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Delta Pi Activities

Fall Semester 2005 Academic Service Social Las Cortes de la Muerte Diabetes Booth Opening Social La Orden de Don Quijote Community Resource Information Sheet Christmas Party/Villancicos Guest Speaker: Edward Friedman Fiesta Navideña at Provo City Library Fuente Ovejuna Guest Speaker: John Slater Translating/Community Health Connect Fall Induction Ceremony

Winter Semester 2006 Academic Service Social Winter Induction Ceremony Learning Resource Center Winter Opening Social Poetry Contest Medical Translation Training Salsa Welcoming Social Juan Rulfo Film and Lecture Series Student Mentoring–Spring Creek Elem. Awards Banquet Guest Speaker: David Darst Día de los Reyes Magos Trivia Bowl Project Read Guest Speaker: Stephen Hart Gabriela Mistral Award La Marca Hispánica

At 6:00 p.m. on September 9, 2005 the BYU chapter of Sigma Delta Pi kicked off its opening social, which was attended by 35 people. The two hour activity was held at Kiwanis Park at the base of “Y” Mountain. Students, friends, and family participated in games such as horseshoes, senior golf, football, and kicking a soccer ball. Steven Mills, co-president of the BYU chapter for the 2005-2006 school year, manned the grill. Those who attended the opening social enjoyed hamburgers, hotdogs, nachos, and Tang. Later on they were given the chance to swing at a piñata hung from a tree.

David Wiseman, who served as the

chapter president last year, attends the

barbecue with his wife Heather, who

served as historian under his leadership.

A group of students stop for a picture as they finish up their

dinner.

Errol King, the other co-president of the BYU chapter,

tosses the football with other Sigma Delta Pi members.

Steven Mills cooks hotdogs and hamburgers at the grill.

Gabriela King, daughter of Errol and Debra King, takes a

swing at the piñata.

Steven Mills holds the rope supporting the piñata as he gets ready to

move it up and down as blindfolded students prepare to swing at it.

Brian and Chris converse with friends as the

sun sets over the rugged Squaw Peak.

Chris Couch prepares to head the soccer ball.

Some of the students in attendance stop to take a group picture.

The faint outline of a rainbow can be seen over “Y” Mountain as the opening social for the 2005-2006 school year

draws to a close.

Utah Valley Regional Medical Center—September 22-24, 2005—Clark Auditorium

From September the 22nd to the 24th the BYU chapter of Sigma Delta Pi manned a booth at the children’s health fair in the Utah Valley Regional Medical Center in Provo. The goal of the health fair is to educate elementary-age students about health issues and to make them more health conscientious. Though the majority of our presentations were in English, we were able to give several Spanish presentations to the growing Hispanic population in the area.

Brian Porter, the Service Committee Head, coordinated everyone’s

hours at the booth set up to educate children about diabetes. He is

shown here with children all around him.

Errol King is pictured at the booth with his

daughter and another volunteer who would

blow bubbles to catch the attention of the

children. Every few minutes we would give

seven or eight- minute presentations

explaining how to prevent getting diabetes.

We also taught that diabetes was not

communicable and that there was no need to

be afraid of friends who had to test their

blood-sugar level regularly.

Chris Couch would have the kids sit down around him while he spoke

to them. Chris volunteered to man the booth for a few hours each

day during the health fair.

1086 Jesse Knight Humanities Building—September 22, 2006

This semester’s induction ceremony welcomed the largest group of new inductees in a long time. Forty four members were welcomed into Sigma Delta Pi. Before the new inductees were officially welcomed into the chapter, Russell Cluff and Gregory Stallings provided some entertainment. Professor Cluff played the guitar and sang Spanish songs while Professor Stallings accompanied him on the piano.

Following the entertainment the forty-four candidates were received into the national honor society through the traditional rito de iniciación. The new members were welcomed into the Delta Pi chapter by this year’s presidency and by the chapter advisor, Dale Pratt. After receiving a carnation, a pin, and a certificate the new inductees listened to Dr. Blair Bateman who encouraged them to continue to learn as they begin to go out into the workforce in the coming years.

