| Summary: | THE CONCORDIAN Volume XXXVni Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota, Friday, February 28, 1947 Number 17 Danish Explorer Scheduled Board Votes Pay Three Day LSU Meeting Draws For Chapel Address Thursday Hjte For/aoij^ 85 students, Faculty Members Captain Peter Freuchen, Danish explorer, will speak on the topic, "The Top of the World," during chapel, Thursday, March 6. This lecture is the fourth in the Talk of the Month series. As a young medical student, Freuchen joined the Mylius- Erichsen expedition, exploring East Greenland. Later he re-turned to live among the Eskimos for 27 years and was resident gov-ernor of Thule colony, Greenland, during that time. Because of his experience, the Danish adventurer served as technical director of a motion picture dealing with the Eskimos and authored a book on the frozen north, "Arctic Adven-ture." Freuchen worked with the Dan-ish underground during World War II and because of his anti- Nazi activities, he was imprisoned twice. When asked how he got out of prison the first time, he said, "The S. S. Troopers, the Wehr-macht, and the Gestapo were jealous of each other. We were put in prison by one of these groups; the" prison was full. One of the other two groups came with a fresh lot of prisoners and, hav-ing no place to put them, emptied our prison and filled it with their prisoners." Even before the war he had been barred from Germany because of his affiliation with a committee which aided intellectual exiles. Captain Freuchen's tour through Minnesota, Wisconsin, and the Dakotas is his first American lec-ture jaunt since 1936-37. At that time he spoke on "The Eskimos As I Know Them." CAPTAIN PETER FREUCHEN Unhjem Speaks At PTA The Rev. Arne Unhjem spoke on the "Human EJtments of Edu-cation" at the junior-senior high school Parent Teachers associa-tion Monday night. The Rev. Mr. Unhjem stated that the one thing being forgotten in homes and schools is that teach-ers are human beings and we .can-not consider a teacher a secondary citizen. Packed House Hears Choir; All Ogren Relatives Show Up BY LILLIAN HILMO Traveling by Greyhound rather than train has three distinct ad-vantages: more comfortable, more scenery, and a better schedule. As soon as we board the buses every-body settles into comfortable posi-tions and knits, studies (yes, there are a lot of books around), or sleeps. After our concert in Grand Rapids, Lamar Runestad stayed In the home where Judy Garland was born and raised. He is still gloating over it. He had trouble with Wayne Wagstrom, however, who insisted on staying up to "Lux out a few things." Vernon Toso would like to say that so far the cold pills are a success. Fifty per cent of us have colds now and the rest had colds when we started. Which, of course, you realize is a gross exaggera-tion. In Duluth, our concert was well Gravdal, Lillo Place In Forensic Tourney At the forensic tournament held at Eau Claire, Wis., last Friday and Saturday, Marcus Gravdal took second place in extemporane-ous speaking and Robert Lillo tied for third in the after dinner speak-ing finals. Norma Lillo placed third in one division of oratory. The two men's debate teams each won four out of five debates. Robert Onkka and David Brown composed one team and Gravdal and Lillo, the other. Blanche Rockne and Fern Mar-tinson, the women's team, won three out of five debates. Forty-six teams representing 18 colleges and universities were en-tered in the contests. On March 9 representatives from Concordia will attend a debate tourney to be held at St. 'Hiomas college in St. Paul. received. We gave them three en-cores. Duluth is situated on a hill from which you can see the lake, the railroad yards, and the indus-trial section. We walked around one block and felt like we were climbing mountains half the way. Dewey Teigen and Ferdinand Jones got up one morning (a sac-rifice since we didn't have to re-port to the buses until 2:30 p.m.) and had four signs printed with "Concordia Choir." As long as the scotch tape holds, nobody is going to be doubtful as to what manner of people our two buses are haul-ing around. Before we reached Cloquet, we read about our arrival in the pa-pers. Every announcement had this, "Among the singers arriving Js Leonard Ogren, noted musician from Cloquet." So naturally we had a large audience—all his rela-tives were there. News Notes Zeta Sigma Pi, national soci-al science fraternity, will meet Thursday evening in the home of Dr. T. O. Burgess at 7:30. Robert Onkka will read a paper on Ger-many. Bernice Theige, senior, is re-covering from a fractured leg which she suffered last Monday evening. The Concordia college band under the direction of Prof. J. A. Holvik will give its semi-monthly broadcast Thursday evening at 8:30 over the Great Northern broadcasting system. Michael Peinovich, former student at Concordia, is the new owner of the Doyle Cab company in Fargo. Peinovich participated in athletics while a student here and left in his senior year to enter the army air corps. Faculty salaries were increased by the Concordia college board of directors at the semi-annual meet-ing held Thursday in the North lounge of Fjelstad hall. The re-vised salary schedule is for 1947-48. The Rev. Sidney A. Rand, acting head of the religion department, was granted a leave of absence for graduate study for 1947-48, and the Rev. Otto M. Bratlie was granted a similar leave for the following year. The report of President J. N. Brown told of the progress of the building program. The steel and cement work on the men's dormitory has been completed and one-half of the stone laid. The architect's plans for the science hall have been approved by fed-eral engineers, and two 150-horse-power steam boilers from the air base at Sioux City have been granted to the college to supple-ment its heating plant, together with material for modernizing the heating unit. S. ' G. Reinertsen of Moorhead was elected secretary of the board. Alfred Hvidsten of Stephen was elected member of the board to fill the term of O. E. Reirsgord until the next corporation