Concordia College - Concordian Yearbook (Bronxville, NY)

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ORCHESTRA AND BAND Performing under the direction of Mitchel Chetel, their second full-time conductor in as many years, the Orchestra and Band continued to function as the instrumental supplement to Concordia ' s Music Department Besides the Spring and Fall Concerts members of the Band found time to work up several Marches to play during half-time of the Coop ' s basketball and football games and for the Pep Rally in October. Both outfits had their ups and downs Absenteeism hampered progress some of the time, but the most damage came in the mid-term shuffle of scholastic eligibility At any rate it was the Band that never failed to look smart Snappy uniforms, a gift of the Ladies Aid Society the year before, always brightened up the appearance of their showing. 45 •

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i ym DRAMATIC SOCIETY Nineteen inches of snow failed to keep people from attending this year ' s production of Professor Luecke ' s Christmas Play, Send Out Thy Light Admitted, it was only a handful of audience that shoveled their way to Schoenfeld Gymnasium that third night, but it was at the same time a humble tribute to a beautiful Play. Consider this year ' s presentation a success! But for a half-dozen veterans it was the first time behind Concordia ' s footlights for every student Hugo Kiel and Claire Zander played the roles of Joseph and Mary, and led the cast in one of the finest productions seen here in recent years Last spring ' s comedy sensation, Our Hearts Were Young and Cay. ' ' (with Marianne Rasch and Eunice Bobzin) has prompted the Society to stage an operetta, Rose of the Danube, in anticipation of another success. • 44

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STUDENT PUBLICATIONS • 46 After getting off to a rather phlegmatic start (because printer Schuckner lost the copy of the first issue) Ted Ernst gathered together the loose ends of his somewhat loosely strung news organization in time to publish the first number of the CONCORD a week after election day. Ensuing issues of the CONCORD have managed to cover the gamut of Concordia activity, reporting everything from routine news to the latest in dormitory gossip. The CONCORD ' S contributions to literature were few but good Ralph Perry described his observations as an American on a bicycle in Europe in a chatty column called, Perry ' s Progress. O Tempora ! O Mores! O Herman! became a never-ending stream of something or other (you never knew what to expect ' l from Norman Dietz ' s typewriter Cliff Ri is submitted several poems that were worth reading. Clyde Kaminska deserves more credit than is given him for kee ping the paper running Writing, rewriting, and typing news articles during the first semester kept him busier than an assistant editor should be. With the advent of second-semester Assistant Editor Everett Kalin things took on a steadier place, and the Ernest-Kalin-Kaminska combination looked brighter, worked better. In other departments of the school paper Peggy McLellan kept her staff of typists well supplied with copy to be gotten to the printer, while Paul Thielo, Bill Hausmann, and Michael Trinklein handled the business, adver- tising, and subscription ends of the organization. Professors Luecke and Manning were the group ' s faculty advisers. Walter Schoenfuhs spent a scholar ' s Christmas vacation paging through Luther ' s writings in search of appropriate quotations for the CONCORDIAN ' S title pages. His work is to be commended with that of Marie Delventhal, Donald Foard, and George Frank, whose contributions are scattered in large measure among the pages of this book. The h ardest pressed members of the CONCORDIAN staff were without doubt its photographers, Tom Fitten, Don Marcek, and Bob Werberig. Attack- ing their duties with a zeal that was nothing less than fanaticism, they could be seen taking pictures in all sorts of odd places at all sorts of odd times right up to the publication deadline A vote of thanks for the many hours they spent developing pictures at the Lincoln Studios Dean Theodore Haus- mann, no amateur photographer himself, took time out from his teaching and administrative duties to assist the photographers in the more technical aspects of their work. Fred Stiemke added another feather to his cap when, as advertising manager for this year ' s CONCORDIAN, he met successfully the toughest schedule any CONCORDIAN advertising manager has yet had to meet. The process of putting out a yearbook is a silent, painful one. Paul Schulze, Claire Beisler, and Ernest Werner will testify to that. Under the conditions prescribed by Concordia tradition — secrecy — the three met to iron out the editorial problems that arose. Now that it is over each agrees that, mistakes and all, it was hard work but fun.