The Exponent, 1945-05-04

              A Call To Service
The most serious teacher shortage in the history of South Dakota
becomes increasingly acute with each passing day.
This box brings to every reader who possibly can teach the chal-lenge
to help keep class rooms open during this emergency and oper-ating
at highest efficiency attainable.
Attend the summer quarter of Northern State Teachers College
beginning June 6 next. The importance of your decision to do so
cannot be overestimated.
Help meet this emergency! Prepare yourself to teach! Answer
this call to service!
N. E. Steele
To Organize New Mary Anderson
Vocational Class Presents Concert
Edition The Exponent High School
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High School
Vol. 43, No. 15
Northern State Teachers College, Aberdeen, South Dakota May 4, 1945
Music Festival May 6 To 16
Music Faculty To Present Students
In A Series Of Spring Concerts
•
Plans have been completed for
the 53rd annual spring commence-ment
activities at Northern State
Teachers college, according to Dean
E. A. Bixler.
Rev. Werner Spiegel, pastor of
the Zion Lutheran church, is to
deliver the baccalaureate address
on Sunday, May 20, in the college
auditorium. Invocation and bene-diction
will be pronounced by Rev.
Roy Brievik, assistant pastor of
Bethlehem Lutheran church.
Dr. and Mrs. Steele will enter-tain
college and faculty members
at the traditional reception im-mediately
following the baccalau-reate
service in Lincoln hall sun
parlor. On Monday, May 21, at
6:30 p. m. the annual senior-facul-ty
banquet will be held in the col-lege
cafeteria.
Alumni of the college have sched-
At a dinner on Wednesday, May
9, at 6:30 P.M. in the Graham Hall
Dining Room, Margaret Briscoe,
associate professor of education,
will be honored for her twenty-five
years of service at Northern. A
graduate of Northern State Teach-ers
College, Miss Briscoe took her
advanced work at the Universities
of South Dakota, Chicago, Minne-sota,
and Columbia University. Mr.
Bill Carberry is chairman of the
social committee. Dean Bixler, Mr.
Culp, Mr. V. H. Vernon and Miss
Lida Williams will give toasts, and
there will be a musical program
under the direction of Mr. Moen.
Coming
events
May 3—Asembly 10:20 a.m. Pan-
American Fiesta under direc-tion
of Dr Benge.
May 6—Voice students will give
concert at 8:15 p.m., under
direction of Gottfried Sjoland.
May 10—Assembly 10:20 a.m. Pro-gram
by L.S.A.
May 13—Excerpts from the fam-ous
opera "Tanhauser" by
Wagner will be presented by
the music students of Gott-fried
Sjoland at 8:15 p.m.
May 15—Organ and piano student
recital at 8:15 p.m. Students
of Merritt Johnson.
May 16—Band and chorus concert
at 8:15 p.m., under the direc-tion
of Harvey Moen.
May 17—Assembly 10:20 a.m.
(speaker to be arranged.)
May 17—A.C.E. banquet at 6:00
p.m. in Lincoln Dining Hall.
May 20—Baccalaureate
May 21—Senior-Faculty banquet
at 6:30 p.m.
May 24—Senior Assembly at 10:20
a.m.
May 29—Commencement
June 6—Registration at 9:00 a.m.
June 7—First term of summer
quarter begins.
uled a dinner meeting Tuesday,
May 29 at 5:30 p.m. in the cafe-teria.
Attorney General George T. Mic-kelson
of Pierre is to deliver Nor-thern's
commencement address in
the college auditorium Tuesday,
May 29, at 8:30 p. m. Hon. Frank
Cundill, vice-president of the re-gents
of education, will confer de-grees
and award diplomas and cer-tificates
to the graduates.
Annual awards will be announced
by Dr. N. E. Steele, president.
Highest ranking honor students of
the junior class, known as the order
of gray gowns, will usher at the
baccalaureate service and for the
commencement exercises.
Appropriate musical numbers are
being arranged by Northern's mus-ic
faculty.
English Students
Special Guests
Teachers of English and Speech
entertained members of their de-partment
at the traditional Shake-speare
birthday party last week.
