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9 Henry Varnum Poor (1887–1970), Arthur graham, c.1915, lithograph on paper, 10 x 13 inches (image), gift of Jeanne and Richard Porter in honor of the family of Henry Varnum Poor.

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Managing editor steven l. waldhauser ’70 | waldo@gustavus.edu alUMni editorS randall M. stuckey ’83 | rstuckey@gustavus.edu

erin holloway wilken ’02 | ewilken@gustavus.edu deSign Anna deike | adeike@gustavus.edu contribUting WriterS Margaret Bloch Qazi, tim Kennedy ’82; chuck niederriter, donald Myers ’83; Kristine straumann ’07; Matt thomas ’00, paul tillquist ’63 contribUting PHotograPHerS Al Behrends ’77; Brian Fowler; John noltner; Matt thomas ’00; stacia vogel

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gUStaVUS adolPHUS college st. peter, Mn 56082 507-933-8000 | gustavus.edu cHair, board oF trUSteeS Mark Bernhardson ’71 PreSident oF tHe college Jack r. ohle Vice PreSident For Marketing and coMMUnication gwendolyn Freed Vice PreSident For inStitUtional adVanceMent thomas young ’88 director oF alUMni relationS randall M. stuckey ’83 gustavus Adolphus college is accredited by the higher learning commission and is a member of the north central Association.

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Jake seamans ’10

construction dreams i’m a sucker for a construction site. i am fascinated by how a gouged-out hole in the ground becomes a precisely measured foundation . . . how the jumbles of re-rod and other materials stacked around the site are moved to their proper places and incorporated . . . how a grand edifice arises from those pieces . . . how much concrete is poured . . . how the workers scattered throughout the structure in a seemingly haphazard manner complete their individual tasks and like magicians reveal the larger scheme as they combine their parts. i’ve been marking the progress on the college’s new academic facility—the three-story learning center sited just west of Folke Bernadotte Memorial library that will house the communication studies, economics/management, history, psychology, and sociology/anthropology departments along with classrooms, seminar rooms, and resource areas (see p. 18–19). it’s a marvel to me how finely lined blueprints of electrical systems and ductwork are “translated” into the light and heat required for the building. it’s mind-boggling to contemplate the sequencing of all these subplots in the larger story of this facility.

But the real attraction of new construction is imagining what will soon occur on those yet-uncompleted floors, in those classrooms and meeting spaces so carefully drawn on the blueprints. how will the overall design shape and color student learning—and faculty teaching? how will the additional and open spaces and the dedicated resource areas enhance student-faculty collaboration? what synergies will arise from the new spaces and juxtapositions of the five departments that will share the facility?

D the new classroom building is scheduled to open by the start of the 2011–12 academic year, as gustavus kicks off its sesquicentennial celebration. the sesquicentennial gives us an opportunity to celebrate both the past and the future of the college, and in that spirit we’d like to hear from alumni about their memories of and hopes for gustavus. send us an anecdote about a professor’s enduring advice or stern words, about a remembered campus visitor or a prank pulled, about an unforgettable classmate—or anything else . if you were on campus in the ’60s when christ chapel and nobel hall of science were built, or in the ’70s when schaefer Fine Arts center and Bernadotte library were erected, or in the ’80s when lund center went up, send us a paragraph about your anticipation then (or maybe about re-purposing bricks!). we’ll sprinkle the notes we receive in coming Quarterlies as “sesquicentennial Moments.” let us hear from you!

steve waldhauser ’70, Managing editor

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the rev. Jon V. anderson, M.div., new ulm, Minn. (ex officio) Bishop, Southwestern Minnesota Synod, ELCA, Redwood Falls the rev. rodney l. anderson, M.div., eden prairie, Minn.

Senior Pastor, St. Andrew Lutheran Church thomas M. annesley ’75, ph.d., Ann Arbor, Mich.

Professor of Pathology, University Hospital, University of Michigan al annexstad, excelsior, Minn.

Chairman, Federated Insurance Companies, Owatonna tracy l. bahl ’84, M.B.A., greenwich, conn.

Special Advisor, General Atlantic, N.Y. Warren beck ’67, greenwood, Minn.

President, Gabbert & Beck, Inc., Edina rebecca M. bergman, ph.d., north oaks, Minn.

Vice President, New Therapies and Diagnostics, Medtronic Incorporated, Minneapolis Mark bernhardson ’71, Bloomington, Minn. (chair) City Manager, City of Bloomington the rev. Åke bonnier, stockholm, sweden Dean, Stockholm Domkyrkoforsamling the rev. gordon a. braatz, ph.d., M.div., Minneapolis Pastor and Psychologist, Retired david J. carlson ’60, M.d., edina, Minn.

Physician, Retired ardena l. Flippin ’68, M.d., M.B.A., chicago Physician, Retired the rev. brian Fragodt ’81, M.div., Andover, Minn. (ex officio) Pastor, Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church, East Bethel, and President, Gustavus Adolphus College Association of Congregations James H. gale ’83, J.d., washington, d.c.

Attorney at Law Marcus M. gustafson ’73, d.d.s., edina, Minn.

Business Executive, Retired John o. Hallberg ’79, M.B.A.,wayzata, Minn.

Chief Executive Officer, Children’s Cancer Research Fund, Minneapolis Pat k. Haugen ’70, sioux Falls, s.d.

Business Executive, Retired Jeffrey Heggedahl ’87, Minneapolis (ex officio) CEO, Advantage IQ, and President, Gustavus Alumni Association Susanne björling Heim ’83, edina, Minn.

Business Executive alfred Henderson ’62, M.B.A., chanhassen, Minn.

Business Executive, Retired george g. Hicks ’75, J.d., eden prairie, Minn.

Managing Partner, Värde Partners, Inc., Minneapolis linda bailey keefe ’69, M.B.A., Atlanta, ga.

Vice President, NAI Brannen Goddard Paul koch ’87, plymouth, Minn.

Senior Vice President/Investments UBS Financial Services, Inc., Wayzata the rev. daniel a. kolander ’68, M.div., Marion, iowa Senior Pastor, First Lutheran Church, Cedar Rapids Jack r. ohle, d.d., st. peter, Minn. (ex officio) President, Gustavus Adolphus College Marilyn r. olson, M.div., valparaiso, ind. (ex officio) Assistant Director for Educational Partnerships, Unit of Vocation and Education, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Chicago Martha i. Penkhus, Mankato, Minn.

Registered Nurse, Retired the rev. Wayne b. Peterson ’77, M.div., plymouth, Minn.

Pastor, St. Barnabas Lutheran Church the rev. dan S. Poffenberger ’82, M.div., stillwater, Minn.

Senior Pastor, Trinity Lutheran Church beth Sparboe Schnell ’82, corcoran, Minn.

Chief Executive Officer, Sparboe Companies, Wayzata karin l. Stone ’83, M.B.A., cleveland heights, ohio Principal, Stone Strategy Group LLC the rev. lori bergstrand Swenson ’82, M.div., depere, wis.

Pastor,Ascension Lutheran Church, Green Bay ronald c. White ’75, las vegas, nev. (ex officio) Chief Sales Officer, Growth Development Associates, Inc., and Past President, Gustavus Alumni Association Susan engelsma Wilcox ’73, edina, Minn.

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cice stories new academic building notes from the Kendall center sports legacy

nsF grant will support physics labs

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he national science Foundation has awarded gustavus Adolphus college a $253,150 academic research infrastructure grant to support the department of physics. the grant will be used to upgrade several physics research laboratories in the lower level of F.w. olin hall for physics, Mathematics, and computer science. these upgrades will significantly enhance the capabilities for on-campus faculty-student research opportunities for gustavus physics students. the award is funded under the American recovery and reinvestment Act of 2009. the grant will allow the college to complete the acoustical isolation of Associate professor tom huber’s acoustics lab, which houses a scanning laser doppler vibrometer that the college obtained through a separate $310,000 nsF grant received in February 2010. several other upgrades will benefit huber’s acoustics lab as well as Assistant professor Jessie petricka’s cold molecule research lab, professors paul saulnier and steve Mellema’s optics labs, and professor chuck niederriter’s condensed matter research lab. it is expected that more than 25 students will use these labs for independent faculty-student research projects

Physics professor Thomas Huber, Ph.D. during the three-year grant period. the new grant will allow the college to upgrade the heating and cooling system in the basement of olin hall to minimize problems of humidity, noise, and vibration that limit many of the high-precision, lownoise experiments that students conduct in several of the departmental laboratories. there will also be important upgrades to the electrical, network, mechanical, and safety systems to enhance the productivity and safety of the research spaces.

the $253,000 academic research infrastructure grant is the fifth grant from the nsF that the physics and other science departments at the college have received in the past 18 months. the five grants total more than $1 million and have significantly improved teaching opportunities for faculty and research opportunities for students in the sciences. ■

Matt Thomas ’00 has been media relations manager at the College since 2007.

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six board members commit $5 million to endow positions in economics and Management

by Matt thomas ’00

ix members of the college’s Board of trustees have anonymously committed to contribute a combined total of $5 million to the college’s endowment. they have designated their support for the establishment of an endowed distinguished professorship for the department of economics and Management as well as endowment to support an existing position within that same department. the trustee donors chose to remain anonymous but have asked that the positions be recognized as Board of trustees endowed faculty positions. the announcement of the trustees’ support came at a gala dinner for friends of the college held on sept. 23. president Jack r. ohle made the announcement, saying, “this generous gift supports academic excellence, following through on the college’s commission gustavus 150 strategic plan and priorities announced last year. importantly, it provides an exciting example to others and a tone and pace for the philanthropy that will propel the college dramatically forward to its 2012 sesquicentennial celebration and beyond.” the Board of trustees endowed distinguished professorship will support the work of an esteemed senior scholar in economics and management, for the benefit of gustavus students, the department, the reputation of the college, and the extramural advancement of the discipline. the distinguished professor will be identified through a national

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search and will be a recognized scholar and intellectual leader who is passionate about undergraduate education. the distinguished professor will not only teach but also will devote significant time to writing, publishing, leading symposia, and other activities. the additional endowment support will go to fund an existing faculty position in the department of economics and Management. the endowment will support instruction as well as additional related extracurricular public colloquia, programs, and presentations on campus. this Board of trustees endowed chair will be held by an existing faculty member, and all holders of the chair will be appointed for three-year terms. “these two faculty positions will develop and sustain academic excellence for generations to come,” says david Fienen, provost and dean of the college. “the endowed distinguished professor will bring expertise and insight to bear on the teaching and learning environment at gustavus, and will help develop and articulate a vision for the department for the next five to ten years. the endowed chair position will enable an existing faculty member to contribute in new ways to the college’s continued strength and growth in economics and management. Both of these positions reflect the strategic planning of the department.” ■

oFFicial Fall enrollMent official figures from the registrar’s office indicate that total enrollment for the fall semester is 2,393 (Full time equivalent) claSS

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larry potts recognized with Acs education award ustavus chemists congratulate larry Potts, emeritus professor of chemistry, after he received the Analytical division’s J. calvin giddings Award for excellence in education at the 240th meeting of the American chemical society, held in Boston in August. pictured are from left tom annesley ’75, professor of pathology, university of Michigan hospital, and member of the gustavus Board of trustees; Matt Shores ’97, assistant professor, colorado state university; potts; Scott bur, associate professor of chemistry at gustavus; and Mike kamrath ’07, a graduate student at yale university. ■

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gustavus remembers two nursing professors wo key figures in the development of a baccalaureate nursing program at gustavus Adolphus college died in september. emerita professor Hazel Johnson, who served the college from the spring of 1969 to 1981, died in Minneapolis on sept. 6 at the age of 91. emerita professor ruth dannehl, who taught at gustavus during the spring of 1965 and then was on the faculty from 1967 to 1983, died in st. paul on sept. 21; she was 92.

Johnson was a member of the class of 1941 at the swedish hospital of Minneapolis, one of the predecessor institutions to what is now the Metropolitan Medical center. pursuing nurse educator credentials following service in the Army nursing corps during world war ii, she earned her B.s., M.ed., and ph.d. from the university of Minnesota and then held faculty positions at swedish and Abbott hospitals before joining the gustavus faculty in 1969. she served as chair of the department of nursing from her arrival until her retirement in 1981. in 1986 she was named recipient of a distinguished Alumnae Award from the swedish hospital Alumnae Association. dannehl earned a B.s.n. in 1943 from washington university in st. louis and was an instructor at that city’s lutheran hospital school of nursing and an in-service education coordinator for the visiting nurses’ Association of st. louis before joining the lutheran church-Missouri synod’s Board of world Missions as a medical missionary and teacher at the concordia lutheran school in hong Kong. returning to Minnesota after 11 years in hong Kong, she enrolled at the university of Minnesota for an M.ed. in nursing education, which she received in 1966 before joining the gustavus nursing faculty in 1967. dannehl maintained a lifelong interest in Asian languages, art, and culture. ■

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‘A hit by all measures’

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obel Conference 46, “Making Food Good,” was a hit by all measures. Approximately 4,500 people attend the conference in person, among them 2,600 high school and college students in 80 delegations. In addition, over 2,500 from around the world viewed the lectures online, with particularly high numbers of visitors from Japan, China, Vietnam, Europe, and Trinidad and Tobago.

Professor Marion Nestle of New York University started off the conference on a high note, describing the relationships between corporate decision-making, politics, our caloric intake, and public health and nutrition. Dr. Cary Fowler of the Global Crop Diversity Trust in Rome explained the importance of maintaining crop diversity and described the construction and operation of the Svalbarg Global Seed Bank. Closing the opening-day lectures, Professor Jeff Friedman of the Rockefeller University, New York, reminded us not to judge too quickly in his talk on the biological basis of obesity, in which he described the relationship between fat tissue, the hormone leptin, and body size.

Leading off Day Two, Professor Bina Agarwal of the University of Delhi explained food issues in the Third World and the connections with gender rights and access to land. She described some encouraging solutions to the issue of food security around the world and introduced the audience to her idea of collectives. Professor Linda Bartoshuk, University of Florida, Gainesville, modeled how science is done with a demonstration of taste sensitivity and the appropriate use of scales for its measurement. Her talk also introduced the concept of “supertasters” and connected the world of taste with the world of health. Professor Paul Thompson of Michigan State University listed an inventory of food issues and suggested a combination of industrial philosophy and agrarian philosophy as a way to consider them as we search for solutions to the many food-related problems. Finally, Frances Moore Lappé offered some hope for changing the world by making use of “bold humility”, as she calls it.

She reminded the audience to” take advantage of the courage of those around us to empower ourselves to overcome the helplessness that we feel when facing the big challenges like hunger in the world.” ■

“46 and counting”—These three men hold the distinction of having attended every Nobel Conference held to date: seated, William Harvey, retired English teacher in the St. Peter school system, and Bob Peterson ’58, retired vice president for development and public relations at Gustavus; standing, Bruce Gray ’61, retired senior development associate at the College.

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Physics professor Chuck Niederriter joined the faculty in 1985 and has been director of the Nobel Conference since 2008.

Dr. Jeffrey Friedman, whose research at the Rockefeller University has identified the relationship between the hormone leptin and obesity, addressed an overflow crowd on Day One of the 46th Nobel Conference.

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Marion Nestle, Ph.D., M.P.H., was besieged by questions from high school and college students following her lecture.

Grant Wood (1891–1942), In the Spring, 1939, lithograph on paper, 9 x 12 inches (image), gift of Dr. David and Kathryn (Rydland ’71) Gilbertson.

Hillstrom Museum of Art acquires important works

by Donald Myers ’83

he Hillstrom Museum of Art has recently acquired several artworks, including an oil painting by Ashcan School leader Robert Henri (1865–1929), two lithographs

by Regionalist Grant Wood (1891–1942), and a lithograph by Henry Varnum Poor (1887– 1970).

The print by Henry Varnum Poor is a depiction of his uncle, Arthur Graham (see p. 2).

The artist explored printmaking, both lithography and etching, early in his career. Given the primacy of drawing in his work, it is not surprising that Poor’s lithographs would be so fresh and attractive as this image. It may be re-

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gretted that the artist did not continue working in printmaking, although his many roles as an easel painter, muralist, ceramicist, and architect, and his long history of teaching (which included Stanford University, the Skowhegan [Maine] School of Painting and Sculpture, and Columbia University), meant that his career was somewhat fractured. Poor himself cited this when comparing, late in life, his oeuvre in oil painting to that of other artists from his period who were more prolific in that medium.

The donors of the lithograph, Richard and Jeanne Chenault Porter, are noted scholars on Poor. Both were key contributors to Henry Varnum Poor, 1887–1970: A Retrospective Exhibition (organized by the Museum of Art at Pennsylvania State University in 1983), the

most encompassing exhibit of Poor’s work to date. The print was exhibited in conjunction with the Museum’s recent FOCUS IN/ON project featuring Autumn Still Life, an oil painting by Poor dated around 1937. That work, a donation in 2002 from the Reverend Richard L. Hillstrom ’38, was the subject of an in-depth analysis by Museum Director Donald Myers ’83 and Lisa Heldke ’82, professor of philosophy and Raymond and Florence Sponberg Chair in Ethics. The essay is available, along with previous FOCUS IN/ON projects, on the Museum’s website.

The Museum also received donation of two more of Grant Wood’s lithographs from Dr. David and Kathryn (Rydland ’71) Gilbertson.

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NEWS FROM CAMPUS Alumni art exhibition on view at the Hillstrom Museum of Art On view at the Hillstrom Museum of Art through Jan. 28, 2011, is the Alumni Invitational Art Exhibition: Ars Longa, Academia Brevis, featuring over 60 recent works by Gustavus studio art majors ranging from the class of 2009 back to the class of 1951—the earliest year students could graduate with the major.

The exhibited works are in a variety of media, including oil, acrylic, and watercolor painting, photography, sculpture in bronze, ceramics, jewelry, and mixed media. All of the College’s nearly 500 past studio art majors who have contact information with the Office of Alumni Relations were invited to participate.

Around half of the artists exhibiting are from a class from 1990 or earlier, and many of the participants have continued to be active in art since leaving Gustavus.

The exhibition’s subtitle references the first lines of an aphorism by the Greek physician Hippocrates, best known in their Latin translation, “Ars longa, vita brevis,” which suggests that art endures even though life—or, in the exhibition’s variant, the length of one’s college career—is brief.

The Alumni Invitational Art Exhibition will be on view during Christmas in Christ Chapel, and the Museum’s hours will be extended that weekend on Saturday, Dec. 4, and Sunday, Dec. 5 (1– 6 p.m.). Note that the Museum typically is closed during the holiday recess between the end of the fall semester and the beginning of January Term when students are not in residence. Please check the Museum’s website, gustavus.edu/finearts/hillstrom, for possible adjustments to the schedule.

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Fifteenth, both dating from 1939, brings the Museum’s total lithographs by Wood to 15.

The Gilbertsons own four additional lithos by the artist, which they have promised as future gifts to the Museum to eventually complete a set of all 19 of the artist’s prints.

Both In the Spring and July Fifteenth are examples of the artist’s interest in subject matter related to his early childhood on his family’s farm near Anamosa, Iowa, and his continued interest in farming throughout his career. July Fifteenth is typical of Wood’s stylized, patterned approach to the rolling, cultivated landscape of eastern Iowa. It was one of several lithographs by Wood that relate to specific months of the year. Wood seems to have envisioned a suite of all twelve months, although he only completed this print plus January (1937), February (1941), March (1941)—all donated earlier to the Museum by the Gilbertsons—and December Afternoon (1941), promised as a future gift from the donors. July Fifteenth suggests the lush fertility of the land, which will later bring an abundant harvest.

