AUGUSTANA
MIRROR
February 20, 1953 Augustana College, SIOUX FALLS, S. D VOL. XXXIV — NO. 18
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Choir soloists are caught during a discussion about music with
Paul Matthen, singer with the Artist Lecture series. Standing are
Ann Seim, Tom Baur, Les Arneson and Gerry Christopherson. Seated
are Maxine Killeaney, Neil Raber, Matthen, Hazel Sogge, Marjorie
Wagnild and Mary Fjellestad.
"0 Darkest Woe" and "0 Day Full of Grace" by Christiansen and
Director Youngdahl's "Jerusalem Road" will be included in the concert
program.
To close the program the choir will present Healey Willan's "An
Apostrophe to the Heavenly Hosts."
Together with their founder and director, Dr. Carl R. Youngdahl,
the choir has recently returned from their 32nd annual tour which
took them through the Eastern part of the U.S The trip was high-lighted
by a visit to the nation's capital, Washington, D.C.
Gospel Teams Present Programs at
On Sunday afternoon, February 22, at 3 p.m. the Augustana A
Capella choir will present their final concert of the 1953 tour at the
Sioux Falls coliseum.
The admission to this home concert is by complimentary ticket
until 2:45 p.m. These tickets may be secured in the Bookstore or in
the Public Relations office.
A free will offering will be taken during the intermission.
Johann Sebastian Bach's "The Spirit Also Helpeth Us" will open
this program of sacred music. This will be followed by two numbers,
"The Nicene Creed" and "Our Father", by the Russian composer,
Gre tchaninoff.
A Capella Choir Will Give Concert
In Coliseum Sunday, February n
Madi•so- n, Dell Rapi•d s on Sunday
Augustana Sets $1800.00 LSAction Goal
Includes Foreign Students Fund;
Need Greater Now, Says Lindgren
grams Sunday evening, one at
Madison and one at Dell Rapids.
Ernest Gilbertson, Jerry Albert
and Dave Johnson will present the
service at Madison and Stanley
Stensaas will speak at Dell Rap-ids.
Last Wednesday evening Mr.
and Mrs. Roger Knudson, Nancy
Twedt, Marjorie Twedt, Kirstine
Stjernholm, Elaine Larson, and
Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Hedin pre-sented
a program at the Riverside
Presbyterian church in Sioux
Falls.
Last Sunday three groups pre
sented programs. One group went
to Morningside Lutheran church
in Sioux City. This group included
Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Hedin, James
Mueller, Karen Hoseth and Mar-lene
Titze.
Fred Norlien, Bob Foster, Max-ine
Killeaney and Darline Nase
went to Clear Lake, and Mr. and
Mrs. Virgil Westgor, Alvin Bergh,
Dave Nelson, Carolyn Carlson and
Luther Group Give
Mission Program
A.. missionary group from Lu-ther
Theological seminary will
present the program at LSA Sun-day
evening. They will speak on
the new field of the church in the
Sudan area of West Africa.
The group plans to arrive on
the campus Saturday evening and
will spend Sunday here.
Supper is planned for 5:30 and
the program will follow.
The missionary group will also
appear at Study and Action Sun-day
morning at 8 in the science
lounge. The discussion topic is
missions. Breakfast will be served.
Augie Hosts High
School Debaters
High school debaters will be on
the Augustana campus today and
Saturday to participate in the
Midwest High School tournament.
The Washington High school and
Augie debate squads will be co-hosts.
On Wednesday practice debates
were conducted with debaters from
Freeman Junior college, from
Freeman, South Dakota, for a non-decision
contest.
Last week the debate squad tied
for second place in the Rocky
Mountain Speech conference by
winning ten dtt,of twelve debates.
John Peters and Duane Ander-son
made up one team, while
Chuck Thissell and Mark Stavig
comprised the other. Thissell and
Peters placed fifth in oratory and
extemporaneous speaking respec-tively.
Forty-eight teams from
twenty-four colleges representing
ten states entered the tourney.
Augustana was the only school
with two teams.
Augies Te Take
Deferment Tests
All Augustana men who intend
to take the Selective Service Qual-ification
test in 1953 should file
applications at once for the April
23 administration. Any man who
has not previously taken this test
is eligible.
Applications and bulletins of in-formation
may be obtained at the
office of the Dean of Men. Follow-ing
instructions in the bulletin,
the student should fill out his
application immediately and mail
it in the special envelope provided.
Application must be postmarked
no later than midnight March 9,
1953. Early filing will be of ad-vantage
to the students.
Results will be reported to the
students' Selective Service local
board of jurisdiction for use in
considering his deferment as a
student, according to the Educa-tional
Testing service, which pre-pares
and administers the college
Qualifications test. Contact Dean
Thompson for further details.
Verlyn Smith, Augie alumnus,
will talk in chapel Thursday, Feb-ruary
26, as the kickoff speaker
for the LSA sponsored LSAction
and Foreign Students Service
fund drive at Augustana.
Following chapel period the so-licitors,
approximately 100 stu-dents,
will begin contacting all
Augie students. The drive will
continue until the following Fri-day,
March 6.
Verlyn Smith
Mundt Announces
New Play Cast
Earl Mundt,' drama coach, has
announced the cast for the next
Little Theater production, Dulcy.
