Walla Walla University - Mountain Ash Yearbook (College Place, WA)

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And, too, college is c r a z y pranks and stunts, hot fudge sun- daes, shamburgers, p i z z a and popcorn. It is laughter and tears, loudness and quietness, joy and sadness. It is Philippians 4:8 and a voice inside saying iiThese are your people . . .99 I can9t describe college, you can9t describe college, they can9t describe college. Just like turnips -no one can describe what tur- nips taste like, or what the color red looks like . . . turnips are tur- nips, red is red. And-college is college.

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Prologue It is a strange kind of oneness- like when the President was killed that fall. We mourned, together. And I knew that they, too, felt the . way I felt. I knew then the mean- ing of War whom the bell tolls;9 and I knew that John Donne felt -long before we did. It is the candlelight and a cap- edge that God is real and near. pella singing in F riday night wor- It is a special person, a special ships, a big chair in church, a full smileea special day, a special S abbath rest-and the knowl- question-and a special 6cyes?9

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Dedication He is a tall, unassuming man. When he speaks, we listen, for his words are deliberate and meaningful. In F riday evening vesper services he makes sure there is a special time of medi- tation-we hear a poem, and the organ, and we think. In class his unhurried speech does not inhibit his subtle sense of humor-it sneaks up on us unawares, and we laugh. At the beginning of the quarter in his classes, he requests in all earnestness that, hgthose not present remain after class to make arrangements. . . .9, His unannounced quizzes are announced with great gleefulness-and we Wake out a piece of pencil and paper9, and give a few titidbits of useful knowledge,,-like the first ten Egyptian kings of the Eighteenth Dy- nasty, in order. His colleagues say he is a scholar. And he is. But more than that, he is a man with a purpose-to make better ministers, and better men and women. To you, Dr. Richard Litke, we dedicate this 1966 ttMountain Ash,, in apprecia- tion of the service and inspiration you have given to us.