THE MAGAZINE OF HAMLINE UNIVERSITY HAMLINEFALL 2006 LIFE ON THE LINOLEUM

The courageous people we call teachers New seating and food options, including a grab-and-go convenience store, enhance the student experience at Sorin Dining Hall PAGE HAMLINE 20 THE MAGAZINE OF HAMLINE UNIVERSITY

Hamline University first published an alumni periodical in 1904, called the Alumni Quarterly of Hamline University. Now simply titled Hamline, FEATURES the publication is for alumni and friends of the university, and is published three times per year by the Office of Marketing Communications. 15 A Match Made in Hamline Hamline Magazine is printed on 10 percent post- First-year students and how they chose Hamline consumer recovered fiber stock with agri-based ink. The coating is water based. 20 Life on the Linoleum Editor The courageous people we call teachers Breanne Hanson Hegg MANM ’04 Contributing editors Dan Loritz ’69 Jane Telleen Jen Thorson ’96 DEPARTMENTS

VOLUME 103 / NUMBER 3 / FALL 2006 103 / NUMBER 3 FALL VOLUME Contributing writers Lindsay Bacher ’07 2 Arts, Academics & Athletics Steve Bjork ’87 JacQui Getty 28 Associations of Hamline Breanne Hanson Hegg MANM ’04 Jennifer Krempin Alumni News Troy Mallat Todd Melby ’86 29 Class Notes Magazine Intern 37 In Memoriam Lindsay Bacher ’07 Contributing photographers 40 From the President David Banks Studios Dawn Villella Photography Heinrich Photography Steve Pereira Photography Steve Woit Photography Designers Kelly Christ Allison Long POSTMASTER: Send address changes to: Hamline Magazine PAGE MS-C1916, 1536 Hewitt Avenue Saint Paul, Minnesota 55104-1284 6 Readers may send comments and letters to the editor to: Hamline Magazine PAGE MS-C1916, 1536 Hewitt Avenue, 15 Saint Paul, Minnesota 55104-1284 Or, you may contact the editor by telephone at 651-523-2012, or e-mail [email protected]. Hamline University does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, disability, religion, age, sexual orientation, or veteran status in its PAGE education or employment programs or activities. 10

FALL 2006 1 FROM THE EDITOR

What’s your story?

For this issue we asked incoming college students to tell us how they chose Hamline, to share their “how- I-ended-up-at-Hamline” stories. Every reason they gave—from location to alumni parents to sports interests—was riddled with a measure of happenstance, an element of luck. While it’s fun to learn the twists of fate that brought people Hamline to Hamline, it’s the “why-I-stayed-at-Hamline” stories that are often more meaningful. There’s no coincidence in these • goes wireless, stories… only the passion and determination earned from living the daily life of a Hamline student. • gets smart, and It’s been five years since I first climbed the Old Main stairs • stays open 24/7 to begin my employment here. While I found Hamline by chance, I stayed here deliberately. Sure, the legendary benefits helped, but more important was that Hamline’s dedication to Ethernet cords, media carts, and transpar- developing knowledge, values, and skills in its students spills encies are soon to join typewriters and carbon over from the classroom to the office. copies as things of the past. In order to meet But thankfully, unlike with college students, we’re not the needs of today’s tech-savvy students, encouraged to leave after four years. Hamline made a number of significant improve- ments to its teaching and learning technology this year. Here’s a look at three new advances:

Breanne Hanson Hegg MANM ’04 Wireless access All academic, residential, and community spaces now offer wi-fi access, so students can access the Internet Correction without connecting their computer physically to a port. This allows students the freedom of using the Internet In the Summer 2006 class notes, Jonathan Jasper ’84 was in their classroom, at the Klas Center Café, or in their mistakenly listed as an alumnus of Hamline School of Law. dorm room. We apologize for and regret the error. Smart classrooms The days of wheeling around electronic equipment are largely in the past. Now professors can bring a laptop into most classrooms and project what’s on the HLC/NCA ACCREDITATION AT HAMLINE computer to a screen using the room’s built-in LCD projector. Showing a video clip is as easy as turning on In fall 2007, Hamline will be visited by evaluators the TV with VCR/DVD capabilities standard in every from the Higher Learning Commission of the North room. The largest thirty classrooms also have a podium Central Association as part of the re-accreditation with a computer included, and many have a document process. In order to prepare for this visit, Hamline has embarked camera, which can project any piece of paper on a comprehensive self-study to help the university identify what immediately onto a screen. it is doing well and what areas it would like to improve. Alumni are encouraged to participate in the process, and there Twenty-four-hour computer lab will be many opportunities for involvement. More information A computer lab that is always open is available in Sorin about the Higher Learning Commission, the self-study process, Hall this fall, allowing students who don’t have and the criteria that will be used to evaluate Hamline’s success in computers the ability to work and print during those carrying out its mission is available at www.hamline.edu/selfstudy. crucial late-night or early-morning hours. The lab will be staffed during critical hours by a student worker at Sorin’s newly created information desk.

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Fulbright recipient heads to Norway to study multicultural education

Name: Jessica Hjarrand, student, with first-hand knowledge of extreme Life after the Fulbright: “I think master of arts in teaching program poverty in third-world countries. eventually I want to take my research with an ESL emphasis, Graduate to East Africa. I can see myself School of Education And the family? “[My husband] Lars working for a consulting firm that is really excited for me and works with developing nations to help Hometown: Kinderhook, New York, understands how important it is to me them create education policies that where she grew up listening to stories to do this,” but he plans to stay here in will help stabilize their countries and from her grandmother, who came from Minnesota “to pay the bills.” Lars, a regions.” Jessica said she can also see Lithuania during World War II. “She former professional tennis player, is herself doing more teaching in the would talk about what the family had now a financial analyst. future. “I think policy-making needs gone through as immigrants, and I to be connected to real practice to think that really instilled in me the Inspiration: Her first teaching job be effective.” desire to be conscious of what’s going was at LEAP/International Academy in on in the world and of the challenges Saint Paul, working in the adult ESL What she stands for: people of other cultures are facing.” program. “I would talk to students “One of my central beliefs is that if about why they came to the U.S. and people have hope for the future, they Official details: Jessica plans to spend if they wanted to stay or return home. will not embrace violence. The nine months in Norway studying I came to see that one of the problems violence comes from a lack of options education and development and facing developing nations is the brain and not seeing a way to make a better researching how including multi- drain...lots of motivated and educated life. Education can provide hope. cultural and diversity education in people leaving and integrating developing countries’ schools could themselves into other societies, raising “We all have a sense of wanting our help prevent future conflict and families, etc. Who is going to be able lives to mean something. And there stabilize current situations. to pull these poor countries out of comes a point in your life when you poverty if all of these people leave?” ask yourself—what do I stand for?” Why Norway? A leader in peace and conflict negotiation, Norway will give Jessica access to experts and people

Jessica Hjarrand

FALL 2006 3 ARTS, ACADEMICS & ATHLETICS Introducing...

DAVID STERN FERNANDO DELGADO JULIAN SCHUSTER

TWO NEW DEANS AND A VICE PRESIDENT JOIN HAMLINE

DAVID STERN Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs

Stern comes to Hamline from the University of Toledo, Hobbies? Interests? where he served as dean of the College of Arts & I am interested in music, especially classical and jazz, Sciences. He earned his PhD in philosophy from the and theatre, sports, and politics. I love to read, and my University of California at San Diego. reading ranges from several daily papers to philosophy and contemporary fiction. On joining Hamline: I have taught and worked in three other institutions and As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up? I bring that experience and perspective to Hamline. I have An athlete. a good understanding of the “state-of-the-art” in both the liberal arts and in graduate education, as well as the social What do you enjoy most about Minnesota? and economic forces that affect universities today. And I The diverse population, the many good restaurants, bring a dedication to achieving the highest standards of and the thriving cultural scene of the Twin Cities make teaching, learning, and research. me excited to be here.

Family? Pets? What do you love about working in education? My wife, Allison, and I have been married for twenty- It is a cliché, but education is capable of changing seven years. We have three children—Caitlin is twenty- people’s lives. It is exciting to participate in such an one, Nathan is seventeen, and Jacob is nearly thirteen. undertaking. As an undergrad I was in a small liberal arts We have only one pet at present, our cat Eddie. honors program, and the experiences I had there inter- acting with talented faculty members changed my life. Birthplace? Current home? I have always retained a vivid sense of the power of a I was born in Oakland, California, and now live in small liberal arts education to make that kind of impact. Saint Paul. And I want nothing less for students at Hamline.

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FERNANDO DELGADO Dean, College of Liberal Arts

Delgado most recently served as dean of the College Hobbies? Interests? of Graduate Studies and Research at Minnesota State I am a huge consumer of all forms of popular culture— University Mankato. He earned a PhD in television, film, sports, comic books, you name it. communication studies from the University of Iowa. I have a particular personal and intellectual interest in soccer and used to play a wicked game of Trivial Pursuit. On joining Hamline: I think my strengths are openness, directness, and a What do you love about working in education? desire to build structures that sustain themselves. I believe l love that we are constantly challenged to be at our that I have something to offer with respect to strategic best as thinkers, communicators, and social actors. planning and am very focused on creating an inclusive To be around intelligent people and to be paid to and stimulating environment where our commitment to soak up knowledge is actually a very cool thing. excellence will be palpable. I also feel strongly that I can contribute to the dialogue and efforts regarding diversity As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up? and expanding the feel and reach of the university. I am told that I had a profound fascination with garbage trucks as a youngster. Later I was interested Family? Pets? in journalism, law, and politics. I was fascinated by My wife, Tamara, and I have a two-and-a-half-year-old Watergate, and All the President’s Men remains one daughter named Marisol and an aging cocker spaniel of my favorite books and films. named Sonar. What is a quote that you really connect with? Birthplace? Current home? A provost I worked for at Arizona State University West Born in Oakland, California, and raised in that area. used to conclude every commencement address with the We just moved from Lake Crystal, Minnesota, to following invocation: “Make us proud, make us better, Woodbury. make a difference.” That about summarizes what we should all strive for in higher education.

JULIAN SCHUSTER Dean, Graduate School of Management

Schuster most recently served as dean of the School of Birthplace? Current home? Business and dean of extended and executive education I was born in Split, Yugoslavia, and I now live in Saint Paul. at the University of New Haven in Connecticut. He holds a PhD in economics and international economics from Hobbies? Interests? the University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia. I play chess and enjoy classical music. Travel interests me, as does numismatics (the study or collection of old On joining Hamline: coins and money). I look forward to working with all stakeholders of the university on moving the Graduate School of Management What do you love about working in education? forward as it continues to establish itself as a premier I love lifelong learning, the continuous quest for provider of broadly defined management education. knowledge, working with students, open communication, This opportunity allows me to make a contribution in and intellectual discourse. Or, as Aristotle said, “Education establishing our school as the preeminent global business is the best provision for the journey to old age.” school in terms of the quality of our programs, students, faculty, and staff. As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up? It changed often… a writer… an actor… a teacher. Family? My wife’s name is Sanya, and I have a four-year-old son, What is a quote that you really connect with? Alexander. “One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.” (Mahatma Gandhi)

For more information on Vice President Stern and Deans Delgado and Schuster visit www.hamline.edu/magazine.

JacQui Getty is director of media relations for Hamline.

FALL 2006 5 ARTS, ACADEMICS & ATHLETICS Congratulations,Commencement graduates! 2006

Left to right: President Linda Hanson; Megan Graff ’06 and Zayda Harsha ’06; Valery Atanga LLM ’06; Michele Heather Pollock MFA ’06; Shiva Adhikari ’06 and Shefali Aggarwal ’06; Jessica Pena JD ’06.

Biomedical visionaries and philanthropists receive honorary doctors of humane letters

At Commencement Hamline honored Richard, as president and chief scien- girls and women. Her Haugland Build- Richard Haugland ’65 and Rosaria tific officer, co-authored 141 scientific ing houses nonprofits with similar mis- Brivio Haugland with honorary publications and earned sixty-nine U.S. sions in a cooperative management doctors of humane letters for their patents. Rosaria served as vice presi- structure, including Ophelia's Place, a visionary achievements in biomedical dent, garnering forty-one publications program she created to help teenage research and their commitment to and three patents. girls at risk; WomenSpace, committed making a difference in the world. “My various experiences at Hamline to eradicating domestic violence; and At Hamline, Richard studied under have had a profound effect on my the Girl Scouts. legendary professors Rod Olson, Cliff entire life,” Richard said during his “I am appalled by the amount of Creswell, Ole Runquist, and Perry commencement address. “It started violence that still plagues our society Moore. Richard and Rosaria met while with Ole Runquist saying ‘You are and by the poverty and neglect which graduate students, married, and moved going to be a chemist. There are no some of our youth live in,” Rosaria said to Saint Paul, where Richard was an other options.’ For those who have had in her address. “It is discouraging at assistant professor of chemistry at the privilege of knowing Ole, they can times that what I do is just a drop in Hamline from 1975–78. During that understand that this was a command, the bucket. However small, I hope to time they developed the concepts and not fatherly advice.” leave some type of legacy.” technology that resulted in their co- For many years the Hauglands have founding Molecular Probes, Inc. which supported women and children in grew to be the undisputed world leader Southeast Asia to help counteract the in fluorescent probe technology. effects of poverty and the prostitution Molecular Probes makes fluorescent market. Richard founded the Wild- dyes used in biomedical research. Its flower Home project for single mothers product catalog, Handbook of Fluores- and pregnant girls and the Starfish cent Probes and Research Products, Country Home School Foundation authored by Richard, taught a genera- (see story at right). tion of scientists how to use these tools A longtime supporter of arts, for biomedical research, and has facili- education, and social services pro- tated research studies in numerous bio- grams in Eugene, Oregon, Rosaria’s logical disciplines worldwide. particular interest is the support of

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Left to right: Rosmery Blanco MAM ’06 and Andys Sanchez MAM ’05; Muath Asamarai ’06; Shynell Hill ’06; Patrick Rieger ’06; Heidi Nelson MAPA ’06; and Carolyn Korchik ’06.

