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Hope ( ollege anchor December 4, 1964 77th Year—11

Civilian Adviser Reports:

Fischel; Viet Picture Black WINTER AT LAST—As winter finally settled over the campus this

week, student custodians such as senior James Brink found the fluffy

white stuff could be heavier than it looked.

National Student Assn. Plans State Legislature •A student s ta te legislature, now

on the drawing .boards of Michi-gan 's regional, National Student Assn. chapter , will be the p r ime ' business of the NSA planning ses-sion to be held at Michigan State University on J a n . 9.

According to an NSA release , the proposed student legislature "could offer meaningful channels to students wishing to improve the quality of the educational institu-tions in the s ta te of Michigan."

Sears Roebuck

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To Hope College An unres t r ic ted grant totaling

SHKX) was given to Hope 'College this week by the Sears Roebuck Foundation under a new program of aid to privatelv supported col-leges and universities.

In announcing the distribution of the 1964 grants , Mr. I). G. Rec-tor, local representa t ive of the foundation, said that eighteen par-ticipating colleges and universi-ties in Michigan will share in grants totaling $16,900.

Purpose of the p rogram is to help institutions of higher learning meet their financial needs.

Altogether, more t h a n GOO col-leges and universities f rom coast to coast will receive Foundation grants . The grants are unrestrict-ed and allow the school to allocate their funds according to their greatest needs.

The legislature will become in-dependent of Michigan NSA af ter it has been crea ted and firmly in-sti tuted. the report continued.

Pete Hendrickson, member of

Hope's NSA co ordinating commit-tee. explained, "NSA hopes that the student legislature will become an effective lobbying body in the s ta te legislature p r o p e r . "

The Jan . 9. meeting will also seek to promote NSA in Michigan colleges. Said Hendrickson, "Rep-lesenta t ives of colleges not be-longing to NSA will be brought in to create interest . They will be shown how NSA can benefit a col-l ege . "

Student insurance is another benefit being offered by NSA at Hope. John Daane is promoting the NSA policy, which is a $10.-OOO-a-year te rm life plan for stu dents under 25. The cost is twenty

•dollare a year . Sa d Daane about the non-profit a r rangement , " I t ' covers everything, including* sum-m e r jobs and trips a b r o a d . "

• Jus t returned from a trip to South Vietnam, Dr. Wesley Fischel r emarked . " I c ame away intensely depressed and discouraged. The picture has no white at all but is made up of greys blending towards b lack ."

Dr. Fischel, a professor of politi-cal science at Michigan State, c ame to Hope nnder the ausni^es of the International Relations Club. He has been an adviser to the Ngo Dinh Diem regime and his recent tr ip was sponsored bv a number of United Sta tes newsnapers includ-ing the Washington Post .

Dr. Fischel s a id . tha t he had been a cautious optimist before but that he has s^en in the last two vears a tangible deteriorat ion of the conditions in this southeast Asian country.

" T h e situation is not onlv c r a v e . " he said. "I t i^ indeed the oiove^th hour. The Republic of Vietnam is decavinc and the situa-tion leaves one shaken and un-easv . " /

Throughout his M k TV... F ' ^ V H noihted to the lack of progress in Vietnam during the last ten vears. W V n he was in the countrv in 1054 as political adviser , it was

that the kev to success in Vietnam was to win the sunnnrt and confidence of the people. "We w^re s a ' i n s it in i054. we ' re sav-ing it todav in 1%4 an'1 we'll prob-ably be saving it in .10R4." • Dr . Fischel also pointed to the three main objectives of the U.S. in Vietnam in 1954 which were

shared by the Vie tnamese: to im-prove the capaci ty of the govern-ment to govern, to increase secur-ity and to produce an active econ-omy.

The fact that the U.S. is still striving for these goals indicates., according to Dr. Fischel. that "to-day we a re in many ways back where we were ten vears ago ."

Dr. Fischel a t t r ibuted the in-ability to achieve the goals to the United States ' increased bureau-acracy and rigidity. "We like to think of ourselves as flexible, but this is an illusion. We like to think of ourselves as bovs who st'»nd behind t rees and snipe at the Redcoats . The fact is that we a re rigid and inf lexible ."

He went on to explain our great p o t e n t H strength in South Viet-nam. With this s trength, however, "we have taken haK-stens. We have a t remendous lever of power but have used it with t e m e r i t v . "

Dr. Fischel po nted out that tho war in South Vietnam was essenti-ally a political war and not a mil-itary war. "In spite of this and the fact that everyone pays lip-service to this, we a re committed to a mil i tary p r o g r a m ; "

He .speculated that when Gen Maxwell Taylor, the U.S. ambass-a-dor to Vietnam, visited Pres i 1

dent Lyndon B. Johnson, he told

him that there were five essen-tials lor Vie tnam: leadership, ad-ministration. security, discpline and responsibility in the people and leaders , and justice. "Spelled together- they mean f reedom for the Vietnamese people." he said.

Right now in South Vietnam we have none ot these , " he said. "One comfort ng fact is that the enemy ' s losses are twice ours. So there is some hope that pe rhaps the enemy will wear down before we will."

1):-. Fischel pointed to a number of factors which prohibit success in Vietnam. One is that the central South Vietnam government in Sai-gon has a severe lack of communi-calion with the provinces and vill-ages. Another is that to be an adminis t ra tor of any kind with a village means possible death . "The Viet Cong have been wiping out these adminis t ra tors , not by the tens or hundreds, but by the thous-ands . " he said.

Dr. Fischel concluded that the U.S. has not been successful in V ietnam but that there was much more it could do. "We have gone around parad ing as the lead-er of the free w»orld. The question I want to leave with you is this:'-' Why aren ' t we exercising the kind of leadership which we claim to have 0"-

1964 Christmas Vespers To Be Performed Sunday The traditional opening to the

Chr i s tmas season, the annual Chr is tmas Vespers will be present-ed by the Hope College music de-par tment at 4 p.m. Sunday in Dim-nent Memorial Chapel.

Presiding at the vespers will be Rev. David Clark.

Christmas Latin America Study

Slated For Puerto Rico This Year The Third Annual Chris tmas

Seminar on Latin American Af-fairs will be held this year at the Inter-American University in San German , Puer to Rico, on Dec. 18-23.

Hope students may part icinate in the program through the Inter-national Relations Club.

