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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 (Continued on page 2) 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
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Title | Mirror - October 29, 1936 |
Subject (LC) | Augustana College (Sioux Falls, S.D.)--Students--Newspapers |
Type | Newspaper |
Date | 1936-10-29 |
Publishing agency | Augustana College, Sioux Falls, SD, USA |
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Date | 1936-10-29 |
Text | 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 (Continued on page 2) 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 |
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