THE CONCORDIAN Volume XXXIX Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota, Friday, Mar. 5, 1948 Number 16 Workshop For Commercial Teachers LSU Convention Theme Norwegian Bishop To Address Is 'Christ Calls You' Sponsored By Business Department "Christ Calls You" will be the Combined Chapel Group Friday theme of the Lutheran Students His Grace, Arne Fjellbu, Bishop of Nidaros Cathedral, The Commercial Teachers' Workshop, sponsored by the Union convention which approxi- business education department of Concordia, will be held all mately 100 students from Concor- Trondheim, Norway, spoke today in chapel. day Friday asd Saturday forenoon on the campus. Prof. I. R. dia will attend at Decorah, Iowa, Bishop Fjellbu is on a preaching tour at the invitation of Larson, department head, is director of the Workshop. March 12, 13, and 14. the American committee for the World Council of Churches. Miss Katherine O. Bracher, Delegates from Concordia to the Fru (Mrs.) Fjellbu is here with specialist in the field of typewrit- convention are Irene Vollan, Ron- ing at Gregg college, Chicago, 111., her husband. ald Soderquist, and Robert Ander- Born at Decorah, Iowa, Bishop has accepted an invitation to con- son. The group will be chaperoned duct the Workshop. Fjellbu spent part of his early life by Deaqs Enid Ruth Reinertsen in North Dakota. He received his Approximately 40 commercial and Myron Swanson. They will education at the Universities of teachers from North Dakota, leave Friday morning and return Oslo, Norway, and Berlin and Hei- South Dakota, and Minnesota high Sunday evening. delberg, Germany. During World schools will attend. Advanced stu- Featured at the convention will War II Bishop Fjellbu, together dents in business education at be messages by the Rev. C. M. with Bishop Berggrav of Oslo, was Concordia will also be present. Hanson, pastor of the Estherville at the center of* the resistance i This afternoon there will be Lutheran church, Estherville, movement in Norway. He was un- a coffee hour in South lounge of Iowa; Dr. George Aus, professor der house arrest by the Quisling Fjelstad hall for those attending at Luther seminary, St. Paul; Pa- government and sent into exile to the conference. stor Wu Ying, president of the a little known island in the far The program for the Workshop, Lutheran church in China; Dr. L. north for 18 months. which will be held in Room 122 of N. Field, president of the Rocky Mountain district; and Dr. Rolf Bishop and Fru Fjellbu will be the Science hall, is as follows: honored by board members and Friday, March 5; 9:00 a.m., key- Syrdal, executive secretary of the Board of foreign missions. their wives, at a noon luncheon board development; 10:30 a.m. and in the college cafeteria today. This 1:00 p.m., beginning skill develop- afternoon, from 2:00 to 3:30, the ment; 2:30 p.m., letter writing and Burgess To Be Present faculty and board members will ot'her advanced projects. Saturday, hold a reception, in North lounge •March 6; 9:00 a.m., development PROF. I. R. LARSON At Education Meeting cf Fjelstad hall, in honor of Bishop of transcription; and 10:30 a.m., Dr. T. O. Burgess, head of the and Fru Fjellbu. answers to accumulated questions. Plans Are Formulated psychology department of Con- BISHOP ARNE FJELLBU cordia college, has been invited by Luther College Choir Red Cross Fund Drive For Spring Registration Governor Luther W. Youngdahl of Religious Groups To Be Held On Campus Plans are underway for having Minnesota to attend a conference To Give Fargo Concert registration begin April 1 for the of representative citizens, Wed- Propose New Plan Head of the Red Cross drive to first semester of the school year nesday, March 10, to discuss the The Nordic Cathedral choir of be sponsored on the Concordia 1948-49. It is hoped that the rapidly declining supply of quali- Students will vote next week Luther college, under the direc- fied teachers for elementary campus next week is Miss Chris- schedule for the fall registration on a proposed plan for raising tion of Dr. Sigvart Steen, will pre- will be available for inspection schools. sent a concert at the First Luth- tine Fjelstadj secretary to the A letter received from Governor funds to meet expenses of the and criticism by students and campus religious organizations. eran church in Fargo tonight at president. faculty next week. The schedule Youngdahl states, "Among the 8:15 p. m. The choir, composed of A student will be appointed to will be posted on a new cork several critical situations confront- Under the proposed plan, stu- 60 voices, has been touring the <be in charge of the solicitation in board which is