Montreat-Anderson College Student Newspaper
Montreat, N.C. 28757
Phone: 669-8425
Joe Compton, Editor
Ruth Akerman, Copy Editor
Judy Milliner, Features
Robert Heeth, Managing Editor
Linda Field
“Moose” WaU
R. B. Wilkins
David Field
Paul Williams
Virginia Meldahl, Artwork
Linda Leach, Advertising
Mary Vilas, Photography
Published every other Friday except holidays and
examination periods.
Ad rate: 75 cents per column inch.
hJ
55
Ellen Evansa
BY JUDITH MILLINER
Dr. Newton is a Bible
professor and has also been
the building inspector at
Montreat for the last two
years.
He was bom and raised in
Georgia and moved around
the state a great deal in his
earlier years because of his
father’s profession as an
engineer.
In high school he had trouble
in deciding on a career - music
or engineering. He finally
decided on electrical and
radio communications and
went on to college at Georgia
Tech.
It was atGa.Tech where Dr.
Newton became a Christian
through a close friend, David
Parks. He committed his life
to fulltime Christian service.
It was the Navy though, that
paid for his tuition, so he had
to fulfill committments to the
service for three years.
He became the General Line
r Naval Officer which was over
electronics and damage
control. He was on two
Destroyers during the Korean
War and after he had tran
sferred off of the first one it
was hit six times in Korea.
After the service he at
tended Columbia Seminary in
Decatur, Georgia. He finished
in 1956, and accepted a
pastorate at Smyrna Cam
pground Presbyterian Church
- the only V.S. Presbyterian
church in a campground.
While serving there he worked
on his master of Theology.
He felt called into teaching
the Bible and taught at
Bellehaven College in
Jackson, Mississippi for two
years.
He then went on to enter the
graduate program at Emory
V. in Atlanta, Georgia for
Doctorate in Church History.
His dissertation was on St.
Augustine.
He came to Montreat in 1964
to teach Bible and he started
the Philosophy and Christian
Classics classes.
He says, “I would like to see
students seek to study all
areas of life from the
Christian perspective. I have
seen a profound change in the
student body with the growth
of Christian students and the
stand they take.”
He went on to say how
earlier recruiters left out any
reference to being a church
school, let alone Christian
oriented, which led to very few
Christian students.
The change came under
Dean Mitchell who sought
Christian students. He
changed the college from
having chapel everyday and
required vespers. He
gradually reduced the number
of chapels and set up the
credits system.
Dr. Newton feels, “The
changes have been for the
better, and one aspect that
pleases me is the high per
centage of Christian students
who take up for the faith
because the impact comes on
peer level.”
In the future. Dr. Newton
hopes there will be more
courses and faculty in the
Bible Department.
Dr. John Newton
... pleased with changes
Encounter
By Hal Johnson
I had three hours to waste at the bus depot in Winston-Salem
before my final ride to the Blue Ridge Parkway was to arrive.
There were several soldiers, elderly women and teenagers
waiting restlessly for their buses. An unshaven beggar was
standing in the corner, too dignified to ask for change, but
everyone sensed his motive and avoided him as much as
possible. The soldiers and women were shifting in their chairs
while reading magazines or watching the week-day afternoon
shows on individual pocket-sized T.V. sets that require a
quarter per ten minutes for them to work. The reception was
terrible and only the local station was visible which meant
each person payed to watch the same show. It seems that
people find anything that takes their money entertaining. The
teenagers were all sitting on the floor (though many chairs
were vacant) acting as if they were high on some powerful
drug.
