Augsburg Now WinSpr 05 4/18/05 8:18 AM Page a A PUBLICATION FOR AUGSBURG COLLEGE ALUMNI & FRIENDS Winter/Spring 2005 Vol. 67, No. 2-3 Augsburg Now WinSpr 05 4/18/05 8:18 AM Page b EEditor’sDITOR’ SnoteNOTE Augsburg Now is published Learning by seeing and doing quarterly by Augsburg College, 2211 Riverside Ave., Minneapolis, usually write this piece at the very last Ridge Reservation. Minnesota 55454. Imoment, after all the page layout is Names also became real faces and complete and after we’ve proofed people for the school children participating Editor Betsey Norgard everything. At this point, the magazine is in the Peace Prize Festival who had finally in order, and, freed of the editorial “adopted” Nobel Peace Prize laureates and Assistant Editor Lynn Mena minutiae, I can more easily take in the spent months developing creative projects content as a reader. around their lives. Graphic Designer Kathy Rumpza I always seem to discover unexpected And, after hearing Dr. Sima Samar themes and threads among the stories. speak at the Peace Prize Forum, it will be Class Notes Coordinator Sara Kamholz ’04 Sometimes they’re serendipitous, and difficult to read about Afghanistan without sometimes it’s as if the stories fall together thinking about the persecution and Photographer Stephen Geffre to create something greater than the sum hardships she has endured in her life. of their individual parts. The timing of the article in this issue President William V. Frame When I “read” through this issue, I was about Professor Garry Hesser—honored as struck by how much of the content deals Minnesota Professor of the Year—was Director of Alumni and Parent Relations with learning outside the classroom. serendipity, but couldn’t have fit better Amy Sutton Moreover, the one story that is about with themes about experience in an Director of Public Relations classroom learning lauds the new ways Augsburg education. His vision, wisdom, and Communication that technology links us with classrooms, and leadership at Augsburg and across the Dan Jorgensen students, and teachers around the world. nation have enabled students to learn more Opinions expressed in Experiential learning, the learning that fully through internships, service-learning, Augsburg Now do not necessarily takes students outside of books, and cooperative education, and by getting out reflect official College policy. mostly outside of classrooms, is powerful. of the classroom and into the community. ISSN 1058–1545 It’s an Augsburg hallmark, enhanced by the So, read on and experience an Postmaster: Send address vast resources of the neighborhoods, city, education exemplified, I believe, by the corrections to: and world around us. phrase on many of the publications from Advancement Services I felt the power of experience when our Center for Global Education—“See the Augsburg College, CB 142 2211 Riverside Ave. student Anna Warnes talked about how world through their eyes, and your world Minneapolis, MN 55454 the tsunami didn’t kill faceless people on will never be the same.” [email protected] the other side of the world, but people she E-mail: [email protected] knew and had learned from in Thailand. I Telephone: 612-330-1181 also felt it in hearing from our nursing Fax: 612-330-1780 students who learned about Lakota culture and the inequalities of health care from the Betsey Norgard nurses and residents they met on the Pine Editor Augsburg College, as affirmed in its mission, does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national or ethnic origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, or disability in its education policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, athletic and/or school administered programs, except in those instances where religion is a bona fide occupational qualification. Augsburg College is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to its employees and its students. www.augsburg.edu Augsburg Now WinSpr 05 4/18/05 8:22 AM Page 1 10 A PUBLICATION FOR AUGSBURG COLLEGE ALUMNI & FRIENDS Winter/Spring 2005 Vol. 67, No. 2-3 FEATURES 22 Through the eyes of teachers, the eyes of students by Kathy Swanson, Anna Warnes ’05, Jeff Moores ’05, 22 Sue Kneen ’04, and Rachel Schuette ’03 28 Learning with your heart by Judy Petree 8 2005 Nobel Peace Prize Forum 10 Garry Hesser: Minnesota Professor of the Year 13 Vision, news from Access to Excellence: The Campaign for Augsburg College DEPARTMENTS 2 Around the Quad 6 Sports 17 Faculty/Staff Notes 34 Alumni News 37 Class Notes 43 In Memoriam 44 Auggie Thoughts inside Calendar back cover On the cover: The 2005 Nobel Peace Prize Forum brought together nearly 1,000 people to hear, consider, and discuss issues of women’s rights, honoring 2003 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin 28 50 percent recycled paper (10 percent post-consumer waste) Ebadi. Photo by Stephen Geffre. Augsburg Now WinSpr 05 4/18/05 8:22 AM Page 2 AROUNDAround THEthe QuadQUAD NEWS NOTES A college with a conscience Campus Kitchen receives honors