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SPRING 2017<br />
ST.OLAF<br />
THE VISUAL ART ISSUE<br />
ON THE COVER<br />
Detail from The Ulu<br />
Camii (Great Mosque)<br />
of Divrigi, Turkey, by<br />
St. Olaf Professor of<br />
Art Mary Griep<br />
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ST. OLAF MAGAZINE<br />
Spring 2017 · Volume 64 · No. 2<br />
EDITOR: Carole Leigh Engblom<br />
ART DIRECTOR: Don Bratland '87<br />
COPY EDITOR: Laura Hamilton Waxman<br />
CONTRIBUTING WRITERS:<br />
Joel Hoekstra '92, Marla Hill Holt '88,<br />
Erin Peterson, Jeff Sauve<br />
CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS:<br />
Tom Roster, Bill Kelley, Peter Lee,<br />
RJ Sangosti<br />
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<a title="StOlafMag_2017Spring page 35" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4c0d0123?page=35"> Ulu Camii – Divrig</a>
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