![]() Morgan attended Alpha Sigma Tau’s 1946 convention at the Hotel Gibson in Cincinnati, Ohio. Nine years later, a board of trustees was formed to direct the institution. Founded in 1925, it was incorporated in 1929. ![]() That idea, fostering a cottage industry to revive almost lost traditional arts such as weaving and woodcarving and to provide the residents of the mountain communities a way to earn a livelihood, turned into what is today the Penland School of Crafts, in Penland, North Carolina, in the Blue Ridge Mountains. She purchased looms and headed back to North Carolina with an idea. In 1920, Morgan returned to North Carolina and took a job at the Appalachian School, which was founded by her brother Rufus, an Episcopalian minister.Įarly in 1923, she visited Berea College in Kentucky and during her nine-week stay there she learned about weaving, other native crafts, and Berea’s off-campus community weavers. While in Chicago, she studied at the University of Chicago. Morgan then taught in Illinois and worked for a time at the Chicago Children’s Bureau. While there, she became a member of the Beta Chapter of Alpha Sigma Tau. ![]() In 1915, she graduated from Central State Normal School (today it is Central Michigan University). She joined the Honors College in spring 2016.Lucy Calista Morgan grew up in North Carolina and was educated at a private school in Hickory, North Carolina. Merry is majoring in Psychology and is minoring in English and in Spanish. I’m so grateful to be a part of Sigma Tau Delta and to have had the opportunity to experience the convention this year.” Merry writes: “The annual Sigma Tau Delta convention is a great place to engage and foster community with other young English scholars, whether or not you present. ![]() The conference took place over four days and consisted of more than 150 panels and roundtables. I was able to attend an array of events held at the convention, including other students’ sessions, a bad poetry contest, and the awards gala.” Sigma Tau Delta members were also treated to a tour of the Harriet Beecher Stowe House, the writer’s family home where Stowe lived off and on during the 1830s. Besides having the opportunity to present my hard work and gain rewarding experience. Both my attendance and my participation at the convention were extremely valuable to me. “I found out a month or two later that my paper was accepted for presentation. Merry submitted “The Queen, the Mother, the Muse”-a ten-page version of a longer paper she had written as a final project in Honors African American Literature-in which she analyzes photographs of Beyoncé’s 2017 pregnancy in the context of African American literature and history. I looked into the guidelines for submitting on the Sigma Tau Delta website and realized I should take advantage of the opportunity.” about how valuable the experience was, and it seemed like there was nothing to lose. “I hadn’t planned on submitting, but I read a piece by another student. Dingledine, with whom I took English 110: Honors Composition and English 229: Honors African American Literature.” ![]() I was first introduced to the society and to the possibility of submitting and presenting a paper at the convention by Dr. “Sigma Tau Delta,” Merry explains, “is a National Honors Society for English students. Congratulations to Merry Norby, a junior in the Honors College, whose paper proposal was accepted by Sigma Tau Delta and was presented as part of “Coping with Slavery and Its Aftermath in American Literature” at the Sigma Tau Delta 2018 International Convention on Saturday, March 24, in Cincinnati, Ohio. ![]()
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