Forty-six instant grandchildren

Most people start each day with The school provides a safe haven for decades later, he would again turn to a the morning paper and a mug of the youngsters, some of whom are career dedicated to helping others. coffee. Like many business people, orphans but most of whom have only “For several years, I had been using Richard Haugland used to do much one living parent and come from Thailand as a retreat from work,” the same thing. challenging circumstances. Haugland said. But lately, he starts the day with “They learn at the Starfish Country During one trip, he started a a hug. Dozens of them, to be precise. Home School in both English and scholarship program for middle school Haugland, a former Hamline Thai, whereas local schools are not girls who were excellent students but University professor and founder of capable of teaching them in English,” were at risk for dropping out because Molecular Probes, now lives most of Haugland said. “Classes are very small. of financial needs. He also financially the year in Thailand, where he is the We expect them to develop their own supported an HIV-positive girl at a founder of the Starfish Country Home talents and will facilitate this as much Thai orphanage. School for children. While the former as possible.” “When I returned to the U.S. I chemist once answered to “Professor,” Haugland’s interest in helping others asked myself, ‘Why am I working so “Doctor” and “Boss,” today Haugland first took root when, as a graduate hard?’” he said. It was then that he and is simply “Luang Dick”—“Uncle Dick.” student at Stanford University, he left his wife, Rosaria, jointly decided to sell Haugland’s Starfish Country Home school to serve in a Volunteers in their business and retire. School is home to twenty-one children, Service to America (VISTA) program “After the sale of Molecular Probes, two classrooms, and a staff of sixteen. on an American Indian reservation in I had relatively little to do so I went northern Michigan. After again to Thailand on holiday,” graduate school, he lived in Haugland said. He visited an alterna- the woods near Park Rapids, tive school near Bangkok. “While Minnesota, where he taught spending time with the children, I mathematics and wrote math decided that this was fun—but I could books at the Pine Point School do it as well or better. It would also, to for American Indian children. some extent, recapture the period of So it was only natural that my life at Pine Point School.”

Grandchildren continued on page 13

Three of the children at Starfish Country Home School. Photo provided by Richard Haugland. FALL 2006 7 ARTS, ACADEMICS & ATHLETICS

Wesley awards honor those who ‘do all the good they can’

Ron Lutz’s work on databases and children acting and dancing at the Community Social Justice award for computing infrastructure is vital to Children’s Theatre Company and his efforts to educate for peace and Hamline’s operations. Robert Simmons assisted teachers at Dowling justice at every opportunity. is an award-winning science and Elementary School and the Ron Lutz, director of administrative behavior intervention teacher. Laura Hancock/Hamline Collaborative computing, was nominated for his Mann founded an organization for Magnet School. fifteen years of leadership that has multiracial and transracially adopted Robert Simmons is a student in shaped the direction of Hamline students. And Walter Enloe pioneered the Graduate School of Education’s University’s database and computing a learning community approach to doctorate in education program. infrastructure. His passion is not just graduate education. He was nominated by both his demonstrated in his solutions, but also Besides their commitment to making professors and fellow students in the in a process that is inclusive and Hamline—and the world—a better program, one of whom wrote that student-centered. place, all four were recipients of the “I know nobody who works harder prestigious John Wesley Leadership and to prepare themselves to work Service Award for Students or the John toward these ideals [equity, social Wesley Trustee Award for Faculty & justice, activism], to move them Staff. Nominated by members of the from being general philosophies Hamline community and selected by a to action.” committee, each winner received a For the last twelve years $5,000 check or scholarship. Professor Walter Enloe has been A College of Liberal Arts graduate a pioneer in creating the learning with an English major and an community programs at the education minor, Laura Mann ’06 was master’s and doctoral levels in president of PRIDE Black Student the Graduate School of Education. Alliance last year. She also taught He received the Hamline

Ron Lutz, Robert Simmons, Laura Mann, and Walter Enloe

FACULTY AND STAFF ACHIEVEMENTS Recognized in May 2006

COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS Sharon Preves, sociology GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION Retirements and Professor Emeritus Andy Rundquist, physics John Shepard, promoted to Rita Johnson, management and economics, Jeff Turner, theatre arts and communication associate professor Kristin Cayo retired with thirteen years of service Promoted to associate professor , chosen by the students as Professor of the Year Richard Kagan, history, retired with Theresa Mason, religion thirty-two years of service, awarded John Mazis, history GRADUATE SCHOOL OF LIBERAL STUDIES professor emeritus status Jean Strait, education Larry Sutin, promoted to full professor Janice Simons, admission office, retired Patricia Weaver Francisco, chosen by the with twenty-nine years of service Awards students as Professor of the Year Tamara Root, modern languages and Wendy Burns, assistant director for student literatures, awarded professor emerita status activities and leadership development, GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT chosen by the undergraduate student Tenure and promotions Michael Wirth-Davis, chosen by the congress as Outstanding Staff of the Year students as Professor of the Year Promoted to full professor Susan Myster, anthropology and forensic Clint Pires, chosen by the students as Fahima Aziz , management and economics science, chosen by the faculty as the Professor of the Year Melissa Embser-Herbert, sociology recipient of the Burton and Ruth Grimes Mike Farris, biology Outstanding Teacher Award SCHOOL OF LAW Jerry Krause, criminal justice and Joseph Peschek, political science, chosen Angela McCaffrey, promoted to forensic sciences by the undergraduate student congress as full clinical professor of law Outstanding Faculty of the Year John Weeks Granted tenure and promoted , chosen by the Student Bar to associate professor Sharon Preves, sociology, and Bill Wallace, Association as Outstanding Faculty Member theatre arts, chosen by students as Faculty of the Year Rita Majerle, chemistry Advisors of the Year

8 HAMLINE MAGAZINE Serious thinking for fall Remember those great discussions that didn’t end when class was over? Those challenging texts that really made you think? Feel like a student again by checking out these two new faculty books and chewing on a philosophical theory about Harry Potter.

Buddhism’s Humility and arrogance westward migration in Harry Potter of the proper attitude to take toward Professor Larry Sutin published Professor Nancy Holland argued that one’s magical power in Harry Potter’s All Is Change: The Two-Thousand-Year “A dialectic of humility and arrogance world will be used in my next book as Journey of Buddhism to the West with is the basic dynamic of the Harry a model for ontological humility in Little, Brown. Potter saga,” in a paper delivered at a our world.” “This book is an important conference in June. “Arrogance is the Holland, a philosophy professor in contribution to our understanding of governing trait not only of the evil the College of Liberal Arts, presented the establishing of Buddhism in Voldemort and his followers, but also her paper at the International Associ- Europe and the Americas... researched, of other negative characters such as ation for Philosophy and Literature intelligently presented, and supported the Dursleys, Harry’s non-magic foster meeting in Freiburg, Germany. by an excellent bibliography, this will family,” she said. “Conversely, humility best serve scholars of religious history marks not only unalloyed goodness, as as a reference and source book, but it in Dumbledore, but also a less-elevated The mind of Plato will also appeal to interested casual openness to a power beyond oneself, readers” said a Library Journal review. as in the werewolf Remus Lupin. Emeritus Professor Joseph Uemura Sutin, a professor in the Graduate Rowling also creates matched pairs of published Reflections on the Mind of School of Liberal Studies, is also the characters based on this opposition, Plato: Six Dialogues with Agora author of biographies on Philip K. such as Hagrid, the gamekeeper who Publications. The book, available in Dick and Aleister Crowley and of the does a good deal of harm but is re- paperback or as an audio CD, explores memoirs Jack and Rochelle: A Holocaust deemed by the recognition that he is Plato’s dialogues on religion, the mind, Story of Love and Resistance and A only a half-blood wizard, and Filch, knowledge, being, art, and society. Postcard Memoir. the caretaker, who is of wizard blood Uemura is also the author of Seven but not a wizard, and his arrogant Dialogues on Goodness and American abuse of his similar role at Hogwarts. Philosophers on Religion. This argument about Rowling’s view

With Alex the Frog Center for Global Environmental Education’s CD-ROM nominated for a “Green Oscar”

The Graduate School of Education’s with the City of Eden Prairie, Minnesota, and Center for Global Environmental funded largely by Hennepin County. Education (CGEE) received inter- “Work that began four years ago by CGEE is national accolades for its educational being recognized as equal or better than programs CD-ROM Big Foot: Reduce, Reuse, produced by industry giants like the BBC, the Recycle. The interactive multimedia Discovery Channel, and National Geographic,” program for American school audiences was said John Shepard, CGEE assistant director and nominated for a Panda Award from the Wildscreen creator and producer of the nominated production. Festival in Bristol, England—the world's largest and CGEE already has one Panda Award—known most prestigious environmental media festival. worldwide as the “Green Oscar.” Waters to the Sea: The CD-ROM, which engagingly presents The Chattahoochee River, an interactive program strategies for reducing one’s environmental impact that chronicles the river’s history, won the award through recycling, was developed in partnership in 2004.

FALL 2006 9 ARTS, ACADEMICS & ATHLETICS

Six-time All-American graduates after record-breaking career

Her career started quietly with a good work ethic, a steady and positive twenty-sixth place finish in the 2002 personality, a great aerobic engine, a MIAC Cross Country Championships. firm grasp of the training, and a great Four years later, Keidra Anderson competitive attitude. She loved to departs as one of Hamline’s most compete and was never afraid to step decorated distance runners of all time. on the starting line with anybody. She Originally from Minocqua, always competed hard and expected Wisconsin, Keidra hadn’t even planned her competition to do the same. It Keidra Anderson on running competitively at Hamline. wasn't all about winning the race, it But by the time she graduated, she had was about running her best and having capped her remarkable career by the competition to help her do that.” Four Hamline school records belong to earning six All-America awards in a Anderson’s list of accomplishments her. On top of that, she was named the span of twelve months. In addition to is as long as any of her races. She is an winner of Hamline University’s Misty earning All-America awards in both the eleven-time All-MIAC athlete, which Bahr Award, given to Hamline’s top 5,000 and 10,000 meters at both the means she finished in the top three in senior female athlete. 2005 and 2006 NCAA Outdoor Track an individual track event or in top That list doesn’t even include her and Field Championships, she was an fifteen in cross country at the successes in the classroom—she posted All-American at last November’s conference meet. Anderson is a seven- a 3.75 grade point average while NCAA Cross Country Championships time MIAC event champion, including majoring in math, earning a spot on and at the NCAA Indoor Track and four event wins at the 2006 indoor and the ESPN The Magazine Academic Field Championships. outdoor conference meets. For her All-America second team. “Keidra had so many assets that efforts, she was named MIAC Most Anderson, who graduated in May, made her successful,” said Paul Outstanding Track Athlete at the 2005 plans to pursue a career in teaching. Schmaedeke, Anderson’s distance coach MIAC Indoor Championships and on the track and field team. “She had a 2006 MIAC Outdoor Championships. Ben Watkins Spring Sports highlights Men’s Tennis The Hamline men’s tennis team continued its steady climb by finishing Baseball third in the MIAC regular season and Hamline earned its first post-season honorable mention. Head coach Jason fifth at the MIAC Championships to berth in school history, finishing fourth Verdugo earned co-MIAC Coach of earn third place overall. The Pipers in the MIAC with a record of 13-7 in the Year honors. went 18-7 overall, 7-2 in conference conference play, 26-14 overall. In a play. Senior Ben Watkins rain-shortened conference tournament, Fastpitch Softball received the MIAC’s Arthur Hamline defeated regular-season Ashe Award given to the After earning two consecutive playoff champion St. Thomas to reach the player whose career best de- berths, the Hamline fastpitch softball MIAC Championship game where fined on-court and academic team fielded a youthful squad that they lost a hard-fought 3-2 decision to success and sportsmanship. finished tenth in the MIAC with a St. Olaf. Senior Owen Waller, He and teammate Jon 7-15 conference record, 19-21 overall. sophomore Andrew Bennett, and Henning were selected All- Senior Rachael Young was named sophomore Josh Roiger were named MIAC at No. 1 doubles while All-MIAC first team and NFCA/ All-MIAC first team. Junior Kyle junior Andy Carlson was All- Louisville Slugger All-Midwest Region Foster and first-years Dan Kaczrowski MIAC at No. 4 singles. Head second team. First-year Theresa Boleen and Evan Vail were selected All-MIAC coach Dan Haertl was named and junior Katie Prasek received All- MIAC Coach of the Year. MIAC honorable mention.

10 HAMLINE MAGAZINE Katie Prasek ARTS, ACADEMICS & ATHLETICS

Baseball team rallies, sets record for most wins in a season

Once upon a time at a baseball did a great job of being leaders, and diamond right down the street, there we had a lot of guys step up as first- lived a team that dreamed of making time starters and contribute. It was a the post-season. That might not be the complete team effort with different beginning of the average children’s guys stepping up at different times story, but the Hamline baseball team throughout the season.” Andrew Bennett did write its own fairy tale this year, To say it was a team effort is an going from tied-for-ninth in the understatement. The Pipers had conference in 2005 to earning a playoff seventeen different position players school record for wins in a season and spot with a fourth-place MIAC finish start at least one game, twenty-one set the school record for innings in 2006. players had base hits, and eight pitched (67.0). At the plate, he hit In the process, the Pipers smashed different pitchers started games during .341 (31-for-91), adding four doubles the school record for wins in a season the season. and five triples with twenty runs with twenty-six, beating the old record Sophomores Andrew Bennett and scored. Roiger was an All-Midwest of twenty-one set in 2003. The team Josh Roiger and senior Owen Waller Region second-team selection. also earned the first MIAC playoff were named All-MIAC first team. Waller batted .402 (45-for-112) with berth in school history. It was one win Bennett was .378 (51-for-135) with seven doubles, a home run, nineteen away from representing the conference ten doubles, seven triples, and five runs scored, and nineteen RBI. in the NCAA Tournament after homers. He added thirty-three runs Although the Pipers will lose Waller, beating regular-season champion scored and forty-three RBI. Bennett the future looks bright as the team will St. Thomas, before falling to St. Olaf also received All-Midwest Region return virtually its entire pitching staff in the MIAC Championship game. third-team honors and ESPN The and a capable corps of returning “It was a great season,” head baseball Magazine Academic All-America third- players. Verdugo and the Pipers will coach and co-MIAC Coach of the Year team accolades. no doubt be looking to write a few Jason Verdugo said. “Our five seniors Roiger went 8-1 on the mound with more chapters as a sequel to their a 3.49 earned-run average. He tied the stellar season.

