Remember
Religious
Emphasis
"Is Christianity
Necessary?"
AUGUSTANA •
Jan Gbur Sings Tonight
At 8:30 - Gym-Auditorium
Jan Gbur, outstanding young bass, will appear in vocal concert
this evening at 8:30 in the college gym-auditorium.
Mr. Gbur is a native of Czechoslovakia but has spent most of
his life in the United States. His various non-musical avocations
were experienced before and during the time he was training a
voice that has in three and a half years won him acclaim on both
coasts.
His professional debut in 1949 was with the American Opera
Company in the title role in Marriage of Figaro. It led to leading
roles in half a dozen other operas. The following year Mr. Gbur won
the "Voice of Tomorrow" competition in Philadelphia.
He is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music in Phila-delphia
and has had further training in opera under Alex-ander
Kipnis. His present tour of the Midwest comes at the
close of his second season with the San Francisco Opera
Company.
Earlier this year he was heard in all four productions of the
San Antonio Opera Company and as soloist with the Kansas City
Philharmonic's production of La Boheme.
His accompanist is another Curtis graduate, Witold Turkiewicz.
Student activity tickets will insure admittance to the concert.
Saturday, November 14, 1953
Augustana College, SIOUX FALLS, S. D. Vol. XXXV — No. IX
RELIGIOUS EMPHASIS BEGINS SUNDAY *Six Special Chapel and Evening Programs
Carol Fedde, Paul Kirchner, Dave Johnson and Joyce Rasmus-sen,
Religion Board members, are pictured completing arrangements
for the three-day Religious Emphasis observance which begins Sun-day
evening.
Center on Theme "Is Christianity Necessary"
Religion Board Asks
All Augustana to
Join in Observance
Wee Speaks
At Services
Pictured above is Dr. Morris
Wee, speaker at all Religious Em-phasis
Days meetings from next
Sunday night through Wednes-day
morning.
After graduation from St. Olaf
college and Luther Seminary, Dr.
Wee was pastor of Bethel Luth-eran
Church, Madison, Wisconsin,
from 1931-45. In that interim he
also secured his Ph.D. history
from the University of Wiscon-sin.
From 1945-49 he served as ex-ecutive
secretary of the Division
of Student Service of the Nation-al
Lutheran Council. Thereafter
he was president of Carthage
college from 1949-52. In 1952 he
traveled as secretary of the
World Student Christian Federa-tion
in Asia. Returning from
there, he accepted the pastorate
of First Lutheran Church at Du-luth,
Minnesota.
In addition, Dr. Wee has held
numerous key posts. In 1947, he
was delegate to the Lutheran
World Convention in Sweden; in
1950, he was a member of the In-ternational
Seminar on Denomin-ational
Colleges held at Toronto;
and, in 1951, he was also dele-gate
to the Asian Christian Pro-fessors
Conference in Indonesia.
"Open City"
Begins Run
On Thursday
The final ticket sales for the
foreign film series will be this
next week, and Ellsworth Win-den,
senior class president, sug-gests
that the season tickets be
purchased to insure attendance
at Open City, the Italian film to
be shown Thursday and Friday
evenings, November 19 and 20.
Open City, Roberto Rosselini's
masterpiece, highlighted for the
world the great power of the
realistic film and influenced post-war
production everywhere.
It tells the personal story
of the people of Italy during
the Nazi occupation, with a
leader of the resistance as
the central character and a
Catholic priest as his immed-iate
aide. The great spirit of
humanity which arises in all
crises of mankind, is ilium-
Mated as the conflict reveals
those who side with freedom
and those who fail.
The admittance to any of the
five films to be shown is by sea-son
ticket only and these tickets
may be purchased from any
member of the senior class.
Sioux Falls Has
Church Music Clinic
A Church Music Clinic will be
held in Sioux Falls next Satur-day
at the First Baptist and First
Lutheran churches.
The event is sponsored by the
South Dakota chapter of the
American Guild of Organists,
which extends a cordial invita-tion
to all organists, choir direc-tors,
ministers, and laymen from
this area to attend the program.
• Registration for the clinic will
begin at First Baptist Church at
9:00 a. m. It will be followed at
9:30 by a Guild Worship Service
at the same church. At 10:00
Professor Everett J. Hilty, of the
University of Colorado, w i 11
speak on "The Universal Har-mony."
