Retention List Stories

Story Thirty-Five: “What is difficult is the perseverance” – A Tai Chi proverb

Recap: In 2022, twenty-four Minnesota libraries joined together in a commitment to retain over a half-million print books which are scarcely-held in Minnesota. It is called the Minnesota Shared Print Collection. Here is one of the stories from the Winona State share of the collection.

Long-time Professor and Warriors sports announcer Brice Wilkinson (Communication Studies), who passed away in 2019, was a proponent of the Chinese discipline of Tai Chi, and, perhaps thanks to his advocacy, Winona State has a dozen Tai Chi books on our retention list.

Lowenthal, Wolfe. There Are No Secrets: Professor Cheng Man-Chʻing and His Tai Chi Chuan. Berkeley, Calif: North Atlantic Books, 1991.