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Goldy Style Homecoming 2014 MADE POSSIBLE BY THE MEMBERS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION | FALL 2014 CELEBRATE 100 YEARS GOLDY STYLE HOMECOMING 2014 ALSO: Greek Revival Generations of Alumni In the MOOC THE RETURN OF YOUR BEST DETAILER. At University of Minnesota Children’s Hospital, we create AN ORDINARY MOMENT MADE POSSIBLE BY AN breakthrough solutions for a EXTRAORDINARY MEDICAL BREAKTHROUGH. whole host of health conditions. From pediatric emergency care to treatment of leukemia, liver disease, or other illnesses, you can take comfort in knowing that our pediatric specialists have a growing body of breakthroughs to work with—whatever your child’s healthcare needs. To find out more, or make an appointment, call 844-273-8383 or visit umnhealth.org today. A collaboration between University of Minnesota Physicians and University of Minnesota Medical Center. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Volume 114 • Number 1 / Fall 2014 page 56 7 Editor’s Note Cover Story 8 Letters 32 Generations 10 About Campus For families with generations of alumni, the The surprising truth about wolves, helping bring an University of Minnesota isn’t only an institution of old cemetery to life, and alumni make the U shine higher education—it’s home. BY TIM BRADY AND SUZY FRISCH 14 Alumni Stories Larissa Anderson’s funny job, Jack Brewer’s life mission, and more 20 Greek Revival The campus initiative that’s rejuvenating fraternities and sororities page 40 page 20 40 History Homecoming celebrations in the past 100 years have 24 Free for the Taking included just about everything. MOOCs haven’t revolutionized higher ed yet, but U BY TIM BRADY professors are helping revolutionize MOOCs. 47 Homecoming Guide 51 Gopher Sports The comprehensive guide for alumni From Gopher captain to Gopher coach 54 Gopher Connections Make the most of your member benefits PHOTOS: Goldy cover and flip book by Rick Dublin and Kristi Anderson. 56 Campus Seen This page, clockwise from top: LRT by Sher Stoneman; Dungy and Gallogly Our photo finish courtesy University Archives; Greek by Sara Rubinstein Top: Washington Avenue looking east from the East Bank light rail station www.MinnesotaAlumni.org BOARD OF DIRECTORS Chair Jim du Bois, ’87 Chair-elect Alison Page, ’96 Vice Chair Dan McDonald, ’82, ’85 Secretary/Treasurer Sandra Ulsaker Weise, ’81 Past Chair Susan Adams Loyd, ’81 President and CEO Lisa Lewis Judy Beniak, ’82, ’10 Wendy Williams Blackshaw, ’82 Natasha Freimark, ’95 Gayle Hallin, ’70, ’77 Randy Handel Linda Hofflander, ’83 Douglas Huebsch, ’85 Janice Linster, ’83 Laura Moret, ’76, ’81 Alex Oftelie, ’03, ’06 Amy Phenix, ’08 Roshini Rajkumar, ’97 Clinton Schaff, ’00 Kathy Schmidlkofer, ’97 Alfonso Sintjago, ’14, ’15 Joelle Stangler, ’16 Dave Walstad, ’88, ’91 Jean Wyman UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA GOVERNANCE President Eric Kaler, ’82 Board of Regents Richard Beeson, ’76, chair Dean Johnson, vice chair Clyde Allen Laura Brod, ’93 Linda Cohen, ’85, ’86 Tom Devine ’79 John Frobenius, ’69 David Larson, ’66 Peggy Lucas, ’64, ’76 David McMillan, ’83, ’87 Abdul Omari, ’08, ’10 Patricia Simmons Contact the Alumni Association To join or renew, change your address, or obtain benefit information, go to www.MinnesotaAlumni.org or contact us at McNamara Alumni Center, 200 Oak St. SE, Suite 200, Minneapolis, MN 55455-2040; 800-UM-ALUMS (862-5867), 612-624-2323; or [email protected] The University of Minnesota Alumni Association is committed to the policy that all persons shall have equal access to its programs, facilities, and employ ment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, handicap, age, veteran status, or sexual orientation. 2 Fall 2014 MINNESOTA -- -- -- ----------------- ---------~- ~1 >lfl 11 ge ure~ ~e ·,~Ip ng-i ne ghbiJ pa' "1e1 Ct o ~ rrL t od• on o llV n - r- I & i;: M ne n5sf> •Pm ~~ ' M rr.:s r I 1j 11 ' I !'Cr 1. d r JI 11 g1 I I I rl I I ' II 1, ••I by 10 rg Minnesota :J ic Community 1 11 mncommunftyfoundation.org ro h arn I ow EOestilbl1-h fund r •dil I? Foundation MINNESOTA PUBLISHED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION SINCE 1901 President and CEO Lisa Lewis Vice President of Communications Daniel Gore Editor Cynthia Scott Editor (on leave) Shelly Fling Copy Editor Susan Maas Contributing Editor Meleah Maynard Contributing Writers Jennifer Benson, Tim Brady, Greg Breining, Dan Carlinsky, Suzy Frisch, Welcome Marla Holt, Rick Moore, Andy Steiner Art Director Home. Kristi Anderson, Two Spruce Design Media Partners Access Minnesota and Gopher Sports Update Advertising Rates and Information Ketti Histon 612-280-5144, [email protected] Minnesota (ISSN 0164-9450) is published four See what’s new times a year (Fall, Winter, Spring, and Summer) by the University of Minnesota Alumni Association for its