1980 - 1984

Sep 3: Harold J. Schultz, "Out on a Limb"
Sep 7: Bruce Woods, "Finding Meaningful Relationships"
Sep 10: Richard Harris, "Language and Advertising"
Sep 13: Duane Friesen, "Reflections on the Middle East Conflict" (Peace Lecture)
Sep 17: Bethel Enery Conservation Task Force, "Meeting Bethel's Energy Needs"
Sep 24: Walter Jost, community song fest
Sep 28: Mimewock, mime show (Fall Fest convo)
Oct 5: environmental lecturer to be announced
Oct 8-9: Ron Sider, "New Ways to be Peacemakers" (Staley Lectures)
Oct 12: "Glimpses from Bethel's Past" Founders Day commemoration
Oct 15: Carl Eller, "My Fifth Superbowl"
Oct 19: John Sheriff, "Mennonites, Methodists, and Liberal Education"
Oct 22: Anna Bowman, "Is Misogyny Too Harsh a Word? How Do You Feel about Women?"
Oct 26: Marion Decker, James Juhnke, "Should Christians Participate in Politics" debate
Oct 29-30: Vincent Harding, "Black History and the Search for a New America" (Menno Simons Lectures)
Nov 5: Thane Chastain, "Through a Tube Darkly"
Nov 9: Marcus Smucker, "Christ and Vocation"
Nov 12: Roger Claassen, "World Food Security and the U. S. Farm Policy"
Nov 16: "South Africa - the White Laager" film
Nov 19: "Generations of Resistance" film (South Africa)
Nov 26: Mari Peterson, "A Perspective on Wolf Creek Nuclear Plant"
Nov 30: "A Perspective on Wolf Creek Nuclear Plant," KGE representative

Spring 1984

Feb 3: Paul Ackerman, "The Creationist Challenge: Does It Matter"
Feb 6: Robert Kreider, "Famous and Not So Famous Last Words"
Feb 10: Marles Preheim, community song fest
Feb 13: Tim Lehman, Service Emphasis Day
Feb 19-21: Don Kraybill, "Hope in a Nuclear Age"
Feb 24: Bert Lobe, "A Perspective on Southeast Asia"
Feb 27: Rich Sider, "Central America Today"
Feb 27, 8:30pm: George Ritchie, "Bach and the Cosmic Connection: Music, Mathematics and the Mind"
Mar 2: Efrian Diaz, "The U. S. and Central America: A Honduran Perspective"
Mar 5: John Gaston, "Role of Blacks on Small Predominantly White Campuses"
Mar 9: Leroy Garvin, "History of the Negro Spiritual"
Mar 12: Bethel College Debate Team, "Resolved: That U. S. Higher Education Has Sacrificed Quality for Institutional Survival"
Mar 16: Deborah Hunsberger, Paul McKay, and students, "Interterm Experiences in Germany and India"
Mar 26: Bruce Cutler, "Alternate Worlds"
Mar 30: Connie Bohannon Roberts, "Sevel Women" drama
Apr 2: Felix Moos, "Refugees at Our Doorstep"
Apr 5: Roger Fisher, "Alternatives to Military Bluffing in International Disputes"
Apr 9: "Running Fence" film
Apr 13: Sack and Act Players, "Mother Goose's Cornz-a-poppin' Network"
Apr 16: choral concert, Bethel College choral groups
Apr 23: Student Council convocation, Tammy Duvanel
Apr 27: "Population Issues - 1984," representative of Population Institute, Washington, DC [who was it?]
Apr 30: Rachel Waltner, "Main Streets: Preserving Our Cities"

Fall 1983

Sep 5: Harold J. Schultz, "In Pursuit of Excellence"
Sep 9: "Nicaragua and Honduras," International Summer Seminar
Sep 12: Victor J. Papanek, "Creative Problem Solving"
Sep 19: Marles Preheim, community song fest
Sep 22: Waldo Wedel, "The Plains and Man: An Archeologist's Perspective" 8pm
Sep 23: Waldo Wedel, "Indians and Spaniards in the 16th Century Kansas"
Sep 26-27: Myron Augsburger, "Discipleship in the Global Village" (Staley Lectures)
Oct 3: Sally Kitch, "The Mother God and Social Structures: The Shaker Example"
Oct 7: "Our Neighbors from the South"
Oct 10: Fremont and Sara Regier, "Two Years on the Edge of the Kalahari"
Oct 17: Robert Christina, Jr., "The Trains We Rode"
Oct 21: film "Goya: His Life and Art"
Oct 24: Betsy Bergen, "Human Sexuality"
Oct 28: Richard MacMaster, "William Penn's Woods"
Oct 30-Nov 1: Cynthia Wedel, "Tradition and Traditions" (Menno Simons Lectures)
Nov 7: Naomi Lynn, "Women: The Real Majority"
Nov 14: Carolyn Schultz, "Willa Cather - The Prairie"
Nov 18: Bethel College Jazz Ensemble
Nov 21: John Swomley, "The Devil Theory of International Relations"
Nov 28: Forensics Road Show
Dec 2: International students
Dec 5: Myrna Arceo, "Phillippine Religion: Domesticating or Liberating?"

