mtrer  
Vol.  
Fine Arts Talent Now Revealed 
In Second Annual Kaleidoscope  
Kaleidoscope—A week of fine arts on the campus  
of Union College. The week of April 23-May 2 will be 
the second annual Kaleidoscope. During this week the  
artists of the college display their talent through su- 
pervised displays and presentations.  
The first presentation will  
be some oral interpretations, 
staged by the speech depart-
ment in die College Gymna-
sium on April 23. Sunday, April 
25, will he the big <]ay of the 
festival. A fashion show will 
take plaoe showing the talents  
in die field of dress designing  
and clothing construction. All  
of the entries will be on dis- 
play in die Rees Hall Club  
Room. Ribbon awards will be  
given to student and faculty 
entries.  
A guest artist's works will be  
on display. Concerts of original  
compositions will l>e inter-
spersed throughout the week. 
On Monday, Wednesday and 
Thursday, films will be shown  
pertaining to the Kaleidoscope  
theme.  
Tho featured artist will be  
Stephen Pol chert, potter. Mr.  
Polohert has attended Layton  
School of Art, Wisconsin State 
College, .and Cranbrook Acad- 
emy of Art, where he received  
Jiis MFA and BFA degrees. Mr.  
Polchert combines teaching  
with painting. He has taught  
at the Joslyn Art Memorial,  
D ana College, University of 
Omaha, College of St. Mary,  
and Boy's Town Ceramic De- 
department. There will be an 
exhibit of his works.  
The week will end with a  
program by the Concert Winds 
featuring Dennis Schneider,  
solo trumpet player of the Lin- 
coln Symphony Orchestra and 
tho University marching band.  

UNION COLLEGE, LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, APRIL 29, 1965  No. 15  
1965 Golden Cords  
Available Soon;  
75th Year Emphasis  
"The 1965 Golden Cords will  
be presented to the students 
SOON," incicated Kit Watts,  
editor-in-chief. A more specific  
announcement will be made to 
the student lxxly shordv in  
advance of die delivery. Al-
though a tentative date has been  
set die delivery will pend on  
technical operation and output 
of the press and binder)' in-
volved .  
Special features to look for  
in the book are the dieme car-
ried through the book of pho-
tography and literary work, the  
unique organization of the ac- 
tivity section, and the page  
increase which allows more pic- 
tures of student life as such.  
The cover, introduction, di- 
vision pages, and olose are de- 
veloped to add conti nuity to 
the book.  
"Aldiough this is not offi- 
cially the 75th anniversary  
yearbook," commented the ed- 
itors, "we have brought in the  
activities which took place on  
the campus already in this con- 
nection, as the February 7 re-
enactment of choosing the site 
for UC. Additionally, there is 
emphasis on the college itself,  
it's ideals, pioneer heritage, and 
greatest traditions."  
BE ALERT FOR THE NEXT  
ANNOUNCEMENT. BE ON  
HAND TO RECEIVE YOUR  
'65 Golden Cords.  
Walla Walla's Dr. Brown  
Honors Honor Students  
Union College students hav- 
ing met the specified require- 
ments will be given recognition  
at the twenty-seoond annual  
Honors Convocation to be held  
Friday morning, Apr. 30, at  
9:20 in the college auditorium.  
The program will begin with  
scripture and prayer by Dr.  
G. E. Thompson ('51), prin- 
cipal of the Seventh-day Ad- 
ventist schools of Lincoln. The 
presentation of honor students 
by Dr. George L. Caviness, 
Academic Detyi of Union Col-
lege, will express in a limited  
way die pride  of the Union  
College family for these high- 
achieving students. Dr. Ray W.  
Fowler, President of Union 
College, will give recognition  
to the honor students. Alumni  
scholarships and other awards 
will be given out to the respec- 
tive iindividuals after which Dr.  
Robert Brown ('40), Vice-
President of Academic Affairs  
it Walla Walk College, College  
Place, Wash., will highlight  
the occasion with his address, 
directed espocially to the honor  
students. Concluding the con- 
vocation, Dr. E. M. Cadwallad- 
er, Professor Emeritus of Ed- 
catiion, will proncunce the 
benediction. Music is yet to be  
arranged.  

The program of the first  
Honors Convocation, held on  
May 8, 1944, stated the still- 
existing regulations that all 
students to be recognized must  
have a "B" average in all sub- 
jects and must have carried a  
minimum of twelve semester  
hours per semester during the  
two preceding semesters. The  
exception is freshmen who must  
have a "B" average in the work  
of the first semester of their  
college career.  
The first convocation of 1944  
honored 52 students, 10.7 per  
cent of their enrollment totally  
495. Higher in comparison to  
die above stated is the 1965  
Honors Convocation honoring  
15.2 per cent of our 1131 total  
enrollment.  
Those participating in the  
initial convocation were Dr.  
G. C. Jorgensen, now retired at  
Angwin, Calif.; Elder P. C.  
James, then dean of men at  
Union College and now head  
of the Religion Department; Dr.  
Everett Dick, Research Profes- 
sor in History still on Union  
College campus; Elder E. E. 
Cossontinc, presently the Sec- 
retary of the Department of  
Education in the General Con- 
erence; and Estelle Kiehnhoff, 
now deceased.  

Parade Celebration—'Tassels and Trade'  
"Tassels and Trade Together, 75 Years of Com- 
munity Growth" is the theme of the anniversary pa-
rade planned for May 2, 4:00 p.m., according to D. W. 
Holbrook, chairman of the steering committee for the  
75th anniversary celebration.  
Mr. George Preece, President of  the College View  
Lions Club and President of Mid-State Pest Control  
will be the Grand Marshal.  
Nebraska's Governor Morrison and Lincoln's May- 
or Peterson will ride in the parade and be present in  
the reviewing stand along with college presidents and  
other distinguished personnel.  
The parade will be heralded by die Union College  
TrumPets, the Parade  Marshal and the Shrine Mounted  
Colors.  
High school bands from Lincoln Northeast, Lin- 
coln Southeast, Pius X, and Waverly will participate.  
There will be floats representing the following  
businesses: Roberts Dairy, Union Bank, Mohr's I.G.A.  
& Mr. B, Beatrice Foods, Dairy Queen, Sullivan Lum- 
ber Co., Gotfredson Motors, Huenink's "66" Service, 
Appliance Doctor, Bradley Decorating, Bonita's Coif-
fures, Gustafson Sheet Metal and Alice's Restaurant,  
Union College Industries, Dog & Suds, Hornung Hard- 
Alumni Weekend Activities Will  
Feature UC Graduates Come Home  
Homecoming weekend is a  
fun-filled busy time where old 
friends and classmates are able 
to renew friendships and rem- 
inisce a bit.  
The International Room in  
the college  dining hall will be  
the setting for the annual Gold- 
en Anniversary Club luncheon. 
This is an exclusive club of  
people who have graduated  
from Union College at legist  
fifty years ago. President Char- 
les Plumb, M.D., '13, of Grants 
Pass, Ore., and secretary, Miss  
Mertio Wheeler, '00 of Lincoln,  
Nebr., will be on hand to wel- 
me the new members, the  
class of 1915, to diis club.  
The classes of 1915 and 1940  
will be honored at a tea Friday  
afternoon in the Home Eco- 
nomics Department.  
The theme of die weekend  
"The Laying of the Corner-
stone" will also be carried out 
in the Sabbath morning sermon 
by Elder Arthur Mazat, '40,  
manager of the periodical de- 
partment at the Pacific 'Press.  
Joyce Anderson, '63, will be  

guest organist at the Hour of 
Praise in Engel Hall Sabbath  
afternoon. Miss Anderson is  
currently teaching music at 
Minneapolis Junior Academy  
and is working on her Master's  
degree.  
Later in the afternoon a sac- 
red varioty concert presented by 
the Ladies' and Men's Chonis  
will be given in the College 
View Church under die direc- 
tion of Lyle Jewell, '51, and  
Mrs. Shirley Holzer.  
LaVeta Payne, Ph.D., '40, is  
the guest speaker at the Sunset  
Vesper Hour Sabbath after- 
noon. Dr. Payne is the chair- 
man of the education depart- 
ment at Atlantic Union College.  
She has chosen as her subject  
"In the Shadow of the Clock-
Tower."  
The annual business meeting  
will be held Saturday evening.  
N. W. Rowland, Ph.D. '47,  
will be the chairman of the  
meeting. One important item  
on the agenda is the election of 
new officers for the coming  
year.  

ware, Kuehl Groceries, Western Power & Gas Co., and 
Kremer Real Estate.  
Other features include a conestoga and oxen, trol- 
ley, calliope, C.C.P.D. Truck, sheriffs posse, Model A 
Club, Shrine Motor Patrol, horse patrol, and Elks  
Clowns.  
Organizations presenting parade entries are: Col- 
lege View Pathfinders, Girl Scouts, Nebraska Confer- 
ence of SDA, Boots and Saddles 4-H Club, Christian  
Record, Central Union Conference of SDA, North-
side SDA Church, Lions Club, Teachers of Tomor- 
row, Class of 1965, and Union College Associated  
Student Body and Missionary Volunteers.  
A reviewing stand will be situated near the "rock  
pile" on the UC campus. Besides the previous mention- 
ed personnel, a board of judges will view the parade  
from this point. The judges are Ed Schultz, Helen  
Boosalis, and W. M. Swanson.  
Plaques and trophies will be given to winners in  
the three float divisions: businesses, organizations, and  
individuals. In addition there will be awards for the  
floats judged most beautiful, most appropriate to the  
theme and most unusual.  
The parade will form at Normal Boulevard and  
Antelope Circle. From there it will travel south on  
48th Street to Prescott Avenue where it will turn  
east. 
There will be an open house at Union College and  
the College View businesses before and after the pa-
rade. Downtown businesses are paying for full-page  
ads in local newspapers congratulating the college 
and surrounding community on their 75th anniversary.  
The parade will receive complete coverage by  
local radio, TV, and newspaper. The 16-page CLOCK  
TOWER issue being released prior to the occasion ii  
part of the plans for the anniversary celebration.  
"This celebration is to remind us of the growth  
of Union College and College View," said Dr. Hol-
brook. "The emphasis lies in the cooperation and work- 
ing together of college and community."  
Paul De Booy is chairman of the parade commit- 
tee. Other members include: Mrs. Eugene Schander,  
Sec.; Ross Elliott, Consultant from Gold's; Howard 
Golfredson; George Preece; James Pogue; Mclvin Hill;  
and George Gott.  
The "75" Committee, in charge of the overall  
planning of the 18 months celebrating, is composed of 
the following members: D. W. Holbrook,  Chairman,  
L. G. Barker, Mrs. Reuben Beck, Asa A. Christensen,  
Wendell Cobleigh, P. M. De Booy, E. N. Dick, D. C. 
Duffield, R. W. Fowler, Howard Gotfredson, George  
Gott, Dr. Melvin Hill, Carl Nord, Mrs. Virginia Ogden,  
James Pogue, W. I. Rankin, Dr. Neil Rowland, Mrs.  
Eugene Schander, Dr. Gerry Thompson, and Dr. L. W. 
Welch.


