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TLC's Lutheran Institute
Seeks Renewal.Education
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A new venture in continuing
education for Lutheran pastors
and laymen called LUTHERAN
INSTITUTE FOR RELIGIOUS
STUDIES has been started at
Texas Lutheran College.
Executive director of the new
program the first of its kind in
The American Lutheran Church,
is Dr. Carl Umhau Wolf, who
has served as pastor of St. Paul’s
Lutheran Church in Toledo, Ohio,
since 1953.
According to Dr. Wolf the
purpose of the LIFRS movement
is to equip the people of God
for the work of the ministry
in the world. Major emphasis
of the new venture is to provide
continuing education for pastors
and to assist the laity to be
better Christians in their vo-
cations.
Dr. Wolf will travel extensive-
ly throughout the states of Tex-
as and Louisiana during te
coming year to acquaint church
leaders with the new movement.
Later, it is anticipated that 10-
12 day seminars will be held
on the TLC campus for groups
of 30-35 pastors. Lay semi-
nars are expected to be of shor-
ter duration (weekends) and
probably involve 20-30 men or
women grouped according to vo-
cations such as lawyers, phy-
sicians, small businessmen, far-
mers. All sessions would be
strictly educational.
A long-range plan of LIFRS
is to branch out ecumenically
on the pastoral and lay level.
Part of this plan would allow pro-
minent church and lay leaders
of all faiths to instruct at the
seminars. Another approach
to continuing education would be
periodic biblical land tours.
For the immediate future Dr.
Wolf hopes to strengthen inter-
synodical Lutheran ties. The
Texas-Louisiana Synod of the
Lutheran Church in America has
had members on the LIFRS board
for some time headed by Dr.
Philip Wahlberg of Austin. Dr.
Vernon Mohr, president of the
Southern District, TALC, has
served on the board since the pro-
grams’s inception.
In explaining LIFRS, Dr. Wolf
has called the new program a
“Renewal of the Church”. This
would allow restimulation of the
pastors, laity, congregations and
hasten new life programs.
The seminars for pastors
would refresh and up-grade the,
educational level of all pastors
and this would in turn revitalize
congregations.
LIFRS was an idea created |
in late 1963 by a group of in-
terested church and lay lead-
ers.
In April 1964 it was decided
to bring in Texas Lutheran Col-
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Lone Star Lutheran
Student Publication of Texas Lutheran College
Volume XLV111 SEGUIN, TEXAS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14. 1966 NUMBER 4
Theologian Forell to Analyze
Complex 'God-is-Dead ’ Views
The explosion of the “God is
dead” philosophy on the A-
merican scene has created con-
fusion and questions as well
as a variety of responses. Pre-
senting one point of view on this
controversial subject is the head
of the School of Religion at the
University of Iowa, Dr. George
Forell, who today is visiting the
TLC campus as a guest lecturer.
He speaks at 7:00 p.m. tonight
in Wupperman Little Theater on
the theme “Man is Dead.”
Off Campus
Exhibits Show
TLC Artist
Texas Lutheran College art
students and Visual Arts Depart-
ment faculty members are being
honored in various showings dur-
ing the month cf October.
A one-man show of sixteen oil
paintings is currently on exhibit
at Angelo State College featuring
the work of Visual Arts Depart-
ment Chairman Charles F.
Charles. The one man show pre-
sents heavily textured abstract
works which evolved over a
period of five years and required
a lengthy series of over paint-
ing to achieve the rich, luminous
surfaces that evoke the “sense of
the biblical,” the underlying
theme of the artist.
Mr. Charles is currently work-
ing on paintings to be featured
in the near future at The Mexi-
can Art Institute in San Antonio
and to be further exhibited in
Mexico City in a citation show un-
der the auspices of the Mexican
government.
Similar recognition was grant-
ed Charles in the summer of 1965
but was more broad in the cover-
age of artists. At the time the
President of Mexico extended
recognition by entertaining the
artists in his home.
At the Witte Museum in San
Antonio a two-man art exhibit
features, through October, the
work of Tracy Dotson, a TLC
graduate who is pursuing grad-
uate art study at the University
of Texas.
Meanwhile, the TLC art faculty
is gathering a comprehensive ex-
hibit of both faculty and student
art work to show at Trinity Uni-
versity starting October 16.
