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THE GUSTAVUS QUARTERLY GSpring 2009 • Vol. LXV, No. 2 Managing Editor Steven L. Waldhauser ’70 [email protected] Alumni Editors Randall M. Stuckey ’83 [email protected] Erin Holloway Wilken ’02 [email protected] Design Sharon Stevenson Stevenson Creative, LLC, Corvallis, Ore. [email protected] Contributing Writers Elizabeth Baer and Rebecca Taylor Fremo; Laura Behling; Kevin Byrne; Kari Clark ’91; Tim Kennedy ’82; Steven Mellema ’72; Donald Myers ’83; Carolyn O’Grady; Catherine Osterhaus ’09, Holly Andersen ’09, and Haley Prittinen ’10; Matt Thomas ’00; Thomas Young ’88 Contributing Photographers Anders Björling ’58; Robert Dunlap ’08; Bri an Fowler; Tor Johnnson; Brian O’Brien; Kevin Proescholdt; Tom Roster; Jake Seamans ’10

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THE Gustavus Adolphus College Spring 2009 ustavus G QUARTERLY CULTURAL COMPETENCE &STUDY 4 From the Editor AWAY 5 On the Hill 18 Calendar: What’s happening on campus 20 Cultural Competency Why it matters 36 Sports New football coach named ■ Women’s golf ON THE COVER team takes MIAC title ■ Individual honors Study away helps students ﬁnd patterns and relationships 41 Legac y among fragmented worldviews, Johnson endowment supports Center for part of the journey toward Vocational Reﬂection ■ Taking advantage cultural competency. Photo of a gift annuity opportunity illustration by Sharon Stevenson; travel images courtesy the Center 43 Alumni News for International and Cultural Education. On these pages . . . Apple blossoms in Linnaeus Arboretum are a sure sign of spring. Photo by Anders Björling ’58 01 Spring 09.3:Winter 03-04 MASTERS.1 2/4/09 8:12 PM Page 4

From the Editor Gustavus Adolphus College Board of Trustees The Rev. Gary F. Anderson ’63 Director, Hackensack, Minn. Crossing Bridges – Connecting in Mission St. Paul Area Synod, ELCA Expanding the College’s boundaries The Rev. Jon V. Anderson Bishop, New Ulm, Minn. Southwestern Minnesota Synod, (ex officio) ELCA, Redwood Falls The Rev. Rodney L. Anderson Pastor, Eden Prairie, Minn. St. Andrew Lutheran Church When I was a student at Gustavus in the late ’60s, the idea of off- Thomas M. Annesley ’75, Ph.D. Professor of Pathology, Ann Arbor, Mich. University Hospital, University of Michigan campus study was just gaining momentum. Summer study tours had Al Annexstad Chair, President, and CEO, first been made available to Gustavus students nearly 20 years earlier, Excelsior, Minn. Federated Insurance, Owatonna Jake Seamans ’10 ’10 Seamans Jake Tracy L. Bahl ’84, M.B.A. Senior Adviser, through two programs that represent the roots of today’s well-organ- Greenwich, Conn. General Atlantic, N.Y. Warren Beck ’67 President, ized international program, but the summer months provided the only Greenwood, Minn. Gabbert & Beck, Inc., Edina feasible opportunity for travel abroad or off-campus study. Rebecca Bergman, Ph.D. Vice President of Science and Technology, North Oaks, Minn. Medtronic Incorporated, Minneapolis The Student Project for Amity among Nations (SPAN), Minnesota’s Mark Bernhardson ’71 City Manager, oldest study-abroad program, began offering study tours to students Bloomington, Minn. City of Bloomington The Rev. Stephen P. Blenkush ’80 Pastor, enrolled at Minnesota colleges and universities in 1947. Christianity Milaca, Minn. Zion Lutheran Church The Rev. Åke Bonnier Dean, professor George Forell led the first Gustavus group of six students on Stockholm, Sweden Stockholm Domkyrkoförsamling The Rev. Gordon A. Braatz, Ph.D. Pastor and Psychologist, Retired a SPAN summer trip in 1949. In 1953 the College’s own Bernadotte Minneapolis, Minn. Foundation provided financial support for the first Bernadotte European Study Tour (BEST), which David J. Carlson ’60, M.D. Physician, Retired Edina, Minn. involved about 20 students and their adviser, College treasurer C.E. Sjostrand. The BEST program of- The Rev. Kelly Chatman Pastor, fered a study tour for a mix of students and faculty every other summer from 1953 through 1963. Maplewood, Minn. Redeemer Lutheran Church, Minneapolis The Rev. Jerome King General Secretary, In 1963 Gustavus was among the first colleges and universities in the nation to adopt the 4–1–4 Del Pino ’68, Ph.D. General Board of Higher Education Franklin, Tenn and Ministry, curriculum—two semesters separated by a January Term during which students enrolled in only one The United Methodist Church, Nashville Ardena Flippen ’68, M.D., M.B.A. Physician class. The flexibility inherent in taking just one course allowed Gustavus faculty to propose January Chicago travel courses. By 1968, when an international programs office was added to the administration to The Rev. Brian Fragodt ‘81 Pastor, Our Savior’s Lutheran Church, Andover, Minn. (ex officio) East Bethel, and handle the burgeoning interest, the departments of art, languages, theatre, biology, and economics President, Gustavus Adolphus College Association of Congregations had developed their own international travel courses or were coordinating with other 4–1–4 col- James H. Gale ’83, J.D. Attorney at Law leges. Education and religion courses offered domestic travel. Biology professor Ward Tanner led a Washington, D.C. (chair) The Rev. Tania K. Haber ’78 Senior Pastor, very popular “Tropical and Terrestrial Marine Biology” course that studied reef life in Puerto Rico. St. Louis Park, Minn. Westwood Lutheran Church The Rev. Paul L. Harrington Senior Pastor, Business professor Ellery Peterson ’49 annually took a group of business and economics majors to Rosemount, Minn. Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church, Europe to study the workings of foreign economic systems. The Urban Church group attended ses- Apple Valley Pat K. Haugen ’70 Client Executive, sions of the Cook County Family Court in Chicago. Sioux Falls, S.D. IBM Global Services Alfred Henderson ’62, M.B.A. Business Executive, Retired I must admit that I didn’t take advantage of the opportunity to study away from campus during Chanhassen, Minn. George G. Hicks ’75, J.D. Managing Partner my years at Gustavus. However, I was part of the Gustavus Choir’s first international tour in the sum- Eden Prairie, Minn. Värde Partners, Inc., Minneapolis mer of 1967, a three-week concert tour of Sweden and Denmark followed by two weeks of independ- Thomas J. Hirsch ’64 Vice President, Edina, Minn. JEBCO Group, Inc., St. Paul ent travel, during which I headed for England and Scotland. While not a study tour in the sense of a Ronald A. Jones, M.B.A. Business Executive, Retired SPAN or BEST trip or any of the then-available January Term travel courses, it did serve to awaken Barrington, Ill. Linda Bailey Keefe ’69, M.B.A. Vice President, my curiosity about how the rest of the world lives. Atlanta, Ga. NAI Brannen Goddard Paul Koch ’87 Senior Vice President, Wealth Management Fast-forward to the 21st century. Opportunities for cross-cultural awakening through off-campus Plymouth, Minn. Smith Barney, Wayzata study abound, thanks in part to another great idea—the development of semester-long internation- The Rev. Daniel A. Kolander ’68 Senior Pastor, Marion, Iowa First Lutheran Church, Cedar Rapids al and domestic study programs. During the fall semester of 2008, 54 Gustavus students studied off- Jan Ledin Michaletz ’74 Past President, Edina, Minn. (ex officio) Gustavus Alumni Association campus in 22 countries (Argentina, Australia, Chile, China, Denmark, England, Germany, Ghana, Jack R. Ohle President, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Scotland, South Africa, South St. Peter, Minn. (ex officio) Gustavus Adolphus College Marilyn Olson Assistant Director for Colleges and Universities Korea, Sweden, and Tanzania, as well as the United States). During the January 2009 Interim, 150 Valparaiso, Ind. Division for Vocation and Education (ex officio) Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, students enrolled in Gustavus faculty-led off-campus study courses in 12 different countries. This Chicago Martha I. Penkhus Registered Nurse, Retired spring 61 students are studying off-campus in 18 countries, including Costa Rica, Jordan, and Mankato, Minn. Thailand, and seven others are completing full-year programs in five different countries. The Rev. Wayne Peterson ’77 Pastor, Plymouth, Minn. St. Barnabas Lutheran Church The Center for International and Cultural Education at Gustavus Adolphus College is now a criti- Beth Sparboe Schnell ’82 Chief Executive Officer, cal tool in helping to realize the College’s mission of being “a community of persons from diverse Corcoran, Minn. Sparboe Companies, Wayzata Karin Stone ’83, M.B.A. Marketing Consultant backgrounds who respect and affirm the dignity of all people,” a community in which “students are Cleveland Heights, Ohio Sally C. Turrittin Co-Owner, encouraged to work toward a just and peaceful world.” Read about our study-away initiatives in this Long Lake, Minn. Prime Mortgage Corporation, Minnetonka Susan Engelsma Wilcox ’73 Board Member, issue of the Quarterly. Edina, Minn. Engelsma Family Foundation Daniel K. Zismer ’75, Ph.D. Associate Professor and Director, Bloomington, Minn. ISP Off-site, Executive Management, and Leadership Programs, Division of Health Policy and Management University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Steve Waldhauser ’70 Managing Editor

4 The Gustavus Quarterly 01 Spring 09.3:Winter 03-04 MASTERS.1 2/4/09 8:12 PM Page 5 On thehill Nordstrom knighted by Swedish crown Kevin Proescholdt yron Nordstrom, professor awarded to such notables as work entries on Bof history and Scandinavian Gen. Colin Powell, the late Nobel Scandinavian history. studies, was awarded the in- laureate Glenn Seaborg, and Nordstrom, who has signia of Commander in the VocalEssence founder and direc- been president and an Royal Order of the Polar Star on tor Philip Brunelle. advisory board member Nov. 8 from Swedish King Carl Nordstrom has been a profes- of the Society for the XVI Gustaf. Nordstrom received sor of history and Scandinavian Advancement of the honor at the 60th anniver- studies at Gustavus since 1974. Scandinavian Study, sary meeting of the Swedish- His professional and research in- served on the board of American Historical Society in terests are in Swedish-American the Swedish-American Chicago, Ill. and Scandinavian history. Over Historical Society from The Royal Order of the Polar the course of his career he has 1981 to 1987 and 1988 Star, founded in 1748 by King written a number of books, in- to 1994, and has been Frederick I, is given to deserving cluding A Dictionary of editor of the society’s non-Swedish citizens who per- Scandinavian History, journal, Swedish- Byron Nordstrom sonally contribute to Sweden’s Scandinavia Since 1500, and The American Historical beneﬁt and to strengthening ties History of Sweden. He has also Quarterly, since 1997. Melva Lind (1963) and former between Sweden and other contributed chapters in books, Nordstrom joins Gustavus Vice President for Development countries. The honor is the high- written articles on various as- presidents Carlson (1963), Barth Robert Peterson (1996), in being est award the Swedish royal fam- pects of Swedish-American life (1976), Lindell (1976), Kendall so honored by the Swedish ily can bestow on a foreign na- in Chicago and Minneapolis, and (1987), and Steuer (1996), as crown. G tional and has previously been authored numerous reference well as former Dean of Students

Gustavus admission events, March through June, 2009 Campus news: March April continued 6 • 68th Festival of St. Lucia 9 College fair in Des Moines, Iowa 6 College fair in Naperville, Ill. 6 • Gusties win peace and 12 College fair in Estherville, Iowa 7 College fair in Austin, Texas 12 College fair in Storm Lake, Iowa 7 College fair in Palatine, Ill. justice scholarships 21 College fair in Seattle, Wash. 8 College fair in LaGrange, Ill. 7 • Staff service awards 22 College fair in Portland, Ore. 13 College fair in Barrington, Ill. 8 • Relay for Life recap 24–25 College fair in Sioux Falls, S.D. 14 College fair in Fox Valley, Ill. 9 • Gustavus Commission 150 25 College fair in Iowa City, Iowa 16 College fair in Northbrook, Ill. update 31 College fair in Grand Rapids, Mich. 20 College fair in Hinsdale, Ill. 9 • Summer sports camps April 26 College fair in Denver, Colo. 10 • Coneﬂower Prairie seeded 1 College fair in Detroit, Mich. May 11 • Importance of sabbaticals 2 College fair in Ann Arbor, Mich. 6 College fair in Mason City, Iowa 11 • Kendall Center sabbatical 3 Experience Gustavus visit day on 16 Preview Day visit day on campus support opportunities campus June 13 • Speaking of sabbaticals 4 College fair in San Francisco, Calif. 22–26 Minnesota Private College Week visit 15 • Hillstrom Museum of Art 4–5 College fair in Houston, Texas days on campus features Native American art and photos of China 18 • Calendar of events

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College celebrates 68th Festival of St. Lucia Tom Roster achel Schmitt, a sopho- Rmore from Excelsior, Minn. (third from right), reigned as St. Lucia for Gustavus Adolphus College’s 68th annual Festival of St. Lucia, a Christmas-season tradition that reﬂects the College’s Swedish heritage and celebrates the “return of light” to the world. She was selected by community vote from a court of six sophomore women who had been nominated based on their academic achievement, spiritual leadership, service to the College, charity, and kindness toward others. Fellow sophomores in the Lucia court were, from left, Bergit Nerheim, Minnetrista, Minn.; Sarah Cartwright, Windom, Minn.; Amber Kirk, Coon Rapids, Minn.; Schmitt; group included Alex Wilson, son dent for special projects, and her Seppelt, son of Troy Seppelt, as- Kimberly Braun, formerly of of Marie Walker, associate pro- husband, Jaime Taylor; Zoe sistant director of residential Mankato, Minn., now living in fessor of psychology, and her Thomson, daughter of Kyhl life, and his wife, Heidi. Sioux Falls, S.D.; and Megan husband, John Wilson; Breeley Thomson, Market Place supervi- A sold-out luncheon in Myhre, Bloomington, Minn. Ruble, daughter of Megan Ruble, sor, Dining Service, and his wife, Alumni Hall, sponsored by Children of Gustavus employ- director of student activities, Tiffany; Sydney Young, daughter Gustavus Library Associates and ees participate in the Lucia pro- and her husband, Jeff; Anders of Tom Young ’88, vice president featuring entertainment by sto- cession each year as star chil- Taylor, son of Barbara Larson for institutional advancement, ryteller Kevin Kling ’79, capped dren and tomten. This year’s Taylor ’93, assistant to the presi- and his wife, Meredith; and Max the day’s festivities. G

Two Gusties win peace and justice scholarships

by Steve Mellema ’72 held its annual awards presenta- given to Asitha Jayawardena in South Africa and Namibia, tion at Holy Trinity Lutheran ’09 and Jing Han Soh ’08. which included a service-learn- wo Gusties earned scholar- Church in Minneapolis on Nov. Jayawardena, a senior from ing component with a youth T ships in recognition of their 16, 2008. On that evening, 20 Mason City, Iowa, majoring in camp in Cape Town. Last spring demonstrated commitment to students from colleges and uni- biology with minors in neuro- at Gustavus, he co-chaired the peace and justice when the versities in the ﬁve-state area science and peace studies, used “Building Bridges” Conference, a Vincent L. Hawkinson were awarded scholarships. Two his scholarship for a study- global diversity conference fo- Foundation for Peace and Justice of the top four awards were abroad course this past January cused on genocide awareness.

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Staff members recognized for years of service

embers of the Gustavus support staff were recognized for M milestone anniversaries of their service to the College at the annual Staff Christmas Luncheon on Dec. 19. Photos by Steve Waldhauser ’70 Photos by Steve Waldhauser

Hawkinson Foundation scholars Jing Han Soh ’08 (left) and Asitha Jayawardena ’09.

During his senior year in high more student organizations, aca- school, he started Operation demic and administrative depart- Above: 25 years – From left: Harriet Rydeen, Dining Service; Restoration to support displaced ments, and individual partici- Joanne Derner, custodian; and Sherri Peterson, Dining Service. Not families in his home country of pants than had attended any pictured: Marilyn Marsh, Dining Sri Lanka following the tsunami previous student-led event.” Service. in 2004. “My passion for peace The Vincent L. Hawkinson and justice has matured from a Foundation for Peace and Justice Left: 35 years – Carolyn Ritz, hesitant intuition to a necessary was created to honor the Rev. Dining Service commitment in my life,” he says. Vincent Hawkinson ’38, pastor of “I ultimately hope to become a Grace Lutheran Church on the Below: 2008 retirees – Seated doctor and work for an organiza- campus of the University of from left: Linda Riebesell, tion like Doctors Without Minnesota for more that 30 administrative assistant, Ofﬁce Borders internationally, while at years. The late pastor vigorously of the Dean of Students (23 the same time applying what I advocated peacemaking and years of service); Katherine learn internationally to domestic racial equality and stood up for Scholl, administrative assistant, health care.” the poor, the oppressed, and the Departments of Biology and Soh, who is originally from powerless. For 20 years the foun- Geology (15 years); Jeanette Heilman, custodian (24 years); and Malaysia and graduated from dation has been awarding schol- Margaret Derner, sexton, Ofﬁce of the Chaplains (23 years). Gustavus last spring with a arships to students “to encour- Standing: Harriet Rydeen, Dining Service (25 years), and Sandra major in physics and a minor in age these individuals, who have Volk, Dining Service (19 years). Not pictured: Layton Gehrke, shops economics, is currently a gradu- already demonstrated a commit- coordinator, Physical Plant (46 years). ate student in physics at ment to peace and justice, to Minnesota State University, strive for peace and justice both Mankato. Last spring she co- in their educational pursuits and chaired (along with in their personal and profession- Jayawardena) the “Building al lives.” G Bridges” Conference. She also served as co-president of the Steven Mellema ’72, Ph.D., is Gustavus International Cultures professor and chair of the Club. “Building Bridges is a stu- Department of Physics at dent-led and student-initiated Gustavus and was present at the diversity conference dedicated Hawkinson Foundation awards to addressing global issues,” she ceremony. notes. “This year we involved 01 Spring 09.3:Winter 03-04 MASTERS.1 2/4/09 8:12 PM Page 8

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‘Relay for Life’ builds on previous success

by Catherine Osterhaus, Holly and finally come Andersen, and Haley Prittinen together in April for an all-nighter elay for Life” is an all-night, that features sur- “Rteam-based fundraiser that vivors and care- unites the Gustavus community givers sharing each spring to fight back and their cancer sto- put an end to cancer. It is the ries, along with American Cancer Society’s signa- various entertain- ture event and represents the ment performances hope that those lost to cancer by student organi- will never be forgotten, that zations and bands, those who face cancer will be and competitions supported, and that one day to keep the energy cancer will be eliminated. level high. The Gustavus Relay for Life is Luminaries, avail- planned by the Gustavus chapter able for $10 each of Colleges Against Cancer and is and decorated to one of the most highly attended honor and remember those who student-planned events on cam- have battled cancer, light the in- pus, drawing participation from door track of Lund Center during athletics teams, residential hall the dark hours of the night. As floors and sections, music en- morning comes, the Relay con- sembles, academic clubs, greek cludes with a “Fight Back” cere- organizations, and groups of mony representing Gusties’ con- friends. Participants start raising tinued commitment to fight back money for the Relay in November against cancer. On a Friday night in April 2008, nearly 700 members of the Gustavus community gathered for the fourth annual Top, the wall of notes: Jon Kidd ’10 posts his r eason for relaying. Above, Relay for Life 2007-08 co-chairs Holly Andersen ’09, Catherine Osterhaus ’09, and Gr ace at Gustavus, Bury ’08. celebrating the lives of more than $54,000 for the nation, e-mail relayforlife2009 those who American Cancer Society, ranking @gustavus.edu. G have battled first in the Midwest Division and cancer and re- fourth in the nation for dollars Students Catherine Osterhaus, a membering raised per capita. senior from Eagan, Minn.; Holly loved ones The 2009 Relay for Life will Andersen, a senior from Glenville, lost to the dis- be held in Lund Center on April Minn.; and Haley Prittinen, a ease. The 2008 17. All are welcome to attend junior from Virginia, Minn., are Ingrid Greenlee ’09 and her mother, Barbara Day ’75— Gustavus Relay the event. For more information co-chairs of the 2009 Gustavus both survivors. Ingrid spoke at the 2008 e vent. for Life raised about the Relay or to make a do- Relay for Life.

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Commission Gustavus 150 off to a promising start

ommission Gustavus 150, The commission, chaired by ed by 16 “National Summits” of Also during November and Cthe process endorsed in Warren Beck ’67, is organized alumni, parents, and other December, ﬁve of the National October by the Gustavus Board around eight task forces that friends of the College held Summit meetings were held in of Trustees to engage all of the have been charged with examin- around the country the Twin Cities area. These College’s constituents in inte- ing different aspects of the In November and December half-day meetings were facilitat- grating and expanding its strate- College’s mission and making 2008 all eight task forces held ed by President Ohle. Those par- gic plan and making recommen- recommendations to the board— their ﬁrst meetings. These meet- ticipating divided into small dations for future advancement, Academic Programs and New ings were designed to give task groups to discuss framing ques- is off to an exciting start. Initiatives, Community force members an overview of tions for each core value of Gustavus Adolphus College is Engagement, Facilities and the Commission process and Gustavus (Community, now poised to engage a broader Finances, Faith, Global and timeline, an opportunity to dis- Excellence, Faith, Justice, and constituency and develop action Multicultural Initiatives, cuss baseline data, and an invi- Service). The ideas from the steps to implement its strategic Interdisciplinary Programs, tation to begin thinking about small groups will be shared with plan and celebrate its sesquicen- Stewardship, and Student Life. the topics within each task the task forces, which are to tennial in 2012. The task forces are complement- force’s charge. continued on next page

2009 Summer Sports Camps

Gustavus’s strong athletic tradition is evident Tennis & Life Camps Gustie Football Camp with numerous summer sports camps. All camps Junior Camps (ages 11–18): June 8–11, 7-on-7 Passing League: Monday, June 1, listed feature knowledgeable coaching staffs, June 15–18, July 6–9, July 20–23, Aug. and Sundays, June 7–28 acclaimed athletic facilities, and quality dining 3–6 Contact Corey Shea: 507-933-6440, service and housing accommodations. Complete Junior Camps (ages 14–18): June 11–14, [email protected] summer camp information is posted at June 25–28, June 29–July 2, July Softball Camp gustavus.edu/oncampus/athletics/camps/. 13–16, July 27–30, July 30–Aug. 2, Girls (Grades 8–12): Aug. 10–13 Aug. 6–9 Contact Jeff Annis: 507-381-0633 or Gustie Soccer Camps Tournament Player Camp (ages 11–18): [email protected] June 22–25 Boys and Girls (ages 10–14): June 21–25 Gustie Swimming Camps Boys and Girls (ages 10–17): July 6–10 Adult Camps (ages 18–80): June 4–7, Boys and girls (ages 10–18) Contact Mike Stehlik: 507-933-7619 or June 18–21 Technique Camp: June 11–14 [email protected] Family Camps (ages 8–80): July 9–12, July 16–19, July 23–26 Sprint Camp: June 17–21 Gustavus Hockey and Leadership Camps Contact Steve Wilkinson: 507-931-1614 or Technique & Training Camp: June 24–28, Squirts, PeeWees, and Bantams: July 5–9 [email protected] Aug. 5–9 Mites: July 6–10 Contact Jon Carlson: 507-933-7694 or Defensemen Skills Camp: July 10–12 Gustavus Golf Camps [email protected] Boys and girls (ages 9–17): June 14–18 Girls (ages 8–12): July 12–16 Southern Minnesota Throwers Camps Girls (ages 13–17): July 12–16 Parents/Juniors Camp: August 2–6 Boys and girls (grades 8–12) Contact Brett Petersen: 507-933-7615 or Contact Scott Moe: 507-933-7610 or One-day Shot Put Camps: June 10, 15, 17 [email protected] [email protected] One-day Discus Camps: June 11, 16, 18 Gustavus Volleyball Camps Gustavus Basketball Camps Contact Tom Thorkelson: 507-933-7657 or Competition Camp (Grades 8–12): Shooting Camp (grades 8–12): June 6 [email protected] Grades 7–8: June 7–11 July 25–26 (overnight camp) Gustavus Nordic Ski Camp Gustie Camp (Grades 8–12): July 27–28 Grades 6–7: June 14–17, June 17–20 Boys and Girls (Grades 8–12): June 21–25 (day camp) Grades 8–9: June 21–25 Contact Jed Friedrich: 507-933-7632 or Contact Kari Eckheart: 507-933-6416 or Varsity: June 28–July 2 [email protected] [email protected] Grades 8–10: July 6–10 Grades 9–11: July 12–16 Contact Mark Hanson: 507-933-7037 or [email protected]

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Gustavus College’s next comprehensive students as well as by the (Monday, March 16), Seattle, Commission 150 fundraising campaign. Summit meetings already held. Wash. (Saturday, March 21), and continued from previous page By the end of January 2009 Summit meetings also convened San Francisco, Calif. (Monday, all of the task forces met for at during January in Naples, Fla., March 23). If you wish to attend make speciﬁc recommendations least one more meeting. The sec- Washington, D.C., Chicago, Ill., a Summit meeting at one of to the board by the end of the ond round of meetings was fo- and Denver, Colo., with three these sites, or have other ques- 2008–09 academic year. The cused on starting to generate more scheduled for February—in tions about the commission, e- board will then prioritize the ideas around deﬁned topics. Tucson and Phoenix, Ariz., and mail CommissionGustavus150 task force recommendations, These meetings involved “big Los Angeles. @gustavus.edu. Look for task providing a foundation for the thinking” and brainstorming Upcoming National Summit force updates and other commis- implementation of the strategic around a wide range of ideas meetings include Boston, Mass. sion news in the next issue of plan and the basis for the generated by faculty, staff, and (Saturday, March 14), New York the Quarterly. G

New Coneflower Prairie acreage seeded Photos by Robert Dunlap ’08; in set photo by Brian O’Brien by Brian set photo Photos by Robert Dunlap ’08; in he development of the new T “Coneflower Prairie” at Gustavus took a significant step forward in the fall of 2008 when the planting process was initiated by Feder’s Prairie Seed Co. of Blue Earth, Minn. Planting of the prairie was strategically planned for late fall, when colder temper- atures prevent seeds from germi- nating, ensuring that during the winter the seeds will make good soil contact and be ready to ger- minate when spring arrives. “Prairie is a landscape of vast proportions that once spanned horizons, encompassing 18 million acres in Minnesota prior to European settlement,” said Cindy Johnson-Groh, professor of biology and environmental studies at the College and executive director of Linnaeus Arboretum. “Less than one percent of Minnesota’s native prairie re- years, but with time is expected mains. Restoring a larger prairie to attract a diverse community tract in Linnaeus Arboretum is of birds, insects, and animals. conscientious environmental The Coneflower Prairie will be stewardship and also creates an the largest prairie in the region. educational, recreational, and Its contoured landscape and historical resource for all who public trails will allow it to serve visit.” as a useful educational resource The prairie will be managed for students of Gustavus and St. intensively for the first five Peter schools. G