2  CLOCK TOWER  April 15, 1965  
VW On Porter Campus 
For Public Health Use  
In order to help transport  
public health service person- 
nel, the Denver campus of  
Union  College has recently pur- 
chased a Volkswagen.  
The new car was picked up  
In Texas by Dick Kannenlierg, 
Denver campus ASB president. 
He drove the beige 1965 auto  
to Denver where it will prove  
useful for the nursing students  
as they travel from home to  
home in community services.  

Lamb and Chase to Calif.  
Cadet N urses' Convention  
Misses Delia Lamb and El Donna Chase are cur- 
rently attending the 1965 "National Student Nurses' As-
sociation Convention" at San Francisco, Calif.  
There will he hundreds of student nurses coming  
from all parts of the United States. Fifteen  student  
nurses will be attending from Nebraska. There will be  
lodging provided for all Adventist nurses at Pacific  
Union College. The meeting, whose theme is "Today—  
The Bridge to Tomorrow," will close May 3.  
Delia Lamb, recently chosen  
"Nebraska State Nurse of the 
Year," will be going as the  
third voting delegate from Ne- 
braska. She will bo graduat-
ing from Union College this  
year. This pert, brown-haired,  
brown-eyed girl from Murray,  
la., has also been chosen to  
"Who's Who Among Students  
in American Universities and  
Colleges."  
Delia's leadership is unques- 
tioned. Her offices include:  
Nurses' Club President, Spe-
cial Prwluctions Committee 
Chairman, Denver Girls' Club 
President, and reporter of the  
Union College school paper.  
Scholastioallv, she has main- 
tained an "A" average in her 
college work. Some of her spe- 
cial interests are music, art,  
literature, and sewing. Her in- 
terests are so varied tliat for  
a time she could not decide 
what course of study to take  
up. Delia is found to be a  
very friendly and ambitious 
person, report her classmates.  
For her future work, Delia  
plans to teach Public Health 
Nursing.  
El Donna Chase, a soph- 
omore Union College student  
from No. Dak., has not only  
given much time and effort to  
the nursing department, but  
has given help and leadership  
in various extra-curricular ac-
tivities on campus.  
She is currently "State Cor- 
responding Secretary" for "The 
Nebraska State Student Nurses'  
Association." She has been  
president of the "Triple Sigma  
Nursing Club." El Donna has 
served as member of the Stu-
dent Council, Promotions Com- 
mittee, and Committee of Ten.  
Aside from also being student 
secretary to Dr. Holbrook, she  
lias managed to maintain a high  
academic average.  
El Donna has many interests,  
but she especially likes out- 
d<x>r activities, including horse-
back riding, boating, camping, 
and flying. Cooking and sew- 
ing are favorites also.  
El Donna plans to continue  
her training at the clinical di-
v ision of the Porter campus.  

Denver Prayer Week  
Held by Elder Jarnes  
Elder Peter Jarnes, chairman  
of the religion department,  
was the speaker for the Spring  
Week of Prayer on the Denver  
Campus recently.  
His topic for the week was  
"A Christ-Centered Life," in 
which practical Christianity in 
all aspects of daily living was 
emphasized. Each meeting  
opened with a song service 
after which die themo song,  
"Power of Heaven," was sung.  
Special music wis provided  
by various ones in the commu-
nity. A large number of stu- 
dents attended the voluntary 
prayer bands following the eve- 
ning meetings.  
While on the Denver cani- 
pus, Elder Jarnes also took  
charge of two religion classes.  

SAT.  NIGHT  
Trumpeter Schneider  
Soloist at Final 
UC Winds Program  
Dr. Hill and Union College  
Concert Winds will present 
their final concert of the 196-1- 
65 season featuring trunipel 
soloist, Dennis Schneider, Sat-
urday, May 1, at 8 p.m.  
Mr. Schneider will play two  
numbers with the band, "Dra-
matic Essay" bv Williams and 
"Jimala Beguin" b. Burke. The 
Concert Winds will also plav a  
symphony by Faust, "Finiculi  
Finicula," and the festival ar-
rangement of "Stars and Stripes  
Forever" featuring the trom- 
bone and trumpet sections. Bv 
popular request tliev will plav  
"Night Flight to Madrid" 
which they played for a chapel  
concert. The program will also  
include some bright marcher  
and "Music for a Summer  
Night."  
Besides teaching at the Uni- 
versity of Nebraska, Mr. Schnei- 
der is the first trumpet and  
soloist for the Lincoln Sym- 
ihonv and the Municipal band.  
He a'so plays on tours with  
the University band. He was  
the soloist with the Strategi-
Air Command band in Omaha,  
Nebr., for -3 years. Mr. Schnei- 
der has also been awarded the  
Junior Chamber of Commerce  
Distinguished Service Award 
in Fall City, Nebr.  
In addition to his work at the  
University, Mr. Schneider Is a  
judicator and clinicator for the  
whole state. This work  consists  
of traveling throughout the  
state to judge at contests and  
to hold band clinics. In Fall 
Citv, lie was the director of  
music for the public schools.  
In spare time Mr. Schneider  
enjoys golfing and photography.  
His family includes three chil- 
dren ranging in age from 8 to 
2Js. His oldest daughter, aged 8, 
has started taking piano les-
sons, "but" he says "she isn't 
very good yet."  

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January 13, 1966  CLOCK TOWER  
Intramural Softball Dominates  
Union's Spring Sports Front  
by Bob  
Spring once again returns to  
Union College and with it  
oomes the call of "play ball"  
from the athletic field. Softball  
is the center of sports activity  
every evening from 5 till 6:30,  
Sunday through Thursday. In 
A league action we note the  
oonspicuous absence of Gene  
Johnson from the list of pit- 
chers. The strong teams in A  
league appear to be Stephens- 
Pritchard and Fleming-Seeger. 
However, Stephens has had two  
close calls. In a head to head  
meeting between the two, Ste-
phens came away the winner.  
Trying to forecast the order  
of finish in any sport is risky, 
but we'll try to evaluate each  
team's strength and make pre- 
dictions. First place should go  
to Stephens, who has the best  
all around team. They boast  
good hitting (Achord, Scott,  
Pritchard, Stephens), good 
pitching (Stephens), and a  
solid infield. Their weakest  
area seems to be the outfield,  
and that is not bad. Fleming 
looks good for seoond place. 
They should beat everyone but  
Stephens with their combina-
tion of average fielding, aver- 
age hitting and steady pitching. 
Their strongest positions ar?  
->itcher (Fleming) and catcher  
(Seeger). For diird place we  
pick the Hixson-Lang team.  
Hixon appears to be a pitcher  
widi good control, but not 
much speed. Their infield and  
outfield are not strong. In the  

Bischoff  
hitting department Carl Water- 
brook and Dennis Bartel will  
supply some runs, but not 
enough to offset the defense. 
The Daniels-White team has 
an excellent shot at fourth 
place. They gave Stephens a  
few grey hairs in thoir game  
(a misjudged fly ball which  
would have been the last out 
lost it) and they possibly could 
play the role of spoilers. Al- 
though their hitting seems to 
be adequate, their defense (7  
errors in one game) doesn't  
hold up.  
STANDINGS  
Stcphens-Pritchard 3-0  
Fleming-Seeger 1-1 
Hixson-Lang 1-2  
Daniels-White - 0-2  
We haven't seen much of B  
league action diis year, but will  
venture predictions on die fin- 
ish anyway. First place, Schultz.  
Second, Ras. Third, Kaiser.  
Fourth, Hopkins. Fifth, Wick- 
strom. Sixth, Humpel. One  
player that has been observed 
playing good ball in B league  
is Ramsey Robinson. On one  
occasion the A league game in 
play on the south end of the  
field had to  be stopped momen- 
tarily as a long home run by-
Ramsey dropped in  right field.  
STANDINGS  
Ras 2-0 
Kaiser 2-1 
Schultz 2-1  
Hopkins 1-1  
Humpel 0-2  
Wickstrom .. 0-2  Gymnastics—part of Union's "balanced" education  
Athletic Program Necessary in Balanced Education  
Bischoff  
opponent in basketball may well be your teammate  
in softball.  

by Bob  
Education, as outlined by Mrs. E. G. White, is a  
three-faceted learning process involving the spiritual,  
mental and physical. Placing an improper emphasis on 
any one of these facets results in an imbalance which  
hampers the effectiveness of the whole. To add 10  
;nches to one leg of a 3-legged stool without equally  
adjusting the other legs would not improve the use-
fulness of the stool. Whether it involves the muscle 
bound moron, the religious fanatic, or the educated  
egghead is immaterial, the system is not in balance.  
Just a minute, you say. Hasn't the muscular moron  
produced a magnificent physique? Isn't the fanatic a 
dedicated individual? And, doesn't the egghead un- 
cover great scientific advancements? Shouldn't their  
achievements be praised? Obviously they should be.  
However, how much more could have been accom- 
plished through proper application of a well-balanced 
program? Mrs.  White indicates that as a person de- 
velops all facets of learning in the proper proportion, 
the person will be able to realize a higher degree of 
achievement than if he had concentrated his efforts 
in one area alone.  
Union College, as a Christian school of higher  
learning, intends that the students who leave her cam- 
pus will have developed a well-balanced Christian  
character. To insure the realization of this goal Union  
College provides facilities for each facet of learning. 
Spiritual development is emphasized in worship pe-
riods, Sabbath services and special weeks of prayer.  
Mental development is realized through dedicated in- 
struction, daily classroom participation and individual  
application. Physical development is promoted through 
effort, physical education instruction and recreational  
activities organized under an intramural sports pro- 
gram.  
To have  or not to have is a question which always  
irises concerning intramural sports in an SDA college  
program. The issue involved in this question is the 
competitive rivalry which arises between organized  
teams. Those in favor of abolishing the intramural pro- 
gram insist that competition produces an unchristian  
"down with you and up with me" attitude in the indi- 
vidual. Undoubtedly, this happens in the intramural 
program at Union to a degree. The final decision  
should involve an evaluation of the merits of the pro- 
gram as compared to the demerits.  
The intramural program at Union has been set up  
with the objective of providing proper physical exercise  
to compliment the spiritual and mental development  
of the individual. The program includes volleyball,  
football, basketball and softball. Different teams arc 
chosen for each sport and for this reason long lasting  
rivalries are discouraged. The same person who is your  

