Honoring Tradition EMBRACING CHANGE CLASS OF ST. OLAF COLLEGE Class of 1969 – PRESENTS – The Viking Update in celebration of its 50th Reunion May 31 – June 2, 2019 Autobiographies and Remembrances of the Class stolaf.edu 1520 St. Olaf Avenue, Northfield, MN 55057 Advancement Division 800-776-6523 Student Editors Joshua Qualls ’19 Kassidy Korbitz ’22 Matthew Borque ’19 Student Designer Philip Shady ’20 Consulting Editor David Wee ’61, Professor Emeritus of English 50th Reunion Staff Members Ellen Draeger Cattadoris ’07 Cheri Floren Michael Kratage-Dixon Brad Hoff ’89 Printing Park Printing Inc., Minneapolis, MN Welcome to the Viking Update! Your th Reunion committee produced this commemorative yearbook in collaboration with students, faculty members, and staff at St. Olaf College. The Viking Update is the college’s gift to the Class of in honor of this milestone year. The yearbook is divided into three sections: Section I: Class Lists In the first section, you will find a complete list of everyone who submitted a bio and photo for the Viking Update. The list is alphabetized by last name while at St. Olaf. It also includes the classmate’s current name so you can find them in the Autobiographies and Photos section, which is alphabetized by current last name. Also included the class lists section: Our Other Classmates: A list of all living classmates who did not submit a bio and photo for the Viking Update. In Memoriam: A list of deceased classmates, whose bios and photos can be found in the third and final section of the Viking Update. Section II: Autobiographies and Photos Autobiographies and photos submitted by our classmates are alphabetized by current last name. Section III: Remembering More than members of our class have died since graduation. The final section of the Viking Update is a tribute to their lives and legacies. This section is alphabetized by last name while at St. Olaf. We hope you enjoy the Viking Update! - The th Reunion Committee If there is anything that typifies our years at St. Olaf, I’d have to say it was the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The album cover featured a multitude of old movie and TV stars, and of course all of George's gurus. Mae West didn't want to be in the picture, thinking that it sounded like an album for losers, until the Beatles wrote her a letter. We trucked down to the Grand to watch the latest “flick.” An Ivy League student had written a nationally distributed booklet called “Where the Girls Are,” describing visits to a number of college campuses. When he visited St. Olaf, he said that it looked and sounded like a Carmelite monastery. We were so cool that we referred to our parents as the 'rents and a pizza as a 'za, and in the tower dorms the elevator was called “the 'vator.” Gus, who worked at the bookstore and had an indecipherable last name starting with E, was sometimes referred to as “Gus Eggbread.” Some of us had Haldor Hove for freshman English and were assigned to carry a lighted candle and walk the highway to Dundas until we found a church with a graveyard and then read “Elegy in a Country Churchyard” by Thomas Gray. I remember shielding my candle when cars went by on the highway so I wouldn't look like an idiot, but I probably looked like an idiot anyway. Once Bob Hope came to do a show on campus and talked about a new perfume he'd discovered. “You've heard of Evening in Paris?” he asked. “This was called Afternoon in Dundas.” Everyone howled. The best place for a first date was the Cage, because you could get coffee for a nickel. Later that was raised to a dime, but you got free refills. In the gym, we got to hear Carleton's Nite Crawlers quintet sing “You Say,” their only hit, and just a local hit at that. Today you can find it on YouTube as a hit in southern Minnesota. For first-nighter, the class ran out of boys, and the tallest girls each had to take opposite arms of one tall guy. Basically, all we did was book and have fun and maybe fall in love—not a bad way to spend four years. - Paul Froiland ’ CLASS OF REUNION COMMITTEE REUNION GIFT COMMITTEE PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS CO-CHAIRS CO-CHAIRS Paul Jacobson Judith Schuelke Mondloch Geeg Schendel Aaker Richard Rortvedt Linda Ness Bill Etnyre Solveig Tweet Zempel Rich Omland Rolf Ulvestad Paul Rolvaag Eldri Anderson Wittkamper COMMUNICATIONS Richard Steen COMMITTEE PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS GIFT COMMITTEE Debrah Allison Adams Neal Holtan Karen Everingham Andersen Lorna Daetz Anderson Chris Springer Langer Larry Anderson Karen Bockelman John Bahls Suzanne Fenelle DeBoom COMMUNICATIONS Vern Bass Thomas Driscoll COMMITTEE Leo Bjorlie James Erdahl Jack Aaker Martha Anderson Bonte Martin Francis Marcia Sandrock Aubineau John Bonte James Geistfeld Doug Borge