Our ‘Remember When’ Stories

Adventures Around Town

• The continually “inherited hand” in bridge -new
  Dianne Davis Phillips
• The Mac Grille -new
  Joanne Rawn Kaufman
• Destination Dayton’s
  Karen Helberg Dahood

Coach Dwight Stuessy

• Sudden news at a winter game
  Rich Melin

College Jobs & Getting By

• Winter commuting -new
  Dwight Esau
• Don and Ralph's way to wash glasses -new
  Janet Taylor Dybal
• Clearing the air in the library
  Theodore O. Ousdigian
• Painting the bleachers — and a mouse
  Theodore O. Ousdigian
• Wallace Hall waitressing
  Alison Mossler Wright
• Financial help from Macalester
  Thomas E. Johnson
• Working in the cafeteria
  Thomas E. Johnson

Coming to Macalester

• Freshman Week -new
  Joanne Rawn Kaufman
• Our freshman Q&A session on dating
  Marianne (Anne) Young Libby
  
• Been there before
  Larry Earle Teien
• Starting out in tears
  Mary B. Lusk Wangerin

Convocation

• Singing at Convo -new
  Joanne Rawn Kaufman
• Playing organ for Convocation -new
  James D. Shannon
• My father's convocation speech
  Theodore O. Ousdigian
• Mandatory Chapel and Convocation
  Sharon Pedersen Ledeboer

Dances and Socials

• Wally open houses
  Pat Lind Zankman

Daring Feats in Academia

• Being asked to turn out the lights -new
  Janet Taylor Dybal
• No Astronomy for me
  Carolyn Jensen Demcak
• Learning the latest in teaching
  Edith Hansen Meints
• That drat Psych exam
  Thomas E. Johnson
• Skipping out for the Big Question
  Karen Helberg Dahood

Dorm Life (Men)

• Kirk Hall's man-made icicle
  Bruce Ward -new
• A lesson learned from Alan the artist
  Charles (Chuck) Swanson
• Mousolite always spoiled those water fights
  Don Olson
• Introduction to Television
  Thomas E. Johnson
• First encounters with curry
  Thomas E. Johnson
• "Evicting" Hugh from our room
  Larry Stotts
• The memorable antics of Tom Nagel and David Wise
  Thomas E. Johnson
• Not necessarily the safest way to cook a hotdog
  Dale W. Turnham
• Our secret refrigerator
  Dale W. Turnham

Dorm Life (Women)

• A collection of enjoyments
  Doris Hengeveld Anderson -new
• The Wally Hall magicians
  Janet Taylor Dybal
• Bigelow’s pleasant aroma
  M. Joanne Lund Jensen
• Roommates Jill, Karen and Lois
  Joanne Rawn Kaufman
• Sharing the dorm phone
  Kaye Lenmkuhl Roth
• Stranded by the weather
  Janyce Tepley Olson
• The Wallace Hall Attic Girls
  Elizabeth Bruce Peterson
• Bending the rules for smelt
  Lois E. Risser Sampson
• Marlys’s Mom’s caramels
  Marjory Schmitz Konechne
• Singing the “Gloom and Sorrow”
  Betty Bradfield Rittersdorf
• One thing Hartle taught me
  Pat Holland Stotts
• Catching the Bigelow window peeper
  Pat Holland Stotts
• That “fishbowl” dump-off trick
  Pat Holland Stotts
• The weekend Tom slept
  in his car
  Shirley Kezar Holgate
• The best benefit
  Delilah (Dee) Crawford Taylor
• Living in the Wally attic
  Nancy Tripp Wilson
• Decorating Wally Hall
  Mary B. Lusk Wangerin
• Signing in and out
  Mary B. Lusk Wangerin
• My roommate’s perspective on my major
  Mary B. Lusk Wangerin
• Games, restaurants and frozen hair
  Mary B. Lusk Wangerin
• Dining in Wally Hall
  Beth Dixon Otto
• The girl who got grounded
  Karen Helberg Dahood
• Saturday night pogos
  Marcia Mittelsted Maguire

Falling in Love

• Closing one door and opening another -new
  Marian Phocas Johnston
  
• The hidden blessing of required Phy-Ed.
  Victor ‘Buzz’ Lundeen
• The Spotlite dating scene
  Audrey DeLong Benjamin
• Meeting Bill and other favorites
  Beverly J. Adams Milne
• “And, how was your summer?”
  Lee E. Covart, Jr.
• First comes a Homecoming show, then comes…
  Connie Villars

Fashionable Living

• That orange velvet hat
  Karen Helberg Dahood

Field Trips

• Two trips to two river valleys
  Dale W. Turnham

Flying Scots

• Being "chaperoned" at a Flying Scots meet
  Pat Lind Zankman
• Our "most active" flying club
  Marcia Mittelsted Maguire

Graduation

• Grandma and graduation
  Charles (Chuck) Swanson

Health and Wellness

• The cheapest prescription ever
  Thomas E. Johnson

International Studies & Travels

• Going to Mexico -new
  Theodore O. Ousdigian
• Traveling to Canada, Mexico and South Africa
  Rolland (Rollie) Billings
• My dad flew those flags
  Audrey DeLong Benjamin
• Mexican Caravan 1957
  Marydell Larsen Gilmore
• Keeping in touch with a SPAN friend
  Edith Hansen Meints
• SPAN mottos to travel by
  Nancy Tripp Wilson
• Memorable times with SPAN
  Marilyn Joanne Lund Jensen
• Surprise guests in Acapulco
  Kathy Felland Sundall

