Augsburg College - Augsburgian Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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The end of one era and the beginning of the next 14

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just before Graduation Cap'and-gown shadows symbolize the school years of the past even as we look forward into our futures. An open doorway seems to symbolically beckon to both parents and graduates as they ponder over the strains of mpsic offered by the Augsburg College Choir under the direction of Mr. Satcrcn. “The future is yours if you will only claim it! says Dr. C. Gilbert Wrenn of the University of Minnesota as he addresses the 1956 graduating class.

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The Senior Class of 1956 seemed to have a knack for creating “firsts’ and carried it right along into their graduation. This productive class had put into practice the “Living Endowment Fund” as its gift to the school then went back into their huddles to come up with the idea of holding the annual commencement exercises on the campus lawn instead of Central Lu- theran Church as had always been the practice before. To add to what was already a crackcrjack of an idea the Class of 1956 found it possible to induce the faculty to wear the academic robes for the first time in the long history of the school. Also part of commencement festivities was the dedication of the new Augsburg Residence for Women with Dr. T. O. Burntvcdt presiding. A plan for many years had finally become a reality in mortar and brick. 15