Sigma Delta Pi

One of our students started up a chapter of Sigma Delta Pi, the Spanish National Honor Society, on campus last year. Juan and I are the co-advisors to the group. They took over running the Spanish and Latin American Film Series and do a lot of community service in Winona and the surrounding area. They are the best and the brightest of our Spanish majors and a really great group of young people. To celebrate the end of a great first year as a chapter, we headed to the best Mexican restaurant in town, Tequilas.Ian and Carrie didn't fit into the other picture. These are our graduates with their honor cords.
The red and white shirt is our official club shirt for this year. We look like a soccer team ready to play when we go out as a group wearing them.This is Carrie, the one who made the club possible and served as President our first year. I had her in my classes since way back in beginning Spanish, and it's been amazing to watch her grow and become this confident, world-savvy young woman. She was in one of the groups I accompanied to Spain, and she then went on to spend a summer in Argentina. She'll be starting a Masters program this fall in New Mexico in Intercultural communication and even though we'll miss her here, I can't wait to see where life takes her and what she does with it.