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Student 'Pirates' Hoist Jolly Roger Mar. 29 Cobber Welcome Mat Awaits 2,200 Luther League Guests Luther League members from kota and Iowa State Universities for the event. a five - state area will center and as LSA executive director Committee chairmen assisting thoughts on the theme "Let for the state of North Dakota. them include: registration, Vicki light shine out of darkness" this The annual League event is Strandness; publicity, Don Op- Saturday, Sept. 30, as they gath- one of the largest in the area. grande; art, Paul Allen; food, er at Concordia College for the Delegates are expected from Jon Olson; special arrangements, third annual Concordia Luther leagues throughout Minnesota, Tom Christenson; ushers, Bran- League Day. North and South Dakota, Wis- don Hall; and tours, David J. The Rev. John Schultz, asso- consin and Montana. Olson. Approximately 170 Cob- ciate youth director for the The 2,200 senior high guests bers will assist the chairmen. American Lutheran Churches will go to the Concordia-St. The day's schedule includes: will be the keynote speaker. Rev. Thomas football game, attend a 8:30-9:45 a.m. Registration, Step Schultz will speak on Lighl concert by the Concordia Con- II in MemorialAuditorium; 10:00 From Beyond Human Horizons, cert Choir, and tour the campus. Opening sesson with Rev. John and for the evening convocation Leaguers will eat lunch in the Schultz; 11:30 Noon meal and he has chosen to speak on college cafeteria; the evening campus tours; 1:15 Pep rally in Knowledge of God's Glory. Both meal will be served in the field- sessions will be held in Memor- house by the Montana Club. auditorium; 2:00 Concordia-St. ial Auditorium. Jo Schultz, Minneapolis, Minn., Thomas football game; 4:30-6:30 The Rev. Schultz has served and Vern Hagen, Bismarck, N. Campus tours and evening meal; Co-Chairmen Schultz and Hagen as campus pastor at North Da- D., are serving as co-chairmen 6:45 Evening convocation. THE CONCORDIAN VOLUME LIII THE CONCORDIA COLLEGE, MOORHEAD, MINNESOTA, SEPTEMBER 29, 1961 No. 2 Student 'Pirates' Hoist Jolly Roger Mar. 29 A loud cry is heard, "Hoist the Jolly Roger," Dating back to its premiere performance in Editorial announcing Concordia Student Production's New York City in 1879, The Pirates of Penzance fourth all-college musical, The Pirates of Pen- played the following year in London for an un- Swinging Wide the Doors zance. Production dates for the Gilbert and Sul- precedented record of 400 nights. livan, two-act, light opera, have been set for Eighty-two years after its first staging, the A sea of faces stretches from the Library to the Commons; March 29, 30 and 31, 1962. light opera is again on Broadway. Not only is it some eager and expectant, others passive, tired or perhaps bored Producer for the musical is Vince Lindstrom, opening the Manhattan season, but The Pirates with waiting in line and various figures laughing, joking or seri- a sophomore from Detroit Lakes, Minn. Under is currently undergoing a popular revival across ously commenting on the conference activities. To you, Luther his direction, the musical billing has once again the country. It will be featured in the Minneap- Leaguers, we say, "walk in, our doors are open." varied, switching from last year's prestige mus- olis celebrity series Nov. 21 - 23. ical Song of Norway, to the light opera of The The extending of a welcome is often easier to feel than to The Pirates of Penzance, one of the great express in a few lines of type. Reminiscing from last year. Cob- Pirates. An expected audience of 6000 is predict- works of Gilbert and Sullivan, carries with it bers remember how you pleasantly disrupted campus life and ed for the three-night run. the cafeteria eating hours, crowded Cobber Commons, peered Requiring 10 leads, three choruses, a cast of the age old intermingled plot of beautiful women, into our campus rooms to get a glimpse of dorm life, and cur- over 50 and a 60-piece orchestra, the light opera romance and men of action. The production is iously watched the "awesome" upperclassman as one might can be termed an extravaganza in both music and based on a book by Gilbert with the music com- view a caged specimen — but we liked it. staging. posed by Sullivan. This day is one of magnitude both for you and ourselves. For both there is an air of expectancy to it. In the crowds, we see The '61 COBBER, Con- faces of tomorrow's Cobbers. We share a degree of expectancy cordia College yearbook, has in showing you our campus, in appearing on the gridiron for a received a certificate of Research Professor Fife rousing game, and finally in the desire that you will enjoy your merit from the college and brief visit and return to Concordia's campus in the future. university division of the This expectancy also extends to