The 74 Ufa/liana IR.B.C)13. October 10, 1946 Augustana College, Sioux Falls, S. Dak. Vol. XVII, No. 19
Viking Queen o 1946
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Notice
Alumni visitors have been asked
to sign the register in the gym-nasium
lobby Friday evening or
Saturday morning.
Queen Candidates
Are Talented
Ambitious Coeds
Suspense will fill the Gym-
Auditorium Friday evening, Oc-tober
11, as the audience awaits
the revelation of the 1946 Viking
Queen. No one but the queen,
her attendants and those having
direct charge of the coronation
ceremony have known the name
of the honored person.
Following are brief sketches of
the seven girls who were chosen
by the student body as candidates
for queen:
Queen Lois Larson of Sisseton,
plans to be a teacher, with majors
in music and sociology. Lois has
been a member of the a cappella
choir for four years and of the
religion board two years. She is
now president of the LDR. She
has served as a representative on
the student council, secretary of
the LSA, treasurer of the junior
class, AGA treasurer and dorm
council representative.
Elaine Brekke, Lake City, is
president of the Phi Rho society
and a member of the WAA.
Majoring in history Elaine is un-decided
as to teaching or working
in an office after graduation.
From Hartford comes Shirley
Carls a soloist in the a cappella
choir. An assistant of Professor
Eide, Shirley has done display
work at a downtown department
store and plans to do design work
in some field with music as a side-line.
She has been publicity
manager of WAA, a member of
LDR and an assistant in stage
settings for the College Theatre.
Shirley also worked on the 1946
Edda and is the newly elected
president of Ladies hall.
The married woman of the
seven candidates is Bernice Klin-kel
Niess from Canistota. A
soloist with the a cappella choir,
Bernice, better known as Klink,
is a member of the Philomathian
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AGA to Sponsor
Royalty Tea
A tea in -honor of the Viking
Queen and her attendants to be
given by the AGA, Augustana
Girls Association, on Sunday
afternoon, October 13, will wind
up the Homecoming activities.
The tea will be held in the Ladies
hall parlors from two until five
p. m.
Elizabeth Gulbraa is chairman
in charge of preparations for the
tea. Her committee consists of
program, Avis Stiles; decorations,
Virginia Herbst; posters and in-vitations,
Dorothy Hanson.
The acting hostesses will be
Judy Hovland, Gloria Opdahl,
Margery Dahlberg, Marilyn Woll-man,
Arline Jorgenson, Wilma
Graff, Kathryn Brende, Esther
Hyland, Oliva Giedd, Kari Prydz,
Betty McDonnell and Mrs. Rachel
Bunt.
At the door to receive the
guests will be Georgie Abeel,
Helen Johnson, Alverna Wilson,
Marilyn Gimbel, Ardis Wek and
Donna Lorentson.
All alumni, students and fac-ulty
are invited.
Open house will be held in the
Ladies hall and men's dormitories
from 2 to 5 p. m. on Sunday after-noon.
Pep leader Westerlund requests
your presence at the bonfire, east
of the stadium, after the Corona-tion
Friday night.
You will hear the good old
Augie yells and talks by the Vik-ing
team. Bob Huntley is in
charge of the traditional bonfire.
Krause Completes
Second Novel
Professor Herbert Krause, head
of the English department, has
announced the publication of his
forthcoming book, The Threshers.
The novel was finished last spring
with final revisions made in June.
Publishers, Bobbs-Merrill, Inc.,
have reported that the book will
be on the market soon.
In the words of the author, The
Threshers is "the story of the
development of threshing near the
Red River Valley; the triumph of
steam threshing and the conflict
between the steam threshers and
the gasoline threshers."
Professor Krause spent seven
years of research for the work.
He has gathered most of his
material from the Dakotas, con-centrating
on the Red River
Valley territory in North Dakota.
In addition he spent several weeks
in Dearborn, Michigan, observing
models of horsepower, steam and
gasoline threshers in the Ford
Museum there.
Enrollment Total
Now Reaches 955
Nine hundred and fifty-five
students have pledged their efforts
in the quest for higher education
at Augustana. Several late regis-trants
have added to the earlier
announced total of 922.
Women 339
Men 616
Veterans:
Women 13
Men 487
Non-Veterans:
Women 326
Men 129
Alumnus to Give
Convocation
Address
Dr. Carl 0. Pederson, '27, will
be the speaker at the Homecom-ing
Convocation at 10:30 Saturday
morning, October 12. He will
speak on the topic "Education
with a Cross Emphasis."
Dr. Pederson is now pastor at
the Lutheran church in LaCrosse,
Wisconsin. He recently finished
a book, "Biblical and Church
History," to be used in confirma-tion
classes.
Sophomore Honors will be
awarded three juniors who have
displayed outstanding work in
their first two years of college
work. Those students receiving
honors are Esther Johnstad, Ar-lette
Pederson and Gertrude Erd-man.
Each girl will receive a
twenty-five dollar scholarship to
be applied on her tuition. To re-ceive
these honors a student must
maintain at least a "B" average
and have contributed in some
special way to Augustana life.
