Bethel University - Spire Yearbook (St Paul, MN)

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ATHENAEN. The Athenaen Society’s program for the open meeting held May 25, 1917. Music ..........................Orchestra Song .....................Athenaen Girls Invocation ..............Gertrude Crook Roll Call. Welcome ........................President Solo ..........................Miss Edith Lfndberg Recitation................Martha Anderson National Medley. Paul Revere’s Ride...........Hilda Lund Solo ................Miss Edith Lind berg Dreaming.............Esther E. Tanquist Piano Duet, Esther dander, Florence Anderson. Rendering of Barbara Fritche. America ........'............Congregation Refreshments. The Athenaen Society has held four meetings during the last semester, ot which one has been held at the home of Mrs. A. J. Wingblade. We have had very beneficial meetings, which we hope, have developed the literary powers. The lady members of the Faculty have taken much interest in the activities of this society. Lillian Lindahl, Secy. The Athenaen Society held a meeting May 2, 1917. The following program was rendered: Song ............................ Society Invocation ............... Anna Sundberg Piano Solo ................Ellen Nelson Business Session. Vocal Solo.................Olive Martine Dialogue---Martha Anderson, Hilda Lund Song ..........................’Quartette Reading ................Florence Ericson Piano Solo.................Agnes Lindeen Reading ....................Miss Ryberg Critic’s Remarks....Margaret Ahlquist Song ............................. Unison Prayer ......................Hilda Lund Adjournment. Olive Martine, V. Secy. 27 ALPHA BETA NOTES. When we look back on the past year we cannot but feel that the A. B. L. S. has met with success. It has not held as many meetings as in former years, but the meetings held have been beneficial and instructive. It is not quantity but quality that counts. We wish to thank those, from different places outside of our school, who have attended our meetings. It makes us feel that the work the society is doing is appreciated and we always make it a point to have programs rendered which are worth' while. This year Is at an end but we take pleasure in inviting our friends to attend the meetings the A. B. L. S. will have next year. It has grown better from year to year and we can confidently say that the meetings of next year will be of even greater merit than those of any previous year. The following officers were elected to serve the A. B. L. S. next year: Pres., Arthur Nelson. V. Pres., E. Lindholm. Sec., M. Hamlin. Treas., Ester Olander Sergeant-at-Arms, A. Anderson. Piano, Ester Olander. Char., Conrad Carlson. CHAPEL SPEAKERS. During the now ended school year, we have been fortunate in having at our cliapel services speakers of prominence and ability, who have addressed us on a great variety of subjects. Among our list of chapel speakers are not only well known men of our own country, but men from various parts of the world. We have heard about the wonderland in the far north, Iceland; about the jungles of Africa and its people: and about conditions in warridden Europe and Asia; all told by men who have seen. The list of speakers has been published in the Acorn from month to month. THE ACORN

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1. Athenean. 2. Girls’ Basketball. 3. Boys’ Basketball. 4. Girls' Gym Class.

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23 THE ACORN Albert Uahlby, 10, graduates from the Osborne Instance, ’10, graduates from University of Minnesota the coming June the Bethel Theo. Seminary the. coming with the degree of Bathelor of Arts. June. Rudolph Crook, '13, receives in June the degree of Bachelor of Science in Medicine from the University of Minnesota. Walfred Anderson, ’ll, President of the B. A. A. A., graduates from the University of Minnesota with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in June. Jonas Ahlquist. M. D., Bethel ’ll, Creighton Medical, 15, has recently completed at Harvard University a course in Tropical Medicine. Frank Ericson, '13. was recently married to Miss Ruth Rundquist of St. Paul. Congratulations! Arthur Bclstrom, ’14, graduates from Bethel Theo. Seminary in June. Miss Josephine Anderson, ’16, has entered the Mounds Park Sanitarium to take the course for nurses. Alex Rexion, ’16, eminent social organizer among the slums, graduates from the (Bethel Theo. Seminary in June. Harvy Stallard, B. S. C., once instructor of Science at Bethel Academy, graduates from the University of Minnesota in June with the degree of- Doctor of Philosophy. We congratulate him upon his scholarly attainments. Oscar J. R. Freed, B. S.. President Emeritus of the B. A. A. A., graduates in June from the College of Medicine of the University of Minnesota. He will enter the Minneapolis City Hospital June 15th as interne, where he will specialize in surgery. Albert Pearson, A. B., L. S. B., M. A., who has taught at. Bethel for the past four years, has accepted the position of Superintendent of the Milan High School the coming year. The Alumni wish him the greatest of success. The Alumni also regret the loss of Miss Elsa Nordin from the Rethel faculty. Teachers of her calibre and that of Mr. Pearson’s are few and their places hard to fill.