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www.yankton.net PAGE 5A Yankton Daily Press & Dakotan ■ LIFE ■ Saturday, July 31, 2010 Vengeance: Memories Of MMC Honors Three At Alumni Days Mount Marty College wel- Medical Clinic. serve on the her Christian A Father’s Perfect Punt comed alumni back to campus She has been rec- Alumni Council. lifestyle. the weekend of July 17-18 for the ognized and He was named Sister Aidan BY TOBIN BARNES while the old man school’s annual Alumni Days admired by all to Mount Marty was born and and I were watch- gathering. Saturday’s events whom she has Alumni Director raised in York, My old man hated flies...for ing Jeopardy and included breakfast, campus served: children, and Director of Neb., and attend- one thing. sure enough, I tours, lunch, tea hosted by for- their parents and College Relations ed Mount Marty Uh huh, you say. Okay, but saw crime in mer faculty and staff, and an grandparents, as in 1981, and a College after high doesn’t everyone hate flies, even progress. So I evening social and banquet. The well as nursing year later worked school. After her the kinda pretty ones that are dropped the dime weekend culminated with Mass Pates students and sur- Kunselman solely as Director Aidan freshman year, she metallic blue and metallic green? to my old man entered Sacred who was sitting and brunch on Sunday. Honored gical patients. of College Like, what good are they other classes at the banquet were Pates is an only daughter and Relations. He also taught Heart Monastery, continuing her than processing dead stuff? on the couch, and studies during the summers and Yeah, but not like my old man Barnes skewed justice Mount Marty High School has given much of her time over speech, theatre and mass com- was instantly set Classes of 1950 and 1960, Sacred the years to her family during munications at the College, earning a degree in Social Science hated flies. At the motel, he in 1962. She also earned her hated them viscerally, like fly- in motion. Heart School of Nursing Classes the illnesses of her brother, par- directed plays and musicals, and He blew off that couch and of 1950 and 1960, and Mount ents and grandparents. She is managed the campus theatre Masters in Psychology at dom was after him personally. Duquesne University, in prepara- Like they could buzz into his through the door like someone Marty College Classes of 1960, known in her neighborhood in and radio station. Since moving had finally touched off the big 1970, 1985, and 1990. During the Yankton as a person who will to Minneapolis, Kunselman has tion for her work at the College. pocket and fly away with his Her ministry has included money if they wanted to. one. That poor kid — a guy now, I festivities, alumni Marilyn Pates, generously help others. She is a volunteered to be the Twin assume — is probably still in ther- Norm Kunselman, and Sister graduate of Mount Marty who is Cities Representative in the teaching at the elementary and And he thought that’s they college levels; serving many years did...metaphorically speaking. apy trying to get over seeing a Aidan Bourke were also hon- recognized for her sense of val- Alumni Council, representing the Back then, people drank their 250-plus-pound former pro foot- at Mount Marty as Director of ball fullback come roaring after ored. ues, kindness, compassion, hos- class of 1976, and coordinating Admissions, Registrar, and pop out of bottles. Wooden pop him like someone had just hiked Marilyn Pates received the pitality, and faith in God, bring- alumni events. cases that fit onto wire stands Alumni Director; coordinating vol- the ball. award for Distinguished ing Christ to others who are in For keeping the Mount Marty unteers at Madonna Rehab were left beside pop machines so Despite the shock of seeing a Professional Achievement for need. College community in his heart people could leave their empty Hospital in Lincoln, Neb.; serving pin-striped, bibbed-overhauled demonstrating leadership, com- Norm Kunselman received and his actions, Kunselman has on numerous boards and commit- bottles in them. And that was ball of fury eating up ground in petence, dedication, integrity, the award for Distinguished received the Distinguished our setup at the motel, too. tees; and serving as the Prioress his direction, the kid made a pret- and a commitment to continued Service to the Mount Marty Service to the Mount Marty of Sacred Heart Monastery from Most people left their empties ty good effort at