Bethel University - Spire Yearbook (St Paul, MN)

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 President and Mrs. Lundquist and their little daughter, Jill, welcome Fred and Ruth Thomas to their home. Tied and Rath, along with many other students, enjoyed the warmth and friendly informality of a student gathering in the Lundquist home. Mrs. Lundquist, at this point, becomes a very important second assistant to the president. ONE OF US Carl H. Lundquist, third and youngest president of Bethel College and Seminary, gives the school able and vigorous leadership. His second year of presidency has been characterized by progress — both academically and in the building program plans of the school. His sympathetic association with student problems makes him a student leader as well as administration head. In addition to his school duties. President Lundquist has had frequent speaking engagements in the Twin City area, across the United States, in Canada, and in the Baptist Conference area of Alaska. He has been popular both as a convention speaker and as speaker at youth camps. He spent a week in March speaking at a conference in Florida and the week following Easter in Alaska. 14

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 The faculty, in academic robes, line up outside the fieldhouse just as the convocation is about to begin. This teas the first in a scries of convocations held this year, and it was directed to challenging new and returning students to conscientious effort this year at Bethel. Perhaps the principal reason for academic improvement at Bethel is that this year, and over past years, efforts have been made to get top people in the various fields for our departments here. Each year new faculty members are added, and each of them has brought to Bethel something which is uniquely his. Many of the faculty members already have their doctoral degrees anc many others arc doing graduate work which will lead to a doctorate. It is primarily because of mental vitality in Bethels leaders that her students may graduate equipped, not with the answers to life, but with the maturity of experience and attitude which enables them to meet the problems of life gracefully and effectively. 13

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COMBINED EFFORT Dean of the College, V. Elving Anderson, assumed that position as acting dean temporarily two years ago and has had the position ever since. It is part of his job to counsel with students who have slipped below the academic standard. Dean of the Seminary, Edwin Omark, provides general leadership in the seminary in addition to being the dean of the seminary students. He represents the seminary in administrative meetings and is the official link between the seminary and the college. Assistant to the President, H. Wyman Malmsten directs the school’s financial resource program. He makes the contacts which acquaint people with Bethel's program. It is his job to systematize the support of the school and to try to maintain it on a stable basis. Business Manager, Harold Lid-bom. handles all the purchasing for the school, student employment on campus, student loans, and maintenance personnel. He also supervises student services including health service, coffee shop, dining hall, and book store. Director of Public Relations, Nels Stjernstrom, is the first to occupy the newly created office. The effectiveness of his work has been obvious as we have glanced through the Twin City newspapers from day to day. 15