Afteoseswee. .,, ,
OFFICERS OF THE CONCERT BAND helping with
Festival plans are (left to right) Don Horsted, Dianne Nel-son,
Tom Jacobson, Mike Dahlen, Marilyn Knudson, Joan
Larson. Second row includes Avis Howe, Gayle Stalh?.im,
Vyrjil Buus, and Pat Stringham.
AUGUSTANA •
Thursday, February 11, 1960
AUGUSTANA COLLEGE
VOL. 4b, No. 15
Social Board Sponsors Formal Sat.
Final Balloting for Sweetheart To Be Held Tomorrow
Carrying out the tradi-tional
Valentine hearts and
lace theme in decorations of
red and white will be the
annual Sweetheart formal
banquet, sponsored by the
Social Board. It will be held
Saturday, February 13, at
6:30, in the three-in-one
room of the Commons
Building.
Featured on the program
following the banquet are Al
Fonzo and his Cosmopolitans,
a semi - professional panto-mime
group. They have made
many appearances in the
Sioux Falls area. Marge Fjell-stad
will present her interp-retation
of some Valentine
poems.
The highlight of the pro-gram
is the crowning of
Augie's Valentine Sweet-heart,
whose identity will
not be revealed until then.
Artie Montgomery will em-cee
the program which will
also feature a surprise event
— the appearance of past
Sweethearts.
Tickets are on sale for the
last time today. They are $2.00
per couple, and may be pur-chased
from social board
members.
Recently elected by the stu-dent
body are nine girls who
are this year's Sweetheart
candidates. Final elections
will be held tomorrow, and
the Sweetheart elected from
the nine candidates will be
crowned during the program
of the banquet.
Candidates from the senior
class are Betty Jean Christen-sen,
Kathy Hanson, and Lois
Lyman. Betty Jean, better
known as "Beer, has been a
counselor for two years and
has served as class secretary.
Kathy Hanson served as coun-selor
in East Hall last year
and is editor of the EDDA
this year. Lois Lyman was
homecoming attendant this
year and is a counselor in
Tuve Hall.
Junior class candidates are
Sandy Haugen and Joanne
Stensaas. Sandy is a cheer-leader
and was NCC pep
queen last year. Joanne has
been active on the Social
Board.
Ruth Beatty and Gwen
Roseth are sophomore class
candidates. Ruth is a newly-elected
member of the Social
Board. Gwen is a cheerleader
and a member of the Social
Board.
Candidates from the fresh-man
class are Kay Nielham,
who is a frosh cheerleader,
and Karen Reemts, who is an
EDDA queen candidate.
At left are the Sweetheart.
candidates. They are (left to
right, front to back) Kay Mel-ham,
Joanne Stensaas, Ruth
Beatty, Kathy Hanson, Betty
Christensen, Gwen Roseth,
Lois Lyman, Karen Reemts,
and Sandy Haugen.
Angie Hosts Concert Band Festival;
Alumnus to Direct Grand Concert
Chi Epsilon Sponsors
Dean's List Dinner Augustana's concert band
this weekend hosts its an-nual
Concert Band Festival
on the campus. Scheduled
to run through February 12
and 13, the fegtival will be
spent to a large degree in
rehearsals of the 150 high
school students and direct-ors
representing South Da-kota,
Iowa, and Minnesota,
with the guest festival con-ductor,
alumnus James Ber-dahl.
—Festival Concert--
The highlight of the Con-cert
Band Festival will be the
Grand Con-cert,
which
features t h e
Festival Band
playing under
the direction
of Mr. Ber-
- dahl. The
concert w i 11
be held at
7:30 p.m. in
the Augustana gym.
The Augustana Band will
also present a number dur-ing
the concert under the
direction of Mr. Teuber,
featuring Mr. T. Herman
Keahey as oboe soloist.
Guest conductor Berdahl is
Director of Bands at the Uni-versity
of California.
Since his appointment at
the University of California
he has brought the band to
new heights, highlighted by
i t s appearance at t h e
World's Fair in Brussels,
Belgium.
—Clinics Slated—
Band clinics will also be
presented to the students
and directors by guest cli-nicians
Ed Marty and Ar-deen
Foss.
Mr. Foss will be in charge
of a panel discussion, "Why
Not Double Reeds?" Mr. Foss
is widely recognized as an
outstanding music educator
and woodwind expert.
Mr. Marty will present an
afternoon workshop on
brass instruments.
To honor Augustana
women meriting positions
on the Dean's List, Chi Ep-silon,
senior women's hon-orary,
will sponsor its an-nual
banquet on Tuesday,
February 16.
The event is sponsored each
year by the organization in
recognition of academic at-tainment
as evidenced by a
grade point average of two
points or higher for the se-mester.
Featured speaker this year
will be Miss Marilyn Olsen,
Augustana prof e s s o r of
English, and alumna of Chi
Epsilon, according to co-chairmen
Barb Routledge
and Karen Anderson.
The Augustana College
Board meets today and to-morrow,
Feb. 11-12, on the
campus for their midwinter
conference. The meetings
got underway at 1:30 p.m.
today in the board room of
the Commons.
One of the main items of
business slated for the meet-
A valentine theme will pro-vide
a background setting for
the dinner at which the hon-orees
will be guests.
Arranging the decorations
for the event are Marilyn
Gottschalk, Pat Jorgenson,
and Jo Offerdahl. Invitations
are being prepared by Kathy
Hanson, Lois Bahnson, Shar-on
Sievers and Marlene Flied-er.
Carol Twedt and Kay
Lambertson are in charge of
place cards.
The banquet is being held
in the 3-in-1 room of the
Commons at 5:30 p.m., in
order that students can
make use of their meal-books.
ings is a report by Mr. Willard
Archer from the American
City Bureau. His report will
contain recommendations re-specting
the future develop-ment
of the college.
Mr. Archer has spent sever-•
al weeks on the campus, an-alyzing
policy and procedure.
Augustana Board Holds
Two-Day Meeting Here
Augie's Student
Communication Problem
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