Description: Dillman B. Hess, Academy 1914?; "Teacher is a Fool." written on chalkboard
Date: ca. 1914
Location: North Newton, Kansas
MLA filing: Bethel College - Student Life - Pranks
Subject: Personal - Hess
Original size: 9 x 17 cm
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Description: car on Administration Building steps; caption in the yearbook "Crosley, the victim of a playful prank."
Date: 1942
Location: North Newton, Kansas
MLA filing: Bethel College - Student Life - Pranks
Original size: 7.5 x 5.5 cm
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Note: used in 1942 Graymaroon, p. 5; used in Bethel College Bulletin, Oct. 1987, p. 6
Description: flagpole climbing
Date: 1949
Location: North Newton, Kansas
MLA filing: Bethel College - Student Life - Pranks
Original size: 6 x 10 cm
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Note: used in 1949 Graymaroon, p. 106
Description: flagpole climbing
Date: 1949
Location: North Newton, Kansas
MLA filing: Bethel College - Student Life - Pranks
Original size: 4.5 x 5.5 cm
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Note: used in 1949 Graymaroon, p. 107
Description: "A beastly character" says the yearbook; some kind of dog construction
Date: 1951
Location: North Newton, Kansas
MLA filing: Bethel College - Student Life - Pranks
Original size: 8.5 x 5.5 cm
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Note: used in 1951 Graymaroon, p. 92
Description: car covered in snow in front of Administration Building; sign says "Leased - Herman Bubbert"
Date: 1963?
Location: North Newton, Kansas
MLA filing: Bethel College - Student Life - Pranks
Subject: Bethel College - Bubbert, Herman
Original size: 11.5 x 10 cm
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Description: car covered in snow in front of Administration Building; sign says "Leased - Herman Bubbert"; standing left to right: John Zerger, Harvey Harms, ?, ?
Date: 1963?
Location: North Newton, Kansas
MLA filing: Bethel College - Student Life - Pranks
Subject: Bethel College - Bubbert, Herman
Original size: 11 x 9.5 cm
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Description: tires dropped over flagpole
Date: 1963
Location: North Newton, Kansas
MLA filing: Bethel College - Student Life - Pranks
Original size: 3.5 x 24 cm
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Note: used in 1963 Thresher, p. 110?
Description: students crowded into a car; people are unidentified
Date: 1964
Location: North Newton, Kansas
MLA filing: Bethel College - Student Life - Pranks
Subject: Unidentified
Original size: 11.5 x 5.5 cm
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Note: used in 1964 Thresher, p. 19?
Description: "E. B. I." Esko Bureau of Investigation, named for Esko Loewen, dean of students; lettering placed into the wall of the Administration Building by the front steps
Date: 1965
Location: North Newton, Kansas
MLA filing: Bethel College - Student Life - Pranks
Original size: 12.5 x 9.5 cm
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Note: used in 1965 Thresher, p. 9?
Description: athletic or cheerleading uniform, top part in a tree and lower part in a pile on the ground
Date: ca. 1967
Location: North Newton, Kansas
MLA filing: Bethel College - Student Life - Pranks
Original size: 9 x 11.5 cm
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Description: dining hall chairs and tables lined up on sidewalk by Administration Building
Date: May 8, 1968
Location: North Newton, Kansas
MLA filing: Bethel College - Student Life - Pranks
Original size: 9.5 x 7.5 cm
Source: Rosemary Linscheid Moyer, 1986
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Note: used in The Thresher Table, p. 71
Description: dining hall chairs and tables stacked up in front of Administration Building
Date: May 8, 1968
Location: North Newton, Kansas
MLA filing: Bethel College - Student Life - Pranks
Original size: 9.5 x 7.5 cm
Source: Rosemary Linscheid Moyer, 1986
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Note: used in The Thresher Table, p. 71
Description: telephone pole across west entrance to campus
Date: 1968
Location: North Newton, Kansas
MLA filing: Bethel College - Student Life - Pranks
Original size: 11.5 x 7.5 cm
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Description: students placing telephone pole across west entrance to campus, with beer bottles lined up on top
Date: 1968
Location: North Newton, Kansas
MLA filing: Bethel College - Student Life - Pranks
Original size: 17 x 12 cm
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Note: used in 1968 Thresher, p. 52-53
