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New plans for the Mikkelson Library were made necessary by
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to its present site — south of the Administration building.
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Friday, February 4, 1955 AUGUSTANA COLLEGE, SIOUX FALLS, S. D. VOL. XXXVI — No. 17
Detroit ACRL Institute
Commends Library Plans
Librarians
View Design
Progressive
Debaters
Meet At
Moorhead
by Wray Kunkle
Today and tomorrow the
Augie debaters are • going to
compete at Concordia and
Moorhead State Teachers Col-leges
in Moorhead, Minnesota.
The men will debate at Con-cordia
and will be represented
by the following two teams:
Mike Rogness, Mark Stavig
and Paul Rogness, Jim This-sell.
Connie Sikkink and Eva
Kirchner will debate in the
women's tournament-at Moor-head.
Last Friday and Saturday the
Augustana debate team par-ticipated
in the annual speech
tournament held by Midland Col-lege
at Fremont, Nebraska. Paul
Rogness won 4th place in extern:-
poraneous speaking out of a field
of twenty-five contestants; and a
debate team made up of Paul
Rogness, Jim Thissell, and Wray
Kunkle went undefeated through-out
the entire tournament.
Mark Stavig and Mike Rogness
was the only team competing in
the senior division of debate. The
following three teams were en-tered
in the junior division of
debate: Connie Sikkink and Eva
Kirchner; Dick Bowen and Bill
Dickey; and Paul Rogness, Jim
Thissell, and Wray Kunkle.
Last year the women's debate
team won third place in this
tournament.
Newcomb Chooses
Board Members
Bob Newcomb, social board
chairman, has announced the
newly chosen social board mem-bers
for 1955.
The members already at work
are Carolyn DeBoer, Chuck Jerde,
Barbara Cummings, Orville Lind,
Carolyn Carlson, Ralph Koepsell,
Dorothy Hoogestraat and Norbert
Limmer. Limmer will serve the
board as artist.
The board is encouraging smal-ler
parties put on by the students
themselves such as class and dorm
socials.
Newcomb stated, "The next all-,
school party will be one you won't
desire to miss. Watch the posters."
The Valentine formal is ten-tatively
set for February 19. This
is the first all-school event spon-sered
by the social board.
SPEARFISH, S. D. (Special) —
The Augustana choir reports good
audiences and cold, clear weather.
They sang to near capacity
audience at Aberdeen arena Sun-day.
At Pierre, choir men stayed over-night
in the governor's home. On
Tuesday the choir toured the
capitol. They sang in concert
under the dome of the capitol
building for Governor Foss and
the state employees.
Everyone is reported to have
turned instrumental, i.e., the uke.
Mr. Harvey, business manager of
the choir is said to have mastered
the rudiments.
Council Discusses
Activity Funds
A study of the apportionment of
student funds was discussed by
the student council in session
yesterday. The Council referred
the project to the finance com-mittee.
Itemized reports will be
required of those groups now re-ceiving
money from the general
fund.
A survey of the needs of the
various organizations for the corn-ing
year will also be included in
each activity's report.
Student body treasurer, Stan
Stensaas, was placed in charge of
the survey.
Societies Vote
New Officers
New officers have recently been
elected for the campus' societies.
Larry Sather was named presi-dent
of the Kappa Theta Phi so-ciety.
Elmer Adland is the vice-president;
Floyd Florey, secretary;
Mike Rogness, treasurer; and li
brarian, Dave Olson.
Dick Lokken takes over as Delt
president; Bob Myklebust, vice-president;
Craig Anderson, secre-tary-
treasurer; and Roger Kasa,
corresponding secretary .
The Adelphics have chosen
Eunice Hoime, president; Luanne
Gunderson, vice-president; Judy
Anderson, secretary. There will
be a run-off between Mary Ann
Bue and Carolyn Burns for treas-urer.
The Glads have elected Jim
Wylie, president; Dick Boettcher,
vice-president; Paul Natwick,
secretary; and Bob Newcomb,
treasurer.
Ruby Ellen Koehn is the new
Philo president; Carole Johlfs,
vice-president, Diane Johnson,
secretary, and Nancy Williamson
is the treasurer.
Fred Johnson is the new
Websterian president; Dean Baker,
vice-president; Vonlee Hanson,
secretary; and the new treasurer
is Orvan Ulven.
Voted into Phi Rho offices are:
Audrey Johnson, president; Marie
Loken, vice-president; Delores
Jacobson, secretary; and Dorothy
Hoogestraat, treasurer.
New Alpha officers are: Fran
Ericson, president; Kathy Wag-nild,
vice-president; Marilynne
Bachman, secretary; and Barbara
Cummings, treasurer.
The Athenians have elected
Norma Twedt, president; Mary
Quam, vice-president; Bea Reed,
secretary; and Verna Janousek,
treasurer.
MORRIS MINN. (Special), re-,
port by Bob Alger)—"High pitched
excitement" and "bushful ex-haustion"
have characterized the
drama tour thus far.
Since the cast for Hamlet has
left Augustana, they have per-formed
five shows and received
about seven hours of sleep. They
have unloaded the truck and set
up the stage three times and have
taken the set down twice.
5:30 a. m. is the beginning of
the work-day for the cast. Their
typical day ends about 2:30 a. m.
There has been some difficulty
in getting the necessary props for
the various stages.
"If we could receive more sleep,
we would recommend it to all."
