Posts tagged with “Rob Oden” (All posts)
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President Oden honored at Dartmouth College.
15 December 2004On Friday, November 5, Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H., held a special lunch in commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the awarding of the first Dartmouth Distinguished Teaching Award. Carleton College President Robert A. Oden Jr. was the first recipient of the award in 1979, and he and his wife Teresa Oden were guests at the event. Oden was a religion professor at Dartmouth from 1972 to 1989. The Odens are pictured here with Dartmouth President James (Jim) Wright and his wife, Susan Wright.
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Teresa Oden writes essay for Chronicle of Higher Education.
5 November 2004Teresa Oden, spouse of President Robert A. Oden Jr., wrote an essay for the November 5 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education titled “Not the First Lady.” Oden is writing a book tentatively titled “Spousework: Partnering an Academic Leader.”
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Speech to Northfield Downtown Development Committee
5 October 2004A talk about Carleton’s ties to Northfield, given by President Oden to the Northfield Downtown Development Committee
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President Rob Oden Featured on Minnesota Bound
22 July 2004Carleton President Robert A. Oden Jr. was featured in a segment on the television program Minnesota Bound on Sunday, August 1, at 10:30 p.m. on KARE-TV (Channel 11 in the Twin Cities). The show will be rebroadcast later on Call of the Wild, a program on the Outdoor Channel. Oden, an avid fly-fisherman, taught a Rec Center class on fly-fishing this spring to about 30 students and staff. A crew from Minnesota Bound attended the class and took Oden fishing at one of southeast Minnesota’s best trout streams.
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President Robert Oden’s Fly-Fishing Class Featured in Pioneer Press
7 June 2004President Robert A. Oden Jr. was featured in the June 7 issue of the Saint Paul Pioneer Press, in a story about a fly-fishing class he taught this spring at Carleton’s Lyman Lakes through the Recreation Center. Senior Dan Poppy was quoted in the story: “Three lessons are enough to whet my appetite. Fly-fishing has always seemed like a very romantic pastime,” he said. “And it didn’t hurt that it was taught by President Oden. He represents all the ideals we value at Carleton, such as creativity and search for knowledge… and not taking yourself too seriously. This is the perfect example.” The story was picked up by newspapers across the nation.
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President Oden featured in Chronicle of Higher Education.
28 April 2004Carleton president Robert A. Oden Jr. was featured in an article titled “The Lure of It All” about his interest in fly-fishing in the April 30 Chronicle of Higher Education’s Short Subjects section. “If you’re not catching fish, you’re doing something wrong…The key to fly-fishing is being dramatically impatient,” Oden said.
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President Robert A. Oden Jr. comments on monks in advertising in The New York Times.
25 August 2003President Robert A. Oden Jr. commented on the use of monks in advertising in an August 25 New York Times article titled “Poverty, Chastity, Marketability: Advertisers Turn Monks Into Pitchmen.” Oden commented that most commercials using monk figures would not work if they squared with the way monks actually live.
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President Oden presents at Minnesota International Center.
21 August 2003President Robert A. Oden Jr.‘s participation in a Minnesota International Center panel was noted in an August 21 Saint Paul Pioneer Press article titled “International Center offers program on three religions.” The presentation “Diverse Traditions–Common Ideals” was designed to discuss the relationship of Christianity, Islam and Judaism to the natural world and to governments, and the fundamentalist elements in each religion.
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Inauguration Address: “What Makes Carleton Carleton”
26 October 2002President Robert A. Oden Jr.’s inauguration address
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Inauguration Convocation Address: “Carleton and the Liberal Arts: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow”
25 October 2002Read President Robert A. Oden Jr.’s inauguration convocation address.