THE CONCORDIAN Vol. XXXV CONCORDIA COLLEGE, MOORHEAD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 1944 Number 12 Hansen, Ex *42, Listed Among Anderson, Nordlie Head Debate Meet Spiritual Conference Missing Of Destroyer Leary Prof. Peter Anderson, head of the Placement Bureau, has been Lieut. A. B. (Billy) Hansen, an ex-Cobber, and son of named in charge of administration Will Open Sunday Mr. and Mrs. H. Folmer Hansen, Fargo, has been reported of the Red River Valley forensics missing in action by the navy department. tournament to be held at Concor- Special guest speakers for the three-day Spiritual Em- Lieut. Hansen attended Con- dia February 4 and 5. phasis week beginning Sunday and extending through Wed- cordia college in 1938 and was a Prof. H. C. Nordlie, general nesday are Pastors Lester A. Pierson of Sioux Falls, S. D.; prominent freshman debater and supervisor and debate coach has Sigvald D. Fauske of Hatton, N. D.; and Miss Viola Trygstad scholar. He was among the top announced the debate topicu "Re- of the Luther League office in 10 of his class and a member of solved: That the United States Minneapolis. the golf and tennis teams. should cooperate in establishing and maintaining an international Rev. Pierson is district president At the conclusion of his fresh- police force upon the defeat of the of the Norwegian Lutheran church man year he received an appoint- Axis." and is a graduate of St. Olaf col- ment to the U. S. Naval Academy Coaching the extemporaneous lege. For a number of years, he at Annapolis. He graduated an division will be Mrs. Norma Good- served as student pastor at Iowa ensign in June, 1942, and since en Ostby, head of the speech de- State college, and later he was that time had been a gunnery of- partment, and Rebecca Johnson, pastor at Madison, S. D. ficer aboard the destroyer Leary. senior, will be in charge of ora- Also a graduate of St. Olaf, Rev On his return to port, Lieut. tory. Fauske has been pastor at Van Hansen was to have been married Notices of the event have been Hook and at Sanish, N. D., and Is to Miss Ruth Benner Hall of 6ent to the usual number of now serving at Hatton, N. 0. HJs Washington. The Leary while re- schools and a good attendance is father was a missionary in China, turning to this country was sunk anticipated. and thus Rev. Fauske was brought Christmas Eve by an enemy tor- up on the foreign mission field. pedo. Miss Trygstad has been active Two brothers of Hansen's are in League and Bible camp work in the service; Marine Lieut. Don- HANSEN Second Lyceum for several years. ald, ex '44, and Folmer jr., a navy Opening the religious emphasis enlisted man. week is the Mission Crusaders Seal Campaign To Be Opera meeting Sunday with Miss Tryg- 'The Bat" (Die Fledermaus), Scholarship Fund Total Announced Johann Strauss' melodious and Final total of the Christmas seal tamusing comic opera, will be pre- PBERSON Established For sale conducted previous to vaca- sented by the Philadelphia Opera tion reached $55.90. This year's 'Company Thursday, January 20 Social Service Study campaign surpassed the 1942 total in the Moorhead armory. Upperclassmen Plan by $22.14; last year's sales This is the second in a series Notice has been received from amounting to $33.76. Sponsored of amphion artists courses, which Party For Freshmen the Board of Charities of the through the Minnesota Public are sponsored by Concordia and American Lutheran church of a Health Association, the campaign Moorhead State Teachers College. Concordia's war bond party, is an annual event. Presented by S. Hurok, The sponsored by the upper classmen scholarship fund to be presented Philadelphia Opera Company is for the freshmen, will be held to Lutheran students. Below are Campus literary societies bought under the leadership of Sylvan Friday, January 21, at the college excerpts from a letter written to two dollars worth each, except the 'Levin, who was assistant to Dr. gymnasium. the college: Athenian society which purchased JLeopold Stokowski for ten years. The losing team, upper class- "The Board of Charities of the $1.20, and the Alpha Zeta Phi The company of 70 with Sym- men, staged during the days pre- American Lutheran Church has group which bought a total of $5. phony orchestra is touring the ceding the Christmas vacation an •set up a scholarship fund for Freshman class members are (United States and Canada in this accelerated drive in an effort to graduate work in the field of So- credited with buying ninety cents their fifth year and sixth season. top the $1167.85 in bonds sold by cial work. This project, made worth of seals, and the balance of Stage director Robert Ross is the freshmen the preceding week, possible by an initial gift from the the total was purchased by fac- an exponent of modern staging but were unsuccessful in their at- Women's Missionary