Vol. 1 No. 3 December 1996
CLA News
University of Minnesota, Duluth
      College of Liberal Arts
Gift to the Ehlers Prize
This fall the family of Professor Henry J. Ehlers contributed a significant addition to the Ehlers Prize, awarded annually to the student who 
authors the best essay in Philosophy at UMD. 
The Fund is in its tenth year. Professor Ehlers, 
who was bom in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and died in 
Duluth in 1995, founded the Philosophy 
Department at UMD in 1947, when the campus 
became a branch of the University of Minnesota.
The gift truly is a family affair. The 
principal contributors include Professor Ehlers’ 
wife Retta who still lives in Duluth, their daughter 
Julia Quick who resides in South Carolina, and 
daughter Mary Ann Waldo and her husband, Neil, 
who live in California. The Waldos have arranged 
for matches which will increase the Fund even 
more substantially.
Ties That Bind
UMD ties run deep in this family. Mary Ann 
attended UMD for two years, concentrating on 
Speech, Theatre, and eventually Sociology. She 
now is in business in California. Julia studied 
Music at UMD and now is an Associate Professor 
of Music at South Carolina State University. 
Mary Ann’s husband, Neil, majored in Business 
and Economics at UMD; he is an executive in 
California. The family is very interested in making 
sure that the Prize makes a difference, attracting 
and inspiring students to focus on philosophical 
subjects.
Recent Winners
In Spring 1996, Robert Schroer submitted the 
prize-winning essay, "Can Video Cameras be 
Conscious? An Essay on David Rosenthal's and 
Fred Dretske's treatment of Consciousness and
Sensory States." The 1995 winner was Wade 
Maki, who now is in the Philosophy Graduate 
program at Bowling Green State University. His 
paper was entitled, "Can the Egoist Exist in Tune 
with the Collectivist Utilitarian State?"
The Department has kept in touch with 
previous winners, too. Winner in 1994, Jon Rolfe 
entered the UM Law School. In 1993, there were 
two winners: Ron Sundstrom who now is a 
Philosophy graduate student in the Twin Cities 
and Mark Koprowski who is teaching English in 
Japan and writing plays. Two of his plays were 
performed in the Twin Cities this summer, to 
positive reviews.
The Ehlers Prize clearly has had a track 
record of excellent recipients, all of whom have 
turned their study in liberal arts to notable ends.
Books Of Note In CLA
A JOURNEY OF 
THE HEART
Associate Professor Beth
Bartlett (Political
Science) has just
published a book about 
her experiences as the 
recipient of a heart 
transplant. The book is 
"really two stories," she 
writes. "The first story 
tells of the sudden and 
severe worsening of a 
heart condition. The 
Bartlett
second story is a story that we all share--a story of 
our common journey through the fears, doubts, 
and despair, as well as the joys, hopes, and wonder 
of life." Her book is entitled, appropriately, 
Journey of the Heart: Spiritual Insights on the 
Road to a Transplant.
An "Exquisite Gift"
In that second story, Professor Bartlett 
discusses how her experiences truly have humbled 
her. She acknowledges that the transplant itself is 
like a resurrection that enables her to "live better, 
more humbly." The "exquisite gift" of a new heart 
was "an indestructible sense of wonder," she writes. 
It allowed her, in a sense, to be reborn with a 
child's capacity for amazement and with an adult's 
awareness and ability to communicate with others.
As a consequence, the book focuses not on 
medical technology but rather on the (re)discovery 
of one's moral and spiritual compass and one's 
mutual indebtedness to family, friends, coworkers, 
and many others. The book begins with a 
harrowing immersion into the life of someone 
whose most personal and essential organ, the 
heart, betrays her, pulling her away again and 
again from loved ones.
A New Direction
Professor Bartlett's experiences and 
reflections over the past few years have reoriented 
her teaching and research. She is concentrating, in 
part, on religious studies and on the debate that is 
currently raging over justice vs. care in ethical 
circles. Besides studying the Greek and Hebraic 
origins of this debate, she has resurrected her own 
interest in Albert Camus, who-she believes- 
attempted to bridge ethics and care in his social 
theories and philosophy. She is planning a longer 
study-possibly a book-on Camus.
