Gustavus libr ary associates EX LIBRIS Newsletter of Gustavus Library Associates Volume 21:2 | Summer 2014 INSIDE An Interview with GLA From Your President A Royal Affair 2015 Board Member Lois Allen In the Spotlight LYNN MCGINTY and SHERYL JOHNSON, GLA Co-presidents LIfe in the Library Gustavus Library Associates board member Lois Allen has served Coming Events GLA in exemplary ways for over three decades. She is one of the Author Day Speaker first recipients of the newly established Founders Award. This my church college, my brother was a award was Gustie, and teaching high school was announced my goal. I was excited about Gustavus at the Royal life and I met Clyde in that first year. Affair gala After my second year we married. event in I completed my degree at another November Lutheran college, became a teacher, 2013. Lois will parented two sons, and, at various be officially stages of family life, became involved recognized in related activities in our church, this fall on school, and community. campus at the Founders Celebration reception on Wednesday, September How did you become involved 17, from 10:30 to noon in the Heritage in GLA and how have you been Banquet Room of the C. Charles active? “Gustavus Library Associates Jackson Campus Center. Co-presidents In 1983, my personal friend and promotes learning, literature, and Lynn McGinty and Sheryl Johnson mentor, Evodia Linner, then president the Folke Bernadotte Memorial prepared these interview questions for of GLA, convinced me to join GLA and become a member of the Royal Library at Gustavus Adolphus Lois’s response… Affair auction committee. At the time, College.” Tell us a bit about yourself. I didn’t have a clue what I could offer, Choosing Gustavus in 1955 was not a but I was willing to try something difficult decision for me. Gustavus was continued on page 5 gustavus adolphus college | St. Peter, Minnesota | 1-800-GUSTAVUS | gustavus.edu 2015 GLA BOARD From Your President . EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Sheryl Johnson, Eagan (co-president) Lynn McGinty, Shoreview (co-president) “If you have a garden and a library, Bert Ledder, Edina (past president) Nacia Dahl, Burnsville (president-elect) you have everything you need.” – Cicero Kerry Dressen, Edina (secretary) Susan Ripley, Plymouth (finance officer) My garden is a source of joy to me, especially in the summer months after I’ve put in Susie Heim, Edina Deb Johnson, Bloomington the time and work of tending to it. Weeding and watering continue, but by mid-July Miriam Kagol, Deephaven Ruth Tillquist, North Oaks I finally see the results of my labors in the beauty of the blooms. Erin Wilken, Carver In 1977, the soil was tilled for Patty Lindell and others to plant a seed that MEMBERS AT LARGE Lois Allen, Bloomington became Gustavus Library Associates. Since then we have continued “weeding and Kari Anderson, Eagan Catherine Asta, Edina watering,” and have been rewarded with an endowment of $2.5 million and the Ginny Bakke, St. Peter ability to provide Folke Bernadotte Memorial Library with 25 percent of its annual Melinda Batz, Bloomington Katy Bennewitz, Edina acquisitions budget. We have built and enriched friendship—our roots growing ever Becky Bergman, St. Peter Terry Bloom, Lakeville deeper—by attending Books in Bloom events, Author Days, Lucia luncheons, and Elaine Brostrom, St. Peter Royal Affairs. Mary Dierkes, Minneapolis Barbara Elnes, Edina Hard work has its rewards, but GLA needs people to tend and care for it. Without Maggie Forster, Shakopee Lisa Gilyard, Medina your membership and attendance at our events, it couldn’t survive and thrive. Tell Jill Hagen, Minneapolis Nancy Hotchkiss, Bloomington your friends how important our mission is, so that we may continue to grow. Victoria Huff, St. Peter Anna Johnson, Carver This year, our growth will include (but is not limited to) the following: June Johnson, Wayzata Beth Jones, Hopkins 1. We look forward to the fresh leadership of our new college president, Rebecca Sarah Kostial, Orono Marlys McDevitt, Lakeville Bergman. Her presence on our Board of Directors will be an honor. Jan Michaletz, Edina Megan Myhre, Minneapolis 2. Annual membership dues will be increasing slightly in order to keep up with the Marlys Nelson, Shoreview rising cost of library materials and databases. A Contributing member will now Karen Pagel, Wayzata Marisa Schloer, Savage join for $45; Acquisition level will now be $75. We have also added an entry- Barb Taylor, St. Peter Sonja Timmerman, St. Peter level option for Young Alumni at $30. Michelle Twait, St. Peter Paige Wilcox, Minneapolis 3. New rolling membership renewals are now available; your annual membership Susan Wilcox, Edina will now be good for an entire year from the day you pay! Joan Wright, St. Louis Park EMERITAE BOARD MEMBERS As always, a Gift of Celebration is an outstanding way to honor or remember loved Margie Anderson, Edina Donna Beck, Greenwood ones. Mary Brubacher, Minnetonka Barbara Carlson, Greenfield Thanks