Concordia College - Spire / Concordian Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT I should like to salute The seniors of 1960 for the insight which is reflected in their choice of dedication for this annual: Concordia-Challenge to Growth. The existence of This new college, repre- senting radical improvements in The program of ministerial training, is evidence that the Church has met that challenge successfully. It is good that senior students find Them- selves so definitely aware of This challenge to growth that they are motivated to in- terpret this basic obiective through such an appropriate medium as The annual for the year. It is with the deepest pleasure, there- fore, that I congratulate the seniors upon their own acceptance of this challenge: growth in understanding which they have developed in two years of contact with men from all walks of life and with many degrees of knowledge and wisdom, growth through the service which they have rendered on this campus and in this community in connection with religious, personal, and college ac- tivities, growth in skill through acceptance of the challenge of student government, of organization, and of self-discipline in the virtual absence of formal rules or regulations of conduct prescribed by the college, and, finally, growth in faith which they have ex- hibited in personal life, in relations with their fellow men, and in the acceptance of His word and will. .bm 1 sq

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DEDICATIC T0 ' CHALLE G The challenge of Concordia is the call to its students to be men of Christ. It summons Christ's man to take life from God and to return it to Him by integrating it into that part of Christ's body, the Church, which lives on this campus. Concordia challenges us to grow by taking life from God-consciously, richly, greedily. It dares us to take Life from the Holy Eucharist and from the Sacred Scrip- tures-to take life from Christ incarnate in the brother, from Church Fathers, philoso- phers, scientists, psychologists, from Cicero, Sophocles, Goethe, T. S. Eliot, Tennessee Wil- liams, from books, magazines, and sheet music, frorn Bach and Brubeck, from intra- linears, from choir and cheerleading, from golf and girl friends. But Concordia also challenges the man of Christ to grow through returning life humbly to God. lt calls for the humility that is action, the action of willing and doing the humdrum sub specie aeternitatis. lt is the humility that irons shirts, that completes bor- ing lesson assignments, that treats to a coke, that feeds the ducks, that smiles on a rainy morning, that memorizes Hebrew vocables, that teaches a retarded child, that takes time to listen, to laugh at a dull ioke, to help with a problem, to counsel, to reprimand, to en- courage, to comfort, that eats noodles with thanksgiving, that lends a dollar, a type- writer, a razor blade, a tie, an automobile, that sings, that prays, forgives and loves . . . . . . above all, that loves. For, finally, Concordia calls for Christ's man to grow in love as Christ loved, recklessly, urgently, completely. For while the greatest suffering is that of being unable to love, the greatest ioy is to be carried away by a vision, how- ever unreasonable, that springs from a great Love. -

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