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Hamline University first published an alumni FEATURES periodical in 1904, called the Alumni Quarterly of Hamline University. Now simply titled Hamline, the publication is for alumni and friends of the 15 Life in the Liberal Arts university, and is published three times per year by After forty years, F. Garvin Davenport retires. the Office of Marketing Communications. Hamline Magazine is printed on 10 percent post- 20 Artist, understood consumer recovered fiber stock with agri-based ink. The coating is water based. Why students sing, act, dance, and create. Editor Breanne Hanson Hegg MANM ’04 Contributing editors Dan Loritz ’69 DEPARTMENTS Jane Telleen Jen Thorson ’96 Contributing writers 2 Arts, Academics & Athletics Carrie Albers ’97 10 Lucy Dwyer ’06 Faculty Notes VOLUME 103 / NUMBER 2 / SUMMER 2006 VOLUME Breanne Hanson Hegg MANM ’04 14 Associations of Hamline Jennifer Krempin Troy Mallat Alumni News Linda Gesling Jen Thorson ’96 28 Class Notes Magazine Intern 36 Lucy Dwyer ’06 In Memoriam Contributing photographers 40 The Last Word David Banks Studios Toni Hauser Dawn Villella Designers Kelly Christ Allison Long POSTMASTER: Send address changes to: Hamline Magazine MS-C1916, 1536 Hewitt Avenue Saint Paul, Minnesota 55104-1284 Readers may send comments PAGE and letters to the editor to: 4 Hamline Magazine MS-C1916, 1536 Hewitt Avenue, Saint Paul, Minnesota 55104-1284 Or, you may contact the editor by telephone at 651-523-2012, or e-mail [email protected]. Hamline University does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, disability, religion, age, sexual orientation, or veteran status in its PAGE PAGE 15 education or employment programs or activities. 10

SUMMER 2006 1 ARTS, ACADEMICS & ATHLETICS blogs FROM THE EDITOR podcasts Hamline magazine has a responsibility not only to share Web& site important news and information offers new ways with you, but also to do so in an to stay connected environmentally and fiscally all responsible way. Whether you’ve had a blog for years or haven’t upgraded Calling We’re proud to report that we’ve from the Walkman, Hamline’s newest technological been using agri-based (soy and offerings are worth checking out. As long as you know how vegetable) inks for years, and will to operate a mouse, you can access one of the newest continue to do so in the future. features: blogs, or journals that are kept online. children’s Starting in the fall we’ll also switch to a 10 percent post- Podcasts, the other new offering, are audio or video files you consumer recycled stock. The magazine is and will continue to can download or have automatically sent to your iPod. So be recyclable. instead of reading a speech, you can listen to it on your own book writers! There is also another exciting change in this issue: for the personal portable player. first time in the magazine’s more than 100-year history, it will be printed in full color. Even more exciting is that full color • Ever wanted to know what student life is like now? Or do actually costs less than our previous design. you know someone who is thinking of applying to Some speculate that technology will one day make Hamline? Four College of Liberal Arts students New MFA offered in writing for children and young adults magazines obsolete. But I think there will always be a place for volunteered to give you a glimpse of their daily lives in magazines in the world … a computer or a BlackBerry can’t Hamline-sponsored online journals, or blogs. Addie, Children’s book authors of the future and All Rivers Flow to the Sea; and Jane several nights a week, students attend replace the experience of holding and flipping through a Natalie, Nick, and Tyler post entries every few days about will soon be heading to Hamline Resh Thomas, author of Lights on the five two-week residencies, taken over magazine. their life at Hamline. University. The Graduate School of River, The Counterfeit Princess, and four semesters. After each residency, Hamline magazine will march on, reporting the births of www.hamline.edu/cla/admission/blogs Liberal Studies is now offering a low- Behind the Mask: The Life of Queen students will work independently with children of alumni who may one day grow up and share news residency master’s of fine arts in writing Elizabeth the First. a faculty advisor, who will provide of their own children and achievements in its pages. • Remember how amazing that first trip abroad was? Follow for children and young adults. There is With a student-faculty ratio of just mentoring and detailed manuscript Only now, the baby photos will be in color. along with a first-year class that studied slavery in England no other program like it in the Upper five-to-one, the program will provide critique through monthly in January, and read about their adventures trying the Midwest, and only one other like it in an in-depth education in the field of correspondence. good (digestive cookies) and bad (mayo and corn the country. It is geared toward writers children’s literature and a high degree of “This program is a wonderful sandwiches) of English food and living with host families. of literature for children and young individual attention. extension of our master’s of fine arts in www.hamline.edu/hamline_info/fysem_online adults who hope to be published. Jane Resh Thomas has been a critic, adult literature,” Rockcastle said, “And Breanne Hanson Hegg MANM ’04 “This will be a rigorous program for writer, and writing coach for the past it’s a great fit for Minnesota, which has • The School of Law offers a new option for those adults of all ages and backgrounds who thirty-five years. She said that by so many talented authors of children’s wondering if the law school is right for them. Their “Meet want to learn the craft of writing and participating in this new master’s and young adult literature. The low- the Experts” feature allows you to listen to six students gain an understanding of the field of program, students will shave years off residency program will provide talk about their experiences. Mindful that not everyone children’s and young adult literature,” their apprenticeship. students with individualized exchanges Correction owns an iPod (yet), this feature is both available as a with outstanding authors and an in- podcast and by clicking directly on the site. depth education in the field.” In the spring 2006 issue of Hamline, the obituary for www.hamline.edu/law/admissions/experts Learn the craft of writing and gain “The Loft, the Kerlan Collection at Robert Nelson ’33 mistakenly reported the month of his the University of Minnesota, the death. Nelson, a history major, died August 17, 2005. We Two other podcasts are available for those who want to keep an understanding of the field of Children’s Literature Network, and apologize for and regret the error. up on current events and trends in law and education. others have created an interconnected children’s and young adult literature. framework, and warm friendships • The Graduate School of Education sponsors among writers have supplied the blood Conversations in Education, a monthly podcast that offers said Mary Rockcastle, dean of the “No writers will ever enjoy more and passion for a thriving community a blend of current research, classroom perspectives, Graduate School of Liberal Studies. intense interest in their work than what of artists here,” Resh Thomas said. compelling voices, humor, and thought-provoking “Students will graduate with a students receive from their coaches in a Applications for the first class, which glimpses into what’s happening today in education. manuscript of publishable quality.” low-residency program like this. The will begin in January of 2007, are now www.hamline.edu/gse/conversations The faculty is comprised of well- relationship between writer and coach being accepted. For information on known, award-winning authors who is as intense and intimate as any admission requirements, visit • Ever wondered why Americans fight about the are experienced teachers, including relationship in my experience, fed by www.hamline.edu/gls or call Constitution and the Supreme Court? What the health Kate DiCamillo, author of Because of the mutual pleasure in the writer's 651-523-2900. law implications of environmental hazards are? Or how Winn-Dixie, Tiger Rising, and The Tale growth,” Resh Thomas said. China uses intellectual property to influence world trade? of Despereaux; Alison McGhee, author The program is low-residency, JacQui Getty is media relations director These topics and more are discussed in the School of Law’s of Countdown to Kindergarten, Snap, meaning that instead of having class at Hamline. Conversations in Law podcasts. www.hamline.edu/law/conversations

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Gulf Coast classroom Students’ work in Mississippi changed their lives, too Students, including Whitney Klein ’09, left, chose to spend their spring break and January term doing physical labor in Mississippi and New Orleans.

Forget the study on the their week-long stay. At night they Anderson ’95, and Kelsie Williamson lazy mornings relationships slept in tents. There is a type ’05, who lives in the area. She added spent on hot, sandy between disasters “We all worked together as a team that she would love to find a way to beaches. Forget the and race, class, and and it was amazing,” Harms said. provide more learning opportunities pool parties and the gender, and then one “I came back thinking, I can’t just of learning that like this for students, and possibly put dance clubs. More than week of service quit my job and move down there for together a trip for alumni in the fifty College of Liberal learning in Mississippi. six months. What can I do? It was so you can’t get from future. Arts students chose to Seventeen students, three devastating there,” Embser-Herbert said. “Many students want to go back, spend their January term staff members, and Embser- Upon her return, Embser-Herbert and we need help figuring out how to and spring break Herbert spent that week in Ocean collected $3,000 worth of Target gift reading a book. make that happen. We can help doing hard physical Springs, Pascagoula, and Moss Point, cards to help residents there who are students with their growing awareness labor in Mississippi and New Orleans, Mississippi, gutting homes that were still struggling to feed and clothe of the world.” ripping down walls and cleaning out full of mold. The experience was their families. returned. There’s no electricity, no Some of the students plan to return rotting, moldy homes, while helping physically and emotionally challenging, The annual spring break trip through running water in many places, nothing to help again as soon as they can. Toni hurricane victims rebuild their lives. Making money is but rewarding for the participants. the Office of Service Learning and to return to,” said Sara Nethercut, a Hauser, a junior and recent transfer Though at the time these students “There is a type of learning that you Volunteerism (OSLV) also took a sophomore who made a spur-of-the- student, participated in both the didn’t know it, it was last September important, but can’t get from reading a book or seeing strategic turn this year. Originally slated moment decision to participate in the January-term and spring break trips. when the wheels started turning and it on a TV screen or a computer to have an environmental justice focus, trip. “I felt like we were doing so much She said the experience was life- ideas came together for what would screen, or hearing on the radio,” said Sharon Jaffe, director of OSLV, said she and really helping people put their changing and now plans to spend her become a life-changing experience for using my time to Megan Harms, a student in Embser- knew immediately when Hurricanes lives back together. And then to come entire summer working in the flood- them. As people across the nation Herbert’s class. “To experience that Katrina and then Rita hit that plans back and sit and listen to lectures in stricken region for a small stipend. stared in horror and amazement help others is first-hand and to take that in the full needed to change. Thirty students class…I think we’d all rather be back “Making money is important, but watching the destruction of Hurricane scope, nothing can compete with that.” chose to go on the trip—to spend their down there helping.” using my time to help others is more Katrina unfold, at least one faculty and Partnering with the United spring break ripping out moldy Donations from the Minnesota important.” one staff member immediately began more important. Methodist Committee on Relief Sheetrock and comforting the residents Annual Conference of the United “In terms of life experiences, this adjusting courses and service trip (UMCOR), the group worked long now returning to their homes for the Methodist Church, called the Hamline trip is definitely in my top five,” schedules, focusing their energy on Arts, framed her January-term course hours in protective gear, hauling first time since the hurricanes came. Asking, made both the January-term Nethercut said. student learning opportunities in the around the hurricanes and their rotting furniture and personal The group spent eight days gutting and spring break trips possible, helping “Me too!” exclaimed Jaffe. Gulf Coast region. aftermath. Her class, “Applied belongings out of homes and piling and cleaning nine homes. Students pay for airfare and expenses. Melissa Embser-Herbert, professor Sociology; The Social Dimensions of them into dumpsters. They ripped out expressed their astonishment that so Jaffe said she owes a thank you to JacQui Getty is media relations director of sociology in the College of Liberal Disasters,” provided two weeks of walls and sanitized five homes during little had been accomplished in the two alumni who helped the Hamline at Hamline. seven months since the hurricanes hit. group make connections in New “Most of the community has not Orleans: educator and activist Doug

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Left: First-year guard Jon DeRock. Below: Junior Ashlee Senser averaged over six pionts per game. Sports highlights