The abolitionist argues, however, that individual  
exercise will adequately provide for the conditioning of 
the body. This is true, but how many individuals main-
tain such a program. Intramural sports offer a regular, 
planned program of fitness.  Also, intramural sports  
provides Christian association for individuals who do  
not have other common interests. Good sportsmanship  
is stressed and with a few exceptions it is realized.  
The intramural sports program at Union provides  
for positive physical fitness and is an integral factor 
in the development of a Christian education.  
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The Third  Strike  
by Ron Hixson  
Connie Mack, late owner of the Philadelphia Ath- 
letics, endeared himself to a generation of Americans by  
managing the A's alone, sitting in the dugout wearing a  
straw skimmer and waving his scorecard in an occasional  
complaint. It was the same generation that cheered and  
booed easy-going Babe Ruth, bleary-eyed Grover Cleve- 
land Alexander, and grubby-trousered Ty Cobb as they 
scrapped and swore, chewed tobacco and played in such  
a manner as to keep their fans gasping. But every after- 
noon they would return for more—the farmer, the baker, 
the fireman, and the candle-stick maker. They came to 
eat popcorn and hot dogs, to cheer their heros and boo  
the umpires. These people, from all walks of life, sat on  
wooden seats that splintered and sometimes sagged 
but somehow added to "baseball atmosphere." This  
"baseball atmosphere" which existed in Mack's day  
seems to be taking on a complete overhaul.  
Baseball club owners stand in the batter's box with  
a growing concern over the rapidity of the strikes being  
thrown at or by them. In baseball, as in acting, day 
dreaming can produce a bad play or lose a close game. 
But the club owners keep dreaming. They feel like they 
have been thrown a curve as they woke-up to the pres- 
ent situation of baseball. The combination of baseball 
and show business today is increasing the demand for 
good actors. But in their eagerness for more and more 
money and bigger and better acts the owners have taken  
their eyes off the ball. The spotlight of success has blind- 
ed their vision.  
Last August the American League gave their Seal  
of Approval to the purchase of the New York Yankees by  
CBS. Strike one.  
As it often happens, loyal fans are the last to hear  
grim news. So it was in Milwaukee as faithful supporters  
were the last to get the word when the Brave's director-
ate decided to move their studios to Atlanta. Strike two.  
Then the tension mounted, TV cameras zeroed into  
the action, and all of baseball left their TV dinners un-
touched to watch how the pitcher would pitch the next  
one. The catcher signaled to the pitcher who responded  
to the call by throwing what most people considered the  
third strike to all baseball owners.  
What has been called "the eighth wonder of the  
world" is now the home (or should I say the planet) for  
the Houston Astros, Texas' contribution to the space 
race. However, it looks as if the Astros won't reach the  
moon, let alone the N.L. Championship, until they can  
get rid of a few "bugs." Two of these are the present  
actors and the bubble blunder. It seems as if it is easier  
to follow the North Star at noon than follow fly balls in 
the new Astrodome. During early practice sessions ball 
players resembled mice running from their own shad- 
ows. Humorous as it seems, it's an expensive joke.  The  
710-foot-wide umbrella of glass and steel has moved 
baseball out of the rain and heat into glaring sunshine  
at an expense of $31.6 million.  
All the discussions, arguments, and articles on the  
bubble blunder of glaring sunshine has brought a Rus- 
kin statement to mind: "Of human work none but what  
is bad can be perfect, in its own bad way." If this be  
true, Houston has the most perfect studio of diem all.  
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2  2 CLOCK TOWER  January 13, 1966  
Editorials  
Challenge: Marriage plus Studies am m„jc nn Rr**rrJI  
To the single observer, mar- that a couple normally spends ' I iQllUb I I DUQlU •  
GUEST EDITORIAL  
Union Has It  
by David Kinsey  
ASB President-Elect  
What should I look for in a college? . . .  
Find a college offering a high quality education  
from skilled and qualified teachers. . .  
Union has it  
Find a college that helieves there is more to educa- 
tion than mental development alone, one that believes  
in spiritual and moral education as well. . .  
Union helieves it  
Find a school that offers on-the-campus work ex- 
perience and helps students earn their own education. . .  
Union's got it  
Find a college with a strong recreational and phy- 
sical development program. . .  
Union provides it  
Find a campus with teachers that are personally  
interested in their students as individuals. . .  
Union has them  
Find a college that emphasizes the cultural devel- 
opment of its students in art, music, and literary or- 
ganizations. . .  
Bravo! Union  
Find a college with a park-like campus, covered  
with trees, flowers, and parkhenches. . .  
That's Union  
Find a college that is growing, and has a planned  
expansion program to meet new needs. . .  
Union is doing hoth  
Find a college with a vital, active student leader- 
ship in both the religious and secular respects of cam-
pus life. . .  
Union, personified  
Find a campus with a Victorian clock tower that  
chimes every hour on the hour (and sometimes in be- 
tween). . .  
Union has the only one  
Past and Present  
Patrick Henry made probably the most famous  
speech of early America. His closing lines, "Give  
me liberty or give me death," have become a battle  
cry for freedom fighters ever since.  
However, another portion of his speech also de- 
serves recognition. "I know of no way to judge the fu-
ture but by the past" was his major hypothesis. It was 
his reason to believe as he did.  
This sentence carries a large meaning for Union  
College as this institution enters the last quarter of its  
first century. Twenty-five years await growth or retar- 
dation. The next quarter century will reveal new 
problems, opportunities, and pathways.  
It is fine for the school to commemorate the past  
75 years. However, if these reflections do not help in 
future planning, if they are not constructively used as 
basis for future actions, then they are wasted.  
Let us learn from Union's past. Let  us judge the  
future by what we have learned in the past and make  
Union a greater school than ever before.  
Clock Coiner  
EDITORIAL STAFF  
Ken Liggett, editor-in-chief  
Judy Thayer, managing editor  
Kermit Netteburg, news editor  
Donna Barron, assistant news editor  
Joanne Perrault, feature editor  
Joyce Morse, assistant feature editor  
Jencice Ordelheide, typist  
Veme Wehtje, editorial advisor  
BUSINESS STAFF  
Jack Krogstad, business manager  
Ken Gibb, secretary-treasurer  
Bruce Bad'/ik, advertising manager  
Dan Paulien, circulation manager  
Paul Joice, financial advisor  
REPORTERS  
Donna Page, Stanley JIagen,  
Sherry Liggett, Thomas Robinson,  
Sherene Bieber, Nancy Dye,  
Kit Watts, Ken Taylor,  
Bob Bischoff  
Second-class postage paid at Lincoln, Nebraska  
Published by-weekly by  the Associated Student Body  
of Union College during the school year except holidays,  
^ registration periods, and examination weeks. Also published  
once during lune and August.  

To the single observer, mar- 
riage seems to be die acme of  
perfection. The married stu-
dent is free to do as lie pleases 
—on curfew time, no dean to 
be wary of, and no obligation 
to attend morning, and eve-
ning worships. However, this  
mythical view of a married  
student's life is changed soor. 
after marriage.  
Marriage is a totally new  
type of life with seemingly  
overwhelming problems and 
adjustments which may prove  
to be trving and even dis-
couraging at times. The time  
Finds Days Short  
Student-Mother  
by Twyla Preston  
"Read to me Mama, please!"  
The plaintive plea comes in  
the middle of Modern Math- 
ematics. This is being a mother, 
wife and student.  
When you have a 500-word  
theme to get written by 7:20  
in the morning, dien you must  
stop and read to this tiny child 
that's been placed in  your care.  
A wife has many duties that  
she must perform. A student has 
many duties to perform. If a  
wife is going to be a student  
also, she must schedule her  
time very wisely. And if the)' 
are like me, they will need 30  
hours in every day.  
Oh yes, we mustn't forget  
those snowy days when we 
must walk several  blocks in  
the cold with snow going in  
your snow boots all because  
your car sits in a snow bonk.  
That's when you wish you 
lived in the dorm.  
Then there is the time your  
little girl gets the chicken pox.  
You can't find a baby sitter for  
her so ycru have to stay home 
for a week. All this time you 
are thinking about how far be- 
hind you're getting in your 
classes.  
What about the temptations  
one meets in her home decid-
ing whether she should study  
Educational Psychology o r 
watch Bonanza on TV. What 
would you do? It's a hard 
choice to make especially  when  
you've seen the preview.  
There are many times when  
you wonder if an education 
is worth it. Especially after  
you've spent all evening study- 
ing for a test in Children's Lit-
erature and spent half the night  
up with your litde girl. Then  
the alarm goes off at 6:00 and  
you know you have to get up.  
Oh, but there are times when  
it's fun. One diing I enjoy is 
taking classes with my hus- 
band. This way he can ex-
plain Modern Math, to me so 
I won't have to take it over  
again next year.  
I think when a husband and  
wife take some of their sub- 
jects together  it tends to moti- 
vate them in ttying .to beat the  
other one in their grades. This  
is always a topic for some 
interesting conversation. Es- 
pecially when he always beats  
by Vi point.  
My husband and I are bodi  
majoring in elementary educa- 
tion so we enjoy gathering ma-
terials for use when we begin  
teaching.  
You know it's all worth it  
when you have reached your  
goal and received your diploma.  
It's a hard straggle, but we  
must remember that nodiing  
worthwhile is easy and we want  
to prepare  ourselves for the  
Lord's work.  
My advice to young folks is  
to try to get an education while 
they're single—; it is so much  
easier. But if you're married,  
don't let this stand in your  
way—get your education, its 
worth all of this.  

