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Volume 51
Augsburg College. Thursday, October 17, 1946
Number  1
Like a host of other colleges in our country, Augsburg stands at the
beginning of a year of unmeasured opportunity and challenge. Our
hearts are filled with gratitude to God that hundreds of our men and
women, after years with the Armed Forces, have been permitted to
return and renew their work among us on the campus. And with them
have come other hundreds—young, eager, hungry for life and education. While peace on earth is still not an actual reality there is afforded
a new opportunity for thoughtful men today to study the ways in
which the seeds of an enduring peace may most effectively be planted
in the war-scarred soil of the world.
Thus another hour of great opportunity has come for the Christian
College and Seminary. As students and teachers we can fritter it away
if we give our time and strength to insignificant things. But we can
also seize its challenge with creative vision and self dedication in the
power of the Spirit of God. Let each of us at Augsburg approach his
task humbly, reverently, but with a bold faith that through us Almighty God can accomplish some part of that Will whereby man may
be saved from the consequences of his own ignorance, folly and sin!
Because of the swift development of science and technology as yet
uncontrolled by the Spirit of Christ mankind now lives and works in
the shadows of eternity. Perhaps also among us there walk today some
who will be entrusted with mighty keys of power for the solution of
humanity's problems. Some keys are surely entrusted to each of us.
God achieves His ends through the cooperation of man. The knowledge
of this is what casts a strange glow of possibility and promise over all
our endeavors, also at Augsburg as the seventy-eighth school year
opens.
Welcome and good wishes for the year to each one!
Bernhard Christensen
Myrvik Heads
August Opera
During the summer months a
group of seventy-five Auggies
calling themselves Ihe Augsburg
Players, met on campus twice
weekly to practice, play and polish
the fine points of their production, Martha, given at Folwell
Junior High School, August 29-
30. This production—a light opera
—was managed by Norman Myrvik and directed by Prof. Opseth.
Miss Alice Murray was dramatic
director and Paul Kilde was stage
manager. Leading roles were
played by Paul and Marcella
Kilde, Adelyne Johnson, Norman
Myrvik,   and   Russell   Quanbeck.
Enthusiastic audiences filled
the auditorium at both performances, and the Players also presented the opera before the patients at the Veterans Hospital.
Profits of the enterprise have
been given to the Augsburg organ
fund.
New Instructors
Added to Staff
Ready to welcome the record
student body is an enlarged staff
'of 47 men and women, 18 new
professors, instructors, and graduate assistants to help instruct the
700 students enrolled.
The increased faculty includes
Miss Jeanette Anderson, Speech;
Miss Othelia Gjevre, English;
Miss Carol Hermansen, Physical
Education for women; Dr. Lawrence M. Jones, Chemistry; Miss
Martha Kilen, Assistant Librarian; Mr. Clayton Le Fevere,
Coach of Debate and Oratory;
Dr. Shirley Miller, Biology and
Anatomy; Mr. Edor C. Nelson,
Physical Education; Miss Anne
Pederson, English; Mr. Leland B.
Sateren, Music; Mrs. Betty Garton
Ulrich, Christianity and English;
Mr. Howard M. Winholtz, Administration; Mr. Ernest Anderson, Physical Education; Mr.
Lewis    G.    Palmer,    Engineering
1946 Augsburg Enrollment
Greatest in School's History
Courtesy Star Journal
Three Students from Norway now at Augsburg; Ihey are
left to right, Karl Booeivedt, Knut Anker-Gol. and Kirsiian
Reon.
Drawing; Mr. Gerald Thorson,
English; Miss Audrey Landquist,
Piano; and Mr. Milton Kleven,
Matiiematrcs. Miss Peaeisun, Dr.
Jones and Mr. Leland B. Sateren
are returning to Augsburg after
some years' absence. A number
of additons have also been made
to the office staff to help take
care of the record enrollment.
Augsburg Women's
Club Has First Meeting
The first meeting of the Augsburg College Women's Club was
held Tuesday, October 8th. Dr.
Gaylord Anderson, Mayo Professor and Director, University of
Minnesota, spoke on "Polio and
Research in Polio."
