| Summary: | from a Reporter's Notebook By BEULAH FRITCH LEE POSES FOK PING PONGS LETS LEAVE GRASS A LAWN CLASS SKIPPERS JOIN CHOIR FRITCH SHARPENS PENCIL Lyle Lee had his smiling face photo-graphed in one of these ''Four Poses for a Dime" ping-pong photo booths. Enclosed in the envelope with the pictures was a persuasive bit of ad-vorti ing: "Now is the time to enter your picture in the Better Babies Contest." But Lyle didn't have the funds for the 8 by 10 tinted enlarge-ment. Cn behalf of the Concordia college administration, the local organization for the beautification of the City of Moorhead. the National Department of Conservation, and Oscar Odin, we take this opportunity to publish the annual plea: KEEP OFF THE GRASS!" Oscar u an experienced and ef-ficient horticulturist but he can't make the grass grow under your feet. This campus could really be a masterpiece in verdant landscaping if we'd at least make a stab at the sidewalks. The choir personnel has swelled to unbelievable proportions. Every class-cutter has some obliging friend tell the professor, tlOh, he\s on the choir trip." If this keeps up the returning: choir will look like a westbound freighter. The insignificant little comma plays an important role sometimes. Stress-ing the importance of punctuation, one of the English professors pre.cnted this illustration: "Woman, without her, man is a savage." "Woman without her man is a lavage.1' Old but funny: College-bred means a four-year loaf on Fath-er's dcugh. . . . If you sec a group of girls in a huddle it's probably the organization of another of these mutual admiration societies brought on by the appearance of new spring outfits. . . . He calls her his little sugar because she's such a refined sap. A campus Vocabulary club was or-ganized this week for three imperative reasons. In the first place we realize the shortage of clubs and societies on this campus. In the second place it gives a good excuse to get up and move around while studying in the library— you can always be looking for the dic-tionary. In the third place our vo-cabularies arc sadly inadequate in the first place. Harold Poier, the noted philologist was named president. Marj Teisberg has already learned two new words (Note, they both pertain to eating "which is a hobby of hers.) Unless one is a WAA girl or some other kind of calisthenic artist, it is almo.t impossible to sharpen one's pencil in the library. Located on the third step of the stairway behind the magazine rack, the sharpener is prac-tically Inaccessible. If you sit on the landing it's too low and if you sit on the floor it's too high. Thus, the only alternative is to get down on your knees on the second step, breathing a fervent wish that no one suddenly decides to come down-stairs. Then there's nothing to do "with your feet unless you put them on the encyclopedia shelf which is impos-sible to do without removing at least four volumes of the Encyclopedia Brit-tanica. So precariously perched, you break the lead three times and finally decide to borrow some ink and use your pen. THE CONCORDIAN VOLUME XXX. Z-348 CONCORDIA COLLEGE, MOORHEAD, THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1930. NUMBER 25. Ralph Fjelstad Named Political Science Fellow At Northwestern Ralph Fjelstad '37, has been named Norman Wait Han-is fellow in political science at Northwestern university, Evanston, 111. Only one fellowship on this foundation is awarded each year at Northwestern and Fjelstad was chosen from a large group of applicants. He will complete work on his Mas-ter's degree in political science at the University of Minnesota this year, tak-ing His degree this summer. Last year he attended Luther Theological seminary in St. Paul. Valedictorian of his class and a member of Alpha society, Fjelstad was graduated sum ma cum laude. He served as president of his class during his junior and senior years and was president of the Luther league one se-mester. Playing roles in "Iceland," "As You Like It" and "Merchant of Venice" earned him membership in Alpha Psi Omega, honorary dramatic fraternity. He was also member of Sock and Bus-kin dramatic society. In 1936 with colleague Burton Smith '37, Fjelstad placed third in the debate meet held at the national