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December 1 992 11/ e 92 • limber 2 MINNESOTA UNIVE RSITY OF MINNESOTA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION FEATURES 12 The Politicilation of Pat Schroeder After twenty years as one of the fe~ women In Congress, Representaove Pat chroeder IS ready for the payoff: an expected influx of women officeholder on Capitol Hill and around the country. \Vill they change the world? By Eleanor Clift 18 Adventures in Retail Dale Bachman took over the family bu ine ; andy langeI launched one of her own. Ten OIversity of Minnesota alumru tell how they got interested In retall, where they got their tart, and what it took to succeed. By Vicki Stoovig 18 Sandy Mangel: Do ne and Do It Well 20 Dolly Fiterman: It' Like a Di ease 8 21 Dale Bachman: 107 Years of Experience 22 Jeanne Voight: Optimistic But Reali tic 23 Barry and Roberta Bonhoff: Risk ot, Grow T(l t 24 David Pomije: Make It Better 24 Robert Sullivan: ee the 1 eed, Don't Create It 25 Bob Ulrich: n Target 26 Oscar Austad: ervice I a Priority 38 Murphy's Law l:OIver Ity of ~1inne ota re earchers have found thar it' po'"e rty, nor ingle-parent hou ehold per e, that is mo t harmful to America' duldren. By Amy Hard 45 Ten at the Top Es ay on reachers and tudent from this year's Horace T" ~lor e- linne ora umni oClaoon ward \\;nner " /3.y Tel"eSa (01=0 COLUMNS 53 SPORTS: Fair Play Foil" ing a unanimou deci ion by Big Ten univenty pre idents to embrace gender equity in athleti , linne ota move to,\ ard achieving a 60-40 plit b) 199 " By Km'w ROllch DEPARTMENTS In Focus. 5 National President ....... 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For mcmbcro.hlp anft)nn:aoon or "nice. call 0[" "ntt' l'na\c""l~ of \lann ta Alwnnt I 1m, 501 CuITm.lll ,\ lel1ltlrlJI LIn"l", H)O \ \ .I\hmgton \ \cnuc SI -. \ l1nnt'J)lOll\, \t\J 5 '4'5-0~Q6. 61 ~-6~+-!'~~, -op~Tlg ht e lQQ~ b~ the Una\CfSlry of \llnne, [J \lumru OCl.aoon MI'I [SOT 3 IN NEW YORK CITY To FIND THE BEST IN AMERICAN ART Ask someone from home J' /;:-~ - - E.Ambrose Web ter BRO K IN WINTER Irca 19 14 , od on ca nvas , 2 - 112 39· 1/ 2 In he BABCOCK ~~ EIlabliJIxJ J 851 724 FIFTH AVENUE NEW YORK, NEW YORI\. '00'9 212 70 7- ' 52 Jeanne and John Dri 011 U NIV ERS ITY I tl NNE TA , BAs 1 9 & 1 7 1 l INNESOTA Editor Jean Marie Hamilton As,ocl~t. Ed itor Teresa cairo Contributing Editor Viclci Stavig Copy Editor Lynn Marasco Production Ani'Unt Pat Aukema Student Assi ' Unt N Foe U S Shaun Hawkinson Student Inurn Faith McGown Design Black Dog Graphics The]oy of Politics Sbff Photographer BiU Eilers Advertising Account Executives HAT! Pat Schroeder-a Colorado firsthand how great the impact is when Peggy Duffy-Johnson, 626-4886 resident with ebraska roots who alumni contact their legislators to tell .V1ary Jane hapiro, 626-4 N W was born in Oregon and raised in Iowa­ them 'we really care about the Universi­ doing on the cover of 1irmesoto? In what ty." Legislators are not as steeped in ni­ UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA commentatotS are calling the Year of the versity traclitions as they once were, she said, ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Woman in American politics, we couldn't and it is terribly important to instill in them Executive Director find a more appropriate subject than Schr0e­ a sense of traclition, a sense of the niversi­ Margaret ughrue Carlson der, the acknowledged dean of women in ty's impact on the state. taples asked board Associne Executive Director Jane Wluteside the .. House of Representatives, a former members to think of ways the niversity National President canclidate for the Democratic presidential has changed their lives