But it's not just that her experience and 
writing influenced her teaching; things work the 
other way, too. "Going over the material on Master 
Eckhart for my classical political thought class," 
Bartlett reports, "I was reminded that the 
inspiration for the 'Bom Again' chapter came from 
teaching the course every two years.”
Her book is available through Pfiefer- 
Hamilton. For more information, contact the CLA 
Dean's Office at 726-8981.
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UMD COMES OF AGE
Professor of History, Neil Storch, just has 
completed a pictorial 
history of UMD, UMD 
Comes of Age: The First 
One Hundred Years. 
Ken Moran, a UMD 
graduate and campus 
photographer, 
collaborated on the 
project. Professor Storch 
says that the project 
started “when Robert 
Falk, Emeritus Professor 
of Psychology, was describing for the Associate 
Vice Chancellor, Steve Hedman, some of the 
projects that he has been involved in.” Right then, 
Storch adds, “Steve realized that faculty, staff, and 
alumni memories needed to be preserved.”
UMD archivist, James Vileta, made the 
book possible because of his scrupulous records 
and computer-search skills, Storch reports. 
Lavishly illustrated with a superb chronology and 
helpful index for checking names, the book makes 
clear the campus's inter-indebtedness with 
Northern Minnesota. The region has fought and 
continues to fight for its UM campus; in turn, 
UMD has brought industry, jobs, and top-flight 
education and culture to thousands in the area, as 
well as throughout the nation. Storch assembled 
much of the story by interviewing the people “who 
brought UMD of age,” he says. Storch was 
especially moved by how much these people cared 
for students.
Normal School
The university began as a normal school in 
1895. In 1921, it was changed into a teachers 
college, conferring its first bachelors' degrees in 
1927. And in 1947, through the intensive lobbying 
efforts of many, the campus became a branch of 
the University of Minnesota, changing its profile 
and mission forever.
Recent Decades
Recent decades have witnessed the 
addition of the Medical School, engineering 
programs, expanded offerings in the arts and 
sciences, the Natural Resources Research Institute, 
and the Large Lake Observatory, as well as a 
growing physical plant. Demographically, the 
campus now relies on students from "down-state" 
at least as much as it does from the Northern tier. 
Despite these changes, the campus remains 
wedded to one essential aspect of its original 
vision: the well-rounded education of 
undergraduates.
“All of us involved in this book hope we 
have stirred memories and helped to forge a closer 
bond with alumni and friends,” according to 
Storch. For information about purchasing the 
book, contact University Relations (218-726- 
7110).
HANDBAGGING FOREVER!!
According to Associate Professor Paul Sharp 
(Political Science), Margaret Thatcher often is 
"wrongly regarded as a leftover" from the Cold War 
ideologues. In a book to be published this spring 
by MacMillan entitled Thatcher's Diplomacy, he 
argues that she was THE "prototypical post-Cold 
War statesman." She took nationalism very 
seriously and demonstrated that a modem 
European power can act forcefully and 
independently.
Falklands
There were, of course, ironies to Thatcher's 
independent route, Sharp points out. She actually 
out-American-ed the Americans on the Gulf, 
pushing and prodding them into vigorous action 
and a coalition against Iraq. While she became 
enthralled with foreign policy, it was, in fact, 
foreign policy that discovered her, not the other 
way around. In particular, the Falklands 
reoriented her role as a leader.
And there were costs to her independence. 
Her strong stance against the European Union 
because it undermined state sovereignty and 
threatened intervention in the marketplace 
alienated many at home and abroad. Sharp notes 
that her tendency to "speak her mind in public," so 
unlike other politicians these days, both pleased 
and alienated audiences.
Churchill
Personally, Sharp admires Thatcher 
because she was right on so many foreign policy 
issues and because her forthrightness in public also 
was "fun." She herself admired Churchill whom she 
tried to echo on occasions. And despite her animus 
against the French idea of the state, she admired 
De Gaulle's independence, too. For more 
information on Professor Sharp's upcoming book, 
contact the CLA Dean's Office (218-726-8981).
THE FOREIGN AFFAIRS DESK
This year, the Royal D. Alworth, Jr. Institute for 
International Studies has a new Director, Associate 
Professor Paul Sharp (Political Science). Sharp 
can be heard every Monday at 8:15 a.m. on 
KUMD radio; he answers questions about foreign 
policy.
