1996 Spring Saint Benedict's Saint John's Magazine

              "It seemed appropriate that
we have one person looking
over academics at the two
schools, because it is one
program."
s. Colman
"Whatever the reasons,
good or bad, the direction
the schools took has been a
blessing for both schools."
Br. Dietrich
Saint Ben's moves into lead role
With larger enrollment, women's college advances
by Jerry L. Carter
St. Cloud Times Staff Writer
Nearly 30 years after a report by education experts
urged Saint John's University and the College of
Saint Benedict to merge or face likely extinction,
officials of the two schools say they are seeing the
benefits of the unlikely path the schools chose.
Though many theories have been advanced as to
why the schools backed, off the advised merger -
including religious differences between the convent
and the monastery and fear of one school engulf­ing
the other - school officials say it was the
schools' alumni who brought a halt to the merger.
The boards of trustees of both schools in 1968
were ready to merge, but alumni wouldn't stand for
it, said Sister Colman O'Connell, OSB, president
of Saint Benedict's.
"Our alumnae were telling us that they didn't
think it was right to join that boys' college six miles
away and their alumni were saying they didn't want
to be part of our lirtle girls' school," S. Colman said.
"We stepped back and said, 'what are we doing?'"
The two schools instead launched what officials
at the school call a coordinate relationship, combin­ing
departments and academics, but keeping sepa­rate
campuses. Student life activities, such as athlet­ics,
student government and student organizations
were separate, but academic classes became joint.
Now, the relationship the two schools created has
led to their nomination for one of three $250,000
Pew Leadership Awards for the renewal of under­graduate
education. The award recognizes schools
that have taken creative approaches to academics
and administration.
The nomination, school officials say, has allowed
the schools to track their coordinate efforts with
each other, something that hasn't been done before.
"If nothing else, this has allowed us to take a look
at how we got here," said Lee Hanley, who, as di­rector
of communications and external relations at
Saint John's, helped prepare the documentation for
the grant application.
The hundreds of pages of records and documen­tation
show the road taken by the two schools has
been a long one, Hanley said.
In the 1940s and '50s, Saint Benedict's and Saint
John's occasionally shared courses, activities or pro­fessors.
By the late 1960s, the two schools had simi-c
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lar academic calendars and in 1973 the schools had
their first total cross registration. One by one, aca­demic
departments became coordinate or joint.
But it wasn't until a decade later that schools be­gan
the tasks of shaping a common core curriculum
and systematically increasing joint administrative
servIces.
"For example, we have one art department, but
studios on both campuses," said Brother Dietrich
Reinhart, president of Saint John's. "We also tried
to not duplicate services on both campuses, unless
they were essential services."
In 1995, in what many call a monumental ap­pointment,
Clark Hendley was named provost for
academic affairs of both schools. Until then, both
schools had separate vice presidents of academic
affairs and correlating events with other schools was
cumbersome.
"It seemed appropriate that we have one person
looking over academics at the two schools, because
it is one program," S. Colman said.
Hendley said he was attracted to the position at
Saint John's and Saint Benedict's because "there is
no other campus in the nation like this. These
schools are coed in a manner that has not been done
before. Men and women get to develop their own
voices on their respective campuses and then they
get to use them in the classroom."
Whatever the reasons, good or bad, the direction
the schools took has been a blessing for both
schools, Br. Dietrich said.
In the late 1960s Saint Benedict's benefited the
most from the coordinated effort.
At the time, Saint Benedict's was a third of the
size of Saint John's and Saint John's [annual fund]
was receiving much more money from its alumni
than Saint Ben's. "If we would have merged Saint
Ben's would have probably been absorbed by Saint
John's," Br. Dietrich said.
Now, it is Saint John's that benefits from the joint
effort. Saint Benedict's has surpassed Saint John's
enrollment. Currently, Saint Benedict's has 1,832
students and Saint John's has 1,650 students.
"We are only one of about four men's colleges lefr
in the nation," Br. Dietrich said. "Our relationship
has allowed us to focus on men's issues."
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Gender sensitivity:
An inherent part of CSB/SJ U
by Lisa Wilder Larson
Pretend for a moment that you're back on cam­pus,
your brain's on overload from this morning's
economics and European histoty classes, now you're
sitting in one of Charles Thornbury's men's studies
courses and he asks, "What do you most want to
know about the opposite sex?"
Oh, and pretend you only have a notecard on
which to write your response. Tough to boil it down,
isn't it?
But that's much like what the CSB/SJU English
professor of "Studies in Masculinities" has his stu­dents
do. And the responses? Well, put it this way:
Thornbury could collect responses from students
for a couple of years and have enough fodder to steal
some of Paul Reiser's market share on men, women
and couplehood.
One SJU student wrote, "I would like to under­stand
why women tend to have a moodier person­ality
than men. Females tend to analyze every lirtle
detail and ofren become very disturbed over lirtle
things very quickly. Why are their moods so differ­ent
at times?"
"I would like to know how much women are
attracted to the 'stoic' male, or is there another male
aura that today's woman looks for in a man?" wrote
another young man.
"What good or positive qualities do women find
in men that they cannot find in women?" a third
wondered.
And the CSB students?
"I would like to know about men's relationships
with other men. Are they really fulfilling? Can you
really talk to them? Do you feel empathy for them?
Would you (men) ever be able to go to another man
with a real, emotional type problem? Or do you ever
feel the need to have a relationship like that?"
"Why does it seem that no matter how many
times women hear 'That's not what I meant!' or 'I
didn't mean it like that,' men never seem to think
about what they say before they say it?"
"I would like to learn to understand them (men)
better. Afrer living with my brothers for 14 and 16
years, I feel like I am gradually getting better at read­ing
them, but sometimes I wonder if! really know
them at all. That is kind of how I feel about most
of the men in my life."
We'll let you decide whether a man or woman
wrote this last example:
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"When I thought about what I really wanted to
know about (the other sex), I realized I didn't want
to know anything. I think I would be better off just
being confused constantly than I would be if! knew
all the answers."
Everyone feels that way sometimes, about a lot
of things. But knowing the answer isn't always what
it's about. A lot can be gained simply by being will­ing
to ask the questions.
CSB and SJU professors are bringing many of the
fundamental questions men and women have about
themselves and each other out of the dorm rooms
and into the classrooms, cafeterias and gymnasiums.
They're inviting students' to explore who they are
as well as who the opposite sex is. Of course the
questions are much deeper than "Why do men
spend so much time in garages?" or "Why do
women always go to the restroom in groups?"
At the core of all the questions is a move to help
young men and women understand their changing
roles in society individually and in relationship to
one another.
Campuswide, people are looking at how men and
women differ and what they can learn from each
other. In the past, the effort has swung like a pen­dulum
with a focus on women's studies for a time
and later on men's studies. Today, CSB and SJU
treat women's and men's studies with equal impor­tance.
The term gender studies is more commonly
used now, representing a necessary approach if what
the students learn here is really going to benefit
them after they leave.
It's taken several years for the CSB and SJU com­munities
to create an environment in which gender
studies could succeed. Twenty years ago the six miles
separating the two campuses might as well have
been 400 miles. Twenty years ago, gender was such
a nonissue that, for example, female professors and
students had only one bathroom to use at SJU's
science hall.
"We finally got the use of a bathroom on the third
floor that had been reserved for men's faculty and
so when they converted that over to a women's bath­room,
Sister Mary and Sister Phyllis took a plant
and put it in the urinal," recalled SJU campus phy­sician
Dr. Rebecca Hafner, a CSB alumna.
Founded as an all-male institution, the logistics
of bringing women to SJU presented a problem. In
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"When I thought
about what I really
wanted to know
about (the other sex),
I realized I didn't
want to know any­thing.
I think I would
be better off just being
confused constantly
than I would be if I
knew all the answers. "
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some ways, they weren't mentally prepared for it
either.
As one of only a handful of female students ma­joring
in the sciences, Hafner said, "There were fre��quent
comments by students, and professors too,
that the only reason (women) were taking those
classes was to catch a husband. There were people
who were shining lights ... but overall it was just not
very welcoming (to women)."
Female professors struggled. Joan Steck, commu­nications
professor, remembers some difficult times
in the late 1970s. "In one sense you wouldn't be­lieve
that professional people could treat one an­other
badly on the basis of gender, but it happened.
Some very distressing incidents of women £aculty
walking into their offices and finding pornography
sitting on their desk, and then men faculty kind of
standing out in the hallway and waiting to see what
their reaction would be. Would you £all apart ... or
would you kind of yuk it up and become one of the
bo ys., "
Steck, however, didn't give up. She and other fe­male
professors at SJU banded together to change
their surroundings. Supported by an internal SJU
grant, the group effectively worked through the
problems with their male colleagues. "We began to
meet in the morning over coffee and two or three
people each time would just write a one-page sort
of personal statement about what their life was like
as a student, as a graduate student, as a teacher, and
as a spouse .... Some of them were very painful. We
cried in front of one another. But we all gained a
great deal of trust and respect and appreciation."
SJU and CSB then began to feel the broader ef-c
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fects of the national women's movement and each
was forced to adjust to an unplanned, quasi coedu­cational
environment.
More female students pursued degrees in tradi­tionally
male-dominated fields, particularly the sci­ences,
and found themselves spending more and
more time at SJU. Soon, more SJU students ap­peared
at CSB as they registered for classes in tra­ditionally
female-dominated fields such as nursing,
theater and elementary education.
Once again, change brought with it concerns.
Determined to maintain the high quality of edu­cation
offered by the separate schools, CSB and SJU
administrators plunged into a thorough review of
the curriculum. Out of that came today's coopera­tive
core curriculum, which included enhanced
educational offerings and an equality in graduation
requirements for CSB and SJU students.
A new wave of animosity between the sexes crept
onto campus. CSB students organized events and
brought speakers to campus to keep abreast of the
women's movement's ever-changing emphasis.
Eventually, a Women's Week of events took hold.
And at SJU, "The Johnnies just had themselves a
grand time during that week, ridiculing it, making
fun, refusing to attend anything, stomping around,"
Steck said.
CSB professors in step with society's increasing
attention to women had pinpointed curriculum
problems. With a three-year grant from the Foun­dation
for the Improvement of Post-Secondary
Education (FIPSE), CSB and SJU professors sat
back and took a look at what and how they were
teaching and whether they were adequately serving
and reflecting the students' needs.
Initially the project was called "Integrating
Women into the Curriculum." "At the time, too
many people thought of gender as applying only to
women. It was, 'Well, the curriculum is just fine
except we should add a few more women authors
or women playwrights and so forth,' " said Steck,
who was instrumental in this project also. "It was
kind of the 'add women and stir' approach. I think
our greatest difficulty was obtaining an understand­ing
in the faculty and among the student body that
gender applies to both men and women."
CSB English professor Ozzie Mayers felt frus­trated
at times. "What the project didn't do was to
really establish gender studies because so much work
had to be done in terms of issues about women that,
in essence, there were only a very few of us who were
paying attention to men," he said.
Overall, the project was successful. Because of it,
today's course list includes a unique identifier called
a "gender flag." CSB and SJU students alike are
required to take at least one core curriculum course
in which special attention is given to the impact
gender has had on the subject.
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Faculty interest in gender issues is thriving. Now,
Steck said, "There are courses on Gender, Race and
Class in American history. There are classes on
Gender and the Concept of Work taught by the
economics department. There's a class in our depart­ment'
Gender and Communications. Someone in
the modern and classical languages teaches a class
called Gender, Language and Culture .... It started
with just a couple of courses in what you would
think would be obvious places, such as Women and
Literature. But it rapidly blossomed," she said.
Two years ago a gender and women's studies
minor was approved. The minor allows students to
explore gender studies in more depth, said Linda
Lierheimer, CSB assistant professor of history and
coordinator of the minor. Women's studies are
singled out as part of the title only because it has
been an established discipline from which they are
learning method~logies, she said.
Other changes made in an effort to help women
along also were found to help men.
Coed classes threatened CSB's effort to provide
a place where women could speak out without hav­ing
to compete with men for the floor. But changes
in teaching methods have been a part of prevent­ing
that mission from being sacrificed.
For example, science educators nationally con­tinue
to study ways to foster women's interest and
success in the sciences. "There's a lot of infor mati on
in the literature about how women learn versus how
men learn, especially in science," said Anna
McKenna, CSB associate professor of chemistry. "I
know that there was one study asking college stu­dents
to explain their success or failure in their first
college science course. The men that they inter­viewed
who did well said, 'I did well because I
worked hard,' and the women who did well said, 'I
did well because I was lucky.' That's a real different
mindset."
So McKenna and others made changes. "We
haven't watered it down, made it easier, or dumbed
it down. We've packaged it differently," she said.
Researchers say women learn better in smaller
groups. Small, private colleges such as CSB and SJU
accommodate that need particularly well. A greater
feeling of competition among students in coeduca­tional
settings also seems to inhibit women's success.
"We've tried to focus in on this competition
thing. A lot of the educational literature suggests
that women do better in non-competitive situa­tions,
so what a lot of us have done is we never grade
on a curve, where if you study with someone and
help them along it can actually hurt your grade. So
we've tried not to pit students against each other,"
McKenna explained.
Interestingly, the faculty found that changes in
teaching methods initiated to help CSB students
also improved SJU students learning environment.
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''I'm a woman, but (still) I have this thing about
gearing your classroom for women because these
things don't just help women. They help every­body,"
McKenna said.
Gender sensitivity is becoming an inherent part
of the two schools as administrators, staff, career
counselors, residence hall advisers, athletic coaches
and others realize the benefits to be gained.
A variety of projects are underway. Faculty, stu­dents
and staff together are studying leadership and
the impact of men and women's development on
leadership roles as part of the grant-funded Kellogg
Leadership Program. CSB and SJU student devel­opment
offices are conducting an internal Portfo­lio
Project, in which 40 CSB and 40 SJU students
are tracked throughout their college experience
under a microscope of sorts. Administrators and
faculty members hope to establish a Men's Studies
Center and a Women's Studies Center to ground the
multitude of gender studies approaches and efforts.
(A FIPSE grant proposal to fund the creation of the
centers was recently denied, but those involved say
campus administrators want to find a way to make
it happen without the grant.)
Student development administrators also are
keenly aware of gender's impact on the services their
offices provide. "We have noticed differences in the
kind of programs and services on each campus, and
for a period of time, our two staffs would look at
each other and wonder why the other wasn't doing
things like 'we do,'" Kathy Allen and Gar Kellom,
vice presidents of student development at CSB and
SJU, wrote in a review of Gender-related Patterns in
Student Development and Services (A Work in
Progress).
Some fundamental differences in men's and
Photo: Greg Becker
women's approaches to life lead to differences in the
way CSB and SJU administrators work with their
students.
For example, male and female students approach
career decisions in distinct ways. "For one reason or
another, when women think about finding a job,
they think about how this will fit into the larger
scope of their life, whether they see themselves as
married and having a family, they're thinking about
their career in relationship to those things and also
in relationship to the values that they hold. Some
of them see their career development as a process
of composing life," Allen said.
"At Saint John's, the young men are more focused
on career choices that give them some security in
terms of earning money. I think part of that is their
identity, their worth as men in our society," she said.
