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Saturday, May 14, 1955 VOL. XXXVI — No. 30 AUGUSTANA Jerde Receives Fulbright Delores Jerde received notification this week that she is one of two college seniors in South Dakota to be awarded a Fulbright scholarship for European study. Delores will study piano at the Royal College of Music, London, England. The scholarship included all her expenses for one academic year of study. Any senior student is eligible 7 to make application for the Ful-bright scholarship. Applicants are screened by a faculty group and submitted to a state commit-tee for consideration. South Da-kota may then recommend two to the national Fulbright committee. The award winners are chosen on the basis of excellence in their projects and scholarship. In ad-dition to a lengthy statement of purpose, Miss Jerde sent in a 45- minute recording of her piano playing. September 14 she will sail on the Queen Elizabeth in company with other Fulbright winners go-ing to England. "Dee' is a senior from Spear-fish. In 1953 she reigned as Miss South Dakota. Five Students Win Collegiate Diplomas in Annual Auditions Winners were Roxanna Kohrs, Connie White, Solveig Steen, Delores Jerde and Diane Hinsvark at the piano. Erickson, Thompson Reign Over Annual Syttende Mai Festival by Marilyn Olsen LOCAL SCANDINAVIAN die-hards continue to celebrate Syt-tende Mai with a patriotic gusto today as Norwegian indepen-dence day is observed within the distinctly American environs of Bill Dickey's farm. \Reigning over the Augustana festival of Syttende Mai is J., Darrell Thompson, a senior from Letcher, and Fran Erickson, jun-ior from Balaton, Minnesota. Attendants for the Queen Inga royalty include: Mau-reen Kampen, frosh, Water-town; Connie Lien, sopho-more, Hills, Minnesota; Diane Johnson, sophomore, Ham-burg, Iowa; and Alice Van Wyhe, frosh from Colton. At-tending King Ole are: Bob Newcomb, Sioux Falls frosh; Mike Dahl, Sioux Falls jun-ior; Dick Boettcher, sopho-more, Aberdeen, and Chuck Storslee, frosh, Underwood, Minnesota. Fran is sponsored by Blue Key and the Augie band sponsors King Darrell. Bob Hoogestraat, Syttende Mai general chairman, will preside at coronation ceremonies. American tradition managed to hold sway today as the faculty all-stars battled it out with a hand-picked student s of t b all team at 2:30 to begin proceedings. At 5:00 the celebrated Viking- Rancho-Q will begin serving western style under the sponsor-ship of the AVO, Augustana Vet-erans organization. A short, out-door variety show will begin at approximately 7:00. Incidental music during the program will be provided by Augie's versatile combo group. Immediately f o 11 o wing the show, Dean Larson will lead folk gaming on the green under flood-lights, and a song-fest will draw festivities to a close. Providing transportation from Tuve Hall at 2:00 and 4:00 were Augie veteran s, handled by Her a 1 d Hansen. Bill Dick-ey is chairman of the Viking Rancho. Also helping Hooge-straat were Bob Newcomb and Ken Kessinger on softball game; Elmer Odland on election and coronation of Syttende Mai can-didates; and Don Mikkelson on the variety show. Cliff Olson Appears In Our Young People OUR YOUNG PEOPLE the ELC Sunday school paper for young people, will carry an ar-ticle on Cliff Olson, Augie voice instructor, in the May 22 issue. The feature was taken from the MIRROR February 4 issue and describes Olson's stay in Chicago last fall when he was on leave of absence. Editor of the paper, OUR YOUNG PEOPLE, is Rev. Gerald Giving, an Augustana graduate. Mirror Rates All-American THE AUGUSTANA MIRROR received an All-American honor rating for the first semester in the 51st Critical Service sponsored by the Associated College Press, official organ of college news-papers. An All-American represents -the highest rating possible for college journalism. Other ratings include first through fourth class in de-scending order. October, November and De-cember issues of the Mirror were entered in the newspaper an-alysis. A standard scorebook which covers all phases of jour-nalism is used in the critical ex-amination. Judges for the contest include professional men in jour-nalism and professors at the Uni-versity of Minnesota. Augustana moved up in competition this year as the college enrollment increased. Newspapers are classed ac-cording to college enrollment