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Five minutes more or five minutes less does not usually make a great deal of difference, except when those precious minutes between breakfast and morning classes are involved. Since October, the school bell began ringing at 7:55 instead of the long established 8:00 a. m. With this schedule change a somewhat revised chapel service was introduced. A volunteer group of professors is taking turns with President Schweppe in conducting morning chapel with alternate Scripture readings and sermonettes. The · extra five minutes, however, are taken up in a fifteen minute recess period between the second and third morning hours. This change seems to have made book carrying easier. At any rate, the usual array of books down both sides of the hallway floor before chapel has not yet been seen. But not everyone has caught up to the new schedule. Some of the professors are still waiting, occasionally, for that next. class to arrive promptly five minutes after the second period.
D:uo-piani sts To Perform Vitya Vronsky and Victor Babin, duo-pianists, will present the second of this '56-'57 season's Community Concerts on November 29 in the New Ulm Public High School Auditorium. The prestige of this team is the result of masterful art and an unflagging championship of new works for their demanding medium. Their renditions have been recorded by RCA Victor and Columbia Masterworks Recordings.
Annual Hallo1w een Party Is' H,e ld. 1
The students of tlie college department decked out in many different kinds of cos~ umes, attended their Halloween party on the night of October 31. The gymnasium the scene of this party, was decorated to fit the occasion. These decorations were the work of a committee appointed by the Student Council, who sponsored the party. Another hard-working committee planned the entertainment for the evening. Included in this were the initiating of some college freshmen the showing of three cartoons, and tw-opanto~ mines (one by the Waldheim girls and one by "Elvis" Toennes, Hank Hasse,' and Frank Zabell). There was also a performance by D~ctors . Hando and Bartsch, and their usick" friend, John Schultz. Marlene Kosin and · B~rbara Dahms won the prize for having the best ~ostumes.
The evening was completed with a tasty lunch consisting of cup cakes, caramel apples, and apple cider. Thanks to the efficient food committee!
Concert Is Set for December 2 Af«tlu.tJ, IJ"ollanJ, ./Jn,1 Ot1.:nd 7o P4tticip11te
Priscilla Hoffman, known to many of us as Joey, has been asked to assist in the Indian mission at Bylas, Arizona. She will teach with Willis Hadler ("56) and his wife, the former Lyla Mohr (ex' 58). Joey, whose home is in San Carlos, Arizona, left school October 24. She was a college junior, having attended our school since 1954. She came to us from the East Fork Mission High School. Before she left D. M. L. C., her class gave her a surprise party and presented her with a subscription to the Grade Teacher. Her dorm mates presented her with a suitcase as a token of their good wishes. After Joey left she sent a letter to "the pale faces" of Centennial, thanking them for her gift and the good times she had while at D. M. L. C.
December 2, Sunday afternoon at 3:00 p, m., has been selected as the date for the annual fall concert of the Band, the Marlut SingeFs, ' and the Aeolian Chorus. ' A fine program of secular music is being planned, Among other compositions, the Band will perform "Orpheus" by Offenbach, "I'll See You Again" by Noel Coward, and the familiar Sousa March "Semper Fidelis. " The Marluts will sing "Autumn Leaves, " the recently popular Johnny Mercer hit;"Wagon Wheels"; and a very impressive arrangement for male chorus and piano duet of "Th~ Battle Hymn of the Republic, " It is interesting to note that the music for the "Hymn" was written by a direct ancestor of Edwin Steffe, American baritone, who delighted a Community Concert audience in New Ulm several weeks ago. The Aeolians have chosen to sing from the score of Rodgers and Hammerstein's familiar "Oklahoma, " the beautiful "People Nill Say Ne're in Love." The girls will also present a Viennese Waltz, "Let My Song Fill Your Heart," and finally, "Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor," music by Irving Berlin. Tue words form the sonnet "New Colossus" by Amma Lazarus are found inscribed on the, pedestal of the Statue of Liberty. It is fitting that this song be performed at this time for it was just seventy years ago, in the fall of 1886, that the Statue was dedicated.
M;a ny Ciong,r egation's Donate Food Thanksgi,vin,g Vacation Approaches Since the beginning of the harvest season, Thanksgiving vacation will begin Wednesday, several students have made food collection November 21, at 8:45 a. rn,, and will last un- trips. These trips have taken these students til the following Monday. It is different this to congregations in more than f otty cities a~d year in that Thanksgiving and November week- towns throughout Minnesota, where they c;olend fall at the same time. This way, many lected foodstuffs_ donated to help to defray the expense of feeding the student bpdy. more students can get home for the holiday. Most of the students will be embarking on the highways and byways enroute to their various Joint 'R eform'. a ltion S'e rvice Held destinations. Classes will resume on Monday, On Sunday, October 28, the Wisc~n~i~ Syn~d November 26, at 7:55 a. m. churches of the area around New Ulm partjcipated in a joint service at Dr. Martin Luther College to celebrate the anniversary of the Reformation. Several years ago a new .and lively interest Over 12oo·people crowded the college audit- · was shown in reviving an alumni associr tion orium to honor the nailing of the ninety-five at Dr. Martin Luther College. In June of theses to the church door at Nittenberg. 1952 an alumni luncheon-business meeting The liturgist was Pastor H. C. Duehlrneier was held in the gym of Centennial Hall prior . of Sanborn and the main speaker was Professor to the June Night <foncert. In succeeding years . Erwin Scharf of Northwestern College in similar arrangements have prevailed, and Watertown, Wisconsin.Professor Emil Backer each year the number in attendance df the meet- directed the mass choir, consistingof the two ing has grown. small choirs of the college and the visiting Many of our undergraduates have gone out as church choirs. Mr. Harold Klatt directed emergency teachers and have continued to the mass children's choir and Professor O. teach rather than to return to school. Many W. Stelljes was the organist. high school and college students have been Professor Stelljes opened the service with forced to drop out of school for various reasons the playing of Pachelbel' s prelude to "A Mighty before graduation. In addition, there are Fortress Is Our God. " The choir and conmany people who never attended either our gregition sang alternate stanzas of this great high school or college who likewise have a Reformation hymn. warm spot in their hearts for D. M. L. C. Professor Scharf based his address on II With these ·thoughts in mind, it was decided Timothy 3:14-17. · in the first wee ting that the Association should After the address, the choir sang "If God · ( con't on page 5, col. 2 ) the Lord Nere Not Our Guide 1' by Vulpius.
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