Taylor University Bulletin (May 1954)
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Taylor University Pillars at Taylor University Taylor University Bulletin Ringenberg Archives & Special Collections 5-1-1954 Taylor University Bulletin (May 1954) Taylor University Follow this and additional works at: https://pillars.taylor.edu/tu-bulletin Part of the Higher Education Commons Recommended Citation Taylor University, "Taylor University Bulletin (May 1954)" (1954). Taylor University Bulletin. 120. https://pillars.taylor.edu/tu-bulletin/120 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Ringenberg Archives & Special Collections at Pillars at Taylor University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Taylor University Bulletin by an authorized administrator of Pillars at Taylor University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Tai/lcl l(nioeisit\j Bulletin UPLAND, INDIANA—MAY 1954 OCKENGA TO SPEAK AT 108th COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES ALUMNI DAY Honorary Degrees to ACTIVITIES JUNE 7 Be Presented The highlight of Alumni Day at Rev. Lawrence Lacour, well-known Taylor on Monday, June 7, will be evangelist, and Captain Charles Shil the Alumni Banquet to be held in ling, Senior Medical Officer at the Maytag Gymnasium at 6:30 p.m. U. S. Naval Academy, will be award Members of the senior class and ed honorary degrees at Commence their parents will be guests at the ment. Rev. Lacour will receive the banquet, and other parents and D.D. degree, and Captain Shilling the friends of Taylor are cordially in Sc.D. degree. Rev. Lacour attended John Fletch vited to attend. Tickets will be on er College, Drew University and sale at the door at $1.50. Northwestern University. Following Dr. Wilson Paul, chairman of the his service as a Navy Chaplain in department of speech, dramatics, World War II, he began his evangel istic ministry, which has taken him and radio education at Michigan State all over the United States and into College will be master of ceremonies many foreign countries. During this for the Alumni Program to be held coming summer, the Lacours will be in the gymnasium as a part of the in Japan, helping to establish new churches. banquet. A wide variety of talent, Captain Shilling received his A.B. mostly from the five year classes hav from Taylor in 1922, and his M.D. Harold J. Ockenga ing reunions, will be on the program. from the University of Michigan. He The Annual Business Meeting of has been in the field of medical re The 108th Commencement Exer the Alumni Association will also be search for more than 20 years, pri cises of Taylor University will be marily in the area of submarine med held on Tuesday, June 8, 1954 with a part of the evening activities, with icine and deep-sea diving. He super Alumni President Maurice Beery in vised the medical aspects of the res Dr. Harold J. Ockenga, pastor of charge. Election of one member of cue of 33 men from a sunken sub the Park Street Congregational the William Taylor Foundation marine in 1939. In 1952 he received Church in Boston, giving the address. one of the Founder's Medals award Dr. Ockenga received the B.A. de Board of Directors and three alumni ed by the Association of Military to the Alumni Board is the most im Surgeons of the United States for his gree from Taylor in 1927. He also portant item of business. outstanding contribution to military studied at Princeton and Westmin A popular feature of the day, be medicine. Mrs. Shilling (Miriam ster Seminaries, and at Pittsburgh Teed) is also a former Taylor stu University, from which he received gun last year, is the Fellowship Hour dent. They have two children. at 3:00 p.m. in Campbell Parlors. the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees. In 1947 Members of the board, faculty, senior he was appointed by President Tru man as a member of a committee class, parents and alumni are invited What's in a Name? to investigate Europe. Other travels to this informal time of fellowship The second day of May was the include trips to London for three designed to give every person a birthday of Bishop William Taylor, summers as preacher in Westminster chance to meet the administration for whom Taylor University was Chapel, and a world preaching tour named. This warm-hearted, dynamic in 1953. Formerly president of the and foster a genuine family spirit. National Association of Evangelicals, Classes having reunions will meet Christian of the last century prayed for Taylor. Because of his genuine he has also written several books. at noon for lunch together. Definite concern for his fellow men and his During his ministry, the Park Street information about meeting places evangelistic spirit, Taylor University Church has become known for its will be mailed to members of each cherishes the honor of bearing the missionary