Kristen Bothun

Men’s Track Women’s Track Behind a pair of All-Americans, the The Hamline women’s track and field Hamline men’s track and field team team improved two spots and finished placed fourth at the MIAC Outdoor ninth at the MIAC Outdoor Championships. Senior Jake Courrier Championships. Senior Keidra won the conference championship in Anderson won the individual the hammer throw before going on to championship in both the 5,000 and gain All-America honors by finishing 10,000 meters while junior Melissa eighth at the NCAA Championships. Francis broke the school record and Junior Travis Bristow was an individual earned All-MIAC status with a second- champion in the 3000-meter steeple- place finish in the 3,000-meter Women’s Tennis chase at the MIAC Championships. steeplechase. Anderson went on to earn He later put in a seventh-place All-America status in both the 5,000 The Pipers improved by four matches performance at the national meet to and 10,000 meters. Junior Dana in the MIAC, posting a record of 5-5 earn All-America status. Juniors Drew Luiken’s second-place finish in the in conference play, 10-12 overall. The Jones (shot put) and Brandon Gleason heptathlon gave her All-MIAC honors. team placed fifth during the regular (1,500 meters) also received All-MIAC season and seventh at the MIAC recognition at the conference meet. Championships. The top doubles team of Kristen Bothun and Kelly Gust went 16-6 for the season.

FALL 2006 11 FALL & WINTER SPORTS schedule

Only remaining games in the season have been included.

MEN’S BASKETBALL MEN’S CROSS COUNTRY Date Opponent Time Date Meet (Host) Time Fri. Nov. 17 at Colorado–Pueblo Tournament TBD Sat. Oct. 28 at MIAC Championships 2 p.m. Sat. Nov. 18 at Colorado–Pueblo Tournament TBD Fri. Nov. 3 Burning Spear Mile 4 p.m. Sat. Nov. 25 at Northwestern 3 p.m. Sat. Nov. 11 at NCAA Central Regional (St. Olaf) 11 a.m. Wed. Nov. 29 at St. Olaf* 5:45 p.m. Sat. Nov. 18 at NCAA Championships 11 a.m. Sat. Dec. 2 Bethel* 1 p.m. Mon. Dec. 4 St. Thomas* 5:45 p.m. WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY Wed. Dec. 6 St. Mary’s* 5:45 p.m. Date Meet (Host) Time Fri. Dec. 8 at MSU–Mankato TBD Sat. Oct. 28 at MIAC Championships 3 p.m. Sat. Dec. 16 St. Scholastica 3 p.m. Fri. Nov. 3 Burning Spear Mile 4 p.m. Wed. Jan. 3 at Augsburg* 5:45 p.m. Sat. Nov. 11 at NCAA Central Regional (St. Olaf) 12 p.m. Sat. Jan. 6 at Concordia* 1 p.m. Sat. Nov. 18 at NCAA Championships 12 p.m. Mon. Jan. 8 Carleton* 5:45 p.m. Sat. Jan. 13 at Gustavus* 1 p.m. FOOTBALL Mon. Jan. 15 St. John’s* 7:30 p.m. Date Opponent Time Wed. Jan. 17 at Macalester* 5:45 p.m. Sat. Oct. 21 at St. John’s* 1 p.m. Sat. Jan. 20 St. Olaf* 1 p.m. Sat. Oct. 28 Bethel* 1 p.m. Mon. Jan. 22 at Bethel* 5:45 p.m. Sat. Nov. 4 St. Thomas* 1 p.m. Wed. Jan. 24 at St. Thomas* 5:45 p.m. Thurs. Nov. 9 vs. Augsburg* 7 p.m. Sat. Jan. 27 at St. Mary’s* 1 p.m. (at Metrodome) Wed. Jan. 31 Augsburg* 5:45 p.m. Sat. Feb. 3 Concordia* 1 p.m. GYMNASTICS Mon. Feb. 5 at Carleton* 5:45 p.m. Date Opponent Time Sat. Feb. 10 Gustavus* 1 p.m. Wed. Feb. 14 at St. John’s* 7:30 p.m. Fri. Jan. 5 UW–Oshkosh 7 p.m. Sat. Feb. 17 Macalester* 1 p.m. Fri. Jan. 12 at UW–Eau Claire 6 p.m. Mon. Feb. 19 MIAC First Round 7:30 p.m. Invitational Wed. Feb. 21 MIAC Semifinals 7:30 p.m. (UW–Eau Claire, UW–La Crosse, Sat. Feb. 24 MIAC Finals 7:30 p.m. Gustavus, Hamline) Sun. Jan. 21 Winona State 2 p.m. WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Fri. Feb. 2 at Gustavus 7 p.m. Date Opponent Time Mon. Feb. 5 at UW–Stout 7 p.m. Sat. Feb. 10 at Best of Minnesota 7 p.m. Tues. Nov. 21 at UW–River Falls 7 p.m. (University of Minnesota, Gustavus, Sat. Nov. 25 at Northwestern 1 p.m. Hamline, Winona State) Wed. Nov. 29 at St. Olaf* 7:45 p.m. Fri. Feb. 16 at UW–La Crosse 7 p.m. Sat. Dec. 2 Bethel* 3 p.m. Fri. Feb. 23 Hamline Quad 7 p.m. Mon. Dec. 4 St. Thomas* 7:45 p.m. (Hamline, UW–Eau Claire, Wed. Dec. 6 St. Mary’s* 7:45 p.m. UW–Stout, Rhode Island College) Sat. Dec. 16 Martin Luther 1 p.m. Fri. Mar. 2 at UW–Whitewater 7 p.m. Wed. Jan. 3 at Augsburg* 7:45 p.m. Thurs. Mar. 8 WIAC Championships/ 6 p.m. Sat. Jan. 6 at Concordia* 3 p.m. NCGA West Regional Mon. Jan. 8 Carleton* 7:45 p.m. Fri. Mar. 23– NCGA Nationals TBD Wed. Jan. 10 St. Catherine* 7:30 p.m. Sat. Mar. 24 (UW–Whitewater) Sat. Jan. 13 at Gustavus* 3 p.m. Mon. Jan. 15 at St. Benedict* 7:30 p.m. MEN’S HOCKEY Wed. Jan. 17 at Macalester* 7:45 p.m. Date Opponent Time Sat. Jan. 20 St. Olaf* 3 p.m. Mon. Jan. 22 at Bethel* 7:45 p.m. Fri. Nov. 3 at St. Scholastica 7:05 p.m. Wed. Jan. 24 at St. Thomas* 7:45 p.m. Sat. Nov. 4 at UW–Superior 7:05 p.m. Sat. Jan. 27 at St. Mary’s* 3 p.m. Fri. Nov. 10 at Eau Claire 7:30 p.m. Wed. Jan. 31 Augsburg* 7:45 p.m. Sat. Nov. 11 at Steven’s Point 7 p.m. Sat. Feb. 3 Concordia* 3 p.m. Sat. Nov. 18 St. John’s 7:15 p.m. Mon. Feb. 5 at Carleton* 7:45 p.m. Sun. Nov. 19 at St. John’s 2 p.m. Wed. Feb. 7 at St. Catherine* 7:30 p.m. Fri. Nov. 24 Alumni Game 7:15 p.m Sat. Feb. 10 Gustavus* 3 p.m. Fri. Dec. 1 Gustavus 7:15 p.m. Wed. Feb. 14 St. Benedict* 7:30 p.m. Sat. Dec. 2 at Gustavus 7:05 p.m. Sat. Feb. 17 Macalester* 3 p.m. Fri. Dec. 8 at Concordia 7 p.m. Tues. Feb. 20 MIAC First Round 7:30 p.m. Sat. Dec. 9 at Concordia 2 p.m. Thurs. Feb. 22 MIAC Semifinals 7:30 p.m. Sat. Dec. 30– St. Michael’s Tournament 4 p.m. EST Sat. Feb. 24 MIAC Finals 3 p.m. Sun. Dec. 31 (Burlington, VT)

12 HAMLINE MAGAZINE Fri. Jan. 5 Stout 7:15 p.m. MEN’S SOCCER Fri. Jan. 12 St. Norbert’s 7:15 p.m. Date Opponent Time Sat. Jan. 13 Lake Forest 7:15 p.m. Wed. Oct. 18 Gustavus* 4 p.m. Fri. Jan. 26 at St. Mary’s 7:05 p.m. Tues. Oct. 24 at St. Olaf* 3:30 p.m. Sat. Jan. 27 St. Mary’s 7:15 p.m. Fri. Oct. 27 at Macalester* 7:30 p.m. Fri. Feb. 2 St. Olaf 7:15 p.m. Sun. Oct. 29 Clarke 12 p.m. Sat. Feb. 3 at St. Olaf 7 p.m. Tues. Oct. 31 MIAC Semifinals Fri. Feb. 9 at Bethel 7 p.m. Sat. Nov. 4 MIAC Finals Sat. Feb. 10 Bethel 7:15 p.m. Fri. Feb. 16 at St. Thomas 7 p.m. WOMEN’S SOCCER Sat. Feb. 17 St. Thomas 7:15 p.m. Date Opponent Time Fri. Feb. 23 Augsburg 7:15 p.m. Sat. Feb. 24 at Augsburg 7:05 p.m. Sat. Oct. 21 at Gustavus* 1 p.m. Tues. Feb. 27– MIAC Playoffs TBD Wed. Oct. 25 St. Olaf* 4 p.m. Sat. Mar. 3 Fri. Oct. 27 Macalester* 1 p.m. Tues. Mar. 6– NCAA Regional Playoffs TBD Sun. Oct. 29 Clarke 2:15 p.m. Sat. Mar. 10 SWIMMING AND DIVING Mar. 16–17 NCAA Final Four TBD Date Opponent Time WOMEN’S HOCKEY Sat. Oct. 28 at St. Thomas Relays 11 a.m. Date Opponent Time Fri. Nov. 3 Hamline Quad 6 p.m. Sat. Nov. 4 at UW–River Falls 2:05 p.m. (Hamline, Augsburg, Sun. Nov. 5 Lake Forest 2 p.m. St. Mary’s, Macalester) Fri. Nov. 17 St. Benedict 7:15 p.m. Fri. Nov. 10 at St. Catherine w/ Carleton 6 p.m. Sat. Nov. 18 at St. Benedict 2 p.m. Sat. Nov. 11 at Concordia (women) 2 p.m. Fri. Dec. 1 at Gustavus 7 p.m. Sat, Nov 18 at Macalester Invitational TBD Sat. Dec. 2 Gustavus 2 p.m. Sat. Dec. 2 at St. Mary’s Invitational TBD Sat. Dec. 9 Concordia 7:15 p.m. Sat. Dec. 16 River Falls 1 p.m. Sun. Dec. 10 Concordia 2 p.m. Sat. Jan. 13 St. Catherine (women) 1 p.m. Sat. Dec. 16 Finlandia 7:15 p.m. Sat. Jan. 13 at St. John’s Invitational (men) TBD Sun. Dec. 17 Finlandia 2 p.m. Fri. Jan. 19 at St. Thomas 6 p.m. Sat. Jan. 6 at Chatham 7 p.m. Fri. Jan. 26– at Minnesota Challenge 6 p.m. Sun. Jan. 7 at Chatham 1 p.m. Sat. Jan. 27 Invitational Fri. Jan. 19 at St. Catherine 6:05 p.m. (University of Minnesota) Sat. Jan. 20 St. Catherine 2 p.m. Thurs. Feb. 15– at MIAC Championships TBD Fri. Jan. 26 St. Mary’s 7:15 p.m. Sat. Feb. 17 (University of Minnesota) Sat. Jan. 27 at St. Mary’s 7:05 p.m. Thurs. Mar. 15– at NCAA Championships TBD Fri. Feb. 2 at St. Olaf 7 p.m. Sat. Mar. 17 (Houston, Texas) Sat. Feb. 3 St. Olaf 7:15 p.m. VOLLEYBALL Fri. Feb. 9 Bethel 7:15 p.m. Sat. Feb. 10 at Bethel 4 p.m. Date Opponent Time Fri. Feb. 16 at St. Thomas TBD Mon. Oct. 16 at Crown College 7 p.m. Sat. Feb. 17 St. Thomas 7:15 p.m. Wed. Oct. 18 at St. Thomas 7 p.m. Wed. Feb. 21 at UW–Eau Claire 7:05 p.m. Sat. Oct. 21 Hamline Triangular 10 a.m., 12 p.m,. 2 p.m. Fri. Feb. 23 at Augsburg 7:05 p.m. Wed. Oct. 25 at Augsburg 7 p.m. Sat. Feb. 24 Augsburg 7:15 p.m. Tues. Feb. 27 MIAC Playoffs 7 p.m. * MIAC Contest Fri. Mar. 2 MIAC Playoffs 7 p.m.

Grandchildren continued from page 7

So Haugland began the registration most children gather in a room for Haugland said. process to create the Starfish Country videos, usually in English. And though the children fondly call Home School Foundation and found “On most weekends we try to do him “Uncle Dick,” Haugland said he the perfect location: a former resort in something special, such as taking the thinks of them as his “instant northern Thailand, abandoned in 1999 children to a restaurant or park,” grandchildren.” following the Asian currency crisis. Haugland said. During Children’s Day, “My principal role, other than After ridding the resort of its former a celebration throughout Thailand, funding the entire operation,” he said, tenants—termites—and enduring a they took the children to Chiang Mai “is in curriculum development—and series of floods, the school opened. to go inside an airplane and eat at a hugging children.” Students at Starfish School restaurant. Another time, they traveled participate in group-led activities, to the beach for a week. “None of the Jennifer L. Krempin is a free-lance writer classes, games, and sports. After dinner, children had seen the sea before,” for Hamline.

