2018-2019 Northland Catalog
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Kathleen Dean Moore, a philosopher, environmental advocate, award-winning essayist and the author of books about our moral relationship to the natural world, will be the featured speaker in a…
When Laurel “Johnnie” Fisher ‘72 was looking for colleges, she went to the Internet of her time—the incredibly thick and heavy 1967 version of Barron’s List of American Colleges and Universities. Her only criteria: that she experience another part of the country. So, she closed her eyes, opened the book,…
…in Washington DC this summer, and again at the Guiding for Tomorrow (G-WOW) training, Fisher and Janssen developed and hosted Northland College’s first-ever student-initiated climate change conference October 15-16 at Forest Lodge in Cable, Wisconsin. The conference, “Changing Climate, Changing Culture,” encouraged students to look at climate change through both…
…positions during their time at Northland. “What we try to do is recruit students to the college or identify those who are interested and wanting to participate in research projects,” Lehr said. New students to the program are hired as technicians and then promoted annually based on performance to assistants,…
…Land Trust. “Few have devoted as much time and attention to western issues and even fewer have spent as much time as he was out in the wild places where the stories unfold.” As for that house, in the north woods can-do spirit, it was lifted, taken to Madeline Island,…
…the Oklahoma City Bombing, shooting massacres, and that sort of thing. Over time, because I had covered so many of those kinds of stories, whenever big breaking news occurred, the editors in New York often assigned those stories to me, which meant I was getting on planes flying all over…
With one trio, two duets, two solos and pages of dialogue, the Captain in Gilbert and Sullivan’s H.M.S. Pinafore is considered one of the largest roles ever written for an actor. And one Saturday afternoon in 1954, twenty-something Henry Fitzgibbon ’51, found out with no time to prepare, that he…
…about the mysteries of loons. Much of what has been discovered in the last thirty years is the result of researchers being able to identify individual loons by banding them, which is no easy feat. Loons spend most of their time in the water and routinely dive for a minute…
