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SPIRITUAL LIFE FOR STUDENTS 114 MINNESOTA MINNESOTA Continuing the Minnesota Alumni Weekly which was estab IN THIS ISSUE- lished _in 190L Published monthly from October through April, and bl-monthly May-June and July-August, by the Minnesota Alumni Association, 205 Coffman Union, University of Minne SOta, Minneapolis 14_ Member of the American Alumni Council. EDITORlAL . 115 R~ligion on the Campus Of a State University Vol. 49 January, 1950 No.5 THOMAS C. BUXTON, '40Ex ... Editor LETTERS . " ............................... 115 THE MINNESOTA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Executive Com.mittee Alumni Relations Executive taf[ Arthur O. Lampland Edwin L. H aislet '31 Ed D irector JANUARY FEATURE 117-122 '30BilA;'34LLB .... Presideot Thomas C. Bu.xton Harvey Nelson '40Ex MINNESOTA The School of Business Administration ' 25Md Fint Vice President Vincent R . Reis Rudolph Elstad ·4 1··47Gr Field Represeotative '19IT .. Second V ice President Gerald Friedell Mayoard Pirsig '25LLB Secrera.ry '47 .Membership Secretary Arnulf Ueland '17 ... Treasurer Eleanor Willits, HAPPENINGS OF THE MAA 123-124 Arthur R. Hustad '19Ex Records Division '16 . Past President University Week; The Marshall Project Ruby Robbins Mailing D ivision Mrs. Leo W . Fink ' 21Md Edwin L. HaisJet Teresa Fitzgerald ' 31Ed Executive Secretary ' IBEx Office Secretary STUDENT UFE AT MINNESOTA . 125-126 Board of D ireCtors Term expires 1950: Valdimar Bjoroson '30; Ben M . Bros '23IT; MarCIa MAA Frosh Committee; Srudem Doings Edwards '3 IMA;'35PhD; Rudolph Elstad '19IT; Mrs. Leo W . Pink '21Md; Maynard E. Pirsig '25LLB ; Charles Sommers '90. Term expireJ 1951: William Anderson '13; Arthur R . Hustad ' 16; Lawrence E. ( Duke ) Johoson '29IT; Joho P. McGovern ' IILLB; Owen THE ALUMNI CLUBS H . WangenSteen '22Md;'25 PhD; Harold E. Wood '23; Wells J . Wright 127-128 '36LLB. Meetings Past and Furure Term ex!>"eJ 1952: Theodore Chriscianson '37LLB; Mrs. H arold S. Eberhardt '31; Arthur O. Lamplaod '30BBA;'34LLB; Prancis L. (Pug) Lund '35Ex; Harvey Nelson '25Md; John S. Pillsbury, Jr., '40LLB; Aroulf Ueland '17. Rep,e"m",,,,,,, on Senare Committee on Imer,ollegial. AlhleliCJ: Robert UNIVERSITY RADIO GUILD 129 Sh:>p ' 24·'27, and Don Lampland '39IT. RepreJenla';". on Senal. Com millee on Stud.nt Affa,rI.' Mrs. Harold S. Ebethardt '31. RepreJenlaJiv. Education Through Practice on Union Board 01 GovernorJ: Thomas Salmeo '41. Standing Committe" Chairmen: Athletics, Robert Shay '24-'27. Investments, ArnuU Ueland '17. Committee on the Advisory Committee, George Leahy '23-'27. ON THE CAMPUSES 130-131 Honorary Life BoaJd Members Minneapolis, St. Paul, Duluth Ptrll PrmJenu: William F. Braasch 'OO ;'03Md; George Earl '06;'09Md; Arthur R . Hustad '16; Charles P. Keyes '96;'99LLB; Ben W . Palmer 'l1 ;'13LLB;'14MA; Erling S. P13rou ' 19;'2IMd; Orren E. Safford 'IOLLB; Edgar F. ZeUe '13, Pall Treal"rer: Thomas F. Wallace '93;'95LLB, REUGIO ON THE CAMPU 132 Honorary Life Association Members The ewman Foundation Dr. J. L. Morrill, President of the Universiry; E. B. Pierce, former D irectOr of Alumni Relations. MlNNESOTA PROFILES 133 Geearer Univeesicy Fund Sra.nley J. Wenberg '41Ed;'47MA . Fund Direcmc Board of Tru tees 10,000 FOR SCHOLARSHIPS 134 Alumni: Arthur R_ Hustad '16, Chairman, Elmer E. Engelbert '20; John K. Pesler '24, '26 LLB; Parker L. Sanders ' IB; Mrs. Arnulf Ue 1950-51 Awards Planned land ' 17 Uni"erSlCY Admioisuatioo: President J . L. Morrill, Vice President William T . Middlebrook, VICe Presidenr Malcolm M. Willey, Fred B. Snyder ' I, Chairman of Board of Regents. SPORT ECTIO 1 6-137 Edwin L H alS let '31Ed Board Secretary Basketball Has Good Start Entered as second class ro.auer at [he POSt office in ~{iooearlis. M,on.. uDder Act of Congress of March 3, IB79. Annual dwos 0 the Associauon are $3 or which $2 coosriruCe5 a year's subscription to the MINNESOTA. Subscription for non-members: $4 per year. National ad AROUND AND ABOUT WITH vertising represeouuve: American Alumni ~fagazlDes Griup, 22 WasblQ8- ton Square , New York II, N . Y.; phone GRamercy 5-2039. THE ALUMNI 139-143 JANUARY, 1950 115 LETTERS By EDWIN L. HAISLET '31 Ed As occaJion p~mitJ, the /Iff E- Director of Alumni Relations SOTA wants to publiJh letten from memb~J of the j\[inneJOta Alumm AIsociation and memberJ of the Uni flerIity community, faculty, JtafJ and student body. The lett~ column will Religion on the Campus provide a place for expreJJion of opinionJ and JuggeJtiom on activi ties and planJ for the ,\fAA and 0/ the Unit'erJity. of a State University LetterJ alJo will be u.elcome uhich recount noteworthy human in~eJt phaJeJ in the life 0/ the Unif)erJity and the alum .. ; organization. They ECAU E so OFTE , and without regard to fact, an accusing finger has Jho uld be limited to a maxImum of B been leveled at the University as being a "Godless" place, a series of 150 u'ords. The EditQr res~tJes the anicles-"Religion on the Campus"-was instiroted in the December issue, right to edit for JPace and reading intereJt. 