The topic of this vea r ' s seminar wi'l be " T h e Political Ideology of the Democra t ic Left in Latin A m e r i c a . " Sub-tonics include " T h e T n• -~ ' m/*••«/»on TInT»if "rto in n

Changing World ," "The Struggle for Democracy , " "Gradua l i sm vs. Radical Change ," and "Lat in Am or ica and the Alliance for Prog-r e s s . "

The cost of the t r ip is $140, in-cluding transnortat ion (denar t ing f rom and returning to New York Citv). room and all meals except b re -k fas t .

Registration forms and fur ther in f ormat ion mav be obtained f rom Dr . Paul F r ied . IRC faculty ad-

The Brass Choir, under the di-rection of Robert Cecil, will open the program with .traditional car-ols. Under the direction of Dr. Robert Cavanaugh, the Chanel Choir will sing "Virga Jesse Flor-iut" by Anton Bruckner , "The Shepherd 's Farewell" to * the Holy F a m i l y " , by Hector Berlioz and "Welcome Yule" by Ulysses Kay.

The Chancel Choir will sing Or-lando Gibbons' "This Is the Rec-ord of John , " and C. P. E . Bach 's " M a g n i f i c a t . " They a re directed by Mr. Roger Davis.

The Women's Choir under the direction of Mr. J a m e s Tallis will sing the " M a g n i f i c a t " by Michael Ha^dn, "Madonna and Chi ld" by Anthonv Donato and " T h e Snruce Tree Caro l" by Richard Warner . Roger Rietberg will direct the Men's Choir in "Now Sing We, Now Rejoice ," a 14th century Ger-man carol, and "In the Bleak Mid-winter". by Gustav Hoist.

Faculty, cha i rman for the ves-pers is Roger. Davis of the music depar tment .

BOOKWORMS^—The freshman supervised study sessions began Mon-day, frosh with low grade points were required to attend three three-hour sessions a week. *

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Sinfonia To Sponsor All-College Dance "Winter Rhapsody," an all-col-

lege Chris tmas dance, will be held

Dec. 11 at 8:30 p .m. in Phelps Din-

ing Hall.

The dance , sponsored by the Sinfonia Music F ra t e rn i ty , will be in a semi-formal a tmosphere with

the Henry Baar Band from Grand Rapids, Mich.

The theme of Chris tmas will be carr ied out in special entertain-ment and in Chr is tmas tree deco-rations.

Amzie Parcel l , cha i rman of the

event, stated that t ickets will, be on sale in Van Raal te Hall next week at $2 per couple.

Assisting Parcel l a re Kelvin Bak-er, cha i rman of decorat ions; George Hubbard, cha i rman of pub-licitv; Mark Lemenes , chai rman of re f reshments . *

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Lute Snips and Short Snorts

T h e F i rs t . F ra te rbocker J a m m i e

will take place tonight from 8 p .m . to midnight in Carnegie Gym.

A " J a m m i e " is a dance with music provided by two bands play-ing al ternat ing sets .

The dance will be a c a m p u s function and will be. open to all s tudents . Dress is casual and the cost is SI s tag and $1.50 drag.

held at t h e Dec. 17 meet ing of the Spanish Club. En t? r ta inment will include games , Chris tmas cus-toms and r e f r e shmen t s of both cul tures. T h e breaking of Span-ish pinatas will be the highlight of the evening. ,

A f i l m and panel discussion a r e

scheduled for the next meeting of the Student Educat ion Assn. to be held Dec. 9 at 7 p.m. in the Juli-anna Room.

The film, titled " F r e e d o m to L e a r n , " concerns the problem of whether or not the t eacher should be allowed to teach controversial topics. A discussion will t ake place a f t e r the movie.

Ref reshments wi'l be served and all s tudents a re invited.

Washington Semester Scholars

Tom S t ra t sma and Dick E m m e r t will discuss their exper iences in Van Raal te 306 at 9:00 p .m. on Wednesday, Dec. 9. They plan a lecture outlining the program in general , with slides of the Ameri-can Universi ty in Washington, where they spent the semester .

Par t of the purpose of this pro-gram will he to acquaint s tudents generally with the Washington Se-mester plan. Those interested in fu r the r information should see Dr. Alvin Vander Bush.

The Chapel Choir will present a short p rogram at McCormick 's P lace in Chicago the evening of Dec. 5. They will be singing for the 4th annual 1000 nlate banquet of Rest Haven, a Reformed Church sponsored hospital and nursing home.

The choir, under the direction of Dr. Robert Cav^naueh, will sing Schutz 's " F h r e sei dir . C h n s t e . " Havdn Morgan's "Hope Thou in God. Ul v sses Knv's " W e l ^ r n e Yule . " RoMig's "O * Clan Your H a n d s " and Chris t iansen 's a r rangement of "Beaut i fu l Sav ior . "

T h e Second Annual Carol Sing,

sponsored by the Associated Wom-en Students activities board , will be held in the Pine Grove at 8:30 p .m. on Dec. 13.

According to Chervl Richardson, cha i rman for the event, the carol-e r s will g a t h e r about a Chr is tmas t ree to sing a Varietv of songs, ranging f rom "J ing le Bells" to the traditional Ch r i s tmas lu mps. Sonh-omore Harvey Lucas will lead the half hour of caroling.

Cocoa and doughnuts will be served to the carolers in Phelps Hail a f te r the singing.

A Spanish Christmas Par ty f o r

Latin American and North Ameri-can children of Holland will he

T r i - B e t a Biological Society wi l l

hold an open meeting at 7 p.m. Mo n dav in room 303 of the Science Building. A guest speaker from t l v I l 'ho is Institute of Technology will bo fea tured . Refres i iments will be served, .r

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Off The Cuff

Beyond the Academic.... by Robert Donia

e MONUMENT—The base lor the A Phi () monument reached comple-tion this week in preparation lor the installation of an ISOO-pound anchor on campus as a symbol of the college.

Thus ,ar in this series of ar t ic les

comparing the ideal Hope College

to the real one, we have discussed

two aspects of college life: the

academic and the religious. Now

we turn to a third, that of extra-

curr icular activities.

In describing an ideal extra-curr icular program, we find it meeting th ree basic needs. We will look into each of these three needs and see if the c a m p u s is providing for the meeting of them.

