I From 'Face in Brown'
-Augie Photo
PLAYERS Aud Wagnild and John Beardsley hear Verna
Skarsten's violent reaction to the "make-shift mediocrity"
in her home.
The three appeared in Ron Robinson's one-act experi-mental
play, Face in Brown, presented in the little theatre
this week, and directed by junior drama major, Dale Miller,
(See review, page 2.)
FIGHT FOR THE RIGHT TO SAY IT
Friday, March 29, 1957 AUGUSTANA COLLEGE VOLXXXVIII—No. 23
AUGUSTANA •
`NorsKapades' Rehearses
For April 5 Performance
Fifteen Augustana models
don new spring fashions for
the annual Sis style
show, April 13. This year's
theme is Spring Colorama.
Co-chairmen Sharon Thomp-
' son and Janet Olson have" ex-plained
that models will show
fashions furnished by Fusfield's.
Additional features of the
by Mike Ryan
A CAPACITY CROWD of students and faculty honored the
memory of Rev. Emil Erpestad, late chairman of the department
_ of Christianity, in a special service during Tuesday's chapel per-
, ,iod. Remainder of the day's classes were dismissed.
Prof. Erpestad died Saturday, March 23, after a brief illness.
Paul Rogness, ASA president, represented the student body
in paying tribute to Rev. Erpestad—"professor, pastor and man
of God."
Speaking in behalf of the faculty, President Stavig used II
Corinthians 3:3 as a test: "Ye are manifestly declared to be the
epistle of Christ ministered by us written not with ink, but witli
the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy
tables of the heart."
`The life of Emil Erpestad has been such an epistle," contin-
' ued Dr. Stavig. "In this memorial service what we are really
doing is continuing to read that epistle which God has seen fit
to place in the midst of us." No finer tribute could have been
paid to the continuing influence of this man.
REV. ERPESTAD was born in Windom, Minn., December 3,
1912, where he attended elementary and high school. After two
years at Lutheran Bible Institute, he entered St. Olaf college,
where he was graduated in 1936. He was graduated from Luther
Theological seminary in 1940, receiving his Master of Theology
degree from the same institution the next year.
He was married to Edna Beck of Racine, Wisc., June 8, 1940.
From 1940 to 1947, he served parishes in Wilmot, Milbank, Ber-esford
and at the Skrefsrud church.
Rev. Erpestad joined the Christianity department at Augu-stana
in 1947. His stay here was interrupted only by a year's
absence to study in the graduate school at Yale from 1950 to
1951. He received his Ph.D. from Yale in 1956. His dissertation
was entitled, AUGUSTANA THROUGH 100 YEARS.
The memory of Dr. Erpestad will long be revered by his co-workers
on the Augustana faculty and by his associates in the
Evangelical Lutheran church, but it must also be said, no less
by the students of Augustana, who felt the impact of his faith
on their lives.
THIS WRITER is but one of hundreds of Augustana students
whose first impression of him was formed during his opening
prayer in the first class session of a new school year. The con-tributions
that he made to the College and to the lives of the
students in the classroom stand in the best tradition of the
Christian faith and the Church which he served.
He believed that the purpose of a church-related college
must include more than a philosophy of life. His conviction was
- that education must be related to a theology at the heart which
' is the confession: Jesus is Lord.
The words "God" and "Christ" and "the Holy Spirit" never
fell flippantly from his lips. They were always structured in sen-tences
whose dignity were equal to the devotion he had for the
Verity for which they stand. One could not escape the impression
that he always remembered that these words were being uttered
in the presence of that Verity.
Rev. Erpestad's Death Prompts Service, Fund
Council Designates 'Blood Donor'
Program for Student Contributors
Rev. Emil Erpestad
by Charlie Cooper
Final plans have been
drawn for NorsKapades '57.
An original idea of Blue Key,
the gala show will be staged
Friday, April 5, at 8 p.m. in
the Washington high school
auditorium.
Steen Goes To
National Meet
SOLVEIG STEEN, junior mu-sic
major from Sioux Falls. took
top honors in the piano division
of the regional contest of the
National Federation of Music
clubs Saturday. She defeated
contestants f r o m Minnesota,
North Dakota and Nebraska.
A recording of Miss Steen's
performance will be sent to the
convention of the National Fed-eration
at Columbus, Ohio, Ap-ril
25-May 3. Winners of the na-tional
competition will be a-warded
scholarships.
