| Summary: | THE CONCORDIAN Volume XXXDC Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota, Friday, May 7, 1948 Number 23 Wagstrom Appointed As Campus Music Manager Wayne Wagstrom, Concordia senior, has been appointed to a position as manager of the campus music hall, the Concor-dia conservatory in Fargo, and the campus musical organiza-tions, Pres. J. N. Brown recently announced. He will begin his duties at the conclusion of the present semester. Prof. L. A. Moe will, however, manage the concert choir on its European tour in the summer of 1949. Fargo-Moorhead Art To Be Exhibited At AAUW Wagstrom, whose home town is Twin Valley, is a biology major and philosophy minor. During his school years he has been active in a number of extracurricular activ-ities. As a freshman he played baritone in the college band, and for four years he has sung bass in the concert choir. He is a mem-ber of Mu Pi Gamma, honorary science fraternity, and the Monda-min literary society. He has been the local LSA president the past semester, and has acted as an as-sistant laboratory instructor in the biology department this year. The army field artillery claimed Wagstrom's time for two years and eight months between his so-phomore and junior years. Cobbers To Be Summer Bible School Teachers More than twenty Cobber stu-dents are planning to teach in va-cation Bible schools this summer. Norval Wigtil will teach at Langdon, N. D.; Connie Lunde, Verna Larsen, Phyllis Thompson, and Ivan Hanson at Kindred, N. D.; and Maxine Anderson at Washburn, N. D. Other students teaching in North Dakota include Stanford Stenson at Montpelier; Bernice Hanson and Jean Formo at Pekin; Connie Void and Edith Sevalson at Adams; Crystal Severson at Reynolds; and June Boyd at Han-naford. Teachers at Wahpeton, N. D., include Vivian Byfuglien and Stel-la Lee; at Badger, Minn., Shirley Ries; and at Culbertson, Mont., Elaine Bergland. "" Esther Johnson and Carrol Ol-son will teach at Page, N. D., Helen Hokenson at Benson, Minn., and Betty Lou Nissen and La Vonne Baardson at Mohall, N. D. WAYNE WAGSTROM Choirs To Present Weekend Concerts Concordia's choirs will travel to several Northwest communities to present concerts this week end. On Saturday evening Prof. Paul J. Christiansen will direct the Concordia choir in a concert to be presented in the gymnasium of Fosston high school at Fosston. At 2:30 Sunday afternoon a con-cert will be given at Roseau, and in the evening the choir is to ap-pear at Warren. The chapel choir, directed by Mr. Earnest Harris, will sing at Casselton, N. D., at 8:00 p.m., Sun-day. Included on the program will be the following numbers: "Song of Praise," by Bach; "Penitential Psalm," by Orlando di Lasso; the Bach motet, "All Breathing Life"; "Look Down from Heaven." by Paul J. Christiansen; a choral, "O Bread of Life from Heaven"; Paul Hindemith's "In Winter"; "Asleep in Jesus." by Ole Bull, and "Our Father," by Alexander Gretchan-inoff. Art of Fargo and Moorhead will be displayed at the third annual art exhibit sponsored by the American Association of Univer-sity Women, Moorhead branch, at North lounge of Fjelstad hall Thursday through Sunday, May 13-16. The exhibit will be open from 3-5 p. m. and from 7-9 p. m., and tea will be served Thursday afternoon and evening. Paintings by students of Con-cordia college and Moorhead State Teachers college will be featured, as well as sculpture and- paintings by Mr. Nels Johnson, head of the art department at Moorhead State Teachers college, and paint-ings by Mr. Cyrus Running, head of the art department of Concor-dia. Concordia students represented by several works will include Charles Beck, whose work was recently exhibited at Fergus Falls, Beverly Erickson, and Marinda Thompson. Miss Elizabeth Strand, instructor in the Concordia art de-partment, will also exhibit. At the previous exhibits' only Moorhead artists have been in-cluded. This year artists from Fargo and from the North Dakota Agricultural college will also par-ticipate. Mrs. Ann Brown Bolin of Fargo will show several pieces of sculpture, including one which appeared at the Walker regional art show last year. Miss Mathilda Williams of the Moorhead State Teachers art de-partment is in charge of the *ex-hibit, and Mr. Running and Mr. Johnson are in charge of arrang-ing the display. Risetter's Speech Class Presents KVNJ Series The first semester radio speech class, with Miss Agnes Risetter as instructor, has been divided into several committees which have been presenting programs over KVNJ-FM during the second se-mester. Programs are presented daily, Monday through Saturday at 4:15 p.m. Harold Hanson will present a program of vocal ni4mbers on Monday afternoon. His accom-panist, Billy Leazer, will con-tribute several piano solos. 