Pictures around St. Olaf College

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I had an absolutely wonderful time. I'll do a longer post tomorrow, but for now, here are some pictures from around campus.

This is Old Main, the first building built by the college when it was started in the late 19th century. It has just been renovated.



Some beautiful things around campus:

This is the Wind Chime Tower, a new addition since I left school. It is in the center of campus, in front of the church. The tower holds 109 windchimes, one for each student who died while a student at the college, since the college's founding.



A window in the Rolvaag library building that I've always liked:



This is the classroom, also in Rolvaag, where I met kijjohnson, thirty-four years ago.



A case holding trophies that some of my teammates won on the Forensics team (I won trophies, too, but I took them all with me when I left campus. Alas, they were culled from my possessions during one of my many, many moves during my twenties):



The Rube Goldberg machine, displayed in the Science building, with which the St. Olaf team won first place in the nation last year. It involves, I think, 192 discrete actions:



I stayed at beautiful Melby dorm, which was an all-women dorm when I was on campus. I believe both sexes live there now.



Architectural detail above the doorway:



The lovely chapel on the first floor of Melby. This little gem is simply tucked between two student rooms in the middle of the first floor corridor:



An heirloom chest, displayed in Melby lounge:



Carved wooden doors displayed in Buntrock Commons. They are copies of the design for bronze doors for Oslo Cathedral.