Lyle Whealy Verna Lokke
IRC President
Richard Youngdahl
Will Discuss Peace Plan
New Members Accepted By
Club, Raising Total
To Forty-six
Richard Y oundahl, new president of
the Augustana college International Re-lations
Club, announced at a meeting
of the club held at the Richard Larson
home October 13 tentative plans for an
invitational conference to be sponsored
by the Augustana club some time during
November. Invitations are being ex-tended
to colleges in the near north-west.
Youngdahl announced that meetings
of the Augustana club will be held every
other Tuesday, with the year's dis-cussions
centering around the six-point
peace program.
Initiation Is Held
The October 13 meeting featured the
initiation of fifteen regular members
and twelve associate members into the
club, bringing the total membership up
to 46. The initiation exercises, in charge
of Edward Nervig, were in the form
of a mock trial with new members being
examined on their knowledge of inter-national
affairs.
The qualification prescribed for re-gular
membership in the club is a
major or minor in one of the social
sciences.
Richard Youngdahl, the new presi-dent,
succeeds Kenneth Holum of Gro-ton
who last year headed the Miss-issippi
Valley Conference held in Sioux
Falls. Youngdahl is a member of the
a capella choir and a forensic squad
member. Gretchen Norby, Sioux Falls,
is the club secretary.
New Members Accepted
The following are the newly-accepted
regular members of the club: Ethel
Grue, Webster; Florence Welsh, Sioux
Falls; Evans Nord, Reading, Minn.;
Eugene Holland, Parker; Woodrow
Stember, Sioux Falls; Marlowe Torger-son,
Rapid City; Melvern Halvorson,
Astoria; Gottfried Moller, Baltic; Her-bert
Shapiro, Sioux Falls; Sterling
Simonson, Brookings; Dorothy Nelson,
Sioux City, Iowa; Ann Millman, Sioux
Falls; Loren Waller, Loyalton; Clara
Chilson, Webster, and Catherine Green,
v Falk
Associate members are: Warren
Strain, Soldier, Iowa; Georgia Reed,
Sioux Falls; Norris Olson, Eagle Grove,
Iowa; Orville Thompson, Sioux Falls;
Marvin Halverson, Sioux Falls; Scott
Lovald, Midland; Eunice Stoltenberg,
Stevens Point, Wisconsin; Marie
Mannes, Jackson, Minn.; Dorothy
Leubecker, Sioux Falls; Stacy and
Stanley Helgerson, Sioux Falls, and
Raymond De Boer, Corsica.
Literary Societies
Breakfast Alumni
Old Members Honored While
Back For Homecoming
Day Activities
The Athenian Literary society held
its annual alumni breakfast at the
Chocolate Shop Sunday morning,
October 11, at 8:30 o'clock, Mary
Strahon, the new president, acted as
chairman of the program. Short talks
were given by the first Athenian presi-dent,
Mrs. E. Akre, nee Dora Anderson,
and Miss Borghild Dahl, adviser of the
society. Lois Roney gave a musical
reading accompanied by Evelyn Vagle.
As each member left she was presented
with a large yellow chrysanthemum.
Arrangements for the breakfast were in
charge of Jane Menke and Edith
Hugill.
Philo Breakfast Held
The annual alumni breakfast of the
Philomathian society was held at the
Virginia Cafe No. 2, Sunday morning,
October 11, at 8:30 o'clock. Bernice
Severson, president, presided over the
informal program. She introduced
her cabinet to the alumnae, tfien
each member and alumnae present in-troduced
herself informally. Bernice
Severson, Viking Day Queen, was
honored by a gift, a beautiful picture
from the society. Thordis Aas was in
charge of arrangements for the break-fast.
At the Harbor Buffet Sunday morn-ing,
October 11, at 8:30 o'clock the
Adelphic society held their annual
alumni breakfast. Myrna Wetteland,
president, acted as chairman of the
program which consisted of two violin
solos by Helen Sundem, a piano solo
by Mildred Rud. Each person present
introduced herself, the alumnae told of
their work and present members talked
on the work and projects of the
society. The alumnae were all urged to
visit the newly decorated Adelphic room
which was formerly the radio room in
the administration building.
