) scoreboard. Having gotten used to the conditions at the field on Thursday, MSJ coach Christina Post asked the scoring table for the time at one point in Friday's match, instead of just looking up at the numbers in lights.
Soon after Ehret scored, Henderson goalie Emily Finn (nine saves) used her leg pads to stop a shot by Burgoyne, and a little later the ball actually got stuck in the bottom of one of her pads following a shot by Stefanowicz.
After a time-out with a dozen minutes left, the Warriors came back out and earned back-to-back corners. The first play sort of fizzled out on its own, and on the second the Mount's Maransky flew out to the top of the circle to block the ball right on the receiver's stick.
Mount St. Joe went up 2-0 with 7:13 remaining in the first half. From the midfield, Mustin sent a pass ahead to Burgoyne near the edge of the circle, and Burgoyne dribbled by two defenders to score. Despite more offensive opportunities for both sides, the 2-0 count held up until the intermission.
As the second period unfolded, Henderson's Finn made a tough stop on a ball pounded by Ehret, and later a shot by Burgoyne tracked a little wide of the left post. Over the last 12 minutes or so, the Warriors pressured the Mount defense much of the time. Finally, Henderson's efforts bore fruit as O'Donnell found the back of the cage on a rising shot from the right side of the circle. The marker went in the books with 2:35 remaining in the game, and the Warriors didn't have another goal in them.


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On Monday night, we played a fun little game together as a family. To prepare I had gone and found several pieces of healthy food clipart and printed it off. I also drew a cornucopia onto a piece of brown cardstock and attached it to another piece of white cardstock to make for a larger area too attach our pictures to. I taped the cornucopia up on the wall. Before we began our game, we talked about what the cornucopia symbloizes and why it is a symbol used for our Thanksgiving holiday.
We let the girls fish for the food pictures so we could fill up our cornucopia - each piece of food had a paperclip attached to it and the fishing pole of course had a magnet on the end of the string.
The girls took turns fishing for a piece of the food. When they got one, they had to tell me one thing they were thankful for and I wrote it down on the picture of food (Lou, of course, was able to write down on her own what she was thankful for). Then we put a little glue on the picture and they attached it to the cornucopia.
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In a first since a bomb went off in Thailand and India within days of one another, Thai authorities have joined Israel and pointed to Iran. A top police official said several Iranian nationals planned to assassinate Israeli diplomats in Bangkok as tensions between Israel and Iran grow over Tehran's nuclear program.
As the Thai police announced they were searching for a fifth suspect in the botched terrorism plot in Bangkok, the statement by Thailand's top policeman was the first confirmation by local officials that the Iranians was plotting attacks in Thailand.
Israel has been strongly accusing Iran of being behind the plot in Thailand as well as two other attempts in India and the former Soviet republic of Georgia this week, while Iran has denied any involvement.
The plot in Bangkok was discovered Tuesday only by accident, when explosives stored in a house occupied by several Iranian men blew up by mistake, according to the Associated Press.
Iran, whose leaders had threatened to retaliate for Israel's alleged car-bomb assassination of several of its nuclear scientists, denied involvement in the attacks Monday and Tuesday, including a bomb that failed to explode in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi. Iran blamed them on Israel, according to Reuters.
Some 14 governments have issued travel warnings to their citizens visiting Thailand, Foreign Minister Surapong Tovichakchaikul said.
Thailand and Israel are both stepping up security measures, according to authorities in both countries.
Terror cells are "active" in India, a senior Israeli minister has said, underlining that the recent attack on a diplomat in New Delhi should spur the two nations to step up counter-terrorism cooperation.
"The incident (attack on an Israeli diplomat in Delhi on Monday) makes it clear that there are terrorist cells in India. They have targeted recently us but in the past they have also targeted Indian citizens and others.
What one can see here is a growing joint interest of India and Israel, who are both exposed to terror threats," Israel's Minister for Energy and Water Resources Uzi Landau said ahead of his three day trip to India next week. Landau had earlier served as public security minister.
Landau's comment came as the Israeli Foreign Ministry said it had stepped up security for its diplomats posted overseas.
