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Vol. 43, No. 14 Northern State Teachers College, Aberdeen, South Dakota
Senior Class
Elects Officers
Asks Democracy
After Victory
A challenge to his hearers to
give themselves wholeheartedly to
the task of winning the war and
then to maintain true democracy in
the world was made by Rabbi Jos-eph
Baron of Milwaukee in an ad-dress
at Northern State Teachers
college Thursday morning.
Using as his theme "Liberty and
Justice," he traced the historical
background of democracy from its
beginnings in ancient Greece. He
pointed out that democracy died out
in Greece and Rome because it
"lacked righteousness," that it
came to mean liberty for only a
few and slavery or lack of privilege
for the rest.
Rabbi Baron pointed out that the
earlier legacy of Moses, with its
"insistence on equality and frater-nity
and its passion for justice"
was the true democracy which we
must perpetuate.
He also pointed out the danger
of an aftermath of hatred and bigo-try
after the present war, as there
has been after most previous wars,
such as the anti-Irish and anti-
Catholic riots following the Civil
war and the Ku Klux Klan move-ment
following the first World war.
Three attacks are being made on
democracy, the speaker asserted.
The Fascists and Nazis are at-tempting
to turn back civilization
3,000 years, to a jungle type of
living. The materialists, in our
midst and often unrecognizable at
first glance, are assuming the at-titude
of ancient Greece and Rome
in thier erection of barriers of
wealth, racial discrimination and
special privilege. The opportunists
are capitalizing on the fears and
woes of the world, turning back
civilization to the dark ages. All
these must be combated 'if we are
to maintain true democracy, the
rabbi emphasized.
A noon luncheon honoring Rabbi
Baron was arranged by. Grace Mc-
Arthur and Merritt Johnson of the
NSTC faculty.
Steele Addresses
PTA Confab
Peace" was the topic used by Dr.
N. E. Steele in addressing a war
conference of the state PTA in
Sioux Falls Monday morning. Dr.
Steele is a member-at-large and
chairman on the school education
committee. This war conference
takes the place of the regularly
planned convention which was to
have been held at Watertown.
SPANISH FESTIVAL TO BE
ENCORED AT ASSEMBLY
The Spanish Festival will be re-peated
for an assembly on May 3
at 10:20 a. m. It will consist of
regional folk songs and folk dan-ces
of the Southwest and Spanish
America.
Since this very timely activity of
the Spanish Department in honor
of Pan-American friendship has
been highly acclaimed, the entire
body and faculty will be privileged
to enjoy it at the forthcoming as-sembly.
The public is cordially
invited to attend.
Campus Acclaims
Spanish Fiesta
The FIESTA PANAMERICA-NA
of the Department of Spanish
took place in gala fashion in the
Sun Parlor of Lincoln Hall, Friday
night, April 13.
The program was planned and
carried out in keeping with the
ideals whiel ., motivated the found-ing
of Pan American Day, and in
obedience to the request voiced in
tl,e proclama Cr].) of the Presidents
the ;‘,venty-one meric An Re-publics.
The theme was Pan American
throughout the evening. Bright
colored posters, attractive Mexican
serapes and flags, including the
Pan American Rainbow, served as
pertinent decorations for the time-ly
event. Upon entering guests
were favored with gay fiesta pro-grams
and small bows of Pan
American colors.
The first part of the program
was patriotic, and consisted of an
explanation of the history and
meaning of Pan American Day,
by Leonard Palmquist, and a for-mal
reading in Spanish by Miss
_Marilyn Moe.
Following, there was a cuestion-ario—
What do you know about
America, conducted by Mrs. Alice
Mead, and a poetry game directed
by Miss Virginia Dettman. The
prize offered to the one holding
high score in the poetry game went
to Miss Jean Johanson a student
of Spanish of Central High School,
and consisted of two attractive re-cuerdos
from Old Mexico.
The second half of the program
consisted largely of regional folk
songs and folk dances of the South-west
and Spanish America, inter-preted
by LAS NORTENAS. As
it was their first appearance, they
were formally presented by their
sponsor and director. Pledges of
the group are: Zona Schreiber,
Virginia Dettman, June Throck-morton,
Annette Young, Dorothy
Beller and Mary Jane Carpenter,
students of first and second year
Spanish. Although far removed
from Hispanic Civilization, some-thing
of the color and mirth of
Old Spain an Spanish America was
brought directly to us by the gay
songs and dances. Particularly
appealing was the last danza per-formed
by Miss June Throckmor-ton
and Mr. Lincoln Abraham,
which brought forth continued ap-plause.
