Be. We are gathered to honor the. Dr. Charles Cook,

the founder of this unique Christian training school. And we think of those who took part in the development of Hook School. And those who gave generously to the building of this beautiful campus. We also remember the graduates of Group School who have proclaim the good news of Jesus Christ in days gone by. And we remember those Cook School students and graduates who are now proclaiming the Kingdom of God to various Indian reservations. Across this continent. Our heavenly father, bless our campus. Bless our staff and students and all those who support. This institute. May Good Christian Training School continue to train and prepare Indian youth for the Christian ministry until every tribe has heard the Gospel of Christ? Almighty God, forgive us for our transgressions and our inequities and our failures. Clench our hearts in our thoughts. And prepare us. What the future task. As we dedicate this campus to the. We also rededicate. Ourselves to thy service. Here, our prayer. But we ask it in the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord. Mean.

We received the.

Welcome to the Miracle School on Linden Lane. We are delighted. To have you come and pay us a visit this morning. And we are honored by your presence. Many of you have come. Literally thousands of miles to be with us. At this historic milestone in the history of this school. It was about three years ago. After many months of consideration and deliberation that the Board of Trustees determined on a course. Of events that led us. To this day and to this place. About two and a half years ago, it was that. Architect George Dome as first put his pencil to the paper to translate some ideas into reality. And then about 17 months ago. The Christian training school staff. You know, rather timorous gathering, I should say, came out to. The farm, as this was at that time and over the by the Adobe house and the back corner of the lot. The House, which is still standing, we gathered in a word of prayer and dedication for something that we hope might come to pass, but we hardly knew what. And then about 15 months ago, we climbed through a barbed wire fence down at this end of the. Campus site near where that Palo Verde three is climbed through a barbed wire fence into a pasture filled with cattle. To raise a sign of hope, saying future home of her Christian training school. With one eye open as we prayed for the difficulties and the problems that might arise in that case, it was a herd of cattle nearby. And I remember the prayer, the prayer, the one who prayed. I said, I'll pray if you what. We've tried to pray with one eye open ever since. And it was just 12 months ago. To the day, 12 months ago today at about 4:15 in the afternoon that over on this corner of the campus near the roadway and the entrance, we. Use them shovels and dug into the Earth in a symbolic gesture. To begin the actual job. Of course, it still took six weeks to get started after we had used our shovel, we got the shovel so warm from the friction there that we had let it cool off before Mr. Peterson could really get out here and do something without losing his tools. So it is really about 10 months ago that Mr Peterson began the job. That went on all through summer. That of if you remember, last summer there were about 72 days when people didn't work for one reason or another. And you can imagine what this would do to a school needing a campus and needing some facilities to open in September. Fortunately for us. Mr Peterson and his men worked at somehow I don't know how, but they didn't lose the whole 72 days, I can assure you that otherwise we would still be laying blocks on blocks and trying to get our buildings completed. So what you see around you this morning is the result of the combined efforts of literally hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people of friends, many of whom we have never seen. Some of you are here this morning and we see you for the first time. And we want to say thank you for your help and your kindness, your prayers and your support of the Christian training school. We believe that God has a job for this school to do, and we intend to do it with the help of the Lord and with the help of our friend. We believe this is a unique school in all America. I might mention some correspondence without reading all of the letters or the telegrams that have come to us, I might mention a few of them. One from the governor of the state of Arizona wishing us continued success in our endeavor. One from Mr. John Regier of the Division of Christian Life and Mission of the National Council of Churches saying With profound gratitude to God, I express to you my deep joy over this tangible evidence of your great dream. A very cordial letter from Mrs. Mary Dale of the United Christian Missionary Society, the Disciples of Christ. Kind letter from Senator Paul Fannon of the United States Senate. Core Christian Training School has played a valuable role in this effort for more than half a century. I know you have the goodwill of many Arizonans behind you. A kind note from the acting director of