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In the summer of 1962 I married Wayne Mandery. For the next 18 years we both taught school, and we raised two children. I taught in Minneapolis, Duluth, and St. Paul. My last 10 years of teaching involved tutoring part time in the Minneapolis school system. In 1980 we got involved in the distribution of national newspapers. We eventually had offices in Minnesota, Phoenix, Tucson and Denver. Our son and daughter joined us in the management of the offices. For 10 years Wayne and I spent six months each year in the Phoenix area working and enjoying Arizona living. We are now retired and living full time on Gull Lake, near Brainerd. We enjoy lake activities and anything involving our four grandchildren.

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Greatest Achievement: With my dear wife, Lorraine, reared two loving children, both college graduates.

Most Fulfilling Occupation: Successful Ford Automotive Dealer in Port Angeles, Washington. (Now Retired)

Special Achievement: Climbed/Ran China’s Great Wall for over 2K in 1988. Most Memorable Historical Event: Attended President Obama’s First Inauguration as Congressman Dick’s Guest.

Favorite/Important Credos: The Best Is Yet To Come - The Glass Is Half Full - Never Give Up - There Is Always Hope - When We Stop Being Better, We Stop Being Good - Appreciate Both The Thrill of Victory and The Agony of Defeat - Community-Minded Endeavors Make A World of Difference.

Community Endeavors: President of St. Paul Urban League Board in ‘70s. Vice President of St. Paul NAACP in ’80s.

Special Recognition/Awards: Archibald Bush Fellowship - St. Paul Spurgeon Award - Mac Hall of Fame Award

Personal Heroes: Arthur Ashe, Earl Bowman, Ralph Bunche, Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., Frederick Douglass, Henry Ford, Fannie Lou Hamer, Bob Hoisington, Hubert H. Humphrey, Sister Elizabeth Kenny, Martin Luther King, Jr., Abraham Lincoln, Nelson Mandela, William L. Martin, Barack H. Obama, Rosa Parks, Colin Powell, Jackie Robinson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Carl T. Rowan, Harry S. Truman, August Wilson & Murray Warmath.

Little Known Fact About Me: Had Polio as a pre-schooler in 1944. Rehabilitated at Sister Kenny Institute.

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After graduation I moved to Grand Rapids, Minn. and worked as a social worker for Itasca County for nearly five years. At Gracie's coffee bar on the ground floor of that courthouse building I met Dewey who was a deputy sheriff at that time. His office was just upstairs. We were married on March 7, 1964. Our first son was born three years later. I didn't work for the next eight years until our youngest son was four years old. I then went to work part-time for the Minnesota Department of Health for five years, visiting nursing homes in the Northwest part of the state doing quality assurance reviews. From 1980 until 1990 I worked for Beltrami County Social Services. I was diagnosed with MS in 1987 and had to quit working in 1990. Dewey retired from the Minnesota State Patrol in 1991 at age 55. He is a wonderful husband and caregiver and this March 7th we will have been married 48 years. Our son Scott is a Minnesota State Trooper and lives across the road from us with his family. Our son Stuart is a Commander in the Navy, lives with his family in Norfolk, Vag. and takes command of his unit on April 20 of this year. Our youngest son, Shane, and his family have moved back to Bemidji. He has his own business, Mattfield Renovations! We are all doing well. Dewey is recovering from heart surgery. He had a valve replaced five weeks ago and is doing wonderfully. I am not able to walk anymore and have difficulty with my hands, but I have my wonderful power chair which turns on a dime and takes me to any room in our house. It has helped me greatly with my independence. I also have a "talking machine" connected to our computer so that I can dictate e-mails and letters. With it I have just completed a book written for our grandchildren.