convention of Pi Kappa Delta, honorary forensic fraternity, in Houston, Texas. During his senior year he was president of the Minnesota Zeta chapter of Pi Kappa Delta. Other organizations to which he be-longed were Zeta Sigma Pi, honorary social science fraternity, International Relations club, second band, orchestra and chorus. Brotherhoods, League To Hear Faculty Several faculty members are sched-uled to speak at Brotherhood and Luther league rallies in Minnesota, North Dakota and Montana this week. Dr. J. N. Brown will address a Lutheran Brotherhood rally at Glen-dive, Mont.r this evening. Friday he will attend a father and son banquet at Circle, Mont. This evening Prof. G. L. Schobcrg will speak at a men's brotherhood banquet at HaJstad. At a Lutheran brotherhood meeting in the United Lutheran church in Grand Forks, N. D., Dr. T. O. Bur-gess will speak Tuesday. Rev. Carl B. Ylviraker will speak at a Luther league rally at Carrington, N. D., Sunday. Edward Anderson '38, is in charge. Addreising the Pastoral conference at Fjelstad hall Monday, April 10, Prof. H. C. Nordlic spoke on the "Rela-tive Strength of the Church Bodies in North Dakota and Minnesota." Rev. Ylvisakcr spoke at two sessions of the Northern Minnesota pastoral con-ference at Bemidji Wednesday. • Bulletins • Spring fashions will be discussed when Omicron Tau Delta, home eco-nomics society meets at 6 p.m. Friday. Leanor Fraase will speak on colors, Phyllis Stuvland on materials and Clarice Paulson on silhouettes. Host-esses will be Imogene Baker, Mary Gar berg. Lcla Rypg and Phyllis Erick-son. Misj Eorghild Torvik, college piano instructor, was elected president of the Fhi Iota chapter of Mu Phi Epsilon, national honor music sorority, Monday. Other officers chosen are Mrs. W. S. Shaw, vice president; Miss Bernice Slind, recording secretary; Mi's. H. O. Anderson, corresponding secretary; treasurer, Mrs. Henry GUbertson; his-torian, Miss Audre Casselman; war-den. Miss Merle Nelson; chorister, Miss Clara Duea; alumni secretary, Mrs. Rolfe 'Fainter, and chaplain, Miss Almira Lindgren. Miss Clara Paulson leaves today for Minneapolis to attend Ihe an-nual spring meeting of the State Association of Deans of Women. Sessions will he Friday and Satur-day on the University of Minnesota campus. 'IVo concerts have been scheduled for the Concordia concert band, May 2 at Pelican Rapids and May 17 at Hawley. At Hawlcy the band will play in conjunction with a 17th of May celebratio Rev. Carl Ylvisaker conducted fu-neral services for Jerome C. Anderson '31, a former star athlete at Concordia, at the E. F. Moore funeral home, Far-go, Monday. Mr. Anderson taught for five years at Courtney, N. D., and the past two and a half years had been superintendent of schools at Cleveland, N. D. His wife, the former Thelma Ivesdal, is a Cobber graduate of '32. Miss Clara Duea was pianist for the service. RALPH FJELSTAD Alpha Phi Banquet Will Honor Editors BeginrtJig a feature which it hopes will become traditional, Concordia's Alpha Eta chapter of Alpha Phi Gamma, national hon-orary journalism fraternity, will honor the retiring editors-in-chuf of The Concordian, college weekly, and the Cobber, biennial, at a ban-quet at 6 p.m. Monday in the home Lconcmics building. Honored will be Lloyd Svcen of The Concordian and Alf Stavig of the Cobber. Stanley Cowan, Moor-head editor of the Fargo Forum, will speak on his experiences in interviewing well-known person-ages. Any perron who is or has been connected with publications at Concordia is invited, but reserva-tions must he made with Beulah Fritch, chairman of ticket sales, before Friday noon. Marjorie Teis-berg has charge of the banquet program while Jean Hopeman is chairman of decorations. Will mar Thorkclson, Alpha Phi Gamma president, will be toastmaslcr. 