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Focusing on Food 26 U alumni, researchers, and Native communities work to improve nutrition for American Indian people. By Kelly O’Hara Dyer 34 Alumnus Andrew Rescorla turned a basement into a farm. By J. Trout Lowen 36 Alumni Steve and Deb Zeller create award-winning wine. By Joel Hoekstra 38 Senior Fellow Brenda Langton on why what we eat makes us who we are. By Cathy Madison

40 Arts: The Art of Craf Alumna Sarah Schultz helms the American 26 Craf Council. By Elizabeth Foy Larsen 42 History: The Hand of the Potter Professor Warren MacKenzie shaped both clay and students. By Tim Brady 44 Of the Shelf: Our quarterly books roundup Tales from the city and Somali stories By Lynette Lamb 46 Alumni Stories Film pro Scott Burns, Tutu Fellowship winner Marcia Ashong, and Deputy Attorney General John Keller 51 Stay Connected Thank you, Alumni Leadership Circle! 60 The Last Word 49 A look back at “U High” By Thomas Jones

Cover art by Jessica Gokey. See page 32 for more information. This page image credits, from top: James Olstein, Kristina Barker, Erica Loeks Sutherland McNamara Alumni Center University of Minnesota BOARD OF DIRECTORS Chair Laura Moret, ’76, ’81 Chair-Elect Mark Jessen, ’85 Past Chair Douglas Huebsch, ’85 200 Oak Street S.E., Suite 100 • Minneapolis, MN 55455 Treasurer Scott Wallace, ’80 Secretary Roshini Rajkumar, ’97 President and CEO Lisa Lewis Eric Brotten, ’03, ‘03 Joshua Clancy, ‘20 “Having our wedding at Michael Clausman, ‘02 Carol Johnson Dean, ’80, ’97 McNamara was such a dream!” Patrick Duncanson, ’83 Joan T. A. Gabel Chad Haldeman, ‘08 Alumni Association Nadia Hasan, ‘02, ‘06 Mina Kian, ‘20 Life Members receive Maureen Kostial, ‘71 Matt Kramer, ‘84 $100-$300 off their Colleen Flaherty Manchester wedding package. Peter Martin, ’00 Akira Nakamura, ’92 Emilia Ndely, ’11 Call today for a tour Peyton N. Owens, III or visit our website to Roger Reinert, ‘18 Jason Rohlof, ’94 check available dates, Kathy Schmidlkofer, ‘97 Ann Sheldon, ’88, ’04 view photos, and Betsy Vohs, ‘04 sample floorplans. Anthony (Tony) Wagner, ’96 UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA 020: GOVERNANCE in 2 President Joan T.A. Gabel le Board of Regents ilab 9 va ay Kendall J. Powell, chair A , M t. 10 Steven Sviggum, vice chair ow ay Oc N turd 5 + Thomas Anderson, ’80 Sa pt. , Se Richard Beeson, ’76 ay Mary Davenport urd Sat Kao Ly llean Her, ’94 Michael Hsu, ’88 Mike Kenyanya Janie Mayeron, ’73, ’76 David McMillan, ’83, ’87 Darrin Rosha, ’90, ’91, ’93, ’96 Randy Simonson, ‘81

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Back at the U EDITORIAL & ADVERTISING President and CEO Lisa Lewis MY FIRST BRUSH WITH THE U—although I certainly Editor didn’t know it at the time—was as a child growing up Kelly O’Hara Dyer on a farm in far southwestern Minnesota. I was in 4-H, Senior Editor a program ably run by the U of M Extension service Elizabeth Foy Larsen to provide sometimes-isolated farm kids with both a Copy Editor social outlet and a way to learn contemporary ag tech- Susan Maas niques. I’m proud to report that despite a particularly Contributing Writers obstinate young heifer calf named Daisy, who dragged Tim Brady me willy-nilly about the show ring at my local county Dan Emerson fair, I still possess a sympathy blue ribbon for my program eforts. Joel Hoekstra The second time I encountered the U and the frst time I stepped foot Thomas Jones Lynette Lamb on the Twin Cities campus was during the summer of 1980, just prior to my J. Trout Lowen senior year of high school. I had been invited to attend a journalism boot Susan Maas camp designed for incoming editors of high school newspapers. The camp Cathy Madison ofered me and my fellow editors-in-training a chance to stay in the U dorms for a few days while we traipsed around campus goggling at both the build- Art Director Kristi Anderson ings and “the city.” It also gave us an opportunity to hear from a variety of Two Spruce Design journalism school professors about how we might best wield a pen in service Senior Director of Marketing of our respective audiences. Lisa Huber Some of my memories of that stay are absolutely crystalline: We visited Advertising the old James Ford Bell Museum near University and Church to poke Send inquiries to around among the dioramas, then stayed to watch the terrible but cult clas- [email protected] sic movie Plan 9 from Outer Space. I also remember walking in a laughing, or call 612-626-1417 hungry horde over to Sammy D’s restaurant to meet the legendary Mama D for a little coddling and red-sauce-rich spaghetti. Perhaps my most vivid WE’D LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU recollection is hopping onto the back of a cute boy’s motorcycle in a parking Minnesota Alumni lot behind my dorm and pressing the inside of my shorts-clad leg frmly McNamara Alumni Center 200 Oak St. SE, Suite 200 against the screaming-hot mufer. (That particular move is, unfortunately, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 55455-2040 burned into my memory.) 612-624-2323 As a sort of shy, bookish, longing-to-be writer, the few days I spent here umnalumni.org at the U many years ago gave me my frst chance to meet others who also Send letters and comments to hoped to someday make a living telling stories. [email protected] In both subtle and not so subtle ways, the U has played a unique role in shaping who I became as an adult, as it has for so many people, even those Minnesota Alumni (ISSN 2473-5086) is published four times yearly—in who are not part of the traditional student experience. September, December, March, and And now, I’m grateful to be here, sitting in the editor’s chair, looking June—by the University of Minnesota forward to sharing meaningful, important stories with you. Alumni Association, 200 Oak St SE, Suite 200, Minneapolis, MN 55455-2040. It’s good to be back. a Periodicals postage paid at St. Paul, Minnesota, and additional mailing ofces. Kelly O’Hara Dyer can be reached at [email protected]. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Minnesota Alumni, McNamara Alumni Center, 200 Oak St SE, Suite 200, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 55455-2040 © 2019 University of Minnesota Alumni Association Scott Streble 4 MINNESOTA ALUMNI Fall 2019 LETTERS Attention ’09, ’14 Alumni Career Survey Are you an alumnus/a who graduated in 2009 or 2014? The U of M has partnered with the Career Leader- ship Collective to conduct a national online survey of career choices at fve and 10 years post-graduation. The National Alumni Career Mobil- “Was I the First?” ing in 2009 at age 75. Now, at 86, I con- ity Survey (NACM) is open through In “Everybody Wants to Live Some- tinue to be involved with my profession November 2019. Data collected by place Special” (Summer 2019), Jennifer as the editor of a news magazine for this survey will be used to help better Vogel quotes Marvin Meltzer (B.Arch. urban planners in northern California. understand the professional pathways ’61) as saying, “I was the second Jew to Naphtali H. Knox, FAICP of graduates and to prepare future ever attend the School of Architecture (B.Arch. ’55) alumni for improved career success. at the University of Minnesota.” If Melt- Palo Alto, California If you are a 2009 or 2014 zer is right, I may have been the frst graduate, please visit http://bit.ly/ UMNtwincitiesNACM Jew to choose and study architecture Playing Ball at the U, 1951-55. I recently read John Rosengren’s article In the fall of 1951, I switched to “My Father’s Glove” (Summer 2019). It architecture afer a frst year of basic reminded me about a classmate who sat engineering. I made the switch partly across from me in Home Room 206 at because many advisers told me that the Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis. anti-Semitism then rampant in Minnesota I was playing sofball during a gym class meant I would never get a job in chemical and Bill Rosengren [Ed. note: John’s John Rosengren responds: I’d never engineering, my desired major. It never father] was pitching. As I recall, I had hit heard the story about my dad pitching occurred to me that architecture, too, a home run early in the game, mostly sofball in gym class. Wish he were still might be a closed feld to Jews. thanks to the lef felder. When I came around so I could ask him about that. I was a good student, but not quite to bat, Bill threw a perfect change-up The writer mentions working at the straight-A, as my design work was not pitch I was not prepared for and struck local Dairy Queen with my dad. It’s still outstanding. Indeed, my mentor in my me out! Needless to say, a person does there, last stop on Minnehaha Avenue fnal year dissuaded me from pursuing not forget memories like that, even before the roundabout near Minne- architecture any further: Instead he afer 68 years. An additional memory I haha Park. My dad ofen talked about it. encouraged me to go into the new feld have of Bill Rosengren is that we both He had a long, successful career as an of city planning. I later earned my mas- worked at the Dairy Queen across from attorney, including 24 years as general ter’s in city planning from the University Minnehaha Park. counsel of Ecolab, but, based on the of Pennsylvania in 1957. Roger Long frequency of his DQ stories, I think he It was a perfect ft. I had a productive, Roosevelt High School 1951 was most proud of his ability to put the satisfying, and honorable career, retir- B.S. ’55, M.A. ’59, Ph.D. ’63 little twist on top of sof-serve cones.

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... UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA .-a.. FOUNDATION 6 MINNESOTA ALUMNI Fall 2019 A New Year Incoming students at the U of M engage in high spirits during get-to-know-you activities guided by orientation leader John Patterson (in maroon shirt and gold headband). Photo by Patrick O’Leary Who Gets Set in Stone? Not women, according to a U research project that looks at female representation in statues and memorials. By Elizabeth Foy Larsen

tatues are everywhere superintendent of the Minneapolis on the grounds of the park system, Theodore Wirth. Minnesota State Capitol. Krinke responded that she could There’s Charles Lindbergh, feel the beginnings of a public art Sdressed in a fight jacket and aviator proposal, an impression that was cap, striding purposefully toward a solidifed when she attended the storied future. U.S. Vice President Women’s March Minnesota at the Hubert Humphrey (B.S. ’39), his right Capitol in January 2017, an event hand raised mid-oration, stands sev- designed to spark transformative eral yards away. Elsewhere you’ll fnd change around issues of gender explorer Leif Erikson—he’s got two equity, among other goals. swords—and a host of past Minnesota To investigate, Krinke obtained governors, including Floyd B. Olson, a grant from the U’s Imagine Fund, John Johnson, and Knute Nelson. which supports research focused on What seems to be missing in all the arts and humanities, to look into these stone and marble tributes at female statues in Minneapolis and St. the Capitol is any depiction of the Paul. She in turn hired students Bria women who have shaped our state Fast and Sydney Shea (B.Ed. ’18, Sydney Shea explores and country’s history. M.L.A. ’19), who was a graduate I was on a feld trip in elementary the Capitol grounds In 2015, U of M landscape architec- student in the landscape architecture school,” says Shea. “But when I went in search of female ture professor Rebecca Krinke wrote program at the College of Design, to to do research I was shocked by what statues. Her fndings? Lots of male fgures, to the public arts administrator for engage in some feet-on-the-ground I saw—or rather, what I didn’t see.” but no women. Minneapolis with a simple question: research around the issue. Other than two plaques inside the Are there any statues of women in They decided to begin at the Capitol, which honor sufragettes Minneapolis besides that of the fc- Capitol, with the intention of eventu- Clara Ueland and Martha Ripley, the tional TV character Mary Tyler Moore? ally creating a curriculum for a course only female sculptures Shea could The answer wasn’t encouraging. Krinke was teaching that included an fnd were allegorical and metaphoric Although there are bronze assignment on memorials. Both Fast fgures, including Prudence, Bounty, portraits of former mayor Sharon and Shea presented their fndings to Industry, and Agriculture. All are Sayles Belton and civil rights activist Krinke’s students, and Shea eventu- dressed in fowing Grecian-style Nellie Stone Johnson in the city, the ally became so interested in the robes; some have bare breasts. statue list was limited to Minnehaha, topic that she decided to focus on The lack of statues celebrating the the fctional American Indian woman statues at the Minnesota Capitol as a accomplishments of women is an issue in Longfellow’s poem The Song of separate independent project, which that’s getting attention from commu- Hiawatha, and several little girls she titled “The (Un) Named Woman.” nities across the country. (Shea notes

standing near the statue of the frst “I hadn’t been to the Capitol since that one reason for the oversight is Hallbritter Jayme

