Bethel College - Graymaroon Yearbook (North Newton, KS)

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P FOREWORD A year spent on a college campus resembles a play performed in a theater. The limitation of time With- in the drama parallels the defined academic term: the concentration of the play's action upon the stage with a small number of scene changes is similar to the focus of the student's activities upon the campus. The sets and properties of the college are its buildings, scientific and athletic equipment, books, dining room pitc- hers, and notebooks. At the first rehearsal of a play the actors begin to build tentatively their respective parts, to develop in- to flesh and blood the characters they are going to present. The school year begins with some uncertainty and great potential. lt brings together many strangers and u nc ov e r s the strangeness of friends who have ex- perienced du ring the summer atti- tudes and environments W hic h are overtly and subtly different. It is the beginning. The 1962 Thresher seeks to des- cribe the school year 1961-1962 in the imagery of the drama. All the World's a stage And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their en- entrancesg And one man in his time plays many parts. CShakespeare, As You Like Itj Kay Pete rs Editor

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participants A play performed upon the stage is the product of the efforts of many people, the author, pro- ducers, set d e s igne rs , tech- nicians, costume designers, and actors, each of Whose contribu- tions are necessary to the pre- sentation of a moving, balanced drama. The participants of the drama upon the college campus are the administration, the presi- dent, the dean, the Board of Dir- ectors, the staff, the faculty, and the students. The movements of each member of a crowd scene are as essential to the impact of the Whole drama as the portrayal of a character who is on stage throughout most of the play, each member of the college hasa role and a responsibility.