Rebound Left to right: Sophomore Julian Borgia; First-year Joe Long; Junior Dana Luiken Basketball teams make playoffs,

have best seasons in a decade Gymnastics first time in school history to finish the The Pipers just missed qualifying for season 3-12-3 in conference play, 4-16- Both the men’s and women’s basketball MIAC first team accolades for the The team’s season came to an end in the NCGA Championships as a team, 5 overall. Its nine conference points are teams had a standout year, achieving second time in her career. the MIAC semifinals against top-seeded but sent four gymnasts to the the most ever by the women’s hockey their best finish in ten years and Despite falling to Carleton 69-62 in St. Thomas, where the Pipers were championships in Brockport, New team. Sophomore Marie Gross (West Men’s Indoor Track breaking several university records. the first round of the MIAC playoffs, defeated 96-51. York. First-year Alex Hughes (Sioux St. Paul, Minnesota) was selected All- The men’s track and field team took The Hamline women’s basketball second-year head coach Melissa Young- “Overall we were more athletic than Falls, South Dakota) garnered All- MIAC first team. second at the MIAC Indoor team secured its first playoff berth in Kruse is excited about the team’s future. last year, and once we blended and our America honors after finishing fourth Championships. Junior Jake Kruger school history in 2005-06 by finishing “I am very proud of everyone on our chemistry came together, we made overall. She set the school record in the (Cascade, Wisconsin) was the only 9-11 in the MIAC. Its 13-13 overall team. Making the tournament for the major improvements in conference vault with a score of 9.6 on the second Men's Swimming Piper champion, taking the pole vault record was just the third .500 season in first time in school history is quite an play,” said Barry Wohler, second-year day of competition. First-year Brynn after clearing 15’3”. It was the highest Hamline women’s basketball history accomplishment,” Young-Kruse said. head coach. Stenslie (Renton, Washington) was the and Diving finish for the Pipers since 2000. Senior and first since 1996-97. individual balance beam champion at The Pipers took fifth in the MIAC thrower Jake Courrier (Wells, The Pipers clinched the fifth seed in Once we blended and our chemistry the WIAC Championships/West Championships as first-year Jonathan Minnesota) was All-MIAC in both the the conference with a 61-60 win Regional. Tapia (Quito, Ecuador) made an weight throw and the shot put. He against Bethel University on February came together, we made major NCAA provisional time in the 200-yard went on to finish thirteenth in the 15. A highlight of the season was when improvements in conference play. butterfly (1:54.22) while taking second. weight throw at the NCAA the Pipers broke a thirty-eight-game Men’s Hockey Sophomore diver Julian Borgia (North Championships. losing streak to St. Thomas, sweeping “The season started off well by having First-year guard Jon DeRock (Buffalo Under first-year head coach Scott Bell, East, Pennsylvania) was all-conference the season series with the Tommies. Joe Hutton Jr. come in and talk about Lake, Minnesota) was named All- the Pipers improved by two-and-a-half in both the one- and three-meter dives. Hamline beat St. Thomas 65-57 at the pride and success of Hamline’s MIAC first team and MIAC All-First games during the conference season to Head coach Andy Hanson was named Women’s Indoor Hutton Arena on December 5 to break past. Our young women took what he Year after averaging 13.7 points, 4.4 finish 3-11-2 in conference play, 4-18- Co-MIAC Men’s Swimming and Track the string. The team went on the road said to heart.” rebounds, and 3.6 assists per game. 3 overall. First-year forward Duston Diving Coach of the Year. to beat St. Thomas 69-66 on January After finishing regular season play First-year forward Tony Thrasher Fulton (Brooklyn Park, Minnesota) Senior Keidra Anderson (Minocqua, 28. with an MIAC record of 10-10, the (Hustisford, Wisconsin) joined DeRock was named All-MIAC first team and Wisconsin) became an All-American Senior guard Carolyn Korchik Piper men’s basketball team clinched the on the All-First-Year team and was All-Rookie after scoring ten goals and for the fourth time in her career, (Bloomington, Minnesota) became sixth seed in the MIAC playoffs, its first named All-MIAC honorable mention. fifteen assists. First-year Joe Long Women's Swimming finishing seventh in the 5,000 meters at Hamline’s fifth all-time leading scorer playoff appearance since 1994. Junior forward Kyle Foster (Apple (Dayton, Minnesota) was named All- the NCAA Indoor Championships. She with 1,330 points. The two-time All- In the first round of the MIAC Valley, Minnesota) earned All-MIAC MIAC honorable mention. and Diving also took the 3,000 and 5,000 meters MIAC first-team selection also holds playoffs, the Pipers trailed St. John’s honorable mention, and junior guard Hamline took seventh at the MIAC at the MIAC Indoor Championships. Hamline records for three-pointers 38-22 after the first twenty minutes of Sam Wiener (Marshall, Minnesota) was Championships in February. Junior Dana Luiken won the made in a career (179) and game play and 42-24 early in the second named to the MIAC All-Defensive Women’s Hockey Sophomore Dana Ketcher (Des pentathlon at the conference meet as (seven). This season, Korchik was half. But the Pipers erupted for fifty- team for the second time in his career. The Pipers continued to improve by Moines, Iowa) earned All-MIAC the Pipers took ninth as a team. named All-MIAC honorable mention. two second-half points to earn the earning the program’s first wins over St. accolades after taking second in the Senior forward Laurisa Ewert school’s first postseason victory in Benedict and St. Mary’s. The team also 50-yard freestyle (24.75). Troy Mallat is sports information (Andover, Minnesota) earned All- twenty-one years with a 74-71 win. director at Hamline. took a point from Augsburg for the

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them the confidence and skills to Mentors for Middle–Schoolers engage the attention of middle school youth, who often arrive hungry, tired, Helping Hancock students and full of pent-up energy after a day McVay Program sitting in the classroom. become Hamline alumni For the Fellows, the partnership is a makes a difference unique opportunity to develop skills they can use for the rest of their lives, receive a stipend so they don’t have to in lives of work another job, and explore their own commitment to making the world local youth a better place. Working as teams, they plan and implement activities that include homework help, sports, crafts, games, community service, and personal interaction. The program runs three afternoons a week throughout the academic year. In the year and a half since the sites began to offer programming, programs that started small have grown and Hamline University student Nick Felt with Hancock students. space issues have been resolved. The real changes, of course, are in lives. As liaison to the Hancock-Hamline University Collaboration, College More than one student has changed of Liberal Arts Professor Rita Johnson has had a unique opportunity It is Monday at 4:30 p.m., majors in order to prepare for a career collaborative to get to know the students and teachers at Hancock/Hamline any Monday during the working with youth. University Collaborative Magnet School. In 2004, students in one of school year. Hamline students, “Experiencing a change in myself has Johnson’s management classes conducted a study and found that 94 known as McVay Fellows, have Meanwhile, Emily Gill and Darren M.D. “Pete” McVay, joined by his been as important as watching the percent of Hancock’s fourth, fifth, and sixth graders want to go to been at their posts for ninety minutes: Swanson welcome latecomers and wife, Mary, and daughter, Kita, wanted intellectual and social growth of college, but many did not believe they could due to the high cost. prepare juice and crackers for a quick to find his own way to respond to the youth,” Shamia Sandles said. “Though these children are very bright and motivated, for most, the Bethlehem Lutheran Church in the snack before computer time. Down the Wesley charge to “do all the good you Other Fellows describe the joy they high cost of college makes it only a dream,” Johnson said. “The reality Midway neighborhood hall, Zayda Harsha is double-checking can.” With University Relations staff, have found in relationships, in is that 60 percent of Hancock students are English language learners Hamline University junior Shamia permission slips for a field trip planned they developed a program that problem solving, in making a and 87 percent receive free or reduced price meals at school.” Sandles is preparing craft items for an later in the week. matched the needs and talents of difference. They comment, too, on the When Johnson received the annual Wesley Trustee Award and an activity while nearby two middle College of Liberal Arts students with growth they see in students in the accompanying $5,000 prize in 2005, she saw the opportunity to school students work on their Southwest, at Minnehaha United the needs and resources of area group—real progress in learning to realize the collaboration’s goal of a scholarship fund by donating the homework. Across the street at Central Methodist Church in Minneapolis churches. The resulting partnership follow the rules or work as a team. prize as seed money. The scholarship, upon reaching the minimum of Baptist Church, Mike Pesko and Tim McDonald, Moeuth Chim, and “seeks to give exceptional Hamline Other dimensions of the partnership $20,000, will benefit Hancock students who go on to study in the Natalie Roberts try to keep the high Belle Barclay are supervising their students who have a desire to help are also growing. Churches value the College of Liberal Arts. “The purpose of this scholarship is to give energy of another eight or nine middle middle school students in a cooking others the opportunity to become role presence and energy of the students Hancock students hope and to celebrate the unique bond of schoolers within the confines of the project. With kitchen space, models to inner city youth,” Pete who work in the program. “The friendship between our schools,” Johnson said. small gym. The action is fast and loud. computers, and a gym, this church McVay said. “As mutual trust and children are always so excited to The Hancock-Hamline Collaboration was recently named a finalist offers the possibility for a wide variety friendship develop and as youngsters come,” said Pastor Joy Johnson from for the prestigious Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Partnership Award for East, a few miles away, in the of activity options under one roof. are introduced to a loving, supporting Bethlehem Lutheran Church. “The Campus-Community Collaboration. The national award honors community center for Liberty Plaza congregation/community, we hope that Fellows and Interns are willing to be programs that address critical areas of public need undertaken by a Alvin Mitchell is leading a discussion These students all proudly answer to their values, lifestyle, goals, and vision ‘real’ and to engage them.” college or university in partnership with a community group. Johnson about culture with a dozen students. the title of McVay Fellow, and work of the future will be altered in ways “I find it rewarding to see the hopes this affirmation of the collaboration’s work will encourage Some come from families that have through a partnership between contributing to a more successful, students working together as a group, people to support the new scholarship fund. been in Minnesota for three or more Hamline University and local churches fulfilling life and a better community.” and building trusting relationships that Contributions to the Hancock-Hamline Scholarship Fund may be generations, others are immigrants to provide after-school activities and Through a highly competitive will truly influence both the middle sent to the Development Office, MS-C1930. Questions may be from Somalia, Laos, or Liberia. They mentoring for middle school students, selection process, Hamline juniors and school students and their Hamline directed to Carrie Albers at 651-523-2684. are all brought together by Liberty a population often under-served in seniors are selected as McVay Fellows mentors,” said Jane Krentz ’74, the Plaza, which was started forty years ago other community programs. to lead programs at the sites. Training program’s director. by Dayton Avenue Presbyterian Partnership is really the theme of the from the Center for Excellence in Church to provide affordable housing unique endowment from the McVay Urban Teaching and faculty from the Rev. Linda Gesling is director of church for Saint Paul residents in need. Family Foundation. Graduate School of Education gave relations at Hamline.

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Hamline’s own

rock star If we’re lucky, we all find something in our Biology professor Mike Farris lives that attaches to us at a visceral level.

Most people dream that their career innovative research. In 1998, for from all corners of the globe. A will one day climb to new heights. instance, Farris published a paper recent trip to Africa, for instance, For Mike Farris, a professor of about cliff vegetation—the ecology of inspired photos of lions in their natural biology in the College of Liberal Arts, cliffs and how humans are affecting habitat. “For many students, the only that has already happened. In addition those ecosystems. “It was a traditional lions they’ve ever seen are in the zoo,” to a long career studying and teaching ecology study, but instead of doing it he said. “I think students really ecology, Farris also is recognized as an in a forest, I decided to do it on a appreciate that you have a personal expert rock climber and mountaineer, cliff,” he explained. connection to the things you’re scaling some of the largest peaks in the Today he’s working on a research teaching.” world in his spare time. project on how humans perceive Farris’ affection for high-altitude Farris’ hobby first took root as a high differing landscapes. By altering digital hobbying will continue to keep him school student, when a book about photos to make the landscape look busy in the coming months. In mountaineering captured his attention. more or less vegetated and measuring Minnesota and Wisconsin, the only Mounds State Park near Luverne, mountain, addition to serving as the faculty “I grew up in Ohio—not a very the human subjects’ feedback, Farris published guide to climbing in the Minnesota, and Shovel Point at Gasherbrum II, advisor to a student group of climbers mountainous state,” he said. It wasn’t says the study provides an interesting region. “One of the things I’ve tried to Tettegouche State Park on Minnesota’s to begin the called the Rockstars, Farris also is until he went to college at Miami window into how people observe the do during my career is trending toward North Shore are among his favorites. climb. “This is true working on a book, due to be University of Ohio that he actually ecology around them. “For example, applied science and applied research,” Farris’ climbing expertise has taken mountaineering, and published in 2007, written for started climbing, beginning in some of would people avoid areas with heavy he said. “So even in the climbing him to all corners of the globe for the problems are really individuals traveling to locales in high the smaller climbing areas that the vegetation?” he asked. “Essentially it’s a guidebook, I’ve tried to put a spin on high-altitude mountaineering. He different than in rock climbing,” altitudes. “The book will weave state offers. study using psychological data with an it, to encourage climbers to be more currently is preparing for a return to Farris said. together the science and history of “If we’re lucky, we all find something interest in plant ecology. Most people ecologically responsible. People can do northern Pakistan, where the tip of the “On a climb like this, your goal is to high-altitude travel—and it will make in our lives that attaches to us at a don’t necessarily look at the landscape a lot of damage to the environment, Himalayas boasts some of the world’s make it through the day: eating, the science of high-altitude living visceral level,” Farris said. “For me, that around them from a scientific even without realizing it. What I’ve largest glaciers and four of the world's breathing, watching the weather.” accessible to the average person,” he was climbing. I’d say it’s like my brain standpoint.” tried to do is instill a more rigorous 8,000-meter peaks. It will take the Farris’ adventuring ways have said. “For me, it’s an integration of and my gut seem to like me to do this!” Farris has used his climbing expertise ecological ethic.” team of climbers six days to walk the influenced his teaching in the work and play.” His leisure and professional pursuits outside of the academic sector as well. Among the many climbing spots in nearly fifty miles up the trails and classroom. He often returns armed have combined to inspire new and He is the author of Rock Climbing in the region, Farris says that Blue glaciers to reach the base of the with photos documenting his travels Jennifer Krempin is a free-lance writer for Hamline magazine.

