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.