The Exponent, 1966-04-01

              Twelve Coeds Vie For Title
Winner Goes To Hot Springs
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The Exponent PHALANX EASTER ASSEMBLY
TUESDAY, APRIL 5
Assembly Period
Administration Auditorium
ENGAGEMENT BALL
SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 8:30 p.m.
Union Ballroom
Sponsored by SAC
Volume 64, Number 24
Northern State College — Aberdeen, South Dakota 57401 April 1, 1966
1966 Miss Northern Will Be Crowned Tonight
Dr. John Silvester
Funeral services were held Tuesday
afternoon at Idaho Falls, Idaho, for
Dr. John Arthur Silvester, 57, associate
professor of psychology at Northern
State College.
He is survived by his widow, Joyce,
and two children, John and Carol. He
is also survived by four children from
a previous marriage, three grand-children,
four sisters and one brother.
Dr. Silvester came to NSC in 1961.
While on the faculty he performed
numerous experiments with genetic
breeding of dogs. His research and
experiments were included in a film
produced by Utah State College.
Members of NSC's faculty raised
more than $700 to return Dr. Silvester
and his family to their original home
in Idaho Falls.
Graduating from Utah State College
in 1933, Dr. Silvester did graduate
work at the University of Idaho and
Utah State University. He also at-tended
Oregon State College and the
University of Oregon. Before coming
to Northern he taught at Utah State.
University and Ricks College.
Throughout his life he was active
in the Church of Later Day . Saints.
He served as a missionary from 1926
to 1928 in New Zealand. He was
serving as president of the Aberdeen
Branch of the Church at the time
of his death.
Dr. Silvester was an active sports
enthusiast, participating in foobtall,
basketball and track while in college
and later coaching in several high
schools. While in Aberdeen he was
active in hunting and archery, and
a past officer of the Whitetail Bow-men
Archery Club. He bred weimara-ner
hunting dohs, and was successful
in state and regional competition. His
Present kennel includes one state
field trails champion.
Twelve Northern coeds will vie for
the title of Miss NSC today. The
contest, sponsored by Howling Echo
and "N" Club, will be held in the
Administration Auditorium with the
public invited. The evening competi-tion
will begin at 7:30 p.m.
All of the contestants were inter-viewed
Tuesday night, 10:30 p.m. on
KXAB-TV by Joan Breske, publicity
chairman and Jim Walters, master of
ceremonies. The Opposite Six furnish-ed
entertainment during the half-hour
program.
Todays competition will begin
in the morning with the judges inter-viewing
each contestant, followed by
a noon luncheon. At the evening
event, these contestants will appear
in evening gown, swim suit, and street
wear; they each will perform a three
minute talent act. The Trinklied Sing-ers
will furnish entertainment during
the time the judges reach a decision.
Contestants and their talent acts
are: Nancy Benson, Charleston rou-tine;
Colette Bowling, scene from
Henry; Francene Day, song and
dance routine; Sandy Fey, dramatic
reading; Ruth Jassmann, scene from
The Unsinkable Molly Brown; Janice
Jencks, novelty dance number; Mary
Ellen Nelson, songs from Mary Pop-pins;
Penny Radtke, original song
Ella Lee Concert
Set For April 12
Soprano soloist Ella Lee will pre-sent
a concert Tuesday, April 12, in
the Civic Theater at 8:15 p.m. The
program is sponsored by the Aberdeen
Community Concert series, with stu-dents
and faculty being admitted by
activity tickets.
Ella Lee's interest in serious music
was the result of a musical comedy
kind of accident. At Jefferson High
School, in Los Angeles, she sat in
one day with the glee club because
somebody had the grippe, and true to
tradition, she was a sensation.
At UCLA, Miss Lee studied with
Dr. Jan Popper, who helped start her
musical career. From there, Ella Lee
went to Germany where she began
her professional career under Walter
Felsenstein. She likes living in Ger-many
because that's where the bus-iness
is. Since there are some eighty
opera houses in Germany, this means
that Miss Lee can be working at
music eleven months of the year.
In 1964, Kurt Adler, general di-rector
of the San Francisco Opera,
brought Ella Lee back to the United
States. Here she performed with the
San Francisco company as the Em-press
in "Die Frau ohne Schotten."
After her opera success, Ella was
chosen to participate as soloist in the
opening ceremonies of Los Angeles
new Music Center Pavilion, and with
the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Ella Lee's West Coast apearanccs
in the fall of 1964 were so impressive
that on December 14, 1964, the Los
Angeles Times voted her "Woman
of the Year" in music. This award
was made to Ella Lee as the "re-markable
woman who has made an
outstanding contribution to her com-munity,
the nation, and our way of
life."