8 MINNESOTA ALUMNI Fall 2019 and pulls up images she made of all the statues at the Capitol—both male and female. The men are standing tall, shoulders back, heads raised. The allegorical women, by contrast, Which infuential ofen have bowed heads and are women do you think shown carrying things, including a should be recognized child. “These caring and nurturing with a statue at the Capitol? Share your stereotypes are being represented thoughts with us at in the statues and graphics we see in minnesotalaumni.org our day-to-day life,” she says. Shea, who was also a lecturer in a course taught by Krinke that looked at women and memorials, has now expanded her research beyond the state Capitol to international locations in both Spain and the Netherlands, where she spent a semester studying. Neither she nor Krinke are sure about the next direction this initiative will take and are in the process of explor- ing options for additional funding. “I think this work will be propelled a long way,” says Krinke, who sug- gests a number of crowdsourced opportunities, including letting people create their own placards or signs on sticks with the images of women—dead or alive—they’d like to see immortalized. Shea also hopes to be able to talk with the committee that the heyday of statue memorials omissions, according to Shea, has an that is in charge of curating and was before women gained access to impact on the public. “We see these maintaining the Capitol grounds. the halls of power.) In New York City, statues all the time but we don’t really In the meantime, Shea hopes to an initiative called She Built NYC make note of what they are,” she says. continue tracking images of women has set out to increase the number “But subconsciously I think they really in public memorials. “Once I put on of statues of history-making women infuence the way our society thinks.” that lens I couldn’t stop seeing [this in outdoor public spaces; there are To explain, Shea turns on her laptop dynamic],” she says. “It’s everywhere.” C currently fve, as opposed to the 145 that honor men. There are plans to add fve new statues of women in New York, starting with Shirley Chisholm, AROUND TOWN the frst African-American woman to serve in Congress. In San Francisco, city leaders have decided that in the future, at least 30 percent of real He loved the Boundary Waters. people depicted in public art, building names, and streets must be women. Wilderness Watch director KEVIN PROESCHOLDT (lef), speaking to the Pioneer The cumulative efect of these past Press about U of M Professor WILLIAM PATRICK CUNNINGHAM (right), who “ helped lobby Congress to create the BWCA. Cunningham died July 24. ” President Gabel’s First Day President Joan T.A. Gabel spent a few minutes with Goldy Gopher, the U of M Twin Cities campus mascot, at a get-acquainted cofee on her frst day. As she prepares for her inauguration on Sept. 20, the 17th president of the U now oversees the fve campuses that comprise the University of Minnesota System, nearly 67,000 students, and more than 27,000 faculty and staf. There will be a campus-wide celebration at Northrop Plaza immediately following her inau-

guration and the event will also be livestreamed. Visit president.umn.edu/inauguration for more information. Relations University

Kao Ly Ilean Her, At-Large Representative Janie Mayeron, Congressional District 5 Four Join Maplewood Minneapolis Her (J.D. ’94) is the CEO of Hmong Mayeron (B.A. ’73, J.D. Elders Center, an adult day center ’76) is a retired United Board of Regents serving Hmong seniors in the States magistrate judge Minneapolis/St. Paul area. Previ- and lawyer. As a lawyer, Legislators elected four ously, she served as executive she specialized in civil new regents, including two director of the State of Minnesota litigation and mediation. Twin Cities campus alumnae, Council on Asian-Pacifc Minnesotans, and founded She has held numerous leadership posi- several nonprofts, including Allies for Mentoring tions in a variety of nonproft and legal to the U of M governing Asian Youth, Hnub Tshiab: Hmong Women Achiev- organizations, including president of the board in early May. They ing Together, and the Heritage Center for Asian Alumni Association. She received the will serve six-year terms. Americans and Pacifc Islanders. She has served as University of Minnesota Alumni Service a trustee of the Minneapolis Foundation, the Asian Award, the WCCO Good Neighbor Award, Pacifc Endowment of the St. Paul Foundation, and and the Highland Park Senior High School Women’s Foundation of Minnesota. Hall of Fame Award.

10 MINNESOTA ALUMNI Fall 2019 CONTINUING THE CONVERSATION Update on the Renaming Debate r At the U of M Board of Regents meeting permanent exhibits and other educational in April, the board voted 10-1 against means to keep ever-present the challenge renaming Cofman Memorial Union, as of this University to do better,” as well as for Cheers! well as Nicholson, Cofey, and Middle- it to “determine how to further remedy dis- Although frosty glass brook Halls. The board’s action came afer criminatory practices—past and present.” mugs won’t be available, more than a year of campus debate over As one response to the controversy, this beer and wine are now at the issue, and despite recommendations fall the History Department has begun both Williams Arena and of a task force that the buildings be ofering a new special topics class called 3M Arena at Mariucci. In renamed because of concern over past Prejudice and Protest at the U of M. The late June the Board of actions by their namesakes. class aims to help students “critically Regents okayed alcohol sales at the sites. Although the board declined to rename analyze the U’s institutional history” and the buildings, they did acknowledge to continue the conversation that started past discriminatory practices at the afer the 2017 exhibit “A Campus Divided” University and charged President Joan explored the U’s legacy with regard to Gabel’s administration “with developing race, religion, and eugenics.

The Carlson School Celebrates 100 Years Over the past months, game with a tailgate event at member who mentored many ... A century ago, the Univer- sity of Minnesota Business CSOM has been celebrating noon at TCF Bank Stadium, through the business school’s School was formed. In its its centennial with a number prior to kickof at 2:30 p.m. women’s organization. She inaugural year, the school of events. On Friday, Tickets are required. Visit was among the frst women Sept. 13 from 6 to 9 p.m., a carlsonschool.umn.edu for in the country to earn a Ph.D. 0 enrolled 14 students. Today, what’s now known as the celebration will take place more information. in economics and the frst ~ Carlson School of Manage- at U.S. Bank Stadium, and Many illustrious alumni woman to earn her doctor- ment (CSOM) has more than on Saturday, Sept. 14, the have passed through CSOM. ate at the school. Canoyer V 4,500 students enrolled and school will host Carlson Among them were Helen also received the U’s 1956 55,000 graduates worldwide. Day at the Gopher football Canoyer, an early faculty Alumni Achievement award. YEARS

Mary Davenport, At-Large Representative Mike Kenyanya, At-Large Representative Mankato Maple Grove Davenport is a former higher educa- Kenyanya serves as a consult- tion administrator with 30 years of ing analyst for Accenture experience with Minnesota State, PLC in Minneapolis. He was including as a faculty member, dean, born in Nairobi, Kenya, and vice president, and president. She immigrated to Minnesota in Attention earned undergraduate and graduate 2002. He received a B.B.A. UMAA members degrees from the University of Wisconsin–Stevens in management information systems from the Point and the University of Wisconsin–Stout and her Labovitz School of Business and Economics at the Did you know you receive a 20 percent discount Ph.D. at Colorado State University. She has served on University of Minnesota, Duluth (UMD), where he on all Carlson Executive boards for the Governor’s Workforce Development served two terms as student body president. He Education classes? That’s Council, Minnesota Job Skills Partnership, KSMQ Pub- also served as student representative to the Board hundreds of dollars in lic Television, the Austin Area Commission for the Arts, of Regents. In 2019, he received the Sieur du Luth savings. Learn more and the Greater Rochester Arts and Cultural Trust. She award, the highest award given to a UMD student at umnalumni.org/ was awarded a Bush Leadership Fellowship in 2003. for service to the campus and community. carlsondiscount COME BACK TO CAMPUS FOR WORLD-CLASS PERFORMANCES UMAA members save 12-22% on series packages and $5 of single tickets to Northrop Dance and Music Series events. DANCE SERIES PAUL TAYLOR THE CHENAULT DUO DANCE COMPANY A Holiday Program of Organ Duets PITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE The Celebration Tour Tue, Dec 3, 7:30 pm The Great Gatsby Sat, Mar 21, 7:30 pm with live orchestra MINNESOTA ORCHESTRA FEATURING ORGANIST Sat, Sep 28, 7:30 pm MARTHA GRAHAM DANCE COMPANY CAMERON CARPENTER WITH CONDUCTOR Northrop and the Twin Cities The EVE Project Tap Festival Present AKIKO FUJIMOTO Sat, Apr 4, 7:30 pm DORRANCE DANCE Fri, Mar 27, 8:00 pm Myelination & Sat, Mar 28, 8:00 pm THE STATE BALLET Sat, Oct 19, 7:30 pm OF GEORGIA Nina Ananiashvili, Walker Art Center and Northrop Present Artistic Director TEAĊ DAMSA Mixed repertory Swan Lake/Loch na hEala with live music Wed, Apr 29, 7:30 pm Thu, Oct 24-Sat, Oct 26, 8:00 pm & Sun, Oct 27, 2:00 pm MUSIC SERIES Walker Art Center BRANFORD MARSALIS, BLACK GRACE SAXOPHONE, AND JEAN-WILLY KUNZ, Mixed repertory PIPE ORGAN Thu, Nov 7, 7:30 pm Tue, Oct 1, 7:30 pm MARK MORRIS DANCE GROUP Pepperland with live music Sat, Jan 25, 7:30 pm

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A.I.M BY KYLE ABRAHAM Schreiber. A.I.M in Drive. © Steven Photo Monrovia’s crowded airport, he realized he’d underestimated the risks. Mixed repertory “To try and get your baggage, you’re walking shoulder to shoulder with Sat, Feb 29, 7:30 pm Liberians,” he says, sitting in a conference room at the U’s Biometric Research ofces on University Avenue. Since Ebola is spread through direct contact with bodily fuids of an infected person, Reilly quickly realized that avoiding close contact with people who may have been infected was impossible. (The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would later report that Liberia was not deemed Ebola-free during that particular outbreak until January Sara Rubinstein Sara northrop.umn.edu

Fall 2019 MINNESOTA ALUMNI 13 2016, although the number of new infections diminished what the procedures were like . . . so I could speak to the sharply by late 2015.) integrity of the data.” That Reilly and his U colleagues felt the need to While the epidemic waned before the team—which travel to Liberia at such a dangerous time speaks to included experts from the National Institute of Allergy and the complexities of setting up drug trials in developing Infectious Diseases and the Liberian government—was nations. Biostatistics, a feld that uses statistics able to get full enrollment for the study, members were 0 to advance biomedical research, is employed able to establish the safety of two vaccines, including one in medicine and public health to determine not which would ultimately be used in the mid-summer 2019 “PEOPLE WOULD SAY only the efectiveness of new drugs but also Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. the causes and long-term outlook for diferent The team’s most recent study, conducted in collabora- WE ARE THE GO-TO diseases. Reilly, who has a Ph.D. in statistics, tion with NIH and the Liberian Ministry of Health, looked PEOPLE TO DESIGN AND says he was drawn to the feld because it gives at the health status of Ebola survivors. Published last him an opportunity to merge his talent with March in the New England Journal of Medicine, the study CONDUCT STUDIES,” numbers with his desire to have a positive confrms that Ebola survivors sufer from a variety of impact on people’s health and wellbeing. ongoing health challenges. Not only do they experience You know the U of M. But do you really know what the U does for SAYS PROFESSOR The U’s involvement in Liberia during those increased urinary frequency, fatigue, headaches, and JIM NEATON. tests actually started in the fall of 2014, when neurological and musculoskeletal problems when com- you? From developing a major breakthrough in cancer treatment Jim Neaton (B.A. ’69, M.S. ’70, Ph.D. ’84), a pro- pared to close contacts who did not contract the disease, to supplying Minnesota’s food deserts, we’ll share the stories that 0 fessor in the Division of Biostatistics, got a call they also report higher rates of memory loss than people from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) who were not infected. Genetic material from the Ebola bring the drive to discover home to Minnesota’s doorstep. Take asking for help with vaccine and treatment tri- virus was also found in the semen of some male survivors als. “People would say we are the go-to people to design for more than three years, which could potentially result discovery to the next degree at discover.umn.edu. and conduct studies,” says Neaton of his department, in the infection of their sex partners. which is known throughout the world for their research There was some better news: The study disproved the on infectious diseases. prevailing wisdom that Ebola survivors sufer from higher While statistics are ofen used to summarize data rates of uveitis, an infammation of the eye that can lead that’s already been gathered, biostatisticians set up rules to blindness. “I think we were the frst study to really before experiments are conducted. “A big part of my job demonstrate that actually there’s just a lot of uveitis in is developing procedures prior to seeing the data,” Reilly West Africa,” says Reilly. He adds that the study fndings explains. In other words, the process is key. also showed a need for follow-up care to help survivors Dr. Perry Hackett And that can get challenging when working in devel- cope with ongoing health problems associated with the oping countries. “It’s not like doing research in the U.S., disease. The results could also help improve response to Developing breakthrough cancer treatments where we can recruit patients through clinics,” says Reilly. other outbreaks, including the Ebola epidemic that was Liberia has no national identifcation system; houses raging in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as of don’t even have addresses. It’s also not uncommon for midsummer, with more than 2,000 people infected and medical trials in the country to take place without control two-thirds of those dying. groups. Given these challenges, Reilly and Neaton said The team is currently conducting a vaccine trial in it was important to travel to Liberia to make sure the Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Mali that focuses on details were in order. vaccine safety, particularly in children. “This is a very poor “I wanted to be able to look at the control and make part of the world,” says Neaton. “There is a tremendous sure nobody could tell the diference between the active burden of disease and it’s very good that the United and the placebo drug,” says Reilly. “And I wanted to see States is bringing some research to this region.” a