Societies Meet
Monday evening, October 12, the six
literary societies held their weekly meet-ings
in diverse manners. The Athenians
met for a business meeting in the ad-ministration
building where plans were
made for a pot-luck dinner to be held
on Friday, October 16, after the foot-ball
game, at the home of Jane Menke,
1506 South First Avenue, and reports
were read of the sale of flowers and
pop corn balls sold at the Homecoming
football game. Bernice Severson enter-tained
the Philomathians at 1400 South
Main at a pot-luck supper, after which
they listened to special programs over
the radio. At the Adelphic meeting in
the Adelphic room Ruth Skartvedt led
the discussion and showed illustrations
of modern homes, rooms, and furniture
arrangements. The Gladstonians con-tinued
their discussions on "Choosing a
life mate."
Molnar's Play To Be Produced
At YMCA Auditorium
In December
Scheffer To Direct
Wetteland Assists; La r so n,
Roney To Be In Sup-porting
Cast
With the selection of a cast complet-ed,
rehearsals started Monday night on
Augustana college's first dramatic pro-duction
of the year, "The Swan" by
Ferenc Molnar, contemporary Hungar-ian
dramatist. The play will be pre-sented
in the YMCA theatre some time
during the middle of December.
"The Swan," a modern romantic
comedy, is being directed by Mrs. John
Scheffer, head of the college dramatics
department. Myrna Wettetand is assit-ing
Mrs. Scheffer as assistant student
director.
Lokke, Whealy Play Lead Roles
Romantic leads for "The Swan" have
been assigned to Lyle Whealy, Colman.
who will portray the part of Agi, the
tutor, and Verna Lokke, Sioux Falls,
who has been given the role of Princess
Alexandra. Whealy, prominent in
dramatics in high school, has participat-ed
in several former college produc-tions.
Miss Lokke, a freshman, was en-rolled
in the college dramatics depart-ment
this summer, and had the lead
role in the summer's production "Lady
Windemere's Fan" by Oscar Wilde,
directed by Prof. Keith Case.
In the supporting cast, Lois Roney
was given the part of Beatrice, Alex-andra's
mother, and Richard Larson
was assigned the role of Prince Albert.
Both Miss Roney and Mr. Larson have
had lead roles in previous productions
by the Blackfriars. Miss Roney took
the part of Mrs. Bernick in last year's
play "The Pillars of Society," and Mr.
Larson portrayed the chaf,efec.,of Hans
Olsa in "Giants in the Eaccfr 1% well
as having a part in `the *Pillars of
Society." - •--
.
The rest of the cast, as announced
by Mrs. Scheffer, includeSs
Alfred, Loren Waller; Atsene, Emma
Hovrud; Caesar, James Ausan; coun
Dorothy Nelson; Dominica, Marion
Utley; George, Abner Hegre ; Hussars,
Scott Lovald and Rangvald Whitmyre;
Father Hyacinth, Donald Dell; lackeys,
Orville Moller and Sidney Ensberg;
lady in waiting, Enid Larson; Count
Lutzen, Roy Ludtke; maid, Marjorie
Norton; Symphorosa, Mary Strahon;
Colonel Wunderlich, John Page.
Plot Is Reviewed •
With the setrin ,, ;- Ars, •-
country, "The Swan" takes for its plot
the complications arising when Beatrice
attempts to realize her ambition of see-ing
her daughter, Alexandra, "The
Swan," a queen, by marrying her to
Prince Albert, the heir to the throne.
Albert's indifference to Alexandra's
charms prompts Beatrice to promote
what she falsely considers a pseudo
romance between Alexandra and Agi,
the family tutor. The success of
Beatrice's scheming is developed in the
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Discussion Group
Holds Meeting in
College Dining Hall
LDR Members Choose "Secret
Sisters"; Hold Reg-ular
Meetings
The Discussion Group met Tuesday
evening, Oct. 13, in the parlors of the
Ladies' hall. Warren Strain conducted
the devotionals. A continued discus.
sion from the former meeting on the
topic, "Honesty, was held. Tuesday
evening, Oct. 20, the group met in
the parlors of the Ladies' hall with Ray
DeBoer as chairman. David Larsen led
the group in devotion. The "Honor
System" was the topic discussed by the
group.
The L.D.R. held its regular meeting
Wednesday evening, Oct. 14, in the
parlors of the Ladies' hall. Miss Hind-eraker
led in devotion, and Leona
Stenseth gave two readings entitled,
"God's Semaphore" and "The Last
Hymn." Mildred Nelson sang a vocal
solo entitled "Submission" following
which Marion Evanson concluded the
program with a clarinet solo. After
the program the L.D.R. members drew
names for their secret sisters. Secret
sisters are to perform kind deeds
throughout the year and will be re-vealed
at the end of the school year.
