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Norwegian Princess Visits Concordia Earlier This Week Honor of Her Late Husband concordian concordia college moorhead, minnesota 5656O November 10, 1978 Vol. 71 No. 10 Authority on Arab Position In Mid-East to Appear at Concordia sponsored by Temple Beth El, The Concordia community will spoke to a large audience and have the rare opportunity next generated a spirited and pointed Thursday evening to hear Dr. response among his listeners Clovis Maksoud, editor-in-chief that Tuesday night last spring. of the leading Arab newspaper Scholar-journalist Maksoud is in the world, present a lecture the author of eight books as well entitled "The Middle East: The as numerous articles on the Arab Perspective." Middle East, the best known of Dr. Maksoud, who has been which are The Meaning of Non- described as "the most influent- Alignment The Crisis of the ial writer in the Arab world" by Arab Left, and The Arab Image. the president of the National He is currently preparing a Press Club in Washington, D.C., major work on the Lebanese will speak in the Centrum crisis. at 8 p.m. From 1961 to 1966, Dr. Mak- A Lebanese native, Dr. Mak- soud was Ambassador of the soud has occupied numerous Arab League to India. In 1974 posts in the Arab world for the- and 1975, he served as special past two decades, in addition to Envoy of the Arab Summit his current tenure as editor of Conference to the United States. the weekly and daily, Beirut- He Jjolds degrees from the based An-Nahir. American University and Perhaps most important a- Georgetown University, both in mong these were his serving as Washington, D.C., and has stud- special Envoy of the Arab Sum- ied at the American University mit Conference during the oil- in Beirut and at Oxford Univer- embargo period in 1974 and sity. 1975, and as senior editor of the Dr. Maksoud is also the foun- leading Egyptian newspaper, der of the Center for Contempo- Al-Ahram. rary Arabic Studies at George- The Nov. 16 lecture, which is town University, where he is Lulled to sleep by this fall's unusually long Indian Summer, the Red River Valley seems sponsored by the campus Iota currently a visiting professor, as ready for the cooler temperatures and less hospitable weather which are predicted to set chapter of Pi Gamma Mu, will be is Dr. Hisham Sharabi, Director in over the next few days. November, it appears, has decided to begin behaving in Its open to the public at no admis- of the U.S. Center for the Arab normal, winterValmost-here way. sion charge. A question-and-an- League, who appeared as a swer period will follow the lecturer at Concordia in 1970. presentation. Dr. Maksoud's appearance According to Dr. Martin H. here under the auspices of the Repository of Stories Has Story of Its Lutter, professor of history and local chapter of Pi Gamma Mu is faculty advisor of the Iota chap- the twenty-sixth in the organiza- By STEVE PRATHER an actual library when it moved Since 125 cadets would arrive at . ter, "In the light of the recent tion's annual lecture series. The to the northeast corner room of Concordia on Mar. 1, quick historic Camp David confer- series, which features various It has a history that passes Main's second floor, the same preparations had "to be made. ences between President Anwar authorites of regional, national, through four campus buildings, room where Dr. Lutter holds his One day (not again!) Concordia Sadat of Egypt, Prime Minister and international stature, is one a name that is harder to spell history classes today. Because of students carried all the books Menachem Begin of Israel, and of the group's major programs. than Czechoslovakia, and over the steady increase in students, from Whipple to the recreation President Jimmy Carter of the In the past, the organization has seven miles of shelves. Most the library expanded to two room in Fjelstad Hall. There the United States, and the subse- brought to Concordia such people use it for study purposes, rooms in 1917. library remained for 12 years. quent negotiations still in pro- speakers as Dr. Leon Keyers- some for a chance to have a quiet Around 1920 these rooms As the years passed, Concor- gress, Dr. Maksoud's lecture ling, economic advisor to Presi- visit with friends, and still became so crowded with books dia's enrollment increased and a provides relevant perspectives dent . Harry S Truman and others for a bathroom stop that the space was limited to need for campus expansion of on one of the major issues of author of much of President between* the Knutson Center reference work only, and study- facilities was apparent. In 1941, international concern." Franklin D. Roosevelt's New and the science building. If you ing was done in the chapel. This for example, freshmen were Dr. Maksoud's presentation Deal