Echo January 11, 1967

              The Augsburg Echo
Vol. LXXIII
Augsburg College, Minneapolis, Minnesota, January 11, 1966
No. 11
Luther Sem Professor
At Faith in Life Week
Arndt Halvorson
"God is Now" is the theme for
this year's Faith in Life Week, January 16-20. Speaker for the week
is Dr. Arndt L. Halvorson, professor of homiletics at Luther Theological Seminary.
Convocation time schedule will
be followed each day to include Dr.
ilalvorson's lectures, special music
and liturgy and a coffee hour.
HALVORSON'S TOPICS are as
follows: Monday, "The Really
Real"; Tuesday, "We See Through
the Glass Darkly"; Wednesday,
"All Our Yesterdays"; Thursday,
"What Matters Most" and Friday,
"Waiting."
Dr. Halvorson has published two
books, TAKE UP THY CROSS
(1949) and ONE LIFE TO LIVE
(1962). He has written several articles for the Lutheran Standard
and Christian Century, as well as
sermons  in  the  Augsburg  series.
He received his Bachelor of Theology  from  Luther  Seminary  and
did post-graduate work at Columbia University in New York, the
University of Washington at Seattle, the University of Edinburgh
and the University of Cambridge.
HE SERVED AS parish pastor
for 18 years and taught and served
as acting president at Waldorf College, Forest City, Iowa.
While attending the University
of Edinburgh in 1958-59, Dr. Hal
vorson toured Europe and the Holy
Land.
The week's activities will also include an SCF-sponsored film, "The
Chairy Tale" Wednesday evening
and an Ecumenical Forum debate
on "The Problem of Interfaith Marriages" at St. Mary's Junior College Wednesday evening.
Other discussions and programs
are being planned. Chairman for
the week is Lee Anne Hansen.
Cosmopolitan Group
Has Florida Holiday
Former Augsburg Dean
Lands Presidential Post
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Armacost
Dr. Peter H. Armacost, program
director of the Association of
American Colleges in Washington,
D.C., will become the twelfth president of Ottawa University, Ottawa,  Kansas,  August  15.
Morris D. Hildreth of Coffeyville,
Kansas, chairman of the board of
trustees, announced the appointment January 4.
ARMACOST IS A former dean
of students and a teacher at Augsburg.
In his present
position with the
Association, Dr.
Armacost is responsible for staffing the Commission on Students
and Faculty and
the Commission on
College and Society. He is now planning the organization's 1967 convention.
First employed by the Association in 1965, his basic work was
consideration of the nature and
causes   of   current   student   unrest
Married Students
Get Activity Card
Married Augsburg students will
be able to take their husbands or
■ !v>'s to college events from now
on without going broke.
Effective immediately a special
activity card is available in the
Public Relations office which will
admit the spouses of married students to all Augsburg events on a
student basis.
The only hitch is that the card
costs $1. But that's not too hard
to take considering admission to
just about all Augsburg athletic
events  is $1.50.
The married student activity
card grew out of a bill passed by
the Student Council last fall introduced by married student representative Loren Dunham.
and ways in which liberal education might better meet the needs
of students. He helped draft the
"Statement of Desirable Provisions
for Student Freedom to Learn."
HE HAS BEEN active in several
professional organizations, especially in the National Association
of Student Personnel Administrators which has a membership of
more than 800 deans of students,
deans of men and other student
personnel officers.
Prior to his Washington appointment, Dr. Armacost was dean of
students and assistant professor of
psychology at Augsburg from 1959
to 1965. He was a vocational counselor in the Veterans Administration Hospital, Minneapolis, in the
summer of 1962.
From 1962 to 1966 he was lecturer in Student Personnel Work and
Higher Education in the University
of Minnesota summer schools.
ARMACOST TOOK HIS undergraduate work at Denison University, Granville, Ohio, majoring in
psychology and minoring in economics in 1957.
He was awarded a Ph.D. degree
by the University of Minnesota in
1963 with a major in psychology
and a minor in educational psychology. He has had one year of
post-doctoral study in theology at
Union Theological Seminary, New
York City.
