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MI THE AUGUSTANA I -4.1:1-, Jo Ji. lii 1 , IRROR5105151IiVi Friday, December 9, 2011 faugiemerror,coml C No. 10 _J Jeanette Rackl/The Mirror Mathematics professor Tim Sorenson directs youth dancers before the final dress rehearsal for the St. Lucia Festival Dec. 7 at St. Mark's Lutheran Church. EMBRACING HOLIDAY TRADITION Professor, wife direct St. Lucia Festival at St. Mark's Lutheran Church JEANETTE RACKL jrnrack108@ole.augie.edu SARA WEINREIS sjweinreis08@ole.augie.edu For the past 17 years, math-ematics professor Tim Soren-son with his wife Natalie have helped lead the St. Lucia Festival at St. Mark's Lutheran Church by teaching Swedish dance lessons to youth aging from kindergar-ten through high school. The festival celebrates an in-ternational tradition that origi-nated in Sweden centuries ago. The Sorensons have ties to Sweden. They lived there togeth-er in 1992 while Tim Sorenson taught at a university there. "I have a big belief in our at-tachment to our ethnic roots:' Tim Sorenson said. Tim Sorenson also lived in Sweden while studying abroad in 1974 and 1979. "The St. Lucia Festival was the only pageant we put on in high school while I was there; being crowned the St. Lucia was equiv-alent to being prom queen—a big deal," Tim said. St. Lucia Day, officially Dec. 13, involves a maiden in white I like tradition - anything that gives a person a sense of their place in the universe. Tim Sorenson wearing a crown of burning can-dles who originally brought food to starving villagers in Sweden. St. Mark's celebration also helps the less fortunate by donat-ing proceeds to help charities in the Sioux Falls area. This year, admission to the celebration is a donation toward Necessities for Neighbors. Ninth grade girls are crowned St. Lucia as a rite of passage. While growing up, all three of the Sorenson's daughters were crowned. The dancers in the St. Lu-cia Festival are divided into two groups: kindergarten through third grader is taught by Natalie Sorenson, while Tim Sorenson teaches the fourth grade through twelfth graders. St. Mark's started the celebra-tion 36 years ago following a visit from the St. Lucia dancers from Gustavus Aldophus College, the Sorenson's alma mater. Before the Sorensons took over, Bob and Dagmar Johnson lead the groups. Tim and Natalie Sorenson were asked to take over the direction of the Festival when Bob Johnson overheard that Tim Sorenson had a connection with Swedish heritage and danced the dances in the Festival when he was a kid. See ST. LUCIA , page 9 e),, All in the family: a ACTS premiers show Holiday shopping: What's it about? [page 4] VISIT US @ augiemirror.com
Object Description
Title | Mirror - December 9, 2011 |
Subject (LC) | Augustana College (Sioux Falls, S.D.)--Students--Newspapers |
Type | Newspaper |
Date | 2011-12-09 |
Publishing agency | Augustana College, Sioux Falls, SD, USA |
Rights | This image may not be reproduced without the express written consent of Augustana University, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA. |
Medium | Text |
Format - Digital | |
Language | English |
Collection | Augustana Newspapers |
Contributing Institution | Mikkelsen Library, Augustana University |
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Title | Page 1 |
Date | 2011-12-09 |
Text | MI THE AUGUSTANA I -4.1:1-, Jo Ji. lii 1 , IRROR5105151IiVi Friday, December 9, 2011 faugiemerror,coml C No. 10 _J Jeanette Rackl/The Mirror Mathematics professor Tim Sorenson directs youth dancers before the final dress rehearsal for the St. Lucia Festival Dec. 7 at St. Mark's Lutheran Church. EMBRACING HOLIDAY TRADITION Professor, wife direct St. Lucia Festival at St. Mark's Lutheran Church JEANETTE RACKL jrnrack108@ole.augie.edu SARA WEINREIS sjweinreis08@ole.augie.edu For the past 17 years, math-ematics professor Tim Soren-son with his wife Natalie have helped lead the St. Lucia Festival at St. Mark's Lutheran Church by teaching Swedish dance lessons to youth aging from kindergar-ten through high school. The festival celebrates an in-ternational tradition that origi-nated in Sweden centuries ago. The Sorensons have ties to Sweden. They lived there togeth-er in 1992 while Tim Sorenson taught at a university there. "I have a big belief in our at-tachment to our ethnic roots:' Tim Sorenson said. Tim Sorenson also lived in Sweden while studying abroad in 1974 and 1979. "The St. Lucia Festival was the only pageant we put on in high school while I was there; being crowned the St. Lucia was equiv-alent to being prom queen—a big deal," Tim said. St. Lucia Day, officially Dec. 13, involves a maiden in white I like tradition - anything that gives a person a sense of their place in the universe. Tim Sorenson wearing a crown of burning can-dles who originally brought food to starving villagers in Sweden. St. Mark's celebration also helps the less fortunate by donat-ing proceeds to help charities in the Sioux Falls area. This year, admission to the celebration is a donation toward Necessities for Neighbors. Ninth grade girls are crowned St. Lucia as a rite of passage. While growing up, all three of the Sorenson's daughters were crowned. The dancers in the St. Lu-cia Festival are divided into two groups: kindergarten through third grader is taught by Natalie Sorenson, while Tim Sorenson teaches the fourth grade through twelfth graders. St. Mark's started the celebra-tion 36 years ago following a visit from the St. Lucia dancers from Gustavus Aldophus College, the Sorenson's alma mater. Before the Sorensons took over, Bob and Dagmar Johnson lead the groups. Tim and Natalie Sorenson were asked to take over the direction of the Festival when Bob Johnson overheard that Tim Sorenson had a connection with Swedish heritage and danced the dances in the Festival when he was a kid. See ST. LUCIA , page 9 e),, All in the family: a ACTS premiers show Holiday shopping: What's it about? [page 4] VISIT US @ augiemirror.com |
Collection | Augustana Newspapers |
Contributing Institution | Mikkelsen Library, Augustana University |