Spring Arbor University - Echo Yearbook (Spring Arbor, MI)

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Group activities always interest and appeal to young musicians. This is especially true of the ,orchestra which, in addition, provides opportunity for self-development by the study of an instrument. There is great joy in working together, contributing our part This sort of co-operative team work is the very foundation of orchestral worlc. to subordinate himself to realize a well integrated whole elfect. V The interest which the members of the orchestra have manifested this inspiring. We believe that the orchestra has made a definite contribution to They appeared in several public programs during the year, as well as during to a desired effect. Each player learns year has been very the school program. Music Week. DOROTI-IEA B. ANDREWS. From the beginning the leaders of our church have recognized the value of a trained min- istry. Through the sixty years of Spring Arbor's history many men and women have been prepared for Christian service. The Bible School has always been regarded part of the worlc of the Seminary. as a most essential As an inducement to young men looking toward the ministry and to those already engaged in such work, the curriculum has been specially arranged so that upon completion of the Bible Training course the student will have met the study requirements as outlined for preachers in the church discipline. High school graduates may complete the course in two years and receive college credit for this worlc. During the past year about sixty students have been registered for courses in the Bible De- partment. Ar least sixteen of these expect to enter the ministry of the Free Methodist Church. LE ROY M. LOWELL. CRCHESTRA Eldon Boice Ralph Lowell Thelma Whims Evelyn Voller Kenneth Huff Miss D. B. Andrews Imtructor Avon Hunt Lorraine Dowley William Craig Kenneth Tannar Henry Ryclcman BIBLE DEPARTMENT Burton Martin Vida Hammond Glenna Hazeldine Laurine Deyo Edith Spencer Norma Morrison Mable Fields Charles Fields Richard Wells Walton Aclcley Prof. L. M. Lowell Heaa' of Dept. Millard Beede Maurice Card Lloyd Cunningham Phillip Ryckman John Donnelly Harold Geiger Edgar Whiteman Lloyd Stretton Frank Sines Dominic Mannoia Lloyd Euler Wayne Hammond Page Thirty-one

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A CAPPELLA CHORUS 4 ii For the past six years the A Cappella chorus of Spring Arbor, composed of from thirty- flve to forty young men and women, has been the outstanding extra-curricular organization on the campus. The reasons for this popularity are not hard to find as the members of this group will readily point out. The principal reason is doubtless the devoted, sympathetic, and inspiring director in the person of Professor LeRoy M. Lowell, who, by his devotion to, and warm personal experience of Christ, and by his equally great interest in young people and their problems, has endeared himself to the scores of students who have been members of the chorus. Another reason is that rhe students invariably find that their personal religious life is broadened and deepened as a result of being in this group of singers. Some even date the beginning of their fuller spiritual life from some time of spiritual refreshing while they were members of the chorus, for not infrequently the practice period has been turned into a prayer service where confession, testimony, and spiritual victory have been much in evidence. Many of the public services, likewise, have been times of great uplift and blessing. Yet another reason for the appeal of this organization is that membership in this pre-eminently religious choral group enables the students to become acquainted with, and proficient in the singing of, some of the best worlcs in Christian hymnody, by no means a small accomplishment when it is recalled that from twenty-five to forty different selections are memorized-both words and music-each year. A fourth and final reason is perhaps the annual tour of the chorus during the ten-day spring vacation as a kind of reward for faithf ful work during the year. Spring Arbor is justly proud of this organization and its splendid work. It has served as the best possible medium for bringing before our people throughout this region the value of Christian education in a Christian environment. I-I. E. UPDYKE. Page Thirty

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COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT 1933 Ralph Lowell Willis Williams Marjorie Stone Irutructor Agnes Huffman Mahala Miller Lorraine Dowley Vera Justice Lilabel Bishop Fern Fairchild Lynabelle Mustard Amit. Irutructor Ardath Case Norma Morrison Lloyd Cunningham Edith Spencer Ruth Adams Virginia Folkes Myron Huffman Edward Coxon Homer Cunningham Edgar Whiteman Kenneth Huff Clement Van Wagoner Stuart Leigh Roy Kelley Avon Hunt Q 1934 Rachael Hyatt Rhea Kilburn Ruth Baker Marjorie D. Stone Instructor Charles Fields Arif. Instructor Vera Justice Bethany Jane Smith Eileen Hartle Bob Clark Fern Fairchild Evelyn Voller Mary Lowell Lorraine Dowley Mabel Hicks Kenneth Tannar Harold Geiger Lloyd Cunningham Leland Conner Millard Beede Kenneth Huff Luther Williamson Avon Hunt John Donnelly In order to cope with life today a student can well afford to spend some time in the pursuit of business training which will not only aid him during his school career but also in his voca- tional endeavors later. With sufficient technical training, practical efficiency, and background a student should know the right thing to do at the right time without being told, as well as how to keep his mind focussed on his work, thus avoiding errors, for the modern business man has more on his shoulders than he can comfortably carry without the intelligent help of his assistants. To be able to make a good impression on others will prove lastingly beneficial to any one, particularly to a person wishing to enter the business world, together with personality and a gracious ease in meeting people. Besides these secretarial assets a student needs to develop patience and self- reliance, for others will measure him by the confidence he has in himself. The progress of the commercial student or secretary depends upon his energy and ability to put himself into his work with the power to accomplish. In a school like Spring Arbor that power to accomplish will urge a youth to launch his services more successfully in his vocational as well as Christian life. Almost anybody can do business fairly well. Many men can do business very well. A few can do business superbly well. But the man who not only does his work superbly well, but adds to it the personal touch through great zeal, patience, and persistence, making it peculiar, unique, individual, distinct, and unforgettable, is an artist .-Elbert Hubbard. MARJORIE D. STONE. Page Thirty-two