Augustana Magazine | Number 1 | Summer 2003Contents 9 Guess Who? Among the ten alumni to be inducted into the Augustana Tribe of Vikings Hall of Fame is this former two-sport athlete from Batavia, Ill., as well as a basketball player with records for scoring and rebounding which have stood for 30 years. 16 Our new president The last time Augustana named a new president, Captain and Tennille were at the top of the charts and Jimmy Hoffa was not missing. Meet Steven Bahls, who in October will be inaugurated as Augustana’s eighth leader. 20 Louise Nathanson At the age of four, she began a performance career which would take her to some of the world’s most fabled concert halls. But for the past 23 years, her primary audience has been made up of some very fortunate Augustana students. In the news… About campus (page 2) • Sports desk (page 7) • Faculty matters (page 11) • Alumni news (page 33) • Final shot (page 44) On the cover President Steven Bahls in the Denkmann Memorial Building (portrait by Jon Van Allen). 1 About campus Exhibiting scholarship Eleven current and former students saw their work published as part of an extensive research project on 19th- On March 10, while introducing Steven Bahls as the next president of Augustana College, century American artist James McNeill Whistler, funded by Augustana’s Paul Brenda Barnes—chair of the Board of Trustees—announced the Board’s decision to salute Bahls’ A. Anderson Endowment in the Arts. predecessor by naming the Augustana Library in his honor. Although the formal dedication of the An exhibition in the Augustana Art Thomas Tredway Library would wait until Commencement Weekend, Barnes’ announcement was Museum, a companion catalogue and the first of several tributes to Tredway as he prepared to associated programs on campus all made up Tracing Line Through Time: leave the post he’d held for 28 years. ) Two weeks later, a A Whistler Centenary Exhibition, visit to campus by Libby Larsen, one of America’s leading organized by Dr. Catherine Carter O composers, heralded a unique homage both to Tredway’s Goebel, who holds the Paul A. leadership and to an extraordinary friendship which has Anderson Chair in the Arts at the College. sustained him for nearly half a century. Together with Working with Dr. Mary Em Kirn, Tredway, Bruce Carlson—a former student and long-time The language of music. professor of art history, and Sherry director of the Twin Cities’ Schubert Club—and Arthur During Libby Larsen’s March visit Maurer, museum director, Goebel Mampel—a retired pastor and prolific poet—made up what NEW NAME, NEW LEADER directed past and present students in to campus for the premiere of her researching pieces for the 116 -page was jokingly referred to as the Council on Despair, an The addition of Thomas Tredway’s name to its walls catalogue, which included selections Come Before Winter, she took part isn’t all that’s new at Augustana’s library. In February, itinerant forum which has convened regularly for decades. from the Thomas B. Brumbaugh ) Carlson invited Larsen to compose a musical setting of in Augustana’s Institute for Leadership Carla Tracy—who’d served as interim director since last Collection, the largest art donation in one of Mampel’s most compelling poems, Come Before and Service by meeting with students summer—was named to the post on a permanent basis. Augustana’s history. Three art history majors—Elizabeth Blazevich, Jennifer Winter, the title of which comes from Paul’s second letter Tracy says she intends to continue emphasizing the five and sharing insights gleaned from Emedi and Michelle Rambo, all ’03, to Timothy. Its world premier on March 25 in Wallenberg core tenets which have come to define the library’s place her Grammy Award-winning career. wrote essays and delivered lectures Hall featured internationally-renowned baritone Håkan on campus. on the three stages associated with “Music allows dialogue with the Hagegård and pianist Margo Garrett performing with “First, we’re here to support the curriculum of the Whistler’s major print portfolios. Catalogue entries were also the Augustana Choir and Chamber Orchestra. The poem inner self about things that can’t be College, which is distinct from trying to collect and researched and written by current preserve every aspect of human knowledge. Next, the Tredway: from president to pizza guy is about friendship, and includes the lines “Come at an articulated in other ways,” Larsen said. and former students Carrie Garda, books and resources we collect in that process are here inconvenient hour/ just before “Being a composer means ordering Lauren Habenicht, Larry Ion, Jr., you can/ when the calendar to be used, rather than protected. Third, we’re here to be Leesa Jackson, Tracy Skibitzki, Rachel sound in time and space