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16 MINNESOTA ALUMNI Fall 2019 At Minneapolis Children’s Hospital just “I thought, instead of putting scientists make advances in four weeks later (fast for rare diseases, says the onus on families” to start a understanding diseases, they Barnes, which ofen take years to diagnose), foundation for every disease out “narrow down and defne Chloe was diagnosed with Metachromatic there, “let’s have a single council more and more conditions, Leukodystrophy (MLD), a rare genetic, that can work across rare diseas- thus leading to more diseases degenerative, neurometabolic disorder. es, and serve as a clearinghouse that qualify as rare.” Up to 1 in MLD is progressive and has no known cure. for clinical trials, natural histories, 10 Americans now sufers from Chloe’s only hope was to have a bone and FDA drug approval,” Barnes says. some kind of rare condition, he adds. marrow transplant, which she underwent In the United States, rare diseases are The legislature has asked the Council to in the fall of 2010 at the Mayo Clinic. Sadly, defned as those that afect fewer than start its work quickly. The frst task will be she died of complications from the trans- 200,000 people. Some are what the medi- to choose a staf member to administer the plant just two weeks later, at 27 months. cal community would call “ultra-rare,” mean- council; the second to name 24 advisory Afer that tragedy, her mother was ing they afect just a few dozen or hundreds council members, drawn from the research, moved to start the nonproft Chloe’s Fight of people. However, other better-known patient, industry, health insurance, and Rare Disease Foundation. A few years later, health conditions such as multiple sclerosis genetic counseling sectors. Barnes also began lobbying Minnesota or ALS (commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s Although the council’s specifc physical legislators to fund a rare disease council disease) are also considered rare, a fact that home has yet to be determined, having based in the state. surprises many laypeople. it based at the U of M is meaningful, says That dream fnally came true in May, Altogether there are roughly 7,000 rare Barnes. “I love that the U of M is a land when the legislature agreed to fund—for diseases in the United States, says pharmacy grant institution,” she says. “Baked into that $150,000 a year for four years—a Rare professor Jim Cloyd, who holds the Weaver model—and the council’s—is an emphasis Disease Advisory Council, to be housed at Endowed Chair in Orphan Drug Develop- on the public good.” a the University of Minnesota. ment at the U’s College of Pharmacy. As —Lynette Lamb, M.A. ’84

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MNAlumniMarket.com Last January, in Lindsay Whalen’s evolution in parenting styles that has (B.S. ’06) rookie season as the Gopher taken place in recent decades—at women’s basketball coach, the team was least in the United States. in the midst of a four-game losing streak, Thinking back on her own experi- and Whalen was looking for answers. ences as a Gopher, Whalen doesn’t Then assistant coach Carly Thibault- recall having had any one-to-one DuDonis emailed Whalen an article meetings with her University coaches, Coaching about the book Not Everyone Gets A except for one with her fnal college Trophy: How to Manage the Millenni- coach, Pam Borton. (Whalen had three als. The 2016 management book, by diferent head coaches in four years). Generation author Bruce Tulgan, focuses on how “The ‘older’ coaches were really caring, understanding the personal needs too; there just wasn’t as much dialogue of a relatively new generation in the as there is now,” Whalen notes. workforce can help managers get the Whalen says since she’s begun most out of them. devoting more time to getting to know According to the Pew Research her players as individuals, “I feel I have Center, Whalen’s players are part of gotten much more out of my players what’s commonly known as Generation and they have gotten much more out Z, children born afer 1996. Whalen, of their experience. 37, is herself considered a millennial “Today, everything is about the (born between 1981 and 1996). But even [coach-player] relationship, even more though the Tulgan book addresses so with this generation,” she adds. millennials in the workforce, Whalen “Coaching needs to be a little more found the advice both compelling and hands-on, a little more one-on-one. But useful in helping her connect with the if you really do it right, you can prob- students of Generation Z. ably get more out of this generation As the season went on, Whalen than any one before it. Because they made time for one-on-one talks with are really eager to learn…but, it’s going her players and made more efort to to take more than just saying, ‘Go do get to know them as individuals, advice this.’ If you explain to them, ‘These are Coaches discover that today’s touted by the book. the steps you need to take, and these student athletes respond better A month afer the losing streak are the reasons why,’ not only as a started (on December 31), the Gophers team but with each individual, they will to nurturing than negativity. began a six-game winning streak. be that much more invested in you as a By Dan Emerson Whalen isn’t sure how much credit person and the team goals.” the book should receive, but feels it Whalen isn’t the only high-profle U defnitely helped. “There were a lot of of M coach whose methods and style things happening during that time, but have evolved. I was better able to lead and be a lot It’s been four decades since John more direct, and I give a lot of credit to Anderson played for the iconic that book. It was eye-opening and I’m Gopher baseball coach Dick Siebert, thankful I read it,” she says. but the current Gopher baseball Whalen’s experience is one coach still has indelible memories of example of what seems to be a global the namesake of Siebert Field. Siebert phenomenon: a gradual shif away was the craggy-faced Hall of Fame from the more authoritarian approach coach who led the Gophers from 1948 to coaching that once prevailed in to 1978, winning three NCAA titles, 12 favor of a more empathetic, collabora- Big Ten titles, and making fve college tive style that focuses on the needs World Series appearances. of individual players. Coaches say this Beginning in 1974, Anderson played transition seems to parallel a similar four years at the U, then became one of

20 MINNESOTA ALUMNI Fall 2019 Siebert’s assistants. Afer the 1981 sea- just the way we were coached. The has changed, Anderson says. “I’m not son, Anderson became the youngest coach expected you to listen and saying that the ‘old’ way was right or head baseball coach in Big Ten history. do what you were told in a direct, wrong. But we have evolved as a soci- Anderson recalls that he was a straightforward way. There wasn’t ety; we no longer think it’s necessary graduate assistant in 1978 when he a lot of negotiation. We weren’t to intimidate or scream or threaten to observed one of Siebert’s trips to the coddled if we didn’t perform. I also get people to perform.” mound to make a pitching change. remember being chewed out by A few years into his head coaching He vividly recalls Siebert’s words to my high school football coach in a career with the Gophers, Anderson the pitcher. “He told him, ‘Things were pretty strong way. If I didn’t perform started to notice a change in how play- going OK until you got out here and well, none of my coaches cared if my ers reacted to his coaching. “I noticed screwed it up. You’ll never pitch again.’” feelings got hurt.” that they didn’t handle it very well “At the time I didn’t think it was Siebert was certainly both a winner when I criticized them—to motivate

James Olstein James unusual,” Anderson says now. “That’s and well respected. But coaching them and help them get better. They

Fall 2019 MINNESOTA ALUMNI 21 I had to look at changes I needed to make as a ''person and a leader to be more efective.,,

seemed to take that as ‘he doesn’t called Why Good Coaches Quit. and give them direction in life. Before like me,’ ‘he’s mad at me,’ or ‘he thinks “If I had not taken a look at myself, I you teach them how to hit a curve I’m a bad person.’ They seemed to be would have crashed and burned, and ball, players want to know that you tuning me out and listening less.” would not be relevant to this genera- care about them as a person. In my Anderson consulted Rick Aberman tion,” Anderson adds. “If I had contin- generation, that relationship was just to help him sort through his dilemma. ued to coach the way I was coaching, about sports.” A sports psychologist for more than I don’t think I would have gotten the Anderson says that today’s coach’s 30 years, Aberman has a Ph.D. in family best out of our student-athletes.” job also extends well beyond the play- therapy and developmental psychol- With Aberman’s help, Anderson ing feld. “I’m here to prepare them for ogy and has worked with high school, changed his coaching style to better the next 50 years of their life. I have to college, and pro athletes. He currently meet the needs and expectations of get to know them and their families, has a staf position at the U helping the modern players. “I had to look more fnd out what their values and goals baseball and men’s tennis teams. closely at the relationship piece,” are...why they’re here...and spend a “I had to look at changes I needed Anderson notes. “It became evident lot more time in personal interaction. to make as a person and a leader to [student-athletes] want to know, Then they start to trust you and you be more efective,” Anderson says number one, that ‘He’s interested in have a better chance of getting closer. about working with Aberman, who me as more than just a player.’ They If you don’t have that relationship, co-authored a book with him in 2005 want me to help them grow and learn players won’t let you coach them.”

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TheRaptorCenter.org | 612-624-4745 “A lot of people think the kids can get you somewhere, but it’s not standard response is, “We have to start have changed,” Aberman says about sustainable. It triggers someone’s with you. You have to have to be willing Generation Z. “But I think it’s more defenses, so that they are just trying to take look at yourself as the leader that we have realized that the way to protect themselves; they’re not and how you may be contributing to we used to coach just doesn’t work listening, not learning, just waiting for the very problems you are complaining very well anymore. I think the burden you to stop yelling.” about.’” Anderson was able to make the is on the coach to be fexible, grow And for coaches, yelling also leads necessary adjustments fairly quickly, and learn and learn to be self-aware. to burnout, Aberman adds. “The old Aberman notes. “And he is probably That’s been the biggest change.” school approach was no good. We having more fun than he ever has.” In Siebert’s era, leading by fear and know so much more now about how we Anderson confrms that. “There’s no intimidation may have been common can be efective. I fnd most successful question I am in a much better place practice. But subsequent research coaches tend to have good parenting now. I have a better understanding has demonstrated that is not the best skills. They understand that what they of why I coach, and I’m a much better approach, says Aberman. are doing is for the beneft of their leader. Before, I was too focused only “Physiologically, we know that child, not about their own needs. on getting my players to play better when somebody yells at us, berates “The good coaches, the ones who and win more games. Now I’m focused and humiliates us, that triggers the survive, are the ones who have learned more on preparing people for the next ‘fght or fight’ syndrome, which to be fexible, take time to get to know 50 years of their lives and mentoring interferes with our cognitive ability, their people and stay connected.” them so they can lead.” C and we stop learning. Kids want Sometimes coaches ask Aberman to feel understood, versus feeling for advice on getting their players to Dan Emerson (B.A. ’74) is a freelance writer controlled. In the short-term, yelling listen and to better motivate them. His in the Twin Cities area.

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•••••••••••••••• ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••...... ••• • •• • •• ....•• •••• ••••• ••• ••., • • •I Seeds of Health U alumni, researchers and Native communities come together to fght chronic disease with better nutrition and traditional foods. By Kelly O’Hara Dyer

•• •• or Kibbe McGaa Conti, food—access to it, •• control over it, and respect for it—is a source •• of power. •• Conti (B.S. ’90) is a Lakota woman, a regis- •• tered dietician with the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps’ Indian Health Service (IHS), and an enrolled member of the Oglala Lakota community at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. She’s on a mission to spread her message that American Indian communities are sufering greatly from what she terms an addiction to “pale meals.” She says these meals—heavy on processed grains, sugar, and fat—are cheap, flling fare for a population ofen struggling with poverty. They Harvesting wild rice also damage the health of those eating them. (known as manoomin in What Conti has witnessed during her three Ojibwe) on the White decades of work as a dietician, including Earth Reservation practicing both on and near Pine Ridge, is an ongoing health crisis. It’s been brought about, she says, in large • part by historical damage done to indigenous •• communities by mistreatment. Before many •••• American Indian communities across the U.S. •••••••••••••••••• John Noltner John ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Fall 2019 MINNESOTA ALUMNI 27 were forcibly moved to reservations, she notes that their diet, as hunters-gatherers-farmers, focused primarily on unrefned foods, including corn, beans, squash, bison, fsh, and wild game, or on gathered fruits such as chokecherries or seed-grains such as wild rice. Today, however, those foods no longer form the basis for most Native diets. That’s a key factor that Conti and others feel has directly led to ongoing poor health in many Ameri- can Indian communities in the form of diabetes, obesity, heart disease, and other chronic conditions. According to the Department of Health and Human Services Ofce of Minority Health, American Indian/Alaska Native adolescents are 30 percent more likely than non-His- panic whites to be obese. Adults are 50 percent more likely to be obese. In addition, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that American Indians have a higher risk for diabetes than any other U.S. racial group—a rate that’s twice that of whites. Diabetes is the cause of two- thirds of kidney failures for American Indians. Conti notes that mortality rates within her own commu- nity of Pine Ridge are high, and life expectancies for those on the reservation are among the shortest in the country. “I’m in the trenches and I see it every day, the impact of this food system that Native people are maladapted for,” she says during a visit to Minneapolis. “[Native people are] really the canary in the coal mine in that what happens to us is what happens to the greater population eventually. We’re always the ones who have epidemics frst—the diabetes epidemic, the obesity epidemic. They struck us frst.”

