Olivet Nazarene University - Aurora Yearbook (Bourbonnais, IL)

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GOD What is really needed is a fundamental change in our attitude toward life. We have to know ourselves and realize that it does not really matter what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us. We need to stop asking about the meaning of life and instead think of ourselves as being questioned by life. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual. These tasks, and therefore the meaning of life, differ from man to man, and from moment to moment. God is the ultimate answer to each man ' s search and through Him each man finds meaning for his life. We, therefore, not only have minds-alive, but minds alive unto God. a and b Kankakee Daily Journal Photo

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DR. VERNAL H. CARMICHAEL A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. Henry Adams From 1915, through 1970 one such man has been influencing countless numbers of students. Throughout his life, he has directed his efforts toward giving young people interests and goals for bettering theirs and others ' lives. His many articles and lectures reflect this philosophy. A native of Brown County, Indiana; he resided in that scenic area of the state until his marriage in 1918. He earned his bachelor ' s and master ' s degree from Indiana University and his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh. He taught in the elementary grades and the high school in Van Buren Township, Brown County, from 1915-18, and was in military service from 1918-19. From 1919-26, he was head of the commercial departmental Frankfort, Indiana, High School and taught in the commercial department at Fort Wayne Central High School in 1926-27. An active churchman, he served for many years as Sunday School superintendent and on the board of trustees of the South Side Church of the Nazarene, Muncie. He has also been a member of the Church of the Nazarene for thirty years and has served as secretary of the advisory board of the Northeastern Indiana District of the church. He is the co-author of a textbook, Business Letter English, which has been published in second edition. He has been editor of the National Business Quarterly, the American Business Education magazine, and associate editor of the American Business Education yearbook. He has also served on executive boards and chaired committees for state and national business education associations, and has held membership in Phi Delta Kappa, Beta Gamma Sigma, Delta Pi Epsilon, and Pi Omega Pi, national honorary fraternities. He retired from Ball State in 1962 after 35 years on the faculty. For the past eight years he has been professor of business education at Olivet Nazarene College in Kankakee. Illinois. DR. VERNAL H. CARMICHAEL, professor emeritus of business education at Ball State University, was honored January 16, when the universities ' first living and learning residential instruction program was dedicated Carmichael Hall. It has been said that you radiate what you are. You go forth to others in love, in hate, in indifference, in warmth, in coldness, in cheer or in gloom. What you truly are, deep down inside, thunders silently as you meet and mingle with people. This is surely the case with DR. CARMICHAEL. His life radiates vitality, enthusiasm, and dedi cation to teaching and in comparison he puts many younger professors to shame. With sincere admiration, love and respect we proudly dedicate the 1970 Aurora to DR. VERNAL H. CARMICHAEL. 15