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Dr. K. Stumpf CONVOCATION SPEAKER —Page 6— Donna Nervig Is EDDA QUEEN —Page 3— AUGUSTANA • FIGHT FOR THE BIGHT TO SAY IT Friday, May 22, 1959 AUGUSTANA COLLEGE Vol. 40—No. 30 Commencement To Be Held June 1 Brown Gives Graduation Address; Hanson Speaks at Baccaleaureate Plans are being made for a mass migration to Grand Forks, N. D., for the football game with North Dakota uni-versity on Sept. 19 next fall. The Rooter Club is mak-ing arrangements with the Great Northern Railroad for transportation for 300 stu-dents. Lodging is being se-cured at the hotels and Y's in Grand Forks for Satur-day night, Sept. 19. The to-tal cost of the trip, not in-cluding food, will not ex-ceed $15. The train will leave Sioux Falls Friday evening at 4:30 Rosalie Tollefson Is Elected Tuve Prexy Rosalie Tollefson, Willow Lake junior, was recently named to succeed Dorothy Sy-verson, Odin, Minn., senior, as president of Tuve hall. A music major, Miss Tol-lefson is active in "A" choir and was secretary of the Young Democrats this year. From those chosen as wing representatives next year Miss Tollefson will appoint the re-maining officers for the dorm. p.m. and will arrive at Grand Forks about 7 a.m. Saturday. The return trip will begin at 7:30 Sunday evening, arriving in Sioux Falls early Monday morning. This will be the first con-ference game of the year. Coach Burns and the team generally believe that this game will be the key to the conference championship. Students are asked to con-tact one of the Rooter Club members if they are seriously considering the trip. Plans for raising funds for for the proposed science build-ing will be underway in De-cember of 1960. The cost of the building is estimated to be $885,000. $350,000 of this is ex-pected to be received from the Fund drive in Sioux Falls which will begin in 1960. The new science building will house the departments of biology, physics, chemis-try, nursing, mathematics After four years of under-graduate study the class of '59 will be awarded the much coveted bachelor of art and science degrees Monday, June 1. A total of 186 students will receive bachelor degrees and 19 students will graduate with two-year state certificates in elementary education. Dr. Kenneth Irving Brown, executive director of the Danforth Foundation at St. Louis, Mo., will deliv-er the commencement ad-dress under the topic "Some Notes on Contemporary Ed-ucation." Graduation exer-cises will take place in the Washington high school au-ditorium. Born in Brooklyn, N. Y., Dr. Brown is author, editor, in-structor, director, president and pastor. Having received degrees from seven institu- Six new faculty members will appear on the Augustana campus next year, in many cases replacing faculty mem-bers who will be working on higher degrees. Replacing Miss Nancy Ann Young in the modern lan-guages department will be Mrs. Elizabeth Hartman, formerly on the staff at U. S. D. Mrs. Hartman will teach Spanish. Miss Young is leaving to do graduate work in Europe. Thruston Johnson of New York City will be the new di-rector of the Town and Gown Symphony orchestra a n d teacher of strings in place of the late Richard Guderyahn. Johnson's wife, Mrs. Evelyn Johnson, will replace Miss Marilyn Nelson as registrar in the business office. Miss Nelson will take the place of Miss Suzanne L. Tjornhom in the Business Education department. Miss Tjornhom plans to study toward her doctorate in business education at U.N.D. Richard J. Landborg, a graduate of Luther college, will be a new assistant pro-and geology. At the present time a program in geology is not offered at Augie; how-ever, a geology program is being planned. The building will be locat-ed north of Solberg hall on the Grange Avenue side of the campus. Definite plans concerning the size, appear-ance and construction of the science building are not known at the present time. tions, Dr. Brown is a promi-nent individual in the field of education. He earned his B.A. at the University of Rochester, re-ceived his Ph.D. from Har-vard university, his L.L.D. from both the University of Rochester and Wittenberg college, his L.H.D. from both Denison university and Keuka college and