Practice the Duhawk Fight Song to prepare for the first ever, world-wide Duhawk Day! This inaugural day has been designated to celebrate the many reasons we all love Loras College.

Hail Loras Varsity
Cheer them along the way
Onward to victory
We will win this game today
Let's hear a cheer for the varsity
Long may they reign supreme
Fight 'til the echoes ring
For the glory of the team
Click to play the Fight Song

Send in a video of you and your fellow Duhawks singing the Loras Fight Song on 5.23! You can also share pictures by emailing them to alumni@loras.edu, posting them to the Alumni Facebook Page or sharing them via Instagram or Twitter using the hashtag #DuhawkDay. 

Learn more about Duhawk Day 5.23: alumni.loras.edu/DuhawkDay

DR. STONE AWARDED O’CONNOR CHAIR

By Erin Sexton (’13)

For the 2011-2012 academic year, Dr. Susan Stone was awarded the O’Connor Chair of Catholic Thought.  This chair is awarded to one Loras professor each year based upon a research project proposal related to Catholic studies. During the year, Dr. Stone traveled to places such as Marquette University, Newberry Library in Chicago, the University of Washington in Seattle, and the Archdiocese of Minneapolis and St. Paul in search of biographical information about the earliest Native Americans to become Catholic priests and nuns.  She is very excited about the figures in her study and their influences.  A few such figures include Rev. James Chrysostum Bouchard, S.J., a priest of Delaware and Comanche origins, the Congregation of American Sisters, a group of Hunkpapa, a group of nuns established in the spirit of Kateri Tekakwitha, and Philip Rev. B. Gordon, an Ojibwe priest who worked in the Wisconsin region.  Dr. Stone is grateful for the opportunities the O’Connor Chair has allowed her, and is delighted not only to have answered many of her questions, but also to have discovered plenty of new ones.  She is going to continue working on this project, presenting at conferences and publishing information on these fascinating Native American Catholic Leaders.

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