Before leaving, everyone enjoyed nachos, cake, vegetables, root beer floats, and fruit juice.



New inductees and their family members enjoy

refreshments after the ceremony.

Dale Pratt and the presidency of the Delta Pi chapter welcome new

members into the national honor society.

Spencer Cantrell lights his candle as the

chapter advisor, Dale Pratt, signals for others

to come and do the same.

Dr. Blair Bateman spoke to the new inductees encouraging them to

continue to learn as they move toward a profession.


With the transition to the Joseph Fielding Smith Building, the Fall Induction Ceremony was probably the last to be

held in the Jesse Knight Building.

Los neofitosLos neofitosLos neofitosLos neofitos

Blayne AndersenBlayne AndersenBlayne AndersenBlayne Andersen David LongDavid LongDavid LongDavid Long Emily AndersenEmily AndersenEmily AndersenEmily Andersen Jorge Luis TorresJorge Luis TorresJorge Luis TorresJorge Luis Torres Zach AshbyZach AshbyZach AshbyZach Ashby Todd MackTodd MackTodd MackTodd Mack Joseph BarnardJoseph BarnardJoseph BarnardJoseph Barnard Benjamin MillarBenjamin MillarBenjamin MillarBenjamin Millar Stephen BurkeStephen BurkeStephen BurkeStephen Burke Michael MouritseMichael MouritseMichael MouritseMichael Mouritsennnn W. Spencer CantrellW. Spencer CantrellW. Spencer CantrellW. Spencer Cantrell Benjamin NicholsBenjamin NicholsBenjamin NicholsBenjamin Nichols Craig ChiltonCraig ChiltonCraig ChiltonCraig Chilton Mary Ann NeilsonMary Ann NeilsonMary Ann NeilsonMary Ann Neilson Benjamin CluffBenjamin CluffBenjamin CluffBenjamin Cluff Summer OlsenSummer OlsenSummer OlsenSummer Olsen Jeffrey CooperJeffrey CooperJeffrey CooperJeffrey Cooper Matt OrmeMatt OrmeMatt OrmeMatt Orme Jason FosterJason FosterJason FosterJason Foster Marcella PeachMarcella PeachMarcella PeachMarcella Peach Valerie FunkValerie FunkValerie FunkValerie Funk Coralee QuinnCoralee QuinnCoralee QuinnCoralee Quinn Trent GriffithTrent GriffithTrent GriffithTrent Griffith Jackie RasbandJackie RasbandJackie RasbandJackie Rasband Andrea HenrieAndrea HenrieAndrea HenrieAndrea Henrie Sean RicksSean RicksSean RicksSean Ricks Bryan HenrieBryan HenrieBryan HenrieBryan Henrie Mark RowanMark RowanMark RowanMark Rowan Dale HiblerDale HiblerDale HiblerDale Hibler Stephen Paul RuckerStephen Paul RuckerStephen Paul RuckerStephen Paul Rucker Melanie HopeMelanie HopeMelanie HopeMelanie Hope Oren StocksOren StocksOren StocksOren Stocks Scott HowardScott HowardScott HowardScott Howard Matthew TeitterMatthew TeitterMatthew TeitterMatthew Teitter E. Jeff HullingerE. Jeff HullingerE. Jeff HullingerE. Jeff Hullinger R. Scott ThomasR. Scott ThomasR. Scott ThomasR. Scott Thomas David JacksonDavid JacksonDavid JacksonDavid Jackson Yasmina VallejosYasmina VallejosYasmina VallejosYasmina Vallejos John LarsenJohn LarsenJohn LarsenJohn Larsen Warren WilsonWarren WilsonWarren WilsonWarren Wilson Andrew ListonAndrew ListonAndrew ListonAndrew Liston Jason WinterJason WinterJason WinterJason Winter Andrew LongAndrew LongAndrew LongAndrew Long Jarom YatesJarom YatesJarom YatesJarom Yates

