English Department
Sigma Tau Delta
This honor society's central purpose is to confer upon students of the English language and literature. One of the largest members of the Association of College Honor Societies, Sigma Tau Delta has over 600 active chapters, more than 900 faculty sponsors, and inducts approximately 7,000 members annually. Our members have the opportunity to be recognized for their outstanding achievements, enrich their education, help them make career choices, and advance their careers.
North Central's chapter of Sigma Tau Delta participates in scholarship opportunities, community readings, writing workshops, the national convention and other local activities. We whole-heartedly support the Sigma Tau Delta motto: Truth, Sincerity, & Design.
President: Chris Fletcher
Faculty Sponsor: Gary Dop, gary.dop@northcentral.edu
Sigma Tau Delta Website
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Senior Class Poet
2006-2007 Ally Cole
In The Projects
Intellectual Elite
During my time at North Central I played on the Ram’s women’s basketball team, volunteered at Augustana, worked at the Academic Success Center, participated (and won) in intramural football, choreographed (and won) the floor skit for Battle of Floors, and I was a writer for The Northern Light newspaper and a part of the English honor society Sigma Tau Delta. I was also part of leading the student-formed team Steps to Beauty. By using dance and sign language, Steps to Beauty has promoted life-transforming true beauty to young girls all over the Midwest.
It has also been my great honor to be regarded as North Central’s 2006-2007 Senior Class Poet. Through my four years at NCU, writing poetry was both my emotional and artistic release.
I am currently working on my Masters in Education at the University of Sioux Falls, working as a grad assistant, volunteering at my youth group, and I am still writing. Poetry, of course. ;)
2007-2008 Tiffany Brenneman
Published Students
Senior Projects
Campbell, Mary: Fulfilling Their Design: How Chaim Potok's The Chosen and My Name is Asher Lev Illustrate Two Young Men Making Their Faith Their Own and A set of Devotional entitled "A Journey of Hope"
Kowlessar, Nicole: Poetic pursuit of freedom: African American poetry as a political force during the Harlem Renaissance.
Pelsor, Shea: Problem of Celtic hagiography: Separating Truth from Legend in the Celtic Legacy.
Phillips, Michael: More to Orwell: The Evolution of Dystopia
Richardson, Melody: Graceful struggle: three stories
Roehl, Emily: Final Stage: A Performance Recital
Schedgick, Fritha: Natural Change, Self-Discovery and Environmentalism
Vaughan, Jennifer: How holocaust literature represents the treatment of Christians and other minority groups during the holocaust.
Great Books:
Gary Dop
Beowulf
Hamlet (Shakespeare)
Macbeth (Shakespeare)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare)
Paradise Lost (Milton)
Collected Works of John Donne (John Donne)
Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky)
Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass (Lewis Carroll)
The Awakening (Kate Chopin)
Orthodoxy (G. K. Chesterton)
The Selected Poetry of Rainer Marie Rilke (Rilke translated by Stephen Mitchell)
Winesburg, Ohio (Sherwood Anderson)
Till We Have Faces (C.S. Lewis)
Galileo (Bertold Brecht)
A Streetcar Named Desire (Tennessee Williams)
James Wright: Collected Poems (James Wright)
Lost in Yonkers (Neil Simon)
The Triggering Town (Richard Hugo)
Beloved (Toni Morrison)
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (Sherman Alexie)
Bird by Bird (Anne Lamott)
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain (Robert Olen Butler)
Delights and Shadows (Ted Kooser)