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Program News
The next gathering of Stammtisch, the German language and culture conversation group, will be on Thursday, October 3rd, at 5:00 p.m. It will be at the home of Daan Vreugdenhil here in Shepherdstown. Daan is a frequent participant in Stammtisch. Stammtisch is open to all faculty, staff, students, and community members, and people with all levels of German proficiency—from beginners to native speakers—are welcome to take part. For more information, contact Dr. Rachel Krantz (rritterb@shepherd.edu).
On Saturday, September 28th, Dr. Hanrahan and Dr. Nixon accompanied a group of Shepherd English majors to the F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Festival in Rockville, Maryland. The students were especially excited about meeting this year’s honoree, Jesmyn Ward, who is a two-time National Book Award winner and the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant. Ward has published four novels and a memoir, and she edited a collection of essays and poems by contemporary writers. Dr. Nixon included Ward’s novel Sing, Unburied, Sing (2017) in his English 313 course this semester, and the students connected with that text with enthusiasm and appreciation. The group also visited F. Scott Fitzgerald’s grave and had dinner at Dr. Nixon’s home that evening.
The first gathering of Stammtisch, the German language and culture conversation group, will be on Wednesday, September 11th. It will be at Alma Bea’s here in Shepherdstown and will start at 5:00 p.m. There will be a special guest that day, Dr. Klaus Vollert, a professor at Shepherd’s German partner university (Fachhochschule Mittweida). Stammtisch is open to all faculty, staff, students, and community members, and people with all levels of German proficiency—from beginners to native speakers—are welcome to take part. For more information, contact Dr. Rachel Krantz (rritterb@shepherd.edu).