He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, national honorary fraternity, in
1957 at Denison. In 1957 he was
also selected as a Danforth Foundation Fellow and as a fellow of
the National Woodrow Wilson Fellowship program for 1957-58.
HE IS ALSO A member of Pi
Gamma Mu. Psi Chi, Omicron Delta Kappa and Blue Key, all honorary societies.
In the past two years has has
given papers and addresses before
several national educational organizations. Several of his articles
have been published in professional
journals.
Dr. Armacost is familiar with
liberal arts colleges, having attended one, taught in one and worked
in a national association of such
institutions. In addition, his father,
Dr. George H. Armacost, has been
president of the University of Red-
lands in California since 1945.
Ten Augsburg foreign students
spent the Christmas holidays in
Clermont, Florida, as guests of the
local People-to-People chapter.
The group arrived in Clermont
Christmas Eve by Greyhound bus
ten hours behind schedule, encountering snow storms, travel congestion and a nine hour delay in Chicago.
THEY LEFT CLERMONT New
Year's Day after a week filled with
tours, fishing trips, a visit to the
Kennedy Space Center, contact
with local college students, luncheons and, of course, a New Year's
Eve party.
Christmas Day was family day,
with . each student taking part in
the activities planned by their
hosts.
Participating   in   the   trip   were
Lars Sandven, Norway; Yan Sang
Lee, Hong Kong; Mr. and Mrs.
Paul Gerschwitz and son, Dieter,
Australia; Inger - Lise Ullstrom,
Norway; David Ramnarine, Guyana; Samuel Yue, Hong Kong; Hen-
riette Rodary, France; Amy Sie,
Hong Kong, and Kamalakumari
Komanduri, India.
THOUGH THE anticipated sunshine and warm weather did not
exist during the stay, Florida
proved itself to the students, especially Sam Yue and Lars Sandven,
who dared take to water skis one
afternoon.
Chairmen of the seven-day program were Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Lucas.
Instrumental in choosing Augsburg as the participating college
was Conrad Hanson, of the Minnesota International Center.
Westphal Named Artist in Residence
by  Pat  Linden
When David Westphal returned
from India over the holidays he
found a final notice on his desk offering him a new job on the Augsburg campus.
A eomm'ittee of Augsburg faculty including Richard Husfloen, Robert Karlen, and Philip Thompson
presented him the position of artist in residence with emphasis in
cinematography.
AS IT IS A previously untried
position   on   campus,   Westphal   is
here to help establish a way of
communicating ideas in the field of
motion pictures. No class is being
offered on the subject but Westphal expects to explore new ideas
with students and faculty to give a
toe hold to cinema on the Augsburg
campus.
The art department which originally proposed Westphal's position
realizes that cinema is gradually
becoming more a fine art medium.
The position is similar in form
to August Molder's who is also an
Photo by Lowottch
PHOTOGRAPHER  IN RESIDENCE, Do»id Westphal, decidej  wKere to edit hit lotett film.
artist in residence this year.
BOTH WESTPHAL AND Mold-
er are self-sustaining artists but
are given studio space at Augsburg. One requirement is that they
schedule one annual event centered
around their work.
Westphal's still-life photography
exhibit in May will be from his recent trip to India.
Westphal is presently cinemato-
grapher with Hardy-Kotis & Associates, Inc., New York, and works
with a team of three to produce
films for educational television as
well as the classroom. In the last
year they have produced two motion pictures on India's economic
development and have filmed in Japan and Hong Kong for two other
pictures.
WESTPHAL IS presently cameraman in charge of filming all
games for the coaches of the Minnesota Vikings Football  Club.
For local clients he also produces
filmstrips and glide presentations
used  by business and  industry.
While formerly employed as director of photography with the Motion Picture Division of the University of Minnesota, his major film
work included an orientation film
dealing with the activities of the
student union, a series of film* on
open heart surgery, and production
of TV films for National Educational Television. .
His office on campus is located
in the art building at 2.'J11 Riverside.