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n 1924, at a time of many changes continue to make an Augsburg current Augsburg student, who has faced Ibrought by the expansion of education available to many students, the greatest of challenges in recovery Augsburg’s academic program and the the endowment must grow. from a devastating brain injury. With the introduction of women students, Through Augsburg Now, news and compassion and commitment of Augsburgian editor Caleb Quanbeck stories about the campaign, Access to Augsburg staff and faculty working wrote, “Now that we are increasing in Excellence: The Campaign for Augsburg with his family, he was able to begin a numbers and have developed more College, will be featured in a newsletter college career. comprehensive curricula will we be called Vision. In this issue, a special Stephanie Quick, an Augsburg willing to assume the responsibilities edition of Vision presents an overview of graduate and seminary student, is also which come with the greater Augsburg?” the campaign as well as stories about the featured. Her efforts to collect donated (See Auggie Thoughts, p. 44.) generosity of donors who have already prom dresses—that most likely would Over the years there is little doubt made significant contributions and about never be worn again—from parishioners that the response has always been a students who benefit from it. at her home church in the Twin Cities resounding “yes.” This year also marks a change in and through her sister here at Augsburg, As readers 80 years from now look leadership on Augsburg’s Board of brightened the lives of Native Alaskan back to this day and what is being Regents. The six-year tenure of board teenage girls who could not afford to written about the launching of the chair Kathy Tunheim provided vision buy a dress for their special evening. largest fundraising campaign in and direction for Augsburg to leap into Editor Quanbeck wrote in 1924 that Augsburg’s history, I surmise they will national limelight as an innovator in he hoped The Augsburgian would be “an note the same sense of watershed in the education. For the first time in 40 years instrument in helping people to realize College’s life. Augsburg’s tradition of a graduate of Augsburg, Jean Taylor ’85, that our school is doing a great work, an excellence and vision for educating in takes over the reins of leadership. Their important work.” Augsburg continues the sciences necessitates a new center perspectives on the College, its mission, this great work, and we take pride in and upgrade to the existing half-century- and their roles are included in this issue. sharing it with you in Augsburg Now. old facilities. Our men’s and women’s Other features offer different athletic programs have no further glimpses of service reflected in capacity to stretch their space. We seek Augsburg’s motto, Education for Service. the addition of facilities on campus to Jean Housh, wife of regent emeritus help us nourish and grow the Allen Housh, brought to us a story she partnerships we’ve built in our wrote about “Major” Bowen, a Betsey Norgard neighborhood and community. And, to remarkable high school student and Editor Augsburg Now is published quarterly by Augsburg College, A PUBLICATION FOR AUGSBURG COLLEGE ALUMNI & FRIENDS 2211 Riverside Ave., Minneapolis, Minnesota 55454. Spring/Summer 2004 Vol. 66, No. 3-4
Editor Betsey Norgard Features Assistant Editor Lynn Mena Graphic Designer Kathy Rumpza A change in leadership Class Notes Coordinator 66 by Dan Jorgensen and Lynn Mena Sara Kamholz ’04 Photographer Major Bowen: a story of Stephen Geffre 1818 courage and determination President by Betsey Norgard William V. Frame Director of Alumni and Parent Relations A Major inspiration Amy Sutton by Jean Spielman Housh Director of Public Relations and Communication Dan Jorgensen A Quick connection to 2424 prom dresses 16 Fourth Annual International Opinions expressed in Augsburg Now do not necessarily reflect by Judy Petree Photo Contest official College policy. ISSN 1058-1545 insert Vision 21 From Flatanger to Augsburg: Postmaster: Send correspondence, The newsletter for Access to A century apart by Betsey Norgard name changes, and address 1–20 Excellence: The Campaign for corrections to: Augsburg Now, Augsburg College Office of Public Relations and 23 Seeing abilities instead Communication, 2211 Riverside of disabilities by Judy Petree Ave., Minneapolis, MN 55454.
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Augsburg College, as affirmed 2 Around the Quad in its mission, does not discriminate on the basis of race, 10 Sports color, creed, religion, national or ethnic origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, status 12 Faculty/Staff Notes with regard to public assistance, or disability in its education 34 policies, admissions policies, Alumni News scholarship and loan programs, athletic and/or school 36 Class Notes administered programs, except in those instances where religion is a bona fide occupational 43 In Memoriam qualification. Augsburg College On the cover: is committed to providing 44 Auggie Thoughts Incoming first-year students in the reasonable accommodations to Summer Bridge program (see p. 3) its employees and its students. lined up in front of the wall inside Homecoming Preview measuring progress for the new back $55 million campaign. In part, this www.augsburg.edu cover campaign ensures the availability of an Augsburg education to a wide variety of students. 50 percent recycled paper (10 percent post-consumer waste) (Photo by Stephen Geffre) AROUNDAround THEthe QuadQUAD Augsburg launches $55 million capital
campaign Augsburg News Service New Science Center needed to continue excellence in the sciences
n April 18 Augsburg kicked off a $55 William Frame. The center will provide through the campaign, will be named in Omillion capital campaign—the most space to help K-12 students explore memory of Bernhard M. Christensen, ambitious fund-raising effort in its 135- careers in health science and solidly president of the College from 1938-62. year history—to seek funding for two new support Minnesota’s biomedical Growth in The Augsburg Fund, the buildings, a major addition to a third, and technology sector through the high quality unrestricted annual giving fund, will be support for the endowment to help fund education of talented science and math used by the College to meet its most scholarship opportunities for its students. majors steeped in Augsburg’s liberal arts pressing day-to-day needs. Access to Excellence: The Campaign tradition. And, thanks to a planning grant The five-year campaign, which began for Augsburg College seeks $37 million from the State of Minnesota, architectural its “quiet phase” in fiscal year 2001 will for the three building projects, $13 planning for the facility incorporates run through 2006, the same year the million for growth to the endowment, and multiple “green” features in an College hopes to break ground on the new $5 million in growth to the annual environmentally responsible structure. Science Center and Gateway Building. operating fund. Nearly $30 million The second major campaign project is Giving toward the campaign has been already has been raised. the construction of a Gateway Building on broad-based with nearly 70 gifts of more Riverside Avenue. The than $100,000 already pledged. building will serve as The campaign was kicked off— headquarters for both the literally—on the Edor Nelson Athletic College’s Alumni Center Field by College officials and hundreds of and its award-winning alumni, staff, and friends at a community Center for Service, Work, festival on April 18. The festivities and Learning. included a basketball youth clinic led by Individual gifts of at least $1 million It also will house StepUP, Augsburg’s University of Arizona head coach Lute have come from James and Kathy program for students in recovery, Olson ’56, a hockey clinic led by Haglund of Golden Valley, Minn.; Kinney providing both residential and counseling Minnesota Wild Wes Walz, music and L. Johnson ’65, of Boulder, Colo., Jean space for the program. And, it will have theatre performances, children’s book Taylor ’85 and Roger Griffith ’84 and the space for retail opportunities to serve both readings, and science demonstrations. The Glen A. Taylor Foundation; and Alan the campus and the surrounding Cedar- evening prior to the festival, donors were Rice of St. Paul. Riverside community, including the entertained at a gala dinner. The centerpiece in the campaign will University of Minnesota—in a model of Augsburg’s last major campaign, the be a new Science Center and renovation of public and private economic development 21st Century Fund, raised $64 million the College’s existing Science Hall, built in for the neighborhood. from 1989 to 1997, with the $15 million 1949. The project will both strengthen A third building project is a major James G. Lindell Family Library as its Augsburg’s tradition of excellence in the addition to Melby Hall, the College’s main centerpiece. sciences and help expand science learning athletic facility. The project will address Read about Access to Excellence: The for both its own students and the pressing space shortages for Augsburg’s Campaign for Augsburg College in community. The 58,000 square-foot academic, intercollegiate, and recreational Vision, the campaign newsletter, Science Center will include teaching and programs; it will provide classroom, beginning after p. 22. research laboratories and three multi-use workout, and competitive space, including halls that will be used for classes, guest a new Greco-Roman wrestling center, speakers, and community events. funded in part through a $1 million gift Campaign goal—$55 million Renovation of the existing Science Hall, from Alan Rice of St. Paul. Capital projects . . . .$37 million which will connect via skyway to the new Funding for the endowment will focus • Science Center and renovation building, will bring all of the science and on four key areas: several new faculty • Gateway Building mathematics programs together into one chairs and professorships, new endowed • Melby Hall expansion dynamic and interactive facility. scholarships to provide access to students “This new facility will be extremely from a wide range of backgrounds, Endowment ...... $13 million important to Augsburg’s commitment to program support, and staff development. Annual Fund ...... $5 million the health sciences,” noted President Augsburg’s first endowed chair, initiated
2 Spring/Summer 2004 Around the Quad Dennis Barker—coach to Congratulations, faculty! Promotion to professor world-class runners by Betsey Norgard
ugsburg’s head track and cross- on bringing together all of a runner’s Joseph Erickson Acountry coach Dennis Barker spent “physical, emotional, psychological, and Education two weeks in California this summer, spiritual resources.” but hardly on vacation. His trip took Barker coaches Team USA Minnesota him to Sacramento for the 2004 U.S. at the University of Minnesota track Beverly Stratton Olympic Team Trials in track and field facility and crafts the training to fit each Religion where 10 of the runners he coaches runner’s strengths and needs. His hoped to earn a place in the Athens runners trust him implicitly, and the games. notice being taken of him in the running Promotion to associate professor As a head coach for Team USA world attests to this. Minnesota, Barker has garnered national In Sacramento, Tollefson failed to qualify in her best event, 5,000 meters, attention for the caliber of elite athletes Nicholas Coult but won the qualifying trials in the 1,500 who come to Minnesota to train with Mathematics him—among them Carrie Tollefson, a meters. She has one more “trial,” native of Dawson, Minn., who became however, since Olympic rules require a an NCAA-champion at Villanova, and is minimum qualifying time, which she close to being an Olympian. will have to meet by early August in Susan Nash In an article published in the order to compete in Athens. Nursing Minneapolis Star Tribune prior to the Another of Barker’s runners, Katie trials and distributed nationally by the McGregor, came in fourth in the 10,000 Associated Press, Barker is noted for his meters, but may reach the top three team Tenure and promotion to holistic approach to training, focusing if one of them chooses not to compete in that event. team associate professor During the spring, Team USA’s training sometimes overlapped with Jeanine Gregoire Augsburg’s track team practices. “It’s Education and Physics really not much different from coaching our athletes at Augsburg,” says Barker. “All the basic things apply. I think this has really helped the Augsburg runners, because they see what these levels of Robert Groven athletes do, how they apply their Communication Studies training, and how they believe in themselves and what they can accomplish.” For the Augsburg athletes, the elite Ashok Kapoor runners were an inspiration. “We often Business Administration shared training time together and were able to see how hard work and dedication pay off at whatever running level you are,” said Becky Welle ’05, a Joseph Underhill-Cady member of Augsburg’s cross country and Political Science track and field teams. “Each runner is unique with different goals and expectations, and Dennis does Tenure granted an amazing job in challenging all of his athletes to be their best, whether they Cheryl Leuning Team USA Minnesota head coach Dennis compete at Division III level or for the Nursing Barker checks the time for one of his elite Olympics.” runners during training.
4 Spring/Summer 2004 Ron Palosaari retires from long tenure by Lynn Mena
onald Palosaari, time, an area which continues to be one of “Lectures were delivered with a passion Rprofessor of the most gender-bound regions of the that reflected his love for the academic English, began 39 world,” said Palosaari. discipline to which he devoted his life. years of Palosaari has remained an active For students fortunate enough to have distinguished service member of several professional taken one of his classes, this passion for to the College in organizations and has served as a literature was nothing short of 1965, when he consultant for area businesses—always contagious.” joined the English making use of his community contacts to English professor Douglas Green faculty as an enhance his teaching. He has read papers fondly recalls Palosaari’s “Ask Ron” instructor. and conducted workshops at state, column in the Echo. He obtained bachelor’s degrees in both regional, and national conventions. “Ron’s column in the Echo was English and divinity from Bethel College In addition, Palosaari has shared his certainly essential to his enormous and Bethel Seminary, respectively. After love of travel with the Augsburg contribution to the life of the College over three years as a pastor he returned to community, hosting Alumni Association the years,” said Green. “In this column, he graduate school, completing a master’s tours such as the “Spectacular satirized just about every aspect of College degree in English and a doctorate in Scandinavia” tour in 1995 in honor of the life and of Augsburg’s various crises, as American studies with an emphasis on College’s 125th anniversary. He has also well as his own character, during his long American literature at the University of traveled to London on four occasions to tenure as an English professor.” Minnesota. Prior to coming to Augsburg, teach drama. Palosaari’s future plans include to he was a college instructor in Wisconsin Palosaari has long been a favorite “grow much older” and to “continue and Minnesota. professor among students. He has received playing tennis without a backhand, bridge Over the years, Palosaari successfully the Outstanding Faculty Award multiple without a clue, and Scrabble despite being merged his professional fields of English times, an award given by graduating the weakest speller in the English and theology with an interest in society seniors to honor classroom teaching. department.” and social change. “Ron Palosaari’s extensive knowledge “I loved teaching students who were His sabbatical research in 1994 was brought to life not only literary works but brighter and harder working than I ever also the topic of a lecture he presented at the periods in which they were written, was—and I always had some of those,” the Augsburg Associates’ 1994 spring offering students a more complete sense said Palosaari. “I got a special pleasure seminar: “Jesus and Women.” It was of an author’s challenges, triumphs, and when students admitted they were starting Palosaari’s opinion that Jesus was a place in history,” said Kathy Fagen, an to really like poetry, usually against their revolutionary: “He was very different from Augsburg Weekend College admissions better judgment.” the typical Middle Eastern male of his assistant/counselor and current student.
Farewell to Ginger Currey by Betsey Norgard
fter working Amin Kader, Milo Schield, and John Ginger was the mainstay of the Business Afor 15 years in Cerrito. Administration Department. She was a the Department of On January 29, at her retirement dedicated colleague and a good friend.” Business reception, she was presented with a plaque The plaque doesn’t list the myriad Administration as that summarizes the appreciation of her other duties that Currey took on to assist office manager and colleagues. the faculty, e.g., proctoring tests at the last administrative “As business department office minute, meeting visiting professors at the assistant, Virginia manager, Ginger established airport, and taking the extra steps to help “Ginger” Currey administration procedures that each students get the classes they need. retired from academic year set the standards for serving Currey was also honored by the Augsburg in January. the needs of over 40 faculty members and College as an Outstanding Employee in Currey was the first full-time office hundreds of business administration 2000, nominated by her department. Her manager in the department, the largest students,” the plaque reads. “Over her commitment to community service academic department at the College, that many years of services to Augsburg included collecting pop can tabs from graduates over 200 students per year. She College, Ginger earned the admiration of across the campus to benefit the Ronald worked under three department chairs— students, staff, and faculty. For 15 years, McDonald House.
Spring/Summer 2004 5 A CHANGE IN LEADERSHIP AT ITS SPRING MEETING ON MAY 1, THE AUGSBURG COLLEGE BOARD OF REGENTS ELECTED JEAN TAYLOR ’85 AS THE NEW CHAIR, TO SERVE A TWO-YEAR TERM. SHE SUCCEEDS KATHRYN H. TUNHEIM, WHO IS RETIRING FROM A 12-YEAR BOARD TENURE, THE LAST SIX OF WHICH SHE SERVED AS CHAIR.
TAYLOR IS A CO-CHAIR OF THE CAPITAL CAMPAIGN CABINET THAT OVERSEES THE CURRENT $55 MILLION CAMPAIGN. SHE HAS ALSO SERVED AS CHAIR OF THE BOARD’S MARKETING COMMITTEE AND A MEMBER ON THE REGENTS’ COMMITTEE.
OTHER OFFICERS ELECTED TO TWO-YEAR TERMS ARE H. THEODORE GRINDAL ’76, VICE CHAIR; JOAN VOLZ ’68, TREASURER; AND TRACY ELFTMANN ’81, SECRETARY.
