North Park University - Cupola Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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the y.w.c.a. is a popular and active club at north park, it is open to all girls in the college, providing an opportunity to make new friends and to share in the activities of a large and worthy group, the purpose of the club is thus stated: to build a fellowship of women devoted to the task of realizing in our common life those ideals of personal and social living to which we are com- mitted by our faith as christians. the first week of October, a get-acquainted party was held for the freshmen by their sophomore campus sisters in the gym. after this, regular meetings were held in Caroline hall lounge on the second friday of each month, out- standing programs were planned which included speakers and home talent, refreshments were served at each gathering. all members were urged to sign up for one of the seven committees of the y. these include, with the name of each chairman, the following: pro- gram, louise shumaker; refreshments, betty dore; religious, judy carlson; pub- licity, Joyce mains; service, helen blomgren and barbara Johnson; social, carol nordengren; and membership, jean olson. These committees divide activities of the organization so that many girls have a chance to take part in the planning. y service projects this past year included selling chrysanthemums at homecoming, putting out a college directory, collecting food and money from the girls at thanksgiving time to provide for needy families, and planning a chapel service for the world student service fund. the y.w.c.a. successfully sponsored an all-college halloween party in Oc- tober and a talent show in January, following a tradition started several years ago, the y planned a turn-about week held in march, a party climaxed a week of chivalrous activities by the girls. the officers of the group were: dorene gustafson, president; debby bengt- son, vice-president; marlene dahlstrom, treasurer; and margaret wickett, secre- tary, the sponsor was mrs. 1. sandgren. y. w. c. a. ca binet row 1: b. Johnson, b. dore. row 2: m. dahlstrom, d. bengtson, d. gustafson sandgren, j. carlson, 1. shumaker, j. mains , h. blomgren. 97

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row 1: j. gedde, m. wickett, n. freeman, b. eckstrom, s anderson, a. erickson, g. holmquist, m. dahlstrom, j. erickson, 1. deyneka. row 2: h. Johnson, h. anderson, g. benson, m. Johnson, s. carlson, h. blomgren, b. anderson, e. adell, e. kroon, m. Johnson. row 3: b. anderson, b. havig, d. bengtson, j. huggare, e. englund, r. day, j. ericson, r. jacobson, s. erickson, d. gustafson. row 4: p. berquist, t. Johnson, c. Johnson, e. ide, j. carlson, g. berg, a cottrell, d. bodley, a. freedholm, n. carlson, j. freshwater, m bangtson, m. carls jn, a adell, 1 sandgren. row 1 row 2 row 3 row 4 f. mc reynolds, i. Johnson, v. shevchuk, m. sandell, d. matson, b. steen. d Williams, c. nordengren, j. seaburgh, j. sandberg, c. sahlin, b. sturdy. v. nicholas, j. leafstrand, a. lundell, j. norton, m. ramgren, j. larson, m. liljegren, g. lindfelt, m. procek. c. le vahn, n. lambert, n. lindestrand, j. olson, m. soderberg, m. larsen, d. noreen, m. a. nelson, 1. shu- maker, 1. hanson, h. neufeld, e. olson, a. skog, 1. sandgren.

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( ) 3 ID row 1: m. carlson, m. hanson, r. lindman, m. jorgensen, e. peterson, 1. klusman, v. hultman, a nilson. row 2: p. lundquist, t. Johnson, m. Johnson, g. swanson, 1. rocene, b. Johnson, b. tissell, a. harris, 1. harris, 1. hanson, d. branstrom, b. Johnson, r. cignoni, s. froberg. this organization consists of those who are enrolled in the department oi religious education, meetings are held once a month, the counselors are the rev. elmer w. fondell and dr. peter person. their first get-together was a breakfast in October, at another meeting slides were shown to the group by evelyn palm, their Christmas party was an enjoyable time, and added much to the festive spirit of the season, games were played, carols sung, and the christmas story was read, once during the year the girls pro- vided the entire program themselves, they also took charge of the seminary chapel for one service in december. along with their many activities, they also have one which is the highlight of all of their activities, this was the banquet which was held in January, the banquet was entitled of such is the king- dom , which pertained to children ' s work. the girls have prayer sisters; they do not know who has their name, and they have the name of a girl but do not reveal it. they give their prayer sisters gifts on special occasions, and also remem- ber them in prayer, the officers of the group are elaine peterson, president; harriet boreen, vice-president; bonnie Johnson, treasurer; and mary ann jorgenson, secretary.