In a practical sense, those differences translate into
CSB students exploring their career options much
earlier in their college years than SJU students.
"They really are much more into a very thorough
preparation .... Men often wait until the last semes­ter
of their senior year before they get serious about
careers, so it's a real struggle for career services to
keep pushing them, trying to get them in earlier
than that," Allen said.
"Part of it, we've learned, is that young women
often define confidence as being familiar with a situ­ation
or having a set of knowledge or skills that they
feel will prepare them for a situation, so we think
this is part of that process that we see them in ca­reer
services."
Just being aware of those types of differences and
being willing to look at them is a step ahead of most
colleges. "I think gender is something that (other
coed institutions) don't even consider as a category
of analysis, so the way they deliver services often are
influenced by either tradition or maybe the gender
of the person who's the director of the services ....
If they're talking about gender at all, they're talking
about women's issues. They're not talking at all
about men's issues. They're assuming that gender is
important to women, but it's not an issue for men.
That's where Saint John's has really taken some
strides and really moved out of the pack," Allen said.
Many admit that much of today's attention to
gender - specifically including men's studies­was
an unexpected outcome of the women's move­ment.
Now, alongside the women's movement,
there's a men's movement underway at CSB and
SJU, as well as nationally.
"The men's movement doesn't have as much en­ergy
and power that the women's movement has,"
said Mayers, who as a part of the FIPSE curriculum
project 10 years ago was a bit of a lone wolf howl­ing
for attention to men's issues.
"I think some of it has to do with the fact that
women felt liberated in their process of coming to
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a higher awareness of themselves .... We're certainly
not getting the kind of attention that the women's
movement got. Why? I think that has to do with
the fact that men are changing, or have to change,
is really threatening to men, as well as to women."
A place like SJU, then, is a perfect place to begin
such discussions. SJU and CSB respectively provide
students a unique combination of the single sex and
coeducational atmospheres. Separate residence pro­grams
safeguard students' time to discover who they
are and what they want without the influence, or
distraction, of the opposite sex. And the coed classes
and activities provide opportunities for them to
practice improved ways of communication and
appreciation for one another.
"Students come in at 18, they're ftesh out of high
school, it's been all they can do to think about who
they are and of course they continue to do that in
college and thereafter, until their 30s at least. But
the high school experience is so different from the
college experience. One of the things they've not
really thought about is the sort of role that they play
as young men and women," said Thornbury.
Two courses in particular are being offered which
focus solely on the male experience. Students in
Thornbury's "Men's Lives in Literature and Film"
Gender books
Submitted by Lisa Wilder Larson
If gender issues are a topic you would like to ex­plore,
the following is a list of books about women's
issues, men's issues and gender issues as recommended
by SJU English professor Charles Thornbury and
CSB history assistant professor Linda Lierheimer.
Thornbury and Lierheimer do not necessarily agree
with the ideas and arguments put forth in any par­ticular
volume. Additional titles can be found in
published annotated bibliographies on men's and
women's issues.
The Male Experience by James A. Doyle
Contemporary Perspectives on Masculinity: Men,
WOmen and Politics in Modern Society by Kenneth
Clatterbaugh
Men's Lives, an anthology edited by Michael Kimmel
and Michael Messner
The Seasons of a Man's Life by Daniel J. Levinson,
et al.
Men and The water of Lifo: Initiation and the Temper­ing
of Men by Michael Meade
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
Powers of Desire, an anthology edited by Ann Snitow,
Christine Stansell and Sharon Thompson
The Reproduction of Mothering by Nancy Chodorow
In A Different Vtiice by Carol Gilligan
The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf
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(offered through the CSB/SJU English department)
and "Studies in Masculinities" (offered as a January
Term course) say the class opened their eyes to
things they might not have even thought to look for
before.
Topics such as the initiation of boys, men and
war, men and work, men and sports, and men and
spirituality are covered.
Students say such classes are overdue. "I think it's
a real good step that they've made as far as saying
that there are differences and that we need to pay
attention to both genders. I think in the past year
or 1-112 years, the males over here have been say­ing,
'We need to be sensitive to males, male ideas
also, besides just the femininity classes that seem like
they're overwhelming the issue.' It's like saying that
we're important too," said SJU senior Christopher
Meidl.
Faculty members say that although they don't
agree that men's issues have been completely ig­nored,
they do say students see it that way despite
efforts to the contrary. To many male students, the
gender flag is just a euphemism for women's studies.
Perhaps the students were right, at least to a cer­tain
degree. "The study of men in the past has been
in power and all that, but it's always been an implicit
study. Certainly men have written the history, men
have been in charge historically and have enjoyed
great privileges of power. But the question has not
been asked so often as an explicit study, 'How do
men experience being men?'" Thornbury said. "It
allows men to talk about their experience and that's
what's different I think about these courses. They're
both to celebrate that experience as well as to exam­ine
it."
To some's surprise, they've found many aspects of
being male worth exploring. For example, what are
the effects on men of the expectation that they be
the primary breadwinner? How has the role of fa­ther
changed ftom one generation to the next? How
can men benefit by learning to express their emo­tions
more? How can men be true to themselves,
good to themselves, take care of themselves?
"My theory," said Kellom, "is that we have a lot
of students that come to Saint John's that are privi­leged.
They're coming in white males and inherit an
awful lot of status and wealth and opportunity and
position. And the world's changing, so there's got
to be a way to say to them, 'Look, you've got to
prepare yourself for a different world - a global
world, a multi-cultural world, where being a white
male may not just be the ticket to stepping into a
position of power you'll hold onto your whole life."
SJU is prepared now to help young men explore
and face these issues. Men's studies courses as well
as student life experiences are being created. Where
women have had women's studies, men now have
men's studies. Where CSB has had it's traditional
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women's week, "Project AWARE," SJU now has an
annual "Celebrating Men" speaker series. And stu­dent
organizers are working together to plan events
that equally address both genders' issues.
From it all, Kellom envisions a change in attitude
that will give men and women an equal freedom in
life. "It has a lot to do with, in my opinion, break­ing
down social stereotypes, explaining to young
men and young women that they don't have to be
what society tells them they have to be .... With
regard to white men, it's reshaping their views, and
opportunities and privilege, into more of an ethic
of service and being in touch with themselves and
taking care of themselves."
Then, they have to mix it up again. "When you
do all that, you're developing yourself as a man and
you have a new view of masculinity and all that,
then you still live in a coed world. So the other half
of what we have to do is help men understand how
to relate to women at the same time women are
trying to figure out what it is to be a woman. That's
where it really gets exciting," Kellom said.
As one student in Thornbury's "Men's Lives in
Literature and Film" wrote in response to his ques­tion,
'What would you most like the other gender
to know about you?':
"It is important to me that the genders work to­ward
understanding and appreciating those differ­ences
which constitute femininity and masculinity.
Whether differences between men and women are
biological or societal, the fact is they exist. The re­sponsibility
of recognizing and appreciating those
differences should be equally shared in order to
maximize the beauty and practicality of gender."
Can you tell ifit was written by a man or woman?
More importantly, does it matter?
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CS B selects new president. Susan Mundale, chair of the College of Saint Benedict board of trust­ees,
has announced the appointment of Mary E. Lyons as the next CSB president.
"The board of trustees selected Mary Lyons after a rigorous search process that involved many members of
the college community, " Mundale said. "We are happy that she has accepted our invitation to the presidency,
and we look forward to her leadership."
Lyons will begin her appointment as CSB president July 1. Her inaugura­tion
will be Sunday, Sept. 22. She follows President S. Colman O'Connell,
OSB, who will retire on June 30 after 10 years as president. Lyons has been
president of California Maritime Academy in Vallejo, CaliE, since 1990. While
there, she incorporated a liberal arts core into the academy's engineering and
training programs and led efforts to bring the academy into the California state
college system.
"I am delighted to know that Dr. Mary Lyons will be the next president of
the College of Saint Benedict," S. Colman said. "Her intelligence and sense
of humor, combined with her commitment to Catholic, residential, liberal
arts education for women make her the ideal leader to help propel Saint
Benedict's, along with its partner, Saint John's University; into an exciting new
era of excellence." Dr. Mary E. Lyons
"I welcome Dr. Lyons and look forward to working with her," said Br.
Dietrich Reinhart, OSB, SJU president. "The coordinate relationship of the College of Saint Benedict and
Saint John's University is central to the mission of the two institutions, and I am confident she will be an ef­fective
partner as we go forward into the future."
Rabbi Cytron to direct Phillips Center. Rabbi Barry Cytron, senior rabbi at AdathJeshurun
Congregation in Minnetonka, will serve as the first director of the newly created Jay Phillips Center for
Jewish-Christian Learning at SJU and the University of St. Thomas. Cytron will begin his new post at the
two universities next fall. He will direct the center, which will have its primary office at St. Thomas, and will
hold the Jay Phillips Chair in Jewish-Christian studies at SJu.
The center is a partnership that joins the resources of two existing programs: the Center for Jewish-Christian
Learning at St. Thomas and the Jay Phillips Chair in Jewish studies at SJu. Named for the late Minneapolis
philanthropist Jay Phillips, the center's name honors the creation in 1969 at SJU of the first academic chair in
Jewish studies at an American Christian college. As director of the new center, Cytron will teach at both uni­versities
and oversee the center's programs, including lectures, workshops, publishing and other outreach ac­tivities.
The center also has helped establish an interfaith library and helps to send graduate students to study
in Israel.
Cytron has taught at Macalester College and SJU, and has been an adjunct member of St. Thomas' theol­ogy
faculty since 1988. He holds bachelor's and master's degrees from Columbia University and was ordained
by the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1970. He served at a synagogue in Des Moines, Iowa, for 11 years
before coming to Adath Jeshurun in 1983.
He is co-author, with Earl Schwartz, of When Life is in the Balance, a 1986 book that explores the Jewish
ethical sources on life and death questions. They recently published a second volume, Who Renews Creation,
which examines Jewish religious and ethical perspectives on the environment.
Clemens gifts help CSB and SJU facilities. CSB and SJU each received $1 million gifts from
William E. and Virginia Clemens. William E. Clemens is the founder and former president of Bankers Sys­tems
Inc.
The CSB gifr was given in honor of CSB President S. Colman O'Connell, OSB, who is retiring in June,
and S. Emmanuel Renner, OSB, who preceded S. Colman in the presidency. The gift is for the Campaign for
the Future, a $26.4 million campaign which will conclude this June. The field house in the S.L. Haehn Cam­pus
Center is named the Clemens Field House.
This is the second $1 million gift given to CSB by the Clemens family. The first was given by the Clemenses
during Renner's presidency for the construction of the Clemens Library in the mid-80s, a 55,000 square foot
facility in the heart of campus.
"S. Colman is a wonderful woman who has moved the College of Saint Benedict to its current position as
one of the finest Catholic liberal arts colleges in the country," Clemens said. "We are pleased to be able to
support the work of the college in this manner."
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"We are very grateful to the Clemens family for all they have done for Saint Benedict's and so many other
causes in Central Minnesota." S. Colman responded. "It is particularly significant that Bill and Virginia be-gan
our campus expansion with the library gift and now will help us complete this phase of our
building campaign. While I am pleased with this gift in Emmanuel's and my honor, I believe the
real tribute is to this generous couple."
The $1 million gift to SJU will be used to help fund improvements in the university's athletic
facilities campaign. This gift also is the second $1 million gift that SJU has received from the
Clemens family. The first was used to establish the William E. and Virginia Clemens Chair in
Economics and the Liberal Arts.
The latest gift supports a $6.5 million facility improvement plan by SJU that includes renova­tion
of the SJU football stadium, construction of a new all-weather outdoor track, renovation
and remodeling of the Warner Palaestra and construction of a newall-purpose field house.
"This gift will help SJU provide its student-athletes and coaches with significantly upgraded
facilities for recreation, training and competition," said SJU President Br. Dietrich Reinhart, OSB. William and Virginia Clemens
"The support shown by Mr. and Mrs. Clemens to the athletic campaign is very reflective of the
commitment that our student-athletes bring to this campus - a commitment which has produced a long
tradition of excellence in athletic programs at Saint John's."
The gift was made in honor of longrime SJU football coach John Gagliardi, who currently ranks second
on the all-time college coaching football victory list with a 325-99-11 career record that dates back to 1949.
"Not only has Bill Clemens been an inspiration to me, he has also been a tremendous asset to our program
at Saint John's over the past three decades. He deserves credit for much of the success we have enjoyed over
these years," Gagliardi said.
At present, Saint John's has raised over $4.5 million toward the completion of its current athletic campaign.
Awards given at SJU fall commencement. Br. Dietrich Reinhart, OSB, SJU president, pre­sented
presidential citations to Fr. Baldwin Dworschak, OSB, and posthumously to Joseph Faber at fall com­mencement
ceremonies Dec. 17. A total of22 students participated in the ceremony, including five graduate
students from the Saint John's School of Theology and Seminary.
A 1929 SJU graduate, Fr. Baldwin received his graduate degree and was ordained at Saint John's in 1933.
A former English professor at SJU, he served as Saint John's abbot from 1950 to 1971. He received his cita­tion
in honor of the work he has done over the past 13 years recording class assignments on audio tape for
print-disabled, dyslexic students at SJu.
A community and business leader in the St. Cloud area, Faber was active in many organizations such as the
Central Minnesota Boy Scouts Council, the St. Cloud Chamber of Commerce, the United Way Pillars Club,
Ducks Unlimited and the Lake Henry Legion Club. He was also a recipient of the Paul Harris Fellow Award
from the foundation of Rotary International.
He also served as a Fellow of the university since the late 1970s, was a member of the SJU Central Minne­sotaAthletic
Facilities fund-raising committee and was a full partner in establishing and sustaining Saint John's
annual Swayed Pines Folk Festival over the past two decades.
A strong supporter ofSJU, Faber's son Mike Faber graduated from the university in 1995.
Former CSB academic dean and assistant president dies. Former CSB academic dean
and assistant president, S. Incarnata (Margaret) Girgen, OSB, 95, died Tuesday; Nov. 21, at St. Scholastica
Convent.
S. Incarnata, born in Vermillion Dec. 24, 1899, graduated from St. Benedict's Acad­emy
in June 1917, and in September entered St. Benedict's Convent. She professed vows
on July 11, 1919, and celebrated her 75th jubilee in 1994.
She received a bachelor's degree with a major in history from CSB in 1933 and a doc­torate
in education from St. Louis University in 1945. In the interim she studied also
at the University of Minnesota, Loyola University and at Notre Dame University.
She taught high school at Cold Spring, for 18 years and for three years in Eau Claire,
Wis. From 1941 to 1947 she served as academic dean at CSB. From 1949 to 1955 she
S.lncarnata served as subprioress of her Benedictine community, and from 1955 to 1957 as assis-tant
presidentofCSB. From 1947 to 1949 and from 1955 to 1977, S. Incarnata taught
logic, psychology, philosophy and history; and was awarded the rank of professor emerita.
While a member of the overseas teaching staff in Luxembourg in 1969 and Germany in 1977, S. Incarnata
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located letters from and relating to the first Benedictine women in the United States, including Mothers
Benedicta Riepp and Willibalda Scherbauer. She translated these letters, including them in her book Behind
the Beginnings, published in 1981.
