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Queen Bunty Reigns Over 1955 Homecoming
Bernie Bierman Crowns Queen
Tonight; FrankRykken Presides
Bunty Munson has been elected queen of the 1955 Augsburg Homecoming. Queen Bunty will be crowned at 7:00 tonight in the chapel by Mr. Bernie Bierman, former football
coach at the University of Minnesota. Other finalists in the
election yesterday were Mary Christianson and Janet Honstad.
Tomorrow the queen will appear on Stu Lindman's TV show at
3:20 on channel 9.
Highlight of her reign will be the game with St. Thomas on Saturday night when she and her attendants will be presented to the audience.
A phy ed major from Atwater, Minnesota, Bunty plans to become
a teacher. She is active in home economics activities, WAA, and last
year was president of AWS.
Running for queen is not the first thing the three girls have done
together. For two years they have been roommates in Miriam Annex.
Besides that, all of them are in education. Both Mary, from Knapp,
Wisconsin, and Jan, from Bagley, Minnesota, are music majors.
After the coronation tonight there will be a processional down to
Riverside park for the annual bonfire. As well as comments by the
queen, the coaches, and some of the players, there will be music by the
pep band and a tug of war between the freshmen and sophomores.
Left to right: Mary, Bunty, Janet
AUGSBURG
WELCOME
ALUMNI!
Vol. LXII
Augsburg College, Minneapolis, Minn., October 20, 1955
No. 3
Lambda lota Tau Society
Inducts Five English Majors
Five students will be received
as members of Omicron chapter
of Lambda Iota Tau, national honor society for English majors, at
its third installation service to
be held tomorrow at 4 p.m. in
Science auditorium.
Candidates for membership will
present papers on literary topics
at the public meeting. Robert Car-
relli will present his paper on
"Evidences of Naturalism in The
Red Badge of Courage." Marilyn
Dahl's topic will be "Small Town
Attitudes in the Spoon River Anthology." "The Theme of the Generations in Shakespeare" will be
the topic of Maxine Berntsen's
paper. Beverly Olson will present
a paper on "Marianne Moore: Her
'Observations.' " Topic of Donald
Brue's presentation will be "Onward Instinct in the Western
Star."
President Ted Berkas will be in
■charge of the installation. Ted
Thompson, vice president, will in
troduce the presentations of the
candidates.
Omicron chapter of Lambda
Iota Tau, the only national honor
society at Augsburg, was installed
last fall during Homecoming.
Moderator for Omicron is Mr.
Gerald H. Thorson, associate professor of English.
P-T-R Committee
Meets on Campus
Over 300 committee members
will meet on the Augsburg campus October 28 to plan for the
Twin City preaching, teaching,
reaching mission which will be
held February 5-9.
The mission is the joint project
of 200 churches representing over
130,000 people. Committees planning for prayer, publicity, visitation, and youth work will be represented at the October 28 meeting.
Bishop Lilje To Address   ^ p-irm Foundation Is Keynote
As Grads Come Back Again
T-C Reformation Festival
Bishop Hanns Lilje of the
church of Hannover, Germany, is
to be the featured speaker at the
Twin City Reformation festival at
the Minneapolis auditorium Sunday, October 30, at 8 p.m.
Bishop Lilje is president of the
Lutheran World 'federation and
vice-president of the World Council of Churches.
Preceding Bishop Lilje's speech
will be a procession of all the Lutheran ministers in the Twin City
area.
This Twin City Reformation
festival, sponsored by the National Lutheran council congregations
of St. Paul and Minneapolis, is
anticipated to be the largest Reformation festival in the United
States this year. Some 10,000 people from the Twin Cities and vicinity are expected to attend.
The Lutheran Welfare's 1,000
voice "Messiah Choir" will sing
several selections under the baton
of Peter Tkach.
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"A Firm Foundation," a reminder of Augsburg's spiritual
basis, is the theme of the 1955 Homecoming which gets underway
today. The coronation of Bunty Munson as queen tonight will start off
the week's activities.
Chapel speaker at Trinity church tomorrow will be Pastor Harry
Sorenson of Mmot, North Dakota. Alumni and present members of the
choir, band, and choral club will hold their annual Musicale dinner
tomorrow evening in Trinity church at 5:30. Price of tickets is $1.00.