First, t h e r e is a need for an ac-tive social life. The college stu-deiu of today needs the opportu*

j a i i i M i u i i c o o

by Kathleen Verduin

For most Hope College s tudents , speaking a foreign language is us-ually res t r ic ted to the classroom, but twenty Hope women lining in the college's two language houses a re learning to make everyday conversat ions in German and French .

"Deu t sches Haus" and "La Mai: son F r a n c a i s e " a re residential houses adjoining the campus where interes ted women may live in order to develop proficiency in a foreign hinguage. Ten girls in-

thabit each of the houses, which are supervised bv student resident advisors Mary Hakken, Marilvn Hoffman. JoAnne Kemink, and Tina Velthuizen.

Lending authenticity to the lan-guage houses are two Swiss ex-change students. Maja Eterl in f rom German-speaking Basel, and Daniele Go t t r aux , f rom the, French speaking city of Lausanne. Under their supervision the girls in "La

• Maison" and "Das Haus" may have weekly l i te ra ture discussions of French fables, learn ihe Ger-man version of the Virainia reel or collect, such useful expressions as " I ' m " s t a r v e d . "

Touches of F rench and G e r m a n culture charac te r ize the houses, from college announcements writ-ten in French or German to conti-nental periodicals and records by Edith Pief and "Les Djinns Sing-e rs . " The piano and collection of French records at the F r e n c h . House were donated by Hope pro-fessor of French Miss Nella Mey-er.

Not all women-living in the lan-guage houses are F rench or Ger-man majo r s , but advisors ' report that ease -in conversat ion is in-creasing. although sentences are freqi-ently a comic juxtaposit ion of foreign and English words. "Wc speak French beaucoup." laughed Miss Hoffman, advisor a t the French House. At the "Deutsches Haus" res idents are fined "pien-nige" < pennies "if they lapse into English during specified hours.

The two Swiss coeds who are enrolled at Hooe under the Insti-tute of International Educat ion program, were surprised tc find they would live in a house instead of a dormitory.

"I couldn't imagine living at school in the first p l ace . " said Miss lijtterlin. "s ince in Swtzerland school is for lessons. Most Swiss

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The Swiss girls ' impression of t h e United States was somet imes surprising to Hope students. While Amer icans usually consider them-selves citizens of a "mel t ing pot ," the two s tudents were immediately impressed by the s imi 'ar i t ies of speech, styles and tradit ions in dif-ferent a r e a s of the U. S.

"Switzerland i s s m a l l country, but we have four national lan guages. and the di f ference between linguistic sections are quite strik

ing ," said the two. Besides Ger-man. F rench and Italian, the Swiss national languages include Romansche . a unique dialect de-rived from Latin and spoken in the remote hills of the country by about one per cent of the popula-tion.

Miss Etter l in and Miss Got t raux a re enrolled in subjects which, they said, are less frequently of-fered in Switzerland than in this country.

Interested in anthropology. Miss Got t raux is studving sociologv and American intellectual history while Miss Etter l in plans a newsoaoer ca ree r and is studying journal ism.

Two Hope Debaters Win Awards

In Novice Tournament Nov, 21 The Hope College Debate squad

won five of six battles at the Nov-ice Debate Tournament in Ann Arbor, Nov. 21. .

With , deba te r s . f rom 15 colleges ".and " universities," 140 s t rong, the four Hopeites considered the* topic "Reso lved : That the Federa l Gov-ernment should establish a Nation-al Public Work for the Unem-ployed."

Victoriously taking the a f f i rma-tive against Northern Michican Universi ty, Fer r i s and Detroit Tec were Marca Voigt and Boyd Bercnds. "Both debaters were giv-en Excellent Award cer t ' f ica tes . . Carol Van Lente and Ken Walz won over Universitv of Detroit and Northern Mjchiean Universi ty on the negative. The two lost to Wavne State."

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nity to gain release from the nres-sure of studying. We find that generally the social needs of the campus are being met by suffi-cient activities, although facilities for these are often inadequate .

Hopefully this will soon he reme-died by the SCSC building. Stu-dent Senate and the f r e shman class are both sponsoring some activi-ties and , of course, the f ra te rn i t ies and sororit ies conduct most of their functions in the social area of c a m p u s life.

The second purpose of e x t r a - c u r -

ricular activities is to provide t h e student , through involvement in many groups, with a wider vision of his world along with pract ical experience in problem-solving and organization.

In one sense the situation on this campus is admirab le in this re-gard. The liberality of the admin-istration in regard to allowing ex-t ra-curr icular activities approach-es the ideal: as students we have opportunities for Self-expression in many a reas that we have only be-gun to realize.

But in another sense the ideal is fa r f rom reached . Manv groups exist which have the potential to develop a widely cultured back-ground. The trouble is that the people in these groups tend to be those interested in that field in the classroom as well, so the net re-sult is not nearly as grea t as the opportunity.

Let 's face the facts: ve ry few of those in the humani t ies take t h e lime to attend an occasional meet-ing of the Tri Beta or Chem club when these groups have p r o g r a m s . Likewise, manV science s tudents have neglected the opportunit ies available to them in IRC, the po-litical clubs and other groups in the humani t ies a reas . The develop-ment of a "Wel tanschauung"—a "world view"— is an integral pa r t of t h e educational process and Hone students a r e missing many ext ra-curr icular opportunities to do this .

The third reason f o r e x t r a - c u r -

ricular activities is to involve stu-dents during college in t h e act of serving others. A Phi 0 , Higher

Horizons, Young Life and other groups are examples of th is type of activity. These groups are do-ing a great service in involving Hope students in serving the rest of mankind.

There is room for g rea te r in-volvement, however, and the greates t unused opportunities lie with the Greek societies. Fra te r -nities and sororities at least make a pretense of being concerned with the process of serving and devel-oping a wider perspect ive, but in fact little of this is t ransla ted into action.

Literary meet ings and occasion-al service projects are evidence that these groups feel some obli-gation to be involved in non-social a reas . Ideally, these groups should have many things to concern them beyond merely sponsoring struc-tured social activities.

In a tough-minded college com-munity, nothing should be sacred and this applies to extra-curr icu-lar as well as the academic par ts of college life; each must contin-ually fulfill genuine needs in the lives of s tudents and provide ade-quate rat ionales for their exist-ence or face a t tack f rom other quar ters .

