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Alumni Fellowship Meeting W it h marked blessing, the annual midyear gathering of Biola alumni and their friends was held in the Fishermen’s Club room of the Institute on the evening of December 2. About two hundred were in attendance. Gathering in Lecture Room 2 for conversation before the meal, missionary friends and others who had been separated for a number of years had a joyful time in renewing old acquaintances. The theme of the evening was “Fellow ship.” With delightful ease and grace, the President o f the Alumni Association, Her bert W. Cassel, ’26, led the thought of the guests along the lines o f fellowship in conversation, in song and testimony, in burden-beating for the Institute, and in intercession for the alumni members at home and afield. One particularly helpful feature of the program was the use of a missionary map, by means of which many absent Biola representatives were located and their fields briefly described. The most sacred and blessed fellowship o f all was enjoyed around the Lord’s Table, at which Dr. Hubbard presided, assisted by six members of the Biola family, most of whom are serving in pastorates': Ford L. Canfield, ’18; Thomas Colwell; Martin Luther Long, ’24; Ernest E. Nichols, ’24; William B. Weightman, ’26; and Elmer L. Wilder, ’26. A number of the missionary guests had not attended an alumni gathering of this kind for many years. Mrs. J. R. Duerksen (Christena Harder), present with her hus band from their field of service in India, was graduated from the Institute in 1918, and had not been able to return to the school for seventeen years. Mrs. Eric S. Horn (Syvilla Ferron, ’25), mentioned her last visit as occurring in 1925, and Mrs. Charles A. Roberts (Grace Pike, ’21), with her usual beaming enthusiasm told of her joy in being a part of this happy group, a Biola gathering such as she and her hus band could only read about during their years of service in the Hunan Bible Insti tute. During the testimony period, the friends who spoke included the follow ing: Emily J. Alexander, ’23; Clarence H. (T7) and Mrs. Charlton; R. Celestia Churchill, T 7 ; Mrs. Thomas Colwell (M. Florence Cake, T 5 ) ; J. R. ( ’21) and Mrs, Duerksen (Christena Harder, T 8 ) ; Curtis Elliott, ’24; Helen English, ’32; F. Jean H olt; Mrs. Charles D. Hope (Mabel Merrill, T5) ; Eric S. ( ’25) and Mrs. H orn; William R. ( ’22) and Mrs. Hunrrchs (Hazel Long- ’23 ); H. C. Hunt; George W. Jackson, . ’25; Martin Luther Long, "24; Ernest E. Nichols, ’24; Mrs. Claude H. Pearson (Sylvia M. Fox, ’22) ; Charles A. and Mrs. Roberts; Lawrence ( ’32) and Mrs. Simp son (Helen Hubbard, ’30) ; Allen Spurr, ’32; and Cutler B. ( ’25) and Mrs. Whitwell ( ’26). Helen J. White, ’20, secretary of the as sociation, read greetings from friends who
were unable to be present. Pearl Piatt, ’30, treasurer, was assisted by Grace Yancy, ’31, and Margaret Kuter, ’31. Requests for prayer were presented by the vice-presi dent, George W. Jackson, and the prayer period was concluded by W. R. Hale, Superintendent of Men. A ladies’ octette, hastily organized from among former glee club members, was led by Herbert G. Tovey in the singing of the hymn, “Did You Think to PraylSjf| The members of the Alumni Association felt privileged to have in their midst for the first time, the President of the Institute, Paul W. Rood. Throughout an informal address, in which he enumerated some of the great opportunities that face Biola, and in which he mentioned a few o f the school’s outstanding needs, Dr. Rood mag nified the greatness of the Lord, and led his grateful listeners to a higher spiritual plane. Serving in Many Fields F ormer I nstitute students who have been attending the Glendale Junior College, Glendale, Calif., include Lor raine Coffman, ’34; Ruth Ender, ’321 Howard Van Loon; and Dorothy Waters. ’35. William G. ( ’27) and Mrs. Graves (Madge Henderson, ’23) have moved to 1705 Buena St., Berkeley, Calif., to be nearer the center of their field of service— Country districts in the northern part of California, communities having little gos pel witness. Their present work is in Castro Valley. Thomas F, and Mrs. Dixon (Anna Maria Kruggel, ’23), Apartado 153, Santa Ana, El Salvador, C. A., have been at their
present post since April, Mr. Dixon serving as acting pastor o f the Baptist Church there. E. B. Steiner wrote from Dharchulam, via Almora, U. P., India, several months ago: “We are about to proceed on fur lough. We will locate at Pandora, Ohio, temporarily.” Alice Whitney ( ’27, E.S.), Nyadiri Mis sion, Salisbury, So. Rhodesia, So, Africa, went more than four years ago to a hos pital of the Methodist Mission in South Africa. She writes: “Dr. Gurney, the pio neer missionary in these parts, after forty years of service, had just realized his life long dream of a hospital and then was called Home. He lived only two months after its opening. If there could only be a doctor here to take his place! God, with His loving sufficiency, is helping me to carry on the work here with a most loyal and consecrated staff of native nurses,” Della K. Evanson, ’24, Canton, S. D., has been elected to the office of County Superintendent o f Schools in her home county, Lincoln County. Prior to her en trance upon this work, she had served two years as Dean of Women in a Chris tian college in South Dakota. B. L. Litchman, ’17, of the Africa Inland Mission, hopes to return to the Belgian Congo soon, leaving America in February, if possible. Pauline A. Fraas, ’15, whose mailing ad dress is Lubero, Congo Beige, Africa, via Aden, Mombasa, Kampala and Kabale, divides her time between the stations at Kitsombiro and Katwa. Her responsibility is the care of native station schools, and supervision of the native teachers. She is a member of the Unevangelized Africa Mission. Egon ( ’32) and Mrs. Johnson (Dorothy Romer, ’33) are living at 711 Denny St., St. Paul, Minn., where Mr. Johnson is in charge of the chapel branch o f the Swedish Baptist Church, and is attending junior college. Timothy Pietsch, ’33, who has attended Wheaton and the Moody Bible Institute since the completion of his study here, left early in October for a deputation trip in the Pacific Coast area. He hopes to go to Japan in February under the Scandinavian Alliance Mission. Mrs. Peter J. Visser (Elizabeth Ma hon, ’28) from Mbeo, Manghai-Etat sur Kasai, Congo Beige, W. Africa, where she and her husband are affiliated with the Un evangelized Tribes Mission of Africa, writes: “The Lord has been with us, and His faithfulness has been, seen day by day . . . My, I’d like to drop in and see dear old B. I. again I I’ve been here in the Congo over four years now, and do not know when I’ll get home—if ever. We keep looking for the L ord!” Nora M. Steiner, ’28, Lasit, P. O. Simba, British East Africa, Kenya, tells o f condi tions at the Africa Inland Mission station [Continued on page 40]
Courtesy, Sunset.
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