IN THESE STORIES, THE OUTGOING AND INCOMING BOARD CHAIRS SHARE PERSPECTIVES ON BOARD LEADERSHIP, GOALS FOR AUGSBURG, AND THE AGENDA FOR THE COMING TERM. A LEGACY OF
INSPIRED Kathryn H. Tunheim BUILDING A SHARED GOVERNANCE GOVERNANCE by Dan Jorgensen “During these years of my chairmanship, I feel that our board, the faculty, and the athy Tunheim likes to say that “Kathy Tunheim is, in the language administration have come to terms with Kserving as the chair of a board of a of one of her admirers, ‘prismatically our commitment to a healthy shared college like Augsburg is a lot more like excellent’,” he said. “That is certainly governance model. It gives the board a being a shepherd than a boss. And that, apt as a description of her work as better sense of ‘who’s in charge here?’— she adds, has been the key to helping counselor to me, especially in respect to because now we know that at a college shape a shared governance model that the Augsburg 2004 vision.” everybody is! Bill Frame has been Augsburg has embraced, and that she Tunheim said the feeling is mutual. masterful in helping all of us—board, believes other colleges and universities “Those of us serving on the Board of administration, and faculty—understand across the nation will strive to emulate in Regents have learned that one of the this shared governance model. It’s what the decade ahead. most important things a college makes colleges really work; it’s unlike the Tunheim has just completed six years governing board can do is to take very governance work that occurs in business, as chair of the Augsburg Board of seriously the role we play in the so it’s been a great learning experience Regents during a period that has seen the selection and performance of the for all of us as regents.” College erupt from what President president. I’m proud of the work of the Just prior to becoming chair, Tunheim William Frame once termed “militant president and pleased by the board’s served on the search committee that modesty,” onto the regional and national partnership with the administration. brought not only Bill but also Anne scene as an innovative, forward-moving But another less visible challenge has Frame to the College. “We got a institution. And, despite Tunheim’s own been transforming the work of the wonderful, dynamic duo in the Frames,” modesty in describing her leadership of board itself. An institution’s lifeblood is she said. “Anne’s professionalism and the board, Frame said it has been its faculty and students—management, understanding of the needs and functions Tunheim’s vision and leadership that can great staff, and volunteer leadership, in of the school make her not only a great be ascribed to much of the impetus of general, are critical. But so, too, is partner for Bill, but a great asset for this the College’s movement. effective governance. institution.” continued on page 8
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CALL TO LEADERSHIP by Lynn Mena
my leadership—this place has changed agreed—to clarify and extend the College my life in so many positive ways and I vision and to strengthen the integrity of will always be indebted to this college. the Augsburg brand.” The history of Augsburg is rich, storied, and full of successes, and I will focus my SERVING THE energy on making the next two years the COLLEGE best ever in this college’s history.” Taylor, who has served on the board Taylor organizes her goals as board chair since 1994, is also co-chair of Augsburg’s under the framework of two distinct Capital Campaign Cabinet, which paths—those that serve the College, and oversees the College’s newly announced those that serve the regents. $55 million campaign—Access to “Looking at it from this perspective, I Excellence: The Campaign for Augsburg see three critical things that the College College. During her board tenure, she needs from me as board chair to has chaired the Marketing Committee, accomplish over the next two years,” and served on both the Regents’ and says Taylor. Jean Taylor ’85 Executive committees. She also holds an “One is to continue to extend M.B.A. in management support systems Augsburg 2004 [the College’s vision from the Carlson School of Management document], not only in a way that s the newly elected chair of the at the University of Minnesota, earned in supports the work that professors Mark AAugsburg Board of Regents, Jean 1988. In addition to her board Engebretson and Joan Griffin are doing Taylor, president of Taylor Corporation, leadership at Augsburg, she is active in a in terms of refining that vision and brings to the seat not only a broad base number of other community and non- taking it farther into the future. But also of knowledge and enthusiasm, but also profit organizations—all while raising a in terms of taking Augsburg 2004 deeper the valuable perspective that comes with one- and a three-year-old with her within the Augsburg community, so that being an Augsburg alumna—an husband, Roger Griffith ’84, who serves as a whole we can all enjoy greater association that distinguishes her from as chief financial officer of the ownership and understanding of that the past several chairs, and which clearly Minnesota Timberwolves and chief strategy, and so that we’re able to share fills her with equal measures of pride, operating officer of the Minnesota Lynx this strategy more broadly with our purpose, and calling. professional basketball teams. larger community. “I approach this opportunity not as “This is a wonderful ‘fit,’ not only “When I talk about community, I something that I sought, for indeed I did from my point of view, but from our— believe Augsburg’s community has many not,” says Taylor, who received a B.A. in the College’s—point of view,” says layers,” continues Taylor. “There’s business administration in 1985. “Rather, President William V. Frame. “Having certainly the immediate and very I truly believe that I was called to do Jean Taylor as the next chair feels right, important campus and Cedar-Riverside this. It will for me be a tremendous seems right, and is right. community that surrounds us, but there’s challenge in many, many ways. At the “Jean has grown remarkably in also the Minneapolis community, the same time, I am convinced that it will be management acumen during her 10 Twin Cities community, and the one of the most rewarding and enriching years as an Augsburg regent,” continues Minnesota and Upper Midwest things I will ever do. Frame. “This growth was recognized by community. And I think as one considers “I believe that in the coming two her peers as a solid supplement to her Augsburg’s vision, we really also think years I will discover much more about notable collegiality and personal about ourselves as part of the world my own gifts, as well as how to commitment to her alma mater. I am community.” strengthen their use,” continues Taylor. very glad of the prospect of serving with Taylor’s second goal is to steer the “I am humbled to have this opportunity her over the next two years to capital campaign toward a successful to return the favor to Augsburg through accomplish the work to which we have continued on page 9
Spring/Summer 2004 7 had and how little was known about them. As a professional in public relations, A LEGACY OF I was intrigued by what might be done to share that story. That’s what first attracted INSPIRED GOVERNANCE (CONTINUED…) me to the board.” When President Charles Anderson decided to step down due to an During Tunheim’s three terms as chair, “Augsburg has a lot of passionate and illness, she was asked to lead the search the institution successfully added many loyal alums,” she said, “but in the past committee for the new president, but new programs and partnerships, we didn’t always find a way to engage declined initially, citing business established a branch campus in them. But now, especially with Jean’s obligations. But neither Anderson nor Rochester, embarked on its first major election, there are some great role models Barbara Gage, who was then board chair, capital campaign, reached new highs in in terms of what alumni can and should would take ‘no’ for an answer. “Barbara enrollment at both the undergraduate do for their school. told me that this is what I needed to do, and graduate levels, and more fully that when you’re asked to do something engaged its alumni—something she has ATTRACTED BY for which you’re a good fit, you need to worked toward from the moment she MISSION AND respond to the call.” took a seat on the board. “It should not VISION Other highlights of her three terms, be lost on our alumni, by the way, that she said, were developing a better up until Jean Taylor’s recent election as “Having said that, I also want to point out understanding and working relationship board chair, the past six chairs have all that non-alums like me have seen with members of Augsburg’s been non-alumni,” Tunheim said. something in Augsburg that attracted us to Corporation—the four Lutheran synods the mission and vision. That’s a tribute to RAISING that “own” the institution; establishing the Augsburg and its past leadership. My Regents’ Committee, a group that has EXPECTATIONS OF message about Augsburg to the AUGSBURG been key to evaluating who is on the marketplace is this: Augsburg College will board, what their expectations are, and be more important in the future landscape how new board members are recruited; “When I first joined the board, I think of higher education than it has ever been, and working with the president on setting the College was ranked lowest among because its strengths will serve the future a clear vision of what the College is and the ELCA colleges in terms of alumni needs of the community so well. But where it wants to go. philanthropy. So my goal was to find a institutionally, we’re not ready to meet all “I was honored to be asked to serve on way to help change attitudes and set a the needs that will come to us—financially, this board, and then to serve as chair, but collective expectation of ourselves as or in terms of buildings and infrastructure. I’m also extremely excited about where stewards of the school. I wanted alumni Our responsibility is to make sure that the this College is now heading,” she said. to think in terms of giving back: serving College IS ready to serve as it is called to “While other schools are working to on the board, being partners in all that serve.” discern their uniqueness or their future, we needed and wanted to do. Tunheim, who is a graduate of the Augsburg is already there. The light “I remember having breakfast in University of Minnesota and CEO of coming from Augsburg is inspiring 1998 with the woman who was then Tunheim Partners, a leading Twin Cities already—I have no doubts about its chair of the College’s alumni association. public relations firm, first came to strength and constancy.” ■ I could clearly see she was frustrated, so Augsburg in the late 1980s to talk about I asked her, ‘What is it that you want how the College from the College?’ Her answer was clear might improve its and immediate: ‘We want a degree from relationship with the Augsburg to be more valuable in the city of Minneapolis. future than it was when we got it.’ At the time, the city Together, I think we’ve been committed seemed to be courting to ensuring that we create that future— institutions like St. and we all agree how important the Thomas, while College’s alumni are to making it Augsburg, already happen.” well-established and Tunheim noted that when people involved in the city, look across the nation and point out the was being ignored. strongest higher education institutions, “I was struck by they are always the ones that have the many fine engaged, passionately loyal alumni. programs the College
8 Spring/Summer 2004 when it selected her as one of its “40 under 40,” a prestigious group of 40 AN ALUMNA’S business professionals who have achieved distinction and risen quickly in their CALL TO LEADERSHIP(CONTINUED…) fields—and who are all under the age of 40. conclusion, and third, to start the search “And this goal is about helping board Prior to joining her father, Glen for the next Augsburg president. members to really understand their role Taylor, at Taylor Corporation in 1994, “It is so critical to find the right and to understand more about the Taylor was senior vice president of E.W. leadership for the College,” says Taylor. College, and putting each regent in Blanch Co., a global reinsurance “Augsburg has been absolutely blessed appropriate leadership positions, so that intermediary. with incredible leadership in terms of its not only two years from now, but five As Taylor embarks on her two-year presidents, and I think Bill Frame has years from now we’ll have a group of term as chair of the Board of Regents, it done a remarkable job during his tenure. regents able to utilize their talents to also represent her final years of a 12-year So, we really need to establish a process their highest capability.” tenure as a board member. to make sure that we find a new “Over the last 10 years I’ve learned so president who is truly called to be the OUTSTANDING much about the history and the next president of Augsburg and continue BUSINESS foundation of the College and where it the legacy that has been created.” LEADERSHIP came from,” says Taylor. “It’s incredibly satisfying for me to see the linkage SERVING THE BOARD Professionally, Taylor has an outstanding between what the founders of Augsburg track record in leadership development. envisioned and all that Augsburg has When Taylor looks at how her election At Taylor Corporation, where she served accomplished over the ensuing 135 as board chair can specifically serve the first as vice president of development years—and then to witness how we’re regents, she cites two main goals, before becoming president in 2001, she currently extending that vision. beginning with a pledge to continue the has led several successful initiatives to “I am so impressed by the history of work of outgoing chair Kathy Tunheim. revitalize and restate the organization’s the College, and at the same time I am so “Kathy has done incredible things core purpose and core values, formalize excited about its future, because I think with this board,” says Taylor. “One leadership development, alter its that Augsburg is positioning itself to aspect that she has undertaken that I approach and philosophy to the role and have an even greater impact on its would like to continue is to refine the use of information technology, and community. I’m incredibly proud to be governance roles at the College. I see encourage and promote women in an alumna of the College, and my pride three components to that leadership—the leadership roles. continues to grow because I know that regents play a key role, as do both the In 1998, CityBusiness magazine cited this college is just going to get better and administration and the faculty. I think Taylor’s commitment to networking better—our diamond is really going to there’s still critical work to do in terms of opportunities for women in business shine.” ■ refining how these three leadership components work together—where do each of us take the lead responsibility, and where do we stand alongside the others in order to ensure that the College achieves its vision? “The second piece relative to the regents that I’ll focus on over the next couple of years is determining how we can most effectively utilize the talents of our regents,” continues Taylor. “We have an incredibly active and engaged group of regents; every time I’m in a full board meeting, I look around the room and I am just amazed and blessed that I’m sitting in this room with these incredible people whom I learn from all the time, and who put all this time and devotion into the College.
Spring/Summer 2004 9 Sports Wrestlers, track, and women’s hockey lead a solid year for Auggie athletics by Don Stoner
Division III second-place finish by the two All-American honors, eight MIAC Auggie runner since 2001 to earn All- Awrestling team, which tied both titles, and 24 school records. MIAC honors, with a 5,000-meter time NCAA and school records with four At the MIAC indoors, Shannon, a of 19:24. individual champions and nine All- senior, and Bell, a sophomore, earned Most Americans, respectively, and standout Outstanding Performance honors. • Under co-coaches Troy Nygaard and seasons for the track and field and Shannon also earned MIAC Most Laura Levi, Augsburg produced its finest women’s hockey teams paced a solid year Outstanding Indoor Track Athlete and women’s golf season in history. The for Auggie athletics. USA Track and Field Minnesota Athlete of Auggies tied their previous best-finish at Senior Joe Moon earned the the Month honors, winning the men’s 400- the Minnesota Women’s Collegiate Golf Outstanding Wrestler honors after scoring meter dash in a record :48.78. He also won Association championships—10th a 13-6 upset of top-ranked and four-time the 55-meter dash and set or tied school against all of the state’s Division II and All-American Eduard Aliakseynka of records in the 55 and 200. Bell, Waldow, Division III programs. Freshman Marisa Montclair State (N.J.) in the 174-pound Dietrich, and Bergeson combined on the Navarro blistered school records with a national finals. All-American distance medley relay team, 85.63, 18-hole stroke average, and a 12th Sophomore Marcus LeVesseur finishing seventh nationally, and Bell set place finish in the MWCGA meet. extended his school-record winning streak school and MIAC records in the 200 to 84 straight matches, finishing 40-0 and (:25.52 ), shattering the meet record by • The men golfers—with just one winning his second straight national title nearly a half-second. senior—finished with a 314 spring at 157. Juniors Mark Matzek, at 133, and Senior Jon Dahlin won the hammer stroke average, under 16th-year head Matt Shankey, at 125, each claimed a first throw title and set a school record at 54.01 coach Brian Ammann. The team was national crown. The Auggies also finished meters (177-feet, 2-inches). Waldow won fifth in the MIAC, led by freshman Erik third in the NWCA Scholar All-America the 800 in a school-record 2:16.36, Helgerson, who earned all-MIAC with a Team program with a 3.39 team grade breaking a mark set earlier by Bergeson. 36-hole total of 154. point average, the seventh straight top 10 Waldow and Bergeson joined teammates ranking. Augsburg leads the nation with Amy Mackner and Dietrich in winning the • In women’s basketball, center Selina 81 NWCA Scholar All-Americans since 3200-relay. Theisen led both scoring and rebounding 1983. at 17.1 and 10, respectively, and was the Augsburg’s women’s hockey team, In other 2003-04 sports highlights: only freshman selected to the 16-player under coach Jill Pohtilla, finished 15-10-2 • Augsburg finished with a 5-5 record (4-4 All-MIAC first team. Theisen also was overall, 10-6-2 in MIAC play, earning a in the MIAC) in football, and 13-year selected to the conference’s All-Rookie spot in the playoffs for the second season head coach Jack Osberg became the all- team, was named to the D3hoops.com in a row. The Auggies closed with an eight- time win leader with 60. Osberg’s teams All-West Region third team, and was game unbeaten streak, going 9-2-2 in their have had seven .500-or-above seasons, named to the Freshman All-American final 13 games before ending with a 6-5, second only to Edor Nelson’s eight .500- team by Women’s DIII News. double-overtime loss to St. Thomas in the or-above seasons. MIAC semifinals, a game played in a • Under first-year coach Keith Bateman, conference-record 96:09. • Head coach Mike Navarre’s women’s the young Augsburg baseball squad Senior Annie Annunziato led the team soccer team finished 11-5-2 overall (5-4- finished 16-22 (7-13 in the MIAC), with 36 points and was named to the 2 in the MIAC), tied for the second-best nearly doubling its overall victory total Division III JOFA All-American West record in school history. Sophomores from each of the previous two seasons. Region team, joining juniors Lauren Millie Suk and Nora Austin were named Sophomore pitcher Jeremy Nelson (all- Chezick and Melynda Kleewein on the All- to the All-MIAC team. Senior Laura MIAC) had a 5-4 record and 2.91 MIAC first team. Freshman Stacy Hoffman closed her career as one of the earned-run average, throwing six Anderson earned honorable-mention and school’s best goalkeepers, recording a 11- complete games, striking out 33, and All-Rookie recognition. 4-2 record, seven shutouts and a 0.95 allowing only 15 walks and a .269 And track and field, led by sprinters goals-against-average. opponent batting average. Mathew Shannon, Tonnisha Bell, and Alana Carter; hammer-thrower Jon Dahlin; • Augsburg’s cross country teams logged Don Stoner is sports information coordinator and distance runners Ellen Waldow, 29 personal-best times (19 women and in the Office of Public Relations and Hannah Dietrich, and Angie Bergeson had 10 men). Ellen Waldow became the first Communication.
10 Spring/Summer 2004 Five senior athletes are honored by Don Stoner
ive senior student-athletes received go down as one of 2003-04 SENIOR ATHLETES FAugsburg athletic awards for the the “ironwomen” of 2003-04 school year. Three Auggies Auggie softball Kristen Lideen were named Honor Athletes, the highest history. Augsburg’s Lideen emerged as a honor the College gives its senior third-baseman played two-sport star at student-athletes—Melissa Lee, Brandon in every inning and Augsburg. In soccer, Fox, and Mathew Shannon. Earning started every game of Lideen earned All- Augsburg Senior Athlete of the Year her four-year MIAC honorable- honors were Kristen Lideen and Joe career—141 games, 141 starts, and 964 mention honors three Moon. Lee was also given the Julie innings. She closed her career with a years in a row as one Ellingson Leadership in Women’s .296 batting average and a.962 fielding of the top sweepers in the conference. In Athletics award, an honor given percentage. A health and physical softball, Lideen became one of periodically to female athletes who have education major with a 3.507 GPA, Lee Augsburg’s best shortstops, holding displayed qualities of outstanding has earned Academic All-MIAC and career school records in three different leadership and service to Auggie National Fastpitch Coaches Association categories—batting average (.444), hits athletics. The award is named for Julie Scholar Athlete honors three times. She (175) and doubles (38)—while sitting Ellingson ’98, a softball catcher who was is a Student-Athlete Mentor, co- in the top 10 in school history in seven a devoted worker in many aspects of president of the Augsburg College other career listings. Lideen is one of Augsburg’s athletic department. Education Students (ACES) program, four players in school history to ever go and has been active as a student worker through a single season without a 2003-04 HONOR ATHLETES in many aspects of Augsburg’s athletics strikeout. She earned All-Region and program. All-MIAC first-team honors each of her Brandon Fox first three seasons in an Auggie uniform, A three-year starter Mathew Shannon and earned All-MIAC honors her senior and four-year A 17-time All-MIAC year. In 2003, she earned NFCA All- letterwinner in performer, Shannon American honors. Lideen is a football, Fox earned became the first philosophy major at Augsburg. All-Minnesota Augsburg men’s track Intercollegiate and field athlete to Joe Moon Athletic Conference earn All-American Moon won his first second-team honors in both his junior honors in both national title in and senior seasons. His senior year, he indoor and outdoor events in the same wrestling this season led the Auggies in tackles with 103. In year in 2003 at the NCAA Division III with a dramatic upset 2003, he had the second-most tackles in national championships. This season, performance at the the MIAC and led both the conference Shannon placed fifth in the indoor 400 Division III national and team in tackles for loss. He added at the national meet, and qualified for championships, 2.5 sacks, two interceptions and two the outdoor national meet in the 400. A earning the meet’s Outstanding Wrestler fumble recoveries his senior year. He three-time MIAC titlist, Shannon earned honors in the process. Moon finished 39- was named the team’s Outstanding both the Outstanding Indoor 2 his senior season and 105-14 in his Player on Defense, Most Valuable Player, Championships Performance and Indoor three-season career at Augsburg. A two- and earned the Edor Nelson Auggie Track Athlete of the Year honors from time All-American in wrestling, Moon Award in 2003. A business management MIAC coaches this season. He also was finished fifth nationally last season at 174 major with a 3.63 GPA, Fox earned named USA Track and Field Minnesota and earned the team’s Outstanding Academic All-MIAC honors twice and Co-Athlete of the Month in April. A Freshman honors his first season at was named to the CoSIDA Academic business and communication major with Augsburg. A marketing major, Moon was All-District second team in 2003. a 3.155 GPA, Shannon has earned also a member of two academic national Dean’s List honors. Shannon is also a wrestling teams at Augsburg. Melissa Lee recipient of a Scholastic Connections Lee was a four-year starter in softball scholarship, which pairs students of Don Stoner is sports information and also played basketball for two color with alumni mentors in the coordinator in the Office of Public seasons at Augsburg. In softball, Lee will community. Relations and Communication.
Spring/Summer 2004 11 Faculty/staff notes Creating learning communities at Augsburg
rankie Shackelford, associate Learning Community that Fdean for teaching and learning took a group of 12 students enhancement, is a national and the two professors to resource leader in promoting the museums in the Twin Cities, concept of “learning Chicago, and Baraboo, Wis. communities,” and a key player The subject matter was not the in Augsburg’s development of content of the museums, but curricular learning communities. rather how the museum In 2000, Shackelford was designed and arranged the named one of 58 fellows of the content and how that reflects National Learning Communities the society that created it. Project (NLCP), funded by the Their study was based around Pew Charitable Trusts and a text on this subject and administered by the Washington discussion with its author. Center for Improving the Quality Associate dean Frankie Shackelford brings best practices from national Shackelford’s continuing of Undergraduate Education at learning community resources to Augsburg’s first-year program. commitment as a fellow of the The Evergreen State College. NLCP is to make site visits to Since then, she has twice served community links classes together for a institutions who are as a core resource person at NLCP’s common group of students often across experimenting with learning communities. summer institutes and presented at academic disciplines and usually around a Thus far she has held workshops and professional meetings. theme. Besides the faculty and students in evaluated programs at Wofford College and Last October, as part of a Midwestern these classes, a learning community often Cottey College. At Augsburg she is active network of learning community leaders, includes academic advisers, residence life in the faculty-staff task force on Augsburg hosted one of 10 day-long staff, student peer leaders, and staff from “Foundations of Excellence™,” whose Open Houses, where Shackelford and campus support programs. work will lead to a strengthening of other Augsburg faculty and staff While serving as co-director of learning communities in the first-year presented Augsburg’s first-year learning professional development, Shackelford was curriculum. Augsburg was selected as one community program, helping others to instrumental in the design and of 12 colleges in the Council of understand the concepts. development of the eight-week Augsburg Independent Colleges (CIC) to participate As associate dean, Shackelford oversees Seminar for all incoming first-year in this national study of ways to improve seven programs that promote student students, which was rolled out in fall 1998. the first college year. More information on academic development and faculty/staff This orientation seminar for new day this project is available at professional development. students is linked to one or two other
12 Spring/Summer 2004 The art of making events shine by Betsey Norgard
odi Collen admits she belonging that Augsburg alumni, Jcan’t go anywhere parents, and donors feel as they without noticing displays, return to campus—including the ways materials are used, current students. “I want current and how decorations are students to feel connected, and to arranged—in short, she walk away feeling that they were can’t turn off her job. part of the event,” Collen says. Collen is events She seeks to work more coordinator at Augsburg, closely with faculty and staff working in the Office of from the get-go, offering ideas to Events and Classroom creatively plan the event from Services. It’s her job—and the beginning, to gain greater her passion—to help make consistency across all campus every Augsburg event look events. professional, run efficiently, Collen considers herself and communicate the right Jodi Collen mixes a combination of inspiration, creativity, and purpose in lucky to know that events planning major events at Augsburg. messages. planning is truly a calling and Since coming to part of her vocation. She can Augsburg two and a half years ago, she While she entered the program for career trace that awareness to a keynote speech feels lucky to say that she loves what she development, she has found that her by David Merrill, a leader in her field does—and she knows she can do it well. own personal development has been (who has since become a friend and Last year, Minnesota Meetings & more rewarding than prospects of career mentor), at the first special events Events magazine named her the 2003 advancement. Her goal is someday to conference she was invited to attend. “Up-and-Coming Special Events continue on for a Ph.D. and teach in the “The minute he started speaking, I Planner”; and the year before that, she industry. knew this is what I’m supposed to do,” was named one of the top five women to At Augsburg, she is responsible for she says. Merrill connected her to the watch in the Minnesota events business. planning and managing summer right people and resources, and her She is currently president-elect of the conferences, weddings and receptions, career took off. Minneapolis-St. Paul Chapter of the and working with faculty and staff to During the summer, in addition to International Special Events Society. plan major campus events. managing summer events, Collen is What put her over the top in Collen looks forward to working working with the alumni office to plan becoming noticed and in giving her more closely with Augsburg faculty and Augsburg’s 2004 Homecoming, “Spark confidence was the opportunity to plan a staff to plan the College’s major events. Your Spirit,” to take place Oct. 2-9. major event last summer for her events Her goal is to increase the sense of industry colleagues. With only months to go before the annual conference of the International Special Events Society to be held in Minneapolis, Collen stepped in to plan one of the major evening events—a beach party. With the help of four dumptruck-loads of donated sand and lots of ingenuity, conference-goers partied with hula hoops and parasoled drinks on a sandy beach, with palm trees and beach cabanas—all downtown in Peavey Plaza. Collen recently completed a Master of Tourism and Administration degree at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., specializing in conference and events management.
Spring/Summer 2004 13 Faculty/staff notes
Postcards from Italy
During February and March in the Christensen Center Gallery, art of Italy’s most remarkable scenery and monuments. Captured in professor John McCaffrey exhibited 34 oil paintings of the sultry the brushwork are narrow streets and sun-baked cobblestones of Italian landscape in the show “Postcards from Italy.” The paintings old towns, the glory of Roman ruins, and the verdant beauty of are evocative recollections of a visit McCaffrey made to the country the rolling Tuscan hills. Even in these small sizes, McCaffrey’s several years ago. use of light to sculpt form, establish space, and construct volume Though small in size, the works are bold interpretations of some is revealed upon close observation.
“Vernazza” (2004) is one of the “postcards” that brought the Italian landscapes to life in the John McCaffrey, art, measures to hang one of the 34 Christensen Center Gallery during small oil paintings in his “Postcards from Italy” exhibit. the winter.