The presence of humanity is indicated by the barn visible down the hill beyond a stand of trees in the lower right, by the farmhouse in the upper left background, and also by the careful cultivation of much of the land depicted. Wood’s lithographs became a key part of his artistic output in the final five years of his career prior to his premature death from pancreatic cancer in February 1942. He made far fewer paintings during this period than in the early 1930s, when he produced numerous landscapes that take a long, bird’s-eye view like that in July Fifteenth.

Farms and farmers became a principal source for the artist beginning in the 1930s. His most famous work, the paradigmatic Regionalist painting American Gothic, was painted in 1930 and features a farm couple standing in front of their farmhouse. In 1935, just a few years before making July Fifteenth and In the Spring, Wood published an essay titled “Revolt Against the City,” an explanation of his aims for Regionalist art. In it he urged artists to embrace the life around them. For those working in the Midwest, this meant both throwing off undue influence from the East Coast and Europe on their art, and recognizing the viability of the farm and farmers as a subject matter for art. Although parts of Wood’s essay seem rather xenophobic, his attitude toward his chosen subject matter and his region was not simplistically uncritical. While noting that the Midwest farmer was proud, and that his life was “engaged in a constant conflict with natural forces” and was therefore “essentially dramatic,” Wood stated that a “true regionalist is

not a mere eulogist,” but that “he may even be a severe critic.”

In the Spring depicts a farmer resting briefly in his task of digging a long line of postholes.

Many viewers of Wood’s art tend to see a satirical intent on his part, and the larger-than-life figure in this litho has an inscrutable expression that might be read as smug. The artist, whose attitudes were generally more sophisticated than is often recognized, could easily have meant there to be a degree of ambivalence in the depiction. He shows a man who physically towers over the entire landscape, a giant overshadowing the farm, the cattle, the very earth.

At the same time, he gives the man an awkwardness to his stance, an unheroic hunch to his shoulders, and a superior quality to his gaze.

Whatever the artist’s intent in the rural subjects of In the Spring and July Fifteenth, the impact of these subtle, visually fascinating images relies on the artist’s refined sense of design, pattern, and texture. The overall effect is surprisingly timeless, a classical conception that can be compared to artworks as diverse as those of Italian Renaissance muralist Piero della Francesca (c.1406/12–1492) or modernist sculptor Constantin Brancusi (1876– 1957). In the works of Wood, as in those of these fellow artists, there is a stillness that is uncanny yet very satisfying in its reliance on patterning and abstraction.

In addition to the lithographs by Wood and the print by Poor, the Museum has also acquired a painting by Robert Henri, Holland Sky (Haarlem), a landscape from his 1907 trip abroad with students from the New York School of Art, where his career as an influential art teacher was then beginning to flourish (see p. 13). Holland was at that time a favorite spot for American artists to visit, and Haarlem, in the west of the country, was a draw because it was the birthplace of the great 17th-century Dutch master painter Frans Hals (c. 1580– 1666), one of Henri’s artistic heroes.

Henri and his students made several visits to the Halsmuseum in Haarlem, where they studied and copied works by Hals, and they had outings to sketch and paint the local scenery and inhabitants. Henri painted a number of landscapes during this stay in Haarlem, often in the open air on an easily portable panel of the type used in the Hillstrom painting. He wished to capture a spontaneous response to the environment around him, a method he tried to teach to his students, whom he admonished to “. . . work quickly. Don’t stop for anything but the essential. . . . It’s the spirit of the thing that counts.” Henri followed that approach in this painting, which is a subtle evocation of the red-roofed dwellings and dramatic,

primary directions of collecting pursued by Richard Hillstrom in forming the Hillstrom Collection was to acquire an example of work by all members of The Eight, the group that was the genesis of the Ashcan movement and that included Henri and seven artists with whom he held an alternative, anti-establishment exhibition at New York’s Macbeth Gallery in 1908. The Hillstrom Collection has works by all these artists, who also include John Sloan (1871–1951), Arthur Bowen Davies (1862–1928), Maurice Prendergast (1859–1924), Ernest Lawson (1873–1939), Everett Shinn (1976–1953), William Glackens (1870–1938), and George Luks (1867–1933).

Like Henri, John Sloan and Arthur Bowen Davies are represented in the Hillstrom Collection not only by works collected by

Hillstrom but also by ones acquired using proceeds from the Museum’s donated endowment. Any persons interested in assisting the Museum in strengthening its holdings through the acquisition of additional key works by artists of The Eight or by other related artists are encouraged to contact the Museum or the College’s Office of Institutional Advancement.

Assistance in the form of donation of appropriate artworks, of donation to the endowment, or of direct donation of acquisition funds is welcome. ■

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cloud-filled sky that characterize Haarlem and its expansive location by the sea. The painting is not labored, but is spontaneous and energetic. Instead of concentrating on detail and tightly-defined forms, the artist relied on his bravura brush work, of the sort practiced by his idol Hals, suggesting the scene with bold and fluid handling of paint laid out in broad masses of color. Henri layered the pale blues, grays, earth tones, greens, and masterful touches of brighter reds to create a rich, tactile surface that evokes transitory effects of light and air and captures the immediacy of the moment, for a wonderfully poetic work that has a monumentality far beyond its physical size.

Henri can be considered the aesthetic leader of not only the modernist Ashcan School but also of the Hillstrom Collection. One of the

Donald Myers ’83 has directed the Hillstrom Museum of Art at Gustavus Adolphus College since its opening in 2000. He is also an instructor in art history at the College.

Grant Wood (1891–1942), July Fifteenth, 1939, lithograph on paper, 9 x 12 inches (image), gift of Dr. David and Kathryn (Rydland ’71) Gilbertson.

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GUSTAVUS ON ICE 2010 Christmas in Christ Chapel: “A Renaissance Nativity”

A Renaissance Nativity Christmas in Christ Chapel 2010

9 Festival of St. Lucia, Christ Chapel, 10 a.m.; Lucia Luncheon featuring children’s author Ewa Rydåker, sponsored

by Gustavus Library Associates, Alumni Hall, 11 a.m. Reservations required; call Marketing and Communication (507933-7520) to inquire about remaining seats.

9–12 Theatre: Shakespeare Performance Showcase, directed by Amy Seham; Anderson Theatre, 8 p.m. (Dec. 9–11) and 2 p.m. (Dec. 12). Ticket required; order online at gustavustickets.com or call the Gustavus Ticket Center (507933-7590).

10 Gustavus Arts Performance Series Event: Home Again: Michael Johnson in Concert; Jussi Björling Recital Hall, 8 p.m. Ticket required; order online at gustavustickets.com or call the Gustavus Ticket Center (507-9337590).

15 Twin Cities Alumni Breakfast, featuring Neal Hagberg ’81 and Leandra Peak ’83, singer-songwriters; Doubletree Hotel, Minneapolis–Park Place (Hwy. 394 & Hwy. 100), 8 a.m. breakfast, 8:30 a.m. program. To reserve, call Alumni Relations at 800-487-8437 or e-mail alumni@gustavus.edu.

JANUARY 17 Martin Luther King Jr. Day Lecture: Bernard LaFayette, Civil Rights activist and author; Christ Chapel, 10 a.m. Open to the public without charge.

17 Martin Luther King Jr. Day Event: African America, by Warren C. Bowles, performed by Mixed Blood Theatre; Alumni Hall, 7 p.m. Open to the public without charge.

19 Twin Cities Alumni Breakfast, featuring Mike Carroll, woman’s hockey coach, and Brett Petersen, men’s hockey coach; Doubletree Hotel, Minneapolis– Park Place (Hwy. 394 & Hwy. 100), 8 a.m. breakfast, 8:30 a.m. program. To reserve, call Alumni Relations at 800487-8437 or e-mail alumni@gustavus.edu.

FEBRUARY 14–April 21 Art Exhibition: Origami by Robert J. Lang; Hillstrom Museum of Art. Open to the public without charge; regular museum hours: 9 a.m.–4 p.m., Mon.–Fri.; 1–5 p.m., Sat. & Sun. Opening reception, Feb. 14, 7–9 p.m.

14–April 21 Art Exhibition: Look! Works from the Hillstrom Collection; Hillstrom Museum of Art. Open to the public without charge; regular museum hours: 9 a.m.–4 p.m., Mon.–Fri.; 1–5 p.m., Sat. & Sun. Opening reception, Feb. 14, 7–9 p.m.

DECEMBER

Illustration by Sharon Stevenstos

Continuing through January 28, 2011 Art Exhibition: Alumni Invitational Exhibition, Hillstrom Museum of Art. Open to the public without charge; regular museum hours: 9 a.m.–4 p.m., Mon.–Fri.; 1–5 p.m., Sat. & Sun. 3, 4, & 5 Christmas in Christ Chapel: “A Renaissance Nativity,” 3:30 p.m. (Dec. 4 & 5) and 7:30 p.m. Ticket required; call Marketing & Communication (507-9337520) to inquire about remaining tickets.

7 Music: “The Winds of Christmas,” Gustavus and Vasa wind orchestras, Douglas Nimmo, conductor; Christ Chapel, 10 a.m. Open to the public without charge.

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture Bernard LaFayette

Monday, January 17, 2011 Christ Chapel | Gustavus Adolphus College

ON THE HILL

PLEASE NOTE Times and dates of the events listed on this page are subject to change.

Please call to confirm events of interest.

out charge.

16 Twin Cities Alumni Breakfast, featuring Thomas Crady, vice president for enrollment management; Doubletree Hotel, Minneapolis–Park Place (Hwy. 394 & Hwy. 100), 8 a.m. breakfast, 8:30 a.m. program. To reserve, call Alumni Relations at 800-487-8437 or e-mail alumni@gustavus.edu.

27 Gustavus Arts Performance Series: Cantus: MPR Artists-in-Residence; Jussi Björling Recital Hall, 7 p.m. Ticket required; order online at gustavustickets.com or call the Gustavus Ticket Center (507-933-7590).

MARCH 4–6 Dance: Balance Off Center: Gustavus Dance Concert, directed by Melissa Rolnick and including choreography by guest artist-in-residence Stuart Pimsler.

Anderson Theatre, 8 p.m. (March 4 & 5) and 2 p.m. (March 6). Ticket required; order online at gustavustickets.com or call the Gustavus Ticket Center (507933-7590).

6 Lecture: Physicist and origami artist Robert Lang, 2011 Rydell Professor at Gustavus Adolphus College; Alumni Hall, 7:30 p.m. Open to the public with-

At the Hillstrom Museum: Robert Henri (1865–1929), Holland Sky (Haarlem), 1907, oil on panel, 5-1/8 x 63/8 inches, Hillstrom Museum of Art acquisition.

schedules may be found on the Web, through the Gustavus homepage (gustavus.edu). For a printed schedule of any or all of the Gustie varsity athletic squads, download from the Web or send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to Tim Kennedy ’82, sports information director, Gustavus Adolphus College, 800 W. College Ave., St. Peter, MN 56082-1498. Also, you can listen to selected Gustavus athletics broadcasts over the Internet through RealAudio.

Broadcasts may be accessed through a link on Gustavus athletics website, where a broadcast schedule may also be found.

THE ARTS To receive a more complete fine arts schedule or more information on fine arts events noted in the calendar, contact Al Behrends ’77, director of fine arts programs, by phone (507933-7363) or e-mail (al@gustavus.edu).

ADDITIONAL SCHEDULES, INFORMATION AND UPDATES

SPORTS Up-to-date sports

TICKETS Tickets for the Gustavus Arts Performance Series and Department of Theatre and Dance productions may be ordered online at gustavustickets.com.

Tickets for Department of Theatre and Dance offerings are available two weeks in advance of the performance.

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THE STORIES SAY

by Carolyn O’Grady am privileged in my job to interact with students who are on their way to, or coming back from, an exhilarating study-away experience. Those who are looking ahead to their departure are both excited and scared, consumed by the details of the planning, and filled with mostly idealistic images of what they will encounter.

They don’t yet know how the experience will actually unfold for them. Those who have recently returned almost always feel they have changed in profound ways. They have both serious and lighthearted stories to tell about their experience.

Without question they have learned a lot, some of it even in a classroom. The academic learning may have been important to them (and it is certainly important to us when we do our program reviews), but it is the experiential learning that usually has the greatest impact on students.

This has become even clearer to me this semester as I read through blogs of students currently on study away, as well as reflections of alumni who studied abroad while at Gustavus. Whether the experience occurred in 1976 or 2010—and despite all the changes in the world during those 34 years—the impact off-campus study has on a person is profound, as these excerpts make clear.

To read blogs from current students on study away, go to our blog page at http://cice.blog.gustavus.edu/. And if you have a study-abroad experience to share from your time at Gustavus, please send it to us! We love to hear these stories.

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Carolyn O’Grady, professor of education, has been director of the College’s Center for International and Cultural Education since 2008; she can be reached at cogrady@gustavus.edu.

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NOTES FROM INDIA

by Annabel Landaverde ’12

LIFELONG FRIENDS

by Mark Jaeger ’77

WAIT—I’M HERE TO STUDY??

by Samuel Hemmerich ’12

Samuel is a junior majoring in biology and art. He is currently on the Lorenzo de’ Medici Institute program in Florence, Italy. Excerpts are taken from the blog he posted Oct. 4, 2010.

Now, I know a very good reason to study abroad is to simply get the cultural experience and do something you’ll never have a chance to ever do again in your life. For me, that was just one small reason to study abroad. The main factor that influenced my decision was continued on page 16

Landaverde, a junior political science major, hails from San Francisco. She is studying this fall on the Gustavus/Concordia program Social Justice, Peace, and Development: Semester in India. Students are based at Visthar, an NGO located outside the city of Bangalore.

These excerpts are taken from longer posts written between August 20 and October 10, 2010.

The air in Bangalore is thick and humid, just like it is in Minnesota. The end of monsoon season brings showers to cool off the 80-degree heat that makes the ever-lingering mosquitoes stick to me even more. It’s hard to believe that I am finally in India, a country that is deeply rooted in tradition but is rapidly Westernizing all at once. I see men walking down the red dirt roads in polished collars and jeans at the same time that I see women in saris whizzing by on old motorcycles. Oh, and let’s not forget the

Coming off a tough fall semester of my junior year at Gustavus in 1975 and feeling defeated academically, I faced the dilemma of forging ahead to salvage my college career on campus or taking some time off from school to reassess my goals and purpose for being there. A good friend proposed a third option—study abroad—after she had spent a semester at Kansai Gaidai University in Japan two years earlier in the inaugural years of a student exchange program with Gustavus. This seemed an appealing and reasonable alternative that would allow me to stay enrolled at Gustavus while gaining new perspective on my educational goals in a vastly different setting. After close scrutiny of my academic standing and intentions by the selection committee, the head of the International Studies Department at the time, Dr. Melva Lind, approved my application

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all the knowledge I’d gain in the art world. I was really excited for classes to start and the continued from page 15 experience to finally begin!

As I signed up for classes last May, I strategically chose classes I felt I’d learn more about by taking them in Italy, or ones not offered at Gustavus. After much deliberation I ended up choosing Intro to Pastels, Basic Printmaking, Intermediate Analytical Figure and Object Drawing, Art History 101, and (had to take this…) Italian. As the first WAIT—I’M HERE TO STUDY??

It’s monotonous, messy, and NOT accurate. However, it’s outside of my comfort zone, and I have created a few drawings I’m proud of. I’m super interested to see where this class takes me.

As for printmaking, things are a bit better than pastels. Lucy, our professor, is very understanding but somehow pushes all of us to our limit.

Drawing is continuing to be my favorite class. We have had a different model both weeks thus far and have spent the two hours sketching her face. Art history is boring, but I expected that. However, this next week we’re taking our first of six field trips to a museum in Florence! I am very excited for the change of pace and firmly believe this will change the direction of this class. As for Italian, I am slowly learning the essentials of the language. Spanish definitely helps. Actually, if you know how to do conjugations in any language, you are already five steps ahead of someone who knows only English. My prof for the class is bubbly and passionate about Italian, which helps a ton.

Overall, classes are amazing and I could not be any happier! I am drawing, sketching, etching, and loving every second of it! Best. Semester. Ever.

cows that chill on the side of the roads when continued from page 15 they’re not busy walking across them.

Friends have asked me, “Annabel, why India?” Really though, why not? Anyone who knows me already knows that I love going on adventures, occasionally getting into trouble, and discovering the unknown. India is the fastest developing democracy in the world right now and is one of the leading powers in Asia. India-based companies, namely from the software engineering industry, are growing at an incredible rate, allowing India to rise as a significant trader in the global market. Yet the fact still remains that there is a huge gap between the rich and the poor. Of a billion-person population, a hefty majority still live on less than $2 a day.

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Samuel Hemmerich and friends, in Florence, Italy

week of classes drew closer, the more excited I became.

The first week of classes was very similar to classes back in the states.

However, one class stuck out from the rest as both terrifying and exhilarating: Intermediate Analytical Figure and Object Drawing! It was my last class of the week, and I was (at the outset) the most excited for this particular course. I’ve never studied the human body from a physical point of view (oh, I know all about the digestive system and the makeup of macromolecules and such…). Therefore I went into the first session of this class with a positive mindset.

Pastels (my least favorite class so far) consists of an elementary stilllife class in which we use an intuitive/layering approach to pastels. Basically we draw what we see in monotones and then add layers slowly.

A sample of Sam’s work during his “Florence period”

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Yesterday we were given 30 rupees to feed ourselves for the entire day as we traveled into Bangalore for a city tour. We were challenged to live a few hours like most of the Indian population does.

In fact, we were told that most people who live in slums live on 20 rupees a day. To put it in perspective, there are roughly 46 rupees to the American dollar. I spent 14 rupees on breakfast alone. The day had barely started and I already spent about half of my rupees. Now imagine having only 20 rupees for food, water, clothing housing, etc. It’s impossible, yet the majority of Indians live in that manner.

During the first part of our Bangalore tour we found ourselves in a relatively affluent area of apartments and condos with clean motorcycles parked outside. It was only a two-minute walk from there to the railroad tracks that separated the bustling city from the slum that stood on the other side. It was its own city within the confines of Bangalore. The smell of garbage lingered in the air as we walked around the neighborhood. Surprisingly, we were greeted with the smiles and laughter of the children eager to see white people. Some parents would wave and say hi while others just stared as all 16 of us passed. Stray dogs roamed everywhere. Yet I didn’t get the feeling of pure misery as I was walking through. Maybe that was because they

were excited to see a group so foreign in their environment. Or perhaps they were proud that we acknowledged the slum’s existence.

Whatever the case may be, no one came up to us and begged for food or money as we have become accustomed to in the streets of Bangalore. Rather, children ran up to us to shake our hands and greet us and adults shared their stories if we asked.

The irony of the day came when we left the slum. After a fiveminute taxi-ride, we were suddenly in downtown Bangalore at one of the bigger malls. There was a Puma, a Baskin Robbins, a Staples among other familiar names. With only 16 rupees in my pocket, I had no choice but to window shop for the hour we were there because a cookie cost 30 rupees. I felt ridiculous at the mall. I started out the day in a community of abject poverty and here I was in a reality that is only available to the top 20 percent of the Indian population. As Debbie, the German intern at Visthar put it, “India is the country of contrasts.” I couldn’t agree more. . . .

Our group has the general sense that although we may not know what to expect from our time in India, the courses of our lives will be forever altered. I am in India for a reason. And despite the fact that I haven’t the slightest clue of what career or careers I want, I know that what I learn on this trip and from the people I am with here will shape my thoughts and future aspirations.

This Indian farmer pictured with Annabel Landaverde works with the Rural Agency for Social and Technological Advancement (http://www.rastaindia.org/), an NGO in Kerala state.

for study in Japan the fall semester of 1976.