Systemic Solutions The issue of how food contributes to a person’s health is deeply complicated, especially in parts of the American Indian community. Limited access to food that is nutritious and afordable combines with systemic factors such as racism, entrenched poverty, a disrupted traditional food- system, and ofen a lack of food sovereignty. Today, however, tribes such as the Shakopee Mdewakan- Kibbe McGaa Conti hopes reconnecting American ton Sioux Community and a national campaign it assembled Indian communities with the called Seeds of Native Health are demanding across-the- traditional foods of their past board changes to improve food and nutrition for American will help fght chronic disease. Indian people throughout the U.S. They also want tribes to be more able to control their own destinies when it comes to improving food sovereignty and health. The Mdewakanton community, which is the largest philanthropic benefactor for Indian Country nationally, con- tributed an initial $5 million in 2015 to start Seeds of Native Health. The nonproft has three overarching goals: improv- ing access to healthy food, improving nutrition education, and funding relevant research around related subjects that

afect American Indian communities. Barker Kristina

28 MINNESOTA ALUMNI Fall 2019 As part of that endowment, the Mdewakanton community “When it comes also provided the U of M with an initial $1 million grant, part of which was to be used to create an annual Conference on to communities Native American Nutrition, the only conference in the world devoted to food and nutrition for indigenous peoples. The group enlisted the Healthy Foods, Healthy Lives of color and Institute (HFHLI) at the U to spearhead the conference. HFHLI, established in 2007, focuses on an interdisciplinary indigenous people approach to improving food, agriculture, and health via research and community engagement. Conference organizers say the annual event has been worldwide, they designed to bring together tribal ofcials, researchers, practitioners, and others to discuss traditional Native knowl- have been afected edge about food, paired with the latest academic research on nutrition and food science, in order to help strengthen indigenous food systems and food sovereignty. by so many things “Getting healthy food and making it both accessible and afordable for people is critical,” says Mindy Kurzer, Ph.D., that have in turn the director of HFHLI, who has led the eforts to create and run the conference. “When it comes to communities of color and indigenous people worldwide, they have been afected afected their food.” by so many things that have in turn afected their food. MINDY KURZER, Ph.D., director of the U’s Healthy Foods, Indigenous people … [survived an] attempt at genocide and Healthy Lives Institute cultural extinction and assimilation. So, part of their journey is to reconnect with their traditional foods, to learn about them, and to grow them or to have access to them.” This year’s conference, the fourth annual, is being held at Mystic Lake Center in Prior Lake, Minnesota, from

Deciphering the Food that fall under a certain full-service grocery four times that of of U.S. Distribution Program income level with direct stores or other food ven- households (34 percent monthly distributions dors available to people compared to 8 percent), on Indian Reservations of food. According to in those communities. and 22 percent of FDPIR the government, some A June 2016 study households had very SINCE 1977, the Food 276 tribes receive ben- of FDPIR by the USDA low food security, as and Nutrition Service, efts under FDPIR and found that the program compared to 6 percent part of the USDA, has approximately 92,500 serves a low-income of U.S. households. (Food operated the national individuals on or near group, with many recipi- security refers to having Food Distribution reservations receive ents relying solely on access to good, nutri- Program on Indian Res- food from it each month. Social Security, supple- tious, afordable food on ervations (FDPIR). Indian Direct food distribution mental security income, a reliable basis.) Tribal Organizations is ofen used instead of or disability insurance Although FDPIR is (ITOs) or state agencies the Supplemental Nutri- payments. The study also only intended to supple- administer FDPIR on a tion Assistance Program found that in 2013, the ment a household’s local basis. (SNAP, formerly known percent of FDPIR house- food, for 38 percent The FDPIR program as food stamps), because holds with low food of recipients, it is their provides households of the lack of accessible, security was more than primary source of food.

Fall 2019 MINNESOTA ALUMNI 29 September 15-18. The gathering is expected to draw more than 600 attendees, roughly 60 percent of whom will come from American Indian communities. Topics at the conference include Foraging for Native Edible Plants; Preparing Healthy Traditional Food, and a wide variety of best-practice panels, the majority led by tribal members. Breakout panels address subjects such as national food policy; empowering and supporting American Indian communities in reclaiming their health through nutrition, and the sharing of both personal and community success stories. "We're going to have four or fve people give a 5- or 10-min- ute talk about how they've healed through food," says Kurzer, "through their reconnection with traditional food or nutrition or about [food] policies that have personally afected them." The team behind the conference includes Linda Bane Frizzell, an Eastern Cherokee/Lakota elder and assistant professor at the U’s School of Public Health. She sits on the advisory council for the conference and has been involved as both a planner and participant in the event for the past several years. Frizzell says topics at the conference cover not only academic research around the subject of nutrition, but also honor the knowledge about foods and food gathering that Native people possess.

EXPERTS SAY trying to improve regulatory and fnancial obstacles. eforts met with signifcant suc- American Indian health through One of the coalition’s priori- cess. The fnished bill, signed nutrition is best approached from ties was to improve programs into law by President Trump many directions simultaneously, such as the national Food in December 2018, ultimately including political advocacy. Distribution Program on Indian contained 63 new food and The Seeds of Native Health Reservations (FDPIR) by having farming provisions beneftting campaign assembled a Native the Farm Bill support purchas- American Indian communities. Farm Bill Coalition, supported ing traditional, locally grown Among the new provisions Advocating by 170 tribes and other organiza- food for food packages. The is a $5 million demonstration tions, to lobby Congress prior to group’s materials note that “Tra- project that allows tribes to for Healthier its enacting the 2018 Farm Bill. ditional and locally grown foods purchase food for FDPIR The coalition noted two key from Native farmers, ranchers, themselves. Another provision Food, Native factors in assembling the group: fshers, and producers encour- added “regionally grown” to the Producers First, Native communities have age healthy living, cultural traditional foods’ purchasing the highest rate of reliance sustainability, and traditional language under FDPIR. Advo- on federal feeding programs. practices. They also support cates say these developments Second, Native food producers economic development, food will help Native communities represent the key to future production, and agribusiness in begin to more directly infuence tribal food sovereignty and self- Indian Country.” and afect food security for reliance, but currently face major The coalition’s lobbying their own people.

30 MINNESOTA ALUMNI Fall 2019 Conti and Lakota community elder Bob Chasing Hawk Robert Pilot (right, B.S. '12) selects fresh produce at the Four Sisters Farmers developed a nutrition Market on east Franklin Avenue in Minneapolis. A number of Native farm teaching tool based vendors sell at the market, including Dream of Wild on the sacred Health Farm from Hugo, Minnesota. That farm describes its mission as medicine wheel. Its an attempt to "restore health and well-being in the Native community by image historically recovering knowledge of and access to healthy indigenous foods, medi- represents balance. cines, and lifeways." The Four Sisters market is run by the Native American Community Develop- ment Institute.

“There’s a lot of indigenous knowledge that relates to To demonstrate, Conti grabs a sheet of paper and even before you plant a food,” Frizzell says. “Whenever begins scribbling on it to show how an ideal diet should we plant our crops, it’s by moon signs and cultural tradi- balance fruit/vegetables, starches, water (rather than tions. In addition to that are the spiritual practices. There sweetened drinks), and lean meat or other protein. In are diferent rules for plants that you harvest for what one quadrant, she places the “pale grains” she feels grows below ground, as opposed to above ground, and represent too much of a current Native diet—bread, rules for crops that should be adjacent to one another. pancakes, pasta, white rice, oatmeal. Then she replaces And rules for preservation.” those options with a few of the Native foods she wants Frizzell says she personally belongs to a “rice camp” her patients to substitute—blue corn, squash, sweet near the Leech Lake Reservation, and that as part of potatoes, and beans of many colors. the traditional, annual harvest of wild rice, a variety of “Colorful carbs are low-glycemic, so they’re going blessings are part of the activity. She also notes that to break down more slowly,” she says. “When our food academic research shows the act of gathering wild rice in system was based on these starchy vegetables, we didn’t a traditional manner is good exercise, another factor that have diabetes, although we were also a very active could contribute to better health for American Indians. people, so it’s a combination.” In keeping with the idea that sharing indigenous knowl- edge and wisdom helps combat health-related dietary Healthful Options issues, Kibbe Conti and Lakota community elder Bob Jason Champagne (M.P.H. ‘17) readily admits that his past Chasing Hawk developed a teaching tool based on the eating habits nearly killed him, despite the fact that he sacred medicine wheel. Called the Four Winds Nutrition has a background in professional cooking and nutrition. Model, the image—a circle separated into quadrants—his- Afer high school, Champagne, who is a member of torically represents balance. The duo wanted to use its the Red Lake Band of Chippewa, had saved money from symbolism to help them visually share the message about working construction jobs to attend culinary school.

Jayme Halbritter Jayme better nutrition among American Indian communities. Afer graduation, he worked as a chef for Walt Disney

Fall 2019 MINNESOTA ALUMNI 31 World in Orlando, Florida, for three years. While he enjoyed it, Champagne missed having a connection with people— the reason he’d started cooking in the frst place. He returned to school and graduated from the University of North Dakota with a degree in community nutrition and Native American studies, and then earned his master’s in public health at the U of M. In 2015, Champagne discovered he was facing many of the same issues that plague other members of the Native com- munity: He developed “really, really bad” diabetes; had what he describes as a borderline stroke-level blood glucose read- ing; high blood pressure; and extremely elevated cholesterol. Despite his education in nutrition, Champagne says he wasn’t eating right, was drinking too much, and wasn’t exercising. He was also taking 12 pills a day to treat his various medical issues. Champagne decided to change. He quit drinking and began using both his chef’s training and nutrition back- Alumnus Jason Champagne ground to radically transform his eating habits. The most improved his own health signifcant change? He began preparing and eating more through food and now shares vegetables and vegetable-based dishes. He also started lessons with others about the connection between dietary working out. Today, he says he’s lost about 60 pounds, no habits and chronic disease. longer has diabetes, and doesn’t take any medications. Motivated by his experience, Champagne started Native Chef LLC, a mobile culinary arts class that he founded in

Sumac About the Cover Art Sunfower Willow Jessica Gokey is an American Indian artist from the Lac White pine Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe. She practices shoot traditional Ojibwe beadwork, which historically features Raspberry foral patterns. She received an artist-in-residence fellowship at the Minnesota Historical Society in 2014-15 and created Blackberry Blueberry this piece depicting a number of traditional, indigenous foods. The artwork displays 25 diferent fowers, berries, Blueberry Wild rose and other food plants native to the Great Lakes area. Blackberry fower blossom

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ACCORDING TO the U’s School of Public Health, there are 573 federally recognized tribes in the U.S., 74 state-recognized tribes, and 34 federally funded Urban Indian programs that collectively are home to nearly 4 million American Indians. SPH recently created an American Indian public health and wellness graduate minor to train professionals to “thoughtfully and For Native peoples, efectively address the unique health needs traditional foods can of this culturally diverse population, as well as vary based on location. understand the government-to-government For instance, here Karuk tribal fshery workers relationship the federally recognized clean freshly caught tribes have with the U.S. government.” salmon from a tributary You can learn more about this here: sph.umn. of the Klamath River in edu/academics/degrees-programs/minors/ northern California. american-indian-health-and-wellness/

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2017 in Eudora, Kansas. He now works to educate others many calories and fat and carbohydrates are in one of about how food afects health and he travels around the those pieces. I may also show them how they can take country to teach other Native peoples—including kids— their elbow macaroni [from a commodity box] and dice how to change their eating and cook healthier food. As up a zucchini and a red onion and then add a simple part of his demonstrations, he includes traditional native vinaigrette to make it a more healthy option.” foods, but he doesn’t focus exclusively on them. Like Champagne, Kibbe Conti knows that encourag- “I use a lot of wild rice, a lot of beans, a lot of corn, a lot of ing her patients to seek a better diet is complicated squash,” Champagne says about cooking with traditional by many factors, including familiar, inexpensive, and ingredients. He recently made what he calls a Three Sisters culturally nostalgic foods such as fry bread, which Corn Salsa as a demonstration item highlighting traditional is dough deep-fried in oil. She also sees that link as Native foods. The salsa featured roasted hominy, squash, further evidence of past wrongs that continue to afect and beans, accented with fresh onion and lime. Native communities. But while Champagne is a fan of traditional foods, “Our people signed treaties like the Fort Laramie he also spends a lot of time answering questions from treaty [in 1868], and right in there it said the government audience members about how they can eat healthier was going to issue us four” in return for them giving up when they must rely on supplemental government com- their traditional territory and moving to a reservation, modity food, which depends heavily on dry, canned, she says. “We’d never seen four before. We didn’t know and frozen items. how to eat it; we didn’t have ovens; we didn’t have bread. “I think what I’m having with people is a realistic But eventually we got hungry and reports say pioneer conversation,” Champagne says. “We have to look at the women showed us how to make fry bread. So, we ate incomes of these families and how much commodities it. And we still do. That was the beginning to me of this they use. That’s realistically the food that a lot of these radical shif in our food ways, which led to the chronic people are eating. They’re trying to survive, and com- disease we still sufer from.” a modities help. Fry bread might be that person’s only meal of the day, so I try and help them understand how Kelly O’Hara Dyer is the editor of Minnesota Alumni.