Federation ulty, administration and campus and the production will be mount- tempt by a mere $37.75, as they of the American Lutheran church, workers. ed against a unique background. massed a total of $1,132.10. is a most forward step in the re- cruiting and training of workers. A limited number of scholar- Soldiers To Songsters ships is available up to $800.00 FAUSKE each, conditioned by the student's stad conducting the program. Pas- financial need. The Board of tor Pierson will deliver the special Charities has set* liberal conditions Black-booted Chorus Lauded By Royalty address at Trinity Lutheran for the granting of these scholar- church at the 11:15 morning serv- ships. They are limited to Luther- By MIRIAM AAS ice and Rev. Fauske will be the an students with acceptable schol- From the region of the Donets by King George V and Queen schedule of eight hours each day. guest speaker at the Luther arship standards who are prepared Basin in southern Russia above Mary. Special decorations were Wassily Flustikoff, the press jLeague meeting at 6 p.m. Com- to enter accredited schools of so- the Black Sea to the heart of awarded to them by King Alex- representative, seemed typical of munion services will be held at 8 cial work on the graduate level. America has come a band of ander of Yugoslavia and Queen the members of the Don Cossack o'clock at Trinity Lutheran The scholarship may be for full swarthy-faced lovers of song—the Mary of Rumania. Her grandson, chorus. Amiable, gracious, easy church. time or part time work, covering Cossacks of the Don. But be- now the young King Peter of to talk to, speaking English with Chapel exercises will be con- a plan of study acceptable to the tween their humble beginning and Yugoslavia, was but three years a Russian accent and sometimes ducted alternately by the three Board. Grants are made for a their peak of fame lies a great old when he stood behind Serge lapsing into his native language, guests, and they will hold devo- period not to exceed one year at story. Jaroff in his grandmother's castle he was also filled with a deep love tions in all of the dormitories each a time. An applicant must agree imitating the director. for music and an expressive un- evening. to accept employment for two It is the story of a regiment of Since 1930 the Cossack chorus derstanding of it. The meeting scheduled for Mon- years In a social agency approved soldiers who fought during the has made its home in America Backstage during the intermis- day evening has been moved up "by the Board of Charities. Russian Revolution in Crimea with headquarters in New York sion period the entire chorus was to 6:80 to permit students to at- Application may be made to the with General Wrangel's White City. All but five of the group anxious to please and to know how tend the Concordia-North Dakota Rev. Henry J. Whiting, 3005 West lArmy. It is the story of Serge have become citizens of the United they were liked. For the most state basketball game at 8:00. Kilbourn Avenue, Milwaukee 8, ffaroff, the diminutive machine- States, and four of the 31 are now part they had ordinary faces with Special notice should be taken of Wisconsin, who is chairman of the gun-corps lieutenant and would- serving in our armed forces. 'big smiles, and they seemed as the change in the hour.. Rev. Pier- Scholarship committee." be choir director, who was im- It Is easy to understand the American as your next-door neigh- son will take charge of the eve- bued with such a power of music fame they have won after having: bor except for their accents. They ning meeting. that he moulded together those once heard these black-booted like "cokes" as we do and have Tuesday's meeting, set for 7 singers from a Cossack regiment songsters in their Cossack na- become used to American food p.m., will be under the supervision Dyrstad, Sol urn into a chorus now of world-wide tional dress. They are warm and such as ice cream, though in the of Rev. Fauske, and Rev. Pierson renown. / alive, for they grew up from child- large cities they invariably turn will lead the concluding meeting Obtain Positions Working at odd jobs by day and hood singing in their churches and to the Russian restaurants for on Wednesday night. rigidly rehearsing at night, the Further positions accepted by schools. When dancing the Bus- their native dishes. A special Luther League forum chorus finally reached their first elan folk dances they seem as if Flustikoff expressed for all the led by Miss Trygstad will be con- seniors of the 1944 mid-year success by being invited to become graduating class as announced by they were no longer on a stage Don Cossacks their genuine feel- ducted for those interested, and the official choir of the Orthodox but back by their native River ing for America. "You can never special music will be provided for the Concordia