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Winter 2019 MN Alumni.Pdf UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION WINTER 2019 ne chillers. d bo s, an ellers, fiction weaver r books issue. th t inte ru W T It's our plus President Eric Kaler prepares to step down while Gopher Coach Lindsay Whalen is just getting started. MN Alumni Magazine December 2018.pdf 1 10/25/18 7:27 PM HELPING FAMILIES FOR OVER 25 YEARS. Accra provides support to families that need help in their homes for a loved one with a disability. We’ll help you navigate the different services available to you. One of our services, PCA Choice, allows you to choose a family member or friend to be your paid caregiver. Non-Profit Home Care Agency We accept major insurance plans; Medicaid and private pay. Call us and ask about the possibilities! 866-935-3515 • Metro 952-935-3515 SERVING PEOPLE STATEWIDE www.accracare.org Made possible by members of the University of Minnesota Alumni Association since 1901 | Volume 118, Number 2 Winter 2019 4 Editor's Note 5 Letters 6 About Campus Northrop’s refurbished organ belts it out, a campus food shelf alleviates student hunger, a U professor talks genetic testing 11 Discoveries The many fabulous uses for machine learning By Greg Breining Plus: teaching literacy through Facebook, premature babies and abuse, and when stars collide 14 The Stories of Their Lives 26 Author William Souder channels John Steinbeck By Britt Robson 32 16 Impressive Our innovative University of Minnesota Press By John Rosengren 18 The Weather Did It So many mystery writers, so many U connections By Lynette Lamb 20 Immigrant Workers Refurbish a House An illustrated poem By Roy Guzman, art by Z Akhmetova 24 A Literary Treasure Hunt The U is chock full of cool, bookish artifacts By Jon Spayde 26 Everybody’s a Storyteller Characters aren’t just for fiction anymore By Elizabeth Foy Larsen 30 Off the Shelf: Our quarterly books roundup Dessa’s essays, holiday books, and more By Lynette Lamb 32 Enter the Scientist Parting thoughts from U President Eric Kaler By Jennifer Vogel 36 Sports: It’s Whalen Time New Gopher Coach Lindsay Whalen readies the court By Jim Walsh 38 Journeys: Norway Finding beauty in winter’s darkness By Elizabeth Foy Larsen 40 History: Inside Pioneer Hall Alumni remember living in one of the U’s oldest dorms By Cynthia Scott 45 Alumni Stories The inventor of the Bundt pan and Bite Squad’s empresarios 49 Stay Connected 45 Appreciation for a cherished supporter, the results of our candidate survey, and photos from the Alumni Awards Affair 52 The Last Word I am not my characters By Lauren Fox Cover art by Sabeena Karnik This page from top: Suharu Ogawa, Patrick O’Leary, General Mills Inc. McNamara Alumni Center IA® ALUMNI University of Minnesota ASSOCIATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS 200 Oak Street S.E., Suite 100 • Minneapolis, MN 55455 Chair Douglas Huebsch, ’85 Chair-elect Laura Moret, ’76, ’81 Past Chair Sandra Ulsaker Wiese, ’81 Secretary Mark Jessen, ’85 Treasurer Scott Wallace, ’80 “Having our wedding at President and CEO Lisa Lewis Eric Brotten, ’03 Xin (Sean) Chen, ’16, ’19 McNamara was such a dream!” Carol Johnson Dean, ’80, ’97 Patrick Duncanson, ’83 Chad Haldeman, ’08 Alumni Association Maureen Kostial, ’71 Life Members receive Matt Kramer, ’84 Colleen Flaherty Manchester $100-$300 off their Peter Martin, ’00 Simran Mishra wedding package. Akira Nakamura, ’92 Emilia Ndely, ’11 Call today for a tour Peyton N. Owens, III or visit our website to Roshini Rajkumar, ’97 Jason Rohloff, ’94 check available dates, Kathy Schmidlkofer, ’97 Ann Sheldon, ’88, ’04 view photos, and Anthony (Tony) Wagner, ’96 sample floorplans. Myah Walker, ’10, ’16 UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA 19: GOVERNANCE 20 President Eric Kaler, ’82 le in lab 5 Board of Regents ai y 2 David McMillan, ’83, ’87, chair Av Ma w y, + 20 Kendall Powell, vice chair No rda 13 atu July Thomas Anderson, ’80 S y, Richard Beeson, ’76 rda Satu Linda Cohen, ’85, ’86 Michael Hsu, ’88 Dean Johnson Peggy Lucas, ’64, ’78 Abdul Omari, ’08, ’10 Darrin Rosha, ’90, ’91, ’93, ’96 Randy Simonson, ’81 Steven Sviggum To join or renew, change your address, or get information about membership, go to UMNAlumni.org or contact us at: McNamara Alumni Center “The University of Minnesota has been such an integral 200 Oak St. SE, Suite 200 Minneapolis, MN 55455-2040 part of our lives and our relationship that it felt like such Photos by Grace V. Photography t 800-862-5867 a natural fit to get married at McNamara. We couldn’t 612-624-2323 have been happier with how the day turned out.” [email protected] — RACHEL & ALEX SCHWEGMAN, U OF M ALUMNI 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, 612-624-9831 www.mac-events.org handicap, age, veteran status, or sexual orientation. ~ Park Dental W . it ay h U e w every smile of th 45 convenient Twin Cities, greater Minnesota and western Wisconsin locations. Visit us online to Early morning and evening appointments. find your dentist Preferred provider for most insurance companies. and schedule an Locally owned by dentists who care.