Retirement celebration 2024
Augustana College will honor faculty and staff who are retiring this academic year. The celebration begins at 2:30 p.m., and retirees will be honored at 3 p.m. Refreshments will be served.
Honorees will include:
- Al Alexander, Facilities Services, structural supervisor
- Mark Beckwith, Police and Public Safety, deputy chief
- Ken Brill, Office of Student Life and Leadership, director; associate dean
- Sherry Docherty, Academic Affairs, executive assistant
- Janina Ehrlich, professor, cello, music history
- Imran Farooqi, Business Administration and Economics, professional faculty, instructor
- Kelly Hall, Business Office, payroll specialist
- Kenny Lee, Public Safety, lead officer
- Diane McCann, Business Office, student accounts services director
- Michelle Pullen (O'Neill), WVIK, news editor
- Vicky Ruklic, Thomas Tredway Library, administrative assistant
- Marcia (Marcie) Stone, Dining Services, cook
- Susan Stone, Music, professor, violin, musicianship
- Allen Wolford, Dining Services, cook
Lisa Durant-Jones named Augustana’s commencement speaker
The May 25 ceremony will be the college's 164th annual convocation.
Night of Noise Drag Show
The Night of Noise Drag Show will feature professional and local acts from the community and Augustana. There will also be resource tables provided by Clock, Inc. and The Project.
Doors open at 6:30 p.m., and the event starts at 7 p.m.
The Night of Noise encourages promotion of the LGBT community and helping silenced members of the community to have a voice.
This event is sponsored by OSID and Gender & Sexuality Alliance.
Augustana celebrates geography department’s 75th anniversary
The public is invited to presentations at the John Deere Planetarium during the anniversary weekend to hear how Augustana alumni are leading and contributing to important work in their chosen fields today.
Documentary: 'And So I Stayed'
'And So I Stayed' is an award-winning documentary about survivors of domestic violence who are incarcerated for killing their abusers in self-defense. These women paid a steep price with long prison sentences, lost time with loved ones, and painful memories. See the official trailer.
Doors open at 6 p.m. The documentary will run 6:30-8 p.m. Discussion to follow.
Brought to you by: Augustana Prison Education Program, Public Health, Swanson Social Thought Fund and Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies.
Quad Cities Yom HaShoah Holocaust Remembrance
This program is free and open to the public. For more information, call (309) 793-1300.
This year’s speaker is Sol Nayman, a Holocaust Survivor from Poland. He was born Nov. 5, 1935, to Yudel Najman and Sore Roize Rosenberg; his older sister Mania was born in 1928. When the war came in 1939, simple, everyday life in their village was turned upside down. The family was fortunate to escape to the forest, where they saw the Wehrmacht’s trucks and troops roll through and destroy what was in their path. From there the Naymans managed to trace a path to the east, eventually making their way to the Soviet Union (USSR). Once in the USSR, they had to deal with the wartime conditions in that nation, and they were forced into the vast reaches of Siberia, where Sol’s parents toiled away for many years. As the war drew to a close, they made their way back to the west, to Ukraine and eventually Germany itself, where they found themselves in the Wetzlar Displaced Person Camp. Here life slowly came back to a state of relative normalcy, and after several years the family managed to emigrate to Canada. Sol attended school, where he excelled, setting him on a path for success in later life. Now retired, Sol is active in Holocaust education, and a participant in the March of the Living.
The program will also include recognition of the winners of the 2024 Student Holocaust Essay and Visual Arts contests.
This event is presented by Yom Hashoah Committee of the Quad Cities, Jewish Federation of the Quad Cities, Temple Emanuel, Congregation Beth Israel, Churches United, Augustana College, St. Ambrose University and Eastern Iowa Community College.
River Readings: Anders Carlson-Wee
The 2024 River Readings will welcome Anders Carlson-Wee on April 23.
The reading will begin at 5 p.m. in Wallenberg Hall. The event is free and open to the public.
The River Readings series at Augustana brings literary artists to campus each year from around the country. These writers of poetry, fiction and literary nonfiction meet with students in class or other venues to discuss their work and careers.
About Anders Carlson-Wee
Anders Carlson-Wee, renowned poet and author, will join us as the Spring 2024 River Reader at Augustana College.
Carlson-Wee received his MFA from Vanderbilt University and has published three compelling poetry collections, including the debut award-winning chapbook Dynamite (Bull City Press), and The Low Passions (2019) and Disease of Kings (2023) with W.W. Norton. His work delves into complexities of American excess, as well as the power of human connection. In response to his newest collection, Disease of Kings, fellow author Luis Alberto Urrea writes that Carlson-Wee "travels in and out of utter-noir midnight to lightening-dawn hues with such aplomb, his poems seem effortless."
Celebration of Learning
The annual Celebration of Learning shares and showcases original scholarship and creative work by students, faculty and staff throughout the day.