Brigham Young University—October 14-15, 19-22, & 28-29, 2006—B192 Joseph Fielding Smith Building

Las cortes de la Muerte

October 14-15, 19-22, 28-29

Normally we perform a Spanish Golden Age play each spring. This year was a little different. This last spring we performed Lope de Vega’s El caballero de Olmedo in Idaho, Utah, Texas, and Mexico. Instead of having the whole year to prepare for the next play, we just had a few months for this one. In October the Spanish Department held a conference to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the writing of Don Quixote. From April 29th until March 25th five students traveled to Spain to study autos sacramentales under the guidance of Valerie Hegstrom and Dale Pratt, Delta Pi’s advisor. This year’s vice president Anna-Lisa Halling and co-president Errol King were among the five to make the trip to Spain in preparation for Lope de Vega’s auto sacramental, Las cortes de la Muerte. In the second book of Don Quixote, the knight and his squire come across a cart carrying actors who perform the auto in the surrounding towns. To see videos of the trip click the following links: Video 1, Video 2

Of the 26 members of the cast and crew, nearly half were from Delta Pi. Several of the chapter’s members participated in the production/course voluntarily since they had already received credit for their participation in previous plays. Some of the responsibilities to carry out a project of this magnitude are as follows: advertisements, choreography, stage props, sewing of costumes, filming and film editing, web site design, finances, T-shirt design, music, directing, and the twelve characters in the play. In addition to all this, the company also had a small parade that preceded the actual performance to recreate an environment similar to the performance of an actual auto sacramental from the Golden Age.

This is the front and back cover of the program for Las cortes de la Muerte. Jared White, Delta Pi’s Vice President

last year, drew the image on the front cover.


These two woodcuts by Gustave Doré depict Don

Quixote’s encounter with the acting company of Las cortes de la Muerte.

This flyer advertised the Quixote conference. On

October 14, 2005 we performed a special show for

the conference.

This flyer advertised the auto sacramental that we performed.

Since the show sold out every night we added a few more

performances than the ones listed. We also traveled to Idaho

State University and BYU-Idaho for additional performances.


Jared White (Don Quijote/El Hombre) says his lines in a

rehearsal. Jared made his own metal armor.

Dale Pratt tries to get the hang of the castanets that

would later be used in the play by Chris Nielsen

(Sancho/El Ángel) who used them to make the

galloping sound of horses.

Todd Mack and Rebeca Lindheimer pose with the Tarasca that

Rebeca made for the procession that precedes the auto.

Andrea Antivilo (El Pecado) watches the play from

her seat on the stage during the October 18, 2005

performance.

La Orden de Don

Quixote Awarded to Edward Friedman

Edward Friedman, a professor at Vanderbilt University, was named to La Orden de Don Quijote on Friday, October 14, 2006 during the “Framing the Quixote” conference held at Brigham Young University to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the publication of Miguel de Cervante’s Don Quijote

de la Mancha. The award recognizes his contributions to Hispanic scholarship, his teaching of Spanish, and other meritorious contributions in developing cultural understanding.

Brigham Young University—2265 Harmon Building—October 14, 2005

Guest Speaker October 14, 2005

Guest Speaker October 20, 2005

On the same day that Edward Friedman was presented with La Orden de Don Quijote, he spoke to members of Sigma Delta Pi and to others attending the “Framing the Quixote” conference. Below is a copy of the summary to his paper/presentation. The summary was given to all those in attendance. “Quixotic Inscriptions: Unamuno’s Theory of the Novel” The paper looks at Unamuno’s ties, often acknowledged openly, to Cervantes. Unamuno wants to move the novel ahead and to inscribe himself into the pantheon of illustrious writers, but his gaze turns repeatedly to a master whose imprint cannot easily be erased. In his effort to deviate from realism, Unamuno finds a narrative style that conforms to his approach to life and letters. He erects—or, more accurately, imagines—polemical arenas for dialogue, introspection, and trial by fire. Depending, as did his predecessor, on irony and paradox, Unamuno conducts his experiment by integrating rather than destroying the data of the past.