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After graduating from Mac in 1962, I attended the University Of Iowa where I received my MBA in 1964. My wife, Bonnie, and I then moved to Minneapolis where Bonnie taught school and I became a trainee at Midland National Bank. Two years later I became an officer and worked there until 1987. Midland bank was part of Norwest Bank (now Wells Fargo). There I worked with operations and technoloby for the new banks we were acquiring. I retired in 2000. Bonnie and I have three children and one grandson.

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For the past year I have been painting from The Animali Farm[.com] photos of PMU horses from Alberta, Canada. They are a non profit horse rescue organization in Santa Maria, Calif. PMU is pregnant mare urine used to make Premarin. The foal is a by-product and usually sent to slaughter for meat. It is mostly sent overseas to Japan, Belgium and France as high end gourmet meat for human consumption. As the use of Premain declined and the PMU ranches lost contracts and were going out of business, many of the horses were sent to auction where they could go for meat or into the meat production of just breeding horses for meat.The Animali Farm's goal was to get donated funds to adopt as many horses as possible from this end.

They gave me permission to paint from their horse photos (taken on site at the ranches). I in turn give them a large percent of the sale (if not the whole amount) of the paintings when sold. The funds are then used to lower the price of horse adoptions. Unfortunately the economy has gone down the tubes and art is the first thing people drop as a luxury. In addition, horses are being abandoned by owners that can no longer feed them. I am not a fast painter so have made copy prints of the finished paintings. When I have art shows and our Art in the House sale, I have been able to send that off to the horses. I am not able to adopt a horse myself since I do not qualify, but in a small way, I try to help and it keeps me painting. My dream was to have a horse, and maybe someday it may happen if the good Lord keeps me here long enough and I can still use a shovel.

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In 2011 my wife Alice and I celebrated our golden Wedding anniversary. We have two daughters and one grandson. I spent 35 years as a secondary Social Studies and English teacher in Farmington, Minn., and in South Saint Paul, Minn., retiring in 1998. In 1991, I was awarded a 12-month International Teaching Fellowship to Victoria, Australia. Upon returning from the year in Australia, my wife and I coordinated Minnesota's teacher exchange program to Australia for several years.

As an active teacher I was involved in politics through the Minnesota Federation of Teachers. As a retiree I have been employed as a field mobilization coordinator through Education Minnesota, American Federation of Teachers and MN AFL-CIO. I am President Emeritus of the MN State Retiree Council, AFL-CIO. I have been a lecturer at Danish folk school programs dealing with public policy issues and also serve as a producer/host of the "Voices of Experience" local cable program leading discussions with public policy leaders on behalf of organized labor.

My volunteer activities include Feed My Starving Children, Meals on Wheels, Coalition for Impartial Justice, Minnesota Youth in Government, South Saint Paul Library Board and the Danish Interest Conference. We relax by attending Minnesota Orchestra concerts as well as Dixieland Jazz concerts. We have a passion for "live" theatre, especially the History Theatre and Park Square Theatre in St. Paul. We enjoy traveling especially throughout Europe.

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We left Minnesota in 1976 and enjoyed 30 years in the Arizona desert. I worked 29 years as director of volunteer services at Scottsdale Memorial Hospital and Chandler Regional Hospital. Lee and I have two children. Leanne is married to Greg Wright and they have 14-year-old triplets. They live five miles from us and are the reason we now live in Huntersvillle, N.C.! Leanne is a teaching associate at a charter school. We love the temperate, changing seasons and exploring our nation's history on the East Coast. Our son, Kevin, and his wife, Tracy, live in Andover, Mass and have three-year-old twins. Kevin has his doctorate in micro biology and bio chem and teaches at Northern Essex Community College. Lee and I are loving retirement; we are keeping busy with traveling and grandchildren's activities.

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Bev has already covered our moves, but we've had some other great times. I started as a Presbyterian, moved into drug and alcohol rehab administration, followed by the printed circuit industry, and finally I was the customer satisfaction manager for a Phoenix Chevy dealer. We've done a bit of European travel. The first experience was traveling with our son, Kevin, in Germany and Austria while he was in the army, followed by a family trip to England at Christmas time where we attended the Christmas Eve Mass at Westminster Abbey. Costa Rica was a hoot, and Italy was an experience of a lifetime!