The Mission Union met Sunday
morning, Oct. 18, in the radio room
of the Administration building with
Leona Stenseth in charge. Agnes Over-seth
led the group in Scripture reading
and prayer. A talk on "Home Mis-sions"
was given by Emma Hovrud.
Members of the Mission Union gave
a program at the Lutheran church in
Lake Preston, Sunday evening, Oct.
18. Lu chard Eid presented the Bible
study. "Foreign Missions" was the
theme of Warren Strain's talk. Melvin
Peterson talked on the topic of "Home
Missions." Several vocal selections were
furnished by the Rud sisters trio.
The college Luther League met Sun-day
evening, Oct. 11 in the Old Main
chapel. Organ music was played by
Joyce Steinbach. Arthur Olson led the
group in devotionals, using as the text
John 15: 1-10. Burnis Rogness, an
alumnus of Augustana now attending
Luther Theological Seminary, spoke on
the "Central Pivot of Life." Music for
the evening was furnished by Richard
Hervig, who played a trombone solo,
and Albert Ordal, who gave a vocal
solo.
Sunday evening, Oct. 18, the Luther
League held its regular meeting in the
Old Main chapel. Eunice Stoltenburg
led in devotion. Sterling Simonson
talked on the topic, "Learning to Live,"
which was the theme of the L.S.A.
convention held at Fargo, N. Dak.
Myron Hokeness completed the pro-gram
with a vocal solo.
Plays Trumpet, Directs 30-
Piece Organization For Large
Audience; Margery Maxwell
Is Featured Soloist.
By Alton Amdahl
Bohumir Kryl presented an orchestra
concert, "heavenly" to most of the
audience, but "both heavenly and hell-ish"
to Kryl, at the Coliseum Sunday
evening, October 18.
The famed maestro, his long grey
hair flowing behind his ears in reputed
musician fashion, directed in a like
manner, drawing every shade of feel-ing
from his orchestra by wiggling his
Lingers, shaking his head and waving
his arms in long sweeping gestures.
The symphony orchestra, one of the
finest musical organizations Sioux Falls
has seen in recent years, justified its
renown in an eight-piece program to
which a wildly applauding audience
added nine encores, four of them after
the last number on the program. Of
the forty musicians comprising the
group, Cornelia no ,a, and Mar-gery
Maxwell were featured in harp,
cornet, and vocal solos respectively.
Plays Trumpet Solo
The highlight of the evening was
the solo by the trumpet virtuoso. him-self.
His rendition of "Carnival de
Venice" equalled the reports of his
playing, which is saying a great deal.
At times he gave the effect of two
cornets, one playing a melody and one
an accompaniment. His much-vaunted
low note, an octave below low F, was
no letdown, either, as it blasted out in
trombone style. Kryl, in speaking of
the low note, said, "Anyone can do it
if he practises—for thirty years."
The Bohemian-born artist first came
to this country at the age of ten.
Having started out playing the violin,
he later took up the study of the
cornet, earning the label from musical
authorities, including Sousa, of "the
best cornetist in the world."
Although he has directed a concert
band for thirty years, this is only his
second with his symphony orchestra.
That partly explains the youth of his
personnel. The reason Kryl gave was,
I like them young; they're more flex-ible,
brighter, more intelligent. I can
mold them into the type I desire." He
has collected his personnel from all
over the country, but mostly from New
York and Chicago.
Maxwell Sings
Margery Maxwell, black-haired so-prano
soloist, and formerly of Dell
Rapids, commented on American ap-preciation
of music by saying, "In
France music seems to be born in the
minds of the people; here in America
appreciation of music is relatively
new—even in the Dakotas we are find-ing
audiences that have been just
hungering for good music. This de-velopment
can be entirely credited, I
think, to the radio and to the remark.
able teachers found in our schools and
colleges."
Cornelia Bona, blond young harpist,
told a group of listeners that the
orchestra's fifteen-concerts-a-week sched-ule
was very strenuous at first, but the
members soon got used to it.
"Yes, I tune my own harp before
every concert," she answered a ques-tion
to that effect. The fact that most
harpists quit studying because their in-srumcnts
are too sensitive to tune makes
this statement especially interesting.
