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The Meaning of Names

Matt Jarva, Resident Assistant, Bemidji State University

As a second semester door dec, I chose to go with a more personal type of door decoration. On the door dec I typed in the resident's name, room number, and the meaning of his first name. I have enclosed an example of this entitled "spring door dec". This idea was running smooth until I got to the international residents' names. It took awhile to find their meanings, but it was worth it because they loved that I had devoted the time to actually finding out what their names meant.

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