Bethel College - Graymaroon Yearbook (North Newton, KS)

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Shaping Bethel ' s World A new shape for Bethel ' s future was as- sured this year as gifts and pledges toward the $4,020,000 development drive reached the 90 percent mark in February. Ground- breaking ceremonies for the first of the new facilities to be financed by the drive, a gym- nasium-recreation center, were held on Feb- ruary 25 while the Bethel College Board of Directors was in session. The Board of Directors and President Schultz focused much of their attention this year on the details of the development plan. In addition to the new gymnasium west of Me- morial Hall, the plan provides for the con- struction of a student activity center; schol- arships; program enrichment in Agriculture, Business, Bible, Biology, Psychology, Com- munications, Early Childhood Education, Graphic Arts, Music, and Pre -Engineering; and library renovation and acquisition of new books . President Harold J. Schultz An early model of the two new proposed buildings illustrates their locations: the gymnasium -recrea- tion center will be adjacent to Memorial Hall on the west, and the student activity centfer will occu- py the area where Kauffman Museiam now stands . Norman E . Abrahams Clayton Auernheimer Phyllis Carlson Milton A. Claassen Walter C. Claassen Elmer Ediger Willis R. Esau Lester Ewy Robert Franz Willis Harder Edwin M. Harms Lawrence Hart Willard E . Kaufman Wesley Kroeker James F. Leisy Waldo W. Leisy Vernon Neufeld Stanley Pankratz Mary Ann Preheim Margaret Rich James Rinner Robert M. Schrag Melvin Siemens Dale M. Stucky Edwin R . Stucky Howard Stutzman James H. Suderman Clarence Unrau Martha Unruh Hilda Voth Melvin H. Voth Peter Voran Richard B . Walker Paul Zerger 12