that they could re­ Michael Unger nomination, and a niversity of Mirmesota late to their legislators. Vice President alumnus. For taples, it was Humphrey, a regular Janie tayeron "\ e had hoped to provide another per- visitor to one of her political science classes, Soc:ond Vice President Linda 10na pective on this election year from 1inneso­ "'TIO changed her life.: ''I was motivated to Treasurer ta Repre entative Vin \\leber, ' 6, a nm for political office, and I can quite cli­ EzellJone sought-after Republican spokesperson, but rectly attribute that to my ~posure to Hu­ Secretary with the Republican ational Convention bert Humphrey, she said. Larry Laukka in the offing, his schedule and ours could As a high school student attencling Girls Past President John D. French not be reconciled and we had to postpone tate I, too, was inspired by Humphrey. our plans to talk to him. Democracy doesn't work if people don't, he BOARD OF DIRECTORS In a way, this issue is about the legacy of said. It' important to support the two-pany At-Large Memben Hubert Humphrey, '39. He may have grad­ system and to vote. ears later, at a political Currnan Gaines, Michael Huerth, Ann Huntrod ,CarolJohnson, uated with a degree in pharmacy, but it could event. I asked Humphrey, who seemed to Jay Kiedrowski, Becl.'Y Malkerson, just as " ell have been a Ph.D. in education. know the first name of everyone in a crowd Bob Potts, Michael ullivan, He is personall responsible for inspiring and of about a thousand bow he clid it. He Marvin Trammel educating th usands of citizens on the im­ showed me the Humphrey secret. Grab­ Geographlal Repr.. enbtiv u Gordon Dunkley, Mary FLinn, portance of a go,'ernment of the people, by bing my hand to shake it. he cocked his Lynn Hughes, teveJackelen, the people, and for the people. chroeder head in that unique Humphrey way look­ Richard Lindgren, Dee Peterson, re- Katie a seville, Richard \Vhirney ne of th who came under his spell, inlT dO\m at my hands as though shaking Alumni Societies calls how Hunlphrey ,;sired canlpUS fre­ them wa the great t pleasure in the Agriculture, Allied Health, quently, listening to tudents and passing on worlcl--and told me he read my name tag Architecture and Land cape cllitecture, to them hi sheer lo\"t~ of people and politi . n m right lapel as he clid Biological iences, Denti try, ducation, EditotS frequend find that real life hi The nP. .ty' influence on the national Human cology, thenl with material and insights for a stol)' political scene has waned since the day of L. lberal Am; and niversity ollege, in progress. ne of these coinciden 0c- Humphre ', Eugene i\lcCarthy, ' 9 and Carlon choolof 1anagement, ledical, arum] Resources, curred at the eptember alwnni 'ation "Walter Mondale, -1 '56. But Pat cbroe­ ursing, Pharmacy, national meeting. der, Emily Anne tnples, and other luck)' Hubert H. Humphrey Institute Emily Anne tapl " e:'PlaininlT to the inheritotS of the Humphrey legacy are wait- of Publi Affuirs, Public Health, board h \ impommt it is to participate in ing to on his spirit to a wh 1 ne,,,, cl Institute fTeclmology, the Alwnni Legislative em r1.:. a fonner of politicians. ' ''e hope they have much eterinary Iedicme tate legi lat r (rurming in "ember f r fun as Humphrey clid. ount)' ommi i ner) she aid she kn \\ -Jean Marie Hamilton II . £ 0 T 5 We tell more college stories than you do. a much fun a you do al 0 a bu in s that w take very ri u ly. That' why e r II ge n w p p r in th COllntlY. And that' hy e offer ou m thing no r do - th ompl t tOly on the r ity of Minne ota. With The Dai~)1 d Ii ur hom l' offi , y u'li be up-to-dat n ni er ity athletic, p liti and acad mi lil' . 0 order The Dail) t day.