Fall 2012 Quarterly by Gustavus Adolphus College

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gustavus adolphus college

Commencement 2012

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Fall 2012 Vol. LXVIII. No. 4

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in this issue 4 FROM THE EDITOR 20

5 ON THE HILL

Honorary Degree n Commencement Gallery n Career Transition course at ASI n Royal Visit n Bernhardson Chair n Notes from the Kendall Center n CICE’s New Malaysia Program n Hillstrom Museum’s Swedish Exhibition n Calendar

28 A SHORT HISTORY OF GUSTAVUS, Part Five ‘Building a Greater Gustavus’

34 SPORTS

Spring Sports Summaries

37 LEGACY

GHP Welcomes 35 New Members

31 ALUMNI NEWS

Homecoming 2012 n Gustie Breakfasts n First Decade Awards n Greater Gustavus Award n Distinguished Alumni Citation n Class Notes n Weddings n Births n In Memoriam

At the Hillstrom Museum of Art: Gustav Fjæstad (1868–1948), Winter Moonlight/Vintermånsken, 1895, oil on canvas, 39 3/8 x 52 3/4 inches (100 x 134 cm.), Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 1905 purchase, NM 1628

Managing Editor: Steven L. Waldhauser ’70 | waldo@gustavus.edu Alumni Editors: Randall M. Stuckey ’83 | rstuckey@gustavus.edu Erin Holloway Wilken ’02 | ewilken@gustavus.edu Design: Anna Deike | adeike@gustavus.edu Contributing Writers: Ethan Armstrong ’09; Margaret Bloch-Qazi; Naomi Mortensen; Donald Myers ’83; Carolyn O’Grady and Steve Mellema ’72; Matt Thomas ’00 Contributing Photographers: Brian Fowler (SportPiX); Tim Kennedy ’82; John Noltner; Wayne Schmidt; Matt Thomas ’00; the Gustavus Quarterly also acknowledges the resources of the Gustavus Adolphus College Archives, Jeff A. Jenson, archivist Articles and opinions presented in this magazine do not necessarily reflect

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Commencement 2012. Photo by John Noltner

the views of the editors or official policies of Gustavus Adolphus College or its Board of Trustees.. The Gustavus Quarterly is printed on Domtar Earthchoice paper (30% PCR and sustainable source certified by SmartWood) using soy-based inks and alternative solvents and wetting agents, by the John Roberts Company, Minneapolis, an EPA Green Power Partner. The Gustavus Quarterly (USPS 227-580) is published four times annually, in February, May, August, and November, by Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minn. Periodicals postage is paid at St. Peter, MN 56082, and additional mailing offices. It is mailed free of charge to alumni and friends of the College. Circulation is approximately 41,000. Postmaster: Send address changes to The Gustavus Quarterly, Office of Alumni Relations, Gustavus Adolphus College, 800 W. College Ave., St. Peter, MN 56082-1498.

Gustavus Adolphus College St. Peter, MN 56082 507-933-8000 | gustavus.edu Chair, Board of Trustees Mark Bernhardson ’71 President of the College Jack R. Ohle Vice President for Marketing and Communication Tim Kennedy ’82 Vice President for Institutional Advancement Thomas Young ’88 Director of Alumni Relations Randall M. Stuckey ’83 Gustavus Adolphus College is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission and is a member of the North Central Association.

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Gustavus Adolphus College Board of Trustees The Rev. Jon V. Anderson, M.Div., New Ulm, Minn. (ex officio) Bishop, Southwestern Minnesota Synod, ELCA, Redwood Falls

Looking to year 151 And so Gustavus Adolphus College embarks on the first of its next 150 years. . . . The College’s Sesquicentennial celebration concludes this fall with three significant events: a royal visit by Their Majesties King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden; a major exhibition of 150 years of Swedish painting; and a dinner marking the official close of the Sesquicentennial Year of Celebration on Friday, October 12, during Homecoming Weekend. The King and Queen of Sweden will visit Gustavus on Friday, October 5 (his fourth visit here and her third), to recognize the 150th anniversary of the founding of the College by Swedish immigrants in 1862 (see p. 15).While on campus they will participate in a Festival Worship service in Christ Chapel at 10:30 a.m., the dedication of the College’s Sesquicentennial Plaza west of the Chapel at 2 p.m., and two concurrent seminars organized in their honor at 2:30 p.m. Because of the anticipated demand for tickets to the planned events—admission to the worship service and the two afternoon seminars is by ticket only—a lottery system has been adopted to deal fairly with the expected rush. On display from September 2 to December 10, 2012, is perhaps the most ambitious exhibition mounted to date by the College’s Hillstrom Museum of Art (see pp. 23–25). Titled 150 Years of Swedish Art: Highlights from the Swedish National Collections in Stockholm (Moderna Museet and Nationalmuseum), the exhibition includes nearly 50 paintings that provide an overview of Swedish art during a period that parallels the 150-year history of Gustavus. Thanks to the generous cooperation of two of the most important art museums in Sweden, the Hillstrom has managed to bring together key works by such artists as Carl Larsson, Anders Zorn, August Strindberg, Swedish Prince Eugen, Dick Bengtsson, and Karen Mamma Andersson. A Sesquicentennial closing dinner on Friday, October 12, in the Evelyn Young Dining Room (see p. 44) marks the end of a year of celebration but doesn’t mean that Gustavus is resting on its accomplishments. As you’ll learn from other articles in this magazine—the Center for International and Cultural Education’s announcement of a new study away program in Malaysia (see pp. 22–22) for example, news of three Fulbright Scholars (p. 8), a national championship in competitive forensics (p. 6), and the resurgent Gustavus Annual Fund (pp. 46–47)—we certainly are building on our rich past. And so Gustavus Adolphus College embarks on the first of its next 150 years. . . .

Scott P. Anderson ’89, M.B.A., Eagan, Minn. President and Chief Executive Officer, Patterson Companies, Inc., Mendota Heights Thomas M. Annesley ’75, Ph.D., Ann Arbor, Mich. (vice chair) Professor of Clinical Chemistry in Pathology, University Hospital, University of Michigan Al Annexstad, Excelsior, Minn. Chairman, Federated Insurance Companies, Owatonna Tracy L. Bahl ’84, M.B.A., Greenwich, Conn. Special Advisor, General Atlantic, N.Y. Warren Beck ’67, Greenwood, Minn. President, Gabbert & Beck, Inc., Edina Rebecca M. Bergman, Ph.D., North Oaks, Minn. Vice President, Research and Technology,Cardiac Rhythm Disease Management, Medtronic Incorporated, Mounds View Mark E. Bernhardson ’71, M.A., Bloomington, Minn. (chair) City Manager, City of Bloomington The Rev. Åke Bonnier, Skara, Sweden Bishop, Diocese of Skara The Rev. Gordon A. Braatz, Ph.D., M.Div., Minneapolis Pastor and Psychologist, Retired Daniel G. Currell ’94, J.D., St. Paul, Minn. Executive Director, Corporate Executive Board, Arlington, Va. Ardena L. Flippin ’68, M.D., M.B.A., Chicago Physician, Retired The Rev. Brian Fragodt ’81, M.Div., Medina, Minn. Senior Pastor, Trinity Lutheran Church, Long Lake James H. Gale ’83, J.D., Washington, D.C. Attorney at Law Marcus M. Gustafson ’73, D.D.S., Edina, Minn. Dental Director, Midwest Dental/Mountain Dental John O. Hallberg ’79, M.B.A., Wayzata, Minn. Chief Executive Officer, Children’s Cancer Research Fund, Minneapolis Jeffrey Heggedahl ’87, M.B.A., Minneapolis (ex officio) CEO, Ecova, Spokane, Wash., and President, Gustavus Alumni Association Susanne Björling Heim ’83, Edina, Minn. Business Executive Alfred Henderson ’62, M.B.A., Chanhassen, Minn. Business Executive, Retired George G. Hicks ’75, J.D., Eden Prairie, Minn. (vice chair) Managing Partner, Värde Partners, Inc., Minneapolis The Rev. John D. Hogenson ’81, M.Div., Stillwater, Minn. (ex officio) Senior Pastor, St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church, Mahtomedi, and President, Gustavus Adolphus College Association of Congregations Linda Bailey Keefe ’69, M.B.A., Atlanta, Ga. (vice chair) Vice President, NAI Brannen Goddard Talmadge E. King Jr. ’70, M.D., Oakland, Calif. Julius R. Krevans Distinguished Professor in Internal Medicine and Chair, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

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Paul Koch ’87, Plymouth, Minn. Senior Vice President/Investments UBS Financial Services, Inc., Wayzata The Rev. Daniel A. Kolander ’68, M.Div., Marion, Iowa Pastor, Retired, and Congregational Strategic Planning Jan Michaletz ’74, Edina, Minn. Past President, Gustavus Alumni Association Jack R. Ohle, D.D. (hon.), D.Litt. (hon.), St. Peter, Minn. (ex officio) President, Gustavus Adolphus College The Rev. Wayne B. Peterson ’77, M.Div., Plymouth, Minn. Pastor, St. Barnabas Lutheran Church The Rev. Dan S. Poffenberger ’82, M.Div., Stillwater, Minn. Senior Pastor, Trinity Lutheran Church Beth Sparboe Schnell ’82, Corcoran, Minn. Chief Executive Officer, Sparboe Companies, Wayzata The Rev. Lori Bergstrand Swenson ’82, M.Div., DePere, Wis. Pastor, Ascension Lutheran Church, Green Bay Ronald C. White ’75, Las Vegas, Nev. (ex officio) Chief Sales Officer, Growth Development Associates, Inc., and Past President, Gustavus Alumni Association

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9 Black and Bold 10 Commencement Gallery 13 New Bernhardson Chair named 14 Career exploration at ASI 14 College loses Bob Peterson 15 Royal visit

1 6 Commissions highlight Showcase 18 Notes from the Kendall Center 20 CICE: New Malaysia program 23 Hillstrom Museum of Art 26 Calendar

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Diane Loomer ’62 recognized with honorary degree uring ceremonies at Gustavus Adolphus College’s 2012 commencement exercises, the College’s faculty awarded an honorary doctor of humane letters degree to Diane Kolander Loomer ’62, C.M., a noted conductor, composer, and clinician. Recognized today as one of Canada’s leading musicians, Loomer is actually enjoying a second career. After majoring in mathematics at Gustavus, she taught high school math and English in the U.S. and Germany before relocating to Vancouver, British Columbia, where her husband, Dr. Richard Loomer ’60, completed his orthopaedic residency at Vancouver General Hospital. When he finished his training, he encouraged her to pursue her love of music, and she began studies in music theory, piano, and voice at Douglas College. Transferring to the University of British Columbia, she earned a bachelor of music degree in music theory in 1982. Although lacking experience in choral conducting, she formed and conducted the Douglas College Community Choir (renamed the Amabilis Singers in 1989) from 1982 to 1996. In a 25-year career in music Loomer has founded five choirs, including the award-winning Elektra women’s choir, the internationally known Chor Leoni men’s choir, and more recently the EnChor chamber choir, a mixed choir for singers over 55. In addition to conducting, Loomer has arranged or composed several works for choir, the majority of which have been published by Cypress Choral Music, a publishing company she co-founded with her husband to promote new Canadian choral music. Loomer has been recognized a number of times for her achievements in choral music, including Distinguished Alumni awards from two institutions—in 1997 from Gustavus and in 2004 from the

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University of British Columbia. For her achievements and her service to music and humanity throughout Canada, Loomer was honored in 1999 with the Order of Canada, the country’s highest civilian honor. In 2002, she was awarded the Queen’s

Golden Jubilee Medal for her significant contribution to Canada’s culture, and last year she was the recipient of an honorary doctor of humane letters degree from the University of British Columbia.

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Briefly . . . Arb Woods named for founders A section of Linnaeus Arboretum at Gustavus Adolphus College was dedicated as the Charles and Harriet Mason Deciduous Woods at a public ceremony in May. It was named in honor of the late Charles Mason, Ph.D., a biology professor who was the Arboretum’s first executive director (1975–1998), and his wife, Harriet Mason, Ph.D., who served as the coordinator of the Arboretum’s Melva Lind Interpretive Center in the 1990s. For many years, the Masons shared a vision of establishing an arboretum on campus that would serve as a place of learning and exploration for students and the St. Peter community. That dream became reality in 1973 when they planted the first seedlings on a parcel of land on the southwestern side of the campus. The three major ecosystems found in Minnesota are represented in the 125-acre arboretum—the northern conifer forests, the prairie in the south and west, and deciduous (hardwood) forests in between. n n n

Faculty Scholarly Achievement Award Elizabeth Baer, Ph.D., professor of English and African Studies at Gustavus, received the 2012 Faculty Scholarly Achievement Award at the College’s Honors Day Convocation held in May. The award recognizes professional accomplishments including research and creative activities in private, public, or corporate settings; publication; presentations at scholarly meetings or conferences; and exhibits or performances. Baer’s scholarly work spans the fields of history, religion, pedagogy, literature, and women’s studies. She has written or edited four books including the recently published work The Golem Redux: From Prague to Post-Holocaust Fiction, which traces the history of the Golem legend from the third century to the present. Baer has lectured, traveled, and taught all over the world including Gustavus January Interim Experience courses in Germany, the Czech Republic, Northern Ireland, South Africa, and Namibia. This

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past January she co-taught a class on the Dakota-U.S. War of 1862 and organized an accompanying lecture series that attracted standing-room-only audiences. She has also garnered major awards including a Bush Foundation Fellowship, a Fulbright Scholar award, Pew and Mellon foundation fellowships, and a fellowship at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. First awarded in 1986, the Faculty Scholarly Achievement Award was reestablished in 2004 and is now announced during the annual Honors Day Convocation. n n n

English professor earns Bunn-Swenson teaching award Eric Eliason, Ph.D., professor of English at Gustavus, received the 2012 Swenson-Bunn Memorial Award for Teaching Excellence at the College’s Honors Day convocation on May 5. Eliason started teaching at Gustavus in 1989 and also served as an academic dean in the Office of the Provost from 2005 to 2009. He teaches courses in literature and language with a special emphasis on British literature. He also teaches in the First Term Seminar program and in 2011 served as program director for the College’s Semester in Sweden. He was the 2000 recipient of the Edgar M. Carlson Award for Distinguished Teaching—the highest honor granted to a member of the Gustavus faculty. Eliason also received the 2010 Faculty Service Award, given annually to a faculty member whose service has improved the College. The Swenson and Bunn Memorial Award for Teaching Excellence honors the memory of two Gustavus students and members of the Student Senate, Greg Swenson and Holly Bunn, who were killed in a car accident in 1989. The award, nominated by students and selected by a vote of the Student Senate, has been presented annually since 1990. n n n

Seven tenured, one promoted Seven faculty members were officially granted tenure at Gustavus Adolphus College during a special Chapel service on May 21.

• Joel Carlin, Ph.D. (biology and environmental studies), has taught at Gustavus since 2006; his research interests involve phylogeography and conservation genetics, particularly in benthic fishes. He is currently investigating the genetic impacts of offshore petroleum drilling and mapping reproduction and migration in commercially valuable marine fish • María Kalbermatten, Ph.D. (Spanish and LALACS), has taught at Gustavus since 2006; her research interests include applied linguistics, cognitive linguistics, and conversational analysis and pragmatics. She is also focused on developing strategies to help students improve their writing skills in Spanish. • Martin Lang ’95, Ph.D. (communication studies), has taught at Gustavus since 2005; his academic work focuses on the ways that mass media shape our individual and collective senses of identity, especially in relation to gender, race, socioeconomic class, and sexuality. He also works closely with the Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies program and will serve as director of the Social Justice, Peace, and Development semester abroad program in India for Fall 2013. • Mary McHugh, Ph.D. (classics), taught as a visiting assistant professor at Gustavus in 2004–05 and returned as a tenure-track professor in 2007; her areas of expertise include ancient Greek philosophy, Roman history and historiography, especially the Roman historian Tacitus, and Greek and Roman art history and archaeology. • David Obermiller, Ph.D. (history), has taught at Gustavus since 2008; his special interests include U.S.-East Asian relations, East Asian film, gender and war, war and revolution in Asia, and political economy of East Asia. • So Young Park, Ph.D. (English), has taught at Gustavus since 2008; she teaches courses in 19th-century British literature and culture, especially Victorian fiction. Her professional interests include Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy, narrative theory, gender studies, and film adaptation. • Brandy Russell, Ph.D. (chemistry), has taught at Gustavus since 2005; she teaches courses in introductory chemistry, inorganic chemistry, and the chemistry of cooking. Her areas of research expertise include bioinorganic chemistry, NMR spectroscopy of paramagnetic compounds, and metalloprotein folding. n n n

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Barbara Mattson Zust ’76, Ph.D., who has taught in the Department of Nursing at the College since 2000, was promoted from associate to full professor, effective with the opening of the fall 2012 term. Now chair of the department, she has taught a variety of courses in maternity nursing, mental health nursing, and human wellness. Her special interests include the effects of cognitive therapy on depression in rural, battered women. n n n

Tunheim named to endowed chair in management Kathi Tunheim, Ph.D., assistant professor of economics and management at Gustavus, has been named the inaugural holder of the Board of Trustees Chair in Management and Leadership in the Department of Economics and Management. The position was created in September 2010 when six members of the Board of Trustees anonymously pledged $5 million to support two endowed faculty positions. Tunheim is an educator with nearly 30 years of experience in the corporate world. She has managed training and development at Northwest Airlines and Carlson Travel Network and was director of leadership development at American Express Financial Advisors. In 1998, she founded Tunheim Leadership Group, Inc., a consulting firm with a mission to recognize, educate, and inspire leadership and facilitate team and organization development. Some of her clients include Medtronic, Cargill, American Express, Luther College, Augsburg College, and Children’s Hospitals and Clinics. Tunheim accepted a tenure-track position at Gustavus in 2008. Along with teaching courses such as Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, she has been instrumental in the development of two key leadership and mentoring programs on campus: Gustavus Women in Leadership, a student/alumni program that aims to help women in their academic, professional, and personal leadership development; and the Gustavus Alumni Mentoring & Business Leadership Program, which seeks to provide economics and management majors with relevant business information and experience

Hoisting Hardware The six-member forensics team from Gustavus brought home a national championship from the NFA National Tournament in April. Pictured from left are team members Kaitlin Burlingame (jr., Paynesville, Minn.), Shelby Wilds (soph., Staples, Minn.), Sam Hemmerich (sr., Milaca, Minn.), Luke Youngvorst (sr., Staples, Minn.), Chloe Radcliffe (sr., Prior Lake, Minn.), and Kelsey Abele (soph., Belton, Mo.). through personal and professional mentoring relationships with successful Gustavus alumni. n n n

Forensics program reaches new heights On the heels of its ninth-place finish at the American Forensic Association’s National Individual Events Tournament (AFA-NIET), the Gustavus Adolphus College forensics team turned in another program-best performance in April at the National Forensic Association’s (NFA) National Tournament held at Ohio University. Despite sending only six team members to the NFA National Tournament, Gustavus won the President’s Division II national championship and also placed ninth in the Open Sweepstakes team standings. The Gusties amassed 180 points to finish atop the Division II standings, ahead of teams from such schools as California State University-Long Beach, Florida State University, Truman State University, and the University of Illinois. The ninth-place finish in the Open Sweepstakes marks the first time the program has finished in the top 10 at the NFA National Tournament. n n n

Alumnus professor wins Whitman Award Visiting Assistant Professor of English Matt Rasmussen ’98 has been named winner of the 2012 Walt Whitman Award by the Academy of American Poets. The award, one of the most prestigious first book prizes in the country, is given annually to an American poet who has not yet published

a book of poetry. Rasmussen received a $5,000 cash prize and a one-month residency at the Vermont Studio Center, and will have his book manuscript, Black Aperture, published by Louisiana State University Press. Rasmussen is the past recipient of grants and fellowships from the Bush Foundation, the Minnesota State Arts Board, the Corporation of Yaddo, the Loft Literary Center, the Jerome Foundation, Intermedia Arts, the Anderson Center in Red Wing, Minn., and the McKnight Foundation. The Walt Whitman Award was established in 1975 to encourage the work of emerging poets and to enable the publication of a poet’s first book. A distinguished poet serves as the judge for each year’s contest; this year’s judge was Jane Hirschfield. n n n

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May 27. Rosenthal was presented the award, the College’s highest faculty accolade, by the 2011 recipient, Professor Barbara Zust of the Department of Nursing. Rosenthal began teaching at Gustavus in 2004 and teaches courses in ancient and modern political theory, constitutional law, political and legal thinking, civil rights and liberties, and feminist theory. She also serves as the fellowships coordinator in the Gustavus Fellowships Office, where she works with talented Gustavus students applying for nationally competitive scholarships, awards, and fellowships. The Edgar M. Carlson Award was established by the Gustavus Board of Trustees in 1971 to honor former President Edgar Carlson for his years of distinguished leadership and in recognition of his commitment to academic excellence. Gustavus faculty, staff, administrators, and students nominate professors for this award, and each year at commencement a faculty member, selected by the Provost based on the recommendations of previous Carlson recipients, is recognized for his or her exceptional skill and effectiveness as an instructor.

graduated this spring with a psychology honors major and a neuroscience minor. He plans to use his Fulbright award to travel to Lausanne, Switzerland, to work with Dr. Olaf Blanke, the director of the Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale of Lausanne (EPFL). Established in 1946, the Fulbright Scholar Program is the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government and is designed to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries. The program currently operates in more than 155 countries worldwide.

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Three named Fulbright Scholars Three recent Gustavus graduates—Claire Sagstuen ’11, Hilary Bauer ’12, and Jean-Paul Noel ’12—have been named 2012 Fulbright Scholars. Sagstuen, a native of Eagan, Minn., graduated in 2011 with a history honors major and minors in religion and Russian area studies. She is currently studying at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, working toward a Clare Sagstuen ’11 master’s degree in nationalism studies. She has been selected for a Fulbright English teaching assistantship at the Ekzarh Yosif I Foreign Language School in Lovech, Bulgaria. Bauer, who graduated in 2012 with a degree in biochemistry and molecular biology, is using her Fulbright as an English teaching assistant in South Korea. Noel, originally from Barcelona, Spain,

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Comstock, a native of Roseau, Minn., is pursuing a double major in biology and Scandinavian studies. She has participated in the Mayo Innovation Scholars Program, as well as a unique summer research program for first-year students funded by a grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), and is a past recipient of the College’s Maynard and Elaine Jacobson Award for International Pre-medical Studies. During the summer she researched genetics during an internship in the division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics at the National Institutes of Health and the National Cancer Institute in Rockville, Md. She also spent a week in Karlskoga, Sweden, at the Nobel Museum School for Young Scientists. The Glenn T. Seaborg Award was established in 1979 in honor of chemist and Nobel laureate Glenn T. Seaborg, Ph.D., who discovered or co-discovered numerous atomic elements, including atomic element number 106, officially named Seaborgium in his honor in 1994. Seaborg was a member of the advisory committee that helped to establish the Nobel Conference series at Gustavus.

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Swedish Council of America awards 2012 Seaborg Award to Gustavus student The Swedish Council of America has named Gustavus student Dawn Comstock ’13 recipient of the 2012 Glenn T. Seaborg Science Award. The award is given annually to an outstanding science or math student from one of the six U.S. colleges with Swedish roots that maintain an active connection with modern Scandinavia through language study, student exchange programs, and cultural events. The award will allow Comstock to travel to Sweden in December 2012 to attend Dawn Comstock ’13 the Stockholm International Youth Science Seminar and the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony as well as several other events during Nobel Prize Week.

Reading in Common book selection announced The Reading in Common Book Committee at Gustavus Adolphus College has selected The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates, by Wes Moore, as its Reading in Common book for the 2012–13 academic

year. All first-year students are expected (and all community members encouraged) to read the chosen book prior to New Student Orientation and then meet with

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Bookmarks Bruce Gray writes personal memoir about Bruce Gray ’61, former dean of students and associate in the advancement office at Gustavus, has written, with assistance from former president Dennis Johnson ’60, a personal memoir about the African American students who began coming to Gustavus in the 1960s. Gray chronicles President Edgar M. Carlson’s vision and plan for making the recruitment of blacks a centerpiece of Gustavus’s contribution to the civil rights struggles of the ’60s and ’70s. Gray takes us from the small towns and cities of the South to the urban centers of the North, where he and former Admission Director Owen Sammelson ’58 convinced students of color to make the bold decision to come to a small college in St. Peter, Minnesota. This book, an important contribution to the sesquicentennial history of Gustavus Adolphus College, salutes those students while it tells of their trials, tribulations, and triumphs as they pursued their degrees. Through Gray, we hear their voices and discover what the students accomplished once they left the Hill. Many of them chose this opportunity to declare, “Bruce and Sue Gray were the best friends and mentors that we could have had.” The book is on sale at the Gustavus Book Mark. n

faculty members and other Gustavus students during orientation to discuss it. New Student Orientation is also loosely based around the themes found in the book. The Other Wes Moore tells the story of two boys with the same name, living in the same neighborhood in Baltimore. One grew up to be a Rhodes Scholar, decorated combat veteran, White House Fellow, and business leader. The other is serving a life sentence in prison for felony murder. Told in alternating dramatic narratives that take readers from heart-wrenching losses to moments of surprising redemption, the book tells the story of a generation of boys trying to find their way in a challenging and at times hostile world. “The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine,” says author Wes Moore. “The tragedy is that my story could have been his. It’s unsettling to know how little separates each of us from another life altogether.” Books for the Reading in Common program, which is now in its 13th year, are chosen based on their literary quality, reading manageability, interdisciplinary nature, and the author’s availability for a campus appearance. Moore is tentatively scheduled to make a public appearance on campus on Tuesday, Sept. 11. The Other Wes Moore will also double as the fall selection for the St. Peter Reads program.

Rows and rows of trumpeters Twelve Gustavus trumpeters played as part of the Bemidji State Trumpet Invitational performance of the National Anthem at the Minnesota Twins game at Target Field on April 25. The music arrangement was written by Associate Professor of Music Steve Wright. Pictured is the Gustavus contingent: in back, from left, are Karl Boettcher ’11, Tim Grev ’13, Chris Allen ’14, Nick Hamberg ’13, Matthew Martin ’12, Wright, and Professor of Music Douglas Nimmo; in front are Nick Mason ’14, Cory Ruegg ’12, Julie Hill ’12 (with “Doc,” the trumpet section’s mascot), Mariah Krusemark ’13, and Dan Leifermann ’14. (The Gustavus trumpeters represented 10 percent of the 120 trumpeters who played that evening.)

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Commencement 2012 1. A hug for a mentor, a hug for a grad 2. Senior speaker Chloe Radcliffe 3. Time to tug the tassel 4. Mortarboards fly in celebration 5. Accepting the Presidentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s charge

6. One more photo with Old Gus 7. President Ohle and Board Chair Mark Bernhardson â&#x20AC;&#x2122;71 greet the grads 8. Family pride 9. Looking forward . . .

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Gustavus to host two international tours in 2013 Friends of Music tour to Salzburg June 23–July 5, 2013

magine being part of a large choir singing a Mozart mass in the Salzburg Cathedral. Here’s an opportunity to do just that. Gustavus Friends of Music has arranged for a Gustavus alumni choir tour to Munich, Salzburg, Vienna, and Prague, June 23–July 5, 2013. Singers and non-singers alike are welcome. For those of you who were part of any of the Gustavus choirs, are part of a community or church choir, or maybe simply love to sing, there’s a spot in the alumni choir for you. Dr. Greg Aune will rehearse the group prior to the trip and

travel with them. Once in Salzburg, the singers will join the Mozart International Choral Festival and perform Mozart’s Coronation Mass in the Salzburg Cathedral on June 29. Non-singers are welcome to listen or enjoy coffee in the market during rehearsal times. Deadline to register for this tour is September 19, 2012. Contact Jackie Neeck Peterson ’77 at jpeters9@ gustavus.edu or 800-726-6192 with questions or for more information.

Pearls of central Europe: Prague, Budapest, and Vienna study tour September 10–21, 2013

xperience central Europe with distinguished Gustavus Professor Emeritus of History Dr. Tom Emmert from September 10 to 21, 2013. This 12-day Gustavus study tour combines learning, exploring, leisure, lecture, food, and arts. The journey is focused around three showpiece cities of central Europe: Prague, Vienna, and Budapest. The group will experience museums, concerts, palaces, cathedrals,

and more, learning about the historical significance of this part of the world, which is famous for its beauty, architecture, and music. Deadline to register for this tour is January 15, 2013. For more information, visit gustavus.edu/president/tours, contact Dr. Tom Emmert at tomo@gustavus.edu, or call the President’s Office at 507-933-7538.

Sixteen alumni, parents, and friends participated in a companion tour to Italy 2011, closely following the Gustavus Choir’s itinerary.

Full itinerary, costs, and registration for both tours can be found online at gustavus.edu/president/studytours.

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ustavus Adolphus College has announced the appointment of Marcia J. Bunge, Ph.D., to the Rev. Drell and Adeline Bernhardson Distinguished Chair of Lutheran Studies. Bunge, who is currently professor of humanities and theology at Christ College, the Honors College of Valparaiso University, and the university’s W.C. Dickmeyer Professor, is a Lutheran (ELCA) theologian and an internationally recognized scholar of religious understandings of children and childhood. She will officially begin her duties at Gustavus in January 2013. “I’m pleased that we have been able to attract a person of Dr. Bunge’s stature to represent Gustavus Adolphus College as the Bernhardson Professor,” said President Jack Ohle in announcing her appointment. “She has the energy, enthusiasm, and character to advance the Lutheran tradition in the classroom and in public forums, and has strong interest in relating to faculty, congregations, and the Church. Her work as the Bernhardson Professor is critical to helping Gustavus articulate what it means to be a church-related liberal arts college today.” A graduate of St. Olaf College, Bunge earned her M.A. and Ph.D. from

the University of Chicago, specializing in hermeneutics and historical and systematic theology. She has taught at Luther Seminary (1985–1990), Luther College (1990–1995), Gustavus Adolphus College (1995–1997), and most recently Christ College at Valparaiso (1997–2012). Over the past 11 years, Bunge has spoken and published widely on various religious perspectives on children and obligations to them, editing and contributing to three foundational volumes on the subject: The Child in Christian Thought (2001), The Child in the Bible (2008), and Children and Childhood in World Religions: Primary Texts and Sources (2009). A fourth volume, titled Children, Adults, and Shared Responsibilities: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Perspectives, is forthcoming. In addition to being a scholar and a teacher, Bunge is a deeply committed Lutheran theologian who is highly informed and enthusiastic about the aims of church-related higher education. In the 1990s she was a founding member of the Rhodes Consultation on the Future of the Church-Related College, an ecumenical and national initiative funded by the Lilly Endowment. At Valparaiso she directed the planning grant for the university’s $2 million “Theological Exploration of Vocation project and organized a national meeting on “Vocation and” Lutheran Higher Education.” The Bernhardson Chair was established in 1999 by the Rev. Drell Bernhardson and his wife, Adeline, friends of the College who sent all four of their children to Gustavus, to provide resources to reaffirm the College’s Lutheran tradition. The Rev. Dr. Darrell Jodock was appointed the inaugural Bernhardson Distinguished Professor of Religion in 1999 and held the chair through his retirement in 2011. n

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Beyond ‘the Girl’: Women Crime Writers from Scandinavia Public Event at Gustavus Adolphus College and the American Swedish Institute hosted by the Folke Bernadotte Memorial Library Wednesday, October 10, 2012 – 7 p.m.

ordic crime fiction has become a global phenomenon in part because of a girl with a dragon tattoo, but women writers have from the start made important contributions to the wave of Nordic mysteries and thrillers in translation. From October 7–10 Scandinavian women

writers, readers, and scholars will gather at Gustavus to mark women’s contributions to the genre, explore the intersections between literature and genre fiction, and consider what these stories tell us about contemporary Scandinavia—and about ourselves as readers. Then, on October 10 at 7 p.m., the authors will speak at a free public

program at the American Swedish Institute (ASI) in Minneapolis. This program is being hosted by the Folke Bernadotte Memorial Library with the assistance of the Scandinavian Studies Department, Gustavus Library Associates, the American Swedish Institute, and the Swedish Embassy.

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Career Exploration and Transition Course at ASI I

t’s a tough job market, and many have System. (With 49 video courses and 29 struggled to find good options for career exercises, the system offers participants transition support and a “how to” for every step of the professional networking. way.) The cost for this popular During 2012–13, series is $199 (Gustavus alumni the Center for Servant $149). Classroom space is limited. Leadership at Gustavus Do you live outside the Twin Cities Adolphus College, with metro area? The fall series also the support of Thrivent will be offered in webinar format, Financial for Lutherans, including full access to the Online will offer several career Job Hunt Coaching System, and exploration and transition is available for $149 (Gustavus courses for alumni and alumni $99). friends. These courses are The workshop is an encore of open to the public. a highly successful workshop the Catherine Byers Breet “Where Dreams Center for Servant Leadership Meet Reality: Alumni piloted in January/February 2012, Networking and Transition” will be offered and will be presented again by Catherine at the American Swedish Institute this Byers Breet, chief stripe changer at ARBEZ, fall on Tuesdays—September 25, October who has over 15 years’ experience working 9 and 23, and November 6—from 6 to 8 with people in the midst of job transition. pm. This four-part classroom series, which Here’s what alums had to say about focuses your skills, passion, and education Catherine and the workshop: on identifying a rewarding career, includes • “ The workshop was great! Good for full access to the Online Job Hunt Coaching anyone looking to find their calling. Very

Gustavus loses a ‘dreamer’ G

ustavus alumnus and longtime Vice President for Development and College Relations Robert “Bob” Peterson ’58 passed away on Tuesday, April 10, from complications of Parkinson’s disease. The man known as “Mr. Gustavus” for his wide-ranging dreams of a “greater Gustavus” was 81. Bob was a Gustie through and through. After graduating from Grantsburg High School in Wisconsin, he spent two years with the Dayton Company and four years in the U.S. Navy and then enrolled at Gustavus in the fall of 1954. He was a member of the Gustavus Choir and the College Quartet and served as president of the student body before graduating from the College in 1958. Immediately following his graduation he joined the Gustavus admission staff and then in 1960 joined the newly organized Development Office, where he served for 36 years until his retirement, the last 18 (1978–1996) as vice president for development and college relations. During Bob’s tenure, the College’s endowment experienced steady and significant growth. He also oversaw the successful completion of several capital campaigns. Bob received the Greater Gustavus Award in 1979, was named Fundraiser of the Year in 1985 by the Minnesota Chapter of NSFRE, received the ALDE Virgil Anderson Award in 1995, and was presented with the Order of the Polar Star by King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden in 1996. After his retirement, Bob remained active in college affairs with special interest in the College’s Linnaeus Arboretum. He is survived by his wife, Ranae; his two sons, Mark ’88 (Brenda) and Kip ’94 (Heidi ’96); four grandchildren, Erik, Cole, Aaron, and Molly; his sister Evie ’59; his brother David; and numerous nephews, nieces, and cousins. n

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insightful, and Catherine is a wealth of knowledge.” • “Catherine is energetic, knowledgeable, and inspiring. I have learned so much!” • “It was great to connect with other Gusties and network with those I typically wouldn’t meet. The power of synergy as Gustie helped Gustie.” • “Thank you so much for offering this course. I have been stuck for two years because I was applying only to online positions. I now have new strategies. I am confident 2012 will find me a new job.” • “Catherine’s workshop was transformational. Her online technologies and thoughtful exercises provoked me to imagine a dream job and take first steps to get there.” Interested? Go to gustavus.edu/ servantleadership to complete the online registration, or contact the Center for Servant Leadership at 507-933-7272 or csl@ gustavus.edu for further information. n

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Their Majesties King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden will visit two prominent Swedish-American institutions during a visit to the United States in October 2012. On Friday, Oct. 5, Their Majesties will visit Gustavus Adolphus College in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the founding of the College by Swedish immigrants in 1862, and on the following day they will be in Minneapolis at the American Swedish Institute in honor of the dedication of the Institute’s new Nelson Cultural Center. The following public events will be held at Gustavus in conjunction with the visit of Their Majesties. The ticket lottery for the Festival Worship and the Seminars closes on Friday, August 31, 2012. Visit gustavus.edu/royalvisit to enter the ticket lottery.

Processional to Christ Chapel

10:20 a.m., Eckman Mall. No ticket required.

Festival Worship in Christ Chapel

including greetings from His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf, music by Gustavus ensembles, and the blessing of an altar cloth entrusted to Gustavus and designed and needlepointed by the King’s greatgrandfather Gustaf V. 10:30 a.m., Christ Chapel. Tickets are required and can be obtained through the Royal Visit ticket lottery.

A Royal Luncheon

Noon, Jackson Campus Center Banquet Rooms. By invitation only.

Dedication of the Sesquicentennial Plaza

commemorating the College’s 150th anniversary of its founding. The Plaza features a 16-foot tall Sesquicentennial Sculpture and a historical timeline of the College engraved in a sidewalk from the sculpture to the west door of Christ Chapel. 2 p.m., West Mall. No ticket required.

Seminar Honoring His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf

“From Global to Local: Teaching and Living Environmental Sustainability,” a moderated discussion featuring remarks from the Swedish Ambassador to the United States Jonas Hafström and a panel of Gustavus faculty, alumni, and students 2:30 p.m. Tickets are required and can be obtained through the Royal Visit ticket lottery.

Seminar Honoring Her Majesty Queen Silvia

“Protecting and Supporting the World’s Women and Children,” a moderated discussion featuring remarks from Her Majesty the Queen and a panel of Gustavus faculty, alumni, and students. 2:30 p.m. Tickets are required and can be obtained through the Royal Visit ticket lottery.

Special Art Exhibition Featuring Swedish Art at the Hillstrom Museum

150 Years of Swedish Art: Highlights from the Swedish National Collections in Stockholm (Moderna Museet, and Nationalmuseum.) The exhibition will be on display from Sept. 2 to Dec. 10, 2012. There is no cost to visit the Museum.

