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Editor Loren J. Boone Managing Editor Mike Nistler ’79

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12 Beautiful minds Our featured professors have mastered the art of being outstanding teachers and diligent scholars. They are exemplars of a faculty committed to Education for Life.

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Each has achieved success thanks to life lessons that have helped them benefit science and society.

11 Taking Manhattan Music trio performed at Carnegie Hall.

20 A quiet revolution Duo unites to create new approach to teaching.

22 Eye-opening discovery Team from St. Cloud State paddles north to unearth treasures.

28 Annual report A lifetime of giving.

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St. Cloud State shares university news Achievement highlights from recent student, faculty and staff as well as other campus news.

36 Husky Athletics Fall sports teams have successful campaigns.

39 Alumni class notes Careers, changes, couples, children — catch up on what other alumni are accomplishing.

Photographer Neil Andersen ’96 Art Direction and Design Marie Novak Madgwick ’91 St. Cloud State Information Marsha Shoemaker Jeff Wood ’81 ’87 ’95 University Advancement Craig C. Wruck Terri Mische Kristy Modrow-Ullah ’03 ’05 Athletic Information Anne Abicht ’06 Tom Nelson Outlook is the official institutional and alumni magazine of St. Cloud State University and is a collaborative effort of the University Communications office, the Office of Alumni and Constituent Engagement and the St. Cloud State University Foundation. The mission of the publication is to strengthen the bond and enhance the relationship between the University and its diverse alumni, faculty, students, community and friends.

Outlook is produced three times a year by the St. Cloud State University Communications Office and is distributed without charge to St. Cloud State alumni, faculty, friends and parents of currently enrolled students. Outlook articles may be reproduced without permission if appropriate credit is given.

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Cover: St. Cloud State graduate and free-lance photographer Heidi Shub ’05 captured pictures of the professors featured on the cover. We asked her to take both headshots and environmental portraits in color and black and white.

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From the President Conferences old and new making waves on hot-button issues For 50 years St. Cloud State’s Winter Institute has been breaking the ice on conversations about significant and timely issues related to the economy.

The venerable event has brought to campus a succession of renowned economics experts to jump start these discussions, including Federal Reserve chairmen, Nobel laureates, authors, educators and leaders of industry. Each winter the institute focuses on a timely theme. This year’s topic, Green Economic Growth, brought insights shared by an environmental scholar, economics professor, energy executive and former Environmental Protection Agency analyst.

The Winter Institute is a signature event for our university’s economics faculty and students and for the community and business partnerships it has built. In just three years two other St. Cloud State-hosted summits – the Power in Diversity Leadership and the Global Goes Local conferences – have emerged as the same kind of gamechanging collaborations.

All three events address issues that are highly relevant to every Minnesotan, offering avenues for lively discussion and serious conversations about how to meet the changing needs of our increasingly diverse society. All three are galvanizing scholars, activists, community and political leaders with the kind of solid, eye-opening information and opinion sharing that leads to significant solutions to very real issues.

The Power in Diversity Leadership Conference was created and launched by Multicultural Student Services staff and students inspired by the networking and sharing of ideas they experienced while attending the Big Twelve Conference on Black Student Government. They came back with a desire to transfer the sense of empowerment they were feeling to other college students.

Because of their commitment to making this big idea a reality, the Power in Diversity Leadership Conference has become a major force for helping student and campus leaders develop the leadership and mentoring skills that make them more effective agents of cultural change and social justice.

A highlight of this year’s January conference, which attracted nearly 500 registrants from regional colleges and universities, was social critic, philosopher and Princeton Professor Cornel West’s presentation which challenged students to look beyond themselves and their immediate surroundings in order to become better leaders.

The third annual Global Goes Local Conference in April promises to continue attracting widespread interest and kudos for its timely attention to the consequential and sometimes controversial issues relating to immigrant Minnesotans.

Organized by the interdisciplinary Faculty Research Group on Immigrant Workers in Minnesota and co-sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts and the School of Public

Affairs, the Global Goes Local Conference gives stakeholders in Minnesota’s new immigrant communities an opportunity be participants in research and presentation of issues they face in their struggle to secure substantive citizenship in the United States.

These discussions have implications for social and political change in a state that has experienced significant demographic changes in recent years as a result of immigration activity.

According to recent census data, Minnesota now has the largest Somali population in the U.S. with more than 32,000 residents. The count of residents of Hmong descent in Minnesota rose 46 percent to 66,181 in the 2010 census, and the population of Latino/Latina residents in Minnesota rose 50 percent.

Some of the topics that will be covered in keynote and panel presentations during this year’s Global Goes Local conference April 9-11 include: »» The Impact of Arizona and Alabama Anti-immigrant Laws on Minnesota’s Immigrant Efforts to Secure Citizenship Rights »» The African American Historical Experience in Minnesota as Migrants »» Student Research Panel on Somali Housing and Workplace Issues »» Undocumented Students Speaking on Challenges to Securing a University Education in Minnesota »» Hmong Political Organization Issues in Minnesota St. Cloud State is pleased to share these programs with the public – in most cases at no cost. We are grateful for external sponsors who have joined in helping to extend these presentations to broader audiences. Last year’s Global Goes Local conference was co-sponsored by the University of Minnesota’s Immigration History Research Center and the United Way of Minnesota. The Winter Institute’s community co-sponsors are the Initiative Foundation, St. Cloud Area Chamber of Commerce and the St. Cloud Times.

The Winter Institute, the Power in Diversity Leadership Conference and the Global Goes Local Conference each inform our teaching in multiple academic disciplines.

They also have a tremendous impact on our surrounding communities by increasing understanding and awareness of critical social issues. I am proud to say they are making waves and making a difference.

Earl H. Potter III, President

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University news Local artist to carve wood gifts from trees on campus

James Seay cuts out paper as part of an after-school program that St. Cloud State helped developed in partnership with ING Direct of St. Cloud and the Boy Scouts of America Central Minnesota Council.

Photograph by Neil Andersen ’96.

After-school program for elementary students in personal finance economics The Center for Economic Education is training volunteers piloting a new after-school program in personal finance and economics for children.

Internet bank ING Direct and the National Council for Economic Education chose the center to help volunteers from Boys Scouts of America and ING deliver 14 lessons this semester at after-school clubs. Lessons include learning how to save, budget and use banks.

Lessons also discuss jobs, careers and entrepreneurship. Activity-based lessons can require students to play games and even create their own mini-economies.

As learning incentives, students earn “econo-bucks” that can be redeemed for candy and knick knacks.

Ken Rebeck, associate professor of economics, and others conducted training sessions in November and December. Implementation began Jan. 9.

Rebeck is the interim director of the Center for Economic Education, St. Cloud State’s engine for improving economic literacy in Central Minnesota.

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Wood harvested from a St. Cloud State oak tree will be made into gifts for University partners around the world.

The wood comes from a tree cut down to make way for the Integrated Science and Engineering Laboratory Facility under construction at Eighth Street South and Second Avenue, east of the Education Building.

St. Cloud State officials tapped artist Gary Mrozek to put the wood to use. The St. Cloud artist already had a relationship with the University, crafting black walnut bowls as gifts for friends of the University.

“My grandfather was a master carpenter and cabinet maker, though sadly he passed away when I was very young,” Gary Mrozek learned a great deal about woodworking in said Mrozek, who took art classes classes he took at St. Cloud State University. Photograph by from 1999-2004. “I grew up Neil Andersen ’96. influenced by the many creations he left behind. Woodworking became a necessity when my wife and I purchased a home built in the early 1900s. We couldn’t afford to hire things out, so we did it ourselves, often with the tools my grandfather had used – his generation was prepower tools. It gave me an appreciation of truly working with your hands. “ Mrozek said classes he took at St. Cloud State “were a foundation for my art form.

It was in Mathematical Thinking (MATH 193) that I learned of symmetry, proportion and natural occurring patterns such as the Fibonacci Sequence. General Woodworking (ETS 130) is where I had my first formal exposure to a wood lathe and Principals of Sociology (SOC160) exposed me to cultural art.”

Said Mrozek: “I’m thankful for the influence and education of St. Cloud State University and my ability to give back to the community. One good ‘turn’ deserves another.”

Some of Mrozek’s handiwork.

Photographs by Neil Andersen ’96.

University news ISELF Groundbreaking

Among the dignitaries taking part in the groundbreaking ceremony for St. Cloud State’s new ISELF building were, from left: Rep. Larry Hosch, MnSCU Trustee Scott Thiss, Pres. Earl H.Potter III, Sen. John Pederson, Gov. Mark Dayton, Rep. Tim Mahoney, Sen. Michelle Fischbach, Rep. King Banian, Rep. Steve Gottwalt, Sen. John Howe.

Not pictured, Sen. Taryl Clark.

Photograph by Neil Andersen ’96.

Partnership flourishes A partnership between St. Cloud State University, CentraCare Health Systems and the Universidad de Concepción in Chile continues to blossom.

“It really is quite rewarding,” said Elizabeth ValenciaBorgert, of the Center for Continuing Studies and the Foreign Language and Literature Department at St. Cloud State and the project manager. Many have been instrumental in the program’s success, including Dr. John Mahowald, senior cardiologist; and Robert Johnson, executive director at CentraCare Heart and Vascular Center, St. Cloud Hospital nursing professional staff; and the St. Cloud State Department of Nursing Science and its counterparts in Chile.

The benefits of this partnership include having St. Cloud State nursing students spend one month in Concepción, following their Chilean counterparts in their Public and Community Health class, as well as Universidad de Concepción nursing students visiting here under the Leadership and Management Initiative (financially supported by the CentraCare Health Foundation). Of particular importance is the enhancement of CentraCare Health System’s outreach work with the local Latino population.

Recently, CentraCare Heart and Vascular Center donated more than 700 pounds of medical supplies and equipment to the Hospital Regional de Concepcion through the Universidad de Concepción. It was St. Cloud State’s ValenciaBorgert, who made sure that donation, valued at more than $50,000, made it to its destination.

Currently two nursing students from Concepción are in St. Cloud, and plans are to send nursing students from St. Cloud State abroad in the fall on the Public and Community Health initiative, Valencia-Borgert said. These

From left: Chilean nursing students Tania Canteros and Viviana Neira, from Universidad de Concepción, instruct workers at a dairy farm northeast of Rice.

The visitors teamed with St. Cloud State nursing students to share safety information, including how to protect hearing around loud equipment.

Photograph by Jeff Wood ’81 ’87 ’95.

education abroad nursing experiences benefit students, nursing faculty, hospital employees, and regional Spanish speaking populations. “Through exchange experiences, we learn from each other about health problems and treatments.

It is a very beneficial program,” Valencia-Borgert said.

The Chilean students, Viviana Neira and Tania Canteros, and two SCSU nursing students, Rebecca Crowe and Tara Condon, visited a Rice dairy farm that employs a number of Latino workers with limited English skills, to work with them in regard to farm safety issues.

That visit was videotaped and will be shared at the upcoming Central Minnesota Farm Show, Valencia-Borgert said. St. Cloud State’s Center for Continuing Studies and the Nursing and Science department, in collaboration with CentraCare Health System, will set up a booth to provide information on farm safety targeted to Latino workers.

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St. Cloud State ties help audiences follow the yellow brick road

Christian Arias

GREAT Theatre’s production of “The Wiz,” which ran from Oct. 15-30 in St. Cloud, had a strong St. Cloud State University influence. Students, faculty and alumni were among the cast, choir and behind-the-scenes action.

Casey Schmoll ’11, Lake Lillian, who played the scarecrow; and Nick Benner, a freshman from St. Cloud and member of the chorus, have performed with St. Cloud’s GREAT Theatre in several productions. The rest of the cast from St. Cloud State were performing with GREAT for the first time.

Those included: Guy Armel Gahungu (Tin Man), a freshman from Burundi; Christian Arias (Lion), a sophomore from Melrose; Danielle Simbo (Evillene), a freshman from Brooklyn Park; and Steph Bates (chorus), a sophomore from Champlin. The show was choreographed by Debra Leigh, a faculty member and coordinator of the Community Anti-Racism Education Initiative at St. Cloud State.

The Wiz is based on “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” by L. Frank Baum, and is one of Broadway’s most popular contemporary musicals. Dorothy’s adventures in the Land of Oz are set to music in a dazzling mixture of rock, gospel and soul music.

Danielle Simbo

Students win security competition A group of St. Cloud State students was crowned champions at the Minnesota Collegiate Cyber Defense competition on Feb. 15 in Alexandria. Those students are: Matthew Sitko, senior, Mahtomedi; Taylor Swanson, junior, Princeton; Ryan McDougal, junior, Monticello; Derek Winters, senior, Champlin; Jake Soenecker, senior, Clear Lake; Joshua Platz, senior, St. Cloud; Martin Smith, junior, Bismarck, N.D.; Eric Kluthe, senior, Apple Valley.

That win comes after the success of another group that won the Open Web Application Security Project USA 2011 University Challenge held at the Minneapolis Convention Center in September.

“This is another great achievement by students in the CNA (IT) program,” said Tirthankar Ghosh, associate professor at the Department

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Front, from left: Ryan McDougall, Eric Kluthe and George Massawe.

Back, from left: Joshua Platz, Jake Soenneker and Derek Winter.

of Computer Science and Information Technology.

“This is a moment of pride for all of us, a moment of pride for SCSU.” The St. Cloud State team not only won the overall competition in the September event but also scored the highest on the “attack portion” of this application security university challenge.

The competition was divided into two challenges – security penetration and security defense. In the first challenge, the students were required to break into a number of websites provided to them, identify their security vulnerabilities and suggest solutions to fix them.

In the second challenge, the teams had to set up a virtual store, identify any weaknesses in the code and resolve them by providing new programming changes to the code.

“These challenges gave us a well-rounded experience of a security professional, both with being able to attack as well as to defend web applications,” Platz said.

The Communication Studies Department wants to share with you “CMST Connect,” the department’s biannual e-newsletter spotlighting CMST students, faculty and alumni.

If you haven’t received an issue before, we do not have your current contact information. Please update your information by April 9 at www.stcloudstate. edu/alumni to receive this spring’s issue or contact the CMST department directly at CMST@stcloudstate.edu.

Check out earlier issues of “CMST Connect” at www.stcloudstate.edu/cmst.

University News From the archives

St. Cloud State’s own ‘Batman’

An interest in bats turned into a calling for Wisconsin native Harry Goehring.

Goehring, a professor of biology at St. Cloud State from 1946-71, evolved into an international expert on the nocturnal flying mammals.

In 1951, Goehring began studying bat colonies in southern Minnesota.

After his initial research, he discovered that not much was known about bats, including their hibernation habits. That led Goehring to seek locations closer to St. Cloud. In a Nov. 30, 1951, story in the College Chronicle, Goehring discussed a colony of bats living in the walls of Stewart Hall. He urged readers to inform him of bat hibernation areas near the University. Soon after, Goehring received a tip from a local fourth grader about a bat colony in a sewer not far from campus.

For the next 20 years, Goehring and teams of volunteers banded, identified and cataloged bats hibernating in that sewer. Goehring and his volunteers learned which bats returned to the cave, those that were new to the location, how large or small the population of bats was, and determined the numbers of male and female bats. Over 20 years, Goehring documented that many bats which returned to the sewer to hibernate were in their teens, despite the typical age of a large brown bat being three years.

Goehring expanded his research in 1968 by documenting a bat colony that lived in the attic of Riverview.

In 1966, Goehring earned the Minnesota Academy of Science award for “distinguished service to science” in part for his research on bats.

In 1968, David Mork joined the biology faculty at St. Cloud State and assisted Goehring with the bat-banding. Goehring retired in 1971, handing the reigns of “Batman” to his junior colleague. Mork continued to visit the sewer yearly until 1993.

Goehring died in New Hampshire April 1997 at the age of 89.

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Artwork dedicated to life and work of former dean

“SUNSHINERAIN,” a double-woven piece of art by Merle Sykora, emeritis professor of art, was unveiled Oct. 25 in the Miller Center in honor of John Berling, dean of Learning Resources from 1977-97.

Sykora created the artwork in 1976 at the Biennial International Textile Machines Exhibition in Greenville, S.C. To commemorate the nation’s Bicentennial, one fiber artist from each state was asked to participate. Sykora was the artist selected from Minnesota.

“The result was never exhibited properly in its three public viewings, and it languished in my studio for 35 years,” Sykora said at the dedication.

As for the name of the piece, “SUNSHINERAIN,” this is what Sykora said: “For me, this piece portrays the paradox of a sunny day with its menacing clouds that spit moisture that often doesn’t reach the ground. John faced the metaphorical ‘rain’ of lots of menacing experiences. People and systems flung discouraging, often arbitrary deterrences to this building. Even though ‘rains’ could be counted upon to recur, they never reached the ground and this building stands as a monument to John’s perseverance.

“Some of us remember a card catalogue and those drawers full of cards. How easily we forget the transition to computer use for locating books. As I recall, SCSU was the first higher education institution in the state to do so. John’s interest in, exploration and usage of technology fueled his desire for state-of-the-art service.

The result was this facility becoming a learning resources center rather than just a library. It is for all of his admirable personal traits and professional efficiency that we are here to dedicate SUNSHINERAIN in memory and honor of John Berling.”

“Sunshinerain”

by Merle Sykora hangs in the Miller Center on campus.

UTVS partners with St. Cloud Times A strategic partnership between St. Cloud State University’s television station, UTVS, and the St. Cloud Times, allows viewers to watch livestreams of the station’s 5:30 p.m. news broadcast.

UTVS news broadcasts, which include local, state and national news, weather and sports, give students an opportunity to prepare for a professional career in television news. The station reaches more than 70,000 people in the St. Cloud area.

“This is the only college and community partnership I know of where the local newspaper runs the university’s three newscasts a day on their website,” said Mark Mills, chairman in the Mass Communications Department who helped develop the partnership. “But then, SCSU is the only university I know of that even does three newscasts a day, five days a week. So, I guess both are unique.”

