New Books and Media Received (June-August 2019)

The following Books and DVDs (224 items) were received into the Library collection for both the Welshimer and Seminary Libraries through the Acquisitions Budget and by donation during June, July, and August 2019.

Seminary Library

Philosophy, Psychology, Religion
Galatians, 2019.

Jesus and Christian origins : directions toward a new paradigm, 2019.

Men and women in Christ : fresh light from the biblical texts, 2019.

Monastic education in late antiquity : the transformation of classical paideia, 2018.

A pastoral rule for today : reviving an ancient practice, 2019.

Pursuing an earthy spirituality : C.S. Lewis and incarnational faith, 2019.

Welshimer Library

Art
The artist in Edo, 2018.

Beyond the face : new perspectives on portraiture, 2018.

Beyond the Nile : Egypt and the classical world, 2018.

By the pen and what they write : writing in Islamic art and culture, 2017.

Eastern encounters : four centuries of paintings and manuscripts from the Indian subcontinent, 2018.

Graphic signs of authority in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, 300-900, 2018.

How to read Islamic calligraphy, 2018.

Photography and the contemporary cultural condition : commemorating the present, 2019.

Photography at the Bauhaus, 1990.

The Royal Academy of Arts : history and collections, 2018.

Visuality and virtuality : images and pictures from prehistory to perspective, 2017.

Bibliography
The catalogue of shipwrecked books : Christopher Columbus, his son, and the quest to build the world’s greatest library, 2019.

Interacting with print : elements of reading in the era of print saturation, 2018.

Jan Tschichold and the New Typography : graphic design between the World Wars, 2019.

Geography
The Cambridge handbook of play : developmental and disciplinary perspectives, 2019.

Dance me a song : Astaire, Balanchine, Kelly, and the American film musical, 2018.

The first farmers of Europe : an evolutionary perspective, 2018.

A play of bodies : how we perceive videogames, 2018.

Through a glass brightly : using science to see our species as we really are, 2018.

Tourism and religion : issues and implications, 2018.

 History
The age of Eisenhower : America and the world in the 1950s, 2018.

Becoming Lincoln, 2018.

A blueprint for war : FDR and the hundred days that mobilized America, 2019.

Caesar’s footprints : a cultural excursion to ancient france., 2019.

The Crusader armies : 1099-1187, 2018.

Daily life in ancient China, 2018.

Desert borderland : the making of modern Egypt and Libya, 2018.

A history of France, 2018.

A history of the British Isles : prehistory to the present, 2017.

Hubert Humphrey : the conscience of the country, 2018.

Imperial twilight : the opium war and the end of China’s last golden age, 2018.

Improvised continent : Pan-Americanism and cultural exchange, 2017.

Memory battles of the Spanish Civil War : history, fiction, photography, 2018.

The psychology of racial colorblindness : a critical review, 2017.

Rethinking racial justice, 2018.

Springs of western civilization : a comparative study of Hebrew and classical cultures, 2017.

Thomas Cromwell : A Revolutionary Life, 2018.

To live like a Moor : Christian perceptions of Muslim identity in medieval and early modern Spain, 2018.

Understanding contemporary China, 2017.

Unrequited toil : a history of United States slavery, 2018.

When I was white : a memoir, 2019.

Language and Literature
Approaches to teaching the history of the English language : pedagogy in practice, 2017.

The bizarre world of reality television, 2017.

The Cambridge history of the graphic novel, 2018.

Emerson’s memory loss : originality, communality, and the late style, 2018.

The faun’s bookshelf : C.S. Lewis on why myth matters, 2018.

Franz Kafka, the eternal son : a biography, 2018.

Freedom narratives of African American women : a study of 19th century writings, 2017.

Grendel, 1971.

A history of Russian literature, 2018.

The image of Christ in Russian literature : Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Bulgakov, Pasternak, 2018.

Inhospitable world : cinema in the time of the Anthropocene, 2018.

The invention of the oral : print commerce and fugitive voices in eighteenth-century Britain, 2017.

The life of Mark Twain : the early years, 1835-1871, 2018.

Linguistics : why it matters, 2018.

Lyrical liberators : the American antislavery movement in verse, 1831-1865, 2018.

The making of the Iliad : disquisition and analytical commentary, 2011.