A Royal Evening: Dinner with Their Majesties

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their Majesties King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden

7 p.m., Interlachen Country Club, Edina, Minn. By invitation only. For more information on the Royal Visit or to enter the ticket lottery, visit gustavus.edu/royalvisit.

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2012 Music Showcase Gustavus Choir, Gustavus Symphony Orchestra, Gustavus Wind Orchestra, Gustavus Jazz Lab Band

Features commissioned works

our newly commissioned works were premiered—one each by the Gustavus Choir, the Gustavus Symphony Orchestra, the Gustavus Wind Orchestra, and the Gustavus Jazz Lab Band—at the 2012 Music Showcase held at the Ted Mann Concert Hall in Minneapolis on March 25.

1. Composer Chen Yi, whose new work Faith and Perseverance was commissioned for the Gustavus Symphony Orchestra in honor of the College’s 150th anniversary, is pictured with the orchestra’s conductor, Ruth Lu Lin, and Gustavus President Jack R. Ohle following the Showcase. 2. Composer James Stephenson (second from left) is shown with Gustavus Wind Orchestra Conductor Douglas Nimmo (left) and alumni and Friends of Music organizers Anita (Thomsen ’77) and Jon ’77 Young. The Youngs underwrote the commissioning of Stephenson’s Intrepid Promise for the wind orchestra in honor of Dean P. Trzpuc, emeritus director of bands, Brainerd Senior High School, Brainerd, Minn.

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3. Gustavus music patrons Ruth (Trimbo ’73) and Ross ’73 Heilman are pictured with Gustavus Choir Conductor Gregory Aune. In November 2000 the Heilmans established the Heilman Sacred Choral Works Endowment Fund, which supported the commissioning of Alone, a new work by composer Eric Whitacre, for the choir. 4. Shown with Gustavus Jazz Lab Band Director Steve Wright are Roger and Linda Boettcher, Princeton, Minn., who funded the commissioning of Outside, Looking In, by composer Alan Baylock, for the lab band in remembrance of exuberant jazz concerts performed by their three trumpeters and in appreciation of the Gustavus jazz program. n

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Faculty research, scholarship, creativity prepare students for success by Margaret Bloch-Qazi

embers of the Gustavus faculty are teachers, advisers, and mentors who are committed to their students’ academic excellence. During the academic year, they demonstrate this commitment daily in offices, classrooms, laboratories, and studios across the campus. So what are they doing when they aren’t teaching and mentoring students? During the summer, on weekends, early in the morning and late at night, Gustavus faculty members are active scholars— creating art, composing, directing performances, conducting research, and writing. While these activities are not always so obvious as the work they do teaching, their scholarship is a vital aspect of Gustavus’s learning community. Gustavus recognizes the value of faculty scholarship for a vibrant and current learning community by providing partial support for faculty scholarship in the forms of Research, Scholarship and Creativity grants, Presidential FacultyStudent Collaborative Grants, funds to attend conferences, and sabbatical leaves (see faculty research projects at gustavus. edu/kendallcenter/grant-opportunities/). Gustavus also recognizes exceptional scholarship by faculty with its annual Faculty Achievement Award. Recent recipients include Peg O’Connor, professor of gender, women, and sexuality studies and philosophy (2010); Eric Dugdale, associate professor of classics (2011); and Elizabeth Baer, professor of English (2012). Faculty scholarship is critical for maintaining an innovative and rigorous curriculum. By being current in their fields, the College’s teachers bring energy, new ideas, and cutting-edge technologies to their students. This prepares students to excel in their chosen vocations. Professor of Biology John Lammert has taught at Gustavus for 30 years. During this time, he has shared critical discoveries in the fields of immunology and microbiology with his students—from the sequencing of microbial genomes to characterization of healthy microbes in our intestines to the elucidation of signaling pathways causing healthy cells in our bodies to become cancerous. Lammert’s students, many of whom go on to become research scientists, physicians, and nurses, report

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back that Gustavus teachers have prepared them very well for postgraduate study. Student intellectual growth benefits from faculty scholarship in additional ways. Many faculty members publish work with an intended audience that includes undergraduate students at Gustavus and other institutions. Eric Dugdale, associate professor of classics, published a translation and commentary on Sophocles’ Electra for those who don’t have a background in the ancient world. Another of his books, Greek Theatre in Context, helps students understand how drama was performed in Athens by making relevant primary sources available to students. Dugdale explains, “It informs the performances of students in my theatre class as they put on scenes from ancient drama at the [Gustavus] Festival

of Dionysus; their performances in turn inform my understanding of ancient drama in modern performance.” So while many faculty share their scholarship with their students, observing how students interact with the material also helps some examine their scholarship from novel perspectives. In addition to fostering intellectual growth, faculty scholarship supports students’ moral development and encourages respect for others—core elements of the College’s mission. This is exemplified by Professor Peg O’Connor’s work. In articles published in the New York Times and the Huffington Post as well as an appearance on Canadian Public Television, O’Connor has used philosophy to help people make sense of addiction. Her work complements a growing body of information on the science of addiction by providing perspectives on its meaning.

Professor of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies and Philosophy Peg O’Connor with Socrates.

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Professor of Biology John Lammert (center) has collaborated with student researchers for nearly 30 years. In spring 2013, O’Connor will bring this topic into the classroom in her seminar on philosophy and addiction. Like Dugdale’s work, O’Conner’s scholarship extends to other aspects of the student experience. She and Janet DeMars, the case manager for high-risk drinking at the College, have developed a Gustavus program for students who engage in high-risk drinking, called onGUARD. Its curriculum has four areas of focus—relation to self, relation to others, skill acquisition, and building for a future, each of which is aligned with the mission and core values of the College. Perhaps most inspiring, faculty members can share their own lifelong love of learning to encourage it in their students, helping them translate their own passions into vocation. For example, Gustavus students can explore their own literary voices by discussing Keats’s poetry with Professor of English Joyce Sutphen, Minnesota’s 2011 Poet Laureate—and perhaps be fortunate enough to hear her read her own poetry! Inspired by her participation in Dugdale’s translation of Electra, Gustavus alumna Maggie Sotos ’09 presented her original play, TROY! The Musical, at this year’s

Minneapolis Fringe festival in early August 2012. Faculty regularly model intellectual engagement and inquiry for Gustavus students, helping them develop into thoughtful, lifelong learners. As Professor of English Elizabeth Baer explains, “For me, there are no boundaries between research and teaching, between the life of the mind ‘at work’ and ‘at play.’ Indeed, it is the pleasure of the life of the mind, the passion for learning, that are the most important things I can convey to Gusties in my classroom. . . . I owe it to my students to stay current, to be interested in everything, to be alert to new trends, to be aware of world events, and to demand that they begin to have these expectations of themselves.” Faculty publications, presentations, and performances, the culmination of faculty scholarship, promote Gustavus’s reputation as a learning institution committed to excellence. Every other year, the Kendall Center for Engaged Learning highlights faculty scholarly achievements by producing a “Research, Scholarship, & Creativity” publication. From Visiting Professor of Biology Mohammad Abu Baker’s research into the behavior and

ecology of woodland mice, to Nursing Professor Barbara Zust’s research on perinatal stress, the publication showcases the faculty as creative, hard-working, dedicated, insightful, and productive scholars. Learn more about the scholarly activities of the Gustavus faculty, and see what your favorite professors are up to when not in the class, lab, and studio, by accessing the 2010–11 “Research, Scholarship, and Creativity” publication at gustavus.edu/kendallcenter/ documents/2010-2011ResearchScholarshipandCreativitypublication.pdf. If you are interested in learning more about how you can support faculty development and research, please contact the Office of Institutional Advancement, advancement@gustavus.edu, or 1-800-7266192. n Margaret Bloch-Qazi, Ph.D., is an associate professor of biology and director of the College’s faculty development program, the John S. Kendall Center for Engaged Learning.

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At the Crossroads of Asia:

CICE announces new semester program by Carolyn O’Grady and Steve Mellema ’72 PHoto by Al Kordesch

he Center for International and Cultural Education is excited to announce the launch of a new Gustavus semester program, Semester in Malaysia: Living Diversity. This program, offered in partnership with Universiti Sains Malaysia in Penang, will join the Gustavus Semester in Sweden and Semester in India programs as one of our signature faculty-led study away opportunities. Why Malaysia? As a study away destination, Malaysia tends to be overlooked. This is unfortunate, as peninsular Malaysia is one of the most fascinating destinations in southeast Asia. Situated as it is near the equator, Malaysia

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has been at the heart of global trade for centuries. Traders coming from either east or west would find shelter on the peninsula during monsoon seasons. Consequently, peninsular Malaysia has been shaped historically and ethnically by influences from China and India, as well as Europe. The Portuguese, the Dutch, and then the English all laid claim to Malaysia, and each left some evidence of its influence behind. Malaysia became an independent country in 1957. The major ethnic groups in Peninsular Malaysia today include the Malays (~50%), Chinese (~30%), and Indians (~10%). Malays are indigenous to the peninsula. They speak the Malay language (Bahasa Melayu)

which, after independence, became the official national language of Malaysia, and is therefore also called Bahasa Malaysia (“the language of Malaysia”). The first Chinese migrated to the Malay Peninsula hundreds of years ago, but the vast majority of the ethnic Chinese population emigrated from China in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, seeking lives and fortunes as business persons and tin mine laborers. Most originated from southern China and span a number of Chinese linguistic groups, the largest being the Cantonese and Hokkien. The vast majority of Indian families also migrated to Malaysia during the same time period, most of them brought as laborers to British-owned

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CICE Assistant Director Linda Shaw by Carolyn O’Grady rubber plantations. The vast majority are from south India, from the Tamil and Malayali language groups of Tamil Nadu and Kerala. There is also a smaller population of northern Indians who speak Hindi or Punjabi. Malaysia offers diverse tropical habitats and biological communities including tropical rain forests, mangrove swamps, coral reefs, and wetlands. All these ecosystems provide rich opportunities to explore the natural environment and consider environmental issues and sustainability. In sum, being a country with an ethnically, linguistically, and religiously diverse population, not to mention its biologically rich habitats, Malaysia is a veritable laboratory for the study of diversity. The country has struggled for years to find ways to bridge racial and religious divides and tensions, and that struggle is as present today as it was over a century ago. The country is safe and English is widely spoken, but below the surface are interracial and interreligious tensions. Gustavus students will be able to live for a semester in the midst of this society, meeting its people and experiencing their struggles, and this will give them a unique and profound look at many aspects of diversity. Primary Program Location: Penang, Malaysia Penang is an island off the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia, connected to the mainland by a bridge. Although only about 40 miles in circumference, the island is a microcosm of Malaysia’s geographic and cultural diversity. Penang is a home to all the major cultures and religions of Malaysia. There is a large city (Georgetown, population 150,000, a UNESCO World Heritage City) on its northeast corner, a central mountain/hill/rainforest area, rural agricultural villages on the west side, and many miles of sandy beaches along the northern coast. Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) is Malaysia’s second oldest (established in 1971) and largest (over 20,000 students) public university. Gustavus and USM have had a student exchange agreement

f you ask Linda Shaw why she is working in international education at Gustavus, she might tell you how her son studied abroad when he was in college, and the huge impact it had on him (and thus on her). Or she might tell you that she trained to be a teacher, and this job lets her teach students every day, albeit not in a typical classroom. Or she might tell you about some of her travel experiences, the power these had for her, and how she hopes every student gets to feel the same thing. Linda began working at Gustavus in 1999 when she joined the Office of International Education and, as administrative assistant, helped to coordinate every aspect of the office’s work. Through the years, Linda’s role has evolved to keep pace with the needs of the office and the demands within the field of international education. In 2007 she was promoted to assistant director and given the task of coordinating all aspects of January off-campus study. In these positions she has an impact on hundreds of Gustavus students every year. Linda followed several different paths before working at Gustavus. She has built a geodesic dome, been a midwife, directed an alternative school, been a Title I teacher, and raised two children. She returned to school as a non-traditional student to get a B.S. in education with a minor in Spanish, and was certified to teach K–12 but graduated just when there were no full-time teaching positions available. After working as a substitute teacher and summer school Spanish teacher, she opted for a full-time position as a paralegal with a local law firm and stayed for 11 years. She took the job at Gustavus because she really wanted to work in an educational setting again, plus she had seen from the parent point of view the significance of study abroad. As coordinator of January off-campus study, Linda works closely with faculty who will be teaching off campus, handling logistics for their courses, and developing course budgets. She also advises students about course selection and handles application details. These courses run smoothly in part because of the tremendous CICE office support structure

that Linda leads. As assistant director she stands in for the director as needed and handles risk management in collaboration with other office staff. Linda manages a variety of office events, coordinating the biannual summer program for visiting Chinese students, overseeing the annual International Photo Contest and resulting calendar, and serving as the office linchpin and institutional “memory.” During her years at Gustavus, Linda has helped to handle a wide range of office emergencies. These include the aftermath of 9-11, when Gustavus students were on the semester program in India and decisions had to be made about how to bring them home and finish a fulfilling semester on campus. There were also the earthquakes in El Salvador in 2001, a bombing in Mumbai in 2008, the flooding near Machu Picchu in 2010, the earthquake and tsunami in Japan in 2011— in each case, Gustavus had students in the country and sometimes quite near the event. Helping students and their parents work through these traumas—and their aftermath—is one of the most challenging and rewarding aspects of Linda’s job. When the weather is fair and she doesn’t have to be in the office, you’ll most likely find Linda, her husband Jerry, and their yellow lab sailing on the 35foot catamaran that Jerry built. They’ve played around with living full-time on the catamaran, sailing into whatever harbor most piques their curiosity. But it is hard to imagine that such a life would meet Linda’s desire to be of service. As she says, “Working in the international office has been an eye-opening and fulfilling experience for me. I feel I have been able to find a place where my actions each day can help to make a positive difference in the lives of so many young people embarking on their life in the world.”

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Jeff Anderson, International Student Services Coordinator by Carolyn O’Grady

t took Jeff Anderson some time to decide which career most suited his talents and needs. He has a law degree and clerked for some judges for several years. But he had no enthusiasm for joining a law practice. So instead he went back to school to get teaching licensure for 7th- and 9thgrade English and social studies. He did some substitute teaching, and he liked the kids, but teaching itself did not seem like the best fit. In the meantime, he and his family were an International Friendship Family for the Office of International Education at Gustavus. Jeff had studied abroad while he was an undergraduate student at St. Olaf, and he had extensive international travel experience as an adult. His interest in cultural diversity drew him to explore international education as a career, and he even came into the Office of International Education and interviewed former studyabroad adviser Carol Moline about her job. When the position of International Student Services Coordinator came available in 2001, Jeff knew he had found his calling. Jeff’s position has three components: admission, advising, and immigration compliance. He is at the front line for admissions, handling international student admission in collaboration with the Office of Admission. He is often the College’s first contact person for international applicants or their parents. Then, once an international student has applied and been admitted, Jeff works closely with them on their visa documentation, advises them on course registration, helps them with housing and student employment forms, and conducts an intensive student orientation once they have arrived. His work with these students continues up through their graduation, when they often need help with issues of immigration or employment in the U.S. Finally, Jeff handles all immigration and visa matters not only for international students, but also for international faculty who have

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been hired by the College. Complying with the legal requirements set by the U.S. State Department and the Department of Homeland Security is time-consuming and highly detailed. It requires a unique skill set, and Jeff’s legal background serves him well in this work. As the international student adviser, Jeff gets to see both the high and the low points in a student’s trajectory. Many international students excel while here, leading student organizations, coordinating events on campus, and ultimately going on to graduate school and interesting careers. But others do struggle. Jeff has helped students through bouts of malaria, depression, suicidal thoughts, and even paranoid schizophrenia. He works with students who are on the verge of academic suspension, or who must deal with the death of a family member while this far away, or who just in general have a difficult time adjusting to life here. Jeff points out that welcoming a new group of international students to Gustavus each year is a high point of his job. “The new students are enthusiastic and adventurous, but at the same time often nervous and a bit overwhelmed. I am impressed by their courage in going so far away from home to study, usually for four years, in a new culture and usually in a second language.” For instance, Imran Merchant ’06, from Mumbai, India, started at Gustavus during the spring semester. The day he got here was probably the coldest day of the year, well below zero F. He did not yet have a winter coat or gloves. But, says Jeff, he had a great attitude. “He kept saying ‘This is nice. I’ll get used to this.’” As Jeff walked him from the Campus Center to Norelius Hall, Imran tried to reach in his pocket to get his dorm key. But his hands were so frozen they simply wouldn’t work. Imagine having this experience your first day in your new college! Jeff has taken international students on canoe trips to the BWCAW and regularly hosts them at his house for meals. He feels grateful, he says, to get to know students from all over the world and learn more about their lives and their culture. “I feel privileged that my family and I get to be part of their lives.”

since 1994. USM has three campuses: the main (original and largest) campus on Penang Island, on the southern edge of Georgetown; the engineering campus across the bridge on the mainland side of the state of Penang; and a health campus including a medical school in the east-coast state of Kelantan. Students on our program will live for most of the semester in hostels (similar to our dormitories) on the main USM campus. What courses will students take? Courses will be taught at Universiti Sains Malaysia by the faculty program leader and on-site instructors, and will include language study, Malaysia Studies, Religions of Malaysia, and Tropical Ecology. Each course will fulfill one of the liberal arts requirements for graduation. On-site experts and field trips will supplement classroom learning, and students will have opportunities to participate in community service and experience many of the traditional art and craft forms, such as shadow puppetry, traditional dance and music, traditional kite making, batik, and woodcarving. For its stunning diversity in terms of culture and geography, Peninsular Malaysia is a surprisingly small place (about the size of New Jersey) with a very robust, safe, and economical system of transportation. At various points through the semester students will travel to other parts of Peninsular Malaysia, including Malacca, Kuala Lumpur, the Taman Negara National Park (located in the heart of the peninsula, site of the oldest rainforest in the world ), the east-coast state of Kelantan, and Pulau Redang (Redang Island, off the east coast state of Terengganu). For more information about this exciting new program, please contact Carolyn O’Grady at cogrady@gustavus.edu. n

Carolyn O’Grady, Ed.D., professor of education, has been director of the College’s Center for International and Cultural Education since 2008. Steve Mellema ’72, Ph.D., has taught at Gustavus in the Physics Department since 1985. He spent six years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Malaysia and is fluent not only in Bahasa Malaysia but also the Kelantanese dialect. He and his wife, Shirley Mellema, who is Chinese Malaysian, will be the inaugural faculty leaders of the program.

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Hillstrom Museum of Art Hosts Extraordinary Exhibition of Swedish Art by Donald Myers ’83

Carl Wahlbom (1810–1858), Death of King Gustav II Adolf at Lützen/Gustav II Adolfs Död i Slaget vid Lützen, 1855, oil on canvas, 39 3/4 x 59 7/16 inches (101 x 151 cm.), Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 1866 transfer from the Kungliga Museet, NM 1028

early 50 paintings that provide an overview of the history and vitality of Swedish art from around 1862 until the present make up the exhibition 150 Years of Swedish Art: Highlights from the Swedish National Collections in Stockholm (Moderna Museet and Nationalmuseum), on view at the Hillstrom Museum of Art from September 10 through December 2, 2012. The exhibition is part of the Museum’s celebration of the Sesquicentennial of Gustavus Adolphus College, which was founded in 1862. Although the artists represented in the exhibition are of

fundamental importance in the collections of the Nationalmuseum and the Moderna Museet—arguably the two most significant art museums in Sweden—many of them are not yet well known in the U.S. The exhibition is the most ambitious to date of the Hillstrom Museum of Art and is the result of remarkable and generous cooperation from the two Swedish museums. The exhibition features an important historical painting lent by the Nationalmuseum, a well-known depiction of the Death of King Gustav II Adolf at

Lützen (1855) by Carl Wahlbom (1810– 1858). The impulse that led Wahlbom to depict King Gustavus Adolphus in 1855 may have been related to that which led to St. Ansgar’s Academy being renamed Gustavus Adolphus College in 1876, the year it relocated to St. Peter. Swedish history was being reviewed in this period, and the King was held up as a national hero for several reasons, including his leading Sweden into its era of greatest political and military might and his championing of Protestantism. The latter likely was foremost for the founders of the College

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Sigrid Hjertén (1885–1948), Harvest Machines at Stadsgården/Skördemaskiner i Stadsgården, 1915, oil on canvas, 29 1/8 x 39 3/8 inches (74 x 100 cm.), Moderna Museet, 1953 purchase, NM 5029

Gustav Fjæstad (1868–1948), Winter Moonlight/Vintermånsken, 1895, oil on canvas, 39 3/8 x 52 3/4 inches (100 x 134 cm.), Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 1905 purchase, NM 1628

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when they chose the King as namesake, though for artist Wahlbom, Gustavus Adolphus’s military achievement and the prestige it brought to Sweden had priority. Wahlbom’s work, his best-known, is the quintessential example of Swedish historical painting. After early experience in the military that likely served him well in creating this memorable battle scene, Wahlbom studied art at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts. Toward the end of his life he worked in Rome, where the Death of King Gustav II Adolf at Lützen was painted. In order to be historically accurate, the artist consulted a detailed study by Swedish historian Anders Fryxell (1793–1881) on the reign of the King, and he visited and sketched the Lützen battlefield in Germany where Gustavus Adolphus was killed on November 6, 1632. 150 Years of Swedish Art includes other key paintings from the holdings of the Nationalmuseum by crucial and celebrated artists such as Swedish Prince Eugen (1865–1947), son of King Oscar II and Queen Sophia and a friend and patron of fellow artists; famed author August Strindberg (1849–1912), known primarily for his realist literature but also active as an innovative painter; and Anders Zorn (1860–1920), famous both for his society portraits—such as those of Queen Sophia and American Presidents Grover Cleveland and William Howard Taft—and for his many sensual nudes, such as his oil painting in the exhibition, Girls from Dalarna Having a Bath (1906). Carl Larsson (1853–1919), perhaps the most widely recognized Swedish artist in America, is also represented in the exhibition. Larsson is known especially for his watercolors depicting his idyllic family life at his home in Sundborn, in the province of Dalarna, but he was also active as a portrait painter, depicting family members, patrons, fellow artists, and literary figures. The latter group included the esteemed Swedish poet Erik Axel Karlfeldt (1864– 1931), winner (posthumously) of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1931. Like Larsson, Karlfeldt closely identified with the native Swedish folk culture of his birth region of Dalarna. His poetry included works inspired by folk art of the type painted in Dalarna homes, and Larsson has included in the background of his 1918 portrait of Karlfeldt several figures in Dalecarlian costume. In his autobiography, Larsson recounted how early in his career he could not imagine anything more terrible than painting a portrait, but by the end of his career, his earlier terror of portraiture had

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disappeared, and he noted his desire to portray Karlfeldt, whom he deemed worthy of such attention. More recent artworks have been lent for 150 Years of Swedish Art by the Moderna Museet, including by married couple Sigrid Hjertén (1885–1948) and Isaac Grünewald (1889–1946), whose modern, Expressionist approach broke with earlier Swedish painting; by abstract artist Olle Bærtling (1911–1981); by Dick Bengtsson (1936–1989), whose seemingly arbitrary but non-celebratory insertion of the Nazi swastika into a number of his realistic cityscapes perplexes many; and by Karin Mamma Andersson (born 1962), who cites Bengtsson as an influence and who has become one of Sweden’s most internationally famous artists, with recent exhibitions in prominent galleries around the world. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue that includes texts written by leading authorities on the history of Swedish art, including Torsten Gunnarrson, former director of collections at the Nationalmuseum; Mikael Ahlund, curator of paintings and sculpture at the Nationalmuseum, and his colleagues Carl-Johan Olsson and Karin Olsson, also curators of the museum; and art historian and critic Magnus Bons, who has worked extensively with the collections of the Moderna Museet. 150 Years of Swedish Art is funded primarily through a generous donation from Kristina and the Reverend Åke Bonnier, bishop of Skara Diocese in Sweden and a member of the Board of Trustees of the College. Additional funding was provided by the Central Bank of Sweden’s Tercentenary Fund, and the Carl and Verna Schmidt Foundation. n

Donald Myers ’83, who has been director of the Hillstrom Museum of Art since its opening in 2000, is also an instructor of art history in the Department of Art and Art History at the College.

Olle Bærtling (1911–1981), Iru, 1958, oil on canvas, 70 7/8 x 36 1/4 inches (180 x 92 cm.), Moderna Museet, 1960 purchase, NM 5538

Carl Larsson (1853–1919), Portrait of Erik Axel Karlfeldt, 1918, oil on canvas, 29 15/16 x 25 3/4 inches (76 x 65.5 cm.), Nationalmuseum, Stockholm/Statens Porträttgalleri, Gripsholm Castle, Mariefred, 1919 bequest by Karin Bergöö, widow of the artist, NMGrh 2381

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‘Back to Work’

Prince Eugen (1865–1947), Leafing, Balingsta (Lövsprickning, Balingsta), 1891, oil on canvas, 24 1/4 x 11 13/16 inches (61.6 x 30 cm.), ©Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Donated in 1925 by the artist, NM 2469, ©2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/BUS, Stockholm.

August

3–Sept. 3 Gustavus at the Fair: 2 College booth in Education Building at the Minnesota State Fair, staffed 9 a.m.–9 p.m. daily. Wear your Gustie gear and stop by to sign our visitors’ book!

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4 Opening Convocation of the College’s 151st academic year; Christ Chapel, 10 a.m. 10–Dec. 2 Art Exhibition: 150 Years of Swedish Art: Highlights from the Swedish National Collections in Stockholm; Hillstrom Museum of Art, regular museum hours: Mon.–Fri., 9 a.m.–4 p.m.; Sat. & Sun., 1–5 p.m. (Opening reception, Sept. 10, 7–9 p.m.; Nobel Conference reception, Oct. 2, 6–8 p.m.). Open to the public without charge. 11 Reading in Common Author Visit: Wes Moore, author of The Other Wes Moore; Christ Chapel, 7 p.m. Open to the public without charge.

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12 St. Peter-Mankato Area Gustie Breakfast: President Jack Ohle; Jackson Campus Center Banquet Room, 7:30–9 a.m. For reservations, contact Institutional Advancement (507-933-7512). 14 Nobel Conference Preview: “Iron in the Oceans: What’s the Fuss About? William F. Fitzgerald, Ph.D., Rydell Distinguished Visiting Professor; Alumni Hall, 2:30 p.m. Open to the public without charge. 15 Coneflower Prairie Dedication; Linnaeus Arboretum, 10:30 a.m. 17 Gustavus Library Associates’ Fall Membership Tea, hosted by President Jack & Kris Ohle; President’s Home, 10:30 a.m.–noon. Reservations requested; call Marketing & Communication (507-933-7520). 19 Twin Cities Gustie Breakfast: President Jack Ohle; American Swedish Institute, Minneapolis, 7:30–9 a.m. For reservations, contact Alumni Relations (800-487-8437, or gustavus. edu/alumni/). 29 35th Athletics Hall of Fame Banquet and Induction Ceremonies; Alumni Hall, 6 p.m. For reservations, contact Alumni Relations by phone (800-4878437) e-mail (alumni@gustavus.edu), or online (gustavus.edu).

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2–3 Nobel Conference® 48: “Our Global Ocean”; Lund Arena, opening at 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday. For more information, see inserted tab or visit gustavus.edu/ nobelconference/. Ticket required; order online at gustavustickets.com. 2 Nobel Conference Concert: “Come Colorful See”; Christ Chapel, 8:15 p.m. Open to the public without charge. 5 Royal Visit: Their Majesties King Carl XVI Gustaf & Queen Silvia of Sweden. Tickets required for festival worship service & seminars, luncheon by invitation; other events open to the public without charge. 5–7 Family Weekend: Seminars, events, & entertainment; for more information, call Student Activities (507-933-7598). 7 Music: Family Weekend Concert; Christ Chapel, 2 p.m. Open to the public without charge. 10 St. Peter-Mankato Area Gustie Breakfast: Nobel Conference recap; Jackson Campus Center Banquet Room, 7:30–9 a.m. For reservations, contact Institutional Advancement (507-933-7512).

10 Library Event: “Beyond ‘The Girl’: Women Crime Writers from Scandinavia”; American Swedish Institute, 6:30 p.m. Open to the public without charge. 12 Sesquicentennial Year of Celebration Closing Dinner; Evelyn Young Dining Room, Jackson Campus Center, 6 p.m. Reservations required; register online at gustavus.edu/forms/ homecoming2012. 12–13 Homecoming & Reunion Weekend: Receptions for anniversary classes, Sesquicentennial Closing Dinner on Oct. 12 at 6 p.m., reunion & homecoming events on Saturday. For more information, contact Alumni Relations (800-487-8437). 13 Dedication of West Mall, including celebration of benefactors for West Mall prairies & Beck Hall classrooms, labs, & atrium; 10 a.m. 13 Artist Series Event: Homecoming Concert featuring the Bend in the River Big Band, Bob Hallquist, director; Jussi Björling Recital hall, 7:30 p.m. Ticket required; available online at gustavustickets.com. 17 Twin Cities Gustie Breakfast: Nobel Conference recap; American Swedish Institute, Minneapolis, 7:30–9 a.m. For reservations, contact Alumni Relations (800-487-8437, or gustavus.edu/ alumni/). 20–23 Reading Days 25 Raoul Wallenberg Lecture: “The Legacy of Raoul Wallenberg,” Ingemar Eliasson, former Marshal of the Realm of Sweden; Alumni Hall, 7 p.m. Open to the public without charge. (Also at ASI, October, 28, 2 p.m.) 25, 26, 27, & 28 Theatre: Behold the Coach, in a Blazer, Uninsured (and other good intentions), five short plays by Will Eno, directed by Henry MacCarthy; Anderson Theatre, 2 p.m. (Oct. 28) & 8 p.m. (Oct. 25, 26, & 27). Ticket required; available online at gustavustickets.com. 26 Music: OCTUBAfest, Paul Budde, director; Jussi Björling Recital Hall, 7:30 p.m. Open to the public without charge. 27 Music: The United States Army Field Band & Soldiers’ Chorus, Colonel Tim Holtan, conductor; Christ Chapel, 7:30 p.m. Open to the public without charge, but complimentary ticket required; available online at armyfieldband.ticketleap.com/ saintpeter.

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& 5 Music: The 2012 Gustavus Honor 4 Band Festival, Douglas Nimmo, director; Schaefer Fine Arts Center & Christ Chapel, all day. Festival Concert on Nov. 5 featuring High School Honor Band and Gustavus Wind Orchestra; Christ Chapel, 7 p.m. Open to the public without charge. 10 Music: The Gustavus Symphony Orchestra, Ruth Lu Lin, conductor; Christ Chapel, 1:30 p.m. Open to the public without charge. 14 St. Peter-Mankato Area Gustie Breakfast: Don Ostrom, Ph.D., professor emeritus of political science, discussing the November elections. 16, 17, & 18 Theatre: Theatre Gallery, featuring The Edge of Our Bodies & At Risk; Black Box, 2 p.m. (Nov. 18) & 8 p.m. (Nov. 16 & 17). Ticket required; available at gustavustickets.com. 17 Music: The Gustavus Wind Orchestra & Vasa Wind Orchestra Fall Concert, Douglas Nimmo & Karrin MeffertNelson, conductors; Jussi Björling Recital Hall, 1:30 p.m. Open to the public without charge. 18 Music: The Gustavus Jazz Lab Band & Adolphus Jazz Ensemble Fall Concert, Steve Wright, director; Christ Chapel, 2:30 p.m. Open to the public without charge. 18 Music: Fall Woodwind Chamber Concert, James DeVoll, John Engebretson, Karrin Meffert-Nelson, & Ann Pesavento, directors; Jussi Björling Recital Hall, 7:30 p.m. Open to the public without charge. 21 Twin Cities Gustie Breakfast:Don Ostrom, Ph.D., professor emeritus of political science, discussing the November elections. 21–25 Thanksgiving Recess 30, Dec. 1 & 2 Christmas in Christ Chapel: “Jubilee: Proclaiming the Year of the Lord’s Favor”; Christ Chapel, 3:30 p.m. (Dec. 1 & 2 only) & 7:30 p.m. Tickets required; order online at gustavustickets.com. (Tickets go on sale beginning at noon on Monday, Oct. 15.)

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Please Note: Times and dates of the events listed on this page are subject to change. Please call to confirm events of interest.

december

4 Music: “The Winds of Christmas,” The combined Gustavus & Vasa Wind Orchestras, Douglas Nimmo & Karrin Meffert-Nelson, conductors; Christ Chapel, 10 a.m. Open to the public without charge. 6 Festival of St. Lucia, Christ Chapel, 10 a.m.; GLA’s Lucia Luncheon, Alumni Hall, 11 a.m. Luncheon reservations accepted from GLA members following mailing of invitations in mid-October; for more information, call Marketing & Communication (507933-7520). 6, 7, & 8 Dance: “Shared Space”; Kresge Dance Studio, 2 p.m (Dec. 8) & 8 p.m. (Dec. 6, 7, & 8). Ticket required; order online at gustavustickets.com. 7 Artist Series Event: Michael Johnson in Concert; Jussi Björling Recital Hall, 8 p.m. Ticket required; order online at gustavustickets.com. 8 Music: The Gustavus Philharmonic Orchestra Winter Concert, Justin Knoepfel, conductor; Jussi Björling Recital Hall, 1:30 p.m. Open to the public without charge. 9 Music: The Gustavus Percussion Ensembles Winter Concert, Paul Hill, director; Christ Chapel, 1:30 p.m. Open to the public without charge. 12 St. Peter-Mankato Area Gustie Breakfast: Terry Morrow, Ph.D., professor of communication studies, District 23A representative, Minn. House of Representatives, discussing the Minnesota Vikings stadium; Jackson Campus Center Banquet Room, 7:30–9 a.m. For reservations, contact Institutional Advancement (507-933-7512). 12 Music: Christmas Vespers in Christ Chapel, St. Ansgar’s Chorus, Brandon Dean, conductor; Christ Chapel, 7:30 p.m. 19 Twin Cities Gustie Breakfast: Terry Morrow, Ph.D., professor of communication studies, District 23A representative, Minn. House of Representatives, discussing the Minnesota Vikings stadium; American Swedish Institute, Minneapolis, 7:30–9 a.m. For reservations, contact Alumni Relations (800-487-8437, or gustavus .edu/alumni/). 21–Jan. 6 Christmas Recess

Sports Up-to-date sports schedules may be found on the Web, through the Gustavus homepage (gustavus.edu). For a printed schedule of any or all of the Gustie varsity athletic squads, download from the Web or send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to Ethan Armstrong ’09, sports information director, Gustavus Adolphus College, 800 W. College Ave., St. Peter, MN 56082-1498. Also, you can listen to selected Gustavus athletics broadcasts over the Internet through RealAudio. Broadcasts may be accessed through a link on Gustavus athletics website, where a broadcast schedule may also be found. the arts To receive a more

complete fine arts schedule or more information on fine arts events noted in the calendar, contact Al Behrends ’77, director of fine arts programs, by phone (507-933-7363) or e-mail (al@ gustavus.edu).

tickets Tickets for the

Gustavus Artist Series and Department of Theatre and Dance productions may be ordered online at gustavustickets. com. Tickets for Department of Theatre and Dance offerings are available two weeks in advance of the performance.

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‘Songs of

Thy Triumph’ a short history of gustavus adolphus college by Steve Waldhauser ’70

Note: The following article is the final installment of a five-part historical series being published serially in the Gustavus Quarterly to mark the College’s sesquicentennial.

Part five: Building a Greater Gustavus (1969–2012)

hen the Rev. Dr. Edgar Carlson ’30 chose to step down as president of Gustavus Adolphus College in 1968 after 24 years in office, Dean of the College Albert Swanson took on responsibilities as acting president for a year while the College’s board conducted a thorough search for a new leader. Their choice was Frank Barth, a financial executive with the Chicago-based Pettibone Corporation who was the first non-clergy member to hold the presidency of the College. (The College’s third president, John Frodeen, was not yet an ordained pastor when he was named principal of St. Ansgar’s, but he was studying for the ministry and was later ordained.) Barth himself frequently quoted the Gustavian Weekly’s words, “There’s a moneychanger in the Temple!” Barth came in as issues of racial tension and opposition to the war in Indochina were reaching into what had previously been quiet and even isolated small colleges. Student activism was high, and presiding over a college in such uneasy times was difficult. In retrospect, one of Barth’s great accomplishments was that he kept a lid on things. He made it a point to know the students and to dialogue frequently with them. By not prohibiting or hindering protests, he helped to make them teachable moments. Barth’s administration was marked by several building projects and one great loss. During the early morning hours of January 8, 1970, the Auditorium was completely gutted by a fire. It was one of the coldest nights of the winter, and a frozen hydrant stymied firefighters. The blaze was so intense that even the skeleton of brick outer walls left standing lost its structural integrity and had to be razed. Administrative offices were relocated in lounge areas of the

Eppies serenade, 1971

Powderpuff football, 1972

Images courtesy of the Gustavus Adolphus College archives, Jeff Jenson, college archivist, except where indicated.

