Vanguard University of Southern California - Centurion Yearbook (Costa Mesa, CA)

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Samuel, toured Northern California and Oregon to represent Southern California College and to present Jesus Christ as a living, contemporary reality. Incorporating quality voices and vibrant personalities, SCC ' s third representative group, the Reflections traveled about the Southern United States transmitting the message of salvation through the blending voices of Lynette Cornwall, Pat Conley and Ellie Sanderson. 97

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Unique in sound --individual in expression. Each with a purpose, all fulfilling a ministry, the choral organiza- tion of the Music Department is con- cluded with its selected summer touring groups. During the summer of 1968 and the following academic year, three dedicated and talented groups traveled around the Western United States repre- senting sec with song and sermon. Acclaimed for their professional sound and their spiritual emphasis, the college presented California and Texas with The Accents , a self-contained body of vocalists, pianists, arrangers, and drummer. Behind the novel leader- ship of Eddie Chavez, the Accents, including Rusty Peavy, Bob Cull, Jim Patton and Larry Combs replacing senior Ken Prettyman, culminated 1969 with the production of The Accents -- New Dimensions in Sacred Sound, a record capturing the close harmony and soul -felt rhythms of both their traditional and contemporary styles. Fulfilling a ministry through song, the Regents, consisting of Lyle Countryman, Larry Coit±)s, and accompanist Eddie

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This year ' s MAP cabinet made many decisions that brought change and marked a turning point in the history of MAP. It is believed that the new direction taken is producing a more relevant missions program for this campus. Probably the most significant step taken this year was to replace individual national prayer groups with mission emphasis services on Thursday evenings. Though taken with some reservation we feel this change to be a meaningful and necessary step. The effect of this year ' s program has placed a new emphasis on prayer in the life of the Christian student. It has also removed the responsibility of prayer for missions from the group and placed it on the individual. How do I come before Almighty God? Do I please Him as a chum With the tinsel of my tongue? With a thoughtless whispered prayer Before a meal made with care? With ambiguous idioms, At the end of the day ' s humdrum? Or by sulking away the sorrow of the day As an afterthought that the night has brought? Ben Fraser