Y. P. L. L. Parley
Here June 26-30;
Plans Progress
1800 Singers Expected From
Choirs Already
Registered
Committees Named
Guderyalm to Direct Combined
Orchesi ra ; Concerts
Planned
Preparations for the eighth interna-tional
convention of the Young Peo-ple's
Luther League and Choral Union
to be held in Sioux Falls, June 26
to 30, are going forward rapidly, and,
according to the number of choirs who
have already signified their intentions
of attending, at least 1800 singers can
be expected. The number of choirs
who will attend will undoubtedly be
augmented before the final registration
dates, however, according to those in
charge.
Orchestra Play
Augustana's symphony orchestra will
be increased to a seventy-piece organ-ization
and, in addition to playing ac-companiment
to the choral number,
they will offer several selections of or-chestral
music under the direction of
Prof. R. J. Guderyahn.
The various local committees have
been appointed to care for the housing
problem and to make an advance ticket
sale for the Choral Union concert
which will be held on the last evening.
Many Reservations
Recent reports indicate that organiza-tions
from long distances have indicat-ed
their desire to attend, as well as
delegations from various parts of South
Dakota. At present, reservations have
been made from Montana, Idaho, Colo-rado,
North Dakota and Nebraska. New
York, The Twin Cities, and Chicago
are among the larger cities sending rep-resentatives.
Canadian delegations have
also signified their intention of attend-ing.
Twenty-five complete choirs and
four circular choruses will attend in
body.
Orchestra Praised
In Spring Concert
Giveu On May 10
Under the direction of Richard J.
Guderyahn, with J. Earl Lee featured
as piano soloist and Florence Lueth
acting as concertmistress, the symphony
orchestra presented its formal spring
concert in the coliseum, Friday, May
10, before a large audience. Displaying
smoothness and precision in the string
section and some fine work on the
part of the woodwinds, the orchestral
group offered a program which em-braced
the Mozart "Symphony in G
Minor," Sibelius' tone poem "Fin-landia,"
and a group of semi-popular
selections.
Lee is Soloist
Mr. Lee, who has been instructor in
piano at the college for the past three
years, appeared as soloist in the Liszt
"Hungarian Fantasy." Masterful and
sympathetic, his interpretation of the
virtuoso composition was full of color
and revealed a sensitive appreciation.
Carefully supported by the orchestra,
this number was the highlight of the
evening and commanded enthusiastic
applause. As an encore Mr. Lee played
the "Waldesrauschen" of Liszt.
The orchestra presented the four
movements of the Mozart G Minor sym-phony,
"allegro molto," "andante,"
"mcnuetto," and "allegro assai," with
fine regard for its classic beauty. In
this most difficult of the evening's pre-sentations
the work of the string players
was outstanding. They were given an-other
opportunity to star in the Tsch-aikowsky
"Andante Cantabile," arrang-ed
for strings alone from the quartet,
opus 11.
Well Received
MacDowell's "To a Wild Rose," Cad-man's
"At Dawning," and Grainger's
popular "Shepherd's Hey" made up the
fourth section of the program, which
was concluded with Sibelius's "Fin-landia."
The lighter group afforded an
opportunity for use of chimes, mar-imba,
and other pleasant effects; while
the final number co-ordinated all sec-tions
of the orchestra in a presentation
of great power and color.
This entire program was repeated in
the final concert of the season, given in
the high school auditorium at Madison,
Sunday evening, May 12.
Augustana Sunday School
Plans Picnic at McKennan
The college Sunday school, a branch
of the First Lutheran Sunday school,
will hold its annual spring picnic on
the afternoon of May 27 at McKennan
park.
The entire Sunday school, which has
an enrollment of almost one hundred,
and the college Bible class are cooperat-ing
to make the event a success.
General plans are in charge of Nor-man
Nelson, local superintendent, as-sisted
by the regular teachers.
The Sunday school will meet for two
more Sundays when it will disband for
the summer vacation.
McLeod Edits .Prize-Winning
Papers; Publication Earns
803 ()lit of Possible 1000
Points in Competition.
All-American honor rating for the
year 1934-35 has been awarded to the
Augustana Mirror by the judges of the
National Scholastic Press association,
according to the scorebook recently re-ceived
by Hazel McLeod, editor of the
judged editions.
