Spiritual Emphasis Days Set For Nov. 28, 29, 30
Dr. George Aus, Miss Norma
Arneson Featured Visitors
November 21, 1949 Augustana College, SIOUX FALLS, S. D.
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Play Cast Gets
Holiday Respite
Rehearsals for the next Augie
Little Theatre production, An In-spector
Calls, will be interrupted
for the Thanksgiving holidays and
then it's "back to work" for Di-rector
Bob Snook and his group
of thespians. Following the holi-days,
the cast will undergo an
intensive week of rehearsal and
final polishing of lines prior to the
play's opening on Dec. 6.
Guest star, Keith Herrington
has been spending the greater
portion of his time thus far in
Sioux Falls, in learning lines.
He has, however, managed to see
some of the city, and finds it
much to his liking.
Web-Philo Plans
Call For Baskets
Next event on the social board
program will be a basket social on
Dec. 9. The event will be sponsor-ed
by the Websterian and Philo-mathian
societies but will be an
all school event. Web prexy, Al
Paulson, is in charge of all ar-rangements.
This gala event will be staged in
the gymnasium and will be com-plete
with auctioneer, folk games
and "hard time" costumes.
This basket social event has
been a traditional affair for the
Webs and Philos to sponsor.
The moral of this whole story
is for the boys to get a little ex-tra
cash over Thanksgiving vaca-tion
and the weekend of Dec. 3,
and for the girls to get ideas,
food, trimmings, food basket,
partners lined up and more food
for this all school event.
By Moni Ode
The editor said to write some-thing
about Thanksgiving; every-one
else said not to write about
the usual things—turkeys and
such. But I ask you, take tur-keys
and such away from Thanks-giving
and what have you ? Noth-ing,
which is practically what the
editor got.
Thanksgiving means a lot of
different things to a lot of differ-ent
people. To students, here,
there, and everywhere, it means
but one thing—vacation—with the
chance to sleep late, gorge on
mother's cooking and have the
family wait on you, hand and
foot. This works best if you stay
at school for a long period before
vacation. If you do this, the fam-ily
(bless 'em!) thinks that you-ve
been working so hard that you
need to rest. Little do they know!
Term Papers—Or Relaxing?
Thanksgiving can mean vaca-tion
to teachers—if they haven't
just received a big pile of term
papers to correct. Teachers are
quite kind really. Just think, they
could make the date due the first
class period after vacation and
then they could relax. But where
would we be? That's right, re-laxing—
until the day before the
paper is due!
Capt. Robert Council
Air Force Team
Gives Interviews ■
Interviews will be given today
and tomorrow to young men and
women from Augustana interested
in a career in aviation as an of-ficer
in the U. S. Air Force.
Headquarters have been estab-lished
in the gym ticket office
by Capt. Robert Council and Cal-vin
Mosher. They will explain
career opportunities, assist appli-cants
in filing out application
forms, and give qualifying exam-inations
to those seeking aviation
cadet training.
Three type's of training are open
to young men—the Aviation Cadet
Pilot program, the Aviation Ca-det
Navigator program, and the
Officer Candidate program. The
latter program, which prepares
officers for non-flying junior ex-ecutive
duties in administrative
and technical fields, is open to
both men and women who are
qualified.
To be' eligible for the training,
you must be between the ages of
20 and 261/2; single; with at least
two years of college; and with
high physical and moral qualifica-tions.
I'll bet parents rather dread
Thanksgiving, though. Into their
peaceful lives come barging the'
whole tribe, always wanting some-thing—
something to eat, the car,
some money. Makes for confu-sion!
As for grandmothers, times
have' changed. The old refrain,
"Over the hills and through the
woods to grandmother's house
we go," is no longer true. Nowa-days,
grandma is more likely to
hop a plane and come flying to
visit us, stopping in her mad rush
of visiting relatives to tell us that
times have certainly changed.
Why, in her day . . . !
Who's Happy ? I'm Not Happy
Come to think of it, the turkey
(I couldn't avoid mentioning him)
is probably the happiest old bird
on Thanksgiving, even if he is
dead. For weeks, he's had his pic-ture
plastered all over the place,
people have bragged abOut him
and other people have paid a good
price for him. Then he's carefully
dressed, roasted to a golden brown
and stuffed with delicious dress-ing.
What more could a turkey
ask ? And besides that, he has a
chance for revenge! When the
groaning and moaning begins and
the belt buckles are let out a
notch or two, then who'll be
sorry ? Certainly not the turkey!
VOL. XXXI NO. 10
I{AUR Sets Up
Broadcast Slate
Yes, Augustana does have a
radio station and it is on the air.
Barring a major catastrophe
KAUR will broadcast on a regular
schedule, making improvements
as deemed necessary. Broadcast
hours are from 6:30 to 11:00 each
week night.
The Warren Radio Supply and
the Odland Music Shop are spon-soring
three programs. These
programs include popular, semi-classical
and classical music all
played on the new RCA Victor
system. This new system brings
the latest recordings so that more
enjoyable listening may be ob-tained.
A schedule of the programs will
be printed at a latter date so that
the time of favorite programs will
be known.
Positions Open
On Gospel Team
There are still countless op-portunities
for student's to serve
on gospel teams.
Every Thursday evening and
Sunday morning, a number of Au-gustana
students go to the vets'
hospital and provide music, con-sisting
of group singing and vocal
.solos for the patients.
Each Friday evening and Sun-day
afternoon,; teams go to the
convalescent homes and homes
for the aged, here in Sioux Falls,
for visitations.
