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Administration Lays Emphasis On Student Recruitment

There is a new emphasis on student recruit­ment at Covenant College this year. Although the college admini tration is keeping a careful eye on fund development, major efforts are being direc­ted toward doubling enrollment for the l %5-66 school year.

The two activities are closely related. Both, of course, have a great deal to do with the college's new campus and facilities on Lookout Mountain near Chattanooga, Tennessee. The purchase of the property and its preparation for use are costing approximately $300,000. As they stand, these fac­hties will house some 400 students-more than twice as many as are now enrolled.

Business Manager Boyd Congleton points out: "Student enrollment has a direct bearing on the college's economy. There is a level of efficiency which must be maintained to gain the most ben­efit from every donor's dollar." Some profession­als have estimated that a college cannot operate at that level with an enrollment of less than 1000.

Whatever the level is, it is clear that Covenant is far below it. Enrollment, for instance, could be doubled-substantially increasing student reve­nue-while faculty and administrative costs would rise only slightly.

With such facts in mmd, the college has begun an extensive college-to-prospective student pro­gram. Teams of faculty members and students have been formed for weekend trips to many areas where they direct "College for a Day" pro­grams.

Such programs have already been held twice in Florida, once in Delaware, and with variations in other locations in~luding Pennsylvania. Plans have been made for still other such presentations, and arrangements are still being completed with interested groups. The number of inquiries from prospective students attending such gatherings has been gratifying.

ln an effort to give prospective students a first­hand view of what Covenant life is like, "College for a Day" was scheduled at the "Campus in the Clouds" on Friday, November 27-the day after Thanksgiving. Students from as far as Pennsyl­vania and Iowa registered for the day's activities.

At any "College for a Day" program, Cove-

nanl's philosophy of a Christian education always comes in for special explanation through simu­lated classroom lectures and discussions. Several sets of a slide series of pictures have been pre­pared to show the college's facilities and extra­curricular activities. These are available as well to groups wishing to use them on a local basis.

Meanwhile, Registrar Rudolph Schmidt reports that inquiries from high school students have been coming in at a record rate. Several dozen re­quests for information were received and processed each week during the fall months-a fact with significant promise for next year's en­rollment.

College for a Day lt was suggested as an idea that just might

prove valuable in the student recruitment pro­gram. After all, prospective college students select their colleges early in their senior year, if not before. We just might get a few visitors if it were during Thanksgiving vacation. That's what we thought, but along came one of those "exceed­ing abundantly's" common in Covenant's history, and by the time of registration for College for a Day, the day after Thanksgiving, Covenant's spa­cious campus did not seem so spacious-it was packed with visitors.

And from registration, through attendance at selected classes ( selected for the size of the classrooms), chapel, lunch, a tour of the build!Ilg, a student council program in which Covenant students explained the collegiate atmos­phere of their school, dinner, a meeting of the literary society planned for the guests? an

ON THE COVER . lssista11t I'rofessor Ray Da111cro11 co11ducts class i11 the 11ew science laboratory co111p/eted reccntlv by a Coi·c1ta1// staff me111be1· 11cw this year, llii-. Arthur J\ladsen. The 111odem lab is a tribnte to Jlr . /Jladsen's slzill-especially in view of his sin­-~11/ar uutlouk on Christian sen.•ice. See the story about the lilac/sens i11 this issue.

enthusiastic pep rally for the next night's game, and sleepless nights in the college dormi­tory, most College for a Day guests got the idea that Covenant was welcoming them-and trying to make the welcome warm enough that they'd return someday as residents rather than guests.

The overwhelming response almost caught Covenant authorities off guard, but expansive dormitory rooms, a capable and willing kitchen crew, and an efficient planning program commit­tee and office staff made the day a success. Many of the hundred or so visitors spent two nights on campus, but all stayed to get what Covenant hopes is a good cross-section of ~ctivity at our Campus in the Clouds.

Only one incident marred the excitement of the day. Covenant alumna Jeanne Morris, teach­er at Philmont Christian High School near Phila­delphia, and three of her students were injured in an accident near Cleveland, Tenn., only thirty miles short of their destination early Thanksgiving morning. Miss Morris and two of the students, however, were able to attend some of the activ­ities, and Miss Rosemary Camilleri had her Col­lege for a Day two weeks later when she finally visited Covenant after a two-weeks stay in the Cleveland hospital.