Fall 2019 MINNESOTA ALUMNI 33 Fresh food from a basement? Urban Greens is an unconventional, city-based farm. By J. Trout Lowen

ANDREW RESCORLA (M.S.Clean ’12) doesn’t look like most people’s image of a farmer. and Green There’s no farmer tan, no dirt under his fngernails, no mud on his boots—er, shoes. But then again Rescorla’s farm, Urban Greens, doesn’t look much like a typical farm, either. Located in the concrete basement of a strip mall in the Minneapolis suburb of Columbia Heights, Urban Greens is a hydroponic farm. Inside the space, windows are covered to block out light, and the room is flled with the murmur- ing of running water and the thrum of blowing fans. An eerie pinkish light illuminates several 6-by-8-by-8-foot-tall racks in the center of the space, each outftted with shelves flled with thriving plants growing in long, gutter-like trays of nutrient-enriched water. There’s lettuce, kale, chard, arugula, sorrel, parsley, thyme, and basil plants with leaves as big as a man’s hand. When Rescorla tells people he’s an urban farmer, he says some are confused, many others intrigued. “People are more and more curious about where their food comes from,” says Rescorla, “so they are interested in hearing how we

grow greens in Minnesota year round.” Luinenburg Mark

34 MINNESOTA ALUMNI Fall 2019 Rescorla started his urban

RESCORLA STARTED THIS urban farm-to-table business farm-to-table business two two and a half years ago with his childhood friend, Joel Love, with little more than a wish and some trial-and- and a half years ago with little error knowledge. Today they provide direct-delivery boxes of fresh herbs and greens on a weekly or biweekly more than a wish and some schedule to between 75 and 100 households in northeast Minneapolis, Columbia Heights, and St. Anthony. trial-and-error knowledge. Neither Rescorla nor Love knew much about farming when their venture began. The two friends grew up in Indi- ana and studied engineering at Calvin College in Michigan. Afer college, Love took a job in the energy industry and Rescorla moved to Minnesota to earn his master’s degree in environmental engineering at the U before taking a Neil O. Anderson, (M.S. ’85, Ph.D. ’89) a professor in job working on clean drinking water systems. the Department of Horticultural Sciences, says the U The idea of developing an urban farm—a nontradi- has conducted several grant-funded research projects tional spot for growing produce and vegetables within involving aquaponics and hosted three educational a city—frst took root in around 2013, he says, and con- symposiums on the subject. Although the idea is enticing tinued to grow while he was working on clean drinking from a sustainability perspective, the economics of water projects in Ecuador and West Africa. aquaponics is tough, especially in a northern climate, Initially, he was intrigued by a variant of hydroponic Anderson says. Unlike plants, fsh grow slowly and the farming, something called aquaponic farming. With cost of raising them, at least on a larger scale, cannot be aquaponic farming, plants are still grown in a hydroponic made up in the market where they have to compete with setup, but freshwater fsh are added to the closed-loop cheaper imports. system as a second crop. Waste from the fsh produce “The economics are all just in favor of the plants,” nitrogen and other nutrients that growing plants need. Anderson acknowledges. “When I heard about aquaponics,” Rescorla says, “I Hydroponic farming also ofers other economic ben- was really intrigued and inspired by the idea of fsh and efts. Unlike traditional soil-based farming, it requires less plants living symbiotically.” space, less water, and is not dependent on the weather. At Urban Greens, each rack holds 400 to 500 plants in a footprint hardly bigger than a big backyard garden. “That’s a pretty good use of space compared to farming in dirt,” Rescorla notes. “The yield per square foot is much higher.” Plants grow more quickly, too. Conventionally grown lettuce takes eight to 10 weeks to mature. Urban Greens lettuce is ready in just six weeks and is delivered to customers’ doors hours afer being picked. “The greens Clean and GreenEnlisting Love’s help, the two set up a test project in you get from us are very fresh,” Rescorla says. “They can Love’s attic in Pennsylvania. It was a modest table-top keep up to three weeks in the fridge. The taste of ours is afair consisting of four pet store goldfsh and three good, but ultimately, it’s about freshness.” heads of lettuce. Rescorla says it’s almost embarrassing Home delivery also makes economic sense, he says. now to look back on that science-fair-style experiment, Proft margins in farming are as slim as a new reed, but it actually gave them momentum to move forward. so cutting out the middle man by selling directly to Afer their initial aquaponics experiment, Love and customers makes Urban Greens’ business model more Rescorla conducted a slightly larger test run in the base- economically viable. It also makes it possible for the ment of Rescorla’s house in Minneapolis using a hydro- company to give back to its community by providing ponic system alone. (Rescorla explains that aquaponic fresh, healthy food. operators must keep both fsh and plants happy, which “Part of our vision from the beginning was to enrich the duo found a difcult balancing act both technically the local community, to be part of the community,” and economically.) Based on their second experiment, the Rescorla says. C pair decided to give up on raising fsh but to move forward with hydroponics. In 2017 Rescorla convinced Love to J. Trout Lowen (B.A. ‘89) is a freelance writer and editor living in quit his job and move his family to Minnesota. Minneapolis.

Fall 2019 MINNESOTA ALUMNI 35 programs that educate grape-growers and winemakers. “I wouldn’t be a winemaker in Minnesota if it wasn’t for the amazing grapes from the U of M,” Zeller says.

ZELLER NEVER INTENDED to become a winemaker. But afer graduating from the Carlson School in 1992, he landed a position in facilities management with Emerson Electric that would lead him to Germany, where wine-making has a long history. Zeller and his wife, Deb (B.S. ’82) had developed a taste for fne wine on a trip to California a few years earlier. Now in Europe, they were impressed by the bottles they sampled as well as Drinking Deep ••••••• Wines made from cold-hardy U of M grapes ••••••• are winning awards and gaining fans, thanks ••••••• ••••••• to winemakers like Steve Zeller and the U’s ••••••• breeding and outreach programs. By Joel Hoekstra

STEVE ZELLER IS HUNTING for a thief. Circling the interior of a small farm shed turned chemistry lab, the 60-year-old winemaker (B.S. ’82, M.B.A. ’92) rummages through several boxes and drawers, kicks a plastic jug, trips over a rubber hose, and nearly bowls over a set of drying glass beakers before he fnally closes in on his prey. He nabs a glass pipette the size of a small turkey baster from its hiding place. Grinning broadly, he explains: “They call it a thief because it allows you to steal a little bit of wine from the barrel.” Zeller removes the stopper from the top of an oak wine cask and slips the nose of the thief into the opening. He transfers a few sips to a wine glass, swirls and snifs the contents, then takes a taste. “It’s still not quite there,” he says. “There’s a little harshness yet. But it’s getting close.” The same might be said of Minnesota’s winemaking industry, which has begun to produce some noteworthy bottles in recent years. Once dismissed as too acidic or overly sweet, Minnesota wines have recently won awards in regional and even national competitions. In 2018, Parley Lake Winery in Waconia, where Zeller serves as head winemaker, won two silver medals and a bronze for its red native/hybrid varietals in the San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition, the largest competition worldwide for American wines. Zeller is quick to credit the University as the source of the local wine industry’s success. In addition to developing cold-hardy grapes that can survive hard winters and ripen in the region’s short growing season, the U’s Horticultural Research Center, located in Victoria,

just fve miles from Waconia, has developed a number of outreach Rubinstein Sara

36 MINNESOTA ALUMNI Fall 2019 the relaxed attitudes around drinking. “It was part of the Nick Smith, to tackle the task himself. “I read books, went to culture,” Zeller recalls. “You’d have wine at a meal, or wine conferences, and took classes at the U,” Zeller says. with family. Wine was part of your everyday life.” Wine-making is complicated, however. (“I’d say it’s 20 The couple eventually returned to Minnesota and in percent science and 80 percent art,” he says.) And produc- 2005, they joined friends Lin and Bonnie Deardorf, owners ing bottles from local grapes can be particularly tricky. of an apple orchard in Waconia, in a new business ven- Growers must contend with long winters, short summers, ture—planting grape vines. Eventually, they thought, they unexpected frosts, and a host of fungi and pests—from could hire a winemaker and produce their own bottles. “But powdery mildew to Japanese beetles. I spent some time looking for a winemaker and couldn’t According to the Minnesota Farm Winery Association, fnd anyone. At the time, nobody from California wanted to in 1870 a German homesteader named Louis Suelter frst move to Minnesota to make wines,” Zeller recalls. Eventu- tried to grow more than a dozen varieties of wine grapes ally, he was persuaded by a former enologist from the U, in Minnesota. But it took more than a century for the frst

Alumni Steve and Deb Zeller at the Parley Lake winery in Drinking Deep Waconia, Minnesota

Fall 2019 MINNESOTA ALUMNI 37 commercially viable vine to take root in the state: In 1996, the U’s breeding program developed Frontenac, a disease-resistant fruit with favors of cherry and plum. Since then, it has released several other cold-hardy Food for grape varieties, including Frontenac Gris, Frontenac Blanc, Marquette, La Crescent, and Itasca and more potential grapes remain under trial for future release. It can take decades to develop a successful grape, says Matthew Clark (M.S. ’10, Ph.D. ’14), an assistant professor of grape breeding and enology at the U’s Thought Department of Horticultural Science. More than 12,000 experimental vines are planted on the 12 acres owned U Center for Spirituality and Healing senior ••••••••••• by U’s Horticultural Research Center, but only a handful ••••••••••• will prove successful. “I sometimes joke that plant fellow and food maven Brenda Langton ••••••••••• breeding is mostly about killing plants,” says Clark, who shares a lifetime of insight on how what we ••••••••••• oversees the U’s grape-growing eforts. “But we have ••••••••••• eat makes us who we are. By Cathy Madison ••••••••••• plants that we’ve been looking at for 25 years that we’re ••••••••••• still interested in. This work takes time.”

IN 2009, THE ZELLERS and Deardorfs opened Parley “I WAS JUST A HIPPIE,” says Brenda Langton, as if that humble Lake Winery on 125 acres planted with apple trees and characterization explains the profound infuence this organic trellised grapes. “The frst weekend we sold out of three food and sustainable source pioneer, restauranteur, consul- of our fve wines. We thought it was easy!” Zeller recalls tant, cookbook author, and educator has wielded on the Twin with a laugh. “You just make wine and sell it, right?” Cities food scene for more than 40 years. In fact, it took nearly a decade for the winery to break While most teens in the ’70s haunted the mall, Langton even fnancially, and even today only a sliver of the was busy devouring wisdom from older friends as they juiced, revenue it generates comes from bottle sales. Most of cooked, and launched a vegetarian cooperative restaurant the winery’s income comes from agritourism and from named Commonplace in her St. Paul neighborhood. hosting events, like weddings, in a reconstructed barn on “I was into healthy food at that time,” says Langton, then a the property. student at St. Paul’s frst alternative open school. “Then [the Zeller also hasn’t given up his day job, serving as direc- cooperative] opened up down the street. I loved it, loved the tor of global real estate at Donaldson, a fltration services people there. I did everything—cooked, cleaned, took money company headquartered in Bloomington. But he’s to the bank, bought all the veggies. It didn’t matter that I was increasingly bullish on the future of Minnesota wines— 15.” She learned the business so well that by the time she was and in fact, early criticism of wines made from cold-hardy 21, she had taken over. hybrid grapes may be fading: A writer for Bon Appetit It was the beginning of an education that would stick, in December 2018 proclaimed such vintages as “some advance, and proliferate. “College” for her meant spending of the most exciting wines in America, if not the world,” nine months in Europe, visiting every market in every little adding, “I’m talking bottles of La Crescent that crackled town she had time for to study local ingredients. Thus with the acidity of a dozen grapefruits … Frontenac Noirs inspired, Langton remodeled and opened Café Kardamena that gave me goose bumps … and Marquettes that lef on Selby Avenue in 1978. In 1986, she launched the popular, my insides as fuzzy as my favorite sweater.” light-flled Café Brenda, which occupied a downtown Minne- Some Minnesotans might regard that as hyperbole, apolis corner until 2009. In 2006, when the Guthrie Theater but Zeller believes the time has fnally come when locals relocated near the Mississippi River, she opened Spoonriver can crow big about regional wines. “The public is now next door and a Saturday morning Mill City Farmers’ Market beginning to understand what we can do with these on the adjacent plaza. grapes and they’re discerning,” he says. “The grapes are Even afer a lifetime spent with food, Langton plans to stay maturing. The skill set is maturing. And the demand for on that path, including sharing her unique perspective with better wines from Minnesota is growing.” C others through the U of M. For more than a decade, Langton has taught a multi-week, Joel Hoekstra is a Minneapolis writer and editor. nine-hour cooking class, now called Inspired Cooking for

