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Whitworth Digital Commons Whitworth University Whitworth Alumni Magazine University Archives 1964 Alumni Magazine Autumn 1964 Whitworth University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.whitworth.edu/alumnimagazine Recommended Citation Whitworth University , "Alumni Magazine Autumn 1964" Whitworth University (1964). Whitworth Alumni Magazine. Paper 365. https://digitalcommons.whitworth.edu/alumnimagazine/365 This Text is brought to you for free and open access by the University Archives at Whitworth University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Whitworth Alumni Magazine by an authorized administrator of Whitworth University. WHITWORTH COL LEG E AUTUMN 1964 VOLUME XXXII NUMBER 1 The Campanile Call is published quarterly at Whitworth College, Spokane, Washington, 99218, in an effort to reflect the quality and character of the college and to continue and improve sound and proper relations with its alumni and others interested in the advancement of private Christian higher education. Second class postage paid at Spokane, Washington, 99218. Issued four times yearly in February, May, August and November. VIRGIL GRIEPP, editor ALUMNI OFFICERS AR!\IOLD STUECKLE, '55, alumni director EDWARD UNICUME, '59, president ELWOOD WIDMER, '55, vice president MRS. DAYNE NIX, '46, secretary JOHN ROTH, JR" '40, treasurer and representative, Board of Trustees BERT WEBBER, staff photographer Koehler Inaugurated President 1 The Cold War 2 Idealism in Action .5 If We Will Work 7 Scene 76, Take 2 9 News 10 Pirate Sports 12 THE COVER With bowed head and solemn smile, Mark Lowell Koehler is invested as the thirteenth president of Whitworth College. In the investiture ceremony, the President's Medallion, a crimson and black velvet yoke joined by a large brass replica of the college seal, was placed over Koehler's shoulders by Albert Arend, chairman of the Board of Trustees. Thirteen brass plates with the engraved names and years of service of each of Whitworth's presidents are also affixed to the yoke. Dr. Koehler succeeds the late Dr. Frank F. Warren who died last year after serving as college president since 1940. Mrs. Mark L. Koehler smiles approvingly as her husband, left, and Dr. Theron B. Maxson near the speaker's rostrum to con- clude the inaugural procession. DR. MARK L. KOEHLER BECOMES OUR THIRTEENTH PRESIDENT Mark Lowell Koehler was inaugurated as the thirteenth graduate school. We shall also prepare a significant num- president of Whitworth College in colorful evening cere- ber of our graduates to enter directly into the life of the monies in Cowles Auditorium on October 9. community with certain vocational competence. For all Sixty-eight specially designated college and university we trust we shall provide a means to understand and en joy representatives from across the United States whose insti- the rich fullness of the life of learning. Along with under- tutions ranged in founding years from 1636 to 1963, led standing, wisdom. Along with facts, faith. Along with the inaugural procession honoring Dr. Koehler and were competence, character. So may we blend human knowl- followed by the Whitworth faculty, administration, Board edge with divine wisdom." of Trustees, and finally the President himself. Nearly 275 Whitworth faculty, trustees, special guests Dr. Theron B. Maxson, president of Hastings College and their spouses gathered earlier in the evening for the and formerly vice president and dean of men at Whit- Inaugural Banquet hosted by the Board of Trustees in worth, gave the inaugural charge to President Koehler. honor of Dr. and Mrs. Koehler at the Davenport Hotel. Maxson said, "Colleges are never static. Therefore stu- Greetings and felicitations were given at the banquet by dents must keep up with the drive toward academic ex- Del Jones, mayor pro tern of the City of Spokane; Lynn cellence and simultaneously acquire values to supplement Cornish, president of the Spokane Chamber of Com- their academic achievements." merce; Dr. Wendell C. Allen, representing the State of In his inaugural address titled, "Words for Work," Washington Education office; the Reverend Edgar E. Koehler stated that "liberal education should inculcate a Toevs, moderator, United Presbyterian Synod of Wash- point of view, a sense of perspective and tolerance, a ington-Alaska; William C. Harrison, Washington-North- breadth of sympathy, and an ability to see the relatedness ern Idaho Council of Churches; Albert Arend; Dr. Clar- of things in balance and proportion." In conclusion he ence]. Simpson, Whitworth College dean; William Du- said, "At Whitworth we shall integrate the very finest kind vall, president of the Associated Students of Whitworth of vigorous academic program with the very soundest, College: Edward B. Unicume, president of the Whitworth most active and creative Christian atmosphere. In this way College Alumni Association; and Walt