St Olaf College - Viking Yearbook (Northfield, MN)

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MR ORX II I Ii IJAIIL Q . mi MRS. ELIZABETH VVALSINGHAM KELSEY WITH UNDAUNTED Poisis and systematic busy-ness, Mrs. Elizabeth VValsingham Kelsey conducted all the affairs of the dramatics department, took a group to the Cape Girardeau contest, and taught several classes in oral interpretation and dramatic expression. Her supervision has been given to everything from the construction of uflatsn to the slightest turning of a phrase in every productiong and she has also won a reputation for assembling programs among townspeople. Mr. Orville Dahlfs own proficiency in forensics has set a high standard for his stu- dents, and his engaging manner of presenting ideas has been an excellent example of a poised personality. Strongly opposed to the idea that the winning of debates and tourna- ments was the criterion of a good debate team and the end and purpose of debating, he nevertheless led both the men,s and women's team through to championships in the Northwest Debate Tournament, an achievement unprecedented in the history of the tourney. He was also the proud father of a blue-ribbon boy! DR. IULIUS BoRAAs, head of the school's department of education, was noted for his sense of humor, and often spent the first few days after vacations by having his students tell their favorite jokes. He has served on the state Board of Education for some seventeen years, and he was reappointed this year as president of that board. He has a system of his own for making statistics helpful, and he believes that teaching to think is the backbone of education. cs' t E -. urs , Q. -. - ' Y r . N ,4 .Wy r ' uv- '- EDUCATION DRAMATICS AND FURENSICS A is I

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Mr. Flaten, Mr. Bollenbachcr. Miss Neimi, Miss Stielow, Mr. Fllingson MODERN LANGUAGES TEACHING THE GERMAN LANGUAGE with CXHCUECSS, Prof. Paul Bollenbacher impressed on his students a lasting cultural appreciation of it, and his modern approach to this language study made his classes very interesting. Besides being an ardent gardener, he was inter- ested in cabinet making, and had several pieces of his own work in his home, which he also built himself. He is a World War veteran, but is not the German flying ace that tradition has painted him as being. Spontaneous Miss Hildegarde Stielow continued to infuse life into the newly-formed German club. One of her pastimes was sewing and embroidery, but her main interest outside of teaching was in legal work. Majoring also in accounting, she had visions of storming the men's world when she worked for a short time in a law firm. Teaching scientific German, genial Professor Ellingson sympathized with his students' struggles with the language. He was also a gardener and made good use of his backyard for this purpose. Celebrating his seventy-second birthday and passing his forty-fifth year of teaching at St. Glaf, Professor Nils Flaten, head of the Romance language department, continued to give excellent instruction in the French and Spanish languages. He possessed an immense knowledge of languages, having made fifteen trips to foreign lands, visiting every European country except Russia and the Balkan states. Mr. Flaten has grown many of the trees in Northfield from seed, and raised and cured the tree for the altar in the small chapel in Agnes Mellby Hall. Petite Miss Pearl Neimi, filled with a zest for life, came to us from Waldorf College. Possessing abounding energy, she was interested in horses and weapons, taught French, studied Spanish and Latin, and worked on her doctor's degree at the same time. Her favorite pastime was that of indulging in the luxury of a daily coffee hour.

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PHILOSOPHY AND 46 PSYCHOLOGY ggi. Q MR. seiiiifrfiaii has been with us since last fall as a temporary instructor in psychology to Fill the vacancy left by the illness and death of the late Professor Ringstad. He left a deh- nite impression of his energetic scholarship on his students, which scholarship he intends to continue and deepen in graduate study at Harvard. WITH A sAeR1F1c:E akin to martyrdom, Professor Arthur Solum gave up his sleep on three days of each week to climb the Ad building stairs for an early morning radio broadcast. Despite the fact that as a Math instructor he dealt mainly with blackboard figures and theories, he was also qualihed as a civil engineer and proved it by supervising the con- struction of Agnes Mellby Hall, a man-sized iob even for a practicing engineer. This year he continued his work of teaching surveying and analytical mechanics. President of the Northfield St. Olaf Club and teaching IDOSI of the sixteen math courses offered, Professor Clarence Carlson still had time to indulge in his hobby of gardening, on which subject he was an expert. He liked especially to experiment with tulip bulbs. This year the Carlsons were engrossed in plans for a new home. Professors Hetle and Possum also taught courses in this department. Mr. Carlson, Mr. Solum MATHEMATICS