0 anonymoUJ lelterJ will each describing the work of one of the twenty-two religious foundations serv be comidered for publication. To in ing rhe Minneapolis and t. Paul campuses. Jure accurac) 0/ reproduC/ron, care Jhould he taken that lett~J are en What about religion on the campus? Is the Universiry hostile to religious tirely legible. aCtivities and programs? Judge for yourself. Because we are a state instirotion the Universiry does not operate a dis tinCt religious program of its OUlll-such as baving an official chaplaincy or a PLEA ED BY MORRILL PEECH chapel program. President Morrill, however, feels very strongly that religion To the Editor: is important for srudent development. To that end the regentS in 19 7 created May I coograrulate you on the new the position of Coordinator of rudentS' Religious Acivities, placing it under format of the Mione ota Alumni As the administrative jurisdiction of rhe Office of the Dean of rudentS. This pro sociation magazine. I was very much gram, which was a new departure for a state uni ersity, recei ed hearty approval interested in the articles by Dean from rhe people of the srate. In faa interested lay church people of both t. Blegen, Dean Diehl, and orhers. Paul and Minneapolis agreed to underwrite the ell.'penses of rhe program for Many of us were particularly pleased the fir t twO years. to be able to read the text of Presi The man selected to be rhe Religious CoordinatOr was not a clergyman but dent Morrill's important Williams an outstanding educatOr, a former college president, who was a specialist in burg Address. His clear and vigorous comparative religions-Dr. Henry E. Allen. In twO years Dr. Allen has devel statement suppOrting the principle of oped an outstanding program which has been designed to encourage all re the freedom of the insrirution to settle ligious groups to serve their own young people who are in arrendance at for itSelf problems of faculty quali the University. fication is especially ignificant at this At the present time rhere are twenty-two such religious organizations rime and its publication will help working with rudentS on the Twin Ciry campuse -with rhirry-fi e full time clarify the i ue for many reader . pastOrs and counselors being upplied by the national religiou bodie to guide E. W. Ziebarth srudent programs-mo t of which ha e their own buildings or office. The Chairman twenry-two foundation have their own religious programs and during all} one niver iry peech Dept. week of rhe academic year more fba1~ 150 regularly scbedlll d meetings, sll/d) groups, and worship sen'ices are beld. A mo t significant development has been the rodent Council of Religion FOR BIGGER T ADl M wirh rhe specific objective of interfaith understanding. The organization i To Chairman, Board of Tru tees made up of twO repre entatives from each of the participating groups. Pro Greater UDiverSHY Fund: grams, as may be common to all participating group. are planned b the As an alumnus who contributed to the srudents. Howe er, unle a project i agreed upon by every member of the Greater Diver It)' Fund last year 1 bould organization. it cannot be pon red. Thi bringing tOgether of rudentS of be glad to do 0 agaIn provided that I re ceive definite assurance of bener Foot dtfferent faith, working tOgether on common project, yet recognizing rhe ball eason Book location than I have been right to be different, is real training io democratic living. able to secure heretofme. By bener location I mean from ecrion 24 to 2 or from Ad i ory to the rudent Council 00 Religion i the fione ora uncil ecrion :! to 6. of Religion whi h is compo ed of the direaor and advi ors of the religious It eem to me thac [tnnesotJ. hould foundations. enlarge its tadium eating pacity and ( ontinued on page 116) imprO\'e its peccator accommodations. 116 MINNESOTA Should the Alumni Association decide to ployed by the Portland Public Schools. I raise money to make this materialize, I for am teaching in the seventh and eighth UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR one would be willing to subscribe to such grades at the Kellogg School. CONTINUATION STUDY a fund under the guarantee of getting sat I am interested in obtaining informa isfactory Season Football Books every year. tion on the Alumni organization in this Medical and dental short courses Herman 1. Rosenblatt '33BA area. occupy a major share ef the schedule Minneapolis Caldon R. Norman '49Ed of the University Center for Continu 7110 S. E. Lafayette ation Study for the next month. The MORE THANKS Portland 6, Ore.