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DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT 10 ACADEMIC HAPPINESS Mary K. Hicks CLA’s most famous English major returns to campus ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF MEDIA & PUBLIC to talk with undergrads, who inspire “the old alumnus” RELATIONS, AND REACH EDITOR Mary Pattock to “work harder and make my time count for DESIGN something.” By Garrison Keillor Kelly MacWilliams

C0NTRIBUTING WRITERS 22 BAGMAN FOR THE ARTS Mary K. Hicks How can communities support local art and artists? Garrison Keillor Danny LaChance Alumnus Jeff Hnilicka leads the way, taking a page from Kelly O’Brien the sustainable food movement. By Danny LaChance Mary Pattock Colleen Ware

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> ON THE COVER Garrison Keillor and undergraduate students In Walter Library’s SMART Learning Commons. Photo by Kelly MacWilliams UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION

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UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION Two-thirds of CLA World-renowned 15,000 programs are ranked among the > Stories that inspire CLA educates about 15,000 undergraduates every year teach and engage students in It is hard to overstate the importance of Why is public support for education —more than any other scholarly research. Minnesota college, public in the nation (National Research educating the 15,000 undergraduates who are dropping? It is partly because of the recession, or private, and about half of Council). enrolled in CLA each year. partly because of a trend toward considering a all students on the U’s Twin Imagine the brain-power, the creativity! college education an exclusively private good. Cities campus Imagine the experiences and perspectives that But as the stories of our students and alumni so students from all over the world bring to our clearly illustrate, higher education benefits the CLA offers 73 majors and 73 minors in the social sciences, arts, classrooms! public at least as much as it does the student. and humanities, plus the option of an individually designed major. And imagine the impact that 15,000 smart, In fact, the more complex our world, the independent, original thinkers will have on more we need higher education. We especially Instruction is offered in more than 30 languages. the world, as they become the citizens and need the liberal arts, which bring judgment, innovative leaders of tomorrow. ethics, art and beauty, deep understanding of This issue of reach tells that each other and of the full range of the human Some 2,200 different undergraduate courses are offered each year. undergraduate story. experience to bear on what might otherwise be a It traces the adventures of some of the mechanical, materialistic world. the college of More then 50 freshman seminars are offered annually. world’s best young minds into challenging new Our challenge will be to re-imagine and re- liberal arts worlds of inquiry: the underlying blueprint of think the way we educate. The University houses its in CLA; service learning program language, DNA to cure cancer, hip hop and exactly what will CLA of the future look it is one of the best in the nation (U.S. News & World Report’s Best Colleges Shakespeare, health in the Amazon jungle, like? The college has embarked on a planning 2010 List). the aging brain, leadership as an out-of-body process—CLA 2015—to reposition CLA to experience. There are subplots, too, about achieve higher levels of academic distinction > THE STUDENTS backbends and boxing, chutzpah and geekdom, during a period of shrinking resources and dancing, drumming, and, of course, love. narrowing focus. > What It Takes Could we have been more fortunate than Uppermost in our minds will be the to have America’s great storyteller, our own responsibility we have to the tens of thousands CLA alumnus Garrison Keillor, interview of students who place their trust in us to prepare of recent U of M graduates the students? He wanted to write about them for the future. We shall not waver in our 36 % rank in the $22,000 undergraduates who are successful because they commitment to provide them excellent teachers; take full advantage of what this great university cogent, relevant and up-to-date curriculum; The cost of annual room, has to offer. technological access to the world; quality board, tuition, and books for The students inspired Garrison, and we advising; financial support; and the skills for 7% are international students, of their high school class. Minnesota residents. hope they will inspire you, too. successful professional lives—in other words, an who introduce perspectives come from Our other feature story is about a recent exceptional educational experience to help them from around the world to CLA Minnesota. graduate who is already fulfilling the promise realize their highest ambitions. classrooms. To earn that much money a of his CLA education. He is inventing a new student earning the minimum way for communities, from New York to They are our future! wage would have to work about More than 20% are Minneapolis to Seattle, to support their local students of color. 69 hours per a week, artists. If it becomes a national trend, remember: Thank you for the support of our college. year-round. he’s one of our own and you read it here first! Perhaps, as you read about these young 25% study abroad; people, you will remember that higher the University is a national education here and nationally is facing a study-abroad leader. watershed moment. For example, this year, for the first time in history, more student dollars than State dollars are supporting the University James A. Parente, Jr. of Minnesota—much of it in the form of student loans.

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Econ Professor Heads Federal Reserve A-Twitter About Abroad In brief—the relationship that exists between the University's Department of Economics and the Minneapolis Fed. He puts it this way: “Few if any important questions in economics can be addressed with data or theory alone. Good answers require that the two be used together.” Given CLA’s emphasis on life in the Recent UM abroad global community, many of its students Tweets: study abroad. They’re in the right place. Road to the Fed Dead Sea Scrolls “The children of Kocherlakota, 45, entered Princeton University at the age of 15, the village reached In its Open Doors report, the Institute of and at 23 received a doctorate in economics from the University of He’s a man in demand. As the 2,000-year- for our hands and Chicago, specializing in the pricing of financial assets. After teaching old Dead Sea Scrolls—said to be the most International Education ranks the Twin promised to teach us at the University of Iowa and at Northwestern University, in 1998 important archaeological find of the 20th Cities campus third in the nation among a traditional African he joined the economics faculty at the University of Minnesota. century—make a seven-month appearance research institutions in the number of dance." at the Science Museum of Minnesota, Alex students—2,521—who participate in this He left for Stanford in 2002 but returned to Minnesota in 2005, Jassen is serving as an academic adviser kind of life-changing experience. They “What it's like to study becoming chair of the economics department and leading a recruiting to the museum and speaking extensively work through the Learning Abroad and intern at a design firm in London” (a link) effort that increased the number of professors and enhanced the around the community about the scrolls. Center, which offers some 300 programs department's national standing (it is now ranked 10th in the nation). An assistant professor of Classical and Near in more than 70 countries, and helps with “For the love of Eastern studies, his area of expertise is the everything from program selection to He stepped down as chair in 2008 to devote time to research on how harira: So we took a disability services, financial planning to developed societies can best design their tax systems. literary heritage of Second-Temple Period small stroll recently re-entry. It even has a Twitter account! Judaism (from the sixth to the first century to a Moroccan He had worked previously with the Fed—as a researcher from B.C.E.), including the Scrolls. restaurant we had 1996 to 1998 and as a consultant at the time of his appointment to The campus also ranked high—20th—in seen close by.” the presidency. “The Dead Sea Scrolls: Words That the number of international students it has enrolled. In CLA’s class of 2012, Economics professor Narayana Kocherlakota has left the University to Changed the World” exhibit comprises nearly eight percent of students come serve as the new president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Challenges ahead fragments from familiar books like the Kocherlakota now prepares for new challenges. He will lead one Pentateuch, Psalms, and Isaiah, as well as from outside the United States. extra-scriptural documents from the first For decades the body of economic, monetary, and fiscal policy produced of the dozen federal district banks that set monetary policy for the Find out what the Learning Abroad Center century B.C.E. like the Community Rule by the Fed has been built upon and strengthened by research from the top- nation. “For an economist who has spent his career working on has to offer: www.umabroad.umn.edu ranked University of Minnesota Department of Economics. Kocherlakota issues related to macroeconomics, monetary policy, and finance,” he and a Temple Scroll. Schismatic Jews, belongs to this tradition. says, “there can hardly be a better job than president of a Federal perhaps Essenes, who lived in the settlement Reserve Bank.” of Qumran by the Dead Sea, hid the papyrus Theory for the real world and animal skin documents in caves. They were discovered by a shepherd in 1947, and The current interplay between University of Minnesota research and the In an article in Business Week Kocherlakota was said to bring a new are now archived and conserved by the Israel real-world policy produced by the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis perspective and unconventional voice to the national economic Antiquities Authority. traces its roots to 1970, when a special studies group of U professors discussion: although he has embraced free-market economics, he has working to produce a theoretical model for the Fed to predict economic also written that government has a role in helping the nation recover Jassen, who has been awarded a McKnight behavior inadvertently triggered a surge of research into “rational from the recession, and believes that a healthy economy requires the Land-Grant Professorship, is currently expectations” theory. Ideas from this research found their way into Federal Federal Reserve to supervise banks. researching the role of religious violence in Reserve policy, and the theoretical partnership took off. CREATIVE Writing Is Top-Ranked “I am excited about this new opportunity for many reasons, and the the formation of the Qumran community. CLA’s masters of fine arts (MFA) creative writing program ranks 14th out of 140 in special bond between the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and Today, University researchers collaborate with Federal Reserve economists the U.S., according to Poets & Writers magazine. The ranking was based on surveys the University of Minnesota is certainly one of them,” Kocherlakota The exhibition runs through October 24. on the most varied questions of macroeconomic theory and monetary and of a group who are highly motivated to be objective, have done extensive research, fiscal policy. Over half of the U's economics professors have worked with says. “I plan to keep the partnership between these two great Visit Jassen’s website to learn more about the and have much at stake in the results—current and prospective applicants. the Fed's research department, and at any given moment several graduate institutions strong and vital.” scrolls, and for a list of his public lectures: students are also doing so. CLA’s highest sub-ranking was in the nonfiction category (eighth), and its lowest Adapted from a story by Bill Magdalene, University Relations. htpps://.sites.google.com/a/umn.edu/jassen was for student-funding packages (27th). It ranked 10th for placement of grads in Kocherlakota believes that progress in economics demands rigorous highly regarded post-MFA programs, a proxy for program quality and reputation. discipline and an often highly technical dialogue between data and theory. Read Kocherlakota’s speech to the Minnesota Bankers Association: The program makes its home in the English department. www.minneapolisfed.org/about/whoweare/president.cfm For more information, go to www.pw.org/content/2010_mfa_rankings_top_fifty_0

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Love, Actually Doctor Nice … or Very, Very Cool, BUT Too Darn Hot What do today’s young people think is important in their Doctor House? relationships? What personality traits make for med school success? Workers laid roof Romantic love, say three CLA sociologists writing in the August 2009 Journal of Marriage and tiles during Folwell construction ca. 1906-07. Family—as well as other traditional values like faithfulness and commitment. This is the case, they Different traits at different stages, according to Note the gargoyle in the assure us, despite the prevalence of cohabitation, divorce, and debates about same-sex marriage. psychology professor Deniz Ones. background; the four gargoyles originally on In their survey of 18- to 28-year olds, Professors Ann Meier and Kathleen Hull and Ph.D. candidate Ones and two other industrial-organizational the building disappeared within a year or two, Timothy Ortyl did find modest but significant differences between men and women, however. psychologists followed an entire country’s cohort probably damaged by Straight women valued faithfulness and lifelong commitment more than straight men did. And gay of medical students—600 Belgian students— water leaking into them. men, lesbians, and bisexuals had relationship values similar to those of heterosexual men. through their seven years of medical study, Photo from the Minnesota assessing the “Big Five” personality dimensions Historical Society. “The pervasiveness of the romantic love ideal across gender and sexual identity groups,” says Ortyl, of conscientiousness, agreeableness, extroversion, “really speaks to how culturally ingrained it is.” openness to experience, and emotional stability.