Animation soared to the fiesta
level in the moment of La Brinda
(the toast) and with the respon-sive
group singing with Las NOR-TENAS.
Refrescos, consisting of
poncho habanero (Havana punch)
and salvavidas (Spanish dough-nuts)
were were served by Las
Nortenas to some sixty-five guests.
Specially invited guests were a
group of students of Spanish of
Central High School and members
of the college faculty.
This timely activity of the De-partment
of Spanish, the first of
its kind on our campus, might well
be repeated each succeeding year.
It might well encourage our rede-dication
to American principles.
The exploration of the history, lit-erature,
customs and folk-art of
our Neighbors to the South, can
serve as a potent means of drawing
the Americas closer together.
SIOLAND PRESENTS
SOLOISTS AT NSTC
The first concert of solo voices
will be held the 6th of May in the
college auditorium, under the dir-ection
of Prof. Sjoland. The solo-ists
will sing operatic arias in
Italian, French and German, as
well as songs by American com-posers.
There will also be en-semble
singing by several of the
soloists.
The second concert by the vocal
department will be held May 13,
when Prof. Sjoland will present
his music students in excerpts from
the famous opera "Tanhauser" by
Wagner.
Shirley Smith
Gives Concert
Shirley Smith gifted pupil of
Gottfried Sjoland, gave a well bal-anced
program of difficult numbers
in a recital held Wednesday even-ing,
April 11 at the college audi-torium.
Miss Smith was accom-panied
by Katherine Johnson.
Miss Smith opened her concert by
singing Lascisteini Morire by Mon-teverde,
followed by Tu Lo Sai by
Torelli and Strauss's Traurn Durch
Die Dammerung. She then sang
the Aria, Connais Tu Le Pays from
Mignon by Thomas.
Rachmaninoff's Prelude in G
Sharp Minor, and the Second Hun-garian
Rhapsody by Liszt were
played by Katherine Johnson con-cert
pianist.
After a brief intermission Miss
Smith sang a group of three num-bers,
The Sleep That Flits on Ba-by's
Eyes by Carpenter; On The
Steppe by Gretcthaninoff, and
Rachmaninoffs 0 Thou Billowy
Harvest Field. Her concluding
numbers were Do You Remember
by Levitski; When I Have Sung My
Songs by Charles; and The Lord's
Prayer by Malotte.
Mrs. Johnson gave the singer
most congenial support in the stud-ied
excellence of her accompanying,
and also distinguished herself in
her own group of brilliant piano
numbers.
Miss Smith has won the favor
of Johan Iglesrud, Minneapolis mu-sic
critic, and is a well known sing-er
in Aberdeen and vicinity.
Larson Accepts
Wisconsin Post
J. Donald Larson, YMCA pro-gram
director and boys' worker
since July, 1944, announced Thurs-day
that he had accepted a posi-tion
through a local board with
the Norwegian Lutheran church of
America to become superintendent
of the Martin Luther Children's
home at Stoughton, Wis. He will
leave Aberdeen June 1 to take up
his new duties.
Following two years of teaching
in the rural schools of Day county,
Larson entered NSTC in Aberdeen
and received a B. S. degree in edu-cation
in 1937. He served for five
years as principal and commercial
instuctor at Tripp high school be-fore
coming here.
BEVERLY EAKINS
NAMED BY YWCA
Y.W.C.A. members have selected
their new officers for the school
year 1945-46. The following were
chosen:
President: Beverly Eakins, Ab-erdeen;
Vice-president: Evelyn
Reisenweber, Newark; Secretary:
Arlene Elsom, Britton; Treasurer:
Pearl Bezner, Highmore.
/President-elect Beverly Eakins
will attend the spring Bible Study
conference to be held at Dakota
Wesleyan University at Mitchell
on April 27-29.
Summer Term
Registration June 6
Registration for the first sum-mer
term at Northern State Teach-ers
college will take place on Wed-nesday,
June 6, according to E. A.
Bixler, dean. Indications are that
enrollments for the second grade
curriculum will fall decidedly below
that of last year, resulting in a
serious shortage of rural teachers,
while many students enrolled for
the short course during the past
summer expect to continue their
work toward a first grade certifi-cate,
Dean Bixler said.
