Dr. K. Stumpf
CONVOCATION SPEAKER
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Donna Nervig Is
EDDA QUEEN
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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.