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The biggest events were the births of my sons in 1963 and 1970. Life was often hectic as I was also a faculty member at California State University-Los Angeles - teaching philosophy. I got very interested in feminism in the 70's and added psychology in the 80's. I'm fully retired from teaching and have a part-time practice in psychotherapy.

A big travel highlight was a trip with a Mac group to Turkey a few years ago. It was much fun and good to reconnect with Jackie Cronin.

I wish I could attend the reunion but will be watching a granddaughter graduate from high school. I wish a good time for all who attend!

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After leaving Macalester I joined an Army Reserve company commanded by Professor Spangler -- one of many “Macites” to find a good place to be a "weekend warrior" and yes, avoid being drafted.

Linda Ohmann ’62 and I were married a couple of years later. Linda taught while I joined Bock & Associates, a sales and marketing company, which I later owned and managed for 30 years or so. (Who said nepotism is a bad thing.) We have three children and six grandchildren all living in the Twin Cities area.

We've been blessed with a cabin on a lake near Brainerd, which has been wonderful for family time together and great memories. Travel is high on our list of enjoyment, especially abroad -- we hope to do much more.

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Shortly after graduating from Mac, I was drafted into the U.S. Army and served two years of active duty, including a year in Thailand. In 1964 I married Char Yost ('62). I worked for Investors Diversified Services (IDS) in their home office in Minneapolis for five years. In 1969, I joined the investment banking/brokerage firm of Craig-Hallum. I held positions in research, corporate finance, and I was President and CEO. The firm was bought out by a larger firm in 1992, and I retired in 1993. Char and I have three children, Jed, Kent and Ann, as well as two grandchildren. Char has been a volunteer docent for the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA) for over 20 years. We enjoy traveling, reading, tennis, genealogy and volunteering.

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Married Stan Tyler '59, three children Bill '83, Mike '88 and Kathy Tyler Stetz (St Catherine's '91)
Worked as social worker for the City of Minneapolis.
After children were born I was a homemaker until Stan died in 1977.
Worked on the Alcohol & Drug Unit, Clarinda Iowa State Hospital and completed an MSW at University of Nebraska Omaha 1978.
Moved with children to Omaha and worked for YWCA.
Entered seminary in 1985 in Berkeley, CA at Pacific School of Religion. Married JC Browne last year of seminary.
Moved to Willits, CA worked for a community action agency.
Ran a 24 hour treatment facility for alcohol/drug addicted women who were either pregnant or had children under 5 years.
Was ordained in the United Church of Christ for specialized ministry
Returned to Nebraska where my husband and I both served at United Methodist Churches.
Served on the national board of the American Association of University Women.
Retired and moved to New Mexico. Enjoy 6 grandchildren ages 14 to 3 months.

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After graduating from Macalester I married Ellen Newton also from Macalester and we headed off to McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago where I got my M.Div. degree. Tack on 2 more years and I received my MSW in social work at Milwaukee in ‘67. While in seminary, we had twin girls, Dee and Diane and soon our 3rd daughter Nancy. For 16 years I worked as a psychiatric social worker. Then in ‘83 our whole family moved to Littleton, CO where I made a career change becoming a pastoral counselor in private practice.

I’ve been retired since ‘01 when my wife Ellen got ovarian cancer. We tried everything in treatments. Sadly she passed away in Dec. 04. I now have 4 grandchildren and 2 great grandchildren. Fortunately I met a very attractive lady at my church. Gail and I got married on a beach in Maui in Feb. 06. Gail was administrative assistant to the assistant superintendent in charge of human resources in Littleton public schools for 28 years. She retired in July, ‘06. Traveling has become our modus operandi including visits to her 2 sons in Portland and San Francisco and mother in Phoenix.

Since getting married, we’ve settled into a new home in nearby Aurora which we are really enjoying. We have kept my vacation home in Estes Park, CO so we have a great place to go for fun getaways. We plan to live life to the fullest. Both Gail and I have lost our spouses through illness, so we have learned the value and importance of living one day at a time with God’s help.

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I was drafted in October 1961 and spent the next two years in the U.S. Army at several locations in the Northeast. After my active duty I had employment waiting for me with the Comptroller of the Currency, and I worked as a National Bank Examiner for the next 27 years. We were living in Oregon, and when that office closed, I was eligible to retire early and took that opportunity to return to Minnesota. I worked in a savings bank in Duluth for a year and then became self employed as a bank consultant. I continue to enjoy working part time as a consultant.

My wife Edna and I married in 1976 in a combination of families. She had three children from a previous marriage and I had a son. We added another son and now have 11 grandchildren. We enjoy activities with our family and have been active in various Presbyterian churches. Our activities have included leading youth groups, choirs, serving on Session and participating in small groups. I also worked with a group called PVS and visited monthly with prisoners at the Duluth Federal Prison.

Our youngest son graduated from Macalester in 1999, and that gave me an opportunity to get reacquainted with Mac. I have volunteered with Annual Fund activities and some recent class reunions. One of my favorite activities these days in interacting with our grandchildren since four of them live in adjacent Twin City suburbs.

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Following graduation from Macalester, I began what was to become my fulltime 30-year career as a wife and mother. Jim Carroll '61, and I had been married between our junior and senior years and several months after graduation I gave birth to our daughter, Barbara, in St. Paul. Three years later, we moved back to our hometown of Rochester, and it was there that our son, Tom, was born.

The following years were typical of family life in the '60's/'70/s. Jim began his career as an administrator at Mayo Clinic and I did all the things that were expected of a woman in that era...raised our children, cared for the home we built, did volunteer work at school, church, hospital auxiliary. Later when the children were older, I held part-time retail jobs and wrote book reviews for our local newspaper.

As the years passed, however, it became clear that something in my life was not right, as evidenced by the episodes of clinical depression that I began to experience. And it was when our daughter married and our son left for college in the very same week that depression settled in with a vengeance. It became clear that if I wanted to be well, it would be necessary to make some major changes in my life, the most drastic of which was to end by mutual agreement our marriage, and to take some time to pursue an in depth study of my life in an effort to get to the root of my disease.

This I have been doing for the past 20 years. What a fascinating and fulfilling journey this has been! I found myself using my own life to research the potential of the mind, body, spirit connection to heal human disease, mental, emotional and physical. I am at last prepared to begin my long anticipated career as a writer, the best way I know to share my exciting discoveries with others. I must say that the spirit of Macalester, that spirit of excellence, determination and faith, has inspired me every step of the way on this challenging, rewarding life journey. I continue to be grateful to the college and to my parents for providing me with the education that became the foundation for a lifetime of deep, rich learning.

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Since graduation from Macalester in 1961, I have had a full and rewarding life. I graduated from Dubuque Theological Seminary and was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1965. The same year I was married to my wife, Bette. We have been married for over 45 years; we have three wonderful children, a son and twin daughters, and now five grandchildren whom we greatly enjoy. I served as pastor of three churches, two in Minnesota and one in Iowa until retirement in 2004.

We now live in a Twin Cities suburb. Together, my wife and I are involved in volunteer service projects in the community and church, traveling to visit family, helping our grandchildren when needed, and gardening and yard care. I continue to help in several churches with supply preaching, teaching adult education classes, and parish visitation. I am indebted to the educational experience I shared with my classmates at Macalester. My education has served me well and enabled me to serve well these last 50 years.

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For the life journey that lay ahead, my studies in journalism and international relations and my many positive experiences at Macalester prepared me well. My first professional destination after graduation was “YOUTH Magazine” in Philadelphia. Following a marvelous year of writing for “YOUTH,” I entered Columbia University’s School of International Affairs. I received a master’s degree in 1964 and accepted a position with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in New York.

In 1965 I married Donald Hancock, who was completing the Ph.D. degree in political science at Columbia, and our lives turned toward the academic world. My husband became a political science professor first at the University of Texas in Austin and at Vanderbilt University in Nashville in 1979. Because his specialization was in comparative European politics, we lived for extended periods in Europe, in Stockholm as well as the German cities of Bonn, Bielefeld, Mannheim, and Regensburg. Living in Europe provided us with priceless opportunities to learn about other cultures, to speak foreign languages, and to travel extensively.

Our son, Erik, was born in Austin in 1969 and our daughter, Kendra, was born in Bielefeld, Germany in 1973. In addition to my life as a wife and mother, I had opportunities at the University of Texas to do research, writing, and editing for the “Latin American Research Review,” the “Journal of Politics,” and an administrative history of the Lyndon B. Johnson presidency. At Vanderbilt I did research for and contributed to the book “Made in America: Improving the Nomination and Election of Presidents” by Alexander Heard with Scarlett G. Graham and Kay L. Hancock. Thereafter I became the senior information officer in the graduate school in charge of publications and programs for graduate students and alumni.

After five years as a single empty-nester, I remarried in 1996 and joined my husband, Tom Clarkson, a Nashville native, who was a systems executive with Barnes & Noble in New York and New Jersey. We lived in the Princeton area, and I became Assistant Director and then Director of Academic Affairs for the New Jersey Commission on Higher Education. We loved living and traveling in the northeast.

As new retirees, we returned to Nashville in 2006. We are traveling, walking, reading, and enjoying grandchildren. Courtesy of my married son and daughter, we have two grandsons and one granddaughter. Thanks to Tom’s four married children, we have one grandson and four granddaughters. These eight grandchildren range in age from 6 months to 24 years. They and their parents give us great joy.

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Family includes 2 daughters, 1 son. Married since November 1958

St. Paul schools, teacher assistant 1972-2000.
Title I-Elementary and Jr. High- reading and math assistant for 8 years. I was in Programs for Autism for 20+ years.

I’ve done a lot of traveling to visit son and son and 2 grandsons-to California, Idaho, Ohio and now Denver. Other family visits and reunions to Boston, MA, Philadelphia, PA; Cedarville, IL; Portsmouth, Oh and many others with family

Tour of England-One Macalester alumnae trip in 1978, very well planed, allowed me time to meet a pen pal in London. We’ve written since we were 10 and 11

I became involved with Miss Woods Alumnae when attending Spring Luncheons. Only a few of our age group attended, I attended long enough to serve as V.P. and President and got to know many wonderful “older” teachers. I’m still receiving mailing from Macalester, addressed to “The President of Miss Woods Alumnae.” I’m probably the only remaining contact of this group, though I never knew Miss Wood, I’ve gotten to know her through this group.

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After graduating from Macalester with a bachelor’s in history, I got a teaching certificate that summer. I have collected three master’s degrees since: one in history, one in counseling and finally one in social work from the Boston University School of Social Work. Since 1988 I have had a private practice specializing in couples work and post traumatic stress disorder using hypnosis and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing to assist the process.

