Mission Drive Starts Wednesday
Boddie Speaks Wie 4494taafria
At Chapel Friday Charles Emerson Boddie, an MIRROR
authoritative speaker on ef-fective
human relations, will
speak at Augustana on the
topic, Christianity and Free-dom.
Mr. Boddie's talk is
scheduled for 9:25 a. m. on
Friday, Feb. 17.
Zealous to help mankincP attain
more effective relationships, he
devotes his efforts to helping
peoples of all faiths to live to-gether
in harmony and under-standing.
For his contribution to
racial relations in Huntington,
West Virginia, he was cited as
Man of the Week in that city. In
Rochester, New York, he was se-lected
by the editors of that city's
Democrat & Chronicle as Man of
the Week "for personal effort in
the service of his fellow citizens
above and beyond the call of or-dinary
duty."
Favorite Youth Speaker
Mr. Boddie is a favorite speaker
at youth conferences. In 1945 the
New York state Baptist Youth
fellowship established an annual
scholarship in his name for a
worthy Negro student at a south-ern
college.
Mr. Boddie, the son of a colored
Baptist preacher, comes from a
large family: three members are
ministers and all eleven of his
brothers and sisters are college
products. Mr. Boddie is a gradu-ate
of Syracuse university; earn-ed
his B. D.. degree from the
Charles Boddie
Colgate-Rochester Divinity school
and his A. M. degree from the
University of Rochester. He is
the author of two books, A Giant
in the Earth and The Biblical
Basis of the Negro Spiritual and
of numerous articles in profession-al
journals.
Understands Humans
His talks on effective human re-lations
are always beautiful in
their simplicity, humble in their
earnestness and powerful in their
impact. His genius for getting
along with people springs from
real understanding of human na-ture
and wide acquaintance with
human problems.
Mr. Boddie's tour of this area
has been arranged by the Univer-sity
of Minnesota Concert and
Lecture Service.
Edda Staff Busy
As Deadline Nears
Harried Edda, editors and their
Assistants are losing sleep these
days trying to meet a Feb. 15
deadline for copy and makeup
sheets.
Helen Schrader is editor, Chuck
Ewing is business manager and
Bob Aldern is handling sports for
this year's yearbook.
By Marilyn Kirkeby
m. the curtains o pen on the
Augustana college theatre's
production of Arthur Laur-ents'
play, Home of the Brave.
Opening night proceeds will be
donated to the March of Dimes
fund. The play will run through
Saturday, Feb. 18.
The plot is told by means of
the flashback. Five men, one of
them a Jew, invade a Japanese-held
island to map the terrain pre-paratory
to the actual invasion.
During the four days the men stay
on the island, the Jew loses his
memory and the power to walk.
The psychiatrist who is exami-ning
him later finds out what
happened on that island and re-stores
Coney's (the Jew) faith in
himself and his fellow humans.
Veterans of the Augustana
stage and World War II compose
the larger part of the cast. Jack
Stark, in the navy from 1944 to
1946, is cast in the leading role
of Coney.
Knutson Plays T. J.
Wayne Knutson, merchant ma-rines
and army from 1944 to 1946,
will portray the anti-Semetic T. J.,
who is partly responsible or
Coney's breakdown.
Rex Stevenson, who served with
the army in the Phillipines from
1945 through 1946, is the doctor.
Gerry Lofgren, in the marines
island-hopping in the South Paci-fic
from 1944 through 1946, is
cast as Coney's best friend, Finch.
Tom Sheeley, in the infantry
from 1942 to 1946 with overseas
experience in Germany, Austria
and France, will act as Mingo.
Dan Pospesel, freshman from
Sioux Falls, is the young major
who wants desperately to be ac-cepted
as a leader by his men.
Home of the Brave marks Pos-pesel's
initial appearance on the
stage.
Play Committees
Stage manager is Don Reaves.
His committee includes Ruth
Wineberg, Alys Christianson, Mar-lene
Reuter, Marilyn Kirkeby,
Berthamay Ofstaf, LeMoyne Vi-berg,
Fred Brooks, Dick Lundin,
Mollie Splitznagel and Jack Stark.
