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A Christian High School See. 34.66 P. L. & R. U. S. POSTAGE The AUGUSTANA PAID NTON, S. ACADEMY CLARION We Would See Jesus P ermit CA 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. AA FFllaasshh... 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. AA 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. AA 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.
Object Description
Title | Clarion - 1948 October 1 |
Subject (LC) | Augustana Academy (Canton, S.D.)--Students--Newspapers |
Type | Newspaper |
Date | 1948-10-01 |
Publishing Agency | Augustana Academy |
Rights | This image may not be reproduced without the express written consent of Augustana University, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA. |
Medium | Text |
Format-Digital | |
Language | English |
Coverage | v. 1, no. 1 |
Collection | Augustana Academy |
Contributing Institution | Mikkelsen Library, Augustana University |
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Title | Page 1 |
Date | 1948-10-01 |
Text | A Christian High School See. 34.66 P. L. & R. U. S. POSTAGE The AUGUSTANA PAID NTON, S. ACADEMY CLARION We Would See Jesus P ermit CA 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. AA FFllaasshh... 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. AA 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. AA 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. |