The Exponent, 1958-12-11

              Pictured above are 26 of the candidates for the title Miss Northern. They are, left to right, (front row) Ivadell
Neblesick, Alexandria; Robin O'Neil, DeSmet; (row two) Cele Prunty, Andover; Marlys Vitters, St. Lawrence; Lois
Montag, Groton; Donna Gerdes, Aberdeen; (row three) Jeannine Imsland, Crandall; Judith Greeno, Kidder; Marilyn
Christopherson, Hudson; Darlene Saunders, Kennebec; Sandra Auby, Watertown; Darlys Karlen, Columbia; (row
four) Angelina Kruge, Stratford; Sharon Bindenagel, Frankfort; Beverly Griffin, Mitchell; Helen Carlson, South Shore;
Zola MacLaren, Aberdeen; Caol Dreyer, Watertown; (row five) Lucille Berns, Gettysburg; Connie Wolf, Eureka;
Judy Wiederrich, Mitchell; Linda Frazee, Pierre; Julie Jewett, Mobridge; Pat Batie, Kadoka; (row six) Ruthie
Ritter, Pierre, and Sandra Ness, Faulkton. Not pictured are Janita Strader, Aberdeen; Rosemarie Heath, Crandall;
Mary Gay Tonner, Aberdeen, and Marilyn Coppersmith, Gettysburg.
The Exponent
Volume 57, No. 11
North ern State Teachers College, Aberdeen, South Dakota
December 11, 1958 TWENTY-NINE COEDS VIE FOR TITLE
`A' Debaters Travel
To Kansas Tourney
NSTCss "A" debate squad departed
yesterday to participate in the twenty-ninth
annual Southwestern College
Invitational Tournament at Winfield,
Kansas, to be held on Friday and
Saturday.
This is an annual trip made by the
experienced debaters according to
Coach Kenneth Erickson, who accom-panied
the team to Winfield. Erick-son
added that the Winfield meet is
one of the largest meets that North-ern's
debaters attend during the year.
Last year, fifty-two colleges from
16 states entered nearly 200 debate
teams in the tournament.
Three Northern teams are making
the trip. The teams are comprised of
Dee Feuerstein and Aubrey Fisher;
Irene Montgomery and Carol Crane;
Karl Bariether and Lew Feuerstein.
The team will also compete in ora-tory,
extemporaneous speaking, oral
interpretation, discussion and sales-manship.
This is the first meet of the year
for Northern's "A" debaters. The
"B" debaters traveled to the Univers-ity
of South Dakota on November 21
and 22 for the Intercollegiate Speech
Tournament.
The remainder of the season's
schedule is as follows:
Sioux Falls Debate Tournament,
January 30-31; Midland College De-bate
Tournament, February 6 and 7;
South Dakota Invitational Debate
Tournament at Northern, February 13
and 14; Wisconsin State College De-bate
Tournament at Eau Claire, Wis-consin,
February 20 and 21; Univer-sity
of Nebraska Debate Meet at Lin-coln,
Nebraska, February 27 and 28;
National Tournament at Bowling
Green, Ohio, March 22 through 27
and the South Dakota Intercollegiate
Forensic Association Meet at Yank-ton
College, April 18.
Christmas Ball
Set for Friday
Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus will be
crowned at the second annual Christ-mas
Formas sponsored by the Social
Improvement Committee tomorrow
night, December 12, in Spafford Gym.
Dancing will be from the hours of
8 p.m. to midnight. Admission will
be free upon the presentation of one
student activity ticket for each stu-dent.
The free admission charge is the
result of the efforts of the Student
Activities Committee.
During the evening a drawing will
be held to decide the identity of Mr.
and Mrs. Santa Claus of 1958. The
couple will be crowned by Mr. Snow-man,
another old-timer of the winter
season.
To help catch the spirit of the sea-son,
the committee plans to decorate
the gym in the taditional colors of the
season. An outdoor scene of holly,
snowflakes and two Christmas trees
will add to the effect.
Punch will be served.
Those who are in charge of ar-rangements
are Betty Reed, advertis-ing;
Shirley Scatter, decorations; Herb
Helm, over-all chairman and Darlys
Karlen, refreshments.
Campus Organizations
Sponsor 2 Record Hops
A record-hop in Spafford Gym will
follow the Northern-Sioux Falls bas-ketball
game on Saturday night.
All students are invited to attend
the dance which will be sponsored by
Lincoln Hall.
This will be the third dance of the
week for Northern Students.
The Vets Club sponsored a regis-tration
dance on Monday night, De-cember
8, and the annual Christmas
Formal will be held tomorrow night.
Singers to Present
Christmas Concert
The 26-voice Northern Singers of
Northern State Teachers College will
present a Christmas Vespers Concert
on Thursday, December 18, at 8
p.m. in the 'College Auditorium, under
the direction of Wendell Kumlien,
Assistant Professor of Vocal Music.
Soloists will be Barbara Drake,
freshman from Aberdeen; Janis Pear-son,
senior from Hecla; Glorianne Os-borne,
junior from Cresbard and
Kathy Kunz, freshman from Minne-apolis.
Jack Holstad, from Aberdeen,
will accompany the group.
The featured cantata is A Cere-mony
of Carola by the British corn-poser
Benjamin Britten, and includes
ten choruses based on ancient English
Carols. Other numbers include two
Spanish dance carols Fum, Fum, Fum
and Ja Viene La Vieja plus a tradi-tional
Burgundian carol, Patapan.
Three contemporary carols, Hosanna
by Britten and A Birthday Greeting
by Zoltan Kodaly, contemporary bun-garian
composer, will conclude the
music section of the service.
