| Summary: | THE Volume XXXXI Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota, November 18, 1949 Number 10 APG Completes Final Plans For National Journalism Conclave College journalists from Alpha Phi Gamma chapters all over the country will meet to talk shop at Concordia college during the National APG convention, Nov. 25-26. Jack Mueller, president of Concordia's Alpha Eta chapter which is sponsoring the conven-tion this year, reports that final preparations have been made. Pre-siding over the convention will be Gil Brown, National Alpha Phi Gamma president from Redlands, Calif. Immediately after registra-tion on Friday morning the con-vention will get under way with the establishment of a new Alpha Phi chapter for Mayville Stato Teachers' college, May-ville, N. Dak. At the kick-off luncheon Friday noon, Mr. Norman D. Black, Jr., publisher of the Fargo Forum, will address the delegates on "The Challenge of College Journalism." Friday afternoon delegates will be given a chance to tour the Fargo Forum plant. Also sched-uled is the convention's first of-ficial business meeting. At a Norwegian smergaasbord in the evening Mr. H. D. Paulsen, editor of the Fargo Forum, will address the group. On Saturday morning Mr. Eugene Fitzgerald, sports edi-tor of the Fargo Forum, and Miss Dorothy Statham, society editor of the Moorhead Daily News, will conduct group dis-cussions. Also scheduled is an open forum discussion of some of the aspects of college journal-ism. A Cobber graduate of 1940, Mr. Willmar Thorkelson, present re-ligion news editor of the Minne-apolis Star, will speak at the Sat-urday luncheon meeting on the topic "My Overseas Assignment." Saturday afternoon Dr. Dan-iel Q. Posin, well-known author, lecturer and physicist, will ad-dress the group on "Develop-ments in the Atomic World." Final business session of the convention will be held at 3 p.m. An informal dinner at 5:30 p.m. will close the convention. Practice Teaching ScheduleContinues A number of seniors are doing their practice teaching in Moor-head and nearby communities. Practice teaching at Wolverton are Irwin Flaten, history, Mrs. Charles Basch, English, and John Larson, biology. Marilyn Aamodt is teaching English at Kindred, and Merle Bah is teaching math and chem-istry at Ulen. Ivan Camrud is at Pelican Rapids where he is teach-ing history and physical education. At Battle Lake is George Kerestes who is teaching biology and phys-ical education. Practice teaching at Climax are Norma Lunde, English, and La-vonne Baardson, history. Practice teachers from the home economics department include Ina Mae Wollertson at Oak Grove and Ellen Astrup at the Moorhead jun-ior high. After Thanksgiving vaca-tion Olive Hagstrom and Alfrieda Freiwald will be at the junior high school. Agnes Barstad has just cam-ple ted her business education practice teaching at Moorhead senior high. She is succeeded by Maxine Dahlsing. Lila Fering will begin teaching in business at Oak Grove Nov. 30. Replacing Ida Schmitt next week as math teacher at Moor-head junior high will be Delores Melvey. To Reserve Seats For Annual Concert Reserved seat tickets for the main floor of the Armory will soon be available for the annual Con-cordia Christmas concert which will be held Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 16, 17 and 18. The balcony space will also be controlled by tickets, but not with individual reserved seating. Stu-dents are requested to use the balcony tickets as far as possible. They will be made available through the book store. Faculty members may get their reservations from Wayne Wag-strom. Students desiring to secure tickets for parents should also contact Mr. Wagstrom. Parents and out-of-town friends are to be advised that seats can be reserved by mail. Such requests must specifically state first and second choice of evening. Admission will be by ticket on-ly. There is no charge. Watch for further notice when tickets are available. Band Uniform Drive Officially Adopted The Band Uniform drive was voted as an official Student Asso-ciation project at the Student Senate meeting last Wednesday night, with Miles Johnson elected as drive chairman. The goal is 55,000, to be raised by June, 1950. The Senate voted down a pro-posal to pay artists for making posters and gave approval to a Student Chest drive which, it is hoped, will unite all financial ap-peals on campus under one single drive. Alden Hvidston, Karl Brevik, Juri Jurrison and Doris Bry were elected as a committee to assist foreign students. Aptitude Tests Offered Opportunity to take vocational aptitude tests will again be offer-ed to all students interested, re-ports Dean Peter Anderson who directs the testing service. The first tests will be given at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 28. Science hall 102 will be used as the test-ing room. Anyone interested in using this service should take advantage of this opportunity. A battery of sev-eral types of tests will be used, states Dean Anderson. Some of these measure general capacity, special capacities and dominating interests and some reveal person-ality traits. Following the comple-tion of the testing, the student will be given an interview to ex-plain what the tests show. Soprano Anne Boilinger Opens Artist Series Anne Boilinger, young soprano of the Metropolitan Opera company, will be presented tonight at 8:15 in the Moorhead armory as the first number on the Concordia Artists Series for 1949-1950. Students will be admitted upon pre-sentation of their student identifi-cation tickets. Single admission tickets and season tickets for the complete Artists Series are on sale at the Daveau Music company in Fargo. Born in Lewiston, Ida., Miss Boilinger received the major part of her training from Mme. Lotte Lehmann, one of the great operat-ic artists of our time. Miss Boilinger has been a so-loist with the orchestra in the Hollywood Bowl, appeared as a so-loist with the Robert Shaw Chor-ale, sang the lead role in Mozart's Idomena at Tanglewood Festival and has been a frequent soloist with the Dallas Symphony. At the piano accompanying