In 1964 I married Derek Sturges and moved with him to Birmingham, England for three years, before returning to the United States and settling in Marblehead, Mass. where I have lived since. We had two boys and adopted a daughter from Korea. In 1982 we divorced, and I subsequently remarried Gordon Corzine who also had three children. They all grew up with us in Marblehead and are now working and married. They have blessed us with nine grandchildren.

Over the years we have been very involved in the activities of our local Unitarian Church, sung in multiple choirs, worked as volunteers at the folk music club Me and Thee Coffee House, contra-danced and down hill skied. Of late we have tried to adventure into the larger world and have traveled to Korea, Hawaii, Tanzania, Argentina and lots of places in Europe.

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Regardless of how it may have looked from the outside or felt on the inside, I regard every day as a highlight – sooner or later. Sometimes it takes a little time for "true" appreciation.

I have had more pleasures than I deserve and less pain than a realist would judge to be an appropriate share of the human condition. Yet, I still almost believe in what Dr. Ray Livingston believed to be not only my most cynical, but the most cynical poem he'd ever read: my brief Epitaph of Man:

Born in Pain
Raised in Woe
Died Insane
Delighted to go.

Of course these days, I'm tempted to retitle it as a tribute to the Republican Party. Gee, I miss the GOP of Elmer Anderson and the entire concept of "honorable opposition."

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With an English major in hand, I plunged into a long career in public education beginning with a four year stint in St. Francis, MN, teaching English and American history. Big city life beckoned so I was ecstatic upon landing a job with Minneapolis Public Schools, North High, Jordan Jr. High and finally, South High, were my assignments for the next 34 years. Early on I left the English teaching behind finding true happiness as a librarian.

After my first retirement, I added another nine years to my resume with Washington County Public Libraries. With a flexible work schedule, I intensified my traveling in Europe, Asia, North and South America. Now in full retirement, I do more of everything I've always enjoyed - reading, gardening, cooking, hiking biking, etc.

I used to look askance at the prospect of grandparenting, but for the past five years I have become totally hooked on two little boys. Such charmers! My former husband and I adopted a two-year old girl from Bogota, Colombia 33 years ago. She and my excellent son-in-law have produced these little wonders. It is an amazing experience being a grandmother.

I'm planning to live a long and healthy life because I'm certainly enjoying the ride.

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I attended graduate school at Stanford University and the University of Colorado while teaching at Edina High School. My college teaching career lasted from 1973 to 1995 at Coe College for one year and the University of Texas of the Permian Basin as a founding faculty member and graduate faculty, and I retired as Professor Emeritus. My honors include Who's Who in America and other recognitions including being a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University. I had a parallel career as a writer of academic books, articles, and scholarly presentations in the U.S. and Europe, including Oxford University. I also had several presentations and publications in Greek philosophy in association with the University of Athens.

My family includes my wife Nancy who died in 1977, my second wife Barbara leading to over 20 grandchildren. My hobbies include farming (I have a pecan orchard), raising and training quarter horses, investment advising, charity work, work related to the restoration of habitat, and managing oil production as a surface owner.

I am currently working on a new book related to civism: political science, anthropology, and education.

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After Macalester College I went to Mccormick Seminary in Chicago for 4 years. During a one year internship in Milford, Michigan, I met my wife, Judy. I graduated and was the minister at Mundy Presbyterian Church in Rankin, Michigan for two years.

After that, I was a teacher in the Huron Valley Schools for 3 years in Michigan. I taught 29 more years in the Paradise Valley schools in the Phoenix area being a kindergarten teacher, a fifth grade teacher, and a librarian in elementary, junior high, and senior high school.

While I was at the junior and senior high, I was very much involved in TV production where students produced and ran TV shows for school information

Judy and I have a daughter, Brandee, who currently works for the Phoenix Convention Bureau.

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Following graduation, I began my social work career as a Corrections Agent at the Home School for Girls in Sauk Center, Minn. In 1963, I married Roger Ender (class of '59) and moved to Winston-Salem, NC, where I worked for three years as a Probation Officer for Juveniles. Following the birth of our daughter, Dana, in 1963, I was a stay at home mom for a period of time and then taught 4 year old pre-school for three years. I then worked as a Medical Social Worker at Forsyth Hospital for 23 years before leaving that position to work for a nursing home corporation for three years. Eight years ago, I began my employment at Hospice and Palliative Care Center and am now the Coordinator for the Community Support Program. I absolutely love working for Hospice and have no idea when I will retire.

I have three granddaughters, thirteen, seven, and five, who live very near me. I have done quite a bit of traveling abroad, since my junior year at Mac, and am especially fond of Switzerland. I continue to stay connected with the Bigelow Hall gang and get together with them each July when I take my Minnesota vacation. I continue to love to hike, back-pack, camp, canoe, and bike - anything that takes me out-of-doors! I cherish the life-long friends that I met at Mac and value the way we were raised in the 40's, 50's and early 60's I miss the innocence of our generation.

Macalester gave me a great beginning into adulthood, helping me to set good goals, values and to be thorough and committed in my career. I have so many memmories of great times at Mac and many memorable times with my Mac friends since graduation.

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Originally I was in Pre-Engineering at Macalester and after a transfer to the University of Minnesota, I graduated with a history major and physics and mathematics minors. I then attended the U. of Minnesota Law School and received a Juris Doctor degree. Over the many years I have been a member of various corporate law departments and lastly became a consultant primarily in the computer industry.

Mary Dinkel '61 and I married shortly after she graduated from Mac and we raised a son and daughter in Minnetonka, Minn., where we have lived for almost 40 years. With one granddaughter and three grandsons nearby, we have been kept very busy and maybe even a bit younger.

I guess you would describe me as retired, whatever that means as I seem to be busier than ever. Mary and I enjoy a cabin on Lake Wissota near Chippewa Falls, Wis., where we spend many months of the year. And being a member of the Minneapolis Commodores Chorus (a barbershop harmony group) as well as a smaller group of singers and a quartet, means taking part in performances and competitions several times a year. Also, writing for our chorus publication as well as various other writing ventures from time to time has given me a chance to enjoy pushing words around a bit. Learning new and different things has always been a part of my life and that still gives me much satisfaction.

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Shortly after graduation Jim Erickson and I were married and settled in St. Paul not far from Mac. I began my teaching career and taught kindergarten in Roseville for the next five years.

We had our son and I became a stay-at-home mom for the next seven years. During that time we moved to South Minneapolis and added a daughter to our family. We moved to Minnetonka and still live there. When both children were in school, I returned to teaching and then to a job as coordinator for Dinner At Your Door in St Louis Park.

After six years there, teaching again called to me and I returned to pre-school for the next 26 years and still do some subbing and help with their music program. Along the way I have enjoyed various kinds of volunteer work in the schools, church and community.

For fun, Jim and I spend much time (now year-round) at our cabin in Chippewa Falls, Wis. Over the years we took several ski trips to Colorado and enjoy traveling. Lately, warm weather vacations have appealed to us more. Could it be age?

Other interests include book club, a women’ s group supporting education, card making, cooking, gardening and of course being a grandparent to four wonderful grandchildren. We are having fun attending all their sporting and school events and hope they might be interested in Mac when that time comes.

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taught Spanish, English, French and health in Robbinsdale, MN, until 1967 when I married and moved to the Cleveland, Ohio, area where I have lived ever since. Prior to moving, I received a Masters degree in Spanish from Middlebury College.

I left teaching when the first of my three children were born and only returned to it when the marriage broke up in 1984, teaching Spanish for 20 additional years in an inner city-type school in East Cleveland. My oldest child lives in Oakland, CA; my son and family live in Seattle; and my middle child, Liz, a Mac grad of 1993, currently lives in Haiti where she is a physician and missionary.

During my "at home" time from 1969-1984, I became involved with childbirth education and served on the Board of Directors of the International Childbirth Education Association, helping develop its certification program as well as editing a newsletter for instructors. I spent some 10 years researching our family tree and presented the results at our family's 100th reunion in 1989.

That done, I then became involved with a historical reenactment group, the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA). Among the activities with that group, I organized classes for the "annual camp" known as Pennsic for six years. The last year I served, we had 1,025 activities during 10 days of the two-week camp. (Attendance at Pennsic is over 10,000.) I dabble in historical cookery, especially confections.

I retired from teaching in 2004 and traveled to England each subsequent year, along with a trip to Germany, Argentina and Nicaragua.

Now I have downsized and have moved to a retirement community where they take care of the snow and the lawn! My major in English still serves - I proofread material for the church and for the regional branch of the SCA.

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I married Robert Franz in 1961 and taught 2 non-consecutive years while he was in graduate school. We moved to Duluth in 1967 when Bob took a position in the Sociology Department at U of M at Duluth. Our daughter and son are married and each family gave us 2 wonderful granddaughters.

I remained in Duluth after Bob died in 2000. In 2001, I retired from ISD 709 as a special education teacher assistant. Since retiring, my time is filled with many community and church volunteer projects. I enjoy working in my garden and visits from and to my family members as well as other travel.

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I attended Princeton Theological Seminary and got a master’s degree in religious education. Following graduation, I worked as a director of Religious Education for a short time, married Robert George and had three wonderful children, Judy, Rob and Carye. I began working in the New Jersey court system in 1979 and retired in 2000 as the manager of municipal courts in Passaic County, NJ. I worked consistently through that time and in to the present in the area of prevention of domestic violence. We summered in Maine for many years and moved here at the time of our retirement. We live in and have worked on the restoration of an early 1800 farm house... and love it.

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I accepted a commission in United States Marine Corps and trained as a helicopter pilot. I spent 1965-1966 in Vietnam. I joined Pan American Airlines in late 1966 and spent 21 of my 25 years with them based in West Berlin. I spent my last eight years in the Airlines with Delta. I retired in 1999. My wife, Sue, and I now reside in Florida, having moved there in 1991. I had two wonderful sons; one is now deceased in an aircraft accident. I also have two grandchildren and two great grandchildren. My present wife, who I married in 1984, is from South Africa, and we usually spend the months of August and September there communing with the wonderful animal life. Volunteerism takes up a large portion of out time.

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I measure the color of the 18,250 days since Macalester's graduation around family, faith, friends (new and old), volunteerism, organizations, church, marriage and the treasures of travel. Karl (St. Olaf) and I celebrate our golden anniversary this August. We've had a rainbow every day created by our son Brock, engineer in San Francisco, and married daughter Kari, broker in Mlps., and our four grandsons. I taught 7 years, from Minnesota to North Dakota to Nebraska, ending up where I started — volunteering with children (Schools & Kinship). We retired to our lake home, eight years ago, in Park Rapids, Minn., where I remain active in my church, PEO, theatre, music, and my hobbies — knitting, quilting, gardening, and book club. We spend our winters in Sun City, Ariz., and have found joy in traveling the U.S. in our R.V. as well as traveling in Europe, Asia, and Canada. A last trip in the R.V. to Alaska is next. We treasure each and every day! Blessing abound as I hope they have for you and yours. It has been a pleasure working on the Reunion Committee and renewing friendships. "Make Each Day a Masterpiece."

