May 16, 1949 Augustana College, Sioux Falls, S. Dak. Vol. XXX, No. 28
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EXCAVATION WORK by the Henry Carlson company
of Sioux Falls, made the spades look like teaspoons as the
huge power shovel began to move dirt immediately following
the formal ground-breaking ceremony. What started out as
a mere scratching of the earth's surface soon developed into
a seven foot hole over 100 feet long after four days of exca-vating.
A huge crowd was in attendance at the opening day,
and onlookers continued to watch the dramatic changes in
the campus take place throughout the week. Construction of
the $400,000 project will be completed by the fall of 1950 ac-cording
to the contract.
FIRST SHOVEL full of dirt turned over
in the Ladies hall ground-breaking cere-monies
Wednesday morning, was scooped by
Dean of Women, Miss Helen Farley, pictured
at the left. Former busines manager, G. H.
Gilbertson unearthed the second spade-full
(above) in the colorful dedication nrogram.
Start Work n New Ladies Hall
Dr. Glenn Sets Stage For Ground
Breaking Ceremonies' of $400,000 Job
By Laurel Gray
"Put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon
thou standest is holy ground:" (Exodus 3:5) With these words
Dr. H. J. Glenn, chairman, of the Augustana board of directors,
set the stage for the ground-breaking ceremonies of the new
Augie Ladies hall, Wednesday morning at 9:45.
Snook Announces
Viking Day Plans
Viking Day chairman Rog
Snook this week announced the
homecoming committee chairman
for the 26th annual Viking Days
scheduled for Oct. 14-15.
No downtown parade will be
staged next year, according to
Snook, because of the difficulty
in getting enough floats for a
long procession.
Other things have been added
to the homecoming program, how-ever,
including a longer fanfare
of pre-game ceremony before the
State-Augie grid classic and spe-cial
meetings of alumni in groups
of four or five years.
Those committee chairmen nam-ed
by Snook include:
Helen Schraeder, coronation;
Lee Johnson, torchlight parade;
Louise Oberlander, society lunch-eon;
Phil Natwick, pre-game
ceremony; Al Farley, fireworks;
Ruth Wineberg, correspondence;
and Tom Sheeley and Lemoine
Viborg, pepfest.
Not selected as yet are the
chairmen of publicity, alumni
registration, program layout and
a business manager. Each chair-man
will be free to choose his
own committee members.
Regional LSA Ashram Is
At Alexandria In June
Alexandria, Minn., has been se-lected
as the site of the regional
LSA Ashram to be held June 10-
17. The purpose of the meet this
year, as in previous years, is to
privide a week of fun, fellowship
and study for regional LSA'ers.
A full schedule has been out-lined
for those who will attend,
including bible study, recreation,
discussion groups and periods of
free time.
Students planning to attend
should contact Verlyn Smith, reg-ional
LSA president. The entire
cost for the week is $13.
Campus Radio KAUR
Signs Off On Friday
Augie campus radio station
KAUR announced late last week
that it will leave the air Friday,
May 20, for the end of its broad-casting
year. The move was made
by station manager Bob Griffith
and program director Evert Seim,
because of the impractibility of
broadcasting immediately prior to
semester exams. KAUR will re-turn
to the air next fall.
'A Shocking Shade
Of Red' Comedy Is
Set For May 18-19
Presentation of A Shocking
Shade of Red, the social board's
annual musical comedy has been
definitely scheduled for May 18
and 19 at 8:15. The play, based
on the assumption that ridicule
is one of man's most effective
weapons, attacks Communistic
doctrines by making them appear
absurd.
The production is student-writ-ten,
student-produced and student
directed. Long and arduous re-hearsals
have whipped the cast to
a peak of perfection. The cast,
containing a number of new faces,
includes the following:
Bellhops Bill Winfree
Dick Gillman
Bill Larson
Bob Hagen
Princess Pat Millard
Secretary Joyce Reiser
Chauffer • Elmer Knuteson
Waitresses , Joey Grunwald
Vivian Johnson
Ruth Wineberg
Chef Bob Jones
Manager John Rader
Clerk Bob Ellman
Scrub Woman Charlotte Ellison
Entertainer Lorraine Watkins
Pianist Len Boe
Chapel Choir Ends
Three-Dad Tour;
See Pickslown
Augustana's chapel choir, under
the direction of Dr. Arnold Run-ning,
presented five concerts dur-ing
their three-day tour through
southeastern South Dakota and
upper Iowa May 13-15.