so that you Sondag, Emily Soszko, and Florence will not permit/ when your teachers: it might be easier to fulfill students’ requests on our own, but in order to enrich their lives, we’d rather Staelens. The exhibition—which say something about what it means to show them how to do it. Fourth, we seek to be a place for community by facilitating all sorts of interdisciplinary Bidding suddenness/ will sway the was unveiled for a two-month show balance of things.” In a program be alive.” Just prior to her visit, Larsen interaction. Finally—and this runs through all of the rest—we need to have a service orientation. That means we last December—will return to the note by Tredway’s wife, Kate, was appointed to the John Kluge want to make the Library as easy to Augustana Art Museum from August 30 to October 11, in conjunction with she wrote that the three friends use as possible.” farewell Chair in Education at the Library the Whistler centenary observance at have met regularly over the years Over the summer, Tracy’s been of Congress. the University of Glasgow in Scotland. to “review the reasons for hope and despair which are always at the heart of long friendships.” leading the effort to bring online Also of note in the Museum this ) Although he did his best to avoid too much ado, the honors continued with the dedication of a new partnership which links year, 2003 marked the first time a current Augustana student received the Tredway Library on May 24. The ceremony was framed as a responsive prayer of thanksgiving, with intercessions led Augustana with 55 other academic an award in the Rock Island Fine Arts libraries in the Illinois Library by current and retired members of the Tredway administration. ) Tredway had his own way of marking the conclusion of Exhibition. Marc Nelson ’03 earned 39 years of service to Augustana (he joined the faculty in 1964 and became dean in 1970), in the form of a pizza party at Computer Systems Organization. third prize in the 27th annual juried which he and Kate dished out no fewer than 82 pizzas to more than 300 employees of every classification on campus. “My In essence, it means Augustana show for his High Water, an oil on canvas and steel with collage inspired first job at Augustana was as a dishwasher in the back of the kitchens, and back then we only dreamed of getting out front students and faculty will soon by Blues music pioneer Charley Patton. have a virtual library card granting with a server’s job,” Tredway told the crowd of his days as a student in the 1950s. “It’s looks as if I finally made it, just before Meanwhile, among the recipients of retirement.” ) Tredway’s last day on the job was June 30, which was proclaimed Thomas Tredway Day in the City of Rock access to college and university the exhibition’s annual high school Island by Mayor Mark Schwiebert, a 1972 graduate of the College. libraries across the state. scholarship awards is Carolyn Krueger ’07, daughter of 1974 Augustana graduate Joan Stockdale. 2 Augustana Magazine | Summer 2003 3 Aboutcampus Dahls announce $1.5 million The SARS outbreak also prompted the Called to Serve leaders named and responsive. They also told me that gift curtailment of another program involving Augustana’s new Center for Vocational Wallenberg Hall [venue for the quartet’s As Augustana welcomes Steven Bahls as three graduates. Catherine Bolm ’02, Reflection—the centerpiece of the $2- concert] is one of three finest places they’ve its eighth president [see p. 16], the College Patrice Schoolman ’02 and Heather Wright million, Lilly Endowment-funded Called ever played…and these musicians have is preparing for a new residence for its top ’00 were all taking part in the College’s to Serve initiative to help students explore been virtually everywhere.” The residency officer—the first official president’s house exchange program with Central China the meaning of vocation—now has both was supported by the Riverboat Develop- at Augustana since 1983. In May, John Normal University—also supported by the a home and a staff. The center’s offices, ment Authority, the Quad City Symphony Dahl ’68 and Robert Dahl ’74 announced Freeman Foundation—which gives recent located on the main floor of the Tredway Orchestra Association and the Community a $1.5 million gift from the charitable Augustana graduates the chance to teach in Library, will serve as headquarters for a Foundation of the Great River Bend. trust established by their parents, Arthur Wuhan. When a teacher at the university variety of programs aimed at deepening and Dorothy Dahl, which will fund con- contracted SARS in April, officials there students’ thinking about career choices and Mabry Awards inaugurated responded by hospitalizing 40 students struction of the Dahl President’s Residence, community service.