Augsburg College - Augsburgian Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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field, done for (he season, but still finding enough energy to scream encouragement to his teammates not yell, but scream. Those champion wrestlers, starving an week, just so they can crank on someone during the weekend. Record- setting Jimmy Sviggum. Those champion women volley-bailers. Freshmen stars, unsung seniors like Mark Bengston, and those coaches, putting together another winning season. Ingman “living his drama. The fresh new faces combining with the old ones, coming together in that old Little Theater, which despite its much maligned status keeps turning out great plays and great performers. And music people. Anne Mollison and Pete Hendrickson directing the choir towards Norway. Paul Walthour and Pat Siegfried combining their talents to put on JC Superstar. Merri Lee Klemp's free day in New Orleans. And all those notes and solos and song and tours which add up to another year — another banner year — in the Music Department. Drama people. Ed Saxton zipping back from the St. John's game to make it onstage in time for the show. Meticulour Ailcne Cole, turning out more successful plays. Cool, calm Eric and the center, frequently the game room and the Chin Wag and the library. And people in dorms and houses. Those students exiled to West Flail. Coed living at lota. Doug Klungtvedt selling religious books. Ruth Asper behind the library counter. And the cast of hundreds at Rho blouse for those rollicking parties. The communications staffs and the student government. Mueller and Larsen, proposing, and sometimes implementing Augsburg legislation. Pam Johnson searching for more noon-time talent. Rick Thoni's tutoring crew. Pam Lien and Bill Belknap turning out the ECHO. Dave Halaas's RC “Yes people and their 6:30 Wednesday morning meetings. Ralph Crowder helping minority students. KCMR DJ's like Bill Robinson and Brad Forsythe “getting down with the music. And what about the biggest crew of all, just your plain old everyday book-totin' students. Stan Hatcher and Barry Baldwin shooting pool. The Culla regulars.. Delores Kotschwar always walking over to Wilson Library. And all of those commuters, lounging around the campus An entire year of experiences and people, making long days short and short days long. Those agonizing days which turn into graffiti or depression before blossoming into ecstasy. The agonies and ecstasies of Augsburg College. The agonies and ecstasies of 74-75. — copy by Brad Lundell —

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individual's experience . . . Agonies and ecstasies of Augsburg College. Four years of them for me and many others. Hardly a day goes by without them - those little events that build us up, drag us down, or just leave us sitting wondering “what it's all about. Oh! the agonies! Those close defeats. Those terrible winters. Lost loves. Failed tests. Those friends that either drop out or flunk out or freak out. The greatest agony of all for me was when the Electric Fetus moved from walking distance to miles away. And ECSTASY! Parties, dances, victories, and the like. Getting the grades when you deserve them. Coming back in the fall and seeing the old gang together again. Living through those drab, dirty Minneapolis winters to see that beautiful green spring, then just sitting around enjoying it. And people. People, people, people. I swear it's an epidemic around here. It's probably people that really keep this place glued together, even when it seems like the whole place is going right down the tube. Beyond the agonies and ecstasies, I guess it all boils to people, and '74-75 is no exception to the rules. But what of this year's crop of people? What makes them thing they should have a yearbook? What happened to who around here, and what was so special about it? Well, starting with the faculty, who can forget the one and only Jerry Gerasimo — bearded wonder, philosopher, and poet of Augsburg College. Or Arlen Gyberg, the part-time chemist, part-time “Melby Marauder. Or Miss Durkee with her concise, almost perfect, approach to mathematics. And the rest of them. Morici, Palosaari, Rick Nelson, the list going on and on. And the staff. Who could possibly forget them? All those Augsburg “dart-boards, catchers of tons and tons of flak every year. Carl Stromer and his inventive new dishes to stretch his food budget. And the ever- smiling Millie Nelson. And Jerov Carlson, darting here and there, spreading his good nature around. And the janitors, and the maintenance men, and the new Graphics Center. This list doesn't want to stop either. And those athletes, disgusting jocks thev e been called, giving their best for the Maroon and Grav, even though it's sometimes not enough. Steve Swanson getting carried off the f X,

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Mitchell Aase, Maria Abreus, Stella Abwao, James Agrimson, Roberta Aitchison, Steven Al- brecht, Ihomas Allison, Bradley D. Anderson. Bradley P. Anderson, Edith An- derson, Eric Anderson, Jody An- derson, Julie Anderson, Kath- leen Anderson, Kristi Anderson, Michael Anderson. Ronald Anderson, Tammy An- derson, Deborah Andolino, Wendy Arcand, Timothy Arlt, Sheila Arnold, Randy Asman, James Atkinson. Debra Axness, David Backman, Nancy Baker, Clyde Banitt, Scott Barlass, Randy Barnaal, Phyllis Bartels, Michael Batles. Terry Baumgart, Danise Beal, Ju- lia Beaudoin, lack Bender, Mike Benson, Scott Benson, Jean Berckhan, Mary Bergsoid. James Bernstein, Karen Bernthal, Glen Billings, Jane Bjorndal, De- bra Bjurquist. Mark Black, Mark Boe, Patricia Boehm. Daniel Boljanovich, Laura Bol- stad, Kendra Bonderud, Richard Bonlender, Jeff Book, David Bordwell, Thomas Bordwell, Tho- mas Bramwell. Debra Brandon, Paul Brokken, Paula Brookins, Mark Brown, Gregory Bruess, Jean Brugge- mann, Douglas Bruska, Jill Brus- tad. Joan Brustad, Frederick Buck- land, Annette Bull, Kathy Bul- lock, Thomas Burnside, David Butterfield, Elizabeth Carlson, Scott Carlson. Stephen Carbon. James Carr, Pa- tricia Cartony, Jean Chalsirom, Mark Christoffersen. Dianne Chunk. Lois Conmy. Michelle Cornelious. Michael Cornelius, Brian Cor- nish, Holly Crane, Robert Cra- ven, Bradley Crawford. Stephen Crawford, Terrance Cundv. Louise Dahl. 30