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is an intern at the Times.

“The UTVS News partnership with the St. Cloud Times is an excellent opportunity to further bridge UTVS News with the St. Cloud community. Our partnership with the Times is mutually beneficial,” Austin said.

Locally, UTVS is carried by Charter Communications on channel 21. UTVS 12:30, 4:30 and 5:30 p.m. newscasts also can be watched live on www.utvs.com

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Students help business grow St. Cloud State University seniors Kelley Carroll, Cody Olynyk, Jamie Bucholz and Matthew Schatza don’t have agricultural backgrounds.

But they do know a bit about marketing, business management and finance, their chosen areas of study, respectively.

That’s why as team members in Barry Kirchoff’s Business Consulting class, they jumped at a chance to work with a board game called “Life on the Farm.”

“Why wouldn’t you take the board game?” said Olynyk of Prior Lake as he explained the fun involved in working with such a business.

The board game, the creation of Morrison County dairy farmer Keith Gohl and his sister, Ev Johnson, has existed for a number of years. But commercially, it never skyrocketed.

That’s where Kirchoff’s class comes into play.

Once a year Kirchoff, an adjunct faculty member and director of the St. Cloud State’s Small Business Development Center in St. Cloud, and his students work with an assortment of small businesses who are struggling in some aspect. Kirchoff selects the businesses that will benefit the most and at the same time offer a valuable learning experience for his students.

The students tackling “Life on the Farm” met with Johnson, listened to her explain her business and then asked

questions. That helped provide valuable insight for Carroll, an international business major from Forest Lake, and the others.

Initially Bucholz, a business management and finance major, and her team thought about marketing the game overseas. They decided to instead focus on raising the game’s visibility using social media, said Schatza, a marketing major from Anoka.

And while Johnson had a website — www.werfungames. com — the students took it a step further and developed a Facebook page. Their work with the business has just begun, so they’re eager to see where it goes.

Kelly Branam Kelly Branam, associate professor of Anthropology at St. Cloud State, was part of a team honored for work at an Archeological Field School at Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area. Big Horn is home to Crow and other Plains Indians.

“What was unique about this field school was that we incorporated contemporary stakeholders – Crow Indians and Northern Cheyennes – into our project,” Branam said.

Ten St. Cloud State students attended the field school, where they got the chance to excavate archeological sites as well as learn the oral history of the area from native elders.

“We got the opportunity to mix archeology and ethnography in one field school,” junior Brandon Miller, Wells, Minn., majoring in Anthropology and Philosophy, said. “Not only did we get to see how people lived hundreds or possibly thousands of years ago, but to also interact with the Crow people and hear the oral history about their ancestors and what the land means to them.”

Shannon Olson Shannon Olson, associate professor of English, has been applying her unique wit and writing style to the “Last Word” essays on the last page of Minnesota Public Radio’s Minnesota Monthly magazine since May 2011.

Olson, author of the sardonic semi-autobiographical novels “Welcome to My Planet” and “Children of God Go Bowling,” has been teaching English at St. Cloud State for 10 years.

Olson’s relationship with Minnesota Monthly began when editor Joel Hoekstra was seeking a writer to do a “Last Word” column for Mother’s Day. He and others on the magazine’s editorial staff thought of Olson, whose novels and other writings frequently include her mother, Flo. Olson’s family stories have drawn praise from many critics and writers, including Garrison Keillor, who referred to Flo as “one of the great moms of American fiction.”

From left: Kelly Carroll, Cody Olynyk, Matthew Schatza and Jamie Bucholz Photograph by Neil Andersen ’96.

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Story by JEFF WOOD ’81 ’87 ’95

Taking Manhattan Faculty musicians play Carnegie Hall

From left, Trio Lorca musicians Terry Vermillion, Melissa Krause and Catherine Verrilli.

A trio of faculty musicians played its innovative music March 16 at Carnegie Hall.

As this issue went to press, soprano Catherine Verrilli, flutist Melissa Krause and percussionist Terry Vermillion were preparing for an hour-long show in the Weill Recital Hall, the 268-seat chamber music venue at the world-famous concert center.

Just two blocks from Central Park in midtown Manhattan, 120-year-old Carnegie Hall is one of the world’s great performance spaces. Musicians who’ve performed there include Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Billie Holiday, Isaac Stern and the Beatles.

The St. Cloud State Music Department professors are stretching the boundaries of the classical trio format, in both music and performance choices. The repertoire ranges from European-style madrigals to modern classical works by composers such as Aaron Copland and Charles Ives, to pop music by songwriter Rufus Wainwright. At Carnegie Hall, the threesome will wear clothing created by East Village designer Garo Sparo, including a black leather-and-silk gown for Verrilli and a black West Africa-inspired dashiki for Vermillion.

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works, Vermillion said.

He credits Music Department colleagues and Mark Springer, interim dean of the College of Liberal Arts, for supporting that professional development.

Trio Lorca is appearing at Carnegie Hall as part of the Distinguished Concerts Artists Series.

Krause’s music has been performed at the Dvorak Museum in the Czech Republic and at the New Music Festival at Florida State University, where she earned her doctorate degree.

A timpanist for the St. Cloud Symphony, Vermillion has traveled the world exploring musical forms such as Indonesian gamelan, Brazilian samba and Afro-Cuban rhumba. He earned his doctorate at University of Northern Colorado.

The Washington Post has described Verrilli’s voice as “gently agile” and “expressive.” She was a finalist in the Washington International Competition for Singers. Her doctorate is from the University of Maryland School of Music.

The trio draws its name from Spanish poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca, whose poetry provided lyrics for the first song Trio Lorca learned as a group.

These featured professors have achieved success thanks to life lessons that have helped them develop

Beautiful Minds They are world-class thinkers, exemplary teachers and diligent scholars who live and breathe the magical dialogue between teacher and learner.

They are examples of faculty members committed to Education for Life.

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Story by Mike Nistler ’79 | Photograph BY HEIDI SHUB ’05

Spreading her wings

By learning and teaching, professor helps others Growing up poor in a lower-class family in Venezuela, Monica Garcia-Perez had no inkling that she someday would hold degrees from three different universities on three separate continents. All she knew is that she didn’t want to clean house for anybody.

“I was the first in my family from my generation to go to university and the only one to go to graduate school,” said GarciaPerez who attended public grade school because it was free. She remembers telling her grandmother how she hated cleaning the house and her grandmother told her that if she was going to be able to afford to hire someone to clean for her, she’d have to get a good education.

Garcia-Perez parlayed that education into a ticket that would take her places she never dreamed. By achieving excellent grades and working hard, she earned scholarships and fellowships and never once had to incur debt.

Today Garcia-Perez is a tenure-track assistant professor in the Department of Economics at St. Cloud State University and is conducting research on a topic not only near to her heart, but of great significance.

Towards the end of the year, García-Pérez is expected to publish research regarding child health outcomes of immigrant children and children of immigrants. Garcia-Perez and her husband, Darin Cort, were expecting their first child, Annabel, as this edition of Outlook went to press.

The importance of her research is tied to a major national demographic shift. First- and second-generation children of immigrants are the fastest-growing segment of the population.

Understanding health-care access and health outcomes will have political, social and public-policy implications. Economists and other academics have explored immigrant health issues in the past, but few have examined these issues through succeeding generations, said García-Pérez.

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networks, entrepreneurship, and immigration effects on local economies.

Garcia-Perez was 21 when she graduated with a degree in economics from the Universidad Central de Venezuela in 1999.

Thanks to a mother who pushed her to achieve good grades, a father whose hard work allowed her to afford her books and daily expenses and professors who became her mentors, she realized she could further her education anywhere in the world. It wasn’t long before she was off to get her master’s degree in economics from the University College London. From there, she came to the United States to obtain her Ph.D. degree in Economics from the University of Maryland – College Park, a top 20 economic school.

The process of applying for schools as an international student was overwhelming, but Garcia-Perez was fortunate to land a graduate assistantship with the U.S. Census Bureau that not only provided her with needed finances, but also helped hone her desire to research issues important to immigrants.

“The Center for Economic Studies was the perfect platform for me,” she explained. While many in her department were concerned about purely the “numbers,” Garcia-Perez was intrigued by the stories behind them.

Garcia-Perez hopes to have a draft of her research completed by this summer and published toward the end of the year. She also is expected to present her findings at a meeting of the American Health Economists at the University of Minnesota in June.

She said her parents and family back home are incredibly happy about her achievements.

Her success has even motivated her mother to earn an advanced degree in economics as well as her sister.

And Garcia-Perez hopes to mentor others, as she has been mentored. She has brought a group of Latino Girl Scouts to St. Cloud State to show them that achieving a degree in higher education is possible no matter your situation or means.

For all of her success there is one dream Garcia-Perez hasn’t achieved: she still does her own house cleaning.

Monica Garcia-Perez is conducting research involving first- and second-generation children of immigrants — the fastest-growing segment of the population.

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Jazz physicist

Gift for synthesis fuels scientific and musical invention

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Whether he’s building on a breadboard or creating at a keyboard, John Harlander has a talent for making brilliant connections.

The physics professor is one of the world’s leading experts on spatial heterodyne spectroscopy (SHS) — optical instruments created on a base called a breadboard. His lightmeasuring instruments have been launched on sounding rockets, installed on observatory telescopes, flown on the Space Shuttle and sent into Earth orbit on satellites.

Harlander also is a college-educated musician with serious jazz chops on a keyboard. He plays occasional Mondays at the Pioneer Place Veranda in St. Cloud, as part of the Monday Night Jazz collective.

His musical mind — trained to play complex chord progressions and synthesize notes into unified solos — served him well as a graduate student at the University of WisconsinMadison. There he collaborated with his mentor, Frederick Roesler, and others, to invent SHS. The first instrument combined proven and new technologies into an instrument that was small, robust and excellent at measuring diffuse light.

Since the 1992 publication of the paper “Spatial Heterodyne Spectroscopy for the Exploration of Diffuse Interstellar Emission Lines at Far-Ultraviolet Wavelengths,” Harlander has continually refined SHS instruments for customers such as the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

By 2005, Harlander was at the forefront of space spectroscopy. That year Roesler paid his protégé the ultimate compliment: “John is, in my estimation, the real world leader in SHS spectroscopy. While he was a graduate student with me he quickly caught on to the principles of spectroscopic instrumentation that I was able to provide, and after we fell upon the SHS concept, he quickly surpassed me in the detailed understanding of what turns out to be an elegant, yet difficult-to-understand technique. Now the major innovations come from him.”

Fast forward to 2012. Harlander is part of an international team of scientists competing to be one of two teams NASA will fund for next-generation satellite missions. His Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) team has a milliondollar grant to design an instrument that can investigate the dynamics of the Earth’s upper atmosphere by measuring subtle changes in the light emitted by atmospheric gasses.

“If ICON is selected by NASA for a satellite mission, St. Cloud State will contribute to it through the design, fabrication, pre-flight testing and data analysis supporting one of ICON’s primary instruments,” Harlander said.

NASA’s funding decision is expected in February 2013.

Harlander’s first degree was a bachelor in music from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. He switched to physics, earning a master’s degree and doctorate in physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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Dennis Guster tackles challenges that are crucial to the future well being of businesses around the world.

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Story by Mike Nistler ’79 | Photograph BY HEIDI SHUB ’05

High performance

Professor on leading edge of information assurance It’s the stuff they make movies about – computer hackers, national security, encryption and encoding.

The work that Dennis Guster, professor in the Department of Information Systems and his colleagues do is both highly technical and highly intriguing. That is if you can take some time to decipher what it is they do.

And for many of us whose idea of fixing a computer problem is rebooting, that’s more easily said than done.

Guster works in a high performance computer lab at St. Cloud State University conducting research on such things as molecular modeling and quantum encryption. This research is conducted in Centennial Hall where a “couple million dollars in high-end computer equipment” resides, said Guster, who added that more than 95 percent of that equipment was funded by industry partners as close to home as W3i in Sartell and some from places like California’s Silicon Valley.

“These are complex real-world problems,” said Guster, who works in tandem with Renat Sultanov, a nuclear physicist and “a worldclass scientist” who came to St. Cloud State via Texas A&M and the University of Nevada Las Vegas. One of the draws of St. Cloud State for Sultanov, a native of the former Soviet Union, was his desire to return to a northern climate.

Another was being able to work with Guster, a native of Iowa who as a boy dreamed of being a naval aviator only the learn that his eyesight wasn’t up to par.

“Thank God,” said Guster, who would have served in the military during the Vietnam War. Instead, he enrolled at Bemidji State University where he played the trombone in the marching band for one year. But then, the realization that lips and trombones in Bemidji in the late fall and winter are not a good mix, led him on a path of math, statistics and eventually computers.

And he’s made the most out of that work.

“We’ve cranked out a lot of research papers in the last five years,” Guster said as he referenced some of that work. One, done by a St. Cloud State student who is now a graduate student at the University of Southern California, was presented at the American Chemical Society. And Sultanov, thanks to a National Security Agency grant, was able to present a paper in Switzerland where he rubbed elbows with researchers from Harvard and MIT. “Within our little niche we are able to compete worldwide. Some of our papers have been cited by the top people in their fields in Germany,” Guster said.

Simply stated, the research work and papers validate what Guster, his colleagues and students are doing “and that our ideas are worth something.”

That becomes paramount in today’s economy where universities are fighting for funding, especially state universities who are seeing their state funding being cut severely.

“We need outside funding to be viable,” Guster said. “We are doing stuff in nano technology where we can compete, but doing experiments in laboratories would cost tens of millions of dollars. But on a computational level we can compete.”

The Information Systems Department offers an undergraduate degree program to students who want to prepare for careers in the management information systems profession. The IS program is about applying information technology to solve business problems. Students develop skills in analyzing business problems and get hands-on training in computer programming, systems design, computer networking, security as well as other current computer technology.

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Disciplined intellectual Professor fills historical blanks with books

Christopher Lehman wakes each day to a task: Write or edit at least one page for his current publishing project.

This remorseless regimen requires the ethnic studies professor to toil after hours and on vacation, but it has resulted in four books, including 2011’s “Slavery in the Upper Mississippi Valley, 1787-1865: A History of Human Bondage in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin.”

“Sometimes I find very little information in books about the topic I’m interested in,” said Lehman. “After I start doing my own research – on information a book is missing – sometimes I have enough information to write my own book.”

Lehman credits his educator parents for modeling intellectual curiosity and selfdiscipline. A Christmas gift from them, a mock newspaper that displayed news from the year he was born, sparked Lehman’s interest in research. The newspaper listed Richard Nixon as president, but left blank the name of the vice president. Intrigued, he searched microfilm at the University of Central Oklahoma where his father was an English professor. Lehman discovered that for two months in the fall of 1973 the vice presidency was vacant. Spiro Agnew resigned in October in a no-contest plea deal that resulted from federal corruption charges.

Gerald Ford wasn’t sworn in until December.

“Learning about Agnew’s resignation in those old newspapers led me to read about Watergate,” he said. “Learning about Watergate led me to read about Vietnam, because that war was winding down. And, then my research just mushroomed.”

His first book closed a gap in our understanding of the Vietnam War. Published in 2006, “American Animated Cartoons of the Vietnam Era,” discusses cartoon studios’ changing responses to U.S. participation in war, from 1961 through 1973.

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were central to the development of America’s animated film industry. Early, hand-drawn animation cells required basic black-andwhite drawings, so animators drew crude caricatures of rural African-Americans and black minstrels. Minstrel songs and jazz tunes provided the sound track, featuring the music of African-American composers such as Cab Calloway and Louis Armstrong.

The Association of College and Research Libraries honored “Colored Cartoon” as an Outstanding Academic Title of 2008.

He followed in 2008 with “A Critical History of Soul Train on Television,” about the Don Cornelius-produced television show.

The book details the show’s social impact, from its start in Chicago, to its long run as a nationally syndicated program, to spin-offs such as the “Soul Train Music Awards.”

Lehman’s self-discipline carries over into his classroom. He teaches students about topics such as slavery, segregation, infringement of civil rights and housing and employment discrimination. Some resist learning about these painful social dynamics that have afflicted Americans of color.

“It’s not my job to call anyone racist, so I won’t,” said Lehman, who holds a doctorate from the University of MassachusettsAmherst. “You can say whatever you’d like to say about what I’m teaching, just be able to back up your opinions. When students see that as a legitimate way of teaching, then over the course of the semester we have good discussions.”

“Sometimes discussions can get heated, but they’re not disrespectful,” he said.

“I establish at the outset that as long as you don’t use profanity, you don’t resort to name-calling or ad hominen attacks, if the discussion is academic and sensible, then we can learn from each other quite a bit.”

Said Lehman: “It’s not my goal to brainwash people, because nobody brainwashed me. I was given the academic freedom to research what interested me and to develop strong papers and convincing arguments. That’s what I want my students to do, too.”

A husband and father, Lehman has been a faculty member since 2002. Three of his books are published by McFarland, a North Carolina publisher of academic and adult nonfiction. The awardwinning “Colored Cartoon” is published by University of Massachusetts Press.

In June and July, he spent four weeks as a summer visiting fellow at Harvard University’s W.E.B. DuBois Institute for African and African American Research.

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a quiet revolution Bacharach, Heck lead new approach in teacher preparation Nancy Bacharach is acutely aware that public school classrooms of the 21st century are a far cry from those she emulated while playing school in the basement rec room of her childhood home.

“We had an old child’s desk, and I would coerce my friends into playing the students,” said Bacharach, a professor of teacher development. “I always wanted to play the teacher.”

Bacharach still likes to lead, organize and tap into the collective power of a group through her efforts to improve teacher preparation. She believes collaboration and willingness to change with a changing world is the key to the quiet revolution she has been leading with a talented team of partners in these efforts.

Co-teaching has transformed the student teacher and cooperating teacher relationship. Instead of throwing a student teacher into the complexities of teaching without a lifeline, student teachers are coached as they practice the art of teaching.