Right now the Greek societies need to provide those rat ionales. Certainly the purposes of every Greek societv will contain some reference to high ideals. But pur-poses are no substi tute for per-formance . and the f ra te rn i t ies and sororities need to do some seri-ous rethinking about their role on campus .

The 1FC has done some fine work so f a r in el iminating some of (he obiectionahle par t s of f ra-ternltv initiation, and tHs group has the potential to provide real leadershio in giving a ren^w^d sense of purpose to the. Grepk erouos. Still, the resnons'biMty lies with each individual s o o H v to more clearlv outline th^ id oals thev s tand for and how they a re achieving t^em.

The ideal in '(hose exfr^-curr icu-lar a reas is fa r f m m reached , and the gr^at^st notential for reaching that ideal lies with f ra terni t ies and sororities.

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GLCA Latin America Study

Proves Beneficial To Meier "People are really the s ame all

o v e r " is the conclusion Carol Meier reached a f t e r spending eight weeks in Mexico last year .

Miss Meier. 19-year-old sopho-more from Detroit, lived in Guan-a jua to . Mexico, la^t s u m m e r and studied at the university there un-der the auspices of the Great Lakes Colleges program. Her courses included Spanish Gram-

language spoken by natives and to speaking it herself. However, af ter a few weeks she became more proficient.

Miss Meier and her roommate lived with a Mexican family, a widowed senora and her two daughters. Living with the fam-ily, she participated directly in Mexican culture, sho said. Fies tas . Saints' Days and community pic-nics in the mountains filled the s tudents ' leisure t ime.

Mexico is a traditionally Catho lie country, and most of the Mex-icans Miss Meier met were Catho-lic. She attended the one Metho-dist church in Guanajua to only a few t imes, because it was so dif-ferent from American Protestant churches , "probably because of the defensive atti tude it took con-cerning the Catholic communi ty , " she stated.

Miss Meier hopes to become a secondary school Spanish t eacher and feels that her experience in Mexico was "very beneficial, es-pecially the opportunity to live with the people and converse with them in Spanish. Anyone planning to go on in Spanish should defi-nitely look into the Great Lakes P r o g r a m . " she concluded.

CAROL MEIER mar , "Understanding Mexico" (civilization) and Mexican Litera-ture.

Most other students participat-ing in the program were f rom the Great Lakes a r ea . Others were f rom California and the Eastern states.

Miss Meier and the others stud-ied in an 18th centurv monastery in the mountains which the uni-versitv had converted. All classes were taught in Spanish by Mexi-can professors. The Hope coed had had two years of high school Spanish and one on the college level, but still found it difficult to become acciustomed to hear ing the

TONIGHT "The Confessions of Felix

Krull" will be presented as the next Mortarboard movie to-

night at 7 and 9 p.m. in the Music Auditorium.

Based on Thomas Mann's novel of the same name,- the

story is of a roguish con-man

who commits everything from petty thievery to gross military m sconduct.

Horst Bucholz, a noted Ger-man actor, plays the role of Felix.

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MEXICAN STUDIES—Some GLCA students chat while others prac-

tice dance steps in the large patio of La Valenciana, a large 18th century monastery converted into a university near Guanajuato, Mexico.

On Singe: First Impressions (Little Theatre's first production, 'Androcles

and the Lion,' was unique in the large number

of novice actors taking part. In the following article freshman Linda Patterson gives her im-

pressions of her first dramatic efi'ort.)

by Linda Patterson

Being a typically naive frosh. I happily

agreed to be in the play "Androcles and the

Lion." little realizing the ex t r eme amount of

t ime and work which would be involved.

Upon being told to come up to the "Little

T h e a t r e " for the first rehearsal , I tr ied to find

out exactly where and what it was. I had heard

it rumored that there was a fourth floor to the

science building and that the 'Little Thea t re '

was there, located in what, was often te rmed the " a t t i c " but fearing this to be only another of

the numerous deceptions employed on sfiscep-

lible f reshmen . ! decided to investigate for

myself.

The stairs seemed endless. Each step

caused me to doubt further the reality of this

tabled and obscure 'Little Thea te r . ' However,

a f t e r arriving at the fourth floor, breathless and

somewhat weak at the knees. I was greeted by

the sight of the brown wooden planks of a stage,

low overhanging beams and various props, post-

ers and what-not strewn about the small parti-

tioned rooms. After adjus t ing my eyes to the

dimness of these rooms and catching my breath co mew hat . I realized that what I was seeing w s indeed this 'Little Theatre . '

This little " j o g " up the s ta i rs soon came to

be quite habitual and while my endurance was

greatly strengthened over the weeks, my dislike

of stairs likewise became more pronounced.

It seemed as though we had rehearsa l s com

ing out of our ears. We rehea r sed and went

over and rehearsed some more until our move-

ments on stage seemed merely to become auto matic actions.

Each night t h e fatigue would get greater until the mere mention of the play made-mo"

want to cringe. 1 saw people spending hours

and hours sewing costumes and building, props

and scenery and adjusting lights and music. I

wondered what the purpose for all these activi-

ties was. What did these people get out of this

expended time and energy, these people who

barely got credit or acknowledgment for

tneir work?. But I continued to go through mo-

tions; all the while wondering and questioning.

And while 1 wondered and questioned, I found, myself spending more and more t ime up

in the Little Thea t re , not realizing that slowly

the cluttered rooms were becoming a part of

me and that a transition was occurring. Earlier

I was there because it was manda to ry ; soon I came because I could not stay away.

Then suddenly it was opening night. Us

presence seemed unreal. This was' a par t of the

i l ieater that I didn't know; this was a part of

the thea te r that as yet wasn' t a part of me. I told myself that this was what we had been

building up to, but somehow I couldn't quite comprehend its reality or meaning.

I stood waiting behind the stage where I 'd

stood so many t imes before, but this t ime it was

' he stage. I saw a tense blackness, 1 watched

as these lights fusM slowly to a burning bright-

ness until there was only a white blanket of

light contrasted with the open blacker darkness beyond.

Realizing that I would have to walk out

under this blinding light to face that unknown

wall of moving darkness. I suddenly had the

s t range feeling that my legs wouldn ' t -be able

to move and that my mouth wouldn't open to

utter anv intelligible sounds. Swallowing, the

tightness inside my throat only pulled tighter.

But somehow I found that 1 could move.

