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Vol. XXIV, 14o;-15
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COMMENCEMENT
MAY 25
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May 13, 1943
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Alvin Rogness Nominated ForAugustana College Presidency
Final Action Will
be at June 5 Meet 88 Students Will Receive Diplomas
Nomination of Rev. Alvin Rog- At Commencement Exercises May 25
ness, Mason City, Ia., as president
of Augustana college was announ-ced
recently by Dr. H. J. Glenn,
chairman of the Augustana board
of directors. Rev. Rogness was
nominated to succeed Dr. C. M.
Granskou who leaves July 1 to as-sume
the presidency of St. Olaf
college.
Final action on the nomination
will take place June 5 at the an-nual
meeting of the Augustana
college association in Brookings.
Rev. Rogness graduated from
Augustana in 1927 and returned
the next year as a speech instruc-tor.
From 1928 to 1932 he studied
at Luther seminary in St.. Paul,
Minn. and in 1932-33 he took
graduate work in philosophy at
the University of Minnesota.
Rev. Rogncss has served con-gregations
in Duluth, Minn.,
Ames, Ia. and Mason City, Ia.
Marion Utley Wins
'Madamoiselle' Contest
Marion Utley has been awarded
the first prize, a $100 War Bond,
in the current Design for Living
contest sponsored by "Madam-oiselle,"
national fashion mag-azine.
The sketch of her creation
appears on page 128 of the May
issue and the dress will be put out
by Carole King.
Along with the announcement
of the contest comes another bit
about Marion. She has just taken
over her duties as assistant editor
of "Infants and Children's Wear
Review," a monthly magazine
published especially for retail
buyers.
Miss Utley, who is now living in
New York City with Peggy
Blatherwick, Augustana '41, was
the editor of the All-American
Edda of 1940 and taught art here
last year.
Augie Mothers
At Tea Sunday
A very large representation of
Augie students, including several
of the fellows, escorted their
mothers to the Mothers' Day tea
held at ladies' hall, Sunday after-noon,
May 9.
Ten senior girls were selected
to act as hostesses for the occasion
and poured tea for the guests from
2:30 to 5:00.
Throughout t h e afternoon,
musical selections were presented
by Augustana talent on a program
arranged for the event by Norma
Nelson, committee chairman.
Dorothy Rasmussen, contralto,
Florence Olson, soprano, and
Lenord Benson, tenor, presented
vocal solos, and Evelyn Olson,
Marilyn Trueblood, and Dorothy
Ann Wheeler, piano students of
Professor Lee, gave several selec-tions.
Both vocal trios: "The Var-settes,"
composed of Loes Monk,
Marlys Ormseth and Betty Lou
Brumbaugh, and "The Three
Keys" or Canton trio, composed of
three freshman girls, Valoise
Johnston, Jean Rogers, and Ethe-
Rev. Alvin Rogness
Five Combined
Recitals Remain
Recitals are still playing a
prominent role in the minds of
Augie's music lovers.
In her freshman recital, Doro-thy
Ann Wheeler played Friday
night with great agility and dex-terous
movement. The three
movements, of Bach's "Toccata in
C Minor," were rendered with
much feeling and precision. The
second division, which consisted
of one number, "The Carnaval"
by Schumann, included the inter-pretation
of many scenes and
characters within a carnival.
Lighter numbers were the make-up
of the last group.
Another freshman recital was
given Tuesday night with Beverly
Kittelson, mezzo - soprano, and
Rosemary Dougherty, pianist.
While Beverly sang three groups
of selections, Rosemary played
two.
Last night R. J. Guderyahn pre-sented
six of his pupils in his
string recital. Classical selections
of Bruch, Mendelssohn, Sarasate,
and Bangoens were some of the
numbers played by Audrey Wal-stad,
Kathryn Paiggi, Jane Rubin,
Helen Drake, Audrey Stark, and
Evelyn Granskou. Tonight Mr.
Guderyahn will again present his
students in an ensemble program.
Tomorrow night is the last vocal
recital by Lucille Skyberg, mezzo-soprano,
and Paul Eid, tenor. Each
will sing two groups, while the
last two pieces are in duet form.
