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ATTEND ALL A.ugustana Mir ror THE SESSIONS
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REGISTER FOR
THE CONVENTION
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Dr. J. A. Aasgaard Rev. Oscar C. Hanson
Rev. All Kraabel Rev. Daniel Nelson
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Vol. XXIII, No. 5
Augustana College, Sioux Falls, S. D. February 25, 1942
Augustana Host to Three-Day
Gross Wins Huron Extern!), Committees
McBath Takes Discussion for Banquet
Are Named
Date Tentatively
LSU Convention Opening Friday
James McBath
Houske Second
in Peace Oratory
Augustana's speech squad, win-ners
of the Red River Valley
tournament and the Rocky Moun-tain
speech confab, lost the South
Dakota forensics sweepstakes by
lane point. At the contest held in
Huron February 20-21, Augus-tana
garnered 34 points compared
to Yankton college's 35.
McBath Tops Field of 30
James McBath, with two firsts
at Moorhead and four top rank-ings
at Denver already to his cre-dit,
came through to win first
place in the extempore, discussion
of inter-American affairs. A total
of 30 entrants from the various
colleges battled it out in the first
rounds, with the field then nar-rowing
to 10. In the finals Augus-tana
had three entrants compet-
- ing against three each from USD,
DWU, and one from Northern.
McBath will enter the regional
contest next month, with the re-gional
winner being awarded a
trip to South Dakota, all expenses
paid. The contest has been spon-sored
by the office of co-ordinator
of inter-American affairs.
In that the extempore discus-sion
was a speCial division, Mc-
Bath's winning did not add any
points to the state event wins
which Augustana piled up.
Gross Wins Men's Extemp
Don Gross swept a -field of nine
entrants to win the men's extemp
division, and to quote Coach Hugo
Carlson, "That was really a tough
contest." Gross has, thus far in
the season, teamed with McBath
to win 18 rounds of debate with
no defeats.
-Houske, Bekke, Driver Place
Harold Houske, Augie's most
thorough-going skeptic," took sec-ond
place in the peace oratory
division.
Avis Bekke, Red River winner,
placed third in women's extemp,
with Evelyn Driver placing sev-enth
in oratory. Evelyn was one
of Augustana's three finalists in
the inter-American discussion,
one of two girls allowed in the
finals.
McBath was second-place win-ner
in men's oratory.
Squad personnel for participa-tion
in the St. Thomas tourna-ment
on March 2, 3, 4 has not yet
been determined, but Augustana
will be well-represented in all di-visions.
After this week-end, Dick Nel-son
will be able to take that dazed
look off his face and go back to
his classes.
Have you noticed how the cam-pus
is being brightened for the
convention? Polishing furniture,
waxing floors, and putting the
finishing touches on the newly
decorated parlors in the boys
dorm are a few of the prepara-tions.
Don Gross
Mirror-ist
,Fills Minute
Woman Role
Like to know how it feels to be
in the movies? Just ask Shirley
Morgan, because for one whole
minute last Thursday, February
19, she emoted in front of the
camera for a national news reel.
Shirley's big opportunity
came when two gentlemen
from Washington D. C.,
called upon the Augustana
speech department to recom-mend
a typical girl to repre-sent
the college in the reel,
which is being made to pro-mote
the national sale of de-fense
bonds and stamps.
Shirley got the nod and was
interviewed by these gentle-men
for two hours, during
which they learned the na-ture
of the work being done
here in the interest of de-fense.
A minute script was written for
her, which she read, the content
running to the effect that Augus-tana
girls are doing their bit by
knitting for the Red Cross.
The reel is being sponsored by
the treasury department and will
include people from all walks of
life throughout the country. It
will be shown in theaters all over
the nation.
Shirley said she "wasn't a
bit nervous, but I wish I
might have used my own
words so I would have felt
more at home."
Miss Galvin
Set for April
According to the ,arrangements
committee, the date for the jun-ior-
senior banquet h been ten-tatively
set for the second week
in April. Members oft this com-mittee
are; Dolores Edwards,
chairman; Ed Pinney, and Ran-dolph
Peterson.
Serene Tonning heads the date
committee and acting with her
are Harriet White, Leighland
Johnson, and Paul Aspaas.
