AUGUSTANA
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Comedy Ends Saturday
COMING UPON Anne Shepler and Dave Johnson, JoAnn
Rasmussen discovers that it's not only the fields that are
fresh. Pictured is a scene from last night's initial Fresh Fields
performance. (See review, p. 2).
Directed by Don Salberg, the three-act comedy will con-tinue
in the little theater tonight and Saturday at 8:15.
Tickets may be purchased from members of the junior class.
Ontjes, Sather, Dickey to Convo
STYLE SHOW CO-CHAIRMEN June Smith and Sharon
Frank, with Shriver consultant Ruth Moeller, count the lay-ers
in a basic little number.
Saturday's program is the last event of the 1955-56 Big-
Little Sister program. It is the first style show since three
years ago when it was an annual Big-Little Sis feature.
During the afternoon, committee heads for next year's
entire program will be named. In keeping with the theme,
guests will be served French pastry.
"Fresh Fields"
Reviewed
Page 2
Letter Criticizes
Dorm Rules
Page 4
FIGHT FOR THE RIGHT TO SAY IT
Friday, April 6, 1956
AUGUSTANA COLLEGE, SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA
VOL. XXXVI — No. 24
'Globetrotter' Thomas Will
Address Student Body April 13
RICHARD THOMAS, globe-trotting
news analyst and for-mer
f or e i g n correspondent,
will speak during student
body period on Friday, April
13, under the auspices of the
Artist and Lecture series. His
subject will be: America, the
Constructive Force. It will en-compass
the many key prob-lems
facing the United States,
and will include the speaker's
Augie Sweeps to
Pi Kappa Delta
Speech Triumph
Men's and women's debate
teams from Augustana de-bated
their way to separate
victories to win the Pi Kappa
Delta Province speech tourna-ment.
The men's team was composed
of Paul and Mike Rogness while
the women's team was composed
of Eva Kirchner and Connie Sik-kink.
South Dakota state was sec-ond
and Dakota Wesleyan was
third in the men's tourney. Yank-ton
college took second and Hu-ron
college third in the women's
debate.
In individual events Eva
Kirchner placed first in wo-men's
oratory and Paul Rog-ness
was first in men's ex-temp.
Ray Skoglund was named
one of the two superior dis-cussers
at the tournament.
Next year's national Pi Kappa
Delta convention will be held on
the campus of South Dakota
state college in April.
analysis. of the best possible
means for overcoming these
difficulties.
Mr. Thomas recently re-turned
from another first-hand
visit to the Middle East
and the main powers of the
Moslem world. In the course
of an intensive, two-month
trip, he interviewed spokes-men
for the Iraqi foreign of-fice,
was given an official re-
Richard Thomas
Shetek Workshop
Scheduled May 11-13
Annual leadership workshop
will be held May 11-13 at Lake
Shetek. Approximately 120 stu-dents,
presidents of organizations
and special committees, will at-tend.
Guest speaker at the 3-day
event will be Rev. R. G. Borg-wardt
of Sioux Falls. Stu-dents
and a group of faculty
members will also partici-pate.
The program is to in-clude
discussions, informal
campfire meetings and a semi-formal
banquet. Topics dis-cussed
will be of definite in-terest
to the students, accord-ing
to Bill Dickey, chairman.
This year's workshop commit-tee
includes Dickey; Terry Ho-kenstad,
assistant chairman; Dick
Kaus, business manager; Dona-dee
Strombeck, registrar; Denny
Tibbets, religious activity; Nyla
Thoreson, parliamentary proce-dure;
and Shirley Fossum, secre-tary.
Next year's workshop commit-tee
will meet at Shetek to discuss
plans for 1957.
Thursday, April 26,—Wed-nesday,
May 2, the ever pop-ular
classic melodrama, Uncle
Tom's Cabin will play at Au-gustana's
little theater. This
production will employ 10 sets
for the 27 scenes, and a large
cast of Harriet Beecher Stowe
characters, some with "black-face,"
some without. Uncle
Tom will be the final major
production of the present little
theater season.
In the cast are: Uncle Tom,
Dick Lokken; George Harris, Dale
Miller; St. Clare, Dick Wyman;
Simon Legree, Hale Swanson;
Little Eva, Ann Levorson; Eliza,
Loreli James; Ophelia, Nyla Thor-ception
by Iranian govern-ment
officials at the strategic
oil center of Abadan, and
spent considerable time in the
oil fields of the diminutive
kingdoms of Kuwait, Bahrain
and Qatar.
In Beirut, the speaker re-ceived
one of the highest hon-ors
of the government of Leb-anon,
the Medal of Merit, in
recognition of his efforts in
behalf of East-West under-standing.