Sunday marks the last date for
Augie campus recitals, as an or-gan
program will be presented
in the gym at 6:30 in the evening.
Ruth Granskou, Harriett John-son,
and Lucille Skyberg will
each play a selection of pieces.
At 8:30 the same evening, J. Earl
Lee will present Evelyn Olsen,
Mildred Waltner, and Phyllis
Riley in a joint piano recital.
Wednesday night, May 19,
Phyllis and Dorothy Mussler will
appear in a joint recital at the
First Methodist church.
lyn Skyberg, were also featured
on the Mothers' Day program.
A color scheme of blue and yel-low
was carried out in table
decorations, with yellow daisies
used as flowers for the rooms.
Canapes, cakes, nuts, mints, tea,
and coffee were served as re-freshments.
Summer Term
Starts May 3/
Continuing the accelerated pro-gram
initiated a year ago, Augus-tana
college will again offer
twelve weeks of summer school,
making it possible to complete a
full year's requirement in a limit-ed
number of units during the
summer months. The first term
opens on May 31 and runs until
July 9; the second term begins
July 12 and ends August 21.
Pre-clinical work for nurses
who are going into training at
Sioux Valley Hospital in Sioux
Falls and at Luther Hospital at
Watertown in September, will be
given by the biology department.
The Watertown nurses will live in
the ladies' hall Both of the dormi-tories
will be open to other stu-dents
as well.
Arrange For Practice Teaching
Special methods of teaching
social science and English, along
with practice teaching in high
school, will be on the curriculum.
Dr. Hauge, registrar, has re-quested
that those who wish to do
practice teaching this summer
make arrangements before hand.
Courses will be offered making
it possible for high school grad-uates
to begin their college course
during the summer months.
Freshmen who begin their regu-lar
college work now will be able
to complete a four year course in
two years and nine months of
continuous study. The speeded up
program also enables upper class-men
to finish in less time.
Granskou to Lecture
A special feature of the first
term will be a series of lectures
by President Granskou on the
"problems of East Asia confront-ing
occidental. civilization."
The summer session will in-clude
several courses in science
and mathematics; first and second
year German, freshman Spanish
and sophomore French; courses
in commerce, literature and his-tory,
and private lessons in music.
Courses not now on the summer
schedule may be arranged if there
is sufficient demand for them. Six
semester hours a term is consider-ed
a normal load.
Find Those Lost Books
To Find Your Grades
Before you start worrying a-bout
what your grades are, you
better make sure you'll get them.
And you won't if you have a lib-rary
fine.
Miss Selma Hogenson has set
May 21 as the deadline. The
names of students who have not
returned books by then will be
turned into the business office and
no grades will be relinguished
until the fine has been paid.
The cooperation of the students
is also asked in turning in books
which are found. Inventory will
be taken June 1, and every book
and magazine in the library must
be accounted for at that time. Miss
Hogenson asks your help in keep-ing
the Missing Book list down to
the minimum.
The University of Minnesota in
the last fiscal year produced more
than $5,500,000 by its own oper-ations,
a sum considerably greater
than all state appropriations.
All-School Picnic
Saturday at Sherman
Starting with a treasure hunt
from the campus at 4:00 p.m., the
annual all-school picnic will be
held Saturday, May 17.
Following the treasure hunt
supper will be served in Sherman
park by a committee headed by
Evelyn Granskou. After supper,
games and other activities will
be organized.
Co-chairmer. for the picnic are
Carole Pinney and Dorothy Lou
Johnson.
Faculty Is Given
Formal Farewell
The formal reception held in
the college gymnasium Monday
night in honor of Dr. Clemens
Granskou, Dr. Albert Hoyem and
Coach "Lefty" Olson, was well at-tended
by faculty, students, and
visiting pastors with their wives.
The gymnasium was dimly lit
with blue and red lights and dec-orated
with several bouquets of
flowers. As the people came in
Ruth Granskou played soft organ
music. The group were seated in
a semi-circle formation for the
program.
Devotions were led by Rev.