3,800 High School Seniors Will Receive This Issue Approximately 3,800 high school seniors will receive copies of this edition of The Concordian, which is a summary of the highspots of the 1938-39 college year at Concordia. To our regular readers, we apolo-gize for reprinting stories they may have read in previous i-sues. An attempt has been made, however, to include only timely news on Page 1. To the high school seniors, we say here is a picture of Concordia college life. You will find the ac-count of Concordia's activities ac-curate and undLtorted, no attempt being made to color them for the college's advantage. Supervising the edition jointly have been Lloyd Svecn, retiring editor-in-chief, and Willmar Thor-kclson, newly-appointed head of The Concordian. Search For Antiques Continues As Cast Of 49 Puts Finishing Touches On Lincoln Play, Set For Tomorrow Missionary Doctor From China To Speak At Religious Meetings Dr. Gustav Guldseth, who for the past seven years ha.; been in charge of one of the large hospitals and training schools in interior China, will be on the Concordia campus Friday, Saturday and Sunday to conduct per-sonal interviews and to speak. Campus groups hearing him will be Fellowship, Mission Crusaders and Luther league. Sunday morning Dr. Guldseth will conduct the regular ser-vice in First Lutheran church, Fargo. In his speeches he will follow a se-quence to avoid repetition. Having been in China during part, of the present war and during the re-vival which swept through the coun-try he has worked among soldiers and refugees as well as other people. In his work Dr. Guldseth has taken the evangelical as well as the medical viewpoint on missions. Honoring Dr. Guldseth, Miss Frida Nilsen will give a tea for the faculty from 3 to 4 p.m. in the North lounge of Fjelstad hall tomorrow. During his stay here Dr. Guldseth will be a guest of Rev. and Mrs. W. F. Schmidt. Six Seniors, Four Alumni Placed In Teaching and Secretarial Positions Six .'cniors and four alumni have recently received positions or promo-tions according to an announcement from Prof. Peter Anderson, head of the placement bureau. George Braseth has accepted a po-sition as stenographer at the Ford Motor company, Fargo. Lily Gylden-vand will have a position as office secretary in Minneapolis. Orvis Hanson will teach at Amenia, N. D., and Manvel Lillehaugen, at Goodrich, N. D. Hermoine Hagen and Martha Amdal will both teach at Kiester. Elected to superintendencies are Martin Langehaug '31, at Stordin and John Peterson '35. at Gilby, N. D. John Carlson '37, has a position as adjuster with the Western Adjustment and Inspection company, Chicago, with headquarters at Sioux Falls, S. D., and Stanley Anderson '35, is work-ing at the Marquctte National bank, Minneapolis. Frospects are good, according to Pro-to attain 100 per cent placement as in 1935, 1936 and 1937. Further an-nouncements will be made in The Con-cordian as students secure positions. Committee Chairmen For Prince Visit Named Faculty committees have been se-lected to make preparations for the vhit of the Crown Prince and Princess to the campus June 8. The committee on public occasions will act as a general arrangements committee. Chairmen of other committees arc: broadcasting, Howard Nelson; program, Prof. J. A. Holvik; publicity, Prof. G. L. Schoberg; reception, Prof. J. H. Hjelmstad; decorations, Rev. C. B. YlvLaker; banquet, Miss Florence Kruger; souvenir program, Rev. W. F. Schmidt; seating and stage, Prof. R. E. Fuglestad; loudspeakers and light-ing, Dr. K. O. Lee, and ushering and LEAD ROLES in "Prologue to Glory," a drama depicting the early life of Abraham Lincoln, will be played by Laura Syltie as Ann Rutledge, Lin-coln's sweetheart, and Alan Hopeman, Moorhead, as Abe Lincoln. The play will be presented by the Concordia theater at 8:15 p.m. Friday. fessor Anderson, and the bureau hopes policing, Prof. A. M. Sattre. Sophs To Participate In National Education Council Test Program The personnel council announces that Concordia is again to participate in the national sophomore testing pro-gram sponsored by the committee on measurement and guidance and the cooperative test fervice of the Ameri-can Council on Education. This is the eighth annual program of this nature sponsored by the National Council on Education. According to the National Council on Education, the testing program is "designed to provide valid measures of some of the more important types of achievement and functioning inter-est of students at the end of the sopho-more year," and "attempts to assist the colleges by providing some of the necessary instruments of measurement and by organizing and interpreting the information