Westerlund Gets the Bird
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A popular extra-curricular activity off campus these days is hunt-ing.
Many of the students have taken to gun-totin' as the quest for
ducks and pheasants goes on.
Perhaps Lawrence Westerlund's good luck as shown above is
the cause of the present bird shortage. Anyway it looks mighty
delicious, Wes!
WIZ 74 alioalaita. MIRROR October 31, 1946 Augustana College, Sioux Falls, S. Dak., Vol. XVII, No. 22
Nineteen to Attend Registrar Submits Enrollment Figures
LSA Conference Latest enrollment total as compiled in the registrar's office is
947 students. The freshman take the upper hand as they outnumber
the other three classes combined.
For better than a week, Miss Knudson, secretary to the registrar,
has added to and subtracted from a record enrollment until with
trepidation, she submits this hopefully stable list of statistics.
Nineteen Augustana students
will leave tomorrow, November
1, for Grand Forks, North Dakota,
to attend the Northwest Regional
Conference of the LSA this week-end..,
This meeting of Lutheran
college students who have taken
as their theme, A Race With
Catastrophe, will be held on the
University of North Dakota cam-pus.
The meetings will begin with a
candlelight service Friday eve-ning
with Dr. Morris Wee, execu-tive
director of the Student Ser-vice
Commission, speaking on the
subject, Facing the Future with
Fear.
Saturday, November 2, will be
devoted to business sessions and
discussion seminars. Bible studies
will be led by Dr. Richard Syre of
the Western Theological seminary,
Fremont, Nebraska. Dr. Wee will
be the main speaker at the fellow-ship
banquet Saturday evening.
On Sunday morning there will
be a communion service, the regu-lar
morning worship and the in-stallation
of officers.
The delegates from Augustana
are as follows: Lois Larson, Elise
Halvorson, Dean Hofstad, Jolly
Carlson, Kari Prydz, Helen
Kvinge, LaVonne Johnson, Elda
Ust, Aldrich Syren, Vernon Kesz-ler,
Gordon Carls, Ardis Wek,
Marilyn Twedt, Arlette Pederson,
Avis Stiles, Ray Melheim, Orris
Sougstad, Maroline Blomquist,
and Milton Erickson. They will
leave Friday by chartered bus,
along with delegates from the
University of South Dakota and
South Dakota State college.
Choir Plans Trip
To West Coast
When Easter vacation comes to
Augustana next spring, the
college "A" choir, directed by Dr.
Carl R. Youngdahl, will, for the
26th consecutive year, "hit the
road." Their destination Miles
City, Montana, where they will
present a concert on March 16.
En route appearances are yet to
be scheduled.
This year's three week tour will
take the choir as far as the west
coast with concerts tentatively
arranged for Billings, Helena and
Missoula, all in Montana; Couer-d'Alene,
Idaho; Richland and
Portland, Oregon; Parkland,
Seattle, Everett, Tacoma, Belling-ham,
Bremerton and Spokane,
Washington; B o n n e r s Ferry,
Idaho; Kalispell, Montana; Cut
Bank, Havre, Glasgow, Williston
and Bismark, North Dakota.
The choir has been requested to
sing for various civic affairs and
within the state. These appear-ances
will be arranged for later
this semester.
No out-of-town performances
are scheduled for the "B" choir,
comprised of 101 voices. It is
scheduled to appear at the
Christmas Vesper services in
December.