Brigham Young University—2265 Harmon Building—October 14, 2005

John D. Slater from the University of Colorado accepted our invitation to come speak at

one of our productions to Las cortes de la Muerte. He shared his knowledge of autos sacramentales with the audience and helped them better appreciate the significance of an auto being performed in the United States. Professor Slater also spent some time with some of us while we were doing research in Spain to prepare to do Las cortes de la Muerte. He had been doing some of his own research at the time, but took the time to sit down with us and answer our questions. He then went with us to watch a play at El Teatro Albeniz de la Comunidad in Madrid. Since autos sacramentales haven’t been performed very often in the last century he proved to be an excellent resource when we had questions.

Brigham Young University—B192 Joseph Fielding Smith Building—October 20, 2005

Christmas Party—Home of Dale Pratt and Valerie Hegstrom—December 6, 2005

Christmas Party

The image of the three wisemen was used on the thank-

you cards that were written for those who participated

in the Fall Induction Ceremony.

Dale Pratt and Valerie Hegstrom held a Christmas party for Sigma Delta Pi and students in their classes. The two professors provided an array of food from different cultures. If you like food, this was not the activity to miss.

We wrote thank you cards to the people who performed and spoke at the Fall Induction Ceremony. We also sang several Christmas carols. The inclement weather kept us from going into the streets to do our caroling.

All in all, the activity was a wonderful success. It was a great opportunity to take a break from school work and talk with friends. We would like to thank Professor Pratt and Professor Hegstrom for providing a leisure evening for all of us before finals.

Christmas Party—Home of Dale Pratt and Valerie Hegstrom—December 6, 2005

Gabriela King is shown dancing to the Christmas carols sung

by members of Sigma Delta Pi.

While socializing members of Sigma Delta Pi enjoy the

excellent food provided by Professor Pratt and Professor

Hegstrom.

Dale Pratt makes the rounds to make sure

everyone has enough food.

Fiesta Navideña—Provo City Library—December 6, 2005

Fiesta Navideña

December 6, 2006

The service committee was involved in an activity at the same time as the Christmas party across town at the home of Professor Pratt and Professor Hegstrom. Fortunately, we have a large chapter and the service committee heads have done a spectacular job coordinating activities and seeing that enough members come to make the service activities a success. The Christmas Celebration/Fiesta Navideña at the Provo City Library brought several organizations together to entertain children. Delta Pi members taught villancicos to children that came to their room. We had pipes that would play different notes. Each of the pipes was given to a different person. A director would point at a child and the child would hit his pipe with a stick. The activity provided children and their families a great opportunity to be exposed to the Spanish language through villancicos and playing pipes to keep the children’s attention.

Brian Porter and Chris Couch

stand by the sign outside the room

where Sigma Delta Pi taught

villancicos to children.

Brian Porter takes his turn directing the playing of musical pipes.

Other Events

Though Delta Pi did not have any members in the production of Fuente

Ovejuna, we did encourage our members to attend. We contacted the ticket office and arranged to have them pull from Delta Pi’s account to give members of Sigma Delta Pi a $1 discount to attend the play. Those interested in the discount picked up a ticket from Steve Mills or Errol King to present at the ticket window for the discount.

Two of Delta Pi’s members were the lead students in welcoming lecturers to BYU and making them feel comfortable while on campus. Every few weeks we would send an e-mail out to our members to remind them of the lectures and the films that were being shown to celebrate Juan Rulfo’s achievements. Well-known Rulfo scholars participated in the film and lecture series, which gave our members a great opportunity to better appreciate the works of Juan Rulfo and Mexican literature in general.

