HOPE COLLEGE ANCHOR LXVIII—9 Hope Col lege — Hol land, Michigan DECEMBER 9 ; 1955

Handel Work Receives Annual Production-

Chicago Soloists Again Featured The 2Gth annual pe r fo rmance of

Handel 's ora tor io the "Mess iah"

will be presented on Tuesday eve-

ning, December 13, in Hope Me-

morial chapel. This year ' s presen-

tat ion will f e a t u r e well known

Chicago- soloists Myleen Merrill ,

soprano, Louise Schmidt, contra l to ,

John Toms, tenor, and Robert

Speaker , bass.

The Hope College Messiah chorus

which is composed of the Chapel

and Chancel Choirs is under the

baton of Dr. Robert Cavanaugh

and is accompanied by the college

orches t ra under the direction of

Dr. Morre t te Rider. Roger Riet-

berg will ass is t a t the o rgan and

piano accompaniment will be played

by Anthony Kooiker.

The soprano soloist, Myleen Mer-

rill, has appeared in reci tals , ora-

torios, and operas t h roughou t the Midwest. She has appeared with the Marshal l Field Choral Society in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and in Duluth, Minnesota, and wi th the Apollo Club of Chicago. Miss Mer-rill made her Chicago debut at Goodman Thea te r on October 5, 1955.

Louise Schmidt, contral to , has previously appeared in the "Mes-s iah" in Chicago and Rockford and in the " E l i j a h " in Chicago. In 1948 she won the mezzo soprano division of the Chicagoland Music Fes t iva l . She was g radua ted f r o m the Nor th Park College School of Music and is present ly a t tending the Chicago Musical College of Roosevelt Uni-versi ty.

The tenor solos will be rendered by John Toms, associate P ro fe s so r of Voice a t Nor thwes te rn Univer-sity. Mr. Toms has appeared as

soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchest ra , the Kalamazoo Sym-phony, the Chicago Opera Thea te r and the Philadelphia Opera Com-pany.

Robert Speaker , bass, s ang in Hope College's presenta t ion of the "Mess iah" in 1947. Other "Mess iah" appearances include the Apollo Club, Chicago, Arion Musical Club, Milwaukee, Calvin Chorus, Grand Rapids, and the Nor thwes te rn Illi-nois S ta te Teacher ' s College. He has also sung the tit le role in "E l i j ah . " Besides orator io work, Mr. Speaker , has made several tours in which he gives fu l l length varied p r o g r a m s before community, school and college groups.

Functional Art Three Flights Up

"Contempora ry Design in House-hold Objec t s" is the theme of the present exhibition now being s taged by the A r t Depar tment . The ex-hibit, first of i ts kind to be s taged here, is not the usual fo rm of a r t show. The show consists of some fu rn i t u r e , household ar t ic les , heavy kitchen ware , draper ies , and many small inexpensive ar t ic les of an a r t i s t ic na tu re . This type of show has been ex t remly popular a t New York's Museum of Modem A r t and a t o ther l a rge galleries th roughout the country .

The exhibi t ion is open f r o m 9:15 a.m. to noon and 1:15 to 5 p.m. daily t h r o u g h December 16th, ex-cept f o r Sa tu rday and Sunday.

L o u i s e S c h m i d t

Letter from the Editor

Today with the first publ icat ion of the l i t e ra ry addit ion to the An-chor, The Anchorline, we as s tu-

dents a t Hope College wi tness the a t t a in ing of ano ther milestone in our progress up the pa th to l i t e ra ry success.

Now tha t the in t roductory p a r a -g raph has been wr i t t en with s tuff i -ness jus t oozing out of it , let 's ge t

down to the bare fac t s . We w a n t to make this paper a real bang-up success, but we need:

1. your ideas — we'd like a n y suggest ions as to improve-ments ;

2. your t ime — it would t ake only a l i t t le bit of t h a t preci-ous stuff of yours to read th i s sheet ;

3. your cr i t icisms — we're going to head this column " L e t t e r s to the Ed i to r " so t h a t we can pr in t your cr i t ic isms — jus t wr i te a note tel l ing us whe ther you like or dislike wha t you ' re reading and leave it in the Engl ish office. Room 209, any t ime;

4. your creat ive w r i t i n g — whether feeble, f a i r or fine a t -t empts , we need mate r ia l and we need it f r o m you!

If you have heard any good serious papers or any hi lar iously funny humor papers a t f r a t e r n i t y or soror i ty meet ings , why not t u r n them in?

So until next t ime, hope you like this new a t t e m p t a t creat iveness . The Anchorline I

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YR'S Hear State Chairman

Care About Pol i t ics? Well, if so, there ' s one th ing t h a t you should remember to do when home f o r vacat ion — Regis te r f o r the nex t elections in your home s ta te .

At the last O t t awa County Young Republicans mee t ing J i m Shaener , Young Republican S t a t e Cha i rman , s t ressed the loss of political power on the pa r t of s tuden t s who fa i l to make use of t h e absen tee bal lot while away a t college. If you a r e twenty-one, and a r e reg i s te red , t h e Ot t awa County Young Republ icans will help you ge t an absentee ba l -lot so you will be able to vote bo th in the spr ing elections and in t h e vital Pres identa l elections next f a l l .

C O L L E G E C A L E N D A R

Tonite — Hope a t Ypsi lant i W A L Chr i s tmas p a r t y

Tomorrow — All-College banquet

Tuesday — Handel ' s Messiah

Thur sday — Albion at Civic

Fr iday — M E R R Y C H R I S T M A S H A P P Y N E W YEAR, A N D DRIVE S A N E AND S A F E

Council Readies First Yule Feed

The Ju l i ana Room on Sa tu rday Evening, Dec. 10, will be the scene of the S tuden t Council All-college Chr i s tmas Banquet , an event new in Hope 's social calendar .

" A Song in the N i g h t " is the

theme a round which the p rog ram of the banquet , which is semi-fo rmal , will be developed.

P rominen t Chicago soloist, bari-tone Raymond McAfee has been secured f o r the event. Mr. McAfee, widely acclaimed as an orator io a r t i s t , will p resen t five numbers , among which will be two f r o m the

Messiah. As the gues t speaker of the eve-

ning Dr. J e rome De Jong , of the F r s t Reformed Church of Engle-wood will be f e a t u r e d . De Jong , having held p a s t o r a t e s both in the

east and in the wes t and hav ing jus t received the Ph.D. degree f r o m Princeton Univers i ty , will center his t hough t s around the Chr i s tmas theme.

To top off the evening the com-mit tee has secured a moving pic-ture version of Hawthorne ' s The Scarlet Le t te r .

The Rev. Don B r a n d t will fill the post of Mas t e r of Ceremonies. And Dur fee ' s cooks are se rv ing a Tur -key dinner wi th all t he t r immings .

Tickets have been sold f o r $1.50 to board ing s tudents , and f o r $2.00 to others .

Frats List Their Neophyte Members

The "Big Season" f o r the F r a t s on campus h a s been completed. Dur ing tha t t ime rush ing was "s taged" , bids were sent out to the new pledges and acceptances were received.

The F r a t e r pledges a re Gerald Boeve, J im Stout , Jack F a b e r , John Van Dam, J im Evenhuis , Lar ry Ter Molen, Ju r r i en Winter , Spencer Weersing, Carl Docherty, J i m Saunders , Dave Boersma, Nick

Ver Beek, Jack Remmelts , Bob

Muilenberg, Phil Lanning, F r e d

Leaske, Tom Lubbers, and Bill Brookstra .