They found that at the If you studied language, literature, pedagogy, oratory, or psychology at the Some patients, beginning of medical University, chances are you did so in that grand English Renaissance Revival school—when students though conscious that building known as Folwell Hall. focus on basic science— their condition Born to be Wild the most-needed traits is perilous, Besides giving shelter to your academic endeavors, Folwell also provided office relate to cognitive ability. recover their space to, among others, Allen Tate and Robert Penn Warren, the second and third Economists have discovered sure is recorded on the human body in the trading reward other skills, such as the abil- Introversion serves well health simply through their Poet Laureates of the United States, respectively. And Folwell is listed on the that, “just like animals in form of a ring finger that is longer than the ity to relate well to clients, or to conduct a at this stage, too, helping contentment National Register of Historic Places. the wild,” financial traders index finger. This ratio, called 2D:4D, is mathematical analysis of the market. students exercise better with the who take the greatest risks commonly used to predict athletic success. study habits, focus, goodness of the When Folwell was built in 1906—replacing Old Main after it burned down in are the ones with the highest Beyond suggesting a predictor for a young memorize, and prepare physician. 1904—it was considered the finest building of any state institution. It still is testosterone levels. The research team wanted to know if, man’s success on Wall Street, the research for class. – Hippocrates beautiful, with its keystoned arches and gables, pillars, parapets and porches, and to what extent, prenatal exposure to shines a light on the perennial nature- balustrades, chimneys (26 of them), granite stairs and wrought iron railings, The most successful among testosterone was a factor in the behavior versus-nurture question. It also offers a lens But as they advance polished wood, and Italian marble walls and floors. them, however, have more of financial traders. for understanding the often-baffling work- into clinical practice, students increasingly than machismo. They also ings of the economy. Rustichini opines, for need interpersonal as well as cognitive skills. Not to mention the cherubs, cats, eagles, gargoyles, and gophers peering down have the most experience For their study they selected 49 males from example, that “The bubble preceding the Extroversion—which can be a liability in early from the architraves to chastise students who arrive late to class. and knowledge, so that, a group of some 200 high-frequency traders current crash may have been due to eupho- years—becomes a definite asset. Qualities like unlike their colleagues, they from a trading floor in the City of London ria related to high levels of testosterone, or assertiveness, warmth, and especially empathy It’s a cool building—but its daily denizens say it’s too darn hot. can tell which risks are smart (only three of whom were female). They high sensitivity help future doctors succeed with patients in and which are foolhardy. compared both the 2D:4D ratio and years to it.” complex, real-life settings. Plus it lacks the digital technology that enables classrooms “to talk to the world” Aldo Rustichini of professional experience of each trader to as students learn foreign languages and cultures. Good reasons why both the The findings were published in the Proceedings his profit and loss record. It appears the The researchers also found that conscientiousness University and the State put its renovation at the top of their legislative priority of the National Academy of Sciences, in an article by world of finance is an essential trait throughout every stage of lists. The bonding bill that passed and was signed into law by the governor University of Minnesota economics professor On average, traders with the most in utero is more irrational medical training, playing a role both in mastery of in March includes $23 million for Folwell. Thousands of students and CLA Aldo Rustichini, and Mark Gurnell and John testosterone exposure made 11 times more than we might information and in human relationships. supporters had contacted their legislators and the governor’s office to support its Coates, both of Cambridge University, England. money than those with the least; while suppose, given passage. Coates, the lead investigator, is a Wall Street those with the most experience made 9.6 its apparent They concluded that med schools can greatly trading-floor manager-turned-neuroscientist. times more than the inexperienced ones, sensitivity to what improve their admission processes by incorporating According to Minnesota Student Association President Paul Strain, who minors in and were the most successful of all. Rustichini calls standardized personality tests—as opposed to German studies and has had classes in Folwell for six semesters, “It’s hot during the Previous research had established that qualities “the hormone unstructured interviews or references—in their summer, it’s hot during the fall, it’s hot during the spring, and it’s almost way too like confidence, risk tolerance, vigilance, and Researchers note that success on the of irrational admissions processes. hot in the winter. The HVAC system is just a mess, and the electrical capabilities quick reaction time are related to how much adrenaline-charged trading floor requires exuberance.” aren’t really conducive to the new ways of teaching.” testosterone a fetus is exposed to in the womb. skills that are not as important in other The study was published in the November issue And for reasons not known, that level of expo- environments. Different types of financial of the Journal of Applied Psychology. Ones’s co- These are important considerations for a building where, among other things, investigators were Stephan Dilchert, Ph.D.’08, of students strive to perfect their Spanish or Japanese as they prepare to be tomorrow’s Baruch College (City University of New York) and teachers, translators, international traders, and attorneys. 6 reach SPRING 2010 Filip Lievens of Ghent University in Belgium. SPRING 2010 reach 7 of inquiry > news and research from cla

CLA Stars AT GRADUATION J-School Honors Public Affairs Journalists Who knew? Hamlet Graduated from CLA

Something about sharing a background with accomplished people Journalism strengthens communities—a fact celebrated annually At 10 years old, it’s matured without aging a bit: the University of makes success seem a little more attainable. That’s why two highly with the Frank Premack Public Affairs Journalism Awards. This Minnesota/Guthrie Theater BFA Actor Training Program. accomplished members of the CLA community were invited to year’s awardees, named by the School of Journalism and Mass send off new graduates at commencement last fall and this spring. Communication, were: The program delivers on its promise to develop “the mind, body, voice, and spirit of the actor/artist/scholar.” Many graduates—all still in their Catherine Watson, nationally known travel writer, journalist— • Star Tribune and staff, for a series on a young cancer patient and 20s—have already gone on to considerable success. and CLA alumna—delivered the fall commencement address. his mother who fled the state rather than undergo traditional Chief travel writer and photographer for the Star Tribune from cancer treatments Among them are Santino Fontana, chosen after a coast-to-coast search to 1978 until 2004, and author of two books of travel essays, she • Bagley Farmer Independent and reporter-editor Tom Burford, play Hamlet in the final production of the old Guthrie Theater. “I kept pioneered a genre of travel writing in which the author goes B.A. ’74, for a series on an elderly man arrested for the way he coming back to Santino,” said Guthrie Artistic Director Joe Dowling, beyond geography to share personal insights. Watson was protected his Alzheimer’s-afflicted wife “because he brought honesty, directness, an emotional palette that was named both the Lowell Thomas Travel Journalist of the Year remarkable and a vital intelligence to each audition we put him through.” and the Society of American Travel Writers’ Photographer of • Star Tribune and reporters Glenn Howatt and Pam Louwagie, the Year. B.A. ’95, for their “Deadly Falls” series on nursing homes Fontana also performed on Broadway in Brighton Beach Memoirs and A • Rochester Post-Bulletin and Jay Furst, for their series, View From the Bridge. Other examples of student success include: Leah “Life is a journey,” she said to the students. “[L]inger. Look “Panhandlers: Are They Legit?” Curney as Ophelia, opposite Fontana’s Hamlet; Namir Smallwood as beneath the surface. Talk to strangers. Listen to what they have Puck and Will Sturdivant as Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, to say. Be flexible. Tear up your itinerary and take a different • Star Tribune and Doug Tice, for commentary, “It’s easy to Santino Fontana as Hamlet and Leah Curney as Ophelia in the and John Skelley portraying Algernon in The Importance of Being Earnest old Guthrie Theater’s closing production. path if that one looks better. Keep your mind open.” pounce on that political football” at the Guthrie. • Isle Mille Lacs Messenger and Brett Larson, for the story, “Good A partnership between CLA and the Guthrie, the program teaches Naryana Kocherlakota, the CLA economics professor who governments don’t fear sunshine” Aya Cash appeared in Ethan Coen’s Offices at the Atlantic Theater students to perform texts of classical stature, and apply those skills was recently appointed president of the Federal Reserve Bank, Company in New York City and has had roles in various Law & Order to contemporary world repertoire and emerging dramatic forms— addressed May grads. Read more about Kocherlakota on page • Lori Sturdevant, Star Tribune columnist, the Graven Award for a TV episodes. Matthew Amendt, Will Sturdivant, Christine Weber, all this in the context of an outstanding liberal arts curriculum. four of this issue of Reach. career of great public affairs journalism Hugh Kennedy, and Elizabeth Stahlmann are current or recent company Graduates emerge with a powerful career advantage in a profession • James P. Dolan, president and CEO of Dolan Media Company, members of the New York-based The Acting Company. legendary for its competitiveness. Find his speach at http://z.umn.edu/commaddress the Farr Award for providing business information and professional services to legal, financial, and real estate sectors A group of students founded Shakespeare on the Cape, a summer festival The program attracts around 500 applicants each year, who on Cape Cod. audition at locations across the country. FACULTY, STAFF, and STUDENT AWARDS

National & International Awards Alex Jassen, Classical and Near Eastern Edward Schiappa, communication McKnight 2010 Land-Grant Professors: Paul Timmins, Career Services: John Tate Phyllis Moen, sociology: 2010 Public Stephanie Cantu, psychology: National Kathleen Howard, English; and Mária Brewer and Daniel Brewer, studies: 2009 Templeton Award for studies: National Communications Alex Jassen, Classical and Near Eastern Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Sociology Award. Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship. Andrew T. Urban, history: New Faculty French: named Chevaliers de l’Ordre Theological Promise. Association Distinguished Scholar. studies, and Jennifer Jane Marshall, Advising. Fellowship in English at the State University des Palmes Académiques by the French art history. Student Awards Brian Connelly, psychology: Tanaka of New York, Stony Brook, by the American Ministry of Education. Nathan Kuncel, psychology: Cattell Jeff Simpson, psychology: Society of John Watkins, English: Distinguished National Science Foundation Graduate Award from the Association for Research Council of Learned Societies, funded by the Early Career Research Award from the Personality and Social Psychology’s 2010 Cawo (Awa) Abdi, sociology: Office of McKnight University Professor. Fellowships: Antonia Kaczkurkin, in Personality, and Robert J. Wherry Award Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Karlyn Kohrs Campbell, Society of Multivariate Experimental Diener Award for Mid-Career Achievement International Programs Global Spotlight psychology; Rachael Klein, psychology; for Best Paper at the 2009 IO/OB Graduate communication studies: National Psychology, and the Anne Anastasi Award in Social Psychology. Grant. Margaret Werry, theater arts and dance: Alex Maki, psychology; Hollie Nyseth, Student Conference. Matthew Mead, journalism and mass Communication Association’s Diamond for Distinguished Scientific Contributions Council of Graduate Students Outstanding sociology. communication: Society of Professional Anniversary Book Award, the James A. (Early Career) from the American Morgan Thorson, dance: 2010 Department of Theatre Arts and Faculty Award. Robert Downs, journalism and mass Journalists 2009 Mark of Excellence Winans-Herbert A. Wichelns Memorial Psychological Association. Guggenheim Fellow. Dance: 2010 Outstanding Unit Award State Department Critical Language communication: national finalist in the Award. Award for Distinguished Scholarship in from the U of M Council of Academic CLA Awards Scholars: Michelle Baroody, studying Society of Professional Journalists 2009 Rhetoric and Public Address, and the Bruce Bernard Levinson, Classical and Near University Awards Professionals and Administrators. Arthur “Red” Motley 2009-2010 Exemplary Arabic in Egypt; Greta Bliss, Arabic in Mark of Excellence competition for feature The Minnesota Daily: Society of E. Gronbeck Political Communication Eastern Studies: 2010-2011 Henry Luce Council of Graduate Students Outstanding Teaching Awards: Walt Jacobs, African Jordan; Dustin ChacÓn, Bangla/Bengali writing. Professional Journalists 2009 Mark of Research Award. Fellow of the National Humanities Center. Faculty Awardees: Robert (Robin) Patricia Frazier, psychology: American & African Studies, and Patrick in Bangladesh; Tyler Conklin, Turkish Excellence Award for Best All-Round Daily Brown, cultural studies and comparative Distinguished McKnight University McNamara, sociology. in Turkey; Brianna Crowley, Turkish in McKenna Ewen, journalism and mass Student Newspaper. Gary CohEn, history: the Republic of Ali Momeni, art: Minneapolis Society of literature; Christopher Nappa, classical Professor. Turkey; Kelly Heitz, Arabic in Jordan; communication: Society of Professional Austria’s Medal of Honor. Fine Arts grant (Joyce Foundation). and Near Eastern studies; David Pellow, Ruth Mazo Karras, history: Dean’s Medalist. Susan Metzger, Russian in Russia; Journalists Mark of Excellence Award. Paige M. Patchin, history and geography: sociology; and Joe Soss, political science Ruth Mazo Karras, history: 2009-10 CLA Award for Outstanding Contributions to Stephanie Rozman, Hindi in India. 2010 Beinecke Scholarship. James Dillon, music: France’s Grand Prix Steven Rosenstone, political science: and Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Graduate-Professional Teaching Award. Post-baccalaureate, Graduate, and Professional Denis Evstyukhin, music: qualified de l’Académie du Disque Lyrique award. American Political Science Association’s Affairs. Education. Jules Ameel, journalism and mass to compete in XVI Fryderyk Chopin 2010 Philip E. Converse Award. Nathan Kuncel, psychology: McKnight communications: Society of Professional International Piano Competition. Alan Gross, communication studies: a Morse-Alumni Awards for Outstanding Presidential Fellowship Award. 2010 Scholars of the College: Helga Leitner, Journalists 2009 Mark of Excellence Distinguished Scholar and a Best Article Andréa Stanislav, art: 2010-2011 Contributions to Undergraduate Education: geography; Bernard Levinson, Classical Feature Photography Award. Shannon Golden, sociology: Doctoral Award from the National Communications McKnight Artist Fellowship. Scott Abernathy, political science, and Joseph Schwartzberg, professor and Near Eastern studies. Fellowship for International Research from Association. Julie Schumacher, English. emeritus, geography: Office of the Office of International Programs. International Programs 2009 Award for 6 reach FALLSUMMER 2008 2009 Global Engagement. SUMMERSPRINGFALL 2008 20092010 reach reach 97 Academic HAPPIN Academic by Happiness

I landed at the University in September 1960, and stuck around through the spring of 1969, except for the year I dropped out to try to write a great American novel. (It set out to be anguished and introspective and got lost in the dark.) I was an English major and hung out in Vincent Hall, and the basement of Walter, in a cloud of cigarette smoke. I spent a few years in the basement of Murphy, at the Ivory Tower, imitating E.B. White, and in Eddy Hall, imitating Edward R. Murrow. I’m not nostalgic for those years, but when I think back, I realize what a privilege it was for a kid from Anoka to be at the U and take his sweet time trying on various personas—inscrutable aesthete, cool dude, prairie radical, billiards ace, worldly sophisticate, dangerous intellectual, Gopher hockey fan, mysterious loner, serious heartthrob, and making his way across the high plateau of education and into the gullies of adult life. I wish for the current generation to have the same rousing time I had.