Description: car filled with wadded-up newspaper; left to right: ?, Laura Boehr
Date: 1974
Location: North Newton, Kansas
MLA filing: Bethel College - Student Life - Pranks
Original size: 11.5 x 8.5 cm
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Note: used in 1974 Thresher, p. 29
Description: Cathy Bartel covered in mud; don't know the story behind this
Date: 1974
Location: North Newton, Kansas
MLA filing: Bethel College - Student Life - Pranks
Original size: 11.5 x 9 cm
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Note: used in 1974 Thresher, p. 34
Description: snow scene with a person or figure bundled up with a mug in a wooden structure; don't know the story behind this
Date: March 1975
Location: North Newton, Kansas
MLA filing: Bethel College - Student Life - Pranks
Original size: 8 x 11.5 cm
Source: Bethel College Alumni Office, 1985
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Description: snow couple on the Green
Date: 1977
Location: North Newton, Kansas
MLA filing: Bethel College - Student Life - Pranks
Original size: 16.5 x 11.5 cm
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Description: snow couple on the Green
Date: 1977
Location: North Newton, Kansas
MLA filing: Bethel College - Student Life - Pranks
Original size: 16.5 x 11.5 cm
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Note: used in 1977 Thresher, p. 67
Description: Harold Schultz's office filled with balloons
Date: 25 February 1977
Location: North Newton, Kansas
MLA filing: Bethel College - Student Life - Pranks
Original size: 16.5 x 11.5 cm
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Photographer: Jim Harder
Note: used in 1977 Thresher, p. 13
Description: Harold Schultz's office filled with balloons
Date: 25 February 1977
Location: North Newton, Kansas
MLA filing: Bethel College - Student Life - Pranks
Original size: 12 x 17.5 cm
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Description: Harold Schultz's office filled with balloons; Harold Schultz outisde the door, Marion Deckert inside the office
Date: 25 February 1977
Location: North Newton, Kansas
MLA filing: Bethel College - Student Life - Pranks
Original size: 12.5 x 8.5 cm
Source: Bethel College News Service, 1993
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Description: Harold Schultz in his office filled with balloons, Mary Regier in the outer office
Date: 25 February 1977
Location: North Newton, Kansas
MLA filing: Bethel College - Student Life - Pranks
Original size: 9.5 x 7.5 cm
Source: Bethel College News Service, 1993
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Description: Harold Schultz in his office filled with balloons
Date: 25 February 1977
Location: North Newton, Kansas
MLA filing: Bethel College - Student Life - Pranks
Original size: 9.5 x 7.5 cm
Source: Bethel College News Service, 1993
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Description: Harold Schultz in his office filled with balloons
Date: 25 February 1977
Location: North Newton, Kansas
MLA filing: Bethel College - Student Life - Pranks
Original size: 12 x 17.5 cm
Source: Bethel College News Service, 1993
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Note: used in Bethel College of Kansas, p. 184
Description: monks parading across the stage in convocation
Date: 1978
Location: North Newton, Kansas
MLA filing: Bethel College - Student Life - Pranks
Original size: 17.5 x 12 cm
Source: Bethel College News Service, 1987
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Note: used in 1978 Thresher, p. 7
Description: Harold Schultz water ballooning incident
Date: May 1978
Location: North Newton, Kansas
MLA filing: Bethel College - Student Life - Pranks
Original size: 11.5 x 7.5 cm
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Description: Harold Schultz water ballooning incident; center left to right: Larry Voth, Harold Schultz
Date: May 1978
Location: North Newton, Kansas
MLA filing: Bethel College - Student Life - Pranks
Original size: 11.5 x 7.5 cm
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Description: Harold Schultz water ballooning incident; center: at back is Larry Voth, middle Harold Schultz, front facing away Jerry Weaver
Date: May 1978
Location: North Newton, Kansas
MLA filing: Bethel College - Student Life - Pranks
Original size: 11.5 x 7.5 cm
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Description: Harold Schultz water ballooning incident; center in white shirt: Harold Schultz
Date: May 1978
Location: North Newton, Kansas
MLA filing: Bethel College - Student Life - Pranks
Original size: 11.5 x 7.5 cm
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Description: Harold Schultz water ballooning incident