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Sabbaticus . . . sabbatikos . . . shabbathon . . . sabbatical

by Laura Behling recharging, and renewal. These allows for a more personal look lectual growth, who have a re- six brief notes detail some of the at what sabbaticals do for facul- spect for others as they work to- lthough the concept of a ways Gustavus faculty commit- ty and for their students at ward a just and peaceful world, A sabbatical has its roots in ted to their own continued pro- Gustavus. who live a commitment to serv- Leviticus—and its admonition to fessional development while on In all of these stories, as well ice and the skills of leadership, neither sow the land nor prune sabbatical in 2007–08. The as the stories currently being and above all, who model for the vineyard in the seventh longer article, written by Drs. written by Gustavus faculty on their students a capacity and year—at colleges and universi- Elizabeth Baer, professor of sabbatical this year, what is passion for lifelong learning. ties, a sabbatical can mean any- English, and Rebecca Fremo, as- clear is the commitment they ■ Thanks, in part, to a thing but rest. sociate professor of English and show by faculty who are engaged Gustavus Research, Scholarship, The first record in the United director of the Writing Center, in rigorous and innovative intel- continued on next page States of a faculty member receiving a sabbatical was in 1886; by the early 1930s, more than 175 institutions incorporated this professional develop- Upcoming opportunities for the Gustavus faculty from ment opportunity. Since then, sabbatical leaves have proven the John S. Kendall Center for Engaged Learning to be vital in enhancing teaching; catalyzing research, schol- he John S. Kendall Center for Engaged Learning supports faculty in achieving their potential as arship, and creative work; T teachers and scholars. Responsive to the professional needs and interests of each faculty member, the strengthening academic pro- Kendall Center includes support for teaching initiatives and faculty research, scholarship, and creativity, grams; reinforcing a faculty and provides on-campus opportunities for focused conversation on pedagogy, assessment of student member’s commitment to the learning, and collaboration among colleagues. institution; and demonstrating the value of professional devel- ■ The 2009 Summer Teaching and Learning Workshop opment activities that con- Held every other year since 2000, the summer teaching and learning workshop offers faculty from tribute to a vital and healthy across the campus intensive time to generate ideas to enhance pedagogy, focus on particular issues academic community. vital to intellectual success, and develop better ways to engage students in collaborative learning en- Gustavus Adolphus College deavors. recognizes that regular profes- Previous workshops have focused on enhancing critical thinking skills, teaching multiculturally, and sional development is an impor- developing students as scholars. This summer, faculty members have the opportunity to choose from a tant part of a faculty member’s variety of sessions, including Writing and Oral Communication for Today’s Student, Developing Faculty academic career at all stages. Portfolios, Developing Discipline-Specific Learning Outcomes, and Writing about Teaching and One of the ways that they are Learning. affirmed as teachers and scholars is through the College’s sab- ■ Sabbatical Preparation Retreat batical leave program. A new opportunity from the Kendall Center, the summer Sabbatical Preparation Retreat will provide fac- At Gustavus, as you’ll read ulty members an opportunity to reflect on their professional and personal accomplishments, consider below, sabbaticals allow faculty and develop professional and personal goals for their sabbatical, weigh opportunities when they return to step away from teaching, ad- to campus, and converse with other Gustavus faculty about their work. The goal of this retreat is to en- vising, and campus service com- gage faculty in conversation about what it means to be a tenured faculty member at a liberal arts col- mitments, and offer time and lege, how one can re-emerge in the campus community after a sabbatical with a professional and per- space for thinking and reading sonal focus, and how faculty can serve as resources for each other about professional goals and and writing, pedagogy and aspirations. course development, and intellectual and personal refocusing,

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Sabbatical the Midwest. “Any similarity to and wrote an article on the part of her work, she read over continued from previous page actual places and people,” Huff death, funeral, and memorializa- 40 books or articles on these cautions, “is purely coincidental, tion of Union general William topics and became an inaugural and Creativity Grant, Kate more or less.” Huff’s essay, “A Tecumseh Sherman for the jour- member of the Association for Wittenstein, Ph.D.(professor of Failure to Denote,” is an history), researched the history analysis of Bertrand and gendered nature of Black Russell’s famous paper, Sabbaticals allow faculty to step away from teaching, women’s political activism dur- “On Denoting,” in which advising, and campus service commitments, and offer time ing the first half of the twenti- he attempts to demon- eth century. Her focus is on a strate that it is possible and space for thinking and reading and writing, pedagogy group of four Black women and to make meaningful em- and course development, and intellectual and personal how their experiences as leaders pirical statements about refocusing, recharging, and renewal. of the segregated Harlem branch non-existent objects of the YWCA during the 1920s without introducing shaped their understanding of metaphysical entities. social justice and led them into ■ Dr. Mimi Gerstbauer, nal Civil War History. Sherman, Contemplative Mind in Higher the more formally organized and Ph.D. (associate professor of po- who served under General Education, a new organization of male-dominated Civil Rights litical science and director of the Ulysses S. Grant in 1862 and scholars and teachers interested Movement of the 1950s and Peace Studies program), focused 1863 during, most notably, the in research on contemplative 1960s. The research will be pub- her research on two essays, “The campaign against Confederate practice in higher education. lished online as part of the Whole Story of NGO Mandate stronghold Vicksburg, was recog- ■ Barbara Zust, Ph.D. (as- Women and Social Movements Change: The Peacebuilding Work nized for his outstanding com- sociate professor of nursing), Project located at the University of World Vision, Catholic Relief mand of military strategy and provided leadership to the IN- of Binghamton’s Center for the Services, and Mennonite Central criticized for “scorched earth” SIGHT program at the Hennepin Study of Women and Gender. Committee,” currently under re- policies against the Confederacy. County Correctional facility and ■ Doug Huff, Ph.D. (profes- view at The Nonprofit and In 1864, Sherman succeeded the Minnesota State Correctional sor of philosophy), wrote two Voluntary Sector Quarterly; and Grant as the Union commander Facility in Shakopee. INSIGHT, plays, A Far Shore and The “Transnational Peacebuilding: in the western theater of the war designed by a former member of National Endowment, and a phi- Bringing Salt and Light to and led his troops to the capture the nursing faculty, Dr. Verona losophy article, “A Failure to Colombia and the United States,” of the city of Atlanta. Sherman’s Gordon, works with women in Denote.” A Far Shore is a play submitted to Development in subsequent march through prison to better understand the based on the life and work of Practice. Gerstbauer also com- Georgia and the Carolinas further effects of poverty, racial profil- B.R. Ambedkar, a project Huff pleted her first case study of in- undermined the Confederacy’s ing, social injustice, economics, undertook at the request of ternational forgiveness (the U.S. ability to continue fighting. mental health issues, and fund- When Grant became ing, and the importance of edu- president, Sherman suc- cation in empowering change. ceeded him as Zust also published two articles, Gustavus Adolphus College recognizes that regular Commanding General of “Partner Violence, Depression, professional development is an important part of a the Army (1869–1883). and Recidivism: The Case of ■ Carolyn O’Grady, Incarcerated Women and Why We faculty member’s academic career at all stages. One of Ed.D. (professor of edu- Need Programs Designed for the ways that they are affirmed as teachers and scholars cation), focused on Them,” in Issues in Mental three areas during her Health Nursing, and “Assessing is through the College’s sabbatical leave program. sabbatical: the research and Addressing Domestic and literature on men- Violence amongst Incarcerated toring first-year students Women” in Creative Nursing of color at predominant- Journal. G members of the Bangalore Little and Nicaragua) and presented it ly white institutions, ways to Theatre (BLT) in Bangalore, at the International Studies evaluate Writing Across the Laura Behling, Ph.D., associate India. The National Endowment Association Conference in Spring Curriculum programs, and the professor of English and chair of is a two-act comedy about the 2008. role of contemplative practice in the department, also serves as trials and tribulations of a small ■ Greg Kaster, Ph.D. (pro- helping students learn more ef- director of the John S. Kendall Lutheran liberal arts college in fessor of history), researched fectively in higher education. As Center for Engaged Learning.

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Opening doors— a collaboration on sabbaticals Steve Waldhauser ’70 by Elizabeth Baer, Professor of English, and Rebecca Taylor Fremo, Associate Professor of English

“Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.” — Virginia Woolf, 1928

ditor’s Note: During academ- Eic year 2007–08, two English professors at different stages in their careers were granted sabbaticals. Drs. Elizabeth Baer and Rebecca Fremo agreed early in the year to write a piece for the Quarterly in English professors Elizabeth Baer (left) and Rebecca Taylor Fremo compare notes on their recent sabbaticals. order to convey a sense of what faculty members do when they local bead store during my sab- writing, painting, dance. And in an anthology, and 125 pages are “on leave.” The piece that batical, the owner would look at that work finds its way back into of the book manuscript on the follows is the result of a writing me, somewhat crossly, and ask: the classroom, where it informs golem. I also revised and pub- collaboration between them. “Are you still on vacation?” I and energizes our teaching. My lished two articles, wrote twelve Both wish to express their pro- would patiently explain to her sabbatical was an extended op- book reviews, and reviewed found gratitude for the sabbati- that I was writing a book, doing portunity to close my office door three book manuscripts for aca- cal itself and the other forms of some travel, etc. But, apparent- and focus on the scholarly, cre- demic presses. professional development the ly, it all sounded like a lark to ative, and pedagogical writing College provides to its faculty, her . . . that sustains me. Rebecca: During the academic which, in turn, enrich the expe- year, I close my door to write riences of Gustavus students. Rebecca: During the academic Elizabeth: In trying to convey a whenever I can grab a free half year we teach, mentor students, sense of what my sabbatical was hour, but I’m usually jazzed Elizabeth: Sabbatical . . . a word participate in committees, de- like, I am tempted to begin with about my last class or jittery that comes from the same velop new courses. Much of this numbers: I read 125 books, saw about the next. I try sometimes Hebrew root as Sabbath, the day work is collaborative, even con- 55 films. Many of these are relat- to write in my office after class- of rest, the seventh day. So, a versational, and we do it with ed to the research I am doing on es end Friday, when I’m already sabbatical is a respite from the office doors wide open. So what the golem, a Jewish legend, or exhausted. I can’t write on de- usual round of work, a time to do faculty members do when the are about Africa, a place I visit- mand. I need time to think, let the mind and spirit work at a doors close? And why is that ed for the first time this year, or plan, read, and imagine. When deep level, renewing, replenish- closed-door time so important? are for future classes. I have I’m writing an article, for in- ing. However, a sabbatical is de- When we close our doors, we written about 160 pages, includ- stance, I need an hour to read cidedly not a vacation. When I do the intellectual and creative ing a 35-page essay on the over what I wrote yesterday be- occasionally dropped into my work of our disciplines: research, writer W. G. Sebald, forthcoming continued on next page

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Collaboration artists. This quiet haven enabled dreadful stuff, and John foremost, but at Gustavus, I continued from previous page me to “jumpstart” the writing of Rezmerski, who retired right don’t teach the theory behind the book. Other trips included after I came to Gustavus, got me that practice. During the spring fore I get going. Like my stu- travel to San Diego to give a my first “gig,” presenting to the of 2008, however, I was asked to dents, I’m prone to procrastina- paper at a conference, a visit to Southern Minnesota Poets teach a composition theory sem- tion and fits of panic. I eat Ohio to serve on an accredita- Society last November. chocolate. I even get writer’s tion team reviewing a college, Last fall, I revised exist- A sabbatical often allows one block, which is compounded by and a weekend in Michigan to ing poems and wrote new the fact that as a rhetoric and give talks at a synagogue and a ones, most of which re- to close some doors and composition specialist, it’s my Lutheran church for Yom HaShoah, flect upon what it means open new ones in life. job to help other people get Holocaust Remembrance Day. to be an East Coaster liv- over theirs. ing and raising a family in the inar for graduate students at Ouch. Rebecca: A full year’s sabbatical Midwest. I published my first Minnesota State University, enabled me to complete projects two this summer in a collection Mankato. That graduate seminar Elizabeth: Perhaps I could best in all three of my areas of inter- called County Lines (Loonfeather last spring energized me. By convey to you what this leave est: composition theory, poetry, Press 2008). June I was ready to rework my has meant to me by recounting and pedagogy. I completed all First Term Seminar. That course, my travel. The sabbatical was but the final chapter of my book Elizabeth: Perhaps I should re- titled “Stories, Selves, and “bookended” by two internation- project. This manuscript, count for you the ways in which Communities,” considers narrative al trips. I flew to Berlin and Locating Readers: Understanding my life changed as a result of as persuasion. The FTS asks, how Prague in June 2007 as the Encounters with Students’ Texts, this gift of time. A sabbatical and why can stories bridge gaps leave began, to do research for considers the ways that teachers’ often allows one to close some between diverse groups of peo- the book. The golem legend is identities—cultural, racial, and doors and open new ones in life. ple, when more traditional forms most closely associated with educational—shape how they For the past 17 years, I have of persuasion fail? In my revised 16th-century Prague’s Jewish read and value students’ papers. been a Holocaust studies scholar FTS, my students now study Mary community, and I was able to The book highlights “scenes” of and, more recently, have Louise Pratt’s notion of “contact visit museums, synagogues, and reading as they appear in com- widened my focus to include zones,” applying her concept to memorials there as well as dis- position scholarship and within other genocides. Shortly before Gloria Naylor’s Mama Day, a novel cover key texts unavailable in actual classrooms. Since 2004, the leave, I became intrigued by set on a mythical island inhabited the United States. A year later, I I’ve been sitting on two new, the cause and effect relationship by freed slaves. They also conduct took the long trip to Africa to unfinished chapters based upon between colonialism and geno- interviews in St. Peter, learning cide. In the future, I will how national stories like the A full year’s sabbatical enabled me to complete focus my study on compar- economic crisis affect real peo- ative systems of oppression ple within our community. projects in all three of my areas of interest: and how tools such as laws, As Elizabeth explained, a composition theory, poetry, and pedagogy. hierarchies, segregation, sabbatical is a respite from the and dehumanization pre- usual round of work, a time to prepare for a January Term class interviews with Gustavus stu- serve power and economic privi- let the mind and spirit work at a in 2009 when, with three other dents. During my sabbatical I fi- lege for a chosen group. I will deep level, renewing, replenish- faculty members, I took students nally transcribed those inter- also be returning to the field in ing. It certainly was that for me, to South Africa and Namibia. The views, gathered excerpts from which I was trained—litera- and I try daily—now that I am South Africa seminar provided the students’ papers, and ana- ture—for my next writing proj- back teaching—to preserve my two to four lectures daily plus lyzed their work, drafting the ect(s), most likely studies of sabbatical’s sense of warmth and tours to key sites such as two additional chapters. South Africa postcolonial writ- promise. When my office door is Robben Island, where Nelson I remember doing much of ers. I am already utilizing what I open, I welcome the students Mandela was imprisoned for two my work last fall in snippets. My learned in both classes I am and colleagues on the other decades. youngest son, Cyrus, was a new- teaching this fall, most notably side. G In between these bookends, born, and I spent bleary-eyed in a senior seminar in the I traveled monthly. I spent two mornings drafting fragments of English Department on intertex- Elizabeth Baer, Ph.D., was glorious weeks in September at poetry. My English department tuality. appointed to the Gustavus the Anderson Center for colleagues encouraged me. faculty in 1992. Rebecca Taylor Interdisciplinary Studies in Red Joyce Sutphen and Phil Bryant Rebecca: I’ve always seen myself Fremo, Ph.D., joined her in the Wing, a retreat for scholars and ’73 read countless drafts of as a teacher of writing first and Department of English in 2000.

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Art by Native American artists, photos from China featured at Hillstrom Museum of Art

Priscilla Briggs, Young and Old, 2008, lightjet print, 24 x 32 inches .

by Donald Myers ’83 Artist Priscilla Briggs, who July of 2008 and again this “the nature of human desire and specializes in photography, has January, and her photographs, in identity as they are shaped and been a member of the Gustavus her words, “explore the retail reﬂected within the context of he Hillstrom Museum of Art art department since 2003. Her landscape of China as the coun- capitalist societies.” She notes T has two concurrent exhibi- courses include video art and try straddles the ideological gap that China, during this period of tions on view through April 19: digital photography, and her between communism and capi- transition and transformation, is Migrations: New Directions in own work in the latter medium talism.” “absorbing Western ideals of up- Native American Art, and is featured in the exhibition In images such as Walmart, ward mobility and individualism” Fortune: Photos of China by Fortune: Photos of China. Briggs II or Young and Old (both from at the same time that Western Priscilla Briggs. traveled to China in June and the 2008 trip), Briggs considers corporations are branding China.

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American experience. The aim of is about being able to fly by the exhibit is to support innova- night.” tive, emerging artists who, while In a similar vein, another exploring their Native heritage, artist in the exhibit, Tom Jones, are engaged in work of a more explores mainstream commodifi- experimental nature than what cation of Native culture, as in is generally thought of as his lithograph Commodity II. The “Native American Art.” print is related to the artist’s Artist Larry McNeil holds an “Dear America” series, which in- M.F.A. in photography from the cludes images of Natives drawn University of New Mexico and is from vintage photographs, post- an associate professor of pho- cards, and other ephemera. tography at Boise State Commodity II features a University (Idaho). He is a mem- provocatively posed woman ber of the Tlingit and Nisga’a na- wearing braids, a feather head- tions who sees his work as a dress, and a short garment, the bridge between cultures, one central image on a queen of that is satirical about both hearts playing card. Other im- mainstream American culture as ages surround the woman, in- well as the Tlingit culture in cluding one from an old which he was raised. Valentine that has the caption McNeil’s digital print Y’eil “I’m an INDIAN GIVER, so please features a large raven’s beak. RETURN my love, Valentine!” “Y’eil” (Tlingit for “raven”) is a Framing and setting off these frequently encountered figure in images are colorful patterns Tlingit mythology who is seen as based on Woodland Indian tradi- both a creator and a trickster. tion. The figure appears often in The artist has affixed a pair Priscilla Briggs, Walmart, II, 2008, lightjet print, 54 x 36 inches . McNeil’s work, including the “Fly of tiny moccasins and a small by Night” series and the canoe to the face of the print, Walmart, II is an image of Briggs’s travel and the exhi- “Pontiac” series, to which the commenting on how the culture brightly colored consumer goods bition of her works are support- print belongs. of Natives is often reduced to stacked enticingly in the store, ed by a prestigious McKnight The artist often combines not only the stereotypes in the with signs in both English and Fellowship, the Minnesota imagery with text, and Y’eil in- Valentine card but also such Chinese, and with a Wal-Mart Center for Photography, the cludes the following exchange: mass-produced items that are in- employee to the left stocking the Gamelin China Studies Pontiac: Why are you asking so tended for tourists, as the in- shelves with even more products. Endowment Fund of Gustavus many questions? scription “SOUVENIRS FOR THE Young and Old juxtaposes an Adolphus College, and a Raven: I like shiny stuff, and TOURISTS” indicates. An addi- older Chinese man, walking along Research and Creativity Grant, boy are you shiny. tional inscription on the litho, the sidewalk, with a billboard de- also from the College. The exhi- The dialogue seems simulta- “MADE IN JAPAN,” refers to the picting a girl modeling a fancy bition is presented in conjunc- neously profound and absurd in fact that such tourist items are red dress and wearing a similarly tion with the Gustavus Global its dual reference to “Pontiac” as not only inauthentic as repre- fanciful hairstyle. Most of Insight program, which is focus- both the great Native American sentations of Native culture, but Briggs’s China photos were made ing this academic year on China. figure of that name and to the also do not derive from the with an eye for scale. In Young The Migrations exhibition in- automobile that appropriated his Native communities and instead and Old, the image of the young cludes more than 40 works by six identity. McNeil notes about his are often made in Asia. As is girl dwarfs that of the man, while artists representing different works that they “are about noted in the catalogue that ac- in Walmart, II, the color scale Native American groups from American Mythology, Ravens, the companies the exhibition, such a provides the distinction, brilliant across North America, artists intersection of cultures, and work asks viewers to consider oranges and fuchsias of the prod- who migrate between indigenous finding the sacred in unlikely what it is that is being sold in ucts contrasting with the drab cultures, traditional and contem- places. It is about the sacred not objects and images of the sort tones of the background and porary aesthetics, and different being for sale, but being able to indicated in the print, and who even of the Wal-Mart employee. media, to represent the Native be rented at reasonable rates. It it is that profits. This is inti-

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mately connected with the from his background and iden- artist’s self-proclaimed “respon- tity as a Native American liv- sibility to the tribe to help carry ing partly in mainstream cul- on a sense of pride about who ture. and what we are as a people.” His drawing The Curious Jones, who holds an M.A. in Crawler features a wide-eyed museum studies and an M.F.A. in infant—a reference to the photography (both from Columbia artist himself—crawling College, Chicago), is a member amidst toys and less benign of the Ho-Chunk Sovereign objects such as a beer can or a Nation and lives in Wisconsin. cigarette butt. In the back- Star Wallowing Bull is a ground a pan of food burns on member of the Minnesota the stovetop, both it and the Chippewa Tribe, White Earth baby neglected by the woman Reservation. Born in Minneapolis passed out on the ﬂoor in the and now living in North Dakota, next room. Wallowing Bull’s he is largely self-taught, and his early life included a period liv- interest in art was encouraged ing with his mother, a member by his father, prominent artist of the Arapaho Nation who Frank Big Bear, who initiated his suffered from alcoholism, a son into drawing when he was problem that later faced the only a year old. Wallowing Bull artist himself. As noted in the Larry McNeil, Y’eil (Pontiac Series), 1998, digital print, 24 x 24 inches . creates detailed images that draw exhibition catalogue, although the subject of The Curious The exhibition was organized Crawler is harsh, the image has as a joint venture of the cartoon-like buoyancy that pre- University of New Mexico vents it from becoming too (Albuquerque) Art Museum with heavy or ﬁlled with despair. the Tamarind Institute and with Migrations also includes Crow’s Shadow Institute of the works by Marie Watt, a member Arts (Pendleton, Ore.). Both of the Seneca Nation; Steven Tamarind and Crow’s Shadow are Deo, a member of the Creek acclaimed for their support of Nation; and Ryan Lee Smith, a Native American artists, and sev- member of the Cherokee Nation. eral of the works in the exhibit The artists were chosen by a dis- are lithographs made at the two tinguished national jury that in- institutes during residencies of cluded Jaune Quick-to-See the exhibition’s six artists. Smith, a prominent artist, cura- The appearance of Migrations tor, educator, and activist who is at the Hillstrom Museum of Art a member of the Flathead Salish is presented with assistance Nation; Truman Lowe, an artist from the Diversity Center of and member of the Ho-Chunk Gustavus Adolphus College. G Sovereign Nation who is the curator of contemporary art at the Donald Myers ’83 has directed National Museum of the Gustavus Adolphus College’s American Indian, Smithsonian Hillstrom Museum of Art since its Institution; Deborah Wye, a cu- opening in 2000. He is also an rator at the Museum of Modern instructor in art history at the Art, New York; Siri Engberg, a College. curator at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and Marjorie Devon, director of the Tamarind Tom Jones, Commodity II, 2004, lithograph, 30 x 22 inches. Institute, Albuquerque, N.M.