The program consisted of a piano
solo by Leonard Palmquist; a talk
on Shakespeare by Eugene Lavine;
readings by Doris Carey and Carol
Magnus, and two songs with Shake-speare
lyrics by Geraldine Goodsell.
Mrs. Helen Kelly-Murner, first
president of Northern's Sigma Tau
Delta, related some of her exper-iences
while a student here.
Refreshments following the par-ty
were served by Dr. G. 0. Kelly,
P. J. Harkness and Misses Vera
Lighthall and Emeline Welsh.
Directly following the party a
special meeting of Sigma Tau Delta
was held for the purpose of elect-ing
officers for next year. Eugene
Lavine, Aberdeen, will be presi-dent;
LaVonne Aadland, Veblen,
vice-president; Evelyn Reisenweb-er,
Newark, secretary-treasurer. ,
Many Attend
NSTC Fairyland
An enthusiastic crowd of young-sters,
their parents, teachers and
others interested in child welfare
attended Northern's 23rd annual
Fairyland sponsored by the college
branch of ACE and held in Spaf-ford
gymnasium Saturday.
Highlight of the day's activities
was the coronation of Lucille Jen-sen
as queen of the fairies. Ruth
Knudson presented several fairy
dances in honor of the queen and
led the children in community sing-ing.
Story-telling, a wishing well and
a tea garden delighed the children.
Other booths of interest included
those of art, music, puzzles and
novelties.
Included in the cast of characters
of the pageantry were flower girls:
Ronnete Tilgener and Lydia Ack-ley;
crown bearer: Ricky Roesch;
herald: Marjorie Thielen; trumpet-er:
Virginia Dettman; fairy god-mother:
Shirley Barns; fairy dan-cer:
Ruth Knudson; brownies:
Jean Rozendahl and Janet Bunker.
High school girls assisting in the
program were: Miriam Stone,
Helen Daniels, Eleanor Woodford
and Katherine Fornell.
FLASH
At the request of the ODT,
this year's BOYS STATE,
scheduled to be held at NSTC
from May 30 to June 5, has
been cancelled, as have all simi-lar
,BOYS STATES throughout
the nation.
The Northern State Teachers
College in co-operation with the
State Department of Vocational
Education is planning to operate
en evening school for the purpose
of giving instruction in Electric
Refrigeration Repair. In order to
operate it is necessary to have at
least 10 trainees. Plans are now
in operation to recruit a new class
to begin May 5.
A course in Refrigeration Repair
has been conducted in the Indus-trial
Arts Building of the College
for several months. The classes
are instructed by Mr. Kenneth
Brown who has many years of ex-perience
in refrigeration repair.
Classes will meet from 7:00 to
10:45 on four evenings during the
week.
Anyone interested in attending
these classes is urged to contact
the office of the Vocational School
in the Industrial Arts Building,
telephone 4501. This school is
open to anyone with mechanical
ability or those interested in re-frigeration
repair service. The
first course covers a period of 200
hours of instruction.
Official Notice
Students who desire part-time
employment on the campus while
attending either the 1945 Summer
Session or the next regular term
are urged to submit work applica-tions.
These applications may be
left in Room A-201 of the Admin-istration
building.
Northern's annual spring music
festival, consisting of a series of
four concerts, will be held in the
college auditorium May 6 through
16.
The festival will open with a
Miss Mary Anderson popular col-oratura
soprano of Mineapolis pre-sented
a well-balanced and inter-esting
program of songs at the
college on Wednesday evening to
an appreciative audience.
Miss Anderson, just 19 years of
age, had a voice full of color, flexi-bility
and tonal clearness. Her
stacatto notes rang with clearness
and preciseness. Her singing was
done with ease and graciousness.
The outstanding numbers on her
program were: Una voce poco fa,
from Barber of Seville by Rossini;
Ombre leggiera from Dinorah by
Meyerbeer, Fiocca la neve by Cim-ara
all sung in Italian. The num-ber
Villanelle des Petits Canards
by Cabrier, sung in French, was
well interpreted. Her outstanding
song sung in English was Iris by
Daniel Wolf. In it she showed a
full rich voice along with her lovely
coloratura qualities displayed in all
of her songs.