Library Comrnittee Plans Improvements

An important behind-the-scenes group at Cov­enant is the Library Committee, headed by assis­tant Professor of History, William S. Barker. This year the responsibility of the committee is doubled because of the lack of a full-time librarian for the college.

All efforts of the committee are directed to­ward improving and increasing the library. A new plan this fall has centered around making the best possible sources available to students even before the college can put these sources in the campus library. Under this plan, personal librar­ies of faculty members are catalogued by mem­bers of the college library staff. The card catalogs of personal libraries are kept in the college library and books are lent to the students through the reg­ular library procedure.

Miss Sarah Stigers, college senior, who bas served as student assistant in the library during her years at Covenant, is serving part time in the absence of a regular librarian.

Sopho111ore Roberta Ke1111edy Tops Se111ester Dea11's List

Only one Covenanter -sophomore Roberta Kennedy from Enon Valley, Pa.-managed to combine ability and dis­cipline in the ample por­tions necessary to com­pile a perfect grade point average for the first sem­ester. Her straight A rec­ord kept her well ahead of 15 others on the cov­eted Dean's List, an­nounced in February

soon after second semester classes had begun. The list, based on a 3.00 system, included:

Roilcrta Kennedy, Enon Valley, l'a. 3.00 William Simmons, Denvc1·, Colo. 2.88 Donald Donaldson, Newark, Del. 2.82 ·11ary Margaret l'ctcr,011, Colo1·ado

Springs, Culu. 2.64 I.cc Phillips, 11cxit:o City, 11cxko 2.56 l\lark Ward, lnvi11, l'a. 2.56 l~1111icc I lolcumh, Trenton, N.J. 2.56 l•ranccs Woolwine, J\nnapolis, Md. 2.53 l•:dwarcl Dengler, Cedar Rapids, Iowa 2.53 :--1 ary J oltnston, Lantana, Fla. 2.46 Ursula \.Vales, Fawn Grove, Pa. 2.33 Diana !•:wing, Charlottesville, Va. 2.31 Harbara Van \.Vecltcl, Seattle, \,Vaslt. 2.31 Linda Cole, Baltimore, Md. 2.30 :\lark 13elz, ·walker, lowa 2.28 .\.udrcy SnPllcr. Sheldon, Iowa 2.25

Musical Guests Include L' Abri Group, Campus Choir

The Chattanooga Symphony concerts and the · series of concerts under the Community Concert Association have already given Covenant students and faculty opportunities for pleasant evenings, and several concerts are still scheduled in this sea­son. But Covenant itself has offered the communi­ty oppo1tunities for. attending musical events on its own campus.

A highlight of the first semester was the concert by the L' Abri Ensemble given on campus on the evening of November 14. The Ensemble, which includes former opera singer Miss Jane Stuart Smith, accomplished violinist Mrs. Frances Kra­mer, and accompanist Miss Minna Burrichter, traveled throughout much of the United States

giving concerts in the weeks previous to Christ­mas. Also traveling with the group was Miss Betty Carlson, author and newspaper columnist.

The evening's program included music of a sacred nature as well as the usual classical num­bers, and each artist was featured alone as well as in thrilling musical combinations.

Each member of the Ensemble works closely with Dr. and Mrs. Francis Schaeffer in their mis­sionary efforts through L'Abri Fellowship in Swit­zerland.

Campus Choir Presents The Messiah Another concert open to the public came a few

weeks later when, under the direction of Assistant Professor of Music John Hamm, the Covenant Campus Choir, presented The Messiah and a sac­red cantata, Rejoice, Beloved Christians by Diet­rich Buxtehude, on Sunday afternoon December 13.

Soloists for the first part of the program, the cantata, were Patricia Cochran, soprano; William Wolfgang, bass; and Jean Ward, alto. For the Messiah three guest soloists from the Chattanooga area joined the Covenant choir. Miss Nan Groves, teacher at City High School, was soprano soloist; Mr. Daryle Worley, a member of the faculty at Bryan College, was tenor soloist; and Mr. George Cox, of the University of Chattanooga faculty, was bass soloist. Miss Margie Mauger, Covenant sen­ior, was alto soloist.

