My second year was much easier. I
was relieved of my hardest course and only picked up one new one. I promised
myself I would never just repeat the previous year, updating is easier than
starting from scratch.
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| I often sat on the classroom table when it was sturdy enough to hold me. |
I seem to remember that Rex Boda
had been academic dean for both CBC and CTS but switched over to just CTS in
1975-76 and that Bob Rose became academic dean for CBC. The only problem with
that is that Bob’s photo is not in the 1976 yearbook, so I am probably
confused. If that change occurred in that year, I moved up to be department
chairman and Fred Wilson joined our department moving into Bob’s old office.
That part is correct. I was also more relaxed in class.
I loved working with a class to
produce youth conference. It was a great group. It took a while to come up with
the theme, but when it did, everything just rolled out. The Canadian Egg Board
was running a series of commercials that year promoting eggs and using a series
of several different characters to push buying eggs. We had students dress up
as these characters and introduce various topics and themes throughout the
weekend. These people would wander around the campus interacting with the
delegates as well. The push was for each one to become grade A in their relationship
with God.
The idea lead to that simple theme
of “Grade ‘A’ Large.” Jan Friesen
created the poster concept and took the photo used on the poster. We knocked
around several approaches and settled on the idea that in Christ we are grade
A. the word “large” went along with the egg idea. Ever egg word possible that could
be worked in combination with “egg” was used. It was eggcellent.
The poster was designed to have a
luxurious feel. We draped the background in blue velvet. A lighter blue pillow
was made and trimmed in gold braid and one of the class made the crown out of a
gold ring with a puff of light blue silk. Of my years working with youth
conference I considered the concept of grade A large the best and most exciting
to develop.
Another class member went after
the Canadian Egg Board to get permission to use the commercials and provide
them for our use. It turned out to be a bigger deal than expected. The films could
not just be copied and sent to us. Wrong format. Ultimately they converted them
to 16 mm film so they could be shown to our group. It took some doing to
convince them we had no intention of mocking or ridiculing them. They wanted to
know everything about the theme, how it would be used, what we planned for the
characters. They wanted every detail and they got it. In the end we were very
pleased to receive and use them and they were happy with our plans. The
commercials had run their course by the time youth conference came around and
they were now being exposed to a whole new crowd for only the cost of
converting the format to 16 mm. It worked out for both of us.
Della hit her stride this year.
She was part of a group of faculty wives who were very concerned about the
student wives and finding a way to minister to them. Some were students
themselves but many of them had little connection to the school and often felt
left out. Every second Thursday about 35 student wives met in a home or Martin
Hall to learn more about the ministry dreams of their spouse and how they might
be asked to fit in. They encouraged one another and even worked out babysitting
needs. This was Della’s gift for service and she loved the women and everything
about this ministry. She now had her own purpose and way to use her gifts. 
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