Goshen College - Maple Leaf Yearbook (Goshen, IN)

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,,,f '5' WALTER E. YODER, M.Mus. iabove left? , Assistant Professor of Music. MARY K. OYER, M.Mus. labove rightl, Assistant Professor of Music. B. F. HARTZLER, BA. irighti, In- structor in Music. ARTHUR L. SPRUNGER, BA. tbelow right? , part-time Instructor in Art. FINE ARTS students cram for test as they study old and modern works on department's Union bulletin board, L. H. HUAIPHREY . , Imp flgfllly . , Swv . ov 'rn' in lllllllfl t'llH'l-fy . . Njmlnl llizflrlmg . , fQU.SHl'f.X ,..,--H 4

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LOIS GUNDEN, MA. lstanding Iettl, As- sistant Professor ot French and German. VERNA G. SMITH, BA. lstanding rightl, instructor in Spanish. ELIZABETH H. BENDER, MA. lseatedl, Assistant Professor of German. FOREIGN LANGUAGE students listen to native conversation records. Records are used in all three of the languages ottered. l M. L. lI'ELDY, D. V. AI. . . Pmrfiliorz Language Courses Taught by Three A valuable addition to the German Depart- ment was the purchase of a set of oral- aural records similar to those used in French and Spanish. Students found these helpful in learning rhythm, pronunciation and vocabulary. Mrs. Elizabeth H. Bender, assistant pro- fessor of German, served part-time on the Mennonite Encyclopedia staff translating articles from German. While Mrs. Verna Smith versed first-year Spanish students in the intricacies of the present tense, Miss Lois Gunden conducted the more advanced Spaniards and French- men in conversation and drill. In some classes she guided open discussions in Spanish and French. Intermediate language courses required outside reading of novels and other litera- ture, while advanced classes were con- ducted entirely in the foreign language. Yoder is Working On Two Hymnals The Music Department experienced a slight change of personnel in B. F. Hartzler's replacement of Dwight Weldy. who is away for further study. Chairman of the General Conference Music Committee, Walter Yoder and other members of the committee completed their work on a new hymn book, Songs of the Church, now being published. Working with a subcommittee, Yoder also helped gather material for -the forthcoming Children's Hymnalf' For 22 years a pillar in the Music Depart- ment, Noble Kreider was somewhat handi- capped this year due to an operation and long convalescence. Miss Mary Oyer purchased a supply of long-playing records for music and fine arts classes, and added 150 new ones from the modern period to the collection of slides of paintings. Arthur Sprunger's serigraph, Space Modulation, was exhibited at a national print show in New York last November. rr and Slll'gl'Ul1 . . ll :lIsf.'lRUS.'1

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History Profs Most Literary WILLARD H. SMITH, PHD., Chairman of the Division of Social Sciences and Professor of History and Political Science. The History Department proved to be the most literary this year with the publication of books by Dr. Willard H. Smith and Dr. Guy F. Hershberger. Completed after 15 years of work, Wil- lard Smith arranged with the Indiana His- torical Bureau for the publication of his book entitled Schuyler Colfax, the Chang- ing Fortunes of a Political Idol. A biog- raphy, this book deals with an influential statesman and U.S. vice-president of the Civil War era who founded the Republican Party of Indiana. The Mennonite Publishing House re- cently released Guy F. Hershberger's book entitled The Mennonite Church in the Second World War, which endeavors to describe the eiects of the War on the Old Mennonite Church. GINGERICH TEACHES CIV Dr. Melvin Gingerich continued his work as head of the Mennonite Research Foun- dation during the year and concentrated his teaching eiorts on the introductory civilization course. Courses in the department covered polit- ical, intellectual and cultural, economic and recent history of the Western world and Europe. One course was devoted to the his- ll l'f1Ill'. 1ilHIUlx',lll'1'fR. ,lli'. . . Pnlilrr Jllklllllllfllllf . . lil-IW S. .llnin Sl. . . CUSHICN