by johnso24 | Aug 8, 2017 | St. Olaf College
Pop Hill Ski Jump Jeff M. Sauve As the son of the chemistry department chair, Peter Agre spent many hours as a child in the 1950s playing on the St. Olaf College campus, including at the Pop Hill ski jump. Years later, Agre recounted those experiences: “In summer, we...
by johnso24 | Aug 8, 2017 | St. Olaf College
Pop Hill Caves Jeff M. Sauve The “devil at your doorstep” was how the St. Olaf College administration viewed a small brewery and beer garden once located directly behind Thorson Hall. In 1885, Adolph Grafmueller purchased the land adjoining Manitou Heights. He...
by johnso24 | Aug 8, 2017 | St. Olaf College
Poetry of Place Jeff M. Sauve The valley of the stalwart pines beneath the college hill Away from all the campus stir—a place so quiet and still . . . So wrote St. Olaf College’s athletic coach, Ade Christenson, to his beloved in 1926. Others like him over the last...
by johnso24 | Aug 8, 2017 | St. Olaf College
Para-Pillars Emily Hoar Jeff Barber’s “Para-Pillars” memorializes thirty years of St. Olaf’s Paracollege, which provided innovative, individualized, interdisciplinary learning. The sculptor, class of 1978, is himself an alumnus of the “college within a college”...
by johnso24 | Aug 7, 2017 | St. Olaf College
Original Baseball Diamond (1887-1889) Jeff M. Sauve From 1887 to 1889, the original baseball field, situated at the foot of the hill below Old Main on the southeast side, was far from ideal. A raised wooden sidewalk traversed the outfield for students to climb the...
by johnso24 | Aug 7, 2017 | St. Olaf College
Oles on Parade Jeff M. Sauve Where else but in a homecoming parade do you see female students in puffy pastel crinolines perched on an Army jeep, or the physics club’s gigantic “Amazon Queen of Science” float? In the decade-plus following World War...
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