| Summary: | THE CONCORDIAN Volume XXXIX Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota, Friday, Mar. 5, 1948 Number 16 Workshop For Commercial Teachers Sponsored By Business Department The Commercial Teachers' Workshop, sponsored by the business education department of Concordia, will be held all day Friday asd Saturday forenoon on the campus. Prof. I. R. Larson, department head, is director of the Workshop. Miss Katherine O. Bracher, specialist in the field of typewrit-ing at Gregg college, Chicago, 111., has accepted an invitation to con-duct the Workshop. Approximately 40 commercial teachers from North Dakota, South Dakota, and Minnesota high schools will attend. Advanced stu-dents in business education at Concordia will also be present. This afternoon there will be a coffee hour in South lounge of Fjelstad hall for those attending the conference. The program for the Workshop, which will be held in Room 122 of the Science hall, is as follows: Friday, March 5; 9:00 a.m., key-board development; 10:30 a.m. and 1:00 p.m., beginning skill develop-ment; 2:30 p.m., letter writing and ot'her advanced projects. Saturday, March 6; 9:00 a.m., development of transcription; and 10:30 a.m., answers to accumulated questions. Red Cross Fund Drive To Be Held On Campus Head of the Red Cross drive to be sponsored on the Concordia campus next week is Miss Chris-tine Fjelstadj secretary to the president. A student will be appointed to <be in charge of the solicitation in each dormitory and the work will be further divided by placing someone in charge of each floor in each of the dormitories. Off-campus students are asked to send in their contributions. A quota of $8,200 has been set for Clay county to which fund the Concordia donations will go. Fifty per cent of the amount col-lected remains in the county and 50 per cent will go to the national Red Cross. CATALOG TO BE PRINTED Proof for the 1948-49 college catalog is now at the printer. It is expected that the catalog will be ready for distribution about March 15. PROF. I. R. LARSON Plans Are Formulated For Spring Registration Plans are underway for having registration begin April 1 for the first semester of the school year 1948-49. It is hoped that the schedule for the fall registration will be available for inspection and criticism by students and faculty next week. The schedule will be posted on a new cork board which is being made by the art department and will be locat-ed to the left of Room 16 in the Main. Sophomores are asked to report their choices of majors and minors to the registrar before March 15. Letters will be placed in the mail boxes of the sophomores concern-ing these reports. - C o n d i t i o n s and incompletes must be made up before March 20 or they will be changed to F's. Forms for such mike-up work must be secured from the regis-trar's office. Students who have not been of-ficially dropped from their class or classes by receiving a drop slip from the registrar's office will re-ceive a grade of F-3 at the end of the semester. Psychology Reaction Tester Made By Physics Instructor Dr. Carl L. Bailey of the physics department is pictured -pointing out a reaction testing machine which he has developed for use in the psychology department. Made out of government surplus parts, the machine measures and records the time distances 'be-tween stimulus and response re- .actions up to 1/100 of a second. The reaction tester as part of the equipment to be used in a new experimental psychology course, and will also be utilized in demon-strations for other psychology classes. Dr. -Bailey, a Concordia gradu-ate of 1940, joined the faculty last fall. During the war he worked on atomic research at Los Alamos, N. Mex. Dr. Bailey remarked t h a t , "Other schools, too, have reaction testers, -but they aren't quite like this one." • LSU Convention Theme Is 'Christ Calls You' "Christ Calls You" will be the theme of the Lutheran Students Union convention which approxi-mately 100 students from Concor-dia will attend at Decorah, Iowa, March 12, 13, and 14. Delegates from Concordia to the convention are Irene Vollan, Ron-ald Soderquist, and Robert Ander-son. The group will be chaperoned by Deaqs Enid Ruth Reinertsen and Myron Swanson. They will leave Friday morning and return Sunday evening. Featured at the convention will be messages by the Rev. C. M. Hanson, pastor of the Estherville Lutheran c h u r c h , Estherville, Iowa; Dr. George Aus, professor at Luther seminary, St. Paul; Pa-stor Wu Ying, president of the Lutheran church in China; Dr. L. N. Field, president of the Rocky Mountain district; and Dr. Rolf Syrdal, executive secretary of the Board of foreign missions. Burgess To Be Present At Education Meeting Dr. T. O. Burgess, head of the psychology department of Con-cordia college, has been invited by Governor Luther W. Youngdahl of Minnesota to attend a conference of representative citizens, Wed-nesday, March 10, to discuss the rapidly declining supply of quali-fied teachers for elementary schools. A letter received from Governor Youngdahl states, "Among the several critical situations confront-ing the citizens of Minnesota none is more serious than the rapidly declining supply of qualified teach-ers for elementary schools in both urban and rural communities of the state." The conference will be in the auditorium of the State Office building in St. Paul. OLSON BEGINS TEACHING Winifred Olson is practice teaching in commercial subjects at Oak Grove seminary in Fargo at which school Barbara Jackson recently completed her student teaching work. Norwegian Bishop To Address Combined Chapel Group Friday His Grace, Arne Fjellbu, Bishop of Nidaros Cathedral, Trondheim, Norway, spoke today in chapel. Bishop Fjellbu is on a preaching tour at the invitation of the American committee for the World Council of Churches. Fru (Mrs.) Fjellbu is here with her husband. Born at Decorah, Iowa, Bishop Fjellbu spent part of his early life in North Dakota. He received his education at the Universities