Today I’m practicing slow journalism. Today I said yes to an opportunity to which common sense dictated I say no. I drove south instead of north. I skipped the office, I went well off-campus; out on a limb, on the lam…
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Family Reading
Tongue-in-cheek text from younger son: “Ugh: I have to read some ‘Being Norbertine’ article by one ‘Allen, S.’ for my first graduate course.” Which is how we in the office discovered that the cover story of our Summer 2014 issue is now…
Good to Go
Somehow we were ready to send the spring issue to print, and there were still two hours in hand before we were due to deliver the files. This never happens, by the way. We’re a busy office, and we’re never…
Gerry and the List, and the Notes
I keep a well-thumbed list of alumni writers, faculty writers and, above all, of the faithful band of contributors on whom we call regularly to write for the magazine. Some of them write for us regularly, some no more than…
Must Be Christmas
I serve on a fund-raising committee with a Lutheran pastor and he came to mind yesterday as I was writing checks for our end-of-the-year giving. Yes, it’s a regular calendar event, in our family at least, as the tax year…
A Soldier’s Tale
The Rev. Anselm Keefe, O.Praem., ’16 (left) touched thousands of lives in positive ways. Priest, teacher, biologist and dean of the college, Keefe (1895-1974) also served in the U.S. Army as colonel and chaplain. At the magazine, we recently received new…
First-Day Cover
As we publish each new issue of the magazine there is the ceremonial hanging of the new cover poster in the lobby of our office, and for this we need our tallest intern. Erich Wegencke ’16 stepped up for the…
“Song of the Unsung Alumni”
Sometimes you read a piece and think, well, darn it. Not just because it’s exquisitely written but because it’s the perfect expression of a simple and universal idea – an idea that’s just been lying out there, waiting to…
From the Mailbox
Nice thank-you note from one of the “League of Their Own” ladies in this morning’s mail, following the story we ran on their visit to campus, Play Ball! We like the baseball cards enclosed. We especially like the choice of…
Being Norbertine, One Lunch Break at a Time
The cover story in our latest issue set intern Amy Mrotek ’17 thinking … I watched through the windows of Ed’s café as three male students – most likely on their way back to campus from the dreaded Lot 12 parking…
