| Summary: | THE CONCORDIAN Volume XXXVm Concordia College, Moorhead, Min nesota, Friday, December 20, 1946 Number 11 Spiritual Life Conference To Be Held After Holidays "You Need Jesus Christ" is the theme of the annual spirit-ual life conference to be held on the campus Thursday, Jan. 9, through Sunday, Jan. 12. The Rev. L. E. Tallakson of Grand Forks, the Rev W. E. Klawitter of Minneapolis, and Sister Magdalene Kleppen of Chicago will speak at special meetings during each of the four days. The conference will begin at chapel eexxeerrcciisseess oonn Thursday, when the Rev. Mr. Klawitter will speak. Sister Kleppen will talk in chapel on Friday, and the Rev. Mr. Tall«a k s o n will speak at the same hour Saturday. The Rev. Mr. Tallakson will speak at meet-ings Thursday [and Friday at 7 I p.m. Following the regular ses-sion Friday eve-ning, three dis-will be formed. Robert Onkka, Ella Schryver, and Raymond Brandt will be student leaders for each group. Marcus Gravdal and Ansgar Rykken will lead the first two evening meetings, and Elaine Johnson and Elwyn Nissen will lead in devotion. Saturday evening, the Rev. Mr. Klawitter will speak at a candle-light service in Trinity Lutheran church conducted by the Rev. Roy Harrisville. Play To Be Cast Tryouts for the winter play production of the Alpha Alpha chapter of Alpha Psi Omega, national honorary dramatics fraternity, will be held the first three days following Christmas vacation in the speech room. "Angel Street" is the play scheduled, announces Miss Ag-nes Risetter, director. Tryouts will start at 1:30 and continue all afternoon. Klawitter cussion groups A Tribute To Ole, Unheralded Aide By LILLIAN HILMO With the sudden death of Ole Ulsaker this week, The Concor-dian has lost an old friend and faithful standby. Ole, who was hardly ever called by any other name, set type for the paper and every Thursday night, kidded or grumbled the staff along until the paper went to press. Ole's bent, gnomelike, figure was -a familiar sight in the print-shop. Invariably chewing tobac-co, his meager, five foot stature Music for the evening sessions proved to be no hindrance for he will be furnished by the girls merely poked bystanders with his choir under the direction of Mr. Rolf Espeseth, a men's quartet, composed of Orville Sunde, Dewey Teigen, and Marlowe and Daryl Johnson, violin soloist Vernon Krogh, and Donald Norlin, who will sing a vocal solo. The chapel choir will sing at services Sunday morning. Sister Kleppen will address Mis-sion Crusaders Sunday morning and the Luther league in the eve-ning. The Rev. Mr. Klawitter will deliver the sermon at the 11:15 service in Trinity Lutheran church. All speakers will be available for personal conferences Thursday afternoon and other times to t>e announced and will conduct de-votions in the various dormitories each evening. A group meeting ink covered fingers or with a gal-ley of type and room was made for him. Only when reading his obituary did the staff learn that Ole had had a life other than that of the printshop. His sparse, gnarled form has commanded dignity from decades of Concordian editors. His limp-ing form, carrying the ink roller, or a galley of heads was looked upon by the editors with the af-fection Cobber students reserve for Nels. Ole's shuffling footsteps will no more be heard in the printshop but in the hearts of The Concor-dian editors, now and before, Ole remains a legend that will not soon be forgotten. for those interested in Christian _ service is planned for Friday Ffl P11 TV 9t11 fl P PI t<\ Tft afternoon. Saturday evening, a r d L U I Ly> OIUUCIIL5 IU dinner is planned for the main Pn {-Inmn Ffir speakers and student leaders, in- u u HUIIIG I V\ eluding officers of religious or-ganizations and the Student Forum. The Rev. Mr. Tallakson is pastor of United Lutheran church In Grand- Forks, having recently moved from Sioux City, Iowa. Sister Kleppen is an in-structor at the Lutheran Dea-coness hospital in Chicago. She has been a case worker in the city courts and a missionary In Alaska. A member of the Lutheran Bible institute faculty in Minne-apolis, the Rev. Mr. Klawitter is at present broadcasting a daily devotional radio program. Before coming to the Bible institute he was an institutional chaplain in Duluth for the Lutheran Welfare society. Plans for the conference have been made by the board of re-ligious activities. Presidents of campus religious organizations, Ragnar Teigen, Ronald Soder-quist, Blanche