Mean girl : Ayn Rand and the culture of greed, 2019.

A new literary history of modern China, 2017.

Postcolonial Borges : argument and artistry, 2017.

Renaissance woman : the life of vittoria colonna., 2019.

Space Odyssey : Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the making of a masterpiece, 2018.

T&T Clark companion to the Bible and film, 2018.

Turn that thing off! : collaboration and technology in 21st-century actor training, 2018.

The value of Herman Melville, 2018.

Law
Boundaries of the international : law and empire, 2018.

Eisenhower vs. Warren : the battle for civil rights and liberties, 2018.

Modernism and the law, 2018.

Originalism as faith, 2018.

The schoolhouse gate : public education, the Supreme Court, and the battle for the American mind, 2019.

The Shariʻa : history, ethics and law, 2018.

Medicine
Dopesick : dealers, doctors, and the drug company that addicted America, 2019.

Freeing your child from anxiety : practical strategies to overcome fears, worries, and phobias and be prepared for life–from toddlers to teens, 2014.

The politics of autism, 2018.

PTSD : a short history, 2018.

Sleepyhead : the neuroscience of a good night’s rest, 2018.

Trauma and the struggle to open up : from avoidance to recovery and growth, 2018.

Music
Broken beauty : musical modernism and the representation of disability, 2018.

Music as an art, 2018.

The psychology of music : a very short introduction, 2019. 

Philosophy, Psychology, Religion
Adam Smith : systematic philosopher and public thinker, 2017.

Beyond the troubled water of Shifei : from disputation to walking-two-roads in the Zhuangzi, 2019.

Budgeting for a healthy church : aligning finances with biblical priorities for ministry, 2019.

Extended epistemology, 2018.

Ezekiel 38-48 : a new translation with introduction and commentary, 2018.

Finding purpose in a godless world : why we care even if the universe doesn’t, 2018.

The forgotten sense : meditations on touch, 2018.

From Chinese Chan to Japanese Zen : a remarkable century of transmission and transformation, 2018.

From politics to the pews : how partisanship and the political environment shape religious identity, 2018.

Hobbes’s kingdom of light : a study of the foundations of modern political philosophy, 2018.

Jesus saved an ex-con : political activism and redemption after incarceration, 2018.

The limitations of the open mind, 2018.

Marx’s dream : from capitalism to communism, 2018.

On Chinese body thinking : a cultural hermeneutic, 1997.

Paradox lost : logical solutions to ten puzzles of philosophy, 2018.

A restless age: how Saint Augustine helps you make sense of your twenties, 2019.

SAGE guide to careers for counseling and clinical practice, 2019.

Seeing and saying : the language of perception and the representational view of experience, 2018.

The silent transformations, 2011.

Skepticism and American faith : from the Revolution to the Civil War, 2018.

True enough, 2017.

What a philosopher is : becoming Nietzsche, 2017.

What makes time special?, 2017.

Political Science
America classifies the immigrants : from Ellis Island to the 2020 census, 2018.

Governance for peace : how inclusive, participatory and accountable institutions promote peace and prosperity, 2017.

How dictatorships work : power, personalization, and collapse, 2018.

Immigration and democracy, 2019.

Inside the Arab State, 2018.

Toward natural right and history : lectures and essays by Leo Strauss, 1937-1946, 2018.

Why they marched : untold stories of the women who fought for the right to vote, 2019. 

Science
Carnivorous plants : physiology, ecology, and evolution, 2018.

Everything flows : towards a processual philosophy of biology, 2018.

The fight against doubt : how to bridge the gap between scientists and the public, 2018.

Happy brain : where happiness comes from, and why, 2019.

How scientific progress occurs : incrementalism and the life sciences, 2018.

An illustrated theory of numbers, 2017.

Laws of nature, 2018.

Presentation skills for scientists : a practical guide, 2018.

Pseudoscience : the conspiracy against science, 2019.

The scientific journal : authorship and the politics of knowledge in the nineteenth century, 2018.

When science and politics collide : the public interest at risk, 2018. 

Social Sciences
Advice for future corpses * and those who love them : a practical perspective on death and dying, 2018.

Christian slavery : conversion and race in the Protestant Atlantic world, 2018.

Disability and aging : learning from both to empower the lives of older adults, 2017.

