Pacific Lutheran College Bulletin Puhlishoct hi-Illonthly 1)y Pacific Lulheran College or Parldancl, (Tacoma) Vi'aRhin!2;ton. Application 1'0r entry as second ('Ia�s

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FRIDAY JUNE, 10th

Hard, Inescapable Facts For

Christians To Face

No.5

Pacific Lutheran College Needs Endowment To Live

PACIFIC LUTHERAN COLLEGE IS OUR CHURCH'S GREATEST ASSET

Our church on the Pacific Coast is fortunate in alrtady having all cs­tablished school wilh a fine propert�v, with a fine record of sen ice in Pacific Lutheran College. The pra:\'ers, thc sacrifices, the planning of rorty years, by consecrated men an d women have paid for Pacific Luth­eran College as it is today. The� foundation is laid by others for us. A large part of thc task is done before the burden comes to us now.

A GENERATION OF STRUGGLE SHOWS THE NEED OF ENDOWMENT

It h as been a bitter struggle for years to carry on the \york at Paciric Luthu<1n College. \\�hat is the essential reason? The standard and cost of education rose. The annual incollle alwavs fell short. Pacific Luth­enlIl College had no endowment to help IlH:'et Its educational budget. II could not lower its standard of teaching or it would h�l\'e lost its state accreditation and without accredita tion no student would have come. It meant a ceaseless, often fruitless, struggle for additional income to Illeet the cost of high class teaching.

COMMON SENSE SHOWS THE NEED OF ENDO'VlVIENT

I t should have been clear to pastors and people responsible for the school long ago that an adequate endowment was the only solution of the problem. �o high class school is like a business paying for itself or yielding an income. The tuition pays for only half the cos\. Culling the cost lowers the standarcls and dooms the school. Tile only solution is adequate income from an endowment fund. Such are the fads \l1

the situation which no argument can change. They mllst be met.

OTHER LUTHERAN SCHOOLS PROVE THE NEED OF

ENDO'VMENT

Practicallv every olher Lulheran school in America in re­('enl year� f�lt'e (l Ihis S�lIlle problem. I I was Illet by all Ihrough in(,reasing Iheir endowmenl funds. �() olher solulion has cIS vel been found. Ovcr 20,OOO,O()O dollars lwvc been rclisc(l since H)1D for other Lutheran schools. \Yould Ihis 11::I\"e been done if there had been a different solulion'? Isn't Iheir experience inescapable also for us Ihal we must provide adequate endowment for OlIr school if we want it 10 live?

ALL HIGHER SCHOOLS IN AMERICA PROVE THE NEED

OF ENDOWMENT

This experience has nol been confined Lo Lutherans. Ev­ery denominational school in America in recent years has been compelled to increase its endowments. Some schools failed and alreacl.v Lhey are out of existence. In fad, many slales including the slale of \Yashinglon, require a school like Oll(S 10 have adequate endowmenls if it is to remain accredited. Such <1re the hard compelling fads. They lllusl he mel.

LACK OF ENDO'VMENT IS THE REASON FOR ALL THE

PROBLEMS OF OUR SCHOOL. ADEQUATE ENDO'VMENT

WILl .. SOLVE THEM.

I�Our whol:-;;hllrch is concerned with you in carrying out this decision. Some 0/ the ablt'-'t men will be with you to give their time aid ability to help .I·ou, but 1 depend on ever)' pas· tor alld loyal member within the Pa­cific District to do his utmost to add another great victory to ora Church's </chievt'ment."

]. A. Aasgaard.

This is fh<' ("hoir ur our (;ongregutioll at Fir. Its leader, 1I� w ell 'IS a goodly number of itR members, were students at Pacific LUllIenil1 College and Columbia College

Other Lutheran Groups Have Awakened and Acted

The Norwegian Lutheran Church in 1!)2G mobilized for its great cen­tral schools, Luther, SI. Olaf, Concordia, Augustana. They said it could not he done. nut Christian people pr;l�'ed and sac­rificed and God heard their pnlyers. And the greatest \'ict or�' in the history of Ollr Church was achiC'yC'd by <.l gift of nearh' three milliOIi dollars ror these schools.

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The Augustana Synod, smaller than our church body has given since 1!J20 to its schools oyer two l1Iillion doll,lrs and has decid<.>d on ;1Il additional lIlillion and �l 11;111' for Allgustan;l College, its Centr;ll school at Hock Island.

The United Lutheran Church since 1919 h;lS given to its colleges over nine million dollars. II is planning to m;lke H);)O educationa l year and raise additional funds.

Th.? Missouri Synod has raised for its colleges and seminaries over six million dollars. Those schools have more than doubled t heir enrolllllen t.