his D.D. from the College of Idaho. In addition he has served as a member of the board of education at the American Baptist convention, assistant in the Harvard English depart-ment, professor of Biblical literature at Stephens college, president of Hiram college, president of Denison univer-sity and president of the As-sociation of American colleg-es. During World War I he was an ensign in the USNRF. Since then he has edited "Character: Bad," war letters of a consci-entious objector, and "Mar-gie." He is also the author of "A Campus Decade," review-ing the Hiram plan of study and his own 10 years as presi-dent of that college, and of "Not Minds Alone." Forty-one seniors w i 11 graduate with honors. Marie Erickson and Curtis Olsen will graduate summa cum laude. Margaret Holum Jos-ephson, Donald Nelson, De-anna Seaton, Betty Peters and Marilyn Timm will graduate magna cum laude. In addition 34 seniors will graduate cum laude. Baccalaureate services will be held Sunday, May 31, at 7:30 in the First Lutheran church. Rev. William Larson will give this address entitled "Continuing in the Truth," based on John 8:31-32. A native of Racine, Wis., he w a s graduated from Washington Park high school and matriculated at Dana college, from which he graduated before attending Trinity Theological semin-ary, where he earned his B.D. degree. He served as pastor of the Bethany Lutheran church of Boston for seven years during which time he earned his M.A. degree at Boston univer-sity and did graduate work at Harvard. Following this Rev. Larson was a chaplain in the U. S. Navy and served overseas in the Marine Corps. Ac-cepting a call as pastor for the students at the Univer-sity of Minnesota, he served in this capacity for nine years before becoming exec-utive director of the Luth-eran Student Foundation of Minnesota. In addition he was pastor to the students at Ohio State university at Columbia and in 1956 was elected president of the United Evangelical church. Now a resident of Blair, Neb., he was awarded the hon-orary D.D. degree in 1957 by Wartburg Theological semin-ary. Charlette Mitchell an-nounces that the date of her recital has been changed from Saturday, May 23, to Friday, May 29. It will be held at 8:15 p.m. in the gymnasium. Miss Diana Boe will be her accompaniest. Seniors are reminded that practice will be held in the gymnasium Satur-day, May 30, at 10 a.m. At this time caps and gowns will be distrib-uted. AUGIE'S TWO SUMMA CUM LAUDE GRADUATES of the class of 1959 take a stroll on a campus sidewalk. They are Curt Olsen, Sioux Falls, and Marie Erickson, Plankin-ton. Both carry an overall average of more than 2.80. Rooter Club Plans Mass Migration to NDU For Football Game; Reserves Train for 300 Fund Raising Projects for Science Building Scheduled Six New Faculty Members Join Roster For 1959-60 School Year fessor in the chemistry de-partment. He is just complet-ing work for his Ph.D. at the State University of Iowa. Landborg has also taught at Cornell college in Mt. Vernon, Ia. Replacing Miss Mary Lou Hull in the English depart-ment will be Miss Marilyn Olsen, a 1958 graduate of Augustana. Miss Olsen was awarded a Woodrow Wilson scholarship and is complet-ing the work for her mas-ter's degree at Columbia university. Assistant professor Dilwyn J. Rogers, a graduate of Whea-ton college, will replace Dr. Winston Hackbarth in the bi-ology department. Rogers is presently completing work on his Ph.D. at the U. of Wis. Dr. Stanley Olsen will be returning to the campus as chairman of the philosophy department after a one-year absence, during which he taught at Luther Theologi-cal seminary in St. Paul. Paul Johnson of the philos-ophy department will leave to return to school. A replacement for Rev. Dav-id Halbakken of the Christi-anity department is still be-ing sought. Rev. Halbakken will be returning to the par-ish ministry. The college will also be securing another person to give private lessons on woodwinds and an addition-al person in the education department. Fred Teuber will be direc-tor of the Augie band during Leland Lillehaug's two-year leave of absence. Lillehaug will be working toward his doctorate at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N. Y.