Points Are Lower
The paper received 805 points from
a possible 1,000, which is lower than
the Columbia rating, 960 from 1000.
This is due to the fact that the Na-tional
Scholastic Press association put
the publication into a higher level of
competition.
The judging was based on four di-visions,
news values and sources, news
writing and editing, mechanics, and
special features such as editorials and
departments. The Mirror received no
rating lower than good, and most of
the divisions were rated excellent. The
final classes the Mirror as su-perior.
Criticize Columns
Chief criticisms were in the division
of special features for the inside pages,
including columns.
Hazel McLecd edited the paper, and
Warren Weiseth was business manager.
Miss Borghild M. Dahl is faculty ad-visor.
Campus Men Entertain
Women at Dorm Friday
After unusual flurry of house-clean-ing
the boys in the boys' dormitory
were hosts to the members of Ladies'
Hall at an inter-dorm party Thursday,
May 9.
From 8 to 9:30 o'clock the men's
rooms were open for inspection by
their guests. Following this the entire
group of both dormitories enjoyed a
novel musical program furnished by the
dorm talents.
Jeffries Toastmaster
With Johnston Jeffries acting as mast-er
of ceremonies, the opening number
introduced on the program was a selec-tion
by a ten-piece orchestra, assembled
and conducted by Victor Distad. This
group contributed other numbers through-out
the evening.
Have Music Program
Clifford Johnson, accompanied by
Anne Thompson, and Myron Hokeness,
accompanied by Omar Applewick, were
the vocal artists. Victor Distad play-ing
the trumpet, and Robert Feyder,
the violin, also entertained with solo
numbers. The male quartet, John
Fundingsland, Herbert Johnson, Eu-gene
Anderson, and Marlowe Torger-son,
rounded out the program with a
group of selections. Light refreshments
were served by the boys.
Also present as guests of the boys
were Pres. and Mrs. C. M. Granskou,
Prof. and Mrs. 0. M. Hofstad, and Mr.
and Mrs. L. A. Olson.
Students Seek Work!!
For Summer Vacation
With nine months of vacation in our
wake, many students are ready to shift
their courses and do a little work dur-ing
the summer season, the only catch
being that few of these ambitious as-pirants
can find anything to do. Al-ready
many have worn out two per-fectly
good soles going from firm to
firm and modestly ( ?) assuring the
managers of their potentialities. A few
of the best talkers have been success-ful,
but the majority have been merely
ambitious.
Frannie Smith will continue serving
mankind by selling insurance. Glenn
Beyer will solicit students for the school.
Ray DeBoer is going to be a genuine
pop-corn vender this summer and sell
" peep-corn, pop-nuts and chewin' gum"
at the ball games in his home town
at Corsica.
Many industrious students, who ap-parently
don't get enough brain work in
these nine months, are going to sum-mer
school. Others will "be around"
most of the summer for the Luther
League convention. Gretchen Norby
"is hoping" to do social survey work,
and Edna Searles will be working at
Fantle's department store. Evelyn and
Ardys Kemper will both be employed
at the Associated Retailers. Douglas
Jacobson will spend a rather dignified
summer teaching parochial school and
directing a junior choir.
The old wander-lust spirit is coming
back to Dick Youngdahl and Harold
Hanson, who are planning a western
trip. Herbert Mork is also to go to
the west coast (I've heard Paramount
wanted his silvery voice), and our close-harmony
quartet will tour several states
in a sacred concert tour.
A multitude of students have worked
so hard these nine months that they're
going to follow the old adage, "All
work and no play makes Jack a dull
boy," and just sleep, eat, and be merry
all summer.
Many, however, still prefer the ver-sion,
"All work and no play makes
jack, and plenty of it," so if any of
you see a stray job roaming round
about, just hitch it to a post and call
Warren Weiseth, Bernice Hokenstad, or
many of the others around here that
are "still looking."
Musicians Plan Picnics
As Year's Activity Ends
After the presentations of their an-nual
home concerts, botn choir and or-chestra
members are planning to hold
picnic celebrations.
Under the direction of Ardys Kemp-er
and a committee including Herbert
Mork, Solveig Ausan, Hildred Bergquist,
and Arm Halvorson, the singers are ar-ranging
to meet at Elmwood park on
Tuesday afternoon, May 21, at 4:30.
Games and refreshments will make up
the program.