that a couple normally spends 
together is spent studying in- 
stead. Relations become strain-
ed; tempers shortened because 
of the long hours spent study- 
ing and working.  
"Hurry" seems to be the per- 
fect word to describe the life 
of the married couple. "Hur- 
ry, it's time for class." "Hurry, 
it's time for work." "I've got  to  
hurry so I con get my home-
work done." I tiiink you gel  
the point.  
Finances also p resent a  
never ending problem. No long-
er can the married student 
rely on "dear ole Dad" to pay 
the bills. Now financial prob- 
lems become the responsibility 
of the married student. Thus is 
often a greater problem than  
it appears. The responsibilities  
of being a student prevent the  
husband from earning suffi- 
cient funds for educational and  
living expenses—rent, food, util- 
ities, and possibly a car pay- 
ment. The most likely solution 
to this problem is that the  
wife finds employment outside 
the home. Possibly the strain of 
outside employment, plus  
housekeeping and being a wife 
turns into a situation which  
causes the wife's health to de- 
teriorate. There is also the pos- 
sibility of an addition to the 
family which would cause the  
wife to be forced to terminate  
employment.  
While speeding through life  
a very', important part of fam- 
ily life is quite often neglected.  
This is the spiritual part of the 
home. A successful marriage 
must be based on God, and this 
means more than a perfunctory  
answering of the questions in  
the Sabbath School Quarterly.  
This  means an earnest study of  
Cod's Word.  
Alumni  
Ellsworth S. Reile, '49, MV  
secretary of the Southern Union  
Conference Is currendy on the  
campus to attend an MV Sem- 
inar. While in the Alumni of- 
fice, Mr. Rcile enumerated die 
many changes that had taken  
placo on die campus since his  
visit eight years ago.  
When returning to his home  
in Portland Ore., after a busi-
ness trip East, Jack J. Jester,  
'51, recently spent a few hours  
on the campus.  
Mr. and Mrs. Merlin G. Pier- 
son, '46, and their daughter,  
Gwen, met a tragic death when  
their canoe capsized Monday,  
April 12, in die flood-swollen  
South Fork River at Greenbush, 
Minn.  
Apparendy when Mr. Pierson  
realized diat because of the  
high water, die canoe would  
not clear a bridge over the  
river, he tried to change course  
tipping over the craft and plung- 
ing all three occupants into  
the water. A witness tried to  
hurl a rope toward Mr. Pier-
son, but he was unable to reach 
it. Mrs. Pierson and Gwen dis-
appeared immediately.  
Mr. Pierson was the owner  
of a wood-working plant in 
Greenbush.  
A son, Kenneth, is a student  
at Pacific Union College. Mrs.  
D. J. Bieber and Mrs. Pierson  
were sisters. We extend our  
sincere sympadiy to the be- 
reaved family and friends.  
E. Frank Sherrill, '45, and  
Paul DeBooy, '49, MV secre- 
taries from the Southwestern  
Union and the Central Union 
Conferences', respectively, will 
be campus guests April 21-24.  
E. Harold Lickey, '50, a  
member of the music staff at 
Pacific Union College, has ac-
cepted a call to be associate  
professor of music at Walla  

by Harry Cummins  
Henry Longfellow, once called our American sys- 
tem of government "The Ship of State, that sails on and  
on." With all due respect to the late poet, I would like to 
suggest that his  eternal voyage is just about over. If a  
boat is built to be run by the people, it will sink if the 
people don't know how to run it, and we don't know  
how, and it is time we were learning, if we don't want to 
get wet.  
More than 170 years ago, a handful of brilliant,  
government-minded men founded our government. To  
us they handed down  a wonderful system of govern- 
ment, but unless we learn how to run that government,  
we will hand down a dictator and slavery to the next  
generation.  
It's ironic that in this land of government by the  
people, we demand special schooling, experience, and  
superior skills for  everything except government. We  
leave that up to anybody, as evidenced by astronaut 
John Glenn and Oklahoma football coach Bud Wilkin- 
son, who both felt qualified enough to run for U.S.  
Senate seats in the last election. Fortunately for the 
country, they were defeated. In today's world, you can- 
not accomplish anything unless  you are schooled for the  
job. We, the people, cannot run our government unless  
we are schooled for the job, which we are not.  
There are no practical or adequate courses for the study  
of government in our grade schools and high schools,  
and in college we are not required to study it, and we 
don't. Brilliant students are not studying for careers in 
government, and never will, as long as politicians whose  
only qualifications are stacks of money, and ghost 
written speeches, continue to be bounced into office.  
American government and politics are merely a  
game today. Our two-party system is a great big mess  
of leftist, rightist, and WRONGist confusion. Instead of  
waging instructive political campaigns Democrats and  
Republicans play hocus-pocus election games, under 
the rules of win, win, win, at any cost. It will take years  
of study and hard work to change from the games that  
are now contested, to the business of government. At  
the end of the 1964 election, there was the usual routine.  
The losers always congratulate the winners and wish  
them good luck, like slipping on a banana peel. Then  
the losers hope that the country will get into a mess that  
is worse than any other prior mess, so that they can win  
the next election. If the mess isn't worst, the losers will  
try to mix things up to make it look worst. If the mess is 
worst, the winners will try to make it look like the worst  
mess was mixed by the losers when they were the win- 
ners. The whole business is pretty mixed-up and what  
this country needs is people who will UNMIX things.  
I offer the five following proposals for the study  
and teaching of our government, in order that this 
whole mess we are in, can be cleaned up for our chil- 
dren and their children.  
1. The study of government should begin as soon as the  
children can read, and should continue through every 
school grade.  
2. Currently  used textbooks are dull and inadequate,  
and their use should be discontinued.  
3. The students should not be required to memorize  
anything. Facts will be remembered if they are under- 
stood.  
4. Discussion of controversial issues should be avoided  
until the student bccomcs firmly grounded in govern- 
ment fundamentals.  
5. Government should be the major study in what is  
now the social studies, history, and economics mess.  
The Communists educate for communism by teach- 
ing communism, while we educate for freedom by pid- 
dling with social studies. Government by the people  
cannot survive unless government becomes a major  
study in our schools. If the millions of educated, intelli-
gent, rational men and women in the United States of  
America become aroused from government apathy and  
do something about it, then, AND ONLY THEN, will  
the wonderful system of government that Longfellow  
called the "Ship of State," sail on and on—in calm and in  
peace, and through storm and strife.  
L editors  
Dear Editor,  
During the Eastern Intercol- 
legiate Workshop I once again 
realized the outstanding contri-
bution that the CLOCK TOWEII  
makes to the Union College 
campus. The maturity and  
sound judgment exhibited by  
the editorial staff throughout 
Walla College.  At one time Mr.  
Lickey was a member of the  
music staff at the College. He  
will assume his new position in  
early June.  

the year have kept the CLOCK  
TOWER from becoming a mean- 
ingless scandal sheet.  
The CLOCK TOWER has play- 
ed a leading role  in maintain- 
ing positive relations between  
student organizations and the 
ccllego administration. Too few  
students or faculty members  
realize the amount of respon-
sibility and work connected  
with editing a school newspa- 
per. For their contribution  to  
the school year, I would like 
to thank Ken Liggett and his  
staff, and hope that others will 
realize and express their appre- 
ciation to these individuals.  
Kiff Achord


*ipril 29, 1965  CLOCK TOWER 65  
Grads  Come  From  Near  and  Far;  
Homecoming  Features  Birthday  
Food, fun, and siiq>risei are  
in store for all those attending 
the Annual Alumni Homecom- 
ing Banquet tonight.  
There will he people from  
near and far attending diis ban- 
quet. Our campus will be host  
LS( Profs Go  
To Middle East  
La Sierra College President  
William M. Landeen has in-
dicated that La Sierra faculty  
will cooperate in the visiting 
professor program at Middle 
East College. Dr. Anderson says 
this is desirable in view of the 
fact that Loma Linda Univer- 
sity has limited faculty re- 
sources in some teaching fields 
where it does not offer formal 
curriculums. Thus La Sierra 
might supply faculty to re- 
inforce Middle East programs  
in business or teacher educa-
tion, he suggests.  
Middle East College first  
proposed the idea of affiliation  
to Loma Linda University,  
whose trustees studied the idea 
Last summer. Trustees approved  
the idea in. principle and au-
thorized a trip to the Beirut  
college by President Anderson.  
If he approved of the college's  
program to improve and en-
large its library, physical plant,  
and faculty, and agreed that  
academic programs there met  
acceptable standards of excel- 
lence, the affiliation should go 
ahead, the trustees decided.  
Dr. Anderson returned from  
his trip in October, recommend-
ed approval to trustees at their  
November meeting, and an- 
nounced the affiliation plans 
this week.  
Middle East College, operat- 
ed in Lebanon by the Middle  
East Division of Seventh-day  
Adventists since 1939, has a  
student enrollment of just under  
200. Lebanon's apparent sta-
bility amid intra-Arab political 
disputes has made it possible 
for students from neighboring  
Arab nations to attend the col- 
lege without serious difficulty.  
The climate, culture, and  
areheological interest of the  
area make it a desirable situa-
tion for American educators,  
Dr. Anderson observes. Close  
to the college is well-known  
American University, affiliated  
with  Loma Linda. Occasional  
lectures or teaching assign- 
ments at American University 
will probably be a part of visit- 
ing professors programs, Dr.  
Anderson says.  
Probably only one California  
teacher will be ;issigned to Leb-
anon for the school year begin, 
ning next September, the Pres-
ident reports. A second profes- 
sor will begin the following 
vear, and two will be contin-
uously in residence thereafter.  
No teaohcr has yet been  
named to fill the Middle East 
post.  
Wishing  
UNION  COLLEGE  
a happy  
75th  Anniversary  
from  
RICH'S  
Standard  Service  
Serving you from two  
locations  
48th & Calvert  
and  
27th & "A"  
Lincoln, Nebraska  

to guests from Lebanon, Sing- 
apore, Massachusetts, Ohio,  
Wisconsin, Oregon, Washing- 
ton, and a host of other states.  
The college cafeteria will be  
transformed into a world of 
blue. This color scheme is be-
ing carried out in all phases  
of decoration. A special 75th  
anniversary cake on each speak-
er's table will add to the beau- 
tv of the setting.  
N. W. Rowland, Ph.D., '47,  
president of the Alumni Asso- 
ciation, revealed just a few of  
the secrets for the evening.  
"The Laying of die Corner- 
stone" is the theme of the ban- 
quet. This is in commemora- 
tion of Union's 75th  anniver- 
sary.  
A somewhat fanciful skit on  
the laying of the cornerstone  
will be presented. Included in  
the skit is a reading, by Mrs.  
Isabel Lovell, '53, given in die  
Prof Takes Free  
Shopping Spree  
"Irons for sale!" might be  
the theme of an ad posted on  
the bulletin board of the De- 
partment of Business as Mr.  
Eugene Kilgore, instructor ill 
that department, recendy won  
a drawing which entided him 
to a three-minute shopping 
spree at International Super 
Store.  
Along with six irons, Mr. Kil- 
gore won an electric ice cream 
freezer, an electric can opener,  
a blender, and three television  
sets.  
Mr. Kilgore reports that his  
wife and daughter have ap-
propriated two of the tele-
visions for their personal use.  
The third set, a 9-inch Sony,  
accompanies him frequendy so  
that he can keep fully abreast  
of the latest news.  
Before Mr. Kilgore left to  
take advantage of the shopping 
spree, he was seen making 
preparations. In fact, he looked 
as though he were going to par-
ticipate in a track meet. Ev- 
idently it paid off! 
Faculty Hosts  
Senior Nurses  
On the evening of April 22,  
the senior nursing students 
wero guests of the faculty at  
the traditional Senior-Faculty 
Banquet held at the Petroleum 
Building in downtown Denver,  
Colo.  
Amid the atmosphere of  
Japanese decor, die banquet  
dinner was served after which  
Dr. A. O. Mazat emceed  the  
evening program.  
The faculty presented a mock  
faculty meeting during which 
the class prophecy was dis-
covered and read. Years rolled  
instantaneously, and for the  
senior nursing students the fu-
ture became the present.  

