Spectrum Editorial Board Consulting Editors Editor Beverly Beem Koren Bottomley EdnoMoyeLcweJe. EngHsb, OJair History EngHsb Roy Branson Walla Walla College Canadian Ulion College La Sierra Umvenity Bonnie L. Edward Lugenbeal Roy Benton c_,. Antbropology Malhematical Sdeooes Wriler/Editor Atlantic Union College Senior Editor Columbia Union College Wasbiogtoo, D.C. Donold R. McAda.,. TomDybdahl Roy Branson Raymond Cottrell Presideol Ethics, Kennedy losl!tule 1beology McAdams, Faillace, and Assoc. Georgetown University Loma Uoda, California ClorkDovlo Ronald Numbera Assistant Editor Joy c-ano Colelnlln History of Medicine Freelance Wriler History Chip Cassano University ofWiscoosin- Federalsburg, Maryland La Sierra Uliversity Lawrence Geraty BenjomlnReoveo MoUcurU& Couper.­ President Pbysician President Book Review Editor oaicwood College St. Helena, California La Sierra Ulivenity Gary Chartier Fritz Guy Gerhard Svrc:ek.Seiler Gene Dotrorn Psycbiatrist Pbysician Theology Vienna, Austria Frederick, Maryland La Sierra Uliversity Production Helen Word Thompoon Bonnie Dwyer K.orl Hall Educational Administration Joumallsm Doctoral Candidate Chip Cassano College Place, Washington Folsom, California Harvard Unhoersity F. E. Harder LouloVenden TomDybdohl J, Religion Student Educational Administration Editorial Assistants Loma Uoda University University of Peoosylvaoia Law School College Place, Washington Alita Byrd Nor~n~~n Young Gary Land DovldLIII'SOil New Testament Krista Knapp History, Cbsir Director, Ethics Cenler Avondale College Andrews University Loma Uoda University Rennie Schoepnln History, Cbsir La Sierra University Charles Sc:riven President Columbia Union College Association of Adventist Forums OJT~eers Directors Regional Representatives President or Campus Relations Atlantic Lake LeoPIUon Kendra HaloYiok Gary Gilbert Donold Gillespie Vice President Doctoral Candidate Instructor Heallbcate Administrator Adventist Heallbcare Mid-Atlantic Graduate Theological Union Harvard Medical School Berrien Springs, Micbigao Vloe President Of Development Canadian (East) Norlhero Pacific Brent Geraty Ronald M. 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For individuals, and the volunt:uy efforts of the contnbutors and the staff. address changes, send old address label along with the new address. © 1997 All rights reserved Litho USA Vol. 26, No. 1, January 1997 FROM 1HE EDITOR Bringing the Dead to Life 2 ARTICLES SDA Hero Saves Jews From Nazis 3 Marta Fuchs Winik recounts how an unarmed Hungarian Adventist army officer saved the lives of 140 prisoners. SPECIAL SECTION TEACHERS AND STUDENTS Ottilie StaHord-creator of Worlds 10 Norman Wendth profiles the teacher who transformed her students' worlds. Growing Up on Zion's Holy Mountain 13 Delmer Davis remembers Pacific Union College and Graham Maxwell's reasonable God. Merge 14 Colleges Into Two? Yes! 20 Frank Knittel sounds the call for heroic action now. Merge 14 College Into Two? No! 29 Lawrence Geraty argues that diversity best serves the church's mission. The Art of Teaching the Bible 36 Ron Jolliffe's students respond artistically to Scripture. The Unembarrassed Adventist 40 Charles Scriven says Adventist professors should initiate students into conflict. DEPARTMENTS Reviews 51 Adventist English professors savage books on the New York Times best seller list. Responses 59 Readers respond to reports on Rwanda, Atlantic Union College, and creationist pilgrims in Carolina. FROM THE EDITOR Bringing the Dead To Life ell, Mr. Branson, if you're going to insist introducing them to a reasonable, accepting God. A on disagreeing with the rest of the class, professor reports that Walla Walla students are W why don't you come up to the front and startled, then enriched by artistic responses to defend yourself?" Scripture. From La Sierra University, we hear a My freshman composition teacher, Ottilie Stafford, debate raging over the fundamental structure of had assigned an essay for us to read. In class that Adventist colleges in North America, while Charles morning, she peppered us with questions, insisting on Scriven, the president of Columbia Union College, discussion. We struggled to analyze seriously the almost demands that Adventist colleges produce string of metaphors the essayist used to characterize partisans engaged in conflicts of ideas. the United States Constitution, including the Constitu­ tion as a dock to which the Ship of State could be eachers are asked to do the impossible. Despite tied. I became more and more convinced that the TAmerican youth typically being excited only about author was making fun of writers who use overblown the present, teachers are expected to stretch their language to express their religious-like devotion to the students' minds to encompass the past. The scientific Constitution, and finally said so. I hadn't counted on community assumes that the young will master the the tall, redheaded professor I had barely met chal­ longest-standing theories of what is and has been for lenging me to withdraw my views or support them, to a very long time. The nation demands that students put up or shut up. I'll never forget the fear and remember how it came to be a great civilization. The exdtement of that march to front of the class. I was church insists that those enrolled in Adventist schools amazed at what was going on. be exposed to-and care about-the memories of The word education just sits there-the very Hebrews and Christians written down over millennia. essence of boring. It is like civics, another word that Great teachers are totally undaunted. They do not brings yawns. (Politics, on the other hand, sounds drone on with endless facts about the long ago and like personality conflicts, public debates, boisterous far away. They shock the present with the past. They campaigns, parades, money, power-many different ridicule commonplace assumptions, rescue imagina­ things, both good and bad, but none of them tions from the trivial, bring students into the pres­ boring.) Instead of education to describe the special ence of the wisest, most fascinating personalities the section of this issue, we hoped "Teachers and world has known. Great teachers overwhelm the Students" would suggest the vivid personalities, the trash of the present with the vividness of humanity's conversations, the debates, the defeats and victories most enduring visions. In the presence of great that form the drama of college experience. Conse­ teachers, the forgotten and dead live again. Students quently, this issue includes profiles by former are astonished and transformed. In the presence of students revealing Ottilie Stafford stirring up Atlantic great teachers, students experience a resurrection. Union College and Graham Maxwell saving the faith of undergraduates at Pacific Union College by -Roy Branson 2 VoLUlfE 26, NuMBER 1 ARTICLES SDA Hero Saves Jews From Nazis An unarmed Hungarian Adventist army officer leads 140 Jewish prisoners to freedom. by Marta Fuchs Winik Y FATHER MET ZoLTAN KumNYr, THE MAN his holster. who saved his life and then lost his The labor battalion, number 108/52, was M own, in the spring