Monday, February 16, 2009
Campus Crusade Part 32
"As concerning my former residence on Hampshire Rd.
which I lived for over four years I will definitely not be
moving back. That whole neighborhood has been declared
a disaster area and it looks as though the city will be moving
the homes out of there and be selling them for the owners.
Hampshire Rd. itself perhaps will be turned into a park and
flood control canal. However at this late date a lot of the
details have not been nailed down. Recently I was over at
the house and I still felt a strong emotional attachment to it."
This is from my May-June 1980 newsletter.
However life went on. I was promoted to "Feature Design Director"
which meant I was in charge of designing the Feature section
of Worldwide Challenge. "Noreen Ketchum (our senior art director)
recently left staff and married Mr. Dave Davis, a U.S. Air Force officer.
Having worked with Noreen almost four years I am happy to see
God moving her into this joyful next phase of her life."
"We have also gotten two new staff in our office. Beth Bratcher,
from Texas and Lori Creedle from Georgia. Both have been very
useful and I have been involved in helping to train them. I enjoy
the people I work with very much. They are fine Christians and
I wish you could meet them."
I came back to Bellingham is September 1980 to share about
a new job that I was preparing to go into. I had applied for the
art director position for Athletes in Action magazine. While I
had enjoyed my work in Worldwide Challenge magazine I felt
that I had peaked out with my WWC involvement. Eddie Maggard
had his sights on becoming Bill Rhodes successor as art director.
Which was fine with me. Eddie eventually did become art director
and did an excellent job in raising the level of design several
notches above what it had been.
Athletes in Action magazine was a quarterly evangelistic magazine
that had been around for a number of years. I felt very privileged
to get the assignment and it was an enjoyable two years being
the chief designer of the magazine.
On November 24, 1980 a wild devastating fire swept through
Arrowhead Springs destroying a number of buildings including
the quonsets where I had worked for several years in the Audiovisual
department and the building that housed the writers and editors.
It seemed as if I was getting use to disasters having just gone through
a flood 10 months before. It was as if old things were being replaced
by the new. Campus Crusade had built several new office building
on 27th Street in San Bernardino where I eventually had a office.
I had stayed with Don and Lucille Franklin for several months and
then moved in with several other staff men over the summer. When
I returned back form my visit home to Bellingham I rented a single
bed room apartment on Genevieve Street in San Bernardino.
which I lived for over four years I will definitely not be
moving back. That whole neighborhood has been declared
a disaster area and it looks as though the city will be moving
the homes out of there and be selling them for the owners.
Hampshire Rd. itself perhaps will be turned into a park and
flood control canal. However at this late date a lot of the
details have not been nailed down. Recently I was over at
the house and I still felt a strong emotional attachment to it."
This is from my May-June 1980 newsletter.
However life went on. I was promoted to "Feature Design Director"
which meant I was in charge of designing the Feature section
of Worldwide Challenge. "Noreen Ketchum (our senior art director)
recently left staff and married Mr. Dave Davis, a U.S. Air Force officer.
Having worked with Noreen almost four years I am happy to see
God moving her into this joyful next phase of her life."
"We have also gotten two new staff in our office. Beth Bratcher,
from Texas and Lori Creedle from Georgia. Both have been very
useful and I have been involved in helping to train them. I enjoy
the people I work with very much. They are fine Christians and
I wish you could meet them."
I came back to Bellingham is September 1980 to share about
a new job that I was preparing to go into. I had applied for the
art director position for Athletes in Action magazine. While I
had enjoyed my work in Worldwide Challenge magazine I felt
that I had peaked out with my WWC involvement. Eddie Maggard
had his sights on becoming Bill Rhodes successor as art director.
Which was fine with me. Eddie eventually did become art director
and did an excellent job in raising the level of design several
notches above what it had been.
Athletes in Action magazine was a quarterly evangelistic magazine
that had been around for a number of years. I felt very privileged
to get the assignment and it was an enjoyable two years being
the chief designer of the magazine.
On November 24, 1980 a wild devastating fire swept through
Arrowhead Springs destroying a number of buildings including
the quonsets where I had worked for several years in the Audiovisual
department and the building that housed the writers and editors.
