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Alumni Bulletin

NEW MEMBERS

(Continued from page i)

Michael Oliver Anthes — work for In-
ternal Revenue in Calif.

Phylis Ann Austin — social work in Or-
lando, Fla.

Leonard Wayne Barto — production man-
ager of SMC bindery.

Jean Burke Bloodworth — graduate work
at Florida State Univ.

Robert Mack Bolton — musk teacher at
Ozark Academy.

Bill Eugene Boston — principal of Shreve-
port Jr. Academy.

Jack Keith Boy son — graduate work at
Michigan State Univ.

Kenneth Wayne Brown — graduate work
at Andrews Univ.

Sandra Edwards Brown — Andrews Univ.
with her husband.

Don Irwin Brunner — teach public school.

Rodney Craig Bryant — graduate work at
Emory Univ.

Willie Delia Cartabianca — teach public
school in Dalton, Ga.

Myra Sue Center — staff nurse. Hamilton
Memorial Hospital. Dalton. Ga.

Caroline Lord Christensen — housewife.

Douglas Glenn Clark — high school teach
er in Rossville, Ga.

Gary L. Cockrell — graduate study.

Randall Eugene Crowson — teach in
Greater Miami Academy.

Beth Ray Stephens Dempsey — teach in
public school in Catoosa Co.. Ga.

Albert Gordon Dittes — study at Andrews
Univ.

Barbara Ann DuPuy — secretary to presi-
dent of CUC.

George Thomas Evans — accountant.

Karen Lou Fleming — housewife in At-
lanta.

Gary Austin Ford — teacher.

Glenna Faye Foster — graduate work at
Andrews Univ.

Sherry Fortner — teach in Southfield.
Michigan.

SMC Dorm Gets Roof — Workmen swing into
women's residence hall at Southern Missiona
building is in background.

Judith May Foulkes — English teacher and
asst. dean. Blue Mountain Academy.

Carol Lee Gelsinger — teach in Georgia

Elizabeth Ann Goodge — nurse at Little
Creek.

Laraine Paula Graham — teach P.E..
grades 1-5 in Cleveland, Tenn.

Betty Cathryna Green — work on MA.
in Chemistry at LLU.

James Arthur Greene — asst. Book and
Bible House manager, Wisconsin Conf.

Roger Albert Hall — graduate school.

Stephen Anthony Hall — asst. pastor. For-
est Lake Academy Church.

William Clark Herren — teach in Forest
Lake Elementary School.

Jack Edward Hissong — work in Research
and Development Section of Cooper
Bessemer Co. in Mount Vernon. Ohio.

Photo by Hawkins

place rafters for roof of one wing of new
ry College. Portico of new administration

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President

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Benny Moore, '62

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Lynn Sauls, '56

Vice President

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Floyd Greenleaf, '5 5

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Ellsworth McKee, '54

Secretary

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Ruth Higgins, '53

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Thyra Sloan, '42

Associate Secretary

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Inelda Hefferlin, '58

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Mary Elam, '51

Treasurer

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Wallace Blair, '53

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Merrill Crooker, '53

Publicity Secretary

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Carolyn Luce, '60

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Gladys Lawless, '66

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before October 1 5

Benjamin Russel Holt — graduate work at
Andrews Univ.

Mary Patricia Horwath — nurse in surgi-
cal unit of Kettering Hospital

Leslie Troy Jacobs — study at LLLT Den-
tal School.

Glenda Mae Jansen — secretary at South-
ern Publishing Assn.

David George Jewett — LLU School of
Medicine.

C. V. Jones Jr. — asso. pastor of Orlando
Central Church.

Reta Mae Knight — nurse at Madison

Hospital.

Carolyn Nadine Ladd — secretary at hos-
pital in Portland. Tenn.

John Cecil Leach graduate work at

Andrews Univ.

Linda Parker Ledbetter — teach in Avon
Park Elementary School.

Charles Quinn Lindsey — county music
supervisor for Catoosa Co.. Ga.

Charlotte Elaine McKee — secretary, San
Antonio, Texas, where husband is in
the army.

Janet Ruth McKee — husband dean of
boys at Ga.-Cumb. Academy.

John Richard McLeod — teach in Alaska

Timothy David Manning — graduate work
at Andrews Univ.

Vernon Lee Menhennett — teach, prob-
ably in Calif.

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SMC ALUMNI BULLETIN

J. Mabel Wood. '20 Editor

Vol. XVII

August, 1967

No. 5

Published quarterly by Southern Mis-
sionary College, Collegedale, Tennessee
373 15. Entered as second class matter
February 12, 1951, at Collegedale, Ten-
nessee, under act of Congress, August 12,
1912.

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
OFFICERS

Dewitt Bowen, '49
Floyd Greenleaf, '55
Ruth Higgins, '53
Inelda Hefferlin, '58
Wallace Blair, '53
Gladys Lawless, '66

President
Vice President

Secretary
Assistant Secretary

Treasurer
Publicity Secretary

cACamHiBULLETIK

Volume XVII

COLLEGEDALE, TENNESSEE, NOVEMBER, 1967

Number 6

President Says "Thanks'

P'W'WRIi By LYNN Sauls

•r^MP^M President Elect,

SMC Alumni Association

A big THANK YOU to those who
participated in the recent Homecoming
activities ! I know that many of you,
especially from the classes of '42 and
'57, traveled long distances to meet
with former friends, view at first hand
the exciting changes taking place in
the Valley, and sense anew the spirit
of friendliness and dedication that still
permeates the campus after all these
years.

And a big THANK YOU to those
who have voluntarily and upon request
sent in newsy items about yourself,
your work, and your family. The col-
umns in the Bulletin made possible
by your responses have to a great de-
gree helped fulfill the purpose listed
first in the Association's Constitution —
"To stimulate the spirit of fellowship
and brotherhood among former grad-
uates and students."