Some students then and now feel lost at the U, which is understandable, and some of them lose momentum due to bad habits, confusion, lack of sleep, poor choice of friends, poor choice of beverages, but the old alumnus knows that college is supposed to be an exhilarating time for a young man or young woman, a time of awakening and ephiphany, the discovery of one’s unique capabilities and mission in life, a gathering-up of energy and ambition, a foretaste of sweet success. “The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong,” says Scripture, “but time and chance happeneth to them all”—yes, yes, and some shining stars flame out and some promises are never kept, but the college years are meant to be happy —the slog through high school is done, the sharp elbows of professional rivalry are off in the distance—and that was why I went over to the Kafé 421 in Dinkytown to talk to six CLA students, high achievers all: to see if they are having as good a time as they should, and if not, why not.

Most stories you read about higher education have to do with funding cutbacks and budget cuts and tuition hikes and the dumbing down of the coursework, especially in the humanities—but this story isn’t about that. It’s about academic happiness. Young people divining the future. THUY NGUYEN-TRAN AARON MARKS DAVE RAILE DUSTIN CHACÓN ANGELA MERRITT JASMINE OMOROGBE Physiology Music education Spanish studies Linguistics Child psychology Communication studies DNA research Leadership Med-school bound Beinecke scholar Max Planck Institute Hip hop, Shakespeare Drum major Ecuador Bangladesh Germany Singer SPRING 2010 reach 11 “I didn’t know a lot about what linguistics was but I fell in love with it. There was something elegant about describing language.”

—DUSTIN CHACÓN

LEFT: Dustin Chacon (second from right) and fellow scholarship students with Raja Devasish Roy (center), king THE LINGUIST into fourth-year French. I took three years of the Chakma tribe, at the royal palace in Rangamati, THE MUSICIAN hours for the season. We meet “Marching band is Bangladesh. ABOVE: Almost spring—Garrison Keillor and of Hindi at the U, because the pop culture Monday through Thursday, a social activity, and DUSTIN CHACÓN is a cheerful red- interviewees shiver on the steps of Northrop Auditorium AARON MARKS is a tall guy (6’4”) in haired guy, the son of Tony and Jodie, born in of South Asia is Hindi, but I haven’t used my RIGHT: Aaron Marks meeting a (drum-) major challenge: the black jeans and black sweater who, I am told, can 4:15 to 6. And on Friday on we need to be able the Central Valley of California, raised in Rapid Hindi all that much. ultimate backbend. FAR RIGHT, with Keillor stand and, leaning back, touch his forehead to the game weeks. On Saturday, to correct each other City, South Dakota, by his mother. A linguistics ground. It’s part of his routine as the drum major we spend all day. An 11 a.m. and remind each major, he’s a senior majoring in linguistics, due “I think facility for language is just a matter of the University of Minnesota Marching Band. kickoff means the band other—we’re putting “Linguistics is a small program at the U, to graduate in May. He’s been accepted for grad of how much you enjoy it. It’s a hobby of He grew up in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, the son of starts at 6 a.m. We march a lot of time in, let’s maybe 60 majors, maybe 20 grad students, and school at University of Southern California and mine. When I started learning Japanese, Michael and Polly, both musicians. around silently on the “Drum majoring put on a good show. Drum there are a lot of social activities. Linguistics the University of Maryland and hasn’t decided it was like an abstract puzzle, but now that field for half an hour with majoring has taught me Happy Hour and Linguistics Lunch, where has taught me to between them. I’m studying the science of language, I “I grew up in a musical family so I picked up one drummer hitting to prepare mentally and the conversations are rarely about linguistics am interested in the cognitive limitations violin and piano, and then clarinet in middle cadence and then start prepare mentally physically, and that in —we’re all friends together—and it’s been “I had an enjoyable time growing up a geek in of language and what languages have in school. I was a parochial kid, Holy Family playing until 8:30 or 9. the moment you need important to me to have this social contact and physically, and Rapid City. We geeks drove around a lot and common. The underlying blueprint. parish school, and my parents switched me Breakfast and then we to be ready to do what’s and have friendships with professors and other went to Walmart late at night, hung around, to the public high school, 2,400 kids, because dress. There’s inspection. that in the moment best. You have to learn students, so you’re not just another face in talked, and visited the all-night Safeway. And “I took a psychology course in high school they saw more opportunities for me there. Then everyone is on their you need to be ready everyone’s name and where a large program. I work hard and my rule is then they put in a Borders bookstore and that that mentioned Noam Chomsky and his own until 10 a.m. I eat a they’re from and their to have a sabbath, one day a week when I lie to do what’s best.” was a hot spot for the geeks. When I was 12, I theory of universal language and that got “I played bass clarinet and then picked up bagel or something and sit major, so that they know around and watch TV and eat bad food and saw a book in a bookstore, Learning Japanese, my interest. I read Stephen Pinker’s The the mellophone because they needed a brass down and think through we’re all working together decompress. Usually it’s Saturday or Sunday. —AARON MARKS and I just decided I wanted to do it. I read all Language Instinct, which turned out to player. It’s the marching band equivalent of the routine. I put on my for the same thing, and I do video games like Megamen or movies, the books I could find, listened to tapes, and be the text for introductory linguistics, the French horn. It looks like a big trumpet white pants, which are I’m not just pushing horror or horror comedies, which are usually one day I went to a Japanese restaurant and all about the cognitive mechanisms of with a larger bell. It was a challenge but I stuck tight, form-fitting, and them around. You have to pretty horrible, or Bollywood. spoke to the people behind the counter. They language. A fascinating book. I recommend with it. black spats, knee-high, and white jacket with memorize the music and the drill. You have to thought it was cute. it to everybody. a maroon overlay, with a secret key sewn into be ready to laugh at yourself. The most well- “I spent this last summer, from June to early “Marching band was so much fun and had it, a key to the gate of Northrop Field, the scripted routine will sometimes give rise to August, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on a State “In high school I had a friend who was second- “As a freshman, I took Introduction to such camaraderie and I was attracted to the U old football field and drill field that predated comedy. Funny things will happen. Department scholarship, and improved generation Bangladeshi and I heard her talk in Linguistics, a class of 30 or so. I didn’t know by the great marching band. And the Cities Memorial Stadium, It means a lot to me as a my Bengali massively. There were 15 of us Bengali and it sounded musical, rhythmic. She a lot about what linguistics was but I fell in were a big draw. I came here with my dad once symbol of the history of the band and the U. “We have four home games in a row next Americans, and it was fantastic. We spent taught me a little, and I ordered some books. love with it. There was something elegant when I was 11 and we went to the Saint Paul And then the hat and plume finish it off. season, four different shows to learn in some time in the eastern part of the country, Now it’s one of my primary research interests, about describing language, which we do City Hall to see the revolving onyx Indian, 38 four weeks. Drum majoring has provided near the Burmese border, and lived with the the structure of Bengali. I know Bengali unself-consciously everyday, something so feet high. My original goal was to study music “The halftime show is seven or eight minutes opportunities I never could have imagined. I Chakma tribe in a village of modern frame speakers and they laugh when I speak Bengali essential to being human. education and I got into marching band the long and changes every week. The pregame got to sing the national anthem with my mom houses with thatched roofs, in the hills, to them—it’s their family language and they’re first year. We accept everyone, whether you’ve is 18 minutes long, the most intricate in the and dad at the Dome for the last Gopher surrounded by fields on slopes, and met with surprised that a white guy with red hair speaks “I’ve done a little work on the structure of played an instrument before or not: if you’re country and most of it is unscripted. You get a football game. We sang it in three-part their king, a tall, slender man in his late 30s, it. It’s impossible to extract a language from its Bengali and I’m also interested in psycho- willing to put in the time, we’re willing to chart that says you start here and go there, but harmony in front of 60,000 people. You can’t English-educated, a lawyer in a suit, and we cultural context, and I knew nothing about South linguistics and how the brain processes teach you. the path you take is sort of an oral tradition. hear yourself so you just watch the conductor sat in his parlor and had tea and cookies. He Asia, but I’ve learned something about it since. language, how neural disorders—Alzheimer’s I’ve never had a major catastrophe on the field lead the band. Singing in the new stadium is a was very personable. He talked about his —affect language use, as the disease “There are around 310 students in marching but I think about it—an injury, for example, or wild ride. You get your pitch before you walk people and his family and his life in London. “I took four years of German in high school progresses, and in the long run to use these band. It’s a commitment. It takes about 500 the directors missing. out and when the drum roll starts, you go. Friendly chatter.” and borrowed a French textbook and tested signs as a diagnostic tool, a predictor. SPRING 2010 reach 13 LEFT: Angela Merritt refreshing her spirits at Como Park Conservatory BELOW & RIGHT: Thuy Nguyen-Tran—the dancer (in red dress); the scientist (right) “I want to be here in the Twin Cities, working in the Vietnamese community, trying to bridge the generations, keeping the old culture and teaching American values.”

