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

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The school year of 1943-44 did not see much change in the teaching staff of Augustana college. Students coming back found Dean Wald making announcements in chapel, Dr. Bergendoff giving point ' full chapel talks, Dr. Pearson leading the Christianity classes, Dean Swanson playing the organ, Mr. Veld leading the Choir, Dr. Magnusson teaching Chemistry- — all as usual. Freshmen as well as Seniors found the regular Liberal Arts Courses offered. The war with all its changes had not affected such basic subjects of educa- tion as Mathematics, English, History, Music, Art, the Languages, Philo ' sophy, Christianity, or Physical Education. They are departments of a school system that do not change. Each Augustana student was able to carry out his proposed plan of study. But apart from the regular teaching schedule was the Army Aviation StU ' dent Program, which was composed of a concentrated course of study for the two hundred fifty cadets stationed on the campus. They practically monopolized the Science Building with their geography and physics classes. Old Main housed speech, English, and math classes for the army as well as the regular college courses. Physical Training classes filled the gym as well as the athletic field. Many of the professors on the staff took over these classes as part of their war work. Four of the Augustana professors are members of the armed services. Beanie Lundholm is a member of the Medical Corps and is still in the United States at the time of this writing. Coach Briley is an instructor in physical training in the air corps. A. V. Swedberg is a Lieutenant Colonel in the Army and the commanding officer of an A. S. T. P. unit in Tennes ' see. Dr. Bunge of the English department is serving in the Navy as a -Lieutenant (j. g.). We miss these men and will welcome their return. That there have been so few changes helps us to realizie how fortunate we at Augustana and students at other schools in America are in being able to go to school in a free country.

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Seagard, John C. Seaton, Donald C. Sehnerl, Harold G., Ir. Sellstrom, Eugene C. Servine, J. Stanley Servino Paul Sbarpe, James Joseph Shaw, Robert F. i Sheets. Merrill L. Sheridan. Jay C. Sherrill, W. Dan Shurson, H. O. Simpson, David Sims, Thomas Sinnock, Merle Dean Sisler, Ralph Dewey Slater, Harold Slentz, George L. Smick, Elbert A. Smiley, Donald Smith, Charles J. Smith, Neal S. Snyder, Marion Soderstrom. Kenneth Spitznas, H. William Staack, H. Frederick Stacker, Russell Lee Steianowski, Leonard Sterrett, Theodore Stoker, George W. Stone, Edward Stone. John Stone, Theodore Stricter, Robert M. Strohmeier, Harold W. Strupp, Robert E. Stuhr, Calvin L. Sture, Vernon Sudlow, William Sundquiflt, Leonard M. Sundquist, Ralph Suverkrup. Jack M. Swallow, Walter E. Swan. Harry Swanson, Charles Svranberg. Roy M. Swanson, A. William Swanson, Carl G. Sw anson, Carl O. Swanson, Earl W. Swan on, Karl Ted Swanson, Luther Svranson, Paul F. Swanson, R. Orrin Swanson. Richard E. Swanson. Roger Sw anson, Vernon A. Sw edberg, Arthur V. Svredberg. Byron Swedberg. E. W. Swensson. Phillip - Tangorra. Mike Tappendori, Robert Taube, Arnold Teaters. Albert S. Telleen, John N. Thelander, R. Philip Thiesen, Warren F. Thoman, Clarence Thomas, Clarence W. Thomas, Mark Thomson, John W. Thomgren, Roger D. Thomgren. Walter Thorson, Edward W. Tippel, Charles - Tomquist, Russell J. Tracy, Robert K. Traub, Jean Robert Tregoning, John Trevor, Glenn A. Trevor. Robert M. Trevor, Thomas A. Trevor, William D. Trued. Philip Twamley, Charles Udden. Marshall Van Brunt, Dale Van Wonterghem. James Vargo. James E. Vatt, David Vedell, Howard Vieth, Edward W. Vogel, Paul Voltmer, William Wagner, Curtis Wagner. Kenneth Wahlstrom, Dale S. Wait, Myron B. Walker. Rex E. WaUin, Clavton L. Walters, Robert Wassberg, John F. Wassberg. Leslie Watson-. Leiand Webb, Albert E. Weber, John H. Weckel, Allen Weinstein, Darrel Welch. Walter W. Werner, Evert West, Raymond Westcott, William H. Westling, Norman C. White, Warren, Jr. Wiedenhoeft. James H. Wiersema. John Allan Wigers, Allan B. Wilder, Lewis R. Wilkinson, Eugene W. Williams, AUred Wilson, Glenn E. Wilson, Harry Wilson, Lee A. Wilson, Robert D. Wind, Keith Winholt, Alfred Witter, Bestor Witterstetter, Gene Wood, Charles G. Wood, Fal. Jr. Wood. WUliam Woodvrorth, George E. Wright, Jack O. Wunderlich. Donald Wunderlich. Richard Yager. Eldon W. Youngquist, James O. Youngvorst, Jacob Zaruba, William G. Zelnio. Stanley Zimmerman, Bryant Zisko, Richard Zobrist, Benedict Zvonik. Dwight M. CHAPLAINS Anderson, A. T. Anderson, Frank A. Bengtson, Arthur B. Benson. Fred J. Berg, Milton E. Bergquist, Joseph E. Bergquist, O. L. Bohman, Oscar F. Carlson. Harry Conrad, Joseph Elmer, Joseph Erling, Bertil Fahnstrom. H. M. K. Falk, Alex Haterius, C. E. Holmberg, Leonard W. Johansson, Robert Y. Johnson, Birger Lack. Ernest A. Larson. J. Herman Leai, Philip Lindauist. J. O. LundLerg, Walter Lundblad, Harry Lundquist, Amos T. Lundquist, Roinus Nelson, John L. Nelson. Paul V. Nordgren. Armand R. Ohman. Carl S. Olander, O. Karl Ostergren, David Ostergren. G. A. Palm. John Arthur Soderberg, H. E. Sutherland, John E. Swenson, J. Sabin Swenson. Maurice L. Wahlstrom, P. Gustav Youngdahl, Ellis U. Zetterholm. Carl A. Zimmerman, Carl NURSES Anderson, Alice M. Anderson. Ella Mae Anderson. Mable Bare, Elizabeth Bartell, Mrs. Sarah Turner Behn. Louise Binney. Shirley Nordstrom Gustaison, Evelyn Jenson, Ruth Johnson, Helen Keller, Hildegarde Klarr, Elizabeth Larson, Ruth Lottman. Myra Mathias, Mrs. Jeanne Johnson Olmstead, Ruth Rock, Ada Swanson. Dessel K. Swanson, Dorothy E. Todd, Elizabeth Langlie Wilond, Geneva WOMEN ' S AUXILIARIES Allison. Ruth Ball, May Bozeman, Mary Frances Chapman, Elizabeth Driggs, Mary Hallberg, Luella Hawkinson, Gladys Markovich, Helen Nelson, Anne Nelson, Doris E. Pearson, Victory Seitzinger, Mrs. Marian Westerberg Soenke, Elsa Strupp, Evelyn Jane Tuey, Myra K.