There was a Krishna Conscious diciple handing out free
copies of the Bhagavad-Gita to the wealthier looking people
and asking donations for the poverty-stricken children of In
dia. He seemed to^know exactly who to ask for donations. The
people were taken by this “free gift” and gave him ten and
twenty dollar bills. He came to me with a copy. I thanked him
but refused to accept it. I wanted to talk with him on God’s
Truth from my Christian point of view but he saw nothing in it
for him and walked away. I was alone and very depressed
from having no one to talk to so I went to the beggar in the
corner and asked him to join me for a cup of coffee. He did not
respond. At first I thought he was deaf but when he looked
away from me I realized that he thought I was just acting in
sympathy towards him. It may have appeared that way but I
really wanted someone to join me. I walked into the restaurant
alone and sat down at a table for four. The waitress asked me
to plea.se move and directed me to a side booth with a table
about the size of a desk top. After shebnughtme a cup of coffee
and an egg-salad sandwich the man entered. He . sat down
across from me and began to talk. I didn’t want to humiliate
him by ordering him some food so I told him that I just couldn’t
finish my sandwich and asked him if he would eat the other
half. I told him I’d get him a cup of coffee to drink with the
other half of my sandwich and he accepted it gratefully.
I was in college at the time and didn’t have all that much
money for pleasure but 1 did have enough for another sand
wich and more coffee. He became less shy as we talked and
when I a.sked the lady for another sandwich he was very
pleased. He even specified grilled cheese.
We talked about the Bible and began discussing the
Beatitudes. I was amazed by his knowledge of both the Old
and New Testaments. We were both pointing out specific
details, some of which I’d never thought about and visa-versa.
As we talked, the deciple of Krsna walked in. He sat alone, not
far from us and ordered a steak sandwich and milk. I looked at
the old man across from me and he smiled, sensing my
thoughts.
The ticket clerk announced the bus departing for Asheville
over the intercom. I thanked the man for joining me and he
blessed me. I felt a deep joy as I walked out, leaving him
content while watching the servant of Krsna eating his steak
sandwich.
Thomas Hong
... keeping his 4.0
By RUTH AKERMAN
A young minister and his
wife escaped Communist
persecution by fleeing through
mountains from North to
South Korea. They settled in
Seoul, Korea, and in 1954 had a
son, Tom, a guy who showed
up here in the North Carolina
Mountains last year.
Thomas Daewoo Hong, now
22 has a colorful background,
in his adversome family, and
in his own experiences too.
He left Korea six years ago
and attended the Marist
Brothers International School
in Kobe, Japan. This men’s
school was Catholic, run by
“Fathers” and “Brothers”.
“It was like a monastery,”
Tom recalls. He says it was
very strict but he learned a lot
there.
“All 16 people in my
graduating class were from
different countries, and so
were all my teachers,” Tom
says. “I learned English
there, but it was all mixed
up.”
Tom then went to Sophia
University in Tokyo for six
months. Then he quit and
worked for a year. In the
The Teacher-of-the-Year award this year went to Mr. David
Parks for his outstanding ability as a teacher and a friend.
mean time, his father had
come to the States.
He had heard of Montreat-
Anderson, and suggested that
Tom come study here. Tom
wanted to become a medical
doctor eventually.
He wanted to study in the
United States, so he decided a
small school like this one his
father had described, would"
be a good place.
When he first arrived here
the jumbled English he had
learned in Japan didn’t serve
him very well. His worst
course here was English.
“I dreaded English class
more than anything,” he
remembers. But his teacher,
Dr. Boykin took a personal
interest in him, tutoring him
regularly.
For the first time in his life
he made an “A” in English.
That wasn’t his only “A”
though. He has maintained a
4.0 average ever since he
came here.
Stepping toward his dream,
he’ll now transfer into the pre-
Med program at King College
in Bristol, Tenn. From this
valley he carries insights into
American life and some
valuable friendships too.
“I’ve come to think about
Christianity more seriously
here,” he continues. “When I
first came to Montreat, Dr.
Boykin called me into her
office and ended up talking to
me about it.
“I come from a family with
many ministers but Dr.
Boykin said that being a
Christian is an individual
thing, not just in the family.”
Seeing a busy road ahead of
him, Tom still maintains some
hobbies. He has played two
seasons of Cavalier Soccer,
“every position but goal
keeper.”
He likes to play ping-pong
and his pals insist that he
plays piano too.
“A riddle bid,” he admitts
with a pernal accent.
People have accused him of
being smart, but he denies it
with a flair.
“I just study. You can’t do
nothin’ if you don’t study.”