Spring 1983

Feb 4: Wallace T. Collett, "Is Peace Possible in the Middle East?"
Feb 7: film "La Frontera"
Feb 11: Gary Gammon, "The Realist's Approach to Peace"
Feb 14: Monita Lank, "Male and Female Comparisons in Strength Development"
Feb 16: Service Emphasis Day [who spoke?]
Feb 18: Art Simon, "Addressing the Problem of World Hunger"
Feb 20-22: Walter Klaassen, "Simplicity and Ambiguity: The Janus of Biblical Faith" (Bible Lectures)
Feb 25: Newton Community Chorale
Feb 28: John Ruth, "Paradoxes"
Mar 4: Heidi Regier, "Botswana: Encounters in Faith"
Mar 7: Emmet C. Burns, "Minority Affairs"
Mar 11: Bethel College Gospel Choir
Mar 14: MCC Players, "On the Move"
Mar 18: June Yoder, "Women and Peace"
Mar 28: film "Women Inside"
Apr 4: to be announced
Apr 8: James Hartman, "American English Variation: E Pluribus Unum"
Apr 14: Jonathan Fine, "The Prevention of Nuclear War"
Apr 15: John Bergey, "Choosing Health"
Apr 18: Bob Edmiston, "Alternative Energy Futures"
Apr 22: International Student Organization
Apr 25: Paul McKay, "The Plight of Central American Refugees"
Apr 29: Frank Tillapaugh, "The Church Unleashed"
May 2: Arthur Abrams, "Contemporary Issues from the Jewish Points of View"
May 6: Diane Umble, "Diary of a Strasbourg Film Project"
May 9: film "Potlatch: A Strict Law Bids Us Dance"
May 13: Awards Assembly

Fall 1982

Sep 3: Harold J. Schultz, "A World of Linkages"
Sep 6: Robert Kreider, "Sabbatical Windows"
Sep 10: Paul McKay, Juan José Hurtado, "Central American Exiles and Refugees"
Sep 13: Prairie View staff, "The View from Within"
Sep 17: Paul Myers, C. Nelson Hostetter, "Mennonite Disaster Service"
Sep 19-21: Dallas Willard, "The Prospects for a Christian Apologetics in the 1980s" (Staley Lectures)
Sep 27: Kiyoshi Tanimoto, "Hiroshima 37 Years Later"
Oct 1: "For the Beauty of the Earth," Fall Fest convo
Oct 4: "Please Freeze," an original musical drama, Road Less Travelled
Oct 8: Stanley Senner, "Political Action and Environmental Stewardship"
Oct 11: Barbara Schmidt, "Victim and Offender Mediation Service"
Oct 15: Medard Gable, "The Empty Breadbasket: The Cornucopia Project"; Jack Nelson, "North American Food Patterns"
Oct 18: to be announced
Oct 22: Elwood Chapman, "Your Attitude is Showing"
Oct 25: Harold Moyer, James Juhnke, "Time Will Tell," original operetta, Hesston College Music Department
Oct 26: "Die Fledermaus," National Opera Company
Nov 1-2: John Howard Yoder, Menno Simons Lectures
Nov 5: Warren Bryan Martin, "The Liberal Arts and Career Education"
Nov 8: Jerry Karr, "Implications of the 11/2 Elections for State Legislative Priorities"
Nov 12: Ken Bauman, "The Marks of an Educated Person"
Nov 15: Marvin Dirks, "Hypothesis: That We Are Not All Created Religiously Equal"
Nov 19: Huan Xinqu, "My Personal Odyssey"
Nov 22: Randal Gunden, "Reflections of an Economist"
Nov 29: James Schellenberg, "Is an Objective Standard of Justice Possible?"
Dec 3: Forensics Road Show
Dec 6: file "Excuse Me, America" Brazilian archbishop Dom Helder Camara

