21, 1949 Augustana College, Sioux Falls, S. Dak. Vol. XXX, No.
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Mission Emphasis
Services
February
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Mission Emphasis Opens On Campus Rev. W. Rindahl,
African Mission, Nat. Director Kicks Off Augie Drive
Begins Talks
Rev. W. 0. Rindahi, missionary
to Africa, is one of three mission-ary
speakers on the Augustana
campus for Mission Emphasis
Days, Feb. 20-22.
As president of the Umpumulo
Lutheran Normal school located
Rev. W. 0. Rindahi
at Umpumulo, Natal, Africa, Rev.
W. 0. Rindahi directs the work of
preparing boys of the Natal pro-vince
to be teachers, evangelists,
and pastors. These students as-sume
positions in- the schools and
churches of the area, thus build-ing
up the native church.
The normal school, which was
begun in 1850, is the only Luther-an
institution of this kind in the
Union of South Africa. At pres-ent
it has an enrollment of 350.
Pastor Rindahl has been presi-dent
of the school for the past
fourteen years, and is now on fur-lough.
He received his education at
Luther college, Decorah, Ia., and
Luther Theological seminary, St.
Paul, Minn.
Appoint Committees
For Band Concert
To make final preparations for
the first appearance this year of
the Augustana college concert
band, under the direction of Prof.
Richard Guderyahn, the following
committees have been appointed:
general chairman, Leland Lille-haug;
tickets, Gene Hervig; pos-ters,
Hugo Lutz and Paul Pierson,
and publicity, Ramona Ode and
Tom Schuster.
The concert, which will be pre-sented
March 1, will include a
variety of numbers including a
Concerto for Tympani, Weinberger,
which features a brass octette
and tympani soloist.
Students will be admitted on
their activity tickets.
NOTICE
All camera fans are urged
to attend the organization
meeting of the Augie Camera
club in the art dept., Tues-day
night at 8. Organizer
Arlyn Roe reports that 29
camera bugs have indicated
their interests to date.
D-Day; Edda
Goes To Printers
The Edda is dood!
Thursday, Feb. 17, was D-Day
(deadline day) for the Augustana
yearbook as Editor Fran Brager
and 17 assistants polished off the
'49 edition in plenty of time. From
now on in, its the worry of the
printers, Midwest Beach co.
Work on' the 136 page book
was started way back in Sep-tember
and it will be "ready
for the students in May," ac-cording
to editor Brager.
Other members of the staff in-clude::'
assistant to editor, Helen
Schrader; business manager, Al
Farley; sports editor, Crawford
Mills; assistant sports editor, Bob
Aldern; photographer, Clarence
Patterson; and reporters, Kay
Abbey, Marjorie Doering, Charles
Ewing, Bart Kull, Phyllis Lokken,
Don Meling, Mary Ode, Dorothy
Pederson, Margaret Pierson,
Francis Smith, Roger Snook and
Lila Strand.
91's Was Way
by Lin Baymiller
Several Augie students were
asked what they would do with
"fromage" if they were given
some—here are the answers.
Bob Krueger, fr., Sioux Falls—
I'd put it in the bath-tub when I
take a bath.
Carol Barnes, sr., Huron—Come
back later and I'll tell you!
, Dale Jamptgaard, fr., Sioux
Falls—I would save it—'cuz I
don't know what it is!
Pat Husher, -fr., Sinai—I'd put
it on toast because I like it!
Debris Skillman, fr., Sioux
Falls—Frost a cake with it—how
would that be? (to each his own
tastes!)
Gene Hunt, fr., Sioux Falls—
Rub it on my skies—I'm only kid-ding,
Mr. Blegen!
Kay Abbey, jr., Miles City,
Mont.—I'd give it away because I
am sure that I don't like it!
John Radar, fr., Minneapolis—
I'd taste it—and if I liked it, I'd
eat it along with some wine and
French bread.
Don Reshetar, soph., Minneapo-lis—
I'd wear it behind the ears—
I think it is like Chanel No. 5.—
(you have another think coming,
son!)
Barbara Wika, soph., Water-town—
I think that I would like
to drink it.
Lorraine Watkins, soph., Sioux
Falls—I'd eat it with toast, olives,
and catsup because I like it!
(In case you are wondering.
frornage is the French word for
cheese!)
REPLASTER OLD MAIN
Old Main was the scene of lad-ders
and paint last week as the
building underwent temporary in-ternal
changes. The first floor
hall ceiling was replastered also.
Paul Hansen Is
Speaker Feb. 23
Paul Hansen of South Dakota
State college, who is national di-rector
of the Lutheran student
mission program, will open the
Augustana Mission drive during
chapel services, Wednesday, Fob.
23.
"God Challenges You " is the
theme of the drive which will
continue through Wednesday,
March 2. Paul Pierson, chairman
of the Augie drive, and his corn-mittee
are confident that Au-
Paul Hansen
gustana will meet its goal of
$1,000 in the nationwide project.