Rockne, William Mattke, and Calvin Berg, are in charge of the program. On the publicity committee are Dean V. C. Boe, the Rev. Sidney Rand, and Rolf Aaseng. Dean Enid Ruth Reinertsen and Miss Rockne are making arrangements for the din-ner Saturday. Christmas vacation to the fac-ulty, as well as to the students, means a brief respite from school routine. A general exodus from the dormitories takes place today and tomorrow oi all students re-turning home for the holidays. Several faculty members also plan to spend vacation away from the campus. Miss Gladys Boen and Miss Elaine Kjerstad will travel to Grand Forks, N. D., and Misses Agnes Ellingsen and Thelma Hal-verson to Minneapolis. Mr. and Mrs. Rolf Espeseth plan to spend a portion of the holidays at Oslo. Miss Florence Kruger will jour-ney to Marion, Ohio; Miss Geneva Mauseth to Cameron, Wis.; and Miss Alma Olson to St. James. Mr. and Mrs. Mundhjld will spend the vacation in Chicago, 111. Miss Lois Pedersen will return to Superior, Wis., and Miss Agnes Risetter to Lee, 111. Miss Lorraine Thorson will be in Brooten, Miss Borghild Torvik In Crosby, N. D., and Miss Nora Nelson in Huron, S. D., for Christmas. President J. N. Brown will spend the holidays with Dr. ana Mrs. A. M. Thompson, who reside in Bismarck, N. D. The Rev. Arne Unhjem will spend Christ-mas in New York. Christmas Concert Is Well Received An estimated crowd of 6,000 at-tended the Concordia college Christmas concert last weekend according to Mr. J. L. Rendahl of the public relations office. On Saturday evening approximately 2,000 attended, while on Sunday over 3,000 sought admission. Mon-day, following a severe storm, at-tendance dropped to 1,000. According to Francis G. Schoff of The Fargo Forum, the concert was described as a "sensuous and warmly emotional evocation of the Christmas spirit." Of the backdrop, Schoff stated, "Visual satisfaction as well as aural was given to the evening through colored lighting and a handsome proscenium drop de-signed by Prof. C. M. Running, whose drafting of translucent rep-resentations of church windows showed appreciation of modern trends in stained glass design. "Prof. Paul J. Christiansen's beautifully controlled first choir necessarily dominated the pro-gram; but Mr. Rolf Espeseth showed that he too is a first-rate a capella man, and both the girls' and the mixed voices of the sec-ond choir were technically pro-ficient and would have made many a director jealous." The concert was given without charge and expenses were met by voluntary contributions through the mail. Thus far sufficient funds have been received to pay the expenses of the Concert except for auditorium rental. Nystul Sets Date For Ice Carnival Tentative date for the Cobber winter carnival is Saturday, Feb. 1, according to Jack Nystul, gen-eral chairman. Committee heads named are Waldo Jerde, business; Elwyn Nissen, queen; Russell Halaas, program; Donald Rasmussen, pro-perties; and Connie Levin, pub-licity. The carnival is being sponsored by The Concordian. Teisberg, '40, To Work For National Lutheran Council Miss Marjorie Teisberg, '40, wiM begin work the first of the year as librarian and statistician in the public relations division of the National Lutheran council. While at Concordia, Miss Teisberg was managing editor of The Con-cordian and for the past year has worked for The Fargo Forum. Plans Completed For Yuletide Radio Party Plans are being completed for the Christmas radio broad-cast to be presented Monday, Dec. 30, from 10:30 to 11 p.m., states Vercel Fuglestad, general chairman. The elected com-mittee have been given specific states in which to plan parties: Robert Lillo and Dorothy Solem, Montana; Lillian Hilmo a n d Daniel Moe, North Dakota; and Howard Dale and Fuglestad, Min-nesota. Jean Edhlund has been asked to prepare a mimeographed sheet of suggestions on how each commun-ity party could be organized. J. L. Rendahl is adviser to the com-mittee. The broadcast will originate in WDAY and KFYR. Fjelstad hall will be the scene of the Fargo- Moorhead Christmas party, spon-sored by the local Cobber club. A faculty committee and Miss Solem and Moe have also 'been securing entertainment for the radio broadcast. Centrally located cities have been chosen as sites for Cobber parties and students have been named to act as leaders in their respective communities in insti-gating the parties. Cobbers and friends from local-ities not included in the list chosen by the committee are