members. in Bloomington Copyright ©2014 by the University of Minnesota Alumni Association during your stroll McNamara Alumni Center 200 Oak Street SE, Suite 200 down memory lane. Minneapolis, MN 55455-2040 612-624-2323, 800-UM-ALUMS (862-5867) Stay at one fax 612-626-8167 www.MinnesotaAlumni.org of Bloomington’s To update your address, call 612-624-2323 or 38 hotels for the e-mail [email protected] Periodicals postage paid at St. Paul, Minnesota, and additional mailing offices. University of POSTMASTER: Send address corrections to: McNamara Alumni Center Minnesota’s 100 year 200 Oak St. SE, Suite 200 Minneapolis, MN 55455-2040 Homecoming celebration. Visit BloomingtonMN.org or 800-346-4289 2300 Brown Avenue Waseca, Minnesota 56093 4 Summer 2014 MINNESOTA HANGING OUT WITH YOUR CREW. Not all breakthroughs make headlines. What one person considers a AN ORDINARY MOMENT MADE POSSIBLE BY AN breakthrough may simply be a day at the lake to another. Or taking one EXTRAORDINARY MEDICAL BREAKTHROUGH. less prescription. Or being able to play with the kids. From checkups to transplants, the care team at University of Minnesota Health pays just as much attention to making the breakthroughs that change our patients’ lives as they do to making the ones that change the world. To find out more, or make an appointment, call 844-273-8383 or visit umnhealth.org today. A collaboration between University of Minnesota Physicians and University of Minnesota Medical Center. Editor’s Note Impish apple connoisseur, future farmer, [your name here] Scholar Flipping Out t was a cold, raw, rainy Saturday in June when the new Green Line of the light rail transit system made its debut. The line runs between St. IPaul and Minneapolis right through campus on Washington Avenue. Eager to get on board after having watched the line take shape out- side the McNamara Alumni Center, I decided to check it out. A party atmosphere prevailed inside the cars (“Hey, it still has that new train smell,” someone cracked). As we pulled into the University of Minne- sota’s West Bank stop, the doors opened to dozens of U students standing on the platform handing out free foam gopher ears. A stampede ensued—kids and adults alike bolted from their seats to collect the treasure before the doors closed. By the time we crossed the Wash- ington Avenue Bridge and came to a halt at the East Bank station, nearly everyone was sporting gopher ears. I love how much people love the U. That’s what this special Homecoming issue is about. One story in particular exemplifies it: “It’s a Family Thing,” begin- There’s no room for clowning ning on page 32, features four families around when it comes to our who have multiple generations of Univer- food supply. A future gift to sity of Minnesota alumni. Included among them is the Mooty/Glaser family, this Cynthia Scott scholarships in horticulture year’s Homecoming parade grand mar- will help tomorrow’s shals. (As Bruce Mooty [B.A. ’77, J.D. ’80] comments in the story, a flatbed agricultural minds innovate in truck will be required to accommodate the entire clan.) What strikes me the areas of farming and plant about all the families is how the depth and breadth of their connection to the U transcend any particular era, administration, or college. They connect to genetics so we can feed our the heartbeat of the U. And they, in turn, help the heart keep on beating. growing population. We thought it proper to feature Goldy in an issue celebrating the 100th anniversary of Homecoming, so we ordered a custom-made gold jacket for Plant the seeds for a him and put him on the cover. Being the strong, silent type, he didn’t say sustainable future. To what he thought of the jacket, but when he broke into unrestrained dancing learn more, call the U of M at the photo shoot we figured he liked it. And we really liked his moves. So we created a flipbook in the upper right hand page corners of this issue so Foundation Planned Giving that you can enjoy them, too. I want to thank Hubbard Broadcasting for gen- staff at 612-624-3333 or email erously allowing Goldy to flip out on its ad . [email protected]. You’ll find our Homecoming Guide for Alumni on page 47. Check out the offerings and join in the festivities. And take the light rail when you come to campus—it still has that new train smell. Q Cynthia Scott (M.A. ’89) is the editor of Minnesota. She can be reached at [email protected]. www.MinnesotaAlumni.org Fall 2014 MINNESOTA 7 Letters established cycles over millions of years. organizations and national academies of FALL 2013 Global warming exists, global cooling science agree: The climate is warming, and S WINTER 20142014 NI AASSA Inside the New MINNESOTA ALUM TTIIOONN MEDICAL ALUMNIDEVICES ASSOCIATION UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION CENTER UNIVERSITYUUNIV OF MINNESOTA exists.
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