legislation, and Dr. Otto haven't guessed what "it" is yet, problem was taken care of two excluded from the library during on the Middle East Thursday Strasser, founder of the German I'm referring to the Carl B. years later when a three-story the evenings because it was too night will be the second to be National Socialist Party, who Yvilsa...the Ysival...the Ylsa- addition was added to the south crowded (aw shucks!). A group heard at Concordia on that saw it usurped and subverted vik...The Concordia Library! side of Ladies' (Whipple) Hall. calling themselves the C-400 difficult and crucial question this into an instrument of terror, Yes, what about this building? College boys volunteered to formed and started a fund for a year. Last Apr. 25, former violence, and barbarism by And who was this Carl guy carry the books over from Old new library building. Because of Israeli Ambassador to the Unit- Adolph Hitler. anyway? Sitting in the faculty Main teven then they would do the rising cost of labor and ed States Abba Eban spoke in Iota chapter presently has. 125- lounge with Verlyn Anderson, anything to get out of classes), materials, the project waited for the Centrum on the subject, members. Brent Reichert is chief librarian, I found the and this addition became the a number of years. "Prospects for Pea*ce in the president of the group. Other answer to these questions an new library. Finally, in the summer of '53, Middle East: Reality or Fan- executive officers . are Mary interesting history. Army officers appeared on the site was cleared where it tasy?" Hess, vice-president; Julie Boel- The first Concordia library campus on February 1943 to set was hoped the library would be. Eban, whose appearance in ter, secretary; and Mr. Roger was a "reading room" in the up a defense training program Three years later, on Mar. 14, the Fargo-Moorhead area was Spilde, treasurer. basement of Old Main. It became under the U.S. Army division. Mrs. Marie Ylvisaker turned the first shovel of dirt in ground- breaking ceremonies for the Carl B. Ylvisaker library, named in Norwegian Princess Visits Concordia Earlier This Week honor of her late husband. Dr. That it was election day in The crown princess arrived on lar "will strengthen the already she was welcomed by a group of Ylvisaker was a beloved religion America notwithstanding, both the Concordia campus Tuesday existing cultural ties." students with a cheer mention- instructor at .Concordia from the Concordia student body and afternoon. Her first stop was Crown Princess Sonja re- ing the ever-popular Norsk lute- 1927 to 1944; Dr. Ylvisaker was the Fargo-Moorhead community East Complex where she par- sponded to the "warm-hearted fisk. She visited the statues of everything from the chapel or- were sharply reminded of their ticipated in the dedication of the welcome." She recalled "the Ivar Aasen and Hans Nielsen ganist to the first tennis coach, monarchical heritages with the mosaics done for the ALC con- superb concert" in Bergen of Hauge and the Administration and helped Concordia survive visit of Crown Princess Sonja of vention late last month by David Concordia's Concert Choir last Building, as well as chatting through her hardships. He spoke Norway last Tuesday. Hetland. summer. Princess Sonja stated with students. of Concordia as the "College of Princess Sonja, her lady in that she felt people being able to The Princess was formally Destiny," and "a school that waiting, Norwegian Ambassa- sing together—choirs—seemed sntertained at a reception in the would grow greatly in size and dor Sommerfelt and his wife, special for colleges of Norwegian Administration Building and an service." and other Norwegian dignitaries descent. invitation-only black-tie dinner The Carl B. Ylvisaker library began the ceremony accom- She concluded with a smile by in the Centrum. was completed in 1956. But that panied by the Concordia College saying she was "very, very Princess Sonja has been in the isn't all. As the student enroll- Band. The crowd, a mixture of happy to be here," and was United States since mid-Octo- ment increased, the library was students, professors, adminis- looking forward to seeing the ber. She is currently touring again in need of expansion. In trators, and community mem- campus and bumping into a few Minnesota and visiting colleges 1967, the library contained bers, was instructed to stand as students. such as Augsburg, St. Olaf, 100,000 books. Since the maxi- the princess entered the room. The ceremony proceeded with Luther, and Concordia. mum capacity was 120,000, at- Dr. Paul Dovre extended a the dedication of the mosaics. The crown princess is a com- tention was turned to the pros- welcome to the royal party and The dedication was lead by moner, daughter of Karl A.
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