1414Ctioatrata MIRK May 4, 1944 Augustana College, Sioux Falls, S. Dak. Vol. XXV, No. 14
Augustana Spring Musical To Be Presented Tonight
Regular Courses To Be Given
During Summer School Term
College Presents
Spring Recital
In Old Main
Augustana College will pre-sent
Dorothy Rasmussen, mezzo-soprano,
and Marilyn Trueblood,
pianist, in a sophomore recital on
Tuesday, May 2, in Old Main
Chapel at 8:15.
The recital will include the fol-lowing
selections:
I
Feldeinsamkeit Brahms
Maienkatzchen Brahms
Der Schmied Brahms
II
Mon Coeur's Ouvre at a voix
Saint-Saens
III
Afton Water __Scotch Folk Song
Turn Ye to Me, Scotch Folk Song
I Sigh of Love __Scotch Folk Song
Dorothy Rasmussen
Prelude in G Sharp Minor
Rachmaninoff
Nightfall —___—___—_____ _Griffes
Rhapsody in C Major ____Dohnanyi
Marilyn Trueblood
The Wounded Birch
Gretchaninoff
The Swan Kramer
A Feast of Lanterns Bantock
Dorothy Rasmussen
Red Cross
To Close Room
The Red Cross Surgical Dress-ing
Room will not be open for
making bandages the rest of this
semester, due to too little remain-ing
time.
Charline Farnsworth, chairman
of the Red Cross Surgical Dress-ing
Committee said that due to
cleaning and other delays down-town,
we were unable to get
gauze cut for bandages.
The room will be opened again
next fall.
LDR Meets
At Stavigs
Mrs. Stavig was hostess to the
L. D. R. at her home Sunday eve-ning,
April 30.
Miss Swanson, Dean of Wo-men,
spoke on social work. She
told many of her experiences as
student interne at a settlement
house in Detroit, Michigan. She
said "Christians should never for-get
the need for foreign missions,
but they must also remember
that:
There's Europe on the avenue
And Asia on the street,
And Africa goes plodding by
Beneath my window seat.
At the previous meeting, a mov-ing
picture of Alaska had been
shown. Sunday night Joan Bur-ull
and June Hagen told more
about the people of Alaska and
the mission work which is be-ing
done there. They presented
the need of the Shismaref Mis-sion
which is sponsored by the
L. D. R.
After lunch the group sat a-round
the lighted fireplace and
sang hymns. Mrs. Stavig sang
the song "My God and I."
Lounge Receives
New Furniture
As a result of two gifts given
to the student body for the im-provement
of the Lounge, two
couches and two birch end tables
have been purchased.
Miss Helen Farley, now in the
WAVES, gave $100 with the spec-ification
that it be used for the
Lounge. Two matching couches,
finished with rust and yellow
plaid upholstery, h a v e been
bought with this money.
The Augustana Auxiliary
bought the two birch end tables
for the Lounge. They were se-lected
by Mrs. Stenseth, president
of the Auxiliary, and Dottie Lou
Johnson, member of the Lounge
committee.
Edda ! !
Attention! ! Get your Edda's
Friday, May 5, at the ticket
office in the Gym. Only 100
copies will be ready by then
and first come, first served!
The rest will be available on
Saturday.
Choir To Sing
At Madison
Members of the Augustana
choir will sing at the South Dako-ta
district League Convention at
Madison on Sunday, May 7.
Dr. Carl Youngdahl will direct
the choir in singing two groups of
their own selections. They will
join with other choruses to make
up a state choral union which will
sing Sunday afternoon.
This is the last out-of-town en-gagement
for the choir this sea-son.
By Virginia Caldwell
Greek, Italian, Spanish, Ger-man,
French, Swedish, Norwe-gian,
Dutch, Danish, Flemish, Cat-alonian,
Icelandic and Portuguese!
That is quite a list of languages
for one man to master but, not
content with having fourteen
tongues under his control, Pro-fessor
Blegen is now working on
Russian, Arabic, and Japanese.
This linguistic genius all stems
back to Church's Ferry, North
Dakota, around 1906 when little
Helmer Blegen was going to Nor-wegian
Parochial school. At this
time, his English was a source of
constant embarrassment because
he could only talk Norwegian and
he didn't get along so well. So, he
decided to learn English—and he
did! Incidentally, he always beat
his classmates in mental arith-metic.
Mr. Blegen received his B. A.
from St. Olaf College in 1920, and
his M. A. from the U. of Minneso-ta.
Before coming to Augustana
College in 1927, he taught at Plea-sant
View Academy in Ottawa,
Illinois; Waldorf College in For-
Summer school plans are near
completion. They will include
two terms of summer school. The
first term will begin June 5 and
will end July 15. The second
term starts July 17 and ends Aug-ust
26.
Regular first semester courses
will be given during the first
term, and the second term will in-clude
regular second semester
courses. There is a sufficient de-mand
for these subjects so that
this can be done.
A full years' credit for subjects
taken will be obtained by attend-ing
both summer terms.
A pre-clinical nursing course is
also included in the program.
This course starts June 15 and
ends September 5. Chemistry,
micro-biology, human anatomy,
and physiology are the subjects
that will be taught.
The enrollment last summer
was 211. This year it is expected
to be smaller. A complete sched-ule
for the summer terms will be
posted May 1.
Tea Planned
For May 10
Members of the Augustana
Auxiliary are having a benefit tea
which is to be held May 10, in the
Gymn-Chapel. This tea is to aid
the Augustana Building Drive.
The program is as follows:
Organ music Mrs. Miles Peck
Welcome Mrs. Stenseth
Solo Mrs. E. A. Abrahamson
String trio
Reading Lois Roney Larson
Girls Chorus
Solo
Mrs. Stavig
After the program refresh-ments
will be served. An admis-sion
of thirty-five cents will be
charged.
est City, Illinois; and at Augsburg
College in Minneapolis.
