THE CONCORDIAN VOLUME LVn THE CONCORDIA COLLEGE, MOQRHEAD, MINNESOTA, MARCH 4, 1966 No. 23 College Honors Parents On Annual Parents' Day Concordia's Fifth Annual Par- to order tickets soon through the ents' Day has been announced mail or their son or daughter. for Saturday and Sunday, March Ticket prices include $3.00, $2.50, 26 and 27. The Parents' Day ac- $2.00, $1.50 seats. Mail orders tivities are again planned to co- should be sent to Box 105, Con- incide with the all - college cordia College, Moorhead, Min- musical. nesota 56560. Designed to acquaint the par- The Parents' Day weekend ents of Cobber students with includes other events designed college life, the weekend will to closely resemble "normal" present a varied slate of ac- college life. Parents who ar- tivities. Saturday's events are rive Friday evening or early highlighted by the President's Saturday morning are invited Hour with parents in the early to attend classes with the stu- afternoon and the musical dents. Saturday afternoon par- presentation, "The Sound of ents are invited to observe Music/' in the evening at 8:00 such aspects of the academic p.m. The weekend's scheduled life as the biology, chemistry events conclude with an all- and physics labs, language college worship service in labs, the aft center, the li- Memorial Auditorium Sunday brary and music hall. Registration Scenes for Parents' Day will be repeated March 26. The annual event offers morning at 11:00 a.m. Gerald B j e 1 d e, Concordia parents an opportunity to visit campus and observe college life. Alumni Director in charge of The President's Hour features Parents' Day activities notes a welcome by President Joseph "that the weekend provides an L.Knutson.A general discussion excellent opportunity for par- follows involving faculty mem- Cobbers Attend Schiller College ents to get a better idea of their bers and focusing attention on son or daughter's college life. Three Concordia students will tem. Credits earned at Schil- Stuttgart to give the student the social life of the college stu- Communication between parents spend next year abroad studying ler are readily transferable opportunity to become ac- dent. During the course of the and student can't produce the at Schiller College in Germany. back to Concordia with no quainted with the urban cul- five Parents' Days, an effort has complete picture." Leaving September 17 from New time lost in pursuit of the ture and life of the German been made to accent different Parents' Day is sponsored by York will be Susan Teigan, bachelor's degree. city; yet it is located in the areas of the complete college. Scobey, Montana; John Hovland, Schiller also operates a study country to offer an atmosphere Last year a panel of administra- the Student Development Com- mission and Concordia Develop- Mahtomedi, Minn.; and Kristi center at Geneva, Switzerland, very conducive to study. tion members discussed the tri- Prestegaard of Minneapolis. The in cooperation with the Univer- Kleiningersheim Castile, the mester system with parents. ment Office. Student chairman for this year's Parents' Day is trio will be the first to attend sity of Geneva. Since courses at home of Schiller College, was Parents who plan to attend Jonathan Oleson, a junior from under a cooperative program the University are taught in built in 1580 in Renaissence "The Sound of Music" are urged Halstad, Minn. initiated between Concordia and French and the academic system style. As such it affords an edu- Schiller last year. differs from that in the United cation in itself. Enrollment at The three students are sopho- States, the study center provides Schiller is limited to less than mores and are all majoring in extensive tutoring in French and one hundred. Ellenson Continues Post German. Miss Teigan is minor- assists students in their course ing in Spanish and is a member work. of Phi Kappa Chi and Montana The total cost for tuition, room Debaters Triumph Club, John is a member of Ger- and board for the academic year On Scholarship Committee man Club and Miss Prestegaard of three quarters is $1700. Group is minoring in Russian and is a travel arrangements at a special At Emporia Meet Edward Ellenson, financial formation on scholarships, loans member of the concert band. rate are available on two ocean aids officer, has been reappoint- and other forms of student aid. Loren Anderson and Betty Schiller College, located liners. Malen, Concordia's first team ed to the College Scholarship The service subcommittee, Service Subcommittee on Insti- near Stuttgart, attempts to Study at Schiller gives the debaters, defeated St. John's composed of 13 financial aids provide the American under- student an excellent oppor- University in the quarter finals tutional Services. The College and admissions personnel, ad- Scholarship