I could feel the warm light upon me and I could

teel myself coming alive. Every nerve seemed

awakened as I walked and talked and moved.

1 sensed the tense exci tement before me—the

I used mass of people—because I sensed them

•feeling what I was feeling; I sensed their under-standing.

The lights were on me. Somehow I forgot

the rehearsals , the many, many rehearsa l s

when we walked through our par ts but yet didn't

feel them. I forgot the t imes when 1 could no

longer control my anger ; t he t imes when the

cast felt so far apar t . I forgot because the

warm vibrating lights were on me.-and suddenly

1 was living a life apart from my own and for

the firs* t ime it was real. The hours and hours

of mechanized rehearsa ls fell into place. The

spark of life gave meani^e ; it was no longer

mechanism for it was reality"

The final curtain went down and I heard

LINDA PATTERSON

the applause. It sounded warm and full. I was

filled with an unexplainable emotion that made

me want to shout for joy and cry at the same

time. But I couldn't do e i ther because I was

being stretched and pulled by an emotion which

couldn't be defined by a shout or a tear .

At that moment I sensed the life all around

me; suddenly, for the first t ime, I felt at one

\\ith the people .1 had worked with for weeks. All of us were there together. Together we had

I rived for one united goal; together we had

overcome obstacles and for. a moment we were

' .n o in our victory. Someone across the s tage

smiled at me and I smiled back because there

was an unders tanding; there were no bar r ie rs .

I then knew what it was we had worked for.

The people who worked behind the scenes be-

came just as important as those who were in

front, bccause together we had strived for tbe

same goal. In obtaining this goal we found an

understanding and a t rue communicat ion. This

single moment of oneness made all-those many

moments of d isharmonv and meaningless action

become meaningful . Thev became meaningful

because thev helped to fulfill this purpose of communicat ion.

The communication came. It took t i m e -

lots and lots of t imes of rehearsa ls and hard

work. It came, but it was only one moment

among many. Soon, the lights turned off. the

applause ended, the cast left the s tage in vari-ous directions.

The lights and that moment of oneness are

MOW behind me, lurking about in the small clut-

tered rooms of the Little Theatre . I left them

behind me. but I know I'll be back for more.

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Guest Editorial: The Carltonian

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PRE O L L A N O , M I C H I G A N

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Dear anchor Editor... 1 r e fe r to Mr. Donia's art icle

published in the Nov. 13 issue of anchor. I would like to d raw his at tenton to the fac t that the science s tudents are f a r f rom "hibernat -ing in the Science Building." A science student has to put in f a r more work than a humani t ies stu-dent for the s a m e number of credits. Consequently, he can ' t af-ford to waste his precious t ime running around the campus .

"The hermi ts in the science building" are not unexposed to the rel g:ous, political, thea t r ica l and musucal aspects of college life as Mr. Donia proposed. F rom what I-have observed these past years , \ great proprotion of the top-notch students who have g radua ted are science majors . Would uMr. Donia deny that Dave Mouw, Bob Tig-alaar. Chuck Chris tensen, Doug Walvoord and m a n y other science

. majors a re well-rounded in their education?

The anchor, being put out by humanities s tudents , na tura l ly tends to publicize the activities of such students and Ihe act ivi tes of the science students have a lways been pushed aside or completely 'Snored so that on the su r f ace it does appear to the general public that these student a re only con-cerned with what 's in the test tube.

The various clubs and honorary societies of the science depa r tmen t such as the Chemistry Club, Pre-' med Club and Tri-Beta do hold interesting meetings that a re often * supplemented with movies and dis- ^ cussions led by authori tat ive per-sonnel. These meetings a re usually open, not only to members , but to the entire college.

But do humanities s tudents bo-ther to attend, or does the anchor

bother to publicize them.? How many s tudents know of the Science Open House where projects of the s tudents are exhibited and explain-ed or of the Regional Conventions of AED <Pre-med.t and Tri-Beta?

So in conclusion. I wouid like to s a y . once again that science s tudents a re not as unclutured as you think and I would also like to remind us that the strength of this college lies in the science depart -ment.

Helen Tan

Wednesday evening, during an already f rus t ra t ing basketball game, a certain segment of the spectators appea red to be the source of a very irr i tat ing str ing of abuses, cuts, and poesy jests, all apparent ly intended for men in gold uniforms or black-and-

\vhite str iped jackets . .

With little thought that perhaps they were preventing others around them from enjoving the game, these clean-cut self-stvled cheer leaders displayed a bl ind ness to wha t actually was happening that would m a k e anyone wonder whether they were watching the g a m e at all.

What these people lack is not Christian ethics. What thev lack is simple courtesy. Fu r the rmore , thev lack anv vest ige of m a t u r e cha rac t e r . There is a p lace for enthusiasm at a basketball game , but, unfor tunately, some people seem to lack the means for show-ing it.

What might appea r to t h e m to be en thus iasm actual lv is a form of at tent ion-get t ing tha t is. regret-fully, more encouraged than not.

Making the Grade: Worth n? IN A R t C E N T C O L U M N in t h e C a r l t o n -

i an , t h e n e w s p a p e r ol C a r l t o n C o l l e g e in

N o n h l i e l d , M i n n . , L a r r y ( i r o u s e p a i n t s a

p i d m e ol w h a t h e ca l l s a t y p i c a l C a r l t o n

st i i i l cn t .

A c c o r d i n g t o ( i r o u s e : T h e s t u d e n t w a k e s

t u n h o u r s b e l o r e t h e s u n rises w i t h t h e n n -

c o i n l o i t a b l e , m o m e n t a r y Ice l ing o l no t k n o w -

ing w h e r e h e is. H e was d r e a m i n g of ( l i m b -

ing t h e s l o p e ol a h u g e le t t e r " A " , c l a w i n g

a n d g r a s p i n g t h e s l i p p e r y s u i i a c e w i t h s u p e r -

h u m a n e f f o r t to a t t a i n t h e l o p w h e r e a s m a l

g r e e n , m e d i a n i c a l m o u s e is p e r c h e d . B e l o w ,

b u t n o t f a r b e low, a t w i s t e d l e t t e r " C " ,

( h a i n e d to a c o m p l e x o r g a n i c e q u a t i o n , was

b e i n g d r a w n i r r e s i s t i b ly i n t o a n o c e a n ol glis-

t e n i n g cola b o t t l e s .

i T i u r i e d l y h e d re s se s a n d p r o c e e d s t o t h e

l i b i a r y . . . Me r e r e a d s every a s s i g n m e n t

t h e t h i r d t i m e , b u t is a m a z e d t h a t a l t e r tests

l i t t l e r e m a i n s . I l is c o n d u c t o n t a k e h o m e

McMs leaves s o m e t h i n g t o b e d e s i r e d , b u t . . .

