Covenant College
SEPTEMBER 1972. A monthly publication of Covenant College, L~okout Mountain, Tennessee Reflections
Eleven ne'.'. faculty member. were formall) 1nstalled at those cornocatinn serv1..:c~ ( ee rext page). incrcas1m: CO\enant's full-t11nc teaching staf" to 3-l 01 tho.c. -17 Barton Payne speaks at either have rheir doctNate now or e pect to rece1\e them by next summer. convocation; 471 enrolled Co\enant' enrollme'lt 1s rema1k"b e hccau,e \'Jrtll,lll) A larger-than-expected enrollment of 471 students added hJII the students are 011 the l OL'k iut \lcunta1n campu · !or the first time. There ;ire about 175 trc,hmt'n . .ind an especially buoyant and thankful air ro the opening of over 50 transfer studcnh l \Cn the ne\, IOU-bed nll'n·s Covenant College's 18th year. Even after reg1strat1on ri::s1dcnce hall fa tied to provide space for ever) one. and had formally closed, R~g1strar Rudolph Schmidt's phone some students continue to live off-campus was ri nging with inquiries from new students who won Two orher new buildrngs the ,\nna I..: Kresge Library dered if it was too late to enroll and the ne\, phySli.:al education 1.enter \\ere not \c't Convocation exercises featured as the gues't speaker ready for occupancy (seep 'i). and that kd to some Dr. J. Barton Payne. new Professor of Old Testament crowded conditions \,h1ch will continue until later this Studies at Covenant Theological Seminar) 111 St Lou1 . fall when the buildings arc completed Several clas. He urged new and returning students to discover the im rooms in the physical education building, hm,ever. portant difference between mere knowledge and skills on were hurriedly prepared ror use by the third AT · HISTORY-LouisJ. Voskuil, Ph.D. candidate and M.A., COVENANT Loyola University; A.8., Calvin College; B.D., West minster Theological Seminary HISTORY-A. Kenneth Austin, Ph.D., University of Georgia; M.A., East Tennessee State Uni versity; B.A., Gordon College; B.D., Westminster TheologiGBI BIOLOGY-Jerome D. Wenger, Ph.D. candidate, University of Arkansas; M.A. and B.S., Western Michigan University ENGLISH-Paul K. Hesselink, PIANO-I. David Halvorsen, GREEK-Allen Mawhinney, Ph.D. candidate and MA., M.M., Eastman School of Music; B. D , Westminster Theological University of Chicago; A.B., M.A., Ohio State University; Seminary, BA., Wil!tam Jen Hope College B.D., Grace Theological Seminary, nings Bryan College PHILOSOPHY-Reginald F. MODERN LANGUAGES-Heidi Mclelland, Ph.D. candidate and V. Weise, M.A. T., Fairleigh Dickinson M.A., University of Georgia; A B., University; B.A., The King's College Western Carolina College BIBLE-William A. MahlowJr., B.D., Westminster Theological Seminary; B.A., Covenant College Chemistry, Social Science, Behavioral Science, History, Mathematics, and Music Education. The favorable action followed four busy years of diligent work by Mrs. Geraldine J. Steensma, Associate Professor and Director of the Teacher Education Program, and by Jack Fennema, Assistant Professor and Supervisor of Student Teaching, who joined the Covenant faculty last year. Both spent many extra hours Homecoming weekend covers meals, game tickets. and Alumni writing and assembling the required infor set for October 13-15 Association expenses. mation in a self-study. Covenant will apply again in the spring "Strike up the band! Roll out the ban of 1973 for extension of certification. ner!" says Covenant Alum111 Association president Ken Deats of Atlanta in an nouncmg the annual homecoming week Teacher education end on the Lookout Mountain campus, progra!YI certified Mrs. Steensma particioates October 13-15. in Toronto summer program Deats said he expects 150-200 gradu Following hard on the accreditation of ates to attend this year's events based on Covenant College in December, J971, was Director of Covenant's Teacher Education attendance growth the past several years. a visit from a committee from the Georgia Program, Associate Professor Geraldine J. This year's activities boast special at Department of Education to evaluate Steensma, taught Philosophy of Education tractions· a ~,cw men' residence hall to Covenant's teacher education program. and Educational Psychology during July view, the nearly-completed library, and With an increasing number of students under the auspices of the Ontario Alliance the gymnasium physical education com considering teaching as a career, both of Christian Schools. The four-week plex. William