It seemed as if I was getting use to disasters having just gone through
a flood 10 months before. It was as if old things were being replaced
by the new. Campus Crusade had built several new office building
on 27th Street in San Bernardino where I eventually had a office.
I had stayed with Don and Lucille Franklin for several months and
then moved in with several other staff men over the summer. When
I returned back form my visit home to Bellingham I rented a single
bed room apartment on Genevieve Street in San Bernardino.
Monday, February 09, 2009
Campus Crusade Part 31
As the 1970s were running its course things continue to change
in my job with Worldwide Challenge magazine. "Bill Rhodes,
who is the art director of the magazine got married to
Miss Ginny Heyl on her parent farm in Spring Mills, PA on
Sept . 1" [1979] -(from October 1979 prayerletter). While
Bill was gotten I assumed a number of his responsibilities
designing features on the Jesus film and Roy Rogers.
"When you think of the power of God's Word coupled
into a visual medium like motion pictures that relates
so well to the 20th century mind the impact of this film
could be tremendous." The Jesus film was then translated
into dozens of languages and it was viewed by hundreds
of millions of people in many countries in the years following.
It is very satisfying that I had a small part in promoting this film.
We had two new staff come into the WWC art team at that
time, Karen Murphey from Louisiana Tech (the same
school Bill Rhodes and Eddie Maggard graduated from).
Karen was with us for a short time and later transferred
to the headquarters training center. Donna Daniels
from Decatur, Georgia (University of Georgia) also
came into the department and was also "a real help
in getting out the magazine."
As 1980 arrived a major change happened in my living
situation. There is taken from my Jan.-Feb. 1980 prayerletter.
"On December 1, 1975, I moved into a nice five-bedroom house
on Hampshire Road in northern San Bernardino with five
other Christians. The house was being purchased by Mrs.
Doris Oram. Doris is a 67-year-old great-grandmother who
works in the Print Shop at Arrowhead Springs. She was our
"house mom" and landlady. Our rent monies enabled her
to make the house payments.
"When we first moved into the house we all prayed that
this home would be used to God's honor and glory. Over
the past four years we have had many Bible studies,
Growth Group meetings, parties, workdays and wonderful
Sunday afternoon lunches (with many guests) in our house.
Three of the housemates met their future wives while living
there and two others shortly after they moved out. Lots of
struggles, personal growth and good times were shared by
everyone that lived at 1141 E. Hampshire Road.
"On Jan. 10, 1980, there was a flash flood that sent about
3 to 4 feet of mud down Hampshire Road from a nearby
flood control basin. The mud and water literally went over
the flood control dam wall. This first flood carried two of
my housemates' cars that were parked in front of the house
and deposited them about half a block down the street. The
mud and water of this flood did not get into our house.
However, on Jan. 14 we experienced another sudden downpour
(I was at work when it happened at about 5:00 p.m.) which
sent an even greater volume of mud and water over the flood
control dam and our house (among 28 others) was invaded
by a torrent of silt-laden liquid. We had between 6 inches
and 3 1/2 feet of mud in our house. We lost all of our carpets
and living room furniture. I personally lost a number of
valuable books, magazines, shoes, personal artwork, photos,
my art portfolio and some clothes. The mud knocked in the
garage door and caused so much pressure on the wall that
separated the garage from my bedroom that it knocked a
hole in it. The water and mud also forced its way in through
the front door and through the dining room sliding glass doors."
"When the flood was happening, one of the housemates,
Manny Wong, was talking to me on the phone. I think I
will always remember him describing how the mud was
picking up his car (a 1975 Camaro) and how the mud was
going over and through our sandbagging of the dining
room doors. Fortunately, Doris and her boss got to the
house at that point and got Manny out of there as the mud
came bursting through the front door. They escaped the
mud by going through the back yard and over a concrete
block wall that was knocked over by the mud just after
they jumped over it.
"Greg Praniewicz (another of my housemates) and I
reached the scene about half an hour after the flood
subsided and made it into our home. What a sight!
Three feet of mud and sand in our living room. The
furniture was floating in a "stew" of mud."