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While the classrooms she knew as a child in Eau Claire, Wis., were homogenous groups of 30 or fewer children, Bacharach points out that in today’s public schools the classes are far more diverse and at least a third of the students are identified as having special needs that may be physical, mental or emotional.

The needs have changed dramatically,” she said. “The challenges this puts on teachers today are just incredible,” Bacharach said.

“We have had to rethink what we’re doing and change,” said Teresa Washut Heck, who has brought a fresh perspective and enthusiastic spirit to the business of educating teachers at St. Cloud State.

One of eight children growing up in her Buffalo, Wyo., home, Heck learned early on the importance of collaboration, hard work and keeping a competitive edge. “I was always in athletics in junior high and high school,” she said. “I always wanted to be a coach and I always wanted to teach.”

Both Bacharach and Heck got classroom experience before going on to earn their doctorates – experience that has been invaluable to their groundbreaking initiatives.

When she came to St. Cloud State with her newly earned Ed.D. in 1999, Heck started doing adjunct work in health and physical education and supervising student teachers through the Department of Teacher Development.

Her first administrative position was as interim director of the newly formed Office of Clinical Experiences. “It was the first time student teachers at SCSU had been housed in one place.”

With a new appreciation for collaboration and using human resources in different ways to improve teacher education, Heck initiated co-teaching as an approach to student teaching at St. Cloud State, work that made her a natural to become coordinator of co-teaching for the Teacher Quality Enhancement initiative when it was launched in 2003.

St. Cloud State’s acclaimed co-teaching initiative aims to prepare teachers who are equipped to embrace the opportunities and challenges of a changing society and confidently lead the classrooms of the future.

It’s a goal shared by area school districts that enthusiastically have incorporated this collaborative model into their classrooms. Launched in 2003 with a $5 million U.S. Department of Education Teacher Quality Enhancement Partnership grant co-written by St. Cloud’s District 742, the co-teaching initiative has enriched the student teaching experience with mentoring from seasoned educators and exposure to increasingly diverse classroom settings.

The outcome? Teacher candidates, cooperating teachers and their students all benefit. In examining the results of the Minnesota Comprehensive

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Assessment of Minnesota Learners, those in a co-teaching environment showed significantly higher achievement in reading and math.

Area school administrators and teachers have endorsed the model.

“The compelling evidence is clear,” said Julia Espe, assistant superintendent for District 742. “Co-teaching,” she said, “has transformed the student teacher and cooperating teacher relationship.

Instead of throwing a student teacher into the complexities of teaching without a lifeline, student teachers are coached as they practice the art of teaching. Teaching is rocket science, and co-teaching is the power source.”

Bacharach, Heck and their team have made it their business to build partnerships and go after external resources to improve St. Cloud State teacher preparation programs.

Bacharach has been responsible for attracting more than $6 million in grant funding for promising practices in teacher education. “We say children are our future and we need to do a better job of supporting that,” she said.

“We should be preparing teachers who will be prepared to teach the next generation of kids for life in 2020 and 2030. Our role is to prepare them for what will be.”

The co-teaching model developed and researched at St. Cloud State has

attracted positive national attention.

The university’s Teresa Teacher Quality Washut Heck Enhancement Center has developed a two-day train-the-trainer co-teaching workshop to assist institutions interested in adopting a co-teaching model of student teaching.

To date, more than 100 teacher preparation institutions in 23 states across the United States have taken advantage of this program, and the states of Kentucky and California have embraced co-teaching as a model for their teacher preparation programs The collaborative co-teaching model has earned kudos from many corners for effectively empowering future teachers and revolutionizing the experience for all involved.

“We have developed something that is better for our teacher candidates and the cooperating teacher – the novice and the mentor,” Heck said. “To be a part of that has been so incredible.”

Among the accolades the landmark co-teaching initiative has earned are: • Noted as a “Promising Practice” by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) Blue Ribbon Panel on Clinical Experiences in 2010 • Named 2010 Renaissance Group “Signature Project” • 2008 American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education Best Practice Award for Research in Teacher Education • 2007 American Association of State Colleges and Universities Christa McAuliffe Award for Excellence in Teacher Preparation and the 2006 • Minnesota State Colleges and Universities Innovative Partnering and Collaboration Award

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Story courtesy of The St. Cloud Times Story by David Unze | Photographs by Bre McGee | Graphics by Lisa Mueller

KNIFE LAKE — The clear, deep water laps against the shores of Canada’s Quetico Provincial Park on one side and the edge of northern Minnesota wilderness on the other.

The Ojibwe name for what the glaciers created is Mookomaan Zaaga’igan, while the French fur traders called it Lac des Couteaux, or Lake of Knives. It’s on the shores of this remote lake, at least 15 miles from the nearest road and in water divided by the U.S.Canada border, where Minnesota’s earliest history is being uncovered.

Those retreating glaciers left a scoured landscape of exposed siltstone, a silica-infused mud that hardened for millions of years into a high-quality source for Paleo-Indian stone toolmaking. And thousands of years after the last siltstone was harvested from Knife Lake quarries, researchers from St. Cloud State University are letting that stone speak for the first time about the earliest inhabitants of Minnesota.

“It’s rewriting the history for this area of Minnesota. We’re making a major contribution in understanding the very earliest cultures of humans to live in this part of the state,” said Mark Muñiz, associate professor of anthropology at St. Cloud State.

Muñiz and three fellow researchers paddled and portaged to Knife Lake in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in August to continue digging for evidence that Paleo-Indians drawn to Knife Lake siltstone were the first humans to inhabit Minnesota.

If his theory is correct — and he found more evidence this summer to support it — Paleo-Indians first inhabited far northern Minnesota as glaciers receded 11,000-12,500 years ago. That would run contrary to the belief that the area had not yet recovered enough to support plants and animals after being scoured by glaciers. It would also be contrary to the thought that the first people to live in the Arrowhead region arrived Continued on pg. 27

Mark Muñiz examines a potential area of workshop debris left in the spot where somone created stone tools.

Years of erosion and freezethaw cycles push artifacts to the surface.

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A voyage to uncover the past Three archaeologist researchers from St. Cloud State University traveled with a U.S. Forest Service archaeologist to Knife Lake to search for remnants of stone toolmaking dating to 12,000 years ago.

They left Aug. 19 from Saganaga Lake (upper right) and traveled about 15 miles north, then west, along the U.S.-Canada border through Ottertrack Lake to get to Knife Lake. St. Cloud Times journalists David Unze and Bre McGee left the same day from Moose Lake (lower left) and traveled about the same distance, heading northeast through Newfound, Sucker and Birch lakes, then east through Carp Lake and into Knife Lake.

St. Cloud State professor Mark Muñiz believes the work he did this summer and two previous trips could alter the timeline of when the earliest humans were first in northern Minnesota (see timeline at right).

From source to spear

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The siltstone used by Paleo-Indians to make stone tools is black when freshly broken and turns a patina white over time.

The core of siltstone is made into a biface by chipping away, or flintknapping, flakes from the core on both of its sides.

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Flakes that are chipped away from the core can also be used as tools due to their sharp edges and because the strength of the stone prevents it from breaking.

Flintknapping the core of the siltstone can produce a nearly ďŹ nished spear point like the broken one found this summer at Knife Lake in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.

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Mark Muñiz, an associate professor at St. Cloud State University, reaches for an artifact Aug. 21 during a stop on a walking survey near Knife Lake in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.

hundreds, if not thousands, of years after Paleo-Indians appeared in the southern part of the state.

Time, however, isn’t on the side of Muñiz. The area he is surveying was made accessible only by a huge storm in July 1999 that led to prescribed burns in the BWCAW in 2005.

The forest regeneration is quickly covering the siltstone quarries with new growth of sumac and jackpine, and that growth eventually will again close those valuable sites to exploration.

Quarries, work sites

The flintknapped siltstone artifacts Muñiz has found at Knife Lake show Paleo-Indians quarried the stone from the high outcroppings that were visible before the forests matured and blanketed the landscape thousands of years ago. There are associated work sites where tools were fashioned, where people lived and where animals were harvested and necessities of life were made, Muñiz said.

Those first inhabitants probably used those tools to hunt caribou and possibly even mammoths and mastodons as they lived in one of the last ice age communities in the United States. Knife Lake served as a beacon during yearly, seasonal migrations of Paleo-Indians, who carried away the siltstone tools that have been found east to Thunder Bay and in eastcentral Minnesota, Muñiz said.

High-tech dating techniques will narrow the time period in which the artifacts were made, but the style of toolmaking he’s found leads Muñiz to believe the prehistory of Minnesota will be rewritten to put inhabitants on the U.S.-Canada border far earlier than previously believed.

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such an early time,” he said.

Canadian researchers in the late 1990s noted siltstone quarries and possible tool manufacturing sites on the north side of Knife Lake. It took a natural catastrophe to kick-start the search on the Minnesota side of the border.

Muñiz returned to Knife Lake in 2010, and this summer he and two graduate students went back along with Lee Johnson, a Buffalo native and Superior National Forest archaeologist.

They excavated a site they previously had surveyed and they took another walking tour of a site they had discovered on a previous trip.

They also took a fresh look at a new site that yielded even more promising results.

“We’re on the edge of what could be a massive site,” Johnson said. “This is one of a kind, untouched and preserved, a quarry and workshop sites around us. It really is an important site for the history of Minnesota.”

3-step process

The group members do three types of exploration. First, they walk the terrain and look for artifacts laying on the surface.

If they find enough, they might do a shovel test to see what’s below the surface. If that shovel test reveals more artifacts below the surface, they might do a full excavation of a unit.

The work is done under the watchful eye of Johnson, who is responsible for about 2.3 million acres of forest, including developing preservation strategies and projects for things such as erosion stabilization.

He also consults with Ojibwe tribes to determine which areas have sacred significance for tribes, such as wild rice stands and sites where medicinal herbs are collected.

“One of the reasons I’m here is to determine whether there are significant things here that haven’t been disturbed and how we might better protect them,” Johnson said.

Graduate students Tyler Olsen and Jennifer Rovanpera finished excavating a 1-meter-by-1-meter unit that had been started on a previous trip. They and Johnson and Muñiz walked through the new site, looking for surface artifacts that might support further exploration.

And Muñiz and Johnson did a shovel test at a separate location by digging a foot-wide hole and carefully removing and sifting its contents 10 centimeters at a time until they were 40 centimeters deep.

They removed some flakes that were discovered during the sifting, then they replaced the soil to refill the hole.

Muñiz used a GPS device to mark the locations of artifacts they found.

There were siltstone chunks that had been flintknapped on one side (unifaces) and on both sides (bifaces). They found cores that likely would be shaped there or transported elsewhere and be shaped later. And they found layers and layers of siltstone flakes, the telltale sign that humans had used flintknapping to shape the razor-sharp stone into spear points, scrapers and blades.

“There are so many artifacts here that you can’t stop finding it,” Muñiz said.

And although he had found Knife Lake siltstone flakes and bifaces in previous trips that showed the style of human habitation dating to the glacial period, the August trip showed that Knife Lake was more than just a source of the valued stone.

“Now we’re establishing a complex of sites, rather than just one spot,” he said. “A complex of sites like that hasn’t been found anywhere in the state to my knowledge.”

What he didn’t find, and what he hopes one day to see there, is a finished spear point. It’s the equivalent of the Holy Grail for an anthropologist.

“I would like to find the unequivocal smoking gun,” he said.

Jennifer Rovanpera

Graduate student in St. Cloud State’s Cultural Resource Management Archaeology master’s program. Rovanpera is from Walnut Cree, Calif., and her master’s thesis focuses on the types of stone-tool technology that were used at the BWCAW excavation sites.

Next: Lab work

Muñiz is confident the style of the tools being made gives him a good idea of the time period in which they were made. But he knows there are better ways to narrow the dating, and that starts in the lab.

Part of the $56,000 Legacy Amendment grant that helped pay for the 2010 trip also bought a high-powered microscope that he uses to analyze how the artifacts were used. The microscope can tell if the stone cut grass, scraped hide or chopped wood, for example, he said.

Soil samples also will help Muñiz close some of the gaps in his research and bring him closer to presenting his conclusions for peer review, an important step in gaining broader acceptance for his theory and his conclusions.

He and his fellow researchers in August also collected soil they hope to test.

That collection was done under skies lit only by the moon and stars. Wearing headlamps that shined red light, they collected two samples of soil they hope to test with a method called optically stimulated luminescence.

OSL testing uses ultraviolet light to shine onto irradiated samples of sand that have been buried and not exposed to light for thousands of years. Being buried locks within the sand grains the age at which the soil was last exposed to light. OSL testing can measure how long the soil has been buried. It helps date the artifacts that are found suspended in the buried soil.Having an OSL date “would help tremendously,” Muñiz said. “That’s a real key thing.”

So is time.

The area the blowdown and burn uncovered is regenerating so fast that access to the quarries and work sites is gradually fading. As Muñiz and Johnson crisscrossed the worksites, they dodged sumac and jackpine, stepped alongside blueberry and raspberry plants and flushed partridge — all signs of a forest recovering from a fire.

Within three years, it could be so dense that Muñiz can’t get to the spots he wants to explore. The artifacts he is finding once again will be locked in place.

And that’s the way it should be, Johnson said.

“We get a little sample of what’s here and then we let it be,” Johnson said.

“And that’s a good thing.”

Tyler Olsen

Graduate student in St. Cloud State’s Cultural Resource Management Archaeology master’s program. Olsen is from Oshkosh, Wis., and his master’s thesis focuses on the efficiency of two different shovel testing methodologies.

Mark Muñiz

Associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at St. Cloud State; director of the Cultural Resources Management Archaeology graduate program. Muñiz has made three trips to the BWCAW to research the stone-making of the Paleo-Indians. His focus as a researcher is on cultural resource management, prehistoric lithic technology, the Paleo-Indian period, hunter-gatherer societies and geography. stcloudstate.edu/news/outlook

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A Message from the Chairman

Students benefit from commitment

2011-12 SCSU Foundation Board of Trustees: Bernie Aldrich ’71 John Dunkley Janese Evans ’79 ’81 Paula Foley ’85 ’88 Dave Folsom ’69 Andy George ’80 Al Grundei ’71 Russ Hagen ’64 Al Geinen ’78 Denny Holland ’74 Tony Latta ’77 James Maciej ’73 Dee Pearson ’64 Jim Pehler ’65 ’67 Sherry Smith ’83 Robert Thueringer ’75 George Torrey Leon Westbrock ’69 Brad Wheelock ’88 Sean Whitlock ’98

St. Cloud State has changed considerably since I first stepped onto the campus as a freshman in 1974.

From the multiple vantage points I have had as student, employer of fellow accounting graduates, mentor and Foundation Board member and now chair, I have watched my alma mater evolve and stay on top of the amazing changes in our communities, our state and our world. I couldn’t be more proud.

And I couldn’t be more pleased with the university’s new branding promise: Education for Life.

I am heartened to know that today’s students continue to benefit from a St. Cloud State commitment to giving its students an education that goes well beyond what’s in textbooks and classroom lectures, with a new focus on the elements that will help them succeed in all aspects of their life: »» Active and applied learning »» Community engagement »» Sustainability »» Global and cultural understanding It’s a great time to be involved with St. Cloud State and to be invested in the vision that President Earl H. Potter III laid out in his first year – a vision that has come to fruition. The University has reorganized its academic structure and strengthened partnerships with the greater St. Cloud community.

With collaboration, leadership and support from some of those partnerships, the plans for the Fifth Avenue Live! Project truly have come to life. The Fifth Avenue corridor from the newly enlarged Civic Center downtown to a renovated and expanded National Hockey and Event Center – with Coborn Plaza, the University Welcome Center, new restaurants and retail and service businesses in between – has changed the face and the feel of St. Cloud’s historic main street. On March 2 we celebrated the groundbreaking for the first phase of the NHEC project.

Another campus milestone was celebrated when Gov. Mark Dayton addressed the crowd attending the Oct. 27 groundbreaking for the Integrated Science and Engineering Laboratory Facility – or ISELF, St. Cloud State’s $45 million science teaching-and-research facility slated to be completed by 2013.

“This is a landmark event in the life of our university, for many reasons,” President Potter told a crowd gathered at the construction site. “Measured in dollars, it’s the largest single construction project in campus history, creating and sustaining hundreds of jobs and laying the foundation for a research facility that will support Minnesota companies.”

St. Cloud is moving forward with the support of faculty, staff, alumni and friends of the University, the business community and local and state government leaders. We all want to be part of this vibrant and dynamic university community and to invest in the place that makes dreams come true.

Al Heinen

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FY 2010-11 University Expenditures $199,914 million

FY 2010-11 Gift Designations $2.5 million raised

College of Science and Engineering 10%

Instruction 46%

Institutional Support 9%

Unrestricted 10%

Intercollegiate Athletics 8%

College of Fine Arts and Humanities 5%

College of Education 19%

Academic Support 12% Auxiliary Enterprises 15%

Student Services 13%

Research 1% Public Service 1%

G.R. Hereberger School of Business 5%

Auxillary Enterprises4% Other Scholarships 4% College of Social Sciences 2%

National Hockey and Event Center 33%

Scholarships and Fellowships 2%

A reason to give back ... and to pay forward SCSU Foundation Launches the Heritage Campaign

Steve Lindgren says he was a lucky man on that day in 1977 when he walked into the 75-foot wide Herberger’s store in downtown St. Cloud to seek the way he would make a living.

Lindgren was happy to make his life-long career with the Herberger’s department store chain, culminating in his final position as the store manager in the current St. Cloud location. When he retired from the company, he felt that he had been fortunate in his work life and wanted to give back to the St. Cloud community. His ties to St. Cloud State through Herberger’s were so strong that when he and his wife, Jeannie, made the decision to do something to make a difference, for others now and in the future, they decided to give to St. Cloud State.

