Goshen College - Maple Leaf Yearbook (Goshen, IN)

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wi ,, ,,, il 4.11 f if e 2 it L 5' situ During And an Emphasis on Christian a Monday night YPCA visitation service, a quartet sings carols while Dolores Gerber presents a chalk drawing of the Christmas story for guests at the Weaver Convalescent Home. ,zu Community residents and students worship together Sunday mornings at the College Mennonite Church.

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and Faculty... During Freshman Parents Weekelid, students, staff. and parents are united in common activity and an integration of the people who compose Goshen College is effected. After a tour of the campus, parents are introduced at a Saturday banquet and placed in faculty homes for the night. They worship with their children Sunday morning, hear Collegiate Chorus in the afternoon, and then leave for homes in Wayland, Kidron, and Perkasie, assured that sons and daughters are in capable hands. sr .xxxxtg -f ' l ,- X Hi MW In the shadow of the Union tower, Miriam Shetler and Norma Steckley stop between classes to chat and admire a lush petunia bed. I 'Il i

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Discipleship Since Goshen is a definitely Christian college, religion is not inade incidental in the institution but it is niade to pervade its life and spirit, and in conformity with the college niotto Culture for Service the ideal of service in the Christian spirit is upheld as the goal of the educated man and woman -thus, the college catalog connnentary on the place of church services, missionary conferences, and Y extension activities in the life of Goshen College. Iles-.N .sf .4 x, I if la V .4 r -. is so 4 3 After a session of the fall Missionary Conference, Frank Birch, secre- tary for the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society, chats with John Mosemann, former missionary to Africa. Birch was a guest speaker at the meetings, which were held November 8-lO under the sponsorship of the YPCA.