Multnomah University - Ambassador Yearbook (Portland, OR)

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stationery, sponsored a talent show, and put on a logging contest. And of course, before each function they had to put on plenty of skits to make sure it was well advertised. The grads however called it spirit They started out with a trip to Astoria on the Oregon coast to help the class members get to know each other. Right from the start they all realized they would only be together for one short year and for many of them it was the last year of their formal schooling and so they seemed to unanimous- ly decide to make the most of it. Another function of the class to promote class spirit was a snow trip to Mt. Hood. Some went downhill or cross-country ski- ing, or inner-tubing, taking occasional breaks in the lodge to get warmed up. Others went into the lodge and just stayed there-the real outdoor type. sing Qetermined Spirited Another time, they had the privilege of spending an evening at the home of Dr. Mitchell and his wife, Mary, where the grads tasted Mrs. Mitchell's pecan rolls and enjoyed their fellowship. One of the things that many grads thought would stay in their memories longest was the Thursday morning prayer breakfast where they had many times of sharing, and saw many prayers answered. One grad suggested that the reason the grads had so much unity and liveliness was because when they were in high school, kids had much more school spirit than do kids in public schools today. But whatever the reason we found out that the truth was that no class had more life, more mischief, more spirit, more downright craziness than the Multnomah grad class of 1976. by Gloria Hegge U3 M55 Dr. john Milcbell works in the kitvben in preparation b Cl y d magazines in the journalism building. Grad Larry Kroon brings his wife to a grad class fund H.

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HQ M55 Five llloys to Spell: Qregorious Rowdy You would think the grads would be the most dignified, mature and studious group on campus. All of us younger kids were kind of watching them to see how mature college graduates really acted. Well, things weren't exactly what we expected them to be. Some people called them downright crazy. It didn't seem to matter where they were-at basketball games, at dinner, at school functions, walking outside on cam- pus-they always seemed to hang around together and whenever the subject of the grad class would happen to come up, they would immediately start cheering spon- taneously. They had an incredible royal rooter, Les Winslow, who helped promote spirit at basketball games, and everywhere else, and it was the grads, believe it or not, who fought the hardest for the spirit bunny. Grad class njficerx sing around the pian The 80-member grad class was headed up by John Tiffin, class president, Wes Reimer, vice president, Karla Paul, treasurer, Terry Ford, secretaryg and Lin- da Kempel and Don Mortenson, social chairmen. They were absolutely determined to raise enough money to have a long retreat at the end of the year so they came up with everything under the sun to help raise those funds. They sponsored a Christmas dinner in the dining room at which they waited on tables fexpected plenty of tipsl, and provid- ed entertainment - including a kazoo band, strolling carollers and a story called the Christmas Star read by Wes Reimer. They had car washes, sold spirit patches, made cookies to sell every Tuesday and Thursday to students, sold picture of the grad class Conly grads bought theml made Jerry Prouty rmko Imb, and Nelle ana' Don Fisher enjoy refresh IJ ll J ments at Dr. Mite' e '.v. WW Q

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, x A -- - - - , 2 I.- : z - - ifgf Dip - E! E 2 aT ,S F 1, 5' , Q Q- M55 'fl TH V HBE Fl EHHIN IIN By now everyone has heard that Dr. Mitchell, Dr. Sutcliffe, Dr. Aldrich and several others founded Multnomah School of the Bible in 1936, but what most people don't realize is that the kids, the early students, had just as big a part in making the school what it is today. Here is what some of the early alumni remember about those first years. Located at what is now the Lloyd Center parking lot, the old Multnomah campus was a conglomerate of stately mansions, a stone castle, a mortuary, plain houses and a little square brick building. The epitome of dilapidated old house- dormitories was the men's dorm, the Shamble Shack. Like most of the other dorms, it was a creaky two-story board building abounding with rooms. The stone castle, old Sutcliffe hall, was used for of- fices, much as new Sutcliffe is used today. The mortuary was used for classrooms upstairs. When the warm weather hit, the upstairs turned into an oven, and parboiled students conked out en masse. At Halloween, the seniors fnice guys that they have always been! had great fun making up stories for the benefit of the bewildered freshmen, about the embalming fluid forgotten in the basement. A tiny brick building on campus called the Matchbox served as a soda fountain for students. Many of them labored under the misconception that the name referred to its size, but actually Dr. Aldrich named it that because so many couples got matched up there. The school had been born in the year 1936. On Valentines Day of that year, a small group of men had met in the home of Emily Neil at the call of Rev. Jack Mitchell. Concerned about the evangelization of the Northwest, Dr. Mitchell had been teaching Bible classes in Portland and several other Northwest cities, along with Simon E. Forsberg and Dr. Aldrich. Six young men had requested that Dr. Mitchell train them in his Bible teaching methods. At the Valentines Day meeting, Dr. Mitchell shared his burden to start a Bible school for the furthering of the work of evangelizing the Northwest. Dr. Mitchell asked if Dr. B. B. Sutcliffe would take the responsibilities for the school. As he con- tinued to share his vision, the others began to recognize the leading of God in the matter and formal planning began. On October 5, 1936, Multnomah School of the Bible began in the former mortuary. The Board of Trustees consisted of Dr. Sutcliffe, president, Dr. Mitchell, vice- presidentg Dr. Aldrich, registrar, and Rev. Forsberg, dean. The four men also did the