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Friday, December 2, 1960
AUGUSTANA COLLEGE
VOL. 42, No. 10
All Nations' Festivities
Open Advent Season
Augustana Hosts Annual
TALC Officers' Meeting
Who's Who Selects 20 Augies
Ardys Johnson, Ralph Ablin, Jan Henden,
Doug Hokenstad, Ardell Stavnes, Judy Ol-sen;
(standing) Joane Williams, John Sim-ko,
Carole Mortvedt, and Joan Wylie. Not
pictured are Jan Rosenbaum and Keith Od-ney.
"Merry Christmas" will be
extended in various languag-es
to all who attend this year's
All Nations festival. The event
will be held in the gym tomor-row
night beginning at 4:30
p.m.
General chairman is Kent
Rolfing. Assisting him is Ron
Halvorson. Others on the gen-eral
committee include Judy
Blegen, secretary; Glen Wika,
business manager; Dave Gel-lerman
and Tom Jacobson,
construction, and Jim Arsh-em,
publicity.
Jean Sunde is food super-visor;
Jeanne Warkenthien,
program editor; Ron Fergu-son,
clean-up chairman, and
Trudy Rogness, program ar-tist.
In charge of coat check
is the W.R.A. Fireside Fellow-ship
will have charge of the'
tree - lighting ceremony
front of East Hall. The ticket
booth will be under the direc-tion
of the social board.
In charge of the program
which will be presented at
6:30 p.m. and 9:15 p.m. is Tom
Satre. Ula Jensen will be mis-tress
of ceremonies. Numbers
on the program include an en-semble
composed of Jan Hen-
PLACEMENT
INTERVIEWS
Tuesday, December 6
I.B.M. Interested in
Mathematics, Chemistry
and Physics majors.
Friday, December 9
Western Adjustment.
Interested in Mathemat-ics
and Business Admin-istration
Majors.
Seniors interested in
interviews are to secure
interview appointments
through the Placement
Bureau.
den, Sigrid Running, Judy
Nelson, Ron Schroeder, Ken
Holum, and Elna Hetland.
They will do "A Perite Mihi
Portos" by Dietrich Buxte-hude.
Another group is a Mozart
quintet including Mr. and
Mrs. T. Herman Keahey, Gary
Paulson, Don Horstad, and
Mr. Fred Teuber. The Rev.
Stanley Tung will play a Chi-nese
melody on the flute.
English carols will be pre-sented
by the Norsemen com-posed
of Larry Larson, Roger
Thoreson, Lee Ytreeide, and
Ron Klimes. The German
Round Singers will close the
program.
Traditional Christmas foods
and customs will be displayed
at the various booths. The ad-mission
charge is 25 cents.
Sophomore, junior and
senior music majors are
reminded that Piano Pro-ficiency
exams will be
given beginning Decem-ber
1. You may sign up
for an examination time
at the studios of Miss
Melbraaten, Miss Steen,
or Mr. Pflueger.
Announce Edda
Queen Contest
Deadline for the Edda queen
contest has been announced
as December 17. Every organ-ization
on campus in encour-aged
to select a candidate and
submit a photograph of her
to the Edda office by this date.
This year the judges for the
contest will be four local peo-ple.
Further information may
be obtained from Larry Bor-gum.
Meeting o n Augustana's
campus this Saturday, Decem-ber
3, will be the sixth annual
ELC (TALC) student govern-ment
conference. Meetings
will be held in the Commons
building.
Special Convocation
Features Astronomy
Professor-Lecturer
Dr. Hugh M. Johnson of the
Steward Observatory at the
University of Arizona will
visit the Augustana campus
on Monday and Tuesday, De-cember
5 and 6. He is being
sponsored by the American
Astronomical Society, the Na-tional
Science Foundation, the
Augustana Physics Depart-ment,
and the Augustana
Artist and Lecture Series
Committee.
On Monday, Dr. Johnson
will speak at a convocation
in the Little Theater at 9:45
to 10:15 on "What Is Astron-omy?"
Monday afternoon at
3:30 in the Little Theater
his topic is "Nucleus of the
Galaxy."