Spring 1982

Feb 5: Howard Snider and Bethel students, "Experiential Learning and Interterm Off-campus Course Reports"
Feb 8: Charles Pace, Freddie Gardner, "Sizwe Bansi is Dead" drama on South Africa
Feb 12: Richard Friesen, "An Urban Ministry: A Visual Presentation on Kansas City"
Feb 14-16: Robert Bratcher, "The Bible in Today's World" (Bible Lectures)
Feb 22: Jacqui Chagnon, "Indochina Refugees: A View from Inside Indochina"
Feb 26: Marles Preheim, Community Chorale
Mar 1: Don Joy, "Basic Life Intimacies"
Mar 3: Philip Young, "Working with the Criminal Justice System" (Service Emphasis Day)
Mar 5: Francis S. Lestingi, "Thermo Nuclear Weapons: Visions and Visuals"
Mar 8: Don Liggett, "Seeing Ourselves through Other Cultures"
Mar 12: International Students Organization of Bethel College
Mar 15: Richard Steele, "South Africa from the Perspective of a South African Conscientious Objector"
Mar 19: Forensics Road Show
Mar 29: National Shakespeare Company, "The Tempest"
Apr 2: Denver Interfaith Children's Choir
Apr 5: Gene Stoltzfus, "Hope and Decay in the City: Can White People Help?"
Apr 12: film "The Artist as a Woman"
Apr 16: Henry Kelly, "Energy, Productivity, and National Energy Demand"
Apr 18: Black Heritage Convocation [who spoke?]
Apr 23: Jim Yoder, "Southern Africa as Seen Through the Swaziland Window"
Apr 26: Anne and Tom Moore, "Nuclear Power and Nuclear Weapons from a Kansan's Perspective"
Apr 30: Joachim Wiens, "The Peace Movement in Europe"
May 3: Anna Juhnke, "The Exodus in Modern Imagination"
May 7: William Stemper, "The Corporation: Its Pitfalls and Promise"
May 10: film "Excuse Me America" about Brazilian Dom Helder Camara
May 14: Awards Assembly

Fall 1981

Sep 4: Harold J. Schultz, "The Giraffe Society"
Sep 7: Jerry Lichti, "What I Learned in Zambia"
Sep 14-15: Mary Cosby, "The Relevance of Christ in a World Like Ours" (Staley Lectures)
Sep 18: Covenant Players, "Business vs. Christianity"
Sep 21: Robert Hinshaw, "Natural Disaster Trends and Their Implications"
Sep 25: Paul Wehr, "Case Studies in Conflict Management"
Sep 28: film "On the Edge of the Forest"
Oct 2: Fred Loganbill, "Draft Registration: Considerations and Options"
Oct 5: Kirk Alliman, "The Church as a Service Organization"
Oct 9: "Finding Joy in Simplicity" (Fall Fest convo)
Oct 12: Diane Umble, "Living with Mass Media"
Oct 16: Ron Flaming, "The Challenge of the Pastorate"
Oct 19: Paul McKay, "Guatemala: The Unnatural Disaster"
Oct 23: Harold Turner, "New Religious Movements in the U. S."
Oct 26-27: Cornelius J. Dyck, Menno Simons Lectures
Nov 2: Keith Harder, "Christian Community"
Nov 6: Donna Neufeld, "Anger: Making the Best of It"
Nov 9: Reinhild Janzen, "Art, A Matter of Survival"
Nov 13: The Micah and Laura Mime Theatre
Nov 16: film "Waterloo Farmers"
Nov 20: Winfield Fretz, "China Revisited"
Nov 23: Foreign student convo
Dec 7: film "Between Men"

Spring 1981

Feb 6: Lee Lengel, "The Automobile and American Life"
Feb 9: Jeptha Hostetler, "Alcohol and Drugs"
Feb 11: film "Alcohol and Drugs: Making a Decision"
Feb 13: Alcohol and drug abuse convo
Feb 16-17: Pheme Perkins, "Love Commands in the New Testament: Covenant Community and Ethical Obligation" (Bible Lectures)Feb 23: Andrew Edwards, "Focus on the Contemporary Black Family"
Feb 27: Musical-dramatc presentation by the Gospel Choir
Mar 2: Peter Ediger, "Three Temptations in the College Wilderness" (Service Emphasis Week)
Mar 6: Public Affairs Division, McConnell Air Force Base, "Titan II Missiles"
Mar 9: Brahms Requiem, The Chorale, Walter Jost
Mar 13: Willie Richardson, "Preparation for the Rest of Your Life"
Mar 16: Plow Shares, Doug & Jude Krehbiel, "Castles in the Air"
Mar 20: John Pilch, "Wellness: Your Invitation to Full Life"
Mar 30: John Valusek, "Discipline and Violence"
Apr 3: Jay Goering, "Farming - From Africa to Kansas"
Apr 6: Lawrence Hart, "Cheyenne Peace Traditions"
Apr 10: to be announced
Apr 13: Burton Buller, "Making a Film on the Hutterites"
Apr 20: John Gaston, "The Ideas and Ideals of Martin Luther King"
Apr 24: The Zebras, North Texas State, "From Back to Jazz"
Apr 27: Forensics Road Show
May 1: Music honors convo
May 4: Carl S. Keener, "The Humanizing Imperative: A Process Perspective"
May 8: Brigadier General B. K. Gorowitz, peace lecture
May 11: film "Between Men"
May 15: Awards Assembly

