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MISS CHARLENE RUST
Saturday, October 10, 1953
Augustana College, SIOUX FALLS, S. D. Vol. XXXV — No. IV
AUGUSTANA CELEBRATES 30" HOMECOMING
Viking Days "Viking Varieties" * 1953 Viking Days Queen
Worshippers
Hear Hoyer
Dr. H. Conrad Hoyer
Alumni, students and friends
will gather in the gym-chapel at
11:00 tomorrow morning, Sunday,
for homecoming worship. Dr. H.
Conrad Hoyer, who graduated
from Augustana in 1931, has
arrived to be the guest speaker.
Rev. Emil Erpestad will be the
liturgist with Maxine Killeaney
as organist. The a cappella choir,
directed by Dr. A. J. Running,
will participate in the worship.
Dr. Hoyer is commissioner of
American missions with t h e
National Lutheran Council, and
travels about the country help-ing
to establish new churches in
overcrowded or new areas. He
has also spent considerable time
studying and working with church
unity.
He graduated from the Augus-tana
Theological Seminary in.
Rock Island, Illinois, and received
an honorary degree of Doctor of
Divinity from Augustana in
1949.
Includes Best of
College Talent
Student, faculty and alumni
talent will be combined tonight
in the Viking Varieties show
scheduled for 8:14 1< 2 in the gym-nasium.
All three — student, faculty
and alumni — will be combined
in the emcees, Clara Chilson and
Larry Sather. The two will keep
the ninety-minute show moving
swiftly.
A student band, organized
and directed by Earl Colgan,
will ring up the curtain on
the show.
Ruth Schneider and Verona
Rogness will combine alumni and
faculty talent with a piano duo.
Other faculty members to parti-cipate
are Cliff Olson and Richard
Guderyahn.
Some of the frosh talent dis-covered
at the orientation week
talent show will be presented at
this program, too. Solveig Steen
and Roxanne Kohrs will each
present a piano selection. Ronnie
Van Whye is scheduled for a
vocal number.
The girls' trio, Anne Fos-ter,
Audrey Peterson, and
Anna Seim, the madrigal
singers, and the quartette,
John Knudson, Dean Tcllef-son,
Don Bursvold, and War-ren
Sorteberg, a r e t h e
ensembles which will partici-pate.
Dramatics will be represented,
too, with Norman Soyland and
the comedy couple, Jim Wylie
and Tom Darr, as John and Lee.
Vocal numbers will be done by
Maxine Killeaney a n d Kathy
Eitreim.
Gloria Bale will appear on the
program with a baton routine.
A community sing will be led
by Chuck Josephson.
Delores Jerde is scheduled to
play the number with which she
won her way to Atlantic City.
A finale with full chorus back-ground
is scheduled to climax the
show.
Norman Soyland is general
chairman with Maxine Killeaney
as his assistant. Dale Jamtgaard
is taking care of the lighting
effects.
Augustana Student associa-tion,
and the Greater Augus-tana
association.
Those who have been invited
to attend the important event are
Rev. A. Rogness, Chairman of
the Board of Education of the
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Senior Class
Sponsors Six
Foreign Films
Ellsworth Winden, senior class
president, has announced plans
for sponsoring a foreign film
series again this year.
Present plans include the rental
of six films. The first film, Open
City, is an Italian film, which
made Rosselini famous, will be
shown on November 19-20. On
February 4-5, The Cabinet of Dr.
Calgari will be shown. This
German film has won high
acclaim am o n g movie critics
everywhere. The Devil and Daniel
Webster, a favorite short story of
Benet's, will be shown March 25-
26.
The films mentioned above
have been definitely secured; the
following films are still on order,
and the dates will be officially
announced later. Paris 1900, a
film which was voted as the best
film of the year in France, will
be shown sometime in February.
Torment, a Swedish film with
fine acting and high suspense,
will be shown sometime in April.
An academy award was awarded
to Charles Laughton for his por-trayal
of Henry in the film
Private Life of Henry the Eighth.
As of now, this film probably
will be shown October 15-16.
Each film will be shown for
two nights, with two showings
of the film each evening.
Alums Register
In Gym Lobby
Larry S a t her, registration
chairman, urges all alumni to be
sure to sign that "dotted line"
at the alumni registration desk
in the gym lobby.
Efforts are being made to in-sure
a complete listing of all
Augustana alumni in attendance
this weekend.
Nervig Speaks
At LSA Service
Following a tradition of many
years, a candelight service will
highlight the LSA program for
homecoming Sunday.
Beginning at 7:30 in the gym,
the service will be highlighted
by a message to be brought by
Bob Nervig, former Augustana
student, who is at present a
middler at Luther Theological
Seminary in St. Paul, Minn.
