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Ockenga is currently approaching two other decisions about his ministry. Pasadena's Fuller Theological Seminary, which he helped found, is urging him to accept its full-time presidency. He has also been invited by the National Association of Evangelicals to become its executive vice president. At week's end his mind was still not made up. "A man's got to know what the Lord's will is," he said...
...disputes on U.S. campuses ever make the front pages or catch the big headlines. But they can be waged with all the fury and bitterness of any congressional debate. One such case back in the news last week was the story of what happened to a school superintendent in Pasadena, Calif, (see next page). Another, even more emotional row was being fought out at little (630 students) Rollins College in Winter Park...
...afternoon of Nov. 21, 1950, a harassed and weary man turned to address the hushed audience that jammed the meeting of the Pasadena, Calif, school board. Superintendent of Schools Willard Goslin announced that after less than 2½ years in office he was resigning. "I shall take away no ill feelings when I leave Pasadena," said he, "rather a deep regret that I was unable to lead this community to a level which would have produced the best school system in America." With those words, Willard Goslin brought to an end one of the bitterest school battles...
William Vittoni and Joseph Vowels were working for North American Weather Consultants of Pasadena, Calif. Their business was making rain or snow by seeding susceptible clouds with silver iodide particles. Last week they took their apparatus by auto and trailer close to the summit of a 3,700-ft. mountain near Santa Barbara, and started grinding out silver iodide to fulfill a contract with the city. "Each time we turned on the machine," said Vittoni, "we found ourselves in the center of a miniature snowstorm...
...comic strip called "The Berrys," which won a fourth prize, is the day-to-day epic of a dumb but well intentioned father, a port mother, and two sweet mischievous kiddies. Another freedom award was given to Pasadena's "Tournament of Roses" committee because it sponsored a parade dedicated to "Our American Heritage." Even advertising campaigns dramatizing weary American pioneers trudging through vast wildernesses rated freedom medals. These do not contribute much to understanding freedom, but play up "Americanism" for its own sake...