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Aug. 26, 2019

Be part of God's Work, Our Hands event

All students, faculty and staff are invited to be part of the God’s Work, Our Hands event on campus Sunday, Sept. 8. Redeemer Lutheran Church and St. Paul’s Lutheran Church & School, both in Waverly, will join together with Wartburg to celebrate the ELCA’s nationwide God’s Work, Our Hands event with worship at 9 a.m. in Wartburg Chapel, followed by a variety of service events around the community at 10:30. Participants will receive a t-shirt. Please sign up at bit.ly/WaverlyGWOH and choose your service event.

The following items are needed for the service events. Please bring any of the following to the Chapel office (entrance is in the skywalk):

• Hand towels, bath towels, and flannel sheets to be used to make diapers; can be gently used but must be clean.

• Old and new sheets are needed to make bandages; frayed sheets are OK but they must be clean.

Move-in info for returning students

•	Returning students: Please check in at the Student Life Office in Saemann Student Center on Monday, Sept. 2, or Tuesday, Sept. 3, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
•	If you need to arrive prior to Sept. 2, please email cassie.hales@wartburg.edu to get on the early arrival list. The cost is $25 a day, unless a student lives more than 500 miles from campus.
•	New students: Please follow the directions sent from your Orientation leader.

All are invited to Opening Convocation

Opening Convocation is 10:15 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 3, in Levick Arena to welcome the Class of 2023. This year’s speaker is La Toshia Burrell ’07, assistant director of The W for group fitness and personal training and licensed massage therapist. She also instructs a variety of classes as an adjunct professor and advises students in the health and fitness studies major. New students will be seated in chairs on the floor of the arena; faculty will be seated behind the students. Staff, returning students, and guests will be seated in the east bleachers. All are invited to an All-campus Lunch in the Mensa and Saemann Student Center ballrooms following convocation.

Mail service on Labor Day

There is no postal, UPS, or FedEx delivery or outgoing on Labor Day, Sept. 2. There will be NO campus delivery runs on Labor Day due to a combination of the service holiday, staffing, and student move-in. Regular campus deliveries will resume on Tuesday, Sept. 3.

Schedule for Presidential Forums

Due to President Colson’s travel schedule, updates have been made to the Presidential Forums schedule. Forums will be held at 11:30 a.m. in WBC 214 (Buckmaster room) on the following dates:

Oct. 1 (was Sept. 24)

Oct. 29 (was Oct. 22)

Dec. 3

Feb. 25

March 24

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Apply now to be Service Trip leader

The school year is quickly approaching! The Service Trip leader applications for Fall Break and Thanksgiving Break are currently open. You can fill out the application by clicking the links above, or check out the Wartburg Service Trips Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter pages, where you will find the links as well.

If you have any questions please contact servicetrips@wartburg.edu.

Board plan details for Fall Term

Click here to see Dining hours for Aug. 26-Sept. 3, the week leading up to and including Opening Weekend. (New students move in Aug. 31 and begin their board plans with the evening meal on Saturday, Aug. 31.)

•	Fall Term board plans and Points begin at breakfast on Tuesday, Sept. 3.
•	GET meal transfers begin on Thursday, Sept. 5.
•	All off-campus students who want to be on a board plan must stop in to the Dining Office in Saemann Student Center to fill out a form at the start of each term if wish to be on a board plan.
•	Dining Services asks that you verify that you are on the correct board plan once the Fall Term board plans begin. Reminders will be posted. All changes to board plans must be made before 4 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 12.
•	Please contact Shelly Geweke with questions.

Burgapalooza: Tailgate Edition

Mark your calendars and let’s have some fun! Student Senate will host a tailgate from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 14, on the Campus Lawn. We will be firing up the grills and providing burgers, veggie burgers and chips prior to the 7 p.m. football kickoff against Monmouth College. All Wartburg students are welcome. Go Knights!

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SPIRITUAL LIFE & CAMPUS MINISTRY

Weekday Chapel schedule

All are welcome at Weekday Chapel services from 10:15 to 10:35 a.m. each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday in the Wartburg Chapel. Chapel time is a brief opportunity to gather with students, staff, and faculty to reflect on God and faith. Interfaith chapels will be held the last Wednesday of each month during the semester.

Upcoming services:

Wednesday, Sept. 4: Opening Chapel — Pastor Brian Beckstrom

Friday, Sept. 6: Senior Chapel — Samantha Pfab ’20

Sunday worship times

The following are the Sunday worship times in Wartburg Chapel for Fall Term. Worship begins at 10:30 a.m. unless otherwise noted. All are welcome!

Sept. 1: New Student Orientation

Sept. 8: God’s Work, Our Hands service day with local churches (register at bit.ly/WaverlyGWOH)

Sept. 29: Scholarship Day

Oct. 13: Homecoming & Family Weekend (10 a.m., Neumann Auditorium)

Nov. 10: Scholarship Day

Nov. 17: St. Elizabeth Week

Dec. 15: December Commencement (10 a.m.)

Sanctuary on Wednesday nights

Sanctuary is a holy space in the midst of your busy life where you can recharge and renew. Expect a relaxed time of Bible study, fellowship, worship band music, prayers, and communion. It takes place on Wednesday evenings at 9 p.m. in the Chapel Commons (basement), starting Sept. 4. Come by at 8:45 for snacks and fellowship. All are welcome!

Upcoming events

New student orientation
Aug. 31-Sept. 3

Returning students move-in days
Sept. 2-3

Opening Convocation
Sept. 3

Fall Term begins
Sept. 4

God's Work, Our Hands event
Sept. 8

Burgapalooza
Sept. 14

Involvement Fair
Sept. 18

Homecoming & Family Weekend
Oct. 10-13

Click here for the campus events calendar

WARTBURG IN THE NEWS

Though the Wartburg football team boasts 27 returning seniors and was picked to finish first in the conference in a preseason poll, the battle for a new starting quarterback is expected to continue into the start of the season, as reported by the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier.

Max Chinnah ’15, founder of Terraoak, is preparing a sales launch for a portable and smokeless cookstove that was originally designed while Chinnah was a Wartburg student for the Davis Projects for Peace program. Terraoak will donate cookstoves to farmers in rural Kenya, which could decrease the number of people who die each year from the respiratory ailments they suffer from cooking over an open fire in a confined space, according to the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier.

Pat Grau ’11 is a third-generation forester at a sawmill owned by his established by his grandfather in 1948, as reported by the Clayton County Register.

Jenny Kordick ’10 was named the first full-time executive director for Maine Outdoor Brands, a trade group that advocates for the state's outdoor recreation industry, as reported by Maine Biz.

Fikiswayinkhosi Nkambule ’21 was featured as the up and coming artist in the Swazi Observer for his continued passion for percussion.

Dr. Fred Waldstein ’74 weighed in on political trackers for a story in the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier.

Victor, a service dog named in honor of the college's official mascot, Sir Victor, graduated from in-training to a full-fledged service dog on June 29, as reported by the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier. Victor was trained by alums Les ’87 and Marit Scherer ’88 Beisner and their twin sons Noah ’20 and Luke ’20.

Logan Merley ’20 is directing the Sheldon High School Summer Theatre's production of "Murder, Ahoy!", as reported by The N'West Iowa Review.

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