JUNE 1962 The

JUNE 1962 The

THE MORNINGSIDERis the official alumni publ- ication of Morningside College, Sioux City, Iowa JUNE 1962 The President's Pen The North Iowa Annual Conference has just closed its 106th session. On the Cover Probably the most significant action of the Conference related to Morningside and Cornell. Ray Toothaker '03, as Medicine Man Greathealer, The Conference approved the plans for the pro­ raises his arms in supplication as he intones the chant. posed Conference-wide campaign, which will be conducted in 1963 for the amount of $1,500,000.00, "O Wakonda, Great Spirit of the Sioux, brood to be divided equally between the two colleges over this our annual council." and used by them in capital, or building programs. For 41 years, Mr. Toothaker lhas played the part of Greathealer in the ceremony initiating seniors into The Henry Meyer & Associates firm was em­ the "Tribe of the Sioux". ployed to direct the campaign. The cover picture was taken in one of the gardens Our own alumnus, Eddie McCracken, who is at Friendship Haven in Fort Dodge, Iowa, where Ray co-chairman of the committee directing the cam­ resides. Long a highly esteemed nurseryman in Sioux paign, was present at the Conference during the City, he laid out the gardens at Friendship Haven, first three critical days and did much in his work plans the arrangements and supervises their care. among laymen and ministers to assure their con­ His knowledge and love of trees, shrubs and flowers fidence in the program. He presented the official seems unlimited. It is a high privilege to walk in a statement to the Conference for action and spoke garden with him. to the motion. His dynamic leadership has been Morningside College is deeply indebted to Ray invaluable to us and will be a source of much Toothaker for his great loyalty as an alumnus. help in the months to come. To all those members, both lay and ministe­ rial, of the North Iowa Conference who supported us in this action, I wish to give my sincere thanks and solicit your continued prayerful concern to­ ward the successful completion of the campaign one year hence. Joe Hale Memorial Significant also was the action of the Confer­ ence in electing Mr. Leon Hickman, class of '22, Students in the classes of Joe Hale have as chairman of the Board of Trustees of Morning­ started a memorial fund to commission a side College. Mr. Hickman has served on the portrait of Mr. Hale by Wm. Zimmerman of Board of Trustees for many years and we are looking forward to his leadership with deep anti­ the Art department. They have written to cipation and appreciation. former students to finance the project. Any President Palmer persons wishing to contribute to the portrait may send their check to the college ear­ New Dimensions marked for the Joe Hale portrait. We hope you have noticed that the Morning­ sider has taken on new dimensions. The cost for printing a publication of this size is no greater than our former size for the same amount of printed material. The larger THE MORNINGSIDER dimensions allow for more variety of layout, etc. A. W. BUCKINGHAM ---- --- - -------- P ublic Relations LOUIS CROSTON ------------------------------ Editor E nter ed at t he Postoffice at Sioux City Iowa as Second We hope you like this size and we hope you Class Matter under Act of Congress, August 24, 1912. like the contents. The Morningsider is printed Published four times a year in September, December, March and June by Morningside college, Sioux City 6, for you. Iowa. 2 liberal arts college of medium size that human dedication and money can achieve. In the tur­ bulent days that lie ahead, our way of life will need nothing more than men and women of the breadth of knowledge, wisdom and compassion that can best be achieved in a medium sized Christian college dedicated to the liberal arts. Vocational training and pre-professional courses are important but not as significant as an empha­ sis on the liberal arts. "There will be students aplenty in the years ahead if we have a dedicated and competent faculty of Christian teachers and adequate facili­ ties. These are within our reach. Morningside College has long enjoyed an unusual support from Sioux City and other communities of Northwest Iowa, from the Methodist Church and those of other Christian faiths, and from a body of alumni who are steadily increasing in number and in­ fluence. "There is no reason why we should not build at Morningside a Christian liberal arts college of unique significance. I, for one, am committed to the achievement of that goal." Hickman Delivers Baccalaureate Address Leon Hickman '22, newly elected president of the Col­ lege Board of Trustees, delivered the baccalaurate address to the class of 1962 at Grace Church on Sunday, June 