college placement Cathedral in Sofia, Bulgaria. This Don. realize how wonderful is the free- all sessions. bureau include Velma Dyrstad at was followed by a career of color- Adams, Minn., and James Solum Watching Serge Jaroff direct dom and the liberty of this coun- The three guests will be avail- ful recitals throughout Europe, one cannot see much movement. try until you have been away able for personal conferences for at Wayzata, Minn. North America, Africa and Aus- Miss Dyrstad will teach com- But the expression is in his fin- from it. You never feel you are which the hours will be arranged tralia until now, twenty-three gers and his lips which are a foreigner here." * later. merce, and Solum will teach physi- years later, they have presented watched very closely by the Immediately after the concert cal education and mathematics. nearly 5,000 concerts in all. chorus. Dynamic Jaroff spends all the Don Cossacks entrained for Both will begin at their new posts The Don Cossacks chorus first his time making out the new- Winnipeg and Edmonton, Canada, February 1. appeared in the United States in repertoire and arranging most of on their tour to the west coast. Two Cobbers Called Announced formerly were the &920. During this period they the numbers. During their na- They left behind in our hearts a Two more Cobber men have left positions with the Eastman com- spent hah! Dieir concert season tion-wide tours, of which this is simple, growing appreciation for college for the armed forces. pany accepted by Joe Lee and touring Europe and the other half the 14th in the United States, only tfie songs of the Russian people, a Those students leaving most re- Douglas McArdle. in the United States. While in the one or two rehearsals a month memory of a vague glimpse into cently were Ralph Johnshoy, fresh- Additional placements will be old world they often appeared be- are held. However, in the sum- the stiriing wonder of Cossack man, of Moorhead, and Clinton published In later issues of The fore royalty, being entertained for mer season seven or eight weeks rhythm—something beautiful and Lindseth of Sylva, N. D., sopho- Concordian. a day in Windsor Castle, England, are set aside with a rigid practice good. more. Both left for Navy service. i Zfee Concordian PAGE 2 Friday, January 7, 1944 • Faculty Recital Rugland Reports Red Cross In Chapel Serge Jaroff Directs Set For January 14 Jan 10—Rev. Fauske, Hatton. Don Cossack Chorus In Recreation Work In England Jan. 11—Rev. Lester Pleraon, Prof. Sigvald Thompson, cellist, Sioux Falls. Lyceum Series Opener will be presented in faculty re- Former director of women's books, stationery and other sup- Jan. 12—Rev. Fauske. Vigorously applauded by an ap- cital Friday, January 14 at 8:15 physical education at Concordia, plies. Each one wants special at- Jan. IS—Or. J. W. Johnshoy. tention. Jan. 17—Rev. Gerhard Peter- preciative audience, the Don Cos- p.m. in the college chapel. He Miss Clara Rugland is now recre- isack Chorus opened the Amphion will be accompanied by Mrs. "All activities in our Red Cross son, Zlon Society for Israel. ational worker with the American recreation rooms come under my Jan. 18—Carl Scheie, student artists course with a concert in Adelle J. Berquist, instructor in Red Cross in England. The fol- responsibility. That means four pastor of Trinity Lutheran the Moorhead armory Tuesday piano at the Fargo Copservatory lowing are excerpts from a recent nights a week—Tuesday, Thurs- church. evening. of Music. letter to friends in which she des- day, Saturday, and Sunday—I Jan. 19—Mr. Sorenson, war Directed by the diminutive Mrs. Agnes J. Kise, instructor in have planned or organized some correspondent. Serge Jaroff, the Russian singers cribes her duties among the Feb. 7—Rev. Oscar C. Han- (exhibited unusual choral teclyiique voice at the Fargo Conservatory, form of entertainment. The other wounded and sick confined to sol- evenings the rooms are open for son, Minneapolis. dn their program of songs of their will join Prof. Thompson and Mrs. diers' hospitals: reading, music and visiting." native land. Their opening num- Kise in the performance of bers, exemplifying religious music "My work is not always the of Russia, included a chant dedi- IBrahnVs "Getillte Sehnsucht" same every day, but there are written for alto, cello and piano. cated to Russian soldiers killed times I am in the wards all day during the present war. Extreme The complete recital program long. Some days I am delayed in The Religious Week meekness and sincerity were ex- will be published in next week's the Orthopedic Ward all morning pressed in the liturgical selections. issue. as so many have become interested Donning a lighter mood the in making bill folds, picture MISSION CRUSADERS (LUTHER LEAGUE (Cossacks portrayed the bravery ' Vl frames and other leather articles. Conducting