Honors/awards
Congratulations to the 2004 faculty and Su Dorée, mathematics, received the Cheryl Leuning, nursing, received an staff who received Distinguished Mathematical Association of America Alumni Achievement Award in 2003 Contributions to Teaching and Learning North Central Section’s Award for from Augustana College, Sioux Falls, Awards. Mark Engebretson, professor of Distinguished College or University S.Dak. In the award nomination, she was physics, for teaching; Ann Klamer, Teaching of Mathematics, presented in described by her students and colleagues director of residence life, for direct April. It is presented for extraordinarily as “a superb teacher, an inspirational service to students; and Garry Hesser, successful teaching, influence beyond leader, and mentor.” professor of sociology and metro-urban their own institutions, and fostering of studies, for advising/mentoring. curiosity and excitement about Sports information coordinator Don mathematics to students. Stoner, public relations and Carol Barnett, music professor and communication, was named Co- composition instructor, was awarded the Garry Hesser, sociology and metro- Wrestling SID/Publicist of the Year by the 2003 Nancy Van de Vate International urban studies, was honored by the Higher National Wrestling Media Association, an Composition Prize for Opera from the Education Consortium for Urban Affairs organization representing journalists Vienna Masterworks for her work, Snow, (HECUA) for his 25 years of service. who cover amateur and college based on a short story by Konstantin wrestling. Paustovsky. Ann Klamer, residence life, received the 2003 Linda Schrempp Alberg Outstanding Jeff Swenson ’79, assistant dean for Janna Caywood ’04, social work, was Contribution to Minnesota Higher athletics and head wrestling coach, was inducted into Alpha Kappa Delta, Education Award, presented by the inducted in March into the Minnesota international sociology honor society. Minnesota College Personnel Association Wrestling Coaches Association/David in May. Alberg was director of student life Bartelma Wrestling Hall of Fame. and associate dean of students at Augsburg until her death in 1996.
14 Spring/Summer 2004 Presentations/publications
David Apolloni, philosophy, presented Gretchen Irvine, education, Ron Petrich, education, has a selection “Puzzles Concerning False Judgment in participated on a panel on international in Teaching with Fire: Poetry That Plato’s Theatetus” at the 10th Annual travel experience at the National Society Sustains the Courage to Teach, published Minnesota Conference on Ancient for Experiential Education conference in by Jossey Bass. Petrich finished the first Philosophy in May. November. She also presented “Value two-year Courage to Teach retreat series Added to Global Study/Travel through for K-16 educators and began a second Tony Bibus and Rosemary Link, social the Use of Technology,” at the Hawaii series in May. work, and Michael O’Neal, sociology, International Conference on Education presented a paper, “Analysis of Welfare in January. Bruce Reichenbach, philosophy, Reform Using a Global Perpsective and contributed “Explanation and the Locally Mapped Conditions” at the 50th Kenneth Kaminsky, mathematics, Cosmological Argument,” to annual meeting of the Council on Social published Financial Literacy: Introduction Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Work Education in March. to the Mathematics of Interest, Annuities, Religion, edited by Michael Peterson and and Insurance, with a manual to Raymond Vanarragon, and published by Nora Braun, business administration/ accompany it, by University Press of Blackwells in England. MIS, published “Critical Thinking in the America, Inc. in 2003. Business Curriculum,” in the March/April Bridget Robinson-Riegler and Greg issue of The Journal of Business Education. Jason Kemp, residence life, published Robinson-Riegler published two texts: “Ally Rally: Problem Solving with GLBTQ Cognitive Psychology: Applying the Science Grace Dyrud and Bridget Robinson- Allies on Campus,” in the spring 2004 of the Mind (along with an instructor’s Riegler, psychology, along with UMR-ACUHO (Upper Midwest Region, manual) and Readings in Cognitive psychology senior Matthew Plitzkow, Association of College and University Psychology: Applications, Connections, and presented a poster session, “Lucky Next Housing Officers) News. Individual Differences,” both published in Time: The Effects of Luck Inducement and 2004 by Allyn & Bacon. Delay on Predictions of Future Wins and Ann Lutterman-Aguilar, Center for Luck Ratings,” at the Midwestern Global Education-Mexico, published Nancy Steblay, psychology, co-authored Psychology Convention in April. They also “Educating about a Diversity and Global “Eyewitness Accuracy Rates in Police presented at the American Psychological Issues Experientially: A Review of Showups and Lineup Presentations: A Society in May. Simulations Games for Use in Meta-Analytic Comparison,” in Law and Community-Based Learning Programs,” Human Behavior, 27. Orv Gingerich and Kathy McBride, in the fall 2003 issue of Transformations: Center for Global Education, co-presented The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Andrew Tix co-authored “The Relational a session, “Experiential Education: Theory Pedagogy. Context of Social Support: Relationship and Practice in Latin America,” at the 15th Satisfaction Moderates the Relations annual international conference of the Dave Matz, psychology, co-authored between Enacted Support and Distress,” in Association of Academic Programs in “Social Norms and Identity Relevance: A Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Latin America and the Caribbean Motivational Approach to Normative 29. He also co-authored an article in the (AAPLAC) in February. Behavior,” in Personality and Social Journal of Counseling Psychology, 51. Psychology Bulletin. He also co-authored Shakespeare Bulletin published Douglas an article in Current Psychology, 21. Sean Truman, psychology, with students Green’s review of Joe Dowling’s Francis Rojas, Danielle Banaszak, and production of Othello at the Guthrie Lab Regina McGoff, Center for Global Janessa Baier, presented “Maternal in the spring issue (22.1); his review of Education, presented, “Study Abroad for Substance Abuse and Ratings of Parent Ethan McSweeney’s Romeo and Juliet Students in a Weekend College Program,” Behavior: Do Drugs Matter?” at the appeared in the summer issue (22.2). In at the Student Abroad Curriculum Midwestern Psychology Convention. April, at the annual Shakespeare Integration Conference in April. Truman also co-authored “What Are Association of America meeting, Green They Thinking? The Mediating Role of participated in a dramatic reading of Susan O’Connor, education, co-authored Parental Cognitions in the Parenting Antony and Cleopatra. (His drunken a chapter about her five-month faculty Processes of Drug-Dependent Mothers Lepidus was well received.) exchange in Trondheim, Norway, in Sosialt and Fathers,” in the NIDA Research arbeid: Refleksjon og handling (Social Monograph Series in 2003. Work: Action and Reflection).
Spring/Summer 2004 15 AUGSBURG’S FOURTH INTERNATIONAL
ver 100 entries were submitted in Othe fourth annual photo contest for international and off-campus studies.
Winners were selected in three
categories: scenic landscapes, local people
in a cross-cultural setting, and Augsburg
students in a host setting. All winning
photos were displayed in Christensen
Center.
Entries were judged on the following
criteria: cross-cultural content, artistic and
technical quality, and reproducibility.
To see all the winners, visit
photocontest04>. A 1st Place Scenic landscapes. First place. “Prague from A the Castle Wall,” Erik Helgeson ’05. Czech Republic Augsburg students in host setting. First place. B “Dancing with Locals (Mike Boyle),” Erik Helgeson ’05. Cuba Local people in a cross-cultural setting. First C place. “Lunchtime,” Deb Olson, MA Nursing. B Namibia 16 Spring/Summer 2004 OFF-CAMPUS STUDIES PHOTO CONTEST C D Augsburg students in host D setting. Second place. “Namibian Dunes,” Jenna Bracken ’05. Namibia Scenic landscapes. Second place. E “On the Other Side of the Fence: Auschwitz,” Ariann Russ ’05. Poland Augsburg students in host F setting. Third place. “Candomblé,” Ana Gabriela Power ‘05. Brazil. E F Spring/Summer 2004 17 MAJOR BOWEN: a story of courage and determination by Betsey Norgard As Jean Housh (left) coped with surgery to remove a brain tumor, her strength and inspiration came from “Major” Bowen (right), whose brain tumor left him near death and in a coma. She helped direct his path to Augsburg. eople are brought together in “The nurses told us his brain was Rod Anderson, a former Blake teacher unpredictable ways. The friendship injured like in a 60-mph crash through a and hockey coach “unretired” and Pbetween Augsburg freshman windshield,” recalls Bill Bowen, devoted his time to tutoring Major in the Edward “Major” Bowen and Jean Housh, Major’s father. Bowens’ home. During winter semester, wife of Augsburg regent emeritus Allen Miraculously, on Major’s Bowen returned to Blake, with Anderson Housh, began one day in physical grandmother’s birthday, he began to continuing to tutor him at the school. therapy at the Sister Kenny® awaken. Weighing only 95 lbs., he was Bowen also began practicing Tae Rehabilitation Institute, where both were unable to walk, talk, or eat. Thus began a Kwan Do as part of his therapy, and has recovering from brain surgery. long rehabilitation at the Sister Kenny achieved a second degree purple belt. He Because of the friendship that Institute, at a clinic in Florida, at is now in training to test for his red belt. developed from that day in the hospital, Courage Center, and at other out-patient Major Bowen graduated with his the Houshes are largely responsible for facilities. Blake class in June 2002, but his real Major Bowen enrolling at Augsburg. At Sister Kenny, as he worked to take achievement came earlier, during Blake’s Three years ago last January, Bowen a few steps, then a few steps more, Jean final hockey game of the year. After was an All-State junior goalie on The Housh was also recovering from elective weeks of incredible determination and Blake School’s hockey team. The night he surgery to remove the same kind of cyst hard work to get back on the ice, he and the team shut out Stillwater High before it became the emergency that skated out to tend the goal for the last 53 School, he felt sick with what he thought Major faced. She was undergoing therapy seconds as his team beat Minnehaha was the flu. By the next evening he was to regain balance, strength, and memory. Academy. For this, City Pages in their fighting for his life as a tumor blocked Excerpts from her story about getting to 2002 Best of the Twin Cities, named him the flow of cerebrospinal fluid through know Major are on p. 20. the Best High School Athlete. his brain. Emergency surgery to relieve By the fall, Bowen was able to return The following year the Bowens began the pressure, followed by another surgery home, but was plagued by short-term exploring options for college. Sara Kyle, a week later to remove the cyst, left him memory loss, facial droop, and some associate director of college counseling at in a coma for six weeks. balance difficulty. His father tells of how Blake, suggested Augsburg. “[Augsburg] 18 Spring/Summer 2004 is one of the best (if not the best) for the class. enunciation. While her story speaks to colleges in the nation for bright students Bowen’s determination also impacted the strength she gains from Major, Bill with learning and/or physical Maurer. “One of the biggest lessons I Bowen says that Major thinks Jean is challenges,” said Kyle. “I thought it learned from Major,” Maurer said, “is to “one of his angels.” would be a natural place for Major to never give up. … I think Major’s refusal It’s clear that Bowen could not have continue his education.” She connected to stop until he had accomplished his succeeded at Augsburg without the the Bowens with Sally Daniels, best can be inspirational to us all. The CLASS program and without faculty and Augsburg’s director of undergraduate whole experience was a great honor and staff who became entirely engaged in admissions. will remain one of my fondest memories helping him learn, as they also learned Jean and Allen Housh were also from my time at Augsburg.” from him. Even outside of class, in one instrumental in the decision to consider During the second semester, Bowen small but significant gesture, President Augsburg. “While Augsburg was in the was scheduled for several surgeries and Frame relinquished his reserved parking back of my mind,” Bill Bowen says, “90 would miss a considerable number of space to the Bowens so that Major’s short- percent of it was the encouragement of school days. He arranged with Gustafson term memory loss could not prevent him Allen and Jean.” to do a directed study in history, centered from always knowing exactly where their Daniels and the Houshes introduced around the question of genocide and car was parked. Major and his parents to President focusing on Nazi Germany and the Pol “Augsburg has been a wonderful William Frame and to Augsburg’s Center Pot regime in Cambodia. experience for me,” says Major. “Each for Learning and Adaptive Student A highlight of the semester was a field professor has been different, but also the Services (CLASS), a premier program in trip to Washington, D.C., to the same in being caring, kind, and providing comprehensive support to Holocaust Museum. While in understanding. They have each also been students with disabilities. Washington, the Bowens met with demanding, requiring me to work hard, Major enrolled in the fall as a part- Minnesota Senator Mark Dayton, a friend complete my assignments on time, to push time student with two classes—Spanish of the family, who had been Major’s myself, and to learn the subject matter. and history. Bill Bowen credits both baseball coach and who had also been a Professor Don Gustafson worked with me professors—Kate Reinhardt in Spanish hockey goalie at Blake. extensively to become more self-reliant, to and Don Gustafson in history—with The year proved incredibly difficult, trust myself, to think, and to respond. I can being “absolutely wonderful” to Major. but rewarding, for Major. Bill Bowen never thank him enough.” ■ Gustafson wondered at first how he recounts that virtually every would manage to teach someone with person at Augsburg “gave short-term memory problems in the 102 percent”—nothing was detail-laden discipline of history. “It just average concerning worked,” he said, “partly because Maj Major’s experience. He will came with some excellent high school return to classes in the fall background; partly because his father part-time and then evaluate spent hours and hours going over the what the right course will material with Maj, and Maj on his part be for the future. was not about to give up; and partly The friendship between because one of our very remarkable Jean Housh and Major students, Eric Maurer, agreed to tutor. remains strong; Bill Bowen “It was in our weekly meetings (and talks of how they spend Eric often was part of them) on a one-to- time reading together—a one basis that I got a much better practice that began during understanding of Major, of his therapy to improve their difficulties, and of his incredibly dogged determination.” Gustafson says that Bowen Major Bowen and Jean Housh ended up “at the top of the class in remain good friends and continue terms of effort and hours,” and to read together, a practice that earned a “very creditable 3.0” grade started in rehabilitation. Spring/Summer 2004 19 A MAJOR INSPIRATIONby Jean Spielman Housh Major, however, experienced no warning signs or I owe my life to a young headaches. … After six weeks in Children’s Hospital, Major was man named Major. released to the Sister Kenny Institute for therapy and rehabilitation. That’s where our paths finally crossed. I was a bit tentative about meeting him. I was e is a guy I’d only heard about in the neurosurgeon’s concerned his parents might measure me against their son’s office. I was being examined and scheduled for brain progress. Boy was I wrong. I have never been so warmly Hsurgery. But I had the luxury of setting a surgery received. Behind Major’s wheelchair in the computer lab at date, calling family to Minneapolis to help out and bracing Sister Kenny Institute, Major’s dad, Bill, shook my hand myself beforehand. Major, however, did not. According to and thanked me for initiating our meeting. my neurosurgeon, the 17-year-old hockey player was “It’s nice to know someone who had the same surgery nearly brain dead the January night he was brought to as Major and who’s come out so well,” he told me. Children’s Hospital. Imagine playing goalie for your hockey I tried to tell him that his son was my inspiration. Tears team and near death one day later. I couldn’t. … rolled down my face and I couldn’t get the words out. “I Eager to read all I could about my condition or anyone cry a lot,” I told him. He smiled, knowing exactly what I else who’d experienced it, I combed back issues of the meant. Minneapolis Star Tribune sports section at the library until Around the corner came Major’s mom, Pat. Awkwardly I found it. There it was in bold type across five columns of I began my story again. Lost in my tears were all the words the January 9, 2001, sport page. I’d hoped to say. Words like ‘thank you for your son. ‘Blake Goalie Faces Surgery for Brain Tumor.’ Thank you for being such loving parents. Thank you for Edward “Major” Bowen was his name and his story giving me this opportunity to meet my life’s inspiration.’ … would change my life. … During a follow-up visit last year, Dr. Nagib’s nurse I wish I could say my surgery was easy. Although I did practitioner, Therese O’Fallon, told me, “One day, maybe not feel a thing, my family and friends suffered greatly. It is not soon, but one day, you’ll look back on this surgery only through God’s grace and mercy that I am here. … experience as a gift. Some good will have come from it.” One cold March day [at Sister Kenny Institute], I saw Brain surgery—a gift? Yeah, right. I brushed it off. the name Major Bowen handwritten on a label of a But today, more than two years later, I’m beginning to headrest on a wheelchair. Could it be the same Major see what she means. God has given me a gift of true Bowen? I wondered aloud to [my husband] Allen. If he’s inspiration in Major. here, I have to meet him. After all, he is the reason I went Through him and my surgery, I’ve learned patience, ahead with my surgery. determination, and what family really means. Today, the I asked Matt, my OT therapist, if that was Major balance of good days and bad days clearly tips toward the Bowen, the hockey player. Yes, it was, but due to positive. I’ve recovered most, if not all, of my short- and confidentiality concerns, I couldn’t just walk up and start long-term memory. Although, I still lose my car in the talking. Matt had to arrange it for us after getting Major’s Target parking lot and often have trouble remembering parents’ approval. how many strokes I had on the golf course. The next day, I was introduced to Major, and his Major and I read Lance Armstrong’s book It’s Not about parents, Bill and Pat. … the Bike last summer. We read it aloud to one another to The common denominator between Major and me was improve our enunciation. Armstrong’s story of victory over the same colloid cysts in our brains. A rare and benign cancer and winning the Tour de France is an inspiring and tumor, colloid cysts reside in the third left ventricle and powerful one. But one no less inspiring than Major’s story restrict the flow of cerebral spinal fluid. In my case, it of faith, courage, and strength. caused considerable swelling and chronic headaches. Jean Spielman Housh is a writer and wife of Augsburg regent emeritus Allen Housh. 20 Spring/Summer 2004 FROM FLATANGER TO AUGSBURG: A CENTURY APART by Betsey Norgard THE SMALL coastal town of Flatanger, Norway, has sent two students to Augsburg College, almost exactly 100 years apart. While Ingwald Rosok may not have received a diploma in the spring of 1895 when he left Augsburg, Monica Dahle marched proudly across the stage in spring 2004. Dahle is a senior at Molde University College in central Norway and came to Augsburg as part of International Partners. This program, based on reciprocal agreements between Augsburg and European institutions that offer the equivalent of bachelor’s degrees, allows students from both Europe Norwegian student Monica Dahle stands in front of Old Main, built just three and Augsburg to take part years after Ingwald Rosok, another student from her hometown, attended of their study program at Augsburg. partner schools. This Ingwald Rosok, who attended Augsburg in 1894-95, left his preparatory class at moved to Arizona and lived there the rest enables them to small village of Flatanger 100 Augsburg Seminary for of his life. experience studying years before current student nearly five months until his Although Rosok’s mother was from abroad without Monica Dahle. money ran out. the Sverdrup family, there is no apparent interrupting or delaying In his memoir, Retrospect, Rosok tells close connection to Georg and George their studies. of wanting to go to school and learning Sverdrup, Augsburg’s second and fourth Because of International Partners and about Augsburg from a Norwegian grocer presidents, respectively. the scholarship that participants receive, in Minneapolis. He describes Augsburg’s When Dahle arrived at Augsburg last Dahle chose to come to Minneapolis and location as “in the block between Seventh winter, she recognized Old Main from Augsburg. When she began researching and Eighth Streets, and between 21st and photos she had seen in a history book. information about Augsburg, to her 22nd Avenues South.” He lists the faculty She was one of 34 Norwegian students in surprise and excitement she discovered a that year as six professors. book about Ingwald Rosok, also from Rosok did not want to be a minister Flatanger. He had come to the U.S. in and chose to study engineering at the Photo of Ingwald Rosok from Retrospect: An 1891, worked at a number of jobs in the University of Minnesota instead of Autobiography, by I. A. Rosok, edited by O. M. Upper Midwest, and attended the second Norlie, copyright 1957 and printed by Lund Press, returning to Augsburg. He eventually Minneapolis. Spring/Summer 2004 21 Monica Dahle (right) and Beate Fjellanger (second from right) greeted Gro Brundtland, former Norwegian prime minister, and Knut Vollebæk, Norwegian ambassador to the U.S., A CENTURY APART at the Peace Prize Festival in February. International Partners during the academic The second highlight was participation “It was amazing, with all the people year, and took social work courses. in Augsburg’s commencement ceremony. In there,” Dahle remarked. “It’s a really big For her internship, she learned about Norway, college graduates are hosted at a deal, and I’ve seen it on TV.” Her cap and an agency in downtown Minneapolis dinner, but without the pomp and gown went back to Norway with her as offering a needle exchange program, and circumstance of an American ceremony. mementos. applied to work there. Her tasks included Because of the reciprocal agreements Dahle has her four-hour final exam to meeting with drug addicts, homeless between colleges, International Partners finish at Molde University College. Then people, and prostitutes—work and issues students are granted special permission to she hopes to work for a year or so before she had never encountered. “I learned so participate in Augsburg’s graduation. possibly returning to the U.S. and much,” Dahle said, “about non- Augsburg for a master’s program. ■ judgemental attitudes, about how to treat clients, and about the U.S.” She had not EXCERPTS FROM expected the level of culture shock she experienced. RETROSPECT: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY Her biggest challenge was language. By Ingwald Andreas Rosok Dahle said the people who came there Edited by O.M. Norlie; copyright 1957 by I.A. Rosok. Minneapolis: Lund Press, Inc. often used street slang, but that she simply 16 ATTENDING AUGSBURG asked them what it meant. She loves to We called on the Norwegian grocer. He advised me to go to Augsburg Seminary, which, at work with people, and dreams of finding that time, was not only a theological seminary but also a college and an academy. It was a similar ways to work with drug addicts in Norwegian Lutheran church school and was located in the block between Seventh and Norway. Eighth Streets, and between Twenty-first and Twenty-second Avenues South. I went there, During spring semester, two