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T H E « ■ N O R T H PARK 1 W L L I l^ : V l ' H college news VOLUME 54, NUMBER 19 c . . u 00
* _ Friday. March 22, 1974 CHICAGO, IL L INO IS
Spring Carnival
Has Arrived
by Nancy Even
What's held only once a year, is loads of fun and is a
worthwhile event? The Spring Carnival, of course, sponsored
by The Social Events Commission.
Booths and games, balloons, and tricks will be manned by
faculty members and students from various groups. The
resident men, resident women, and the women's club will each
be sponsoring a booth in the carnival.
The doors of the carnival will be opened tomorrow night
Saturday, March 23, at 8:00 p.m. in the gym. Admission is a
nominal 50c.
The profits of the carnival go to the Student Missionary
Program in order to help cut expenses and costs involved in
the program. Last year's carnival drew lots of people and a
large donation.
Other activities such as an auction and a "ja il," where
unsuspecting carnival-goers are arrested and held on minor
"offenses," will be held.
Food will be available for those with hearty appetites and an
Ice Cream Parlor" for those with a passion for ice cream.
Everyone is invited to attend: students, faculty, their families
and members of the surrounding community.
What would be a more enjoyable way to start off the Spring
Season than with an evening of fun, food, and laughs. Come
and enjoy yourself while helping in a worthwhile cause.
Coffy House Has
A New Look
in
a
of
by Carol Ness
If you've been to the Coffy
House within the past week,
then this isn't for you. But I
would suggest that those of
you who haven't, had best
get a move on before the end
of the term rolls around.
You haven't come because
you don't know where it is?
Ask anyone from Sohlberg.
They see it as they dash past
on their way to crawling
the windows of Ohlson for
raid. Just go to the back
Ohlson and follow the orange
arrow to the basement.
It's too far to go? Maybe,
for Anderson and Burgh. But
for Ohlson, Sohlberg, and
Albert house it's ideally close.
And as for Anderson and
Burgh, it's no further for
them to go to the Coffy
House than it is for the North
Campus people to go to the
Cranny.
It's too expensive? No way.
If you can afford the Cranny
Inot to mention some other
places NP s tu d e nts fin d
themselves), you can afford
the Coffy House. Besides, the
Coffy House has such things
as granola, tacos on Sunday
nights, "non-greasy" food,
and best of all — free coffee!
You don't like the atmosphere?
Then you haven't
been to the Coffy House
lately. Whether you knew it
or not, some people were
very busy over quarter breal*.
There's now a place called
"The Pit" in the Coffy House,
and I'm not referring to the
new lounge. (The lounge was
originally planned for study
use by those who got kicked
out of their rooms for one
reason or another, but it may
soon be taken over by
couples.) A post has been
moved, allowing for more
room by the stage, lighting
has been changed, and
things just generally rearranged.
There's even a new
jigsaw puzzle!
"It's a dying proposition,
on it's third time down, so
why bother?" you say. Not
so. It's true it got off to a
slow start last year. But this
year it has been open every
night, and things have been
looking up financially as well.
As for it's being "dead" —
well, it's only as lively as the
people who are in it. It's up
to you to make it more
interesting if you think it
needs something more. As it
is, the SSC often sponsors
activities there, like special
entertainment, etc.
All in all, it's a new Coffy
House this term, and if you
don't discover it until finals
week, more's the pity. To use
an overworked cliche — Try
it, you'll like it!
Praising Holmer to Lecture
St. Pat
by Tom Jacobs
You meet North Parkers in
the strangest places. To me,
it was just Saturday, until I
got o ff the subway downtown
to do some errands.
Step pin g up onto State
Street, I learned better. The
air was filled with a piercing
wail, which the slight shiver
down my back told me came
from Scottish bagpipes. The
strains of "Jenny Dang the
Weaver" reverberated o ff the
windows of Marshall Field's,
and the first eye that caught
my own was none other than
my friend Kit Jensen, North
Park senior pre-med student.