the Mission Cru- Rev. S. D. Fauske of Hatton, of Russia's soldiers, the move- \ 2C go from one bed to the next, saders meeting Sunday is Miss N. D., will lead the Luther League ments of native artisans or the For helping them plan or finish what Viola Trygstad from the Luther program which has a theme the gayety of a crowd with equal has been cut out for them. League office. She will speak in Religious Emphasis week. The competence. Unique contrast of Mother's Kind connection with Religious Em- Concordia concert choir will sing. Voices and personalities, and the "Then I bring them magazines, phasis week. MEN'S FELLOWSHIP imitation of musical instruments of Cooking Devotional leader is Robert An- were featured. derson. Musical numbers include "The Calling of Matthew" was Two dance sequences provided a vocal solo by Luane Lefdahl and the topic discussed by Gordon Ras- added interest. 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Friday, January 7, 1944 PAGE 5 The Concordian Combing The Cob Cagers Meet Bison Monday Night Grande Rolls Cobbers Down Christymen Favored In Rubber Game; 'Em In Gilbertson Slated To Start At Center By RED REITAN Johnnies5O-43 When Jake Christiansen's current Cobber cage edition meets the Bison A. S. T. P. unit on the AC fieldhouse court Cobber fans will no doubt see another knock-down, drag- In Loop Tilt Monday, they will be trying for their second win in three out affair when Concordia's Maroon and Gold cross the river Concordia's Cobbers topped St. games against the green and gold. to engage the towering1 Bison from NDAC. Both teams will The Cobs defeated the Bison Johns University, 50-43, in their 37-35 in their first game of the be out for blood with that crucial third game as the prize. 3ast pre-vacation game. The tilt year. In a pre-holiday tussle the Although the Cobs may be considered under-dogs after started slow as the Cobs were un- Reserve Strength AC quint shellacked the Maroon that '59-43 trouncing the AC administered in their pre-Yule able to hit the basket and St. and Gold 59-43 with the Christy- Johns led 8 to 6 going into the men operating without their regu- fracas, the Christymen are considerably stronger with big second period. lar center, Roy Gilbertson. Roy Gilbertson back at the regular pivot post. All in all it's Grande and Strand then started The Bison will rely on the scor- going to be a battle of the most rugged variety. We're pick- on their scoring spree keeping the ing punch of their frontline com- ing "Shock" Strand and company to emerge victors by a Cobbers ahead for most of the posed of Nickeson, King and tow- second quarter, but the Johnnies ering Swede Haugejorde. The Cob- couple of valuable points. evened the count at 24 all with a bers will depend heavily on the desperate attack as the half added scoring of Roy Gilbertson, ended. ace center who is back after a layoff due to pneumonia. Ray Grande is leading the conference scoring race with Concordia's five continued their 25 points all scored in the St. Johns game. The "Duke" is fast pace in the third stanza and Cobber fans are counting heav- leading the pack by three points and almost all the rest of pulled away for a 39-34 advantage. ily on the longshot wizardy of the point-getters have participated in two games. The sharp shooting of Grande and Captain Hartvick Strand and the Strand boosted the Cob's margin drive of high scoring "Duke" "Shocky" Strand isn't far below Grande with sixteen points to 50-43 at the final gun. Grande to pull the game out of collected in the same Johnnie encounter. Too bad the Christy- Christiansen's well coached the fire for the Cobbers. men couldn't play a full season. We'd eat our hats if Messrs. quintette uncorked a stalling game Reserves expected to see much Grande and Strand weren't in there pitching for top scoring In the last three minutes that com- Bervice are Dave Brown, Jim So- honors come the end of the season. pletely bewildered the Johnnies. lum and Bob Anderson. The game The feature of the game was the will start at 8:00 with no prelimi- deadly shooting of Duke Grande nary scheduled. KERNELS: and Shocky Strand. Grande net- Probable starting lineup: ted 25 points on 11 field goals and Cobber fans are no small bit downcast over the hospitaliza- Cobbers Bison 3 gift shots and Strand counted 16 DAVID BROWN, freshman, has iStrand (capt) F Nickson tion of Amon Johnson, speedy Cobber forward. "Red" under- points on 8 field goals. Wllfahrt been one of the strong Cob re- Grande F King went an operation on his ailing foot and is recuperating nicely. of the visitors scored 15. serves this season. Playing from Gilbertson C Haugejorde . . • Former Cobber grid star, Rupert Bauck, who is now Grande's 25 points were enough the guard position Dave has Strandquist G Winston coaching at Detroit Lakes is getting quite a bit of publicity as