And THANKS to those who have
directed young people to enroll at
SMC. Our growth over the past ten
years from 457 to 1206 has been due,
not only to the evangelistic thrust in
the Southern Union, but also to the
way SMCs graduates have upheld the
school in their contacts made within
and without the Union. Actually, 357
of this year's student body come from
faraway places.

And THANKS to you who have
helped organize alumni chapters in
various sectors of the globe. I appeal
to you to locate and reclaim for Christ
those former SMC graduates and stu-
dents in your area who no longer en-
joy Christian fellowship.

And THANKS to you who are sup-
porting, not only morally but finan-
cially, the projects being undertaken bv
the Alumni Association. Various gift
plans have been suggested and are
being followed by different members.
Some may want to become Centenier
(Continued on page 8)

New Alumni Officers Prepare for Next Year — Left to right: Wallace Blair, Ruth
Higgins, Lynn Sauls (Alumni President), Inelda Hefferlin and Floyd Greenleaf.

Franz Calls for Educating
The Heart at Homecoming

"The most important training at
Southern Missionary College is the edu-
cation of the heart for service," said
Elder C. O. Franz, associate secretary
of the General Conference, in speak-
ing at the special Alumni Homecoming
services at the Collegedale Church.

A graduate of SMC in the class of
1932, Elder Franz told the assembled
alumni, students and community people,
that "my first impression as a student
here was one of courteous, Southern,
Christian hospitality. The personal in-
terest in me did much in forming my
character."

Speaking on "Remembering," Elder
Franz said that "heart training comes
first at SMC now as it did when I
was here. Its deans took time to en-
courage us as young, immature men
and women. We had problems then,
as you have them today, and the faculty
helped us solve them.

"This College, in training for Chris-
tian character, for a liberal arts back-

ground, and in practical work, has
molded lives whose work and imprint
have been felt the world around."

Special music for the occasion was
provided by the King's Heralds Quartet
of the Voice of Prophecy. The quartet
sang on Friday night, and one of the
former members. Elder John Thurber,
now educational secretary of the Texas
Conference, gave the sermon.

Other activities of the weekend in-
cluded a sacred concert on Sabbath
afternoon by the King's Heralds Quar-
tet assisted by SMCs Adelphian Quar-
tet. There were approximately 2000
persons present to hear the musical
groups.

The College and the Alumni hon-
ored Mr. B. F. Summerour of Norcross,
Ga., who as a member of SMCs Board
of Trustees, of the Executive Commit-
tee and of the Committee of 100, has
rendered invaluable service and finan-
cial support to SMC.

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Alumni Bulletin

Those Who Walked These Halls

1929

Eva Teed Beugnot and her husband,
Farris L. were campus visitors in July.
Eva had not been to Collegedale since
she graduated. Their home is in Mi-
ami, but they spent their vacation camp-
ing in the Smokies where the tempera-
ture went down to 38 degrees several
nights.

1932 and 1934

Clyde O. and Lois Clark Franz, live
in Adelphi, Md. Clyde is an associate
secretary of the General Conference,
and Lois Mae is secretary in the bureau
of public relations. They previously
spent 21 years in the Inter- American
Division.

1940

Alma C. Chambers received her
Ph.D. degree September 2 from the
University of Southern California. She
is head of the Department of Behav-
ioral Sciences at SMC.

1941

Lorabel Peavey Midkiff teaches in
the Department of English Studies at
Hawaiian Mission Academy. There are
91 students in this department, repre-
senting 11 languages and 19 countries.
All but 2 are non-Adventists. Marvin
is administrator of the hospital. Lorabel
writes, "Life is interesting out here and
we are enjoying every hour of it. But
the comic who portrays life in Hawaii
as spent under a palm tree, relaxing by
the seaside, just didn't have a family to
feed or children to keep in church
school. With absolutely everything
(but pineapples and sunshine) shipped
in, living expenses are high. But it is
no hardship assignment, to be sure."

1942

Benjamin E. Herndon, M.D., of
Corona, Calif., is relief doctor at the
Bangkok Sanitarium and Hospital in
Thailand.

1947
Jack Griffith with his family spent a
week in Collegedale recently. Jack re-
ceived his M.Ed, from LLU in 1966.
He teaches in White Memorial Union
School in Los Angeles. After 20 years
of marriage and two adopted children,
they had a son who is now 4 years old.

1948

Kenneth M. Mathews is Bible teacher
at Bass Memorial Academy in Missis-
sippi. Formerly he was pastor of the
Birmingham, Ala., First Church.

1949 and 1951

T. L., '51, and Jimmie Lou Wester-
field Brackett, '49, and daughter
Stephanie, live in Pascagoula, Miss. T.
L. is executive vice-president of Ritz
Instruments, Inc. of Fairhope, Ala.,
prime government contractors of photo-
graphic equipment. Jimmie Lou is a
member of the Pascagoula City Council
and president of the P.T.A. at South
Elementary School.

1949

Robert Guy Hyder is specialist in the
Educational Services Division of the
Los Angeles City School District. Bob
received his second MA. degree in
June, 1966. This one is in Educational
Psychology from California State Col-
lege in Los Angeles.

1950

T. M. Ashlock is Sabbath School
and public relations secretary of the
North Pacific Union Conference. Pre-
viously he was church development,
lay activities and stewardship secretary
of the Trans-Africa Division, with
headquarters in Salisbury, Rhodesia.

Bill E. Morrison is a civil engineer
with the State of California, Depart-
ment of Water Resources. He lives in
Yuba City, Calif.

1951

Edward M. Collins is librarian and
assistant professor of religion at Ket-
tering College of Medical Arts. Ed
was formerly librarian at West Mich-
igan State College.

Jamile and Lois Hiser Jacobs with
their two children returned to Lahore,
West Pakistan, in June. They spent
their furlough at Andrews University
where Jamile received a masters de-
gree. Jamile is lay activities, Sabbath
School and MV secretary of the Pakis-
tan Union.

