ZIbe Comentan MORAVIAN COLLEGE STUDENT WEEKLY Volume LXVIII Pa. Bethlehem, Saturday, April 24, 1965 Number 23 Alumni Roundtable Nicaraguan Missionary Reviews Honors Receives Alumni Award Moravian College's honors pro¬ gram, in which superior students Mrs. A. David Thaeler Jr., whose adult life has been devoted are invited to take additional ac¬ .. .. to helping the ill while serving as an aide to her physician-husband ademic work in their senior years, was reviewed in Nicaragua, received the Comenius award from the Moravian at the Second Mon¬ day Roundtable of the Alumni College Alumni Assn. at a testimonial dinner Saturday, April 3. Assn. April 19 in the Mrs. Thaeler, whose husband College Union dining room. founded a mission hospital in Bil- Dean James J. waskarma, Nicaragua, was honor¬ Journalism Students Heller, moder¬ ator for the ed for her contribution in the panel of five persons, Tour Phila. Bulletin explained the program from the nursing - missionary field. More than 150 alumni paid tribute to positions of the student and fac¬ Interested students currently her at the annual award dinner ulty members. enrolled in the Journalism course in the College Union Panelists included Dr. Building. met at the Philadelphia Bulletin Lloyd L. The award is presented to an Burkhart, head of the building April 6 for a guided tour English alumnus "for Department and former chairman outstanding achieve¬ of the large-scale operation. ment" in commemoration of the of the honors committee; Dr. With two press lines each anniversary of the birth of Bishop long¬ Stuart S. Kulp, Chemistry De¬ er than a football John Amos Comenius, "the father field, an under¬ partment chairman and current ground freight line of modern education." permitting 14 honors committee head; Griffith railroad boxcars to unload news¬ Dr. Thaeler, who received the Dudding and Mrs. Beverly L. print at one time and the Comenius award in 1950, and Mrs. most Strohl, members of Moravian's modern typesetting Thaeler retired from the mission machines, the first honors class now on the fac¬ Bulletin today ranks field in November. But they have among the ulties of Muhlenberg and Cedar world's largest and most efficient not lived a life of retirement, com¬ Crest Colleges respectively, and newspaper operations. ing to the Mary M. Olin Clinic at Daily cir¬ Michael Young, Moravian senior culation has grown from 6,317 in Penney Farms, Fla., where Dr. with honors work in history who 1895 to the present figure of over Thaeler is a resident physician recently was awarded a Woodrow 700,000. The students saw each and Mrs. Thaeler a staff nurse. Wilson Fellowship. stage in the The alumni association publishing process, inaug~ Fifty - six from the students, including urated the award presentation in original gathering and eight candidates this year, have writing of the news to the dis¬ 19 41. First recipient was the late enrolled in the honors program Dr. Howard E. patching of dozens of local de¬ Rondthaler, Class inaugurated with the Class of of 1896, and former livery trucks. president of 1960. This year's candidates are: Salem These College, Winston - Salem, tours are scheduled hour¬ Bill Horwath, English; Jane Ju¬ N.C. ly, six days a week, and are open lius, English; Helen Kovach, Boston, photo by Haupert This year's award winner was to the public. A pamphlet giving Spanish; Jim Morgan, Psychol¬ the second woman recipient, join¬ a complete step-by-step descrip¬ ogy; Dick Schaffer, Biology; Tom ing Mrs. Mildred Diefenderfer tion of the Bulletin operation is Vadasz, History; and Mike Young, Ladner, Class of 1939, a wri¬ on file in the Library Annex. History. ter-journalist from Tulsa, Okla., College Choir On Move who was honored in 1962. Mrs. Thaeler is the former Mar¬ Wilson Fellows: garet Heidenreich; she received During her Vacation B.A. Spring degree from Moravian in The Moravian 1924 and her nursing degree in College Choir left the campus Monday, April I 2, Mike on a 1934 from the Kahler School of Gary Miller, Young three-day tour of New York and Massachusetts. Nursing at the Mayo Clinic. She The first stop was at Hastings-on-Hudson, New taught in the Moravian school in York, where the 70-voice Honored at group sang at a high school afternoon. This Bluefields, Nicaragua in 1924-29 Banquet Monday concert was when her father was a arranged by a former missionary Two Moravian College Wood- the Classics pastor there. Department, faculty pupil of the high school and pres¬ row Wilson Fellowship winners, advisers, presented and ent In husband Young member of the Choir, Lou assisting her with Michael B. Blackfriars Young, a senior ma¬ Miller respectively. Cadwell. hospital Mrs. Thaeler was duties, joring in history, and D. Gray Dean James J. a nurse, teacher, Heller spoke