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I am married to Marcia; I have two married sons, Mark and Scott, who live in the Twin Cities. My youngest son, at 41, finally gave us twin granddaughters this year!

I'm a lifelong entrepreneur. I have started and owned a number of companies over the years. I started with Dayton's Department store after graduation and then in the 1970s co-owned a manufacturer’s rep company. From the rep business, I went to and later bought Thermo-Serv, a plastic injection molding manufacturer in the 1980s. In the mid ’80s I purchased Starbird, an embroidery digitizing company. In 1997 I started the Embroidery Library, an internet company selling embroidery designs worldwide. We sold the company to the employees in 2006. Now I am working with my two sons with Verdant Electric Company. (Need an electrician?)

Also, from the ’60s to mid ’80s, I became active in the American Diabetes Association. We began the Holiday Card program here in Minnesota, selling Christmas cards nationally to raise money for diabetes research. I served two terms as the Chairman of the Board of the American Diabetes Association.

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Mother of 2 daughters
Grandmother of 6
Taught public school for 39+ years
Retired since 2001

Now I spend my time volunteering at a school, food pantry, church, Red Cross, local Theater group, local arts center, etc. and play in 5 Bridge group

We have lived in lovely northern Wisconsin for 28 years and love to travel abroad and in the US.

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After Macalester I spent several years in the corporate world (3M) before marrying an Austrian ski instructor and entering the world of sport, which has turned out to be my true passion. He and I ran a ski school together until he passed away several years ago. The school continues and I still teach there in Vail, CO part-time.

Later in our marriage, having the summers free, we traveled extensively, taking our tennis racquets and several language dictionaries.

More recently, I volunteered with several organizations before I found my niche in mediation with Dispute Resolution Center where I serve as a mediator and member of the Board of Directors providing conflict resolution and restorative justice services in the Twin Cities East Metro.

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Macalester: Fifty years and counting! When you’re having fun, time flies, and I’ve lived on the fast track. I am so blessed to have grown up in my large and loving family and to have had an awesome education at Macalester College where I not only met life long friends but was well prepared to successfully work as a Medical Technologist and Hospital Laboratory Supervisor in Hawaii, Arizona, Minnesota, and Loveland, Colorado.

I was married in Loveland where I have lived happily ever after with my husband, Gene. Raising a family of two daughters and one son is a definite highlight in my life. Our children are active, caring citizens and wonderful parents, giving us six grands under the age of 7--a great source of love and fun.

Being a community volunteer has also been a highlight, I have been serving and donating my time to help make a difference as a leader in scouts, schools, church, county master naturalist programs and currently as a watercolor instructor for oncology patients at our local hospital. Painting is a late passion for me--something I always wanted to do but followed other paths. I finally retired and “saw the light” and have not since put down my brushes! My artwork has led me to new places, new faces, new contributions and even gallery shows and awards. How fun is that? I also remain active in travels, sports, hiking, camping (even in a tent), and am thankful for my good health. Macalester College has been a good influence on my life’s journey and I look forward to more fun on a long road ahead. I pray that we all may continue to be contributing graduates, to have strength in difficult times, and to have compassion for the troubled and challenged. Who knows what we may do next and what fun we will have! To the Class of 196l: Good health, good luck, good times--and God be with you. Submitted with love, Debbie Davis Jansen

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After leaving Macalester I enrolled at the University of North Dakota Law School and graduated in 1964 with a Juris Doctorate Degree (which then was an L.L.B. with honors). In law school I was a student bar officer as well as one of the Editors of the Law Review in my senior year.

From 1964-1966 I practiced with a Minneapolis law firm and in 1967 purchased a law practice from a retiring attorney in Winnebago, Minnesota. In the early years of my practice I did a considerable amount of trial work, including terms as Faribault County Attorney and District Public Defender. The practice became more business oriented and grew to such an extent that I only occasionally had time to direct toward trial work. I retired in 2000, culminating 36 years practice from which I received much satisfaction.

Beyond the usual boards and organizations, my community involvement included establishing a "Big Brother" program in Faribault County as well as a "Children’s' Fund" to provide anonymous gifts to children at Christmas time.

Our daughter, Sara, graduated with degrees in psychology and mathematics education from St. Benedict's University and University of Minnesota and was a teacher. Daughter, Nan, graduated from College of St. Catherine with a degree in school social work and works with very disturbed children in a day-school setting.

Highlights for our entire family were hosting two foreign students at a time when our daughters were young. A Norwegian student was hosted with AFS and a Japanese student with Experiment in International Living. The Japanese student graduated from Macalester, then received her MBA and worked for three different Japanese banks in New York and became a U.S. citizen. The Norwegian student became a sales representative and ultimately manager of Johnson & Johnson neurologic unit in Oslo. Maintaining our friendship with these two women has been enjoyable for our family.

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Leaving Macalester was difficult, because I made so many close friendships; seven of us Mac women have maintained a "round robin" friendship and enjoyed numerous gatherings over 50 years. I followed my other "friend," Jerry Johansen, to North Dakota where I did social work, he went to law school and we married in 1962. Following his graduation, we were both employed in the Twin Cities and then travelled to Winnebago, Minn. where Jerry began a successful 33 year rural law practice, and I was at home with our two daughters, Sara and Nan. There I plunged into school, church and community life.

During the years 1982-1988 we lived in Mankato, Minn. so our daughter could attend high school there, and I returned to school and received a master’s in Human Services Administration and Gerontology from Mankato State. A volunteer opportunity with the local hospice program in Mankato led me to employment in Blue Earth, Minn. where I developed and directed the Faribault County Area Hospice, a fledging program which grew and became Medicare Certified. Hospice brought much personal satisfaction to me and I felt honored to be named Woman of the Year 1997 in Faribault County.

Our family spent many years experiencing the north woods of Cook County, Minn. after we purchased a cabin on Caribou Lake in Lutsen in 1976. Since 2000 we have retired there to our new home, adjusting well to the varied year-round activities and active life that only God's country can offer! We enjoy community involvement, new friendships, and, because we are a "destination," the visits of relatives, friends and our six grandchildren and their parents!

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Following graduation, I bought a Lambretta scooter in Milan and traveled most of Western Europe on it for 13 weeks including leaving East Berlin, the day, the night the Wall went up. Since then my travels have included being in Spain (including Pamplona for the running of the bulls), Portugal, Mexico, most of the Caribbean Islands, Thailand, Argentina, Russia as well as extensive hunting trips in Alaska and Montana. I spent New Year's Eve on December 31, 1999, in Times Square along with a million plus others celebrating the new millennium.

Following graduation from the University of Michigan law school, I was with a small Rochester, MN firm. Afterwards I worked for, the then, Attorney General Douglas Head as a member of his staff and Governor Harold LeVander as the Commissioner of Securities and Chairman of the Commerce Commission. I still subscribe to most of the principles of the Republican Party. A private practice followed that and our office had several Minnesota Supreme Court cases establishing the law in Minnesota, the practices are now minimal. The real estate business also was, and still remains a large part of my business life. It is unlikely that retirement will ever become a part of my life unless health dictates it.

Civic activities included being on the local school board, the Optimists Club, Luther Seminary Board, the Caribou Lake Property Owners' board at Lutsen, where my summer place has been for nearly 30 years, as well as many others.

I am a major supporter of the Childrens’ Advocacy Law Clinic at the law school I attended and am the founder of Child-Speak which supports the policy that since children of divorce are innocent and profoundly affected by it they are entitled to their own lawyer as the parent's lawyer has a conflict of interest and thus cannot properly speak to their interests, and that they are entitled, morally and constitutionally, to have a meaningful relationship with both biological parents as well as have conflict kept to a minimum.

In July of 2009, after being single for 25 years, I married Jan who is a very kind and loving woman with a Ph.D. in psychology; she is also a Christian.

I look forward to seeing and visiting with many classmates at the upcoming reunion. Someday, I hope to journey to "a better place".

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I finished my BA and later an MBA at the U. of Minnesota. My career was in Research & Development related to printing and imaging at 3M. My favorite recreation has been sailing in the British Virgin Islands from time to time over the past 20 years. My wife, Carolyn, and I will celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary this July (2011) and we have two beloved daughters, Stacey and Alison (Mac 1991), and two grandchildren. Stacey and the grandchildren live in Seattle and Alison is currently teaching in Iraq.

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Moved to California five days after graduation from Macalester. (Was recruited & signed contract in January before June's graduation!)
Taught a variety of elementary grades - Thank you Macalester!!
Married - had 2 children
My passion then became Early Childhood Education. (Miss Woods would be SO pleased!)
1982: I resigned from teaching to join my husband in our family business: Laboratory by Design, Inc. (Miss Woods would NOT be pleased!)
Following my husband's death in 1996 I ran the business for 12 years; retiring in 2008.
Remarried in 2008
Life is good again....can you believe I take my morning "high cholesterol pills" with champagne! After all we DO live in the Napa Valley.....(used smiley face)

Note: Not able to attend reunion, I have a conflict -granddaughter's graduation.

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After graduating from Mac, I returned for a year to pick up some biology and organic chemistry and then spent two years in medical school, didn't like that. I married my college sweetheart Patty Peck. I found a job and worked at Montgomery Ward for about 15 years before I found a business that I liked and could afford. Our two sons, after college and working for larger corporations, joined the business. Patty and I have spent our marriage traveling and been to some countries in all the continents except Australia. We plan to do that before we die! Many of our travels have also included our sons and now their wives. Recently two grandkids, a girl and a boy, have been added to the clan. Life has been very good to us and we still look forward to many more mountains to climb.

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Getting started is the hardest part of writing a short bio and 50 years is a long time to cover, but here goes.

I taught junior high English at Mounds View public schools. I married David N. Kienitz (’64) in 1962. We had our son, Steven, in 1964 and our daughter, Tracy, in 1966. I taught American GIs in Frankfurt, Germany. I taught English as a Second Language at Seward grade school in Minneapolis. I got special education certification at the University of Minnesota. I taught special education at Folwell Junior High in Minneapolis. I took a leave of absence from teaching to work on Martin Sabo’s congressional campaign; I later worked in Sabo’s district office in Minneapolis for 20 years. (The schools don’t honor leaves of absence that long!) I retired in 1999 and am a “snow bird” in Tucson, Ariz. Squeezed in there somewhere I helped to write a Sunday-school curriculum for grades 7 and 8 which was published by the Unitarian-Universalist Press. I assisted David in his business adventure, a sweater store in Bonaventure shopping mall in Minnetonka called The Lamb Shop.

I have traveled to many places. David and I visited all 50 states, lived in Germany for a year, and visited 17 countries in Europe. Steven was in German public school for first grade and Tracy was in a Kindergarten. Later our travels included China, Thailand, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Mexico, Ecuador, and Peru.

