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Gustavus alumni OR, is a retired medical technologist
■ Marilyn Lundell Majeska,
University Park, MD, is retired and enjoying spending time with family ■ Clarice Tack Swisher, St. Paul, is a retired teacher and writer.
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Class Agents: Carolyn Jens Brusseau, JoAnn Johnson Lundborg
e-mail: 1956classagent@gustavus.edu
Carlton O. Anderson, Park Rapids, is retired from John F. Kennedy High School ■ T. Duane Jensen, Oak Harbor, WA, teaches classes at Oak Harbor Lutheran Church.
After all those letters . . .
The “Round Robin” group from the Class of 1950 gathered last November to communicate face to face. Since their graduation the group has participated in regular letter writing. Seated from left are Donna Benson Barnett, Marge Swenson Gores, and Mary Harper Schultze. Standing are Carol Ostgaard Esbjornson, Marie Norberg Bergstrom, Joyce Pauley Gardner, Marlys Peterson, and Lois Dickhart Skillrud.
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Class Agents: Nancy Reiter Grimes, Marlys Mattson Nelson
e-mail: 1957classagent@gustavus.edu
Gale R. Falk, Bemidji, was recognized for being a registered official for basketball, swimming, and football for over 50 years ■ Lamonte Lauridsen, Baldwin City, KS, is a retired professor ■ Glenn R. Leaf, Breezy Point, is serving as interim pastor at First Lutheran Church in International Falls and Bethany, Loman ■ Lowell D. Madsen, Arnolds Park, IA, is retired ■ John Peterson, Edina, is making and selling easels through Easels – by John.
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Class Agents: Owen Sammelson, Carolyn Lund Sandvig
e-mail: 1958classagent@gustavus.edu
John L. Johnson, Gibbon, is owner of Northern Insulation ■ Donna Jones Kiewatt, Le Sueur, is a retired proofreader ■ Darlene Thompson Kriewall, Burnsville, is employed at Groen’s ■ Joanne Nelson McCarthy, Santa Fe, NM, is retired ■ Claudette Anderson McCollar, St. Paul, is retired ■ Robert Shogren, Burnsville, is a retired engineer.
Another postcard from ’56
Co-class agents of the Class of 1956, JoAnn Johnson Lundborg and Carolyn Jens Brusseau, met for their annual winter meeting/rendezvous in Hawaii to write their class letter. They were joined this year by classmate Joann Gould Knapp (standing). In the absence of the Gustie Pep Band, the “Alma Mater” and “Gustie Rouser” were played on ukuleles with a Hawaiian beat.
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Class Agent: Carol Johnson Heyl
e-mail: 1959classagent@gustavus.edu
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Class Agents: Forrest Chaffee, Helen Forsgren Hokenson
e-mail: 1954classagent@gustavus.edu
Richard L. Brubacher, Minnetonka, is a retired management consultant ■ Vic V. Carter, Newark, DE, was awarded ANNIVE Volunteer of the Year by RSARY the Credit Union League May 29 –30 of Delaware ■ John 2009 Chell, Edina, is a retired pastor ■ Sandy A. Dittbenner, Fairmont, is a retired payroll administrator ■ Gloria Keller Edman,
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West Des Moines, IA, is retired ■ Nancy Pringle Ellingson, Edina, is a retired pharmacy clerk ■ Shirley Lund Flom, Minneapolis, is retired from social work ■ David A. Gillis, Milwaukee, WI, is retired from Journal Communications ■ Donna Norlund Holmgren, Emily, is a retired therapeutic recreation assistant ■ Jeanette Fetchenhier Jensen, Bloomington, is a registrar for seminars at American Management Association ■ Marilyn Nelson Leverenz, Donna, TX, is retired from Naperville Nannies ■ Marilyn
Peterson Reaser, Rapid City, SD, is retired ■ G. Howard Ruggles, Forest Lake, is the retired owner/president of H&H Inc. ■ George Skogg, Kingsford, MI, is a retired chemist ■ Bruce Touse, Silver Spring, MD, is retired from General Motors ■ John Wright, St. Louis Park, is retired as owner of HiFi Sound Electronics.
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Class Agent: Dick DeRemee
e-mail: 1955classagent@gustavus.edu
Cleo Miller Jacobson, Lake Oswego,
Duane Aldrich, Willmar, is employed at the Willmar Area Community Foundation ■ Anita Lien Anderson, Park Rapids, is retired from Finegayan Elementary School ANNIVE RSARY ■ Jack W. Arthur, May 29 Lake Nebagamon, –30 2009 WI, is a retired aquatic biologist ■ Glory Hauschildt Blakeborough, Prior Lake, is a retired IRN coordinator ■ Leonard Brown, Grand Rapids, is a retired teacher ■ Jeanette Reinke Carlson, Willmar, is retired and is president of the local Habitat
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