—THUY NGUYEN-TRAN

You have to sing a measure ahead and the have such emotional passion to give and when “It reminded me of why I was “I’m a morning person. I make lists and take even do it. I don’t have to go.’ But in the end, couldn’t make sarcastic remarks in German. conductor tries to time the band with your the band starts to play, the student section so excited about college. To notes, I form study groups—‘Hey ladies, I went. He and I are still together. voice coming out of the speakers, and you erupts. It’s an out of body experience. there’s a test next week, let’s get together and hold the big fermatas as long as you want write about new things and study’—we meet in the library or someone’s “I flew to Newark, then to Berlin and was met “I’ll go over to Berlin this summer and he’ll to, and it helps to wear earplugs. Otherwise “The last couple of weeks, I’ve added a major get comments back and to house. I study at a café or at home or in the by a friend from German class at the U. Found come visit here. I’ll do an internship at an you sing the first line and then you hear the in political science, and I’ve gotten more library; I move around. I always eat breakfast. an apartment in Prenzlauer Berg, which elementary school this summer, and begin a first line sung by yourself as you’re singing interested in leadership. I’m sure I’ll stay take literature classes as a Three meals a day. I don’t believe in staying up somebody told me was a cool place to be, in master’s in educational psychology in Berlin in the second. The band plays it in B-flat, involved with music but I may look for some break from reading scie3nce— all night. I get eight hours of sleep, seven or the old East Berlin, in old apartment buildings the fall.” and the top note is an F, which is tough leadership opportunities. I’m not sure what classes like the nature of nine just doesn’t work out for me. where, after the Wall came down, squatters for a baritone. I’ll do with it yet, but I know this opportunity lived who had then become more legal THE DNA RESEARCHER good and evil.” has helped me gain incredibly valuable “I had been at the U for two years and a and most of them were still around, artists, THUY NGUYEN-TRAN is a slender, clear- “The driving force for me is my passion for leadership experience.” student came into class talking about this musicians, classic lefties, bohemians, some —ANGELA MERRITT eyed young woman with gold-rimmed glasses who marching band, the history of the band, the exchange program in Berlin. I’d always wanted young families with kids. Artists, musicians. talks very fast in complete sentences and complete people in band, the marching in intense heat THE CHILD PSYCHOLOGIST to study abroad but I come from a family with The Free University is 45 minutes away by paragraphs, too. Thuy [pronounced Twee] sat down or pouring rain, sitting on the bus for three not much money and I was 26, older than U-Bahn, the subway, which I rode three times ANGELA MERRITT is a Saint Paul girl, work in pre-school. But I knew I wanted more. in jeans, black boots, and a blue sweater, and looked hours to go march in the rain, everyone most other students, and I thought I should a week to class. dark-haired, gentle, soft-spoken, but very clear Pre-school teaching is fascinating, but it’s me straight in the eye. She listens to a question working toward one thing. We’re maybe five graduate and get it over with and go to work about things. She doesn’t search for words or beat thankless work, high stress, and the pay is no and before I’m halfway through it, I can see her percent music majors, and we have English or start grad school. “I decided to jump right in and look for an around the bush. She’s the daughter of Fred good. Nobody does it forever. framing her answer. She lives in Richfield with majors, business, computer science, and and Rosemary and grew up near Como Park, internship at a research institute and I sent her parents and rides the bus to the U (100 dollars all these people of different perspectives “But I applied, and I got an interview, a cold emails to the Max Planck Institute which riding her bike around the lake and visiting the “So I went to the University of Wisconsin – per semester) and she will enter medical school in and political persuasions come together to day in January, 11 people sitting behind a responded with discouraging comments, and Conservatory where, especially in winter, she got a Rice Lake, a small town, so friendly and it was the fall. perform a show. table in the Social Science Tower. I was very I kept at it, and got an interview, and got strong sense that “everything would be okay.” great to be in that atmosphere. nervous, big-time stress. I knew they were the internship. They were doing cognitive “My parents were law students in Saigon and “The drum major has to be in the moment— going to ask me a question in German. I had research and I thought I’d just help out, but “I went to Saint Paul Central High School, “And then I decided to come home to the U emigrated in 1984, escaping by boat to a camp you’ve got to give the beat so the tubas stay taken two years of German at the U—my they sat me down and made me a junior which offered a child-care services class with of M. I had always imagined that I would go in Malaysia. My aunt in Los Angles sponsored with the drums though they may not hear grandmother was German, second-generation, researcher. I felt like a fish out of water and an in-house day care with 20 to 25 kids at here. It felt like home, the Gophers and all them to come to America and they moved to them. You make up your own show, but the Delores Love, she lived in Saint Paul, near knew I had gotten myself into a bigger thing any particular time, and that piqued my that. I had an apartment in Saint Paul with Minneapolis in 1988 when I was born. Both goalpost toss—tossing the baton over the Saint Bernard’s Church—but I was afraid of than I’d counted on. It was like learning interest in working with children. I thought a roommate, and rode the bus from Como of them went to the U, my dad in economics, goalpost and catching it—is a tradition that the German Question. Which was: “What do to ride a bike. I did a project with adults, it was wild that my school offered child Park to the U. I went in the child psychology my mom in French, and my dad became a goes back 80 years. you do in your free time?” I stuttered. I said, comparing older with college-age in working care. Now, looking back, I can see that I was program, which was very lucky for me, a stay-at-home dad so my mom could take a job “Could you please repeat the question?” I memory and categorization tasks, studying the always interested. So I set out to become a small program and I was an honors student so at the U library. They had four kids and we all “I am the 59th drum major in the history said something about cooking and going rock possible adaptive effects of aging. pre-school teacher. the classes were smaller and there was more grew up in a bilingual home. My sister and I of the U and the first to march in the climbing and doing yoga. At the end, I walked contact with professors. Sometimes I feel started a traditional Vietnamese dance group, new stadium. We marched and saw all out of the room thinking, ‘At least you tried “Being in a foreign country and learning “I went to a tech college in Eau Claire to get a overwhelmed by all the work I have to do, but girls four to 21, some of them adopted, and these Minnesotans all jacked-up, so much and they’re having a good laugh.’ the language was something I thought I’d teaching certificate and I taught in preschools the other day I was organizing computer files our family works every summer at Vietnamese enthusiasm, people clapping and screaming never be able to do. But I gave a presentation for a few years. I love teaching. I have a and read over some of my old papers, and it camp at St. Olaf, which is for adoptees, 150 and little kids giving you the high-fives and “Three hours later, they called up and in German about cognitive modeling and caregiver sense about me but more than that I reminded me of why I was so excited about kids every summer, to learn about where they fist bumps. You’re part of something that’s said, ‘We’re supposed to notify you by answered questions. And I met a man and have a fascination with children and how they college. To write about new things and get came from. bigger than yourself. It was here before, mail but we wanted to tell you that you got fell in love. Speaking with his German family learn language, and math problems, and why comments back and to take literature classes it’ll be here after. We stand in front of the the scholarship.’ It was a year at the Freie was a high point of my fluency, so that I felt some kids are so much faster than others. Kids as a break from reading science—classes “I was in kindergarten when I knew I’d go into student section, down by the goalposts, Universität (Free University) of Berlin. I from rough backgrounds, how they compare like The Nature of Good and Evil, and they really ‘got’ me. Though in German I science. We had a little pencil box science kit looking up at all those students, and they thought, ‘This is really scary. I might not with their peers. You see everything when you Sexuality and Culture. was shyer, less sure, and a lot more polite. I and you took it home and did the activities—

14 reach SPRING 2010 SPRING 2010 reach 15 LEFT: Jasmine Omorogbe with Keillor; performing at the Whole Music Club in Coffman Union “I knew I didn’t want go into medicine….then I took RIGHT: Dave Raille: interning as a medical assistant in Biology and the Evolution Ecuador; at Machu Picchu, “the Lost City of the Incas,” in of Sex, which took me by the Peruvian jungle surprise…and it clicked in me that I wanted to go into medicine.” —DAVE RAILE

“My honors project was about make a volcano with vinegar and baking soda, a magical turtle named Mimi and did good who tells you her story without decoration. Father affirmative action, because the U needed to fill not what true hip hop is all about. The true for example—and it was fun and I got to do using hip hop in the classroom deeds, putting out forest fires, helping an old was an orphan who came to this country to go to a quota, but my GPA from Patrick Henry was artists are underground. It’s sad. These it with my parents. I developed a passion for woman clean her house, giving back to the law school in Louisiana. She is a communications 3.9. So I earned the right to come. white suburban kids are drawn to gagsta health care as well, thanks to my parents, and to teach English and poetry— community, doing good for others. My parents major who hopes to be a corporate recruiter and a rap as a vicarious thing, but it’s ridiculous. I volunteered at a hospital and did a program some of the poetic concepts taught me discipline. They were students and motivational speaker and open a nonprofit, maybe “I live on the East Bank, in Yudof Hall, All about the ’hood. To me, misogynism called Health Career Investigators and got to studied hard at the kitchen table and I watched work with minority students to prepare them for and I’ve got a lot of work to do so time is not inherent in hip hop, and it’s not tour hospitals and learn about the field. in hop hop rhythms are the them and I sat and scribbled on a pad. college. management is the important thing. I work all right. We have a good hip hop scene same as Shakespeare’s.” for the Career & Community Learning in Minnesota. Brother Ali. Heiruspecs, “We have relatives in Vietnam, Japan, New “So I study hard. I was brought up to. I get up “ ‘Education is the great equalizer,’ my dad Center and the Office of Admissions, and I Atmosphere, The Blend, Toki Wright, Mike York, New Jersey, Canada, California, and —JASMINE OMOROGBE at six and go to campus and study for an hour liked to tell his children. My parents raised coordinate the multicultural kickoff where the Dreams, Carnage. And Voices Merging is Texas. I want to go back to Vietnam to see or two and answer e-mails. I’m willing to work me in a culture of education and learning. We minority students come for a couple of days hosting a hip hop conference at the U April where my parents grew up, in the center on weekends and not go out to parties. I’m in read books together. Everyday happenings before fall semester. And I’m very involved in 9 to 11 called From Vices to Verses: A New “I’m happiest when I’m doing something of Saigon. I wanted to go this summer but class until 5 or 5:30. I’m taking anatomy now turned into teachable moments. Voices Merging. It’s been a high point of my Era in Hip Hop and Action—hip hop is a tool hands-on and something unknown, like a my classes start in early August. The U has and a nonprofit management class, and one U career. We put on an open mic show on for good, and we need to use it.” research project I’m doing now about DPC— a flex M.D. program so maybe I could go in leadership. And I have meetings during the “I had a great time at Patrick Henry High campus every other Monday. Four hundred DNA protein crosslinks—certain chemicals to Vietnam as an educational experience, day. I work for a program called Minnesota’s School. I love school. PH was predominantly people. It’s magic. High energy. Every open that cause a protein to link onto DNA and THE DOCTOR hopefully within the next couple years. Future Doctors which is to help minority people of color. So it wasn’t an issue. I dove in mic has a theme, something about social interfere with cellular processes which could DAVE RAILE [pronounced RAY-lee] is and rural students gain the skills to become and got in the college preparatory program. change. You can rap, or sing, or speak, and lead to cell damage or cell death, so the big “It was logical and comfortable to come to the competitive applicants to med school. In my family, not going to college just wasn’t we have a DJ who plays in between people. a tall, lean guy with short, cropped hair who picture is learning how to create these DPCs U, which was familiar to me. I started taking an option. I never had a rebellious phase. I Two hours, 8 to 10 p.m. Each person gets grew up on the south side of Edina and attended and observe their effects on cells and someday U classes my junior year in high school, a “So this is the plan. Four years of med school, was primarily raised by my mother who was five minutes. People put their names in a Saint Thomas Academy in Mendota Heights, create anti-cancer drugs. You work in the lab lot of science, biology, history, English, so I then four years’ residency in pediatrics. pushing me, challenging me, and praising bucket and we draw 20 or so. We don’t censor. the youngest of three children of Geoffrey and with little beakers and pipettes, you make a started here as a freshman with 50 credits—I I’ll be 29 and I want to be here in the me. When I was in 10th grade, a University Sometimes people just come and read out of Cheryl. His dad is a radiologist, his mom is hypothesis but you’re not sure it’ll turn out. had sophomore standing—but I decided to do Twin Cities, working in the Vietnamese student group called Voices Merging came to the Bible or somebody says ‘I don’t believe in a prenatal nurse at Abbott. Dave talks in a Inevitably, you have setbacks and little failures the full four years because there were a lot of community, trying to bridge the generations, my high school, six of them, white, African Christianity,’ but it sparks discussion. deliberate way, but he brightens up when we along the way, but each time you give it a go, courses I wanted to take. old and young, keeping the old culture and American, Latino, and they did a spoken word start talking about boxing. you troubleshoot and try to eliminate your teaching American values.” performance about the power of words to “My honors project was about using hip mistakes, and it’s really exciting when you “My classes were mostly on the East Bank, create social change. I wanted to be a part of hop in the classroom to teach English and “I got into boxing when I was a junior in solve problems and eliminate them. And it’s including a hands-on biology class, with that group and that really moved me toward poetry—some of the poetic concepts in hip high school. I was at a crossroads, I was exciting when you succeed. The Aha! moment. THE COMMUNICATOR lots of lab work, and a great professor, Jane coming to the U. I joined Voices Merging and hop rhythms are the same as Shakespeare’s. unhappy, things not going my way. I had It doesn’t happen so often and so it means Phillips, a very approachable person who gave JASMINE OMOROGBE [aw mer AW now I’m president of the group. a big mouth and talked a lot and got into more to you. me my first job working in a lab. Through bee—the g is silent] is a first-generation African- “Hip hop culture includes graffiti, rapping trouble and boxing was a good way to get CLA I engaged in service learning courses, American, her father, Benjamin, born in Benin “I was thinking of elementary education at or emceeing, the breakdance, and DJ out negative energy and unhappiness. And “I’m going to medical school this fall. I enjoy the Community Scholars Program, and City, Nigeria, and her mother, Jariland Spence, the time, but I don’t have the patience to be a turntableism. Now it’s expanded to fashion, anger. Hey, I wanted to beat up my big research but I want to do more public health pursued a minor in leadership. An interesting from Lafayette, Alabama. Jasmine grew up in teacher in the trenches all day. And I’m not a journalism, so forth. Hip hop came from brother. I saw the Rocky movies, many times, and work directly with people, especially with concept that definitely changed me. In Minneapolis’s North Side (“a big stigma, lots math person so I knew that IT wasn’t for me. Jamaica and the Bronx, and it’s all about all six of them, and I think they’re great for underserved communities, such as immigrant Vietnamese culture, there’s more focus on of stereotypes about crime, but I never had any I settled on communications and got in the expressing the frustration of black people what they are. My dad understood and he populations. These people have tremendous community, being reserved, respectful, so problems there. You have to be mindful, that’s all.”) honors program, where my advisor is Mary and telling the truth. (But you can’t sad helped me find a trainer in Eden Prairie language barriers and cultural barriers. I needed to learn to be a leader by helping and I can’t imagine she ever had any problems Moga, who’s the best person on earth, and breakdance.) Some people think it’s just who had boxed for years. He trained me for others find their own strengths and skills. with anything or anyone: she is a powerhouse. She she keeps me on track. I’ll graduate summa gangsta rap and all about guns and money a year with 14-ounce gloves and then I went “When I was a little girl, my parents made Empowering others through education. talks fast, has a big beautiful smile, a young black cum laude in the spring. Some people look and referring to women as bitches or hos, but to a trainer in South Minneapolis at Elite up stories about a girl who rode around on woman with kinky twist extensions in her hair, at me and assume that I’m here because of that’s just done for commercial success, that’s Boxing. It was great. I got to meet people. I