Based on security camera footage and information from eyewitnesses, Thailand's deputy police chief Pansiri Prapawat said on Thursday, they believe the fifth suspect was also a man of Middle-Eastern appearance. The other suspects have been identified as Iranians, one of them a woman. Two are being held in Thailand, and one has been detained in Malaysia.
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad) secretary-general Supachai Panitchpakdi said the government should impose more stringent immigration controls to prevent bad guys entering Thailand.
He said the three explosions reflected increasing global tensions, but Thailand had to stand firm in saying that this is not a problem stemming from domestic affairs.
Actually, intelligence authorities were already aware of Iranians operating in Bangkok, according to Panitan Wattanayagorn, a political scientist at Bangkok's Chulalongkorn University. The incident, however, has Thailand toying with the idea of stepping up immigration measures, comparable with US measures post-Sept 11.
"Iranians have been surveying US and Israeli targets for some time now," said Mr. Panitan, a former government spokesman. "They may have been here on vacation, but they were looking for loopholes in our security."
Days before the Thailand explosion, on Feb. 13, a motorcyclist rode up alongside the car of Israeli embassy staffer Tal Yehoshua-Koren and attached a magnetic "sticky bomb" to the vehicle in an attempt to assassinate the diplomat, according to the Associated Press. The blast injured but did not kill Ms. Yehoshua-Koren. Indian investigators have so far been unwilling to place any blame on Iran, as they continue to gather clues in New Delhi, in an apparent coordination with Israelis.
"We have no information or evidence of any country, organization, entity and individual being involved," said Syed Akbaruddin, the spokesperson of India's Ministry of External Affairs.
Indian Commerce Minister Anand Sharma said that an Indian delegation would still visit Iran, according to Dawn.com.
Mr. Sharma told the AFP that terrorism and trade were "separate issues," stressing that the perpetrators behind Monday's bomb attack had yet to be established. "I am sure that our investigating agencies will identify and bring to justice the perpetrators," said Sharma.
Israel said Tehran was responsible for the attack, but Sharma insisted the matter had to be dealt with through the legal process.


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About the Author: Robert O. Blake serves as Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs.
As we begin 2011, I've had the chance to look back so we can build on the many accomplishments in the region in 2010. We advanced our strategic partnership with India with a path-breaking presidential visit, supported peace and stability efforts in Afghanistan with our regional partners, and worked with Kazakhstan to host a successful OSCE Summit that underlined important human rights principles. We ended 2010 with the first Central Asian parliamentary democracy in Kyrgyzstan to complement the fact that we now have democratically elected governments in all of South Asia for the first time in history.
President Obama's trip to India in November marked a watershed in which we entered a new phase of our global strategic partnership, as the President affirmed in his support for a permanent seat for India on the UN Security Council. He also announced an overhaul of our export controls regime with respect to India, which will open new high tech trade opportunities to benefit both our countries; new partnerships to jointly develop clean energy technology; a project to make cutting-edge satellite data available for Indian farmers; and nearly $15 billion in commercial deals.
But truly groundbreaking, we embarked on a new era of working with India on global challenges showing India's readiness to help take responsibility for managing the global system. India's Global Center for Nuclear Energy Partnership will enhance global nuclear security efforts, while its eventual membership in the four major nonproliferation regimes will strengthen global nonproliferation efforts. In the coming year we will also pursue joint activities in Afghanistan on women's development, agriculture and capacity building to help further stabilization efforts in that country. We will work with India to extend food security in Africa. And we agreed for the first time to develop a partnership on democracy by sharing expertise and supporting global initiatives in the areas of open governance and election management.
I gave a speech at the Heritage Foundation in December that elaborates on many of these topics, so if there's further interest I encourage you to take a look on the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs' website.
We also made inroads elsewhere in South Asia. The United States and Bangladesh continue to partner together on a wide range of priorities including food security, climate change, global health, counterterrorism, and democracy promotion. We have actively supported the peace process and constitution building in Nepal to prepare it for a smooth transition after the UN Mission in Nepal departs later this month. In Sri Lanka, we remained committed to encouraging a post-conflict reconciliation and accountability process to move the country further towards sustained peace and prosperity.