Equipped with one semester continued from page 15 of Japanese language taught at Gustavus by exchange professor Takeo Fuji, I departed August 30 with four fellow Gusties for a semester of study near Osaka, Japan. A week after arriving at Kansai Gaidai University, we met our assigned host families and moved into their homes after brief interviews to assess compatibility. I would spend the next four months as a member of the Etsuo Yoda family, which included his wife, Sachiko, and sons Kohei and Shohei. Little did I realize that those four months were the beginning of a lifelong bond and a lasting intrigue with Japanese culture.

Since that first sojourn in Japan, the close relationship with the Yoda family has continued to grow. We have kept in close contact through letters Mark (center) with the Yodas in 1976 and regular trips across the ocean. We have shared life’s triumphs and disappointments and had long discussions on issues of global significance to the mundane of daily living. The friendship began to expand long ago to include my wife, Mary (Hannon ’77), our parents, children, and many Gustavus friends who have hosted visits or also traveled to Japan.

Our family has had the pleasure of hosting eight visiting Japanese high school students and teachers over the past several years through a local sister-city exchange program, which has provided many opportunities for reciprocal learning.

The lasting relationships, learning opportunities and new friendships created by this early international experience are testament to the success and mission of Gustavus Adolphus College and the Center for International and Cultural Education. ■ LIFELONG FRIENDS

Mark Jaeger ’77, who works with Goodhue County Court Services, lives with his family in Red Wing, Minn.

Mark ’77 and Mary (Hannon ’77) Jaeger with his parents and the Yodas in 2009

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Takes Shape LEADERSHIP IN ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN (LEED) STRATEGIES

BUILDING AREA DEPARTMENT Communication Studies Economics & Management History Psychology Sociology & Anthropology Campus/Classrooms

7,169 SF 3,452 2,109 14,750 1,736 26,002

Unassigned (Basement) Support Circulation

18,628 21,629 30,025

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SITE Minimize site disturbance Maximize open space Cool white roof Reduced light pollution WATER 30% water use reduction ENERGY & ATMOSPHERE Enhanced commissioning of systems 44% energy savings Refrigerant management MATERIALS & RESOURCES Occupant recycling 75% construction waste ** FSC certified wood

Stormwater management Reduce and shade hardscape Bicycle storage

Water efficient landscaping / Use of native plants Measurement/verification of systems ** Use of green power ** On-site renewable energy ** Photovoltaic panels 20% or more regional materials 10% recycled content materials

INDOOR ENVIRONMENT QUALITY / THERMAL COMFORT Low-emitting materials Occupant control of lighting Construction IAQ management Occupant control of mechanical Isolate chemical sources Extensive daylighting LEED Goal: Gold Certification or higher **Items being considered

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CONSTRUCTION WORK PROCEEDS on Gustavus Adolphus College’s newest educational facility, which is expected to be completed by September 2011. The 125,000 sq. ft. building is slated to house offices, classrooms, and resources for the Departments of Communication Studies, Economics and Management, History, Psychology, and Sociology and Anthropology. It claims a strong presence along the northern edge of the campus’s emerging West Mall.

To encourage collaboration and community, the building’s design features a looped circulation pattern, providing additional opportunities for informal student-faculty interaction. A three-story atrium also enhances the educational experience, serving as a focused gathering place and allowing abundant natural light. Sustainable design strategies (see accompanying chart) will offer value and efficiency and promote a commitment to stewardship. ■

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About the Edgar M. Carlson Award The College’s highest accolade for teaching excellence is the Edgar M. Carlson Award for Distinguished Teaching. Nominations typically include examples and details that might illustrate: • The nominated faculty member’s excellence in his/her discipline; • The faculty member’s success in generating enthusiasm, insight, and thought in classrooms, studios, and laboratories; • Practices that show the faculty member to be creative, stimulating, or responsive; • Teaching that is especially collaborative, supportive, or innovative; • Mentoring and advising that inspire academic excellence; • The nominee’s support for student research, scholarship, and creativity; and • The basis of the nominator’s special respect for the nominee’s teaching.

Recipients over the past 10 years have been: 2010 – Leila Brammer (communication studies) 2009 – Rick Orpen (music) 2008 – Richard Leitch (political science) 2007 – Claude Brew (English) 2006 – Paul Saulnier (physics) 2005 – Robert Gardner (theatre and dance) 2004 – Lisa Heldke (philosophy) 2003 – Cindy Johnson (biology) 2002 – Max Hailperin (computer science) 2001 – Gretchen Hofmeister (chemistry)

The Mission of the John S. Kendall Center for Engaged Learning

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‘What the best teachers do’ — Kendall Center stages Faculty Development Day

by Margaret Bloch Qazi hat did your best teachers do? Did they give inspiring lectures? Were they easy graders? Maybe they learned your name and expressed interest in you as an individual when you were in a large lecture class. Perhaps you were invited into scholarly conversations that helped you develop a deeper conceptual understanding of a topic. Did your teachers help awaken in you an interest in a topic that you continued to explore long after you left their classes? While the question “What makes a teacher good?” is simple, the answer is remarkably complex.

Seeking the answer, more than 80 Gustavus faculty members gathered to participate in the John S. Kendall Center-sponsored Faculty Development Day, an annual early-fall event that explores issues related to engaged student learning and best practices for educators.

“What do the best teachers do?” The question of most effective teaching practices is frequently asked by educators and studied by scholars. It formed the central theme of the Faculty Development Day plenary session.

The plenary was facilitated by a panel of Gustavus faculty who were recent Edgar M. Carlson Award recipients (see box at left): Professor Leila Brammer (communication studies), Associate Professor Richard Leitch (political science and environmental studies), Professor Rick Orpen (music), and Professor Paul Saulnier (physics).

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Acknowledging the high quality of the teachers in the audience, the plenary panel turned the tables by asking their colleagues a pair of provocative questions: When you were in college, what teaching practices do you remember as being particularly effective in helping you learn?” and “What did ineffectual teachers do?” What followed was a lively discussion as faculty participants thought back to their college days and shared what they had experienced to be better and worse teaching practices.

The resulting discussion generated many ideas and examples. However, several common themes of best teaching practices emerged, including showing passion and respect for subject matter and students, engaging students in questions that mattered to the students, and being organized in their approach to student learning yet flexible enough to make use of “teachable moments”—those unplanned times when an opportunity for learning presents itself. Members of the panel then invited reflection by asking the assembled faculty what their students would say about each of them, thereby offering an opportunity to explore areas in need of strengthening. Before the hour was through, the panel shared their opinions on “best” teaching practices. These included engaging students, treating students as individuals, respecting each student’s educational journey by modeling what they want their

“The John S. Kendall Center for Engaged Learning supports faculty in achieving their potential as teachers and scholars. Responsive to the professional needs and interests of each faculty member, the Kendall Center includes support for teaching initiatives and faculty research, scholarship, and creativity, and provides on-campus opportunities for focused conversation on pedagogy, assessment of student learning, and collaboration among colleagues. Through its support of such opportunities, the Kendall Center fosters the pursuit of teaching and scholarly excellence throughout all stages of each faculty member’s career and for all Gustavus students.” ~ from the John S. Kendall Center for Engaged Learning Strategic Plan (2/13/09)

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Recent Edgar M. Carlson Award recipients (from left, Leila Brammer, Paul Saulnier, Richard Leitch, and Rick Orpen) made up a panel at the plenary session of Faculty Development Day, discussing “What some of our best college teachers do.”

Student summer research grows

by Brandy Russell

tudents and teachers are engaged in research, scholarship, and creative work year-round on the Gustavus campus.

During the academic year, students may conduct projects as part of a class, independent study, or capstone project for their major. In the summer, no classes are held on campus but a number of students and their faculty advisers and mentors stick around for the lively summer research community. Interest in summer research is growing, and this past summer saw the College’s largest group yet, with 45 Gustavus students and 24 faculty members participating in student-faculty research on campus in 11 different academic departments, representing the humanities, performing arts, sciences, and social sciences.

Support for these projects comes from alumni gifts as well as a number of significant internal and external grants. Several students and faculty members from chemistry, physics, political science, religion, and theatre/dance received support from Gustavus’s Presidential Faculty-Student Collaboration Grants. Recent awards from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Merck Institute for Science Education, the National Science Foundation, and other funding agencies supported a number of science students.

Although the Gustavus campus is much more quiet in the summer, the atmosphere in the summer research community is vibrant and engaging. Students and faculty get together often to share research plans, progress, and results. Science researchers meet every Wednesday for student research presentations. Students and faculty from across campus are starting a new tradition of hosting salons to discuss topics related to their research interests. Weekly socials, pick-up sports games, canoe trips, group lunches, game nights, picnics, and more help to build a sense of community among the group. ■

S Faculty engaged in small-group discussions about effective teaching practices. students to accomplish, having fun with course material and the learning environment, and continuously exploring and experimenting with different approaches to teaching.

With a strong opening that modeled engaged teaching and learning, additional sessions, led by Gustavus faculty from a variety of departments, explored a number of ways to develop skills and enthusiasm for lifelong learning. Faculty explored how to use campus resources, such as the Folke Bernadotte Memorial Library staff and resources, to help students go beyond locating texts in the stacks in developing research skills. Other sessions explored structuring classes in general and assignments in particular to more clearly identify learning goals, developing assignments and activities to engage students in authentic and intellectually engaging ways, and modeling appropriate scholarly habits to help students learn appropriate ways to incorporate information into their own work.

The sessions themselves were models of scholarly teaching, as they explored questions that matter deeply to faculty, incorporated results from recent studies on student learning, used new technologies (e.g., podcasts, clickers, and the like) and were full of questions and lively discussion. The sessions allowed faculty to share challenges encountered in student learning, discuss implications of the results for their own teaching, and then explore ways to modify and revise their practices to more effectively engage students in the learning experience.

Faculty Development Day is not the only opportunity Gustavus teachers have to explore and evaluate models of effective teaching.

With the support of Gustavus alumni and friends, the John S. Kendall Center for Engaged Learning coordinates several programs aimed at supporting faculty scholarship and student learning. During the course of the academic year, faculty members have multiple opportunities to join each other for lunchtime

conversations about such topics as student writing and using technology, as well as the art and science of teaching. Faculty members who are new to Gustavus can participate in a welldeveloped orientation and mentoring program. Undergraduate involvement in research, scholarship, and creative inquiry is supported through internal grants and special programming and culminates in the campuswide, student-focused Celebration of Creative Inquiry.

Faculty and departments are also able to apply for mini-grants to learn about and develop new pedagogical approaches. Gustavus offers many opportunities to help faculty develop into even more effective teachers, and many among the faculty here take advantage of the opportunity. To learn more about John S. Kendall Center activities and offerings, visit gustavus.edu/kendallcenter/.

So, what do the best college teachers do?

In a book of the same title, Dr. Ken Bain describes the results of a study on the attitudes and practices of the most effective college and university instructors. Based on study results, Bain concludes, “Great teachers are not simply great speakers or discussion leaders; they are, more fundamentally, special kinds of scholars and thinkers, leading intellectual lives that focus on learning, both theirs and their students’. Their attention to the details of performance stems from a concern for the learners, and their focus is on the nature and processes of learning rather than on the performance of the instructor.” (What the Best College Teachers Do, p. 134.) What do the best teachers do? At Gustavus, they never stop learning. ■

Margaret Bloch Qazi, Ph.D., is an associate professor of biology at Gustavus and director of the Kendall Center for Engaged Learning.

Assistant professor of chemistry Brandy Russell, Ph.D., is faculty associate for undergraduate research at the Kendall Center for Engaged Learning.

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SPORTS NOTES NINE INDUCTED INTO ATHLETICS HALL OF FAME

by Tim Kennedy ’82 ustavus Adolphus College inducted nine new members into its Athletics Hall of Fame at a banquet held on campus on Oct. 9. Eight were inducted as student-athletes and one—Evie Cieslar Erdman ’73—as a benefactor of the College’s gymnastics program. With the addition of the Class of 2010, the Hall of Fame now includes 231 athletes, 13 coaches, and 5 benefactors. The new inductees are:

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Erik Allen ’92

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Erik Allen ’92 (men’s basketball) – A versatile and athletic post player who was as dangerous on the perimeter as he was in the paint, Erik Allen was a key component of the Gustie basketball program as it moved back into the national spotlight in the early 1990s. A four-year standout who played in all 112 games during his career, Allen graduated as the seventh leading scorer in the program’s history with 1,528 points, while also ranking fourth in career field goals (624), fourth in career field-goal percentage (.550), and eighth in career rebounds (605). He helped the Gusties claim conference titles in 1991 and 1992 and win league playoff titles in 1989 and 1992. In his senior season, he was tri-captain of a Gustie squad that won the MIAC regular season title with a record of 15–5 and then went on to win the MIAC post-season tournament and advance to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA tournament.

Allen has worked with Boulay, Heutmaker, Zibell & Co. Certified Public Accountants for the past 18 years, becoming a partner in 2002. He and his wife, Susan (Larson ’92), live in Shakopee with their three children, Jackson, Brooks, and Lillian.

Pete Anderson ’92 (men’s golf) – A standout performer for the Gustavus men’s golf team during the “Golden Era” of Gustie golf in the early 1990s, Pete Anderson tied for first individually at the NCAA championships in 1991 with an impressive 72-hole total of 78-74-72-76–300, but was edged out in a playoff for medalist honors. His efforts sparked the Gusties to their second consecutive runner-up finish. A year later, Anderson would help the Gusties claim their third consecutive second-place finish at the national tournament. He was also a member of two MIAC championship teams, posting secondplace individual finishes in both 1990 and 1991. A two-time all-conference and two-time All-America honoree, he has recorded four of the lowest 18-hole rounds in the program’s history. He and his grandfather, Ren Anderson ’34, are the only grandfather-grandson tandem in the Hall of Fame to date.

Anderson played golf professionally for the eight years before returning to Minnesota in 2002 to begin a career in the mortgage banking business. He is currently a financial adviser with Ameriprise Financial in the Twin Cities metro area. He and his wife, Jill, live in Chanhassen with their two sons, Jack and Will.

Leigh Stocker Berger ’92 (volleyball) – The most productive outside hitter in the history of the Gustavus volleyball program, Leigh Stocker Berger shredded opponents with her laser-like kills from 1988 to 1991. The all-time leader in career kill percentage at 28.5 percent, she converted 1,644 kills (which ranks second all-time at Gustavus) in 4,287 attempts with just 418 errors in 155 matches. In her senior season, Berger led the MIAC and set the school record for attack percentage in a season at 36.0 percent. She also set the school record for kills in a match with 33 against St. Scholastica on September 13, 1991. A four-year starter and co-captain her junior and senior seasons, Berger was named to the all-conference team in both 1990 and 1991 as well as being honored as a First Team AllRegion selection in 1991.

These days, Berger volunteers at the Blake School (where her children attend) while also coaching youth soccer and volleyball. She lives in Chanhassen with her children, Makenna, Adam, and Cameron.

Heidi Rostberg Carlson ’93 (women’s tennis) – One of the most tenacious competitors in the history of the women’s tennis program, Heidi Rostberg Carlson simply refused to lose when her teammates needed her most during her standout career. The legend began in the spring of 1990, when she broke a bone in her thumb in the conference tournament but then quickly taught herself how to hit with a one-hand backhand, going on to post a perfect record in NCAA championship team play (4–0 in singles and 4–0 in doubles), including the deciding doubles point with partner Molly McCormick ’93 to help Gustavus win the national championship. Carlson helped the Gusties advance to the national championship match three times in her four-year career. A two-time All-American (1992, 1993) and four-time MIAC singles champion, she compiled a career mark of 93–32 in singles and 87–17 in doubles.

Since graduating in 1993 Carlson has served as the assistant women’s tennis coach at Gustavus.

She and her husband, Jon ’88, live in St. Peter with their three daughters, Calleigh, Grace, and Josie.

Evie Cieslar Erdman ’73 (benefactor) – In the early 1970s, Evie Cieslar Erdman was a balance beam and floor exercise specialist on Gustavus gymnastics teams that placed eighth in 1971 and tenth in 1972 at the Division For Girls and Women in Sports (DGWS) National Championships. She was named the team’s co-Most Valuable Gymnast in 1972. During those four years “on the Hill” Erdman developed a passion for Gustavus and its gymnastics program, which started a friendship that has lasted for over 40 years. She has volunteered her time to help in virtually every aspect of the Gustavus gymnastics program over the past four decades. As a meet organizer, she has served as the director for numerous state and regional competitions hosted by Gustavus. Erdman, a veteran rules clinician and judge, has trained over 70 Gustie gymnasts who have gone on to become high school and collegiate officials throughout the Upper Midwest.

Since 1980, Erdman has focused her energies on officiating gymnastics at the high school and collegiate levels. She lives in Elysian, Minn., with her husband, Steve.

Erik Hendrikson ’94 (football and men’s hockey) – A quiet but fierce competitor on the football field and the hockey rink, Erik Hendrikson was a hard-hitting linebacker on the football team and a punishing defenseman on the hockey team from 1990 to 1994. One of only a handful of athletes in the history of the Gustavus athletics program to play every contest in two sports for four years, Hendrikson was a three-time all-MIAC performer in football and a two-time selection in hockey. In football, he finished his career ranked second all-time in solo tackles with 119 and second in total tackles with 266. In his senior season, he set the school record for tackles in a season with 122. In hockey, the savvy defenseman played in 107 games, scoring 31 goals and registering 36 assists for 67 points. He was named a Second Team All-America selection after the 1992–93 season. A natural leader who was highly regarded by his teammates, Hendrikson served as captain of both the football and hockey teams in his senior year.

Today Hendrikson serves as president of Tradition Mortgage, a company he helped start in 1998. He and his wife, Leah, live in Edina with their three daughters, Eva, Gwen, and Lily.

Duke Paluch ’84 (men’s tennis) – An athletic singles and doubles player with a high-powered serveand-volley game, Duke Paluch was a two-time All-American on the dominant Gustavus men’s tennis teams of the early 1980s. As a freshman (1981), he won the MIAC #1 doubles crown with Per Ekstam ’84 and the NAIA District 13 doubles title with John Gambucci ’81. In his junior season (1983), Paluch earned First Team All-America honors with doubles partner Mark Kruger ’86 as the unseeded duo advanced to the semifinals of the NAIA doubles draw before falling to the eventual national champions in three thrilling sets. Paluch saved his best for last as he played #1 singles and #1 doubles on a squad that finished second at the NCAA championships and sixth at the NAIA national tournament in the spring of 1984, earning All-America honors for a second year with doubles partner Kruger.

Paluch is a Certified Level 1 Tennis Professional with the United States Professional Tennis Association and he is currently pursuing Master Professional designation, which is the highest professional rating in the tennis profession.

Paige Tierney Sullivan ’95 (women’s soccer) – The most prolific scorer in the history of the women’s soccer program, Paige Tierney Sullivan used her goal-scoring ability to kick the Gusties onto the national soccer scene in the early 1990s. During her four-year career, she tallied 56 goals and 19 assists for 131 points, shattering the school records for career goals and points while also setting marks for goals in a season (24) and points in a season (58). She earned all-conference and all-region honors in 1992, 1993, and 1994. In her junior and senior seasons, she led the team and conference in scoring as the Gusties posted a perfect 20–0–0 MIAC record, winning back-to-back league crowns and earning the program’s first-ever NCAA berth in 1993. In her senior season, Sullivan scored 24 goals and registered 10 assists for 58 points in 17 games, earning NSCAA Third Team All-America honors while helping the team post a 15–3–0 record.