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After graduating from Macalester, I spent two years teaching business classes in Sierra Leone with the Peace Corps. After two months of traveling in Europe, I returned home and obtained a job with the St. Paul Chamber of Congress. I married my husband, Roger, in 1966 and continued working until I became pregnant with our first child. Our second daughter was born three years later. I was a stay-at-home mom with the girls while they grew up. We traveled often as a family. I also did as much volunteer work as time would allow. After my husband sold our business to our oldest daughter, we started traveling a lot more. We were in Egypt this past year when the revolution started and had to be evacuated out early. We were never in any danger as far as we know. We did an African safari that was the trip of a lifetime in my opinion. We are off to the Amazon next to fish for piranhas. I continue to volunteer, enjoy babysitting my granddaughter and walk with a walking club.

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I have been married to the same man for 50 wonderful years. I raised two children and enjoy their company as well as our grandchildren. I taught at the pre-school, elementary and community college level. I managed an independent bookstore. I have been actively involved as a volunteer at the church, library, performing arts center and A.A.U.W. in Iowa, Washington and Minnesota. I continued to volunteer in Kauai where we spend our winters. There is an extensive list of places we've traveled both in the U.S. And abroad, and we hope to add many more. I have always been able to make time for family, friends, reading, games and puzzles, bridge and napping. Life is good. My adopted motto is, "the time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."

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I managed to avoid a real job for several years after graduation. Becky Peeke and I traveled around the US with Ambassadors for Friendship. Then it was on to Aspen, CO for a season of skiing, next to Tokyo for a year of teaching English conversation and back to Colorado for graduate school.

Ramsey County took a chance on me and I worked there as a social worker, supervisor and manager. In 1974 I married Richard Olmsted and we had two daughters, Allison and Christine. We then moved to Acton, MA where I spent time with my daughters and their school activities. We had the opportunity to live in Northwood, England for four months and to enjoy summers at our cottage in Maine.

I found my ideal "retirement" job as a co-director of a pre-school day care center providing care for children who had been abused or neglected.

Our older daughter, Allison, was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor in 2004 and was living in St. Paul after graduation from St. Olaf. We came to Hudson to be with her and care for her. She died in September 2007 and her web site may be seen at aolmsted.com. Her sister, Christine, also came to be with Allison and is here now and planning to return to California. Richard and I hope to return to Maine within the next few years.

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My husband, Mel, and I have just celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary. During those 50 years we raised three daughters who have blessed our lives with six grandchildren. After teaching for several years, we entered the radio broadcasting business, eventually owning and operating broadcast stations throughout the Midwest. We maintain our permanent residence in the beautiful foothills of the Missouri Ozarks. Our winter months are spent at our beach cottage in Destin, Fla. While studying with several artists in Florida, watercolor captured my heart. I have presented several solo art exhibitions and have been juried into national competitions. Philanthropic endeavors have been truly rewarding. Through my artwork I have been able to raise money for many local charities. Life is good! Hope to see you in June 2012.

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The summer we graduated I married Glen Reed, and we have lived in California ever since. We raised two children, Liz and Brad, who have married and presented us with five grandchildren. I taught first grade before having a family, and when they started school, I volunteered in their classrooms by teaching music, which was always my first love. After that stage in their lives, I continued teaching music in the elementary schools until 1999 and also worked with our church's children's choirs. I have sung in church choirs and have continued playing the piano, entertaining my neighbors and bridge group occasionally and accompanying students. I'm an avid bridge player, a small group Bible Study leader and an active grandmother. When my husband was structural superintendent on high rise buildings, we traveled with him and lived in different parts of the West. Since retirement, we've visited the Scandinavian countries, New Zealand, and Australia. I'm delighted to attend our 50th Reunion and extend my heartfelt thanks to the committee. Way to go, Jean!

