Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1921-05-18
STUDENT DIES ON
COLLEGE CAMPUS
Harold Fardal Dies Suddenly From
Heart Disease Thursday Night
at Luther College.
HOME WAS AT
STANHOPE, IOWA
Memorial Services Were Held in Col
lege Chapel Friday, and Re-
mains Shipped to Home
Saturday Morning.

Inc students at the SOleSe were
given a rather unusual shock on
Friday morning when they were told
that one of their school-mates had
been found dead on the college cam
pus at about midnight the night be-
fore. The Idun Literary Society of
the Preparatory Department gave
their final program on Thursday
night with the farewell banquet to
the graduating class. After the ban
quet which was held in Loyalty Hall
the society assembled again in the
Gym for the second half of the
program. Harold Fardal, who was
to play in the orchestra, had for
gotten his trombone in the dormi-
tory and went back to the building
for it. When he did not return the
others supposed that he had gone to
bed as he was known to be suffer
ing from weak heart and had been
particularly active that evening. One
of his classmates accompanied him
to the Dormitory but stayed there
and went to bed. Fardal went back
to the Gym, running down the steps
to get down before the Waterman
closed the doors. The night watch
man says that when he went out he
started across the campus on the run.
He seems to have gotten out of
breath when he was about half ways
over and stopped to lean a while on
his trombone as one end of the in
strument case was muddy. Then
feeling weaker, he laid the instru-
ment down and laid down to rest.
He never got up again. When the
boys came back to the building af-
ter the program, they must have
passed within twenty yards of him
and some of them closer than that
as he was lying only a little out
of the usual path between the two
buildings. AS is usual after the
society banquets, they sang "To
Luther, and "Merrily We Roll
Along" on the way back, and then
gave their cheers for the seniors,
for the cook, the baker, and their
helpers, and wound up with their
''Pri, Sec, just to let the rest of
the college know that they are still
going, little imagining that just a
short ways away from them on the
campus there was one who was not
"still going When Fardal's room
mates came to their bed room and
didn't find him there, they immed-
lately suspected that something was
wrong. Professor Leonard Moe was
called, and when they found that
Fardal was not in the hospital they
went out to look for him, expecting
to find him sick, and unable to move
1t rather startled them to find him
dead. Attempts to revive him failed
and Doctor Stabo was called. Doc
tor Stabo stated that he had died of
heart failure, that he had been dead
between forty-five minutes and an
hour, that he had evidently died
quietly and that there were no signs
of falling or of any pain. The par
ents of the boy were notified and
they arrived Friday night, taking the
body home on the Z o'clock Rock Is
land Saturday.
Memorial services were held in the
College Chapel on Friday at $3.50.
Professor Eittreim delivered the
memorial sermon and Professor Moe
gave the details of the death. The
body was escorted by the faculty and
Student body to DEBORAH Furniture
Company's Undertaking Parlors,
where it was kept over night. The
college band played the funeral
march at the corner by the Baptist
Church.
Harold Eugean Fardal was born at
Stanhope, Iowa, his parents being
Mr.. and Mrs. Hans E. Fardal, June
III, 1901. He lacked only month
OF being 20 years old. He was en-
rolled as JUNIOR Preparatory last
fall and expected to complete his
nigh school course next year. His
record in Professor Noes office shows
that he was most regular and pune
tual in attending to his work, that
ne lived up to the rules for or
binary discipline in the Dormitory
most faithfully, and as far as all in
dications go, he was a conscientious.
Christian young man.