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Frankfort Times newspaper Briana Monson, Mankato, teaches kindergarten at Roosevelt Elementary Jessica Olson, Bloomington, is a merchandise coordinator for Target Corporation Ashley Palm, West St. Paul, is employed by BAX Global Alana Reetz, Royal Palm Beach, FL, is public records researcher for the Wackenhut Corporation Rosemary Shultz, Edina, is a general assignment reporter for KEYC-TV Dan Westlund, Northfield, is an AmeriCorps volunteer working with Habitat for Humanity Dawn Gehlhar Williams, Durham, NC, is employed by Spherion Danielle Wright, Wayzata, works for Health Dialog.
Weddings Norman Nelson ’49 and Darlene Miller, 5/27/06, St. Charles, IL. Linda Lindborg ’64 and Dennis Baehr, 10/7/06, La Crosse, WI. Arla Walton ’72 and Dick Prestin ’71, 8/12/06, Eau Claire, WI. LaVonne Williams Thorud ’72 and Gary Thorud, 3/5/05, Bloomington, MN. Linda Hanninen ’79 and William Carlyon, 8/5/06, Maple Grove, MN. Melissa Radeke ’87 and James McPhee, 9/28/06, St. Cloud, MN. Jan Bjorklund ’89 and Melanie Weiss, 5/27/06, Bad Nauheim, Germany. Kristin Haag ’92 and Robert Leitel, 10/7/05, Denver, CO. Kristin Barbari ’93 and Nathan Schatz, 8/11/06, Austin, TX. Elizabeth A. Peterson ’93 and Timothy Krebsbach, 9/9/06, Rochester, MN. Todd Schwanke ’94 and Marsha Allen, 5/20/06, Milwaukee, WI. Gretchen Michlitsch ’95 and Allen Hillery, 6/23/06, Winona, MN. Heather Wollschlager ’96 and Jeremy Rondorf, 6/10/06, Blaine, MN. Stacy Friberg ’97 and Matt Fiedler, 5/21/05, Madison, WI. Ryan Lamberty ’97 and Marni Orthey, 7/23/05, Minneapolis, MN. Amy Lavin ’97 and Dave Ryan, 9/16/06, Bloomington, MN. Martha Malinski ’97 and Scott Shoemaker, 8/19/06, Minneapolis, MN. Angela Sands ’97 and Steffen Thieringer, 7/9/06, Eden Prairie, MN. Andrew Velishek ’97 and Laura Velishek, 7/21/06, South St. Paul, MN.
The world on a string Peter Hedberg ’05 has barely had time to take a breath since receiving a letter of accreditation last fall from the World section editor at the Minneapolis Star Tribune that allows him to string for the newspaper in Europe. He started in Warsaw, staying with an old family friend of Gustie Travis Lennox ’05, then went to Geneva to work at the Palais de Nations (United Nations). From there it was on to Ecuador on a press junket organized through the U.N. for two weeks. He then returned to Geneva and a few days later hopped a plane back to Warsaw. In November he headed for Greece, “and what comes next I have no idea, [I’m] just flying by the seat of my pants really.” He’s pictured in Ecuador, with Cotopaxi in the background.
Tom Kelsey ’98 and Hope Dahl, 10/27/06, St. Paul, MN. Amanda Paulson ’98 and Greg Laden, 8/19/06, Coon Rapids, MN. Kristi Pettis ’98 and Mark Osterlund, 8/4/06, Billings, MT. Benjamin Reitan ’98 and Emily Hemstreet, 4/29/06, Chaska, MN. Jennifer Robe ’98 and John Reiland, 7/8/06, Oshkosh, WI. Paul Tarnowski ’98 and Heidi Amerud, 8/5/06, River Falls, WI. Joe Wahlberg ’98 and Katie Rykkeli, 9/23/06, St. Paul, MN. Rebecca Carlson ’99 and Wardell Haywood, 7/28/06, Stillwater, MN. Tonya Hartmann ’99 and Tony Meyers ’00, 8/18/06, Brooklyn Park, MN. Erin Klaers ’99 and Anthony Hilton, 7/8/06, Plymouth, MN. Angela Schuette ’99 and Rory Meagher, 10/13/06, Bloomington, MN. Kari Twedt ’99 and James Thompson, 7/8/06, Bangkok, Thailand. Kelly Fletcher ’00 and Jeffrey Robertson, 6/3/06, South St. Paul, MN.
Claymation education An innovative “claymation” program has become popular with public school students in the Twin Cities’ Northwest Suburban Integration District, and it’s especially gratifying for Josh Granlund ’03, a program specialist who teaches the art form. Granlund was likely introduced to clay by his late grandfather, sculptor Paul Granlund ’52, but he’s using it in a completely different way. In the realm of edgy art, claymation—a stop-action animation process that uses flexible clay figures—is even more popular with his students than animation, comic-book writing, and graffiti art, and its popularity has prompted Granlund to plan a first-ever film festival for later this spring to showcase his students’ claymation videos. Working with claymation is not simply shaping clay. It requires perfectionism from the artist to constantly adjust and photograph clay models. At least 12 photos are needed to produce a single second of film, or about 3,000 shots for a 3 1/2-minute movie. The claymation program was started as part of a “Global Arts Village” four years ago, when the Northwest Suburban Integration District, which was founded to desegregate the Osseo and Brooklyn Center school districts, was just a year old. Northwest’s “membership” has grown to include Anoka-Hennepin, Elk River, Buffalo, and Rockford as well as Brooklyn Center and Osseo, and the Global Arts Village now includes three program specialists: a dance teacher who used to cheer for the Minnesota Vikings, an audio teacher who was Stevie Wonder’s sound man for more than a decade, and Granlund. Granlund’s day is divided into two parts: he leads mini-workshops in the seven school districts, giving about 600 students in a given year an introduction to comic book art or claymation; and he teaches an intensive after-school program open to any student in the member districts. It’s been a powerful experience for him, with one exception—transportation problems have prevented many of the students who have signed up for his after-school program from reaching the class site at Northwest’s office in Brooklyn Park. Once that kink is worked out, Granlund expects to attract many more student participants.
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