dramatic style of the late  
1800's. At the conclusion of  
tho skit, James Pogue, '44, Paul  
foice, '49, Lvle Jewell, '51, and  
Robert Murray will sing a med- 
ley of favorites of the late  
1800's.  
A birthdav gift, in the form  
of a scroll wound around a  
clock tower, will be presented  
to R. W. Fowler, Ph.D., '29,  
president of Union College, as  
a special gift to the College. On  
the scroll will be written all 
the names of those who sent a 
gift to the College on this spe- 
cial occasion. This gift will be 
applied to the Alumni Clock 
Tower Fund.  
Seniors, alumni, and guests  
are cordially invited to the 7:15 
banquet. 
Teacher  Is  
Consultant  
Miss Wvnelle Huff, instruc- 
tor in psychiatric nursing on  
the Denver campus, was on  
the faculty of the Western In- 
terstate Council on Higher Ed- 
ucation in Nursing.  
She served as consultant on  
mental health and group pro-
cesses during the four-week 
course in  leadership training  
for nurses. Divided into two  
parts, this course had its first  
session last October in Boulder,  
Colo., and its second session in  
Denver, Colo., from Mar. 29 
to Apr. 2.  
In attendance were around  
sixty nurses from the surround-
ing states whose positions rang- 
ed from directors of nursing  
service to head nurses.  
Brochure Done  
For Promotion  
After weeks of work and  
compilation, the Nursing De- 
partment received their com- 
pleted nursing brochure.  
This new brochure is to ac- 
quaint interested academy and  
college students with the nurs-
ing curriculum at Union Col-
lege. Through pictures and cap-
tkms, the reader is shown the  
mental, physical, spiritual, and 
social aspects of such a pro- 
gram.  
The brochure gives prereq- 
uisites, requirements, and fu-
ture op]X>rtunities, other items  
of interest to the prospective  
student.  
Morley's Variety  
(Across the street)  
Wishing  
Union College  
Continued success  
on their  
75th Anniversary  
Open 8:00 to 8:00  
Congratulations—Union  College  
For a fine record of achievement marked by 15  
years of cultural progress  
College View  Pharmacy  
Growing and serving UC and the south/west  
Lincoln area for 66 years  
48th and Prescott  

South Side  Cleaner3  
Congratulations  on  this  75th  Anniversary  
4702 Prescott "Open Sunday" 488-2774  

Sophomore  
Hopefuls  
See Denver  
Over twenty sophomore  
nursing students from Lincoln 
and Keene were visitors on die  
Denver campus Apr. 15-18. The  
purpose of this trip was to ac- 
quaint the students with the  
clinical campus where the jun-
ior and senior years will be 
spent.  
For several hours Friday  
morning, each sophomore was 
assigned to a junior or senior  
student so that first-hand clin- 
ical experience could lie re- 
ceived. Watching a surgery was  
another highlight of the day.  
A number of the faculty met  
with the visitors for a discus- 
sion of clinical training, re- 
quirements for the Denver 
campus, and dormitory and 
other living accommodations.  
This was followed by a ques-
tion and answer period.  
Sabbath was spent at Clacier  
View, the Colorado conference 
camping site in the mountains.  
A hike was organized in the  
afternoon. Saturday night en- 
tertainment consisted of a  
swimming partv at Celebrity 
Lanes, a recreational center in  
Denver.  

Planning  for  Future  
1600 Student  Body  
'Increase in the number of  
students and teachers will be  
th" order of the day in the  
next few years at Union Col- 
lege," said Dean Caviness in 
a recent interview.  
A few vears ago when stu- 
dent enrollment stood at 800,  
plans were laid to provide 
classrooms and laboratories as  
well as a beginning on housing  
for a student body of 1200.  
This year our enrollment has 
p'assed the 1100 mark, al- 
though not more than 950 stu- 
dents have been on the Lincoln  
campus at any one time.  
Classroom facilities are avail- 
able for up to 1200 students by  
extending the teaching dav  
from 7:20 in the morning to 5  
o'clock at night, with a few 
classes offered in the evening. 
This is straining the classroom  
.wl laboratory accommodations  
and housing for dormitory stu- 
dents. Up to the present time,  
Union College has not follow- 
ed the quite common practice  
in other colleges of putting  
more than two students in a  
room in each of the dormitories.  
The Board, at its annual  
meeting this year, provided for  
the securing of employment of  
8 or 10 additional faculty mem-
bers. This is the first time in  

tho last five years that any  
n(. t increase in teaching faculty  
has been built into die college  
budget. The advanced prepara-
tion of Union College faculty  
has been increasing as indicat- 
ed by the number of masters' 
and doctors' degrees held bv  
various facultv members. This  
is a  trend contrary to that of  
tile country at large where die 
number of advanced degrees is  
decreasing percentage-wise as  
the necessary number of teach- 
ers to care for the expanding 
number of students is being  
drawn from a variety of 
sources.  
It now seems clear diat we  
will need to begin to plan for 
a student body of 1600. If die  
average net increase of students 
at Union College, which has 
been more than 50 per year,  
continues, the 1600 mark will  
be reached comparatively soon. 
An alternate plan would be to  
encourage the formation of 
Seventh-day Adventist commu- 
nity or junior colleges in areas  
of licaw Adventist population.  
L', for example, junior college  
courses for 200 students were  
established in Denver, Colo.,  
this would delav the increase  
at Union College by only two 
t" four vears.  
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6  CLOCK TOWER  April 29, 1965 '  
*  
'And Goobers to Chew  
from College View'  
An afternoon at Peanut Hill  
several years ago was a few  
hours packed with band music  
and fresh roasted peanuts for  
a small young lady and her  
father.  
The peanut stand, located al  
the coiner of 48th and Prescott  
streets, where the Book and  
• » Bible House now stands, was a  
well-customered enterprise. A  
nickel bag of peanuts made an  
afternoon of leisure complete.  
Tho proprietor was a small 
wizened old man who appear-
ed to be afraid of his cus- 
tomers. His peanut supply was  
very close at hand—almost in 
his yard. Thus tho elevated 
ground and this peanut field  
gave the nickname of Peanut  
Hill to Union College.  
The band concerts, as well  
as the roosted peanuts, attract-
ed many Lincolnites on Sun-
day afternoons to the College  
View area. From a print shop  

looated at 10th and P streets  
to the Union campus was a 
long, enjoyable ride. Many  
homes have been built and  
businesses started along die  
route since the days of the  
corner peanut stand.  
Mrs. Marguerite Widener of  
4911 Prescott, a professor  
emeritus of music at Union  
College, told this experience  
about her father, Lorenzo Dow  
Woodruff, and herself.  
"My father printed the di- 
plomas for the college, and I  
can recall several excursions to  
tho campus delivering them as  
well as going to the concerts.  
At the time when I visited the  
campus as a very young girl,  
I did not ever dream that some- 
day I would become a Seventh- 
day Adventist and teach there 
myself," oommented Mrs. Wid- 
ener. "At that time my only 
concern was eating peanuts  
and exploring the campus."


*ipril 29, 1965 CLOCK TOWER 67  
J^lo&talyic J^ook at Old '  

Mertie Wheeler  
Tradition of 1906- 
Over 8OO Cords  Hung  
The hanging of the Golden Cords is a tradition of  
Union College that began in the year 1906. In this year 
the class decided to present for their class gift a map 
to mark the spot where missionaries from Union have  
gone. The  Educational Messenger, an official publica- 
tion of Union College, in the June 1 issue of 1906 gives  
a report of this first map. "E. R. Rowenwold, on behalf 
of the class, presented to the school a large missionary 
map of the world which was accepted on the part of 
the school by President C. C. Lewis, which will re- 
main on the front wall of the College Chapel. It has a  
golden cord extending from Union College to each 
point on the field to which a laborer from the college 
has gone, and other cords will be added as laborers 
go out in the future."  
Mertie Wheeler, of 4715 Bancroft, was registrar of  
Union College at the time this first map was presented.  
Her father was a minister for the Nebraska Conference, 
and they lived on a farm near Lincoln. She remembers 
her father giving cattle to the school to get it started, 
as they moved here before the school began.  
Miss Wheeler, as registrar, helped to obtain the first  
map and to spot the missionaries. A cord was run from 
the spot on the map where Union College is located to 
the point in the world where Union College students 
had gone to labor. These first cords were purchased  
at a little store across the street from the college for 
$.05 cents.  
Thus from these humble beginnings, the tradition of  
the Golden Cords has developed into an inspirational  
idea of devotion and loyalty to the purpose of the  
school, to send and prepare workers for all the world.  

