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St. Olaf College students win four prizes in national Eta Sigma Phi classics contest

mjc
April 27, 2001

NORTHFIELD, Minn. ? St. Olaf College students recently won 4 of the 24 national prizes in the annual 2000-?01 Maurine Dallas Watkins classics contest sponsored by Eta Sigma Phi, national classics honor society for college students.

St. Olaf has by far the best record of any school in the country in the competition, with at least one winner every year since 1980. Winners receive monetary awards as well as national recognition.

Matthew C. Steenberg, a senior from Moscow, Idaho, majoring in classics and religion, won second prize in Advanced Classical Greek Translation. As a sophomore Steenberg won first prize in Intermediate Classical Greek Translation and first in Intermediate Koine (Biblical) Greek Translation.

Joseph D. Amos, a junior from Menard, Texas, majoring in classics and history, won second prize in Intermediate Koine (Biblical) Greek Translation.

Jennifer L. Brown, a senior from Danville, Va., majoring in classics, earned honorable mention in Advanced Latin Prose Composition.

Marquis S. Berrey, a sophomore from Galesburg, Ill., majoring in classics, earned honorable mention in Intermediate Classical Greek Translation.

Only Brigham Young University won more prizes than St. Olaf, with five. Other winners are from the University of Arizona (three prizes), Rhodes College (two prizes), and Baylor University, Santa Clara University, Truman State, University of California-Davis, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, University of Mississippi, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, University of Texas-Austin, Valparaiso and Yeshiva University (one prize each).

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Students must be enrolled in a Latin or Greek course at the intermediate or advanced level to be eligible to compete in one or more of these categories: Classical Greek (intermediate or advanced level), Koine Greek (intermediate), Latin (intermediate or advanced) and Latin Prose Composition (advanced). After students take written exams at St. Olaf in February, their papers are mailed to a national distribution center and sent to be evaluated anonymously by judges at colleges elsewhere in the country.

St. Olaf College prepares students to become responsible citizens of the world, fostering development of mind, body and spirit. A four-year, coeducational liberal arts college of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), St. Olaf has a student enrollment of 2,950 and a full-time faculty complement of approximately 300. It is one of Money Guide?s top 100 "elite values in college education today," and it leads the nation?s colleges in percentage of students who study abroad.

Contact Michael Cooper at 507-786-3315 or cooperm@stolaf.edu.