education of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, L. Madison Plume's, a kind note from the Commissioner, Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and on and on we could go. I would like to call your attention, especially to a note from Senator Carl Hayden, who wrote very kindly. I think I'll read his letter because of the Historical interest of it. He said I first became acquainted with Dr. Charles H. Cook in 9500. When I went to the second time to purchase wheat grown by the Pima Indians for shipment to the mill in Tempe. He was then, as he had been for the previous 10 years, providing religious instruction for the Indians at a school which he had established near the agency. It was a remarkable man, and I enjoyed talking with him whenever I had occasion to go to second time. It is good to know that the mission to continue to which Dr. Hook devoted his life is to be continued in the city of Tempe. With warm personal regards, Senator Carl Hayden. So we are pleased to receive these congratulations. From our friends who are not able to be with us this morning. I would like to present to you some of the guests. Who are sitting on the platform with us. We would like to give each of them a long time to make a speech. I think they have it in them. Maybe some of them have them prepared. I don't know. But I know there's a limit to the human endurance of the physical frame. And so we will present them and some of them will have a word for it. And I'm sure. I'd like to recognize Mrs Shirley Striving, who is representing the United Church women in the state. She is the president of the United Church women, Mrs. striving families. Thank you. Dr. W. W. McReynolds is representing this morning the Arizona State Council of Churches, of which he is the president. Where's Dr. McReynolds? Thank you. Dr. Robert Russell is representing the. Sister institution in town, the State University. But do you have a word from the university? I just want to be president. Durham, who could not be here this morning, said that he was very, very honored to have this institution near Arizona State Institute Arizona State University. And he hopes that we can grow together and share our resources together and help the Indian people to. Thank you, Dr. Russell. We are honored with the presence of the mayor of Tempe, Mayor John Moore. You have a word you'd like to speak. People like to hear from the mayor, I'm sure we're very pleased that you chose your location. Thank you, sir. Thank you, sir. Representing the tribes of the state, we'd like to have had representatives from every one of the tribes, but a judge, Victor Emmanuel, is here. Where is? Vic, stand up and let people see you. You'll be hearing from him a little bit later with the choir, which he is directing this morning. May I present Mr. George DOMA's, the architect who has done so much to please the eye, as well as designing buildings of great value to us, Mr. Your domain to. Without a contractor to carry out the ideas of the architect, they would still be on paper. We're delighted we don't have a paper campus this morning, thanks to Mr. Ray Peterson. Thank you. I'd like to recognize Mr. James officer, who has a word for us, I'm sure, from the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Washington. Mr. Officer, we're experiencing come up here and you may be wondering, I'll take a couple of moments, if I may, Dr. Smart to bring the greetings of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and not the Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs, but the commissioner. In fact, billionaire and the secretary of the Interior, Stuart out in Utah and whose behalf as well as my own. I'm very honored to be here today. I left Washington the day before yesterday with nine inches of snow on the ground, and I did not think that I would have the opportunity to participate in an outdoor festivity of this kind on Saturday morning. So I'm very pleased to be back in Arizona and to have the Sun as my spotlight, as I talk to you for a few brief moments this morning. In consideration of the fact that Jesus Christ first saw the light of day in a stable nearly two thousand years ago, I think it's not inappropriate to smart that this institution should be rising here from a cow pasture. And it certainly is an improvement over the stable, I am sure, in which Jesus Christ was born. It is a beautiful institution and I congratulate the architect who designed it and the contractor who built it, and the individuals who are members of the board of this institution who had the wisdom and foresight to provide for its creation. I have spent some 20 years in and out of Arizona associated with the Indians in this area, and I have had the opportunity during that time to come to know many people who were graduated from this institution. I could mention their names, but I would to do so take more than I feel as my allotted time this morning. I would only like briefly to recognize one of them whom I had the pleasure of seeing at breakfast this morning, Wendell Chino, the chairman of the Apache Tribe of New Mexico, who also happens to be at the present time