A trio composed of Ann Foster,
Audrey Peterson, and Anna Seim,
will furnish music for the service.
About 750 students, alumni,
and friends of the college will be
in attendance this evening at the
first Viking Days smorgasbord to
be held at Augustana. The doors
to the gymnasium will open and
eight serving lines will be set in
motion immediately after the
final gun of the Homecoming
game is sounded. Tickets will be
on sale at each entrance.
Chairman Chuck Josephson re-ports
that the First Lutheran
Ladies Aid, under the leadership
of Mrs. P. W. Rottluff, president,
has been hard at work for some
weeks, preparing typical smor-gasbord
food for the affair.
The menu will include such
dishes as rollepulse, rumegrot,
sutsuppe, fatermannsbakkels,
Swedish meat balls and Swedish
coffee ring, and about twenty-five
different kinds of Norwegian
cookies a n d puddings. Ham,
baked beans, shrimp salad and
scalloped potatoes are some of
the typical American staples
which will be represented, and
a well-filled relish tray will be
at the beginning of each of the
four serving tables. Everyone is
urged to eat his fill and second
Her Majesty
Is Crowned in
Regal Setting
Charlene Rust was crowned
queen of the 1953 Viking Days
in colorful coronation cere-monies
last evening.
John Knudson, Augustana
Student association president,
crowned the 1953 queen after
making the announcement of
her identity, unknown until
last evening.
The student body h a d
elected the queen and her six
attendants: Carol F e d d e,
Fowler, Colorado; Marjorie
Wagnild, Windom, Minnesota;
and Sharonne Graff, Charlotte
Peters, Pat R. Johnson, and
Nitsa Rallis, all of Sioux Falls,
in two elections.
The coronation set was a court
scene with an off-center throne.
Colors of red, gold and white
were used against,. the backing
of black drapery. Frank Jones
was coronation chairman and the
set was designed by Ken Winden.
The royalty wore white gowns
of taffeta and net, all identical.
The queen was presented with
a medallion, a gift to her from
Percy Jewelers. The ermine and
satin robe worn by the queen
was made by Connie Balcom. The
robe will be used for the Viking
Days coronation each year.
The tall blonde queen is a
member of the Alpha Delta
Phi society and sang in the
Augustana a cappella choir.
Charlene is secretary of the
Lutheran Student Association
and belongs to the Chi Epsi-lon
honorary organization.
She is majoring in elemen-tary
education.
Maxine Killeaney was organist
for the ceremonies and a concert
was presented by the Augustana
a cappella choir, under the direc-tion
of Dr. Arnold J. Running,
and the band, directed by Richard
J. Guderyahn. Fanfare announced
the entrance of the royalty and
the tymphany roll was done by
Dick Schuster.
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helpings will be available.
The serving tables will be
arranged so that everyone may
be served in a minimum of time,
with eight duplicate lines in
motion at once. Paul Lee and Bob
Hoogestraat are planning to use
enough tables to seat 500 people
at one time.
Mary Ann Hultgren is in
charge of the decorations, which
features as the centerpiece a
unique attraction which she feels
will add much to the enjoyment
and remembrance of the smor-gasbord.
She says, "It's something
different — but we want to keep
it secret until the doors open!"
The school colors will be used
to decorate the tables.
Sharonne Graff has prepared a
recipe booklet of some unique
Norwegian foods and many other
f or e i g n recipes which will
interest amateur chefs of the
present — and future. The recipe
booklet will be on sale at the
doors tonight in the gymnasium.
Carol Fedde is assistant smor-gasbord
chairman, Maxine Kil-leaney
is arranging for the
servers, and Shirley Steen is in
charge of ticket sales.
Governor Sigurd Anderson will
be the featured speaker at the
groundbreaking ceremonies of
the new library tomorrow after-noon,
according to Dr. L. M.
Stavig, college president.
The groundbreaking activities
will begin in the college gymnas-ium
at 3:00 p.m. when H. M. Ble-gen,
professor of modern lang-uages
and chairman of the
College Library Committee, will
give an historical sketch on the
need of the building and how the
need has arisen. "The Mikkelsen
Memorial Library" was named in
honor of Amund A. Mikkelsen,
first president of the Lutheran
Normal School, 1889.
From the gym the group will
move over to the present build-ing
site of the new $440,000
library, half way between the
Administration and Science Build-ings.
Pastor Harry Gregerson,
Sioux Falls, chairman of the col-lege
Board of Directors, will pre-
.' side, and the Augustana college
band and choir will perform dur-ing
the ceremonies.
Highlight of the afternoon
will be the actual ground
breaking which will be done
by representatives of the
college faculty library com-mittee,
the library staff, the
Gov. Sigurd Anderson Gives
Address at Groundbreaking First Lutheran Serves 750
At Viking Days Smorgasbord