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I. 
"Never did sun more beautifully steep 
In his first splendour valley, rock, or hill." 
When nostalgic reminiscence grips the sons and 
daughters of Union College, it is such scenes as 
this that haunt the memory. 
It is noonday, and the gentle rays of the spring 
sunshine delicately tip the leaves, the ivy embrac-
ing the walls, and the face of the masonry which 
makes the portal of Union College. 
From this doorway have valiantly stepped into 
the service of mankind unnumbered hosts of young 
men and women. Thousands of them have found 
their useful niche in the homeland; nearly six hun-
dred have dedicated their lives to the work beyond 
the seven seas. 
Each year brings through this portal other hun-
dreds of youthful spirits to obtain an eclucat;on 
to gain an inspiration from 
THE COLLEGE 
THAT TRAINS 
TO SERVE 
HUMANITY 
ALWAYS— 
EVERYWHERE 
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Entered as second class matter at the post office at Lincoln, Nebraska, April 5, 1911, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1897, Acceptance for mailing at special rate of post-
age provided in Section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, authorized June 17, 1921. 
- Published hi-weekly during the school year and every month during the summer by Union College under the auspices of the faculty and students of Union College. Sub-
scription rate: Mailed, one dollar per year; unmailed, seventy-five cents per year, 
A WORD FROM THE PRESIDENT 
In this issue of the CLOCK TOWER you will catch a glimpse 
of life at Union College, but you cannot begin to realize the 
possibilities that await you here until you become part of 
that life. 
Union prepares young men and women for living by 
offering a type of education which is itself a part of life. It 
will give purpose and direction to your living; it will make you 
a constructive member of society; it will give you an education 
that is grounded in religious faith, a firm belief in God, and 
an understanding of spiritual values which will endure the 
acid test of experience; it will help you build a fuller and 
richer life in every way. 
Union College is forward looking in its plans and policies. 
The board of managers and the college faculty have joined 
hearts and hands in a program greatly strengthening every 
department and activity of the institution. 
Union College is ready for you. 
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4. 
4, 
A YEAR OF ACHIEVEMENT 
It is the opinion of many who have been inti-
mately associated with Union College for the past 
few decades that signs of progress and evidences 
of achievement have, except for the initial years of 
great up-building, never been so noticeable as dur-
ing the school year just ended. Much of the credit 
for the present degree of advancement is due to 
those who in years past laid for the institution such 
a sturdy foundation; and to those leaders and stu-
dent bodies who blazed the trail we render honor 
and heartfelt gratitude. 
Let us glance briefly at a few of the outstanding 
phases of the year's work. 
ENROLLMENT 
Never since the days when Union College in-
cluded in its curricula the large German, Swedish 
and Danish-Norwegian departments—that is, before 
1909—has the enrollment of 1944-45 been ap-
proached. Until the past year, the highest enroll-
ment reached was 607, the figure for '1893, and that 
included all the grade-school pupils. With 578 (495 
in college and 83 in the academy) the enrollment 
for 1944-45 can, therefore, be recognized as the 
highest in history. And this number does not include 
the 273 registered for the summer session. It might 
be noted here that in an endeavor to protect the 
constituent academies, registration in the high-
school grades at Union is practically limited to 
young people residing in Lincoln. 
THE CLOCK TOWER 
Since the year 1941-42, when the circulation of 
the school paper reached a peak of 1,300, it has 
progressed with enormous strides. The following 
year paid circulation reached a total of 1,800; in 
1943-44, 2,500; and in the past year the almost unbe-
lievable total of 3,400—or 61/2 for every student 
enrolled. In no previous campaign for the school 
publication had there been a greater display of 
fervent, sincere school spirit. 
HARVEST INGATHERING 
Despite the fact that territory available to Union 
College students for Harvest Ingathering is limited 
to a comparatively few small, far-flung country 
towns, great success rewarded the efforts of the 
school group on their field day. After traveling for 
great distances and thus being able to spend only 
a few hours in actual work, the various bands so-
licited on the one day a total of over $2,000. 
BUILDING FUND CAMPAIGN 
It has frequently been remarked since that no 
greater campaign has ever been launched by any 
of our student groups than that sent on its way in 
April, 1945. With a desire to provide more adequate 
recreational facilities and to help equip the new 
music hall, the students set about to raise the sum 
of $12,500 in six weeks. On the closing date of the 
campaign, as a result of the valiant work of the 
students and the generosity of many friends, the 
the amazing total of $17,887.16 had been collected, 
$15,416 of it in ccish. 
