London College of Bible and Missions - Archway Yearbook (London, Ontario Canada)

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Lost an Found enior Rffeaf Found: Some sober QD seniors On a cold Friday morning, November 6, twenty-five senior students squeezed into their loaded cars and headed north to Chesley Lake, a summer resort near Southampton. In the scarcely heated cabins and dining room every- one shivered and walked around in overcoats. The activ- ities, however, compensated for the lack of heat. The seniors had brought their own food. The menu included such delicacies as turkey, juicy steaks, and home- made pie. The girls took turns cooking and proved they could keep house as well as labour over theological prob- lems. The fellows washed wishes. Dean Oakley spoke on the class's theme Learn of Me. Dr. Beckman continued this theme in discussion periods in which he applied the truths of learning of Christ to the life of each student. Ping pong, football, hiking through swampy woods, rowing boats on an ice cold lake in a biting wind, tending fires in the middle of the night - all were great sources of' fun, and exercise unused muscles. Games, preparation of the food and discussions around the Word of God drew the class closer together and closer to their Master. On Sunday the seniors returned home thanking the Lord for a weekend of physical relaxation and spiritual refreshment. Shirley: a V Lost: Their joy Doug. Found a new outlook on life . . . 1 :Q And lost his moustache . . . Bm: .- 1 3-' t. 1 1' ' Found his appetite . . . Found some admirers but lost her hair. . . . But lost his P.j.'s.

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,wing icnic Hey, what's cooking? yelled Lloyd Webb as he completed the mile and a half cross-country race from Springbank Park to XX'onderland along the banks of the Thames. M-m-m-m! smells good, blurted Dr. Cramer, making a dash for the finish line on Bruce Ramsay's shoulders. Luscious hamburgers sizzling on the open bar-b-que tantalized the hungry picnickers. Everyone sat around the old- fashioned teahouse and reminisced on the year's activities as they devoured bar- b-cues cooked by the men of class '62-'63. What a day it had been! All kinds of games and relays had provided a lot of laughs and craziness. Gooey dough- nuts on long fishing poles had been fed to boys lying on the ground. Then everyone had to blow up balloons and sit on them to see which one broke first. Shirley Funnell, looking for a few min- utes rest had been tossed into a big flower pot and soon had become the tar- get for basketball throws. In a short devotional message at the end of the day, Rev. Jonas Shepherd challenged each one to attain greater heights in, through and for the Lord jesus Christ. He1p! I'm not a target. Our Olympic star! .jvlocgeg af as Mai FRONT ROW: Leroy Tower, Wally Stephenson, Bill Wills, George Bradford. SECOND ROW: Bill Adkins, Jim Moyer, Brian Bridle, jim Routledge, Doug Routledge, Ed Caffin. Sponsored by the Men's Residence

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grcwluafion ganquef Live the message you will preach to the world. challenged Rev. james P. Vold, pastor of Ottawa's Metropolitan Tabernacle at the Graduation Banquet held last April 17 to honour the graduating class of 1959. Christians need a definite revival of personal faith in God if the three greatest foes of civilization -communism, seoilarism and complacency - are to be overcome, he said. Pastor Vold urged the twenty-two graduates to follow in the paths of the great men of old who had personal confidence in the promises of God, ability to adopt God's pace of living and the courage and conviction to be active in the project of God. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Morrison of Toronto thrilled hearts with their special selections in song. Mrs. Morrison's solo God Hath Not Promised Skies Al- ways Blue, left a lasting impression. More than four hundred guests enjoyed the ban- quet of spring chicken in the Beal Technical school dining room. Red rose buds, made into a large '59 behind head table, became a favorite background for pictures of graduates. The evening was planned by the class of '60 and their president, Doug Routledge, was the relaxed and capable chairman. The graduation banquet Rev. james P. Vold Cfadd may gxercided The graduating class presented the last chapel service of the year on the morning of graduation day, May 5, 1959. Every student testified briefly on the Lord's leading for the future. . . remaining at L.B.I. for further studies . . . linguistic training . . . col- lege or further education . . . pastorate. Others were still looking to the Lord for His leading. We must spend much time in His presence to get to know Him, challenged jim Twinem in his message to his classmates. In her admonition to the junior class Ruth Bel- lingham said, To know Christ and to know Him better should be the desire of each student and not merely to obtain a high academic standing. Through the years together the class had carried with them the theme, Not I but Christ. This was the basis of the class song, written by Helen I-Iisey and sung by the whole class as the climax of the Class Day Exercises. In ihe afternoon the graduates gathered on the lawn with their families and friends at the Gradua- tion tea. Faculty and parents were introduced, gifts were given and cameras clicked and flashed incess- antly. Dainty sandwiches and cookies prepared by the Ladies' Auxiliary added the finishing touches to a wonderful afternoon.