He was standing out in the
middle of State Street, lean
and ramrod-straight, wearing
the dark plaid of the Black
Watch. He and his comrades
marched implacably, as
though no force could stop
them. They wore high, black
feather bonnets that looked
like bearskins, and made each
of them seem seven feet tall.
Kilts and white spats, scarlet
tunics and blue, pipers and
drummers, moving, with Kit
at the tip of the front rank,
keeping the rest in step.
Before him, an incredibly
dignified pipe-major swung
his silver baton. It was a cold,
misty day, with a biting east
wind. The wind ruffled the
feather bonnets and swirled
their tartans about them as
they played. One could
imagine them playing in other
cold mists, on the Plains of
Abraham with General Wolfe,
and at Sebastopol in the
Crimes. Today, there were no
guns, thank God; today the
plaintive highland music celebrated
a man of peace.
Drawn by the sound, I
followed them along, and
thought about Saint Patrick.
Dr. Paul LeRoy Holmer of Yale Univesity will deliver the
Nyvall Lectures for 1974 at the North Park Theological
Seminary on Tuesday, April 16. He has been a professor of
theology at Yale's Divinity School since 1962.
Theme for the program is "Saying and Showing " The
opening lecture at 10:30 is "A Philosophical Consideration."
The series continues at 1:15 p.m. with the topic, "A
Theological Consideration." The lectures, given in Myvall Hall
are open to the public free of charge.
Dr„ Holmer earned both the B.A. degree (1940) and the M.A
(1942) at the University of Minnesota. In 1945 he received the
Ph.D. degree from Yale University. He holds honorary degrees
conferred by the University of North Dakota, Norwich
University, North Park College, and St. Olaf.
He has written extensively in the field of theological
philosophy and has distinguished himself with numerous
articles and several books on the Danish religious philosopher
f The books Include Kierkegaard's Edifying Discoveries
' 8 translatlon of Sechi's Nietzsche and Kierkegaard
n S ' and Kierkegaard's Edifying Discoveries, two volumes
(1963).
The Nyvall Lectureship memorializes the first president of
North Park College and Theological Seminary. David Nyvall,
orn in 1863 in Varmland, Sweden, graduated from college in
Gavle and from Upsala University. He came to America and
was called to be an assistant professor in the Swedish
department of the Chicago Theological Seminary. In 1891 he
was elected president of North Park and served until 1923
except for an interim period 1905-12. After 1923 he continued
to teach until 1938, when he was 75 years old. He died in 1946.
He wasn't Irsh at all, but a
Scotsman — how appropriate.
A lowland noble, he
shared the same Scandinavian
blood as most people do
from England to Germany,
wherever the dragon-ships
roved. Patrick was a missionary
to the Celtic people of
Ireland; he was the first voice
of Christ's gospel in that wild
land. He gave Ireland her
national symbol when, as he
stood trying to explain the
Trinity to the Celts, he
reached down and plucked a
shamrock. "J u s t like this," he
said, "one stem, but with
three petals - Father, Son,
and Holy Spirit." So beloved
was this Scottish missionary
that the Irish people called
him "Patrick," from the Latin
(Corn'd, on page 2)
News Briefs
Business manager Wanted
The College News and the Cupola are now soliciting for a
business manager for the next year.
The position pays $250 a year, plus 10% commission on all
ads collected.
Persons interested should see either Dave Johnson (Burgh,
room 418) or Owen Youngman (Burgh, room 320).
Good Times
North Park is likely to be well-entertained this weekend.
The Bonnie Koloc concert (with Bob Strömberg as a
warm-up entertainer) is tonight in the Lecture Hall Auditorium
at 8:30 p.m.
And-Saturday night is the famous Spring Carnival, held in
the school gymnasium.
Don't miss it if you possibly can.
Nyvall
Remodeled
To mark the completion of
the remodeling of offices and
classrooms at North Park
Theological Seminary, students
and professors conducted
a "service of praises and
thanksgiving" in the Isaacson
Chapel last Friday, March 8.