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Angela White Vick ’92

Since 2003, Sullivan has been at home raising her two daughters, Tierney and Parker, while also doing some freelance graphic design work. She, her husband, Casey, and their daughters live in Anchorage, Alaska.

Angela White Vick ’92 (women’s track & field) – The first two-time All-America performer in the history of the women’s track and field program, Angela White Vick was one of the premier discus throwers in Division III from 1989 to 1992. She wasted no time in making a name for herself, as she won the MIAC discus title in her first year at Gustavus (1989) with an effort of 142 feet 7 inches and went on to place third at the NCAA outdoor championships. She finished second at the MIAC outdoor meet and tenth at the NCAA championships in both her sophomore and junior seasons. In her senior season, Vick added another runner-up finish in the discus at the MIAC championships and then concluded her career with a third-place finish at the NCAA championships, breaking her own school record in the process with a distance of 152 feet, 2 inches. Her mark stood for 17 years before being broken in 2009. She was the first track and field athlete at Gustavus to qualify for the NCAA championships in four consecutive seasons.

Since 2007 Vick has taught in the Anoka-Hennepin school district. She and her husband, Darrin, live in Brooklyn Park with their three children, Jared, Ethan, and Kaylee. ■ Tim Kennedy ’82 has been sports information director at Gustavus since 1990.

MACKLEY, MARTINSON NAMED ATHLETES OF THE YEAR ustavus student-athletes Melissa Mackley, a hockey player from Burnsville, Minn., and David Martinson, a hockey player from St. Louis Park, Minn., have been named the 2009–10 Female and Male Student-Athletes of the Year at Gustavus Adolphus College. Mackley and Martinson, the tenth annual recipients of the Athlete of the Year awards, were selected from a group of 20 candidates (9 men and 11 women) who either were named one of nine Athletes of the Month during the past school year or were placed on the ballot by their head coach as a result of being their team’s Most Valuable Player.

The winners are determined by a vote of the 15 Gustavus head coaches.

Mackley was a four-year regular at forward on the Gustavus women’s hockey team and a First Team All-America honoree in both 2009 and 2010.

She completed her career ranked ninth all-time in career scoring at Gustavus with 33 goals and 69 assists for 102 points. Mackley played in all 114 games the Gusties played during her career, and her 69 career assists rank fourth all-time. During the 2009–10 season, Mackley scored a career-high 30 points (12 goals and 18 assists) and was captain of a Gustavus squad that went 22–6–2 and finished fourth at the NCAA Division III national championship. Mackley majored in biology and graduated Melissa Mackley Phi Beta Kappa with a 3.96 grade point average.

She was a 2009 CoSIDA Academic All-America honoree and was also selected to receive an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship. She plans to pursue a medical degree at the University of Minnesota.

Martinson, the 2010 American Hockey Coaches Association (AHCA) Division III Player of the Year, was a three-year standout for the Gustavus men’s hockey team. During the 2009–10 season, Martinson helped the Gusties claim their first regular-season title since 1993 with a league mark of 12–2–2 and led the nation in goal-scoring with 29 goals in 29 games. The two-time First Team All-America seDavid Martinson lection led the MIAC in scoring with 23 goals and

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13 assists for 36 points and was named the MIAC Player of the Year.

Martinson compiled 76 goals and 55 assists for 131 points in 85 career contests. His 0.89 career goals per game average ranks third all-time at Gustavus, and his 1.54 career points per game ranks fourth all-time.

In the classroom, Martinson compiled a cumulative grade point average of 3.75 with a major in accounting. He was a 2009 CoSIDA Academic All-America honoree and was chosen to receive an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship. ■

FINALISTS The 11 finalists for the Gustavus Female Athlete of the Year were: Taylor Drenttel, Eagan, Minn., sophomore, golf Kali Griggs, Burnsville, Minn., senior, golf Carrie Gundersen, Minnetonka, Minn., senior, swimming Janey Helland, Mapleton, Minn., junior, track and field Lindsey Hjelm, Minnetonka, Minn., first-year, hockey Sierra Krebsbach, North Oaks, Minn., senior, tennis Kaelene Lundstrum, Bird Island, Minn., senior, track and field Melissa Mackley, Burnsville, Minn., senior, hockey Carley Mosher, Great Falls, Mont., first-year, swimming Bri Radtke, Winsted, Minn., senior, basketball Katie Schenfeld, Indianola, Iowa, junior, golf The nine finalists for Gustavus Male Athlete of the Year were: Mark Adams, Waukee, Iowa, sophomore, soccer Brian Anderson, Bloomington, Minn., senior, track and field Jens Brabbit, Winona, Minn., junior, nordic skiing Skylar Davis, Palatine, Ill., senior, swimming Kendrick Hall, Minneapolis, Minn., first-year, football Max Hanson, Montrose, Minn., senior, track and field David Martinson, St. Louis Park, Minn., senior, hockey Ryan McPartland, Le Sueur, Minn., senior, basketball Tony Palma, Lino Lakes, Minn., senior, football

Legacy ONLINE RESOURCES

DONORS SUPPORT SABBATICAL LEAVES

By Paul Tillquist ’63

At Gustavus Adolphus College, students perform “The Four Seasons,” titrate solutions, and analyze King Lear. They perform plays, write lab reports and critical essays, research history, and think through ethical dilemmas . . . The goals [of a liberal arts education] are simple: to help students attain their full human potential and to develop in them a passion for learning throughout their lives. . . .

Their best models and mentors are their professors . . . And the goals for the faculty are equally simple: to fulfill their potential as teachers, scholars, artists, and researchers and to continually learn in order to be more thoughtfully engaged in and responsible for their students’ learning. *

t was in this context that William and Marilyn Ryerse engaged Paul Tillquist ’63 of the Office of Institutional Advancement in a conversation about how they could support faculty to more fully achieve their goals as teachers. Academic fields continually develop and change. Bill and Marilyn recognized that sabbatical leaves provide opportunities for faculty to read, research, and converse with other scholars to share discoveries, and then present and publish their ideas. However, sabbatical leaves can often consume more financial resources than are normally available to support desired outcomes. The Ryerses decided to focus their philanthropy on providing resources specifically to support sabbatical leaves. An outright gift created the William and Marilyn Ryerse Sabbatical Endowment Fund. Earnings from the endowment fund provide stipends to allow faculty to creatively plan their sabbaticals.

Recipients of the stipend in the last two years represent several departments, including biology, English, psychology, history, and chemistry. Sabbatical research covers a broad range of interests. Eric Eliason, English, has been in Sweden doing research on Scandinavian literature including the culture of the Sami. Sujay Rao, history, in preparation for completion of a book manuscript, researched and wrote short articles on conflicts in Argentina. Michael Ferragamo, biology and neuroscience, is focusing his research on systems-level neuroscience; he has a special interest in understanding the science of the neurodegenerative Parkinson’s disease. Janine Wotton, psychology, is focusing on how auditory systems enable animals and humans to perform everyday tasks (e.g., how do humans distinguish one word or voice from another?). She will spend time with colleagues at

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Boston University and the University of Minnesota to enrich the outcomes of her project. Margaret Bloch Qazi, biology, had several goals for her sabbatical, including understanding the movement and fate of cells in the developmental process. She also spent time in revising and revitalizing new technologies for the classroom.

The stipends support continued enhancement of professors’ expertise, not only for their own erudition but also to bring new ideas and technologies back to the classroom. As parents of a Gustie (Mac ’87 and his wife Mary Sutherland Ryerse ’90) and grandparents of another (Katie Ryerse ’00), Bill and Marilyn have long recognized the commitment to help Gustavus students attain their full potential as persons, to develop in them a capacity and passion for lifelong learning, and to prepare them in ways that will result in lives that count. An important ingredient to accomplish these goals is a well-informed faculty maintaining professional skills. For more information about how you also can support faculty development initiatives, please contact advancement@gustavus.edu. ■

Have you looked at the “Giving to Gustavus” website lately? Just enter gustavus.edu/giving. The list of resources includes: • Staff to contact for personal assistance • Secure online giving and other electronic giving options.

• Matching gift database—will your company match your gift?

• Information on giving stock and other appreciated assets • Suggestions on giving for scholarships, both annual and endowed • Planned and estate giving resources— everything you need at gustavus.edu/giving/plannedgiving /index.cfm • Recommended language for including Gustavus in a will or estate plan • Financial and estate planning ideas, and gifts that pay you (with a “gift calculator” to help your planning) • E-brochures on planned gifts, wills, estate planning, to study on your own or to take to your financial adviser • The Honor Roll of Donors, at gustavus.edu/giving/honorroll.

* * * * From “The Faculty ‘Tool Shed,’” an article about the John S. Kendall Center for Engaged Learning by Laura Behling, former English professor and co-director of the Kendall Center, appearing in the Winter 2007–08 issue of the Gustavus Quarterly, p. 13.

Starting in the late 1960s Paul Tillquist ’63 has served in admissions, the academic dean’s office, and more recently the institutional advancement area of Gustavus Adolphus College. He is currently an executive consultant in the gift planning area of institutional advancement.

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DOES YOUR LEGACY INCLUDE GUSTAVUS? Your legacy gift can help “Give the Gift of Gustavus to Students for Generations.”

An attorney or financial planner can help you leave your legacy using the following: “I, [name], of [city, state, ZIP], give and bequeath to Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minnesota, [percentage of estate, specific amount, or description of property] for its unrestricted use and purpose [or specify purpose].” For ideas, visit the Gustavus website at gustavus.edu, clicking on “Giving to Gustavus” and then “Planned (and Estate) Giving Resources.”

LEADERSHIP EVENT RECOGNIZES PHILANTHROPIC SUPPORT On Sept. 23, 2010, President Jack and Kris Ohle hosted the 2010 Leadership Dinner in Alumni Hall. This event brought together Gustavus alumni, parents, and friends who have shown significant leadership in the Gustavus community through their philanthropic contributions to the College. Guests had an opportunity to hear the unique story of Lonnie Ellis ’03, former pastoral associate of social justice at the Saint Thomas More Catholic Church in St. Paul, Minn. Lonnie, who is now a theology student in Washington, D.C., shared his journey from childhood to Gustavus, and from Gustavus to where he is today. He spoke of the strong impact his Gustie experience had on him, and how it would have never been possible without the scholarship support he received. Helping to share his story were Richard Leitch, associate professor of political science and Lonnie’s mentor; Ardena L. Flippin ’68, M.D., member of the Gustavus Board of Trustees; and Arline Datu, a member of the Saint Thomas More community who worked closely with Lonnie on some important social justice projects.

The gala was also an opportunity for Gustavus to recognize and thank guests for their leadership and support, particularly those who are members of the Gustavus Founders Society.

President Ohle welcomed this year’s new members into the Society, presenting them with the traditional framed portrait of Old Main.

About that envelope . . .

Enclosed in this Quarterly is a Gustavus Annual Fund envelope. Your participation in the Gustavus Annual Fund provides scholarship dollars to many of our students. It is with these dollars that students are able to complete research, study abroad, grow in their faith, and ultimately obtain a Gustavus education. With your help, we can continue to give the gift of a Gustavus education to many qualified students. Please consider making your most generous gift today.

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Louvers looming large

Jonathan Granlund ’81, presidential project manager at Shaw/Stewart Lumber Company, St. Paul, is dwarfed by some of the nearly 400 panels he helped to fabricate last summer for the Minnesota Twins’ Target Field. He headed up the “Glue Team” for the project, making up 16-inch by 23-foot blanks from FSC-certified Ipe (also known as Ironwood), a South American tropical hardwood, to use as wind-control louvers. The louvers he is standing in front of are on the south side near the main entrance—along the first base side of the field. There is a similar set of louvers on the opposite side of the stadium, facing the light rail transit station. The louvers are fixed in the open position to help cut the wind.

“The maintenance of the panels should be minimal for the most part,” Granlund says, “but we did provide spare panels as part of the contract if they should ever need to replace them.” Some of the other projects Granlund has worked on recently are the doors in the Mpls/St. Paul Weddings magazine, a mock-up window for the Schubert Theater, and one of the holes for a miniature golf fundraiser (in the shape of one of Prince’s guitars).

Granlund’s 10th-grade daughter, Roisen, took the photo.

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Class reunions Twin Cities breakfasts Second-generation Gusties Chapter events Gustavus birding day Weddings Births In memoriam Association of Congregations award Chapter agents

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

Ellery Peterson ’49, St. Peter, was named the 2010 Nicollet County Outstanding Senior Citizen and attended the Minnesota State Fair for a special award ceremony honoring this year’s senior citizen recipients.

Peterson received this award because of his involvement in the St. Peter Kiwanis Club and other organizations around the Nicollet County community. Peterson is Gustavus professor emeritus of economics and management, having taught from 1957–91. His other service involvement has been with the Rotary Club, First Lutheran Church, the St. Peter City Council, and the St. Peter Economic Development Authority. Peterson is a Gustavus alumnus who has demonstrated the Gustavus core values of service and community.

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Peterson receives Nicollet County Outstanding Senior Citizen Award

OFFICERS Jeffrey Heggedahl ’87, President & Ex-officio Member, Board of Trustees Christopher Rasmussen ’88, Vice President Randall Stuckey ’83, Executive Secretary Kelly Waldron ’84, Treasurer Ronald White ’75, Past President & Ex-officio Member, Board of Trustees

Celebrating her 70th anniversary

Daughters Ruth Pearson McCutcheon ’72 and Kate Pearson Halverson ’67 helped Evelyn Strom Pearson ’40 celebrate the 70th anniversary of her graduation last May on campus.

BOARD MEMBERS TerM exPIreS FALL 2011 Jennifer Krempin Bridgman ’96, Alexandria, vA Adam Eckhardt ’08, Minneapolis Jeffrey Heggedahl ’87, Minneapolis Janna King ’76, Minneapolis Richard Olson ’82, edina

TerM exPIreS FALL 2013 Catherine Asta ’75, edina Michael Dueber ’89, St. Paul Luther Hagen ’88, Apple valley Gordon Mansergh ’84, Decatur, GA Jeffrey Marshall ’75, Houston, Tx Kay Rethwill Moline ’56, St. Peter Matthew Olson ’10, Mankato Tina Wold Royer ’78, eveleth Marisa Schloer ’09, Minneapolis

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TerM exPIreS FALL 2012 Sandra Luedtke Buendorf ’62, St. Peter Sara Tollefson Currell ’95, St. Paul Christopher Enstad ’96, Crystal Brian Norelius ’96, Lindstrom L. Charles Potts ’01, richfield Christopher Rasmussen ’88, Columbia Heights Paul Schiminsky ’93, Las vegas, Nv Scott Swanson ’85, edina Gretchen Taylor ’08, Moorhead JoNes Van Hecke ’88, Pella, IA

Still in circulation

Lois Skillrud ’50 writes, “When we graduated from Gustavus in 1950, there were 12 of us friends who agreed to have a round-robin letter circulated among us.” Now, 60 years later, that letter is still in circulation. Five of the eight surviving members had dinner together during Commencement Weekend (along with the husbands of two—also from the Class of 1950): seated from left are John Esbjornson and Marlys Peterson; standing are Harold Skillrud, Lois Dickhart Skillrud, Marie Norberg Bergstrom, Carol Ostgaard Esbjornson, and Donna Benson Barnett.

Absent but still active in the group are Joyce Pauley Gardner, Mary Harper Schultz, and Marjorie Swenson Gores.

eMerITUS Jim “Moose” Malmquist ’53, Scandia

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

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Cartford publishes book

Larry Cartford ’59, Sun Lakes, AZ, has published a book titled From Pastor to Atheist, published by Xlibris. Religion has been a powerful and determinative force in human life throughout recorded history, yet many religions have flourished and then died out. Cartford argues that what religions consider to be their exclusive domains—eternal life, spirituality, morality, and truth—are not solely theirs: he writes that morality and spirituality are innate in the “human beingness” in all people, that eternal life is a noble destiny for all people regardless of what gods if any they accept, and that truth is known through reason rather than revelation. Read more at frompastortoatheist.com.

GUSTAVUS ALUMNI E-mail: 1939classagent@gustavus.edu

Peterson Manfred, Minneapolis, 39 Miriam orgaized “Music with Mim,” a Fourth of July musical revue at Summit Place, eden Prairie. She has played gathering music for Gustavus Library Associates’ St. Lucia Luncheon and Author Day. class agent: Arlene Sorenson Higgins

1946classagent@gustavus.edu 46 E-mail: Darleen Schuman Stein, Bloomington, is retired from nursing and enjoys attending Friends of Scandinavia and young In Heart.

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50th Anniversary: May 27–28, 2011

class agent: virgene Grack Sehlin E-mail: 1961classagent@gustavus.edu James S. Lehman, Gainesville, FL, is a rostered pastor in Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ. class agent: position open

1967classagent@gustavus.edu 67 E-mail: Sten Asboe-Hansen, Denmark, is an eye surgeon.

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1970classagent@gustavus.edu 70 E-mail: Jean Bjorling Young, Ghana, works at

class agent: Todd Dokken E-mail: 1972classagent@gustavus.edu Eric W. Stokhuyzen, Netherlands, is director of alliances for KLM royal Dutch Airlines ■ Julian L. Swanson, Dayton, IA, is an interim pastor at Immanuel Lutheran in Burnside.

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class agent: Paul Heckt E-mail: 1975classagent@gustavus.edu Elizabeth Gordon Sachs, New york, Ny, started a project in Africa called the Children’s radio Foundation.

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Saboba Medical Centre in Ghana.

▲ Class agent visits 1959 classmates in Seattle Class Agent Carol Johnson Heyl Stone ’59 was in Seattle last June and had a good time visiting other Gusties. Pictured from left are Roger Lund ’57, Connie Ostrom Lund ’59, Paul Borg ’58, Marian Fickes Borg ’59, Carol Johnson Heyl Stone ’59, Muriel Doherty Haegele ’59, Avis Baldwin Rill ’59, and Bill Rill ’59.

A presidential round

Two “Oles”—St. Olaf graduate Jon Nymo (left) and Gustavus president Jack Ohle—joined 50th-anniversary classmates Jerry Thrall ’60 (second from right) and Mark Anderson ’60 for a round of golf at the Gustavus golf teams’ annual fundraiser event at the Le Sueur Country Club.

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35th Anniversary:

30–Oct. 1, 2011 76 Sept. class agent: Bruce Olson E-mail: 1976classagent@gustavus.edu Bruce Olson, Brooklyn Park, founding member of Olson Sound Design, has been elected a governor for the Audio engineering Society, Inc., an international organization that unites audio engineers, creative artists, scientists, and students worldwide and is the only professional society devoted exclusively to audio technology. ■ Scott E. Olson, North Mankato, is a pastor at Grace Lutheran Church. class agents: position open E-mail: 1977classagent@gustavus.edu Carl S. Malmberg, Denton, Tx, is a staff physician assistant for Southern region Medical Hub #1 for the Boy Scouts of America.

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ALUMNI CLASS REUNIONS 2011 Class of 1951, 1956, 1961, 1966, and 50 Year Club May 27 & 28, 2011

Classes of 1971, 1976, 1981, 1986, 1991, 1996, 2001, and 2006 September 30 and October 1, 2011, Sesquicentennial Kickoff and Homecoming Weekend

Information will be included in class letters, postcards, and on the alumni website.

If you wish to serve on your class reunion committee, contact the Office of Alumni relations at 800-487-8437 or alumni@gustavus.edu.

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A trip down the Danube

Gusties sailed the Danube to the Black Sea in early summer 2010. Pictured in Romania near the end of their journey are, from left, Diana Jacobson Martens ’62, Craig Martens ’62, Reet Lind Henze ’62, and Miriam Lind Lagus ’61.