She is a voice student of Ethel-wynne
Kingsburg of Minneapolis,
who is known to many here having
been in Aberdeen last summer with
Countess Helena Morsztyn, the Pol-ish
pianist who appeared here in
a concert.
Prof. Merritt Johnson very capa-bly
played her piano accompani-ment.
Morsztyn To Teach
At Summer Session
Countess Helena Morsztyn, not-ed
concert pianist, will offer mas-ter
classes in piano at Northern
June 14-27, and will appear in
concert June 18 in the college aud-itorium.
Opportunities are offered, also,
concert by the voice students of
Prof. Gottfried Sjoland, Sunday
evening at 8:15.
Among the out-of-town singers
who will take part in the program
are Lucille Martha Krause, dra-matic
soprano and Helen Sloane,
Mezzo soprano. Miss Krause whose
home is in Sioux Falls is a former
student of Mr. Trevesan of the
Metropolitan opera. A teacher of
music at Pierpont, she has been
studying vagnerian operas under
Prof. Sjoland during the past year.
Miss Sloane is head of the voice
department at the state normal
and industrial schools, Ellendale.
Other singers who will appear
on the program are: Sopranos,
Geraldine Goodsell, Mary Coursey,
Eunice Dell, Louise M. Wade, Ce-cile
Jacobson, all of Aberdeen and
Muriel Carlson, Langford. Mezzo
sopranos: Carol Magnus, Webster,
Selma Gravrock, Aberdeen; Con-traltos,
Shirley Smith, Agnes Skibs-rud,
Aberdeen.
On May 13, Prof. Sjoland will
present his music students in ex-cerpts
from the famous opera "Tan
hauser" by Wagner.
Tuesday, May 15, Merritt John-son
will present his advanced or-gan
and piano students in a re-cital
at 8:15 p.m. Appearing on
the program are Leonard Palm-quist,
Langford; Beverly Eakins,
Aberdeen; Annette Hagen, Orient;
Carol Magnus, Webster; Ardis
Fahrenwald, Conde; Muriel Mc-
Crea, Twin Brooks.
The final concert of the series
will be the band and women's
chorus under the direction of Har-vey
Moen on May 16 at 8:15 p.m.
Students and faculty are invited
to attend all of the concerts. There
will be no admission charge.
Pierce Speaks
At Assembly
Dr. Earle V. Pierce of Minnea-polis
spoke at the assembly Thurs-day
morning, using as his subject,
"How Old Are You?" He was
introduced by Rev. Arthur Slaikeu.
Using as his text, "When I was
a child I spoke as a child, thought
as a child. Now that I am a man,
I have put away childish things,"
the speaker stated that we are
governed in babyhood by impulse,
in childhood by authority from
others, and in adulthood by reason.
He added that religion is an ex-pression
of maturity while sin is
the expression of childishness. Dr.
Pierce concluded his talk by stat-ing
that the fear of Jehovah is
the beginning of wisdom.
Dr. Pierce is a graduate of the
Sioux Falls Academy, later re-ceiving
his D. D. degree from
Sioux Falls college. He has been
an active member of the Board
of Trustees of Sioux Falls college
and is the former president of the
Northern Baptist Convention. At
the present time he is a member
of the Board of Trustees of the
Northern Baptist Theological Sem-inary,
Western Baptist Theological
Seminary, Sioux Falls college, and
the Baptist hospital of Minneapolis,
as well as a member of the Board
of Foreign Missions of the Nor-thern
Baptist Convention.
for advanced students to study pri-vately
with Miss Morsztyn, who
brings a complete and thorough
understanding of technique, born
of years of world wide concert ex-perience,
to her teaching.
Repeating her successful engage-ment
of last year, Countess Morsz-tyn
will round out Northern's sum-mer
course in music, which will
offer exceptional opportunities to
summer quarter students.
Spring Commencement
Scheduled May 20-29
Dinner To Honor Briscoe For
Twenty-five Years Of Service