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March Lutheran Church, Pavilion, 6 p.m. Tickets re- 19 Music: Adolphus Jazz Continuing through April 19 Art Minneapolis, 9:30–11 a.m. quired; for information and Ensemble and Gustavus Exhibitions: Migrations: Register online at gus- reservations, contact the Chamber Singers, Steve New Directions in Native tavus.edu/gla. Gustavus Ticket Center Wright and Gregory Aune, American Art and Fortune: 14 Artist Series: “A Dim Sum (507-933-7590). directors; Jussi Björling Photos of China by Evening,” The Ying 5Music: Gustavus Recital Hall, 7:30 p.m. Priscilla Briggs; Hillstrom Quartet, concert and resi- Symphony Orchestra, Open to the public without Museum of Art. Open to the dency; Jussi Björling Warren Friesen, conductor; charge. public without charge; reg- Recital Hall, 8 p.m. Ticket Jussi Björling Recital hall, 22 Linnaeus Symposium: ular museum hours: 9 required; contact the 1:30 p.m. Open to the pub- “Global Trees: Releaf – a.m.–4 p.m., Mon.–Fri.; Gustavus Ticket Center lic without charge. Relief,” keynoted by 1–5 p.m., Sat. & Sun. (507-933-7590). 5Music: Gustavus Choir Margaret Lowman, tropical 4Music: U.S. Army’s Jazz 15 Music: Gustavus and Vasa Home Concert, Gregory rainforest canopy biologist; Knights in concert; Jussi Wind Orchestras, James Aune, conductor; Christ Alumni Hall. Open to the Björling Recital Hall, 7:30 Patrick Miller, guest con- Chapel, 3:30 p.m. Open to public without charge; for p.m. Open to the public ductor; Christ Chapel, 1:30 the public without charge. information and reservations, without charge. p.m. Open to the public 7 GLA Author Day, featuring contact Shirley Mellema, 11 Rydell Lecture: Curtis without charge. Minnesota poets Joyce Linnaeus Arboretum (507- Marean, at the Science 18 Twin Cities “Come On, Sutphen and Deborah 933-6181). Museum of Minnesota. You Gusties” Alumni Keenan; Edina Country 24–25 Second annual Limited seating; for reserva- Breakfast, featuring Ken Club, 9:30 a.m. For reserva- Traditional Pow-wow, pre- tions, contact the Science Westphal, vice president for tions, contact the Office of sented by Gustavus and Museum of Minnesota (651- finance; Doubletree Hotel, Marketing and MSU Mankato; Lund Center 221-9444). Minneapolis-Park Place, Communication (507-933- Arena, 7 p.m. (and 1 p.m. 13, 14, & 15 Dance: “Range of Hwy. 394 & Hwy. 100, 7550). on April 25). Open to the Motion: The Gustavus 8:30–10 a.m. Reserve by 15 Twin Cities “Come On, public without charge. Dance Company in calling Don Swanson ’55 at You Gusties” Alumni 24 Music: Choir of Christ Concert,” Michele Rusinko 763-533-9083. Breakfast, featuring Steve Chapel Home Concert, and Melissa Rolnick, direc- Wilkinson, men’s tennis Patricia Kazarow, conductors; Anderson Theatre, 8 April coach; Doubletree Hotel, tor; Christ Chapel, 7:30 p.m. (March 13 & 14) and 2 2 Diversity Week Lecture: Minneapolis-Park Place, p.m. Open to the public p.m. (March 15). Ticket re- “Straight Talk about Class Hwy. 394 & Hwy. 100, without charge. quired; contact the and Classism,” featuring 8:30–10 a.m. Reserve by 25 Gustavus Adolphus Gustavus Ticket Center Felice Yeskel, executive di- calling Don Swanson ’55 at College Association of (507-933-7590). rector of Class Action; 763-533-9083. Congregations’ 22nd an- 14 Conference: “Building Alumni Hall, 7:30 p.m. 18 Music: Gustavus Jazz Lab nual convention, keynoted Bridges” student-led diver- Open to the public without Band Home Concert, Steve by Terence Fretheim, Elva sity conference, “Liberation charge; for more informa- Wright, director; Jussi B. Lovell Professor of Old through Education,” featur- tion, contact the Diversity Björling Recital Hall, 7:30 Testament at Luther ing Erin Gruwell, president Center (507-933-7449). p.m. Open to the public Seminary; Christ Chapel, of the Freedom Writers 2–4 Music: 2009 National without charge. opening at 9:30 a.m. Pre- Foundation; Christ Chapel, Tubonium; Jussi 19–22 Linnaeus Symposium registration required for 10 a.m.–6 p.m. Ticket re- Björling Recital Hall. For Artist-in-Residence: delegates from member quired; for information and more information, visit Watercolor artist Gail congregations; for more in- reservations, contact the www.houseoflowaire.com. Johnson Speckmann ’73. formation, contact the Diversity Center (507-933- 4 26th annual President’s For schedule, contact Office of Church Relations 7449). Ball: “Timeless Elegance,” Shirley Mellema, Linnaeus (507-933-7001). 14 “Easter Bunny Breakfast,” featuring the Rockin’ Arboretum (507-933- 29 29th annual MAYDAY! Peace hosted by GLA; Mt. Olivet Hollywoods; Nicollet Island 6181). Conference: “Tiananmen +

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2008 Nobel Conference lecturer Curtis Marean returns to the campus in March as the Drs. Robert E. and Susan T. Rydell Professor at Gustavus Adolphus College October 6–7 Nobel Conference® 45: “H2O – Uncertain 20,” keynoted by Jianli public without charge; reg- Breakfast, featuring Kathy Resource,” Lund Arena, Yang and Andrew Nathan; ular museum hours: 9 a.m.– Tunheim, assistant profes- opening at 9:30 a.m. on Christ Chapel, opening at 4 p.m., Mon.–Fri.; 1–5 sor of economics and man- Tuesday. For ticket informa- 10 a.m. Open to the public p.m., Sat. & Sun. Opening agement; Doubletree Hotel, tion, contact the Office of without charge, but pre- reception: May 2, 4–7 p.m. Minneapolis-Park Place, Marketing and registration requested; con- 3Music: Percussion Hwy. 394 & Hwy. 100, Communication (507-933- tact the Office of Marketing Ensembles Spring 8:30–10 a.m. Reserve by 7520), look for the regis- and Communication (507- Concert, Robert Adney and calling Don Swanson ’55 at tration form inserted in the 933-7520). Paul Hill, conductors; Jussi 763-533-9083. Fall 2009 issue of this Björling Recital Hall, 1:30 29–30 Alumni Reunion magazine, or visit the May p.m. Open to the public Weekend: 45th- and 50th- College’s Nobel Conference 1, 2, 3, 8, & 9 Theatre: The without charge. anniversary class reunions website (gustavus.edu/no- Impresario from Smyrna, 3Music: Woodwinds and 50 Year Club gathering; belconference). by Carlo Goldoni, directed Chamber Concert, Ann Alumni Association Banquet 9–10 Homecoming and Family by Henry MacCarthy; Pesavento, director; Jussi and awards presentation Weekend (note revised Anderson Theatre, 8 p.m. Björling Recital Hall, 3:30 (May 30), Evelyn Young dates): Receptions and din- (May 1, 2, 8, & 9) and 2 p.m. p.m. Open to the public Dining Room, 5 p.m. Pre- ners for the classes of (May 3 only). Ticket required; without charge. registration required; con- 1969, 1974, 1979, 1984, contact the Gustavus Ticket 3Music: St. Ansgar’s Chorus tact the Office of Alumni 1989, 1994, 1999, and Center (507-933-7590). and Birgitta Singers, Relations (800-487-8437 2004 in Mankato and the 2 Honors Day: Convocation, Gregory Aune and Nick or gustavus.edu/alumni/). Twin Cities on Friday Christ Chapel, 10:30 a.m.; Wayne, conductors; Christ 30 Music: Gustavus evening; reunion events on Honors Recital, Jussi Björling Chapel, 7 p.m. Open to the Symphony Orchestra campus on Saturday. For Recital Hall, 1:30 p.m. For public without charge. Season Finale, Warren more information, contact more information, contact 8Music: Gustavus Friesen, conductor; Christ the Office of Alumni the Office of Marketing and Philharmonic Orchestra Chapel, 8 p.m. Open to the Relations (800-487-8437). Communication (507-933- and Vasa Wind Orchestra, public without charge. 7520). Brian Buckstad and James 31 Commencement: Please Note: Times and dates of the 2 Diversity Awards Banquet, Patrick Miller, conductors; Baccalaureate, Christ Chapel, events listed on this page are subject Jackson Campus Center Jussi Björling Recital Hall, 9 & 10:30 a.m.; commence- to change. Please call to confirm Banquet Rooms, 6 p.m. 7 p.m. Open to the public ment exercises, Hollingsworth events of interest. Open to the Gustavus com- without charge. Field (weather permitting; munity without charge; for 10 Music: Lucia Singers’ if inclement, Lund Arena), Additional schedules, information and reserva- Mothers Day Concert, 2 p.m. Tickets required for information and updates tions, contact the Diversity Patricia Snapp, conductor; baccalaureate and for com- Sports Up-to-date sports Center (507-933-7449). Christ Chapel, 1:30 p.m. mencement if indoors; for schedules may be found on the Open to the public without Web, through the Gustavus 2Music: Gustavus Wind more information, contact homepage (gustavus.edu). Also, you Orchestra Spring Concert, charge. the Office of Marketing and can listen to selected Gustavus James Patrick Miller, guest 10 Music: Brassworks! Scott Communication (507-933- athletics broadcasts over the Moore, conductor; Jussi Internet through RealAudio. conductor; Christ Chapel, 7520). Broadcasts may be accessed 3:30 p.m. Open to the pub- Björling Recital Hall, 3:30 through a link on Gustavus lic without charge. p.m. Open to the public September athletics website, where a broadcast schedule may also be found. 2–31 Art Exhibition: Senior without charge. 8 Opening Convocation for Studio Art Majors’ 20 Spring Semester ends. the 148th academic year of The Arts Tickets for theatre and 20 dance performances are available Exhibition; Hillstrom Twin Cities “Come On, the College, Christ Chapel, two weeks in advance of the Museum of Art. Open to the You Gusties” Alumni 10 a.m. performance through the Gustavus Ticket Center (507-933-7590).

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Cultural competency—

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y—Why it matters

by Carolyn More than ever before, Gustavus students need the opportunity to O’Grady learn about the world beyond the borders of their comfort zone. According to a 2006 survey sponsored by National Geographic, most young adults between the ages of 18 and 24 are woefully ignorant about the rest of the world. While about half of the respondents answered most of the survey questions correctly, a surprising 63 percent could not ﬁnd Iraq on a map, though U.S. troops have been there since 2003. Furthermore, 48 percent of young Americans think the majority population in India is Muslim (it’s Hindu), 20 percent think Sudan is in Asia (rather than being the largest

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country in Africa), and half of respondents could not find New York on a map. Add to this the fact that two-thirds of young American adults do not speak a second language fluently and we have the dismal reality that too many recent college graduates are unprepared for a future that is increasingly global and multicultural. As the survey authors noted, “Far too many lack even the most basic skills for navigating the international economy or understanding the relationships among people and places that provide critical context for world events.”i International educators are increasingly using the term “cultural competency” to describe an array of knowledge, skills, and attitudes that has become essential for college graduates and those entering the professional workplace. But what exactly does this term mean, and how can it be cultivat- ed? The idea of “cultural competency” has its roots in the fields of health care and education. As health practitioners recognized the need to respond to growing diversity in Students studying in Peru bring home images of Machu Picchu and a “bigger vision” o f a complex their clientele, they soon came to under- world. Photo by Brigette Peterson ’08, spring 2007. stand that providing culturally appropriate

A history of international education at Gustavus

n official international pro- focus as well as a cross-cultural one. As dean of students from 1953 to 1965, grams office was first estab- Furthermore, the faculty was united in its be- Melva Lind had responsibility for foreign stu- lished at Gustavus in 1968. lief that financial assistance should follow dents on campus and for undergraduates ap- Even before that time, members students as they studied abroad, a commit- plying for study assignments to other coun- ofA an International Relations Committee comment many colleges and universities were tries. Her support for international posed of faculty and administrators had nur- then (and still are) unwilling to make. perspectives helped pave the way for the es- tured exchange programs that enabled faculty Through the years, as the international edu- tablishment of a professional office of inter- and students to travel cation office be- national programs. abroad and what were then came the Office Jere Victorsen called “foreign students” to of International Thompson ’76 was attend Gustavus. By 1973, Education (OIE) the office administra- the faculty had voted to es- and, more re- tor for international tablish an international edu- cently, the education during the cation office, but it would be Center for 1970s. In 1981, the another eight years before a International first official director, full-time professional direc- and Cultural Sarah Stevenson, was tor would be hired to coordi- Education hired to manage the nate this aspect of the (CICE), this em- office (Sarah still College’s mission. phasis on study works in international From the outset, faculty and culture has education, now at the believed that international guided the work University of St. education experiences of each director Thomas). Ruth Mason should have an academic Ruth Mason of the office. Carol Moline became director of

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care was both a more effective means of en- they know. As Sharon Parks, associate direc- suring patient health and well-being and a tor and member of the faculty at the means to close the disparities gap in health Whidbey Institute, near Seattle, reminds us, care across racial, ethnic, and linguistic com- the complex world in which we live requires munities. If a health practitioner could un- moral courage, persistence, and a bigger vi- derstand the health, healing, and wellness sion if we are to engage the most critical is- belief systems of a client and the impact of sues of our time.ii these on healing, he or she would likely be Every college education should push more successful. Likewise, in the ﬁeld of ed- students to step out of their comfort zones, ucation, a teacher’s skill in understanding examine their own values, identify on what cultural differences in students enhances his basis those values are built, and grapple with or her ability to help every student learn new ideas from multiple perspectives. Any most effectively. college education worth its salt should dis- In essence, cultural competence is the comfort students enough that they learn to ability to honestly examine one’s own preju- think critically about taken-for-granted as- dices and stereotypes and learn to effectively sumptions, but not so much that they feel a understand and interact with people of dif- sense of failure and just give up. One of the ferent cultures. Acquiring cultural compe- most effective ways to help students step The Greek island of Santorini, a popular stop tency takes time and, perhaps most impor- out of their comfort zone, begin to develop for students studying in Europe. Photo by tantly, a willingness to accept that one’s cultural competence, and feel supported in Martin Kaduc ’01, fall 1999. own cultural values and perspectives are not the process, is through off-campus study. the only way to see the world. If we are to When students study away, either at a do- educate a generation of leaders who will be mestic or international location, their learn- able to cope with global threats and oppor- ing goes beyond textbooks into an experi- tunities—terrorism, environmental degrada- ential education with unique depth and tion, economic globalization—we must intensity. help them expand the boundaries of what continued on next page

the office in 1983. position. Her time Under her guid- as director was ance, the College particularly chal- made huge strides lenging as the forward in estab- world entered a lishing a compre- new era after 9- hensive approach 11. The impor- to international tance of global perspectives. Ruth understanding increased the num- took on a new ur- ber of off-campus gency, but so did study programs, the importance of ensuring their aca- risk management. demic integrity Mona Rizk-Finne John Cha Patrick Quade By this time, near- through regular ly fifty percent of program reviews. She was committed to in- their work, and are remembered by many Gustavus students were studying off-campus creasing the number of international students alumni for their wisdom and generosity. prior to graduation, almost triple the percent- on campus and was effective at working col- When Ruth retired in 1997, Julie Rabaey, age from the early 1970s. laboratively with others on campus to pro- the office’s then international student advis- When John Cha, associate professor of re- mote an international perspective at er, stepped in as interim director for two ligion, became director in 2003, he faced fi- Gustavus. Ruth was ably assisted in the office years, assisted by Carol Moline. In 1999, nancial and staffing pressures because of stu- by Marianne Colberg Keswani ’53, interna- Mona Rizk-Finne was recruited from the dents’ growing interest in study abroad. John tional student adviser, and later by Carol study-abroad office at Texas A&M. Born in worked diligently to ensure that off-campus Moline, study-abroad adviser. Both these Egypt, married to a Norwegian, Mona brought study costs were as low as possible for stu- women brought energy and commitment to a wealth of international experience to the continued on next page

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continued from previous page cially in the United States than the students themselves know. Gustavus ﬁrst-year students are in line Off-campus study is also the best way to with a national trend that shows a majority learn a language. Being immersed in a cul- of entering college students have some in- ture that speaks another language—whether ternational travel experience, and a third of among Latinos in south Texas or in Spain— entering students hope to study away while enables students to learn it more quickly. they are in college.iii Study away can help Study away also enhances employment students grow in maturity. It challenges prospects. From an employer’s perspective, their stereotypes of the “other,” helps them a student who has studied off-campus has build skills in independence and decision- gained valuable experience that will be an making, introduces them to what will likely asset to the organization. Students who be lifelong friends around the world, and study off-campus become more self-moti- Students studying off-campus encounter enables them to view their own country vated, independent, able to embrace chal- people, languages, and cultures that enable from a broader and more nuanced perspec- lenges, and able to cope with diverse indi- them to view their own country and culture tive. Students who return from study viduals and situations—all skills that from a broader perspective. Photo of children abroad often comment that residents of the organizations want in their employees. in Viti Levu, Fiji, by Amanda Johnson ’06, country in which they studied know more Living and studying in a foreign country, or January 2005. about what is going on politically and so- continued on page 27

well, with the ex- pectation that a new director would also oversee cur- ricular and institutional commitments to the cultural compo- nents of off-campus study. On her staff are Jeff Anderson, inter- The CICE staff: Jeff Anderson, Jill Fischer, Nancy Plamann, and Linda Shaw. national student services coordinator; history ies. His years of experience in international Jill Fischer, study abroad adviser; Nancy continued from previous page education were instrumental in helping Plamann, CICE finance manager; and Linda Gustavus move toward a more viable financial Shaw, assistant CICE director and January dents but in balance with the financial needs model for off-campus study, as well as more Interim program coordinator. of the College. John’s efforts at long-range rigorous policies and application procedures Each of the program’s directors believed planning for the office provided opportunities and a more comprehensive approach to issues firmly that off-campus study and internation- for on-campus discussions about the impor- of program safety and academic quality. He al student recruitment are essential aspects tance of international education to the mis- led the office for two years before “retiring” of a liberal arts education. Through their sion of the College. He was instrumental in once again, this time to take a job as chief of work, the College continues to realize its mis- leading a pivotal self-study and external re- international development at United sion to educate students with an internation- view of international education at Gustavus International College in Zhuhai, China—now al perspective to work toward a more just and before returning to the faculty in 2006. Upon an exchange partner with Gustavus. peaceful world. his departure, Carol Moline also retired after Carolyn O’Grady, professor of education, serving 18 years in the office. became the sixth director of international Contributions to articles in this section also Patrick Quade was hired as interim direc- studies at Gustavus when she assumed the came from Jeff Anderson, international tor to respond to recommendations made by post in the summer of 2008. When Provost student services coordinator; Melinda the external reviewers. Pat had already retired Mary E. Morton renamed the office the Center McCannell-Unger, interim study abroad from St. Olaf as a professor of theatre and di- for International and Cultural Education adviser; Nancy Plamann, finance manager; rector of international and off-campus stud- (CICE), the role of the director changed as and Linda Shaw, assistant CICE director.

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Meet the current director

arolyn O’Grady became director of the newly named Center for International and Cultural Education (CICE) in 2008. A Quarterly representative visited with O’Grady Crecently. GQ: Why did you decide to accept this position? CO: I was on sabbatical during 2007–08, doing research on several areas of interest to me [see p. 12]. I also had time to reflect on where I was in my career, and I realized I needed a new challenge. I am 54, and I’d been doing the same thing for quite awhile. I wanted to do something new that would really push me out of my comfort zone, force me to learn new things, and also give me an opportunity to Carolyn O’Grady stretch in new ways. Simultaneously, the provost was looking for someone to lead the office under its new configuration as the Center for GQ: What languages do you speak? International and Cultural Education. My desire to do something new CO: I am woefully monolingual. I have studied French and can sort of coincided with her desire to move the office in a new direction. get by with it when I travel. I know just a little bit of Spanish. One of my life goals is to learn to speak Spanish, but I haven’t accomplished GQ: What experience do you have for this job? that yet. My advice to every student is to learn a second language. I CO: I’ve had a lot of administrative experience from positions I held am embarrassed when international students come to Gustavus and prior to working in higher education. For instance, I’ve had other jobs they speak at least two languages, usually more, and most of us speak where I’ve supervised staff, developed strategic plans, and managed only one. It is a weakness in our educational system. big budgets. Most of my colleagues at Gustavus don’t know how varied my professional past has been. So this position calls on some skills I GQ: What is the biggest challenge you face in your job? haven’t tapped in a while. I also have an in-depth understanding of CO: There are really two big challenges. The first is to figure out how faculty governance at Gustavus, as I have been here since 1994 and to keep off-campus study financially accessible for students. This is a have chaired or served on several faculty committees. So I brought a problem every off-campus study office in the country is facing. Travel knowledge of the Gustavus context and the kinds of students we serve. costs are up, the economy is down, and yet we want as many students I took students to Northern Ireland in January 2005 to study issues of as possible—ideally every student—to study away. The second big conflict and social justice, a course I co-taught with English professor challenge is to cope with the safety issues that inevitably arise when Elizabeth Baer and theatre professor Steve Griffith ’75. I also have ex- we send students on study away. I’ve been introduced to the world of tensive experience with multicultural education and cultural perspec- risk management and the responsibility that entails. All the other chal- tives, the subject of my doctoral dissertation and my subsequent lenges pale in comparison to these two. teaching. However, I had little expertise in the field of international education, and that has been the steepest learning curve for me. GQ: What plans do you have for the office in the next few years? CO: I know from reading through the office archives that I stand on GQ: Did you study abroad when you were in college? the shoulders of the wonderful directors who preceded me in this job. CO: No, I wasn’t able to take advantage of any study abroad opportu- What I hope to do is to continue the initiatives begun by the likes of nities when I was a college student. I also wasn’t able to do the “back- Ruth Mason, John Cha, and Pat Quade [see p. 22]. Central to my goals packing in Europe” trip after graduation that so many of my friends did are to build an endowment so that more students can afford to study back in the 1970s. However, when I was 29 I finally got my interna- away, to help the faculty integrate international perspectives more tional experience. I quit my job (I was teaching high school at the deeply into the curriculum, and to continue to refine the quality of the time), sold my car, and I left the United States on a one-way airline academic off-campus study programs that students can choose. It’s ticket. I didn’t know how long I would be gone, but I didn’t plan to also important that we expand the numbers of international students come back until I had spent all my money (all $1,600 of it). I finally who study at Gustavus, and this means we have to work on how to returned almost two years later. In those two years I traveled widely, fund that. hitchhiking most of the time and living on about $5 a day no matter what country I was in. (It was easier to live on five dollars a day in Turkey than it was in Sweden!) For the most part I camped in a tent, Carolyn can be contacted at [email protected]. The CICE and I definitely depended on the kindness of strangers. I think of my website is gustavus.edu/academics/ied/. life as “BT”—before travel—and “AT”—after travel—because those two years certainly had a huge impact on me.

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Signature Programs

Gustavus offers three exemplary semester courses, but its focus on the environment, dents are spending four programs that focus on aspects of the culture, gender, ethics, and development re- months studying con- College’s mission and heritage: our commit- mains the same. The program is led in even temporary Swedish his- ment to social justice and our Lutheran and years by a Concordia faculty member and in tory, current migration Swedish foundations. The programs are de- odd years by a Gustavus faculty member. policies, environmental signed and led by Gustavus faculty members. Professors Doug Huff (philosophy), Barbara policies, the culture of Simpson (psychology), and Phil Voight (com- the indigenous Sami, Social Justice, Peace and munication studies) have been past faculty and emigration/immi- Development: leaders. In fall 2009, Pam Kittelson (biology) gration history. Anders Roland Thorstensson A Semester in India will lead the program. As one anonymous stu- Wall, Uppsala, Sweden, A semester in India opportunity had been dent participant wrote about the experience, has provided funding for the 2009 group to available to Gustavus students in the 1980s, “The trip to India isn’t just a trip, but a jour- ensure the program cost for students is as but it took the vision and efforts of several ney into yourself. All of a sudden, India below as possible. The Spring 2010 faculty di- individuals to create what would become a comes part of you, and you end up being rector will be Lisa Heldke (philosophy). Three signature program for Gustavus. In 1992, more afraid of going home than coming [to members of the 2009 student group are blog- Deane Curtin, professor of philosophy, Peter India].” ging: Alex Legeros is at http://alexinsweden Hovde, director of the Office of International 2009.blogspot.com/; Education at Concordia College in Moorhead, Gustavus Semester in Germany Andrew Nelson is at and Ruth Mason, director of international ed- This program is based entirely in the former http://nearthenorth ucation, proposed to the faculty a East Germany and explores the history, cul- pole.blogspot.com/; Gustavus–Concordia semester program focus- ture, and religion of the country. Students and Kristen Chirafisi ing on community development in India. In study the language and gain an informed un- is at http://kristensin the fall 1993 semester, 18 students enrolled derstanding of Germany and of Germans in sweden2009.blogspot. in the first offering of “Community the modern era. Weekly cultural excursions com/. Development in India,” with funding and col- augment students’ academic learning, and Andrew Nelson ’10 laboration from the ELCA. Courses focused on lodging through the semester includes home theories of development, the environment, stays, a monastery, and guesthouses. Run in the role of women, and the history of India. collaboration with the ELCA Wittenberg Students also engaged in independent study. Center, the program began in 2001 The most valuable thing studying abroad By 1996, the consortium included Visthar, an and is offered in the fall semester. taught me was . . . to trust yourself. I was an unsure, NGO in Faculty director for Fall 2009 is Bangalore led by Mary Solberg (religion). naive sophomore when the Gustavus/Concordia Semester in David Selvaraj, India program found me. I learned more about myself during who became the Gustavus Semester the months I spent traveling in India than I had in my whole program dean in Sweden life. It clarified for me my goals, my dreams, and my beliefs. for “Community A Gustavus semester pro- My time spent studying India’s healthcare system put me on Development in gram in Sweden has long the path to becoming a registered nurse. Today I am a nurse India.” Now in been a goal for its 15th year, Scandinavian studies profes- manager in my hometown hospital, thrilled to be able to the program has sor Roland Thorstensson, give back in a tangible way to the community I grew up in. a different name and his planning has finally My study-abroad experience is never far from my mind and and slightly dif- borne fruit. During the Spring on a daily basis I can still feel the effects of what I learned. David Selvaraj ferent academic 2009 semester, he and 13 stu- from Jennifer Bottke ’04 (nursing)

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even a different state, can set an applicant apart from the majority of job candidates, who will look less well-rounded or experienced than the applicant who studied away. The same skills that make someone mar- ketable in employment are also valued by graduate schools. Flexibility, an understanding of cultural contexts, ability to adapt to new circumstances, independence, self-confidence, teamwork, analytical skills—these traits are what employers and graduate schools are looking for. And the majority of Gustavus graduates understand how important such an experience can be. About two-thirds of our students study off-campus before graduation, either in short-term courses during January Interim, or on semester- or yearlong programs. Since an international education office was first established at Gustavus, our students have studied in almost every country of the world, Exposure to different traditions and religions is and many students select study abroad in generally count toward graduation and, critical to functioning and communicating places that are challenging. They tend to often, toward general education or major across national and cultural boundaries. Photo choose India more often than Italy, for in- requirements. The personal, emotional, and by Kyle Chester ’07, Chiang Mai, Thailand, stance, or somewhere in Central America intellectual growth that takes place is, to spring 2006. rather than somewhere in central Europe. quote students’ most mentioned comment, Because students are engaged in aca- “life changing.” These students are begin- demic study, their off-campus study courses continued on next page

What’s in a name? Study Away,Study Abroad,Off-Campus Study?

ff-campus study is more than just “study abroad,” though that is the first term that comes to mind, especially when we think about global study opportunities. But “study abroad” is in fact too narrow a description of the opportunities Gustavus students have for off-campus study. The Center for International and CulturalO Education has a list of almost 150 approved semester- or yearlong programs from which students can choose. Among these are programs in Oregon, Washington, D.C., and Minneapolis. Off-campus study experiences during January Interim include courses to India, Argentina, and Tanzania, but also the U.S. Southwest and northern Minnesota. The term “study away” is a more accurate description of what students are doing, since it expresses their choice to study in an approved off-campus program. Students may be most significantly affected when they choose to travel abroad, but not always. It can be more potentially transformative to immerse oneself in a study program on the Texas- Mexico border, among illegal immigrants and those who work with them, than to engage with the more familiar cultural context of central London. At the same time, some students will find studying in central London to be a big stretch merely because the location is outside the boundary of the United States. The mission of Gustavus is to develop culturally and globally engaged students. Whether students develop these competencies through international or domestic off-campus study also depends upon their personalities, backgrounds, comfort levels, and objectives. “My Sherpa Sister, Dawa,” photo by Amber Wilson ’05, Nepal, spring 2004.

Spring 2009 27 01 Spring 09.3bak:Winter 03-04 MASTERS.1 2/5/09 10:20 AM Page 28 Sharon Stevenson continued from previous page Transcultural learners are challenged to develop thoughtful and clarified ning to explore what it means to be a global identifications, not only as members citizen, and this knowledge is critical for all of particular cultural and national our futures. As Richard Slimbach, professor communities, but also as global citi- in the department of global studies and so- zens who understand that their ciology at Azusa Pacific University, remarks neighbor is everyone alive. In a in defining what is meant by a “transcultural world that daily grows smaller, and in journey,” our nation’s future security and which everyone’s problems are prosperity depend on the ability of citizens everyone else’s, transcultural under- to function across national and cultural standing will become the only place boundaries. where peace can find a home.iv (p. In the final analysis, . . . political and 218) economic dilemmas can only be ade- quately addressed through persons Carolyn O’Grady, professor of education, joined and policies that recognize that our the Gustavus faculty in 1994 and was named destinies are intertwined, and that director of the Center for International and choices to harm our neighbor actual- Cultural Education in 2008. ly end up harming ourselves.

i The 2006 National Geographic-Roper Survey of Geographic Literacy can be found at http://www.nationalgeograph- ic.com/roper2006/ﬁndings.html. ii Parks, Sharon Daloz, foreword to The Spirit of Service: Exploring faith, service, and social justice in higher education, Brian T. Johnson and Carolyn R. O’Grady, eds. (Bolton, Mass.: Anker Publishing Company, Inc., 2006), pp. xv–xvii. iii See the Open Doors 2008 Report at http://opendoors.iienetwork.org/. The Gustavus Symphony Orchestra (pictured in iv Slimbach, Richard, “The transcultural journey,” Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, Vol. XI (August 2005), pp. 205–230. January 2008) has toured in China twice.