The shining example of North Carolina should serve as an inspiration and encouragement for us. A small bod�r of 12,000 communi­cants has given their school Lenoir oyer a million dollars since 1919.

The shining example of Kansas .is another inescapable proof that we can do our task and that it should be done. Ten thousand communicants since the \Var have given their school Bethany a half million dollars .

This is i.l group of the Arts class. Our school gives its students opportunities for developing their abilitieR us varied [If<

any other school.

Our Savior Needs Pacific Lutheran College It Was Founded for His Work

\Yhen Hey. B. Harsl�ld W;lS sent to the Pacific Coast to sur­vev the field for the establishment of a school the reason ;111(1 pLU'pose was to build up God's Kingdom in this terri­lory. Al the dedicalion of the fil'st building the leaders of tbe church participated and the whole church rejoiced be­cause they S�l\\' in it a great victory for our :\Iaster's work. Our school was born ('rom Christian prayers, Christian planning, Chrislian sacrifices for Christ's \Vork.

It Has Been True to His Service

Through all its history Pacific I ... utheran College has 11ever w,wered from ils origin,d purpose. Through its faculty, its course, its spirit, its student life it has been true Lo the senice of Christ. That has been its highest and first alle­giance. It is our Savior's school today as on the day when it was founded.

His Kingdom Comes Alone Through Schools Like Ours

"Thy Kingdom Come," that is our prayer and our Savior's will. IL COIllCS ,done lhrough prea ching and preaching is done only as from gcneration to generation promising young men are enlisled and trained for lhe ministry. For that Christi,lI1 schools are l1lainl�'lined. Our Savior needs them for the spreading 0 r His K ingdoill.

He Expects Us Now to Save Pacific Lutheran College

In the present appeal of Pacific Lutheran College our Savior is calling for our help and sacrifice. \Ye follow Him as we respond. \Ye deny Him as we are indifferent.

This is the faculty of Pacific Lutheran College. Qualified by training for their profession, more qualified by the fine loyalty which they have always brought to their work.

Our Church Needs Pacific Lutheran College To Enlist and Train Ministers and Missionaries

There arc cleyen thousand pastors in the Lutheran Church in America, less than three hundred haye been trained in non- Lutheran Schools. The Church cannot exist without ministers. Yet our own schools are the only source of sup­ply of p�lstors. Can our Church exist without yigorous schools? \Yill il not die without them'?

To Save the Faith of Our Youth The YOUIV>" l)eOI)lc frol11 our conoTeO"ations cOl11inO" to our .. t1 b b ;:-,

school are kept loyal 10 Iheir Church. If we fail to giYe Ihem a good school, they drift to non-Christian, at times anti-Christian schools and many of them are lost to faith foreyer. Yet t hey arc our bo�< and girls. Is it righl to lei them go into temptation? Can we afford 10 \()se them from our congregations?

To Train Leaders for Our Congregations The graduates of Pacific Lutheran College haw:' pn)\Tn an inyaltwble asset in leading the life of their local congrega­lion. 'Yith Iheir Irained ability they haye helped the Sun­day school, choir, �1I1d business affairs. The gift of trained, loyal leadership 10 strengthen local congregations made by Pacific Lutheran College in the past is worth many, many times the sacrifice made so far.

A Western School Alone Meets Western Needs The Eastern schools of our Church cannot meet our needs. They are so far away that only a small percentage will go there. They are little interested in Ihe problems, spirit and needs of the Coast. A school of our own, in our midst, accessible to our youth alone will meet the need.

This is the school ("horus. OUI· school chorns ha� won the unsUnled acImil·ation

of those who have hean\ it. This is the debating club of our scbool.

debating teams of our s(

Our Youth Needs Pacific Lutheran College

It Is Their Chance for a Christian Training

\Ve are responsible for their faith. Thl'Y �lre a

chclrge on our conscience from Chrisl in the critical \T,H'S of their lives. If they come to our school, lheir faith is preserved; if \liey go to others it nwy be lost.

For Many, It Is the Only Chance for a Higher Training

Pacific Lutheran College has a]\\'a�'s been a good school, but it has not been a so called fashionable and expensive school. In fael, it costs pnrents hanlly more than one-half of what it costs to send young people to some othcr schools. This has en­abled l1lany a parent to give their boy or girl CI high­l'!' training, who would not han' had that chancc at other schools. It has cnabled Illany a young person to work their \\ay through our school who would nol have been able so to do at other schools.

