Wartburg College has its very own piano man, Frank Lundak. Lundak is an expert piano technician. For fifty years, Lundak has been tuning the pianos on Wartburg’s campus.
When Amanda Gahler decided to spend a semester in Senegal, Africa, she was hoping to improve her French, absorb the culture and be thrown out of her comfort zone.
While their friends ponder which dessert will be served in the Mensa, Rachel Keber and Suzy Berndt already know. They were awake at 7 a.m. baking dozens of cookies and desserts for the day.
Many students watched in anticipation as the best athletes from around the world competed for an Olympic gold medal.
Biology students cram for lab tests, while English majors dissect the inner-workings of sentences. Each major has its own requirements and methods for testing students’ learning.
Firecrackers are shot off at midnight to celebrate and scare away evil. Red envelopes containing a lucky sum of money are given to children. And new clothes are worn to symbolize a new beginning.
Scott Hammerlinck of Waverly turned his pasttime into a business with the tagline “when life gives you water, make beer.”