Augie's famed scholar
Goes to Princeton, come fall.
Kirchner's a Wilson Fellow!
Congratulations, Paul!
Some folks like it—
Some call it folly,
But tomorrow, chimes ring
For Carol and Tolly!
Friday, April 9, 1954
AUGUSTANA COLLEGE, SIOUX FALLS, S. D. Vol. XXXV — No. XXVI
BLEGEN RECEIVES ST. 01.1111 MEDAL
Wilson Foundation Grants
Paul Kirchner Fellowship
Paul Kirchner, senior, has been
named recipient of a Woodrow
Wilson Fellowship for the aca-demic
year 1954-55. He is the first
Augustana student to receive
such an award. He is one of 144
students throughout the United
States to receive this outstanding
scholarship.
Kirchner was named a candi-date
for the fellowship a few
weeks ago and last Friday was
informed that he has been ac-cepted
to the graduate school at
Princeton University where he
will use the fellowship for work
in the field of English.
Fellowships are awarded upon
invitation and nomination by
established members of the aca-demic
profession. All Wilson fel-lowships
are granted for a one-year
period to outstanding young
scholars showing marked promise
for the teaching profession and
possessing the highest qualities of
intellect, character and personal-ity.
The Wilson awards for 1954-
5, the total value of which is
approximately $268,000, were
conferred upon representatives of
101 colleges and universities,
Augustana being one of the small-est
colleges to provide a winner.
Kirchner, a staff writer on the
Mirror for the past three years
and member of Blue Key, na-tional
honorary fraternity, is
Junior-Senior
Banquet Hears
J. D. Larsen
More than two hundred people
are expected to be in attendance
at the Junior-Senior banquet to
be held on Wednesday, April 21,
at 6:30 p.m. in First Lutheran
church. Invitatons to the formal
affair have already been sent out
to seniors.
Featured speaker at this
year's banquet will be Rev.
J. David Larsen, pastor of
Trinity Lutheran church in
Crookston, Minn.
Junior class officers have been
busy arranging for committees for
the event. Various committee
chairmen are: Marlene Titze,
general chairman; Connie Bal-corn,
programs; Connie Ness,
table decorations; Ray Shermoe,
wall a n d ceiling decorations;
Jackie Nommensen, invitations;
Max Killeaney, program; Karen
Hoseth, nut cups; Jim Alger and
Bob Hoogestraat, lights; Mike
Foss and Hap Anderson, con-struction.
A master of ceremon-ies
has not yet been chosen.
The theme of the banquet will
not be revealed until the ban-quet.
Junior class officers are
John Lundering, president; Ansel
Woldt, vice president; Dorothy
Ann Ode, secretary; and Ruby
Koehn, treasurer.
IRC to Sponsor
Panel Discussion
"The Geneva Conference and
French-Indo-China" will be fea,
tured at the IRC meeting, Tues-day,
April 13, at 7:30 p. m. in the
Science Lounge.
The French Consulate is being
contacted for films and there will
be a panel discussion of the topic.
Arrangements are being made
for a broadcast of the meeting
over local radio stations.
graduating this spring with four
majors, English, French, history,
and Christianity-philosophy. He
intends to study in English with
particular emphasis on creative
writing.
The fellowship includes $1,250,
plus a $600 tuition fee which has
been granted Paul by Princeton.
Following his year at Princeton
on the fellowship, Paul would
like to continue his study and
eventually receive master of arts
and doctor of philosophy degrees
in English.
Big-Little Sisters
To Have Breakfast
Big and Little Sisters will
breakfast together at the Cataract
Hotel Sunday morning at 9, with
the theme, Prelude to Spring.
The chairmen have also
planned a buffet dinner meeting
for tomorrow evening, April 10,
at which both new and old com-mittees
will be present. Mrs.
Mary Perry Warren is serving
the dinner at her home, 14 River-view
Heights.
New chairmen elected at the
last meeting of the student' coun-cil
are Maxine Killeaney and
Dorothy Ann Ode.
They have chosen the follow-ing
committee for next fall's
program: tea, Nita Lien and Ann
Seim; rollerskating, Delores
Jerde and Darline Nase; style
show, Gloria Bale and Trudy
Aker; reception, Kathy Wagnild
and Joan Digerness; breakfast,
Connie Balcom and Ardyce Hem-mingson;
correspondence, Jackie
Nommensen; advertising, Mar-lene
Titze; treasurer, Marianne
Hauge; party, Fran Bjerklin and
Beverly Miller; and booklet,
Carole Joelfs, Mary Ann Homan,
and Ruth Henderson.
Auxiliary Hears
Augie Seniors
Each year several senior per-sonalities
present a spring pro-gram
for the Auxiliary, and this
year's program featured an imag-inary
tour of the campus with
Warren Sorteberg, master of cer-emonies.
Seniors on the program
included Frank Jones, John
Knudson, Marjorie Wagnild,
Winden, Chuck Josephson,
Joan Mortensen, Sharonne
Graff, Don Bursvold, Dean
Tollefson, Norman Soyland,
Glen Peterson, Jo Ann Wy-man,
Dale Jamtgaard, and
Carol Fedde.
The program will be given for
the First Lutheran Ladies Aid
Christian Education meeting in
a couple of weeks.