It Understands Our Youth

Que young people grow up in our homes and in our Churches. 'Yhcn the" COl1le to Pacific Luther­an College, thc samc spirit and the same ideals which thcy learn at home and in Chureh meet them. They are

"nol strangers among strange ideas, cus­

toms and hopes. They arc at home. Many a young person, a str�lIlgcr in Ollr land, has found a welcome and an opportunity to advance themselves at our school, who would never have had the courage to go to �lIlothcr school.

"Yom graduates ha1'e distinguished themsell'(:s by a scholarship far ab01'e the average and b), an unusual faith­f t/lnns and earnestness. They have also a,' a rule given evidence of a "cry high t)'pe of Christian mallhood and woman­houd.

T hO"e of 17l)' colleagues who are ac­quainted with the College speak in the highest terms of praise of its work and its faculty."

E. ]. Vickncr Profe,sor of the Scandina1,ian Lan­

guages at the Uniwrj'ity of Washington

In competition with other institution" llOOl holll a unique record.

The beginners English course has been tho great opportunity [or many to get a real start in lire.

Our Nation Needs Pacific Lutheran College It Helps Maintain the Christian Home

The Christian home is the source of eyery fine yirtue and aspiration in a nation, whether it is the child \yhich there first le.arns the never for­gotten rules of right conduct, or whether it is the man who there finds renewed courage and inspiration to undertake things worth while. Tbe Christian schools directly and indirecllv haye exerted their influence 1'01' the preserYation of the Christian hC)JlIe.

It Keeps Alive the Church

The Church is the other institution which seryes as a guide and inspir­ation for its believers to walk in the \vavs of God, and which serves as a lasting warning to awaken the conscien

'ce of unbelievers. \Ye believe

that our country has become great, because it is a Christian nation and has heen dominated by Christian ideals. That came about through the yjgorous influence of Christian Chu rches. Only Christian schools will keep alive the Christian Churches.

It Is the Bulwark for Righteousness

l\ighieousness exallcth a nation; sin destroys it. The grtat problem of a nation does not concern its political life, its industrial and comllH:Tcial life, it concerns the ever continuing and ever varying struggle against public and private sin and corruption. Christian Colleges through Am­erica's history have furnished the leadership belieying in righteousness.

"'fhe Need of the Hour is not more Factories or Materials, not more Rail­roads or Steamships, not more Armies and Navies, but rather more Educa­tion based on the plain Teachings of Jesus Christ."-Rodger W. Babson.

Physical exercise plays a large part in the development of youth. The young people of our school have ample opportunity to take part in athletic games and our school has been well represented in the various fields of competitive athletics.

Our School Did Much On Little

Founded in Pioneer Faith

\\'hel1 our school was roundcd il did nol I"cccin' gre�lI wcallh 10 make its palh smooth and easy. It was fou nded on fa it h; i t faced Ihe Il<::"cessily of scrupulous econ­omy from the vcry bcuinninH• , ' ;.., :-,

It Served the Church

Twenh,,-three gradtI<ltes of Paci-This is the old Columbia Col/erie bllildinr;. nOI[ lIsed as lin Orphan

fie Lutheran College are serving home when Columbia Co/ler;c (ll1d Pacijic Lutheran Academy

our Church. Fiflecn pastors have !(;ere combined 10 jorm ['([('ijie I.lllhcraIl College

heen trained [It our institution. l\Iany of them never thought to enter Ihe minisLry until they canH:' to Pacific Lutheran College. Some of thelll, whe.D thcy came had made up their minds not to become pastors, yet our school won them to entering Ilwl profession. The service of our school to ollr Church rests nol in hopes, it rests on splcndid achicvcmcn ts in the past.

It Served Our Youth

Foul' hundred and fif'ty young people have gr�ldualed. Twcnty five hundred in all have a ttended our school, some being able to stay only for pari of the course. Our school serYcd and helpec l thelll in the most important Ihing in lire, Iheir training or mind and heart to make the mos t of their lives.

It Ranl{s High The various deparLments of Pacific Lutheran College are accredited with the S tate of \\'ashington. Graduates of the Normal depar tlllent receive their leacher's certificate without further question. Officials of the SUlte University bave spoken in the high­est lerms of Ihe teaching and courses at Pacific Lutheran Coll<:"ge.

It Made Every Dollar Do Double and Triple Service II costs in the neighborhood of $300 pCI' sludent al our school for the salaries of teach­ers and the up-k<::ep of the institu tion. It costs more than double at the \Vashington Slate l'nivcrsity. I t costs more than three times this amount at some of the large Easll'rn llnivcrsities. Our school, like other Lutheran schools, has been scrupulouslv (' <'0 11 0 III i cal.