Graf Jr., building engrneer college accreditation and a certified tea intensive course was designed for teachers and special consultant for the college, will cher education program are very impor going into Christian schools, but whose lead a tour of the new facilities. Mr. Graf tant, but college accreditation was a prior education had been in state schools. has supervised much of the growth and pre-requisite for an approved teacher The courses were similar to those Mrs. development at the Covenant campus dur education program. Steensma teaches at Covenant College ing the last three years. The eight-person committee spent three and provided the summer program stu To give alumni a chance to discover days on campus interviewing teacher dents with a foundational Christian basis what's happening on the student front, a education personnel, faculty, students, for instruction. Response of the group special "dialogue" meeting between alumni and even the supervisors of our student was gratifying; a number indicated an and 1972 student council officers ha been teachers in the local schools. Student interest in more courses which could be scheduled. teachers rated highly. Their supervisors given in future summer sessions. Those On the afternoon of October 15, a soc said that "they cared for their students" reading this article who have similar inter cer game will feature Covenant's Scots and stayed after hours to prepare next ests should communicate with Mrs. G. J. playing the University of the South from day's lessons. Steensma, Covenant College, Lookout Sewanee, Tenn. The committee's chairman wrote a Mountain, Tennessee 37350. That evening, after a steak dinner for highly complimentary letter after the Mrs. Steensma was invited to teach at alumni in the Great Hall, alumnus John visit. He said: "This was a most rewarding Toronto by those who had read her book, Barnes, Covenant's Vice-President for Busi experience to me personally and to the To Those Who Teach, and who wanted ness Affairs, will report on Covenant's members of the committee. Your com this type of instruction for their summer financial picture and offer a five-year fore mittment to Christian education was most program. The book is available for $2.20 cast. evident in all aspects of the college. Your postpaid, from SIGNAL/publishing/con Dr. Marion Barnes, President, will pre students were open and candid. I am sure sulting corp., Signal Mountain, Tennessee sent a broader institutional report. that you will be very proud of the 37377. Deats says there will be plenty of time contributions that most of your students during the weekend for seeing old friends will make." and for reminiscing. The State Board of Education has November 10 is set for A nursery will be provided at no extra subsequently approved Covenant's teacher dedication of new buildings cost. Motel accommodations a special re education through t!Jc 1972-1973 aca duced rate can be arranged by early con demic year in l·.lemc11tary (;radcs and A truly remarkable ocea 1011 in the life of tact with the college. A $6 registration II igh School l:nglish, Science, Biology, Covenant College has been set for Novem· ber I 0, when three new buildings valued at over S2.2 million will be dedicated in afternoon ceremonies. More details will be announced 111 the October issue of Reflections, but Presi dent Marion D. Barnes has already mdi cated that among the day's special guests will be Mr. and Mrs. Stanle) S. Kresge of Birmingham, M,ch .. whose generosity has meant much toward the completion of the library named for,his mother, \lrs. Anna E. Kresge. \1.r. and Mrs. Kresge have also made possible the new "Kresge Collection for Christian Learning." a fea tured aspect of the buildmg's contents. The new men's residence hall and the physical education center will also be dedi cated that day. and all three buildings will be open for public inspection Together. the three buildings will add over 70,000 square feet of important space to Covenant's facilities. It will give students a thorough!) modern library. with capacity for 75,000 bound volumes The new Kresge Library from the northwest corner. The building will provide and thousands more in micro form. 1t will ample stack and study space for several years, as well as much-needed classroom provide a dozen new classrooms, almost space. It will house the new "Kresge Collection for Christmn Learning." all of them more spacious than