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JHB cmUB^ i.\0 FEBRUARY 21, 1969 MONTREAT-ANDERSOIM COLLEGE RESOLUTION That the Board of Trustees of Montreat-Anderson reaffirms the purposes set forth in the Charter of the College: "that those attending the college receive a sound and thorough Christian Education suitable to their needs" and that they receive "instruction in the Holy Bible". That the Board of Trustees instruct the President to search for and recommend to the Board persons to serve on the staff and faculty who are committed Christians, who bear witness to their faith in their manner of life, by regular corporate worship, by a Christian concern for students, by a single minded search for the truth, being committed to Jesus Christ, who is the truth and in whom alone there is freedom. That the Board of Trustees affirm its conviction that corporate worship is an essential feature of the life of a Christian academic community, that participation in worship is an important element in the student's educational experience in a church college supported by a climate of conviction. That the Board of Trustees commends the Faculty Committee on Religious, Activities for its commitment to the Christian ideals of the college and its zeal for the spiritual welfare of the faculty and students. That the Board of Trustees instruct the administration and faculty that chapel be conducted each week as an act of corporate x^orship by the college community. That faculty and staff are urged to attend regularly and that students be required to attend except when excused by the Dean of Students. That faculty and staff and students be urged to gather for corporate worship on the Lord's Day. That for one year attendance at corporate worship on the Lord's Day be voluntary POLITICAL REFUGEES FROM c u B A Legally, I am a resident of the United States. We entered here with immigrant visas in 1961. Politically, we are refugees, as are thousands of Cubans, Hungarians and other nationalities who have fled from international Communism. We did not leave in Cuba many material values. Other Cubans had to abandon their possessions: fams, crops, factories, businesses, etc. Since the Communists took over all their riches they have had to begin all over again or live in abject poverty. The riches we left behind were of a spiritual nature. We had a simple home which had accumulated many precious memories. We had numerous relatives and freinds and a task v/hich was the pride of our lives. My wife and I worked in the same place, a Presbyterian School founded over fifty years ago. My wife taught in the elementary department and I was in the Pre-University Institute. Perhaps you are asking yourself: Why did they leave? Why did they hand all this over to the Communists? The answer to this is that we didn't hand over anything. The Communists took over everything. They needed our school and all the other schools in order to utilize their propaganda and impose their doctrine. When the Communists came into power they spread around the following slogan: 'With this government you must either take asylum, adapt yourself, or hang yourself." I xvould like to explain these words because they accurately reflect the philosophy of those days xvhich began in January, 1959. To take asylum means to find refuge in the embassy of any foreign country. Many did this while others who tried to do it were shot dead at the very entrances to the embassies. The militia impeded any approach to these places. Many Cubans took the road to excite without knowing what awaited them in the country which was to receive them. The majority who came here have to thank God for their reception. But people too advanced in age to be able to adapt themselves and those who made their way to other countries of America or Europe, have not been able to say the same. Many other Cubans trying to escape by boat, because of the impossibility of exit in any legal fashion, were discovered and killed by the Communists. To adapt oneself means to obey blindly the marxist doctrine and to URBAN CRISIS WINSTON-SALEM, N. C. -- Montreat- Anderson is one of 200 schools in the Eastern United States which will be invited to send ten student delegates to a convention-symposium on "The Urban Crisis--The Student^' Response" at Wake Forest University March 20-22. The symposium is called "Challenge '69" and is held every other year at the Winston-Salem, N. C., school on various problems confronting the country. Speakers who already have accepted invitations include the keynoter. Sen. Edmund Muskie (D-Maine); Harvey Cox, author of "The Secular City;" Saul Alinsky, director of the Industrial Areas Foundation of Chicago and the newly formed Midas Foundation; Robert Wood, former under-secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development; and Herbert Kramer, former aide to Sargent Shriver and presently a consultant to the Office of Economic Opportunity. Other speakers who have been invited include Sen. Fred Harris (D-Oklahoma), a member of the Kerner Commission; Daniel P. Moynihan, urban affairs adviser of President Nixon; and Michael Harrington, author of "The Other America" and chairman of the board of the League for Industrial Democracy. The symposium has three major divisions. The first day delegates will consider the student's role as a citizen and voter, on the second day his role as a volunteer and on the third his role as part of the university's participation in community problems. Officials from over 200 major Eastern cities have been invited to conduct xjorkshops which the delegates will attend in addition to lectures. According to Miss Norma Murdoch, executive director of CHALLENGE '69, "our program exists as an expression of our anxiety over our nation's plight." She added, "CHALLENGE '69 will bring together authorities from the various sub-areas of the problem to plant seeds for constructive action by students and their universities." She urges any students interested in being delegates to contact Charlie Lance, president of the student body, or Dr. C. Grier Davis, president of the College, to x>7hom detailed information will be sent the Xvreek of February 17th. TURN TO PAGE 3
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