Bohumir Kryl voiced the prevailiing
sentiment when he said, "The audience
here tonight is one of the finest I have
played for. I hope to be back here
again in two more years."
Dramatics Class Makes
Study of Modern Stage
Visiting the Sioux Falls coliseum
Monday, Mrs. John D. Scheffer's col-lege
dramatics class made a first-hand
inspection of the modern stage. The
class has been making a study of the
theatre from the earliest period down
to modern times.
The stage manager gave the class a
detailed explanation of stage equipment,
lighting effects and scenery, and stage
terms used in a script. He invited the
class to come back at a later date while
a play is being presented.
This is the first year that dramatics
has been included on the regular curri-culum
at Augustana. Listed as Speech
33, the course deals with problems of
the modern stage and is open to Juniors
and Seniors.
1 IC 113J LA,C11 ca uCcIl—tat,
has written short stories, was a sergeant
in the Philippines during the Spanish-
American war, has written a book,
"The Philippines and the Filipinos,"
and at present is the postmaster at
Mitchell. Tickets for this, the second
of the Artists Series, may be obtained
at the E. C. Olson Co.
College a Capella
Choir Back From
Three-Days Tour
Concerts Given In Northern
Nebraska, Southern
South Dakota
Dr. Carl R. Youngdahl, director
of the Augustana college choir, has
received word that four of his com-positions
arranged for eight voices
have been accepted for publication
by the Augsburg Publishing House
in Minneapolis, Minnesota. All four
numbers have been used on recent
concert tours by the choir. They
are, "Asleep in Jesus," "Alone
With Thee, Dear Lord," "The
Sweetest Name on Mortal Tongue"
and "Glory Song."
The Augustana college a capella
choir returned Wednesday, October 21,
from a three day concert tour in north-ern
Nebraska and southern South
Dakota starting Monday, October 19.
The choir, directed by Dr. Carl R.
Youngdahl, gave concerts in Harting-ton,
Nebraska, Monday evening, in
Newman Grove, Nebraska, Tuesday and
in Freeman, South Dakota, Wednesday
evening.
Are In Three Groups
Each concert consisted of three
groups; the first included "Aspiration,"
soprano solo by Winnie Lewis, "Exalta-tion,"
"Regeneration'" and "Glorifica-tion,"
all from Melius Christiansen's
"Celestial Spring"; the second includ-ed
"Asleep in Jesus," Youngdahl, tenor
solo by Herbert Johnson, "Christmas
Lullaby," Youngdahl, contralto solo by
Regene Halvorson, tenor solo by Harold
Hanson, "Sing Alleluliah," McCollin,
bass solo by Myron Hokeness, tenor
solos by Herbert Johnson, Marlowe
Torgerson; "Morning Star," Christian-sen,
tenor solo by Harold Hanson; the
third group consisted of "Softly and
Tenderly," Youngdahl, tenor solos by
Clifford Olson, Marlowe Torgerson,
"Glory Song," Youngdahl, baritone solo
by Eugene Anderson. "The concerts
also featured two violin solos by Eileen
Youngdahl, "Ave Maria," Schubert, and
"Espaniole," Sarasate, piano accom-paniment
by Regene Halvorson, and two
songs by the college male quartette com-posed
of Eugene Anderson, Marlowe
Torgerson, Herbert Johnson and John
Fundingsland, "Cherubim Song," Bor.
tniansky, and "Te Deum," Sibelius.
Appears At First Lutheran
Tuesday evening, October 27, the
choir appeared at the meeting of the
Women's Missionary Federation at the
First Lutheran church in Sioux Falls,
presenting a concert in two groups.
The first included "Regeneration" and
"Glorification" from Christiansen's
"Celestial Spring" and the second con-sisted
of "Softly and Tenderly," Young-dahl,
tenor solo by Clifford Olson, and
"Sing Alleluiah," McCollin, tenor solos
by Herbert Johnson and Marlowe
Torgerson, bass solo by Myron
Hokeness.
The Augustana Mirror
Vol. XVII Augustana College, Sioux Falls, S. D., Thursday, October 29, 1936 No
New College Dramatics Class To Present 'The Swan';
Verna Lokke, Lyle Whealy Have Romantic Leads
Republicans Emerge Victorious in
Augustana Student Body Symposium Richard Youngdahl, New Prexy of
International Relations Club, Lays
Plans for Invitational Conference Romantic Leads in "The Swan"
Election Climaxes Two Weeks
Of Intensive Campaigning
By Student Politicians In
Invitations Sent To Colleges Chapel Period Talks.
