Calvin College - Prism Yearbook (Grand Rapids, MI)

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mlm RWM IIEIITEIHIIM 00 Q9 ff ET SW W Q 'offljp F -0 S Q 5 'T' k ' ' 4 'sf 'Y Qs, 1951 PRlSM T957 marlced a century of history For the Christian Reformed Church. For Calvin College, only nineteen years younger than her parent, this year was a lusion of ivy-covered tradition and blueprint innovation. While reminiscing was accompanied by speculation in Sarnia, Sioux Center, and Sunnyside, at the little school in western Michigan, seventeen hundred stu- dents, seemingly oblivious to the rumblings, tool4 the legacy ol campus tradition and added to it the stamp ol their own exciting individuality and called it college lite. This is the story of the PRISM. CALVIN COLLEGE PETER I-iuiNER, EDITOR - JERRY HUBERS, BUSINESS MGR.

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J OI-I N CALVIN -RNS Photo IN ONE HUNDRED YEARS. . . One hundred years is not a long time. The breaking off of one church from another is not an impressive beginning. But, against just this background, the Christian Reformed Church celebrated its centennial in 1957. Boosts of bigness and legends of pioneer heroes did not dominate the thirteen week observ- ance. The prevailing spirit was First oi all one of thanksgiving, for the church did have a rich gift of heritage. The organization of an immigrant band in 1857, or an Aischeiding twenty- three years earlier was not the real birth date. Rather, the Church was heir to a legacy which God had preserved through all of humankind, the history of the great Church of all ages which was founded in Eden and whose King was Christ. With the keynote, 'iGod's Favor-Qur Challenge, pageants and rallies, broadcasts and gifts, sermons ond prayers were otiered to the Churchs Preserver in the year of our Lord 1957.