| Summary: | Page 4 THE CONCORDIAN May 18, 1962 Cobbers Find Summer 'Workwhile' Taking the Plunge—in ihe first of a series of showers, this one being "wetter" than ihe average, Carol Kolbjornson is aided by Concofdia's version of the Klu Klux Klan, as the annual spring ring fever hits Fjelslad. letters to the editor Dear Editor: Our hands actually tremble for want of meet and proper words to write to thank the Concordia College family for the Christ-like way in which she has helped us take a hard look into the Western or American system of education. We will, no doubt, remember her unique favour to us as such for a very long time. May God grant that we, who she is now about ready to give to society, be the kind of people society most sorely needs. It is true that what a man needs brings him into conflict with others—even with his own parents for that matter, and so if we have in anyway intruded, imposed or offended any of her members during our three years' stay in her kind care, we do heartily pray for her forgiveness and forgetfulness. Now that the time which the Lord giveth us to remain with her has ended, we wish to depart in the spirit of gratitude, love, unity, peace and happiness. By Concordia family we mean: The president of the col-lege, the deans, faculty, student body, administrative staff, cafeteria staff, library staff, grounds-maintainence staff, as well as the invisible members of the family. Although our esteemed thanks go to the entire Concordia family as we have already indicated; nevertheless, we feel ourselves impelled to put down a few names. We especially thank Dr. Knutson, president of Concordia College for his unfailing protection and encouraging letters, "come back to school. Ours is a Christian Family. We will do the best we can to help out." J. L. Rendahl, dean of admissions, and his wife, apart from Mrs. Greguson of Minneapolis, are to us an advocator and a gate through which we enter the city of assistance, tolerance and learning. We owe them much thanks. The second official we encountered on our very first morn-ing on campus was Dr. Bailey, dean of the college. The talk went this way: "Did you come to study at Concordia Col-lege?" "Yes, I did." "What did you come to study?" "I came to study." "The field, which you came to study, is important to your country and to your continent. I wish you success in your study here at Concordia." Much thanks to the dean for wishing us success and for telling us the real truth without a speck of disguise. Our immense thanks go to Dean Boe fof, among other things, instructing the assistant dormitory head not to put us out of Grose Hall at the end of last summer school. We thank Prof. Fietz very much for aiding us to combat the winter and for offering to provide breakfast should we have difficulties with shortage of meal tickets. Our hearty thanks to Frida Nilsen for the extra hours she look to leach us literature, as well as mechanics and organi-zation in the writing of English. Many thanks to the Narvesons for their material help and for being the college official into whose home we have been able to go to most often. We wish to thank Dr. Noblitt for his pleasant class atmos-phere and for being the professor under whom we did most of our college work. There are many others to whom we give thanks for various kinds of help, but they cannot possibly all be named. We must admit, we have enjoyed our days here at Concordia. Long live Concordia College, our alma mater. We will to God and to her give the glory. Elliott Wodekwia New Barbershop Now Open For Business at Brookdale Center What happens when 1600 Cobbers are released into socie-ty for three summer months? Some, with a shrug of the shoulders, confess that they don't know how they will spend the vacation; others reveal plans of leisure; the vast majority work. What do the college flab-bies do? For instance: Charlene Waltari is sched-uled to work for the Lutheran church in Mexico City, where she will join with 15 Ameri-cans and 16 Mexicans to build and landscape a youth camp. Wes Strand will enter the Peace Corps this summer for a two-year "hitch" in the Came-roons, teaching German and his-tory. Another government man will be N. Bruce Thorn, who would apparently rather be a doorkeeper in the House of Rep-resentatives than dwell in his native Fargo, as he goes off to the nation's capitol to serve Senator Young (Rep. N.D.) in that capacity. The Lutheran church ob-tains some more workers, as Jeff Boss, Ron Struxness, George Algard and Vern Nordmark jourtiey to the Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, 111., and Lang-etters to the editor Dear Editor: In regard to the letter by Ray Anderson and the editorial of two weeks ago I wish to make these comments. I'm going to try to be realistic about dancing at Concordia. It occurs to me that once the ad-ministration says, "OK, you can hold society dances off