Monthly Archives: March 2019

Archives Intern mounts exhibit on the history of Wonderful Wednesday

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Written by Larrun Maynor (’19) and Katherine Banks

A new exhibit has been installed in the Welshimer Library with items from the Holloway Archives. Larrun Maynor, Class of 2019, has curated the exhibit as part of her archives internship with the Holloway Archives.

Larrun Maynor (’19) with the exhibit.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Wonderful Wednesday. Wonderful Wednesday is a day that most, if not all, Milligan students look forward to in their spring semester. It’s a day shrouded in mystery, however, since only a handful of people know the actual date it will take place and these are sworn to secrecy. This annual tradition began on April 30, 1969. President Jess Johnson made a declaration on the Seeger Chapel steps that there would be no classes for the day and that students instead could “hearken to the opportunities for food, fun, and fellowship.” Activities in the early years included discussion panels, picnics, softball games, and folk dancing. In the later years, activities such as races up and down Sutton Hill, Jell-O wrestling, and tug-of-war over the creek became popular. One tradition that has remained a crowd favorite is the waterslide. The exhibit highlights many of these activities through photos, yearbooks, and other documents.

1984 Wonderful Wednesday activities

When asked about her experience while doing research, Larrun replied, “I truly enjoyed searching through the archives to find the different images and documents that are being displayed in this exhibit. There were so many fun pictures to choose from, especially in the yearbooks.”

Katherine (Katie) Banks, the college archivist and internship supervisor, says, “I hope that Milligan students and faculty alike will drop by to see the history of this surprise holiday. Larrun has picked out some great items to show the day’s history. Visitors might be surprised to see how much the holiday has changed since 1969!”

You can also view parts of the exhibit online through MCStor, Milligan College’s digital repository.

Milligan’s Archive Internship opportunity

Each fall semester, students are invited to apply for one volunteer Archive Internship opportunity at The Holloway Archives at Milligan College. The internship begins the following spring semester. All majors are welcome to apply. Please stay tuned for announcements coming this fall.

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New Books and Media Received (February 2019)

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The following Books and DVDs (137 items) were received into the Library collection for both the Welshimer and Seminary Libraries through the Acquisitions Budget and by donation during February 2019.

Seminary Library

History
Archaeology and history of eighth-century Judah, 2018.

The color of compromise: the truth about the American church’s complicity in racism, 2019.

Slavery’s long shadow: race and reconciliation in American Christianity, 2019.

Language and Literature
Meaning-based translation: a guide to cross-language equivalence, 1998.

Using and enjoying biblical Greek: reading the New Testament with fluency and devotion, 2015.

Law
Zondervan 2019 minister’s tax and financial guide: for 2018 tax returns, 2019.

Music
A glad obedience: why and what we sing, 2019. 

Philosophy, Psychology, Religion
Augustinian and ecclesial Christian ethics: on loving enemies, 2018.

Between two trees: our transformation from death to life, 2019.

Biblical interpretation and method: essays in honour of John Barton, 2013.

The Christian doctrine of humanity: explorations in constructive dogmatics, 2018.

Contemporary theology: an introduction: classical, evangelical, philosophical, and global perspectives, 2019.

Enfleshing theology: embodiment, discipleship, and politics in the work of M. Shawn Copeland, 2018.

The genesis of good and evil: the fall(out) and original sin in the Bible, 2018.

Introducing Jesus: a short guide to the Gospels’ history and message, 2018.

Jesus–the end and the beginning: tracing the Christ-shaped nature of everything, 2019.

Justification [two volumes], by Michael Scott Horton, 2018.

Lewis on the Christian life: becoming truly human in the presence of God, 2018.

Liturgy on the edge: pastoral and attractional worship, 2018.

Loving the poor, saving the rich: wealth, poverty, and early Christian formation, 2012.

The New Testament: a translation, by David Bentley Hart, 2017.

The New Testament in Byzantium, 2016.

Organizational leadership: foundations & practices for Christians, 2014.

The Orthodox reality: culture, theology, and ethics in the modern world, 2018.

The Syriac versions of the de spiritu sancto, by Basil, David G. K. Taylor, 1999.

A war of loves: the unexpected story of a gay activist discovering Jesus, 2018.

Reference
The Hebrew Bible: a translation with commentary, by Robert Alter, 2019.

The Syriac world, 2019. 

Office Reference
The SBL handbook of style, 2014.

Welshimer Library

Bibliography, Library Science, and Information Resources
The art of graphic design, 2018.

Fine Arts
Serious play: design in midcentury America, 2018.

History
Ages of discord: a structural-demographic analysis of American history, 2016.

Educated: a memoir, 2018.

The heartbeat of Wounded Knee: native America from 1890 to the present, 2019.

I’m still here: black dignity in a world made for whiteness, 2018.

Nomad: from Islam to America–a personal journey through the clash of civilizations, 2011.

On the other side of freedom: the case for hope, 2018.

Republic in peril: American empire and the liberal tradition, 2018.

Slavery in the North: forgetting history and recovering memory, 2018.

We were eight years in power: an American tragedy, 2017.

When they call you a terrorist: a Black Lives Matter memoir, 2018.

White rage: the unspoken truth of our racial divide, 2016.

Language and Literature
Born a crime: stories from a South African childhood, 2019.

Men we reaped: a memoir, 2014.

Rules for the dance: a handbook for writing and reading metrical verse, 1998.

Law
The lynching: the epic courtroom battle that brought down the Klan, 2016.

Medicine
The body keeps the score: brain, mind, and body in the healing of trauma, 2015.