Miss Boilinger will be Sidney Stafford. Program numbers will include lyric songs by Brahms, Hugo Wolf, Hageman, Dungan, Henry Bishop, Arne and Moffat and an aria from Merry Wives of Windsor. Rolfruds To Present Sacred Music Concert: Mr. and Mrs. Erling Rolfsrud will present a concert of sacred music at Calvary Evangelical United Brethren church in Fargo this Sunday evening, Nov. 20, at 7:30. Mrs Rolfsrud will sing and Mr. Rolfsrud will be at the piano. Rolfsrud resigned his post in the commercial department at Concordia several years ago in or-der to devote his time to writing. He has had numerous articles published as well as one book, "Gopher Tales for Papa." ANNE BOLLINGER TO GIVE "HASTY HEART" "The Hasty Heart" will be pre-sented by the University of Min-nesota Theatre Guild at Weld hall, Moorhead State Teachers college, on Tuesday, Dec. 6. Per-formances are scheduled for 2:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. All seats are. reserved, with tickets ob-tainable from C. A. Glasrud at MSTC. VACATION! Thankgivlng vacation begins noxt Wednesday, Nov. 23, at 11:50 ium- Classes resume at 8 a.m. the following Monday. Holvik Finds New Evidence Debunking Runestone NOTE: Prof. J. A. Holvik, Head of the Concordia Norse depart-ment, has spent over forty years investigating the Kensington runestone. Much national and international publicity has been given to the stone. Mr. Holvik after much study and research has recently discovered new In-formation which may prove that the stone is modern. To many who are familiar and to those who are unfamiliar with the case history of the runestone, The Concordian Is happy to present the basis for Mr. Holvlk's belief. By Prof. J, A. Holvik For 40 years I have collected and studied published sketches of the Kensington runestone inscrip-tion. Some have been published several times. The oldest sketch is published in The Concordian today for the first time anywhere. This sketch of the Runestone inscription was sent in a letter by J. P. Hedberg of Kensington to Swan J. Turnblad of Minneapolis. The letter is dated January 1, 1899. Mr. Hedberg calls the sketch an exact copy of writing on a stone brought to him by Olof Ohman. Both the letter and the sketch were filed in the archives of the Minnesota Historical socie-ty in August 1925. I found It there last month. A detailed comparison of the in-dividual characters and spelling of each word with those of the Kensington stone shows that this sketch is not a copy of the Inscription on the stone. It is an original preliminary draft of the story later inscribed on the stone. There are other sketches. The first sketch published was made in January, 1899, by S. A. Siverts, cashier of the Kensington Bank. It was sent to Prof. O. J. Breda of the Scandinavian department, University of Minnesota. This sketch was printed in a Minnea-polis paper in February, 1899, in a Swedish weekly a little later in the same month and finally in an Alexandria paper in March. It ap- REPRODUCED ABOVE is a photostatlc copy of the Hedberg rune paper. Prof. J. A. Holvik is convinced that this is the original from which the inscription on the Kensington runestone was copied short-ly before 1900. pears that this was the sketch sent to scholars in Europe. There are minor errors in the sketch, but a detailed comparison shows that the Siverts sketch is copied from the inscribed stone. Professor Breda's reading of the Siverts sketch resulted In the verdict that the inscription is modern. The same verdict came from Professor G. C. Curme of Northwestern univer-sity, to whom the stone had been sent. The same verdict came from three language schol-ars and runologlsts at the Uni-versity of Norway whose opinion had been solicited. All this took place during the first quarter of 1899—besides some digging on the knoll where the stone had been dug from under a tree. It seems that there was some excitement in the neighbor-hood when it was found out that the inscription told of an expe-dition from Vinland by thirty Scandinavians, that they went fish-ing and that they found 10 men dead. It is said the digging was to search for treasure; others say it was to search for skeletons. Nothing was found, however. The stone came back to the Olof Ohman farm and all was quiet on the Kensington runic front until 1908 when the stone was pro-claimed genuine and make known on two continents—if not more. To show the differences be-tween the runepaper enclosed in the Hedberg letter of January first, 1899, and the runestone, runic type would have to be used. There are seventeen differ-ences; three of those are differ-ences in punctuation between words, seven are differences in rune-forms as such and seven are differences in spelling of words. Here are a few examples of the differences in spelling. 1. On the runepaper the word for from is written "FRO" in the first line and "FROM" in the fourth line, while the stone has "FRO" in both places. It is self-evident that a copyist, who it is assumed would not know runes, would not compose freely by ad-ding such a complicated rune to the "FRO". 2. On the runepaper the word for red is written with an H-rune after the vowel, evidently intended as a sign of long vowel, so used frequently in Scandinavian languages after the Reformation. There is no H-rune in the word for red on the stone. 3. The word for blood is spelled with a complicated character for the umlaut of O, which is an in-correct spelling in any Scandinav-ian language at any time. On the stone the word for blood is spelled with an O-rune; the rune used on the stone is genuine for both the Viking age and the 14th century. These few examples of differ-ences between the runepaper and the runestone establish the fact that the inscription on the Ken-sington runestone is a later and much improved version of the tale about Goths and Northmen on a journey of discovery in 1362. The Inscription is not a "fraud," but a bit of fiction that does its author much credit. But no competent runologlst has been fooled by this hoax, clever as it is.
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