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CANTON, S. D.
VOLUME VII THE CLARION, CANTON, SOUTH DAKOTA, APRIL 27, 1956
NUMBER EIGHT
CANTON CHAMB R VISITS CAMPUS
"Family Porirail"
To Show Twice
Anna Marie Knutson has been
chosen for the leading part of
Mary, the mother of Jesus in
the all school play, "Family Por-trait,"
to be presented at 8:15
p.m. in the Academy gym on
April 27 and May 1.
The three act play written by
Lenore Coffee and William
Joyce Cowen composes the last
three years of Christ's life.
It begins in Nazareth, where
His remaining brothers under-stand
only that in the height of
the building season, He has left
them and depleted the working
force. It continues in Caper-naena,
where tavern keepers
and promoters have capitaliz-ed
on His growing power and
popularity. It returns to Naza-reth
and the disillusioning exper-iences
among His neighbors,
then swiftly it journeys to Jer-sualem
where the fickle crowd
has turned from its cries of "Ho-sannah"
to shouts of Hatred
and to the upper chamber where
after the Last Supper Mary a-waits
His return from Gethse-mane.
The final secene is laid
again in Nazareth several years
after the crucifiction where His
family still labors under the sel-
Runners Prepare
For First Meet
The Augustana Academy track
team is in training for its first
meet of the season which will
be held at Mitchell on April 30th.
The meet is the annual Inter-state
Academy Track Meet.
Two more are scheduled for
May. They are the State Pro-testant
Meet at Mitchell on May
5th and the Siouxland Confer-ence
meet at Augustana College
in Sioux Falls on May 15th.
Coach Boyum, during an in-terview,
stated that he had not
been working with the squad
long enough to make any pre-dictions.
fish and blind illusion that they
have been disgraced.
There will be thirty to forty
students involved in producing
and staging the play, under
the direction of Miss Ronsberg.
The main characters will be
Dave Horton, Joseph; Sylvan
Knutson, Juda; Paul Bunn, Si-mon;
and Paul H. Nelson, as
James. Other characters in the
cast will by Joey Johnson, Dav-id
Dahl, Lois Rud, Grace Fol-ger,
Sharon Bergstrom, Crystal
Denny, Olin Odland, Jim Nelson,
Virginia Peasha, Harold Fagen,
Carol Berge, Luther, Abraham-son,
Sherrill Dunbar, Carter
Twedt, Tommy Johnson, Bernice
Ellefson, Paul Larson, Lee Lar-son,
Gary Moe, Jim Thompson,
and David Twin.
Student directors are Mary
Carter and Eileen Eidem. Cos-tume
chairman is. Marilyn Kle-in;
Make-up chairman, Mary
Sikkink; and stage manager,
Lyle Loken.
Waldorf Choir Sings
in Academy Chapel
Under the direction of Odvin
Hagen, the Waldorf College
Choir, from Forest City, Iowa
sang at the Academy chapel on
April 13.
Robert Saugstad, a graduate
of '55 and a former member of
the Augustana Academy Choir,
now sings with this group.
s Members of the Canton Cham-ber
of Commerce visited the
campus on Thursday, April 12th
to hold their monthly supper
meeting. Members of the Aca-demy
faculty and of the Board
of Directors were also in atten-dance
at the meeting which be-gan
at 6:30 p.m. Mr. Vandel
Johnson, president of the Cham-ber,
presided.
The meeting was arranged by
the Industrial Committee of the
Chamber of Commerce as the
outgrowth of a committee meet-ing
at which President A. L.
Abrahamson spoke on the Aca-demy
as an asset to the city of
Canton. He enlarged upon this
topic when he spoke to the whole
Chamber.
Copies of Academy promo-tional
material (which always
bear the name of the city, thus
also promoting Canton) were
handed out to the men. Also
placed in their hands were cop-ies
of a mimeographed booklet
entitled "What Does Augustana
Academy Contribute To Can-'
ton?". Following the outline of
this booklet, President Abra-hamson
spoke on the Academy's
hisotrical, promotional and eco-nomic
contributions to the city
of Canton.
Featured as entertainment at
the meeting were a partial show-ing
of the Home Economics Sty-le
Show and pantomine by Way-ne
Martin.
Coming Events
May 1, All-School Play, 2nd
Performance — 8:00 p.m.
May 4-6, Senior Retreat at
Lake Shetek
May 7, Mission Crusaders
May 11, Junior-Senior Banquet
May 12, Sophomore Picnic
May 13, Organ Recital — 3:00
p.m.
May 13, Luther League
May 15, Siouxland Conference
Track Meet at Augustana Col-lege
May 18, Awards Night —8:00
p.m.
May 20, Baccalaureate 11:00
a.m.
May 20, Music Recital —3:00
p.m.
May 25, Commencement —
8:00 p.m.