In retirement from classroom teaching, S. Incarnata did historical research and translated German docu­ments.
A wake was held at St. Scholastica and a vigil service at St. Benedict's on Nov. 23. The Mass of Chris­tian
Burial was celebrated in Sacred Heart Chapel on Friday, Nov. 24. She was buried in the convent cem­etery.
CSB/SJ U report CQI survey results. For the past three years CSB and SJU have been involved
in studying and applying the principles of Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) in order to understand
not only what makes them excellent, but also to understand what must be done to improve constantly in the
face of future challenges. As a result of the commitment to CQI, the college conducted two major constitu­ency
satisfaction surveys.
The first survey, completed in May 1994, assessed student and parent levels of satisfaction with the two
colleges. Results of that survey indicated that nearly 90 percent of the student and parent respondents said
they were satisfied or very satisfied with their overall experience with the two schools.
In the second survey, employees responded to questions regarding their overall level of satisfaction as em­ployees,
as well as their satisfaction with benefits, facilities, services, communications and the coordinate rela­tionship
between CSB and SJD. The survey, completed by 55 percent of CSB and SJU employees, showed
employees describing their overall satisfaction to be mostly or extremely satisfied within 86 percent of the CSB
administration, 85 percent of the CSB faculty, 81 percent of the SJU administration, 75 percent of the SJU
faculty, 71 percent of the SJU support staff and 70 percent of the CSB support staff.
For further information about the CQI surveys, contact Linda Spanier, CQI coordinator, 612-363-5901
or e-maillspanier@csbsju.edu.
CSB dedicates new entrance. CSB celebrated another milestone last fall with the formal dedica­tion
of the new south entrance and the introduction of ''A Garden of Distinction" for the board of trustees.
The ceremony included blessing the new entrance, thanking Frank}. ArdolfJr. and Sylvester (Shorty) and
Jacque Haehn, whose generous gifts to the college made the new entrance possible, and the unveiling of the
garden area.
Although the entrance opened a year ago, the college waited until it was further developed to have the donors
return to campus to see the progress and appropriately dedicate the main entry.
Former and current board of trustees were on hand to celebrate the dedication and to see the garden that is
being developed in their honor. ''A Garden of Distinction" will include attractive concrete retaining walls with
plaques which display the names of former and current trustees. Future trustees will be added as they join the
board.
The garden, which is located at the second round-about of the new entrance, will include plantings and
walkways that draw people into the area. The garden is slated to be completed this summer.
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Blazer Athletic Hall of Fame. On Saturday, Feb. 24, seven new members were IHUUl-l<;U
Blazer Athletic Hall of Fame. The day's program included a reception and program in the new S.L. Haehn
Campus Center. Below is a brief biographical sketch on each of the inductees.
Nancy Frost Bellmont was a trail "Blazer" for the CSB athletic teams that exist today.
From 1971-75 Bellmont aided in developing the women's basketball program after
playing informally on campus for a year. She graduated from CSB with a bachelor's
of arts degree in social work and then served as an assistant coach for the basketball
team for two years. Nancy continues to have a strong involvement with athletics. She
has been a basketball referee and softball umpire since 1985.
Kim Krize Bohlke began her basketball career in Fairbanks,
Alaska, but moved to Minnesota before high school. She then
attended CSB following a year at Mesabi Community Col- Nancy Frost Bellmont
lege. From 1985-88, Kim was a leader on and off the floor.
She was a three-time AlI-MIAC, Academic AlI-MIAC and most valuable player while
playing in a Blazer uniform. Bohlke ended her career at CSB with 1,149 points, 167
assists, 140 steals and continues to hold the record for 799 rebounds. She was also
the first Saint Ben's student to receive the Presidential Award.
Kim Krize Bohlke Linda Davis traveled from the Bahamas to be inducted into
the Hall of Fame. Davis was a dedicated volleyball and bas­ketball
student-athlete from 1973-77. She was a captain for both teams her junior
and senior years. Besides athletics at CSB, Davis was involved in the International
Students Association, where she served as president for one year.
It is no coincidence that the Blazer volleyball program's rise to prominence and
Nicole "Niki" Denne Gross' arrival at CSB occurred simul­taneously.
As a volleyball player, Gross was All-MIAC and the
team's most valuable player each year ftom 1986-1990. She Linda Davis
earned NCAA Division III All-Central Region honors three
times. Following her junior and senior seasons, Gross was named CSB's Athlete of
the Year. She was also the MIAC's Player of the Year in 1989. Gross' collegiate career
was topped off with a final four appearance in the NCAA Division III Volleyball Na­tional
Championships.
There has never been a more accomplished tennis player
Nicole Denne Gross at CSB than Marcy Erickson Johnson. During each of her
four years (1985-89), Erickson received the team's mostvalu­able
player award for the tennis program. As a first-year player, she was named NCAA
Division III National Tennis Rookie of the Year. This three-time NCAA All-American
won three MIAC championships and earned the MIAC's Chris Evert Sportsmanship
Award. She was selected CSB's Athlete of the Year in 1987 and 1988, as well as Scholar
Athlete of the Year for 1987, 88 and 89.
Barbara Hallberg Kruse was busy during 1974-78. She Marcy Erickson
competed in both volleyball and basketball. Kruse spent four Johnson
seasons on the volleyball court and three years with the bas-ketball
program. She was a captain and most valuable player in each sport. The influ­ential
factor for her attendance at CSB was that the intercol-legiate
athletic program had just begun.
Mike Ryan has been a mover and a shaker for the Blazer
athletic program during his 29 years at CSB. Under Ryan's
Barbara Hallberg direction, the number of the sports at CSB tripled from three
Kruse to nine, and he played a vital role in the Blazer's move to the
MIAC and NCAA Division III. Claire Lynch Hall was con­structed
and additional athletic staff came on board. Currently, Ryan is the vice presi­dent
of administrative services.
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Mike Ryan
S. Johanna Becker, OSB, professor of art, gave an illustrated presentation, "Seventeenth Century Japanese
Porcelains: Domestic and Trade Wares," to the Minneapolis Antique Club on Nov. 29. The group is com­prised
of collectors, dealers and connoisseurs. S. Johanna spoke on "Monastic Dialogue: Cross-Currents of
Buddhism and Christianity" at the Cross-Culrural Perspective for Education and Business conference on Oct.
11, at St. Cloud State University.
Glen Beltt, director of public affairs, has been professionally accredited by the Public Relations Society of
America.
Charles Bobertz, assistant professor of theology, recently gave two presentations including "The Unity of
the Testaments: Preaching the Old Testament in the New" at the annual retreat for diocesan priests and dea­cons
held at Arrowwood conference center in Alexandria, Minn.
Jose Bourget, director of cultural enrichment, presented the workshop "Engaging Difference, Creating
Community" at the Collaboration for the Advancement of College Teaching and Learning conference in
Bloomington, Minn.
Terence Check and Rueyling Chuang, assistant professors of communication; Eugene Garver, professor
of philosophy and McNeely Chair in Thinking; and Diana Rehling, instructor of communications; made
presentations at the 81st annual meeting of the Speech Communication Association held in November in
San Antonio.
Mark Conway, CSB executive director of development, completed his Bush Fellowship Leadership grant
last summer in development at Wellesley College, and the Graduate School of Education and the university
offices at Harvard.
Fr. Daniel Durken, OSB, professor of theology, presented a brief overview of St. Matthew's Gospel in
November to parishioners of St. John the Baptist Parish at Collegeville as part of a Sunday morning adult
education program.
Five nursing department faculty members participated on Nov. 1 in the St. Cloud Area Research Day titled
"Enriching Nursing Through Research." AdelIa Espelien, Patricia Bresser, and Kathleen Ohman, nursing
department, served on the program planning committee. Kathleen (Schmitz) Twohy and Joyce Simones gave
presentations during the clinical sessions.
Joseph Farry, SJU academic dean; Anna McKenna, associate professor of chemistry; and Gordon Brown,
assistant professor of biology; presented a Project Kaleidoscope workshop titled "The Research-Rich Envi­ronment"
last October at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, Calif The team was selected to attend the
workshop based upon an application by Marcus Webster, associate professor of biology.
Kaarin S. Johnston, professor of theater, directed the Central Minnesota Children's Theater production of
The Sound of Music, which was performed in September and October.
John Klentos, visiting assistant professor in the theology department, has published an article, "Theophany
in the Byzantine Tradition," in the winter 1995 edition of Liturgy: Journal of the Liturgical Confirence.
S. Baulu Kuan, OSB, associate professor of art, presented a lecrure at the University of St. Thomas, St.
Paul, in November. The title of her presentation was "Contemporary Art in China." She has been doing field
research on the "trend of contemporary Chinese Art" especially in the Southwest (Sinchuan, Yunnan, and
Guizhou provinces) of China in the past five years.
David Lyndgaard, CSB/SJU registrar, co-presented a workshop on "Moving to the Cutting Edge: Regis­tration
and Records" at the annual conference of the Upper Midwest Association of Collegiate Registrars and
Admission Officers on Oct. 24 in Sioux City, Iowa.
Irma Mayorga, assistant professor of theater, served as cosrume designer for the Minnesota Festival Theater's
summer productions of ~st Side Story and Blithe Spirit. Mayorga also presented a lecture titled "Victorian
Fashions in the United States, 1880-1900: Manufacture, Distribution and the Prairie" in September for the
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opening exhibit Home Lifo in Dakota County 1860-1960 at the Dakota Historical Society.
James Melcher, government department, wrote an article titled "Party Endorsements in Minnesota in the
Wake of the 1994 Elections: Reform Strikes Out" which appeared in Comparative State Politics.
John Merkle, professor of theology, recently delivered the Roger Zimmerman Memorial Lecture titled "Jesus,
Judaism and the Emergence of Christianity: Rethinking the Christian Story" at the United Church of Christ
Congregational Church in Grinnell, Iowa. Merkle also recently presented the lecrure "Jewish and Christian
Versions of Monotheism: A Non-Supersessionist Christian Approach" at the Seventh Annual Conference of
the Midwest Jewish Studies Association held at Macalester College.
Lynn Moore, assistant professor of education, has been appointed by Gov. Arne Carlson as a member of
the Minnesota Early Childhood Care and Education Council, which recommends policy and funding for
early childhood care and education programs to the state legislature. Moore has also had an article "Learning
Through Social Interactions" accepted for publication in Young Children, the professional journal of the Na­tional
Association for the Education of Young Children.
Sheila Nelson, assistant professor of sociology, has been selected by the Association for Research on Non­profit
Organizations and Voluntary Action as the 1995 award winner for outstanding article published in
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly for her article, "Catholic Elementary Schools in Chicago's Black In­ner
City: Four Modes of Adaptation to Environmental Change."
Frank Rioux, professor of chemistry, was a visiting professor at Iowa State University this semester. During
his stay in Ames he presented two lectures: "Doing Quantum Mechanics with Mathcad" and "Electronic
Structure Calculations on a Series of Azatitanatranes." Recently, "Enriching Quantum Chemistry with
Mathcad-Part II" was published by the Journal of Chemical Education: Software.
Gene Sands, executive director of public affairs, and Rick Smith, vice president of enrollment manage­ment
and dean of admission, presented a paper, "Designing and Implementing an Institutional Marketing
Communications Plan" at the Sixth Symposium for the Marketing of Higher Education in November.
Fr. Columba Stewart, OSB, associate professor of theology, recently delivered a lecture on "Early Chris­tian
Monks: Martyrs, Masochists or Models?" at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. While at Kenyon, Fr.
Columba visited classes and met with students and faculty to discuss issues in the srudy of early Christian
asceticism and monasticism.
Fr. Hilary Thimmesh, OSB, professor of English, led a discussion and gave the annual Aquinas Lecrure at
Mount Mercy College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in October. His topic was "The Church in the Modern World:
Magna Carta for Catholic Higher Education."
Gregory Walker, associate professor of music, premiered his composition Shadows and Light, Reminiscences
of Alaska, a musical work for mixed chorus and small wind ensemble last spring. Both the Alaska Chamber
Singers in Anchorage and the Minnesota Center Chorale in St. Cloud performed the work.
The work was composed while Walker was on an academic sabbatical in spring 1994. Texts are excerpted
from the poetry of Robert Service, an English poet who traveled extensively in Alaska and the Yukon during
the early part of the century. Scoring of the music is for a full mixed chorus, six woodwinds, seven brass and
marimba.
Charles Watson, psychology department, and five co-workers published an article comparing the validi­ties
of five alcoholism scales in a recent issue of the Journal of Clinical Psychology. One of the co-authors was
Lee Gearhart, SJU '91. Watson also wrote, with Gearhart and Patricia Anderson, an article,fournalofNer­vous
and Mental Disease, identifYing a family history of post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms as one of the
factors associated with the development ofPTSD in people who have been exposed to psychological trauma.
S. Susan Wood, SCL, associate professor of theology, was the speaker at the Fall Theology Day at Saint
John's on Nov. 9. Sponsored by the School of Theology/Seminary, her talk was on "Lirurgy: The Focal Point
of Christian Life."
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Volleyball. Head coach Carol Howe-Veenstra compared her young squad to rhe idea of"putring a puzzle
togerher." The Blazer volleyball season proved to be a successful one as rhey finished the 1995 campaign wirh
a respectable 18-12 overall record and an 8-3 mark in rhe MIAC This season, rhe 100rh anniversary of vol­leyball,
rhe Blazers won rhe Blazer/Holiday Inn-vitational for rhe second time in six years. Seniors Anne Schiller
and Anne Wiebe were selected to rhe All-MIAC volleyball team following rhe year.
Despite rhe graduation of Schiller and Weibe, CSB's "stars" include first-year player Robyn Ruschmeier
and sophomore Christy Molitor. Ruschmeier came in fourrh place in rhe MIAC in attack percentage and
kills per game, while Molitor was in rhird place in blocks per game.
Soccer. The 1995 Blazer soccer team
(9-7-2 overall 5-3-2 MIAC) loved to play
soccer so much rhat it played five matches
into overtime during the year. At one
point during rhe season rhe Blazers played
rhree straight overtime matches and won
two of rhem. CSB finished in a fourth­place
tie in rhe conference race.
Seniors Kerry Lynch and Sarah Karr led
the Blazers in scoring with eight goals.
Karr, a midfield, was named CSB's most
valuable. She was named to rheAlI-MIAC
team and the All-Central Region team,
while Lynch was selected honorable men­tion
All-MIAC Junior Katie Boyd and
sophomore Christa Tollefsrud were also
honorable mention All-MIAC Tollefsrud
was also named to rheAll-Central Region squad. Other post-season honors included most improved to jun­ior
Shannon Beggin, and the coaches award went to junior Amy Dorniden. Senior Hearher Theis earned
Academic All-MIAC honors for rhe rhird straight year.
Cross Country. And rhey're off ... rhe 1995 Blazer Cross Country team again was off and running,
working to repeat rheir 1994 trip to rhe NCAA Division III National Championships. Even though as a team,
CSB finished in fifth place at rhe NCAA Central Region Championships and did not qualifY, sophomore
Missy Petersen returned to rhe National Championships for rhe second time in as many seasons. Petersen, an
All-American in 1994, finished the national meet in 90rh place, with a time of 19:00.