CLASSIFICATIONS
Men Women Total
SENIORS 43 25 68
JUNIORS 47 46 93
SOPHOMORES 94 77 171
FRESHMEN _ _ _ _ _- 427 135 562
STUDENT NURSES 0 22 22
PART TIME 6 25 31
947
STATE CERTIFICATE COURSE
SOPHOMORES __________ 0 14 14
FRESHMEN 0 15 15
PART TIME STUDENTS
SENIORS 3 7
10
JUNIORS 2 9
11
SOPHOMORES _______ 0 2
2
FRESHMEN 1 7
8
RESIDENTS OF SIOUX FALLS
SENIORS 16
9 25
JUNIORS 14
10 24
SOPHOMORES 42 25 67
FRESHMEN 214 44 258
PART TIME_____ 5
16 21
STUDENT NURSES 0
1 1
DENOMINATIONAL DISTRIBUTION
LUTHERAN 536
METHODIST 131
CATHOLIC 69
PRESBYTERIAN 54
CONGREGATIONAL 30
BAPTIST 29
EPISCOPAL 29
CHRISTIAN 14
CHRISTIAN REFORMED 6
GREEK ORTHODOX 6
EVANGELICAL 5
MISSION COVENANT 5
CHURCH OF GOD 3
MENNONITE 3
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 2
JEWISH 2
ADVENTIST 1
NAZARENE 1
NO AFFILIATION 21
GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION
SOUTH DAKOTA 773
MINNESOTA 79
IOWA 43
CALIFORNIA 7
WISCONSIN
ILLINOIS 6
NEBRASKA 6
WASHINGTON 5
COLORADO 3
MICHIGAN 3
MONTANA 3
NEW YORK 3
OHIO 3
MISSOURI 1
NEVADA 1
NEW JERSEY 1
VIRGINIA 1
WASHINGTON, D. C 1
NORWAY 1
Play Postponed! Reorganized IRC
Because of a conflict in pro- Elects Officers
duction dates with the Sioux Falls
Community Playhouse, perfor-mances
of I Remember Mama by
the Augustana College Theatre
have been postponed until Nov.
25, 26 and 27.
Its So Depressing
By George Douthit
The other morning as I fell out
the back door,* I came upon a
startling thing. There upon our
sidewalk was a very mysterious
chalkmark". Of course I im-mediately
thought of our neigh-bor's
dog. I have always sus-pected
that he disliked me and it
would be just like him to do
something like that. (I think he's
Communistic.)
I like dogs. I know a lot of
dogs that seem to be smarter than
people. I also know some people
who are smarter than dogs. This
dog will lay in his yard and pre-tend
to sleep. He is really listen-ing
to my conversation.***
Naturally I complained to the
neighbors. They said he couldn't
write a word. I told them I
didn't have to take that from a
dog and that either the dog would
have to leave or I would. They
said I was right. I'm now look-ing
for an apartment.
All in all, I don't think dogs are
as nice as people think they are.
*I think someone had sneaked
in during the night and moved the
steps around.
**I have always been afraid
something like this would happen.
"*I think he reads my mail
too.
Stressing the importance of the
discussion of world affairs the
International Relations club was
reorganized at a meeting in the
speech room Tuesday evening,
October 29.
Adrian Dalen, senior, was elec-ted
president. Other officers in-clude
Jake Boomgarden, vice-president
and program chairman,
and Juell Ness, secretary and
treasurer. Publicity will be
handled by Laurel Gray and Wes
Sandvig. Dr. Tonning and Pro-fessor
Jorgenson are the faculty
advisors.
It was decided that the meet-ings
will be held on the first and
third Tuesdays of each month
lasting from 8 to 9:30 p. m.
Sponsored by the Carnegie
Foundation of International Peace
the club will base it's discussions
on periodicals sent out by that
group.
The next meeting will be held
Tuesday evening, November 5.
Place of meeting and the topic to
be discussed will be posted on the
bulletin board.
Flom to Revise
Constitution
With the appointment of a five-man
committee, Student Presi-dent
Bob Flom announced that
plans are now under way for re-vising
the present student body
constitution.
Elda Ust, Lorna Pearson, Bob
Holdridge, Virgil Johnson and
Flom comprise the group who are
in charge of rewriting the docu-ment.
Word has been received that
President L. M. Stavig has reached
his destination of Shekow, China,
the home of the Lutheran Sem-inary,
where the Conference of
the Lutheran Church of China
was to be held October 20-24.
