SOCIAL SLANTS
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WILLY RETIRES
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AUGUSTANA •
RECEIVING THE CONGRATULATIONS
of ASA president Joane Williams are Kent
Rolfing and Bruce Williams. Rolfing was
elected to be the new ASA vice president,
while Williams will step into the position of
president. Officers not pictured are Jean Sun-de,
Rod Hofland, Jerilyn Cady, Stan Vik, and
Len Kragness.
Thursday, January 12, 1961
AUGUSTANA COLLEGE
VOL. 42, No. 13
*Williams Wins Presidenc
Students GiveWilliams
Overwhelming Victory
All-School Musical
Plans Gain Momentum
Augustana's a cappella choir
began its 40th annual touring
season last weekend as they
presented concerts Saturday
evening at First Lutheran
Church, St. James, Minnesota;
Sunday morning at First Lu-
AS A Officers
Take Oaths In
Student Body
Inauguration ceremonies for
the new ASA officers will take
place tomorrow morning at
student body meeting. All fac-ulty
members and students
are invited to attend.
The chapel choir, under the
direction of Mr. Merle Pfleu-ger,
will present the opening
music. This will be followed
by the presentation of old of-ficers
by Dr. L. M. Stavig and
Dean J. S. Thompson.
Outgoing president Joane
Williams will deliver the
"state of the campus" mes-sage.
Following this will be
the presentation of the new
officers by Ron Hybertson,
outgoing ASA vice president,
and Dean Thompson,
Bruce Williams, new presi-dent,
will deliver the inaugur-al
address.
theran C h u r c h, Redwood
Falls, Minnesota; and Sunday
evening at First Lutheran
Church in Brookings, South
Dakota.
A tour to Europe last sum-mer
won much praise from
music critics and citizens
alike. Through the medium of
sacred choral music, the choir
was able to establish strong
ties between Europe and
America.
Members of the choir are
chosen on a competitive basis
from the entire student body.
The personnel this year con-sists
of 61 students who rep-resent
all four classes.
Director of the choir, Dr.
Arnold Running, received
much praise from European
critics for his "precise mu-sicianship,
and arrangement
and style of interpretation."
In addition to directing the
choir, he is organist at Our
Savior's Lutheran Church,
Sioux Falls. He composed and
arranged many of the num-bers
which the choir has sung
in the past and is singing now.
Friday, January 20, the
choir will leave for a 19-day
tour which will take them to
various localities in South
Dakota, Wyoming, Colorado
and Nebraska. Their opening
concert will be sung at the
City Auditorium in Pierre,
South Dakota.
Plans are now underway for
an all-school musical to be
presented here in March. This
will be the performance of
Gilbert and Sullivan's "The
Gondoliers".
Co-chairmen for the event
are Joane Williams and John
Stenseth. They chose the mu-sical
from a list voted upon
by the student body. Al-though
"South Pacific" was
the choice of the students, it
was decided that because roy-alties
for that show were
$1,500, it would not be prac-tical
to use it.
Included in the cast are
Dave Gellerman, Roger
New Instructor
Joins Staff of
History Depart.
A new addition to the teach-ing
staff will be arriving next
semester in the person of Mr.
James D. Ziegler. He is re••
placing Mr. Louis Karraker.
Ziegler comes from Port-land,
Oregon. He is at present
working on his doctors' thesis
on American history at the
University of Oregon. He has
taught at the university and
at Eastern Washington Col-lege.
After receiving his B.S. de-gree
from Oregon State Col-lege,
Ziegler obtained his mas-ters
at the U of Oregon. He
is married and has two daugh-ters.
Karraker has accepted a po-sition
with the DuBois Chem-ical
Company in Cincinnati,
Ohio.
Thoreson, Dale Bieber, Jack
Madson, Marlene Hage, Diana
Ames, Lanna Toulouse, Eu-nice
Rossing, Joan Ponto, and
John Stenseth. Rehearsals
will begin immediately fol-lowing
semester break.
This cast is temporary and
subject to change.
The presentation of this
musical will be the student
contribution to the centennial
celebration. It will be given
in the Community Playhouse
March 13-18, and is being
sponsored by Blue Key and
Chi Epsilon.
Ralph Ablin is business
manager and Mr. Earl Mundt
of the drama department is
director. Kathy Naiman will
be accompanist. The chorus,
set production staff, and the
technical assistants have not
yet been chosen.
Society rushing will begin
January 27 with the rushee
registration as announced by
Dave Gellerman, Intersociety
Board chairman. Anyone in-terested
in joining a society
is asked to take special note
of the following rules for rush
week. Elsewhere in this issue
appears an article by Geller-man
explaining the signifi-cance
of societies.
Rules Concerning Rush Week
1. Friday, January 27, the
student body period at 9:45
a.m. will be devoted to an-swering
questions concerning
Three Seniors
Nominated For
Woodew Wilson
Three seniors have been se-lected
as nominees for Wood-row
Wilson scholarships. They
are John Flocken, physics ma-jor;
Jo Ann Wylie, English
major, and Marvin Carlson,
business education major.
These three will fly to Kan-sas
City, Missouri, tomorrow
for the regional interviews.
The purpose of the Wood-row
Wilson fellowships is to
attract men and women of
promise to the college teach-ing
profession.
Woodrow Wilson fellowship
winners will receive a stipend
of $1,500, plus a dependency
allowance, tuition and fees
for graduate study at any uni-versity
in the United States
or Canada with a program
leading toward a graduate de-gree.
societies and rush week. All
students interested in joining
a society are encouraged to
attend.
2. All students who are in-terested
in going out for form-al
rushing will be given a
rushee registration card dur-ing
student body on January
27. These rushee registration
cards will also be available
after convocation and until 6
p.m. at the Commons infor-mation
desk. These cards
must be filled out and turned
in after convocation (in the
Rushing—(Cont'd on page 6)
Bruce Williams, junior from Watertown, will take
office next semester as ASA president after a landslide win
over his two opponents last Friday. Williams defeated
Tom Satre and Glenn Wika with a total of 456 votes to
95 for Satre and 199 for Wika.
In the race for the vice presidency, Kent Rolling de-feated
Ron Halverson, 438 to 278.
Jean Sande, became the new secretary, defeating Nor-ma
McLane and Kathy Naiman. In the first balloting,
Jean received 326 votes to 189 for Kathy and 221 for Nor-ma.
After a run-off between Jean and Norma, Jean was
declared the winner.
A run-off also was necessary in the election of treasur-er.
The totals of 238 for Larry Bartels, 253 for Rod Hof-land
and 240 for Dave Kidman necessitated another vot-ing.
This resulted in a victory for Rod Hofland.
Jerilyn Cady became the new social board chairman
after the election gave her 308 votes. Her opponents. Kar-en
Kurvink and Elaine Pearson, received 101 and 313 votes
respectively. There was a run-off between Jerilyn and
Elaine.
The office of Viking Day chairman went to Len Kragness,
who defeated Jim Frey and Bob McGaughey. The votes
here were distributed as follows : Kragness 341, Frey 186,
and McGaughey 199. Kragness and McGaughey ran against
each other in the run-off.
Stan Vik is the new All-Nations chairman. He defeated
Dave Gellerman, who received 192 votes, and Andy Aus-trums,
who received 159 votes. Vik's total number of votes
was 391.
Congratulations to all of these officers from the stu-dent
body and the MIRROR staff.
Augustana Choir Begins
Fortieth Touring Season
Rushees Take Note
Societies Announce
Rush Week Plans