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Starting with China An exciting era College wins grant to develop model for in Methodist history international study and new initiatives

If you’ve been keeping a close eye on group of faculty and charged them collaboration with an international Rev. Linda Gesling, director of rebuilding and the Korean War; the College of Liberal Arts faculty, it may with a specific strategic task, they university; faculty-to-faculty mentoring church relations and adjunct growing urban needs in the U.S., and seem like all roads lead to China. could create a faculty development in international learning; and focused professor in the religion department, the independence struggles in Africa. English professor David Hudson model that could be used to respond study and research on the relationship has published the book, Mirror and In addition, Methodist women gave taught an extended May term to any new initiative. between China and the faculty Beacon: The History of Mission of The leadership to the civil rights and course at the University of First, the college had to choose what member’s discipline. In years two and Methodist Church 1939-68. gender equality movements that International Business and strategic direction it was going to test three, the advisory council will create Commissioned by the General Board emerged during this time period.” Economics in Beijing. its hypothesis with. “Because and test different faculty development of Global Ministries of the United Gesling, who was asked to write Psychology professor Serena King international learning is already a key models in other countries, while the Methodist Church, the book is the the book because of her previous served as a visiting scholar at the component of our strategic plan, it original China group will continue to third in a seven-volume series. work on nineteenth century same university in May. seemed like a good place to start,” said develop and evaluate the model created “Though only a period of twenty- missionaries, said that one of the Four faculty received mini-grants to Associate Dean Alan Silva, who wrote in year one. nine years, this era proved to be an challenges was shifting through the create a narrative of the events in so study and teach about China. the grant and served as director of the By the end of the three-year grant, exciting one about which to write,” “sheer amount of materials—letters, many places and balance it with stories grant project. “From there, it made the College of Liberal Arts will have a Gesling said. “It included the minutes, office memos, books, of a variety of individuals, some well Although Hamline faculty have sense to focus on China because there faculty development framework that is challenges of World War II, especially articles—all were available in known, others who found meaningful long had a standing interest in China, was already so much interest and both useful for international learning with so many missionaries in China, abundance for this time period.” ways to make a difference in their the latest developments have energy there,” Silva said. and applicable to other strategic Japan, and Korea; the post war “In writing the book, I tried to places of service,” she said. surprising origins. As part of year one of the grant, initiatives. It all began with a question: How Silva formed a faculty advisory council “This is an exciting project that will can the College of Liberal Arts better to help oversee the grant’s have great impact on faculty align faculty interests and expertise implementation. The council began by development and many potential with college-wide strategic initiatives? creating a faculty development model benefits for student learning,” Silva To answer this question, the college that took into account different levels said. “It is also a great chance for applied for a Bush Foundation grant of faculty expertise in international Hamline to increase its visibility as the to test an idea. They proposed that if learning. Faculty were then invited to ‘place to be’ for international study.” they organized an interdisciplinary submit proposals in three areas:

early 1,100 alumni Radtke, associate vice president and receive sufficient response levels from value they received for the cost. participated in a new 2005-06 executive director of CLA alumni alumni in each decade, as well as other • Almost three-quarters (72%) of What NCollege of Liberal Arts Alumni relations and alumni annual fund. criteria, to ensure that the results were alumni said they had made a Survey, one of the largest such studies “We want to thank all of our alums as representative as possible. financial contribution to Hamline alumni conducted by the college. Beyond who took the time to participate in the Some of the key findings from the since they graduated. gathering data about the experiences of survey and share their opinions about CLA survey include the following: To see the complete results of the alumni, the study asked about the Hamline.” • Nearly nine in ten alumni believe CLA alumni survey, go to: think about types of services they want and value Working with the Saint Paul-based that Hamline provided them with www.hamline.edu/alumni_survey most and how the university can research firm of Anderson Niebuhr and an exceptional experience (89%) their alma mater improve the quality of education. Associates, Hamline distributed the and that Hamline excelled in the “The information we gather from survey via e-mail or U.S. mail to a amount of personal attention they the alumni survey helps us better serve randomly selected sample of more than received from professors (88%). New survey collected opinions alums and continually improve the 2,700 alumni from the 1930s through • More than three-quarters (78%) Gary McVey is associate vice academic and co-curricular activities 2005, achieving an overall response would rate Hamline as excellent or president for market research and of nearly 1,100 CLA alumni we offer to students,” said Betsy rate of 40 percent. Care was given to very good when it comes to the planning at Hamline.

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Want to become more involved at Hamline? Don’t know how? Here are some ideas! Top 10 ways to (re)engage with Hamline: your company on: www.hamline.edu/cdc/postajob. This site gets more than 250,000 hits per year by 1. Read Hamline, the alumni magazine of Hamline students, alumni, and community members looking University. Learn about upcoming events, faculty for employment. highlights, sports, and other university news. 9. Visit the alumni e-directory at 2. Visit the Hamline Web site, which offers https://alumni.hamline.edu and log in using information of all types about Hamline. the user login number from the mailing label www.hamline.edu on this magazine. You can search by name, city, 3. Attend one or many of the planned events state, employment code, and more to reconnect and programs on- and off-campus during the year. with your friends and classmates from your Visit www.hamline.edu/events. days at Hamline. 4. Tour campus. Start at the Alumni House 10. Volunteer as a mentor, job interviewer, panel (749 Simpson Street) if you want a personal tour. discussion speaker, alumni board member, class 5. Encourage your children, friends’ children, agent, or reunion committee member. Visit relatives, and neighbors to think about attending www.hamline.edu/alumni/volunteer to inquire college, law, or graduate school. or sign-up. Life in the 6. Submit class notes to Hamline. Submitting As always, if you have questions, comments and reading class notes is like attending a mini- or suggestions, please call me at 800-767-5585 reunion. E-mail [email protected] (extension 2) or e-mail me at [email protected]. 7. Invest in Hamline. Think back and remember Liberal Arts the most meaningful part of your experience and make a gift to that department, scholarship, or After forty years, F. Garvin Davenport retires program. Visit www.hamline.edu/giving. Betsy Brenden Radtke ’89 8. Post full- or part-time jobs or internships with Associate Vice President of Alumni Relations figured I would be here about three years before moving on to a “Ireal job. That was my plan and that was 1966. Eventually settled in as a professing Piper, I assumed that I would end my days Coming soon... 2007 Printed discoursing on Moby Dick, and, for sport, harassing presidents and deans from the floor of monthly faculty meetings. Alas, how Alumni Directory history toys with innocent dreams and remembers sin.” – F. Garvin Davenport, Presidential Scholars Address, 2002.

The Associations of Hamline Alumni The new directory will be available in F. Garvin Davenport, who has devoted his forty-year career to Hamline University, (AHA) has recently contracted with both a soft-cover book edition and a will retire in June. Through four decades, eight presidents, and thousands of final 07 Publishing Concepts Incorporated to searchable CD-ROM. essays on Moby Dick, Professor, Dean, and Vice President Davenport served—and produce the 2007 Hamline University 20 If you have not already been contacted formed—Hamline with his intense intellect, wicked wit, and generous soul. printed alumni directory—the first “I cannot imagine Hamline without Garvin,” said a friend and colleague at his printed directory since 2000. to verify or confirm your information you soon will be—look for a postcard to May 12 retirement party. It’s a sentiment shared by countless alumni, students, The 2007 Hamline University Alumni arrive at your home shortly. There will colleagues, and friends who know that Davenport has shaped Hamline University in Contact and network Directory will include alumni from the also be a secure and dedicated Web site a way few others have, and that his vision and passion for the liberal arts have College of Liberal Arts, Graduate School (https://updates.publishingconcepts.com energized and transformed generations of students. with fellow of Education, Graduate School of Liberal /Hamline/login.asp) where you can Studies, Graduate School of confirm and make changes to any Hamline alumni Management, and School of Law. directory information. Please visit www.hamline.edu/alumni by Jennifer Thorson ’96 associate vice president for marketing communications. for more information. Editor’s note: There were so many stories about Garvin Davenport submitted that just a few of them appear here. You can read more stories, watch video from the retirement party, browse photos, and send your well-wishes at www.hamline.edu/garvin

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the liberal arts with conviction, eloquence, and humor ducation is too important to leave solely inspired anyone lucky enough to hear him. In 2004, he was appointed vice president of academic “ in the hands of professional educators. affairs, the university’s chief academic officer. E Biographical data does little, though, to describe the Left: English major Thus it is that we must always deliberately qualities that make Davenport an exceptional leader. Some end-of-the-year colleagues call it an “intangible thread,” others “the perfect party, May 1988 seek to widen our circle of advisors and critics. balance,” and still others “a special gift.” Right: Professor Tamar “Garvin wanted to lead Hamline University forward,” Rout and Garvin Thus it is that we must remember and affirm said Professor Emeritus Jim Lynskey, one of Garvin’s oldest Davenport, 1987. friends. “Private colleges were facing a challenge, and it was that all learning is risk. And thus it is that we not easy to do. But Garvin had a deep appreciation for the liberal arts, and he wanted to go forward.” must therefore find renewal in our “[Garvin] has been a real teacher for me in Hamline’s Only Student administration,” said Mary Rockcastle, dean of the Graduate dependence on each other’s skills.” School of Liberal Studies. “He conveys passion for the job Hamline’s acclaimed curriculum, known as the “Hamline in a quiet, steady manner, and you never get tired of – F. Garvin Davenport, Ronald A. Mitsch Lecture in or indeed, some days I have imagined that Plan.” In 1986, he was chosen by his fellow faculty as the listening to him.” Chemistry Address, 2002. winner of the Burton and Ruth Grimes Teaching Award. “When he makes a decision,” Rockcastle said, “he does so “ I am Hamline’s only student, all others here He was revered as a teacher, and a little bit feared. Still, clearly and with authority and it is never about him. It is F his courses were in demand and the word was that everyone In 1992, Davenport was named assistant dean of the about the good of the program, the good of the university, so graciously as my private teachers. Some teach should take at least one course from Professor Davenport. College of Liberal Arts, and associate dean shortly thereafter. the good of others.” “Garvin was a demanding, witty teacher who invited a lot In 2000, he was installed as dean. me by example, others by their passionate of participation and discussion,” recalled Professor Tamara Davenport was at the center of many innovations for the Garvin came to Hamline around the time I did, in the Root, who taught a course with him. “His passion was college. He helped develop and then direct the First-Year early 1960s, at a time when the student body was growing professions of this or that discipline. Still others by sometimes intimidating, but it also inspired.” Seminar Program. He helped create the four-year assurance and former president Paul Giddens was adding a substantial of graduation policy, and worked to integrate the athletic number of newly minted young PhDs to the Hamline faculty. my failure to understand their gifts.” One of the things that I will never forget is a comment he and academic lives of student athletes. We all believed we knew everything about how a college made about teaching that has influenced my teaching During Davenport’s tenure in the dean’s office, the should be run and were more than willing to offer that – F. Garvin Davenport, Installation Address, 2000. dramatically. He said one of the things he liked to do as a College of Liberal Arts grew by 43 percent from 1992 to advice to the administration, even when it was not sought, teacher is to teach things he doesn’t know very well, because 2005, and student-of-color enrollment increased by 95 nor welcomed. Inevitably, this led to grumbling in the faculty Garvin Davenport joined Hamline in 1966 as a “newly then he was learning right along with the students. As a new percent. The international student population also grew by ranks about how the administration was doing everything the minted PhD” in American Studies, a radical new discipline professor fresh from graduate school, where one is supposed to 84 percent. wrong way. Garvin Davenport, being a man with strong at the time. He joined the English department and taught demonstrate one’s knowledge all the time, it was refreshing During the same time period, several new majors were opinions, was among our more vocal critics. However, unlike writing, American studies, American literature, and literary and freeing… It gave me the courage to try new things and introduced, many of them interdisciplinary. These include most of us who carp at government, but won't run for office, theory for undergraduates, as well as a variety of seminars in to always be open to the ideas that students are exploring. biochemistry, criminal justice, exercise and sports science, Garvin bravely stepped forward and joined the the master of arts in liberal studies program. —Professor Patricia R. Palmerton, Communication Studies social justice, and global studies, as well as certificate administration where he could make a difference. His scholarship focused on the Southern, New England, programs in forensic science, paralegal studies, international —Professor Emeritus Bill Williams, and Midwestern American literary regions, and his favorite Dr. Davenport taught a course entitled ‘American Studies,’ journalism, and conflict studies. These majors and programs Management & Economics American literature subjects were Herman Melville, William which centered a great deal on the teachings of Alexis de reflect the college’s emphasis on integrating the liberal arts Faulkner, and Emily Dickinson. His publications included Tocqueville and other early American philosophers. with real-world experience and adapting to the needs of a There is something about a student voice that Garvin is The Myth of Southern History-Historical Consciousness in Dr. Davenport taught this course with a tremendous changing world. sensitive to, and to which he responds. Some people have a Twentieth Century Southern Literature, as well as articles, amount of enthusiasm. He encouraged intellectual debate Davenport also deeply appreciated tradition. He helped special gift for helping others know they are important and poems, short stories, and plays. and, contrary to what some professors do, did not stifle ideas developed the Fall Fair, Scholarship Fair, and Honors Day what they express is valid and useful. Most of all, he helps During his years on the faculty, Davenport developed the or beliefs that were contrary to his own. Dr. Davenport is events to celebrate student research, as well as the All- students think and believe that when they do care enough to Hamline Writing Center in 1980 and chaired the English truly a gifted intellect and academic. He confirmed that my College Reunion, to bring all alumni of the college together make a case to an administrator, it can make a difference. department from 1989 to 1994. From 1985-1988, he decision to attend Hamline was the right one. to celebrate Hamline. At each of these events—and —Alan Sickbert, Dean of Students chaired the General Education Committee, which developed —Scott S. Hovden ’77 hundreds of others—his unmatched ability to speak about