The orchestra picnic will be held at
Sherman park, Saturday evening, May
25th, at 7 o'clock. Stan Larson as gen-eral
chairman, will be assisted by Otis
Kittleson, Virginia Blatherwick, Eleanor
Bergquist, and Eugene Holland.
To Speak at Exercises
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Dr. H. F. Martin, president of Mid-land
college, Fremont, Nebr., will deliver
the commencement address June 4, when
34 seniors and 42 normal graduates
receive their diplomas.
President Granskou, in accord with
the request of the Board of Directors
of Augustana college, will be the bac-calaureate
speaker, June 2.
All commencement exercises will be
held in First Lutheran church, as has
been the custom.
Dr. Martin has been president of
Midland college for the last ten years,
having served before that time as rural
school teacher, high school instructor,
principal of the academy of Midland
college, pastor, and dean of Witten-berg
college. Active in church work,
Dr. Martin has held the office of
president of the Iowa synod of the Luth-eran
Church.
The Augustana Mirror
Vol..XV4
Augustana College, Sioux Falls, S. D., Monday, May '20, 1935
No. 7
Graduation Program, Committees Announced; Speakers Named For Week
Social Board Plans Last All- School Students Argue Entertainment at Wall Lake May 23
Beyer Announces Class Day Arrangements;
Granskou, Martin To Speak at Exercises
Freshmen Picnic Includes
Variety of Entertainment
Under the direction of Edward Ner-vig,
the freshman class picnic was held
at Sherman park Friday evening, May
17. The party began at five o'clock
in the afternoon and was an all-eve-ning
affair.
Entertainment included a kittenball
game and a mixed doubles croquet
tournament as special features. A relay
was also arranged with the Kentucky
Yodellers matched against the Nor-wegian
Skiers.
A picnic lunch was prepared by the
eats committee consisting of Ardys Sme-by,
chairman, Florence Welsh, Mar-garet
Gusarson, Gudrun Hilmo.
A new innovation called "Swatem,"
with only boys eligible, was the sensa-tion
of the campfire program. Several
musical numbers and campfire harmony
concluded the evenings entertainment,
which was arranged by Gerald Groth,
Margaret Schnaidt, Andrew Ellingson
and Margaret Eidem.
Other committees included a general
committee, Dale Hvistendahl, June Over-by
and Arnold Myrabo; fire commit-tee,
Gottfried Moller, chairman, Louis
Nelson, Chester Olson, and Clarence
Ekeland; and transportation, Max Light,
Wayne Sheley and Zachery
Pi Kappa Delta
To Hold Annual
Initiation Party
Ten New Members to Be
Initiated Into
Society
To Elect New Officers
Committee Named for Spring
Banquet To Be Held
Tonight
Normal School Department
Has Annual Spring Banquet
Appropriately using "school" as a
theme, the Normal School department
held their annual banquet at the Choco-late
Shop, Saturday, May 18, at 6:30
o'clock.
All decorations were developed around
the central theme connected with phases
of school life. The nutcups represent-ed
little red school houses; the pro-grams
were sketched out on miniature
blackboards; toasts and speeches were
also wound about the same familiar
theme. Musical numbers featured the
entertainment.
As general chairman, Geraldine Ost-root
was in charge of arrangements.
Committees working with her were Ethel
Doescher and Evelyn Oyan, program;
Jean Evanson, menu; Leyla Gabrielson,
Blanche Godfrey, and Signie Johnson,
decorations. Miss Ostroot also assisted
on the menu committee.
Gullixson Urges "Service"
In Chapel Address May 8
Dr. T. F. Gullixson, president of
the Lutheran Theological Seminary at
St. Paul, spoke at chapel exercises
Wednesday, May 8.
"Leadership is not gained by a blare
of self-assertiveness," he said, "but it is
found in a life which results from
following Christ. Young people now
are looking for a master. They feel the
thrill which comes from a life of de-votion
to a cause."
Dr. Gullixson believes that young
crusaders are needed especially to fight
the menaces of communism and nation-alism.
"If the church does not attack
them," he said, "these two forces will
divide the world between them."
"Do not let selfishness dominate your
personality," he declared, "for a life of
service is the real life. If we follow
Jesus, we will live our lives for others
and not for ourselves."
"There is a thrill and a delight in
a life of service that is not even
glimpsed in a life of selfishness and
personal bent," Dr. Gullixson concluded.
