Informality at Formal Affair
Typical of the informality evidenced at the formal reception is the
group shown above engaged in conversation. Bob Holdridge and his wife,
Marge, and Durand Young were only one of the many groups of students
becoming acquainted with faculty members and freshmen.
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MIRROR September 22, 1947 Augustana College, Sioux Falls, S. Dak.
1 Dak ota State Hictorical ,
/itiori Mr. X 111 G. Rob'. -
iers Memorial,
:e, S. Dak.
Vol. XXVIII, No. 18
Fall Term Registration Is Now Completed
Student President Bob Huntley
Resigns; Lee Assumes Duties
Vice Presidential
Office Vacant
At Present
his election in February of
year.
"I am resigning in favor of m31
Studies," stated Huntley.
Luby Lee, senior from Irene
and vice-president of the student
body, has assumed Huntley's du-ties
and will continue as president
until the election in February.
The student council approved a
temporary plan whereby the newly
elected president of the senior
class will fill the office of vice-president.
Theatre Organized
For Coming Year
The Skin of Our Teeth, a three-act
farce by Thornton Wilder, will
be the first production presented
by the Augustana college theatre
it was announced by Director Bob
Snook at an organizational meet-ing
held in the speech room Tues-day
evening, September 16. This
broadway hit is to be given on
the local stage in the last part of
October.
Fifty students attended this
first meeting at which Director
Snook explained the program for
the coming year.
Dorothy Erickson and Wes
Sandvig, seniors; Pat Eldridge,
junior, and Don Reaves and Dick
Stavig, sophomores, were elected
to serve as a board of directors of
the theatre for this school year.
Theta Psi, Augustana's chapter
of Alpha Psi Omega, National
dramatic fraternity, will be re-vived
this year following a war-time
lapse.
Tryout for The Skin of Our
Teeth were held Wednesday eve-ning.
September 17. The cast and
production staff will be listed in
next week's Mirror.
First Convocation
Opens New Year
Convocation formally opened
the 1947-48 school year when the
students and faculty met in the
Gym-auditorium Thursday morn-ing,
Sept. 11.
Dr. I. B. Hauge, dean of the
college, delivered the main add-ress
entitled "Some Aspects of the
Functions of Students and Fac-ulty
in a Christian Liberal Arts
College." Mr. Richard Leslie, pia-no
instructor, played the piano
solo, "Praeludium" to the "First
Modern Suite" by Macdowell. The
violin solo "Kol Nedrel" was play-ed
by Professor Richard Guder-yahn
accompanied by Professor J.
Earl Lee.
Devotions were read by the
Rev. Clifford Swanson, associate
pastor of the First Lutheran
church, and the Benediction was
given by the Rev. L. A. Pierson,
president of the South Dakota
district of the Evangelical Luther-an
church.
a busy schedule of supper, snake
dance, campfire, and program.
Orville Westby, professor of
Christianity and sociology, was
the main speaker and Stanley 01-
son, faculty advisor, also welcom-ed
the freshmen.
Arlette Pederson led in the open-ing
hymn sing, Virginia Herbst led
in devotions, and a quartette con-sisting
of Marilyn Burke, LaVonne
Engebretson, Stan Arlton and
Dick Stavig sang two selections.
Committee chairmen for this
event were recreation, Bud Eng-ler
and Wally Hunstad; food
Esther Johnstad; program, Dick
Stavig.
Reception Is First
Social 'Highlight
Students had an opportunity to
meet the faculty, and vice versa,
at the annual all-school formal re-ception
Sunday evening, Septem-ber
14. Sponsored this year by the
Big-Little Sister committee the
get-together was held in the gym.
Musical numbers featuring stu-dent
talent were presented from
time to time during the reception.
William Abbott sang "Little Irish
Girl," and Donald Lias, cornet
soloist, played "Showers of Gold."
LaVonne Engebretson selected for
her vocal solo a number populariz-ed
by Jeanette MacDonal&---"The
Maids of Cadiz." "Lotus Land," a
piano solo, was presented by La-
Vonne Johnson and Elise Halvor-son
sang "Life."
Njaa Addresses
LDR Service
Augustana's LDR program for
the year was officially opened
with the traditional candlelight
meeting held Thursday evening,
Sept. 18, in Old Main Chapel.
Highlight of the evening was the
impressive ceremony in which new
members were received into the
society.
Miss Arna Njaa, National exec-utive
secretary of the LDR, was
the main speaker. She brought
greeting from the national or-ganization.
Marge Kverness led in the medi-tation
and Adeline Hill sang a vo-cal
solo.
NOTICE
Primary elections for the
choosing of he 1947 Viking
Day Queen and her six at-tendants
will begin today on
the second floor of the ad-ministration
building. Only
upperclassmen are eligible to
vote. After the top seven
women have been selected,
the final vote for Viking Day
Queen will be held Wednes-day.
Also appearing on the program
was President L. M. Stavig, who
gave an introduction of the new
faculty members, telling a few in-teresting
items about each per-son.
The welcome to the new stu-dents
was given by Richard Stav-ig,
who pointed out that it is of-ten
admirable to be "different."
Edward Peters answered with a
response in behalf of the fresh-man
class.
Organists were Miss Eileen Lor-ange
and Mr. Richard Leslie.
Lois Henjum, in charge of ar-rangements,
appointed the fol-lowing
committees : refreshments
—Betty Spitznagel, Muriel Lam-kee,
LaVonne Magnuson, Donna
Gilbertson, Joan Henjum, Elise
Halvorson, and Noami Seim;
lighting—Wes Sandvig and Mar-shall
Loge; decorations—Frances
Brager.