Chairman for the collection of
dues is Phil Megard. Otherepem-bers
of the committee art: Bill
McCormick, Ruth Seim, Audrey
Thompson, Gordon Thu e, Vic-tor
Odland and Bob Clikeman.
The program committee con-sists
of Norman Sampson and
Connie Haugse, co-chairmen, Har-riet
Johnson, Charles Carlson and
Ole Odland.
On the invitation committee
are Loes Monk, chairman; An-nette
Endahl, Emerine Pederson,
and Betty Brumbaugh.
Leonard Payne and Dorothy
Collins are co-chairmen for the
decoration committee.. Other
members are Peggy Swancutt,
Eileen Fosland, John De Roos,
Ann Nelson, Marcia Henderson,
Betty Dempster, Nick Petrakis,
Maury Matson, Lillian Juul, Jean
Bowen, Florence Olson and Eula
Mae Jertson.
Oratory Members
Speak to Downtown
Commerce Groups
Members of Dean Keith Case's
advanced oratory class have en-tered
whole-heartedly into the
Junior Chamber of Commerce's
"Americanism" program. Connie
Haugse, prominent dramatics
board member, spoke over sta-tion
KSOO on Friday, February
20. Also speaking on Friday were
Dick Nelson and Ruth Seim, who
addressed a special assembly at
All Saints school.
Last Tuesday night, these three
spoke to the Junior Chamber's
Speakers' Bureau, and were criti-cized
and evaluated by the mem-bers.
Palmer Loken and Audrey
Thompson, together with perhaps
three others still to be chosen, will
take part in a panel discussion
at a meeting of the Lutheran
Brotherhood on Tuesday, March
third.
Do you like crowds of people,
fun and excitement? Then Au-gustana
will be the place for you
during the press and LSU con-ventions
beginning day after to-morrow.
Busses full of students from
Concordia, St. Olaf, Luther, and
the Academy will pull into the
campus to unload on Friday, a
sight which gives Rev. Olsen a
thrill. He is especially looking
forward to welcoming and meet-ing
them, humorously adding
that he can hear a good speaker
any time, as, for instance, when
he preaches.
As Margaret Molberg con-templates
the coming thrills
her mind drifts back over the
highlights of the five annual
LSU conventions and two
press conferences she has at-tended
thus far. Her thoughts
linger upon banquet memo-ries
of the last convention at
Augustana. "It was informal
and loads of fun. Puns and
jokes followed one after an-other.
Comparisons of re-verse
date nights among
the schools were especially
funny."
Dorm devotions in character-istically
informal attire is a mem-ory
from Concordia which Evelyn
Granskou treasures. The dimly
lighted room and inspired singing
produced a feeling of close asso-ciation
that she will never forget.
She remembers also the humor-ous
skits from each school at
which she laughed so heartily.
The stimulating discussions char-acteristic
of these conventions is
what she looks forward to during
this week-end.
Dick Nelson eagerly awaits
the coming of Rev. Field, who
will lead the singing during
the sessions, and Rev. Oscar
Hanson, both of whom have
vital personalities. Thinking
of conventions brings to his
mind recollections of the bliz-zardly
weather of last year.
He lost a rubber helping to
push the Augie bus out of the
ditch into which it had slip-ped.
Eula Mae Jertson remembers
the huge attendance at the ban-quet
at Luther. Though their
gym, at least as large as ours,
was filled with tables, more places
were needed, so chairs were
placed at the ends as well as
sides of the tables. At Concordia
she was impressed with the ex-tent
to which the whole college
backed every session and assim-ilated
its visitors.
The thoughts of Bob Haaken-son,
elected president of the press
convention for this year while at
Concordia, are centered about a
convention publication to be re-leased
for the first time this year.
Delegates at the press conference,
which is closely allied with the
LSU convention, will print a
paper covering all events of the
LSU convention. These papers
will be distributed amongst all
member colleges, being available
on the Augustana campus Sunday
noon as the convention draws to
a close.
Watch for the twelve foot LSU
convention banner with the LSU
motto and convention theme on
it. It will be framed and trans-ferred
to the center of activity
throughout the weekend. Con-gratulations
to Mavis Hanson and
Bob Gabel on their work in mak-ing
this banner.