Announcement
Physical Plant
Be sure to register your new
license numbers at the Physical
Plant office, A-106. This applies
to anyone who parks on campus
at any time, excepting visitors. If
you should get a ticket and your
car is not registered then you will
be charged $2.00 extra. If your
car is not registered the warning
ticket will be waived and the first
ticket will cost $2.00. Your fines
must be paid within 24 hours or
another $2.00 will be added to
your fine.
with guitar accompaniment; Barb Sal-tier,
song and dance routine; Lois
Tunheim, humorous reading; Anne
Wheelock, original writing; and Mar-ilyn
Wik, musical monolgue on saxo-phone.
Roberta Andersen, the present
Miss NSC, will relinquish her crown
to one of these twelve coeds.
Miss NSC will represent Northern
State College at the Miss South Da-kota
Pgeaant held at Hot Springs in
July.
Tickets for the event are 50 cents
per person. They may be purchased
from any Howling Echo member or
at the door tonight.
Selective Service
Tests To Be Given
Application blank, mailing envelope,
and bulletin of information of the
Selective Service College Qualification
test may be obtained at the office
of Student Personnel, according to
Myrle Hanson, assistant director. The
purpose of this test is to provide Se-lective
Service local boards with evi-dence
of the relative qualifications of
registrants for college study. The
test scores of registrants will provide
the local boards with evidence of
their aptitude for continued college
work.
The test will be given on Saturday,
May 14, Saturday, May 21, Friday,
June 3, 1966, to registrants who plan
to request occupational deferments
as college students. Applications for
the test must be post marked no later
than April 23.
To be elibigle to take the Selective
Service College Qualification Test, an
applicant, (1) Must be a Selective
Service registrant who intends to re-quest
occupational deferment as a
college student; (2) Must not previous-ly
have taken the test.
Scores on this three-hour written
examination will not themselves deter-min•
eligibility for deferment. Scores
on the test will be used by the Se-lective
Service local boards in con-sidering
the eligibility of registrants
for occupational deferment as stu-dents.
Palm Sunday
Concert Slated
The Music Department of Northern
State College will present three of
its major ensembles in a Palm Sun-day
concert Sunday, April 3 at three
o'clock in Dacotah Hall on the col-lege
campus. The organizations ap-pearing
will be The Collegiate Choir,
the College-Civic Symphony and The
Northern Singers. .
The Northern Singers, conducted by
James Ewing, will sing "Praise the
Lord" by Washburn. They will be
assisted in this work by members of
the Brass Choir which is being pre-pared
by Darwin Walker. A contem-porary
composition "Festival 'Fe
Deum" by Britten with Leonard
Palmquist, organist will comprise the
second work.
The College-Civic Symphony, con-ducted
by Ben Vandervelde, will play
"Sheep May Safely Graze" by Bach
and "Procession of the Grail" from the
opera "Parsifal" by Wagner.
The "Coronation" Mass in C major,
a work for chorus, orchestra and solo
quartet by Mozart will be performed
by The Collegiate Choir and orchestra
under the direction of Dr. John Berg-gren.
The solo quartet will be com-prised
of Janis Pearson, soprano, Carol
Ching, contralto, James Loseth, tenor
and Joseph Unzicker, bass. Miss Pear-son
is a member of the voice faculty
in the music department, and Mr.
Loseth is director of vocal music at
Simmons Junior High School.
The 1966 Miss Northern will be chosen tonight.
The contest starts at 7:30, and will be held in the
Administration Auditorium. Among the candidates are
Jan Jencks, Bancroft junior, Sandy Fey, Doland fresh-man;
Jan Reierson, Canton freshman; Anne Wheelock,
Aberdeen freshman; Pam Bunkers, Canton freshman;
Ruth Jassmann, Pierre sophomore; Barb Sattler, Lem-mon
freshman. The entrants will compete in swimsuit,
street dress, and formal wear. They will also each pre-sent
a talent number.
Among the candidates for Miss Northern are
Penny Radtke, Mobridge freshman; Colette Bowling,
Mitchell freshman; Marilyn Wik, Cresbard freshman;
Nancy Benson, Aberdeen junior; Francene Day, Red-field
freshman; Lois Tunheim, Claremont freshman;
Mary Ellen Nelson, Britton freshman. The winner of
this contest will compete in the Miss South Dakota
contest in July.
Dr. John Silvester Funeral In Idaho;
Served 5 Years In Psychology Dept.