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Doodle Inspiration

by Maryann Muhilly on July 29th, 2018 | 0 Comments

 

 

Since 2008, Google has sponsored a contest for K-12 artists to depict their inspirations in Google Doodles. The 2018 winner of the K-3 Doodle illustrated dinosaurs:

Doodle Dinos

The winners in each age category receive a $30K scholarship with a $50K donation to the winner's school for technology. 

Look at some of the finalist inspirational Doodles. The finalist of the grade 10-12 category from Massachusetts wrote of the Doodle entitled "Take a Break": "What inspires me are the moments found late at night, at a desk cluttered with thoughts, the clarity + liminality that comes with the pursuit of creativity. It's the culmination of small, precious moments. A sort of peace." What do you think?

Doodle

What inpsires you? Create a Doodle about your inspirations and drop it off at the Studzinski Circulation desk for a SJP version of the Google Doodle contest.  The library will provide paper and pens/pencils for your art work. Come to Studzinski Library and create art. If you want to submit your Doodle and brief explanation of your inspiration for the contest, then drop them off with your name by October 1, 2018. We cannot offer a $30k award for the finalist, but a panel of judges will award prizes to the top three Doodles! Everyone in the community may participate--students, faculty, and staff.

Unfortunately, the official contest is closed for 2018, but doodling can release your inner child [Directions for the closed 2018 contest]

 

 

Google has sponsored this contest since 2008, so get doodling for the 2019 contest:

Doodle 4 Google is an annual contest open to students in grades K-12. Students are invited to create their own Google doodle for the chance to have it featured as an interactive experience on Google.com as well as some great scholarships and tech packages for schools.

 Doodle at Studzinski.

 

 


Edify One Another

by Maryann Muhilly on July 29th, 2018 | 0 Comments

Welcome

 

 

 

Welcome to a new year--2018-2019--at the A.E. Studzinski Library. If you are a first year student, then we enthusiastically welcome you to the library where we can find answers to your questions, help you with your academic work, and offer you a place to think, read, collaborate, and create. If you are a returning student, then we enthusiastically welcome your return. This blog will inform or edify the Prep community about Studzinski events, resources, and activities.

The title of the blog comes from the Xaverian Brothers' Fundamental Principles: "A band of Brothers / who mutually help , / encourage, / and edify one another, / and who work together."

The Studzinski Library has robust offerings to assist you with your academic goals. If you found this blog, then you have also found the new library libguide. 

The game is afoot, Studzinski students (Shakespeare, 1 Henry IV  1.3.288). A new year awaits. Edify one another at the Studzinski Library.

Look forward to the posts from faculty and staff guest bloggers.

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Poetry, Art, Movies, & Music

by Maryann Muhilly on July 29th, 2018 | 0 Comments

 

Kilmer Memorial

July 30, 2018 marked the centenary of the death of American poet Alfred Joyce Kilmer in World War I. Jesuit magazine America posted a 2018 article, "The tragedy of Joyce Kilmer, the Catholic poet killed in World War I," about Kilmer's education, family life, conversion, poetry, and heroism to memorialize the anniversary of Kilmer's death. Kilmer's well-known poem "Trees" was published in Poetry magazine in August 1913 before the start of World War I.

Poetry Magazine

I think that I shall never see 
A poem lovely as a tree. 
 
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest 
Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast; 
 
A tree that looks at God all day, 
And lifts her leafy arms to pray; 
 
A tree that may in Summer wear 
A nest of robins in her hair; 
 
Upon whose bosom snow has lain; 
Who intimately lives with rain. 
 
Poems are made by fools like me, 
But only God can make a tree.

 

Interested in poetry? Come to the Studzinski Library for poetry suggestions. Write a poem about a tree and contribute the poem to the SJP literary magazine Prepositions. Look at the campus trees for inspiration. Edify one another.
 
Kilmer, a member of the New York National Guard's 69th Infantry Regiment that served in the 42nd Division as the 165th Infantry, wrote "Rouge Bouquet" in 1918. The speaker describes the German artillery barrage on the French village Baccarat on March 12, 1918. Twenty-one soldiers were killed, and fourteen, whose bodies were never recovered, were entombed in a shelled bunker. A popular poem, "Rouge Bouquet" was subsequently read at funerals of  42nd division soldiers killed during World War I. Several months after writing "Rouge Bouquet," Kilmer at 31 died in action near Seringes-et-Nestes, France during the Second Battle of the Marne. A soldier read "Rouge Bouquet" at Kilmer's grave. The movie The Fighting 69th (1940) commemorates the battle at Rouge Bouquet and features Kilmer's poem.
 
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The Fighting 69th

Look at the influence of war and poetry on culture, art, and music. Not only did Kilmer's "Rouge Bouquet" influence the 1940 movie "The Fighting 69th," but it also inspired the Irish composer Victor Herbert in his composition of  "When the Sixty-Ninth Comes Back" [lyrics and music] that the Regimental Band played in the New York City Fifth Avenue parade marking the end of World War I. More recently, the Irish band The Fenians has sung a version of "The Fighting Sixty-Ninth" [The lyrics allude to the Fighting 69th of the American Civil War.]

The "rouge bouquet" might allude to the red poppies that have come to symbolize fallen soldiers. To commemorate the British who died in World War I, artist Paul Cummings designed an artistic installation of 888,246 ceramic poppies displayed at the Tower of London in 2014 to mark the beginning of World War I. NPR covered the event in "A Sea of Red Poppies Honors Britain's World War I Dead."

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In "Flanders Fields,"  Canadian physician and poet John Macrae writes a rondeau in which the speaker describes the poppies in the fields of Belgium where his friend died in the Second Battle of Ypres in 1915:

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place, and in the sky,
The larks, still bravely singing, fly,
Scarce heard amid the guns below. 

We are the dead; short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields. 

Take up our quarrel with the foe!
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high!
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

What legacy will we leave in 100 years that will affect art, music, poetry, and culture?

 

 


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