Swimming., Boating, Baseball,
Skating, Other Games to
Feature Annual School Pic-nic
Thursday.
All the diversified entertainment of
Wall Lake, swimming, boating, base-ball,
roller skating, and games, will be
made available when Augustana students
hold their annual all-school picnic at
Wall Lake, Thursday, May 23. Cars will
leave from the college immediately af-ter
chapel in the morning and the
picnic will last until five o'clock in
the afternoon.
Rent Pavillion
The roller-skating pavilion has been
rented and will be open for those who
wish to skate. A novel program and
contests will augment the afternoon's
entertainment on the skating floor. Base-ball
games have been tentatively sched-uled
between the A club and boys'
dorm teams, and between two girls'
teams.
Committees Picked
Headed by the social committee, Vir-ginia
Van Brunt, Vernon Doering,
Regine Halvorson, Hildred Bergquist,
and Delbert Hanson, the committees
in charge include:
Food: Thelma Kalstad, chairman,
Dale Hvistendahl, Leander Hogie, El-eanor
Bergquist, Arthur Erickson, Ber-nice
Severson, and Myrtle Strand.
Transportation: Ed Nervig, chair-man,
and Delbert Hanson.
Serving: Regine Halvorson, chairman,
Ardys Smeby, Deloris Sorenson, Ann
Thompson, Gloria Johnson, Marjorie
Iverson, Helen Hoime, June Overby,
Lucille Ytterness, Bette Davis, Eleanor
Bergquist, Virginia Blatherwick, Eileen
Youngdahl, Florence Welsh, and Bev-erly
Marpe.
Clean-up: Mary Wood, chairman,
George Becker, Clarence Ekeland, Sel-ma
Hanson, Margaret Noble, Bob
Miller, Ruth Odland, Dick Low, Justin
Kilness, Wilma Larson, Bob Feyder.
Entertainment: Virgil Olson, chair-man,
Elaine Helgerson, Catherine Mun-dale,
and Lawrence Severson.
Huge Crowd Hears
Choir In Annual
Concert Here, May 5
Presenting a program that was dis-tinguished
for its clarity, fine blend-ing
of voices, and excellent solo work,
the a capella choir directed by Dr.
Carl R. Youngdahl sang its fifteenth
annual home concert before an au-dience
that nearly filled the coliseum
on Sunday evening, May 5. Featured
on the program were six compositions
of Dr. Youngdahl, one of which,
"Sweetest Name on Mortal Tongue,"
was given its first Sioux Falls concert
presentation.
The difficult "Celestial Spring" of F.
Melius Christiansen was handled espe-cially
well, the director's control of
his group was evident in the clean-cut
response of the singers. The Bach
selections "With Joy We March On-ward
to Zion" and "All Breathing Life,
Sing and Praise Ye the Lord," were
also well presented.
The solo work of Anna Mikkelson
in "0 Holy Lord" (Youngdahl) and
of Prof. Clifford Olson in "As by
the Streams of Babylon" (Campaign-
Dett) seemed to win especial favor
from the audience. Other solo parts
were sung by Helen Aaby, Winnie
Lewis, Harold Hanson and Herbert
Mork. The choir formed a quietly
melodious background for all the in-dividual
numbers.
Three choral arrangements of hymn
tunes were included on the program.
"Built on a Rock" (Christiansen) was
characterized by splendid dynamics,
"Now Thank We All Our God"
(Cruger-Mueller) by unified presenta-tion,
and the favorite "Beautiful Savior"
(Christiansen) by its familiar melodic
sweetness.
Dr. Youngdahl's compositions sung on
this program were "A Christmas Lulla-by,"
"Alone With Thee, 0 Lord," "0
Holy Lord," "Sweetest Name on Mortal
Tongue," "Wake Awake," and an en-core
"Asleep in Jesus.". They were
enthusiastically received by the audience.
High Schools Schedule
Granskou For Speaker
At Graduation Exercises
Pres. C. M. Granskou will deliver
a number of high school commence-ment
and baccalaureate addresses the
latter part of May. These speaking
engagements will include commencement
speeches at Chancellor, May 16; Scar-ville,
Ia., May 22; Baltic, May 23;
Beresford, May 24, Hudson, May 27;
and Gayville, May 17. He will give
the baccalaureate sermon at Colton,
May 19.