which the tests reveal in such a manner as to be of maximum usefulness to the colleges and par-ticularly to the individual student." The program will begin at the close of next week, according to Prof. Peter Anderson, in charge of the testing program at Concordia and will con-tinue at intervals over a period of about two weeks. All sophomores wil participate and will be provided with individual profiles of their test re-sults before the end of the school year. Concordia's ranking at the time of last participation was very highly sat-isfactory. Atmosphere Needed For 'Prologue To Glory' General Store Scene First the needed a man who re-sembled or could be made to resemble "Honest Abe" and a woman who fitted the part of Ann Rutledge, Lincoln's sweetheart. But finding players wasn't the end of the search for Mrs. Norma Gooden Ostby who is directing "Pro-logue to Glory," spring play to be giv-en tomorrow at 8:15 p.m. in the col-lege auditorium. Abe ''kept store" before the days of electric lights, Springfield scales and cellophane packages. That ac-counts for the still fruitless search the property committee and Mrs. Ostby are making for an old-fashioned scale with weights, a keg or barrel, a kero-sene lantern and a dinner bell. Also being Lought are a wagon wheel, a wooden bucket and a leather saddle-bag. Antiques of any kind are wel-come, Mrs. Ostby told The Concordian yesterday. Playing the leads are Alan Hope-man as Abraham Lincoln and Laura Syltie as Aim Rutledge. Others who play leading parts are Lloyd Svecn as Squire Bowlin Green; Lillian Syvcfrson as his wife; Ellen Eidum as Granny Rutledge; Sherman Sundet as Denton Offut and James Akcr as Jack Armstrong. Supporting players are Sigfrid Lysne, Norris Nereson, Dorothy And-erson, Charles Hedelund, Alice Ege-land, Carol Fortney, Robert Fossum, Marcelle Reitan, Vernon Mauritsen, Robert Salaba, Lester Soberg, Carl Sanderson, Or-ville Hipler, Clifford Gronneberg, Carl Grimsrud, Alvin Rogen, Floyd Misner, Beatrice ErickLon, Lucille Knutson, Ruth Rosvold, Mildred Thorkelson, and Justin Dyrud. The production staff includes Leila Kiel as business manager; Elsie Or-dahl, Ltudent director; Paul Gable, stage manager; Elmer Wickstrom, stage crew manager, pnd John Andersen, lighting manager. Also on the stag© crew are Adrian Megrund and Russel Eergford. Ruth Rosvold, Sherman Sundet and Eunice Carson are in charge of make-up; Helen Marie Bogenrief, Evelyn Reitan, May Bellerud and Lucille Lar- :.on comprise the costume committee. In charge of properties are Hermoine Gordon, Gladys Onstad. Marguerite Eichler and Loretta Rodsater. Erling Erickson and Esther Wik are on the scene designing committee. FROM A CHOIR MEMBER'S DIARY _ Darkness, Road Restrictions Handicap Group On Tour By CARSTEN BREIN Staff Writer With The Choir April 8—Choir members received a mimeographed edition of The Con-cordian with the latest news flashes as they boarded two busses. Stopped for a rest at Alexandria where we saw the famous Kensington Runcstone. The stone has old Northmen charac-ters inscribed on it and the date 1362 which attests to early Scandinavian expeditions to this country. At Kas-sont our first concert stop, we were royally received at a church supper. Dr. and Mrs. F. Melius Christiansen were present. April 9—We attended Easter morn-ing services at the Zumbro Lutheran church at Rochester. Gladys Bor-itad sang a solo as part of the services while Victor Hehn sang at the sunrise service in Kasson. Before the concert, several of us had the opportunity to visit the Mayo clinic and the huge 20- story city auditorium erected by Charles Mayo as a gift to Rochester. Nick Matthees '36, was present at the Rochester concert. At Spring Grove, Eunice Estrem ex-*41, came up from Luther college to hear the concert. April 10—At LaCrosse, Wis., the Wisconsin highway commission de-tained us because of road restric-tions due to excessive weight. Bad roatLs forced us to call up the Westby high school busses to take us over to Westby. Our conclud-ing number at Westby was sung in darkness due to a blown fuse. Choir members were quite thrilled although Christiansen could bare-ly be distinguish _d. The audience Mood in appreciation as the choir entered for the last group. April 