Extremism, 2018.

A good disruption : redefining growth in the twenty-first century, 2016.

Islam instrumentalized : religion and politics in historical perspective, 2017.

Little cold warriors : American childhood in the 1950s, 2018.

A primer for teaching women, gender, and sexuality in world history : ten design principles, 2018.

A seat at the table : congresswomen’s perspectives on why their presence matters, 2018.

Terrorism : what everyone needs to know, 2018.

Trade battles : activism and the politicization of international trade policy, 2018.

Why culture matters most, 2019.

Women in ancient China, 2018.

You’ll see this message when it is too late : the legal and economic aftermath of cybersecurity breaches, 2018.

Technology
Photovoltaics : design and installation manual : renewable energy education for a sustainable future, 2004.

Reference
Amos: a new translation with introduction and commentary, 2017.

Nahum: a new translation with introduction and commentary, 2009.

DVDs
The age of innocence, 2018.

Black girl, 2017.

BlacKkKlansman, 2018.

Blue velvet, 2019.

The Bridge, 2015.

A brief history of time, 2014.

Detour, 2019.

Dietrich & von Sternberg in Hollywood, 2018.

Dragon Inn, 2018.

Fellini satyricon, 2015.

Gate of hell : Jigokumon, 2013.

Island of lost souls, 2011.

It’s a mad, mad, mad, mad world, 2014.

Kameradschaft, 2018.

The Kennedy films of Robert Drew & associates., 2016.

The killing, 2011.

Life is sweet, 1990.

The life of Oharu, 2013.

The Marseille trilogy., 2017.

Medium cool, 2013.

On the basis of sex, 2019.

One sings, the other doesn’t, 2019.

Paris belongs to us, 2016.

The promise, 2017.

Quadrophenia, 2012.

Repo man, 2013.

The silence of the sea, 2015.

They shall not grow old, 2019.

Tom Jones, 2018.

Valerie and her week of wonders, 2015.

The virgin suicides, 2018.

Wanda, 2019.

War and peace, 2019.

Westfront 1918 : Vier von der Infanterie, 2018.

Women in love, 2018.

Donated Gift Items to the Milligan Libraries
7 myths about singleness.

The American myth of success : from Horatio Alger to Norman Vincent Peale.

American thought in transition : the impact of evolutionary naturalism, 1865-1900.

Andrew Carnegie.

Art and labor : Ruskin, Morris, and the craftsman ideal in America.

Beginning postmodernism.

Black exodus; Black nationalist and back-to-Africa movements, 1890-1910,.

Brother, can you spare a dime?

Can we trust the gospels?

Citizen Hearst : a biography of William Randolph Hearst.

Collegiate women : domesticity and career in turn-of-the-century America.

Dream and thought in the business community, 1860-1900.

Dreamers of the American dream.

Early downhome blues : a musical and cultural analysis.

Edison : a biography.

The effects of visual and verbal cues in multimedia instruction. [dissertation by Dr. Carrie Swanay]

The gilded age : essays on the origins of Modern America.

God in New Testament theology.

The grandes dames.

The Hammonds of Redcliffe.

A history of news : from the drum to the satellite.

Horatio Alger : or, The American hero era.

Irresistible faith : becoming the kind of Christian the world can’t resist.

The lively audience : a social history of the visual and performing arts in America, 1890-1950.

Make Disciples of All Nations : the appeal and authority of Christian faith in Hellenistic-Roman times.

Many people, one nation.

Merchants and manufacturers : studies in the changing structure of nineteenth-century marketing.

Moral formation and the virtuous life.

Mr. Crump of Memphis.

Mrs. Fiske and the American theatre.

New men, new cities, new South : Atlanta, Nashville, Charleston, Mobile, 1860-1910.

Nineteenth century games & sporting goods : sports equipment and clothing, novelties, recreative science, firemen’s supplies, magic lanterns and slides, plays and joke books, tricks and magic, badges and ornaments.

The Oxford handbook of early Christian biblical interpretation.

The piano in America, 1890-1940.

The pragmatic movement in American philosophy.

Pulitzer.

The rise of big business, 1860-1910.

Sanctification.

Satisfaction guaranteed : the making of the American mass market.

