Alumni Magazine October 1955 Whitworth University
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Whitworth Digital Commons Whitworth University Whitworth Alumni Magazine University Archives 1955 Alumni Magazine October 1955 Whitworth University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.whitworth.edu/alumnimagazine Recommended Citation Whitworth University , "Alumni Magazine October 1955" Whitworth University (1955). Whitworth Alumni Magazine. Paper 195. https://digitalcommons.whitworth.edu/alumnimagazine/195 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. • , I~~'\\ Vol.........XXIII~'n~~~L-----.",;.iIL.- ... -- ......O.:c:.t..o...be...r.., -19",S'"S---iIL-----...:;:---""'!"'" No.7 FALL REGISTRATIOM EXCEEDS LAST YEAR By Dean Alvin B. Quail The completed fall registration totals 836 with representatives from nine foreign coun- tries and twenty-four states plus seventeen students from Alaska and Hawaii. This num- ber is considerably above that of a year ago. There are currently fifteen students repre- senting nine foreign countries. These coun- tries include: Thailand, China, Germany, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, Costa Rica, Canada and Africa. The students from these far- away countries not only learn much con- cerning our ways but also bring us interest- ing accounts v[ customs and living in thei. homelands. The student population from the United States and Hawaii is represented as follows: WORK TO BEGIM SOOM OM CLASSROOM BUILDIMG! Washington, 577 (227 of which are from By action of the Board of Trustees, the contract is to be let and work begun on the third the city of Spokane); California, 69; Oregon, unit of our major building program. Two years ago the Administration Building, known as 44; Idaho, 42; Montana, 19; Colorado, 14; McEachran Hall, was constructed. The second unit located immediately by it, the W. H. Pennsylvania, 7; Oklahoma, 4; Minnesota, 4; Cowles Memorial Auditorium. is rapidly nearing completion. The third building and unnamed, New Jersey, 2; Utah, Georgia, Illinois, Ari- will be a modern classroom building housing some 18 \0 20 classe:. plus at least 9 offices. This zona, Texas, Wisconsin, Florida, and Canada, building is an imperative must in the con- each 2; Missouri, Maryland, Arkansas, Ne- struction of our educational plant. Every less we can complete some of the classrooms. braska, Iowa, New York, each 1; Alaska, 14; available inch of space for classrooms is in It will cost $107,000 to construct the frame- and Hawaii, 3. The freshman class is the use for our 836 students. Large classes arc work. This will not include heat nor lights. largest with 335 students. The sophomores crowded into small, inadequate rooms. Some The total cost for the entire building is an are second with 199. The juniors have 122 classes that should be taught cannot be, for amazingly low figure of $213,4t6.72l and there are 121 seniors. The combined lack of space. Each year the student body i., MEMORIAL ROOMS PLANNED number of special and graduate students is growing, and we realize that within just four According to President Warren, "Twenty 59. or five years we will be at the time when memorial classrooms at $5,000 each would Almost half of the student body, 45 per we know there will be at least twice as many mean the completion of the building!" Whit- cent, is Presbyterian with the Methodists and students of college age as there were just a worth College believes that there are friends Baptists tied for second place representation year ago. To be ready for even the slight throughout the nation who are vitally inter- with 98 each. Other prominent denomina- increase which would make possible a student ested in our program and who will make tions are: Episcopal, Mennonite, Nazarene, body of 1000, we must have these classrooms. possible the early completion of this much- Evangelical, United Brethren, Lutheran, As- Many of our present classes are meeting in a needed building. For those who want to help sembly of God, Mormon, Congregational, temporary wooden building situated at the but cannot undertake the cost of a classroom and Christian. The majority of these stu- rear of the campus-a building we obtained construction, there are beautiful offices too dents are preparing for the service profes- from the government. that could be memorialized. Even as we go sions which include teaching, medicine, min- CAN WE AFFORD TO BUILD AT THIS TIME? to press, one minister is confident that his istry, missionary service, and nursing. A fair question, but the truth is we can church will be able to make a room possible. better afford to start operations now rather One family, in hearing of the plan, has a learn, there