Mac Weekly

• Long Mac Weekly nights -new
  Dwight Esau
• Lowering the Mac Weekly’s rope and bucket
  Larry Earle Teien

Making Music Together

• Singing in the choir -new
  Janet Taylor Dybal
• Centennial singing
  Joanne Rawn Kaufman
• Singing in the “Big” and “Little” choirs
  Theodore O. Ousdigian
• Singing in Morton's choir
  Beverly Smith Chang
• Singing Schonberg and Stravinsky
  Marydell Larsen Gilmore
• Playing snare drum and uke
  Ruth E. Sebeck Ohlhaver
• Performing Beethoven's Ninth
  Edith Hansen Meints

Mary Gwen Owen

• Mary Gwen Owen was Macalester -new
  Dianne Davis Phillips
• When actress Margaret Webster visited -new
  Dianne Davis Phillips
• Scuffing up my new saddle shoes -new
  M. Joanne Lund Jensen
• Being Mary Gwen’s example
  Pat Holland Stotts
• A few of my Mac favorites
  Linda J. Wright
• That potent perfume
  Rich Melin
• Why Jim really painted our walls blue
  Beth Dixon Otto
• Upon taking the advice of Mary Gwen
  Pat Lind Zankman

On Summit Avenue

• Seeing three U.S. Presidents
  Larry Earle Teien
• The scent of lilacs on Summit
  Karen Helberg Dahood

Our Professors

• Handling local press with Ivan Burg -new
  Dwight Esau
• Mac was an overall influence
  Joan Kuether Wagner -new
• Dr. Walter's Human Physiology class
  Joanne Rawn Kaufman
• Great professors, friends and values
  Mari-Sue Nelson Howes
• Professors Adams, Sundheim and Blegen
  Margaret (Peggy) A. Foss Poitzsch
  
• Taking Walling's Kid Lit
  Marcia Mittelsted Maguire
• “Smokey Chalk” Ezra Camp, Math Professor
  Don Olson
• Being a decade older than most
  Howard M. Stien
• What I couldn’t find elsewhere
  Richard Ackerman
• Walling taught our generation of teachers
  Ann Bangsund Grussing
• Wise choice
  Larry Earle Teien
• Consequences
  Larry Earle Teien
• Professors who looked out for us
  Sally E. Howard
• Professor Scott’s attendance keeping system
  Marcia Mittelsted Maguire
• Literary apple-eating
  Karen Helberg Dahood

Political Emphasis Week

• Being a delegate for P-E Week
  Joanne Rawn Kaufman -new
• In preparation for Political Emphasis Week
  Mary E. Hartle Larson
• Comparatively tame topics of our Mock U.N.
  Henry L. Ruf

Pranks & Antics

• Being a “chauffer” for Paul and Ann -new
  Janet Taylor Dybal
• Kirk Hall's ice sculpture entry
  Ted B. Spanner
• Class hopping
  Marian Phocas Johnston
  
• Just causing trouble
  Rene Adell Erickson Buettner
• 'Flying' the bicycle and other stories
  Mary Jane Budolfson James
• Learning a new word
  Audrey DeLong Benjamin
• Sleeping in Wallace Hall
  Thomas E. Johnson
• The Spring Riot
  Thomas E. Johnson
• Livening up the spring
  Thomas E. Johnson
• The many Toms
  Thomas E. Johnson
• Ushering at chapel
  Thomas E. Johnson
• The night the “door” fell off
  Larry Earle Teien

President Charles Turck

• The kindly “older man” in Old Main -new
  Marian Phocas Johnston
  
• The change in Mac's presidency
  Thomas E. Johnson
• Turck’s graduation-day thanks
  Larry Earle Teien
• The most important years
  Robert T. Berquist
• Dr. Turck's amazing memory
  Rich Melin

Religion In Life

• The Fieldhouse dedication -new
  Theodore O. Ousdigian
• Moving to a smaller room
  Waldo R. Landquist
• The local UCC youth group
  Mary B. Lusk Wangerin
  
• Discovering the Interpreters' Bible
  Marcia Mittelsted Maguire
• Mondale’s words to live by
  Karen Helberg Dahood

The Space Age

• Looking through the telescope
  Larry Earle Teien -new
• Our carpool was a-buzz with sputnik
  Louise A. Palmgren Brandt
• Seeing Sputnik from Kirk's parking lot
  Thomas E. Johnson
• Trying hard to understand Nils Bohr
  Thomas E. Johnson
• That distant blinking light
  Karen Helberg Dahood

Sports

• We had the best of everything!
  E. George Thomas
• Victoriously marking our turf
  Don Olson
• Football drills in the “dirt pit”
  Don Olson
• Homecoming pep fests
  Dale W. Turnham
• Going "out of bounds" in golf
  Robert Shogren
• Returning from away basketball games
  Jerry Sundall

Ted Mitau

• Taking political science with Dr. Mitau -new
  Joanne Rawn Kaufman
• Mitau’s program for women
  Alison Mossler Wright
• What the ‘G’ stood for
  Thomas J. Philipp
• Professor Mitau, my influential sister and choosing law
  Thomas E. Johnson
• Joining the Army's CA/MG unit
  Thomas E. Johnson