WRITING CONTESTS 
Taking first place in both the Instructor College 
Pen League and the Signs of the Times Talent 
Search, Union established another record. Sub- 
mitting to the Youth's Instructor 39 of a total of 339 
papers by 11 colleges—or 11 %, Union College won 
43% of the award money. The prizes were as fol-
lows: 
2 out of 3 first prizes, 
3 out of 6 seconds, 
2 out of 9 thirds, 
4 honorable mentions. 
Award money received by U. C. students totaled 
$94. The next highest obtained by any other of the 
eleven participating colleges was $35. 
Results in the Signs contest were similar. A Union 
College student won the only first award of $25, 
three obtained second prizes, and one obtained a 
fourth. 
BUILDINGS 
The past year witnessed the turf-breaking cere-
mony for the $100,000 science building, and as we 
go to press it is rapidly nearing completion. Con-
tractors are working hard to make it ready for use 
in the Autumn. The addition of this building to the 
rapidly-expanding facilities at the college will ren-
der even more efficient the work in the departments 
of natural and physical science. 
Partly as a result of the student building fund 
campaign, the swimming pool is also nearing com-
pletion. At the time of writing, the red brick walls 
and glass roof are completed, and workmen are 
installing the plumbing and laying the cement floors 
surrounding the pool. 
In process of erection also is a commodious ware-
house for the storage of materials used in the fur-
niture and broom factories. It will adjoin the Don 
Love Industrial Building. 
SPIRITUAL STATUS 
Achievement in the foregoing spheres of activity 
as well as in other matters is attributable to the 
spirit of reverence and the dependence upon Divine 
guidance which has characterized the last school 
year. Much appreciated by the student body were 
the two weeks of spiritual emphasis conducted by 
Elder Robbins of St. Louis and Dr. Yost of Wash-
ington, D. C., as well as the series of devotional lec-
tures given by Elder McGuire. Outstanding in the 
memory of the students, too, are the Friday vesper 
services in the chapel where, with the tranquility of 
evening broken only by sweet strains of soft music, 
the young people have dedicated their lives to the 
service of God. Yes, in spiritual things the school 
year, 1944-45, has been a year of growth and 
achievement. 
WHAT OF THE FUTURE? 
In the words of our great-hearted, progressive 
president, "Union College is forward looking in its 
plans and policies. The board of managers and the 
college faculty have joined hearts and hands in a 
program greatly strengthening every department 
and activity of the institution." 
We cannot begin to record here the plans for 
the future, but many of them are already under 
way. With the help of God and with such a group 
of men and women as control the policies and wel-
fare of Union College, nothing but advancement 
can result. Union will continue to grow. Founded 
by men of vision, it will ever give its sons and 
daughters a view of the needs of a troubled world. 
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There is probably no individual piece of archi-
tecture on denominational property which stirs up 
so many fond memories in so many souls as the 
old Clock Tower. A landmark on the highest emin-
ence in the Lincoln vicinity for over 50 years, it is 
increasingly symbolic of the vision of the founders 
of the college. 
Faithfully the photographer has caught the scene 
in every detail: the students on the famed rock-pile, 
the lush green lawns, the gently swaying branches, 
and Old Glory jauntily waving at the tip of her 
slender shaft. But what he cannot and never will 
capture is the heart-throb which this scene engen-
ders in the thousands of men and women who have 
strolled across these lawns, thronged these portals, 
studied in these classrooms, worshiped in the 
chapel—and heard the bell toll the parting of 
=other day. 
DEPARTMENT HEADS 
1944-45 
Edwin B. Ogden, Ph.D. 
Mathematics 
Robert W. Woods, Ph.D. 
Physics 
 
Frank L. Marsh, Ph.D. 
Biology 
Guy C. Jorgensen, Ph.D. 
Chemistry 
 
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Harry G. Reinmuth, Ph.D. 
Modern and Biblical 
Languages 
Malcolm Hause, Ph.D. 
History 
Anne Dunn, M.Sc. 
Home Economics 
I. F. Blue, Ph.D. 
Religion 
 
 
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W. Fletcher Tarr, M.A. 