The 27-year-old Nyvall Hall,
built in the Georgian colonial
style of architecture, now
provides five new faculty
offices, new preaching laboratories
with equipment for
recording both sound tapes
and video tapes, and also the
conventional classrooms.
Dean Glenn P. Anderson
presided at the service, and
President Lloyd H. Ahlem
made a recognition statement.
Vocal soloist was Miss
Louise Hill, a student in the
Seminary. After the service,
there was an open house in
the various rooms and the
traditional "coffee and. . ."
for the guests.
Recognition was given to
the contributors who have
underwritten the cost of the
remodeling: Mrs. Anna anderson
of Miami, Florida, Mr.
and Mrs. Harold Anderson of
Wilmette, and the national
o rg a n izatio n of Covenant
Women.
Said Dean Anderson: "We
are grateful to those whose
generosity has made possible
the much needed renovation
of Nyvall Hall. The several
improvements have given the
building a new look after 27
years."
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Sarah Bernhardt
Sometimes I take down old books
And look.
There are poems and posters,
A nd a medallion in a case:
A t night we study one another.
I see a woman waistless as a rose-reed,
Y o u r face and vices immortalized in art.
You see a man who would
Save live things if he could.
Sometimes I take down old books
And look.
Steve Carr
Reflections
t h e c o l l e g e n e w s
Praising St. Pat
ICont'd. from page 1)
for "fath er” ; they considered
him to be the father of the
Christian Irish nation. On this
Saturday, a group of his
kinsmen now offered their
lilting, wailing music in his
honor.
They drew near the end of
the parade route, and the
pipes thrust the shrillnotes of
"Scotland the Brave" into
the gray sky. Even old folks
with shopping bags seemed
to straighten up where they
stood. The drums stopped,
then, and the pipes went
silent. I got to say hello to
my friend, the Danish-Scot,
but I didn't get to tell him
how his music had made me
think. It was indeed the
"b irthd ay" of a great Christian.
Thanks for the music,
Kit. It made the day.
Separate we are
and together we seem
(or is it together we seem
and separate we are?)
Friday, March 22, 1974
by George Spanske
You tell me the truth is to
be found in knowledge while
you are out pursuing the
dollar. I have my degree but
lack experience; so I return
with experience and you say I
lack stability. I domesticate
my ambitions and anchor
roots of normalcy: Now you
say my skin is the wrong
color, I am too old and room
must be made for someone
younger. What do I have to
show fo r my years of
struggling: Anxiety is all.
Anxiety is what I started with
and now you throw it back in
my face. You Prescribed a
remedy for my affliction years
ago and now I am still
searching. Who is to blame?
Why should I accedpt your
advice now and pension my
time by yout plans? You ve
led me astray this long’; why
am I suddenly burdened with
a sense of my own thought? If
I had it to do over again, how
North Park
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willingly would I pursue my
own idealism. Shunning the
system to its self-destruction;
run nin g aground o f its
foundatins for lack of flexibility
at times, but never really
giving-up in my pursuit of
integrity. The thoughts and
plans i had were so much
truer to my self-expression.
As hard as I fought your
programming, I found myself
slowly given to your course.
As much as I knew that it
was wrong, I fell into your
plan by yo u r d eceptive
persuassion. Now with the
combined strength of age
and wisdon, I can try to steer
others onto a less deceptive
existence, making them
aware of the schemes and
traps into which I stumbled.
The truth in life is Love:
un-inhibited, un-biased, and
un-premeditated. Learn to
love for the sake of loving:
both to give and receive.
There is a time to hate, but
don't let bitterness deter your
ambition.
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Aw, forget it!
Now I'm lost, too.
It was just yesterday,
(in my dreams) th a t
I had found what I was
looking fo r.
But now the y 're gone, too.
(or are they still here)?
Somebody asked me to
write a story.
But. . .
