Skinny Voice Gallery!

Fun times were had by all at the last Skinny Voice Gallery of the year! Students and faculty alike enjoyed the art as well as student submissions for this gallery, themed Translation. The gallery opened April 10th at Vintage Timeless Coffee and was a huge success!

Thanks to everyone who made it out for the opening! And a special shout-out to Vintage Coffee; thanks for all your help!

Here are some pictures for your viewing pleasure....you can thank me later.

Mrs. Gatewood submitted a wonderful piece and picture!

Rachel Miller's artwork paired with Jerica Briggs' submission.

Jessie Sanders' submission and original artwork.

Justin, our fearless leader (Sigma Tau Delta pres) and Skinny Voice editor! Look how happy he is! Aw.

Abigail Townsend poses with both her poetry submission and her own original artwork.

Abigail, Laura, Bailey, and Sarah posing for a quick pic between browsing the submissions!

The two pictures above were artwork submissions from Mallari McDougald's artwork. These pictures don't do them justice, believe me!

Roy Rhodes, male chaplain extraordinaire posing with his artwork.

Ashleigh Hess' piece gathered a lot of attention! Muy bien, Ashleigh!

Thanks again, everyone! Don't forget the Soundings gallery on Monday night, 8:00 pm in the McGraw Pavillion!

Sigma Tau Delta Conference

From March 25-29, eleven Sigma Tau Delta members were invited to visit Minneapolis and read research or creative papers in front of an audience, as well as have the opportunity to listen to respected authors Chris Crutcher, Alexandra Fuller, Neil Gaiman and Michael Perry.

Visit www.english.org to learn more about Sigma Tau Delta and the Minneapolis 2009 convention.

Next year the convention will be held in St. Louis, MO, with the theme "Storytellers," and we hope to have another record number of accepted papers.

For now, here are the pictures taken at the convention:

Ashleigh Hess presenting her paper on Chicano literature and culture.

Angela Bebb presenting her paper.
Matt, Taylor B., Brandon, Taylor W. and Justin waiting for Alexandra Fuller's book signing.

We ran into OC alum Paul Mitchell! Here he is at Neil Gaiman's book signing.

Angela having a special moment with Gaiman -
basically the reason she came to conference this year.

Taylor W. getting a book signed by Gaiman.

Our lovely sponsor Julia K. getting a book signed.

Taylor B. and Angela anticipating meeting Neil Gaiman.

Julia, Angela and Taylor talk with our Texan friend Mary.
Taylor B. with a Gaiman book.

Angela, Matt and Taylor W. posing with Gaiman.
Roy accepting his award for Best Worst Poetry - also posing awkwardly.
Our table of journals and magnets that sold out within several hours of opening our booth.
Brandon perusing the wares.

Taylor B., Jaclyn, Julia and Ashleigh listening to a reading.

Ben and Angela ready to hear someone speak.

Roy and Angela accepting first runner-up for the 2008 Soundings issue.

Attempting to "mix" at the pre-banquet mixer.

Taylor W. and Ben at the banquet.
We were all super excited about the name pouches we had to wear all weekend.

Bailey, Ashleigh, Brandon, Angela, Roy and Ben at the mixer.
Brandon, Roy and Bailey inside the theme park at the Mall of America.

Justin, amazed by the LEGO store.Roy, amazed by the LEGO store.

Brandon being attacked by a shark at lunch!
Angela is thrilled to be walking around downtown Minneapolis!

Taylor B. showing off her table graces.
Kaisslings Julia and Jaclyn at dinner.

Angela puzzling over the menu.Matt, also puzzling over the menu.

Angela, Ashleigh and Bailey enjoying a moment to sit and talk after a day of festivities.

As you can see, we had a really great time at conference!
We can't wait to go back!

CARWASH TIME

On January 31, 2009, Sigma Tau Delta held a donations-only carwash in the side parking lot of Mardel at 33rd and Boulevard to raise money to help pay for conference fees.

We made $806 in five and a half hours!! Hoorah!

First, a little video to introduce the day:



Angela, Taylor and Ben drying.

Group effort!

We're pretty good at washing cars. Just sayin'.


We had a visit from Memorial Road Church of Christ elder Max Pope!


We were super busy the whole time we were there - look at that line!

We figured out how to dry our towels off this year.

Gotta clean all over - even on top.




Bailey and Ben stopping to pose.

Chapter President Justin Neill showing off his squeegee and chamois skills.

Matt Miller hosing down some tires.

Chaplain Roy Rhodes gets to work.

Dr. Agan and Brandon Chism

English major Wil Norton came to get his car washed! Thanks, Wil!

Taylor Walling with the closed sign we had to make when we finished.

Kayla Saffell had to hold the sign, too - it was so sad how many people we had to turn away!

We had a great time!




We raised $806 and are looking forward to going to
Sigma Tau Delta national conference March 25-29!

Thanks to everyone who worked and everyone who got their cars washed!