Cosmopoli tan pledged the follow-ing: Aust in Aardema , J o h n Angus , Lar ry Arends, Bob Bart leson, Andy Behrmann, Paul Benes, D a v e Boer igter , Bill Bremer, F red Brown, Dennis Camp, Don De Jongh , Ted Du Mez, Paul Elzinga, J o h n Heins, J e r r y Hendrickson, J o h n Hood, Gene Klaaren, Paul Nor thu is , W a r -ren P l a g g e m a r s , Dale Schoon, Rog

Teck, J o h n Ten Pas, Bob Thomson, Hank Van Essen , Dale Ver Meer, Glenn Will iams, and J o e Woods.

The Arkie pledges a re Jack Ver Steeg, J im De Wit t , A r t Hie lkema, Ken Scudder, Dick Brockmeier , Don Adelberg, Har ley Brown, John Staa t , Dan Sasaki , Doug Vander Hey, Dave Lamb, J e r r y Wassink, Gord Ver Woer t , Ray Z immerman , and Wayne Westenbroek .

The Knick pledges a r e George Bitner, Ken Bowler, Dick Brown, Bruce Brumels , Bob de Fores t , Wayne Dixon, Mike F i sher , Myron K a u f m a n , Bob Kessler, Ge r r i tHook , Ron Hughes , J o h n Myers , Bill Mc Neal, Dick Morgan, H a r r y Overock-

er, J im Ronda, J e r r y Takas , and Ed Westerbeke .

Accept ing Emmie bids were Car-roll Bennick, Bur ton Cooper, A1 Grube, Dave Kots, Rog Roelofs, Gary Van Singel, Har ley Ver Beek, Bob Balfoort , Ron Kuiper , Leonard Kurtz , Ron Lokhorst , Marl in Van-der Wilt , Don Jansen , J o h n Need-ham, Cra ig Emmons , J o h n Vander Bos, Char les Hesselink, J o h n Zwyg-huizen, Ron Knoper, Gardner Kis-sack, and Dave Por t inga .

Carnegie-Schouten and Durfee

Are Sites for Comi-Serious WAL W.A.L. is sponsoring the i r an-

nual Chr i s tmas pa r ty , th is Fr iday , December 9, a t 8:00 p.m. in the gymnas ium. The p a r t y is under the direct ion of Ru th Bruins and Ani ta Van Lente, ac t ing as co-cha i rman.

The t heme this year will be " C h r i s t m a s In Song." The p rogram will consist of both s tudent and f acu l ty par t ic ipa t ion . Be t ty Bur-net t is going to give he r rendit ion of "All I w a n t f o r Chr i s tmas Is My Two F r o n t Teeth" , J e a n Kroman will p resen t he r "Chr i s tmas Debut" , The Minors will s ing "J ing le Bells", and the re will be a special visi tor f r o m the N o r t h Pole — "Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer ." The f acu l ty a re p resen t ing a mixed double q u a r t e t and to close the pro-g r a m , the Chr i s tmas Story will be told and Mary Ann H a g e m a n will s ing "O Holy N i g h t , " accompanied by R u t h W r i g h t . Doro thy Hesselink will preside t h r o u g h the ent i re pro-g r a m .

A f t e r the p r o g r a m in the gym-nas ium, everyone will come over

to Dur fee f o r "outdoor carol s ing-ing" around the Chr i s tmas trfee on the te r race . Following this, all are welcome to come in to Dur fee Lounge f o r r e f r e s h m e n t s .

There are many s tuden t s who nave worked ha rd on commit tees for the Chr i s tmas p a r t y and i t is only because of thei r individual effor ts t h a t the Chr i s tmas P a r t y promises to be an en joyable a f f a i r for all.

ASA Late Risers Tomorrow

Before the " f r e s h m e n girls , sis-ters a l l " bid the i r annual fond and t ea r fu l f a rewel l at vacat ion t ime, they will en joy someth ing unique in the way of Chr i s tmas celebra-tions.

This Sa tu rday , December 10th a t 9:00 a .m. they a re hold ing a b reak-f a s t in Voorhees dining hall . Helen Wade is A.S.A. cha i rman of the event. All F re shmen women a r e invited.

Plans Completed For Dulce Aid

As announced a t our chapel serv-ice on Tuesday morning, the pro jec t fo r the Mission Drive this y e a r is to fu rn i sh the Sunday School rooms in the new communi ty building at Dulce, New Mexico. This new building is being cons t ruc ted to re-place the one which was destroyed by a fire a f ew years ago.

The goal f o r this year is $2,000. This amount averaged out among

the s tuden t s and facu l ty comes to $2.25 per person. Collection day-will be Tuesday, December 13, dur-

ing which the s tudents and f acu l ty will be able to give thei r p ledges in the S tudent Council office in the basement of Van Raal te .

In order t h a t the donat ion may reach Dulce before Chr i s tmas , all s tudents a re requested to br ing their offer ing next Tuesday. Those

who are unable to b r ing thei r offer-ings on t h a t day will be contacted personally by members of t h e Mis-sion Drive Commit tee .

H Club Hosts Athletes at Banquet

King footbal l has passed on f o r another year . The season was officially closed out he re a t Hope

when the footbal l and cross count ry teams were fe ted by the " H " Alum-ni Club a t the Fall Spor t s Banquet on November 17.

Coach Green's thinclads a n d Coach DeVet te ' s g r idders were all in a t tendance as were Hope Alum-ni, High School coaches, and some fifty-five h igh school p layers .

Six le t te rs were awarded in Cross

Country and all of the winners will be r e tu rn ing next year . Dr. Green

also announced t h a t H e r b Widmer will capta in the t eam dur ing the 1956 season.

Thir ty two men received le t t e r s in footbal l of which twenty six should be r e tu rn ing f o r competit ion next year . Coach De Vet te an-nounced t h a t Dave Kuyers is cap-tain-elect f o r next f a l l and tha t

Co-captain and end Lynn Pos t had been selected by his t e a m m a t e s to receive the Randall C. Bosch award as the most valuable p layer on the squad.

Seniors Cop Top

In Volley Ball Volleyball I n t r a m u r a l s have come

to a close wi th the Seniors as vic-tors. Then Senior g i r l s cap tured the t i t le a s " c h a m p s " by coming out on top in th i r t een games . In second place is the Jun io r A team with ten victories. Thi rd and f o u r t h honors a r e held by the J u n i o r B and Soph A t eams with nine and eight wins respect ively.

The F rosh and Soph B's t ied f o r fifth place honors wi th five wins apiece. The remainder of the score-board shows Sem wives and Frosh A with f o u r and two wins. All in all, the volleyball season was t e rm-ed very successful under t h e able leadership of Meryl Gowens, spor t s m a n a g e r of volleyball.

J u s t a round the corner a r e the Basketbal l I n t r a m u r a l s . L i s t s a re posted in all Girls ' do rms and basketball f a n s a re urged to sign up as the I n t r a m u r a l s will begin immedia te ly a f t e r Chr i s tmas vaca-tion.

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EDITOR'S DESK The o ther day we heard of a unique solution one school used in

an a t t e m p t to solve thei r complex ex t ra -cur r i cu la r problem — tha t being to dissolve everyth ing, under the theory t h a t what is ac tual ly needed will r ise aga in of i tself. While not advocat ing campus anarchy , we wonder if th i s principle would have applicat ion here — and possibly even extended into the a rea of curr iculum revision where so much s tudy and research has been done only to s tand naked because of personal prejudice.

