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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

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. Roald also was a grandfather and a great grandfather. 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

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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.Johnson, Larry. "Whittling." WOOD Magazine, September 1992.

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How Tweet it is Retirement won't hamper the adventures of one of Augustana's more gifted teachers
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Dispatch-Argus, November 4, 2020. Retrieved November 6, 2020. * Wooten, Don

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