events and they took me and accepted my check without any question. … As already stated, stood out for Dahle as highlights. In Augsburg Seminary had three departments: The Preparatory (Academy) Department which February, when Augsburg hosted the Peace took two years to finish; the College Department which took four years, and the Prize Festival for schoolchildren, she was Theological Department which took three years, a total of nine years. When this was one of two Norwegian students who completed one was ready to be ordained as a full-fledged Lutheran minister and to be greeted and escorted special guests Gro assigned to some congregation as its pastor. The professors that year were: George Harlem Brundtland, former prime Sverdrup, president; Sven Oftedal, vice president; John H. Blegen; Edward Hovde; J.L. minister of Norway and director general Nydahl and T.S. Reimestad. When I told them what previous schooling I had had, I was emerita of the World Health assigned to the second preparatory class. It was a very good school and I enjoyed it very Organization; and Knut Vollebæk, much. It certainly was much better for me than working in the woods in Wisconsin. I Norwegian ambassador to the U.S. studied very hard, never missing any classes and spending all my waking hours in my room doing my homework. I started school at Augsburg Seminary December 7, 1894 and attended until April 13, 1895 when my money was all gone. 22 Spring/Summer 2004 SEEING ABILITIES Seeing the abilities instead of disabilities of people rather than their by Judy Petree disabilities has music, to acting. She even took part in the introduced Karl-Johan Johansen, an given Cilje Nybord theater performance, playing the part— instructor from Sør Trøndelag University Mosand a dream aptly enough—of a young woman named College in Trondheim, Norway, and Per and a plan, which “Celia,” who is Norwegian. Frederiksen, with PROFF, an organization she has taken back “We really liked having Cilje here,” serving people with disabilities, to to her native said Eriq Nelson, performing arts Interact while they were visiting Norway this summer. Mosand, a social instructor at Interact. “She gave our Minneapolis. As a result of that visit, work student in the International Partners ‘artists’ individual support and always had Johansen and Frederiksen secured program at Augsburg, interned during the time for listening to them. Many times the funding in Norway for a group from spring at a non-profit organization called staff doesn’t have this kind of time.” Interact to travel to Norway and Denmark Interact Center for the Visual and Nelson added that when Mosand first to give performances. The artists that Performing Arts, based in Minneapolis. came, they envisioned her as support went on this tour were the same ones Interact, a multidisciplinary arts center for staff, doing odd jobs such as filling out who formed a bond with Mosand. adult artists with disabilities, features a paperwork. But, she became so involved “What fascinated me about Interact is large art studio and public gallery, with the artists the original plans quickly it’s so diverse,” Mosand said. “The mix of rehearsal and performance space, a full- flew out the door. people from a rainbow of ethnic, age, and time faculty of professional artists, a “We have a large Norwegian disability groups gives one the impression performing arts training program, and a population at the center and some have of being in an inclusive Garden of Eden.” theater company. even been to Norway on tour, so they The artists help the community Mosand was so impressed with were excited about Cilje being from understand that gifts are given to all Interact that she hopes to start a similar Norway. She liked being with the artists people, Mosand said, and that vision is organization in the Scandinavian and they liked being with her.” not lost nor even impaired by a countries. “We have nothing like this in Nelson said it was also fun to watch disabling condition. “There are no Norway,” Mosand said. “This has been Mosand grow during her internship. “We superiors, inferiors; no staff versus such a wonderful experience. You don’t even got her to be a part of the show. It clients. There is only the collegial mix of see the disabilities of these people, rather was fun to see Cilje embrace that side of diverse people who are all focused on the abilities they possess.” it. She was always willing to do whatever the same goals—the creation of beauty, During her internship, Mosand was needed to be done. She’s missed.” the making of art.” ■ assisted the professional artists who work Actually, this is not Augsburg’s first with the disabled artists in all aspects of encounter with Interact. A few years ago, Judy Petree is media relations manager the theater, from writing the script and education professor Susan O’Connor in the Office of Public Relations and Communication. Top photo: At Interact, Cilje Mosand supported and worked with artists with disabilities, and joined them to perform in their production. Spring/Summer 2004 23 A QUICK CONNECTION TO PROM DRESSES by Judy Petree Stephanie Quick’s passion for working with children and youth, especially those who struggle with lives of poverty and abuse, has taken her to a place far from her Midwestern roots in Mendota Heights, Minn.—to Nome, Alaska, a place so beautiful it’s hard to imagine life could be anything but ideal. Quick, a 2001 Augsburg graduate with a major in youth and family ministry, is currently working on a four-year Master of Divinity degree at the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago. She is in year three of seminary, which consists of an internship. Beauty surrounded by poverty The road to Alaska and her internship at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church in Nome came after she was accepted into a special ELCA program called Horizon. This program offers 22 unique internship sites across the world, including cross-cultural ministry, mission start congregations, and others at rural, urban, and international sites. Quick said that many of these sites, including her current one, cannot afford a second pastor, and provide excellent learning opportunities. Quick said Nome is a beautiful place, surrounded by ocean and tundra. She has seen wildlife from bears to reindeer to seals, eaten a variety of Eskimo foods including Eskimo ice cream (berries mixed with reindeer fat), muktuk (whale blubber), black meat (seal), reindeer, caribou, dried fish, greens, and herring eggs. But, she added, the stark reality is that all of this beauty surrounds a town plagued by alcohol abuse and poverty. “While this town of 3,000 people is in a unique setting, it is also very sad. You can find only two small grocery stores, yet the street is littered with bars and liquor stores. Alcohol abuse is a terrible factor in the community.” In fact, Quick said, it has gotten so bad that alcoholism in Nome and surrounding villages has nearly Above: Stephanie Quick, Class of 2001, is destroyed the Native American (Eskimo) traditional lifestyle. “Sadly, as a pastor, you hear using her seminary internship to work with many stories of family violence, sexual abuse, young people in an impoverished Nome, and substance abuse. There is so much tragedy Alaska church. She brought joy to the high here it is almost unbelievable.” Quick is called to many areas while serving school girls there, as 60 prom dresses she as an intern pastor. Some of her duties include collected from family and friends back preaching, leading worship, teaching, pastoral counseling, home visitations, serving as home were donated for Nome’s big dance. chaplain at the local jail, eating lunch with elders at the senior citizen’s center, and holding 24 Spring/Summer 2004 worship service at the nursing home. “thrilled” with the dresses. However, there is one area where her “I’m really proud of my sister,” Rachel said. passion is strong. Quick is concentrating “She is such a kind person and she’s really grown her efforts on working with youth in attached to these girls in Nome. She was able to Nome, even starting a youth group at the give them something we take for granted—a congregation, which now draws more pretty dress and a really special night.” than 25 youth. Quick said she wanted to do this for the girls “I have formed some pretty strong “simply because I care about them, and feel that connections with some of the high their opportunities shouldn’t be limited just school girls,” Quick said. “These girls because of their finances.” have confided a lot of things to me. Recently they told me they couldn’t go to the prom because they couldn’t afford Reaching out a dress.” While the town is plentiful with bars Quick followed her passion and calling one step and liquor stores, Quick said there is not further when she volunteered to travel to a a clothing store to be found. The only remote village in the wilderness, without running way for these girls to get a dress would water or plumbing. She spent 10 days in a place be to spend $343 on a plane ticket to called Shishmaref, a tiny island Eskimo village Anchorage or make a dress. located 20 miles south of the Arctic Circle. The “None of these girls can afford a village is entirely Lutheran and is the prom dress let alone fly to Anchorage to northernmost ELCA congregation. Most people buy it. And many of the girls are being there still speak their native language of Inupiaq. raised by their grandparents who just Quick said the pastor there had resigned in don’t have the time to make a dress.” the fall, and it has been difficult to even get an Quick came up with an idea and she interim pastor, much less a permanent pastor. It quickly enlisted the help of her sister, is a very rustic place with Rachel, who is a junior at Augsburg; her honeybuckets for toilets and Ladies in Our Savior’s Lutheran Church parents; and her hometown snow or rainwater for volunteered their time to alter the congregation, St. Stephen’s Lutheran drinking water. The only Church in West St. Paul. place to shower is at the donated dresses for the girls. “I thought, well, I still have my prom “washeteria,” which costs dresses, so I called up my mom and money, she added, so asked her to send them here. obviously people don’t Unfortunately, she had just given them shower much. The roads are all dirt and away to the Goodwill, but my sister, the houses are primitive. Children, she Rachel, still had hers.” said, run around very dirty, many visibly Rachel was more than happy to not with lice. The town is filled with flies, only ship her prom dress to Alaska, but and garbage and raw sewage leak to send out a campuswide e-mail asking from bins. others for their dresses and other prom “It looked straight out of a ‘Save the accessories, such as shoes and purses. Children’ commercial,” Quick said. “It When Quick’s pastor at St. Stephen’s was a moving experience just driving found out what she was doing, he made down the street.” The only modes of an announcement in church. Her plea transportation, she added, are four- was so successful, she received 60 wheelers; snowmobiles, which the dresses, the majority coming from Alaskans call snow machines; and dog Augsburg and St. Stephen’s Church in sled teams. West St. Paul. “I had some amazing visits with the After the shipment arrived in Nome, people there,” Quick said, “including a Stephanie Quick opened up a “Prom group of elders who showed me some of Shop” in the church basement. The their sewing. It was a neat experience ladies’ sewing circle at Our Savior’s sitting on the floor watching the Eskimo Church volunteered to make alterations women sew things like slippers, on the dresses. Quick said the girls were mukluks, and Eskimo yo-yos out of seal Spring/Summer 2004 25 skin and reindeer fur.” Quick’s love and passion for children took center stage there as well, in this remote village. She said the children were excited to see her and she organized many youth activities for them, including baking for elders and confirmation classes. Some days there were more than 50 children that showed up in the basement of the parsonage, which is used for a youth center. “We had a Sunday School turnout of 75 children which is great considering there are only 600 people in the village.” The church services were similar to the ones she helps out with in Nome, part of it being in their native language and part in English. “I have to brag a little that I’m doing quite well on the Inupiaq. The elders tease me that I am becoming an Eskimo!” Quick said because of the lack of a pastor or interim pastor, she was given special permission by the bishop and seminary to administer the sacraments. She presided over Holy Communion A QUICK and performed her first baptism. The baptism, she added, was especially moving. “I had asked a woman in the congregation to present the candle CONNECTION and recite a special verse. She has cerebral palsy and told me she has trouble reading, so when she came up, she had the verse TO PROM memorized. It was moving and a true moment of grace.” DRESSES Augsburg’s transforming education Quick credits the encouragement she received from faculty and staff in the religion department while she was a student at Augsburg for steering her toward the path she is now following. In particular she remembers a lecture she heard about being called to serve God. “I still remember that lecture, and that confirmed my call from God. I began to look for a place to serve the church and I felt not only an internal call to the ministry, but an external call to serve God.” Quick said she wasn’t sure at that point what direction in ministry she wanted to pursue, but she loved the Youth and Family Ministry program and being involved in Campus Ministry, so that excited her about ministry with families. Quick will return to Chicago in the fall to finish her education. Where she will go from there is still a question, but she has many goals, one being a pastor in an inner city church working with families, children and youth; another opening an orphanage or working at an existing one, perhaps in Thailand; or even teaching religion, “especially if it was at Above: A stitch here and there to the Augsburg!” donated dresses made the high school “The education I received at Augsburg helped girls feel like queens of the prom. shape my life in a very positive way. Augsburg helped me realize that all things are possible through God.” ■ Judy Petree is media relations manager in the Office of Public Relations and Communication. 26 Spring/Summer 2004 The Augsburg Chamber Orchestra performs at the Commencement concert on Students celebrate after receiving their honors cords from Friday, April 30, which featured solos by each of the four 2004 Concerto Aria academic dean Christopher Kimball at the Honors winners: Miya Kunin ’04, violin; Maja Lisa FritzHuspen ’04, soprano; Nicholas White Convocation on Friday, April 30. ’05, bass; and Keely Holcomb ’04, soprano. DR. SHIRLEY ANN JACKSON DELIVERS COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson, president of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York, spoke at the 2004 Augsburg College Commencement ceremony Saturday, May 1. It is said that Jackson has a “career distinguished by many historic firsts.” Jackson, a theoretical physicist, holds a Ph.D. in theoretical elementary particle physics from M.I.T. and an S.B. in physics from M.I.T. She is the first African- American woman to receive a doctorate from M.I.T., and is one of the first two African-American women to receive a doctorate in physics in the United States. Jackson is also the first African-American to become a commissioner of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and is now the first woman to lead a national research university. Jackson has held senior positions in government, as chairperson of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC); in industry and research, as a theoretical physicist at the former AT&T Bell Laboratories; and in academe as a professor at A graduate pays homage to her home state by taping a cutout of Texas to her mortarboard. Rutgers University. While at the NRC, Jackson represented the United States as a delegate to the General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, Austria. Among the number of professional organizations Jackson belongs to, she is president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. She is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Physical Society. Visit Barbara Lehmann, assistant professor of social work, hugs a student during the procession from Foss Center to Melby Hall. 28 Spring/Summer 2004 COMMENCEMENT 2004 COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS URGES EXCELLENCE, LEADERSHIP,AND COMMUNITY Following are excerpts from Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson’s Commencement address; read the complete address at Barbara Forshier, Weekend College Class of 2004 representative, addresses the crowd at the Commencement ceremony. Three graduates smile for the camera during the ceremony in Melby Hall. Spring/Summer 2004 29 Gregory McKusky, who received a B.A. in physics, joins family and faculty in Murphy Park after the Commencement ceremony. A graduate poses for a picture following the ceremony. THE AUGSBURG COLLEGE CLASS OF 2004 623 Candidates for graduation 347 Day program candidates 152 Weekend College candidates 83 Graduate program candidates (12 Master of Arts in Leadership, 30 Master of Social Work, 14 Master of Arts in Nursing, 24 Master of Science in Physician Assistant Studies, 3 Master of Arts in Education) 33 Rochester program candidates 8 United Hospital candidates 10 Countries represented (China, Colombia, Republic of Korea, Laos, Liberia, Mexico, Mongolia, Norway, Spain, Taiwan) 19-64 Age range of graduates in the Class of 2004 Jennifer Hagen, who graduated with a B.S. in chemistry, relaxes with friends. MASTER OF ARTS IN NURSING—CLASS OF 2004 A grad poses with her family after receiving a The Master of Arts in Nursing program celebrated its third class of graduates. Here, bouquet of roses. graduates and faculty posed for a picture following the ceremony. 30 Spring/Summer 2004 COMMENCEMENT2004 The 135TH YEAR of Augsburg College THE CLASS OF 2004’S OLDEST AND YOUNGEST EDUCATION HAS NO AGE LIMIT by Jessica Brown ABBEY PAYEUR,AGE 19, OF CHAMPLIN, By some accounts, at age 64, Maryann broader issues, outside of what just Kinney should be making plans for her affects the campus. After graduation she MINN.,AND MARYANN KINNEY, AGE 64, OF retirement. Would she like to travel? would like to do work with poverty- ROCHESTER, MINN., ARE THE YOUNGEST Spend more time with friends? Instead, stricken or homeless populations, areas AND OLDEST OF AUGSBURG’S GRADU- she walked down the aisle of Augsburg’s where she gained experience through gymnasium in Melby Hall, adorned in her work at Augsburg’s Central Nursing ATING CLASS OF 2004. cap and gown. Center, located in Central Lutheran PAYEUR ALREADY HAD A TWO-YEAR Kinney graduated with a Master of Church in downtown Minneapolis. Arts in nursing degree and isn’t Kinney was also afforded the rare COLLEGE DEGREE WHEN SHE FINISHED considering leaving the workforce opportunity to do her clinical practice in HIGH SCHOOL AND COMPLETED A anytime soon. “I probably should think London, England, at St. Christopher’s BACHELOR’S DEGREE IN ELEMENTARY about my retirement, but I’m just going hospice under the tutelage of founder to keep on going,” she says. Dame Cicely Saunders. Saunders, at age EDUCATION AT AUGSBURG IN TWO YEARS. This hospice volunteer for the past 85, still works at the hospice every day. SHE PLANS TO TEACH AND RETURN LATER 18 years has always spent much of her She was a true inspiration to Kinney and time serving others. A nurse since 1978, reinforced a desire to work with those FOR GRADUATE SCHOOL. she has worked in Appalachia and with less fortunate. KINNEY HAS BEEN A STAFF NURSE AT orphaned children in Romania. Kinney is no less of an inspiration in “Nursing is a profession where care is her own right, “I carry a bag of dirt in SAINT MARYS HOSPITAL IN ROCHESTER always our key element,” says Kinney. my pocket. I have for a long time. I like FOR MORE THAN 25 YEARS AND DECIDED TO After three attempts at attaining a to keep it with me to remind me to SEEK A MASTER’S DEGREE IN NURSING. SHE master’s degree, the fourth time proved always stay ‘grounded’,” she says. Often to be a charm. She began at Augsburg in when others around her seem to be HAS NO PLANS TO RETIRE SOON, BUT the fall of 2001. Kinney was finally able feeling overwhelmed she will share her WANTS TO SERVE PEOPLE WITH LOW to reach her goal, with the help of a secret—“I take it out of my pocket and supportive supervisor at Saint Marys everyone knows that they have to get INCOME AND HOMELESS POPULATIONS. Hospital in Rochester, where she grounded.” At the very least it offers currently works, and close attention those around her a moment to pause and from Augsburg faculty whom she says, smile. “build on your strengths and work with Kinney is grateful to Augsburg for your weaknesses.” helping her achieve her goal, “I think To Kinney, it was well worth the Augsburg is awesome. Not only are the effort. “To keep up with all of the school, the classes, and the professors changes that are going on in nursing, great, but I was also really impressed you really need an advanced degree,” with the students. I can’t believe how she says. “Unfortunately, many nurses nice they are,” she says. “The greatest who get the degree get out of nursing. gift one can give to another is a chance. They go on to get more administrative That is what Augsburg did for me. It is roles. Augsburg’s program prepares you almost impossible as a staff nurse to have to stay in nursing. I think most of the one’s educational needs met. Augsburg students that finish here stay in patient went that mile.” care.” Kinney has a deep appreciation for Jessica Brown is a communication Augsburg’s commitment to the specialist in the Office of Public Relations community and their awareness of the and Communication. Spring/Summer 2004 31 COMMENCEMENT2004 ON THE FAST TRACK TO A CAREER IN TEACHING by Jessica Brown At a time when many 19-year-olds are still learning, and a decision about her graduation standards—profiles of early in their adventures in higher learning after high school was an easy learning,” Payeur says. “The other learning, Abbey Payeur is completing that one. She went to a guidance counselor students were debating them but none adventure and embarking on a new one. and asked about the better schools for had ever experienced them. I was actually Payeur, of Champlin, Minn., got on elementary education. “I love school and in school when those were in place, and the fast track and never jumped off. She I think I can reach the kids like me [that so I had a unique perspective that could enrolled in the Minnesota Post Secondary love school] and also the kids that don’t add to the class.” Enrollments Option program (PSEO) at like it as much,” she says. “I just want to Payeur graduated Summa Cum Laude the age of 15. The PSEO program allows let them know how much your life can from Augsburg with a Bachelor of Arts high school juniors and seniors to take change if you choose to do well in degree in education and marched with her courses for credit at public and private school.” Augsburg College was at the top fellow classmates in the Commencement postsecondary institutions while still in of the recommended list, and after an ceremony. In August she begins her high school. Payeur decided to take full initial interview with Professor Vicki student teaching at Oxbow Creek advantage of the opportunity before her Olson, it seemed like a good fit. Payeur Elementary School in Champlin, where and enrolled full time at North Hennepin decided the small class sizes and the she lives with her husband, Micah. The Community College (NHCC). Because of personal relationships you make with the next step for Payeur is looking for a her young age, she had to be driven to her professors was what she wanted. permanent teaching position. After that first year of college courses by her mother. Payeur enrolled at Augsburg in the she says, “I may return to Augsburg to Thus, her final two years of high school fall of 2002 at the age of 17. Being the complete a minor in special education or were spent away from the Champlin Park youngest in class periodically posed get my reading specialist certification, and schools where she’d began. “Mostly I certain challenges. “Sometimes people in eventually I would like to get a master’s wanted more independence, more choices class didn’t give much credit to what I degree, but I want to teach in the in the classes I was free to take, more of a would say because I was ‘just a baby,’ ” classroom for a while first.” Whatever she challenge,” says Payeur. says Payeur. Very quickly, however, after decides to do, even Payeur has to agree When she participated in graduation the other students got to know her, she that she has plenty of time. ceremonies at Champlin Park High School was on the same playing field as everyone in spring 2002, she already had an else. Jessica Brown is a communication Associate of Arts degree under her belt Sometimes her youth and experience specialist in the Office of Public Relations from NHCC. were advantages in the classroom. “There and Communication. Payeur always had a passion for was a discussion about the Minnesota Graduate nursing student Maryann Kinney reminisces with Tony Bristo Abbey Payeur, at 19 years old, is the youngest Augsburg graduate in about experiences in England at Augsburg’s Central Nursing Clinic at the Class of 2004. With an elementary education degree, she aims to Central Lutheran Church in downtown Minneapolis. teach full time and then consider graduate school. 