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Thanks to a f ew of the facu l ty who have been a t t end ing the Coun-cil func t ions this year — the s tuden t s apprec ia te your being there . Also thanks to the Sentinel, our s i s te r paper , f o r offer ing shovels to those townspeople who will keep thei r walks clean. This city being Dutch, and also one which has no regula t ion enforc ing cleared sidewalks,

produces much unnecessary diff icult walking. And, while our own environs have been be t t e r recently than a f t e r the usual snowstorm, st i l l , what is the objection to prolonged S a t u r d a y or even Sunday shovel ing if the unant ic ipated jo l t ing spills can be avoided a long with t h e potential dange r they b r ing?

This week we introduce our adopted child — the Anchorl ine. Here is someth ing tha t , like Opus and unlike our journal is t ic selves, h a s las t ing value and impor t . Al though a child, she is to be t r ea ted wi th ma tu r i t y .

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On the eve of Thanksg iv ing vacat ion the college o rches t ra p re -sented i ts initial p rogram. While not c la iming to be, in competence, more than the average judge of a musical pe r fo rmance , we could use the s t anda rd ja rgon and say t h a t Mr. Mar t in gave a "capable per-fo rmance of a monumental movement , " Miss Jonker " in t e rp re t ed Sa in t Saens wi th unders tand ing as well as abi l i ty" , and Mr. Pool "ma tched his unquest ioned technique with compell ing emotive express ion."

While a good crowd was on hand, it should have been a ful l house. When oppor tuni t ies f o r g rowth presen t themselves , only to be shunned, is it any wonder t h a t the quest ion of a p a t h y is periodically ra ised?

Na tu ra l ly , it is a question of values and in teres ts , j u s t as some ask us f o r more spor t s in the Anchor while o thers chal lenge the de-votion of a whole page to the Athlet ic p r o g r a m .

But it does seem t h a t there should be a quest f o r the improvement of our intel lects outside of the classroom.

Why does the s tudent become mired in the s ludge of pu re academi-cism? The obvious answer is t ha t tangib le resul t s a re immedia te ly realized — a grade .

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Another a r ea of the tangible is wide open here a t the moment . Council is going th ru a process of intense reevaluat ion, even to the ex ten t t h a t it is probable t ha t class pres idents will lose r ep resen ta t ion as well as Y and WAL. Here is an "outs ide ac t iv i ty" we all be t t e r find out something about — f o r it may affect us before we know it — and jus t a f e w should not decide.

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Here we stand, pil lars of imperfec t ion , t a lk ing about everyone else — oh well, an ABSTRACT MERRY C H R I S T M A S A N D A T A N G I B L E N E W YEAR.

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to the s tudents . We ' re about to s t a r t working on a new consti tut ion.

W e foresee r a t h e r a tussle over some of the new clauses. One of the most impor t an t to you directly will be representa t ion . Right now you are being repre-sented by a f r a t e r n i t y or soror i ty member , your class president , Y, WAL, and one independent . Ac-cording to the change t h a t is being considered, there will be two repre-senta t ives f r o m each soror i ty and f r a t e r n i t y , two independents , and two members a t large. The two people will be f r o m two different classes and will thus insure a more complete and act ive liaison between the council and the g roup being represented. It also opens the possi-bility f o r a car ry-over in Council work f o r the person elected, allow-ing a be t te r informed membersh ip and a s t ronge r Council. Every-thing will not be Greek to the in-coming group under those circum-stances.

Opposed to the new plan are those people who feel t h a t class officers will have no func t ion if they are not members of the Coun-cil. Is t he Council an organ to crea te dut ies fo r a campus off icer? They also feel t h a t the Y's should have the added represen ta t ion due to the f a c t t h a t they a re the re-ligious organiza t ions of a religious college. Shouldn ' t our Council, represen t ing a s tudent body of a religious organiza t ion , hold the same ideals and s t r ive to car ry them out in thei r p r o g r a m ? These are only a few of the quest ions and answers you migh t hear . Can you add to them ? If so, p resen t them to your represen ta t ive and come to our next meet ing . Is he ca r ry ing out the task you have elected him

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Departmental Vespers

Will Be Held Sunday On Sunday a f te rnoon , December

11, a t 4:00 P.M. the French Club will meet f o r i ts second annual Ves-per Service a t the home of Miss Meyer.

The service will be conducted as a r egu la r worship service, only in French, beginning with music f r o m F a u r e ' s "Requiem." A call to wor-ship will be followed by the g roup ' s s inging of a t radi t ional French carol. Approp r i a t e scr ip ture verses shall be read f r o m the book of Isaiah by the worship leader, Ed Coon.

Dawn Phil l ips will s ing "Minui t , Chret iens ." For a responsive read-ing the s to ry of the shepherds will be read f r o m Luke, a f t e r which a trio, Jocelyn Fryl ing , B a r b a r a Kruizenga, and Lynn Van' t Hof, will s ing.

Chr is t ine Denny will read a selec-tion enti t led "Chan t de Marche de Noel" f r o m the Coronal of Paul Claudel. A f t e r a solo "Chanton je vous en p r i e" by Virginia Vander-borgh, the service will close in p raye r .

Light r e f r e s h m e n t s will be served following the service. All French s tuden t s a re welcome and urged to a t tend .

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THE ANCHORLINE Vol. I

The Day Wilbur Grew-Up No one combs his ha i r in the seventh grade . Well, a lmos t no one

does. The exception to the rule sa t direct ly in f r o n t of Miss F le tcher ' s desk, which in t u r n was conspicuously s i tua ted a t the f r o n t of our one room schoolhouse. This exception, one Wilbur Wentwor th III , was jus t as conspicuous as Miss F le tcher ' s desk. In place of the blue denims t h a t the o ther boys wore, Wi lbur had var ious shades of "Li t t le Lord F a u n t l e r o y " sui ts complete with s tarched lace bosoms. As if th is wasn ' t bad enough, Wilbur a lways had his s t r a i g h t black hai r oiled down into a g reasy shine. Yes, Wi lbur was one of those kids t ha t a lways knew all of the answers and wouldn' t sha re them with anyone.

Across the aisle f r o m Wilbur sa t Louis Kerl ikowski commonly re fe r red to as Louie. Now all t h a t Wilbur was, Louie was not. Louie a lways had the most faded denims and flannel sh i r t s which were a p p a r e n t l y "hand-me-downs" f r o m a long line of Kerl ikowskies. There wasn ' t a lways enough of Louie to fill these clothes, so qui te of ten the re would be rolled-up sleeves and turned-up cuffs to compensate f o r the su rp lus mater ia l s . Louie was the leader of the seventh grade. He could hit a baseball f a r t h e r , run f a s t e r , or swear louder than anyone else in class. This wasn ' t why he was the leader of the pack though. You see, Louie could also lick any kid in the seventh g rade and half of the kids in the eighth grade . In fac t , he demons t ra ted this abil i ty on numerous occasions. Imagine a Napoleon or Hi t le r in thei r school days and you have Louis a t his best .

No seventh g rade r dared quest ion Louie's au thor i ty . Most f e a r f u l of all was Wilbur Wentwor th III . Louie sensing this f e a r directed m a n y of his a t t acks both verbal and fistic a t velvet-clad Wilbur . Wil-bur adopted a policy of passive res is tance and was immedia te ly t agged with the nickname "Wilbur the Wimp" . On one occasion the " W i m p " irked Louie even more than usual and was floored with a beaut i fu l r igh t cross. Wilbur, r emember ing his Sunday school lesson, jumped to his f e e t and turned the o the r cheek. Whop, Louie 's l e f t landed home, and Wilbur was again floored f o r his t rouble.

