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EARLHAM COLLEGE CONCERT CHOIR, Leonard C. Holvik '40, Director, in a concert of warks by Bach, Brahms, Hindemith and Menotti. Paine Hall...
Gumshoe Scholar. Proceeding like a scholarly private eye, Wahlgren got in touch with J. A. Holvik, professor emeritus of Norse at Concordia College. Moorhead, Minn. Holvik went to the Ohman farm; which now belongs to Olof's sons, and made a copy of the old man's scrapbook. He also learned that Ohman had owned a Swedish encyclopedia...
There were many such examples, and more came from Holvik's copy of the scrapbook. One erudite article in it, for instance, ends with the Sanskrit expression "AUM," an esoteric syllable meaning "power." Toward the end of the Kensington inscription is the word "AVM," which has long baffled scholars. Some thought it meant "Ave Maria." Wahlgren is sure that crafty old Farmer Ohman intended it as a learned pun, his way of having fun with the experts...
Dean Hanford emphasized the fact that Duhig was being brought up to take over Dean Paul's duties for the time being only and that would carry no official title. Leonard Holvik, filled a similar position when a vacancy was created last summer...
French is the fifth assistant dean to leave the College to enter the Armed Services since April. The others were Deans F. Skiddy von Stade, Jr. '38, Christopher Huntington '32, Richard H. Sullivan '39, and Leonard C. Holvik '40, who was acting assistant dean this summer...