for all you do to support this crucial need. We are grateful for our roots, and Jane Confer, Minneapolis Kathy Cunningham, Mendota Heights look to our branches to reach upward—the sky’s the limit! Connie Daugherty, Eden Prairie Joyce Elvestrom, Lutsen Marilyn Hoch, Edina Wishing you days of enjoying your gardens and libraries, Lee Jaeger, Bloomington Carol Johnson, Minneapolis Joanne Kendall, Falcon Heights Patricia Lindell, Northfield Jeanne Lindstrom, Richfield Evodia Linner, Edina Sharon Litynski, St. Peter Miriam Manfred, Minneapolis Lynn McGinty, Co-president Kristin Matejcek, Plymouth Dawn Michael, Vero Beach, Fla. Susan Morrison, Maplewood Mignette Najarian, Minneapolis Kris Ohle, Clive, Iowa Marty Penkhus, Mankato Susan Peterson, Minneapolis Loreli Steuer, Edina This newsletter is published three times during the academic year by the Office of 2 Nancy Thorp, Wayzata Marketing and Communication, Gustavus Adolphus College, under the supervision of Dee Waldron, St. Peter Kristin Welbaum, Edina Dean Wahlund, director of communication services and special events and executive Sandy Williamson, Tucson, Ariz. director of GLA. For further information about Gustavus Library Associates membership EX OFFICIO MEMBERS and activities, contact Wahlund or Dana Lamb at 507-933-7550 or e-mail marketing@ Dana Lamb, St. Peter (admin. coordinator) Dan Mollner, St. Peter (college librarian) gustavus.edu. Dean Wahlund, St. Peter (executive director) Lecture and Book Signing with author KELSEY Author • Speaker • Touron TIMMERMAN Wednesday, September 10 gustavus.edu/orientation/ 7:30pm | Alumni Hall ReadingInCommon Free and open to the public Reading in Common Book Selections Announced Gustavus Adolphus College has selected the books Where affect them. This book explores the global food economy Am I Wearing? and Where Am I Eating? by author and and food crises, fair trade, and immigration. journalist Kelsey Timmerman as its Reading in Common Books for the Reading in Common program are chosen books for the 2014–15 academic year—the 15th year of the based on their literary quality, reading manageability, and program at Gustavus. All first-year students are expected to interdisciplinary nature. Timmerman will make a public read at least one of the two selections during the summer appearance at Gustavus on Wednesday, September 10, in before meeting with faculty members and other Gustavus Alumni Hall of the Johnson Student Union, beginning at students to discuss them during New Student Orientation 7:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. this fall. For more information about the program visit online at In his first book, Where Am I Wearing? A Global Tour to gustavus.edu/orientation/ReadingInCommon.php. the Countries, Factories, and People That Make Our Clothes, Timmerman takes readers on a journey through Asia and Latin America. Whether writing about a 20-something t-shirt maker in Honduras or a single mother in Bangledesh, he humanizes the issues of globalization, bridging the gap between global producers and consumers. He describes with intimacy and clarity the connection between impoverished garment workers’ standards of living and the all-American material lifestyle. In his second book, Where Am I Eating? An Adventure Through the Global Food Economy, Timmerman tells fascinating stories of the people who produce the food we 53 eat, explaining what their lives are like and how our habits IN THE SPOTLIGHT Keeping Up World Book Night USA, which gave Minneapolis writer Pete Hautman, away 500,000 books to random National Book Award winner for Godless strangers each April over the past three and Author Day guest in Spring 2005, years, is shutting down. For three has a new young-adult book out. The years the publishing industry and book Klaatu Terminus is book three of his community very generously footed the Klaatu Diskos series. bill and contributed enormous time Spring 2005 Author Day guest Mary and effort to the project. GLA Author Logue has released Lake of Tears, her Day guests Leif Enger (Fall 2008) and ninth mystery novel featuring Deputy Peter Geye (Spring 2013), as well as Sheriff Clair Watkins and set in rural Minnesota treasure Garrison Keillor, Wisconsin. were among those whose books were given away. The High Divide, a new novel by Fall 2008 Author Day guest Lin Enger, Matt Rasmussen, 1998 Gustavus is scheduled to be published in late graduate and visiting assistant professor September by Algonquin Books of of English at his alma mater, won the Chapel Hill, N.C. 2014 Minnesota Book Award for poetry last April for his debut collection of Paul Batz, a 1985 graduate of Gustavus poems titled Black Aperture. The book (and husband of GLA board member had previously been short-listed for Melinda Moen Batz), launched his sixth Save the Date book project in June. Good Leadership Festival of St. Lucia the National Book Award in the same category. Today is an interactive e-book, designed Thursday, December 11 in full color with live links and video St.