David was diagnosed with cancer in 2005 and died in January, 2008. We had been married for 45 ¾ years. Thank goodness for family and really good friends who have pulled me along.

I have continued traveling to places such as Guatemala and Costa Rica, and I spent a month driving trip through the western states. Reading, golfing, quilting, and volunteering for Kid’s Closet, keep me busy. I still spend winters in Arizona and summers in Minnesota, with the occasional Hawaiian vacation!

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"Gratitude" is the key word in mind anticipating this milestone reunion — gratitude to my parents for gift of a college education and gratitude to Macalester College for providing an excellent liberal arts "foundation" on which to build.

I entered Macalester as a freshman in fall of 1957 and graduated in August 1960 with a BA degree. Later, I attended Cordon Blue School of Cooking in London. This adventure enhanced culinary interests and ultimately, coordinated professionally with journalism studies at Mac. It inspired a stimulating, fulfilling career as a freelance writer for major food companies, business publications, non-profits, and for TASTE, Minneapolis Star Tribune food section.

Cornerstone of my life is family — two daughters, two grandsons and one granddaughter. Edina, MN, has been home since 1968.

Volunteer work, primarily in the arts, education and civic improvements, has been another enriching focus. I'm immediate past Chair of Edina Art Center Board (Volunteer of the Year, 2011) and have served on Boards of WAMSO (Minnesota Orchestra) Friends of the Minneapolis Art Institute, Junior League, International Language Villages, AAUW and American Red Cross, among other organizations. Extensive travel has been another of life's highlights.

A final expression of gratitude to class volunteers and faculty/staff members who have orchestrated this wonderful celebration. Bouquets to them for months of planning!

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After graduation from Macalester, I taught music at White Bear Lake Junior High for a few years. I married Oluf Kongshaug from Copenhagen, Denmark in 1963. We've been married 47 years! We worked and traveled through Asia, Europe, and the U.S. for six years with the Up with People educational musical program before settling down when our daughter was expected in 1969. We have three children, Ellen, Paul, and Niels.

During the years when our children were young, Oluf taught school in Pleasantville, N.Y., and I taught music part-time. We moved to Iowa in 1980 where Oluf attended Dubuque Seminary and became a Presbyterian minister. He served several churches in Iowa, and I had jobs as a proofreader at a local newspaper and then with special education students in Cedar Rapids.

After we retired, we moved to Delaware, Ohio, to be near our daughter and her family. Since then Oluf has had interim pastor jobs, and I have the pleasure of babysitting two of our grandsons while our daughter is at work. We also do a lot of traveling to visit our son Paul and his family in Phoenix and our son Niels and his family in Des Moines. We are so blessed to now have seven grandchildren (the last two were born in September and October this year.) We spend summers at our family cabin in northern Michigan and love it there, especially when all our family gets together!

Being married to a Dane has been super! We've often traveled to Scandinavia where all of my husband's large family lives.

Through the years I have continued my singing in many excellent choirs wherever we have lived. I am now a member of the Columbus Symphony Chorus. It is a wonderful experience!

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After graduation I served three years in the army finance corps of which two and a half years were spent in Verona, Italy. After leaving the military, I returned to the US and found a job with the Mayo Clinic, and in September 1965 returned to Italy to be married. In 1967, I left the Mayo Clinic and joined Procter & Gamble in Cincinnati in the purchasing department. In a 31 year career at P&G I was involved in many areas of the company with a number of the assignments requiring extensive international travel.

On the home front, we have three children. The oldest, a son, was born in 1968 and today is a Franciscan priest leading pilgrimages to the Holy Land. Our second, a daughter, was born in 1972 and after earning a masters degree in public administration and working in non-profit agencies became a full time mother of three small children. Our youngest, a daughter, was born in 1977 and today is an emergency room physician in Baltimore, MD where she lives with her husband. In retirement, my wife and I live four months a year in the Italian Dolomite Alps near the Austrian border where we enjoy hiking, traveling and visiting family while the rest of the year we are in Cincinnati.

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After leaving Macalester, I taught junior high science and math in Iowa for two years. I returned to Minnesota to take a position with 3M where I remained for the next 32 years, retiring in 1995. I worked as a research chemist in their Printing Products Division.

Along the way I married a former Macalester student, Sharon Pinney. We have two sons: Eric born in 1962 and John born in 1965. We have added six grandchildren to the family who keep us busy and involved in all their activities.

We enjoyed a summer cabin in Wisconsin for many years but have since settled for a year round home on a small lake in Eagan. We still enjoy getting away for a few weeks in the winter to Palm Springs, Calif. or Bonita Springs, Fla. I'm glad to say we're both healthy and enjoying life's journey.

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After graduating from Macalester in January, I started teaching 5th grade, got married and got pregnant. The later terminated my teaching contract with the Hopkins School District. I proceeded to have one more son and focused on raising my family. In the early 70s I moved from Minnesota to Kansas City, Kansas and worked for a consulting engineering firm. From there, we moved to Northfield, MN where I returned to my career in education, this time as a staff developer.

After 5 years in Northfield and newly divorced, I accepted a position with the Minnesota Department of Education where I focused on the areas of staff development, curriculum and instruction for 20 years. My responsibilities took me to many of the school districts in the state working with school based teams using a site-based management model. Our work also included promoting a standards-based system for curriculum and instruction. The education career culminated in the Stillwater District where I worked with teachers developing standards-based curriculum. During this time I lived in the Highland Park neighborhood of St. Paul.

I now live in Gratfon, IL, where I am close to my son and enjoy the Riverbend Area of the Mississippi River with its scenic views, wintering eagles, and the always active and changing river

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I left Mac in the spring of 1961 with a Danforth Graduate Fellowship to enter the PhD program in mathematics at UC Berkeley. I spent the summer leading canoe trips at Camp Widjiwagan, and showed up in Berkeley in late September. It only took me one semester to realize that mathematics was not really my calling. I was a pretty decent math major, but I wasn’t a mathematician. I had made a decision at Mac to become a college faculty member, and I still wanted to do that, but now I needed a new discipline to study, and then teach. I had always been interested in the group dynamics of the canoe trips that I led for Widji, and I knew from my one course in Psychology at Mac that social psychology was where some people studied the behavior of groups. I wrote a letter to Professor Paul Jensen, then chair of the Mac Psychology Department, asking for advice. He promptly and graciously wrote back, encouraging me to make the switch, and that the University of Minnesota had an excellent department. So I returned to St. Paul and started exploring options at the U.

Sometimes in life, to our own credit, we make good decisions that work out well, and sometimes things work out well because of good luck. And both things happen to most of us over time. In this case it was a good decision because I found the topic of study that has captivated me for the past 50 years, and I was really lucky because just at the time I arrived at the U of M campus, the Department of Psychology had hired a brilliant, creative, and energetic young social psychologist named Elliot Aronson. Ellie became my mentor, my PhD advisor, and a life-long friend. I was even luckier in the move back to Minnesota because while in grad school I met a beautiful, charming, smart student in child clinical psychology named Marie Johnson. We were married in 1965 and celebrated our 45th wedding anniversary on August 21, 2010.

There is more to the lucky part of my decision to come back to the U of M. Elliot and I were there for exactly the same time span, January 1962 to August 1965. He left to take a position at the University of Texas at Austin, and I left to become Assistant Professor of Psychology at Duke. Now, my goal had been to teach at a small liberal arts college, just like Mac, but my training with Elliot had gotten me excited about the research role of the professor. Duke was a great place to be, with excellent students, both graduate and undergraduate, and talented faculty, especially my two colleagues in social psychology. I had seven productive years at Duke. One of the highlights was the undergraduate honors program, very similar to the one I had participated in at Mac, and I jumped into it enthusiastically. I found it very gratifying to mentor the honors students, as well as the PhD candidates, and through the rest of my career that has been a major part of my teaching activity. In 1972, while on sabbatical leave from Duke, spending the academic year at Stanford, I was recruited by Arizona State University to help them start and to become director of a new doctoral training program in social psychology. I accepted the position and we moved to ASU in August, 1972. This was another of those changes that turned out well, both because I made a good decision, and because I was again very, very lucky. I spent the next 33 years at ASU, teaching, mentoring, publishing research and serving in a number of administrative roles. One of the most rewarding things I did at ASU was to help start an undergraduate honors program in the Department of Psychology, modeled after the ones I had experienced at Mac and Duke. It is still flourishing, five years after I retired at the end of 2005, and serves as the model for many other honors programs on the ASU campus.

One of the lucky things about moving to ASU was that it allowed me to ski at Taos Ski Valley in northern New Mexico. I made wonderful friends, and was asked to join the ski school in 1982 to help organize and run an instructor training program in collaboration with New Mexico Highlands University. I have been teaching skiing ever since, and now teach at Aspen/Snowmass here in Colorado. Marie and I spend most of the year at our home in Roxborough Park, southwest of Denver, but we spend most of the winter in Aspen/Snowmass.

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Marriage, 2 children, 4 grandchildren
MBA, University of Minnesota
MA, Luther Seminary
2005 Ordination as Episcopal priest in Diocese of Arkansas
6+ years as hospice/hospital chaplain

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I went on to obtain a JD from the University of Minnesota in 1966. After about 20 years of law practice, I divorced, left the state and became a professional cook for another 20 years. I returned to Minnesota in 1996 and continued my cooking career until 2001. That year I finally got re-married, took early retirement, and re-activated my license to practice law. Since then I have been happily volunteering with both of my skills in serving my fellow seniors.

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Taught in the Mounds View District #621 for 34 years, in the 4th and 5th grades. Retired in 1995.

My home is located in Blaine. During the spring, summer, and fall I head to my cabin on Daisy Bay, at Lake Vermilion.

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After graduating from Mac in June 1961, I started graduate school at Iowa State University in July and obtained a masters in Biochemistry in 1963. In 1964 I married a physical chemistry graduate student at ISU. After he got his Ph.D., we moved to Northfield, Vt. where he taught chemistry for the next 35 years.

During the first 15 years there, I taught part time at Norwich when they were short a chemistry teacher but spent most of my time raising out three children, Andrew, Kari and Troy. In 1983 I got a masters of arts in teaching biology as well as my teaching certification for science grades 7-12. For the next five years I taught physical science to eighth graders. In 1990 I went to work at Norwich University in the chemistry department and taught there for the next 15 years.

In 2008 Hollis and I retired to Brunswick, Maine, where we are close to our daughter and two of our grandchildren. We have one son and three grandchildren living in Norwich, Vermont. Our eldest son works for the State Department in their technical division and is currently in Kuwait.