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Meeting this year for lunch on Oct. 9 in Northfield, women from the Class of 1963 carried on their tradition of an annual gathering each year since their graduation. Those attending the gathering this year were, seated from left, Peggy Kretschmer Brinkman, Addy Blotter Roadfeldt, Nancy Johnson Knoell, and Jan Haeberlin; standing, Christine Swenson Wilmot, Mary Sundberg Larson, Sharon Shaver Pinney, Eunice Holm Fultz, Carolyn Helgeson Liebenow, Lorna Johnson Breiter, Marlys Schneider Swenson, Edna Rask Erickson, Nancy Beck Strom, and Heather Harshberger Fluck.

istered nurse and volunteers at Lyngblomsten Care Center ■ Susan Wilke Follese, Maple Grove, is a senior account manager at Financial Concepts Inc. class agents: Cindy Holmes Carlson,

Stone 80 Kent E-mail: 1980classagent@gustavus.edu Joy K. Lintelman, Moorhead, received an Award of Merit from the American Association for State and Local History’s Leadership in History Awards for her book, I Go to America.

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class agents: Steve Heim, Leslie Nielsen E-mail: 1981classagent@gustavus.edu Scott Richard Klein, Lawton, OK, is the chair of the theatre arts department at Cameron University. class agents: Brad Somero,

Karin Stone 83 E-mail: 1983classagent@gustavus.edu Linda S. Sibert, york, PA, received a master of science degree in nursing from york College.

She is a clinical nurse specialist for the Heart and vascular Center at Memorial Hospital of york. class agents: Carole Arwidson,

ericson 84 Ken E-mail: 1984classagent@gustavus.edu Duke A. Paluch, Superior, CO, is the executive director at the rocky Mountain Tennis Center ■ Charles E. Schultz, Minneapolis, is president of rebound Media, a communications and advertising company. class agent: Susan Johnson Chwalek

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Class of 1965 Gustavus graduates met to spend a fun night at the Bird House Inn and Gardens in Excelsior before attending their 45th-anniversary class reunion at Gustavus.

Pictured in the back row, from left, are Susan Youngdahl Hogan, Ethel Lind Richard, Gloria Spong Johnson, Ilsa Berka Olson, and Kathy Connor Schwandt. In front are Linda Johnson Diller, Sooty Spaulding Welte, Joan Bernard Kojis, Shannon Shawbold Foster, and Cindy Stordahl Sullivan. Not present for the photo were Kathy Noyes Mayer and Susan Bergquist Lindvall.

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1985classagent@gustavus.edu 85 E-mail: Kyle B. Olson, Brooklyn Park, is a compliance specialist at Target ■ Eric S. Peterson, Moorhead, is assistant professor of chemistry at Concordia College ■ Mark A. Stenzel, Coon rapids, is a district sales manager at Tension envelope Corporation ■ Scott T. Swanson, edina, is vice president at PrAGMATeK Consulting Group ■ Julie Dee Weisenhorn, Mound, is the state director for the University of Minnesota extension Master Gardener program and an extension educator in horticulture and sustainable landscape design.

25th Anniversary:

Sept. 30–Oct. 1, 2011 86 class agents: Melinda Moen Batz, Dave Meyers, Dan Murray, Sara Freeman rekow E-mail: 1986classagent@gustavus.edu Jim A. Amsden, St. Peter, is a high school principal for the Sibley east school district ■ Carole L. Rogotzke, Lakeville, works in the Delta Alliances Information Technology group.

GUSTAVUS ALUMNI class agents: Tom Alexander, Lee Fahrenz, Steve Harstad E-mail: 1987classagent@gustavus.edu Kaye Andrews Peloquin, Lititz, PA, is wholesale sales manager at Primatives by Kathy ■ Peter D. Stapay, Breckenridge, CO, is vice president of sales, marketing, and business development at Healthation.

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Lamont 93 E-mail: 1993classagent@gustavus.edu Paul D. Schiminsky, Las vegas, Nv, completed a master’s degree in construction management at the University of Las vegas-Nevada and is CeO at AACSS, Inc. class agents: renae Munsterman

class agents: Gail Chase ericson, Luther Hagen, Jamin Johnson, JoAnn Wackerfuss Quackenbush E-mail: 1988classagent@gustavus.edu Tracie Riebesell Amsden, St. Peter, is a business analyst with Davisco Foods and Cambria ■ Julie Nemetz Douglas, Geneva, IL, is director of communication ministry at rejoice Lutheran Church ■ Pedar W. Foss, Greencastle, IN, is dean of academic life at DePauw University ■ Ann Barberg Geyer, Frederick, MD, is an academic office manager at Frederick Community College and sells Jewels by Park Lane ■ Geoff Gorres, Amery, WI, was issued his second U.S. patent, for a device called Cath-Check ■ Luther J. Hagen, Apple valley, is the founder of the annual run for Blood 5K, which is now in its second year and benefits the American red Cross; he is an LPL financial adviser and branch manager for Hagen Financial Advantage, Inc. ■ Dan Johnson, Golden valley, is the regional vice president of operations for the central region for Country Financial ■ Julie Musser Johnson, Golden valley, works part-time for MCS Litigation Support ■ Rob Melin, Saukville, WI, is a registered financial representative with New england Financial, the Wisconsin Group ■ Gregory Peterson, rochester, owns and runs Machinery Pete, including a segment on the Machinery Show on rFD-Tv ■ Lara G. Peterson, Bellevue, WA, works with all product and channel marketing for Windows Home Server worldwide at Microsoft ■ Dave Pieper, Caledonia, is a district sales manager with Mutual of Omaha ■ Christina M. Pierson, Minneapolis, is a public and government affairs professional at Presence Strategies ■ Isabel R. Rogan, Omaha, Ne, teaches critical care nursing, world civilization and history, and nursing history at Nebraska Methodist College, where she was elected faculty senate president this spring ■ Lynn Anderson Tomlinson, rushville, IL, teaches kindergarten.

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K. Miller, Scott Nelson 90 Anne E-mail: 1990classagent@gustavus.edu Jennifer Winters Meagher, Browerville, received her doctorate in education from Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota ■ Kurt F. Tjossem, Columbia, MD, is deputy regional director of the International rescue Committee. class agent: Annie Marshall

1992classagent@gustavus.edu 92 E-mail: Emily Johnson Hagen, eden Prairie, graduated from Northwestern Health Sciences University with a certificate in massage therapy and owns right as rain Massage.

Anita Stockwell ripken, 94 Lokpez, Gretchen Anderson Zinsli

E-mail: 1994classagent@gustavus.edu Nikki Olson Cooley, Louisville, Ky, is pursuing a master of divinity degree at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary ■ Darin D. Pavlish, Savage, is a state sales coordinator at Aflac ■ Kris Koehler Vogel, edina, is a senior wellness consultant at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota. class agents: Beth Wiberg Barbosa,

Karen Boschee Chenvert, Sara 95 Tollefson Currell

E-mail: 1995classagent@gustavus.edu Tanya Strom Anderson, St. Paul, is a continuous quality improvement manager and compliance officer at MHr, Inc. ■ Gina Goick Mangum, Boulder, CO, is a body-centered life-purpose coach for Sole Purpose, Inc.

TWIN CITIeS BreAKFASTS Join other Gusties for a morning cup of coffee and breakfast while getting an update on Gustavus—a great way to meet and network with Gusties in the Twin Cities. The group will meet the third Wednesday of each month at:

Doubletree Hotel, Minneapolis-Park Place 1500 Park Place Boulevard (Hwy. 394 & Hwy. 100)

8 a.m. breakfast, 8:30 program $10 per person Reserve by calling or e-mailing the office of alumni Relations, 800-487-8437 or alumni@gustavus.edu

15th Anniversary:

30–Oct. 1, 2011 96 Sept. class agent: Andrea Solomon E-mail: 1996classagent@gustavus.edu Kevin D. Grussing, eden Prairie, is vice president/business development for Medventure Technology, Inc. ■ Sybil A. Keesbury, Advance, NC, earned her doctorate of education from Gardner-Webb University and is a professor of education at Mercer University ■ Stacy J. Klein, Burnsville, is an employment and training counselor for Scott County ■ John Kolden, Inver Grove Heights, is vice president for agent services of Network F.O.B., a nationwide third-party logistics firm based in eagan. class agents: Melissa Levesque-Piela,

Peterson, Stef Tucker 97 Josh E-mail: 1997classagent@gustavus.edu Betsy Maloney Leaf, New Hope, is earning her Ph.D. in art education from the University of Minnesota ■ Brian D. Rolig, West St. Paul, teaches english in the St. Paul Public Schools ■ Jennifer S. Vickerman, Minneapolis, is an independent representative with Silpada Designs ■ Tara L. Zahler, Bloomington, IN, is a Ph.D. student in second language studies and is an associate instructor at Indiana University. class agents: Karen Delgehausen, Gigi

Dobosenski, Brad Peterson, Alicia 98 Wait Sutphen Schimke E-mail: 1998classagent@gustavus.edu DeAnn DeLoach Deitner, Lindstrom, teaches second grade at Lake elmo elementary ■ Rohan Patell, Amsterdam, is a business project manager - revenue management at KLM.

SCHEDULED SPEAKERS Dec. 15, 2010 Neal Hagberg ’81 and Leandra Peak ’83, folk musicians January 19, 2011 Mike Carroll, women’s hockey coach, and Brett Petersen, men’s hockey coach February 16, 2011 Thomas Crady, vice president for enrollment management March 16, 2011 Katherine Knutson, assistant professor of political science April 20, 2011 Warren Wunderlich, director of physical plant May 18, 2011 Carolyn O’Grady, director of international and cultural education June 15, 2011 Grady St. Dennis ’92, director of church relations July 20, 2011 Dean Wahlund ’72, director of communication services and special events Steve Waldhauser ’70, director of editorial services August 17, 2011 Barb Larson Taylor ’93, assistant to the president for special projects

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

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2010–11 SECOND-GENERATION GUSTIES alumni whose offspring arrived at Gustavus this fall are listed alphabetically, with their sons or daughters named immediately below.

Brett Aamot ’82 Daughter, Mariel Aamot Willmar, MN Jeff Adamsheck ’79 Kim Amundson Adamsheck ’79 (deceased) Daughter, Hallee Adamsheck Minnetonka, MN Ted Almen ’80 Daughter, Jordan Almen Kerkhoven, MN Kathy Erickson Anderson ’81 Son, erik Anderson Appleton, WI Miriam Anderson ’81 Daughter, Kelsey Abele Belton, MO Teri Carter Anderson ’79 Sons, Cody and Duncan Anderson Maple Grove, MN

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Marc and Wendy (Ericksen) Bachman ’88 ’87 Son, Beau Bachman St. Peter, MN Jeanette Solberg Baclar ’88 Andrew Deardorff ’89 Daughter, Katherine Deardorff Chanhassen, MN Ronda Petersen Bayer ’83 Daughter, Caitlin Bayer rogers, MN Nancy Benjamin Belpedio ’77 (deceased) Daughter, emilie Belpedio Coon rapids, MN Kristi Molbert Benz ’88 Daughter, elida Benz Steele, ND Jonathan and Ellie (Dunlavey) Berg ’87 ’87 Daughter, estee Berg Stillwater, MN

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Susan Erickson Dobbelstein ’67 Daughter, Annalise Dobbelstein Bemidji, MN Mark and Emily (Nyblad) Dumais ’81 ’78 Daughter, Kelly Dumais Idaho Falls, ID Mike and Cindy (Stark) Dysthe ’85 ’85 Daughter, Julia Dysthe White Bear Lake, MN Randy Erdahl ’75 Son, Matthew erdahl Chaska, MN Preston Euerle ’86 Son, Kellan euerle St. Cloud, MN Stu and Tammy (Olson) Flolid ’82 ’81 Son, evan Flolid Chanhassen, MN Char Wurst Flotterud ’80 Son, Matthew Flotterud Cannon Falls, MN Elizabeth Fritz-Hoekstra ’87 Son, elliot Hoekstra Mendota Heights, MN Jen Gilberg ’98 Daughter, Haylee Goranson Cloquet, MN Betty Kopischke Gilchrist ’79 (deceased) Daughter, rebekah Gilchrist Madison Lake, MN Jon Hansen ’76 Daughter, erin Hansen Bloomington, MN Brent and Cathy (Villars) Harms ’82 ’85 Daughter, Jennifer Harms Apple valley, MN Gregory Hilding ’81 Son, Kyle Hilding Spicer, MN

Move-in day gallery 1. Kathleen, Mariel ’14, Brett Aamot ’82 2. John ’12, Kathy Erickson Anderson ’81, Erik ’14 3. Cathy Villars Harms ’85, Jennifer ’14, Kelsey, Brent Harms ’82 4. Amy ’14, Frank Larson ’83, William, Jennifer Strand Larson ’84, Anna ’11 5. Carol Chell Talus ’84, Eric ’14, Doug Talus ’83

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AN ALUMNI ASSOCIATION MESSAGE TO

CLASS OF 2014 Corey Husu ’78 Son, Jonathon Husu Lino Lakes, MN Bruce Jacobson ’80 Daughter, Laurel Jacobson South Haven, MN Jim Jensen ’75 Daughter, rebecca Jensen Prior Lake, MN Jean Hels Keske ’83 Son, Jonathan Keske Savage, MN Steve and Julie (Brudwick) Kjellgren ’86 ’86 Daughter, Grace Kjellgren St. Peter, MN Frank and Jennifer (Strand) Larson ’83 ’84 Daughter, Amy Larson Wayzata, MN Lynn Flogstad Lenort ’80 Daughter, Samara Lenort Bloomington, MN Dean and Heidi (Ohr) Lundgren ’81 ’83 Son, erik Lundgren Cannon Falls, MN Jeff and Lynn (Regli) Mauston ’83 ’85 Daughter, Casey Mauston virginia, MN Kevin and Laureen (Ross) McCalib ’79 ’80 Son, reed McCalib Mahtomedi, MN Marlys Sandve McDevitt ’82 Daughter, Anna McDevitt Lakeville, MN

delivered by Christopher Enstad ’97 at the Presidnet’s Banquet for the Class of 2014 Nineteen years ago I attended the President’s banquet as a first-year student. I remember trying very hard to be cool, not to look too nervous. I had already met a lot of people but first impressions were important so I had my nice church pants on and the sweater my mom bought me for the cool fall days here on the hill.

I sat down at the table; my plate was put in front of me. I grabbed my fork and knife, and proceeded to flip the entire plate onto the front of my new sweater and nice pants. Quite the suave first impression.

Twenty years ago almost nobody had their own computer. We had to walk across campus to a computer lab. I remember when one of our neighbors in North Hall bought a computer and we all stood around the door as it was wired into the phone line to dial up the campus Internet system.

Today we all carry around the Internet in our pockets, and in true 21stcentury fashion I “crowdsourced” this welcome by asking all of my Gustie friends on Facebook to tell me what they would say to welcome you into the Gustie family.

So here are just a few brief words from some of the alumni cheering you on today: “If you think you just had the best four years of your life, these next four will make those look tame, and if you do it right they will serve you as your launch pad into the rest of your life.”

“Beating ’em and busting ’em is indeed our custom, but above all these four years ahead of you at this school are your chance to truly shine.”

“Don’t be afraid to talk to your professors—they’re human too.” Well, some of them . . .

“Use these four years to feed your mind, body, and spirit.”

“Try new things; it’s only by stepping out of your comfort zone that you will more fully discover your calling in this world.”

“The people you meet here will be the ones you cherish the most the rest of your life.”

And of course one of my friends wanted to make sure that I tell you that I met my wife here at Gustavus, and she is by far the best thing that I could have ever taken away from this place.

Those are just some of the comments made to me but the truth is that there are 25,000 alumni in the world cheering each of you on. We all have a stake in this place, in you, and we are all curious to see how each one of you make your life count. Being a Gustie is not just a four-year experience. you have begun a lifelong journey of engagement with this place and the friends you will meet here.

Twenty-five thousand Gustie alumni welcome you to the family. Work hard, study hard, play hard, get involved, and learn what it means for you to live a life of faith, service, community, justice, and excellence.

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SECOND-GENERATION GUSTIES CONTINUeD . . .

Joni Lind McLean ’80 Daughter, Kristine McLean St. Paul, MN Kimberly Murphy-Teigland ’92 Daughter, Arynn Teigland St. Cloud, MN Pete and Cassandra (Weltsch) Nelson ’84 ’84 Son, Mitchell Nelson St. Peter, MN Dean Nissen ’77 Son, Mark Nissen Hutchinson, MN Francis Nketia ’83 Son, Kwesi Nketia Plano, Tx Andrew Olson ’85 Daughter, emily Olson Minneapolis, MN Karen Olson ’84 Glenn Merrick ’84 Son, Kyle Merrick Duluth, MN James O’Neill ’84 Daughter, Claire O’Neill edina, MN

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Pam Snell Osborn ’83 Daughter, renee Osborn Chanhassen, MN Beth Lunden Palm ’82 Daughter, Jenny Palm Park rapids, MN Beth Nephew Pederson ’86 Daughter, elisabeth Pederson Duluth, MN Jane Gosselin Phillips ’78 Daughter, Annie Phillips Shorewood, MN Lori Feder-Pietsch ’89 Son, Jason Pietsch Madelia, MN Kurt Raatz ’87 Daughter, Grace Henke-raatz Apple valley, MN Susan Ripley ’80 Daughter, elizabeth Johnson Plymouth, MN Jim Roberge ’90 Son, Colin roberge Zimmerman, MN Roger Rogotzke ’80 Son, Jay rogotzke Sleepy eye, MN

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Deb Johnson Rosenberg ’79 Daughter, Andrea rosenberg eden Prairie, MN John Sandstrom ’74 Daughter, Kirstin Sandstrom Silver Bay, MN Jeffrey Schramm ’80 Son, Seth Schramm Minneapolis, MN Darlene Hulstrand Schroeder ’75 Son, Dempsey Schroeder Pennock, MN David and Beth (Seamon) Schwarz ’92 ’88 Son, Jacob Schwarz Grand Marais, MN Mark Stenzel ’85 Daughter, Lauren Stenzel Coon rapids, MN Doug and Carol (Chell) Talus ’83 ’84 Son, eric Talus Plymouth, MN Russ and Sandy (Karow) Timmerman ’76 ’84 Son, Joshua Timmerman Prior Lake, MN Paul Tinklenberg ’87 Daughter, Alissa Tinklenberg Willmar, MN Tom and Linda (Williams) Tollefson ’80 ’84 Daughter, erin Tollefson Northfield, MN Todd and Gretchen (Gunderson) Wenzel ’84 ’84 Son, Wyatt Wenzel St. Paul, MN Mark Wick ’85 Son, Anders Wick Duluth, MN Carl Wicklund ’74 Daughter, Callie Wicklund Nicholasville, Ky Robyn Rucks Woods ’89 Daughter, Alecia Woods Kasota, MN

6. Julie Brudwick Kjellgren ’86, Grace ’14, Steve Kjellgren ’86 7. Jim O'Neill ’84, Claire ’14, Ellen 8. Lynn Regli Mauston ’85, Jeff Mauston ’83, Callie, Casey ’14 9. Cassandra Weltsch Nelson ’84, Mitch ’14, Peter Nelson ’84

GUSTAVUS ALUMNI

class agents: position open

class agents: Karen Warkentien

1999classagent@gustavus.edu 99 E-mail: Laura A. Hauschild, Minneapolis, is a

Katherine Medbery Oleson 02 Oglesby, E-mail: 2002classagent@gustavus.edu

sourcing manager at Accenture ■ Kari Petrasek, Lynnwood, WA, was sworn in as 2010-11 young Lawyers Division president for the Washington State Bar Association.

