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AUGUSTANA •
Right to Campaign Goes to
All Student Body Offices
Recent amendments to the constitution of the Augustana
Student association make campaigning for all student body
offices legal and change the election of sophomore, junior, and
senior class officers to the spring of the preceding school term.
The amendments were proposed by the Legislative Board
of the council in November and were approved by the neces-sary
two-thirds majority vote of the Student Council in a
meeting Monday evening. President L. M. Stavig has signed
the amendments, making the adoption.
Festival Effectively Portrays Christmas
Around the World to Large Audience
The finale of the All-Nations Christmas Festival Saturday evening featured all the individuals
appearing in the evening's program as the Northlanders and singers combined to present a group
of Christmas carols. Earl Colgan is pictured directing the final number. At the left of the picture is
Jim Rosasco, master of ceremonies.
Something new was added to the Festival this year in the roast
pig served by the English booth. Les Arneson and Miss Fern I.
Martinson are shown serving the pig, which certainly was one of
the main attractions of the evening. Elliot Thoreson is dishing up
the apple sauce — a necessary trimming.
Friday, December 11, 1953
Augustana College, SIOUX FALLS, S. D. Vol. XXXV — No. XII
AUGUSTANA PRESENTS ANNUAL VESPERS
1953 Christmas Vespers will be presented against a back-ground
of an immense gold damask curtain, a gift of the First
Lutheran church Ladies Aid.
The annual program of Christmas music performed by
the a cappella choir, under the direction of Dr. Arnold J.
Running, the chapel choir, directed by Prof. Merle R. Pflue-ger,
and the symphony orchestra, conducted by Prof. Richard
J. Guderyahn, is being presented Sunday at 5 p.m. and Mon-day
at 8 p.m. in the gymnasium-auditorium.
The new gold curtain was in-
Choirs, Orchestra Perform
In Program Sunday, Monday
Article II, Section 10, of the
By-Laws is amended to read as
follows: Officers of the sopho-more,
junior and senior classes
shall be elected in May of the
preceding school term and shall
take office at the close of the
same school term. Officers of the
freshman class shall be elected
not later than four (4) weeks
after the opening of . the fall
school term. At least two (2) and
not more than four (4) candidates
shall be nominated for each of-fice
at respective class meetings
held for that purpose. Balloting
shall be conducted by the Stu-dent
Council within seven (7)
days after the nomination of can-didates.
For election, a candidate
must receive a plurality of the
total votes cast.
Officers of these classes
have been elected in the fall
in former years.
Article II, Section 4, of the By-
Laws is amended by striking out
the final sentence, "There shall
be no campaigning for these
offices." Section 4 reads as fol-lows:
The vice-president, secre-tary,
treasurer, social board
chairman, and Viking Days chair-man
shall be nominated as speci-fied
in Section 3 with the same
privilege of petition; election
shall be held in conjunction with
the presidential election.
There will be no time during
student body campaign meetings
reserved for student body candi-dates
other than presidential
nominees.
All-school
Banquet to Be
Next Thursday
All students are urged to at-tend
the free kick-off banquet
for the Augustana Enrollment
program Thursday, December 17,
at 5:30 p.m. in the gym.
The Rev. David Preus of
Vermillion will speak at the
banquet.
Master of ceremonies will be
Jim Wylie. The Northlanders,
college quartette, and the a cap-pella
choir will furnish music.
Group singing will be led by
Kathy Eitreim.
Those who will say a few
words on the Enrollment pro-gram
are Dr. L. M. Stavig, Tom
Kilian, John Knudson, Warren
Sorteberg, and Larry Sather.
LSA Plans Supper
Following Vespers
The annual LSA Christmas
supper of chicken with all the
trimmings will be served in the
Huddle following Christmas Ves-pers
Sunday.
Tickets will be on sale in the
gym lobby through tomorrow
noon.
Bill Rossing's team is in charge
of decorations. Teams headed by
Marjorie Twedt a n d Beverly
Tuntland are serving.
LSA'ers will go Christmas car-oling
following the supper.
An estimated crowd of more
than one thousand attended the
All-Nations Christmas Festival
in the gym Saturday evening,
despite the abundance of snow
the weekend brought.
