The Exponent, 1963-05-16

              John Stone, Karen Gayton, Steve Wiitala and Carol Eleeson will head
the Student Senate for the remainder of this year and next year. For the
first time in five years an entire slate was elected. Anyone who is interested
in working on the Social Affairs Committee next ycar should contact one
of these officers.
Meeting On Tap For Tonight
To Plan United Nations Club
Toni Cook was chosen from a field of 18 candidates in the Miss
NSTC Contest to represent Northern in the Miss South Dakota Pageant
which will be held this summer. The winner of that contest will go
to the Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Valencia Faifer
and built' Fritz were runners-up in the local contest.
The Exponent
Volume 61, Number 30
South Dakota's Northern College — Aberdeen, South Dakota May 16, 1963
Slate I Nabs All Posts
In Student Senate Vote
Kramer Announces
Faculty Decrease
With Resignations
Dr. T. Howard Kramer, President
of the College, has announced the res-ignations
and leaves of absence of
several of Northern's faculty members.
Among those who have submited
resignations include Milton Owen,
who holds the position of assistant
professor of German and English, and
came to Northern in 1962; Mrs. Pa-tricia
Fors, who has been at North-ern
for six years, and holds the po-sition
of assistant professor of health
and physical education; Mrs. Margaret
Thommen, assistant librarian and in-structor
in library science; who came
to Northern in 1959; instructor in bi-ology,
James Greenan has been at
Northern for one year and Gladys
Conway, who now holds the position
of assistant professor of language and
literature, became a member of North-em's
staff in 1956.
Those faculty members who were
granted leaves of absence are Mark
Cogswell, assistant professor of edu-cation,
who came to Northern in 1956
and Leland White, who will be on a
sabbatical leave for one year. White,
assistant professor of industrial arts,
joined Northern in 1956.
Dr. Kramer also announced that
several members would be retiring at
the end of this year. They include
Emiline Welsh, John Murphy and N.
H. Mewaldt.
Miss Welsh has been an instructor at
Northern since 1931 and holds the
position of Associate professor of lan-guage
and literature. Murphy holds
the position of professor of history,
and joined Northern's staff also in
1931. Mewaldt has been on Northern's
staff for 37 years, and holds the tilte
of professor of math. Mewaldt will be
a part-time instructor after his retire-ment.
1963 Editor Named;
Raines Is Selected
Rita Raines, Lead sophomore, has
been selected editor of the college
newspaper, the Exponent, for 1963-
64, announced Robert W. Schreiber,
director of publications.
Rita Raines
Miss Raines is now managing edi-tor
of the Exponent. She has been
news editor, is the secretary of the
South Dakota Collegiate Press As-sociation
and is a member of Sigma
Delta Epsilon, honorary science and
mathematics fraternity. She is working
towards a major in mathematics and a
minor in economics.
Miss Raines will assume the edi-torial
responsibilities of the Exponent
for a full academic year when she re-turns
to school in the fall, Schreiber
said.
Art Ed. Club Sets
Picnic For Tonight
Northern's Art Education Associa-tion
will hold their last meeting of the
year at Melgaard Park, tonight, stated
Arthur Amiotte, president of the or-ganization.
A picnic will be held as a farewell
party to the students who are gradu-ating
this spring. Students should
meet at the north door of Dacotah
Hall for rides to the park.
Plans are now underway to form
a Collegiate Council for the United
Nations, announced Andy Parks, Fred-erickstown,
Mo. senior.
The organizational meeting of this
club will be held tonight at 7:30
p.m. in the Memorial Student Union-
100. Anyone interested in joining the
organization should attend this meet-ing,
Parks said.
The Collegiate Council for the
United Nations has more than 350
college affiliates working on campuses
from Maine to Hawaii. The council
is an accredited Non-Government Or-ganization
with official NGO status
at the United Nations and the United
States Mission to the UN.
The Council is a non-profit organ-ization,
supported by contributions
from private individuals and founda-tions.
It has no political affiliations.
The purposes of the organization
are to make the Charter and the work
of the United Nations known to col-lege
students throughout the United
States, to encourage students to reach
conclusions about United States poli-cies
which both promote the national
interest and make American leader-ship
in the United Nations most ef-fective,
to develop a student public
which takes action upon its beliefs.
The Council is the college affiliate
of the American Association for the
United Nations and is the United
States member of the International
NSTC Represented
At Frat Convention
Pi Omega Pi, honorary fraternity
in Business Education held its region-al
convention at the University of
North Dakota, Grand Forks, on Fri-day
and Saturday, May 10 and 11, ac-cording
to Lyman L. Humann, as-sistant
professor of business educa-tion.
Northernites who attended were
faculty members Professor Humann;
Wynne W. Ester, assistant professor
of business; George K. Walters, in-structor
in business education; Mar-vin
Ehley, assistant professor of bus-iness
education; Duane H. Podo11,
assistant professor of economics; and
students, Helen Hagen, Britton senior,
and Ann Gottsleben, Phillip senior.
The purpose of the meeting was to
discuss and plan the operation of the
fraternities in the region and to help
organize new chapters in other region-al
schools.
The principal speaker was Dr. John
Rowe, world authority in the field of
typewriting.
