AUGUSTANA
MIRROR
March 22, 1952
Augustana College, SIOUX FALLS, S. D. VOL. XXXIII — NO. 23
Conference Speakers
Dr. Janis Rozentals Dr. Rolf Syrdahl Dr. Alvin Rogness
'Blind Mice' Starts Nine-Day Run Thursday
Roy Stahl
KAUR Ends Technical Work
George Thompson puts final, touches on the wiring system of cam-pus
radio station KAUR. The station went on the air officially last
night. A schedule of station programs and features will be published
next week.
Alumnus Makes
Modern English
N.T. Version
Olaf Morgan Norlie, Augustana
alumni of 1893, has presented the
college library with a copy of his
translation of the New Testament
into modern English.
Norlie translated the New Testa-ment
from the original Greek and
supplied an outline with the vol-ume
which wo.s published at North-field,
Minn., in 1951.
The author has written 13 other
Bible studies and 110 other writ-ings
dealing entirely or largely
with Norwegian-Americans.
Dr. Norlie was recently given
the order of St. Olaf, and made a
knight of the order, first class. He
has five doctoral degrees and has
held several prominent positions
in the Lutheran church.
He worked on the National
Lutheran council for 25 years.
A descendant of Norwegian im-migrant
parents who settled near
Canton, he decided to devote his
life to work among the Norwe-eg,
ian-Americans.
After serving in the ministry
for a number of years, Norlie was
elected president of Hartwick sem-inary,
but later went to Luther col-lege.
Council Plans
Shetek Workshop
For May1-3- 4
Plans for the leadership work-shop
to be held at Lake Shetek
May 2, 3 and 4 are being made
now, according to Delores Wenn-blom,
student body president.
John Knudson and Frank Jones
have been named by the student
council as co-chairmen of this
event. Duane Anderson is the bus-iness
and transportation manager.
The purpose of this leadership
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Student Meet
Opens Friday
Al Luther
Three men who have rubbed
shoulders with communist forces
of aggression in foreign countries
will direct students attending next
week's ELC student conference at
Luther college in Decorah, Ia., in
a discussion of the topic "Can
Christianity out-perform commu-nism
in the world today ?"
They are Dr. Janis Rozentals
and Dr. Edmund Smits, displaced
persons from Latvia and currently
professors at Luther theological
seminary; and Dr. Rolf Syrdahl,
for seven years a missionary to
China and now executive secre-tary
of the ELC's Board of Foreign
Missions.
The Saturday afternoon discus-sion
will be one highlight of the
three-day conference, which opens
at 8 p. m. March 28 and which is
expected to bring over 300 stu-dents
from Concordia, St. Olaf and
Augustana colleges; Luther theo-logical
seminary; Waldorf junior
college; and Fairview hospital
school of nursing to the Luther
college campus.
Theme for the conference is
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Piano Duo
To Play
Here Monday
Miss Gertrude Szaroleta and
Roy Stahl will present a duo-piano
recital Monday night at 8:15 p. m.
in the gym-auditorium as a part
of the Artist Lecture series.
Both are members of the facul-ty
at Concordia college, Moorhead,
Minn., and have studied under
prominent musicians.
"Sonata in F" by W. F. Bach,
"Variations Op. 56b" by Brahms,
"Sonata" by Stravinsky, and "Var-iations
Op. 35" by Saint-Saens,
are numbers on the program. Each
of these represents a different
type of musical composition.
Students are admissible on ac-tivity
tickets.
Mundt Reports
House Sold Out
For Four Nights
Last minute touches are being
made on the next production of the
Augustana Little Theatre, Two
Blind Mice, which opens Thursday
and extends through April 5.
According to drama head Earl
Mundt, the play received a three-day
extension because of heavy
box office ticket sales. At press
time, four nights had completely
sold out.
Those organizations which have
bought out the house for different
evenings are the Men's Federa-tion
of the First Presbyterian
church on Thursday, Men's Fellow-ship
of the First Methodist church
on Friday, the Sioux Falls YMCA
Men's club on Saturday, and the
senior class on Monday, March 31.
Art Huseboe, business manager
of the theatre, stated yesterday
that parts of the play will be pre-sented
over the Ralph Carroll
variety show on Wednesday over
radio station KIHO.
Groups of 10 or more will be ad-mitted
for 50. cents per person; this
price was set up to encourage at-tendance
by high school students.
Activity tic,lcets will not be hon-ored
on the nights which have been
sold out. The box office will open
for student reservations Wednes-day.
Red Cross Drive
Ends Wednesday
The annual Red Cross drive be-gan
Thursday and will run
through Wednesday.
Soliciting in East hall is in
charge. of Tom Ersland, Al B_erg
will collect the donations in the
Men's dorm and residents of the
Women's dorm will be contacted
by Delores Bue.
The goal for the nation this year
is $85,000,000. Sioux Falls will at-tempt
to raise $38,885. Augie has
been requested to contribute $130.
During the flood last year
$14,000 was spent on flood relief;
this relief was given to 200-300
people for a period of three weeks.
Other phases of work the Red
Cross does, are home service such
as first aid, home nursing, and in-struction
courses in these. It also
gives service to veterans and fight-ing
men.
You may present your contri-butions
to the solicitors or Delores
Wennblom.
Students May Hear
Minneapolis Symphony
Students who do not have Civic
Music tickets will have a chance
to hear the Minneapolis symphony
orchestra when it appears in Sioux
Falls Tuesday, April 15.
A special youhg people's mat-inee
concert is planned for 4:00
p. m. that day.
Tickets for this afternoon con-cert
may be secured from Miss
Alma Roisum in public relations
office or from J. Earl Lee of the
music faculty, for 90c including
taxes.
A program of the concert will
be posted later with more details.
State, Augie
Sign Rooter
King Pact
South Dakota State college will
not get its Rooterking cowbell
back until the Jackrabbits defeat
the Augustana Vikings in a bas-ketball
game on the Coliseum
court.
This was the gist of the agree-ment
arrived at by Delores Wenn-blom,
Augie student body presi-dent,
and Walt Conahan, retiring
State student prexy at a meeting
held March 8.
If the Staters defeat the Vikings
at the Coliseum, the bell will be
returned immediately after the
game. Augustana will receive the
Augie sign now in the possession
of State college.
The agreement was ratified by
the Augie student council on
March 14.
LSA Tomorrow
Worried about tests ? Relax at
LSA's social program Sunday
night in the Science Lounge at
5:30 p. m. Your hosts will be
genial team captains Jack Dege-lau
and Janice Hult.
Pianist Duo
Miss Gertrude Szaroleta