A “Field of Dreams” and a painting
I wouldn’t blame anyone who forgot I had a blog these past months. It is time to pick things up again, get the word out as best I can, and see who looks. Twin sons with back-to-back weddings and a new job with the local hockey team will do that to a blog. Time to get back…
ALA Card: don’t go on May term without it
Many benefits came with my return to Wartburg as a librarian, including the opportunity to do things that I had neither money or courage for as a student. For instance, traveling abroad during May Term always seemed like an opportunity to be seized. Recently, I renewed my membership in the American Library Association (ALA) for…
Growing up on the Wartburg campus in the 1960s: Nancy Mista Anderson, ’58
Thank you for your patience. Since the beginning of the year, my creative attention was devoted to a TEDxTalk at Wartburg College on Information Literacy and the “algorithms of outrage.” I presented it at the Lyceum on March 12, 2022. I’ve also been helping with a friend’s biography of his father’s experience in a bomber…
pigs in the gym
Pigs in the Gym: Luther Rivalry in the 1980s Most Wartburg alumni and fans have come across the glorious Wartburg pranks of the 1990s: e.g. crashing the Luther College Homecoming Parade and the aerial “bombing” of the Luther campus with pamphlets. There was one prank from the 1980s, when I was a student, where Luther…
When Wartburg played at the Fairground
The Knights have had three homes in Waverly for football games. The current stadium, Walston-Hoover Stadium at Zimmerman Field, was constructed in 2001 on the site of the Schield Stadium, Wartburg College’s first on-campus stadium built in 1957. It was thought that the home opener of the 2001 season was the first night game hosted…
The Birth of Sir Victor
The story, as told to me by my father, Wartburg late News Bureau and Sports Information Director, Duane Schroeder went like this:In the mid-1960s, Wartburg College finally had some consistent success in athletics. Buzz Levick had started his remarkable streak of nine consecutive Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference championships in a row starting 1966-67 season. Additionally,…
Sir Victor's half-brother 