Second Homecoming, Oct. 28 "Songs of Praise" Has Been Selected As the Theme for the Second Annual Alumni Homecoming and Founders Day on Friday, October 28
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FORT WAYNE 6, INDIANA Vol. 8 NO.5 Second Homecoming, Oct. 28 "Songs of Praise" has been selected as the theme for the Second Annual Alumni Homecoming and Founders Day on Friday, October 28. The program for the day reflects the thinking of those who attended the first homecoming day last "fall. Classes. will compete ~ith e~c~ other, making displays portraying songs of praIse to decorate fIve blllldmgs on campus. The Alumni Associ• ation will award a cash prize of $25 to the class with the best display. More extensive alumni participa• tion is planned. Founders Day Homecoming Program Chapel at 9:20 a.m. features some 9:20 a.m. Founders Chapel "Im• of our "elder statesmen" looking pressions of Long back on the campus they knew. Ago" Included are Walter Lugibihl, Peter 10:30 a.m. Alumni Forum L. Eicher, and Prof. C. A. Ger• "What I Have ber. Tillman Habegger, president Learned" of the M.C.A. will tell the hopes 12 noon Lunch, McMillen Park and aspirations which went into 1:30 p.m. "Martin Luther" the founding of the college. 4:00 p.m. Campus Tour Alumni are also used in the 5:30 p.m. Homecoming Banquet forum at 10:30 on "What I Have 6:30 p.m. Christian Service Pre• Learned." A searching look into view the program of the college should 7:00 p.m. "Alumni Challenge" prove informative to alumni, stu• 8:33 p.m. Homecoming Concert dents, and administration alike. In• cluded on the panel are Mark Dick Anthonv, "MV Song" Burgess, Leon Gerig, Charles Dick Anthony, pianist, singer, Record Enrollment Glenn, Bill Pannell, Lon Randall, composer, and arranger will be A new enrollment record has Jake Schierling, and Mildred featured at Homecoming Concert, been set with 362 students regis• Wanner. 8:30 p.m. Friday, October 28, in tered for the fall semester. Previ• Because of the poor participation Founders Memorial Auditorium. ous high was 342 in 1956. This in last fall's athletic program, and Mrs. Anthony will accompany him year's enrol'lment is 5.6 percent the cold rain that washed out the on the harp. above the record high, and 11 per• student events, the Christian film Anthony is on the staff of cent above last year. The freshman classic, "Martin Luther" is sched• WMBI, the radio station owned by class, with 115 students, is 16 per• ul"d for 1:30 p.m. Moody Bible Institute, and he and cent larger than last year's fresh• To introduce alumni to the pres• his wife are featured on several man class. pnt students, the Christian Service record albums. Herald Welty, our new registrar Department will present a short At seven, Anthony began to says, "This is probably just the be• preview of the talent sent out into study piano and soon was exasper• ginning of the college boom pre• our churches to represent Jesus ating piano teachers by inventing dicted by the statisticians." Christ. his own harmonies rather than Students have come from 24 Dorms will be open for inspec• playing original scoring. This un• states and seven foreign lands. In• tion during the afternoon and stu• usual creative ability has made cluded are Canada. Columbia, dents will conduct tours of the Dick Anthony one of the outstand• Germany, Honduras, India, Jamai• r-ampus and the new S. A. Lehman ing arrangers of sacred music. ca, and Switzerland. M"morial Library. Anthony began his singing career There are 29 denominations rep• The reservations for the day are with Jack Wyrtzen's Word of Life resented. The Missionary Church $2.50 per person for both lunch Quartet as musical arranger for Association leads the list. About and dinner, or $1.00 for lunch "Songtime" seen over the ABC• 30 percent of the student body are alone and $2.00 for dinner alone. TV network. MCA members. Next highest de• Deadline for reservations is Mon• Compositions by Dick Anthony nominations are Baptist with 16 day, October 24. No meals will be include "Our Hope", "Martyr's percent and Christian and Mission• served to those without reserva• Hymn", and "Canticle of Praise." ary Alliance with nine percent. tions. New Properties Obtained Reo. Jared F. Gerig The Campus Crisis--Communism J. Edgar Hoover has become so concerned over the Communist infiltration and agitation on college and university campuses that he has authored an eleven-page report on the so-called "Student" riots in San Through a very fine propOSItIOn Francisco in·May, 1960. offered by the Lehman family, it He begins this report by saying, was possible for the college to pur• chase the S. A. Lehman Home, The successful Communist exploitation and manipulation 827 West Rudisill Boulevard. This of youth and student groups