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

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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]

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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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THE MIDDLER CLASS Top Row: R. Allison, A. Archambault, B. Bartling, F. A. Baum, R. Belt, D. Bishop Seconp Row: F. Brill, H. Bunch, C. Burch, R. Burns, G. Cone, Jr., H. Coombs TuirD Row: D. Congdon, W. Crist, C. Dalke, R. De- Armey, S. Edmiston, W. Ernest Bottom Row: D. Farner, R. Fetter, I. French, R. Glass, A. Gordon, R. Griffith CLASS OFFICERS: R. DeArmey, Vice President, R. Belt, Social Chair- man, R. P. Miller, President, W. Ernest. Secretary, R. Muntz, Treasurer.