On Tuesday, at 8:45 in the
Little Theater, he will discuss
"Interstellar Matter." In each
of the three lectures slides
will be used.
Throughout the two-day vis-it,
individual conferences with
students and faculty members
will be arranged.
Dr. Hugh M. Johnson, As-sociate
Astronomer at the
Steward Observatory and As-sociate
Professor of Astrono-my
at the University of Ari-zona,
earned his docotrate at:
the University of Chicago.
He has been a Research As-sociate
at the University of
Chicago, Assistant Professor
at the State University of Io-wa,
and Visiting Fellow of the
Australian National Univer-sity.
His research interests are
interstellar matter, galactic
structure, and extra-galactic
systems.
The general public is mvit-ed.
Registration begins at 12:00
noon, with the registration fee
set at $1.00. Following this
will be a general meeting, be-ginning
at 1:00 p.m.
The topic to be discussed
at the session beginning at
1:30 p.m. is "Student Govern-ment
in Perspective". This
will be followed by a coke
break.
"Service Agreements" will
be discussed at the 3:15 ses-sion.
This will include mater-ial
on Athletics, Mission Pro-grams,
and Entertainment.
Special groups will meet at
4:30 p.m. These include social
board, inter-society, editors
of school papers and year
books, and foreign students.
The members of the confer-ence
will attend All Nations
in the evening.
Special delegates to the con-ference
will be the various
student body presidents. These
include Bob Alexander from
Concordia in Moorhead,
Minn.; Ron Lee from Luther
in Decorah, Iowa; Dave Wee
from St. Olaf, Northfield,
Minn.; Fred Mai, Wartburg,
Waverly, Iowa, and Wayne
Reed, Sioux Falls College.
Choir Presents
Christmas Show
A Christmas program will
be presented in student body
tomorrow morning by mem-bers
of the Tracy High School
Choir. They are under the di-rection
of Wayne Mitchell, a
alumnus of Augustana.
The 65-voice choir will pre-sent
a portion of its Christ-mas
concert program includ-ing
religious and novelty num-bers.
Mitchell and his wife,
Miriam, also an Augie gradu-ate,
will sing several solos and
duets. Mitchell has directed
the choir for three years.
Also at this time Kent Rol-fing
will introduce the mem-bers
of the committee for All
Nations. Students and faculty
are invited to attend.
DISCUSSING LAST-MINUTE plans for
All Nations are (back row, left to right)
Kent Rolfing, Tom Jones, Andy Austrums,
Kay Melham, Stan Vik, Don Blessing, Toni
Thompson, Shirley Olson, Rosie Wiese, Dot-tie
Kouba, Len Kragness, Bob McGaughey,
Analee Rantapaa, and Dick Schamber. Seat-ted
(left to right) are Jim Frey, Pam Fisch-er,
Marilyn Olson, Lee Ytreeide, Elaine
Pearson, John Lundin, Sandy Bay, Ron Hal-verson,
Jim Arshem, Glen Wika, Dave Gel-lerman,
Jean Sunde, Jean Warkenthien, Tom
Jacobson, and Tom Satre.
Debaters Rank
High at USD
Augustana's debate team is
attending the second annual
Air Academy Invitational at
Colorado Springs this week-end.
Last week the team was one
of five undefeated in the "A"
division in debate at the 14th
annual Intercollegiate Foren-sic
Conference at USD. In
team points, Augustana's team
of Dave Dahl and John Hed-land
rated highest.
Dave Dahl was judged first
in extempore speaking; Car-ole
Moberly received an ex-cellent
in Interpretive Read-ing;
Geraldine Bacon an ex-cellent
in Oratory, and Jim
Jestus and Sharon Martin, ex-cellents
in Discussion.
The team of Karen Hen-ning
and Bonnie Svarstad
were undefeated in the "B"
division.
GATHERED INFORMALLY in the Com-mons
Lounge are the twenty seniors selected
this year for Who's Who in American Uni-versities
and Colleges. They are (seated on
the floor) Ken Holum, Ron Hybertson, Sandy
Haugen; (seated) Lois Akerson, Lois Loon,
Bette Diebold, Dave Dahl, Joanne Stensaas,