Hage 4 Portland Observer JUNE 8, 1989
RELIGION
SCRIPTURE OF
THE WEEK: PETER Chapter 3
prefers cold meals to warm ones and
students are in their thirties and tor- history reference book and conduct-
likes to eat when he is hungry, and
ties, but they still can remember going ing multi-cultural in-service work­
only then. This has worked out well down to the Plummer House at the shops for teachers, that Delta Sigma
for Beth’s schedule.
beach where Beth took them on na­ Theta Sorority named her their Woman
She has often said o f her mar-‘ ture walks, hikes in the woods. Fort of Excellence in Humanitarian Serv­
by J Reynolds & M.A. C allier- riage, “ I can only do as much as my Clatsop trips, Neahkahnie M l climbs, ice. The same year Western Baptist
husband allows me to do, so I am collecting rocks, shells and driftwood Theological Seminary presented her
Spears
grateful to him for the freedom he to make into something in the eve­ their annual Christian Service Award
ning. Her students trick-or-treated on the occasion of her receiving a
In 1945, the war was over but gives me to accomplish what 1 have.”
Communism continued to gain The sorrow they have mutually borne for UNICEF followed by a Hallow­ Master of Divinity Degree. She had
momentum. It became overwhelm­ has been a bond rather than a blade in een party at Beth’s home; her plays jointly founded North Portland Bible
ing necessary for the Nances to re­ their lives. They lost son Jonathan in became multi-cultural extravaganzas, College in 1981 with hopes that Port­
turn to the United Stales. Their sup­ a canoe accident on the Clackamas and the incentive programs for read­ land’s North/Northeast community
porters felt that their safety was in River the day after Christmas, 1961, ing coupled with her creative bulle­ would welcome examining seminary
grave jeopardy. So return home, they and their daughter Winifred Plum­ tin boards, curriculum, and newspa­ subjects without paying seminary
mer died with husband and children per publication accelerated interest prices or finishing college first (as
did.
on
Veterans Day, 1968 when their in reading at Boise, just as she planned. Western requires). Western didn’t
On the journey home, every day
When Portland Observer editor eye Beth’s efforts with a competitive
for weeks, Ancil was seasick, just as plane sunk to the bottom of Lake
Superior.
Despite
these
and
other
set­
Mr.
A1 Henderson saw the little eye, but emptied their bookshelves
he had been in 1939, going to China.
backs
they
have
experienced
together,
mimeographed
newspaper Beth’s to equip her and awarded her nearly
The children were excitedly happy
the
Nances
faithfully
commit
them­
class
produced,
he
commented that it one -man job as she operates volun­
during a stop in Okinawa, over the
selves
to
serving
others
instead
of
was
good
enough
material
to be type­ tarily as its librarian, publicist, secre­
beautiful seashells.
recoiling
into
selfpity.
They
let
God
set,
and
he
offered
his
publishing
fa­ tary, instructor and prayer warrior.
It was January, 1950, when they
be
God
unconditionally
in
their
lives,
The funniest occurrence of the
cilities
to
Beth
and
the
page
editors
arrived in San Francisco.
instead
of
expecting
only
nice
days
year
was in 1986 when Beth was
to
use
for
pasting-up
and
headline­
The first year back, they lived in
rich
with
only
good
experiences,
as
chosen
Lay Person of the Year by the
writing, and the school district’s
Vancouver, Washington directly
some
Christians
are
falsely
led
to
ex­
Greater
Portland Association of
across the street from Clark Junior
special fund for deprived students
pect.
When
asked
to
take
time
to
at
Evangelicals
because she is not a
College, where Beth enrolled imme­
paid for the typesetting and printing
least record her biography Beth said, of Boise Speaks.Beth contributed to layperson; she is a minister, but she
diately.