to make him the conference's high Reitan G Romlett evidenced from this excerpt from the Fergus Falls Journal: high point man in spite of the fact proved himself a capable ball "Reports incidentally, have it that the worst thing that could that some teams have played two handler and better than average or three conference games. Strand tinder the bucket. happen to the potential Laker football team of 1944 is the loss was also listed with the ten high Al's Potato Co. of young 1C coach Rupert Bauck who has set himself right league scorers. Known for his consistently hard solid with the resort city citizenry in one grand season." Any- Concordia St. Johns drive and fight, Brown will un- time a Fergus Falls paper praises a Detroit Lakes coach, fg ft pf fg ft pf doubtedly see plenty of action Potatoes Bags Brother, he's got to be good! . . . Rollie Delapp, 1943 Strand 8 0 3 Wilfahrt 5 5 0 against the A. S. T. P. unit Mon- Minnesota conference hoop scoring champ and member of the Grande 11 3 2 Kosek 4 0 2 day evening. Moorhead, Miun All-conference basketball team, is enrolled at the U of Minne- Solum 0 10 Cesnik 4 13 He is 6* tall and tips t&e scale sota where he is expected to bolster the Gophers' hopes no Reitan 10 1 Davidson 2 2 1 at 158. end. . . . Bobby Dill, ex Fargo-Moorhead Twin outfielder Stra'dquist 2 11 Rodgers 111 Brown 0 11 Krebsb'ch 10 1 and Buffalo, N. Y., hockey star, is up to his old tricks again. 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Colors Cobbers went early to secure the choice balcony seats at the lyceum Let's start griping with a little course opening Tuesday night. They were captivated by the mighty talk about the telephone. The By ANNE HAU&tUD mite of a conductor who directed his tall Russian choristers in a varied other evening I was talking with program of native songs and dances. Sincerity and humility were someone in Fjelstad hall and for Christmas dinner for Pfc. Rolf Asseng, ex '45, included expressed in their liturgical renditions together with the irresistible about 15 minutes I was able to get "turkey and all the trimmings." Aaseng writes, "We had a humor of the folk songs. only scattered snatches of her con- song service at the base chapel Christmas Eve, and later I versation. No, there is nothing went to a midnight service at the Augustana synod church in The white Christmas you were dreaming of didn't come on time, wrong with my ears (according to town. After that, I was invited to partake of Norwegian Joe, In fact the Fargo weatfcer bureau for the first time in its history the draft board), but it seems cooking by a family with whom I had spent the previous Sun- recorded a snoWless Yule. that some person, yes, I hesitate day." He is now stationed at Hammer Field, Fresno, Calif. Right now our 1944 ice carnival depends upon what turns that to call her a Cobber, was tinker- cojnversation-saver, the weather, takes before the end of the first ing with one of the extension A swim in the Atlantic Ocean is a daily occurrence for Pvt. phones and dialing on the line we Gordon Turner, ex '46, who is at Miami Beach, Florida, taking semester. Personally, I'd just as soon dig my tiny snow boots out of his basic training in the Army Air Corps. storage any day now. were using. Happy New Year to you! We're all confident that 1944 will see the It took 15 minutes, as men- Two Lieutenant Commanders and one Lieutenant Colonel tioned, to complete this conver- hail from the ranks of Concordia's alumni. Formerly a Ph. D. end of this melee and bring you safely back to home and campus. sation which, under ordinary cir- in economics at the University of Denver, Lieut. Commander Sincerely, cumstances, would have taken but Eugene Halaas, '19, is now with the U. S. Navy, Washington, Harriett three. Use your heads girls—you, D. C. Chemical warfare service in Washington, D. C, occu- by your actions on this and many other occasions, tie up a telephone pies Lieut. Col. Frank T. Janes, '29. line much longer than necessary. Lieut. Commander Goodwin Dosland, '23, a former Chicago attorney, is on sea duty in the Atlantic. Previously, he was at tc Another gripe of mine is the the Naval Training school at the University of Chicago, as way meals are served to students well as a commissioning officer at the Naval school, Miami A. C P.'t Coxr«ipond«nt Reports from Wuhlngtoa sick in bed. Numerous instances can be cited where the nurse left University, Oxford, Ohio. an order for a meal to be sent to Two more Cobbers from the class of '43 have recently gone some incapacitated student only to For more than three years, American educatiotn has been waging a overseas; one across the Pacific and one across the Atlantic. find later that no such meal was CpL Alvin Isachsen, who is with the cannon company in an losing, behind-the-scenes struggle in Washington for a civilian college ever