| Summary: | October 17,1952 THE CONOORDIAN Page 3 Concordia Auditorium Physical Education Building Johnnie Band To Perform At Half-time The 44-piece St. John's band is eagerly waiting for its cue to come marching into Cobberland, to take part in the Homecoming activities, according to John Faith, director of the St. John's band. The band, decked out in their red and white uniforms, will ar-rive by bus late Saturday after-noon. They will play for the Home-coming game and are scheduled to take part in the half-time band show. the bund will be their 5f5" drum major, Bob Suthers. Suthers has twice been Wis-consin state champion and also placed first as drum major In the .Minneapolis Aquatcnnial. Bandmen at St. John's are con-sidering this as their most import-ant trip of the year as most of their concerts are played in the St. Cloud area. Plans are being made at St. John's for many of their 2,200 member student body to accom-pany the band and support the Johnnies. The Johnnies were invited to participate in the parade, also, but transportation difficulties prevent-ed them from accepting. Marching Band, Busy Group During Homecoming Period This will mark the fourth consecutive year that the Con-cordia marching band will have played a big part in Home-coming activities. The marching band is not to be confused with the concert band or the pep band, being larger than the former and smaller than the : latter. The concert band is smaller for reasons of balance for polished performances while the reason for there being more in the pep band is simply lack of uniforms enough to "suit up" everybody. It used to be that on Saturday the band marched in the parade and then played at the game and that was all, until Lief Christian-son became director in 1949. "Chris," accustomed to staging band shows between halves of games with his Moorhead high school unit, could not see doing less with a college band. Lack of uniforms proved no deterent—that year the bond marched and performed wearing slacks and sweaters, preferably letter sweaters, but anything resembling the Concordia gold went. During the past week the scene of several band rehearsals was far south of the Music hall, out on Eighth street and Twelfth avenue, where lies the Concordia football field. They were to be seen march-ing about, getting into formations, many of which will not be seen at the game tomorrow, or ever again. But with practice, precision was grined and each member learned w*iere to go and what to do until tomorrow we have the formations that entertain us between halves. Maneuvers and music for the half-time ceremonies are usually centered about a theme to give unity and continuity to the per-formance. The theme for this year is "Vacation Timef Figures to be outlined are carefully planned on paper, but as with a football play, only much practice will perfect the timing and maneuvering necessary for their execution, hence the long sessions on the field. There are members of the marching unit who play no in-strument. The majorettes are there for some other purpose. Leading the baton twirlers again this year, making the fourth year she has done so, is Norma Sanden of Moorhead. As drum majorette Norma directs the band through its paces. With her at the front of the band this year are three frosn volunteers:" Helen Shafer, Karen Johnk and Shirley VJck. / The band has gone all out to add what it can tc this year's cele-bration. The Homecoming chair-men requested, and the band was willing, that concerts be played in Fargo and Moorhead this week to advertise Homecoming. Accord-ingly there was a concert Monday evening across the river, and up town in Moorhead last night. .- These concerts, besides march-ing in the parade and performing at the game, give the marching band a busy week. So are its members, relieved because the concert band has the honors at coronation tonight and dedication Sunday? No such thing, since the concert band is merely the same people, less some. HERE FROM ALASKA Rev. Magnus Dahlin, main alumni banquet speaker, will be making his stop here after having been in Alaska conducting a sur-vey for the ELC. He will be meet-ing his wife here and they will attend Homecoming events to-gether. From just seeing a picture, It is hard to get a concrete notion of the immense size of the new Concordia Auditorium-Physical Educational building. Nor does a bare statement of the fact that the structure can accommodate 7,000 people at a basketball game convey much of a picture. One should be inside and look ' down from the top of the perm-anent seating section to realize the great space enclosed by the semi-circle of steel. Cobber students past and pre-sent are seeing the realization of years of hopes and