Throughout the years Union  
College has had four different  
periodicals as recorded in the 
book, Union College 1891-1941, 
by David D. Rees and Everett  
Dick. The first of these was 
The Practical Educator the first 
issue of which is dated Decem- 
ber 1, 1898. D. D. Rees, then  
head of the English depart-
ment, was the editor and the  
students and teachers of the  
college contributed to it.  
In 1902 The Practical Ed- 
ucator merged with the union 
conference organ, The Central  
Advance. It was edited by W.  
A. Colcord who was secretary 
of the conference and a Bible  
teacher in the college. The pa-
per had interesting articles but  
it wasn't really a college paper.  
What the readers wanted was  
a strictly school paper.  
So on May 1, 1904 the first  
issue of The Union College  
Messenger appeared. The pa- 
per was edited and controlled 
by the faculty. C. C. Lewis  
was the managing editor, D. D. 
Rees literary editor, and M. E.  
Kem the news editor. A sub- 
scription cost thirty-five cents  
per year; fifty cents for foreign  
countries.  
In 1904 the school was noti- 
fied that its paper was being  
Issued in violation of the United  
States postal laws and that the 
paper could not be sent as sec- 
ond class mail. The Govern- 
ment said the paper was mainly 
as advertisement of the school. 
The members of the executive  
committee of the Central Union  
Conference then gathered to-
gether and decided to change  
the name of the  paper to The  
Educational Messenger. The 
first issue  appeared on January  
1, 1905. C. C. Lewis, M. E.  
Kem, and B. E. Huffman were 
appointed editors.  
Four years later the pres- 
ident of Union College recom-
mended to the board that the 
Messenger he edited and pub- 
lished by the students. He  
thought it would be a means of  
education to them and it would 
be a means of attracting stu- 
dents to a Christian education.  
The board agreed ajid on April  
1, 1909 the students came out  
with their first issue. Eva Lynn  
Seward was the editor.  
In 1927 the Messenger was  
discontinued and THE CLOCK  
TOWER came into being. Iva-
mae Small became the editor.  
The publication and the edi- 

torial work remained with the  
students. The heading was  
drawn by Elsa Northrup-Word, 
a former art teacher at Union.  
The magazine form was done  
away and the four-page, five- 
column weekly wta,s issued. Be-
ginning widi the March 23,  
1933 issue the paper became a  
bi-weekly rather than a weeklv 
journal.  
When the first CLOCK TOWER  
came out a subscription cam- 
paign was staged. The stu- 
dents were divided by classes, 
each headed by a leader. Then  
the freshmen, sophomores, jun-
iors, and seniors each were  
given definite territory and  
went out in smaller groups with  
sub leaders. No overlapping of  
territory was allowed. However, 
if a student had relatives liv- 
ing in another territory they  
were allowed to visit them.  
The village was covered in less 
than an hour. Practically every  
house in College View was vis-
ited and subscriptions solicited. 
Also letters with sample oopies  
of the CLOCK TOWER were  
mailed to friends and alumni  
throughout the country. 2,750  
copies of the first paper were 
given out in all. A thousand  
paid-up subscriptions seemed  
assured. The spirit of friendly  
rivalry was apparent and each  
group was determined to win.  
The outcome of the contest  
was posted at 6:00 p.m. daily.  
A weekly prize was awarded to  
tho individual turning in the  
most paid subscriptions for the 
week. At the contest's close,  
Mar. 9, 1927, a supper and  
program were given for the 
winning class. Eight subscrip- 
tions entitled anyone to share in  
the reward regardless of the 
olass he was in. Failure to turn  
in two subscriptions debarred  
even members of the winning  
class.  
It turned out that die seniors  
were the winners. They widi 
35 other eligible contestants  
were given an irish banquet on 
a Wednesday evening at South  
Hall by the CLOCK TOWER  
board.  
Final outcome showed the  
following:  
Class subs sold per cap.  
Seniors 201 6.01  
Faculty 142 5.91  
Freshmen 169 4.44  
Sophomores  124 2.95  
Juniors 144 3.95  
Llovd Gould secured the  
largest number of subscriptions  

Lewis C. Palmer  
Louis Palmer  Heads  
First 'Golden Cords'  
Louis Cyril Palmer, the editor- 
in-chief of the first Golden 
Cords, was born at Lakeview,  
Michigan, Sept. 16, 1890. He  
obtained his secondary educa- 
tion at Lakeview high school.  
Later he attended Mount Ver-
non College in Ohio. Upon  
leaving college he taught in 
the public schools in Michigan.  
Following his teaching expe- 
rience he went back to oollege 
only this time he went to  
Union. In 1917 he was grad- 
uated from Union College as  
president of his class.  
After graduation he became  
a member of the staff of Ma- 
plcwoiod Academy in Minne- 
sota, remaining there until  
during the  campaign. He re- 
ceived a gold-banclcd fountain 
pen as a reward for his 56  
subscriptions. Professor Bex  
Jacobson oame in second with 
37 subscriptions, and H. C.  
Humann, third with 24 sub- 
scriptions.  
Testimony Meetings  
Create MY Society  
During the beginning years  
of the school young people  
would gather together on Sab-
bath afternoons and hold tes- 
timony meetings. This was the  
beginning of what  we know  
today as the MV society.  
Professor M. E. Kern, his- 
tory professor and for a while 
dean of boys—became very in- 
terested in this work. He would  
visit camp meetings recruiting 
people for the college and  hold  
meetings for the young people 
in tents. He became more and 
more active in this and as time 
went on the general conference  
look notice and asked the Sab-
bath School Department to fos-
ter the work for the young 
|>eople. The teachers at the ool- 
lege helped by selecting cer- 
tain books they diought  people  
would like to read.  
In the summer of 1907, at  
Mt. Vernon, Ohio, it was voted 
to name it the Young Peoples  
Society of Missionary Volun-
teers. The General Conference 
asked Kern to take charge of  
it.  

Cladd in fiournalidm - 1922  

1924. Here he met Olive Se- 
vers, who in the future was to  
become his wife.  
For years he taught and did  
administrative work at La Sierra 
Academy and Locli Academy in 
California, and La Sierra Col-
lege also in California. How-
ever, in 1951 he had to resign 
because of his health.  
The following appeared in  
his obituary: "Professor Palm-
er was a most efficient and con- 
scientious instructor. It was his 
delight always to help the man 
who was down. Patience in 
working out details and thor- 
oughness of preparation were 
outstanding characteristics in a 
life of earnest professional en- 
deavor, while a deep religious 
conviction held him steady  in  
the path of duty apd service."  
'Rose Leaves' of 1898  
Is First Class Annual  
"Rose Leaves," put out by  
the graduating class of 1898,  
was die first book to appear  
that may be called an annual. 
It was a thirty-six page mime-
ographed volume with a printed  
cover, title-page, and frontis- 
piece consisting of a picture of  
die administration building  
and Soudi Hall. It's editor, M.  
E. Ellis, was die class president.  
The other officers of the class  
wore Arthur Fulton, vioe pres- 
ident; Clara Whitney, secre-
tary; and Pearl Rees, assistant  
secretary.  
Tlie class of 1901 was next  
to come up with a year book.  
It was entitled "Souvenir of the  
Class of 1902." It contained 
sixty-two pages and was printed  
on die college press.  
Tho first year book, as we  
know it today, was put out by  
the class of 1917. It was called  
"Golden Cords." It was prob- 
ably tho first regular annual 
to be issued by eitiier the col-
lege or the denomination. The  
president of die class, Louis C.  
Palmer, was its editor.  
Until 1928, "The Golden  
Cords" was published by the 
senior class. In that N ear it was  
turned over to the student body. 
It was published by tho stu-
dent organization and edited  
by Ivamae Small-Hilts.


2 CLOCK TOWER August 68, 1965  
D. J. Bieber  
1957-1964  
H. C. Hortmon  
1950-1957  
R. W. Woods  
1946-1950  
Fifty Years Ago Recalled  
by E. N. Dick  
Professor of History  
Fifty-two years ago next fall I came to Union Col- 
lege from Kansas to take my first year of high school  
work at Union College. The streetcar was waiting on  
the track on Seventh street in front of the Burlington  
depot. We took it to Eleventh street and transferred to  
a oar running to College View. At that time there were  
two lines running from downtown Lincoln to College 
View. One, known as the low line ran east on South 
street to Normal, thence south on Fifty-sixth street 
to the college farm, west to Forty-eighth street and 
south on that street to the present corner of Forty-
eighth and Prescott. There it turned to the right, ran 
down in front of the site of Gotfredson's garage and  
then backed up Prescott street to a point in front of  
where the science hall is now. There on the campus  
was a streetcar freight house. Of course the passenger  
cars did not stop at this depot but simply backed up  
to turn around and after a brief wait started back down 
present1 Forty-eighth street toward Lincoln. At that  
time Forty-eighth was known as L street for College  
View was trying to copy Lincoln by numbering the  
streets which ran east and west and lettering those 
which ran north and south. The second streetcar track,  
known as the high line, ran from downtown. Lincoln,  
out Sheridan Boidevard, up Calvert street, turned at 
the corner of Forty-eighth and Calvert and ran on the 
same track as the low line, up present Forty-eighth to  
Prescott. There was, of course, no paving in College  
View at that time, and the dirt road on Forty-eighth  
and Prescott streets was dusty indeed in the summer  
time and so bottomless in wet weather that heavy loads 
sometimes got stuck in the mud.  
College View was organized as a town, and it did  
its best to keep the roads passable by hauling cinders 
from the college powerhouse to fill in the worst spots 
in the otherwise muddy central thoroughfare. On the  
corner of Forty-eighth and Prescott, where the Ne- 
braska Conference office is today, was a general store. 
Groceries, dry goods, hardware and whatever the peo- 
ple of College View might need was sold there. A half  
block west in the place now occupied by the College 
View Bakery was the United States Post Office. On the  
spot now occupied  by the Gotfredson's garage was the  
International Publishing Association which was a large 
Seventh-day Adventist plant printing papers, magazines  
and books for the German and Scandinavian peoples.  
In front of the College View Seventh-day Adventist  
church was a hitching rack where the worshippers  
hitched their horses. There were four or five chimneys  
on the College View church, and it was necessary, in 
cold weather, for the custodian to start the several fires  
on Friday morning and stoke all day in order to have  
the church anything like warm enough for worship on  

the Sabbath day. I remember standing by South Hall  
looking to the south on a cold Friday morning and  
watching the smoke pouring forth from those chimneys.  
When one entered the campus from the south he  
noticed on the spot where the present gymnasium is  
now located, two parallel tennis courts running north, 
and south along the road. These were the college 
courts, made and operated by the Union College tennis 
club. The members did the work themselves. A little  
farther north, also parallel to the road, where the south  
part of the parking lot is now located, was an outdoor  
basketball court. There was, of course, no clock in the  
clock tower, but the bell was there, and at fifteen  
minutes before classes in the morning the head janitor  
rang this bell. At fifteen minutes before chapel it rang 
again, and it also rang one hour before sunset on Fri- 
day evening as a warning to all to be ready for the  
beginning of the Sabbath.  
A road ran from the northwest corner of the cam- 
pus winding about over the area now occupied by the  
music hall and the library and turned to the south 
in front of North Hall. This building had originally  
been a dormitory for the foreign students, but Dr. J. H.  
Kellogg had been able to buy it from the college and  
made a sanitarium out of it. It was now, at that time,  
known as the Nebraska Sanitarium. The present  print  
shop was occupied by the sanitarium bakery and food  
company. The youngsters from around town would  
come there to get health food crackers, and the older 
ones would buy graham bread and a health food sim-
ilar to grapenuts called grainola.  
If a student got a cold he was taken over to the  
sanitarium treatment rooms where he was given hot  
fomentations, a Russian bath, a light bath or other 
treatment. After being steamed and par-boiled, he  
came back as good as new. Just to the north of the  
President's house on the south side of Calvert street  
(49lh and Calvert) was the sanitarium powerhouse.  
A railroad track ran from the intersection at the corner 
cf Forty-eighth and Calvert down that little slope to  
the powerhouse, and when the sanitarium powerhouse  
needed a load of coal, a freight electric engine would  
push the coal car from the Rock Island tracks to a 
siding on the west side of the sanitarium powerhouse. 
Carloads of coal were also set on the siding there for  
the college, and college boys, with teams of horses,  
would haul the coal from that point, to the college  
powerhouse.  
College View had a good band in those days. Mr.  
Charles McWilliams was the leader, and they used to  
play in the bandstand which was located on the col- 
lege campus near the street just north of where the  
College View public library is today.  
In the fall when the students came college repre- 
sentatives (usually some of the older students) wearing  

