Augustana Band Festival Committee Chairmen: First row: Sue Anderson, Student Chair-man,
Aileen Olson, Assistant Chairman, Loren Barker, Greg Smith. Second row: Colleen
Cluts, Deb Hendricks, Becky Blankenfeld, Pat Hanse, and Sue Stensland. Third row: Deb
Moe, Mark Lotz, Dana Sjostrom, Loren Fodness.
Augustana College
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Vol. 56, No. 10, November 15, 1973
ALL NATIONS IS COMING!!! Friday, November 30, the gym
and the Commons will come alive with festive booths, great
entertainment, and lots of "yummy" food. NOTE: New this year
is a meal called the "World Plate" consisting of a combination of
the featured country's Christmas foods which can be purchased
with MEALBOOKS!!! This meal, held in the cafeteria, will be
followed by delicious desserts served in the various booths. More
details in the next issue.
Band Festival
Highlights Weekend
Music by the Augustana
College Concert Band, selected
percussion solos by a nationally
recognized performer, and per-formances
by 300 of the Upper
Midwest's most talented high
school instrumentalists are all on
the agenda for 8:00 p.m., Satur-day,
Nov. 17, at the Sioux Falls
Coliseum. The occasion will be
the Grand Finale Concert of
Augustana's 16th Annual
Concert Band Festival.
Dr. Leland Lillehaug will con-duct
the Augustana Band as it
performs "Rhosymedre" and
"Toccata Marziale" by Ralph
Vaughn Williams, "Florentiner
March" by Julius Fucik, and
"Antiphony for Winds" by
Robert Ward.
The Festival, Friday and
Saturday, Nov. 16 and 17, is
headed by Dr. Harold Krueger,
Festival Chairman, and Sue
Anderson, Student Chairman.
The Festival bandsmen will be
divided into two performing
bands of 150 members each.
Sixty-five other students will be
part of a sight reading band
which will not perform publicly
but which will have opportunity
to play recent band literature
and gain additional sight reading
experience under outstanding
area band directors.
Clinic sessions during the two-
On November 26, 1973, E.
Allan Lightner, Jr., a career
diplomat whose posts have given
him a bird's eye view of the un-folding
of World War II and the
development of Cold War
diplomacy, begins his tenure at
Augustana College as a visiting
professor under a new program
designed to promote closer
relationships between colleges
and the world of affairs.
During his stay here, Lightner
will discuss his experiences dur-ing
the twenty years between the
United States' entry into World
War II and his own participation
in the Western powers' response
day event will present 10
different experts in their fields.
A percussion clinic will be under
the direction of Bobby Christian,
nationally recognized composer,
arranger, and performer from
Chicago.
Christian, who has worked
with the New York Philharmonic
Symphony and the Chicago
Symphony Orchestra, has been a
headline performer with the
NBC Radio Network and the
ABC Radio and Television
Network in New York.
The Festival Bands will be
conducted by Dr. Donald E.
McGinnis, director of the Ohio
State University Concert Band
and an internationally recogniz-ed
authority on wind instrument
performance.
Dr. McGinnis, whose field of
particular musical emphasis in-strumentally
has been with
clarinets and flutes, has played
in orchestras under the baton of
such world-renowned musicians
as George Enesco, Aaron
Copeland, Igor Stravinski, and
Robert Craft.
The public is welcome to at-tend
the Grand Finale Concert
at the Coliseum. Tickets may be
purchased in advance in the
Augustana Commons Con-course,
or at the door the evening
of the performance.
to the construction of the Berlin
Wall in 1961.
Lightner, also Ambassador to
Libya from 1963 to 1965, is one of
60 Woodrow Wilson Senior
Fellows drawn from business, in-dustry,
public affairs, and the
professions who visit college
campuses for a week or more as
visiting professors. The in-novative
program is ad-ministered
by the Woodrow
Wilson National Fellowship
Foundation at Princeton, New
Jersey, and funded by a three-year
million dollar grant from
the Lilly Endowment of In-dianapolis.
Early in his career, Lightner
held posts in three capitals deep-ly
affected by World War II:
Moscow, Oslo, and Stockholm.
From his base in Stockholm,
Lightner worked with the
Norwegian underground from
1942 to 1943.
Prior to the war's end and in
the post-war period, he was
assigned to London where he was
assistant political advisor in the
United States delegation to the
European Advisory Commission
which planned the terms of sur-render
and occupation of Ger-many.
In 1948 Lightner became
associate chief of the State
Department Division of Central
European Affairs which
backstopped the German Oc-cupation.
Lightner served at the
American Embassy in Korea
during the Korean conflict and
its aftermath, from 1951 to 1953.
He headed the United States
Consulate in Munich from 1953
until 1956. For three years,
Lightner was Deputy Assistant
Secretary of State for Public Af-fairs
in Washington, which in-volved
him in cultural exchange
and information programs.
"The highpoint of my career,
however," Lightner says, "was
my participation in the Berlin
Crisis between 1959 and 1963. I
was there when it all culminated
in the construction of the Berlin
Wall." Lightner was Minister,
the highest ranking civilian posi-tion
in the State Department's
Mission in West Berlin, which at
the time was under the military
jurisdiction of France, Britain,
and the United States.
On August 13, 1961, the day
the Wall went up, Lightner
received a pre-dawn phone call.
After a 5 a.m. visit to the site,
Lightner and other civilian and
military representatives of the
Western powers met with Willy
Brandt, then Mayor of West
Berlin, to define a response to
the Russian challenge.
"Interestingly enough,"
Lightner says now, "the Wall did
much to contribute to the end of
the Berlin crisis. Until the Wall
went up, 2,000 East Germans a
day used Berlin as an escape
route. Because these people were
the cream of the crop,
professionals and skilled
workers, we knew the Russians
inevitably would try to stem the
flow of refugees."
During the days after the Wall
went up, Lightner was in cons-tant
contact with Washington.
"We used to joke then," he
recalls, "that the Berlin Desk Of-ficer
was President Kennedy."
"For the East Berliners, the
Wall ended any easy escape from
, East Germany. It forced them to
make peace with their own
regime," Lightner believes, "and
this was a factor in improving
East Germany's economy. The
Russians no longer regarded
Berlin as a canker sore within
the East German Republic and
learned to live with its
presence."
During his stay at Augustana,
Lightner hopes to foster better
understanding of the diplomatic
process and international
relations. "I would like to con-vey,"
he says, "how difficult,
how almost impossible it is to get
neat solutions to problems
between nations."
Lightner will be accompanied
by his wife, the former Dorothy
Boyce, who worked for the State
Department before their
marriage in 1953. She held
positions editing publications for
Far Eastern audiences and head-ed
the Voice of America's
Korean Desk. The Lightners
have a son and daughter in
preparatory schools, and an
older son, now on leave from
Colby College, where he is a
sophomore. They live in
Washington, D. C.
Lightner is co-author of The
U.S. Department of State, a
book on the history and func-tions
of the State Department
aimed at college audiences, due
for publication by Praeger early
in 1974.
See It for
The Last Time
This Friday evening at 9 p.m.,
in the gym-auditorium,
Augustana Students will have
their final opportunity to see for
their 1st or 2nd time the 1973
Viking Variety show.
Friday night's performance is
being scheduled in conjunction
with the concert band festival,
where 400 bandsmen and their
directors are expected to attend.
All Augustana students will be
admitted through the front
doors, with a 50c admission
charge. Gate receipts will be
forwarded to a Sioux Falls com-munity
charity.
Career Diplomat Lightner
Begins Tenure at Augie