Southern Music & Dixieland Tour 12 Days Join other Lutherans departing June 8, 2012 from
$1748*
Start in Atlanta with a city tour including many of the city’s famous landmarks. Then head south to Mobile, AL (one night), followed by New Orleans for the next three days with guided sightseeing and an optional Jazz Dinner Cruise on the Mississippi River. Be sure not to miss the French Quarter, Royal Street’s antique shops or art galleries. Then your tour continues to Memphis a mecca for music fans. Visit Elvis’ birthplace with a day trip to Tupelo, MS; and a tour of Graceland. Then travel to the “World Country Music Capital” in Nashville. Visit the Ryman Auditorium; enjoy an included show at the Grand Ole Opry and spend time exploring Nashville with an optional excursion of the “Nashville Sights.” Then on your trip back to Atlanta, stop for a tour of the Jack Daniel’s Distillery in the center of “dry county”; the city of Chattanooga; and visit the “World of Coca Cola” before departing for home.
Rocky Mountain Tour Plus Yellowstone National Park! 14 Days Travel with other Lutherans departing July 25, 2012 from $1648*
Spend two weeks next summer in the “cool” U.S. Rocky Mountains! Your tour begins in the “Mile High City” of Denver, followed by Cheyenne, WY. The next two days you will visit Fort Laramie; Mount Rushmore and Crazy Horse Memorial in South Dakota. Then return to Wyoming with a stop in Deadwood, continuing through the Black Hills to Little Big Horn Battlefield and the Buffalo Bill Historical Center. Then you will depart for Yellowstone National Park (2 days) with extensive sightseeing, including Old Faithful and Hayden Valley. Your journey continues to Grand Tetons National Park with spectacular landscape; Jackson Hole, WY; Salt Lake City, UT with a city tour including the Great Salt Lake and opportunity to witness the Tabernacle choir rehersal. Then travel West visiting the Utah Field House Museum; Dinosaur National Monument and explore the vast variety of fossils and Rocky Mountain National Park including a drive through the park on Trail Ridge Road.
Elegant Danube River Cruise 14 Days Join other Lutherans departing September 17, 2012 from $2698*
Enjoy the YMT chartered, 4-star ship, the “TUI Melodia”! Round trip cruise from Passau … PLUS tour Germany!
Start in Munich, Germany for one-night. Then travel to Schwangau and a guided tour of the famous Neuschwanstein (Disneyland) Castle and Rothenburg o.d. Tauber for an overnight stay. The following day you will leave for the Czech Republic stopping in Plzen, where Pilsner beer was created with an included brewery tour; followed by Bohemia and Prague. Spend the next day sightseeing before you embark. Your cruise includes the Danube’s highlights including Melk and Vienna, Austria (the classical city of music); Esztergom and Budapest Hungary; Bratislava, Slovakia; and Linz, Austria; before returning to Passau. Travel back to Munich with additional sightseeing, before flying home. Your “brand new” ship the TUI Melodia, constructed in 2011, offers a state-of-the-art, experience! Price includes (very limited) outside Porthole. *Add $300 per person for French Balcony.
*Price per person, based on double occupancy. Airfare is extra. Call for details & itinerary 7 days a week:
1-800-736-7300 44 The Lutheran •
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Higher education
Imagine 73,387 trees planted or 394 cars taken off the road. That’s roughly the equivalent of Wartburg College’s 18 percent annual carbon- footprint reduction. Wartburg, Waverly, Iowa, invested $2.4 million in energy-saving projects, including a system that turns off various utili- ties when not needed, air condition- ing in stages, restrictor valves that reduce water pressure and a “heat- recovery chiller” system. Annual savings include $270,000 in elec- tricity costs and a 4.2 million gal- lon reduction in water usage. Wart- burg’s investment, which includes a $666,000 state grant from a federal energy program, will be paid off in eight years.
California Lutheran University, Thou- sand Oaks, dedicated its $8.9 mil- lion William Rolland Stadium and Gallery of Fine Art Oct. 29. CLU will hold football, soccer, intramural games, commencement ceremonies and more in the 2,000-plus-seat sta- dium. The art gallery will initially house pieces of donor William Rol- land’s collection of statuary, paint- ings and high-performance race cars. The stadium replaces a grass field in use since 1963 that lacked lighting and usable concession stands and had limited parking. For the last two years, the Kingsmen clinched spots in the NCAA Division III football tournament, but CLU lost bids to host playoff games to universities with better facilities.
After extensive “greening” of Lucas Hall at Roanoke College, Salem, Va., the 1941 classroom and office build- ing earned LEED silver certification. It is the first LEED-certified building on campus. The hall includes a high- tech media classroom, rooftop garden, motion-activated faucets and light fixtures, dual flush toilets, and a storm water treatment system that captures and removes rainwater runoff. M
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