Object Description
Title | Mirror - May 22, 1959 |
Subject (LC) | Augustana College (Sioux Falls, S.D.)--Students--Newspapers |
Type | Newspaper |
Date | 1959-05-22 |
Publishing agency | Augustana College, Sioux Falls, SD, USA |
Rights | This image may not be reproduced without the express written consent of Augustana University, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA. |
Medium | Text |
Format - Digital | |
Language | English |
Collection | Augustana Newspapers |
Contributing Institution | Mikkelsen Library, Augustana University |
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Title | Page 1 |
Type | Newspaper |
Date | 1959-05-22 |
Text | Dr. K. Stumpf CONVOCATION SPEAKER —Page 6— Donna Nervig Is EDDA QUEEN —Page 3— AUGUSTANA • FIGHT FOR THE BIGHT TO SAY IT Friday, May 22, 1959 AUGUSTANA COLLEGE Vol. 40—No. 30 Commencement To Be Held June 1 Brown Gives Graduation Address; Hanson Speaks at Baccaleaureate Plans are being made for a mass migration to Grand Forks, N. D., for the football game with North Dakota uni-versity on Sept. 19 next fall. The Rooter Club is mak-ing arrangements with the Great Northern Railroad for transportation for 300 stu-dents. Lodging is being se-cured at the hotels and Y's in Grand Forks for Satur-day night, Sept. 19. The to-tal cost of the trip, not in-cluding food, will not ex-ceed $15. The train will leave Sioux Falls Friday evening at 4:30 Rosalie Tollefson Is Elected Tuve Prexy Rosalie Tollefson, Willow Lake junior, was recently named to succeed Dorothy Sy-verson, Odin, Minn., senior, as president of Tuve hall. A music major, Miss Tol-lefson is active in "A" choir and was secretary of the Young Democrats this year. From those chosen as wing representatives next year Miss Tollefson will appoint the re-maining officers for the dorm. p.m. and will arrive at Grand Forks about 7 a.m. Saturday. The return trip will begin at 7:30 Sunday evening, arriving in Sioux Falls early Monday morning. This will be the first con-ference game of the year. Coach Burns and the team generally believe that this game will be the key to the conference championship. Students are asked to con-tact one of the Rooter Club members if they are seriously considering the trip. Plans for raising funds for for the proposed science build-ing will be underway in De-cember of 1960. The cost of the building is estimated to be $885,000. $350,000 of this is ex-pected to be received from the Fund drive in Sioux Falls which will begin in 1960. The new science building will house the departments of biology, physics, chemis-try, nursing, mathematics After four years of under-graduate study the class of '59 will be awarded the much coveted bachelor of art and science degrees Monday, June 1. A total of 186 students will receive bachelor degrees and 19 students will graduate with two-year state certificates in elementary education. Dr. Kenneth Irving Brown, executive director of the Danforth Foundation at St. Louis, Mo., will deliv-er the commencement ad-dress under the topic "Some Notes on Contemporary Ed-ucation." Graduation exer-cises will take place in the Washington high school au-ditorium. Born in Brooklyn, N. Y., Dr. Brown is author, editor, in-structor, director, president and pastor. Having received degrees from seven institu- Six new faculty members will appear on the Augustana campus next year, in many cases replacing faculty mem-bers who will be working on higher degrees. Replacing Miss Nancy Ann Young in the modern lan-guages department will be Mrs. Elizabeth Hartman, formerly on the staff at U. S. D. Mrs. Hartman will teach Spanish. Miss Young is leaving to do graduate work in Europe. Thruston Johnson of New York City will be the new di-rector of the Town and Gown Symphony orchestra a n d teacher of strings in place of the late Richard Guderyahn. Johnson's wife, Mrs. Evelyn Johnson, will replace Miss Marilyn Nelson as registrar in the business office. Miss Nelson will take the place of Miss Suzanne L. Tjornhom in the Business Education department. Miss Tjornhom plans to study toward her doctorate in business education at U.N.D. Richard J. Landborg, a graduate of Luther college, will be a new assistant pro-and geology. At the present time a program in geology is not offered at Augie; how-ever, a geology program is being planned. The building will be locat-ed north of Solberg hall on the Grange Avenue side of the campus. Definite plans concerning the size, appear-ance and construction of the science building are not known at the present time. tions, Dr. Brown is a promi-nent individual in the