you as Leaguers in the National School Yearbook hope that you will anticipate and receive the full impact of Association, Columbia/ Mo. Enriches Concordia Minds your purpose here, implied in the theme "Let light shine out In the critique, based on a of darkness." page-by-page technical anal- Yesterday afternoon Dr. Gil- the lectures. And the warmest welcoming we can give, is merely to say a ysis of the book, the Cobber bert C. Fite, Research Professor Today, continuing the series, friendly Cobber "Hi!" was cited for complete cov- of History at the University of Dr. Fite will speak on Federal erage and given a good-to- Oklahoma and nationally prom- C.P. Farm Relief, First Phase, 1920- excellent rating . inent authority on farm policy 1933 at 3:45 p.m., and this eve- and problems and related areas ning at 8:15 he will give his of agricultural and economic i, Apathy Ebbs final speech, A Quarter Century Poll Topper history, opened the annual Con- of Economic Frustration: Amer- cordia Lecture series in Old ican Farm Policy Since 1933. The 1961 Cobber football Main Auditorium. Again there will be an oppor- team is out to retain the PEW Plans Progress Dr. Fite chose The Agrarian coveted sportsman's award tunity for questions and discus- Tradition: Past and Present as sion, particularly following the which is given each year to Party caucuses are highlight- All Cobbers are encouraged to his first topic. His evening lec- the team displaying the best ing final preparations for Polit- attend the political meetings and ture was entitled The Farm afternoon address. These lec- attitude on the field. The ical Emphasis Week, Oct. 4-7. to serve as senators. Although Problem, An analysis. Discus- tures are free and all are cordial- Cobbers have won this prize Keynoting the sessions will be 120 senators have begun com- sion periods followed each of ly invited to attend. for the past four years. Minnesota Senator Eugene Mc- mittee work, interested persons This poll is conducted Carthy, Democrat, who nomi- may yet join the senate by ex- each year by the publicity nated Adlai Stevenson in 1960. pressing an interest at the Stu- department of St. John's He will speak to the public Oct. dent Government Office. University. A questionnaire 5, at 8 p.m. in Memorial Audi- Heading their political parties, is sent out to the players of torium. as a result of caucus elections all eight participating teams "The purpose of P.E.W. is to held earlier this week, are Re- in the conference giving the create an awareness among our publican majority leader Darrol players a chance to vote on students of the functioning of Bryant and Democratic minority an all-conference team and the U .S. Senate and the prob- leader Sheila Mickelson. on the most sportsman-like lems that it faces," explained team. Bruce Thorn and Wes Strand Co-chairmen Jon Torgerson and were elected as Republican and Marc Borg. Democratic whips, respectively. It is their purpose to stimulate interest in their parties. How- Sentors Contemplate Year's Aims ard Erickson will officiate as Campus senators and student government officials kicked-off President of the Senate. this year's student senate Monday evening with their first formal Bills of current interest will session in Old Library 301. be introduced by four commit- A new approach to this year's Spiritual Emphasis Week was tees to the student senate who discussed at the meeting. Dave Kupka, chairman of the November will debate, amend and vote on event, introduced the idea of a small-group approach through a the legislation each evening at retreat-type program away from the campus proper. 7:30. This would make possible an intensive study of religious issues Four politically interested by students selected to attend the retreat. Students would be Cobbers head the special com- elected from religious organizations, literary societies, and other mittee: Foreign Relations, Don activities on campus. Other Senate transactions included the approval of Astrid Opgrande; Agriculture, Darrol Bratlie and Vern Tolo to the Orientation Committee and the selec- Bryant; Labor, Stan Sheggeby; Crime and Punishment — Her name: Joan Freshman; tion of David Lerberg as the freshman representative to the Stu- Finance and Taxation, Bruce her crime: going about the streets beanieless; her jury: upperclass- dent Responsibility Board. Senate meetings are open to all Cobbers. Gronbeck. men; her penalty; a scarlet "C". Crime does not pay. Page 2 THE CONCORDIAN September 29, 1961 Current Comment Kennedy Clarifies Ideals: UN Future Remains Secure by Paul E. Pelerson Kennedy's literate, powerful, persuasive speech has saved the U.N. from chaotic confusion. Clear statements of Western ideals focused world opinion on equitable solutions to hitherto unsettled and unsettling issues.
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