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I remember catching glimpses of old alums on campus in the early 1960s and wondering why in the world such ancient people would be interested in returning to the atmosphere of youth at Macalester. Now I know. Where 50 years hence seemed eons away through the eyes of a 21-year-old, it was yesterday to the alums. How does time pass so quickly? For five years after graduation I taught high school English, first in Kansas City, Kan., where Sherwood attended graduate school and then in St. Cloud (at both high school and college levels) where Sherwood was employed at St. Cloud State University, ultimately as Director of Admissions. Our son and daughter were born and raised in St. Cloud and I eventually returned to teaching in the district; we both retired in 1998. Our family developed a love for the outdoors and its related activities and Woody and I are fortunate to be able to continue participating in most of them. We love to camp with our grandkids, bike Minnesota's wonderful trails, hike the Arizona desert during the winter months, and spend time at our cabin. We still enjoy golfing (Sherwood), gardening (me), Road Scholar trips at home and abroad, and the never-ending maintenance projects. I'd say that life as an ancient is every bit as good as it was at 21.

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I graduated from Macalester College with a bachelor's degree in biology, having taken every biology class available. After working in a chemistry department for 18 months and continually performing repetitive procedures all day long, I returned to Macalester and received a bachelor's degree in elementary education and enjoyed teaching Kindergarten for many years!

As a former Macalester Highland Dancer, I helped develop and implement the Scottish Games that occurred on campus every April for many years, served on the Alumni Board and was President of the board in 1976. Substitute teaching, volunteering, chairing and working on fundraising events plus serving on numerous community boards kept me busy over the years while raising three children as well.

Classmate Jim and I have been married for 47 years and have eight grandchildren eight years and under which includes two sets of twins. We split our time between Edina, our cabin on the St. Croix River during the summer and Naples, Fla. in the winter. Golf, gardening, travel, boating, reading and spending time with our grandchildren gives us great joy.

With both of us graduating from Macalester; many of our dearest friends are those whom we met over 50 years ago and remain our cherished friends today.

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After graduating with a degree in business administration, I spent some time with the Dallas Cowboys and the Minnesota National Guard. I joined the First Bank of Minneapolis in the mid-'60s as a commercial banker with numerous responsibilities over approximately 28 years. I continued my education during that time by receiving a degree from the Stonier Graduate School of Banking and retired as an executive vice president of the First Bank of Minneapolis in September 1991.

Currently I am CEO of Activar Inc., which is a holding company for several manufacturing companies, Chairman of Rimage, Inc., a member of several corporate boards and a trustee of Macalester College.

Jean and I married in 1964 and have been blessed with three children and eight grandchildren. As Jean mentioned, we enjoy our cabin on the St. Croix River and our place in Naples, Fla.

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After Mac graduation, Edis Flowerday ('61) and I married, and I began a 33-year English teaching career in Minneapolis, first at West High School , then Southwest High. In my later years I taught in and coordinated the International Baccalaureate program at Southwest. I also served 18 years as a trustee of the teachers' pension fund.

We have always been interested in travel. After my first year of teaching we spent 10 weeks exploring Europe in a VW bug. Later, we traveled to keep in touch with our three daughters and their families. Daughter Sarah, now living a stone's throw from Macalester, was in Singapore with her husband and two children for seven years, so we made several trips to that region, and we continue to enjoy travel to Maine where daughter Tamara lives with her husband and son. Daughter Julia (Edina) does her own travel to Indonesia to research and collect Asmat art for St. Thomas. Recently, we took a bike and barge trip on the Mosel and are about to leave on a walking tour of the Italian Amalfi coast.

After retiring from full-time teaching in 1995, I worked half-time at the Minneapolis Franklin Library's Learning Center as a literacy instructor for 14 years. Retiring from that job, I now volunteer as a photographer for Hennepin County and continue some tutoring at the Learning Center.