King Louie ruled his small kingdom with iron fists and it migh t have continued so if it weren ' t f o r Lorr ie Cummings . When class re-

sumed fol lowing Chr is tmas Vacation everyone was a w a r e of a new face in class, especially Louie and Wilbur . There sa t Lorr ie Cummings

in a f r i l ly blue dress t ha t fu rn i shed jus t the r igh t con t ras t f o r her long blonde curls . Her face was the kind t h a t would induce boys to tu rn ca r twhee l s and walk fences to ga in a smile of approval . Yes, here was the Helen of Troy of the seventh grade . Louie and Wilbur both

vied f o r one of those smiles completely unaware of each o ther ' s effor ts . Louie was t ry ing to impress Lorrie by carv ing her ini t ials in his

desk when Miss Fle tcher singled him out to give the capitol of Ohio. Red faced and s t a m m e r i n g Louie passed on t h a t question. Seizing this oppor tun i ty to gain the f a i r lady's favor , Wilbur blur ted out the answer . Miss Fle tcher then launched on her f avor i t e orat ion about what a fine s tudent Wilbur was and how he cer ta inly set an example f o r the res t of the class. Then it happened, Lorr ie turned around and gave her first smile to "Wi lbur the Wimp" . Wilbur ' s face reddened. He gave a half gurgle , slid way down in his seat , and looked f o r all the world like an expectant Dodo bird. H i s - b l i s s f u l though t s were in te r rup ted by muffled sounds f r o m across the aisle. There slouched behind a geography book glowered Louie shaking a t igh t first in Wil-bur ' s direction.

Wilbur spent recess t ha t morning cleaning e rase r s f o r Miss F le tcher as Louis anxiously awai ted his ar r iva l on the p layground. Noon hour was spent washing the blackboard. With each swish of the sponge Wilbur would look apprehensively out the window a t Louie, who was tell ing the male populat ion of the school the evils t ha t were about to befall tha t "Wimp" . A f t e r school Wilbur stalled around as long as possible, but still Louis waited. Final ly the t ime a r r ived ; Wi lbur had to go home. He encountered reasonable diff iculty finding the but tonholes of his coat. Slowly and del iberately he pijshed each finger home in his gloves. Even more del iberate was the buckling of his boots. The whole process was very s imi lar to t h a t of a condemned man ea t ing his last meal. All too soon these p repa ra t ions were com-pleted, and Wilbur took one last look out the window. These stood Louie surrounded by a large g roup of c lassmates . Wilbur remembered how of ten he had been one of t h a t group, and how he had been so glad t h a t he was . Oh, how he wished he were one of them now. With a s igh of res ignat ion Wilbur tugged his ha t down over his ears , and with t h u m p i n g hea r t he cautiously opened the door. Then with head down he spur ted out the door, hoping to catch his adve r sa ry off guard and make a dash f o r home. But, he slipped and tumbled headlong down the s ta i r s . As he slid downward he though t thankfu l ly t h a t a t least Lorr ie wouldn' t be there to witness his licking.

As Wilbur s t ruggled to ge t to his fee t , he became conscious of a pa i r of white boots among the o therwise solid black a s so r tmen t of z ippers and buckles. He shuddered s l ight ly a s he looked up into the brown eyes of Lorrie and t h o u g h t wis t fu l ly to himself t h a t she was a l i t t le young to witness a murde r . Then Louie was all over him.

But th is t ime something was dif ferent . Louie's blows didn ' t have quite the s t ing they usually did. All of a sudden Wilbur was in fu r ia ted a t th i s adve r sa ry who was t r y i n g to make him look silly in f r o n t of Lorr ie . F o r the first t ime in his l ife Wi lbur s t ruck back. The blow s t agge red Louie f r o m surpr i se more t h a n force , bu t the nex t two had real zip and fo r the first t ime in his l i fe Louie was chal lenged. S t rong with his new found power Wilbur continued ra in ing blows upon the f a l t e r i n g Louie until a solid l e f t to the midsection and r i g h t to the chin floored Louie in a f o u r foot snow bank. Wi lbur apparen t ly didn ' t know any th ing about the Marcus of Queensbury f o r as Louie s t agge red to one knee he finished the issue wi th a t r emendous uppercu t to the chin.

To the victor goes the spoils, and i t ' s no d i f ferent in the seventh g rade . Wi lbur walked over to where Lorr ie stood, took he r books, and s t a r t ed to lead her toward home. As he pushed t h rough the circle of boys, one pa t ted him on the back and said, " W a y to go 'Wimp ' . " Wi lbur cas t an icy s t a re in his direction. " E r , I mean Wilbur ," came the has ty correction.

Yes, t h a t was the day t h a t Wi lbur grew-up. — Ron De Graw

Hope College — Hol land, Michigan

T H E FORM

The sof t , wa rm clay, v ib ran t to the finger's touch

Tomorrow will be p las ter , br i t t le-hard ,

Le f t to f o r g e t f u l n e s s And dust .

Your moist , anxious hands , will

press the clay too f r an t i ca l ly S t rang l ing in your f e a r , i ts very

sof tness . Until in your hand you hold A stone.

But firm, silent love will mold it in compassion

The way it t rembles most to go. Then fo reve r yours will be Its fo rm.

R E V E L A T I O N

Knowledge takes the Empir ica l Highway

Stopping a t every open door ;

Vision wings i ts flight t h rough the heavens

Touching on mounta ins here and there.

Though t fu l people with books and glasses

Stand in the s a f e t y of the i r f ron t doors.

Protected f r o m d r a f t s and disquiet-ing noises

Which t h r ea t en those lonely watch-ers of s ta rs .

— Jul ia Herrick

No. I

The Blacksmith

T H E P I N E S

0 my f r iend .

See the lonely pines

In yonder bar ren g r o v e ?

When the robin seeks he r nest

Beyond the alpine ranges .

When the azure sky recedes

Behind the shadowy cur ta in .

When the golden leaves bid

Farewell to the i r dwell ings.

When the harsh wind lashes

Agains t the naked boughs.

When the lucid lake m i r r o r s

Her companions no more.

When the lively e a r t h lies

Benumbed beneath the icy snow.

When my neighbours muff le

Themselves in heavy coats .

Then, even then, in the midst

Of all mutabi l i ty , the pines

Alone grow, and change

Not the i r f o r m s and colors

Whatsoever . I wish I could be

Ever like them, 0 my f r i e n d .

Both to you. Dear , and to Him.

— Ki Bum Han

The headl ights of an automobile gl is tened on the horizon of the h ighway as Jus t ice Scheffer plodded heavily th rough the pour ing ra in . His thick shoulders were bent over and his large f r a m e was tensed and sh iver ing beneath his black woolen jacket in an ef for t to keep some pa r t of his body dry, while he t rekked homeward th rough the da rk , wet n ight .

Jus t i ce had come f rom Germany many years before with his young bride Anna, to set up a blacksmith shop in America . And now a f t e r years of hard work the automobile age had robbed him of his liveli-hood, and had forced him to wander the countryside in a f ru i t l e s s quest f o r a job.

His once thick blond ha i r was now thin wisps of grey t h a t f r inged his bald head. The rain dripped off his s tubby ears and down his ruddy leather- l ike neck. He pulled his collar closed wi th his l a rge pudgy hands t h a t were stained with tobacco and calloused by yea r s of labor.

The headl ights were neare r and b r igh te r now, causing a spa rk l ing dis tor t ion on the rain-covered pavement . Jus t ice squinted his t i red, pallid eyes as the l ights g lared on the drops of w a t e r dash ing aga ins t his horn-r immed spectacles.

