William Woods on Jeopardy
This week our campus has been abuzz with the news that William Woods University was featured in a category on Jeopardy’s Monday show. In a series of questions on school mottoes, the answer was:
Amor omnia vincit, or this “conquers all”, is on the seal of William Woods University in Fulton, Missouri
That was a nice surprise. My cousin, Steve Tamerius, is one of the writers for the show and found a clever way to say, “hello”, across the miles. When he called our director of public relations a few months ago she thought it could be a jok
e and doubted if anything would ever come of it. I didn’t know he was going to do this. He didn’t know that the Latin phrase is one of my favorites, that I see it everyday etched in stone at the doorway of our dining hall and that it is the title of a talk I’ve given in a number of places.