In Near Northwest; To
Be In November
Bohumir Kryl Appears with Orchestra,
Soloists in First Artist Series Event
After an intensive campaign and a
series of chapel speeche;, a student elec-tion
was held Friday, October 23, with
the result that Landon won with 125
votes, Roosevelt came second with 99,
Norman Thomas, Soeialist candidate,
polled 75, Colvin, Prohibition candi-date,
two, and Lemke trailed with one
vote.
For the last two week' campaign man-agers
Odell Hanson, Nstoria, for the
Democrats, William Wumkes, Lennox,
for the Republicans aud Marvin Hal-vorson,
Sioux Falls, fir the Socialists,
have been handing out buttons, arrang-ing
chapel speeches and haranguing
their listeners in true campaign style.
The net result was a political fervor
culminating in the larF e 302-vote elec-tion.
Attacks Democrats
The speech series opened Friday,
October 16, with William Wumkes at-tacking
the New Dei,i for the Re-publicans.
Edgar Nesse next took the
stand for the Democrats to outline the
good Roosevelt has accomplished in
the NRA, AAA, HOLC, NYA and re-lief
administration. Herbert Shapiro
pointed out in the following speech the
Christian principles of Socialism and
the results it has attained in the Scan-dinavian
countries. Dorothy Spence
concluded the session by quoting facts
subversive to New Deal spending.
Continued Thursday
Thursday, Oct. 22, marked another
verbal conflict. Bernard Boos, taking
up the Democratic cause, compared
Roosevelt to a football coach who has
done well and who needs more time to
complete his work. W illiam Wumkes,
Republican speaker, took up the com-parison
by saying that the coach used
a lot of brilliant plays, none of which
succeeded. Marvin Halverson as
Socialist speaker told the assembly that
the choice was either Democrat and Re-publican,
which amounted to the same
thing, or Socialist. The speeches closed
with a Democratic attack on Landon's
inconsistencies delivered by Scott
Lovald.
Socialists Speak
Opal Plowman and James Mag-nuson
opened the speeches the next day
by upholding Socialist principles. Next
Clara Chilson, Rep it lican speaker,
volubly attacked No Deal spending
and held up the long record of Re-public'
n leadership. Hanson
acted as u emOcraiic :7',:esman in ae-nouncing
Socialism as a pretty picture
but only a picture. He said that any-one
who knew whom the Liberty League
supported and whom the workers sup-ported
could safely vote for Roosevelt
without further knowledge. The camp-aign
was closed with speeches by
Socialists John Fundingsland and Ed-ward
Nervig. Voting began immediate-ly
after chapel and continued until
4:00 o'clock. At 6:00 o'clock the votes
had been counted and the results given
were announced in the college dining
hall.
In the election Republican candidates
made a clean sweep of the four posi-tions
voted upon—president, governor.
senator and representative.
Artist Series Will
Bring Coursey for
Talk November 18
Eye Testing Equipment
Added To Department
According to I. B. Hauge,
head of the psychology depart-ment,
the college is to add to its
equipment the Betts, "Ready-to -
Read" tests, which arc principal-ly
known for their great service
to students, in that, through the
process, an indication is made
whether or not the person has a
physiological or psychological
reading problem.
All students will be tested to
see whether they should consult
an eye specialist or whether they
need to exercise certain eye
muscles which help their sight.
The new process gets at the
quickness of the eyes focusing at
one spot. This basic survey can
be given in five minutes. The
problem case tests take longer.
Since so much pedagogical time
and effort has previously been
wasted because the instructor could
have no assurance as to whether
the individual reading problem
was physiological or psychological,
the value of this new service
should be apparent.
Mirror Delegates
Leave for College
Press Convention "South Da k o t a Literature"
Will Be Subject
Of Address
0. W. Coursey, noted lecturer and
author from Mitchell, will speak at
the First Lutheran church in Sioux
Falls November 18 on the subject,
"South Dakota Literature." Students
may hear Coursey's lecture, which is un-der
the auspices of the Augustana Col-lege
Artists Series, by presenting their
student activity tickets.
Coursey is known as an authority on
South Dakota literature, having edited
"Literature of South Dakota" and other
anthologies of South Dakota literature.
He himself is also well known as an
author. He has written five volumes of
"Who's Who in South Dakota," a
"Biography of General Beadle," "That
Lonely Jew," "The Beautiful Black
Hills" and many other works.