‘ ‘If I took time to do that, who would the quality of learning by these hours received the plaque, anyway, and
In 1951 the Nances rented a SW
do
all the jobs I have to do? W e’re beyond classroom time.
had her ordainment reconfirmed by
Portland cottage and Beth transferred
not
just
playing
around
here
(on
earth),
another
minister that year .She is just
to Lewis & Clark College where she
It might be assumed that Beth put
you
know.”
She
was
referring
to
not
comfortable
about having “ The
her feet up when weekends came, but
received her bachelor of education
being
in
a
spiritual
battle
and
fight­
Reverend’
’
before
her name on eve­
degree.
over the last 39 years she has also
rything.
ing
the
good
fight
the
Bible
speaks
been heavily involved directing
Years passed, Beth had held sev­
of. She’s serious. She has a way of Christian education and promoting
Beth’s mother was a schoolteacher
eral positions in the school system,
making
any
other
activity
other
than
before
she was married, and teachers
foreign missions in four Portland
which included: student teaching at
the
church’s
look
so
frivolous,
fruit­
abound
in her family; Beth’s daugh­
churches, most recently at Maranatha
Edwin Markam, teaching at James
less
and
futile.
Church. In 1972 Beth received the ter Winnie was a school teacher and
John Elementary, teaching at Boise
In any one of those years she taught Human Relations Award from the her son Ancil was a high school teacher
Elementary and librarian. During this
in the public school, Beth would have Oregon Education Association and 8 years; Beth’s granddaughter O.J.
time the Nances purchased a home
qualified as Teacher of the Year B’Nai B’rith. In 1976 she wrote a (Ordclla Reynolds) follows in her
on N. Kerby Avenue. They lived
because she entered a student’s per­ reference book,Great Issues in Ameri­ steps in more ways than one. She,
there for 13 years. That area is now
sonal life with her values, challeng­ can History, published by the Ore­ too, read every book around her while
the parking lot for Pcc Cascade.
ing each to do his very best work. gon ASCD, primarily for teachers to growing up, and after leaving her
Ancil retired in 1968, but he went
Vice-Principal Beverly Johnson of use as a companion volume in teach­ high school years behind her as Cleve-
on w orking, pruning , and
Boise-Elliot spoke at the Nances’ ing an unbiased version of American lands’s Rose Festival Queen, she
gardening. He sent part of his earn­
golden anniversary about the Fifties, history showing minorities as a valid trained at PSU and is presently a
ings to missions and preachers-just
recalling how she was lucky to have part of the total American scene (usual fourth grade teacher at Martin Lu­
as he does now. One time when Beth
Beth for fifth as well as sixth grade, textbooks did not even recognize, for ther King Elementary .The Nances
needed flowers one Easter for a stage
and that it was in those years that instance, that there were black cow­ have six living grandchildren.
scene (before religious themes were
Beverly decided to become a teacher boys as well as white cowboys, and
banned), Ancil filled the entire school
one
day.
the tomahawk use for scalping began
Ancil and Beth still consume
stage with pink puffy Japanese cherry
with
the
Dutch
,
not
native-Ameri-
After
seeing
Boise
students
enter­
knowledge
through books like lady­
blossom branches. Another time when
can
Indians).
ing
her
class
year
after
year
with
low
bugs
consume
aphids, working long
at James John she needed an organ
It
was
in
view
o
f
Beth’s
work
witfT
reading
skills,
Beth
not
only
decided
days,
then
rewarding
themselves with
for the Alcott family’s Christmas
students on her own time in journal­ private reading time. Their joy at the
scene, Ancil went out ant got an or­ she would be the school’s librarian,
gan, and thatorgan sits in the Nances’ but returned to Portland State Uni­ ism efforts, transporting them to ball
news of Kunming’s recently-opened
home today. A very compatible fea­ versity to take library science courses games, having them to her beach
Bible School is understandable. ■.
ture of their marriage is that Ancil
in the summer. Now those Boise house, and putting their education
first by writing a more meaningful
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