Date: May 1978
Location: North Newton, Kansas
MLA filing: Bethel College - Student Life - Pranks
Original size: 11.5 x 7.5 cm
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Description: dining hall chairs piled in Ad Building lobby
Date: fall 1978
Location: North Newton, Kansas
MLA filing: Bethel College - Student Life - Pranks
Original size: 11.5 x 7.5 cm
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Description: dining hall chairs piled in Ad Building lobby
Date: fall 1978
Location: North Newton, Kansas
MLA filing: Bethel College - Student Life - Pranks
Original size: 11.5 x 7.5 cm
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Description: dining hall chairs piled in Ad Building lobby
Date: fall 1978
Location: North Newton, Kansas
MLA filing: Bethel College - Student Life - Pranks
Original size: 11.5 x 7.5 cm
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Description: dining hall chairs piled in dean of students Jay Basler's office
Date: fall 1978
Location: North Newton, Kansas
MLA filing: Bethel College - Student Life - Pranks
Original size: 7.5 x 11.5 cm
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Description: books on entire first floor of library turned spine-in; prank done by the 1979-1980 residents of Goering Second Southeast
Date: 12 November 1979
Location: North Newton, Kansas
MLA filing: Bethel College - Student Life - Pranks
Original size: 12 x 17.5 cm
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Description: "Pressures at Goering drive students such as Wes Waren to drastic measures."; not sure why this was filed under pranks
Date: 1984
Location: North Newton, Kansas
MLA filing: Bethel College - Student Life - Pranks
Original size: 9.5 x 10.5 cm
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Note: used in 1984 Thresher, p. 52
Description: portable toilet placed in front of the door to the academic dean/registrar office area in the Administration Building, probably while the elevator was being installed
Date: 1996?
Location: North Newton, Kansas
MLA filing: Bethel College - Student Life - Pranks
Original size: 18.5 x 23.5 cm
Source: Bethel College News Service, 2000
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Description: bras strung from Ad Building for International Womens Day
Date: 8 March 2000
Location: North Newton, Kansas
MLA filing: Bethel College - Student Life - Pranks
Original size: 9 x 12.5 cm
Source: Bethel College News Service, 2004
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Description: bras strung from Ad Building for International Womens Day
Date: 8 March 2000
Location: North Newton, Kansas
MLA filing: Bethel College - Student Life - Pranks
Original size: 12.5 x 9 cm
Source: Bethel College News Service, 2004
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Description: bras strung from Ad Building for International Womens Day
Date: 8 March 2000
Location: North Newton, Kansas
MLA filing: Bethel College - Student Life - Pranks
Original size: 12.5 x 9 cm
Source: Bethel College News Service, 2004
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Description: bras strung from Ad Building for International Womens Day
Date: 8 March 2000
Location: North Newton, Kansas
MLA filing: Bethel College - Student Life - Pranks
Original size: 12.5 x 9 cm
Source: Bethel College News Service, 2004
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Description: car in front of Ad Building; "Tommy Boy" written on windshield
Date: 2000
Location: North Newton, Kansas
MLA filing: Bethel College - Student Life - Pranks
Original size: 12.5 x 9.5 cm
Source: Bethel College News Service, 2004
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Description: car in front of Ad Building; "Meet your future spouse" written on driver side window
Date: 2000
Location: North Newton, Kansas
MLA filing: Bethel College - Student Life - Pranks
Original size: 12.5 x 9.5 cm
Source: Bethel College News Service, 2004
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Description: students dressed as Three Wise Men; left to right: Keith Hiebner, ?, Mark Arganbright
Date: 2000
Location: North Newton, Kansas
MLA filing: Bethel College - Student Life - Pranks
Original size: 12.5 x 9 cm
Source: Bethel College News Service, 2004
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Description: students dressed as Three Wise Men; left to right: Keith Hiebner, ?, Mark Arganbright
Date: 2000
Location: North Newton, Kansas
MLA filing: Bethel College - Student Life - Pranks
Original size: 12.5 x 9 cm
Source: Bethel College News Service, 2004
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