Augsburg College - Augsburgian Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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 I’m shaking.” Don’t open the door, my hair will blow. Minutes later one of the girls, Vickie Mellum, is chosen as the 1965 Homecoming Queen. Drop the Ham-line”, the Homecoming slogan, is carried out in decorations. New edifices of crushed nap- kins, spray paint, crepe paper, chicken wire, and card- board appear on campus, capped with slogans — Stop the Drippy Pipers,” Tau ’em Away”-monuments to the ingenuity of the student body. A week of firsts-the Queen’s Ball, Augsburg’s first dance, the first parade, and the first coed-football game. Other highlights of the week —a pepfest, an honor’s convocation, faculty follies, a pep rally at North- western Bank, the traditional smorgasbord, and the game with Hamline College. Augsburg’s pep band, the Basin Streeters, booms in the background as crowds file into the stadium. Auggie fans form lines for the players to run through. Balloons fill the sky as the game begins ... a cloud of confetti falls into the air as Augsburg makes its first touchdown . . . the crowd sings, led by cheerleaders in new maroon and grey uniforms. Stands look like a collage of color ... a little boy yelling Auggies, Auggies-”, claps soundlessly with mittened hands. Other spectators, wrapped in blankets, drink coffee to keep warm. As the final gun sounds, fans cheer . . . the team runs over the field ecstatically . . . fans gather around the fence . . . Ben Nieters hobbles off the field, having suffered an injury at the close of the game . . . Mums, a little wilted already ... a twisted program . . . mem- ories of a successful Homecoming... Queen Vickie, escorted by Grant Norum. walks happily xwf the 1965 Home coming crowd. Vickie's reign ends in a 26-6 win over Hamlinc College Five names thrown into the crowd... a pause . then one is chosen as queen. 15

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Vickie Mellum ... shortly after being crowned as Homecoming Queen. 1965. HOMECOMING ROYALTY . . . Attendants, Beverly Rosvold, Kathy Kalpm. Sylvia Torstenson and Kathy All had a part in Homecoming ... whether they stuffed napkins in a float. Popp rtde in Augsburg’s first Homecoming parade sponsored by societies. decorated a college house, cheered at the pepfest or the Hamline game ... 14

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Moonlike beams make shadows of the dancefloor at Augsburg's first ■nrmat dance Girls swirled . . men swooned . . a night to remember . . truly a successful first... Ted -Johnson and his date. Margie Ness, await the faculty- production. Faculty Follies. Candlelight causes expressions in contrast on couple...