A book club and investment club keep us engaged, but our five grandchildren are the greatest joy and counterbalance to stealthily advancing age.

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I spent four years in the Air Force. I worked for the St. Paul Companies, now Travelers, for 27 years. I worked for a year for the insurance trade association, Independent Insurance Agents of America. In those 28 years we lived in eight different states, border-to-border and coast-to-coast. Life's lesson learned, there's no utopia! Officially retired in 1995. Since 2004 I have been a volunteer and part-time employee at the Minnesota Historical Sociey History Center in St. Paul.

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I met my future husband in September 1958 in the Macalester Pipe Band. We married in September 1963, have two children and now five grandsons. I spent my Junior Year Abroad at International Christian University (ICU) in Japan and have remained closely affilitated with that universtiy and its New York Foundation over the years. I worked in the NY office right after graduation and then volunteered to organize groups of interested peoople and alumni in various parts of the U.S. I have served on the Foundation Board of Trustees in various capacities since 1986. Because my husband, Jon, worked in regional offices of the St. Paul Companies we lived in eight different states from coast to coast and border to border. While in California I completed my English as a Second Language teaching certification and enjoyed tutoring Japanese people on assignment to Toyota. I have greatly enjoyed my continiuing friendships with some of those families. We retired and returned to Minnesota in 1995 moving to Clearwater Lake just north of Annandale where I have been interested in shoreland restoration, gardening, and just being "grandma."

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After the pomp in Mac cap and gown,

I toured Europe, explored up and down.

Taught English at White Bear High

Then espanol at S.St.Paul - Ay, ay, ay!

Married Jim Rosen in '67, moved to Laramie,

Raised 2 girls, supported Jim's physics-life took good care o'me.

Our girls' Wonder Years - piano, horn, bassoon and dance, campfire, soccer and band -kept us on guard.

(Oh, and I was a Preferred Albertson's shopper, til they quit using that card.)

I organized a chatty weekly afternoon tea

With native Spanish speakers, just fun for friends and me.

Jim's research led him to both Poles and multi-latitudes;

Often I accompanied, and our family gained global attitudes.

We toggle between grandies in Boston and Brisbane, AU, a lot of kilometers;

These ol' bods adapt to swings in time zones AND in thermometers.

When we're "home", it's winter in Las Cruces,

Then at Little Pine cottage (Perham) for our summer uses.

'Looking forward to Reunion - (but who invited all these old guys?)

Blessings to you all - Be Happy, Healthy and Wise.

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It was 1945, and I was at Summer Bible School at Macalester Presbyterian Church playing around "the Rock" when my dream of attending Macalester started. Thirteen years later, in the fall of 1958, the dream came to life. What a wonderful experience; diverse, friendly, and interesting fellow students, amazing professors who challenged and fully interacted with us all, and the exposure to noteworthy people of vision and ideas at Convocation. What a preparation for the rest of life. Richard Rossi ('61) and I married in December of 1962. We have been blessed with 5 wonderful children: Matthew (1965), Alex (1967-77), Jason (1970), Dominic (1980), and Catherine (1982). All of our children, and our four grandchildren, live within 20 minutes of us here in Denver. I earned my graduate degree in Special Education from the University of Colorado at Denver and in June of 2011 retired from Mapleton Public Schools. I am presently recovering from my second knee replacement and am still lacking stamina, but I wish all my fellow classmates the best and will be with you in spirit if I am unable to attend the 50th celebration.

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I was the executive director and chaplin of Loving Arms Hospice. After a 25 year career in accounting and financial management and a move to Texas, I decided to retrain in health care, and, after positions as a nursing home administrator, paramedic, ER tech and telemetry tech, I took my first Social Security check and made a down payment on nursing school. I have been a nurse for the last six years and am working for my RN degree.