With Dr. Daniel Nelson, mis-sionary
to China, Dr. Stavig left
from San Francisco October 4,
stopping at Honolulu for seven
hours, at the Johnston Islands,
Kwajelein and Guam for short
periods, and with a twelve-hour
stop at Manilla.
Exerpts from letters written to
Mrs. Stavig relate some of his
interesting experiences in the
Orient: "My plane, a DC4, was
not a "de luxe" liner like the
transcontinental planes in this
country, but a converted trans-port
plane, carrying 22 passengers
and having the baggage strapped
along one side of the plane. Only
sandwiches, coffee, and fruit
juices were served on board, but
at the stops we were fed in Navy
mess halls. The passengers took
turns sleeping on rubber mat-tresses
laid out in the aisle."
On board were a Filipino judge,
brother of the President of the
Philippines; a colonel, an Army
engineer who had just surveyed
the railroads and harbors of China
and was going back to put them in
shape; a Chinese who was one of
Chiang's six generals during the
war, and who was so overjoyed
when Dr. Nelson could speak
Chinese to him that he promised
them a Chinese feast when they
reached Shanghai.
After the plane arrived in
Shanghai October 8, Dr. Stavig
spent a week in that city visiting
the mission headquarters of var-ious
churches in China. Fortun-ately
he was able to live at the
Lutheran Service Center, which
"was indeed a welcome home."
He writes of the terrible in-flation
of Chinese money. Chang-ing
a $20 bill, Dr. Stavig said he
received $71,000. "Even if you
receive $1,000 or $2,000 bills, it is
useless to try to use a bill fold,"
he wrote, "so you just roll up the
money and put it in your coat
pocket." It cost $1,300 to send
an air mail letter home. A ton
of coal costs $550,000.
On October 15 Dr. Stavig flew
from Shanghai to Hankow, only
a three-hour trip by plane, but it
took two and a half hours to get
from the air port to the place in
the city where he was to stay.
This trip was made over the
roughest kind of roads—by truck,
by ferry, and by rickshaw. "It
was good," he writes, "to come
to the Lutheran Mission Home
and Agency, a modern, well
equipped hospitable center."
While in Hankow, he ferried
across the river and spent part of
a day visiting the Central China
university, a Christian institution.
The whole Hankow area was
occupied by the Japanese as early
as 1937 and has been badly hurt.
The letter continues, "Shekow
is twenty miles north, but com-munications
and transportation
are very difficult. No telephone,
of course. Long distance phone
is non-existent. Telegraph is
very uncertain. The train takes
two hours to go from Hankow to
Shekow. It leaves early in the
morning and it is almost im-possible
to get on board. We met
it going south and it was cer-tainly
a sight to behold — old flat
cars so crowded it looked like a
solid mass of people. Even the
engine and coal car and the spaces
between the cars were crowded
with people and some of them
even hanging on the outside. Four
of us got a bus (in our country a
truck) and came over the roughest
road I've seen."
Shekow was in Japanese hands
from 1937 to November, 1945.
The Seminary property was badly
damaged. Only two houses out of
the five for the professors are yet
habitable, though much repair
work has been done. There is no
furniture left. The delegates to
the conference are bringing their
own camp cots and bedding. Dr.
Stavig said he borrowed some
bedding in Shanghai and had
brought a bed out from Hankow
on the truck. There are no lights
except lamps and candles.
In spite of handicaps, various
committees were meeting during
the days before the conference
and planning for the work of the
church. These meetings, Dr.
Stavig says, were "strenuous but
worth while. There is a fine
group of people here."
Dr. Stavig has booked return
passage on a plane leaving
Shanghai December 2, but will
come by boat early in December
if that is possible.
President Stavig Reaches Destination in the Orient;
He Writes of Chinese Inflation and Peacetime Needs