Student Union while College officials combed through the debris trying to salvage academic transcripts and alumni records, most of the latter eventually having to be reconstructed. By 1972 a new administration building had been erected on the site of the old Aud and named in honor of President Carlson and his wife, Ebba. In 1971 students were able to vacate both the Art Barn and the Little Theater when the Harold and Ruth Schaefer Fine Arts Center was completed. The center comprised two wings, one housing the Jussi Björling Recital Hall, two theater spaces—the Evan and Evelyn Anderson Theatre and a smaller, experimental stage—and classroom, office, and practice space for the music department and the speech and theatre department (now two separate departments: communication studies and theatre and dance); and the other housing the art department, an exhibition gallery, and a studio for the College’s new sculptor-in-residence, 1952 graduate Paul Granlund, many of whose works now dot the campus. Fine arts programs were further enhanced when the first Christmas in Christ Chapel program was produced in 1973. The program has become an annual tradition at the College. Also in 1973, development of an arboretum began on the west side of the campus with volunteers planting the first tree seedlings. Ground had been broken for the fine arts center without all the necessary funding identified. Construction of a new library would begin in a similar fashion: Although the College did not have the necessary funds in hand, it would lose the opportunity to receive a $1 million federal grant and a similarly sized long-term, low-interest loan if it didn’t act immediately. So Gustavus officials committed to raising $1 million to build the second Folke Bernadotte Memorial Library, which opened in 1972. Upon its completion, the first Bernadotte Library building was remodeled to house the Departments of Economics and Management, History, Psychology, and Sociology and Anthropology and renamed the A.H. Anderson Social Science Center. Barth’s administration had also committed in 1971 to building the first phase of what would eventually be an enclosed ice hockey arena. With the arena, library, and fine arts center all going up at about the same time, the College had to borrow large sums of money and began to experience a cash flow deficit that had

Two new books commemorate the 150th Academic Year of Gustavus Adolphus College! Essentials for Gusties of all generations! Available in the Gustavus Book Mark on campus and online at www.gustavus.edu/150.

Broomball, 1972

Uhler courtyard, circa 1970 Moving books, 1972

Gustavus wrestling, 1970

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The Aud burns, January 1970

reached almost $2.5 million by 1975. Edward Lindell succeeded Barth as the College’s 11th president in 1975. He inherited a school with a growing enrollment that had already reached 2,000 students, a nearly $10 million budget, 130 faculty members, a healthy relationship with the Minnesota and Red River Valley synods of the LCA, 10 residence halls, 2 bands, 3 choirs, an orchestra, 17 intercollegiate sports, and new facilities all over the campus. But underneath the surface, the accumulated deficit in working capital had become a critical problem. Lindell made it his priority to solve that problem. Lindell curtailed expenses wherever possible. He delayed his own inauguration until June of 1976, when it was added to the schedule of the Minnesota Synod meeting on campus. The inauguration program itself was mimeographed. He combined off-campus meetings with visits to potential donors and foundations. He froze departmental budgets. He announced a two-year salary freeze for faculty and

Library card catalog, c. 1975

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administration, which was accepted in surprisingly good spirit by most staff. As successful as he was in reducing expenditures, Lindell was equally adept at fundraising, and he and his wife, Patty, made a great team. He led a team that raised $2.3 million in his first year, $3 million in each of the next two years, and more than $4 million in each of the next two. The College had never before raised more than $3 million in a year. The short-term indebtedness and cash flow problem was corrected by the end of the 1970s and the College’s endowment grew by a factor of three. Meanwhile, seeking a way to supplement the library’s frozen book-purchasing budget and to avoid similar fluctuations in support in the future, Patty played a major role in organizing Gustavus Library Associates. Within a few years, GLA had developed into one of the most successful and honored friends-of-the-library groups in the United States. Lindell announced his resignation in 1980 upon achieving his goals of righting the College’s financial ship. The board named

Trombones, 1986–87

as acting president the Rev. Abner Arthur, a 1931 graduate who was then serving as vice president for church relations and who had previously filled in for three months between Barth’s and Lindell’s terms. In March 1981 the board announced the election of 1949 graduate and psychology professor John Kendall (son of the Augustana Synod’s former Minnesota Conference president, the Rev. Dr. Leonard Kendall) as the College’s 12th president. Recognition and advancements came on several fronts during Kendall’s administration. In 1983 the College was awarded membership in Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s most prestigious honor society recognizing liberal learning, following a process that had begun during Lindell’s tenure and had been championed by English professor Gerhard Alexis. A new, state-of-the-art physical education complex, Lund Center, opened in 1984, and the old Myrum Fieldhouse was torn down. In 1985, the College unveiled a new curriculum that included an alternate, integrated core of courses called “Curriculum II,” open each year to 60 first-year students, and a “Writing Across the Curriculum” component. In 1991 the humanities were boosted with the addition of Ogden P. Confer Hall, and the sciences benefited from the addition of F.W. Olin Hall for physics, mathematics, and computer science and the subsequent renovation of Nobel Hall. The Gustavus Alumni Association also earned national recognition, winning 18 consecutive awards between 1971 and 1988 for sustained excellence in annual alumni giving from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). College officials had initiated an annual fund in 1954,

Peace Vigil, 1971

and it had been spectacularly successful in providing support for the annual operating budget, culminating in 61.6 percent alumni participation and more than $1 million received in the College’s 125th anniversary year, 1987. The year 1987 was also significant for Gustavus because its governing church body, the Lutheran Church in America (LCA), merged into what would be the fourth-largest Protestant church body in the United States, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), following a fiveyear process. The Augustana Synod, which had founded the College in 1862, was an immigrant church that retained its Swedish identity, resisting a merger that united many other Lutheran bodies in 1918. Gustavus was celebrating its centennial year in 1962 when the Augustana Synod finally gave up its separate identity to become part of the much larger LCA, but while the College inherited a larger constituency, it remained the only four-year school in the Minnesota Synod. In the new ELCA, the College’s relationship with the church would change, and not just in terms of governance. Other Lutheran colleges in Minnesota— Augsburg College in Minneapolis, Concordia College in Moorhead, and St. Olaf College in Northfield—as well as Luther College in nearby Decorah, Iowa, were now colleges of the same church body (there were 30 nationwide), sharing and competing for students and resources from ELCA congregations. Colleges were offered three options for relating to the Church: Trustees could be approved by the national ELCA convention, by a regional synod convention, or by a convention of an association of

congregations. Led by Kendall and Vice President for Church Relations Dennis Johnson, Gustavus chose to develop an association of congregations expressing interest in the mission and future of the College. The Gustavus Adolphus College Association of Congregations was formed in 1989 and now includes more than 535 congregations. The association convenes on campus annually, and among its tasks is electing members of the College’s board of trustees. The president of the association serves ex officio on the Gustavus board. After President Kendall announced his retirement in 1991, the board named Axel Steuer, a university professor and administrator who at the time of his election had been executive assistant to the president of Occidental College in Los Angeles, as the 13th president of the College. Steuer worked diligently to build the endowment and advance the national reputation of Gustavus, but his shining moment came in March 1998, when a super cell spawning multiple tornadoes devastated the campus, breaking 80 percent of the College’s windows, leveling nearly 2,000 trees, and toppling the chapel’s spire. The storm caused more than $50

KGSM homecoming float, 1973

Studying on the Mall, ca. 1983

Uhler residents, 1975

Gustavus Choir tour, 1992 Student Senate, 1975

Valley dorm council, 1974

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Queen Silvia of Sweden, during Their Majesties’ visit in 1982

million in damages and scoured Johnson Hall so severely that it later had to be razed. Even as many questioned whether the school could reopen for fall—or ever again—Steuer boldly announced that Gustavus would reopen to complete the spring term and graduate its seniors on time. He then drove the rebuilding efforts, bringing students back in three weeks and effecting a recovery so complete that the College was able to recruit a record first-year class (695) that fall. With so much of the College’s residential program affected, Steuer turned his attention to building a proposed campus center addition, rebuilding and improving residence halls, and erecting a new “international hall.” Ground was broken for the C. Charles Jackson Campus Center during the fall of 1998, about two years ahead of schedule, and the facility was ready for use by the spring of 2000. A long-awaited outdoor running track was finished in the fall of 2000, and at the same time the Curtis and Arleen Carlson

Tornado damage, 1998 Photo by Glenn Kranking ’98

International Center was dedicated. As Gustavus Adolphus College advanced into the 21st century, its annual enrollment had exceeded 2,500 students. Full-time faculty numbered 170, and the College’s endowment stood at $87 million. It had earned a reputation for offering strong science, writing, music, athletics, studyabroad, and service-learning programs.

Coda

Writing a “history” of any institution’s most recent decade is difficult at best. Without the benefits of hindsight and consequence, when events have not yet coalesced into discernible trends, it can become a mere exercise in dating new facilities, tallying class sizes and student-faculty ratios, and naming the presidents and other leaders. The following paragraphs, then, are offered more as fodder for a future generation’s history than as a crown for this one. President Steuer believed strongly in the

importance of character development among college students and supported programs and initiatives emphasizing community service. With his leadership, Gustavus played a major role in establishing the Minnesota Campus Compact, a coalition of 46 schools committed to community service. He began to focus on new opportunities for student-faculty collaboration in research and creativity. Early in his tenure, a presidential task force compiled a strategic planning report on the College’s strengths and weaknesses that, in addition to producing an enduring mission statement, identified five core values particular to Gustavus: excellence, community, justice, service, and faith. While those values received little attention at the time, more would be made of them later. When President Steuer resigned in 2002, 1960 graduate Dennis Johnson, who had been vice president for college relations, was named to serve as president for an interim. As part of a scheduled North Central Association accreditation review, he organized a communitywide planning initiative, which produced a self-study restating the earlier task force’s core values. In March 2003, the board announced the selection of James L. Peterson, a 1964 graduate who had been CEO of the Science Museum of Minnesota, as the 15th president of Gustavus. In one of his first public addresses, he declared his firm commitment to the College’s five core values, and the community embraced their integration into campus life. Peterson, perhaps more intentionally than any of his predecessors, tried to define the College’s commitment to the core value of “faith” in ways that recognized the many faith traditions now

Gustie greeters, 2000 Photo by Stacia Vogal

Students, 2005 Photo by Tom Roster

Bibliography

(all but Barth’s, Haeuser’s and Kenney’s books now unfortunately out of print) ———, “Historical Sketch,” in Manhem (the 1904 Gustavus annual)

represented in the community. On Peterson’s watch, Gustavus’s endowment passed the $100 million mark and a strategic directions process was instituted. A new residence hall (Southwest) was built and an outdated one (Wahlstrom) razed. The football field was moved—and a new stadium built—to open the way for development of the west mall. On the academic side, a new position, provost, was created to oversee all academic programs and planning. When Peterson announced his intention to retire following the 2007–08 year, the College’s Board of Trustees mounted a nationwide search for a new leader and in April 2008 announced the appointment of Jack R. Ohle, a proven administrator with strong leadership skills and broad experience in higher education who was serving at the time as president of Wartburg College as the College’s 16th president. The board was seeking a strategic planning process that would yield more tangible results. Ohle responded by expanding the existing process into a much broader initiative, “Commission Gustavus 150,” an ambitious project to chart the College’s future involving some 500 volunteers from all of the College’s several constituencies, which the board unanimously endorsed. The process included eight task forces and a series of national summits that helped distill a list of more than 430 recommendations into 236 strategic goals—a number of which are already complete or being addressed. Part of Commission Gustavus 150’s work was to plan for the College’s Sesquicentennial celebration in 2011–12. The College broke ground on April 16, 2010, for a new academic building on the site of the original Hollingsworth Football Field. (A new stadium had been erected west of Lund Center and completed in time for

the 2007 football season.) The new stateof-the-art, eco-friendly academic facility, named in honor of alumni benefactors Warren and Donna Beck ’67 ’66, houses the Departments of Communication Studies, Economics and Management, History, Psychological Science, and Sociology and Anthropology and is part of a construction initiative that also includes the major renovation of Anderson Social Science Center and the extension of the west mall from Christ Chapel to Linnaeus Arboretum. Beck Academic Hall was ready for the fall 2011 semester, just in time to open Gustavus’s Sesquicentennial celebration. ***** On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the College in 1887, founder Eric Norelius declared, “Looking back upon its history, I can plainly perceive that the Lord has had our school in his hands.” The passing of 75 more years allowed President Edgar Carlson to confidently predict the future course for Gustavus Adolphus College: “The second century will far surpass the first both in progress as an educational institution and in usefulness to the Church—if God and men allow the world to stand.” Now, 50 years after President Carlson’s prediction, President Jack Ohle quotes Martin Luther: “We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it.” The author, Steve Waldhauser, is a 1970 graduate of Gustavus Adolphus College who returned to his alma mater in 1977 and is now director of editorial services and managing editor of the Gustavus Quarterly.

Barth, Frank, with Marge Barth, A Place Called Gustavus: The Protest Years, 1969–1975 (Minneapolis: Primarius Ltd. Publishing, 2006) Haeuser, Michael J., With Grace, Elegance, and Flair: The First 25 Years of Gustavus Library Associates (St. Peter, Minn.: Gustavus Adolphus College Press, 2002). Hollingsworth ’36, Lloyd, Gustavus Athletics: A Century of Building the Gustie Tradition, 1880–1980 (St. Peter, Minn.: Gustavus Adolphus College Press, 1984). Johnson ’25, Emeroy, A Church Is Planted: The Story of the Lutheran Minnesota Conference, 1851–1876 (Minneapolis, Minn.: Lund Press, 1948). Johnson ’25, Emeroy, God Gave the Growth: The Story of the Lutheran Minnesota Conference, 1876–1958 (Minneapolis, Minn.: T.S. Denison & Co., 1958). Kenney, Dave, Gustavus Adolphus College: 150 Years of Images & Stories (Stillwater, Minn.: Peg Projects, Inc., 2011) Kenney, Dave, Gustavus Adolphus College: 150 Years of History (Stillwater, Minn.: Peg Projects, Inc. 2011) Lund, Doniver, Gustavus Adolphus College: A Centennial History, 1862–1962 (St. Peter, Minn.: Gustavus Adolphus College Press, 1963). Lund, Doniver, Gustavus Adolphus College: Celebrating 125 Years (St. Peter, Minn.: Gustavus Adolphus College Press, 1987). An updated and illustrated “coffee-table” version of the author’s A Centennial History. Peterson, Conrad, “Fifty Years of Gustavus Adolphus College,” in Breidablick (the 1912 Gustavus annual). Peterson, Conrad, A History of Eighty Years: 1862–1942 (Rock Island, Ill.: Augustana Book Concern, 1942). Peterson, Conrad, Remember Thy Past: A History of Gustavus Adolphus College, 1862–1952 (St. Peter, Minn.: Gustavus Adolphus College Press, 1953). A revision and update of A History of Eighty Years. Wahlstrom, Matthias, “College Pioneer Days,” in Valkyria (the 1909 Gustavus annual)

Graduation, 2007 Photo by Tom Roster

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Spring Sports Review by Ethan Armstrong ’09 Women’s Golf Despite seeing its three-year reign atop the MIAC come to an end with a secondplace finish at the MIAC championships last fall, the Gustavus women’s golf team put together a strong spring season and earned a trip to the NCAA tournament held at the Zollner Golf Course in Angola, Indiana. The Gusties finished in 11th place at the NCAA championships with a fourday team total of 1,286 strokes (+134). Leading the way for the Gusties at the national meet was senior Ann Jackson (Fargo, N.D.), who placed 24th after firing a 314 (+26). First-year Sam Falk (Glenwood, Minn.) was honored in the MIAC’s 2011–12 Women’s Golf Awards released later in the spring, being named the Co-Rookieof-the-Year alongside Gina Kabasakalis of Carleton. Falk finished the season with a stroke average of 81.0. The rookie also joined senior teammates Taylor Drenttel (Inver Grove Heights, Minn.) and Ann Jackson on the 2011–12 National Golf Coaches Association All-Midwest Region Team. Drenttel led the Gusties with an 80.6 stroke average, while Jackson’s average was just behind her at 80.7. Head Coach Scott Moe’s squad finished the season with the second-lowest team stroke average in the history of Gustavus women’s golf at 320.9. Men’s Golf After solid showings at the Bobby Krig Invitational and Saint John’s Invitational, where the Gusties placed first and second, respectively, the Gustavus men’s golf team became one of the 41 teams selected to compete in the 2012 NCAA championships held at the Mission Inn Resort in Howey in the Hills, Florida. Determined to not succumb to the same fate as last season, the Gustavus men’s golf team made the cut after two rounds. The Gusties went on to finish 12th after compiling a four-day

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score of 1,208 (+56). Sophomore Simon Erlandsson (Mjolby, Sweden) led Scott Moe’s golfers with a 22nd-place finish after shooting a 299 (+11) at the national meet. Erlandsson would later be named to the Golf Coaches Association of America (GCAA) PING AllAmerica Third Team, finishing the year with a stroke average of 75.5. As a team, Gustavus recorded eight top-three or better finishes and concluded the year with a 301.5 stroke average. Sophomore Tyler McMorrow (St. Cloud, Minn.) led the team with a 75.0 average and four top-five marks. Baseball The Gustavus baseball team went 16–19 overall and 7–13 in the MIAC to finish in a tie for ninth place in the conference standings in 2012. The Gusties recorded the second-best team batting average in the MIAC at .311, yet had trouble bringing home runners, tallying the secondfewest runs (176) and RBI (155) in the league. Running away with the 2012 MIAC championship was St. Thomas, while Saint John’s, Bethel, and Saint Mary’s rounded out the top four. Highlighting the MIAC’s post-season awards for the Gusties was rookie pitcher Grant Soderberg (Eden Prairie, Minn.). Gustavus’s ace this season went 3–5 with a 3.51 ERA while allowing just nine walks and recording 46 strikeouts. Soderberg turned in four complete games over his six league starts, finishing the year third in strikeouts among conference pitchers (35), fourth in innings pitched (39.0), and ninth in opponent batting average (.247). Joining Soderberg for post-season honors was junior first baseman Drew Block (Rochester, Minn.). Block hit .352 (37–105) with team-highs in slugging percentage (.571) and on-base percentage (.469). He also led the team in RBI (22), home

runs (3), and triples (5), while carrying a fielding percentage of .988. Softball For the sixth time in the seven-year tenure of Head Coach Jeff Annis, the Gustavus softball team reached the 30-win plateau but finished second in the MIAC, going 34–9 overall and 20–2 in league play. After defeating Augsburg 7–2 in the opening round of the MIAC playoffs, the Gusties suffered a 9–0 setback to St. Thomas. Facing elimination on day two of the tournament, Gustavus topped Saint Mary’s 7–1 to earn another shot at St. Thomas. They edged the Tommies in game one by the score of 5–2, forcing a deciding game two. St. Thomas bounced back and used a seven-run second inning to cruise to an 8–0 win in the championship. The Gusties had another strong showing in the MIAC post-season awards, with four players earning all-conference distinction. Taking home All-MIAC honors were senior Lisa Klass (Richfield, Minn.), junior Kate Rentschler (Lakefield, Minn.), and first-years Kailey Morgan (Mound, Minn.) and Sarah Rozell (Lakeville, Minn.). Pitcher Sarah Rozell was also named the MIAC Rookie-of-the-Year after going 17–4 with a 1.76 ERA against league foes. Second baseman Lisa Klass, who became the fifth Gustavus softball player in the history of the program to garner all-conference recognition in each of her four years, tallied career-best numbers in the categories of batting average (.393), slugging percentage (.664), hits (55), doubles (17), and total bases (93) while also breaking the program’s career doubles record with a total of 48. Pitcher Kate Rentschler went 17–4 with an ERA of 1.98 while also hitting .329 with a teamhigh six home runs. Rookie first baseman Kailey Morgan broke out with a .292 average, 10 doubles, 22 runs, and 25 RBI.

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The 2012 MIAC champion Gustavus Adolphus College men’s tennis team—the 46th Gustavus squad—and 24th consecutive—to claim the conference crown.

Klass (1st team), Rozell (2nd team), and Rentschler (3rd team) all earned National Fastpitch Coaches Association All-Region honors. Klass would later be named a CoSIDA Academic All-District recipient before earning a place on the CoSIDA Academic All-America Third Team. Women’s Outdoor Track & Field The Gustavus women’s track and field team came out of nowhere to finish third at the 2012 MIAC Outdoor Track and Field Championships held in Moorhead, Minn.

The Gusties compiled 99 points, while St. Thomas took the title with 172.5 points and Concordia placed second with 120.5 points. Senior Erica Roelofs (Vernon Center, Minn.) got the Gusties off to a strong start at the MIAC Multi’s with a second-place finish in the heptathlon after registering 4,265 points. Head Coach Dale Bahr’s team kept the momentum going into the opening day of competition in Moorhead, scoring 48 points to lead the field after the first day. The Gusties capitalized on all-conference performances from junior

Allyson Voss (Wausau, Wis.) and seniors Emily Klatt (Woodbury, Minn.) and Megan Endresen (Lino Lakes, Minn.). Voss cleared 11' 11.75" in the pole vault to take gold and set a new school record in the process. Klatt was runner-up in the long jump and Endresen finished third in the hammer throw. On day two, Gustavus tallied 51 points, recording a pair of all-conference performances. First-year Caitlin Fermoyle (Mendota Heights, Minn.) led the way with a silver medal performance in the

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3000-meter steeplechase, while the 4x400-meter relay team of Danielle Burgmeier (Sr., Plymouth, Minn.), Haley Kemper (Fy., Prior Lake, Minn.), Amanda Iverson (Jr., Waconia, Minn.), and Sara Lundgren (Fy., Mankato, Minn.) placed third. With her performance at the MIAC championships, Voss qualified for the 2012 NCAA Div. III Outdoor Track & Field Championships held in Claremont, Calif. Voss, who went into the competition ranked 10th in the pole vault, broke her own school record by clearing 12' 7.50" to take seventh and earn All-America honors. She is Gustavus’s first ever All-American in the outdoor pole vault. Men’s Outdoor Track & Field The Gustavus men’s outdoor track and field team finished on the podium for the second-straight season with a third-place finish (118 points) at the 2012 MIAC Outdoor Track & Field Championships. After scoring 31 points on day one, the Black and Gold came charging back on day two, turning in 87 points to take bronze. The Gusties used nine all-conference performances from nine different athletes at the conference meet. Pacing Coach Dale Bahr’s squad was sophomore standout Blair Riegel (Lakeville, Minn.). On his own, Riegel won the long jump and was runner-up in the triple jump. He also ran the anchor leg of the first place 4x100meter relay team of senior Matt Dvorak (Burnsville, Minn.), sophomore Phillip Butler (St. Paul, Minn.), and junior Kendrick Hall (Minneapolis, Minn.). Gustavus’s other gold medal at the meet came courtesy of senior hurdle specialist Steve Groskreutz (Faribault, Minn.) in the 400-meter hurdles. Anders Bowman (Sr., Plymouth, Minn.), Ryan Ness (Jr., Inver Grove Heights, Minn.), and Josh Owens (Jr., Brooklyn Park, Minn.) all captured second-place marks—Bowman in the 3000-meter steeplechase, Ness in the javelin, and Owens in the pole vault. Rounding out the All-MIAC performers was Mark Stice (Sr., North Oaks, Minn.) with a third in the hammer throw. Following the conference championships, Blair Riegel was named the MIAC’s Outstanding Field Athlete, and Steve Groskreutz and Josh Owens qualified for the 2012 NCAA Div. III Outdoor Track & Field Championships.

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Groskreutz, who ranked 20th heading into the meet, earned a spot in the finals in the 400-meter hurdles and finished in ninth place. Owens, who earlier in the season broke the 29-year old MIAC record in the pole vault by sailing over the bar at 16' 6.75" at the Meet of the UnSaintly on May 5, finished 17th at the national meet with a mark of 15' 7". Men’s Tennis The Gustavus men’s tennis team reached the 20-win mark for the first time in two years in 2012, going 22–8 overall and winning its 46th MIAC championship after going 9–0 in conference play. The Gusties went into the MIAC playoffs as the top seed and took care of business, losing only one point in two matches. Gustavus defeated St. Thomas 5–1 in the semifinals before taking down Carleton 5–0 in the championship. Following the conference season, the Gusties placed seven athletes on the 2012 All-MIAC team. Garnering all-conference distinction in both singles and doubles were Amrik Donkena (Jr., Rochester, Minn.), Juan Luis Chu (So., Lima, Peru) and Mya Smith-Dennis (So., Savage, Minn.). Selected All-MIAC in singles were Tyler Johnson (Jr., West Bend, Wis.) and Joey MacGibbon (So., Apple Valley, Minn.), while Patrick Clark (Sr., Glen Ellyn, Ill.) and Daniel Pomeranc (Sr., Sao Paulo, Brazil) earned a spot on the All-MIAC doubles team. After leading the Black and Gold to its 24thstraight MIAC title and second-straight MIAC playoff title, Coach Tommy Valentini ’02 was named the Steve Wilkinson Coachof-the-Year for the first time in his threeyear tenure at the head of Gustavus men’s tennis program. After the MIAC playoffs, it was on to the 2012 NCAA tournament. After an opening-round bye, Gustavus defeated UW-Whitewater 5–1 in the second round before falling 5–1 to Washington University (Mo.) in the third round. Following the team tournament, Amrik Donkena and Mya Smith-Dennis earned the right to compete in both the singles and doubles draws of the NCAA Individual Men’s Tennis Championship Tournament held in Cary, North Carolina. Despite hardfought battles in their opening-round singles matches, both Donkena and Smith-

Dennis were knocked out, but the duo put together an amazing run in doubles play. The Gustie combo defeated squads from Texas-Tyler, Bates, and Mary Washington on its way to the championship match. After taking the first set 6–4, Gustavus let a 5–3 lead slip away in the second, and Luis Rattenhuber and Austin Chafetz of Amherst took advantage, winning set two 7–5 and set three 6–3 to take the championship. Donkena and Smith-Dennis both earned ITA All-America honors following the season—Donkena in both singles and doubles and Smith-Dennis in doubles. The pair finished the year with a record of 31–5 together in doubles. Women’s Tennis Like any streak in the world of sport, at some point, it must come to an end. On Sunday, April 29, the Gustavus women’s tennis team experienced an end when it fell 5–4 to Carleton in a match that decided the 2012 MIAC championship. With the victory, Carleton snapped Gustavus’s 20-year reign atop the conference. After falling to St. Olaf 5–4 in 1991, the Gustavus women’s tennis team had gone undefeated in MIAC play for 20 consecutive seasons, tallying 214 straight wins. Carleton would prevail over the Gusties once again in the MIAC playoff championship, taking another close match by the score of 5–3. With the score tied 3-3, the Knights used a pair of three-set victories at No. 1 and No. 5 singles to earn the MIAC’s automatic bid into the NCAA tournament. Four Gustavus women’s tennis players were named to both the singles and doubles all-conference teams at the conclusion of the season. All-MIAC performers included seniors Alex Erickson (Minnetonka, Minn.) and Megan Gaard (Edina, Minn.), sophomore Megan Born (Antigo, Wis.), and first-year Laurel Krebsbach (North Oaks, Minn.). Gaard concluded her career as a four-time allconference tennis player in both singles and doubles, while Erickson was a repeat performer on the all-conference teams. n

Ethan Armstrong ’09 is now the director of sports information at Gustavus after serving as interim director during the 2011–12 year.

Legacy GHP welcomes 35 new members at annual luncheon by Naomi Mortensen

early 130 people attended the 23rd annual Gustavus Heritage Partnership (GHP) luncheon held on campus in May 2012 to celebrate and recognize those who have included Gustavus in their estate plans or have given a gift that will last into perpetuity. The College believes it’s important to recognize and thank those who make provisions for future gifts or gifts that will last beyond the lifetime of the donor. Gustavus Heritage Partnership members carry forward the high standards and traditions of the past; they are partners in Gustavus today. They help ensure the quality of the College, the faculty, the students, and educational opportunities into the future. Thirty-five new member households joined GHP in 2011–12, representing a total of $609,534 in matured gifts. Thirty of those are new living member households. Nine of those new member households attended the luncheon and are pictured below. During the program, President Jack Ohle also recognized five GHP members with Sesquicentennial Awards, and new Board

of Trustees Chair in Management and Leadership Kathi Tunheim made a presentation on the impact of student, faculty, and alumni collaboration through the Gustavus Alumni Mentoring program. More than 1,000 individuals of all ages now hold membership in GHP through a variety of planned giving tools, including life insurance policies, retirement account beneficiary designations, bequest provisions, charitable remainder unitrusts, and charitable gift annuities. Their areas of giving are just as diverse: supporting student scholarship, student-faculty research, diversity center programming, capital projects, and the unrestricted endowment, to name just a few. n

Naomi Mortensen joined the Institutional Advancement staff in the fall of 2011 as donor relations associate.

Nine new member households were recognized for their gifts at the GHP luncheon in May. Front row, from left: Ruth Tolman Helland ’49, Barbra Larson Taylor ’93, Melinda Batz ’86, Marilyn Robertz ’51, Nancy Lindley ’72, and Mary Ellen Pearson. Back row: Marold Strand ’52 (holding a photo of his late wife, Jeanne Youngquist Strand ’52), President Jack Ohle, Jeff Heggedahl ’87, Paul Batz ’85, William Robertz ’51, Clarkson Lindley, and Al Pearson ’65. Present but not pictured was Larry Wefring.

Now is the perfect time to leave your legacy at Gustavus by joining GHP because your gift will also count towards the $150 million goal of Campaign Gustavus. Contact the Office of Institutional Advancement today at 1-800-7266192. Our staff can help you find the planned giving or endowment option that works for you.

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Legacy Museum’s namesake gives major gift of art, endowment funds T

he Rev. Richard L. Hillstrom ’38, longtime supporter of the art museum at Gustavus Adolphus College named in his honor, has made a significant gift to the College to enhance the Museum’s holdings and support its vital role in the cultural life of the College. Hillstrom’s gift comprises $1 million for the Hillstrom Museum Endowment Fund and a group of more than 20 paintings and drawings, three bronze sculptures by Paul Granlund ’52 (1925–2003), and a collection of nearly three dozen ceramic pieces, acquired by Hillstrom during a lifetime of appreciating fine art. Among the artists represented by the oils, watercolors, etchings, and pen-and-inks are George Bellows (1882–1925), Maurice Prendergast (1859–1924), Birger Sandzén (1871–1954), Carl Sprinchorn (1887–1971), and Anders Zorn (1860–1920). The ceramic collection represents the work of Warren Mackenzie (b. 1924). In the correspondence announcing his gift, Hillstrom noted the College’s continued dedication and enthusiasm for the work of the Hillstrom Museum. “I think we share a belief in the transcendent qualities of art,” he wrote, “and I’m honored to help the Museum enrich the lives of Gustavus students and the surrounding community. n

ONLINE resources Have you looked at the “Giving to Gustavus” website lately? Just enter gustavus.edu/giving. The list of resources includes: •S taff to contact for personal assistance •S ecure online giving and other electronic giving options. •M atching gift database—will your company match your gift? • I nformation on giving stock and other appreciated assets •S uggestions on giving for scholarships, both annual and endowed •P lanned and estate giving resources—everything you need at gustavus.edu/giving/ plannedgiving/index.cfm •R ecommended language for including Gustavus in a will or estate plan •F inancial and estate planning ideas, and gifts that pay you (with a “gift calculator” to help your planning) •E -brochures on planned gifts, wills, estate planning, to study on your own or to take to your financial adviser

Last May, President Jack Ohle (left) and Donald Myers ’83, director of the Hillstrom Museum of Art, traveled to Minneapolis to present a Sesquicentennial Award to the Rev. Richard Hillstrom’38 (center), former curator of the Thrivent Religious Art Collection, in recognition of his support for the College’s art museum.

Does your legacy include Gustavus?

Your legacy gift can help “Give the Gift of Gustavus to Students for Generations.” For ideas, visit the Gustavus website at gustavus.edu, clicking on “Giving to Gustavus” and then “Planned (and Estate) Giving Resources.” An attorney or financial planner can help you leave your legacy.

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GUSTAVUS ALUMNI

ALUMNI CONTENTS 44 Homecoming 2012 51 Gustie Breakfasts 52 First Decade Awards 61 Distinguished Alumni Citation 64 Athletics Hall of Fame 67 Gustavus Service and Retirement Honorees

75 Alumni Gatherings 75 Weddings 75 Births 76 Greater Gustavus Award 77 In Memoriam

s Polar bearer Kathleen DeWahl ’08, pictured at the South Pole, is working as the cryogenics tech for U.S. Polar Services for the 2012 winter season, which started in mid-February and goes until mid-November. She is working with the United States liquid helium supply, making sure it lasts through the winter and making helium deliveries to one of the telescopes in Antarctica. The telescope uses helium to cool down its detectors, because it isn’t cold enough in Antarctica. (The helium takes the instruments down to –4 Kelvin or –452 F.; lately the ambient temperature has been around –80 F., and dropping as the sun sets.)

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Gustavus Alumni Association The mission of the Alumni Association is to facilitate among former students lifelong relationships with Gustavus and with each other, to enable alumni to actively advance and engage in the mission of the College.

OFFICERS Jeffrey Heggedahl ’87, President & Ex-officio Member, Board of Trustees Christopher Rasmussen ’88, Vice President Randall Stuckey ’83, Executive Secretary Kelly Waldron ’84, Treasurer Ronald White ’75, Past President & Ex-officio Member, Board of Trustees Board Members Term expires Fall 2012 Sandra Luedtke Buendorf ’62, St. Peter, MN Sara Tollefson Currell ’95, St. Paul, MN Christopher Enstad ’96, Crystal, MN Brian Norelius ’96, Lindstrom, MN L. Charles Potts ’01, St. Peter, MN Christopher Rasmussen ’88, Columbia Heights, MN Paul Schiminsky ’93, Las Vegas, NV Scott Swanson ’85, Edina, MN Gretchen Taylor ’08, Moorhead, MN Term expires Fall 2013 Catherine Asta ’75, Edina, MN Michael Dueber ’89, St. Paul, MN Luther Hagen ’88, Apple Valley, MN Gordon Mansergh ’84, Decatur, GA Jeffrey Marshall ’75, Houston, TX Kay Rethwill Moline ’56, St. Peter, MN Matt Olson ’10, St. Paul, MN Marisa Schloer ’09, Minneapolis, MN Term expires Fall 2014 Jean-Paul Bigirindavyi ’00, St. Louis Park, MN Jennifer Krempin Bridgman ’96, Alexandria, VA Adam Eckhardt ’08, Minneapolis, MN Jeffrey Heggedahl ’87, Minneapolis, MN Megan Myhre ’11, Bloomington, MN Sharon Peterson Robinson ’64, Kasota, MN Kristin Johns Young ’86, The Woodlands, TX emeritus James “Moose” Malmquist ’53, Scandia, MN

CLASS NEWS and information to be included in the Alumni section of the Quarterly should be sent to: Office of Alumni Relations Gustavus Adolphus College 800 West College Avenue St. Peter, MN 56082-1498 phone n 800-487-8437 e-mail n alumni@gustavus.edu website n gustavus.edu/alumni/submit

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Stan and Marie (Schafer ’52) Benson enjoyed his 61st and her 60th class anniversaries on Reunion Weekend. Also, back for our 61st anniversary were: Art and Dorothy Conrad Gaard, Ray and Lorraine Lundquist, Bill and Marilyn Barnes Robertz, and Paul and Dorothy Johnson Lutz. Betty Reusch Anderson-Oussoran, Kenora, Ontario, Canada, shared her enthusiasm: “Our Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her Diamond Jubilee—60 years on the throne and what a wonderful queen she has been! She was a great ambassador for Great Britain and the Commonwealth. She is much loved and admired by her people.” Dennis and Paula Lofstrom will be moving to Zinga near Bagamoyo, Tanzania, to supervise the building of a pediatric hospital. This is a new project under International Health Partners (IHP). n Class President and Communication Chair: Dorothy Johnson Lutz (1951classofficers@gustavus.edu)

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Congratulations to Carolyn Gooder Towley on completing 55 years and now retiring as church organist and choir mistress for several Episcopal churches. She received an M.S. in nursing (ICU/CCU). And, 7 children, 17 grandchildren, and 6 great-grandchildren did not keep her from producing/directing a TV program for the Humane Society. Travel included three vacations in Germany. Dave Johnson sent this in. It has been edited down due to space restraints. “I thank Vic, our new class agent and scribe, and Helen, for coaxing paragraphs out of

us about our lives: for example, the recent squibs some of you wrote about your volunteerism. In that spirit, I’m responding to his invitation to tell you something about an odyssey I made in this spring to Israel (a time spent on a kibbutz where a cousin lives), Ukraine, and Poland. Briefly, I have felt for decades that I have the germ of a book in my head concerning my mother’s family and their religious routes. My mom, Olga Resnick ’25, was the daughter of parents who called themselves Hebrew Christians. My grandfather was born into a rabbinical family in Russia in 1874 and from the age of three was in Hebrew schools, a route to his father’s and mother’s father’s careers. And so I struck off to find his village, Ostrog, Russia, now Ostroh, Ukraine. With the help of a driver and a guide/ interpreter, we found that remote town. I knew any kin either had fled or been killed in the pogroms or the Holocaust. I simply wanted to know that I had walked where Resnick walked, tromping in the ruins of the town’s central synagogue where he must have done his bar mitzvah, and in the vandalized litter of gravestones in the huge Jewish cemetery where his—i.e., my—people must be buried. Most awful but aweful was the experience of walking in a forest on the edge of the town. In November 1941 the Hitlerists (a term I made up because I think neither “German” nor “Nazi” is precise) herded every last living Jew in Ostrog, 1,100 of them, and shot them in about thirteen hours. They tossed the bodies into mass graves without identification. The graves have proven to be too shallow. Every time there is a heavy rain, as there was while we were tromping there, body parts rise to the surface. Predators move in to check for rings or other memorabilia. A week later I was in Krakow, Poland, in pursuit of a greatgrandfather’s shtetl. Taxi drivers spotted my nose and faint vestiges of curly hair and yelled, “Hey, Son of Abraham! Taxi to

Erratum: Ivar Anderson is flattered that class correspondents from the 1940s wish to include him in the Class of 1945, but he wants to set the record straight for his many Gustavus friends who know otherwise: Although easily as enthusiastic a supporter of the College as any graduate, Ivar did not attend Gustavus as was indicated in the Alumni Notes of the Summer 2012 issue of the Quarterly. And his late wife, Elaine Pinks Anderson, who attended the College for two years and was officially a member of the Class of 1945, did not graduate from Gustavus after enlisting in the WAVES in the Navy during World War II. The Andersons met and married in 1946 and Elaine, who was determined to return to Gustavus to complete her own degree, had talked Iver into registering as well and putting a down payment on one of the College’s Quonset huts for their living quarters. But, at the last minute, “I got a job with the Santa Fe Railroad in Kansas City,” Iver muses. “I canceled our trip to Gustavus. . . . Now I wish I hadn’t.” Elaine eventually earned her degree from Metro State in 1972, but both of their daughters attended Gustavus and married Gusties. The older one, Louise ’69, married David Nichols ’69; they have two children and three grandchildren. The younger, Linnea ’80, married John Chrest ’80. And it’s a point of pride for Ivar that Linnea’s two children—Danny ’05 and Jeffrey ’09 Chrest—have carried on the Gustavus tradition.