The Festival, which officially
opens the Christmas season at
Augustana, was commended by
statesmen from all over the world
as well as by the huge crowd
which packed the gym for the
festivities.
Assisting chairman Chuck
Josephson and the Social
Board in making the brilliant
event were more than four
hundred Augustana students
and faculty members.
Fifteen countries were repre-sented
in booths, program and
costumed students. The program
chairman was Dale Jamtgaard,
and the master of ceremonies was
Jim Rosasco.
The Festival, unique on the
Augie campus, received greetings
from many important statesmen.
These greetings were read and
displayed at the Festival.
Understanding of the entire
world is the underlying purpose
of the Festival, which has grown
each year since its beginning
five years ago.
The event was the result of
many months of planning and the
cooperation of many people out-side
of the college.
Individuals making use of
the opportunity in the Kor-ean
booth to contribute to
CARE, made the mailing of
two CARE packages possible.
Parts of the Festival were tele-vised
and were shown Monday
evening on KELO-TV.
Students are reminded that
registration for the second
semester comes soon after the
Christmas recess. Financial ar-rangements
for the second
semester are to be made be-fore
January 20, and first
semester accounts a r e ex-pected
to be cleared before
final exam week which starts
Jan. 25.
W. A. Person, treasurer
stalled in the gymnasium this
week. The large drapery, sup-plied
by the Sioux Falls Ameri-can
Theatre Supply company,
covers practically all of the north
wall of the gymnasium and will
be available for any future
events on the campus. In addi-tion
to the damask curtain, a 20
foot wide portable stage is being
built. Made in several sections,
the stage can also be used for
events throughout the year. Total
cost of the curtain and staging
is more than $800.
The programs for the 1953
Christmas Vespers will use a
design of a stained glass
window, installed in t h e
church at Hudson. Artist of
the design is Robert Berg of
the St. James Kiln in St.
Paul, Minnesota. Berg, a 1943
Augustana graduate, majored
in art under Prof. Palmer
Eide.
Dr. L. M. Stavig will present
greetings at the Vespers program.
Numbers sung by the massed
choir will be While Shepherds
Watched, arranged by Hugo
Jungst and Jeg er saa glad hver
Julekveld. Solo numbers will be
presented by each of the three
groups.
The story of Christmas will be
told through scripture reading
and the music of the two choirs
and the orchestra.
Students to Elect
Representative
Seniors Wednesday
All Augustana students are
eligible to vote in the representa-tive
senior election Wednesday,
December 16.
Four women and four men are
chosen each year to be included
in the Edda as representative
seniors. The selection is not re-vealed
until the publication of
the Edda.
The polls will be open in
the gym lobby from 10:20
a. m. until 5 p. m.
The Augustana Student associ-ation
council directs the election
of the representative seniors, as
well as that of honor athlete,
which will be set following the
Christmas holidays.
Stavigs Host
LDR Party
The annual LDR Christmas
party will be held at the L. M.
Stavig home Wednesday evening,
December 16.
Carol Fedde, LDR prexy,
said the program will begin
at 8 p.m. and she invites all
Augustana girls to attend.
Devotions will be led by Joan
Warkenthien and Mrs. Stavig will
speak to the group. The German
round singers and the traditional
candle lighting by eleven senior
girls are also on the program.
Christmas carols will be sung by
the entire group.
Lunch will be served follow-ing
the program.
Tuve Hall Residents
Hold Party Tonight
The fellows are guests of the
girls tonight at the annual Tuve
Hall reverse date Christmas
party.
The movie, Christmas in Con-necticut,
in the Little Theatre
will be followed by a program
and refreshments in the recrea-tion
room in Tuve Hall.
Marilyn Berdahl is chairman
of the Tuve Hall social board
which is planning the event.
ATTENTION ALL JUNIORS:
In order to meet graduation
requirements, all juniors must
pass an English proficiency
examination. This examination
will be given on Tuesday, De-cember
15, at 4:30 p.m. and
again on Wednesday, Decem-ber
16, at 12:30 p.m. in Room
18 of the Administration Build-ing.
Juniors must arrange
their schedules in order to
take the examination at one
of these two times.