St. Olaf Magazine

Fall 2006

St. Olaf Magazine won six awards at the annual Minnesota Magazine & Publications Association (MMPA) Publishing Excellence Awards, including Gold Awards for Overall Excellence, Overall Best Design, Best Feature Article, Best Use of Visuals/Photography, Best Special Supplement (Alumni World), and Bronze for Best Single Cover.

St. Olaf Magazine also received a Silver Award for Best Alumni/Institution Magazine in the 2007 Pride of CASE V Awards Program.

* MMPA Gold Award, Overall Excellence
* MMPA Gold Award, Overall Best Design

Answering the Call

To carry its renowned science and mathematics programs deep into the 21st century, St. Olaf is launching a campaign to build a new Science Complex. This state-of-the-art facility will support modern education practices in a world-class academic environment.
By Scott A. Briggs '88
   
A Healing Touch

Nursing professional Mary Buntrock Johnson '60 applies a holistic approach to help people actively participate in their own healing process.
By Jan Shaw-Flamm
   

World Views 2006

Winning entries from the Gimse International and Off-Campus Studies photo contest include pictures from Austria, Bangladesh, Eqypt, England, Denmark, India, Italy, Japan, Morocco, Peru and Turkey.
   
Everyday Miracles

The St. Olaf Peruvian Medical Experience partners St. Olaf students with professors and top alumni medical professionals, with a goal of changing lives on two continents.
By Carl Schroeder '05
   
It's a Wonderful Life

As he undertakes his sixth season of directing A Christmas Carol at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, St. Olaf Artist-in-Residence Gary Gisselman finds plenty to love about the dramatic turn of his life.
By Patricia Grotts Kelly '77
   
Griddle Gurus

Lefse enthusiasts Bruce and Kathy Anderson Wahl '87 turn their passion for lefse into an annual holiday event that reconnects Oles in the nation's capital.
By Anna Palmer '04
   
POV

Consuming Vocation
By Jim Farrell
   
St. Olaf Q & A

Boe Memorial Chapel is being refurbished, a handsome new organ is in place and Professor of Organ and Church Music John Ferguson couldn't be more please.
By Amy Gage
   
Portrait

Brynhild Rowberg '39 recalls an era when America set the agenda for the world.
By Tom Swift '95