| Summary: | The Concordian PAGE 4 Friday, April 20, 1945 Cobbers With The Colors Salveson By VEE THORKELSON Back to Concordia for a visit Wednesday were Harold Iverson, ex '45, and Arvid Tveit, ex '46, both on leave. Iver-son, PhM 3/C, is on an eight-day leave from Brooklyn before getting his overseas assignment. Lieutenant Arvid Tveit is in radio work with the commu-nication division of the air corps. Following the two-week leave he will return to Sheppard Field, Texas, for temporary duty. He recently saw Lt. Floyd Peterson, ex '46, at Chenute Field, 111. Ensign David Baarstad, ex '45, has been transferred from the naval air station at Lake City, Fla., to Beaufort, S. C. His changed address is Ens. 'D. E. Baarstad, Sqd. VB2-1, Naval Air Station, Beaufort, S. C. Following a recent leave, Ens. Robert Sal-veson, ex '45, is out at sea. A deck officer on a destroyer, he is on duty somewhere in the Atlantic theater. His FPO is San Francisco, Calif. On campus a week ago was Ens. Gordon Solee, ex '46, who was on delayed travel or-ders before reporting at San Francisco for overseas duty. Prior to this, Solee, a deck of-ficer, had been attending naval mine warfare school at Yorktown, Va. An executive officer in the division of ma-laria control in war areas is P. A. Engineer Wesley E. Gilbertson, ex '35. A captain in the public health service he spent a year and a half in the Hawaiian Islands in charge of mosquito control during an epi-demic of fever. Captain Gilbertson has also served in the headquarters of-fice of organization established to protect military personnel from malaria in the South. The present address is P. A. En-gineer (R) Wesley E. Gilbertson, U. S. Public Health Service, 605 Volunteer BIdg., Atlanta, Ga. Bismarck Sea, New Guinea, East Indies, Philippines, El-lice Islands and the Halhabaras have been places of action for navy air corps pilot Colin Sillers, '41. He has been awarded the presidential unit citation, Purple Heart, three Air Medals, Distinguished Flying Cross and four campaign ribbons with four stars. "I went through Paris the day after liberation and snipers were still prevalent," relays 1st Lt. Harold Semingson, ex '41. A motor officer in the armored division, he has been in the Normandy, France and Sigfried line battles. Training for Semingson was at Fort Knox, Ky., Fort Snel-ling, Camp Campbell, Ky., and the desert training center in California. His address is 1st Lt. Harold W. Semingson, O-1010917, APO 255, Postmaster, New York, N. Y. Aviation Cadet Calvin Sebelius, ex '46, was deselected from the pilot program because of quota restrictions and now has been taken back into the navy air corps training. His present address is A/C Calvin A. Sebelius, Batt. 11-1, Pit. B, Enter-prise Brks., Rm. 201, NPFS, Athens, Ga. A gunner in the infantry is Pvt. Russell Sanoden, ex '46, whose datelines have been France and Germany. The APO is Pvt. Russell Sanoden, 39339666, APO 94, Postmaster, New York, N. Y. Twelve months of continuous service in the jungle are accredited Capt. Henry Bjorge, '37. A battalion surgeon in the medical corps, he has served in the New Guinea, New Ne-therlands and East Indies areas. Army training for Bjorge was at Carlisle Barracks, Pa., Camp Shelby, Miss., Camp Pickett, Va., Camp Bradford, Va., and Camp Butner, N. D. His APO is San Francisco, Calif. Lieutenant Commander Goodwin Dosland, '23, organized naval schools before reporting for active duty in the Atlantic and Pacific battle areas. He h£s organized yeomen schools at Indianapolis, Ind., and Toledo, Ohio, and naval training schools at the U of Chicago and Oxford, Ohio. Dosland was also head of the communication department in the naval operation base in Iceland. His address is Lt. Cmdr. G. L. Dosland, 83481, FPO, San Francisco, Calif. A medical officer in the paratroops serving in Southern France, Belgium and Germany is Capt. John Lowell Stennes, '37. He has received the Purple Heart and the Bronze Star. The address is Capt. John L. Stennes, M. C, O-461324, APO 333, Postmaster, New York, N. Y. A change of address can be noted in that of Vernon Holtfe, *44. Formerly he was stationed at Corpus Christi, Texas, but his present address is Vernon E. Holte, S 2/C, Naval Training and Distribution Center, Shoemaker, Calif. Italy 'College' Run By Fiskum, Graduate What almost amounts to a col-lege education is being provided a group of men in the 12th air force somewhere in Italy, under the direction of 1st. Lt. Duane Fiskum, who was graduated from Concordia in 1939. Fiskum is an information and education officer with a signal corps unit and was instrumental in organizing what has been known in the Mediterranean thea-ter as "C ration college." This was originally planned as a means to aid the morale of men when they had some spare time. However, it is now looked upon as an experimental project for a postwar educational program. Three hours each week are de-voted to each of the 28 subjects that make up the curriculum of the "college". It is in a picur-esquc little Italian town and is almost like a small American college, minus the coeds. Classes meet five days a* week and courses range from American economics and literary criticism and creative writing to auto me-chanics and blueprint reading. They were designed to be the equivalent of a semester at an average university. Besides serving* as assistant dean, Fiskum teaches mathema-tics and helps in handling various correspondence courses the offi-cers and men of his unit are tak-ing. Fiskum went overseas in De-cember, 1942. His unit played a vital part in successfully stop-ping Luftwaffe activities in Italy and North Africa. He is a grad-uate of the signal corps officer candidate school at Fort Mon-mouth, N. J., and wears four bat-tle participation stars on his cam-paign ribbons. While at Concordia, Fiskum participated in football, basket-ball and track and was a member of Delta Rho, Student Forum, Athletic Board, Lettermen's Club and Delta Rho literary society. Concordia Bookstore Hotting htm, tka It is hard to put into words the feeling of Cobbers on the campus this week, for with the death of our most beloved friend and esteemed instructor, Dr. Carl B. Ylvisaker, we as a college and as individuals are faced with a great loss. He has meant much to the church during his lifetime, he has meant much to congregations who have heard him as a speaker, he has meant much to Bible campers meeting to-gether in Christian fellowship. And students at our sister colleges, too, have had inspiration on their own chapel plat-forms during Spiritual Life conferences. But somehow to us, he was something very special, be-cause he belonged to us as Cobbers. He was our teacher and. our friend and our confidant. He was a part of the Concordia we took home with us during the summer vacation, and a part that has remained with those who have gone from our ranks as graduates and students. There is so much he has left that we will want to remem-ber -the medley of carols he would play on the pipe organ at the last Luther League meeting just before Christmas, his unfailing ability to call us by our first names and to remember from'' which city or village we came, the pictures' from his travels in the Holy Land that were passed around in freshman religion. But above all we will remember his message to us, his pray-ers for us. We Cobbers too will "work while it is day; the night cometh when no man car work." Editor Vee Thorkelson Managing Editor Miriam Aas Associate Editor Lillian Hilmo Desk Editor Margaret Schroeder News Editor Constance Levin Society Editor Joan Heinz Sports Editor Roy Gilbertson Women's Sports Head .Donna Peterson Office: Third floor of Classroom building. THE CONCORDIAN Published weekly during the school year except during vacation, holiday and examination periods, by the atudenU of Concord (a College, Moorhead. Entered as second class matter at the poetofffce of Moorhcad, Minn. All-American Honor Rating in ACP 1929-84, 1988-40, 1941-42. 1948-44. First Class Rating 1984-38, 1940-41, 1942-48.
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