"Tuesday morning, Jan. 15, we were back at the house,
ready to dig out. For the next week we did that with
the help of the California Conservation Corps,
volunteers from Norton Air Force base, Campus
Crusade and our individual churches."
"The flood was blamed on a devastating forest fire
that occurred on the foothills above our neighborhood
last September. All of the vegetation was burned
off so that there is nothing to hold back rapid erosion
during rainstorms. County officials have indicated
that it may take 5 or 10 years for it to grow back
enough to hold the soil well enough to prevent
further mudslides and flooding."
Don and Lucille Franklin offered housing for me
after the flood. I spent several months with them
at their home in nearby Rialto, California.
in my job with Worldwide Challenge magazine. "Bill Rhodes,
who is the art director of the magazine got married to
Miss Ginny Heyl on her parent farm in Spring Mills, PA on
Sept . 1" [1979] -(from October 1979 prayerletter). While
Bill was gotten I assumed a number of his responsibilities
designing features on the Jesus film and Roy Rogers.
"When you think of the power of God's Word coupled
into a visual medium like motion pictures that relates
so well to the 20th century mind the impact of this film
could be tremendous." The Jesus film was then translated
into dozens of languages and it was viewed by hundreds
of millions of people in many countries in the years following.
It is very satisfying that I had a small part in promoting this film.
We had two new staff come into the WWC art team at that
time, Karen Murphey from Louisiana Tech (the same
school Bill Rhodes and Eddie Maggard graduated from).
Karen was with us for a short time and later transferred
to the headquarters training center. Donna Daniels
from Decatur, Georgia (University of Georgia) also
came into the department and was also "a real help
in getting out the magazine."
As 1980 arrived a major change happened in my living
situation. There is taken from my Jan.-Feb. 1980 prayerletter.
"On December 1, 1975, I moved into a nice five-bedroom house
on Hampshire Road in northern San Bernardino with five
other Christians. The house was being purchased by Mrs.
Doris Oram. Doris is a 67-year-old great-grandmother who
works in the Print Shop at Arrowhead Springs. She was our
"house mom" and landlady. Our rent monies enabled her
to make the house payments.
"When we first moved into the house we all prayed that
this home would be used to God's honor and glory. Over
the past four years we have had many Bible studies,
Growth Group meetings, parties, workdays and wonderful
Sunday afternoon lunches (with many guests) in our house.
Three of the housemates met their future wives while living
there and two others shortly after they moved out. Lots of
struggles, personal growth and good times were shared by
everyone that lived at 1141 E. Hampshire Road.
"On Jan. 10, 1980, there was a flash flood that sent about
3 to 4 feet of mud down Hampshire Road from a nearby
flood control basin. The mud and water literally went over
the flood control dam wall. This first flood carried two of
my housemates' cars that were parked in front of the house
and deposited them about half a block down the street. The
mud and water of this flood did not get into our house.
However, on Jan. 14 we experienced another sudden downpour
(I was at work when it happened at about 5:00 p.m.) which
sent an even greater volume of mud and water over the flood
control dam and our house (among 28 others) was invaded
by a torrent of silt-laden liquid. We had between 6 inches
and 3 1/2 feet of mud in our house. We lost all of our carpets
and living room furniture. I personally lost a number of
valuable books, magazines, shoes, personal artwork, photos,
my art portfolio and some clothes. The mud knocked in the
garage door and caused so much pressure on the wall that
separated the garage from my bedroom that it knocked a
hole in it. The water and mud also forced its way in through
the front door and through the dining room sliding glass doors."
"When the flood was happening, one of the housemates,
Manny Wong, was talking to me on the phone. I think I
will always remember him describing how the mud was
picking up his car (a 1975 Camaro) and how the mud was
going over and through our sandbagging of the dining
room doors. Fortunately, Doris and her boss got to the
house at that point and got Manny out of there as the mud
came bursting through the front door. They escaped the
mud by going through the back yard and over a concrete
block wall that was knocked over by the mud just after
they jumped over it.
"Greg Praniewicz (another of my housemates) and I
reached the scene about half an hour after the flood
subsided and made it into our home. What a sight!
Three feet of mud and sand in our living room. The
furniture was floating in a "stew" of mud."