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65th Anniversary Class – Class of 1947

Betty Johnson Gove, Phyllis Peterson Odland, Vernis Olander Strom

60th Anniversary Class – Class of 1952

Front Row: Lois Oleson Krantz, Ruth Peterson Larson, Lee Jaenson Zopff, Barb Eckman Krig, Ruth Lundvall Zahller, Marie Schafer Benson. Back Row: Lois Sletvold Ringquist, Ellis Jones, Donald Peterson, Ernie Lantto, Clair McRostie, Maynard Jacobson

5th Anniversary Class – 5 Class of 1957

Front Row: Marlys Mattson Nelson, Jo Spooner Lundblad, Joyce Kirkvold Knell, Marcia Halgren Dale, Connie Wold Rome, Beth Carlson Helgoe, Carol Lundberg Owen, Norita Anderson Lundgren, Pat Hoecke Olson, Vada Peterson Carlson. Second Row: Phyllis Fox Paulson, Janet Renquist Wiewel, Ruth Swanberg Sanders, Ramona Lovold Hawkinson, Judy Lund Erdman, Barbara Carlson Glenzinski, Maria Hennix Gabel, MaryEllen Rockwell Johnson, Sharon Johnson Eddy. Third Row: Gary Knoll, Lois Wicktor Falk, Gale Falk, Ron Berg, Bob Larsen, Jerry Carlson, Sandra Clark Vollan, Nancy Reiter Grimes, Marlaine Barlau Gnan. Back Row: Charles Hendrickson, Dennis Carlson, Rodger Lundblad, Charles “Cubby” DeCorsey, Roger Olson, John “Bud” Peterson, Roger Krantz, Marilyn Rhyne Herr, Verlin Carlson

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Auschwitz?” I declined. My grandfather, I should explain, was not a victim of the Holocaust. He was converted to Christianity by a Swedish missionary at the age of 16, kicked out of his home, given a funeral by his enraged family, and fled to Sweden, where he studied for the Lutheran ministry. Thus America, Minnesota, and Gustavus. Now I’m struggling with the book I’m writing about my mom’s family, which will include some experiences I had on this trip.” n C ommunication Chair: Vic Carter (1954classofficers@gustavus.edu)

Class officers needed. Send class news to 1955classofficers@gustavus.edu.

Ruth Chell Oliphant and husband, Bob, traveled to China in May 2011 to visit their son, Jonathan Oliphant ’91. Jonathan owns three restaurants in ShenZhen. Ruth says that Jonathan’s trip to China with the Gustavus Choir was instrumental in his returning to China after his graduation, becoming fluent in Mandarin Chinese, and ultimately becoming a businessman in China. Ruth is in her 31st year of directing children’s choirs at Normandale Lutheran Church, Edina. She has 150 singers in three choirs. She and Bob spent part of this winter in Arizona. Pauline Anderson Dee and husband, Dick ’54, were on campus to attend the Alumni Banquet in May where their son, Scott ’81, received a Distinguished Alumni Citation for veterinary medicine. His siblings, Andy ’83 and Julie Weisenhorn ’85, also attended. Faye Reber has agreed to join our class officers as Recruitment Chair. Now all we need is the Annual Fund Chair to serve until our next reunion in 2016. We sang “Happy Birthday” to Don Roberts at First Lutheran on Sunday. How old? We all know! Oh my! Remember when we had our 50th birthday celebrations at Faye Reber’s condo. It seems like yesterday. I had a wonderful summer trip with my granddaughter, Erika Royer ’03, in June of 2011. While touring Scandinavia, we visited my brother-in-law (and her uncle), David Wold ’60, in Saffle, Sweden. Good wishes to all! n C ommunication Chair: Kay Rethwill Moline (1956classofficers@gustavus.edu)

Last May we celebrated our 55th reunion from Gustavus Adolphus College. We had a wonderful turnout of classmates. Pat Hoeke Olson was there with her husband—traveling all the way from Menifee, CA. Marilyn Rhyne Herr came from New Jersey. I had better not continue on this path because I am sure

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to miss most of you! You will just have to check out our picture elsewhere in this magazine! Please send me some news or I may have to make some up! n Communication Chair: Marlys Mattson Nelson (1957classofficers@gustavus.edu)

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I thank all of those who took time to send me their current information by e-mails, etc. There was an error in the letter: My address is 152 Janet Marie Lane, Winona, MN 55987. The saddest news is that Tusa Johnson Bergman passed away March 23. Tusa fought cancer for many years and was always an inspiration with her optimism. We will miss her, and as someone wrote, “Our little Tusa is now in the heavenly choir.” I did hear from many classmates after I sent out an e-mail. They all expressed similar thoughts. Ben Johnson has served as interim pastor for three different churches. I’ll let him describe those to you! Sandra and Sonia Anderson spent three weeks in Florida this winter and a month “Up North” last summer in various timeshares. They keep very busy with their crafts. Marilyn Gustafson Asp lives in Blaine and is very active in her church activities. She has seven grandchildren. Quiet times find Marilyn enjoying reading and walks in her lovely area. Kay Carlson Gritton finally entered the 21st century by buying an iPad and now says she can’t live without it. Kay is one busy woman working at the Edina Art Center—“the best kept secret in the Twin Cities”—two antique booths, and Whymsy in the Galleria. Plus she finds time to enter juried art shows with her jewelry and watercolors. Marv Larson still lives in Alexandria. Len Brown is in Grand Rapids. Len reports that the lake rose a foot or two with the latest rain but now has gone down—but his dock is still underwater. Carol Miller Hammarberg did some phoning for me and contacted these friends: Ann Hendrickson is developing a line of gluten-free baked goods—her specialty is brownies. Ann also has a cottage on Green Lake to sell. Is anyone interested? Floie Vane writes there are no big changes in her life except that she loves her home and surroundings in Anacortes, WA, where she’s lived for twelve years. Barb Endersbe Wallin in retirement has become a nanny to their three grandkids. She also volunteers at her church one day a week. Carol Sammelson Perkins and her husband have a farm near Red Wing. They are semi-retired, as their sons are taking over the farm. They remain very active in their church and with

their family. Jeanette Westberg Johnston says her time is filled with grandkids and all their sporting activities. Sound familiar to anyone else? I had a long enjoyable visit with Evie Bonander. She is retired but not inactive. She volunteers with a pastoral education chaplaincy, raises money for the cancer center, works at a homeless shelter, and is on a review board at Harvard University for the Arts and Sciences. In addition she still cross country skis and dog-sits for many friends. When she returns to the Midwest, she visits friends and relatives in St. Peter and White Bear Lake. (I hope I’ve interpreted my scribbled notes correctly!) John Nelson moved to SW Florida midway between Ft. Myers and Naples in 2009. The welcome mat is out for anyone traveling his way. Their children still live in Minnesota, so they have kept their cabin in Hasty. Elizabeth Johnson Dahl spent the winter in Florida and summer at their cabin in Minnesota. In between, they enjoy their townhome in Apple Valley. Jocelyn Neufeld Palmer sent me her new e-mail but also the sad news that her husband, Wayne ’57, passed away in March due to complications of heart surgery following a heart attack. Larry and Deone Nordquist Cartford were home from their Arizona winter and by the time you read this are probably on their way back to Arizona. This past year they did take a trip to Italy with their grandson Trevor. Deone and Larry are surprised that all their grandkids are suddenly teenagers! Mark Bjorkman has moved for what he says is the last time; he moved from Texas to Issaquah, WA, to be near his daughter. Elaine Torrey Holmen Magnuson and Paul Magnuson returned from a trip to Albania. They attended a meeting of 14 chief justices from supreme courts of Central and Eastern Europe. Paul has worked with them over the years. Elaine says they saw only the prosperous side of Albania. Paul’s next trip is to Rwanda. Dick Faye also sent me his cell phone number but no news. Stanley Jurgenson lives with his son Michael in Las Vegas, NV. Michael reported that his dad has had some life-threatening health challenges. He is making progress and will be home soon, where Michael and his wife will be able to give him the care he needs. When asked about whether Stan continues to sing, he replied, "Oh yes! He sings very loud!" Ralph and Bev (Gustafson ’58) Akermark live in Des Moines, IA. Ralph is now a professor emeritus at Grand View College, where he spent many years teaching Western civilization. Ralph developed particular interest in Austrian economics. He believes that the prevailing economic practices in the world are leading us to a collapse of civilization. Ardeth Doherty resides in New Brighton. She talked about

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special sculpture commissioned especially for this award. Bruce retired officially from the Gustavus Development Office in 1998 but was still making appointments a decade later. Al Macek, husband of Dori Bergstrom Macek, passed away May 20 in Minneapolis. Al battled Parkinson’s for many years after retiring from Honeywell as an engineer. Jim and Judie Brown Mortenson now live in Eden Prairie and Bonita Springs, FL. Jim was accorded the ultimate mark of distinction in Minnesota’s contracting industry: the Lifetime Achievement Award (See page 33 of the summer Quarterly). Prior to retirement in 2008, he spent 40 years in construction, with the last 22 at PCL. He

trom celebrates 65th Gustavus anniversary at East S Union Lutheran Church

On March 30 the Gustavus Choir performed at East Union Lutheran Church in Carver, MN, as part of Gustavus’s Sesquicentennial Celebration. Gustavus was founded in Red Wing, MN, and operated in Carver before moving to its current location in St. Peter. Vernis Olander Strom ’47 attended the event and also celebrated her 65th anniversary of graduation from Gustavus this spring.

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Relatives of former Gustavus President O.J. Johnson (served 1913–1942) and friends got together to read the history section in the Spring 2012 Quarterly with great interest. Pictured from left are Kristin Hall Burns ’80 (O.J.’s great granddaughter), Patricia Johnson Hall ’55 (granddaughter), Phil Hall ’55, Jackie Neeck Peterson ’77, Donna Seaberg Johnson ’50, and Roy Johnson ’51 (grandson). Kristin’s husband, J.D. Burns, took the photo. s

Dr. Carolyn Wedin, Frederic, WI, has edited a translation of Historical Sketches: Fifty-Five Years in Western Wisconsin (1869–1924) by Louis J. Ahlstrom. In the translation from Swedish to English she cooperated with Inger Berggren and Stefan Sylvander ’62; the work began while she was in Sweden on a Fulbright and continued in the U.S. It was published in 2010. The book is a historical account tracing Swedish emigration to areas near the St. Croix River and north of the Twin Cities. Stu and Marlys (Johnson ’58) Johnson, St. Peter, were very busy the first week of May working toward the success of “Books in Bloom” on campus. This is the second year for this special event at Gustavus, and Marlys heads up the activity. The Johnsons also traveled to Boulder, CO, for grandson Tucker’s graduation from the University of Colorado. Veryl Becker, Glencoe, retired as a professor at Wake Forest University in 1979 when he took over the family farm in Minnesota. He has represented his congregation numerous years as a delegate to the Gustavus Association of Congregations, an annual spring event.

Changed addresses have appeared on our class roster often these last few years. Noted are Phil and Carol Cope Nord, formerly residing in Maryland and now with a Southport, NC, listing. Dan Collin was a physician in Hawaii, had family connections in the Chicago area, and now has an address in San Antonio, TX. Dan says that retirement is great for travel, community activities, and checking out the Internet. Bruce and Sue Gray, St. Peter, were the recipients of one of the 150 Sesquicentennial Awards that are being given throughout this year of celebration to recognize alumni for service to the College. Their presentation took place during reunion/commencement events in May. The award includes a

her work as a home economics teacher at Columbia Heights High School. Her beginning salary was $3,900. She remembers it cost her $5,000 for her four-year education at Gustavus. Ron and Lorene (Johnson ’61) Johnson continue to enjoy their retirement years in Fairfield Glade, TN. Ron is a board member of the Peavine Care Center Foundation. They are active in their congregation. They keep in close touch with their three children. Since Ron was a few years older than the rest at Gustavus, he became the elder brother who in good humor and robust laughter gave all sorts of advice about relationship issues. Herb and Nancy (Lindstrom ’61) Johnson live in Lindsborg, Kansas. Herb is active in their congregation and gathers regularly with other retired pastors for Bible study and efforts to solve the world’s problems. He enjoys reading and recommends the works of Bernard Cornwell, a historical novelist versed in English history. They thoroughly enjoy living close to their children and grandchildren. Muriel Doherty Haegele writes from the Seattle area that she’s still hoping for summer. Any day above 70 is a blessing. They spent a week with their family at Wapato Point on Lake Chelan in July 2011—an annual event. In November, they’ll head to Sun Lakes, AZ, and again in March. n C ommunication Chair: Carol Johnson Heyl (1959classofficers@gustavus.edu)

1 959 class officers meet

The Class of 1959 class officers met on June 6 to discuss responsibilities and plan class activities for the 2012–13 year. Pictured from left are Ben Johnson, Lois Madsen Allen, Linda Lund Anderson, Carol Johnson Heyl, Jerry Hoffman, and Elaine Torrey Magnuson.

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Homecoming 2012 Join us for Homecoming 2012, a weekend of great events you won’t want to miss. Traditional Homecoming activities and a football game will be combined with the Sesquicentennial Closing Dinner, the Geography Department’s 60th-anniversary celebration, class reunions, alumni choir at Homecoming Worship, and a Bend in the River Big Band concert. We look forward to seeing you Oct. 12–14 for Homecoming 2012! Friday, OCtober 12 5:30 p.m.

Homecoming Parade Eckman Mall

10:30 a.m. Football 50 Year Club Reception & Luncheon Campus Center Banquet Rooms

Sesquicentennial Closing dinner Evelyn Young Dining Room

10:30 a.m. Geography 60th Anniversary Nobel Hall 104

6 p.m.

7 p.m. Class of 1977 Gathering La Fougasse, Sofitel, Mpls.

11 a.m. 1972 Class Gathering The Flame, St. Peter

7 p.m. Class of 1982 Gathering The Dive Johnson Student Union

11 a.m. Alumni Choir Rehearsal Christ Chapel

7 p.m. Class of 1992 Social Honey, Minneapolis 7:30 p.m. Class of 1997 Social The Guthrie Theater, Mpls. 7:30 p.m. Class of 2002 Event Rare, Minneapolis

Saturday, OCtober 13 10 a.m. Dedication of the west mall including a celebration of the benefactors for the West Mall prairies and Beck Hall classrooms, labs, and atrium West Mall

11 a.m. Class of 1992 Lunch The Dive

11 a.m. Class of 1997 Family Event Alumni Hall Johnson Student Union

11:30 a.m. Class of 2002 Family Event Alumni Hall 11:30 a.m. Class of 2007 Lunch TBA Noon Classes of 1972, 1977, 1982, 1987, & 2007 Lunch Tent by Football Field 1:30 p.m.

Football vs. Valley City State University Hollingsworth Field

1:30– Tunnel Tours 3:30 p.m. Johns Family Courtyard 3:30 p.m. Class of 1987 Social Tent by Football Field 3:30 p.m. Class of 1972 Social Tent by Football Field After Billy Steiner ’72 & game City Mouse Concert Tent by Football Field 5:30 p.m. Class of 1977 Social and Dinner Campus Center Banquet Rooms 7 p.m. Class of 1982 Dinner AmericInn Conference Center, Mankato 7:30 p.m. The Bend in the River Big Band Björling Recital Hall 25th Anniversary Concert Ticket required 8 p.m. Class of 2007 Event Stella’s, Minneapolis

SUnday, OCtober 14 10:30 a.m Homecoming Worship, with the Alumni Choir Christ Chapel

Sesquicentennial Closing dinner Join us for the Sesquicentennial Year of Celebration Closing Dinner on Friday, Oct. 12! 5–6 p.m. Registration and Reception, Eckman Mall

Geography 60th Anniversary Celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Geography Department, as well as Bob Douglas's retirement and Bob Moline’s 50th consecutive year of teaching. Stop by Nobel 104 for coffee and a treat, say hello to your favorite professors, and connect with past and current geography majors. There will be a reception at 10:30 a.m. and a short program at 11 a.m.

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5:30 p.m. Homecoming Parade, Eckman Mall

Bend in the River Big Band 25th Anniversary Concert Join us for this anniversary concert by alumni from the Gustavus jazz bands of the past four decades Tickets available at the door or at gustavustickets.com.

6 p.m. Doors open to Evelyn Young Dining Room

6:30 p.m. Sesquicentennial Closing Dinner, Evelyn Young Dining Room The cost to attend is $30 per person, register online at gustavus.edu/forms/ homecoming2012.

GUSTAVUS ALUMNI was active with several notable projects including the St. Paul City Hall, Ramsey Co. Courthouse, the first hotel tower at Mystic Lake Casino, KTCA TV, Mankato Civic Arena, and the Science Museum of Minnesota. Jim said, “The Science Museum of Minnesota was a challenging project because it’s a one-of-a-kind building.” He also mentored young people, encouraging them to enter the construction industry, and he spoke at career fairs and schools. Jerry Doebbert, Detroit Lakes, reports that his Gustavus roommate, Gary Lawson ’62, Avinger, TX, passed away April 28. Gary was captain of the tennis team during our senior year, when the squad won the first net title ever for the College. Tennis was the only athletic team to rank #1 in 196l, and Gary earned more wins than anyone. Jerry, who spent many years teaching and officiating at high school basketball events, is now driving tour buses. Doug Perkins, formerly of Afton, was remembered by the alumni, including Jim Krough, who play in the Krough Invitational Golf Tournament at Pokegama Country Club in Grand Rapids annually. They donated all of the proceeds from the last event to Gustavus in his memory. (See page 33 of the summer Quarterly). Marcee Muller, Tecumseh, NE, can use prayers and support from classmates as she battles cancer. She has benefited from surgery and chemotherapy since the holidays in 2011, and she will now be taking a chemo drug orally for about five years. The entire process has been complicated by reactions to drugs and effects that took place in her blood, but her vigorous capability and generally good health have prevailed. Marcee has retired from teaching physical education, and she was a competitive bowler. n C ommunication Chair: Virgene Grack Sehlin (1961classofficers@gustavus.edu)

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Deanna Dirks Boe shared the following update. “I attended Gustavus for one year, our freshman year. I then went on to graduate from Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, WA. I retired seven years ago from the teaching profession. Most of my teaching was overseas: Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Korea, Japan, Iran, Germany, and Cuba. I adopted two daughters while in Vietnam and have two other daughters born in Iran and Ohio. I also have nine grandchildren and four stepgrandchildren. I married my high school sweetheart, Larry Boe, in 1994 and retired to our hometown of Akron, IA. We are enjoying retirement with a home in Arizona and I recently purchased one in the Atlanta

area so I can be closer to grandchildren dialogue, the flow of ideas, the constant part of the year. Having survived cancer stimulation of guest lecturers, challenges twice, I feel very fortunate.” Marcia Day and growth, friends around every corner, Anderson, a missionary in Kenya, wrote good solid conversations. In the words of about her fascinating travels, including one senior, “I’ll continue to look for that, but Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe. She has been I wonder if it will ever again be that rich.” teaching a Master of Arts in Christian “Gustavus community” echoed in all the Leadership program to a group of leaders responses. I realized the experience hasn’t from the Church of God in Africa. Last changed for them—the numbers have spring she was in Tennessee, North Dakota, increased, the campus has grown, the and at a family reunion in Sioux Falls, SD. science has become more sophisticated, Roger Josephson reports that he and but what I prized 48 years ago, they still wife, Sharon, returned to Brazil in January value. As a retiree living two miles from of 2012. They visited his Peace Corps site in campus I am enjoying that enrichment still, Minas Gerais as well as Rio de Janeiro, Ouro Preto, and Natal. Paul and Ruth Anderson Tillquist enjoyed two weeks in Peru and Ecuador in late January of 2012. Sharon Shaver Pinney reports that she has just finished Classes of 1963, 1968, the 50 Year Club including 1943, up this year as the 1948, 1953, and 1958 Rotary Club of Le Sueur president. She wrote, “It has been an honor to serve Homecoming 2013 as president and an Reunions for 1973, 1978, 1983, 1988, 1993, 1998, 2003, honor to serve needy and 2008 people throughout Information about individual class reunion activities will be included on class Web the world with the pages, in the Gustavus Quarterly, in class letters, and on the website at gustavus. efforts of Rotary edu/homecoming. International.” While the 50th Anniversary Reunion of the Class of 1963 is ten months away, but even when I’m in Florida I watch the your classmates are already at work under streaming of important events on the the able direction of Ginny Larson Jones. computer or catch archived programs later. Joining Ginny in the planning effort at the You too can be part of this stimulating Galleria in Edina were Paul Tillquist, Miriam world. Click on “Gustavus Live” on the left Larson Stohl, Liz Stohl Baugh, and Gary hand side of the gustavus.edu homepage, F. Anderson. Keep checking the website then either choose ‘Live Event’ for (gustavus.edu, click alumni, click classes, streaming events, or ‘On Demand’ for a list and scroll down to 1963) to keep up to date of archived programs. So although I was in on the reunion, which will be on May 31, Florida during Chaplain Elvee’s return to June 1 and 2 of 2013. Also working on plans campus, I not only didn’t have to miss his is Marietta Bittrich Johns, who is planning tribute to those who were so much a part the gala Friday evening activities which will of our GA experience, but I could also reprise the “Pizza Villa” setting of the ’60s watch it at my convenience with the ability featuring many surprises. We look forward to reverse should there be something these to the BIG event next year—2013. Save the aging ears might have missed. Elvee was dates, May 31–June 2! the premier “wordsmith” in what he called a n Communication Chair: Gary F. Anderson “college of wordsmiths.” From these lives a (1963classofficers@gustavus.edu) “we” emerges with common goal: “Boomer” Montague ’34, who ran, or presumed to run, As I write this it is graduation time the college from the round table in the at Gustavus. There are interviews Canteen; Edgar Carlson ’30, the man who with the seniors on the Gustavus saw no conflict between intellectual website. When asked for their fondest pursuits and religion, but believed that memory, the responses could have been “God created us to think . . . think our way, our memories: hockey, choir, theatre, sliding not just down the soft sidewalks, but down down the snowy hill on a cafeteria tray. rocky new paths”; Evelyn Anderson ’29, “an They also remembered the space for equal rights amendment in one package”—

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2013 Reunions May 31–June 2, 2013 October 4–6, 2013

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“Dahling, can you imagine there are people on this campus who haven’t read O’Neill”; Cec Eckhoff ’56, “the high priest of Gustavus Shinto”; Esby ’41, “a theologian of love”; Don Gregory ’47, giving us art and science forever united on the face of Nobel Hall; Bob Peterson ’58, “Mr. Gustavus”; “Moose” Malmquist ’53, “poet of devotion to land and family, to church and college.” You can also cheer for the Gustie teams online. You can enjoy concerts, Nobel lectures, and guest speakers, like the Mayday talk by a Swedish journalist of Kurdish descent who addressed the whys behind the current challenges of a multicultural Sweden. And while we’re on media connections, don’t forget your class has a site you can access through the alumni page, as well as a Facebook page you can join. Be part of the campus “Reading in Common” program next fall. Read The Other Wes Moore, listen to the author, who will be on campus September 11, and then let’s talk about the book on the 1964 Gustavus Facebook page. The Sesquicentennial has been exciting. I have been intrigued with the wonderful site-specific music and dance programs designed for different venues on campus. These were commissioned to honor the history, architecture, and community of Gustavus. I watched in the atrium of beautiful Beck Hall as 24 dancers, 128 voices, and video projections of Gustavus through the years presented one part of “Our Place, In Place.” Time to catch up with those who occupied “Our Place” in the early 1960s. Carolyn Kruger, recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Citation in 2010, continues to work for Project Concern, designing programs for maternal and children’s health in developing countries. Fifty percent of her job involves travel, most recently Guatemala, Sudan, and Ethopia. One current project in Ethiopia is a home for women with problem pregnancies so they needn’t walk great distances to get the help when they need it. Carolyn’s home base is Purcellville, VA. Richard Dornfeld and Joan (Benson ’66), Rosemount, spent five amazing months in Iringa, Tanzania. Richard taught first-year mathematics at Tumaini University and Joan helped students with their English. In step with the recurring theme of Gusties connecting with Gusties, they met with Don Fultz ’61 and Eunice (Holm ’63) while there. (Don retired as minister of your columnist’s home church, Faith Lutheran in Forest Lake.) In addition to their teaching, Richard and Joan were the main connection from Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church, Apple Valley, and the Iringa Diocese for a project bringing water to a small Maasai village near Tungamalega. Joanell Sletta Dyrstad

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and her husband, Marvin, Red Wing, toured Israel last fall. This fall they are looking forward to visiting Lynn Ostebo Peterson and her husband, Norman, near Santa Fe. The Dyrstads have three grandchildren in the Twin Cities area who, according to Joanell, at nine, four and two are at just the right ages. I interpret that to mean they are old enough to be active and interesting, but not yet at the blasé teenage years when it comes to activities with grandparents. Joanell continues to serve on the Fairview Hospital Corporate Board winters in Boca Grande, FL. A number of classmates seek refuge on Florida’s Gulf Coast. My husband, Tim Robinson ’65, and I find the cultural atmosphere of Sarasota to our liking, and Joan Carlstrom Morehouse is enamored of Little Gasparilla Island, reached only by pontoon ferry, no cars, no restaurants, no stores, only a spectacular beach. For the party animals they extend the Saturday night return ferry schedule to 9 p.m. This year some Gusties made the ferry trip to visit Joan and her husband, Terry: Joanna Kuehn, John Engstrom ’62, and Carol and Dennis Johnson ’60. Back home in Minnesota, Joan and Terry divide their time between their home in Waconia, their cabin on Sand Lake, and their eight grandchildren ranging in age from 18 to 4. Joan’s passion is weaving on her floor loom, transforming threads into new creations. At the Sarasota Film Festival this year I saw a movie about a delightful book club that started in 1941 and was still going 70 years later. We have a Gustie bridge group that may be movie material themselves. They started playing in college and still meet almost 50 years later. The members wintering on the Gulf Coast meet for a lunch in March: Shirley Schmidt Vold, Karen Benson, Barb Nelson Martens, Barb Koehn Baumann, Bev Nordskog Hedeen ’65, and Mary Nelson (wife of David ’62). The group size increases when they are back in Minnesota, and actually playing bridge, to include: Carolyn Johnson Holje, Valerie Donner Sechler, and Jan From Hanson ’65. The group owes its formation in part to husbands’ ties to the Gustie swim team, John Martens, Dave Baumann ’63, and David Nelson ’62. Most of this Florida contingent winters in the Fort Meyers area. Shirley is located closer to Tampa in a golf and tennis community, where golf is her addiction of choice. She returns to Minnetonka for the summer. Her son’s family lives in the state of Virginia, which puts a few miles between Shirley and her two granddaughters. Several other of these women also enjoy the best of two worlds, returning to spend summers in cabins in the Midwest. In the summer Karen journeys from Bokeelia on Pine Island, FL, to Northern Wisconsin. Barb and Dave, New

hanks to the generosity of alumni, parents, and friends, the Gustavus Annual Fund achieved its goal for the 2012 fiscal year by raising more than $4.5 million. A total of 9,925 donors (nearly 6,500 of those Gustie alumni) gave to the Gustavus Annual Fund between June 1, 2011, and May 31, 2012. “It’s been a spectacular year of celebration for the College, and this just adds to the momentum,” said President Jack Ohle. “As we look ahead to the close of the Sesquicentennial and future challenges and opportunities, it’s wonderful to know that Gustavus and our students have a strong foundation of support.” The College also increased alumni participation this year, including more than 70 percent for the Class of 2012, which gave a gift to the College in the weeks preceding graduation. A big part of that success came through the class competition and matching gift giving challenges. Vice President for Institutional Advancement Thomas Young ’88 noted that the increased alumni participation defies the national trends for colleges and universities across the country. “Foundations and grant-making institutions look at the percentage of alumni who give to their alma mater as a gauge of success,” he said. “The higher the participation percentage, the more opportunities the College has to secure grants for research and other projects down the road.” The Class of 1962 won this year’s participation competition with 71 percent. The Class of 1955 is the most generous, giving nearly $127,000. Full results of the class competition are printed here and also available online at gustavus.edu/giving/annualfund.

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Interested in serving as your class annual fund officer or other class officer position? Contact Director of Alumni Relations Randall Stuckey ’83 at rstuckey@gustavus. edu, or 800-487-8437

Class competition helps Annual Fund achieve goal 1962 and 1955 take top positions

$555.00 $2,471.00 $2,117.00 $3,375.00 $1,300.00 $3,964.28 $57,638.80 $6,500.00 $1,965.00 $14,737.60 94,623.68

1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 Total

137 177 123 156 124 123 144 169 171 200 1524

77 108 63 101 62 74 83 99 120 116 903

56% 61% 51% 65% 50% 60% 58% 59% 70% 58% 59%

$40,167.75 $81,842.91 $15,144.00 $26,014.83 $14,195.40 $126,299.11 $37,662.42 $21,513.55 $41,973.00 $39,311.00 444,123.97

1960 208 1961 196 1962 224 1963 242 1964 235 1965 244 1966 237 1967 215 1968 330 1969 361 Total 2492

120 108 158 140 118 112 85 87 112 124 1164

58% 55% 71% 58% 50% 46% 36% 40% 34% 34% 47%

$42,643.48 $36,444.42 $52,208.22 $54,086.13 $25,754.58 $24,993.51 $22,366.60 $73,568.50 $75,568.44 $36,132.46 443,766.34

1970 313 1971 355 1972 349 1973 398 1974 322 1975 375 1976 399 1977 424 1978 411 1979 419 Total 3765

124 126 121 124 108 118 123 120 116 120 1200

40% 35% 35% 31% 34% 31% 31% 28% 28% 29% 32%

$33,256.58 $36,124.54 $27,209.24 $50,644.80 $54,397.63 $56,787.60 $37,200.29 $60,354.65 $28,250.80 $37,618.38 421,844.51

Fourth Decade (1980–1989)

38% 33% 45% 62% 47% 44% 50% 51% 40% 55% 49%

1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 Total

Total Total Percent Gustavus Class # Donors Annual Fund 464 142 31% $68,042.77 447 164 37% $78,703.13 462 144 31% $77,062.66 489 149 30% $62,546.91 483 165 34% $96,560.30 441 110 25% $27,796.10 470 152 32% $23,922.58 408 113 28% $36,803.20 465 118 25% $42,567.14 508 112 22% $23,200.86 4637 1369 30% 537,205.65

Third Decade (1990–1999)

5 7 10 26 14 15 25 19 21 58 200

Year

1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 Total

511 569 522 496 463 516 504 541 492 529 5143

114 127 133 100 86 103 102 89 78 82 1014

22% 22% 25% 20% 19% 20% 20% 16% 16% 16% 20%

$28,684.33 $18,810.33 $39,856.56 $16,776.01 $18,781.67 $16,309.80 $13,975.03 $33,924.29 $11,266.86 $11,905.17 210,290.05

Second Decade (2000–2009)

13 21 22 42 30 34 50 37 53 105 407

Sixth Decade (1960–1969)

Year

2000 547 2001 518 2002 575 2003 550 2004 550 2005 543 2006 630 2007 615 2008 635 2009 662 Total 5825

79 92 89 84 78 75 69 76 73 63 778

14% 18% 15% 15% 14% 14% 11% 12% 11% 10% 13%

$8,399.10 $6,189.48 $11,846.22 $7,646.04 $4,363.68 $14,300.39 $5,257.23 $4,941.97 $2,719.28 $3,297.82 68,961.21

2010s

1930s

1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 Total

Seventh Decade (1950–1959)

Total Total Percent Gustavus Class # Donors Annual Fund Total 34 9 26% 14,322.00

Eighth Decade (1940–1949)

Results through May 31, 2012. To make your 2012–13 gift, go online to gustavus.edu or call 866-487-3863 prior to May 31, 2013.

Fifth Decade (1970–1979)

GUSTAVUS ALUMNI

2010 633 2011 671 Total 1304

62 62 124

10% 9% 10%

$2,577.70 $2,396.03 4,973.73

Cec Eckhoff Award (recognizing classes with the highest participation rate): Cec Eckhoff ’56 served as the leader of Gustavus alumni relations from 1963 to 1994. Under his direction, the College received numerous national awards for annual fund alumni participation. Overall winner – Class of 1962 ecade winners – 1943, 1958, D 1962, 1970, 1981, 1992, 2001

Ren Anderson Award (recognizing classes with the highest dollars raised): Ren Anderson ’34 launched the first Gustavus annual fund in 1954. As vice president for public relations and development, he brought significant resources to the College and built the College’s national reputation. Overall winner – Class of 1955 ecade winners – 1946, 1955, D 1968, 1977, 1984, 1992, 2005

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Hope, have a retreat in the St. Croix area. Ken Anderson retired ten years ago as a computer analyst. For the past few years he has been taking Sumi-e classes, Japanese painting done with black ink. His works of wild orchids and bamboo have been in art shows at the Plymouth Community Center and the Hopkins Center for the Arts. His other avocation is playing the harp. He recently remodeled his basement and also maintains a yard with over a hundred hostas interspersed with flowering plants. Oh, and he travels too, most recently a boat cruise from St. Petersburg to Moscow, and in October he and his wife, Audrey (Engstrom ’66), will be off to Greece. He has me feeling like a bit of slacker. Marilyn Lawson Tammi was proud to report the newest Ph.D. in their family, Jennifer ’91. She received her degree in history from Columbia in May. Marilyn and John most recently spent three weeks traveling in Ireland. Instead of retiring, John ’63 took a sabbatical, so there will be more traveling in the next few months and at least one more year as a theater professor at Hope College in Michigan. Gustavus was lucky to add Micah Maatman, one of John’s former students, to the theatre faculty. Micah is the man responsible for the innovative sets, sound, and lighting at recent Gustavus productions. Marilyn retired from teaching third grade 12 years ago, but her daughter stepped right in and kept that teaching position in the family. Although Marilyn is aware that some of her classmates may protest, she has laid claim to the three best grandchildren. Sharon Hansen Johnson and Bill ’65 are in Ponte Vedra on Florida’s east coast. Bill’s Chamber of Commerce work brought them to Florida in 1969. I think that practically qualifies them as natives of the Sunshine State. Bill eventually left chamber work for Merrill Lynch. Sharon was a private school elementary teacher before retiring. For the past eight years the Gustavus golf teams have been coming to Ponte Vedra to train during spring break. Sharon and Bill enjoy spending time with these Gustie athletes who are keeping up the tradition of the black and gold by being both industrious and fun to be around. Raymond Larson and Kathy (Nickelson ’65) live in Brush, CO, where Ray does supply preaching (I didn’t know that term for filling in at the pulpit when needed). Interim ministries occupied the previous seven years, following his stint of 14 years as CEO of Eben Ezer, a care facility for seniors. Although retired from a fulltime position, Kathy is still in demand as a part-time psychiatric clinical nursing instructor at Morgan Community College. Since their son lives in Brush with two of their grandchildren, maybe they deserve

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the title “supply parents” as they help the working mom and dad attend to the needs of a tween and teen. Two more grandchildren live in Detroit Lakes. Their avocations include orchid growing for Ray and knitting for Kathy. Both enjoy travel, their latest adventure being a snorkeling trip to Tahiti. Paul and Anne Lawson Larson left Minnesota after graduation with stops in Michigan, Colorado, New Jersey, Georgia, England, Texas, and Kansas, eventually landing in San Juan Capistrano, CA. Paul and Anne worked together in Paul’s business (a company specializing in placing medical executives) for 14 years. This led Paul to his most recent venture as an “executive coach” helping applicants polish their image as they move into executive positions, as he eases his way into retirement. The Larsons’ two daughters both ended up on the opposite side of the country in Virginia. Two toddler grandchildren are there, and by the time you read this hopefully a third little one has successfully maneuvered through all the red tape and arrived from Siberia. This means a lot of travel for the Larsons, good thing they’ve never been the sedentary type. Dennis and Catherine Moe Dietz are living in Los Angeles and loving it. Eleven years ago Denny retired from his VP position at Medtronic, the company that originally moved them to Northern California in 1971 and then LA in 1990. Their two children and three grandchildren are in the area. After Denny’s hip surgery, they both hope to be back to golf and tennis. After trying unsuccessfully to reach my Wahlstrom sectionmate Katherine (KiKi) Hedberg Brandt for three years, I learned from her son the sad news that she had died April 6, 2009. Her most recent residence was Ishpeming, MI. In 1972 she had moved from Minnesota to a home on Teal Lake in Negaunee, MI, where she and her husband, Peter, raised their five children, John, Tim, Tucker, Liz, and Krissy. She is survived by her children and five grandchildren. In her obituary I recognized the KiKi I had known, “If you needed a helping hand, someone who would listen without judgment, or just a hug, KiKi was there.” Lucky Jean Axdahl Bahnson will be celebrating her 70th birthday in Tahiti thanks to super husband Rod Bahnson. After covering the U.S. in their motorhome, these seasoned travelers opted for a change in transport and relaxed on a cruise through the Panama Canal in January. Rod certainly has bounced back from a heart-related hospital stay this fall. It was 51 years ago that he proposed to Jean at the Holiday House in St. Peter and all were startled by the popping champagne cork. Fifty-one years ago! I think you were underage, imagine that. Married for 48

years, Rod and Jean met at a Gustavus freshman orientation picnic in Swede Park (officially Minnesota Square Park, where the state capitol was to stand). I’m learning the history behind another landmark, Rundstrom Hall. As a senior in this dorm, familiarly known as “menopause manor,” I knew little about the math professor for whom it was named until I started research for a one-woman show on Inez Rundstrom, who at 15 became the first female and youngest graduate of Augustana College, Rock Island. While still a teenager she did her graduate work in Europe and was once called “the most educated woman of Swedish Heritage in America.” Elsa Cornell ’61 presented the story of this remarkable woman at the Augustana Synod Gathering in June. I am so pleased that a large percentage of our class responded to the Gustavus Annual Fund, when contributions were matched by an anonymous donor. Your alumni board salutes you. I’m thinking I will have to sneak into the class of 1963’s reunion next spring—they are reprising the Pizza Villa and promise some surprises. In addition to fishnets hanging from the ceiling, checkered tablecloths, and Chianti bottles with candles, I bet Gary Anderson ’63 is coming back to sing, “Scotch and Soda.” How I loved that. Plans for our 50th reunion are already under way, Dave Spong and Elizabeth Johnson Ekholm will be leading the charge. Remember the friends you made here, don’t forget to come back that day. n Communication Co-chair: Sharon Peterson Robinson (1964classofficers@ gustavus.edu) I know your social calendars get crowded, so I want you to reserve May 29-31, 2015, NOW for our 50th class reunion. This is announced now to cut down on flimsy excuses like, “I didn’t know the date,” or “That is the weekend we open our cabin up north,” or “I think that’s when my every-ten-years colonoscopy is scheduled,” or “That’s when I take my walker in for an oil change.” In case you missed this on Twitter, or the Nightly News, our 50th reunion steering committee has already been formed and they are: the Rev. Susan Pepin Peterson, who last served as senior pastor of Gloria Dei Lutheran in St. Paul and whose husband Jim ’64 is a former president of Gustavus; Professor Tim Robinson, still teaching at Gustavus and many times chair of the Nobel Conference; and Gloria Johnson Spong, director of Oak Knoll Christian Preschool in Minnetonka. Gloria is serving as chairperson. Now that is what I call an “A Team!” They have already met and have tossed around a theme, which will be shared in a later GQ! Sign me