Societies Organize
Magazine Campaign
Members of the ten societies at
Augustana college will launch a
magazine campaign in Sioux
Falls beginning April 24 and con-tinuing
through May 5, accord-ing
to Fran Nold, Augustana
senior from Sioux Falls and
chairman of the Inter-society
council, sponsor of the drive.
The purpose of the entire Sioux
Falls campaign is to raise money
for scholarships for incoming
frosh at Augustana This method
will make additional scholarships
available to many students.
The first meeting is to be
held on Monday, April 12.
Purpose of this meeting is to
acquaint the solicitors with
the operation of the Curtis
Plan, so they will be pre-pared
to approach any of
their friends and relatives
during the Easter vacation.
The Curtis Plan drive was
postponed due to a difference of
interpretation in one clause of
the city by-laws. This by-law was
concerned with solicitors and
peddlars being licensed, but it
was found that Augie's solicitors
would be exempt from this
clause, being that it read some-thing
to the effect that any organ-ization
selling periodicals, pam-phlets,
magazines, etc., would
need no license. There have been
cases in Sioux Falls where mag-azine
subscriptions have ben sold,
and there were no copies received
by the subscribers. But the "go
ahead sign" has now been given
by the mayor and the city coun-cil
so the drive is all set to get
under way.
The Women's Auxiliary has
been and will be in complete
charge of the Curtis Plan opera-,
tion except during the period
that the Inter-society council
sponsors their drive. Goal for this
year's drive is $5,000.
Geyer, Hoogestraat
Head 1954 Mirror
Bill Geyer was named to the
editorship of the 1954 Mirror and
Bob Hoogestraat received the
business manager appointment at
the last meeting of the student
council.
Selection of the Edda heads
is to be made at the next
meeting of the student coun-cil.
Other business at the council
consisted of the election of the
Big-Little Sister co-chairmen for
next year. Maxine Killeaney and
Dorothy Ann_ Ode received the
nominations.
Oratorio to be
Palm Sunday
Both college choirs will be
joined by church choirs of the
city for the Palm Sunday pres-entation
of The Passion Accord-ing
to St. Matthew, by J. S. Bach.
The oratorio, under the direc-tion
of Dr. Arnold J. Running,
will be given at 3 p. m. Sunday
in the gymnasium-auditorium.
Wendell Buckley, tenor from
Springfield, will again be singing
the role of the evangelist. Other
soloists include Ellsworth Win-,
den, baritone, Rev. Erling Thomp-son
of Hills, Minnesota, bass,
Mrs. D. Horning and Mrs. A. J.
Running, sopranos, Mrs. L. M.
Stavig, contralto, and Maxine
Killeaney and Mrs. M. J. Woods,
mezzo-soprano.
The combined choirs and orch-estra
have the final rehearsel of
the oratorio this evening in the
gym.
This year marks the fourth an-nual
presentation of The Passion
According to St. Matthew.
*Convocation
Honors Augie ,
Language Prof
Dr. H. M. Blegen, modern
languages department head
at Augustana, was presented
with a St. Olav Medal by rep-resentatives
of the King of
Norway at a special convo-cation
in the gymnasium this
morning.
The St. Olav Medal, estab-lished
in 1939 by King Haakon
VII of Norway, is awarded for
exceptional services in spreading
knowledge of Norway in foreign
countries. As professor, among
other languages, of Norwegian at
Augustana, Dr. Blegen has for
many years played a prominent
and distinguished role in the fur-therance
of Norwegian culture in
the Midwest.
The medal was presented to
Dr. Blegen by C. A. Christopher-son,
Norwegian vice consul for
South Dakota, and N. 0. Mon-serud,
who held the afore-men-tioned
position until his recent
retirement. It was under Mi.
Monserud's tenure that Dr. Ble-gen
was selected and recom-mended
to the Norwegian gov-ernment
for this distinction.
The medal was accompanied
by a certificate of merit from the
King of Norway, as well as per-sonal
letters of recognition from
Wilhelm Morgenstirne, Norwe-gian
ambassador to the United
States, and Th. Seqveland, Nor-wegian
consul-general for the
Midwest.
Dr. Blegen was honored at a
reception in the Science Lounge
following the convocation this
morning. Faculty friends and
acquaintances were invited.
Communion
Service to be
Wednesday
All members of the Augustana
student body and faculty are in-vited
to participate in the last
of the Lenten services sponsored
by the Religion board next Wed-nesday
at 5:15 p.m. in Our Sav-ior's
Lutheran church.
The service will be a commun-ion
service, with Dr. Stanley Ol-sen
giving the meditation and
Rev. Emil Erpestad as liturgist.
The Augustana a cappella
choir, under the direction of Dr.
Arnold J. Running, will sing.
Maxine Killeaney will be the or-ganist.
This is the first time that such
a service has been sponsored by
the Religion board. Arrange-ments
have been made with the
college cafeteria, so that serving
will be from 4:45 until 6 p. m.
on Wednesday, allowing students
time to eat before the service.
It has been through the cour-tesy
of the college Bible study
group that the Wednesday even-ing
hour has been available for
the weekly Lenten services. Bible
study will resume following
Easter, and all students are in-vited
to participate.
Jim Wylie spoke at the service
last Wednesday and music was
provided by Lavonne Gunderson.
Other speakers for the Lenten
services included Trudy Aker,
Marj Wagnild, John Lundering,
Joan Warkenthien, and Chuck
Ekanger. Al Bergh was in charge
of the state setting.
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