A graduate of Harvard, Richard
Thomas spent his early years
with the Associated Press in
France and the New York Her-ald
Tribune in Paris, after hav-ing
toured free-lance through all
of western and central Europe.
Returning to the United States in
1938, he joined the National
Broadcasting company as head of
the French department and chief
French announcer, later becom-ing
news analyst for the New
York radio station WBNX.
With the forces of General
Eisenhower, he made the D-Day
landing in North Africa,
was French language radio
announcer for psychological
warfare in Algeria, Morocco
and Tunisia, and carried out
missions to Central Africa,
South America and the Car-ibbean.
After a tour of duty
with army intelligence in the
United States, he was sent to
Japan on a special mission
under General McArthur, and
also served in China, Korea
and the Philippines, with side
trips to India, Thailand, Pak-istan,
Arabia and Egypt.
Mr. Thomas has thus spent a
considerable portion of his adult
life traveling or living in approx-imately
70 different countries.
With a working knowledge of
nearly half a dozen languages, he
has been able to interview thou-sands
of persons in their native
tongues in order to see the United
States as others see it.
Arrangements for Mr. Thomas'
appearance have been made
through the Lecture bureau of
the University of Minnesota pro-gram
service.
Stavig Named Delegate
Dr. L. M. Stavig is one of an
11-member delegation which will
represent the Evangelical Luth-eran
church at the third assembly
of the Lutheran World federation,
scheduled to convene in Minneap-olis,
August, 1957.
Dr. Stavig is an ELC vice pres-ident.
eson; and Topsey, Beverly Miller.
Also in the cast are John
Beardsley, Bill Horeis, Ron Timm,
Don Salberg, Dave Johnson, Eu-gene
Wopat, Laverne Espeland,
Lynn Lee, Margret Holum, Bar-bara
Amland, Joloyce Larson,
Avis Rodness and Fritz Lennon.
Opening night, April 26, will be
sponsored by the Augustana aux-iliary
to obtain money for their
scholarship fund. The 27th date
will be sponsored by Fidelis club
of First Lutheran.
Showing tonight and Saturday
is Fresh Fields, sponsored by the
junior class. All tickets may be
obtained from class members.
This is the second student pro-duction;
the third and final one
will be directed by Dick Lokken
and presented sometime in May.
HOW CAN COLLEGES and
universities best solve the
problems of increasing enroll-ment?
Student body president Jim
Ontjes, MIRROR editor Larry
Sather and leadership workshop
chairman Bill Dickey left at noon
today for Minneapolis where the
National Student association, Min-
, nesota-Dakota region, will dis-cuss
this question and other cur-rent
problems of higher educa-tion.
The conference will be held on
the University of Minnesota cam-pus.
Over 150 students are ex-pected
to attend.
APRIL IN PARIS is the theme
of the style show to be presented
Saturday, April 7, at the First
Lutheran church. The program,
which will begin at 2:00 p.m., is
co-sponsored by the Big-Little
Sister committee and Shriver's
department store.
Sharon Frank and June
Smith, chairmen in charge
of the style show, have des-cribed
the program as being
an imaginary excursion
through Paris by 13 college
girls. The tour takes the
group through a typical day,
including luncheon at a side-walk
cafe, shopping and vis-iting
well-known museums
and landmarks.
Ann Levorson will be mistress
of ceremonies. Music wil be pro-vided
by Miriam Tollefson and
a violin trio composed of Pris-cilla
Berthelsen, Charlotte Mit-chell
and Cynthia Nold.
Models for the program are
Barbara Amland, Mary Ann Bue,
Barbara Cummings, Frances
Erickson, Evelyn Fodness, Diane
Johnson, Shirley Lease, Carol
Nelson, Janet Olson, Lois Paul-son,
Carol Udseth, Ann Wheel-don
and Connie White.
Publicity chairmen are Mary
Siekmeier and Carol Hewlett,
Peggy Jones and Marlys Hansen
are in charge of decorations. The
script is being prepared by Anne
Shepler.
Heading the discussion staff
will be Dr. George Selke, Minne-sota
conservation commissioner.
A former president of St. Cloud
state teachers college, Selke has
also served as Chancellor of the
University of Montana.
Dr. Selke wil give the keynote
address. Other speakers are Mar-tin
Quanbeck, Dean of Augsburg
college, and A. Lachlin Reed, Di-rector
of Industry-Education re-lations,
Minneapolis - Honeywell
Regulator company.
Among the problems to be dis-cussed
will be: admission stan-dards,
class sizes, extra-curricular
student life and specialized study
necessary because of heavier en-rollments.
Big-Little Sister Style Show
Brings 'April to Paris' Saturday
Scheduled Melodrama Has
r Racktace Cast, Many Sets