Fieldtrips
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¡Viva Mexico!
By Barbara Jane Gilbert Flint
Going on the Mac Caravan to Mexico is one of my fondest memories of my times at Macalester. It was a month of non stop fun.
Freshmen jitters
By Donna Miller Swan
Many of the most fun and memorable events happened with our Westminster Fellowship group, with Mrs. Gibbs, at the Macalester Presbyterian Church. I will never forget the retreat we had at the Clearwater Bible Camp the first weekend we freshmen were on campus. I think that all of the loneliness I had been feeling worked its way out of me that weekend. I tried very hard not to show how I felt. By the time we were ready to go back to our campus, I was fine.
Being a Gamma
By Lynne Davis Osteraas
As a Medical Technology student, I remember Alpha Delta Theta, Macalester Gamma Chapter, the third chapter to be organized in the country. Activities included the fall installation ceremony at the Union (a dressy occasion), followed by a tea for all those entering med tech, the annual biology field trip to Cedar Creek Field Laboratory, raising funds for scholarships, and sponsoring booths at Campus Chest Carnival and Tartan Trouper Carnival held for under-privileged children in the St. Paul area. We toured Miller Hospital laboratories where we would spend our year of internship. In April twin cities area high school students interested in med tech were invited on a tour of campus and dinner in the Union followed by a program featuring talks by Chapter President, Sylvia Dimmick and faculty members, Dr. O.T. Walter, Dr. L. D. Frenzel and Professor James Jones.
Gammas, along with other science majors, traveled by train to Kalamazoo, Michigan, for a two-day trip to visit the Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company. The main manufacturing building was over 23 acres under one roof! I was so impressed with this most ultra-modern pill-producing facility, from the rotary tablet machine to the fluids packaging department and gelfoam production section - and that was before everyone in the country was on medications! I think we also had some fun on the way back, stopping in Chicago and enjoying dinner at the Heidelberg German restaurant.