Maldives still stands as a successful, moderate Islamic democracy despite some political turmoil in 2010, and it continues to punch above its weight on global issues like climate change and human rights. And Bhutan, also a young, thriving democracy, hosted a successful South Asia Association for Regional Cooperation Summit, in which I happily participate as the U.S. observer.
Moving north, our Central Asian partners continued to assist our effort to bring peace and prosperity to Afghanistan. We advanced the Northern Distribution Network, which provides supplies and goods to our troops, by concluding the Kazakhstan Air Transit Agreement, among several other improvements. Kazakhstan also provided scholarships for Afghan students, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan supplied electricity for the people of Afghanistan, and Uzbekistan nearly completed a new rail line to connect Hairaton to Mazar-e-Sharif.
The United States also played an important role in supporting Kyrgyzstan's transition to a parliamentary democracy, which Secretary Clinton characterized as a "bold endeavor" during her trip to Kyrgyzstan in December. Kyrgyzstan held the first elections in Central Asia in which the results were truly not known beforehand. We committed more than $100 million to help Kyrgyzstan and its people recover, reconcile and build sustainable democratic institutions.
Lastly, Secretary Clinton led the U.S. delegation to the OSCE summit hosted in early December by Kazakhstan, the first post-Soviet, Eurasian, Muslim majority country to host an OSCE summit. The summit resulted in an important reaffirmation of the Helsinki Principles, which uphold human rights throughout Eurasia. Before the Summit, the United States and Kazakhstan completed the project to shut down the BN-350 reactor in Aktau and transport 100 tons of weapons-grade fuel to a new secure storage facility in Eastern Kazakhstan. Secretary Clinton's trip and our sustained high level engagement with Central Asia show the continuing United States commitment to our relations with our Central Asian partners. I can assure you that that high level engagement will continue in 2011.
In November of last year, I testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee regarding our efforts in Central Asia, where you can find more regarding our policies in Central Asia.
I look forward to moving our partnerships forward even further in 2011 and keeping you all informed of our diplomacy in South and Central Asia. You can follow our efforts in the South and Central Asia by signing up for email updates, following us on Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, and of course our regular blog entries on DipNote. Thank you for your interest!
Gary Z. in North Carolina writes:
America's strategic partnership with India is not nearly as rosy as Assistant Secretary of State Blake describes. The US and India have, according to very well-informed Indian sources, jointly agreed to bow to Chinese pressure to cancel an ongoing humanitarian operation to recover the remains of the crew of the US Army Air Force B-24 "Hot as Hell". China claims the Indian border region - Arunachal Pradesh - where this plane's crash site is located, and India's United Progressive Alliance government and the Obama Administration have apparently decided that it's more important to placate the Chinese than to live up to their obligations under international humanitarian law to return the remains of these aviators to their families.


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The high gloss of the acrylic sheet complements the rich colors of any image to produce stunning results.
There are two different ways to mount your acrylic print.
Option #1 (Mounting Posts) - Attach your print to your wall with four aluminum mounting posts. The cylindrical cap of each mounting post can be removed, allowing you to thread a small screw along the center axis of the of post and into the wall. When you're finished, simply reattached each cap, and you're done. The mounting posts act as stand-offs and keep your print separated from the wall by 1". All of the required mounting hardware (i.e. posts, screws, and wall anchors) is included with your print. Click here for mounting details.
Option #2 (Hanging Wire) - With this option, your acrylic print is attached to a 1/4" thick black board which has a wooden frame and hanging wire attached to the back. There are no metal mounting posts at the corners. Simply put a nail in your wall, hang your print from the hanging wire, and you're done. Due to the thickness of the black board and mounting frame, your print is separated from the wall by 1.50" Click here for mounting details.
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Juliette Lucarini
April 17th, 2019
Since 1983 i use the computer for digital art.Sometimes I paint with oil or pastel crayons. The most of my digital images based on fractal compositions. But you can also find some digital paintings as well. I like to make some experiments , use different filters and materials. Discover something new by looking at these pictures. Feel the emotions that trigger them to you. Hope you have fun by visiting my gallery. Yours, Steve
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