Canadian Mennonite Bible College - Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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FOREWORD Another college year has come and gone, yet many memories remain. For students, an annual is a ready handbook to revive such memories which tend to get forgotten only too soon after school closes. For parents, especially those who’ve not had the privilege of visiting C.M.B.C. during their sons’ and daughters’ stay here, a yearbook helps them to see their children in the total college setting. For the many friends of this conference institution, whether acquainted with C.M.B.C. or not, the yearly publication would illustrate 1959- 1960 college life more fully. The yearbook committee’s objective in preparing this book for publication was that the cause of the dear Alma Mater be promoted. It would then have to give a cross-section of all the phases of college activity. In order to have a good starting- point, it was felt that a name for the yearbook would be helpful. A christening was called for. However, even with some “outside” suggestions, it became increasingly difficult to get a name which would stand for all that the yearbook should represent. Assuming that the majority of the readers have but an incomplete picture of our college, for 1959- 1960, the committee felt that with the aid of an annual this picture could become one complete with details. (This in turn, would render a better understanding for the purposes of C.M.B.C.) This idea is somewhat like a ray of light broken up into a varicolored spectrum with the aid of a prism. A certain type of prism could change the limited view of C.M.B.C. to one magnified into the numerous emphases of its total life. Playing such a role, the yearbook could now be named. It is fondly dubbed, “The College Prism.” The Editor.