32 Spring/Summer 2004 SHARING A PASSION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE by Keme Hawkins and Judy Petree First row (L to R) Lymoua Mouacheupao, Matthew Thornhill, Second row (L Though this group of five social work to R) Geralyn Williams, Darin Rowles, Vernona Boswell, Sophia Thompson. students came from very different walks in life, together they discovered how again, it was the weekend program that through our social work curriculum.” their shared passions and compassion for attracted her to Augsburg. Williams said it was comforting at each other helped them succeed. times going into class knowing this would Throughout the past two years in DARIN ROWLES began taking courses be there. “I knew them well enough to Weekend College, as they faced a variety at Augsburg through the postsecondary feel comfortable calling them when I of challenges and demands on their program during his senior year in high needed help or had questions about class personal and academic lives, collectively school. He completed his freshman year at assignments. I really appreciated the they supported each other to achieve Augsburg until family issues, chemical relationship I have with them.” their highest potential as students and abuse, and other difficulties forced him to Besides sharing help with academics, successful graduates. drop out. In the mid-90s he completed an their mutual support was on a more Vernona Boswell, Lymoua associate degree, but wanted a four-year personal level. Rowles said they listened Mouacheupao, Darin Rowles, Sophia degree. “Education has always been very to each other’s difficulties, and when one Thompson, Matthew Thornhill, and important in my life, and returning to person was having an especially rough Geralyn Williams all entered the social Augsburg had deep meaning to me. It was week, others would step in and be more work program together, and on May 1 part of my plan to finish where I had involved with class discussion to lighten they graduated together. started years ago.” the load. “We let each other vent about “They discovered that they share the Before Rowles resumed his education, the bad times and celebrated the good passion for social justice and service to he worked in corporate America at jobs times,” he explained. “I honestly don’t others that is the hallmark of Augsburg with great pay and amazing benefits, know how I would have survived the past College,” said Tony Bibus, associate Rowles said, but that were less than two years without the support of my professor and social work department satisfying. He also worked at an adult classmates.” chair, about the group’s commitment. foster home for people living with AIDS. D.J.M. Edwards, social work Three of the students shared their “I found this work to be very fulfilling,” undergraduate program assistant, said that stories. he said. “I knew I had the knack for weekend students often feel they are on working with people in need and keeping their own, and a support group is a great LYMOUA MOUACHEUPAO enrolled a level head during difficult advantage. “Working in a cohort breaks at Augsburg after her husband lost his circumstances. Social work seemed a good down barriers over time,” he said. “When battle with liver cancer and left her to raise blend of these strengths.” ideas can flow without impediments the four sons. Going back to school was her The students found that studying in course material really starts to come to way to deal with grief. “I needed a sense of their cohort drew them together in life.” This was an unusual group, he said, meaning in life,” Mouacheupao said, and rewarding ways. and definitely worked together as a unit, she appreciated the shared common bond Initially, Rowles said he was “We are so proud to have been of family responsibility felt in this group. concerned about spending two years with partners in their educational journeys,” people who would end up sharing much Bibus added. “The social work profession GERALYN WILLIAMS came to of their lives with each other. He quickly stands to gain mightily as they embark on Weekend College in 1997 after having learned this wouldn’t be the case. “Even their careers. The world will change for gone in and out of college programs at though our group represented a diverse the better!” other institutions for 15 years. Not sure mix of race, gender, sexual orientation, what she wanted to do, she left school age, religion, employment background, Keme Hawkins is a Weekend College and worked at an office job, but never let and so on, we formed a very close bond, communication major. Judy Petree is media her desire to finish college fade. When very quickly. Our diverse backgrounds led relations manager in the Office of Public she finally started looking at schools to lively, informed debates as we moved Relations and Communication. Spring/Summer 2004 33 AAlumniLUMNI NewsNEWS From the Alumni Board president’s desk… On behalf of the Augsburg College Alumni Board and Association, I would like to extend heartfelt congratulations to the Class of 2004 on a job well done! was honored to speak at Augsburg’s God is, that which is good and I135th Commencement on Saturday, acceptable and perfect.” An Augsburg May 1. More than 600 graduating education does not end with Stephen Geffre students participated in the ceremony, Commencement. Instead, it is the and of these, nearly 350 were day beginning of a journey of continuous students and 152 were Weekend College renewal. We have been transformed to students. In addition, 33 were Rochester appreciate that there is joy doing that program candidates, and 83 received which one is called to do in service to graduate degrees. These figures are in others. sharp contrast to those of my own New graduates are now members of Commencement ceremony 20 years ago the Augsburg Alumni Association. What when Weekend College had just been does it mean to be a member of the launched and the Rochester and graduate Alumni Association? It means staying programs did not yet exist. Needless to connected to the College. Check in with which you and I are beneficiaries. The say, the College has evolved in many us by phone (612-330-1178 or toll free College depends on your support and ways over the past two decades. 1-800-260-6590), the Web enthusiasm for this mission. As alumni, An Augsburg degree not only (www.augsburg.edu/alumni), or via e- these are gifts that we can give back to indicates that the bearer possesses mail ([email protected]). Let us the school that has given us so much. knowledge, but it also suggests that the know what you are doing. Tell us about Again, congratulations to the Class bearer has the wisdom to face challenges jobs, marriages, children, moves, and of 2004. Welcome to the Alumni with confidence, integrity, and honor. In other achievements. Association and God bless you on the fact, as alumni, we have been blessed by Being an alum also means serving as journey you are about to commence! the time spent immersed in the Augsburg an ambassador of the College. Without a community and its ethos—i.e., that we doubt, many of you are or will be leaders mattered and that with a transforming in your communities and people will education we could make a positive wonder what makes you shine, and part difference in the world. We have been of that is being an Auggie! Attend events given an incredible gift. sponsored by the College such as Paul S. Mueller ’84, M.D. Indeed, this gift reflects the Homecoming and Advent Vespers. Visit President, Alumni Board Christian heritage of Augsburg. In former professors. Support the College Romans 12, Paul writes, “do not be with financial and service gifts. Finally, conformed to this world, but be keep the College, its students, and its transformed by renewing of your mind, faculty in your prayers. A great mission 2004-2005 Alumni so that you may prove what the will of is being accomplished at Augsburg, of Board meeting Auggies at the Save the date: schedule Minnesota State Fair Annual ice lumni Board meetings for the 2004- A2005 academic year will be held Aug. on’t forget to stop by the Augsburg booth cream social 17, Nov. 16, Feb. 15, Apr. 19, and June Dat the Minnesota State Fair Aug. 26–Sept. 21. Meetings are open to the public and 6. Located in the Education Building, the booth he annual ice cream social at all alumni are invited to attend. Meetings will feature alumni prize drawings, give-aways, Tthe Augsburg House will be are located in the Minneapolis Room in special guests, and more. For schedule held Aug. 31. Watch your Christensen Center at 5:30 p.m. For more information or to volunteer for a four-hour shift mailbox for further details, or call information, visit the alumni Web site at at the booth, call Bobbie Chong in Public Alumni/Parent Relations at 34 Spring/Summer 2004 A-Club and AWAC merger unites resources, by Rebecca Welle ’05 with strengthens fundraising efforts contributions by Lynn Mena hen we hear the word “merger,” we Deep roots and passionate goals taken place and are anxious to make a Wusually associate it with two For more than a half-century, the positive impact. On the immediate organizations coming together to achieve a Augsburg A-Club has been a vital link for horizon, the new A-Club will be a major higher goal. This is precisely what the new the past, present, and future of Auggie fundraising force for the proposed South Augsburg College A-Club is planning to athletics. The original A-Club for athletic Wing expansion of Melby Hall. The accomplish. As briefly reported in the letter winners was started in 1937 by four project is an important and necessary step winter issue of the Augsburg Now, the of Augsburg’s top student athletes—Ken in upgrading facilities for all students, College’s two alumni athletics Schmit ’38, Jerry Person ’39, Hoyt staff, physical education majors, and organizations—A-Club and the Augsburg Messerer ’39, and faculty adviser Dick intercollegiate athletes. Women’s Athletic Club (AWAC)—merged Pautz ’37. The club is one of the oldest “This merger will combine all alumni in November. This joint venture provides athletic alumni organizations in the state. of Augsburg’s 18 sports into a single an even stronger foundation and Over the years the A-Club has kept advocate, dedicated to the successful organization dedicated to supporting the close ties with the College and its athletes tradition of excellence in education, success of Augsburg athletics. through social, athletic, and fundraising recreation, and athletics at Augsburg,” The first official meeting of the new A- events. The A-Club was instrumental in said Swenson. Club was held November 4, and those raising money for numerous major As a volunteer membership involved are prepared for the challenge. athletic facility improvements, such as the organization, the A-Club is dependent on The Executive Committee of six men and Edor Nelson athletic field, the Melby Hall the support and active participation of all six women has updated the constitution fitness center and renovation project, the athletic alumni to make it a success. If and has also created a critical structure of annual Hall of Fame dinner and program, you'd like more information about how committees to move the organization the Hall of Fame display in the Melby Hall you can help Augsburg’s A-Club, contact forward. These committees address the lobby, locker room improvements, and Merry Ross at 612-330-1245 or Athletic Hall of Fame, the annual golf many other projects totaling more than Spring/Summer 2004 35 CLASSClass NotesNOTES 1948 The Larsons can be contacted at ordained in March 2000. He winter 2003-04 36 Spring/Summer 2004 ALUMNI PROFILE Rev. Dr. Ben H. Coltvet ’66: Pastoral call leads to Berlin by Rebecca Welle ’05 When the Rev. Dr. Ben H. Coltvet ’66 toured with the Augsburg Choir to Berlin in 1965, little did he know that he would eventually return to Berlin as a pastor at the American Church in Berlin (ACB). Courtesy photo Coltvet is currently serving as pastor of the ACB, where he and his wife, Margit, reside. He and Margit found their way to Berlin through the Division for Global Mission (DGM) of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA). “It was in the interview process and selection process for working with DGM that a call was extended to us to serve in Berlin,” said Coltvet. The ACB is an independent church that has close relationships with the ELCA, the American Foreign Christian Union (AFCU), the Association of International Churches in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Evangelische Kirche in Berlin-Brandenburg. Coltvet graduated from Augsburg with a B.A. in biology and a minor in political science. “I was going to be a funeral director,” Coltvet said, but “instead ended up going to the Luther Theological Seminary in St. Paul.” At Luther, Coltvet received a Master of Divinity degree and then went on to attain a Certificate of Supervised Training in Marriage and Family Therapy from the University of Pennsylvania. Later, he received a Doctor of Ministry degree from Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Philadelphia in Marriage and Family Care. During his time at Augsburg, Coltvet served as president of the Augsburg Choir, president of Student Christian Fellowship, and The Rev. Dr. Ben Coltvet ’66 and his wife, Margit, reside in Berlin, Germany, where was involved in Men’s Senate. It was at Coltvet serves as pastor of the American Augsburg that Coltvet met Margit. Church in Berlin. After two years at Augsburg, Margit transferred to Cornell University for a Courtesy photo degree in nursing, and in 1968 they were married. The members of the ACB come from more than 15 Christian denominations and more than 30 different nations. They are united by three commonalities, which include their Christian faith, the English language, and the spirit of tolerance that appreciates and rejoices in the difference. The congregation consists of nearly 280 attending members with an average Sunday attendance of 175 worshippers. Their congregation has been welcoming worshippers to Berlin since the mid-1880s and has ministered to an estimated 1,250 members and countless visitors seeking a spiritual home in the past 25 years. The location of the ACB holds great significance, Coltvet said, not only because of the city it is in, but also because of the building itself. The importance of the city of Berlin has to do with its “unique physical location, its historically symbolic importance, and its current political importance,” Coltvet said. Because of this, “ACB recognizes a compelling need to play a Christian role in building bridges across diversity in the city.” Coltvet and his wife enjoy living in Berlin and have an avid interest in traveling, as they have ventured to Romania, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Kenya, Cameroon, Tanzania, England, Hungary, Austria, and Italy all in the last few years—much of this travel being work related. The Coltvets have five grown children and four grandchildren who are scattered throughout North America. Their youngest daughter attends graduate school at the Cleveland Institute of Music in Cleveland, Ohio, for violin performance. The American Church in Berlin, where the Rev. Dr. This October, the Alumni Association tour to Germany and Eastern Europe will feature a Coltvet ’66 serves. special worship service with Coltvet at the ACB. Spring/Summer 2004 37 Class Notes addiction counseling and human LUTHERAN FREE CHURCH REUNION AND CELEBRATION services programs at Minneapolis Community and Technical College. 1974 Stephen Geffre Stephen Geffre Phil Lundin, Apple Valley, Minn., was named the 2003 National Coach of the Year by the U.S. Track Coaches Association. Phil, who is the men’s track and field coach at the University of Minnesota, is the first Minnesota men’s or women’s track coach to earn the national honor. He has been the head coach of the Golden Gophers’ men’s track and field team since 1996. He also earned Big Ten Coach of the Year and the USTCA Midwest Region Coach of the Year honors. He and his wife, Sue, have two children: Dann, 22, and Teresa, 15. Stephen Geffre 1975 Patricia (Phelps) Georg, Hopkins, Minn., received both the Minnesota Teacher of the Year Award from the Air Force Association and the R.W. Rawlings Teacher of the Year Award for 2003. 1976 Chris Jensen, St. Paul, is a teacher at Mounds Park A festive celebration of the tradition and heritage of the Lutheran Free Church was Academy, where he has worked held June 12. Alumni and friends gathered at Augsburg for a special day of worship, for 20 years. From 1994-96 he “singspiration,” testimonials, lectures, dining, and conversation. and his wife, Barbara, a children’s book author and 25th anniversary of his illustrator, traveled to Lima, Norway. Holmen is part of the his wife, Pam, have four children ordination in June. He is the Peru, to teach at an international Lutheran Church of Norway. ranging in age from 11 to 18. executive pastor at Bethel school. He receives periodic Their 10-year-old daughter, Lutheran Church in Rochester, Heidi (Leaf) Haagenson, New leaves for education and travel Selena, attended fourth grade in and is married to Kathryn London, Minn., completed her abroad, the two most recent a Norwegian school. (Anderson) ’76. master’s degree thesis at St. being a trip to Tanzania to Bruce Cunningham , Cloud State University, titled: accompany elephant DNA Maplewood, Minn., was elected “The Nonlinear Nature of researchers, as well as a vacation 1977 president of the Minnesota Jamaican Women’s Writing: with his wife’s South African Pamela Carlson and her Osteopathic Medical Society for Louise Bennett,” and dedicated family to Botswana. In addition husband, Phil Heide ’58, 2004-2006. Bruce is a family this work to the children at to teaching and traveling, he recently returned from spending physician at MinnHealth- Sunbeam Boys Home, near continues to enjoy playing and a year working and living in Woodbury and serves on the Spanishtown, Jamaica, where coaching soccer Oslo, Norway, where Pamela was National Board of Osteopathic Heidi has traveled many times Rev. Dr. Norman W. Wahl, cantor, organist, and choir Medical Examiners and the since 1995. While in Jamaica, Rochester, Minn., celebrated the director at Holmen menighet Commission on Osteopathic Heidi is involved in work (congregation) in Nesbru, College Accreditation. He and projects at the Sunbeam Boys 38 Spring/Summer 2004 Home and enjoys spending time 1981 ALUMNI IN THE MILITARY with the boys. She received an American Association of Bob Wick, St. Louis Park, University Women Career Minn., received the “Building Development Grant in 2001. Responsible Youth” award from the Minnetonka Rotary Club for 1978 his work in youth ministry. He Courtesy photo has been an integral part of Jacqueline Knight, Minneapolis, shaping youth ministry on the was featured in the Minneapolis junior high and senior high Star Tribune for her work as writer levels. His involvement with and director of Youth Performance mission trips, youth retreats, and Company’s production, Freedom mentoring youth in confirmation Riders, recently performed at the and beyond has connected him Howard Conn Fine Arts Center in with many of the youth at a Minneapolis. critical time in their lives. Jonathan Moren, Eden Prairie, Minn., has been a dentist with 1982 the Boynton Health Service at Wendy (Fiscus) Dybdal, the University of Minnesota for Mendota Heights, Minn., over 20 years. In addition, he is completed her master’s degree in co-owner of a private dental organizational management from Samantha Michele Kronschnabel ’03 graduated as a combat office in Edina, named Pentagon the University of Phoenix in engineer platoon commander from Marine Corps infantry school Dental Group, Ltd. He is the 2002. She works in management in Quantico, Va., in March. She reported to Camp Lejuene, N.C., official team dentist of the at Abbott Northwestern Hospital for duty and welcomes correspondence via e-mail at Minnesota Twins baseball team. in Minneapolis, and has two Spring/Summer 2004 39 Class Notes 1991 Darbi Worley, Finance. She spent three years at changes in the interplanetary New York, was the federal Office of Management magnetic field. David will Patricia (Noren) Enderson, Elk cast in the Bat and Budget in Washington, D.C. present an invited talk on the River, Minn., is senior marketing Company at the David L. Murr of Boston subject of his thesis at the 2004 communications specialist at Flea Theater in University, now at Dartmouth fall AGU meeting in San Kern, DeWenter, Viere, a CPA and New York City, a College, was awarded the 2004 Francisco. business advisory firm located in resident Scarf Award, given to one person, Lisa (Barber) Zahn Minneapolis and St. Cloud. company at The Flea. Each year , Richmond, worldwide, each year for an over 1,000 actors audition for a Minn., opened a yarn shop called Carolyn Pool, Minneapolis, outstanding Ph.D. thesis in the spot in the 30-person company. The Itty Bitty Knit Shop, Ltd., in starred in Mercy of a Storm at field of space science. In his She performed in the play Design Richmond. She and her husband, Florida Stage in Manalapan, Fla. dissertation, “Magnetosphere- Your Kitchen, April 14 through an elementary music and band The production was written by ionosphere coupling on meso- May 22. She also filmed scenes teacher for the St. Cloud public Twin Cities’ playwright Jeffrey and macros-scales,” he uses both for the new Glenn Close movie, school district, have a son, Elijah, Hatcher and directed by Guthrie data analysis and MHD Heights, and an episode of HBO’s in first grade, and a daughter, dramaturg Michael Bigelow simulations to comprehensively The Sopranos. Her Web site is Rose, a preschooler. Dixon and featured a Twin Cities’ address the physical processes of 40 Spring/Summer 2004 ALUMNI AMBASSADORS The deployment included Matthew Finnerty in March. The training and real-world couple resides in Tampa, Fla. operations in Iraq and Liberia. Jennifer Kettering ’96 2000 married Corey Doerfler in September. Jennifer is a senior Courtesy photo Lewis Nelson is enlisted in the project analyst for Qwest. The U.S. Army, where he studied couple resides in Roseville, Korean at the Defense Language Minn. Institute in Monterey, Calif., for Nicole Warner ’01 married 63 weeks and received an Marc Simml (international associate’s in Korean. He was student, spring semester, 1999) then assigned to the 101st in June 2003 in Hoversten Airborne Division’s 311th Chapel. The couple resides in Military Intelligence Battalion, Lippstadt, Germany. stationed in Ft. Campbell, Kentucky. He married Holly Ann Downs in 2003 and the couple Births/Adoptions has a son, Benjamin Lewis, born Bonnie Gutknecht Miller ’91 in December. Lewis is currently and her husband, Thurston, in Mosul, Iraq. Granger, Ind.—a son, Koert Donart, in April. He joins sister Sharon (Hendrickson) Gronberg ’67 of Austin, Texas, represented Anne Marie de Jong, both Augsburg and Texas Lutheran University in March at a Salinda, 2. Bonnie can be Bloomington, Minn., was quoted Lutheran college fair in Austin. In May, she and her husband, the contacted at in the Minneapolis Star Tribune Rev. Karl Gronberg, returned to Augsburg to attend Spring/Summer 2004 41 Class Notes Lynnel (Wakefield) ’96 and Ian October. He joins brother ALUMNI BENEFITS Taylor, Inver Grove Heights, Tommy, 2. Chad teaches Minn.—twin sons, Jacob Bruce chemistry at Champlin Park As a member of the Augsburg College Alumni Association, you are and Joseph Brian, in November. High School. a very important part of the College community and are welcome Lynnel is a business analyst for to receive various benefits and forms of communication: Mia Carol (Kordovsky) ’00 and Express Scripts and can be Dr. James Stafford, Bismarck, • The award-winning College and alumni magazine, Augsburg Now contacted at N.Dak.