LSA Discusses
Faith and Doubt
Sunday, LSA will hear Profes-sor
Erpestad speak on "Faith and
Doubt." A buzz session will fol-low
the presentation.
Supper is served at 5:30.
The LSA old and new officers
had dinner together Wednesday.
Future plans for the LSA were
discussed.
Paul Rogness was chosen co-chairman
and Marilyn Olsen sec-,
retary of the Luther League Days.
Jim Bly is the present chairman.
Choir Conducting
Course Organizes
Choir conducting, music 41, is
being offered the second semester
due to numerous requests to the
registrar's office.
Dr. Arnold RUnning will be the
instructor of this senior division
course. Two hours' credit will be
given. Time of the class meeting
will be set at the convenience of
students and the instructor.
There are no pre-requisites.
Kauzmann Speaks to
Chemical Society
Dr. W. Kauzmann, professor of
chemistry at Princeton Univer-sity,
Princeton, New Jersey, ad-dressed
the Sioux Valley Section
of the American Chemical Society,
January 29, 1955, in the science
building of Augustana College.
In his address entitled "Pro-tein
Denaturization" Dr. Kauz-mann
spoke technically on the
effects of certain chemicals to the
break-down of highly complex
proteins.
Dr. Kauzmann is a graduate of
Cornell University. At present he
is a professor at Princeton and is
working on the chemistry of pro-teins.
He was sent by the Amer-ican
Chemical Society to address
the individual sections to keep
them informed of the work of the
national meetings. Oscar Hofstad
is chairman of the Sioux Valley
section.
An estiruated seventy-five chem-ists
fromTolleges and universities
of South Dakota, Iowa, and Ne-braska
attended the meeting. Dr.
John A. Froemke was in charge of
arrangements. A coffee hour pre-ceded
the lecture in the Science
Lounge, and a dinner in the eve-ning
was served at the Cottage.
Campus GOP
Attends Convo
Representatives of Augie's
Young •Republican Club will take
part in the Young Republican ac-tivities
in Pierre, February 4, 5,
and 6.
The plans for the week-end were
made by the College Federation of
Young Republican Clubs and Jim
Abnor, state chairman.
Friday afternoon, the college
GOP group will appear before a
legislative committee to discuss
18-year old voting. The College
Federation has endorsed 18-year
old voting and wish to have the
issue placed on the next ballot.
A Federation executive meet-ing
and a Republican get-together
is on the agenda for Saturday. At
this meeting a constitution will
be formed and plans will be made
for the spring convention which
is to be at the University.
Sunday, the YR clubs have been
invited to an executive committee
meeting in the governor's recep-tion
room.
Mission Emphasis
Schedule is Set
John Dindering, chairman of
the religion board, has announced
that Dr. Hestnes, medical mis-sionary
to South Africa has been
secured to participate in the Mis-sion
Emphasis Days, March 13,
14, and 15.
Gospel teams of Augustana have
given some of their funds to the
support of this mission.
The religion board plans to have
another speaker attend these ses-sions.
Dr. Stanley Olsen is in
charge of speaker arrangements.
Bible Study
Has Election
George Johnson was unanimous-ly
elected president of the College
Bible Study at the first meeting
of the new semester, February 2,
1955.
It was decided to use the Bible
Study time for weekly Lenten
Services during that season_
Professor Emil Erpestad will
continue leading the group in the
study of Philippians.
Augustana College received
commendation on their Mik-kelson
Memorial Library plans
at the recent meeting of the
American College and Re-search
Libraries Division of
the American Library Associa-tion.
Kordillia Johnson, head li-brarian,
and W. E. Bentizin-ger,
architect from Harold
Spitznagel and Associates, de-signers
of the library, attended
the two-day conference last
weekend in Detroit, Michigan,
of the ACRL Building Plans
Institute.
Critics in attendance at the con-ference
stated that Augustana
College had shown foresight in
providing the microfilm room in
the new library.
The group also commended the
inclusion of rooms for the Car-negie
Music and Art collection.
Some question was raised con-cerning
the main reading room's
having a balcony, with some feel-ing
that the space could better be
used. However, Miss Johnson re-ports
that the consensus of opinion
seemed to be that "the aesthetic
value of wide expanse of two-story
reading room was to be
highly praised." Augustana's were
the only plans with a balcony sub-mitted
to the institute.
Members of the group
agreed that closed stacks were
fast going out of style and
praised Augustana's use of
open stacks.
Miss Johnson stated that
methods of moving from the
old library to the new one
were discussed which was of
great help for the Augustana
librarian.
Walter W. Wright, University
of Pennsylvania, led the discus-sion
of the Augustana plans. Mr.
Wright is editor of the American
Library Association publication.
Augustana College was the first
college to be chosen from South
Dakota and this area to attend the
conference which is limited to col-lege
and university libraries.
Others submitting plans were Wes-tern
Michigan College of Educa-tion,
Olivet College, Adelphi Col-lege
and the Universities of New
Hampshire, Kansas, Maryland
Medical Center and Purdue.
St. Olaf Choir
To Sing Tuesday
The St. Olaf choir will appear
in concert Tuesday evening at the
high school auditorium.
The choir has a schedule of 27
concerts on its winter tour. This
summer the choir will tour
Europe.
The concert here is sponsored
by the Lutheran Welfare Society
of South Dakota. Tickets are
available in the business office.
Governor Hosts Choir;
Drama Tour Is Hard Work