3 to Get Ho nora ry DegreesNobel PrizeWinner to

HonoredA Nobel Prize winner and two

clergymen vvill receive honorarydegi-ees at the 105th commence-ment exercises of Augustana June7.

Dr. Charles H. Townes, provostof the Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology, who last year was'"arded the Nobel Prize in phy-Í..CS, will be conferred the degreeof doctor of humane letters.

The two ministers1 will receivedoctor of divinity degrees. Theyare the Rev. George H. J. Aigm.-r,pastor of St. Paul's LutheranChurch of Evanston, 111., and theRev. George P. Bernard, pastor of

G r a c e Lutheran Church, La-Grange, 111.

Townes, a resident of Cam-bridge, Mass., was given the NobelPrize for his role in the inventionof the maser and laser. He also isinternationally known for his re-search in the field of microwavephysics.

(Maser and laser are wordscoined by Dr. Townes and hisstudents. They stand for micro-wave amplification by stimulatedemission of radiation, and !ightamplification by stimulated emis-sion of radiation.)

At MIT, Townes shares withPresident Julius A. Stratton theresponsibility for general super-vision of the educational and re-search programs of the instituía.

The Nobel Prize winner is chair-man of the science and technologyadvisory committee for mannedspace flight of the National Aeio-nauties and Space Administration.He also serves on several other

committees advising govemmentagencies and the military services.

Townes has received numeroushonors and awards, including theExceptional Service Award fromthe U. S. Air Force, and theThomas Young Medal and Prizefrom the Institute of Physics andthe Physical Society (England).

His writings have been pub-lished widely in scientific journalsand in book form. He has beenissued 12 patents for such items asan electronic oscillator, computingbombsight and electron cameratube.

The Rev. Aigner, a native ofChicago, graduated from Wit-tenburg University, Springfield,Ohio, in 1934 and from the HammaDivinity School at Wittenburg in1937. He also did graduate workat the University of Chicago Di-vinity School.

Rev. Aigner's synodical commit-tee work has included parish edu-cation, higher education and social

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missions. At present he is a mem-ber of the executive committee ofthe Illinois S y n o d, LutheranChurch in America. He has beena member of many communityand church committees related towelfare, care of retarded childrenand exceptional children.

The Evanston pastor has headedcommittees to develop a youthcampsite for the Illinois Synod ofthe f o r m e r United LutheranChurch, and has been a chairmanof a campaign to secure funds andbuild St. Matthew's LutheranHome for the Aging at ParkRidge, 111.

Rev. Bernard is a native of Min-nesota and was graduated magnacum laude from Gustavus Adolph-us College, St. Peter, Minn., in1930. Four years later he receiveda bachelor of divinity degree fromthe Augustana Theological Semi-nary, now the Rock Island, 111.,campus of the Lutheran School ofTheology.

During his pastorate at Wenona,his congregation gained nationalfame because of a radio program,"God's Acre," over station WLS,Chicago, and also through a net-work program with Kate Smith,and an article in Reader's Digest.

At Omaha, the membership ofhis church doubled in size to be-come the largest in the NebraskaConference. His congregation atLaGrange currently is preparingfor a $450,000 building program.

Since 1962 he has been on theexecutive board of the IllinoisSynod, and also dean of the WestChicagoland District.

He has been president of minis-terial associations in Omaha, Will-mar and LaGrange, and served onmany boards and committees ofthe church at large. He is a for-mer member of the GustavusAdolphus College board of direc-tors.

Vól. 63 ROCK ISLAND, ILLINOIS, MAY 5, 1965 No. 24

After Flood Effort

Rock Island MayorThanks Augie StudentsAfter a week devoted to build-

ing d i k e s and fighting record-breaking floods on the MississippiRiver, Augustana s t u d e n t s andfaculty Friday returned to classesand to chapei exercises. where they

-'^eard official words of t h a n k sòm Mayor Morris Muhleman of

Rock Island.Addressing the s t u d e n t body,

Muhleman said: "It was a mostimpressive sight to see young peo-ple from the college working sideby side w i t h townspeople in acommon effort to save our city."

(Except for a few minor breaks,dikes erected by volunteer la-

ers held fast in the Quad-Cityárea and prevented untold millionsin property damage.)

Muhleman paid special tribute toAugustana girls. "The coeds," hesaid, "passed just as many sand-bags as the boys, and what amorale builder they were to theboys!"

We are forever grateful to youwhat you did for our city," the

mayor declared.President C. W. Sorensen also

thanked the students and facultyfor -their "dramatic demonstrationof community cooperation."

k"The word community," he said,

suggests some common responsi-"'»l v. and we are reminded that

jeitizens of the community havecome to the rescue of Augustanaon varkius occasions."

Sorensen s a i d onc outstandingexample of community cooperationoceurred 90 years ago when Au-gustana moved to Rock Island fromPaxton, 111. "The college buildings

* 21-66 ProctorsAnnounced

New proctors for the men's andwomen's residence halls have beenselected, D e a n s Brodahl andRibbeck announced this week.

Sénior women chosen w e r ev^mr Nelson, JoyOe McGarvey,Ruth Ann Gustafson, Tina Benson,Lois Johnson, Lois Pearson, BarbLundblad, Diane Gustafson, MaryBeth Rieck, Mary Ellen Carlson,Carol Delay, Louise Lindquist,L i n d a Westerlin and SharonWright.

.Proctors for the men's residences1 be R. Jim O. Woods, Robeit

Ahrens, C a r i Carlson, DennisCarlson, G. Tom Church, JohnHoglund, Harry Moravec, KennethPorter, Gus Sponberg, DarrellBloom, Gary Gronert, WilliamLee, Brad Morrison, David Stran;;and Warren Strom.

in Rock Island were not q u i t eready when school was to open inthe fali, so townspeople from milesaround pitched in to help finishconstruetion work," the presidentexplained.

