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

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T106 Story of the Year 1958-1959 THE DOME. GNOME'S HOME in GM Math: Mariska: m: c-xmrr .sz exciting leliiz'ie ru IEHIHIMR .x'ftm'ctlfr.

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Table 6f Contents Story of Year The College Story . The Student Story . The Bell S omzds - l - IVben we Study - Admiuistration . Faculty Undergraduates The Bell Sound: - - - 7179?: we Meet - Greek Societies Campus Clubs . Organgzatiom . The Bell Somzds . - - When we Win - Autumn Sports Winter Sports . Spring Sport; . The Bell Sounds - - - When we Leave - Memories Senior: Lutheran School of Nnrsin Memories . . . Faculty Classes Advertisers - Organizational Index - WAYNE jonusou - Firs: Semener Editor PAT NELLANS, an BOWMAN, RON PALMER -- Secaud Smarter Editors RON LARSON - Business Mamager 120 150 152 158 166 174 176 186 204 206 210 21 3 221 260

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THE COLLEGE STORY WHAT Is AUGUSTANA? A dehnitional answer comes easily in reply It is 21 fouteyeat liberal arts college dedicated to the Christian ideals of higher education in ptepating the student to participate intelligently in the culture of his generation. Tbit if Ancgmtnne, bet it i; more . . . The sonotous tones of the old hell in the Bell Tower ring over the campus and echo between the short hills and the scattered buildings. The tall beams of the tower, which were saivuged from Augustana's Htst building, ele- vate the original bell which traditionally rings when the team is victorious in an athletic contest or when a girl becomes a true co-ed in its shadows. The Bell Tower stands behind Old Main, whose dome is both a landmark and :1 symbol of the Augustana College tradition. For years students have watched the prismatic deflections of light through the brilliantly colored win- dow 0f the chapel. Old Main also houses offices of ad- ministration, admissions, faculty and the deans. AlmOSt every department in the school curriculum has classes in the building, and the dome is the Iiving quarters of Dome Gnome, the criptic observer of Augustana life who sees all, knows all, and tell; all. It is a place of memorable lectures and unforgettable decisionsidmi tlaz'x zlr Augm- mm. The Steps of thousands of students have hollowed shallow depressions in the stone Stairs descending from Old Main t0 the boulevard at the Seventh Avenue thoroughfare. Across the street the gaunt skeletal frame of a partially constructed building passes from the embryonic state of its design to the coordinated whole of the completed struc- tureethe Fine Arts Building and its new auditorium. In the buildings are the laboratory and practice rooms of the art and music departments, ofhces, classrooms, Potter Hall, and Larson Recital Hall. Used for weekly Student Union meetings, after-game dances, presentations of the dramatics department, and the meetings of large groups like LS.A., Potter Hall is a hub of campus activity. Behind it Is Etie- son Field, sometimes green, grey, or white; deserted and empty or alive with grit and determination, shouts and groans. Near the held is a building of turrets anti gar- goyled architecture of a bygone period. The manyeeoated remodeling of its past, and the animating population of the Student body make up the Student Union building; All Ibi: 13 Angilttane. PREHISTORIC FOSSILS AND ROCKS are displayed in the famed Geology Mmezmz of the le'IEerg Hall of Science.