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The Bridge fall 2017
The Bridge is a newsletter from the Strings Department at Augustana College.
Baity '16 helps lead RI marching band
Senior Dena Baity will begin student teaching in the Rock Island High School band department in mid-November. Baity, who has played the trumpet for the last 11 years, has worked with the marching band since July as they perfect their routine to compete Oct. 24 at the Bands of America Marching Championships Super Regional.
Library
The Swenson Center library contains approximately 20,000 volumes related to the Swedish-American experience in North America, including genealogy and local history. The library is especially strong in Swedish-American imprints, which are books published in Swedish in the United States.
Re-think the rhetoric on free college
Kent Barnds, Augustana's executive vice president, challenges presidential candidates and other politicians to stop talking about college affordability in an essay that originally appeared in Politico's Morning Education on Sept. 11, 2015.
Archives
The Swenson Center's archives contains unpublished primary source material including manuscripts, photographs, and more. The archival collection is composed of two categories: personal manuscript collections and institution/organization papers, and measures approximately 800 linear feet.
The perks of having an Augustana ID
All Augustana students are issued an ID card that not only serves as a practical tool for getting into residence halls, serving as a meal ticket and checking out materials from the Tredway Library, it also allows students to take advantage of some other perks. Here are six of them.
Scandihoovian! exhibit takes humorous view
The Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center at Augustana presents the exhibit "Scandihoovian! Scandinavian-American Folk Humor" through Dec. 15.
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