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Lorraine Kittelson, Harriet Halv orson, Bernice Jensen, Janet Whitfield, and Peggy Blatherwick.
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Religious Drama, As College Play
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Winter Edition of Pic-Campus On Sale Today
More Colleges The Message of Peace
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THE AUGUSTANA
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Christmas, in a sense, is a retreat from life. When life
becomes hard, when circumstances make living a bare ex-istence;
when sin and disappointment rob life of its calm and
serenity; when war and bloodshed stab our hearts with pain
—then it is good to hear the Christmas Message. For at
Christmas time God speaks powerfully to troubled souls and
lifts them into the world of eternity. And the word He speaks
is peace—peace which nothing in the world can disturb.
Thank God for that!
Christmas is also a return to life. Those who have been to
Bethlehem and have heard God speak His eternal word of
peace, sense more vividly than ever before the need for fac-ing
life again and conquering over sin and failure and des-pair.
They are strengthned and assured with the conscious-ness
that they have God with them. "And if God be for us,
who can be against us?" Thank God for that!
May God give us all, everyone, a truly Blessed Christ-mas.
Rev. Stanley Olsen
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BY BOB SNOOK
Religious drama found its
rightful place in college dramat-ics
last Tuesday evening with the
presentation of "The Lord's
Prayer" in the Augustana audi-torium.
Sponsored by the Au-gustana
Women's Auxiliary, this
mystery play depicting the seven
petitions of the Lord's Prayer,
gratified an enthusiastic audience
of over 200 people.
So that the audience might have
a better understanding of the
play, an interesting and enlight-ening
prologue was presented by
Betty Boe.
"The Lord's Prayer" had
no star performances. In a
play of this type, it would be
exceptionally difficult to
choose an outstanding per-formance.
The entire cast
enacted their roles with ut-most
sincerity. Each person
had a bit, however small,
that helped to make the play
the inspiring drama that it
was.
Special mention should be
given to the backstage crew that
directed the lighting. The audi-torium
was in darkness through-out
the entire play, thus adding to
the continuity and atmosphere.
The lighting of the various scenes
was exceptionally well done.
Lighted in somber colors at the
beginning, the play built up to
NLCA Ministers
Meet On Campus
During Christmas
Augustana college will be host
January 1-3 to the annual pas-toral
conference of Lutheran pas-tors,
N.L.C.A. from the South
Dakota district including this
state, Nebraska, Wyoming, and
Colorado. An attendance of about
100 is anticipated.
The conference will open
at 6:00 p.m. New Year's day
with a fellowship dinner at
the college.
The conference will continue on
Thursday and Friday with Prof.
H. C. Leupold, D.D., from Evan-gelical
Lutheran theological sem-inary,
Columbus, 0., as Bible in-structor,
giving "Studies in
Psalms;" and Rev. W. F. Schmidt,
professor of religion at Concordia
College, Moorhead, Minn., ad-dressing
the conference on sub-jects
relating to the church and
its ministry.
The devotionals each day will
be conducted by Rev. T. C.
Thompson, hospital pastor in
Sioux Falls.
Dr. C. M. Granskou, presi-dent
of Augustana college,
will address the pastors at
the fellowship dinner the
first evening. Rev. A. 0.
Storvick, Sioux Falls, chair-man
of the district Faith in
Action committee, will speak
on Thursday evening, and
Dr. L. A. Pierson, president of
the district, will deliver the
closing message of the con-ference.
Rev. L. E. Evans, of Sisseton,
S. D., is president of the confer-ence
and Rev. Elmer 0. Ellifson,
Lily, S. D., is secretary.
New Features
Are Included
In 1941 Edda
The annual is still available to
the student body at the $3.50 rate
announced earlier in the year, ac-cording
to Edda business man-ager
Howard Jacobson.
New Cover
A number of attractive and
novel covers for the yearbook are
under consideration for the 1941
Edda. The design will be orig-inal
and of a type never used
previously in this territory.
The new volume will be more
compact than previously, and
photography will entirely be of
an informal nature. Each stu-dent
is taken in any background
desired any place on the campus.
Aiding staff photographer How-ard
Olson are Don Feragen, How-ard
Hillman, Lowell Larson, and
Kenneth Norgaard. A new en-larger
for larger sizes of nega-tives
has been added to the pho-tography
department.
the emotional climax of the last
scene flooded by a bright light
with a lighted cross appearing on
the back curtain when the voice
of God was heard. Throughout
the entire play the lighting was
very cleverly handled.
A great deal of credit
should go to organist Dick
Leslie and to Dan Jones and
his twenty-voice choir. Their
background music through-out
the play preserved the
atmosphere and added touch-es
of emotional climax where
they were needed.
A play of this type is very dif-ficult
to direct. There is a great
possibility that it will "flop" if
not presented in an understand-able
way to the audience, because
much of it would have been deep
and difficult to understand had
it not been presented in such an
enlightening way.
