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Marshall/Marshall University High School ALUMNI Newsletter Volume 20, Number 2 September, 2011 Page 1 Doug Snure, class of 1951 Doug Snure, class of 1951, lived on Oak Street, a few houses away from River Road and a block away from Pioneer Hall. Doug and his brothers who are deceased: Frank, Rand and Steve, attended Motley elementary until it was closed during the war years and then attended Sidney Pratt. Doug remembers Marshall teacher, Mrs. Anderson, because she introduced him to National and International politics and government. Doug attended the University of Minnesota where he received a B.A. in Economics. He attended Marquette University taking courses in Area Studies. Doug spent three years in the U.S. Navy as an Aviation Ordinanceman and eight years in the U.S. Naval Reserve as an Intelligence Officer. Doug was married to Janet Bartko in l958 where they had five children: Craig, Dawn, Scott, Eric (now deceased) and Julie. He married Rebecca Pearson in 1991. Together they have ten grandchildren. His work career included work as a Special Agent for the Office of Naval Intelligence followed by various positions in various states for Honeywell including: Engineering Administrator, Contracts Rep, Marketing Rep in West Covina, CA, Sales Rep in Long Island City, NY, Sales Rep in Orlando, FL, Markets Manager in Dallas, TX, Manager of Contracts in St. Petersburg, FL, Acquisition Manager, Director of Product Support, Director of Contracts and Director of Marketing in Minneapolis, MN, VP of Marketing in Phoenix, AZ and European VP in Paris, France and London, England. During this active career, Doug found time to earn an FAA Private Pilot’s License and a U.S. Coast Guard 100-ton Master’s License. As a boating enthusiast he was: racing (sail) navigator in the Gulf of Mexico, Atlantic Ocean, English Channel and Great Lakes. He cruised under sail and power in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, Chesapeake Bay, Great Lakes, Baltic Sea and the English Channel. Upon retirement in 1992 Doug and Rebecca became live- aboard cruisers. They lived aboard sailboats for seven years; that being their only home. They cruised the Bahamian Islands, Caribbean and South Pacific. They also completed the ‘Big Loop’ from Florida up the East Coast to New York, Hudson, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee and Tom Bigbee Rivers and the Gulf of Mexico aboard a pleasure trawler. Since then they have lived in North Carolina, Florida and California before moving to Annapolis 4 years ago. Doug is a contributing author to boating magazines and a boat delivery captain. Rebecca says “Life is one big adventure with Doug”. Dick Butts (1954), Doug Snure (1951), Jim Wikkins (1950) Reuben Kit- to(1950) Dave Butts (1957)

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Marshall/Marshall University High School

ALUMNINewsletterVolume 20, Number 2 September, 2011

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Doug Snure, class of 1951Doug Snure, class of 1951,

lived on Oak Street, a few houses away from River Road and a block away from Pioneer Hall. Doug and his brothers who are deceased: Frank, Rand and Steve, attended Motley elementary until it was closed during the war years and then attended Sidney Pratt. Doug remembers Marshall teacher, Mrs. Anderson, because she introduced him to National and International politics and government.

Doug attended the University of Minnesota where he received a B.A. in Economics. He attended Marquette University taking courses in Area Studies. Doug spent three years in the U.S. Navy as an Aviation Ordinanceman and eight years in the U.S. Naval Reserve as an Intelligence Officer.

Doug was married to Janet Bartko in l958 where they had five children: Craig, Dawn, Scott, Eric (now deceased) and Julie. He married Rebecca Pearson in 1991. Together they have ten grandchildren.

His work career included work as a Special Agent for the Office of Naval Intelligence followed by various positions in various states for Honeywell including: Engineering Administrator, Contracts Rep, Marketing Rep in West Covina, CA, Sales Rep in Long Island City, NY, Sales Rep in Orlando, FL, Markets

Manager in Dallas, TX, Manager of Contracts in St. Petersburg, FL, Acquisition Manager, Director of Product Support, Director of Contracts and Director of Marketing in Minneapolis, MN, VP of Marketing in Phoenix, AZ and European VP in Paris, France and London, England.

During this active career, Doug found time to earn an FAA Private Pilot’s License and a U.S. Coast Guard 100-ton Master’s License. As a boating enthusiast he was: racing (sail) navigator in the Gulf of Mexico, Atlantic Ocean, English Channel and Great Lakes. He cruised under sail and power in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, Chesapeake Bay, Great Lakes, Baltic Sea and the English Channel.