Ayleene Tollevs' Short
Story Wins First Place
Ayleene Tollevs, an Augustana college
sophomore, won first prize in the an-nual
short story contest sponsored by
the General Federation of Women's
Clubs of South Dakota. This story, en-titled
"Rummage Sale," is a human
interest story of the depression. Miss
Tollevs' prize winning story was writ-ten
in her freshman rhetoric class, in-structed
by Miss Borghild Dahl who
urged her to enter this contest. The
award was announced at the annual
state meeting at Huron, October 2.
This contest is conducted annually and
cash awards were given for the best
short story and for the best poem; the
latter prize was won by Mina Sager of
Vermillion, a graduated of the Uni-versity
of South Dakota.
The Federation has requested Miss
Tollevs to read "Rummage Sale" over
WNAX, the broadcasting station at
Yankton. The young author is to
y al ,i1C nieCtaiLS
of the History Club on October 27.
Prof. Eide Exhibits
Michalov's Prints in
Ladies' Hall Parlors
South Dakota will be represented by
ugustana college at the fifteenth an-
.ual Associated Collegiate Press con-cntion
held in Louisville, Kentucky,
October 28 to 31. Representatives from
iere are Virgil Lokke, editor and
Loren Waller, business manager of the
✓lirror.
John B. Kennedy, famed NBC corn-nentator
and former associate editor of
..2olliers magazine, will give the main
address at the nation's largest gathering
of college journalists when he speaks
before the delegates to the Associated
Collegiate Press convention, on October
31. Mr. Kennedy, an outstanding
editor and writer of the day, will speak
to the group on "Current Events and
the Co-liege student.
In addition to the address by Mr.
Kennedy, the convention program con-tains
many of the famed newspapermen
and magazine writers of the United
States. Included in this list are: Her-bert
Agar, Pulitzer winner and associate
editor of the Louisville Courier-
J ournal; George Brandenburg, Chicago
correspondent of "Editor and Publish-er
; " Mark Ethridge, general manager
of the Louisville Courier-Journal and
Times; Thomas F. Barnhart, author of
"Weekly Newspaper Management" and
professor of journalism at the Uni-versity
of Minnesota; Paul B. Nelson,
editor of "Scholastic Editor," and many
others well known in the field of prof
fessional and collegiate journalism.
Outstanding among the convention
convocations will be the special panel
discussion at which representatives of
the professional press, the universities,
and the reading public will tell what
they would do "If I Were A College
Editor."
Additional Shelving
Added To Library;
New Books Received
1936 Edda Receives
First Class Honors
In National Contest
Prof. Eide has on exhibition, in the
parlors of the Ladies' hall this week,
a group of original prints by the art-ist,
Ann Michalov. The group consists
of nineteen lithographs, including three
colored ones.
Miss Michalov, a Russian by birth,
is a prominent Chicago artist who is
now making sketches for murals which
are to be used in schools and other
public buildings. She was invited to
exhibit prints at the Dallas World Fair
Fine Arts Exhibition this year, where
her lithograph, "Jonesville," is now be-ing
shown. Her colored lithograph,
"Compote," was exhibited at the Inter-national
Print Show held in Chicago
last year and caused much comment.
A print of each of these is included in
the exhibition here.
The process of lithography is espec-ially
difficult. On a stone so sensitized
that the least speck of oil or even a
hair will make a mark, the artist
draws his composition with a greased
crayon, not touching the stone with his
fingers. When the sketch is finished
the stone is de-sensitized with a gum
arabic solution, and washed with tur-pentine.
It is kept wet throughout the
printing so that when the greasy ink
is applied it will adhere to the greased
crayon lines, and the water will re-pell
it from the rest of the plate. Thus,
in the printing, only the ink is trans-ferred
to the paper, making the finished
lithograph.
Miss Michalov's prints will be for
sale at the exhibition, the price affected
by the number of prints and their
quality.
Honor Rating G r a n t e d For
General Excellence In
Editing
Eleven new books have been added
to the library's chemistry section. These
are, "A Handbook of Chemical Micro-scopy,"
two copies, by Emile Chomat;
three copies of N. Y. Wiley's "Chem-istry,"
"Recent Adventures in Organic
Chemistry," volumes I and II, Alfred
Stuart; "Standards and Tests for Re-agent
and C. P. Chemicals," Murray;
"Textbook of Inorganic Chemistry,"
Parrington; "Electronic Structure and
Properties of Matter," Clark; and "Unit
Processes in Organ Synthesis," Grogg-nis.