He also p o i n t e d out that theQuad-City community was pri-marily responsible for donating thefunds which built Centennial Hall.

Sorensen brought laughter fromthe audience when he warned thestudents that "they must now turntheir attention to different kinds ofdikes, such as classes, term papersand forthcoming examinations, inorder to prevent a different kindof disaster!"

Aglaia GetsMortarboardMembership

Motar Board, national honor so-ciety for sénior college women,presented a charter to AugustanaCollege at an initiation ceremonySunday, April 25, in WesterlinHall.

Mrs. Edward Q. Moulton, Wor-thington, Ohio, national treasurerof Mortar Board, presented thecharter to Judy D. Anderson,president of the Augustana chap-ter.

The Augustana unit is calledthe Aglaia Chapter, in honor of theAglaia honor society for séniorwomen which has been in exis-tence on the Augustana campussince 1940.

Besidcs the nine active and eightalumnae members previously ini-tiated into Mortar Board, ten jun-iors were tapped by membersMonday.

Juniors selected w e r e GladysVig, Diane Gustafson, Barb Lund-blad, Lois Johnson, Lynn Schultz,Sharon Wright, Ruth Ann Gustaf-son, Carol Delay, Louise Lindquistand Ingrid Gustafson.

NEWS BRIEFSThe KT May Tea is being held

in the Union today from 3-5.• * *

Dave Strang will speak at Ves-pers tonight at 9:30 in AscensionChapei.

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The library is sponsoring a booksale tomorrow from 8:30-3:00 inPotter Hall.

Fair Scheduled for SaturdayAíter Interruption from Flood

FAIR CO-CHAIRMEN—Char Nelson and Drew Karkow lounge ina convertible before taking off on this year's Friendship Fair vacationfrom studies. The "Resort to Fun" fair will be Saturday, despite inter-ruption from last week's flood. (Obs photo by Ed Ingold.)

Plan Speech, HearingClinics for Summer

A series of diagnostic clinicswill be held this month at the Au-gustana Speech and Hearing Cen-ter, according to Dr. Donald C.Davis, director.

The clinics are in preparationfor the center's summer therapysession which begins June 14.Parents concerned about theirchild's speech may arrange for adiagnostic interview by calling788-9511, extension 273 or by writ-ing to Dr. Davis.

Diagnostic interviews will takeplace in the speech and hearingcenter in the Fine Arts Building.There is a $5 fee for the initialdiagnostic evaluation.

Again this summer there will befour basic programs at the center.First, a residence program is pro-vided for young people from be-yond the immediate área who donot have therapy facilities in theirhome community. From 35 to 45children are enrolled in this six-week program. They arrive oncampus June 13.

Secondly, local children whohave organic problems such ashearing loss, aphasia, voice prob-lems, cleft palate and cerebralpalsy or who stutter are enrolledfor six weeks beginning June 14.They attend five half-days a week.

The third group will be localchildren with non-organic speechproblems such as articulation dif-ficulties and delayed speech de-velopment. They are enrolled ina five-week program starting June21 and spend two hours daily atthe center.

The fourth program runs fromJune 21 through July 23 and is forchildren with reading problems.Children accepted for enrollmentin this program are not retardedchildren or merely slow learners,but they are children with spe-cific reading problems.

Inquiries concerning the reme-dial reading program should be di-rected to Miss Mayme Bolin, prin-cipal, Eugene Field School, RockIsland.

"Resort to Fun," the 17th annualFriendship Fair, to be held Satur-day will open at 1 p.m. in thegymnasium and c o n t i n u e until9:30 p.m., after which the auetionwill be held in Centennial Hall.

Co-chairmen Drew Karkow ofDesPlaines and Charlotte Nelsonof Grand Rapids, Mich., have an-nounced that the g o a 1 foi thisyear's fair is to raise S4.500 for theinternational student e x c h a n g eprogram.

As in past years, the fair is ex-pected to attract several thousandp e r s o n s . including hundreds ofparents and visiting Luthtr Lea-guers. A special luncheou for lea-guers will be held at 11 a.m. in theAndreen dining hall, and a lunch-eon for parents is scheduled at11:30 in the College Union.

AU students and visitors are in-vited to the Friendship Fair sup-per, to be served at 4:30, 5:10 and6 p.m. in the Andreen dining hall.

Although the fair closes Satur-day night, the booths will be openagain on Sunday afternoon for in-spection by open house visitors oncampus.

The co-chairmen for FriendshipFair are being assisted by the fol-lowing student committees: aue-tion—S a 11 i e Knanishu and TomMaranville; campus decorations—Nancy Lussow and John Schmidt;business—Julie Lucken and WayneJohnson; Luther L e a g u e lunch-eon—Marsha Rauch and LawrenceLindmark; supper—Jane E v a n sand Paul Dawson; publicity—Bar-bara Thorsen and Robert Ahrens;p a r e n t s ' luncheon—Carolyn Ashand Gary LaCroix; booths—ValerieBofinger and Douglas Benander;welcome—Janet M. C a r l s o n andStephen Samuelson; gym decora-tions— Kathleen Cashatt and EricNelson; election of "Mr. and MissFriendship"—Diane Gustafson andDennis Popp.

MAGDA GLATTERPRESENTS ART

SHOW IN R. I.Magda Glatter, instruetor of art

and art history at Augustana fortile past 15 years is presenting aone-man show at the Rock IslandPublic Library through the monthof May beginning Sunday.

Mrs. Glatter received her arteducation at the Academy of Ap-plied Arts, Budapest, Hungary.She was a student of the world-renowned P r o f e s s o r AlmosJaschik. She attended graduatecourses at the Art Institute ofChicago.