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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 Edition 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
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Title | The Exponent, 1945-05-04 |
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Publisher | Northern State University |
Date of creation | 1945-05-04 |
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Transcription | 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 Edition 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 |
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