Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-16
AUCIEFACULTY !.
= REMAINS SAME
Board Of Directors in Quarterly
Meeting Decide to Retain Col
lege Teaching Force.
PLAN FOR COMMENCEMENT
Program Of Graduating Exercises
Is AnnOunced-N0 Action
Taken on Building.

Changes Of only minor impOr-
lance in the faculty of Augustana
college were made at the quarterly
meeting of the board of directors
yesterday. All members of the col
lege teaching force were retained.
J. +. Page, instructor in the Eng
slish department, was retained with
a raise in salary and Prof. Arvid
Samuelson, director of the Angus
tana conservatory, was again en-
gagged. Prof o. L. Nordstrom, here
tofore teacher in the commercial
department, was named as princi-
pal. The new head of this depart
~ment was graduated from Angus
tana with the class of 05 and has
taken postgraduate work at the
Universities of Minnesota and Iowa
Vacancy in the department of
biology was left to the discretion
of the executive committee to fill
Prof. J. H. PaaTman, curator of the
Davenport Academy of Sciences,
has fllled the position during the
past year
The personnel of the academy
department remains the same.
Hold Over Building Project.
No action was taken on the
building of the proposed dormitory
for seminary students, the board
combining itself to the proposition
of the building of tunnels to the
various buildings for the replace
ment of steam pipes.
Report of the acting treasurer,
David Beckstrom, was heard and
approved. Although a deficit of
over $4,000 was expected by most
OF the members of the board it de-
veloped from the report of the
-sSeasurer that the shortage amount
ed TO only $4,000. Action upon till-
ing the vacancy left by the death
of the former treasurer, Andrew
Kempe, was deferred until he an
nGal meeting in July.
DenkmanH memorial library stock
rOOms-wIll be installed according
TO a report heard IRON the Denk-,
mann family, donors OF the library.
This addition will provide tor the
books to the library of the col
lege.
College to Give Banquet
Following the precedent of Yale
university, Augustana will enter
tain the present graduates and all
graduates of the college and semi
nary at the annual alumni dinner
in the Augustana gymnasium on
the night of May 81. Alumni asso-
citation members have heretofore
managed the banquet, but upon. the
appeal of Dr. Gustav Andreen for
"a movement for a closer union be-
tween school and alumni the board
responded with the change
Augustana's alumni banquet will
be OF peculiar significance this
year because of the recent COM
plet.on OF the alumni sChOlarsh p
fund for students of the college,
Report as to the success of the fund
VIII be made The sum of $1,000
was raised through the efforts of
alumni and DR. Andreen. .'
commencement Program.
Occasions of pomp and ceremony
tsgether with the best of speakers
in the religious world will be in
cluded in the program OF the col
lege commencement, which was
made public today Most fmpres-
sive of all ceremonies will be the
unwilling of the monument of the
late DR. l.. A Johnston, alumnus of
Augustana and former president of
the Augustana synod. The cere-
Rony will take place at Riverside
cemetery. The program as an
nounced by the program committee
Is as follows:
FRIDAY. MAY %.
500 p,Sm.-Senior class exer- /
cises.
SATURDAY, MAY "a.
500 p. m.-Concert by Wenner-
berg male chorus.
SUNDAY, MAY %.
1890 a. m.-Baccalaureate ser /
vice, Zion church. Sermon by Dr. ,
Gustav Andreen.
400 D. m.-Unveiling of monu- |