is no logical reason why this than a year from now. Costs in construction promised a $5,000 gift. entire building cannot be ready for use by are steadily mounting. There is a possibility CAMPAIGN MONEY TO GO ON BUILDING September, 1956. Never has the need for of another increase in wages. If work can During the summer months a campaign Christian education been as great as today. begin this fall, and then be pushed on to was carried on in Spokane for our expansion It is essential that Whitworth, occupying a completion, several thousand dollars will be program. It has not stopped as yet. We have strategic place in the Northwest, be ready saved. in cash and pledges, approximately $100,000 to take the leadership along the line of a definite well-planned, broad, Christian edu- ONLY FRAME OF BUILDING TO BE that can go on this project. It is our earnest cation. The support of hundreds of thousands CONSTRUCTED NOW belief that hundreds of our friends who have made pledges will, if possible, hurry to com- of people these past few years has made pos- By order of the Board of Trustees, only sible the expansion of our plant and the the reinforced, brick frame will be done now. plete their girts and that many learning of this project, will increase theirs, so this work meeting of our obligations. The building of This will mean that this three-story building (Can't on page 4) will not be ready for this coming autumn un- may go forward. H we all work together as ANNUITIES AID 22nd Women's Conference WHISPERS AMONG WHITWORTH Held at Deer Lake THE PINES Dr. Fenton Duvall, Dean of Men, attended By President Frank F. Warren The annual Women's conference was held a conference arranged by the Northwest I want to share with my friends of Whit- at Deer Lake October 7, 8 and 9 and was Council of Guidance and Personnel Associa- worth an interesting and very satisfactory ex- devoted to the theme, "Awake." Topics for tions at Portland, October 21-22. Considera- the six planned meetings included "Awake, tion was given to such topics as student ori- perience. Representing the Board of Trustees, Thou That Steepest,' "Put on the Armor at entation and advising students from foreign 1 had the privilege and honor of negotiating Light," "Receive Ye Power," Walk in Him," countries. the largest annuity the College has ever re- "Watch Ye," and "Labor Together." The "Glass Menagerie," which was pre- ceived. The 'value of this annuity was in the Several outstanding speakers were invited sented as a benefit for the Waltz Family, neighborhood of $60,- for this special religious retreat. These in- was well attended by students and friends of 000. The donor ex- cluded Dr. Henrietta Mears, Director of Re- the College. The program was presented for pressed the hope that ligious Education at the Hollywood Presby- a period of two weeks. We are pleased to he would be able to terian Church and editor at' the Gospel Light report that Mary Waltz, who recently. under- make this $100,000 in Press material, and Miss Marion Jenkins, went surgery, is much improved and was the near future. Now, Whitworth's Dean of Women. able to attend the Homecoming football just what does this game. gift mean to the donor Dr. Mears, who is well known for her Mrs. Grace Carpenter is the newly appoint- and to Whitworth? forceful presentation and her practical appli- First, because of his cation 01 Bible knowledge, challenged the ed women's counselor for West Warren Hall. age, it will bring him students to alert Christian living through her She has already endeared herself to the girls Bible-centered messages and up-to-date illus- a return of $300 per through her charm and good humor. month as long as he and his wife live. He trations of how Christianity was being em- braced by youth today. will not have to worry about the invest- Helmuth Bekowies, Director of Admissions, ment of his money, but he will be assured Miss Jenkins, who has. recently returned has just returned from a trip to Oregon of this income, [or the College backs every from Beirut, told of her Far Eastern expe- where he has been meeting with several high annuity 100 per cent. It is the responsibility riences in her own inimitable style. 'I he school groups regarding their plans to attend girls reported that Miss Jenkins was better of the Board of Trustees to see that this college. After a quick trip back to Spokane than ever. large amount of money is safely and wisely for the Homecoming Banquet, Mr. Bekowies invested. This is handled by a committee of Mrs. Conah Mae Pratt, a 'prominent lead- has gone to the Olympic Peninsula for an- the Board in conjunction with a trust officer er in Spokane church work, lead the dedica- other week of student visitation.