The cast includes Marlene Fod-ness,
Bob Phillips, Jim Rosasco,
Phil Bruns, Annette Wisenberger,
Marianne Hauge, Dick Wyman,
Buell Donaldson, George Poletes,
Jim Waage and Don Salberg.
Dulcy is a comedy in three acts
by George S. Kaufman and Marc
Connelly and will be presented by
the Augustana drama department
March 16 through 21.
This play is the story of Dul-cinea
Smith and her attempts to
be helpful to her husband and
friends. In her eager determina-tion,
she plans a weekend party
for a very ill-assorted group. The
three acts take place before and
after dinner on the evening of
their arrival and the following
morning.
Doug Lindgren, chairman of the
drive at Augustana, stated that
the needs are even greater this
year. The goal is $1800.
As a part of the drive, Friday
morning, February 27, during stu-dent
body, a benefit show will
be presented. Lindgren urged all
students to attend as "the finest
talent at Augie" will participate.
The program which LSAction
supports includes both interna-tional
and home projects. The
Foreign Student Service fund
grants the opportunity to foreign
students to attend school at Au-gustana.
Peter Gerisch and Mar-tin
Grossmann are Augie students
now attending under the sponsor-ship
of this fund.
Lindgren, in referring to the im-portance
of the drive, stated, "We
have all sensed the great import-ance
and strong influence which
our foreign students have lent to
our campus life. If we are going
to continue with our foreign stu-dents
and meet our important
mission pledge it is necessary that
we seriously consider our respon-sibility
toward this drive."
Verlyn Smith is assistant pas-tor
of the Trinity Lutheran church
in Yankton. When he was attend-ing-
Augustana, he served a year
as national LSA president.
Lindgren stated that there will
be other events during this week
to highlight the fund raising. The
week of February 26 through
March 6 is also designed as Mis-sion
Emphasis week.
Plans Begin for
ELC Meeting
"Profile of Christian Youth" is
the theme of the 1953 ELC Stu-dent
conference which is being
held on the Concordia college cam-pus,
Moorehead, Minnesota, March
6, 7 and 8.
The Rev. Carroll Hinderlie of
Watertown and Dr. E. Clifford
Nelson of Luther Theological sem-inary
will speak at the conference.
John Knudson, conference chair-man
at Augie, hopes that many
Augie students will be able to
attend the conference. Arrange-ments
for transportation are be-ing
planned.
Arrangements have been corn- April Lapland went to East Ni-pleted
for two gospel team pro- .daros near Baltic.
"Enthu'siatic reports from these
students indicated a warm recep-tion
and we thank these churches
for extending to our groups their
invitation, hospitality and gifts,"
said Isemenger.
Dr. Orville Dahl Directs Drive for Funds for New Library
by Dorothy Ann Ode
In an historic meeting on Feb-ruary
12, the Augustana College
Association Board of Directors
adopted a plan to raise $200,000
in Sioux Falls to build a new li-brary
for the college.
This ,will be the beginning of
a long-range development pro-gram
which will guide the growth
of the college through 1975.
Dr. Orville Dahl, executive di-rector
for the Division of Higher
Education of the Evangelical Lu-theran
church, will act as director
of the Library Achievement fund.
He is now in Sioux Falls organiz-ing
the fund. Dr. Dahl is on leave
of absence from his office in Min-neapolis.
Gifts received through t h e
drive, which is confined to the
city, will be added to the $175,000
in the present library building
fund for construction of the build-ing.
The drive for funds was ap-proved
at a meeting with the ex-ecutive
committee of the Sioux
Falls Chamber of Commerce last
fall.
Present plans are to conduct the
fund-raising effort this spring.
Tom Kilian, public relations direc-tor,
and Alma Roisum, assistant
director, will act as publicity di-rector
and office director for the
drive.
The new library will replace the
present facility housed in the Old
Main building. The present library
has long since failed to meet the
needs __of ..Augustana's _growing
student body.
Architect for the new library is
Harold Spitznagel, designer of
Tuve hall. Plans for the building
are nearing completion. Spitznagel
has studied a number of new
libraries across the country, to
incorporate the most modern and
efficient features into the design.
This building program may be
called the Centennial Development
program which is being planned
around the college's impending
centennial in 1960. It was de-veloped
from the present college
development program in Phase II.
Phase II calls for the building
of • a new women's dormitory
(Tuve hall now complete) a new
library at $440,00, a new men's
dormitory, 56'75,000, and a new
student Union building, $300,000.
Phase II is expected to be com-pleted
by 1960.
Phase III, from 1960 to 1975,
includes a chapel, a field house,
a fine arts building, a music build-ing,
and a permanent science
building. Total cost of Phase III
is estimated at $1,800,000.
Other features of Phase II and
III of the Centennial Development
program include the improvement
of faculty salaries, opportunities
for study and research, pensions
and other *faculty benefits; in-crease
in the average student en-rollment;
improvement of facili-ties
for student health and medi-cal
care; development of a more
adequate campus social program
and a special observance of the
college centennial in 1960.
Phase I of the original develop-ment
program, already complete,
included the development of the
south campus (south 40), enlarge-ment
of dormitory and dining fa-cilities
and the addition of class-room•
and laboratory space, im-provements
on streets bordering
the campus and general improVe-ments.
Further details of the library
fund and the library plan will be
given in coming issues.