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

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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

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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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WM NINETEEN -t-Im2:nOzv FHRTY-THREE C10NRAD BERGENDOFF A.,M. B,.,D PHD. RV 10M: HJL Amy tuna iiil: IHLD. l'niwnity l Seminary l'hilz-uizlplnu JJIS- -19; lipla-zllm LIIIuJ. Professor of Systematic Theology. Dean of the Seminary AUGUSTANA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY Education for the ministry of the Church is the main goal of our Augustana Theological Seminary. Decades ago this Seminary made an accredited AB. the preparatory requirement for entrance. It seeks to furnish a theological preparation true to the Sacred Scriptures and a witness of the faith of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, as well as to train men for the gospel ministry of the Church which owns and supports the Seminary. It would be a spiritual center for refreshing of the Church. The complex problems of the Christian, hence of our Lutheran, Church today have always in this Seminary received the attention called for by sound Christian faith and practice. The contemporary cultures, coming and going as cultures do come and go, are duly received, with discriminative critique, sifting, rejection, adoption or whatever else Christian faith calls for. This Seminary has maintained, does maintain and ever will, under God, that While the notions and theories of man have their time, the Church of Christ. the Word of God, and the consequent faith of the Church abide through the millen- niums of human efforts in life, thought, and achievements. A constant growth in the ideals of seminary life, teaching, and purpose has marked the Seminary from its youthful days of 1860 in Chicago, then in Paxton, Illinois, finally at its present location since 1875 The archi- tecturally splendid complex of buildings housing the Seminary activities crowns what still is called ttZion Hili and has become a favorite place for various conventions and assemblies of our Church. The Seminary welcomes coming students of a new schooi year. It Will be pleased to have visitors to the city of Rock Island view the lovely buildings and attend, if they have the leisure, the lectures. May God continue to bless the Augustana Theological Seminary, from which. twelve hundred pastors have gone forth to preach the gospel. THE THEDLOGICAL FACULTY. mszU vm Puge Fifteen