An all-day seminar, which
consists of both institutions’ art
faculty and students, is planned
for Friday, October 21. One oi
the speakers is nationally recog-
nized Paul Baker, Trinity drama
department chairman.
Assistant professor of art, El-
mer Petersen, is associating with
committee members of San An-
tonio’s HemisFair project in con-
sidering the use of signigicant
art projects there.
■■
The “God is dead” movement
traces back to such American
theologians as William Hamilton
of Colgate Rochester Seminary
in New York, Thomas J.J. Alt-
eizer of Emory University in At-
lanta, and Paul Van Buren, for-
merly of the Episcopal Seminary
of the Southwest in Austin and
now at Temple University in Phil-
adelphia.
These key figures in the move-
ment agree that traditional doc-
trines of God have lost their
meaning for contemporary man
and that in articulating the mean-
ing of faith in our time, man
will have to learn to do without
reference to the doctrine of God.
It is Hamilton’s conviction that
the power and vitality present
in the conception of the reality
Bob Priest, left, and Dan Lauderdale share the action
in Edward Albee’s “The Zoo Story.” The “intense”
drama continues tonight at 8:30 p.m. in TLC’s newly
remodeled Condemned Theatre. Ellen Shiplet’s review
of last night’s opening performance may be found on
page 3.
Musicians Present
Departmental Recital
The first music departmental
recital of the year will be held
in Wupperman Theatre this Sun-
day afternoon at 4:00 p.m. Those
students performing are Linda
Johnson, Janice Moebus, and Vic-
tor Schaper.
Linda, a music education ma-
jor, intends to teach piano either
privately or in public schools.
Her primary instrument is piano,
and her secondary instrument
is voice. Having had over twelve
years of piano instruction, Linda
has appeared in many recitals.
This is her third year to study
with Miss Anita Windecker and
her second year to be a member
of the TLC Concert Choir. Lin-
da is now studying voice with
Mrs. Eleanor Johnson.
She will play a prelude by
Dimitri Kabalevsky. Kabalevsky
is a contemporary Russian com-
poser, whose pieces are char-
acterized by interesting tonali-
ties.
Jan Moebus is a music educa-
tion major also. Her primary
instrument is voice, and her sec-
ondary instrument is piano. Dur-
ing high school she studied voice
for two and one-half years, and
was in band. Jan has studied
voice under Mr. Farrier for
three years, and is studying piano
under Miss Windecker. This is
her third year to be a member of
Concert Choir.
She will sing “Songs and
Dances of Death” by Modeste
of God in earlier periods has
collapsed in the twentieth cen-
tury.
Alteizer, on the other hand,
affirms that the radical mean-
ing of the crucifixion of Jesus
implies that God himself died on
Calvary. Since Calvary, Alteizer
asserts, man must learn to live
with the humanity of Jesus alone.
For Alteizer this is good news;
in the title of one of his recent
books, he calls this the “Gos-
pel of Christian atheism.”
Dr. Forell is interested in tra-
cing the factors which have led
to the development of the “God
is dead” theological movement.
Whatever may be the individual’s
immediate emotional reaction to
that movement, careful theo-
logical analysis and recon-
struction is clearly necessary.
TOTALING $730,000
Matching Grants, Gifts
To Build, Endow, Assist
Mussorgsky. In this, death sings
a dialogue with the mother of a
dying infant, an invalid girl, a
drunken peasant, and the Com-
mander-in-Chief in the aftermath
of a great battle. She will be ac-
companied by Linda Johnson.
Although Victor is from a fam-
ily with little musical back-
ground, he lias studied piano for
six years and organ for seven
years. He began studying when he
was eight years old. He com-
ments, “Music is a part of every-
one in the world and a vital part
of myself.” Victor serves as as-
sistant organist at his home
church. His richest musical ex-
perience has been at TLC, study-
ing under Miss Mary Orth, Miss
Anne Parks, and others of the mu-
sic faculty.
He is majoring in music, pri-
marily organ. Victor would like
to teach on the college level. He
is now a member of the Concert
Choir and in the past has been a
member of the Madrigals and
Cantor Choir.
Victor will play a sonata by
J.S. Bach and a sonata by Paul
Hindemith. Bach wrote the sona-
ta as a technique exercise for
his son. This light, joyous piece
is a trio in which each hand and
the pedal has a distinct line.