Established five years ago, the
Augsburg College Women's Club
has, among its activities, established a student loan and scholarship fund. This fund is kept operating through the work of the
club members. This year a workshop has been set up on the second floor of Old Main under the
direction of Mrs. H. P. Opseth.
The members of the Women's
Club meet here every week to
make various articles, some of
which are now on display in the
showcase on the ground floor of
Old Main.
Miss Gerda Mortensen, president of the Women's Club, extends a cordial invitation to all
women of the Augsburg family to
attend the meetings, held the
second Tuesday of each month.
The Workshop is open every
Thursday and handicraft articles
are for sale.
Varied Programs
For Convocation
First Semester
Speakers from many fields will
be featured at the first semester
convocations, according to the
faculty committee composed of
Miss Alma Jensen, Rev. Iver Olson, and Mrs. Marion Lindemann.
A series of Thursday morning
programs have been arranged.
Mr. Gideon Seymour, Editor of
the Minneapolis Star, spoke here
October 3rd. On October 17th, Dr.
Walter Judd, formerly a medical
missionary and now Congressman
from the 5th Minnesota District,
will address the student body.
Dr. Theodore Blegen, Dean of
the Graduate School at the University, will be the speaker for
the November 14th convocation.
Dr. Blegen is an Augsburg graduate.
Miss Leona Schuneman, Dr.
Harold Deutsch, and the Jordan
Junior High School Choir are
scheduled to appear here during
the month of December.
Mr. Luther Youngdahl, Dr. Wil-
lard Goslin, Dr. Arthur Larson,
and Mrs. A. C. Krey will be
guests at convocation periods.
The dates they will appear will
be announced in the near future.
Convocation is held every Thursday morning during the fourth
period, and every student is urged
to attend or listen to the programs. The new public address
system will enable everyone to
participate.
The above Minneapolis Star photograph pictures (L. Jo R.1
Lester Broman. Herman Olson, Erling Rodevik. and Kenneth
Sorenson, all veterans, now putting away their uniforms.
ATTENTION AUGGIES OLD AND NEW
1946 HOMECOMING DATES ARE
OCTOBER 24 TO 27
Registration is now over, and
Augsburg is confronted with the
problem of handling the largest
enrollment in all of it's 78 years.
The statistics are not yet available, but it is estimated that over
350 freshmen have been registered
for the fall term.
The influx of knowledge-seeking veterans provided for under
the GI Bill of Rights has increased
attendance at all Minnesota colleges, and Augsburg is no exception, having well over 70C students enrolled. Previously, the
high in attendance at Augsburg
was during the years 1941-42,
when 497 students were enrolled.
The increase of enrollment presents many problems to a college
which cannot immediately expand materially. One of the foremost of these has been the need
for additional classroom space.
This situation has been partially
remedied by the provision of a
number of classrooms in Riverside Chapel. The Theological lecture room in the Main Hall, and
the recreation room at Sivertsen
Hall will be used as study halls
in addition to the library. Classrooms in Old Main which have
long stood empty are again being
used, and the all-around crowd-
edness on and about the campus
is but an evidence of the growing pains of a greater Augsburg.
Mission Farm
Retreat Ends
Freshman Week
Freshman week activities were
climaxed by a week-end retreat
at Medicine Lake. The purpose of
the "Frosh Camp" was to give
new students an opportunity to
learn to know each other, to become acquainted with various
student organizations, and to provide a period of physical recreation and spiritual inspiration.
Five busses filled with freshmen left the campus on Saturday
afternoon, arriving at the Medicine Lake Camp early enough to
provide several hours of recreational activity. The evening assembly was designed to introduce
freshmen to various campus organizations, and their leaders.
Immediately after dismissal of the
meeting, Iver Sonnack led the
group in a "Bonfire Sing."
Sunday's program began at 7
o'clock when Dr. Stensvaag spoke
to the Freshmen at the Sunrise
Service. The morning worship
service was conducted by Dr.
Christensen, who presented a
challenge to freshmen as well as
extending a welcome. The "camp
choir," directed by Prof. Opseth,
sang.
Rainy weather limited the remainder of the program to indoor
activity and the freshmen returned to the campus on Sunday
evening.
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