38 MINNESOTA ALUMNI Fall 2019 Brenda Langton at the Mill City Farmers Market

treat wheat than to wheat itself. She also replaces canola with sunfower, sesame, and coconut oils because she believes they are healthier, especially for aging eaters who need more fats and good oils. While Langton cooks during her classes, licensed nutritionist Carolyn Denton, who teaches at the Center, ofers color commentary, supplying Healthy Lives, at the University’s Earl E. Bakken Center tidbits about phytonutrients and detoxifers, along with for Spirituality & Healing. a dollop of humor. “Part of my job is to tease her,” says “Brenda was one of our frst senior fellows,” says CSH Denton, who teaches functional nutrition. “What makes Director Mary Jo Kreitzer. “Nutrition is so important to our her such a good teacher is that she’s like your sister. health and well-being, yet people are lacking in both nutri- Here’s this award-winning, high-caliber chef who is just tion literacy and knowing how to prepare food. The class the most wonderful, normal person. She makes cooking focuses on the what, why, and how of healthy eating.” seem so simple.” A vegetarian early on, Langton remembers “lots Kreitzer agrees. “Brenda is not only incredibly of brown casseroles—nuts, seeds, protein powder” in knowledgeable, but also so much fun. She ofers such her younger days. “But food has changed for me,” she real-world wisdom that people leave inspired.” says. “Now I pay much more attention to texture and “By being in the community day in and day out, freshness and colors and balance, and getting enough serving hundreds of meals to our guests, I know how nutrients and protein.” Meat, which once helped her heal very important it is for people to taste and experience from surgery, now has an occasional place at her table, as and appreciate what a good, natural food meal is and can does a nice glass of red wine. be,” Langton says. “It makes them feel good for the day. Nutritional science also informs her menus. “Now, [That’s why] the farmers’ market is a very important piece thankfully, they’re discovering the importance of the of my journey. It’s reaching out to the community, and it’s gut biome,” Langton says. “If we don’t have healthy gut an extension of my belief that food is medicine.” C fora, we’ll have more issues with what we digest.” She recommends choosing organic bread and pasta, sug- Cathy Madison is a writer and editor in the Twin Cities and the gesting that many of those who now seek gluten-free author of The War Came Home with Him: A Daughter’s Memoir, published by the University of Minnesota Press.

Mark Luinenburg Mark foods may be more sensitive to the chemicals used to

Fall 2019 MINNESOTA ALUMNI 39 ARTS

The Art of Craf Alumna Sarah Schultz heads the nation’s premier nonproft dedicated to celebrating both makers and handicrafs. By Elizabeth Foy Larsen

hen Sarah Schultz received a call in fall 2017 asking if she was interested in interviewing to become the next executive director of the American Craf Council (ACC), she was wintrigued. The ACC is a revered institution, established in 1939 to support and champion handmade arts and the people who make them. However, Schultz wasn’t sure if she was the right person for the job. She and her husband were living in New York City and Schultz (M.A. ’92) was working as the interim vice president of public programs and education for Friends of the High Line, a nonproft that maintains and operates the High Line park on Manhattan’s West Side. She also was putting together shows for Mural Arts Philadelphia, the country’s largest public art program. “I’m not a maker. I’m a curator,” explains Schultz, who stud- ied art history and American studies in graduate school at the University of Minnesota. “I had to ask myself, ‘Why craf?’” Before she moved to New York in 2015, Schultz had been the education director and curator of public practice at the Walker Art Center, where she produced programs that included artist-designed miniature golf and Open Field, a series of hap- penings that turned the grassy hill adjoining the museum into a creative commons. When she got the call from the ACC, her career lens was focused primarily on contemporary fne art, not quilting or glass blowing or carving spoons out of wood. To determine if her museum experience could translate into running ACC, Schultz made herself answer that “Why craf?” question. The exercise convinced her not only that she dearly wanted the job, but also that she was well suited to the needs of an organization devoted to the intersection of art and everyday objects. “What I realized is that craf has always infltrated my life,”

she says now, gesturing around her airy ofce in ACC’s head- Scott Streble

40 MINNESOTA ALUMNI Fall 2019 quarters in the former Grain Belt Brewery in Northeast apparel, jewelry, metal work, and textiles—some of Minneapolis. “Whether it was my grandmother teach- which date back to the late 1700s. ing me how to knit and that kind of social and personal A number of small-scale initiatives at the U also honor bond that gets created in skill sharing, to the gifs I’ve craf, including a dye garden of plants, which includes given and received, or things I’d acquired because they indigo, zinnias, and amaranth, used to add color to linen, were beautifully made and wrought.” As an avid cook cotton, and wool. Located between the Rarig Center and gardener, Schultz realized she’d always valued qual- and Wilson Library on the U’s West Bank, the garden ity materials, even if they were simply four and plants. was the brainchild of Art History doctoral student Col- That eureka moment made Schultz realize that crafs leen Stockmann (M.A. ’17), who is focusing her studies are everywhere—not just in her life but also in the lives on the history of artistic practice, a topic that is central of every living person. “If you are interested in engaging to why crafing resonates with today’s makers. the broadest number of people in a conversation about “Craf helps us reconnect with our bodies and our why making matters, why creativity matters, craf, I hands,” Stockmann says, citing a BBC News report realized, was the perfect place for me to be.” in late 2018 that said an increasing number of today’s medical school graduates don’t have the manual AT A TIME WHEN the popularity of DIY has given rise dexterity to sew stitches. In addition to craf’s physical to everything from pubs specializing in artisan pale ales benefts, Stockmann praises the practice of making to the hundreds of thousands of candles and candle for helping people prioritize the process over the end holders sold on the online site Etsy, crafs and crafing product. “These hobbies don’t necessarily require a are indisputably on trend. “There is such a phenomenal fnished aspect,” she says. interest right now in the handmade and the idea of the That insight will come as welcome news to the authentic object,” says Schultz. legions of knitters with half-completed sweaters Why we yearn for experiences and items that are stashed in their knitting bags. And it is central to how rooted in traditions that stretch back centuries may Schultz sees the mission of ACC, which is to cultivate stem from our increasingly digital existence, say Schultz a culture of making, whether by hosting national craf and other craf experts. “We are in a place in history shows and conferences, sponsoring grants and awards, where you can get everything on Amazon or at Target,” or publishing American Craf magazine and the journal says U of M art history professor Jennifer Marshall. American Craf Inquiry. “Craf matters now because in a world where you can “All kinds of research [shows] how making reduces punch an app and get something instantly, we have your stress levels and increases social bonds,” Schultz become alienated from how things are made.” says. She also believes craf helps people navigate life, ACC relocated from New York City to Minneapolis in and that establishing a craf ecology that nurtures mak- 2011, almost seven years before Schultz took the helm. ers and artisans and the small businesses that sell their Schultz says the move came from a need to reduce the work is crucial. organization’s overhead expenses, as well as a desire to “I think making also helps us understand the world be more inclusive of regions beyond the country’s major diferently,” she says. “Because when we engage with metropolitan areas. The Twin Cities was an attractive materials, we start to think more about where our things option in part because there is such an established craf come from, who made them, and what it took to make community, including Northern Clay Center, Textile them. That’s really important because we become more Center, and Foci — Minnesota Center for Glass. conscious about the things we make and produce, The U certainly contributes to that craf culture too, which then has tremendous impact of the environment, from legendary Regents Professor and ceramic artist on the economy, on social relationships, on justice.” C Warren MacKenzie (see Minnesota Alumni’s profle of MacKenzie on page 42 in this issue) to the Weisman Art Elizabeth Foy Larsen (M.F.A. ‘02) is Minnesota Alumni’s senior Museum’s extraordinary collections and the Goldstein editor and the author of 111 Places in the Twin Cities That You Museum of Design’s extensive catalog of handmade Must Not Miss.

Fall 2019 MINNESOTA ALUMNI 41 lj HISTORY

The Hand of the Potter World-renowned ceramicist and potter Warren MacKenzie shaped both clay and students during a 40-year career at the U. By Tim Brady

hen Warren MacKenzie was hired to teach even more important to MacKenzie is that his pottery ceramic arts at the University of Minne- continues to be used and appreciated in regular homes sota in 1953, the job came with a warning at thousands of tables around the country. from Professor Harvey Arnason, chair of wthe art department: “If at any time there is a problem with ARRIVING AT THE U OF M afer an early career that a drop in enrollment or budget problems,” MacKenzie began with studies at the Art Institute in Chicago, was told, “ceramics is going to be closed down.” MacKenzie had initially been interested in becoming a It was perhaps not quite the warmest of greetings for a painter, but along with his soon-to-be wife (and fellow new hire, but as it happened, things worked out very well for student), Alixandra Kolesky (Alix), MacKenzie made the both MacKenzie and ceramics at the U of M art department. switch to pottery. He was deeply infuenced by the work MacKenzie, who died on December 31 at age 94, would of a British potter named Bernard Leach, who himself go on to teach at the U for the next 37 years, eventually was infuenced by the pottery of a Japanese master becoming head of the art department. He is the only pro- named Shoji Hamada, who practiced a type of art that the Japanese called mingei, or art of the people. Leach had published A Potter’s Book in 1940, describing his work and methods, and the volume was passed among a handful of MacKenzie’s fellow students in Chicago like a sacred text. Afer a stint in the army during WWII, marriage, graduation from art school, and a frst job at the St. Paul Gallery and School of Art, MacKenzie and Alix decided to head to England in 1949 to apprentice with Leach. Both Leach and the Mingei style emphasized a sort of holistic approach to pottery making. The beauty and art in the craf was to be found in the process of creating everyday, utilitarian objects. Warren MacKenzie The artist’s role was to sit at the potter’s wheel and his wife and fessor in its history to be named a Regents Professor, the day afer day making bowls, vases, yunomis (a form of fellow potter Alix highest honor the U of M bestows on a faculty member. teacup), and teapots from lumps of clay. The idea was to MacKenzie in 1953. Over more than seven decades of artistic and aes- perfect the craf through the work, feeling the earth in Right: A 1961 thetic mastery, MacKenzie not only lef behind a legacy the artist’s hands, and shaping it into functional beauty installation of their work at Walker of beautifully shaped and humbly made pottery, but he for daily use by ordinary people. Art Center. likewise molded the careers of generations of students It was this sensibility that MacKenzie brought back who went on to spin and shape pots with their own clay- with him to Minnesota, and his teaching position at the spackled hands. University. He and Alix also soon established a pottery Today MacKenzie’s work can be found in museum and studio outside of Stillwater and began raising a family gallery collections around the world, including in a special as they created their pottery and Warren taught. The exhibit at the Weisman Art Center, with which MacKenzie Stillwater-based pottery would eventually become a

had a long and fruitful association. What would prove kind of mecca for Minnesota ceramic artists practicing a Art Center Walker Courtesy • Installation: MacKenzie Tamsyn and Alix: Courtesy Warren

42 MINNESOTA ALUMNI Fall 2019 MacKenzie in his studio, a still from the style of the craf nicknamed Mingei-sota in honor of the Mark Pharis recalls that when he frst started to take documentary Warren tradition in which MacKenzie worked. art classes from MacKenzie, another art department MacKenzie: A Potter’s Afer a few years, tragedy struck in the early 1960s faculty member told him that he and his fellow students Hands, directed by when Alix developed cancer. When she died, MacKenzie didn’t know how lucky they were to be studying with Mark Lambert. was lef a widower with a studio, two young girls to raise, someone like MacKenzie. “Of course it was all Greek and a steady stream of students trouping to Stillwater to to me,” Pharis says. “I was just a kid from small-town learn the ways and means of the potter’s life. Minnesota. I didn’t know anything about the traditions “He was a single guy raising two kids when I frst that were informing his work. Didn’t know about Leach or met him,” says Mark Pharis, who began studies with Hamada. Or the fact that Warren was world-renowned. MacKenzie in the late 1960s and who would later both Or that he was a unique fgure in the world of pottery teach at and serve as chair of the art department at the U and that we were, in fact, extremely lucky to have him. of M before his retirement. “But I think even with all the Darned if it didn’t all turn out to be true.” inherent difculties of his circumstances, he ft them into Afer Alix’s death, MacKenzie would eventually remar- the world he created around his work. Pottery-making, as ry—to an accomplished textile artist, Nancy (Spitzer) he practiced it, was a domestic craf. His ethic, his studio MacKenzie—and they settled into MacKenzie’s home and work, and his life were all seamlessly intertwined.” studio in Stillwater to live out their lives. Afer 30 years Pharis, along with a slew of other aspiring ceramics with Warren, Nancy died in October 2014. artists in this period, including former U students and At Warren MacKenzie’s March 2019 memorial, many of now well-known potters Randy Johnston (B.F.A. ’72), Karl his former students and admirers gathered to salute him, Borgeson (M.S. ’70) Wayne Branum (B.F.A ’71), Sandy including Pharis. Simon (B.F.A. ’70), and many others, would take up the MacKenzie’s pottery can be seen both in the perma- wheel and ultimately form the core of a next generation nent collection at the Weisman Art Museum and in a of Minnesota artists working in clay. Like Pharis, who special exhibit The Persistence of Mingei, currently on ultimately became a colleague of MacKenzie’s at the U, display at the museum through March 2021. C many of these early students not only established their own pottery studios, but flled ceramic department facul- Tim Brady, the author of fve books, lives in St. Paul. He has been

Mark Lambert Mark ties in colleges and universities around the region. writing about the U of M’s history for this magazine since 1999.