The same evening the Choir dietitian, cook, Miller, an honor graduate last briefly about the Wilson Present gardener, organist and laundress. Founda¬ Play gave a concert in New York City June, were honored by the col¬ tion, Dr. Clarke at the The couple has three children, G. Chapman Jr. City Tabernacle. This pro¬ lege Friday night, April 2, at a Mary, wife of Gordon of the Religion Department, on gram was jointly sponsored by the B. Mowrer dinner in the College Union Build¬ the Danforth By Sartre of Bethlehem; A. David Foundation, and Dr. Metropolitan Moravian Churches, Jr., form¬ ing. Herman E. Collier, chairman of St. John's erly with the Peace Corps, and Jean Paul Sartre's one act play, Baptist and North Pres¬ Young, of Red the now a resident of Lion, York, Department of Natural Sci¬ byterian Churches. Oxford, Ohio, No Exit, will be performed by the County, is considering offers of ence and The and John, a student at Salem Col¬ Mathematics, on the Na¬ students were housed for admission from Moravian College Blackfriars on lege. Harvard, Wiscon¬ tional Science Foundation. the night in private homes in the sin, and Columbia. Miller, 322 S. May 7 and 8 in Prosser Audi¬ Mrs. Elwyn Martin Mariner of Dr. Raymond S. Haupert, col- metropolitan area — including St. Lucas St., Allentown, is study¬ Arlington, Mass., a classmate of 1 e g e president, introduced Dr. torium. Under the direction of Manhattan, Long Island and the ing for a Ph.D. degree in classics Bronx. Choir Mrs. Thaeler, was toastmaster. Lloyd L. Burkhardt, chairman of Eugene Jacobson, the cast of members found that at Harvard. Three of Mrs. the English Department and even though this was a Mariner's brothers Dr. characters includes Mary Everett big and There were and a sister also are Moravian 1,385 students from Hwa Yol Jung, chairman of the dirty city, they were graciously 361 as Estelle, Steve Levine as Cra- received graduates. colleges chosen for fellow¬ Political Science Department, who by their hosts. Mrs. ships this deau, Robin Veluce as Inez, and Schantz The award was presented by year from more than spoke on career opportunities in received a bouquet of 11,000 as flowers Louis W. Bender of Doylestown faculty-nominated college college teaching. Burkhardt and Bruce Weaver the bellboy. from members of the host¬ seniors in R. 3, alumni the United States and Jung were recipients last ing church after the performance. president, and Dr. year of The play involves two women Raymond S. Canada. Recipients receive tuition the Lindback Foundation The next day the two chartered Haupert, college awards and one man locked up together and fixed buses fees at a graduate school for "excellence in t e a c h i n carried Choir members to president, reviewed the life of g." for eternity in one hideous room of their choice quite a Comenius in addition to $1,- These awards were made different environment — Bishop and the history possible in hell. As the plot evolves, each of the award. 800 for living expenses. a small New through a grant to the college by character's soul is shorn of its England town. Here, in The Rev. Robert - the trustees of the Christian Haverhill, the W. Woosley, Twenty five Moravian sopho¬ R. secrecy and hidden sins are mer¬ Massachusetts, mores and group performed at the First Jr., chaplain, delivered the in¬ and juniors whose aca¬ Mary Lindback Foundation cilessly exposed. Bap¬ tist Church vocation and Miss Mary Pongracz demic achievements qualify them of Philadelphia. as part of their 200th Tickets are available at the main provided piano dinner music. as superior students, as well as Anniversary Celebration. desk of the C.U.B. Curtain time is That The awards committee consist¬ seniors who were nominated this night, as in New York, 9:00 Graduate Record p.m. on May 7, following the the students ed of William H. year for national fellowships were Exams stayed in the private Gross, Free- movie. The invited Saturday night per¬ homes of members of the mansburg, Mrs. Alice F. Philips, to hear of opportunities Tuesday morning, May 4 Baptist formance will begin at 8:30 p.m., available from Woodrow Church. Miss Fannie Harrar, Miss Ruth Wilson Administered to all seniors following the hootenanny. Since The Choir travelled the Overfield, William Woodring, Eu¬ and other national fellowships. follow¬ Look for additional inform¬ there will be only two perform¬ ing gene E. McColm and Rev. Arthur Dr. J. Richard morning, Wednesday, to near¬ Jones, senior ation this week on the ances, it is suggested that stu¬ by Boston to do a little sight¬ Nehring, all Bethlehem, and Hen¬ professor of the History Depart¬ bulletin board. dents obtain their tickets as soon seeing before ry Schlegel of Nazareth. ment, and Dr. Walter Moeller of returning to Beth- as possible.