Horan, United we shall prepare a large number of our graduates for States Representative. The Cold War is a divisive factor of the greatest magni- tude. It is most generally recognized as dividing the free world from that of the Communists. But within each of these worlds questions of strategy also separate allies from one another. And within the individual countries there is sharp division as to the measure of success being realized in the conflict. In the United States there are those who contend that we have already lost or are continually losing the war. Others claim that the war has been won or is moving in the direction of victory for us. Many are con- fused and uncertain as to which way the war is going. Perhaps some unifying understandings can be encour- aged by approaching the Cold War historicalIy,-by at- tempting to view it in the light of its development and dis- tinctive characteristics. Placed in its larger historical setting, the Cold War may be considered a part of the international power struggles which have characterized the twentieth century. During the early years of this century the flames of rivalries be- tween nations were fanned by imperialistic competition; the assassination of an archduke of Austria trigg-ered events which built those flames into World War 1. That by R. Fenton Duvall war fathered two developments which bear directly upon A native Pennsylvanian, Dr. Duvall the current conflict. The first of these was the emergence received his bachelor's degree from Temple University and his master's of the United States as a "Great Power," dedicated to and doctor's degrees from the Univer- safeg-uarding democratic ideals and practices. One of the sity of Pennsylvania, all in history. In shibboleths which lent an aura of a crusade to the Ameri- ]949 he was called to Whitworth for a can entry into the war was our announced intention "to ten-year stint as dean of men and his- make the world safe for democracy." The second of these torian but left in ] 959 to become aca- demic dean as King's College, N.Y., for developments occurred in Russia a few months later. Dis- aile year Gild later vice president of ciples of Karl Marx seized control of the Russian govern- Waynesburg College, Pennsylvania. Du- ment and, under the leadership of Lenin, committed the vall returned to Whitworth in ]96] as resources of that large nation to bringing the world under dean of stu dents but last fall relin- the sway of Communism. quished administrative duties to returr: full-time to the classroom. His intense The years which followed that war are more aptly de- study-travel of Europe in recent years, scribed by the historian as an armistice than as peace. uell qualifies him to discuss The Cold Fascist and Nazi societies coalesced into an Axis striving to War. be the controlling center of the power relationships of the postwar world. At the end of twenty years the unresolved causes of World War I, such as international anarchy, en- tangling alliances, and militarism, combined with interna- tional tensions and national frustrations resulting from that war to set the stage for World War II. The Nazi in- vasion of Poland triggered the war. In order to overthrow the Axis powers, the United States, dedicated to defend- ing democracy, entered into an alliance with the Soviet Union, committed to communizing the world. That alliance terminated soon after the war. We have 2 adopted the phrase "Cold War" as the most fitting label ment of international and ideological rivalries. Unable, on for these years which have been neither peace nor armis- the one hand, to resolve the basic tensions between nations tice. Out of the ashes of World War II, like the fabled and unwilling, on the other, to precipitate a nuclear war, phoenix, the Cold War arose bearing within itself the the combatants have been forced to battle in a twilight struggles and marks of the earlier wars. The power zone which is neither peace nor conventional war. In this vacuum created by the collapse of the Third Reich and limited area psychological and economic weapons have the unparalleled devastation left by the war encouraged assumed increased importance. the Soviet Union to drive to communize Europe. The de- Its duration is another distinguishing characteristic of termination of the United States to contain that drive pre- the Cold War. It is already nearly twenty years old and is cipita tcd the Cold War. It is clearly a "war baby," con- apparently destined to continue for some time to come. ceived during the first of these world wars and brought This passage of time enables other social forces to effect into being following the travail of the second. important changes in the conflict. One such forc-e,which The integral connection of the Cold War with these has been dominant in modern history, has been national- earlier wars suggests some interesting questions about vic- ism. It proved too strong for international socialism in tory.