those the The new men's residence hall was completed with only a few days to spare; it is now in full use by 100 men distributed on four floors. There is a small lounge on each floor level. The building should be an environmentalist's delight, smce it remains totally surrounded by the trees of the hillside woods in which it was placed i COVENANT The physical education center is attractively fitted to the hillside so that any COLLEGE an hint that it encloses a large basketball area is quickly dispelled. But it is a spacious and very utilitarian building, with classrooms on the second floor already in use. college now uses. There will be audio visual facilities. and adequate spa-:e for an expanded language laboratory. The new gym will give Covenant's Scots their Admissions counselor first "home-court advantage·· 111 history. has Delaware headquarters and even more signil'icantly, will give all students a first-class facility for indoor Warren Myers. Covenant College's roving athletics. The winter intra-mural program admissions counselor. has established new should flourish. headquarters in Wilmington, Del. The The construction 1s of the highest qual move makes recognition of the continual ity, indicating the college's intention of ly large number of Covenant students serving its students well for as many years from the Middle Atlantic states, and My as possible. The architecture is contemp ers hopes that his proximity to that large orary, but not extreme. and enhances the student market will unique mountain setting. enable him to Llirect Extensive landscaping around the build even more students ings remains to be done. It will include to Covenant. a new grassy mall between the library and This year at the Carter Hall, replacing the parking lot now college, for instance, in that location. Further funds are needed about one-third of for the landscaping projects; they arc not the entire student en included in the construction costs of the rollment comes from new buildings. the seven states of About $98,000 is still needed for the ?ennsylvania (63 students), New Jersey buildings themselves, and the administra (32), l\llaryland (21 ), Virginia ( 17), Dela tion is hopeful that friends will contribute ware (14), New York (7), and West Vir that amount before the November I 0 ginia (5 ). dedication ceremonies. A $100,000 chal Myers's new address and phone number lenge gi[t toward the new buildings will arc Brandywine Hundred Apts. 1-8-6, 402 be received as soon as the $98,000 is Foulk Rd., Wilminglon, l)c\warc 19803; given. 302/652-0826. Of these several weaknesses, the (2) By putting an obvious empha is contemporary press bemoans most of on teaching students to think analytically all the lack of vocational value of the and synthetically. By analy is it can liberal arts curriculum and a a matter be determined what I of Christian of fact, seems to be strongly sympathetic significance and what 1t not, and by a to a vocational orientation. There are, proce s of integration fragmentary knowl of course, valid criticisms of the edge earlier acquired may be formulated inadequacy of liberal arts curriculum into a consistent Chnstian philo ophy as such to provide voc:itional value which will provide the foundation on in an advanced technicological society which tudents' lives may be hved in with the degree of advancement that a continually changing, contemporary we have today. We believe, however, ociety. that certain variations on the o-called There are. in fact, several implication essential liberal arts curriculum can be of pur uing the type of curriculum that made that will be of the greatest value we have generally outlmed: in a college curriculum. (I) Bible must be central along Covenant College's curriculum may with Christian philosophy in Covenant very well correct the weaknesses exi ting College's curriculum in the classical liberal arts curriculum in (2) Every subject must be approached tie LIBERAL several ways, involving a proper central by an examination of the presuppositions emphasis on the Bible to supply the involved in that particular subject. There ARTS missing value ystem that is so apparent is no point in conceding the argument in VIrtually all liberal arts programs. A to humanism before one engages in the Christian college is part1cularl) con discourse. stituted to supply a great strength by ( 3) Where possible, the several replacing the humanistic limitation disciplines must be