Isaac Anderson, Minneapolis, is a business development consultant at Oracle Corporation ■ Jess Behrends, Annandale, is grant and per diem liaison/homeless outreach social worker at St. Cloud vA Medical Center ■ Maggie Berndt, Chicago, IL, is a publicist for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra ■ Marissa Kolander Letscher, Cedar rapids, IA, is director of children and family ministries at First Lutheran Church.

class agents: Corey Bartlett, Bonnie

Meghan Krause 00 Dahlke, E-mail: 2000classagent@gustavus.edu Linda A. Lanz, received a Ph.D. from rice University in linguistics ■ Julie Mattson Zamora, Minneapolis, is a youth programs specialist at Mothers Against Drunk Driving.

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class agent: Hal DeLarosby, Lana elsenpeter Matzek E-mail: 2001classagent@gustavus.edu Erin L. Cederlind, Dulles, vA, is administrative assistant for the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center and is a member of the Choral Arts Society ■ Angie Erickson-Grussing, St. Joseph, is an instructor of Spanish at the College of Saint Benedict/Saint John’s University ■ Jonathan T. Poole, Dulles, vA, is a special agent in the Diplomatic Security Service, currently assigned to Washington, DC.

class agents: Audra Mueller, Leslie

rosedahl 03 Wilcox E-mail: 2003classagent@gustavus.edu Katie Bradley, Minneapolis, played the title character in the Children’s Theatre Company’s production of Disney’s Mulan Jr., staged in May and June 2010 ■ Danny Dietl, Minneapolis, is a realtor at realty executives Associates ■ Joel Fischer, Minneapolis, is a consultant at Carlson ventures enterprise at Carlson School of Management ■ Sarah Grimsby McQuade, Sioux Falls, SD, is a copywriter for Meta Payment Solutions. class agents: Amanda Frie,

Nelson 04 Marnie E-mail: 2004classagent@gustavus.edu Jake Hauck, Shoreview, is an attorney-editor at Thomson reuters ■ Marnie K. Nelson is earning

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GUSTAVUS ON THE ROAD President Jack and Kris ohle and other staff members from the college will be attending a Gustavus event in your area in 2011 to provide an update of the major initiatives in place for the 150th academic year of the college. mark your calendars today; more specific arrangements will be mailed later.

chapter Event Dates January 7, 2011

Palm springs

January 8, 2011

los angeles

January 9, 2011 February 8, 2011

san Francisco tucson

February 10, 2011

Phoenix

January 27, 2011

seattle

February 11, 2011

Denver

march 2, 2011

Boston

march 4, 2011

new York

march 5, 2011

Washington, D.c.

march 26, 2011

Jacksonville

Words of gratitude from a student to alumni

march 28, 2011

orlando

During the first week of classes this fall, a thank-you addressed to all Gustavus alumni arrived in the Office of Alumni Relations from Amanda Smith, a first-year student from Duluth.

Her words provide the best reminder that the work we do is all about our students and providing opportunities. The note reads:

march 29, 2011

tampa

march 30, 2011

naples

april 29, 2011

chicago

MOMENTS FROM THE LAST 150 YEARS . . .

SUBMIT YOUR PHOTO! During the 2011–12 school year, Gustavus will celebrate its 150th academic year.

Photographs are being collected for possible use in various Sesquicentennial projects, including a 16-month wall calendar and an online Gustie Gallery. Photos—past or present—of Gustavus landscapes, landmarks, special events, and Gusties in-action living out the core values of excellence, service, justice, faith, and community are being sought. For more specifics, visit Gustie Gallery at gustavus.edu/150/.

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her master’s degree in international education policy and management at Vanderbilt University ■ Natalie C. Rosengren, Minneapolis, is a customer marketing manager at NBC Universal ■ Sarah R. Volz, Huntington, WV, is in the pediatric residency program at Good Samaritan Hospital.

Class Agents: Liz Zappetillo Lewis,

Becky Neitzke, Jessica Nelson, Anne 05 Shipley, Anne Michaletz Viljaste

▲ Gustie theatre cast reunion Last July Gustavus friends gathered for a cast reunion of the campus production She Stoops to Conquer, then planned to attend the Guthrie Theatre’s production of the same play, a play these Gusties performed 45 years ago at Gustavus. Unfortunately the Guthrie was staging A Streetcar Named Desire, but the group still enjoyed a backstage tour and their time together. Pictured, front row seated, are Deidra Moehring Gustavson ’66, Sue Pepin Peterson ’65, Idelle Sabes Walton ’68, Eric Gustavson ’66, Cheryl Downey ’66, and Gustavus professor emeritus Larry Owen. In the back row are Gary Rankila ’68, Bill Murphy ’67, Jim Walton ’69, Linda Gulder Huett ’66, Jim Peterson ’64, Emme Lundeen Fallen ’68, and Vern Victorson ’66.

E-mail: 2005classagent@gustavus.edu Christa A. Harrison, Minneapolis, is communication coordinator for SKIP Peru and interactive marketing producer at Target ■ Bethany Hirst Jensen, Minot, ND, graduated from Creighton University School of Dentistry and is in private practice as a general dentist with her father ■ Mark J. Jensen, Minot, ND, teaches fifth grade and coaches high school football for Minot Public Schools ■ Brandy Stuve-Shupien, Rockford, works in accounting at TCF Equipment Finance ■ Will Sutor, Brooklyn Park, is a personal injury attorney at The Landau Law Group, PA ■ Joe Ulwelling, Baudette, is a business officer for Border State Bank.

5th Anniversary:

30–Oct. 1, 2011 06 Sept.

Class Agents: Katie Parks Cochran, Mollie Peterson Dvorak, Anders Eckman, Matt Forbes, Jessica Olson, Matt Swenson E-mail: 2006classagent@gustavus.edu Seyward Mattson Ask, St. Paul, received her master of divinity degree from Luther Seminary and accepted her first call at Christ the King Lutheran Church in Atlanta, GA ■ Jonathan D. Carlson, Madison, WI, completed a master of science degree in forest ecology and management from Michigan Technological University and is working toward a master of arts degree in library and information studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison ■ Mollie Peterson Dvorak, Little Canada, graduated from Luther Seminary with a master of divinity degree ■ Blythe Bittman Mitchell, Eden Prairie, graduated from Northwestern Health Sciences and is a licensed massage therapist ■ Zach Mitchell, Eden Prairie, is in his last year of chiropractic school at Northwestern Health Sciences ■ Becca Nolan, Eden Prairie, is a store operations business process consultant for Target Corporation ■ Chris Van Fossen, San Jose, CA, is a network liaison at Hurricane Electric.

Class Agents: Erica Brown, Barry

Cattadoris, Travis Michelson, Ben 07 Richter, Adam Tehle ▲ OK fraternity reunion Omega Kappa fraternity brothers from the Classes of 1966 through 1973 gathered at John Moorhead’s home on August 20 to share fraternity stories, laughs, and an opportunity to renew old friendships that date back over 40 years. The spirit and the traditions of the fraternity live on.

Pictured first row from left are Lee Tollefson ’68, Rick Zweig ’68, John Moorhead ’68, Blake Shelton ’69, Jim Lindberg ’68, John Menge ’66, Ted Schramm ’68, and Jim Schoenrock ’68. In the second row are Greg Benson ’69, Marlin Rudebusch ’68, Ken Losch ’68, Keith Witter ’69, Jim Krieger ’68, Chuck Lewensten ’68, and Ron Hobart ’69. In the third row are Jim Henrichsen ’68, Mike Karels ’68, Paul Swanson ’71, Dave Swanson ’69, Bruce Anderson ’70, Jon Schoenrock ’69, Ron Witter ’68, John Greupner ’70, and Terry Ische ’66. Not pictured are Phil Carlson ’68 (photographer), Mark Bernhardson ’71, Tom Swanson ’73, and Jim Nolan ‘66.

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E-mail: 2007classagent@gustavus.edu Ahmed Bachelani, Topeka, KS, received a juris doctorate with certifications in tax law and business and transactional from Washburn University School of Law ■ Jo M. Ellison, St. Louis Park, received her master’s degree in clinical psychology from the University of North Dakota ■ Gregg A. Fuerstenberg, Luverne, is a law student at William Mitchell College of Law and works part-time as an auditor for the Minnesota

GUSTAVUS ALUMNI

Class Agents: Donny Bechtle, Adam

Eckhardt, Erin Larson, John Michaletz, 08 Katelyn Nelson, Ben Olilla E-mail: 2008classagent@gustavus.edu Andrea R. Astrup, St. Louis Park, is attending Des Moines University for a doctor of physical therapy degree ■ Cara A. Carlson, Alexandria, VA, works at Quad/Graphics in DC ■ Nhung H. Le, Medford, MA, is a supply chain management specialist at Maine Pointe, LLC ■ Mark Stuckey, West Des Moines, IA, is in his second year of medical school at Des Moines University ■ Andrew Twiton, Mount Horeb, WI, is attending Luther Seminary ■ Brittany Krusemark Ward, Mankato, teaches kindergarten at Roosevelt Elementary School ■ Chris Ward, Mankato, teaches biology and anatomy at Mankato East High School.

Class Agents: Holly Andersen, Chris

Edelbrock, Shawn Grygo, Nicole Parris, 09 Maria Siegle E-mail: 2008classagent@gustavus.edu Mari L. Gunderson, Shoreview, is a communications and public relations intern at whitelightevents ■ Andy Haaheim, Chaska, teaches diploma program and general biology at International Baccalaureate High School in Fridley ■ Sarah C. Hulke, is studying medieval and renaissance studies at Durham University in northeast Britain ■ Heidi M. Larson, Avon, is pursuing a master of arts degree in art and cultural management at Saint Mary’s University and working in ticketing services at the Minnesota Orchestra.

Class Agents: Mariah Bierl, Tara Blinn, Jennifer Broman, Katie Cummings, Casey Enevoldsen, Derek Holm, Katelyn Johnson, Cathryn Nelson, Sara Schnell, Matt Schueffner, Jenn Syverson, Alison Utke E-mail: 2008classagent@gustavus.edu Tara J. Blinn, Edina, is a management consultant with Genesis10 ■ Lauren T. Crome, Centennial, CO, is an administrative assistant at Maverick Systems ■ Amanda D. Fisher, Oakdale, is a provider advocate at CIGNA Behavioral Health ■ Ryan T. Lee, Woodbury, is a master of public policy student at the University of Minnesota ■ Angel Matthes, St. Paul, passed her nursing boards and is a clinical/birthing assistant at Morning Star Women’s Health and Birth Center ■ Amber M. Steffenhagen, Red Wing, teaches sixth grade at Garfield Elementary in Mankato ■ Jill M. VanOsdol, is career programs assistant at Gustavus.

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Department of Transportation ■ Maria A. Kasdagly is working on her master’s degree in community nutrition at Colorado State University ■ Katie Leaf, Center City, received a master of architecture degree from University of Minnesota ■ Eric D. Olson, Alexandria, VA, received a juris doctor from Georgetown University Law Center in May 2010 ■ John C. Ryan, Grand Forks, ND, is a marketing and clinical specialist at Bloodguys International Inc. ■ Breanne Staples Stuckey, West Des Moines, IA, received a doctor of physical therapy degree from Creighton University and is employed at Physiotherapy Associates in Des Moines.

Team members recall GYO Japan trip

The Gustavus Youth Outreach (GYO) international team that traveled to Japan in 1970 held a 40year reunion in August.

Seven of the eight students who served in churches, schools, and Bible Camps—and even sang at the Christian Pavilion at the World’s Fair in Japan—met together in the Twin Cities for nostalgia, fellowship, and sharing about life and the place Gustavus had in their life journeys. The eighth person joined the group by webcam. Pictured from left are Jim Lobdell ’71, Jane Feddersen Timmerman ’70, Dennis Timmerman ’71, Kent Anderson ’71 (kneeling), Susan Kibler ’72 (on monitor), Jeanne Sielaff-Daum ’71, Janice Hartsook ’70 (kneeling), and Linda Janisch Ziegler ’71.

In the halls of power By the age of 29, Steve Andreasen ’84 had what he calls “the best job in government.” After working in Washington, D.C., with former counter-terrorism czar Richard Clark and then-Senator Al Gore, he had joined the National Security Council to advise President Bill Clinton on defense policy and arms control. Nearly 20 years later, he was profiled in the April 2010 Minnesota Monthly magazine by senior writer Tim Gihring in an article titled “Mr. Doomsday.”

These days Andreasen is teaching at the University of Minnesota, but he still consults with the Nuclear Threat Initiative, a group comprising former Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and George Schultz, former Secretary of Defense William Perry, and former Senator Sam Nunn that is trying to rid the world of nuclear weapons. He told Gihring, “Two-thirds of all living former secretaries of state and defense, as well as national security advisers, have endorsed our vision. And since we came out with the original [plan], similar groups in European countries have written op-eds, some countries are explicitly embracing the plan, and others are working in that direction.”

Each spring, as the final exam for the crisis management seminar he teaches at the University of Minnesota, Andreasen runs his students through a simulated briefing of the president on security issues, something he’s had plenty of experience with, in settings ranging from Air Force One to the White House Situation Room. For last spring’s final, he asked Gihring to play the president. “I sat in the middle of the classroom while students explained various events that were supposedly unfolding around the globe,” Gihring recounted. “And then they offered their advice. . . . My job was to question them.” It’s the advisers’ job to put things in perspective for the president and balance priorities, Andreasen notes. “You can never lose sight of multiple balls.”

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Murray meets Swedish ambassador at embassy dinner

Dan Murray ’86, Oakdale, MN, vice president, research, American Transportation Research Institute, met with Volvo executives at the Swedish Embassy. After the meeting the group attended a crayfish and aquavit dinner with Swedish Ambassador Jonas Hafström (pictured at left) and Swedish Minister Karin Olofsdotter.

Olofsdotter told Murray that her visit to Gustavus last spring to present the Royal Order of the Polar Star to former Gustavus President James Peterson ’64 was one of the highlights of her travels this year.

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GUSTAVUS BIRDING A report by Robert Dunlap ’08

Bob Dunlap ’08

On May 15, 2010, 63 Gusties went birding. Many of these adventurers were located right here in Minnesota, but others were spread out throughout the country and still others were situated on different continents.

Wherever they were, these Gusties compiled a list of the birds they saw on the first annual Gustavus Birding Big Day.

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BIG DAY

IS SUCCESS A very respectable total of 370 bird species was observed by participants across the globe, representing three continents (Africa, Europe, and North America), three countries (Sweden, Tanzania, and the United States), eight U.S. States (California, Colorado, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, North Carolina, Virginia, and Wisconsin), and eighteen different locations in Minnesota.

To view the complete list of birds seen, visit http://arboretum.blog.gustavus.edu/ 2010/07/27/gustavus-birding-big-day-2010species-list/.

The home team at Gustavus, led by arboretum naturalist Bob Dunlap ’08, began birding before dawn at 5 a.m. Joining him were Bev Matson Gustafson ’56 and Steve Hogberg ’69, as well as a student from Jim Gilbert’s Environmental Studies class. Highlights of their early morning excursion included American Bittern, Sora, Virginia Rail, Trumpeter Swan, and Great Horned Owl at Swan Lake, a large wetland complex ten miles west of St. Peter. As the day brightened they briefly hiked the trails at SevenMile Creek County Park south of town; this area is known for attracting a variety of forest birds during spring and fall migration. Here the group had excellent looks at Veery and Blue-gray Gnatcatcher among several migrating flycatchers and warblers. Back on campus in late morning and mid-afternoon, several more students and faculty joined Dunlap for a stroll through the College’s Linnaeus Arboretum, catching glimpses of Brown Thrasher, Blackburnian Warbler (a first for the arboretum), and the college’s ever-present Cedar Waxwing flock. By the end of the day they had amassed a total of 87 species, all within ten miles of St. Peter.

A lazy backyard bird count from the north side of St. Peter by “The Pams” (biology professors Pam Kittelson and Pam Freeman) produced the count’s only Eastern Screech-Owl; a single bird was heard giving its tremolo call in the evening. One of North America’s smaller owls, this species is very sporadically distributed throughout Minnesota. And at the Econo Foods grocery store in downtown St. Peter, Kristen Loken ’80 found a Killdeer frequenting the busy parking lot, the bird undoubtedly attracted to some great deal on cut meats.

Faith Walfrid Lindell ’56 spent her morning observing the birds around Becketwood Senior Co-op, a senior housing facility located along the Mississippi River about eight blocks from

Minnehaha Falls in Minneapolis, complete with 12 acres of good birding and wildlife habitat.

Among the more expected “city birds” that Faith reported, a Northern Harrier entering a nest in the same location as it had last year was an especially nice find.

Jess Schulz ’10 spent the day volunteering at the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Minnesota in Roseville. Among the birds that came in to the center was a Chukar, an exotic species of partridge in Minnesota but one that has become naturalized in western North America.

And Sarah Betzler ’10 observed two of the flashier species present at Seven-Mile Creek County Park: American Redstart and Rosebreasted Grosbeak.

Chuck McGill ’84 is a regular observer of the birds found along the nature trail near River Crest elementary in Hudson, Wis. As his son played lacrosse at the elementary school, Chuck was able to enjoy looks at Eastern Phoebe, Horned Lark, Northern Rough-winged Swallow, and Eastern Bluebird among other species.

Chuck also blogs about his birdwalks and welcomes readers (go to http://rivercrestbirds.wordpress.com). Elsewhere in Wisconsin, Robert Schurrer ’02 spotted some Sandhill Cranes while out turkey hunting in Hugo (he saw some Wild Turkeys, too), and Lavonne Golnast Galbraith ’45 found a Barred Owl near Green Bay that she was able to share with both her daughter and granddaughter.

Bruce Jones ’64 found a total of 80 bird species in Washington, Virginia, located in the northeast part of the state. On his list were both Black and Turkey vultures, Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Barn Owl, Acadian and Alder flycatchers, White-eyed Vireo, Yellow-throated and Prairie warblers, Louisiana Waterthrush, and Yellowbreasted Chat. In Crawfordsville, Ind., Lowell Anderson ’62 recorded Northern Bobwhite, Willow Flycatcher, Bell’s Vireo, Cerulean and Worm-eating warblers, Blue Grosbeak, and the most Red-headed Woodpeckers he’d seen in a very long time (this species is declining in many parts of its range).

In his Fort Collins, Colo., backyard, Lowell McEwen ’52 found many species characteristic of the Rockies, including Pygmy Nuthatch, Lazuli Bunting, and Cassin’s Finch. A Eurasian Collared-Dove in his yard might have been unexpected several years ago, but this introduced species once endemic to southern Asia has be-

come increasingly common throughout North America since the first few birds were found in southern Florida in the early 1980s. Elsewhere in the West, Lois Wall Hellberg ’55 did some shore-birding around San Diego and found Little Blue Heron, Snowy Egret, Brown Pelican, Marbled Godwit, American Avocet, Brant, and California Gull. Other good birds that Lois added to the list include Lesser Goldfinch, Black Phoebe, Anna’s and Allen’s hummingbirds, Western Scrub-Jay, Western Bluebird, Hooded Oriole, Western Tanager, and California Quail, all found near La Mesa.