campus," then Concordia and the ideals for which it stands begin to slide downhill. After Concordia has dances off campus then there should be nothing wrong with having them on campus, perhaps to be-gin with, for society functions only. Then maybe there will be a homecoming dance to compete with NDSU. Then before long you will be seeing signs like this every Friday or Saturday night: "Dance Tonight — Concordia College Campus — ROMPING ROGER AND THE TWISTERS — 8:30 p.m. — Memorial Audi-torium." Is that what the students and faculty of Concordia College really want? Do we really want to sponsor dances on, or even off campus? I hope not. I, as an alumni, would be very disap-pointed when I return to find dancing at Concordia. We've gotten along without dancing for over seventy years, why start now? Name Withheld Upon Request ford Larson, Harold Peterson, Norma Tweeton, Elaine Nel-son, Janice Furstad and Glenn Knudsvig move to serve in a Lutheran work camp in the state of Washington. Bruce Anderson will rub noses with the 49th state as he travels north to Alaska to try his hand at railroading; Bruce E. Gronbeck, unless the North-ern Pacific comes up with a job, insists he will draw unemploy-ment insurance for the duration. Students from past years relate that the summer resort jobs offer, along with the wash, many opportunities for sight-seeing and social life; and consequently, Jean Sillers and Bev Melin will work in Yellowstone; Joan Reck, Judy Riexz, Joyce Monson and Elaine Kanning in Glacier; Ron and Dale Anderson are pooling their talents to enter-tain (and wait on) tourists ai Mt. Rushmore Lodge. Iowa State will find Glen Kuehn doing research work in chemistry; Smoky the Bear will be aided by Lowell Lundeen and Paul Nielsen in the Mon-tana and Idaho forests, and Concordia's language camp will be "privileged" to have Joanne Guccione teaching French. From Washington to Washing-ton, from the Arctic Circle to the Tropic of Cancer, from sea to sea and beyond, Cobbers will lay down their books and take up most any tool, the tools of tuition! The U.S. Army Band directed by Major Robert L Bierly, will appear at the Alex Nemzek Fieldhouse Thursday evening, May 24 at 8:15 p.m. Con-sidered by music critics to be one of the most proficient and dis-tinctive musical organizations now appearing before the public, this unit is known to thousands in this area as one of their favorite concert bands. Pirate Treasure Long-playing records of Concordia Student Production's 1962 musical, Pirates of Penzance, can be purchased for $3.50 at the Korn Krib in Cobber Commons. Montana Open House Travelers to this year's World's Fair in Seattle and other travel-ers going through Montana this summer will be welcomed in the grand Montana style. The Montana Club will send out a list next week in the campus mail of the summer location of Montana Cobbers. These people can be contacted as to where the best motels or camping places are, where the entertainment spots are, and what attractions should not be missed. Just a plain visit will be welcomed too. There's even a possibility for a free meal at some places. Phyllis File Thirteen A Warlburg College catalog regulation says, "When a student has 3, 4 or 5 unexcused absences in a course offering 3, 4 or 5 credit hours, the number of credit hours required for graduation shall be increased by one credit hour." This regulation has been the subject not only of criticism but of numerous studies. Class attendance has become just an-other gripe along with the cafeteria and convocation. Objectors maintain that far too many students would gulp so much freedom under a no-cut system that they would kill them-selves academically. And after all, they ask, "What are we in col-lege for?" A cut system, other's agree, does place some beneficial re-straints which tend toward development of discipline and hab-its of study. The solution? There is none as of yet but perhaps a compromise would help. Macalester College was featured in the May 4 issue of Time magazine for its large number of national merit scholars in the incoming freshman class. Next fall 20 merit scholars will enter Macalester as freshmen. This year it ranks tenth, according to merit scholars enrolled, topped only by such colleges as Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Radcliffe. One representative from each society (called brotherhoods) and one representative ffom the freshman class ai Luther Col-lege are having a contest to see who can tell the biggest lie. The liars will be judged by faculty members on the originality, content and presentation of their tall tale. The tale must be original and not exceed over three minutes. Money and trophy prizes will be presented to those judged most successful liars. An editor's note was added, "This contest in no way proves that the College is becoming liberal.
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