"Tuesday morning, Jan. 15, we were back at the house,
ready to dig out. For the next week we did that with
the help of the California Conservation Corps,
volunteers from Norton Air Force base, Campus
Crusade and our individual churches."
"The flood was blamed on a devastating forest fire
that occurred on the foothills above our neighborhood
last September. All of the vegetation was burned
off so that there is nothing to hold back rapid erosion
during rainstorms. County officials have indicated
that it may take 5 or 10 years for it to grow back
enough to hold the soil well enough to prevent
further mudslides and flooding."
Don and Lucille Franklin offered housing for me
after the flood. I spent several months with them
at their home in nearby Rialto, California.
Monday, February 02, 2009
Campus Crusade Part 30
Here are more short life items from the late 1970s.
* From the May-June 1978 prayerletter. Noreen Ketchum
spent two months in England to help start a British version
of Worldwide Challenge. Cindi Arauz came into the
department and I trained her to take over the managing
and design of the WWC news section. During the summer
we had a student intern work with us named Jane Wrede
from Wisconsin. I also was involved with training her.
Jane several years later returned as a full time staff and
worked on the magazine design team.
In April we had Headquarters staff training with
well-known Bible scholar Dr. Bruce Waltke a
special speaker who lectured on the book of
Proverbs. He also assisted in translating that
book for the New International Version.
* In May the Publications Department hosted
the Evangelical Press Association's Annual
Convention (at Arrowhead Springs). "There were
around 250 conferees from many Christian many
Christian publications (like Moody Monthly, His,
Eternity, Christian Life, Campus Life and so on)
assembled here. I was in charge of the committee
that made the awards displays, posters, signs and
so on. It was a tremendous time and a lot of work."
* On May 17 my former roommate Jim Winchell
was married in Riverside. I was an usher in his wedding.
* During August I flew to Seattle/Tacoma airport
where I met my mother. We then proceeded to fly
to Fairbanks, Alaska. I spent the next three weeks
or so with my brother Russ. "It was a real vacation.
I endeavored to fit into my brother's life style as
much as possible. I helped him work on building
his garage, cut firewood for his heating stoves, and
set up a booth (for selling his wood burning, space
heating stoves) at the local fair. Looking back on
the got quite a bit of work out of me."
However we did take a number of trips including
a trip down the Chena river (that goes through Fairbanks)
in a paddle wheeler, a trip to Mt. McKinley National
Park (lots of grizzly bears in their natural habitat) and
a ferry trip along the south coast of Alaska to view the
famous Columbia Glacier. My brother also took me
up several times in his Cessina 150 airplane." I had
opportunities to speak about my work to Bethel
Baptist Church who were supporters at the time.
I also spoke the junior church and gave an illustrated
lecture on how dinosaurs fit into the Bible.
Over all a great time in Alaska.
* From my Sept-Oct 1978 prayerletter. We had a
new staff man come into the WWC Department,
Eddie Maggard who recently graduated from
Louisiana Tech University. Eddie in several
years would succeed Bill Rhodes as art director
for Worldwide Challenge. "In July I had the
chance to teach the young adult Sunday School
class for one Sunday on the area of evolution
and creation. It was part of a series on
Christian apologetics. During October I was a
substitute teacher for the Senior High Sunday
School class. It was definitely a challenge
(trying to go through the book of Acts in 5
Sundays) to relate to teenagers even though
it hasn't been that long since I 've been there myself."
Also I was asked to be on the school board of
the San Bernardino Christian School at that time.
This has been mentioned earlier in this recollections.
I was even elected vice-president of the Board
that serviced a school of 136 students. I also
produced a brochure for the church, took photos
of church events, wrote book reviews for the
school newspaper and was an usher.
* During this time I was still working out on
weights at a local Gym and still doing things
with Don Franklin. During that time (October 1978)
meet bodybuilding champion Bob Birdsong
(Mr. America, Mr. Universe) who had become a
Christian along with his wife Laura. It was able
to have a ministry in his life by giving him
cassette tapes by Bill Bright and Tim Timmons
(a popular CCC speaker) on marriage. Bob
surfaces in San Bernardino for some time as
an associate manager of a new weight lifting gym.