Community Resource Information Sheet

Translating/Community Health Connect

Learning Resource Center

Service Activities

Utah Valley schools distributed information sheets to their students that give information to important community resources. Examples include family counseling services, medical services to low-income families, and outreach services. The information sheet listed nearly sixty community resources that would be particularly helpful to low-income families. Along with each community resource was a list of contact information and information detailing what the resources could offer. Members of Delta Pi translated the information sheet so they could be of more use to Hispanic families that might have need of the resources, but aren’t comfortable enough with English yet. English Version Spanish Version

This service gave Delta Pi members an opportunity to translate for Spanish speakers when meeting with doctors. The service committee coordinated with Community Health Connect to register members as voluntary translators. Those who participated also received training. Brian Porter has been a voluntary translator for doctors for over a year and a half now and felt it would be a great service to the community if other members of Delta Pi also became involved in providing their translating services when a need arose. When a translator was needed, Community Health Connect would contact the people on their list of voluntary translators and arrange for them to help translate for doctors and their patients.

In Provo there is a place called the Missionary Training Center where the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints teaches young men and young women languages and teaching skills to enable them to teach the church doctrine to people in other countries. Part of the teaching experience is giving missionaries the opportunity to speak with fluent Spanish speakers. To help these people learn the language, we decided to encourage anyone from Delta Pi to participate if they would like to do so. Each person that volunteered spent approximately two hours with different missionaries to give them practice with the language.

Student Mentoring

Medical Translation Training

Día de los Reyes Magos

Project Read

Many of Delta Pi’s members are pre-med students. The service committee has given them the opportunity to translate medical and dental texts in the past to help the Hispanic community when they have medical questions. Some of the chapter’s members have also acted as translators thanks to the efforts of the service committee to find opportunities to serve in the community. To better prepare Delta Pi members, the service committee obtained a database of the most common words used in the dental and medical professions. Each week the interested members of the chapter would receive e-mails with a list of words to learn. At the end of the week they would receive a quiz to assess what they had learned over the week. The project will help those who decide to help with translations in the future as well as those who go into the medical or dental field and work with Spanish-speaking clients.

The service committee opened up communications with Spring Creek Elementary and

asked how we could help. The elementary gave us a list of students from Mexico who have struggled with the English language and have become discouraged with school. Several members of Delta Pi responded by giving times where they could go to the school and serve as mentors to the students by helping them learn English and stay up with their classes. This provided us with an opportunity to really reach out to the Hispanic community in the area and help them adjust to the stress of moving to another country and culture.

The professors in the department had a banquet with their families in mid-January.

During the banquet Jorge Luis Torres, Errol King, and Steven Mills dressed up as the three wisemen and distributed gifts that the professors had brought for their children. They also delivered white elephant gifts to each of the professors in attendance. The three were able to enjoy dinner with the faculty and their own families.

Since 1984 Project Read has served the community. It was set up by the Provo and Orem City Libraries in conjunction with the Provo City School District. Its objective is to teach illiterate teenagers and adults to read. Delta Pi decided to participate in the pre-existing program in order to help Spanish speakers to read. Members of the chapter started helping Project Read during Winter Semester. The mission of Project Read is to provide a one-on-one tutorial program to enable functionally non-literate adults to improve their reading and writing skills sufficiently to meet their personal goals, function well in society, and become more productive citizens.

Home of Steve and Pamela Mills—January 24, 2006

Winter Opening Social January 24, 2006

John Charlie and Anna-Lisa Halling enjoy a conversation together. Even though John Charlie isn’t a member of Sigma Delta Pi, he has helped us with several activities.

Angela Weech is pictured here with her husband during the opening social.

Steve Mills takes some time to help people get ice cream. Errol King’s wife and two daughters are pictured here. Todd Mack’s wife, Betty, is sitting on an armchair behind them.

The Winter Opening Social was held at the home of Steve Mills for members of Sigma Delta Pi, their friends, and family. There was plenty of pizza, root beer, and ice cream for everyone who came. We discussed some of the activities that we would have during the semester and encouraged members to start considering the elections that take place in April.