W. W. Prescott  
1891-1893  
J. W. Loughheod  
1893-1896  

R. W. Fowler  
1964—  
E. B. Miller N. W. Kouble W. T. Bland L. A. Hoopes  
1896-1897 1897-1898 1898-1901 1901-1904


*ipril 29, 1965  CLOCK TOWER  9  
•P  v..  
E. E. Cossentine  
1943-1946  
A. H. Rulkoetter  
1938-1942  
M. L. Andreasen  
1931-1938  
Amid Score of Chiefs  
lapel ribbons with the name "Union College," met the 
trains at the depot. These greeters would take the 
trunk checks to the business office and the manage-
ment would send a hay frame downtown for the lug-
gage. This hay frame pulled by a team of horses would  
bring out a great stack of trunks which were unloaded  
' the dormitories. Everybody came on the train, of  
jourse, and that meant many trunks. Each dormitory  
had an unpacking room downstairs and we carried our  
belongings upstairs in dresser drawers. The trunks and 
suitcases were then stored for the winter in a locked  
runk room.  
Most of the students who came in September ex- 
pected to stay until the end of school in May. A few  
ent home  for Christmas, but there was no general  
ixodus and practically no one left for Thanksgiving.  
There was no spring vacation that I recall.  
Around the powerhouse were several auxiliary  
mall buildings. There was a blacksmith shop down  
he hill to the east of the powerhouse, and to the north  
•vas the icehouse. In the wintertime the students would  
!p out to Salt Creek, cut big chunks of ice there, haul  
-iem in with the farm wagon, and store them in straw  
jacking. Daily the boys would take a hand cart, go to  
he icehouse and bring chunks with which to cool  
he water for drinking in the dining room and also in  
he dormitories. The ice was not put  directly into the  
vater but into coolers in which the water ran through  
:oils cooled by the ice. It was drawn from spigots.  
Association between the sexes was severely limit- 
-J. At no time was any escorting allowed on the cam-
>us. A young man might take a girl to a musical down  
it the city of Lincoln. This led to a rather unnatural  
ondness for music on the part of some of the young  
nen. Those who wished to escort in that fashion se- 
cured the services of a faculty member and his wife,  
ind a group of perhaps a dozen would go in company  
' wntown on the same streetcar, and remain in a  
jroup returning in the same fashion.  
Frederick Griggs who looked like President The- 
odore Roosevelt and was proud of it was the president  
>f the school. He sometimes would come into chapel 
.nd start singing a solo. If it was a rainy dismal day he  
voulcl burst out in singing: "It is not raining rain today,  
t's raining Violets." Or perhaps: "How can I keep from  
iging?"  
Quick Henry! The Flitl  
In the 1930s before the day of aerosol bombs a  
•ery popular insect killer called Flit was widely adver-
ized by cartoon. In the pictures one man would have  
n insect of some kind and call to his companion who  
vas patiently waiting nearby with a sprayer in hand:  
Quick Henry! The Flit!"  
In the fall of 1933, during the depression days  

when there were few  students and money was very  
scarce, the collcge was happy to have  some  of the tea- 
chers move into vacant buildings on the campus. Tlie  
college engineer and his wife and my wife and I lived 
upstairs over the elementary school which at that time 
was located on the present site of the parking lot just  
east of "Turner Boulevard." One evening in September  
just about the time school started, one of the power- 
house boys came rushing over to the elementary school  
and clattered up the steps with the report that the col-
lege btiilding was on fire. Fred Sofsky, the engineer, 
told him to phone to the fire department right quick,  
and Fred and I rushed over to the college building! 
On our way we could see smoke curling up from the 
very tip-top of the clock tower. On first floor we grab- 
bed a fire extinguisher and carrying that heavy load 
ran clear to the top. But when we got to the castle, at  
the foot of the stairs to the clock tower, we found it  
locked. Baffled, we set the fire extinguisher on the floor  
and went back down the stairs wondering what we  
should do next. By the time we got down to the lawn  
the fire department vehicles had begun to arrive. First  
tho College View fire wagon, and  then in rapid suc- 
cession fire trucks, ladder trucks and all kinds of fire  
fighting equipment converged on the Union College 
campus. In response to the wails of the fire trucks it 
wasn't any time until the whole campus area around 
the Administration building was filled with citizens  
from College View. By that time first arriving firemen  
had broken open the stair door leading to the  tower  
clock, rushed up through the tower, out onto the top 
of the building and stood looking up at the top of the  
tower. Sure enough as plain as day everybody below 
could see that curl of smoke ascending from the very 
tip of the tower. Shortly a couple more firemen rushed  
cut onto the roof and then stood there leisurely looking  
up at the fire but making no move to put up ladders  
to fight the fire. What was the matter weren't they go- 
ing to attempt to do their job? Presently they turned 
and came down bringing the report that the "smoke" 
was simply a swirling swarm of gnats gyrating around  
above the ball of the tower. Everybody including the  
firemen heaved a  sigh of relief. One fireman told me  
he was certainly glad they didn't have to try to  put our  
a fire on that building. As the crowd dispersed what a  
feeling of gratitude and sense of relief prevailed that  
the old college building and the world famous clock  
had been spared.  
At that time a gifted cartoonist was employed by  
the Nebraska State Journal and in the next Sunday's  
paper he had a picture of the Administration Building 
surrounded by people and fire fighting equipment and 
on the roof two firemen. One saying to the other: 
"Quick Henry: The Flit."  

P. L. Thompson  
1928-1931  
Leo Thiel  
1925-1928  
W. W. Prescott  
1924-1925  
C. C. Lewis  
1904-1910  
Frederick Griggs  
1910-1913  
H. A. Morrison  
1914-1922  
O. M. John  
1922-1924


10  CLOCK TOWER  September 23, 1965  
Dynamic, Growing Union Has Paced  
T didn't know you then  
For your conception in the hearts  
Of worthy men of God  
Was long before my lifespan starts.  
These worthies held within their souls  
The strong desire to have a part  
That youth of all these middle states  
Should learn that love of God is wisdom's start.  
Through sacrifice and hard-earned cash,  
Through gracious gifts of Lincolnites,  
Through work and prayer and faith, 
There rose upon these prairie heights 
Three massive buildings for that day,  
The central one with tower high  
To stand a landmark on the plains—  
A monument to passersby.  
'Twas 1890, so they say,  
When work began and cornerstone was laid.  
No broad highways with surface hard  
Led to this hill where rabbits played.  
Plodding horses pulled the heavy loads 
Of lumber, brick, and cement pile  
Unloaded from a railroad spur  
The Burlington constructed south a mile.  
When school began in Ninety-one,  
Professor Prescott, dignified, with poise.  
Stood at the door to welcome in  
The Seventy-Three—both girls and boys,  
Who entered Union on that day—  
A vanguard of the many scores  
Who've studied, lived (and learned some, too)  
And passed through Union's doors.  
No walks were laid; the rain poured down 
And mud was tracked from room to room. 
The tears the homesick students shed  
Outdid the rain in spreading gloom.  
The students had to watch their step  
And mind their P's and  
Or buried in the prairie mud  
They'd leave their rubber shoes.  
The rules of conduct in this school  
Were strict in those old clays; 
The lad who cast a roving eye  
Had better mend his ways.  
And yet in spite of all the rigor 
Of that Victorian life, 
There's many a lad in those strict days 
Who found himself a wife.  
Rules less strict are here these days 
Some say  for good, some ill,  
The young speak  forth—they're glad;  
The old—it makes them wonder still.  
We've seen scholastic standards rise  
Without a hint of dropping  
So Jimmy Jones and Susie Smith  
Must study without stopping.  
Before the school was very old 
Young men with dedicated heart and hand, 
With visions of the lands afar,  
Began a foreign mission band.  
Since then almost  nine hundred youth  
Have carried to the earth's vast hordes  
The gospel story from this school—  
The College of the Golden Cords.  
The campus face has changed a lot 
Since Eighteen Ninety-One,  
But Union's spirit stands unchanged- 
Steadfast until her work is done. 
Her sons and daughters everywhere  
Hold dear their alma mater  
And sing her praises loud and clear  
So long as they can totter.  
The clock tower bell tolls out the time  
From high atop the tower  
To all the townsfolk living near 
To apprise them of the hour. 
Student, teacher, neighbor, friend,  
This year alike agree  
It's time we join to celebrate  
Your diamond jubilee.  
-Opal  Wheeler Dick  

i  
.* — . *«•*<•• t .A,  
.. .  pH  
mmssm  

J4alfj century, ago. . .  