An unexpected surprise came when first-year runner Connie Kremers transferred to Saint Ben's just before
rhe start of rhe year. Kremers was a big asset to rhe team and finished in 13rh place in the conference cham­pionship.
Petersen posted a sixrh-place finish in rhe conference and earned All-MIAC honors.
Following rhe season, third-year head coach Ellen Carpenter presented several individuals wirh post-season
honors. The Coaches Award went out to sophomore Katie Vanselow, who returned from a summer injury
which kept her from running for two monrhs, and most improved honors went to sophomore Gena Edwards.
Only two runners will be lost to graduation; so it appears rhat CSB will be off and running toward anorher
great season in 1996.
Golf. For rhe second straight season rhe Blazer golf team once again tied for rhird place at rhe MIAC
Championships, rhis year wirh St. Thomas. A year ago CSB and Gustavus finished deadlocked in third place.
Sophomore Erin Connell shot a two-day total of 190 to lead rhe Blazers. However, it was sophomore Kristin
Moris who consistently carded rhe top scores rhroughout rhe 1995 fall season.
CSB was off to a solid start with a sixrh-place finish in rhe nine-team field at rhe UM-Morris Invitational,
and Moris was CSB's top individual finisher in 12rh place.
At rheir own invitational in October, CSB posted a ninth-place finish wirh Moris shooting a 36-hole 181.
The Blazers placed 10rh at rhe Small College Championships held at Waverly, Iowa, rhis year. Connell led
rhe team wirh a 191, and Moris suffered a wrist injury and was forced to withdraw after nine holes.
The Saint Ben's golf team will begin teeing up again rhis spring for rhe second part of rhe season held in
April and May.
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Jim Smith Wins SOOth Game at SJ U. Saint John's coach Jim Smirh moved into college basketball's
"500-Club" rhis winter rhanks to a big 86-51 victory over Macalester College on Dec. 9 in Collegeville. The
victory was Smith's 500th career win at Saint John's and it moved him into an elite group of college coaches,
which includes John Wooden, Bobby Knight, Dean Smirh and Adolph Rupp.
At 500-and-counting, Smith's career record ranks eighrh on rhe all-time NCAA Division III win list and
fifth among active Division III coaches. In rhe state of Minnesota, Smirh ranks second on rhe all-time college
coaching win list behind Hamline's Joe Hutton, who compiled a 590-280 record from 1931 to 1965.
Smirh began his career at Saint John's during rhe 1964-65 season. His teams have won six MIAC titles and
rhey have earned five trips to rhe NCAA Division III playoffs. In NAIA competition, Saint John's qualified
for post-season play eight times during rhe 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.
Chris Palmer Enjoys Success in 1995. The parents of Chris Palmer '96 may soon have to put
an addition onto their home in Fairfax due to rhe bounty of awards rhat rheir son brought home during rhe
1995 football season.
One of SJU's most decorated athletes, Palmer completed a storybook senior season by breaking virtually
every SJU pass reception record and being named the winner of rhe 1995 Gagliardi Trophy, which is pre­sented
annually to the nation's outstanding Division III football player by Jostens and rhe Saint John's J-Club.
The following is a partial list of some of Palmer's awards and accomplishments from rhe past football season.
• 1995 Gagliardi Trophy winner
• 1995 GTE Academic All-America College Division Football Player of rhe Year
• 1995 MIAC Most Valuable Player
• 1995 National Football Foundation Scholar-Arhlete award winner
• 1995-96 NCAA Post-Graduate Scholarship award winner
• 1995 Successful Farming All-America Farm Team member
• 1995 Burger King Scholar-Athlete of rhe Week for Sept. 16 (Burger King donated $25,000 to SJU in
Palmer's name)
• 1995 Woody Hayes National Scholar-Athlete award winner
• Member of 1995 Football Gazette, Hewlett-Packard and Associated Press All-America teams
• 1995 football team captain
• Broke SJU career records for receiving yards (3,162), receptions (165) and touchdown receptions (36)
• Member ofMIAC championship teams in 1993, 1994 and 1995
Cross Country Team Places 9th at Nationals. Under rhe leadership of 17rh-year head coach
Tim Miles '76, rhe SJU cross country team continued its string of successes rhis season wirh a ninth-place
finish at rhe 1995 NCAA Division III national meet. This was rhe first time in rhe 1990s rhat SJU had fin­ished
among rhe nation's top 10 teams at rhe NCAA meet. Junior Jeb Myers led rhe SJU runners with a 46rh­place
time of 25: 10.8 at rhe meet. Other top runners were juniors Brad Bauer, leRoy Popowski, Ryan Steines
and Tony Kinzley, senior Adam Sparks and sophomore Jon Koch.
SJU Athletes Earn Academic Awards Saint John's athletes named to the 1995 MIAC
All-Academic team for rhe fall were senior football players Chris Palmer and D.]. Kor and junior cross coun­try
runner Ryan Steines. Football players selected to rhe 1995 GTE Academic All-Region College Division
team were Palmer, Kor, junior Ted Ruzanic, senior Tom Riitters, sophomore Matt Emmerich and senior Mark
Smirh. Palmer and Kor were also selected as 1995 GTE Academic All-America College Division team award
wmners.
SJU Wrestler Featured on ESPN. Saint John's junior Brian Manternach was rhe subject of an
in-depth feature story on ESPN's "NCAA Today" program, which aired on Jan. 18. A member of rhe SJU
wrestling team, Manternach grabbed rhe interest of ESPN since he is also an accomplished opera singer. A
member of rhe CSB/SJU Chamber Choir, Manternach has performed in several student and community opera
productions during his career at SJD. On rhe subject of wrestling, SJU is once again ranked among rhe nation's
top 25 Division III teams in 1995-96.
SJU Hockey Team Receives Top Regional Ranking. The SJU hockey team captured its
first MIAC title since 1950, thanks to an 11-1-4 record compiled during rhe 1995-96 season. Under rhe di­rection
of coach John Harrington, SJU achieved a 14-7-4 overall record and is currently ranked rhird in rhe
NCAA Division III West Region poll.
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CSB
Clara Kempa, known as S. Neva to the
residents of Robbinsdale, is 90 years
old. S. Neva spends her time reading to
preschool-aged children every week,
does tai chi on a regular basis and main­tains
a garden at St. Paul Priory.
SjU
Clarence A. LaSelle, 2800 Hamline
Ave. N., Apt. 102, Roseville, MN
55113
Ed Nierengarten is more or less retired
from law practice in New Ulm and fre­quently
travels to Mexico. Donald
Schmid says life is carefree in Carefree,
Ariz. For the past 6 years, he served on
the board of directors of Desert Foot­hills
Library. During 1994-95, Don
chaired the fund-raising drive to double
the size of the Desert Foothills Library;
the $350,000 goal was exceeded and
they now have one of the finest private
libraries in the Southwest. Don is also
very active in the Kiwanis Club of Care­free,
the 2nd largest club in the region.
Don and Lonnie celebrated their 50th
wedding anniversary in October.
CSB
Elaine Daniel Wrrrh has 17 grandchil­dren
and 2 great -children, and is very
proud of every one of them.
CSB
Elsie Tahnk Seaman, 606 Westwood
Cr., Kenai, AK99611-7449,
907-283-8476
Maureen Madigan was featured in the
St. Peter Regional Treatment Center
bulletin along with four others dressed
in old-time costumes for open house.
Maureen and her friend Eunice headed
for Oceanside, Calif, in December for
a sunshine break.
CSB
Edith Lagundo Messerich is looking for
an at-home job that will keep her busy.
She has a grands'on attending SJu.
CSB
LaVerne Lodermeier Landwehr is
proud to say that she has located all 9
of her high school classmates from
1944.
CSB
Rosemary Gauer Menard, 518
Riverside, Box 285, Crookston, MN
56716, 218-281-2836
Marge Kalinowski has a role as a par­ish
nurse at St. Anthony's Church, St.
Cloud. She is part of a national return
to holistic healing, a trend toward ful­filling
physical, emotional and spiritual
needs of church parishioners.
CSB
Marianne Tyrrell Allen, 3108
Woodlawn Ave., Woyzata, MN
55391, 612-473-6754
Patricia Kidwell Zapp will be in Nepal
for the next 2 years starting in January
with the Peace Corps working in com­munity
development.
CSB
Annella Stevens Wollen, 6238 W
College Ave., Greendale, WI 53129,
414-421-7507
Dr. Helen Diemert retired from pro­viding
housing for academics at the U
of Calgary in her fourplex and
townhouse as well as university teach­ing.
She is in a high rise apartment with
a sweeping view of the river valley, city
center and mountains. Helen organized
the Emeritus Association, hosted the
first meeting of Emeriti from across
Canada and set up a Web site for retired
profs. She's enjoying her computer,
digitized photography and graphics for
biographical and cutricular projects as
well as her electronic piano for musical
composition. She is a long-time mem­ber
of Technocracy Inc. for change in
social structure. Lois Kamm Adler and
Fred retired to get away from city pol­lution
and allergies and designed their
new home in a woodsy area overlook­ing
Rapid City, S.D., with 36" door­ways
to allow for retirement eventuali­ties.
Lois finished a hardanger altar
cloth for an Indian Mission church in
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Thunder Burte, S.D., to cover the hand
made altar of another benefactor. It
took 5 months to complete. She's busy
on dozens of other hand made projects.
Pat Mayer Welle and Dan chose
Hamilton in the "banana belt ofMon­tani'
for retirement and showed us gor­geous
country; sunsets, mountains and
lakes. Pat volunteers at the Daly Man­sion
while Dan builds flying scale
model planes. Audrey Mettel Fixmer
and her husband, Bob, have built a new
house in Ft. Atkinson, Wis. Both of
them teach in Elderhostels and are ac­tive
on the parish level with RCIA as
faith companions in the Roman Catho­lic
tradition. Audrey recently published
Grandmom: Growing Old Gracefully
and Other Likely Stories. It is from her
syndicated column Grandmom in the
Catholic Press. Marilyn Moorhouse
Lalum and Luke introduced us to
Kalispell as a fabulous resort/medical
center, mint farming (through Luke's
continuing work with development of
innovations in agriculture). Marilyn
volunteers as a messenger, both worked
with the finances/budgeting for their
parish; golf is their avocation. Noreen
Muggli Carroll and Gene both retired
- do Meals on Wheels, visit elderly,
take Eucharist to shut-ins, tutor young
children. Noreen is also active in
MUW concerning with gender ineq­uities
and Catholic Daughters Newslet­ter
editor. Dorothy Mullen Puhr is in
her 28th year of teaching at Holy Fam­ily
School in Sa)lk Centre, Minn. Joan
Poncelet Larson was having dinner
with the governor of Montana. She and
her spouse both taught English in a for­eign
country for a year and are now liv­ing
on a ranch in Montana. Sally Riley
Fairchild is enjoying her time with her
9 wonderful grandchildren. Nancy
Schulz Schulte would like to inform
everyone how proud she is of CSB/SJU.
One of her former students that had a
learning disability graduated from SJU
and is now an admission counselor. She
is very thankful to both institutions for
helping him though college. Annella
Stevens Wallen and husband Chuck
enjoyed a vacation from the Covered
Bridges ofIowa through the Badlands,
Black Hills, Mt. Rushmore, Crazy
Horse Mt., Yellowstone, Grand Tetons,
Glacier to Calgary, AB. Whenever they
were close to a phone, they would make
a phone call to one of her classmates,
which resulted in a lunch.
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Ralph R. Opatz, 1500 Clearwater Rd.,
St. Cloud, MN 56301
Fr Peter Grady, retired priest of Fargo
Diocese, lives at Riverview Place, 5220
12th St S, Apt 206C, Fargo, ND
58104. Bob Liners and his wife, Lois
'46, were busy in 1995. They worked
in the Kilimambogo Dental Clinic in
Kenya, stopped in England on the way
home, took an Alaskan cruise to cel­ebrate
their 48th anniversary, delayed
enroute in Canada where they spent
their honeymoon in 1947, and worked
in a dental clinic in Guatemala. The
Guatamalan dental clinic is in its 6th
year being fully staffed by Rotary vol­unteer
dentists from around the world
and all the scheduling is done by the
Liners. In February, Bob and Lois re­turned
for the 4th time to the
Kilimambogo Dental Clinic. In April
they will work in a Vietnamese refugee
camps in Hong Kong.
CSB
Eleanor Bohlin McHale, 12721
Morrison Dr., Omaha, NE 68154,
402-551-8070
A. Helen Boland Willis has retired af­ter
41 years of teaching. She has been
enjoying life with her 2 grandchildren.
U
Thomas C. Herzog, 4440 Highview Dr.
SW Alexandria, MN 56308
J Ralph Johnson has a winter address:
8140 N 107thAve, Unit 149, Peoria,
AZ 85345.
1951
CSB
Dorothea (Dody) McPharlin Bemrick,
2217 Scudder St., St. Paul, MN
5510~ 612-644-6250
Jovita Beste Baker returned from her
vacation to Israel in October. Please
keep your prayers and thoughts with
Doris Bogut Simonett, who will have
her second hip replacement surgery.
Any classmates that wish to get together
in the spring for the annual class gath­ering
luncheon in the metro area please
contact Dorothea McPharlin Bemrick.
U
Eugene E. Koch, 4614 E. Front Blvd.,
wyoming; MN 55092
Z Michael Szaz is national secretary for
the National Confederation of Ameri-can
Ethnic Groups Inc. and is involved
in immigration law and lobbying.
Michael and his wife, Suzanne, live at
4201 Massachusetts Ave, Suite 4037,
Washington, DC 20016; phone
202-237-5422.
1952
U
Dr Felix Tristani retired as chief of car­diac
rehabilitation from the Med Col­lege
of Wisconsin in August. Felix and
his wife, Bibiana, have moved to Cold
Spring to be closer to their 14 grand­children.
19.53
CSB
Shaun O'Meara OSB, CSB Monastery,
104 Chapel Ln., St. Joseph, MN
56374, 612-363-5656
Phyllis Dufault Hart is busy helping
her daughter with wedding plans for
July. Phyllis and her family are looking
forward to this wedding. Ruth
Groebner Polta retired 3 years ago from
teaching orchestra and now is involved
in parish committees.
U
Charles D. McCarthy, 2350 Clearwater
Rd., St. Cloud, MN 56301
Msgr John Stearns, retired from the
Crookston Diocese, lives at Riverview
Place, 5220 12th St S, Fargo, ND
58104.
CSB
Patricia Potter-Keays, 7473 N. Desert
Tree Dr., Tucson, AZ 85704,
602-797-3427
Mary Jane Dols Ploof has retired from
her teaching career and enjoys her spare
time. Alyce Malinski Ilg retired in 1994
from 30 years in el. ed. and LD ed. She
taught at the New Prague schools and
St. Wenceslas-Porokio Catholic
Schools.
u
Robert L. Forster, 14800 Carriage Place
Dr., Burnsville, MN 55306
Joseph Klimek is a retired attorney and
lives with his wife, Mary Ann, in
Bloomington. Earl McMillen retired as
division controller from 3M and lives
with his wife, Carol, in Roseville. James
Mock retired from the U of St Thomas
and lives with his wife, Joanne, in
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Woodbury. Robert Schafer is now with
Satterlee, Stephens, Burke & Burke
LLP in New York.
