Author: Matt Thomas ’00

Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine recently released a special report ranking the top 50 private liberal arts colleges in the country by “best value.” Gustavus Adolphus College ranked 40th on the list.

An opening exhibition service to mark the beginning of the Sacred Steps on the Camino exhibit will take place at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 4 in Christ Chapel at Gustavus Adolphus College. The exhibit will be on campus Nov. 4-18.

The Gustavus Adolphus College forensics team continued to assert itself as one of the top collegiate forensics programs in the country on Oct. 31-Nov. 1 at the Match Made in Heaven Tournament at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Va.

Gustavus Library Associates (GLA) will sponsor its 17th biennial library fundraiser, “Shine * A Royal Affair,” Saturday, Nov. 14 at the Minneapolis Convention Center. This dinner and auction event will benefit the endowment fund of the Folke Bernadotte Memorial Library on the Gustavus campus.

Three members of the Gustavus Adolphus College community were honored during the Friday, Oct. 30 daily chapel service as recipients of the College’s annual outstanding employee awards.

Upon culmination of yearlong efforts in its Commission Gustavus 150 institutional planning process and the development of an updated institutional marketing position, the College today released key planning documents and a short brand video.

Martin Winkler, professor of Classics at George Mason University, will present a free public lecture at Gustavus Adolphus College on Sunday, Nov. 1. Winkler will deliver his lecture, titled “The Last Days of Pompeii: From Fact to Fiction and Film,” at 7 p.m. in Alumni Hall, located in the O.J. Johnson Student Union.