The economics of off-campus study

he cost of off-campus study is a challenge for par- The long-term benefits of off-campus study, particularly at in- ents, students, program providers, and colleges. ternational locations, far exceed the short-term program cost. A Program and travel costs are up, scholarship and student’s future employment prospects are enhanced with interna- loan availability is down, and everyone is looking tional experience, facility with a second language is increased, and closelyT at their budgets. The global economic crisis has hit us all, the skills that are learned through the experience positively impact and it is fair to ask whether the value of off-campus study is worth a student’s world view and sense of self. In economic terms, the the cost. cost of off-campus study is still a good value, earning a student At Gustavus, off-campus study will generally cost more than the credits that count toward graduation or toward major or general ed- comprehensive fee (tuition plus room and board), but how much ucation requirements. At no other time in their lives will students more depends on the program type and its location. The College have the flexibility in time, the support of many individuals work- contributes a portion of a student’s tuition toward the cost of the ing on their behalf to make the experience worthwhile, and an un- program (currently that contribution is 60 percent). Some colleges derwriting of the costs as they have while in college. Generally, stu- and universities do not contribute any part of a student’s tuition to dents who are financial aid recipients will continue to receive the the cost of off-campus study, expecting students to pay full on- same financial aid awards as they would have received had they re- campus tuition and full off-campus program tuition. Other colleges mained on campus, with the exception of a work-study award for or universities send all the tuition money off campus, but for budg- the term they will be abroad and certain scholarships that require a et reasons choose to limit the number of students who can be off- student’s participation on-campus (e.g., some music and theatre campus at any one time. Gustavus has chosen a middle path. Our scholarships). philosophy is that any student should have the right to study off- For more information about how program costs are figured, see campus (providing he or she meets our requirements for off-campus the CICE website (gustavus.edu/academics/ied/studyabroad/ study), and the cost should be borne by both the student and the ProgramFees.php). institution.

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Looking back, I now view my semester abroad as having had two roles in my development. First, it supplemented and enhanced the well-rounded nature of my On exchange programs Gustavus education. I had the opportunity to see historical sites in person—to smell the air at the swimming pools from the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, to feel the energy of the crowd around articipating in an exchange program can be an es- the Mona Lisa at the Louvre in Paris, to taste my own tears at the pecially cost-effective way to study off-campus. Gustavus offers seven exchange programs, which International Red Cross Museum’s Holocaust exhibit in Geneva. . . . generally operate on a one-to-one tuition ex- I learned to mesh academics with personal change.P For each, students pay their regular tuition at Gustavus perspective. and receive tuition at the exchange school. At Kansai Gaidai Secondly, and more importantly in my estimation, my travels University and Universiti Sains Malaysia, exchange students also afforded me a sense of cultural tolerance and of self-reliance that I pay their room and board to Gustavus and it is applied to the cost only thought I had prior to living in a foreign country. I had been of the program; at the other five listed below, students pay room and board direct on-site. fortunate enough to travel to Europe as a teenager, visiting family ■ Uppsala University, Sweden friends for a couple of weeks. They shepherded me around Paris, ■ Växjö University, Sweden closely under wing. I thought I had seen the world! A few years later, ■ Mora Folkhögskola, Sweden mapping out my own adventures and navigating my plans in the ■ CAL-Besançon, France “real world” proved to be a more challenging task. In one day, ■ United International College-Zhuhai, China I experienced both prejudice and unexpected kindness from ■ Kansai Gaidai University, Japan ■ Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia strangers, each from the most surprising of sources. I learned to temper hasty judgment of others while remaining in tune with my instincts.. Exchange programs— an alum’s perspective from Tracy Sorenson ’95, RN (international management major; semester Beth Zirbes ’06 signed up for Swedish Somewhere in the abroad in France, 1992) 101 completely on a whim. She had in- middle of her second year tended to take Spanish for all the typical studying Swedish, Beth decided to reasons: she had some experience from study abroad in Sweden. “Gustavus has ex- high school, it was a useful language to change programs with a few universities in Sweden. Studying at know, etc. But, as a freshmen, her regis- a big university allowed the opportunity to take upper-level courses, but tration priority was low, and she wasn’t there was a chance that all of the Swedes, eager to practice their Beth Zirbes ’06 able to make it into any of English skills, would only speak English the convenient sections of with me. Also, it was very likely that the Spanish. “The options that worked in my schedule,” she classes I would take would be taught in recalls, “were German, French, and Swedish. Since I had English. heard good things about Professor Roland Thorstensson, “There was also an exchange program I decided to take Swedish. I have no Swedish heritage with a little school in Mora. My classes in and I knew nothing about Sweden.” Mora would only give me elective credits, At first, Beth’s but all of those classes would be in intent was simply Swedish. Since my primary goal was to to learn another master the Swedish language, in the end I language. “I had no decided to study in Mora. Most students in particular interest in the Swedish Mora are preparing for college, so the difficulty level is lower than at a culture,” she admits. After being university. However, from day one, I spoke nothing but Swedish. In the exposed to it, however, she be- beginning it was terribly confusing, but over time, I became more and came more and more interested in more proficient. At one point in time I started to dream in Swedish! On Sweden for its culture. “After all, a few occasions I even forgot how to say some things in English. Mora how many places require fathers to was the perfect environment to learn the Swedish language.” take leave from work when they from Beth Zirbes ‘06 (math) have a baby?”

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the international student experience

Gusties Against Poverty. The Nobel Conference In 2007 she joined a new global Web on globalization was also an important form- movement—Avaaz—that promised to “close ative experience, where I was exposed to de- the gap between the world we have and the velopment theories and personally met world most people everywhere want.” Jeffery Sacks, who is an inspiration on issues Graziela says, “People talked about how of global poverty, and trade and globalization.” the Internet would revolutionize politics, but After graduating, Graziela’s ﬁrst job was no one really had an idea of how that would as a community organizer in the Bronx. After happen. Avaaz . . . showed how it could hap- two years in New York City, she decided that pen. It started ambitiously, tackling big glob- it was time to start building a bridge be- al issues such as climate change, Israel and tween the United States and Brazil. “There Palestine, global poverty, and conﬂict situa- was an increasing global sense of people’s tions. In less then two years we created a list shared struggle and a drive to change of more than 3.4 million people from every things,” she recalls, “and I Graziela Tanaka ’02 and her son, Ziri. wanted to be a part of it. So I organized a delegation of hen Graziela Tanaka ‘02 arrived at 104 community leaders from WGustavus from Brazil, she was plan- the U.S. to the World Social ning an academic career in archaeology, but, Forum in Porto Alegre, as happens with many people, she left the Brazil, bringing together College with a completely different idea of local communities to ad- what she wanted to do. dress global issues. After “My last semester was the Fall of 2001, that I got involved with dif- when the Twin Towers fell, and like everyone ferent projects in Brazil such else my perspective of the world shifted dra- as a HIV/AIDS prevention matically. As an international student in the program in favelas in Rio de United States at that time, I developed a Janeiro, a technology coop- strong globalist identity, and sensed a voca- erative, and an NGO that tion to take responsibility for the world. I promoted digital inclusion had already been active with the Gustavus in low-income communi- chapter of Amnesty International and also ties.” Tanaka in Morocco.

I participated in two programs while attending Gustavus. During the fall of my junior year, I studied in Geneva, Switzerland, and followed it up a year later with a semester in Apia, Samoa. I used my study-abroad experience to study a subject I couldn’t otherwise study at Gustavus: the airline industry. I spent two semesters on opposite ends of the world meeting airline executives, government ofﬁcials, and opponents of the airline industry. When I returned to Gustavus, I used my experience abroad and wrote my senior thesis on the airline industry. That thesis then helped me get my ﬁrst job in the airline industry working on the commercial side for Southwest Airlines in Dallas, Above, international students at Gustavus display their Texas. I spent a few years in Dallas and eventually moved on to other airlines in home nations’ flags during Washington, D.C., and New York. Seven years after graduating from Gustavus, I’m International Day in chapel. still involved with the industry but now living and working in Barcelona, Spain, as Royalty for a day: the European director of sales and support for a U.S.-based software company that International students Kabor provides software to airlines. Xiong and Megdi Wu clown for from Martin Kaduc ’01 (political science) the camera.

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country on the globe, which responds quickly to doctors throughout Africa. The to global crisis moments. We bring the Gustavus chapter of Africa Partners world’s representation to global decision- Medical has held fundraisers and has making moments, meeting directly with world raised awareness of the need for health leaders and attending international events care in Africa with campus programs such which have always been out of reach to the as “Battle of the Majors” and volunteering average person. We have accomplished some at Immanuel-St. Joseph Hospital in pretty big feats, such as raising more than 2 Mankato, Habitat for Humanity, and the million dollars for the cyclone relief efforts in Salvation Army. Burma and passing a human chain handshake Vwaire feels that his experience as a from the Dalai Lama all the way to China. We Collegiate Fellow for three years at created a YouTube hit to challenge the ‘Islam Gustavus has helped improve his leader- versus West’ mentality, and helped pass glob- ship skills, critical thinking, organization, al policies on cluster bombs and overfishing. and independence, which was necessary “It’s exciting to work for an organization to begin the chapter of Africa Partners where one day I am coordinating volunteers Medical at the College. Vwaire also has in Warsaw and the next talking to civil socie- been a chemistry teaching assistant, an ty groups in Zimbabwe. I work with people assistant in the Office of the Chaplains, a from Iraq to Singapore, and I love being able Vwaire Orhurhu tour guide for the Office of Admission, to act as a world citizen expressing a shared and a member of the Gustavus Percussion vision for the planet and actually working to tion developed by health care practitioners at Ensemble, the Pan African Student impact it.” Mayo Clinic in which Vwaire is active. Organization, and the International Cultures Vwaire has created a chapter of Africa Club. He has conducted neuroscience research Partners Medical at Gustavus, the first at an at Gustavus and genetic research at Mayo waire Orhurhu, a senior chemistry undergraduate institution in the United Clinic, and has taught children in local Vmajor and pre-med student from States. Vwaire and 40 other Gustavus stu- schools about Nigerian culture. Nigeria, is using education to help prevent dents gather surplus medical supplies from “It is all about creating community,” says needless death in Africa. That is the goal of hospitals and send them to Mayo Clinic, Vwaire. Clearly for Vwaire and Gustavus, that Africa Partners Medical, a national organiza- which ships them to Ghana to be distributed community is international.

Right, President Jack and Kris Ohle are surrounded by the new international students enrolled for the Fall 2008 semester.

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Gustavus student teachers in Spain

Student teachers Dawn Lewis, Brittany Oslund, Annika Torkelson, Riley Hoffman, and Rachael Click in Sotogrande, Spain. I studied abroad in Berlin in the fall of 2004 and in Dijon in the spring ive students from the Department of Education completed a ses- of 2005. During the summer of 2006, I also was sion of their student teaching in Spain during Fall 2008. They an intern at RUBiS, a program at the Freie Universitaet were assigned to the International School at Sotogrande (SIS), which was founded in 1978 and is located on the southeast in Berlin, Germany. I knew even before I started college Fcoast of Spain. The curriculum and instruction used at the school is under that I wanted to study abroad, and I knew that I wanted the direction of the International Baccalaureate Organization programs where I could learn to speak the language, live with (www.ibo.org) and is based upon project-oriented curriculum and facili- a host family, and also have the opportunity to take unique tative instruction. Students conference with teachers to choose, devel- courses and have time to travel. The year I spent abroad proved op, and present conceptual topics of interest they learn about and what I was capable of, and I came back a different, and also experience. Rachael Click, Riley Hoffman, Dawn Lewis, Brittany Oslund, and hopefully a better, person. I began working at CIEE (Council on Annika Torkelson were the first students in the Sotogrande- International Education Exchange) in Portland, Maine, a few months Gustavus teaching partnership, inaugurated in 2008. According to after I graduated from Gustavus. Since working at CIEE I have headmaster Christopher T.J. Charleson, the student teachers “had traveled to various countries, such as Chile, Colombia, Argentina, an amazing impact at SIS.” At least two of the students have Jamaica, Trinidad, Singapore, and my all-time favorite, Thailand. My been offered jobs at SIS when they graduate with their teaching study-abroad experience helped prepare me for working in an certification. This experience is one of four proposed “study away” opportu- international setting, and I am extremely grateful for all of the nities for student teachers. In Spring 2009, five students will stu- opportunities that I’ve had because of it. dent-teach in Barrow, Alaska. In addition to Spain and Alaska, proposed sites include China, South Africa, and a border-state domestic from Danielle Brandts ’06 (international site. Read more about the Sotogrande experience on the students’ management and German) blog: http://rclick9.blogspot.com.

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Off-campus study experience beneﬁts Role of parents

professor and her arents have an essential role in helping their son or students Pdaughter decide when and how to pursue off-campus study. In many cases, parents provide the financial means, but they also provide the moral support, encouragement, and good advice that are needed in selecting a program or country in he opportunity to which to study. “ lead January courses abroad has been of What are some reasonable expectations your son or daughter huge benefit to me as should have of your role in the process? aT professor and as an artist,” says ■ You will talk with your child about his or her plans and goals Priscilla Briggs, assistant professor of for the experience. Your interest and enthusiasm will be clear art at Gustavus. “Researching and de- through the kind of questions you ask. signing a course abroad with a col- ■ You will research your child’s destination in collaboration league from the geography depart- with him or her. Both of you should know about the culture ment was a great learning experience. and geography of the location of study. This pre-departure We worked to create an interdiscipli- preparation always pays off. nary course in which students study Priscilla Briggs ■ You will help your child plan for day-to-day expenses while on the positive and negative effects of off-campus study and what kind of daily budget to live within. tourism in a developing nation through a combination of assigned ■ You will support your son or daughter through inevitable cul- readings, research, experiential learning, and photography.” ture shock or homesickness. It is important to be responsive Briggs maintains that her teaching experience has informed her and sympathetic, and to remember that these emotions are a personal artwork as well. “While in Thailand with the students, I typical part of the off-campus study experience. took photographs that became part of a solo exhibition, ‘Global ■ You will expect your child to be changed by this experience. Market,’ which explores the interconnectedness of the global market Encourage your son or daughter to share stories, thoughts, and, specifically, tourist markets. One example of a photograph in and perspectives, and be prepared to hear new passions and this exhibit is a portrait of a long-neck Karen woman holding a new ideas. postcard she sells in a souvenir stall in front of her house. The image on the postcard is a picture of her dressed in the traditional What are some unreasonable expectations of your role in the clothing she wears on a daily basis because her village has become process? a tourist destination. Admission is charged to enter the village, and ■ You interfere with your child’s control of the experience. its occupants—Burmese Remember that this is not your study-abroad adventure, it is refugees without Thai cit- your son or daughter’s. It is very important that your child izenship—have little take primary responsibility for the selecting, applying, and choice but to participate planning of the off-campus study experience. in this charade in order to ■ You allow your fears about your child’s safety to undermine earn a living.” his or her confidence in traveling. It is normal to have anxi- In addition to leading ety when a son or daughter ventures far from home. It is im- January courses abroad, portant not to let this anxiety inappropriately influence the Briggs has participated in choices your child makes. two faculty seminars fo- ■ You expect daily e-mail or telephone updates from your cused on social justice child. Too frequent communication with family or friends and service-learning, in back home can undermine the experience your child is seek- Cuba and Namibia. After these trips, she worked to bring the semi- ing. Encourage your son or daughter to communicate with nars’ experiences to the larger campus and community by curating you regularly, but remember that he or she should be busy exhibitions of photographs by faculty members who were on these and fully engaged in the study experience. trips. “I also show some of these photos to students in classes when addressing image and text and advertising. For instance, one The Center for International and Cultural Education can answer section of the exhibit on Cuba included photographs of public ad- many questions parents may have (within the guidelines of the vertising—exclusively government propaganda, which is in sharp Family Education Rights and Privacy Act—FERPA). We include contrast to American billboards and advertising. A parallel in the parents in the application process of off-campus study by re- photographs of Namibia was the ubiquitous presence of Coca-Cola quiring your signature on some forms. For more information, advertising as it appeared on schools, welcome signs for towns, and please see the Parent page of the Gustavus website even shanties in the settlements.” (gustavus.edu/academics/ied/parents/).

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international education in a more dangerous world

by Carolyn O’Grady

ate in November, terrorists attacked several key tar- tion is often that life at home is safer than life “over there.” U.S. gets in Mumbai, India, including the main media coverage of the rest of the world focuses on overseas politi- Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST) railway station, cal upheavals, violent strife, and natural disasters rather than on the CAMA hospital, a Jewish religious center, and positive political and social developments or on the richness and theL luxury Taj Mahal and Oberoi Trident hotels. At least 174 people human warmth of life as it is actually lived. Students who study died in the attacks, including 27 foreigners; roughly 239 others abroad often comment on how “normal” life seems abroad, in spite were wounded. All eyes were on India, and news reports of possible of cultural differences. further violence continued for weeks. At the time of the bombings, Regardless of whether a student studies off-campus within the Gustavus students were on the Gustavus/Concordia Social Justice, United States or at an international location, safety is everyone’s Peace, and Development Semester in India program. Our students responsibility. Parents, students, and the Center for International 150 were in Udaipur with their faculty leader (near New Delhi in the and Cultural Education all have a role to play in minimizing poten- north), but scheduled to return to Bangalore by way of Mumbai. tial dangers. It is essential that both students and parents educate Such events fray the nerves of study-abroad advisers, parents, and themselves about the potential safety risks associated with any college administrators. What is the right course of action in such an area of the world. Whether in the United States or in another coun- event? try, a student’s safety depends most on his or her exercising good There is no question that traveling involves some risks, regard- judgment and responsible behavior. less of whether one is traveling to Southern California or to the The Office of International and Cultural Education works closely southern hemisphere. News reports of violent events in far-flung with students as they plan their off-campus study so that they will places can reinforce parent or student anxieties about studying off- have the best experience possible. Several policies govern health campus. These anxieties are understandable, but should not be and safety, and Gustavus will not allow students to begin a program blown out of proportion. The truth is, students may be safer on an at a site that is under a U.S. State Department travel warning. approved off-campus study program than visiting the hottest new Situations throughout the world are monitored on a daily basis. destination for spring break. Most importantly, our office tries to prepare students and faculty Indeed, within hours of the bombings in India, Concordia and prior to departure for whatever may arise. Terrorist attacks remain Gustavus had implemented the emergency management protocols extraordinary situations, and the vast majority of trips to India or that immediately go into effect in such a situation. Among other other countries are incident-free. We may not be able to guarantee things, this involves ensuring that students are in a safe place and, safety, but we work hard to plan for the unexpected and educate with the help of contacts in-country as well as security services to the College’s student and faculty travelers to do the same. which we subscribe, determining whether we should keep the students where they are, move them, or even bring them home. After much consultation and monitoring the situation closely, it was clear that students were safer where they were than had we tried to Resources bring them home prematurely. This decision also ensured that their academic study could continue. The students on the Fall SJPD pro- U.S. Department of State country-specific information gram were adamant that they did not want to be sent home early. (http://www.travel.state.gov/travel/travel_1744.html). The Center for International and Cultural Education conducts regular reviews of all approved programs to ensure academic rigor U.S. Department of State travel safety tips and high quality student service, including attention to health and (http://travel.state.gov/travel/tips/safety/ safety for program participants. But no off-campus study office can safety_1180.html). guarantee anyone’s health and safety. Instead, our goal is to “manage risk” to the greatest extent possible, and prepare for both the CICE website for policies regarding health and safety known and the unknown circumstance. (gustavus.edu/academics/ied/studyabroad/policies.php). In considering international off-campus study, it is important to have a comparative perspective of the United States and the world. Center for Global Education Study Abroad Handbook International observers view the United States as a quite dangerous (http://studentsabroad.com/resources.html; scroll down country. Our street crime statistics back up this view. No country to section on Safety). has as many guns or gun-related injuries and deaths. U.S. drug and alcohol abuse is among the highest in the world. Yet, the percep-

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2008–09 study away stats I spent a semester in Nepal my junior year at Gustavus and that experience Seven Gustavus students are studying off-campus for the year in five7/5 has had a profound impact on my life, both personally different countries (Spain, Sweden, Japan, Greece, and England). and professionally. Living with a host family really opened Fifty-four students studied off-campus in Fall 2008 in 22 countries my eyes to a different way of life, while at the same time (Tanzania, Chile, Argentina, Australia, China, Portugal, Germany, 54/22India, Ireland, New Zealand, England, Spain, Denmark, Scotland, I learned that at the end of the day we all care about the same Japan, South Korea, South Africa, Russia, Sweden, Ghana, and things. My study-abroad experience undoubtedly helped me to get Italy as well as the United States). my internship my senior year at Children’s HeartLink, an Edina-based In Spring semester, 61 students are studying off-campus in 18 International NGO. After college I got the itch to travel again, so countries (Italy, Sweden, France, Thailand, Chile, Costa Rica, another Gustie and I lived in Seoul, South Korea, for a year teaching South Africa, Ireland, Russia, Spain, Jordan, Denmark, England, English and traveling around Asia. The following summer I backpacked 61/18Scotland, Australia, Argentina, South Korea, and the United States). around Europe for seven weeks and got a taste of European culture. During January Interim 2009, 150 students took Gustavus faculty-led I am currently working as an international services specialist for a off-campus study courses in 12 different countries (South Africa relocation company in the Twin Cities. I feel extremely fortunate that and Namibia, Tanzania, India, England and Wales, Argentina, I was given such a wonderful opportunity. The Center for International 150/12Ecuador, Guatemala, Australia, and Washington, D.C.) and Cultural Education helped me choose a program that was right Two students studied on a career exploration, one in Bolivia and one for me, and it had a greater impact on me than anything else in Honduras. Two students were on independent studies (in Madagascar and the United States), and two students up to that point in my life. were on internships (in Ghana and China). 2/2 from Amber Wilson ’05 (communication studies)

The opportunity to meet other world citizens face to face makes off-campus study “life changing.” Photo taken in India by Lillie Hollingsworth ’08, fall 2007.

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Sportsnotes

Ridley named Academic All-American

ustavus football player T.J. Ridley, a junior team. He is the eighth Gustavus football player to Gsafety from Edina, Minn., has been named to be honored, following Dave Najarian ’82 (1980, the CoSIDA/ESPN The Magazine Academic All- 1981), Dan Duncan ’00 (1998, 1999), Andy America College Division Second Team as selected Kopperud ’01 (2000), Brian Bergstrom ’02 (2000), by the College Sports Information Directors of Andy Traetow ’03 (2002), Ben Spilseth ’03 (2002), America (CoSIDA). Ridley, who carries a 3.96 grade and Isaac Sieling ’05 (2004). point average with a major in biology, ﬁnished the Gustavus ranks ninth among all Division III in- season with 38 tackles (18 solo), two interceptions, stitutions in total number of CoSIDA Academic All- and 1.5 tackles for loss. He is also a forward on the Americans (75). Last year, the Gusties tied for the T.J. Ridley Golden Gustie men’s hockey team. fourth-highest number of Academic All-Americans Ridley becomes the 75th Gustavus student-ath- among all divisions, with eight. G lete to be named to a CoSIDA Academic All-America

Haugen is new head football coach

eter Haugen, a Minneapolis, Minn., native who record of 111–44, while winning 11 league champi- P has been the head football coach at Washburn onships and posting a league record of 76–8. He di- High School in Minneapolis for the past 15 years, rected the Millers to the Class AAAA quarterfinals in has been named the head football coach at 2007, finishing with a mark of 9–3. While building Gustavus. Haugen succeeds Jay Schoenebeck ’80, the program at Washburn, Haugen increased player who announced just prior to the 2008 season that participation from 35 players in 1994 to 110 players he was stepping down after 15 years as the Gusties’ last fall. head coach to pursue other interests and spend Gustavus Athletics Director Al Molde stated, more time with his family. “Peter Haugen brings an outstanding record of suc- Beginning his responsibilities in January, cess on the football field. Eleven conference cham- Haugen was enthusiastic about joining the Gustavus pionships speak volumes about his ability to lead a community: “My wife, Brenda, and I are excited to football team. However, Peter is much more than a Peter Haugen begin serving Gustavus Adolphus College, and we football coach. He is a valued administrator, a car- feel blessed to be a part of its incredibly rich aca- ing counselor and leader, working in a multicultural demic and athletic heritage.” setting to develop programs for student leadership During his 15 years as the head coach at and retention. We are excited to have him join our Washburn High School, Haugen compiled an overall coaching staff.” G

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TM Brian Fowelr Welch named to d3football.com All-America Team

ustavus Adolphus junior Gsafety Joe Welch (Hastings, Minn.) has been named to the 2008 D3foot- ball.com All-America Team. Welch, who was selected to the Third Team Defense, is the second Gustavus player ever to be named to the D3foot- ball.com All-America team, joining Andy Traetow ’03, Joe Welch who was a second-team selection as a return specialist in 2000. Welch was also a d3football.com First Team All-West Region selection. Welch had an outstanding 2008 season, leading the Gusties with 98 tackles, including 51 solo stops, to go along with one tackle for loss, one forced fumble, and one fumble recovery. Welch ﬁn- ished third among MIAC defensive players with 10.1 tackles per game as he was named to the All- MIAC ﬁrst-team defense. G

Fall Sports Summary were named to the all-conference team. In addition, Stewart-Franzen and by Tim Kennedy ’82 Horton were named First Team All-Region selections by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA).

Football – The Gustavus football team was in contention for the MIAC title Women’s Soccer – The Gustie women’s soccer team posted a record the entire season, but heartbreaking losses to St. Olaf (in overtime) and of 7–8–3 overall and finished eighth in the MIAC with a mark of 4–5–2. Junior Concordia in the final two weeks of play landed the Gusties in a fifth-place tie forward Chelsea Craven (St. Cloud, Minn.) was named to the all-conference with a league mark of 4–4 (6–4 overall). Senior wide receiver Chad Arlt (St. team. Several players received academic honors, including Alison Dittmer (jr., Michael, Minn.) shattered multiple career receiving marks and was named First Plymouth, Minn.), who was a First Team CoSIDA Academic All-District selection; Team All-MIAC for the second straight year. Others earning First Team All-MIAC Callie Christensen (sr., Bloomington, Minn.), who was a Third Team NSCAA All- honors were senior guard Jared Thelemann (Kilkenny, Minn.), junior linebacker Central Region First Team Scholar; and Craven and Christy Tupy (sr., Burnsville, Tony Palma (Lino Lakes, Minn.), and junior safety Joe Welch (Hastings, Minn.). Minn.), who received honorable mention on the NSCAA All-Central Region Welch was also named to the d3football.com All-West Region First Team. Scholar Team.