Good to go: what the athlete in all of us can learn from the strange science of recovery, 2019.

Horticultural therapy methods: connecting people and plants in health care, human services, and therapeutic programs, 2017.

Shinrin-yoku: the Japanese art of forest bathing, 2018.

Philosophy, Psychology, Religion
Chance and the sovereignty of God: a God-centered approach to probability and random events, 2014.

Globalization, spirituality, and justice: navigating the path to peace, 2015.

Heaven is empty: a cross-cultural approach to “religion” and empire in ancient China, 2018.

Love, Inc.: dating apps, the big white wedding, and chasing the happily neverafter, 2019.

Love undocumented: risking trust in a fearful world, 2018.

The nature principle: human restoration and the end of nature-deficit disorder, 2011.

Planted: a story of creation, community, and calling, 2013.

Resisting structural evil: love as ecological and economic vocation, 2013.

The road back to you: an Enneagram journey to self-discovery, 2016.

Roadmap to reconciliation: moving communities into unity, wholeness, and justice, 2015.

Seeking refuge: on the shores of the global refugee crisis, 2016.

Tattoos on the heart: the power of boundless compassion, 2010.

Tell me how it ends: an essay in forty questions, 2017.

Understanding scientific theories of origins: cosmology, geology, and biology in Christian perspective, 2018.

Political Science
Freedom is a constant struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the foundations of a movement, 2016.

Social Sciences
… And forgive them their debts: lending, foreclosure and redemption from Bronze Age finance to the Jubilee Year, 2018.

Banker to the poor: micro-lending and the battle against world poverty, 1999.

The blood of Emmett Till, 2017.

Creative confidence: unleashing the creative potential within us all, 2013.

The culture map: breaking through the invisible boundaries of global business, 2014.

Dare to lead: brave work, tough conversations, whole hearts, 2018.

Happy singlehood: the rising acceptance and celebration of solo living, 2019.

The idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the quest to end poverty, 2014.

Junctures in women’s leadership: the arts, 2018.

Preemptive Love: pursuing peace one heart at a time, 2014.

Terrify No More Young Girls Held Captive and the Daring Undercover Operation to Win Their Freedom, 2010.

Technology
Audel mechanical trades pocket manual, 2004.

Audel welding pocket reference, 2007.

Basic machines and how they work, 1971.

DVDs
The adventures of Gumby: the 60s series. Volume 1, 2016.

The adventures of Gumby: the 60s series. Volume 2, 2016.

Anastasia, 2010.

Arrested development. The complete seasons 1-4, 2014.

Batman, the animated series. Volume 3, 2005.

Batman: the animated series. Volume 1, 2018.

Batman: the animated series. Volume 2, 2018.

Batman: the animated series. Volume 4, 2018.

Davey and Goliath. Complete Collection, 2010.

Doctor Who. The complete eleventh series, 2019.

The Gumby show. The complete 50s series, 2015.

He-man and the Masters of the Universe, Season one, 10 episodes, 2011.

The LEGO movie, 2014.

Sailor Moon. Season 1, part 1, 2014.

Sailor moon. Season 1, part 2, 2014.

The Secret of NIMH, 1998.

The Terminator, 2001.

Terminator 2: judgment day, 2003.

Tom and Jerry: the Gene Deitch collection, 2015.

VeggieTales. All the shows. Volume one 1993-1999: all the silliness, all the lessons, all the love, 2015.

VeggieTales. All the shows. Volume three 2005-2010: all the silliness, all the lessons, all the love, 2015.

VeggieTales. All the shows. Volume two 2000-2005: all the silliness, all the lessons, all the love, 2015. 

Juvenile
Children’s Bible easy-to-read version, 2012.

File under: 13 suspicious incidents, 2014.

Growing in God’s love: a story Bible, 2018.

In the beginning: illustrated stories from the Old Testament, 2017.

The Jesse tree, 2005.

Jesus, by Grün Anselm, Giuliano Ferri, and Laura Watkinson, 2014.

Manger, by Helen Cann and Lee Bennett Hopkins, 2014.

Mary’s song, by Lee Bennett Hopkins and Stephen Alcorn, 2012.

Our Father, by Barbara Nascimbeni and Rainer Oberthür 2016.

Parables of Jesus, by Marie Aubinais, 2018.

Paul writes (a letter), 2018.

The watcher, 2017.

Juvenile Honor and Awards Books

A big mooncake for Little Star, 2018. 2019 Caldecott Honor Book

 
See Pip flap, 2018. 2019 Geisel Honor Book

 

Reference
The Hebrew Bible: a translation with commentary, by Robert Alter, 2019.

Donated Gift Items to the Milligan Libraries
20th century journey: a memoir of a life and the times.

Africanity: the cultural unity of Black Africa.

Ancient China: Chinese civilization from the origins to the Tang Dynasty.

Anthology of Chinese literature.

Christ in Melanesia: exploring theological issues.

Confucian analects, The great learning, and the doctrine of the mean.

Dimensions of the Holocaust: lectures at Northwestern University.

A Guide for translators and revisers of the Holy Scriptures: a statement of principles.

Guidelines for barefoot language learning: an approach through involvement and independence.

The kings of Buganda.

Language by ear and by eye; the relationships between speech and reading.

The last 100 days.

A manual of literacy for preliterate peoples.

New Testament illustrations for use in Bible Society publications, series 2.

New Testament illustrations for use in Bible Society publications.

Old Testament illustrations for use in Bible Society publications.

Preparing the manuscript: a manual for translators.

A selection of African prose.

The Southern Highlands: Papua New Guinea.

Vietnam, a history.

Weights, money, measures and time.