B037 & B003 Joseph Fielding Smith Building—February 16, 2006

The new members file past the podium to receive their pin,

certificate, and carnation as they are welcomed into Sigma

Delta Pi by Anna-Lisa Halling.

New members are seen here holding their lit candles

as part of the induction ceremony.

Below: Greg Stallings was the

guest speaker for the Winter

semester induction ceremony.

Below left: This was the

first time that a Sigma Delta

Pi induction ceremony has

been held in the new Joseph

Fielding Smith Building.


On Thursday, February 16, we welcomed 26 new members into BYU’s Delta Pi chapter. The neofitos were

welcomed with a four minute video called “Bienvenidos a Sigma”. The presentation showed activities related to the three committees in our chapter: Social, Service, and Academic. The presentation can be found on the chapter’s CD for the 2005-06 school year.

Professor Greg Stallings spoke to the new inductees and encouraged them to be well-read and to continue reading after they graduate.

Professor Stalling’s presentation.

We then went to the activity center and enjoyed taco salad and root beer floats.


Los neofitosLos neofitosLos neofitosLos neofitos Rachael Lynne Baggett Erin Barton Brady Carlsen David Chesser T. Craig Clark Joel Crane Blake Crossley Adam Davis Dicks Joseph W. Gillis, Jr. Breeann Heaton Matthew Hill Morgan Jenkins Allison Jensen John Jones Brett Mower Christopher Nightingale Bradley Nathan Olsen Travis Bennion Olsen David A. Raymond Dinorah Robinson Tonya C. Showalter Skye Marie Smith Elizabeth Elon Wickham Todd M. Wiese Christopher K. Williams

Brigham Young University—B003 Joseph Fielding Smith Building—February 24, 2006

Salsa Welcoming Social

February 24, 2006

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We decided to have a welcoming social the week after the induction ceremony this semester to get the new inductees a chance to get to talk with other members and to discuss the type of activities and projects that Delta Pi participates in. Betty Mack, the wife of the Academic Committee Head, won the prize for the best salsa. We also played El papa se

quema (hot potato) with a ball. There was plenty to eat and the activity gave committee heads the opportunity to get to know the new members to their committees. We took pictures at the activity; however, they got lost making it impossible to show them here.

Brigham Young University—March 10, 2006—B037 & B003 Joseph Fielding Smith Building

This year’s poetry contest was very competitive with nearly seventy entries. Jared White conducted the contest by introducing each contestant and their poem. Before starting we watched the poetry contest video that was used to announce the poetry contest in numerous Spanish classes.

Sixteen pre-selected “bad poems” started the contest. The Bad Poetry contest has become increasingly popular over the years due to its comic nature. We advertised heavily in beginning level classes to encourage students who have just begun to study the language to get involved. Jacob Tingen went home with the top prize (a $15 gift certificate to the BYU Bookstore) with his poem “El taco más perfecto”. David Wiseman took the second prize (a $10 gift certificate) with “Oda a mi mente”.

Following the bad poetry, everyone went to the Activity Center to enjoy scones and ice cream. After the brief intermission for food we returned to hear the “good poetry”.

Eleven pre-selected good poems finished off the evening. Emily Davis won the $15 gift certificate with “Contarte lo que no puedo decir”. Shari Edwards came in second with “Un estudiante de 101 y un estudiante de 102”.

Dale Pratt and Valerie Hegstrom graciously accepted the difficult responsibility to judge the poems and decide the winners. They had read all the entries beforehand and judged the poems based on the merits of each poem and the ability of the reader to convey the poem’s meaning to the audience.

Everyone enjoys the comic effect of the “bad poetry”.