16 reach SPRING 2010 SPRING 2010 reach 17 never had any issue with minorities or people joined the water skiing team. A club team, shock, dealing with special needs patients, unlike myself. Boxing has mellowed me out. I so we get no money from the U. Slalom is young children, infants, geriatrics. Trauma don’t have a big mouth anymore. my event: you ski through an entrance gate management. Diabetic emergencies. Behavioral and around six buoys and an exit gate. The emergencies, overdoses and so forth. BOUND “I started out at the University of Denver. boat drives up the middle and you have to I was never enamored of the idea of going maneuver around them. It takes 16 seconds at “Last spring I spent three months in Ecuador away to school but my sister went there and I 36 miles per hour and you’re on a 60-foot rope doing a public health internship through visited it over a weekend and didn’t dislike it, and every time you complete one pass, they the Minnesota Studies in International so I said, Okay, fine. Freshman year I had a 4.0 shorten the rope to 53, then to 43. Development program. TO average but from day one, it didn’t feel like the right place. One night, Denver was playing “And then, my sophomore year, I took a “It was seven weeks in Quito and then an the Gophers in hockey and I cheered for the biology lab course, Biology and the Evolution internship in a town six hours southeast of Gophers and my friends said, ‘Why don’t you of Sex, which took me by surprise, a couple Quito on the edge of the Amazon jungle. It go to Minnesota if you love it so much?’ And I hundred students, a great teacher, a great lab was mind-blowing. Quito is industrialized and PLEASE Books and other creations by CLA faculty, staff, and alumni made a spur-of-the-moment decision to apply T.A. And it clicked in me that I wanted to urbanized and the town is not: hot, humid, to the U. Got wait-listed and was accepted on go into medicine. There never had been any pouring rain, dirt roads, meat markets with July 1 and I couldn’t have been happier. Both pressure from my parents, but I just knew that the fresh slaughtered carcasses hanging up. I “MARGARET MEAD” GOES TO WALL STREET my parents went to the U. I love everything medicine was what would make me happiest. lived with a family—my mother worked at the about the place. I feel it’s always run in my I always had this innate instinct as a kid to hospital where I did my internship, my dad Liquidated blood, the state and everything. It was an diagnose people. Once in ninth grade I was ran a tourist business taking people whitewater An Ethnography of Wall Street easy decision. playing football with a friend and the ball hit rafting. Two sisters, 23 and 25, both with little By Karen Ho him in the hand and he was shaking it and I kids. The house was simple, one-story, concrete, “I didn’t want to study science or math. I knew grabbed his hand and felt around the bones and I slept in a room off the kitchen, a barred Duke University Press, 2009 / Was the Great Recession predictable? Absolutely, I didn’t want to go into medicine. The classes and told him I thought it was broken and to go window looking right onto a busy street. I says Karen Ho, who spent a year on Wall Street working as a financial analyst—and that interested me were ancient philosophy, get an X-ray. Once my sister was lying on the slept very little. I was a medical assistant at the returned for another two as an anthropologist. psychology, political science, history, couch, her stomach hurt, and I told her she hospital, learned how to start IVs, draw blood, and so on. had appendicitis, and she woke up at 4 a.m. take vital signs, give shots. Their number-one Anthropology may bring to mind archaeological digs or the recording of exotic and had to be rushed into surgery. cause of death was pneumonia. Malnutrition was mating dances, but for Ho, an associate professor in CLA, it means studying the “I lived off-campus in Stadium Village, and the contributing cause to most of their health high-profile but poorly understood world of American investment banking. now I live in Dinkytown. I’m pretty organized “I took an EMT course last semester, problem. Low protein, a lot of starch. in a disorganized way and know where and passed the test last week. It was all She finds it, in the words of one of her research subjects, “all about today and— everything is in my room even if it doesn’t hands-on. Did everything from managing “This semester I’ll be done with the prereqs whether you can make money today and if you can’t make money today, you are out look like it. Within the first couple weeks I airways to controlling bleeding, controlling and this summer I’ll take the MCAT and of there”— an understanding that investment bankers and traders often project onto apply to medical schools and the U of M is my Karen Ho is an associate professor the rest of the world. That attitude, she says, gave rise to the fast-buck, first-quarter first choice. of anthropology in CLA. culture largely responsible for the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.

“Time management is my big challenge. In eye-opening detail, Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street, describes how the There’s always things you’d rather be doing. behavior patterns Ho saw first-hand came to be writ large as an economic bubble I’m a creature of habit. I get my schedule down that burst disastrously, dismantling vast enterprises and putting millions out of work. and know what I’m doing every day. I get up REACH readers: Buy books up to 20% off Financial incentives in this highly competitive industry are enormous and reward at seven. I don’t sleep much compared to my those who cut the most deals in the least time. The message to workers, according roommates. I work out at the rec center. Lift With this issue we launch a new to Ho, is: don’t dally, don’t think too hard, don’t be influenced by ultimate impact. weights, cardio—I spend a lot of time in the section of Reach: “Bound to Move now—tomorrow you may be unemployed. library and with my girlfriend and friends.” Please,” about books and other creations by our own CLA faculty, staff, and alumni. For many privileged and highly networked Wall Streeters, graduates of top Reach readers are invited to universities too young to have experienced the world, she says, it may not be purchase the featured items at particularly traumatic to be laid off from a job that pays a cool half million, knowing University of Minnesota Bookstore they will be picked up soon enough on the upswing of this churning industry. It is, (Coffman) at 20% off, and other books (except textbooks) at 10% off. however, problematic when they mistakenly assume other workers are also only I talked to the six students individually for an hour or so, asked open-ended questions, scribbled down their answers as best I passingly affected by job insecurity and the “performance enhancing” practices that could. Each of them struck me as straightforward, unabashed, unself-conscious, talking to me as equals, making eye contact— Find them on display at the cause it—quick turn-arounds, short-selling, and restructuring. That misconception, none of that eye-rolling and smirking and mumbling and slouchiness that you see in some young people and that drives the old bookstore. Online, go to: www. bookstores.umn.edu, click on Ho says, sets a stage where these whiz-kids can become less capable of understanding alumnus nuts. And each of them is capable of self-discipline, turning off the immediate gratification in favor of working toward “Books” and then on “Bound the suffering of others. the long-term reward. And then there was the energy. The surge of energy when they sat down next to me and got to talking. It to Please.” was inspiring to meet them. It’s good to talk to people in their early twenties. You learn that weariness and disillusionment and Online or in-store, use this code: “In such a context,” she writes, “financial crashes and busts are not natural cycles but, despair are luxuries. You’ve got to keep going back to basics. I left Dinkytown and drove home to Saint Paul, resolved to quit BTP41510 rather, are constructed out of everyday practices and ideologies: the strategies of the fruiting around and try to focus and work harder and make my time count for something. I’m hopeful about that. boom set the stage for the bust.” -MP Happy reading!

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» CREATIVE WRITING story the reader gradually comes to understand just how massive novel is driven in part by a fictionalized account of real-life Kwanzaa is the war and how desperate the struggle. -MP philosophy instructor Forrest O. Wiggins, a socialist and Black Power and the Making of the African-Ameri- What the Poem Wants the U’s first black professor. University President James Michael Dennis Browne can Holiday Tradition Nicole Johns, M.F.A. ’06, received her master’s of fine arts degree in Morrill’s decision to dismiss Wiggins was protested by Keith Mayes Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2009 / Reading this creative writing from CLA’s English department. Purge is a finalist CLA Dean Charles Conger, Wiggins’s colleagues in the small book is like sitting down with Browne over a cup of tea to for ForeWord Review’s Book of the Year Award. philosophy department (who wanted to give him tenure), ROUTLEDGE, 2009 / This is the first scholarly book to look at black chat about poetry. It is warm, simply and generously written. In and thousands of students who claimed the action was holiday traditions as part of a greater cultural movement. Kwanzaa, short chapters, Browne brings the reader into his own writer’s Happy: a Memoir racist and a violation of academic freedom. The New York Professor Mayes says, resulted from the “calendar politics” of the life, a world of colleagues and influences—who include Minne- FANCY BEASTS Times reported that Wiggins, vice-chair of the Minnesota Black Power movement of the 1960s, where black people created sota’s John Berryman and James Wright—and considerations of Alex Lemon Progressive Party, believed Morrill was bending to their own holidays to express their unique experiences, culture, and music and poetry, walking, failure, duty, hope…so the book isn’t legislative pressure. aesthetics within the larger national context. -KO just about poetry, but about a man who’s lived and thought a lot Milkweed Editions, 2010 / If you simply describe the story line of Alex Lemon’s memoir, Happy, you do it a disservice. Yes, he Mayes is an associate professor in the Department of African American about it. -MP The novel is principally about the madness of war—in this describes a time in his life when he overcame a life-threatening and African Studies. case the Korean War, and, well, testosterone. The Grass Professor Browne has taught English at the University since 1973 and malfunction near his brain stem. But this is no ordinary account was a finalist for the Bellwether Prize for fiction in support has written several books of poetry. He retired in April. and Lemon is no ordinary writer. Knut Hamsun: of social change, which is founded and funded by Barbara The Dark Side of Literary Brilliance Kingsolver. -MP Cool Auditor The corporeal quality of his language thrusts you into his world. Monika žagar Ray Gonzales Lemon is also a poet and uses his poetic sensuality to help us feel Zerby, B.A. ’53, a CLA political science graduate, is a retired University of Washington Press, 2009 / Even Norway’s Queen Boa Editions, Ltd., 2009 / Maybe this book of prose poems his evolving emotions—the denial of his vulnerability, his fear Minnesota assistant attorney general. Sonja remarked, as she kicked off author Knut Hamsun’s 150th birth- should be a Spike Jonze movie called Being Ray Gonzalez. of loss, anger at his situation, and the shame that anger brings. NONFICTION day celebration last year, “I think we’ll have to keep two thoughts Adventuring into Gonzalez’s insurgent imagination can give This is more than a story of overcoming the odds. » [about him] in our head at the same time.” Monika Žagar explains you the wild and surreal feeling that he is recalling dreams Further on, Nothing why, as she traces the Nazi sympathies of this Nobel Prize-winning you haven’t yet had. Some pieces are humorous, like the riffs SCRIBNER, 2010 /Fancy Beasts is Lemon’s newest collection of Michal Kobialka literary giant back to his belief in a racial hierarchy, an idealized Nor- on research in “Findings (1)” and “Findings (2)”; others, like poetry. Reading Fancy Beasts on the tails (no pun intended) of University of Minnesota Press, 2009 / You may think wegian rural life and “woman tamed in marriage.” -MP “Scratch,” are breathtakingly existential. -MP Happy has been a wonderful entry into Lemon’s poems. Again, “avant-garde” simply means “ahead of the crowd.” If so, Žagar is a professor of Scandinavian studies. his language is corporeal and the imagery is jagged and harsh Gonzalez is a professor in the Creative Writing Program. He has this volume of Michal Kobialka’s essays and the writings and yet funny as he pokes fun at American culture: “And when written numerous books of poetry, non-fiction and fiction, is poetry of Tadeusz Kantor which they introduce and interpret MUSIC the piano drops on you, it’s like wow, this is all/There is? Plop, » editor for The Bloomsbury Review, and founding editor of the will correct that notion. Kantor (1915-1990), the avant- plop—fizz fizz.” Another poem is titled, “My Fallow Human To be Certain of the Dawn (CD) poetry journal LUNA. garde Polish theater artist (also painter, writer, creator of Beans.” I know I’m enjoying poems when I set the book down, “happenings” and theorist), peeled back words and images Stephen Paulus, composer; Michael Dennis Browne, sigh in satisfaction, and pick up the book to read it again. I read, librettist Purge in order to look straight into reality. What is reality, he I laughed, I sighed, I read again. -CW Nicole Johns asked in his plays and notebooks. What is its relationship to Bis, 2009 / In this memorial oratorio, massed orchestra and choirs art? What is death and what is memory? How can erasure conjure the enormity of the Holocaust and solo voices lament SEAL PRESS, 2009 / Eating disorders are on the rise (they affect Lemon, M.F.A. ’04, teaches at Texas Christian University and co-edits make reality visible? Kobialka provides perspectives for personal tragedy. Paulus and Browne were nominated for a Pulitzer an estimated 10 to 15 percent of female college students), and the journal LUNA with U of M English professor Ray Gonzalez. understanding Kantor’s deeply philosophical writings about Prize for this collaboration, recorded by the Minnesota Orchestra have the highest mortality rate of any mental illness. In a brave, theater, which are as enigmatic and as penetrating as Zen under the direction of Osmo Vänskä. It was part of an interfaith proj- raw account of months away from the U of M at a Wisconsin The Grass koans. -MP ect of the Basilica of St. Mary and Temple Israel in Minneapolis. -MP eating disorder clinic, Nicole Johns describes the relentless Paul Zerby reach of the disease into every corner of its victims’ lives— North Star Press of St. Cloud, Inc., 2009 / We’d like to Professor Kolbialka has taught in CLA’s Department of Theatre Paulus, B.A. ’71, M.A. ’76, Ph.D. ’78, is a composer for orchestra, producing loss of control, panic, self-loathing and bizarre body think the U has always been a bastion of reason and fairness, but Arts and Dance since 1988. He is member of the editorial board chorus, opera, and other genres. He is the founder of the American image, guilt, shame, anger, heart problems, seizures, kidney fail- according to Paul Zerby, that was not the case when he was a of the new journal, Polish Theatre Perspectives. Composers Forum. ure. “I am at war with my body,” she writes; in the course of her student here in the era of Joe McCarthy. Zerby’s coming-of-age