T. J. Mostert, Sr., writes that he just
completed his sixth new church and
remodeled five since he entered the
ministry in 1951. His present church
in Ceres, Calif., just finished, cost about
a quarter million dollars, is air-condi-
tioned, carpeted, and seats about 800.
"Somehow there's lots of sawdust
mixed with my ministry, not to men-
tion sweat." (Remember the duets
Tom used to sing — that falsetto that
sounded like a woman's voice? Ed.)

Betty I. Park has moved to Campion
Academy to teach English. She for-

merly was English teach at Shenandoah
Valley Academy.

1952

William E. Jones is the new manager
of the Alabama-Mississippi Book and
Bible House. Bill has previously
worked at the Southern Publishing
Assn., Nashville Electric Service, Iowa
Conference as assistant treasurer and
later as Book and Bible House manager.
He and his wife Patty Hoover Jones
have a 3y2-year-old daughter, Penny.

Lester E. Park is "associate superin-
tendent of education for the South-
eastern California Conference. He was
principal of Orangewood Academy for
the past 9 years. Dennis, the oldest
son and his wife are at Andrews Uni-
versity. Dennis is working on a B.D.
degree. Ted is a freshman at PUC.
Lester writes. "We are grateful for
Kathy, age 3, or our home would seem
very empty."

Sherman Peterson owns and operates
Better Way Health Food Store in Dal-
las, Texas. His wife, Jane, works in
Dallas, daughter Lynn is married and
son, Randy attends church school.

1953

Elder Henry E. Baasch has retired
and is living in Takoma Park, Mary-
land, where his son is one of the as-
sociate secretaries of the General. Con-
ference.

1954

Gerard Gutekunst is teaching French
at the University of Illinois in DeKalb.
He is also working on a Ph.D. at the
University of Chicago. He and his
wife live in Sycamore, 111.

Wilfred S. Henderson, cabinet maker
of Apison, Tenn., received the Chatta-
nooga "Craftsman Award of 1966"
and also a gold watch for "skill, judg-
ment and outstanding quality of work-
manship." The presentation was made
at the Chattanooga Golf and Country
Club.

Alfred C. McClure is the public re-
lations and development secretary of
the Georgia-Cumberland Conference.
He was previously pastor of the St.
Louis, Mo., church. Al's father, Al-
fred V. McClure, '28, is president of
the Missouri Conference and lives in
Kansas City.

Walter F. Wright is teaching fresh-
man and junior Bible at Loma Linda
Academy. He is also working on a
master's degree in Secondary Adminis-
tration. Walter was pastor of the Cal-
gary, Alberta, church until August.

Alumni Bulletin

1955

Hugo W. Christiansen is assistant
head of the Dutch-Scandinavian Cata-
loging Section of the Library of Con-
gress in Washington, D.C.

Norman R. Gulley, chairman of the
religion department of Japan Mission-
ary College, has been granted a two-
year leave to study at the University of
Edinburgh in Scotland.

Mabel Howard, since graduating, has
taught 9 years in Louisville Junior
Academy. One year at Madison College
Elementary School and two years at the
Andrews University Elementary School
where she is presently employed.
Mabel received a master's degree from
Andrews University in 1965.

Donald H. Polen and his four chil-
dren, Dianne 11, Donna 10, Donald,
Jr. 8, and Douglas 6, were visitors on
campus in August. Don is plating
supervisor for Hamlin Inc., an elec-
tronic firm in Lake Mills, Wise. They
attend church at Wisconsin Academy.

Edward W. H. Vick has returned
to England to teach at Newbold Col-
lege. He has been teaching at Andrews
University and before that at Canadian
Union College.

Frank McMillan received his Juris
Doctor Degree from the University of
Florida College of Law in December,
1966, and was admitted to the Florida
Bar, June 2, 1967. He is still secretary-
treasurer of the Florida Conference.
His wife, the former Nancy Matthews,
'55, is a housewife and mother of
Ronda, age 7 and Robby, age 4.

1956

Carol McCIure sings with the Roger
Wagner Chorale with headquarters in
California.

1957

John Bottsford, M.D., is a new staff
physician of the Taiwan Sanitarium and
Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan. His wife is
the former Barbara Shook, also of the
class of '57.

Chester H., '57, and Mary Jean
Brown Damron, '53, write: "Presently
we are very busy here in the develop-
ment program of Mt. Klabat College.
I am teaching a full class load in the
Bible Department while acting as
president of our college. At present,
we are on a two-year program, but ex-
pecting to grow into a four-year college
by 1970. This is the newest member
of Seventh-day Adventist Colleges
around the world. Our campus is lo-
cated in a very lovely part of the North
Celebes where we enjoy a lovely year-

round climate along with delicious
fruits and ample vegetables. We are
happy in our work and find the peoples
of Indonesia very loving and lovable."

Peter, '57, and Violet Starr Durichek,
'55, have been at the Kellogg-Mooker-
jee High School for the past two years.
Peter is principal. Quoting Peter:
"We have one high school, 16 workers,
2 national ordained men, 3 overseas
families and one doctor for a popula-
tion of over 50 million. Our task is
to train our youth to work for approxi-
mately 10 million Hindus and 40 mil-
lion Muslims.

"Many are so poor that they can't
even pay $2.00 a month for tuition. . .
Our enrollment this year is 130 in all
the grades. We had to turn away at
least 50 for lack of funds. Many re-
ceive little or no help when they be-
come Christians."

Glenn T. McColpin was voted vice-
president and president elect of the
Seventh-day Adventist Lawyers' Asso-
ciation which was organized on the La
Sierra campus, Aug. 24-27. Glenn, his
wife, the former Lois Marie Wood, '54,
and their 19-month old adopted son
live in Collegedale.

Joya Lynn Schoen, M.D., is taking
a residency in psychiatry at the Veterans
Administration Center in Los Angeles.