MIRIAM TOLLEFSON, junior
music major from Watertown,
placed .first in the women's vo-calist
division. Representing the
vocal division in national com-petition,
however, will be Mer-lyn
Aman, Ipswich, who was
chosen top male vocalist.
South Dakota swept all three
major divisions in the contest.
Representing strings is Janet
Rayburn, a cellist in the Ver-million,
IS. D. high school.
An "Erpestad memorial
fund," to be established pri-marily
through the blood do-nations
of student volunteers,
was designated for "the per-sonal
use of Mrs. Erpestad
and her family" by student
council last night.
Terry Hokenstad, named by
the council to co-ordinate the
fund-raising program, has chos-en
a committee of six e to assist
him. He will outline the drive in
Monday's chapel period.
Students who wish to pkrtici-pate
will be asked to fill out
pledge cards, indicating their
Before the curtain is drawn
on NorsKapades, Augustana's
Royalty of Queens will be in-troduced.
When the curtain is drawn,
NorsKapades '57 is on. Rub-
A-Dubs, Dick Boetcher and
Del Smith will be masters of
ceremonies. Northlanders will
set the mood with background
music.
Dick Lokken, stage manager,
announces that the show is di-vided
into five sections : Pops,
Semi-classical, Classical, Diie-land
and "Non-categorical."
REHEARSALS BEGIN
Rehearsals are scheduled ev-ery
evening in the gym next
week. There will be a full dress
rehearsal Thursday in the WHS
auditorium.
Movies will be taken of re-hearsals
for TV publicity. Ma-jor
feature of an intense cam-paign
will be a door - to - door
canvass incorporating at least
500 students Monday night, Ap-ril
1. Spot announcements will
appear over radio and TV and
in home-town newspapers.
GET TICKETS EARLY
Wayne Gildseth, business
manager, urges advance ticket
purchasing. Tickets are on sale
at Weatherwax and Gefke Music
Store, $1 per adult and $.50 per
student. However, all college
students will have to pay the
adult price if they do not pur-chase
tickets ahead of time.
Money raised from Norska-pades
is for the Foreign Stu-dent
fund. Presently, the stu-dent
chest is the only source of
income and the fund has a bal-ance
only enough to support
two Asian or European stu-dents.
About five foreign stu-dents
have applied for the corn-ing
year. It costs at least $500
to support one student. Au-gustana,
has the least foreign
students of any college its size.
Included in the program are
Arlo Feiock and his Dixieland
willingness to donate one pint
of blood to the Erpestad fund.
Arrangements will be made for
those students who wish to con-tribute,
but are unable or un-willing
to give blood.
Hokenstad's committee will
serve as intermediary between
the local hospital and the Col-lege,
assigning student donors
as the hospital needs them. All
arrangements with the hospital
are being made by the commit-tee.
Members of Hokenstad's com-mittee
are Dave L. Johnson,
Barb Gilman, Sharon Sievers,
Daryl Bunde, Don Nelson and
Bob Anderson.
band, Solveig Steen, Arnie
Stenseth, Eva Kirchner, Judy
Assam, Doris Anderson, Verna
Skarsten and Gerry Christoph-erson,
Mimi Tollefson, Julie
Morstad and Sally Peterson.
Named To
Danforth
JIM ODE, senior in music
education, has been notified of
his appointment as Danforth
Fellow by the National Dan-forth
Foundation, St. Louis, Mo.
The fellowship, one of ap-proximately
70 awarded
throughout the nation, will en-able
Ode to work toward his
doctorate at - t h e graduate
school of his choice. Ode re-ports
that he will enter the
Eastman School of Music, Roch-ester,
N. Y. or the University
of Colorado, Boulder, this fall.
The .Danforth Fellowship pro-gram
seeks to direct qualified
students into the profession of
college teaching, with an em-phasis
on Christian service.
Ode was selected on a basis of
scholarship and personal com-mitment.
Ode is assistant band direct-or,
director of the Northland-ers,
and directs a band in Lyons
high school. He is a member
of Who's Who in American Col-leges
and Universities.
Big-Li'l Sis Plans
'Spring Colorama'
show will be special music and
a lunch. An admission fee of
75 cents will be charged.
All-School Carnival Tonight
Glads and Adelphics roll out an all-'school carnival at
7:30 tonight in the gym.
Booths will include the kissing, dunker, weight-guess,
fish pond and refreshment variety, as well as basketball and
baseball "throws."
Emceeing a stage show will be John Beardsley and Dick
Hopewell. Program includes Judy Assam's interpretive
dancing.
Watch for the SMIRROR
on Monday, •April 1 - 10c