"Carpenter for Christ" On Covenant's Campus

Among the greatest blessings of the College's move to Lookout Mountain have been the long hours of behind-the-scenes work of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Madsen. The Madsens, whose home is in lowa, put their skills to work wherever the Lord shows them a real need, labor without wages, and stay only as long as the need exists.

Currently Mr. Madsen, who calls himself a Carpenter for Christ, is proving his title. He and his wife arrived on the mountain in July, and since that time they have been leading factors in ready­ing the school for the arrival of students in Sep­tember and in the 111any job~ still to be done. The chemistry laboratory, located on the basement floor of the building, is just a part of Mr. Mad­sen's many contributions to the conversion of a hotel to a college campus.

The laboratory, one of the few major changes that bad to be made in the, building for it to be

useful as a college planl, is a contribution of more than just skill-as is all the work which the Mad­sens do. The laboratory was constructed in a room beneath the veranda on the back of the building for approximately one third of the cost that would have been involved in having the work done by an outside contractor.

Mrs. Madsen, too, makes contributions to the life of the school in her long hours of work in the kitchen with the regular staff.

The Madsens are two among many of God's people who have seen specific needs and have met them, but theirs is a unique way.

Beginning Nurses Capped, Take_ Class Offices

For six Covenant students, the capping cere­mony at Baroness Erlanger Hospital on the night of December 3, marked the first big step in their three years of nurses' training b~gun in Septem­ber. The impressive candle-light service held in the University of Chattanooga chapel was previ­ous to the girls' donning student uniforms for the first time and previous to their going "on the floor." Rev. Christopher Morley, Jr., was the speaker for the evening.

Covenanter Karen Pierce of Trenton, N. J., class president, spoke for her class in accepting the new responsibility that is theirs. Other offices held by Covenant students enrolled in the Erlang­er program include that of student council repre­sentative who is Margie Sontag of Youngstown, Ohio, and the office of class chaplain and also class favorite who is Faith Ann Adams, of Iowa.

International Theme At First Semester Banquet

The social affair of the first semester which takes the most time in planning and preparation is the Christmas Banquet, one of the two regularly scheduled formal affairs of the school year.

This year's banquet, held in the banquet room of the Patton Hotel in downtown Chattanooga, centered around the theme of Christmas Around the World. The theme and decorations, kept secret by the all-school Social Committee which is in charge of the affair, are always as much a part of the fun as the actual event. Five countries weijC featured in the decorations and the program which followed the banquet, and several pictures of the event were included in the next day's society pages of local papers.

Coach Anderson Leads Way To Expanded Sports Program

With a full-time coach for the first time in his­tory, Covenant's athletic program has taken on new dimensions and has aroused far more enthu­siasm than in any previous year. Coach Charles W. Anderson has imparted some of his own en­thusiasm about the possibilities of developing the sports program at Covenant to the entire campus, and though his basketball team has not distin­guished itself with perpetual victory, all the boys have shown improvement in playing techniques and scoring in the already busy schedule.

A schedule of twenty-two games will be com­pleted before the boys put up basketball equip­ment for the season-a record schedule for the Scots and especially remarkable for the school's first year in a new area.

Generating much of the enthusiasm of the student body, cheer leaders for the team faithfully attend all games, even many that are too far for a representative number of student backers to trav­el. Captain for the cheer leaders is again Beverly Kesselring, junior from Underwood, N.D. With her on the regular team are Mickey Rip­py, sophomore from Tryon, N.C., Linda Jar­gas, freshman from Chattanooga, and Elaine Juliusson, freshman from Wheat Ridge, Colo. Alternates who have ample opportunity to cheer are freshmen Gwendolyn Gardner, from Rowley, Ia., Donna Brown from St. Louis, Mo., and Helen English from Seattle, Wash.

Also partially responsible for the enthusiasm of the student body is the booster club under the direction of New Jersey freshman Harry Pinner.

Jlolf ti111 e locker roo m sessions still fo 1111 d t/i c Scots won­dering /1oa• to cn 111c /well, b11t this year-for th e fir st ti111 e - t/i crc ,l'Os a coach to 111ake both tht! 111is ta krs and reme­dies official.

This group, organized on a volunteer basis, has sponsored the sale of pennants, shakers, and pre­game ribbons. Girls in the club made and sold candied apples for several of the games.