3. The title of his address was The Role of the Christian College. He said that only four percent of the nations young men and women went to college when Morningside was founded, but today thirty five percent are enrolled. "When Morningside was founded a substantial majority of all college students attended colleges or universities which had been founded by churches," he said. He went on to say that today sixty percent of all col­ lege students are enrolled in municipal or state colleges Hickman Elected President or universities and according to prediction that figure would rise to eighty percent by 1985. of College Board of Trustees The speaker said "The church related college can make Leon Hickman '22 was elected president of the four valuable contributions: Morningside College Board of Trustees at their It can maintain student communities that are relatively annual April meeting. small, it can emphasize the liberal arts, it can maintain a freedom from government and it can teach Christian Hickman is the executive vice president of the values." Aluminum Company of America. He is a mem­ ber of the American Pennsylvania Bar Associa­ "Without the pressures of graduate work, it should be tion and is on the committee on corporate law possible to build a faculty around the concept of great departments in the association's section on corp­ teaching rather than the publication of works of re­ oration, banking and business law. He is very search," he said. active in the work of t he Methodist Church on an Hickman stated that the great contribution of the area level as well as a local and conference level. liberal arts college to contemporary civilization should be in the social sciences. Mrs. Hickman is the former Mayme Hoyt '24. She and Leon live at 829 Osage Road in Pitts­ Athletic Department Wants Pictures burg, Pennsylvania. The Athletic department is seeking pictures of The new president of the board said of the former Morningside Coaches to place in the Saun­ College: derson Lounge in Allee gymnasium. Any size is "Morningside College will be what we make it. solicited. They will be redone to uniform sizes. We have a number of choices open to us. In my Send them to the Athletic Department, Morning­ judgment the most promising is to build the best side College, in care of Charles Obye. 3 Maribeth Squires Bones, gave the invocation, and Steve Pohlman, Sib­ ley, Iowa, welcomed those present for the services. Miles Tommeraasen told of the construction of the Commons and ex­ plained the materials placed in the cornerstone box. President J. Richar d Palmer spoke on "The Commons". A message from the board of trustees was given by David W. Stewart, president of the board, followed by a benediction by Dr. Allen K. Jackson, chaplain. Dimmitt Hall Addition Ready Soon The new addition to Dimmitt Hall will be ready for occupancy when the 1962-63 school year opens in Septem- ber. The unit is four stories high, Matching the three floors of the ori­ ginal building with the hill slope Lay Cornerstone student body president for 1961-62; allowing a ground level floor. This and A. W. Buckingham, president of ground level floor has four apart­ For Commons the student council at the time of the ments for married students. There The cornerstone for the Commons installation of the first student union, will be 43 dormitory rooms housing building was laid in ceremonies held and financial statements concerning two girls each. at 10:.30 a. m. Monday, May 14. Fol­ the construction of the Commons. lowing regular chapel services at Arrangements have already been As the accompanying photograph 10 a. m. at Geor.ge M. Allee gymna­ made for the opening of the box in shows, the new unit connects on to sium, students proceeded to the Com­ 1987, for the 25th anniversary of this the north end of the east wing ex­ mons site for the ceremony. June's graduating class. Miles Tomm- tending toward Allee Gymnasium along Vine A venue. The small cornerstone box con­ eraasen, executive vice-president of tained various editions of the Col­ the college stated, "It will be inter­ The total cost of the new building legian Reporter, giving progress of esting to see how the 'guestimates' of is $235,000 and is being financed by the planning and construction of the the Morningside future will turn the contractor. It will be paid for Commons. There were also various out." from funds procured in the Morning­ pictures, a copy of the President's At the Dedicatory services David side - Cornell joint Campaign to be Twelve Year Blueprint, letters from Bones, Wahoo, Nebraska, student run in the North Iowa Conference President Palmer, Steve Pohlman, body president, son of Herbert and beginning in 1963.

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