I d id n 't know one th a t
you d id n 't already know.
Then the laughter came
which was really remarkable
because
it was pointing at me.
Now the d iffic u lty :
one of us knows something
and isn 't telling the other.
groping through the darkness
friend.
Is there troub le at life's end
Or are brighter lights there?
If I get there before
you do, I'll be sure
to save a place.
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Suddenly I looked up
To see mountains around me,
The peaks glistening in the sun.
People singing up there,
and reflecting the light around them.
Cold clamminess touched my skin
as the fog o f the valley thickens.
"O h , b ro th e r," I cried.
"Shed some light down here."
Then a soft voice came through the mist.
"C h ild , fo llo w the road before you.”
"Who goes there?" I trembeld.
" I t is I, y o u r Lord; fo llow the road.
"L o rd , I cannot see even my feet.
This fog has blinded my eyes."
"Walk. I w ill lead y o u ."
I fe lt a hand gently touch my arm.
"L o rd , where have you been?"
"A lw ay s here."
"B u t I d id n 't see y o u ."
"Y o u r eyes were looking at other mountains.
You were seeing light, but not the source.
"What is the source?" I asked.
" I t is I . "
We walked on; the mist grew thinner.
"L o rd , where am I going?"
"Where I lead."
The ground grew steeper
"C lim b higher, I go w ith y o u ."
I broke through the clouds,
I was on the mountain.
The valley lay below, shrouded in mist.
"L o rd , why is the valley in mist?"
"Y o u need n o t know all that is in
the valley. But fo llo w the road. Let
your eyes look right on. Trust me,
when you can not see your next step,
You may go near a c liff. But I
w ill never lead you over it . ”
I looked up. I saw many mountains,
peaks glistening like diamonds.
I saw beyond a c ity , a c ity of light.
" L o r d , " I said, "There are many mountains
between tha t c ity and I."
"Y e s ."
"L o rd , there are many valleys
between those mountains."
"Y e s ."
'L o rd ? "
'Please lead me home.''
d r . WALTER J. ZINN
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Friday, March 22, 1974 THE COLLEGE NEWS Page 3
Braun, Vrettos Go with Fire
by Owen Youngman
Graduating North Park quarterback Gary
Duesenberg, signed two months ago by The
Chicago Fire of the World Football League,
now has some company in the ranks from his
Viking teammates.
Two members of the Viking defensive unit
have inked pacts with Bill Byrne, director of
player personnel for the Chicago entry in the
new pro-league — defensive back Bob Braun
and defensive tackle Mike Vrettos.
Both signed the same type of contract as
Gary — conditional, with terms to be fulfilled
only upon making the club.
Braun, North Park's career interception
leader and a three-year letterman, is a
six-foot, 200 pound graduate of Luther North.
Vrettos, who also stands six feet and weighs
in at 215, went to Holy Cross.
All three players will be reporting to camp
in late spring and early summer for the
tryouts that can make or break them. Though
all three are optimistic about their chances,
Braun would appear to have the best line on a
job right now.
The Fire drafted no defensive backs and
announced the signing of a minimal number
. . . the emphasis during the recent sifting of
the player pool was on offense, perhaps
signaling that the league could be a
throwback to the high-scoring days of the
American Football League right at its birth.
These three aren't the only North Parkers
on the club, either. Chuck Burgoon, the
defensive star who was drafted by the
Minnesota Vikings out of North Park, played
in the College All-Star Game, and has played
the last couple of years with the Lake County
Rifles, has also signed a contract with The
Fire.
And other North Park alumni have been
showing up for the free-agent tryout camps
the Fire's been having, although no other
signing have yet been announced.
The World Football League will begin play
in July on Wednesday and Thursday nights.
Cage Continues
Tracksters Now Indoors;
Aim for Better Things
CCIW
by Owen Youngman
Augustana's third straight
bid to bring a national
basketball title back to the
College Conference of Illinois
and Wisconsin was thwarted
in Kansas City, Mo., last
week. The "o th e r" Vikings
dropped an NAIA quarterfinal
game to St. Mary's of Texas,
74-65, to end the season with
a 24-4 record.
