The finishing touches to the landscaping are being made, furniture's being moved in and cartographers are busily charting the campus' changed typography as St. Ambrose makes final preparations to open the new university center and residence hall in August. No, this isn't the campus you remember--even if you were here just one year ago.

Here's the July AmbroseZine. Read and enjoy.

Prolific Playwrights and a Grammy-winner Take Center Stage
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Plays by Arthur Miller, Noel Coward and Tom Stoppard and a performance by seven-time Grammy-winner Eddie Palmieri are just a few of the highlights of the 2004/05 Galvin Performing Arts Series. Take a look at the stellar line-up, and reserve your tickets online.

And remember, tickets for SAU students are "on the house"--it's just like handing you $75 worth of show tickets!

http://www.sau.edu/galvin

Time to Start Thinking Independently
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A record 500 first-year students have selected St. Ambrose as their college of choice for this fall. Now, the Admissions Office is welcoming high school students and parents to campus August 2-6 for Iowa Private College Week. It's the perfect opportunity to meet the admissions staff, and learn all that St. Ambrose has to offer from the very students who go here. Reserve your spot today!

http://admissions.sau.edu/news/ipcw04.htm

Summer Pomp and Circumstance for Newest Alumni
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The sights and sounds of happy graduates will fill air- conditioned Allaert Auditorium on the SAU campus as St. Ambrose welcomes its newest graduates to the alumni family during Summer Commencement on Saturday, July 31. Graduate and St. Ambrose board member John Anderson '87 will give the commencement address.

http://www.sau.edu/graduation

Alum Hennen Ordained to the Priesthood
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Newly ordained Fr. Tom Hennen '00 will face many duties, obligations and responsibilities in priestly ministry. These include teaching and passing on the Catholic faith, celebrating the sacrifice of the Mass and sacred mysteries of Christ through the liturgy and sacraments, and placing the service of others before his own concerns.

That's a lot to take on. But after his July 10 ordination at Sacred Heart Cathedral, Fr. Hennen said he was anxious and excited to begin ministry as a priest. Read the story from the Catholic Messenger:

http://www.sau.edu/news/summer04/hennen.html

Sports Scoop: Football Preseason Poll
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St. Ambrose's football team will open the season as the sixth-best team in the country, according to NAIA Preview--the national magazine for NAIA football. The Bees, who were 8-4 last season and advanced to the second round of the playoffs, also have been picked to win this year's Mid-State Midwest Conference.

SAU running back Joe Schimmel was selected by the magazine as one of the top six players in the nation.

http://www.sau.edu/athletics

University Community's "Habitat" for Volunteering
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St. Ambrose students, faculty, staff and alumni are strapping on their tool belts and charging up the cordless drills as they get ready to build their first Habitat for Humanity House on August 7.

Volunteers are needed from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m. To volunteer, contact P.J. Foley, service learning coordinator, at 563/333-6041 or FoleyPaulJ@sau.edu.

http://www.sau.edu/news/summer04/habitat.html

A Galvin and Gridiron Weekend
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What do Arthur Miller and the Renewal of the Loras/St. Ambrose Football Rivalry have in common? Nothing, except that they're both great reasons for alumni to buzz back to the Quad Cities this fall.

Make plans now to come back to the Quad Cities for the special alumni/faculty/student production of "Death of a Salesman" at the Galvin Center and the Loras/St. Ambrose football game. Tailgates and mini-reunions are just part of the weekend of festivities, September 9-12.

http://www.sau.edu/news/summer04/weekendofdrama.html

Elvis Night Sells Out the Sox, Cards Tix Still Available
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If you waited to decide whether to catch the White Sox at U.S. Cellular Stadium, you're too late. Tickets are sold out, with no more to be had anywhere (it's Elvis night at the ballpark and all the hip-shaking impersonators bought the place out).

But, we still have tickets to see the first-place St. Louis Cardinals in action. Reserve your spot now!

http://www.sau.edu/news/summer04/alumbaseballoutings.html

Nickel and Dimed
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Barbara Ehrenreich, author of the best-seller "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America," will give a public lecture at St. Ambrose University at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 16. Her address will also serve as the keynote for the First Annual St. Ambrose University Conference on Social and Economic Justice. 

Conference organizers are seeking proposals for papers or panel presentations.

http://web.sau.edu/socialjustice 

Center Offers Spiritual Training Courses
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The Prayer and Spirituality Center is sponsoring a two- year ecumenical spiritual training course that will begin September 18 and continue through May 2006, providing participants with a conceptual and practical background needed to exercise the ministry of spiritual direction.

http://www.sau.edu/news/summer04/psctrainingcourse.html

SAU IQ: Rubbing Elbows with Grammy Winners
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When Latin jazz pianist Eddie Palmieri graces the Allaert Auditorium stage as part of Galvin's 2004/05 Performing Arts Series, it won't be the first time a Grammy-winning artist has performed for a St. Ambrose audience. In the past, what Grammy winner roared into the Quad Cities under SAU's sponsorship? Send an answer to ambrosezine@sau.edu and have your name put into the drawing for a prize.

FROM JUNE: St. Ambrose has certainly come a long way since it began as a seminary and school of commerce for young men in 1882. For its first three years, classes were held in two rooms of the old St. Marguerite's School, located on the grounds of what is now Sacred Heart Cathedral in Davenport. The school was moved to the Locust Street campus in 1885, when the central part of the present Ambrose Hall was built. Yet Ambrose Hall is not the oldest building the university has. There's another, dating from the 1870s, that has seen many an Ambrosian pass through its doorway. What building is it? ANSWER: Bishop's House Inn. AND THE WINNER IS: Dejaka Davidson

ambrosezine@sau.edu


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