This was due to the superb
direction of Dick Nelson and
Kristen Solberg, aided by Miss
Helen Farley. When you con-sider
that both directors are still
students, their job of directing is
even more admirable. It is dif-ficult
for students to direct stu-dents
of their own age and even
older. However, this was able
to be done because the entire
cast and stage crew were work-ing
toward a single goal: to pre-sent
an inspiring drama, and that
is precisely what they did.
Exhibit Of Art
To Be Displayed
In Art Library
On exhibit in the art library
from December 1-20 is the Asocia-ted
American Artists' collection of
original signed etchings and lith-ographs
by famous contemporary
American artists. Individual pic-tures
may be purchased by those
desiring to do so from Mr. Eide,
Miss Hogenson, and Bob Berg.
Also included in the exhibit are
a set of Japanese prints, original
hand made cherry wood block
prints. A collection of Christ-mas
cards is also included in
the Associated American Art-ists'
exhibit. They are miniature
productions of the original etch-ings
and lithographs and are also
for sale.
Included in the list of contem-porary
American Artists are
Churchill Ettinger, William
Sharp, Andrew Karoly, William
MacLean, Grant Wood, Thomas
Bentan, Waldo Peirce, Clayton
Knight, Peggy Bacon, Luis Quin-tanilla,
Margery Ryerson, Alice
Buell and Frederick Owen.
Register Open
For CAA Flying
Next Semester
Dr. Hoyem will accept applica-tions
for membership in the sec-ond
semester Primary Civilian
Pilot Training unit up until the
beginning of Christmas vacation.
Ten will be enrolled in the
unit which will begin ground
instruction and flight train-ing
about February 1st.
Applicants must fulfill the fol-lowing
requisites to gain mem-bership
in the unit: (1) Must be
19 but not 26 years old as of
February 1, 1940; (2) Students
now enrolled in college must be
full-fledged sophomores at close
of this semester; (3) If not now
enrolled in college, applicant
must have two years of college
credit; (4) Applicant must pass
CPT Commercial physical exam.
Total cost of the course to
the student is $25, distributed
as follows: registration, $10;
insurance $9; medical exam.,
$6.
Obligations to the government
which the CAA student accepts
by enrolling in a flight unit are
summed up: "Trainees pledge
their willingness to take con-tinued
flight training in the army
or navy if qualified physically
and if needed."
Thirty-one new members have
been added to the famed St. Olaf
college Lutheran choir at North-field,
Minn., bringing the total
to 63.
Pic-Campus, the intercollegiate
pictorial magazine edited by Ken
"Carp" Sandvig, Augustana sen-ior,
appeared for the fourth time
here today. The issue carries a
cover picture of Betty Rose, Civil
Aeronautics Authority partici-pant.
Augustana students featured in
the magazine include Olin Od-land,
Baldy Nelson, Marlys Orm-seth.
Bergie Halvorson, Lois
Monk, Harriet Halvorson and
homecoming queen attendants,
Glenn Lee, and Jeanne Abeel,
Lucille Skyberg, and Dorothy
Halvorson.
New colleges covered by Pic-
Campus are Gustavus Adolphus
college, St. Peter, Minn. ; James-town
college, Jamestown, N. D.;
St. Olaf college, Northfield,
Minn.; Macalester college, St.
Paul; and Hastings college, Hast-ings,
Neb. All liberal arts col-leges
in South Dakota are also
included.
Pic-Campus staff members are
Ken Sandvig, editor and pub-lisher;
Bob Haakenson, editorial
assistant; Ed. Pinney, business;
and Don Feragen and Howard Ol-son,
photographers.
Although originating at Augus-tana,
Pic-Campus is independent
of other college publications on
the campus.
Dining Hall Plans
Christmas Banquet
Members of the boarding club
will get two Christmas dinners
this year.
Before leaving for the family
fireside they will be treated to a
three course banquet in the din-ing
hall.
The banquet was initiated
three years ago by Mrs. Wilkin-son.
Since then it has been one
of the epicurean high spots of
the first semester. Traditional
parts of the banquet are Mrs.
Wilkinson's famous plum pud-ding,
and the Christmas carols
after the banquet.
Dining hall waiters are plan-ning
gaily decorated tables for
the affair.
CLASSES OUT
DECEMBER 20;
OPEN JAN. 7
Because of the disagreeable
weather conditions, the biggest
share of the faculty are going to
"keep the home fires burning"
and stay in Sioux Falls during
their Christmas vacation.
President C. M Granskou and
family's plans at the present time
are to stay home and enjoy
Christmas. Dean Cole and wife,
and Mr. Tonning and family plan
a like holiday. Mr. and Mrs. Carl
Youngdahl are also staying home
this year but are expecting their
son Richard, who is teacher and
student at the University of Min-nesota,
to spend Christmas with
them.
