Grace Theological Seminary - Xapis / Grace Yearbook (Winona Lake, IN)

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Pace -20 EPITELESMATIC VIEW OF CLASS OF 1952 Garber has almost completely recovered from the shock of having his second manuscript rejected, and is feeling much better now. “Speaking of the mission field, I received an interesting letter from Jack Teeter in Brazil. He tells me that the President of Brazil has been so impressed with the growth of the Brethren Mission there, that he has asked Paul Miller to help him put the Brazilian government on a smoother, more efficient operating basis. On a recent tour of the Upper Amazon valley, Jack noticed some unusual smoke signals rising above the trees, and discovered Lester Smitley teaching the Indians how to bake cakes! He told Jack that he has been waiting for fifteen years to have Clair Brickel come down and build a ten-story jungle cooking school, but Clair has been too busy trying to finish, single-handed, a new cathedral for Maynard Tittle in Dayton, Ohio. Maynard tells me that only three weeks ago a vast throng gathered at the cathedral to hear Vivian McBride sing, but the crowd had a tense moment during the service when Clair almost fell from a scaffolding near the ceiling. ‘According to a recent report, the West Virginia Institute for Advanced Learning has been making real progress under the leadership of Dr. Louis Sprowls. The Vice-President of the Institute, Prof. Richard Grant, reports that his most promising student, Robert McIntyre, is about to receive his advanced degree after having spent twelve years working on a three-million word research project entitled, “The Influence of Babylonian Pottery De- signs Upon Scottish Culture.” “The West Coast hasn’t escaped the impact of this Class, either. Of course, you know I am speaking of Howard Vulgamore and Evan Adams in their great radio station, HVEA, located on the top of Mt. Whitney. Radio engineer Adams has been able to penetrate both the Iron and Bamboo Cur- tains with Vulgamore’s fiery messages delivered in five languages ten times a day. But Russia is not escaping with a mere radio barrage. I have heard that all of Eastern Europe has been stirred up by the mammoth meetings held there recently by the Smetana-Smouse evangelistic party. In fact, the Russian government was so alarmed that it sent fifty OGPU agents to ap- prehend them; but Walt and Glenn managed to escape to Constantinople by way of the Black Sea. One evening, they decided to follow a crowd into the huge Cathedral of St. Sophia, to hear the Patriarch of Constantinople, The message was powerful, and was delivered in flawless Greek. So you can im- agine their surprise, when they worked their way to the front of the cathedral to meet the Patriarch, only to discover that it was John Harper! John told them that he had a bit of difficulty bringing in the crowds until he got Ralph Burns with his musical saw. I understand that the two of them are now work- ing together on a new Greek-English lexicon for future use by our students here. Oh well, it’s a small world.”

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EPITELESMATIC VIEW OF CLASS OF 1952 The scene takes place in the lounge of the new men’s dormitory of Grace Seminary in May, 1972. An old professor is talking to one of his colleagues: “It hardly seems possible that twenty long years have passed since the Class of “52 left these halls! I can distinctly remember the solemnity of that Graduation Day. Just think! The first graduating class ever to use the “new” building. If they could only come back now and look down on the Seminary tower from the top of this twenty-story men’s dormitory! You know, I was just looking through our files today, to see if I could trace the whereabouts of that famous class. You would be amazed at what I discovered. “Do you remember Dick Jackson? He has finally become head coach of Claypool basketball team. In a recent game with Silver Lake, they were defeated 70-12, but Coach Jackson is planning to reorganize his entire team by purchasing new uniforms and a new whistle. But you ought to hear about Bill McKillen! I understand he has been featured as the most sensational YFC leader ever to hit the southern states! In fact, he’s setting a new style with his phosphorescent shirts that turn colors at crucial points in the sermon. The largest halls have been packed out. They are calling him “Kill ‘em Bill” now. Speaking of Bill, do you remember Bill Smith? Who ever thought that he would take Central America by storm, with John Dilling as his song leader? Those sermons in rapid-fire Spanish held thousands spell- bound from Havana to Panama, but John finally persuaded him that scholar- ship was more important than evangelism, so they established an office in Mexico City, spending ten hours a day translating Keil and Delitzsch com- mentaries from the original German into Spanish. Dr. Herbert Bess has pronounced their work epoch-making in its significance, and is trying to persuade the library committee to purchase a complete set. “The Class of 52 has certainly left its imprint on the continent of Africa! When the Kennedys and Garbers arrived on the field, they were asked to take charge of a new theological seminary there, with 300 picked students from all over Central Africa. One problem they faced during the first year was that the students couldn’t stay awake in Prof. Garber’s lectures which followed Lester Kennedy’s physical education class. Lester admitted that a number of the students were collapsing from exhaustion after following him in ten-mile marathon runs through the jungles. But Martin is consoled with the fact that his Greek Exegesis lectures in Sango are soon to be published at the Habegger-Christy Publishing House in Bozoum. It was a long, in- volved process, however, because he had to rewrite his lectures twice to meet the strict grammatical specifications laid down by Miss Christy for all manu- scripts that are accepted for publication. Dr. Gail Jones reports that Prof. Pace 19

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GRADUATE STUDENTS MRS. B. HAMILTON Receiving Th.M. Degree GEORGE M. HEANEY Receiving Th.M. Degree BENJAMIN HAMILTON Receiving Th.M. Degree OTHER DEGREES HOMER KENT, Jr. Receiving Th.M. Degree RALPH GILBERT Receiving Th.M. Degree JAMES L. BOYER Receiving Th.D. Degree ROBERT D. CULVER Receiving Th.D. Degree Pace 21]