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s Golden Anniversary Class â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Class of 1962 Front Row: Sue Schreiber Kear, Gail Nelson Helgeson, Karen Koehn Anderson, Linda Johnson Blanding, Charlotte Tesberg Stanley, Travis Lamons Hoppes, Louise Spong Rodine-Doucette, Solveig Overdahl Goldstrand, Toni Bennett Easterson, Diane Kolander Loomer, LuAnn Eckberg Reese, Roz Johnson Anderson. Second Row: Jim Swanson, Mary Roggow Rogers, Judy Flom Hill, Joan Boyum Tavares, Joan Romm Roy, Carolann Belmont Minor, Jackie Faulk Anderson, Audrey Kylander Kramer, Sandra Luedtke Buendorf, Gwendolyn Westmand Nesburg, Mary Linruth Peterson, Betty Jensen Avant, Sandra Hendrickson Walls, Judith Bloomer Geise, Jim Anderson, Charlie Kampen. Third Row: Dick Moody, Paul Wilson, Margaret Helvig Sediva, Joan Eckberg, Sharon Maurer Edberg, Geri Sparks Evans, Jan Swanson Sammelson, Marge Callaghan, Carla Swanson Nelson, Reet Lind Henze, Kermit Swanson, David Nelson, Hap LeVander, Charles Jerabek. Back Row: Matthew Eckman, Gayland Hokanson, Lowell Anderson, David Johnson, John Lundblad, Gordon Edberg, Curtis Johnson, Karen Lundquist Meyer, Ted Stoneberg, Jon Buss, Al Henderson, David Noar, David Reneke, Dennis Anderson, Terry Skone

s Golden Anniversary Class â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Class of 1962 Front Row: Dennis Laingen, David Keith, Brenda Pick Keith, Gayle Garven Hanson, Judy Samuelson Hane, Karen Stennes Osmundson, Karen Peterson George, Annette Hoffman Olson, Kay Jurgenson, Jan Eiffert Hoomani, Joanne Stollenwerk, Ruth Johnson Leadholm, Diana Jacobson Martens, Karen M. Anderson. Second Row: Vale Peterson Parsons, Jan Swanberg Mousel, Dianne Skalbeck Thunhorst, Mark Skoog, Fred Fischer, Rolf Nelson, Dick Hane, Sandra Johnson Deegan, Joyce Helgeland Balstad, Kay Estesen Mowbray, Nan Forseman Buchanan, Mary Jo Anderson Kuhn, Janice Swanson Swanson, Lynn Rosendahl Johnson. Third Row: Steven Hanson, Pete Lindell, Richard Bakke, Bob Johnson, Fred Carlson, Stan Bolin, Gail Lindsey Breen, Norman Anderson, Jerry Springston, Bruce Seastrand, Harvey Hanson, Janyce Helgeson Olson, Karen Noren Talle, Tom Komatz, Sandy Springer Smith. Back Row: Gerald Aaseby, Alan Lorentzen, Samuel Forsythe, Brad Pester, Ben Leadholm, Rick Joseph, Harvey Winge, James Peters, John Engstrom, Jim Gilbert, Craig Martens, Terry Frazee

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s Chapel ordinations marked The 25th annual convention of the Gustavus Adolphus College Association of Congregations, held in April 2012, celebrated “150 Years of Faith and 50 Years of Christ Chapel.” To commemorate the Chapel’s jubilee year, the Office of Church Relations scheduled a photo of pastors ordained in Christ Chapel in past 50 years. Among the many, these pastors showed up. Front row from left: Joel Bexell ’68, Charles Anderson, Charles Stewart, Janet Ryan Tidemann ’63, Joy Bussert, Ralph Olsen, Conrad Warner. Second row: Rod Anderson, Leonard Pankuch, Wallace Obinger ’73, David Bergren, Karl Lunder, David Andert, Harry Eklund, Newell Nelson. Third row: Paul Lutz, Bill Kallestad, John Folkerds ’67, Jane Feddersen Timmerman ’70, Dan Kolander ’68, Kathryn Wicks, John Swenson ’61. Back row: James Walfrid ’66, Bob Bjornlund, Dennis Timmerman ’71, Wayne Peterson ’77, David Spong ’66, Alan Wicks, Mark Aune.

5th Anniversary 4 Class – Class of 1967

Front Row: Marcia Sylte Belisle, Jeanne Mingus Tolzmann, Mary Gray Brinkman, Jane Forsman Harrison, June Hagglund Weind, Paula Delay Zakariasen, Ginny Hendrickson Petersen, Louise Borgman Hokenson. Second Row: Karen Gruber Pagel, Jan Anderson Carter, Nancy Pierson Laible, Mim Sponberg Kagol, Kari Hagen Conway, Jane Gooding Gregory, Carla Rudquist Tollefson, Pegi Johnson Levey, Sandy Chandler Williamson. Third Row: Todd Harris, Susan Erickson Dobbelstein, Eileen Emch Kivi, Richard Sandve, Linda Kenning Olson, Benay Borene Jaeger. Back Row: John Folkerds, Jon Tollefson, James Holm, Pamela Olson Lienke, Carl Lund, Steven Emerson, Warren Beck.

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up. How about you? Remember, we want to see our class scholarship fund completely funded before the reunion. I was saddened to hear from our class president, Beverly Nordskog Hedeen, that her 105 year old mother, Myrtle, died on May 28 in Duluth. In a previous GQ there was a story about how spry she was at her 105th birthday party. The Rev. Stein Mydske, who lives in Fredrikstad, Norway, is retired from serving as general secretary, Norwegian Bible Society. He enjoys visiting his daughter and her family in Pasadena, TX. He wants to know if any classmates live near there. According to the 748-page, where’s-my-magnifying-glass 2012 Alumni Directory, as close as we come is Ethel Lind Richard in Austin and Richard Hawkins in Dallas. Stein, all I can say is “beklager.” No, that’s not a beer being served in the newest building on campus, but I am told it is Norwegian for “Sorry.” Jim Fredrickson and his wife, Karen, attended his Navy ship’s reunion recently in Norfolk, VA, their hometown. A history buff, Jim was enthralled with Williamsburg, Yorktown, and Jamestown. As exciting as the trip was, the two are more thrilled with grandchild number one due in July. Jim and Karen, get ready for a wonderful “trip.” The Rev. Wayne Erickson is retired but helps out at a funeral home (he does not say in what capacity). While in Portland, OR, for a niece’s wedding, he was standing in line one evening waiting for a table to become available in a restaurant. The man next to

GUSTAVUS ALUMNI him said, “I see your Gustavus ring. Too bad! I’m a St. Olaf grad.” Wayne says they shared some banter after that. I might have shared something else. Since no one else responded to my pleading for news, I will share what was not sent. For obvious reasons the names have been changed. Jasper M moved in June to Cut and Shoot, TX, after selling his bait and gun shop in Winchester, WI. Jake B spent the last nine years in Stillwater and is apartment hunting in Bayport to be closer to his former cellmate. Allison V recently won the Sons of Norway cooking contest with her grilled lutefisk tacos. Retired English teacher Paige J of Hemingway, SC, has founded Poetry Slam night at the Old Man and the Sea Inn. What fun it was to be back at GA for the May class reunions! I was wowed by the reunion class gift totals put up by the classes of ’62 ($751,355.74) and ’67 ($440,945.40). Hats off to those classes! n C lass Vice President: Arlyn Tolzmann (1965classofficers@gustavus.edu)

Class officers needed. Send class news to 1966classofficers@gustavus.edu.

Memorial Day weekend found nearly 40 members of the Class of ’67 gathered for our 45th anniversary class reunion. We did a lot of reminiscing and laughing during a casual gathering on Friday evening, at a class luncheon on Saturday, and at various times in the Linner Lounge. We remembered our 28 deceased classmates at a memorial service in Christ Chapel on Friday afternoon. It was hard to get everyone’s attention for a group photo in the chapel. Hmmmm . . . that was probably the same as when we were students on campus! Check out the picture. Everyone looks great! At the luncheon we presented President Ohle with a huge check, representing Class of ’67 contributions for the last year. As of May 26, we were half way to our goal of a class endowment for a scholarship. With a little effort we can have the scholarship in place before our next big reunion. Our class had the honor of being the first alumni to tour the tunnels and sign our names on the wall in an area designated for grads from the ’60s. Those who attended the reunion had a great time but those who couldn’t attend were missed. Even though we didn’t hold an election, we do have two new class officers. Steve Emerson has agreed to be class president and Jeanne Mingus Tolzmann, as vice president, will be assisting him. We are still in need of people for the positions of annual fund chair, communication chair, and recruitment chair.

Twin Cities and St. Peter Gustie Breakfasts Join other Gusties for a morning cup of coffee and breakfast while getting an update on Gustavus—a great way to meet and network with Gusties in the Twin Cities and St. Peter. The groups normally meet on the second Wednesday of each month in St. Peter and the third Wednesday in the Twin Cities. The Twin Cities Breakfasts have a new location at the American Swedish Institute and will start at 7:30 a.m.Institute and will start at 7:30 a.m.

Twin Cities Gustie Breakfasts

St. Peter area Gustie Breakfasts

American Swedish Institute 2600 Park Ave, Minneapolis, MN (Note new location.)

C. Charles Jackson Campus St. Peter Banquet Room Gustavus Adolphus College Campus

7:30 a.m. breakfast, 8 a.m. program $10 per person Call Alumni Relations at 800-487-8437

7:30 a.m. breakfast, 8 a.m. program $8 per person; $15 per couple Call Institutional Advancement at 507-933-7512

scheduled speakers

September 19, 2012 Jack Ohle, President

September 12, 2012 Jack Ohle, President

October 17, 2012 Nobel Conference Recap

October 10, 2012 Nobel Conference Recap

November 21, 2012 Don Ostrom, Ph.D., professor emeritus of political science, discussing the November elections

November 14, 2012 Don Ostrom, Ph.D., professor emeritus of political science, discussing the November elections

December 19, 2012 Terry Morrow, Ph.D., professor of communication studies; District 23A representative, Minn. House of Representatives, discussing the Minnesota Vikings stadium

December 12, 2012 Terry Morrow, Ph.D., professor of communication studies; District 23A representative, Minn. House of Representatives, discussing the Minnesota Vikings stadium

January 16, 2013 Kathy Lund Dean, Board of Trustees Distinguished Chair of Leadership and Ethics

January 9, 2013 Kathy Lund Dean, Board of Trustees Distinguished Chair of Leadership and Ethics

February 20, 2013 Tim Kennedy ’82, vice president for marketing and communication

February 13, 2013 Tim Kennedy ’82, vice president for marketing and communication

Third Wednesday of each month

Future dates are March 20, April 17, and May 22

Second Wednesday of each month

Future dates are March 13, April 10, and May 8.

Speakers’ schedules may change, so please see gustavus.edu/alumni for current information.

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2012 FIRST DECADE AWARDS

Michael Bland ’02

From her award ceremony introduction by Melanie Lind-Ayres ’02 M.D.

From his award ceremony introduction by Charles Niederriter, Gustavus professor of physics.

Photos by Wayne Schmidt

Amy Brown ’02

t is my privilege to present Dr. Amy Brown for the Class of 2002 First Decade Award for her incredible and outstanding achievements as a young professional physician. I have had the joy of being side by side with Amy through this long, difficult, yet rewarding journey of medical education. As long as I have known Amy, she has always appreciated the joy of learning while striving for excellence. Amy began her journey graduating from Gustavus magna cum laude with a degree in biology and Phi Beta Kappa honors. She went on to medical school at the University of Minnesota in Duluth, where she received the Reino Pummala Award and was elected into the Gold Humanism Honor Society, both honors that recognize dedication and humanistic approaches to the healthcare needs of families and children. In 2006, Amy enrolled at the University of Pittsburgh’s Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh for her pediatrics training. As a pediatric resident, she received the senior resident award in neonatology. Realizing her fascination and love for newborns, she stayed on as a fellow in neonatology at the University of Pittsburgh. As if getting through the fellowship were not enough, Amy also completed a master of science degree in medical education. Amy’s research interests have included innovation in medical education as well as neuro-protective interventions for newborns. She also spent time on committees involving newborn medicine bereavement, the development of a neonatal neuro-critical care unit, and the development of a protocol for seizure management in newborns. Amy’s journey continues as she joins the faculty at the Ohio State University College of Medicine as assistant professor of pediatrics in August of this year. There is no doubt that Amy will continue to make significant contributions to the field of neonatology, and it is a great honor for me to be a colleague of Amy’s in the vocation of caring for babies.

t is my great pleasure tonight to introduce Michael Bland as a recipient of this year’s First Decade Award—I might note, the ninth from the Department of Physics. It will come as no surprise to anyone that Mike was an excellent student during his years at Gustavus. He took almost all of the courses that the Physics and Geology departments offered, completing degrees in both programs. I can still recall having Mike in Classical Physics I, where his hard work and innate ability first became evident. He had the top scores on two of the four hour exams in a class that was very competitive. He went on to do very well in his course work and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa in 2002. We would have inducted him into Sigma Pi Sigma, the national physics honor society, as well, if the college had a chapter at that time. (We did ask him to return in 2010 to speak at the induction banquet.) Mike was also involved in research while he was a student, working with my colleague, Steve Mellema ’72, on optical

2012 First Decade Award Nominees

In addition to First Decade Award recipients, Michael Bland and Amy Brown, other finalists from the Class of 2012 included Women Katie Howe Bertrand, Brookings, SD, assistant professor, South Dakota State University Department of Natural Resource Management; Katherine Beck Foss, Murfreesboro, TN, assistant professor, Middle Tennessee State University; Mara Michaletz, Anchorage, AK, trial attorney, Anchorage District Attorney’s Office, Alaska Department of Law; Karen Warkentien Oglesby, Eden Prairie, MN, founder, New Mercies Ministry; Ellie Roscher, Bronxville, NY, coordinator of communications, Lutheran Social

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Service of New York; Annalisa Eckman Rudser, Falcon Heights, MN, pediatric emergency medicine fellow, Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota; Amelia Greiner Safi, Baltimore, MD, assistant professor, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers – The State University of New Jersey; Ellen Anderson Wiegner, Stanford, CA, radiation oncology resident, Stanford University Medical Center;

GUSTAVUS ALUMNI The First Decade Award recognizes one male and one female graduate in the 10th anniversary class for early professional achievement.

scattering experiments and with Jim Welsh in geology. And he had a summer internship at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks, work he shared with students and faculty the following fall in at least one talk to the Society of Physics Students. Mike also worked for the Physics and Geology departments as a laboratory assistant and was named departmental assistant by the Physics Department in his senior year. After Gustavus, Mike found a way to combine his interests in physics and geology by studying planetary science at the University of Arizona. After earning his Ph.D. there in 2008, he took a postdoctoral research associate position at Washington University in St. Louis, where he works in planetary geophysics. There he uses his expertise in a variety of numerical modeling techniques to study tectonics and thermal evolution of the planets and satellites of our solar system. I guess you could say his work is out of this world. At least NASA thinks so, because they continue to fund his research. Mike is an active member of the planetary science community, giving many invited seminars, sitting on and chairing NASA funding review panels, and serving as a reviewer of submitted research articles and book chapters. Mike has published nine important scientific papers in his short career and contributed at least 25 papers at conferences. He already has three successful research grants and has given at least 10 invited seminars on his work at places like Stony Brook University and the

Men Michael Adkins, St. Paul, MN, academic dean, St. Agnes School; Kyle Allen, Dallas, TX, neurontology fellow, University of Texas Southwestern; Beau Barker, Los Alamos, NM, Seaborg Institute postdoctoral fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Chemistry and Nuclear Radiochemistry; Michael Bradley, New Haven, CT, postdoctoral associate, Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University; Lance Breitenbach, Madison, AL, task order lead, MCR Federal (Aerodyne Inc); Jamison Conley, Morgantown, WV, assistant professor of geography, Department of Geology and Geography, West Virginia State University; Andrew Friberg, Uppsala, Sweden, laboratory engineer, Uppsala

Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA. In fact, Mike came back to Gustavus in 2010 to speak at our Sigma Pi Sigma banquet on the recommendation of JPL scientist Bob Pappalardo, who visited Gustavus as a Harlow Shapley lecturer. Mike has received a number of other awards for his work and is a member of the American Geophysical Union and the Division for Planetary Science of the American Astronomical Society. Mike, my colleagues and I salute you for your accomplishments, and we have great confidence that you will continue to do important work in planetary science. We fully expect you to return to Gustavus some year when the topic of the Nobel Conference is planetary science or life in the universe. Some of our speakers believe that being a member of a Nobel Conference panel gives them a leg up on the competition in Sweden. I would think being a graduate who also spent a significant amount of time working in Nobel Hall, you would have twice the advantage. When the time comes. . . .

University; Mitchell Harrison, Austin, TX, Presidential Management Fellow and management analyst, Economic Development Administration, U. S. Department of Commerce; Blake Kane, Dundas, MN, finance manager, International Business Machines Corp (IBM); Peter Nerothin, San Diego, CA, founder and president, Insulindependence; Philip Royer, Honolulu, HI, captain (promotable), US Army Medical Department, assistant chief of physical therapy, Tripler Army Medical Center; Tobias Stalter, Alexandria, VA, congressional analyst, Congressional Affairs Section, Embassy of Japan.

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Fish tales

Emeritus professors Bob Bellig ’60 (left) and Keith “Joe” Carlson ’60 sent visual evidence of how they are “frittering away their retirement.” They scored a double on redfish off the Mississippi delta in April.

First nursing class meets again

Class of 1960 nurses met in Kissimmee/Orlando, FL, for a reunion. When they turned 65 they determined to meet every two years. The Class of 1960 was the first class of nurses at Gustavus. The group is pictured with Flat Gus. Front row from left: Char Benjamin Schoen (with Flat Gus), Carol Schumacher Vamvakias, and Lois Anderson Nelson. Second row: Margo Pinney Cotton, Karen Carlson Danielson, Lois Swanson Johnson, and Arlys Folland Bjorke. Back row: Diane Fahlberg Anderson, Rita Piepgras Dague, Lois Lindall Miller, Jo Jensen Tollefson, Yvonne Harvey Daily, Carol Berg White, and Carolyn Anderson Kvam-Hansman.

s Nurses gather for annual reunion Class of 1963 nurses gathered May 7 in Northfield for an annual reunion they have maintained since their graduation. Pictured from left are Pat Findley Casto, Rose Omodt Jost, Mary Sundberg Larson, Char Lundahl Norris, Sharon Shaver Pinney, Carolyn Helgeson Liebenow, Chris Swenson Wilmot, Alicejean Leigh Dodson, and Barb Berry Leonard.

Gustie bridge club

Gustie friends who have been bridge club members since 1964 took a photo at their last gathering. Seated from left are Bev Nordskog Hedeen ’65, Karen Benson Hanson ’64, Barb Nelson Martens ’64, and Dianne Smith. Standing from left are Jan From Hanson ’65, Carolyn Johnson Holje ’64, Shirley Schmidt Vold ’64, and Barb Koehn Baumann ’64.

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News from the class: Many of our classmates have remained in the work force. Bruce Haugland is an agent at Ross Nesbitt Agency in Le Sueur. Bruce Johnson is president of Bruce Johnson Insurance Agency, LLC. Larry Philipp is a practice administrator at Stockton Anesthesia Medical Group. Tom Toftey is president of Toftey Consulting. Gayl Gayman Pearson is a tour guide in New Orleans. Maybe this is a paid position or maybe it’s a volunteer job. Either way, it must be interesting. Mary Nystrom Brockman is a French and basic writing skills teacher at Southeastern Community College in Keokuk, IA. Bradley Swanson is a partner at SKS Consulting Psychologists. Mary Hallberg Raftery is director of nursing at Morningside Health Care. Judy Gustafson Von Ahsen is employed at Peckumn Real Estate. Susan Molde is the director of nursing at Leeway, Inc. Patricia Snuggerud Dewees is a licensed marriage and family therapist at Port Orange Counseling Center in Florida. Nancy Flygare is a paralegal at Reynolds, Gold & Grosser. Gary Wollschlager is an attorney with Wollschlager, Tow, Ringquist Law Firm. Kay Hendrickson Dubbelde is a health para at Pipestone ISD #2689. Other classmates have retired and moved on to other interests and volunteer positions. Charles Peterson is a hobby farmer. Maury Miller is retired as senior vice president of CHS/Land O’ Lakes and has served on the Burnett County Board of Supervisors for the past decade. Jeanne Mingus Tolzmann retired from early childhood education ten years ago but has continued to volunteer in classrooms as a story teller and with numerous church activities. She has just recently reconnected with Girl Scouts and will be volunteering in several capacities. David and June Hagglund Weind are now fully retired. David is on the board of the Leprosy Mission, Canada, and Save the Mothers. They both are kept very busy week days with their three young grandchildren. June keeps herself fit by exercising, curling, and lawn bowling. They had not been back to Gustavus since the 25th class reunion but they made it to the 45th and were part of the tunnel tour group. n Communication Chair: Jeanne Mingus Tolzmann (1967classofficers@gustavus. edu)

Send class news to 1968classofficers@gustavus.edu.

Class officers needed. Send class news to 1969classofficers@gustavus.edu.

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Class officers needed. Send class news to 1970classofficers@gustavus.edu.

Wilder, Clarkston, WA, is a bookkeeper with Map Travel Company. In a letter sent out in the spring I asked who from our class attended the Lutheran Youth Convention in Miami Beach in 1965. Pete Peterson was there and Cindy Severance Larsen, Big Sky, MT, writes, “The Luther League at my church, Holy Trinity Lutheran in South Minneapolis, raised money for over a year and rented a coach bus to travel down and back. We stayed at the Shore Club and had a wonderful time! I met Darius ’69 at a Luther League Leadership School at St. Olaf earlier that summer and we had our first date in Miami at the convention, walking the beach! Joan

The highlight of my spring was an incredible two weeks in Japan with my friend Mary Ellen Andersen, where we visited Tokyo, Kyoto, and Nara and spent two nights in a Buddhist monastery in the mountain town of Koyasan. We stayed and traveled with Carol Manfred Sack ’72, Mary Ellen’s closest childhood friend, who has lived in Japan over 30 years! The last we heard from the Class of 1971 . . . Buster West, Cleveland, works as senior financial services representative for Principal Financial Group in St. Peter and earned membership in the Million Dollar Round Table in addition to qualifying for the company’s Premier Club. Membership in the MDRT is attained by those who have demonstrated “exceptional professional knowledge, expertise and client service.” Congratulations, Buster! When Bob Teerink, Worthington, visited Peru in April of this year he expected he’d run into some Gusties high atop Machu Picchu. After all, there was precedent. He writes, “I’d seen the news coverage of the Gustie students stranded by flooding a year or two ago. I’d also heard about chance encounters of Gusties on the Inca Trail or at Machu Picchu itself. I put on my best GAC T-shirt and joined my tour group for a day at the magnificent site, promoting the College and expecting to bump into some alumni among the throngs. Did I run into any other Gusties? No luck. However, once I got home and opened the latest Quarterly, the first story I came upon was of Gusties meeting Gusties on Machu Picchu! Perhaps next time! It’s absolutely worth a re-visit!” Bernie Anderson, New Richland, retired May 31 from the State Bank of New Richland where he was president. He writes, “35 years at the same location and job. Wow! Going to pursue my passion for art full-time now!” Jayne Sjostrom, Minneapolis, writes, “After teaching Spanish and French for 31 years

I retired in 2008. I finally made it back to Paris for a two-week visit in early May. C’etait formidable!” In June Dean “Pete” Peterson, Osceola, WI, spent a week with his family in Door County. “Really looking forward to some time away with them,” he writes. Dean is a financial adviser with Ameriprise Financial Services in Lake Elmo. Jim Ackerman, Vero Beach, FL, works as director of distribution centers for CVS Pharmacies. Tom Talmo, Excelsior, is a software engineering manager with MTS Systems Corporation. Bob Anderson, Spicer, is a principal in Willmar. Bob and Laura Edmonds Walker live in Fairmont where Laura serves as circulation technician for Martin County Library and Bob is a judge with the Fifth Judicial District Court. Bob Dahlof, Bloomington, is a financial planner with Integrated Equity Management, Inc. Bill Carroll, Zumbro Falls, is plan document analyst at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester. John Vollum, Carver, owns and is a consultant with The Wellspring Group. Windy Block, Montevideo, is city administrator for the city of Rushford. Kathy Blad Cassavant, Mahtomedi, is an administrative assistant for Thomson Reuters. Sheila Gullickson Ehrich, Farmington, works as document coder for Kroll Ontrack. Marcia Olson Horn, Brooklyn Park, teaches math in the Minneapolis Public Schools. Dale Pangrac, Lewiston, owns and farms Prime Pastures Organic Dairy. Bonnie Friesner, Custer, SD, is infection control coordinator for the Veterans Administration Medical Center. Doug Childs, Edina, is account manager of specialty underwriting with Travelers Companies, Inc. Cindy Lennartson Dalen, Stillwater, works as a teaching aide in special education in Little Canada. Shirley Gholston Key, Memphis, TN, is an associate professor of science education at the University of Memphis. Mick Goudy, Monticello, is football coach at Rogers High School. Jean Sather Novak, St. Paul, works as a social worker for Ramsey County. Diane Havlik Shallue, Blaine, is director of Christian education for University Lutheran Church of Hope. Judy Young

hilstroms publish devotional C book

Every Morning New, a book of inspirational writings co-authored by Herb and Corinne Chilstrom, was released in June by Huff Publishing Associates. The volume is a collection of inspirational writings for each day of the year, accompanied by relevant Bible readings. Herb Chilstrom is the former presiding bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, served on the Gustavus Board of Trustees for nearly 20 years, and was the interim director of the Gustavus Linnaeus Arboretum for two years. The cover photo features Mossebo Church, a congregation of the Church of Sweden on the border between Västergötland and Småland. The book is available for $15 through the Book Mark at Gustavus or by contacting the Chilstroms at coherb49@aol.com.

Gustie reunion in Mexico

Last February a group of Gustie women vacationed in Zihuatanejo, Mexico, to enjoy food and warm weather. Pictured from left are Janet Molde ’73, Peggy Mitchell Luther ’68, Karen Isfeld Richmond ’68, Kitty Hall Stevens ’68, Pat Wallace Ruble ’68, Ingrid Wilson Molde ’68, and Susan Benson Rettke ’68.

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Nelson, who was in our class at Gustavus for two years was also from Holy Trinity and went on the trip. Good memories!” Big Sky, by the way, is 45 minutes north of Yellowstone. Darius is pastor of All Saints in Big Sky, a shared ministry of the Episcopal and Lutheran (ELCA) churches. Marsha Luebbert Haechler, Wetzikon, Switzerland, writes, “I’m a three-time grandmother and have started teaching the older grandchildren to read from the famous “Dick, Jane, and Sally” books! I’m still teaching English at the business school in Wetzikon where I’ve been for over 32 years! Uff da! All the best wishes to everyone!” Natalie Peterson Torkelson, Tulsa, OK, received her 40th-year recognition from Hillcrest Hospital in Tulsa. She writes, “Us Okies do not always get much recognition for our community service and longevity in the workplace.” Connie Madsen Dallmann, Batavia, IL, works for the law firm of Hoscheit, McGuirk, McCracken and Cuscaden. Norm Quinn continues to work to get the house ready to sell in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. “One day working and then some time diving and enjoying the beach. Best fishes!” he writes. Michelle Thibault Frizzell, St. Louis, MO, writes, “Hello to everyone! I don’t think I’ve ever sent any news! After graduating from Gustavus I married a Nebraska guy and we have lived in Nebraska, Kansas, New Mexico, and Wisconsin, and in St. Louis for the last 15 years. I went to St. Louis University for my master’s in social work and have been working as a school social worker with special-needs kids for the last 12 years. I am in awe of the kids and families I work with and my definition of who heroes are in life has changed radically. We are blessed that both our sons and their families live here in St. Louis. I have five grandchildren, three girls and two boys, ranging in age from six months to eleven. It’s never dull! I remember many of you and the sweet, sweet times we had at Gustavus. I wish you all the very best!” Barry Haglund, Mound, is director of strategic partnerships with Minnesota Teen Challenge. Bob Johnson, River Falls, WI, is a family practice physician at River Falls Medical Clinic. Danelle Stello Noterman, Inver Grove Heights, works as an instructional clerk in the Rosemount/Apple Valley/Eagan schools. Warren Mullen, Mill Valley, CA, owns a real estate company, Pacific Union. Lynnae Hultgren Ringus, Plymouth, is sales manager for Mark Fisher Footwear. Marilyn Mericle Rauenhorst, Wells, is an RN for the United Hospital District. Bruce Dahlmeier, Minneapolis, works in construction and is self-employed. From Carol Haugen Stabenow, Stillwater: “It’s always fun to read what’s new for the Class of ’71! I retired from my position as a reading specialist a couple of years ago

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and have recently opened Sash, a women’s retail shop in Stillwater. It’s just down the hall from where my sons have their restaurant, Reve 324, so it’s especially fun!” (I received this note from Carol the week AFTER I was in Stillwater for the Stillwater Art Fair in May. Would have been fun to check out Sash and have lunch at Reve 324!) Dan Kratz, North Oaks, is administrator for Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota. Patti Olson Jenkins, Hermantown, is a psychologist with Hillside Center/ St. Luke’s Hospital. Greg Myhr, Maple Grove, is a sales representative with Liberty Carton Company. Koni Milinkovich Porter, Forest Lake, is a juvenile officer with the Brooklyn Park Police Department. Barb Sjogren, Brooklyn, NY, is an art instructor at Calhoun School. Rod Portele, Darwin, is owner and president of Rod Portele Electric. Linda Carlson Odegard, Minneapolis, writes, “I am actively involved on the boards of BestPrep (delivering financial literacy programs to Minnesota youth), the Governing Members of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and the Friends of the University of Minnesota Libraries. My husband, Harlan Cavert, and I are delighting in Skyping our 20-monthold granddaughter in Cambridge, England. I’m also involved with the Department of French and Italian at the University and have particularly enjoyed reviewing applications for study abroad.” Barb Carlson Lescenski, Apple Valley, is a public health nurse specialist with Ramsey County. I was having lunch with my dad at Jake’s City Grille in Maplewood one day in May, looked out the window, and shouted, “Dad! A Gustie from my class!” I’m sure the women with whom Barb was walking across the parking lot wondered just who was this middle-aged man charging after them! But I wanted to say hello to Barb, of course! Diane Preblick Moerer, Meridian, ID, writes, “I retired from the Boeing Company in 2006 and soon after we moved to Meridian where we feel right at home here in the Treasure Valley. I’m working part-time as an administrative assistant at our church. Life is good!” Finally, from Kevin Amundson, Rochester: “I am home recovering from knee surgery, done last Friday (in May) and missing my golf game. I have been trying to think of something to write about and think back to the time, Bruce, you and I doubledated. Was it our freshman homecoming? That takes us back a few years! Life is busy. I am the senior guy of a five-doctor group of oral and maxillofacial surgeons with offices in Rochester, Owatonna, Austin, Mankato, and Red Wing. My kids tease me about how much I love my work but it really is a blessing to get up, go to work, and love what you do! Gustavus is where it all started!” A reminder. . . about 80 percent of the

Gustavus Annual Fund goes for student aid and scholarships and last year over 70% of Gustie students received this aid! The other 20 percent of the fund goes for improving things around campus, updating technology, and otherwise helping to keep our alma mater producing outstanding programs and quality education, something Gustavus has been doing for 150 years! A true story! A friend who works for the College was behind a young man in the lunch line. As they were waiting to be checked out she asked him his name and where he was from. The student said he was from a very small town in northern Minnesota and, seeing that she was alone, invited her to join him and his crew at their table. After group introductions the young man said proudly he was the first in his family to go to college, that he would be graduating in a week with a degree in accounting with honors and, because this was a new experience for his family, he expected a big group to attend graduation to witness him receiving his diploma. He also mentioned having a job lined up with an accounting firm in the Twin Cities. As the conversation continued, those at the table discussed the cost of a college education. Having worked some tough mining jobs that paid fairly well each summer, this young man was able to pay for a large portion of his education himself because his family was not able to help much with college costs. “And the alumni sure stepped up to help,” he said. He explained how he had received significant scholarships which helped bridge the gap between what his summer employment would cover and the loans he had. “I will

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s Alumna hosts Wind Orchestra during Florida tour When the Gustavus Wind Orchestra was on tour in Florida last January, Dawn ’67 and Ted Michael hosted the group at their home in Vero Beach. The GWO enjoyed a free afternoon of sunshine, beach time, and great food! (Photo by Nick Hamberg ’12)

Eppies’ reunion

The Eppies held a reunion April 19 at Minnesota Valley Country Club in Bloomington, MN, coinciding with a campus visit by former Chaplain Richard Elvee. Elvee returned to campus for a week to speak at several Sesquicentennial events for the College and was guest of honor at the fraternity reunion. During his tenure at Gustavus he was adviser to the Eppies and shared thoughts with the group. Todd Dokken ’72 hosted the event and several alums shared their remembrances of their time on campus. Over 80 people attended; the Eppies are hoping to organize another reunion soon.

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always remember how Gustavus alumni helped me. My turn will come,” he added. My friend knew this young man was an incredible alumni investment and that he will contribute positively to society. “Gustavus is truly stamped on his heart,” she added. Think of how Gustavus has been “stamped” on your heart as well! Keep the news coming because it’s great hearing from you! And, as always, thank you for your Gustavus support! n C ommunication Chair: Bruce Johnson (1971classofficers@gustavus.edu)

0th Anniversary: 4 October 12–13, 2012 aturday, Oct. 13, 2012 S Noon - Class Lunch Hospitality Tent 3: 30 p.m. Class Social Hospitality Tent

n C ommunication Chair: Todd Dokken (1972classofficers@gustavus.edu)

Class officers needed. Send class news to 1973classofficers@gustavus.edu.