efforts in this huge addition to the cam-pus. Registrar Carl R. Narveson . recalls that the class of 1925, his graduating class, began a fund for building a new gym. Since that time very few years have elapsed in which somehow, some way, there was not some work toward the goal. . Other necessary structures, such as Fjelstad and Brown halls, had to come first, but sights were always set on the long range object—the gym. Now that this goal is attain-ed, Concordia is already looking forward to new building pro-jects. Public Relations Director J. L. Rendahl has revealed that large signs are being posted on the sides of the projected library and music buildings, pointing the way forward to a greater Con-cordia. Current Queen Twenty-Seventh In Line Of Cobber Royalty Checking into the history of the Homecoming tradition reveals that the current Queen Margaret i n is the twenty-seventh in the line of Cobber royalty. The name Margaret tops the queens roster, having been used now three times. Margaret I (Margaret Hilde, now Mrs. H. C. Holmes) ruled in 1933 Until 1936, the crowning of and Margaret Oppegaard ruling the Queen occurred as part of as Margaret II was crowned at the half-tune celebration at the the 1948 festivities. . Homecoming football game. The only other name borne by more than one queen Is Eu-nice. Queen Eunice I (Eunice Lunde) reigned in 1932; two years later Queen Eunice n (Eunice Plann) was elected. A look at queens* last names shows that the Johnson's are far in the lead. Olive, Rebecca, Estelle and Phyllis Johnson have all been recent Cobber queens. One member of the imperial line was actually of\ royal blood. Queen Imogene I (Jmogene Bak-er) who reigned in 1038 was a full-blooded Mandan Indian prin-cess. Mea-Shedi or ''Brown Wo-man" as was Queen Imogene's Indian name, was able to trace her ancestorial line to Chief Short Bull, a powerful Mandan ruler of yesteryear. Take Top Roles In Cobber Homecoming/Sessions AULWIN MONSON These are the main speakers at the feature events of Homecoming weekend. At the Friday night coronation, Professor Allwin Mon-son of the speech department will give the address. No picture is available of the IJw-. Magnus Dahlin, who will-talk at the alum-ni reunion dinner Saturday at • h1":''''*L:*1" REV. RAND 5 p. rri. Rev. Dahlin, now execu-tive secretary of the Board of Charities, ELC, is a graduate of the class of '27, this year's "quarter-century" class. The Rev. Sidney Rand, former Cobber and former member of the Concordia faculty, now president of Waldorf college, is scheduled REV. A. E. HANSON to give the sermon at Homecoming services at Trinity Sunday morn-ing. Sunday afternoon dedication ceremonies for the new field house finds the Rev. A. E. Hanson, presi-dent of the Northern Minnesota district, ELC, performing the duties of dedication. That year, Ruth I (Ruth Eidsaa) was the first of the Cobber royalty to be crowned Friday night. In addition to the coronation, another half-time activity held at Homecoming was the annual "green cap classic." This contest between the freshmen and the sophomores decided the issue of "to wear or not to wear'1 the re-quired green caps by the frosh. If the upperclassmen won, the fresh-men had to wear their caps for the whole semester. Should the frosh triumph, then into some dark corner of the closet went tlje hated head gear. During the reign of Queen Agnes I (Agnes Herseth) in 1937, the torchlight parade through the streets of Moorhead was insti-tuted. This custom was abandoned in 1949 due to the fire hazard. The student body president who officiated at " the crowning of Queen Agnes was one Sidney Rand, former member of the Con-cordia college faculty and now president of Waldorf Junior col-lege. The Rfev. Rand will be the speaker at this year's Homecom-ing services on Sunday at Trinity Lutheran church. Dr. Carl Bailey of the physics depurtment also was a student body proxy In his undergraduate days. He officiated at the cor-onation of Queen Lois I (Lois Wcnberg) in 1939. As far as the records show, AKX literary society has produced the most queens, claiming seven. AZP isiclose behind with six. Since leaving Concordia, mem-bers of the royal line have set up residence in all parts of the United States. Two are also living in continents other than North America. Two make their homes in San Francisco, Queen Dorothy I and Queen Lois I (1939). Queen Eunice II (1934) now lives In Davidson, North Carolina. Brook* lyn, N .Y., is the residence of Queen Miriam I (1930) while Queen Irene I (1931) now lives in Decatur, Georgia. Queen Alice I (1947) is the wife of a mission-ary to Japan and Queen Efetelle I (1945) has set up royal residence
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