DAVE SOLBERG, vice president of the South Dakota District
Luther League and Sylvia Lee, secretary, are shown as they prepare
for the convention being hld on our campus today and tomorrow.
About 500 leaguers are in attendance at this convention. They rep-resent
leagues from all over the state of South Dakota. (Paul Rogers
Photo)
State Leaguers Hold Two
Day Convention at Augie
Thursday, Oct. 12, 1961 VOL. 43, No. 5
Dr. Nelson Receives
New Appointment
Augie Gives Gift To State
SHOWN ABOVE IS THE COW given to State
-r,:ollege by a group of Augie students at the State-
Augie game Saturday night. The students in the
picture represent both schools. A brief presentation
address and acceptance were given and the band
played "Old McDonald Had a Farm." From right
to left are Dick Foster, head of the Augie "Ag"
department (with sign), Steve Spitznagel, Don
Kohoutek, unidentified person, and Tom Bergan.
The others are unknown with the exception of the
gentleman with his hand on the cow and head
turned. He is Tom Graves, another member of the
"Ag" department. (Paul Rogers Photo)
Cleveland Playhouse Presents
Shaw's "Arms and the Man"
Augustana students a n d
faculty members are in for a
real treat this Saturday, Oct.
14, when the Artist and Lec-ture
Series proudly presents
the ever popular Cleveland
Playhouse in Shaw's Arms
and the Man. The curtain will
go up on the production at
the Community Playhouse at
8:00 p.m.
All Augustana students are
Recently, the American In-stitute
of Physics and the
American Association of Phy-sics
Teachers announced the
appointment of Dr. V. R. Nel-son
of Augustana College, as
Regional Counselor in Physics
for the state of South Dakota.
Dr. Nelson will be one of the
charter group of counselors
for each state whose broad
objective is to raise the
quality of physics teaching
and learning in the secondary
schools of the country.
The Regional Counselor
Program in Physics will be
concerned with the training
and certification of physics
teachers, courses of study in
physics, apparatus, textbooks,
laboratories, and classrooms.
Dr. Nelson's office will serve
as a clearing house for infor-mation
regarding such items
members of the Artist and
Lecture Series and may pick
up their tickets by showing
the student I.D. card. An I.D.
card is necessary for each
ticket desired. A block of 500
seats has been reserved for
Augustana students and fac-ulty,
and these tickets may
be picked up at the Drama
department in the Science
Building from 10:00 a.m. to
science projects, science tea-as
enrollment changes, local
cher recruitment programs,
new apparatus, layout of new
laboratories, remodeling lab-oratories,
and classroom de-sign.
school in South Daokta de-
The physics teachers and ad-ministrators
of the secondary
schools of the state will be
sent brochures describing the
types of assistance available
to them under the Regional
Counselor Program.
4:30 p.m. Friday and from
10:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on
Saturday.
In Arms and the Man Shaw
pokes holes in popular con-ceptions
of bravery and the
romance of war. The play
has ben done as a musical
under the title The Chocolate
Soldier. Many will remember
the fine job which the Cleve-land
Playhouse, one of the
country's finest touring corn-panies,
did with last year's
production. Doctor Faustus,
by Marlowe. There is every
reason to believe that this
year's production will be even
more pleasing.
Dorm Officers
Take Posts
Augustana's dorms have
elected their 1961-62 officers.
It is the duty of these officers
to keep everything under con-trol
in the dormitories and to
aid the head resident in solv-ing
problems that arise.
Officers in East Hall are:
President — Judy W yf f le s,
Tracy, Minnesota; Vice-Presi-dent—
Lavonne Pulcher, Stor-den,
Minnesota; Secretary -
Treasurer to be announced;
Devotional Chairman—Sharon
Wolff, Frederick, South Da-kota;
Social Chairman—Judy
Boyum, Albert Lea, Minne-sota.
Thursday, October 12, 1961,
the Luther Leaguers of the
South Dakota District will
open their By-Law Conven-tion
on the Augustana College
campus beginning with re-gistration
from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
According to the district
officers, over 500 Luther
Leaguers are expected. The
officers under their adviser
Rev. Wayne Bunn, Madison,
are Jim Fish, Rapid City,
presidelnt; Gary Presler, Sel-by,
first vice-president; Dave
Solberg, Sioux Falls, second
vice - president; Sylvia Lee,
Volga, secretary; Linda Chris-tenson,
Forestberg, treasurer.
Rev. Herbert Brokering, the
Director of Parish Education
of The American Lutheran
Church, will be the keynote
speaker. Rev. Roy Johnson,
lay member of the youth com-mittee,
will conduct a Bible
Study. Featured at the ban-quet
to be held in the Com-mons
Thursday evening at
6:30 p.m. will be Rev. John
Nelson, Associate Pastor of
Extremes—form the sound
of a tailgate 'bone of a New
.Orleans funeral procession to
the dissonances of contempory
composition for duo piano—
from today's questions in the
poetry of the beat generation
to time's solutions in folk
guitar and song will be pre-sented.
Mr. Norman Soyland
an alumnis will perform. The
incorporation into the pro-gram
of interesting lighting
a n d designing effects is
planned.
Viking Varieties will be pre-sented
twice this year, at 7:00
and 9:00 p.m., October 28, at
First Lutheran Church in
Brookings.
Friday, October 13, the
Luther Leaguers will present
at Student Body, and the con-vention
will adjourn at 3:45
that afternoon.
Attention!
Viking Days royalty
election will be held
Monday, October 16. Vot-ing
will begin immedi-ately
after chapel. Fresh-men
and others in their
first year of attendance
at Augie shall not be
privileged to vote for
Viking Days queen. The
run-off election for queen
will be held on Friday,
October 20.
There is a freshman
class meeting in the gym
following the student
body meeting Friday. At-tendance
is required.
Discount tickets for
"Question 7" are avail-able
in the Commons lob-by.
the Washington High School
Auditorium. Tickets will be
on sale in downtown Sioux
Falls and at the College. Ad-vance
ticket salesmen will be
on campus shortly.
Participants please note: Re-hearsal
dates are set for 3:30
p.m., October 23 and 24, in the
Little Theatre. A third session
will be held Wednesday, Octo-ber
25, at 7:00 p.m. at the
Washington High. School Au-ditorium.
Watch for changes
or additions to the rehearsal
schedule. Please plan to be
present for these rehearsals;
if attendance is impossible,
please contact the Chairman.
With the exception of the
dormitory president and the
freshman chaiman, the officers
in Tuve are yet to be an-
For example, any high nounced. Marnah Saetvedt of
Racine, Wisconsin is presi-siring
consultant help - m dent with Jean Tschetter of
choosing equipment to satisfy vAinrlgin agst ofrne,s hSmouatnh cDhaaiorkmtaan s.e r-their
teaching requirements,
in maintenance of equipment,
and in training teachers in the
use of equipment may con-tact
Dr. Nelson's office for
help in securing such help.
Viking Villa officers are:
President — Karen Knutson,
Hurley, South Dakota; Vice-
President—Juy Fennig, Estel-line,
South Dakota; Secretary-
Treasurer — LeEtta Warren,
Emerson, Nebraska, Social
Chairmen—Mary Lynne Lut-gens,
Sioux Falls, South Da-kota
and Carmen Callsen,
Clark, South Dakota; Devo-tional
Chairman—Carole Vol-berg,
Henry, South Dakota.
The folowing are officers in
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For '61 Viking Varieties