Hello There! Quick history lesson: The area around the Gastineau Channel was originally fishing grounds for local Tlingit Indians. In the late 1800s, the area became a focus of attention when Kawa.ée (or Kowee) of the Auk Tlingit tribe provided gold samples in response to a reward by George Pitz, Sitka Engineer. Kawa.ée led Richard Harris and Joseph Juneau (name…
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Short & Simple: Switching Majors
So last week I did something a lot of college kids do (and something Erin just posted about)- changed my major. I thought about it for a while unsure of the path I really wanted to spend four years traveling. I had even designed a schedule around my previous major on advisement day. Really advisement day was the decider for me. I imagined the…
Saint Rose history- just as colorful as Hogwarts!
As I was perusing through a book on the history of Saint Rose (“Of Glory, Of Praise,” published in 1994, if anyone is curious) I stumbled upon a very interesting fact. Saint Rose used to have class colors. If I did my calculations correctly (I sound very cool or at least like Velma when I say that) the senior class…
Good To Know: Saint Rose archives uses newest technology on oldest publications
Now available: Fifty years of Saint Rose’s past, electronic and easily searchable. The College archives, housed in the Neil Hellman Library, has just digitized Saint Rose student newspapers and magazines from 1921 to 1970. Exhibiting a variety of titles and journalistic styles, the materials join a digital collection of oral histories, photographs and maps that piece together the story of…