He will also speak at Y. P. L. L.
convention to be held at Crooks, June
23. This meeting will be the district
convention of the Augustana Synod.
President Leads Religious
Group In First May Meet
President C. M. Granskou led the
discussion group on May 8. The deline-ation
of the Sermon on the Mount was
concluded. Pres. Granskou suggested
several additional books that dealt with
the subject.
On May 15 the Discussion group dis-cussed
communism, under the leader-ship
of Burnis Rogness.
Privilege Fund;
Plans Outlined
Compromise O'Tered by Fac-ulty
Studer t Commit-tee
Today
Summer Fete Planned
Augustana Day To Be Held
At Dell Rapids; Groups
Are Named
The student body at a chapel meet-ing
this morning voted to accept the
opesed appropriation division of
student funds.
After two heated student body ses-sions,
a final compromise proposal on
the matter of appropriation of student
funds has been arranged by a committee
consisting of President C. M. Grans-kou,
Dr. Albert G. Hoyem, Mary Stra-hon,
Burnis Rogness, Don Larson and
Gerhard Anderson.
Under the system proposed, $.50 will
be transferred from the athletic fund
and $1.00 from the L. S. U. fund in
order to help defray expenses for the
entertainment schedule of next year. The
college, too, will back the projects
financially.
In the compromise it was also de-cided
that a board of control consist-ing
of three faculty members and two
students should be appointed to pick the
artists and programs to be included in
the schedule.
Under this plan as explained by Don
Larson, student president, "all students
will be able to attend, as a part of
their student activity program, all en-tertainments
included and will have re-served
seats in the more desirable parts
of the auditorium."
Plan Summer Fete
Several important matters were dis-cussed
at the student body meeting Fri-day,
May 10. It was decided that
the annual Augustana day should be
held at the Dell Rapids park. Don
Larson, president, appointed Bernice
Severson and Edward Nervig to assist
him in arranging the program. A com-mittee
appointed to repair the cement
bench on the campus included Mildred
Iverson, Lawrence Owens, Gretchen Nor-by,
Douglas Jacobson, Hazel McLeod,
Warren Weiseth, Marit Johnson and
Ellsworth Iverson.
Fail to Agree
Robert Kammerud, student body treas-urer,
presented the proposed revision
in the apportionment of the student
privilege fund. The main change in
the division of this fund is the pro-vision
for the transfer of fifty cents
from the athletic fund to an entertain-ment
fund, which would make it pos-sible
for Augustana to sponsor a series
of entertainments by notable artists in
various fields. Discussion of the mat-ter
followed, but because no definite
decision was reached, it was decided to
continue the discussion at the next
meeting. In the meantime the finance
board will make a further study of
the proposition.
Musical entertainment was provided
by a clarinet quartet composed of Eu-gene
Holland, Arnold Myrabo, Odell
Hanson and Leander Hogie, and by
Robert Feyder, who played several violin
selections.
Four Auggie Seniors
To Present Recitals
Before End of Year
Four senior students of the school of
music will present recitals in the near
future. Evelyn Moen will appear as
'cellist with Helen Aaby, soprano, on
May 23, and as vocalist with Solveig
Ausan, pianist, on May 30. Winnie
Lewis, soprano, will give a complete
recital on May 28.
Opening her 'cello program with the
allegro from the Goltermann "Concerto
IV in G Major," Miss Moen will also
play "Lament" by Gabriel-Marie, a
"Scherzo" of Van Goens, and the
"Divertimento II" of Sigmund Rom-berg.
Schubert's "Haidenroslein," Franz's
"Widmung," and Schuman's "Die Lotus-blume"
will make up Miss Aaby's first
group; while her second is to include
"My Lover is a Fisherman" by Lily
Strickland, "Snowflakes" by Cimara, and
Roger's "The Last Song." Marian
Humphrey and Hildred Bergquist are to
be the accompanists.
The Grieg "Sonata in E. Minor, opus
7" is the featured number on Solveig
Ausan's piano program. She will also
play a modern group including Cyril
Scott's "First Bagatelle" and Seeboeck's
"By the Frog-pond." Evelyn Moen,
contralto, will sing "As Rays of Setting
Sun" by Caldara, "Fro Music" by
Franz, and Schubert's "The Butterfly."