Blegens Move In
Professor H. M. Blegen and
wife are anticipating moving into
their new home the first day
school lets out for the Christmas
vacation. Their vacation will be
spent in arranging books, furni-ture,
and all that goes with mov-ing.
This will be the first year
while he has been in America,
that Mr. Blegen is not going home
to spend the vacation with his
family in North Dakota.
Miss Hilda Dahl is planning on
spending the vacation with two
of her sisters, one in Hankinson,
North Dakota, and another at
Bemidji, Minnesota. Mrs. Roberts
will spend the first part of her
vacation in Minnesota and be
back here for New Years. Miss
Allys Collings is considering
spending Christmas day in Madi-son,
South Dakota, but for the
remainder of the vacation she is
going to stay in Sioux Falls.
Mr. Albert Hoyem, because of
Augustana students will be
dismissed from classes for the
Christmas recess Friday, Dec-ember
20, at noon, and return
to their books Tuesday morn-ing,
January 7 at 8 o'clock.
Seventeen and one-half days
of vacation are expected to
rest students up for the sem-ester
test period which will be-gin
about two weeks after col-lege
reconvenes.
CAA duties interfering with his
vacation, will remain in Sioux
Falls over the vacation. The two
ground courses are to be com-pleted
by January 15, and to in-sure
this, Mr. Hoyem and trainees
will be compelled to resume work
the 30th of December.
Many Stay Home
Mr. and Mrs. Lefty Olson and
Ren Anderson and wife plan to
enjoy the holiday at home. Mr.
I. B. Hauge plans to spend his
vacation "in town and on the
skating rink."
Marjorie Bloom intends spend-ing
the vacation at her home in
Sioux Falls, and Carolla Brenne
is going to her home in Spicer,
Minnesota. Miss Christine Mathis
is also going to her home at
Fountain City, Wisconsin, "little
Switzerland of America," where
she will "get re-acquainted with
the other 975 inhabitants in the
midst of parents and Wisconsin
hills."
Helen Farley is contemplating
a trip to Leland, Illinois, her
home town. Evelyn H. Johnson,
during her vacation, plans on
going to Minneapolis to attend
symphony concerts and visit her
home in Fargo, North Dakota.
Professor Gunberg and wife
will spend the first four days of
the vacation in Minneapolis and
then return home where Mr. Gun-berg
will continue his research
work. Mr. J. Earl Lee is plan-ning
on going to Chicago where
he will attend a few plays, sym-phonies,
and the wedding of his
younger sister. Professor J. G.
Berdahl and family are to have
a quiet Christmas at home, as
well as the Tollevs and Froemke
families.
Professor 0. M. Lofthus plans
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BY SYBIL OLSEN
A large and appreciative audi-ence
heard the third annual
Christmas vespers service pre-sented
by the Augustana a capel-la
choir, on Sunday afternoon,
December 15, under the direction
of Dr. Carl R. Youngdahl.
A unique stage setting was
used. The choir was arranged
on a special platform to give
the appearance of an angel
chorus. The choir and Dr.
Youngdahl were spotlighted,
with the rest of the stage in
darkness.
Beautiful Savior Sung
The anticipatory Christmas
mood was well sustained by the
choir's first number, "Beautiful
Savior," by F. Melius Christian-sen,
with a soprano solo by Ber-nice
Jensen. "When Curtained
Darkness Falls," Christiansen's
first experiment with modernism,
was well-received, with Lorraine
Kittelson singing the soprano
solo. "The Three Kings," old
Catalan nativity song by Reve-rend
Lluis Romeu, was notable
for the extreme legato humming
and exquisitely blended back-ground
of choir accompaniment,
while Margaret Blatherwick sang
the solo of the Spanish folk song.
Noble Cain's "Holy Lord God"
was impressively interpreted, fol-
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lowed by one of Dr. Youngdahl's
most popular compositions, "The
Christmas Lullaby," with Harriet
Halverson singing the contralto
solo.
Quartet Plays
Between the two groups of
choir songs, an instrumental
quartet played "March of the
Magi," by Franz Liszt, an arrange-ment
of the old Latin hymn,
"Adeste Fidelis;" and "Romance
in B," by Matthews. The mem-bers
of the quartet were Eileen
Youngdahl Gunberg, violin; Eva
Kittelson, cello; Richard Leslie,
organ; and Eudora Johnson,
piano.
Witfield Soloist
The choir concert was resumed
with the very popular "Marien-lied,"
by Vega, sung in German,
with a soprano solo by Janet
Whitfield. Palestrina's "Alle-leuia,
Lord God," was sung with
a stimulating antiphonal effect.
A Christmas motet by Arnold
Mendelssohn included "Sing
Praise, All Nations," "The Wise
Men," sung in twelfth-century
organum style; and "The Morn-ing
Star So Fair Doth Shine," an
old Lutheran chorale harmonized
and arranged for women's voices.
The concert was especially not-able
for the wide range of styles
used in the song arrangements.