16 HAMLINE MAGAZINE SUMMER 2006 17 The F. Garvin and Bernice L. Davenport Scholarship Fund To recognize Garvin Davenport's forty years of leadership and to thank Bern for her constant support over those years, we invite you to join us in establishing the F. Garvin and Bernice L. Davenport Scholarship Fund. The purpose of the fund is to provide an annual tuition scholarship to one or more full-time students in the College of Liberal Arts who demonstrate both a potential for success and financial need. To make an online gift to the fund, go to www.hamline.edu/giving and indicate "Davenport scholarship" when prompted for a designation. To mail a gift, indicate that it’s for the Davenport scholarship and send it to: Development Circles of Thankfulness Office, MS-C1917, 1536 Hewitt Avenue, Saint Paul, MN 55104.

hat I see are many circles of my a colleague. “I know I’m a better person because I have around neighborhoods, invited us in his home for a meal, I will also miss his literary-inspired eloquence at lunches and known Garvin.” and showed us some schools my daughter might go to. receptions where, as dean, he often presided. Hearing Garvin “ thankfulness, for what you have done Overall, he was responsible for helping me see how friendly speak was always an inspiration—an inspiration that is W I have two fond memories of Garvin bracketed by a period and kind Hamline colleagues can be to each other—a feeling deeply entrenched in the liberal arts, in Garvin as a scholar, for Hamline, what you have done for our of almost twenty years. In 1986, I was on the General that has been confirmed over the years as I have gotten to and in Hamline as an institution. Education Committee, [charged with developing] an know other colleagues in and out of the department. —Professor Theodore Hodapp, Physics students, what you have done for our innovative new core curriculum which we now know as the Later that fall, Garvin brought a present to our Hamline Plan. Garvin was chair of the committee. He was a apartment—a snow shovel with a red bow on it. He gave it colleagues, and what you have done for me.” wise, visionary, and very organized leader—every meeting to my daughter on October 30 saying, “You might want to began with the opening of his very large and very organized help your Mom when the snow arrives.” Lo and behold, on y prayer is that you will see and seize the – F. Garvin Davenport, at his May 12, 2006 three-ring binder stuffed with minutes, proposals, and the very next day we had sixteen inches of snow on the “M retirement party reports. More than the product the committee produced, ground! That year we had more snow on the ground than I opportunity. That you will find yourself by These are the words used to describe Professor, Dean, or what I remember most about the meetings was the welcoming had ever seen in my life or have seen since. What I take away Vice President Davenport, over and over again, by alumni, atmosphere that was extended to my infant son who upon his from that first year, however, is a very secure sense in finding others. That you will learn along the students, colleagues, and friends. arrival in October attended every meeting, slept quietly wonderful collegiality at Hamline. As chair, Garvin was (mostly) on the floor, and whose attendance was duly noted excellent in helping his new faculty member find her footing way to help yourself by helping others. And Honest. Idealistic. Kind. Intense. Funny. by the chair in the meeting minutes. in more ways than one. Curious. Fun. Intellectual. Serious. In 2005, planning for the anthropology department’s —Professor Veena Deo, English finally, my promise, which is this: as members Diplomatic. Generous. Passionate. Smart. excavation of the old Hall of Science building in conjunction with Hamline’s sesquicentennial, I remember not only I always enjoyed having lunch with Garvin. He nearly of Hamline’s greater family, we are all here . . . Teacher. Student. Mentor. Scholar. Garvin’s support for the project but also his recounting of his always ate in the student cafeteria and enjoyed talking Counselor. Dad. Advocate. Friend. first office in the old building which included a floor with a informally with students and faculty alike. The conversations with every resource at our disposal, to help pitch of about twenty degrees that frequently sent his office ranged from great literature, science discoveries, difficulty in “[Working with Garvin] was a special time in my life,” chair careening downhill into the radiator. Garvin’s tenure at attracting minority candidates for faculty positions, and, of you see the opportunity and set out on a said Ann Olsen, former registrar for the college. “We were Hamline has always been an uphill climb to greatness that course, model trains. I can't say that we really spoke enough all taking on new positions at the same time, and we kind of included both humor and kindness. about Moby Dick, despite my awareness of his authority on journey you will never regret. Our hand is out. ‘grew up’ professionally together. Garvin had the perfect —Professor Barbara O’Connell, Anthropology the subject. That is perhaps a great loss for me, but a balance: he was serious, but not too serious. He was an artist testament that Garvin is profoundly interested in the lives of Put out your hand and let us go together. The and a problem-solver. He was collaborative. He cared about Garvin was English department chair when I was hired in others first. His time as dean reflected that in extraordinary others and he valued others.” 1991 and I remember very fondly how both he and his wife, ways. I will miss those conversations. world is waiting.” “He takes his job so seriously and expects the same of Bernice, were very gracious hosts while my family and I – F. Garvin Davenport, Matriculation Address, others,” said Phyllis Goff, chief of staff to the president and visited the summer before the school year started. He drove us September 1, 2002

18 HAMLINE MAGAZINE SUMMER 2006 19 Artist, understood Whyartist students sing, act, dance, and create wo-hour-long cello practices. Play rehearsals—every day. Afternoons spent on the pottery wheel. The life of an artist is not easy. For every choir performance, T play, or painting, there are long hours, sore muscles, and tired minds. Nor is the life of an artist easily understood. Why does a science or economics major make time for fine arts? For those who choose a fine art as their major, what is it about theatre or music that makes them pursue it as a career? One year ago we did a feature on why students played sports. We heard stories about values and relationships and saw a glimpse into the world of the college athlete. But it left us wondering … what about the singer? The actor? The artist? What is life like for those in the studio or on stage? We asked eight students—seven from the College of Liberal Arts and one from the Graduate School of Liberal Studies—to tell us about their experiences and why they participate in fine arts activities. Their answer? “Because we can’t imagine our lives without it.”

By Lucy Dwyer ’06, magazine intern, and Breanne Hanson Hegg MANM ’04, executive director of creative services.

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Stephen Helvig Kimi Hirata Sophomore theSenior (graduated in May) life Major: Music and economics Major: Biology, studio arts minor Hometown: Truman, MN Hometown: Tokyo, Japan “Music is everywhere and everything you do, of everything we experience is accompanied by music. Ceramics Music is an excellent way to express yourself. It’s a lot “I think art is everything; you can find art anywhere. For about communication if you have a message, or even example, I am taking biology as my major, and even just communication...with yourself. It’s about knowing though it seems completely different from art, I find so who you are and putting those ideas down on the much art in biology and I find so much biology, in art. page and exploring them. I want to do art in my future, but I also like biology, and The rest of my band, Skyline Citizen, also go to Hamline allows me to do both. It’s just the nature of me; I Hamline. We actually grew up together, too. We have really have to do art stuff. Biology is so stressful, but studied voice together since we were fifteen years taking art really helps me and relieves me. I probably old and still do to this day. Without putting too much wouldn’t be able to finish this biology major without it! It thought into it, we all picked Hamline individually for makes me a peacemaker, calms me down, and relieves my our own reasons and recorded our first album stress. I can get joy out of it and it just makes me happy. freshman year and right now we are recording our After I finish school, I already have a job with a second album. pharmaceutical company in Japan, where I am from, but Ideally, after college I will be a performer, but if I if I could do anything, I would for sure do something with can’t be a rock star, the next thing I would want to do art. If I didn’t have to get a job to make money, I would is produce.” Leah Starr just be totally into art and just show it to everybody.” Senior (graduated in May) Majors: Theatrean and religion Orchestra Hometown: Augusta, WI artist Katlyn Cooper Theatre Sophomore Major: Music performance “I grew up in a theatre family, and for me, theatre is Hometown: Frontenac, MN about telling stories. I am fascinated by people and I love a good story...and as an actor you get to be “The arts are essential because it is very important to anybody you want to be and that’s pretty incredible. be good at something and to really feel a sense of Theatre adds community to my life. It gives me a pride in something. We had lots of cello music CD’s place to be totally human because it is OK to be that when I was little and that’s why I chose it as an in the theatre. You can be crazy and broken and instrument, because I knew that sound and really fell messed up and wonderful because it makes good art; in love with it. there is conflict and there is drama in that. You get to If I weren’t involved in the arts at Hamline, it would be creative, which gives me an outlet and an escape. be really different. I don’t know what I would be I want to direct after college. Directing is the place getting, what I’d be doing, if I weren’t involved in the where you really get to be on the outside of it and see arts. I was home–schooled my entire life and I have the whole picture and help other people bring all their met a lot of people through music who are friends visions together and create this thing that you give away now that wouldn’t be if I weren’t involved in music. to the audience. I love that act of putting it together and After college, I would like to be in an orchestra. I then putting it out there for someone else. am going to get my master’s and my doctoral degree, I think really being able to experience life and express it, so hopefully, it will be my career.” and to explain or communicate with other people what our experience is...I think art is required for that.” 22 HAMLINE MAGAZINE SUMMER 2006 23 Patrick Rieger Dance Ensemble Theatre Senior (graduated in May) Major: Religion, theatre minor Mai Nhia Moua Hometown: Minneapolis, MN Junior Majors: Criminal justice and biology, Theatre forensic science certificate Hometown: Anchorage, AK “Both of my parents were actors. I always said I “I started dancing in high school. It’s been six years wouldn’t follow in their footsteps and be a theatre now and I love it. For me, with school there’s all this major, but you can’t not do what you love when it’s stress with homework and professors and studies. inside you. But whenever I’m at dance, it’s like all that doesn’t I never knew that theatre could affect people’s matter. It’s a great way to relieve stress. Well...except emotions when I came to college. I hadn’t when we perform. experienced that yet in a play, where you could reach The amount of expression in dance is why I chose to inside audience members and let them go walking do this with my time and dance gives me a more away with their world rocked from emotions and personal connection to the campus. It’s something from a story that I just told. And after that, I thought, you get drawn into. Dancing is a great way to explore if I can do this for the rest of my life and get paid for culture...hip-hop and flamenco have been part it, then so be it. All of the sudden it just hits you of multicultural celebrations on campus. senior year that you want to just get out there into Dance doesn’t fit with my academic interests, but it the professional world, and that’s a compliment to plays a big role in my co-curricular activities. I want to Hamline. I don’t think I’d have that drive without the be a crime scene investigator. I’d like to go to grad experience and the role models and the influences school after this in New York or D.C.” I’ve had at Hamline. They have facilitated me with skills to be ready to work. I am ready to put what I love to do out there.” Ivan Konev Graduate student, Graduate School becauseof Liberal Studies (graduated in May) Painting Hometown: Moscow, Russia Nicole Flam International Piano Institute Sophomore Majors: Art and psychology “I didn’t choose music, I was put into it when I was Hometown: St. Cloud, MN four or five years old. I can’t imagine being someone else, not being a musician. It has let me travel the “Art is very therapeutic for me, kind of like my way of world. It has let me come here. meditating, I suppose. In Russia I concentrated mostly on music. I was really Art has enhanced my education because in most of excited to study other things here. I’m a regular my art classes I learn that nothing has to be a certain MALS (master of arts in liberal studies) student and I way and that you can change it. I think that is one of also have a concentration on music. In MALS we’re the main things I have carried over to my other always trying to develop all the instruments of study, classes. Art gives you more than one perspective. It the links between all the subjects. There are so many has definitely changed the way I see the world. I see parallels between literature and music. colors and notice them, I notice shadows that people I have come to understand that studying just music is take for granted. Lately, I will look at something and too boring. When playing, you need to express think about what it would look like as a drawing. It is a yourself, to say something about what you think, which good release from the corporate, structured, is basically what you do in MALS. Moving your fingers computer-system world. is the least important part. If you don’t have something I am trying to go to graduate school for art. I would in you to say, that’s not going to touch people.” like to be an art therapist but still have enough time to to work on my own art.” HAMLINE MAGAZINE we SUMMER 2006 24 have 25 Portrait of an Artist