Handling the ticket reservations
are Ruth Troen, Charmayne Ror-em,
Jim Fleming, Evert Seim, Dor-othy
Schiager, Louise Oberlander,
Marie Sandol, Ruth Wineberg, Gil
Rogness, Wyllis Larson, and Phyl-lis
Lokken.
Publicity has been done by Tom
Sheeley, Marilyn Kirkeby, Doris
Otterson, Mick Hansen and Roger
Snook.
Gerry Lofgren and Doris Samp-son
will do the lighting. Frank
Overby has charge of the sound
effects.
NOTICE
An organizational meet-ing
for a Young Democrats
club is scheduled for Thurs-day
at '7:30 p. m., at the Fire-side
lounge. Any inquiries
should be directed to Melvin
Larson, who says that the
club is a definite and perman-ent
thing.
Speech Tourney
Friday and Saturday Au-gustana
will host 10 schools
for the annual South Dakota
Intercollegiate Forensic asso-ciation
tournament.
The tourney will start at 10 a.
m. Friday morning and cover all
day Friday and Saturday. The
day-time sessions will be held in
the Little Theatre, but because
of conflicts with the college play
production, the Friday night
events will be held in the speech
room in the gym.
Eight Divisions Offered
The schools will enter in eight
divisions which will feature four
contests for men and four for
women. Men and women will not
compete against each other.
Augie students entered include
Dona Carlson and Verlyn Smith,
men's and women's oratory; Lois
Sorteberg and Bob Nervig, men's
and women's peace oratory and
Bob Browning, men's extempor-aneous
speaking.
"Men's and women's peace ex-temp
and women's extemp partic-cipants
are to be determined,"
stated Hugo Carlson, speech coach
and executive secretary of the
SDIFA, last week.
Honors at Fargo
On Feb. 2, 3, and 4, the college
was represented by a squad which
won four and dropped two at the
Red River Valley match at Fargo.
Bob Browning won his prelim-inary
round and was one of the
finalists in impromptu speaking.
Other members of the squad
were Verlyn ISmith and Jack
Mueller.
Registration Dips
For Second Term
Breakdown of second semester
registration totals shows 149
seniors of which 115 are men, 34
are women; 151 juniors with 110
men and 41 women; 204 sopho-mores,
117 men and 87 women;
and 250 freshmen with 145 men
and 105 women for a total of 754.
There were 23 new freshmen, 14
transfer students and 10 people
who had previously attended Au-gie
within the registration total.
Twenty-one seniors graduated
at semester time. Also finishing at
that time were 45 nurses.
The 754 total represents a nor-mal
decline of approximately 100
students from the first semester
registration figures.
Venture Appears Soon
When Venture magazine makes
its appearance on campus in the
first week in March it will be
celebrating its third birthday. It
was first published in 1947 under
the editorship of Dick Struck who
originated the publication with the
idea of providing students with
literary inclinations an outlet for
their work.
This year the magazine has un-dergone
a face-lifting, It has been
ELC Conference
Program Readied
To maintain a high spiritual
and intellectual level and still pro-vide
for fellowship and variety is
the aim of the ELC Student con-ference
which will be held on
the Augie campus March 3, 4, and
5.
This will be the first meeting
of the conference under its new
constitution.
Special interest group topics,
student government, religion
board, Lutheran unity and Bible
study will be some of the events
which will fill the three-day
schedule.
"As part of the entertainment,
the freshman squad of Augie and
Luther will play an exhibition
game," Bob Nervig, chairman of
the conference disclosed. _
Prominent Lutheran speakers
will be part of the schedule.
KAUR Lines Up
Live Talent Show
Spotlighting a new trend to-ward
live talent shows, -radio sta-tion
KAUR announced this week
the addition of a new campus
musical organization to the pro-gram
schedule. A girls' quartet,
tentatively known as the "Bath-room
Four," is slated for their
first aired 'broadcast Thursday
evening at 9:30.