1958

Harold S., '58, and Marjorie Con-
nell Johnson, '53, returned to Lebanon
in September, 1966. During the Israeli
War they were evacuated to Istanbul,
Turkey. From there they went to
Teheran where Harold is pastor of the
Iran Adventist Academy Church and
also teaches in the Academy.

Ruth Nuckols received a master's de-
gree in Business Education from
Georgia State University in May. She
teaches in the Business Department of
West Fulton High School in Atlanta
and is Vocational Office Training Co-
ordinator also. She and her twin son
and daughter live in Mableton, Ga.

1959

Paul L. and Shirley Jones Jensen
with their two boys, Mark, 5 and Chris
age 3, left in September for Japan.
Paul is the publishing secretary of the
Japan Union Mission. They previously
served a term in Pakistan. Their first
job in Japan is a study of the language.

Robert and Jule Ausherman Romans,
both of '59, now live in Stockton,
Calif., where Bob is detail man for
Rorer Pharmaceutical Co. Jule teaches
in the Head Start Program in the local

school district. Mark; age 7, is in the
first grade; Beth, age 5, is in kinder-
garten and Matt. 4, is still at home.

Edward O. McCoun's new church
building at Athens, Tenn., which will
seat 190, will be completed this fall.
Their old church was built in 1910.
Eddie is pastor of the district and lives
in Lenoir City with his wife, the former
Ramona McCurdy, '60, and their two
children.

Donald A., '59, and Janice Black
Short, '61, on furlough from Africa,
are in Collegedale where Don is taking
work in communications for a semester.
He is house editor of the Africa Herald
Publishing House in Kenya, East Af-
rica. The Shorts were in Rwanda for
5 years.

Marilyn Biggs Morrison was a visitor
on campus in October. With her was
her husband, David, who is pastor of
the Bartlett and Glouster, Ohio,
churches. They have a daughter, Judy,
who is a year and a half old. Marilyn
taught for six years, until her daughter
was born.

I960

Grant Doyle Gunter is campaign
manager of the Detamore evangelistic
team with headquarters in Orlando,
Fla. The Gunters have two boys, one
in the seventh grade and the other in
the ninth.

1961

Sarah Whitt French is a secretary at
Reynolds Aluminum Co. She and her
husband, Norman, live in Lynnwood,
Calif., where Norman teaches church
school.

Ronald C. Bottsford, departmental
secretary of the Bahia-Sergipe Mission
in Brazil reports that many in their
area are being told in dreams to look
for the Advent people and to get ready
for the end. In 1966 the eleven
district pastors baptized more than
1100.

Donald E. Hall defended his disser-
tation July 20 at Leland Stanford Uni-
versity and now has his doctorate in
physics. The Halls have bought a
home in College Place, Wash., where
Don will teach at Walla Walla College.
Don has been substitute organist and
choirmaster at St. Mark's Episcopal
Church last summer in Palo Alto, Calif.
He has sung in their choir for the last
three years and also given an organ
recital.

Charles Watkins, '61, nurse-anes-
thetist in the army, will have a reunion

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Alumni Bulletin

Attendance High, Full

Elder Thurber Challenges Students at Vespers: Floyd Greenleaf, John Thurber,
Dewitt Bowen, Milton Norrell and Obed Graham.

Smuts van Rooyen Gives Lesson Study: Donald Short, Bill Hulsey (S.S. Superintend-
ent), Smuts van Rooyen, Harry Hulsey and George Tolhurst.

Those in attendance were as follows:
Honor Class of '42

Catherine Fox Mizelle

Milton G. Norrell, Jr., M.D.

Virginia Hubbell Patrick

Carl Jackson Smith

George Tolhurst, M.D.

Lorraine Mauldin

Ross E. Hughes. D.D.S.

Don West
Honor Class of '57

Connie Moffett Arnett

Darlyne Ballard Jarrett

Francis Killen

David Messinger, DO.

Harold Messinger, M.D.

Joyce Larsen McClure

Larry R. McClure

Glenn T. McColpin

Ronald Noble

Ava Sunderland Peek

Jessie Strassner Pendergrass

Delphyne Ballard Reece

Duane Stier

Elder Frani Speaks at Church Services: James Hannum, Douglas Bennett, Clyde
Frani, Roy Thurmon and Andrew Chastain.

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1951

Grady Brooke Summerour

J. Mabel Wood

Masie White Jameson
Charles Arthur Woolsey
Cora Fox Woolsey

Frank Ashiock

Walter B. Clark

Elton B. King

Oscar R. Johnson

Grace Pirkle Travis
Cloie Ashby Massengill

Clyde O. Franz

Dorothy Hutsell Burger
Georgia Hale Greene

Paul Boynton
Sue Bruce Waller

Dayton Foley, M.D.
Louis C. Waller, M.D.

Alma C. Chambers, Ph D.

Ethel Cochran Tolhurst
June Thorpe Blue
Lorraine Fox
Lillian Conger Dickerson

Verne Dortch, D.D.S.

Marcella Klock Ashiock
Juanita M. Norrell

Grace M. Turner

Robert A. Hamm
Robert G. Swafford
Wayne Thurber
Leland Zollinger

Robert W. Geach

R. C. Mizelle

Mary Elam

Warren G. Hammond

Alumni Bulletin

Dmecoming Weekend

Craig S. Parrish

William Tol

Drew M. Turlington

1952 Peter W. Donesky
Aubrey H. Liles

-1953 Roy F. Battle

Ruth Beck Boynron

Richard Chesney

J. Don Crook

Merrill Crooker

Mary Crooker

Ada Ruth Woolsey Elder

Dolly Fillman

Archie G. Fox

Ruth Higgins

Harry Hulsey

Lilah Lilly

J. L. Price

Wayne Rimmer, O D

Bruce L. Ringer

Richard Sloan

Jack Wilt

1954 Wilfred S. Henderson
Alfred C. McClure
Lois Wood McColpin
Pauline Nosworthy Pierson
Juanita Sparks

Akin B Tripp
Arthur L. Watrous

1955 Rebecca Binkley Bethea
Emma Burdette

Ryan Burdette
Bill Hulsey
Floyd Greenleaf
John Pifer. DO.
Lenwood D. Stockton
O. E. Weir

!?54 Don Bethea, D.D.S.
",',71 Duke

Jean Kentiy Longley
Richard Northrop
Lynn Sauls
Wayne Taylor
John Thurber
Elizabeth M. Urick
Clara M. Watrous

I 958 Mary Sue Estes Burke
Inelda HefFerlin
Robert Ingram
David L. Jarrett, M D.