FALL 2006 13 ARTS, ACADEMICS & ATHLETICS

The greater picture

Professor Rita Johnson retires after thirteen years

Some say life is not a race, it’s a program for people in the community apply their liberal arts education with journey. That’s a philosophy Rita who were struggling with literacy. real-world experiences. Johnson seems to embrace. “It was really an interesting time to “She was one of the best teachers Johnson, newly retired College be alive,” she said. “I was in New York, that I have had,” said Holly Kastner of Liberal Arts management and living and working in Harlem, when ’06. “She didn’t stand up there and economics professor, smiled as she Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assass- lecture. Instead she led the class responded to questions about her life inated. Those were some of the most through a learning experience. Some- and her teaching career. She looked influential years of my life—the years times it wasn’t the quickest or the least well-rested and happy. But she has not filled with the most learning.” painful path, but she taught us all how spent the first weeks of her retirement After moving back to Minnesota, to communicate, how to solve taking it easy. She’s been walking up she worked as a parole officer in problems as a group, and perhaps most to eighteen miles a day, training for a Minneapolis before spending more importantly, gave us opportunities to three-day walk for breast cancer. than a decade at the Ford Motor step up and lead our peers.” “This really is something small that Company, in the industrial relations “I think each person creates a I can do in the greater picture—when department. Eventually, higher personal mission that helps them you think of all the women who are education called her back. In 1986 define their purpose in life,” Rita said. living through chemotherapy, radia- she went back to school at Metro State “Mine is to help people make con- tion, losing their hair, dealing with University for her master’s in manage- nections—whether that is helping physical changes to their bodies, and ment and administration. In the early them learn about management, learn sometimes dying,” Johnson said. 1990s, she joined Hamline. about themselves, or learn to look for A passion for others and strong “Coming to Hamline was like enter- their place in this world.” sense of purpose have been key drives ing a new family,” she said. “There While she plans to continue volun- throughout her years. were many opportunities to do things teering with the Global Citizen’s Johnson grew up in Saint Paul and I was interested in.” Network, and to spend lots of time White Bear Lake. Her grandfather, Johnson was a leader outside the with her husband, sons, and a superintendent of Ramsey County classroom as well. She took the reins grandchildren, she is unclear what else Public Schools, was instrumental in on the Hancock-Hamline University retirement will look like for her. guiding her career choices. Collaborative Magnet School relation- “The first year will be about internal “He was all about education and ship. As liaison to the program she reflection. Nearly everything interests that resonated with me,” she said. helped to revitalize, solidify, and me, and that can be challenging.” “In my high school, too, I know I diversify the efforts of those involved had outstanding teachers who made with the program, and create learning For more information on Rita and me think and helped me make huge opportunities for Hancock elementary the scholarship she helped found connections in my life.” students and Hamline students. benefiting Hancock students who She attended the College of In 1998 Johnson also took charge of go on to study at Hamline, visit St. Catherine where she received her Hamline’s Leadership Education and www.hamline.edu/magazine. BA in biology and education. Johnson Development program, which helps then moved to New York, where she undergraduate students find ways to JacQui Getty is director of media relations helped establish and run an education at Hamline.

14 HAMLINE MAGAZINE ARTS, ACADEMICS & ATHLETICS

First-year students and how they chose Hamline

They arrive in September, lugging laptops and lamps… trailed by mom or dad laden with duffels and pillows. From down the How are you spending your summer vacation? street, across the state, or across the globe, I’m living with my brother in Roseville, lifting weights they all found, applied to, and chose on campus, and playing basketball.

Hamline. They are the College of Liberal Arts What are you most looking forward to about Hamline? class of 2010, the future, as diverse as the It’s a really new environment than where I’m from originally. assortment of objects they bring with them I lived on a farm and graduated with fifty people so Hamline will be really different. from home. We checked in with seven of them during the waning weeks of summer What topics do you most hope to learn about? to find out who they are, why they chose I’m going to be a political science major. The campus is pretty liberal and I’m a conservative... I guess I’ll see when Hamline, and what they hope to do when I get there. they arrive. What’s your “how-I-ended-up-at-Hamline” story? It was the only school I applied to. In high school, I played in a basketball tournament there and they started recruiting me and it just all worked out. My brother got a job in the Roseville police department so I’ve been living with him and it’s nice to have family up here.

left to right: Whitney Koprowski, Brad Brake, Sam Lundquist How are you spending your summer vacation? How are you spending your summer vacation? Working—I’m the sales manager at BB Sport at the I spent a month in a beautiful city called Cuernavaca in Mall of America. I went to Valleyfair and the State Fair, Morelos, Mexico. I went with a group of about sixteen and some out-of-town trips. students from my high school and we lived with host families and attended a language institute there. What topics do you most hope to learn about at Hamline? Criminology and law. Plus sociology in general and When not in the classroom, where will we find you this fall? gender relations. I love being outside! If there is something I can be doing outside, chances are I'm doing it. When not in the classroom, where will we find you this fall? Working and I plan on joining mock trial. I signed up for What's the most unusual item you plan to bring with you? a Tae Kwan Do class too; that’s not one of the options you A Lucha Libre mask. have in high school. In what way are you different from most incoming students? What’s the most unusual item you plan to bring with you? I don't follow the “party” crowd or give in to the pressure A bottle filled with water and highlighter ink. It glows to do things I don’t want to do. I am a Christian and being in the dark when you put a black light behind it and strong in my faith, I'm not afraid to stand up for what looks cool. I believe in.

In what way are you different from most incoming students? What's your "how-I-ended-up-at-Hamline" story? I’m cooler than most of them and way more handsome. My dad went to Hamline [James Larrabee ’73], and because I’m a charming, charismatic person who is a little more of that I thought I would never want to come here. I open to things in college life. I’m outgoing and hyper. participated in Minnesota Private College Week and I needed one more college visit to get my waivers. I was just going to Anything else we should know about you? walk through the tours and pretend to listen and just get the On Tuesdays I perform slam poetry at the Blue Nile. day over with. However, once I got here, I absolutely fell in love with it. I felt a real connection to Hamline that I didn’t have at any of the other schools.

16 HAMLINE MAGAZINE Hannah Eller-Isaacs, Chance Brown, Liz Larrabee How are you spending your summer vacation? How are you spending your summer vacation? Mostly I’ve been working at Best Buy in Oakdale and I’m in a summer hockey league in Brainerd and working spending time seeing my friends. for a railroad construction company in Wyoming, where I’m from. What topics do you most hope to learn about at Hamline? I plan on going into genetics after I get my four years done, What are you most looking forward to about Hamline? so biology is big time. Psychology is intriguing too. Playing hockey and starting school again. I’ve been out of school for a couple of years so getting back into dorm life When not in the classroom, where will we find you this fall? should be fun. In my dorm, or outside a lot. I plan on spending time outside and in downtown Minneapolis. When not in the classroom, where will we find you this fall? The hockey rink or the library, because my mom’s What’s your “how-I-ended-up-at-Hamline” story? a librarian. My parents both graduated from Hamline and that’s where they actually met [James Schuster ’81 and Mary Beth Woods What’s the most unusual item you plan to bring with you? Schuster ’85]. I’d always considered Hamline but I was My George Foreman grill. thinking of going to the University of Minnesota but when I visited I realized I wouldn’t be comfortable with the larger In what way are you different from most incoming students? campus. The Hamline community is great. I also got a I’m the only incoming student from Wyoming. really large scholarship, which made my decision easy. What’s your “how-I-ended-up-at-Hamline” story? I came to Minnesota to play hockey after my senior year and Hamline recruited me. My sister goes to Augsburg so I looked at all the MIAC schools and I liked Hamline the best.

FALL 2006 17 How are you spending your summer vacation? How are you spending your summer vacation? Working. I work two jobs. I work at Jamba Juice and The first half of my summer I spent hanging out with my a preschool. I also go camping with friends every once friends, tubing on White Bear Lake, going to parties, going in awhile. to people’s cabins, that sort of thing. Now I work at Great Harvest Bakery (Great bread! Stop by!). I also have been What are you most looking forward to about Hamline? working with Young Religious Unitarian Universalists (the The Cities. Boulder’s not that big so the fact that it’s youth movement of Unitarian Universalism) on the bigger is nice. continental level working towards dismantling racism.

When not in the classroom, where will we find you this fall? When not in the classroom, where will we find you this fall? Hanging out, and I think I’m going to join the cycling Doing anti-racism/anti-oppression work, in some meeting club; I know a girl who is in it. I want to join intramural or kickin’ it with my friends. soccer too. What's the most unusual item you plan to bring with you? What’s the most unusual item you plan to bring with you? A print that my friend made for my 16th birthday of the I’m bringing my snowboard but I don’t know if I’ll be able “Naked Cowboy” (a man who wears nothing but whitey to use it. Minnesota is a little different from Colorado. tighties, a cowboy hat, and cowboy boots).

In what way are you different from most incoming students? In what way are you different from most incoming students? I’m up for anything and I have a good view of what I I don’t know because I don’t know them yet, but one thing want to do. I’ve known for eighteen years I want to be that has made me stand apart in the past is my ability to a French teacher. speak the truth no matter what I lose. I don’t take crap (can I say that?) from people. That’s just the way I’ve been raised What’s your “how-I-ended-up-at-Hamline” story? and to be honest, it works for me. I was looking for a really small school outside of Colorado and got a really good scholarship, which helps. A lot of What’s your “how-I-ended-up-at-Hamline” story? people go to the University of Colorado so I wanted to do At first I wasn’t interested in applying to schools in the something different. Midwest. I was only applying to schools on the East and West Coast. Then my college counselor suggested I look into Hamline and when I did I found that Hamline’s religious principles and ideology reflected my own in a way that the other schools I was applying to didn’t.

What else should we know about you? I once argued a case in front of a panel of judges from the Minnesota Supreme Court… it was amazing!

Lindsay Bacher ‘07 is an intern for Hamline.

18 HAMLINE MAGAZINE Michael Schuster An open letter on the College of Liberal Arts’ value

Why Hamline? My staff and I hear this question from most visitors Third is the reason students choose a college in the first to Hamline. Why should a student attend Hamline? place, the Hamline learning experience. Hamline’s As College of Liberal Arts alumni, you have your own nationally recognized curriculum, The Hamline Plan, is rationale for why you chose to attend Hamline. Let me not an esoteric collection of requirements. It is a clear set share with you one more motivation we find particularly of goal-oriented and skills-based requirements that allow compelling for the prospective students and families who students to build a degree that is geared toward their long- are less familiar with our alma mater—value. term aspirations. Our students learn how to apply skills that Our visitors know that college is expensive, but that it employers and graduate programs seek on a daily basis: is a lifelong investment. Nationally, students are attending • Writing, speaking, and technology skills college at increasing rates, as students learn that to meet • Understanding how disciplines intersect to challenging personal and professional goals, a college develop critical thinking and logical reasoning education is a critical (if not mandatory) component for • Independent and team-oriented work future success. • Understanding interpersonal and With these rising rates of college attendance, Hamline cross-cultural differences must ask: How are we distinctive from other colleges— • Applying theory to practice in internships or both public and private—in our value proposition? fieldwork to prepare for future careers We are distinctive first because of Hamline’s Four-Year Fourth, Hamline provides excellent support as students Graduation Assurance, which states that if a Hamline set and meet goals. This ranges from participation in co- student meets her or his expectations from the university— curricular activities to academic opportunities, all geared and Hamline does not—tuition in a fifth year is the toward expanding and executing the skills that our students university’s responsibility. Careful advising, academic have learned. Hallmarks of this support are the student- support, and balanced and accessible course offerings are faculty collaborative research program, amazing study the Hamline end of the bargain, while students pledge to abroad opportunities, our internship and career develop- register on time, pass their classes, and choose a major. ment program, service learning and community service, The Four-Year Assurance was established in 1993. and leadership opportunities in student organizations Five or more years of education will cost students tens and athletics. of thousands of dollars in additional tuition and lost income The costs of attending college are real. Hamline’s com- from not being in the workforce. We believe that college is bination of programs, student support, and goal setting are a four-year experience, not a lifestyle. value-driven with the purpose of providing prospective Second, we are committed to being clear about costs students with an exceptional education regardless of their and helping families understand the financial aid oppor- background and means. tunities that Hamline provides. We offer both need-based Just as it did for you four years or four decades ago, aid (linked to family income) and merit-based (linked to Hamline truly provides an exceptional experience for its academic achievement) financial support. Hamline’s students. That’s why they—and we—chose Hamline. financial aid packages are competitive and we work hard to help families see the many ways our education can be affordable. Steve Bjork ’87 is associate vice president for admission and career services.

FALL 2006 19 20 HAMLINE MAGAZINE They're found in classrooms throughout the Midwest. In small farming communities. Factory towns. Bedroom communities. The inner city.

They’re the ones helping a child who’s just immigrated learn English. They’re the ones using music to help a child learn math. They’re the ones teaching your child to read.

They’re teachers. Leaders in their communities, they were trained by the state’s leader in education: Hamline University’s Graduate School of Education.

Every year more than 8,000 teachers choose Hamline for licensure, certificates, and continuing education. More than 1,000 enroll in a degree program.

We’re helping Minnesota and the Midwest combat some of the problems that keep our youth from being successful, both the well-known—helping our newest immigrants learn English—and the hidden—illiteracy, even among junior high and high school students.