On Friday' evening, the choir
presented a full concert of about
15 selections at the baccalaureate
service for the first graduating
class at Pickstown. Rev. Orville
Westby, member of the religion
faculty and pastor at Pick.•town,
spoke on the topic, "We Three,"
addressing the three members of
the graduating class.
On Saturday .morning, the
group toured the Pickstown
area and Ft. Randall dam.
They sang at Grace Lutheran
church at Parker that eve-ning,
returning to Sioux Falls
after the concert.
Early Sunday morning, the
group traveled to Sioux City, Ia.,
and sang at both morning services
at Morningside Lutheran church.
Both of these were almost full
concerts with the pastor deliver-ing
a short sermonette.
The choir made their final ap-pearance
of the tour at the Evan-gelical
Lutheran ohuroh in Center-ville
at 3 o'clock Sunday after-noon,
and returned to Sioux Falls
to make their regular appearance
on the Lutheran Vespers Hour.
The choir furnished their own
transportation, traveling by car.
Free-will offerings were taken up
to defray the cost of transporta-tibn.
Johnson Heads Rel. Bd.
Leland Johnson, a junior from
Sioux Falls, was recently elected
chairman of the religion board
for the coming semester. He re-places
Dave Natwick.
Local UCE Appeal
Hits $1,900 Mark
Final . returns on the United
Christian Appeal have not yet
been compiled, but incomplete fig-ures
now available reveal the drive
has registered pledges and cash
contributions amounting to $1,900.
To date 428 students have been
solicited with the remainder yet
to be contacted.
This appeal, a nation-wide solici-tation,
has as its goal the sum of
one million dollars. If this sum
is subscribed, Augustana college
will receive $335,000 for building
puposes.
'Student body president. Al Far-ley
urges all student solicitors to
submit their pledge books to him
at the Edda office in the basement
of the Cottage so that final tabula-tion
of the drive can be made.
KAUR Sponsors
'Hush' Contest
Augustana college has managed
to successfully avoid the on-slaught
of the radio contest at
least until now. This week, how-ever,
the staff of KAUR announc-ed
that they would sponsor a
weekly radio contest of the Miss
Hush variety.
Each night certain clues will be
given over KAUR that will give
listeners an idea as to the identity
of two well-known students on the
Augustana campus. Each week
the staff will select a King and
Queen of the week. Coeds may
attempt to figure out the identity
of the King, and the men guess
the Queen.
The first student to guess the
identity of either mystery student
will be awarded a free meal at
the school cafeteria. The only
qualification for entry stipulates
that the entrant must tell which
program furnished him with the
final clue and give a brief resume
of that program.
Evelyn Swenson his been ap-pointed
chairman of the contest
by news director Milt Erickson.
Referring to the story of Moses
and the burning bush, Dr. Glenn
stamped the ceremony as "a burn-ing
bush in the Prairies of South
Dakota . . . a flame that
never dies out. It's secrets are its
humanities, sciences and the
flame of revelation, insight, in-spiration
and conviction. To this
cause we dedicate this ground
today—an unquenchable fire in
the lives of men."
Dean of Wonien, Miss Helen
Farley then scooped up the
first shovelful of earth for the
80-room dormitory. The shov-el
used was special one de-signed
for the ceremony by
Martin Vangsness, Augie
janitor.
G. H. Gilbertson, ex-business
manager of the college, climaxed
50 years of service in the church
by wielding the second shovelful.
"This is the real beginning of the
excavation isn't it?" cracked
"Gi'bie" as he calmly loosened the
turf. "If there is anything left to
do when we get done, we'll let
the Henry Carlson company put
on the finishing touches."
Pres. L. M. Stavig was in
charge of the program held on the
dorm site with the huge excava-tion
materials casting a shadow
in the background. Dr. L. A. Pier-son,
president of the South Da-kota
district of ELC, gave the in-vocation
and the benediction, and
the a cappella choir sang Lord Ho-sana
under the direction of Dr.
Carl R. Youngdahl.
Following the formal ceremony
the excavation work began in
earnest with the contractor's
gigantic power shovel doing the
job. The work is expected to be
completed by the fall of 1950.
Complete radio tralnscriptions
of the ground-breaking program
were rebroadcast over two Sioux
Falls stations Wednesday eve-ning
on KISD and KELO.
After four days of excavation
work, the ground digging was ex-pected
to be completed by today
as the foundation laying started
Friday.