Bethel University - Spire Yearbook (St Paul, MN)

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WIDE APPRECIATION OF MUSIC ON CAMPUS BERTIL ANDERSON, M.Mus. Music Department Organ and Piano JUNE BENSON Music Department Voice CHARLES ERICKSON. M.Mus. Music Department Band Both C. Howard Smith and the Male Chorus are taking their practice very seriously. The Chorus has 38 members from the college and the seminary. 19

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FEW MAJORS Bert Anderson smiles as be explains to Nancy Sandberg that Bach didn’t write it quite that way. C.. HOWARD SMITH. B.R.E., M.Mus. Head of Music Department MILDRED BISGROVE. M. S. Music Department DOROTHY JOHNSON, B.A. Art Department MUSIC AND ART DEPARTMENTS HAVE WIDE PARTICIPATION ON CAMPUS Although there arc few music majors this year, expansion is anticipated for the music department. In addition to the present general music major, a church music major will be offered in 1956-57. The College Choir and the Male Chorus, both directed by C. Howard Smith, arc an important part of the music department. Through these two groups about 85 students are able to participate in group singing. The Choir and the Chorus are also active in the school's public relations program through their tours to churches. The art department has been under the direction of Dorothy Johnson this year. The regular instructor, Eugene Johnson has been on sabbatical leave and is studying art in Mexico. Only two students arc majoring in art this year, but the department is more important in introducing art values to the general student body. 18

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TODAY’S EVENTS BECOME HISTORY DAI.PHY FAGERSTROM, Ph.D. Head of llistory Depart-wail. His lory ROY C. DALTON, M.A. History Department History WAI.FRF.D PF.TERSON. M.A. History Department Political Science CURRENT POLITICAL FIGURES INVITED TO SPEAK TO BETHEL CLASS A new awareness of the rclatcdncss of history and current events has been achieved through arranging class meetings with men in the political field. Eugene McCarthy, U. S. representative, spoke to the political science class on the function of politics in a democratic society. Elmer Anderson, state senator, and Claude Allen, state representative, talked about problems in the state government such as constitutional revision and finances. I yalfred Peterson and Dalpby Fa-gerstrom discuss American political parties with Representative Eugene McCarthy. 20 ’I