Morningside Connect

Welcome to the New Year! For those of us in the upper Midwest, it’s been down-right cold! But as Dr. Dan Flanagan reminds us, there are only 20-some days until somebody starts playing baseball!

The close of 2015 allowed many of us to reflect on what had taken place at the college the first semester and to begin to execute our plan for this semester.

This semester finds us working with the choral director on plans to take the choir on tour to Kansas City, Kan.; Denver, Colo.; Laramie, Wyo.; Arvada, Colo.; and Omaha, Neb. Alumni in those areas will be notified when and where the choral concerts will take place.

Additionally, we are working on putting together another great Homecoming. Do mark your calendar – Sept. 30 to Oct. 2. Our honored classes will be 1956, 1966 and 1991. In addition, we will honor those who participated in jazz band, cross country and track while at the college. Be sure to mark your calendar.

For our friends in the Twin Cities, mark your calendar! Sunday, April 10, 2016, we will be coming your way with another of our super alumni gatherings! A committee of your friends are working with the Alumni Office to put that together. Watch your email and snail mail!

We are working on a host of other fun activities that involve the GOLD group –Graduates Of the Last Decade. We recently had an event in Omaha and will have a similar event in Sioux City at the Musketeer Hockey game.

On a closing note, I want to thank all of you who requested a yearbook on our recent quest to divest ourselves of books sitting on a shelf gathering dust. In my 30-plus years at Morningside, I have given away one book. With the announcement of this effort, we gave over 500 books to 200-plus alumni! Again, many thanks!

Gene Ambroson