of Oslo, Norway, and Berlin and Hei-delberg, Germany. During World War II Bishop Fjellbu, together with Bishop Berggrav of Oslo, was at the center of* the resistance movement in Norway. He was un-der house arrest by the Quisling government and sent into exile to a little known island in the far north for 18 months. Bishop and Fru Fjellbu will be honored by board members and their wives, at a noon luncheon in the college cafeteria today. This afternoon, from 2:00 to 3:30, the faculty and board members will hold a reception, in North lounge cf Fjelstad hall, in honor of Bishop and Fru Fjellbu. BISHOP ARNE FJELLBU Religious Groups Propose New Plan Students will vote next week on a proposed plan for raising funds to meet expenses of the campus religious organizations. Under the proposed plan, stu-dents will be supplied with duplex envelopes in which two contribu-tions may be placed. The envelopes will be given at the regular church offering. One contribution will go to the church the student attends and the other will be added to a general college religious fund. The purpose of the plan is to teach stewardship in ad-dition to providing the religious organizations with an expense fund. The plan, if adopted, will be on trial for the remainder of the se-mester. Luther College Choir To Give Fargo Concert The Nordic Cathedral choir of Luther college, under the direc-tion of Dr. Sigvart Steen, will pre-sent a concert at the First Luth-eran church in Fargo tonight at 8:15 p. m. The choir, composed of 60 voices, has been touring the western United States. They will sing numbers by Bach, Paladilhe, Nicolai, GretchaninofT, Sateren, and Christiansen. Dr. Steen is a graduate of St. Olaf college and Luther college, a former student at the University of Berlin, and former conductor of the Northland college choir. He was the officer in charge and di-rector of the Blue Jacket choirs at Great Lakes, 111. Tickets for this evenings con-cert are on sale at the Wold Drug in Moorhead. Student price is 50 cents. 'Our Daze' Reveals Private Life Of Choir Glimpses of life on a choir trip are afforded us in the following correspondence from Marguerite Ellingson, a member of the choir and of The Concordian staff, who addresses the less musical mem-bers of the newspaper crew. Hlya Slaves, I'll dig into my diary and give you whatever I find that is print-able. Thursday: We ran into compe-tition in St. Cloud. Seems that Cedric Adams was MC-ing a tal-ent show in the same building at the same time. Nevertheless, we packed our auditorium and sang a bang-up concert. We stopped at Alexandria for coffee and Ellen Flotlin remem-bered she hadn't brought any pajamas and Don Norlin realized he had forgotten his pitch pipe. Marlowe Johnson was so excited over the first concert that he sang the first half with his rubbers on. Lots of Cobbers were there— Murt Freng, Dorothy Mae Gil- •bertson, Mick Madland, Joyce Swingdoff, Ethel Hovland, and I can't remember who else. Friday: It poured down rain all day and turned into snow by the time we reached Mountain Lake. Don (Norlin and I entertained the kiddies on Bus No. 380 with a ren-dition of Mr. District Attorney from one of his funny ibooks. He calls the things "visual educa-tion." Lamarr met us with open arms, wet feet, and his suitcase packed for California. He really had Mountain Lake out to hear us. The week before we came, he gave a band and choir concert and canvassed the town selling tickets. The bargain was that anyone who bought a Concordia choir ticket got a free one for his concert; so we had another big crowd. Mountain Lake is nearly all Mennonite and they appreciated the concert very deeply. Saturday: We were pretty scar-ed about our Sioux Falls concert, you know how critical college audiences are. Three churches sponsored us; we had a supper party at First Lutheran church and were introduced to Dr. L. M. Stavig, president of Augustana, Dr. L. A. Pierson, president of the South Dakota district Evangelical Lutheran church, Dr. Carl Young-dahl, their choir director, and all the preachers. Wisdom from Dr. Pierson: "The longer the spoke, the bigger the tire." Got to the concert and spotted Prof. Running's brother right in the front row. The audience was perfect, just the right reactions at the right time, and there were 1500 there. That night the Augustana choir gave us a reception in the "Hud-dle." They have a sort of commons in the basement of the gym where they have the mail boxes, . lunch counter, juke box, and white leath-er furniture. It's really neat. We reached Brookings in time for church. The South Dakota State college LSA fed us dinner. We met Bob Larson, Big Ashram president, and Lowell Endahl, the local LSA president, Wayne Wag-strom represented Concordia. We sang an afternoon concert in Brookings and left in the slush for Marshall. The Marshall plan pleased us. In fact Dickie gave a speech on it today at dinner. Another, voice konked out so we sang minus two first sopranos and one second alto. Monday: Sleep — and did we need it. We nearly felt human again today. Our Concordia fan club is here in Madison—Mrs. P. J. Christian-sen, Winnie, and Kay. Wally Jerde drove them down. The voices are getting un-hus-kied. John Wambheim has, been swabbing throats like mad. Miss Plalvorson's leap year cry is not "Get your running shoes," but, "Get your overshoes." Ben has bronchitis. Hub just hit a low G— sore throat. So we beat St. Olaf. And we had to miss that game. There jest ain't no Justus. All the Alpha Zets and Athenians send back their hearty congratulations. I feel real noble relaying a message like that. (Re-ferring to the cup, that is.) Forgot to tell you that yester-day afternoon in Brookings we got locked out of the auditorium dur-ing the intermission. Wayne lost another hair. Someone had to tear through from the other side and unlock the doors for us. Hafta quit now and run (or swim) over to the city hall for the concert. So long, Marguerite.
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