1955
CSB
Marilyn Yunker Murray, 12520
Juniper, St. Joseph, MN 56374,
612-363-7838
Marie Dobias Coquyt has a full-time
job as dietary manager at Minnesota
Manor. She is also very proud of an­other
accomplishment that she has
done all on her own. She taught herself
how to use a computer.
CSB
Betty Sullivan Haas, 4701 Caribou
Dr., Minnetonka, MN 55345,
612-938-9694
Betty Haas found out that Sylvia Berg
Fergot is the cousin ofBetty's daughter,
Kerry's father-in-Ia~-to-be. Small
world! Helen Haling Verkuilen's son
David is in the planning stages of get­ting
married; this will be the last of
Helen's 5 children to be married.
U
William G. Turley, 2173 SargentAve.,
St. Paul, MN 55105
Rick Malek is employee benefit special­ist
with Independent Marketing Asso­ciates
in Richmond, Va.
CSB
Suzanne Welch-Dachel, 8355 Duluth
St., Golden Valley, MN 55427,
612-544-5644
Kathleen Kelly Conlon teaches at 3
grad schools, St. Mary's U of Minn.,
Alfred Adler Institute of Minn. and the
Alder Professional School of Psychology
in Chicago. Jeanne O'Fallon Hynes has
been her busy self as usual. She is the
president of her doll collectors associa­tion
and plans to go to her daughter's
wedding in England.
1958
U
Thomas E. Melchior, 1901 W 125th
St., Shakopee, MN 55379
Robert Cibuzar has retired from Gate­way
Foods of Twin Ports Inc and lives
with his wife, Carol, in Duluth.
Leonard Kos retired as bank examiner
from Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
He works part time as a loan reviewer.
CSB
La v"nne Schnieder O'Conner, Box 515,
Lakefield, MN 56150,
507-662-5494
Margaret Nowatzki Straub teaches 6th
grade religion classes. Her husband
Wilfred has retired. Patricia Schlegel
Daly received a master's in ed. from U
ofM last year. She is also a grandmother
for the 3rd time.
CSB
Kathleen Sullivan Laird, 834 Syndicate
St. S., St. Paul MN55116-2272,
612-699-7012
Sharon Beissel Kelly works at the par­ish
of St. Francis Xavier Church as a
religious education director in Buffalo,
Minn.
U
Austin D. Ditzler, 250 Second Ave. S.,
Suite 106A, Crossings, Minneapolis,
MN55401
Donald Blais retired and lives with his
wife, Anna, in Sykesville, Md. Ray
Olson and his wife, Lorayne, hosted the
annual Richmond, Va, "FYI" in De­cember.
Ray is a partner with
Olson-Whitaker, 13803 Village Mill
Dr. Suite 300, Richmond, VA 23113;
phone 804-379-0316. Robert Urlaub
retired from Jamestown Public Schools.
CSB
Ruth Reisd01fir Opatz, 415 5th Ave.
N, Hopkins, MN 55343,
612-935-0025
Charlotte A. Klose has been awarded
the professional insurance designation
Chartered Properry Casualry Under­writer
(CPCU) by the American Insti­tute
for CPCU. She is a board member
of the Rochester Life Underwriters
Assoc.
SjU
Michael] Skwira, 168 6th St. E, Apt.
4503, St. Paul MN 55101
Fr Giles Hayes OSB was featured in the
New York Times in December. Head­master
of Delbarton School in
Morristown, N J, he and a group of stu-dents
play Santa each year and deliver
presents to the poor in Magoffin
Counry, Ky. Paul Kulas retired as me­dia
generalist-librarian with
Anoka-Hennepin School District. Paul
lives with his wife, Kathryn, in
Champlin. Dr Tom Nolan, profin the
nursing department at Sonoma State
U, designed a course that allows nurses
to put their skills to work in commu­niry
resource centers. Students have
been making rounds at local shelters
and social service centers since Septem­ber.
While other nursing programs have
students working in a public health set­ting'
Sonoma is the only one of its kind
for registered nurses seeking a bachelor's
degree.
CSB
Gayle Boucher Kline, PO Box 268,
Fergus Falls, MN 56538-0268,
218-739-7201
Annamarie, formerly Ann Wagner
Fitzgerald, is in the Peace Corps in Slo­vak
Republic teaching English to medi­cal
faculry. She will serve in the Peace
Corps unti11997. She entered the Peace
Corps in January 1995.
SJU
Stanley Suchta works for Ramsey
Counry Communiry Corrections in St
Paul.
CSB
Sharon Otten McVttry, 8375 Laddie
Rd. NE, Spring Lake Park, MN
55432, 612-784-0297
Marie Bower Jirele is a grandmother
for the second time. She is looking for­ward
to retirement so she can spend her
time with her grandchildren and fam­ily.
Elaine Mrachek Masso is studying
at Loyola in Baltimore. Carolyn
Offerdahl Billing has retired from her
federal employment and is looking for­ward
to becoming a grandma.
SJU
David A. Wendt, 6623 Londonderry
Dr., Edina, MN 55436
Kimball] Devoy, 1060 Overlnok Rd.,
Mendota Heights, MN 55118
Jim Conway, an arbitrator, works to
settle disputes between employees and
management. He lives in Reston, Va.
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His work phone number IS
703-444-2725; FAX 703-421-7438.
CSB
Joan Strom Riebel 130 N Lexington,
St. Paul MN 55104, 612-224-1622
(h), 612-379-5341 (w),
612-379-5428 (fax)
Barbara Johnson Knecht is a secretary
for Sacred Heart Academy, Winchester,
Va. Janice Meyer Eiden received a
master's in ed. in June. Carol Stein
Wright is retired and is doing some
writing at home.
SJU
Merlyn X Jerzak, 29458 Kiwi Ct.,
St. Joseph, MN 56374
Tom Skoog, Alexandria, MN
Thomas Nagle is senior asset manager
with US State Department of Housing
& Urban Development in Minneapo­lis.
CSB
Helen Egerman Waldschmidt, 1548
12th Ave., Gafion, WI 53024,
414-377-9514
Jane Hertel Campbell has been with
Little Sisters of the Poor for the past 15
years. Congratulations Jane. Charlotte
Klein Short received a master's of adult
education in development studies at
National Lewis U, Chicago. She teaches
part time at tl}e U of Wisconsin.
SjU
Bernard] Cahill 10480 Nathan Ln.,
Maple Grove, MN 55369
Arthur Grady retired from the
Children's Aid Sociery and lives in Port
Elgin, Ontario, with his wife, Carolyn.
Hardy Reyerson has been teaching
math for 29 years at Bellarmine College
Prep in San Jose, Calif He has never
been sick a day of school and anributes
this to his exercise regimen. Dr Daniel
Whitlock is St Cloud Hospital's vice
president of medical staff services.
CSB
Karen Welle Bellmont, 5812 Michael
Ct., St. Cloud, MN 56303,
612-251-2512
Margaret Roushar Menning recently
completed a doctorate in curriculum
and instruction at the U of Kansas.
Margaret received honors for her disser­tation
titled: Russia - Land of the
Firebird: An Integrated Middle School
Curriculum. She also published an ar­ticle
titled, "Recovering the Magic:
Teaching Russian Folklore in a New
Era." In the fall, Margaret began teach­ing
at St. Mary's College in
Leavenworth, Kan., and is consulting
for the "Treasure of the Czar" exhibit to
be held in Topeka, Aug. 2-Dec. 31.
SJU
Patrick W Jacobs, Jacobs Associates, 550
County Rd. D, Suite 7, St. Paul MN
55112-3520
Robert P Maxwell 5006 Emerson Ave.
S., Minneapolis, MN 55419
R Patrick Maxwell is an attorney at law
at 10 S 5th St, Suite 990, Minneapolis
55402; phone 612-334-8900; FAX
612-334-8905.
CSB
Maureen Karels Kostiuk has been di­agnosed
with a rare disease. There is not
yet a cure for it; the doctors are only able
to treat her symptoms. Keep Maureen
in your thoughrs and prayers.
SjU
Br. Paul D. Fitt, Saint John's University,
Faculty Resident-Thomas Hall
Collegeville, MN 56321
Kurt Kaiser is an adjunct art prof at
Aquinas College, Grand Rapids, Mich,
where his wife, Mary Clark-Kaiser, is
the director of campus ministry. They
are spending the spring semester in
Counry Galway as this year's faculry for
the Aquinas-in-Ireland ptogram. Brian
Van Heck '99 is with them as one of the
guest students in the program. Their
address until May 4 is Aquinas Study
Center, Tully Cross, Renvyle PO,
County Galway, Ireland. Richard
Litzen is general manager for Dynamic
Computer Solution Inc in Kansas.
CSB
Judy Perry, 4810 Caribou Dr.,
Minnetonka, MN 55345,
612-935-8777
Joan Cronin, 4607 Browndale Ave.,
Edina, MN 55424, 612-926-3485
Roxanna Carton Uken is doing
in-patient counseling at Cedar Moun-tain
Center. Jill Mooney Coudron
teaches kindergarten. Two years ago she
received the Mariam Ferrel Award, a
teacher's award.
SJU
Michael D. Perry, 4810 Caribou Dr.,
MN55345
Joseph G. Cronin, 4607 Browndale
Ave., Edina, MN 55424
Robert Ladner owns Ladner's Hard­ware
in Granite Falls.
CSB
Claudia Johnson Brown, 15208 Spring
Water Cr., San Antonio, TX
78247-3040,210-408-1108
Georgene Betts Roblyer has been run­ning
her own business for 2 years and
has 2 children. Jane Kohl Holmquist
teaches at the Alternative Regional
Learning Center.
SJU
John E McCambridge, Three Circle E,
Edina, MN 55436
Herbert W Schulte, 5805 Stuart Ave.
S., Edina, MN 55436
Thomas Gelbmann is director of fi­nance/
information technology at the
law firm of Briggs & Morgan. Vitas
Paskauskas and his wife, Cynthia, have
been accepted into the Diaconate Pro­gram,
a 4-year program in the Archdio­cese
of Chicago.
CSB
Elizabeth Grant Frerich, 820 - 15th
Ave. S., St. Cloud, MN 56301,
612-253-4867
Peggy Fitzgerald Kreybig is a produc­tion
supervisor at Sea World in Florida
and wants alumnae to stop and say "hi"
while you're there.
SJU
John HAgee, 1446 Delaware Ave.,
West St. Paul MN 55118
Stephen London is sales rep for !ten
Chevrolet in Minneapolis. Thomas
Nelson is an attorney with Shneidman,
Myers, Dowling & Blumenfield in
Milwaukee, Wis. James Ryczek works
for Little Pine Valley Inc in Mauston,
Wis. Craig Schneider and his wife,
Katheryn, have a new address: 2167
Meadow Creek, Rice Lake, WI 54868;
phone 715-236-7336. James Urick is
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technical service rep, commercial
graphics, at 3M.
SJU
Patrick] Vttndrovec, Holdingford High
School PO. Box 250, Holdingford,
MN56340
Robert P Shannon, 1007 Wildwood
Ct., Northfield, MN 55057
Dr John Cragg is an orthopedic sur­geon
in Rice Lake, Wis. Jon Kallman
works at the Batavia post office in illi­nOIS.
CSB
Carol Campbell Schaffir, 15009 Crane
ST. NV7, Andover, MN 55304,
612-434-3037
Nancy Goede Glover finished a
master's in writing and editing. She is
now employed as a grant writer.
Kathleen Hack Vulu is no longer em­ployed
at Cardiac Pacemakers. She now
has a job in her home as a Mary Kay
consultant. Dorothy Rotta Doll
teaches 5th grade at St. Henry's School.
Frances Zavoral Wendorff is pursuing
a master's in reading at St. Mary's in
Winona.
SjU
Steven R. Setzler, 15767 Hemlnck Ct.,
Apple Vttlley, MN 55124
Richard T. Speckmann, 2545
Queensland Ln. N, Plymouth, MN
55447
James Eveslage is computer program­mer
supervisor at the Mayo Founda­tion.
Henry Furtk Jr retired from the
Air Force; his new address is 1113 Oak
Ave N, Onalaska, WI 54650; phone
608-783-7344. David Gaffaney has
moved to 1814 Alta Vista Dr, Roseville
55113; phone 612-488-4566. Thomas
Graham Jr is an attorney with Weld,
Riley, Prenn & Richie in Eau Claire,
Wis. Jim Hecimovich and his wife,
Maxine, own and operate Pep's Bake
Shop in Virginia. Willard Kornovich
retired from the Air Force as depury
division chief and lives with his wife,
Kathleen, in Gold Canyon, Ariz. Paul
LaMarre teaches computer science at
Michigan Tech U. Joseph Parise is state
public defender working in Moorhead.
Michael Robertson is an attorney with
Mikeul, Robertson & Assoc in Minne-
Ann Ford Nelson '73
apolis. Mark Studer teaches physical
science at Bemidji HS. Kevin Twomey
is vice president/controller at Fleming
Cos Inc in Oklahoma. Steven
Zimmerman is owner/financial plan­ner
for Zimmerman Financial Group.
His company will have job openings
this spring for financial service/planners
and urges any interested Johnnies to
apply.
CSB
Ann Ford Nelson was elected vice chair
of the board and festival director by the
St. Paul Festival and Heritage Founda­tion,
producers of the St. Paul Winter
Carnival. After 20 years involvement
with the St. Paul Winter Carnival,
Nelson was named festival director for
the 1996 carnival. She has been ap­pointed
to the board of directors three
times, served as treasurer of the St. Paul
Festival and Heritage Foundation for
two years, and has chaired and directed
numerous festival events. Nelson is vice
president ofNorwest Investment Man­agement
& Trust in St. Paul. She served
as the first woman president of the St.
Paul Jaycees and currently serves on the
board of trustees. Mary Halek Cherrico
is a director of patient services at
Planned Parenthood. Sidonie M.
Debruyn works at New Mexico State
Department of Education. She has
been living in Santa Fe, N.M., for the
past 14 years and loves it. Susan Sehr
Ohnsorg is active in Guardian Angels
boosters and lirurgy committee, along
with basketball within her community.
Sharon Ohnsorg Altman is a therapist
for Wilder Foundation, St. Paul.
U
Dale Jackson is vice president of mar­keting
with Continental Grain in Illi­nois.
Tom Lorenz is an emergency
room doctor at United Hospital in
Grand Forks, N D. Thomas Molumby
works for the Army Corps of Engineers
in the social-economic branch in Rock
Island, Ill.
CSB
Brigid Bechtold is an organizational
development manager at Norwest
Technical Services, Minneapolis. Linda
Faye Jacobs directs the Shebogyn
children's choir. She has taught high
school choir for 13 years. In addition to
her job, she teaches part time at Silver
Lake College. Judith Goetemann
opened her One Artist Exhibition, Oct.
29-Nov. 10, at the Rockport Art Asso­ciation
in Rockport, Mass. She is cur­rently
an adjunct faculty at CSB/SJU.
Judith and her husband Gordon have
been owners and operators of the
Goetemann Gallery for the past 20
years. Nita Middendorf O'Connell
works with the Minnesota Correctional
Facility at Redwing. She organizes and
ttains volunteers for different activities.
