Auggies! Are you ready for an experience like no other? Homecoming 2008 promises to be a fun-filled week with activities and events for all.
Tuesday, September 23
CCHP Health Fair – 11:45 a.m.-2 p.m., Christensen Center
More than 20 vendors will be available with healthy information on suicide, nutrition, aromatherapy, alcohol, sexual violence and more. There will also be reps from the employee benefit providers and three chair massage therapists offering free massages. We have free food and music and some great raffle prizes so stop by and meet the Counseling & Health Promotion staff and see what great resources we have right here on campus. Continue reading “An Experience Like No Other”
The first annual Auggie Connections event will bring together students, alumni, faculty, and staff to share experiences and to celebrate what makes Augsburg great.
Art has always been a part of personal faith lives. From religious icons, to hymns of praise, worshippers have used art as a tool to pray and praise. Songs and hymns give praise to God. Paintings and sculptures depict stories from scripture to let the worshipper understand the story in a new way. Dramas have brought sacred stories to life.
Augsburg’s graduate students who study transcultural nursing are learning how to provide better health care for immigrants and underserved populations who are out of the social mainstream. They’re learning how to understand and be sensitive to people’s differing cultural values and traditions around health, wellness, and healing.
On September 26, alumni Martin Sabo ’59 and Jim Pederson ’56 will lead a conversation among state legislators and others who played a critical role in reforming and transforming Minnesota’s political and governmental landscape during the 1970s. Sabo and Pederson will be joined by Lyall Schwarzkopf, former Republican state legislator and former chief of staff to Governor Arne Carlson, as well as former Democratic state legislators Ray Faricy and Bill Kelly. The panel will be moderated by Gene LaHammer, former Associated Press reporter.
Homecoming is a chance for you to connect with other Auggies, to share memories of the past, and to create new ones. Did you play basketball? Get your former teammates together and come to the Hall of Fame banquet. Did you love your first-year chemistry class? Then you might want to hear Dr. Gyberg speak at Auggie Connections. Did you sing in the choir? Come hear our fabulous Gospel Praise ensemble! Whatever your Augsburg experience, we invite you to come back to campus, see what’s new, and share your story with us.
Augsburg faculty and staff answer the question, “If you could tell all new Auggies just one thing, what would it be?” Obviously, some of us couldn’t keep our answer to one thing.
The Augsburg yearbook staff follows a simple rule: create a yearbook publication that covers all aspects of Augsburg College. Each year, the “Augsburgian” reports on college events, clubs and organizations, sports, student life, and people.
Visiting ceramic artist Kathleen Moroney opens her light installation “Between the Past and the Future” at Augsburg College on September 6. The installation in Sateren Music Hall, which will be on display for two years, features lit porcelain globes that descend at varying intervals from ceiling to floor. The layout, which is inspired by the cyclic flow of water, and the individual slipcast pieces, which are based on the form of an hourglass globe, express and capture the rhythmic movement of time. 
Recognizing Augsburg’s commitments to service learning and civic engagement, Eugene Alpert, senior vice president of The Washington Center, presented a gift to President Pribbenow after this morning’s presidential seminar discussion in Hoversten Chapel. The plaque commemorates the partnership between Augsburg and The Washington Center, a partnership President Pribbenow said dates back several years and will continue in the future.