In 1930, Professor Blegen toured
Europe for two years and got a
chance to really use his lan-guages.
While on the continent,
he attended the U. of Paris and
the U. at Florence, Italy. It was
in Florence that he acquired his
interest in Renaissance Art.
This explains why Mr. Blegen
has remained at Augustana de-spite
many better offers. "I like
Upper row, left to right: Phyllis
Riley, Marlys Ormseth. Bottom
row: Audrey Stark, Katherine
Piaggi.
Voice, Piano Recital
To Be Given May 9
Augustana College will present
Beverly Kittelson, mezzo-soprano,
and Phyllis Riley, pianist, in a
joint recital on Tuesday, May 9,
in Old Main Chapel at 8:15.
The program will consist of the
following:
Lind Grondahl
Der Skreg En Fugl Sinding
Til En Grieg
Tak For Dit Raad Grieg
Beverly Kittelson
Sonata quasi una Fantasia Op. 27
No. 1 Beethoven
Andante—Allegro
Allegro molto e vivace
Adagio con espressione
Allegro vivace
Phyllis Riley
Je Suis Trop Jeunette, French
Folk Song, Arr. by Deems
Taylor.
May Day Carol, English Folk
Song, Arr. b y Deems
Taylor.
In The Country, Belgian Folk
Song, Arr. b y Deems
Taylor.
Kau Fra Hallingdalen, Norwe-gian
Folk Song, Arr. by
Deems Taylor.
Beverly Kittelson
Singing Fountains Niemann
Clair De Lune Debussy
Polonaise in E Major __Liszt
Phyllis Riley
When I Bring to You Coloured
Toys Carpenter
Far Away __________ Forge
When I Have Sung My Songs
Charles
Into the Light La Forge
Beverly Kittelson
anything that wakes people up.
Augustana has a great future.
Already hundreds of boys and
girls have discovered things like
art and music for the first time
here. My students have been
above the national average for 16
years now in French and Spanish.
I learned for the first time
that President Stavig and Pro-fessor
Blegen were pals in college.
One summer, they hitch-hiked out
to California where Mr. Blegen
became the housekeeper. As
soon as Mrs. Stavig came into the
picture, the housekeeping im-proved.
Professor Blegen took nothing
but science and math in high
school and college. "That's be-cause
I dislike unscientific hu-manists
and un-human scientists.
My favorite gripe is the apotheos-is
of mediocrity." You'll have to
look up that one in the dictionary!
Professor Blegen had a very
exciting childhood. Church's
Ferry was frontier territory dur-ing
his early years. He saw rail-road
and telegraph lines come in
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Riley, Ormseth
Complete Plans
Show Centers
On Collegiate Life
Augustana's spring musical will
be presented tonight, Thursday,
May 4, to students and the public
in the gym-auditorium. The pro-gram
will start at eight o'clock
and center around collegiate life
and modern music.
Phyllis Riley and Marlys Orm-seth
have been the co-chairmen
working out all the plans for the
entertainment. Chuck Collins
will be the master of ceremonies.
To Open In "Huddle"
The program will open with a
scene depicting college life in
the Huddle, where students are
drinking cokes at the counter or
sitting listening to the nickel-odeon.
This scene concludes with
the girls chorus singing the Aug-ustana
Fight Song. Phyllis Riley
directs this group of twenty sing-ers.
Former Augustana student, Lu-cille
Skyberg and Phyllis Riley.
will play a twin piano duet, "Tur-key
in the Straw." Following
this number Miss Beverly Kittle-son
will sing a vocal solo. As
the lights fade away Augustana's
trio, Marlys Ormseth, Ethelyn
Skyberg and Valoise Johnston
will sing "When its Dark on Ob-servatory
Hill" typifying the end
of day on Augustana's campus.
Skit to Conclude Section
Harriet Lee, Jewyll Mortenson
and Bernice Klinkel will enact
a humorous skit on life in the gay
nineties concluding the collegiate
section of the program.
Orchestra to Play
"Star Dust" played by the
girls orchestra will introduce the
second part of the musical. Kath-ryn
Piaggi is the director assisted
by Audrey Stark. Another piano
duet will be played by Lucille
Skyberg and Phyllis Riley en-titled
"Begin the Beguine." The
girls chorus will then sing "Black
Magic", followed by another trio
selection "Long Ago". The grand
finale of the evening's entertain-ment
will be "My Hero" sung by
the girls chorus.
Various other numbers are be-ing
arranged by the committee.
Harold Ersland, Robert Mandsag-er,
David Natwick, and Phyllis
Harum will be in charge of the
stage. Paul Olson, as business
manager, will be in charge of fin-ances.
The production staff is
composed of: Paul Hammond,
Chuck Collins, Audrey Stark and
Harriet Lee.
Hauge Attends
Registrars Meet
Dr. I. B. Hauge recently attend-ed
the thirty-first convention of
the American Association of Col-legiate
Registrars at Chicago,
April 25, 26 and 27. This conven-tion
included all the colleges in
the United States and in Canada.
The purpose was to discuss col-lege
problems and future plans.
Some of the topics receiving spe-cial
consideration were: college
credit values of courses taken in
the various m i l i t a r y units
throughout the country; credit
for military experience; contribu-tions
of the colleges during the
transition period from war to
peace; admission of non-high
school graduates and the outcome
of accelerated programs in the
colleges.
Speakers for the convention
were representatives of the army,
navy, registrars, and college pres-idents.
Blegen Has Mastered Fourteen Languages; s Learning Russian;
Versatile Professor Had Exciting Childhood On Frontier