December 1953

Bridgewater College BC Digital Commons Bridgewater Magazine Journals and Campus Publications 12-1953 Vol. 29, No. 4 | December 1953 Bridgewater College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.bridgewater.edu/bridgewater_magazine BULLETIN OF BRIDGEWATER COLLEGE VOLUME XIX DECEMBER, 1953 NUMBER-3 Church Dedication Bridgewater College Trustees Plans have been set for the dedication of the new sanctuary of the College I Street Church of the Brethren on Sun day, D--ccember 13. M. Guy \Nest '26, pastor of the First Church of the Breth ren, York, Pa., has been engaged to give the dedication address at the after noon service. The new unit is attached to the old church and is located on the north side adjacent to Third Street. Colonial in design, it will seat 600 in th·e auditorium and balcony. It will accommodate the entire children's Sunday School depart ment on the ground floor. It has been built at a cost of $150,000. I. James Eshelman is pastor of the Coll ege Street Church, and C. C. Ikenberry '28 is elder. The Board of '::.'rnstees-·of BTidgewatcr College, meeting in --thci;· regular fall Messiah Scheduled session at Bridgewater, Nov. 2, inaugurated I. C. Senger of Linville chairman to succeed C. W. Wampler of Harrisonburg who resigned because of the heavy pressure of other duties. The College Glee Clubs under the di rection of .Prof. Nelson T. Huffman are Besides installing a new chairman and three new members, the board au practicing hard for the annual presenta thorized President Warren D. Bowman to secure a landscape architect to plan tion of Hancl-el's Messiah in December. the planting of shrubbery on Bridgewater's campus and the locating of future More than one hundred voices will be buildings in the development program. heard in the presentation in Cole Hall The board also received and approved with commendation, reports from Dean John W. Boitnott on enrollment on Friday night, December 11, and in for the session of 1953-54, from Rufus King on the new sanctury of the College Street progress of the develpment program, from Cecil Ikenberry and Harry Driver on Church on Sunday night, December 13, the financial status of Bridgewater, and from President Warren D. Bowman on as a part of the dedication program for the over-all program of the institution. the new church unit. Those in the photo : The Messiah will also be given at the Front row, (I to r) A. D. Miller, Roanoke; the Rev. John T. Glick, Bridge First Baptist Church, Staunton, Dec 6, water; Chairman I. C. Senger, Linville; Aaron M. Horst, Hagerstown; W. E. and at the Harrisonburg Church of the \!Vine, Parker; and J. C. Myers, Broadway. Brethren Dec 9. S·econd row, Mark Bower, Winter Park, Fla.; Amos Holsinger, Burlington, The Glee Clubs gave their annual fall W. Va.; Mrs. Katherine Flory Blough, Penn Laird and New York City; the Rev. hymn sing in Cole Hall November 1. Guy E. \\/ampler, Bassett; and Lowell N. Layman, Cloverdale. Third row, 0. R. Hersch, Manassas; Dr. Warren :p. Bowman, President of Institutes Dates Set Bridgewater College; Leland C. Moomaw, Roanoke; Elmer A. Jordan, Bridge wat·er; Charles W. Wampler, Harrisonburg; R. Douglas Nininger, Salem. The Spiritual Life Institute will be held at the college February 2-4, 1954. Fourth row, Harry Driver, Weyers Cave; Henry 0.. Poling, Kasson, W. Va.; Dr. Elmer U. Hormrighausen of Prince Ross Speicher, Accident, Md.; Dr. C. C. Wright, secretary of Board of Trustees, ton Theological Seminary, Princeton Bridgewater; John A. Pritchett, Nashville, Tenn.; the Rev. Jacob Replogle, Balti University, will be the main speaker. more; H. Gus Muntzing, Moorefield, \IV. Va.; D. Wilmer Garber, Woodbridge; Dr. Hormrighausen is one of the leading the Rev. Simon Glick, Dayton (absent); Malcolm Long, Baltimore, (absent) ; and theologians of America, is a popular Dr. Fred Dove, Hagerstown, Md., (absent). speaker, and author of several notable books. Other leaders will be Rev. Directors Convene New Trustees Charles E. Zunkle of Elgin, Ill., and Dr. H. Stover Kulp, missionary to Africa. At a meeting of the alumni directors The new trustees were installed and a An attempt will be made to emphasize on Novemb-er 7 at the college, B. 0. fourth one elected when the college trus three important phases of our church Miller '23, vice-president, presided, in the tee board met on November 2. life: theology, the ministry, and miss absence of 0. P. Jon-es, '25BR, president, H. 0. Poling, Kasson, succeeds Fred. ions. ( Continued on Page 2) Continued on Page 2 PAGE 2 BULLETIN OF BRIDGEWATER