North Park University - Cupola Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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phi rho pi phi rho pi is a national honor fraternity for speech students. Illinois delta, our chapter at north park, was founded in 1940 and was active for a few years prior to the war, then the club ' s activities came to a standstill. the purpose of this group is to foster thinking and under- standing of problems of national concern by means of various speech activities, the group is composed of the argumentation and debate class, with miss betty nelson serving as faculty adviser. the national guestion for debate this year, which was used for tournament debating was resolved: that the federal gov- ernment should adopt a permanent program of wage and price control. debates were held throughout the year on the nega- tive and the affirmative. row 1: d. nyquist, 1. hanson. row 2: d. fohlin, d. peterson.

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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.

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U )W 1: g. swanson, g. benson, p. berquist, j. Johnson, a. edstrom, v. hultman. jw 2: j. dahlgren, r. Johnson, p. swanson, r. nelson, d. hallstrom, g. anderson, d. anderson, g. miller. the middle-east club has just been organized this year, the states represented are ohio, Pennsylvania, and new york. about twenty students compose the group, chosen to reign over the club were: jerry Johnson, president; art edstrom, vice- president; and peggy berquist, secretary-treasurer. a service project was the main topic of discussion, and after much thought was given to the matter, the club finally decided on that of raising money to help the new covenant estonion church in Canada, the program presented in the spring, was one of the means used to obtain money for this project. although this is a very young group, we see evidence of many worthwhile tasks and ambitions.