emphasis. Dr. Ockenga is also president of Fuller Theological class. name of Bishop William Taylor, "the modern St. Paul." Seminary in Pasadena, Calif. Plan now to come to Taylor for the A number of alumni class pres Commencement Season. Write to the idents have suggested to members Alumni Office for accommodations. of their classes that the first day of Taylor family at this significant time each month should be Taylor Day— to work and pray that Taylor may Come expecting a grand time of in a time of showing special interest in fulfill her opportunities in Christian spiration and fellowship. the school. Join with others of the higher education. Student Council Let There Be Life.,. Elects President As I sit looking out of my office window on a very beautiful spring day, there comes to my attention ever so many manifestations of the fact that nature is heralding a message of new life all about us. Trees and bushes that have been barren for many months are now pushing forth tiny buds, flowers, and leaves... declaring that there is new life and new beauty. The lawns that have been rather brown and barren for a long time are now springing forth in new beauty. There is a new blanket of green that speaks of new life pushing forth from Mother Earth. Spring is a wonderful season of the year. It so encourages us after having spent many months of cold and more or less barren living. We have also gone through a season of the year which tells us of new life. Lent, Holy Week, and Easter tell the story of new life in Jesus Christ. How grateful we are that the Son of God was willing to give His life, to die upon the cross, to be laid in a tomb, but then to break the bonds of sin and death to rise again on that glorious Easter morning. Because of that new life in Jesus Christ there is Joe Kerlin hope, there is vigor, there is vitality to Christian experience. Life Joe Kerlin, from Anderson, Indi ana, has been chosen by the student takes on new meaning and new hope! How important that message body as student council president for is in a day when we see so much of life that is given away to death 1954-55. He succeeds Dave Pelton, a senior from Flint, Michigan. in trespasses and sin. Just as the grain must fall into the ground The son of a Methodist minister, and die before it is able to grow and yield fruit, so Jesus gave His Joe has participated in many activ ities during his high school and col life, and out of His life has come abundant fruit in the redemption lege career. During his sophomore of men and women, boys and girls over this entire world. How year, he was class president and co- chairman of publicity for Youth Con fitting that that message should come to our hearts and lives again ference. This year Joe has been ac in this springtime of the year when everything round about us tive as a member of the student per sonnel services committee, registrar declares that new life cannot be denied, and that new life brings for Youth Conference, member of with it beauty that is incomparable. the men's chorus, and treasurer of the A Cappella Choir. Joe is taking a pre-med course at Taylor, and I am wondering if we are aware of the fact that there is a new plans to serve the Lord as a medical spiritual life coming among the colleges and universities of our missionary upon completing his studies. country. At almost every meeting of educators across the country more and more emphasis is being placed upon religion and its place in higher education. Special conferences are being called that the Rediger Elected attention of educators everywhere might be directed to the fact that Dr. Milo A. Rediger, Dean of Tay Christianity must be central in education if young people are to be lor University, has been elected chairman of the Congo Inland Mis truly educated. So our hearts are encouraged as we see this new sion Board, which represents four life springing forth, which we trust omens the fact that we are enter Mennonite conferences. The Congo Inland Mission, founded in 1911, ing into a springtime of religious revival, even in higher education. maintains six well-organized stations To be sure, many of the "buds" and the "leaves" are tiny, some are and over 400 outstations in the Bel gian Congo, Africa. Several Taylor having great difficulty in breaking forth to be seen, but thank God graduates serve under this board. there are manifestations in the right direction. In preparation for this important office, Dr. Rediger will be visiting Africa, especially the Belgian Congo, We have seen manifestations of that new life, even on Taylor's during July and August of 1954, as a member of a study tour of Africa, campus, and how grateful we are to God for the gracious presence which has been organized by the that He has bestowed upon our campus in this springtime of the Association for World Travel Ex change.