Men’s Soccer – Coach Larry Zelenz’s squad just missed claiming its fifth Volleyball – Coach Kari Eckheart’s squad recorded one of the finest sea- consecutive league title, as the Gusties finished one point (8–2–0, 16 points) sons in the history of the program, posting a 26–5 overall record, finishing sec- behind champion Carleton (8–1–1, 17 points). The team also saw its streak of ond in MIAC regular-season play with a mark of 9–2, placing second in the MIAC four consecutive playoff titles come to an end with a 3–0 loss to Augsburg in a post-season tournament, and earning a spot in the NCAA tournament for the semifinal playoff game. The Gusties registered double-digit wins for the eighth first time since 1986. The Gusties saw their season come to an end with a 3–0 consecutive season, finishing with an overall mark of 13–5–0. Senior defender loss to UW-Eau Claire (18–25, 21–25, 21–25) in the first round of the NCAA Flynn Stewart-Franzen (Minneapolis, Minn.), junior midfielder Fraser Horton (Missoula, Mont.), and first-year defender Justin Eglseder (Eden Prairie, Minn.) continued on next page

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Women’s golf team claims MIAC championship

he Gustavus women’s golf Tteam held off longtime rival St. Thomas to win the first MIAC championship in the program’s history in early October at Bunker Hills Golf Club in Coon Rapids, Minn. The Gusties fired a 54-hole total of 324-333- 323–980 to finish nine strokes ahead of St. Thomas, which posted a total of 328-335- 326–989. Senior Kimbra Kosak (Grand Rapids, Minn.) tied for second individually with a total of 80-84-79–243. By winning the MIAC championship, Gustavus earns an automatic bid to the NCAA championships, which will be held May 13–16 at the PGA Golf Club in Port St. Lucie, Fla. The Gusties are ranked #2 nationally in the most recent National Golf Coaches Association (NGCA) poll. G

The 2008 MIAC champion women’s golf team – front row from left: Lauren Runsvold, Katie Schenfeld; back row: Kali Griggs, Kimbra Kosak, Taylor Drenttel, and head coach Scott Moe.

Fall Sports Summary Foley (Minneapolis, Minn.), who led the Gusties all season, earned all-confer- Continued from previous page ence honors with a fifth-place finish at the MIAC championships, as well as All- Region honors with a 14th-place finish at the NCAA Central Region meet. tournament, which was held at the University of St. Thomas. Senior setter Bridget Burtzel (Cold Spring, Minn.) and senior libero Emily Klein (Red Wing, Women’s Cross Country – The Gustavus women’s cross country Minn.) received First Team All-MIAC honors. Burtzel and Klein were also named team capped its 2008 season with a sixth-place finish at the MIAC champi- to the America Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) All-West Region Team. onships and an 11th-place finish at the NCAA Central Region meet. Sophomore Brooke Beskau (Hastings, Minn.) earned all-conference honors with a ninth- Men’s Cross Country – The Gustavus men’s cross country team place finish at the MIAC championships. She also received All-Region honors by closed out a solid 2008 season with a sixth-place finish at the MIAC champi- virtue of placing 18th at the NCAA Central Region meet. onships and a 14th-place finish at the NCAA Central Region meet. Senior Dan

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John Kauss wins singles title at ITA Small College Championships Brian Fowelr

ustavus men’s tennis player John Kauss Gdefeated Chris Goodwin of Emory University 6–2, 6–3 to claim the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Division III Singles Championship in early October in Mobile, Ala. Kauss, a senior from St. Paul, Minn., is the first Gustavus men’s tennis player to win the ITA Division III singles title. Seeded fourth out of eight players John Kauss in the tournament, Kauss upset defending champion and top-seed John Watts of Washington University (St. Louis, Mo.) 6–4, 6–3 in the semifinals before knocking off #3- seed Goodwin in the finals. He did not drop a set in any of his three matches at the tournament. Kauss joins former Gustavus men’s tennis players Kevin Whipple ’03 and Eric Butorac ’03 as the only Midwest Region players to claim ITA Division III titles. Whipple and Butorac won back-to-back doubles titles in 2001 and 2002. Kauss also played in the doubles portion of the ITA championships with partner Mike Burdakin, a junior from Bettendorf, Iowa. Kauss and Burdakin, who were not seeded in the tournament, played extremely well, finishing second out of eight teams. The Gusties top doubles team lost the championship match to Chris and Michael Goodwin of Emory, 6–7 (3), 1–6. Both Kauss and Burdakin received All-America honors by virtue of advancing to the ITA Small College Championships. G Mike Burdakin

Women’s Golf – Coach Scott Moe’s squad ended a frustrating string of Men’s Golf – The Gustie men’s golf team closed out its fall season with a four consecutive second-place finishes at the MIAC championships by winning second-place finish at the MIAC championships, which were played at Bunker the program’s first-ever conference title at Bunker Hills Golf Club in Coon Hills Golf Course in Coon Rapids, Minn. Top finishers for Gustavus were junior Rapids, Minn. in early October. The Gusties fired a 54-hole total of 324-333- Ricky Copeland (Mahtomedi, Minn.), who finished third, and junior Josh Curb 323–980 to finish nine strokes ahead of St. Thomas. Four Gustavus golfers (Bemidji, Minn.), who tied for tenth. Copeland and Curb both received all-con- finished in the top ten, earning all-conference honors: senior Kimbra Kosak ference honors by virtue of placing in the top ten. The Gusties will spend the (Grand Rapids, Minn.), who placed second; junior Kali Griggs (Burnsville, Minn.) spring season trying to earn an at-large berth to the NCAA tournament, which and sophomore Katie Schenfeld (Indianola, Iowa), who tied for sixth; and first- will take place May 13–16 in Port St. Lucie, Florida. G year Taylor Drenttel (Eagan, Minn.), who placed eighth. By winning the MIAC title, the Gusties automatically qualified for the NCAA championships, which will take place May 13–16 in Port St. Lucie, Florida.

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TM Brian Fowelr Volleyball player Emily Klein named MIAC Defensive Player of the Year

enior Emily Klein has been Snamed the 2008 Defensive Player of the Year by Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference volleyball coaches for a third consecutive year. A libero* from Red Wing, Minn., Klein is a two-time all-conference honoree who led in the league in service aces per set at 0.48 and ranked third in digs per set at 6.31. The heart of the Gustie defense, Klein committed just 40 receiving errors in 670 opportunities this past season. She set a new single-season dig record with 664 digs in 31 matches, breaking her own record of 649 digs set in 2006. Klein will graduate holding every dig record in program history, including career digs (2,329) and digs in a match (48). G

* A libero (pronounced “LEE-bah- ro”) is a designated back-row player, intended to be used as a ball-control specialist. Introduced in NCAA play in 2002, the libero is allowed to replace any player in the back row without counting as a substitution. There is no limit to the number of libero replacements a team is allowed.

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Legacy Gustavus Adolphus College

Alumni gift will ‘make a difference’ for students with ‘big’ questions

by Kari Clark ’91

Brian and Janice Johnson ’63 ’63 or alumni Brian and Janice Johnson ’63 ’63, Gustavus FAdolphus College is where they started their life together. Brian and Jan met at Gustavus during their first year of college; Brian “We greatly appreciate this significant gift from Brian and Jan,” went on to pursue a career in dentistry and Janice in education. CVR Director Chris Johnson ’85 said. “It is an inspiration for fellow Together they raised three sons. Brian and Janice see the College as alumni, and signals their belief in Gustavus as a place that tackles the place where they gained the education, experiences, and values questions that really matter. Most importantly, they are helping stu- that helped shape their lives. dents prepare for meaningful lives of leadership and service in socie- As Brian and Jan approached their 45th class reunion, they want- ty.” ed to make a gift that would acknowledge their connection to Gus- If you would like to discuss intentional ways to make a gift to tavus and have an impact on future generations of Gustavus stu- Gustavus, please call the Gustavus gift planning staff at 1-800-726- dents. They also wanted to be smart about their giving. First, they 6192. G considered how they wanted to make a difference at the College. In their research, Brian and Jan learned about the Center for Vocational Kari Clark ’91 joined the institutional advancement staff in 2007 as a Reflection (CVR), a program established in 2001 through a Lilly director of planned giving. Endowment grant. Among the first of just a few programs like it in the country, the CVR is a significant mark of distinction for Gus- tavus. The Center’s mission—to challenge and equip students, faculty, and staff to more intentionally reflect on their vocations, their Their callings to live out their distinctive gifts, passions, and senses of faith charitable and meaning in ways that benefit their communities and help to ad- gift annuity dress the world’s deep needs—resonated with Brian and Jan. The Johnsons understand decisions ranging from career choice to faith will fund can be difficult and confusing. They believe in the value of a program scholarship like the CVR, where students can go with questions about life-direc- endowment tion, purpose, passion and faith. They decided to create a named endowment to support the CVR. John ’59 and With the help of a Gustavus gift planner, the Johnsons explored Cherrie Bold recog- strategic ways to make their gift. Instead of funding their endow- nize a good opportu- ment with cash, they wisely decided to make a gift of appreciated nity when they see stock. This type of gift allowed the Johnsons to support Gustavus it. They created a se- and avoid paying capital gains tax on the stock gain. They also e-r cure stream of in- ceived an income tax deduction on the full market value of the stock come for themselves with a Gustavus charitable gift annuity. they donated. With their gift, the Brian and Janice Johnson Center Proceeds from the annuity will eventually fund an endowment in for Vocational Reflection Endowment was established to help fund their name for the benefit of students majoring in economics and the programs of the CVR at Gustavus. management. G

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Legacy

From the Vice President, Ofﬁce o f Institutional Advancement A new vision for advancement

ecently I celebrated my third anniversary at Philanthropy is led by Director of Develop- RGustavus. I find myself in a leadership role ment Willie Johnson. Willie comes to us with 25 that I wasn’t anticipating when I celebrated my years of higher education development work, second anniversary at the College. A year ago most recently for DePauw University. He gets to Gustavus was looking for a new president and a lie awake at night thinking about how we raise vice president of institutional advancement. Both $12 million in gift income this year with major positions have now been filled. I can assure you gifts, Gustavus Annual Fund gifts, planned gifts, that we have a great president in Jack Ohle. He is and corporate and foundation gifts. going to help us move forward in incredible ways. We are currently searching for a director of I was quite satisfied working as a gift planner advancement services, whose job in one sense for the College and felt I was doing what I was will begin with a great audit in mind and back called to do for my alma mater. It was only after Tom Young ’88 up from there. That person will be charged with meeting with President Ohle that I felt a strong documentation of gifts, receipting of gifts, and urge to be a part of his administration in a different way. His thanking the givers. He or she is the person to call when you energy, his drive, his vision for how all of us together will deter- have a question about a pledge payment or matching gift. mine the future of the College paved the way for my decision to These three individuals will be working with another 20 who accept his invitation to serve as the vice president for institu- are the advancement team at Gustavus. These three will allow tional advancement. It is my honor to do so, and I look forward me to conduct my work in a fashion that will enable me to trav- to the challenges ahead as we work to ensure that the Gustavus el with the president to develop the relationships, secure the we know and love will be strongly positioned to meet the chal- funds needed to ensure our success, articulate and plan for the lenges of the future. culture of philanthropy we must have at the College, and I want to touch on three areas affecting institutional ad- lead—not micro-manage—the office. vancement to keep you in the loop on activities at Gustavus and Obviously the three areas in which we work overlap and re- as a way of clarifying what we do in institutional advancement late strongly to each other. They are part of a culture of philan- (with perhaps even a word or two about what we don’t do). thropy that is a circle, each depending on the others. Alumni First, a few words about the Office of Institutional Advance- relations cannot be divorced from fundraising, because for ment. For too many years, I believe, advancement at Gustavus some alumni their gift to Gustavus is the expression of their re- has been synonymous with simply “fundraising,” without relationship to the College. Development or fundraising cannot gard for the important role that alumni relations plays in our separate itself from alumni relations—great philanthropy is office. As a staff we have discussed and refined a mission state- built on profoundly personal relationships. And of course, with- ment for advancement that will help us think more clearly out the stewardship of great relationships, neither is possible. about what we do and how we communicate our role internally You can expect the Office of Institutional Advancement to at the College and externally. We arrived at this statement: “In- play a strong role in engaging you more fully in the life of the stitutional advancement at Gustavus Adolphus College does College and actively, enthusiastically, and unapologetically three things: Engage alumni and friends, Invite philanthro- inviting your philanthropy at levels you may not have imagined py, and Steward great relationships.” possible—both because you can and because we must. My hope is that you will help us talk about our office in terms of each of these areas of responsibility. So that our office may functionally meet these three opportunities and ensure that the vice president—regardless of who it is—can lead effectively, we have restructured the office around these areas. Thomas W. Young ’88 Alumni relations is led by Randall Stuckey ’83, the person you Vice President, Office of Institutional Advancement go to for anything related to alumni engagement, activities, and services. One of his great opportunities this year will be to think strategically about how we engage current students about what it means to be alumni of Gustavus, even as they are students at Gustavus.

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GUSTAVUS alumni

Contents news ■ Class reunions 48 ■ Twin Cities breakfasts 53 ■ weddings 55 ■ births 55 ■ in memoriam 57 ■ Gustavus Alumni — Where Are We? 59 ■ Distinguished Alumni Citation 60 ■ chapter agents 62

Gustavus Alumni Association

The mission of the Alumni Association is to facilitate among former students lifelong relationships with Gustavus and with each other, to enable alumni to actively advance . and engage in the mission o f the

College. toured Egypt in October 2008.

Class news and information to be Gary Kenning included in the Alumni section o f the Quarterly should be sent to: Diane Kvols Schweizer, Joyce Wallinder Schweizer, Joyce Kvols Diane Alumni Relations Ofﬁce 1964 of Class Gustavus Adolphus College 800 West College Avenue St. Peter, MN 56082-1498 phone ■ 800-487-8437 e-mail ■ [email protected] ■ The camel wore Gustie colors The camel wore Four friends from the website gustavus.edu Pictured from left are Johnson, John, and Johnson

GUSTAVUS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

OFFICERS Ron White ’75 President Celebrating 75 Seven members of the Class of 1955 celebrated their 75th birthdays during Jackie Carlson’s birthday party in October. Janna King ’76 Classmates pictured are from left Cecile Hilding Swenson, Eileen Ekberg Scott, Carol Roberg Lind, Clarice Tack Swisher, Vice President Joan Bonn Wright, Audrey Anderson Jaeger, and Jackie Carlson. Spouses also were in attendance. Jan Ledin Michaletz ’74 Past President & Ex-Ofﬁcio Representative, Board of Class Agents: Carolyn Trustees Jens Brusseau, JoAnn Randall Stuckey ’83 56 Johnson Lundborg Executive Secretary e-mail: [email protected] Kelly Waldron ’84 Reuben L. Carlson, Tigerton, WI, Treasurer and his wife, Kay (Jacobson ’58), celebrated their 50th wedding an- BOARD MEMBERS niversary.

term expires Fall 2009 Class Agents: Nancy Reiter Grimes, Liesl Batz ’90, Minneapolis 57 Marlys Mattson Nelson Vivian Foyou ’02, Morgantown, WV e-mail: [email protected] Derek Hansen ’94, Minnetonka Karen Stewart Kittlesen, Faribault, Jan Eiffert Hoomani ’62, DeCorsey inducted into Minnesota Old Timers Hall of Fame and her husband, Jim ’56, traveled Raleigh, NC Charles “Cubby” DeCorsey ’57 (left), Bloomington, was inducted into the to Alaska in June 2007 to celebrate ■ Jim “Moose” Malmquist ’53, Minnesota Old Timers Football Hall of Fame at a banquet last September. He is their 50th wedding anniversary pictured with 2008 Hall of Fame Committee president Gary Gustafson ’57. Arne M. Walker, Gatlinburg, TN, is Scandia DeCorsey is a retired educator and coach for Richﬁeld ISD #280. interim pastor at Holy Trinity in New Jan Ledin Michaletz ’74, Edina Port. Christopher Rasmussen ’88, Columbia Heights Class Agent: Class Agents: term expires Fall 2010 Barb Eckman Krig Owen Sammelson, 38 52 58 Carolyn Lund Sandvig Jeff Heggedahl ’87, Minneapolis e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] Kay Rethwill Moline ’56, St. Peter Frank Gamelin, Chelan, WA, and his Twylah Lundquist Benson, Sonya Johnson Berg, Glenwood, vol- Kristin Miller Prestegaard ’99, wife, Ruth (Vikner ’37), celebrated Greenville, PA, is retired. unteers as a foster grandmother ■ St. Paul their 70th wedding anniversary with Chet and Marcia Amundson Janasz, Mary Sutherland Ryerse ’90, family and friends on October 12, Class Agents: Brooklyn Park, celebrated their 50th 2008. Forrest Chaffee, Helen wedding anniversary. Woodbury Forsgren Hokenson Betsy Starz ’02, Maple Grove 54 Class Agent: e-mail: [email protected] Class Agent: Ron White ’75, Eden Prairie C. Eddie Johnson Pauline Melin Carol Johnson Heyl Glenchur, term expires Fall 2011 42 55th 59 e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] Woodland Hills, ANNIVERSARY Steve Bloom ’87, Lakeville Reuben Swanson, Fairﬁeld, OH, CA, is retired. Ralph Akermark, May 29–30 Cathy Edlund Bussler ’00, published his 16th book in January. Des Moines, IA, is 2009 50th Chanhassen Class remodeling an ANNIVERSARY Class Agents: Agent: old home ■ Adam Eckhardt ’08, Minneapolis May 29–30 S. Bernhard Erling, Dick DeRemee Duane Aldrich, Ryan Johnson ’96, Plymouth 55 2009 Ralf Runquist e-mail: [email protected] Willmar, is a re- Janna King ’76, Minneapolis 43 e-mail: [email protected] Nancy List Sebo, Cannon Falls, is retired insurance agent Peter Nyhus ’60, Park Rapids Marlys Gerber tired. ■ Dennis A. Anderson, Omaha, NE, Richard Olson ’82, Edina Johnson, Chisago is president emeritus of Trinity 50 Year ■ City, is an active CLUB Lutheran Seminary Joyce Ford golfer. May 29–30 Anderson, Eugene, OR, is a member 2009

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of the League of Women Voters and is active at Central Lutheran Church ■ Stu Anderson, Axtell, NE, is owner and operator of G & S Farms ■ Hope Pluto Annexstad, St. Peter, is a retired social worker ■ Jack W. Arthur, Lake Nebagamon, WI, is a retired biologist ■ Marilyn Gustafson Asp, Blaine, is a retired visitation minister ■ Jane Wells Behrhorst, Axtell, NE, is retired ■ Delores Johnson Bergman, Bloomington, is a retired Realtor ■ Louis Bittrich, Rogersville, TN, is professor emeritus of English studies and theatre at Texas Lutheran University ■ Joanne B. Broten, Denver, CO, is a retired associate conference minister for the United Church of Christ ■ Elizabeth Johnson Dahl, Apple Valley, is a retired elementary school teacher ■ David V. Eckman, Duluth, is a retired pastor ■ John Edman, Okatie, SC, retired as professor and director Gusties gather in Duluth of the Center for Vector Borne The Duluth Gusties Gather! event was hosted by Tom and Mary Boman on October 26. Pictured on ﬂoor from left are Al Diseases at University of California, Behrends ’77, Mary Boman, and Gene Zwickey. Kneeling are Tom Boman ’53, Harley Hanson ’78, Katie Pesch ’08, Davis ■ Muriel Doherty Haegele, Sara Olmanson ’07, Connor Ziegler ’08, and Kyle McKenzie. Standing are Elaine Vitalis Zwickey ’48, Dick Hane ’62, Judy Federal Way, WA, is a retired librarian Samuelson Hane ’62, Janice Erickson Eckman ’70, Patti Olson Jenkins ’71, Kristin Peterson ’75, Sandra Stephenson Nys ■ Ann M. Hendrickson, Wauwatosa, ’70, Helen Sandgren Munson ’56, Roger Munson ’56, Ellen Johnson, Wally Johnson ’57, Kerry Zajicek ’07, and WI, is a retired special education Michael Lynch ’07. Not pictured but also present was Bob Wahman ’57. teacher ■ Carol Johnson Heyl, Winona, is a retired bank ofﬁcer and is active at Central United Methodist Church ■ Dean E. Hillman, Fairmont, is a retired professor of otolaryngology and neuroscience ■ Clifford and Diana Sroder Johnson, Albuquerque, NM, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in Belize with their family ■ Orville D. Johnson, Stillwater, is retired ■ Ronald N. Johnson, Crossville, TN, is a retired pastor and is active at Christ Lutheran Church ■ Marvin L. Larson, Alexandria, is a retired pastor ■ Charles B. Lower, Madison, GA, is enjoying spending time with his nine grandchildren ■ Connie Ostrom Lund, Olympia, WA, is director of Capitol Healing Rooms of Windy City Gusties Olympia, WA ■ Allegra Nelson The Chicago Gusties Gather! event was held September 28 at the Hoekstra residence in Round Lake, IL. Pictured from left are Olson, San Diego, CA, is a retired Dick Moody ’62, Christine Weber Anderson ’02, Seth Reatherford ’95, Mary Nelson ’61, Al Hoekstra ’65, Chris Choukalas teacher and an avid quilter ■ Roger ’97, Rose Anne Farmer Hoekstra ’65, Yvonne Mesa-Magee ’95, Jack Sikora ’96, Craig Magee ’95, Vija Klode ’81, Darlene L. Peterson, Bemidji, is a retired Nelson, and Norm Nelson ’49. math teacher ■ Jack R. Proeschel, Wesley Chapel, FL, is retired from Johnson & Johnson ■ Jean Hjert team last summer ■ Paul Youngdahl, Class Agent: Class Agents: Richmond, Las Vegas, NV, is a re- Golden Valley, is senior pastor at Virgene Grack Sehlin Sandra Luedtke Buendorf, tired junior high teacher ■ Pat and Mount Olivet Lutheran Church. 61 62 Jan Eiffert Hoomani, Shirley Zaske Sweeney, Green e-mail: [email protected] Ben Leadholm Valley, AZ, celebrated their 50th Class Agent: Jan Sanftner Elvekrog, Birmingham, e-mail: [email protected] wedding anniversary in August 2008 Paul Tidemann MI, is retired ■ Evelyn Madsen Arthur V. Collins, Hayden Lake, ID, ■ Bob Swenson, Janesville, WI, is 60 Schroeder, Apple Valley, traveled to is president of Health Connections employed by Air Products & e-mail: [email protected] one of Gustavus’s exchange schools, LLC ■ Mary Anderson Kennedy, Chemicals, Inc. ■ Floie Vane, Barb Nordstrom Hanson, Red Wing, Uppsala University in Sweden ■ Vining, is a retired teacher ■ Anacortes, WA, retired from the re- recently returned from a trip to Greece Marilynn Clark Tanner, Hot Springs Charlotte Tesberg Stanley, Balsam search division at Hoffmann-La and the Greek islands ■ Willis Village, AR, is retired. Lake, WI, is retired. Roche Inc. ■ Warren E. Woods, Swenson, Cannon Falls, is retired. Fridley, played on a 70+ baseball

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Class Agents: Bill Lahti, 63 Paul Tillquist e-mail: [email protected] Margit Johnson Asmus, Monroe, WI, is a retired teacher ■ Jerry D. Rice, Edina, is the CFO of BioDrain Medical ■ Otto E. Templin, Hutchinson, is retired. 45th ANNIVERSARY Class May 29–30 Agents: 2009 64 Linda Leonardson Hallman, Joanna Carlson Swanson e-mail: [email protected] Gordon D. Olseen, Tipton, IA, recently retired.

Class Agents: Bev Nordskog Hedeen, 65 Elaine Buck Stenman e-mail: [email protected] Eunice Madsen Carlson, Jacksboro, TN, traveled to one of Gustavus’s exchange schools, Uppsala University in Sweden ■ Dwayne P. Daehler, 1962 classmates celebrate Festival of St. Lucia at Gustavus West Lafayette, IN, recently retired The Centennial Class of 1962 was well represented at the College’s 68th Festival of St. Lucia on Dec. 11, 2008, as a group of after 38 years in parish ministry ■ 14 women returned to the campus for the chapel service and luncheon. Pictured, front row from left, are Toni Bennett The Rev. Bruce Dissell, Hibbing, is Easterson, Jackie Falk Anderson, and Ruth Ann Johnson Leadholm; second row, Janet Swanson Swanson, Karen Koehn interim pastor at Calvary Lutheran Anderson, LouAnn Eckberg Reese, Roz Johnson Anderson, and Geri Sparks Evans; third row, Solveig Overdahl Goldstrand, and Bear River Lutheran ■ Dan R. Audrey Kylander Kramer, Sandy Luedtke Buendorf, Kay Estesen Mowbray, Mary Linnerooth Petersen, and Jan Swanson Dokken, Rochester, is retired ■ Sammelson. Mark Kuechenmeister, Walla Walla, WA, is a retired ophthalmologist ■ Marilyn Swenson Richter, Wayzata, is a Realtor with Roger Fazendin Realtors ■ Joyce Pick Vigness, Woodbury, is a retired nurse ■ Richard B. Whitlock, Bloomington, IL, retired as vice president for advancement at Illinois Wesleyan University.

Class Agents: Sharon Anderson 66 Engman, Joyce Henrikson Ramseth e-mail: [email protected] Ed Gustavson, Tulsa, OK, was honored as Physician of the Year by the Tulsa Area United Way ■ Margaret Ims Selfridge, Wayzata, is a retired teacher.

Class Agent: 67 position open e-mail: [email protected] Celeste Moberg Chayabutr, Arden Hills, is an application developer at ASI Communication ■ Karen Gjelsteen, Seattle, WA, received the 2007 Gregory Falls Sustained Luedtke visits White House Achievement Award in theatre, de- Luther Luedtke ’65, Newton, MA, president and CEO of Educational Development Center, Inc., attended a White House dinner sign, and education in Seattle ■ September 15 honoring President John and Theresa Kufuor of Ghana. Pictured from left are Luther Luedtke ’65, Theresa Sara Jacobson Hensley, Hebron, NE, Kufuor, First Lady Laura Bush, Ghana’s President John Kufuor, President George Bush, and Carol Lindstrom Luedtke ’67. is retired.

