Goshen College - Maple Leaf Yearbook (Goshen, IN)

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by lilly Grant Extensive study of the collegiate Bible program was carried on this year in connection with the 530,000 Lilly grant received lor the purpose of improving religious education. The major goal ol this study was to revise the Introduction to Christianity course and re-evaluate graduation requirements in the fields ol Bible and philosophy. J. Lawrence Burkholder and C. Nor! man Kraus did most ol' this research hy attending conferences and holding con! sultations with men from other colleges and universities. Ezra Beachy and Alvin Graber explain Christian literature for young people as a project for Christian Education of Youth class. L. Norman Kraus discusses the history of the Bible with his Introduction to Christianity section dum Maur fdhli

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Religious Education Spurred 15 3 or fi we M we is., Questioning the reality of the lectern from which he teaches, Professor Lawrence Burkholder poses the metaphysical problem to philosophy students.

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Seminary Begins Construction of Directors of the Biblical Seminary this year made final plans for construc- tion of the new Seminary Building, which was to begin this April and be Hnished by early September. Located near the proposed church-chapel on the southern part of the campus, this build- ing will allow the Seminary to maintain an existence more independent of the undergraduate college. It will include classrooms, offices, a library, and a re- search center designed to accommodate one hundred students. Since Seminary holdings will be moved out of the Memorial Library next year, Esther Xileber, Librarian of the Seminary, was hired to begin plans for this area of expansion. Plans also were made for future co- operation with the Mennonite Biblical Seminary, which will be located south of Elkhart next year. Beginning next fall, Goshen will share several instructors and classes with this sister institution. Amid all this planning for the future, the school continued serving a full-time enrollment of 36 students. Future preach- ers again spent much of their out-of- school time in the practical application ol their study, most of them serving as pastoral understuclies in surrounding churches. James Krotz presents ci practice sermon from the Assembly Hall pulpit during session of second semester Homiletics class.