If your family at one time came from another country, if you have a child in school, if you’ve ever considered trading it all for a career in the classroom… read the following stories of these courageous people who live—and love: LIFE ON THE LINOLEUM

Seventh grade teacher encounters an unexpected issue: Students who can’t read page 22

Turning teacher: Making the mid-career switch page 24

This place called “Minnesota”—Learning English as a second language page 26

FALL 2006 21 As a seventh-grade English teacher entering his first class eighteen years ago, Jon Kahle felt prepared and excited to be teaching his students all about interpretation and the symbolism of Seventh-grade teacher language. What he didn’t expect to find was that encounters an many students weren’t even able to read the unexpected issue: material, let alone interpret it. Kahle, who now teaches at Central Middle School in Eden Prairie, said he’s learned over the years that Students who just because kids have reached seventh grade, doesn’t necessarily mean they are reading and writing well Can’t Read enough to comprehend what’s in a textbook or novel. “Each year I’m teaching I’m finding a growing number of students are having trouble with just the basics,” Kahle said. “More and more kids who come into our classrooms just don’t have the same experiences or backgrounds in reading or writing. People have real misconceptions. You think, ‘Oh, Eden Prairie,’ but there are a lot of kids in all of our districts who come from other cultures and other countries and they may not have any school experience in their home country, so they are dealing with that in addition to the language barrier.” Other cases include students who may not have had exposure to reading as a young child, or may have moved around so much they haven’t had the chance to feel grounded. Kahle’s experience is not uncommon. “There are still some students leaving school in Minnesota who struggle with reading and writing,” said Deirdre Kramer, dean of the Graduate School of Education. “That limits their potential to become contributing members of our society. We can’t give up on these kids. It all starts with literacy education.” Many teachers, like Kahle, are embracing that concept and engaging in opportunities to learn about teaching literacy itself, and the Center for Literacy and Learning offers coursework specifically focused on literacy. The center offers graduate education courses, a variety of literacy-related certificates, and special seminars geared at individual school districts’ needs. “Literacy, as we view it, is every aspect of learning. Jon Kahle It’s reading, writing, speaking, listening—all facets of communication,” explained Marcia Rockwood, director of the center. “It’s a foundation for everything we do in school, and really, in life. It crosses all content areas, and we feel that teachers of all disciplines, from

22 HAMLINE MAGAZINE English to chemistry, need to understand the as well as showing the written word to really help components at play.” children capture the essence of the words and what According to the most recent Minnesota Depart- they mean. It’s just one more way to teach words.” ment of Education data, 84.8 percent of eighth-grade Deb Obey, a second-grade teacher at Parkview students have passed their basic skills test in reading Center School in Roseville, has attended the institute and 91.2 percent of tenth graders have passed the every summer for the past ten years. basic skills writing test. While the numbers sound “The summer institute just regenerates me,” Obey high, Rockwood said that still means about one in said. “I will be heading back to my classes next week, five eighth graders and one in ten tenth graders have and now I’m going in with all of these new ideas.” not yet achieved the basic level of literacy needed Obey, who holds her master’s in education from to graduate. Hamline, said the most valuable part of the institute Kahle, who had already completed his master’s in is learning innovative yet practical tactics that she education, started taking continuing education classes can use in her classroom. that focused specifically on teaching reading and said the results were immediate. More and more kids that come “It already has helped me,” said Kahle, who received his reading licensure in May. “I learned into our classrooms just don’t strategies in all my classes for working with the kids.” Kahle set up a morning study group for his students. have the same backgrounds Every Tuesday morning he invited kids to come and work on reading comprehension, using the tips he’d in reading or writing. learned in class. “One tactic I used with the small group was to have “It’s critical to get kids to write all day in different them read a short passage of text, and then I had ways for different subjects. So for example if you’re them use Post-it notes to ask questions or make trying to teach them shapes…ask the kids to write a statements about what we’d just read. They had poem about a square. Getting them to stop and pay different color Post-it notes depending on whether attention to their environment and to work from that they had a question, a connection they could make can really be an effective teaching tool,” Obey said. to something else in their life, or whether what they’d “A lot of kids are completely gifted in math. But they just learned was new to them. And then we talked can’t explain it—or write about what they know. They about the passage again as we sifted through their would be so much more successful down the line if Post-its. As you can imagine our discussion was we can intervene early and teach them to do that.” much richer.” Although the summer institute takes place on In addition to traditional coursework, Hamline also Hamline’s Saint Paul campus, many of Hamline’s year- holds the Summer Literacy Institute, a week filled round literacy courses are now offered off-site in with intense and diverse instruction and exposure to partnership with school districts across the state, as national experts in the field of literacy. Now in its well as online. Kahle, who did a good deal of his sixteenth year, the institute has made a name for itself Hamline course work at a site in Plymouth, said he with educators throughout the Midwest, with more hopes more teachers take advantage of the program, than 5,000 teachers participating over the years. even if they aren’t reading or English teachers. Sarah Kantola, who is making the leap from fourth “Literacy goes across content areas. A lot of grade to first grade at Moreland Elementary School in teachers tend to think ‘Oh that’s for English teachers West Saint Paul, looks forward to using what she to deal with’ but kids are reading textbooks in all learned last summer at Hamline. subject areas and a lot of times they are not “I have so many English as a Second Language comprehending what they’re learning in classes. students, and we don’t have anyone who really We’re all in this together.” specializes in that. I took one of the classes on how to target vocabulary instruction that was really helpful. It focused on using gestures and physical responses JacQui Getty is director of media relations at Hamline.

FALL 2006 23 The children in Michael Deppe’s second-grade math class have an advantage over their peers in other schools. They haven’t simply memorized equations or learned mathematical rules. They’ve written a song about the pluses and Turning minuses of the numerical world titled “Even Math Can Be Odd.” Teacher As Deppe, a gentle man in his mid-forties, strums along on a guitar, the kids chant “math-math-math- math” until it’s time for the first verse: Making the An even plus an even will always equal even An odd plus an odd will also equal even mid-career switch But when you take an even and add it to an odd The number in the answer will be odd (how odd!) However, there’s nothing odd about the fact that Deppe, now in his fourth year of teaching the under- ten crowd at Harambee Community Cultures/ Environmental Science School in suburban Saint Paul, is using music to help students learn. It’s a skill he learned in the Master of Arts in Teaching program at Hamline University. The director of the program, Kathy Paden, encourages the approximately 450 students to bring relevant life experiences into the classroom. “Use what you are and what you have and bring it to what you do,” Paden told Deppe. So Deppe, a musician who once earned a living repairing violins and guitars, spices up math with bouncy tunes that serve an educational purpose. As an undergraduate majoring in German and English two decades ago, Deppe pondered a career in teaching, but pursued music instead. When his daughter began attending school, Deppe headed to the classroom too—as a volunteer. He’d sing Raffi songs to the children. And soon, the idea of teaching re-emerged. When Deppe asked his wife what she thought about his returning to graduate school to prepare for a career switch, she said, “Oh, my God.” “I had a comfortable, but low-paying gig repairing instruments,” he said. “It was a big change.” Now that he’s worked as a teacher for several years, there’s little he misses about his old job. Deppe labored alone before, bringing new life to beautiful, but broken stringed instruments. Now he’s surrounded by people—short, noisy ones mostly—and the improvements he sees aren’t as immediate.

Michael Deppe Sometimes it’s not until a parent tells him a child But that doesn’t mean the transition was seamless. loved a particular lesson that he knows he’s made “I struggled a bit in my first year,” he says. “I was a a difference. bit naive with classroom management.” “It’s a different, deeper impact,” he said. Now that he’s more experienced, it’s easier for Graduate students in the program can acquire Ardito to appreciate the small joys the occupation teaching licenses in any of twenty-six specialties can bring. through a series of evening classes, which typically meet once per week. With an emphasis on urban, multicultural schoolchildren, students can begin teaching after earning certification in a subject area or Use what you are and what you they can continue studying to earn a master’s degree. have and bring it to what you do. According to the American Association for Employment in Education, the need for new teachers is likely to increase in the next decade. That’s because about one-third of existing teachers are fifty-five or older and may soon retire. “Every day a child does something that makes you Still, it’s not simply jobs that are attracting people smile or laugh,” he said. to the profession. Paden says most students want to Jenny Johnson was already familiar with classrooms become a teacher out of a sense of altruism. when she enrolled at Hamline University. A former “They want to do something meaningful with their Peace Corps volunteer who taught for two years in lives,” she said. “This is a job that goes along with Malawi, a nation in southern Africa, Johnson majored that value.” in Spanish as an undergraduate, worked as a That’s certainly the case for two other Master’s of substitute teacher in the Minneapolis Public Schools Art in Teaching students. and taught full time in the district for two years. A native New Yorker, Nick Ardito spent most of his And then new rules required her to obtain a twenties working as a trader at the NASDAQ, a stock teaching license. Hamline became her graduate school exchange specializing in technology companies. of choice because they “understand the needs of Buying and selling shares of Microsoft and Dell was working adults and they considered my prior exciting, but it wasn’t personally rewarding. experience an asset,” Johnson said. She also liked the When he learned about a nonprofit organization program’s flexibility—students can begin classes during called Ice Hockey in Harlem, Ardito jumped at the any semester—and the sophistication of professors. chance to share his knowledge about a sport he loved “They stayed fresh with the current situation and with inner-city kids. While he taught kids about had very experienced backgrounds,” Johnson said. centering passes and slapshots, the most important Since she already has classroom experience in the lessons were in the classroom. U.S., Johnson chose to take advantage of the That’s because Ice Hockey in Harlem is primarily opportunity to teach internationally as a student about improving the academic performance of ten- teacher in Panama. For four months, she didn’t speak to fourteen-year-olds enrolled in the program. a word of English until one day, something surprised “That’s where I made the switch,” Ardito said. “I her and she uttered an “Oh, darn.” worked with kids who made a complete turnaround in One of her students overheard her and exclaimed, their education.” “I heard you speak English, Ms. Johnson!” Upon moving to Minnesota, Ardito enrolled in the Johnson recently landed her first post-Hamline job Hamline program. He graduated in 2004 and quickly teaching Spanish to high school students in Lakeville. landed a job teaching fifth graders at a Columbia Interviewed a few weeks before the start of fall Heights elementary school. classes, she was anxious to get started. The Master’s of Art in Teaching program prepared “I actually want to be in class right now,” she said. Ardito for the classroom by teaching him how to “I miss it.” prepare lesson plans, understand child development, manage a classroom and speak in front of a classroom full of people. Todd Melby ‘86 is a Minneapolis-based free-lance writer “There’s a lot of peer teaching and presentations and radio producer. right away,” Ardito said of the program. “They get you out of your comfort zone.”

FALL 2006 25 When Jan Voelker was ten years old, she and her brother boarded a plane in their Korean homeland and, many hours later, arrived in an airport in a very strange and confusing place. This Place People called it “Minnesota.” The year was 1976, and Voelker, her biological Called brother, Bill, and childhood friend, Peter, were adopted by a family in the small farming community “Minnesota” of Scandia. “We didn’t know a word of English. I thought everyone looked the same, and I couldn’t understand even basic sounds,” Voelker recalled of Learning English as her first impressions. “My brothers and I just held on to each other and said, ‘Don’t let go of me.’” a second language The next day she was in complete culture shock. At 2 a.m., she woke up hungry. Unable to communicate in words, her brother screamed to get their parents’ attention—and then made a slurping sound and shook his arms out in front of him. Soon, their parents solved the mystery: Jan wanted noodles. Thirty years later, Voelker, now a teacher in Bloomington, laughs about her first days in her new country. But experiences like hers repeat themselves even today as more immigrants, refugees, and even adoptive children arrive in the United States than ever before. “The United States is getting more and more immigrants—our country’s economy is especially dependent on immigrant labor,” said Ann Mabbott, who serves as director of the Center for Second Language Teaching and Learning at Hamline University, where Voelker is currently a student. “If you talk to immigrants, one of the things they’ll tell you is that Minnesota is a place where they can get a job and the schools are good. They come here because they want to work and they want their kids to have a good education.” Across the country, the demand for English as a Second Language (ESL) instruction has reached an all-time high—and along with it, the demand for instructors who are equipped to teach not only children but also adults, and not only in schools but also in workplaces. In Minnesota alone, the most Jan Voelker recent census data indicates that the number of children ages five to seventeen who speak another language and do not speak English “very well” increased by 121 percent since 1990. Hamline’s advanced ESL instruction, formally Mabbott said that most other ESL programs do one established in 1984 through its Graduate School of or the other, either focusing on teaching children in Education, was among the first offered. Hamline was the classroom or specifically preparing students to one of the first ESL programs in the country to teach abroad. Hamline’s program does both. achieve national recognition from Teachers of English “One-third of our students seeking an ESL license as a Second Language (TESOL) and today it is one of are people who’ve always wanted to teach,” Mabbott the top ESL programs in the country. said. “They’re people who are making a career change, Before they had access to ESL coursework, who either have an interest in other cultures or “people just made do with what they had,” Mabbott maybe they have a connection to the Peace Corps… said. “If teachers don’t know the law [shaped by a one of the nice things about our program is that you 1973 Supreme Court case, Lau v. Nichols, requiring can incorporate it into anything you do. It’s a field that equal access to English instruction for non-English can draw on other fields.” speaking students] or best practices for teaching With nearly 500 students enrolled from as nearby English as second language, they are less effective as Minnesota and as far away as Korea, much of the professionals.” ESL teacher education curriculum is offered online, as As a grade school student in small-town Scandia, well as in the classroom. “These classes are very Voelker, now an ESL teacher herself, knew her demanding,” Mabbott explained, “and offering them teachers were doing the best they could to help her online doesn’t change that. But we are trying to take and her brother adjust. “Our principal loved us so the hassles out of going to school for our students— much,” she said. “If someone even looked at us wrong, and especially for those in rural areas who can’t drive he was all over them.” for hours just to go to school.” But learning English was a much harder prospect. “I wouldn’t talk a lot. Instead, I would think in Jennifer L. Krempin is a free-lance writer for Hamline. English,” she said. “It was like singing with the radio on: As soon as you turn it off, you realize you don’t really know the words.” She remembers the day she struggled to finally get the words out: “May…I…use…the…bathroom?” Excited, her teacher burst out: “What did you say?” Voelker was so scared she had said something wrong, she could only repeat: “Me… bathroom.” Even so, Voelker’s Voelker’s teacher called her mom teacher called her mom that night to enthusiastically report: “Jan talked for the first time today!” to enthusiastically report: Her teachers were wonderful, Voelker says. But it would have been an entirely different experience “Jan talked for the first time today!” if, back then, they’d had access to a program such as Hamline’s. “ESL is smart, visual teaching,’ Voelker said. “You don’t use big words. Words are very clear and simple. In Scandia, people just didn’t always understand that.” What makes Hamline’s ESL program unique is that it doesn’t just equip teachers to teach English to immigrants and refugees. It also prepares ESL teachers to partner with children learning English in school and their parents, and helps employers be more effective in the workplace with non-English- speaking employees.