•di. yes, t h e g r a d e . I h e p r a c t i c a l c o n s i d e r a -

t i o n s ol g r a d e s m u s t b e m e t . H e r e a l i / e s t h e

e s t l i e l i c u n d e s i r a b i l i t y ol ( j u o t a t i o n m a r k s in

i escai ch p a p e r s .

Bi . M D l . S A T T L N D I N C C L A S S E S , , h e

d r o p s a r o u n d at s e v e r a l 1. M . g a m e s . H e '

\ isits o t h e r s t u d e n t s ' r o o m s p e r i o d i c a l l y

just as they , o n o c c a s i o n , visi t h i * - T h e y m u l l

o v e r t h e p o i n t s t a k e n o i l t h e i r la tes t e x a m ,

d i s d i s s w h i c h i n s t r u c t o r s g r a d e t h e eas ies t a n d

m u t t e r g r o u p s ol w o r d s whose a c k n o w l e d g -

m e n t h e r e w o u l d b e a c a d e m i c .

H e checks t h e p o s t ollice b o x l o u r t i m e s

.i d a ) even t h o u g h t n e m a i l c o m e s in twice .

H e si ts w i t h p e o p l e h e d o e s n ' t k n o w ( a l m o s t

e v r r y o n e ) at d i n n e r a n d leaves as s o o n as pos-

s ib le . In m i x e d d i n i n g h e sits w i t h f ive o t h e r

bovs , a l w a y s w i s h i n g h e h a d n ' t . H e is re-

v o l t e d by a r t i f i c i a l i t y , b u t w i t h o u t r e a l i z i n g is r e v o l t e d by s i n c e r i t y .

H e is very s o p h i s t i c a t e d . H e w a n t s t o

wri te ( i c a t i v e l y , b u t c a n ' t f ind t i m e w i t h t h e

load ol Ins s t u d i e s . H e p e r c e i v e s a law o l

d i m i n i s h i n g r e t u r n s s e t t i n g in w i t h t h e p u r -

sui t ol t h e h i g h g r a d e . H e h a s s t a r t e d *1

n o \ e l a b o u t t h e s e c o n d b i r t h ol | e s u s on a

s m a l l c o l l e g e c a m p u s t o a g i r l n a m e d M a r y

C h i i s t e n s o n . H e w a n t s t o p r o d u c e t h r e e p l a y s

a n d l in i sh six s h o r t s tor ies . H e is r a t h e r im-p r a c t i c a l .

H e o n l y k n o w s a l ew g i r l s , a n d they a r e

in his c lasses . . . H e c a n ' t s eem to e x p r e s s

h i m s e l l v e r b a l l y , o n l y o p e n i n g his m o u t h t o ( h a n g e fee t . . ,. .

H e c o n s i d e r s t r a n s l e r r i n g to a k i b b i t z

w i i h h i s I r i e n d s in a b i g r e s t a u r a n t a t a s t a t e

u m u rsi iv w h e r e t h e r e w o u l d b e t i m e f o r w h a t

anchor

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h e leels is c r e a t i v e a n d n a t u r a l . Yet , h e

k n o w s h o w m u c h he is l e a r n i n g a n d l e a r s

s o m e basic i n a d e q u a c y . H e wil l a d j u s t in

t i m e . ( f i a d e s a r e necessary , h e m u s e s . T h e y

show his s u p e r i o r i t y . T h e y a r e so . . . pe r -

m a n e n t .

WH L N H K l i M L R G L S I r o m t h e l i b r a r y a l t e r t h e f ina l b u z / e r i n t o t h e c o l d

e v e n i n g w i n d , h e looks a t t h e d i s q u i e t -

ing c l o u d s , t h e t o w e r s ol t h e c h a p e l , t h e c lock

on W i l l i s a n d t h e l i g h t s i r o m t h e t o w n a n d

lee ' s s o m e t h i n g i n s i d e of h i m t h r o b b i n g a n -

n o v i n g l v . H e t akes a l k a se l t ze r a n d goes t o b e d .

A m I p r e j u d i c e d a g a i n s t h i m ? Yes, of

c o u r s e . K x c e p t lo r t h e h i g h g r a d e a v e r a g e ,

this id io t is m e . o r at least a n e x t r a p o l a t i o n

ol w h a t I 'm a l r a i d ol b e i n g . T h e r e a r e p a r t s ol 111is ( ha rac lei in ail ol us.

I his c o m p e t i t i o n a m o n g s t u d e n t s is u n -

h e a l t h y . c a u s i n g a n u n n a t u r a l v iew ol l i f e

anc! k n o w l e d g e . It is self ish, m a l i c i o u s a n d

;ii t h e s a m e t i m e s e l l - d e s t r u c t i v e . W e a re iso-

l a t ed a n d b e c o m e a b s t r u s e . O h , b a b y ! y o u ' d

b e t i e r b e l i e v e t h e w h o l e a c t i o n : its h u r t i n g

anchor Readers Speak Out Whether the cause is suppressed aggression or genera l hostility, or simply conformity to the immedi-ate group situation, it doesn' t make much difference.

The result is little more than an inconsiderate childlike form of be-havior which does nothing for the en joyment of the game . Ins tead, it wa rps the spirit of the college and helps destroy the mora le of the t eam. Last, but not least , it discredits Hope College itself and the s tandards of cha rac t e r which it proclaims Let ' s grow up, fel-lows.

Rich Koster

should always be folded properly when taken down; .not dragged along the ground, wadded up a r d thrown over the back of a cha i r for s torage. If the custodians are so overworked, we will vo lur teer to per form this service in the proper manner . This mav seem 'ike a t r i te ma t t e r ; however, there a re still a few people in this coun-try who believe in patr iot ism.