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Looking back on our Class of 1962 experience, it seems we were part of a golden age. For example, I really didn't even job hunt. Mr. Clayton O'Hagan of the Mounds View School District came straight to campus and hired many of us. No struggle there. How did I even end up studying elementary ed? It all started in Wally Hall; listening to the stories the juniors would tell about their student teaching experiences was the pivotal point for me. Mary Ann Gustafson and I graduated in January 1962 (a few summer school sessions) and immediately started teaching. We wanted to stay near campus and rented a house on Laurel Ave. near Fairview. Mary Ann got married in the summer of 1962, and Carole Baumgartner and Nancy Jensen moved in. In the fall, Jean Eddy and Linda Ohmann joined us, so we moved to a larger duplex on Hewitt Ave. near Snelling. We all look at those years as some of the most fun of our lives.

One by one the group got smaller (marriage called). Karen Bangsund moved in, and she and I spent a fabulous summer in Europe in 1963. By 1965 we had all married and were starting new adventures. I married John Rupert; we lived in St. Anthony Park (right behind Bev and Denis Dailey and down the street from Liz Cofield Solem) and raised three sons and a daughter. We spent one fabulous year in married student housing on the Stanford University campus with these four children. While there, we enjoyed many weekends spreading out in Mary Ann (Gustafson) and Glen Reed's home which was nearby in Los Altos Hills. We had many good times.

Meanwhile, back in Minnesota, our gang got together at least once a month, at first for bridge and now, 50 years later, for food and talk. We have shared our lives together, been a fabulous support to each other, and now that our children are grown, have traveled together.

I like to travel and have been fortunate enough to have had some very amazing trips: South Africa and surrounding countries with two sons, a Science Museum sponsored raft trip on the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon, Taiwan, Japan to visit a son, Europe to visit a son, Martha's Vineyard with Mac friends to name a few adventures.

Life for me has continued to be quite golden in the golden years. After being single for many years, there is now a man in my life, a Mac grad, Jerry Meigs '57. I have a townhouse overlooking a nature center in Roseville, and Jerry and I recently bought a home in Green Valley, Ariz. One son lives in San Mateo, Calif., and one in London. They are great places to visit. Two children live in the Twin Cities area. Three grandsons live here, a granddaughter in California, and baby Henry is part of the London group. The other man in my life is my 101 year old father who also lives in Green Valley. He is a treasure!

Thanks, Macalester, for giving my life such a positive launch.

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We have four children. Andy, 47, is married to a bankruptcy attorney, and they have two young boys, 8 and 10, and live in Houston, Texas. Andy is a financial consultant. He graduated with a bachelor's from Lewis and Clark and a master's from Vanderbilt in finance.

Elisabeth, our oldest daughter, graduated from Trinity University in San Antonio and has a master's degree from the University of Houston in finance. She has three children: two girls, 15 and 14, and a boy, 11. She is also a professional children's photographer. Her husband is a litigation attorney, and they live 1.5 blocks from our son Andy.

Our son John works on Wall Street and lives in Montville, N.J. He and his wife have a girl, their first child, who is three years old. He graduated from the University of Minnesota and works for a risk management software company.

Our youngest, Sara, graduated from Hamline and has a master's degree in teaching the deaf and hearing impaired. She taught three years, is married, and has two small boys, six and three and lives in Minnestrista, Minn. Her husband is a mechanical engineer and owns an environmental clean-up company.

My life after children involved selling real estate for 13 years. We now travel rather extensively, and since 1996 we have spent three months each winter in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. We are Rotarians and have become active in the community feeding the children at the "dump," helping with tutoring, and also doing crafts at a local mission church. We love that! In Saint Paul my interests include the Twin City Opera Guild and the P.E.O., which is an educational women's organization. I am president of my local chapter.

When I think about what matters, it involves my family, all 18 of us, and how Andy and I can affect their success and futures. We have had 52 years together. We are so blessed with health and the ability to help many others. That is our greatest blessing in the world.