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Class Agents: retired ■ G. A. (Judd) Mowry III, John and Kris Lundberg Elk River, is a retired financial analyst. Ballata publishes book 68 Moorhead, Paula Phyllis Anderson Ballata ’68, White Bear Lake, has Navarro Class Agent: published Living as though There Is a Tomorrow, e-mail: [email protected] Todd Dokken Creating the Future by Choice using Reason, Duty, Mary Kaye Anderson, Dellwood, is 72 Love, and Belief: A Practical Handbook for Moral retired ■ Loretta Larvick e-mail: [email protected] Growth. Her book examines the causes and effects Harmatuck, Madison, WI, is the gov- Randall Christiansen, Fairbanks, AK, of moral growth and moral decay for individuals ernment services and reference li- is semi-retired from The Eye Clinic ■ and families, education, civil society, and govern- brarian at a Wisconsin state library Becky Jensen Detert, Welcome, is ments. Ballata notes that decay is easy but dan- ■ Kirk Sikorowski, Burnsville, is a retired from teaching but still works gerous and destructive for both the human and financial affairs coordinator for Silver at her quilt shop ■ Sharon Worden natural world, while moral growth is difficult but Sages. Folkerds, Red Wing, retired from powerful. She argues that, using our reason, sense of teaching ■ Steve E. Rogosheske, duty, love of life, and deepest beliefs, all of us can choose growth. We can create Class Agents: Eagan, is director of regulatory af- our personal, family, community, and even national future by choice. Dave and Jane Norman fairs at Chem-Tech LTD ■ Judy Book topics include finding the common good, the contagious effects of moral 69 Leitzman Dostal Schultz, Maplewood, retired growth and decay, parenting and teaching, leadership, justice, uses and misuses e-mail: [email protected] from teaching in June ■ Mary K. of power, taxes and their effects, economics, public policies, foreign aid, and envi- Peter J. Andersen, Woodbury, re- Wollan, Spring Park, is president of ronmental and humanitarian ethics, among others. Open-ended questions chal- tired after 35 years at 3M ■ Barb the National Association of lenge the reader to understand where we are heading individually and together. Seeley Devlin, Richfield, Orthopedic Nurses. Ballata is an English professor at Century College in White Bear Lake as well as is a part-time consult- a musician, business owner, tree farmer, parent, and poet. The Nest, her retail ant for Springsted 40th Class Agents: store in downtown White Bear Lake, offers customers choices that support environ- ANNIVERSARY Public Sector Rob Linner, mental responsibility, fair trade, and local community. She holds a master’s degree Advisors ■ Cynthia Oct. 9–10 74 Jan Ledin Michaletz in English and American literature with additional advanced study in history and Blomquist 2009 e-mail: [email protected] philosophy. Her last book, Writing from Life: Collecting and Connecting, was Gustavson, Tulsa, OK, Gary A. Hoff, published in 1997 as a college-level text for reading, writing, and thinking. was featured poet at the White Pine Chaska, is doing 35th Arts Festival in Stillwater ■ Marge computer soft- ANNIVERSARY Lovseth Hegge, Renner, SD, took 13 ware consulting Women’s Health magazine names Gustavus alumnus ■ Oct. 9–10 nurses to Tanzania for a study tour Tom Wetzel, 2009 one of nation’s top dermatologists for women ■ Cheryl Fisher Hultstrand, Ely, is a retired Neil Fenske ’69 was among four derma- Burnsville, is a retired pre-school teacher ■ Marlys tologists in the Southeast and 17 na- teacher ■ Susan E. Lewis, Strathroy, Rupprecht Wollschlager, Madison, tionwide recently listed among Ontario, is senior telecommunica- is a retired teacher. “America’s Top Doctors for Women” in tions consultant for EDS/Xerox ■ Women’s Health magazine. The maga- Jeff P. Miller, St. Peter, retired after Class Agent: zine teamed up with research firm Castle teaching biology 39 years in the St. Paul Heckt Connolly to create a definitive list of Peter school system ■ Bill F. Tews, 75 America’s best doctors in specialties of Cumberland, WI, is retired and a hos- e-mail: [email protected] particular interest to women. The list ap- pice volunteer. Barb Johnson Anderson, Shoreview, pears in the November 2008 issue of the is a music therapist for hospice pa- magazine (available online at Class Agent: tients ■ Joanne Sells Currence, www.womenshealthmag.com). Lindy Turner Purdy Colorado Springs, CO, is semi-retired Using mail and telephone surveys 70 from teaching ■ Judy A. and electronic ballots, physicians and e-mail: [email protected] Josephson, Stillwater, is retired ■ the medical leadership at leading hospi- Kathy Murphy Casmer, Eden Prairie, Claudia Hitchcock Peltier, Edina, tals were asked to identify exceptional is the chief EED examiner for shows horses and has won 50 state candidates. Each doctor’s experience was then thoroughly screened before a final Hopkins Community Ed ■ Steven A. championships ■ Philip selection was made. Fenske’s special expertise in skin cancer and melanoma was From, Cambridge, is a consultant for Richardson, Chicago, IL, is a broker/ noted. Melanoma is the second most common cancer in women in their late 20s, Western Red Cedar Lumber developer for Jameson Real Estate ■ but when treated early the success rate tops 90 percent. Association ■ Janet Rice Jaeger, Bill Skoog, Bowling Green, OH, is di- Fenske earned his M.D. degree at St. Louis University and completed a resi- Willmar, is retired ■ Craig Nelson, rector of choral activities at Bowling dency in dermatology at the University of Wisconsin Center for Health Sciences. He St. Peter, has retired from the Le Green State University ■ Paul O. is currently professor and chair of dermatology at the University of South Florida Sueur-Henderson schools after Skoog, Eden Prairie, is employed at in Tampa, FL. teaching for 36 years; he is now a Delta Dental Plan of Minnesota. field representative for the U.S. Census Bureau and works part-time Class Agent: education ■ Mary Kingbay Rockford, IL, is executive director of at Richard’s Restaurant and Pub in Bruce Olson Stubstad, Encinitas, CA, is employed Riverfront Museum Park. St. Peter ■ Bill Santee, Milford, MA, 76 by the Encinitas School District. is a research physical scientist for e-mail: [email protected] Class Agent: the U.S. Army ■ Luella Peterson Dave Fritz, Little Rock, AR, works for Class Agents: Mike Stanch Weir, Colfax, WI, is employed at EDS, an HP Company ■ Gail L. Al Behrends, 78 Community Health Partnerships, Inc. Gutsche, Missoula, MT, was recently 77 Terri Novak Delebo e-mail: [email protected] elected to the Montana Public e-mail: [email protected] Joni Barrott, Bellevue, WA, is a di- Class Agent: Service Commission ■ Jeff Odgren, Shannon Smith Deer, Apple Valley, rector of customer support for Big Bruce Johnson Boyertown, PA, is a pastor at St. is branch office administrator at Fish Games, which was rated by Inc. 71 John’s Hill Lutheran Church ■ Elaine Edward Jones ■ Sharon Dahl magazine as one of the fastest grow- e-mail: [email protected] Johnson Spangler, Lancaster, PA, Eskola, Duluth, works at Orden ing private companies in America ■ Kay Hagberg Enright, Grey Eagle, is received a master’s degree in health Middle School ■ David R. Patterson, Pat J. Conway, Wayzata, is employed

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and a teacher at Sweet Briar Public School ■ The Rev. Peter Lundell, Walnut, CA, has published his third book, Prayer Power: 30 Days to a Stronger Connection with God (Revell, 2009), in which he reveals how, through his own screw-ups, extraordinary experiences, and lessons learned from Christians of every stripe, one really can connect with God; more information is on his website, www.PeterLundell.com ■ Christy Kimzey Richmond, Duluth, GA, is the SAP functional lead for G & K Services ■ Debra Schafer Rose, Superior, CO, is a senior program manager for Stellar Solutions.

Class Agents: J.C. Anderson, 82 Richard Olson, Ann McGowan Wasson e-mail: [email protected] Leah Ross Holmes, Rochester, is employed at the Mental Health Center ■ Lisa Louisiana Kamrath, Class of 1969 ready for reunion Hutchinson, is a senior consulting Classmates from the Class of 1969 had such fun getting together in Florida in 2007 they decided to do it againlast analyst for Prime Therapeutics ■ September in Park City, Utah. The group reports they’re looking forward to their 40th reunion on campus. Pictured front row Michele Ritter Panken, Edina, is from left are Sue McNamara Showalter, Judy Matalamaki, and Jeanne Taylor Erickson ’68. Back row are Cathy Carlson employed at Land O’ Lakes ■ Kevin Jacobsen, Chris Pearson Floss, Dianne K. Johnson, Karen Alrick Jafvert, Darlene Gustavson Nielsen, and Julena Lind. M. Richardson, Danville, CA, is employed at Kaiser Permanente ■ Stuart M. Rome, Asbury, IA, is an at Saint Gerard Catholic School ■ dentist with Family area sales manager for Nonin Medical 30th ■ Representing Gustavus Ron Erickson, Cannon Falls, is the and Cosmetic ANNIVERSARY Lynnette Belk Schuetz, Eagan, is In the November 2008 elec- vice president of academic affairs Gentle Dentistry the community care coordinator at Oct. 9–10 tions, two more Gusties won and institutional planning at Dakota ■ Jim Lamphere, Allina Home Care, Hospice, and 2009 Minnesota state office. Paul County Technical College ■ Deb Lincoln, NE, is Palliative Care. Torkelson ’74, St. James, Sommerfeld Stapek, Minnetonka, is CEO/president of and Kory Kath ’00, the Minnesota state director of the Capitol Title Company ■ Doug Class Agents: Owatonna, join Mindy National Society of Accountants ■ Minter, St. Peter, is director of fi- Brad Somero, Rittenhouse Greiling ’70, A. Gregory Stone, St. Peter, is a nancial aid at Gustavus Adolphus 83 Karin Stone Roseville, and Margaret sales worker at Lloyd Lumber, College. e-mail: [email protected] Anderson Kelliher ’90, Mankato. Rebecca Campbell Hines, Dade City, Minneapolis, in the House of Class Agents: FL, is a music teacher at West Representatives. David Class Agent: Steve Sayre, Zephyrhills Elementary School ■ Su Hann ’73, Eden Prairie, is position open 80 Kent Stone Smallen, Lonsdale, is an editor in the lone Gustavus grad in 79 e-mail: [email protected] the Institute for Crime and Public the Senate. e-mail: [email protected] Bruce D. Olson, Northfield, is a Policy at the University of Martin H. Borchardt, Woodbury, is a chemist ■ Linda R. Peitzman, Eden Minnesota, an assistant professor of Prairie, is employed at Wolters interdisciplinary studies at St. Olaf Kluwer Health ■ Lori Erickson College, and an adjunct professor of Schmidt, Fargo, ND, is a nurse prac- creative writing at Hamline Alumni Class Reunions 2009 titioner at Minnesota State University. University, Moorhead ■ Sue Strange Classes of 1949, 1954, 1959, and 1964 Simonett, Maple Grove, is vice presi- Class Agents: and 50 Year Club dent of Global Infrastructure Services Carole Arwidson, at General Mills. 84 Ken Ericson May 29 & 30, 2009 e-mail: [email protected] Class Agents: Tom G . Asp, Edina, is pres- Classes of 1969, 1974, 1979, 1984, Steve Heim, ident and CEO/Owner of ■ 25th 1989, 1994, 1999, and 2004 81 Leslie Nielsen VTI Security Shari ANNIVERSARY e-mail: [email protected] McKenzie Black, Oct. 9–10 October 9 & 10, 2009, Homecoming Weekend Marcia Bloom Bodnar, San Diego, Wadsworth, OH, is an 2009 CA, is a human resource manager at oncology nurse practi- Information will be included in class letters , postcards, Optimer Pharmaceutical ■ Barb tioner at the Cleveland Clinic and on the alumni website. If you wish to serve on your Nelson Hutson, Robbinsdale, is di- Foundation’s Taussig Cancer Center class reunion committee, contact the Office of Alumni Relations rector of donor relations at Augsburg ■ Karen Clodfelter Blandford, at 800-487-8437 or [email protected]. College ■ Sherilyn Jonson Round Rock, TX, is an art teacher at Johnson, Almont, ND, is principal of Leander School ■ Ed R. Griese,

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Princeton, ME, is president of Munich president/external relations for Hedstrand receives Re America HealthCare ■ Uwe P. Lutheran World Relief ■ Susanne Health Hero Award Kausch, Duluth, is marketing and in- Stanonik Degen, Eau Claire, WI, is Dale Hedstrand ’70, Shoreview, was award- ternational sales manager at North director of radiology at Luther ed the “Health Hero” Award for 2008 by the Shore ■ Caryl Duncan Knutsen, Hospital ■ Peter J. Hendrickson, Cedar Riverside People’s Center of Middleton, WI, is a freelance editor Milford, MA, teaches Spanish in the Minneapolis. The Center is a non-profit or- ■ Dan B. McGinty, Shoreview, is West Borough School District ■ ganization that provides medical care to dis- president and CEO of Essentia Deborah McNeil Okon, Los Lunas, advantaged individuals. This marks the first Community Hospitals and Clinics ■ NM, is a private practice clinical psy- time the award has been given, as the Lynn Lutz McGinty, Shoreview, is a chologist ■ Dave J. Spiegler, Center was looking for a way to honor part-time assistant teacher at Chicago, IL, is senior associate direc- Hedstrand, a board member of 19 years. As Incarnation Lutheran Preschool ■ tor for development at Feinberg part of the award, a medical examination Paul C. Nelson, Minneapolis, is an Medical School, Northwestern room will be endowed in his name. In 2006, exclusive sales agent and agency University. Hedstrand also received a “Lifetime owner for Paul Nelson Agency, Inc. Achievement Award” from AIG for his contri- ■ Jeff C. Pedersen, Lake Elmo, is Class Agents: butions throughout his career in the financial services industry. Hedstrand found- employed at Assurant Health ■ Gail Chase Ericson, ed as well as manages Focal Point Financial Services, which won Business of the Susan M. Sandberg, St. Paul, 88 Luther Hagen, JoAnn Year Award in 2001 from the White Bear Chamber of Commerce. opened Almelund Mercantile, an an- Wackerfuss Quackenbush, tique and gift shop ■ Ellen Lund Jamin Johnson Schneider Strom, Minneapolis, is a self em- e-mail: [email protected] Agerter named CEO at ployed consultant ■ Julie Anderson John R. Bilski, Minneapolis, is a Austin Medical Center Wawczak, Roselle, IL, is a media manager for Urbanland Development David Agerter ’75, Rochester, has center technician for Spring Hills Corporation ■ Rhonda L. Ganske, been named CEO for the Austin School. Andover, is a small animal and ex- (MN) Medical Center and its four otics veterinarian in Champlin ■ satellite clinics. In addition to his Class Agent: Leif Hagen, Eagan, is an LPL finan- medical center duties, Agerter will Susan Johnson Chwalek cial adviser at Hagen Financial continue to serve as associate 85 Network, Inc. ■ Elizabeth Peasley dean for the Mayo School of e-mail: [email protected] Janssen, Freeman, SD, is a northern Health Sciences’ College of Rene Vadnais Cronquist, Brooklyn tier regional associate for Mennonite Medicine. Agerter has practiced at Park, is assistant director for the Central Committee ■ Anne Johnson Mayo Family Clinic in Kasson for Minnesota Board of Nursing ■ Bruce Podratz, Eagan, is a resource 26 years, served as chair of the R. Gullikson, Burnsville, is employed teacher, enrichment specialist, and Department of Family Medicine at at Lifetime Fitness ■ David T. administrative assistant in the Mayo Clinic from 1996 to 2005, Montgomery, Cupertino, CA, is a Burnsville-Eagan-Savage school dis- and was honored as the Minnesota senior manager, education market- trict. Family Physician of the Year in ing, for Apple, Inc. ■ Per Magnus 2007. Ranstorp, Copenhagen, Denmark, is Class Agents: the research director of the Centre Scott Anderson, for Asymmetric Threat Studies at the 89 Mike Dueber, nounced as a President’s Club winner Class Agent: Swedish National Defence College. Francine Pawelk Mocchi for her individual achievements in Bjorn Ingvoldstad e-mail: [email protected] 2007 at BI: The Business 91 Class Agents: Kris Engdahl Deyo, Improvement Company ■ Karin e-mail: [email protected] Melinda Moen Batz, Inver Grove Heights, Holm Cortese, Grand Rapids, teach- Kathy Beckers Ahrndt, Benson, won Dave Meyers, is supervisor/com- 20th es kindergarten at Grand Rapids ISD a $10,000 classroom makeover ■ 86 ANNIVERSARY Dan Murray, plex case manage- #318 ■ Heidi Kennedy Manning, Bob C. Baker, Cary, IL, is director at Sara Freeman Rekow ment for Health Oct. 9–10 Moorhead, is division chair of the OFS Capital ■ Rick Barbari, Eden e-mail: [email protected] Partners ■ 2009 Department of Science and Prairie, is vice president of health Lisa Larson Albers, St. Louis, MO, is Kimberly Kehl Mathematics at Concordia College ■ services and operations at Optum an assistant professor at Maryville Pearce, Omaha, NE, is employed at Jon C. Olson, Wayzata, was an- Health ■ Eric J. Carlson, Maple University ■ Susan King First National Bank of Omaha ■ Scott nounced as a President’s Club winner Grove, is the vice president of sales Christenson, Red Wing, is a substi- A. Stai, Brule, WI, is a pastor at Hope for his individual achievements in and marketing for XL Re Life America tute teacher in the Red Wing school Lutheran Church ■ Kris Dybing 2007 at BI: The Business ■ Mike Downing, Northbrook, IL, is district ■ Maynard D. Manthe, Wahlers, Sperry, IA, is an adjunct in- Improvement Company ■ Teresa vice president of tension solutions Mankato, is a business analyst man- structor at Southeastern Community Burgess Paetznick, Rosemount, is a for Allstate ■ Mark A. Mayer, Maple ager for Navitor ■ Laura Peterson College ■ Sally J. Wahman, St. team manager at 3M ■ Jill Grove, is a business analyst at Olson, Burnsville, is director of the Paul, is vice president/ambulatory Matthews Rickheim, Bloomington, Mortenson Construction ■ M. EMT division at Health East ■ Mark services for Fairview Health Services. is director of external reporting at Sharon Perera Miranda, Anaheim R. Roesner, Lakeville, is president of Ameriprise Financial ■ Jim F. Hills, CA, is a teacher at the Purolator ■ Rebecca Hakala Class Agents: Roberge, Zimmerman, is senior vice Montessori Academy of Yorba Linda Rowland, Eden Prairie, is an editor Liesl Batz, Dan Michel, president at Cobank ■ Mary ■ Eric J. Munch, Parkville, MO, is at Mpls. St. Paul magazine. 90 Anne K. Miller, Sutherland Ryerse, Woodbury, is re- employed at Thermo Fisher Scientific Scott Nelson gional director–Minnesota and Company ■ Ingrid Nyholm-Lange, Class Agents: e-mail: [email protected] Washington for Evictus ■ Teri St. Paul, is employed at the Lee Fahrenz, Steve Melissa Bruninga-Matteau, Irvine, Hedquist Scott, Windom, is the traf- American Swedish Institute ■ C.J. 87 Harstad, Paul Koch CA, completed her term as president fic office manager for KDOM Radio ■ Page, Minneapolis, is co-founder of e-mail: [email protected] of Associated Graduate Students at Kim Kraemer Westra, Inver Grove Present Moment Conscious Living Lisa Baumgartner Bonds, the University of California ■ Sherra Heights, teaches fourth grade in Retreat in Troncones Beach, Mexico Washington, DC, is vice Eckloff Buckley, Burnsville, was an- Inver Grove Heights. ■ Sherri Jenkins Patterson, St.

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‘Hosta Vista’ – Alumnus Hibbing, is manager of family invest- Class Agents: takes fresh approach to ments and finance at the Hibbing Sara Tollefson Currell, horticulture industry Housing and Development Authority 95 Amy Seidel Tom Carlson ’77 can’t get ■ Sara Nelson Shore, Stillwater, is a e-mail: [email protected] enough of the green stuff—fo- professional search manager at Volt. Amy Robinson Linnerooth, liage, that is. The Roseville, Mankato, is an environmental scien- Minn., hosta grower has turned Class Agents: tist at Westwood Professional his passion into two innovative Craig Anderson, Services ■ Michelle Heilman companies in the horticulture 93 Kristen Lamont Muench, Northfield, is an ophthal- industry. HostasDirect, Inc., is e-mail: [email protected] mologist at Northfield Eye Physicians now in its third year on the Dean Gabbert, Dorchester, MA, is and Surgeons ■ Katy Merrick Internet (www.hostasdirect. VP/sales and marketing for CMIT Overtoom, Pine City, is a senior ac- com), and IDeal™ Garden Solutions ■ Corey M. Peterson, countant for Holiday Companies ■ Markers (www.idealgarden Benson, is employed at Amundson Eric Persson, Taby, Sweden, is a markers.com) is now a year Peterson Inc. ■ John Preus, principal investment manager for old. Chicago, IL, is sculptor-in-residence Novax AB. “Hostas are the number- and wood shop manager at Little one-selling shade perennial in Black Pearl in Hyde Park/Kenwood, Class Agent: North America, and for good where part of his activity involves Shawn Mayfield reason,” Carlson says. “They being a trainer in the first and only 96 are beautiful in many ways, arts-based Workforce Development e-mail: [email protected] solve landscape problems, and Program, a pilot sponsored by the Michael F. Beltz, Grand Forks, ND, is add value to property. As evi- city of Chicago ■ Paul D. a philosophy professor at the dence for that, we have customers in 49 states, and people visiting our website Schiminsky, Las Vegas, NV, is office University of North Dakota ■ Jon from 74 countries. engineer for Hardstone Construction Blaha, Golden Valley, is employed by “My co-workers and customers are what make it fun. Some of our customers in ■ Gregory T. Sedgwick, the Opus Corporation ■ Stephanie Los Angeles and Florida are so hosta-crazy that they put their hostas into dorman- Bloomington, is vice president of Maass Evenson, Robbinsdale, is a cy by refrigerating during the winter. We even have an e-mail newsletter subscriber Pronto Heating ■ Marta pharmaceutical management analyst from close to the Arctic Circle in Sweden.” Hemmingson VanBeek, Iowa City, at Novologix ■ Kristine Djerf HostasDirect has taken a fresh approach to a mature industry. Carlson says, IA, is assistant professor of derma- Jelken, Merrill, IA, is an instructor “We uniquely offer disease-free plants; they might not be as large as those sold at tology at the University of Iowa of Spanish at University of South some garden centers, but we save customers 30 to 70 percent. We offer more than College of Medicine. Dakota ■ Brandon J. Lichty, 400 varieties and also offer divisions from mature hostas. Our hosta database, Lakeville, is a property manager for HostaSearch™—the world’s largest—lists more than 6,300 hostas. Combined with Class Agents: Metro Equity Management LLC ■ over 5,400 photos and a search engine that can search for hostas using 70 hosta Renae Munsterman Jessica Hendrickson Oslowski, characteristics, our visitors can identify their own plants or just have fun looking. 94 Lokpez, Anita Stockwell Monticello, is a clinical program Our video streams of the plants we sell enable visitors to see mature hostas in Ripken, Gretchen manager at Medica ■ Heather L. three dimensions, and we also provide slide shows of our plants. We use the same Anderson Zinsli Sharp, Littleton, CO, is a senior mar- technology to provide gardening or hosta-related educational information. My e-mail: [email protected] keting and communication manager goal is to provide all of the hosta information a visitor needs, succinctly, easily, Dan Currell, St. Paul, at OnTargetJobs Inc. and using the latest technology.” is managing director 15th Carlson’s newer endeavor, IDeal Garden Markers, is also an innovative compa- at Corporate ANNIVERSARY Class Agents: ny. Carlson explains, “Our unique software allows customers to easily cut and Executive Board ■ Melissa LeVesque-Piela, Oct. 9–10 paste data from our database, place it where they want on the label or marker David M. Davis, St. Josh Peterson, 2009 97 they desire, format the text, and then have us print it out on a sun-resistant tape Paul, is a senior Stef Tucker or have it engraved. We have a patent pending as well on a new product we hope business analyst for e-mail: [email protected] to market soon.” Cargill ■ Nicole Libor Gnotke, Prinna Lundquist Boudreau, Edina, The company has had to endure some trials, like most small businesses. “Just Frontenac, is the restorative justice is a self-employed freelance writer ■ before we opened one year we got hammered by two inches of hail,” Carlson re- coordinator at Wabasha County ■ Rachel Henderson King, Laurel, MD, counts, “then I had successful back surgery, our new greenhouse collapsed one Sue Kroells Hedtke, Green Isle, is a is employed at Intercell ■ Lisa Ness winter following a blizzard, a woman ran her car into our greenhouse (no one was fitness coordinator and personal Lay, Minnetonka, is a pre-kinder- hurt), and the list goes on. Most product-oriented businesses are similar, but trainer at Lifestyle Management ■ garten teacher in the Hopkins School growing things is very different.” Sarah Johnson-Markve, Augusta, District ■ Ann Hanson Lininger, “I have been very fortunate to have some very talented and outstanding GA, is a Web and graphic designer for Union Grove, WI, is a librarian for workers, including college students, working with me,” Carlson says. “We keep it StarCite ■ Ross W. Kiehne, the Racine Public Library ■ Erin E. loose and have a good time.” Harmony, is employed at the Swine Mathern, North Oaks, has joined the Vet Center in St. Peter ■ Jacob real estate group at Messerli and Knaus, Minneapolis, is teaching Kramer ■ Kate Peterson, Minneapolis, Michael, is a teacher at Big Woods Kyle D. Eggler, Hayfield, is a self- kindergarten in the Minneapolis is an information literacy librarian at Elementary ■ Steven C. Wilson, employed handyman ■ Peter R. Public Schools ■ Kristie R. Koehler, the University of Minnesota ■ Anne Omaha, NE, is an executive recruiter Kitundu, Des Moines, IA, is assistant Edina, is a certified health education Schauer Rood, Rush City, is the at C & A Industries. general counsel at Nationwide specialist (CHES) and an employer youth and family minister at First Insurance ■ Karla DeKam Lubben, health improvement consultant at Lutheran Church ■ Jennifer Pleuss Class Agent: Sioux Falls, SD, is employed at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota Spande is a foreign service officer Annie Marshall Sanford Health ■ Mark D. Parten, ■ Mary Crippen Miklethun, for the Department of State currently 92 Mound, is senior VP of property man- Minneapolis, is senior program man- assigned to Santiago, Chile ■ e-mail: [email protected] agement for Welsh Company, L.L.C. ager for US Bancorp ■ Matt Miller, Nathan D. Spande, Santiago, Chile, Corey Bianchi-Rossi, Brooklyn Park, ■ Paul A. Peeders, Fergus Falls, is a Chalfont, PA, is vice president, public is an independent computer consult- is the national marketing director for math professor at Minnesota State sector network, for Magellan Health ant/primary care parent. American Study Travel Abroad ■ Technical College ■ Lori Pingatore, Services.