When Lindgren first met Jeannie in Green Bay, Wis., she was a single mother. He remembers being impressed by the work it took for Jeannie to raise a child on her own. He witnessed the obstacles she dealt with and the struggles she overcame in trying to make her own living and raise a child by herself. Because of this intimate understanding of the extra pressures facing single parents the couple decided to help others by establishing a scholarship specifically to support the success of single mothers. Jeannie passed away in 2004, but their gift will live on and help lighten the load of other single mothers. Candidates can receive the scholarship up to four years if they are making significant progress toward a baccalaureate degree.

The campus daycare facility is named the Lindgren Child Care Center

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St. Cloud State Foundation Net Assests

Giving Societies

$35,000,000

Over the years, special individuals, foundations and corporations have been a part of the St. Cloud State tradition of excellence and opportunity. The following societies have been established to recognize those special donors whose gifts over several years have significantly advanced the work of the University.

We are grateful to these society members.

$30,000,000

$25,000,000

$20,000,000

$15,000,000

David L. Kiehle Society Cumulative giving of $2,500,00 and above

$10,000,000

David L. Kiehle was the first person to hold the title of president of the institution and held the position from 1875-81. He led the Normal School through a diminishing state support for normal schools.

$5,000,000

$0

James W. and Marion Miller The Herberger Foundation

2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011

George A. Selke Society Cumulative giving of $1,000,000 - $2,499,999

George A. Selke was president of St. Cloud Teachers College from 1927-46. During his tenure, a four-year course of study was approved and the Teachers College joined the American Association of Colleges and Universities.

in Steve and Jeannie’s honor. The facility provides child care services for current St. Cloud State students, staff and faculty. The Lindgrens are happy the facility will be here to help parents become successful in their educations and that the endowment and a gift through their estate will help single mothers for generations to come.

Learn more about the Lindgrens and about how to make a difference for others through your own estate planning. Visit www.scsuheritage.org to watch Steve’s video and to explore our gift planning website – full of valuable estate planning resources.

Join the Heritage Campaign today!

For more information, contact Chad Marolf, Director of Gift Planning at 320-308-6138 or cdmarolf@stcloudstate.edu.

Central MN Community Foundation Coborn’s, Inc. Deeann J. Griebel ’76 Russell B. Hagen ’64 IBM Corp.

Norbert F. Lindskog ’54 ’57* Vera W. Russell ’35 ’40* The Bernick Companies George and Shirley Torrey

Waite A. Shoemaker Society Cumulative giving of $500,000 - $999,999

Waite A. Shoemaker Society Cumulative giving of $250,000 - $499,999

Riverview was built in 1913 to house a laboratory school under the direction of Isabel Lawrence.

Here, local children received an excellent education while Normal School students learned to be teachers.

3M Foundation Altera Corporation Barbara ’75 ’92 and Rollie Anderson Bremer St. Cloud Robert L. Coard* David and Cheryl Copham Earl M. Danforth* Environmental Systems Research Ruth Gant* Elizabeth Howard* ’49 ’54 ’60 Elsie E. Kalionen* ’37 ’42 Thomas ’72 and Susan ’72 Keller Kopp Investment Advisors Stephen and Eugenia* Lindgren William Lindgren* Medtronic Grant ’63 and Carol Nelson Pako Corporation Maureen ’65 and Gary ’65 Petrucci Regis Foundation Dennis ’61 and Karol Ringsmuth Edward W. Solberg ’97 ’99 St. Cloud Orthopedic Associates, LTD. Stearns Bank Donald ’57 and Norma ’58 Stein* The David Swenson Foundation Viking Coca-Cola Bottling Company

Shoemaker Hall was named for Waite A. Shoemaker, president of the Third State Normal School. Built in 1915, Shoemaker Hall first served as a women’s dormitory. Thousands of students, both women and men, have called it “home” while they studied and prepared for their future.

Bankers Systems, Inc. Philip Halenbeck Trust Janet C. Ritsche

* Deceased

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Old Main Society

Cumulative giving of $100,000 - $249,999

Old Main was the first building constructed for the St. Cloud Normal School. Completed in 1874, Old Main was the primary classroom building for 74 years.

AT&T of Edina Robert ’86 and Denise Babcock Marion and R. Keith Michael John ’61 and Evelyn Bolduc Bremer Financial Corporation Wilbur and Borghild Brewer* Bursch Travel Cargill, Inc. Diana ’78 and Robert Carter Floreine* and Richard Colbert Cub Foods Store John H. Daniels Domino’s Pizza Eastman Kodak Co. Electrolux Home Products Fingerhut Corporation Clarence ’55 ’56* and Suzanne Fogelstrom Geyer Signal Service Inc. Gilleland Chevrolet Phyllis and Robert ’58 Goff Gold’n Plump Poultry Grand Casino Mille Lacs Grant Tensor Geophysical Corp.

Muriel and James* Grunerud Hazel B. Hansen* ’31 ’48 Olga B. Hart Education Foundation Elloyd ’60* and Darlene Hauser Robert ’63* and Sally Hebeisen Bret Hedican and Kristi Yamaguchi Lowell ’56 and Cay Hellervik Herberger’s, Inc. Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites Dennis ’74 and Tamara Holland Jeffrey ’75 and Kim Holmberg Husky Boosters Husky Hoopsters ING Direct Intel Corporation J.A. Wedum Foundation Kurt Kalm ’74 KCLD/KNSI/KZPK/KCML Kern Family Foundation Kopp Family Foundation Lamar Advertising Company LarsonAllen Markhurd Corporation May Bowle Benefit Miller Auto & Marine Minnesota Economic Development Foundation Northwestern Mutual Foundation David R. Pomije ’06 Durand and Mary Sue Potter Principal Financial Group, Inc. Doyle ’72 and Kimberly Rose Joyce and Arnold* Schneider Brian ’92 and Debra ’99 Schoenborn

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Helen and Lester Schwartz* SCSU Center Ice Club St. Cloud Medical Group State Farm Companies Foundation Eugene and Beverly ’69 Storms Superamerica Group, Inc. TCF Bank - Minneapolis The McKnight Foundation Title, Bond and Mortgage Company United Way of Central Minnesota US Bank of St. Cloud Roland ’35 and Louise Vandell* Janet ’58 and Donald Watkins John ’59 and Mary Weitzel Gene and Sheelah Windfeldt Xcel Energy Foundation Mary Jane Young Trust

Isabel Lawrence Society Cumulative giving of $50,000 - $99,999

Isabel Lawrence established the reputation of the teacher preparation program, served as director of the model school, Riverview, and served as acting president from 1915-16.

Antioch Company Asylum Research Hugh and Dorothy* Barker Patricia ’58 ’83 and John ’57* Berling Best Western Kelly Inn Jeanette Bischoff Donald M. Boros ’66 ’67 Brutger Equities, Inc. Christopher Cardozo Cellular ’00 Cellular Mobile Systems of St. Cloud Susan ’75 and Daniel Childers Ciatti’s Restaurant John ’82 and Cynthia Clemens Charles and Ida Compton* Construction Financial Management Association Copal Systems Inc. DeZURIK - A Unit of General Signal Larry ’64 and Jeanette Dorn Susan ’71 and C. Scott Ebersole Crumpton Farrell* Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund William and Marcine Frahm Stephen R. Fuller Janet ’88* and Daniel Gallagher Gannett Foundation General Mills Foundation General Mills, Inc. Kevin M. Gohl ’84 Barbara ’62 ’63 and Arthur ’62 ’64 Grachek Granite City Food & Brewery James ’74 and Julie Graves Richard and Mabeth Gyllstrom Hagemeister & Mack Architects Heartland Title Co.

Kathryn ’69 and Jerry ’70 Henkemeyer Donald ’65* and Joan Hess Fred Huls* IKON Office Solutions James ’74 and Mary Illies Initiative Foundation International Business Machines Corp.

Gerald T. Johnson ’62 Dr. Louisa Johnson* Kemps, LLC Kern DeWenter Viere Ltd Michael ’92 and Christina Kettenacker Klein Oldsmobile Cadillac, Inc. Bernadette and Cy* Kuefler LarsonAllen Leonard, Street and Deinard Marco Business Products Mathew Hall Lumber Co. LaVerne ’53 ’64 and Brendan McDonald ’54* McGladrey and Pullen McKay’s Chrysler/Jeep/Dodge/ Mitsubishi Mexican Village Restaurant Larry ’71 and Peggy ’70 Meyer Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Douglas ’77 and Martha Miller Thomas ’70 and Kathy Miller Miller Architects & Builders Doug & Martha Miller Family Foundation David ’79 and Mary Mingo Alys I. Misho* ’21 ’43 ’58 MN Assn of Real Estate Educ.

Morgan Family Foundation Robert ’60 and Francine Myers Nelson Family Foundation Colonel ’75 and Phyllis* Nemec Northern PCS Services Otto Bremer Foundation Mary ’72 and James ’65 ’67 Pehler Ronald G. Perrier Susan ’06 and William Prout The Prudential Foundation Radisson Suite Hotel RBC Dain Rauscher, Inc. Ernestine and James Rice* Thomas Ritsche Royal Tire Rubald Beverage Co., Inc. Saks Incorporated/Herberger Division Scheels All Sports Gordon and Yvonne Schrank Schwab Fund for Charitable Giving Schwan’s Sales Enterprises, Inc. SCR Dorothy ’77 and Mike Simpson Gary ’65 and Jan Smith St. Cloud Hospital St. Cloud Restaurant Supply St. Cloud State University Subway Investments Summit Mortgage Corporation Sunray Printing Solutions, Inc. Target Stores TCF Foundation

TDS Metrocom Inc. Joan ’93 and Warren Teigen Tenvoorde Ford Inc. The Coleman Company, Inc. Travelers Foundation Francis ’59* and Ludmila ’68 Voelker Laura ’80 and Robert ’83 Voit Walking Billboards Washington Scientific Industries Wells Fargo Wells Fargo Bank Minnesota, N.A. Wheelock Whitney Whitney Foundation WJON-AM Regent Broadcasting Wolters Kluwer Financial Services Mollie Young ’81 Zapp National Bank

Ira Moore Society Cumulative giving of $25,000 - $49,999

Ira Moore was the first administrator, serving from 1868-75. He helped turn the idea of a normal school educating teachers into a reality then went on to be first administrator at the normal school in Los Angeles that eventually became UCLA.

Bernard ’71 and Cindy ’73 Aldrich American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Bu American Legion Post #428 Charlotte ’48 and Hobart Anderson Dean* Anderson and Gail Nygaard Anderson James and Linnea Anderson Kathryn M. Andolsek Apple Computer Inc. Arthur Andersen & Co. AT & T Bauerly Companies Stacy A. Bennett ’91 Alice Binger* ’44 Stephanie L. Borden ’78 Charles ’49 ’51 and Laurel ’51 ’52 ’62 Brainard Richard R. Caldecott ’77 Darlene ’72 and Lockwood Carlson Carlson Advisors LLC Catholic Community Foundation Central McGowan, Inc. Central Minnesota Arts Board Charter Communications Mary ’79 and David Choate Coleman Foundation, Inc. Color Craft Coporation Copper Lantern Cray Research, Inc. Creative Memories Donlar Corporation Alyn ’49 and Anna Dull Eide Bailly LLP Ernst and Young Foundation Janese M. Evans ’79 ’81 Federated Department Stores

Gifts received July 1, 2010 - June 30, 2011

Federated Insurance Anne and Dennis Fields First Bank System, Inc. Franklin Outdoor Advertising Company Karen ’71 and Kenton Frohrip G & K Services Andrew ’80 and Joanie George Walter ’39 and Irma ’39* Gerzin James J. Glatzmaier ’75 Alma ’59 ’61* and Calvin Gower Bonnie and Charles Graham Granite City Tool Co. Granite-Tops, LLC Green Lake Basketball Camp Joseph E. Gulde* ’39 HealthPartners Central Minnesota Clinics Michele Hedlund ’91 Mark ’90 and Susan ’90 Heurung Raymond S. Hibbs ’64 ’66 Terry ’88 and Lisa ’88 Hjort Harold ’65 and Janice Hoelscher Husky Gridiron Club Integrated Fiber Optics, Inc. International Paper Company J.C. Penney Co., Inc. Jasc Software, Inc. Cindy Johnson ’79 and Thomas Moore ’78 Edward ’64 ’68 ’81 and Nancy Johnson Leigh ’67 and Judith Johnson Melvin ’38 and Shirley Kazeck* Keebler Co. James and Betty* Kelly Marigold Foods, Inc. LuBell ’76 and Robert Kendall Kids On 2 Wheels Inc. Elizabeth Koffman Ronald P. Kosel ’91 KPMG Peat Marwick Joseph ’36* and Dorothy Kunze Lakeland Construction Finance LLC Judith ’85 and Mark Larkin Lauren Riesgraf Memorial Fund John ’73 and Nancy Lavander Elaine L. Leach Standley E. Lewis Chase and Kristi Lieser Mahowald Insurance Agency McDowall Co. Medica Health Plans Medtronic Foundation Bennett D. Melin ’63 Merrill Corporation Howard ’42* and Madeline Merriman Meyer Associates, Inc. Microsim Corporation The Minneapolis Foundation Minnesota Board of Realtors Minnesota Council on Economic Education Minnesota Society of CPA’s Thomas ’92 and Anne Mootz Henry ’49 and Marian ’50 Morris* Murphy Chevrolet Laura Jensen Murphy Memorial Fund

* Deceased

President’s Club

Nahan Printing, Inc. Michael Niedenfuehr Novatis Seed Dennis Nunes O’Hara Brothers Companies Big Bear Farm Stores, Inc. Outback Steak House Walter ’65 and Bonnie Parkins Frances and Max Partch* Katherine ’81 and John* Pattison Bruce ’64 and Dee ’64 Pearson Eugene ’47* and Lorraine ’42 ’67 Perkins Carl ’69 and Renae Peters Photo Art Science Foundation Sally and George Pillsbury Plaza Park Bank Project Lead The Way, Inc. William ’60 ’66 and Patricia Radovich REM Hennepin Inc. RHL, Inc. Rimage Corporation Robert Sophia Whiteside Fund Rosemount, Inc. Roy and Barbara Saigo Saks Incorporated Foundation Sauk River Chain of Lakes Association Scenic Sign Corp.

Tom and Joyce ’65 Schlough Dale G. Schoenberg ’94 Schoenberg, Kosel & Hjort Financial Annette and Richard Schoenberger Donald ’78 and Renae Setter Theodore and Lavona Sherarts Glanville Smith* Southways Foundation St. Cloud Area Sertoma St. Cloud Meat & Provision, Inc. St. Cloud Times St. Cloud Toyota St. Cloud Truck Sales, Inc. Stone Container Corporation Roberta Strand Florence Swanger* ’29 Sy & Sons Inc. Merle H. Sykora ’65 Tanner Systems, Inc. Richard ’71 and Martha Theilmann VFW East Side W3i WCCO-TV William and Joan Webb Brenda ’96 and Rex Johnson Westinghouse Electric Corp.

Kathy ’88 and Bradley ’88 Wheelock J. Kimball and Helen Whitney* Alice ’64 and Robert* Wick Earl W. Wildenberg Winton-Whitney Fund Jerry O. Wolff* Women’s Foundation of Minnesota Conservatorship of Raymond J. Wood

The President’s Club is the University’s most prestigious annual donor club. This select group of people is dedicated to ongoing excellence and opportunity at St. Cloud State. President’s Club members make gifts of $1,000 or more annually to the St. Cloud State Annual Fund or for restricted purposes.

