Roald D. Tweet (September 1, 1933 – November 4, 2020)Obituaries
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Biography

Tweet was the husband of Margaret Tweet, the brother of David Tweet, father of Randall Tweet, Gretchen O'Brien, and Jonathan Tweet. Tweet was part of the Agustin's Historical Society, St. John's Lutheran Church, Contemporary Club, Eagle Scouts, and a member of Sons of Norway. He earned a master's degree in English and a Ph.D. in American Literature from the

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. He created three-minute vignettes about local history for his radio series, "Rock Island Lines," which earned the

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Humanities Council's Lawrence W. Towner Award in 2001. He earned the

Studs Terkel Louis "Studs" Terkel (May 16, 1912 – October 31, 2008) was an American writer, historian, actor, and broadcaster. He received the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1985 for ''The Good War'' and is best remembered for his oral histor ...

Humanities Service Award in 2006. His published books include ''History of Transportation on the Upper Mississippi and Illinois Rivers'',Tweet, Roald D. The Quad Cities: An American mosaic. East Hall Press. 1996. ''A History of the Rock Island District Corps of Engineers, 1866–1983'', and ''The Quad Cities: An American Mosaic.'' In 2014, he began co-hosting the writing-related radio show ''Scribble''. He was known as a whittler, and his little wooden birds were popular on Augustana campus. Tweet died from

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at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center in

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, on November 4, 2020. He was 87 years old.'A real cultural loss': Augustana Professor Roald Tweet inspired students in and out of the classroom
Des Moines Register, April 9, 2021.

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External links

Quad-City Times. February 16, 1999. * Geyer, Thomas

Dispatch-Argus, November 4, 2020. Retrieved November 6, 2020. * Wooten, Don

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