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30 Gusties working at Travelers’ St. Paul campus There are 30 Gusties working at the St. Paul campus of The Travelers Insurance Company. They tried to get together for a group photo recently but eventually settled for two photos, and even then a few missed being pictured. Seated from left in the upper photo are: Erin Halligan-Hanson Tait ’02, Tasha Erickson ’07, Mary Moilanen ’06, Jennifer Knutson ’06, Patoa Lee ’06, and Laura Graen Rapacz ’01. Standing are Steve Briggs ’77, Bob Ditmore ’75, Lisa Krause Heutmaker ’83, Scott Moesle ’74, Nancy Hagstrom Huart ’72, David Mohn ’77, Paul Sandbaken ’87, Greg Schaeffer ’87, John Madsen ’99, Joe Arlt ’02, Scott Frederick ’01, and Thor Raarup ’86. The smaller group in the lower photo comprises Kim Gabrielson Jonas ’90, Rachel Kronberger ’08, Julie Dressel Goettl ’86, Amy Boyd Marthaler ’92, Al Stromback ’83, Bryce Anderson ’99, and Laura Hickson ’03. Managing to miss both photo opps were Brian DePaulis ’92, Jordan Iblings ’06, Bill Larson ’87, Eric Lewanski ’07, and Lana Elsenpeter Matzek ’01.

Class Agents: for Katun Corporation ■ Paul R. Mack High School ■ Kirsten Bland Parker, CO ■ Gina R. Mitteco, Karen Delgehausen, Horvath, Menomonie, WI, is an Walters, Eagan, is a sponsored pro- Houston, TX, works at the Houston 98 Gigi Wait Dobosenski, emergency physician for Luther grams specialist for College of St. Area Council ■ Brent W. Olson, Brad Peterson, Alicia Midelfort Clinic-Mayo Health System Catherine ■ Stephanie Lee Madison Lake, is a dentist in Sutphen Schimke ■ Jonathan M. Hundt, Gaithersburg, Whitney, Tempe, AZ, is a doctoral Mankato ■ Stephanie Jensen Otto, e-mail: [email protected] MD, is associate pastor at Good candidate in math education at Nashville, TN, is an associate profes- Jen Gilberg, Cloquet, is an interface Shepherd Lutheran Church ■ Joe University of Minnesota. sor in health and exercise science at analyst for SISU Medical Systems ■ Kellner, Mound, is a medical en- Gustavus Adolphus College ■ Kati Katrina B. Hugenot, Hillsboro, OR, dotherapy representative for Class Agents: Olson Pownell, Hudson, WI, is a is a psychiatric consultant-liaison Olympus America, Inc. ■ Matt Long, Corey Bartlett, nurse anesthetist for Marshfield nurse and fill-in staff nurse at Sacred Bloomington, is director of informa- 00 Bonnie Dahlke, Clinic-Chippewa Center ■ Travis A. Heart Medical Center ■ Carl L. tion service at Globe University ■ Meghan Krause Prunty, Eagle Lake, is a dentist in Lockrem, West Bend, WI, is the de- Deborah Koski Meester, Little Falls, e-mail: [email protected] Mankato ■ Matt Quam, Edina, is a velopment director at Grand Avenue is a higher education sales manager Nissa Stolp Fell, Hopkins, is a nurse project accountant at Mortenson Club. at Atomic Learning ■ Nathan B. practitioner at the Student Health Construction ■ Joshua S. Turnbull, Meyer, Minneapolis, is science the- Service of Gustavus Adolphus College Minneapolis, is director/ strategy for Class Agents: atre and outreach manager for The ■ Michael J. Fogal, Minneapolis, is Fidelity National Information Philip Eidsvold, Bakken Museum ■ Karena E. an audit manager at Ernst and Young Services ■ Tom Walker, 99 Jesse Torgerson Nafstad, Minneapolis, is account di- ■ Sandi Petrich Hollerich, St. Minneapolis, is employed at Alliant e-mail: [email protected] rector/digital for Universal Music Peter, is accounting manager at Kato Life Insurance ■ Nick Windschitl, Aimee Olson Bauman, Lakeville, is a Group Distribution ■ Michael J. Engineering ■ Erik Lindstrom, Shakopee, traveled to Honduras in financial planner for Wells Fargo - Oldemeyer, Princeton, NJ, is a real- Evanston, IL, is the swim coach at April to work with the Hogar Tierra The Private Bank ■ Megan time trader for NRG Energy, Inc. ■ New Trier High School in Winnetka ■ Santa orphanage. Bayrd, Menomonie, WI, is a Sarah L. Schuette, Henderson, is Julie Luttinen Miller, Highlands family medicine physician 10th senior editor/photo studio spe- Ranch, CO, has been elected to the Class Agent: ANNIVERSARY at Red Cedar Medical cialist for Capstone Publishers ■ ELCA Youth Ministry Network Board Hal DeLaRosby, Center ■ Dan Dauwalter, Oct. 9–10 Jeffrey S. Skistad, Madison of Directors. Julie, who has been 01 Lana Elsenpeter Matzek Boise, ID, is fisheries re- 2009 Lake, is marketing director at working in congregational youth e-mail: [email protected] search specialist for Trout Krengel Technology ■ Erica ministry for more than 10 years, is Liz Ackert, San Diego, CA, received Unlimited ■ Nicole Wood Erickson, VandeWall Wagoner, Normal, IL, is a currently director of youth and fami- an M.A. in Latin American studies Bloomington, is a business analyst teacher/media specialist for Dee- ly ministry at Joy Lutheran Church in from University of California, San

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Clinic in Wayzata ■ Eric Carl, St. Paul, is MP manager for Target ■ Jack Evans, St. Paul, is assistant attorney general for the State of Minnesota ■ Jody Anderson Gabler, Ithaca, NY, is a lecturer, international teaching assistant at Cornell University ■ Ambryn Melius, Seattle, is a clinical support specialist for DESC (Downtown Emergency Service Center) ■ Michael O’Brien, Edina, is an attorney for Regan Tax Law Firm ■ Eric Parrish, Worthington, is an instructor of music and theatre at Minnesota West Community and Technical College.

Class Agents: Amanda Frie, Guthrie 04 Michael, Marnie Nelson, Josh Williams e-mail: [email protected] Katie Hoffman Anderson, Nicollet, is a family medicine resident at Creighton University ■ Unanimous decision Brian P. Beckmann, Five nurses from the Class of 1980 traveled to Bimini in the Bahamas, where they managed to pose for a photo with former Minneapolis, is presi- 5th ANNIVERSARY boxer Yama Bahama, a world-ranked middleweight in the ’50s and ’60s. Pictured in front of his restaurant, “The Bahama dent of Greening Breeze,” in Alice Town are from left Barb Hart Stoll, Candy Mandt Ketelslager, Kathy Furney Dardick, Yama Bahama, Teri Strategies ■ Matt J. Oct. 9–10 Gevik Garin, and Paula Anderson Berger. Beran, Shakopee, is a 2009 service desk team lead for American Medical Systems ■ Farrow named Mankato Clinic CEO school district ■ Joe Carlile, Jennifer Johnson Bottke, Lake City, Randy Farrow ’83, North Mankato, MN, has Arlington, VA, is professional staff, is a nurse manager at Mayo Clinic in been named CEO of the Mankato Clinic. Committee on Appropriations, for Rochester ■ Erinn M. Danielson, Assuming that position on July 21, 2008, the U.S. House of Representatives ■ Minneapolis, is a therapeutic recre- Farrow became the sixth chief executive offi- Jon Dale, Los Angeles, CA, is in his ation assistant/music therapist for cer in the 92-year history of the clinic. second year at UCLA School of Law Good Samaritan Society University The Mankato Clinic has grown to more ■ Shelly Hochhalter, St. Paul, is a Specialty Center ■ Mandi M. than 113 physicians and practitioners located marketing consultant at Health DeWitte, Minneapolis, is a reproduc- in Mankato, North Mankato, St. Peter, Mapleton, Partners ■ Jenny A. Pratt, New tive healthcare counselor at and Lake Crystal. The clinic and its satellites Hope, is a court operations lead- Robbinsdale Clinic, P.A. ■ Alison E. employ more than 700 people to rank among worker for the State of Minnesota Dunn, Chicago, IL, is a human re- the top 15 employers in the region. District Court, Division III - Criminal sources generalist for Starcom Farrow, who has an M.B.A. from the ■ Amanda Larson Scott, West MediaVest Group ■ Melissa M. University of Colorado at Boulder, brings over Sacramento, CA, is the quality man- Habedank, Washington, DC, is spe- 16 years of experience in health care adminis- agement and education assistant for cial assistant to the chief of staff for tration and leadership to the Mankato Clinic. He had been the president of the the University of California, Davis the Office of U.S. Senator Byron River Falls Area Hospital/Allina Health Systems for the past four years. Prior to his Medical Center ■ Vidya Sivan, Dorgan ■ Libby Harren, St. Paul, is employment in River Falls, he led the Mille Lacs Health System/Allina Health Boston, MA, is a communications co- a senior merchandiser specialist for System in Onamia, MN, as their CEO. He resides in North Mankato with his wife, ordinator, external affairs, for Target Corporation ■ Matt Haugen, Jean (Hagberg ’85), and two sons. Harvard Kennedy School of New York, NY, is catalog librarian and Government ■ Erin Holloway systems assistant for the New York Wilken, Maple Grove, is assistant di- Society Library ■ Heather McGregor Diego, and is studying for a doctor- tor/Europe for Revenue Management rector of alumni relations at Hermanson, Urbandale, IA, is an ac- ate in sociology at University of Systems, Inc. ■ Niki Schultz, Gustavus Adolphus College ■ Leah count executive for McCormick Sales Washington ■ Andy Barnick, St. Minneapolis, is a health coordinator Langehaug Wong, Minneapolis, is Communications Professionals ■ Peter, is manager of the members fi- at Axis Healthcare ■ Christopher E. vice president of events and market- Rob Hill, Savage, is a customer serv- nancial services program at Postal Swee, West Fargo, ND, is a project ing for the Minneapolis Downtown ice manager for Transport America ■ Credit Union ■ Kara A. Derner, Eden manager for Wells Fargo. Council. Andrea L. Hodapp, Wauwatosa, WI, Prairie, is a psychotherapist for is a staff RN in the spinal cord injury Nystrom & Associates, Ltd. ■ Ryan Class Agents: Class Agents: center of Froedtert Memorial E. Erickson, Duluth, is a geologist at Karen Warkentien Jade Bakke, Jenny Lutheran Hospital ■ Tom Hutton, Varr Engineering ■ Kristi Jacobson 02 Oglesby, Katherine 03 Lingle Beer, Audra Eagan, is an occupational therapist Hartman, Minneapolis, is a retire- Medbery Oleson Mueller, Leslie Wilcox for Triage Staffing ■ Ryan Gillespie ment counselor for the Minnesota e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] Jirele, Owatonna, is office adminis- State Retirement System ■ Martin Laura Beres Bristle, Montevideo, Caroline Brost, Minnetonka, is a trator for St. John Lutheran Church Kaduc, Barcelona, Spain, is direc- teaches in the Yellow Medicine East doctor of chiropractic at the Brost ■ Kathleen D. Johnson,

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Minneapolis, is accounts operations Financial ■ Eva Miller Christianson, specialist/French for General Mills ■ St. Louis Park, is an RN:cardiology Ryan M. Kaufman, Eagan, is a pro- and thoracic surgery at Fairview grammer for LSS Data Systems ■ University Medical Center ■ Erika W. Tyler R. Kienow, Shakopee, is an in- Diniz, Dallas, TX, works at Good ventory control analyst for Best Buy Samaritan Medical Hospital in ■ Sarah Lippert LaRowe, Chicago, Phoenix ■ Anna Gutman Fisher, IL, is administrative service clerk at Mankato, is a judicial law clerk for the International House at the Hon. Larry M. Collin in the Third University of Chicago ■ Alyssa M. Judicial District ■ James H. LaVoie, Park Rapids, teaches kinder- Gempeler, St. Paul, is an associate garten in Park Rapids ■ Cassandra at Foley and Manfield ■ Jody Raduenz Maier, Burnsville, is a gen- Morsching Hassel, Prior Lake, is a eral waivered service manager for GIS specialist at Scott County ■ Alliance Health Care ■ Marcus J. Brady J. Hoffman, Mounds View, is Maynard, St. Paul, works at Verizon an accountant at Larson Allan ■ Ali ■ Michelle M. McLean, Brainerd, is Anderson Holland, Mora, works in assistant district public defender for the career center at Mora public the State of Minnesota ■ Brian D. schools ■ Angela R. Ingersoll, Merchant, Roseville, is national Hopkins, is a laboratory technologist sales operation manager at Abbott for Viromed/Labcorp ■ Karolina M. Laboratories ■ Michael Metcalfe, Konczyk, St. Paul, is an attorney for Inver Grove Heights, is athletic Johnson & Turner, P.A. ■ Liz Breitmayer in demand trainer, Rancho Cucamonga Quake, Zappetillo Lewis, Stockton, CA, is Peter Breitmayer ’87, Los Angeles, CA, is pictured between filmmakers Ethan and for the Angels Baseball LP ■ Nate an RN/BSN at St. Joseph’s Hospital Joel Coen. Breitmayer plays the role of Gar Brandt in the Coens’ movie A Serious Novak, Prior Lake, is employed at in the MICU/RICU ■ Andrew Q. Man, which finished filming last fall. The film is a black comedy set in 1967 and the University of Minnesota ■ Madson, Newport News, VA, is a centered on a Midwestern professor who watches his life unravel when his wife Megan M. Purcell, Minneapolis, dentist with the United States Air prepares to leave him because his inept brother won’t move out of the house. teaches fourth grade at Mississippi Force ■ Jessica Nelson, Alexandria, Breitmayer also played the role of Councilman Thorpe in Clint Eastwood’s recent Elementary School ■ Paul T. is a real estate broker for Jessica film, The Changeling. Richardson, St. Paul, teaches at Nelson Real Estate ■ Matt Rich, Humboldt High School ■ Becky Dundas, is employed by Grundhoefer Popa Ryan, Mahtomedi, teaches & Luedescher, P.A. ■ Katie Roggow, sixth–eighth grade science at Lake Bluff, IL, is a resident care co- Parkview Center School in Roseville ordinator for Sunrise Senior Living ■ Twin Cities Breakfasts ■ April D. Schaust, Big Lake, is a Katie Schoeneck, West St. Paul, is a registered client service associate for finance assistant for the Minnesota Join other Gusties for a morning cup of coffee and breakfast UBS Financial Services, Inc. ■ Opera ■ Gemma Soderholm Nathan Shepherd, Minneapolis, is a Storvick, Mankato, is an RN at while getting an update on Gustavus —a great way to meet and law student at University of Abbott Northwestern Hospital ■ network with Gusties in the T win Cities. The group meets Minnesota ■ Heidi J. Steinhilber, Amber L. Wilson, Eden Prairie, is an on the third Wednesday of each month at: Hastings, works for the Hennepin international services specialist for Doubletree Hotel, Minneapolis-Park Place County Sheriff’s Department ■ Plus Relocation Services, Inc. Michelle Kroenke TeBrake, Eden 1500 Park Place Boulevard (Hwy. 394 & Hwy. 100) Prairie, is a marketing specialist for 8 a.m. breakfast, 8:30 a.m. program ShopNBC ■ Taimi Tuomie Thomsen, Class Agents: $10 per person Roseville, teaches at Turtle Lake Anders Eckman, Matt Reserve by calling Don Swanson ’55 at 763-533-9083 School in Shoreview ■ Matt S. 06 Forbes, Jessica Olson, Treichel, Shoreview, is a design en- Katie Parks, Mollie Scheduled speakers: gineer for Emerson Network Power ■ Peterson, Matt Swenson Jaynie Rivers Twedt, North e-mail: [email protected] March 18 Ken Westphal, vice president for finance Mankato, is an RN in OB-labor/deliv- Lindsey M. Beyer, Mankato, is a April 15 Steve Wilkinson, men’s tennis coach ery. Web designer for Lime Valley May 20 Kathy Tunheim, economics and management Advertising Inc. ■ Blythe E. Class Agents: Bittman, Eden Prairie, is a member Kevin Hansen, Liz activities assistant for Life Time 05 Zappetillo Lewis, Fitness ■ Tosha Christoffer Boline, Becky Neitzke, Jessica Fridley, is a customer service repre- Tuomie Hoffman, Mounds View, Corey P. Reagan, Excelsior, is a fi- Nelson, Anne Shipley, sentative at Pediatric Home Service works at Owens-Minor ■ Ana nancial services associate for B. Anne Michaletz Viljaste ■ Jen Delano, Minneapolis, is em- Sietsema Hulzebos, Anoka, is a Cohen Wealth Management, Inc. ■ e-mail: [email protected] ployed by Pinewood Elementary bookkeeper at American Guitar and Teal L. Slivik, Stillwater, is client Amy L. Beightol, Arlington, VA, is School in Eagan ■ Christine L. Band ■ Mark J. Hulzebos, Anoka, is services and party planner for working for the U.S. Chamber of Fiebiger, St. Paul, is general manag- a data reviewer at Upsher-Smith Instudio Inc. ■ Elsa M. Stavig, Commerce ■ Linnea E. Bjorkman, er at Phresh spa salon ■ Jennifer Laboratories ■ Tara A . L aCoe, Minneapolis, is a manager for Bare Denver, CO, is a family program man- Burke Grasso, Berlin, MD, is a zon- Cambridge, MA, is a consulting safe- Escentuals ■ Robin E. Thomson, ager for Focus Point, Family Resource ing specialist II for Worcester ty officer for Safety Partners Inc. ■ Roseville, is a graduate assistant in Center ■ Ben Boline, Fridley, is a County, MD ■ Dave Hansen, St. Mike Leonard, Burnsville, teaches in the entomology department at lawyer at Wheeler and Engelhart ■ Paul, is a manager at Walgreens ■ Ty the Chaska school district ■ Zach University of Minnesota ■ Ross E. Melissa Brasel, St. Paul, is a regis- Haschig, Bloomington, is a sales as- Park, Pittsburgh, PA, is a senior con- Welte, Circle Pines, is a registered tered representative for Thrivent sociate for State Farm ■ Tanna sultant at BI Consulting Group ■ representative for The Uram

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Husby, Duluth, is employed by Duluth Edison Charter Schools at Washburn Junior Academy ■ Kalie A. Larson, Minneapolis, is a produc- tion manager for Equinox Creative ■ Derek D. Martin, Crookston, is a sports editor for the Crookston Daily Times ■ Drew P. Nelson, Maplewood, is a recruiter at Entero ■ Andrea D. Peterson, Vadnais Heights, is assistant women’s hockey coach at Gustavus Adolphus College ■ Emily A. Petraitis, Eden Prairie, is attending Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine ■ Dana L. Setterholm, Marine, is the member- ship coordinator for the American Swedish Institute ■ Christopher M. Skordahl, St. Paul, is an account executive for KAISERComm, Inc. ■ Katie Stoeckel, Rochester, is a program assistant for Out for Equity in the St. Paul School District ■ Anikka C. Wattnem, Superior, WI, is an administrative assistant for the Duluth Superior Area Community Foundation ■ Josh Waylander, Montevideo, is a manager trainee at Band alums remember mate Menard’s ■ Landon J. Zinda, Gustavus Band alums from the classes of 1993, 1994, and 1995 gathered at the home of Michael and Renee Hepperlen in Washington, DC, is a research assis- Minnetonka, MN, on Nov. 1 to celebrate the life of bandmate Aaron D. Lee ’94, who died in a jet ski accident on the 2008 tant/legislative events for The Labor Day weekend. Pictured in the back row, from left, are Nathan Lee ’93, Laura Lofquist Lee ’93, Cynthia Belt Rush Heritage Foundation. ’94, Kristen Peterson Urbina ’93, Christine Larson Ringen ’95, Kyle Klatt ’95, and Pam Mathews Klatt ’95. In front are Douglas Nimmo, conductor, Matthew Pettis ’94, Renee Borleske Hepperlen ’93, and Michael Hepperlen ’95. Class Agents: Donny Bechtle, Adam 08 Eckhardt, Erin Larson, Group/Farmers Financial Solutions ■ John Michaletz, Mike Wobschall, Eden Prairie, is the Katelyn Nelson vikings.com writer for the Minnesota e-mail: [email protected] Vikings ■ Erin Greenlee Young, Chad M. Anderson, Brainerd, is an Ellicott City, MD, spent the past year actor at Chanhassen Dinner Theater traveling to 25 countries around the ■ Grayce E. Backstrom, Minneapolis, world. is employed by Fishman’s Kosher Deli ■ Emily K. Barnard, St. Peter, is a Class Agents: medical scribe for Immanuel-St. Erica Brown, Barry Joseph’s Hospital ■ Sam Barthell, 07 Cattadoris, Travis Bloomington, is a development engi- Michelson, Ben Richter, neer for Seagate Technology ■ Adam Tehle Veronica M. Bean, Minneapolis, is a e-mail: [email protected] law student at University of Ana Gronseth Bartz, Bloomington, Minnesota ■ Holly L. Bernstetter, is an RN at Methodist Hospital ■ St. Anthony, is a global survey cen- Steph Berglund, Plymouth, is a sec- ter administrator for Korn/Ferry ond-grade Spanish immersion Talent & Leadership Consulting ■ teacher in the Minnetonka Schools Ben Birks, Sioux Falls, SD, is a re- Two psych grads are McKnight Presidential Fellows at the ■ Greg Dokken, Duluth, is studying tention sales associate for Citibank U of Minnesota music performance at University of ■ Eva K. Cornell, Brookline, MA, is The Gustavus Department of Psychology can claim 40 percent of The McKnight Minnesota, Duluth ■ Emily E. studying physics at Boston University Presidential Fellow awards announced at the University of Minnesota this Hansen, Burlington, MA, is a young ■ Apryl N. Galbreath, Houston, TX, year! Kathryn Vohs ’96, McKnight Land-Grant Professor and associate profes- toddler teacher for the Infant is HR & sales/marketing staffing as- sor of marketing, Carlson School of Management, and Joseph Gaugler ’95, Toddler Children’s Center ■ Kristen sistant for Burnett Staffing ■ Alex associate professor, School of Nursing, both received the award. N. Heider, Minneapolis, is an office Horton, Northfield, IL, is a media The McKnight Presidential Fellow award is a prestigious award for newly manager for Theater Latte Da ■ coordinator for N.C.S.A. ■ Lisa M. tenured faculty at the University of Minnesota. It is targeted at the five most Allison L. Helland, New London, is Johnson, Minneapolis, is an RN at promising faculty who have been newly granted tenure and promotion to as- an RN at United Hospital ■ Violeta Fairview Southdale Hospital ■ sociate professor, to recognize their accomplishments and support their ongo- Hernandez Espinoza, Wichita, KS, is Linnea J. Martinson, Minnetonka, is ing research and scholarship. Candidates are considered for these awards at a field recruiter for Cargill Meat employed by Advantage Sales and the conclusion of the regular promotion and tenure review process each year. Solutions ■ Bridget L. Hoesley, Marketing ■ Emily Petraitis is at- Vohs was also recently recognized with the 2008 International Society for Rochester, is a research technologist tending Ross University School of Self and Identity Early Career Award. for Mayo Medical Center ■ Keisha N. Veterinary Medicine in St. Kitts, West

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Indies ■ Meghann A. Scott, White Bear Lake, is a marketing specialist in the wedding division at The Occasions Group ■ Kalley D. Sikich, Bloomington, is a veterans service representative for the Department of Veterans Affairs ■ Brittany Krusemark Ward, New Ulm, is employed by Lake Crystal ISD 2071 ■ Ali Chorley Wobschall, Eden Prairie, is director of marketing and public relations at The Date Safe Project. Weddings Dave J. Spiegler ’87 and H.J. Cho, 8/31/08, Chicago, IL. Tim Gilbertson ’89 and Camilla Gilbertson, Tunbridge Wells, 1997 Gustie moms celebrate first birthdays England. Four Class of 1997 moms gathered to celebrate first birthdays of some future Gusties. Pictured from left are Evan Cadenhead, Natalie Nordstrom ’93 and Wesley Isabella Granacher, Kristi Reidt Granacher, Ella Cadenhead, Tara Pals Cadenhead, Will Cadenhead, Kate Granacher, Amy Wilcox, Addingham, Ilkley, Lavin Ryan, Ava Ryan, Amy DeVille Boschee, and Jaxon Boschee. England. David M. Davis ’94 and Lindsay Davis, St. Paul, MN. Kirsten Kaufmann ’04 and Ryan A. Brad M. Nodland ’95 and Sonja Morse ’04, 5/31/08, Apple Johnson, 8/2/08, Bloomington, Valley, MN. MN. Emily Lloyd ’04 and Andrew Kratzer, Jon Blaha ’96 and Kathryn Blaha, Elkhart, IN. Golden Valley, MN. Jaynie Rivers ’04 and Jason Twedt, Adina Miller ’98 and Mark D. 5/16/08, North Mankato, MN. Connelly, 7/5/08, Lakeville, MN. Rachel Seely ’04 and Brian M. Ward Sarah Young ’98 and Quinten ’05, 8/1/07, Stillwater, MN. Reuben, 8/16/08, Minneapolis, Taianna Thielk ’04 and Brent Moe, MN. 11/22/08, Benson, MN. Dan Dauwalter ’99 and Stacey Taimi Tuomie ’04 and Hans Dauwalter, Boise, ID. Thomsen, 4/26/08, Roseville, Tricia M. Turk ’99 and Stephen MN. Pietsch, Minneapolis, MN. Suzanne Dailey ’05 and Doug Chad M. Bigalke ’00 and Rhiannon Espenson ’05, 8/2/08, Mankato, Tokarz, 8/9/08, Apple Valley, MN. MN. Megan M. Fehlandt ’05 and Sal Brie Gauthier ’00 and Aaron Kidd, D’Agostino, Shakopee, MN. Composing for the TV screen Farmington, MN. Mikaela Schmitt ’05 and Joseph Eric Amdahl ’96, Chatsworth, CA, has composed, produced, and performed music Teresa P. Angier ’01 and Michael Harsh, 8/9/08, Indianapolis, IN. for more than 130 TV programs and films, including recent projects such as The Edlavitch, St. Louis Park, MN. April Thomas ’05 and Mark Lewke, Universe, Battle 360, Life After People, 2008 Emmy winner A Distant Shore: Jon Dale ’02 and Tiina Manne, 11/8/08, Minnetonka, MN. African Americans of D-Day, and Siberian Apocalypse. He recently completed the 7/18/08, Los Angeles, CA. Stephanie Haugdahl ’06 and Andy forthcoming PBS documentary special titled Egalité for All: Toussaint Louverture Josette Gables ’02 and Mark Holte, Nelson ’06, 8/16/08, Crystal, and the Haitian Revolution. The Universe and Battle 360 series are now in their 10/4/08, Centennial, CO. MN. third and second seasons of programming. And Amdahl is currently composing Amanda Larson ’02 and Joseph Kristen Y. Nelson ’06 and Elias three more series for the Discovery Channel—Biblical Mysteries Explained, Sci- Scott, 11/11/05, West Nelson, 7/19/08, Edina, MN. Trek, and Before It Was America. He has also been recently composing music for Sacramento, CA. Drew Stifter ’06 and Ann Ernhart, the History Channel’s First Apocalypse: Dinosaurs and has been asked to write Jessica Steiner ’02 and Eric Miller 8/15/07, Watertown, MN. music for several other upcoming series including Discovery Channel’s How To: ’03, 9/27/08, Faribault, MN. Megan Chida ’07 and Phil King ’08, Owners Manual and Human Sacrifice. Amy L. Strand ’02 and Kyle Allen 8/9/08, Mankato, MN. ’02, 7/26/06, Dallas, TX. Nicole Farlee ’07 and Mark Klekner, Robbi Palombi ’03 and Jason 12/6/08, Eagan, MN. Sarah Frodl ’08 and John Crosbie, Mondati, 9/20/08, Shakopee, Meghan Hogdal ’07 and Charlie 7/26/08, Owatonna, MN. Births MN. Mayer, 8/16/08, Evanston, IL. Amanda Lindholm ’08 and Nate Teresa Brown ’ 04 and Charlie King Elizabeth Loose ’07 and Michael Lucas, 8/29/08, Forest Lake, MN. Colin, to Dan A. Buchanan ’87 and ’04, 6/14/08, Apple Valley, MN. Bakalyar, 8/1/08, St. Peter, MN. Amanda Shrader ‘08 and Chad Tammy Buchanan, 10/15/08. Elizabeth Hatch ’04 and Michael Ingrid Vick ’07 and Pete Ziesemer, 10/11/08, Oshkosh, Savanna, to Kris Dybing Wahlers Kremenak, 7/14/07, Burnsville, Schwingler ’05, Minneapolis, WI. ’89 and Steve Wahlers, MN. MN. 8/20/08. Sarah Jorgenson ’04 and Edwin Alison Chorley ’08 and Mike Nickolas, to Jennifer Coppersmith Magnuson, 10/18/08, St. Louis Wobschall ’06, 8/23/08, Eden ’91 and Dimitris Mizantzidis, Park, MN. Prairie, MN. 8/7/08.