and frequency of paper. This All-American rating marks the ninth time in the past five years that Augustana has re-ceived the All-American. Last year the Mirror received one for the first semester under the ed-itorship of Joan Mortensen. Other All-American editors in-clude: Laurel Gray, 2nd sem., 1948; Mary Ode, 1st sem., 1948; Jewyll Mortensen, 2nd sem., 1946; Lorna Pearson (Mrs. Kilian), 1st sem., 1946; Lucille Marrington, 1st sem., 1944; and Virginia Voss, 2nd sem., 1943. The Mirror was unable to find the ninth All- American edition. Augustana's rating will be pub-lished in the June issue of the Scholastic Editor and the Mirror will receive a certificate of its ratings. KATHERSON REVEALED! See Page Two FULL - BLOODED Norwe-gians ascended the Syttende Mai thrones today as J. Dar-rell Thompson and Fr an Erickson were crowned King Ole and Queen Inga in the fourth annual Syttende Mai festival, celebrating Norwe-gian independence. Darrell is a . senior from Letcher, South Dakota, and Fran is a junior from Balaton, Minnesota. President's Reception Invitations were in the mail this week for the annual presi-dent's reception held at the home of Dr. and Mrs. L. M. Stavig. All four-year graduates will be formally honored at the presi-dent's home Thursday evening, May 19, between the hours of eight and ten. Husbands and wives of seniors are also invited. State certificate graduates will attend a reception Friday after-noon, May 20, at 3:30. SPECIAL SECTION NEXT WEEK Featuring Art and Social Science Depts. Chapel Choir To Give Home Concert Sun. The Augustan chapel choir, under the direction of Professor Merle Pflueger, will present its home concert Sunday evening at 8:00 p.m. in the First Lutheran church. The 56-voice choir made a tour in South Dakota last weekend singing in New Effington, Water-town, Lake Preston and Dell Rapids. Soloists for the concert will be Marlene Bergerson, Col man, S. D.; Anna Mae Os-trem, Centerville; Lois Peter-son, Harlington, Neb.; and Joyce Tornberg of Beresford. Included in the program will be compositions of Des Prez, B a c h, Lockwood, Christiansen and Grieg. There will be no admission charge, but a free-will offering will be received. Augie Gets New Piano AUGUSTANA will add to its music department a new grand piano from Germany, according to Professor J. E. Lee, head of the music department. Music faculty members and other Augustana officials will be on hand Monday when the Ger-man- made piano is scheduled to arrive via moving van. The concert grand was made in Brunswick, Germany, by the Grotrain-Steinweg Piano com-pany. Professor Lee stated that this piano has been the choice of Clara Schumann, wife of Robert Schumann, in addition to other eminent pianists. ALTHOUGH this piano is well known in Germany, it has only recently been introduced to this country. The agency for the Gro-train- Steinweg in the midwest is the Holstad Music House in Min-neapolis. Augustana's will be the first concert grand of this make to be introduced in this section of the country. This particular piano was used in a radio broadcast in Colin, German y, several weeks ago in demonstrating the qualities of its kind, the German piano company wrote in a letter to Lee. Dedicatory concert of the new piano will be given by Bernard Weiser, a young American pianist who has performed in both Europe and America. The performance is set for Friday evening, May 20, at 8:15 in the Augie gymnasium. Weiser will demonstrate the potentialities of the new musical purchase. He will appear as the last of the Artist and Lecture series. LITTLE SIS BREAKFAST A breakfast in the early hours of the morning will be the final get-together of the year for Augie's family of Big-'Lil Sisters. Buses leaving at 6:30 Sunday morning from Tuve Hall will transport the breakfasters to Sherman park where an open air breakfast has been planned for the big sisters and their side kicks. Barbara Gilman, freshman, or-, iginated the idea and heads the arrangements. The girls extend a welcome to all Big Sisters. Miss _Ruth Schneider, August-ana piano instructor, has an-nounced that five Augustana stu-dents received collegiate diplomas at the fifth annual auditions of the Sioux Falls center of the Na-tional Guild of piano teachers. Ten other Augustana students have participated in the event which will close tomorrow. The five diploma winners are