A speech correction clinic, under
the direction of Miss Ida Whitten
who is engaged in speech correction
work in Racine, Wis., public schools
will be held on Northern's cam-u
•Tune 25-29. Purpose of this clinic
is to diagnose speech defects among
children of the state, and offer su•-
gestions for treatment. The clinic,
dealing with such defects as stam-mering,
stuttering, lisping, organic
difficulties including hare lip, cleft
Pala t- mouth deformities and dia-lect
difficulties, is free to children.
In co-operation with the Wo-man's
Christian Temperance Un-ion,
a two-week cour , e in Narcotic
education will be offered during
the first summer session, to be
taught by Miss Ida Underland of
Hettinger, N. D. College credit
will be given for the course, which
is also open to auditors.
A workshop in health education
under the direction of the state
board of health will operate on
Northern's campus. Thus far 27
rural teachers have indicated their
wish to attend the workshop, for
which regular credit is offered.
Teacher Shortage
To Be Critical
Results of a survey of counties
in the territory from which Nor-thern
State Teachers College draws
students and supplies teachers in-dicate
that rural schools will face
a critical situation in securing tea-chers
for the corning school year,
according to E. A. Bixler, Dean.
Twelve of the fourteen county sup-intendents
responding to Dean Bix-ler's
inquiry expect the demand for
emergency trained - teachers to be
greater than last year, while over
half of them indicated that the
number of prospective candidates
who will enroll for such training
to secure a second grade certificate
this summer is considerably less
than a year ago.
A sharp falling off in the num-ber
of students who will attend
the summer session of 1945 was also
reported by city superintendents
from whose schools four to seven
graduates completed requirements
for the second grade certificate at
NSTC last summer, Dean Bixler
said.
Dean Bixler further stated that
high school graduates with little
special training should realize that
rural teaching is more essential
than most civilian occupations, and
boards of education might profit
by contacting outstanding seniors
and stimulating their interest in
qualifying to become teachers. He
further added that prospective tea-chers
should be selected with care
after conferring with the city sup-intendent
so that only strong stu-dents
are encouraged to undertake
teacher preparation. In the opin-ion
of Dean Bixler, unless rural
school boards take special action,
many schools will be without quali-fied
teachers during the next year.
Northern's first summer session
begins June 6 and ends July 14,
while the second session runs from
July 16 to August 17.
At a meeting of senior class
members held in Spafford Hall,
the following officers were elected.
President: Eleanor Lamb, Brit-ton;
Vice-president: Jeanne Lowe,
Aberdeen; Secretary-Treasurer:
Helen Blando, Aberdeen.
Miss Lamb is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Lamb of Brit-ton.
She is majoring in Social
Science, and has taken part in
Commercial Club and Y.W.C.A. ac-tivities
on the campus.
Miss Lowe, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Elmer Lowe of Aberdeen, is
majoring in English. She has been
active in Beaux Arts, serving as
Band; Orchestra; Wesley Club; A
capella; Women's chorus; and Sig-ma
Tau Delta.
Miss Blando, who is majoring in
History, is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Phillip Blando of Aber-deen.
Her extra-curricular activ-ities
have centered about member-ship
in Beaux Arts and Newman
Culb.
The new president called a meet-ing
of the senior class which was
held Tuesday noon. At this time
plans for graduation activities
made and announcements wer ord-ered.
Mary Anderson In
Concert April 25
Miss Mary Anderson, a colora-tura
soprano, from Minneapolis,
will give a concert on the evening
of April 25. It is to be one of the
Lyceum numbers of the year.
The public and students are in-vited
to attend. Activity tickets
will admit.
The program for the evening will
be as follows:
Part I: With Verdure Clad, from
The Creation, Haydn; Ombra leg-giera,
from Dinorah, Meyerbeer;
0 Sleep, Why Dost Thou Leave
Me, Handel.
Part II: Nachtigall, Op. 97 No. 1,
Brahms; Wie Melodien zieht es mu,
Brahms; Villanelle des petits Can-ards,
Chabrier.
Part III: The Nightingale and
the Rose, Saint Saens; Snowdrops,
Prokofiev; Fiocca la neve; Cimara;
Part IV: Pierrot, Homer Sam-uels;
Iris, Daniel Wolf; Una voce
poco fa from Barber of Seville,
Rossini.
April 25—Mary Anderson, color-atura
soprano, in concert at
8:15 p. m.
April 26—A.C.E. Assembly.
April 28—Fairyland.
May 3—Spanish Festival Assembly
at 10:20 a. m. under direction
of Dr. Benge.
May 6—Voice students will give
concert at 8:15 p. m.