Augsburg College - Augsburgian Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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SERVICES CSD HOUSING PLACEM ENT “The role of the office of Plant Services is to plan, create, maintain and operate and environment which is conducive to learning. To complete this mission, the office of Plant Services provides these essential services: building maintenance and operation, custodial services, utili- ties distribution, ground maintenance and purchasing. The Director of Physical Plant and Purchasing reports to the chief business officer, the Vice President for Finance and Management, Burt Fosse. - Eugene Ecklund “The AV Center of the Library provides facilities for classes in broadcasting and audio-visual materials. Assistance with the production of slides, trans- parencies. filmstrips, and audio-video tape recordings are available for both faculty and students. Equipment such as movie and slide projectors and tape recorders may be borrowed for limited periods: film bibliographies and other advice on materials selection are also available. -James Olson TOP LEFT: G. Ecklund. Director of Plant Services. TOP RIGHT: J. Olson. Director of AV and AV staff. BOTTOM: Staff for Center for Student Development. 26

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and by naming it we act to transform it for the liberation of all persons. (Friere) Bridges for movement - just one more suggestion: each of us is afforded the opportunity to move to the point where we educate ourselves. 'The ultimate goal of education is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his or her own education.’ (Gardner) Learning is a solitary and difficult process - no friend, parent, teacher or colleague can do it for us. When we discover that the responsibility is ours and that the process is not limited to the schoolroom, lab, or four years of college - then we will have crossed a great bridge indeed. I want a bridge - a connection, not just a fleeting contact, with the past, for I am impoverished if I am alone. I want all of us to meet and think with the philosophers - to see how our time and theirs is alike. Is it not true, as Socrates noted, that ‘the unexamined life is not worth living?' And Plato - ‘He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age. but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.’ I need bridges to the masters of the spoken and written word, to those who can uplift my spirits and give shape to my dreams. Finally, and most important, I want the bridge for myself and you which we do not build, but which is offered to us - the bridge which joins us to God. This is why the words of II Corinthians 5 have a particular meaning when we are considering avenues for movement and means of holding things together. ‘All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the ministry of reconciliation. We beseech you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.' Be reconciled - cross over. Why all of this concern about bridges to the past and present, to other persons, cultures, and thoughts? Because through connections with all before and around us and through the careful use and sharing of our own gifts we become, not simply the result of the past and the object of inexplicable and relentless forces working on us • but rather the makers of history, the shapers of the present - those who prepare for a future that is open and inviting. I am. in summary, calling for a community of educated persons marked by a network of bridges by which we can move and by which we are held together and share our gifts and ourselves. Reach up - and out - for it shall also be true of us. not once but many times, as John Bunyan wrote in another context - 'so he crossed over - and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.” Excerpts from Dean Anderson's opening convocation speech. September 10. 1976. 25

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 The Auxiliary Service Program at Augsburg College is a supporting element to academic process. It is self-supporting and deals with the appropriation of current funds. The foundation of the auxiliary program deals specifically with budget, commodity and service. It is that particular function or functions that have an effect upon the student's welfare outside of the classroom. The departments under Auxiliary Services are: the Bookstore. College Center. Food Service. Facility Rentals. Game- room. Housing. Ice Arena. Graphic Center, and vending. - Doug Wasko TOP: Patricia Olsson. Director. Career Planning and Placement. BOTTOM LEFT Tod Hanson. Director. Resident Programs. BOTTOM RIGHT: Doug Wasko. Director. Auxiliary Services and secretary, Brenda Zimmerman. 27