being made by the ing the citizens of Minnesota none dents will be supplied with duplex western United States. They will each dormitory and the work will art department and will be locat- is more serious than the rapidly envelopes in which two contribu- sing numbers by Bach, Paladilhe, be further divided by placing ed to the left of Room 16 in the declining supply of qualified teach- tions may be placed. Nicolai, GretchaninofT, Sateren, someone in charge of each floor Main. ers for elementary schools in both The envelopes will be given at and Christiansen. urban and rural communities of in each of the dormitories. Off- Sophomores are asked to report the regular church offering. One Dr. Steen is a graduate of St. campus students are asked to send the state." contribution will go to the church Olaf college and Luther college, a their choices of majors and minors The conference will be in the in their contributions. to the registrar before March 15. the student attends and the other former student at the University auditorium of the State Office will be added to a general college of Berlin, and former conductor A quota of $8,200 has been set Letters will be placed in the mail building in St. Paul. for Clay county to which fund boxes of the sophomores concern- religious fund. The purpose of the of the Northland college choir. He the Concordia donations will go. ing these reports. OLSON BEGINS TEACHING plan is to teach stewardship in ad- was the officer in charge and di- Fifty per cent of the amount col- - Conditions and incompletes Winifred Olson is practice dition to providing the religious rector of the Blue Jacket choirs lected remains in the county and must be made up before March 20 teaching in commercial subjects organizations with an expense at Great Lakes, 111. 50 per cent will go to the national or they will be changed to F's. at Oak Grove seminary in Fargo fund. Tickets for this evenings con- Red Cross. Forms for such mike-up work at which school Barbara Jackson The plan, if adopted, will be on cert are on sale at the Wold Drug must be secured from the regis- recently completed her student trial for the remainder of the se- in Moorhead. Student price is 50 teaching work. CATALOG TO BE PRINTED trar's office. mester. cents. Students who have not been of- Proof for the 1948-49 college ficially dropped from their class catalog is now at the printer. It or classes by receiving a drop slip is expected that the catalog will from the registrar's office will re- 'Our Daze' Reveals Private Life Of Choir be ready for distribution about ceive a grade of F-3 at the end of March 15. the semester. Glimpses of life on a choir trip The week before we came, he local LSA president, Wayne Wag- are afforded us in the following gave a band and choir concert and strom represented Concordia. correspondence from Marguerite canvassed the town selling tickets. We sang an afternoon concert in Psychology Reaction Tester Ellingson, a member of the choir The bargain was that anyone who Brookings and left in the slush and of The Concordian staff, who bought a Concordia choir ticket for Marshall. The Marshall plan addresses the less musical mem- got a free one for his concert; so pleased us. In fact Dickie gave a bers of the newspaper crew. we had another big crowd. speech on it today at dinner. Made By Physics Instructor Hlya Slaves, Mountain Lake is nearly all Another, voice konked out so I'll dig into my diary and give Mennonite and they appreciated we sang minus two first sopranos you whatever I find that is print- the concert very deeply. and one second alto. able. Saturday: We were pretty scar- Monday: Sleep — and did we Thursday: We ran into compe- ed about our Sioux Falls concert, you know how critical college need it. We nearly felt human tition in St. Cloud. Seems that again today. Cedric Adams was MC-ing a tal- audiences are. Three churches ent show in the same building at sponsored us; we had a supper Our Concordia fan club is here the same time. Nevertheless, we party at First Lutheran church in Madison—Mrs. P. J. Christian- packed our auditorium and sang and were introduced to Dr. L. M. sen, Winnie, and Kay. Wally Jerde a bang-up concert. Stavig, president of Augustana, drove them down. We stopped at Alexandria for Dr. L. A. Pierson, president of the The voices are getting un-hus- coffee and Ellen Flotlin remem- South Dakota district Evangelical kied. John Wambheim has, been bered she hadn't brought any Lutheran church, Dr. Carl Young- swabbing throats like mad. Miss pajamas and Don Norlin realized dahl, their choir director, and all Plalvorson's leap year cry is not he had forgotten his pitch pipe.