The Rev. Palmer Loken, an-other
Augustana graduate of
Maskell, Nebraska, will pronounce
the invocation. Professor Richard
Leslie will play an organ solo and
a men's quartet, made up of Dean
Hofstad, Arlyn Roe, Inman Hesla
and Arvid Brekke, will sing.
Dr. Pederson will also conduct
the Homecoming worship at East
Side Lutheran on Sunday morn-ing.
To new students and old grads
who may be wondering about the
occasional references in snatches
of conversation around school to
a mysterious "Ole", here follows
an exhaustive study: The Saga of
Ole the Viking, patron saint of
Augustana.
Though there is speculation that
a nebulous Scandinavian Paul
Bunyan hovered about the cam-pus
since Augie's early begin-nings,
Ole the Viking did not
make a physical appearance until
October of 1939 — the product of
the creative pen, hammer, saw,
and brush of Austin Kilian, '42,
free soul and Editor of the Edda.
Since 1939, Ole has been a golden
thread in Augustana activities.
The familiar Viking helmeted-head
of Ole finds it's way into the
Mirror, the Edda, various posters,
Cole to Speak
Dr. Martin L. Cole, dean of St.
Olaf college, will be the speaker
at the 1946 alumni banquet
scheduled for Saturday evening.
The banquet will be served at
5:00 p. m. at First Lutheran
church. Toastmaster will be Mr.
Francis Smith, '36 Augustana
graduate and president of the
Alumni Association.
Dr. Cole is former dean of
Augustana and history professor.
He resigned from his position
here in the spring of 1945 to take
over his duties as dean at St. Olaf.
Special music will be furnished
by the men's quartet and a song
fest will be conducted by Palmer
Larson. A greeting will be given
by Dr. I. B. Hauge.
The queen and her attendants
are to be guests at the banquet
and all seniors are given special
invitations. Tickets, at $1.25 each,
may be purchased at the Public
Relations office.
programs and other printed
material around the school. The
annual awards in journalism have
been changed from "oscars" to
"oles". "T" shirts feature the
horned head of Ole the Viking.
Queries to Augustana graduates
brought the following informa-tion:
Bob Haakenson, '42 : ". . Kilian
. . . is Ole's father, no question
about it . . . the first Ole that I
remember ' well, let's
see . . . I helped nail an Ole up on
a board fence closing off some
const/(uction work on the corner of
Tenth and Phillips. Kilian brought
out his first Ole for a homecoming
in '39 or '40 . . ."
Martin Lutter, '39 : " '39 (is) the
authentic date. It was Ole's
second year, the Homecoming of
'40, that Kirkeby, Dannenbring,
and Carlson rescued him from
Sioux Falls College abductors,
who had consigned him to the
flames . . ."
L. H. Erickson : "The original
effegy has been destroyed."
Austin Kilian : " . . . When I
drew him up, it took half the
Gym shop floor, and enough wall-board
to build a veteran's housing
unit to do the job. Arthur "Pun-jab"
Thorson served as the
model. . ." ". . .Ole the Viking
spent the war years in Valhalla as
overseer, stacking up the Axis
Generals as they checked in. He
kept an eye on Augie men in all
branches. He still wears half of
an ancient Viking uniform and
half of an Augie football suit, with
a war axe and club in either hand
and a football under his arm. . ."
Long be the reign of Ole the
Viking
Lois Larson will be crowned queen of Augustana's twenty-third
annual Homecoming in the coronation ceremony to be
held Friday evening, October 11, in the Gym-Auditorium.
Miss Larson will be attended by Elaine Brekke, Shirley Canis,
Bernice Klinkel-Niess, Doris Shay, Elda Ust and Jewyll
Mortensen.
Organ music played by Miss
Eileen Lorange will herald
the entrance of the six at-tendants
who will precede the
queen down the aisle. They
will remain standing on the
stage until the queen reaches
her throne, set against a black
and silver background.
Bob Flom, student body
president, will place the
crown upon the head of the
queen, who will make a short
response. Carol Gunberg,
daughter of Dr. and Mrs. E.
W. Gunberg, will be crown
bearer.
A bouquet of long-stemmed
roses will be presented to the
queen as a gift of the student
body. White bouquets will
be brought to the attendants
by the ushers.
The queen's dress is of
heavy white satin. It is
fashioned with a gathered
bodice fastened with rhine-stone
clips, cap sleeves and a
long train. She will wear
long white gloves and a brace-let,
a gift of the attendants.
Gowns of black velvet made
with wide shoulder straps,
full skirts and small bustles
will be worn by the attend-ants.
They will wear long
black fingerless gloves.
The queen and her attend-ants
will be honored guests
at the Alumni banquet Satur-day
evening. Their next ap-pearance
will be at the Home-coming
football game where
they will be seated in cars on
the side of the field. At the
beginning of the game, Miss
Larson will present the ball
to the captain of the Viking
squad.
Sunday afternoon the roy-alty
will be honored by a tea
given by the AGA in the
Ladies hall parlors.
Your Pep 1! !
SAGA OF OLE, THE VIKING