Dr. Walter Jerde, Dean of the
College, will deliver a ;brief Christ-mas
message, "The Wise Men of
1958" as part of the service.
The presentation is free, and stu-dents
are cordilaly invited to attend.
Aberdeen High Senior
To Address NSTC Coeds
About European Trip
Stephanie Ackley, Aberdeen High
School senior, will speak at the first
Association of Women Students mass
meeting of the year, December 15, at
6:30 p.m. in the Library Auditorium.
Miss Ackley was an American Field
Service exchange student in Germany
this summer.
She will talk about her many ex-periences
abroad, including informa-tion
about the 'German School system,
her adopted family, places of interest,
customs of the German people and
the American Foreign Exchange Sys-tern
for students.
A short 'business meeting will also
be held. Appointments to committees,
the Service Book project, Sweetheart
formal and the National AWS Con-vention
will be discussed.
Girls will be chosen for the Judicial
Council with four girls being elected
from the following list: junior college
division—Janet Hunstad, Angie Kru-eger,
Darlys Karlen, Rose Marie
Heath, Jane Arithson and Mary Gay
Tonner in the senior college division
are Pat Haegley, Glorianne Osborne,
Janita Strader, Janet Larson, Sonia
Knudson and Janet Bosworth.
Wade, Bennett
Receive Grants
Two Northern students are among
83 American college students of Indi-an,
Spanish-American or Eskimo an-cestry
who have received 1958-59
scholarship grants from the American
Missionary Association of the Board
of Home Missions of the Congrega-tional
Christian Churches.
The two receiving the grants are
Leo A. Bennett of Aberdeen and Jon
C. Wade of Albuquerque, New Mexi-co.
Both Wade and Bennett are part
Indian. Wade is a junior at Northern
while Bennett is a freshman.
Each man received a grant of
$450.
The grants ranged in size from
$100 to $1,100 and totaled $39,875.
They went to 66 Indian, 14 Spanish-
American and three Eskimo students
attending 62 colleges in 22 states, the
District of Columbia and Puerto
Rico.
Scholarship recipients represented
both Protestant and Roman Catholic
churches. Ten Protestant denomina-tions
were included.
This is the fourth year college stu-dents
have been aided under the
American Missionary Association's
scholarship program.
`Miss Northern'
To Be Chosen
At '58 Sno-Sho
Twenty-nine NSTC coeds, repre-senting
various organizations, will
participate in Northen's annual Sno-
Sho, Tuesday, December 16 at 7:30
p m. in the College Auditorium. From
these twenty-nine girls, "Miss NSTC"
will be selected to represent North-ern
at the State Snow Queen Festi-val.
To be eligible the girls must be
single and between the ages of 18
and 25. They will be judged on per-sonality,
poise and beauty. Judges•
for the contest will be from the Ab-erdeen
Junor Chamber of Commerce.
Held in conjunction with the "Miss
NSTC" contest, there willl also be a
talent contest. A program featuring
approximately twelve acts is being
arranged, according to Jack Holstad,
talent committee chairman. Entries
thus far include Dick Lnagenfield and
Judy Sweetland, vocal duet; Doris
Van Lanningham, vocal solo; Marilyn
Wingerd, interpretative dance; John
Geis and Glorianne Osborne, vocal
duet; Eileen Hodson, piano solo; Dale
Bieber, vocal solo; John Murphy,
pantomime; Kenneth Vance, vocal
solo; Judy Zabel, organ solo; "Graham
Crackers," a vocal sextet consisting of
Judy Hagen, Pat Heagley, Barbara
Brooks, Carol Linn, Janet Larson and
Rita Lawless; John Murphy and Rob-in
O'Neill, a comedy dance; and
"The Collegians," 'a vocal sextet con-sisting
of Donna Gerdes, Judy Sweet-land,
Barbara Drake, Chris Mogen,
Gerald Sloan and Bill Fuhrman. The
winning act will compete in the
state talent show during the Snow
Queen Festival in Aberdeen, Janu-ary
11 through the 17. Second and
third places will also be chosen.
The Sno-Sho will begin with the
talent contest at 7:30 p.m. in the Col-lege
Auditorium. After the talent pro-gram
there will be the presentation
of the snow queen candidates to last
year's "Miss NSTC," Nan Trisler,
and to the audience. While the judges
deliberate as to whom the new
queen will be, Glorianne Osborne
last year's talent winner, will sing a
vocla solo.
Closing the activities, the new
queen will reign over the Sno-Sho
Ball in the Spafford Gym with music
furnished by the Larry Kampa or-chestra.
The gym and the auditorium
will be decorated in a winter motif.
Prices for the Sno-Sho activities
will be 40 cents per person for the
talent and snow queen contest, 75
cents per person for the Sno-Sho Ball
or $1.25 per couple for the Ball.
The Sno-Sho is sponsored annually
by the Music Education Club on
campus.
Foundation Selects
Northern Graduate
Keith Earl Peterson, former North-ern
Student, has been appointed state
representative of the National Foun-dation
in central Iowa according to
Basil O'Connor, president of the
March of Dimes Organization.
Peterson received an M. S. degree
in Education from Northern in the
spring of 1958.
In his new post with the National
Foundation, originally the National
Foundation for Infantile Paralysis,
Peterson will work with the vol-unteers
who make up the member-ship
of the 32 chapters in central
Iowa. He will poin in assisting polio
patients and will lead efforts to bring
Salk vaccine protection to the maxim-um
number of people in his area.
In addition, he will assist in public
education in the fields of virus dis-eases,
arthritis, birth defects and dis-orders
of the central nervous system,
which are included in the expanded
program of the National Foundation.
Peterson also will work with
volunteers in conducting the annual
March of Dimes next January.