But the CCIW champs'
performance provides another
arg um en t th a t the
league's sports competition is
reaching the level of topflight
small-college conferences
across the nation.
Appearances by Carthage
and Millikin in postseason
football games last fall had
been one indication of this
fact; Augie's regular appearance
in wire-service basketball
polls was another.
The Vikings, who backed
into their third straight league
title when Illinois Wesleyan
beat Millikin 79-76 in the last
game of the season, were
seeded eigth in K.C. and beat
Wartburg (la.) and Washburn
(Kas.) before losing to St.
Mary's, which had earlier
beaten top-seeded Fairmont.
St. M ary 's w ou nd up
fourth; West Georgia won
the title. Last year's champions,
Maryland-Eastern Shore
passed up the tournament to
play in the National Invitational
Tournament in New
York City.
Augustana's winning CCIW
record was 15-1, the lone
loss coming in M illik in 's
gym as league scoring
champion Leon Gobczynski
(he averaged 35.5 points a
game this season) battered
the Rock Island club.
But somehow, someone
discovered how to stop big
■ Leon, and that's why Millikin
wound up second with a 14-2
record.
First, Augie blasted the Big
Blue 88-61 in the return
match staged in the Vikings'
gym — and shut Leon out.
C omplete ly blanked him,
causing Millikin coach Jerry
Gray to cry " fo u l" (not one
was called on a man guarding
Gobby that night.)
But that in itself would
have only doomed Millikin to
half a title, if Illinois Wesleyan
hadn't got wind of it. The
Titans, decimated by injuries
though they were, limited the
6' 11" junior pivot to five
points in their contest — this
one played at Millikin - and
that was all she wrote lor the
Big Blue.
Perhaps disheartened by all
this, the Millikins got stomped
by McKendree College in
the NAIA district tournaments,
thus ending any hope
they had of a rubber match
with Augustana, which won
the district easily.
Runnerup to Gobczynski in
the league scoring race was
Dave Rosenbalm of Carthage
at 25.4 points per game.
Randy Pfund of Wheaton
slipped into third place as the
season ended with a 24.9
league averagé.
North Park's Earl Dorsey
wound up eighth in the
scoring derby with a conference
average of 19.5.
Rosenbalm complemented
his second-place scoring
finish by grabbing the loop
rebounding title, averaging
14.2 rebounds per contest.
Augustana's big Bruce Hamming
was second (13.7) and
Mike Moore of North Central
third (13.5).
Diminutive Roy Mosser of
Millikin was the foul-shot
markmanship champion, hitting
86 percent of his free
th row s , w h ile Rosenbalm
claimed the field-goal per-by
Dave Larson
The indoor season behind
them, coach Ted Hedstrand's
tracksters look to have the
material to do some damage
in the CCIW this spring.
Although the indoor season
wasn't as successful as
some had hoped, the club as
a whole made significant
strides toward a respectable
showing in the out-of-doors.
Even though the Vikes scored
just one point in the state
indoor meet (the mile relay
team of Bob Faetz, Jerome
Coleman, Rich Murray, and
Bob Reiner earned it), things
are looking up.
Murray is doing his best
running in the longer distance
events, and each of the other
relay men is also performing
Surge
centage crown with a .603
mark to Gobczynski's .574.
It was Gobczynski, however,
that led an all-CCIW
team that featured three
juniors and a sophomore
among its ranks. Gobby
won the Fred Young Most
Outstanding Player Award for
his re co rd -se ttjn g season,
during which he scored 568
will in his specialty. Faetz is a
distance man, Reiner a
hurdler, and Coleman a
distance and middle-distance
runner (who's been bothered
repeatedly, though, by lingering
leg problems).