Northern's chapter of Pi Omega Pi
is one of the oldest in the United
States. The first regional meeting was
organized by Northern's chapter and
was held on this campus last year.
It was decided that next year's
meeting will be held at the Universi-ty
of South Dakota.
Student Movement for the United Na-tions.
It is also a member of the
United States Committee for the
United Nations and the United States
Young Adult Council.
Graduates Required
To Attend Practice
There will be a commencement re-hearsal
on Tuesday, May 21 at 4
p.m., in the Administration Auditori-um,
announced Dr. Walter J. Jerde,
Dean of the College.
All students who plan to graduate
May 29 are required to attend unless
excused by the Dean.
Toni Cook, Aberdeen freshman, be-came
Miss NSTC of 1963 in the com-petition
held in the Administration
Auditorium Thursday night.
Miss Cook was crowned by last
year's Miss NSTC and 1962 Miss
South Dakota, Charlean Fuhrman,
Mansfield sophomore.
A music major, Miss Cook sang an
aria from the opera, "The Telephone,"
in the talent division of the contest.
She is a member of the Col-legiate
Choir and Northern Singers.
She has been named to membership
in Sigma Alpha Iota, honorary na-tional
music sorority. Miss Cook is
also a member of the United Chirs-tian
Campus Fellowship and the As-sociation
for Women Students and the
Presbyterian Church choir.
Her future plans include continued
work in vocal music. She was spon-sored
by the Collegiate Choir and Sig-ma
Alpha Iota. For activities, Miss
Cook lists reading, waterskiing, swim-ming,
knitting, golf, bowling and
sewing.
The first and second runners-up
from among the other 17 candidates
vying for the Miss NSTC title were
Valencia Faifer, Highmore freshman,
and Janith Fritz, Watertown fresh-man.
Sponsord by the Student Senate,
Miss Faifer is also a member of the
AWS and the Collegiate Choir. She
is majoring in elementary education
and lists swimming as her favorite
sport. Her hobbies are singing, cook-ing
and sewing.
Miss Fritz, sponsored by Blue Key,
national honor fraternity, is this year's
Miss Aberdeen. Majoring in special
education, she lists waterskiing as her
favorite sport with sewing and knit-ting
as hobbies.
Entrants were judged on the basis
of personal interviews, bathing suit
Slate I made a clean sweep at last
week's Student Senate election by
copping all four of the available po-sitions.
Student body members selected
Steve Wiitala, Frederick junior, presi-dent;
John Stone, Pierre sophomore,
president-elect; Karen Gayton, Sel-fridge,
N. D. junior, secretary; and
Carol Eleeson, Pierre freshman, treas-urer.
Slate I represented the Student Sen-ate
in the election.
The newly-elected officers will take
office immediately and will preside
for the rest of the school year as Sen-ate
officers.
These officers are now taking ap-plications
for chairman of the Social
Cowden Receives
Business Award
Mary Cowden, Aberdeen senior,
has won a National Business Educa-tion
Association Award of Merit for
outstanding achievement in business
education.
The award includes a certificate, a
year's professional membership in the
National Business Education Associa-tion,
a binder for current issues of
Business Education Forum which is a
national professional magazine for
business teachers, and a 1964 Nation-al
Business Education Yearbook. In a
fall issue of Business Education For-um,
the award winners from across
the nation will be pictured.
Only graduating seniors are eligible
for this award which is sponsored by
the NBEA and its teacher education
division, the National Association for
Business Teacher Education.
Miss Cowden will graduate this
spring with a business major and a
major in library science.
reviews, evening gown appearances
and talent exhibitions.
The judges, who were selected from
among Aberdeen residents, were Chet
Affairs Committee. Wiitala stated that
any girl or boy of junior classification
next year may apply for the position.
Applications may be picked up at the
Student Senate meetings. The Senate
is also taking applications for per-sonnel
to man this committee.
A Student Senate retreat is being
planned by Senate officers. All old
members and the new officers will at-tend
the retreat. As yet, no date has
been set for the event.
This is the first time in five years
that one entire slate has been elected.
This is the second Student Senate
slate in twelve years to capture the
student's votes.
Wiitala captured 63% of the total
number of votes cast. Each year, com-mented
Carl Kline, past Senate presi-dent,
more student's vote for Senate
prexy than any of the other offices.
64% of the voters cast their votes
for Stone and Miss Gayton captured
72% of the votes. Miss Eleeson took
45% of the votes cast.
Student Teachers
Must Pre-Register
All students who plan to do full or
part-time student teaching during
either half of the first semester next
year must pre-register so that the
teaching assignments can be made,
stated Dr. Howard Robson, director
of student teaching.
For those who failed to attend the
meeting May 9 which was scheduled
for this purpose, a second meeting
will be held Tuesday, May 21, at 3
p.m. Those who plan to register for
full-time student teaching will meet
in L-212. Part-time student teachers
will meet in L-213.
Students who did not attend the
first meeting and who do not attend
this meeting should not expect to do
student teaching during the first se-mester
next year, said Dr. Robson.
Lind, Henry Schmidt, Bill Karl, Mrs.
Wayne DeVries and Mrs. Rosalie Gib-reth.
Master of ceremonies was May-nard
Kamback.
Toni Cook Cops Miss NSTC Title;
Faifer And Fritz Are Runners-Up