—a daughter, Madeline ______Send us your news Full name Maiden name Class year or last year attended and photos! ______Street address Please tell us about the news in ______your life, your new job, move, City State Zip marriage, and births. Don’t forget to send photos! 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She taught English life he sent out thousands of cards She was a research editor for Husfloen’s background was rich and social studies for many years and letters letting people know he Together magazine (a Methodist and varied—he held a career in at Phillips Junior High School in was praying for them and publication) as well as a teacher. the airline industry, served as an Minneapolis. A member of the appreciated them and their work. For more than 25 years, she administrative assistant to synod Augsburg Associates, she enjoyed He is survived by his wife of 45 worked for the U.S. government bishops in the ALC for 15 years, a lifetime of contact with years, Carol; a daughter, Linda; in the Department of Social and also served as a development Augsburg, and counted many and two grandsons. Security—first in the regional director at the Lutheran Auggies among her closest long- office in Chicago, then in the Theological Seminary at Rev. Lyle H. Shaw ’50, time friends. She and her Final Appeals Division in Philadelphia and Waterloo Covenant Village, Westminster, husband, Kenneth ’28, were Washington, D.C. She also served Lutheran Seminary. In addition, Colo., died in August 2003; he among the first residents of in the Marines during WWII and he served as an assistant professor was 80. He was a member of the Augustana Apartments in continued in the Reserves until of sociology at Augsburg and as a Army Air Corps during WWII, Minneapolis, where she became 1959, retiring as a major. She is visiting lecturer on church and earning several service awards an active volunteer. At the time of survived by her sister, Elizabeth society at Wartburg Theological including the Legion of Merit, the her death, she had lived in the ’43; four nephews; and three Seminary in Iowa. He leaves Distinguished Flying Cross, the apartments longer than any other nieces. behind a host of friends, across Bronze Star, the Vietnam Cross of resident. She is survived by two the continent and around the Gallantry, the Army Erwin W. “Chris” Christensen daughters, Carolyn Bliss ’56 and world, who join his brother, Jim Commendation Medal, and the ’58, Hastings, Minn., died in Mary Farmer ’63; five ’54, in mourning his passing. Armed Forces Reserve Medal. He December; he was 67. He taught grandchildren; and three great- served First Lutheran Church in middle school science in Hastings Susan Lowe ’74, Denver, Colo., grandchildren. She was preceded Sioux Rapids, Iowa, for four years, from 1970 to 1995 before retiring. died in August 2003; she was 51. in death by her husband. and was then persuaded to join He also taught in Rushford, She is survived by her mother, Elmer A. Hendrickson ’31, San the military chaplaincy. He was Minn., and Reedsburg, Wis. He is stepfather, and five siblings. Diego, Calif., died in May 2003. stationed in seven states and in survived by his wife of 44 years, Thomas Wyatt ’94, Brainerd, He was a retired teacher. He is both Germany and Vietnam, Mary Lou (Baker) ’61; two Minn., died in March from a car survived by his wife, Marie, and retiring in 1974 after 20 years of children; and six grandchildren. accident; he was 33. He was a two daughters. service and having achieved the Donald W. Elfstrum ’59, respected member of the law rank of colonel. He continued his Olive (Casperson) Nelson ’38, Verndale, Minn., died in July enforcement community. He is role as chaplain at the VA Hospital Burnsville, Minn., died in 2003; he was 66. He worked at survived by his wife, Chanttel; a in Fort Snelling, working full time October; she was 87. Her passion the Ford Motor Company daughter, Brienna; and a son, and then part time until 1994. He in life was caring for her husband assembly plant in St. Paul, retiring Kyle. and his wife moved to Covenant and her children; she loved to in 1987 after 30 years. He is Village in Westminster in 2001, Sonja Eylandt, St. Paul, died in travel, entertain, and sew. She is survived by his wife, Claudia; two where he continued to minister to April; she was 86. Born in survived by four children, 11 sons; and three grandsons. confined residents with his Saaremaa, Estonia, her country grandchildren, and four great- harmonica and favorite hymns. Frank D. Hawks ’59, Cannon was invaded by Russia during grandchildren. She was preceded He is survived by his wife, Falls, Minn., died in December; he WWII. She lived in a displaced- in death by her husband, Lloyd. Delphine; three children; and four was 71. An Army veteran, he persons camp for approximately Harold Schwartz ’49, Richfield, grandchildren. taught and coached in Cannon three years, and in 1951 Minn., died in October; he was Falls for 32 years. He was immigrated to the United States Arthur Kuross ’51, Mendota 81. He served in the Army Air inducted into the Augsburg with her mother and her son; her Heights, Minn., died in April; he Force in both WWII and the Athletic Hall of Fame in 1994. He husband died on the operating was 76. He was a retired manager Korean War. As a civilian, he is survived by his wife of 50 years, table during the war. She was with J.C.Penney Company, and a worked for the U.S. Postal Service Jean; and two children, Lee ’85 driven by an uncommon work past president of Augsburg’s for 26 years until his retirement in and Susan. ethic, determined to take care of A-Club. He is survived by his 1982. Throughout his later years her mother and son. In addition wife, Val; two daughters, Rev. Dr. Richard L. Husfloen his Christian faith and his Jewish to working for Gould Kathleen ’85 and Nancy; three ’60 died unexpectedly in roots became increasingly Incorporated for more than 30 sons, Steven ’76, Paul, and Peter; September of a heart attack in important to him. He was a years, she also worked in the and seven grandchildren. Phoenix, Ariz., three days before member of Ebenezer Lutheran “Chin Wag” (now Murphy Grill) he was scheduled to undergo back Brethren Church and an Jean C. (Anderson) Peterson at Augsburg for nearly 40 years. surgery at the Mayo Clinic. He enthusiastic supporter of Lutheran ’51, Eagan, Minn., died in She held positions with other had retired July 1 from Augustana Brethren World Missions and February; she was 78. She was a companies as well, such as University College in Camrose, Jewish Christian organizations. He speech pathologist at Kenny Goodwill Easter Seals and Cub Alberta, Canada, where he had will perhaps be most remembered Institute and VA Hospital. She is Foods. She is survived by a son, served as president since 1996. for his special ministry of survived by her husband, Warren, five children, and six great- During his tenure he and his encouragement to missionaries, and her son, Jon. grandchildren. administration eliminated salary Spring/Summer 2004 43 HHomecomingOMECOMING 2004 SPARK YOUR SPIRIT October 2–9 Saturday, October 2 Friday, October 8 Men’s Soccer Alumni Game Heritage Society Breakfast 5 p.m.—Edor Nelson Athletic Field 8:30 a.m.—Christensen Center Original art by Kenneth Caldwell Monday, October 4 Class of 1954 Reunion Breakfast “Spark the Campus with Spirit Trivia 9 a.m.—Arnold Atrium, Foss Center Contest” begins 7 p.m.—Christensen Center Homecoming Chapel 10 a.m.—Hoversten Chapel Tuesday, October 5 Class of 1954 Luncheon Annual Picnic in the Park/Wrestling “Keeping Your Spirit Healthy” 11:30 a.m.—Arnold Atrium, Foss Center Annual College Health Fair Reunion and Party 11 a.m.—Murphy Park 11:30 a.m.–2:30 p.m.—Quad Campus Tour 2 p.m.—Gather in Foss Center Third Annual Powder Puff game* Campus Tour 11 a.m.—Gather in Christensen Center 7 p.m.—Edor-Nelson Athletic Field Women’s Soccer vs. Gustavus Adolphus College Wednesday, October 6 Volleyball Alumnae Match 5 p.m.—Edor Nelson Athletic Field 11 a.m.—Si Melby Gymnasium Augsburg Associates Annual Fall Luncheon Auggie Variety Show* Town & Country Club, St. Paul Class of 1994 Tailgating Reunion 10 a.m.—Craft Sale 7 p.m.—Foss Center 11:30 a.m.—Class of 1994 tent, across 11:40 a.m.—Annual Business Meeting from Murphy Park between Urness & Men’s Soccer vs. Gustavus Noon—Luncheon/Program Christensen Adolphus College 7:30 p.m.—Edor Nelson Athletic Field International Student Alumni Reception Music Therapy 30th Anniversary Lunch 4:30–6 p.m.—Minneapolis Room, & Workshop Volleyball vs. North Central (Minn.) Christensen Center Noon—Riverside Room, 7:30 p.m.—Si Melby Gymnasium Christensen Center Augsburg Ethnic Programs Celebration Faculty Violin Recital 5:30–6:45 p.m.—Christensen Center Master of Arts in Leadership (MAL) 7:30 p.m.—Sateren Auditorium Alumni Gathering Scholastic Connections Social & Dinner Saturday, October 9 Noon—Minneapolis Room, Featuring an auction of signed limited Christensen Center edition prints by Minneapolis artist Science Alumni Gathering Kenneth Caldwell to benefit the 9:30–11:30 a.m.—Marshall Room, Football Game vs. Gustavus Scholastic Connections scholarship fund Christensen Center Adolphus College 7–8:30 p.m.—Christensen Center 1 p.m.—Edor Nelson Athletic Field Annual Social Work Alum Network Volleyball vs. Hamline University (SWAN) Brunch First Decade/Wrestling Post-Game Party 7:30 p.m.—Si Melby Gymnasium 10 a.m.—Augsburg Room, Upstairs at Grandma’s after the game Christensen Center Thursday, October 7 English Dept. Alumni Reunion Nursing Alumni Association Brunch 4–5 p.m.—Lindell Library, Room 301 Athletic Hall of Fame Reception 10 a.m.—Century Room, & Dinner Christensen Center Homecoming Dinner & Reunion Parties 5:30–8:30 p.m.—Christensen Center 5:30 p.m., Dinner—Christensen Center Stephen “Gabe” Gabrielson ’63 7:30 p.m., Reunion Parties (1954, 1964, Big Screen Movie* Organ Recital & 1979)—Locations TBA 9 p.m.—Si Melby Gymnasium 10:30 a.m.—Hoversten Chapel This is a preliminary calendar and is subject to change; please watch for your full Homecoming event brochure—due in mailboxes later this summer. * Denotes student activities Non-Profit Org. U.S. Postage PAID 2211 Riverside Avenue Minneapolis, MN Minneapolis, MN 55454 Permit No. 2031 Vision 2004 BY SUE KLASEUS,VICE PRESIDENT OF INSTITUTIONAL ADVANCEMENT AND COMMUNITY RELATIONS Although we’ve called these past four facilities in which to teach and learn. Access to Excellence: The Campaign for years the “quiet phase” of the campaign, Our campaign will have a lasting, posi- Augsburg College, we have to enter an it has certainly been an active and excit- tive impact on our ability to provide a entirely new realm of philanthropic giv- ing time for all of us here at Augsburg quality education to a greater number of ing. Our alumni giving must increase to College. It’s been a productive time, too, students now and well into the future. be competitive with other private col- as we’ve raised nearly 30 million of our We’re fortunate to have already leges. Our endowment must grow to $55 million campaign goal during this received many wonderful campaign time. In April, we went public with gifts. We wish to thank all of our donors Access to Excellence: The Campaign for for their contributions, regardless of the Augsburg College and we’ve stepped up size of their gifts. We’ve been blessed by AUGSBURG our activity manyfold. Already we’ve receipt of six, seven-figure gifts and sev- enjoyed many successes. enty, $100,000+ leadership gifts to be CAMPAIGN The impact of this campaign will be used in various areas of the campaign. LEADERSHIP GIFTS felt by thousands of students, faculty, These 70 gifts range from, $100,000 to staff, alumni, parents, and most impor- $999,999. Look for more information tantly, by our community for decades on some of these gifts elsewhere in this KINNEY JOHNSON ’65 to come. insert. $1 million for the new Science Center The effects of our campaign go well These donors and many others (lifetime giving in excess of $2 million) beyond our borders as we prepare stu- believe in Augsburg’s long tradition of ALAN RICE dents to make a difference in many service to the community and have $1 million for Si Melby Hall expansion areas critical to the world’s future. We’re demonstrated this belief with their gen- JEAN TAYLOR ’85 and drawing top-notch students and faculty; erous donations and involvement. ROGER GRIFFITH ’84 and and we’re providing them with the best However, to accomplish a campaign like THE GLEN A.TAYLOR FOUNDATION $1.5 million for the new Science Center Vision is published by: FEDERAL APPROPRIATION Augsburg College $1 million for the new Science Center thanks to U.S. Rep. Martin Olav Sabo ’59 Editor and others Lynn James JIM AND KATHY HAGLUND and Photographer CENTRAL CONTAINER Stephen Geffre CORPORATION Leading the campaign with a $1 million Graphic Designer undesignated gift Kathy Rumpza E. MILTON KLEVEN ’46 and FAMILY Contributing Writers $500,000 to endow the first President’s Kristin Anderson Scholarship (lifetime giving in excess of Leif Anderson $1 million) Dave Benson Lynn James LILLY ENDOWMENT,INC. Sue Klaseus $2 million for a program titled Betsey Norgard “Exploring Our Gifts: Connecting Faith, Alice Pepin Vocation, and Work” Nancy Steblay www.augsburg.edu/campaign 2 sustain the long-term viability of this You also may find this book worth we have committed faculty, staff, fine institution, and we must keep our reading. It may help to inspire us all to regents, and volunteers who stand physical plant vibrant and relevant with even greater heights of philanthropy. ready and willing to make this dream a state-of-the-art facilities to better serve To reinforce this culture change, our reality. As you read this campaign students, faculty, staff, and the community. branding and visibility campaign update, we hope you will ask yourself, Recently I’ve been reading The launched this past year helped to get “How can I help?” Greater Good, by Claire Gaudiani, and the Augsburg mission out into the Please don’t hesitate to contact me am intrigued by her assertion that the world. Breaking ground for our new should you want to talk about your next 50 years will see the largest private Science Center, opening the doors of support of Augsburg. Remember, all gifts intergenerational wealth transfer in the new Gateway Building, and cele- are important to Augsburg’s future. ■ human history. Experts at Boston brating the renovation of Si Melby Hall, College have projected that between along with exponential growth in the 1998 and 2052, $31 to $41 trillion of Annual Fund and our endowment, will send similar messages to the public. “THE CHALLENGE OVER THE NEXT Augsburg is strong; it stands on a long 20 YEARS IS TO SUSTAIN AND INCREASE tradition of transforming our students GIVING BY PEOPLE OF ALL CATEGORIES.” and serving the community. We are a –CLAIRE GAUDIANI, THE GREATER GOOD major player in this region on com- CAMPAIGN CABINET pelling issues such as K-12 education, healthcare workforce development, sci- wealth will move from one generation ence and math education, theater, fine MICHAEL O. FREEMAN co-chair to another. During that time, they esti- arts, and so much more. We can stand JAMES E. HAGLUND co-chair mate our economy will produce more up and be proud of Augsburg and our than 10 million new millionaires. many successes. JEAN M.TAYLOR ’85 co-chair Gaudiani asserts that despite such The recent campaign kickoff was a RICHARD T.COLVIN ’74 wealth, the trend in generosity has turning point in our history. We must TRACY LYNN ELFTMANN ’81 remained under two percent of personal continue building on the tradition of PRESIDENT WILLIAM V. FRAME income for 30 years. The real problem, giving by all constituents associated KATHRYN H.TUNHEIM according to Gaudiani, is that we have with our fine college, and find new stopped nurturing and building our giv- friends willing to help. Our challenge is REV. DR. NORMAN W.WAHL ’75 ing habits at just the wrong time. great, but the momentum is strong, and SUSAN J. KLASEUS HONORARY CO-CHAIRS PETER AGRE ’70 RODNEY (ROD) BURWELL EDWIN C. (SKIP) and BARBARA CARLSON GAGE BISHOP MARK HANSON ’68 and IONE AGRIMSON HANSON ’68 R. LUTHER (LUTE) OLSON ’56 and CHRISTINE TORETTI OLSON MARTIN OLAV SABO ’59 and SYLVIA LEE SABO GLADYS BOXRUD STROMMEN ’46 Access to Excellence: The Campaign for Augsburg College was officially kicked off at the Augsburg Community Festival on Sunday,April 18, 2004. 3 Augsburg kicks off campaign at community festival It was a day of promise. Blessed by 80- Science experiments of silly putty, were available for the Augsburg theater degree weather and a reprieve from rain homemade nitrogen ice cream, coral reef production of Machinal. showers, the College officially kicked off research, and many other hands-on activ- Minnesota Wild hockey player Access to Excellence: The Campaign for ities kept the Science Hall active. Wes Walz drew boys and girls into the Augsburg College on Sunday, April 18, The community clamored onto the ice arena for a hockey clinic. The 2004, during the Augsburg Community fire truck driven over by neighborhood Minneapolis Figure Skating Club dazzled Festival. This inaugural event for Station 7. Down the street, medical per- the crowd with their technique and abili- Augsburg built community awareness sonnel in the Augsburg Academy ambu- ty before the afternoon concluded with and fortified community partnerships. lance gave heart analyses and showcased open skating. Neighbors, alumni, and supporters of the internal workings of the vehicle. The event was so successful people the College were invited to join stu- Augsburg’s nursing department offered throughout the community were asking dents, faculty, and staff in a campus-wide blood pressure readings, stress level tests, for the festival to become an annual event. family celebration for the campaign kick- and hand massages. off. The afternoon event drew more than Music streamed out of the cafeteria as A gala donor evening 1,500 people. bands DoomTree, Heiruspecs, and Si Melby was transformed the evening of Augsburg’s Camp Cruisers music band Medida performed. Reserved seats also April 17 for a donor dinner and program was instrumental in rallying the crowd as everyone gathered on the Augsburg foot- ball field to literally “kick off” the cam- paign. Footballs flew toward the goal as a banner announcing the campaign dropped between the posts. In recognition of the $55 million cam- paign goal, the community was treated to a 55-foot hoagie and a 55-foot cake. Everyone then scattered across campus to partake in the activities designed to appeal to all ages. Demonstrations, sports clinics, author readings, fine art, and musical and theatre performances engaged people around campus. Young readers gathered at the reading corner to listen to children’s authors Rick Minnesota Wild player Wes Walz hosts a hockey clinic for youth in grades K–12. Kupchella, KARE-11 TV in Minneapolis/St. Paul, and Shelly Swanson-Sateren ’82. Adults also enjoyed the literary talents of English faculty member Cass Dalglish. Lute Olson ’56, flew back to Minnesota from his duties as head basket- ball coach of the University of Arizona to host a youth clinic for boys and girls in grades K-12. Many adults on the sidelines were impressed with how much they learned, too. Murphy Square and Christensen Center busily catered to festival partici- pants as community partners and faculty and students drew crowds with activities, information booths, demonstrations, give- Rick Kupchella, KARE-11 weekend anchor and children’s author, reads his book to eager aways, and free food. listeners. Author Shelly Swanson-Sateren ’82 followed with a reading from her children’s book. 4 focusing on Augsburg’s history and its future growth. Lead gifts to the campaign were announced on stages positioned around the event. A campaign video highlighted people transformed by Augsburg and its programs. Guests reveled in the musical talents of Augsburg student musicians, singers, and actors. The evening culminated with rousing songs by Gospel Praise and spectacular in-house pyrotechnics. Special thanks to Institutional Advancement, Ridgeway International, Sodexho, Write 2 Work, Event Services, and the College’s in-house planning committee for making these his- torical events a reality. ■ Acclaimed hip-hop group, Heiruspecs, rocked Christensen Center during their Festival performance. Fifty-five feet of sandwich and fifty-five feet of cake fed Festival Event participant Kim Drangeid and Chemistry professor Joan participants. Kunz make silly putty. Emcees Gary Rorman ’82 and actor T.Mychael Lute Olson ’56 gives pointers during his basketball clinic for boys and girls. Rambo hosted the magnificent donor event on Saturday, April 17, 2004. 5 Major gifts directed to new Science Center Donors typically have unique, special cousin, Jeffrey Peterson ’63, LaVonne’s feelings about this College, and the memories and connections with son, and the two attended Augsburg great humor and wit of a wonderful Augsburg College that inspire them to College together. Jeffrey is retired from leader.” help the school. Such is the case with the Federal government and lives in Taylor is also a corporate leader these generous gifts that will be used for Virginia. Johnson’s sister, Jennelle from one of Minnesota’s most important the new Science Center, the top goal of Cunning, also graduated from Augsburg business families, and she and her hus- the campaign. in 1962. Needless to say, Augsburg has band, Roger Griffith ’84, together with been an integral part of the lives of both the Glen A. Taylor Foundation, have KINNEY JOHNSON ’65 the Johnson and Peterson families. given nearly $1.5 million in leadership Augsburg College We are especially grateful to Kinney gifts to the campaign that will help has been a central, Johnson, a highly successful, generous build the new Science Center. significant part of entrepreneur who is a general partner of “The new Science Center is not Kinney Johnson’s a venture capital firm in Boulder, Colo. only the centerpiece of the campaign, it life–and vice also links the College’s past to its versa–for many, JEAN TAYLOR ’85 future. Our rich history of talented sci- many years. His Jean Taylor’s pas- ence faculty and alumni and the impor- relationship with sion for Augsburg tance of science in a liberal arts educa- the College became College is difficult tion are the foundation of using our closer recently when he joined the to overstate. A new Science Center to better serve our Augsburg Board of Regents. Johnson has 1985 graduate, community and educate future leaders given generously to Augsburg in various Taylor is co-chair who will find essential a knowledge of ways over the years. His first $1 million of the campaign science, health care, and the natural gift went to the Lindell Library to honor and began a two- world,” Taylor said. his father, Herb ’34, and now he has year term as Board Perhaps her friend and fellow regent given a $1 million gift to the new of Regents chair on May 1. She volun- Tracy Elftmann ’81 best summarized Science Center. In addition, he contin- teers her time and energy tirelessly and Taylor’s contributions to Augsburg ues to provide strong leadership for The her enthusiasm is felt on the board and when she said, “Jean is one of the most Augsburg Fund each year. the campaign. Her drive is helping to strategic thinking people I’ve known Johnson’s family has a rich history chart the course for Augsburg College and is incredibly accomplished in being with Augsburg, beginning with Herb now and into the future. able to identify and articulate Johnson, who was on Augsburg’s Board “Nothing gives me more confidence Augsburg’s vision and values. I think of Regents for 12 years. Augsburg lost a than knowing that my successor brings she is going to move us forward in ways true friend when he died earlier this more talent to a job than I have,” said we never envisioned. year. Herb Johnson’s aunt, LaVonne outgoing board chair Kathy Tunheim. “Jean is grateful for her education Peterson ’50, also had an impact on “So I am extremely confident that the here and is committed to giving back to Augsburg. She was a role model and next phase of Augsburg College’s gover- the institution in a meaningful, long-last- pioneer in women’s athletics and was in nance will be even more important and ing way that is also forward thinking.” charge of the women’s athletic depart- fruitful than the years in which I had ment before the title “director” was the honor of participating. Jean Taylor (Major gifts continued on page 7) applied to that department. Kinney brings the discipline and experience of Johnson has been very close to his business leadership, the passion of her 6 New Science Center planning includes ‘green’ features “Green building” features are the focus development process currently