the augustana college • mirror sioux falls, south dakota
Thursday, October 1, 1964 Sioux Falls, S.D. Vol. 46, No. 3
Paul Haanstad, Viking Days Chairman looks up wearily
from a pile of reports.
Photo by Blegen
Haanstad predicts success;
Viking Days adds features
for coronation, alumni,
various alumni activities.
Paul sees his role as that
of being student coordinator
for the many activities in-volving
Augie students. The
parade is being handled
through public relations since
it involves Sioux Falls to such
a great extent. Because Vik-ing
Days was becoming too
big an event for one student
to handle, Paul feels that
the arrangement now being
worked out is good. To
channel all the activities
through one persop was slow-ing
. progress and it was
becoming acad dnically im-possible
for a full-time stu-dent
to maintain his academic
load satisfactorily while
fulfilling his Viking Days'
responsibilities.
Two innovations are being
added to the list of activities
scheduled for the homecoming
weekend. A homecoming dance
is scheduled for Friday,
October 15, following the
Queen's reception and an
alumni choir will sing for the
Sunday morning worship
service.
Omegas sponsor dance
Epsilon Tau Omega will
sponsor an after-the-game
dance in the Commons after
the Augie-USD game, Octo-ber
3. Music will be provided
by the Artics. The society is
inviting as its guests all
male transfer students.
Admission for others will
Frosh present
annual review
Frosh Varieties, the annual
talent display of the freshmen,
will be staged Friday, Octo-ber
2 at 7:30 p.m. in the
chapel-auditorium. Following
a theme entitled "Broad-way
Tonight," the program
will include a chorus line
entitled "The Nitwits," a
vaudeville act, a folksinging
group and a twirler who per-forms
to jazz instead of the
traditional march. Various
other acts in the production
are five vocal solos, a piano
solo, and a cornet solo.
Freshmen performing are:
Marilyn Schulke, Linda
Critser, Pam Opland, Jill
Greve, Andy Haakenson,
Jerry Fugue, Marilyn Teupel,
Paul Gomez, Linda Cleve-land,
Mary Lou Petty, Mary
Kay Reuter, Carol Martin,
Kathy Eide, Duane Haroldson,
Carol DeLorenzo, Sue Monte-gue,
Sue Soya, Laurie Balm-son,
Mary Jane Holland,
Jane Hanson, Marilyn Isack-son,
Karen Anderson, Bobbi
Mickleson, and Sheri Ts.chet-ter.
Jan Major and Ron Mc-
Gaughey are co-chairmen for
the event.
VIKING
DAYS
October 15-17
Final tryouts for
varieties tonight
Final tryouts for Viking
Varieties will be held at
8:30 this evening in the
3-in-1 room of the Commons
Building. Anyone interested
can tryout at that time.
We are looking for people
with talent to do mono-logues,
dancing, group
skits, humorous acting,
singing, instrumentals,
juggling, etc. If a particular
act is not worked out, come
anyway. If you could not be
at tryouts last night or
cannot make it tonight, but
are still interested, contact
us right away. This show
looks as though it will be
one of the best ever, and we
would like you to be, part
of it.
Dennis Paulson
Pam Pressler
Engle to speak
at convocation
Paul Engle, noted poet and
director of the creative
writing program at the Uni-versity
of Iowa, will in-augurate
the Augustana Col-lege
Artist and Lecture Series
with his lecture on "Poetry
and Paople." He will appear
in the college-gym auditorium
at 9:45 a.m. October 2.
Mr. Engle was born in
Cedar Rapids, Iowa in 1908
and attended school there
while employed in various
part-time jobs. He went on to
receive his Bachelor of Arts
degree from Coe College in
Cedar Rapids in 1931. For his
thesis he wrote a book of
poems, Worn Earth, which
won the Yale Series of Young-
Poets prize for that year.
After a year's study toward
his Ph.D. at Columbia Univer-sity,
he became a Rhodes
Scholar and studied at Merton
College, Oxford University,
where he earned two more
degrees. He spent two years
touring England and the
remainder of Europe and in
1937, he joined the faculty of
the University of Iowa. His
program of creative writing
draws students both nation-ally
and internationally.