here is no word for “artist” in the Lakota language. “Artists are just part of the fabric of Native American culture—an integral part, and there is no separation,” Vickie Benson said. For Benson, who has Lakota Native American heritage, this comes as no surprise. Art has always T been a constant in her life. She started as a professional folk singer and songwriter in her twenties, playing the guitar in coffeehouses and folk venues around town. Today that former folk singer is the vice president of the Jerome Foundation, which focuses on the development and creation of new work by emerging artists in Minnesota and the five buroughs of New York City. Benson’s days are spent reviewing grant proposals submitted by artists and making recommendations to the foundation’s board of directors about which ventures to fund. “The Jerome Foundation’s Board prefers work that pushes boundaries of each of the forms that are funded: visual arts, media, dance, theater, music and literature,” Benson said. Though Benson has been a key player at the Jerome Foundation for the last decade, supporting the arts has been part of her professional portfolio for even longer. Her career began in Washington, D.C., as a program specialist for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), followed by five years in New York City, working as a program director developing grant programs for a national service organization, Chamber Music America. In 2003, Benson earned her master’s degree in nonprofit management from Hamline’s Graduate School of Management. “I went to Hamline specifically because I figured that the arts would not be a major focus in the nonprofit program,” she said. “What happened is that I found that the arts are not much different than other sectors. We are just dealing constantly with how to support creativity and expression. The struggle for resources is just as difficult in the arts as in any other sector.” And still the artist herself, Benson—who in the last fifteen years has been exploring the traditions and culture of her Lakota Native American background, along with her sister—enjoys a new kind of artistic expression in her spare time. “I am learning to play the Lakota flute,” she says. “I played it in public for the first time at my mother’s funeral, which was quite cathartic, because it was my mother who passed the Lakota to me.” Benson serves on the Board of Grantmakers in the Arts, a national organization supporting professionals who make grants to artists and arts organizations. Recently, the organization launched a special group called The Indigenous Resource Network to draw more attention and resources to Native American artists. “Part of our mission is to make sure that the native or Indian voice is included in every conversation and opportunity available to artists,” said Benson, who serves as the committee’s co-chair. Above all, Benson considers her work a joy. “Artists help to bring much needed reflection, beauty Vickie Benson MANM ’03 and aesthetics, and help us find meaning in the world and in our lives,” she said. “Workng with artists keeps me on the edge of exciting work—I’m lucky to have such a great job.”

Jennifer L. Krempin is a free-lance writer for Hamline.

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College of Liberal Arts Joneen Gaylord Richards was selected 1966 outstanding middle school teacher for This fall you'll be celebrating your the Shoreline school district. She also 1946 1954 1956 40-year reunion as part of Hamline’s co-wrote and produced a full-length Homecoming & Reunion Weekend on This fall you’ll be celebrating your John Paul Eddy had his poem, This fall you’ll be celebrating your musical inspired by the book, Two from October 6–8, 2006. If you'd like to 60-year reunion as part of Hamline’s “Disasters Need USA Priorities and 50-year reunion as part of Hamline’s Galilee, by Marjorie Holmes. help plan your reunion, please call Homecoming & Reunion Weekend on Actions,” published in the book, Best Homecoming & Reunion Weekend Karla Williams at 651-523-2686 or October 6–8, 2006. If you’d like to Poems and Poets of 2005. He was on October 6–8, 2006. If you’d like to e-mail [email protected]. 1973 College of Liberal Arts help plan your reunion, please call elected president of EFA of the United help plan your reunion, please call Mary Laufenburger Haugen Alumni Board President Betsy Radtke at 651-523-2201 or States and Canada as well as pro-tem Betsy Radtke at 651-523-2201 or John Serier and his former Hamline received the Merit Award from the e-mail [email protected]. chair of the Denton Neighborhood e-mail [email protected]. roommate, Chuck Diesen ’66, Minnesota Coalition for Women in Alliance of Denton, Texas. reunited to compete together at the Athletic Leadership. This issue of the magazine features Vice state and national senior men’s curling President and Dean Garvin Davenport and 1951 Mary Jane Jensen Schreiner sold her 1957 championships. They placed fourth in his retirement. It brings to mind, is there life This fall you’ll be celebrating your townhome in Shoreview and moved to Robert Heimerl received the 2005 the state and were first runner-up in 1974 after Hamline? When that last final exam 55-year reunion as part of Hamline’s Sun City West, Arizona. She writes that Retired Educators Association of the national super senior competition. Lenore Kinne and three of her was taken and we had our diploma in hand, Homecoming & Reunion Weekend she “is enjoying golfing, traveling, and Minnesota educator award for colleagues from Northern Kentucky did we ever think we would look back, let alone come back? on October 6–8, 2006. If you’d like still does income taxes for her outstanding community service and University presented a professional to help plan your reunion, please call Minnesota clients each spring.” leadership. He also received the AARP 1968 development seminar on gifted/talented How have you stayed in touch? Betsy Radtke at 651-523-2201 or Minnesota Excellence in Volunteer James Juola has been a professor of education for teachers in Dubai, e-mail [email protected]. Service Award. psychology at the University of Kansas United Arab Emirates. You have close friends from your for thirty-three years. He will spend the days at Hamline. 1959 2006–2007 school year on sabbatical You keep in touch with favorite professor. leave in Europe, mostly at the Technical 1975 Patricia Jensen Williams Brockman ‘The Legend Lives On’ University of Eindhoven in the Catherine Ritchie presented her paper, You volunteer to do mock interviews, married Cal Brockman in 2004. She is Netherlands. “Rally Around a Need: Developing the resume workshops, or are a mentor. the secretary of the Oregon/Idaho First GLBT Author Series in Dallas,” at You attend events at Hamline. chapter of the Methodist Federation for the 2006 Texas Library Association Social Action and the lay leader of the 1969 Annual Conference in Houston. She You donate to the Alumni Annual Fund. Portland First United Methodist Beverly Clink Oster Ornelas received was also elected to the executive board You buy a new sweatshirt every time Church. She recently visited her the 2006 Paula E. Sullivan Award from of the Theatre Library Association. grandson in Maui. the Advertising Club of San Diego. you visit the bookstore. The award is given annually to one Terence O’Brien had his book You pick up the latest issue of the Oracle outstanding member of the local ad 1976 when you visit. about his life, Close, but no Cigar— industry. She is president of Oster and This fall you’ll be celebrating your A Street Urchin’s Tale, published by Associates, an advertising agency she 30-year reunion as part of Hamline’s You visit the Hamline Web site to PublishAmerica. see what’s new. founded in 1986. Homecoming & Reunion Weekend on October 6–8, 2006. If you’d like to You read the magazine. 1961 help plan your reunion, please call 1971 You recommend Hamline to younger James Priebe lives in Hawaii and is Karla Williams at 651-523-2686 or This fall you’ll be celebrating your relatives and friends. pursuing a degree in Hawaiian studies e-mail [email protected]. 35-year reunion as part of Hamline’s at the University of Hawaii, Kaua’i. You drive by campus and admire Homecoming & Reunion Weekend how nice it looks. Annette DeCourcy Towler retired on October 6–8, 2006. If you’d like 1977 from NSP/Xcel Energy Sherco Plant to help plan your reunion, please call Patricia MaMahon Boman has been There are many ways you can stay in touch, on October 31, 2005. She lives in Karla Williams at 651-523-2686 or named to the national board of the even if you don’t have much time or aren’t close by. Once we leave Hamline, we begin St. Cloud, Minnesota. e-mail [email protected]. American Institute of Graphic Arts’ Center for Cross-cultural Design. She is a new relationship with it. Look familiar? Former Minneapolis Laker and Hamline alumnus 1965 1972 the managing partner of Art + Design As I complete my term as president, I will not Vern Mikkelsen ’49, along with John Kundla, former coach for the Educational Advisors, LLC. She be looking back, but forward to Hamline’s Dirk Gasterland was awarded the Jack Haugen was elected to his second Minneapolis Lakers, collaborated with Miranda Moss, principal and recently served as a visiting scholar at future. I will continue serving on the board 2005 LADCO Distinguished Service four-year term as mayor of Prior Lake. and as class agent for 1993. I enjoy coming artist-in-residence at the global design and brand firm Yamamoto Ohio University, conducting research Award for his long-term contribution back to campus and watching students Moss, to create this painting for a fund-raiser for the American Laurance Johnston had his book, on the pedagogical legacy of Swiss to the area economy. He also received hurry to class, laugh, and sit in the Student Diabetes Association. Alternative Medicine and Spinal Cord designer Armin Hofmann. the 2006 Iverson Freking Award for Center. It feels good Injury: Beyond the Banks of the This is Moss’s second Hamline-related work; she also painted putting faith into action. to be connected. Mainstream, published by Demos Hamline’s 150th anniversary illustration. Medical Publishing. Tiffaney Bakken Clark ’93

