Bethel University - Spire Yearbook (St Paul, MN)

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ts5 Cl STUDENTS COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT THE BETHEL HERALD

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24 THE BETHEL HERALD lingen son: pA utstntionerna. for vilka han burit huvudansvaret. Detta hedrande upp-drag liar fornyats, och broder Larson ar av sagda forsamling kallad att sAsom assistant pastor fortsatta for att after graduationen belt Agna sig At det niaktpAliggande arbetet. En s dan kallelse un.der skoltiden och ef-ter studiernas fullbordande i en si stor och framst ende forsamling som St, Paul hor nog till sallsyntheterna. Broder Larson dr att lyckonska. men vi. som kanna honom bast efter flera Ars umgange och sanvarbe-tc, v ga lugnt saga, att fdrsamlingen, i St. Paul och pastor Swanson aro icke mind re att lyckonska att s som st ende arbotare och medhj lpare fA rakna en sA adel, hel-hjartad, uppriktig och begAvad broder som Victor Larson. Sedan forliden host ar broder Larson i aktenskap forenad med miss Elna Peterson. Broder Larson graduerar med graden Th. B. Olof Milton Lind, son till statsinissior.ar Olof Lind och dotterson till veteranen Olof Eng.berg, foddes i Dalesburg. S. D., den 24 nov. 1S96. VAren 1910 fullbordades kursen i Public School i Dalbo, Minn. 1913 gradu-erade broder Lind frAn Bethel Academy, varefter studier upptogos vid Sioux Falls College. S. D., vintern 1914—15, och vid Central Holiness University. Ia.. 1915—1916. lntradde hosten. 1916 i seminariet frin Hol-drege. Neb. Faun frid med Herren vintern 1915 och blev sedan dbpt och. forenad med F'orsta Sv.ibaptiet-forsamlingen i Minneapolis. Sommaren 1917 verkade broder Lind i Bright View, Alta, Canada, julen 1917 och sommaren 1918 i Lake Norden. S. D., samt julen. 1918 i Sandy Lake. Minn. Denna for-samling liar kallat broder Lind till pastor, vilken kallelse hail antagit och kommer att tilltrada platsen efter skolavslutningen i juni. Rikt begavad, liar broder Lind tagit hega, vanligen dc hogsta betygen i alia amnen, aven i grekiska och hebreis-ka. Han tilldclas graden Th. B. med hedersbetvget magna cum laude. COMMERCIAL GRADUATES 1919 CLASS HISTORY By ANNA MATTSON Mabel Peterson. One stormy day in December some years ago, at Prentice, in northern Wisconsin, a very important event happened. Mabel Peterson, our auburn-haired girl was born. At the age of seven she entered the public schools at Prentice, from which she graduated. Last fall she began to realize that her education was not complete. So she decided to come to Minnesota to study. Through the influence of her sister Alice, a member of the present junior class, she came to Bethel Academy last fall to take up the Commercial Course. Alfa Fanum. At Aasen, near Trondhjem, Norway, during the month of March in the nineteenth century Alfa Fanum was born. She graduated from “folkeskolen” in Aasen in 1912. Feeling that Norway was not big enough for her, she came to Port Arthur, Canada in 1914. She was there hut two years when she decided that Canada did not offer many opportunities for an education, so in 1916 she came to St. Paul. A friend, Mrs. Sam Lindquist, told her all about Bethel. After hearing all the good things about Bethel Academy she could not resist the temptation, so she entered our school in the fall of 1917. Alice Nybloom. There was a great deal of excitement in Rush City, Minnesota, when Alice Nybloom, our girl of many ideas, was born. She started school at the age of six in Rush City where she finished the fourth grade. Thinking that Kush City was not large enough she came to Minneapolis where she graduated from the Adams School. She wanted very much to be a stenographer so her parents decided to send her to Bethel Academy where she took up stenographic work Sept. 24, 191S. Her ambition some day is to be the first lady of the land. Kditlt Elg. During the nineteenth century, a very winsome girl was born at Barnesville, Minnesota, who is Edith Elg. She is very ambitious so she began school

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26 THE BETHEL HERALD at Brainerd, Minnesota in 1907 and kept on until she graduated from the Central High School at Two Harbors, Minnesota. Feeling that she had not completed her education to her satisfaction she was influenced by a frieitd, Miss Jennie Edstrom, to come to Bethel Academy where she entered the Commercial Department last September. She is taking the Business Course. Florence Gantxer. In Merriam Park, St. Paul, Minnesota a very bright-eyed girl was born, Florence Gantzer by name. She went to the Rosetown School from which she graduated. She is a girl of many desires, and decided she wanted to enter the business world. Through the influence of her neighbors, the Taylors, she came to Bethel Academy in the fall of 1918. She has done herself credit here. Myron L. Segerstroin. In Ida County. Iowa, during the coldest season of the year, in January, usually everyone is sitting around the fireplace but for some reason or other everyone seemed very happy. The birth of little brown-eyed Myron was announced. He is very ambitious, so he began his education atrthe age of five in the pub-i cschools of Haynes township, Ida County, Iowa. Here he finished the eight grade at the age of fourteen. In 1916-17 he began the commercial course at the Denison Normal and Buslnes College. But one day he met Enoch Johnson, a graduate of the Commercial Department of Bethel, who persuaded him to come to Bethel Academy. Myron, makes this statement: Everyone who wants a high school or business education should come to Bethel. He will boost for students this summer. Mabel Schacht. Early in the twentieth century our golden-haired Mabel Schacht was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. She began school at the age af seven years at the Brimhall School, from which she graduated at the age of fourteen. She .did housework for a while but she thought she wan,ted to see more of the business world so she began the Commercial Course at Bethel Academy in November. 1918. Some day she hopes to be the bookkeeper for a mining company in Montana. Edith Larson. This happy girl was born in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1903. At the age of five she attended kindergarten, after which, owing to illnes, she did not attend school for three years. At the age of eight she entered the Hancock School from which she graduated at the age of thirteen. Edith is a very bright, and industrious student. Last fall her friends persuaded her to come to Bethel Academy to take the Commercial Course. She was told Bethel was a good school, but she found it better; so you see it is the best school. Carrie Nelson. In Alexandria, Minnesota, was horn a big brown-eyed baby girl whose name is Carrie. She began school at the age of seven years in. Holmes City. Minnesota. where she graduated from the eight grade in 1916. She thought she didn’t know quite enough, so through the influence of Ellen Nelson, a member of the junior class this year, she decided to come to Bethel Academy to take up the Commercial Course. She has won her way with a smile. Effic Carlson. Effie was born in Meriden, Iowa, in the latter part of the nineteenth century. She was one of those people who did not know at first what she wanted but kept on going from the time she completed the eight grade in 1913 until she had finished two years of work at the Cherokee High School. She finally decided that she wanted to take a commercial course. She read about Bethel Academy, but was induced by her pastor, J. L. Malm, and also by Rev. P. G. Nelson of Omaha. Nebraska, to come here. A girl of beautiful countenance and gentle manners. Lawrence Sands. During the beautiful season in the last century at Willmar, Minnesota, a very surprising event happened. Our soldier boy, so true, was born. He is known as Lawrence Sands. At tlio age of six years he was considered old enough to be trusted so he began school. In the winter of 1915-16, he attended Willmar Seminary where he completed the eight grade and also took some commercial work. Not long after this he was in Uncle Sam’s service, and while in camp he had a conversation with Herman Pearson, a former graduate of Bethel, who advised him to come to Bethel Academy. He began his course here the second semester, and is very glad to know he entered such a fine school, he says. He will be a bookkeeper in Washington, D. C. some day.