Augustana College - Rockety I Yearbook (Rock Island, IL)

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; NINETEEN am:Aoz CHARLES LINUS EUGENE ESEJORN. A.M. Vice President CONRAD BERGENDOFF, CARL JOHAN JOHNSON, B.D. Business Manager and Tl'msurcr IRA OLIVER NOTHSTEIN, A.M., D.D. Librarian. um! Curator of Museum THIRTH'HREE A D M M. mEE-XSON ' - I MM; M. annx N OFFICERS I GUSTAV ALBERT ANDREEN, FRIDOLF OSCAR HANSON, $1 PH.D., D.D. A.B., B.D. President Financial and Ahmmi Secretary R A T I O N A.M.. B.D., PHD. Dam: of the Theological Seminary ARTHUR ANDERSON WALD, PH.D. Dean of the College RUTH PEARSON, A,B. Dean of Women ESTELLE MANDEVILLE Dam of the Conservatory of Music JEANETTE KEMPE Registrar CLAUDE WILLIAM FOSS, A.M., PILLD. Curator of Archives LOWELL VOGEL SIMPSON, A.R'I. Director of Extension Courses GEORGE WICKSTROM, AB. Director of Publicity DAVID FREDERICK BECKSTROM Assfsfant to the Tramwa- SECRETARIAL STAFF MARIE EVELYN OLSON Secretary to the President JUNE PALMER Sccrutzn-y to the Dean of tile Seminary CAROLYN WAHLSTRAND Secretary to the Dean of the College MARIE SWENSON Scyi'efm'y to the Finunci'ni turd Ahmmi Secretary EVELYN JOHNSON Secretary to the Treasurer RIBS. ELIZABETH ANDERSON Rrgistrar in HM Conservarory of Music LIBRARY ASSISTANTS LYDIA OLSSON RUTH AMALIA CARLSON Page Thirteen

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NINETEEN -t-Im:rxo;o THIRTY-THREE onewmamuZHEUb : PREXY AT HIS DESK A GREATER AUGUSTANN, On the accredited list of the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, Augustana meets the test of a true seat of learning. From a one-room school with one professor and twentywone Students, it has grown during the past seventyrtwo years to be an institution of nine principal buildings with an administration and faculty of more than ninety members and one thousand studentst The non-sectarian nature of the coilege is shown by the fact that its student body last year included mem- bers of twenty church denominations. A wide area is servedl students coming from twenty-two states and four foreign countries. Within the past few years, through the aid of congregational friends, fine Seminary buildings have been erected on Zion Hill at a cost of $375,000; under the enthusiastic and tireless leadership of Mrs. Emmy Evald, the Womanks Missionary Society of the Aughstana Synod has proe vided the sum of $125,000 for the erection of a Womenis Building, first Occupied in September, 1928. Splendid achievement! But true progress means constant progress. Student enrollment, especially in the Senior college, must be increasedetoo many of 0111' stu- dents leave us after two years, residence. A new science hall must be erected and modernly equipped, and We feel safe in assuring any students now considering enrollment with us next fall that we shall have these facilities for their use not later than their junior year. Our summer school is now upon a permanent basis and proving very successful. Although it is now of recognized standing. our achievement. program provides for its prompt and definite enlargement and betterment. So, too, with our night school, instituted at the beginning of the present academic year, which seems to have met a. distinct community need. Other improvements are being planned2ea boy's dormitory, a refed- tory, a conservatory building, closer coiiperation with the church, greater alumni activity, and, above all, closer cob'rdination and cobperation of all in developing the soul of Augustana, in the achievement of a Greater Augustana. GUSTAV A. ANDREEN. Page Twelve

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NINETEEN mzpmc 'VV'v-'--- - - - ARTHUR ANDERSON WALD, PH.D. .ui. Aumhlulm. mm; mm, Luivm - nr t'lyiz-agn, mm. 1:..1i-n-mnm m lrmmnn :qu cnusum-u, 1909-11; Hamid and l k, 1'23-23. ,lt Allgualm Professor of the Swedish Lngzmge and Literature. Dean of the College THE COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS N at many years ago the independent Liberal Arts College seemed in danger of being crushed beneath the upper and nethex millstones of the university and the junior college. At the present time it is undergoing a severe barrage of criticism, not from the enemies, but from the friends of higher education, who charge it with failure to produce, in any real sense, educated men and women. And now, in these latter days, appears the dread specter of depression, shaking a forbidding finger at ambitious administrators. As for the first threat, it seems now definitely to have lost its force and no serious danger longer impends from that source. As for the second, the effect has been a courageous facing of the challenge with a thorough and searching selfwexamination and the emergence of numerous well- considered new plans and procedures which may result in a complete reformation of accepted systems and methods. And as for the economic crisis, painful and difficuit as the experience may be, the need of taking careful thought anew and separating essentials from nonessentials bids fair to produce certain very wholesome results. At Augustana, students, faculty and administration, far from being disheartened, seem to be imbued with a spirit of hope and enthusiasm. The faculty is giving serious thought and study to vital problems of cur- riculum and instruction, and the effort to realize a three-year achievement program is going forward with undiminished interest. Our dreams of a tiGreatei' Augustana must always be far in advance 9f progress toward their realization. But the final goal of achievement IS now, by common consent, not a university with its complement of post- graduate departments, nor a complex organization of loosely related under- graduate schools, but a strong, effective, weil-coiirdinated Liberal Arts College embodying in its program and purpose a vivid appreciation of traditional values and a progressive evaluation of new techniques and tendencies. ARTHUR WALD. Page Fam'teen