The Banner - December 4, 1970

              Choir
Chapel Presents
Christmas Music
This year for their Christmas concert, Chapel Choir will
be presenting "Hodie", an oratorio by Ralph Vaughan Williams. It will be held at Magnolia Avenue Baptist Church, Dec.
15, at 8 p.m.
Hodie tells the Christmas story
using scripture and poetic texts.
The musical setting is quite modern. According to Dr. Curtis L.
Cheek, "Hodie is one of the most
exciting and important works of
the 20 century. I am really looking forward and enjoy directing
great music like this and I hope
my students and the audience can
feel the spirit that is presented
through this oratorio.''
John Campbell will be the accompanist, Mrs. Helen E.Walker
the soprano soloist, Philip Nail
the tenor soloist, and Merril
Smoak the baritone soloist.
The Music Department will
be in charge of chapel, Dec. 16.
The Trouveres, the Les Chan-
terres, and the Brass Ensemble
all have a part of the program.
They will be singing Christmas
music.
Business Class Analyzes
Needs Of Campus
LIBRARY PRESENTATION—Bob Ross, director of Pilgrim Publications, Pasadena, Texas (left) presents a gift certificate to Dean
Dewey Jones, indicating the gift to the CBC library of 56 volumes
of Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit. Nine
of the volumes are being mailed and the others will be sent as they
come off the press. Ross also gave a slide presentation on the life
of the famous Baptist pastor. The Spurgeon books are also available
in the bookstore.
A five-year improvement plan
Is presently the project of a
business class at Cal State Ful-
Ierton. Robert C. Davis and
Bernie S. Smith met with Senate
members recently in the Alham-
bra Room to get their ideas on
what needs to be improved on
campus and to hear some of
their present gripes. They divided
the group into two smaller units
to get more people voicing their
opinions.
In the group headed by Smith,
everyone had much the same
Ideas on what thecompus needed.
Some of the ideas that came out
were:
1—The crowded conditions
during registration. Why isn't
it set up in the gym where
everything could be taken care
of in one building?
2—Counseling. The students
felt that the teachers didn't spend
enough time with the students
and that they really didn't understand the catalogue and its requirements well enough to counsel
in-coming freshmen.
CB.C Teachers Training
Program Rated Excellent
Dr. Staples Addresses
Foreign Student Banquet
The teacher surplus problem has not affected the
teacher training program at
California Baptist College
according to Wilma T.
Brown, coordinator. "Every
one of our teaching graduates who wanted a position in
the Riverside area has been
placed," she said.
When Mrs. Brown came to
Cal Baptist from San Francisco State College in 1967
there were ten collegians in
the student teacher program;
by 1969 there were 71 in
public school training. At
the present time there are in
excess of 200 students at
CBC in the teacher education program.
The elementary division of
the department has been fully
accredited since 1967 and
this fall a secondary program is being launched.
"Our teachers are in demand," says Mrs. Brown.
"One principal told me that
he liked our students so well
he'd take any we would assign him."
Mrs. Brown attributes
much of the success of the
teacher training program at
Cal Baptist to the fact that
candidates are carefully
screened. After they are
accepted, she feels a desire
to motivate each of them on
a personal basis. This tends
to negate the complaint that
one hears on many campuses
that students become little
more than ciphers to their
superiors.
"Holding Forth Christ to the
World" was the theme of President James R. Staples' Thanksgiving message to the foreign students and their American friends
who accompanied them at California Baptist College.
Dr. Staples referred to Cal
Baptist as a Christian campus
of international concern where
students from all countries are
merged into God's distinctive
mosaic.
Staples stated, "The basis of
Christianity is God's love for
the world and the giving of his
Son that the world through him
might be saved. In Christ Jesus
all nationalities are merged into
one family - the family of God."
President Staples used part
of his hat collection from
countries in which he and Mrs.
Staples had traveled to dramatize
the various nations. He used the
Cal Baptist "beanie", which had
been presented to him at the first
of the year by the freshman class,
to indicate that under the Cal
Baptist hat all hats are harmonized, without losing the distinctiveness of each country.
3—The limited number of
courses offered. The students
agreed that because of the lack
of funds more classes could not
be offered, but they would like
to see more incorporated into
the curriculum.
4—Communication. There Is
a communication gap on campus,
but the students thought it had
improved through the efforts of
Dr. Staples. He has been talking
to students and listening to them
and they appreciate his attitude
towards them.
5—Publication of events. Too
many people do not know what is
happening on campus and the
students felt that a better means
of publicizing up-coming events
should be thought about.
6~Attitudes of students. Students need to start emphasizing
the good about the campus rather
than always talking about the
negative points.
7—Teacher evaluation. The
students thought that some means
of evaluation of classes and
teachers should be used, possibly by the studentsthemselves.
Smith commented that "you
have to invest money before you
will get anything out of it." He
students on projects that they
(the students) themselves could
and would work on. In this way
they might feel more a part of
the campus.
These men will be returning
to the campus to talk with students and the administration.
They want your ideas because
this is your school.
The Thanksgiving dinner for
the International students was
sponsored by the Student Body
Association and the Baptist Student Union. There are 34 foreign
students out of the total enrollment of 690, or approximately
5%.
Ceramics Display To
Follow Dickens Dinner
An informal family style
"Dickens Feast" will be given
Saturday at 7:30 p.m. in the college chapel for all faculty and
staff members. Betty Musacchio,
chairman of the C.B.C. Women's
Club, Karen Brandon, Kathy
Knecht, and Yancy Pitman are
planning the program for that
evening. "A traditional English
Christmas dinner will be served,
the attire for the evening will be
traditional period dress from
the Nineteenth Century. The program presentation will be about
Charles Dickens. This year we
celebrate the Hundredth Anniversary of his Death." commented Mrs. Musacchio. Tickets
are $3.00 per person.
Following the program in the
chapel there will be an exhibition
given in the Ceramics Studio of
work done by the students in the
Art Dept. throughout the
semester. There will be both
earthenware and painting projects
for sale. Twenty percent of the
proceeds wUl be used in our Art
Dept. to ameliorate and enlarge
its scope.
There will be two students, Beth
Hite and Frank Hall, demonstrating their craftsmanship in
ceramics for the faculty and staff
present that evening, between
8:30 and 9:30.
INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS of California Baptist Collge and Mrs. James R. Staples, wife of the
president of C.B.C. are shown following their Thanksgiving dinner looking at an African Artifact. From
left are: Steve Yu, Hong Kong; C. Kinsley Udeh, Nigeria; Mrs. Staples; Orapin Dee, Thailand; and
Makiko Kawamura, Japan.