'Swan Song* Plays In Chapel Tonight, Saturday Pictured above is a scene from a rehearsal of the Concordia Theatre spr ing production, "Swan Song." "Swan Song," directed by Miss Agnes Ri-setter, will be presented by the Concordia Theatre tonight and Saturday night in the college chapel at 8:15. The play, which is still in manuscript form, has been produced as a trial play in New York and in several universities during the past year. Maestro Kubin's home, in New York City, provides the setting. The maestro, played by Noyes Cornell, has devoted his life to the hope that he might one day stimulate an ar-tist to perpetuate good music. As the play opens, Leo Pollard, portray-ed by Ralph Wallin, has just been released as ciued from a sanitorium where he had been treated for a nervous breakdown. Leo and his sister, Esther, who had died two years earlier had been proteges of Kubin. While Leo has been at the sanitorium, the maestro has discovered Vera, played by Rachel Reinertsen, an orphan girl who plays the piano very well, and plans to make hep his protegee. This causes Leo much grief. Other members of the cast are Louise, Kubin's daughter, who falls in love with Eric Moore, a young critic; Gustave Wexler, an-other music critic, Dr. Corbett, a friend of Wexler; Victor Remezov, Stella Hemingway, and Max Mutzenbauer, friends of Kubin; Tito and Katza, servants of Kubin; Miss Agatha, Miss Trefon, and Mr. Bartow. Class Day Officials Selected; Rygg Named General Chairman Ralph Rygg, class day general arrangements chairman Senior class day exercises will be held on Saturday, May 15, in the chapel. Ralph Rygg is general chairman arranging for the day's events. The seniors met last Monday evening to determine class day personnel. Class poet will be either Alice Marie Anderson or De Wayne Bey; candidates for orator are Robert Onkka and Earl Reitan. Marinda Thompson will compose the music for the class song, with either Earl Reitan or Marguerite Elhngson writing t he lyrics. Fifteen Cobber Seniors Sign Teaching Contracts The Placement Bureau announ-ces that 15 more seniors have signed contracts for teaching posi-tions next year. Harriet Koike hiis accepted the position of assistant registrar at Concordia college. The following seniors will teach in Minnesota schools. Geneva Jen-sen and Marilyn Miller will botii teach English at Fosston. Atwa-ter has signed Winnifred Olson to teach business education and Syl-via Gerhardson as instructor in home economics. Lynd has also signed two Concordia women. Barbara Jackson will teach busi-ness, and Ramona Orvik will in-struct in music and history. Other seniors who have signed are Beverly Malme, who will teach English at Aitken; Thelma Nereson. who will instruct in his-tory and English at Cass Lake; Betty Lou Olson, who will teacli business and economics at Baslev. and Donald Hagen, who will teach music and history at Kenyon. Dorothy Hylden will be English instructor at Warren; and Vivian Ryerson will teach business in the commercial department at Osakis. Vila Seidel will teach music at the Home School for Girls at Sauk Rapids. Betty Gilbertson will toach at Devils Lake, N. D. Carol Jean Johnson will be Eng-lish instructor at Monticello, Minn. Alpha Phi Honors Ex-Prexy Gil Cowan Gil Cowan, past national presi-dent of Alpha Phi Gamma, honor-ary journalistic fraternity, was honored last Wednesday night by the local Alpha Eta chapter. At present, Mr. Cowan is on the edi-torial staff of The Los Angeles Examiner. The Alpha Eta chapter of Con-cordia initiated a new Jamestown chapter, the Alpha Phi chapter, in North lounge. Ten members were admitted. Mr. Cowan made the charter presentation speech, and Dr. Howard Bell, president of Jamestown, accepted on behalf of •his college. Members of the NDAC, James-town, MSTC, and Concordia chap-ters were entertained at a smor-gaasbord in the cafeteria at 7:00 p.m. Who holds the positions not yet definitely determined will depend on who are elected as valedictorian and sahitatorian at the senior class meeting tonight in Room 15. Beverly Malme is in charge of the programs. On the program committee are Jack Nystul, Sonia Husby, and Clifford Grindland. Ervin Ydstie will make arrange-. ments for the tree planting cere-mony. Robert Anderson, junior class president, is assisting with class day arrangements. Ekblaw To Deliver Last Talk Of Month Dr. W. Elmer Ekblaw, .profes-sor of geography at Clark uni-versity and assistant editor of Economic Geography magazine, will address a combined chapel group at 10:00 a.m. Monday in the last of the Talks of the Month. His topic will be agri-cultural geography and utiliza-tion. A varied background has es-tablished Dr. Ekblaw as an au-thority in his field. From 1913 to 1917 he was botanist and geol-ogist to Donald MacMillan's Crocker Land Expedition which spent four years exploring lands in the Arctic regions of the Ca-nadian Archipelago. He has traveled extensively in Europe, noting geographic condi-tions there. As delegate to the Second International Congress of Soils, he spent six weeks traveling through Russia studying soils, agricultural conditions, and in-dustrial and economic develop-ments. The Soviet government gave the members of the party full freedom of travel where they wished and to record whatever they saw fit. TENT MEETINGS PLANNED Ralph Hofrenning, president of the Lutheran Tent Mission for Fargo, West Fargo, and Moor-head, has announced that an eight-week series of tent meetings will be held in Fargo and Moor-head churches this summer be-ginning June 28. NEOVIOUS TO SPEAK Miss Margareta Neovious, for-eign secretary of the Student- Christian Federation of Finland, will address the Cobber chapel on Tuesday and Wednesday.* While on the campus, Miss Neovious will also speak to a joint meeting of LDR and Broth-erhood and confer with the heads of the religious organizations. During her stay she will be a guest at Fjejstad Hall.
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