throughout the world today are a will be used as a president's major challenge which free world forces must meet and defeat. residence. Recent world events clearly reveal that world Communism has launched a massive campaign to capture and maneuver youth and student groups. The vigor and vitality of such groups constitute an explo• sive force of immense proportions. Channeled into proper out• lets, this force can accomplish immeasurable good for a peace• loving world. Manipulated into destructive channels, this force can create chaos. While it is impossible to quote at length this remarkable and reveal• ing document, entitled, "Communist Target-Youth," enough has been said to make known a strategy which has in it all the seeds of success for destroying America if Americans and Christian Americans in parti• cular do not awaken. There are in the United States approximately 2,000 colleges and universities providing training for the youth of America on the under• graduate level. One-half of these were founded by spiritual, God-fearing, Bible-believingmen and women. It is estimated that outside the Bible College movement, there are less than fifty of the 1,000 that still remain true to the spiritual vision which brought them into being and to the faith to which they were Delegation Attends pledged. They have defected and have become centers of atheism, Convention materialism, socialism and subversion. They constitute the hot-beds for A delegation of 46 students and the planting and the sudden and quick growth of the seeds of Communism. faculty members attended the Na• In the face of the above, there is little hope for the redemption of tional Sunday School Association the average college campus where such defection has taken place. Chris• Convention in St. Louis, October tian people must catch the vision and rise immediately to strengthen the ]3-14. Included were Dr. Gerig, hands and meet the needs of the colleges which remain true to the faith Dr. and Mrs. Simpson and Coach and which are doing a job, many times under serious handicap, for the Morley. Rev. and Mrs. Howard Lord. Dunlap of the First Christian Union Church, Fort Wayne acted Our motto at Fort Wayne Bible College is, "Christ Pre-eminent." as chaperones on a bus chartered This is our first and most important goal in education. It is the to take the 39 student delegates. main thrust of all teaching that young people will come into direct con• At last Year's NSSA Conven• tact with Christ, dedicate their lives to Him, and then go forth prepared tion in Columbus, Ohio, the FWBC to serve Him in a world of sin and chaos. student delegation received wide We invite your support of such an objective by prayer, by giving, recognition from the press and TV and by deep loyalty to the One Whom we serve. This will be the most newscasters. The college delegation effective front to the inroads and aggressions of Communistic forces was the largest to attend such a among our youth. convention. Basketball Season Set Library Progress Report The intercollegiate basketball season opens on November 19 with Coach Morley's new team taking on Moody Bible Institute here at home. The team will be styled in new uniforms and their line-up is a promising one. Highlight of the season may be a game played with the prisoners at Pendleton Barracks of the In• diana State Penitentiary. The prison authorities have requested this game and the team will give personal testimonies of their faith East Reading Room Charging Desk in Jesus Christ during the half time. The schedule for the 1960-61 The S. A. Lehman Memorial Library is in partial use while furnish• season is as follows: ings continue to arrive almost daily. Classrooms are being used and a reading room is open to students for study. Books most used in classes Nov. 19-Moody (Home) are available in limited numbers. Many books are still stored in boxes on Dec. 2-Grace (Home) the old stack shelves in a storage room awaiting delivery of the new stacks. Dec. lO-Spring Arbor (Away) Dec. 17-Bethel (Away) Dedication date for the library still has not been set and must await Jan. 6-Trinity (Away) delivery and installation of the stacks. Further word will be given to you Jan. 7-Moody (Away) well in advance of the dedication day. Feb. 11 Spring Arbor (Home) Furnishings which have arrived include: reading tables and chairs, Feb. 18-Trinity (Home) stands for dictionary, atlas and honor roll, Miss Ehlke's office desk filing Feb. 25 Bethel (Home) cabinets and chairs, classroom teachers' desks, students' desks, and chalk• boards, periodical racks and index table, foyer and hall display cases, coat racks, charging counter and other miscellaneous items. Notional Defense Drapes were hung and the floor tile laid before the arrival of students on campus.