Professor Sharp, the third Director, 
inherited a well-established operation with a solid 
track record of international activities, Brown Bag 
lunches, and ambitions to do even more.
The Northern Circles focus that first 
inspired the creation of the Institute lives on. The 
first speaker in Fall 1996 was M. Dery, Consul 
General of Canada at Minneapolis. He addressed 
Canada's concerns about the Helms-Burton Bill, 
which is designed to punish those who purchase 
Cuban assets.
In January, the Institute hopes to bring 
Jack Matlock, former U.S. Ambassador to the 
USSR, to talk about Russia. On February 4, 1997 
the Alworth Institute is helping to sponsor the 
Baeumler-Kaplan Holocaust Memorial Lecture, to 
be delivered by author and film-maker Gerda 
Klein. Her documentary, One Survivor 
Remembers, has won an Emmy for Best 
Documentary.
Study Abroad
The Alworth Institute's neighbor, the Office for 
International Education (Director, Gordon 
Levine), reports an active year so far. Thirty-four 
students are studying in the England program; 
sixteen of them are from CLA. Additionally, fifteen 
other students are in schools abroad, from New 
Zealand to Guatemala to the Czech Republic. 
The Sweden program also is booming. Fifteen 
students are planning to enter; in fact, there's a 
waiting list.
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England Program
The England program has moved this year from 
the University of Central England to Westhill 
College, both in Birmingham. Director Bob Evans 
(Philosophy) brags that he has "the best group of 
students in eighteen years." Westhill, he adds, "is 
just the sort of small liberal arts college that many 
of us have for so long admired."
The UMD students have been treated to 
a production of the Oedipus plays in London. 
They also have heard lectures on Middle Eastern 
politics and East Germany in the '60s and '70s by 
people with first-hand experience.
Westhill College has approximately 1,000 
students. Through a cooperative arrangement, all 
students get their degrees from the University of 
Birmingham. Students from over seven countries 
are on campus because Westhill participates in 
church education and education for social services 
abroad.
Perspectives On Elec­
tions, At Home And 
Abroad
CLA has been treated to reports on elections at home and abroad in recent months. On October 9, Representative 
Mike Jaros delivered a talk for 
the Alworth Institute's Brown 
Bag Series during the 
Thursday Lunch Hour. He 
spoke on the recent elections 
in Bosnia. He was one of a 
handful of international observers dispatched to 
the scene to observe the elections.
Representative Jaros reported that the 
elections were a step forward. They allowed 
ordinary people a say in their future; however, the 
cultural environment has been so poisoned by 
hatemongers that extremism will be difficult to 
overcome, he predicted.
To Russia, with Karelian Fever
This past summer, Associate Professor Alexis 
Pogorelskin (History) traveled to Russia to 
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continue her research on the "Karelian Fever" that 
motivated numbers of Finns from the Northland 
to migrate to the Soviet Union earlier in the 
century. She was funded by a grant from the UM 
Graduate School.
Her research visit coincided with the 
Russian campaign and elections, which Yeltsin 
won by a slim margin over Zyvganov and Lebed, 
whom he recently removed from power. 
Television coverage, she reports, was extremely 
pro-Yeltsin. He ran a "negative campaign" against 
Zyvganov, capitalizing on the latter's extremism 
and threats to undo reform. Yeltsin had behind 
him not only the state media but the treasury and 
foreign support. Pogorelskin was especially struck 
by the media's avoidance of Chechneya, which of 
course wounded the nation and Yeltsin's 
government deeply.
The night before the elections, state 
television ran the classic movie, Burnt by the Sun. 
Set in the '30s, the movie depicts a countryside 
and a people about to be ravaged by political 
repression, on the cusp of the Soviet Trials in '36- 
37. Pogorelskin viewed this as a veiled warning to 
the electorate about the past that could return to 
haunt them if they voted "incorrectly." The next 
day, she asked friends about the movie. One 
replied that it represented "ancient history." 
Another said, "In Russia anything is possible."
At Home
Here in Minnesota, many CLA professors, 
students, and alumni were active in the elections. 
What follows is a mere sampling.
Professor Roger Fischer (History) provided 
commentary on the ABC local affiliate and very 
early in the evening anticipated nearly exactly how 
the Wellstone vs. Boschwitz election would play 
out.