Running the boys a close race for perpetual activity in the athletic program are the Covenant girls enrolled in the required physical education courses under the direction of Mrs. Anderson. Exercises for physical fitness plus many outdoor sports are in the year's plan for these girls, and a few of the sports enthusiasts have organized a girls' basketball team with a schedule all its own.

Students Make Recovery After Serious Accident

An eager and excited welcome awaited Janis Wall, freshman from Seattle, Wash., when she returned to the campus on the morning of Febru­ary 18. After more than three weeks of hospital­ization, Janis-the most seriously injured of a group of Covenanters involved in an after-ball game accident-planned to spend a short time at the college before doctors released her for the long trip to Seattle.

Janis, seven other students, and Billy Ander­son, son of Coach Charles Anderson, were all injured January 24 when the college station wa­gon left the road only 12 miles from the campus on a return trip from Atlanta. Coach and Mrs. Anderson, driving ahead of the station wagon

· and their own car loaded with other Covenant students, immediately went to the rescue of the injured students.

All were taken to Erlanger Hospital in Chat­tanooga, although Beverly Kesselring, junior from Underwood, N.D., and Hilly Anderson were re­leased that same night. Hospitalized for several days were Gerry Malkus, Helen English, and Cachy Colton, a.J.l freshmen from Seattle; Bob Wtlot:man, senior from Concordville. Pa.; Mickey Rippy, junior from Tryon, N.C.; and Star Als­paugn, treshman from Carlisle, Pa.

At the time of her release, Janis was making satisfactory recovery, and planned to return to her studies for the tall semester.

THE THISTLE

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Campus News and Views During the second semester a new series of

evening events will appear on the Covenant sched­ule. Under the planning of ENGLISH IN­STRUCTOR DAVID HOLKEBOER, a faculty lecture series is underway, the first one in January. Current trends in many of the major fields at Cov­enant are discussed by members of the various de­partments. These lectures are designed to arouse student interest.

A busy man on two campuses this year is PRESIDENT ROBERT G. RAYBURN. DR. RAYBURN whose regular schedule involves three days a week in Chattanooga still man­ages his affairs capably in both places and took one week from his schedule for a week o~ evangelistic services in the Indianapolis church m the fall. Because of his living quarters at the Campus in the Clouds, college students feel that they are especially privileged to see him more frequently this year.

Several members of the college faculty continue their own education in formal courses even while maintaining a heavy teaching load at Covenant. Absent from the campus two days a week is AS­SIST ANT PROFESSOR OF HISTORY WIL­LIAM S. BARKER who spends these days in stu­dy toward the Ph.D. at Vanderbilt in Nashville. Both ACTING DEAN OF STUDENTS RAY DAMERON and COACH CHARLES W. AN­DERSON are enrolled in courses at the Universi­ty of Chattanooga. Many plan study for the. com­ing summer.

Both the church in nearby Muscle Shoals, Ala-

bama, and_ our own EP church currently meeting in the college chapel have as regular speakers members of the Covenant faculty. REV. JOHN W. SANDERSON, moderator of the local church, is a frequent speaker at Sunday services and also conducts the Wednesday night prayer meeting. Other speakers at stated services have included nearly all members of the faculty who are also ordained ministers. Since the Muscle Shoals church began, REV. LEON ARD PITCHER, REV. CHARLES ANDERSON, and REV. RAY DAMERON have filled the pulpit. In February, MR. ROBERT WEBBER was called as regular pulpit supply.

GERMAN INSTRUCTOR ROGER LAM­BERT is in a singular situation this year as he completes a few seminary requirements while teaching full time in the college. Each time Mr. Lambert speaks in chapel, his stu­dents wonder what grade the instructor made. But of great importance to Mr. Lambert, as one can tell from his ready smile and enthusiastic conversations, is his recent appoint­ment as a missionary candidate to Chile, South America under WPM.

• One of the top individual news stories among

students this fall was the Thanksgiving day an­nouncement of the engagement of seniors LINDA COLE of Baltimore, Md., and · MARK BELZ, of Walker, Ia. As The Bagpipe reported, there should be new unity of purpose among publica­tions. Linda is Bagpipe editor and Mark is Tartan editor.