Since moving to Brunswick, I have enjoyed volunteering at the Brunswick public library, Maine Maritime Museum in Bath, and Girl Scouts in Brunswick. My husband and I have done lots of traveling since we retired, and we are currently looking forward to visiting out son in Kuwait.

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After graduating from Macalester College, I followed an itinerant career path that included authoring two publications for the Macalester Bureau of Economic Studies, serving on Minnesota Governor Elmer L. Andersen’s staff, commercial lending at the First National Bank of St. Paul, Whiteweld & Co., a New York investment banking firm, followed by six years on the corporate staff at Dayton Hudson Corporation. In 1974, McComb Group, Ltd. was founded, a real estate consulting firm offering services to developers, institutional investors, and governments nationwide. Consulting has been a continuous learning experience where each assignment brings new challenges as the development industry evolves in response to economic and social trends. I have been fortunate to have a career where going to work continues to be an enjoyable experience.

In the mid 1980s, my travels crossed paths with Arthur R. Upgren, who was then living in Florida. Over the ensuing years, there were opportunities for lunches and dinners. His mind was sharp as a tack and he still had a repertoire of good jokes. Since graduation, I have lived in Minnesota and have occupied a historic home on Lake of the Isles since 1974. Candy and I enjoy weekends at our lake home near Osakis. My four children are following professional careers, three in the Twin Cities area and one is in New Hampshire.

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Went off to Sierra Leone, West Africa in 1961 with the Peace Corps (Mac's lst PCV) where I taught music at the Teacher Training College in Bo and built a marching/instrumental music program. Worked in Public Affairs with PC in DC upon returning, and then took off on a career in higher education, starting in admissions at Mac, grad school at Iowa where I directed the world's largest bagpipe band (all women!) and earned two graduate degrees. Married (by Ken Hoffman's brother-in-law) to wife, Marilyn. One son who practices medicine and is a professor at PITT; 3 grandchildren. After Iowa, served as VP at five colleges/universities from Hawaii to London, with longest stay at Beloit College. Had a Fullbright to the University of Glasgow. Expertise is in enrollment mgt, international ed, marketing higher ed, etc. Opportunity to travel the world; still working as a consultant with private colleges and universities. I admitted Kofi Annan's younger brother to Mac in the mid60's...it is a small world after all...still play the bagpipes....

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After earning a Ph.D. in sociology from Harvard, I taught for 12 years at Pomona College, Lewis and Clark College and San Francisco University. I entered the U.S. Foreign Service in 1980 and served in Tokyo, Geneva and Washington D.C. I am now retired.

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After graduation in 1961 I spent two years in the Army Security Agency. After discharge I worked at the Sears Distribution Center in Minneapolis. In 1964, I married Ann Cuperus ('63). After graduation, Ann worked at Northwestern Hospital as a Medical Technologist.

In 1971 we moved to Columbus, OH where I was on a project team which built and operated a 2.8MM sq. ft. automated Sears Distribution Center. During the mid-70's, I became interested in McDonald's Restaurant franchising. In 1980 we built and opened our first McDonald's Restaurant. Ann became an Owner/Operator shortly thereafter. We continued to operate our restaurants until we sold out in 2003 and retired. During that time our passion was cruising the Great Lakes from our YC in Sandusky, OH.

In 2004-2005 we built a home in Ormond Beach Florida where we enjoy the "Florida Lifestyle", as one of the Florida department stores calls it, and traveling.

We have two sons, Jon and Scott and 5 grandchildren. Jon is a surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic and has three children. Scott is a Sr. QA engineer in Arvada CO and has two children. Scott's residence in CO allows Ann and Jon and family to ski there several times during the year while I stay warm at home with our Yorkie, Chardonnay.

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The Early Years
After graduation Jo Ellen Taylor and I set out in my ’58 Chevrolet convertible for our first teaching jobs in Garden Grove, California. We roomed with former Mac classmates Kay Jones and Pat Burr in a two bedroom apartment in Anaheim with a swimming pool. The pool was a big deal for me being a swimmer at Mac. Ah! – the good life! The next year, after Dale graduated from Iowa State in Industrial Engineering, we were married at the Glass Chapel in Portuguese Bend, California, December 28, 1961.

We left California early that summer – thinking we would surely return someday – for St. Louis where we lived for 2 ½ years. Dale worked as an engineer at McDonnell Aircraft and I taught kindergarten in suburban St. Ann, Missouri.

Volunteerism, Family and Grad School
In 1965 Dale decided to further his education and pursue his Masters and PhD at Arizona State University and I tagged along. I taught one more year in Scottsdale. We rented in the then small town (30,000) of Tempe with cotton fields in our backyard. Then came the children – Todd (1966), Tommy (1968) and Trissa (1970) – and a full time job at ASU for Dale.

Volunteerism has been a big part of my life. I was Tempe Junior Women’s Club President and honored by being selected State Club President of the year in 1975. I was our Sister Cities 2nd Vice President for over 30 years and Dale and I are in the Sister City Ring of Honor in Tempe’s Kiwanis Park. In 1995 we were the Sister City Oktoberfest King and Queen. In 1977 we hosted a ‘Fiesta’ AZ Mac Clan get-together in our home with Macalester President and Mrs. Davis attending.

Carnival, Family Expands, Travel
In 1974 we bought Merriam’s Midway Shows from Dale’s folks – the family carnival business continued. In that same year we bought a house at Shalimar Country Club and we’re still there. Our children are grown and now have families of their own. Todd and his wife Robby live in San Antonio and have one daughter Jamie (17). Tommy and his wife Jenifer live in nearby Gilbert, AZ and have two daughters, Anissa (12) and Mariah (10) and one son Tylan Storm (3) and Trissa lives in nearby Chandler, AZ and has one daughter, Abby (10). They all have the usual and fun assortments of dogs, cats, goldfish, turtles, etc., and all bring us great joy sharing their busy lives with us.

With the end of 2002 we retired and sold the business to our son Todd. The show must go on, you know. The business now operates from Somerset, Texas where we have property for storage and winter quarters. Trissa is active in the business. Tommy is an IT professional with the Arizona Board of Regents who governs the three state universities. Dale and I still travel with the show during the summer living in our fifth-wheel travel trailer, and visiting many familiar Minnesota towns. The carnival goes to Pine Island – my home town – which lets me see old friends. We were honored recently by being chosen Grand Marshalls of the Pine Island Cheese Festival Parade. These summer travels keeps Dale active, helps the kids (we hope) and gets me out of the Arizona heat.

With our participation in Sister City and a couple cruises, we have been blessed to enjoy some international travel. Before ‘buckling down’ to grad school and family raising we went to Europe for a month in 1965. Sister City trips have allowed us to visit New Zealand, Australia, China, Paris, the French Riviera, Timbuktu (Mali, Africa) and cruise the Mexican Riviera. We just completed our latest trip in March on a cruise through the Panama Canal.

Where have fifty years gone? We never made it back to California, Tempe has grown to a population of 155,000, and we’re all living lives we could not have imagined in 1960. Anxious to see you all. Have your name tags on!

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After graduation and a summer of working in Macalester’s Admissions Office giving campus tours to prospective students, I started my first teaching position in the Mounds View District along with several Mac friends who were also recruited to that rapidly growing area. I married John Meslow (the result of a blind date initiated by Joan Meisser Ruppel) in 1965, and continued to teach in the West St. Paul School District until our first daughter was born a few years later.

My career shifted from elementary to adult education. As a program director in Continuing Education at Inver Hills Community College, I designed a variety of non-credit courses and also initiated and coordinated a program of credit courses offered on site at area companies.

I’ve always had at least one or two activities going in the volunteer world. I coordinated a classical music competition, worked as an United Way “Loaned Executive,” led initiatives for evaluations of public school issues, worked on Junior League community projects, did some event planning, and led several church schools and programs.

John and I enjoy our life in the Twin Cities with occasional summer escapes to a lake cabin in Wisconsin and winters in Tucson. We have two daughters and five fine grandchildren: Julie, her husband Jeff Michael, and their three sons live in California; Sara and her husband Paul Vahle have two daughters and live nearby in Lake Elmo.

I came to Mac as a junior and I am most grateful for the wonderful friends I made in those two years. The bridge club group no longer plays bridge but has been together for 40+ years, and the good friends from 2nd floor Bigelow Hall have been lunching, partying, supporting, and celebrating together for, yes, 50 years!

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: My years at Macalester were powerful development years for a person growing up on a farm, hailing from a small town, Hayfield, a population of 800, in southeastern Minnesota. I had the opportunity to continue receiving a good education, fortunate to also have the opportunity to continue participating in football, basketball and other sports...with Dr. Watson looking after the injuries. In addition, I was a dorm father, as we were known at that time, for my four years at Mac. Such experiences helped a small town kid mature and acclimate to the larger world around him. Doug Bolstorff, the basketball coach and Dr. Braden, the Physics Department head were several of the mentors who furthered my growth.

Prior to graduation in 1961, I had been selected to be part of a traveling basketball team "down under". Mr. Dewitt Wallace had agreed to sponsor me and pay all of the expenses. However, the program was cancelled before it got off the ground.

I graduated in 1961 with a major in Physic's and minors in Math and Business Administration. Fortunately, prior to graduation, I had been offered a position at the Minneapolis Honeywell Research Facility in Hopkins. I immediately went to work after graduation with my first project being the development of the integrated circuit, working alongside the director of the facility. I discovered within the first year that my calling was not that of a research scientist, but it gave me a great start and education for and in my employment arena for the next several years.

In 1962, I had the opportunity to join Control Data, in their Sales & Marketing Department. At the time, the company was starting to really grow. In 1963, I entered direct sales with them, in Los Angeles, California, as the youngest member of the direct sales force. This became my calling. I enjoyed the distinction of being within the top 4 or 5 performers corporate wide for a number of years, starting with my first year.

In the fall of 1963, I married Carolyn Ekelund, class of '63. I met Carolyn the first day of school in 1960, at the Mac college mixer and freshman girl auction. She was one of the freshman girls that had been selected to participate in the auction, held in the Macalester gym. No, I was not the person with the winning bid, but she was tall and I soon found her on the dance floor. We have one son, who also became a Macalester College graduate in 1999. Carolyn, an education major, was a teacher for a number of years, and presently is an Assistant Principal at The Buckley School, a prestigious k-12 private school.

From Control Data, after being in sales management positions for a couple different start-up companies, I founded my own computer company, in the computer output microfilm application arena, placing computer data directly unto microfilm and microfiche.

After selling the company, I ventured, with my own company, into several different aspects of finance, insurance and real estate, which included real estate brokerage, development, management and mortgage brokerage. For the past 12 plus years, I have also been involved in the field of International Investment Banking.

I am not a person looking to retire.

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While at Macalester I continued to live at my home in south Minneapolis and commuted daily to classes on campus. During this time I also worked as a police officer in St. Paul. Unfortunately, as I now realize, this arrangement prevented me from participating in the on campus activities enjoyed by so many of my classmates. I did, however, have time to find the girl of my dreams. In 1960 Dona Meigs '60 and I were married and last year we celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary.

