The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-06-04
Mainly Personal

THE WEATHER MAN must hav,
confused his dates last Saturday ant
passed out typical Fourth of Jul.
day that brought beads of perspira
ton to Memorial Day paraders ant
scared the skin atop the heads Of
old grads returning here to the cam
pus for the annual crowning of tn,
May Queen.
But if hot sun wilted too quickly
the flowers that decorated the lat
ticed throne of the college May Queer
it did not shrivel the spirit of spring
nor youthful freshness of the partie
ipating Maypole dancers, nor the
charm of queenly Miss Doris Rob
erts.
In the Bluffton ceremony, il
seemed, there was a spirit of
hope for the future not only in
the sense that the handful of
participants would soon be leav-
ing ivy towers to spread light
and sunshine in this world of sin,
but there was cosmopolitan at
mosphere to the ceremony that
could not go unnoticed :. :. :. :.
a freshman girl from Formosa
and a freshman boy of Holland
danced hand in hand. %. :. and
a Puerto Rican and an Arab
youth romped barefoot in color
full habits that could have origin
ated in any land, and Zacchaeus
Owolabi of Nigeria, Africa, with
all the dignity of the senior rank
he holds bowling to the May
Queen-queen of spring =. =. =.
queen of youth unblemished by
the prejudice, pride and greed of
older generations.
THE MEMORIAL DAY SUN, w,
noticed, played wonders in our gar
den. The second planting of bean
which had only during the mornin,
begun to show their bent backs
pushing the burden of the soil aside
by days end had popped their head
up erect and were already extendin,
their leafy arms. Of all growing
things, beans are our favorite at tn
time they begin to grow above tn
ground. They make such sudden ap
pearances-and they bring their owl
lunch. You plant the bean two in
ches in the ground, and before yol
know it, there's that selfsame beal
two inches above the grounds sur
face furnishing food wor the youni
green thing that will live to bea
more of the same succulent food.
And the first corn we ever planted
has suddenly appeared in tende,
green shoots. Somehow or anothe
we could scarcely believe, as an in
experienced gardener, that each ant
every grain we planted would be sur
to grow. So, taking no chances, w
planted several grains in each hill
and then got our hills too close to
gether. Now, we guess, We'll have
to start thinning them out. 1t looks
like every single grain did sprout
FEW WILL SAY that the fiftietl
anniversary of the Bluffton College
Choral Society was not properly
marked last Sunday when nearly 40C
voices, ranging in age levels from Ia
years to II, joined in singing
Handel's beloved Messiah. All of sc
years of the history of the Blufftor
community's love of music and the
college choral society as vehicle fol
expressing it was wrapped in the
spontaneity of the Sunday night
production.
The air of participation by
chorus, and audience alike, in
really important event permeated
the evening from the opening to
the final chorus number.
So spontaneous was the production
that none would have known that one
guest director had never even had the
opportunity of rehearsing with the
chorus. And this, with the fact that
of the nearly 400 voices in the choir,
only 200 living close by had been
able to meet for regular rehearsals.
The soloists, who have sung with
outstanding choral groups through