Southern Nazarene University - Arrow Yearbook (Bethany, OK)

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College Marshall and Queen to lead seniors In commencement procession The highest scholastic honor at- tainable by members of the junior class has been awarded to Wanda Bus- sey and Dale Williamson. With the title of College Queen and Marshall, they are recognized for their mainte- nance of the highest grade point aver- age throughout three years of school. As recipients of the award, they will lead the 1969 graduating class in the commencement procession. The Queen, Wanda, maintaining an average grade point of 3.78 out of a possible 4.0 is a math and Spanish major from Ponca City, Oklahoma. Wanda is active in both the Physical 1. Wanda Bussey 2. Dale Williamson Science club and Gospel Outreach. Academic Marshall Dale William- son, is from Hudson, Kansas. Dale, majoring in chemistry with a math minor, has a 4.0 GPA and serves as vice-president of the Physical Science club. 25

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H ; - 4 ' ; ' ve 1. In an annual academic convo- cation, the Outstanding Freshmen are announced. 2. Kent Conrad 3. Marilyn Snowbarger 24 Faculty chooses | honored freshmen In recognition of character, leader- ship, and scholarship in the first year of college, two students are selected by the college faculty annually to re- ceive the Outstanding Freshman Award. Recipients of the 1968 award were Marilyn Snowbarger of Sylvia, Kansas, and Kent Conrad of Norfork, Nebraska. Marilyn, an elementary education major, is a member of the Student Education Association, Alpha Nu, treasurer for Alpha Lambda Delta and chaplain of the Concert Band. Kent, a religion major, takes an active interest in student activities by serving as sophomore class president and as a member of Circle K. Display- ing his musical talents, Kent partici- pates in the Reazons 4, a sophomore quartet newly organized this year.

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Suppose it were perfectly certain that || | the life and fortune of every one of us would, one day or other, depend upon his winning or losing a game of chess. Don’t you think that we should all consider it to be a primary duty to learn at least the names and the moves of the pieces? Yet it is a very plain and elementary truth, that the life, the fortune, and the happiness of every one of us do depend upon our knowing something of the rules of a game infinitely more difficult and complicated than chess. It is a game which has been played for untold ages, every man and woman of us being one of the two players in a game of his or her own. The chessboard is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance. To the man who plays well, the highest stakes are paid, with that sort of overflowing generosity with which the strong shows delight in strength. And one who plays ill is checkmated - without haste, but with- out remorse. My metaphor will remind some of you of the famous picture in which Retzsch has depicted Satan playing at Chess with man for his soul. Substitute for the mocking fiend in that picture a calm, strong angel who is playing for love, as we say, and would rather lose than win - and I should accept it as an image of human life. Well, what I mean by Education is learning the rules of this mighty game. In other words, education is the instruc- tion of the intellect in the laws of Nature, under which name | include not merely things and their forces, but men and their ways; and the fashioning of the affections and of the will into an earnest and loving desire to move in harmony with those laws. For me education means neither more nor less than this. PSS FSI ED VY FE Th ne hin Thomas Henry Huxley from A Liberal Education 26