field of education. He earned his B.A. at the University of Rochester, re-ceived his Ph.D. from Har-vard university, his L.L.D. from both the University of Rochester and Wittenberg college, his L.H.D. from both Denison university and Keuka college and his D.D. from the College of Idaho. In addition he has served as a member of the board of education at the American Baptist convention, assistant in the Harvard English depart-ment, professor of Biblical literature at Stephens college, president of Hiram college, president of Denison univer-sity and president of the As-sociation of American colleg-es. During World War I he was an ensign in the USNRF. Since then he has edited "Character: Bad," war letters of a consci-entious objector, and "Mar-gie." He is also the author of "A Campus Decade," review-ing the Hiram plan of study and his own 10 years as presi-dent of that college, and of "Not Minds Alone." Forty-one seniors w i 11 graduate with honors. Marie Erickson and Curtis Olsen will graduate summa cum laude. Margaret Holum Jos-ephson, Donald Nelson, De-anna Seaton, Betty Peters and Marilyn Timm will graduate magna cum laude. In addition 34 seniors will graduate cum laude. Baccalaureate services will be held Sunday, May 31, at 7:30 in the First Lutheran church. Rev. William Larson will give this address entitled "Continuing in the Truth," based on John 8:31-32. A native of Racine, Wis., he w a s graduated from Washington Park high school and matriculated at Dana college, from which he graduated before attending Trinity Theological semin-ary, where he earned his B.D. degree. He served as pastor of the Bethany Lutheran church of Boston for seven years during which time he earned his M.A. degree at Boston univer-sity and did graduate work at Harvard. Following this Rev. Larson was a chaplain in the U. S. Navy and served overseas in the Marine Corps. Ac-cepting a call as pastor for the students at the Univer-sity of Minnesota, he served in this capacity for nine years before becoming exec-utive director of the Luth-eran Student Foundation of Minnesota. In addition he was pastor to the students at Ohio State university at Columbia and in 1956 was elected president of the United Evangelical church. Now a resident of Blair, Neb., he was awarded the hon-orary D.D. degree in 1957 by Wartburg Theological semin-ary. Charlette Mitchell an-nounces that the date of her recital has been changed from Saturday, May 23, to Friday, May 29. It will be held at 8:15 p.m. in the gymnasium. Miss Diana Boe will be her accompaniest. Seniors are reminded that practice will be held in the gymnasium Satur-day, May 30, at 10 a.m. At this time caps and gowns will be distrib-uted. AUGIE'S TWO SUMMA CUM LAUDE GRADUATES of the class of 1959 take a stroll on a campus sidewalk. They are Curt Olsen, Sioux Falls, and Marie Erickson, Plankin-ton. Both carry an overall average of more than 2.80. Rooter Club Plans Mass Migration to NDU For Football Game; Reserves Train for 300 Fund Raising Projects for Science Building Scheduled Six New Faculty Members Join Roster For 1959-60 School Year fessor in the chemistry de-partment. He is just complet-ing work for his Ph.D. at the State University of Iowa. Landborg has also taught at Cornell college in Mt. Vernon, Ia. Replacing Miss Mary Lou Hull in the English depart-ment will be Miss Marilyn Olsen, a 1958 graduate of Augustana. Miss Olsen was awarded a Woodrow Wilson scholarship and is complet-ing the work for her mas-ter's degree at Columbia university. Assistant professor Dilwyn J. Rogers, a graduate of Whea-ton college, will replace Dr. Winston Hackbarth in the bi-ology department. Rogers is presently completing work on his Ph.D. at the U. of Wis. Dr. Stanley Olsen will be returning to the campus as chairman of the philosophy department after a one-year absence, during which he taught at Luther Theologi-cal seminary in St. Paul. Paul Johnson of the philos-ophy department will leave to return to school. A replacement for Rev. Dav-id Halbakken of the Christi-anity department is still be-ing sought. Rev. Halbakken will be returning to the par-ish ministry. The college will also be securing another person to give private lessons on woodwinds and an addition-al person in the education department. Fred Teuber will be direc-tor of the Augie band during Leland Lillehaug's two-year leave of absence. Lillehaug will be working toward his doctorate at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N. Y. |
Collection | Augustana Newspapers |
Contributing Institution | Mikkelsen Library, Augustana University |