The Campus Kitchen at Augsburg received one of nine Harry Chapin Self-Reliance ugsburg College is one of the nation’s awards given by World Hunger Year Abest colleges fostering social (WHY) to “outstanding grassroots responsibility and public service, organizations in the U.S. that have moved according to The Princeton Review and beyond charity to creating change in their Campus Compact. It is one of 81 communities.” WHY is devoted to finding institutions in the nation featured by The grassroots solutions to hunger and poverty. Princeton Review in its book, Colleges civic purposes of higher education, to Campus Kitchen at Augsburg is a with a Conscience: 81 Great Schools with partnership with The Campus Kitchens choose the schools and develop the book. Outstanding Community Involvement, to be Project and local community agencies to Colleges were also nominated by use food donations from campus dining released in June. organizations with expertise in campus operations, student organizations, and “A college with a conscience,” said community service and engagement. Second Harvest Heartland in preparation Robert Franek, vice president for Criteria included the college’s of meals delivered to community service admission services at The Princeton admission practices and scholarships agencies. Since Augsburg’s program began Review, “has both an administration rewarding community service, support for in October 2003, over 10,000 meals have committed to social responsibility and a service-learning programs, student been served and 300 volunteers involved student body actively engaged in serving in Augsburg’s program. activism, student voice in school society. Education at these schools isn’t governance, and level of social only about private gain: it’s about the Thrivent grant will help strengthen engagement of its student body. planned giving program public good.” From over 900 nominations, the list Thrivent Financial for Lutherans has The Princeton Review, an organization was shortened as editors collected data awarded Augsburg $99,935 over two years that prepares online test-prep courses, about the nominees’ programs and to support the College’s plan to strengthen books, and other education services, policies, and surveyed their students, its planned giving program. partnered with Campus Compact, a faculty, and staff. The grant will expand Augsburg’s national organization committed to the congregational outreach to inform, motivate, and engage Lutherans through seminars, individual visits, direct mail, and Web site content in the charitable giving Parker Palmer is the 2005 options available to them. Rochester Program relocates Commencement speaker After five years at the Rochester Central Lutheran School, Augsburg’s Rochester arker J. Palmer will present the the National campus program moved closer to PCommencement remarks, “Living the Educational Press downtown with its new location at Bethel Questions,” at the 2005 Commencement Association, an Award Lutheran Church. ceremony on Saturday, May 7. of Excellence from the In January, the College officially Palmer, a respected writer, lecturer, Associated Church celebrated the move and dedicated the new teacher, and activist, focuses on issues in Press, and major location. Speakers included Rochester mayor Ardelle Brede; Rev. Gary Benson ’70, education, community, leadership, grants from the Augsburg regent and minister of Zumbro spirituality, and social change. His work Danforth Foundation, Lutheran Church in Rochester; Rev. speaks deeply to people in many walks the Lilly Endowment, and the Fetzer Norman Wahl ’75, executive pastor of of life. Institute. Bethel Lutheran; and Pat Engstrom, a He serves as senior associate of the He has published a dozen poems, more current graduate nursing student in American Association of Higher than 100 essays, and seven best-selling Rochester who spoke on behalf of the Education, and senior adviser to the Fetzer and award-winning books, including A Rochester students. Institute. He is the founder of the Center Hidden Wholeness, Let Your Life Speak, and Augsburg’s Gospel Praise, a student for Teacher Formation, which oversees the The Courage to Teach. music ensemble that performs across the nation, also took part in the celebration. “Courage to Teach” program for K-12 In 1998, The Leadership Project, a Robert Stacke ’71, the group’s director and educators across the country and a parallel national survey of 10,000 administrators chair of the Music Department, used the program for people in other professions. and faculty, named Palmer one of the 30 occasion to note that Augsburg would Palmer’s work has been recognized “most influential senior leaders” in higher with eight honorary doctorates, two education and one of the 10 key “agenda- continued on page 3 Distinguished Achievement Awards from setters” of the past decade. 2 Winter/Spring 2005 Augsburg Now WinSpr 05 4/18/05 8:22 AM Page 3 New regents elected to board NEWS NOTES begin offering music courses in Rochester next year.