His eyes had not a lways been pallid. When he had first come to Amer ica they were a bri l l iant blue reflecting his s t rong Germanic cha rac te r . He had come with the de te rmina t ion to succeed. Jus t ice thought , "If the re is good oppor tun i ty f o r b lacksmiths in the Old Country , then the oppor tuni ty mus t be even g r e a t e r here in the pros-perous New Country ."

And he was r ight . Horse owners f o r miles a round spread the news. "Take your horses to Jus t ice Scheffer . He has t h a t magic touch f r o m the Old Country . The horsemen could see and the horses could sense t h a t magic touch in his hands. They were large and s t rong. They had the s t r e n g t h of a vice and the ar t i s t ic touch of a sculptor , i

Each morning, f o r years , as Jus t ice entered his b lacksmith shop, a dus ty beam of sunl ight i l luminated the small room, which appeared even smal le r than it was. Eve ry t ime something was broken or lost its usefu lness . Jus t ice would pu t it in the corner of the shop and m u t t e r to himself , "Someday I may aga in need dot. I vill save." Stacks of mus ty newspapers , coffee cans overflowing with nails , broken barre l hoops, and an old rus ty bedstead lay c lu t tered in t h e corner . A rank smell ing wine-press stood in the center of the hard d i r t floor with dried g rape skins still cl inging to the gears . And the re , yea r a f t e r year , the useless heap of discard grew.

But his fo rge , a l though meager , was a lways clean. H i s tools, a l though inadequate , were neat ly placed in a wooden rack on the wall behind the g rea t iron anvil. With these, his implements of l i fe , t he re was a lways order. He had his f a i th in his work. It was his l ife, his purpose .

Day a f t e r day Jus t ice stood over the hot fire, t u rn ing the crank of a bellow with his thick sinewy arm while he held a horseshoe, red with hea t , between the j aws of a pa i r of long-handled pl iers .

Beads of perspi ra t ion s t r eamed down his face and neck, s a t u r a t i n g his faded blue sh i r t t ha t was bur s t ing open f r o m his pulsa t ing , bar re l -like chest . With de f tness he held the shoe, r ad ia t ing with hea t , upon the anvil and hammered , pounded, and twis ted it into shape. Then he quickly plunged it into a tub of wate r , while h iss ing s team billowed about his shoulders and head.

But now he was no longer needed as a b lacksmith in the land of success. People no longer came to his shop to have a horse shod or a nail replaced. Now the only drops of w a t e r on his brow were those of a cold pene t ra t ing rain; the only hissing sound in his ea r s was t h a t of a s p r a y f rom automobile t i res .

Jus t i ce looked up at t he br ight speeding object bear ing down on him. He lifted his heavy a rm , shielding his eyes f r o m the magnified g lare . His glasses were now opaque in the brill iance. Blindly his bulky f r a m e swayed in unce r t a in ty ; b rakes screeched and t i res skidded.

He lay face down in the so f t moist g r a s s beside the road. (There had been no pain; it had happened too quickly.) Now there w a s peace. A quiet peace in the blowing sheets of rain.

— R o g e r Leonard

Everything is Going Wrong Thesis : My first impress ions of Hope l e f t me pessimist ic about my new life here a t college.

The noon d a y hea t envelops me. I have gone only one block and I am a l ready pe r sp i r ing f ree ly since my da rk blue suit seems to soak up the heat . The starched white collar of my sh i r t rasps a g a i n s t my neck. My fee t h u r t in the i r new t i gh t shoes and I still have seven long blocks to walk. Now Hope College comes into view as a da rk morbid mass r i s ing formidably before me. Al though a s ign on t h e neares t gloomy building s ays Graves L ib ra ry , I can see no g raves ; never theless , I am su re they a r e there .

Morosely I clomp by a da rk red bui lding called Voorhees Hall . "On to Gilmore Cot tage , " I tell my-self , "where the schedule says I will be invited to meet the Dean of Men, Mr. Hinga .

"Where can I find Mr. Hinga , " I f a l t e r . "Van Raa l t e , " a b rusque voice i n f o r m s ' m e . "Where ' s z a t ? " "T 'o ther side of the campus ."

I r e t race my steps. A f t e r a shor t while I locate Van Raa l te Hall . I squeak my way to the Dean 's office. Only one th i r t y and my f e e t a re ki l l ing me.

"Mr . H i n g a ? " the syrup-voiced gi r l smiles, " W h y he's on the o ther side of the campus a t Gilmore Cot tage. Know where t h a t i s ? "

"Yes ," I s igh and walk shakily back to Gilmore Cottage. "New s t u d e n t ? " a sk s a sympathet ic -sounding voice. "Yes ," I g r a t e f u l l y nod.

"Why , then you should see your counselor. Who is h e ? " "Mr. Hi lmer t . "

"Well , he 's a t Van Raal te . Know where it i s ? "

"Yes ," I s igh, "Yes, I m u s t admi t I do ." Gloomily I dodder back to Van Raa l t e Hal l , t ender ly t r y i n g to save wear on m y fee t .

"Oh," Mr. H i lmer t sweet ly smiles, "Ano the r of my counselees. Then I shall see you tomor row morning a t 10:15. In the mean t ime you m a y go to Gilmore Co t t age f o r punch. Do you know h e r e i t is ? "

"Yes, I do," I s igh aga in , "qui te well. And thanks , but . . . no t h a n k s . "

— Spencer Wee r s ing

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DEAR COOK . . .

My pet peeve is only a li t t le more than a month old and was born at Hope College. To put it

bluntly, I don't like cocoa for b reakfas t , especially lukewarm cocoa.

My idea of a good b reakfas t is no less than three cups of s t rong, hot, black coffee and nothing more. Coffee provides the initial means of waking up. I mean really waking up, not merely maneuver-ing about with one's eyes open and going about the routine mechanics of a typical college day. Cocoa simply does not invite this s t imulus and f o r me a day begun with cocoa usually ends in chaos. When the a la rm goes off a t 6:30 a.m. I think I have the universal feel ing of all mankind — " O h , how I ha te to get up in the morning" — especially cold, dark , winter mornings. A f t e r fifteen minutes of debat ing with my-self as to whether or not to get up for b reakfas t , I invariably come to the same decision. A cup of coffee is worth all the effort — e v e n Hope College coffee. A f t e r groping sleepily around the room and managing to get myself dressed, amazingly enough even to the point of matching shoes, I subject myself to the or-deal of wait ing in the cafe ter ia line. This tor ture is not made any more pleasant by the f ac t tha t 1

usually find myself s tar ing at the molars of my yawning f r iends .

At las t the cafeter ia door comes into view in the distance. A few more minutes and t ha t coffee will be in sight 1 can almost t a s t e it. Wai t a minu te ! What is th i s? Cocoa? My day is ruined. All I can look forward to now is supper since milk is the only beverage served at lunch. Then the horrible

thought comes to my mind tha t tea might be served at supper.