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It was three years after Hurricane Generations of a family displaced by the disaster, and their neighbors, were preparing to celebrate a life-sized Katrina had mercilessly raked New artwork by local artist Wangechi Mutu, Mrs. Sarah’s House, commemorating the loss they suffered when their home Orleans’s lower ninth ward into the was destroyed by Katrina. “There was food and singing and dancing and crying and sharing stories,” he recalls. sea. Jeff Hnilicka, an arts administrator But what struck him was how this piece of art, which visiting from New York, happened to be was part of the international Prospect.1 New Orleans Biennial, was helping the community to rebuild itself. He strolling through the neighborhood. He thought, “This is what I want my life to be about”—making contemporary art accessible where it is most effective—in was moved by what he saw. Jeff the community. In some ways, the revelation wasn’t new. After all, following << his graduation from the University in 2004 with a B.A. in He says it feels "oddly subversive" to present theater arts, Hnilicka had launched his career as manager artists grant money in a canvas bag. But of visitor services at Minneapolis’s Walker Art Center, Hnilicka maybe that's how one feels, starting a where he was responsible for removing the physical and national movement. psychological obstacles encountered by visitors. But the New Orleans experience reinforced his appreciation of how powerful art can be when removed from the literal and figurative walls of museums. <<

This page and He returned to New York reenergized, At evening’s end, participants vote for the they don’t get it—there’s not an entry point opposite: FEAST and with members of the Hit Factorie art project they would most like to fund. After for them,” Hnilicka says. “You have to have so events in New York City and Minneapolis raised collaborative began to brainstorm about Hnilicka and his FEAST co-founders much context to get what the artist is talking local funds for local how to produce art that would appeal to count up the ballots he ceremoniously about.” With FEAST, those who appreciate artists. all the members of a community—not just presents the winner with a canvas bag the art are its<< context: they saw and understood arts professionals, and would be displayed stuffed with cash collected at the door. the idea in its initial stages and voted for it. Left: A funded project, where people actually live—not just in The artist leaves with a micro-grant and a the Camper Kart, was museums. mandate to bring the vision to life in time The idea has taken off. The first FEAST drew displayed in Manhattan for the next FEAST. 150 people. Eight months later, attendance and Brooklyn parks. The product of their labor is FEAST: had nearly doubled. Since then, Hnilicka Funding Emerging Art with Sustainable Since FEAST began, it has awarded and friends have begun to spread the idea Tactics. Inspired by a similar initiative $8,500 to 14 artists. Kevin Cyr is one of nationally. in Chicago called Sunday Soup, them. He created Camper Kart, a shopping FEAST turns citizens into small-scale cart he transformed into a one-person- They started in the Twin Cities. At the Walker philanthropists and their community into sized RV, or, as he puts it, “a functioning Art Center last July, Hnilicka encouraged local a large-scale grant review committee. habitat for an urban camper.” He took artists to launch a spin-off. In November the the cart to public parks in Manhattan and first Minneapolis FEAST was held, drawing Every other month or so people of all Brooklyn to spark conversations about the more than 300 people. The creators of one ages and walks of life fill a small church effect of the recession on a community’s winning project, Public Consumption, plan to basement in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint sense of need. place paintings in public locations throughout neighborhood, paying $10 to $20 (on a the city and track the effects of time on them. sliding scale) for dinner. The event is local And so it was that last October FEASTers By investigating how weather, vandalism, in every respect. Volunteers serve a home- crowded around the completed Camper relocation, and other forces change the art, cooked dinner made with locally sourced Kart, visibly excited about a work they they hope to remind audiences that art is ingredients (sample menu: Tuscan soup, voted for months earlier when it was just embedded in, rather than detached from, time roasted veggie salad, locally brewed beer). an idea on a piece of paper. and space. Area artists mount visions of their public art projects on the walls and circulate FEAST, it seems, successfully counteracts Last winter Hnilicka also visited Los Angeles through the crowd. Local musicians play the elitist air that sometimes surrounds and San Francisco, meeting with artists in the background. contemporary art. “A lot of people are who hope to launch FEASTs in their own turned off by contemporary art because communities.

While he’s excited about the popularity of the idea, Hnilicka is also cautious. He knows that growth isn’t always an unmitigated good, and is trying to increase FEAST’s scope and There’s something wholesome and magnitude while maintaining its grassroots transparent, yet oddly subversive, he says, philosophy. “We don’t want to be the Whole about the climactic moment at each FEAST Foods of the art world. We want to be a when he holds up the prize and announces the national network of CSAs,” he says, referring winner. to the Community Supported Agriculture cooperatives in which consumers support local Handing an artist a bag of bills siphoned farmers directly and receive a share of the from the wallets of a roomful of people and produce in return. calling it a grant violates, he points out, all sorts of social conventions: “No one ever gets But whether FEAST becomes a national a thousand dollars at a party.” It forces you to network or remains a quirky, bi-monthly event think about the logic of the world you live in. in a church basement in Brooklyn, Hnilicka is committed to making it work to break down And that, Hnilicka says, is the point. barriers between art and communities.

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ALUMNI journalist, established the Bette Jones on the doorstep of Pioneer Hall. He writes, Caesar Farah, 80, Kenneth Abdo, B.A. ’79, of the law firm Hammel University of Minnesota Scholarship “There has been some clamor, not large, for a professor emeritus, Lommen, Abdo, Cole, King, Stageberg, for Undergraduate Students. sequel, but arthritic wrists have supported my in history, died on was named a 2009 Attorney of the Year reluctance to extend CHARLES NOLTE, November 26, 2009. He by Minnesota Lawyer for his work in the Erin Hart, M.A. ’95, has published her third the saga!” M.A. ’63, Ph.D. ’67, professor emeritus, taught Arabic history entertainment industry. Last year he helped novel, False Mermaid. Her touring schedule is distinguished actor, playwright, and and Middle Eastern director, died of prostate cancer in singer Jonny Lang start his own music at http://erinhart.com/. Theresa Ward, B.A. and Islamic history, company; he negotiated for Owl City on a ’82, Merrill Lynch Minneapolis on January 14. He was 87. and chaired the department of South Asian recording which proceeded to top the charts, Alex Lemon, M.F.A. ’04, Financial Advisor, Nolte first came to the University in and Middle Eastern studies. He authored, for the entire recorded music catalog rights was featured in Esquire was recognized by 1941, quit to join the Navy, and finished his co-authored, or translated 15 books; one of for Three Dog Night, and for songwriter and magazine’s “Best and Barron’s as one of bachelor’s degree in English history at Yale. them, Islam, has been published seven times pianist Jim Brickman on a song that reached Brightest” issue. the top financial He acted on stage and in films with the since 1968. #1 on the New Age chart and resulted in a advisors in Minnesota on the America’s Top likes of Henry Fonda, Maureen Stapleton, PBS TV concert. Michelle Matthees, 1,000 Advisors: State-by-State list which Charleton Heston, Charles Laughton, Norman Garmezy, B.A. ’92, M.F.A. ’01, was Poet of the Week in was published in the February 22 edition of Orson Wells, Janet Leigh, and Christopher 91, professor emeritus, Kristy Athens, B.A. ’91, is a writer in November 2009 on Poetry SuperHighway. Barron’s magazine. Plummer. On Broadway he played the title psychology, died of role in Billy Budd. residence in Harney County, Oregon, Alzheimer’s disease on finishing a book about urban people moving Dominic Saucedo, M.F.A, ’02, has a story Lucia Watson, B.A. ’76, is the chef and He earned his master’s degree and his doctorate at the U in speech and November 21, 2009, to rural areas, and working on collage art, in Breakwater Review and has recently joined owner of Lucia’s restaurant in Minneapolis, theater arts, staying to teach until retirement in the late 1990s. He was in Nashville. Garmezy beloved by his students, among whom were actors Peter Michael Goetz and mostly for her line of greeting cards (http:// the faculty at Minneapolis Community and proprietor of a rental townhouse in was among the first ithaka.etsy.com). and Technical College, where he teaches Brittany (maisondegranit.com). Last fall Ernie Hudson. Meanwhile he acted, wrote plays and libretti, and helped to understand how individuals overcome composition and creative writing. she was named a Chevalier (Knight) du establish the Playwright’s Center, where he nurtured Barbara Field, John adversity to do well in life, thus inspiring a Olive, and others. He was a friend of Tennessee Williams, who flew in to Bob Barrie, B.A. ’78, owns Minneapolis Merite Agricole by the French government new field of research on resilience in human see at Scott Hall on the University campus in advertising agency, Barrie D’Rozario Murphy, Dr. Robert M. Twedt, B.A. ’45, retired; he for her creative cuisine rooted in sustainable A Streetcar Named Desire development. The New York Times called early 1972, which Nolte was directing. which was named 2009 Small Agency of had worked for the U.S. Public Health Service agriculture. Watson him the “grandfather of resilience theory.” the Year by the American Association of and the Center for Food Safety and Applied is the board chair The University of Minnesota Nolte Xperimental Theatre at Rarig Memorial gifts may be made to the Norman Advertising agencies, for overall creative Nutrition. Twedt wrote a memoir, Hare, Hare, of the international Center is named in his honor. A memorial event was held on April 26. and Edith Garmezy Graduate Fellowship excellence and consistently high standards. What You Doing There?: A Memoir of Growing Institute for Fund #2443 at cla.umn.edu.giving (click up in the Thirties, focusing on the relationship Agriculture and View a 1993 portrait of Nolte on public television: http://www.mnvideovault. Make a Gift). org/search_results.php?q=nolte&search-go.x=0&search-go.y=0# Alan Bjerga, M.A. ’98, was sworn in by of a first generation Norwegian-American Trade Policy. Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar as the with his immigrant father. The book ends Share memories of Charles Nolte at http://theatre.umn.edu/charlesnolte.php Peter Graves, star of 103rd president of the National Press Club the long-playing TV series at a gala held in his honor. Bjerga covers Mission Impossible, died of agricultural policy for Bloomberg News in a heart attack March 14 at his Santa Monica home, Washington, D.C. FRED LUKERMANN, JR., 87, professor emeritus four days short of his 84th in geography and dean of CLA from 1978 to 1989, died on IN MEMORY staff writer, assistant U.S. Senate librarian, birthday. Jon Bream, B.A. ’74, longtime Star Tribune Brian E. Anderson, B.A. ’66, died of then press secretary and speechwriter for music critic, has published his latest book, September 1, 2009, at his home in Falcon Heights. He is leukemia on March 16, in hospice at his then-Senator Walter Mondale. In an acting career that spanned half a Neil Diamond Is Forever: The Illustrated credited with helping to make the geography department’s home in Minneapolis. CLA named him an Alumnus of Notable century, Graves appeared in more than 70 Story of the Man and His Music. Bream, a doctoral program one of the finest in the country. As dean, Editor of Mpls.St. Paul (formerly Mpls) Distinction. films and TV shows—including the war journalism graduate, has been recognized he was instrumental in establishing the departments of magazine for 33 years, Anderson was one Anderson posted his hospice journal: filmStalag 17, noir-ish classic The Night of as an outstanding alum of the University’s African American and African studies, American Indian of the longest-serving city-magazine editors http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/ the Hunter, westerns and numerous science College of Liberal Arts and named to the studies and Chicano studies, the urban studies program, the in the country. He was civic-minded, an brianeanderson/journal fiction films. Playing against type, he acted Minnesota Daily Hall of Distinction. School of Public Affairs (now called the Humphrey Institute enthusiastic booster of the Twin Cities, and the bumbling pilot Capt. Clarence Oveur in of Public Affairs), and the Center for Urban Affairs. He fought for tenure for mentor to many young journalists. Lisa Elbert, M.A. ’05, M.A. TESL ’06, Airplane! (and its sequel), which was named Bette Jones Hammel, B.A. ’47, has women faculty and was devoted to his students. Lukermann served the college He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from died of cancer in August 2009, at the age of 35. by the American Film Institute the 10th published her book, Legendary Homes of Lake The author of Wicoie Yutokcapi Wowapi: Verb for some 50 years. Read tributes to Fred Lukermann at http://blog.lib.umn.edu/ the School of Journalism and Mass funniest American film. He received Golden Minnetonka, featuring homes by distinguished Companion to Dakota Iapi, she made significant cla/discoveries/2008/07/the_lukermann_legacy_1.html. Memorial gifts can be Communication, and worked on the Globe and Emmy awards for his signature architects including Philip Johnson, Ralph contributions to the teaching of the Dakota made to the Lukermann Geography Fellowship Fund #6737 at cla.umn.edu/giving Minnesota Daily. His first job as a reporter role in Mission Impossible (his character, Rapson, Elizabeth Close and Frank Gehry. language. (click Make a Gift). was at the Minneapolis Tribune. He later intelligence agent John Phelps, famously Hammel, of Wayzata, Minn., an architectural worked in Washington, D.C., as a Senate