John A. Houseman

Ronald W. DeYoung

Neal W. Sobania

throw in the towel and everyone move off to a s ta te school. But there were faculty m e m b e r s the-e- also! What kind of thirst for knowledge does this represent'. '

A1 Brunst in^

We wish to bring to your at ten-tion an act of disrespect to our country and all tha t she s tands for. On our way to chapel this morning we were taken aback by the sight of our nat ion 's flag, which is flown each day f rom the flacoole next to the chapel.

The flag, which represents so much of our countrv ' s her i tage, is torn a r d shredded along the outer "d i^ . This condition represents a severe breach of the Flag Code,

'arc! is. in actuaMtv, tvpical of the lethargic attitude of too many Amer icans today.

We feel that if the studonts c an ' raise $3500 for SCSC. then most certainly the Student Senate can afford to purchase a new flag.

We also feel that a let ter of this nature,, on such a serious ma t t e r , should fiever have had to been writ ten. This e r ro r should have been corrected long ago.

Also, another ma t t e r nortaining to this s u b l e t is the lack of ca re and r osPecl shown to the Hag. We beliove it is known that the f a g should never touch the ground and

A few t ; mes in the past, things were m u m b ' e d or at best wr tten about the unsuspicious, be'ieving mind of the average student at Hope CoPege. A recent event point ed up this gull bility of the aver-age Joe Collegiate.

Last Nov. one of the mast noted as t ronomers of our day spoke on campus. After his his uncompound-ed but intriguing lecture about "Galaxies and Mankind," Dr. Har-iow Shapely went to Phelps Hal! where he began telling stories vag-uely related to astronomy af ter only a few questions by some stu-dents and a faculty member .

The sorry par t is that this man. represent ing a vast reservoir of knowledge, challenged the need of God in this Universe! Since this is contrary to the notions of Christianity and our common her^ itage there couid have and should have been manifold and various questions. But the students got bent easMy and complied to this chal-lenge and it went totally unansw» ered and unquestioned.

If we cannot answer such chal-lenges, Hope College might as well

This yea r ' s anchor is lacking a co 'umn which we feel is valuable because it was enjoyable and in-, format ive to the many who read it.

Why do we no longer see "Greek .Week?"

Sororities and f ra tern i t ies consit-tute an important and large seg-ment of the student body, and thus, the activities in which they engage character ize a p-ominent aspect of r tudent life. As AWS officers, we a re speaking not only in the inter-est of the Greek group, but for all the students on campus. . .par t ic-ularly the women s tudents whom we represent .

A school paper has a duty to keep students informed of all c a m pus events whether they are cul-tural , academic or social. As it is now. the anchor has become or-iented to the pseudo-inteliects of the next generation.

We of the Associated Women Stu-dents emphatical ly urge the rein-s ta tement of "Greek Week" and or a comparable column devoted to soc al activities on Hope's campus

The Executat ive Board of AWS:

Sally SteketevJ Ginger Kryger

Cherly Defendorf Mary E len Bridger

Ruth Systsma Sherri Lundahl

Gail Grotenhuis

Page 6 Hope College anchor December 4, 1964

Dutch Lose to Valpo, 83 - 64 by James Mace

After a concerted first half ef-fort , Hpoe 's old nemesis , sloppy passing and leaky defense , caught up with the Flying Du tchmen and gave Valparaiso an 83-G4 win over the Dutch in the initial s tar t of the season for both clubs Wednesday at the Holland Civic Center .

Hope s tayed right with t he Valpo five up until the final two minutes of the first half when the visitors picked off some s t r av Dutch passes and went off to an eight-point lead at intermission.

Previous to this, however, the lead see-sawed back and forth until the waning moments . A com-bination of strong rebounding by 6 7 " Roy Anker and f r e shman Floyd Brady plus deadeye- shoot-ing by co-captains Dean Over-

man and Clare Van Wieren kept •the Dutch even for the f irst eight-

, ' een minutes . .. . —

Some loose ball handling and two wild passes gave Valparaiso

. the boost they needed, and Ken Rakow and : Vern Curtis popped in

. two buckets apiece to give the vis-itors a 45-37 cushion when the t e a m s left the floor at the half.

Hope couldn' t regain their first half touch when the t e a m s re-sumed play and with Rich Eynon leading the way w th seven points Valparaiso widened its spread to 62-45 midway through the second

• half. Valparaiso continued to keep the

• Dutch hopping with well-timed plays and excellent ball hawking by guard Tim Smith, who stole the ball four t imes .

FROSH ACE—Floyd Bradley (32), a 12-point score*' Wednesday,

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Overman got hot with about seven minutes r emain ing but Val-paraiso continued to dr ive Ihe f r ee throw lane and mainta ined its 20 point spread for the rest of the contest .

Coach DeVette used all of his players in th is first g a m e of the season, and f rom a first g a m e look the Dutch m a y be really tough for the rest of the campaign . F resh man Don Kronemeye r , who played the final few minutes and showed excellent ball control, and junior Dutch Poppink, who worked well off the boards , were two of the brighter lights among the re-serves.

Leading the Dutch for the ma-lority of the g a m e were Ove rman . Van Wieren and Brady. Overman notched 14 m a r k e r s while Van A'ieren had 13. Brady, who had l i points, also led the t eam in rebounding and with more exper-ience should be one of the top Light p layers in the league.

Center Ken Rakow led Valpo with 27 points, while Eynon netted 22 and Curt is chipped in with 14.

The other Dutch scorers includ-ed: Anker, G; Buys, 5; Po t te r , 4; Poppink. 4; Walters . 3; Klein, 2; and K r o n e m e y e r , 1.

In the junior vars i ty game tha t p receded t h e vars i ty contest , the Valparaiso J V ' s topped the Hope J V ' s 80-69 behind a 26-point ef-fort by J i m Schrader .

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j KEBCUND—Dutch ccgers B II Potter (52) and Roy Anker (50) tangle

with a Valpo player in the season's opener Wednesday.

Bosworth Relates r r

our (Joe Bosworth, a Hope sopho-

more last year, traveled to Japan

th s fall as a p tcher on the 20-

member L'. S*. baseball team ac-

companying Olympic ^Jhle'es to

Japan. In the following article he

relates h ;s experiences on the tour, in whi^h he pitched 30 innings and

romp'led a 4-0 record.)

by Joe Bosworth

Eight hours of ocean had passed beneath us. but as we approached Tokyo the g l immer of l iahts seemed boundless. Touchdown! the f i rmness of new land, the Land of the Rising Sun, J a p a n .