1959 M Eugene Burke
Robert G Arias, D.D.S.
Norman Peek, Ph D.
Jim Rhodes

Don Short

1960 Roger S. King

Amy Bushnell McCants
Charles E. Myers, Jr.
Winford N. Tate

1961 Ann Clark
Jolena Taylor King
Janice Black Short
Martha Silver

1962 Joanne Leitner Anderson
E. F. Anderson

Robert Channel I
Ralph Hendershot
W. Benny Moore
Gordon Pendergrass
Sandra Vinson

1963 Dolores DeLong
Robert Dickinson
Noel Fillman
James Hannum

(Continued on page 8)

The VOP King's Heralds Sang at Most Services: Jerry Patton, Jim McClintock,
Jack Veazey and Bob Edwards.

Summerours Honored wi*" Special Presentations: Frank Knittel (Academic Dean),
B. F. Summerour, Mrs. Summer'oy, Dewitt Bowen (Retiring President of SMC Alumni
Association.)

SMC's Adelphians Get Together Again: John Thurber, Don Crook, Wayne Thurber
and Jack Veaiey.

Alumni Bulletin

THOSE WHO WALKED . . .

(Continued from page 3)

with his wife, Norma Grubb Watkins,

'60, in Hawaii where he will fly from

Vietnam, his current post.

1962

Robert G. Adams is principal of the
Louisville, Ky., Junior Academy. Pre-
viously, he taught in Nashville. Their
daughter. Twyla, is nearly two years
old.

W. Ronald Watson who has been
pastor of the Camden, Arkansas, dis-
trict is the leader of the Pottstown-
Royersford, Pa., District.
1963

John, '61, and Judy Fowler LeBaron,
'63, recently moved to St. Augustine,
Fla., where John has opened his own
dental office. He has just finished his
2 years in U.S. Public Health stationed
at the Federal reformatory in El Reno,
Okla. They have two children, Caroline,
age 2 years (adopted) and Charlotte,
born April 2, 1967.

John M. Jansen is the new dean of
boys at Sunnydale Academy. John
taught at Boulder Junior Academy for
■J-- r,,-f e<nrE>rq| years.

Joyce Russell Bush is secies., ;„ ^p
public relations office at Hinsdale Sani-
tarium while her husband interns at
the s*mc place. Before this she was
editorial assistant in the publications
office at LLU.

Edward D. Motschiedler received his
B.D. degree Aug. 17, and is beginning
his ministry as associate pastor of the
Kansas City Central church.

R. Kenneth Blanton was ordained to
the gospel ministry at the Carolina
campmceting. Kenneth is pastor of the
Charleston, S.C, district.

Fredrick Haerich graduated from
LLU School of Dentistry, class of '67,
and is now in practice in Beaumont,
Calif. He and his wife, Donna Jean
Walker Haerich, also of '63, are the
parents of Paul Edward, age 6 and
Kathleen Nicole, 2.

George A., '65, and Susan Boyd
Miller, '63, live in Chattanooga.
George teaches American Government
in Rossville High School, and Susan
teaches at Spring Creek elementary
school. George received his private
pilot's license in June, and they enjoy
flying as a hobby.

Robert N., '63, and Lynda England
McCurdy, '64, are back at SMC. Bob
is instructor in physics.
1964

Gilbert M. Burnham was a recent
visitor to the campus. Gilbert is a

senior medical student at LLU. He
was hitch-hiking across the nation
looking at internship programs, and in
seven days had covered 3,000 miles.

Lanier Watson is dean of boys at
Little Creek School this year.

Vera Beall Parker is teaching the
lower grades in Imperial Valley Church
School, in Heber, Calif. She writes,
"I'm teaching now in my sixth state!"
She enclosed in her letter a booklet of
poems entitled, "From the Garden of
My Heart," by Vera and Raymon
Parker.

Rebecca Woods Perry lives in Ma-
nassas; Va., where her husband is sta-
tioned in the army. Many of you re-
member that Becky was severely injured
in an automobile accident her senior
year in college. She writes, "I'm doing
fine physically, which is an answer to
prayer. This summer I was married,
and now I am a very happy, contented
homemaker."

Stephen E. Powers, IV, '66, received
an M.A. in mathematics from Andrews
University and is teaching at the Flor-
ida Junior College in Jacksonville. His
wife, Sylvia Allen Powers, '64, is em-
ployed by the Duval County Vocational
Education uepartment to teach re-
fresher courses to L.P.N.'s.
1965

Sarah Jane King Groger is teaching
in the SMC Division of Nursing at
Collegedale while her husband, Larry,
studies theology at SMC.

Richard Coston returned to Andrews
University where he expects to finish a
master's degree and B.D. the summer
of 1968. He has been assistant pastor
of the Miami Temple Church last year.

Larry W. Williams and family have
moved to Athens, Ga., where Larry is
attending the University of Georgia,
working on a master's degree. Larry
is employed by the Tennessee Welfare
Department.

Jack J. and Sandie Dickson Combs
and their two children, Michelle 5, and
Jackie 3, live in Albany, Ga. Jack
teaches in the Albany Junior High
School. He plans to continue work
next summer on his master's degree at
the University of Georgia.
1966 "

Roger N. Rey is comptroller for
Alco Construction Co. in Lansing,
Mich., and doing work on a master's
degree in accounting at the University
of Michigan.