$25,000 and above Central MN Community Foundation Coborn’s, Inc. Stephen R. Fuller Russell B. Hagen ’64 Olga B. Hart Education Foundation Dennis ’74 and Tamara Holland Jeffrey ’75 and Kim Holmberg Husky Hoopsters Elsie E. Kalionen ’37 ’42* Kern Family Foundation David ’79 and Mary Mingo Henry ’49 and Marian ’50 Morris* Grant ’63 and Carol Nelson Project Lead The Way, Inc. Edward W. Solberg ’97 ’99 United Way of Central Minnesota Kathy ’88 and Bradley ’88 Wheelock Jerry O. Wolff* Conservatorship of Raymond J. Wood

$10,000 - $24,999 AT&T Foundation Bursch Travel Elloyd ’60* and Darlene Hauser Husky Gridiron Club Kopp Family Foundation LarsonAllen Leonard, Street and Deinard Douglas ’77 and Martha Miller Doug & Martha Miller Family Foundation North Central Instruments Bruce ’64 and Dee ’64 Pearson Mary ’72 and James ’65 ’67 Pehler Maureen ’65 and Gary ’65 Petrucci Philip Halenbeck Trust Brian ’92 and Debra ’99 Schoenborn TCF Bank - Minneapolis TCF Foundation George and Shirley Torrey Francis ’59* and Ludmila ’68 Voelker Gene and Sheelah Windfeldt Wolters Kluwer Financial Services Xcel Energy Foundation

$5,000 - $9,999 Dean* Anderson and Gail Nygaard Anderson Donald M. Boros ’66 ’67 Bremer St. Cloud Brutger Equities, Inc. Carlson Advisors LLC Central McGowan, Inc. Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation John ’82 and Cynthia Clemens Eva Cook Jones ’36 ’54 and Jack* Jones Eide Bailly LLP Janese M. Evans ’79 ’81

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$5,000 - $9,999 Kari ’87 and William Fabian Andrew ’80 and Joanie George Gold’n Plump Poultry Barbara ’62 ’63 and Arthur ’62 ’64 Grachek Granite-Tops, LLC Hagemeister & Mack Architects Terry ’88 and Lisa ’88 Hjort Initiative Foundation Joseph Plant Memorial Fund Kemps, LLC Kern DeWenter Viere Ltd Ronald P. Kosel ’91 Ina M. Levy Merrill Corporation Miller Architects & Builders Minnesota Economic Development Foundation Thomas ’92 and Anne Mootz Robert ’60 and Francine Myers Gerald ’76 and Jackie Peters Plaza Park Bank The Prudential Foundation Dennis ’61 and Karol Ringsmuth David ’76 and Linda Ripka Dale G. Schoenberg ’94 Schoenberg, Kosel & Hjort Financial St. Cloud Medical Group Eugene and Beverly ’69 Storms Strategic Toolbox Richard ’71 and Martha Theilmann Michael ’69 and Janet ’68 Wagner John ’59 and Mary Weitzel Wells Fargo

$1,000 - $4,999 3M Foundation Marisa Adler Vette ’01 ’09 and John Vette ’00 ’09 Bernard ’71 and Cindy ’73 Aldrich Barney A. Alm ’85 American Indian Education Foundation Ameriprise Financial Gift Matching Program Barbara ’75 ’92 and Rollie Anderson Gary ’77 ’94 and Jody ’73 ’80 Anderson James ’49 ’53 and Florence ’51 ’56 Anderson Dick and Julie Andzenge Aon Foundation Apple Computer Inc. Dwain W. Applegate Jorge and Violeta Arriagada JoAnn ’78 and Don Asquith Association For Corporate Growth Minnesota Baker Tilly Virchow Krause, LLP Rick and Helga Bauerly Sue Becker Stacy A. Bennett ’91 Robert ’60 and Joanne ’70 Benson Patricia ’58 ’83 and John ’57* Berling

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Best Western Kelly Inn Patricia ’65 and James ’66 Binger Bi-State, Inc. John and Marie Bodette Charles and Mary Boltuck Loren and Deanna Boone Charles ’49 ’51 and Laurel ’51 ’52 ’62 Brainard Wilbur and Borghild Brewer* John and Glenda Burgeson C Machine Co. Inc. Campus Subway Cargill, Inc. Darlene ’72 and Lockwood Carlson Betty and Charles* Carr Diana ’78 and Robert Carter Central Gaming Company Services LLC Central MN Estate Planning Council Mary ’79 and David Choate Choate & Company, Inc. Jon L. Christensen ’84 Conway, Deuth & Schmiesing, PLLP Copeland Buhl & Co. Todd* and Leila DeVriese Tracy and Kristy Dill ’87 Valerie ’76 and Timothy Doherty Laura and Thomas Dreas Roger and Betty Duininck Alyn ’49 and Anna Dull ’49 Ann ’72 and John Ward Susan ’71 and C. Scott Ebersole Edward W. Edelbrock ’56 Jane Ellison ’89 ’03 and Glen Palm Charles ’56 and Patricia ’73 ’78 Ernst Exxon Education Foundation Kathryn Farniok ’78 and Erik Englebretson ’76 ’92 Federated Insurance Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Jane ’72 and David ’69 Folsom Justin Foss ’94 and Lisa Helmin Foss ’01 ’04 Terry ’72 and William Fraser Froehling, Anderson Ltd. Gannett Foundation John ’71 and Eileen Gau Delores ’66 and John ’57 ’63 Gause General Mills Foundation Barbara Gengler ’89 ’96 and Randy Weinberg Bruce ’72 and Gail ’72 Geyer Curtis ’77 and Betty Ghylin Kathleen A. Gill GM St. Cloud Ventures, LLC Larry Godel ’85 and Ann Carlson Phyllis and Robert ’58 Goff Cynthia ’74 and Gregory Gonnella Donna and Kenneth Gorrell Alma ’59 ’61* and Calvin Gower Bonnie and Charles Graham Granite Equity Partners LLC Kathy ’71 and Alan ’71 Grundei Muriel and James* Grunerud John ’68 and Virginia Grupe Tina Gust ’97 GW Companies, Inc.

Richard and Mabeth Gyllstrom Ronald ’79 and Michelle Hanson James ’79 and Julie Harstad Patrick ’96 and Jill Haspert Michele Hedlund ’91 Christin ’95 and Jeffrey ’93 Hegle Allen ’78 and Dorie Heinen Donald Helgeson and Sue Shepard Kenneth and Kathleen Henderson Richard Hill ’61 ’69 and Sharon Rohling Alvin ’92 and Nadia Hommerding John ’78 and Elizabeth Hoover Gladys and Harold Hopkins* Stanley and Karen Hubbard William C. Hudson ’90 Husky Dugout Club Laura U. Huston ’77 Christine Imba and Kathleen Steffens Christine and Robert Inkster International Precision Machining (IPM) RBC Dain Rauscher Foundation Todd and Jill Jackson Debra K. Japp Cindy Johnson ’79 and Thomas Moore ’78 Edward ’64 ’68 ’81 and Nancy Johnson Gerald T. Johnson ’62 Icephine and Robert Johnson Leigh ’67 and Judith Johnson Stephanie ’84 ’94 and William Jussila Kurt Kalm ’74 Joan ’81 and Michael Karl Deborah ’85 ’90 and Eric Kautzman LuBell ’76 and Robert Kendall Barry ’92 ’98 and Kathy Kirchoff Kenneth and Linda Kolodzne Chad D. Kunze ’94 Janell and Morris Kurtz Sue E. Lambert ’74 Rose ’85 and Steven ’79 Lambros LarsonAllen Barrie and Jackie Lasure John ’73 and Nancy Lavander Diana and James Lawson Elaine L. Leach William ’84 and Teresa LeClaire Carol ’82 ’00 and Richard Lewis Standley E. Lewis Peter ’84 and Diane Ley Chase and Kristi Lieser Stephen and Eugeina* Lindgren Dianne ’77 and Allan Lozier The Lozier Foundation Barbara ’08 and Steven ’89 Ludwig James ’73 and Ann Marie Maciej Macy’s Foundation Karen ’60 ’69 and Douglas ’62 ’67 Magnus Devinder and Laura Malhotra Maple Lake Recovery Center Marco Business Products Mark A. Oehrlein Appraisals, Inc. James G. Marmas ’51

Phillip and Lynn Martinson Tiffany K. Mattick Diane and Dave McClure Michael ’88 and Mary McDonald McDowall Co. Susan ’81 ’94 and Brian ’80 ’86 McGrath Ruth ’73 ’81 and Roy Meyer The Minneapolis Foundation Minnesota Golf Association, Inc. Minnesota Newspaper Association Minnesota Risk Insurance Management Society Minnesota Society of CPA’s Theresa A. Mische Diann ’03 and Keith ’03 Moeller Kathleen ’84 and Steven Mooney Dennis Moske Robert ’89 and Shelley Motzko Laura Jensen Murphy Memorial Fund Colonel ’75 and Phyllis* Nemec Gregory ’81 and Cheryl Nemec New Beginnings Northwestern Mutual Foundation Robert ’66 and Sharon Nuss Jeffrey ’79 and Kristen ’79 Nuytten Padraic R. Obma ’98 Kay ’70 and Michael ’71 O’Brien Mark A. Oehrlein ’82 Joshua A. Oertli ’04 Linda ’74 and Richard Offerdahl Ken and Kim Olson James and Judy O’Neill Tracy E. Ore Jessica ’87 ’92 and Tim Ostman Wanda Overland Alfred and Astrid Pabst John ’70 and Sarah Park Walter ’65 and Bonnie Parkins Frances and Max Partch* Douglas and Kris Patterson Katherine ’81 and John* Pattison Eugene ’47* and Lorraine ’42 ’67 Perkins Ronald G. Perrier Carl ’69 and Renae Peters Daniel ’80 and Arlys Peterson Alan Phillips Mary ’68 and John Phillips Roxanne ’10 and Michael Pickle Terence and Mary Pladson Prudential Pladson Realty, Inc. Durand and Mary Sue Potter Earl and Christine Potter Preferred Credit Inc. Principal Financial Group, Inc. Susan ’06 and William Prout William ’60 ’66 and Patricia Radovich Cynthia Reff Robert C. Reff Gloria* and Charles Rehwaldt John and Jacqueline Rogan Alise ’06 and Ryan ’05 Rotramel RSM McGladrey, Inc. Kay ’96 and Victor Rudek Jeanne E. Rudelius ’79 Lori R. Sabet ’86 Roy and Barbara Saigo

Gifts received July 1, 2010 - June 30, 2011

Peter ’69 and Elissa Salin Marilyn ’82 and Carl* Savage Schlenner Wenner & Co. Michael C. Schmitz ’86 Carol ’74 ’83 and Tim Schneeweis Wililam E. Schramm ’04 James ’68 and Susan Schultz Schwab Fund for Charitable Giving SCSU Center Ice Club Securian Foundation Anthony J. Segale ’86 Charles Sell ’80 and Elizabeth Leitch-Sell ’79 Jerrell and Shirley* Setten Joyce ’74 and William ’73 Sieben Jeffrey ’81 and Jill Siewert David T. Sigler ’08 Judith Siminoe and Michael Penrod Dorothy ’77 and Mike Simpson Martha and William Slavin Gary ’65 and Jan Smith Sherry ’83 and James Smith Society of Industrial & Office Realtors Mary Soroko ’86 and Andrew Ditlevson Mark Springer and Coca Bochonko St. Cloud Downtown Sertoma Club St. Cloud Granite Rotary St. Cloud Truck Sales, Inc. State Farm Companies Foundation Kurt ’93 and Jeannie Stelten Susan ’73 and Timothy ’72 ’78 Stier Gary ’71 and Margie Stroeing Lauri ’51 and Jody* Sulander Suzanne ’80 and Joseph Sullivan Summit Sales Management Inc. Elizabeth ’03 and Brett ’03 Sween Ronald ’69 and Bonnie Swenson Merle H. Sykora ’65

Takedown Club Target Stores TCF Bank - St. Cloud TDS Metrocom Inc. Christopher ’05 and Melissa ’04 Thiebaut Marcia and Merton Thompson Robert ’75 and JoAnn Thueringer Anthony ’85 and Joyce Tillemans Kristi M. Tornquist Amy ’00 ’04 and Matthew ’97 ’00 Trombley Dennis ’59 and Marsha Tuel UBS Foundation Ulteig Engineers United Health Group University of Minnesota - Carlson School Curtis ’89 and Patrice Oort Carol and Charles Vick Gordon ’75 and Diane Viere Russel and Lynne Viker Leo ’75 and Margaret Vos W3i Ila M. Waseka Janet ’58 and Donald Watkins Robert A. Weisman Wells Fargo Community Support Campaign Leon ’69 and Patricia Westbrock Westwood Professional Services, Inc. Robert ’70 and Elaine ’70 White Alice ’64 and Robert* Wick James and Carolyn Williams Catherine ’81 ’84 and Peter Winge Women’s Fund Flexible Wesley F. Wren ’01 Craig C. Wruck Debra E. Yerigan ’82 Gary A. Yoshimoto Mollie Young ’81

Heritage Society Memebers

The Heritage Society was established to honor and recognize those visionary individuals who, through their estate plans, are making a contribution to the future of St. Cloud State.

To become a member, simply name St. Cloud State as a beneficiary in your estate plan through a bequest, trust, gift annuity, retirement plan or life insurance policy. We invite you to join the Heritage Society by notifying us that you have included St. Cloud State in your estate plans.

2010-11 Heritage society Members Jack and Janie Amundson Robert ’69 and Caren ’85 Kalenda Fred L. Andersen Jr. Bernadette and Cy* Kuefler Shirley A. Andersen Elaine L. Leach Blaine ’83 and Tammy Anderson William H. Leopard ’40 Charlotte West Anderson ’48 Stephen and Jeannie* Lindgren Marcella Angus ’41 ’54 ’62 Thomas I. and Barbara ’90 LaVaughn Bangtson ’54 ’57 Macgillivray Gabe ’65 and Karen ’64 Wittmayer Kathleen G. Marker ’73 ’75 Beckers Leonhard P. Mickelsen ’58 ’64 Barbara J. Bloomer James and Marion Miller Charles ’49 ’51 and Laurel ’51 ’52 Ronald G. Perrier ’62 Depuis Brainard Carl H. Peters ’69 Carol G. Brink Julie K Peters ’74 Mary ’79 and David Choate John R. Pritchard ’74 Joyce I. Reintjes Crowder and Edwin ’53 ’63 and Joyce Repulski Brian-Paul Klein Crowder Dennis ’61 and Karol Ringsmuth Kenneth ’85 and Mary ’86 Waters Douglas F. Risberg Cryer Peter ’69 and Elissa Salin Barry ’65 and Carol Eklund Ronald ’69 and Lynda ’69 Johnson Janice Ellingson ’59 Schmidt Florence V. Emme ’40 Ted Sherarts Ruth Erickson ’69 Don and Arlene Sikkink Charles ’42* and Florence ’45 Dorothy ’77 and Mike Simpson Birkemeyer Evans John Skoog ’97 Karen ’71 and Kenton Frohrip Gary R. ’65 and Jan Smith Walter ’39 and Fran ’39* Gerzin Jack H. ’52 and Phyllis Smith Shannah ’67 and Douglas Gillespie Edward W. Solberg ’97 ’99 James J. Glatzmaier ’75 George ’59 ’69 and Betty Stein Cynthia Gonnella ’74 Marcia A. Summers Arthur ’62 ’64 and Barbara ’62 ’63 Merle H. Sykora ’65 Grachek Jeanette Thompson Larsen Charles and Florence Graham George and Shirley Torrey Deeann Jo Griebel ’76 Ludmila ’68 and Francis ’59* Chris G. Grosz Voelker Muriel and James* Grunerud Fred ’69 and Paula Welsch Harry ’65 and Jan Hoelscher Charles Wikman ’70 and Nancy Suellyn M. Hofmann ’75 Lellelid Joyce ’40 ’62 and Marvin ’40* Debra E. Yerigan ’82 Holmgren

Remaining donor lists up to $1,000 are available online at stcloudstate.edu/foundation

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Athletics Wrestlers claim runner-up trophy The St. Cloud State University wrestling team placed second at the 2012 NCAA Division II championships on March 9-10 in Pueblo, Colo. This marked the second consecutive season that the Huskies have gained runner-up honors at the NCAA championships under the leadership of Coach Steve Costanzo.

Nebraska Kearney won the tournament with 107 points and St. Cloud State finished with 95 team points.

Senior Derek Skala, Owatonna, brought home an NCAA Division II individual championship at 184 pounds. Skala (31-3) finished his career with a National Championship exclamation point, after a stellar 9-3 win in his 184-pound match against Adam Walters of Findlay. This marks the second consecutive season that SCSU has won an individual title as John Sundgren placed first at 157 in 2011.

Husky wrestlers placing second at the NCAAs included junior Jake Kahnke, Shakopee at 285 pounds and junior Andy Pokorny, Bennington, Neb., at 133 pounds.

Skala, Kahnke and Pokorny earned All- America honors for their top finishes. Three other SCSU wrestlers earned AllAmerica accolades including senior Tad Merritt, Canby who placed third at 165 pounds, junior Shamus O’Grady, Coon Rapids with a fourth place finish at 174 and senior Lucas Munkelwitz, Forest Lake with his fourth place at 197.

Merritt earned the tournament’s Most Dominate Wrestler

Award, which he won despite wrestling with a broken finger that he suffered in practice before the tournament Merritt set a new team record with 144 career wins. Merritt also set a new team record with 18 pins, which breaks his old team record of 17 pins set in 2008-09.

The 95 points scored at the NCAA meet set a new team record for points at a national championship tournament breaking last year’s mark of 90.5.

The Huskies set a team record with 21 dual meet victories and posted the first undefeated dual meet season at 21-0. Other accomplishments included winning the 2012 NCAA Division II Super Region 3 title, the 2012 NWCA Division II National Duals title and the NSIC championship, the team’s first conference title since 1977-78.

Tad Merritt

Football team claims title Husky football rolled in 2011, winning its first Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC) title. For the second straight year and fourth time in school history the squad advanced to the NCAA Division II Football Playoffs. Head Coach Scott Underwood was voted the NSIC Coach of the Year and was a semifinalist for the national Liberty Mutual Coach of the Year honor. St. Cloud State has posted four straight winning seasons with Underwood at the helm. The Huskies landed 22 players on the All-NSIC team including eight first team selections. Two players, seniors Matt Theis, Eden Valley, and Tony Kubes, New Prague, were named to the All-Conference team for the third time in their careers.

Junior Marvin Matthews, Roseville, was named to the 2011 American Football Coaches Association Division II Coaches’ All-America Team. The Huskies excelled in the classroom as well. Theis and senior Matt Schwartz, Lino Lakes, were named to the 2011 Capital One Academic All-America® Football Team, the highest academic honor in Division II. These two student athletes led a group of 14 players named to the Academic All-NSIC team. The Huskies’ regular season home win streak has reached 14 games. A highlight of the

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Head Coach Scott Underwood

Matt Theis

Husky season was a 35-7 win over defending national and conference champion Minnesota Duluth on Oct. 29 at Husky Stadium. The 2011 season ended Nov. 19 in a 48-38 NCAA playoff first-round home loss to Wayne State University (Mich.). Half-time was extended to 50 minutes to remove the nearly six inches of snow that fell during the game.

Athletics Teddy Bear Toss a success

Husky athletics collected more than 1,000 stuffed animals as part of its first “Teddy Bear Toss,” which took place during the game between the Huskies and Bemidji State Dec. 3 at the National Hockey Center.

Fans were encouraged to bring a teddy bear or stuffed animal to the game and throw them onto the ice during the first intermission. The stuffed animals collected were donated to the local Toys For Tots Campaign for the 2011 Holiday Season. Sponsors included KCLD-FM, Riddle’s Jewelry, The Husky Bookstore and Residential Life and the Department of Campus Involvement at St. Cloud State.

Gold Cross Ambulance of St. Cloud delivered more than 1,000 stuffed animals collected at St. Cloud State’s “Teddy Bear Toss’ on Dec. 3 during the Huskies” men’s hockey game. Event officials and St. Cloud State hockey players helping load the Gold Cross Ambulance are (Back L-R) Ben Hanowski, junior, Little Falls; Ron Schmidt, Gold Cross Ambulance; Scott Schreiner ’99, former assistant athletic director; Mike Lee, junior, Roseau; Steve Titus, St. Cloud Area Toys for Tots; Charlie Christensen and Tony Brown, Riddle’s Jewelry; Christine Potter, wife of St. Cloud State President Earl H. Potter III; Ted Mears, Husky Bookstore; Jessica Ostman ’87 ’92, Department of Campus Involvement; and Andy Samplawski, Gold Cross Ambulance; (Front, kneeling, L-R) J.J. Holiday and Shawn Leary, KCLD.