English, Speech, Journalism 
Ray W. Fowler, M.S. 
Business Administration 
and Economics 
A. R. M. Lauritzen, M.Mus. 
Music 
The CLOCK TOWER Spends a Day With 
Two Typical Union College Students 
Many of the subscribers to the CLOCK 
TOWER have been reading the paper for 
years and have thus gained some insight into 
the varied, interesting life at Union College, 
but still they may not have had the opportunity 
of visiting the campus and viewing first-hand 
the way the students go about their study, 
worship, work and play. It is difficult to judge 
the true character of a school and to appre-
ciate the value of its numerous activities unless 
they can be seen. And it is hard to appraise 
the product of that school .unless one can 
spend some time among the young people 
while in the process of preparation for service. 
For the benefit of those of our readers who 
have not yet visited the College �
as well as to 
refresh the memory of those who have—the 
CLOCK TOWER portrays on the following 
pages a typical day in the life of two typical 
students. 
These two young persons were selected by 
the CLOCK TOWER reporter, not because of 
photogenic qualities or popularity, but rather 
because they are representative of the 580 
other young men and women at the college. 
And in following each through his day, the 
reporter has caught the real spirit of Union 
College. 
First we introduce Harold Burr, theological 
senior, of Wichita, Kansas. 
Like many of his fellow seniors, Harold is 
married and lives in College View. A graduate 
of Wichita High School East, Harold is in his 
fourth year at Union. His favorite pastime is 
gathering material for the extensive files he 
plans to use in his ministerial work. He is 23 
years old, 5 feet 11 inches tall, and as the pic-
tures clearly show, fair and comely. Harold 
married Ravilla Burgess in 1942, and in addi-
tion to financing his own way through college, 
has earned many honors during his years in 
school. He has occupied such responsible 
extra-curricular offices as secretary and super-
intendent of the Sabbath school, leader of the 
Ministerial Band, and member of the Student- 
Faculty Council. His name appears in Who's 
Who in flinericcm Colleges, 1944-45. 
In the tradition of Union College students, 
he has also had experience in the colporteur 
work and plans to spend part of the present 
summer selling religious books in Omaha. He 
believes this to be an important part of his 
preparation for a ministerial career, whether 
he remains in the homeland or is accepted for 
mission service. With an eye on India as his 
chosen field, both he and his wife have been 
studying Urdu at Union College. 
Typical freshman girl (see page 12) Mar-
garet Jane Sorenson—"Jane" to her many 
friends—was born in Abyssinia 17 years ago. 
She is 5 feet 21/2 inches tall, pale brunette with 
hazel eyes, and is the daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. M. J. Sorenson, remembered by so many 
for their years of service in the country of "The 
Lion of the Tribe of Judah". Like many others 
of the children of missionaries at Union, she 
has traveled extensively. She was in Addis 
Ababa at the time of the entry of Italian troops 
into that city, though for six months previously 
she had been in Egypt. Subsequently she has 
spent four years in Jamaica and has traveled 
in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, France, Eng-
land and Denmark, the homeland of her 
parents. 
In her unsophistication and with her en-
gaging, naive personality, Jane is representa-
tive of the young women attending Union Col-
lege. Her ambition is to become a missionary. 
At present she has no particular mission field 
in mind, and is willing to go anywhere she is 
called. In preparation for the life she has 
chosen, she plans to take the nurses' course 
and is now a member of the large pre-nursing, 
group at the college. 
Since she is a reader, one of her hobbies is 
collecting poems and readings, but she spends 
many a pleasant hour studying the native 
birds of Nebraska and adding to her large 
collection of postage stamps. 
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A DAY WITH HAROLD BURR 
Strolling with a friend through one of the 
archways presented to the College as a class 
gift by the Class of '29, Mr. Burr is on his 
way to his first morning class. The tall spirea 
bordering this part of the serpentine walk 
leading to the administration building, the 
freshly mown lawns, the tall heavily-leafed 
elms, oaks, honey-locusts and other trees 
shading President Cossentine's home at the 
corner of 48th and Stockwell—these are char-
acteristic of College View and help to distin-
guish this section of the city as Lincoln's 
most attractive suburb. 
Lower left. Seated in the front row, second 
from the left, Harold hears friendly, scholarly, 
ex-Borneo-Missionary Rowland, associate pro-
fessor of religion, discuss the results of a test 
in New Testament Epistles. Others in the front 
row are (1. to r.) James Mershon, Iowa; and 
Joe Barnes, Colorado. 