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Mgustam in War- Zime On every hand the war has made its influences felt on the campus during this academic year of 1943-1944. Large vacant portions of the chapel have daily made us aware of the absence of our men students. We miss familiar faces in the faculty ranks. The bleachers on the athletic field have been strangely vacant. For months the Victory Bell has not been heard. We have become accustomed to novel sights and sounds. Air Force cadets have marched in double file between the buildings. They have drilled endlessly upon the field. Each evening at sunset Retreat has sounded and the flag been lowered. Songs of the Air Force have taken the place of college songs and yells. Martial music has accompanied the Saturday morning review. A curious inter-mingling of civilian and mflitary has characterized the year at Augustana. Our thoughts have not been confined to the campus. More than ever the mail boxes have drawn the attention of students and faculty alike. There have been letters from all the far corners of the earth. They have told of foreign scenes and exciting events, of unexpected meetings, of hopes and future plans. Almost continuously there have been visitors — blue or khaki, of all ranks, in all services. They have told of camp, or training, or of battle, in air, on sea, on land. So short the interval of time since the visitor was student here — so far away the days of the campus at peace, when Andreen and East and West Hall rang with merry laughter! And amid the letters and visitors have come the somber messages of those who never will return — those who have answered the final roll call. So much has happened, so much is happening, that predictions of days to come are idle. But in the terror of a world in flames one catches momentary glimpses of what endures and what will perish. Friendship crystalizes. Courage and faith remain. The resolve that we must go on, will not die. The conviction that God is -still in His heaven when all ' s wrong with the world, still holds. And for many of us Augustana comprehends just such things — friendship, faith, high resolve, noble endeavor. Some spark of it may be on the coral reefs of the Pacific, some on the sands of Africa or the icy mountains of the Aleutians. But wherever it is in the hearts of those who are far away or close at hand, Augustana is a flame that kindles mind and soul, and casts a bright, warm Hght amid the darkest circumstances. It ' s radiant ray is a promise of a brighter, clearer day. v - »t t u r- ' PRESIDENT CONRAD BERGENDOFF, AB., AM., B.D., Ph D , Th I