Fall 1980

Sep 5: Harold J. Schultz, "When You Elect Bethel . . ."
Sep 8: Ingram S. Seah, "Church, Conscience and Government"
Sep 12: Delton Franz, "Election 1980 - Questions and Answers"
Sep 15-16: Bernie Wiebe, "Looking for Myself" (Staley Lectures)
Sep 22: film "The American Woman: Portraits of Courage"
Sep 26: Bruno Schottstaedt, "Christians in a Socialist Society"
Sep 29: Von Hardesty, "World War II and the Russian Enigma"
Oct 6: Jim Bixel, "Of Mountains, Mozart and the Liberal Arts"
Oct 10: Marion Deckert, "The Unexpected"
Oct 13: Perry Yoder, "Human Plans and Divine Providence or What to do with a Beautiful Wife in Egypt"
Oct 17: Perry Yoder, "Human Government and Divine Providence or Love Your IRS Man as Yourself"
Oct 20: Dick Wright, "Classic Jazz Musicians" film and commentary
Oct 24: film "Broken Treaties at Battle Mountain"
Oct 27-28: Samuel Escobar, "Missiology from a Third World Point of View"
Oct 31: National Opera Company, "Don Pasquale"
Nov 3: Marian Franz, "Pastoring Politicians"
Nov 7: Lloyd Smith, "In Business Small is Beautiful"
Nov 10: John A. Auxier, "Nuclear Power and Public Concern"
Nov 14: James Bertsche, "Lessons Africans Have Taught Me"
Nov 17: Richard Foster, "The Celebration of Simplicity"
Nov 21: Vincent Persichetti, "On Being a Composer"
Nov 24: Tom Isern, "Following the Harvest"
Dec 1: William Juhnke, "Anabaptists and Mormons: Would You Believe a Comparison?"
Dec 5: George Rogers, Sheldon Bassett, Diane Flickner, "The Olympics and Politics", awards convo
Dec 8: film "Manimals"

Spring 1980

Feb 8: Ronald J. Sider, "Simplifying Our Lives in the 80s"
Feb 11: George Dyck, Martin Umansky, Charles Pearson, "Terrorism, Hostages and Keeping Our Cool"
Feb 15: Bernd Foerster, "Is There Anything Worth Saving in Kansas?"
Feb 17-19: Willard M. Swartley, "Using the Bible for Moral Issues: Case Analyses: Slavery and Role of Women"; "The Thematic Sermonic Use of the Bible: Peacemaking" (Bible Lectures)
Feb 25: Charles Pace, drama "Malcolm X" (Minority Culture Week)
Feb 29: Bethel Minority Students, "No Man Stands Alone"
Mar 3: Gene Stoltzfus, "A Message of Hope from the Philippines" (Service Emphasis Week)
Mar 7: Kenneth Boulding, "Peace and the Moral Economy"
Mar 10: Danilo Dolci, "Nonviolence in Violent Sicily"
Mar 14: Marles Preheim, Chorale
Mar 24: Herman Viola, "Indians and the Great White Father"
Mar 28: Betty Reardon, George Kent, Dudley Weeks, "Crisis Intervention - International"
Mar 31: Phyllis Bixler, "The Baptized Imagination: Fantasies of George MacDonald, C. S. Lewis, and J. R. R. Tolkien"
Apr 7: Michael Palmer, "Of Pianists, Composers and Orchestras"
Apr 11: Morning with Pete Seeger
Apr 14: Harold Schultz, "Journey to the Far East"
Apr 18: Mark Hatfield, "Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Christian Decision-Making in a World of Political Realism" (Faith and Learning Conference)
Apr 21: Presidents Peachey, Just, Schultz, "The Hesston-Tabor-Bethel Triangle"
Apr 25: Roger Juhnke, "Teas, Tutorials and Trains"
May 5: Readers Theater, "Come Laugh with Us"
May 9: Goals Study Committee, "Getting to 1987 in Style - Goals for Bethel"
May 12: Michael Steinel and band, "Jazz, Rock, Dixieland and Disco"
May 16: Jim Harder?, "It All Happened at Bethel: A Visual Story" and awards assembly

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