Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-12
Adventists 10 Build
Seminary Dormitory
In Takoma Park Soon
By Cospor Names

A seminary dormitory of "a
apartments and 18 rooms soon will
be built at the Seventh day Ad-
Ventist Theological Seminary in Ia
koma Park, Md, D. E. Rebok, presi-
dent of the seminary, today told
delegates attending the 45th session
of the General Conference of
Seventh-day Adventists at Sligo
Church. Carroll and Flower avenues,
- akoma Park.
- DR.. Rebok predicted the enroll
at the seminary this summer
will reach $50 students with min
listers from all parts of the world
s-s1aatriculating for graduate work. He
Reported that "a students completed
graduate work at the institution
~-during the past three years while
.~<others finished language courses
9quipping them to enter foreign
mission work. Dr. Rebok, a gradu-
late of Washington Missionary Col
1ege In Takoma Park, was a mis-
sinary to China for % years.
- Seventh-day Adventists have been
granted equality with the state
church and other established
churches in Romania under a law
passed on June 8, E. D. Dick, secre-
tary of the general conference,
told the gathering yesterday. The
information was received by cable
gram from D. Flores, president of
: the Romanian union.
Property Was Confiscated.
A. v. Olson. recently elected vice
president of the general conference
and for many years president of the
Southern European conference, said
the Adventists, established in Ro-
mania about SO years, had been dis
solved and all their property con-
fiscated by the government in 1941.
Two sets of three brothers and
another church official, all original
ly from the small Seventh-day Ad-
ventist Church at Artichoke Lake,
Mimi, met at the conference for
the first time in many years. They
are the Olson and Nelson brothers
and Herbert Hanson.
A. v. Olson, 81, of Berne, Swift
zerland. was elected president
of the General Conference this
week: H. o. Olson, so, is secretary
of the South American Division at
Buenos Aires, and A. j. Olson, ST,
Is head of Auburn (Wash) Acad-
envy.
N. R. Nelson. 81, is chaplain of
the denominations sanitarium at
Boulder, Colo; j. r. Nelson, IS, is
missionary volunteer secretary of
the Southeastern California Con-
ference, and H. r. Nelson, AZ, Is
education and missionary volunteer
secretary of the Ohio Conference.
Herbert Hanson, So, has been sta
toned near Adds Ababa, Ethiopia,
for the past IL years. His wife,
who also is at the convention, has
served as manager of the Halle Sc
lassie household for the last five
years.
Officers Elected.
The church from which the seven
men came had $50 members early
in the century. Mr. Hanson's faith
er, Edward Hanson, SO, is the only
surviving charter member of the
church, which was organized in
1876. The Nelson's father and moth
er were also charter members of
the church while the Olsons' par-
ents joined shortly afterwards. s7e.s
Officers elected yesterday to serve
at Takoma Park headquarters of the
general conference were j. j. Meth
cry, vice president of the general
conference; H. T. Elliott, T. j.
Michael, J. I. Robson and w. P.
Bradley, associate secretaries; w. H.
Williams, j. F. Cummins and Roger
Altman assistant treasurers; H. w.
Barrows, R. H. Adair and H. P.
Bloum, associate auditors; l.. E.
Froom. ministerial department sec
rotary; R. A. Anderson and Louise
kleuser, associate ministerial de-
partment secretaries.
Also, J. A. Stevens, Sabbath School
secretary; T. L. Oswald, home mis-
sionary department secretary: E. E.
Cossentine. educational secretary;
H. A. Morrison. associate educational
secretary; G. E. Peters, North Ameri-
can colored department secretary,
and H. H. Votaw, religious liberty
department secretary.