West Virginia Wesleyan College - Murmurmontis Yearbook (Buckhannon, WV)

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Ninety Two... Energy what are the resources of tomorrow 7 ln today s world there are so many forms of energy Chemlcal Electrlcal Potentral Klnetlc and Solar Wfll they be here for us to use when we go out lnto the world after we graduate 7 energy may neither be created nor destroyed It only changes from one form to another Conservation ofEnergy Since the Industrial Revolutlon man has come to depend more and more on energy The U S and other natlonsl have developed an lndustnal economy and way of llfe that IS almost entlrely dependent upon sources of energy Wlth the demand lncreasrng we are concerned for the future of supplies development of other resources has been glven a great deal of atten tlon throughout the world from nuclear power to new oll and gas flelds Coal has become a major source being researched ln the U S for replacing posslble depleted sources rn the future There are many controversres as to the level of dangers nuclear power may produce However every source of energy the country can develop wlll be needed ln the years to come ffAmerlca IS to continue to succeed as an efflclent economy What are fuel cells 7 How can they be applred 7 What are thelr uses and efflcrency 7 What rs fuel wood7 Can we bring back this source of energy the pioneers once used7 Natural mrneral fuels7 Natural Gas7 Peat7 Coal7 Does It have more to develop7 Synthetic llquld fuels7 Manufactured gases 7 Coke oven gas 7 Water gas produce gas 7 Blast furnace gas 7 Petroleum gas 7 High energy chemical fuels 7 what does the future hold 7 1 1 n 1 , . , . Y . t Decade of Celebration l 27

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Nnnety One World hunger even with today 's technological society the problem still exists In spite of the tremendous economic progress of the last twenty years Cin the world at largej the promise of effective development is dimmed by the fact that very little progress has been made by the poorest peoples and nations lt has been estimated that over 700 million people exist in conditions of absolute poverty There are additional millions who live just above marginal sutsistence Mauricej Williams ln my view the most fundamental argument for lovercoming povertyj is that human order to fulfill themselves and in order to con tribute to the common heritage of civilizations Paul Streeten Compounding the force of a rising standard of living is the fact that most low income families have little opportunity to gain their self respect and the respect granted them by others occupational educational or other accomplishments And this poverty of opportunity may only reinforce the significance of consumption in the pattern which we have called compensatory consumption David Caplovitz The Challenge of World Poverty a world anti poverty program in outline Gunnar Myrdal l I I beings wherever born, should be able to develop to the fullest extent their capacities, both in 26 l Decade of Celebration

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Nrnety Three... Me thodrst affrlra ted Relrgron rs an rmportant emphasrs To my mother and father whose deep commrtment to the Chrrstran farth and unswervrng devotron to rts trmeless prrncrples have grven me an rnsprrrng example of the Strength of Love Martrn Luther Krng Jr Are the reasons for the declrne of today s Chrrstran morals and values a reflectron of the home? An rnstrtutron of a church can only provrde knowledge but the parents and homelrfe need to take thrs learned knowledge and put rt rnto practrce Granted outer rnfluences of socrety s envrronrnent reflect rn the development of all of us as rndrvrduals But rf the values establrshed at a young age are rnstrlled they wrll not stand up to these evrl forces Man rs evrl hrm that they are rntruders and remrnds hrrn of hrs hrgher destrny and more noble allrance Man s longrng for the drvrne as he seeks to adjust to the demands of trme he knows that eter nrty rs hrs ultrmate habrtat When man comes to hrmself he knows that evrl rs a forergn rnvader that must be drrven from the natrve sorls of hrs soul before he can achreve moral and sprrrtual drgnrty The proglems always for man have been hrs rnabrlrty to conquer evrl by hrs own power Why can t l cast rt Out 7 Why can I not remove thrs evrl from my lrfe 7 The real weakness of the rdea that God wrll do everythrng rs rts false conceptron ofboth God and man lt makes God so absolutely soverergn that man rs absolutely helpless depraved to wart on God It also sees the world so contamrnated by srn that God only touches here and there through a rnrghty rnva sron God rs not a despot but a Father he wrll not thrust hrmself upon us nor force us to stay home when our mrnds are bent on journeyrng to some degradrng far country But He follows us rn love and when we come to ourselves and turn our trred feed back to the Father s house He stands wartrng wrth outstretched arms of forgrveness A sensualrty. selfrshness and cruelty rrse aggressrvely rn hrs soul - something wlthrn tells 28 I Decade ol Celebration