For the first time in three
years. North Park has a pole
vaulter in the person of
freshman Marc Peterson. Jon
Christenson will again be
competing in the high jump
and javelin; Jim Hoskinson
gives the Vikings one of their
better shot-putters and discus
hurlers in recent years.
A lth o u g h speedster Ed
Tankersley will not be competing,
the sprinters and
middle-distance men have
quite a bit of depth with Paul
Nelson, Ed Kurek, and Je ff
Nelson in the short ones and
Paul Hoglund, Fred Flores,
and Coleman in the longer.
And freshman cros s country
ace Jeff Jones may
well have recovered from
his knee surgery in time to
compete in the conference
outdoor meet in May. The
Vikings were seventh there
last year; Augustana came
out on top.
T om o rrow the V ik in g s
compete in a meet at the
University of Chicago.
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THE COLLEGE NEWS
Friday, March 22, 1974
Mafceney Eyes CCIW Baseball Title
. . . . . \ a A n a c M n r t h P a r k s t a n d ? W h G H V<
As Dick Mahoney adjusts a well-worn coaching
cap for the last time after a brief but influential
career at North Park, he is cautiously optimistic
about his 1974 baseball team's chances for
first-ever CCIW championship.
And Mahoney, an assistant football coach and
head wrestling mentor who is resigning from all
these posts after this year, is qualified to talk about
championships. By coaching the Viking wrestlers to
the conference mat title a year ago, he became
responsible for half the CCIW championships that
North Park has ever won — in its athletic history!
(The school's only other top honors came from the
1968-69 cage team's title campaign.)
Out to help their diamond boss end his four-year
career in an unprecedented fashion are an
amazingly large nucleus of 16 returning lettermen
and one of the most challenging southern tours
ever. .
Heading the lengthy list of returnees who intend
to improve the club's 6-20 overall and 5-11 CCIW
records of last year are senior pitchers Gary
Duesenberg and Joe Barsano annual mainstays
of Mahoney's mound corps — and the keystone
combination, co-captains Mike Groot and Mike
Levy.
Levy sparkles with the glove at second base and
Groot, who led the team in hitting last year, handles
the shortstop duties.
Fourth-year hurler Duesenberg, who recently
inked a professional football contract with The
Chicago Fire of the now-forming World Football
League, will be taking advantage of the new NCAA
clause which enables the collegiate athlete to
compete on the scholastic level in another sport if
he did not have an agent while signing his pro pact.
Sophomore Dave Nelson, who won the catching
chores with his bat in '73, will be backed by veteran
Mike Groth; the Frabrizio brothers, Bob and Nick,
and Russ Hylen will again be battling for infield
positions. Another field prospect is transfer student
Dick Wacholder from Amundsen Junior College.
While Maloney admits the first-base position is
wide open, the squad abounds in outfielders and
pitchers. Vying for starting berths in the outfield
this year will be George Spear, the team's second
leading hitter in 1973, Pete Pudans, Joe Serafin,
Terry Thourson, Bob Black, and freshman Doug
Groot (Mike's brother.)
Duesenberg and Barsano will be looking for
supporting roles on the hill from returnees Brian
Baldea and Jerry Tillman and freshman hopefuls
Ted Wiemann, Randy Youngman, John Olmstead,
and Tom Walden.
After last year's disappointing season, which
included a team record 12-game loss skein after a
quick start, Coach Mahoney approaches the
coming campaign with a more promising outlook.
In fact, "o u r chances look a lot better," he noted.
As far as the conference race is concerned,
Mahoney strongly felt that " it's up for grabs. He
continued in explanation: "No rth Central and
Carthage were co-champs in the league last year
(with 14-2 records). Central hasn't lost anyone and
Carthage is always tough. Of course, then there are
Illinois Wesleyan (third last year at 11 -5) and
Augustana (tied for fourth) to worry about."
Where does North Park stand? "When you get
right down to it," the Viking mentor speculated,
"any team can beat another on a given day. That
includes us. We have the material to win it if we
play good ball consistently.