Ronald Lambeth is in an army medi-
cal unit stationed at Ft. Dietrick,
Frederick, Md.

Gwen Young Piatt is medical secre-
tary for Dr. Louis Waller, '39, in Ashe-
ville, N.C.

Charlotte McKee Taylor is secretary
and accountant in one of the high
schools in San Antonio, Texas, where
her husband, Donald is stationed in the
army. They have an apartment just
across the street from the base.

Earl L. Robertson is assistant pastor
of the Chattanooga church.

John E. Leitner just received a
MB. A. from the University of Florida
and is now working on a doctorate.

1967

Beverly Babcock Steiner won the Irl
Allison International Gold Medal
which is awarded annually by the Na-
tional Guild of Piano Teachers to piano
students who have participated in the
National Piano-Playing Auditions for
a total of 15 years, and won superior
ratings each year.

The members of the Wedgewood
Trio are all three in California. Jerry
Hoyle is associate pastor of the Vallejo
Drive Church in Glendale, Don Voll-
mer is teaching in Lynwood Academy,
and Bob Summerour is a freshman in

T T U CokoM of M^UiuillC.

The following Alumni were accepted
at LLU for 1967-68: School of Medi-
cine, David Jewett, lb Muderspach,
George Murphy, Robert Summerour
and John Waller; School of Dentistry,
William Ingram, '56, Leslie Jacobs and
Dennis Steele; Public Health, Rodney
Bryant and Stephen Hall; Graduate
School, Betty Green, chemistry.

BIRTHS

Frank Curtis IV, born March 10, to
Frank Curtis III and Carolyn McCoun
Cherry, '65, in Dalton, Ga.

Carol Desiree, born April 19, to
Glenn A., '62 and Caroline Fuller, in
Chattanooga, Tenn. Glenn, Caroline
and their two daughters live in Mem-
phis.

Konrad Peter (Kurt), born July 26,
to Donald E., '61, and Anna Lou Hall,
in Palo Alto, Calif.

Stewart Chalmers, born Aug. 9, to
Walter C, '56, and Joanna Ward, in
Orlando, Fla. Walter is a practicing
physician and lives in Winter Park, Fla.

Jon Richman, born Aug. 24, to Joel
W., '63, and Ann Richman Gearhart,
'61, in Tullahoma, Tenn. Joel is work-
ing in plasma physics research for
Arnold Research Organization, at Arn-
old Air Force Station, Tenn.

Marcia Dee, born Aug. 27, to Stanley

Alumni Bulletin

A., '62, and OIlie Mae Metts Giles,
'62, in Jacksonville, Fla. Stanley is an
army doctor at Camp Lejeune, North
Carolina.

Wilbur Charles, born Sept. 9, to
Bruce C. and Irene Cross Kuist, '58, in
Singapore, Malayasia.

Fleming Gives Pointers On
'What SMC's Alumni Can Do'

WEDDINGS

Valeetah Coulter and Edward D.
Motschiedler, '63, Dec. 20, 1966.

Mary Joyce Russell, '63, and Ronald
E. Bush, M.D., Feb. 1, 1967, Loma
Linda. Calif.

Linda Marie Case, '65, and Thomas
R. Phelps, March 28, 1967, Las Vegas,
Nev.

Sarah Jane King, '65, and Larry D.
Groger, July 2, Los Angeles, Calif.

Garnette Anne Bird, '67, and Willis
T. McGhinnis, July 30, Wytheville, Va.

Irene Alberta Capps, '67, and Gwyn
Lamar Van Cleave, Aug. 11, Ft. Sam
Houston, Texas.

Ruth Ann Cranston, '67, and George
Stephen Fuller, Aug. 13, Miami, Fla.

Sandra Marie Wallace and John Mal-
colm Fowler, '66, Aug. 13, West Palm
Beach, Fla.

Margarete J. Rose, '66, and Victor
Medina, Aug. 15, Madrid, Spain.
Victor is a student and colporteur.
Margarete is teaching.

Mary Frances Ashby and David
Douglas Singer, '67, Aug. 20, Mem-
phis, Tenn.

Elaine Geneva Anderson, '65, and
Reid Charles Granke, Aug. 20, Fletch-
er, N.C.

Ruby Elizabeth Lea and Roy Leon
Carr, Aug. 20, Graysville, Tenn. Mrs.
Carr was registrar at SMC from 1918-
26, 1944-47 and 1949-51. Mr. Carr
was accountant and assistant business
manager of SMC from 1921-29.

Kerstin Pettersson and Daryl L.
Meyers, '66, Aug. 20. Fletcher, N.C.

Gloria Jean Schmidt, '63, and David
Arnold Kingry, Aug. 20, Portland,
Tenn.

Sandra Ann Willsey, '67, and
Charles Thomas Rule, '67, Aug. 20,
Indianapolis. Ind.

Shirley Mae Crawford and Vernon
Lee Menhennett, '67, Aug. 21, Zephyr-
hills. Fla.

Sara Jane Brown, '61, and Joseph
Anthony Torres, Aug. 27, Stoneham,
Mass.

Joan Starr Patsel and Gerald Young
Van Hoy, '67, Aug. 27 Kearnersville.
N.C.

Beverly Ann Bankes and Jack Keith
Bovson, '67, Oct. 15, Bethlehem, Pa.

By Charles Fleming, Jr.
General Manager, SMC

As I picked up a program for the
weekend, I immediately turned to the
schedule for this evening, for I was
aware that I was to be on the program,
but did not know exactly what area
my scholarly and intellectual remarks
were to cover.

I read this line several times, "What
Her Alumni Can Do for SMC' It
seems to me to assume several things —
first of all that SMC might logically
expect her alumni to do something for
her and secondly that her alumni are
competent to do something for her. And
then I dwelt even longer on the second
thought — there was a time when our
college graduates were small in num-
ber, but the situation is fast changing —
we are graduating over 150 seniors
each year, and I am becoming con-
vinced that the Alumni of SMC cm
do for their alma mater fust about any-
thing they make up their minds to do.
And perhaps it is about time that they
make up their minds to do something.