26 reach SPRING 2010 SPRING 2010 reach 27 started each episode with “Your mission, should Arthur Kalleberg, B.A. ’52, M.A. ’57, and An accomplished Donors you decide to accept it…”), and a Primetime Ph.D. ’60, died on October 3, 2009, in pianist and organist, Emmy Award for hosting the TV documentary Columbia, Missouri at the age of 78. Arthur Nick built a career series Biography. was a professor of political science for 30 years in life-long service Lifetime gifts or pledges Selmer Birkelo* Thomas B.* and Elizabeth K. A Minneapolis native, Graves, the brother of at the University of Missouri-Columbia, where to the arts: teaching $10,000,000+ Lee A. Borah, Jr. Merner* Donors to CLA Hubbard Broadcasting, Inc. Dietrich W. Botstiber Foundation Mertz Gilmore Foundation actor James Arness, served two years in the U.S. he won awards for his teaching and research. and directing theater CALENDAR Year 2009 and The Hubbard Broadcasting Sidney L.* and Betty L. Brown* Doris B.* and Raymond O. Army Air Force during World War II, then, He was the editor of Dissent and Affirmation: productions at Duluth Foundation James I. Brown* Mithun* China Times Cultural Foundation Herb and Jane Mohring under the GI bill, enrolled at the University of Essays in Honor of Mulford Q. Sibley. Cathedral High Lifetime gifts or pledges William J. M. Claggett Bruce D.* and Mildred D. Minnesota as a theater arts major. He remained School and the College of St. Scholastica; $1,000,000 - $9,999,999 Patrick Corrigan Mudgett* The donors listed on the following pages Activar, Inc. Aina Swan Cutler* Eula* and Gil Northfield* a strong supporter of the University. Merry Louise Brunson LaLonde, B.A. ’61, launching an arts-based rehabilitation program Austrian Government Ronnaug Dahl* William T*. and Jeanne A. Ojala died December 10, 2009, in Edina. She was in the Minnesota correctional system; working have made a remarkable investment in CLA. Robert Beck* and Corrie W. Donna C. Davis John A. and Diane J. Opsahl Graham Hovey, B.A. ’39, died on February 84. Born the fifth child of 10 in an abandoned for the Minnesota Film Society; for the U’s Art Ooms Beck Carol E. and Charles M. Roger* and Mary Anne Page Their support has fueled new discoveries, Nathan* and Theresa Berman Denny, Jr. Darwin Patnode 20, 2010, in the Luther Crest retirement Orient of Texas railroad depot, she grew up Department, writing grants; and then directing opened doors for talented and deserving Harvey V. Berneking* The Denny Fund of the Jevne H.* and George T. community in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He during the Great Depression in a ramshackle the Nash gallery. He was a strong supporter of Cutis L. Carlson Family Minneapolis Foundation Pennock* students, built state-of-the art facilities for Foundation Hannah Kellogg Dowell Pew Charitable Trusts was 94. house in West Texas with no running water, local galleries and served on the board of the Elizabeth B.* and John Everett A.* and Ruth Dickson Jay and Rose Phillips Family A 1939 graduate in journalism and plumbing or electricity, picking cotton bolls Twin Cities Fine Arts Association. His family teaching and research, and provided critical Cowles, Sr.* Drake* Foundation Sage and John Cowles, Jr. Ruth Easton* Carol L. Pine economics, he wrote for numerous news with her family. In 1961, married and with suggests memorials to the Nash Gallery: https:// momentum for many of CLA’s vanguard pro- Ruth and Bruce Dayton Ruth Easton Fund of the Harold E.* and Louise A. organizations, including the Minneapolis Star; two children, she enrolled at the University www.foundation.umn.edu/pls/dmsn/online_ grams and initiatives. Deluxe Corporation Foundation Edelstein Family Foundation Renquist* Minneapolis Tribune, where he was the paper’s of Minnesota, earning a bachelor’s degree giving.start_null Edelstein Family Foundation Herbert Berridge Elliston Fund Katherine Roth* and W. Gardner N. Marbury Efimenco* Joan A. Enerson and Kenneth M. Roth* first European correspondent; andThe New in English in 1961 and a master’s in library Beverly Wexler Fink and Richard Anderson General Dennis and Pamela York Times editorial board and Washington science in 1964. In 1964 she became the Brigadier General (Ret) David W. Win, We are especially grateful to the thousands M. Fink William E. Faragher Schulstad Esther F. Freier* David D. Floren Showboat Fund of the St. Paul bureau, where he was the European first professional librarian at Control Data B.A. ’58, died from leukemia April 29, 2009, of alumni and friends of the college who Natalie Ann De Lue Gonzalez Edward and Janet Foster Foundation correspondent. After retiring from the Times (Ceridian), later moving to Cray Research in Colorado Springs, at the age of 86. He had made annual gifts to CLA in 2009. We regret Helen M. Hacker Freedom Forum Werner Simon* Starke* and Virginia Hathaway* Frenzel Foundation Richard H. and Mary Jo Skaggs he became professor of communication and Corporation to be a research librarian. She been the commander of the North American that space limits our ability to list all donors. Donald V. Hawkins* Gwenith F. Gislason* Verlyn and Bette Soderstrom director of the Journalism Fellows program at retired in 1996. Air Defense Command Combat Operations Hella L. Mears and Dr. William Harrison G. and Kathryn W. Star Tribune and Star Tribune Every single gift contributes to our efforts F. Hueg, Jr. Gough Foundation the University of Michigan. Center, responsible for the operation and Erwin A. and Miriam J. Kelen Government of Finland Jeraldine N. Luedke Swain* As an undergraduate, Hovey was assistant Darcy Pohland, management of the underground command to support talented students, promote excel- Kelen Family Foundation Bert M. Gross and Susan Hill Raymond J. and Elvira Tarleton* city editor of the Minnesota Daily, and on B.A. ’85, died and control center for NORAD and the U.S. lence in faculty research and teaching, and Terence E. Kilburn and Charles Gross Time Warner Nolte* N. Bud* and Beverly N. Grossman Asher Waldfogel returning to the University in 1947 for his unexpectedly in Air Force Aerospace Defense Command. build distinction in our academic programs. Myron and Anita Kunin N. Bud and Beverly N. Grossman Patrick J. Whitcomb and Patty master’s in political science and history, he her sleep on March He previously served as chief of staff at the David M. and Janis Larson Foundation A. Napier Thank you! Glenn* and Martha Leidahl Marion D. Groth* Virginia J. Wimmer* taught, and launched a weekly “Background of 5. She was 48. headquarters of NORAD/ADCOM, the Benjamin Evans Lippincott* and Cathy J. E. Gustafson David Michael* and Penny Rand the News” program on KUOM (now Radio K). Pohland had been military organization in charge of air and sea Gertrude Lawton Lippincott* Herman F. Haeberle* Winton For information about gift opportunities in the College During World War II Hovey covered the a news reporter at defense of the United States and Canada. Benjamin Y. H. and Helen C. Liu Fleurette Halpern* Max S.* and Cora R. Wortman Ted Mann* Charlotte H. and Gordon H. Robert O. Young, Jr.* Minnesota and Iowa National Guardsman WCCO-TV in Minneapolis for some 20 Win was a much-decorated command pilot of Liberal Arts, please call us at 612-625-5031. Don A.* and Edith I. Hansen of the 34th Infantry Division who famously years, starting as an intern in the summer of with more than 6,000 flying hours: he received Martindale Lowell and Cay Shea Hellervik Lifetime gifts or pledges R. 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Sands and Sally Jean McGough Holten the U.S. He lived for a week with French underground disability, however, “was a nonissue for her in Distinguished Unit Citation, the Purple Heart, Glassberg Sands John Holten American-Israeli Cooperative forces and broke the story on the destruction of how she approached her job,” said WCCO and others. He fought in World War II, Korea, St. Paul, MN 55170–3854 David B. Sanford and Frank D. Leaetta M. Hough and Marvin D. Enterprise Hirschbach* Dunnette* Frances Coakley* and Reginald the tiny French village of Oradour-sur-Glane general manager Susan Adams Loyd. and Vietnam. Shot down over North Vietnam, Helen F. and Otto A. Silha* Joyce M. and C. Christopher Ames* and the slaughter of its 642 men, women, and Pohland was a great fan of the Golden he was a prisoner of war from 1968 to 1973. To make a gift or pledge online, please go to Leland “Lee” and Louise Sundet Kelly Elmer L.* and Eleanor J. William D. 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SPRING 2010 reach 31 Donors FROM MARY HICKS Marjorie J. and Wendell J. Helen Harrington* Cecill C. and Judge Earl R. Mary Anne and Roger B. Page* Clarence L. Torp* Ruth D.* and Everett A. Drake* Don A.* and Edith I. Martindale DeBoer, Ph.D. J. J.* and Rose Z. Harris* Larson* John W. Pagnucco* Stephanie C. and Karl Van Aina G. and Fricis Dravnieks* Jacqueline G. McCauley Andrew Dickinson* Starke* and Virginia Hathaway* Rosalind L. Laskin Janis L. Pallister* D’Elden* Sheryl J. Dunnette George D. McClintock and Aileen We’re grateful that Garrison Keillor (English ’69) was Douglas A. Dolliff* Leopold A. Hauser III Fred and Catherine Lauritsen Coleen Pantalone Ceil T. Victor* Florence G. Dworsky* Mc Clintock* willing to spend an entire day talking to CLA students Michael A. Donner* Donald V. Hawkins* Billie C. Lawton Darwin Patnode Joy Winkie Viola Richard E. Engebretson Ellen Messer-Davidow Esther B. Donovan* Gladys L.* and Robert W. Hefty* Jerry Ledin June D. and Theodore C. Paulson Phillip A. Voight Patricia H. and Robert J. Engel George and Carolyn Milkovich and translating what he heard into our cover story. What a Mary J. Dovolis* Mary S.* and Casper H. Hegdal* Mary F. Lehnerts* Daniel E. Peterson* Donn L. Waage Emogene C. Evans Shirley P. and David D. Moore* bonanza of intellect, interests, and experiences they brought Hannah Kellogg Dowell Patricia J. Heikenen* Glenn* and Martha Leidahl Deanna F. and Neal D. Peterson* Elma F. Walter* Shirley M. and David L. Ferguson William C. Nelson* to the interviews! Michael Dunn* Clarence J.* and Delphine M. Mildred B. Leighton* Wilma G.* and Wayne R. Pierce* Jean Worrall Ward Elsie L. Fesler* Linda C. Odegard and Harlan M. Reading the story, you may find that some aspects of the student experience Zola C. Dworsky* Hein* Mary F. Lewis Carol L. Pine Carl F.