Winnie Lewis, like Miss Aaby a so-loist
with the college choir, will pre-sent
a program of songs in English,
German, and Norweigian. She will be
accompanied by Hilda Dahl.
Her complete program follows:
Feldei nsamkeit Brahms
Aus Meinen Grossen Schmerzen Franz
Widmung Schumann
Wohin Schubert
Die Vieni Non Tardar Mozart
Dec Forste Mode Grieg
Lille Rode Roienabar . Lange-Muller
Mit Hjerbe og Min Lyre Kjerulf
Syng, Syng Kjerulf
Across the Hills Rummell
The Blackbird Carder
Wings of Night Watts
Floods of Spring Rachmaninoff
Literary Societies Have
Annual Spring Banquet;
Novel Themes Featured
As a climax of the year's social
activities, the six campus literary so-cieties
held their annual spring banquets
Monday, May 13.
The Philomathian-Websterian banquet,
in the form of an Olympian Confab,
was held at the Chocolate Shop. John-ston
Jeffries, in the guise of Zeus,
acted as toastmaster.
Bernice Hokenstad spoke on "The
Rape of Ganymede," Francis Smith
on "Scylla and Charybdis," Catherine
Mundale on "Pandora's Box," James
Magnuson on "Argus and Io," and
Florence Hokenstad on "Proserpine."
Those offering musical numbers also
went by Greek names. They were Helen
Aaby as Calliope, Arnold Myrabo as
Orpheus, Clifford Johnson as Apollo,
and Eleanor Bergquist, Eileen Young-dahl,
and Virginia Blatherwick as the
Three Graces. Chaperons were Mr. and
Mrs. Palmer Eide.
The Athenians and Demosthenians
had as their banquet theme, "Believe It
Or Not." They met for dinner at the
Y. M. C. A.
Don Larson, in the person of Mr.
Ripley, played the part of toastmaster.
Three humorous debates were given by
Wilma Larson vs. Vernon Doering,
Mary Strahon vs. Jay Roney, and
Mary Wood vs. Arthur Erickson. Other
toasts were made by Ardys Kemper,
Glenn Beyer and Miss Borghild Dahl,
chaperon.
The Fairy Land theme was carried
out by the Adelphics and Gladstonians
in their banquet at the Virginia cafe.
Martha Wangberg presided as toast-mistress,
and toasts were given by Os-mund
Fundingsland, Henry Homme,
Raymond DeBoer, Maglene Erdal, and
Mrs. Albert G. Hoyem.
Musical numbers on the program
were offered by Evelyn Moen, 'cello;
Herbert Mork, vocal; and a trio com-posed
of Mildred Rud, Evelyn Moen,
and Ida Rorem. Dr. and Mrs. Albert
G. Hoyem were chaperons.
To formally accept new memberships
into the Pi Kappa Delta, National col-legiate
speech fraternity, the local chap-ter
of that organization will hold its
final meeting today when old and
new members meet at the Virginia cafe
for the annual banquet.
Carlson Honor Guest
Don Larson, Frances Smith and Mary
Strahon will have charge of the ban-quet,
Mr. Larson will supervise the
formal ritual of the initiation, Miss
Strahon will direct the banquet proper,
and Mr. Smith will have charge of the
informal diversion during the remain-der
of the evening. Professor Hugo A.
Carlson, head of the speech department
at Augustana, and adviser of the local
Pi Kappa Delta, and Mrs. Carlson will
be the honor guests at the banquet.
The old members of Pi Kappa Delta
are: Bernice Severson, Mary Strahon,
Ardys Kemper, Johnston Jeffries, Don
Larson, Marcella Staven, Burnis Rogness
and Francis Smith.
New officers will be elected at the
banquet.
New Members Named
The new members to be initiated in-clude
Opal Plowman, Dorothy Leubeck-er,
Raymond DeBoer, Leslie Fossel,
James Magnuson, Kenneth Holum, Mil-ton
Johnson, Richard Larson, Delbert
Hanson and Edward Nervig.
Mirror Receives All-American Honor
By National Scholastic Press Association
Committees Collect Data For
Class Prophecy,
History-
Alumni Banquet Planned
Commencement Is Tuesday,
June 4, at Lutheran
Church
A full round of activities will mark
Augustana's annual commencement week,
June 1 to 4. Opening with the Class
Day exercises June 1, and continuing
with a reception at the Granskou home,
baccalaureate service June 2, Augustana
Women's Auxiliary tea on the afternoon
of June 2, A. G. A. tea June 3, alumni
banquet during the evening of June 3
and commencement exercises June 4,
the calendar is filled with events to hon-or
the 34 seniors who will be graduated
from Augustana this June.