At Mac I majored in economics and sociology and upon graduating worked for several years in various accounting positions. I did not find these jobs either as challenging or as meaningful as I had hoped for in my earlier career plans. At the age of 30 I looked at my future and totally changed career paths. I returned to police work which I had so enjoyed while attending Mac.

This career change required that I return to school while continuing to work full-time trying to provide some support for my wife and two young daughters who had somehow amazingly appeared on the scene. I earned a masters degree in public administration at the U of M. I was also offered an opportunity to attend the FBI Academy in Quanitico, VA to "retool" myself for my new career choice.

During the years that followed I worked as a patrol officer in Minneapolis and spent the last 5 years in that department as the Administrative Aide to the Chief of Police. I then moved on to Golden Valley, MN where I served as a police lieutenant in charge of patrol operations. While in Golden Valley I also served on the communities’ volunteer fire department. My final move took me to Richfield, MN as the Public Safety Director where I was responsible for both police and fire operations in that city.

After my retirement in 1987, and too many years of hectic big city life, my wife and I chose to move to the small town of Cannon Falls, MN. We now enjoy the best of both worlds; living in a beautiful, friendly small community and with easy access to all the amenities of the metro area.

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The summer after graduating in 1961 I was employed at the Museum of Northern Arizona in Flagstaff as a summer assistant to the curator for geology, a job that Prof. W. S. Glock found for me. It provided an opportunity to visit neighboring parks such as Bryce, Zion, and the Grand Canyon with the other summer assistants; the museum was more of a vacation than a job.

I was admitted to the graduate program at the University of Iowa the fall of 1961 where I completed requirements for a M. S. degree in geology in 1964. I had worked as a teaching and research assistant there but never the less spent most of my savings by the third year of grad school so I left the U. and went to work in the petroleum industry in Oklahoma and Texas where I remained for three years.

However I had wanted to complete a Ph.D. so in 1967 I returned to Iowa to resume studies in geology. After completing requirements for the degree I began employment at the Minnesota Geological Survey the fall of 1969. (The geologist I replaced and I literally switched desks because he left the job to go to Iowa to get his Ph.D.) The Geological Survey is a part of the School of Geology and Geophysics at the University of Minnesota and is the organization that does much of the geological mapping for the state of Minnesota. Most of the mapping that I have done is for studies related to ground water resources and protection as well as some for industrial (rock aggregate) and other minerals. Much of the funding is provided by outside agencies such as the U. S. Geological Survey, MN Department of Health, DNR, and Metropolitan Council for which we produce maps needed for their studies.

I am still working, however times have changed and now instead of drawing maps with pencil on paper I am drawing them on a computer screen.

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I started my 30 year career with Dayton's in June 1961 as a merchandise trainee. I was an assistant buyer in five different departments and then transferred to Fantle's in Sioux Falls, SD, a store owned by Dayton's. Sharon and I married in 1964 while in SXF. We came back to Minneapolis to open the Brookdale Dayton's store in 1966.

Later, I became a buyer in three different departments and assistant store manager in three different Twin Cities stores. Included was the Mpls store where we started the consolidation of the store from 9 floors down to 6 in 1984.

For the last six years I was store manager at the Brookdale Home Store. After retiring from Dayton's, I taught Retail Merchandising at the U of M for three years. I have been a volunteer at SCORE, a counseling service to small businesses for the last 14 years.

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Shortly after graduation, Kyler Nelson and I were married. We then lived in Lafayette, Ind.; Salt Lake City, Utah; and Rochester (Pittsford), N.Y. prior to moving back to Minnesota in 1980. We now live in St. Paul (North Oaks). We have one married daughter, Bryn, two married sons, Kyle and Erik, and nine grandchildren, ages 4-14. They all live in the area, so we are able to do many things together.

While in Rochester, I returned to school at Nazareth College and received a master’s in special education with a learning disabilities concentration. In each place we lived I held positions in both regular and special education in grades K-12. In addition, I volunteered and participated in many activities. For me, variety was and still is my “spice of life.”

I retired from the Minneapolis public schools in 2002 and now supervise student teachers for St. Catherine University and participate in juried art shows with articles from my sewing business.

Since graduation, I and six other classmates from Mac have corresponded via a round-robin letter. I am very appreciative of these friends and others I knew at Mac.

The four years at Macalester prepared me well for the challenges ahead.

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In 1963 I married Laurence Nyquist, who at that time was working on his Masters degree at the U of M. In 1965 we moved to Switzerland where he completed his research for his PhD. These were three very formative years. With the return of the first lunar samples, Larry was offered a position at the Johnson Space Center in Houston and we have been here ever since. We have two wonderful children and six grandchildren living in the area.

After teaching math and science for several years, I was called as the Director of Christian Education at Clear Lake Presbyterian Church in 1986. In 1998 I became the Associate General Presbyter for New Covenant Presbytery, working with leadership development and connectional ministries. After retiring in 2004 I was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Association of Presbyterian Church Educators.

A few years ago I tried something very different for me and purchased a Curves exercise facility for women. My daughter manages it and we are having a great time working together.

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I graduated from Macalester with majors in physics and math, an interest in outer space, and aspirations to become a nuclear physicist. I had received a Woodrow Wilson Graduate Fellowship, and headed to the University of Minnesota to pursue my goals. Via a series of fortunate events, I was employed by NASA at the then Manned Spacecraft (now Johnson) Space Center, where I have just received my forty-year service award. It has been an interesting journey.

At the University, I joined a research group that was measuring the effects of nuclear interactions of high-energy cosmic-rays from space with iron nuclei in iron meteorites. This led me to follow my advisor to the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland, where he established a laboratory to continue the research started in Minnesota. I and another one of his graduate students were given research positions at the Institute, while maintaining “ off-campus student” standing at the U of M. Connie and I were married by that time, and were able to enjoy the cultural aspects of late-1960s Europe. In 1968, we returned to Minnesota. I finally got my Ph. D. in physics then, just in time to help build another laboratory in the Humphrey Space Science at the University. There I participated in the analysis of moon rocks returned by the Apollo 11 mission to the moon.

In 1970, I was offered a position at the MSC, and Connie, our infant daughter Annalisa, and I moved to Houston. The Apollo program was at its height. It was an incredibly exciting time to be in Houston. Connie became instantly deeply involved in the local Presbyterian church, while I, and others like me, sought to wrest as much scientific information as we could from the Apollo samples. This research has culminated in the current ideas of how the Moon was formed and subsequently evolved. In the process, my research specialty became that of an isotope geochemist, the primary function of which is determining the ages of rocks, but in this case not from the earth, but from other planetary bodies. The samples needed for this are found in the form of meteorites, many of which are recovered from Antarctica. In addition to more lunar samples, the meteorites contain samples widely accepted as of Martian origin, some likely from the asteroid Vesta, and others from unknown rocky asteroids.

For most of my time at the MSC (now JSC), I have been a Principle Investigator in various NASA research programs. I have received two NASA “Outstanding Scientific Achievement” awards, and in 2007, was among five scientists honored for achievements in documenting the chronology of the earliest solar system. In 2011, I was elected to the Tracy, Minnesota High School “Wall of Fame.”

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After my MA and PHD program at the University of Minnesota, I taught Political Science and Social Sciences.

My segway into administration and management was as Assistant Director of the U of M HELP Center (Higher Education for Low Income Persons which later developed into the Martin Luther King Center.)

I was recruited to the staff of the State College Board (now MNSCU) where I initiated and implemented the first study of the status of women in the system, which became the foundation for the first affirmative action plan, equalization of salaries, and opening key administrative positions to women.

Working in the Lt. Governor's Office brought me experience in establishing environmental programs and conducting legislative work (which was a springboard for the public affairs work I did on behalf of state-wide organizations later in my career). Working with the World Affairs Center and the U.S. State Dept., I garnered experience in building avenues for public input into public policy.

My two decades as President and CEO of Career Solutions (also known as Working Opportunities for Women) brought me the opportunity to work on issues of employment, education, legislative appropriations and workforce issues.

In addition to my professional life, I wanted to make contributions through my community efforts. I was active in the civil rights, anti war, and feminist movements

I take greatest satisfaction from the contributions I was able to make to moving us closer to gender equity: co-founder of the Feminist Caucus; I initiated rules for equal representation and ending gender segregated office positions in my political party; played a role in the nomination of the first female MN Supreme Court Justice; trained women across the state to participate and take leadership roles to advance the numbers of women elected and appointed to public office; and collaborated with Dr. Dodge in Ea. Europe and the Soviet Union on a study of the status and conditions of employed women.

As a result of these experiences, I have been called upon to speak, teach, and testify for groups and at conventions here and elsewhere in the country.

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After serving 20 years as a Lutheran pastor I went to Buffalo, NY in '84 to pastor non-denominational house-church, but was dropped from Lutheran clergy roster. For the later 2 years I worked at IRS, and was honored as their national "Rookie of the Year."

After being married 25 years, my wife left me and our 2 children. I was also divorced a second time, so I’ve been single since '99. I’m enjoying being close to my son and daughter, and the 7 grand-kids. Currently I spend 8 hours a week reading to the blind, which informs my curiousness!

In 2005 I received the "Active Lifestyle Award," from President Bush, for my participation at the YMCA. As a result, got to throw out the 1st pitch for our AAA baseball team - what a ball!!

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I graduated with a degree in English education, and during the next ten years I taught in Hartford, Denver, and the small town of St. Regis in Montana. In 1971 I returned to Minnesota and began working at Honeywell, where I eventually became a business administrator. It was also at Honeywell that I met my husband Dick. We lived in New Brighton, MN, until he retired. In 1990 we moved to Colorado Springs, CO. Then in 1995 we sold our house and became full time RVer's for the next 9 years. In 2003 we left our Gypsy lifestyle behind and bought a summer home in Big Lake, MN, and a winter place in Tucson, AZ.

We have two children who both live in Colorado. They waited until they were 34 and 35 years old and then they got married within six months during this past year. Our son and daughter-in-law are expecting our first grandchild in August. Needless to say, we are excited about this!

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Celebrating 50 years in the entertainment field.

1960-1970:

• Summer Stock – New London, N.H. Barn Players
• Sharon Playhouse, Sharon, CT
• Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church Choir
• American Savoyards – Off-Broadway and touring repertory theatre company that produced light operas – all Gilbert and Sullivan Operettas

1970-1980:

• “Have Voice, Will travel!” Winged Victory Singers – all states and Canada including 20 performances with the Bozo Show – live on WGN-TV in Chicago
• Don Cossack Chorus – all 50 U.S. states

1980-1990:

• Craig’s partner, Dr. Howard Richardson dies at age 67 Dec. 30, 1984. Craig continues to promote and attend performances of Moon in U.S., Canada and Europe until present time

1990-2005:

• Spectrum State Theater Co. Bd. Of Directors.
• Opera Co. of Brooklyn Bd. Of Directors and Publicist

Spring 2012

• Broadway Revival of Dark of the Moon “When you come to the end of a perfect day!” Who would have guessed.

