Covenant College - Tartan Yearbook (Lookout Mountain, GA)

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, ,E.,,:.,,, , 5,X Q -9 XA One of the beauties of life is that of being able to dis- cover something or someone new, a person who suddenly exists and becomes meaningful and important. When ci student comes to Covenant, home and parents become part of another world, now vague. Though he has craved independence, the knowledge that someone is concerned about his welfare to the degree of setting up regulations, arranging personal interviews, and prodding that person on when depressed becomes welcomed somehow, even needed. In this case, Mrs. Rudolph F. Schmidt has become the caring, questioning, offering, and guiding individual. As Dean of Women, Mrs. Schmidt is sometimes stern, is always just, and knows the meaning of loyalty to each student. The freshman, through her, becomes more re- DEDICATIO R. is Q ,QA 'is ' wi' sponsible, even though at the time there may be the noise of complaint. Through the sophomore, junior, and senior years the student realizes that Mrs. Schmidt is the quiet, efficient, and unmeddling type of person who holds each student highly in her mind and spirit. Collyn Franzenburg Schmidt has the background of a scholar and a dedicated student. After growing up in Con- rad lowa, she received the Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing at the State University of Iowa. Here the Lord God took her life and made her His servant, changing her whole existence and ideals. Hence, she became a graduate of Faith Theological Seminary in l95l and went to Jordan as a Missionary under the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions. She served at the Ba-

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a person enters college, thus ending the first arranged volume of his life. he reaches out and touches reality, finding for the first time beauty and ugliness, love and lone- liness. disillusionment and depres- sion become states of mind, people become individuals, attractive or repulsive. minds and hearts open to accept truth and falsehood, to recognize and partake of poetry and music. the sensitive eye and soul quickly catch the delicacy of nature, the joy of evening solitude, finding themselves deeply cut or healing in joy. the unimaginative, uoncreative nondreamer finds complacency in laughing, com- plaining, bragging and augmenting hopelessness. the two meet at covenant, a stone structure, a tiny link in a chain of civilization. both the dreamer and the realist and all the realms between must subside and establish a livable harmony such a tiny span of time passes, yet during this time the final pattern of beliefs and modes must be established one looks from his window shouting, l'll cast my fate to the wind! and his voice is swallowed up in vapor. the vapor disappears, the solid moun- tain earth appears and God reigns - the existential mind is thrown off as ashroud, meeting the vapor that shrinks into nothingness, as faith in the Lord God becomes meaning.

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raka Sanitorium as the head nurse in Jordan for over six years, both ministering and establishing o nurses' training program in that hospital through the Jordanian Government. Mrs. Schmidt, still Miss Frazenburg, returned to the United States in 1958 and began work on the Master' ot Science Degree at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, earn- ing the degree in l96O. In the meantime, she became Dean of Women for Covenant College in i959 and de- lighted the Covenant world and made Covenant history in her marriage to Registrar Rudolph Schmidt, a fellow Iowan, in l96l. Not only has Mrs. Schmidt been Deon of Women, en- listing the loyalty and respect of the women who develop mentally and spiritually at Covenant, but she has been the school nurse and has taught several prerequisite courses for nursing candidates. She, thus, helped to es- tablish the Nursing Program at the college and has done much of the important contact work to make Covenant's prenursing curriculum accepted at Emory University and Columbia University. As a part of the academic program, therefore, one is able to see Mrs. Schmidt as vital in aug- menting Covenant's curriculum and eligibility for accredita- tion. In the inner being of Covenant and of Covenant students, Mrs. Schmidt is a tremendous personage, sincerity and genuiness being obvious qualities. lt is only natural, then, to dedicate the i967 TARTAN to Mrs. Rudolph Schmidt- al-Y! l