Bethel University - Spire Yearbook (St Paul, MN)

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BETHEL COLLEGE and SEMINARY is dedicated to the training of Christian leaders. Beth-el— “the house of God”— is the denominational school of the Baptist General Conference of America. Growing year by year, Bethel now has 640 students taking advantage of the expanded facilities. Improvements include dormitory additions, landscaping, and enlarged library facilities. Bethel is a liberal arts college with a Christian emphasis. It has long been evident that well educated Christian leaders are a necessary part of society. Bethel recognizes its calling to train young people for this leadership. Academic achievement is integrated with Spiritual awareness. Although not large by some standards, Bethel, because of its limited size, provides for more individual attention than can often be obtained in a larger school. It also makes it possible for a large part of the total student body to take an active role in campus leadership. The administration and the faculty realize that “the foremost aid of the program in the liberal arts at Bethel College is to help each person to realize his unique and sacred potentialities and make his own best contribution to society.” This training is made up of many things. Classes and academic study are not the only ways in which leadership is developed and potentiality realized. Bethel also has an active social program and many organizations of a varied nature. Somewhere among them each student finds his niche and becomes part of this busy community. The following pages will attempt to portray a composite picture of life at Bethel during the past year. 1958 SPIRE Editors:....................... Pat Nichol Evan Rogers Business Manager . . Beverly Otterness