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Macalester History Quiz III

 

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1. Geology Professor Jerry Webers discovered a rare fossil bed in this place and literally put the college on the map when he named a mountain "Mount Macalester." Where is the mountain located?

a. Germany
b. New Zealand
c. Antarctica
d. Montana

2. He grew up on an Arkansas farm during the Depression. He spent 10 years as a parish minister and Air Force chaplain before earning a Ph.D. at Duke. A longtime professor of religious studies, he has published books and articles on the apostle Paul. He is:

a. Calvin Roetzel
b. David Hopper
c. Jim Laine
d. Glenn Clark

3. Name the recent Macalester commencement speaker who urged graduating seniors: "Go have some interesting failures. If you need to have a personal crisis, this would be a good time for it--this summer, perhaps. Don't put it off until mid-life, when it takes so much longer to resolve."

a. Tim O'Brien '68
b. Kofi Annan '61
c. Bill Clinton
d. Garrison Keillor

4. For decades the bell in the Bell Tower, a Macalester landmark, has called the campus community together for convocations and special events. The Bell Tower itself is a gift from:

a. DeWitt Wallace
b. President Theodore Roosevelt
c. the Presbyterian Church
d. the Classes of 1927 and 1928

5. Instilling in students a love for French language, literature and culture, this faculty member was twice decorated by the French government, most recently as officier of the Ordre des Palmes Academiques.

a. Virginia Schubert
b. Galo Gonzalez
c. Karl Sandberg
d. Ellis Dye

6. Macalester recently sponsored an alumni trip to this country, which has roughly the same population as the city of St. Paul and is home to more than 20 Macites.

a. Benin
b. Iceland
c. Andorra
d. Mongolia

7. Dean of women for 36 years, she moved lights out in the women's dorm from 10 p.m. to midnight (because students were lighting candles to study), successfully urged the college to allow dancing and was the first faculty chair to include student members on her committees. She was:

a. Margaret Doty
b. Grace Bee Whitridge
c. Laurie Hamre
d. Hildegard Johnson

8. In the Mac Rouser--words and music by Lucille Farrell '19--what is it that "we proudly give...for our dear college Macalester"?

a. our hearts
b. our cheers
c. a darn
d. an Oskie Wow-Wow

9. In the stairwell of Old Main is a plaque erected in tribute to Winifred Moore Mace, 1876-1956. She was Macalester's:

a. first woman faculty member
b. first Rhodes Scholar
c. first woman graduate
d. longtime custodian

10. Name the ardent supporter of the United Nations and devout Presbyterian who once declared: "The enemies of internationalism have to be fought wherever they are found. It is too late to appease them. It is dishonorable to surrender to them. This is one world."

a. Professor G. Theodore Mitau '40
b. President Charles Turck
c. Walter Mondale '50
d. Professor Mary Gwen Owen '23

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Deadline: July 18, 2005. Good luck!