He and his wife later moved to New Mexico
where they worked with the Fellowship of
Christian Athletes. "Bob is preparing for the
Mr. Olympia contest in September.
The Olympia is the ultimate bodybuilding title
(you have to be a Mr. World or Mr. Universe
to compete)..." Bob never won the Mr. Olympia
but he had a solid witness to other athletes
during that time.
* From the May-June 1978 prayerletter. Noreen Ketchum
spent two months in England to help start a British version
of Worldwide Challenge. Cindi Arauz came into the
department and I trained her to take over the managing
and design of the WWC news section. During the summer
we had a student intern work with us named Jane Wrede
from Wisconsin. I also was involved with training her.
Jane several years later returned as a full time staff and
worked on the magazine design team.
In April we had Headquarters staff training with
well-known Bible scholar Dr. Bruce Waltke a
special speaker who lectured on the book of
Proverbs. He also assisted in translating that
book for the New International Version.
* In May the Publications Department hosted
the Evangelical Press Association's Annual
Convention (at Arrowhead Springs). "There were
around 250 conferees from many Christian many
Christian publications (like Moody Monthly, His,
Eternity, Christian Life, Campus Life and so on)
assembled here. I was in charge of the committee
that made the awards displays, posters, signs and
so on. It was a tremendous time and a lot of work."
* On May 17 my former roommate Jim Winchell
was married in Riverside. I was an usher in his wedding.
* During August I flew to Seattle/Tacoma airport
where I met my mother. We then proceeded to fly
to Fairbanks, Alaska. I spent the next three weeks
or so with my brother Russ. "It was a real vacation.
I endeavored to fit into my brother's life style as
much as possible. I helped him work on building
his garage, cut firewood for his heating stoves, and
set up a booth (for selling his wood burning, space
heating stoves) at the local fair. Looking back on
the got quite a bit of work out of me."
However we did take a number of trips including
a trip down the Chena river (that goes through Fairbanks)
in a paddle wheeler, a trip to Mt. McKinley National
Park (lots of grizzly bears in their natural habitat) and
a ferry trip along the south coast of Alaska to view the
famous Columbia Glacier. My brother also took me
up several times in his Cessina 150 airplane." I had
opportunities to speak about my work to Bethel
Baptist Church who were supporters at the time.
I also spoke the junior church and gave an illustrated
lecture on how dinosaurs fit into the Bible.
Over all a great time in Alaska.
* From my Sept-Oct 1978 prayerletter. We had a
new staff man come into the WWC Department,
Eddie Maggard who recently graduated from
Louisiana Tech University. Eddie in several
years would succeed Bill Rhodes as art director
for Worldwide Challenge. "In July I had the
chance to teach the young adult Sunday School
class for one Sunday on the area of evolution
and creation. It was part of a series on
Christian apologetics. During October I was a
substitute teacher for the Senior High Sunday
School class. It was definitely a challenge
(trying to go through the book of Acts in 5
Sundays) to relate to teenagers even though
it hasn't been that long since I 've been there myself."
Also I was asked to be on the school board of
the San Bernardino Christian School at that time.
This has been mentioned earlier in this recollections.
I was even elected vice-president of the Board
that serviced a school of 136 students. I also
produced a brochure for the church, took photos
of church events, wrote book reviews for the
school newspaper and was an usher.
* During this time I was still working out on
weights at a local Gym and still doing things
with Don Franklin. During that time (October 1978)
meet bodybuilding champion Bob Birdsong
(Mr. America, Mr. Universe) who had become a
Christian along with his wife Laura. It was able
to have a ministry in his life by giving him
cassette tapes by Bill Bright and Tim Timmons
(a popular CCC speaker) on marriage. Bob
surfaces in San Bernardino for some time as
an associate manager of a new weight lifting gym.
He and his wife later moved to New Mexico
where they worked with the Fellowship of
Christian Athletes. "Bob is preparing for the
Mr. Olympia contest in September.
The Olympia is the ultimate bodybuilding title
(you have to be a Mr. World or Mr. Universe
to compete)..." Bob never won the Mr. Olympia
but he had a solid witness to other athletes
during that time.