Men’s basketball advances For the 13th time in school history and the fourth time in the last six seasons, the St. Cloud State men’s basketball team advanced to the NCAA Division II Central Region Tournament.

The 2012 tournament was played in Golden, Colorado on the campus of the Colorado School of Mines, March 10-13.

The Huskies were the sixth seed in the region and opened the tournament with a 77-72 win over No. 3 seed Bemidji State University. St. Cloud State advanced to the region semifinals against No. 2 Metro State (Denver) and led 34-29 before being outscored in the second half and losing to the Roadrunners, 76-64.

Sophomore center Tim Bergstraser, St. Cloud, led the Brett Putz Huskies in the win over Bemidji State with a game high 22 points and seven rebounds. Bergstraser was injured late in the game and did not play against Metro State. Junior forward Theo Rothstein, St. Michael, led the Huskies with 15 points.

The Huskies finished the season with a 20-9 record to mark the eighth 20-win season in head coach Kevin Schlagel’s career. He has posted more 20-win seasons than all of the Huskies previous men’s basketball coaches combined.

Schlagel collected his 300th career win on Feb. 17, in an 87-83 overtime win at Northern State University. He has the most wins of any St. Cloud State men’s basketball coach with a 301-141 career mark.

The Huskies were led by a pair of Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC) All-Conference players.

Junior guard Shaun Jensen, Spring Lake Park, was named to the first team and Bergstraser was named to the second.

Senior captain Brett Putz, Forest City, Iowa finished his collegiate career at the regional tournament. Putz set a new school record playing in 124 games and ended his career second on the all-time Husky three point field goal list with 245 treys.

Baseball squad posts record wins Coach Pat Dolan ’92 and the baseball team are coming off a record-setting 2011 season, winning 43 games, capturing first place at the 2011 NSIC tournament and earning a second consecutive NCAA Division II regional bid. The Huskies have earned No. 11 and 12 rankings in two Division II preseason polls. The Huskies will be led this year by pitchers senior Logan Birr, St. Cloud, and junior Scott Lieser, Browerville, along with senior first baseman Joey Benke, Roseau, and junior outfielder Brian Hansen, Cold Spring.

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Matt Cullen milestone

Hockey alumnus plays in 1,000th NHL game

In January, St. Cloud State hockey great Matt Cullen (1995-97) was feted by teammates, heralded in the media and saluted by fans when he played his 1,000th National Hockey League (NHL) game.

The Minnesota Wild center made the most of his milestone moment, scoring two goals, including the game winner. Cullen slipped the puck past Antti Niemi in a 5-4 shootout win over the San Jose Sharks Jan. 10 at Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul.

Cullen, 35, has enjoyed success with six teams in an NHL career that dates back to 1997. In 2006, he helped the Carolina Hurricanes to a Stanley Cup title, recording assists on the first two goals in Game 7.

He has skated with multiple national teams, notably the 1996 World Junior Championships team and the 2006 Olympic squad.

Cullen made an instant impact with Coach Craig Dahl’s 1995-96 Huskies, earning a spot on the WCHA All-Rookie Team with 12 goals and 29 assists.

His sophomore season output of 15 goals and 30 assists earned the Virginia, Minn.-born Cullen a contract with the NHL’s Anaheim Mighty Ducks.

He joins Husky Hockey legend Bret Hedican (1988-91) on the list of St. Cloud State players who’ve played 1,000 NHL games. Just seven Minnesota-born players have achieved that threshold.

Mary Mohrhardt

Soccer makes postseason tourney The soccer squad completed a strong season under the direction of fourth-year head coach Becky McCabe. The Huskies registered an 11-8-2 record and qualified for the NSIC postseason tournament for the fourth consecutive season. The team opened the NSIC tournament with a home victory over University of Mary and then edged Upper Iowa with a thrilling shootout victory in the NSIC semifinal.

In the title match, St. Cloud State lost 1-0 to host and top seed Minnesota State.

Junior Mary Mohrhardt, Gilbert, Ariz., led the Huskies with 11 points (3 goals, 5 assists) and was named to the All-NSIC and All-Region honor rolls this fall.

Above: Archive photo of a fresh-faced Matt Cullen wearing a St. Cloud State hockey sweater.

Left: An aerial view of Matt Cullen scoring the game-winning goal in his 1,000th NHL game. Photo courtesy of the Minnesota Wild. Photograph by Mike Doyle ’08 ’11.

Student Athlete Advisory Council

In the spirit of community involvement and support, the Student Athlete Advisory Council teamed up with a recreation and sports management marketing class to sponsor a Giving Tree at the Dec. 2-3 men’s and women’s basketball games and men’s hockey games. It was a cooperative effort to increase toy donations for children in need. Donations went to Anna Marie’s Alliance in St. Cloud.

The effort collected nearly 100 gifts.

From left: Angela Walhovd and Kelsey King

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Alumni events and happenings Tracanne Nelson ’98 ’03, clinical director at St. Cloud Correctional Facility, presents to St. Cloud State students in the Chemical Dependency (CD) program regarding internship opportunities for CD Information Day on Nov. 18. CD students participate in a two-semester long internship experience that provides the opportunity for students to put into practice the knowledge, attitudes and skills learned in the classroom.

On Nov. 12 at the SCSU Alumni and New Student Welcome Reception, President Earl H. Potter III addressed the audience at the Yak and Yeti Hotel in Nepal.

1965-75 St. Cloud State Track and Cross Country Team members reunite for the first reunion held Sept. 4. Main organizers included: Van Nelson ’70, Len Brenny ’73 and Bruce Johnson ’73. (Back, L-R) Glenn Donnay ’72, Scott Stallman ’74 ’82, Al Laursen ’76, Mark Nelsen ’74 ’81, Paul Waxlax ’84, Ed Nettestad ’71, Scott Lapham ’78, Roger Knauss ’73, Steve Reed ’80, Richard Pearson ’70, Jeff Renneberg ’71, Jerry Schuldt ’74, Robert Wandberg ’68 ’73; (Middle, L-R) Jim Vierzba ’76, Mark Grelson ’77 ’03, Jim Ridgway ’72, Coach Bill Thornton, Coach Brian Sebera, Coach Bob Waxlax ’58, Jerry Dirkes ’71 ’75, Bruce Johnson ’73; (Front, L-R) Len Brenny ’73, Jason Waldowski ’97, Van Nelson ’70

Kindergarten teacher Sarah Lindholm ’06, and her students at Sand Creek Elementary in Colorado Springs, Colo., express their excitement to receive St. Cloud State Alumni Association husky stickers in the mail! Sand Creek Elementary developed a new five-year initiative that focuses on creating a college-going atmosphere in their schools and the district.

About 500 folks participated in the SCSU Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk Oct. 22. Around 70 St. Cloud State alumni participated to demonstrate their support. The 2012 St. Cloud State Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk will take place on campus Oct. 20.

2011-12 Alumni Association Board of Directors Floyd Balentine ’98 Mishon Bulson ’93 Andrea Coulter ’84 ’90 Tiffany Cragin ’01 Kari Fabian ’87 Perry Finelli ’82 Paula Foley ’85 ’88 Bruce Geyer ’72 Art Grachek ’62 ’64 Lonny Gulden ’73 Al Irby ’73 Rich Kelly ’92 ’04

Sherry Krebsbach ’99 ’07 Ryan Langsev ’85 Sue McGrath ’81 ’94 Jessica Morgan ’01 Miranda Nesbitt ’05 Ramon Nunez ’01 Mary Rathsabandith ’03 Bianca Rhodes ’05 Brent Skaja ’01 Rachel Traut ’05 ’09 Amy Trombley ’00 ’04

Alumni – You should have received an invitation in the mail in January to register for Husky Connect: SCSU’s Alumni Online Community. If you have yet to sign up – registering to use Husky Connect is easy!

Announcing

Husky Connect!

Here’s how: 1. Access Husky Connect at scsuhuskyconnect.com 2. Enter your legal name in the registration boxes provided, Enter your St. Cloud State grad year and select Find My Record 3. Click on your name when it appears 4. Enter your unique Account ID Number (number located on the back of this magazine above your name on address label – please omit the zeros and last digit) or contact 320-308-3177 for your account number

5. Click on Verify My Record 6. Create a user ID and password for all future use of Husky Connect

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Alumni class notes Chair of the board

Transitions

Melissa Krull ’82,

has been selected by the Board of School Superintendents (BOSS) to serve as chair of the board in Minnesota. Her selection was announced in November.

BOSS was formed to elevate the status of school district educational leaders, a key initiative of U.S. Secretary of Education Arnie Duncan.

Krull recently served as superintendent from May 2002-Sept. 2011 for Independent School District 272, a school district of 10,000 students in the southwest suburbs of Minneapolis. Krull is recognized nationally for her high caliber leadership and her ability to guide changes in a school system to meet the learning needs of all learners. She intentionally moved away from system complacency and drove change in her school community to achieve significant gains for students.

Krull earned her undergraduate degrees at St. Cloud State University and her master’s degree in education and her Doctorate of Philosophy Education, Comprehensive Specialization in Work, Family, and Community from the University of Minnesota.

As superintendent of schools, Krull served as a liaison to the parent and business communities, to higher education, and to the legislative body of government. She served as the 2010 Chair of the Board for the Eden Prairie Chamber of Commerce. Krull was the 2010 president for Eden Prairie Morning Rotary Club and Mid-American Association of School Superintendents.

“I’m passionate about contributing to a leadership change model for superintendents that create the conditions and environment for rigorous and engaged learning. Competent, high caliber superintendent leadership has a direct link to strong results for students in schools today,” she said.

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Clifford Davidson, Kalamazoo,

Mich., edited The York Corpus Christi Plays. This book examines the more than 13,000 lines of verse which is the only complete play circle verifiably associated with the feast of Corpus Christi that was performed at a specific location in England.

Davidson has written, edited, co-written or co-edited more than three dozen books.

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David Dorsey, Willmar, and wife DeeAnna ’59 celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary Aug. 19.

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Judith (Forman) Pearson, Park

Rapids, returned to teaching after serving as the associate dean of the college of arts, humanities, and social sciences at North Dakota State University. Pearson and her husband, Paul, are updating the “Human Communication Textbook.”

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Larry Peterson, Richmond, will

retire from the Eden Valley-Watkins School District as superintendent after serving 11 years there.

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Ann Dunn-Foley, St. Paul, received

the Alumna Achievement Award from the College of St. Mary in Omaha, Neb. The award honors individuals who have embodied the values of the College of Saint Mary in an exemplary way. In

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Sandra (Severson) Cordie, Sartell,

was nominated for the 2010-11 Minnesota State Leadership Award.

The award is given to individuals who have given significant support to students and educators in Minnesota and support the goals of the state affiliate organization.

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Kevin Close, High Point, N.C., and Avis (Lossow) Converse, Pringle, S.D., received the Brainerd Lakes Area Community Foundation 2011 Award in Philanthropy. This award is created to recognize those who are working to build a better community and thus are inspiring others. • Philip Formo, Savage, retired from the Lutheran ministry following 31 years of service to four different Minnesota ELCA Lutheran Churches. Formo also was a special education teacher in Minneapolis schools from 196876.

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Lynda (Morton) Sohns, Mound,

was chosen to receive “A Day Made Better” award. “A Day Made Better” is an annual event where more

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Alumni class notes than 1,000 teachers nationwide are honored and awarded a total of $1 million in school supplies from OfficeMax. The honor recognizes extraordinary teachers for their hard work in the classroom and encourages support for teachers across the country.

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James Roberts, Woodway, Texas, published a book “Shiny Objects: Why We Spend Money We Don’t Have in Search of Happiness We Can’t Buy.” The book addresses our love for money and possessions and their effect on our happiness.

David Jensch, Esko, was selected

from 30 nominees to be inducted into the Silver Circle by the National Television Academy of Arts and Sciences. Jensch has served 18 years as a news director of KBJR-TV in Duluth.

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Donald Plantenberg, Elk River, is

the vice president of finance and administration at Bridgz Marketing Group in Bloomington. Plantenberg has more than 30 years of experience managing marketing organizations.

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Miles Hubbard, Richmond, an avid

Steven Reisdorf, St. Cloud,

summitted the 14,433-foot peak of Mount Elbert (Leadville, Colo.) with his son Mike. The two completed their trek on July 30.

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Susan (Fuchs) Hoeschen, Sauk

Jina (Johnson) Fesenmaier, Sartell,

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Curt Remington, Bellingham,

Timothy Steinkopf, San Jose, Calif.,

was named the chief financial officer for Centrify Corp., Sunnyvale, Calif. the leading provider of security and compliance solutions that centrally control, secure and audit access to cross-platform systems and applications. In this role, Steinkopf will be responsible for all aspects of corporate finance as Centrify expands its product portfolio, channel operations, and presence in domestic and international markets.

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Timothy Nestrud, Anoka, was

named, “Minnesota High School Technology Teacher of the Year” by the Minnesota Technical Education Association (MTEA). Nestrud was nominated by colleagues, parents and students.

is the head boys basketball coach at Minnetonka High School. Leah (Thomsen) Dasovich ’01, is the head girls basketball coach at the very same school. They may be the only husband and wife in Minnesota who are head boys and girls basketball coaches at the same school.

Tom is in his second year as the Minnetonka boys coach after previous head-coaching stops at Columbia Heights and Henry Sibley. Leah, a former Minnetonka assistant, is in her first year as the girls head coach. It’s a match made in basketball heaven, or at least at St. Cloud State University.

Tom and Leah were athletes at St. Cloud State when they met, as Leah joked, “in the training room over a bucket of ice.”

Tom played football and basketball at Hopkins High School and football at St. Cloud State. Before Leah (then Leah Thomsen) began her St. Cloud State career, she played center on a St. Cloud Apollo basketball team that lost to Rochester Mayo – led by future WNBA players Kelly and Coco Miller – in the 1995 Class 2A state championship game.

After graduating from St. Cloud State, Tom and Leah were hired as teachers at Minnetonka. Leah has been there ever since, teaching language arts and working as an assistant to the former girls basketball coach Bart Inniger until daughter Emma came along. Tom, a social studies teacher, left Minnetonka after one year when he was named head coach at Columbia Heights, and later at Henry Sibley. His Henry Sibley teams went to the Class 4A state tournament in 2008, 2009 and 2010, losing to Minnetonka in the 2008 state championship game.

The couple was reunited at Minnetonka a year ago when Tom was named boys basketball coach, and Leah became the girls head coach when Inniger retired.

It’s no surprise to learn that basketball is a major topic of conversation in the Dasovich household.

“We watch film, we watch games, we talk basketball all the time,” Leah said. “It was nice when Tom was coaching and had those really nice years and making those runs, he’d talk about what they needed to do in practice and we would bounce ideas off each other. It kept me into it a little bit and now he’s been helping me out quite a bit, too.”

Tom said, “She’s definitely a good sounding board. I used to make bad jokes that she was my unpaid assistant. But she really was. She helped me break down film and she helped me scout.

It’s nice to have somebody who really understands basketball at a high level … better than me, at least.”

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Wash., authored a book called “Simple Meditation: A Spiritual Connection for Transforming Your Life.” Remington has had clairvoyant training, studied a variety of meditation techniques and has developed some of his own.

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Tom Dasovich ’01,

Rapids, received the Spirit Award from Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota. This award honors employees with outstanding commitment and dedication to the Lutheran Social Service’s mission.

opened Provincial Market, a retail shop with decor for home and kitchen. Provincial Market is located at 822 St. Germain St. in St. Cloud. Fesenmaier is an artist and the market will feature some of her items as well as some items with French influence. • Tal Gravelle, Forest Lake, is head baseball coach for Forest Lake High School. Prior to accepting the position he was the assistant coach. • Bradley Wheelock, St. Cloud, was named a 2012 Five Star Wealth Manager. Wheelock is a senior vice president and 24-year veteran with RBC’s Wheelock Investment Group.

skydiver, recently completing his 15,000th jump in Baldwin, Wis. Hubbard holds the title for most jumps in Minnesota. Hubbard is a professor of mathematics at St. Cloud State University.

Husband and wife head coaches met at St. Cloud State

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Suzan (Tautges) Huot, St. Cloud, is a board member for the United Cerebral Palsy of Central Minnesota.

Huot will hold a three-year term.

• Scott Schneider, Sartell, was promoted to chief marketing officer for the North American region at Otto Bock HealthCare.

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Brian Shanks, Truman, is principal at

the Alden-Conger School in Alden.

Shanks taught high school math for 17 years in Truman before becoming that school’s K-12 principal for four years. • Mary (Rasmussen) Warner, Little Falls, is the artist career counselor for the Springboard for the Arts and Minnesota’s Regional Arts Councils, which includes Cass, Crow Wing, Morrison, Todd and Wadena counties. Springboard for the Arts’

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Receives honor

Richmond, was selected as the Minnesota Woman Pioneer of the Year by the Minnesota chapter of the National Association of Woman Business Owners. The award celebrates the contributions of women business owners in the state economy and culture as well as to larger national and global economies. Hansen is the owner and president of AgVenture Feed and Seed Inc.

