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AUGUSTANA • 14444 Split Hares! Welcome, Alumni! 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 (Continued on Page six) 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. (Continued on Page six) 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
Object Description
Title | Mirror - October 10, 1953 |
Subject (LC) | Augustana College (Sioux Falls, S.D.)--Students--Newspapers |
Type | Newspaper |
Date | 1953-10-10 |
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 |
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Title | Page 1 |
Type | Newspaper |
Date | 1953-10-10 |
Text | AUGUSTANA • 14444 Split Hares! Welcome, Alumni! 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 (Continued on Page six) 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. (Continued on Page six) 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 |
Collection | Augustana Newspapers |
Contributing Institution | Mikkelsen Library, Augustana University |