the president of the National Congress of American Indians, a man who has risen to considerable stature in the Indian community throughout the entire United States. Wendell, where are you? We're just endless. Wendell Chino, president of the National Congress of American Indians and a man who spent some time in the Cook Christian training school. One thing that struck me, as I read this morning, the account in the Tampa newspaper of last evening about the activities of Dr. Cook was the fact that he was what I would call today a man who was interested in the area of community development as well as Christian development. He recognized, I think, one of the basic principles of community development, something to which Dr. Russell right now is very much dedicated. When he arrived at the conclusion that the proper way of going about educating Indians in the mass was to educate a few Indians to help to educate others. And he recognized the principle that real community development consists of helping people do an awareness of these facilities, which they have at their own disposal to assist themselves. He was indeed, as Senator Hayden has said in his letter. A very great man. Some 12 years ago, I did research for a book on Indian education in the state of Arizona. I combed through the archives here and in other parts of the country, and I found a great deal about the Rev. Dr. C. H. Cook and some of the experiences that he had when he first arrived among the Pima Indians. I think you're very fortunate in having this school in the community of Tempe. Those of you who are from Tempe, I hope you'll continue your acquaintanceship with it. I know it is indeed a mark in the favor of the good Christian training school to be located so close to such a fine institution as Arizona State University. And when I give that endorsement, I do it as a firm alumnus of the University of Arizona in Tucson. So, you know, it comes indeed from the heart. I may not be able to spend all of the morning with you as I would like to do and getting to know this school better because I have a something of a conflicting commitment to be present on the platform out of Saskatoon shortly after lunchtime today for the Indian fair that is taking place there. And if you don't mind my putting in a plug for it, let me say that I hope many of you folks will also have the opportunity before the weekend is out to take part in that fair. It's going to be a real 12 Ring Circus. I was out there yesterday and had something of a preview with those few remarks. I'll say again that I'm very honored to be here this morning. I wish you great success in this institution. You've already had a great record of success, but I'm sure the future holds things for you, which will be even better. Thank you very much, Mr. Officer. I wonder if you would take our greeting down to second on our birthplace many years ago? I'd like to. Present a few of the people who are responsible for the work of Coach Christian Training School, first of all, I would like to present the dean of the school, Dean Melvin Nelson. Reduce them, please over here. The Reverend George Walker, from whom you'll hear in a minute or two, is vice president, executive vice president of the school. I like Mr. Walker to stand, please. Thank you. The Reverend George Ferguson, the chairman of the board of trustees, you'll hear from him in just a moment, but I'd like him to stand, please. And I believe there are. Reverend Russell Carter, you'll hear from him in just a minute. Director of the division. I get stuck on his title. He has one of these three mile long titles, director of the Division of Special Ministries of the Division of Christian Life and Mission of the. Where do we go from there? I've been reminded that we have a short period this morning, so I was like the speeches been made. We can all go home. I would like to recognize the members of the board of trustees who may be scattered through the audience. Some of them are already standing. If any of them are not standing with the board of trustees, then please so we can see who you are all the way around here. There are a great many together to thank you. These are the men who have done some real planning. And all right, let's give them a hand. I think the there is a fine group. There are also a good many staff people of the Cook Christian training schools that are scattered around. And I don't know how you can identify them either, but I'm going to ask them to stand and maybe they'll wave a little bit and we could tell who they are, all of the staff people of the Christian training school. Would you please stand?

Thank you.

I believe we have recognized as many as we have time for. May I recognize all of you and say thank you for coming? We're delighted to have you here once again. May I say that? And all right, thank you. Somebody says that whoever speaks up here, be sure and speak into the mic. The boom is not loud enough for the people over. Here is the future speakers students. We are pleased to have selections from the choir, the Christian Training School Choir, led by Mrs. Lowell van Kirchhoff. They will sing for us at this time.

