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UC 2 i '55 AUuSBURG COUECE a SEMINARY i j Sverdmp ' MIN' 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. /journallit and ^Jrauele "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.
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Issue/Title | Echo October 20, 1955 |
Creator/Author | Students of Augsburg College |
Subject | Universities and colleges--Minnesota--Minneapolis--Newspapers. |
Volume | 062 |
Issue | 003 |
Date | 1955-10-20 |
Decade | 1950 |
Frequency | Published on Wednesdays or Fridays during the academic year. |
Coverage | The Echo has been published since 1898. |
Language | English |
Type | Scans of newspapers |
Identifier | RG 17.2.1955.10.20. |
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Collection | Echo |
Publisher | Augsburg College |
Source | Scans of individual and bound editions of the Echo. |
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Contributing Organization | Augsburg University |
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Transcript | UC 2 i '55 AUuSBURG COUECE a SEMINARY i j Sverdmp ' MIN' 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. /journallit and ^Jrauele "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. |
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