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

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JiW ■ BS Bgn The beginning of places, things, and people in the autumn of 1968 insinuated more than an average year of education; for early that fall. Southern California College responded to the need of its people. It was a year a different class of people were preparing to graduate from a Christian liberal arts college and with educated minds and dedicated hearts move into a com- munity which cried for sympathy, understanding, and love. The senior class of 1969 was more than a static and dormant people as they culminated a collegiate career with a year fashioned by new perspectives of Christian living and by something of a new vision. It was a year that was initiated by a fervor in all avenues of expansion and expression; a year that seemed to wane under the routine of academics or die by the wills of selfishness in the midst of activity, and it was a year in which Christ was able to triumph over personalities and circumstances and present to a hungry world food well-seasoned with thought and well-prepared with prayer. It was a year in which the eyes of SCC were opened to something beyond itself. The people returned to find the others with whom they had experienced much and were to share much more. They gave of their wit and beauty and offered their laughter to those they would call friends forever. They gave all they could and received abundantly from their charity. They placed themselves alone to think and learn, and still, in all their silence and solitude, the sounds of warmth sang true. The year was to become a year in which they would sense the realm of God, of others, and of self. 19

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The thrills and expectations of a promising year were temporarily dimmed by a shade of lackluster business, as registration became an expedient ingredient for organized education. Various contracts, forms, and schedules had to be completed, signed and filed all without the aid of IBM computers. The ordeal of choos- ing and changing classes and chapel seats; followed by faculty and financial interviews, and and textbook buying and bartering exasperated both student and staff. Plans were prepared by the administration to mitigate the divers complications, and relief rose from the ranks of the populace. The frustrations from waiting in lines, failing to secure a certain class, and missing dinner were superseded by foresight. Such promises proved to be the precursor of propitious progress and Southern California College took another step towards institutional and organizational stature.