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It gives me a great honor to present the Reverend George Walker, the vice president for Christian Training School, is a native of Canada but has really become an Arizona and I think he's been here for. About 50 years, I believe in the state. And I can honestly say that no one has exerted more influence on the Christian training school than George Walker. Not even excepting Dr. Charles Cook. Or Mr Walker was a missionary in the area to the tribes around of the valley, around in this valley. He also served on the board of trustees at one time, was chairman of the board of trustees and then for many years he was president of the school. And after he retired well, he was promoted to vice president and he's been working harder and done more than anybody else on the campus ever since he's taken over this higher job as executive vice president. We're delighted that he's here and can bring us the word about his recollections of pre-Christian training school. Mr. Walker. Thank you very much, Dr. Smart, for those exaggerated words. It is a pleasure to be here and to think back a bit over the past for many interesting things have happened. I remember through Dr. Logi, who began the school in nineteen hundred and eleven in Tucson, saying of Dr. Cook, whom he knew quite intimately. It was quite a fabulous character with a great deal of vision. In fact, someone who looked at the oil painting that is in our administration building said one time why that far away look in his eyes? And someone said he must have had a faraway look in both his eyes and his heart. To have seen all the way from Chicago to Saskatoon. It came as far as Kansas. On the railroad and where it ran out, he made his way as best he could with cattle, trains and cowboys. Some Mexicans and maybe a few Indians, I don't know until after four hard, heartbreaking months. He arrived two days before Christmas and then laid down on. And as the stagecoach that brought him from Tucson to Saskatoon was rolling out, a white man came over and he said to him, Young man, you missed your stagecoach and there won't be another for a long time. To which Dr. Cook replied, No, I didn't miss it. I'm going to stay here and live here. And the commandant of the fort that was stationed there said. There's nobody here, but Indians. Well, he said it's the Indian people that I came to. My name is Charles H. Cook and I came to be a missionary. And so he invited Dr Cook into his home that night, and the two of them discovered rather dramatically that they had belonged to the same regiment in the Civil War. And right away, there was a bond of friendship there, of course. And although Dr. Cook had no mission board or no organization behind him in the way of giving him a salary, he found himself the superintendent of the first school, which hadn't yet been built. And he was asked to take first. The salary was $600, but before he began his work after having made the Adobe tomorrow, he was promised a thousand dollars. And so he went on from there, building the school, teaching the little Indian boys and girls and then preaching in the fields and gathering people together in the evening as best he could and delivering for them. The words of life. Took him 16 long years, which must have been real heartbreaking years due to security as first convert. You think back to 1950 and all that has transpired in your lives since 1950 and you get a fair comprehension of those apparently barren years? And he worked without any fruit. But as he began to gather a few converts about him. He saw right away the need for some trained Indian workers who in their own language could preach the good news better than he could in the name of language, which was so difficult for him to learn. As a matter of fact, he spoke with with a rather thick German accent. And so when he taught English to the Pima boys and girls, the two in turn spoke English with a German accent. And some of them still haven't. Once in a while, I find this Irishman with a bit of an unease left do from association with our famous. But he gathered a few of the choice young men together in these little Adobe home, which he made himself, by the way, out of mud bricks had a dirt floor and a dirt roof. And there he taught them some of the rudiments of Christianity and sent them out to preach. Then they began the putting up of little churches and chapels sprinkled all up and down the Ila River, where the people could have their services on Sunday, and they were very diligent about their father's business. You can be sure when that they came or they would leave the West End of the reservation on Friday in their wagons and come on up to our Typekit dawn when that was the only church. Getting there late Saturday night and being ready for service Sunday morning and then going the 30 miles back to the dealer crossing our living. After their Sabbath observance. It turned out some great men. And some of them that were in his class are boys and girls came later to be students of the Cook Christian Training School. And one or two of them, I would like to parade before you and figures this morning. Not in arithmetical figures, but. In figures that are alive with human interest. And used for one of them, man, by the name of Antonio B.1, who is my interpreter for many years and who came at fifty three years of age to the Christian training school to be made a minister, a preacher. He was a magnificent looking man and merited the term in every sense of the word and no red man. It was a delight to hear him pretty good if he couldn't understand it. Because the benign look on his face and the magnificence of his features and the stalwart character of the man just would shine out through him until it sort of fascinated you to see him with his bigger end and to see them putting forth these great truths of Christianity to his people. He was so eloquent that when he was holding a week of spiritual emphasis services down in our little church of San Miguel, 10 miles north of the Mexican border. There used to be Epico Indians who lived in Old Mexico and who understood the Pima language very well, who used to walk up from two mental villages down there. One