The Exponent, 1963-01-31

              Judy Nielson
Karolyn Cowhick
Donna Sippert
Bonnie Phillips
Ruth Sackreiter Joy Kunde Dianne Lickteig Delores Fenicle
Senate Receives Contract From Singing Group •
Two Concerts Scheduled For Dacotah Hall Gym
Rich Cinclair, Aberdeen senior; Terry McNeill, Bonilla senior; and Carl
Kline, Aberdeen senior polish up on their card playing in preparation for the
upcoming Blue Key Smoker to be held February 14 in the Memorial Student
Union. Several types of entertainment are being planned for the Smoker.
The Exponent
Volume 61, Number 17 South Dakota Northern College — Aberdeen, South Dakota January 31, 1963
After weeks of telegrams, long dis-tance
telephone calls and letters, the
Student Senate has received a con-tract
from the Chad Mitchell Trio.
The Senate has contracted the Trio
to perform at two concerts. Both con-certs
will be held on February 21 in
Dacotah Hall Gymnasium. The con-certs
are set for 7 and 9; both run-ning
about an hour and a half.
Tickets go on sale today in the
Memorial Union through February
8 to college students. College
students will be able to secure tickets
for either performance with their
activity tickets. Tickets will then go
on sale to the general public for $2 a
ticket. Presentation and the School of
Commerce will be offered tickets
Blair Places First
In Original Oratory
At Speech Tourney
Kathy Blair, Groton senior, won
first place honors in the experienced
division of women's original oratory
at the Sioux Falls College Tourna-ment
last week-end, January 25-26.
With her oration entitled "Selling
America Cheap," Miss Blair won over
entrants from Buena Vista College,
South Dakota State College, Augu-stana
College and Sioux Falls College.
Other individual events winners
from NSTC included Karen Nelson,
Langford junior, who placed second
in the experienced division of wo-men's
extemporaneous speaking, and
Chuck Weibel, Aberdeen freshman,
who won third in men's novice ex-temporaneous.
Carl Kline, Aberdeen senior, and
John Stone, Pierre sophomore, com-piled
a 4-2 record in their six rounds
of debate. The rounds were evenly di-vided
with the men debating three
of negative and an equal number of
affirmatives.
Winning three of the six rounds
was the team of Miss Blair and Wei-bel.
Both the teams of Kathy Weber,
Aberdeen senior, and Miss Nelson,
along with Karl Schmidt, Eureka sen-ior,
and Janet Meland, Sisseton soph-omore,
won two of their rounds of
debate.
first. Sheila Smith, Aberdeen senior,
and Bill Walker, Edina, Minnesota
junior, are in charge of ticket sales
and publicity.
The Chad Mitchell Trio was organ-ized
at Gonzogo University in Spo-kane,
Washington during 1959. The
group is composed of Chad Mitchell,
Mike Kabluk, Joe Fraizer and ao-companists
Jacob Enders and Paul
Prestipino.
Final casting has been completed
and rehearsals have begun for the
winter play "Tartuffe" to be present-ed
February 22-23 in the Administra-tion
Auditorium, announced Ralph
Klein, assistant professor of drama
and speech.
The cast includes Nancy Erickson,
Rosholt freshman, as Madame Per-nelle,
Orgon's mother; Charlene
Fuhrman, Mansfield sophomore, as
Elmire, Orgon's second wife; Mar-jorie
Nelson, Sisseton junior, as Dor-ine,
Mariane's maid; Carl Swanson,
Aberdeen junior, as Damis, Orgon's
son; Paula Reich, Webster sopho-more,
as Mariane, Orgon's daughter;
Curtis Forbes, Aberdeen freshman, as
Cleante Elmire's brother; and Leanne
Staudenraus, Aberdeen junior, as Fli-pote,
Mme. Pemelle's maid.
Jeff Green, Brooklyn, New York,
junior, has been cast as Monsieur Or-
Folk songs of the past with musical
comments on the world today is the
material that the group uses in its
concerts. This material is drawn from
such sources as other folksingers, the
Library of Congress, field recordings
and Manhattan satiric night club re-vues.
In collaboration with musical
director Milt Okun, they arrange
their material in the sound that has
made them a part of the folk and
gon, a rich merchant; Gary Crippen,
Rapid City sophomore, as Valere, be-trothed
to Marione; Ron Beckett, Har-old
senior, as Tartuffe; Roger Hanson,
Sisseton freshman, as Loyale, a bail-iff;
Keith Jewett, Mobridge freshman
as an officer; Jerry Sauer, Aberdeen
freshman as the sergeant. Leonard
Palmquist, professor of music, will
portray the role of a musician.
Sharron Lippert, Fort Pierre senior,
has been named assistant director for
the February presentation.
The period play was freely adapt-ed
for the stage by Miles Malleson,
Kline said. The prologue was taken
from L'Impromptu de Versailles. The
play is set at the home of Monsieur
Argan in Paris in 1663.
"Tartuffe" is a bitter comedy and
a satire on puritanism, commented
Klein.
popular music world in just a few
years.
The group has presented concerts
at Carnegie Hall with Harry Bela-fonte,
Town Hall in New York and at
Orchestra Hall, Chicago. They have
appeared on television programs with
Pat Boone and on the Bob Newhart
Show. They have also been on the
Bell Telephone program and the To-day
Show.
