From: The Register Mail (Galesburg, IL)
Knox College will host the second annual Prairie Fire Bioneers Conference Oct. 26-28. Affiliated with the National Bioneers Conference held in San Rafael, Calif., Knox’s conference is one of 24 satellite conferences across the country…
The conference will feature renowned speaker Julia Butterfly Hill delivering a keynote address on the Knox campus, as well as numerous plenary speakers via satellite. Hill is an American activist and environmentalist best known for living in a 180-foot-tall, roughly 1,500-year-old California Redwood tree for 738 days from 1997 to 1999. Local workshops will be hosted by regional leaders such as representatives from Illinois Citizens for Clean Air and Water (ICCAW), the University of Illinois Extension Office, and the Sustainable Business Center… Read more…
From: The Register Mail (Galesburg, IL)
Building on the tradition of the famous 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debate at Knox College, Knox Democrats and the Knox Conservatives are organizing debates this month to discuss the economy and other present-day issues. The debates begin at 4 p.m. Oct. 5 and will continue Oct. 12 and 19 [postponed to Oct. 12, 19 and 26] on the Knox campus on the steps of Old Main, the site of the Lincoln-Douglas debate… Read more…
From: Galesburg Planet (Galesburg, IL)
Eugene Field has a Galesburg connection because he attended Knox College for two years as a member of the Class of 1871. In his autobiography, Always the Young Strangers, Carl Sandburg wrote that his sixth grade teacher, Lottie Goldquist, insisted her students should know about Eugene Field because he had attended Knox College. She wanted her students to “feel close to him.”…
Field received an honorary degree from Knox College in 1893 and appeared “to a small and appreciative audience” in the Auditorium on May 22, 1894, to read a number of his poems and prose pieces… Read more…
From: The Register Mail (Galesburg, IL)
GateHouse and Knox College are teaming up to bring a Pulitzer Prize winner to Galesburg. Sun-Times Reporter Mark Konkol will speak to newspaper editors and reporters during a conference starting at noon Thursday at the Best Western Prairie Inn, and then will talk to students at Knox College later in the day…
On Thursday afternoon, Konkol will go to the Knox College campus to speak with students for about 90 minutes. David Amor, acting chair of the Journalism Program, helped work out the details and funding. The event is being sponsored by GateHouse Media and Joe W. Morgan ’34 Fund for Journalism… Read more…
CNN anchor Christine Romans, who spoke at Knox on Jan. 17, mentioned her visit to campus on the subsequent edition of her program on personal finance, Your Bottom Line: “This week, I had the honor of speaking to students at Knox College, a private liberal arts college, in Galesburg, Illinois. Here’s what I told them: there are four available workers for every job in this country. I said, ‘look around you, look around you in that room. You got to beat out three of those classmates just to get hired. You still have a golden ticket. You’re just going to have to work harder to get it punched’…” Read more and watch video (Knox segment begins about 2 mins in)…