Out-of-town programs are giv-en
at various neighboring con-gregations
and in a few out-of-state
congregations.,
Those students interested in
going to the vets' hospital, con-tact
Gene Engelstad, while those
interested in the personal visita-tion
work here in town, see Joe
Swenson.
Any students desiring to take
part in the programs given in
out-of-town congregations, are
asked to contact Gerrit Van Hun-nick.
Hillgren /Wends Sigma
Delta Chi Convention
Ralph 0. Hillgren, journalism
instructor, spent the last four days
at Southern Methodist university,
Dallas, Tex., where as delegate
of the Eastern 'South Dakota
chapter, and president, he attend-ed
the national convention of
Sigma Delta • Chi, national pro-fessional
journalism fraternity.
On Saturday he witnessed the
Southern Methodist-Baylor foot-ball
game in the Cotton Bowl. He
traveled by plane.
During his absence beginning
journalism students had a prac-tice
session in the Augustana
photo lab and the publicity stu-dents
heard a lecture by Durand
Young, Augustana '48, secretary
of the Sioux Falls safety council.
NOTICE
If either of your parents is
an Augustana, graduate,
please notify either the Mirror
office or the public relations
office Immediately
By Charlotte Scott
Climaxing the Thanksgiv-ing
holidays will be the Spiri-tual
Emphasis days which be-gin
Nov. 28 and continue thru
the 29th and 30th.
Coming to Augustana as
guest speaker and counselor
respectively are Dr. George
Aus of Luther Theological
Seminary, St. Paul, Minn.,
and Norma Arnesen, travel-ing
secretary for the western
region of the Division of Stu-dent
Service of the National
Lutheran council.
Dr. Aus will address the chapel
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
mornings and will speak each
evening, during those days, at the
regular evening services.
Very active in student work, Dr.
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Dr. George Aus
Aus received his B. A. degree from
Wagner college in 1925, attended
Biblical seminary in 1926-27 and
Menighetsfakultetet in 1927-28.
In 1929 he received his M. A. from
New York university and the
years 1930-1932 he spent at Gen-eral
seminary. He received his Ph.
D. from New York university in
1933.
Ordained At Luther
He attended Luther seminary
during the years 1933-1934 and
was ordained in 1934. From 1934
to 1939 he did pastoral work in
the Trinity Lutheran church in
Brooklyn, N. Y. In the spring of
1947 he went to Oslo, Norway,
arid did research work there in
the university library. Since 1939,
he has been professor of System-atic
Theology and Christian Edu-cation
and this year received his
D. D. from Wagner college.
In addition to the programs of
Spiritual Emphasis Days of form-er
years, a counselor for students
Lutheran Herald
Features Augie
Augustana was the subject of
a three-page feature article
complete with pictures in the Nov.
15 issue of the Lutheran Herald.
The article written by Gladys
Wogen, describes life from the
student angle.
Miss Wogen arrived at Augie
a few days before Homecoming
and was generally impressed with
campus life here. She was primar-ily
interested in attitudes, trends,
and student activities.
Singled out for particular praise
were the activities of the Chris-tianity,
art, and music depart-ments.
Pictures used included shots of
the campus, the ad building, a
Huddle scene, Prof. Ogden Dal-rymple
carving on an ecclesiasti-cal
work, and Dean of Women
Helen Farley chatting with girls
on the steps of Ladies hall.
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has been engaged as well as a
major speaker. Miss Norma Arne-son
has had considerable experi-ence
in working with young peo-ple
throughout this nation and in
Europe.
At present, she is respons-ible
for the work of the Di-vision
at 45 colleges and uni-versities
in the U. S. North-west.
Miss Arneson has worked with
the Division of American Missions
of the National Lutheran council
in Washington, D. C., during
which she helped organize the
Lutheran Youth council.
During the college year of 1945-
1946 she served as acting Dean of
Women at Augustana college and
during the summer of '46 served
as a member of the International
Student service tour of Czecho-slovakia
and a visitor to the
World's Student Christian federa-tion
in Gwatt, Switzerland. She
spent 1947 in Norway studying the
youth of Norway in a post-war
period.
Works For M. A.
For the past year she has been
studying at Columbia university
in New York City where she is
completing her work for her M. A.
Plans have been made for the
scheduling of informal chats and
counselings with both Miss Arne-son
and Dr. Aus in order that the
students might become better ac-quainted
with them and share
Miss Norma Arneson
their rich and interesting exper-iences.
Announcements will be made
at the chapel programs as t the
time of such meetings.
Augustana Introduced
To Marionette Artistry
"Behind-the-scene-views" of the
art of puppetry was given by Mrs.
William Ireland Duncan •Jf the
Tatterman Marionettes in her pro-duction
of Meet the Marionettes
last Friday and Saturday.
Mrs. Duncan, a talented act-ress
and puppeteeer, in three per-formances
gave audience's an intro-duction
to all types of puppets
and marionettes. Sponsored by
Augustana two-year normal stu-dents,
the Tatterman Marionettes
now in their twenty-seventh sea-son
presented demonstrations by
Gluck from The King of the Gold-en
River, the cowardly lion from
The Wizard of Oz, and the lovely
Solveig from Peer Gynt among
others.
A question and answer period
followed each performance for all
puppet aspirants.
Mrs. Duncan was brcught to
Augustana through arrangement
with Western college of Oxford,
Ohio.
Thanksgiving Can't Change
--Or, The Turkey Is Lucky