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Friday, September 17, 1954
AUGUSTANA COLLEGE, SIOUX FALLS, S. D. Vol. XXXVI — No. 1
Natwick Steers Orientation;
Reception is This Evening
Freshmen and transfer students will be greeted by the
Augustana family at 8:30 tonight at a formal reception in the
gymnasium-auditorium, sponsored this year by the Augustana
Social Board with Joe Fenstermacher, Social Board chairman
in charge.
The Administration, department headS and officers of the
student association will formally receive only the frosh and
new students, Paul Natwick, chairman of all orientation ac-
FRESHMAN CLASS LARGEST SINCE 1946 *Approximate Enrollment, 745
Wednesday, September 15 — Enrollment figures Wednes-day
at 5 p. m. recorded the largest freshman class since 1946
and the biggest student body since 1949, according to Dr. I. B.
Hauge, Augustana Registrar.
tivities announced.
Tom Darr and Jim Wylie will
combine forces as masters of cere-monies
for the evening. Maxine
Killeaney and Les Arneson will
sing a duet, Delores Jerde, 1953
Miss America talent winner will
give a piano solo, and Miss Verona
Rogness and Miss Ruth Schneider
will appear as a piano duet. A
brother combination, Bob and Jim.
Alger, are scheduled to present a
dramatic reading. The formal re-ception
climaxes a week of oriena-tion
for frosh.
Sunday afternoon over 350
freshmen filled the dorm-itories
preface to the all-frosh
supper and mixer held in the
gym. The freshmen partici-pated
in an intensive testing
program on Monday and
Tuesday mornings this past
week. After an address of
welcome by President Stavig
on Monday, followed by a dis-cussion
of the catalog by Tom.
Kilian, Public Relations Direc-tor,
frosh were given a tour
of the campus.
A calico and levi party in the
gym closed Tuesday's activities.
Registration and a co-sponsored
Dad-Son, Big-Little Sister Theatre
party highlighted Wednesday's
orientation schedule.
Tuesday evening campus activi-ties
night will be held in the gym
giving students an opportunity to
become acquainted with clubs and
organizations. Big Little Sis events
also included in orientation ac-tivities
are a roller skating party
Saturday night and a breakfast
Sunday morning.
Orientation draws to a close
with a football game and water-melon
bust on Saturday evening,
September 25. Orientation of-ficially
ends with the Big-'Lil Sis
Tea at the home of Dr. L. A.
Pierson, next Sunday afternoon.
Augie Buildin
At Fast Pace
Phase two of Augustana's Long
Range Development program
came closer to being realized this
summer as construction progressed
on the Mikkelsen Library and
construction was begun on the
new men's dormitory.
Mikkelsen Library, being con-structed
south of the administra,
tion building, has been under con-struction
since May. When com-pleted
it will consist of two stories
and a ground floor. At the present
time, the structural framework
has been, raised for all stories.
The new men's dormitory has
now left the drawing boards of
Harold Spitznagel and Associates
and has moved into actual con-struction
south of the athletic
field. Sioux Falls Construction
Company, holders of the general
contract, plan to have the building
ready for occupancy by Septem-ber,
1955. Electrical work and
plumbing, heating, and tempera-ture
control will be handled by
the Electric Supply Company and
Sanders Sanitary Company re-spectively.
Consisting of three stories plus
a ground floor, the dormitory will
be similar in design to Tuve Hall
and will , house 224 men. Plans
call for dayrooms, a large lounge,
workshop, and meditation chapel.
On completion of the two new
buildings the second phase of the
development program will be 85%
completed, with the student union
yet to be planned.
Nelson and Giedd,
Invent Heart Aid
V. R. NELSON
New aid for surgical patients
and surgeons alike came last June
as a result of the inventive genius
of Dr. V. Ronald Nelson, chairman
of Augustana's rapidly growing
physics department. This piece of
medical equipment, which is a
small black box called a "heart
shocker," was perfected this sum-mer
by Dr. Nelson and Gary
Giedd, a departmental assistant,
and may well mean the difference
between a dead or mentally dis-abled
patient and a live and well
one.
Thousands of patients die each
year on the operating table as a
result of heart stoppage and ven-tricular
fibrillation, medical term-inology
for "heart flutter," which
can happen in even such simple
operations as a tonsillectomy with
the patient under local anesthesia.
As recently as five years ago, sur-geons
were baffled when these
emergencies occurred. Then heart
massage came into use which
saved many lives, but something
more was needed.
At about the same time it
was discovered that a momen-tary
Intense electrical shock
often restored heart operation.
A machine designed to deliver
such shocks is called a de-fibrillator
or heart shocker.
With this device a doctor may
select an amplitude of shock
ranging from 120 volts to 145
volts. He may also select the
duration of the shock, rang-ing
from one-tenth of a second
to five seconds.