Laura Neumann Wasailowski is a
self-employed designer, her business is
Art Fabrik. Her work was accepted in
Yeiser Gallety showing in Padukah, Ky.
She displayed "Penolope's Art" Quilts.
Maria Peters-Bodette owns her own
business. She is the president of Design­ing
of Tomorrow gallery which tutors
learning disabled children in dyslexia,
AD D and AD HA, in the area of read­ing
and math. Barbara A. Sobocinski
is a nurse consultant at Community
Care Corp. Catherine Swedsen
Laubach lives in St. Cloud with her
fumily and works at the St. Cloud Hos­pital
in the birthing unit.
SJU
James C. Platten, 785 Pond haven Ln.,
Mendota Heights, MN 55120
Robert Dinndorf has been named re­source
development and alumni ad­ministrator
for Madison Area Techni­cal
College, 3550 Anderson St, Madi­son,
WI 53704; phone 608-246-6127.
Gregory Melsen is vice president and
CFO for Avecor Cardiovascular Inc in
Plymouth. Robert Super is acting con­troller
at the U of M. Paul Tembrock
works at Northern Star Therapy in St
Cloud. Brian Vucinovich is sales rep for
Computerware Data Products.
CSB
Nancy Sauer Kaczrowski, 1106 W
mtrren, Luverne, MN 56156,
507-283-9261
Jennifer Allen Burke and her family
have moved to a new home on the lake.
She works as a library media specialist
in the Bloomington School District 13.
Karen Boes Oman is the president of
Temp. Consulting Company in Min­neapolis
that sends out CPAs to com­panies
for special projects. Julie Gross
Ammerman and her husband Rodney
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have moved back to Minnesota after
living in Texas and Indiana. They built
their new home in Savage. Julie is also
the owner of her own business, Con­sulting
Enterprises. Mary Jane
Poznanovic Cobb gave a free seminar
with Jane Weiss on "Investing For In­come
In Today's Markets," III
Minnetonka in December.
SJU
Lowell Frye is in the humanities depatt­ment
and is revitalizing the honors pro­gram
at Hampden-Sydney, a men's col­lege
in Virginia where the closest
women's college is 60 miles away. Tho­mas
Iacarella is controller for Raven
Industries in Sioux Falls, S D. Jeremy
Raths is owner of The Roastery coffee
shop in the Twin Cities.
CSB
Beth Garin Tomlinson, 2161-105th Ln.
Nw, Coon Rapids, MN 55433,
612-755-8366
Deanna Dowdle Suilmann lives out­side
of Chippewa Falls, WIS., with her
husband John and their 2-year-old son
Christopher. Deanna and John were
married in October 1991. They both
work for Cray Research in Chippewa
Falls. Deanna is working on a master's
degree. Ann Flom lives in Maplewood
and works for the US Postal Service, St.
Paul. Beth Garin Tomlinson lives in
Coon Rapids with her husband Wayne
and 2 children Greg and Marie. She is
employed at Diversified Adjustment
Service, Inc., a collection agency-owned
by women. Dr. Frances Ann Hill com­pleted
a Ph.D. in May 1995 in educa­tionalleadership
from Northern Ari­wna
U. She is now an assistant profes­sor
at the School of Hotel and Restau­rant
Management at NAU. Sharon
Lucas is a media specialist for 1st and
2nd grades for Minneota Schools. Lynn
Montgomery is the winner of the Na­tional
Distinguished Clinician in
Teacher Education Award. She teaches
at the Adams Elementary School. Au­rora
Gwen Raitor Neal is working on
a master's degree in culture and creation
spirituality at Holy College in Oaldand,
Calif, and is a cteation spirituality con­nector
in Alaska. Ginny Rueter substi­tute
teaches in the Minneapolis School
system. She lives in Minneapolis.
Catherine A. Tautges has been pro­moted
from senior administrator to
vice president of operations for Minne­apolis
Heart Institute and Foundation.
Mary Valvoda Lunneborg lives near
Portland, Ore., with her husband of
almost 14 yeats, Kent, and her two boys
Eric and Stephen. Mary is a
stay-at-home mom and is seriously
thinking of furthering her education,
perhaps special education studies.
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Thomas E. Brodersen, 2325 Horizon
Gir., Shakopee, MN 55379
John Schmit is assistant prof of English/
director of weekend college and sum­mer
school at Augsburg College.
Theodore "Ted" Stortz is CFO for
Connect Computer in the Twin Cities.
CSB
Kathy Beavers Rivard, 5600 Edgewater
Blvd., Minneapolis, MN 55417,
612-827-2223
Kimberly Blaeser won the North
American Native Authors first book
award for her book of poetry titled
Trailing You. Barbara Bowar Wagner
works for the emergency ttauma center,
St. Cloud. Judith Muyres started
graduate school in May 1994 at St.
Mary's. Mary Nordstrom Gruber is a
critical care educator for Health East.
She is very active in church-based orga­nizations
and SPEAC, work for social
justice, St. Paul. Geralyn Osborne
Clairmont lives in Bemidji and teaches
4th grade at St. Phillips. Theresa Pratt
Valdes is a management analyst with
MO welfare reform project. Mary
Pumper Johnson is a research nurse at
International Diabetes Center, St. Louis
Park, Minn. Mary Jane Roelike
Blonigen teaches music K-6 in the St.
Wendolin's School, St. Wendolin,
Minn. Debbie Stumvoll is working on
a master's in clinical psychology, U of
St. Thomas. Sabrina Sundquist Gunter
has earned a master's in special educa­tion.
Pamela Woodley is a chief finan­cial
officer at Aetna Life Insurance
Health Plans of Georgia. She and her
family love living in Atlanta. Cathy
Youso Mumma teaches band to grades
4-8 in the Janesville Catholic Schools,
Janesville, Wis. She also plays trombone
professionally throughout the Midwest
in symphonies and brass quattets.
U
Dr Patrick Danaher is an anesthesiolo­gist
and commander in the Navy. He is
on a year's leave of absence from the
Navy while completing a fellowship in
pain management at the Harvard affili­ated
Brigham & Women's Hospital in
Boston. Patrick's address is 59 Com­monwealth
Ave, 3F, Boston, MA
02116. Mark Gerlach is an account
executive for West Publishing in New
York. Jon Ruth is vice president of sales
and marketing at North Star Steel Co
in Minneapolis.
CSB
Mary Buley, 3509 Colfax Ave. S., Apt.
2, Minneapolis, MN 55408,
612-825-1473
Debra Dripps Haug is a public health
nurse for Stearns County Community
Health Seniors Agenda for Indepen­dent
Living, St. Cloud. Joan
Grundman Mohan is the owner of St.
Cloud Window. Denise Hageman
Wozniak is a resource teacher for the
Diocese of Allentown. Karla Karstens
teaches math at the U of Vermont.
Connie Kutzke Dilts has opened a pri­vate
practice as an individual and fam­ily
therapist in Billings, Mont. Marica
Speedling Carlson has started an
in-home business, Stitches and Stencils,
highlighting her creative flair in sewing
and stenciling. Marcia also continues to
contribute card designs to Anita Beck
Cards, Minneapolis. Adelaide R.
Trettel is a distributor for a new busi­ness
called Interior Design Nutritionals.
Sharon Waldbilling Robinson teaches
general music at Cottage Grove Jr. High
School. Lisa Wersal has taken on new
responsibilities within the CSB Alum­nae
Association, serving on the Rela­tions
Committee and as secretary to the
Executive Committee. Given these new
responsibilities, she passes on the class
rep. position to Mary Buley, who will
serve for 3 years as class rep.
SJU
Thomas G. Kost, 30015 Glader Blvd,
Lindstrom, MN 55045
Fr David Beaudry transferred to St
Casimir Church in Newton, Wis, and
is also pastor at St Joseph Church in
Alverno. David was appointed coordi­nator
of health services for the Green
Bay area. Michael Galvin is president at
Consolidated Benefit Systems in St Pe-
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ter. Stephen Hansen is executive direc­tor
for Minnesota River Basin Joint Pow­ers
Board in St Paul. John Kasimor is
sales manager for Pacific Gateway Ex­change
in California. John McTigue,
who represents the 3rd generation of his
family to be genetal agents in the North­western
system, has been named genetal
agent in Chicago. Philip Palmquist is
an architect for Deluxe Corp in St Paul.
Tim Solinger was stationed in Ger­many
and recently moved to Daven­port,
Iowa, where he is assigned to the
special security office of Army Indus­trial
Operations Command. His ad­dress
is 1916 W 68th St, Davenport, IA
52806; phone 319-386-6067. Tim
would be glad to hear from any
Johnnies/Bennies in the Davenport
area. Gregory Theissen works for Book
& Co III Rapid City,
S D. Pat Wielinski is a founding share­holder
of Ford Yungblut White &
Salazar Pc, a Dallas law firm dedicated
to serving the consttuction, surety and
insurance industries. Pat has also writ­ten
his second book Contractual Risk
Transfer: Contract Indemnity and Insur­ance
Provisions, published by Interna­tional
Risk Management Institute Inc.
CSB
Carol Bishop, 8388 - 143rd St. W,
Apple Valley, MN 55124,
612-431-4828 (h), 612-721-6215 (w)
Sherrie Bosah is a therapist in
out-patient psychiatry at United Hos­pital,
St. Paul. Linda Marie Burke
Ganje is a training consultant at First
Banks, Minneapolis. Leslie Capra
Becker is a nurse clinician at North
Memorial Medical Center, Minneapo­lis.
Leslie and her fumily just recently
moved back to Minnesota from Michi­gan.
Jeanne Franta Burtzel teaches 6th
grade at Rockville, Minn. Jeanne and
her fumily live in the Cold Spring area.
Sandra Gengler Nilges took an early
retirement from the military and is now
enjoying life. Donna Grob Renze lives
in Ankeny, Iowa, and works for
Norwest Mortgage in trading opera­tions.
Mary Hammerlind Jaffray
moved back to Minnesota a year ago
and is remodeling their home in
Wayzata, Minn. Joyce Overman Dube
is clinical director of surgical nursing at
Mayo Foundation Hospital, Rochester,
Minn.
SJU
Raymond J Welsh, 1839 Rolling Green
Curve, MendDta Heights, MN 55118
John Gans was named executive direc­tor
of the National Outdoor Leadership
School (NOLS) in October and said he
"looks forward to leading our highly
qualified and committed staff to further
the NOLS mission - to serve people
and the environment as the leading
source and teacher of wilderness skills
and leadership." NOLS was founded in
1965 by mountaineer Paul Petzoldt and
35,000 students have attended. John
and his wife, Stephanie, and daughter,
Mara (2), live in Lander, Wyo. Don
Malinsky is operations manager at
Morris Furniture Co in Albert Lea; he
also does wedding photography. Tho­mas
McGlinch was promoted to vice
president at Piper Jaffray in Minneapo­lis.
Brad Weydert is vice president of
sales and marketing (and co-owner) for
Raymond James Consulting Inc, an
$18 million management and informa­tion
technology firm. The firm provides
services to Fortune 500 companies in
the western US and is headquartered in
Denver.
CSB
Jeanne Daly McIntee, 82 N Mississippi
River Blvd., St. Paul MN 55104,
612-642-9466
Debra E. Bates works at the
Chanhassen Dinner Theater. Nancy
Bennett Karasik is an expressive arts
therapist at the American Day Treat­ment
Center in Columbia, Md. Sheryl!
Fonseth-Lais lives in Ramsey, Minn.,
and is starting to pursue a career in vet­erinary
medicine. Mary Fox O'Boyle
and her husband Brian live at 19808 E.
Bruswick Dr., Aurora, CO 80013. She
would like to hear from her classmates.
Mary and Brian are very proud of their
2 accomplishments, John 10 and David
7. Ann Horstmann Bajari is a commu­nity
health service coordinator for
Meeker County in Litchfield, Minn.
Lori Jaraczeski Robel and her family
live in Blaine, Minn. She is busy raising
her 3 children - Natalie 6, Daniel 3
and Joseph 18 months. Shelly Johnson
Smith owns an accounting practice in
White Bear Lake, Minn. Erin McKee
Merrigan lives in Minneapolis and
owns a food sampling business, Dy­namic
Demos. Ann M. Plunkett
Musielewicz is a client manager for
CMS, Catalog Marketing Services, St.
Pau!' Paula Schmidt Weber is a profes­sor
at New Mexico Highlands U, Las
Vegas, N.M. She recently received a
Ph.D. in management. Laura A.
Szalacha is working on a doctorate at
Harvard U and is a professor at
Wellesley College. Julia Wake­man-
Linn teaches at George Mason U.
Julia and her husband recently built a
new home in Rockville, Md. Elizabeth
Welna Hoffman has 3 children:
Briqitte 7, Matthew 6 and William 4,
and lives in Golden Valley; Minn. Mary
Welsh Lumbar is a RN at Central Pe­diatrics,
St. Paul. Margaret White Kane
received a master's from the U of St.
Thomas in developmental reading. She
is now home with her 4 children.
SJU
Joseph M Sokolowski, 3716
Huntington Ave. S., St. Louis Park,
MN55416
David Anderson works for PPTVision
Inc in Eden Prairie. David and his wife,
Kristina, have a new address: 218 E 5th
St, Northfield 55057; phone 507-
645-9040. Mark Krebsbach was
elected to the board of directors at
Larson, Allen, Weishair & Co. Dave
Gruenes has been named Minnesota
commissioner of commerce by Gover­nor
Arne Carlson. Tom Kelly is assis­tant
district attorney for Olmsted
County, Rochester. Terence Langan is
associate prof of economics at the U of
St Thomas. Charles Opatz qualified for
the National Quality Award through
the National Association of Life Under­writers.
David Quam is controller for
Central Container Corp in Minneapo­lis.
Dr Jeffrey Varner, Crossroads Chi­ropractic,
St Cloud, urges any pre-med
majors interested in becoming chiro­practors
to give him a call:
612-252-3711, home 612-251-1749.
CSB
Colleen Lilly, 1903 N 82nd St.,
BkJomington, MN 55431,
612-884-8998
Sue Baldwin Groves is a system pro­grammer
at Unisys, Roseville. Mary L.
Knoblauch is employed with Fruth and
Anthony, Minneapolis, where she is
concentrating on labor and employ­ment
litigation and advice. Colleen
Lilly recently completed her 10th year
at Northwest Airlines, Minneapolis.
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Nancy Logering has been with the
Sherburne County attorney's office for
the past 8 years, handling felony crimi­nal
prosecutions and gross misde­meanor
cases. She is running for Tom
Hayes' position within the county. Patti
Frie Mattos teaches English to at-risk
teens in Dakota County. Maureen
Merickel O'Brien works for Northwest
Airlines in the reservation division,
Long Island, N.Y. Laurel J. Pohl is
employed at Amer-Data Consulting,
St. Paul. She lives in Roseville. Laurie
Rivard Montanez works for Norwest
Capital Advisors, Minneapolis, a part of
Norwest that manages money for indi­viduals.
Nancy Roberts Friendshuh is
a part-time audit manager at 3M in St.
Paul. Mary Witt Rynda works in
downtown Minneapolis Grain Ex­change
and lives in New Prague.
SjU
Scott M. Nelson, 3345 Zircon Lane N,
Plymouth, MN 55447
Steve Keup is general manager for
Philadelphia Marriott West Hotel.