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After graduation, I received my master's degree in journalism at the University of Minnesota and married my hometown sweetheart, John Schmidt. We moved to Shattuck School in Faribault, and I taught English and journalism at Owatonna High School for three years. I was next a T.A. at Colorado State College while John finished his master's degree, and in 1968 we took jobs in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where we have lived for 44 years.

I was on both the staff and the faculty at Coe College until we adopted our daughter, Stephanie, when I switched to working part time at Coe and as the alumni magazine editor there. By the time I retired in 2000 I was back to full time at Coe, with added duties in parents programs and other publications.

After John had a kidney transplant in 1998, we decided to travel as much as we could while he felt good. We had wonderful trips to Europe, South America, China, Japan, Australia and New Zealand - many with Elderhostel. I became a signature member of the Iowa Watercolor Society and have had a variety of leadership jobs in our Echo Hill Presbyterian Church. John's health took another turn this fall, with a diagnosis of lymphoma, so we are reliving our great trips and grateful that we "seized the day" when we could.

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A Macalester education was life changing for me. It set me on a path of intellectual curiosity and travel adventure that has lasted for these 50 years. I am grateful for that. Today I still enjoy traveling all over the world, always learning about new places and people, even new languages (haltingly), and now I take my children and grandchildren along. The gift of an excellent education has enriched my life immeasurably and hopefully has made me a better person. Thanks, Mac!

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I'm working in sales at our newspaper, the Idaho Mountain Express, that we started in 1974 in Ketchum/Sun Valley, Idaho. The Express is designated as one of the best non-daily newspapers in the nation, all due to my wife, Pam Morris, who has been the publisher since 1980. I served as Mayor and Police Commissioner of Ketchum from 1975-1988 and was a member of the adjunct faculty of the National Fire Academy teaching community fire protection. After leaving Macalester, I went into banking and was a commercial credit officer and Middle East and Africa specialist in Bank of America's international division in Los Angeles, Calif. I was branch manager of Anguilla Branch of Bank of America during the island's successful revolution. I left the bank in 1971 for Sun Valley where I started my own retail store and never looked back.

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I'm a mother of two daughters, a grandmother of three and a great-grandmother of a toddler, Ivy. I taught middle school in Whitefish Bay, Wis. for 30 years. I led hundreds of high school students to Asia, Europe and Australia on the People-to-People Ambassador program. From November to May I live in The Villages, Fla. where I enjoy golf, play pickleball and partake in general retiree fun. I travel in an RV throughout the continent to experience and meet the "real America". I escort seniors on charity cruises when I'm not helping prepare their taxes as an AARP volunteer.

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After graduation in 1962, I spent 10.5 months on active duty with the U.S. Air Force, and in 1963 I married Nancy Jensen. We moved to California the day after our wedding and we have lived in California ever since, with the exception of two years in Wisconsin. We have two sons Eric, age 43, and Andy, age 40. We have two grandsons, ages 6 and 10 and one 13-year-old granddaughter. I have worked in the aerospace and electronics industries since graduation, and I am currently COO of M.C. Gill Corporation and President of Castle Industries, Inc. of California. Both companies manufacture components and assemblies for commercial and military programs.

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Plans, hopes and dreams following 1962 graduation:

1. Marrying Ron in August 1962. That is another 50th anniversary for me in 2012!

2. Teaching 5th grade at Burroughs Elementary School in Minneapolis for almost four years. 1962-1966: My daughter Martha was born July 1966. In those days you were asked to quit when your pregnancy "showed." My daughter Mary arrived November 1968. Thanks to the Miss Woods School at Mac for my excellent teaching.

3. Being a homemaker since then and enjoying every moment.

4. Camping (tenting) and hiking in the mountains of Montana with my husband Ron every summer or visiting the Canadian Rockies.