28 HAMLINE MAGAZINE SUMMER 2006 29 CLASS NOTES CLASS NOTES 2006 Mark your HOMECOMING & REUNION WEEKEND HAMLINE UNIVERSITY • COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS 1992 Michael Grage and his wife, Andrea, welcomed son, Neale James, on March FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6 3, 2006. The family lives in Chicago • Golden Anniversary Luncheon. Join other alumni who graduated fifty where Michael works for the or more years ago for a luncheon to start the weekend of celebration. architectural firm Lohan Anderson. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7 LaVonne Anderson Griffin and her • Memorial service to remember those alumni, faculty, staff husband, Tom, welcomed daughter, and students who have died in the past year. Ashley Mackenna, on November 26, • All-Campus Picnic 2005. She joins siblings, Chelsea, 12, • Homecoming Football Game vs. Concordia Cobbers Jake, 6, and Jordan, 3. • Pre-parties for those classes ending in a “1” or a “6” (5–7 p.m.)* • All-College Reunion Dinner in Walker Fieldhouse. Join all alumni, Kate Touhey was named the best faculty, and staff from the College of Liberal Arts to celebrate special events planner 2005 by 1992 Glenda Paape married Eric Watry on March 25, 2006. Hamline alumni in Homecoming & Reunion Weekend at this dinner and program. Minnesota Meetings and Events attendance include Becky Morales Busho ’93, David Ringler ’94, Jennifer Hauger magazine. Kate works as a senior SUNDAY, OCTOBER 8 Ringler ’94,Tammy Johnson ’92, Ben Wickum ’93, Jeff Erickson ’92, Grete Krohn corporate event planner for Thrivent • Brunch for all alumni before or after church ’94,Tami Esch Eshult ’92, Chris Erickson ’92, and Amy Lewis ’91. Financial for Lutherans. • Hamline United Methodist Church service at 9:30 a.m. joins sister, Lyndsey, 3. Stacy supervises Nathaniel Christian, on November 5, * If you graduated in a year ending in “1” or a “6” and are interested in helping to plan your 1993 a medical billing group for the 2005. reunion pre-party, please call the alumni office at 651-523-2015 or e-mail [email protected] Jane Sklenicka-Focht and her University of Minnesota Physicians. Shannon Ort was named a 2006 husband, John, welcomed daughter, The family lives in Elk River. “Rising Star” by Minnesota Law & Sydney, in October. She joins sister, Politics magazine. Clare, 3. 1996 Thomas Skare (also JD ’87) February 5, 2006. She joins brother, 1988 announced his decision to run for the Paul. This fall you’ll be celebrating your 1999 Eighth District Senate seat. He is an Mark Solheim (also JD ’90) was 1994 10-year reunion as part of Hamline’s Melissa Martinez-Sones. See page 32. attorney in Cloquet, Minnesota. Jonathan Jasper (also JD ’05) was named vice chair of USLAW, an E. Ashley Dixon Cannaday and her Homecoming & Reunion Weekend appointed to serve as a Tenth alliance of independent business husband, Chris, welcomed daughter, on October 6–8, 2006. If you’d like Congressional District trial court judge law firms. He is a partner at Larson Reegan. She joins sister, Kailyn, 3. to help plan your reunion, please call 2000 1981 by Governor Tim Pawlenty. King, LLP. Ashley works for the Saint Paul Public Molly Glewwe at 651-523-2448 or Susie Anderson. See 2001. This fall you’ll be celebrating your Schools as a gifted and talented e-mail [email protected]. 25-year reunion as part of Hamline’s 1986 coordinator and principal intern. Linnea Peterson Soular graduated Homecoming & Reunion Weekend on 1990 Gretchen Fury Johnson and her as a doctor of chiropractic from This fall you’ll be celebrating your The family lives in Rosemount. October 6–8, 2006. If you’d like to Donald Kowalsky accepted the husband, Eric Johnson ’97, welcomed Northwestern Health Sciences 20-year reunion as part of Hamline’s help plan your reunion, please call position of executive kitchen Dawn Syren Jenkins quit her job to son, Elijah Michael, on December 2, University. She works at Simply Homecoming & Reunion Weekend on Karla Williams at 651-523-2686 or manager for The Cheesecake Factory take care of her daughter, Bella, full- 2005. Chiropractic, a family chiropractic October 6–8, 2006. If you’d like to e-mail [email protected]. in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. time. Bella was a micro-preemie and practice in White Bear Lake, help plan your reunion, please call Tim Traffie has accepted the position 2005 marked the third year the family Minnesota. Her husband, Dan Soular, Karla Williams at 651-523-2686 or of associate registrar for the college and participated in the March of Dimes graduated from medical school at the 1982 e-mail [email protected]. 1991 graduate schools at Hamline University. WalkAmerica fund-raiser. Dawn, who University of Minnesota and is Terri Simard (also JD ’84) was This fall you’ll be celebrating your Tim has worked in alumni relations at refers to herself as a “stay-at-beach completing his residency in family promoted to vice president of law at Todd Dahlin and his wife, Jennifer, 15-year reunion as part of Hamline’s Hamline since 2000 and was instru- mom,” lives in Aptos, California, with medicine at St. John’s Hospital in Target Corporation in Minneapolis. welcomed son, Theodore (Teddy) Homecoming & Reunion Weekend on mental in developing and implement- her family. Maplewood. They live in Hugo. She was also named one of the top 100 Pearson, on December 13, 2004. October 6–8, 2006. If you’d like to ing data security, standards, and female superlawyers and one of forty help plan your reunion, please call Elisabeth Liggett Stuewe and her processes for alumni and constituent real estate superlawyers in Minnesota 1987 Molly Glewwe at 651-523-2448 or husband, Jason Stuewe ’94, welcomed data. He said that he “is looking 2001 e-mail [email protected]. Law & Politics. Jessica Schmiesing welcomed son, daughter, Peyton Elisabeth, on June 8, forward to the new challenges and This fall you’ll be celebrating your Anton Isidore James, on November 22, Marc St. Martin has spent over three 2005. They live in Buckeye, Arizona. working more closely with students 5-year reunion as part of Hamline’s 1984 2005. Jessica is the director of HR years in Afghanistan heading a British and faculty.” Homecoming & Reunion Weekend on October 6–8, 2006. If you’d like to Leo Brisbois (also JD ’87) and his consulting services for AgriBank, FCB humanitarian aid organization. He 1995 help plan your reunion, please call wife, Susan, welcomed daughter, in Saint Paul. writes that he is “contemplating an Stacy Mennenga Korst and her 1998 Molly Glewwe at 651-523-2448 or Gabriella (Ella) Mary Kaye, on early retirement somewhere in the husband, Jason, welcomed son, Nathan Christina Erickson Gunnerud and e-mail [email protected]. developing world.” William, on December 18, 2005. He her husband, Christian, welcomed son,

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been the chief assistant Clay County 2003 1977 attorney since 2002. Mary Burmaster MFA had a poem Timothy Davis was named partner at published in Mona Poetica, an Hellmuth & Johnson, specializing in anthology dedicated to poems estate planning. 1984 considering the Mona Lisa. Terri Simard (also BA ’82) was Donovan Frank was elected an officer promoted to vice president of law at Jenny Rose Ryan MALS had an of Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers for Target Corporation in Minneapolis. article on spring cleaning published the 2005–2006 year. She was also named one of the top 100 in the April/May 2006 issue of female superlawyers and one of forty BUST magazine. Bricker Lavik was presented with the 2006 Distinguished Service Award at real estate superlawyers in Minnesota the Hennepin County Bar Association’s Law & Politics. 2004 annual bar benefit. He is senior counsel Jennifer Budenski MFA was and director of Dorsey & Whitney 1986 selected as the Midwest region’s LLP’s pro bono program. Kevan Truman was nominated for the recipient of the College Board’s Bob Patrick Sauter was elected vice Golden Apple Award for Excellence in 1999 Melissa Martinez-Sones and her husband, Adam 2005 Nicholas Krongard received the silver medal in figure Costas Grant for the Teaching of Teaching. The award is given to Writing, awarded February 25, 2006, president of the Minnesota Defense Kintopf, welcomed daughter, Ruby, on May 28, 2005. She skating at the 2005 U.S. Collegiate Championships. Lawyers’ Association. teachers who teach kindergarten joins sister, Cecilia. in Chicago. She also had a poem through third grade in the Chicago published in Poetry East titled, “What metropolitan area. Kevan teaches a Poet Would Draw.” 1978 third grade in Wilmette, Illinois. Brandon Tucker married Susie Graduate School of Pamela Miller Harris was elected to Anderson ’00 on December 30, 2005. 2005 the Falcon Heights city council. Charles Lenz was director of the Liberal Studies 1987 Susie works as a business consultant for Leo Brisbois (also BA ’84) and his Cooks of Crocus Hill and Brandon is Minnesota Tibetan Oral History 1981 Project for the Minnesota Historical 1996 wife, Susan, welcomed daughter, the director of StarPolish Presents, a School of Law L. Randolph Lowry III was named Society until the project’s end in Regula Russelle MALS was Gabriella (Ella) Mary Kaye, on music talent agency in Saint Paul. the seventeenth president of Lipscomb December 2005. He was also nominated for the Minnesota Book February 5, 2006. She joins brother, University in Nashville, Tennessee. He appointed the operations manager for Awards in the fine press category for 1976 Paul. took office on November 1, 2005 and 2004 the marketing and communications her work, Putting Tomatoes By. John Kingrey was honored on was inaugurated on March 29, 2006. Colleen Kaufenberg joined the firm Erin Gebhart Hayes married Corey department at the Minnesota September 14, 2005, with the Catholic Spirit’s fourth annual of Hansen, Dordell, Bradt, Odlaug Hayes on August 20, 2005. Erin is a Historical Society. & Bradt, specializing in the area of personal banking officer with M&I 1997 “Leading with Faith” award in the 1982 Elizabeth Andrew MFA was nonprofit category. John is the civil litigation. Bank in Woodbury, where the couple Kenneth Kohler was named by nominated for the Minnesota Book executive director of the Minnesota is building a home. Governor Tim Pawlenty as a finalist Jeffrey Sheridan was honored by Awards for her collection of essays, County Attorneys Association. for a Seventh Judicial District trial Minnesota Lawyer as an “Attorney On the Threshold: Home, Hardwood, court bench judgeship in the city of of the Year.” & Holiness. Moorhead in Clay County. He has Thomas Skare (also BA ’77) announced his decision to run for the Eighth District Senate seat. He is an HAMLINE ALUMNI & FRIENDS: Come to Hamline with attorney in Cloquet, Minnesota. your sons, daughters, grandchildren, nieces & nephews for a workshop. Todd Westphal was appointed by Watch your mail Governor Tim Pawlenty to a Fifth for invitations this !,)4%2!29!..5!, Judicial District trial court bench finding the right fit summer. This event vacancy in the city of St. Peter in is co-sponsored by Nicollet County. He is a shareholder SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 9 A.M.–1 P.M. the CLA Alumni Office with the St. Peter law firm of and the Office of Under- "«i˜°Ê- ÕÌ°Ê"«i˜° graduate Admission. Mackenzie and Gustafson and an º7>ÌiÀÊHÊ-̜˜iÊ,iۈiÜʈÃʜ˜iʜvÊÌ iʓœÃÌÊii}>˜Ì]Ê The half-day morning workshop is designed to assist families in starting For more information, ÃÕLÃÌ>˜Ìˆ>ÊˆÌiÀ>ÀÞʍœÕÀ˜>ÃÊ>˜ÞÜ iÀiʜ˜ÊÌ iÊ  q6/,5-% assistant to Nicollet County attorney. the college search process. Topics covered will include: visit www.hamline.edu/
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1990 1994 Kara Fay and her husband, Dennis Kaelene Arvidson-Hicks was named 1998 2000 2002 Drury, welcomed daughter, Ashley, on resource specialist for Community Mical Kapsner Griffin was elected a Josh Tuchscherer was elected to the Jonathan Fritz joined the Madison, July 3, 2005. She joins brothers Patrick Action in Duluth. shareholder of Leonard, Street and 2005 induction class of the Wisconsin Wisconsin office of Whyte and Liam and sister, Kierden. Deinard. She practices in the areas of Rapids Lincoln High School Hall of Hirschboeck Dudek S.C. as a patent Christopher Engler teaches world intellectual property and information Fame in September 2005. While in attorney and member of the firm’s Mary Leahy was appointed by history and social studies at Stillwater technology. high school, he earned letters in intellectual property counseling, Governor Tim Pawlenty to fill a Area High School. He previously multiple sports, including cross information technology, and IP Winona County District Court taught for eight years at Lakeville Timothy Griffin was elected a country, tennis, and swimming. litigation practice groups. School of Law judge seat. High School. shareholder of Leonard, Street and Alumni Board President Deinard. He practices in the areas of Amy Gavel was named youth James Reed Jr. accepted a position as Joseph Roach was named partner business, commercial, and product 2001 activities director at Mount Zion As I begin my presidency of the School of director of government relations for the in the business department at liability litigation. Craig Hanson joined the St. Cloud Temple in Saint Paul. Law Alumni Board, I report to those who Illinois Education Association. Rider Bennett. office of Gray Plant Mooty as an Shannon Hoagland was elected a associate in the entrepreneurial services Emmerson Hodgson Ward and his take the time to read this brief message Paul Simonett works as senior rule of Anna Marie Thatcher and her shareholder of Leonard, Street and group. wife, Susan, welcomed daughter, Lily something already well known. Our law advisor for the U.S. Agency for husband, Graham, co-authored the Deinard. She practices in the area of Nan, On August 15, 2005. She joins community of alumni, which I like to call International Development in Jakarta, play, “Thurgood Marshall’s Coming!” real estate law. Jason Johns was named an associate sister, Louisa, 2. "the Hamline Nation," continues to be Indonesia. The play received an honorable with James Tenuta & Associates in vibrant, alive, and well-connected. Tamika mention in theater at the American Bar Diane Odeen was elected a Madison, Wisconsin. He is lobbying Joshua Larsen is a judge advocate in Mark Solheim (also BA ’88) was Nordstrom, our outgoing president, Association’s Silver Gavel Awards shareholder at Lommen, Abdo, Cole, the Wisconsin State Legislature in the Minnesota Army National Guard. provided excellent leadership over the last named vice chair of USLAW, an King & Stageberg. She practices in the Competition for Media and the Arts. various areas, including municipal, Katy McGiffin married Bryant two years. She presided over a growing alliance of independent business areas of employment litigation, legal health care, tribal, utility, and Gauthier JD ’02 on October 8, alumni scholarship fund; the creation of the law firms. He is a partner at Larson and medical malpractice claims, pharmaceutical issues. 2005. Katy is an assistant Hennepin “Six-Minute Social,”which connects alumni King, LLP. 1995 personal injury, and insurance disputes. County attorney handling juvenile with students; and the re-creation of the Shane Goettle was appointed Karin Simonson and her husband, prosecutions and Bryant is a legal class agent network. We thank her for these commissioner of the Department of Brian, welcomed son, Nathan, on 1991 1999 systems engineer with Kroll OnTrack great accomplishments. Commerce for North Dakota. October 10, 2005. Maury Beaulier was named partner at Steven Sitek was named partner in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. Hellmuth & Johnson in the area of Diana Longrie was elected mayor of at Rider Bennett in the litigation I intend to maintain that momentum. Our criminal defense practice. Maplewood on November 8, 2005. department. Stacie Otte is senior legal counsel for law alumni board will continue to foster National Arbitration Forum. connections among alumni. If you have Lynn Leegard was reappointed to the ideas to help us grow the Hamline Nation, Minnesota Racing Commission by 1996 please send me a quick e-mail. I look Governor Tim Pawlenty. She is vice Michael Scully was named partner forward to working with our alumni in the president and general counsel of and shareholder by the law firm of coming year! Shamrock Development, Inc. in Coon Sieben, Grose, Von Holtum & Carey. Rapids, Minnesota. Michael is a personal injury attorney Don McNeil ’89 specializing in the field of workers’ [email protected] compensation. He lives with his family HAMLINE ALUMNI & FRIENDS ABROAD—ITALY 1992 in Hastings, Minnesota. John Scobey was named associate counsel for Time Warner Telecom in Lisa Edison-Smith was named one Littleton, Colorado. of Chambers USA best employment Music, History, Architecture & lawyers for 2005. She practices labor Van Tran was honored with the Global and employment law with the Vogel Gardens Join Yali You, professor in the music department and the Asian community and was given its Citizen Award by the Global Connect Law Firm in Fargo, North Dakota. orchestra conductor at Hamline, and Paul Knuth, lead annual award of leadership. at the University of California, Irvine. gardener at the Marjorie McNeely Conservatory of Como Park He has been serving on the California Joseph Twomey was named general in Saint Paul, for a twelve-day exploration of Italy for alumni State Assembly since November 2004, partner at Hansen, Dordell, Bradt, MAY 21–JUNE 2, 2007 and friends of Hamline. 1989 representing the Sixty-Eighth Assembly Odlaug & Bradt. He has been a Kathy Freije Thompson was named For more information, contact Kim Zielinski at 651-523-2245 District in Orange County. member of the firm since 1998, or [email protected]. senior attorney editor for the Expert specializing in the areas of insurance, Witness Project at Thomson West. 1993 personal injury, and workers’ compensation defense. David Ujke was appointed a court Elliot Kula is listed in the 2006 commissioner for Bayfield County, edition of The Best Lawyers in America. Wisconsin. He was also elected vice Elliot is a shareholder with Greenberg president of the Bayfield-Ashland Traurig in Miami in the firm’s appellate County bar association. practice group.

