The Banner - November 15, 1974

              LES CHANTEUSES, Trouvers   and the Concert Choir merged to form the 120-member chorus  pictured above.  The singers performed at the Southern Baptist
Convention in Los Angeles earlier this week. *
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Chorus Brings Convention to its Feet
"Our dreams of Cal Baptist
didn't measure «p to what it is,
today," stated Dr. Byron Todd,
chairman of the Board of Christian Higher Education. Dr. Todd,
chairman of the original Board of
Trustees, introduced the CBC
presentation to the Southern Baptist Convention meeting at the
Biltmore  Hotel   in   Los  Angeles.
Although the Cal Baptist report
was scheduled for Wednesday
night, CBC's involvement began
with the Minister's Conference in
which Norman Aycock, Concert
Choir, Les Chanteuses, Mr. and
Mrs. Jim Walker and Rick Warren
participated.
After Dr. Todd's introduction,
Dr. James R. Staples spoke briefly
about the progress and growth of
the college. He thanked those gath
ered for caring and sharing with the
The Chapel Choir and Brass
Ensemble participated throughout
the evening session. They performed "Bringing in the Sheaves,"
"Higher Ground," "What Tongue
Can Tell," and concluded with
"The King is Coming" which
brought a standing ovation.
After Dr. Staple's introductory
and appreciatory remarks, selected students addressed the convention.
Alma Rhoades began with a reading about the Hands of Jesus.
Rick Ogston, a second lieutenant
in the Marine Corps, shared how
his training in Forensics and his
education at Cal Baptist would assist him as a Chaplain. 'There
is  no better way to be educated
than in the hands of Christ," he
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Kim Moake spoke ofthe effectiveness music has in a worship
service, a new thought formulated
since her arrival at Cal  Baptist.
"Pray that God will continue to
put His hands on CBC," said Dave
Adams. Adams shared his concern
for getting more Christian leaders
in government and politics.
"CBC has been my home for
three years while my parents were
on the mission field," commented
Cecelia Finley. Her preparation
for the mission field has been
heightened by the personal contacts she has made at CBC, she
said.
Rick Durst stated the teachers
teach how to preach, how to teach,
and how to love. He thanked those
present for helping pay tor his
education at Cai Baptist.—
Gayle Crosby concluded the student testimonials speaking on her
preparation for teaching. The students are more aware of the teacher for who she is, than what she
teaches, she stated.
Earlier Dr. George Musacchio
brought a Bible Study based on the
convention theme, "As You Go,
Love." Using Matthew 22:34-40
as a test, he defined the word
love, the direction love should take
and the danger of loving.
A CBC Alumni Reception was
held after the Wednesday night
session. The brief program featured Tom Cleveland's rendition
Of "Old Man River" and "Fill My
Cup" followed by a message by
Dr.  Thurmond George, pastor of
Foxworthv Baptist Church in San
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The convention messengers,
numbering 984, adopted various
committee recommendations and
agency reports, which will appear
in the 1975 convention annual.
Three hundred and forty-eight
visitors registered bringing the
total to 1,322 participants.
The annual sermon was delivered by Floyd Strickland, pastor
of East Claremont Southern Baptist Church in San Diego.
A highlight of the conference
was the $4,211.47 offering collected for Christian Social Ministries.
The large offering was motivated
by the inspiring message of giving
brought by John Bisagno, pastorof
the First Baptist Church of Houston, Texas.
News Bureau Director Let in Through Back Door
By Fred Parsons
Editor
Carmen Sandoval, CBC associate news bureau director, once
effectively used the back door
method. Born in Culver City in
1952, she came to CBC in 1970
and got caught up indirectly in
journalism, through, she said, the
"back door."
After graduating Senora High in
La Habra, and having already gone
through the early learning procedure for young journalists, she did
not want to attend any beginning
journalism classes here.
So she helped her friends, editors of the paper, layout the Banner without the instructor's (Gordon Addison's) knowledge of it.
This, she said, was her back door
introduction  to CBC  journalism.
NOW VERY POPULAR
Sandoval, however, can no longer
employ her incognito style of helping out. In fact, by no choice of her
own, she may have become the most
popular staffer around since accepting her new responsibility in
June. And the unanswerable stuff
continues to flow steadily to her
news bureau desk.
The modest writer of most CBC
promotional stories said she is not
the ultimate stop for the red-taped
buck. But her associates have said
they are unable to detect any outgoing leaks.
NEEDED BY THE DEAF
She said she enjoys her public
relations work, and added "I want
to do PR work for the deaf." She
has an appreciation, she said, for
those who cannot hear.
She has, therefore, learned the
language - dactylology - of the
deaf. "I've been proficient with
the language since my junior year
in high school." She thanks an old
instructor of hers, a Mrs. Camp,
for showing her how to communicate in sign language.
"It's like learning any other language," Sandoval said. "You've
got to practice it. Within a year in
the classroom you can learn most
of the signs and become pretty
proficient."
A LITTLE RENOWN
"I guess some of the professors
around here decided I had done a
lot for the school," said Sandoval,
in reference to her being named
in Who's Who in America.
At Cal Baptist, following her
two-year editorship of the Banner
and   some great performances in
speech and drama, Sandoval has
developed for herself a very
familiar environment.
DECISIONS, DECISIONS. . .
When she was deciding upon
what college to attend, she received quite a bit of pressure from
her church friends. It seems the
congregation, a Baptist one, had
CBC all picked out for her, which
at  first  caused  her to shy away
from here. She wanted to do her
own choosing.
"But when I was a senior I was
looking for somewhere to go, and I
received a large scholarship to
come to CBC," she said.
Throughout high school she carried a 3.82 grade point average,
and when it came time todetermine
her smarts, via the SAT Test,
Sandoval's education surfaced and
she scored highly, prompting the
Carmen Sandoval whips out a story.
board  to award her the scholarship.
BROKEN ICE
Always the shy, quiet, academic
type, Sandoval admitted she was
not the communicative person she
had desires to be.
Her personality underwent a
change, though, when she enrolled
in a Noreen Hokett speech class.
"She taught me everything I
don't know," Sandoval kiddingly
said of her ex-teacher and good
friend. Sandoval, who had "sworn
up and down (she) wouldn't take a
class in speech," soon became a
speech-drama major, thanks to
Mrs. Hokett.
INTERNATIONAL FEAST
An international student dinner
will be held Friday, Nov. 21, at
7:30 p.m. in the college chapel,
featuring John Walsh, international
student director from the University of California at Berkeley.
The C.S.M. puppet group and
African music group will provide
entertainment. American students
must be accompanied by international students.
The event will be sponsored by
Campus Student Ministries.