Meanwhile Associate Professor Craig Grau 
(Political Science) could be seen on Public Access 
TV and heard on the radio. He analyzed the Kids 
Voting movement, as well as the reasons for the 
relatively high voter turnout in Minnesota 
(compared with the nation) and for trends that 
emerged throughout the evening. The next day, 
Grau's comments appeared in The Minneapolis 
Star Tribune.
Students and Alums
According to Grau, students Nicole Bonneville and 
Kristin Knach worked for AP, calling in results 
front the precints. Members of College Democrats 
and double majors in Political Science and 
Communication, they worked the phone banks for 
the DFL, Nicole reports. Also, they attended 
Clinton/Gore sessions where they helped to plan 
strategy and press conferences to assist Wellstone's 
campaign. All in all, Nicole says that she and 
Kristin had "a great experience." Kristin echoes 
this, emphasizing that they especially enjoyed 
their work for the press corps when vice president 
Gore visited Minnesota.
Ron Hustvedt, editor of the Statesman, 
also worked the elections extensively. Ron says 
that he arose at 5:00 a.m. to conduct exit polling 
in Thomson for ABC, AP, CNN, CBS, NBC, and 
FOX. He was working for Voter News Service. 
Associate Professor Grau arranged for this 
experience.
Interviewing every eighth person, Ron 
called results in every four hours. Ron was glad 
that he participated but, he says, was concerned 
that the "networks practice more scrutiny in 
determining when to broadcast the results." It is 
unfair to California," he added, "to know how the 
other 3/4 of the country voted" before the polls 
close out there. Ron finished the day impressed 
with Northern Minnesotans’ awareness that 
"participating in a democracy is more than voting 
every four years."
Grau reports that students Nicole Houle, 
Kipp Johnson, Jim Kidd, Eric Linden, Jim 
McGrath, Jim Satre, and Jon Thorson also worked 
the exit polls. Participating in Kids Voting were 
students Heidi Brockemeir (coordinator of the 
Second Precinct), Kyle Costly, Karen Muhr, Todd 
Slagter, and Jake Varghese. Tracy Hoffman, a 
former student here, was Secretary of the 
Executive Committee for Duluth Kids Voting.
But all this only skims the surface of 
activity. Elle Hessburg was President of Minnesota 
College Republicans. And many former CLA 
students worked paid jobs during the elections. 
Mike Alm was the district director (1st District, 
Congress) for Gil Gutknecht. Sarah Cunningham, 
Mark Sienkiewicz, and Joyce Siegel all worked for 
the Minnesota House Republicans. Additionally 
Chris Bacachus successfully headed up Jim 
Oberstar's campaign, while Tonya Bjork was Field 
Director for Wellstone and Ted Johnson worked 
Advance for Clinton/Gore. Quinn Sweetman also 
worked on the Wellstone staff and contributed to 
Oberstar's effort.
Upward Bound Vision 
Quest: CLA and the 
Community
Upward Bound Vision Quest continues to be one of the most successful programs in the University for reaching out to students in the 
schools. Part of the University of Minnesota since 
1969, and now overseen by Professor John Red 
Horse (American Indian Studies), the project 
works with one hundred students in grades seven 
through ten in Duluth and Minneapolis. In 
Duluth, UBVQ focuses on students in Morgan 
Park Middle School as well as Duluth Central and 
Denfeld.
UBVQ provides students with the skills 
and motivation needed for success in college. The 
client population is low-income families. In 1995, 
50% of the students were of Native American 
descent, 25% were African Americans, and 
remainder were White, Hispanic, and Asian. 
UBVQ tries to break the cycle of poverty and poor 
education that disprivileges so many. The 
program is funded by the U. S. Department of 
Education, while UMD houses it locally.
While UBVQ provides tutoring, study 
skills, support groups, and counseling for the 
participants, it also benefits students at UMD. 
Students from American Indian Studies intern in 
the program, as do graduate students from Social 
Work. The partnership works. Last spring all 
seventeen of the high school seniors in the 
program were accepted into college for fall, 1996.
If you would like to assist or volunteer in 
some way, or if you want more information, 
contact John Beaulieu at (218)726-7064.
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CLA Calendar
Events are subject to change; contact (218)726- 8981 for up-to-date information. Winter and Spring dates are still in the works, as is a series on 
Ethics and Public Policy.