. — —s .T;  

Ji^teen y,ear3 ag,o. ..  
9i we y,earA ago  • • •


*ipril 29, 1965  CLOCK TOWER 71  
Community  
Union College—the future stretches before her  
just as surely as the past is behind her. Although, it 
is not possible to assess as clearly what will be as what 
hai been, there is a future clearly visible. It is a future 
of dreams, hopes, aspirations, and a few shrouded dis- 
appointments.  
Academically, the future holds much work. De- 
partments are being continually upgraded, we are  
getting more faculty members with higher degrees, we 
are buying better textbooks, and the competition is 
growing stiffer. There are majors and minors to strive 
for and compulsory classes to suffer through. Then 
comes the climax. With head held high, dressed in  
scholarly black robes, we receive- our degree while the 
faculty members look on in satisfaction, relief, or just 
plain disbelief.  
The College View Church will continue to grow,  
the religion classes will expand, and the Golden Cords  
will beccime more meaningful -each successive year  
as more witness their hanging anci as the ideals of this 
institution are stressed anew. The religious life will be 
dominant in other areas also. We Will have important 
men of our denomination as guests who will be able  
to bring world Adventism closer to the Midwest. •  
At the start  of each coming year there will be  
more bewildered freshmen, more cocky sophomores, 
more confident juniors, and more snotty seniors, there  
will be more-hands to shake at the annual handshake,  
there will be more club members and probably more  
clubs. Along with the increased enrollment will eome 
an increase in the social events. Of course, there will  
be the usual occasions—Amateur Hour, ASB Banquet,  
Junior-Senior Banquet, and many others, but there  
will be more activities to allow us to share in the  
background of our various students. Foreign students  
and students from other parts of the United States will 
bring a fragment of Asia, Africa, Europe, or North  
America to the rolling prairie.  
After the grades, degrees, religious observances,  
and banquets have been duly placed in their honorary 
niches, there still remain a number of incidentals that 
contribute much to college life. There is the all night 
gab session where impending tests, papers, and quizzes 
are pushed aside in favor of more pressing problems  
such as boy friends, parents, and nasty teachers. The  
battle of the bells will continue to be fought. 6:40 p.m.  
will probably always be the hour of reckoning for  
Rees Hall residents. The age of twenty will continue to  
be the magical number where maturity is a fact. How  
else can one explain the right to go all the  way across  
the street after dark or being able to stay out until 
11:15?  
New buildings will be erected and old ones en- 
larged. The falling plaster and old bricks of the Ad- 
ministration Building will give way to a new structure. 
The science building, library and music hall will be 
enlarged. New dormitories will be built, towering,  
square, and equipped with elevators.  
Yes, there is a definite future for Union. A future  
that will be built on the sturdy foundation of the past.  
Each year the drama will be reenacted. New faces will 
appear and old faces disappear, registration and caf-
eteria lines will grow even longer, vacations will seem  
progressively shorter, but somehow, we will pursue 
our education during the coming brilliant autumns, 
harsh winters, and breezy springs. We will graduate  
well-fed, well-educatcd and with more than one twinge  
of nostalgia.  
—Gisela Behrendt  

Changes of Burgeoning  
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12  CLOCK TOWER  April 29, 196!  
Down Through Changing Decades


February 13, 1966 CLOCK TOWER  1  
She Has Been Part of Thousands


14 CLOCK TOWER  April 29, 196!  
Buildings  Have Grown, Given,


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*ipril 29, 1965 CLOCK TOWER 15  
Gone  Future Holds More Changes


16  CLOCK TOWER  September 23, 1965  
Kudos To Union!  
R. R.  Figuhr  
President, General Conference  
Union College was called into existence three- 
quarters of a century ago to meet an urgent education-
al need, particularly for the great region lying be-
tween the Mississippi and the Rocky Mountains. From  
the day of its opening in 1891 with but a handful of 
students until today with an enrollment of approx- 
imately eleven hundred, Union College has steadily  
held to its original purpose—the training of young peo-
ple for service in the cause of God. The challenge of  
the foreign fields through all these years has found  
a warm response in the hearts of hundreds. The Golden  
Cords binding students to teachers and to loyal class- 
mates have extended out into the uttermost parts of 
the earth. Some eight hundred and fifty have heeded  
the call to foreign service. This is an excellent record.  
During the last twenty years, two-thirds of the grad- 
uates have found their way into some phase of the  
organized work of the church.  
On the occasion of the celebration of this Di- 
amond Anniversary, we congratulate Union College on 
its excellent achievement as an outstanding Seventh-
day Adventist educational institution, for having ren- 
dered such valuable service to the church. The pur-
pose of its founders has been realized to a  remarkable  
degree. We pray that Union College may continue its  
mission of inspiring and preparing young people for  
service as long as time permits.  
F. O.  Sanders  
President, Nebraska Conference  
We here in Nebraska are fortunate for Union  
College is a very important part of our field. It is our 
college; the faculty and students are our neighbors, 
and they are our church members. Because of their 
high standards and dedicated service, they have left  
an imprint upon this community and this conference.  
Being favorably known, they have contributed much  
to the advancement of the work in this area.  
Any business or institution must be judged by the  
contribution it makes and by the quality of the prod- 
uct it produces. We appreciate the product of Union  
College, for from it come the ministers, teachers, of- 
fice personnel; workers of all kinds so badly needed 
to man our ever-expanding denominational program. 
In addition, the Union College graduates make good  
church officers and helpful laymen in the local church.  
We desire at this time to express our best wishes  
and prayers that Union College on this occasion of its  
"Diamond Anniversary" would  be especially blessed  
and that they would as faculty and students redcdicate  
themselves to the continuing of the good work they are  
now doing until Jesus shall return.  

Theodore  Carcich  
Vice-president, General Conference  
The stalwart sons and daughters of Union College  
have made a definite contribution to the world-wide  
progress of the Advent message. No matter where you  
go, you find someone who at one time walked in the  
shadows of the Clock Tower. As we face the future it  
is my conviction that Union College and its graduates  
will play an increasingly important role in the com- 
pletion of God's work on earth.  
R. W.  Fowler  
President, Union College  
As we enter the year marking the seventy-fifth an- 
niversary of the founding of Union College, we may  
review the past with a sense of appreciation for what  
has been accomplished, expressing our gratitude to  
the many friends who have assisted along the way  
and giving thanks to God for His continuing blessing  
upon the college, its student body and its faculty.  
In the original plan for Union College, the amount  
to be spent in building the institution was to be limited 
to $50,000. From this humble beginning, Union College 
has grown until today the net book value of her  build- 
ings is $2,726,000. The enrollment of 73 on the opening 
day, September 30, 1891, has increased to the present  
enrollment of 1,161. The growth indicated by these  
comparisons is gratifying indeed; but if Union College  
is to continue to provide higher education for the youth  
of the great midwestern area, further expansion must 
be accomplished.  
Plans for future growth include an addition to  
Jorgensen Hall (the science building); a new library  
building and remodeling of the present library building 
for classrooms; a new administration-classroom build-
ing to replace the old administration building that has  
served so well for the past seventy-five years; an addi- 
tion to the industrial building to enable the depart-
ments housed there to keep pace with the increase in  
business, which in turn provides more labor for an in- 
creasing student body; an addition to the gymnasium  
and construction of a new swimming pool.  
In addition to these projects, future plans also call  
for additional student housing and relocation of our  
laundry, print shop, bookbindery, maintenance depart- 
ment, grounds department headquarters, and even- 
tually the power plant. These needs present a tre- 
mendous challenge to us today; but with the dedica- 
tion that actuated the builders of 1890-91, the needs 
will be met that the youth of our time and the future  
may have the privileges of a Christian education.  

R. H.  Nightingale  
Chairman of the Board, Union College  
Congratulations to Union College as it celebrates  
its "Diamond Anniversary." This college  has meant  
much to the growth and development of our denomina-
tion, not only here in the midwest but in many places 
of the world field.  
The Seventh-day Adventist historian, A. W. Spald- 
ing, wrote that Union College has been "the shaper of  
men's lives since its inauguration in 1891 as the thir  
college in Seventh-day Adventist history. From its  
halls have gone forth hundreds of missionaries in 
both home and foreign lands, leaders and teachers in 
the counsels and activities of the church." Christ's Lasi 
Legion, p. 287.  
It is a pleasure to see what progress has been made  
in recent years; however, much remains to be done  
The many young people eager to enter Union Colleg 
and the additional facilities required to take care oi  
them call for careful study by the College Board of  
Trustees. The years ahead should be those of growth 
and expansion that will cost large sums of money. We  
must continue to provide a physical plant and a fac-
ulty worthy of the best in Christian education for the  
splendid young people of mid-America.  
While tremendous emphasis is being placed on eu  
ucation by our government today, we must not lose 
sight of our ideals, goals, and objectives as a Christiar 
Seventh-day Adventist college. Our emphasis must be 
on character building and training for service. It mus1  
be a preparation of the heart and mind so that oui 
youth shall take their places of leadership and respon 
sibility whether in the local community and church e  
in the organized work at home or abroad.  
With such objectives, may Union College move  
forward in dedicated service under the blessing oi 
God!  
J. L.  Dittberner  
President, Northern Union Conference  
In President Johnson's State of the Union messag  
given a few months ago, he mentioned something abou 
the loneliness and the burdens of the presidency. Then 
he made this statement, "The greatest burden of beim  
president is not in doing the right thing, but in knowin]  
the right thing." To me, this seemed a tremendou;  
truth. The President evidently felt he had the courage 
to do the right thing if only he knew the right mov 
to make.  
It does take courage to do right, but first of all, we  
must know right. There will come moments in the ex  
perience of all when important decisions must be made  
These might be in the choice of friends, a life-long com  
panion, an occupation, e>r profession. Decisions neee  
te> be made, also in the areas of social ethics, spiritua 
life, and moral standards.  
To know the right thing under varied circum  
stances often calls for wisdom that can't be obtainec  
from l>ooks, professors, or friends. When you face sucl  
a situation and you wonder which way to go, remenv  
ber this comment from the Bible, "If any man lacl 
wisdom, let him ask of God that giveth to all men lib  
crally, and upbraideth not, and it shall be given him.'  
James 1:5.  
When we ask God for wisdom and divine direc  
tion, He will help us to know what is the right thin" 
He has a plan for your life. He will direct you in tlu 
large and small decisions that face you from day te  
day. But, each one must ask of Him. '  
God wants to help you know the right thing ane  
also to give strength and courage that you might eh  
the right thing.  
J. W.  Pogue  
Ed. Secretory, Nebraska Conference  
We had been in Malaya for just a few month  
and the weather was hot, the language strange. Th  
people were friendly, but the food was different; w< 
were just plain lonesome for the U.S.A. Then erne' eh  
there appeared a large yellow envelope postmarkee  
Union College, Lincoln, Nebraska. We opened it an.  
found cords with a picture of our Alma Mater ane 
cut-of ends from the golden cords that had been hun' 
for us. A letter and a program gave details of that traeli  
tional Friday evening service, the hanging of th  
golden cords. We stopped to again picture what th. 
service had been like when we went to school. We we.  
made to feel an integral part of a great family. Agaii 
wo realized that going out fre>m Union College wen  
hundreds of our friends and school mates. They toe  
were at the other end of the golden cord doing tlv  
we>rk our Lord commissioned long ago. Loneliness van 
is'hed and we picked up our work with new vigor  
That little end from our golden cord tied us to "o'  
Union' and our friends serving God around the work