Hindemith’s sonata is fairly mo-
dern. Each movement is based on
German folksongs.
Two other music recitals will
be held this semester. Graduate
recitals will be held in the spring.
Gifts and grants exceeding
$730,000 for TLC were announced
during the past week. Those at-
tending Sunday’s Kraushaar Day
Banquet learned of one of these
in the form of a $30,000 en-
dowed Wuest-Kraushaar Schol-
arship fund.
According to fund chairman,
John Donegan, Mrs. Harvey
Wuest, daughter of Dr. and Mrs.
Kraushaar, approved the scho-
larships which will go to aca-
demically eligible TLC students
from Guadalupe and surrounding
counties.
Another sum, this announced
at Saturday’s semi-annual De-
velopment Board meeting, was
the $337,320 matching 1/3-2/3
grant for a new library, ob-
tained under the Federal Higher
Education Faculities Act of 1965.
Matching funds for the federal
grant must be obtained within
a two-year limit. This would
expedite building plans for the
million dollar TLC library.
Another sum in excess of $300,
000 has been established as an
endowed scholarship fund through
the bequest of the late Hugo
Leissner of San Antonio. This
fund should provide ap-
proximately $15,000 annually
to aid worthy students.
Also announced was a gift
of $5,000 by Mr. and Mrs. Ro-
land Blumberg which will bring
a matching National Science
Foundation grant for Chemistry
equipment.
Additional matching grants
through the Higher Education Act
will provide equipment for sev-
eral department totaling $50,000.
Mrs. H.P. Haevischer of Bell-
ville donated $20,000 which will
provide $40,000 in science e-
quipment for the new Moody
Science Hall. And the TLC
Ex-Student Association pro-
vided $5,500 which has permitted
installation of a $11,000 language
laboratory. __
Weekend Living
Friday, October 14:
7:00 p.m. George Forrell,
Lecture, WLT.
8:30 p.m. “Zoo Story,” by
Albee, Condemned Theatre.
Saturday, October 15:
8:00 p.m. TLC vs. Tarleton
State, Matador Stadium.
10:00 p.m. All-School Dance
sponsored by Sigma Lambda Chi
Fraternity, Commons. Admis-
sion 50 cents or 75 cents per
couple.
Sunday, October 16:
1:30 p.m. Channel 9 Viewing:
“Anna Karenina,” Tolstoy’s
classic tragedy in film version,
starring Claire Bloom, Student
Center B-C (ca. 1 hour 45
minutes.)
7:30 “Voice of Silence,” Cul-
tural Activities Film Series,
WLT. Discussion following in
Gold Room.
9:30 Channel 9 “Phantom of
the Opera”, 1925 silent film,
starring Lon Chaney, Student
Center B-C. _
Italian-French
Foreign Film
Shows Sunday
On Sunday, Oct. 16, the Cul-
tural Activities Committee pre-
sents the second in it’s series
of classic European films. This
week’s presentation is “Voice
of Silence”, a joint Italian-
French film produced by G.W.
Pabst. Headlining this outstand-
ing film is Aldo Fabrizi, Jean
Marais, Frank Villard, and of
course, Paolo Panelli.
This unusual production is a
story of five men who enter a
monastery in order to retreat
from the world outside, each
hoping to resolve their inner
conflicts and find peace with
themselves. Their conflicts are
most absorbing for each re-
presents a profound struggle be-
tween the world and his own con-
science. All five individuals are
very worldly; they consist of a
greedy manufacturer , a young
thief, a sick veteran, (all of
them finding it impossible to
have the women they love), a
smut-ridden author of cheap
novels and an ex-partisan fighter
who becomes a pacifist.
The film reaches a moving
climax as each person works
his own way back to integrity
and one of them is shown the way
to the priesthood.
“Voice of Silence” will be
shown, without charge, this Sun-
day in Wupperman Little Theater
at 7:30.
According to Ron Quitne, Cul-
tural Activities student chair-
man, “this is a top-class movie
which should not be missed.”
Mr. Stephen Swanson will con-
duct an informal discussion of
the film in the gold room fol-
lowing it’s presentation. This
follows a practice which has been
set following recent foreign
films. Participants termed the
discussion following the earlier
shown “Alexander Nevsky” as
“helpful in fully appreciating the
effect and implications of the
movie.”
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