Delores Jerde, who won the sen-ior collegiate diploma; Roxanna Kohrs, Connie White and Solveig Steen, winners of the sophomore collegiate diplomas; and Diane Hinsvark, recipient of the fresh-man diploma. Bret Sears and Merritt Johnson have judged the auditions which began on May 2. Sears is a grad-uate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. He studied abroad one year under Lazare Levy and has studied with the instructor of Vladimer Horowitz. Since 1930 he has been a teacher and a con-certist. He is now a music direc-tor in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Johnson has been teaching mu-sic at Northern State Teachers college in Aberdeen since 1944. He has also studied at Oberlin where he received his BM and MM degrees. He has done addi-tional study under Egan Petri and Joseph Lhivenne. He composes music for the organ, piano, cello, choir and orchestra. Climaxing the auditions will be a grand concert May 22 at 3 p.m. in the Augustana gym. The pro-gram will be composed of stu-dents who received the highest rating in each classification. The concert will be performed on the new Grotrian-Steinveg piano. Miss Schneider is chairman of the Sioux Falls center for the National Guild of Piano Teach-ers. The first auditions were held here five years ago for 60 stu-dents. This year almost 300 mu-sic students from the Sioux Falls area have participated. EDDA Nears Completion Final proofreading of the copy for the 1955 EDDA was com-pleted last week by this year's EDDA editor, Juanita Lien. The blueprints are expected to arrive Monday from Mason City, Iowa, where the final copy has been sent. Nita has already seen the cov-ers and states, "The copy looks , good, with corrections at a mini-mum." The EDDA party will be held. Saturday, May 21, in the gymna-sium. At that time the announce-ment of the dedication of the book, the representative seniors, and the honor athlete will be re-vealed. Refreshments will be served followed by the traditional sign-ing of the EDDAS.
Object Description
Title | Mirror - May 14, 1955 |
Subject (LC) | Augustana College (Sioux Falls, S.D.)--Students--Newspapers |
Type | Newspaper |
Date | 1955-05-14 |
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 |
Description
Title | Page 1 |
Type | Newspaper |
Date | 1955-05-14 |
Text | Saturday, May 14, 1955 VOL. XXXVI — No. 30 AUGUSTANA Jerde Receives Fulbright Delores Jerde received notification this week that she is one of two college seniors in South Dakota to be awarded a Fulbright scholarship for European study. Delores will study piano at the Royal College of Music, London, England. The scholarship included all her expenses for one academic year of study. Any senior student is eligible 7 to make application for the Ful-bright scholarship. Applicants are screened by a faculty group and submitted to a state commit-tee for consideration. South Da-kota may then recommend two to the national Fulbright committee. The award winners are chosen on the basis of excellence in their projects and scholarship. In ad-dition to a lengthy statement of purpose, Miss Jerde sent in a 45- minute recording of her piano playing. September 14 she will sail on the Queen Elizabeth in company with other Fulbright winners go-ing to England. "Dee' is a senior from Spear-fish. In 1953 she reigned as Miss South Dakota. Five Students Win Collegiate Diplomas in Annual Auditions Winners were Roxanna Kohrs, Connie White, Solveig Steen, Delores Jerde and Diane Hinsvark at the piano. Erickson, Thompson Reign Over Annual Syttende Mai Festival by Marilyn Olsen LOCAL SCANDINAVIAN die-hards continue to celebrate Syt-tende Mai with a patriotic gusto today as Norwegian indepen-dence day is observed within the distinctly American environs of Bill Dickey's farm. \Reigning over the Augustana festival of Syttende Mai is J., Darrell Thompson, a senior from Letcher, and Fran Erickson, jun-ior from Balaton, Minnesota. Attendants for the Queen Inga royalty include: Mau-reen Kampen, frosh, Water-town; Connie Lien, sopho-more, Hills, Minnesota; Diane Johnson, sophomore, Ham-burg, Iowa; and Alice Van Wyhe, frosh from Colton. At-tending King Ole are: Bob Newcomb, Sioux Falls frosh; Mike Dahl, Sioux Falls jun-ior; Dick Boettcher, sopho-more, Aberdeen, and Chuck Storslee, frosh, Underwood, Minnesota. Fran is sponsored by Blue Key and the Augie band sponsors King