January
9 AIworth-Grass Roots Leadership Goes to 
Russia
16 Alworth-Cuba: Life in Pinar del Rio
23 Alworth--Working in Honduras
30 Alworth-Lapporten: Inspirations from North
of the Arctic Circle
February
4 Baeumler-Kaplan Holocaust Lecture-
Gerda Klein
6 Alworth--Images of England
13 Alworth--Citizen Diplomacy: Ten Years of a
Successful Duluth-Petrozavodsk Relationship
CLA Dean's Column: 
Weavers of the Web
When professors and students talk about the “Net” these days, they do not mean a device for sweeping up Lake Superior fish. Rather, 
they mean the 
“interface” that 
connects personal 
computers in offices and 
homes with big main­
frames and mid-sized 
“servers.” Together 
they all make up a 
dispersed yet interlinked 
super computer that, according to whom you 
talked to, either is the best thing since the book or 
the worst since black ice.
Surfs Up
Faculty and students in CLA “surf" the Web (to 
mix a metaphor) daily, skimming from one site to 
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another until, well, they “crash”-that is, until 
either they or their software tires out. Many 
faculty are using the Web to enhance classroom 
instruction. Professors Tim Rouf and Tom Bacig 
in Sociology/Anthropology are exemplars. They 
have developed sites—or electronic pages replete 
with graphics and links to other sites-that 
enhance their courses.
Roufs and Bacig have developed web pages 
(follow the links on either 
http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs or 
. . . /tbacig) for their courses. Students in Roufs’ 
Prehistoric Culture class can access the syllabus, 
course calendar, help on writing papers, e-mail 
exchanges, maps, electronic libraries, and much 
more on. . . /troufs/anthl602. Interested in 
checking out what Jane Goodall is up to in Gombe 
this week? Follow Roufs’ link to her. Want a 
visual diagram of ancient hominids? Follow the 
link to that. Rouf argues that the Web enables 
students and faculty to exchange ideas, gather 
information rapidly, learn at their own pace, and 
take in graphical images and sounds as well as 
(electronic) print.
To see the potential of Web instruction, go 
to Bacig’s page and follow the link to either 
Frontier Heritage or The Sixties. The pages for 
these courses provide electronic filmographies and 
bibliographies, as well as writing tools, course 
information, and student access to grades.
Remember Hal in 2001 ?
Head of Composition, Ken Risdon, oversees 
computer-assisted writing instruction at UMD. 
He points out that CLA has a responsibility to 
show students how to use the technology that their 
careers will require. But others raise important 
questions.
By and large, many students see Web- 
enhanced instruction as “positive and inevitable.” 
But they point out that while the information is 
“up-to-date,” it is not often “reliable.” We need a 
“balance,” another CLA student said: “Glowing 
screens and plastic keyboards cannot replace a 
human face,” he remarked.
Help!
But will “Help” screens replace those faces, will we 
no longer “dialogue” face-to-face as we learn? 
Associate Professor Steve Chilton (Political 
Science) hopes not. We cannot afford to place 
“profits over people” so that human interaction is 
squeezed out of education, he believes. Learning 
is more than the accumulation of discrete facts 
that someone can “surf" to and quickly by. 
Learning requires other people; it requires real, not 
virtual, dialogue. We can’t forget, Chilton says, 
that already we complain that America has lost the 
sense of itself as a community.
Whither?
Is it ironic that this essay itself is written on a 
computer? Or that CLA debated the uses of 
technology this fall over e-mail? To what degree 
has technology already overtaken us? To what 
degree has the culture that we’re creating yielded 
us all up to technology? Can we master this 
situation, invest it with human meaning and 
aesthetic values?
CLAs-the liberal arts-exist to raise these 
questions, to answer them gradually, to refute the 
answers, and of course to raise new questions and 
imagine the new ways of being that, in turn, 
produce new technologies.
Harry Hellebrand (hhellenb@d.umn.edu)
Also, see these CLA sites:
The College - http:// www.d.umn.edu/claweb/ 
Newsletters— http://www.d.umn.edu/~hellenb 
/Clan 1 .html 
/Clan2.html 
/Clan3.html
CLA Scholarship/ 
Lecture Funds:
CONTRIBUTE NOW SO THAT THESE 
PROJECTS CAN CONTINUE TOMORROW!!