Poetry Contest Program

• La bienvenida • Oración • Poetry Contest Announcement “Bad poems” to be read:

Vicki Wheeler "Me llaman" Sarah Bruton "Diez cosas que yo odio sobre tú" Erin Okerlund and Alysa Smith "Convaleciendo está mi corazón" Jody Hughes "Coma" Darin Thomas "El estudiante confundido" David Wiseman "Oda a mi mente"—2nd place Video Jacob Tingen "El taco más perfecto"—1st place Video Shari Edwards "Un poema para las personas muy solas" Errol King "Respuesta a 'Un pato solitario'" “Un pato solitario”—This was actually a poem from last year. Dolores Lee "Quiero ser como Mike" Summer Holiday "Quiero escribir una poema buena" Elise Nickolaisen "El perro es cambio" Karla Passey "Arroz con leche" Asenath Rallison "Desierto de amor" Sonia Quiroga de Thomas "Canto al Amor" "Del plus al sub" 15 minute break to get scones and ice cream

Good poems to be read: Emily Davis "Contarte lo que no puedo decir"—1st place Lauren Hodson "El espejismo tuyo" Shari Edwards "Un estudiante de 101 y un estudiante de 102"—2nd place Sonia Quiroga de Thomas "La mar" "Mañana será otro día" Summer Holiday "Te espero" Karla Passey "Canto Mesoamericano" Arwen Wyatt "Llovió hoy" Angela Brown "Amor" Rachael Cardoza "En sus ojos" Morgan Jenkins "Esperando al Quijote" Prizes awarded to the winners

1st place--$15 gift certificate to the BYU Bookstore—The winner of the Good Poetry will also be

published in this year’s Marca Hispánica, BYU’s student journal sponsored by Delta Pi.

2nd place--$10 gift certificate to the BYU Bookstore

Oración al final

The rest of the poems submitted to the poetry contest.


The majority of the “bad” poets who

read during the contest can be seen

above. It should be noted that some

of them are among the good poets

shown to the right. Sonia Thomas,

Karla Passey, and Shari Edwards

each had poems in both categories.

Jacob Tingen reads “El taco más perfecto” to the delight

of the audience.

Jared White can be seen above awarding a

$15 gift certificate to Emily Davis. Emily

won the good poetry contest with her reading

of "Contarte lo que no puedo decir".

Brigham Young University—March 18, 2006—B135 Joseph Fielding Smith Building

Guest Speaker

March 18, 2006

David Darst spent several days at Brigham Young University. On March 16, 2006 he spoke to the Humanities Department. The following day he spoke about Miguel de Cervantes’s “El retablo de las maravillas”. Sigma Delta Pi invited its members to attend the lecture with several e-mail reminders.

In his lecture Dr. Darst argued that “El retablo” isn’t a real farce since Cervantes had changed the dialectics. Instead, he argued, “El retablo” imitates a farce but the designs of the entremés were different than those of a traditional farce.

B030, B032, B037, & B040 Joseph Fielding Smith Building—March 24, 2006

Trivia Bowl March 24, 2006

Above right: The Chiques Demais came out of nowhere with their camouflage. Several of their team members were actually Portuguese students, but they managed to do rather well. Above: Valerie Hegstrom was one of the readers for the Trivia Bowl. Left: Las palomas doradas had three participants for most the evening, but still managed to stay close.

This year’s Trivia Bowl consisted of six teams of four. We decided to make the competition open to everyone including those who were not members of Sigma Delta Pi. Steve Mills, Dale Pratt, and Valerie Hegstrom separated into three different rooms to read the questions to the different teams. Every team competed against every other team and after five rounds the two teams who had answered the most questions were to be matched up for a final round. However, the second and third place teams, La bomba and Las supermoscas were tied at that point, so we had a runoff. After several minutes the two teams were still gridlocked, so we decided to just have a final round of three teams. La bomba pulled off the victory and each team member was awarded a $20 gift card to the BYU Bookstore. Las supermoscas and El último minuto tied, but Las supermoscas conceded the $5 gift cards for second place to El último minuto.



Los destripadores de los últimos días got creative and made their own

team shirt. Talk about intimidation!!!

Las supermoscas couldn’t think of a better name so they just picked the

first one that came to mind. The team took place in two tie-breakers,

one preceding the final round and one in the final round. In both cases

they held their ground and remained tied with the opposing team.