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First Friday Forums focus on the Middle East

With the recent heightened uprising in the of sociology, and Hossein Akhavi-Pour, professor Middle East, many people have been asking about of management, will share their ideas about social, the broader religious issues and history political, and economic aspects of contemporary surrounding this crisis. A better understanding of Iran. Finally, on January 5, Mark Berkson, the issues helps people understand how peace and professor of religion, will give the history of the reconciliation may occur. religious background that plays such a vital role in Join us this fall for the First Friday Forum Series understanding this situation. focusing on the Middle East. Three professors For more information about the First Friday from the College of Liberal Arts will help us better Forums and to register, visit understand many of the issues surrounding the www.hamline.edu/firstfridayforum or call crisis. On November 3, Nurith Zmora, professor 651-523-2015 or 800-767-5585 ext. 2. of history, will speak about how Hamline University collaborated with educators from Israel, Jordan, and the Palestinian Authority to write and pilot a joint curriculum for peace geared toward middle and high school students in the Middle Betsy Brenden Radtke ’89 East. On December 1, Navid Mohseni, professor Executive Director, Associations of Hamline Alumni

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The Associations of Hamline Alumni of Education, Graduate School of Liberal 07 (AHA) has contracted with Publishing Studies, Graduate School of 20 Concepts Incorporated to produce the Management, and School of Law. 2007 Hamline University printed alumni directory—the first printed directory The new directory will be available in since 2000. both a soft-cover book edition and a Contact and network searchable CD-ROM. The 2007 Hamline University Alumni with fellow Directory will include alumni from the To learn more about updating your College of Liberal Arts, Graduate School information or ordering the directory, Hamline alumni please visit www.hamline.edu/alumni.

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28 HAMLINE MAGAZINE CLASS NOTES Solar cookers Backyard novelty transformed into life-saving tool

Beverly Blum ’59

If Beverly Blum invites you over for dinner, don’t be simple solar cookers require adaptations to diverse cultures, surprised if your meal appears not from the kitchen but climates, foods, and locally available materials. from the backyard. That, she said, sparked the decision to get that information For twenty years, Blum, a central California resident, has into the hands of policy-makers and humanitarian groups. To enjoyed solar cooking as a practical and energy-efficient way document actual acceptance and usefulness, SCI introduced to cook family meals during their sunny summers. “It’s like solar cookers in refugee camps in Kenya and Ethiopia, and a crock pot,” she said. “You put the ingredients in a black today SCI helps Darfur refugees in Chad. A UNESCO grant pot in the solar cooker in the sun for a few hours, and helped introduce them in Zimbabwe. delicious foods cook with no attention—meats, rice, “While solar cookers are literally life-saving for refugees lasagna, cakes, bread, veggies and much more. It can even and people in disaster areas, humanitarian aid agencies have do canning. And my kitchen keeps cool!” small budgets for huge tasks. To reach many millions of Blum’s curiosity in solar cooking was sparked by friends people, SCI now helps women start small businesses to make who made their own simple solar cookers developed by an and sell solar cookers and solar-cooked foods,” she said. Arizona inventor. “My friends held a workshop, and I spent Solar Cookers International has built a global information a Saturday putting one together from cardboard, aluminum exchange network among 500 independent promoters’ foil, and Elmer’s Glue,” she said. “Within a few years, it was groups—ranging from grass-roots self-help groups to the my favorite way to cook.” governments of India and China—through Web sites and But what started as a hobby for Blum more than twenty international conferences. This group now collectively years ago now is addressing problems suffered by one-third advocates to expand awareness and access to solar cooking of humanity today: severe fuel shortages and killer diseases skills and tools. from smoky cooking fires and unsafe drinking water. While Perhaps most important, Solar Cookers International has traveling, Blum noted the heavy burdens of many third- focused on applying business skills to spread this important world women related to daily cooking—walking miles to energy and health-saving simple technology. gather fuel, then cooking over a smoky, hazardous open fire. “If this isn’t successful in local markets, many well- Having previously founded and directed a Planned meaning efforts can be wasted,” Blum said. “The most satis- Parenthood for nineteen years, Blum recruited friends to fying part is empowering some of the world’s most burdened found the nonprofit Solar Cookers International (SCI) in women to enjoy the benefits of solar cookers. They are also 1987 to improve health, economics, and environments in creating successful businesses that provide income as well as sun-rich parts of the world through solar cooking. assure supplies for future generations.” Initially, the organization focused on education, thinking Blum recently retired after nearly twenty years as the org- that instruction booklets and training about solar cooking anization’s executive director, but plans to continue as a vol- would suffice to persuade teachers, environmentalists, unteer with SCI’s new international advocacy consortium. governments, and international organizations. But even By all measures, it’s a job well done.

Jennifer L. Krempin is a free-lance writer for Hamline.

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1962 Jean Olson Chapman. See 2006. Angela Bakko Erickson and Paul Erickson retired to a home on Island Lake near Emily, Minnesota. Angela retired from her social work career in international adoption and Paul from a career in packaging sales. They keep busy with gardening, entertaining, writing, grandchildren, and “planning their next adventure.” Steve Olson. See 2006. 1963 1954 Members of the class of 1954 met in New Orleans in March 2006 for a mini- Karen Sansome Schmoker. See 2006. reunion. From left to right, John Partridge ’52, Fred Hartfiel ’56, Mary Jane Jensen Schreiner ’54, Connie Brainerd Partridge ’54, Fred Huebsch, Barbara Lee Huebsch ’54, Pat Peterson Hartfiel ’54, Pat Thulen Thompson ’54, Charles Beck, Elsie 1964 O’Conner Beck ’54, Jack Thompson ’54, and Milt Matthias. Elsie wrote, “We almost Richard Landholm retired and cancelled our trip because of Katrina but we were welcomed by everyone there.” teaches, consults, and volunteers full time at his church, assisting in the construction and financing of building a new addition. He wrote, “I hope all of my classmates are having an equally College of Liberal Arts rewarding retirement.” Alumni Board President: 1947 Rushik Mehta ’00 Mary Lois Rulifson Frye was inducted Clifford Olson. See 2006. www.hamline.edu/cla/alumni into the Oklahoma State University (OSU) College of Education 2006 Hall 1944 of Fame, the highest honor bestowed 1965 Donna Sansome Olson. See 2006. Ruth Frank Graham and Jean Elliott by the college. During her twenty years Frank ’45 visited Hamline in July and at OSU, Mary progressed from were shown the new facilities by Lynn assistant professor and program director 1967 at the Colvin Center to assistant Zweig Praska ’92, MALS ’99 from Jack Hicks retired as director of the director of the School of Health, Hamline's Development Office. That Deerfield Public Library in Deerfield, Physical Education & Leisure Services same month Ruth and Jean, along with Illinois, after thirty-four years of and director of campus recreation. In Charlotte Henry Dickerson ’46 and service. He was elected vice president of 1969, she represented OSU at the Betty Ann Nelson Tofte ’44, rode the Illinois Center for the Book Board, national conference on the activation of with Alice Harrington Webster ’44 to a program of the Library of Congress. have lunch in the home of Patsy Title IX for women's athletics. In McGivern Amundson ’44 in Blue retirement, Dr. Frye continues to Earth, Minnesota. support OSU by serving as president of 1968 the Emeriti Association. Melissa Stebbins Doerr retired as principal of Roosevelt Middle School in 1945 1959 the Anoka-Hennepin School District. Jean Elliott Frank. See 1944. Before becoming administrator in the Roger Fechner represented Hamline at late 1980s, she taught German for the inauguration of Dr. Jeffrey Docking twenty years. She and her husband, 1946 as the seventeenth president of Adrian Dale, have two grown daughters. Charlotte Henry Dickerson, Betty College in Adrian, Michigan. Roger is Ann Nelson Tofte, Alice Harrington professor emeritus of history at Adrian, Webster. See 1944. where he served from 1970 to 2002. 1973 Deanna Love Torgerson Burgess and Newman Olson and Sonya Evans her husband, Michael, bought an 1856 Olson. See 2006. antebellum mansion in Americus,

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1994/2002 Emerald Gratz ’02 and Jason Lien ’94 married on January 7, 1991/1992 Toben Fredrick Nelson ’91 2006. Emerald is an assistant attorney general with the Public Safety Division of and Heather Hammond Nelson ’92 earned the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office. Jason works as a litigation attorney doctors of science from Harvard University. with Maslon Edelman Borman and Brand, PLLP. In attendance were Susie Toben dedicated his dissertation, “Social Anderson ’00, Allan Blair ’02, Chad Enich ’94, Paul Enockson ’94, Nicole and Contextual Determinance of German ’03, Chris Hokanson ’94, Meredith Kruger ’02, Hamline’s Internal Overweight and Physical Activity Among Communications Manager Kristen Neurer, Professor of Legal Studies Faith U.S. College Students: Multilevel Analysis,” O'Reilly, Dana Palmer ’02, Jackie Palmer ’01, and Brandon Tucker ’01. to his grandfather, Clarence A. Nelson, Hamline professor emeritus.

Georgia. Deanna wrote, “We hope if any Hamlinites are in the South, they 1990 1993 come see us!” Tricia Krenik Hanson and her Tamara McClintock Greenberg had husband, Chad, welcomed daughter, her first book, The Psychological Impact Rachel Lynn, on June 22, 2005. She of Acute and Chronic Illness, published 1979 joins sister, Cleo, 3. They live in by Springer. Yolanda Williams traveled to China Rochester, Minnesota, where Trisha to teach at an English language teaches autistic students at Century 1996 summer camp for students. This High School and Chad builds was her second summer at the camp, residential homes. Bryan Forbes lives in Chicago and which she helped design. creates TV commercials for DDB, a Ann Brom McCaughan (also JD ’92) marketing company. retired after eleven years with the 1980 Appellate Office of the State Public Steve Mueske (also MFA ’02) was George Willmarth and Rita Kaye Defender. She moved to Oregon and is interviewed about his poetics, the Younger ’81 (also MAPA ’90) building a retirement home and writing process, and his book, A celebrated their twenty-fifth wedding volunteering locally, nationally, and Mnemonic for Desire, by Ghost Road anniversary on May 29, 2006. They internationally. Press’s Web site. were set up on their first date while at Ayme Mossefin Zemke and her Hamline by Kathy Ranfranz-Fisher ’81. 1991 husband, Scott, welcomed daughter, Cindi Potaracke received a master of Keaton Violette, on April 26, 2006. 1981 science degree in software engineering She joins brother, Graham. The family Rita Kaye Younger. See 1980. from the University of St. Thomas in lives in Apple Valley. 2005. She celebrated her fifteen-year 1984 anniversary at Wells Fargo in 2006. 1997 Leo Brisbois. See School of Law 1987. Kari Bakke Knudson works as the 1992 volunteer coordinator for North 1987 Tom McQueen is self-employed as a Country Regional Hospital in Bemidji, marketing consultant in the San Minnesota. Together with her husband, Stuart Olson. See 2006. Francisco Bay area. Seth, they have two children, William, 6, and Annika, 3. 1989 Lynn Zweig Praska (also MALS ’99). See 1944. Mike Daly. See School of Law 2006.

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Kelly Kershner-Detzler (also MAED ’04) and her husband, Brian, welcomed 2002 son, Drew Alaric, on December 6, Brian Hart lectured on “Illuminating 2005. Kelly plans to run the Twin the Structure and Evolution of the Cities Marathon in October. Universe” to the Orange County Astronomers. In addition, he gave a lecture titled “Origins: A Voyage 1998 Through the Universe” at the Mayo Aaron Fiedler and his wife, Monica, Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Brian welcomed son, Andrew Scott, on April also presented on science in films at 10, 2006. They live in Salem, Oregon, the Newport Beach Film Festival in and both teach middle school. April 2006. 1999 2003 Darin Broton works for New School Jeannine Scherping Ostrom and her Communications, a Twin Cities-based husband, Christopher, welcomed 2005 Julie Blaskowski was named the public relations firm. He specializes in daughter, Olivia Grace, on February Admission Possible AmeriCorps Member public affairs and corporate relations. 5, 2006. She joins sisters, Isabelle, 4, of the Year for her work as an events and Emma, 2. Jeannine, a stay-at- associate with the AmeriCorps program 2000 home mom, and Chris, a mortgage Admission Possible, which helps low- broker, live in Woodbury, Minnesota. income students with college admission. Kris Anderson and Cassie Nelson Julie coordinated several of the largest Anderson ’04 were married on June events in the program’s history, including 24, 2006. The reception was held at 2004 a graduation ceremony attended by Hamline’s Klas Center. Cassie Nelson Anderson. See 2000. more than 650 people. Saint Paul Mayor Troy Omafray (also MALS ’06) has Chris Coleman named June 14, 2006, been accepted into the master’s of “Julie Blaskowski Day” in her honor. religious studies in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism program at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. He will begin the program in fall 2006.

College of Liberal Arts Alumni Board of Directors welcomes new president

Rushik Mehta ’00 has been arrived in the United States from Tanzania to be an under- elected to serve a two-year graduate student at Hamline. “I remember sitting in a cab term as president of the CLA from the airport on my way to campus wondering if I made Alumni Board. the right choice,” Mehta said. “I had traveled thousands of “I wish to achieve two miles from home not knowing what to expect and I was Rushik Mehta ’00 has been simple goals,” Mehta said. beginning to regret being away from family and friends. Ten elected to serve a two-year “First, I want to continue to years later, as I look back at my Hamline experience, I have term as president of the build on the alumni-to-student absolutely no regrets. I am grateful for the friends I made at CLA Alumni Board. connection. As Hamline Hamline, the education I got from amazing professors and alumni, we can help current the values learned that have helped me in my career and life.” students with career development, life skills and mentoring. Mehta works in merchandising operations planning at Second, I want to build a strong alumni-to-alumni connection Best Buy Co. Inc. He and his wife, Kinjal, live in Savage. and encourage you to reach out to the Alumni Board so we can partner and support the greater alumni community.” For more information, please contact the Alumni Office Labor Day this year marked ten years since Mehta first at 651-523-2015 or [email protected].