of them, named many dogs, knew who lived on reservation. Know what that must mean. This village of many dogs and another one called Greenwell. And you might know the character of the derivation of that name who used to come up to the international finance and dig a little tunnel underneath it while he was breaking in San Miguel and then walked 10 miles up to the little chapel where I Antonio was and listening to for the first time. Do the words of life. And then late at night after the service, go back to the international fans crawl through the hole under a hole in the dirt after them, so the Mexican officials were know that they were doing this without a visa. And walk on back to their little villages on the south side of the international border. Antonio was a tremendous fellow in every sense of the word. He merited the admiration of everybody who knew him. And before he became a preacher, he was in charge of 200 men, by the way, who dug the ditch through this area that brought the waters of the era and Salt River down to this valley of the Sun as we know it. And he told me, and I had a great show of pride one time that he loved people to the extent that he never fired a man who worked for him but always found some kind of a job in that gang of 200 men. That could fit that particular individual and enable him to keep him on the payroll. Another great man that was trained at Christian Training School was Wilson Walker. And when we speak of making his ministers a flaming fire to use an expression from the Bible that was the very epitome of Wilson Walker's service to his lord and is king. He was tireless in going up and down these various areas, preaching to them Wahhabism, the amplifying demons and half of those miracle beard and all the other tribes that were resident in the southern part of Arizona. He worked at it so diligently that. His health broke, and even although at times God gave him miraculous strength to carry on at camp meetings and other special meetings, Wilson Walker finally left this world for his reward over on the other side. And of course, there are scores of others great, many of them from almost 50 tribes that have taken their training at the Cook Christian Training School from 15 or 16 different denominations. And from a dozen or more states and for several of the provinces of Canada, I think of William Peters and Joseph Wellington and Moses flying by and crossed Perkins. Robert John, who still in service. McGill Myers, Enoch Lapointe, Joaquin Lopez, Floyd Hammond Jr.. Robert Fox. Played host to people from the Nez Perce country in the state of Idaho, Esau Joseph, the Gipsy Smith of the theman and many, many others whose fame and name have gone out overall is Indian country and as I think of these men. I think of a verse of scripture that is to be found in Moffat's translation. Of second chapter of Second Corinthians somewhere around the 14th or 15th verse where Saint Paul writes, wherever I go, thank God. He makes my life to be a pageant of crime in. Diffusing the fragrance of his knowledge everywhere by me. I live for God as the perfume of Christ shared abroad among all men. And that's exactly what these graduates of this school have done. They have disseminated the teachings and the fragrance of the very life of Christ himself, among these people who lived in darkness and in the shadow of death and have guided their feet into the ways of life and life and peace and happiness. And you can see as you go on the reservations, they shine on their faces that be tokens, their inner hope that comes from a knowledge of these things, which we hold most dear. It has been wonderful these 40 years to have worked with them. And now, as I see these new buildings coming, use usable mass. Well, eight of them, I believe all together at the present time, it brings a thrill to my heart is, I think, back over the years and realize that the Cop Christian training school is started by Dr. Morgan. Nineteen hundred and eleven and only one student to begin. And whereas Dr. Cook had had his little coterie of workers long before that, it started as an institution in 1911 and has come to this thrilling day. Now we must fill these buildings that we see here on this campus. With fine dedicated. Intelligent Indian young men and young women who will do the same thing in the future as has been done by these old timers whose names I've mentioned in the past. And just a close. Let me read to you, the Lord's Prayer. As we pray together in the written in the Indian vernacular. Let us move our heads. All great spirit. Whose TV is the sky? And who's hunting ground is the Earth? Mighty and fearful, are you called? Ruler over storms, over birds and bees and men have your way over all. Over Earth weighs as over skyways. Find us this day our meat and corn that we may be strong and brave. And put aside from us our wicked ways as we put aside the bad works of them who do us wrong. And let us not have such troubles as lead us into crooked fans. But keep us from all evil or yours is all it is, the Earth, the sky, the streams, the hills, the valleys, the stars, the Moon and the sun, and all that live and breathe wonderful, shining mighty spirit. Amen. Yes, before I sit down, I would like to introduce a man in the congregation here today, the Reverend Earl Dexter Methodist Minister, who used to be the president of Good Christian Training School, a long way back who came here yesterday from Riverside, California, with three friends who are interested in this work and who have given a very liberal to it. And as you go through some of the buildings, you'll see Mr. Dexter's paintings. Some of them are for sale. Make a good look at them and recognize this man who has given a great portion of his life to the work of our Indians up today, Mr. Secretary, will you please stand? Thank you, Mr. Walker. We are pleased to have the name a combined choir with us this morning, we're greatly honored with your presence. Mr. Victor Manuel, the director of the choir this morning, will later lead them in selections at this time. At the piano, Miss Mildred Manuel is the accompanist for this choir, as you was part of the fire. We're pleased to have this manual at the piano of the character.

