SUMMER, 1959
THE ALL UST
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VOL. 1, No. 3 (
CENTENNIAL YEAR BEGINS JUNE, 1960
Lutheran Church, in 1961. The new While raising the budget, the Regents on Commencement,
be called The American Lutheran Church, 1958 level, with no increase for the corn- KILIAN General Chairman
its convention in Watertown in June. services and faculty salaries for the corn
vial Year on Corn
posed to the Association in preparation voted a $100,000 increase in the current .~, (' The CCeenntte nnial
ownership, administration and structural support from business, philanthropic and members of the Board of Regents, the
laws for the Augustana College Associa- RIES, SERVICES will begin the obser-for
the impending merger of the Evangel- budget, for the fiscal year ending June
theran Church and the United Evangelical
organization of the college were modified "sources other than tuition." These Faculty, the Augustana Alumni Associa-tion
were adopted by the Association at To improve and extend educational
vation of its Centen-ical
Lutheran Church, tyre American Lu 30, 1960.
will extend for a full
church body formed by the merger will also voted to hold student tuition at its 1961.
of the new church. as the Evangelical Lutheran Church,
by the South Dakota District of the new been appointed and placed in charge of
with over 2 million members. ing term. Plans are being carried out to for the Centennial observation is Tom
to conform to the organizational pattern private individuals and groups, as well tion, and the student body.
composed almost entirely of the member- and services. An additional factor was an Publications; Hospitality; Student Cen-ship
of the S. D. District, ELC. attempt to maintain tuition so far as tennial Commission; Alumni Centennial
church, even though the District bound-Purpose of the move was to raise fac- various elements of the celebration plan-aries
will be changed in the new church,
The articles and by-laws were pro- ing yer, the Augustana Board of Regents June,
Day, in
New articles of incorporation and by- FOR SALARIES, Augustana College
Certain details in the definition of the sources will include gifts and financial He heads a joint committee composed of
Augustana will continue to be owned which owns the college. Twelve Standing Committees have
The Augustana College Association is addition of several new staff members Awards and Citations; Publicity and
raise the additional $100,000 from Kilian, college public relations director.
ulty salaries in an effort to maintain the ning: Public Events; Community Rela-quality
of instruction and to permit the tions; College Development; Finance;
REGENTS RAISE
BU DG ET $100,000
YEAR-LONG ACTIVITY
SCHEDULE PLANNED
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calendar year, ending
possible at a level which would permit Commission; Church Relations; Educa-students
of modest means to attend the tional Relations and a Fine Arts Corn-
TWO NEW TV COURSES college. mission.
NEW CONSTITUTION
ADOPTED FOR AUGIE
ON FALL SCHEDULE
Dr. Lucy Fryxell,
English Department,
is teaching a course
in English Literature
o n KELO - TV,
KDLO-TV and KP-LO-
TV, at 7:25
a.m., Monday, Wed-nesday
and Friday.
T h e Chemistry
Department, John
Froemke, chairman,
FRYXELL will cooperate with
the National Broadcasting Company, The
American Chemical Society and the Na-tional
Association of Colleges for Teacher
Education is offering "Modern Chemis-try,"
to be carried at 6:30 a.m., CST, on
KELO-TV and other NBC-TV affiliate
stations.
College credit will be granted for these
courses.
Preliminary publicity and announce-ment
concerning the numerous public
events and special activities to be con-ducted
during the Centennial Year will
begin early this fall, Kilian said.
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION "We intend to place a heavy emphasis
ADOPTS NEW NAME on the opportunities for Augustana in
its second century of service, as well as
The Augustana Alumni Association to review its history," Kilian said.
is the new name chosen for the Augustana
College alumni organization. Action for the name change was taken at the Asso Di rectors Become Reg9e nts
ciation meeting early this summer. The college Board of Directors will be
Formerly known as The Greater Au- known as the Board of Regents in the fu-gustana
Association or the "GAA," the ture. The change was made with the
group membership includes all former adoption of new articles of incorporation
students who have completed 12 semester for the Augustana College Association
hours or more of credit at Augustana. in June.
The change was effected to help achieve Other colleges of the Evangelical Lu-greater
unity among Augustana alumni. theran Church have made or are making
Oliver Bergeland, '30, Sioux Falls, is similar changes, toward a uniform desig-national
president. nation for these policy-making groups.
The present annual budget of the col-lege,
including the addition, is $972,500.