Below. Illustrating the practicality of his 
preparation for the gospel ministry, Mr. Burr 
takes advantage of a free period to go over 
his lecture on the prophecy of Daniel 2. 
Above. Elder J. L. McElhany addresses 
the chapel assembly. Seated on the plat-
form are the following professors (1. to r.): 
Hause, Reinmuth, President Cossentine 
(partly hidden), Woods, Cadwallader, 
Welsh, Ogden, Isaac. The arrow indicates 
Harold Burr. 
Above right. In the fifteen minutes that 
remain before chapel, Harold practises a 
speech before the microphone. A record-
ing is made in an adjoining studio. 
Right. In the Rees Browsing Room of 
the library, to which Harold has resorted 
for a last minute check-up on a history 
topic, the photographer catches Eugene 
Taylor, sophomore of Nebraska, as he 
characteristically commences a harangue 
on the necessity of relaxation. Librarian's 
assistant Mildred Christiansen unconcern-
edly replaces a book on the shelves. 
IN! 
Early afternoon finds him in coun-
cil with other officials at the College 
Furniture Factory, where he is as-
sembly foreman. He is one of over 
40 workers employed in this large 
college industry. Others in the pic-
ture are Don Van Syoc, general 
foreman; Mr. J. T. DeVice, superin-
tendent; Ivan Pierson, mill foreman, 
also a student from Kansas. 
"All work and no play . . ." For relaxation 
after work Harold enjoys a game of shuffle-
board with tall (6' 4") Dorsett (Texas) Feyen 
in the spacious recreation hall. 
In their 48th Street apartment Mr. and Mrs. Burr chat at day's end. 
Divan cover was designed and hand-woven from hand-carded yarn over 
100 years ago by Mrs. Burr's great grandmother in Kentucky. 
ptrombilil 
JANE'S DAY AT COLLEGE 
Down the steps of North Hall and off to classes, Jane 
Sorenson (left) with Norma Housel of Oklahoma, com-
mences her day. The photographer does not follow 
her through her school hours as he did Mr. Burr, but 
dogs her footsteps through the rest of the day. 
After dinner in the cafeteria (lower left) at which 
she happens to sit at same table with Arthur Sutton, 
17, son of British Guiana missionaries, she spends a 
few moments (lower right) by the rose arbour in North 
Hall park. With her is Jacquelyn Fauscher, 17, fresh-
man, from Dallas, Texas. 
It is such picturesque scenes as this, multiplied 
many times, that make Union's campus the beauty 
spot of Lincoln. 
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But Jane has work to do. As 
one of Miss Rees' clerks, she er 
receives North Hall visitors, 
and notes arrivals and depart-
ures of the girls. Here she 
checks out first-comer Mar- dr 
jorie Jones, preceptress at 
Broadview Academy, taking a 
refresher course at Union. In 
background is Elise Joudry of 
Panama. 
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With spring in evidence 
everywhere, Arthur calls at 
North Hall to take Jane skat-
ing in the gymnasium. 
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After which, with permission 
of the deans, he enjoys her 
company and a malt at Cavi-
ness', just across from the 
campus, a favorite resort of 
Unionites. Others in the foun-
tain are Clyda Armour (Ar- •. 
kansas), Palma Hughes (Tex.), 
unidentified person, and Mrs. 
Caviness. 
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Just before worship, motherly Miss Rees counsels 
with her dormitory assistants in the parlor. In the 
picture are Miss Rees, dean of women; Senior Cora-
mae Thomas, English major, of Texas; Jane; Summer 
Senior Virginia Pate, English major and late dean of 
girls at Campion Academy; and Selma Bird of Ne-
braska. 
Below. With 250-odd other young women from 32 
states, Hawaii, and eight foreign countries, Jane 
attends evening devotions in the worship room. 
Worship over, in the few minutes remaining before 
study hour Jane enjoys a friendly chat in the parlor 
with Mildred Christiansen, sophomore, of Medellin, 
Columbia, where her parents are still missionaries. 
It's already been a strenuous day, but still there's 
Pre-Nursing Club] With studies out of the way, room-
mate Palma Hughes, English major from Houston, 
helps Jane look her best for the meeting. Afterwards 
to bed. 
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