Sioux Falls College - Sioux Brave Yearbook (Sioux Falls, SD)

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INAUGURA HON OF DR Un November twenty-fourth, IQ37, Sioux Falls College inaugu- rated Dr. VVarren Palmer Behan as its eleventh president. Historically interesting was the presence of the largest group of college alumni and of Grand Island College ever assembled. lVIore than txvo hundred educators and alumni representing eighty universities and colleges, colorfully clad in flowing, academic robes, paid tribute to the occasion. The brief but impressive invest- ment ceremony was conducted by Dr. John L. Barton, president of the college board of trustees. Dr. Charles K. Gillcey, dean of the University of Chicago chapel, read the inaugural prayer. A significant address, America's Stake in the Christian College, was made by Dr. Paul Lamont Thompson, president of Shurtleff College, Alton, Illinois, and prom- ', JJ. . Ur- nu ., .-f .X ' '- af' t . X-,

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X ,pin gif-uv WARREN PALKQER BEHAN inent northwest educator. The ex- ecutive secretary of the American Baptist Home llilission society, Dr. G. Pitt Beers, pronounced the hen- ediction. Two honorary degrees were also conferred. Upon Carl R. Gray was conferred a Doctor of Lawsfl while Mrs. Gray received the honor of Hlloctor of Letters. 'llhis marked the first time, accord- ing to college officials, that hoth hushand and wife have been hon- ored at the same ceremony. An out- standing career as a railroad execu- tive caused recognition of lXfIr. Gray and designation as American llflother of 11337 led to the invest- ment of his wife. Doctor and nlrs. Bt-han and the Grays were honored later in the day at a reception held at Glidden llall on the campus, and an elah- orate inaugural dinner that eve- ning.

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ADMINISTRATION Nw ' vw, ffl! , V, in Www ffm. fUw' ,ma fgzfp , f M ZZHQS ' .37 f 154 , ff' ff , , ,5, gf! ,, ray! Wi' 'off' , ff ik, W, fffff,99,, f 1' ' -.aw 7 , :.. A. RICE, A.M. EMMA LOU TAGGART B S IN LS E S OLSEN AB Field Sfffffafy Lzbrarzan Secretary and Business Illanager Once a blacksmith, discus throwing champ, varsity foot- ball center and tennis champ, Field Secretary A. C. Rice was a superintendent in Rangoon, Burma, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, London. Rice collects canes and keeps them in a foot he amputated from a disabled ele- phant. She likes to sing, cook, knit, ride horseback and is inter- ested in photography. Librarian Emma Lou Taggart attended Grove City college in Pennsylvania, Colorado college and the University of Illinois. Broken ribs in a 1915 SFC football game did not deter Elmer Olsen from returning as treasurer after having been a newspaper man, commercial office manager and all around nuisance in the World VVar. A college basketball star, Kappa Delt and president of the Pan-Hellenic, Dean Harriet Anderson was schooled at Iowa State, Columbia, George Washington and Chicago universities. She was in the ordnance department at VVashington during the war and her hobby, collecting coins, began while touring Europe. Dean Carman came from a long line of preachers, went to Denison, Ohio, and Chicago universities, to China as a missionary, married, was a track star and coach, a Phi Beta Kappa and taught high school. You'll never learn that his middle name is Hanscomb.