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Bottom: To thclcftis

Rev. B. Har­

stad, founder

of Pacific Lu­

theran Co l­Iege. In the center: Rev. R. B ogsta d,

fo r many

years the pn:sidentand

leader of 01-

umbia Col­

lege.

To the right:

Professor N. J. Hong, pres­

ident of Pac­

ific Lutheran

Academy un­

til its reorg-

3nizadon.

These three

men are the

pioneers in

the cd u c a­

tional work

of our church

on the Pac­ific Co�st.

Now Is The Hour of Opportunity

The Crisis Hour Is Reached

\Ye �m,' �lt the point \\'here either our people must f�ICl' lhl' problelll �lI1d meet il b�i �l('lion, or where lhe IllOllll'nl has CO)]}C 10 gin' lip our school. .\ long continucd h�lrd struggle finally bl'collH's �l hopel ess strugglc ullless relief is in sight. That IS the case with P�lcific Lutheran College.

Our District Is Awake

Pastors and pl'opl<: are beginning to understand the sitlwt,ion as tbl'Y bave never understood it before.

They �lre beginning to appreciate how much our school has Illeant for the development of our Church on the Pacific Coast. The\' are awakening to a greater sense of duly to their (:hrist ian school. Our district is girding ilself for the great effort in its history.

Our Church at Large Is Awake

He", (;('{Jrt<" Henrikson Fidd'Secretary

['ueiiie Lutheran ('olL,,{!e

\Ye havc nol only thc syrnpallry, bu t the real tangible help of our Church �Jl Jarge to l1leel our problem. Thirty outstanding Illen will be with us during June and July to w ork for the endowlllenl campaign. The Church has secured. them free lransportation not to burden our calise. It surely places us on our honor.

It Is Now or Never

�ever h�IS a situation been as prollllsmg to solve our school's gre�lt problem as now. Other things are being swept into the background. It is rcceiving the attention, the deterl1lined co-operation �lt lhis lilll<.' 10 IlIake possible ,<.I great \'idory. Surely now the iron is hoI; now is lhl' time' to strike with all ollr force.

Tlw ��lItlellt.;; ami faculty advisors who are rf'sponsillie 1'01' lhe editing of the "l\1oorillf': l\'Jast," thf' Collegl' [lapel',

It's Up To You

Pacific Lutheran College Belongs to You You ,Ire responsible to Christ to pn)yicie Illinislcl's to le<lch all natiol1s, \0 provide a Christian school to save the faith of our youth. Pacific Luth­eran College. fulfills this, your duty, for �'ou, but finally you will be held responsible by Christ ,IS 10 the Illanner ,1Ilel cOInpleteness of its fulfillmen t.

It Has Served You \Yhether vou are an �llulllnus or former student, or whether vou are a member ()[ one of the congregations, in <l host of different '�\'cIYS too numerous to mention, you have been benefited by the service of this schoo1. In vour interest in your 10c,11 Church, in your inlcrcsl in the home mission of our district, in your inlerest in

�the \velf:lre of our

youth and our country, nothing �'an take ,I higher place th,lIl your school, Pacific Luther�lIl College.

You Can Feel Proud of Its Record Although its student body has ne\'(:'r been I:JI'ge, yet size has never de­termined the st,lI1ding �lIld quality of an educ,lIion�d institution, your school ranks high. It is honored and respected by those \vhose judg­ment counts. It has aTecord of which neither it. nor ·vou need feci ashamed. There are Illany things ill the Church life 011 the Coast of which you may feel justly proud. There is none which is ,I greater cau�c for justifying pride than your institution, P,lcific Lutheran College.

In This Crisis It Depends on You II is your school, which has sen'ed you. II is �lll obligation on your con­science from your Saviour. To whol11 shall it turn in this critic,d hour, if not 10 you?

'If vou, who arc conccl'lwd and responsible arc not awake,

who in Il�e wide \\'odd will be (Iw,lke? If vou fail your duty �lI1d Illiss your opportunity, \\'ho in the wide world w{1I Illake lip for yo

'u'?

Yeu Have Prayed, Now Act

\LlIlY prayers have risen to God for our institution; it has nceded thelll. (;0<1 h�IS hlessed and presen'ed and kept ii, but docs not c\'er�' pr,lyer to God l11ean �d the S,IIllC lime a pledge to stand by God's work'? If wc pr,ly for God's blessing on P,I­ciric Lutheran Col-lege, wc are not sin-cere unlcss wc arc ready to sacrifice ,"or thc blessing of (;0<1. The timc for s�lcrifice is herc. Generous sacrifices from every mem­b e r i n t h e Churches, f r o m alumni and former students will turn our h o p e s an d prayers into glor­ious fulfillment.