Fall 2019 MINNESOTA ALUMNI 43 -~ OFF THE SHELF

Everything Interesting About Minneapolis, Somali Stories, and More

inneapolis is known for its surfeit of The range of topics is broad, moving from the excellent writers, so it’s not surpris- Seward neighborhood home of writer Kao Kalia ing that a collection of writing about Yang (The Latehomecomer); Minneapolis as seen M the city by the writers who know it from Segway by former tour guide Doug Mack; best would turn out to be a reader’s delight. and the city’s magical sidewalk gaps, where as In Under Purple Skies: The Minneapolis a child, Kelly Barnhill (Newbery medal-winning Anthology (Belt Publishing), editor Frank writer of The Girl Who Drank the Moon) found Bures pulled together 57 essays and poems wildness could still creep in. about the North Star metro—half written for Naturally, given its title, three Prince pieces this anthology and the rest found their way into this anthology, the most - . reprinted from elsewhere. In unlikely and enjoyable of which was written --._-- doing so, he made the book by Wisconsinite Michael Perry (best known stronger by ensuring that it for writing about farm and small-town life in 1 " .UNDER~ represented Minneapolis in its books such as Population: 485). In “Prince of full modern-day multicultural the Midwest,” Perry describes viewing the :; PURPLE incarnation, incorporating iconic flm Purple Rain four times, then draping works by Hmong, East his teenage bedroom with purple scarves and ·:·:::_:·SKl:ES . Asian, First Nations, black, fshnet in an attempt to evoke some Prince magic and Somali authors, as well in rural Wisconsin. “In a box in my barn there are •,, rnmn :e,Y:~ as white writers. Ten of the snapshots of me reporting for skateguard duty at · •. . . FRAHK BURES group are University of the roller rink in 1986 wearing pink hair dye and ·.J :•,. ··:.:;,-.,,.·.• . • •• Minnesota alumni, including a satin magenta head scarf. Goofy as hell and so prolifc, well-known authors short of the mark, but further proof that Prince ·: ·tHE William Souder (B.A. ’77) and precipitated profound change.” .

44 MINNESOTA ALUMNI Fall 2019 --LIV ,._QIUII' w.Affl' !!Mf,i'.~Ol'T No Horizon

Everything Interesting About Minneapolis, Somali Stories, and More

fyover land. In a fascinating introduction to the newly reissued book, No Horizon Is So Far: AMBASSAD R this anthology, Star Tribune books editor Laurie Two Women and Their Historic Journey across Hertzel recalls the summer of 1966, when her Antarctica (University of Minnesota Press). In UW-Superior English professor father organized three months of 2001-02, Bancrof and Arnesen a workshop about North Country writers. He became the frst two women to cross Antarctica, brought together such luminaries as Robert doing so via foot, ski, and ice-sail, all the while Bly, Sigurd Olson, and J.F. Powers, “all solid towing 250-pound supply sledges. Midwestern writers,” as Hertzel puts it, but also Another brave female groundbreaker was all white men. Minnesota politician Eugenie Anderson, who In the years since, Minnesota—and Minneapo- served as the frst woman ambassador for the lis—writers have become far more diverse, and the United States—to Denmark in 1949. Her story city has grown, as Hertzel writes, “quietly, steadily, and long political career are thoroughly and and rather stupendously… into one of the most compellingly told by her granddaughter Mary sophisticated literary centers in the country.” Dupont (B.A. ‘89) in Mrs. Ambassador: The Life For one varied, top-notch taste of that literary and Politics of Eugenie Anderson (Minnesota splendor, don’t miss reading Under Purple Skies. Historical Society Press). my When it comes to women’s bravery, few And the rest…. life events require more fortitude than giving Much farther from Minnesota, yet an inextricable birth. When things go wrong, and a birth must part of it now, are the Somali people. In The Lion’s take place surgically, the experience is ofen Binding Oath and Other Stories (Catalyst Press), both physically and emotionally painful. For a Ahmed Ismail Yusuf (M.P.A. ‘09) tells compelling thoughtful consideration of this all-too common tales covering many recent experiences of his experience, pick up a copy of My Caesarean: beleaguered people, from toiling as sheep- Twenty-one Mothers on the C-Section Experi- herding nomads to cheering at thronged soccer ence and Afer (The Experiment Publishing), stadiums to surviving the violence, desperation, edited by Amanda Fields (M.F.A. ’05) and Rachel and resulting diaspora of their country’s civil war. Moritz (M.F.A. ’06). Another group of people vital to Min- A U of M creative writing student of the nesota—and indeed its original and rightful same era, Alex Lemon (M.F.A. ’04) has written occupants—are American Indians. To read the a very diferent, but no less moving, volume. In ofen painful but—argues the author—sometimes Another Last Day, award-winner Lemon’s ffh benefcial story of their relocation to U.S. cities, book of poetry, he has created a book-length look for Indians on the Move: Native American celebration of a natural landscape both dark Mobility and Urbanization in the Twentieth and thrumming with life. C Century (University of North Carolina Press) by Douglas K. Miller (B.A. ’06). Lynette Lamb (M.A. ’84) is a longtime Minneapolis A quieter journey, yet signifcant in its own journalist now writing a memoir of her young husband’s catastrophic stroke. right, was the one made by Minnesota’s Ann Bancrof and Norway’s Liv Arnesen and told in

Fall 2019 MINNESOTA ALUMNI 45 ALUMNI STORIES

Speaking Truth to Power Film pro Scott Burns took his sense of true north with him from Minnesota to Hollywood. By Susan Maas

rgent truth-seeking is ofen at the heart of nature stems directly from his early outdoor Minnesota writer and flmmaker Scott Z. Burns’ work. experiences, he says. Screenwriter on The Informant, producer “I was always fascinated by the wilderness … I loved on An Inconvenient Truth, playwright of The nature and I loved the [Native] names of things,” Burns uLibrary—which examines a Columbine-style school says. “When I was in second grade, my mom encouraged shooting—and now director of the political thriller The me to do a project to raise money for humpback whales. I Report, the Minnesota native and U grad (B.A. ’85) crafs guess it’s been a lifelong thing for me, our stewardship of fction and nonfction stories that explore themes of the place we live. deception and reality when stakes are high. “When I moved to LA, I became very involved with This spring, Burns was a guest of honor at the 38th the NRDC [Natural Resources Defense Council], and annual Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival. it was through them I heard Al Gore do his slideshow,” In conversation with a roomful of movie bufs, he shared Burns recalls about the former vice president’s traveling experiences from some of the dozen-plus flms he’s worked presentation to raise awareness and alarm about global on, devoting special attention to the forthcoming The warming. “We were able to get a meeting with Al—me, Report, which confronts issues surrounding the CIA’s brutal [flm producer] Lawrence Bender, and [environmental “enhanced interrogation” program—which many, including activist] Laurie David—and we said, ‘If you keep doing Burns, consider state-sanctioned torture. (The flm will be the slideshow, you’re going to be able to reach 100 in theaters September 27 and on Amazon Prime October people a day. But if you let us make a movie, we can reach 11.) Burns also spoke about his Minnesota upbringing, how millions of people.’” The subsequent flm An Inconvenient it informs his work, and some of the themes that pervade Truth netted several Oscars and helped jump-start the his diverse and wide-ranging flmography. international climate change mobilization efort. Burns grew up in Golden Valley, Minnesota, and spent Burns has done his share of popcorn fare—see The his summers in the time-honored tradition of attending Bourne Ultimatum—but much of his work wrestles with summer camp “up north.” His love for the natural world heavy political and societal quandaries. His forthcoming and ethic of environmental stewardship is embodied investigative drama The Report is a hard, exhaustively in both An Inconvenient Truth and its follow-up, An researched look at the “enhanced interrogation” pro- Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, as well as the new gram (“We’ll just call it ‘torture’ from now on,” Burns says) Sundance-winning eco-documentary Sea of Shadows, implemented by the CIA in the wake of 9/11 and the fght

of which Burns is executive producer. That passion for to expose those practices. The CIA program included Scott Burns Courtesy

46 MINNESOTA ALUMNI Fall 2019 Getting techniques such as sensory deprivation and use of detainee-specifc phobias. The flm, which stars actors Adam Driver, Women Annette Bening, and Jon Hamm, shouldn’t necessarily be viewed as “political,” Burns Into Africa’s says, but rather an exploration of right, wrong, and longstanding American values. “Torture is against the law. It’s against the Boardrooms Geneva convention; it’s against the uniform code of military conduct,” he says. He notes Marcia Ashong, that torture has also proven wildly counter- productive, yielding false confessions and recipient of a jeopardizing critical alliances. recent Archbishop Burns says he chose not to depict the Desmond Tutu methods described in the real-life report but rather to relay them to the audience through Fellowship, is helping quoted excerpts. “I don’t want to do ‘torture cultivate women porn,’” Burns says about his decision. “What leaders in Africa. I tried to do was use the language in the By Lynette Lamb report; I think the words are going to stick with people as much as any images.” The summa cum laude English major who started out in advertising—working on the “Got Milk?” campaign—counts U of M English Professor Emeritus Tom Clayton as one of his biggest infuences. He recalls sitting rapt as Clayton lectured with “incredible abandon,” and of chatting with Clayton in his ofce “about what it’s like to be young and exis- tentially lost like Hamlet—or Joe Strummer [vocalist and co-founder of the pivotal British punk rock band the Clash]. Professor Clayton showed me that storytelling is a continuum and that the tools of drama and comedy and storytelling can be found in plays that are ancient or in songs on the radio.” n 2016, Marcia Ashong (B.A. ’06) was a U.K.-trained lawyer and Burns is grateful for his time in the highly successful executive working in the Ivory Coast for the College of Liberal Arts. “I think a liberal arts Houston-based oil and gas frm Baker Hughes. Afer several education teaches the student about how to years with the frm, she had diligently worked her way up the live and think in the world, how to think criti- corporate ladder to country manager, but as she did, she cally, and what the role of art and expression IInoticed not many women were following her up the ranks. are in society,” he says. “Studying English It was at that point that Ashong decided to do something to help literature taught me the impact of stories on other women make it to the top throughout Africa. That year she society—and the impact of society on the launched TheBoardroom Africa, whose goal is placing women on storyteller. That has been invaluable to me for-proft and nonproft boards throughout the continent. throughout my career.” Burns feels lucky to Ashong considers lack of diversity on boards to be “the thorny make a living telling stories that matter to roots of the problem” of gender equity, arguing that boards are him and, he hopes, to many others. “Being a “unique environments where leaders can really fourish.” Further- writer allows you access to all these diferent more, she adds, “research shows that diverse boardrooms lead to worlds. Every day is sort of a feld trip.” a more diverse executive teams.” Susan Maas is a writer and chief copyeditor for Ashong and TheBoardroom Africa set a goal of doubling the Minnesota Alumni. number of women in boardrooms across the region by 2026. And

