Nicole Meyer ’16 showed up in my doorway this week and introduced herself as my new colleague. She has a student worker position in the admission office down the corridor, but what she really wanted to tell me was that…
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Me and the Girls
Pictured, my autographed loot from a day spent with the doughty women of the All American Girls Professional Baseball League. These World War II era athletes were made known to new generations through Penny Marshall’s great movie, “A League…
Lambeau Leap or, Just Another Day at the Office
I’m known for my ability – almost, my preference – for settling down to work in odd corners. Bits of St. Norbert College Magazine have been written in lobbies and locker rooms, on planes and trains, and once, at the back…
Bards, Birds and Back Covers
Happy birthday, Will! Today marks the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth.* Happily, he was to make his St. Norbert College Magazine debut on an April-themed back cover. We captioned our image of the Shakespeare Garden on campus (Spring 2013) with these…
The Wins Won’t Stop
As this stellar season wraps up for Green Knight athletics, we’re also striving to wrap up our sports pages in timely fashion. Our spring issue goes to print Friday – but our four winter teams won’t quit! Men’s basketball’s 23-game…
Love from St. Norbert
Spring 2010: still one of my favorite covers. Back then we were still doing themed issues – all the features different facets of a single theme. It’s not an approach I was particularly fond of and we abandoned it when…
What’s the Big Idea?
Where would magazines be without people who have ideas? Large or small, they and the outcomes they precipitate are all grist to our mill. And what a gift is the “big idea” initiative currently sparking imaginations all over campus and…
Knock, and the Door Shall be Opened
The doors of Leffe Abbey, in Belgium, have a way of cropping up in our publications. This particular image made a fine header to our New Year’s edition of @St. Norbert, out yesterday. Dave Wegge (Political Science) wrote about the…
Food for Thought
Prediction: The top reader takeaways from our new issue will be two notes on food. 1) Gum as important study aid: “If you chew a certain flavor while you study for a test, then chew the same flavor during the…
JFK, at Home at SNC
Of all the images hung around campus, I think this one is my favorite. The young presidential candidate, the young(ish) college president. John F. Kennedy and the Rev. Dennis Burke, O.Praem., ’26, outside Boyle in 1959. JFK looks so comfortable…
