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11th Annual Bede Award

Veronica Poquette won the 11^th annual Bede Award for Undergraduate Library Research with her paper “Swedish Deaf Language & Culture” written for ASL 2305: Deaf Culture in the World, taught by Dr. Marie Nadolske. Along with the award, Veronica was the recipient of a $350 Honorarium from College’s Friends of the Library.  Congratulations to Veronica on this outstanding achievement.

No. 136

BIG BIRD ON CAMPUS!  It is hard to image but it took 112 years for the bird of Minnesota, our official state avian (OSA) to be spotted on campus. He was caught by the camera of Librarian Brad Snelling in the first days of May, making the loon the 136^th species identified on campus. If we restore the cow pound on campus maybe they could summer at CSS!

“The Loon … is known to almost every one by name, but only those who have visited its summer haunts among the Northern lakes and heard its wild call can be said to know it. Nuttall writes of its cry as " the sad and wolfish call of the solitary Loon, which, like a dismal echo, seems slowly to invade the ear, and, rising as it proceeds, dies away in the air." It " may be heard sometimes for two or three miles, when the bird itself is invisible, or reduced almost to a speck in the distance."

Text & image from: Chapman, Frank. Bird Life: A Guide to the Study of our Common Birds. 1919.