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VOLUME I
THE CLARION, CANTON, SOUTH DAKOTA — OCTOBER ISSUE ` NUMBER ONE
SPIRITUAL EMPHASIS
'Ray Martin
Of Minneapolis
Is Speaker
New Teachers Added to Staff
Nintieth Annual
HOMECOMING
October 20-22
Students and faculty are busy
making preparations for the
ninetieth annual Homecoming,
October 20-22.
Highlights will be the corona-tion
of the King and Queen Fri-day
evening and the annual
Homecoming game Saturday af-ternoon.
The King and Queen, who are
chosen by popular vote of the
student body, will be crowned
amidst a beautiful setting, be-fitting
the Homecoming theme,
"Christ Our King." Eight at-tendants
and the • king and
queen will constitute the royal
party. They are also chosen by
the student body and must have
attended the Academy for two
years.
The choir will make their first
appearance of the season that
night under the direction of
Miss Torkelson.
The featured speaker will be
District President, Dr. L. A.
Pierson.
Saturday the Auggies will play
Elk Point. Everything points to a
rip-roaring battle with Elk
Point, who is undefeated.
Open house will be held in
each of the dormitories Satur-day.
Alumni, parents and friends
are invited to inspect the prem-ises.
The Senior-Alumni Banquet
will be held Saturday evening.
There will be speeches and vari-ous
musical selections.
Homecoming services will be
held in Canton Lutheran Church
Sunday morning, and concluding
the festivities will be the Luther
League candlelight service Sun-day
evening.
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Homecoming Royalty: King—
Jim Skeie, Queen— Esther Gil-betson.
Attendants: Jean Ellen
Bogue, Evelyn Fodness, Jane 1
Hanson, June Skavang, Daryl
B i erke, James Hauge, George
Johnson and Charles Kirsch.
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Paul Bly, Don Anderson, Jim
Hauge and Dave Nelson harmon-ize
together as the senior quar-tet.
Pictured above are eight of the
new teachers which help to make
up the faculty members this
year.
Rev. Gronseth heads the Pub-lice
Relations Department and
's the athletic coach. He attend-ed
Augsburg College and Luther
Theological Seminary. Having
received B.A. and C.T. degrees,
he then coached a n d headed
publc relations at Yankton Col-lege.
He also served for three
years in a parish at Bagley,
Minnesota.
The English II and American
History teacher is Miss Saevig
of Buxton, North Dakota. She
attended St. Olaf College and the
University of Minnesota. She has
a B.A. degree and has taught
in public high schools of Minne-sota
for a number of years.
Mr. Roa from Eau Claire, Wis-consin,
has a full day teaching
Christianity I and III, English
Bible, and government. He com-pleted
his schooling under grad-uate
work at Oberlin College as
a chaplain candidate in the Navy
college training program. After
graduatng from Luther Semin-ary
in May, 1950, he attended a
summer session at the Univers-ity
of Minnesota.
Miss Fick, whose home is at
Northfield, Minn., graduated
from St. Olaf College this year.
She teaches Spanish I and II
and also English I.
Miss Tenney from Northfield,
Minn., teaches English III and
IV and gives lessons on string
instruments. • S h e graduated
from St. Olaf College in 1948. She
previously taught English and
music at Jackson, Minnesota.
The new piano teacher is Miss
Maakestad of Sioux Falls, S. Dak.
Miss Maakestad attended St.
Olaf where she received a Bach-elor
of Music degree. She also
teaches a class in music theory
and gives swimming lessons for
girls.
Mr. Alfred Holz of Beatrice,
Nebraska, is the shop and agri-,
culture teacher. Having attend-ed
Agriculture College in Lin-coln,
Nebraska, he received a B.
S. degree. He taught one year in
a rural school and also taught
practical arts in a high school
supervised correspondence
course at Lincoln, Nebraska.
The school nurse this year is
Miss Irene Tweet of Radcliffe,
Iowa. She attended one year at
Waldorf College and then went
on to nurses training at Luther-an
Deaconess in Chicago. Be-sides
being an army nurse, Miss
Tweet has nursed in hospitals at
Chicago, Mason City, and San
Francisco.
Mr. LeRoy Swenson, who has
been away for a year at L.B.I.,
is also back with us again this
year to teach science, biology,
and chemistry. He is also the
dean of boys.
Two new cooks are assisting in
the kitchen. They are Miss Anna
Johnson, Canton, and Mrs. Hel-gaas
from Madison, So. Dak.
Miss Esther Johnson, Canton,
has charge of the library and
the bookstore.
This past week of Spirtual Em-phasis
has been a great blessing
to all of us, as we have had for
our speaker, Evangelist Ray
Martin.
The evening sessions of this
annual event were held Sep-tember
25th through October 1st.
The Academy gymnasium was
the scene of these meetings.
The text for his messages was
taken from the book of Revela-tion.
Martin also led a discussion in
the morning during the chapel
hour and the following period,
from 10.00 to 11:10, for the stu-dents,
faculty, and workers.
At present Ray Martin's home
is located in Minneapolis, Minn-esota.
While out for evangelistic
meetings, he likes to paint gospel
road signs. He is often -referred
to as the "gospel sign trump-teer."
Those who attended these ses-ions
witnessed the way in which
God's saving power worked
mightily through all of our
hearts.
As a result of these meetings
we should endeavor to follow
Christ more fully and reconcen-crate
ourselves to the Lord daily.
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Music Notes .. •
Miss Helena Torkelson, choir
director and voice teacher, has
chosen a group of ninety-one
singers to constitute the first
semester choir.
The senior girls' trio—June
Skavang, Betty Halse and Es-ther
Gilbertson—who traveled on
an Ambassador trip for August-ana
Academy this past summer,
are preparing for another season
of singing together.
Miss Joan Maakastad and Miss
Elaine Tenny have started band
rehearsals. So far there are be-tween
fifteen and twenty mem-bers.
This band will be used as
a pep band and will perhaps play
at some of the football games in
the very near- future.