{"id":585,"date":"2013-11-21T13:40:09","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T19:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/archives\/?page_id=585"},"modified":"2013-11-21T13:40:09","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T19:40:09","slug":"tidbits-from-the-archives-be-my-valentine","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/archives\/tidbits-from-the-archives-be-my-valentine\/","title":{"rendered":"Tidbits from the Archives: Be My Valentine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-modular-content-collection><p><strong>FEBRUARY 2004<\/strong><br \/>\nBy Jeff Sauve, Associate Archivist<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stolaf.edu\/collections\/archives\">Center for College History<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 1985, four sophomores (Bill Cayley, Jay Norton, Tom Owen and Ken Waisanen) took it upon themselves to design, print and distribute 3,200 valentines &#8212; one for every student and faculty member at St. Olaf.<\/p>\n<p>The valentine note, printed on pink paper, read, &#8220;We just wanted to say, without any delay or silly clich\u00e9, that in some unique way, you&#8217;re a loveable, beautiful person. OK?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were just sitting around talking about Valentine&#8217;s Day and how we used to give everyone in the class a valentine and then decided to do the same thing here,&#8221; said Norton at the time. &#8220;We thought it would be neat and would make everyone feel good &#8212; especially us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The gesture cost the four students $20 apiece. But it was worth it, they said. CBS Evening News and the Associated Press\u00a0wire both carried the story across the nation.<\/p>\n<p><em>The College Archives does not actually own one of the valentines &#8212; but do you? If you&#8217;d be willing to donate your valentine to the college archives, contact Associate Archivist\u00a0Jeff Sauve\u00a0at<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:sauve@stolaf.edu\">sauve@stolaf.edu<\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FEBRUARY 2004 By Jeff Sauve, Associate Archivist Center for College History In 1985, four sophomores (Bill Cayley, Jay Norton, Tom Owen and Ken Waisanen) took it upon themselves to design, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":209,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-585","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/209"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}