Wartburg College - Fortress Yearbook (Waverly, IA)

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ultural ODDortunHies. Wartburg may be In the middle of nowhere. but Isn ' t locking In culture. It ' s found In Engelbrecht Library, on the Art Building lawn, and In Neumann Auditorium, to name a few places. Several years ago o student who couldn ' t pay his bill was assigned to point the murals In the cafeteria. On the north wall Is a rendition of the Wartburg Cas- tle located in Germany. On the south woii Is a medieval town setting. A few years ago the lawn across from Engelbrecht Library was adorned with the Utterbocic cubes. As port of on art project Russ Nordman and Tim Kurtt built pryomid shaped structures to represent the resurrection of the cubes. Within Engelbrecht Library displays ore on exhibit. People from campus donate collections for a period of time. The intemotionai Club also put together a display describing Malaysia containing mops, books and a slide show. In Luther Hall, bulletin boards were hung on the wail across from the Controller ' s Office to display photographs and drawings done by students. Sev- eral of the photographs which were displayed received awards from various contests. One of the photographers is Keng Yip Loo who took most of the pictures on these color pages and printed oil of them. The Artist Series brings Intemational talent such as the Royal Winnipeg Ballet and the Smithsonian Jazz Repertory, continues to be popular with students and the Woverly community. Convocations featuring such celebrities as Coi- mon McCarthy, columnist for the Washington Post, brought many interested people to Neumann Aud- itorium. McCarthy spoke his mind on a multitude of subjects spanning from soup line serving to on old homeless lady named Mary IMng just outside the White House gates in Washington. D.C. Campus organizations provide many cultural opportunities also. The orchestra gives o monthly concert and does a young artist concert in which area talents hove a chance to perform, the choir song for the National Choral Director ' s Convention In Nashville, Tennesse and shared their talents at home concerts, the bond performed a Stars and Stripes Forever concert, and the Castle Singers gave o Valentine ' s Day concert entitled Lollpops Roses at Carver ' s Restaurant and In the cafeteria. Students may consider Wartburg the middle of nowhere, but the chances for cultural opportunities ore many. 7