Now, I am sure that our alumni
need to pray for this college — we need
your prayers both students and staff,
and we take it for granted that you
are remembering us in your daily de-
votions.

We need your counsel; we need to
know what you hear about SMC out
in the field, so that we can weigh ru-
mor and remarks with actual facts
and determine therefrom our future
paths. Your constructive criticism is
always welcome.

Somehow when a topic like this is
assigned "What Her Alumni Can Do
For SMC," and the financial officer of
the college is asked to speak on it, who-
ever assigned the topic had something
definite in mind and felt confident
that I would decipher the message, and
I have.

Most of you, since you are college
graduates, keep up with current events.
I am sure many of you read the article
in Time in June and one in a recent
Business Week, setting forth the pre-
carious situation of all colleges and
universities that are not tax-supported,
not just small church-related colleges
but large, heavily endowed universi-
ties like Harvard, Princeton, and Dart-

mouth, stating that with the great ex-
plosion of knowledge to be poured on
those enrolled, it was impossible to
keep up financially.

We are aware of these problems as
they apply to SMC; you are aware of
the soaring cost of tuition, even though
it is about 30 per cent of Harvard s
tuition, and we have less than 10 per
cent of the endowment per student en-
rolled than they have.

Income to a college has certain pre-
scribed sources: 1. tuition and fees,
2. tax grants, 3. subsidies from spon-
soring organizations, 4. endowments,
5. operating gifts, 6. support of alumni.
We operate on two of these: tuition
and fees, and a conference subsidy that
amounts to approximately 7 per cent
of a students tuition or a little over
3 per cent of his total charges. We
also have income from subsidies which
might be construed as a yield on an
investment of limited endowment
funds.

We are rightly termed a peculiar peo-
ple, we are peculiarly liberal with our
church giving, giving way beyond the
average gifts of Protestant church mem-
bers, and we enjoy this. We give to
the support of the ministry, for Sab-
bath School, for missions, for church
buildings, for elementary schools, for
academies.

But one thing that mal es us peculiar
is that, although we give so much more
than other denominations as church
members, we do so much less as col-
lege alumni than do alumni of other
colleges. The thought confuses me,
perhaps frustrates me, for I believe that
the alumni of SDA colleges love their
colleges as much as any graduates do.
Somehow the thought that we should
be liberal alumni as well as liberal
church members has not registered.
Evidently, SDA college administrators
have done a miserably poor job in this
area.

We know of graduates from Har-
vard, Ohio State, Oberlin, etc. who
put a dollar a week in church and give
tens of thousands to their alma mater.
Why is this?

We have intelligent alumni, aware
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FLEMING'S POINTERS

(Continued from page 7 )
of the financial burden facing our col-
lege in trying to qualify as scholastically
acceptable institutions of higher learn-
ing with a Christ-centered background,
and I hear some of them say in one
breath, "Don't take federal grants for
your buildings or you'll be taken over
by the government" and at the next
alumni meeting they will argue that
$5 per year dues is too large, we should
make it $2 or $3. This situation pre-
vails in all our denominational schools.

What can we do? Where do we
start? For our colleges to grow and im-
prove we must do things differently
than we have in the past. We cannot
keep up through tuition and confer-
ence subsidies. We show a profit of
$250,000 per year in auxiliaries. This
program we plan to expand. We have
an industrial development committee,
a finance committee, Committee of 100
members, and staff members to study
ways and means of expanding our in-
come.

You are aware of the Committee of
100 for SMC — 100 dedicated laymen,
supporting the college with their time,
their ideas, and $500 per year. It has
built our Physical Education Center.
I have had letters from our colleges
throughout North America asking about
this Committee of 100. When I ex-
plain it, they all come back with the
same answer, "It wouldn't work in our
union. Our laity don't feel that strongly
in favor of their college."

And they are right. The feeling of
unity, camaraderie is different here in
the South. I believe you alumni love
your college more than do the alumni
of other colleges. Perhaps we as college
administrators have never adequately
placed before you the need as alumni
to support your college tangibly. Many
of you help through your church, as
board members, as Committee of 100
members, but not as alumni. Perhaps
you may now direct your thinking
toward the need of including SMC in
your 1968 budget.

We plan to indoctrinate our Senior
Class with the need before they leave
each Spring. It is very possible, in
my estimation, to come to the place
where our Alumni instead of putting
up a sign at the entrance to the campus,
will be contributing $100,000 per year
to the improvement of our educational
program. This could be done today
with $1.50 per week from our 4-year
graduates.

And this is what comes into my mind
when I read the topic, "What Her
Alumni Can Do For SMC."

MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE

(Continued from page 6)

Jean Schmidt Kingry
Robert McCurdy
Susan Boyd Miller
Helen Braat Sauls
Jo Ann Winkler

1964 Doris C. Crandell
Bernice Gearhart
Lynda McCurdy
Linda Sammer
Pat Tygret
Charles H. Wilson

1965

1966

1967

Sarah Jane King Grogan
George A. Miller
David Moulton
Janelle Moulton
Linda Case Phelps
Sharon Linsley Stephens

Willard J. Clapp

Marchie Edgmon

Patricia McCollum Elliott

Elaine English

Hilda Hasel

Stephen E. Hayes

Gladys Lawless

Jack Leitner

Daryl Mayberry

Ina Dunn McFarland

Norma Jean Pervis Roddy

Bonnie Schwerin

K. E. Spears

Anne Swayze

Polly Viar

Mickey Weedman

Bill Wood

Don Brunner

Albert Dittes

Stephen A. Hall

M. Patricia Horwath

Charles Lindsey

Thomas R. McFarland

Mary Ellen Davis Silverstein

Bobbi Suggs

Phyllis Thacker

Irene Capps Van Cleave

Paul Viar

Woody Whidden

Carol Neidigh Williams

Janet McKee Wood

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by sending $100 each year to the As-
sociation. Some may desire to become
One Percenters by giving one per cent
of their personal incomes annually.
When Mr. Fleming spoke at the An-
nual Alumni Business Meeting on
"What Her Alumni Could Do for
SMC," he said that if each alumnus
would give but $1.50 per week, the
association would have over $100,000
each year to use in building up our
college. Whatever plan you may choose
to follow, the new officers join with
the retiring ones in recommending that
each alumnus donate at least $5 each
year to the Association.