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ment of Human Services DHS/AMC Camillya Bryant works at the Office Company in Bend, Oregon, until Word has been received of the death 2003 Managing Change Task Force. of the Public Defender, Third Judicial their retirement. He was preceded in 1940 of Charles Johnson. Charles majored Danielle Brandstetter Boccio is a District, in Rochester, Minnesota. death by wife, Elizabeth Kottke Ruth Beatty Willson died June 6, in history and was active in basketball prosecutor at the New York City Law Penni Frank joined the Webber law Prodehl ’37. 2005. Ruth majored in economics and and football. He worked for the Department Office of the Corporation firm as an associate attorney. Michael Gates is an associate attorney was active in the choir and Epsilon 3M Company. Counsel in Queens Family Court. She at Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Lambda Sigma. She is survived by Brian Holly accepted a position as was appointed the designated sex Christensen, P.A. He focuses primarily 1937 husband, Stanley. an associate at Aafedt, Forde, Gray crimes prosecutor in the Queens office. on patent prosecution and litigation Audrey Roth Comstock died 1947 Monson, and Hager, P.A., in and entertainment law. November 21, 2005. Audrey majored Donna Jean Cook Bassett died May Beth Engels is a public interest Minneapolis. in German and was active in orchestra, 1941 25, 2005. Donna majored in music attorney for the Iowa Coalition for Kimberly Holst was awarded first Glenn Scharfenberg died August 22, James Little joined the firm of Moss the French club, and Alpha Rho Delta. and was active in A Cappella Choir, Domestic Violence in Des Moines. prize in the 2005 Nathan Burke 2005. He is survived by wife, Barbara; & Barnett, P.A. She worked as the secretary for the Sigma Gamma Delta, and Kappa Delta Memorial Competition at Hamline two sons; and one daughter. Joshua Kind-Keppel became a bio-chemistry department at the Epsilon. She received her master’s Phillip Quintana accepted the University School of Law for her paper, member of the Minnesota Bar in University of Minnesota, Duluth, until degree from Northwestern University position of staff counsel with the “A Case of Bad Credit?: The United December 2005. He is the chair of the her retirement. She was preceded in 1942 in 1948 and went on to teach piano Apollo Group Inc. at the University States and the Protection of Moral New Lawyers Section of the Dane death by husband, Jack. She is survived Ione Hals Jones died November 30, and organ until her retirement. She is of Phoenix. Rights in Intellectual Property Law.” County Bar Association. by daughters, Dorothy, Carolyn, 2005. Ione majored in English and survived by husband, Jimmy. Ginny, and Elizabeth Comstock ’69; Jonathan Jasper (also BA ’84) was economics and was a member of Alpha Phyllis Fitch Femrite died October Sam Sigelman and his wife, Megan, 2005 appointed to serve as a Tenth ten grandchildren; and five great- Phi Theta. She went on to work as a welcomed son, Milo Sanford, on 23, 2005. Phyllis graduated from the Angela Bennett passed the Wisconsin Congressional District trial court judge grandchildren. secretary for Technicon Data Systems. August 13, 2005. Hamline/Asbury School of Nursing. bar exam and is working for the Bakke by Governor Tim Pawlenty. Clarence Page died November 1, She is survived by husband, David. After working as a nurse, she retired Norman law firm in New Richmond, Casey Nolan joined Gary Plant 2004. Clarence majored in economics to be a housewife. 2004 Wisconsin, litigating primarily in the Mooty’s Minneapolis office as an and was a member of Kappa Gamma 1943 area of criminal defense. Mary Craig Vandanacker died Michelle Basham was named as the associate in the employment law group. Chi. He went on to work as the Word has been received of the death lead staff for the Minnesota Depart- manager of trade relations at Firestone January 13, 2005. Mary majored in of Betty Miller Pemberton. Betty was history and was active in Philo Tire and Rubber Company in Akron, a member of Alpha Rho Delta. Ohio. He is survived by wife, Grace Browning, Pi Gamma Mu, and Kappa Perkins Page ’37. Delta Epsilon. She worked as a 1945 columnist for many years before joining In Memoriam Word has been received of the death of Ruth Platzke died December 19, the Idaho State Tax Commission as Leona Scheunemann Witter. Leona 2005. Ruth attended Hamline for supervisor until her retirement in 1991. Karen and Betty; six grandchildren; by wife, Merle Hotson Kiel ’33; majored in music and was active in the three years before receiving her She is survived by her husband, James 1920 and eleven great-grandchildren. daughter, Sandra; four grandchildren; choir, orchestra, and Kappa Delta bachelor’s degree from the University Vandanacker ’49; daughters, Erica and Clarine Studness Moe died October and eight great-grandchildren. Epsilon. She went on to teach music at of Minnesota. She also received her Gail; son, Marc; seven grandchildren; 29, 2005. She was preceded in death a number of universities across the master’s degree in education from the and five great-grandchildren. by husband, Chester. 1930 country before retiring from Michigan University of Minnesota in 1951. She Barbara Guckeen Main died 1936 State University in 1980. She is Jean Larson Watkins died August 27, worked as an elementary school teacher 2005. Jean majored in biology and was November 10, 2005. Barbara majored Mildred Flint Hallman died October survived by daughter, Jean. for over thirty years until her retire- 1925 in education and history and was active 2, 2004. Mildred majored in English active in band, the Oracle, League of Gertrude Nunn Robson died ment. She was preceded in death by Women Voters, Tri Beta, and Sigma in Alpha Phi. She went on to work as a and speech. She was active in husband, Bert. She is survived by February 25, 2006. She attended teacher and was the principal of schools A Cappella Choir and Alpha Phi. She 1938 Gamma Delta. She was preceded in Hamline for two years before trans- Myra Griesburg Christian died daughter, Barb; son, Bruce; and death by sister, Joan Larson Evans in Kiester and Freeborn, Minnesota. went on to work as an English teacher three grandchildren. ferring to Miss Wood’s Kindergarten She is survived by husband, Hosie at Clarksville High School in January 27, 2006. Myra majored in ’48. She is survived by husband, John; School. She is survived by daughters, Main ’36, and son, Thomas. Clarksville, Indiana. She is survived music and was active in Philo daughters, Yvonne, Joan, and Lynne Jean Paisley ’51, Marlys Reimler ’54, by son, Dennis. Browning and A Cappella Choir. She 1946 Watkins Gosting ’86; and sons, David and Carolyn Robson Hoyme ’58, went on to work as a private piano Virginia Olson Albert died October and Douglas Watkins ’81. and son-in-law Keith Paisley ’50. 1934 Word has been received of the death of instructor and church organist. She was 20, 2005. Virginia graduated from the Kenneth Kiel died January 28, 2006. Hortense Dahlberg O’Neill. Hortense preceded in death by husband, Ray Hamline/Asbury School of Nursing. 1948 Kenneth majored in physics and was a majored in sociology. Christian ’38, and sons, Lloyd and She went on to work as an occupa- 1929 member of Alpha Tau Omega. He Dale. She is survived by daughters, Kenneth Beck died March 20, 2006. Word has been received of the death tional health nurse for the U.S. Navy Rosamond Donaldson Moore died worked many years at Burroughs Myrna and Jean; nine grandchildren; Kenneth majored in philosophy and March 12, 2006. Rosamond worked as of Luvern Prodehl. Luvern majored for twenty-two years. She is survived religion and was active in the Oracle. Adding Machine Company before and eleven great-grandchildren. by her husband, Orrin; stepdaughter, a teacher until her retirement. She is helping organize Microdata Corpora- in economics and was active in football, Ken attended Garrett Seminary, was survived by son, Robert; daughters, baseball, and basketball. He and his Kathy; stepson, Michael; and ordained as an elder, and joined the tion, a mini-computer company, in one grandchild. Santa Ana, California. He is survived wife owned the Coca-Cola Bottling Methodist conference in 1951. He