invited to attend the parties in the larger cities. North Dakota cities include Valley City, Bottineau, Devils Lake, Bismarck, Crosby, New Rockford, Park River, Grand Forks, Minot, and Fargo. Minnesota cities are Detroit Lakes, Hawley, Ada, Fergus Falls, Crookston, Elbow Lake, Bemidji, Roseau, Thief River Falls, War-ren, Minneapolis, Starbuck, Peli-can Rapids, Shelly, Montevideo, and Moorhead. In Montana, cities include Wolf Point, Lambert, Scobey, Havre, Kalispell, Malta, Great Falls, Bainville, Circle, Shelby, Round-up, Rudyard, and Turner. A party has been slated in Brit- — I A ton, S. D., for Cobbers in that By Cobber Alumnus state VERCEL FUGLESTAD Handbook, Directory Will Be Separate Publications At a recent Student Forum meeting it was decided that the student handbook should be a separate publication from the stu-dent directory in future years. The handbook will include all information necessary to Concor-dia students and will be published in the spring term in order that it will be ready for distribution at the beginning of the fall term. This will facilitate publication of the directory also and enable earlier distribution than in former years. Band Plays March One of the numbers played by the Concordia college band in its radio broadcast last night was "Memorial March" by Louren C. Buslee, '33. He wrote this com-position in memory of one of his former students who was reported missing in action early in World War II. Buslee is music director at Wahpeton high school. The concert last night was the fourth in a series presented by the Concordia college concert band under the direction of Prof. J. A. Holvik. Norse Born, English Bred, Unhjem Teaches Cobbers Bom in Norway, educated in England, and veteran of the China mission field, the Rev. Arne Unh-jem, new member of the depart-ment of religion, is well prepared for a teaching position. He was born in Oerstavik, a town on the western coast of Nor-way, north of Bergen. By education the Rev. Mr. Unh-jem is a cosmopolitan. His edu-cation was obtained in Norway where he was ordained after at-tending Fjellhaug School of Mis-sions in Oslo. To further prepare himself for his future missionary work he studied medicine at Liv-ingston college in London, Eng-land. In 1941-42 he attended New York university and also the Biblical seminary in New York City where he studied religious education. Upon completion of his studies in England, he went to Shanghai, China, to begin his missionary work. From Shanghai he pro-ceeded to Hankow and finally to northwest China. While not coming into actual contact with the Japanese, the Rev. Mr. Unhjem gave medical aid to wounded Chinese soldiers and treated many Chinese ci-vilians who were injured during air-raids. When in northwest China, he contacted malaria and was obliged to leave the country. The Rev. Mr. Unhjem arrived in the United States in 1941. He traveled on a Norwegian freight-er which took him from China to the west coast of the United States, through the Panama ca-nal, and finally to Philadelphia. Before coming to Concordia he servecf as assistant pastor in Trin-ity Lutheran church in Brooklyn, N. Y. The present pastor of Trin-ity Lutheran church is the Rev. Frederick Schiotz, who formerly served Trinity Lutheran church in Moorhead. News Notes The Concordia concert choir has voted to return to school on Jan. 4, four days early,. in order to rehearse. Two practices have been scheduled daily during this time and choir members will be housed with choristers living in Fargo and Moorhead. Concordia was defeated last night by Jamestown college 49-38 in the last basketball game before Christmas. El-wood Bohn, scoring 15 points, was high man for the Cobbers and Cliff Hendrickson led the Jimmies with 17. Subscription rates for The Concordian will be increased from $1 per student per semester to $1.50 beginning with the fall se-mester 1947-48. This increase is due to the rise in publication costs. • 111 since Thanksgiving vaca-tion. Dr. Mae Anderson, head of the mathematics department, is confined to St. Luke's hospital. At present Miss Martha Brennun and! students are taking charge of her: classes. ! : Vacation Begins Saturday : Christmas vacation for Cobber students will begin at noon to-1 morrow, Dec. 21. Classes will be resumed Tuesday morning, Jan. 7, 1947. The Concordian will not be pub-lished the week following vaca-tion, the next edition appearing Friday, Jan. 17.
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