Augustana College South Dakota - Edda Yearbook (Sioux Falls, SD)

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ON A CLEAR DAY RISE AND LOOK AROUND YOU . . . YOU ' LL SEE WHO YOU ARE .. . THE GLOW OF YOUR BEING ■ ■:mm OUTSHINES EV ' RY STAR... YOU FEEL PART OF EV ' RY MOUNTAIN, SEA, AND SHORE... YOU CAN HEAR, FROM FAR AND NEAR, A WORLD YOU ' VE NEVER HEARD BEFORE . . . YOU CAN SEE FOREVER AND EVER AND EVER AND EVERMORE

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AUGUSTANA COLLEGE SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA uKA ' 1 Ki Si

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I HE PRESIDENT REFLECTS ON A CLEAR DAY 1 Being President of Augustana College for ten years has been an exhilarating experience! In that time, I have been constantly reassured by students, faculty, and staff who have adopted the stance, consciously or not, of standing tall, looking around for new opportunities to learn, to teach, and to serve. Despite vagaries of these times, including some uncertainty and retrenchment in higher education, Augustana has never been more successful in fulfilling its mission. In short, these are clear days on this campus. We are thankful for our traditional liberal arts strength which forms an essential and humanizing base for all our students. Yet we look around our- selves constantly to add new professional and career programs to a curriculum already well balanced, in order that the Augustana student may apply his liberal arts knowledge and va- lues in a practical way to better serve God, na- ture, and his or her fellow man. Each member of the Augustana community must strive to keep open the lines of commun- ication with his or her God. The psychologist, William James, had a favorite quotation from the Bible. It was from the book of Ezekiel. Eze- kiel was having .his trouble with the Israelites of his time, who were as the Bible says, a rebel- lious house, impudent children and stiff- hearted. They were not interested in spiritual ytm M.fi ■