Digital Collections @ Dordt The Voice Archive University Publications 9-1955 The Voice, September 1955 Dordt College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcollections.dordt.edu/dordt_voice Recommended Citation Dordt College, "The Voice, September 1955" (1955). The Voice Archive. 275. https://digitalcollections.dordt.edu/dordt_voice/275 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the University Publications at Digital Collections @ Dordt. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Voice Archive by an authorized administrator of Digital Collections @ Dordt. For more information, please contact [email protected]. MIDWEST Published CHRISTIAN by the .IUNIOl:i: COLLEGE The Voice Executive Board September 1955 JUNIOR COLLEGE OPENS SEPTEMBER 14 Our Dedicatory Offering REGISTRATION SEPTEMBER We are very thankful for the wonderful dedicatory offer- 12 AND 13 ing we have received. We recorded the names and addresses History will be made in the Mid- west, September 14, when the Junior of all who sent an offering with the specific purpose of send- College will open its doors for class ing a personal thank-you to each. However, this became hum- work;. This ~i~l be the beginning of higher Christian education in the anly impossible to fulfil. As of today the offering is over tri-state area for the Christian Re- $3000 and the letters are still coming in. This means that the formed Church. We expect 'students from Nebraska, South Dakota, Min- average offering amounted to $6 per letter. Letters were re- nesota, Wisconsin, and Iowa. Local ceived from people living as far away as California, Arizona, students are asked to register in the mornmg of September 12 and those Georgia, Colorado, Maryland, Indiana, and Michigan. The bulk from long distances, September 13. of the mail, of course, came from the tri-state area. Many Cur room and board committee will be at the college in the afternoon of envelopes contained letters expressing their hopes and prayers September 13 to help students with for our Junior College. May we consider this note of public boarding places. acknowledgment, as a personal thank-you to all, who donated Tuition. Tuition will be determined on the so generously? If perchance some have forgotten about our basis of the zone in which a student dedicatory offering, it isn't too late to send it now. resides. The following zones have been established: Rev. C. Van Schouwen Zone 1. Extends up to ten miles from the college campus. For stud- ents residing within this zone the tuition is $140 per semester. Fa; two st~d~nts ~rom one family, residing Dedicatory Services It is very evident that the builders within this one, the tuition for each were not only anxious to fulfill every is $120 per semester. Our deicatory service was a won- detail of their contract, but they Zone 2. Extends up to 300 miles derful inspiration to all who attend- also were deeply concerned about from the college campus. For stud- ed. According to a conservative esti- the cause itself. They did more than ents residing within this zone the mate 1600 people were present. We what the contract stipulated! The tuition is $125 per semester. Fa; two met Junior College friends from board takes this opportunity to thank ~tude~ts from one. family, residing Kanawha, Pease, Bunde, Prinsburg, them for the wonderful building they in this one, the tuition is $105 per and the Dakota area. constructed. semester. Dr. William Spoelhof based his ---'v--- Zone 3. Extends up to 1000 miles remarks on 2 Cor-in. 3:11, "For other THE BUILDING COMMITTEE from Sioux Center. For students foundation can no man lay than residing within this one the tuition that which is laid, which is Jesus The members of our building com- mittee were: Henry Christians, Eg- is $95 per semester. F~r two stud- Christ." May the Lord our God ents from one family residing in this give us, as members of the board, bert Meyer, Richard Rozeboom, and Rev. H. Van Deelen. The members zone, the tuition for each is $75 per the faculty, and the constttu- semester. ency of the Junior College, the grace of this committee gave countless to fulfill the responsibilities, as in- hours of their time and effort gratis. Zone 4. Extends over 1000 miles dicated in this address. The vast They worked unobtusely behind the from Sioux Center. For students audience was an inspiration in itself. scenes. And yet it is due to their residing within this zone, the tuition In response to Dr. Spoelhof's ad- efforts that our goal was reached. IS $60 per semester. This is the min- dress, the audience sang, "God a1 zijn We thank them for their unstinted imum tuition. waarheid nimmer krenken; Maar efforts and their devotion to their Dur-ing the