George Fox University - L'Ami Yearbook (Newberg, OR)

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DIVISION III LANGUAGE ARTS Where money is a limited com- modity, those efforts that require little or no equipment flower first. The Language Arts Division has just such an advantage. A student-to-teacher ratio of about 7 to 1 within the division coupled with the fact that three- fourths of the professors had doc- torates or equivalent explains the high quality of work that came from students and professors. Works were published and reviewed in such publications as His Magazine, Gate Magazine, and Northwest Re- view. Division III, with the help of the Division of Religion, sponsored the first Christian Writers ' Conference on campus. Dr. Samuel Sherrill co- ordinated the conference. Ben Pat- terson, editor of the Wittenberg Door, and Luci Shaw, poet, were key speakers along with Nancy Thomas, Dorothy Barratt, and Sister Brand. Student response was not over- whelming, but perhaps attendance will be greater if another confer- ence is held. Division III plans for the future in- clude resurrection of a literary mag- azine and more courses directly related to Christianity. (1) Ben Patterson, editor of Wit- tenberg Door, and Roy Gather- coal. (2) Luci Shaw, visiting poet. (3) Samuel Sherrill, Division III chairman. (4) Robert Cilmore, In- structional Media Spanish. (5) Michael Graves, Communication Arts; Luci Shaw; Ed Higgins, Eng- lish; and Ben Patterson. (6) Ed Higgins, Cindi Pott, and Nancy Baker. (7) Michael Graves. 22