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Monmouth College's Homecoming a time for lifelong friends to pick up where they left off
Heartfelt hugs and handshakes, big smiles and laughter, and even a few tears were a major part of the weekend as Fighting Scots from around the nation reunited with friends at Monmouth College to celebrate Homecoming 2024 on Oct. 4-5. Two of those fri...
Oct 5, 2024, 10:38pm EDT
Holst Wins in Singles as Scots Fall to Foresters
The Monmouth College women's tennis team lost a home conference match against Lake Forest College on Saturday. The 6-1 loss drops the Scots to 1-5 in MWC as freshman Natalie Holst (East Moline, Illinois) picked up a singles win, the first against Lake ...
Oct 5, 2024, 1:21pm EDT
Scots Sweep Ripon to Open MWC Action
The Monmouth College volleyball team looked confident as they started Midwest Conference play at Ripon on Friday night with a commanding 3-0 win. The Fighting Scots (11-8, 1-0) dispatched the Red Hawks 25-23, 25-8, 25-15, their first win in Doc Wieske...
Oct 4, 2024, 9:52pm EDT
Patricia Draves inaugurated as Monmouth College's 15th president
Monmouth College celebrated the 15th president in its 171-year history on Friday afternoon, inaugurating Dr. Patricia H. Draves in a ceremony on the plaza in front of Wallace Hall, a building named in honor of the college's first president, the Rev. Da...
Oct 4, 2024, 5:40pm EDT
Monmouth tunes into creativity as it celebrates World College Radio Day on Oct. 4
Monmouth College helps its students discover their vocation and, in some cases, their voice. With exposure to the college's radio station, they can sometimes do both at the same time. That's a message that Chris Goble, the adviser for the college's W...
Oct 3, 2024, 10:12am EDT
Three Singles Wins but Scots Fall to IC on Wednesday
The Monmouth College women's tennis team lost a home conference match against Illinois College on Wednesday. The 4-3 loss drops the Scots to 1-4 in MWC play with one match remaining on Saturday. Ivana Stefanova (Streamwood, Illinois) won 6-3, 6-0 at #...
Oct 2, 2024, 9:40pm EDT
Monmouth College professors Simmons, Wright share Hatch Award for Scholarship and Creative Work
A pair of faculty members who were recently promoted to full professor shared Monmouth College's Hatch Award for Scholarship and Creative Work this year. Classics professor Bob Simmons and English professor David Wright were the honorees. "My schol...
Oct 2, 2024, 11:48am EDT
Scots Fall in Four at Augie on Tuesday
The Monmouth College volleyball team lost a hard-fought 4-set non-conference match at Augustana College on Tuesday. The Fighting Scots (10-8) won the third set and led late in the fourth before falling 25-20, 25-16, 18-25, 25-23. The Vikings jumped ...
Oct 1, 2024, 11:04pm EDT
Wunderlich's exhibit of sculptures, paintings on display in Monmouth College's Everett Gallery through Oct. 25
Monmouth College professor Janis Mars Wunderlich has had her award-winning art featured at shows around the nation, but no travel is required to see her latest exhibit. Wunderlich's "Woman in the Woods" exhibit of 22 sculpture pieces and 11 paintings...
Oct 1, 2024, 3:04pm EDT
Murray, Faivre Score as Scots Draw With Vikings
The Monmouth College men's soccer team scored first and last in a 2-2 tie against Lawrence University on Saturday. The draw opens Midwest Conference play for the Fighting Scots (2-5-2, 0-0-1) who will play their next two games on the road. Monmouth g...
Sep 28, 2024, 9:47pm EDT