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LEGACY STORED
This little dresser first belonged to Luther Kindstrom ’32, who moved it into Uhler during the residence hall’s inaugural year. Thirty-eight year later, his daughter, Patricia Kindstrom LeVesque ’70, took it with her to Wahlstrom, then Rundstrom, then Valley View. Twenty-seven years after that, her daughter, Melissa LeVesque-Piela ’97, moved it to Sorenson, then back to Uhler. Yeah. This dresser gets around.
GUSTAVUS QUARTERLY
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WINTER 2019
This year, it’s in Norelius (CoEd), with fourth-generation Gustie Lauren Piela ’25. “At first I didn’t want to take it,” Piela says, citing the mismatched knobs and chipped paint. But her mother gave it a fresh coat—painting it is part of the tradition as it’s passed from alumni to student. Now, not only is it cute and useful addition to her room in 1A, “it is so meaningful for me to have a little piece of my family here at Gustavus.”
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