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SUMMER 2012 | ST. LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE 3
ON CAMPUS
University to Inaugurate
Sustainability Semester
St. Lawrence will introduce a new
Sustainability Semester in the spring of
2013, with students living off campus
and taking courses together that address
issues of sustainability from several dis-
ciplines and
perspectives.
“With this
program,
students will
be deeply
engaged on
the local
level with
some of the
most important topics facing the global
community,” President William L. Fox ’75
said in a campus announcement. “The
program fulfills several objectives of
our Strategic Map, including enhanced
experiential learning and innovative
curricular options and a commitment to
sustainability.”
The program will be located on farm
property near campus that St. Lawrence
is leasing. Some 15 to 20 students
will live there with a resident assistant
director; take four courses; grow food;
build and help renovate energy-efficient
structures; and “create an intense group
setting that attempts to live as sustain-
ably as possible,” President Fox said.
Other highlights include engagement
with local
community
organiza-
tions and
individu-
als with
expertise
in land use
and food
production,
and a comparative urban component in
either Boston or New York City.
Associate Professor of Geology Cathy
Shrady will coordinate the program
in its first year. She was part of a large
group of faculty, staff and students who
conceived and created the program.
For more, go to
www. s t l awu. edu/
news_sus ta inabi l i tysemes ter.
html .
—MD
Write Out
of the Past
John Lee Wiegand is the great-grandson
of St. Lawrence’s first president, John
Stebbins Lee, and the grandson of its
fifth, John Clarence Lee. He’s also a
collector of historic documents, and
his presidential ancestors produced a
considerable quantity of them – more
than 16 linear feet, to be precise, when
they’re lined up in boxes on a shelf in
St. Lawrence’s archives.
That’s where the documents reside
today after Mr. Wiegand drove them
from his home in Bernardston, Mass., to
campus to donate them to the University
last summer. “This collection increases
exponentially the material we have on
both of these men, and provides inter-
esting insight into the lives and family
dynamics of a well-educated and suc-
cessful North Country family in the late
19th century,” says Special Collections
Assistant Paul Haggett.
The collection consists of thousands
of handwritten letters, hundreds of
sermons, and photographs and other
ephemera “documenting the lives and
careers of a very important family in St.
Lawrence history,” says Special Collec-
tions Librarian Mark McMurray.
Haggett processed and organized the
collection with considerable assistance
from Mia Sloan ’12 of Charlotte, Vt.,
and Jillian Locke ’12 of Canton, N.Y.,
who told a
Watertown Daily Times
re-
porter that she learned that “the pace of
life was very different back then.”
Those interested in viewing the collec-
tion may contact McMurray at 315-229-
5476 or mcm@stlawu.edu. For more
on St. Lawrence’s archives, go to
www.
s t l awu. edu/ l ibrary/ spec i a l -
col l ect ions .
—NSB
“(This collection) provides
interesting insight into the lives
and family dynamics of a well-
educated and successful North
Country family in the late 19th
century."