Dan Franklin Kathy Halberg Huemoeller Donna Luoto Clark Thomas Goplen Jeffery Knapp Connie Lundstrom Marjorie Hanson Horning Karen Thompson Kooda Hartshorn Phyllis Hyland Larson Harland Kooda Dot Radius Kasik Jean Husby Milton Dianne Larson Larson Kurt Kasik Nancy Brome Rude Letty Hibben Lie Teryl Bailly Lawson John Sorensen Mary Nasby Lohre Sandra Londin Else Benesh Thompson Rex Loker Kendel Ohlrogge Mike Thompson Carol Gilbertson Maursetter Karen Reiher Ploetz Gregory Tollefson Sharon Gordon Meyer Claire Selkurt Carolyn McCown Weeks Barbara Calgaard Nelson Bert Sletten Mary Duckstad Nelson Karen Schmeling Storey Carolyn Nitz Geof Witrak Dan Schneider Jo Hohenstein Zimmermann Sandy Christensen Simmons Diane Steen-Hinderlie Dan Walseth CLASS LISTS List of Viking Update Submissions Alphabetized by last name while at St. Olaf The Autobiographies and Photos section of the Viking Update is alphabetized by current last name. To find a classmate using their last name while at St. Olaf, use the list below. Aaker, John (Jack) Brome, Nancy Rude Foster, Mary Jane (Jari) Aaker, Steven Brown, Susan Southworth Pulford Allison, Debrah Adams Brue, Craig Francis, Martin Anderson, Craig Calgaard, Barbara Nelson Frank, Rex Anderson, Douglas Carlson, Deborah Franklin, Daniel (Dan) Anderson, Eldri Wittkamper Carlson, Sherman Froiland, Paul Anderson, Emily Carlson, Susan Jambor Gatzke, Henry (Jack) Anderson, Judith Weeks Christensen, Sandra (Sandy) Geistfeld, James Anderson, Martha Bonte Simmons Gilbertson, Carol Maursetter Anderson, William (Bill) Christianson, Jeanne Glaub, Donna Evjen Aukee, Maria Brunet Langeland Gmitro, Rudy Bahls, John Christopherson, John Goplen, Thomas Bailly, Teryl Lawson Cieslar, Henry Gorsuch, Sharon Siman Bangle, Jane Shoemaker Daetz, Lorna Anderson Grangaard, Cheryl Reinertsen Barger, Susan Turner Diekman, Linda Berglund Green, Kathryn (Kate) Clark Bartik, Stephanie Graber Docken, Katherine (Trina) Greiert, Steven Bass, LaVerne (Vern) Keller Groth, Robert Baumann, Frederick Driscoll, Thomas Gulbrandsen, Carl Belsheim, Howard Duckstad, Mary Nelson Gustafson, Richard (Dick) Benesh, Elsie (Else) Eberley, Leah Dougherty Haertl, Daniel Thompson Edmiston, Susan Maland Haeussler, Lois Petermann Berget, Karen Weiss Elnes, Elaine Halberg, Kathryn (Kathy) Beyer, Bruce Erdahl, James Huemoeller Bjorlie, Leo Erickson, Nancy Moore Hanson, John Blodgett, Mary Mitchell Erickson, Thomas (Tom) Hanson, Marjorie Horning Bly, Susan (Sue) Althof Ersland, Edith Hanson, Mark Boatright, Julie Wilson Etnyre, William (Bill) Heen, Esther Lowenstein Bochler, Diane Shabino Everingham, Karen Andersen Heublein, John Bockelman, Karen Everson, John Hibben, Letty Lie Bogda, Richard Farness, Jay Higdon, James Bond, Charlene Peterson Fenelle, Suzanne DeBoom Hintzman, Carol Schefers Bonte, John Fink, Stephen Hoeft, John Borge, Douglas (Doug) Flaaten, Jan Hohenstein, Jo Zimmermann Brandvik, Jan Fossum, Douglas (Doug) Hollimon, Geoffrey Hollis, Donna Shy Londin, Sandra Holtan, Neal Lonnes, Judyanne Schwenker Olson, Judy Hubbert, Linda (Christine) Lukk, Tiiu Olson, Karen Bennett Wertman Lund, Mark Olson, Kathryn (Kathy) Hughes, Laurene (Laurie) Lundby, Ole Thompson Church Lundstrom, Constance Olson, Laird Husby, Jean Milton (Connie) Hartshorn Olson, Marjorie Johnson Hustad, Janis Kellgren Luoto, Donna Clark Olstad, Keith Hyland, Phyllis Larson Lyons, John Omland, Richard (Rich) Isaacson, Marcus Maland, Paul Paulson, Dennis Ittel, Carol Kantar Mark, Donald Paulson, Douglas Iverson, Stephen Marquart, Carl Pedersen, Andrea Jacobson, Paul Martens, Susan Christianson Jacquat, Michael Mason, Stuart Peterson, John Johnson, Carol Talley McClintick, Allen Peterson, Michael (Mike) Johnson, Cathie Jacquat McCown, Carolyn Weeks Peterson, Nancy Boe Johnson, George (Allan) Middough, Beverly Riehl Peterson, Stevanna Myers Johnson, James (Jim) Mikulecky, Larry Peterson, Timothy (Tim) Johnson, Randall Mills, Janice (Jan) Needham Petit, Noel Johnson, William Minge, Elisabeth Mellema Pflaum, Jacqueline (Jackie) Kachigan, Terry Mjos, Julie MacGregor Phillips, Barbara Wooleyhan Kark, Richard Morken, Betsy Olson Plaster, Charles Kasik, Kurt Mosiman, Gary Ploetz, Richard Kassube, Cathy Struck Mueller, Brady Purvis, Katherine Lund Kirkegaard, Peter Mueller, Brent Radius, Dorothy (Dot) Kasik Kluczny, Carole Smith Myers, Dennis Ranes, Beth Anderson Knapp, Jeffery Nasby, Mary Lohre Reiher, Karen Ploetz Kostial, Keith Neff, Rynda Carlis Reinertsen, James Kroll, Kathy Kunze Nelson, Naomi Colburn Rhodes, Karen Kruse, Perry Nelson, Richard (Rick) Rittmueller, Jean Lang, John Nelson, Thomas Rolfson, Roald Larson, Dianne Larson Ness, Linda Ronning, Diane Halbrook Larson, James Nesset, Ruth Wilson Rortvedt, Richard Larson, Linda Virden Newhouse, Gwen Jones Rose, Cheryl Jacobsen Lee, Barbara Greenfeldt