Sixty miles to be baptized : the life and ministry of elias sias central michigan restoration… pioneer 1833-1911.

Southerners, a journalist’s odyssey.

The theatrical photographs of Napoleon Sarony.

Thorstein Veblen.

Wildlands of the West : the story of the Bureau of Land Management.

Wisdom distilled from the daily : living the Rule of St. Benedict today.

New Books and Media Received (April 2019)

The following Books and DVDs (29 items) were received into the Library collection for both the Welshimer and Seminary Libraries through the Acquisitions Budget during April 2019.

Seminary Library

Language and Literature
Reading Koine Greek : an introduction and integrated workbook, by Rodney Decker, 2014.

Law
The acts of the Lateran Synod of 649, by Lateran Council, Richard Price, Phil Booth, Catherine Cubitt, 2016.

Philosophy, Psychology, Religion
Among the early Evangelicals: the transatlantic origins of the Stone-Campbell movement, 2017.

The assurance of salvation: biblical hope for our struggles, 2019.

Divine scripture in human understanding: a systematic theology of the Christian Bible, 2019.

Eschatological discipleship: leading Christians to understand their historical and cultural context, 2018.

Gregory of Nyssa. Contra Eunomium I: an English translation with supporting studies, 2018.

Jacob of Serugh’s Hexaemeron, by Jacob, T. Muraoka, 2018.

The New Cambridge history of the Bible, by E. Ann Matter et al., 2013.

Theological lexicon of the Old Testament, by Claus Westermann and Ernst Jenni, 1997.

The Trinity in the Stone-Campbell movement: restoring the heart of Christian faith, 2015. 

Reference
Gregorii Nysseni, De anima et resurrectione: opera dogmatica minora, pars III, 2014.

Gregorii Nysseni Epistula canonica: opera dogmatica minora, pars V, 2008.

The works of Saint Augustine: a translation for the 21st century The Donatist Controversy I, 2019

Welshimer Library

Geography
Medieval graffiti: the lost voices of Britain’s churches, 2015.

Language and Literature
Representing the rainbow in young adult literature : LGBTQ+ content since 1969, 2018.

Law
John Marshall : the man who made the Supreme Court, 2018.

We the corporations : how american businesses won their civil rights, 2019.

Without precedent : John Marshall and his times, 2019.

Medicine
Assessment of autism spectrum disorder, 2018.

Bibliotherapy, 2018.

CBT for beginners, 2018.

Science and practice in cognitive therapy : foundations, mechanisms, and applications, 2018. 

Philosophy, Psychology, Religion
Tao te ching, 1989. 

Social Sciences
The Marshall Plan : dawn of the Cold War, 2018.

Reference
The Saint John’s Bible, v.7, 2007.

Juvenile

Alma and how she got her name, 2018 2019 Caldecott Honor Book
Hello lighthouse, 2018 2019 Caldecott Medal Winner
Tiger vs. nightmare, 2018 2019 Geisel Honor Book

Exhibit opens celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Milligan College’s Humanities Program

“What does it mean to be human?” The Milligan College Humanities program is a unique four-semester course sequence that combines art, literature, philosophy, theology, and more to help students grapple with this key question. Almost every undergraduate student who passes through Milligan participates in this course sequence, Milligan’s alternative to taking separate history, literature, and art classes to satisfy general education requirements. The 2018-2019 academic year marks the 50th anniversary of the program, which over the intervening years has become a central part of the Milligan experience. As part of the celebration, The Holloway Archives at Milligan College has opened an exhibit on the history of the Humanities program in the lobby of the Gregory Center.

Jack Knowles, humanities professor, teaches a class outside (undated photo from the 1970s)

The exhibit is divided into four sections. The first is a timeline of the development of the program, from 1965 when a restudy of the general education requirements began, and 1968 when the program began its first year, to 2018 when the Master of Arts in Humanities began its first year. The second section walks through the founders of the program, with photos of beloved long-time humanities faculty and others. Alumni and current students will recognize many faces in these archival photos. The third section covers the Humanities European Study Tour, a faculty-led tour of Europe that began in 1971 and continues to the present. Several yearbook spreads document the development of this popular study abroad option, including years when the group traveled around Europe in a van and camped. The last section includes articles about the Humanities program from The Stampede, including an amusing cartoon of what one’s brain looks like after studying humanities!