* and Ruth C. Edward M. and Janet M. Foster Cavert Jean M. Ebbighausen Sue A. Shepard and Donald P. Ronald L. and Judith A. Libertus Mabel K. Powers* Warmington* Clarence G. Frame* David K. and Coleen H. have changed, but others will remind you of your own—especially the desire to Elizabeth D. Edmonds* Helgeson Benjamin Evans Lippincott* and Robert H. Putnam Victor A. Webster and Roberta A. Andrew Gesell Pantalone turn ones’ own potential into a bright future. N. Marbury Efimenco* Susan K. Heltemes Gertrude Lawton Lippincott* Ruth M. Quast Armstrong Heidi R. Gesell Marcia M. Patterson One obvious change is of great concern: the cost of this great educational Jean M. Ehret Norma J. Hervey Benjamin Y. H. and Helen C. Liu Gloria J. Randahl* Joanne D. and Vernon E. Gwenith F. Gislason* Elaine D. and Erland K. Persson Thomas C.* and Barbara L. Louis J.A. and Vivian H. Hewer* Serge E. Logan Phillip J. Ranheim Weckwerth Harvey and Gail Dryer Goldberg Morton B. and Pauline Phillips adventure. In 1960, CLA tuition was about $210 annually ($2,200 in today’s Elliott* Lawrence J. and Carol J. Hill John Y. and Marjorie C. Loper Marjorie A. and David M. Katherine L. Wejnarth* Mary and Steven Goldstein Gwendoline L. Reid* dollars), and most students commuted to campus. Today, the typical cost for a Joan A. Enerson and Kenneth M. Dona M. and Thomas P. Merle W. Loppnow* Ransom* William D. Wells Kenneth L. Graham* Louise A.* and Harold E. Minnesota resident is $22,000, including tuition, room, and board. In earlier Anderson Hiltunen* Natalie C. Lund* Harvey D. Rappaport* Sandra K. Walberg Westerman Lawrence G. and Ronya Renquist* Donald E. and Lydia K. Gordon and Louella Hirsch Stephanie K. and Warren L. Lawrence J. Reader* Patrick J. Whitcomb and Patty Greenberg Charles* and Evelyn Ritz* decades, students could work part-time and cover the lion’s share of the bill. Engebretson* Ethel A. Hitchcock* Lundsgaard Ruth Willard Redhead A. Napier Dalos W. Grobe Wyndham Robertson Today they would have to work 69 hours a week at minimum wage, year- Eva H. Erickson* Lisa Vecoli and Marjean V. Hoeft Terry E. Shima and Margaret A. Armand A. and Madeleine S. Lloyd A. Wilford* William Grossman Florane and Jerome Rosenstone* round—an impossible scenario. Emogene Becker Evans Eivind O. Hoff* Lutz Renaud* Marian W. and O.M. Wilson* James J. Hahn Falsum V. Russell* William E. Faragher Joan Vivian Hoffmann Kim Max Lyon Louise A.* and Harold E. Virginia J. Wimmer* Milton D. and Lee E. Hakel Robert W. and Janet F. Sabes What kind of difference can a scholarship make? Here’s what one grateful Judith L. and Edward L. Farmer A. William Hoglund* Sidney Lyons* Renquist* Audrey E. Wolfe* Richard A. and Linda S. Hanson Florence Saloutos* B.F.A. alumna said: Harold D. and Mary Ann Harold L. and Harriet Thwing Phyllis B. Mac Brair* Ruth Roberts* Marvin and Elayne Wolfenson Mark and Jacqueline Hegman Robert P. Sands and Sally Feldman Holden* David J. Madson Janis Marie Rollow Elsie P. Worch* John T.* and Hazel H. Helgeson* Glassberg Sands “With only one of my parents working, and my father laid off and search- John K.* and Elsie Lampert Grace E. Holloway Dorothy B. Magnus* Katherine Roth* and W. Gardner Cora R. and Max S. Wortman* Walter W. Heller* David B. Sanford and Frank D. Fesler* Jean McGough Holten Rueben and Charlotte S. Roth* Robert O. Young* Louis J.* and Vivian H. Hewer* Hirschbach* ing constantly for work, many Federal Financial Aid options still weren’t a Gertrude Finch* Deborah L. Hopp Magnuson* Leocadia Rozanski* Tom and Liz Yuzer Mary Kay Hicks Donald C.* and Mary J. Norma C. and John R. Elizabeth R. Hughes* Thomas S. and Kaylen K. Maple Falsum V. Russell* Michael and Judy Hopp Savelkoul* possibility. We had ‘just enough’ not to qualify, even though I knew I’d be in Finnegan, Sr. Marc H. Hugunin and Alice M. Carol K. March Robert P. Sands and Sally Presidents Club Charter Graham B. and Mary J. Hovey Chacke Y. and Stephen B. Scallen big trouble without help. Scholarship support got me to the U, and freed me David D. Floren Pepin David and Marilyn Maxner Glassberg Sands Members Cynthia J. Hubbard Jean C. Schlemmer Joan C. Forester* Leonid Hurwicz* and Evelyn Steven E. Mayer David B. Sanford and Frank D. John S. and Judith E. Adams Donald P. Irish and Marjorie H. Nick Schoen* up to work less and focus more on my studies and training. And I left college Professor Edward and Janet Jensen Hurwicz Elizabeth A.* and William A. Hirschbach* Russell B. Adams Sibley* Charles J. and Birgitta M. Schoen Foster Marion T. Hutchinson* Mc Donald* Donald C.* and Mary J. Kenneth J. and Janet E. Albrecht Paul E. Joncas* Ebba W. and Thomas D. with little to no debt (an incredible blessing for a girl who will forever be Katie and Rick Fournier Charlotte L. Janes* Jacqueline G. McCauley Savelkoul* Elaine F. and James R. Allen Jacqueline N. Jones Schoonover Alan P. and Yvonne G. Frailich James J. Jenkins and Winifred Stephen G. McGraw Eileen A. Scallen Craig H. Anderson Louise K. Jung Nahum Schulman* living—happily—on a ‘starving artist’s’ budget!).” Neil D.* and Jeanne K. Freeman* Strange Edythe V.* and James P. McLeod* Richard L. and Maryan S. Schall Jenny V. Baker* Samuel L. and Sylvia K. Kaplan Joseph E. Schwartzberg Esther F. Freier* Paul E. Joncas* R. F. “Pinky” McNamara Robert J. Schlafle* Cornelia W. and Robert H. Beck* Sam H. Kaufman* Norma B. and James A. Smutz* Knowing that this student spoke for so many students whose families William L. French Wendell J. and Elizabeth Josal Thomas B.* and Elizabeth K. Thomas D. Schoonover and James F.* and Elinor W. Bell* Clayton and Nancy L. Kaufman* Michael L. and Betty A. Soffin simply cannot afford rising tuition costs, I wondered: What about them? So I Sarah S. Frost* Jerome Joss* Merner* Ebba Wesener Schoonover Charles H. Bell* Kathryn E. and Wilbur C. Joan E. and Eugene A. Francis C. Gamelin Evelyn K. Kaplan* Janice A. Meyer Roy A.* and Elaine D. Schuessler* John W. Benson Keefer* Sommerfeld calculated how much money CLA would need to give awards (not full rides) to Margaret E. Gilbertson* H. Eugene Karjala Valerie Meyer-DeJong and General Dennis and Pamela Linda Keillor Berg and David Garrison E. Keillor Victor N. Stein* every student who meets our criteria of both merit and financial need. Thomas A. and Erica Moe Giorgi Dennis R. Johnson and Mary K. Mitchell T. DeJong Schulstad A. Berg Thomas A. and Victoria H. Keller Glenn H. and Mary K. Steinke The numbers are sobering. We would need $14 million in cash annually Gwenith F. Gislason* Katynski-Johnson Suzanne L. and Robert E. Joseph E. Schwartzberg Don and Carol F. Birkeland William H. and Madoline D. Edwin O. Stene* Helen J. and William R. Gladwin Clayton and Nancy L. Kaufman* Meyerson Kathryn M. Sederberg* Caroline A. Blanshard* Kelty* Donald F. and Virginia H. to award scholarships to every student with significant need. Mae G. Glemming* Joyce M. and C. Christopher Alex R. Miller* Vincent B. Shea* Margaret E. Borgman* Margaret A. Keyes Swanson In 2008, we awarded approximately $3.9 million in scholarship and Natalie Ann De Lue Gonzalez Kelly Kathryn U. Moen Eva M. Shewfelt* Theodore R. Brouillette* Terence E. Kilburn and Charles Paul A. and Lucienne J. Taylor fellowship support; in 2009, with your help, we increased that to $4.4 million— Fred C. Gosso* William H. and Madoline D. Herb and Jane Mohring Hide Shohara* Joseph G. Brown M. Nolte* Thomas L. Thompson* Persis R. Gow Kelty* Carol C. Moore Richard H. and Mary Jo Skaggs Donald G. Burch* Steven C. and Sarah J. Kumagai Mary C. Turpie* still far short of our students’ needs. Kenneth L. Graham* Beverly J. Kespohl Joseph P. Moritz Terrence L. Smith James N. Butcher and Carolyn L. Janice M. and Joseph J. Kwiat* Robert A. Ulstrom I know these numbers are overwhelming, and I certainly can’t reasonably Professor George D and Anne R Rosalie E. Kettner* Marion S.* and Robert D. James A. Smith* Williams Dorothy E. and Richard W. Stephanie C. and Karl Van expect a single donor, or even just a few donors, to fill the gap. But with more Green Terence E. Kilburn Moulton* Charles K. and Susanne M. Smith Peter M. and Sandra K. Butler Lamberton* D’Elden* Norman E. and Helen Rachie Ruth Kincaid* Mildred D.* and Bruce D. Norma B. and James A. Smutz* David P. Campbell Anne H. and Thomas M. Jean Dain Waters than 100,000 CLA alumni out there in the world, I know that collectively we Groth Dorothy L. Kincaid* Mudgett* Verlyn and Bette Soderstrom John P. Campbell LaMotte William D. Wells can make a dent in the nearly $10 million in remaining annual student need. Marion D. Groth* Jacqueline S.* and Joseph C. Joseph J. and Priscilla J. Nauer Paul and Rose Solstad Howard C. and Gail A. Carlson Kaarle H. Lehtinen* Dare L.* and William F. White* As public support for the University continues to fall, private philanthropy Rose Grunwald* Kinderwater* Agnes T. Nelson* Glenn and Mary Steinke Lawrence H. Cattron* Leonard H. and W. Joyce Levitan Stroller T. and Linda White Catherine B. Guisan Thomas B. Kinsey and N. Lynn William C. Nelson* Edwin O. Stene* Margot H. and David S. Rondi C. Erickson and Guilford Marian W. and O.M. Wilson* will become increasingly critical to our future, to our students’ future, and to Cathy J E Gustafson Slifer Elizabeth R. Nelson* Barbara W. Stevenson* Chatterton S. Lewis Emily K. Wilson Minnesota’s economy and quality of life. Please help by making a gift, of any Cleyonne Gustafson* Frederick Klaeber* Sandra K. Nelson Lorraine Gonyea Stewart Frances Comstock* Lynn Y. Lin Virginia Wimmer* size that you can afford, to our CLA Annual Scholarship fund #8186, or call us Mary Jane Gustafson* Rosemary E. Knutson-Gonzalez Earl and Judy Nolting Gretchen A. Stieler* Margaret I. Conway* Anne W.* and Russell C. Theta H.* and John B. Wolf* Helen M. Hacker Elizabeth G. Kruger* Margaret L. and John A. Nordin* Hannah C. Stocker* Gus L.* and Shirley G. Cooper* Lindgren* Milton P. Woodard* about the possibility of endowing a named scholarship. Herman F. Haeberle Stephanie L. Krusemark Eula* and Gilbert A. Northfield* Walter Streme* Claudia D. Curtis Janice O. and John D. Lindstrom Joseph J. and Mary L. Yanchar Fleurette Halpern* Steve and Sarah Kumagai J. Douglas O’Brien, Jr. Tom H. and Arlene M. Swain Michael and Nancy Dardis Richard Luis and Juanita Bolland Tom and Liz Yuzer MARY HICKS, DIRECTOR, Development & Alumni Relations Susan M. Hanson James M. Kushner Patrick A. O’Dougherty Jeraldine N. Luedke Swain* Joyce E. and John G. Davis* Luis E. W.* and Elizabeth H. Ziebarth* 612-625-5031, [email protected] Evelyn J. Hanson* Sharon K. Thompson Kuusisto Linda Odegard Raymond J. and Elvira A. Nathaniel* and Beatrice L. De Fred E.* and Barbara L. Gail and Stuart Hanson Leslie J. LaCount Arsham H. Ohanessian* Tarleton* Lue* Lukermann* Patricia* and Einar Hardin* Frauncee L. Ladd Jeanne A. and William T. Ojala* Susan H. Taylor* Evelyn A. Donaldson* Judy I. and Neilan B. Lund* John L.* and Elizabeth T. Carol E. Ladwig* Amy L. Olson Mildred C. Templin* Mary J. Dovolis* David J. Madson Harnsberger* Bruce A. Larson John A. and Diane J. Opsahl Thomas L. Thompson* Hannah K. Dowell Carol K. March

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