The best way to overcome this pet peeve and make my life at Hope College completely happy would be to draw up a peti t ion of all coffee-lovers to demand coffee every morning. This may be a selfish desire though My roommate drinks nei ther coffee nor tea, is allergic to milk and has not become accus-tomed to Michigan water . She looks fo rward to the mornings when cocoa is served for b reak fas t so that

she can get a little liquid into her system and save herself f rom dehydration. rv. • t \ — v^nns 1031

Huge Bombard of Sack 0 Time, Thou Healer of All Things

Of the whole Shakespearian gal lery of characters , the one tha t appeals to me as the most genuine, living, three-dimensional, t rue-to-life person is Fals taff . It is useless to deny t ha t he is a b r a g g a r t , a thief a glut ton, a roisterer, a drunkard, and a parasi te . I t is also useless to deny t ha t he is as lovable as my favor i te uncle, whom he

in many ways resembles. ^ Physically, FalstafT is immensely f a t , a "huge bombard of sack,'

a "stuffed cloak-bag of guts ," so hippopotamic tha t when he walks he "sweats to death, and lards the lean ear th as he walks along." Shake-speare gives us no description of his voice, but one can imagine i ts hear ty bellow as he enters the Boar 's Head tavern, wedging himself through the door tha t is, like all other fu rn i sh ings built f o r ordinary men, too small f o r FalstafT, his massive face gleaming red and sweaty, his sly little eyes merry and roguish, his clothing burs t ing at the seams as he reaches a ponderous hand across the table toward the sack.

What kind of person is hidden behind this megather ine assemblage of flesh, this grea t mountain of swagger ing obesi ty? Does it conceal, in reali ty, a t rue-hearted, gentle, honorable old man, whose good t ra i t s

go unrecognized by an unkind wor ld? Not on your l ife!

" W h a t is honour?" he asks, and answers himself, "Air . ^Who hath

i t? He tha t died o' Wednesday . . . therefore I'll none of i t ."

But surely, one would think, such a g rea t overgrown mass of a man has nothing to fear of his fellow humans ; his size precludes the

possibility of cowardice in Fals taf f , a t least . But does it?

"The bet ter pa r t of valour ," he muses, "is discretion . . . , and acts accordingly. Falstaff is bold enough — a f t e r the event. Is he honest? Is not there some dignity inevitably at tached to his g ray ing ha i r ? Sad to relate, there is none. He is a snatchpurse and a dissolute

old drunk.

"We tha t take purses go by the moon," he reminds Prince Hal, who describes his nocturnal activities thus ly : " . . . a purse of gold most resolutely snatched on Monday night and most dissolutely spent on Tuesday morning; got by swearing 'Lay by' and spent with crying

'br ing in.' " Take him all in all (a mighty task in i t se l f ) , Falstaff is the

epitome of the ignoble, the last word in worthlessness, the ul t imate inebriatee. What , then, is the redeeming characterist ic tha t makes this unat t ract ive pot of profl igate perversi ty pa la table? In a word,

humor.

For if Falstaff is a b r agga r t , his braggadocio is so extreme tha t it is inoffensive; if he is a coward, his cowardice is so ludicrous tha t it is forgiven him. Who could help but let l aughter erase scorn as Falstaff relates his batt le with the two — o r was it eleven — m e n in buckram suits ? Whose disgust would not melt into hilari ty at the sight of Falstaff th rus t ing his sword into the thigh of the dead Hotspur in order to ver i fy his death, and then expanding tha t th rus t into a battle fought " a long hour by the Shrewsbury clock." Who could disagree with Prince Hal when he says, " F o r my par t , if a lie may do thee

grace, I'll gild it with the happiest t e rms I have."

Granted tha t he is a drunkard, but drink serves only to increase his jovili ty; drunk, he is comical; dry, and in search of drink, he is hilarious. Falstaff would not be Falstaff unless he spent more on sack than on bread; who but Sir John would go into bat t le with a bottle

of sack in his pistol case?

Wherever he goes, Falstaff br ings merr iment with him. On the battlefield, he is a butt , an unequaled buffon astr ide a horse; in a tavern , his razor-sharp wit tu rns the joke on others as easily as on himself. Cowardly he may be, but if there is a prank afoot , he will be in the middle of it, and should there be a batt le , he will be there, quaking a t the thought of sword play, quick to take advantage of an opportunity to make himself a hero, as long as it involves no risk.

Pe rhaps Falstaff is comical to us because we see in him all those t ra i t s which we despise in ourselves. We think, piously, thank heaven I 'm not like tha t , and the thought of Falstaff being unashamedly all the things which we would not dare to be, or want to be, provides the humor we see in him, fo r this is one of the basics of humor . We laugh a t Fals taf f , as well, f o r his wit, f o r his pure cleverness in ex-t rac t ing f r o m every si tuat ion the u tmost in drollery, f o r the neat turn of a phrase by which he demolishes his verbal opponents.

And, finally, there is in Fals taf f , as in every g rea t clown, some small element of sadness, the sadness of the f a t man, the melancholy of the buffon, the despondency of the aged. We may despise him, we certainly laugh a t him, but perhaps we also pi ty him. Like all come-dians, Falstaff has in him a li t t le measure of Hamlet .

— J im Clark

0 Time, Thou healer of all things.

Can Thou remove a dream so f a r

Tha t Love's deep wound be felt and

healed

And never leave a scar?

0 Heart , can Thou fo rge t the pang.

The thrill, the splendor of that

blow ?

Can time erase tha t ecstasy

Tha t only Love can know?

0 Love, a r t Thou a fad ing dream;

A breeze once fel t , forever gone;

A speck of s t a rdus t in the night

Tha t flees approaching Dawn?

0 Dream, 0 f r a g m e n t of desire,

Tha t once each throbbing heart-

beat filled.

Can Thou remain a burning flame

When inner fire is st i l led?

0 Youth, must you forever play

The fool; the unwit t ing lover be ?

Oh can't you see the t ragic flaw.

That Love can never be?

0 God! Eternal , Infinite Power! Can Thou show mercy f r o m above. And bless in t ime the youthful

hear ts That live in dreams of Love?

— Adele Dingee

DECEMBER 9,

Christmas in Japan The t ime is passing so fas t , and I feel like I jus t came over here

yesterday or a few days ago, but I have already been here nine months and I am going to have my first Chr is tmas here in America pre t ty soon.

My sister in J a p a n said in her le t ter , "You are going to experience a real and original Chris tmas this year ." That means tha t Chr is tmas in Japan is a borrowed one, fo r our original religion is not Christ ianity and we received Christ ianity f rom the Western world less than one hundred years ago. Therefore, the Chr is tmas we observe in J a p a n did not originate in our life, and only Christ ian people have celebrated it in our churches. But a f t e r World W a r II, along with many other influences f rom America, it has become. very common to celebrate

Chris tmas among non-Christian people.

If you come to Tokyo, the capital city of Japan , and go down-town you will find some beautiful Chr is tmas decorations on the s t reets , and even in railroad stat ions, such as you see here in all the stores. There are big Chris tmas t rees with twinkling lights, Santa Claus is smiling at you f rom show windows, and you can hear Chr is tmas carols in the air. Many people are shopping for Chris tmas presents and they look gay. I imagine, you would be very surprised since this is a city in an

oriental heathen country.

But if you ask one of those pedestr ians with an a rmfu l of Christ-mas presents, "Wha t is Chr i s tmas?" , they might answer, "the day we exchange presents" , or more wise people might say, " the day tha t Christ was born." If you ask f u r t h e r "Who is Chr i s t ?" , they cannot answer you, and really, they don't know the t rue meaning of Chris tmas. Chr is tmas is exploited by merchants who want to make profits by any means, and people are just enjoying t ha t commercialized a tmosphere of Chris tmas gaie ty . Therefore, cabare ts and dancehalls, where the re is no connection with Christ and the church, are open all night and people

are dancing and drinking on tha t sacred night.

