Brush off your winter blues and tap into spring fever during the April 17th Dragon Fire Walk. Thanks to the 33 teams already signed up to help raise vital scholarship dollars for Dragon Athletics. Have you been drafted? If not, you still have time to join a team or start your own team. Consider joining Edna’s Hurricanes! Read more at http://news.mnstate.edu/2010/04/ignite-and-unite-for-the-dragon-fire-walk-april-17/
Terry Shoptaugh, University Archivist, had his latest book officially “launched” April 5 at the North Dakota Capitol in Bismarck. They Were Ready focuses on the 164th Infantry Regiment during World War II and includes the stories of 70 World War II veterans of the unit with original art work by Doug Burtell of Bowman. Bernard Wagner, a Valley City veteran of WWII and Korea, and president of the 164th Infantry Veteran’s Association, introduced the book at the ceremony. Shoptaugh’s other books include You Have Been Kind Enough to Assist Me: Herman Stern and the Jewish Refugee Crisis (2008) and Moorhead, MN (Images of America) (2004).
The 21st annual Woodlands and High Plains Powwow will be held at Alex Nemzek Fieldhouse on the MSUM campus Saturday, April10. The annual celebration features traditional American Indian music, dance, and regalia. Grand entries are scheduled at 1 and 7 p.m. and a free meal will be served at 5 p.m. Click headline for more information.
Winnipeg ceramic artist Chris Pancoe will lead a wood firing workshop at MSUM with ART 305 Technical Ceramics April 14-17. He will give a slide lecture at 9 a.m. Wednesday, April 14 in Center for the Arts room 165. It’s free and open to the public. These events are sponsored by The Solomon Comstock Foundation.
Jill Frederick, English, gave a presentation, “Ships and the Sea in the Exeter Book Riddles,” at the annual Easter conference held by the University of Manchester (England)’s Center for Anglo-Saxon Studies. This year’s theme, “The Anglo-Saxons and their World,” was attended by scholars from the United Kingdom, Europe and the U.S.