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First LSA Meeting_
To Be This Sunday
LSA will meet for the first time
this year Sunday afternoon, Sep-tember
19, in Sherman Park for a
picnic and fellowship, stated
Willis Hanson, president of LSA,
Lutheran Student Association.
Beginning at 3 p. m., students
may participate in softball, foot,
ball and volleyball activities. De-votions
and a songfest will follow
the picnic supper.
Impressions of "ASHRAM," an
annual gathering of Lutheran
youth throughout the U. S., will
be given by Bill Rossing, Mike
Rogness, and Dave Johnson, Aug-ustana
students who attended the
1954 ASHRAM is an Indian word
meaning "corporate spiritual
quest."
LSA promises lots of variety in
its mee ■,fmgs for the coming year
as Hanson, and his council have
been busy making plans for some
time.
Little Boy Gets
`Carried Away'
Peanut throwing proved to
be a popular feature of the
Meller Dramer Theatre, the
summer theatre company
begun by Professor Earl
Mundt.
However, one evening dur-ing
a performance of "The
Drunkard," someone in the
audience became so wrapped
up in the play that he threw
a stone hitting the villain,
Phil Bruns, Augie alumni, on
the head.
Several days later Bruns re-ceived
the following letter:
"I am sorry I threw the stone
last night. I got carried away
with the play. I hope you feel
better. I am nine years old.
Dickie."
NOTICE
Upperclassmen may vote for
Viking Days Queen candidates
until 5:30. The candidates will be
introduced to the student body at
the formal reception tonight.
Originally, Moses had but one
head. However, throughout the
past year the Moses in the Augus-tana
art department has had sev-eral
heads.
Ogden Dalrymple, Augustana art
instructor and sculptor, has again
been revising the head and figure
of Moses, a sculpture which will
be placed at the entrance of the
Mikkelsen Library.
During the planning of the new
library building, Harold S. Spitz-nagel
and associates, Dalrymple
and Palmer Eide, head of the
Augustana art department, decid-ed
that some sculpture would be
decorative and appropriate on the
new building. After submission
of preliminary models, Augie's in-structor
was then commissioned to
sculpture a figure of Moses.
Many ideas must be tried
in countless combinations in
order that the finished work
may even approximate the
ideal, says Dalrymple. For
this reason, much experiment-ing
and revision with the head
and figure were necessary.
A total of '745 students had reg-istered
by late that afternoon, an
increase of 151 over last year. Of
this number, 327 were freshmen,
370 upperclassmen, and 48 trans-fers.
Enrollment last year at the same
time totaled 594 and 582 registered
in 1952. The 1954 frosh class
topped the 1953 new crop by 80.
Students will continue to regis-ter
for several days and complete
enrollment totals will be avail-able
next week.
Upperclassmen registered all
day Monday and Tusday morning.
Frosh spent Tuesday afternoon
and Wednesday enrolling for the
1954 school year.
The school year was officially
opened Thursday morning as stu-dents
and faculty gathered in the
gymnasium for Convocation exer-cises.
The address, "Let's Go West,"
was delivered by Professor Emil
Erpestad of the Christianity de-partment.
A vocal solo, "0 God
Have Mercy," was presented by
Mr. David Murray. The ringing of
the bell in Old Main tower
ushered in the new year at Augus-tana.
Dalrymple has been working a
year on the project and hopes to
have it completed in time for the
dedication of the library.
At the present time, the figure
stands high against a wall of the
skylight studio in the art depart-ment.
Today Moses is in pliable,
heavy, gray plastaline, upon a
skeleton of pipe and wood. A
plaster mold will be made and
from this a plaster model cast. The
cast will then be sent to the stone
cutters where an enlarged re-production
will be roughed out in
limestone. In this state it will be
installed on the building where
the sculptor himself will finish it.
The design is simple and bold.
"It is an attempt to symbolize the
strength and character of Moses,
and the urgency of his message,
rather than a mere factual or
visual representation," Dalrymple
explained.
Bill Stockstad, sophomore, has
been assisting the Augie professor
during the summer and is ac-countable
for the statue's base, a
symbol of the golden calf.
New Augie Sign
Ole the Viking greets visitors to Sioux Falls on thirtieth and
Minnesota Avenue, four blocks east of the campus. The new sign, a
gift from a friend of the college, is in neon lights and painted in the
school colors, blue and gold.
In time, additional signs will be seen on all four highways ap-proaching
Sioux Falls.
Umteen' Heads for Moses
0. Dalrymple, Augustana art instructor, inspects his statue of
Moses that will be placed at the entrance of the Mikkelsen Library.
The professor, who has been working on the model for a year hopes
to have it ready for the dedication of the library.