Of course, this is not the only picture of Chr is tmas in Japan . We cannot fo rge t tha t there are few, compared with the whole population, earnest and devout Christ ians in Japan . They celebrate Chr is tmas with hear ty thanksgiving and joy. They prepare thei r hea r t s to receive the precious g i f t of God by fa i thfu l ly a t tending previous Sunday services and prayer meetings. On Chris tmas Sunday they have a special Christ-mas service in the morning and have Sunday school p rograms in the af ternoon or evening. Most children who come to our Sunday sehool are children f rom non-Christian homes, so we invite thei r pa ren t s to this p rogram as this is a good opportunity to present our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ , to those who otherwise never come to church. Young people in church also have meetings in which they listen to the "Messiah" record concert, and hold a candlelight service. On Chr is tmas Eve they go out and sing Chris tmas carols in the neighborhood.

I would like to close my short wr i t ing about Chr is tmas in J apan with the most unforget table Chr is tmas I have had in my life with orphan children. That was jus t a f t e r the World W a r II, when I was invited to a cer tain Christian orphanage to celebrate Chr is tmas with them. There were 15 small orphans who had lost their parents in the Southern Islands dur ing the war and had come back to their country as orphans. All of them had had such hard and terrible experiences tha t we could never even imagine. As I had heard about them pre-viously, I did not expect to see all the children in gay celebration of the bi r thday of thei r Savior and f r iend Jesus f rom the bottom of their hear ts . However, I could not find any shadow in thei r faces because their faces were shining with smiles. I could not imagine t ha t they were the children who had no parents nor any one to love but a few orphanage teachers. I heard one little boy with a red check and a full smile say to me, "God gave me Jesus who loved me and many other good things. I am going to be a doctor and take care of poor people without charge." To me, he was himself the poorest, and I could not but cry and feel tha t this was the t rue Chris tmas Spiri t .

— Mitsue Nagao

DEAR MA:

Well last week Ah asked Bertha Lu to commence ta go steady with me. Ah waited f e r about five minutes and then decided Ah should pick her up off'n the floor. Ah guess she was a mite excited 'cause seemed to fal l asleep while a s tandin ' up. Well , Ah tell you. Ma, then s when things began ta happen She done leaned over an' kissed me. Ah fel t like Ah was full o' Granmpa 's joy-juice" 'cause Ah ain ' t never bin kissed by a gal afor^. You always tol ' me ta be polite like and re tu rn wha t ever some-one gives t a me . . . so Ah did. Man, Granpa 's joy-juice couldn't come near the kick Ah got ou ta that there kiss. But things jus t ain ' t bin r igh t sinse, ma. Ever sinse, it seems she's a lways got cold hands 'cause she's a a lways askin ' me ta hold 'em f o r her. Seems a mite funny her bein' cold like tha t — here ' t is corn season and the sun's jest as hot as ever could be. She's a weak little heffer too. Seems she can' t s tand up les Ah got ma a rm 'round her. Ah think she's a lost her memory, 'cause she's a a lways askin' me ta walk her to class, like as if she can't remember where ' t is she's suposed t a go. Maybe tha t ' s wha t goin' s teady 's supposed ta do to a person, but Ah ain ' t fe l t no different sinse Ah asked her. Ber tha Lu tags along with me jes t about everywhere Ah go, jest like m a little hound dog does. 'Course she's different t han ma hound dog — she don' t have them big o' ears. Ah'm sure she's hard o' seein' too. Ever ' t ime Ah sets down any where with her, she jest s t a r r s at me like she ain't ever seen me afore . But

everbody else does the same thing, so Ah guess she ain ' t no different.

Sometimes Ah wonder if Ah did a good thing by askin' her t a go steady with me. A fel ler in this here condition jes t don't have no privacy a t all. Ever t ime Ah wants to do ma themes f e r Engl ish, she wants me ta come out an ' see the s t a r s — and Ah've seen them same s t a r s f e r nigh onta ' ninteen years now.

Las t night we went to the pitcher show an' t h a t there were jest about the last s t raw. Ah no more sits down tha t she wants some pop corn. So Ah ups and gi ts her some an then she wan t s some candy, so Ah gi ts her t h a t . Ah'm no more set t in ' down again when she wants a drink. She squeezes out t a get a drink an ' Ah don' t see her f e r about fifteen minutes. So Ah got up an ' went a lookin' f e r her thinkin' maybe she got lost. Seems she found some o' her f r iends an ' they was a cacklin' like a couple o' ol' hens. We finally saw t h e last pa r t of the show and then she wanted t a go downtown f e r some coffee. Thet was fine wi th me, but the t ain ' t all she wanted. Maybe t he t gal don't" look like m a hound dog, but she shore does ea t like 'im. Seems as if th is here goin' s teady is a leavin' me flat broke, but Ah guess tha t s what goin' steady means. Ber tha keeps a tellin' me not t a worry none about the money but t a think of the enjoyment Ah gets outa ' spendin' it. Maybe she's r igh t , ma, but Ah can ' t help thinkin ' .

Well, i t ' s been a week now sinse we been goin' s teady an ' all Ah kin show f e r it is an empty wallet , chapel cuts, low grades and Ber tha . Man, Ah can ' t go anywhere without seein' Bertha. Ah see h e r at b reakfas t , lunch an ' supper , an ' i t 's ge t t in ' so t ha t b reakfas t is all Ah kin take. Wherever Ah go, she's there too. If Ah should t r y to sneak out the f r o n t door of the l ibrary, in the evening there she is with t ha t " let ' s-go-look-at- the-stars" glint in he r eye. "There ' s no way o' ge t t in ' out of i t" , she says. "Tha t ' s what goin' s teady is". 0 , Ma, did Ah do the r igh t t h i n g ? "

Yer bewildered Son, "Ches te r" — Dave Coster

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Fraters, Arkies Win Two In Interfrat Basketball

Competi t ion began last week in the 1955-56 i n t e r f r a t basketbal l season, and there is a very s t rong indication t h a t the race f o r the championship t rophy will be a close exci t ing one. Both leagues promise some thr i l l ing contests in the weeks to come.

" A " L E A G U E The Monday night " A " League

got under way on November 28, a t

7 p.m.. The opener saw the P r a t e r s , last year ' s co-champs, edge the sc rappy Emmies in a high scoring

af fa i r , 63-55. H a r r y Voss poured in 20 to lead the F r a t e r offensive, while Harold Ri t sema tallied 16 for the Emmies in a losing cause.

In the in te rmedia te contest , the co-champion Cosmos squeeked by a s t rong ly favored Seminary quinte t , 29-28. At no t ime in the g a m e did e i ther team hold more than a three point advantage . The Seminary held a 13-11 lead a t half t ime, but the Cosmos took it away shor t ly a f t e r . F rom then on it was a see-saw bat t le all the way, wi th the Cosmos finally coming out on top. Pete De Pree copped the Cosmo scor ing honors wi th eight points. J im Van Hoeven scored nine f o r the Sem.

Closing out the evening, the Arkies topped the Knicks in an-o ther donnybrook, 58-54. A r t Bieri swished 25 m a r k e r s t h r u g h the nets to lead the Arkie scor ing a t -tack. Bob Vander Lug t was high man f o r the Knicks with 19.

" B " L E A G U E Wednesday, November 30, mark-

ed the beginning of the season 's " B " League schedule. Aga in the F r a t e r s powered to a victory over the Emmies , th is t ime by the not-

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so-even count of 55-34. At half t ime the score was knot ted a t 23-23, but the F r a t e r s slowly pulled away in the second half , outscor ing the Emmies 32-11. Dave Woodcock rolled up 22 to pace the F r a t e r s . Ron Bolthuis was the Emmie main-s t a y with 19.