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served many churches in Bloomington, and was active in basketball, baseball, degree in nursing and went on to work Friends Raymond, Saint Paul, Maplewood, St. band, and the German club. He went as a psychiatric nurse for fourteen years, 1960 1977 Gabriele Ellertson died December 4, Cloud, and Minneapolis. Ken was a on to work as the sales manager for until deciding to become a stay-at- Lyman Gage died November 13, Mark Johnson died December 11, 2005. Gabriele was an adjunct art local leader in the civil rights Iowa Mold Tooling Company, Inc. He home mom. She is survived by 2005. Lyman was active in the band. 2005. Mark majored in biology and professor at Hamline University. She movement and participated in Dr. is survived by wife, Dayis. husband, Stanley Pilshaw ’49; He owned various hotels and then went was a member of the football team. also taught art at Macalester College Martin Luther King’s “I Have a daughters, Rebecca, Sanna, and on to work as a salesman at AAA for He received his JD degree from the from 1986–2002. She is survived by Dream” march on Washington in Melissa; son, Russell; and five twenty-seven years. He is survived by William Mitchell School of Law in daughter, Natalie. 1963. He served on the Hamline Board 1950 grandchildren. wife, Donna; son, Steve; daughter, 1999. He worked in construction Eugene Bendix died January 30, 2006. of Trustees from 1975–87 and then Candice; and six grandchildren. and property development. He is Elisabeth Kubler-Ross died August Eugene majored in health and physical served as Hamline’s church relations survived by wife, Dianne Crabtree 24, 2004. Elisabeth received an education. He was active in Kappa Phi 1953 director from 1987–92. He is survived Johnson ’78; daughters, Kristina, honorary doctor of laws degree from Kappa. He received his master’s degree Dwane Averill died November 7, 1966 by wife, Catherine; son, Peter Beck Karyn, and Beth; son, Mathew; and Hamline University in 1975. She was a in natural science from the University 2005. Dwane majored in philosophy Nadia Coiner Medina died February ’73; daughter, Martha Beck ’75; one grandchild. renowned psychiatrist best known for of South Dakota in 1965 and went on and was active in theater, and Kappa 8, 2006. Nadia received her master’s daughter, Sarah Garrett, and son-in-law her work with the terminally ill and her to teach chemistry at Luverne Public Phi. He received a bachelor of sacred degree from the University of Kansas in Jack Garrett ’77; and many revolutionary book, On Death and School in Luverne, Minnesota, until his theology degree from Yale Divinity 1971. She went on to work at Tufts 1981 grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Dying, which was published in 1969. retirement. School and a PhD in philosophy from University as a lecturer in English and Valerie Smida died December 9, 2005. founded and directed the Academic Valerie majored in business John Diepenbrock died December 9, Yale. He worked as a United Methodist Muriel McEachern died December 6, John Lindberg died October 26, Resource Center there. administration and psychology. She 2005. John majored in economics and minister and for Wycliff Associates 2005. Muriel joined the Hamline 2005. John majored in sociology and went on to work for Best Buy Co. Inc. was active in IRC and Alpha Delta Bible Translators for many years. university relations department in 1967 psychology and was a member of Alpha She is survived by mother, Marilyn; Zeta. He lived in Red Wing, He is survived by wife, Glenna and worked at Hamline until 1993, Sigma Chi and Alpha Kappa Delta. He 1968 and three sisters. Minnesota. Perrin Averill ’53. when she retired as the director of went on to work as a sales represen- Richard Armbrust died January 25, research and records. After retirement George Helling died July 29, 2005. tative for Curtis 1000, Inc. He is 2006. Richard was active in football she continued to volunteer in the George majored in political science and survived by daughters Jana, Elizabeth, 1957 and Theta Chi. He established 1983 archives. She is survived by daughters, was active in the international relations and Katherine. Kenneth Veale died December 26, Armbrust Sales and Marketing at the Steven McIver died November 17, Susan McEachern ’73, Martha club, student congress, Alpha Kappa 2005. Kenneth majored in education age of thirty. He is survived by wife, 2005. Steven worked in the health care McEachern Baker ’83, and Mary Delta, Pi Gamma Delta, and Torch & and was a member of Phi Delta and Julie; daughters, Amy and Niki; and field and was the organist at Glenwood McEachern Laurie ’93; son, David Cycle. He went on to receive his 1951 Alpha Tau Omega. He worked as a son, Peter. United Parish. He is survived by his Barbara LaBonte Gonder died McEachern ’78; and eight master’s degree in political science and teacher at Henry Sibley High School parents and two brothers. December 28, 2005. Barbara majored grandchildren. his PhD in sociology from the until his retirement in 1993. He is in mathematics and was active in 1973 University of Minnesota. He worked as survived by wife, Patricia Woolery Gordon Parks died March 7, 2006. Kappa Delta Epsilon. She worked as Steven Prinz died September 2, 2004. 1996 professor of sociology at the University Veale ’55; and daughter, Tammi. Gordon was a celebrated photographer, mathematician for the U.S. Navy in Steven majored in philosophy and was Nicole Christensen died February 7, of Nebraska at Omaha and at St. Olaf filmmaker, and composer. He received China Lake, California. a member of Theta Chi. He went on 2006. Nicole majored in political College in Northfield, Minnesota. He 1958 to work as a counselor for juvenile science. She is survived by husband, an honorary doctorate from Hamline is survived by wife, Barbara. University in 1987. Roger Moen died November 5, 2005. Charles Anderson died November 11, delinquents at Friendship Hall, Mike; and son, Charlie. Roger worked as an engineer until his affiliated with the Union Gospel Donald Savage died October 14, 2005. Charles majored in history and Mary Swanson died February 1, 2005. retirement. He is survived by wife, Mission of Saint Paul. He also ran a 2005. Donald majored in English and was active in hockey, tennis, and Pi Mary worked at Hamline University in Jeanne Kauffmann Moen ’51. group home for juvenile delinquent was active in A Cappella Choir, Gamma Mu. He went on to work as a the registrar’s office from 1962–1974. boys out of his own home. Hamline Players, and the Liner. He Word has been received of the death of history teacher at Robbinsdale Cooper School of Law She was preceded in death by husband, received his master’s and PhD in Robert Gall Smith. Robert majored in High School. He also coached tennis Donald Swanson, former professor of theater from the University of education and was active in A Cappella and led twelve teams at three schools to 1975 psychology and dean of students at Minnesota. He went on to work as a Choir, track and field, basketball, and state titles during his career. He is Carl Comparoni died March 12, 1976 Hamline University. She is survived by professor at State University College of football. He received his master’s degree survived by wife, Ruth; sons, Gregg, 2006. Carl majored in political science. Lowell Nelson died November 7, sons Richard and Stanley. New York in Buffalo until his in social psychology from the Chris, Myles, and Roger; and five He worked as a Saint Paul fire 2005. Lowell worked in law and then August Wilson died October 2, 2005. retirement in 1987. He was preceded in University of Minnesota in 1957 and grandchildren. inspector for eight years. He is survived taught civics, law, and mock trial at August, a renowned American death by sister, Dorothea Savage went on to work as a teacher and by three sisters. North Medford High School. Wayne Erickson died January 21, playwright, received an honorary Mitchell ’41. He is survived by principal until his retirement in 1987. 2006. Wayne was active in football doctorate degree from Hamline brother, Edward Savage ’45. He is survived by wife, Marlys while at Hamline and went on to 1996 University in 1990. He was a two-time Burfield Smith ’51, son, Robert; and receive his undergraduate and master’s Daniel Graff died January 9, 2006. He Pulitzer Prize winner, as well as the daughters, Myna and Kristen. 1949 degree in special education from St. is survived by wife, Carla; and son, recipient of a Tony Award and the Joseph Czerkas died October 20, Cloud State University. He worked as a Nicholas. Whiting Writers’ Award, among many 2005. Joseph majored in economics. 1952 special education teacher and director others. He is survived by wife, Betty Christensen Pilshaw died for thirty-five years until his retirement. Constanza; and daughters, Azula Edward Sroder died October 25, March 26, 2006. Betty received her He is survived by wife, Kathleen; Carmen and Sakina Ansari. 2005. Edward majored in economics daughter, Pamela; and son, Allan.

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Now that the spring semester is complete and Cambodia. They spoke of the joy of giving to more than 1,000 graduates have achieved alumni others and of the intrinsic and abiding rewards status, I have been reflecting on what might be of sharing their wealth. the future paths our alumni will take given their As I came to know the Hauglands during experiences at Hamline. Perhaps the best way to graduation activities, it was clearly evident that Annuities visualize the future is to examine the what started as a nascent idea in a Hamline achievements and contributions of those who University laboratory so long ago has enabled a have gone before. generation of biomedical scientists to affordably Are a At the College of Liberal Arts explore myriad theories, experiments, and Commencement this year, Hamline honored procedures using their invention. And I Good Way Richard P. and Rosaria P. Brivio Haugland with wondered, “What young and inquisitive student doctorates of humane letters in recognition of in chemistry or biology or physics or forensic to Give– their lifetime achievements in biomedical science that sits in a Hamline classroom or lab research. Both of the Hauglands hold PhD’s and today might someday stand where the have distinguished academic credentials. As a Hauglands were at commencement, receiving 1965 graduate of Hamline, Richard returned to our commendation for discoveries yet to be his alma mater in 1975 to teach chemistry at a imagined? Which professors are nurturing and An Ideal Situation time when Professors Ole Runquist, Rod Olsen, encouraging students to follow their curiosities? and Cliff Creswell were all teaching in the What are we actively doing at Hamline to ensure chemistry department. During their time at students have every opportunity to create new Sample Gift Annuity Rates* Hamline, Rosaria and Richard were raising their knowledge?” Rufus & Jean IMMEDIATE small children and pursuing an idea that had its In the fall, Hamline will begin a year-long AGE AT TIME ANNUITY (START DEFER INCOME DEFER INCOME Garbe ’59 Brown OF GIFT** INCOME NOW) FOR 5 YEARS*** FOR 10 YEARS genesis in the labs at Hamline: a technique that strategic planning process of thinking about our enabled scientists to use fluorescent dyes for future direction as a university. Among the For Rufus and Jean Garbe Brown, their children and 55 5.5% 7.2% 9.7% biomedical research. Over the next twenty-seven questions we must answer, is “What must we now their grandchildren, Hamline University represents 60 5.7 7.6 10.5 years, the Hauglands were prolific in publishing provide in a teaching and learning community everything that an institution of higher learning should 65 6.0 8.2 11.4 their findings and gaining seventy-two patents. that generates new knowledge? That supports be—and more. “Hamline has a special place in all of 70 6.5 9.0 12.9 They founded Molecular Probes, a multi-million innovation in teaching? That instills a our hearts,” says Jean, a College of Liberal Arts alumna 75 7.1 10.1 15.3 dollar company that taught a generation of connection between knowing and contributing from the Class of 1959. “It’s an excellent university. It 80 8.0 12.0 18.2 scientists how to use these tools. In 2003, the to communities? That preserves civility? That does not forget you and it does an outstanding job of * Samples are based on one-life agreements; please contact preparing young people for the world.” us for the percentages on two-lives. company was sold to Invitrogen. develops habits of the heart and mind which last ** The minimum age is 55. There is no maximum age. At the commencement ceremony, Dick and a lifetime?” ***Minimum deferral period is one year. Rosaria Haugland articulately described their From the newest alumni to the Hauglands, Both Jean and Rufus volunteer at Hamline. Jean is a lives of philanthropy and responsibility. and to the readers of this message, there is a past president of the Alumni Board of Directors, and Following an interest in supporting women and generative and creative potential to use what you they both recently spent time helping to paint Hutton or a complimentary illustration, children, they described how a world of know for the greater good. Indeed, as we Arena. Their financial support through gift annuities f and their trust earned them membership in the contact the College of Liberal Arts Development Office. possibilities opened for them to establish contemplate our next five years, I invite you to Note: Gift annuities may not be available for all states. children’s homes in Thailand; domestic violence share with us your achievements as alumni, for it Heritage Society, which recognizes those who have prevention programs for single mothers and is only in knowing where life has taken you that included Hamline in their estate plans. “Annuities are Phone: 651-523-2811 or toll free: 800-767-5585 (option 3) teenage girls at risk in Eugene, Oregon; and we are able to anticipate what the most recent a good way to give—an ideal situation,” says Rufus. E-mail: [email protected] health and education programs for the most graduates may contribute to the Hamline “You get the payments for life.” Web: www.hamline.edu/plannedgiving needy children, many abandoned by parents, in tradition of making the world a better place. Or write to: Editor’s note: more information about Commencement and College of Liberal Arts Development Office, MS-C1930 Hamline University, 1536 Hewitt Avenue, Saint Paul, MN 55104 Dick and Rosaria Haugland will appear in the Fall 2006 issue.

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