St. Olaf Magazine

Winter 2005

St. Olaf Magazine won four awards at the annual Minnesota Magazine & Publications Association (MMPA) Publishing Excellence Awards, including Gold Awards for Overall Excellence, Overall Best Design, and Best Single Topic Issue (The Norway Issue), and a Silver Award for Best Special Supplement (Alumni World).

* MMPA Gold Award, Overall Excellence
* MMPA Gold Award, Overall Best Design

What Sustains Us

Efforts by the college to encourage environmentally friendly projects and programs are paying ecological, economic and aesthetic dividends.
By Erin Peterson
   
A Good Long Run

Professor of English David Wee is retiring after four decades at St. Olaf.
By Gretchen Morgenson '76
   
Take Note!

From gospel and jazz to piano and early music, an eclectic group of music programs at St. Olaf have stories and talents to share.
By Ryan Meyers '05
   
Ensuring Our Future

Our endowment lags far behind that of many of our peer institutions. What is the St. Olaf endowment and why is it so important to the future of the college?
By Jim McCartney
   
Love and Death

Dancer and St. Olaf artist-in-residence Anthony Roberts is using his art to help himself and others heal from the emotional devastation of cancer.
By Elizabeth Child
   
To the Mountaintop

A desire for global perspective leads a writer to Rwanda and a hilltop refugee camp, where he learns much about America.
By Joel Hoekstra '92
   
POV

A Prescription for Empathy.
By Erika Reid '07
   
The St. Olaf Q & A

Sportswriter Ivan Carter '97 is moving up from the Kansas City Star to The Washington Post.
By Mike Ludwig '03
   
Portrait

Todd Boss '91 and Karen Peterson Wilson '77.
By Carole Leigh Engblom
   
Portrait

Ruth Gerber Hiddleson '58.
By Le Ann Hiddleson Finger '85