"Concistency is a big factor," he went on. "Last
year we couldn't maintain it (the Viking hardballers
jumped out to a 4-1 record in CCIW play, then lost
three straight 1-0 heartbreakers. It was all downhill
after that). You just can't afford to get down.''
Mahoney also felt the that the pre-conference
southern trip should alleviate the problem to some
extent by helping all the players, especially the
inexperienced ones, to develop needed selfconfidence.
In p reparation fo r th is season s league
showdowns, North Park is faced with one of its
toughest tours in recent years. "I hope I know what
I'm doing," Mahoney said with a smile.
The Vikings open their season March 27, a week
from to da y , w ith a doubleheader against
Southwestern University in Memphis, Tenn. That
kicks off a 16-game road trip through the South.
The best teams North Park will face during the
10-day trip will most likely be the New Orleans
branch of Louisiana State University; Tulane; and
LSU in Baton Rouge. Rounding out the trip are
games with Southern Mississippi and Southeastern
Louisiana.
In addition to the regular 16-game CCIW
schedule, which begins Sat., April 13 in Wheaton,
North Park has slated independent twinbills with
St. Francis College of Joliet, and the Big Ten's
Northwestern University.
Viking Tennis Team Has
New Coach, Added Depth
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mixed doubles Ping-Pong to u rn ey last Saturday.
by Dave Larson
Last season was the North
Park tennis team's best year
in memory, but a couple of
important additions to the
te am 's lis t o f stren gth s
promise to make 1974 an
even better year for the
Vikings. The season opens
Wednesday at Aurora.
Metcalf; Iverson Win Doubles Crown
Bruce Metcalf and Carol
Iverson claimed the North
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Metcalf and Iverson defeated
Gerald Jackson and Meg
Jo hn son , fo u r games to
three, to end Saturday
afternoon's competition unbeaten.
Jackson (half of last
year's winning team and the
1973 singles champ as well)
and Johnson had emerged
from the losers' bracket to
move into the finals.
Bruce and Carol had sent
them there with an early-round
defeat. Becky Florence
(who had won last year's title
with Jackson) and Edouard
Boncy were the last team to
fall in both the winners' and
losers' brackets, first losing to
the eventual champs in the
w in n e rs ' fin a l and then
tumbling before Jackson and
Johnson in the last losers
game.
The singles tournament,
being run by Arthur Harrington
this year, has a total of 68
entrants, some 15 more than
last year, including 21 girls.
Defending champion Jackson
rated the top seed in the
field.
A total of six players were
seeded. In addition to Gerald,
they included 1973 runnerup
Rich Johnson; Boncy; Metcalf;
Harry Christensen; and
Gordon Edes. Metcalf had
been singles champion until
Jackson unseated him last
year.
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brackets, with two defeats
necessary fo r e lim in a tion .
The finals will be staged in
the North Park gym.
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New asset number one is
Wayne Stiska, a teaching pro
from Oak Lawn who is now
serving as the Vikes' coach.
Number two is something
that North Park tennis teams
have never had before:
depth.
As of last week, Stiska had
a 16-man roster from which
to choose the six men that
will compete in matches. And
the roster is heavy on the
quality side of the ledger as
w ell as in the quantity
column.
Only one senior graduated
from last year's team, and
this year's freshman class is
laden with talent enough to
improve last year's best-ever
seventh-place finish in the
CCIW tourney.
In fact, a freshman currently
holds down the top spot in
pre-season seedings established
last week. Marc
Cleversey earned the No. t
spot, and another frosh, Mark
Fisher, is currently rated
4. Co-captains Eric Nelson
and Forrest Dahl check in at
spots three and five, with
Roger Edgren at No. 2.
Rounding out the early
season top six is Asa Curry,
The team's only seniors,
Peter and George Kondos,
are next.
Of course, these seeds are
subject to challenge - men
in lower rungs on the ladder
can challenge those above
and try to move up, and tl
process will continue ric
through the season.
North Park Press (North Park University)