Projects of the National Luth-eran
student program for aid to
foreign students include: $5,000
for student work in China; $5,000
to the World Student Christian
Federation (WSCF) ; $2,500 to the
Student Christian Movement of
Finland; $1,500 for scholarships
to India, South America, Africa,
Europe, and Japan, and $1,000 to
bring foreign students to the 1949
Ashram.
New projects include: $500 for
books for students in the Luther-an
seminary of Brazil; $500 for
books for students in the Lutheran
seminary of Japan; $2,000 to the
United Student Christian Council,
the American section of WSCF,
and $4,500 to bring to this country
a guest from the staff of a Eu-ropean
student Christian move-ment.
Male Chorus Organizes
With 32 Vocalists
Augustana's newly organized
men's chorus under the direction
of Dr. Carl Youngdahl has gotten
underway to a promising start.
At the time of this writing,
there is a definite shortage of ten-or
singers. Of the 32 who have
tried out, 24 are basses. Any
tenor singers who are interested
may contact Dr. Youngdahl.
Members of the Augustana A
choir will not sing in this group.
The time for practice that has
been set aside is 4:30 on Tuesday
and Thursday.
State, U, Augie
Resolve To Hall
School 'Raids'
Student and faculty repre-sentatives
from South Dakota
State, University and August-ana
college met Friday after-noon
at Brookings in'a con-ference
to halt "raiding"
techniques among their cam-puses
as a result of over-en-thusiastic
rivalry.
Although many of the results
of the conference will not be pub-lished,
one significant resolution
was drawn up.
WHEREAS: In the past years
there has been serious de-struction
of property and
other violations of criminal
law on the campuses of the
South Dakota State college,
the University of South Da-kota,
and Augustant college
by students of the respective
institutions raiding one anoth-ers
campuses, and,
WHEREAS: Such destruction
of property has gone beyond
and transcends the bounds of
proper school spirit and inter-collegiate
rivalry, and,
WHEREAS: Such acts are
contrary to the aims and ob-jectives
of the aforesaid in-stitutions
and their students.
NOW THEREFORE: We the
duly constituted representa-tives
of the student bodies of
the University of South Da-kota,
Augustana, college, and
South Dakota State College
hereby resolve that such de-pradations
shall cease. We
pledge ourselves to a positive
program of education within
our respective student bodies
for the purpose of developing
right attitudes of sportsman-ship
and proper concepts of
school spirit. We further re-solve
that in the event that
any student or group of stu-dents
of either of the afore-mentioned
colleges shall com-mit
any violation of a crim-inal
nature, such as the de-facing
of buildings or the pil-fering
of trophies and other
like petty crimes, that the
student bodies of the respec-tive
institutions shall recom-mend
to the proper authorit-ies
that such student or stu-dents
shall be dealt with most
severely and prosecuted up
to the full extent of the law.
Representatives at the Brook-ings
conference included the State
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NOTICE
Play tryouts for Eastward
in Eden will be held at the
Augustana Theater in the
science building at '7:30 to-night,
Monday.
Dr. Syrdal Will
Speak Tomorrow
At Chapel Meet
Three foreign missionaries,
Miss Virginia Antonsen from
South America, Miss Aagoth
Fosmark "'from China, and
Rev. W. 0. Rindahi from
South America, arrived in
time for the eight a.m. Study
and Action program yester-day,
which opened Mission
Emphasis festivities on the
campus.
Tomorrow morning, Dr. R. A.
Syrdal, who is executive secre-tary
of the board of Foreign Mis-sions
of the Evangelical Lutheran
church, will be the chapel speak-er.
He will present his impress-ions
of a recent trip to the Mad,-
agascar mission field. In the
evening he will also show films on
mission work.
Spent 7 Years in China
Dr. Syrdal has served four years
in the parish ministry, seven years
as a missionary in China, and has
also taught at St. Olaf college and
Dr. R. A. Syrdal
at Luther Theological seminary.
A graduate of St. Olaf college and
Luther Theological seminary, Dr.
Syrdal did graduate work at Drew
university, receiving his Ph. D.
in the field of missions and Old
Testament.
Since assuming his present po-sition,
he has made extensive
visits to mission fields in Colum-bia,
South Americai and in Mada-gascar
and South Africa.
Sunday afternoon students vis-ited
with the missionaries at the
homes of Dr. L. M. Stavig, Rev.
Emil Erpestad, and Prof. Stanley
Olson.
Fosmark, Antonsen Speak
Rey. W. 0. Rindahl spoke to the
LSA last night on the mission
field in South Africa. This aft-ernoon
between 2:30 and 4:30 stu-dents
will have an opportunity
to meet all three missionaries to
discuss student questions.
This evening at 7, in the Little
Theater, both Miss Fosmark and
Miss Antonsen will deliver mes-sages
about their work in the
mission fields. The missionaries
will also speak during • various
class periods today and tomorrow.
Devotions Monday and Tuesday
evening will also be conducted by
the missionaries in the dormitor-ies.