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Winter Issue 2002 | Winona State University Alumni News

A Message from President Krueger

A Message from the Alumni Director
Kim Zeiher

A Message from the Director of Development

In Brief

The Apple Doesn't Fall Far From the Tree
Before there was Winona State University, there was the city of Winona. The city turned 150 years old on Oct. 15, 2001, and WSU joined with several other Winona businesses to mark the sesquicentennial.
Winona State University partnered with the Winona Daily News, Wells Fargo Bank, and Watkins Incorporated to put on a year long series of events honoring Winona's history while looking toward the future. These Winona Sesquicentennial Partners, nicknamed "The Four W's," have nearly 570 years of combined history in the city, and help culminate the sesquicentennial with a city birthday party Oct. 15. Hundreds of people came to Winona's Lake Park for good food, birthday cake, music, balloons, fireworks, and the first-ever, joint performance of the city's school marching bands.
"Winona State University may not have been created if it were not for the foresight shown by Winona's earliest citizens. Those people raised $7,000 and were granted the opportunity to be the home for the first teacher training institution west of the Mississippi," said WSU President Darrell Krueger. "We at Winona State University will always be grateful to the people of the City of Winona for what they have done and continue to do for the university. One small way to say 'thank you' was to be deeply involved in the city's sesquicentennial to celebrate this wonderful city and this important milestone."
The city's sesquicentennial is good practice for Winona State University. The university's sesquicentennial is coming up in 2008 and a committee has already starting working on plans for that celebration.
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Calendar of Events

Feb 8-9 Music hosts Renaissance Madrigal Dinner, 6:30 p.m.,
Lourdes Hall (tickets: call 507-457-5250)

Feb 9 Black Cultural Awareness Association's Annual Soul Food Dinner, 6 p.m.,
Kryzsko Commons

Feb 14-16 Theatre and Dance presents "Dancescape," 7:30 p.m.,
Performing Arts Center

Feb 16 Cultural Diversity Office presents "Soul Food Dinner",
Kryzsko Commons

Feb 26 WSU Symphonic Wind Ensemble concert, 7:30 pm., Performing Arts Center

Mar 2-10 Spring Break

Mar 26 WSU Percussion Ensemble concert, 7:30 p.m., Performing Arts Center

Apr 3-5 Lyceum Series presents Augusto Boal's "Theatre of the Oppressed"

Apr 4 Lyceum Speaker Jean Kilborne, "The Naked Truth: Advertising's Image of Women," 7 p.m., Somsen Auditorium

Apr 5-6 Theatre and Dance presents "The Dark Castle," 7:30 p.m., Performing Arts Center

Apr 6 WSU International Student Program hosts Annual International Dinner, 6 p.m., Kryzsko Commons

Apr 13 Winona Oratorio Chorus "Best of Broadway" concert, 7:30 p.m., Central Lutheran Church, Winona

Apr 16 Lyceum poetry reading, James Autry, "Faith in the Word," 7 p.m., Pasteur 120

Apr 16 WSU Jazz Combo concert, 7:30 p.m., Performing Arts Center

Apr 19 WSU Jazz Ensemble concert, 8 p.m., Performing Arts Center

Apr 20 Theatre and Dance present "Shakespeare In The Park," Lake Park Bandshell, Winona

Apr 23 WSU Choirs concert,
7:30 p.m., Performing Arts Center

Apr 24 WSU Javanese Gamelan concert, 7:30 p.m., Performing Arts Center

Apr 26-28 Annual Alumni Spring Reunion Weekend

Apr 28 WSU Symphonic WInd Ensemble concert, 2 p.m., Performing Arts Center

May 3 Spring Semester Commencement, 10:30 a.m., McCown Gymnasium, Memorial Hall

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