And now, though it is nearly a year
away, I THANK you who are plan-
ning to attend the Homecoming of
1968. Would that it could be THE
HOMECOMING to which our college
and lives are dedicated.

FRANZ SPEAKS

(Continued from page 1)
Dr. Frank Knittel, academic dean,
acting for the College's Board of Trus-
tees, presented Mr. Summerour with a
plaque. Dr. Dewitt Bowen, alumni
president, gave Mrs. Summerour, an
alumnus of the College, a bouquet of
red roses to honor her for her years of
work and loyalty to the College.

Honor classes for the Homecoming
were the 25- and 10-year classes —
1942 and 1957.

(For pictures see pages 4 and 5.)

STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP.
MANAGEMENT AND CIRCULATION

5A1C Alumni Bulletin is owned and pub-
lished quarterly by the Alumni Associa-
tion of Southern Missionary College at
Collegedale, Tennessee, and distributed
free of charge to its members.

The average number of copies of each
issue printed and distributed during the
preceding 12 months was 1570.

(Signed) J. Mabel Wood, Editor

SMC ALUMNI BULLETIN

J. Mabel Wood, '20 Editor

Vol. XVII

November, 1967

No. 6

Published quarterly by Southern Mis-
sionary College, Collegedale, Tennessee
373 15. Entered as second class matter
February 12, 1951, at Collegedale, Ten-
nessee, under act of Congress, August I 2,
1912.

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
OFFICERS

Lynn Sauls, '56 President

Floyd Greenleaf, '55 Vice President

Ruth Higgins, '53 Secretary

Inelda Hefferlin, '58 Assistant Secretary
Wallace Blair, '53 Treasurer

Carolyn Luce, '60 Publicity Secretary

S M C L I I R A R Y

•-EGEDALE TEHN 37315
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UiVMlBULLETIN

Volume XVIII Collegedale, Tennessee, February, 1968 Number 1

Sign (Vbiect Is Completed

Funds Received
During Past Year
Total $1,908.81

The SMC Alumni Association is at-
tempting to institute a new era of ac-
tivities by actively and thoroughly put-
ting the programs of the college, be
//~\^ I ^^A^^^^^^^^i^flft^^ ^^^^^^^ spiritual, financial, academic,

ViIIbI V^^^^^^^^E BEMHHB^Bi before members,

ft 1 1 lr,"B If I '"r instance, in the past, the alumni

- JK have not been solicited in an active,

I | U 4^1 ■ III ErH Wn thorough way by the college, mainly

because the Association has not been
organized well enough to carry on an
intensive campaign of any kind and,
secondly, because the various adminis-
trations of the college have realized
that the members were so young that
many of its graduates were not in a
"' r financial position to support the college

New SMC entrance gate and sign which was made possible by alumni gifts. in the wa>' ln which the>' wOuld like.

After all, the college has just now

Adventures With Larry Mixon, '64 reached its 21st birthday, as f« as

■% I • I j» a_ «>«« h. ■ n • being a senior college is concerned;

Dr. LOUIS LUdSngtOn WinS FirSt PriZe therefore, most of the graduates have

Dr. Louis G. Ludington, '40, a mem- C#M, f\\\ Pmin+imm nac^ ne'tner tne t'me nor tne oppor-

ber of the staff of Loma Linda Uni- 'Or \J\\ rClinTing tunity to get themselves established in a

versify and Hospital, was recently in- Loren W. Mixon, '64 recently won profession or business in such a way

volved in what was described as a [ltst prjze for one 0f his paintings in tnat tnev can ne'P tne college sub-

"fortunate" automobile accident in a contest held in the Mocksville, N.C stantially.

Glendale, Calif. area As a result, he was asked to ex- The Alumni Association, under the

A California woman suffered a "fa- hibit his paintings at the public li- direction of Dr. Dewitt Bowen this

tal" heart attack while driving, and brary where a reception was held to Past }'ear> anc^ ur>der Mr. Lynn Sauls

her car swerved into opposing traffic marj. tne opening of the one-man show. this >'ear. have inaugurated a complete

and resulted in the "smash up" of . new program of solicitation of the

three other vehicles, one being driven Larry teaches art classes in e.ght of alumni fof the vanous ■ ts on the

by Dr. Ludington. ^ Publ,C Sch?°ls- He IoveS l° Paf campus. They are hopeful that the

The doctor immediately approached 'Escapes, and this has given him the program wi„ accderate and become

the woman's crumpled car and found opportunity to tell the Bible story of contaglous ^^ ±e alumni around

her slumped out of sight behind the creation. the wor[j

wheel. Discovering she had no pulse In teaching the use of various colors, The funds to which gifts have been

and was not breathing, he recognized he stresses the symbols represented by made in 1967 now stands as follows:

that she had suffered a heart attack, each color, such as, white represents Sign Project Fund $349. 50

Dr. Ludington began administering purity. This has given him the oppor- Worthy Student Fund 982.31

artificial respiration and external heart tunity to give lessons in character build- Library Expansion Fund 321.50

massage. Every time he would stop ing, and parents have expressed ap- Operating Fund 166.50

resuscitation, she would stop breathing. preciation for what he has done for General Expansion Fund 89. 00

(Continued on page 4) their children. (Continued on page 3)

NOT TO BE TAKEN
FROM LIBRARY