By Randy Nelson
Winter is moving along and soon the indoor soccer season, downhill skiing, and winter camping will give way to canoeing, bicycling, outdoor soccer. Doug Berg had his best time ever in the Mora Vasaloppet and is in the final preparations for the North American Birkebeiner…and following his annual foray into the Boundary Waters with Mini-School students for a week of winter camping, he will announce that spring can arrive… Pauline Von Ruden had a baby girl on January 15, and has shown her face around the old haunts a couple of times during her leave and we all wish her well in her next adventure… Ramona has figured out that there are only so many meetings a week she has to attend and rumor has it she actually told someone no the other day… Joanne learned to ski on the recent Michigan trip and gives all the credit to the many students who taught her — next year they will teach her how to snow board.
Student news: Tony Cruikshank has just completed the wrestling season, wrestling several varsity matches in the heavyweight class– Tony, a sophomore, feels that the young Minnetonka team will be formidable by his senior year… several students have received accolades for outstanding performance on the job– Lisa Kopecky, Emily Matejcek, Kristi Dahl, Sothik Prak, Mason Davey, Cory Clay, Marcelle Dorenkamp, Phill Lynott, Will Scheidler, Tami Olson, et. al….Raymond Morse, Patty Heien, Sarah Iverson, and Elizabth Rossi have completed their graduation requirements– congratulations!
Alumni News: Second quarter grads, Al Wright and Scott Hedtke, left for Navy basic training at New Year’s and have already distinguished themselves – Al is Petty Officer 2nd class and petty about division leader, while Scott is Petty Education Officer (however, we fail to see what is so petty about an education)… Tom Johnson is one of ten honor graduates out of 128 graduates at United States Army Field Artillery Training Center in Fort Sill, Oklahoma. He recently left for Bamberg, Germany. Sally Oakley’s mom sent us a note from North Carolina and said Sally recently graduated from University of Minnesota with a degree in graphic design– nice going …. Tim Scott is the executive chef at the Dayton’s restaurants… he and his wife are living in Eden Prairie with their first child. Dave Sott is a computer analyst and programmer, but his real love is buying old cars, snowmobiles, and boats and fixing them up for resale… Jon Clifford gardening… Barb(span) and Rich Reese own ten acres in Carver and Rich has his own custom remodeling business and is also working drywall and Bard is a manager for IMPAC, a plastics company… Dave Zytkoskee stopped by with a demo tape of his radio broadcast performed at Brown institute… Raymond Morse is also attending Brown in the computer field… Although we see many alumni in the area, we encourage all former students to drop us a note to let us know what is happening in your lives…