* appointment today. *111 of our 130 dentists are University of Minnesota alumni. parkdental.com Trusted dentist for the A EDITOR'S NOTE We Can Handle the Truth When I started as a journalist, as the police reporter for the Minnesota Daily, I absolutely hated making calls for stories. I would screw up my nerve, hesitantly dial, and hope the callee wouldn’t answer. Be at the grocery store, I said to myself. Be EDITORIAL & ADVERTISING in the shower. If I reached voicemail, I left a long message that President and CEO explained in excruciating detail what I wanted, with the goal of Lisa Lewis scaring the person to death so I’d never hear back. Editor I gained a lot at the U’s J school and the Daily, but the most Jennifer Vogel valuable acquisition was the confidence that comes with Senior Editor having a mission. In my case, that was fulfilling the public’s right to know. Digging Elizabeth Foy Larsen for information that was hard to find or that had been intentionally concealed was Copy Editor endlessly appealing and I threw myself into it. Susan Maas Other writers answer different callings—exploring life’s excruciating emotional Contributing Writers Greg Breining terrain, nourishing reader imaginations, or generally making people feel less alone. Lauren Fox Still others write for entertainment. Writers have always been the culture’s analyzers Suzy Frisch and seers, the people who can’t be duped or who can explain things in a way nobody Roy Guzman knew was possible. These are the people who pour their hearts and brains out and Lynette Lamb then put their names on the results. Meleah Maynard Britt Robson This issue is dedicated to writing and writers, books and stories. We’ve included John Rosengren a profile of biographer and Pulitzer Prize finalist William Souder, a poem from Ph.D. Cynthia Scott student and native Honduran Roy Guzman, a piece about the U Crime Family of Jon Spayde mystery and murder writers, and a review of rapper and writer Dessa’s new essay Jim Walsh collection. You’ll also find an intriguing story about storytelling itself and how it’s Art Director being deployed in new ways. Kristi Anderson So, after a little while at theDaily —once I realized what I was doing and why— Two Spruce Design I became more than confident. Being a journalist gave me a potent context for Senior Director of Marketing Lisa Huber understanding and operating in the world. In short, I was drunk with power. One day, my editor received a letter from the U Board of Regents, complaining that I had Advertising Send inquiries to barged into a meeting and interrogated members for a story. (Thank you, Regent [email protected] Chair David McMillan, for speaking with me voluntarily for my profile of departing or call 612-626-1417 President Eric Kaler, also in this issue.) Minnesota Alumni ISSN 2473-5086 If there is any doubt that the U values writers and storytellers of all stripes, let (print ) is published four times yearly me point to the nearly-century-old University of Minnesota Press, one of the most by the University of Minnesota Alumni innovative academic publishers in the country. You’ll find a story about it in the Association, 200 Oak St. SE Suite 200, Minneapolis MN 55455-2040 in SEPT., pages ahead. DEC., MAR., and JUN. Business, editorial, And, if that’s not enough to convince you, look no further than the castle being accounting, and circulation offices: 200 Oak St. SE Suite 200, Minneapolis prepared for the English Department on the Minneapolis campus. Pillsbury Hall, MN 55455-2040. Call (612) 624-2323 to which was built in 1889, will be revamped at a cost of $36 million—mostly from the subscribe. Copyright ©2017 University of Minnesota Alumni Association Legislature, with the U footing a third of the bill. Construction on this regal mass of Periodicals postage paid at St. Paul, Hinckley and Fond du Lac sandstones will begin in 2019, with the goal of opening in Minnesota, and additional mailing offices. summer 2021. It’ll house English, the Creative Writing Program, public event spaces, POSTMASTER: Send address corrections to: Minnesota Alumni, McNamara and collaborative study areas. Alumni Center, 200 Oak St. SE, Suite Pillsbury stands between two main University Avenue entrances like a fortress.
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