Glenn Beyer, senior class president,
has announced complete arrangements
for Class Day exercises, Saturday, June
1, at 7:30 o'clock in the gymnasium. At
this time the valedictorian and salutator-ian
of the class will be announced and
the senior will, prophecy and history
read.
Committees Announced
Selection of the assets which the class
will bequeath to the juniors is being
determined by Johnston Jeffries, whose
conferring counsel includes Mildred Iver-son,
Emily Elvestrom and Lawrence
Owens. Burnis Rogness, chairman, Ann
Risty and Osmund Fundingsland are in
charge of the class history. Prophecy
of the class of 1935 is being written
by a committee whose chairman is
Evelyn Kemper, assisted by Helen Aaby,
Hubert Thorson and Art Erickson. Music
for the exercises will be furnished by
Mildred Iverson, cellist, Dorothy Fries,
pianist, and Helen Aaby, vocal soloist.
Following these exercises a reception
honoring the graduating class will be
held at the president's home.
Baccalaureate services are scheduled
for 11 o'clock, Sunday morning, June
2, when Pres. C. M. Granskou will
speak. As is customary, the exercises
will be held at the First Lutheran
church. Musical selections are to be
contributed by the A capella choir.
Auxiliary Tea Sunday
The Augustana Women's Auxiliary
tea will be held Sunday afternoon from
four to six o'clock in Ladies' Hall. The
social committee includes Mrs. Oscar
Ellefson, chairman, and Mesdames C.
M. Granskou, E. C. Anderson, N. 0.
Monserud, A. 0. Richardson, G. H.
Gilbertson, A. N. Graff, Norman Graff,
H. J. Johnson, T. A. Johnson, Theo.
Iverson, T. A. Rodsater and Mrs. C. C.
Batrude. Mrs. Richard J. Guderyahn,
chairman of the program committee,
has assisting her Mrs. Bertha Bragstad
and Mrs. A. G. Hoyem. The general
committee will include Mrs. John Ber-
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College Books Artist
Groups for Next Year
The bringing of a series of artists
to Sioux Falls under the auspices of
Augustana college is being planned as
one of the college's major educational
projects for next year.
Indicating their preference of a few
first class attractions rather than sev-eral
of a lower plane, the faculty com-mittee
in charge has already booked
an Ibsen classic for December 4. The
play will be presented by Madame
Borgny Hammer with a cast of thirteen
artists, including Courtney White.
Possibilities Listed
A lecturer will be obtained from the
tentative list of well-known men which
includes Sherwood Eddy, Lew Sarett,
Captain Patrick Smith, and Carveth
Wells. Musical talent which will be
scheduled includes a selection from such
artists as John Charles Thomas, Nelson
Eddy, Maganini Chamber Symphony,
Kirsten Flagstad, and Yehudi Menuhin.
Board Named
Present plans mean that the number
and quality of the performances given
will depend on the local and student
support the project is given, the faculty
committee, which includes Dr. A. G.
Hoyem, chairman, Miss Borghild Dahl,
and Dr. Carl Youngdahl, pointed out.
Any profits will be set aside to form
an independent fund for the purpose of
bringing additional attractions in future
years.
•l'he programs will be given in the
Coliseum or some other place with
proper facilities.
Seaberry Brings Message
To Student Chapel Group
Miss Ruth Seaberry of Boston, educa-tional
and missionary secretary of the
Congregational church, was the speaker
at chapel exercises Monday, May 6.
She began her speech by enumerating
some of her recent impressions and
observations.
"The first of these," she said, "is an
increasing consciousness among college
students of the culture of the world."
The second impression mentioned by
Miss Seaberry was that there is an in-creased
sense of responsibility which
comes from privilege. The third factor
she has noticed is that there is a new
sense of what it means to be a Christian.
"Just so long as there is one hungry
child, one exploited woman, one lonely
unadjusted man, one heart that has not
round God, your job as a Christian
is not done," she declared.
Miss Seaberry concluded her message
by saying, "The challenge of that life
which was lived that all might live is
forever here."