32 HAMLINE MAGAZINE CLASS NOTES A year in IRAQ

Jodie Becker Aho ’03 takes the call to serve her country seriously. Since August 2005, she’s been stationed in Iraq with the Army as a preventive medicine specialist. “We deal with health, sanitation, and environmental issues,” said Aho, who has done every- thing from public health inspections and water testing to pest control. Aho joined the Army Reserves while at Hamline and Jodie Becker Aho ’03 was stationed in Iraq with graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Spanish and the Army as a preventive medicine specialist. anthropology in 2003. Less than two years later, she was transferred from her original unit to one that was preparing for deployment. With only about 700 people in the Army were married last year during Aho’s four-day pass before she with her specialty, Aho’s skills were in high demand. was sent overseas, and their one-year anniversary is coming Aho arrived in Iraq last August after several months of up quickly. “I won’t quite make it home to celebrate... but intense preparation, and has learned more than just how to we are planning a honeymoon in Greece in September.” spray pesticides. The couple has talked about joining the Peace Corps, and “Honestly, it has been a crash course in the ways of Aho is also considering entering a nursing program. “I speak people,” she said. Put a group of people together in the Spanish and I imagine there is a need for bilingual health- desert with little separation, and they become like family. care professionals,” she said. “Sometimes they drive you crazy but at the end of the day, Aho will also be spending time with the people she’s you love them just the same.” missed this past year. “I think back to all those times I By the time this issue is published, Aho will have complained about going to family functions, and after about completed her tour of duty and returned to Saint Paul to six months in the desert, you wouldn’t love anything more join husband and fellow Hamline grad, Seth Aho ’03, a than to be heading over to your second cousin’s first customer service representative for Koch Logistics. They birthday party.”

Hamline United Methodist Church

publishes history Hamline United Methodist Church is proud to announce the publication of Casting Long Shadows: 125 Years at Hamline United Methodist Church. The book recounts the growth of the congregation since it held its first services, just ten days before the beginning of classes at Hamline University in September 1880. The comprehensive history includes a chapter by Dr. Charles Graham, Hamline president emeritus, on the relationship of the two institutions, as well as chapters outlining the accomplishments of the congregation, many of whom were Hamline faculty and staff. The books are $15 and can be purchased at the church (1514 Englewood Avenue) during office hours or ordered by calling 651-645-0667 (add $5 for postage and handling).

FALL 2006 33 Pamela Carter Joern MFA ’00 First novel about big sky country hits the big time Sitting comfortably in her sunny, peachy-orange painted “I’ve been at this long enough that I can tell you there are study—her “writing sanctuary”—and looking out at her always people who don’t jell with your work, and they’re gardens, South Minneapolis author, playwright, and willing to tell you about it,” she said. “The title of my first Hamline alumna Pamela Carter Joern reflects on her first play was I Have Prayed Our Father for Too Long. It was a novel and on her time at Hamline. radical exploration of women’s roles in the traditional church. Joern’s new book, The Floor of the Sky, has been chosen by Very controversial. We had sellout audiences, standing Barnes & Noble as one of seventeen new books written by ovations, and hate mail. I wish I could say that I took it well emerging writers that the bookstore chain will promote in and it didn’t matter to me, but that’s not true. It was hard.” its “Discover Great New Writers” series this holiday season. Joern also wrote several short stories, and in the ’90s made Published by the University of Nebraska Press, the book her first attempt at a novel. comes out in September. “It was about a conservative minister who struggles with his “I basically found that out in an e-mail. I was shocked. spirituality and sexuality. I wrote it one year and then spent Overwhelmed,” Joern said. “It’s just so nice to have that the whole next year trying to revise it. I knew something was validation of my work.” wrong with it but just couldn’t figure out why,” Joern said. The book is set in western Nebraska and is told from the “When Hamline came out with its master’s of fine arts in perspective of the four central characters: a tough widow, writing degree, I thought...that’s what I want to do.” Toby, who is desperately trying to hold onto the family “I realized there are skills to be learned. I didn’t start farm; Toby’s embittered sister, Gertie; the farm-hand, attending Hamline with a book in mind. I went to explore George; and Toby’s pregnant young granddaughter, Lila. writing prose. I wanted to develop a language around the As a child growing up in Nebraska, Joern attended classes discipline and craft of writing and I wanted to be in a in a one-room country schoolhouse with twelve other writing community. And that’s what I found at Hamline. students. She said she feels her roots are there, although the It was supportive… and challenging.” vibrant, self-sustaining small town she remembers is now a And what about that very first attempt at a novel? Will street full of boarded-up storefronts. we ever see it in print? “People these days think nothing of driving forty miles to “It’s in a drawer. Someday maybe I’ll get it out and see get to the nearest superstore. When you’re from a small town if it’s really as dreadful as I think it is.” it makes you question…is this progress? Economic decline? I find that I am moved by the devotion of people who stick Pamela Carter Joern’s work has been published in Red Rock it out and stick to the land. I love the big sky country.” Review, South Dakota Review, Water~Stone, Feminist Joern moved to Minnesota with her husband and two Studies, and Minnesota Monthly. She has written six plays daughters in the early ’80s. For the next fifteen years she that have been produced in the Twin Cities area. In 2006, she focused mostly on writing plays. She said starting out can directed an original rock opera, My Green Eyes, that was be tough and she hit some bumps along the way, especially produced as a benefit for breast cancer research. She teaches at with her first play, which debuted in 1980. the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis.

JacQui Getty is director of media relations at Hamline. 34 HAMLINE MAGAZINE CLASS NOTES

2006 2000 2002 Justin Dahlheimer ’06 and his family, Thomas Walkington DPA works as Ruth Gila Berger MFA had an essay grandparents Newman Olson ’59 and the strategic management coordinator appear in the spring 2006 issue of Gulf Sonya Olson ’59 and great-uncle for Hennepin County and an adjunct Coast. Steve Olson ’62; Steve and Newman’s faculty member for Hamline’s Graduate cousins Jean Olson Chapman ’62 and School of Management. He delivered Carrie Kennedy MFA and her Clifford Olson ’64 (along with his lectures in China on public husband, Eric, welcomed son, Kieran wife, Donna Sansome Olson ’65, and administration in October 2005 and Philip, on January 14, 2006. Carrie is her sister, Karen Sansome Schmoker June 2006, and is the U.S. coordinator an adjunct professor of English at ’63); and Justin’s uncle Stuart Olson of the 2007 International Conference Concordia University and teaches ’87, were recognized as a College of on Strategic Management at Sichuan fiction writing at the Loft Literary Liberal Arts Family of the Year at the University in Chengdu, China. Center. Commencement ceremony in May. Steve Mueske MFA (also BA ’96) was Claribelle Bernadette Olson ’25,now interviewed about his poetics, the deceased, is credited with beginning the writing process, and his book, A family tradition and continuing it with Mnemonic for Desire, by Ghost Road her distinguished service, primarily as Press’s Web site. Hamline’s registrar for thirty-two years. Graduate School of 2003 Liberal Studies Eric Mein MFA had his essay, www.hamline.edu/gls/alumni “A Princess of Where? Burroughs's Imaginary Lack of Place,” accepted for Graduate School of 1991 publication in West Virginia University Ann Iverson MFA. See 1999. Philological Papers. The essay is based Education on a presentation Eric gave at the www.hamline.edu/gse/alumni university's thirtieth Colloquium on 1998 Film and Literature. 2004 Loretta Bebeau MALS wrote and Kelly Kershner-Detzler MAEd (also edited materials for the Northeast BA ’97) and her husband, Brian, Minneapolis Art-A-Whirl 2006. 2006 welcomed son, Drew Alaric, on Rebecca Kortus MFA had a story December 6, 2005. Kelly plans to run from her thesis, “The Last Will and the Twin Cities Marathon in October. 1999 Testament of Miss Lala Bigg,” appear Ann Iverson MALS, MFA ’91 will in Las Vegas Weekly Magazine. publish Definite Space, book of poetry, with Holy Cow! Press in fall 2007. Troy Omafray MALS (also BA ’00) has been accepted into the master’s of Anna Sochocky MALS won third religious studies in Indo-Tibetan prize in the Canadian Larry Turner Buddhism program at Naropa Graduate School of Nonfiction Award contest with her University in Boulder, Colorado. He Management essay, “An Annual Visitation,” which is will begin the program in fall 2006. www.hamline.edu/gsm/alumni scheduled for publication in the fall issue of Gristmill Anthologies. Marc Thompson MFA published 1990 his second chapbook, Oklahoma Heat, Rita Kaye Younger MAPA (also BA Lynn Zweig Praska MALS (also BA with Red Moon Press. He also had ’81) and George Willmarth BA ’80 ’92). See College of Liberal Arts 1944. two poems accepted by the journal celebrated their twenty-fifth wedding bottle rockets. anniversary on May 29, 2006. They 2000 were set up on their first date while at Sandy Beach MFA had her poem, Hamline by Kathy Ranfranz-Fisher “Slow Brown Fox,” accepted in the BA ’81. anthology: To Sing Along the Way: Minnesota Women Poets from Pre- Territorial Days to the Present, due out in 2006. In June, she read poetry at The Soap Factory art gallery with TalkingImageConnection.

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School of Law wife, Susan, and their two children, Robert's health-care practice focuses on Alumni Board President: Don McNeil Paul and Ella. the representation of assisted living and JD ’89, [email protected] nursing home operations. www.hamline.edu/law/alumni 1990 Mark Stember was elected partner in 1976 Jefferson Reynolds joined Gallagher the employee benefits practice group of Kennedy in Phoenix in the Kilpatrick Stockton LLP in John Kingrey was deployed to Kuwait environmental and natural resources Washington, DC. in March 2006, where he works in practice. His practice focuses on administration reviewing investigations environmental compliance, and giving legal assistance. Prior to environmental litigation, environment 1996 deployment, he worked as the executive regulatory permitting, and regulatory Susan Gustad was elected shareholder director of the Minnesota County enforcement action. He was previously of the firm Bassford Remele. Susan's Attorneys Association. head of the environmental and real practice focuses on representing property law division at Kirtland Air hospitals and health-care providers in 1977 Force Base in New Mexico. medical malpractice cases, as well as others in professional liability claims. Leo Daly. See 2006. She also represents municipalities in Bricker Lavik received the William 1991 civil rights and property damages cases. Reece Smith, Jr. Special Services to Pro Mark Covin was elected shareholder of Bono Award from the National Bassford Remele. Mark’s practice 1997 Association of Pro Bono Professionals. focuses on construction law, real estate, Tamara O'Neill Moreland was named The annual award honors individuals products liability, civil and commercial shareholder at Larkin Hoffman Daly & who positively influence the systems or litigation, and insurance coverage. Lindgren Ltd. She is a part of the real networks of providing pro bono legal estate litigation practice group and was services. Bricker practices at Dorsey & 1992 named a Minnesota "Rising Star" in Whitney in the areas of commercial Ann Brom McCaughan (also BA ’90) 2005 and 2006 by Minnesota Law & real estate litigation and general retired after eleven years with the Politics. litigation. Appellate Office of the State Public Defender. She moved to Oregon and is Jorge Saavedra is running for Congress 1978 building a retirement home and in Minnesota’s Fifth Congressional District. Joseph P. Bluth was selected as one of volunteering locally, nationally, and the top twenty-four family law lawyers internationally. in Minnesota by The Best Lawyers in 1998 America. Bluth is a principal in the firm 1993 Gabe Berntson and K. Paige Mitchell Bluth & Kohlmeyer. Susan Sager was named partner at Berntson ’00, welcomed daughter, Michael Best & Friedrich LLP in Carolyn Joy. She joins sisters, 1984 Milwaukee and is a member of the Savannah, 3, and Amelia, 2. Janet Hilde was elected superior court Land & Resources Practice Group. She judge in Plumas County, California. works in real estate development, land 1999 She will take office in January 2007. use litigation, and condemnation Jeff Cameron has been elected teams. president of the Minnesota Intellectual 1986 Property Law Association for 2007– 2008. He is the third Hamline alumnus Barton J. Cahill opened Cahill Law 1994 to hold the position in the last five Office, P.A. in Moorhead, Minnesota. Susan Anderson was named president years, following alumni John Gresens Barton’s practice focuses on civil and CEO of ING Trust USA, based in ’86, and Tim Czaja ’93. litigation. Minneapolis. 1987 1995 2000 K. Paige Mitchell Berntson. See Leo Brisbois (also BA ’84) was elected Robert Lightfoot, shareholder at 1998. secretary of the Minnesota State Bar Murphy Desmond S.C. in Madison, Association. He is an attorney at Stich, Wisconsin, was elected president elect Heather Crosby Pauls and Todd Angell, Kreidler & Dodge, P.A., and of the Board of Directors of the Pauls were married in October 2001 lives in Eagan, Minnesota, with his Wisconsin Assisted Living Association. and had a son, Carter, in September

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2003. They started their own practice Jenna Perrin joined Stroz Friedberg together in July 2004, where Todd LLC, a computer forensics and 2006 practices employment law and estate electronic discovery consulting firm. Colleen Daly and her father, School of and probate law and Heather practices She works as counsel and discovery Law Professor Joseph Daly; uncle, Leo family law, bankruptcy, disability, and consultant. Daly JD ’77, an adjunct professor in elder law. the School of Law; brother, Mike Daly BA ’89; and cousin, Tim Daly, a 2005 sophomore in the College of Liberal 2002 Nicholas R. Delaney joined Rinke Arts, were recognized as a Hamline Harleigh E. Brown joined Fredrikson Noonan Law Firm as an associate and Family of the Year at the & Byron, PA as an associate in the will practice in the areas of real estate, Commencement ceremony in May. firm’s securities, corporate, construction law, land use, and international, and mergers & litigation. Joel P. Mullen joined AND Law acquisitions groups. Offices, PLLC. Before coming to AND Jodi Stark Drews. See 2005. Law Offices, Joel worked in the life Thanh Bui received the Leonard, insurance industry. He serves as co- John T. Matejcak joined the Law Street and Deinard Award for Legal editor of the Elder Law Newsletter for Offices of Raymond F. Dalton PC, Services to the Indigent for her the Elder Law Section of the Minnesota with offices in Elgin and St. Charles, commitment to pro-bono legal work in Bar. Joel’s practice focuses on helping Minnesota. the Twin Cities area, specifically for her individuals and families with their wills, work reuniting a Vietnamese family Dan Roark joined the law firm of trusts, powers of attorney, and health separated during resettlement in the Tillitt McCarten Johnson & Haseman, care directives. 1990s. Ltd., in Alexandria, Minnesota. His Jason Stark and his sister, Jodi Stark practice focuses on business and real Drews JD ’05, were recognized as a estate. 2004 School of Law Family of the Year at the James Little joined the law firm of Commencement ceremony in May. Moss & Barnett. He works in the family law department.

