Page 4/The Battalion/Wednesday, May 30, 1984
Lutheran campus minister
no longer at ‘beck’ and call
By KARI FLUEGEL
Staff Writer
Chapel for more lhan 16 years,
Sitting in a cluttered office
! surrounded by books and
boxes, Hubert Beck looks like
he’s moving.
The boxes don’t lie. Beck,
pastor at University Lutheran
is moving.
At the
beginning of July,
Beck will take up residence in
Durham, N.C., to continue his
ministry on the campuses of
North Carolina Central Univer
sity (NCCU) and Duke Univer
sity.
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Beck has seen many changes
in the University during his
years here. When Beck First
came to Texas A&M, the ad
ministration was mostly former
students. Now the administra
tion is largely from other
schools — a switch, he says, that
has not harmed the University.
“They try to keep A&M in
the framework of the Aggie tra
ditions, but bring in new ideas,”
Beck says.
Beck taught classes through
the Free U (now After Hours)
for 10 years. His classes ranged
from showing and discussing
films to classes discussing Reve
lations.
Even those classes have
changes, he says. The After
Hours classes now are more
technical with less theory be
hind them, Beck says, and the
classes aren’t an enlargement of
education as they were in the
past.
The campus ministry has a
certain role on the campus of a
state university, Beck says.
“We are guests of the Univer
sity,” he says.
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The University is sensitive to
the connection between church
and state, Beck says, and the
campus ministry is responsible
to both authorities.
“Our job is to be present on
campus and to represent Chris
tianity,” he says.
Raised a Lutheran, Beck had
decided by the fifth grade that
he wanted to become a minister
and began preparing for his
ministry as a freshman in high
school.
“I understood sin and for
giveness very early,” he said.
Beck was ordained in 1958 at
St. John’s Lutheran Church in
Topeka, Ill.
Beck was born in Illinois and
lived there until he moved to
College Station.
The switch from Illinois to
Texas gave him a couple of
years of culture shock before
getting into the Texas frame-of-
mind, Beck says.
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He feels that he won’t have
culture shock from moving to
North Carolina, but will have to
get in tune with the deep South
culture, he says.
“I’ll have to get in tune with
where North Carolina has
been,” he says. “Texas was on
the periphery of the Civil War.
They have a different mind set
in the deep South.”
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Beck says that his first two
years in North Carolina will he
nothing hut adjusting to the cul
ture of the South and the cul
ture of the students at the pre
dominately black NCCU.
“It would be ridiculous to go
in and say what you’re going to
do,” Beck said. “You’ve got to
show you’re a credible person
first. There’s a lot of people out
there who aren’t credible.”
Rev. Hubert Beck works in his office at University Lutheran Chapel.
Lynn Zimmermann, assistant
to the dean in the College of
Business Administration, thinks
Beck is one of the credible peo
ple. Zimmermann has known
Beck for about 15 years and
served for a time on the com
mittee that supervises the cam
pus ministries.
Zimmermann describes Beck
as a friendly, upbeat, intellec
tual and optimistic person and
also very down to earth.
“In spite of his own troubles,
he is always ready to help other
people with their own prob
lems,” Zimmermann says.
One of those troubles was the
ending of his first marriage two
years ago.
Beck says that his religious
beliefs were a stabilizing factor
during his divorce.
“When your hopes and
dreams in life are shattered, it
gives a tremendous perspecti
ve,” Beck says. “You know it’s
not the end of everything.”
That point can he demon
strated easily since Beck is be
ginning a second marriage to
Judy Eilert Saturday.
Zimmermann describes
Beck’s approach to religion as
ecumenical and not narrowly
defined to Lutheranism. Beck
also tries to extend his ministry
to the University faculty and
employees and tries to combine
University concerns with the
oretical concerns.
“He’s a friend that any stu
dent or faculty member can call
on,” Zimmermann says.
Dr. Rich Noble, professor of
wildlife and fisheries, has
known Beck for more than 10
years and also has served on the
campus council overseeing the
campus ministries. :
Noble describes Bed
intellectual and somewh
philosopher. !
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integrate matters in ami
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i he ability to work withjj
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serve any students whoarfl
iiating iheir faith and,s«J
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“I think he has served
capacilies well,” Noblesa
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