5. Wintering three months in Mesa, Ariz. for the past 10 years.

6. Attending numerous musical and athletic events for our three grandchildren.

7. Giving thanks: as the years fly by, Ron and I are ever thankful for our good health, good friends, and the ability to carry out plans as we make them now for all the coming years. God, our church, our family and our friends are the most important things to us at this time with memories of the past 50 years being held dear to our hearts.

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In August 1962 I married David Tiede (St. Olaf, '62), and we moved to Princeton, N.J. where I started a long career in public education, and he started eight years of graduate school. Along the way, I earned two graduate degrees, taught on both coasts and in the middle, moved 14 times, and had two wonderful children. We ended up back in Minnesota where I spent 28 years as a teacher and administrator in the Mounds View Schools and finished my career as an administrator in Wayzata. Now I interact with the schools as a grandparent picking up sick kids, delivering forgotten homework, and enjoying sports events and concerts. Since retiring, I have had time to make quilts, restore my childhood dollhouses, read books because I want to, and travel. I have always been grateful for the opportunities Macalester offered me, for the skilled professors I studied with, and for the wonderful friends I made. Life is good for David and me, and I hope the same is true for all of you!

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I attended the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis, obtained a master's degree, enjoyed a lengthy career in social work in St. Paul and Minneapolis, and retired in 2008. I supervised social work interns in their field work for decades. I am now tutoring through the Minnesota Literacy Council, currently five students, all Korean. I am supervising social work interns who do not have a social worker supervising them in their field placement. I enjoyed a three-week trip to Norway in June of 2011. I am a theater buff and a member of Norwegian Explorers and JASNA book clubs.

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After graduation, Jim spent 47 years in education (seven teaching, nine as principal, and 31 as Superintendent). Sue is a homemaker with eight children (and now 21 grandchildren). She also served various local, state, and national leadership positions (and still does) in La Leche League International. They live in a house in a 20 acre woods that Sue designed and Jim built. They will have their 53rd wedding anniversary on Spetember 5, 2012. They treated all of their kids and grandkids to airfare and a two week big bus tour from Seattle to San Francisco in 2010. This summer they will do a similar trip for them by flying over to Europe and then using a big tour bus with the same group for two weeks: England, France, Holland, Germany, and Switzerland...what fun! We are fortunate and thankful.

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I am a professional student! I returned full time to Macalester a year and a half after I graduated for a second major in English. Seven kids and a few years later I obtained an MBA in management information systems from the University of Minnesota. I am still currently a student, having returned to my EdD program at the University of St. Thomas majoring in International Leadership. I was always the youngest in my class during my formative years and now I am the oldest. My late husband, Russ, (class of 1961) and I married outdoors in the woods north of Ely in 1962 and spent our next ten summers there. During that time, we adopted five African American children and then produced two homemade kids. They opened a new and unknown world to us and not quite the Pollyanna story often described by the media. Thus, we began a long, enlightening, often difficult, and sometimes humbling journey but one that turned out well. I have 10 grandchildren thus far, ranging in age from 1 to 26 years of age. Professionally, I spent a short time in the computer industry, was a teacher and administrator in computer science for seven years in the Minnesota Community College System before returning to my first love of teaching at-risk, young, African American males. I taught in the first charter school in the country, became an administrator in the St. Paul secondary schools, retired as an inner-city junior high school principal and began part-time work for Garrison Keillor in his bookstore. Recently I have studied for short periods in Italy, Mexico City, and South Africa. Life is good and I am continually reminded that we as Americans are very lucky.

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After graduating from Macalester, I went to summer school at the University of Minnesota to pick up pre-requisites for graduate school in library science and got my master's a year later. I was an elementary school librarian in the Robbinsdale school district for four years and a librarian at the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire where my husband taught political science. I did that for one year before retiring to be a full-time wife and mother. After my three children were in school, I worked part time for Waldenbooks in St. Cloud for 13 years and then Barnes and Noble in St. Cloud for 11 years. My husband retired from St. Cloud State University where he taught political science.

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