In Memoriam College of Liberal Arts National Park until becoming an Rollwagen ’48 and Clare Rollwagen escrow officer for Western Title ’39. Harriet is survived by her 1930 Insurance in Castro Valley, California. husband, George; daughter, Miriam; Florence Zimmerman Zander died He was preceded in death by his wife, son, George; four grandchildren; and April 22, 2006. Florence majored in Lorraine (Dolly), and his brother, three great-grandchildren. chemistry and was a member of the Elmer Wigand ’29. George is survived Literary Society and Philo Browning. by daughters, Karen and Dana; sons, 1939 She taught middle and high school Rob and John; eleven grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. Ernestine “Teen” Young Johnson science and physical education in Elk died March 6, 2006. Ernestine majored River, Minnesota, until 1995 when she in English and was a member of Philo retired. She was preceded in death by 1937 Browning. Ernestine and her husband, her husband, Edmund, and son, Harriet Rollwagen Muedeking died Warren Johnson ’39, were Michael. Florence is survived by sons, April 9, 2006. Harriet majored in instrumental in starting the Class of James and William; five grandchildren; English and received her master’s in 1939 Scholarship. She worked for the and five great-grandchildren. special education from the University White Bear Lake School District until of St. Thomas in 1978. She taught her retirement. Ernestine was preceded 1933 English and special education in in death by her husband, Warren, and George Donald Wigand died March California and Minnesota, authored son, James. She is survived by daughter 25, 2006. George majored in articles for national Lutheran JacLynn and three grandchildren. economics and participated in debate, magazines, and traveled extensively Pi Gamma Mu, and Pi Kappa Delta. with her husband. She was preceded in George worked summers at Yellowstone death by her brothers, Eugene

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of station fourteen and as an emergency 1959. He participated in football and 1941 medical technician. Fred was preceded track and field and was a member of Dorothy Hunt Meyer died June 24, in death by his daughter, Diane. He is Theta Chi. Richard taught high school 2006. Dorothy was an active volunteer survived by wife, Peggy; son, Michael; social studies and coached track, and for the Red Cross and the Advisory daughters, Deborah, Jane, and Theresa; owned Clamshell Beach Resort in Board for the Laurentian five grandchildren; and two great- Minnesota. Richard also coached several Environmental Center and was a grandchildren. British football teams to victories, most Ramsey County master gardener. notably the Crown Bowl National Dorothy was preceded in death by her Champions in 1989. Richard is survived husband, Roy Meyer ’39; and is 1950 by his wife, Martha “Marti” Finch survived by son, Douglas; daughters, Dale Berry died May 8, 2006. Dale Coombs ’53; daughters, Linda and Susan Mattson ’65 and Mary; seven majored in economics and was a Patricia; and sons, Jack, Bill, and Scott. grandchildren, and one great- member of Alpha Phi Omega, Pi grandchild. Gamma Mu, and Kappa Phi. He attended John Marshall Law School 1956 and held the position of operations Betty Harris Berreman died June 16, 1943 manager at East Texas Motor Freight, 2006. Betty majored in health and Evelyn Herrala died April 3, 2006. Inc. in Chicago before opening his own physical education and participated in Evelyn majored in sociology and law practice. He retired from private the A Cappella Choir, the aquatic psychology and was active in Alpha practice after thirty-nine years. Dale league, and Alpha Phi Theta. She Kappa Delta. She worked in public was preceded in death by his wife, taught swimming at Hamline for more relations for the Goodwill Industries in Dorothy. He is survived by son, than twenty years, and was inducted Detroit, and in 1955 was honored as Thomas; and daughters, Cynthia, into the Hamline University Athletic the first National Goodwill Worker of Beverly, and Jane. Hall of Fame in 2004. Betty is survived the Year. Evelyn was active in social by sons, Thomas and Todd; daughters, justice issues, participating in the Wesley Carson died June 21, 2006. Kelley and Kathleen; and ten Fellowship of Reconciliation and the Wesley majored in business grandchildren. Women’s International League for administration and economics. He Peace and Freedom. In addition, Evelyn worked for the United States Postal was profiled in Hamline’s 150th Service until his retirement in 1984. 1957 anniversary book, One Hundred and Wesley is survived by wife, Harriet; Dorothy Hamilton Brown died Fifty Lives That Make a Difference. She daughter, Pam; son, Arthur “Kit” March 2, 2006. She is survived by her was preceded in death by her brothers, Carson ’82; and five grandchildren. daughter, Holly. Carl and Richard; and sisters, Mayme and Hilda Herrala ’40. She is survived 1952 1959 by nieces and nephews. Monte Balfour died April 1, 2006. James Brimhall died April 6, 2006. Millard McGinnis died November 11, Monte majored in business James majored in mathematics and 2005. Millard lived in Glendale, administration and psychology and was physics and was active in the physics Arizona, and worked as a piano active in student congress and football. club, band, and Kappa Phi. He received salesman. He was preceded in death by He worked as a State Farm Insurance his master’s in physics from the his wife, Dorothy Olsen McGinnis agent for forty-two years until his University of Pittsburgh and doctorate ’43, and survived by daughter, Mrs. retirement in 2003. Monte also served in physics from Union Graduate Dale Skurdahl. as president of his local Lions Club, School. He taught physics at West where he was a member for forty-five Virginia State College until he became years. He is survived by his wife, vice president for administrative affairs. 1949 Marian; daughter, Lynne; and two He is survived by his wife, Karen. Fred Welte died May 17, 2006. Fred grandchildren. majored in health and physical education and played on the 1961 undefeated 1947–48 hockey team, 1953 Sharon Salzman Bishop died April which was later inducted into the Richard Cutten Coombs died June 24, 12, 2006. Sharon graduated from the Hamline University Athletic Hall of 2006. Richard majored in business Hamline/Asbury School of Nursing Fame in 1987. Fred worked for the administration and received his and participated in the Wesley Saint Paul Fire Department as captain certificate in secondary education in Fellowship, International Relations

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Club, and band. She worked at South as a recreational therapist. Marita is High School in Minneapolis as the survived by her parents, Jaime and 1993 school nurse for fourteen years until her Maria; her sister, Miraflor; and special Michael Johnson died July 15, 2006. retirement. Sharon is survived by her friends from Hamline, the Phators. Michael worked as a public defender in husband, Dan; sons, Lewis and Wayne; the Tenth Judicial District of Anoka and four granddaughters. County as well as a teacher and 1994 counselor at Washburn Child Guidance Brenda Finley died June 3, 2006. Center. He is survived by his parents, 1964 Brenda worked as a personal care Bob and Dorothy. Reeanne Finnigan Grans died assistant in Roseville, Minnesota. October 29, 2005. Reeanne worked for Brenda is survived by her parents, the state of Wisconsin as a rehab Richard and Ella; brothers, Wesley and counselor for the visually impaired for Charles; and sisters, Diane, Jean, over twenty-seven years. She was Nancy, Audrey, and Bonita. preceded in death by her parents, Friends Stephen and Genevieve Hillman Willard S. Allin died April 29, 2006. Finnigan ’36. Reeanne is survived by Willard was an emeritus trustee of her brothers, Stephen and Arthur, and Hamline and served for sixty years as seven nieces and nephews. an ordained minister to the United Methodist Church. He retired from 1966 School of Law Central United Methodist Church in Frank Whitehead died May 12, 2006. Winona, where he served as lead pastor Frank majored in physics and 1981 for eleven years. He is survived by his wife, Beverly Richmond Allin ’45, participated in band and Alpha Tau Thomas Goeldner died June 8, 2006. and sons, Craig and Kent. Omega. He worked as an optical Thomas also attended Lawrence physicist for Siemens Gammasonics. University and University of Erling O. Johnson died March 31, He is survived by his wife, children, Wisconsin–Milwaukee. While at 2006. Erling was awarded an honorary and grandson. Hamline, Thomas was published in the doctor of laws by Hamline in 1963 for Hamline Law Review. He worked for his leadership in education. He served 1968 the City of Milwaukee as an assistant as the Anoka-Hennepin School District Philip Lindsay died March 22, 2006. city attorney. He was preceded in death superintendent for twenty-three years Philip majored in political science and by his father, Robert. Thomas is and was instrumental in creating the participated in Pi Gamma Mu. He survived by his mother, Lois, and his Anoka Technical College. earned a master’s degree in political sister, Lynn. Everett D. Williams died May 5, science from the University of Rhode 2006. He worked as a Northwest Island and was active in local politics 1983 Airlines meteorologist. He is survived and the Democratic Party. Philip JoAnne Jankowski died April 4, 2006. by wife, Patricia; son, E. Dean worked as the director of sales and JoAnne worked at Henningson and Williams ’68 and daughter-in-law business development for SensorCom, Snoxell, Ltd. as an attorney, as well as a Sandra Fish Williams ’69; daughter Inc. and coached soccer for the nursing home administrator and co- Paula Williams Snyder ’70 and son- Needham Soccer Club in Needham, publisher of the Minnesota Christian in-law William Snyder ’69; five Massachusetts. He is survived by his Chronicle. She is survived by husband, grandchildren, and three great- wife, Marcia; son, Matthew; and Leonard; sons, Stephan and Thaddeus; grandchildren. daughter, Christina. daughters, Judi and Rachel; and thirteen grandchildren. 1993 Marita Domingo died April 1, 2006. 1988 Marita majored in communication arts Karen Hill Fjeld died March 8, 2006. and was a member of Delta Tau, Karen was published in the Hamline Student Activities Board, and Drew Law Review and clerked for Judge Fred Hall Council. Marita went on to Norton of the Minnesota State receive her master’s degree from Saint Supreme Court in 1994. After that, she Mary’s University. She worked at worked as an attorney for Holstad & Augustana Care in Minneapolis for Johnson. Karen is survived by her more than sixteen years, most recently husband, Mark.

FALL 2006 39 From the President

One of the most pleasant views of Hamline and university-wide discussions over the next University is through the four large windows in several months, we will build a strategic vision my office in Old Main. Often as I move through for Hamline, supported by a plan that is bold, my day, I glance through those windows to see compelling and achievable by 2012. the stories of Hamline converge in the faces of As a forward-thinking university we know that hopeful and determined first-year students, there are dynamic, changing realities all around confident and friendly upperclassmen, and us: shifting demographics; increasing pressure on focused graduate and law students. They are access and affordability; emerging urgency to rushing off to classes, chatting in small groups, develop a global perspective; escalating regulation tossing a Frisbee around on the mall lawn, or by the federal government, and growing expec- heading off to their cars to go home and eat tations from consumer-savvy students for dinner with their families. technology, facilities, and amenities. We will I often wonder: How will they remember need to critically examine all of these factors, and their experiences at Hamline? Where will their many others, as we explore and construct our next steps take them in life? Yet the most relevant vision for the university. question may well be: Have we fulfilled the As alumni you play a critical role. While you Hamline promise we make to each student? represent past generations of students, your To create a diverse and collaborative community success in life informs our future direction. The of learners dedicated to the development of students’ spirited inspiration you’ve brought to Hamline, knowledge, values and skills for successful lives of the resounding legacy you’ve left, and your leadership, scholarship and service. exceptional accomplishments now and in the Now in its 153rd year, the Hamline University years to come are all gifts that help to shape the community is looking forward through a Hamline that students in the decades ahead will strategic planning process to examine how we experience and enjoy. fulfill the promise. The goal is to develop a I invite you to stay engaged with us and to join direction that is distinctive in a world of us in our goal-setting endeavor. To find out how change—that consistently supports intentional, to get involved, please visit: www.hamline.edu/ transformative learning that equips students to strategicplan or contact your Associations of adapt to new environments, integrate knowledge, Hamline University Alumni Board. Together we and continue learning all of their lives. will imagine and accomplish the extraordinary. As we begin setting our strategic goals for the We will challenge our assumptions about next five years, we will look carefully at the Hamline as a university of distinction, fulfilling rapidly changing environment in higher the promise in a world of change. education and the expectations of students. Where are we headed? It’s up to us. Through dedicated work groups, open forums,

Linda N. Hanson President

40 HAMLINE MAGAZINE HAMLINE ALUMNI & FRIENDS ABROAD—ITALY

Music, History, Architecture & Gardens in Florence & Rome MAY 21–JUNE 2, 2007

Join Yali You, professor in the music department and the orchestra conductor at Hamline, and Paul Knuth, lead gardener at the Marjorie McNeely Conservatory of Como Park in Saint Paul, for a two-week-long exploration of Italy. Alumni and friends of Hamline are invited to attend this course, which will visit the landmark architecture and gardens in and around Florence and Rome, studying the composers, their compositions, and styles.

Participants must physically be able to walk long distances with many steps.

For more information, contact Kim Zielinski at 651-523-2245 or [email protected] or visit www.hamline.edu/cla/off_campus.

ESTIMATED COST 15 participants—$3,959/person 20 participants—$3,689/person 25 participants—$3,589/person There is a $250 application fee that is separate from the cost of the course.

ABOUT THE PROFESSORS Dr. Yali You Professor You teaches cello, chamber music, music history, and conducts the orchestra at Hamline University. A native of China, she received her doctor of musical arts from the University of Cincinnati. Her solo and ensemble performances include the Beijing Film Orchestra, National Public Radio, the Ravinia Music Festival, and the Aspen Music Festival. She has led many student groups to study music and culture.

Paul Knuth Paul Knuth, guest lecturer and co-leader for the trip, is a lead gardener at the Marjorie McNeely Conservatory of Como Park in Saint Paul. Knuth specializes in ornamental horticulture, which includes floral production, tropical plants, and botanical gardens. With over thirty years of experience in the field, Knuth contributed to the Conservatory of Como Park’s winning of the prestigious Horticulture Landmark Award. NONPROFIT ORG HAMLINE US POSTAGE UNIVERSITY PAID HAMLINE 1536 Hewitt Avenue UNIVERSITY Saint Paul, MN 55104-1284

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