Alexander Knta is director of regulatoty
affairs dealing with gene therapy and
transgenic products at Genzyme Corp.
His new address is 3 Shepard St, #1,
Cambridge, MA 02138; phone
617-661-2571.
CSB
Mary Rohe Kalina, 1723 W 84th St.,
Bloomington, MN 55431,
612-884-0019
Ann Buley Hough and her husband
Bruce live in the Gore Range of the
Rocky Mountains raising 2 black La­bradors.
Debra A. Crane graduated
from William Mitchell College of Law.
Kim Ebert Collella received a master's
from Seattle U, Seattle, Wash., in pas­toral
studies with a spirituality concen­tration.
Wendy Forsythe Rappe teaches
theology part time at Mount Mary
College, while raising her 3 children in
Milwaukee, Wis. Margaret Hanegraaf
is the music director of the 3M Club
Women's Chorus in Lake Elmo, Minn.
She is a ptofessional soprano and a ver­satile
performer in recital, opera and
music theater, as well as a teacher and
resident of Woodbury, Minn. Jane
Kremer Imholte received a master's in
nursing from the U of Wisconsin -
Madison, August 1995. She is a school
nurse at the Madison school district.
Jean Landkammer Hickey is a senior
manager at Bell Atlantic in Beltsville,
Md. Ellen Mahrer Voss completed a
master's at the U ofM and is going on
for a Ph.D. Mary E. Olk has a private
practice in Elk River, Minn. She con­sults
with businesses as well as private
practices. Mary and her husband
Michael also bought a new home.
Molly Phillips Meyer is a stay-at-home
mom raising her 4 wonderful children.
Jennifer Underwood Armitage gradu­ated
in June with a physical therapy
degree. Maureen Young Starmack
owns her business called Star Bright Pet
Care.
SJU
Paul Carson is a physican at Park
Nicollet in Minneapolis, treating
infectous diseases. He and his family
(Janine and children Graham, Grace
and Madeline) live in Plymouth.
Patrick Conlin is associate attorney
with Brent W Olander & Assoc in St
Paul. Steven Deetz is chief information
operator at Budget Oil Co in
Owatonna. Matthew Larkin is sales rep
for Graphics Source in Shoreview. Bob
Watkins is CFO of American Federal
Savings Bank in East Grand Forks.
CSB
Lori Morton Culberson, 1431 Foxhill
Rd., Naperville, IL 60563,
708-305-0449 (h), 708-305-6097
(w)
Pamela Benson Anderson lives in
Burnsville, Minn., and is finishing a
master's program in counseling and
psychotherapy. Sandra K Czech has
been a claims manager for 7 years at
United Services Automobile Assoc. She
is working on an MBA at Incarnate
Word College, Texas. On weekends she
is in the Air Force Reserve. Susan
Diekmann Ellis is a data manager for
Archdiocese of Omaha. Diane Eichers
Evander teaches kindergarten at St. Jo­seph
School, Waconia, Minn. Patricia
A. Gallagher Kosmatka is dean of aca­demics
at Assumption High School,
Wisconsin Rapids, Wis. Julie Gerlach
Hanowski sells sofrware for Help Sys­tems
Inc., in Little Falls, Minn.
Cherylann Gieseke was appointed the
lead veterinary technician at the Mayo
Clinic, in Rochester, Minn. Teresa Hilk
Pletcher lives in Redmond, Wash., and
is involved in PTSA (PTA with stu-dents).
She won a grant and wrote a
booklet about the school, Wetland. She
is also busy with the Scouts as a troop
co-leader. Elizabeth King Keenan is a
clinical social worker employed by the
town of East Haven for its counseling
and community services. She provides
out-patient counseling to children and
adults. She has been providing therapy
for the past 5 years since receiving a
master's from Loyola University of
Chicago. Carol Klaphake is an attorney
at Hall, Byers, Hanson, Steil &
Weinberger, St. Cloud. Susan Kuck
Klossner is an RN for the Sleepy Eye
Hospital. Ane Kvale Fitzgerald is an
adjunct faculty at the U of Dubuque
Theological Seminary in Dubuque,
Iowa. Kathy Lantry is a rental property
manager for Richards Properties and
ran for the St. Paul City Council. Linda
M. Paulson is a Johnson County assis­tant
attorney, Iowa City, Iowa. Ronda
J. Rolfes is a faculty member of the bi­ology
department at Georgetown U,
Washington, D.C. Sharon Schommer
Blatzheim is a substitute teacher and a
stay-at-home mom with her 3 children.
She also volunteers for school activities.
She lives in Apple Valley, Minn. Janet
Setter Dryer is the vice president for
Help Systems Inc., in Minnetonka,
Minn. Laura J. Smith is a manager for
Notthstand Communications. She re­cently
got engaged and is planning a
wedding for the summer 1996. Lisa
Spoden Lee is a co-owner/vice presi­dent
for Sttategic Health Care, Colum­bus,
Ohio. Angela Teiken Heitzman
started her own business a year ago in
rehabilitation counseling in St. Louis
Park, Minn. Catherine Wagner Loge is
a lab supervisor at Olmsted Medical
Group.
SJU
Raymond E Brau, 4612 Cedar Lake
Rd., Apt. 1, Minneapolis, MN 55416
Michael T. Spanier, Airborne Express,
7700 - 24th Ave. S., Minneapolis,
MN55450
Joseph Butorac works for Workman
Financial in Minneapolis. Tom
DeVinny is part-owner of Arnold's
Supply and Kleenit Co, 835 38th St
NW; Rochester. Kevin Fitzgerald is re­gion
category planning manager at
Krafr Foods (formerly Krafr General
Foods). Stuart Harvey Jr has been pro­moted
from assistant vice president to
vice president of investments at Piper
Jaffray Inc in Minneapolis. Dennis
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SchIeper is partner in charge of the St
Louis office for Larson, Allen, Weishair
& Co, LLP. His new address is 631
Valley Point Ln, St Louis, MO 63021;
phone 314-230-7455.
CSB
Megan Haas Adam, 11945 Bradford
Rd., Minnetonka, MN 55343,
612-935-0926
Anne Biedscheid lives at 2000 N.
Calvert St., Apt. 2, Arlington, VA
22201. She is active in several charitable
organizations, including Suited for
Change, a group that provides low in­come
women with professional cloth­ing.
Anne also is the executive assistant
to the EVP and board of directors of the
American Academy of Facial Plastic and
Reconstructive Surgery. Barb Dinkel
Goodrich is a drive systems project
planner for Allen-Bradley Co. Inc.,
Mequon, Wis. Kathleen Garrett
Bassett is proud to say that her work is
at home, being a full-time mother to
her 3 kids, in Eagan, Minn. Megan
Haas Adam lives in Minnetonka,
Minn., and works as an administrative
service manager for the medical mar­keting
division of Allina Health System
in Mpls. She spends her free time with
husband, Ethan, and Caitlin, age 2.
Her new home phone is 935-0926. Jan
Hemann St. Andrew lives in
Chanhassen,Minn., and is the disttibu­tion
system manager for Medical
Health Plans. Her spare time is filled
with activities with her 2 children, Tay­lor
and Anna. Amy Konz Anderson is
a program director for Lantis Enter­prises
in Helena, Mont. She and her
husband Jim have 2 children, David
and Julia. Coleen Lassegard works part
time for a Canadian project develop­ment
consulting firm and focuses on
environmental projects in Mexico. She
lives in San Diego with her husband
Barty and her son Kieran. Carol Meger
Wells and her husband Gregory are
moving to Dallas, Texas. Rosanne
O'Neill Hull is a parish administrator
at Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Min-
neapolis. Kimberle M. Plante is a mu­sic
director for the St. Joseph parish, St.
Joseph, Minn. Karen Reinhardt
Benson teaches band at Brooklyn Park
Junior High School. Linda J. Solimeno
Rodriguez is a CNA at St. Francis Hos­pital
and Health Center, Blue Island, Ill.
Karen Twohey Sheehan is at home
with her 3 children. Her newest addi­tion,
Ellen, was born in September.
Theresa Voss-Williams has a private
practice as psychologist at Family Psy­chological
Services, St. Paul. Gayle
Walton Koska is an account service rep.
for Medical Health Plans, Minnetonka,
Minn. Ann Wingert- Williams di­rected
the District 279 children's cho­rus
with Dale Warland singers at the
Ordway in December.
U
Daniel M. McDermott, 4625
Forestview Ln., Plymouth, MN
55442
David Eikens is senior scientist at Cargill
in Minnetonka. Dr Shaun Gillen PhD
and his wife, Dr Barbara Higgins MD
'84, live at 2501 Waunona Way, Madi­son,
WI 53713-1522; phone
608-222-4324. Jim Goodman and his
wife, Lisa, live at 5816 Kingman Ave,
June 10, 1995 - 10th anniversary of the CSB/SJ U Spanish International
program iii Madrid (1985-86). Kneeling: Joe Cristoforo. 1st Row (L to R):
Julia (Kern) Sheffield, Tracy (Erickson) Gross, Sharry (Fitterer) Gasperlin,
Cindy (Hejlik) Utley, Rick Sitarz, Vic Kurpiers, Jim Krajowski, Juli (Bunn)
Sanders, Dave Huber (Program Director). 2nd Row (L to R): Diane
(Gilgenbach) Cole, Mary K. Berger, Karen (Peterson) Telega, Nancy
(Lodermeier) Cristoforo, Mary Giebel, tom Duenow, Rich Stromwall,
Amanda Huber (Asst. Program Director). Standing: Mike Vecellio, Ann
(Johnson) Silgen. Not pictured (but at reunion): Alex Blaylock and Amy
(Sullivan) Gaffney.
Des Moines, IA 50311; phone
515-279-1486. Wayne Hall would like
to update classmates from '83, '84 and
'85 of his whereabouts: 2420 Vince Rd,
Nicholasville, KY 40356. Wayne can be
reached bye-mail at whall@csg.org.
James Kopp is president of Professional
Computer Service in Edina. Michael
Rajkowski has joined the law firm of
Hughes, Thoreen, Relph & Hanson,
PA, in St Cloud. His focus will be in the
areas of personal injury and municipal
law. Bernie Sinner is a partner in the
mortgage brokerage firm of Executive
Mortgage in Fargo, N D.
1985
CSB
Cindy Drew Dockendorf, 11311
Oregon Ave., Champlin, MN 55316,
612-421-3241 (h), 612-185-1360 (w)
Lisa Brott Kalkman, 1130 NE 101th
Ave., Blaine, MN 55434,
612-185-2865 (h), 612-525-4546
(w), 612-525-2939 (fax)
Theresa Blaine Sauer is in her 3rd year
as a research manager at the U of M
working on a project to reduce youth
access to tobacco products. Margaret
Brandsterter Zander practices pediat­rics
in Chippewa Falls, and lives with
her husband and family. Patricia
DeMuth Bruce is a CSB instructor in
nutrition. Connie Eggermont Eggers is
a high school counselor at West Fargo
High School, Fargo, N.D. Michelle
Heinen Farris is employed at ReMax.
Sarah Henley Allen is a director of so­cial
services for Quest, Inc. in Tampa,
Fla. Judy Karasch is director of special
projects for development fund raising
for Children's HeartLink, Minneapolis.
Christina M. Keferlis is an associate
vet at the Animal Care Clinic in
Algonquin, Ill. Paula S. Krasny Rogers
is a CPA and vice president of Terry,
Lockridge and Dunn Inc. in Cedar
Rapids, Iowa. Judy LeMoine was re­cently
elected president of the Fellow in
Life Management Institute Society,
Twin Cities. Charlorte Joy Martin re­ceived
a Ph.D. in October 1994 and is
in her 5th year of teaching at Mount
Mercy College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Jonel Langenfeld-Rial works as a per­former
and director living in Honolulu,
Hawaii. Nancy Kay McMillan is a
teacher and director of a music school.
She is seeking a DM from Northwest­ern
University. Mary T. Miller Klinker
graduated in medicine from the U ofM
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in 1993 and is a physician with the fam­ily
Medical Center in Little Falls, Minn.
Susan Nemitz is an assistant to the as­sociate
vice president for AA. at the U
of M, St. Paul. Valerie A. Paulson is a
loan administrator for Scripps Bank, EI
Cajon, Calif Angela R. Pearson works
at St. Luke's Hospital in NICU. Amy
Rillo Ellingson and her husband James,
are moving back to Willmar, Minn. She
will be an allergist immunologist for
Affiliating Medical Center starting in
July 1996. Mary E. Schill is an artor­ney
at Ruder, Ware, and Michler,
Wausau, Wis. Mary Jo Ulrich
Connolly is an independent contractor
(writer), living in Arlington, Mass.
U
Paul] Germscheid, 46355th St. NE,
Columbia Heights, MN 55421
Daniel W McKeown, 1854 Prior Ave.
N, St. Paul, MN 55113
Terry Conrad is global marketing man­ager
in cardiovascular product develop­ment
for Bayer Ab in Germany. Terry
and his wife, Christine Cunningham
'86, and infant son, Brandon, live at: Am
Knechtsgraben 24, 51379 Leverkusen,
Germany. Jonathan Dagen is technical
specialist for Datagen Inc in
Streamwood, Ill. William DeWitt is
sales and marketing director for Lexing­ton
Manufacturing in Minneapolis.
Michael Klepper opened his own gym
for preventative fitness in Miami Beach,
Fla. His new phone numbers are
305-865-4098 (home) and 305-
868-8733 (work). William Sweeney is
a prof at the U of South Dakota.
CSB
Mary Lytle Kennedy, 330 Highcroft
Ln., wayzata, MN 55391,
612-413-9391
Juanita Bauer Ikuta is finishing a
graduate degree at Seton Hall U, N.J.
She was named administrative director
for a Japanese import/export firm lo­cated
in Japan and N.J. Pat Gruenke is
a lab worker at the St. Cloud Hospital.
Ramona Hegstad Benson is a fellow at
Oregon Health Science University in
cardiology, Portland, Ore. Lynne M.
Heroux is an occupational therapist at
MedBridge - Med & Physical Rehab
Center, West Deptford, N.]. Martha
Ann McDonell makes and sells ritual
quilts and is a recycling information
manager for the St. Paul Neighborhood
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Energy Consortium. Jean Osterbauer
Lambert has moved to San Clemente,
Calif, and is a senior lab assistant at
Corning-Nichols Institute as in San
Juan Capistrano, Calif Maria Ojeda
Renard and her family live in France.
Maria and her husband Christopher
own a computer graphics company,
Megamark. Brenda Piette Kyle is an
executive assistant for Heggman Ma­chine
Tool Inc., Maple Grove, Minn.
Lisa Pohlman Martin works at
Fingerhut Corp., Minnetonka, Minn.
SjU
Timothy E. Bot, 5008 BeardAve. S,
Minneapolis, MN 55410
John G. Wedin, 14358 Fairway Dr.,
Eden Prairie, MN 55344
Christopher Benson has a new job as
fellow (cardiology) at Oregon Health
Science U in Portland. Chuck Breen is
a physician in his hometown of
Hillsboro, N D. Richard Cleary and his
wife, Kristin, live at 6308 22nd St N,
Oakdale 55128-4117. Tom Fleming is
an account executive with Novus Mar­keting
in Minneapolis. Thomas
Hughes is author of OVER LORD:
General Pete Quesada and the Triumph
of Tactical Air Power in World mzr II.