Homecoming Set
For October 17-19
Viking Days of 1947 is rapidly
swinging into shape under the
direction of Homecoming Chair-man
Tom. Kilian and his student
committees. The dates for this
twenty-fOurth annual Homecom-ing
festival are October 17-19.
The coronation of the Viking
Queen will officially open the
festivities on Friday evening, Oc-tober
17. This will be followed by
a torchlight parade and bonfire
pep fest. Special events on Sat-urday
will be the Homecoming
ceremony in the morning, society
luncheons, and a football game in
the evening between Augustana
and South Dakota State college.
Homecoming worship will be held
in the 'Gym-Auditorium Sunday
morning. A reception for the Vik-ing
royalty Sunday afternoon and
an LSA social meeting in the eve-ning
will conclude the weekend
celebration.
Homecoming committees are:
Coronation, Don Reeves, Jean Nel-son,
Hugo Lutz, Wes Sandvig.
Bonfire, Marshall Loge, Martel
Rud, W. W. Black. Torchlight pa-rade,
Jim. Cooley, G. Raustad, Bill
Winfree, Vie Peterson. Publicity,
John Townsend, Amo Hovland,
Lorna Pearson, Lawrence Wester-lund,
Burney Broderick. Alumni
registration, Bobbe Swenson. So-ciety
- lunc".-aeon; Kay Cashman.
Homecoming worship, Wally Hun-stad.
LSA social, Ray Melheim.
Men's smoker, Luther Troen.
Orientation Held -
For New Students
Orientation week for freshmen
and new students began Saturday
morning, September 6, with Pro-fessor
Stanley Olsen, chairman of
the Personnel council, presiding at
the introductory session held in
the Gym-Auditorium. Following
this the usual orientation tests
were given.
Saturday afternoon a panel dis-,
cussion, "Augustana's Place as a
Christian Liberal Arts College in
an Atomic Age", was held in the
gym. Participants were President
L. M. Stavig, Dean Jorgen Thomp-son,
Dean Helen Farley, Professor
Stanley Olsen and Edward Ner-vig,
public relations director.
The President's Hour opened the
program of activities Monday
morning. President Stavig spoke
on the subject, "Wellsprings of
Augustana", giving a brief his-tory
of the school.
On Monday afternoon separate
meetings were held for men and
women. Professor Stanley Olsen
spoke at both meetings followed
by speeches by Deans Farley and
Thompson.
Bob Huntley, student body pres-ident,
presided at the student life
program which concluded the
orientation activtiies Tuesday
morning, Sept. 9. Huntley intro-duced
members of prominent
campus organizations who in turn
told the freshmen the opportuni-ties
of entering into campus activ-ities.
MUSIC AUDITIONS
Auditions for the various musi-cal
organizations on the campus
began last week.
The personnel of the college
band has been tentatively selected
and will be announced later. The
first rehearsal was held Wed-nesday,
September 17.
Choir auditions are still being
held and auditions for the orches-tra
will begin later in the week.
Total Enrollment
Slightly Less
Than '46 Record
After three days of registration
859 cards have been checked out
for registration purposes, accord-ing
to Dr. I. B. Hauge, college
registrar. Added to this are 43
nurses, bringing the total enroll-ment
thus far to 902 students. This
represents the total enrollment of
only 20 students from last year's
record breaking 922 total enroll-ment
for the first semester.
Making up the large student
body are 385 veterans who are at-tending
under the jurisdiction of
the Veterans Administration. At
this time last year 501 veterans
had registered.
Approximately 300 of the stu-dents
are freshmen.
Attorney General
Speaks of Chapel
by Gerald Endahl
Sigurd Anderson, Attorney Gen-eral
for the State of 'South Dakota,
addressed the Augustana chapel
on Wednesday, September 17, and
left a large challenge before the
students. Mr. Anderson, a former
student of Canton Lutheran Nor-mal
school, in a talk on "Secur-ity,"
stated: "there is no security
in the force of arms."
In the development of his well
organized speech Anderson show-ed
that down through the ages
from the time of the cave man un-til
now, man has always relied on
power for security and has always
met someone greater.
The cave man had his stone
weapons which were developed to
metal but lost their effectiveness
when armor was invented. Later
gun powder was invented, then
large armies, mechanized armies,
until today one pilot with an
eight pound bomb can destroy a
whole city and populace.
Anderson stated that the only
answer to the quest for security
will be found in the plan of Jesus
Christ. The plan which calls for
peace and loving your neighbor.
It is the only plan that has never
been tried in large countries and
on a large scale.
It is the obligation of the Chris-tian
students at Augustana and
over the rest of the world today
to present this plan of Christ's to
their neighbors, to develop the
opinion that it is time to put the
plan of Jesus Christ into effect.
Mr. Anderson stated that until this
is done wars will continue.
In closing he said that the stu-dents
of today are the hope of the
world.
LDR Sponsors
Informal Party
Freshman girls were introduced
to the activities of the Augustana
LDR at an informal party in the
Huddle Lounge Tuesday night,
Sept. 9. Originally scheduled as a
picnic, it became an indoor water-melon
bust because of rain.
Arlette Pederson, president of
the society, welcomed freshmen,
and plans for the coming year
were discussed by officers, Mar-guerite
Fosvick, Virginia Herbst,
Kee DeBoer, and June Hinsvark.
The evening was concluded with
a hymn sing led by LaVonne John-son.
LSA Picnic Opens
Year's Activities
Bob Huntley, senior from Bemid- The Augustana LSA played
ji, Minn., resigned as student body host to the freshman class at a
president at the student meeting get-acquainted picnic Sunday,
Friday morning, September 19. September 7, at Sherman park.
Huntley has been president since Under the excellent leadership
last of a small group of upperclassmen,
about 250 freshmen started the
evening with games of softball and
volleyball and continued through