The largest species list came from Tanzania, submitted by David Peterson ’73. Ninety percent of the 164 bird species he and Dr. Colin Beale found that day were observed within a radius of one kilometer, which shows the difference in diversity between the tropics of Africa and the more temperate zones of North America. David describes their location as “right on the edge of a large swamp that was pretty busy, with a minimum of 10 to 20 thousand water birds . . . on the other side was dry Acacia and Desert Date wooded scrubland where we got a very good representation of Somali Maasai biome birds.” It’s difficult not to get excited when one sees the names White-bellied Goaway Bird and Beautiful Sunbird. Equally impressive was a list from Gustavus biology professor and Executive Director of the Linnaeus Arboretum Cindy Johnson and her daughter, Mara, who have been living in Tanzania for the past year on Johnson’s Fulbright Award. Among other interesting bird names were a Malachite Kingfisher and Lilac-breasted Roller; a quick online search for photos of these birds produces images that make our Northern Cardinals and Baltimore Orioles look like ordinary, ubiquitous House Sparrows.

Many, many thanks to all of the Gustie birders who went birding on May 15 and reported their lists back to Gustavus; their enthusiasm and eager participation in this first-annual event made it an undeniable success. You’re invited to join in next year for the second annual Gustavus Birding Big Day on Saturday, May 14, 2011. Can we break the 500-species mark?

Bob Dunlap ’08 has been campus naturalist and Nobel Hall greenhouse coordinator at the College since graduating with biology and English majors in 2008.

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Martin named to Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal Women in Business list

Last May Michele Vossen Martin ’86, Plymouth, MN, was named to a list of 51 winners of its annual Women in Business Awards by Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal. Each year, the Business Journal honors 25 Women to Watch, leaders to keep an eye on for continued success, as well as 25 Industry Leaders who are at the forefront of their industries. Martin is managing director, Private Wealth Management at J.P. Morgan & Co. Last year, J.P. Morgan’s private-client services business tapped Martin to expand its recently established Twin Cities office.

Since then, she’s grown the local operation’s assets by about 60 percent, and expanded its client base by 90 percent. That accomplishment is one of many for Martin, who has about 25 years’ experience in banking. Prior to joining J.P. Morgan, she was Minnesota director of private banking at M&I Bank’s wealth management division. Martin also serves on the boards of Family & Children’s Services and the Minneapolis Rotary Club Foundation.

Reporters meet Tim Nelson ’89, the morning general assignment reporter for Minnesota Public Radio, was covering an Amy Klobuchar press event during the State Fair in September. As he plugged in his recorder, Adam Carter ’98, the main day radio reporter from WCCO Radio, came up and plugged in beside him at the Agricultural Building. It was only as they engaged in small talk while awaiting Klobuchar’s arrival that they discovered that they were both Gusties. “We’re often the two radio reporters covering Minnesota events,” says Nelson, “he AM and me FM.”

▲ Grant awarded Daytime Emmy Ian Grant ’91, Minneapolis, has earned a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Special Class Series for his television show, The Relic Hunter with Ian Grant. The show received the award from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences on June 25 in Los Angeles. The Relic Hunter is produced by the Travel Channel and features Grant as he travels the world to find amazing artifacts. From the steamy jungles of Peru to the remote mountains of Romania, each episode showcases Grant as he immerses himself in the local culture with the ultimate goal of meeting and working alongside the master craftsmen who continue to use ancient methods to create their traditional objects. Frequently invited into a village’s “inner circle,” Grant, who has studied at the National Gallery and the British Museum in London in a self structured course and helped curate shows at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, is sometimes privileged to witness cultural celebrations and secret ceremonies—many of which have never been filmed. His business, Björling-Grant, has earned a reputation in the design world as one of the best sources for beautiful cultural objects from around the world.

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WEDDINGS Lynn Anderson ’88 and Craig Tomlinson, 6/07/08, Rushville, IL. Kristie Koehler ’94 and Brent Vogel, 9/3/10, Edina, MN. Kirsten Carter ’95 and Ben Rubenzer, 7/2/10, Hudson, WI. Tom Walker ’00 and Mary Miheve, 5/29/10, Minneapolis, MN. Betsy Kumagai ’02 and Sam Cornelius, 5/1/10, St. Louis Park, MN. Megan Wahlund ’03 and Jeremy Blaschko, 10/16/10, Minneapolis, MN. Ann Humburg ’04 and Joshua Crofton, Rochester, MN. Meghan LaVelle ’04 and Blair Williams, 6/19/10, New Richmond, WI. Tessa Anderson ’05 and Kurt Lahr, 1/23/10, Morgan, MN. Marni Brigger ’05 and Ian Pearson, 7/10/10, Mankato, MN. Rebecca Kuehl ’05 and Adam Hybbert, 5/22/10, St. Paul, MN. Jeff Stewart ’05 and Kristen Reinert, Fort Thomas, KY. Brandy Stuve ’05 and Dan Shupien, Rockford, MN. Amber Wilson ’05 and Jeremy Stevens, 8/28/10, Elk River, MN. Leah Amundson ’06 and John M. Gilbert ’02, 5/1/10, Waconia, MN. Blythe Bittman ’06 and Zach Mitchell ’06, 7/31/10, Eden Prairie, MN. Tara Brown ’06 and Jason McCabe, 8/7/10, Richfield, MN. Ann Malkovich ’06 and Ty Haschig ’06, 10/16/10.

Mollie Peterson ’06 and Dave Dvorak, 1/30/10, Little Canada, MN. Brianna Sander ’06 and Nathan Borka ’04, 5/15/10, Grand Marais, MN. Maren Anderson ’07 and Matthew Webb, 8/14/10, Linconwood, IL. Pamela Bechtle ’07 and Allen Jacobson, 8/07/10, Montevideo, MN. Kristin Erb ’07 and Lorin Skoglund ’08, 8/21/10, Eden Prairie, MN. Jennifer Jacobson ’07 and Kurt Heinen, Lake Elmo, MN. Breanne Staples ’07 and Mark Stuckey ’08, 7/10/10, West Des Moines, IA. Carrie Williamson ’07 and Nicholas R. Bope ’09, 5/8/10, Stony Brook, NY. Lindsay Peak ’08 and Joey Kaufhold, Stillwater, MN. Louis A. VanderStreek ’08 and Leanne Townsend, 7/23/10, Johnston, IA. Jennae E. Gyllen ’09 and Elliot Saltzman ’08, 8/14/10, St. Croix Falls, WI. Erin Hirschey ’09 and Ian Wolff ’08, 8/27/10, Delano, MN. Rachel Anderson ’10 and Jonathan Kamrath ’10, 6/26/10, Hutchinson, MN. Alexandra Brakke ’10 and Jeff Sedlmayr, 8/14/10, Alma, WI. Mary Cunningham ’10 and Cole Carlson ’10, 6/26/10, Boulder, CO.

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BIRTHS

Steve Ritz ’91, Chaska, MN, founded Fitness First of MN, Inc., in Chaska in 1998 and expanded to a second location in Excelsior in 2008. Fitness First is a premier fitness company, offering appointmentonly supervised strength training, aftercare/rehabilitation, athletic enhancement, and nutritional advisement utilizing the Ritz-designed SEE-FIT training system. SEEFIT was developed to accomplish fitness goals with only two intense 45–60 minute sessions a week. It’s a customized total-body workout that implements biomechanically correct training for complete safety, cutting-edge equipment for maximum efficiency, and scientific protocols and methods that guarantee an effective workout.

Ritz has a master’s degree in exercise physiology from Minnesota State Mankato. He has 21 years of experience training individuals of all ages, genders, and ability levels and offers experience from working with the Minnesota Vikings, Cleveland Indians, Villanova University, North Dakota State, and other strength and conditioning staffs as well as cardiac and rehabilitation clients. He has also been featured on WCCO TV, KARE 11 TV, and KSTP TV and is a frequent guest on WCCO radio.

Ritz is not the only Gustavus connection at Fitness First. Since he founded Fitness First there has been a very strong Gustavus influence, as Ritz has hosted eleven Gustavus students for health fitness program-required internships. Gustavus interns have included Eric Mattson ’99, Brian Bergstrom ’02, Mary Puder ’04, Nicole Buesgens Evenski ’05, Chad Guentzel ’05, Greg Viland ’05, Ashley Clemen Edwards ’07, Nick McCoy ’08, Ben Maisenbach ’09, Tony Austad ’10, and Scott Mangen ’10.

“I find hosting the students to be very rewarding, and clients enjoy having the students on staff. Hosting allows me to stay connected and give back to Gustavus, provides a rewarding experience for me, and challenges me to continually stay sharp with science because, as Joseph Joubert stated, ‘To teach is to learn twice.’ Internships provide diverse experiences, generate possible employment opportunities with Fitness First, and in some cases, open doors for other career and educational opportunities. I certainly look forward to continuing my connection to Gustavus through the internship program.”

Pictured are current Gustie grads on Fitness First staff. Kneeling is Tony Austad ’10. In the back row are Nick McCoy ’08, Ben Maisenbach ’09, and Scott Mangen ’10. In the middle, being supported by his staff, is Steve Ritz ’91. Learn more at fitnessfirstmn.com.

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Twins, Madeleine and Sophia, to Julia Nephew ’88 and Eric Bergman, 2/1/10.

Abigail, to Lynn Anderson Tomlinson ’88 and Craig Tomlinson, 4/4/09.

Twins, Joseph and Samuel, to Laura Koenig Garner ’91 and Rick Garner, 8/4/10.

Nathan, to Darin R. Zielsdorf ’92 and Monica Zielsdorf, 1/9/10.

Ford, to Christine Eilertson Bronson ’94 and Ryan Bronson, 9/28/09.

Alexander, to Michael T. Mertz ’94 and Victoria Hagel Mertz, 12/4/09.

Sven, to Kristin Brudvig Kenessey ’95 and Aurel Kenessey, 2/27/10.

Charlie, to Alana Gustafson Erickson ’97 and Jeffrey A. Erickson ’93, 11/8/09.

Logan, to Kimberly J. Miller ’97 and Steve Bui, 1/30/10.

Ingrid, to Brian D. Rolig ’97 and Kristy Anderson Rolig, 3/27/10.

John, to Becky Blanton ’98 and John R. Batek IV, 6/30/10.

Elin, to Jennifer Pulford Brink ’98 and Derek D. Brink ’98, 3/17/10.

Sawyer, to DeAnn DeLoach Deitner ’98 and Jim Deitner Jr., 5/27/10.

Mallory, to Molly Bohn Lee ’98 and Zachary S. Lee, 6/4/10.

River, to Erika Jeffrey Vickerman ’98 and Peter M. Vickerman ’99, 8/24/10.

Ian, to Karen Wight Hoogheem ’98 and Joel W. Wight Hoogheem, 2/25/10.

Konrad, to Elin Ahldén ’99 and Anders Ullström, 6/23/10.

Britta, to Becky Carlson Brand ’99 and Brian Brand, 9/2/09.

Sophia, to Dan Elling ’99 and Sonya Sotak Elling, 7/17/09.

Henrik James, to Alyssa Malinski Erickson ’99 and Stephen G. Erickson ’99, 7/18/10.

Rocco, to Sarah Berg Kreykes ’99 and Nathaniel S. Kreykes ’96, 7/27/10.

Colin, to Angie Schuette Meagher ’99 and Rory M. Meagher, 3/23/10.

Corben, to Melaina Thorson Bjorklund ’00 and Eric L. Bjorklund ’96, 5/5/10.

Siena, to Tara Anlauf Hupton ’00 and Nicholas E. Hupton ’99, 4/14/10.

David, to Sarah Mullins Leonard ’00 and Keith Leonard, 7/12/10.

Franklin, to Laura Berg Menden ’00 and Jacob Menden, 3/26/10.

Tessa, to Katharine O’Connell Merrell ’00 and Michael J. Merrell, 12/14/09.

Ellie, to Travis W. Quast ’00 and Angela Loken Quast, 4/28/10.

Ingrid, to Anne Aageson Venable ’00 and Thomas Venable, 10/11/08.

Emily, to Regan Nitz Dose ’01 and Bradley R. Dose, 6/14/10.

Bode, to Angie Erickson-Grussing ’01 and Michael R. Grussing, 7/12/10.

Theodore, to Vanessa Linder Foy ’01 and Steve Foy, 4/2/10.

Bennett, to Ryan M. Meulemans ’01 and Nicole Ostrem Meulemans, 5/21/10.

Taycee, to Melanie Bitz Paape ’01 and Kevin Paape, 8/14/10.

Annabella, to Carlie Thompson Sevcik ’01 and Joseph Sevcik, 7/4/10.

Gusties strong at Fitness First

Marking her centenary

Marguerite Herberg Wold Schmidt ’32, Oak Park Heights, MN, celebrated her 100th birthday on April 9, 2010, with 200 friends and relatives at a reception in her honor. Marg was born in St. Peter but attended schools in Hastings, MN, where she graduated as the salutatorian of her class.

She majored in English and history at Gustavus. She is pictured at the party with relatives in attendance who are all Gustavus graduates: from left, Stuart Rome ’82, John Lewis ’71, Deb Johnson Lewis ’71, Elizabeth Johnson Ekholm ’64, Amy Rome ’88, Connie Wold Rome ’57, Katelyn Johnson ’10, Kelly Rome Johnson ’84, Allison Wold ’04, David Wold ’08, and Norman Wold ’60.

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▲ Maple River Hall of Fame strong on Gusties Gustavus Adolphus College was well represented when the Maple River AAA Foundation (Academics–Arts–Athletics) honored its inaugural Hall of Fame class of 16 inductees at a brunch in Mapleton, MN, on Oct. 2. Among the teachers, students, and benefactors of Maple River High School or its predecessor schools who were recognized were seven who were either Gustavus alumni or had significant connections with the College: Glenn Rippel ’50 (posthumously, represented at the ceremonies by his family—daughters Nancy Rippel Miller ’69 and Judy Rippel Waldhauser, administrative assistant in admission at the College, and son Robert Rippel); Ted Mays ’68; Kim Beyer-Fragodt ’83; Erik Leagjeld ’92; Jared Mays ’03; Julie Nelson, former assistant softball coach at Gustavus (1998–2001); and Jeff Annis, head softball coach at Gustavus since 2005. Pictured following the ceremonies, from left, were Annis, Steve Waldhauser ’70 (son-in-law of the late Glenn Rippel), Rippel’s daughter Nancy Miller ’69, Steve’s wife, Judy Waldhauser (with Miller’s grandson—and Rippel’s great grandson—Björn Aune), Beyer-Fragodt, Jared Mays, and Ted Mays, Jared’s father and an inductee in his own right. (Nelson and Leagjeld were unable to attend.)

Hansen and Seidel honored by Finance & Commerce

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Robyn Wieman Hansen ’71, St. Paul, an attorney and shareholder at Leonard, Street and Deinard, and Amy Seidel ’95, Minneapolis, a partner at Faegre & Benson LLP, were named by Finance and Commerce among the Top Women in Finance. The award honors outstanding efforts of women who are making notable contributions to their professions, their communities, and society at large throughout Minnesota.

Hansen has extensive experience in public finance that includes being the lead finance attorney for the St. Paul Port Authority for the past 30 years. She is very involved in the St. Paul community in many ways, including the Capital City Partnership, Minnesota State Fair Foundation, Park Square Theatre, St. Paul Foundation, Minnesota Institute of Public Finance, and Metropolitan State University Foundation, and as the current board chair for the Amherst H. Wilder Foundation. Hansen is now in the Circle of Excellence, which is designated for those who have won the award twice.

Beginning in 2010, Seidel was chosen to co-lead her firm’s public companies and securities practice. In addition to the firm’s mentoring practice, Seidel also leads several associate training programs. Seidel also is involved in alumni relations for both Gustavus and the University of Minnesota Law School, where she serves as an adjunct professor.

Finance & Commerce is Minnesota’s only daily business newspaper and online resource. Since 1887, the publication has covered all aspects of commerce, with a special emphasis on the real estate, construction, banking/finance, energy, and technology industries.

Robyn Hansen ’71 Amy Seidel ’95

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Douglas, to Diane Moberg Aikin ’02 and Carter Aikin, 11/13/09.

Nadia, to Andrew Mulder ’02 and Leslie Ruth Mulder, 8/23/10.

Rigg, to Brie Stevenson Nelson ’02 and Cullen G. Nelson ’02, 1/10/10.

Kaitlin, to Karen Warkentien Oglesby ’02 and Charlie Oglesby, 4/3/10.

Alexander, to Alyssa Stanley Stroemer ’02 and Erik Stroemer, 4/9/10.

Owen, to Allison Opay Wong ’02 and Jimmy Wong, 5/28/09.

Vivian, to Nate Bergengren ’03 and Audrey Peeters Bergengren, 8/7/10.

Damian, to Alison Doppelhammer Gorsevski ’03 and Alexander S. Gorsevski, 2/8/10.

Eden, to Emily Ament Wartsbaugh ’03 and Keith Wartsbaugh, 12/18/09.

Lucie, to Kristin Lunemann Comstock ’04 and Michael Comstock, 11/15/09.

Liam, to Sheri Rickabaugh Dack ’04 and Jonathan Dack, 5/20/10.

Ayden, to Jon Farnsworth ’04 and Elyse Farnsworth, 6/13/10.

Megan, to Karen Gennrich Lewis ’04 and John E. Lewis Jr., 3/14/10.

Broden, to Barry R. Park ’04 and Bethanie Park, 2/1/10.

McKenna, to Bethany Hirst Jensen ’05 and Mark J. Jensen ’05, 7/7/10.

Mirenna, to Alisha Hussong Galle ’06 and Jeffrey Galle, 5/8/10.

Reese, to Jenny Jacobson Heinen ’07 and Kurt Heinen.

IN MEMORIAM Leslie Wiberg ’34, Eau Claire, WI, on September 6, 2010. He was a retired wholesale food salesman for Delicious Foods and is survived by one son and one sister.

Claudia Estenson Slater ’36, Stevens Point, WI, on October 11, 2010. She is survived by three daughters.

Ila Mae Erickson Dornfeld ’39, Golden Valley, MN, on September 20, 2010. She was a retired educator, served as Gustavus co-class agent for eight years, and is survived by one son, daughter Jane Zenk ’68, and one brother.

Dorothy Peterson Harris ’39, Newhall, CA, on her 93rd birthday, July 22, 2010. She was a life-long volunteer and is survived by two sons.

Glen Spetz ’42, Largo, FL, on August 6, 2010. He was a retired guidance systems engineer for Honeywell and is survived by his wife, Peggy, three sons, and one daughter.

Willis Hoyt ’44, Underwood, MN, on August 22, 2010. He was a retired owner and operator of a funeral home and a furniture store and is survived by two sons and one daughter.

Karl Sturnick ’48, Olympia, WA, on August 9, 2010. He was a retired salesman for Remington-Rand, Swift and Co., and Unitech Chemical, Inc., and is survived by his wife, Lorraine, and three daughters.

Shirley Dawes Johnson ’49, Milaca, MN, on September 4, 2010. She was retired Mille Lacs County Family Services worker, supervisor, and director, and is survived by her husband, Walden, and one son.

Herbert Miller ’49, Blaine, MN, on August 7, 2010.

He was a retired materials and process engineer for Honeywell, served as Gustavus class

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Correction - Gus Harms ’53, Waterloo, WI, on April 5, 2010. He was an attorney and is survived by his wife, Joanne, and two daughters.

The Gilbert family (from left, Liisa, Anja, Lukis, Ailsa, and Andrew holding Lonne) traveled to Buson during the Chusok break. Chusok is the harvest holiday, similar to Thanksgiving, and one of the biggest holidays in Korea. ▲ A commitment to teach in South Korea Liisa (Maki ’94) and Andrew ’93 Gilbert made an informal pact when they married. “We said we would go into education and live overseas at some point,” says Liisa. “Then we had kids and everything got busy, but now we view it as an even bigger bonus to try it with our children.”