taught with an that is an Achilles heel of classical emphasis on significance to the several liberal arts. The structure of knowledge applied vocational type disciplines to must involve Christian presuppositions which they are handmaidens. As early as the fourth century, as well as holding the Bible central in Cassiodorus had used the term the curriculum. Further, it is mandatory to include • :liberal arts" in connection with Our contemporary society has seen a tre proper tre&tment of natural sciences in &t;Urriculum that consisted of a mendous advance that has resulted from tiivium (grammar, rhetoric, logic) a Christian liberal arts program today. the union of modern science with mo This problem was never really recognized ffl.a quadrivium (arthmetic, geo- dem technology. Similarly, a substantial ' music, astronomy). By the in the classical development of the liberal benefit may be derived both to the enth century, Pier Paolo Vergio arts curriculum since such a curriculum individual and to society as a whole in the term "liberal" or "liberating had already assumed a more or less rigid recognizing that the several liberal arts tn connection with a curriculum form by the time modern sc~ence as subjects by proper instruction may be consisted essentially of history, we know today came into existence. united with semi-vocational disciplines al philosophy, eloquence, literature, The curriculum at a truly Christian to their mutual benefit. rhetoric and poetry. He also felt liberal arts college must also take into :usic, arithmetic, and the knowl consideration some sort of a vocational Instead of responding to the false f nature were important. Expli emphasis. We feel that this vocational dualism of liberal arts versus vocational QWever, he excluded medicine, emphasis might be supplied in several curriculum, the Christian college in d theology, referring to them as ways. giving Christ the pre-eminence in all iplines, (1) In requiring of a co-major of an educational matters as well as other concept ofliberal arts as used applied nature along with a major special things can provide a broader scope of teenth century is remark- ization in conventional liberal arts sub training for its students that will serve to that ofVergio, but has jects. These co-majors might include them much better in today's society major weaknesses: vocational emphases in preparation for than either of the Qther options. mstic basis with no several vocations in which a Christian ognition of spiritual values witness and testimony are of strategic consideration of modern science importance, e.g., teaching, nursing, le vocational value music, or social science. Scm11d-class /IOStagc paid b 1 Cm·,·11a11r College. [,cokour /1101111tai11, TN _?7350 in Faith COVENANT COLLEGE Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 ,6 7 Praise for the excellent en ---PROPHECY CONFERENCE-Dr. Allan MacRae Cultural Affairs-Perret Soccer, Georgia College rollment this fall; pray tha DeZayas Duo (lute-soprano (Al. 2:00 Covenant's rust pro Cross Country-Bryan Pray for President .\farion Prav 1·or fim Llni1111111• duo), 8:00 Christ-centcre_ d education I phecy conference begins (HI, 4:00 Barnes, especially bus) full-11111c sJ;ill 1m•111be·i Cross Country-Bryan might become a lifc today with well-known this month rnmpleting ,,ht' a-;sj,1, in rt·pa1r, :ind Pra1 Im B1bk l'rnl_ Ch:irlc Invitational, (Al, 11:00 Pray for Covenant College' changin~ reahty for all or scholar Dr. Allan \fac plans for dedication of the mainll'll~11h.·\.·: 1..·;1m1..· _is board member James Al h1..· A ntkrl.itHl. who ;d,ll st..·rvc, these students Rae; pray for interest new buildings on Nov. l 0 About S750 in ~irts is re ston. a medical doctor in a stmknt. is 1,urk111s: I" '" L'<>ad1 ill the L r<>ss supp,,rt his) oun,· r;1111il) cnunt r, 1ea111 quin_·_cl L'Vl'r) d.,_}'_ t_o kc•~·p t "'' ""'""'"""' .\km!)his, Jenncssec the L·o_ll_c_E<:_ UJ:leral_t~ 8 10 11 12 13 14 Well over I 00 Covenant ~ra1 for Dr. lsiicholas Cross Country-Bryan Pra) lor the young married Pray fur Dr. Kenneth Pr:11 lur<,.Crai~ Ll11nk11, HOI\JIECOMING I students arc fillin~ Christ- Bar-kcr. 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Richard· begins activitks t11111urru1\ when· Soccer-Eastern Mennon 2:00 might have a growing un '3rinkley, who pastors mure lhan I 00 high JV Soccer-Oxford Junior Cross Country-Tennessee! ite (A). 2:00 derstandinl! or how to use the Reformed Presbv sd1<1