Sandy (Fischer) Hansen ’94

Eight named 2011 Super Real Estate Agents

by Twin Cities Business Magazine, Minneapolis/ St. Paul Magazine and Crescendo Business Service: ’78 Brion Loftsgard, Osseo ’74 Robert Yankovich, St. Paul ’89 Bruce Leach, Excelsior ’90 Thomas Drompp, Stillwater ’93 Jarrod Peterson, Maple Grove ’95 ’98 Jeffrey Steeves, Maple Grove ’00 Michelle (McCutcheon) Holz, Minneapolis ’02 Jonathan Lindstrom, Stillwater

Three named 2011 Super Mortgage Professionals

by Twin Cities Business Magazine, Minneapolis/ St. Paul Magazine and Crescendo Business Services. ’05 Melanie Hlad, Plymouth, ’90 Randy Hoeschen, Minneapolis ’92 Ronald Glasgow, Elk River

Three named Top Women in Finance for 2011

by Finance & Commerce Magazine: ’85 Michelle (Chastanet) Hegarty, Stillwater ’82 Lynn (Danz) Kaye, Afton ’96 Jennifer (LeBlanc) Mrozek, Cold Spring

mission is to cultivate a vibrant arts community by connecting artists to the skills, contacts, information and services they need. Warner is a writer and fiber artist.

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Pamela (Sobania) Petron, Rice,

received the “Friend of 4-H Award” on behalf of Gopher State Contractors Inc. during the 52nd annual Benton 4-H Leaders Banquet.

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Jolene (Ignaszewski) Bute, Alden, returned to her high school to coach the volleyball team in the Alden-Conger school district. Bute has had plenty of success coaching volleyball, previously as the head coach of United South Central for the past three years. • James Gaines, Minneapolis, is senior vice president of sales for Choice Wireless World, LLC. Choice Wireless operates Sprint stores and currently has nine in the Twin Cities as well as a new location at Crossroads Center in St. Cloud. • Karen (Perry) Moroz, Maple Grove, co-authored the book, “Intentional Learning at Its Best: Engaged Learning Strategies in Higher Education.”

Moroz is an associate professor of teacher education and serves as teacher education undergraduate and graduate chair at Concordia University, St. Paul. • Kimberly (Thyen) Nies, Sartell, is a shareholder of Scluchter Investment Advisors.

Nies has been with the company for 14 years and is the chief operations officer. • Cara (Osterberg) Ruff, St. Joseph, was honored at United

Way’s 2011 annual meeting with a Live United Lifetime Award. Ruff is the founder and executive director of Independent Lifestyles Inc., a center for independent living that serves people of all disabilities.

’92 ’10 Valerie Knopp, St. Cloud, was recognized with the “Friend of School Counseling” Award by the Central Minnesota School Counselors Association. Knopp works in the Financial Aid Office at St. Cloud State University. ’93

Sven Leff, Cedar Rapids, Iowa,

was promoted to superintendent of recreation for Cedar Rapid’s Parks & Recreation Department. Leff has been in the recreation industry for 20 years and also is the past president of the Nevada Recreation and Park Society. • Paul Martodam, Burnsville, is serving as chief executive officer of Catholic Social Services of Central and Northern Arizona and chief executive officer of Catholic Charities in St. Paul.

Martodam is active with many community and social service organizations, chairing several boards. • Susan (Brown) Palmer, Cold Spring, was named a Chief Financial Officer Finalist of the Year by the Minneapolis St. Paul Business Journal. Palmer has served 25 years at the College of St. Benedict in St. Joseph, 13 years in her current position as the vice president of finance and administration. • Jeffery Voit, Sauk Rapids, is a shareholder of Schluchter Investment Advisor, St. Cloud. Voit has been an

Appointed to panel

William Sieben ’73 Hastings, was appointed by Gov. Mark Dayton to serve as an at-large member of the Commission of Judicial Selection. Sieben will be one of nine at-large members serving on the commission, which recruits and reviews judicial candidates for judgeship vacancies that occur within district courts and for openings that take place on the Workers’ Compensation Court of Appeals.

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Unless otherwise noted, all cities listed in class notes are in Minnesota.

Alumni class notes

Promoted to CIO

is the new chief information officer for CentraCare Health System. She leads the health system’s Information Services division, which employs about 350 people. Porwoll has been CentraCare’s interim CIO since July. She is a member of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives and an executive member of the Minnesota Epic Users Group. Porwoll worked for IBM in Rochester for six years before joining St. Cloud Hospital in October 1994.

Amy Porwoll ’88

investment advisor with the company for 12 years and is also a certified wealth strategist.

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Brian Hart, Clearwater, is the

owner and president of the Central Minnesota branch of Sandler Training, an international business development organization. Sandler has 30 years of experience leading business growth efforts nationally and in the United Kingdom. • Matthew Isaacson, Marine on St. Croix, was promoted to corporate vice president and officer at Array Services Group. Array Services Group offers professional services in call management disciplines, account receivables management, medical billing, and debt collection for a variety of industries. Previously, Issacson served as Array Services’ director of marketing.

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Jillene Overby, Henryetta, Okla.,

joined Kindred Healthcare in Tulsa, Okla. as the Controller of Kindred Hospital. Previously she held positions as the senior accountant at IBM and business analyst at Carlson Shared Services. • Cherie (Heim) Beumer, St. Joseph, along with her husband, Todd Beumer ’96 received the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute’s yearly award, Angels in Adoption.

Congress members nominate those who have made impacts in adoption.

The Beumer’s fought to adopt their 2-year-old daughter, Maya, from Nepal last year.

Bob Goff Day proclaimed in St. Paul

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Maria Erlandson, Foley, was been

Bob Goff ’58,

was honored for his work in the communication profession when St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman proclaimed Nov. 9 Bob Goff Day. It was 45 years from the day that Goff cofounded Coleman and Goff Advertising, now known as Goff Public, with business partner Nick Coleman, who later became a legendary state Senate Majority Leader. Mayor Coleman is Nick Coleman’s son and a Goff Public alumnus.

Goff, 75, has been at the forefront of public relations and public affairs throughout his professional life. He became one of the state’s early public relations practitioners when he began pitching stories to newspapers about clients who could not afford expensive ad campaigns.

“Bob has been a visionary business owner and leader in the communications profession in the Upper Midwest,” said Chris Georgacas, who succeeded Goff as president of the firm in 2004.

“His legacy and the business principles which he established 45 years ago still greatly influence the work we and others do today.”

Goff now serves as chairman emeritus of Goff Public and continues to be involved in actively shaping the company’s longterm goals and providing strategic direction to clients.

Goff was previously named one of Minnesota’s top lobbyists and one of “Minnesota’s 100 Smartest People” by Minnesota Law & Politics magazine. During the past five decades, he has counseled countless public officials, civic leaders, and corporate executives in St. Paul and throughout the state.

In addition to his professional career, Goff has been an important civic activist in the St. Paul community, serving on several state and local boards.

named to a governor’s committee for early learning. Erlandson is one of 22 Minnesota residents Gov. Mark Dayton appointed to the Early Learning Council. Erlandson has expertise in implementing, growing and adapting early childhood efforts in rural Minnesota.

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Matthew Elvehjem, Forest Lake, is vice president at Lake Area Bank in Forest Lake. Elvehjem is a board member of Forest Lake Rotary, a founding member and past board member of the Wyoming Area Business Association and is a member of both the Chisago Lakes and Forest Lake Chambers of Commerce.

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Ryan Hoffman, Bloomington,

joined Independent Lifestyles Inc., as an independent-living specialist.

• Tamara (Carr) MacKay, Kalamazoo, Mich., authored the book, “Haylee’s Treasure.” The work is a historical fiction book that explores Michigan’s history. The book is the first in a series called “History CPR.” The book series strives to do what the acronym CPR implies by bringing history “back to life.” CPR = Cultivate, Preserve, READ! MacKay is currently writing the second book.

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Kyle Mattson, Conway, Ark., is assistant professor within the Department of Writing at the University of Central Arkansas

Named commissioner

Milaca, was appointed commissioner of Corporate Affairs for the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe. As commissioner she serves as the chief executive officer and chair of the board of directors for the Mille Lacs Band’s Corporate Commission, which analyzes new business opportunities and oversees the band’s existing businesses, including Grand Casino Mille Lacs and Grand Casino Hinckley.

Gail Kulick Jackson ’82

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Alumni class notes

Savoring life at Cricket Meadow Julianne Johnson ’79, never planned to become a restaurant owner. But it is obvious by looking at her life path that it was always meant to be.

As the owner of Cricket Meadow Tea in Litchfield, Johnson serves up fabulous food along with a sense of timelessness. The shop offers hand-crafted food right down to the bread, and accentuates with fresh, seasonal, organic and local ingredients.

“Walking into Cricket Meadow Tea is like stepping into Grandma’s kitchen right down to the smell of warm-fromthe-oven cookies,” Johnson said.

Johnson chuckles as she recalls that her impetus to open the tea shop came from the collection of more than 100 teapots and china cups she had amassed over the years. She admits that having the dishes was not a good reason to open a tea shop, but it is easy to recognize the dishes were just an indication that Cricket Meadow was destined from the beginning.

Since graduating from St. Cloud State with a degree in mass communications, Johnson has been a homemaker by trade, and has always had a knack for finding creative outlets to make home a happy place to be. Over the years Johnson has perfected recipes, gardened, grown her own herbs, canned, and yes, written. Through her weekly column in the Litchfield Independent Review, “From the Kitchen at Cricket Meadow,” with a blogspot by the same name, and as a field editor at Taste of Home Magazine, Johnson shares her expertise and lifestyle with the world.

Swim alumni honor teammate Several St. Cloud State Alumni honored the memory of one of their former swimmates Cam Olk, who passed away in April 2011. They did so by completing the Alcatraz Invitational swim in San Francisco, Calif. The swim started near Alcatraz Prison and ended in a bay near San Francisco. The 1.3 mile swim was in extremely cold water. Every alum finished the race that included 600 swimmers. The top alum was Gerald McGlynn ’90, who was 15th with a time of 25 minutes. Among the finishers: ’88 Mark Dajnowicz, Highlands Ranch, Colo. ’89 Mathew Rostal, Savage ’90 Judy Crosson, Chandler ’89 David Nylander, Hanover ’90 David Ernst, St. Paul ’90 Gerald McGlynn, Huntington Beach, Calif ’91 Mitchell Gray, Millville ’92 Michael Duffy, Chaska ’92 Michael Winter, St. Cloud ’93 Jeffrey Hegle, Big Lake ’93 Karen McKinley, Outing ’94 Denise (Duitscher) Morris, Eagle River, AK ’97 Karl Gahlin, Savage

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in Fayetteville, Ark. Conway also recently co-authored an article, “Perceptions of Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Technical Communication Programs.”

’97 ’05 ’10

Angela (Johnson) VanHee, Andover, is assistant principal at Spring Lake Park High School. VanHee was a special education teacher at St. Michael-Albertville High School, Coon Rapids Middle School and Highview Middle School in New Brighton.

’98

Caryn (Knaus) Locke, Sartell, has opened Caryn’s Studio featuring ZUMBA, ZUMBA toning and hip hop hustle classes in Waite Park.

Zumba is the trademarked exercise program with an extensive associated line of clothing and DVDs and is touted as a Latin-inspired, calorieburning dance fitness party.

• Danise Miller, Brainerd, is practicing optometry at Wimmer Opticians in St. Cloud. Miller specializes in behavioral vision and is passionate about educating patients about vision therapy. • Aaron Worm, Montgomery, is the sports director at KATE 1450 AM Radio in Albert Lea.

’99

Catherine Collins, Long Beach, Calif,

completed a Doctorate of Education degree in Organizational Leadership at the University of La Vern, Calif.

Collins is regional director for Children’s Institute International, a non-profit organization headquartered in Los Angeles that specializes in the prevention and treatment of child abuse and neglect.

• Mark Peterson, St. Paul, is a security officer at the Minneapolis and Oakdale center campuses of Saint Mary’s University. Peterson is completing his doctoral degree in education and leadership.

’00

Jesse Arndt, Sauk Rapids, was the

first recipient of The Founders Award which was presented at the 21st annual St. Cloud Optical Golf Tournament. The award was created to honor all of the founders, the local optical community and the people whose contributions ensure the continued success of the annual tournament event. • Tracy (Novak) Hodel, Becker, is the assistant public utilities director for the City of St. Cloud and is overseeing the $50 million expansion of the wastewater treatment facility. The project is a joint venture of St. Cloud, Sauk

Rapids, Sartell, St. Joseph, Waite Park and St. Augusta. The project is the largest in the city’s history and is on pace to be done almost six months ahead of schedule and under budget.

• Christie Russell-Villnow, Rockville, celebrated her seventh year of practice in the St. Cloud area and the third anniversary of opening the St. Joseph Eye Clinic. • Michelle Super, Sartell, launched Super Consulting Services, LLC based out of her home in Sartell. She writes employee policy and procedure manuals, handles training documentation, phone scripting, documents performance management and helps with employee relations and market research in pay structure.

Much of Super’s experience is with small businesses, which helps when working with her existing clients.

’01 ’10

Brandon Johnson, Sauk Rapids, is the interim director of St. Cloud State’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Resource Center.

Johnson has held various positions at St. Cloud State including resident hall director and director of the Center for British Studies.

’02

Paul Hedlund, Shoreview, joined

the Maple Grove office of Houston Engineering, Inc. as a geographic information system developer.

Houston Engineering provides engineering, surveying, and environmental consulting services.

’03

Becky (Bales) Cramlet, Albany, was

appointed as the new community corrections director in the Human Services Department for Stearns County. Cramlet has worked for Stearns County in the Community Corrections Division since 1997.

’03 ’11

Joseph Molesky, Buffalo, is at Tennant Corp. as a continuous improvement and loan manager for the Golden Valley location.

Previously, Molesky was the continuous improvement specialist at Landscape Structures.

’04

Kevin Hardy, Sauk Rapids, a former St. Cloud State football player, co-founded Fifth Avenue Fitness LLC. The formation of the LLC includes the launch of Snap Fitness in the Coborn Plaza in St. Cloud. • Sheila Marquardt, Monmouth, Ill. joined the Educational Studies Department as a lecturer at Monmouth College

Unless otherwise noted, all cities listed in class notes are in Minnesota.

Alumni class notes

after finishing her Ph.D. from Michigan State University. • Joshua Oertli, Shakopee, was honored

by Northwestern Mutual with membership in its 2011 Forum Group, recognizing an outstanding year of helping clients throughout the region achieve financial security.

Oertli is a Northwestern Mutual Financial Network Representative and is pursuing a Certified Financial Planner designation.

• Eric Ristvedt, Carlos, was named office administrator at the Alexandria Eye Clinic, P.A. Ristvedt joins the clinic after spending more than eight years in the pharmaceutical sales industry with Upsher-Smith Laboratories.

He received seven promotions and won several awards during his tenure with Upsher-Smith.

’05

Kari Turkowski, Cold Spring, returned to St. Cloud State as a graduate assistant for the women’s volleyball team. Turkowski is also employed at LarsonAllen in accounting.

’06 ’08

Larissa (Anderson) Bell, Milaca,

is working with the St. Cloud school district in partnership with the University of Kansas to teach students using new strategies. The new methods help students improve their writing abilities. The district received a $300,000 grant to participate in the project.

’06

Joshua Fox, Elk River, was appointed to the Elk River Heritage Preservation Commission by the City Council. Fox is a historical interpreter at the Oliver Kelley Farm.

• Julie Wellnitz, Worthington, is the director of Nobles County Library.

Wellnitz’s position will be servicing both the Adrian and Worthington branches of the library system.

Recently, Wellnitz worked as the media specialist for the Rocori Area School District.

’07

Angie Brown, Big Lake, was assigned

to the Central Lakes College Foundation, Brainerd and Staples, and to the Brainerd Lakes Area Community Foundation Women’s Fund as an assistant to build an alumni and donor base. Additionally, Brown will assist in activities leading to empowerment and employment of women in the Brainerd Lakes region.

• Jason Pfeifer, St. Cloud, founded the eco-friendly business Second Life Paper which uses recycled

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paper to create office notepads and grocery lists. Pfeifer previously held positions in human resources at Opportunity Manor Inc. • Thomas Truedson, Richfield, was named the South Atlantic League’s Trainer of the Year. Truedson is in his third year with the Mets and is a member of the National Athletic Trainers Association. • Peter Weiden, Madison, Wis, is in his second year as the assistant director of football operations with the Wisconsin Badgers football team. Weiden oversees aspects of recruiting, which includes planning and coordinating recruiting visits, coordinating the recruiting database and mailing system, and supervising recruiting assistants. Weiden also coordinates team travel as well as deals with community relations with volunteer opportunities for players. • Tina Zimmer, Albany, is co-owner and operator of Melina’s Bistro. Zimmer hopes to become a published writer and franchise the bistro in the future.

Nicole (Fellows) Keegan ’01,

is in select company. In October the St. Cloud State graduate and Dakota Middle School teacher learned that she was one of a select group of teachers from across the country to receive the Milken Family Foundation National Educator Award for excellence in teaching. Besides the prestige, the award comes with a cash prize of $25,000.

“I was really surprised,” Keegan said of her reaction when learning of the award.

“Teaching is a very humble profession with very little recognition of this magnitude so it’s quite an honor and at the same time disappointing that more educators cannot have this experience.”

A native of Sioux Falls, S.D., Keegan began her St. Cloud State career as biology major but soon decided it was biology education that struck her fancy. Keegan, who did her student teaching in her home town, applied for a job in Rapid City and hasn’t looked back. She’s spent her entire career there, teaching both sixth and seventh grade Science along with seventh grade Social Studies and Foreign Languages.

As a student at St. Cloud State, Keegan was active in the Rowing Club, serving as president and vice president. It was at St. Cloud State that she began dating her husband to be, Michael Keegan ’00 who graduated with a business degree and today is director of Student Activities and Leadership Development at South Dakota School of Mines & Technology.

’08

Maryan Ali, Brooklyn Park, is on the

board of directors of HOPE, a social organization based in St. Cloud which helps Somalians in need.

• Oscar Cediel, Waite Park, received the “On the Rise” award by The Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Minnesota.

’09

Jayson Hron, Sartell, recently

launched Historically Inclined, a historical research and writing blog.

Hron is the senior public relations specialist at Cetera Financial Group.