Liisa and Andrew have taken a two-year leave from their administrative positions with the Chaska School District to teach at the Taejon Christian International School in South Korea. Andrew is teaching middle school social studies, while Liisa is teaching high school English. Adding to the experience was moving with a family of four children—Lukas, Ailsa, Anja, and Lonne—ranging in age from 11 to 3.

Once they had determined that they were ready to follow through on their pact, the Gilberts attended an international job fair at the University of Northern Iowa. South Korea seemed to be the best fit. “Asia, and primarily South Korea, had needs for teachers with both our licensures and could accommodate a family of six,” says Andrew.

They found an apartment in Daejeon, 90 miles south of Seoul, and moved in in time for the start of the Taejon school term on August 9. Daejeon has a population of 1.6 million people, just a few more than the 4,118 inhabitants of their hometown, Watertown.

Both Gilberts agree that the two-year commitment will provide an excellent professional experience. Andrew recently finished his 16th year in District 112, the last two at Chaska High School as a dean and activities director. Lisa has been with District 112 for nine years, the last six as district English Language Learners (ELL) coordinator. “It will be fun to get back to teaching,” Liisa says.

“Taejon Christian International School is a certified International Baccalaureate program and uses American curriculum,” Andrew notes. “I’ve never experienced the program but I hope to learn from it and apply that to what we do in District 112.”

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agent 1961–1967, and is survived by his wife, Aldys (Johnson ’49), two sons, and two daughters including Janelle Gregg ’89.

Kathryn Peterson Peterson ’49, Trimont, MN, on September 4, 2010. She was retired home economics teacher in Ceylon and is survived by her husband, Leslie, two daughters including Greta Christianson ’80, one sister, and one brother.

Harold Swanson ’49, Inver Grove Heights, MN, on August 26, 2010. He was retired owner of Percy Vittum & Co., South St. Paul Stockyards, and a member of the Gustavus Athletics Hall of Fame.

He is survived by one daughter and sons Mark ’73, Brad ’79, and Jeff ’85.

Pauline Nelson Gustafson ’50, Bloomington, MN, on July 9, 2010. She was retired employee for Anthonie’s Clothing and is survived by her husband, Wells, three sons, and one sister.

Rodger Johnson ’50, Lawrence, KS, on September 15, 2010. He was a retired hospital administrator and is survived by his wife, Marcia (Anderson ’49), two sons, and two daughters including Laurel ’79.

Joan Goodman Halberg ’51, Murrells Inlet, SC, on September 8, 2010. She was a retired administrative assistant in the economics department at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn., and is survived by one son and two daughters.

Richard Brown ’52, Chanhassen, MN, on July 31, 2010. He was a retired business consultant, an executive in commercial construction, and served as Gustavus class agent for five years. He is survived by his wife, Marilyn, two sons, daughter Catherine Bahls ’76, and two sisters including Vicki Johnson ’66.

Harley Rex ’54, Albany, OR, on September 17, 2010.

He was retired chief scheduler officer for Champion Plywood and is survived by three sons, one brother, and one sister.

Jean Brown Larson ’56, Edina, MN, on August 6, 2010. She is survived by her husband, Bob, one son, one daughter, her mother, and one sister.

Heather Peterson Davis-Peabody ’58, St. Paul, MN, on September 3, 2010. She was a former office manager for the State of Minnesota and is survived by one son and friend Robert Lund.

Richard Sodergren ‘58, Seattle, WA, on August 30, 2010. He was retired public health adviser for the State of Washington and is survived by his wife, Katherine, and two daughters.

Robert Ekstrum ’63, Minnetonka, MN, on July 7, 2010. He was retired vice president of technology and development for CMS Direct and a self-employed consultant; he is survived by his wife, Sheilah, two sons, one daughter, and one brother.

Paul Iverson ’64, Spicer, MN, on September 9, 2010.

He was a retired orthopedic surgeon and is survived by his wife, Jean, son John ’93, two daughters including Lisa Bolle ’94, and brother Bruce ’69.

Ed Lamp ‘64, Woodville, OH, on October 10, 2010.

He was a professor of economics and psychology at Terra Community College and is survived by his wife, Neta (Frykman ’64), two daughters including Abby Heckman ’94, and one sister.

Petrasek sworn in as WSBA Young Lawyers Division president

Kari Petrasek ’99, Lynnwood, WA, was sworn in on Sept. 24 as the 2010–11 president of the WSBA Young Lawyers Division (WYLD) by the Washington State Bar Association. She is currently one of three attorneys at Carson Law Group, P.S., in Everett.

Petrasek focuses her practice on juvenile law, and is also an advocate for children, serving as a volunteer and attorney guardian ad litem for dependent children.

She was named Volunteer Guardian Ad Litem of the month in June 2008 and March 2010 by the Snohomish County Guardian Ad Litem Program. In addition to juvenile cases, Petrasek also handles business law, collection, and trust and estate matters.

Petrasek is a trustee and founding member of the Snohomish County Young Lawyers Division board. She has served on the WYLD Trial Advocacy Program for the past five years, including two years as co-chair and one year as chair. She is the incoming District 29 (Washington/Oregon) representative for the American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division, and has also served on its awards and subgrants team and member service team. Petrasek has been a member of the Washington State CASA since 2003, and serves on numerous other boards and committees in her community.

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Melissa Klaas ’02 and Heather Moky ’97 met at Christ Evangelical Lutheran, Chicago, IL, and became friends after joining a women’s wellness small group.

They both enjoyed a morning workout so they met for a 5:45 a.m. neighborhood park run three days a week. One morning after several months, Moky noticed Klaas’s Gustavus car sticker. They had no idea they shared alma maters and had much to talk about during the next few workouts. On August 22, 2010, they successfully participated in the Danskin Triathlon Series in Pleasant Prairie, WI.

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Gusties sing in Scandinavia

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Gustie members of Normandale Lutheran Church Choir of Edina, MN, completed a two-week tour in Sweden and Norway June 11–25, 2010.

This photo was taken in Stockholm under a statue of King Gustav. Pictured from left are Jon Grimsby ’06, Erin Crimmins Grimsby ’06, Paul Elofson ’52, Holly Lipelt ’94, Amy Zenk James ’94, Cameron James ’94, and Ruth Carlson Anderson ’70.

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Pearson receives Educator of the Year honor

Ferial Mohamed Pearson ’01, Ralston, NE, an English teacher at Omaha South High School, was selected the 2010 Educator of the Year by NEW YORK–GLSEN, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network. Pearson was chosen from nearly 100 nominees from across the country. GLSEN is the leading national education organization focused on ensuring safe schools for all students.

Pearson has served as Omaha South’s Gay-Straight Alliance adviser since she started teaching nine years ago and has been on the GLSEN Omaha Chapter board for three years; she also advises the school’s Unity Club.

A native of Kenya, Pearson moved to the United States at 19, at which point she had never read anything written by a person of color.

She cried when in college she read a poem by a person of color for the first time. Until that moment she had not realized that she could be important, too. After graduating from Gustavus, she went on to earn a master of arts degree in secondary education from the University of Nebraska–Omaha. She now speaks six languages fluently and is in the process of learning Spanish from her students.

Pearson was nominated by a former student, who said, “She really does make a difference in people’s lives. She’s made a difference in mine.”

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Sara Brigger Dziuk ’02 was recently named executive director of Admission Possible Twin Cities—a nonprofit organization based in St. Paul dedicated to helping low-income high school students prepare for and earn admission to college by providing ACT/SAT test preparation, admissions and financial aid consulting, and guidance in the transition to college. As executive director, she is responsible for all day-to-day management and operation issues, leading strategic organizational development, raising funds, coordinating communications, and building relationships with partner organizations in the Twin Cities. Dziuk joined Admission Possible after spending several years with Junior Achievement of the Upper Midwest. In her most recent role as vice president of education, Dziuk was responsible for JA’s K–12 programs—impacting 120,000 students annually with lessons on financial literacy, career and college readiness, and entrepreneurship. Prior to her work with Junior Achievement, Dziuk served as vice president of the Greater Mankato Convention & Visitors Bureau.

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Runners discover another commonality

Zieglers coaching track champions

Erich and Chandra Daw Ziegler ’06 ’06, Crystal Falls, MI, coach the boy’s and girl’s track teams and have brought success to the Crystal Falls High School track programs. Erich is the head coach of the boy’s team and Chandra head coach of the girl’s team. The boys won the UP championship in each of the last two years, a feat that hasn’t been achieved in over 30 years, and the girl’s team was runner-up last year.

Erick and Chandra are pictured with their regional championship trophies.

James Bean ’68, excelsior, MN, on July 31, 2010. he was business owner of Greenwood Marina, excelsior, and Green Parrot, Key West, Fl, and is survived by his wife, linda, one son, one daughter, and two brothers.

Sandra Wahlberg Stocks ‘69, rapid City, sD, on august 21, 2009. she is survived by her husband, steven, three daughters, one son, two sisters, and her mother, lillian Wahlberg h’51.

Patricia McGill Jackson ’72, Coon rapids, Ia, on august 30, 2010. she was employed as a nurse for the Coon rapids-Bayard school District and is survived by her husband, Dean ’71, two daughters, two sons, six sisters, and three brothers.

David Baxter ’80, Chanhassen, MN, on October 12, 2010. he was a grain trader, instructor for skijammers, and employed in sporting goods sales. he is survived by his wife, Deb (Toutloff ’78), one daughter, one son, his mother, Patricia (Price ’53), and one sister.

Steve Sayre ’80, eden Prairie, MN, on august 23, 2010. he was finance director for Medtronic Inc., served as Gustavus class agent 1980– 2010, and is survived by his wife, Katherine (Brown ’80), one son, one daughter, his parents, and two sisters.

Kathleen Kating Olson ’86, Marion, Ia, on august 18, 2010. she was a homemaker and educator and is survived by her husband, Jeff ’85, one son, two daughters, her parents, and one brother.

Nicholas Grieve ’07, richfield, MN, on august 1, 2010. he was an auditor for Boulay, heutmaker & Zibell and is survived by his parents and two brothers.

Ruth Dannehl, st. Paul, MN, on september 21, 2010. she was an emerita professor of nursing at Gustavus and is survived by one brother and one sister. see page 6 for more information.

Marv Friedewald, la Crosse, WI, on June 24, 2010. he was a former economics and management instructor at Gustavus and is survived by his wife, annette, one son, and two daughters.

Hazel Johnson, st. anthony, MN, on september 6, 2010. she was an emerita professor in the department of nursing at Gustavus, serving as chair from 1969–1981. see page 6 for more information.

Marvin “Barney” Lewellyn, Mankato, MN, on august 28, 2010. he coached high school and college football for 50 years, including several years at Gustavus; he is survived by one son and two daughters.

Phyllis Young, Baxter, MN, on september 23, 2010. she served on the Gustavus Board of Trustees 1982–1989 and is survived by her husband, Dallas ’50, and four sons including Jon ’77, steven ’78, and Thomas ’88.

NOMINATIONS SOUGHT FOR

assOCIaTION OF CONGreGaTIONs AWARDS your help is requested identifying nominees for the two Gustavus adolphus College association of Congregations awards—the Covenant award and service award. Criteria for selection is outlined below. Past recipients can be reviewed at gustavus.edu/churchrelations.

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COVENANT AWARD The Covenant award is presented for distinctive contributions that have strengthened the partnership between Gustavus and member congregations of the association of Congregations. The selection emphasizes the level of commitment and the effort, innovation, and creativity used; support to the GaCaC and the partnership between Gustavus and lutheran congregations; and support to the mission of the College and/or of congregations. recipients need not be graduates, but may include alumni, pastors, delegates of the association, faculty, staff, and students.

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SERVICE AWARD The service award recognizes alumni and former students of Gustavus who have made distinctive commitments and contributions to the service of others based on “a mature understanding of the Christian faith, service to others, a sense of community, an international perspective, and attitudes and behaviors that work toward a free and peaceful world.” efforts celebrated include service activities through volunteer work, church, and/or extraordinary professional accomplishments, with consideration given to level of commitment and effort and benefit to others without concern for personal gain. Further, a nominee would see their “life’s work as vocation, a call to service for the greater good of the community.” recipients include alumni and former students of Gustavus.

Please forward nominations with information in support of your nominee to Marilyn Beyer, assistant director of church relations (mbeyer@gustavus.edu). For more information, contact the Office of Church relations at 800-726-6194.

Errata In the Fall 2010 issue of the Quarterly, we retired Marilyn Anderson Stephan ’55 prematurely. she is, in fact, retired since 1995 from a long career in public education. however, stephan embarked on a second career in 1999 when she was elected to serve on the city council of Berkley, MI. In 2005 she was elected mayor of Berkley, an inner-ring suburb located north of Detroit recently designated by Bloomberg Business

Week magazine as the “Best affordable suburb” in the united states (from among more than 850 communities). stephan was reelected in 2007 and again in 2009; so she’s certainly not “retired” as mayor, as we had indicated.

of that great company,” Chase writes, “I have been retired for four-and-a half years now and am partner and CFO of The antique Chasers, antique dealers in elgin and Giddings, TX, and online with ruby lane shops.”

On the other hand, we failed to retire Randy Chase ’70, listing him as currently employed by 3M. “Though I was a 35-year employee

Our apologies to both Gusties for messing with their retirements!

WINTer 2010–2011

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CHAPTERS AND CHAPTER AGENTS For information about chapters and activities in your area, contact your chapter agent or the alumni Office at 800-487-8437 or e-mail alumni@gustavus.edu.

ARIZONA

IOWA

MISSOURI

Phoenix Brad Somero ’83 480-706-6236 bsomero1@msn.com Berney Streed ’82 scottsdale 480-502-6818 bstreed@cox.net

Des Moines Mike Rooney ’92 ankeny 515-225-4531 mike.rooney@rbcdain.com

Kansas City Position open St. Louis Brenda Thomas Schnettler ’97 314-749-5728 brendaschnettler@hotmail.com

CALIFORNIA Bay Area Judy Flom Shoemaker-Hill ’62 los altos 650-941-3087 gandjhill@comcast.net Los Angeles Position open San Diego John & Wendy Binger Morris ’84 ’84 Chula vista 619-656-4196 j_morris@ix.netcom.com w_morris@ix.netcom.com

MARYLAND/ DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Baltimore Theresa Lance Richardson ’94 Davidsonville, MD 410-798-7111 t_richardson@verizon.net Washington, DC, Area Melissa Barkalow ’02 arlington, va 703-271-0203 mbarkalow@cbmove.com

FLORIDA Orlando Kim Line Edwards ’83 407-859-5465 kcedwards@cfl.rr.com Tampa Bay Laura Anderson Long ’86 Clearwater 111lauralong@verizon.net

GEORGIA Atlanta Linda Bailey Keefe ’69 404-231-5007 keefe@mindspring.com

ILLINOIS Chicago Becky Anderson Fahrenz ’87 aurora 630-236-6864 rfahrenz18@aol.com

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Omaha Steve Wilson ’91 402-505-3849

Boston Charlotte Fagerberg ’97 Cambridge 617-640-7331 charlotte.fagerberg@gmail.com

Las Vegas Paul Schminsky ’93 310-218-6999 schminsky@aol.com

New York City Area Kris Rowe ’86 212-265-6514 nycgustie@aol.com

NORTH/SOUTH CAROLINA

MICHIGAN

Charlotte Position open

East Lansing Position open

NORTH DAKOTA

MINNESOTA Alexandria Jessica Nelson ’05 320-846-5149 jessica@jnelsonhomes.com Brainerd Lakes Area Dallas Young ’50 Baxter 218-828-6210 dalphyl@q.net Duluth Position open Moorhead Ann Newgard-Larson ’80 Detroit lakes 218-844-7270 pastorann@arvig.net Rochester Jim Isaak ’86 507-285-3313 isaak.jim@mayo.edu St. Cloud Position open Three Rivers Area Brandon Hanson ’97 elk river 763-232-6663 brandon.hanson@thrivent.com Willmar Brett Aamot ’82 320-235-6464 brett@cdscpa.com

WASHINGTON Seattle Nate Torgelson ’88 206-789-0533 tntorg@msn.com Richard Williams ’55 sammamish 425-392-5525 r20thwill@comcast.net

NEVADA

NEW YORK MASSACHUSETTS

COLORADO Denver Ross & Tina Strandvold Gustafson ’84 ’84 Golden 303-278-4772 rtgus@comcast.net tina.gustafson@coors.com Elise vonLuhrte-Neugebauer ’00 & Josh Neugebauer ’00 edgewater 303-478-5684 jneugeba@msn.com evonneu@hotmail.com

NEBRASKA

Houston Jeff Marshall ’75 713-862-3323

Fargo Ann Newgard-Larson ’80 Detroit lakes, MN 218-844-7270 pastorann@arvig.net

OHIO Cleveland Peter Shriver ’94 216-932-4677 peteshriver@aol.com

OREGON Portland Jim & Amber Shockey Nurmi ’97 ’97 West linn 503-697-3564 jnurmi@ebs.ogi.edu ambernurmi@gmail.com

WISCONSIN Madison Benjamin & Britta Olson Lindberg ’01 ’02 Monona 608-663-1718 britlind@gmail.com Nathan Plumb ’98 608-798-1992 chaoren11@yahoo.com Milwaukee Beth Jorgenson Gissibl ’03 414-745-1995 bajorgenson@hotmail.com Wausau Jason Hohenstein ’93 2214 seville rd., Mosinee 54455

GREAT BRITAIN London Amy Mickelson Thompson ’87 44-208-455-8086 peteramy@yahoo.com

JAPAN Tokyo Paul Hoff ’72 81-3-54304305 phoffp@gmail.com

SPAIN Madrid Cynthia Javoroski ’87 34-91-815-0736 cynthia.javoroski@es.ey.com

PENNSYLVANIA

SWEDEN

Greater Philadelphia Area Position open

Stockholm Amy Herbert Leval ’97 Norrkoping 4673-600-4084 amyleval@yahoo.com

TEXAS Austin Bonnie Karp Amundson ’90 512-280-2545 bonnie@ theamundsons.com Dallas Peter Wahl ’95 214-515-9887 gustie.ole@ sbcglobal.net

MuresuK MeNa Is The GUSTAVUS ANNUAL FUND. NAME

Muresuk Mena ’13 HOMETOWN

Inver Grove heights, Minn.

ACADEMIC INTERESTS

Biology Pre-Med CAMPUS ACTIVITIES

Pan afrikan student Organization, louis stokes alliance for Minority Partnership, football, basketball, cancer and leukemia research with biology faculty member sanjive Qazi DREAM

To become a pediatrician, and help his family out as much as he can.

Matt Thomas ’00

support Muresuk and 2,392 other Gusties by visiting gustavus.edu/give, or by sending a gift using the gold envelope enclosed in this issue.

Gustavus Annual Fund | 1-866-487-3863 | annualfund@gustavus.edu | gustavus.edu/give

800 West College avenue st. Peter, Minnesota 56082

ARTS ON CAMPUS The critically acclaimed stuart Pimsler Dance & Theater (sPDT) opened the 2010–2011 Gustavus arts Performance series with two performances on campus in september that featured the return of Brian Evans ’07 (pictured left with sPDT founder and co-director Stuart Pimsler) to the anderson Theatre stage. The Minneapolis-based company’s appearance was the first of a year-long series of residency activities that will be presented at Gustavus.

On sept. 14 evans, now in his fourth season with sPDT, received the 2010 Minnesota saGe award in the category of “Outstanding Performer.” The saGe awards, named after long-time dance choreographer, performer, and philanthropist sage Cowles, are the Minnesota dance community’s annual recognition of professional achievement.

al Behrends ’77