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Emanuel, the choir. Lovely love of music. Appreciate your being here so much. Reverend Russell Carter has been in various phases of the Indian mission and mission work for more than 30 years. A member of the Friends persuasion, he has served on government school campuses as religious director, especially at Haskell Institute. Where he served for was it 17 or so years as religious coordinator and then has been in field work for the Indian Department of the Division of Home Nations of the National Council of Churches? He follows in the footsteps of the illustrious Dr G. E Lindquist, who for many years was a familiar figure in the Indian country and is now retired and living in Florida. We are delighted to have Mr. Carter with us this morning. He will speak to us a little bit of the expectations ahead of us. What's in store for a good Christian training school? Mr. Carter, have your dark Dr. George, smart friends. I am profoundly grateful for being able to be a part of this wonderful occasion. I've been looking forward to it, but I was not quite so sure of how meaningful it was going to be until the real blessings began quite early this morning as we began to see old friends gather. Now, I would like to take the privilege of making mention of this fact because it gives me the opportunity and great humility to pay some respects to many people who have gone ahead of me and others who are presently in the Indian work and who have come to means so much to us. I know this is a very dangerous thing to do because we're not going to be able to name them all. But as I sat here and looked up over the group and as I met some of these people as they arrived this morning, I began to realize afresh how rich our heritage really is. You have heard your attention. Call to Earl Dexter, who is sitting on the front row here and his wife, Esther. They've come to mean so much to anyone who knows anything about any work whatsoever. Having served a period of time in connection with the school as its president, serving the religious activities in Albuquerque and later at Sherman Institute, and has come to mean so much to us in all ways. And sitting next to him, another individual who many years ago, many of us came to love and admire and respect. No one do many of us as Mr. Ganado legend himself. Dr Salisbury and his wife, who are here this morning and I would like to pay my tribute to him. And also I had the privilege of meeting and shaking hands again with our dear friend, Fred Paterson and his wife. And I notice back in the back row a good friend of ours, Casey Kiper's, who for many years or the Christian Reform Board and the Indian field. I cannot let the opportunity pass without paying tribute also to Veeva White, who served so many years so helpfully observing this dude and is still deeply involved in the program there. And although she was introduced as a continuing member of the staff at the school, we should mention Miss Anna and Bass, who is almost a legend, particularly in the Winnebago country in Nebraska. And the list goes on and on, and we can mention a great many others that it meant a great deal to me and has caused me to feel even more humble as I think of our great debt that we owe to so many people. You're expected to hear from me, some words, just do what? Now can we expect from this miracle that we have seen unfolding before our very eyes? I'm not prophet enough to know exactly what we can expect from an institution of this kind. The New Day Yet ahead of this? I remember last October as we came out to view the new campus. I fully expected to see half-finished walls in the rafters still appearing. And I was completely overwhelmed as I saw what have transpired here in this capacity. And I think I had something of the feeling of the spokesman as regarded in the Book of Job 12 chapter, where we find the words who among all these does not know that the Hand of God has done this. And as I see this campus and begin to think what has happened, I ask myself, what what has gone wrong, really? Well, we see here a magnificent tool. The value which is resting in its potential rather than in its proven fact. We haven't used it yet. And I feel that we are standing here at the threshold of an era of great expectations. And it will remain to be seen, but we are able to do with it. God has placed in our hands a great talent. And is awaiting to see what we are going to do with it. And I think we must remind ourselves of that as yet, it is simply a tool, and the value of this tool remains to be seen and as measured in accordance with our ability to build with it in a meaningful far-reaching program, which yet is ahead of us before it is told us in our gospels that out of the whomsoever, much has