St. Olaf Magazine

Fall 2007

St. Olaf Magazine won seven awards at the annual Minnesota Magazine & Publications Association (MMPA) Publishing Excellence Awards including Gold Awards for Overall Excellence, Overall Best Design, Best Feature Article and Best Use of Visuals/Photography; Silver Awards for Best Single Topic Issue and Best Feature Article; and a Bronze Award for photography.

St. Olaf Magazine also received a Gold Award for Best Alumni/Institution Magazine in the 2008 Pride of CASE V Awards Program.

* MMPA Gold Award, Overall Excellence
* MMPA Gold Award, Overall Best Design
* MMPA Bronze Award, Best Use of Visuals/Photography

Fighting Global Disease

* MMPA Bronze Award,
Best Use of Visuals/Photography

Its back to Africa for Dr. Bill Stauffer '88, an infectious disease expert who will help Tanzania design its avian influenza surveillance and control program in an effort to stave off what many scientists regard as an inevitable "bird flu" pandemic.
By Marc Hequet
   
Family Affair

For the Swansons of Northfield, the St. Olaf Christmas Festival is more than a gift of music; it's a longtime labor of love.
By Elizabeth Child
   
More than a Livelihood

For 30 years St. Olaf has produced outstanding social workers who live the values of integrity and competence, model service and social justice, and understand the dignity and inherent worth of every person and of every human relationship.
By Carole Leigh Engblom
   
World Views 2007

Winning entries from the annual Gimse International and Off-Campus Studies photo contest feature images from Egypt, Ecuador, India, Greece, England, Italy and New York City.
   
The First Word

By President David R. Anderson ’74
   
St. Olaf Q & A

Fulbright Scholar Elizabeth Jensen '07 looks forward to a world in which anything is possible.
By Carole Leigh Engblom
   
Portrait

Life Partners: Mac '58 and Jackie Gimse approach life as an inseparable team.
By Amy Gage
   
POV

The Way They Are: Oles and the Mediated World.
By Diana Postlethwaite