@St. Norbert December 2009 - St. Norbert College

Upcoming events
for alumni, parents
and friends

Dec. 2
St. Norbert campus
"Iraq Today: An Eyewitness Report" >>MORE

Dec. 3
St. Norbert Abbey
Raise Your Glass young alumni wine-tasting >>MORE

Dec. 11
St. Norbert campus
Art Scholarship Pottery Sale >>MORE

Dec. 19
Milwaukee
SNC Basketball vs. MSOE >>MORE

Jan. 16
St. Norbert campus
SNC Alumni Basketball Day >>MORE

This month on
from St. Norbert College

Shibley Telhami, an expert on United States policy in the Middle East, will discuss foreign relations with Michael Marsden (Academic Affairs). >>MORE

December 2009


Paul Tagliabue to speak at “Sport and Society” conference Former NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue will be on campus next May as one of the featured speakers at the academic conference “A Mirror of our Culture: Sport and Society in America.” >>MORE

Surgical training opportunity on campus explores human anatomy
Bio/anatomy students at St. Norbert will observe real-world surgical practices as a result of a new partnership that is opening the college’s cadaver lab to orthopedic surgeons in training. >>MORE

The sounds of Christmas come to both campus and abbey this weekend
A new brass and organ concert presented at
St. Norbert Abbey and a perennial festival favorite on campus give college musicians two chances to ring in the season. >>MORE

A fond farewell marks the passing
of the littlest Green Knight of all
He was the campus pet and, when the inevitable sad day came, in time-honored fashion he was laid to rest with a fine backyard funeral. >>MORE

Four decades for college parish
One of the first college parishes in the United States will mark its 40th anniversary Feb. 13. Old St. Joe’s is planning a day of festivities to celebrate the occasion. >>MORE

This month’s question:
Paul Conners asks, “Dear Abbot Pennings, I read with interest a previously submitted question about the college’s ‘Alma Mater’ song. If I read your answer correctly, Heather Schmidt (Music) wrote the lyrics – but who wrote the music?” Read the answer

Feel free to write the abbot at askabbot@snc.edu with your questions about the college. He’ll be sure to respond, and he will post his favorite questions.

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