Several additional chemistry refer-ences
which have been ordered will ar-rive
soon. The library has also bought
several French books from Prof. Blegen.
They are grammars, readers, and other
supplementary material.
Two steel stacks have been put up in
the library stack room this year. Miss
Hogenson stated that other new ones
will be added gradually until all the
shelves are steel. New shelves have also
been put up in the n tagazine room,
making it possible to errange all old
issues in alphabetical olerr..
Word has been received from Loretta
Howe, editor-in-chief of the 1936 Edda,
that the college yearbook received First
Class honor rating in the Sixteenth
All-American Critical Service for schol-astic
yearbooks conducted by the Na-tional
Scholastic Press Association. In
attaining First Class honors the Edda
was in competition with schools having
an enrollment of 500 or less. The total
number of high school and college en-tries
was 700.
The National Scholastic Press Asso-ciation
is an organization of 2,250
member publications established for the
purpose of furthering the interests of
all forms of scholastic and collegiate
journalism. Staffs whose yearbooks are
members submit copies of their publica-tions
for an annual scrutiny by the
N. S. P. A. judges. N. S. P. A. is the
oldest and largest scholastic press as-sociation
in the country.
First Class honor rating is awarded
yearbooks which in the opinion of the
judges are excellent; they are scored
on sections of book, editing and make-up,
mechanical details, general effect
and financial status. As a reward for
winning this rating the staff of the
Edda will receive a diploma 11 by 15
inches in size.
Last year's publication, edited by Lor-etta
Howe, assisted by Warren Weiseth,
business manager, netted a profit of
$332.83. The total cost of production
amounted to $2,156.94. This included
printing, binding and miscellaneous ex-penses.
The cash returns on the 400
copies sold amounted to $2,489.77.
Since it is the custom for each editor
and business manager to receive 40 per
cent of the profit, Loretta Howe and
Warren Weiseth received $125 each in
return for their work. The remaining
$82.83 was used towards clearing up
debts incurred in past years by other
yearbooks.
Alumni, Coming Back for Homecoming, Express
Pleasure in Seeing New Gym-Chapel Going up
books." First grade pupils seemed to
give the most trouble to rural teachers.
A new slant on the experiences of
alumni returning for Homecoming was
given by Esther Chilson, now teaching
at Canton. She said, "It's getting so I
almost hate to come back to Home-coming.
Each year there are less and
less of my class back, and it reminds
me that it is four years since I gradu-ated."
Other professions beside teaching
were represented among the alumni in-terviewed
at Homecoming, however. For
instance, Rudolph Qualset, Augustana
graduate, is now working for the In-ternational
Harvester company at
Presho. He said that he enjoyed his
work very much and commented upon
the friendliness of the people in his
territory. Louis Jearld, also a former
Augustanan, who is now field manager
for the National Farm Journal in Iowa,
said that business conditions were much
better than they had been during the
past few years.
Wendell Eid, graduate of '34 now
teaching at Bruce, also voiced the opin-ion
of most alumni when he said that
he could boast more of Augustana
than his fellow teachers, who are grad-uates
of the University of South Dako-ta,
could of their college.
"The biggest thrill in coming back
to Augustana for Homecoming this
year is seeing the new gym-chapel go-ing
up." This statement by Loretta
Howe, Miss Augustana of 1935, and
that of Lillian Larson, '34, who said
that the coronation ceremony was the
finest she had ever seen, seemed to
characterize effectively ; he feelings of
alumni upon returning to Sioux Falls
for Viking day activities .
The alumni, predominantly teachers,
all enjoyed their professions. Vernon
"Pete" Doering, graduate of '36, went
so far as to say, "I wouldn't leave
even to return to 'Auggie.' " Normal
school graduates, though they also liked
their profession, did not especially rel-ish
the prospect of staying in rural
schools the rest of their lives. One said,
"My only motive for entering this type
of work is to finance my last years at
college." Another said, "I was rather
disgusted at first when I thought of
teaching this school because I thought
that with only four pupils the work
wouldn't keep me interested, but now
I'm really enthusiastic about it." She
also stated, "I don't want my pupils to
experience the lack of knowledge of
literature which I have felt in some of
my classes. One canna• be interested
too early in the apprec iation of good