Darrell. Bob Hoogestraat, Syttende Mai general chairman, will preside at coronation ceremonies. American tradition managed to hold sway today as the faculty all-stars battled it out with a hand-picked student s of t b all team at 2:30 to begin proceedings. At 5:00 the celebrated Viking- Rancho-Q will begin serving western style under the sponsor-ship of the AVO, Augustana Vet-erans organization. A short, out-door variety show will begin at approximately 7:00. Incidental music during the program will be provided by Augie's versatile combo group. Immediately f o 11 o wing the show, Dean Larson will lead folk gaming on the green under flood-lights, and a song-fest will draw festivities to a close. Providing transportation from Tuve Hall at 2:00 and 4:00 were Augie veteran s, handled by Her a 1 d Hansen. Bill Dick-ey is chairman of the Viking Rancho. Also helping Hooge-straat were Bob Newcomb and Ken Kessinger on softball game; Elmer Odland on election and coronation of Syttende Mai can-didates; and Don Mikkelson on the variety show. Cliff Olson Appears In Our Young People OUR YOUNG PEOPLE the ELC Sunday school paper for young people, will carry an ar-ticle on Cliff Olson, Augie voice instructor, in the May 22 issue. The feature was taken from the MIRROR February 4 issue and describes Olson's stay in Chicago last fall when he was on leave of absence. Editor of the paper, OUR YOUNG PEOPLE, is Rev. Gerald Giving, an Augustana graduate. Mirror Rates All-American THE AUGUSTANA MIRROR received an All-American honor rating for the first semester in the 51st Critical Service sponsored by the Associated College Press, official organ of college news-papers. An All-American represents -the highest rating possible for college journalism. Other ratings include first through fourth class in de-scending order. October, November and De-cember issues of the Mirror were entered in the newspaper an-alysis. A standard scorebook which covers all phases of jour-nalism is used in the critical ex-amination. Judges for the contest include professional men in jour-nalism and professors at the Uni-versity of Minnesota. Augustana moved up in competition this year as the college enrollment increased. Newspapers are classed ac-cording to college enrollment and frequency of paper. This All-American rating marks the ninth time in the past five years that Augustana has re-ceived the All-American. Last year the Mirror received one for the first semester under the ed-itorship of Joan Mortensen. Other All-American editors in-clude: Laurel Gray, 2nd sem., 1948; Mary Ode, 1st sem., 1948; Jewyll Mortensen, 2nd sem., 1946; Lorna Pearson (Mrs. Kilian), 1st sem., 1946; Lucille Marrington, 1st sem., 1944; and Virginia Voss, 2nd sem., 1943. The Mirror was unable to find the ninth All- American edition. Augustana's rating will be pub-lished in the June issue of the Scholastic Editor and the Mirror will receive a certificate of its ratings. KATHERSON REVEALED! See Page Two FULL - BLOODED Norwe-gians ascended the Syttende Mai thrones today as J. Dar-rell Thompson and Fr an Erickson were crowned King Ole and Queen Inga in the fourth annual Syttende Mai festival, celebrating Norwe-gian independence. Darrell is a . senior from Letcher, South Dakota, and Fran is a junior from Balaton, Minnesota. President's Reception Invitations were in the mail this week for the annual presi-dent's reception held at the home of Dr. and Mrs. L. M. Stavig. All four-year graduates will be formally honored at the presi-dent's home Thursday evening, May 19, between the hours of eight and ten. Husbands and wives of seniors are also invited. State certificate graduates will attend a reception Friday after-noon, May 20, at 3:30. SPECIAL SECTION NEXT WEEK Featuring Art and Social Science Depts. Chapel Choir To Give Home Concert Sun. The Augustan chapel choir, under the direction of Professor Merle Pflueger, will present its home concert Sunday evening at 8:00 p.m. in the First Lutheran church. The 56-voice choir made a tour in South Dakota last weekend singing in New Effington, Water-town, Lake Preston and Dell Rapids. Soloists for the concert will be Marlene Bergerson, Col man, S. D.; Anna Mae Os-trem, Centerville; Lois Peter-son, Harlington, Neb.; and Joyce Tornberg of Beresford. Included in the program will be compositions of Des Prez, B a c h, Lockwood, Christiansen and