As we commemorate our collective “milestone” birthdays this year, it has been great to get updates from nearly 60 of our ’74 classmates! We look forward to reconnecting with many more of you as we approach our 40th reunion, so please either send updates at any time to alumni@gustavus.edu or make sure you respond when a classmate requests an update! Also, join our 1974 Gusties Facebook group. Denny Trooien and Sue Ahlcrona continue to reside in White Bear Lake, as they have for the last 33 years. Son Erik is a financial analyst for EBF in Minnetonka, son Ross just passed the Minnesota bar exam after graduating from the U of M Law School, and daughter Maari works in Chicago for a public relations firm. Denny and Sue also enjoy their home in Sanibel, FL. Denny left his commercial real estate law practice several years ago and pursues his own real estate investments under the name of DENNIS Properties. Sue is very active with the White Bear Center for the Arts. Mick Holm is retiring this summer after 36 years as a R & D manager for DuPont Crop Protection. Mick intends to continue living in Waunakee, WI, where he and his wife, Jeamie, have two grandchildren and also a daughter in college. Mick says, “I took a lot of years to convert, but I’m now a Packer and Badger fan.” Rob and Liz Linner have three daughters. Jane (21), co-president of the TM’s this past year, will be a senior at Gustavus this fall; Laura

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(25) lives in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and works for AGAPE International Missions in rehabilitation for victims of sex trafficking; and Kathryn (29) works for Great Lakes Management in Minneapolis in human resources. Carl “Bucky” Wicklund is married to Becky Crawford. They have two children, Eli (26) and Callie (20). Callie is a junior at Gustavus. Carl is in his 17th year as the director of the American Probation and Parole Association, and they live in Lexington, KY. Bill Lunz and his wife, Vicki, live in Maplewood, where Bill continues to work for the State of Minnesota and serves as the Department of Human Service’s security manager and as an assistant director within the Management Services Division. Vicki has been nursing for over 35 years within the Behavioral Health Unit at United Hospital in downtown St. Paul. Kurt Deter has been married to Joanne for 33 years. They have three children, Bryce, Kelly and Stephanie. Kurt is a partner with the Rinke-Noonan Law Firm in St.Cloud. Kurt and Joanne live in Sartell. Kirk and Julie (Adolphson ’75) Detlefsen continue to reside in Lakeville. Daughter Kristi is married with three children and lives in Portland, OR. Son Karl sells real estate in the Palm Springs, CA, area, son Keith works at Kirk’s State Farm Agency in Burnsville, and son Kent is just finishing his senior year at University of WisconsinStevens Point. Kirk loves Target Field and enjoys going to Twins games. In the winter, Kirk and Julie enjoy spending as much time as possible at their condo in LaQuinta, CA. David Bohline continues to struggle with the weather in North San Diego County while conducting psychological screening for entry into the San Onofre Nuclear Power Plan and promoting his children’s book on asthma. His marriage to a nurse practitioner assures the calmness that medication and a loving relationship can provide, and he pledges ongoing efforts to monitor the emotional welfare of his roommate from 4P Sorenson, Rob Linner, regarding his unabated affability and drive. Don Spilseth has been serving as a trial judge in Minnesota for 19 years and was recently elected chief judge for the 8th Judicial District. His work as chief judge includes responsibilities for 13 county district and monthly meetings of the Judicial Council to deal with policy issues. Pauline and Don have continued to live in Spicer on Green Lake since 2005 where they enjoy the lake immensely. Their two boys, Ben ’03 and Karl ’05, live in Minneapolis working for their respective companies, Ben as a radiologist with the University of Minnesota and Karl recently joining Medtronic in one of their marketing departments. Pauline retired a few years ago but continues to work parttime with New London-Spicer schools as a

developmental-adapted physical educator. Deb Johnson O’Malley is retired after 37 years of teaching English in Belle Plaine. Pat O’Malley is retired but still teaching German part-time in New Prague. He also continues to arrange student and adult tours to Europe. Daughter Evan will be graduating in December from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. Doug Cramblit is married to Linda and they live in Mankato. They have a son Andrew (30), and a daughter, JoAna (26). Doug is in his 32nd year with Swanson Flo-Systems. Bob Bonne is a firefighter/ paramedic with St. Paul Fire. He and his wife, Sue, live in St. Paul with their boys Tom and Chris (20). Their daughter Britt (24) lives nearby and is an RN at Regions hospital. Chuck and Cherie Wheat Schweiger are living in Naperville, IL. Cherie retired from Illinois School District 204 in Sept. 2011. Chuck is with IBM, working in their business analytics and optimization consulting services organization. Steve Smith is married to Mary and they live in Sevierville, TN. They have a son, Brandon (27), and a daughter, Alysia (25). Steve is in his 28th year practicing as an orthopedic surgeon. Jeanne Anderson Lind and Denny Lind ’72 live in Eden Prairie. They have four daughters: Jessica (32) and Matt Peterson live in Bronxville, NY, with their two daughters; Amy (30) and Mark Truelsen live in Chicago, where Amy works for The Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company as manager of global corporate affairs; Kathryn (26) works for Apple in New York City in sales marketing; and Sarah (23) is living in London, participating in a post-graduate program, and interning with The Deutsche Bank. Amy Larson Schmidt has been married to Gary Schmidt for 36 years, and has lived in Lakeville for the past 34. Amy has completed 38 years with Lakeville Schools, first as a teacher, then a staff development coordinator, and an elementary school principal for the last 16. Gary is the director of the reliever airports for the Metropolitan Airports Commission, and has been with the MAC for 29 years. The Schmidts have two terrific children: AnnaLisa Schmidt Maestri (30), who works as an actuarial consultant for Optum (part of United Health), and is married to her high school sweetheart; and Anders Schmidt ’06, studio art major and Gustavus baseball captain, who now works for Blue Rhino Studios in Eagan, creating life-sized displays for museums, zoos, and commercial and entertainment venues. (Can you tell she’s a proud mom?) There is always a big dog at the Schmidts’ house . . . currently she’s a German shepherd/huskie mix named Sunny. In any spare time she has, Amy heads up north to the cabin she and two of her sisters rebuilt in 2009. Amy is looking toward retirement in a couple of

GUSTAVUS ALUMNI Gusties visit Japanese sites

The highlight of Bruce Johnson’s ’71 spring was a twoweek trip to Japan where he visited Tokyo, Kyoto, and Nara and spent two nights in a Buddhist monastery in the mountain town of Koyasan. He stayed and traveled with Carol Manfred Sack ’72, who has lived in Japan over 30 years. Johnson and Sack are standing under cherry blossoms on a former kamikaze runway that is now a street on the campus of International Christian University.

usich named to International D Society of Barristers

Bernie Dusich ’75, Apple Valley, has been honored by being named to the International Society of Barristers. Dusich is an attorney at Sieben Polk Law Firm. The International Society of Barristers was formed to recognize each era’s best advocates that they might join together to support these common goals: “retaining trial by jury in litigated matters; improving advocacy under an adversary system; recognizing advocacy as a distinct specialty with the creation of proper standards for those holding themselves out as advocates; abolishing animosity between counsel representing plaintiffs and defendants, replacing it with a recognition that all trial lawyers are advocates fully representing the rights of all clients; encouraging and demanding ethical conduct by all involved in litigation—parties, witnesses, counsel, and judges; insisting that clients be represented by independent counsel owing their allegiance to the client; and protecting the rights of citizens, the independence of the judiciary, and the integrity of the Bar.” Membership is by invitation only, which is preceded by a rigorous screening process that considers the lawyer’s ability, experience, accomplishments, and ethical standards as assessed by trial lawyers and judges. The Society holds an annual meeting and publishes a quarterly journal of topics covered at the meeting and otherwise of interest to its members. Through the International Society of Barristers Foundation, the Society supports the work of other organizations whose endeavors are consistent with the Society’s goals. s

years, but if a grandchild arrives, it may be sooner! Karen Amundson Cotton and Curt Cotton ’72 live on Big Watab Lake outside of Cold Spring. Karen recently retired from her 35-year teaching career with Sartell Public Schools. Their three children, Brandon ’04, Brady ’05, and Kelsey ’07 all live in Minnesota. Mark Shinn is married to Michelle and is principal of two elementary schools in Lake Forest, IL. He has three sons, Peter (26), Dominic (12), and Matteo (4). He is still a professor of school psychology at National Louis University and a consultant to Pearson Assessment and to schools and state departments of education across the country. This past year, he worked with the state departments of education of Virginia and North Dakota, as well as school districts in New York, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, California, and Florida. He recently published his fifth edited book on evidencebased school interventions for the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) and serves on the National Advisory Board for the Consortium on Reaching Excellence (CORE; www.corelearn.com), which supports school improvement nationwide. He supports staff development across the country through his website at markshinn .org. Cindy Toppin, vice president of programs at Lifetrack Resources, received the 2012 Administration on Children, Youth and Families Commissioner’s Award presented this past April in Washington, DC. Cindy was nominated by the Minnesota Governor’s office; this prestigious award honors one recipient from each state, Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, and the territories, for making an exceptional contribution to the prevention and treatment of child abuse and neglect. Rolf and Cindy Gruber live in Brooklyn Park. They enjoy being grandparents and traveling. Rolf plans to retire next year,

eterson and Adolphson meet in P Tanzania

Tom Adolphson ’80 (right) traveled with his wife, Qing, to Tanzania last February for an adventure before the birth of their child. Adolphson contacted Thad Peterson ’78 (left), director of Dorobo Tours & Safaris in Arusha. They had not seen each other since 1975 when they collaborated on a project for the late religion professor Robert Esbjornson. The photo was taken on the outskirts of Arusha.

Peterson supports Empowering Learners to help schools in Namibia

Ann Sponberg Peterson ’83, Decorah, IA, is “Making Her Life Count” and demonstrating Gustavus’s core values of service and faith. Peterson has been engaged with other colleagues at Luther College in supporting Empowering Learners’ philanthropic efforts to help Lutheran schools in the northern part of Namibia, Africa. With assistance from the Luther Book Shop and the college’s Library and Information Services, the project has acquired calculators and laptops that will be delivered to Oshigambo Lutheran High School, a residential math and science high school near Ondangwa, Namibia, about 30 miles south of the Angolan border. As one of the project leaders, Peterson, who serves as director of development at Luther College, traveled to Namibia this past summer with a group of Luther faculty, staff, alumni, and family members to personally deliver the equipment. This is a return trip to Oshigambo Lutheran High School for Peterson. The group also saw the results of their 2011 campaign, “Empowering Learners, Stocking the Shelves,” which raised $24,000 and allowed them to ship a 40-foot sea container filled with more than 19,000 library books and textbooks, 40 computers, and three brand new sets of Encyclopædia Britannica to Oshigambo and Nkurenkuru Lutheran High Schools. Pictured are project leaders Ethan Schultz, a graduating senior at Luther, and Peterson. Empowering Learners is a philanthropic project benefitting the students, teachers, and schools of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Namibia. Founded in 2010 and volunteer-driven, the effort seeks to increase the instructional resources available to the ELCIN schools in the north of Namibia. See www .empoweringlearnersnamibia.blogspot.com for more information.

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and Cindy is retired from daycare. They have three children: Dena, who is a stay-athome mom of two; Erik, who is a journalist at Bethel; and Tim, who is searching for a direction. Cindy is an avid quilter, and Rolf likes kayaking and spending time with the really nice guitar he recently bought. Kevin and Rita Ferguson Maehling will celebrate many milestones in 2012 (besides milestone birthdays)! Kevin has worked for Thermo Fisher Scientific in Coon Rapids for 30 years, and Rita began her own human resources consulting practice, Achieve Consulting. Inc., 10 years ago. In addition, their daughter, Krista, will graduate from Minnesota State University-Moorhead this December with a Spanish major. Jeff and Kathy Pinkham continue living in Dublin, OH, where he is global vice president of regulatory affairs for Scotts Miracle Gro. They have two daughters: Laura (24), a massage therapist in Illinois, and Jessica (20), who will be a junior at the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati. Jeff enjoyed initiating Gamma Rob Linner as “Eppiefor-a-day” at the Eppie gathering honoring Chaplain Elvee this spring. Joel Riley continues in his optometric practice although he is taking more time out of the office. He is looking forward to retirement in a few years as their three daughters are in Colorado and Los Angeles, with one grandchild in Colorado and another one arriving in the fall. Joel’s wife, Debbie, is an early intervention physical therapist for the Board of Developmental Disabilities, and she is looking at retirement in 18 months, which will open up their travel plans. Gregg “Spike” Carlsen is former executive editor of The Family Handyman magazine and is currently working on his fourth book. His first book, A Splintered History of Wood (HarperCollins), was selected by NPR as one of their “Best Books for Gift Giving.” He has made recent appearances on Modern Marvels, the CBS Early Show, and HGTV. He and his wife, Kat, live in Stillwater. Their five kids are scattered far and wide. Susie Pederson Slater is married to John Slater ’69; they recently retired and moved to Nisswa to enjoy days on Pelican Lake. Their children, Erik (31) and Kate (28), live and work in the Twin Cities. Shari Meade Zeise is the finance director for university services at the University of MinnesotaTwin Cities. Mark Zeise ’73 is retired from teaching biology and coaching baseball in Lakeville. He still coaches football, dabbles in long-term substitute positions, and tries to spend as much time as possible fishing on Lake Darling in Alexandria. Don and Ava (Goodwin) Nielsen are eagerly awaiting the birth of their second grandchild. Their oldest son, Drew (25), is married and works at MorseKode in Bloomington as a video

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editor. Their younger son, Dane (22), works at Canterbury Park video department and attends Metropolitan State University in computer science. Don is a computer tech at Minneapolis Public Schools, is an avid geocacher, and bikes throughout the metro area every chance he gets. His big event in the summer is the 100-mile Breast Cancer Bike Ride. Ava is retired from Minneapolis Public Schools after 34 years, the last 10 as an HR director. She now spends her time with her granddaughter, Abbey (20 months), exploring family history, writing her blog (www.joy2day.org), and consulting. n Communication Co-chairs: Rita Ferguson Maehling & Chris Mathieu (1974classofficers@gustavus.edu)

Class officers needed. Send class news to 1975classofficers@gustavus.edu.

Class officers needed. Send class news to 1976classofficers@gustavus.edu.

3 5th Anniversary: October 12–13, 2012 Friday, Oct. 12, 2012 7 p.m. – Class Social Sofitel, Minneapolis Saturday, Oct. 13, 2012 Noon – Class Lunch Hospitality Tent 5:30 p.m. – Class Social and Dinner Campus Center Banquet Room

n Class President: Dave “Ole” Olson (1977classofficers@gustavus.edu)

Class officers needed. Send class news to 1978classofficers@gustavus.edu.

Class officers needed. Send class news to 1979classofficers@gustavus.edu.

Class officers needed. Send class news to 1980classofficers@gustavus.edu.

Lori Rutter Anderson owns EuroNest in St. Louis Park and recently launched an online wine website called winetiques.com. The Family Law Section of the Minnesota Bar Association awarded Michael D. Dittberner, Esq., of Linder, Dittberner & Bryant, Ltd., the designation of Distinguished Member of the Family Law Section at the Family Law Institute on

March 27, 2012. The award recognized Michael’s longstanding and prodigious efforts on behalf of family law in appellate writing, legislative action, rule-making, and continuing legal education, and for his continuing loyalty and dedication to the Family Law Section. Linder, Dittberner & Bryant, Ltd., limits its practice to family law. Bob Schnell is president of Center Insurance Agency. n Communication Chair: Lori Rutter Anderson (1981classofficers@gustavus. edu)

3 0th Anniversary: October 12–13, 2012 Friday, Oct. 12, 2012 7 p.m. – Class Gathering, The Dive, Johnson Student Union Saturday, Oct. 13, 2012 Noon – Class Lunch, Hospitality Tent 7 p.m. – Class Social and Dinner, AmericInn Conference Center, Mankato

Now that the 2011–12 academic year is over and another summer break is in full swing, what better time to take a breath, enjoy time with family and friends, and then look forward to the school year ahead. 2012–13 promises to be a remarkable year at Gustavus Adolphus College—record enrollment, the continuation of Campaign Gustavus, and the visit on October 5 by the King and Queen of Sweden to our campus. President Ohle is making his mark on Gustavus as the president of our college, and we should be proud of his efforts. On October 12–13, we will be celebrating our 30th Class Reunion. On October 12, we will meet at the Dive on Campus; and then on October 13, football and a celebration at the AmericInn in Mankato. To see more of what the Reunion Committee has planned, go to gustavus.edu/homecoming. We still need classmates who are willing to reach out and personally invite our class. As we all know, if we know classmates who are planning on being at Homecoming, we are more likely to come. Please consider helping and calling those classmates who you met 34 years ago and have stayed in touch with. Today I was at an open house for the son of Jim O’Neil ’84, Aaron, and the largest group were the Gusties—Dave Najarian ’81, Terry Petersen ’84, Tom Marks ’83, Gregg Roberts ’80, Chris Erikstrup ’84, Tom Kleist ’84, Jody Erickson ’84, Tom and Leslie Nelson Johnson ’85 ’86, and Bob Neuman ’80—there to celebrate our classmate’s family’s achievement. Later on I went to the home of Jay and Terri Quale Cope ’81 ’81, for their daughter Hannah’s high

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2012 DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI CITATION The Distinguished Alumni Citation recognizes outstanding and exceptional professional achievement, such as that which would bring unusual honor to the individual in his or her field of endeavor.

Scott Dee ’81 Photo by Wayne Schmidt

From his award ceremony introduction by Jennifer Boorman Schurrer ’02

r. Scott Dee has had a profound impact on my career and life. We share a similar start in our veterinary careers: we are both graduates of Gustavus with majors in biology. During my junior year I ran into my admissions rep, Rich Aune ’81, and he inquired if I was still planning on applying to vet school. I let him know that I was hoping to do research that summer in the veterinary field to help strengthen my application. Rich mentioned that his old Gustavus roommate was a pig vet and maybe he could help me find an opportunity if I was interested. I let him know I was, even though I knew nothing about pigs. Much to my surprise he immediately picked up the phone and called Scott. After a few minutes of small talk he handed me the phone and said, “This is Scott; he’s a vet.” Looking back on that introduction, there are a few details about his friend that Rich left out. The first is that Scott is passionate about education and teaching, and was a professor at the U of M Veterinary Medical School, where I dreamed about applying. Second, he is a world-famous researcher in the field of PRRS, a viral pig disease that costs the U.S. swine industry $500 million dollars annually. After graduating from Gustavus, Scott completed his master’s at the University of Minnesota in microbiology and immediately enrolled in veterinary school. After graduation he joined the Swine Health Center in Morris, MN. While working there, PRRS first reared its ugly head, directly impacting many of his clients. This was a driving force that inspired Scott to return to the U of M for his Ph.D. His research interests have focused on PRRS, including control of the PRRS virus, elimination of PRRS school graduation open house. Again the largest group of parents were the Gustavus classmates—Bob ’81 and Beth Sparboe Schnell, Don Ellwood ’80, Eric Lehrer ’81— and I was told quite a few other Gusties stopped by after I left. This is why getting together at various events throughout the year is always fun, because even though we have not been together as a class for

virus, viral persistence, PRRS virus transmission and biosecurity, and PRRS virus aerobiology. He has been a swine consultant in 34 U.S. states and 23 counties in Minnesota. He is a Diplomat of the American College of Veterinary Microbiologists. He has undertaken over 300 speaking engagements in 25 countries in addition to the U.S. Scott has written over 160 abstracts, 27 textbook chapters, and 134 peer-reviewed publications. He is a member, and past president, of the American Association of Swine Veterinarians. He has been an active member of multiple committees including director of the Swine Disease Eradication Center. He has been awarded many prestigious awards, including Gustavus’s First Decade award for early achievement, American Association of Swine Veterinarian Practitioner of the Year, and the Pfizer Award for research excellence. Scott has helped develop a passion for research in all the graduate students he has worked with, including me. I give Scott credit for welcoming me to the world of swine research even though I had never worked with a pig before in my life (short of enjoying a good pork chop!). Scott is an adviser and researcher who is never afraid of getting his hands a little dirty. I have fond memories of running across cow pastures with gallon jugs of bug attractant to catch our special housefly while wearing white hazmat looking suits, boots, and gloves in the heat of the summer. Scott Dee is not just any veterinarian, but one who has shaped the world through his work and research.

30 years, when Gusties get together the time apart seems like it was just yesterday and gives proof that we know what is important in our lives. As Edward Everett Hale said, “The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a person’s success in life.” I am sure, in this measurement, we have all had successful lives. Please do not hesitate to contact

me at ROlson@BSMSchool.org with your comments and suggestions. I want to hear from you! Tell me about your Gustavus experience and the impact you are making in your career and community. No news is too small to share; Gustavus is proud of all our alumni, and I wish you continued success, wherever you are, whatever you do. n Communication Chair: Richard Olson FALL 2012

(1982classofficers@gustavus.edu) Class officers needed. Send class news to 1983classofficers@gustavus.edu.

Susanne Lundgren Lambert is the executive director of Progress Valley. n Class President and Communication Chair: Carole Arwidson (1984classofficers@gustavus.edu)

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s Magee hosts Gusties at home David McGee ’83 hosted a group of Gusties at his condominium in Arlington, VA. Pictured from left are Dawn Nelson ’68, Anne Johnson ’84, JanaLee Sponberg ’68, David Magee ’83, Melissa Barkalow ’02, and Brittany Bauer ’11. The evening included sampling Kent Rosenblum’s ’66 Zinfandel (rosenblumcellars.com). s

usties at Camp G Hiawatha Hockey Camp

Several Gusties participated in the 2012 Camp Hiawatha Hockey Camp last June in Coleraine, MN. Hockey Camp at Camp Hiawatha was developed 30 years ago to offer youth hockey players the opportunity to hone their skills while having a Christ-centered Bible camp experience. Pictured from left are former Gustavus hockey coach Don Robert ’56, Jim O’Neill ’84, Ellen O’Neill, Eva Hendrikson, and Erik Hendrikson ’94.

Named director at ALLETE

Lori Gustafson Frisk ’86, Duluth, MN, has been named director of transmission, regulatory compliance, and business support for ALLETE, an energy company that has been serving northeast Minnesota and North Dakota since 1906. Frisk began at ALLETE in 1989 and her career has included roles of increasing responsibility within information technology solutions, including director of information technology. s

Wold Easter gathering

Wold family Gusties celebrated Easter 2012 at the home of Peter and Tamara Jergenson Wold in St. Paul, MN. Present for the reunion were (seated) Tina Wold Royer ’78 and Roland (Pete) Wold ’62. Standing, from left, are Peter Wold ’92, Tami Jergenson Wold ’92, Rad Royer ’77, Charlie Wold ’77, Molly Wold Sedgwick ’94, Elizabeth Proeschel Wold ’64, Kay Rethwill Moline ’56, Karin Wold Storm ’80, Julia Wold ’08, Matt Royer ’06, and Erika Royer ’03. Not pictured but present in spirit was David Wold ’60, who resides in Saffle, Sweden.

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Send class news to 1985classofficers@gustavus.edu.

Daniel Felton is vice president, government relations, for International Bottled Water Association (IBWA) in Alexandria, VA. Daniel Herzog is a chief financial officer at Clearfield. James Larson is a behavior specialist at NE Metro Intermediate School District #916. Mike Bryant is an attorney at Bradshaw & Bryant PLLC. Laura Peterson Olson is Healtheast Transportation director at Health East. Laura Anderson Long is a voice coach, music instructor/performer at Laura Long, LLC. As a vocal instructor and performance coach, Laura guides each student along the steps that lead to becoming a highly successful performer. Sara B. Hansen is a senior editor for the Integrity Group and is editing custom publications for Hewlett-Packard for its Web-enabled printers. Jackie Hunt Christensen received the “2012 Environmental Health Hero Award” from Health Care Without Harm (HCWH): The Campaign for Environmentally Responsible Health Care at its CleanMed conference on May 1 in Denver, CO. HCWH is an international organization that Jackie helped to found and co-manage 15 years ago. Jackie also is serving as the conference chair for the “2012

GUSTAVUS ALUMNI Minnesota Parkinson’s Disease Forum: Coming Together for Parkinson’s Friendly Communities” and she has started a new blog, “Do I LOOK Like I Care?” which is largely devoted to how Parkinson’s disease can affect communications and thus, personal relationships. n C ommunication Chair: Sara Hansen (1986classofficers@gustavus.edu)

25th Anniversary: October 12–13, 2012 Saturday, Oct. 13, 2012 Noon – Class Lunch Hospitality Tent 3:30 p.m. – Class Social Hospitality Tent

It’s time for our 25th Reunion and your reunion committee has a fun day−October 13, 2012−in the works. If you weren’t at the 20th reunion, a great time was had by all on campus and at The Flame, so we are going to keep it casual and do it again. More information and details will be forthcoming, so keep an eye out for it or check us out on Facebook at Gustavus Adolphus College Class of 1987! Tom Alexander is still a real estate attorney and shareholder at Larkin Hoffman Law Firm in Bloomington. Brent Ashland is a high school principal in the KenyonWanamingo School District. Valerie Flom Ashland is a third-grade teacher in the Albert Lea School District. Jeni Lange Belvedere is a third-grade teacher in Hopkins ISD #270. Paul Beuning is a teacher at New London/Spicer High School. Lisa Baumgartner Bonds is a senior vice president at The Lutheran Community Foundation. Ted Botten is president of Theodore P. Botten Insurance Agency, Inc. Peter Breitmayeris a professional actor. Lydia Brooks owns Skoorb Designs. Beth Beach Bryant is an attorney at Linder, Dittberner & Bryant, Ltd. Dan Buchanan is a technical laboratory consultant at Mayo Clinic and owns Mosquito Squad of SE Minnesota. Kathy Wahlert Chameli is a substitute teacher. Marian Oswald Delaney is a physical therapist/athletic trainer at the Institute for Athletic Medicine. Kian Dwyer is owner and design consultant at Order in the Home. Scott Edblom is a senior VP of product management at Western and Southern Financial Group. Lee Fahrenz is an agent with Euler Hermes ACI. Christine Gustafson Fattore is director at Aeras in Rockville, MD. David Flaten is a professor of history and political science at Tompkins Cortland Community College. Darcie Hart Forster is a systems developer IV at Federated Mutual Insurance Company in Owatonna. Sue Guertin Fortunato is a supervisory counterfeit specialist with the

U.S. Secret Service criminal investigative service. Ed Frickson is an executive director of Family Innovations. Paul Gesme is a vice president at Mesaba Bancshares. April Tilton Goddard is a physician assistant at the University of Florida Division of Gastroenterology. Kelly Opheim Gordon is a project manager at Pacific Northwest National Lab. Steve Grimm is a physical education and health teacher and golf coach at Hinkley/Finlayson High School. Kevin Gruenewald is a sales representative at Viking Drill and Tool. Elizabeth Ackmann Gulden is an instructional assistant at Twin Lakes Elementary in Elk River. Tara Hovland Hallman is an executive administrator at Covert Funeral Home, LLC. Joel Johns is looking for a new gig after 13+ years as vice president-salon operations at Regis Corporation. Janet Bahls Johnson is a manager-finance at Thomsen Reuters. Kris Hansen Johnson is a senior business systems analyst at Bally Technologies. Tim Keran is CEO/owner of Western Graphics. Stephen Klick is a mechanical engineer for ACS. Paul Koch is senior vice president/ wealth adviser and portfolio manager at UBS Financial Services. John Koenig is president/CEO of Water Closet Media/Big Green Racecar. Nancy Koski is a clinical research specialist at 3M. Patti Boyce Leaf is an independent representative with Silpada Designs. Butch Leyda is a family practice physician at Hudson Physicians. Tom Linder is a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. Kris Lund is a cognitive scientist at Language Sciences Research Lab in France. Steve Mann is a director of sales at Oregon Scientific. Robert McGuire is president of Owens Illinois-China branch. Melissa Radeke McPhee is a sixth-grade teacher in St. Cloud ISD #742 and is working on her doctorate in education at Bethel University. Tracy Melin is a manufacturing engineer for Thermo Fisher Scientific. Trudy Johnson Mencke is an administrator at Mission Point Christian Church in San Antonio, TX. Jeffrey Mostrom is an IT analyst at Thrivent Financial for Lutherans. Cheri Bishop O’Hagan is a media associate at Spirit Lake School District. Phil Olson is owner/guitar instructor at Oslo Studios in Burnsville. Roz Johnson Peterson is a leasing and sales associate with Cerron Commercial Properties. Pat Ploumen is a finance manager at Marquette Transportation Finance in Bloomington. Tim Rask is an agent for GEICO. Jayne Radke Rothschild is executive director of Honors Choirs of Southeastern Minnesota. Jenni Ryberg is employed in the billing department at Merrill Corp. Kathryn Kumm Schechinger owns and is officer manager at Schechinger Farms, Inc. in Iowa. Erik Schindler is owner and CEO of Norcostco Inc. Cheryl Flor Scott

is a property claims supervisor at Pemco Insurance. Jay Scott is owner/president at Solomon Real Estate Group, Inc. Joni Roust Stapfer is a perennial grower and salesperson at Green Valley Greenhouse in Ramsey. Amy Showers-Stone volunteers with the St. Paul Public Schools. Carolyn Falk Sund is a teacher in the Wayzata Public Schools. Patrick Swetala is a district marketing manager with Federated Mutual Insurance Company in Edina. Michael Thelander is CEO of Signals Research Group, LLC. Beth Perry Theibault is a partner at Deloitte Consulting LLP. Jodi Lawrence Tuthill is a product manager at Wenger Corporation. Brenda Oian Vust is

Save the Date Family Weekend 2012 Friday, October 5 • Class Visits • Weekend Movie: Brave • Lineus Improv Show Saturday, October 6 • Seminars and Workshops • Carnival Luncheon • Performance by Pasik Musik • Arboretum treasure hunt • Gustie Family Golf Outing • Family Weekend Banquet Sunday, October 7 • Jazz Brunch • Holy Communion Worship Service • Musical Performances For more information, visit gustavus.edu/sao/ familyweekend. Registration begins September 3, 2012. Subject to change.

a licensed marriage and family therapist at Blue Earth County Mental Health. Chantal Dozois Weatherford is president of McKenzie Consulting Group in Plymouth. Jill Swanson Whisler is a computer applications teacher at Lake Middle School in Woodbury. Nicci Abraham Will is a co-owner and website administrator for The Wills Company. Brian Wing is a vice president at First State Bank, Ashby. Rich Wipperfurth is a senior vice president, sales, at Catalyst Health Solutions. n Guest writer: Jill Swanson Whisler (1987classofficers@gustavus.edu) Paul Laird began his career in 1988 as a correctional officer at the Federal Correctional Institution in Phoenix, AZ. Over the years he has added responsibilities, which many times meant moving to a new part of the country. Prior to January 2012, he had been assistant

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director for the Industries, Education, and Vocational Training Division as COO of Federal Prison Industries. On January 31, 2012, he was named regional director for the North Central Region. Lara Peterson is a senior associate at Revel Consulting, Kirkland, WA. In addition, she has been a member on the board of directors at Families with Children from China Northwest for over nine years. Luther Hagen enjoyed Spring Break on a cruise with his wife and two daughters. Sounds like they enjoyed themselves . . . already planning the next one? Traci Hiscocks Edblom is a strategic analyst at The Lyon Group. Suzanne Vodegel Wing is a closing agent at N. F. Field Abstract. David Van Brunt is a director at Health Economics and Outcomes Research in Indianapolis, IN. Maryann Anderson Nelson recently opened a small animal veterinary clinic in North Mankato. She offers laser surgery, in-house lab, digital x-ray, wellness exams, and sick animal care, as well as hospitalization. n C ommunication Chair: Kaari Olson Frondal (1988classofficers@gustavus. edu)

Class officers needed. Send class news to 1989classofficers@gustavus.edu. Fall is fast approaching, and

you had a great summer 90 hopefully with friends and family. Here’s

what’s new with your 1990 classmates: Paul Bruning, Minneapolis, is director of growth at Summit Orthopedics, a network of physicians, surgeons, therapists, and other bone and joint experts, with several locations in the Twin Cities area. Doug “Ditt” Dittbenner, North Mankato, is director of corporate sales and sponsorships, Front Row Marketing, working for Minnesota State Mankato Athletics. Doug works with MSU to develop corporate sponsorship opportunities for local and national businesses at MSU athletics events. John Steele, Faribault, is the ministries coordinator at Breakthrough Ministries in Burnsville. Breakthrough Ministries disciple homeless men, teaching them to share what God is growing in their lives with their community. On Sundays, they prepare a hot meal and provide clothes to homeless men and women in downtown St. Paul.

Athletics Hall of Fame

September 29, 2012

Gustavus will induct new members into its Athletics Hall of Fame at a banquet at 6 p.m. on Saturday, September 29, in Alumni Hall. Selection of athletes is based upon athletic achievement while a student at Gustavus; benefactors are selected for significant and consistent contribution to intercollegiate athletics. The Hall of Fame Moment this year celebrates the 1987 football team, which went 10–0 to win the MIAC title. The 1987 team will also gather for a lunch and program prior to the 1 p.m. football game against Hamline University. Inductees Donald Swanson ’55, benefactor (posthumously) Mark Kruger ’86, tennis Brock Guettler ’92, basketball Rhonda Gorseth Alberts ’93, gymnastics Brian Brekke ’95, football Kara Bloomquist Drekonja ’96, cross country, track and field Brett Gross ’96, track and field Jason Lesteberg ’96, hockey Scott Stoneking ’96, soccer 1987 MIAC Champion Football Team — Hall of Fame Moment Banquet tickets are $15 per person. Reservations are requested by September 21. Call the Alumni Relations Office at 800-487-8437, e-mail alumni@gustavus.edu, or register online at the alumni events section of the Gustavus website at www. gustavus.edu/alumni. Tickets for the banquet will be held at a registration desk near Alumni Hall. Tickets for the football game may be purchased at the gate.

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Continue to send news and other items of interest (family, Gustie gatherings, travel, and volunteer activities). You can send them to alumni@gustavus.edu. n C ommunication Chair: Anne Miller (1990classofficers@gustavus.edu)

Class officers needed. Send class news to 1991classofficers@gustavus.edu.

2 0th Anniversary: October 12–13, 2012 Friday, Oct. 12, 2012 6:30 p.m. – Class Social Honey, Minneapolis Saturday, Oct. 13, 2012 11:30 a.m. – Class Gathering The Dive

Our 20-Year Reunion is less then two months away! Save the weekend of October 12–14, 2012, for fun events both in Minneapolis and on campus! There will be a Friday evening social event at Honey in Northeast Minneapolis. On Saturday our class will be meeting on campus in the Dive before the Homecoming Game and 1) nominating Class Officers, 2) taking a class photo, and 3) organizing groups for the much anticipated Tunnel Tour! Watch your mail and e-mail for more reunion updates in the next month! If you have an interest in becoming a Class Officer OR want to nominate a classmate prior to the Reunion Weekend, contact the Alumni Office. Check out our 1992 Class Reunion news at gustavus.edu/alumni/class/1992. Peter Wold is a radiologist at St. Paul Radiology, PA. Mark Swanson is a letter carrier for the U. S. Postal Service. Mike Matti is a fifth-grade teacher in the Byron ISD 531. Melissa Otto Rossow is an assistant Ramsey County Attorney. Leah Anderson Matti is a center director at Children’s Beginnings/ Knowledge Learning Corp. Alanna Cotch is a professor of English at Prairie State College. Lori Luther Boyer is an accountant at Novosad, Lyle, and Associates. Amy Miest Hoernemann is a primary teacher in Yellow Medicine East ISD #2190. John Church is president of JDC MotorSports. Michael Kratz is a dentist at Edina Dental Care. Gina Sexton Halstrom is an RN at Williams IntergraCare Clinic. Laurie Larson Heim is an accountant at CHS, Inc., in Inver Grove Heights. Sarah Anderson Milbauer is an internal auditor at Patriot Bank Minnesota. Ann Sommerness Simms is a developmental screener at Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan Public Schools District Service Center. Jonathan Hillmer is a teacher and athletics director at Canyon Spring High School in North Las Vegas, NV. Bret Newcomb is president of Newcomb Construction Com-

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s Gustie nurses participate in PHN Conference Gustavus nurses gathered for a photo while attending the Second International Public Health Nursing conference held in St. Paul, MN, in October 2011. The audience of nearly 300 nurses included speakers and participants from the United States, Norway, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Kenya, Scotland, Denmark, Ireland, the Faroe Islands, Mexico, and Canada. Gustie nurses on the planning committee were Bonne Brueshoff ’79, Marjorie Schaffer ’71, and Rose Jost ’63. Pictured, front row from left, are Laura Frauendienst Reid ’77, Amy Schilman Mimm ’95, and Kari Siewart Evans ’79. In back are Bonnie Madsen Brueshoff ’79, Marjorie Aasness Schaffer ’71, Jill Dirnberger Timm ’94, Rose Omodt Jost ’63, Barbara Mattson Zust ’76, and Althea Werner Freidrichs ’99. s

From corporate finance to flowers, Batz’s career blossoms

Liesl Batz ’90, Minneapolis, has left the corporate financial world to pursue her passion for flowers by founding Liesl B, custom floral design with “simplistic simplification.” Flower gardens have long been a part of Liesl’s family tradition, from her grandmother’s lilac and rose bushes growing in the rich Iowa soil to her mother’s amazing ability to grow a blossoming sanctuary on the unforgiving plains of South Dakota. Batz has always had her “hands in the dirt” and is an avid gardener. For the past 20 years, her career in finance has taken her around the world and given her the opportunity to be a true student of all things floral. While living in Seattle, WA, she marveled at the near perfect climate for growing wisteria, dahlias, and tulips. Living one block off of Park Avenue in New York was a treat for the senses, given the sophisticated floral shops of Madison Avenue and the miles of manicured planters along Park Avenue. Perhaps most inspiring was Batz’s time spent traveling through Western Europe and Scandinavia while living in London. It was there that she realized the importance of flowers as part of the European culture. Stopping to smell the roses is not just a phrase in Europe. Flowers and the joy that they bring are seen as more a necessity rather than a luxury, particularly in the colder climates where colorful blooms help to brighten the long winter days. The Europeans love to dress their homes with fresh-cut flowers. Flowers play an integral role in the European lifestyle, adding beauty and offering points of reflection and atmosphere in everyday life. It has long been Liesl’s dream to integrate this love of flowers and cultural indulgence into the Twin Cities community. Check out her website (www .lieslb.com). s

pany in Madison, WI. Michelle Pedersen is a professional photographer with Ped Head Photography. Sheila Bluhm Hearn is a manager-external reporting at Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc. Ann Lewis Schmidt is a physical therapist at University Physical Therapy in Mitchell, SD. Monica Palmer Smith is a physical therapist at Avista Adventist Hospital in Louisville, CO. Kirstin Arthur Carroll is on the faculty at Oregon State University. Kate Shaughnessy is a labor educator at CWA in Washington, DC. James Snyder is a buyer at Johnson Outdoors. Ken Organ is a vice president at Farmers State Bank in Dennison. Karla Kilian is a senior group manager, facilities management, at Target Corporation. Leslie Todd Peterson is a director of finance operations, north region, at Fairview Lakes Regional Medical Center. Alisa Spong Lee is a pastoral associate at First Lutheran Church in Lodi, WI. Jeffrey Peterson is in prosthetics at North Metro Orthotics and Prosthetics. Ted Niemi is a pastor at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Fresno, CA. Nathan Blair is a group manager at National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Renee Rasmusson Anderson is an account executive at Minnesota Employers Insurance. Nicole Johnson Kaufman is an adjunct professor of biology at Midland University and College of St. Mary in Omaha. Kristi Spaude Arneson is an RN at Fairview Southdale Hospital. Kat Sewell Drefs is a physical therapist at Hennepin County Medical Center. Stephanie Pearson is a contributing editor at Outside magazine. John Berg is a pastor at Gloria Dei Lutheran Church in Northbrook, IL. Beth Enslin Brown is an associate director at Aon Benfield. Karla DeKam Lubben is a clinical nurse specialist at Sanford Hospital. Kristen Hoffman Asplin is a professor at the University of Pittsburgh. Beth Lofstrom is a freelance photographer and writer at Luwandi Freelance in Brainerd. Richard Espeset is the athletics director at Manchester College in Indiana. Kristen Mielke Kuhnel is a secretary at Lord of the Valley Lutheran Church in Granby, CO. Daniel Johnson is a certified real property appraiser at Felling Appraisals in Paynesville. Amy Nelson Zamow is a business office manager at Twin Cities Spine Center. Jonathan Kavanaugh is an RF engineer at General Dynamics Satcom Technologies. Jennifer Thon Kolb is a help desk support manager at CGS. Chris Beumer is a science teacher in Hastings ISD #200. David Leach is a CFO at Royal Concrete. Jessica Duchow Leach is a teacher in District #622. Mark Severt is a dentist at Park Dental in Coon Rapids. Drew Davis is a district sales manager for Wells Fargo and Company. Christine Sizer Davis is employed at Wilson Learning Corp. Corey Bianchi-Rossi is an advancement director at Maranatha Chris-

Alumna rides digital revolution in art world

Digital tools are changing the way art is bought, sold, and simply viewed. On March 9, 2012, the Wall Street Journal published a feature story on these changes, titled “The Art of the Tablet,” on the front page of its Arts & Entertainment section, and curator Laura Mueller ’92 had a prominent place in the article. The Journal article, written by Ellen Gamerman, explained that collectors who once traveled to art fairs and auctions around the world are now buying more works without leaving home, relying instead on digital views. Museum and gallery apps allow visitors to zoom in on a work for a closer look than they would get with the naked eye, and tablets are increasingly common at art fairs. Gamerman featured Mueller as an example of how digital tools also can help collectors organize large inventories they may have stored in locations around the world. Using an iPhone and the iPad app Collectrium to organize digital images, Mueller can track, for example, more than 700 Japanese works scattered across two homes and a warehouse for one of her clients, a private New York collector.