COLLEGE BULLETIN OF Holsinger Publishes Alumni News BRIDGEWATER COLLEGE Kathleen Miller Roche '53 is home THE NEWSETTE Dean Justus Holsinger '33 of Hesston economist for the Shenandoah Valley PUBLISHED SIX TIMES A YEAR College, Kan., has had published a book, Electric Cooperative. "Serving Rural Puerto Rico." This very .EN fERED AS SECOND CLASS MA TTER AT THE splendidly bound book of more than 300 Dorothy Richardson '53 is located at POS TOFFICE AT BRIDGEWA TER, VA. , UNDER pages tells the story of the Mennonite Culpeper where she is a trainee as a AC T OF CONGRESS OF AUGUST 24, 1912. rural rehabilitation work 111 Puerto home demonstration agent under the Rico which started in 1943 with the Virginia Cooperative Agricultural Ex Martin G. Brumbaugh Reconstruction tension Service. Vol. XIX DECEMBER, 195.3 No. 3 Unit of the Church of the Brethren. The book is well illustrated with some beau Carl Shull 'SO has accepted a pos1t10n tiful photography of island scenes, some as assistant professor of music education Letter of Appreciation provided by the insular government. at Greensboro College in North Carolina. This story will appeal to those who Dorothy '52 is teaching in the Greens In appr eciation of the improvements are students of rur al community build boro City Schools. Both Dorothy and that have been made on the Bridgewater ing and are at the same time interested Carl received their master of music de campus which were put into use with the in the ·establishment of Christian stan grees from Northwestern University in 1953 -54 session, the faculty of the coll dards of living in the Ii ves of people and June. ege compiled the following resolutions the organizing of churches as a part of and presented them to the trustees. The the process. Educational, social, econ Mr. '41 and Mrs. '46 Ray Miller and trustees in turn take a bow to the liter omical, and religious approaches are as family have moved to Parker, Va. Ray ally thousands who have given to the pects of community building that are de has gi ven up his insurance business to Development .P rogram which has made scribed. go into a farming partnership with Will it possible to car ry out these improve Justus has a master of arts degree in ard, his brother. ments. political science from the University of The text of the re solution is as fol Virginia. He has also attended the Uni Dr. George Row '33 is erecting a new lows : versity of Kansas. He has taugh t at modern office in Bridgewater at the "Since the Administration of Bridge Blufton College an d has spent a number ma in intersection of the town adjacent water College has made many valuable of years in Puerto Rico as director of to th e Mick or Mack store. Thi s was changes and impro vements in the build th·e Mennonite program. Recently he th e location of th e former Lowman res ings and grounds of the institu tion th is wa s given l1onorary membership in the idence wh ich has been to rn clown. past yea r, and since these ch anges and Mark Twain Soci ety beca use of the im impr ovements have been made wi th the plica ti ons for international peace !11 The Mi ll Creek Church of the Bre wishes and needs of both faculty and "Serving Ru ral Puerto Rico." thren, in Rockingham Coun ty, pastored student body in mind, and fur ther, since The Martin G. Brumbaugh Reco n by Ceci l 0. Showalte r '30, won second these changes and improvements will struction Unit of th e Ch urch of th e place in state- wi de competition for the con tri bute greatly to th e edu ca ti onal ad Brethren in Puer to Rico was di rected rural church makin g the most advance vance of the in s titu tion : by Ru fus B. King '36 from 1943 to 1947. durin g th e past year. The contest is Be it resolved th at the faculty as a sp onso red by th e Sears- Roebuck Found bod y unanimo usly commen d and thank ation an d directed by Emory University. th e Administration and Board of Trus Chapters To Meet The church received a certi ficate an d a tees for th e splendi d plann ing an d erec ut $100.00 check. in g bo th these bodies performed in mak Local al umni ch apters have star ted ing these mu ch -needed ch anges an d im plan s for thei r annual ge t- toge thers. The DIRECTORS CONVE NE provemen ts ; namely, th e ne w science Ri chmond Ch ap te r has schedu led a din hall, th e execu tive offi ces con s tructed on (Continued from page 1) ner at £war ts Restau rant on Sa tu rday firs t floor of Fou nclers Hall, the faculty wh o was un a ble to come from Mary night Novem ber 21.

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