Cartoon by Doug Hartley, The Stampede, April 7, 1995, p. 4

“I hope students and alumni alike come by Gregory to see the exhibit,” says Katherine Banks, College Archivist and curator of the exhibit. “I think they will all find something interesting in it, whether it’s a photo of a favorite professor or seeing what the Humanities experience was like for students thirty or forty years ago.” The physical exhibit will be displayed in the Gregory Center lobby throughout the month of April. A digital version of the exhibit is available for viewing on MCStor, Milligan College’s digital repository.

New Books and Media Received (March 2019)

The following Books and DVDs (119 items) were received into the Library collection for both the Welshimer and Seminary Libraries through the Acquisitions Budget and by donation during March 2019.

Seminary Library

New Testament Seminar
Basics of biblical Greek grammar, 2019.

Exalted above the heavens: the risen and ascended Christ, 2018.

Jesus the priest, 2018.

The New Testament: a facsimile of the 1526 edition, 2008.

A perfect priest: studies in the Letter to the Hebrews, 2018.

Raymond E. Brown and the Catholic biblical renewal, 2018.

Reading Biblical Greek: a grammar for students, 2017.

Sharing possessions: what faith demands, 2011.

A syntax of Septuagint Greek, 2016.

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

Walking in the prophetic tradition: models of speaking truth and acting in love for everyday people, 2018.

Language and Literature
Learn to read New Testament Greek, 2009.

Philosophy, Psychology, Religion
And God spoke to Abraham: preaching from the Old Testament, 2011.

Arabic Christian theology: a contemporary global evangelical perspective, 2019.

Augustine our contemporary: examining the self in past and present, 2018.

Can I get a witness?: thirteen peacemakers, community builders, and agitators for faith and justice, 2019.

Christianity at the crossroads: how the second century shaped the future of the church, 2018.

The cross & the prodigal: Luke 15 through the eyes of Middle Eastern peasants, 2005.

Encountering the living God in Scripture: theological and philosophical principles for interpretation, 2019.

The gospel of Luke, 2018.

A greening of imaginations: walking the songlines of Holy Scripture, 2019.

Healing the wounds of sexual abuse: reading the Bible with survivors, 2019.

Isaac of Nineveh (Isaac the Syrian), ‘the second part’, chapters IV-XLI, 1995.

Kantian reason and Hegelian spirit: the idealistic logic of modern theology, 2015.

The kingdom of God: a biblical theology, 2019.

Light on the mountain: Greek Patristic and Byzantine homilies on the Transfiguration of the Lord, 2013.

Living in the kingdom of God: a biblical theology for the life of the church, 2018.

The marks of Scripture: rethinking the nature of the Bible, 2019.

Mary of Magdala: revisiting the sources, 2019.

Navigating toward adulthood: a theology of ministry with adolescents, 2018.

The providence of God: a polyphonic approach, 2018.

Studying the parables of Jesus, 1999.

Welshimer Library

Archives
A familiar wilderness: searching for home on Daniel Boone’s road, 2019. 

Education
Troublemakers: lessons in freedom from young children at school, 2017.

Fine Arts
The art of the Saint John’s Bible: a reader’s guide to Historical Books, Letters and Revelation, 2012.

Equal under the sky: Georgia O’Keeffe and twentieth-century feminism, 2019.

A new history of Italian Renaissance art, 2017. 

Geography
18th-century fashion in detail, 2018.

Fieldworking: reading and writing research, 2012.

Monastery guest houses of North America: a visitor’s guide, 2010.

History
Blessings from Beijing: inside China’s soft-power war on Tibet, 2018.

Empire in retreat: the past, present, and future of the United States, 2018.

Istanbul: a tale of three cities, 2017.

Why learn history (when it’s already on your phone), 2018.

Language and Literature
Anthology of Chinese literature v. 2, 1972.

The book of the city of ladies and other writings, 2018.

Herspace: women, writing, and solitude, 2003.

Law
The second creation: fixing the American Constitution in the founding era, 2018.

Music
100 greatest film scores, 2018.

Engaging musical practices: a sourcebook for elementary general music, 2018.

Experiencing the violin concerto: a listener’s companion, 2016.

Nationalist and populist composers: voices of the American people, 2018.