Following a luncheon at 12:45
p. m., Professor Hilty will give
an organ recital at 1:30 p. m. at
First Baptist church. He will play
numbers by Bach, Buxtehude,
Saint Saens, and others.
The program will conclude
with the annual Junior Choir
Festival at First Lutheran church,
beginning at 3:00 p. in. and feat-uring
Mrs. Jay Reither and her
Trinity Lutheran Junior Choirs
of Yankton.
Thanksgiving
Services to be
November 22
The Augustana college gym-nasium
will be the setting for a
special Thanksgiving service
which will be held Sunday even-ing,
November 22, at 7:30 o'clock.
This service is intended to in-clude
students, faculty, a n d
friends of Augustana. A special
word of invitation is extended to
churches of Sioux Falls and the
surrounding area to join in this
service of Thanksgiving.
Dr. Alvin Rogness, pastor of
the First Lutheran church of
Sioux Falls, will speak on the
theme of Thanksgiving.
An opportunity will be given
for all to express their thanks
through their gifts in the offering
which will be received. The offer-ing
will be given to the work of
the Lutheran Student Action
movement. The following ex-cerpts
from the pamphlet, The
World's Need and Yours, explains
in part the program of LSAction:
"Students today are being
forced to take courageous stands.
The faith of Christian students
is being challenged and perse-cuted
by the powers of the world.
In all parts of the world — Pal-estine,
India, Germany, Japan,
Indonesia — students are being
forced to suffer because of the
faith. Scholarships, books, and
teachers are needed. But most of
all, prayer and love.
"Love compels stewardship.
Stewardship is active Christian
faith. It is the reflection of that
love which Christ has first shown
his people. Through you that love
may flow to your neighbors.
"The Lutheran student move-ment
is concerned with steward-ship.
You are being asked to par-ticipate
in this concern. It is not
simply another campus organiza-tion
asking for money. Lutheran
Student Action is a way for you
to serve the Lord in whose world
we live.
"By your contributions to
Lutheran Student Action, the
needs of students will be greatly
reduced. `LSAction' is the work-ing
arm of the Lutheran Student
association s e r v i n g students
throughout the world. Its effec-tivenefls
can be tremendous. But
this depends upon your response.
Religious Emphasis Days
will dominate the Augie scene
next Sunday through Wed-nesday.
In keeping with tradition,
Religious Emphasis Days at
Augie will be strictly interde-nominational.
They constitute
a period of concentration on
Christian essentials and their
application in the academic
community and in total lives.
There is no one who does
not come face to face with the
big questions of human exis-tence:
What is man? What is
his origin, his purpose in this
life, and his destiny in a life
hereafter?
These questions inevitably
lead to the adoption of _.one
form of religion or another.
And since we must live in a
society in which the predomi-nant
religion is Christianity,
we must also come to grips
with the question: Is Christi-anity
necessary?
It is precisely around this ques-tion
that Religious Emphasis Days
will be centered this year. For
that purpose the Augustana Re-ligion
Board has secured the ser-vices
of Dr. Morris Wee, one of
the leading thinkers and speakers
in contemporary America.
In six consecutive talks, Dr.
Wee will examine the value
of Christianity in the face of
present-day needs and prob-lems
and discuss the require-ments
of Christian living and
stewardship.
There will be three evening
programs, Sunday, Monday, and
Tuesday, from 7:15-8:15, and
three special morning convoca-tions,
from 8:45-9:30.
All the meetings will be held
in the gymnasium. During these
three days, tests, special assign-ments,
and social activities will
be suspended in order to enable
both faculty members and stu-dents
to attend the scheduled
events.
Religious Emphasis Days will
officially get underway next Sun-day
night with a special convo
cation in lieu of the customary
LSA meeting. Dr. Wee will speak
on the topic, "An American
Looks at Asia," illustrating his
comments with Kodachromes of
his latest Asian trip. Special
music will be furnished by the
Augustana college choir under
the direction of Dr. A. J. Run-ning.
(Continued ion page two)
All-school Banquet
Date is Changed
Larry Sather, student growth
program chairman, has an-nounced
that the kick=off ban-quet
for the student growth cam-paign
has been postponed until
December.
The postponement is due to the
fact that the high school senior
listings are not yet complete. The
program, however, will "roll
,along" as originally planned.
The organization is set up with
divisional heads picked. All stu-dents
are included in this plan.