Set up as a 15 minute show, the
new feature is only the first of
many such new attractions in the
expansive plans of the campus
station.
Much talk has centered around
the possibility that with the ad-vent
of classes in radio next year,
more funds might be obtained,
and better facilities and the ac-companying
programs set up.
Prof. Hugo Carlson has been
mentioned as the radio instructor.
Dr. Leppik Arrives
For Biology Post
Dr. Elmar E. Leppik, displaced
Estonian and new biology instruc-tor
at the college, arrived here
with his wife and three children
last week.
Leppik was to have been here
last fall at the beginning of school
but immigration problems made
this impossible until recently. He
came directly to Augustana from
Germany.
Dr. Leppik was educated at
Fartu university in Estonia and
the universities of Bene, Geneva,
and Zurich in Switzerland. He
also did some forestry work in
Germany with the occupation
forces.
He is known in scientific circles
for inventing "hologeny" — a
theory opposed to Darwinism.
dressed up with a bright, new,
cover and contents to match. The
editors, Dick Stavig and Wayne
Knutson, are preparing a resume
of the table of contents which
will appear in an early issue of
the Mirror.
LSAction Group
Sets $1000 Goal
Serving as an aftermath to
Augustana's Mission Days
which continue through to-morrow
will be the advent of
a Mission Offering Drive for
funds to aid foreign students
through LSAction. The drive
begins Wednesday and con-tinues
through Feb. 22.
Four foreign missionaries
currently speaking on cam-pus
are serving to illuminate
the need for physical and
spiritual help to young stu-dents
the world over.
During the second semester of
each school year, college and
university students from campus-es
all over the United States and
Canada strive together to meet
some of these needs.
Augie Share $1000
More than 100 solicitors have
volunteered to help in contacting
every Augie student and faculty
member in an effort to raise Au-gustana's
$1000 portion of the
$23,300 needed to properly further
the LSAction plan for this year.
A breakdown of the total goes
as follows: seminaries: Brazil
and India ($1000); foreign stu-dent
scholarships ($1204); Ash-ram
expenses for foreign guests
($1200); Chinese Student Worker
($2400) ; United Student Chris-tian
Council ($2500); German
Student Worker ($5000); World
Student 'Christian Federation
($7500) ; and for the contingent
fund to carry out the program
($1500).
Money, will be used for such
worthy causes as the provision of
a staff and headquarters for the
Studentengemeinde, a German
student Christian movement in
that country. Chinese students
will be brought to this country
for educational training.
Free Ashram Trip
Other student scholarships are
planned. If the foreign student
comes to this country to study he
will be invited to attend the na-tional
Ashram, expense free.
Young men of Brazil and India
who are preparing for the minis-try
will receive some aid from this
Mission offering. Library facilities
will be increased in this respect.
Food and other physical neces-sities
will be provided to many
foreign missionary fields through
funds raised in this drive.
Every Student Contacted
During the week of the drive
every Augie student and faculty
member will be contacted by one
of the student solicitors and given
a chance to give to this cause.
Student drive director Gerrit
Van Hunnik asks that when ap-proached
the donator should not
give only that Augustana may top
her goal, but that he be thinking
also in terms of what his gift
will do for students throughout
the world who so desperately need
help.
Choir's Back!
Augie's wandering a capella
choir was scheduled to return
last night after a 17-day jaunt
through towns in South Dakota,
Minnesota, Iowa and Nebraska.
Concerts were presented at
both Hartington, Nebr., and
Yankton yesterday as the musical
organization completed its 29th
annual tour. Dr. Carl Youngdahl,
choir director, has been with the
choir on each of the tours.
Date for a Sioux Falls presen-tation
of ,the choir's repertoire is
not available yet.
February 13, 1950 Augustana College, SIOUX FALLS, S. D. VOL. XXXI NO. 17
Theatre Presents 'Horne of the Brave'
Tomorrow night at 8:15 p..
Augie Hosts S. D.