Philosophy, Psychology, Religion
Everything must change: when the world’s biggest problems and Jesus’ good news collide, 2007.

Girl soldier: a story of hope for northern Uganda’s children, 2007.

Soil and sacrament: a spiritual memoir of food and faith, 2013.

Soul space: creating places and lives that make a difference, 2019.

White awake: an honest look at what it means to be white, 2017.

Zhuangzi and the becoming of nothingness, 2019. 

Political Science
The embattled vote in America: from the founding to the present, 2018.

The woman’s hour: the great fight to win the vote, 2019.

Social Sciences
History teaches us to resist: how progressive movements have succeeded in challenging times, 2018.

A world to win: the life and works of Karl Marx, 2018.

Technology
Cradle to cradle: remaking the way we make things, 2002.

The upcycle, 2013.

DVDs
Adventures in Zambezia, 2013.

Behind the scenes at the Walt Disney Studio: a glimpse behind the studio magic, 2002.

Kirikou and the savage beast, 2008.

The pirates!: band of misfits, 2012.

Rabbi’s cat, 2013.

The Triplets of Belleville, 2004.

Waltz with Bashir, 2009.

Wrinkles, 2014. 

Juvenile

The book of Boy, 2018. 2019 Newbery Honor Book
Fox the tiger, 2018. 2019 Geisel Medal Winner
King & Kayla and the case of the lost tooth, 2018. 2019 Geisel Honor Book
Merci Suárez changes gears, 2018. 2019 Newbery Medal Winner
The rough patch, 2018. 2019 Caldecott Honor Book
Thank you, Omu!, 2018. 2019 Caldecott Honor Book

Donated Gift Items to the Milligan Libraries
The American magic: codes, ciphers, and the defeat of Japan.

At dawn we slept: the untold story of Pearl Harbor.

The book of God: the Bible as a novel.

The book of the samurai, the warrior class of Japan.

Cavalier in buckskin: George Armstrong Custer and the western military frontier.

Combined fleet decoded: the secret history of American intelligence and the Japanese Navy in World War II.

The Custer reader.

Custer’s 7th Cavalry: from Fort Riley to the Little Big Horn.

Dec. 7, 1941: the day the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.

The discovery of the Titanic.

Double-edged secrets: U.S. naval intelligence operations in the Pacific during World War II.

The emperor’s codes: the breaking of Japan’s secret ciphers.

The Enigma war.

A familiar wilderness: searching for home on Daniel Boone’s road.

A glorious way to die: the kamikaze mission of the battleship Yamato, April 1945.

God’s name is a tower. [Archives]

God’s name is a tower.

Leave it to Beaver. The complete first season. [DVD]

Marching orders: the untold story of World War II.

Miracle at Midway.

The physics of Star trek.

Pictorial review of world war two; a pictorial summary of the war to date; plus descriptive pictures and stories about our Army, Navy, Marines, and Coast guard; pictures of our fleet and airplanes; a dictionary of war terms; a key to the pronunciation of names in the news; and colored maps of the war zones.

Praying the names of God: 200 devotional prayers inspired by the wonderful names of our … wonderful lord. [Archives]

Praying the names of God: 200 devotional prayers inspired by the wonderful names of our … wonderful lord.

Retribution: the battle for Japan, 1944-45.

The Romanovs: the final chapter.

Rooted: understanding the purpose and power of God’s word. [Archives]

Rooted: understanding the purpose and power of God’s word.

The Second World War.

The secret war: the inside story of the code makers and code breakers of World War II.

So sad to fall in battle: an account of war: based on General Tadamichi Kurayashi’s letters from Iwo Jima.

Star Fleet medical reference manual.

A terrible glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn– the last great battle of the American West.

Titanic: an illustrated history.

Titanic: the story of the great White Star Line trio ; the Olympic, the Titanic and the Britannic.

Titanic: the truth behind the disaster.

Titanic voices: memories from the fateful voyage.

A trial of generals: Homma, Yamashita, MacArthur.

Van Gogh: a retrospective.

War in the Pacific: Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay.

With Custer on the Little Bighorn: a newly discovered first-person account.

Archives Intern mounts exhibit on the history of Wonderful Wednesday

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.

Have a Milligan history question? Contact the archivist here.
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