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tian Academy. Kirsten Tollefson Rockwell is an associate professor in the physics department at Michigan State University. Cami Pitzer Whitt is a VP-finance and accounting at Optum in Eden Prairie. Kathy Shea Zent is a proofreader at Woodlake Medical Management. Kristin Haag Leitel is a school psychologist at Denver Public Schools. Michael Clare is an orthopedic surgeon at Florida Orthopedic Institute. Jason Knudtson is a surgeon at Western Surgical Care, PC. Paul Peeders is a mathematics instructor at Madison College. Shey Prins Larson is a nurse practitioner at Park Nicollet Clinic. Scott Clasen is director of marketing at National Sports Center. Kristin Beise Johnson is the head organist at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Chaska. Kirk Hillquist is vice president at Amano McGann, Inc. Keith Kleis is a physician and assistant medical director of primary care at Austin Medical Center. Paul “Gus” Gustafson is the general manager and COO of Woodhill Country Club in Wayzata. Kerri Kelly Kindsvater is an assistant finance director at City of White Bear Lake. Eric Oppegard is an educator in the Owatonna Public Schools ISD #761. Scott Rathai is a district manager at Best Buy. Jolie Hilgren Hockert is a senior product manager/ imaging at Boston Scientific Corporation. Sarah Abbett is a flight attendant for Delta Airlines. Jodie Duarte Leiferman is a PCA at Mayo Health Systems, Mankato. Jennifer Munson Kompelien is a business strategist at Open Dynamics. John Harris is a team leader at Southern Company. Anneke Johnson Schultz is a field safety specialist at Canadian Pacific. Jeff Nelson is a biological systems engineer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Brent Blattner is a warehouse manager at Food Service Specialties. Shannon Sweeney is a municipal financial adviser at David Drown Associates in Minneapolis. Jennifer Maether Kissell is a senior business analyst at ECMC in Oakdale. Kim Wold Zwart is a quality assurance coordinator at Exosome Diagnostics Inc. Mark Larson is an assistant controller at Rimage. Missy Hake Larson is a special education paraprofessional at Delano Public Schools. Bonnie Schmidt Johnson is an RN at St. Mary’s Hospital in Rochester. Erik Jelinek has a book out; Blessed In The Midst Of Trial was published by Tate Publishing in January 2012. The book is Erik’s story of his battle with stage 3 non-smoker lung cancer. Peter Lee works at The American International School of Muscat, Oman. Tamara Heggestuen Hedeen is a teacher, reading specialist, at Rockford Elementary Arts Magnet School. Dan Dissell is teaching high school biology at the American International School of Lagos, Nigeria. n C ommunication Chair: Annie Marshall (1992classofficers@gustavus.edu)

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Class officers needed. Send class news to 1993classofficers@gustavus.edu. Class officers needed.

class news to 94 Send 1994classofficers@gustavus.edu.

Send class news to 1995classofficers@gustavus.edu.

Send class news to 1996classofficers@gustavus.edu.

1 5th Anniversary: October 12–13, 2012 Friday, Oct. 12, 2012 7 p.m. – Class Social The Guthrie Theater Saturday, Oct. 13, 2012 11 a.m. – Family Event Alumni Hall

n Communication Co-chairs: Kari Binning & Martha Malinski (1997classofficers@ gustavus.edu)

Class officers needed. Send class news to 1998classofficers@gustavus.edu.

Class officers needed. Send class news to 1999classofficers@gustavus.edu. Class officers needed.

class news to 00 Send 2000classofficers@gustavus.edu. Josh Batalden is currently an investment specialist with New York Life covering New York Life general offices across Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, and Wisconsin. Sorry Michigan, you just weren’t cool enough to make the list. Matthew Copple completed his orthopedic surgery residency at Henry Ford Macomb Hospital in Michigan. In July he began at the Orthopaedic and Sports Clinic in Gonzalez, LA, affiliated with St. Elizabeth Hospital. The New Orleans Saints defensive line sends him a lot of business. Angela Follett works with Fish & Richardson. Angela received her J.D. from the University of St. Thomas and her Ph.D. in chemistry for the University of Minnesota. I make it a point never to make lawyer jokes. Ashley Jensen now works as a radiation oncologist at Sanford Roger Maris Cancer Center in Fargo, ND. “Please support cancer research . . . Thank you!” – Ray Williams Johnson. Kara Wachlarowicz Wallace is working as a physician assistant in Mayo

Clinic’s Rochester Division of Allergic Diseases. In Minnesota, the presence of frost is a good indicator there is no pollen. Congratulations to those who have a new TWJT (Three Word Job Title)! Nicole Henrich Lavanty now works for HCMC Outpatient Physical Therapy as a senior physical therapist in Minneapolis. Jackie Moen Miller is a claim portfolio manager at Medica in Minnetonka. Dave Oachs is a product development engineer at Andersen Corporation. LaDawn Tyrrell Delgado completed a master’s degree in nursing education. A practical nurse is one who marries a rich patient. Travis McKenzie will begin surgical fellowship in endocrine and metabolic surgery at Harvard University in July 2012. I hear that Harvard is the Gustavus of the east coast. Tim Wilson has taken a new position as a research associate at the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Cambridge, United Kingdom. I hear that Cambridge is the Gustavus of the U.K. Julie Tutas is leaving the pharmaceutical industry after 10 years to pursue a master’s in education with an English/language arts emphasis from Alverno College in Milwaukee, WI; she plans to teach at the middle and high school level. I wonder if she is shifting from sales to education in order to change the lives of youth in America or because she just wants to make a lot of money? Oh, public education, always stealing the best people from private industry with your competitive salaries and lengthy fringe benefits . . . n Class President and Communication Chair: Hal DeLaRosby (2001classofficers@gustavus.edu)

1 0th Anniversary: October 12–13, 2012 Friday, Oct. 12, 2012 7:30 p.m. – Class Social Rare, Minneapolis Saturday, Oct. 13, 2012 11:30 a.m. – Class Gathering and Family Event Alumni Hall

Amy Nida Scott is a fifth-grade teacher in Shakopee. Cory Starkweather owns One Call Property Care. Jen Brandenburg is a pharmacist at Abbott Northwestern Hospital. Logan Mitton is a risk analyst at Valspar Corporation. Ryan Hoag was on the list of bachelor cast members for Bachelor Pad 3. The show premiered on July 23 on ABC. Hoag, not new to reality dating shows, was a contestant on DeAnna Pappas’s season of The Bachelorette. Hoag is a former NFL football player who is currently a high school dean. Results of the show were not known at the time of publication. Josei Gables Holte is a

GUSTAVUS ALUMNI business development manager at Datasource Consulting. Keely Johnson Pearson is an environmental consultant at Barr Engineering. Anna Larson Weispfenning is an assurance senior manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. Laura Paddack Childs is an RN at Boston Medical Center. Angie Lundeen Wold is a medical social worker at Mayo Clinic Hospital in Phoenix, AZ. Jake Wold is

director of recruiting at Ranstad Technologies. Emily VanHee Berg is a stay-at-home mom and instructor for the American Red Cross in Redwood Falls. Michelle Kurtz Wright is a sixth-grade teacher in Edina. Annie Oakes is a benefit events coordinator at Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota. Emily Brekke Thery is a regional account manager with Aim Healthcare Services, Inc. Blake Kane is

a finance manager at IBM Corporation. Shelly Hochhalter Talcott is marketing and communications director at William Mitchell College of Law, Public Health Law. Andrew Erickson is a managing partner at Alaniz Marketing in Novato, CA. Peter Nerothin is president of Insulindependence, Inc. Kenzie Stensland Munoz is a substitute teacher. Matt Lunning is a hematology/oncology fellow at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer

Gustavus Service and Retirement Recognition

The Gustavus Alumni Association honored faculty and administrators with service and retirement awards at a banquet last May.

1. 25 Years 1

Front row: Jeff Stocco, director of the Center for Servant Leadership; Doug Nimmo, professor of music. Back row: Michael Hvidsten, professor of mathematics and computer science; Robert Irvin, associate professor of Spanish. Not pictured is Barbara Fister, professor and academic librarian.

2. 35 Years

Front row: Steve Waldhauser ’70, director of editorial services; Karen Larson, professor of interdisciplinary studies. Back row: Julie Johnson ’69, director of academic advising; Al Behrends ’77, director of fine arts programs. Not pictured is Deborah Downs-Miers, associate professor of English.

3. 40 Years

Dean Wahlund ’72, director of communication services and special events.

Photo by Wayne Schmidt

4. Retirees

Front row: George Georgacarakos, professor of philosophy; Karen Larson, professor of interdisciplinary studies; John Holte, professor of mathematics and computer science; Al Molde ’66, athletics director and facilities manager of Lund Center. Back row: Bob Douglas, professor of geography; Hayden Duncan, associate professor of Spanish; Horst Ludwig, associate professor of German.

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Center. Erin Winchell is a music teacher at Minnesota Online High School. Leah Nelson Bulver is a second-grade teacher in Prior Lake/Savage ISD #719. Stasha Ler is a principal business systems analyst. Matthew Schoeppner is an economist at

Hermanson drums up huge band participation

Erik Hermanson ’94, Mankato, the instrumental music teacher at Cleveland (MN) High School, has nearly 70 percent (85 of 126) of the school’s students participating in band. What’s more, in the junior high, more than 85 percent of the students participate in band, and only three of the 34 students in sixth grade don’t play. In a March 11, 2012, Mankato Free Press article written by Dan Nienaber, Hermanson was quoted, “When I first started, there were 19 kids in the top band in the senior high,” he said. “It was pretty scary.” Hermanson cites changes made by school administrators that have dramatically built the music program. Changes included scheduling band every day instead of every other day and moving classes to mornings so athletes don’t miss practices. Administrators say Hermanson is the reason the program is so popular, and parents and students agree. “His bands are disciplined and their performances are as good or better than many larger Minnesota schools that have the ability to recruit from huge student bodies,” says Principal Dawn Brown (coincidentally the wife of Gustavus Athletics Director Tom Brown H’12). Explaining why band is so popular in Cleveland, senior student Grant Den Herder said there’s something ‘cool’ about Hermanson. “He has a way of getting students hooked to music at a young age, then getting them to keep coming back. . . . Every school seems to have one crazy thing that everyone is into. Band is just our thing. At some schools everybody wants to play football or everybody wants to play basketball. In Cleveland, everybody wants to play in the band.” Hermanson acknowledges Gustavus music professor Steve Wright as a “great mentor” who “sparked what is now an insatiable interest in jazz.” Wright will occasionally perform on trumpet with Hermanson’s band. s

Photo by Richard Rohlfing

the State of Minnesota, Minnesota Management and Budget. Katie Carlson Schoeppner is a senior social worker at the University of Minnesota Medical Center. Lucien Truong is employed at Target Corporation. Carly Eichhorst is as-

usties cross G paths in Oman

While conducting paleontology research in Oman, Brian Kraatz ’96, visited the American International School of Muscat to talk with students about Arabian paleontology. There he connected with fellow Gusties who are working at the American International School. Pictured, from left, are Peter Lee ’92, Dan Hovland ’90, Brian Kraatz ’96, and Corinne Lee ’94. s

Wahl named a Rising Star

Pete Wahl ’95, Dallas, TX, an attorney at the law firm of Jackson Walker was selected as a 2012 “Rising Star” by Thomson Reuters. The award is based on a two-part system that determines the top 2.5 percent of the state’s up-and-coming lawyers. Lawyers are surveyed and asked to nominate the best attorneys that they have personally observed in action. When the results are in, Thomson Reuters conducts independent research of the nominees’ credentials. To ensure a diverse and well-balanced list, the research staff considers factors such as firm size, practice area, and geographic location. “Rising Stars” are attorneys who are either 40 years old and under or who have been practicing law for 10 or fewer years.

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sociate director of financial aid at Augsburg College in Minneapolis. Anna Garbisch Sorenson is a pastor. Amy Ellingson-Itzin is an obstrician/gynecologist at Essentia Health, Duluth Clinic. Alison Routh Nelson is a community education director at KMS Schools in Kerkhoven. Kristina Horner is a marketing assistant at Flint Hills Resources in St. Paul. Renee Schmitt is a procurement analyst at Target Corporation. Nick Greenig is a patrol sergeant at Le Sueur County Sheriff’s Office. Jessica Steiner Miller is a staff accountant at Finiti. Marit Vagstad is an associate director, channel sales at Palgrave MacMillan. Julie Christenson Oachs is a mental health practitioner at Fraser Child & Family Center. Amanda Webb is a pediatrician at Kundel Pediatrics in Duluth. Becky Potter is a project accountant at SoldEmployees, LLC. Andrew Bussey is a project manager at Terra Firma Building and Remodeling. Benjamin Rudolf is an associate attorney at Bourgeois White, LLP. Viviane Foyou is an assistant professor at Valdosta State University in Valdosta, GA. Katie Howe Bertrand is an assistant professor at South Dakota State University. Lisa Barajas is a planning analyst at Metropolitan Council. Brent Nelson is an assistant principal at Jefferson High School in Alexandria. Meghan Harney is a resident physician at the University of Minnesota. Leslie Brandt is a biologist at the U.S. Forest Service. Annalisa Eckman Rudser is a pediatric emergency medicine fellow at Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota. Nate Ziemer is a fifth- and sixth-grade teacher at St. Paul Lutheran School in Manawa, WI. Brandon Burmeister is employed at Johnson Reiland Builders and Remodelers. Tina Sheetz Froemming is a veterinarian at the Pet Hospital in Banfield. Jess Behrends is a caregiver support coordinator at St. Cloud V.A. Health Care System. Jennifer Lopez moved back to Mora after spending the last 10 years out of state. Daryn Collins is a resident physician at the University of Minnesota. Adam Vahl is a field service manager at GoVision in Texas. Laura Wagner is in the U.S. Air Force Reserve at Macdill AFB, FL. Jayne Sommers reports, “I have started a research assistantship with Dr. Robert Bruininks, the former president at the University of Minnesota. I am assisting him in the process of writing a book about transformative leadership in higher education based on his time as president. I am also pursuing my Ph.D. in higher education at the University of Minnesota.” Ryan Kath is an investigative reporter in Kansas City, MO. Chris Wagener is an interim program director at Luther Heights Bible Camp. Christopher Kampa is an investment officer at Magni Asset Management. n Communication Co-chair: Karen Warkentien Oglesby (2002classofficers@

GUSTAVUS ALUMNI gustavus.edu) Hello to the Gustavus Class of 2003. First things first—if you have some class news, please go online to the alumni website (gustavus.edu/ alumni) or e-mail (below). We’ve had a few submissions lately but always love more! Secondly, if you would like to get involved as a class officer or be a guest writer for the class letter, please contact me at the same e-mail address. Thank you! The news: Congratulations to Nick Lovas, who was named the 2011 Girls’ Class AA Coach of the Year by the Minnesota State Track and Field Coaches Association. He’s a coach at Hopkins High School and teaches social studies at West Junior High. His girls’ track team won the Lake Conference championship in the past several years. Paul Nelson is working at US Bank in Minneapolis. Lili Payne works as a scenic artist in the Twin Cities. Check out her projects at www.gildedlili.com. n C ommunication Chair: Leslie Wilcox Rosedahl (2003classofficers@gustavus. edu)

Continuing Education . . . Melissa

earned a master of 04 Habedank public health degree from Johns

Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, MD in May 2012. Meghan LaVelle finished her doctor of nursing practice (DNP) at the University of Minnesota in fall 2011. Employment . . . Donnie Berkholz works for RedMonk as an IT industry analyst. Rachel M. Blunk has joined the law firm of Wishart Norris Henninger & Pittman, P.A. as an associate. Her practice focus at WNHP’s Burlington office is commercial transactions and commercial litigation. Erinn Danielson is a music therapist at Children’s Hospital in Minneapolis. Johan Eriksson is a financial adviser at Morgan Stanley in St. Paul. Laura Haugen George is a teacher in the Bloomington Public Schools. Marnie Nelson is a project coordinator in the Department of Special Education at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. Ingrid Olson is an RN at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester. Ashleigh Penrod is a Centennial project manager at Girl Scouts of Minnesota and Wisconsin River Valleys. Brenda Westerbur Gill is a stay-athome mom. n C ommunication Chair: Marnie Nelson (2004classofficers@gustavus.edu) Emily Ayers-Johnson is an RN at the Christie Clinic in Champaign, IL. David Baldes has been selected as chief resident for the psychiatry residency program at the University of Minnesota School of Medicine. Daniel Bodenfors writes: “I have now settled with a second degree in film studies from Stockholm

University, and also a minor in curating at Fotografiska in Stockholm. Here I work as a digital editor and have, with the team, created several exhibitions, from Anton Corbijn to Steve Shapiro.” Hannah Brandts has been selected as chief resident for the diagnostic radiology residency program at the Mayo Clinic. Kelly Damrow Kueffer is a graduate student in occupational therapy at the University of Minnesota. Ashley Farbo Schulzetenberg is a concept designer at Peterson, Milla, and Hooks in Minneapolis. Mallory Haugen is employed as the volunteer and in-kind coordinator for People Serving People in Minneapolis. Scott Jenson is a filmmaker/shooter/ editor. Scott won a Z-Fest Short Film Finalist Award, and won VIP tickets to meet Louie Anderson, one of the judges, who told Scott that his film was his favorite. Check out Scott’s film page at ScottJFilms.com, where you can see Emmy awards, nominations, and films. Johanna Johnson was ordained by the ELCA in August of 2011 and is serving on her first call as pastor for two churches, Bethlehem Lutheran and St. Martin Lutheran in Webster, NY, and is residing in Rochester, NY. Rob Quick is employed as a public defender for the State of North Dakota and resides in Bismarck, ND. Elizabeth Wojahn is family ministry director at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church in Burnsville. Laura MacBride wrote, “In the Summer 2012 issue of the Gustavus Quarterly, the last paragraph of Steve Waldhauser’s “From the Editor” text asks Gusties to send in our most surprising/ironic/funny/eerie/off-the-wall Gustie sighting. In December 2008, I took a road-trip with my mother to see relatives in Arizona. We stopped for a few hours at the Grand Canyon. It was the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day, and the park was packed—the rangers said they were seeing attendance rivaling that of July 4. As we made our way through the sea of people to a place overlooking the canyon, I saw a familiar face. It took me a few seconds to process who it was that I saw, and just as I walked past him, I said “Rich?” “Yes?” he said. Rich Hilbert’s Sociological Theory class has always stood out as the most life-changing class I have ever taken. Imagine my surprise when I saw one of my favorite professors on that icy December day in Arizona. Afterwards, I immediately sent a text message to one of my best Soc/Anthro. Gustie pals—”I JUST SAW RICH HILBERT AT THE GRAND CANYON!!” n Communication Chair: Liz Zappetillo Lewis (2005classofficers@gustavus.edu)

Sean Evenson received his Ph.D. in

from NDSU in Sept. of 06 chemistry 2011. He is working in R&D as a

chemist at Tecton Products LLC in Fargo, ND, where he currently resides. n Communication Chair: Matt Forbes (2006classofficers@gustavus.edu)

5 th Anniversary: October 12–13, 2012 Friday, Oct. 12, 2012 Noon – Class Lunch Hospitality Tent 8 p.m. – Class Social Stella’s Fish Café and Prestige Oyster Bar, Minneapolis

n Communication Chair: Ben Richter (2007classofficers@gustavus.edu) Hello to my fellow ’08 Gusties! We

some exciting news to share, 08 have so let’s dig right in! New Gigs: A few members of our class have started new jobs since we last updated you all. Maggie Overman is a development associate at the Foundation for Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota. Holly Bernstetter Tonolli is a recruiting coordinator at Thomson Reuters. Holly Cooper has graduated from pharmacy school at the University of Colorado and started as a PGY1 pharmacy practice resident at Exempla St. Joseph Hospital in Denver, CO, in July. Brigette Peterson graduated with her M.S. in physician assistant practice from Rosalind Franklin University and started as a PA in neurosurgery for HealthPartners in July. Noemi Lopez is working for the Student Support Service/TriO program at North Hennepin Community College, helping low-income, first-generation, and disabled students succeed in higher education. Study Time: Christa Saeger is going to Sweden, Finland, and Estonia to do research for her dissertation. Ashley Houston is leaving her academic advising position at Capella University and moving to Boston to attend graduate school at Lesley University for Intercultural Relations in the fall of 2012. Make sure to keep us updated on all of your exciting news! n Communication Chair: Katelyn Nelson (2008classofficers@gustavus.edu) This is what is happening in our neck of the woods . . . We send congratulations to Tasha Carlson, who recently graduated with her master’s in communication from North Dakota State University, and to Sarah Thon, who completed her master of science degree in advanced athletic training from North Dakota State University. Sarah starts her doctor of chiropractic degree at Northwest-

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ern Health Sciences University in Bloomington in September. Now, come on, class of 2009! We know there are those of us out there doing awesome things, getting married, changing jobs, graduating from higher education, and generally changing the world! We want to hear about it! E-mail us your news. Until next time, folks . . . n G uest writer: Maggie Hedlund (2009classofficers@gustavus.edu) Rachel Stuckey is a field staffer for the Minnesota House of Representatives Republican Campaign Committee. Carleen Crouse is a wish coordinator at the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Minnesota in Minneapolis. Mariah Bierl is a supply chain analyst at Xcel Energy. Sarah Kappel and Amy Miller ’74 met in Mongolia through Peace Corps. Sarah has served as a Peace Corps TEFL volunteer in Dariganga soum, Sukhbaatar aimag, for the last two years. Amy lives and works in Ulaanbaatar as a Peace Corps medical officer providing health care to the Peace Corps volunteers in Mongolia. Allie Skjerven was accepted into Hamline University’s master of arts in the ESL program and will be pursuing the adult ESL education strand starting in the fall of 2012. Amara Berthelsen just finished her second year with Teach for America – Oklahoma, and will be teaching at YES Prep Charter Schools in Houston next school year. Chelsea Roberts is working as a K–5 reading teacher in Mankato at Franklin Elementary. Ben Copeland and Chelsea were engaged on Feb. 27 and are planning a spring 2013 wedding. Chad Eul is now working as a loan doc specialist at Wells Fargo. Brad Abell is pursuing a Ph.D. in physics at Purdue University. Lisa Julin is working as a social worker for Mahnomen County while pursuing a master’s degree in counseling psychology from Bemidji State University. Michelle Kluge obtained her master of science degree in genetic counseling from the University of Michigan Genetic Counseling Program. Jenny Grundman graduated from the University of Minnesota with a master’s degree in educational psychology and a concentration in school counseling. Mark Pedginski is pursuing a doctoral degree in pharmacy at Creighton University. He is also working as an inpatient intern at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. Kaelene Lundstrum has moved to California to live and train at the Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista for the USA women’s rugby team. Alex Brakke Sedlmayr is living in Alma, WI, with husband Jeff. She recently took a job in the HR department at Winona State University as their office and administrative specialist. Susie Kramer graduated from Minnesota State University, Mankato

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with a master’s degree in mental health counseling. She has started work with Nystrom & Associates, as a mental health practitioner. Erica Flinn is an associate scientist at Microbiotest in Sterling, VA. Michelle Lien finished Hamline University’s paralegal certificate program in Fall of 2011 and is working as a paralegal at a Social Security/Disability law firm in Minneapolis. When she’s not working to pay off student loans or toasting Chris Gilbert, she’s out playing kickball with Amber Hanson. n Communication Chair: Derek Holm (2010classofficers@gustavus.edu) Brady Skaff works for TCF Financial Corporation as an HR training coordinator. Garret Clause is attending the University of Minnesota School of Dentistry and will graduate in 2015. Leah Goss lives in St. Louis Park and works in downtown Minneapolis at SPS Commerce as an implementation analyst. Katie Kaderlik is a third-grade teacher at the Twin Cities International Elementary School in Minneapolis. Dan Meins is attending Minnesota State University, Mankato for his master’s in exercise physiology. Cydni Smith recently presented two cardiovascular research projects in Atlanta, GA. This past summer she had hoped to run her first marathon, go skydiving, compete in two rugby tournaments, and volunteer at Camp Odayin with Meghan LaVelle ’04, Vicky Hidalgo ’10 and Pia Richardson ’14 before starting a master’s program in health management and policy at the University of Michigan. Meghan Stromme has been hired as a permanent member of the staff at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Kasson, after a year-and-a-half-long internship there in youth ministry. After graduating from Gustavus, Manya Fiock moved from Minnesota to California, which is home for her. She currently lives in Incheon, South Korea, where she is working as an English teacher in the public school system. Manya works in an elementary school teaching fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-graders. She loves her job very much, and anticipates staying in Korea for a few years. Abby Williams is currently working at the Science Museum of Minnesota as a visitor assistant interpreting artifacts and helping guests. She also volunteers at the Minnesota Zoo weekly. Abby is planning a trip to Yellowstone with fellow alumna Marie Williams Wignall ’06, Andrew Bryz-Gornia, and Marie’s husband, Lee. Allie Schulte works full-time as an RN at Twin Cities Pain Clinic in Edina. First, not only did Phillip Helt finish his first year of teaching, but he successfully planned his first prom! The theme was “Midnight in Paris.” He had no budget but was able to raise funds to cover the costs of the

entire dance! Second, this summer, Phil will be the program director at the Theodore Naish Scout Reservation in Bonner Springs, KS. Third (and really exciting), he was informed that the 2012 Student Senate at Gustavus presented a new Student Senate Service and Leadership Award named after him. It will be presented annually to one senator who has devoted himself or herself to the campus. Phil is not sure the exact wording of the award, but thinks it is “very cool and very humbling.” Brett Cornell is currently a project coordinator for DaVita Clinical Research in Minneapolis. Since graduating from Gustavus, Jill Scheel has enjoyed living in uptown Minneapolis with fellow Gustie Sarah Lundquist and working as a laboratory technician at Memorial Blood Centers in St. Paul. This fall, she will be attending University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy. Jill writes, “After a long year applying and interviewing at schools, I couldn’t be more excited to begin this new adventure!” Logan Burnside is the Jordan High School and Middle School band director. Keisha Bates has been working full-time as a microbiology technician in Brooklyn Park for Biotest Laboratories, Inc. since June. She has been living in Minneapolis and doing a lot of swing/blues dancing around the Twin Cities. As for fun things with other Gusties, Keisha took a trip to Baltimore to visit Allie Stehlin in February. “I’m actually sitting in the airport on my way to visit Manya Fiock, who is teaching English in South Korea,” writes Marie Bushnell. She currently works for Apple Inc. in the Chicago area. Jens Brabbit and Katherine Westergren were engaged in February. Big Gustie wedding up in Duluth on December 30! Patrick McDougle left his job at Gustavus in June and moved to South Bend, IN, to live with Patricia O’Connor. He started work in July at St. Mary’s College in South Bend, IN, as the assistant director of Web communications. In the last year Sarah Cartwright has done more than she thought she would do in 10 years. Sarah spent the majority of it opening a restaurant—which is now up and running in Windom. It’s called River City Eatery and is a cute little place on the square of downtown Windom. The restaurant is still going but she recently sold her share in it, afraid to be confined and not be able to travel in her young years. “If someone heard what I do now, they’d probably use the words ‘jack of all trades,’” she writes. Sarah opened her own private music studio in which she housed ten music students in the last semester. She has been teaching mostly vocal lessons, but also beginning piano and a singer/songwriter guitar lesson as well. Sarah also works for a seamstress, fixing and designing others’

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the Courage Center in Golden Valley, and anticipates attending the University of Minnesota School of Nursing starting in the Fall of 2012. When she is not working, Tori “loves to get together with fellow Gusties in the Twin Cities area to BBQ, hang out, and enjoy the time together!” Chaz Brown is in Mexico completing an internship for his master’s degree in Latin American studies through Ohio University. He recently connected with fellow classmate Christopher Hall in the beautiful colonial city of Morelia (state of Michoacán), Mexico. “We spent a long weekend sight-seeing, touring, tasting the scrumptious local dishes, and generally relaxing. It was wonderful to catch up with Christopher, and I am grateful for the opportunity we had to spend together in the picturesque city of Morelia,” he writes. Emily Wendorff took a new job in the therapy department at Sholom Home, a nursing home in St. Paul. She was accepted to the master’s program in occupational therapy at the University of Minnesota and will be starting this fall. Ana Norell has been working at Mayo Clinic in Rochester and is a clinical laboratory technician. She starts medical school at Creighton University in the fall. “Luckily I had time to go on vacation to Hawaii with my family a couple weeks ago, so I had a little time off. But I’m ready to move on and jump in to studying again . . . exciting and nerve-wracking!” This coming school year, Amy Culver will be teaching English as a language and cultural assistant in primary school located in Bollullos Par Del Conado in Spain. The city is about 40 minutes West of Sevilla and is located in the provence of Huelva. Amy writes, “I’m so excited for this upcoming teaching experience, and even more excited to be able to study the Spanish language and culture at a local university in Sevilla!” Sam Frank has been working as a medical scribe in an emergency department for the past year and is now off to

Hupton publishes debut novel

Nick Hupton ’99, Minneapolis, MN, has published a novel titled If I Know It’s Coming. Hupton teaches high school English at Bloomington Jefferson High School. The novel is about a 13-yearold boy named Tim Hansen who lives in a quaint neighborhood in South Minneapolis. When his mother, who is a nurse in the United States Army Reserve, is deployed to Iraq, Tim’s relatively normal and happy existence gets flipped upside down. The book is published by North Star Press of St. Cloud. For more information, e-mail info@northstarpress.com

s A visit with Mom Rob and Jennifer Boorman Schurrer ’02 ’02 traveled a bit farther than usual to visit Jennifer’s mom over the Christmas holiday. Mom is in China; that’s the Great Wall behind Rob and Jennifer.

and her own clothes and dresses. From time to time she heads up to St. Peter (oh, the memories!) to work for Mary’s Flowers and has taken a course or two in floral design. “And I thought I’d never say it but I have just recently started an office job as well! But thank goodness I leave for tour in June as a choreographer and vocal coach with a high school choir—that will keep the wild hair I have happy. This year I’ve traveled the least, but it is still as memorable as ever.” Katie Lowery is attending veterinary school at the University of Minnesota. Kelly Broady was accepted into the M.S. in human genetics and genetic counseling program at Stanford University. Kayla Tacke teaches English in Daegu, South Korea, at Joongang Elementary School. She teaches fourth and fifth grades and also reads to grade three. “I love teaching these kids. They have so much energy and warmth; it makes my job so fun. Also, I have been traveling all over Korea, which makes my experience so much more memorable,” Kayla writes. In March, Craig Nordquist moved out east to begin working as a researcher for MLB Network, the official television station of Major League Baseball. He has always wanted to work in baseball, and he caught his big break back in January when he was chosen to represent the Minnesota Twins on MLB Network’s trivia game show, Baseball IQ. Craig beat the Cleveland Indians’ representative in the first round to win $5,000 for the Minnesota Twins Community Fund. In the second round he faced the director of communications at the National Baseball Hall of Fame, a former colleague of his from when he interned there during the summer between his junior and senior years at Gustavus. Craig lost that round, but was offered a position in the research department at the network as he left the set of the show. On an average day at work, he comes up with statistics and other information about the games to be played that day for the on-air talent. Craig also helps produce fullscreen graphics of information and compile information that is used in the scripts of the network’s lineup of shows. The network’s studio is located in Secaucus, NJ, so he been exploring nearby New York City on his days off and enjoying life in the big city. Chelsie Hansen is working as a mutual fund accountant for Thrivent Financial in Appleton, WI. Andrew Brynz-Gornia was a language arts substitute teacher at Westwood Middle School (the same school he once attended as a kid) for a month and a half, which is an odd fit because he graduated from Gustavus with a math teaching degree. He is also in his third year at Target Field as an usher for the Minnesota Twins. Tori Lund is a nursing assistant at

arson celebrates Vaubel’s L graduation

Christopher J. Vaubel ’03 (left) completed dental specialty residency in orthodontics at the University of Minnesota in June 2011. He is pictured with Brent E. Larson ’78, director of the Division of Orthodontics at the University of Minnesota School of Dentistry.

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physician assistant school at St. Kate’s in St. Paul this fall. Laura Jensen works as a public health nurse at Rice County Public Health in the Family Child Health department and as a coordinator of a statewide program for children with medical assistance. She started work in the beginning of March and has been enjoying it. She writes, “The biggest trip I’ve taken, which was big to me, was a three-day weekend in Duluth to celebrate my two-year wedding anniversary with my husband. We stayed in an adorable bed and breakfast and I got to catch up with my old roommate Kristy Proctor and see one of my aunts. Despite the fog, it was a great trip.” Megan Myhre, Bloomington, has begun work for Gustavus in the Lindell Office Suite of the American Swedish Institute’s new Nelson Cultural Center. Be sure to visit the new space, and say hello to Megan. Rima Kharbush will be returning to her original home of Madison, WI, to start veterinary school in August. She spent the last year

living in Bellingham, WA, working in a vet clinic and volunteering at a wildlife rehabilitation center. Nadvia Davis is currently attending DePaul University in Chicago working toward a master’s degree in journalism. She lives in Chicago two blocks away from Lake Michigan. She writes, “Graduate school has been challenging, but I’m continuing to stay positive.” Nadia reconnected with another classmate, Cydni Smith, in Chicago and they chatted about fond memories of Gustavus. Ashley Grodecki will be working as a graduate assistant athletic trainer at Wingate University while getting a master’s in sports administration this fall. Sara Yungner has been teaching in St. Paul at Higher Ground Academy through the Teach for America Program and is living in Uptown Minneapolis. She will be attending the University of Minnesota Medical School in the fall. Sara writes, “I plan on vacationing this summer and relaxing before school starts!” Luke Nord works as an IT generalist

ouché! Alum faculty member is athletic trainer for USA T Fencing

It started in North Carolina, inauspiciously enough. After graduating from the graduate athletic training program at the University of North Carolina in 2003, Kyle Momsen ’01 was asked to cover a fencing camp, and the university’s fencing coach liked the way he worked with the athletes. The coach passed his name along to the director of sports medicine for USA Fencing, who had Momsen volunteer at one of the North American Cup events, the national tournaments for U.S. fencers of all ages and skills (and at which athletes from nearby countries also compete). After providing care at national events for a few years, Kyle—who by this time had returned to his alma mater as a member of the Department of Health and Exercise Science— was given the opportunity to travel abroad with one of the U.S. national teams and worked with the women’s foil team in Budapest, Hungary, and Marseille, France. “After that event, I started working more frequently on international trips than domestic events,” Kyle notes. “It’s been a wonderful opportunity to travel the world and visit places I may never have gotten to, even if I don’t always get to sight-see while I’m traveling.” Momsen has now worked with USA Fencing in Hungary, France, Italy, England, Russia, Azerbaijan, Jordan, South Korea, and China. During this past summer he traveled to Havana, Cuba, and back to France for a fourth time. He was in Paris with the men’s epee team for 11 days to cover their final training preparations before they flew to London for the Olympics. “I’ve been really fortunate to have the support of Gustavus and my colleagues in the HES Department,” says Kyle, who is now director of Gustavus’s Athletic Training Education program (ATEP). “I’m generally able to travel over College breaks. For instance, the Junior and Cadet world championships have been over Spring Break the last three years.