In the second g a m e of the eve-ning, the s t rong Independent five set back the Cosmos, 48-35. The game was close until the last few minutes , when the Indies scored heavily and put the game out of

reach. Herb Widmer ' s 17 points led the Independents , while Rog Borr netted 11 f o r the Cosmos.

The final tilt was ano ther close one between the Arkies and the Knicks. For the second t ime, the Knicks bowed by only 4 points, the score being 38-34. Carl Vander Laan was high scorer f o r the win-ning Arkies . Chuck Pet tengi l l had nine f o r the Knicks.

N e x t week's schedule includes the fol lowing g a m e s : " A " League, Monday December 12 " B " League, Wednesday, Dec. 14 7 P.M. — F r a t e r s vs. Cosmos 8 P.M. — Knicks vs. Emmies 9 P.M. — Arkies vs. Seminary

Basketbal l Scores Toledo 77, Hillsdale 66 Central Mich. 102, Alma 83 Calvin 70, Albion 53 Kalamazoo 61, Adr ian 50

Alma 71, Olivet 56 Albion 70, T r i -S t a t e 43

Lawrence Tech 87, Assumpt ion 73 Hillsdale 61, Kalamazoo 58

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f r o m Hil lsdale last Sa tu rday night the Dutch played a fine calibre of basketball f o r so e a r l y in the sea-

son. Al though leaving something to be desired in some few ways, Coach Visser ' s crew served notice tha t they a re a competent quinte t who may well develop into a dark-horse in th i s year ' s campaign .

Most hea r t en ing in Sa tu rday ' s encounter was the aggress iveness which the Dutch displayed on de-fense. The work of J im Hi lmer t was especially notewor thy . Not only did J im play a bril l iant game as defensive gua rd , repeatedly d ropp ing back f a s t to break-up the opponents f a s t break , but he also led the t eam in rebounding. Com-

mendable also was the fine work of f r e s h m a n J e r r y Hendrickson, whose aggress ive bal l -hawking con-

s t an t ly disconcerted the Hillsdale players .

Bob Ri tsema, versi t i le junior , se rv ing the vars i ty f o r the first t ime, played a good game not only as defensive guard , but also in filling in a t the pivot f o r tall Paul ,

who saw sparse act ion the second half a f t e r running afoul the re f -eree ' s whist le too m a n y t imes. Bob did a fine job on the boards and also managed to keep the Dale 's center contained.

In playing a 2-1-2 zone. Coach Visser has well uti l ized his diver-sity of ta len t . Wi th " W h i t e y " R imersma and J im Hi lmer t cover-

ing the basket f r o m the sides and tall Paul moving in f r o m the mid-dle, Hope College p u t s on the floor a rebounding agg rega t ion which should keep the defensive board under the control of the Dutch

aga in s t mos t of her adversa r ies . John Adams, probably the f a s t e s t man on the squad, and Harold Molenaar , t he p l aymaker of the club play out f ron t , and a re al-ways ready to ini t ia te the f a s t break should the oppor tun i ty pre-sent i tself .

Ex t r eme ly g r a t i f y i n g was the all out fight and aggress iveness a t t he Hope five — especially on defense . We would hear t i ly endorse a con-tinued emphas is on these defensive principles.

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Whitey Riemersma and Harold Molenaar have been elected Hope co-captains. The two are s t a r t i n g thei r f o u r t h year of collegiate competi t ion and will line up at f o rward and gua rd respectively.

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Stat is t ical s tory . . .

Pe rcen tage wise the Dutch held an edge over the vis i t ing Dales. Our boys connected on 46% of

thei r field goal a t t emp t s in the first half aga ins t 23% f o r the vis i tors . The final s t anza was somewha t more even as the Dales found the basket 37% of the t ime aga ins t our 35%.

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To gain valuable exper ience, Coach Visser entered his team in the City of Richmond, Indiana, Tou rnamen t over Thanksg iv ing va-cation. We tas ted de f ea t by scores of 94-65, 79-65, and 106-90. The winners , respect ively were Mc Nesesee (La . ) , Manches ter ( Ind . ) , and Centre (Ky. ) . Paul Benes was named to the a l l - tourney second team.

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League Openers Making a successful t r ans i t ion

f r o m footbal l to basketbal l , the Dutch continued to keep the t a s t e of victory f r e s h as they de fea ted Hillsdale 84-80. All who a t t ended

the game were deeply impressed with the maneuverab i l i ty , and ac-curacy of the smoothly coordinated

Hope squad. In the ear ly minutes of the g a m e

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approx imate ly a ten point advan-tage the r emainder of the contes t . Throughout the g a m e the s to ry of Hope 's scor ing dr ives was repea ted aga in and aga in as Hi lmer t and Molenaar b r ing ing the ball down-court ably set up a va r i e ty of maneuvers which proved to be fa ta l ly effective. By the end of the htlf Hope held a m a r g i n of f o u r -

teen points, the score being 44-30. The second half saw a de te r -

mined Dale s q u a d despera te ly s t rugg l ing to come f r o m behind. One minute to go found both Benes and Hi lmer t sidelined because of fouls . Hope 's lead was nar rowed to two points, i t appeared as if we

were in t rouble. Then in a c l imat ic

finish Johnny Adams and Harold Molenaar broke th rough f o r the tal l ies necessary to provide victory.

A di f ferent d r a m a was enacted ear l ie r in the evening. In the i r first appearance of the year , Hope 's J . V. squad met de fea t by the over-whelming score of 100-33. The vic-tors being the Wes te rn Michigan Frosh .

Tuesday n igh t the Dutch t raveled to Olivet. A f t e r pil ing up an ear ly

lead, we coasted to a 72-57 win wi th Paul Benes and J i m Hi lmer t control l ing the boards. Benes also collected 25 points and was fol -lowed in the scor ing by J o h n A d a m s ' 14.

Tonite Michigan S ta te Norma l is host to Hope in the i r new field house.

Twelve Named To

All-Star Aggregation J o h n Adams, senior ha l fback ,

was the lone Hope r ep resen ta t ive on the Al l -MIAA footbal l first t e am which was selected by the footbal l coaches of the MIAA. This was the th i rd consecutive year t h a t J o h n was named to the honor t eam which

is a real t r ibu te to an ou t s t and ing a th le te who had competed f o u r

yea r s without miss ing a footbal l game .

Three Dutch gr idders were placed on the Second Team and two o thers were given honorable ment ion by the coaches. In recognit ion of t he i r fine play senior tackle Doc Van Hoven, senior center Ron De Graw, and junior fu l lback Dave K u y e r s were all selected f o r the second team. While senior end Lynn Post , and sophomore ha l fback Dave Woodcock received honorable men-tion f o r the i r effor ts .

The remain ing first t eam selec-t ions were made up of five mem-bers f r o m Hil lsdale 's unde fea t ed champions, t h r ee f r o m second place Kalamazoo, two f r o m the Albion squad, and a single A l m a p layer .

The 1955 Al l -MIAA Team is a s fo l lows: Ends — Brink, Albion senior and Kincannon, Hil lsdale junior . Tackles — Pe r ry , K a l a m a -

zoo sophomore and Temple, Hil ls-dale junior. Guards — Sweet ,

Kalamazoo jun ior and T r ippe t t , Hii l lsdale sophomore. Cen te r — Davis , Hillsdale senior. Backs — Adams, Hope senior ; Clark, Hi l ls -dale junior ; Hurd , Albion f r e s h -m a n ; Raab, Alma senior ; and Urschal i tz , Kalamazoo f r e s h m a n .