From Variety article on Dark of the Moon by Gordon Cox
‘Dark’ to fall on stage, screen
Brewing musical targets a Broadway run

“A team of producers has acquired the rights to Appalachian Mountain-set play ‘Dark of the Moon’ for a potential stage tuner and movie adaptation…”
more

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I happily recall those days at Macalester: coming to St. Paul from Colombia in 1957 with two hundred dollars in my pocket, being offered scholarships at four different colleges in the Twin Cities, but accepting one from Macalester because of my Presbyterian roots in Colombia. Although my intent was to complete my undergraduate work at Mac, Clarence Payne, who came to serve as assistant minister at Macalester Church in the summer of 1958, very quickly swept me off my feet in a whirlwind romance, and we were married in Colombia the following year. In 1961, I interrupted my studies at Macalester so that he could pursue a second master’s degree at Princeton.

In 1962, we went to the Panama Canal Zone where my husband pursued two careers: He spent the first eight years serving as pastor of interdenominational churches in the Canal Zone for the American community and the subsequent 20 working on the immediate staff of the Governor/Administrator of the Panama Canal Company. During those early years in the Panama Canal Zone, we had two children, Anita and David. I also completed my undergraduate studies at the Florida State University extension program and two years later earned a masters degree in Educational Psychology in the University of Oklahoma extension program, which qualified me to serve as an educational counselor with the United States Army for 26 years.

Following our 28 years in Panama, Clarence was called to serve the National Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C., and I transferred my civilian military employment to Army Education Centers at the Pentagon and at Fort Myers. I retired from that employment in 1996 to recover from the death of our beloved son David who died of cancer when only 30 years of age. My retirement also afforded me time to enjoy our daughter’s five children, which helped me in the recovery from the grief of our deep loss.

In 1997, we accepted a call to a church in Tallahassee in order to be close to our daughter and the grandchildren there. Since my husband's retirement eight years ago, we have been blessed with excellent health and have traveled frequently to Panama, Colombia and Europe to see family and friends.

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Highlight from my life include:
-Joining the U.S. Peace Corps
-Being a high school teacher
-Being a real estate broker
-I am currently retired

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After Macalester, I attended graduate school at the University of Colorado in Boulder, where I received a PH.D. in clinical psychology. I spent one year interning in Indianapolis, and then returned to Boulder. In 1966 I met and married my husband, Frank, and we spent the next three months traveling across the U.S. and parts of Europe on our way the Canary Islands.

Frank worked for NOAA at a solar observatory located at a NASA tracking station there. Our life in the Canaries was a great adventure, and we were able to vacation in Europe which was a bonus. Our daughter, Morgan, was born in Las Palmas in 1968, and we returned to Boulder the next year. Thirty-five years ago we moved to Tucson, where Frank worked at the Kitt Peak National Observatory. I worked as a psychologist in Boulder and here, and we are now both retired.

We continue to live in our home in the foothills of the Santa Catalina Mountains. Our daughter and her husband live in San Diego, so we can make quick trips there whenever we need to see the ocean. Retirement is great; it is wonderful to be in good health and have the freedom to do whatever you feel like doing. I often think of the many ways Macalester enriched my life, and how fortunate I was to have been a student there.

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A year after graduation, Larry Risser (Mac Class of '62) and I were married. We settled in Minneapolis, where he taught English for the Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS), and I completed an MA in English at the University of Minnesota. We raised three daughters and have lived near Lake Harriet for over forty years. I worked as a report and grant writer for the MPS and later, in the same capacity, for Macalester. I have always had an interest in writing short fiction, and three years ago I began the Master Track Program at The Loft in Minneapolis, completing it in February, 2010. Larry and I have five grandchildren, and we enjoy being grandparents. Travel has also been a big part of our lives, and, in the past year, we enjoyed both a European river cruise and, later, a bike and barge trip on the Rhine and Mosel.

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When I entered Mac, music was my passion and my major. When I graduated, I had a major in poli sci and minors in spanish, history and education. Yet I continued to be involved in music at Mac and throughout my life in church, community and home. Spanish proved to be valuable not only in teaching but also in my travels and relationships. Poli Sci and history provided the foundation for teaching social studies and for serving in my various careers in government. But the main thing they gave me was a deep lifelong interest in our world’s past and present, which has provided a wonderful source of friendships and activities. So Mac prepared me well for a rich and fulfilling life.

In 1962 I married Jock Robertson. After teaching two years in Mounds View, we moved to Seattle where we both got master’s degrees from the University of Washington. More importantly, our children Hilary and Kirk were born there. Hilary now lies in St. Paul with her husband Tim Wahlberg and daughters Phoebe and Amelia. Kirk lives in Bozeman, Montana.

In 1973 we returned to Minnesota and in 1976 I resumed full time employment as a member of the research staff of the Minnesota House of Representatives. I subsequently served as the director of two House-Senate bipartisan commissions. The first responded to public complaints regarding state agencies’ regulations and the second was a comprehensive study and oversight of solid and hazardous waste activities. I went on to direct the Research Office at the Department of Labor and Industry.

n the following three years, I was divorced and my career took a new direction. I entered partisan politics when the newly elected majority leader of the House of Representatives asked me to be her top aide. When she became the first female Speaker of the House, I became her Chief of Staff.

During the time I worked in the Speaker’ s office, I often reflected on Dr. Dodge saying that in politics there are no blacks or whites only shades of gray, and Dr. Mitau repeating the famous quote that politics is the art of compromise and compromise is the art of the possible. I was fortunate to serve in government when it was still possible to not only find, but to expect, compromise, congeniality and civility.

In 1995 I was forced to retire early due to medical conditions (brain aneurysm) but thankfully since then I’ve made great strides and am now looking forward to celebrating our 50th reunion together. Here’s to us!

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• Teaching kindergarten for 4 years--2 in Monmouth, IL and 2 in Elmhurst, IL.
• Marrying Dave Runyan, class of '60 in 1963
• Four children: Katy b1968, Carrie b1969, Andy b1972 and Meg b1979
• Five grandsons: Noah, Matthew, Zach, Isaac, and David
• Church work at First United Methodist Church of West Chicago, singing in the choir, serving on committees, being the songleader
• Serving on the board of a day care center for high school moms
• Singing in a women's madrigal group for 26 years
• PTA and hospital auxiliary member
• Involvement with a national and international nondenominational Christian camp group started by a Macalester professor in 1930
• Traveling--several cruises (favorites are Alaska and the Balkans), Ireland, England, Paris, Italy, Sri Lanka, Indonisia, Hong Kong, Mexico
• Working on an organic farm run by my daughter Meg

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Fifty years ago, seven friends from the second floor of Bigelow rented a house from a Mac professor on sabbatical. Four of the seven were beginning teachers in Moundsview School District. I drove each one to their school and finally arrived to start my day as a third-grade teacher. Unfortunately, my car wasn’t always reliable, but Jack Ruppel, my future husband, was kind enough to rescue us on days the car wouldn't start.

I began my teaching career as a third-grade teacher; then I taught kindergarten and first-grade in Mahtomedi. Finally, I spent 25 years as a director and teacher in North St. Paul at North Presbyterian Church.

Jack Ruppel and I married in December of 1961, which eliminated his early morning trips to help stranded teachers on Goodrich Avenue! We are fortunate that our two children live in the Twin Cities, and that we have many opportunities to spend time with our two grandchildren, ages three and six.

Over the last 50 years we have lived in White Bear Lake, Minn.; Mahtomedi, Minn.; Deephaven, Minn.; St. Paul; Boca Raton, Fla.; Cedarburg, Wis.; and presently Stillwater, Minn. I have enjoyed doing volunteer work in each community where I have lived. Currently, I am a Deacon at North Presbyterian Church and have sung in the Chancel Choir for 35 years.

I am grateful for the fine education I received at Macalaster and treasure the enduring friendships I maintain to this very day. Good friends have a way of coming in and out of our lives at every turn, and some come to stay forever.

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I have been married to Dennis Kohlmann Ryan, also of the Class of 1961, for 50 years. I majored in medical technology and worked in bacteriology all of my working life. I started at Lutheran Deaconess Hospital in Minneapolis, had a break during Dennis's internship and military service, and worked at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, where I specialized in anaerobic bacteriology. I finished my career at St. Francis Hospital in LaCrosse, Wisconsin. I have been retired for several years.

We have two children. Scott lives in Minneapolis with his wife, Elizabeth Harry (she is at rival St. Thomas). Scott works at 'The Good Guys' in St. Paul, which is a small music and sound equipment company.

Our daughter Catherine is an OB/GYN with a specialty in fertility. She is married to Michael von Muchow, who is a musician and record producer. Cathy moved back to LaCrosse after her education and produced our two teenage granddaughters, surely the most beautiful and talented young people ever.

I am really excited about our reunion. If it were not for Macalester, my life would have been entirely different, and not nearly as fulfilling.

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Sharon (Bouley) and I married in our third year at Mac and were blessed 11 months later with our first child. The second child came in the second year of medical school. When I finished my internship in Los Angeles, essentially every physician was drafted. I spent three years in Germany in the U.S. Army. Sharon hated the army but survived. Then followed an eye surgery residency at the WFMC (World Famous Mayo Clinic) where Sharon, a med tech, learned anaerobic microbiology. That helped determine where we have spent the last 37 years of our lives. Sharon worked at the St. Francis Medical Center, where she established the anaerobe lab. I became a staff ophthalmologist across town at Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center. My 32 years there went like 10. I had a practice with an emphasis on pediatric ophthalmology, and I loved it. Our son is in Minneapolis and loves his job working with musicians and repairing their sound equipment. Our daughter is a staff obstetrician/gynecologist at Gundersen, specializing in fertility. She produced our two eminently talented granddaughters Rose (15) and Madrigal (13). My wife, children, their spouses, and our granddaughters are all very talented musicians. Since I was shorted in that area, I enjoy watching and listening to them.

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My teaching career was short but sweet. From 1961-1962 I worked in Roseville, Minn. teaching fifth grade. From 1962-963 I taught fourth grade in Grand Forks, N.D. worked in the Schirado Law Office from 1988-1991 as a typist, receptionist, and cleaning lady. I was a caregiver from 1991-2008 part-time and then full-time for my parents.

I furthered my education at the University of Mary in Bismarck, N.D. from 1980-1981 and got a bachelor’s in secondary education and a minor in English. Fun.