Between rounds team members could

enjoy scones with chili and cheese or they

could have the traditional syrup or honey

topping instead. There were also nachos,

ice cream, fruit juice, and chocolates

available to snack on. Since the activity

center was already scheduled by another

organization, we had to improvise and set

up tables in the room with all the vending

machines.

Right: Dale Pratt was one of the readers. He read the questions for

the final round. Before the competition each team was given a letter.

By looking at the letter and the competition bracket, they would know

what room to go to for each round. The final three teams had the

letters F, E, and A. The letters were written on the board to keep score.

Professor Pratt jumped out of his seat when he realized what the letters

spelled, but we made him sit back down so we could take this picture.


El último minuto literally signed up to

participate at the last minute possible. The

team was formed by a group of people that

wanted to participate, but hadn’t had been

able to form a team. They tied for second

place overall.

La bomba managed to pull of the win after losing a large lead in the final rounds. They tied Las supermoscas in a

runoff for the final round and then pulled away from Las supermoscas and El último minuto as the final round

progressed. Each team member received a $20 gift card to the BYU Bookstore. That should come in handy the next

time they have to buy textbooks!

Several participants and friends gather in room B037 of the Joseph

Smith Building before the competition began. Steve Mills, who set

up the brackets and gathered questions from professors specializing

in linguistics, pedagogy, and peninsular and Latin American

literature, explained how the brackets worked and where everyone

would be going for the different rounds.

B192 JFSB & 238 HRCB—March 27-28, 2006

Stephen Hart Lectures

March 27-28, 2006

The Kennedy Center for International Studies sponsored these two lectures by Stephen Hart. After speaking with some of those responsible for bringing Professor Hart to BYU, we decided to help publicize the event by inviting Delta Pi members to attend the lectures and learn from this renowned scholar.

La Marca Hispánica

As in years past, Delta Pi is publishing a student journal for students of Spanish and Portuguese. This year’s publication is set to come out at the end of May or the start of June, so the cover shown below is just a conjectural cover and not the actual one. Several of the articles deal with some theme related to Don Quixote. The publication will also include several poems. The winning poem from the Good Poetry Contest, also sponsored by Delta Pi, will also be published in the student journal. This year’s editor is Christopher Lewis. David Wiseman, last year’s editor is an assistant editor.

Brigham Young University—April 5, 2006—Conference Center

Awards Banquet April 5, 2006

Closing Message

We have enjoyed serving you and wish you the best in your future endeavors. We hope

you have been able to take something from this year’s experience that will enable you to better serve those around you and build relationships of understanding. As members of Sigma Delta Pi we focused on building relationships of understanding between Spanish and English speakers. As an honors society we have been able to serve others, enjoy each others company, and learn many valuable lessons. We encourage you to keep learning and to keep serving. We have made a short video that summarizes the social, academic, and service activities that we have been able to do together this year. Enjoy!

Best wishes, Errol L. King Steven Mills Co-presidents P.S. Congratulations, Jared White, for the scholarship you received from Sigma Delta Pi to study in Spain.

The Spanish and Portuguese Department held its Annual Awards Banquet to honor graduate students and graduating seniors. Sigma Delta Pi picked up the food at Bajios for the reception. Todd Mack, this year’s Academic chairperson, showed three videos that he had made to commemorate the year and the different activities that the department has been involved in over the last year. Following the video presentation, Dr.Blair Bateman played several musical numbers on the piano. Professor Bateman spoke at the Fall Induction Ceremony. After enjoying the entertainment and as everyone was finishing their food, the department gave awards such as the Outstanding Spanish Major, Outstanding Portuguese Major, Outstanding Graduate Student, Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor, etc. As the presentation of awards was winding down, Dale Pratt stood up and presented the Gabriela Mistral award to David Wiseman for his contributions and dedication to the department and Delta Pi.

Brigham Young University—April 5, 2006—Conference Center

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