Service is a coopera- graduate with a year's study tunity to become exposed to and lost to Kansas State Teach- vises the CSS committee on ser- opportunity in Germany spe- German thought and environ- ers College in Emporia after tive organization of several vices on the administration of hundred colleges and universi- cifically designed to fulfill his ment. Schiller is close enough compiling a five-one win-loss financial aid programs, on the needs. Course work, examin- to major population centers record at the University of ties in the United States which development of procedures acts as a clearing house for in- ations, grading and credits are such as Munich, Heidelberg Nebraska, Lincoln, Feb. 26. which determine the family's based on the American sys- and Strasburg as well as ability to pay for educational With a taste of elimination services and on the preparation rounds competition fresh in Math Grant Aids of publications and other mater- their minds, Anderson and ials which explain financial aids Students Ready Coffeehouse Miss Malen combined to de- programs. Their next meeting A coffeehouse to provide a re- coffeehouse to be open Thurs- feat Washburn University, the Summer Research will be held in New York dur- laxed atmosphere in which stu- day afternoons and evenings University of Nebraska, the Concordia has been awarded ing April. dents, faculty and administra- and Saturday evenings. Re- University of South Dakota, an $8,400 mathematics research Ellenson, a 1958 Concordia tion members can get together corded and scheduled live en- William Jewel College and grant from the National Science graduate, holds an M.S. degree for informal conversation is tertainment is to be provided Central Iowa. They lost to the Foundation. Dr. Gerald Heuer, from NDSU. He has been finan- presently being readied and will and spontaneous entertain- University of Kansas in the chairman of the mathematics de- cial aids officer since 1960. Prior be opened within the next two ment encouraged. Coffee and preliminaries, and to Emporia partment, is director of the ten- to that he was an admissions weeks. cookies will be served. on a split decision in the semi- week summer project which will counselor. Tentative plans call for the Located on eighth street just finals. involve six students. This is the north of President Knutson's Competing in the novice divis- third such grant to be received residence, the coffeehouse will ions, Dennis Westgard and Paul by the school. be on the main floor of a house Youngquist won five of their The upperclass students, to be purchased by the college and six debates while Mark Bryant chosen for their interest and turned over to the students. The and Kathy Jerdee won one and talent in mathematics, will un- second floor of the structure will lost five. dertake individual research pro- be used by student productions Anderson and Miss Malen de- jects. While conducting the re- for storage purposes. bate again this weekend at St. search, each will receive a $60- The coffeehouse is operated Thomas in St. Paul along with a-week stipend. The project runs by a group of interested stu- Lynda Jacobson and Jim Nes- from June 16 to Aug. 12. dents, who during the past tingen. Seven other Minnesota col- week have been busy remodel- leges and universities were also ing the structure, using mater- Vesper Services chosen to share in the NSF ials provided by the college. grants which totaled $81,900. Regular vesper services Such features as a stage for meet in Old Main Auditorium performing groups are being Wed., March 8, at 10 p.m. i; Washington Seminar i added. with John Quello, speaker. |; Students interested in at-!; All donations for coffee and An all-college worship ser- !; tending the Washington Sem-<! cookies will be used for oper- vice and communion is to be |! inar over Easter, may sign up J; ating expenses. Persons interest- held next Sunday, March 13, |; in the Student Government!; CoffeehOUSe Interior begins to take shape as Bill Larson ed in further details on the cof- in Memorial Auditorium at ;; office. Six will be chosen. ![ and Tom Pierce work on repairs. The coffeehouse will provide an feehouse should contact Bill Lar- 11:00 a.m. opportunity for informal conversation in a relaxing atmosphere. son. Page 4 THE CONCORDIAN March 4, 1966 Director Benidt Dedicates Time, Talent, Energy to Sound of Music' Ruih Schneider "I'm sure the cast will be Mark, a sophomore from St. journalism if he transfers to the ready by opening night, March Paul, Minn., reflects that di- University of Minnesota. He ex- 25. I am really pleased with the recting a musical is "a lot of plains, "I like to write. I was way it is going now. I know the responsibilty, a lot more than editor of my high school paper, actors will be able to handle I ever thought it would be.