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for a children’s book publishing company in Mankato, where he does just about everything; he writes, “It has been a great fit as my first job outside of college.” He plans on attending law school in the next few years and might be enrolling in an English teaching program in Japan this fall. Kelsey Schroeder-Gasser enjoyed the summer as a head lifeguard at the Monona Pool before starting school in the fall at Edgewood College in Madison, WI. She will be pursuing her master’s in marriage and family therapy. Kelsey writes, “I’m always spreading the Gustie love, while appreciating the adventures life has brought me since graduation. Keep shining, Class of 2011.” Tom Greiner is working in marketing/ sales for Infor Global Solutions, while “living the dream” with two fellow Gusties, Brett Stanek and Adam Phenow, in Northeast Minneapolis. This past year Justin VerMeer moved to Minneapolis and began work at a non-profit called the National Youth

But I have missed a few days here and there, and my colleagues have been really supportive in helping meet the needs of students while I’m gone.” Momsen has also been able to create opportunities for ATEP students to help provide care at events. His students—Kristin Meinz ’08, Kaitlyn Silbaugh ’11, and Keith Diers ’13 in particular—have been exposed to fencing and Olympic-level athletes (and Meinz and Silbaugh have continued to work with fencers as alumnae). Momsen’s work with the U.S. fencing teams has even led to unexpected Gustie connections. While in Seoul, South Korea, he crossed paths with the U.S. Wheelchair Tennis team and their coach, Dan James ’92. “Dan’s athletes commented on how they travel all over the world,” says Kyle, “and are more likely to run into Gusties than they can imagine, especially for how small a school it is.” Dan and Kyle are working on bringing some Gustie ATEP students up to the University of Minnesota for a training camp James is leading for the U.S. Wheelchair Tennis program. “One of the other really rewarding experiences for me when I travel is that I am often able to help athletes from other countries who don’t have medical staff in attendance,” Kyle says. “It is times like that when the goodwill that sports can create between countries is really obvious.” Momsen is pictured above with the Junior men’s foil team and some of the support staff at the 2012 Junior World Championships, held in Moscow, where the team won its third straight championship.Momsen worked all three championships—in Baku, Azerbaijan; Dead Sea, Jordan; and Moscow, Russia. Front row, from left: Kathy Walters (armorer); fencers Michael Dudey, Jerry Chang, Race Imboden, and Alexander Massialis; and Matthew Porter (armorer). Back row: Nicole Jomantas (USA Fencing communications manager); Momsen; Courtney Kulik (international programs manager); and Francisco Martin (team captain and FIE liaison).

GUSTAVUS ALUMNI Leadership Council, where he advises the Youth Advisory Council. Meanwhile, Justin has been living with John Rasmussen and still gets together from time to time with a bunch of fellow Sig alumni and other Gustie friends. Kiera Bridley is a claims processor/ processing clerk at Dahl Administration in St. Louis Park. Kiera will also be studying at Minnesota State University, Mankato this fall to obtain her M.A. in history. Heidi Wensink was engaged to Allen Cooley IV on Nov. 24, 2011, at the Thanksgiving Lions vs. Packers game. She writes, “Being a huge Packer fan, it was the perfect engagement!” Heidi graduated from the University of Southern California in May with a master of arts in teaching with a focus in secondary science education in diverse and urban schools. She is job-searching for a teaching position in the Metro Detroit area. Vinai Vang is serving in Jamaica with the Peace Corps and doing development work with an environmental program within the Peace Corps. He has been helping communities in many ways, teaching best business practices, more sustainable agriculture techniques, methods, and practices. Vinai is aiding in raising the literacy and numeracy levels and conducting environmental education to schools and communities. Keith Linne purchased his first home last summer with his wife, Lynn Hillen ’10, and is living in Richfield. In addition to working as a Realtor throughout the Twin Cities area, Keith started a real estate investment company— GSL Investments, LLC—in September 2011. His company focuses mainly on residential rehabilitation and rental opportunities in Hennepin County. In the fall, Carl Stenoien will be starting a Ph.D. program at the University of Minnesota on a graduate research fellowship funded by the National Science Foundation. Brittany Bauer is working in Washington, DC, and attending graduate school at George Washington University for a master’s degree in international trade and investment policy. Shanda Kirkeide participated in a companion mission trip to South Africa in July for two weeks. Her church is working with its sister circuit, the Mfolozi Circuit, to bridge communication gaps and establish a relationship with their South Africa partners. Allie Stehlin started as advocacy and communications coordinator for Planned Parenthood of Maryland in February and is living in Baltimore, MD. Allie also is engaged to Ben Carlson. Kevin Dumke recently accepted an offer from Duke Divinity School, and began work on his master of theological studies degree in August. He and his wife, Heather, have moved to Durham, NC. Azmina Bachelani is pursuing her master’s in communicative sciences and disorders at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. Stephanie LaFayette is attending graduate school at the Uni-

versity of Michigan School of Information, studying digital information preservation and archiving. Jessica Gjerde is employed in the admissions department at Full Sail University. n Communication Chair: Haley Carpenter (2011classofficers@gustavus.edu) Those with jobs and internships . . . Kojo Addo is an assistant analyst at Securian Financial Group. Andrew Ajeris working with the Lutheran Volunteer Corp. Nils Anderson is employed at Sawbill Canoe Outfitters. Dalton Anderson is a financial adviser at Mutual of Omaha. Will Baer is a watercraft inspector for the DNR. David Beck is a staff accountant at Carlson Highland and Company. Keshia Betcher is an operations lead for Accretive Health. Max Beyer is a technology early career development program associate at Cigna. Ben Bickel is a program analyst at Securian. Bryce Bintzler is employed at Ziegler Cat. Spencer Boonerup is a medical scribe at Elite Medical Scribes. Phoebe Breed is a staff nurse at Gunderson Lutheran Hospital in La Crosse, WI. Daniel Brockberg is an executive team lead at Target Corporation. Jordan Brunsberg is employed at SPS Commerce. Joseph Carlson is a systems analyst and sharepoint specialist at RBA Consulting. Alex Carpenter is a personal trainer at Arapahoe YMCA in Colorado. Mollie Carroll is an audit associate at Grant Thorton LLP. Taylor Dale is a public relations intern at Special Olympics Minnesota. Christine Deering is in sales at Safety Rail Co. Britta Degnan is an auditing associate at Boulay Heutmaker Zibell and Co. Taylor Drenttel is a management services assistant analyst at Securian Financial Group. Matthew Dvorak is an accounting associate at CBIZ MHM LLC. Victoria Ektnitphong is employed at Newport Laboratories. Taylor Fish is on the audit staff at Deloitte. Douglas Frey is an operations lead at Accretive Health. John Gerritsen is an implementation analyst at SPS Commerce. Mary Geske is a tax associate at Grant Thornton LLP. Kareen Getfield is a human resources generalist associate at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota. Paul Halvorson is an audit associate at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Rachel Haugo is a CAN at Meeker Memorial Hospital. Andrew Helgeland is a software engineer at DigiKey. Brittany Hodkinson is a resident assistant at Ecumen Prairie Hill. Emily Hoene is a tec DP at Cigna. Thomas Jeade is an associate software consultant at Fishbowl Solutions. Lisa Klass is a senior business analyst at United Health group as a part of the Optum Insight Leadership Acceleration Program. Andrea Klein is a financial representative at First Investors. Todd Kremmin is interning at Anadarko Petroleum Corporation. An-

nabel Landaverde is an assistant education and delegation coordinator at FundAhmer foundation. Julie Lawany is an equity researcher at Piper Jaffray. Maren Lodge is a financial adviser at Mutual of Omaha. Matthew Martin is a researcher at the University of Minnesota Plant Pathology Department. Maryam McDaniels is a summer associate for the Democratic National Campaign Committee. Matthew Miller is an executive team leader at Target Corporation. Dane Moore is a youth director at Mount Olivet Lutheran Church. Haley Moritz is employed at Metro Sales Inc. Anna Nelson is employed at Epic Systems in Madison, WI. Sean Nelson is a financial adviser for Minneapolis Financial Group. Colby Peterson is a financial representative for Minneapolis Financial Group. Colleen Peterson is working with the Urban Servant Corps in Denver, CO. Michelle Peterson is a financial representative at Mid American Financial. Erianna Reyelts is a public health outreach specialist at Children’s Dental Services. Chloe Radcliffe, Alaina Ramsburg, and Abby Roff are merchandise planning business analysts at Target Corporation. Rachel Rongstad is a personal trainer at Gold’s Gym. Taryn Rosa is working at the Minnesota Department of Agriculture. Cory Ruegg is in Web app development at Cigna. Jill Rykken is an assurance associate at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Kyle Sadler is an RN at Sanford Health. Katelyn Saiko is an RN at University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics. Sarah Schumacher is a media recruiter at FRWD. Alina Stevenson is employed at Oregon Parks and Recreation Department. Benjamin Stewart is a Java developer for Signa. Kelsey Swanson is an assistant analyst at Securian in the Management Development Program. Anna Swenson is an accounting associate at Cargill in Aurora, CO. Matthew Swenson is an actuarial analyst at Securian Financial Group. Evan Taylor is a photo and video specialist at Fasthorse, Inc. Stacey Tigges is in the leadership development program at Target Corporation. Kiel Tschumperlin is in research at the U.S. Forest Service. Matt Wasson is an executive team lead at Target Corporation. Dennis Webster is employed at Recombinetics. Brian Westerbur is employed with the DNR. Cassandra Winters is an RN at Concordia Language Villages. Kathue Yang is a campus missionary at Prepare Ministries. Ashley Zabel is a dance instructor at Elite Dance Company. Those who are teaching . . . Allison Alsaker is teaching English in Russia. Samuel Burnton is teaching English in Japan with JET. Anna Campbell is working with Teach for America in Chicago. Christopher Cannady is teaching in Minneapolis with Teach for America. Breanne CeranFALL 2012

ske is working with Teach for America in Miami-Dade, FL. Casery Corder is teaching English in South Korea. Eric Dronen is teaching English in Chile. Robert Elwell is student-teaching at St. Peter High School. Yanna Georgas is an early music education instructor at the School of Rock. Chris

Gough is student-teaching in Minnetonka High School. Sonja Johnson is teaching English in South Korea. Catherine Keith is an English teaching assistant in the English Language Centre at United International College in Zhuhai, China. Meghan Lee is a Teach for America corps member in Chi-

Dolphins wins book award

Kate Riggs Sonsteby ’05 has been an editor at The Creative Company in Mankato for six years, and during that time has published 70 nonfiction books, with another 10 scheduled to release in Spring 2013. Most books (like Dolphins) are for grades 1 through 3. Sonsteby won the 2012 Maryland Blue Crab Young Reader Award for Transitional Nonfiction for Dolphins, part of a series called “Amazing Animals.”

Kickball comrades

Gustie friends played kickball during the spring season with Minneapolis Chapter – WAKA Kickball. Pictured from left are Ryan Walters ’00, Amber Hanson ’10, Josh Brix ’00, Michelle Lien ’10, and Nick Windschitl ’00.

Gustavus connection at the Tour de Cure Minnesota grows

Pictured are Gustavus students, alumni, and staff who participated as Team RED in the 2012 Tour de Cure bicycle event staged in June: from left, Nate Meyer ’99 (holding the RED T. Ryder mascot), who rode 62 miles along with his twin brother, Geoff (not pictured); Candy Siewert, Lund information desk supervisor, who rode 27 miles; Terena Wilkens, technical director for the Department of Theatre and Dance, who rode 52 miles; Antonio Herbert ’13, who rode 27 miles; MolleeLynn Erickson ’03, who rode 18 miles; and Matt Timmons ’15, who rode 7 miles. Not pictured are Luke Harvey ’08, who rode 100 miles, and Rebecca Stewart ’14, who rode 27 miles. If you are interested in riding next year, contact Terena Wilkens, co-captain of Team RED, at tech1@gustavus.edu. The goal is to have a Gustavus team in the Tour de Cure in two years!

About Elmer Left

“At the age of seventy-eight, Elmer Heartland packed up his things, kissed his sleeping wife on the forehead, and left. For good.” So begins the journey of Elmer, a man in his twilight years who has spent most of his life simply doing what he was told and the protagonist of a new book written and published by Kate Leibfried ’08, Bovey, MN. After year upon year of empty conversations, meaningless actions, and endless Lions Club meetings, Elmer Heartland decides that he has had enough. He packs up a duffel bag, tip-toes into the night, and hops on the 4 a.m. train to the city of There. As the train gathers speed and leaves his hometown in the dust, Elmer wonders where the road will take him and what adventures his new life has in store. He is ill-prepared for what will come next. Elmer adventures across country, seeking personal meaning as he attempts to make peace with his past and grapple with his identity. Along the way, he encounters a quirky collection of people and places including two dueling soup kitchens, a pack of new-age collectivists, and a rainbow-colored meditation tower. Elmer’s tale shows us it’s never too late to come of age.

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cago. Meghan McMillan is teaching English in Thailand. Melody Monyok is teaching English in China. Carrie Moua is teaching English in Korea. Brett Paulsen is teaching English in Japan with JET. Lydia Voss is teaching English in South Korea. Those who are pursuing further education . . . Chad Allen is attending the Minneapolis Media Institute for music productions. Kaitlyn Andren is attending the University of St. Thomas School of Law. Ann Bergstrand is attending medical school at the University of Minnesota-Duluth. Danielle Burgmeier is attending the University of Minnesota Dental School. Benjamin Ceder is attending the physical therapy program at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. Jenna Chapman is attending the master of arts program in social sciences with a focus on psychology at the University of Chicago. Steven Dow is attending the sports management program at Minnesota State University, Mankato. Annika Ferber is pursuing a master’s in applied exercise science at Concordia University. Keirst Finsand is enrolled in the master in counseling program at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Hannah Fischer is attending Creighton Law School. Kelsey Fredrick is attending the accelerated nursing program at Creighton University. Joshua Fredrickson is pursuing a master’s degree in education at Southwest Minnesota State University. Brandon Furey is attending graduate school for physics at the University of Texas at Austin. Emily Green is attending the leadership in student affairs graduate program at the University of St. Thomas School of Education. Tyler Grey is attending graduate school in sports management at Minnesota State University, Mankato. Andrew Griesman is attending Luther Seminary for a master of divinity degree. Laura Harelstad is attending graduate school at the University of Minnesota’s school psychology program. Jeremy Helle is attending the University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy. Matthew Henderson is attending the law enforcement academy at Metro State University. Elliot Herdina is attending CRNA/medical school in the Mayo Clinic System. Meghan Hoeft is attending graduate school at the University of Nebraska, Omaha, and is an athletic trainer at Creighton University. Carrie Johnson is attending the University of Michigan’s Ph.D. program in chemical biology. Ben Johnson-Tesch is attending medical school at the University of Minnesota. Lee Kenyon is attending medical school at the Western University College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific. Laura Kientzle is studying speech language pathology at Western Michigan University. Rachel Long is attending master’s classes at Minnesota State University, Mankato, in special education. Amy Loreen is attending the school of medicine at Creighton University. Holli Lynch

GUSTAVUS ALUMNI is a student at the University of Southern Florida. Kelly Maloney is a physical therapy graduate student at St. Catherine University. Ellen Miller is pursuing a master of divinity degree at Luther Seminary. Cassandra Napoli is in the master of fine arts program in drawing and painting at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, MA. David Nissen is attending Luther Seminary. Malea Noennig is attending Northwestern Health Sciences University for a doctor of chiropractic degree. Kaitlyn Ogren is enrolled in the master’s program in sport psychology at St. Cloud State University. Kristin M. Olson is attending Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences. Daniel Opitz is studying chiropractic medicine at Northwestern Health Sciences University. Kevin Platt is pursuing a master’s in public administration at Hamline University. Brittany Raasch is in the master’s program in music performance at Indiana University. John Schmidy was a summer intern at Seagate Technology and is attending the Ph.D. program in mechanical engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, MO. Sarah Schmitt is attending the dental hygienist school at the University of Minnesota. William Schultze is in the physical therapy program at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. Rebekkah Steinwand is at the University of South Dakota Law School. Garrett Stoddard is pursuing a master’s in chemistry at the University of Minnesota-Duluth. Kimberly Sukhum is in graduate school in evolution, ecology, and population biology at Washington University in St. Louis, MO. Kyle Vick is attending the University of Minnesota Law School. Darin Wagner is in the doctor of chiropractic program at Northwestern Health Sciences University. Abbigail Wehling is attending graduate school at the University of St. Thomas for a master’s in counseling. Benjaming Weiner is at graduate school at Saint Mary’s University, pursuing a master of arts degree in instruction. Laura Westlund is attending the University of Minnesota Pharmacy School. Melissa Wygant is attending graduate school at the University of North Dakota and is a graduate teaching assistant. Syjong Xiong is attending Argosy University and working at ACR Homes. Yer Yang is in the occupational therapy program at St. Catherine’s University. Lucas Youngvorst is attending graduate school at Minnesota State University, Mankato. Cai Zeng is attending the University of Cincinnati CollegeConservatory of Music. n C ommunication Chair: Chris Duhaime (2012classofficers@gustavus.edu)

Weddings

Paul Magnuson ’59 and Elaine Torrey ’59, 11/25/11, St. Paul, MN. Roberta Kitlinski ’82 and Sean Lydon, 9/25/10, Coon Rapids, MN.

alumni gatherings Teaching and learning has been a pillar at Gustavus Adolphus College for 150 years. Join us as we reminisce about favorite professors and mentors, share how these people have impacted our lives, and learn about current and future great teaching and learning at Gustavus. Check the list below to find an event near where you live. Time and location details will be forthcoming. For more information, call Alumni Relations at 800-487-8437. Wednesday, September 12 2012 Tulsa, OK

Monday, February 4, 2013 Palm Springs, CA

Thursday, September 13, 2012 Oklahoma City, OK

Wednesday, February 13, 2013 Tampa, FL

Thursday, November 8, 2012 New York, NY

Friday, February 15, 2013 Naples, FL

Saturday, November 10, 2012 Boston, MA

Thursday, February 28, 2013 Seattle, WA

Saturday, November 10, 2012 Dallas, TX

Saturday, March 2, 2013 San Francisco, CA

Sunday, November 11, 2012 Houston, TX

Saturday, March 9, 2013 Madison, WI

Tuesday, November 13, 2012 Washington, DC

Tuesday, March 12, 2013 Denver, CO

Tuesday, January 29, 2013 Phoenix, AZ

Thursday, March 14, 2013 Chicago, IL

Thursday, January 31, 2013 Tucson, AZ

Thursday, April 11, 2013 Atlanta, GA

Sunday, February 3, 2013 Los Angeles, CA Brenda Meyer ’92 and Vern Simpson, 2/11/12, Eagle Lake, MN. Wade Gustafson ’99 and Cara Germain, 4/21/12, St. Paul, MN. Heather Larson ’00 and Matthew Ritter, 9/5/11, Chestnut Hill, MA. Matt Quam ’00 and Angela Wheeler, 10/8/11, Edina, MN. Joshua Batalden ’01 and Jennifer Kostka, 7/16/11, St. Paul, MN. Dan Lindstrom ’03 and Jessica Timmington, 8/6/11, St. Paul, MN. Maya Stensvaag ’04 and Taro Tanaka, 7/24/10, Fergus Falls, MN. Mary Duvall ’05 and Terry Tipton, 9/4/11, St. Paul, MN. Elizabeth Wojahn ’05 and Michael Feltes, 6/10/11, Burnsville, MN. Miranda Mensink ’05 and Nathan Olsen, Apple Valley, MN. Rachel Elvebak ’07 and Jordan Keuseman, 5/21/11, Rochester, MN. Kelsey Rihm ’08 and Thomas Bennett, 11/6/10. Eva Cornell ’08 and Christopher Stark ’08, 12/30/11, Bethesda, MD. Mee Moua ’08 and Kacee Moua, 6/12/11, St. Paul, MN. Britta Sundeen ’08 and Rick Walstrom ’07, New Hope, MN. Angie Wichmann ’08 and Will Peterson, Alden, MN.

Julia Kruchoski ’09 and Blake Meyer, 1/2/12, Cottage Grove, MN. Lynn Hillen ’10 and Keith G. Linne ’11, Duluth, MN. Kelly Williamson ’10 and Robert Janisch, 11/12/11, White Bear Lake, MN. Amara Berthelsen ’10 and Jeff Mattingly, 6/2/12, Houston, TX. Kiera Braun ’11 and Tyler Bridley ’13, Le Sueur, MN. Karen Maus ’11 and Carl Stenoien ’11, Rogers, MN.

births

Eli, to Katie Heffernan Carson ’92 and Nathan Carson, 11/6/9. Miria, to Stephen Henderson ’96 and Yoshimi Henderson, 9/28/11. Kate, to Kim Lacher Rauk ’96 and Jason Rauk ’96, 5/3/11. Kai, to Melissa Stirn Johnson ’97 and Erik Johnson, 6/9/10. Nicholas, to Andrea Cordes Ruppert ’97 and Andrew Ruppert, 1/11/11. Autumn, to Amanda Peterson Caspers ’98 and Gregory Caspers, 8/26/11. Greyson, to Erik Edstrom ’98 and Amy Edstrom, 12/24/11. Liv, to Rebecca Wold Freeman ’98 and Leif Freeman ’98, 11/10/11. Wyatt, to April Smith Goodman ’98 and Dan Goodman, 8/12/10. FALL 2012

2012 GREATER GUSTAVUS AWARD The Greater Gustavus Award is the highest award given by the Gustavus Alumni Association. It is awarded to those who by deed have notably advanced and aided Gustavus Adolphus College.

Jon and Anita Thomsen Young ’77 from their award ceremony introduction by Thomas Young ’88 Photo by Wayne Schmidt

o simply read a laundry list of the volunteer roles and leadership positions Jon and Anita Thomsen Young ’77 ’77 have held, and gifts they have made to this institution since graduating, would be to miss the deeper meaning of why they are being recognized by the Gustavus Alumni Association with its highest honor, the Greater Gustavus Award, this evening. But perhaps a snippet of the laundry list would be helpful: • Anita served nine years on the Board of Trustees, several of them as chair of the Budget and Finance Committee—including the tornado years. • They both served actively on Commission Gustavus 150 Task Forces. • They both currently serve on the Friends of Music National Advisory Board. • Anita represents the Friends of Music National Advisory board on the Crown Council. • They represent and project the core values of the College in their professional lives both during the week and as directors of music and worship at Peace Lutheran Church in Bloomington. Perhaps more visible to all of us is the incredible work that their audio, lighting, and video company, Heroic Productions, has done to fundamentally transform many of Gustavus’s signature events, such as the Nobel Conference, Christmas in Christ Chapel, Commencement, and the Sesquicentennial and Campaign Kickoff Dinner. And while I may not be able to understand some of the Nobel Conference presenters, that I can see them and hear them beautifully is principally due to the work of the Heroic production team and Jon’s leadership. Jon and Anita have truly raised the bar on the quality of every event in which they are involved. What a few of us see, however, is that many of the major invoices for the Heroic team’s work often come with an “ILG” discount—I

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Love Gustavus, netting the bills to zero. Jon and Anita’s history of advancing and aiding Gustavus is long and full! They have consistently supported and are committed to the institution through their volunteer service, financial support, and passion for the Gustavus community in their personal lives. In addition to their long-standing and substantial support for disparate projects on campus, music has been an ever-growing focus. Starting with gifts for Jussi Björling Scholarships for musicians, they most recently committed to funding our newest distinguished endowed chair—the Jon and Anita Thomsen Young Distinguished Chair in Music for the Gustavus Choir conductor. This multi-million dollar commitment will strengthen the music programs at Gustavus and continue to raise the bar for all we do. Throughout the history of this institution men and women have done what the Greater Gustavus Award seeks to celebrate: “by deed, notably advancing and aiding Gustavus Adolphus College.” “Deed” is of course an active word; it evokes a call to action; to move; to do; Nothing better describes Jon and Anita. They are fully committed to Gustavus with their volunteerism, their professional experience, their philanthropy, and their expectation for quality and integrity. Functional, Average, and Good Enough are not in their vocabulary. They join recognized figures both historic and contemporary who have acted to ensure the future success of the College, from Norelius and Wahlstrom, to Edgar Carlson, to the Becks. It is in the alignment of values, the courage and confidence to act boldly, and an unending expectation for an ever-strengthened Gustavus that we find our award recipients this evening.

GUSTAVUS ALUMNI Brown named Honorary Gustie

Tom Brown, director of athletics at Gustavus, has been selected by Gustavus Alumni Association Board of Directors as the Assocation’s first Honorary Gustie. This award recently enacted by the Board pays special tribute to individuals who, while not having graduated from or attended Gustavus, have earned the conferred right to be considered bona fide “Gusties” by approval of the Alumni Board of Directors. Criteria includes “length of dedicated service to, interest in, and enthusiastic support of the College as professor, instructor, teacher, administrator, coach, staff member, clergy, parent, friend; or spouse of a graduate; special acts of kindness, benevolence, largess, student service, and/or distinguished public service; or a one-time heroic act such as a rescue, intervention, or representation.” Brown, who has been a part of the Gustavus Athletics Department as a coach, instructor, and administrator since 1991, succeeds Al Molde ’66, Ph.D., who retired May 31 after 15 years at Gustavus and 40 years as an athletics administrator and coach. In December of 2008, Brown left coaching and accepted the position of assistant athletics director at the College with primary responsibilities in event management. In that role, he has been directly in charge of the administration of the home athletics events for all 25 varsity teams as well as coordinating and scheduling all indoor and outdoor athletics facilities and serving as the liaison to the advancement office in matters involving athletics fundraising. Most recently he was responsible for the update of the interior of the Lund Center to celebrate Gustavus’s athletics history and the College’s Sesquicentennial. He has been involved in budgeting and staffing decisions with Molde, while also helping with facility updates at the softball field and the hockey arena. s

Elizabeth, to Jason Hovland ’99 and Jody Hornik Hovland, 8/5/11. Cooper, to Lisa Bauer Millin ’99 and Matthew Millin, 10/5/11. Boden, to Chad Winter ’99 and Stephanie Winter, 3/14/12. Johanna, to Amy Valek Zasoski ’99 and Michael Zasoski, 3/19/12. Cade, to Stacie Engstrom Christensen ’00 and Joshua Christensen ’00, 2/9/12. Julia, to Alison Brown Hahn ’00 and Joe Hahn, 5/29/11. Charles, to Brie Gauthier Kidd ’00 and Aaron Kidd, 1/11/12. Anders, to Kelly Colvin Smith ’00 and Brian Smith ’00, 2/2/12. Porter, to Devin Colvin ’01 and Emily Brown, 2/12/12. Claire, to Laura Yudt Custer ’01 and Chad Custer ’03, 3/19/12. Torin, to Meg Dimpfel ’01 and Shae Brennan, 3/28/12. Holden, to Brandon Navara ’01 and Marie Vadnais Navara, 10/6/11. Brady, to Sonja Cordes Pothen ’01 and Chad Pothen, 3/13/12. Judah, to Jacy Bowen Shrestha ’01 and Sarad Shrestha, 2/10/12. Twins, Greta and Violet, to Julie Bexell Sieben ’01 and Todd Sieben, 4/26/12. Avery, to Dawn Krabbenhoft Stapleton ’01 and Mark Stapleton, 3/2/12. Jordan, to Jake Thorius ’01 and Erin Thorius, 4/25/12. Nolan, to Mike Bounds ’02 and Hanna Bounds, 2/27/12. Ryler, to Daryn Collins ’02 and Amber Erickson Collins, 1/29/10. Bjorn, to Annalisa Eckman Rudser ’02 and Kyle Rudser, 5/2/12. Dylan, to Nick Greenig ’02 and Amanda Sheady Greenig, 6/23/11. Teagan, to Josie Gables Holte ’02 and Mark Holte, 1/11/11. Millie, to Ryan Kath ’02 and Carla Corban Kath, 5/26/11. Clay, to Brie Stevenson Nelson ’02 and Cullen Nelson ’02, 2/17/12. Jacob, to Cory Starkweather ’02 and Sarah Hansen Starkweather, 10/26/11. Hailey, to Adam Vahl ’02 and Jill Vahl, 11/25/10. Alexa, to Angie Lundeen Wold ’02 and Jacob Wold ’02, 2/7/12. Boden, to Berit Aune Allar ’03 and Aaron Allar ‘03, 12/20/11. Alex, to Anna Knoblauch Bromeland ’03 and Phil Bromeland ’03, 9/6/11. Madelyn, to Sarah Lorentz Hendley ’03 and David Hendley, 12/20/11. Calleigh, to Kristen Peterson Juhlin ’03 and Nicholas Juhlin, 9/28/11. Emilia, to Katherine Nolan Nelson ’03 and Andrew Nelson ’04, 4/18/12. James, to Nick Peterson ’03 and Kristina Glad Peterson, 5/14/12.

C.H. Robinson Gusties ring NASDAQ bell

Casey Brinkman ’99, Kent Stuart ’87, and Mike Wilken ’02 represented C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc., as they rang the NASDAQ stock market opening bell at Times Square on Wednesday, April 11. C.H. Robinson has been publicly traded on the NASDAQ since 1997 and is part of the NASDAQ-100 Index which comprises 100 of the largest domestic and international non-financial securities listed on the NASDAQ Stock Market based on market capitalization.

Rhua, to Kristina Harter Schwartz ’03 and Matt Schwartz ’04, 2/28/12. Chelsea, to Sarah Nerland Sparks ’03 and Timothy Sparks, 10/7/11. Jonathan, to Brenda Westerbur Gill ’04 and Jonathan Gill, 9/23/11. Griffin, to Adam Hennen ’04 and Gina Pustovar Hennen, 3/24/12. Brittney to Tricia Richter Merkins ’04 and James Merkins, 10/12/11. Annika to Kristin Petersen Smith ’04 and Aaron Smith ’99, 3/14/12. Payton to Marie Woog Baker ’05 and Alex Baker, 4/14/12. Annika to Annie Kruse Ericson ’05 and Mark Ericson, 6/25/11. Benjamin to Kristin Kachelmyer Krusemark ’05 and Brady Krusemark ’05, 5/15/11. Reese to Sean Evenson ’06 and Greta Loen Evenson, 1/10/11. Peyton to Krista Kirchoff Engebretson ’07 and Tyler Engebretson, 3/7/12. Mya to Karen Hoeg Kennedy ’07 and Matthew Kennedy, 3/22/12. Twins, Brody and Carter, to Maegan Trebelhorn Storm ’07 and Josh Storm, 7/18/11.

Thomas to Kelsey Rihm Bennett ’08 and Thomas Bennett, 4/17/12. Blake to Sarah Zierke Solyntjes ’08 and Anthony Solyntjes, 5/1/12. Alana to Linda Kanne Rieke ’09 and Andy Rieke ’07, 12/29/11.

in memoriam

Eleanore Johnson ’28, St. Paul, MN, on December 15, 2011. Doug Maves ’35, Tempe, AZ, on April 6, 2012. He was a retired employee of Fullerton Savings and Loan and is survived by one daughter. Carl Ingwalson ’36, Mankato, MN, on June 5, 2012. He was a retired employee of Rieth-Riley Construction Company and is survived by two sons. W. Paul Newman ’47, Minneapolis, MN, on May 17, 2012. He was a retired employee of Hauenstein and Burmeister and is survived by his wife, Fern, four sons, and two sisters. James Klatt ’48, Plymouth, WI, on April 4, 2012. He was a retired civil engineer for the U.S. Forest Service and is survived by his wife, Florine, two daughters, and sister Jacqualyn Oelke ’50. FALL 2012

Joseph Canney ’48, Rochester, MN, on May 14, 2012. He was retired controller for Olmsted Medical Group and is survived by four sons and two daughters. Richard Harper ’49, Richmond, VA, on June 12, 2012. He was a retired special agent of the FBI and is survived by his wife, Linda, two sons, three daughters, one stepdaughter, one sister, and one brother. Richard Ogren ’49, Chisago City, MN, on May 15, 2012. He was a retired business teacher at Century College and is survived by two sons including Stephen ’73, one brother, and one sister. Robert Mikelson ’50, Naples, FL, on May 10, 2012. He was retired vice president for ITT Corporation, New York, NY, and is survived by his wife, Mitzi (Walker ’52), and three daughters.

Carole Johnson Johnson ’55, Coeur D’Alene, ID, on May 31, 2012. She was a retired teacher from Waubun High School (MN), and is survived by her sister, three sons, and one daughter. Linnea Peterson Sieling ’56, Lake Crystal, MN, on May 8, 2012. She was a retired high school and elementary physical education teacher and is survived by her husband, Norman, two daughters, three sons including Jay ’86 and Scott ’92, and sisters Edith Vogt ’51 and Ruth Bidwell ’52. Eugene Nelson ’57, Huntley, MN, on November 9, 2011. He was a retired employee at Farmers State Bank and is survived by his wife, Helen, and one daughter.

Submit Your News Online! Did you know that you can submit your news online, including news about careers, graduate school, births, weddings, deaths, volunteer work, or your random encounters with other Gusties? Your news will appear on the Alumni website, on your class website, and may be included in The Gustavus Quarterly. Donald Severson ’50, Chicago, IL, on May 16, 2012. He was a retired corporate lawyer for the Borg-Warner Corporation and is survived by one sister. Paul Sifford ’51, Longville, MN, on June 9, 2012. He was a retired teacher for Richfield School District and is survived by his wife, Joan, and four daughters including LuAnn ’78. Irene Carlson Sundberg ’51, Moline, IL, on April 14, 2012. She was a retired adjudicator for the State of Illinois and is survived by one daughter and one brother. Matthew Webster ’51, Stillwater, MN, on June 12, 2012. He was a retired counselor at Stillwater Junior High School and is survived by his wife, Patri, one daughter, and one son. Emily Kemp Skunes ’52, Helena, MT, on April 12, 2012. She was retired employee for Hennessey’s and is survived by her husband, Orrin, and one daughter. Gloria Anderson Samelian ’52, Minneapolis, MN, on May 20, 2012. She was a retired teacher of the deaf and hearing impaired in Sauk Centre and St. Cloud, and is survived by a daughter, Kristan Potter ’81, and a son, Victor ’86. Ardis Peterson Schwarz ’54, Vero Beach, FL, on May 27, 2012. She was a retired elementary school teacher and is survived by one son, one daughter, and sister Phyllis Odland ’47.

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Albert “Bill” Hammerlund ’57, Independence, MN, on May 8, 2012. He was the owner of Hammerlund Manufacturing and is survived by his wife, Linn, son Matthew ’85, three daughters including Anne Thommes ’86 and Christina Wagner ’88, and one brother. Marlene Haugen Widmark ’58, Grand Rapids, MN, on December 11, 2011. She owned and operated Butterfly Cottage and Adam’s House Bed and Breakfast and is survived by her husband, Merrill ’55, two sons including Stuart ’86, two daughters including Ellen Murphy ’85, and two brothers. Robert Peterson ’58, St. Peter, on April 10, 2012. He was retired vice president for development of Gustavus Adolphus College. He was awarded the Greater Gustavus Award in 1978 for his advancement of and service to Gustavus and served as a class agent. He is survived by his wife, Ranae, two sons, Mark ’88 and Kevin ’94, one sister, and one brother. (See the On the Hill section for a more detailed obituary.) Robert Lamphere ’61, Lincoln, NE, on March 21, 2012. He was a retired employee of Olson Construction Company and the Nebraska Department of Roads, and is survived by his wife, Carolyn (Olson ’61), three sons including Jim ’79, one daughter, and one brother.

Gary Lawson ’62, Longview, TX, on April 28, 2012. He was a retired physical education teacher for Alameda Elementary in Albuquerque, NM, and is survived by his wife, Caroline, three daughters, two sons, brother Craig ’60, and sisters Anne Larson ’64 and Lori Henger ’71. David Grandstrand ’63, Maple Plain, MN, on April 4, 2012. He was retired from General Mills and is survived by his wife, Karen, two daughters, and one stepdaughter. Douglas Miller ’63, Plymouth, MN, on June 4, 2012. He was a retired employee of Northwest Electronic Technologies and is survived by his wife, Barbara, and one daughter. Barbara Borden ’82, Eden Prairie, MN, on April 23, 2012. She is survived by her father, John, sister Pam O’Brien ’77, and one brother. Joel Koch ’85, St. Louis Park, MN, on April 17, 2012. He was the manager of mailing services at the MPX Group in Golden Valley and is survived by his mother, Darlene, two sons, one sister, and brother Paul ’87. John Kroschel ’86, St. Cloud, MN, on May 17, 2012. He was senior pastor at Atonement Lutheran Church and is survived by his wife, Christine (Barrett ’85), one son, and one daughter. Jesi Harding Matthew ’06, Mankato, MN, on April 4, 2012. She was an education specialist of soil and water conservation and is survived by her husband, Adam ’04, her parents, and two sisters. Ann Nadeau Britton, North Mankato, MN, on May 15, 2012. She was a former instructor of piano at Gustavus and is survived by three daughters, two sons, and one sister. Norma Unrau Suderman, St. Peter, MN, on May 28, 2012. She was the widow of longtime professor of English Elmer Suderman and a retired employee of the Gustavus bookstore. She is survived by one sister, one son, and daughter Amy Zimmerman ’72. Kalo Neidert, Reno, NV, on June 12, 2012. He taught accounting at Gustavus from 1961 to 1962 and is survived by his wife, Stella, four sons, and one daughter. Donna Brady Botz, Oshkosh, WI, on June 13, 2012. Donna worked as a secretary at Gustavus and is survived by one son, one daughter, and one sister.

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2012 Christmas in Christ Chapel JUBILEE: Proclaiming the Year of the Lord’s Favor

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November 30 December 1 and 2, 2012 3:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. Christ Chapel

hristmas in Christ Chapel 2012 comes as the crowning event in the 50th year— the Jubilee year—of this jeweled cathedral at the center of the campus and the edge of the prairie. More than 350 gifted students and their teachers and conductors will celebrate the season’s calling with families, alumni, and friends who come home to the College to hear again the Christmas message. The liturgy will explore the implications of the biblical Jubilee, which calls for a return to shalom, that is, the restoration of God’s intention for all of creation. Jubilee presents the opportunity to reflect upon our relationship with God, one another, and the earth, to reflect upon the Word made flesh in Jesus the Christ. Listen to Mary proclaim the greatness of a merciful God who lifts up the lowly. Sing with the angels, “Glory to God in the highest heaven and on earth peace among those whom God favors.” Ponder how Christ reorients our lives toward peace, reconciliation, and the common good. And go into God’s preferred future proclaiming the year of the Lord’s favor! Tickets for the Christmas in Christ Chapel services and the Christmas buffets will be available online at gustavustickets.com. Tickets will go on sale at noon on Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012. When you place your order online, you will be able to choose the service and Christmas buffet that you wish to attend based on availability. Seating for the buffets prior to each service is limited, so early reservations are strongly suggested. Tickets are non-refundable. If you do not have access to the Internet, tickets will be available by phone (507-933-7520) beginning at noon on Oct. 15. Credit card payment is required for phone orders.