Mr. Engle has won national
acclaim for his many achieve-ments.
He has to his credit
eight books of poetry and two
novels. He has edited three
books, has contributed to
seventeen magazines, has
appeared on radio and tele-vision
programs and is nation-ally
known as a lecturer.
Writers guests
at reception
Paul Engle and a group
of regional writers will be
honored guests at a recep-tion
this evening at 10 p.m.
in the Commons building.
The reception is hosted by
the Artist and Lecture Com-mittee
in conjunction with
the appearance of Mr. Engle
in a. convocation Friday
morning.
The reception will be
held after the evening ses-sion
of the North and South
Dakota Librarians Associ-ation
meeting. Mr. Engle is
a featured speaker at this
event and the others from
South Dakota, Iowa and Min-nesota
are guests at the
convention.
Some of the guests are
Herbert Krause, author in
residence at Augustana;
Fred Hanfred, author from
Luvurne, Minnesota; Adeline
Jenney, who has been
designated as poet laureate
of South Dakota and who is
almost ninety; Mabel Fred-erick,
poet from Sioux Falls;
John Milton , head of the
English department and
Packard here
on Wednesday
Vance Packard, only author
in recent years to have three
books in a row to reach the
top rung in the non-fiction
field, will deliver a lecture on
his most recent book, "The
Naked Society", October 7,
at 8:15 p.m. in the Washington
High School Auditorium.
In "The Naked Society",
Mr. Packard is concerned
about the invasion of privacy
of the American people as
revealed through security,
loyalty, and personality test-ing
investigations conducted
by Mr. Packard.
Boldly, this author attacks
the weaknesses and cam-ouflaged
evils in our social
and economic background.
He does this through his in-vestigation
of ego patterns in
"The Status Seekers", of
persuasion in depth advertising
in "The Hidden Persuaders",
of commercially planned
obselescenee in "The Waste
Makers", and of the drive of
corporation executives in
"The Pyramid Climbers".
Receiving his Master's
Degree from Columbia Grad-uate
School of Journalism,
Vance Packard has been an
author, writer and teacher.
. Although he has no quarrel
with legitimate technological
advancement, Mr. Packard
seriously questions the mor-ality
and economic validity
of a system that, in order to
exist, depends upon artifi-cally
snortening the life of
it's useful products.
The lecture is one of the
Artist and Lecture Series
and Augustana students will
be admitted on their identi-fication
cards.
author in residence at the
University of South Dakota;
Ella Deloria, who is an
expert on Sioux languages;
Edith Howe of Sioux City,
who has written several
murder mystery stories;
Leonard Jennewein, who is
an author and editor from
Dakota Wesleyan; Oscar
Howe, artist from USD; and
Dave Smith, journalistic
critic from Sioux Falls.
Miss Kordilla Johnson,
president of the association,
and Mrs. Clara Lee, who is
in charge of the reception
stated that faculty and
students are urged to attend
to meet these people.
Artist-Lecture begins ;
Engle, Packard appear
Paul Haanstad, student chairman for Viking Days, expects
this year's homecoming celebration to be one of the most
successful in Augustana's history. Having been relieved
of some of his duties by the public relations department, Paul
is in complete charge of the activities which directly involve
students and alumni. Thus, he has established committees for
the smorgasboard, the dance and
place in the Commons with
live music provided by area
musicians. The choir will be
composed of former "A"
choir members and will sing
two numbers. Also, the
smorgasboard is being chang-ed
back to Saturday evening
following the football game.
Viking Days is to be held
October 15-17. The Queen will
be crowned Friday night. The
parade, football game and
Viking Varieties are scheduled
for Saturday and the Home-coming
church service for
Sunday.
Paul commented that the
full cooperation of all Augie
students is needed to make
the 1964 Viking Days cele-bration
a real success for the
campus and returning alumni.
The dance will take be 750.