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Augsburg Now: Letters
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Letter
from the editor
Those last few lazy, hazy, crazy days ...
Preparing this fall issue brings home the reality that summer is nearly
gone. Poet Elinor Wylie described this time of year as "summer, so
much too beautiful to stay"; and we also must come to grips with
the ephemerality of the season, as hot and dry as this one has been in
Minneapolis.
Life is different on campus during the summer. As most students and many
faculty depart for travel, research, work, or vacation, completely different
populations arrive to keep our residence halls and buildings full.
In this issue, we look at life at Augsburg during the summer, for a couple
of reasons. One is to illustrate Augsburg's outreach to populations other
than our college-age students—junior high and high school students,
church groups, educators, and other organizations. Photos from their campus
activities tell their stories.
Plus, many of our own community who are not here these three months miss
the chance to see the campus at its most beautiful, when flowers surround
the benches and the canopy of trees in the quad offers a welcomed respite
from the city's heat.
After hearing a number of comments on how especially beautiful the campus
looks this summer, we invited the Augsburg community to wander around
with cameras and capture on film the places or settings that were especially
appealing to them. See our feature called "Home Sweet ... Campus."
Lest we bestow too much attention on place, we are reminded on our Auggie
Thoughts page that the real future of this College is not in a splendid
campus, but in the "nurture of distinctive attitudes toward truth
and life, toward God's good creation, and His beloved human family."
This was written by President Emeritus Oscar A. Anderson in a 1976 column
in which he eloquently discusses the impact on Augsburg made by his predecessor,
Bernhard M. Christensen.
We reprint this column as we mark the 100th anniversary of the birth
of Christensen in October.
Enjoy the few remaining days of this "too beautiful" season.
—Betsey Norgard
Editor
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We
welcome your letters!
Please write to:
Editor
Augsburg Now
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Letters
for publication must be signed and include your name, class year, and
daytime telephone number. They may be edited for length, clarity, and
style.
Betsey Norgard
Editor
Lynn
Mena
Assistant Editor
Kathy
Rumpza
Graphic Designer
William
V. Frame
President
Dan
Jorgensen
Director of Public Relations and Communication
Nancy
Toedt ’94
Director of Alumni and Parent Relations
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Letters to the editor
Congratulations on your great
inner-city involvement program, especially on the Cedar-Riverside School and
the Trinity Lutheran Church Wednesday Night Out program. These are "textbook
examples" of the kinds of things that make for real social change and lasting
peace and understanding in the world.
It was for the same reason
that as an Augsburg undergraduate my reaction to the assassination of President
Kennedy was to start the Children's Groups program at Augsburg. We went door
to door in the neighborhood signing up the children and then met with them weekly
in small groups for crafts and games and social interaction. I don't know how
long the program lasted after I left but I've kept up my involvement with kids
having taught for 35 years (15 of them with gifted kids). I'm also very involved
in ecological causes, support the Museum of Tolerance, and have worked against
the death penalty. But after reading the summer Augsburg Now, I've never
been so proud to be an alumna of Augsburg! Carry on—the world needs you.
By the way, what are you doing about ecological issues?
—Catherine (Wehner) Osman ’65
Editor's
note:
We'll respond to Ms. Osman about ecology in our curriculum,
but would also enjoy hearing from alumni who are working with
ecology and environmental issues for a future story.
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