My family includes my husband Les Schirado, deceased. We had one daughter, four sons (one of whom is deceased), six granddaughters, and three grandsons.

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Some highlights:

• Elementary teacher (grades 4-6) in Wisconsin (7 years) and Minnesota (27 years)
• Received my master's degree in education from University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, 1967.
• One of 10 finalists for Minnesota Teacher of the Year, 1972
• Since retirement from teaching, employed by Bachman's Garden Centers (6 years), individual and group tutoring and teacher mentoring for School District 281, and various volunteer opportunities.

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Macalester College provided me with both a Bachelor's and a Master's degree and the University of Minnesota provided a doctorate that served me well in the field of education as teacher, principal, and assistant superintendent, all in my beloved St. Paul. Since then, a second career as adjunct faculty at St. Catherine University is putting a capstone on this phase of my life.

Besides serving on committees for Lyngblomsten Care Center, the St. Paul Area Synod and my own church, family (three children and two grandchildren) and friends remain the focus of life and excitement for the future. Sharing with another generation is my ultimate source of fulfillment and satisfaction. Sharing includes all sorts of enriching experiences; holidays, travel, special occasions, learning new skills and sharing talents. But the best of our shared experiences are the times spent at my North Shore "retreat" house. There's nothing like the wind off Lake Superior, the lapping of the waves and the call of the loons to remind me to take time to enjoy the simple pleasures.

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After graduation I taught sixth grade in Mounds View for five years and moved to St. Louis where my husband taught at the University of Missouri St. Louis. That was the first time I had ever lived away from home, and it was a treat to explore new territory.

After four years there, and after our first son Eric was born, we returned to Minnesota where our second son Brent was born. Eric is 42 and resides in London after living 16 years in Italy, which gave me the opportunity to take many trips as well as study the language. Brent (BJ) lives with his wife and three children in Minnesota. I’m very grateful for the joy of being a grandmother!

In 1976 I was researching HMO laws for a local HMO when I joined 3M to implement their HMO offerings to US employees. That began my 20-year career in human resources and benefits management. While a student at Macalester I never would have imagined myself a manager in such a large corporation. It was a great time of learning and expanding my horizons. I believe my liberal arts education at Macalester enabled the critical skills and abilities needed for this job. I will be forever grateful for that!

Although traveling to other countries is an experience all its own, my most enjoyable recent travel experiences have been those more active trips such as hiking in the majestic American West and paddling in northern Minnesota.

My friendships with the gang from second floor south in Bigelow Hall have endured through the years, as we gather several times a year. We have celebrated milestone birthdays together twice in Arizona and our 70th birthdays last year at the Meslows’ cabin in Wisconsin. There are so many Macalester memories and hysterical laughs; the same stories never seem to get old! And to think we had all that fun without cell phones and e-mail!

My current activities as a retiree have been volunteering as a tutor in the Minneapolis schools and working to help restore the river gorge in the twin cities with the Friends of the Mississippi.

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Worked at 3M, attended and dropped out of grad school at U of Minn., moved to Colorado to enjoy the mountains, and found a job I loved and the love of my life. Climbed a lot of mountains, rafted a few big rivers. Retired from the job, still have the man. Began genealogical research in earnest; moved to the prairie to escape encroaching suburbia. Now, we are preparing to leave our prairie home for a small city. Timing of this change precludes being at the reunion.

P.S. To anyone with New England roots before 1800, we're probably cousins.

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After graduation I worked for Family Service of St. Paul for three years as a social worker. Shortly after graduation I married and had three children now ages 48, 47, and 44. My employment for 34 years was in Ramsey County. Since retirement, I have been working with AFL/CIO on establishing retirement affiliates. Travels to Italy, Spain, China, Australia, and New Zealand have been highlights of my life. Canoeing in the boundary waters, gardening, and politics keep me busy.

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After graduating, I earned an MBA degree from Creighton University and spent four years at Northwestern Bell in Omaha in a management position, then moved to Meredith Corporation in Des Moines for two years before deciding the corporate life was not for me.

I joined the public relations consulting firm of Padilla & Speer in Minneapolis as an investor relations specialist in 1967 and spent the next 10 years there, becoming senior vice president. I handled investor relations for many of the Twin Cities' blue-chip companies, including Dayton-Hudson, St. Paul Companies, Northwest Bancorporation, and Green Giant.

I moved to Adams & Rinehart in New York in 1977 as executive vice president with clients that included Seagram Company and the National Association of Securities Dealers. Much of my time was spent defending companies facing hostile takeovers.

In 1983, I returned to Minneapolis as president of Dorn Public Relations, later renamed Dorn Swenson Meyer. After a spinal cord injury that sidelined me for a year, I opened my own firm — Swenson Falker Associates — with Jack Falker as a partner. We conducted a very successful investor relations consulting business for the next 14 years, with clients throughout the country. I eventually sold the firm and retired in 2000 to Sarasota, Florida, where we enjoy the lively arts scene, travel extensively and work in a variety of volunteer activities.

I married Melliss Kenworthy, an actress and singer, in 1981. Our blended families include five children and four amazing grandchildren.

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Married Meredith McCampbell ‘61, served six months active duty in the US Army and 5.5 years in the Army Reserves under Col. Earl Spangler. Raised 4 children and now have eight grandchildren. Entire business career was with IDS, which became American Express Financial Advisors and is now known as Ameriprise. Began as a management trainee, became a securities analyst, and retired in 2000 as Vice President and Senior Portfolio Manager.

Our retirement home is in Naples Florida, and we spend most of our summer at our lake cabin in northwest Wisconsin.

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My life has been mostly in this Minneapolis/St. Paul metropolitan area. Since graduation, I worked briefly in Beloit, Wisconsin as a junior high school world history teacher and the school librarian. Junior High schools were grades seven through nine in those days. I taught the ninth graders and really enjoyed their enthusiasm and their appreciation and applications of being “top dogs” . While there for seven years, I completed my Master of Science Degree in Library Science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Library School. My parents were still living in St. Paul, so that necessitated some travel back and forth. My summers were taken up with advanced schooling in Madison.

Since that time (1968), I had the unusual opportunity to be in one school for 32 years at Columbia Heights High School in Columbia Heights, Minnesota. Columbia Heights is a suburb north of Minneapolis. While there, I was one of two high school librarians. When my co-worker retired, I was the only librarian for my last ten years in that district. Schools were cutting wherever possible, so we found ourselves working harder and longer to get our jobs done. Libraries are great places though and the effort was all worth it as we were able to help students find the answers and materials they needed. I continue to use my local public library regularly and thoroughly enjoy having it available. It’s s also wonderful to have so many internet resources available today.

One experience I really enjoyed while at Heights was the assignment of staff trainer for diversity in the district. I had participated in SEED (Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity) training during three summers. This training specifically targeted working with classroom teachers to incorporate more diversity and voices into the curriculum. My Macalester experiences also helped me with this endeavor. I really enjoyed working with adults in this manner as we read, discussed, and discovered additional ways of including more people in our curriculum and conversations. This activity also expanded my experiences teaching and working with junior high students, high school students, and adults.

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Stint in army; married to Bette (48 years); two children - Steve of Ashland,WI, with triplet grandchildren Emily, Sam, & Jacob, and Sue of Thousand Oaks, CA, with grandchildren Allison, Benji, & Lucas. Living on Big Comorant Lake, Audubon, MN since 1970.

Career: Insurance claims, last 22 years with Grinnell Mutual, retired in 2003 & now spend 2-3 months of the winter in Palm Springs ;amp southern CA.

Activities Involved In: DFL (past county & senate district chairman), Jaycees (past president, 1976 TOYM), Legion (past commander), Lions (past president, Melvin Jones award), Lutheran Church (local & synod), School Board (20 years) & MSBA Board of Directors (state award as a school board member of the year 1990), Hospice volunteer, County Historical Society board (past president), sports - baseball (Legion & managed town team), and football (HS game PA announcer for about 35 years).

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English teacher — four years
Community activist — 20 years
League of Women Voters — chapter president and lobbyist
Minnetonka Center for the Arts — board member
Library Foundation of Hennepin County — board member for six years
Volunteer: Orono and Blake Schools, political campaigns, Wayzata Library

Realtor — Coldwell Banker Burnet, Wayzata Office — 1984 to the present

Interests: tennis team at Lifetime Fitness — 35 years; book group — 45 years; travel abroad; reading; skiing

Children:
Steve — tax attorney, Fulbright & Jaworski in Washington D.C.
Laura — pharmaceutical rep — Pfizer in Laguna Beach
William — Ph.D.Structural Biology & Pharmacology — Colorado

Husband for 23 years — Dr. John Watson

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For 38 years I taught fourth, fifth or sixth grade students. I was also a certificated Scottish Country Dance teacher, but no longer dance. I met my husband at a Scandinavian dance, which we still do.

Since retirement I've become a volunteer director for a women's clothing closet. It is an interesting and useful project. We like to travel and I enjoy a good book.

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After leaving Macalester, I spent 4 years at the University of Minnesota Medical School and then completed an Internship at Bethesda Hospital in St. Paul during which I married a “Gustie” nurse, Chris. I served two years in the US Navy as a general medical officer with the first year of sea duty spent on the Atlantic Coast in Charleston, SC. Cruises were along the east coast, to Puerto Rico and to the Mediterranean. Unfortunately the ‘67 Israeli Egyptian War broke out that summer so most of the time was spent at sea in the eastern Mediterranean. In August of that year I was transferred to shore duty at the dispensary in Newport RI for my second year.

In the summer of 1968, we moved to Rochester MN for a three year radiology residency at the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine after which we moved to Winona MN where I worked as a general radiologist in SE Minnesota for a little over 30 years. My wife and I raised three sons and a daughter, all college graduates but none of which wanted to attend either Gustavus or Macalester

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My family highlights:
-I’ve been married for over 50 years to Hugh Wooldridge, a Macalester alum from the class of 1959.
-We have two sons, two daughters in law, two granddaughters, two grandsons, and two grand-dogs.
-All ten of us live in Minnesota, which is a huge blessing.

My Mac major at work:
-I taught elementary physical education for five years in California.
-I worked for 20 years as a women's athletic director in the Twin Cities.
-The Macalester P.E. staff prepared us well!

Life's sweetest moments: I am seriously enjoying the past twenty years of retirement with:
-Three-generation family trips
-A cabin "up north"
-Long time friendships
-St. Simons Island and other travels
-A wide variety of sports and activities

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Professional: After graduation I taught nursing for five years, followed by over thirty years of bedside nursing, part time. I worked in many areas, ending in oncology/hospice, all in the HealthEast system.

Family: I married Raymond Zastrow in 1965, and we soon moved to White Bear Lake, MN. We have three children, and two grandchildren.

Personal: I enjoy reading, travel, church activities, genealogy, and my long term friendships. We try to keep up occasional contacts with Macalester events.

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