There will also be an A-club dinner at the Hasty-Tasty cafe at 6:30
for former athletes.
Climax of the day will be a
talent show in the music building with performances at 7:30 and
9 p.m. George Sverdrup library
and the residences will have open
house during this time.
The traditional lefse and meatballs will be served Saturday
night at the Alumni smorgasbord.
The smorgasbord is an annual
project to raise funds for the
Alumni scholarship fund. Tickets
are $1.50 for adults, $1.00 for students, and $.75 for children. Reunions of the classes of 1955, 1950,
1945, and 1930 will be held in connection with the smorgasbord.
Carl T. Rowan To Speak at Convo Wednesday       To Honor Dads
Carl T. Rowan, staff writer for
the Minneapolis Tribune and well-
known traveler and author, will
address an Augsburg convocation
audience next Wednesday on "The
Problem of Southeast Asia."
Mr. Rowan's talk, which will be
based on his observation during a
recent seven-month tour of several Southeast Asian countries,
will be given in the chapel at
10 a.m.
Named "one of America's ten
outstanding young men of 1953"
by the United States junior chamber of commerce for his series of
articles on racial segregation in
the South, Mr. Rowan recently
wrote a second series entitled
"This Is India," reporting his trip
through  Southeast Asia.
More recently he traveled to
Indonesia to cover the Bandung
conference of Asian and African
nations. On his return trip he revisited Indo-China and Japan, observing conditions there.
Mr. Rowan is the author of the
best-selling book South of Free-
Carl T. Rowan
dom, based on a 6,000-mile tour
of his native South. The book was
selected by the American Library
association as one of the 53 best
books of 1952.
A native of Tennessee, Mr.
Rowan attended Tennessee State
college, after which, in 1943, he
entered the United States navy.
In 1945 he was commissioned an
ensign in the naval reserve, becoming one of the first fifteen Negroes to attain commissioned rank
in the navy.
Upon release to inactive duty he
returned to Oberlin College where
he received his bachelor of science
degree in mathematics. He later
received his master of arts degree in journalism from the University of Minnesota.
In April 1954 he was cited by
the Sigma Delta Chi, national
professional journalism fraternity, for distinguished service to
journalism in the field of reporting. It was the first time the
award had ever been given to a
Negro newspaperman. Mr. Rowan
was cited for "service to humanity" by the Minneapolis junior
chamber of commerce for his articles on race relations.
Dads of the football players will
occupy seats of honor on the
bench at the highlight of Homecoming activities, the Augsburg-
St. Thomas game at Parade stadium Saturday night. The game will
be televised over Station KEYD,
channel 9, at 8 p.m. Now tied for
first place in the conference, the
Auggies have high hopes of
"trouncing the Tommies." After
the game, campus clubs will be
hosts at a carnival in the gym.
Sunday morning's worship
service will be held in Trinity
church, with Pastor Lawrence
Gudmestad, chaplain at Deaconess
hospital, as speaker.
Choral Concert
A concert by the choir and
choral club will be presented at
Trinity Sunday at 3 p.m. Following the concert the Homecoming
activities will conclude with laying of the cornerstone of the new
women's residence, with Mr.
George Michaelsen presiding.
SPAN Appoints
Dennis Barnaal
Travel Director
One of Augusburg's future
Spanners has been appointed
travel director for the Minnesota-
Dakota region of the National Student association. He is Dennis
Barnaal, sophomore from Sacred
Heart.
Among other things NSA promotes international student travel. Dennis will be concerned with
publicizing NSA tours in the member schools of this region. He will
also plan tours through this section.
Dennis will study aeronautical
engineering in England next summer under SPAN (Student Project for Amity among Nations).
Church Council Awards
Belgum for Social Work
Mr. Harold Belgum, instructor
in sociology, is one of ten persons
throughout the country nominated
to receive an award for "outstanding achievement in church-related
social work."
Mr. Belgum is director of social
work services for the Lutheran
Welfare society of Minnesota. He
is also president of the Lutheran
Welfare conference in America.
The award will be given at the
national conference on the churches and social welfare to be sponsored by the National Council of
Churches November 1-4 at Cleveland, Ohio.