first year, a straight eeuwig zijn verbond gedenken , Zijn task. tuifion schedule will be followed woord wort altoos trouw volbragt. ---v"--- Higher tuition rates will not b~ Tot in het duizendste geslacht. t'Ver- OUR CONSTITUENCY charged for students belonging to bond met Abraham ztjn vrind, be- denominations other than the Chr-is- vestigt Hi] van kind tot kind." Without money the building could tian Reformed Church. Rental charge not be constructed. Large sums of Everybody went home elated, and for lockers IS included in the tuition money have been freely given by thankful. Twenty-five percent of the tuitio~ ---v--- many people throughout the Mid- must be paid at registration. Our DE STIGTER BROTHERS west. Our property is worth over a lockers, however, will arrive around hundred-thousand dollars. The mor-t- the first of October. All text-books Our building is completed. The gage on the building will be compar- can be purchased at the book-store keys were given to the chairman of atively smal l. A detailed financial A sufficient number of boarding the board at our dedicatory service. report will appear in the next issue places are available for out-of-town As we go through the halls and the of The Voice. Many thanks to you students. various class rooms, we cannot but all for your generosity and the sup- feel, "here is a job par excellence." port extended to our Junior College. (continued on page 3) , Page 2 THE VOICE September 1855 , I such tuition from parents, the par- tern . .. By a very conservative Editorial • • ochial status of Calvin is violated? estimate we need no less than 250 Shall we say, since Calvin receives (This should be 350. C.V.S.) adequate- $350,000 from the parents of our ly trained new teachers every year. students, Calvin is not a church This means at least twice as many THE POINT AT ISSUE school? Of course not? Why then as Calvin is training for service." do we make such inferences when We do not have the space to quote Non sequitur is a latin term and the situation is reversed? The Mid- the entire letter, but the contents means: it does not follow. Non se- west Christian Junior College is a r'er tam.ly is much cause for grave quitur is a fallacy committed when- parental school. Parents establish- concern. ever the conclusion is not a necessary ed the school, paid for it, govern it, February 14, 1955, another letter consequence of the premises. Oppon- and pay the tuition. If the college by the National Union was addressed ents of church quotas say, "It is the now receives partial support through to our consistories, involving a plan duty of the parents to train their quotas, have we the right to say for the consistories to help meet the children. Church quotas implies that such support violates the prin- teacher shortage. This plan suggests church controle and the training of ciple of parental schools. Of course a recruiting committee from the con- the children by the church. There- not. sistory to solicit young people from fore any form of quota support is The nature of a school is deter- their churches for the teaching pro- scripturally wrong," We believe mined by the group that governs it. fession. It furthermore suggests that this conclusion does not follow Calvin College is governed by the scholarships to be given by the con- from the premises. church. Since Calvin College is own- sistory to those that will prepare In our experience we find that op- d and governed by the church, it for the teaching profession. During ponents of church quotas for insti- i a church school, even though par- the month of July, the National tu ions of education will quote at long ents ntribute $350,000 annually by Union sent a letter to all teachers length many authorities to prove th~t way of tuition. The Midwest Chris- and leaders of the Christian School it is the work of the parents to tr-ain tian Junior College is owned and movement, containing a detailed their children and not of the church. governed by parents through their plan for consistories to follow in However, this is not the point at duly elected representatives. And helping to relieve the teacher short- issue. We are all committed to this even though the church may con- age. Consistories are urged to con- principle. The point that should be tribute to the college, either through tribute $300 per year towards a schol- proved is assumed. In what way offerings or quotas, it remains a arship fund to support prospective do church quotas violate the princi- parental school. Consequently, we teachers. ple of parental responsibility? I have cannot see why quotas violate the "Ve agree with the 'National Union never heard or read of any proof to principle of parental responsibility.