escape, bottles education in her chosen profes- Community for exhibiting Community award. behind because they were worth 1981-1989. clanking around in the baskets of sion. notable leadership abilities in Sister Aidan Bourke received She currently volunteers in only two cents apiece for trade his bicycle. in. Yeah, two cents. Big deal. Had Pates graduate from Sacred service to the Mount Marty the award for Distinguished the Mount Marty Alumni Office, He was just about to hop on Heart Hospital School of Nursing Community. Service to Mount Marty College to be a miser to hoard pop bot- the bike seat when my old man where she enjoys working with tles for the prospect of someday in 1957. She has been employed Kunselman, of Minneapolis, for her loyalty to the mission of the staff and having contact with planted a perfect punt right in the as a nurse and instructor in the Minn., is a 1976 graduate of the institution, continued inter- cashing them in for maybe a seat of the kid’s pants. The kid alums, and she generously helps buck or two. instantly turned into a screaming operating room at Sacred Heart Mount Marty College. Shortly est and support, and reflection with various ministries in the Heck, that’d be thinking like mess, but, vengeance taken, my and a clinical nurse at Yankton after graduation, he began to of honor upon the school with monastery. my old man. That’s right. He old man let him ride away with loved pop bottles, but I’m telling the bottles. you right now he hated them, Thereafter, my old man suf- too, almost as much as flies. fered and hobbled a good week After all, he had to sit there and from the impact of the kid’s butt worry about losing those pop on his already inflamed ingrown What To Do When Washer Fluid Goes Astray bottles. toenail. Maybe kids loved pop bottles Enough said, I guess, except a BY TOM AND RAY MAGLIOZZI water and ammonia. There might even be a as much as he did. Ten bottles grown man would probably find little ethylene glycol (aka coolant) in there! were twenty cents for a kid back himself in jail if he pulled some- My aunt called me the other day and said RAY: There’s a small amount of soap in then, and twenty cents could buy thing like that today...bottle thief she had trouble trying to find the place or not. Windex. But my guess is that any suds would a couple gobs of penny candy or where you put more windshield-washer fluid. be suppressed by the high pressure inside even the big stuff like five cent So you can see my old man loved his pop bottles, but he also She told me the only cover she found was the cooling system. I mean, she might find Snickers or Milky Way bars. That one that said “Coolant.” You guessed it -- she made pop bottles worth stealing hated them for reasons other than her engine compartment overflowing with for some kids. worrying about losing them. It put the windshield-washer fluid in the soap suds tomorrow morning, but I doubt it. And so we had a problem had to do with those pesky flies. coolant reservoir. She then told me that she It’s not like she put Dawn Dishwashing with pop bottle theft at the I’ll tell you more about that used a bottle of Windex instead of the dilut- Liquid in there. motel. That’s right, we were suf- next time. (Sorry. I guess it’s going ed blue stuff you buy for car windshields. TOM: Flushing the cooling system cer- fering shrinkage in our projected to be a while before I get to my What should I do to help her, and what pos- tainly will remove all doubt about any future pop bottle inventories. Drove my perfect kid-job from which all this sible damage did she do? — Adam damage that might result. And she can feel old man nuts to lose this kind of subsequently grows. It’s a thera- TOM: Well, the first thing you can do to good knowing she has the cleanest cooling cash flow to delinquents. peutic process, after all.) help her is open her hood and show her system in the neighborhood. So another one of my jobs as where the windshield-washer reservoir is. Tobin Barnes, a high school CLICK & CLACK a seven-year-old at the motel was English teacher, gets his skewed Then take a big magic marker and label it for Got a question about cars? Write to to keep an eye out for pop bottle viewpoints of life from staring too her. Click and Clack in care of this newspaper, looters. much at Crow Peak, which looms RAY: The next thing I’d do is take the car or e-mail them by visiting the Car Talk Web Well, it so happened that one to a mechanic and have the coolant flushed any damage.