Norse Club
Holds Meeting
"Latest News from Norway,"
was Ruth Seim's topic when she
spoke at the meeting of the Norse
Club in the Ad building on Feb-ruary
18.
The entire program for the
evening was given by the first
year class. Other selections were
a vocal solo by Leonard Benson,
Norwegian riddles by Lester Ax-dahl,
and group singing of Nor-wegian
songs.
The next meeting of the club
is to be held the second Wednes-day
of March and the program
will be given by the second year
class.
Press Confab Is
Opener; Register
Friday Afternoon
As host for the LSU conven-tion
centering around the
theme "One Life to Give," the
Augustana campus will hum
with activity this week-end.
Delegations are expected from
Luther, St. Olaf, Concordia,
Fairview Hospital, Lutheran
Deaconess Home, Augustana
Academy and Pacific Luth-eran.
Convention Paper is Innovation
Arrangements for the LSU
Press Convention beginning Fri-day
morning, are in charge of
Bob Haakenson, president, and
secretary Percy Kirkeby. This
organization was formed to pro-mote
better interest in religious
activities through the various col-lege
papers, giving special em-phasis
to the LSU activities. An
innovation this year will be the
convention paper which will be
out on Sunday.
Free registration for the con-vention
will be carried on in the
recreation room Friday afternoon,
where all LSU'ers will choose
their interest groups and receive
programs, badges, and identifi-cation
tags.
Following the informal mixer
and fellowship supper, special
busses and cars will take students
to the candlelight service at First
Lutheran Church. This service
promises to be one of the most
distinctive features of the con-vention.
Rev. Oscar Hanson,
formerly YPLL president and
pastor at Watertown, will be the
speaker. Rev. Hanson is now Ex-ecutive
Secretary of YPLL in
Minneapolis. Others on the pro-gram
include Peggy Blatherwick,
Audrey Brenne, Evelyn Gran-skou,
and members of the choir.
Crowded Program Saturday
Rev. L. N. Field, the jovial Mon-tanan
who is now in the depart-ment
of religion at Luther, will
lead the hymn sing on Saturday
morning, followed by Bible Study
with Rev. Hanson. Missionary
Daniel Nelson, just back from
China and now studying in New
York City, will conduct the mis-sion
hour. The noon luncheon
will be served buffet style in the
Huddle. A special bus will take
students who attended Fair Hills
Camp last summer to a luncheon
at the Chocolate Shop.
Election of officers for the en-suing
year will be the principal
feature of the business meeting
at 1:30. Rev. All M. Kraabel will
conduct the afternoon mission
hour. Rev. Kraabel is pastor of
Central Lutheran church in Port-land,
Oregon. The interest groups
will be led by Prof. T. Huggenvik
of St. Olaf; Prof. C. Ylvisaker,
Concordia; Rev. A. E. Hanson of
Brookings; Rev. Kraabel; and
Rev. Nelson.
Highlight of the weekend will
be the convention banquet to be
held at First Lutheran at 7:00
Saturday evening. Toastmaster
Sterling Simonson, Augustana
alumnus now studying at Luther
Theological Seminary, will intro-duce
the speaker, Rev. Daniel
Nelson. Other features include
installation of new officers and
pictures taken at Fair Hills camp
this past summer.
Communion Service Sunday
Rev. Kraabel will deliver the
communion service sermonette on
Sunday morning, with Rev. H. J.
Glenn presiding over the liturgy.
"One Life Completed" is to be
the topic of the sermon which Dr.
J. A. Aasgaard, President of NC
LA, will deliver at the closing
festival service. The Augustana
choir will sing two numbers and
a convention offering will be
taken.
LSU Vice-President Dick Nel-son,
who has been in charge of
complete arrangements for the
convention, urges that everyone
be on time for all sessions.
Faculty Wedding Bells
Prof. Larson
Robert Larson, mathematics professor, will join the ranks of the
married teachers at Augustana this Friday, February 27, when Fern
Galvin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul C. Galvin, of Cedar Falls, Iowa,
will become his bride in a home ceremony.
After their return to Sioux Falls, Mr. and Mrs. Larson will reside
at 603 South Prairie Avenue.