We. the U. S. Olympic Base-ball T e a m , had accepted the invitation of the J a p a n e s e to "hon o r " baseball in demonst ra t ion g a m e s as par t of the 17th Olym-piad. We were financially sup-

- ported by. 'contr ibut ions• s e p a r a t e f rom the Olympic Fund . Our t eam had been chosen during an eight-month selection period f rom ma-jor league scouting reports .

On Oct. 10. following five days of p rac t ic ing and recept ions, t he finest a m a t e u r a th le tes in the world officially convened a n d - t h e opening ceremonies of the O h m -piads c o m m e n c e d : 8000 brightly suited a th le tes re-enact ing the Grecian tradi t ion—a magnif icent spectacle of color and internation-al exc i t emen t .

Then on Sunday the 11th. our baseball t e am was escorted to Meiji J ingu S tad ium, ad jacen t to lhe r k National Stadium and the Olvmpiad cauldron. Our f irst game against the J a p a n e s e Col-lege Al lS ta r s followed a p a r a d e and sneeches bv digni tar ies and ended in a 2-2 tie, in accordance with a J a p a n e s e rule of no extra innings.

The second game of our double-header agains t the Non-Pro Cham-pions, an a m a t e u r baseball t e am f inarced bv leading Japanese in-dustries. acc ' a imed the U.S.A. vic-tor, 3-0. The day so anxiously awaited s eemed happilv fulfilled, since it had giv on m e the coveted honor of being the s tar t ing p i tcher in the first g a m e in J a p a n .

After a day of res t and re laxa-tion, our t e a m boarded a bus to begin the second phase of our c m s i d e : an e igh tdav "good-will t o u r " of the m a j o r cities of South-ern Honshu, the main island of J a o a n . Due to a disaonoir t ing rain-out in Numazu Citv, we t rav-eled direct ly to H a m a m a t s u and the Saganno J a p a n e s e Style Hotel and stopped onlv brieflv at t he hot springs a rea of Hakone Sna.

T h e Saganno introduced us to the delights of J a p a n e s e living;

t h e dai'.y hot springs bath, sleeping on the floor, and the re- ; laxing massage . Apparently the • living agreed with us. for our Trst game on the road proved to be a lop-sided 9-1 victory.

Our arr ival in Nagoya re turned us to western-style hotels and put us in the cen te r of a large s ghtseeing auea as well. This in-cluded Kyoto and Nara . both rich in J a p a n e s e history with a number rtf Shinto and Buddhist temples . After a Saturday of sightseeing we re turned to Nagoya for a double-header and received our first up-set. 2-1. at the hands of the Mazda (an enterpr i se s imilar to General Motors) Non Pro t e a m , which showed us some good pitching and outs tanding fielding.

The next and final stop on our tour w a s to Osaka, a city la rger than Chicago. It was again my turn to pitch and l i ickib ' we won both g a m e s of a doubleheader , 12-0 ami 3-1. In Osaka I met a friend of my familv. Mr. Iwai. who took me to Okayama City along the Inland Sea. The t ra in ride was crowded with typical J a p a n e s e scenes—lush green hills and t h e . omnipresent r ice pat t ies filling the v;'llovs and s t re tch ing over the hillsides. J a p a n is a beautiful country in any season: yet. the J a o a n e s e favor au tumn with its sui table t e m p e r a t u r e s and the cr imson ar t is t ry of the country-side.

Once having re turned to Tokvo. we w e r e supposedlv f r ee to r e h x ; however , it was only the begin-ning of a race to see as much of • the Olympics as t ime allowed. I w1 's most anxious to see t rack , gymnas t i c s and basketball arid succeeded in doing so. In t rack . 1 was able to see four world rec-ords set in t h r e e relav races and the excit ing m a r a t h o n , but noth-ing could c o m n a r e to the tension as it mounted in the f 'nals of men ' s gymnast ics—a thrilling ex-perience.

On Oct. 24. Ihe closing enromon-ies were held. T h n v cor rHet^d a l e ^ n d for me as the a th le tes . ' pa -rading a rm- in -a rm. d^m '>n^ t r i ^d the concord and good will wh'^h had grown among them in t^eir two weeks of competi t ion. Fo^ovv-ins a gala Saydnara pa»-tv. th^re was a common farewell s^dn^ss but also the sat isfact ion of having p a r t i c i ^ t e d in the " g r e a t e s t show on e a r t h . "

Tn m v vouth^ul est imation. I can thirk of no event , no festival nor organization wMch toda1- W i Q s so t ru thfu l lv to our idoo1oci"s. What other occasion or organira-

tion proves to all its o b s o r v e r s , all specta tors and all par t ic ipants

(hat the h u m a n race is one people, divided only by t ime and the con-strictions of its own history? ' iThe Olympic torch is not only the sym-bol of an athletic fest ival which has spanned t ime — 776 B.C. to 1; 64. It is also the l ight of a t ruth

ich d ic ta tes to us that behind boundar ies and walls, behind.di f -ferences in customs and language and behind the brit t le crust of s t rangers , foreign and otherwise, b^ats a hear t in harmony with the world as one.

JOE BOSWORTH

Later , boarding an Air Fo rce DC-G in the chilly morning hours at Tachikawa, " the Young Y a n k s " headed for Korea, an unexpected addition to our trip. In Seoul the team was to play four g a m e s in three days. Korea, we soon real-ized. was a country lacking the industry and consequently the modern cunven ie rces of J a p a n . Yet to our agreeable surpr ise , the Korean people were the most re-sponsive -and alert H seball f a r s before whom we had ever played. Our four g a m e s contained the ex-citement of a World Series. This was one of our unfor tuna te ly few favorable memor i e s of Korea as we re turned to J a n a ^ and wait-ed for our homeward flight, some only a little a rx ious , o the r s s tarv-ing f rom homesickness . .

In closing, I t h r k eac^ person privileged enoueh to involve him-self with t he Olympics in anv way owes a s incere and erocions t h a n k you ("doomo a r iga to" ) in J a p a -nese) to t he people of J a p a n . If there is a per fec t w a " to host such an ex t ravaganze . t h e J a p a n e s e h n v e mas te red it. A eoM m " d a l to them and a personal t hank ' ou f rom me for a month tha t will fill a l ifetime.