• Amber Klaphake, Melrose, is a special education teacher at Chisago Lakes Primary School in Lindstrom.

Klaphake previously taught two years at Big Lake Middle School.

• Ryan Ruud, Minneapolis, was named director of strategic communications for Four51, a Twin Cities-based SaaS company. Ruud was formerly a public relations manager at Sartell’s W3i.

Honored as young entrepreneur Justin Wampach ’95, has been honored by the St. Cloud Times as one of it’s “5 under 40” award winners, given to influential young business leaders in the St. Cloud community.

Wampach graduated from St. Cloud State with degrees in speech communication and marketing. He is owner, president and chief executive officer of Adjuvant Technologies, a physician scheduling software and hospital on-call management system. The company creates software that enables hospitals to locate physicians without difficulty, improving communication and patient satisfaction.

Wampach credits an internship in the academic services department at St. Cloud State during his final year with helping him find his passion. It was during a time when the internet was emerging as a popular communication tool. He was tasked with putting the undergraduate bulletin online and developed both a website and homepage for the university. Since that experience he claims, “everything I’ve done in business has revolved around the internet is some way.” Photograph courtesy of St. Cloud Times.

’10

Kellie Peterson, Andover, was

promoted to network coordinator at Korn/Ferry Leadership and Talent Consulting. Peterson will work within the Alliances and Network department to provide clients with in-depth presentations of Lominger talent and developmental content.

• Melany Zimmer, Albany, is co-owner of Melina’s Bistro. The bistro offers coffee, espresso drinks, sandwiches, soups and many baked items. • Kari (Danielson) Steinbeisser, Kandiyohi, joined

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Conway, Deuth & Schmiesing, PLLP as a certified public accountant. Steinbeisser received her certification from the Minnesota State Board of Accountancy in 2011.

Steinbeisser’s practice emphasizes auditing local governments, including cities and schools; she is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Minnesota Society of Certified Public Accountants and the Minnesota Association of Public Accountants.

Winner of two awards Rita Vetsch ’95 published

her first book, “The Many Colors of Friendship.” Vetsch, an elective studies major, spent nearly two years writing this book about diversity for young readers. The book was inspired by Katherine, Vetsch’s 5-year-old daughter. The story is based upon how Katherine conquers her fears about talking to Luis, a new student, who looks different from the rest of the class. The book recently was named a finalist in the Children’s Education category for the prestigious National Books Award 2010.

It previously won the International Book Award.

The book can be purchased online through www.eloquentbooks.com/ TheManyColorsOfFriendship. html or www.amazon.com.

’11

Eric Larson, Milltown, Wis., is at AE2S (Advanced Engineering and Environmental Services, Linc.) Larson will assist with water, wastewater, rural water and geomatics projects.

Marriages and Commitments ’88 Richard Wohlwend and Betsy

Hager, Lakeville, 11/11/2011.

’90 Sarah (Borchert) Sloan and Rob

Sloan, Prior Lake, 3/26/2010.

’93 DeAnn (Glass) McMahon and

Patrick McMahon, Red Lake Falls, 8/21/2011. ’93 Mark Schnieder and Michele Schnieder, Aurora, Colo. ’97 Sarah (Ranger) Bissonette and ’98 Dominic Bissonette,

Minneapolis, 5/1/1999.

’98 Dominic Bissonette and ’97 Sarah (Ranger) Bissonette,

Minneapolis, 5/1/1999.

’00 Gregory Bates and Kristyn Bates,

Green Bay, Wis., 7/16/2011.

’03 Melany (Thull) Swenson and

Grant Swenson, St. Cloud, 4/2/2011.

’04 Jessica (Hancock) Marsolek and

Matthew Marsolek, Crystal, 7/22/2011. ’07 Avery (Buescher) Saxton and ’08 Elliott Saxton, Minneapolis, 8/12/2011. ’07 Jessica (Doehling) Sholes and Larry Sholes, St. Charles, 10/7/2006. ’08 Elliott Saxton and ’07 Avery (Buescher) Saxton, Minneapolis, 8/12/2011. ’08 Laurel (Welle) Voigt and ’08 Caleb Voigt, Rice, 9/10/2011. ’09 Anna (Fagerhaugh) Vange

and Adam Vange, St. Cloud, 10/8/2011.

Births and Adoptions ’93 Dannielle Favreau and Robb

Strong, Maple Plain, daughter, Keira, 5/12/2009. Sibling: Paige, 4.

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’93 Danelle (Pickit) Van Zinderren

and Gary Van Zinderen, Jamestown, N.D., daughter, Brin, 3/29/2011. Siblings: Evan, 5, Dee, 5, Loren, 2. ’93 Mark Schnieder and Michele Schnieder, Aurora, Colo., son, Jacob, 3/30/2007. Sibling: Benjamin, 8. ’95 Kimberly (Halvorson) deLeon

and Andrew deLeon, Lakeville, daughter, Rylee, 7/26/2011. ’95 Nancy (Otto) Diers and James Diers, Maple Grove, son, Garrett, 3/10/2011. Siblings: Ella, 9, Piper, 12, Connor, 14. ’97 Sarah (Ranger) Bissonette and ’98 Dominic Bissonette,

Minneapolis, daughter, Olivia, daughter, 2/24/2004, daughter, Bianca, 4/21/2004. ’98 Julie (Warren) Erickson and Lance Erickson, Rosemount, tiwn sons, Cody and Caleb, 4/20/2011. Sibling: Kaitlyn, 3. ’99 Catherine (Lecy) Feldman and Daniel Feldman, New Hope, son, Bryce, 8/23/2011. ’99 ’02 Jodel Carrigan and Jeffery Page, St. Cloud, son, Harrison, 8/21/2011. ’00 John Hentges and ’06 Doris (Kohout) Hentges, Otsego, son, Gavin, 8/11/2011. ’01 Amy (Pohlmann) Mattren and ’02 Eric Mattren, New Richmond, Wis., son, Paxtton, 7/7/2011.

Siblings: Taelyn, 2, Westton, 4, Paytton, 5, Ashlyn, 16. ’01 Jennifer (Steiskal) Stahl and Larry Stahl, Rapid City, S.D., son, Easton, 7/12/2011. Sibling: Sawyer, 3. ’01 ’04 Leanne (Wegner) Kruger and Jared Kruger, Wabasha, son, McCoy, 8/24/2011. ’02 Jennifer (Harren) Bayha and Benjamin Bayha, Apple Valley, son, Weston, 9/21/2011. ’02 Eric Mattren and ’01 Amy (Pohlmann) Mattren, New Richmond, Wis., son, Paxtton, 7/7/2011. Siblings: Taelyn, 2, Westton, 4, Paytton, 5, Ashlyn, 16. ’02 Amy Quinn and Jeremy Streed, Alexandria, daughter, Brielle, 10/18/2011. Sibling: Caden, 9. ’02 Trista (Schaub) Schlick and Russell Schlick, St. Paul, son, Calvin, 5/8/2011. Sibling: Lorelei, 3. ’03 Mindy (Crouse) Bell and ’04 Marty Bell, St. Augusta, daughter, Brooklyn, 9/15/2011.

’03 Erik Dahl and Erin Dahl, New

Hope, daughter, Natalie, 7/2/2011. ’03 Heidi (Anderson) Goettl and ’04 Jeffrey Geottl, St. Paul, daughter, Adelaide, 8/4/2011. ’03 Daniel McClure and ’07 Erin (O’Fallon) McClure, Sartell, son, Cameron, 7/1/2011. Sibling: Carter, 3. ’03 Bonnie (Netka) Sheridan and Michael Sheridan, Plymouth, son, Grant, 9/20/2011. Siblings: Audrey, 1, Julia, 1. ’03 Beau Shroyer and Jaclyn Shroyer, Detroit Lakes, son, Oakley, 10/7/2011. Siblings: Avery, 3, Bella, 4. ’04 Marty Bell and ’03 Mindy (Crouse) Bell, St. Augusta, daughter, Brooklyn, 9/15/2011. ’04 Lisa (Villcheck) Dumont and Dean Dumont, Royalton, son, Miles, 9/2/2011. ’04 Jeffrey Geottl and ’03 Heidi (Anderson) Goettl, St. Paul, daughter, Adelaide, 8/4/2011. ’04 Tyral Holstrom and ’06 Amanda (Hammond) Holstrom, Champlin, daughter, Claire, 8/12/2011. Sibling: Stella, 2. ’04 Amy (Burke) Johnson and ’06 Anders Johnson, Robbinsdale, twin daughters, Ella and Grace, 10/20/2011. ’04 Matthew Konz and ’04 Renee (Luthi) Konz, Morris, daughter, Evan, 9/27/2011. Siblings: Samantha, 3, Makenzie, 5. ’04 Jennifer (Mead) O’Link and ’04 ’10 Eric O’Link, Maple Grove, son, Harrison, 1/27/2011. ’04 Sarah (Johnson) Shereck and Timothy Shereck, Aitkin, daughter, Natalie, 5/23/2011.

Sibling: Haley, 3. ’05 Ariana (Mortel) Bell and Patrick Bell, Burnsville, daughter, Alivia, 6/13/2011. ’05 Khurram Janjua and Fatima Janjua, Rawalpindi, Pakistan, daughter, Zoya, 1/9/2011. ’05 George Micalone and ’05 Kelly (Weber) Micalone, Ames, IA, daughter, Meredith, 1/14/2011. ’05 Nicole (Merriman) Schantz and Brad Schantz, Minneapolis, son, Bennett, 11/16/2011. ’05 Justin Strauss and ’05 Kelli (Ecker) Strauss, Waconia, daughter, Katelyn, 10/11/2011. ’05 Alexander Walker and Sarah Walker, Minneapolis, daughter, Madeleine, 2/4/2011. Sibling: Grace, 4.

Unless otherwise noted, all cities listed in class notes are in Minnesota.

Alumni class notes

’05 Ashley (Erbes) Wendorff and

Trevor Wendorff, Currie, daughter, Isabel, 6/13/2011.

Sibling: Mason, 3.

’06 Sarah (Chesborough) Andres and ’07 Dustin Andres, Rogers, son,

Roman, 10/5/2011.

’06 Amanda (Hammond) Holstrom and ’04 Tyral Holstrom,

’40 Doris (Gulsvig) Berkman, 90, ’41 Luella (Anderson) Braff, 97, Mora ’41 Ione (Ostroot) Katchie, 88, Park

Duluth

’61 Janice (Sunde) Vogt, 71,

Tower

’63 Robert Hebeisen, 70,

Falls

’63 ’69 ’83 Charles Mykleby, 71,

Woodburn, Ore.

’64 Bonnie (Mueller) Mesenburg, 69,

Walker

’46 Gretchen (Mamlock) Troness, 86,

’64 Alvin Okeson, 78, Palmer, AK ’64 ’70 Norman Hansen, 77, Kimball ’65 Mary (Baldridge) Ellis, 90, Foley ’65 Janice (Holst) Norberg, 67,

’48 Arthur Holmgren, 88, White

’65 ’82 ’86 Karen (Marcott) Gates, 69,

’49 Robert Brown, 90, St. Anthony ’49 Lucille (Borowick) Horner, 84,

Yorba Linda, Calif.

’66 Bruce Gall, 73, Minneapolis ’66 James Hovanetz, 71, Ham Lake ’66 Marjorie (Striley) Jurgens, 95,

Butte, N.M.

’67 Lavonne Eibensteiner, 83,

’03 Jeanne (Cookson) Platt, 30, Eden

IA

’67 Sandra Lupino, 68, Rockford ’69 Rosann (Lenz) Lorenz, 63,

’06 Jameson Malone, 27, St. Paul ’09 Geoffrey Griffin, 54, North

’69 Gary Schmidtke, 76, Lakeville ’70 Elnora (Cluever) Busacker, 87,

’09 Christopher Hoffke, 25, Cold

’42 June (Johnson) Macomber, 91,

’50 ’61 Joseph Johnson, 84, Rogers ’51 Wayne Sumey, 84, Fairmont ’52 Patricia (Crose), 80, Plymouth ’52 Margaret (Mische) Konz, 79,

’38 Raymond Freund, 96, Faribault ’38 Doris (Hojem) Headlee, 92,

Brainerd

’38 Melvin Kazeck, 96, San Diego,

Minnetonka Shorewood

’46 Mary (Mayberry) Isakson, 86,

Maple Grove

’46 Lois (Mattson) Ritter, 84,

Princeton

Sauk Rapids Bear Lake

’49 John McDonald, 84, Elephant

’93 ’01 Timothy Larson, 43,

Sauk Rapids

’70 Richard Nelson, 62, Chittenango,

N.Y.

St. Cloud

’70 Diane (Minten) Woit, 82,

Alexandria

’71 Patricia (McDonough) Eikmeier,

Brighton

’71 Helen Scott, 74, Long Prairie ’72 Thomas Harms, 65, Pengilly ’72 Wayne Reed, 81, Royalton ’74 Joyce Kriesel, 69, Lakeville ’74 James Mattsson, 66, Eagan ’74 Judith Vogel, 59, Surprise, Ariz.

’53 ’59 Dwain Johnson, 89,

St. Cloud

’54 Marianna Anderson, 79, New

’39 Ida (Blaisdell) Struffert, 91, Pierz

’56 Richard Schneider, 77, Rush City

86, Cold Spring

Minnetonka

Husky Pupsters

Little Falls

St. Cloud

Litchfield

Grove

Willmar

’90 Kevin Schafer, 54, St. Cloud ’91 Johann (Richmod) Morrigan, 66,

Cambridge

St. Joseph

’50 Leander Gresser, 86, Maple

Grangeville, ID

’76 ’77 Alan Rehwaldt, 58, Woodbury ’79 Juliene Kristian, 54, Shakopee ’80 Joel Lindmeier, 54, Sauk Rapids ’83 Mark Hanson, 50, Minneapolis ’88 Elizabeth (Larson) Lackore, 77,

’93 Barry Ligeros, 41, St. Cloud ’93 Gary Peters, 40, Victoria ’93 Sharon (Edwardson) Rahkola, 69,

Paynesville

’49 Joyce (Starr) Sandin, 81, Milaca ’50 Arthur Campbell, 85, Iowa City,

’39 Florine (Schwartz) Eveslage, 91,

Frazee

St. Joseph

’43 Shirley (Sampson) Flora, 88,

’55 Duane Auger, 81, Albertville ’55 George Evans, Mankato ’55 ’70 Jerome Reichel, 81,

Calif.

St. Cloud

’76 David Karkela, 57, Jacobson ’76 Greg Morris, 60, Marion, IA ’76 Kenneth Pollworth, 61,

’60 John Ingram, 73, Lincoln, Neb.

We Remember ’34 Eleanor (Brown) Dalbey, 96,

Oak Grove

’75 Charles Becker, 63, Maple Grove ’76 Rita (Schulte) Dwyer, 87,

Rapids

‘43 Louis “Louie” Filippi, 91, Little

Denver, Colo.

Wis.

’41 Audrey (Eisenrich) Vomachka, 91,

Champlin, daughter, Claire, 8/12/2011. Sibling: Stella, 2. ’06 Doris (Kohout) Hentges and ’00 John Hentges, Otsego, son, Gavin, 8/11/2011. ’06 Anders Johnson and ’04 Amy (Burke) Johnson, Robbinsdale, twin daughters, Ella and Grace, 10/20/2011. ’06 Laura Vaala and Cody Thomson, Appleton, daughter, Makia, 9/15/2011. ’07 Dustin Andres and ’06 Sarah (Chesborough) Andres, Rogers, son, Roman, 10/5/2011. ’07 Erin (O’Fallon) McClure and ’03 Daniel McClure, Sartell, son, Cameron, 7/1/2011. Sibling: Carter, 3. ’09 Elizabeth Neaton, Watertown, daughter, Genevieve, 7/12/2011.

’43 ’54 Margaret Neary, 99, St. Cloud ’37 ’43 Marion (Strand) Carlson, 94,

’59 Robert Olson, 77, Elk River ’59 Lloyd Paulson, 77, Cambridge ’59 Rudolph Strah, 76, Shawano,

Anoka

St. Augusta

Albertville

’01 Scott Eibensteiner, 37, Sartell ’02 Amy (Braegelmann) Gronhovd,

40, Sartell

Prairie

Aurora, Ill. Spring

’10 Victoria (Caldwell) Crow, 30,

Mankato

Faculty/Staff We Remember Sylvester Becker, 88, St. Cloud Louis Brunckhorst, 93, Sauk Rapids Prudence Ernest, 82, St. Cloud Lowell Gillett, 86, Bemidji Joan (Elsinga) Jacobson, 87,

St. Cloud

Debra Lembecker, 60, St. Cloud Francis H. Voelker, 81, Sartell

Left: Proud parents Christopher ’02 and Trista (Moede) Johnson ’02 of Riverview, Fla., show off their future St. Cloud State alums, Collin (1) and Natalie (3)!

We have Husky tees for all new additions to the Huskies roster! If you recently welcomed a new addition to the family, your alma mater would like to send you a Husky Pup T-shirt.

Update your profile at stcloudstate.edu/ alumni and receive a congratulations gift from the St. Cloud State University Alumni Association or contact us at 320-308-3177, toll free 1-866-464-8759.

Right: Charlie Sullivan (7 months), son of Derek ’05 and Beth Sullivan, smiles big as he can’t wait to attend his first Husky game!

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April 19-22, 2012 • SCSU Alumni Association Annual Alumni Awards Reception April 19 • St. Cloud State Community Engagement Celebration April 19 • Earth Day Half Marathon April 21 • Husky Baseball Game and Alumni Gathering April 21 June 21-24, 2012 • St. Cloud State Lemonade Concert and Art Fair June 21 • St. cloud State Lemonade Reception June 21 • St. cloud State in sauk Rapids Parade June 22 • St. cloud State in Granite City Days June 23 Sept. 28-29, 2012 • Classes of 1961, 1962 and 1963 Golden Reunion • Family Weekend