under- environmental responsibility. of this summer’s design work for way. The architects, engineers, and on- A primary objective of sustainable Augsburg College’s new Science Center, campus planning committee will make a design is to reduce operating costs. thanks to a $25,000 planning grant from recommendation to College administra- Xcel’s contributions include consultant the Minnesota Office of Environmental tion later this year regarding sustainable services on energy efficiency and a Assistance. With a matching grant from design features for the new building. detailed energy model for the building. the College and another $30,000 from The term “green building” is synony- Once the building is complete, Xcel will Xcel Energy, consideration of sustainable mous with a high-performance building, contribute another $14,000 in services design is integrated into the design sustainable design and construction, and to verify that the selected measures have been installed and will provide cash incentives to encourage energy efficient practices. Sustainable design also employs strategies to increase occupant comfort and to reduce negative environmental impact. For example, the team is evalu- ating expanded use of day-lighting, ways to reduce construction waste, and use of local and renewable materials. “Augsburg is committed to incorpo- rating environmentally-responsible fea- tures in the Science Center and is grate- ful to the OEA and Xcel for providing their expertise and financial support,” said Augsburg professor Nancy Steblay, Rendering of the new Science Center at night. the Sustainability Project coordinator. In developing a sustainability plan, the building’s architects, Holabird & (Continued from page 6) Root, will use a rigorous green-building MARTIN OLAV SABO ’59 notch scientists for the future. A farm rating system for effective sustainable U.S. Rep. Martin boy from Crosby, N.Dak., Sabo has design known as LEED, or Leadership Olav Sabo was spent the past four decades in elective in Energy and Environmental Design. instrumental in public service. He served in the The architects will examine LEED crite- obtaining a $1 mil- Minnesota House of Representatives ria as they relate to the Science Center’s lion federal grant from 1961 to 1978, including six years design and evaluate the cost/benefit of for Augsburg’s new as speaker of the house and four years each. The criteria fall into six categories: Science Center. as minority leader. Sabo was first elect- sustainable sites, water efficiency, energy The grant will ed to Congress in 1978 and is currently and atmosphere, materials and allow Augsburg to running for his 13th term in the House resources, indoor air quality, and inno- respond to our country’s need for sci- of Representatives. ■ vation and design process. ■ ence professionals by educating top- 7 Barber gift to go to Science Center Loren Barber’s extensive history in the work-study program at Eastman Kodak sciences has resulted in a most generous Company with a major in chemistry. gift of $50,000 from Barber and his That combination of school and work wife, Mary Quanbeck Barber ’77, to be experience made his studies more used for the new Science Center. And meaningful and led him to Ames, Iowa, 3M, Barber’s employer for many years where he received his Ph.D. Eventually, where he served as a corporate scientist, Barber arrived in Minnesota, and is making the Barbers’ gift even more Augsburg is very fortunate he did. meaningful through a $25,000 match- Science education is very important to ing gift. In addition, the Barbers are Barber and he provides leadership on members of the Maroon & Silver Augsburg’s Science Advisory Board. Society, providing annual support to Mary Barber has strong connections Augsburg’s students. Mary and Loren Barber’s gift to the Science to Augsburg, beginning with her father, Center is enhanced by corporate matching. Even after Barber retired from 3M in Philip Quanbeck Sr., a distinguished 2001, he wasn’t ready to let go of his professor of theology who attended member of the Augsburg Institutional work in the sciences, and he continued Augsburg College and Seminary and Advancement staff. Mary’s brother, to work two days a week for a couple of subsequently joined the faculty in the Philip Quanbeck II, is also a prominent years. Barber is used to hard work; 1950s. In his retirement from Augsburg, professor of theology at Augsburg. raised on 160 acres in upstate New he serves as visitation pastor at Mary Barber received her B.A. in York, he attended the Rochester Bethlehem Lutheran Church and is a Institute of Technology on a cooperative English from Augsburg and her M.A. in speech pathology from Michigan State University. She serves the North St. Paul-Maplewood-Oakdale schools as their speech-language pathologist spe- cializing in early childhood education. “Our gift is rooted in our strong belief in supporting scientific literacy in our society and increasing awareness of how science affects each of our lives,” Loren Barber said. The Barbers were married 10 years ago and recently purchased a home on Lake Vermilion. They share a passion for the outdoors, water, and the envi- ronment, and Loren has discovered a new avocation—building canoes. For information about making your Science Center gift, contact the Development office at 612-330-1462. ■ Site plan of new Science Center. 8 McNair Scholar Stephanie Perkins likes Augsburg’s personal touch A science fair “Science involves communicating with school, and the field of science. project in eighth peers and consensus about ideas.” According to Perkins, a new facility will grade on the While it was the faculty who attract- allow faculty and students to conduct oxidation states ed Perkins to Augsburg, she feels that more effective research and it will of iron hooked facilities are important, too, because house additional and better instru- Stephanie they help the school compete for the ments. Perkins on the best students and faculty. She believes After graduation, Perkins is plan- study of science. the new Science Building will be ning to pursue graduate school and a This fall the extremely beneficial to students, the doctorate in physical chemistry. ■ McNair Scholar will be a senior at Augsburg College majoring in science and working with other students as a peer instructor under associate profes- sor Joan Kunz in chemistry. Augsburg AUGSBURG SCIENCE ADVISORY BOARD has transformed Perkins’ childhood curiosity about science into a meaning- ful education that she will take out into JAMES AGRE ’72, M.D. RALPH SULERUD, PH.D. the world. A first-generation college Ministry Medical Group, Professor Emeritus of Biology Eagle River,Wis. Augsburg College student, Perkins has found the McNair Scholar program to be an indispensable LOREN BARBER, PH.D. NEAL O.THORPE ’60, PH.D. 3M M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust, guide along the way. Vancouver,Wash. When Perkins first visited GARY CARLSON ’95 3M, Retired Augsburg, she was impressed with the Augsburg Board of FRED FAXVOG, PH.D. way the chemistry faculty members Honeywell, Inc. Regents and Staff Liaisons went out of their way to make her feel STEVEN GRINDE ’81, D.D.S. RUTH E. JOHNSON ’74, M.D., welcomed and special, a culture that Maple Grove Dental Center Science Advisory Board Chair she says is unique to a small college Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. JOEL L. HOULTON like Augsburg. Perkins has continued to Honeywell, Inc. BEVERLY THOMPSON experience that personal attention HATLEN, R.N., M.S.N. DAVID KNUTSON ’69 Minnesota Life College throughout her education here. Park Nicollet Medical Center “This is what makes good scien- PAUL S. MUELLER ’84, M.D. Ex officio— tists—the ability to interact with the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. Augsburg College faculty in this way,” Perkins said. JOEL T.NELSON ’85, PH.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison CHRISTOPHER KIMBALL, PH.D. Vice President for Academic and Student RICK PANNING Affairs and Dean of the College Fairview Health Services JOAN KUNZ, PH.D. RICHARD SEIME ’70, PH.D. Associate Professor of Chemistry Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. NANCY STEBLAY,PH.D. Professor of Psychology Assistant to the Dean for Special Projects 9 Opening the door to Augsburg— Step up and support Gateway Building to welcome all the Parent/Family and Friend Challenge RIVERSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD of Minnesota’s West Bank, and Augsburg’s StepUP pro- COLLABORATION Fairview-University Medical Center. gram for students in The Gateway Building will be multi- Landscaping along Riverside Avenue recovery from sub- use and will feature retail space, stu- will create a pedestrian-friendly, safe, stance abuse will dent housing, and an administrative and attractive thoroughfare for stu- receive a leg up in area. The design will provide greatly dents and community residents and financing as parents needed space for College programs and link the campus to the nearby light rail and families respond to offices, including the StepUP program; transit stop. a Parent/Family and the Center for Service, Work, and This project will increase the Friend Challenge offered by a second Learning; and the Institutional physical presence of Augsburg in the Gateway gift of $425,000 from Jim Johnson. Advancement division, including the surrounding community and is part Through a matching gift program, the chal- Augsburg Alumni Center. The Gateway of the College’s commitment to the lenge is to raise another $425,000 this year to Building’s commercial hub on Riverside Riverside Corridor Project, an eco- match Johnson’s generous gift to further the Avenue will contribute to the growth of nomic development collaboration construction of the Gateway Building, which a thriving urban village encompassing with Augsburg’s neighbors in the will house the StepUP program. Several Augsburg’s campus, the Cedar- West Bank. ■ donors have already committed nearly one- Riverside neighborhood, the University half of the goal. Johnson was one of the first contribu- tors to Access to Excellence: The Campaign ACCESS TO EXCELLENCE: for Augsburg College when he agreed to fund the planning for the Gateway The Campaign for Augsburg College Building. It was his encouragement that prompted the collaboration between Augsburg, the University of Minnesota, and THE GATEWAY BUILDING OFFERS: the local community, and his lead gift of • A new home for the StepUP program, including residential and $150,000 helped secure the project. counseling space. Johnson resides in Washington D.C., with • Strengthened links to community organizations, local businesses and his wife, Maxine Isaacs. As a native of corporations, and service-learning opportunities through the Center for Service,Work, and Learning. Meeting rooms for neighborhood groups. Benson, Minn., he maintains local ties through family, business, and Augsburg • Retail opportunities to attract students, local residents, and the staff and visitors of the Fairview-University Medical Center complex across the College. Johnson has made gifts to Augsburg street. Local business owners are excited about the prospects for increased in memory of his mother, Adeline Rasmussen commerce in the neighborhood. Johnson ’31; in honor of U.S. Rep. Martin • A comfortable gathering place for Augsburg alumni within the Institutional Olav Sabo ’59; and, more recently, toward Advancement offices. campaign projects. • A more visible Gage Family Art Gallery providing enjoyment and learning If you are interested in the Parent/Family to the entire community. and Friend Challenge, please contact Sherry Jennings-King at 612-330-1386. ■ 10 Gift from Mark ’79 and Pamela Hanson ’79 Moksnes symbolic of their College experience The passion that Pam and Mark Moksnes felt for Augsburg College when they met here as students in the late 1970s continues today—perhaps more than ever. While they were drawn to Augsburg by the small, liberal arts, Christian-based community, situated within the city, what they discovered were professors and staff who cared deeply about them personally and about their life goals. A campus min- istry program that nurtured their already strong Christian beliefs, espe- cially the Fellowship of Christian Athletes where they met, particularly touched them. As Pam and Mark reflect on those transformative years, their expressions provide affirmation of the Pam Hanson ’79 Moksnes and Mark Moksnes’ ’79 recent gift supports the campaign’s truly inspirational experience they Gateway Building. remember. They are grateful that a nur- turing culture is still at the core of the environment so critical to delivering a Pam Moksnes is a partner at student experience today. quality educational experience. They Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, and Their lives have been happily are proud to continue to be part of the has been instrumental in helping the entwined with Augsburg; many of their campus community, so much so that College launch its annual women’s closest friends are also Augsburg alum- they’ve made a campaign commitment “Connections” event. Mark is an execu- ni and their daughter, Laura, is a cur- designated to the Gateway Building, tive vice president at Delta Dental. rent Augsburg student. which will symbolically embrace the city Among several board appointments, “That personal approach has been as part of students’ learning experiences. they both serve on the state board for consistent over the years, and now our This isn’t the first time Pam and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. daughter is experiencing it, too. It’s part Mark have helped out their alma mater; Thank you, Pam and Mark of Augsburg’s core—they’re there to previous gifts have supported the ath- Moksnes, for all you’ve done for help students build their futures,” Pam letic program, the Lindell Library, and Augsburg College! ■ Moksnes said. campus ministry, and they are lead Yet Augsburg has changed a lot annual fund donors in the Maroon & since Pam and Mark graduated in 1979, Silver Society. Pam and Mark say they particularly its facilities. They believe are committed to furthering Augsburg’s that the new buildings have greatly mission because of what the College enhanced the teaching and learning has meant to them. 11 Heightened demand for ALAN RICE, GRECO-ROMAN WRESTLING CHAMP AND sport facilities drives Si PIONEER GIVES ONE MILLION DOLLARS TO ESTABLISH TRAINING CENTER Melby expansion Minnesota native especially the Greco-Roman discipline. Alan Rice is a Rice’s gift illustrates how a partner- Nearly half of the Augsburg community— dreamer and a ship can be formed with the community students, faculty, and staff—participates pioneer whose to achieve broader goals in athletics. pates in some form of athletic activity, lifelong commit- The addition of the Greco-Roman train- contributing to the strong sense of com- ment to amateur ing facilities will attract senior wrestlers munity and camaraderie on campus. and Greco-Roman training for the Olympics as well as Expanded athletic facilities will accom- wrestling has cul- youth- and student-athletes, and will modate the increasing demands of the minated in a $1 million gift to Augsburg take Augsburg to a new level of promi- College’s 18 intercollegiate NCAA College to create a Greco-Roman nence in athletic achievement. Division III varsity men’s and women’s wrestling training center. This generous Over the past three decades, Rice has sports, the health and physical education gift will have a significant impact on the helped raise and contribute nearly academic program, intramurals involving $5 million planned expansion of Si $1 million to endow the Minnesota club some 600 students, and workout facili- Melby Hall, the College’s athletic, recre- for continued training in both Olympic ties. The ever-growing popularity of per- ation, and physical education complex. wrestling disciplines—Greco-Roman sonal fitness, the growth in the number of Rice, a National Wrestling Hall of and freestyle. His continuing legacy will women’s sports offerings, and the height- Fame member, is giving the gift in mem- have an impact on Minnesota for gener- ened demand by the community for use ory of his wife, Gloria, who shared a ations to come. ■ of the College’s facilities contribute to the love of amateur wrestling and worked pressing need for expanded facilities. with Rice in establishing Minnesota as a national hotbed for amateur wrestling, A NEW SOUTH WING FOR SI MELBY HALL WILL PROVIDE: • Four new classrooms and related facili- MATHEW SHANNON—RUNNER AND ROLE MODEL ties for the Health/Physical Education Mathew Shannon One of the top sprinters in Augsburg Department. is a man on the history, Shannon was a three-time All- • More locker rooms, training facilities, move. He runs by American, earned All-MIAC honors 17 and offices for intercollegiate athletic day and serves times, and won MIAC titles three times. programs. others at night. But Shannon is already a winner as a • Expanded fitness facilities, a new aero- A 2004 tutor and role model for inner-city kids. bics/multi-purpose studio, and new Augsburg graduate He knows from personal experience locker rooms for the student body. with a degree in what they’re going through because he business and com- grew up in a low-income, single-parent • Additional wrestling training facilities, munication, he home in Minneapolis. Shannon’s faith which include a new Greco-Roman dreams of success provided him with a strong foundation wrestling center. in running and in making a difference on which to build. Now he hopes that • Two new student gathering areas, a new for disadvantaged kids. While at he can use his business education, too, hospitality suite overlooking Edor Augsburg, Shannon broke records in to bring positive influences to disadvan- Nelson Field, and a new Alumni track, and he hoped to qualify for the taged kids. Shannon truly exemplifies A-Club lounge. ■ U.S. Olympic trials in the 400 meters. the spirit of Augsburg. ■ 12 Annual giving provides opportunities for all When you help Augsburg achieve its YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS HELP annual giving goals, you provide oppor- STUDENTS tunities to students who may never Each year the College awards more have been able to attend college. Cost than $10 million in scholarships and can be a significant barrier to obtaining grants to students. These include: a college degree. With more than 80 percent of Augsburg students receiving PRESIDENT’S SCHOLARS financial aid, annual giving is an impor- $10,500 to $20,260 annually tant way for donors to help ensure that As Augsburg’s premier scholarship, this all talented students have the opportu- award is conferred upon the top incom- nity to receive an Augsburg education. ing freshmen based on outstanding aca- Increasing the number of participants demic achievement and on-campus and the level of support in The competition. Augsburg Fund is needed to ensure that no talented student is turned away due REGENTS’ SCHOLARS to cost considerations. $3,000 to $9,000 annually Adela Arguello, a Scholastic Connections Awarded to high achieving, new stu- recipient, is a double major in finance and The Augsburg Fund is an unrestrict- economics. ed annual giving fund that aids the dents based on academic record and College in meeting its most pressing accomplishment. needs. Augsburg’s goal is to nearly triple annual fund giving dollars LEGACY SCHOLARS CLASS over five years and to reach a 30 per- $4,000 annually cent alumni participation rate. Granted to qualified family members of CHALLENGE Augsburg alumni, current Augsburg students, and ELCA-rostered clergy. The challenge has been issued, the suspense is building, and the question THE AUGSBURG GRANT lingers…What are the results of this Varies, based on need year’s annual fund class giving chal- lenge? How does your class giving Awarded to students who qualify and compare to other classes? What sup- demonstrate need. These gifts make a port did my class year provide? significant contribution toward the edu- Watch for answers in the next cam- cation of many students. paign newsletter! MANY OTHER SCHOLARSHIPS are awarded each year to students for out- standing academic achievements, com- munity service, and leadership in their home congregation and community. ■ Robert and Renzo Amaya Torres are scholarship recipients. 13 Strong endowment helps build long-term vision A key measure of an educational institu- whose lives he inspired personally and The President’s Scholarship is presti- tion’s strength is its endowment. It pro- professionally. gious and highly competitive, recogniz- vides ongoing resources for needs now ing only the most academically qualified and in the future. Augsburg is focusing ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIPS freshmen entering Augsburg each year. its endowment growth in the areas of By increasing its current level of endowed faculty chairs, endowed schol- endowed scholarships, Augsburg can PROGRAM SUPPORT arships, and ongoing program support. attract talented students and provide Building the endowment is also essential access for students of many back- to sustain the long-term viability of ENDOWED FACULTY CHAIRS grounds. E. Milton Kleven ’46 and his Augsburg’s distinctive programs, includ- Your generous gifts will strengthen the family are helping to do just that ing StepUP, Augsburg’s innovative pro- College’s endowment in an area that is through their most recent gift of gram for students in recovery from sub- relatively new. The College’s first $500,000 to fund the first endowed stance abuse; Center for Learning and endowed chair, the Bernhard M. President’s Scholarship. The gift was Adaptive Student Services (CLASS); and Christensen Endowed Fund, named in established in memory of their wife and the Center for Global Education, provid- memory of Augsburg’s president from mother, Dorothy Lijsing Kleven ’47. ing funding over and above what is avail- 1938 to 1962, was approved by the Joining their father in funding the able from the operating budget. Support Board of Regents in May 2003. endowment were Bruce and Maren for a growing professional development Christensen was a central figure in the Kleven, David and Barbara Kleven, Zane initiative centered on vocation as well as growth and development of Augsburg and Barbara Kleven Birky, and Philip and other research and development opportu- and of countless students and teachers Diane Kleven Larson. nities for faculty also are needed. ■ A LIFE OF PROMISE IS GIVEN TO OTHERS Just as her life’s adventures were starting generosity of the foundation and the special efforts of Marilyn to take shape, melanoma cancer took Carlson Nelson and Barbara Carlson Gage, family and friends, Heidi Huber’s life at age 33. Wanting to the Heidi Huber Scholarship will be awarded beginning with honor Huber and help students at the 2005-06 academic year to one or more students with Augsburg who dream of a career in educa- financial need, strong academic achievement, and dedication tion, Huber’s family, which includes her to the community. sisters Wendy and Cindy ’01, her parents Huber graduated from Augsburg in 1992 with a triple Barb and Bob, and her grandmother, major in German, economics, and international business. Esther, worked with Augsburg to deter- After graduation, she joined the Peace Corps, serving in mine how to make this happen. Botswana, Africa, until 1996. She then earned her master’s Once the goal of establishing a $25,000 endowed scholar- degree in administration, planning, and social policy from ship in Huber’s memory was set, her family dedicated memorial Harvard University in 1998. gifts, contributed money, and contacted the Curtis L. Carlson If you have an interest in establishing an endowed scholar- Family Foundation for additional assistance. Following in the ship or in contributing to the Heidi Huber Scholarship, please footsteps of her mother and grandmother, Huber was working at contact Jennifer Kahlow at 612-330-1185. Currently, $25,000 the Carlson Companies at the time of her death. Through the will establish an endowed scholarship at Augsburg. ■ 14 Gifts of Real Estate Benefit Augsburg and Donor BY DAVE BENSON, PLANNED GIVING SPECIALIST Gifts of highly appreciated real estate are often an excellent means for a donor to make a charitable gift to CAMPAIGN GOALS Augsburg College because they allow you to make a gift larger than you HIGHLIGHTS thought possible, plus they provide immediate and long-term tax advan- tages. The first step is to have an appraiser determine the gift value when the property exceeds $5,000. If you give real estate, you receive a charitable deduction for the full fair market value To ensure Augsburg’s transforming of the property (regardless of its cost education is available for generations basis). The College may then sell the to come, Access to Excellence:The Campaign for Augsburg College is property for its full market value and ty. While their income tax deduction is focused in the following areas: use the entire proceeds to support its limited to 30 percent of their adjusted programs. Everyone wins. SCIENCE CENTER gross income, when filing their taxes, A new Science Center and renova- Here’s an example of how a gift of they can claim the gift in the year it was tion of the existing Science Hall are real estate will benefit Augsburg: the centerpieces of the campaign and given plus carry forward the allowable The Andersons own 60 acres of will strengthen and expand science deduction for five additional years. learning for all. farmland past an outer ring suburb. Another tax benefit occurs should Recently, they were approached about GATEWAY BUILDING the Andersons also choose to sell anoth- selling 20 acres of their property for The new Gateway Building to be built er portion of their land outright. While on Riverside Avenue will link the $100,000. The land was purchased College and the community. that sale will have the same capital gains nearly 20 years ago for $5,000 and, liability, the charitable deduction from SI MELBY EXPANSION when sold, they will realize substantial the college gift may be used to offset the An expansion of Si Melby Hall will capital gains. accommodate the increasing capital gains obligation on the sale lia- Mr. and Mrs. Anderson have often demands on athletic facilities. bility were they to sell the land outright. thought about making a significant gift Because your situation will be some- ENDOWMENT SUPPORT to Augsburg College and now it appears A strong endowment means the what different from the Andersons, contact this may be an appropriate gift asset to Augsburg model of education will be the Development Office at 612-330-1462 available to future generations. benefit both the College and them- for many other gift-giving ideas. Augsburg selves. By giving the property to ANNUAL FUND will provide you with sufficient informa- Augsburg (that may then sell it to an Increasing the Augsburg Fund will tion so together with your attorney, tax ensure that no talented student is interested buyer), the Andersons receive accountant and/or financial adviser you turned away due to financial need. a charitable deduction for the full fair can evaluate your gift giving options. ■ market value ($100,000) of the proper- If you would like to support these goals, contact Augsburg’s Development staff for assistance. 