Fall 2019 MINNESOTA ALUMNI 47 they’ve made a good start. Afer just three where I honed my interests and passion for years, says Ashong, they’ve placed more making an impact,” and although today she than a dozen women on boards across lives in Ghana, “Minnesota will always remain Africa, while building a network of nearly my second home.” 800 senior executive women. “We want Her efort to make an impact has been to end excuses for not seeking out and noticed. For her work with TheBoardroom appointing high-caliber female talent,” she Africa, Ashong was recently awarded a says. “There is no excuse when companies prestigious Archbishop Desmond Tutu can use us as a resource to diversify their Fellowship, administered by the African executive talent.” Leadership Institute. Just 20 individuals Recently, for example, TheBoardroom from more than 300 applicants—considered Africa helped arrange for a number of some of Africa’s highest-potential young women to join high-profle boards, including leaders—are named Tutu Fellows each year. PricewaterhouseCoopers tax partner Aye- Among the program’s goals, says Ashong, sha Bedwei’s appointment to the board of are fostering Pan-African perspectives and Ghana’s Kuenyehia Prize for Contemporary sharing leadership experiences. Ghanaian Art, and for development frm The fellowship program is a part-time, director Allen Asiimwe’s and GE Africa six-month commitment that includes two communications and public afairs ofcer intensive interactive workshops—one held Patricia Obozuwa’s appointments to the in South Africa and one in Oxford and board of The Water Trust, a nonproft London. The workshops feature important organization based in Uganda. African leaders, including such past speak- The importance of adding women to ers as Dr. Mamphela Ramphele, former boards of directors cannot be overstated, vice chancellor of the University of Cape says Ashong. “Diverse boards mean embrac- Town and former managing director of the ing diversity of thought and experience,” she World Bank Group; Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, says. “Women on boards bring openness to former president of Tanzania; and Graça new perspectives, collaboration, and inclu- Machel, international human rights advo- siveness, and strength in ethics and fairness. cate and former frst lady of Mozambique By changing the dynamics at the top of the and South Africa. business … diversity radiates across all levels Between workshop modules, fellows of the company.” undertake group projects designed to Ashong says her diversity activism started develop solutions for some of Africa’s most while she was an undergraduate at the pressing challenges. Recent projects have University of Minnesota, earning her B.A. in aimed to improve destitute patients’ access ...... @ political science and international relations in to medicine in Nigeria, to mentor and 2006. Although her earliest years were spent encourage higher education among South GOPHER FOOTBALL TICKETS in the U.K. and Ghana, she “spent the major- African girls, and to supply microloans and ity of my formative and early adult years in vocational training for farmers in Kenya. ONON SALESALE NOW!NOWI Minnesota,” Ashong says. “Minneapolis is —Lynette Lamb, M.A. ’84

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rowing up as the youngest of eight It was in this setting that Keller met a nonproft siblings on a dairy farm outside of Still- lawyer who was valiantly working to document the water, John Keller never imagined he’d human rights abuses by all sides so that he could spend his career as a lawyer. “I doubt I present his fndings to the United Nations. The everG knew a lawyer,” says Keller (B.A ’92), sitting in a experience, Keller remembers, was a revelation. high-ceilinged conference room in the Minnesota “It was just eye-opening to see a lawyer and an Chief Deputy State Capitol, where he serves as the state’s chief organization doing that kind of work in the midst of Attorney General deputy attorney general. “If my dad ever talked an extremely precarious and challenging environ- about a lawyer, it probably wasn’t a fun discussion.” ment,” he remembers. Law, Keller realized, could John Keller That perspective changed in 1988 when Keller, be a tool for social justice. wants to protect having completed his sophomore year as a Peace Afer returning to Minnesota in spring 1989, the rights of all Studies major at St. John’s University in Col- Keller transferred to the U of M. He says the U was legeville, Minnesota, had the opportunity to take attractive to him because it ofered a Latin Ameri- Minnesotans. a year of to work for a human rights nonproft in can studies major, was more afordable, and had By Elizabeth Foy Larsen Lima, Peru. The South American country was in a more socially and economically diverse campus the midst of a crisis. Unemployment was rampant than St. John’s. He completed studies for his fall and the government—long a violator of human quarter before returning to Peru in January 1990. rights—had implemented economic shock policies Six months later, he married Maria Keller Flores, a that sent infation soaring. The Shining Path Peruvian whom he’d met during his previous stay. rebels were also terrorizing urban areas with (Today, afer being married for 29 years, the couple

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Fall 2019 MINNESOTA ALUMNI 49 The young couple returned to Min- In 2013, Keller was also part of a team that nesota in August 1990. Keller says his wife’s launched the James H. Binger Center for paperwork was the frst immigration form New Americans at the University of Min- he ever flled out. “Fortunately, I didn’t mess nesota Law School. The Center was created it up,” he jokes. Keller says the fexibility the in response to the unmet need for pro-bono U ofered him in taking independent study legal services in Minnesota’s immigrant and and evening classes while he worked full refugee communities. time and was a new dad was crucial to him “The work he did at ILCM speaks to the fnishing his undergraduate degree. To save quality of the collaboration and the breadth costs, they lived with family in Stillwater. of the advocacy John has always pursued,” Keller received his undergraduate degree says Benjamin Casper Sanchez, director of in 1992 and entered law school at Hamline the Center for New Americans at the U of University in 1993, graduating in 1996. Afer M. “We would be much worse of, especially a year clerking for the Minnesota Court during this period, if ILCM hadn’t been of Appeals, he joined the Immigrant Law developed under his leadership.” Center of Minnesota (ILCM), a nonproft Quiet and self-efacing, Keller doesn’t that provides legal representation for new seem to view his many accomplishments Americans and promotes public policies that as anything to crow about. So, when he beneft them. He stayed at ILCM for more received a phone call in November 2018 than 20 years, becoming the executive direc- from newly elected Minnesota Attorney tor in 2005. While working at ILCM, he also General Keith Ellison (J. D. ‘90), Keller served as a policy fellow at the U’s Humphrey assumed Ellison wanted to discuss how the School of Public Afairs from 2007 to 2008. attorney general’s ofce could network with “We were committed to taking on ILCM. complex cases because we believe that In fact, Ellison was calling to ask Keller to people deserve a second chance,” he says be his second in command. of his work at ILCM. During his tenure, the “It was his combination of experience, nonproft expanded its mission to include leadership, and values that made me know public policy research and advocacy. Today John Keller was the right ft for chief deputy the organization works with government attorney general,” says Ellison. “First, John ofcials, labor unions, and other organiza- showed he knows how to grow a law frm, tions that support immigrants and refugees and I knew we needed to grow the Attorney to advance immigration policies that meet General’s Ofce afer years of no growth. the needs of local economies, while also Second, John inspires confdence in Authentic Minnesota respecting immigrants’ human rights. people as a leader because he’s organized, In 2013, ILCM was instrumental in pass- purposeful, clear about expectations, ing the Minnesota Dream Act, which pro- honors other people’s strengths, and is vides education benefts to undocumented steady and kind. Finally, I wanted someone Save 20% students who meet certain requirements. with a track record of commitment to social on your favorite Minnesota The organization also provided assistance and economic justice, and there’s no one in apparel and gifts everyday at the federal level to pass Deferred Action Minnesota who’s stood more consistently on with your U of M Alumni for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), a policy the side of justice than John.” Association membership. that ofered undocumented residents who In addition to serving immigrants and Shop online through 10/31/18 were brought to the U.S. as children work refugees, Keller now advocates for every permits and temporary protection from Minnesotan. “To work with a team of 130 and receive free shipping deportation. (The Trump administration attorneys is a dream for someone who with coupon code issued orders to rescind this program in wants to use the law for good,” says Keller. FREEINMULA 2017, but ongoing legal challenges have “And I couldn’t think of a better place to forced the government to postpone do that than working at an organization L'N I V ERS IT Y OF Mlr\'NESOTA terminating it. The Supreme Court will whose mission it is to defend the rights and Bookstores hear the case in its next term.) opportunities for all of Minnesota.” C boo!. /Ore.1. 11111n.cd11 • Stay connected. _,- ALUMN NEWS EVENTS

DEAR MEMBERS, WELCOME NEW UMAA CHAIR As the new academic year begins, we are extremely excited about what lies ahead. AND BOARD MEMBERS! This summer, the University welcomed Joan T.A. Gabel as its 17th president. We Alumna Laura Moret (B.A. ’76, M.B.A. ’81) has look forward to her leadership and to supporting her plans for this institution. been elected chair of the UMAA board of directors for 2019- I’d also like to ofer our warmest wishes to new UMAA Board Chair Laura Moret 2020. She joined the (B.A. ‘76, M.B.A. ‘81) and our new and returning board members, as well as our board in 2014 and has deepest thanks to past Chair Doug Huebsch (B.S. ‘85) for his service. served as the organi- On July 12, Laura, Doug, and I presented the annual UMAA Report to President zation’s treasurer and Gabel and the Board of Regents. Here are some highlights: chair of the Finance This year the Alumni Association continued its 115-year history of “welding and Audit Committee. graduates into a single unit of infuence,” as our original mission statement She also received the mandated. We do this by ofering services we know are important to you, such as University’s Alumni Service Award in 2015, served on the Carlson School Alumni Board, Career Services. Our frst-ever Career Month took place in February and featured and has served on the Carlson School Board webinars, in-person speakers, and networking events across the globe. Thousands of Overseers since 2017. of alumni attended or viewed these events. Moret is a managing director and In addition, last year Alumni Association Day of Service events were held in associate general counsel for Piper Jafray 49 cities in 14 states, ranging from Florida to California to Michigan. Events also Companies, an NYSE-listed investment took place in several countries, including Japan, Scotland, and Saudi Arabia. We banking and asset management frm. hope to see you at a 2019 Day of Service event on September 29! (At press time, In addition to Moret, alumni joining the confrmed locations include the Twin Cities, Denver, San Francisco, New York, Los 2019-2020 UMAA board of directors are: Angeles, Chicago, Las Vegas, Dallas, and Tokyo, with more to come!) Michael Clausman (J.D. ’02), Austin, MN, We know alumni care deeply about student success. Because of that, over the At-Large Director, completing 2018-2021 term past year UMAA continued creating resources that elevate and advance student Nadia Hasan (B.A. ’02, J.D. ’06), Minnetonka, accomplishments. As one example, UMAA partnered with the University’s Ofce MN, Collegiate Council Director, completing 2017-2020 term of Admissions to help recruit more international students. In addition, alumni vol- unteers generously supported students and represented the U in multiple ways, Roger Reinert (B.S. ’93), Duluth, MN, Geographic Council Director, completing such as attending career fairs and writing letters to newly admitted students. 2017-2020 term Alumni like you constantly advance and strengthen the University in so many Betsy Vohs (M. Arch. ’04), Minneapolis, MN, ways. Your eforts and talents are deeply appreciated. Collegiate Council Director

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Fall 2019 MINNESOTA ALUMNI 59 THE LAST WORD

Little Gophers

By Thomas Jones ong ago, in a far corner of the cafeteria, and the long commutes to get University of Minnesota’s East to U High in the frst place. Above all the Bank campus, generations of nickname bestowed on the high school L youthful students participated athletic teams cut deeply to the very soul in what was then known as the University of the student body: The Little Gophers. High School. Try going to away games at gymnasi- The College of Education, which was ums packed with jazzed, hostile crowds awarded oversight of the school in 1908, of young kids whooping it up with chose it as a site to help in the training of exposed buckteeth and high-pitched student teachers—a mission the school- rodent squeals. A shriveling of school age student audience enjoyed exploiting spirit and a team’s machismo could be with impish, sometimes perverse the only result. enthusiasm. Research and scholarship sponsored When asked to circle their desks for by the College of Education also meant a class discussion, it was not unheard students were asked to wield #2 pencils of for the UHS students to tightly press in service of the Minnesota Multiphasic together to surround and entrap the Personality Inventory (MMPI) and the aspiring instructor. Chalk and erasers Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking, both also routinely went missing, much to the of which were developed by researchers frustration of the student teachers. afliated with the U. Year afer year, a By the 1950s, “U High” enrolled not long list of puzzling and weird questions just professors’ ofspring, but girls and had to be answered: True or False: I am boys from all over the Twin Cities and very seldom bothered by constipation/ suburbs. I would like to be a forist/ I have never In an academic context, things been in trouble because of my sexual seemed positive for all involved, behavior. especially the students. Most students At a recent reunion, a classmate posted excellent scores on precollege recalled that the Torrance Tests included testing, only a few decided not to pursue an intentional, incomplete drawing of college, and a daunting percentage a dog. Her bewildered response? She enrolled at Ivy League schools and other drew an appropriate set of genitalia for high-profle institutions. the pooch. To this day, she wonders, Thomas B. Jones (B.A. ’64), a long-retired Despite small classes, up-to-date “Why did I do that?” professor of history, facilities and equipment, a wide-ranging, Alas, answers to such questions were attended University High progressive curriculum, and classroom not then available. Even the 1968 merger School from 1956-1960. visits by renowned U professors—not to of U High and nearby Marshall High Illustration by James Heimer mention near full access to the Univer- School failed to shut the door on the sity’s facilities and campus events—the U MMPI and its artistic cousin. High experience did have its drawbacks. On the bright side? The Little Among them were peevish glances Gophers would become but a ... umm ... and grumblings from University under- burrowed footnote. C graduates at the Cooke Hall swimming pool, indigestible lunches at Shevlin Hall

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