This annual giving section recognizes - The College of St. Scholastica

July ’08
• The College announces a new bookstore
management partnership with Validis
Resources.
• The College receives a $100,000
Wal-Mart College Success Award.
• Nationally known experts in aging
research are on the Duluth campus for
the fifth annual Institute on Aging and
Social Work.
August ’08
• The College is once again rated one
of “America’s Best Colleges” by U.S.
News & World Report.
• Incoming freshman class breaks all-time
record with 571 incoming students.
September ’08
• The College co-hosts the Pax Christi
Minnesota State Assembly along with
Pax Christi Duluth and the
St. Scholastica Monastery.
October ’08
• The College celebrates its first-ever
homecoming with football, drawing
4,000 fans to the big game.
• Acclaimed soprano and Duluth native
Emily Van Evera performs first concert
of 2008-09 Cambiata Music Series.
• Paul Roberts, noted journalist and author
of the “The End of Food,” presents first
lecture in “The Future of Food” lecture
series.
• Dirk Moses, a genocide scholar and
author, speaks on “Genocide and the
Crisis of Modernity.”
• The College’s Oreck-Alpern
Interreligious Forum launches multi-year
series of community forums exploring
religious traditions.
• St. Scholastica Theatre season begins
with “Bat Boy: The Musical.”
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November ’08
• Dr. Michael Schuck, an expert in
Catholic social teaching, presents
“The Grace of Arguing: Social Morality,
Catholic Faith, and the Real World.”
• The Most Rev. Harry J. Flynn,
archbishop emeritus of the Archdiocese
of St. Paul and Minneapolis, speaks on
“Resolving Conflict.”
December ’08
• 14th annual Advent Vespers and Lighting
a Tradition ceremonies begin the
Christmas season on campus.
• Fall commencement features 278
graduates.