During and after the UMD annual campaign, 
please make your check payable to one of the 
following funds or contact Harry Hellenbrand 
(218-726-8982) about other opportunities.
Alworth Institute For International Studies
Supports lectures and presentations on 
international affairs; open to the UMD community 
and the general public.
The Baeumler-Kaplan Holocaust 
Memorial Lecture Series
Usually an annual event in spring, open to the 
community, that educates the public about the 
history of the Holocaust and the moral 
implications of prejudice.
College Of Liberal Arts
Scholarships awarded to juniors and seniors who 
demonstrate excellence in scholarship and service 
to the University and community.
Communication
The John Ness Memorial is given to the major who 
demonstrates the most compelling combination of 
departmental activity, high GPA, and service to 
both the department and the University.
The Gustaf Nordin Memorial Scholarship is given 
to the Journalism student with the highest GPA 
who demonstrates a desire to pursue the 
profession.
English
The Sigmond and Lena Slonim Memorial 
Scholarship rewards an excellent student in 
English who has filed upper-division papers and 
demonstrated need; award given to a senior.
The Joseph E. Duncan Memorial Scholarship is 
awarded to an outstanding junior or senior in 
English, based on the quality of written work.
Foreign Languages And Literatures
The A. Marinelli Scholarship rewards excellent 
juniors in French or Spanish for study abroad; 
students must complete a competition in 
translating a text into English.
Geography
The "Gift" Account is used primarily for updating 
and maintaining the Geographical Information 
Systems Lab in the department.
History
The Maude Lindquist Scholarship rewards 
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excellent students in History.
The Washbum Award is given to a History major 
with a high GPA in his/her junior year.
Interdisciplinary Studies
The Ann Carlson Anderson Scholarship is awarded 
to a meritorious student in the Master of Liberal 
Studies.
Humanities/Classics Program/Interdisciplinary 
Studies gives several awards to students in the 
program who write excellent papers.
Philosophy
The Henry Ehlers Prize is awarded to the winner 
of an essay competition in Philosophy.
Political Science
The Gerhard von Glahn Scholarship rewards the 
sophomore with the highest GPA in Political 
Science.
The Julius F. Wolff, Jr. Scholarship rewards the 
junior with the highest GPA in Political Science.
The Francis H. de Groat Award rewards the senior 
with the highest GPA in Political Science.
The Political Science "Gift" Account is used for the 
purchase and maintenance of new equipment 
within the department.
Sociology/Anthropology
The Sociology/Anthropology "Gift" Account is used 
for the purchase and maintenance of new 
equipment within the department.
UMD
The UMD General Scholarship Fund usually 
awards to entering students on the basis of need 
and achievement.
For more information, contact Dean Harry 
Hellenbrand (218-726-8982/81).
Alumni News
Jill Ahart. Crim, ‘93. Special agent with the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation. Married UMD graduate Mike Ahart (Busn ‘94) in April 1996.
Mark Attridge. Comm, ‘84. Ph.D. in Social 
Psychology from U of MN in ‘95. Married 7+ yrs. to 
Kara Witt. Employed at United Health Care Corp. 
(Mpls.) in Research.
Karen Zentner Bacig. Comm, Engl ‘86. Married Ed 
Bacig, (Geol ‘85) in ‘86. Two daughters 4 and 1. M.A. 
Educational Psychology ‘89 from UMD. Currently 
pursuing Ph.D. at U of MN-TC in Higher Education. 
Previously Ass’t Dean of Students at St. Scholastica, 
Duluth.
Michael K. Browne. Span, 95. Received 1/2 tuition 
HUSL Minority Scholarship from Hamline University 
School of Law. Prior to this, worked at the Mayo Clinic 
in Rochester, MN as a Spanish interpreter.
Maura Hawkins Coniglio. Married with 2 sons, 9 and 
4 yrs. President/Owner of Environmental 
Engineering/Consulting Firm in Pittsfield, 
Massachusetts. Still love Duluth and eagerly read all 
news.
Dave Fischer. Comm/Engl, ‘87. Director of Athletic 
Communications & Promotions at Michigan Tech. 
Married to the former Angie Hultman of Austin, MN 
with daughter Jennifer (born 7/23/96).