meeting. Members elected to a committee on faculty insurance and retire-ment are Reinertsen, George W. Jenson, and Ole A. Flaat. Duluth, South St. Paul, Win Debate Honors South St. Paul and Denfeld high school, Duluth, were close con-tenders for top honors in the Tri-state high school debate tourna-ment held at Concordia last week. Although each team was credited with five wins, the Denfeld team, with a total of 63 points against the 60 points of South St. Paul, was awarded The Fargo Forum trophy. Winners of the boys' oratorical contests were Jerry Sonosky, Chis-holm, first; Jerry Butler, James-town, N. D., second; and George Shapiro, Sioux Falls, S. D., third. First place in the boys' impromptu speech contest was given to Shel-don Karon, Duluth. Ray Crippen of Worthington was second, and Bill Maloney of Chisholm, third. . In the girls' division of the ora-torical contests, Margaret Lang, Madison, S. D., won first. Second was Robin Burns, Sioux Falls, S. D., and third, Donna Iverson, Mi-not, N. D. Girls' impromptu speech winners were Luella Wat-kins, Fargo, first; Corrine Al-brook, Watertown, S. D., second; and Delores DeWitt, Lake Park, third. Approximately 85 students and faculty members left this morning for St. Olaf college, Northfield, to attend the annual Lutheran Students' union convention, scheduled for today, to-morrow, and Sunday. The Rev. Myrus Knutson, presi-dent of the Eastern district of the Luther league, will deliver the opening address, "God's Truth Sets Us Free," during a candle-light service tonight at 8 o'clock. The convention concludes with the morning service Sunday at which time the Rev. Albert Abra-hamson, pastor of Canton Luther-an church, Canton, S. D., will pre- REV. OSCAR ANDERSON IRC Plans Round Table Discussion A round table discussion will be the program for International Re-lations club Tuesday evening at 6:45 o'clock in Room 17 of the Main building. The question to be discussed is, "Will Russia declare war on the United States within five years?" A news review will be given by DeWayne Bey. Concordia college will send two delegates to the regional IRC con-vention which is to be held at Carleton college April 16 and 17. Essay Results Theodore Amundson, fresh-man, won first prize in the edi-torial essay contest sponsored by The Concordian and Alpha Phi Gamma, national journal-ism fraternity. His article, "A Two-some, We Hope," appears on page four of this issue. Second place was won by Kathryn Quam and third place by Myron Hilden. Their entries will be published in succeeding issues of The Concordian. Judges were Miss Margaret Nordlie, Miss Agnes Ellingsen, and Prof. C. M. Running. SYMPHONY IS NEXT LYCEUM Third in the annual lyceum series is the concert to be pre-sented by the Minneapolis Sym-phony orchestra March 8 in the Moorhead armory. VA Says 'Cuts' Mean Cuts In Subsistence Payments Deductions will • be taken . from Concordia veterans* subsistence pay for all absences incurred dur-ing the semester unless they apply for and are granted leave of ab-sence, according to a regulation released by the Veterans admini-stration. The Veterans administration of-fice at MSTC believes that each hour's absence will result in a day's deduction of subsistence pay unless leave is granted. Veterans are expected to apply to the Veterans administration for leave of absence in advance. How-ever, when conditions such as sick-ness prevent his obtaining advance approval, agreement by the col-lege and the Veterans administra-tion that such absences did not materially interfere with the course of training allows the granting of leave. Approved absences covering a period of less than the standard school week will be charged at the rate of one day for each school day of absence from the institu-tion'.' Approved absences covering a period of one calendar week or more will be charged at the rate of five days for each seven con-secutive days of absence. No charge against leave will be made for school holidays and short intermissions between successive terms. Veterans accrue leave at the rate of two and one-half days per month during the entire time they are in a training status. Accumu-lated leave will not exceed 30 days in one training period. A training period is defined as 12 successive months in training status. REV. A. S. BURGESS sent the message, "God's Truth for These Times." The Rev. Ame Unhjem of Con-cordia spoke this morning on "The Christian Witness of the Campus Press" at the Lutheran Students1 press convention, which was held in Minneapolis preceding the con-vention at St. Olaf. Tomorrow af-ternoon the Rev. Otto Bratlie will lead a discussion group dealing with "God's Truth and Catholi-cism." Other speakers at the conven-tion include the Rev. Oscar An-derson, president of southern Min-nesota district Luther league, and the Rev. Andrew Burgess, editor of The Missionary magazine. Sixteen Compete In Silent Game BY PAUL ENGER "What a moving performance!'1 they said. And we thought the students leaving Fjelstad hall's North lounge were still talking about "Angel Street." That is, we did until we saw Jaan Jurisson and Leiv Hansen rapt in the checks of a chess board. "Pawn my word! It's chess," we said. The players nodded and paused long enough to tell us a few facts about the chess tourna-ment in which they and 14 other men are currently involved. The round-robin style meet is held whenever and wherever the good chess men get together, which is usually on Sundays in Fjelstad hall. For each game won, a man receives one point; for a draw, half a point. Each contestant must sit 15 sets before a winner can be named. No prizes will be awarded. We know that no prizes will be award-ed because when we asked, Leiv said, "No prizes will be awarded." (However, someone has suggested giving a set of rubber chess pieces. Then, when a player "checks" it'll bounce.) Jaan hopes to start a chess club after the tournament's completion. OLSTAD HAS OPERATION Marjorie Olstad u n d e r w e n t an operation last Monday and is now convalescing in Union hospital.
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