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Samuel, to Sarah Loveland Zenk ’97 and Michael J. Zenk ’96, 2/11/08. Kayla, to Sarah Jaeb Jensen ’98 and Todd Jensen, 10/1/08. Benjamin, to Andrea Kvamme Anderson ’99 and Greg Anderson, 9/5/08. Cordelia, to Chanda Walker Hall ’99 and Brent Hall, 10/9/08. Harper, to Susan E. Joy ’99 and Daniel E. Karalus ’99, 9/18/07. Colin, to Joy Johnson McGrath ’99 and Mark McGrath, 4/7/08. Brendan, to Chris Mensing ’99 and Gretchen Mensing, 3/23/08. Jude, to Carol L. Reichel ’99 and Matt Reichel, 1/3/08. Kegan, to Amy Uhlenbrauck Cookie party Wilkinson ’99 and Kurt Gustie friends gathered in early December for their annual cookie bake. Pictured from left are Kate Riggs Sonsteby ’05, Wilkinson, 12/28/07. Jessica Nelson ’05, Anne Marie Kruse Ericson ’05, Anya Britzius ’05, and Emily Hawkins ’05. Ezra, to Ahna Bersagel-Briese ’00 and Oren Bersagel-Briese, 6/5/08. Mustaphi named deputy press Sarah, to Scott P. Klosterman ’91 Benjamin, to Jess Stewart Madsen secretary for the First Lady and Ally Klosterman, 10/13/07. ’00 and Thomas A. Madsen ’00, Semonti Mustaphi ’03, Arlington, VA, Anna, to Amy Armour Olsen ’91 and 9/19/08. has been named deputy press secretary Charles Olsen, 4/21/08. William, to Elisabeth Olson ’00 and for First Lady Michelle Obama. Mustaphi Henry, to Nathan J. Blair ’92 and Rob Olson, 2/17/08. currently serves as Mrs. Obama’s deputy Laura Blair, 10/10/08. Nora, to Stephanie Jensen Otto ’00 communications director on the Obama- Sydney, to Deb Sweet Darrah ’92 and Nathanael R. Otto ’99, Biden Transition Team, a position she and John Darrah, 6/16/08. 5/9/08. also held on the Obama-Biden Ethan, to Erik A. Olsen ’92 and Chase, to Melanie Larsen Sinouthasy Presidential Campaign. Prior to her work Sarah Olsen, 5/13/08. ’00 and Bouangeun Sinouthasy, on the campaign, she held communica- Eston, to Kerri Pool Foss ’94 and 8/26/08. tions positions on Capitol Hill for Kevin W. Foss, 4/24/08. Zackary, to Corrie Segerstrom Senators Harkin, Schumer, and Ian, to Lisa Halbur Hogan ’94 and Dufresne ’01 and Andrew T. Klobuchar, including Klobuchar’s senato- Matthew Hogan, 9/7/07. Dufresne ’01, 12/27/07. rial campaign. She also worked on the Harley, to Shannon Springston Noah, to Heidi Kaufmann George Gephardt for President campaign. A na- Rosati ’94 and Rick Rosati, ’01 and Brian George, 1/19/07. tive of Minnesota, her political experience began with the late Senator Wellstone 8/31/08. Lilly, to Kristi Jacobson Hartman when she worked in his Washington, DC, office and on his last campaign. Semonti Joshua, to Wendy Barth Terry ’94 ’01 and Paul Hartman, 6/17/08. graduated with degrees in political science and communication studies. and Peter J. Terry ’92, 9/19/08. Jacob, to Elise Kahl Knobloch ’01 Lucy, to Tanya Strom Anderson ’95 and Geoff M. Knobloch ’00, and Edward W. Anderson ’94, 7/28/08. Johnson ‘unretires’ again—this 3/3/06. Lucas, to Margo Boie Moreno ’01 time for legislative duties Mason, to Michelle Heilman Muench and Daniel Moreno, 9/6/08. The Rev. Dennis Johnson ’60 was sworn ’95 and Clinton Muench, 3/25/08. Lane, to Tricia Loo Pettis ’01 and in as chaplain of the Minnesota House of Ezra, to Katy Merrick Overtoom ’95 Lance L. Pettis ’01, 2/3/08. Representatives on Jan. 6, 2009. Along and Matt Overtoom, 10/14/08. Samuel, to Andrea Gedde Puder ’01 with being a spiritual counselor for Jonah, to Roxanne Hagen and Benjamin A. Puder ’01, House members, he opens every session Ruffenach ’95 and Shane 9/16/08. with prayer or hosts the guest chaplain. Ruffenach, 8/21/08. Katherine, to Erin Bonitz Riess ’01 As Speaker of the House, six-term Dylan, to Shelly Maas Staska ’95 and Kyle Riess, 11/4/08. representative Margaret Anderson and Rodney Staska, 1/2/06. Jada, to Jess Hunzeker Strinmoen Kelliher ’90 had the privilege of ap- Emmalina, to Sandy Schubbe Walsh ’01 and Chris Strinmoen, 9/26/08. pointing the chaplain. After a few invita- ’95 and Larry Walsh, 7/22/08. Lauren, to Leah Knutson Anderson tions to Johnson, he finally was able to Anthony, to Jason A. Kuerschner ’02 and Ryan Anderson, accept. His appointment is for five ’96 and Roxanne Kuerschner, 3/10/08. months, after which he can choose to 11/13/08. Ayan, to Lisa Krause Glaser ’02 and renew or not. Although he has just Laney, to Jennifer Olufson Tarara John Glaser, 2/14/08. begun his work, he says that he is excit- ’96 and Andrew J. Tarara ’95, Evan, to Sheri Rickabaugh Dack ’04 ed for what is to come in his position, 1/31/08. and Jonathan Dack, 10/15/08. and he will have gained much by the end of his work with the House. Calvin, to Kari M. Treichel ’96 and Gwenyth, to Heather McGregor He is pictured here before the portrait of another Gustie who served the state: Mark Schwickerath, 6/3/08. Hermanson ’04 and Andrew former Governor Harold LeVander ’32 (1967–1971). Svea, to Rachel Henderson King ’97 Hermanson, 9/2/08. Johnson follows two of his classmates from the Class of 1960—the Rev. Jim and Mark King, 3/8/08. Olivia, to Liz Hatch Kremenak ’04 Anderson and the Rev. Roger Anderson—in serving as a chaplain in the William, to Erin Augustine and Michael Kremenak, 2/27/08. Minnesota Legislature. In addition, the Rev. Leman Olsenius ’34 served earlier in Stuedemann ’97 and Mike Caroline, to Heidi Johnson Selvog the Senate. Stuedemann ’97, 6/26/08. ’05 and Craig Selvog, 9/4/08

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She was a retired school teacher In and is survived by two sons and one daughter. Memoriam Verner Mattson ’42, West Palm Beach, FL, on November 2, 2008. E. Irving Bergeson ’35, Sun City, AZ, He was retired owner of West on October 9, 2008. He was a re- Gate Sheet Metal, Inc., and is tired assistant program manager survived by his wife, Lois, and for Eastman Kodak Company, four sons. served as a chapter agent for J. Mark Holmes ’43, Hopkins, MN, the Gustavus Alumni Association, on December 21, 2008. He was and is survived by one daughter. retired president of The Viking Elisabeth Davis Weller ’35, Chaska, Croft Inc., and is survived by his MN, on October 21, 2008. She wife, Bette, three sons including was a retired employee of Chaska Terry ’77, a sister, Aldys Hood and Carver County libraries and ’47, and two brothers including is survived by two sons and one David ’53. daughter. Sigfred Johnson ’43, Aurora, CO, on Mary Almen Barthelemy ’37, November 21, 2008. He is sur- Lafayette Hill, PA, on January vived by his wife, Jo, two sons, 16, 2009. She was a homemaker and one stepson. and is survived by two sons in- Marvin Greene ’44, Boise, ID, on cluding James ’68. November 20, 2008. He was a re- Bernhard “Pete” LeVander ’37, tired ELCA pastor and is survived Arden Hills, MN, on December by his wife, Maurine, one son, 24, 2008. A retired senior part- two daughters, and two sisters. ner for the Minneapolis law firm Elder Jackson ’45, St. Peter, MN, on Bettendorf at Harvard Medical School LeVander, Zimpfer and Zotaley, November 29, 2008. He was a re- Erin Bettendorf ’07, Boston, MA, is pictured at her white coat ceremony for first- he was the recipient of a tired ELCA missionary in year students at Harvard Medical School last August. She was inducted into the Gustavus Distinguished Alumni Tanzania and Kenya from Peabody Society, a program that seeks to prepare students for leadership roles in Citation in law in 1977, served 1949–85, served as a class agent medicine by exploring the inter-relationships among those disciplines and social on the Gustavus Alumni Board of for many years, and is survived institutions that impact upon patient care. Directors 1957–1963, was presi- by his wife, Renee; sons Dean dent of the Gustavus Alumni ’71 and Joel ’71; five daughters Association 1958–59, and served including Beth Crawford ’73, Kim 2008. He was a retired ELCA pas- (Norman ’54), three daughters, as class agent 2000–2005. He is “Birdie” ’74, Deborah Andros, tor and is survived by his wife, and two sons. survived by one son and daugh- staff, and Martha Mascarenas, Berniece, two daughters, and Gerald Schwarz ’54, Fulda, MN. ter Kirsten Dawson ’64. staff; and two sisters. three sisters. Fred Sommer ’54, Roseville, MN, on Victor Wordelman ’39, Benson, MN, Laurel “Bud” Lindberg ’47, Edina, Gordon Holm ’51, Tonka Bay, MN, November 17, 2008. He was a for- on October 3, 2008. MN, on November 8, 2008. He on November 29, 2008. He was a mer employee of Plastech Corp., Paul Anderson ’40, Duluth, GA, on was a semi-retired associate pas- retired employee of First Federal Rush City, and is survived by two October 25, 2008. He was a re- tor at Mt. Olivet Church, and is Savings and Loan, Wayzata, and sons, one daughter, and one sister. tired ELCA pastor and missionary survived by his wife, Nancy, and is survived by his wife, Lorraine, Carl Towley ’54, Plymouth, MN, on and is survived by his wife, three daughters. and two daughters. January 14, 2009. He was former Joyce (Wenstrom ’46), and four Kathy Johnson Martinson ’47, Howard Rundquist ’51, Chatham, chief, department of pastoral daughters. Minnetonka, MN, on December NJ, on December 2, 2008. He care, Berkshire Medical Center, Lucille Samuelson Agard ’41, Ames, 18, 2008. She was retired shop was retired executive vice presi- Pittsfield, MA, and directed IA, on November 25, 2008. She manager for Wayzata Country dent at Aubrey G. Lanston & Co., Veteran’s Administration CPE was a retired teacher and active Club and is survived by her hus- New York City, and is survived by programs. He is survived by his volunteer and is survived by her band, Homer ’48, one son, and his wife, Nancy, four daughters, wife, Susan, four daughters, two husband, Kenneth, two sons, two one daughter. one son, and one sister. sons, and four step-daughters. daughters, four brothers, and Stuart Johnson ’49, Wichita, KS, on Ray Thompson ’51, Silver Bay, MN, Dwayne Wise ’54, Prior Lake, MN, one sister. October 7, 2008. He was a re- on January 15, 2009. He was re- on October 12, 2008. Genevieve Loff Strom ’41, tired employee of 3M and is sur- tired owner of Norsk Kubbe Hus Jim Knapp ’56, Detroit Lakes, MN, Nashville, TN, on November 3, vived by his wife, Margaret, one Bed and Breakfast, Silver Bay, on November 4, 2008. He was 2008. She was a retired church son, and daughter Connie Pile and survived by his wife, retired executive director for secretary at St. John’s Lutheran ’82. Geraldine’51, one daughter, and Community Integrated Service Church and is survived by three Gerald Miller ’49, Alamo, TX, on two sons. Network and is survived by his daughters. November 19, 2008. He was a re- Walter Hartenberger ’52, wife, Joann (Gould ’56), one Robert Hansen ’42, Richville, MN, tired employee of 3M and is sur- Beaverton, OR, on November 11, son, and three daughters includ- on January 11, 2009. He was re- vived by his wife, Texa. 2008. He was a retired teacher ing Leigh Ota ’83. tired teacher, coach, and director Jack Thommen ’50, Bloomington, and school administrator, owner Lloyd Johnson ’58, Bemidji, MN, on of guidance for Madison schools MN, on October 22, 2008. He of School Futures, and is sur- November 24, 2008. He was a re- and city manager of Madison, was a retired Minneapolis school vived by his wife, Mary, three tired social service supervisor for and was elected to the Gustavus teacher and administrator and is daughters, and two sons. Beltrami County Human Services Athletics Hall of Fame in 1982. survived by sisters Marilyn John Myers ’54, Plymouth, MN, on and is survived by his wife, Wanda He is survived by one son and Dawson ’48 and Joanne “Jodi” December 8, 2008. He was re- (Heuer ’58), one daughter, three one daughter. Pieschel ’50. tired vice president and general sons including Mark ’81 and Elaine Larson Larson ’42, Boise, Herbert “Burnell” Baldwin ’51, manager of Sauer Sundstrand Gregg ’90, brother Orville ’59, Idaho, on November 10, 2008. Litchfield, MN, on October 30, and is survived by his wife, Lois and sister Eunice Anderson ’48.

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Gustavus alumni Christian Lantrey Tony Bennett finished second . . . When the results of JazzTimes magazine’s 2008 Readers’ Poll were announced in the January–February 2009 issue of the magazine, Tony Bennett was runner-up in the Male Vocalist category. The winner—and Male Vocalist of the Year for the fifth time since 1998—was Kurt Elling ’89. The Chicago-based Elling, an eight-time Grammy Award nominee, reclaimed the top spot after holding it for three consecutive years in 2000, 2001, and 2002. China exchange opens doors for students, faculty In November 2008 Elling had been Bruce H. Johnson, professor of economics and management, joined a 10-person recognized again in Downbeat maga- delegation visiting United International College (UIC) in Zhuhai, China, in zine’s annual polls, topping both the November 2008. magazine’s annual Critics’ Poll in the Male Vocalist category for the ninth straight Gustavus Adolphus College and UIC have an exchange agreement involving year and its Readers’ Poll for the fourth time (2002, 2004, 2006, and 2008). He students and faculty. Two UIC students—Yuan (Timo) Lin and Haisang (Hector) has also earned three Jazz Journalists’ Association Awards for Best Male Vocalist Wu—studied at Gustavus during the Fall 2008 semester, while Gustavus students and the Prix Billie Holiday from the Academie du Jazz in Paris. His quartet has Greg Boone and Cynthia Yang were enrolled at UIC. Four recent Gustavus gradu- toured the world, performing to critical acclaim in Europe, the Middle East, South ates have been teaching and tutoring at UIC. America, Asia and Australia, and at jazz festivals and concert halls across the This photo was taken at a High Table Dinner held at UIC during Johnson’s North America. The notoriously hard-to-please Downbeat has called Elling “the visit. Pictured from left are Ben Barnes ’08, English language teaching assistant best jazz singer ever.” and tutor in the English Language Center Department at UIC; Tim Bergmann ’08, teaching assistant and tutor for UIC’s Department of Government and International Relations; Pat Quade, former director of international education at survived by two sons including Pamela Stillwell Keefe ’71, Gustavus and now chief of international development at Beijing Normal Christopher Moylan ’91, and two Scituate, MA, on December 29, University-Hong Kong Baptist University and United International College; ex- brothers. 2008. She was a homemaker and change students Greg Boone, a senior communication studies major, and Cynthia Cecelia Erickson ’64, Eden Prairie, internationally recognized home Yang, a junior management major; Carl Johnson ’08, teaching assistant and MN. She was a longtime employ- decorator and is survived by her tutor for the English Language Center Department; Bruce Johnson; and Pat’s wife, ee of Honeywell and Control husband, David, two sons, one Cathy Quade. Not pictured is a fourth Gustie TA, Jonathan Olson ’07, who is also Data. daughter, and her parents. a tutor for the English Language Center Department.

Peter Boman ’60, Duluth, MN, on for Tillinghast-Towers Perrin and November 12, 2008. He was a re- is survived by two daughters. Correction tired surgeon, was a developer in Bill Pell ’61, St. Peter, MN, on Information was accidentally omitted from David Landin’s obituary in Duluth, and is survived by his November 10, 2008. He was the Winter 2008-09 issue: wife, Susan, one daughter, three owner of Pell Insurance and Real David Landin ’71, Derby, KS, on September 17, 2008. He was a retired sons including Peter ’88, and Estate and is survived by his U.S. Air Force navigator and marketing rep for John Hancock Financial brother Tom ’53. wife, Sandra “Sis,” one daughter, Services, and had been employed for several years as an adjunct college Carolyn Rydell Kreuzer ’60, Edina, and two sons. professor of government and history at the time of his death. He is sur- MN, on January 3, 2009. She was Barb Moylan Pluto ’62, Austin, MN, vived by his wife, ’Berta (Lanterman ’70), one son, and two daughters. former administrative assistant on December 6, 2008. She is

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Gustavus Alumni — Where Are We?

Where do Gusties live? Well, just District of Columbia 58 Montana 103 Utah 42 about everywhere, according to Florida 346 Nebraska 189 Vermont 24 the statistics we retrieved from our Georgia 131 Nevada 66 Virgin Islands 2 database. Gustavus boasts more Guam 3 New Hampshire 18 Virginia 237 than 24,500 located, living alumni Hawaii 37 New Jersey 73 Washington 338 as of December 2008, living in all Idaho 74 New Mexico 67 West Virginia 10 50 states as well as Guam, Puerto Illinois 642 New York 170 Wisconsin 1,044 Rico, and the Virgin Islands. Indiana 116 North Carolina 151 Wyoming 38 Canada and 57 other nations are Iowa 405 North Dakota 144 Armed Forces Americas 2 also represented. Kansas 86 Ohio 158 Armed Forces Europe 14 Kentucky 26 Oklahoma 35 Armed Forces Pacific 5 Alabama 29 Louisiana 33 Oregon 164 TOTAL 24,297 Alaska 92 Maine 42 Pennsylvania 148 Arizona 351 Maryland 139 Puerto Rico 1 Foreign addresses 387 Arkansas 35 Massachusetts 167 Rhode Island 12 from 58 countries California 819 Michigan 215 South Carolina 55 Colorado 548 Minnesota 15,758 South Dakota 179 Grand Total 24,684 Connecticut 72 Mississippi 17 Tennessee 67 Delaware 6 Missouri 139 Texas 355

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Guam Puerto Rico Virgin Islands Armed Forces More fun facts about who we are: Classes of the 2000s = 5,672 Other countries Nearly one-fourth (23%) of the Classes of the 1990s = 5,277 College’s entire living alumni base Classes of the 1980s = 4,764 are in the nine classes that have Classes of the 1970s = 3,948 graduated since 2000. Close to half Classes of the 1960s = 2,601 (44%) graduated since 1990, and Classes of the 1950s = 1,751 the percentage approaches two- Classes of the 1940s = 583 thirds (64%) since 1980. Classes of the 1930s = 80 Classes of the 1920s = 8 TOTAL 24,684

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alumni association Distinguished alumni

Magnus Ranstorp ’85 ‘Not your typical academic experience’

from his award presentation introduction by Kevin Byrne Tor Johnsson Tor

ver Magnus Ranstorp’s four years on campus we got to know each other quite well, from his first semester to his last, and I am awed by where he has gone since those days when he was a student. To be sure, his is a story richly deserving Oof a Distinguished Alumni Citation. This particular alumnus has forged for himself a stellar academic Editor’s note: Magnus Ranstorp ’85 was selected for a Distinguished and scholarly career. And by itself, that career trajectory might well Alumni Citation in 2006 but was unable to schedule a time to return to qualify him for this award. But there is more to tell. He has at times the Gustavus campus to accept the award until November 2008. lived a life more akin to Indiana Jones than anything I have known in academia, and both inside and outside of the academy he has and continues to make a difference in the world. That is a rare combination of

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Citation in international relations

life experiences, indeed, outside of the fantasy world of Hollywood. But der CNN asked him to serve as a consultant in 2001 for the documen- it is part of the life of Dr. Per Magnus Ranstorp, Class of 1985. tary One Day Soon, anticipating by a few months the attacks of Gustavus has a proud heritage of attracting students from countries September 11. At the moment of that tragedy, CNN named Magnus around the world to pursue their studies on our campus. In the fall se- their principal terrorism expert and the following day asked him to mester of 1981, a fresh-faced young Swede with a ready smile and an brief reporter Christiane Amanpour on the relationship between impressive amount of intellectual curiosity showed up in one of my Pakistan’s intelligence service and terrorist training camps in U.S. history classes, and subsequently several others. As he grew intel- Afghanistan. Few others in the world were aware of the connection. lectually, he developed a scholarly interest in the radical politics that Two years later, the 9/11 Commission invited him to come to the were part of U.S. culture in the late 1960s, eventually researching and United States and present his evaluation of the future of the global writing in his senior year a 75-page paper on the Weatherman faction terrorist threat and his advice for initiatives in response. of the Students for a Democratic Society. That effort, he attests, was But even then, most of these experiences might have seemed rather the beginning of what would become the focus of his career: the study tame to Dr. Ranstorp. After all, back in 1990, as he prepared to address of political radicalism and terrorism, with a particular interest in the a conference on terrorism he had organized, someone very fortuitously Middle East. discovered the plastic explosives that an agent of the Provisional Irish With an undergraduate degree from Gustavus in hand, Magnus con- Republican Army had placed under the podium. Perhaps after that ex- tinued the internationalization of his studies, earning a doctorate from perience, everything else has seemed rather mundane. Really and truly, the University of St. Andrews in Scotland while producing the disserta- this is not your “typical academic” experience! tion that would become his first book, Hizb’Allah in Lebanon: The In the past few years, Magnus has shifted his affiliation from Politics of the Western Hostage Crisis, published in 1996. For that vol- Scotland back to his native Sweden, where he presently serves as the ume and for his subsequent publications he interviewed hundreds of research director of the Centre of Asymmetric Threat Studies at the members of political organizations, many of them “non-state actors,” Swedish National Defence College. But his work outside the academy as people in international relations say. His knowledge of and familiari- has continued as well. Magnus is a member of the European Union’s ty with individuals and groups involved in the turbulent politics of the Expert Group on Violent Radicalization, regularly briefs the govern- Middle East grew dramatically, and it moved beyond that area of the ments of Sweden and Denmark on the issue of terrorism, and lectures world as well. around the world. Recognizing his extraordinary contributions, his St. Andrews recognized the talent it had, hiring Magnus to teach peers have elected him a Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of War courses in international relations and Middle East politics, and eventu- Sciences ally naming him director of its Centre for the Study of Terrorism and And still he has found time to serve on several editorial boards, as Political Violence. He remained there for 15 years, apparently living the well as continue to research and publish, most recently a book titled typical life of a scholar—teaching, researching, writing, and publish- Terrorism and Human Rights. The title tells us a lot. All along, Magnus ing. An idyllic, perhaps even contemplative, life . . . or so it would Ranstorp has brought to his studies and his professional work a hu- seem. manistic sensitivity to questions about civil liberties and human rights. Reality was more complicated. Take, for example, his experience in He talks about the need to balance security concerns with those two 1990 as the Soviet Union was collapsing, when Magnus participated in crucial issues. It is a sensitivity I noticed many years ago, when he nine extensive dialogues on counter-terrorism with Western European produced that 75-page paper on the Weathermen for me. and Soviet colleagues, including generals from the KGB and several To put it in simple terms, Magnus Ranstorp has made a difference European nations. Or the time he later spent in South American jungles in the world, a contribution to humanity, beginning with his students with anti-kidnapping units of the Colombian military. but extending far beyond the classroom and the campus. It is certainly And then there were his three years of serving as a secret back fitting, and we know it is overdue, that we present him with a channel between Lebanon’s radical Hizballah movement and the Israeli Distinguished Alumni Citation in international relations. government, living, as he put it, a “surreal existence,” teaching in the classroom at one moment and carrying clandestine messages between Professor of history Kevin Byrne has been a member of the Gustavus facul- these two organizations at the next. The Israeli media, in fact, singled ty since 1971. out Magnus for his role in the Israeli decision to remove its troops from southern Lebanon in 2000. Clearly, this is not your “typical academic” existence. Magnus subsequently worked with British and Libyan governments in their efforts to establish a rapprochement in their relations. No won-

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arts on campus The Ying Quartet, four siblings from Chicago who are now the quartet in residence at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y., bring their mix of Western string quartets, traditional Chinese compositions, and works by contemporary Chinese American composers to the Gustavus campus for a residency and concert March 13–14, 2009. Their visit is among the events of the College’s Global Insight program, which focuses this year on China. Photo by Jay Blakesberg.

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