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...Apparently stimulated by the approach of spring, 250 male students of Augustana College, Rock Island, Ill., raided a women's dormitory, tipped over beds and pushed screeching coeds into cold showers. The girls seemed delighted. "It was more fun than anything else," said Senior Lois Taylor. "In fact, we had an inkling they were coming...
...known mock conventions Vandenberg has won 13-at Harvard, Washingtion & Lee, Washington University (St. Louis), Notre Dame, Marquette, Oberlin, Wooster, Case (Cleveland), Centre (Ky.), Kalamazoo, Northern Michigan College of Education, Augustana (Ill.) and Lindenwood (Mo.), Stassen was the choice at University of Pennsylvania, Miami (Ohio) and Russell Sage Dewey won at Hiram (Ohio...
Last week Mount Olivet, now the second biggest church in the Augustana Lutheran Synod, celebrated its 25th anniversary. The congregation had already outgrown its new $50,000 church. Pastor Youngdahl was holding three identical services every Sunday, each overflowing the 465 seats and jamming the church to the doors. To meet the rush, he planned to split $400,000 between a new postwar church building and a Sunday school, youth center and gymnasium...
...first in Washington. With degrees from Augustana College, Princeton, Columbia, Georgetown (law), he had once toiled in the Interior Department; later in the Farm Security Administration, where he did resettlement work. With his wife, a onetime physical-education instructor, he entertained carefully and well. In 1940 Lund went back to Michigan, ran for Congress, lost a close race. He remained to serve Governor Van Wagoner, kept one eye peeled on Washington...
...charge of the Army nurses is Major Julia Flikke, who was born in Wisconsin, took up nursing after being left a widow before the war. Onetime assistant superintendent at Chicago's Augustana Hospital, she joined the Army in World War I, served in France, China and the Philip pines. For twelve years before she succeeded Major Julia C. Stimson as super intendent of the Corps in 1937, she was with the Walter Reed General Hospital in Washington. Gracious, grey-haired, she wears her major's oak leaves like a veteran...