OVER LORD is a historical biography
of Gen Pete Quesada and his influence
on the use of tactical versus strategic air
power during WWII, especially during
D-Day. On D-Day, Quesada directed
a 1500 plane air support for Operation
OVERLORD, the long-awaited inva­sion
of Europe in 1944. Thomas com­pleted
OVER LORD as his dissertation
at the U of Houston. Kevin Schnell has
been transferred from the Minneapolis
office of Arthur Andersen & Co to its
Kiev, Ukraine, office. Kevin will be in
charge of the new business consulting
practice. His address is: Ukrainian
House, 2 Kreshchatik St, 252601 Kiev
Ukraine; phone +380-44-462-05-55;
FAX +380-44-228-63-88.
CSB
Kelly Rasmussen Sommer, 11911 Zion
St. Nw, Coon Rapids, MN 55433,
612-422-0056
Paula M. Anderson is a validation co­ordinator/
performance assessment spe­cialist
at St. Paul Area Learning Center.
Mary Ann Burke is a physical therapist
for Volunteer Missionary Movement in
Guarjila, El Salvador. She trains local
health promoters in physical therapy
and treats patients. Her address is
Apartado 1686, Correo Central, San
Salvador, El Salvador, Central America.
Mary Fier Koebnick is a school nurse,
Eden Prairie, Minn. Michelle M. Fling
is the managing editor of Twin Cities
Business Monthly. Christine Hammar
Rosenhamer teaches science at St.
Mary's Junior/Senior High School in
Sleepy Eye. Renee Hartman lives in
Elko, Minn., and has been at Children's
World Clinic Care Center for 3 years
and works in the Group Home Systems
as a child care specialist with abused and
neglected children. Ann Marie Hutson
completed a master's in pastoral minis­try
at SJU in August 1995. She's the
director of religious education for St.
James Parish, Arlington Heights, Ill.
Anne Jasper Hinrichs lefr her position
at Deluxe Corp. January 1995 to open
Boathouse Coffee with her husband
Todd. The shop is located in south
Minneapolis at the corner of 42nd and
Cedar. Both Anne and Todd are avid
rowers, and they've reflected their en­thusiasm
for the sport in the theme and
decor of the shop. Mary E. Juba
Swanson is employed at the Target
home office, Minneapolis. Julia Kern
Sheffield is a senior plan administrator
for Wyatt Preferred Choice, Eden Prai­rie,
Minn. Michelle Klein Pelkey began
a job last May at the community hos­pital
in Ottawa, Ill. She is almost fin­ished
a master's at North Illinois U.
Maura Mahoney Andrews teaches kin­dergarten,
Lakeville, Minn. Shelia
McGreevy Barry is a physician in
Omaha, Neb., at Creighton U in inter­nal
medicine. Jill NiehoffYoung tutors
for St. Cloud school district. Kelly
Rasmussen Sommer is manager of ex­ternal
material flow at Onan Corp.,
Fridley, Minn. Nancy Reber Hill has a
day care in her home in Champlin,
Minn. Kathryn Sedivy Collins works
at Immanuel St. Joseph Hospital,
Mankato, Minn. Kristine Schultz has
moved to Kansas and substitute teaches
in Lebo, Kan. Mary Stoner is an ac­count
manager at Andor Human Re­source
Department, Minneapolis.
Carol Wallin is a youth minister for
Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Wasilla,
Ark.
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Thomas] Mertens, 9008 Dunbar
Knoll Ct., Brooklyn Park, MN 55443
Michael D. Nawrocki, 3805 Chatham
Rd., Eagan, MN 55123
David Creen was promoted from dis­trict
hospital rep to senior institutional
health care rep for Pfizer/Roerig Phar­maceuticals
in Iowa. Paul Howe works
for Allen Interactions in Edina. David
Kunze was named a fellow of the Ca­sualty
Actuarial Society (CAS), an or­ganization
dedicated to the advance­ment
of knowledge of actuarial science
as applied to property and casualty in­surance.
Ed Lynch was promoted to
assisrant grocery products manager for
Supervalu Inc and relocated to Pennsyl­vania.
Ed and his wife, Gretchen, and
sons, Adam (3) and infant Kevin, live
in Blandon. Shawn Turner works for
American Express Financial Advisors in
Minneapolis. William Weyandt is sys­tem
support and training manager for
St Paul Pioneer Press. William supports
the computer-based design efforts of
the marketing services division and is
responsible for maintaining 30 Macs,
various other computers and develop­ing
an ongoing Macintosh training and
staff development program.
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Teresa Kuhn Niehus, 10308 Metcalf
#111, Overland Park, KS
66212-1800,913-649-0426
Angela Andrist is the support group
coordinator at Chrysalis, a center for
women, Minneapolis. (A multi-service
agency, working in areas of mental
health, chemical dependency and peer
support.). She trains and supervises
around 200 volunteers. She also has
volunteered with Perspectives (counsel­ing
center), Minnesota Literacy Project,
and the Aliveness Project for the United
Way. In her spare time she loves to make
jewelry, write, paint and participate in
women's rituals. Kristi Bever Etzell is a
licensed massage therapist at Kent Mas­sage
Theraphy in Kent, Wash. Carolyn
M. Bossenmaier works as a senior ad­ministrative
dietitian at the U of M
Hospital. She continues to travel and
climb mountains internationally. This
interest is reflected in the name of her
Golden Retriever puppy, Summit.
Brenda Fisher Gyorfi will graduate in
May 1996 from pharmacy school at the
U of Nebraska Medical School. Katie
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Hendricks Reschenberg sells software
for Help Systems Inc. in Minnetonka,
Minn., along with 3 other Bennies.
Kelly John has moved to Des Moines,
Iowa, and started her first year at the U
of Osteopathic Medicine (doctorate for
podiatry). Susan P. Keane Schussler is
studying for a master's in nursing. Su­san
and husband Thomas live in Texas.
Karen Keffeler Funk is the principal of
Gurnee Grade School, in Gurnee, Ill.
Mary Carol Litchy Schwieters is a
medical student of the U ofM, intern­ing
at Hibbing, Minn. Sarah E.
MacAlpine substitutes in elementary
schools, Minneapolis. She received a
teaching certificate at St. Catherine's,
December 1994. Doreen Mohs is prac­ticing
law at Ryder, Bennett, Egan and
Arundel, Minneapolis. Suzanne
Mousel Pearson graduated ftom Drake
U in Iowa with a master's in school
counseling. Margrette Newhouse is the
vice president and manager for Na­tional
City Bank, Minneapolis. Christi
C. Nielsen Pellegrene is a senior ana­lyst
at Fingerhut, Minnetonka, Minn.
RebeccaA Redding and husband Tho­mas
have qualified for the Olympic
Marathon try-outs, February 1996. She
lives in Tampa, Fla. Jennifer Remmick
Soucheray teaches special education, St.
Paul. Lora Rice West is a production
manager at Deluxe Corp., Roseville.
Amy Stem Mages teaches kindergarten
for Cedar Mountain School, Morgan,
Minn.
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George C. Ramler, 14301 Stewart Ln,
Minnetonka, MN 55345
Peter J Stoddart, 2701 McKinley St.
NE, Minneapolis, MN 55418
Drew Brennan's mailing address has
changed to PO Box 7066, SJU,
Collegeville 56321. Jason Coffel is
completing his MBA and teaching at U
of North Dakota. Troy Fritz joined the
Central Minnesota Council, Boy
Scouts of America in St Cloud as a dis­trict
rep. Sean Harlin has been pro­moted
to director of media relations for
the Minnesota Twins. Andy Kramer
works for Lincoln Benefit Life Insur­ance
Co. Andy, his wife, Cathy, and
children, Kaitlyn (17 mo) and infant
John, have a new address: 3200 Raleigh
St, Lincoln, NE 68516; phone
402-421-6632. Matt Pequignot is
project assistant for R R Donnelley &
Sons Financial Printing Group. Matt
lives on Alamo Square, right across
from the famous shot of the painted
Victorian homes with downtown San
Francisco in the background. Peter
Stoddard is account executive with
Tunheim Santrizos Co, a public rela­tions
and communications firm in
Minneapolis.
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Lisa M. Pettitt, 1618 S. Lincoln St.,
Denver, CO 80210,303-698-2016
(h), 303-871-3663 (w), e-mail;
lpettitt@du.edu
Amy Anderson is a speech-language
pathologist at the Minnesota Valley
Rehabilitation Company in southern
Minnesota, and microbrewing on the
side with Mattin. Her address is 405 N
5th St #511; Mankato, MN 56001,
507-389-8924. While Amy was visiting
the Mankato State U computer lab, she
ran into Deb Pexa who is pursuing a
master's in women's studies at Mankato
State after a 6 years in Alaska. Julia
Antonsen was last seen teaching in an
American school in Cali, Columbia,
South America. Stacy L. Armstrong
Pearson is a police officer for the city of
Golden Valley, Minn. Katherine
Brekken has become a full-time
mother, while she is awaiting the birth
of her child in April, living in Richfield,
Minn. Nancy Cameron Kundinger,
her husband Bill '90 and daughter
Katie returned this summer from a
4-year tour in Germany and were at Ft.
Benning through October. Michelle
Cartier Kueppers works at H.B. Fuller
Co. in St. Paul. Robyn Corcoran
Wallner is a life underwriter manager
for Federated Insurance in Owatonna,
Minn. Angela Cunningham Harings
lives in Eagan, Minn., and is a product
coordinator for Westward Publishing.
Debra Jeanne Forsberg Ubben is em­ployed
in the sales and catering depart­ment
at the Radisson Hotel Metro­dome,
Minneapolis. Theresa M.
Lamusga is a veterinarian for Miller
Trunk Veterinary Clinic, Duluth.
Margaret Marchwick Vigil is a pur­chasing
supervisor for Shell Chemical
Co., Norco, La. Tracy Monro-Moran
is an instructor with Blue Cross Blue
Shield of Minnesota, Eagan. Dawn
Needham divides her residence be­tween
Ely, Minn., during the summer
canal season, working as the baker at the
Chocolate Moose Restaurant
(April-September; 31 W. Chapman,
32 s u
Ely, MN 55731), and Antarctica dur­ing
the winter months, working in
management for Antarctic Support
Associates, the company contracted by
the National Science Foundation to
support scientists and researchers work­ing
on the continent (October -Febru­ary;
Antarctic Support Association, Box
700, McMurdo, FPO-AP 96601-
6010). Michele Pelletiere is a student
at Northwestern College of Chiroprac­tic,
Bloomington. Kelly Pernat taught
in Las Vegas for over 5 years and now
teaches 2nd grade at Oran K. Gragson
Year-Round Elementary School. She is
also pursuing a master's at UNLY. Lisa
Pettitt (email: lpettitt@du.edu) is work­ing
on her dissertation in developmen­tal
psychology. She is also a graduate
assistant in the Women's Studies Pro­gram
at the U of Denver and is a re­search
assistant at the Prevention Re­search
Center for Family and Child
Health at the U of Colorado Health
Sciences Center. She and Dave also
have two new additions to their house­hold,
her sister Beth '95 and a new
puppy, Harri. Michele Piettowski has
accepted a temporary teaching position
at the York School, a college preparatory
school in Monterey, Calif. She will
teach AP U.S. history, modern Euro­pean
history, and English from January
through June 1996. Kerri Ann Saye
Merritt is a commercial real estate of­ficer
at Norwest Bank, Twin Cities.
Kathleen A Skoglund Kulus is a pedia­trician
at Women and Children's Medi­cal
Center, St. Cloud. Niki Suman
Smith, husband Jeff, and kids Matthew
and Katherine, will leave DeRidder,
La., for Ft. Bragg in Fayetteville, N.C.,
at the end ofJanuary 1996. Niki hung
up the Army boots in August, and
works as a civilian nurse. Elizabeth
Sweeley is a product coordinator at
Corporate Benefit Services of America.
Catherine Turner Dwyer and her hus­band
Gerald moved to the Chicago
area, July 1994. She worked at the Chi­cago
Tribune as a real estate advertising
rep. for 4 months until finding work
closer to home at a weekly paper, the
Pioneer Press. She, Gerald and their cat
and dog live in Glenview, Ill. Mary
Beth Van Orsow Tuvey is an assistant
director/teacher at Kid Country, St.
Paul. Amy R Wyse is a senior customer
care representative for AT&T Wireless
Services, Bloomington.
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Michael J Moynagh, 5420 Tracy Lynn
Terrace, Minnetonka, MN 55345
Peter D. Seltz, 4800 Cheshire Ln N,
Plymouth, MN 55446
James Burke, his wife Maria '89, and
infant Elena Maria, have moved to 118
Gentle Hills Cir, Grand Forks, ND
58201; phone 701-775-2770. James
teaches Spanish in Fischer public
schools. Timothy Lebens recently com­pleted
his MBA in international man­agement
at Illinois Benedictine College.
He has been promoted back to St Paul
in marketing/sales development with
3M. Tim's new address is 3545 Fairfax
Ln, Woodbury 55125. MarkMuggliis
teaching and in the grad program at
Virginia Tech. Lance Swanke has left
the Army and taken a production su­pervisor
position with International
Paper in Arden Hills. Lance and his
wife, Lori, reside at 4654 Pello Circle in
Eagan. Tom Voller designed the
Rockin' Rollers pro basketball team
logo. The character in the logo repre­sents
central Minnesota's history in the
granite industry. Tom is associate direc­tor
of admission at Shattuck-St Mary's
School in Faribault. Kevin Wentworth
has a new address: 1032 W Arrowhead
Rd, Duluth 55811; phone
218-724-2851. Brian Williams is an
attorney with the St Cloud City
Attorney's Office.
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Lisa Murphy, 1621 AshlandAve., St.
Paul, MN 55104,612-644-4582
(h), 612-454-2079 (w),
612-454-0860 (fax)
Kathleen J. Borash teaches 1st grade at
Capitol Hill Magnet School in St. Paul.
Amy Braham works for the accounting
firm, Automatic Data Processing Co.,
Chicago. Kristy Maria Buermann is
employed at the St. Cloud Hospital.
Leah Shawn Campbell Wagner owns
Leah Campbell Photography, Minne­apolis.
Kelly M. Connelly is an RN at
Children's Health Care, St. Paul. Mar­garet
A. Cook Thickens graduated
cum laude from the U of M Law
School, December 1994. She practices
law in Honeywell's Office of General
Counsel. Theresia Dixon is an optom­etrist
with Drs. North & Watson, P.A
at the Burnsville Center, Burnsville.
Kerry Ehleringer Hoeft finished a
Ph.D. at the U of St. Thomas.
Michaela Heising has been promoted
to sales coordinator for Phoenix Inter­national
Corp., Fargo, N.D. She joined
the company in 1994. Laura M.
Honkomp teaches for District 742
School, St. Cloud. Julie Klinkhammer
Baker is taking 3 months of maternity
leave and plans to return to St. Paul
Public Schools where she teaches 2nd
grade. Julie and her husband Chris have
moved to a new home, 617 Burlington
Rd., St. Paul, MN 55119. Lind