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Page 10 The PLAIN TRUTH July, 1957 An Ambassador Co-ed talks to students about proper foods. Student assemblies provide opportunities to demonstrate the valuable knowledge being gained in such courses as Home Economics. and model the coats, suits or dresses they have made as class projects during the year. The faculty and students are increasingly amazed at the fine work our girls are learning to do in Mrs. Van der Veer’s Home Economics class. We saw neat, stylish and attractive dresses, suits and frocks, all made by the girl who did the modeling-and were astolcnded at the very low cost of such beautiful clothing. Many dresses were shown which cost from $4.00 to $6.00, but yet would cost many times that amount if purchased in a clothing store! It was a refreshing insight into one of the many wonderful opportunities presented to the girl students here. I have had the privilege of being asked to be the guest evaluator at the Ambassador Women’s Club on occa- sion. In this girls’ dinner club, each girl is given the chance to act as hostess and present the evening’s program. There are table topics discussed, usually along the lines of domestic affairs that pertain par- ticularly to women, such as foods, and their selection and preparation, proper diet, etiquette, decorating, child-rearing and so-on. In this club, the girls are us- ing, in practical application, the many things they learn in the Home Econom- ics classes. The annual college play was a huge success this past year, with the charming setting of our own beautifully landscaped lower gardens. The drama club offers additional opportunities for girls with act- ing talent to both develop themselves, and contribute to the character and up- building of the college. Foreign Language Opportunities Most of Ambassador’s girls are tak- ing one foreign language. The foreign language clubs meet once each week, in beautiful and stately “Mayfair,” the girls’ student residence. The language clubs meet during the evening meal, and only the language being studied is spoken. Students learn to converse freely in a foreign tongue tha. seemed only months ago like some dark, insurmountable bar- rier! A foreign language! I remember well that the very phrase used to throw a certain amount of fear and apprehension into me! I didn’t believe-I couldn’t IMAGINE me-actually SPEAKING in another language! And yet, after five years (and they have literally “flown” by!) I am able to converse fluently and freely in the Spanish language. Oh, yes-I make plenty of grammatical mistakes yet, and my Spanish is not perfect, by any means-but it is now a source of real deep-down JOY to be able to talk to people of a foreign language and different race in their O U J ~ tongwe! You can know the same sense of accomplishment -and you’ll find no other place where the studying of a foreign language is so interesting, so alive with real purpose! Many of our students are able to speak to each other in the foreign languages. It’s quite a sight-and quite a mixture of soands, to walk into “Mayfair” on a Wednesday evening and hear from one room the German language, from another the Spanish tongue, with its staccato-like sounds, and the liquid-sounding French being spoken in still another room! An Excellent Department of Music We are blessed at Ambassador with a most excellent music department-and here many of our girls really excel! Our Professor of Music and Literature, Mrs. Lucy H. Martin, earned her Master’s degree in music after study in such world- famed schools as Maryville College, Chi- cago Musical College, Juillard School of Music and Columbia University in New York. Besides the personal instruction and help from Mrs. Martin in piano, the girls are provided with several of the finert pianos for practice. We at Am- bassador are unceasingly surprised at the growth and accomplishment of our music department. At the Spring recitals, we see and hear students singing or playing the piano who have made amaz- ing strides since coming here. Mr. Leon Ettinger, our Instructor in Voice and director of the Ambassador Chorale, earned his degree in music from the University of California, and has studied voice in London, New York and Italy. Under his capable directorship, our Chorale, consisting almost entirely
July, 1957 of untrained and inexperienced voices, has become so proficient that many of you have heard the ensemble sing on the “World Tomorrow” program coast-to- coast! The Chorale is a real source of in- spiration to all of us! Student Housing and Employment Many prospective students are of humble financial circumstances and cannot afford to pay all of their tuition and book fees without additional help. The college catalog explains in full our financial policy, but I’d like to tell you just a little about it. For one thing-this very magazine you’re holding was mailed to yon by an Ambassador Co!lege student. Our large mailing office employs mostly girls, who are better fitted for secretarial type jobs. Many of cur students were regular subscribers to the PLAIN TRUTH magazine before coming to college-and now they are having a part in actually mailing it out! I know of no other employment set-up on the face of this earth like Ambassador’s! Deserving and industrious students are given employment either in our large mailing office, in the student residence, or on our grounds. However, as the college grows, we will be increasingly pressed for job opportunities, and some students may have to seek off-campus work. To give you a little insight into the work program, nearly every student is presently employed in one job or another right on the campus. Many of the girls, those who work in the ofice, for instance, can go to class for an hour, and then go directly to the office and work for an hour or two, depending on their schedule, and then return to class. Most employers demand straight-through working schedules, and cannot offer such a set-up to employees. But, many of our Ambassador Cullege girls arc privileged to work under the most pleasant of con- ditions, at a very good starting wage- and work during the very hours thut beJt suit their own schedule! I’m sure you’ve never HEARD of such a thing before-- and I know I havcn’t! Our girls rcally appreciate this wonderful program and are striving to do their best work to con- tinually be dcscrving of it! Our student housing is nearly in the “too-good-to-be-true” class! The stately The PLAIN TRUTH Page 11 dignity of beautiful Mayfair, the girls’ dormitory, and the old-world, mascu- line charm of Manor del Mar, our new men’s student residence, great;y enhance the awe-inspiring grounds of Ambassa- dor College. Our students are learning to live in surroundings which formerly were the properties of multi-millionaires, but which God has graciously given to His own college! Our neighbcrs in the fine residentiel district of famed South Orange Grove Avenue in Pasadena hold our students in their highest esteem, realizing they are young men and women, but that they act like young ladies and gentlemen- with culture and dignity, thus adding to the neighborhood, instead of detracting from it! Classes and Study Facilities Make no mistake about oybe thing- Ambassador’s students are prcbably the baskst on earth! They approach their classes with an entirely different out- look than the average college student of today, however. Our motto, “Recapture True Values” permeates every class. Stu- dents are encouraged to ask, “Why, Who, Where, When”-and find the answer.r, rather than just learn by rote memory what a certain text-book says! While Ambassador is a liberal arts institution, each and every class revclves around, and supplements the real basic classes in Bible and Theology. Thus it is that the GOD-point-of-view permeates every course, and every activity st Ambassador. Christ slid we are to live by “every WORD of God” (Matt. 4:4). The Bible, the inspired Word of God, carries the AUTHORITY of God. Not only in our classes, but in our extra-curricular activities as well, we look on God’s Word as the supreme AUTHORITY in our lives -and accept it as the basis of life it- self. The students approach their classes and studies with open, questioning minds, striving to find the answers to the REAL questions, “Who are we, what are we, why are we, and where are we go- ing?” By next fall, Mr. Armstrong earnestly hopes to have ready for cl-,sses the new- ly acquired “Ambassador Hall,” former home of a multi-millionaire, Mr. Hulett C. Merritt. When refinished inside to provide classroom facilities, Ambassadcr Hall will represent what is perhaps the finest classroom building in any college, anywhere! Students are provided with ample study space and facilities-in the spacious college library and solarium, in (Please continue on page 23 ) Ambassador students play hard, too! Here you see a game of volleyball being played on the spacious outdoor volleyball court. This comprises only one of the many athletic and recreational activities of the student’s jam-packed lives.
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