Grieg. There will be no admission charge, but a free-will offering will be received. Augie Gets New Piano AUGUSTANA will add to its music department a new grand piano from Germany, according to Professor J. E. Lee, head of the music department. Music faculty members and other Augustana officials will be on hand Monday when the Ger-man- made piano is scheduled to arrive via moving van. The concert grand was made in Brunswick, Germany, by the Grotrain-Steinweg Piano com-pany. Professor Lee stated that this piano has been the choice of Clara Schumann, wife of Robert Schumann, in addition to other eminent pianists. ALTHOUGH this piano is well known in Germany, it has only recently been introduced to this country. The agency for the Gro-train- Steinweg in the midwest is the Holstad Music House in Min-neapolis. Augustana's will be the first concert grand of this make to be introduced in this section of the country. This particular piano was used in a radio broadcast in Colin, German y, several weeks ago in demonstrating the qualities of its kind, the German piano company wrote in a letter to Lee. Dedicatory concert of the new piano will be given by Bernard Weiser, a young American pianist who has performed in both Europe and America. The performance is set for Friday evening, May 20, at 8:15 in the Augie gymnasium. Weiser will demonstrate the potentialities of the new musical purchase. He will appear as the last of the Artist and Lecture series. LITTLE SIS BREAKFAST A breakfast in the early hours of the morning will be the final get-together of the year for Augie's family of Big-'Lil Sisters. Buses leaving at 6:30 Sunday morning from Tuve Hall will transport the breakfasters to Sherman park where an open air breakfast has been planned for the big sisters and their side kicks. Barbara Gilman, freshman, or-, iginated the idea and heads the arrangements. The girls extend a welcome to all Big Sisters. Miss _Ruth Schneider, August-ana piano instructor, has an-nounced that five Augustana stu-dents received collegiate diplomas at the fifth annual auditions of the Sioux Falls center of the Na-tional Guild of piano teachers. Ten other Augustana students have participated in the event which will close tomorrow. The five diploma winners are Delores Jerde, who won the sen-ior collegiate diploma; Roxanna Kohrs, Connie White and Solveig Steen, winners of the sophomore collegiate diplomas; and Diane Hinsvark, recipient of the fresh-man diploma. Bret Sears and Merritt Johnson have judged the auditions which began on May 2. Sears is a grad-uate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. He studied abroad one year under Lazare Levy and has studied with the instructor of Vladimer Horowitz. Since 1930 he has been a teacher and a con-certist. He is now a music direc-tor in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Johnson has been teaching mu-sic at Northern State Teachers college in Aberdeen since 1944. He has also studied at Oberlin where he received his BM and MM degrees. He has done addi-tional study under Egan Petri and Joseph Lhivenne. He composes music for the organ, piano, cello, choir and orchestra. Climaxing the auditions will be a grand concert May 22 at 3 p.m. in the Augustana gym. The pro-gram will be composed of stu-dents who received the highest rating in each classification. The concert will be performed on the new Grotrian-Steinveg piano. Miss Schneider is chairman of the Sioux Falls center for the National Guild of Piano Teach-ers. The first auditions were held here five years ago for 60 stu-dents. This year almost 300 mu-sic students from the Sioux Falls area have participated. EDDA Nears Completion Final proofreading of the copy for the 1955 EDDA was com-pleted last week by this year's EDDA editor, Juanita Lien. The blueprints are expected to arrive Monday from Mason City, Iowa, where the final copy has been sent. Nita has already seen the cov-ers and states, "The copy looks , good, with corrections at a mini-mum." The EDDA party will be held. Saturday, May 21, in the gymna-sium. At that time the announce-ment of the dedication of the book, the representative seniors, and the honor athlete will be re-vealed. Refreshments will be served followed by the traditional sign-ing of the EDDAS. |
Collection | Augustana Newspapers |
Contributing Institution | Mikkelsen Library, Augustana University |