Rossnig. Mr. Cliff Halverson as
treasurer of the Board of Direc-tors,
and Dr. Cole in behalf of
the faculty, each gave a short
speech in honor of the three
guests. Ed Byre, Margaret Eid,
Paul Olson and Phil Worthington,
representing the student body,
each said a few words in behalf
of their respective classes. Pre-sented
by Ruth and Evelyn Gran-skou
on the organ and cello were
the two selections, "Berceuse"
from "Joceyln" by Goddard and
"Calm As A Night" by Bohm. Dr.
Granskou, Dr. Hoyem, and "Lef-ty"
Olson each gave a departing
word, after which Stanley Gjer-vik,
student body president, pre-sented
Dr. Granskou with a gift
from the Augustana student body
and the faculty.
Punch and cookies were served
afterwards.
The Edda Will Appear
'Hot Off The Presses
Due to war time difficulties
with staff, engravers, and general
entanglement the 1943 Edda is
racing time in a struggle to give
to the Augie students their year-book,
as scheduled.
That there will be a yearbook ,
is a certainty, and it will be dis-tributed
hot off the presses. Editor
Morgan, Photographer Norlin and
Ad Artist Berg are working hard
to tie up loose ends and produce
a book worthy of their talents.
They are just as anxious to dis-tribute
it as you are to receive it.
However, if you don't get your
Edda before school is out it will
be mailed to you when completed.
By the way, are you paid up?
Tuesday, May, 25, at 10:30 a.m.
will mark the graduation date of
60 Augustana seniors and 28,two-year
normal students. Commence-ment
exercises will be held in the
gymnasium with music furnished
by the Augustana college choir;
and Dr. N. Astrup Larsen, presi-dent
of the Iowa district of the
Norwegian Lutheran church, will
be the speaker.
Baccalaureate services will be
held at the First Lutheran church
Sunday, May 23 at 11:00 a.m. Dr.
C. M. Granskou will deliver the
sermon.
At this time 59 students will
receive the degree of Bachelor of
Arts and one student will receive
the Bachelor of Music degree.
Twenty-eight students will have
completed the requirements of
the two year state certificate
course.
Two seniors have completed
their work for special honors this
year. They are Palmer Loken,
writing his thesis on "The Luth-eran
Liturgy, A Study of its His-torical
Development and Sym-bolic
Significance," and Harriett
White whose thesis was written
on "'Chaucer and the Lollards."
Special Services.
Held By LSA
A special candlelight service
was held in the gymnasium Sun-day
evening. Mr. Borg-Breen, in-terne
pastor of the First Lutheran
church, was the liturgist and pre-sented
a Mother's Day meditation.
Sherwood Thatcher, and the
girls' trio composed of Ethlyn
Skyberg, Valoise Johnston, and
Jean Rogers sang; and Lucille
Skyberg, accompanied by organ
and piano with a 'cello obligato
by Evelyn Granskou, sang a vocal
selection.
Instrumental music was furn-ished
by a string trio composed of
Phyllis Mussler, Audrey Stark,
and Kathryn Piaggi. Above the
white covered altar hung the
cross carved by Mr. Eide. SpeCial
lighting made the vocal selections
more effective. Audrey Brenne
gave a musical reading.
In charge of general arrange-ments
were Trudy Rogness and
Dean Hofstad with Leon Holm,
Evelyn Olsen and Stanley Gjer-vik
assisting. Invitations were
sent by Ada Fretheim.
War Stamp Sales For
Year Total $363.60
Muneen Johnson, promoter of
the War Stamp sale held every
Wednesday in the lounge has an-nounced
that the total of the sales,
up to yesterday, is $363.60.
The sale, a project of the War
Council, began last November. It
was formerly in charge of Ed
Stenberg.
Muneen wishes to thank the
following girls for their contribu-tion
of time used in selling the
Stamps: Doris Holm, Marge Han-son,
Marian Holden, Alicelouise
Ruys, Dotty Lou Johnson, Dorothy
Simons, Audrey Brenne, Bondell
Carlson, and Connie Kleinheinz.