Greg Havemeier. Comm, ‘89. Employed by Gulfshore 
Insurance, Inc. in Naples, Florida as a sales associate. 
Married on Nov. 16 to Lori Buete.
Wendy Lou Higgins. Anth/Art, ‘90. Employed at Bass 
Pro Shops in MO. Tourette Syndrome Assoc. 
Coordinator of Community Garden. Full-time mom of 
teens; married 19 yrs.
Kayla Hoffman. Comm,‘91. Syndication Director for 
Freewheelin’ Films Prod. Also trainer at the Ritz 
Carlton Hotel. Loves playing golf and skiiing whenever 
possible.
Natalie (Jesperson) Hoff. Comm, ‘89. Insurance 
representative for Farmers Insurance working on 
Masters.
Todd J. Hower. Pol Sci, ‘94. Intern U.S. Senate 1/96 - 
3/96 (for Rod Grams). Staff assistant for Senator Rod 
Grams since March.
Susanne P. Ivory. Crim, ‘93. Employed with Montana 
Probation/Parole as an Officer (Intensive/Electronic 
Monitory) since Feb. 95. Married Pat Ivory, July ‘94. 
Building a new home; we have 3 kids 14, 9, 3.
Paula C. Johnson. Comm, ‘94. Moved to Portland, 
OR and am working as a marketing coordinator for 
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Williamette Dental group; absolutely loving it!
Ted Johnson. Hist/Pol Sci, ‘91. Serving as a special 
assistant to Attorney General Hubert H. Humphrey III 
and occasional advance work for the Clinton White 
House.
Tom Koehler. Interdisc. Studies, ‘95. Since grad. 
patented a machine and edited, typeset and published a 
book, The Ultimate Heresy. Still working for the 
railroad since 1975.
Kari (Musech) Koski. Crim, ‘95. I work at a group 
home for D.D. adults. Married Ken Koski (UMD grad, 
Crim, ‘94) and have a 5 mos. old son, Konnor. Ken 
works as a Detention Deputy at the Carver County jail 
in Chaska.
William F. Levings. Phil, ‘88. Married in November, 
‘92. Corporate law practice in Denver.
Todd A. Mazzitelli. Hist, ‘92. Accepted a position 
with Fortune 500 company WESCO Distribution, Inc. 
as Data Comm. Accounts Representative. Responsible 
for accounts on the Colorado Front Range. Spent 2 
weeks in Acapulco, Mexico (March/April 1996). 
Beautiful!
Ronald G. LeBlanc. Pol Sci, ‘89. Currently employed 
as the purchasing agent/telecommunications coordinator 
for the Minnesota House of Representatives.
John Muehlbauer. Comm, ‘89. Minnesota Power 
Dispatcher. Married 7 years to Carol. Two children 
(Jessica, 4 yrs. and Joseph 12. yrs.)
Kelly Nicholson. Crim/Soc, ‘95. Working in the 
Anoka County Attorney’s office as a victim services 
specialist.
Kristin (Hugeback) Nimsger. Engl, ‘95. Married 
Jonathan Nimsger ‘95 SFA grad. Beginning second year 
of law school at William Mitchell College of Law.
Randal S. Nelson. Comm, ‘91. Work as a night 
auditor full-time at the Canal Park Inn in Duluth and 
also work as an assistant manager part-time at Little 
Caesars in Superior.
Sarah A. Nygaard. Hist, ‘89. Legal secretary/office 
administrator at law firm in downtown Duluth.
Kerry Pawlowicz. Crim/Comm,‘86. Attorney with the 
law firm of Meagher & Geer (Minneapolis). Married 
with one child.
Douglas Pazienza. Geog, Urban Studies, ‘88. Living 
in London with life partner, Phil. Opened Paris 
Gymnasium, a gay men’s fitness center on May 4, 1996. 
Marian V. (Kukkola) Reed. Engl, ‘60. Chairman of 
English at St. Thomas More College Prep. in Rapid Citv, 
SD. Involved with community theatre. Husband is Dr. 
Ronald M. Reed (speech/drama - 1959). Son currently 
in law school at U of Minnesota.
Timothy R. Reuter. Comm, ‘93. Working as an 
attorney with Kelm Law Offices in Sauk Rapids, MN.
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