15 Help Us Reach our Goal Building a successful campaign involves Strong leadership of fully committed DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS just the right mix of people, opportuni- and active volunteers is essential to take ties, and energy. One of those is the Augsburg to new levels of achievement. TRACY outreach of the school’s leaders to Institutional Advancement and BECKMAN, direc- encourage others to give of their time, Community Relations staff is sometimes tor of government talent, and resources. asked whom they should contact with and community Augsburg’s leaders are seeking your alumni and donor questions. Let us relations, joined support through a variety of ways. take a moment to introduce them. As Augsburg College in Help is needed to identify new always, staff looks forward to deepening September 2003. He donors, set strategies regarding cultiva- relationships with alumni and friends served as a Minnesota state senator for tion of donors, and assist with cultiva- of the College and welcomes hearing District 26 from 1987 to 1999. Most tion of donors, events, and solicitations. from you. recently he was a lobbyist for the Whether you live in or outside National Farmers Union in Washington Minnesota, consider hosting cultivation SUE KLASEUS, D.C. Beckman holds a B.S. from events for alumni and friends of the vice president of Mankato State University, and an M.P.P. College. These gatherings, either inti- institutional from Harvard. Beckman and his wife, mate or large, can be attached to a meal advancement, has Janel, owned and operated the local or some type of event, whether on cam- been leading the hardware store in Bricelyn, Minn., from pus, in your home, or some other type Augsburg team since the early ’70s until 1985. of public venue. Development staff will June 2001. She is work with you to arrange specifics and responsible for all fundraising/develop- AMY SUTTON, carry out the details. ment, alumni/parent relations, and gov- director of alumni It is important to take a role in a ernment/community relations. She also and parent rela- student’s life. Think about mentoring serves as a member of the College’s tions. Sutton joined and encouraging students to attend leadership team on the College Council. the Alumni/Parent Augsburg. Many programs offered at Previously, Klaseus served as the Relations staff as Augsburg aren’t available at other col- associate dean for external affairs at the director two years leges and universities in the immediate University of Minnesota, Carlson ago. She holds a B.S. and M.S. from area. Augsburg also sits within a vibrant School of Management. Her background South Dakota State University and city, which provides opportunities for includes more than 20 years of experi- worked there several years in admis- internships for students and outreach to ence in the financial services industry sions and at the SDSU Foundation the community. in management, marketing, sales, and where she was the director of scholar- Discuss with Development staff how communications, and she has extensive ship development and administration. to focus your campaign interest. What volunteer and fundraising experience Sutton most recently worked as vice area of expertise or interest might serve with nonprofit and community organi- president for Friendship Ventures, a your needs as well as those of the cam- zations. nonprofit organization, serving people paign? Determine, too, what fiscal Klasues hold a B.A. from with disabilities. She and her husband, resources you can provide Augsburg. Metropolitan State University, and mas- John, welcomed their first child, daugh- ter’s degrees from Hamline and Harvard ter Taylor, in February 2004. universitites. 16 KEVIN HEALY, SHERRY PATRICK SHEEHY, director of JENNINGS-KING senior director of advancement serv- is the director of principal gifts, has ices, manages our corporate, founda- been on Augsburg’s database and gift tion, and govern- Development team acknowledgement ment relations and since 2000 and systems and staff. He has been with brings with him 20 joined the Augsburg team in May 2004. Augsburg College for 20 months. In years of experience in the field. Sheehy Kevin comes from Community addition to developing institutional is also the parent of an Augsburg Solutions Fund, St. Paul. His experience relationships between Augsburg and College student. As such, he not only in processing and disbursement of char- corporations and foundations in provides expertise in gift planning but itable donations makes him an asset in Minnesota and the United States at also is well versed in the amenities of the area of donor financial reporting large, Jennings-King is also responsible each dorm. and technical support for the Office of for securing federal appropriations Institutional Advancement. through her work with Tracy Beckman. DAVID BENSON, consultant in the DICK WEILAND, DONNA area of planned interim director of MCLEAN, director giving, came on development, joined of principal gifts, board in spring of Augsburg in April, to has served Augsburg 2004 to work with fill the shoes of John College for 19 years new members of the Knight, until Augsburg in several roles Heritage Society at Augsburg College. selects a new director including director of Benson is a specialist in the area of of development. Weiland owns Weiland alumni and parent relations, director of estate planning and philanthropy. His Consulting Group and brings 22 years of The Augsburg Fund and Maroon & approach includes the creative uses of development experience and a 47-year Silver Society, and most recently in the charitable gift options in financial and career in education to the position. area of leadership gift planning. Her estate planning that result in win-win Augsburg is benefiting from Weiland’s deep knowledge of institutional history strategies for all parities involved. leadership in meeting goals for major gifts, and long-standing relationships within planned giving, and The Annual Fund. the Augsburg community are strengths Development staff Weiland has successfully led development to the College. McLean’s passion for the not pictured teams at both the University of St. Thomas mission of Augsburg continues to be KAY AHLSTROM and Carleton College. inspired by the many outstanding and MELISSA BAWEK ’03 diverse accomplishments of the DEVELOPMENT OFFICERS College’s alumni and friends. JEROY CARLSON ’48 RON MAIN ’56 JENNIFER STEPHANIE PHILIP QUANBECK SR. ’50 (ABELN) MALONE, director STEPHANIE STEWART KAHLOW ’78, of The Augsburg director of Fund and Maroon GEORGE SVERDRUP ’46 principal gifts and & Silver Society, SHERILYN YOUNG planned giving, joined Augsburg in since 1997, Kahlow January 2004. has helped donors and alumni interest- Malone came to us from the Girl Scouts ed in making a significant difference in of Greater Minneapolis. She oversees the lives of students at Augsburg the Maroon and Silver Society member- College. As an alumna, parent, and vol- ship, student phonathons, direct mail- unteer she has maintained a close rela- ings, class challenge appeals, and the tionship with Augsburg since graduat- faculty and staff campaign. ing in 1978. Her focus is on capital campaign gifts, with considerable expe- rience in scholarship giving, estate giv- ing, and gifts of appreciated assets. 17 Thanks, John Knight Called to speak out CONTACT US about disabilities and To learn more about Access to Excellence:The Campaign for Augsburg College, please call Institutional Advancement at 612-330-1462 or 1-800-273-0617, or e-mail us at the church [email protected]. For a complete list of Institutional Advancement personnel visit www.augsburg.edu/campaign. INSTITUTIONAL ADVANCEMENT Augsburg College 2211 Riverside Ave. S. Minneapolis, MN 55454 SUE KLASEUS Vice President of Institutional Advancement and Community Relations 612-330-1177 [email protected] Development DICK WEILAND MELISSA BAWEK ’03 Interim Director, Development Assistant Director, 612-330-1580 The Augsburg Fund [email protected] 612-330-1652 [email protected] STEPHANIE MALONE Director, The Augsburg Fund JEROY CARLSON ’48 John Knight receives farewell gift. 612-330-1179 Senior Development Officer [email protected] 612-330-1175 Development director John Knight left SHERRY JENNINGS-KING PHILIP QUANBECK SR. ’50 Augsburg in May to answer God’s call Director, Corporate, Foundation, [email protected] to better understand disability through and Government Relations research and writing. During Knight’s 612-330-1386 GEORGE SVERDRUP ’46 [email protected] [email protected] five years at Augsburg, he held various positions before taking the helm as PATRICK SHEEHY Alumni and Parent development director two years ago. In Senior Director, Principal Gifts 612-330-1329 Relations recent years he has been deeply [email protected] involved in the management and suc- AMY SUTTON cess of the current campaign. Another STEPHANIE STUART Prospect Researcher Director, Alumni/Parent Relations of his achievements is the advancement 612-330-1512 612-330-1525 of donor relations efforts at the College. [email protected] [email protected] In particular, he improved the system JENNIFER KAHLOW ’78 Government and for managing and accounting for gifts. Director, Principal Gifts and Knight’s current goals with The Planned Giving Community Relations 612-330-1185 Pauley Project, named in honor of his [email protected] eldest son, are to research what the TRACY BECKMAN Director, Government and DONNA MCLEAN Bible says about disability, write on the Community Relations Director, Principal Gifts 612-330-1575 subject, and determine ways to include 612-330-1556 [email protected] individuals with disabilities in his [email protected] church. Initially, John’s first two writ- DAVE BENSON Advancement Services ings will be based on the biblical text of Planned Giving Specialist John 9. 612-330-1616 KEVIN HEALY If you are interested in learning [email protected] Director, Advancement Services more about The Pauley Project, visit 612-330-1619 RON MAIN ’56 [email protected] www.thepauleyproject.org. ■ 612-330-1113 [email protected] 18 through the decades BY KRISTIN ANDERSON AND LEIF ANDERSON 1869 Augsburg College is founded 1911 George Sverdrup becomes 1963 President Oscar Anderson in Marshall, Wisconsin. Augsburg’s first president, proposing to develop college begins his 17-year term, emphasizing president August Weenaas recruits two departments with appeal to a broader Augsburg’s involvement with city. teachers from Norway—Sven Oftedal range of students than those intending Augsburg experiences significant cam- and Georg Sverdrup. to be ministers. pus growth during his years of leader- ship, including the Christensen Center 1921 Augsburg considers moving its in 1966 and the Music Hall in 1978. campus to a suburban location in Richfield, Minn. 1980 President Charles Anderson begins a 17-year term, guiding 1922 Augsburg admits women under Augsburg to a strong commitment to the leadership of Gerda Mortensen, liberal arts education, diversity in dean of women. enrollment and programs, and a serv- ice-learning curriculum. 1938 Bernhard Christensen becomes Sven Oftedal Georg Sverdrup president, with his involvement in ecu- 1982 Augsburg initates Weekend menical and civic circles making College programs. 1872 Augsburg moves to Minneapolis. Augsburg a more visible part of church and city life. 1988 College opens Foss Center for 1874 President Weenaas and faculty Worship, Drama, and Communication. propose three-part plan: train ministeri- 1946 Following WWII, Augsburg al candidates; prepare future theological leaders expand and improve academic 1997 Augsburg opens the James G. students; and educate the farmer, work- offerings, making the College a larger Lindell Family Library. The StepUP er, and businessman. The plan stresses part of the institution than the semi- program is founded. that a good education is also practical. nary. 1997 William V. Frame becomes 1876 Keeping the vision of the 1949 Science Hall is built. Augsburg’s president, sharpening the “non-elitist” college, Georg Sverdrup College’s identity as a college of the city, becomes Augsburg’s second president 1954 Augsburg College is granted providing an education grounded in and stresses community involvement, accreditation, although many alumni vocational calling as articulated in requiring students to get experience in had entered graduate schools and Augsburg 2004. city congregations. teaching positions much earlier. 2000 Augsburg establishes a branch 1879 Augsburg holds first gradua- 1963 Augsburg Seminary moves campus in Rochester, Minnesota. tion ceremony. to Luther Theological Seminary in St. Paul; the Lutheran Free Church 2003 Alumnus Peter Agre ’70 1890 Augsburg leaders form the is merged with the American awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Friends of Augsburg, later called the Lutheran Church. Lutheran Free Church—a group of 2004 Augsburg launches a independent congregations committed $55 million capital campaign. to congregational autonomy and per- sonal Christianity. 19 SAVE THE DATE 2004 FALL/WINTER EVENTS—PRELIMINARY LIST AUGUST 31 NOVEMBER 14 DECEMBER 3 Ice Cream Social “Thanks” giving Velkommen Jul 50th Class Year Reunion Scholarship Brunch Christensen Center on campus and Volunteers Endowed scholarship Augsburg House recipients and donors DECEMBER 3 & 4 Christensen Center on campus Advent Vespers OCTOBER 9 Central Lutheran Church Homecoming Minneapolis, Minn. All campus See www.augsburg.edu for the latest on Augsburg’s events. NOTEWORTHY Augsburg launches MBA program A recipe for job success In an eight-week program this summer, wo cohorts of students begin classes the Campus Kitchen at Augsburg Tin September as part of Augsburg’s College prepared nine trainees from the sixth and newest graduate program—a community with job readiness skills to Master of Business Administration. help them pass the Food Manager Students remain together in small Certification Examination and to get group cohorts throughout the 21-month jobs in the food services industry. part-time program. Classes meet one evening per week with some Saturday Global partners in the classroom workshops. The curriculum emphasizes Through a U.S. State Department grant, Augsburg will offer a fall classroom core business principles with relevant course, Exploring Human Service in real-world applications, including Global Context, via the Internet and special career workshops and a practical interactive video in partnership with field study project. Drawing on the students will build close relationships universities around the world. Rosemary strength of Augsburg’s Master of Arts in with fellow students, who bring varied Link, social work professor and project Leadership, the MBA curriculum begins backgrounds and experiences to the curriculum director, and Robert Bill, and ends with an Executive Leadership program. liaison for computing and project course, and weaves the thread of In order to apply, students must have technology director, traveled to Ljubljana, transformational leadership throughout two years of work experience and must Slovenia, and Mumbai, India, during July take the Graduate Management to meet with professors there for the program. curriculum planning and technology Students will receive a very Admissions Test (GMAT). For more testing. A fourth country will be added in personalized education, drawing on the information about the MBA, go to late summer. strength of the cohort model in Former regent honored by Norwegian government Lawrence O. Hauge, Augsburg regent from 1976-88, received the Knight’s First Class of the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit. The honor ceremony took place in Minneapolis on May 17; Hauge was recognized for Nineteen incoming freshmen are getting a four-week jump to help them ease into his efforts to maintain and strengthen the college academics and campus life. close relationships between Norway and The 2004 Summer Bridge program is funded by the Student Support Services (SSS) the U.S. program, one of three TRIO programs to help students overcome class, social, and Similar honors were conferred upon cultural barriers to complete their college education. Funded by the U.S. Department of Education, the SSS program is committed to helping low-income, first-generation President Frame in 2002, International college students and students with disabilities achieve a bachelor’s degree. Partners director Nadia Christensen in During the morning classes over four weeks, students will take two courses: 1996, and President Emeritus Charles Introduction to Liberal Arts, and Christian Vocation and the Search for Meaning. Anderson in 1993. Students also take a supplemental instruction course, attend academic support seminars and workshops about Augsburg College and college life, and enjoy social and cultural activities. Spring/Summer 2004 3 COMMENCEMENT2004 The 135TH YEAR of Augsburg College photos by Stephen Geffre ELSA MAXWELL RECEIVES MARINA CHRISTENSEN JUSTICE AWARD Elsa Maxwell, an international relations and Spanish major with a peace and global studies minor, was selected as the 2004 recipient of the Marina Christensen Justice Award. Each year, this honor is presented to the graduating senior who best Mathew Shannon, who graduated with exemplifies Augsburg’s motto a B.A. in arts and entertainment business promotion, pauses to enjoy “Education for Service.” The student the beautiful spring day. must have demonstrated a dedication Elsa Maxwell (left), recipient of the Marina to community involvement as Christensen Justice Award, poses with Mary Laurel characterized by the personal and True (right), associate director of Augsburg’s Center for Service, Work, and Learning. professional life of Marina Christensen Justice, who courageously and effectively reached out to disadvantaged people and communities. Maxwell, from Duluth, has carried out a wide range of activities over the course of her Augsburg career that led to her being selected for this special award. Among them is activism in Latin American politics, farm policy, and environmental issues as well as extensive on-campus involvement in both music and Spanish. She has combined her class work and campus activities with work in the community as both a volunteer and organizer, especially at the Cedar Cultural Center. While at Augsburg, she also worked at an organic farm, putting her values to work in sustainable agriculture. She spent two semesters in Chile and Central America, serving as a translator and focusing on issues of social justice and sustainability. And, her senior honors thesis was an insightful study of the impact of NAFTA on corn farmers, both in Mexico and in the United States. She has played a key role in the annual “Action at Augsburg” day and helped organize Augsburg’s Coalition for Student Activism. A faculty letter of nomination, written by Joe Underhill-Cady, stated: “Elsa showed up as a freshman ready to be involved and already politically aware, immediately immersing herself in both campus and community activities. Now, as A graduate kisses her baby before she prepares to leave Augsburg, she will be sorely missed, but she already has plans lining up to process to Melby Hall for to continue her social and political activism, having applied to work for ‘Witness for the Commencement ceremony. Peace’ in Latin America.” REPRESENTATIVES FOR THE CLASS OF 2004 COMMENCEMENT ‘FUN FACTS’ ❚ Danielle M. Semling, 3155 Attended the Commencement 42 Plants representing graduate students ceremony 18 Flags ❚ Sarah A. Prozinski, 2475 Chairs set for the weekend’s 2 Pastors representing day students activities 1 Organist ❚ 505 Served for brunch Barbara A. Forshier, 1 Drummer representing weekend students 376 Served for dinner Spring/Summer 2004 27 AUGGIE THOUGHTS IN 1924, Augsburg College was in the midst of great change…and great promise. The first woman had graduated one year earlier, the College was transforming from a divinity school to a modern American college, and there was a great buzz about relocating the College to the suburbs of Minneapolis. As Augsburg launches into a campaign to build new structures and extend its vision and programs, we pause to listen to the editor’s voice of The 1924 Augsburgian—a time 80 years ago that seems not so different from our own. Note that among the yearbook staff pictured is the young intermediate seminary student Bernhard M. Christensen, future Augsburg president. The 1924 Augsburgian As in many other tasks which one begins and works with for some time, it is with some feeling of relief that we are nearing the completion of our work with The 1924 Augsburgian. We have tried to arrange a book which would be a credit to the school it represents, one which would include ideas and pictures that could be enjoyed not only by the students who have been at Augsburg during the past two years, but also by the men and women who during the past 55 years have attended school here or have in some way been connected with Augsburg. In the present increase in attendance at various educational institutions Augsburg has not been left out. We are growing rapidly. The question in regard to location and room will soon not be how much longer we have to stay here, but how much longer we can stay here. We have talked about a greater Augsburg. Now that we are increasing in numbers and have developed more comprehensive curricula will we be willing to assume the responsibilities which come with the greater Augsburg? Some of Augsburg’s friends have already provided suitable grounds for the New Augsburg. A place to build, however, is not enough. We must also have the means whereby buildings may be constructed. We believe that our people will continue to support our school. In so doing they will rise to new victories when they see new fields to conquer. It is the wish of the editorial staff of The 1924 Augsburgian that this biennial may be an instrument in helping people to realize that our school is doing a great work, an important work; that the things which are valued here are those which help young men and women to take their places in the world as contenders for Christian principles in theory and practice, and for personal life in Christ. — Caleb H. Quanbeck ’21 Academy, ’24, Editor 44 Spring/Summer 2004