The Chad Mitchell Trio also took a
fifteen week tour of Latin America
for the United States State Depart-ment.
They record on the Kapp Re-cording
label. One of the recordings
they have become famous for is
"John Birch Society."
The trio feels that the folk idiom
conveys, in the most artistic manner,
those ideas with which the Trio iden-tifies
and wishes to express.
'Shadow Shuffle
Planned by SAC
In observance of Ground Hog Day,
a "Bring Your Shadow" dance will
be held in the Memorial Student
Union ballroom following the basket-ball
game with Dakota Wesleyan,
Saturday, February 2, announced
Rich Cinclair, Social Affairs Commit-tee
Chairman.
Ruth Sackreiter, Milbank junior;
Philo Hall, Aberdeen junior; Patty W-en,
Watertown sophomore and Tom
Powell, senior from Billings, Montana,
are in charge of the dance.
Chaperones for the event will be
Mr. and Mrs. Clark Swisher, chair-man
of the division of health and
physical education; Dr. and Mrs. Rus-sel
Brock, professor of history; and
Mr. and Mrs. Leland White, assistant
professor of industrial arts. Disc joc-key
Bill Guhin and Gary Famias, Ab-erdeen
freshman, will provide music
and comedy for the evening, said
Cinclair.
Events sponsored by SAC last week
were a dance after the Friday Flick,
January 26, and live music in the
Den, January 24. Galen Arbogast,
Huron junior; Dave Cody, sophomore
from Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and
Pete Foley, Watertown sophomore,
participated in the jam session.
Committee States
Sweetheart Formal
Is Still February 8
After a week of playing change-the-date,
the Sweetheart Formal has been
set for February 8, stated Juanita
Frank and Donna Groos, chairmen of
the event.
Election of the Sweetheart Queen
will be held on Wednesday, Febru-ary
6. Voting will be done in each
of the dormitories and tables will be
set up for the off-campus students in
the Union. The name of the new
queen, to be crowned by Jan Kruse,
last year's queen, will be revealed as
the climax of the evening.
Vying for the title will be Joy
Kunde, Hosmer sophomore; Karolyn
Cowhick, Cresbard sophomore; Don-na
Sippert, Eureka sophomore; Dee
Fenicle, Flandreau senior; Judy Niel-son,
Sioux Falls freshman; Ruth Sack-reiter,
Milbank junior; Bonnie Phil-lips,
Willow Lake junior; and Diane
Lickteig, Plankinton freshman.
Joy Kunde, sponsored by Briscoe
Hall, is a member of Howling Echo,
Lutheran Students Association and
Association for Childhood Education
and is majoring in elementary educa-tion
with fields of concentration in
art and special education. Joy lists
her hobbies as reading, sewing, ice
skating and swimming.
Karolyn Cowlick, a mathematics
and Spanish major in secondary edu-cation,
is sponsored by Seymour Hall
and is a member of the Association
of Women Students and Howling
Echo and was in band and brass choir
last year. Her favorite pastime is wa-ter
skiing.
Sponsored by Kramer Hall, Donna
Sippert, secretary of Lindberg Hall,
is a member of Business Club and
AWS and is majoring in art educa-tion
and business in secondary educa-tion.
Donna's hobbies are drawing,
reading and spectator sports.
A cheerleader for two years and
president of Lindberg Hall, Dee Fen-icle
belongs to the Student National
Education Association, AWS, Howl-ing
Echo and United Christian Cam-pus
Fellowship. She is working tow-ard
a four-year degree in elementary
education in special education and
physical education and lists sewing
as her favorite hobby. She is spon-sored
by Lindberg Hall.
Judy Nielson is a member of the
AWS Executive Council, Howling Ec-ho
and the Women's Recreation As-sociation
and is in elementary educa-tion.
Judy likes swimming, ice skating
and sports. Lincoln Hall is sponsoring
her.
The secretary of Beta Sigma Phi,
off-campus honorary sorority, Ruth
Sackreiter participates in Business
Club, Howling Echo and the Social
Affairs Committee. Sponsored by the
senior class, she is working on a com-posite
business education major and
a history minor.
Bonnie Phillips is in elementary
education with majors in English and
music and lists knitting, piano and
music activities as her hobbies. Bon-nie
is a member of band, choir, AWS
Executive Council, Howling Echo,
Sigma Alpha Iota, ACE and SNEA.
She is sponsored by the junior class.
Diane Lickteig is majoring in spe-cial
education and enjoys music, danc-ing
and golf. Graham Hall is sponsor-ing
Diane.
English Frat Hosts
Methodist Director
Sigma Tau Delta, honorary English
fraternity, will host Miss Betty Jo
Hill, director of the Wesley Founda-tion,
as speaker at their meeting to-night
at 7 p.m. in the Memorial Stu-dent
Union, Room 102, said Prof. W.
Dohman, advisor of the group.
Miss Hill's topic will be contempor-ary
novelists featuring two Southern
authors, Carson McCullers and Flan-nery
O'Connor.
Sharon Neumayr, Parkston junior,
and Bernyce Strom, Groton senior are
in charge of the program.
Cast Set, Rehearsals Begin
For Winter Drama Iartuffe'