Craft Festival Fun

OC's First Annual Student Craft Festival
was held Saturday, October 25
from 3-6 PM
in the OC Forum.

We had a great time
and we were the top-selling booth at the festival!
Lang/Lit majors are the best!

See how excited Kayla and John are?





Taylor worked on some signage and products for us.


Look at all those great shoppers!


Shoppers again!
Look how much they love our stuff!


All of our great item -
packs of notecards, homemade recycled journals, magnets, cider and cakeballs!


Magnets are great for your fridge or stocking stuffers!


Kaylee and Ryan love the craft fair.


Kate made us a great sign!
We love our lady prez!


She works so hard!


Justin works on prepping for the festival.


What a great veep we have.


John loves the craft festival!


German Chocolate cakeballs! Yum!



Peanut Butter Cakeballs!


John and Kate worked hard at selling


Kayla and John explain the merits of cakeballs.


Looking at homemade recycled journals and notecards!


Everyone loved our booth!


Ben is filling his pockets with cakeballs - they are so good!


Everyone loves Sigma Tau Delta. Especially Ashley!

We had such a great time - we'll be back in the spring!

Halloween Success!

Friday, October 24 was the Annual Department of Language and Literature Halloween party!

The only rules are come in a costume, preferably as a dead literary character.


Annalisa and Jenna


Kate, John and Taylor


Justin...being sneaky?


John and Annalisa setting up for the party


Jaclyn, Kate and Abigail


The whole group!
What a great turnout!


Group shot number two!


Cayla looks very...dead.

We had a really great turnout at the party - can't wait for next year!

Halloween Party

Don't forget, our Halloween party is THIS FRIDAY!

We hope you've been preparing your costumes - we can't wait to see what you've come up with!

Be there - or Moochelle will find you and chase you down the street!

Roy, Taylor and Angela Presented at a Conference!

Taylor Boston, Angela Bebb, and Roy Rhodes all presented papers on subjects related to Jane Austen at the Midwestern/American Society for 18th-century Studies conference.

They excelled! They are stars!

Going Green for Halloween

Sigma Tau Delta members with Bill McKibben

Front row: Dr. R. Scott LaMascus, Wil Norton, Kaylee McDaniel, Jackson Tandy, Bill McKibben, Taylor Walling, and STD President Kate Long
Back row: Angela Bebb, STD Secretary Bailey Thomas, Roy Rhodes, STD Chaplain John Barker, and STD Vice President Justin Neill

The lunch at the Petroleum Club with Bill McKibben was a huge success, and the following evening was great as well. McKibben spoke on the environment and the current climate crisis in a large room in the back of the Student Center. After he spoke (and Roy provided water), he signed books and talked to people in the lobby, in the midst of a reception provided by the department.

All in all, it was interesting and fun, and it was agreed that McKibben was a great choice for this year's McBride Lectureship. We eagerly anticipate next year's Lectureship!

McKibben inspired a lot of ideas for the department and OC to go green, so be looking for opportunities to show up in emails and on this blog.

In other news, our annual Halloween party is Friday, October 24! Come dressed as a dead literary character - or at least a dead person!


See you there!



Have a great week!

Bill McKibben and Green Week

Best-selling author and environmental activist Bill McKibben will deliver the fourth annual McBride Lecture for Faith & Literature at 7:00 p.m. on Oct. 3 in Oklahoma Christian University’s Gaylord University Center. The evening lecture will be followed by a book-signing reception. Both events are free and open to the public.

“We invite Oklahomans to hear this powerful thinker discuss issues of great importance – not only how both to design durable human communities and care for the planet, but also specifically how to sustain the great quality of life we enjoy in Oklahoma as well as pass on to our children the best of Oklahoma’s natural resources,” said Scott LaMascus, Professor of English and Director of the McBride Center for Faith & Literature.

“As always, faith plays a unique role in this year’s lecture programs,” LaMascus said. “McKibben’s book The Comforting Whirlwind should be read by every Christian because he asks us to consider the book of Job not so much for its insights into suffering or belief, but because the book calls readers to appreciate the marvel of creation as well as to humbly accept our place of responsibility in it.”

The McBride Center was named in 2004 and is endowed by donations from alumni, foundations, and humanities organizations to honor the lifelong work of McBride, a longtime professor of English and university leader, and his wife, Joyce Warren McBride. They have three children and eight grandchildren. McBride began teaching at the university in 1956 when the campus was located in Bartlesville, and served from 1971 to 1990 as the university’s chief academic officer. He continues to direct the university’s Honors program. He is a member of the Oklahoma Higher Education Hall of Fame. See www. http://www.ohehs.org.

Co-sponsors with the McBride Center have included The Oklahoma Humanities Council, The Oklahoma Scholarship-Leadership Enrichment Program, The Oklahoma Center for Poets and Writers and “Writing Out Loud”, The Inasmuch Foundation, and the Williams Foundation. Book sales following the lectures benefit the McBride Center and are provided by Best of Books in Kickingbird Square.

For additional information or Media opportunities with McKibben, contact Ron Frost at 405-425-5330. For information about the McBride Center see www.oc.edu/mcbridecenter. For program details contact Frances Sawyer at 405-425-5330.

Back-to-School Bash Photos!

Abigail swings as everyone else watches


Here's a taste of what happened last Friday at the Back-to-School Bash! If you didn't come, you really missed out. It was a great time!

Click on the photos to enlarge them.

Abby, Ashleigh, John and Annalisa

My brother Davis was pretty much our entertainment for the evening.


A lot of fun was had on the trampoline!
Kayla, Bailey, Taylor, Anna, Laura and Jessica.
Our freshmen came straight from Fanfare practice!

Everyone just hanging out before dinner!
Jaclyn and Mica
The highlight of the evening: Davis prank-calling non-English majors on Wil's iPhone.

All in all, it was a great evening!