11—In Evansville, Wis., we sang in the Leota theater to a good audience although the acoustics were bad. All boys were parcelled out on farms. The newness of the surround-ings made it hard to get rest and the many jaunts were very tiring, April 12—The highway commission interposed again so we had to use cars to reach the concert site at Mt. Horeb, Wis. April 14—We sang one of our best concerts at the large Methodist church. at Morris, 111. Dr. and llfrs. John B. Larson, both '23, were present at the concert. April 15—Interest was very high as we neared the Windy City. While we were broadcasting over the Columbia Broadcasting iystem from its studios in the Wrigley building, the Ashland a capella choir of Ashland; Wis., was also present. Margaret Ristvedt, a former Cobber and teacher at the Ash-land college, was traveling with the choir.W e received the heartiest wel-come of the trip at Oconomowoc, Wis. Professor Christiansen was inducted in the Order of the Five Circles, a newly-conceived order based on the five o's in the city's name. April 16—Bad weather jinxed the choir the whole first week. Ocono-mowoc is a beautiful city of some 5,000 residents. Many Chicago and Milwau-kee "R. B.V live there. In Milwaukee, the evening concert had been played up greatly by the very active minis-ter, Rev. E. S. Hjortland, who heads the Ascension Lutheran church, the largest church in Milwaukee. We sang an excellent concert to a full crowd of some 1,000 persons. April 17—Back again at Chicago, we went through the large NBC studios. We saw part of the National Farm and Home hour broadcast and Club Mati-nee with Ramom Miles Sherman in the afternoon. We saw quite a part of tho busy Merchandise Mart, ships passing under the large drawbridge and many of the noted landmarks. Limited time did not permit sight-iccing as we had to rest for the Or-chestra hall concert. The concert hall was an exception-ally fine place in which to sing. It is nearly acoustically perfect, the softest pianissimos and the loudest fortis-simos carrying perfectly to all parts of the hall. Cobber alumni greeting us back stage included Miss Lois Brown '34, and Henry Bjorge '37. Soloists with the choir, Grace Berg and Gladys Borstad, were especially well-received at the Orchestra hall concert. Without a doubt this concert has been the high-light of the tour thus far. Tuesday we sang at the chapel ser-vice of Wheaton college as the guests of the Wheaton choir. . The choir will return to Moorhead Monday evening -after a concert at Fergus Falls. Printing Of Cobber To Begin Next Week For Release May 15 "All of the engraving for the Cob-ber will be finished by the end of this week, so that the printers will be able to start printing the book early next week. This will make it possible for the book to be issued on May 15," Alf Stavig, editor of the 1939 Cobber, said yesterday. Eight additional pages have been added to the feature photograph sec-tion, making a total of 20 pages of pic-tures of campus life. Included are photographs of band and choir trips, the Lutheran Students union conven-tion and campus activity pictures. "The number of individual pic-tures in this Cobber will be much largier than in any previous one," says Stavig. 'There are 450 indi-vidual pictures besides many oth-ers in various department sections. Every Cobber will be represented in the book." Plans are being made for a Cobber chapel program to be given next week. At this time the cover for the book will be displayed and department edi-tors will explain the various depart-ments. Wayne Wallin is substituting for George Braseth, circulation manager, who is employed at tho Ford Motor company, Fargo. Several orders for books have been received from last year's graduates and a limited num-ber of Cobbers will be available to those who send in their orders soon. Members of the Cobber circulation staff will contact students this week to secure final payments on the Cob-ber as well as those who have not as yet reserved a copy. Ihorus On WDAY'Sunday The Concordia college mixed chorus of 80 voices under the direction of E. A. Tfrorrnod^gaard will be featured on the, Concordia music hour next Sunday at 4:15 pjn. over WDAY.
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