received in the sick room. infantry regiment, is in care of Postmaster, San Francisco, training program. We don't know just who is at Calif. He was formerly at Camp Roberts, Calif. Second Not many people know the story of that struggle, yet it vitally fault, but something is wrong someplace. Lieut. Norton Stenshoel, ex '43, formerly at Baer Field, Fort affects almost every college and university in America. Wayne, Indiana, is in care of Postmaster, New York, N. Y. The purpose behind a civilian college training program would be to The third gripe is about basket- ball games—or to be more specific, Lieut. Stenshoel is a transport pilot. maintain a continuous flow of technically and professionally trained the attendance at basketball Taking his pre-flight training at Iowa City, Iowa, is A/C men and women into essential civilian war services. Various programs games. We are lucky to have as George Moyer, ex '46. Moyer is in the Navy Air Corps, in the of this kind have been considered by the government. fine a basketball team as we have. V-5 program. , None of the programs that have been considered have ever materi- Is there any reason that we should He applied for the Marines, so he's now in the Navy I alized. They have been bandied around within the offices and corri- not give it our loyal support? None that I can see. The men Clifford Isachsen, apprentice seaman, is at Camp Scott, Far- dors of government agencies. are turning out en-mass©, but not ragut, Idaho. Since July the latest of this series of civilian college training pro- the women. Mildred Sjordal, '43, apprentice seaman, wears the trim grams has been studied by various individuals and divisions within the At the basketball game next blue uniform of the Waves. She is at the U. S. N. R. Midship- War Manpower Commission. AD persons interested in this plan, and Monday night over at the NDAC, men's School, Northampton, Mass. those who developed it, are tight-lipped. But Capital to Campus was it would give our team a lift if Lieut. Donald R. Hansen, ex '44, is at Camp Kearney, San able to learn its major details. they could see the entire student Diego, Calif. He is with the Marine Air Corps. It includes provision for federal aid on |he basis of need up to a body present. Admission charge Pvt. Maurice Skar, '42, writes that his new address is IX E. maximum of $75 a month per student. The federal aid would be re- is low, seats are good and in the M. L. U. S. Army, Rec. Camp, Pen Valley Park, Kansas City, Words of a feminine friend "Those Mo. Private Skar married Doris Orke at Bottineau, N. D., stricted to students majoring in essential fields in which there is a soldiers are handsome." How Serious manpower shortage. It is further limited to individuals in the about a good turnout girls ? last summer. following four categories: Signed, In a motor torpedo boat squadron training center at New- 1. Women. Ima Griper. port* Rhode Island is Ensign David Wiley, '43. 2. Men physically disqualified for military service and those dis- Overseas is Ensign Waldo Lyden, '41, U. S. N. R. His charged from military service who are not physically disabled. address is in care of the Fleet Postoffice at New York City. 3. Men under 18 who could advance far enough in their scholastic Also overseas is Pvt. Clyde R. Odin, in care of Postmaster, San training so that they would be able to complete their training within Francisco. twenty-four months after becoming 18. The Collegiate Review 4. Men deferred through existing regulations of Selective Service The Daily Kansan at the Uni- as being essential on the home front versity of Kansas is going to be strictly feminine as soon as the The importance to students of such a program Is obvious. They one man on the staff, Bob Beck, would receive financial assistance for their collegiate training. Colleges sports editor, leaves to join the would reap great gains by such a program 6ince it would help bring Marines at the end of the cur- their depleated enrollments up closer to their pre-war levels. rent semester. The Army and Navy training programs in the colleges and uni- JEWELRY — WATCHES — DIAMONDS versities have not, except in a few instances, made up for the unpre- At Michigan State one coed put cedented wartime loss of students in the nation's colleges. up a sign in Ag Hall: FOUND- The City Hall Across the Street - - Moorhead, Minn. But industry needs the civilian college training program most. There ONE G. I. RAINCOAT, and after are serious shortages in technical and professional fields in war indus- it she put her name and phone try today. The college training program could go a long ways towards number. Next day, beneath the meeting these industrial requirements. notice, in a large hand was writ- ten, "I didn't lose a raincoat, but The Student's Choice . . 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