been given of him how much we require. We see here a tangible physical manifestation of what I think we can characterize as they run rampant, say a little facetiously because I think if we are honest with ourselves, we would have to say that no one can quite justify this. That has happened before us. If we can find ourselves in terms of cold, hard headed practical financial terms. Because in many ways, in our blindness, all rules of economics perhaps have been broken. Yet here it is, and it's happened before us. We know to a degree how it happened, not in its fullest. And we must thank God for it. I think we see transpiring before us a reflection in mortar and stone. What I like to think of as a new spirit of a waking awakening and venturesome ness characterizing young Indian would this nation over? I don't think we fully see this, but it is happening before our very eyes. A spirit among these young Indian people and many of the older Indian people, of course, a spirit which is demanding many things. And I think we must expect to have to face them squarely as this program begins to unfold, a spirit which is demanding an equal chance at an education and training which will be second to no one in the country. A spirit which is demanding that the church must now at long last face up to its responsibility to keep abreast with the requirements and the demands of a 20th century. In her dealings with a proud people who people who are simply refusing to turn over and play dead. A spirit which is demanding that we are the dominant culture, so to speak. Can no longer bypass these people in planning and programing as if they were unschooled children incapable of making their own decisions. A spirit which is demanding that we recognize the fact that no people can rise above their own leadership. A bird which is demanding that we recognize that in an age of automation and technology, know people can expect to survive without acquired skills and insights achieved largely through the educational experience is available in our colleges and universities. A spirit which requires that we belatedly face up to the fact that the Christian gospel can and must be experienced and injured in meaningful ways within and in harmony with any cultural pattern anywhere in the world. But that search can best be brought about by and through the eyes and the hearts and the tongues and the minds of those who are members of those groups. Now, I like to think that these are some of the reasons that the new school is here. I like to think that these basic demands have led the leaders of school to move this campus to this spot. They are themselves of Arizona State University, for instance, with what many across the nation recognize as the nation's outstanding Department of Education under such leadership as Extended Now Mr. McKinley and with Bob Russell. We must continually re-emphasize her program that I've got school on lay leadership for those Indian areas where our culture still are at variance and understandings and communications do not come easily. And special cultural demands are still being made. I see within Cook School a superb opportunity from this day on to fill a role so long and so tragically left unfulfilled. That being an orientation and spiritual renewal center for mission workers throughout the Indian mission across the land. This has started, but the opportunities for a good school becoming such a center for training and spiritual renewal on something of a professional level are values. And lastly, there's much more to be added that I think we must say that possibly most importantly of all, among these beautiful surroundings, the facilities are such excellence with meaningful symbolism was built into the architecture with whole depictions of so much of the good and of the beautiful Indian lifeway with sympathetic and understanding leadership that is present in good school and surrounded by friendly and understanding community. Young Indian men and women will be led to a bright and clean image of themselves as persons who with real pride zeal within themselves, a part of the great, good and wonderful nation of people, American Indians with such glorious contributions to be made to American society. No person can be assured of a bright future if he has a clouded by himself. No force is so great to bring about, such as a beloved community of Christian folk such as we know Christian drownings go do that Ben is and will be an boundless measure and the good years yet stretching ahead. George Smart rather facetiously a while ago. Imagine the fact that someone said, I'll pray and you watch. I think it behooves us all to pray and to watch for God's blessings, which will be assured us if we are faithful stewards of the talent he has placed in our hands.