Upon retirement in 1992 Doug and Rebecca became live-aboard cruisers. They lived aboard sailboats for seven years; that being their only home. They cruised the Bahamian Islands, Caribbean and South Pacific. They also completed the ‘Big Loop’ from Florida up the East Coast to New York, Hudson, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee and Tom Bigbee Rivers and the Gulf of Mexico aboard a pleasure trawler. Since then they have lived in North Carolina, Florida and California before moving to Annapolis 4 years ago.

Doug is a contributing author to boating magazines and a boat delivery captain.

Rebecca says “Life is one big adventure with Doug”.

Dick Butts (1954), Doug Snure (1951), Jim Wikkins (1950) Reuben Kit-to(1950) Dave Butts (1957)

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The Cowboy Detective DogcatchersThey decided to have a boys’ club and they named it the Cowboy Detective Dogcatchers. The boys all lived on 4th Street S.E. or University Avenue between Malcolm and Bedford except for Bud Bristol who lived on Bedford.

The name, Cowboy Detective Dogcatchers, wasn’t exactly original. A new kid in the neighborhood who came from Little Falls said that it was the name he and his friends came up with for their club. But no one would know because that kid had moved on, and besides they only used the initials in public. It was a pretty secret boys’ club.

They would say, “The C, double D, Cs are meeting behind Old Man Mizner’s barn after supper.” Or “The C, double D, Cs are going to Indian Medicine Spring.” It was the perfect club for boys in 1912 on the edge of Prospect Park.

The members of the Cowboy Detective Dogcatchers were John and Francis Daly, Roy Philippi, Roman Hartman, Francis Truscot, Earl Canning, Howard McPharlin, Walter McGauhy and Bud Bristol. They all went to Sidney Pratt School. They played Cowboys and Indians, skied on Tower Hill before and after the tower was built, and hunted gophers across the railroad tracks in an area they called “Gopher City.”

John and Francis Daly moved with their parents from the upper duplex they rented from the Merricks at 652 Huron to the house they were building at 3209 4th Street on March 19, 1908. The house was about half built when they moved in: the kitchen and their parents’ bedroom were on the first floor and there were two bedrooms on the second floor.

Eventually, the house would have a kitchen, dining room and

living room on the first floor and three bedrooms and a bathroom on the second floor. In the beginning before the city gas, water and sewer were put in, they had to carry water from a pump across the street at 3212 4th Street, and they used kerosene lamps to light the house and had an outhouse in their backyard.

Dave Mizner, a neighbor on Huron Street, encouraged the Dalys to move to 4th Street where he was building a house at 3215 4th Street. He told Jack and Bridget Daly that the lot next to his was for sale, the price was right, and the location was great. It was just one block off University Avenue where the streetcars ran and one block from the city limits. At the city limits, a person could take a streetcar into either Minneapolis or St. Paul for just one fare. That was a good deal for Jack who was a plumber and steamfitter and might find work in either city.

Dave Mizner was a teamster. He always had at least one team of horses. Dave owned two lots, one behind the other, and he had a barn for his horses on the rear lot.

In the summertime, Dave hauled sand and gravel and he also drove a sprinkling wagon for the city. He sprinkled water on the dirt streets to keep the dust down. Only the main streets in Minneapolis were paved in those days.

In the wintertime, Dave plowed the snow off the sidewalks for the city. He had a heavy “V” shaped plow and the neighborhood kids bragged how their sidewalks were plowed much better than the sidewalks a few blocks away in St. Paul.

Skiing, sliding and bobsledding were the favorite winter activities of the Cowboy Detective Dogcatchers once a decent amount of snow fell. The best run for skiing was down the northwest face of the hill that became known as Tower Hill and

right down Sidney Place along side of Sidney Pratt School. A good skier could go at least a block.

The older kids built a ski jump on the northwest side that added to the thrills. John Daly particularly admired Louie Bakken who could ski down Tower Hill on one ski. John attributed Louie’s ability to his Norwegian ancestry.

In 1913 the water tower was built with its distinctive “witch’s hat” roof. Unfortunately, the water tower’s pumping station was placed on the northwest side at the bottom of the hill and it preempted the spot that had been used for the ski jump. Nevertheless, generations of young people continued to ski down parts of Tower Hill until the Park Board allowed it to be overgrown with volunteer trees and bushes.

In the years before 1920, bobs-ledding was a huge wintertime activity in the Tower Hill neigh-borhood. John Daly recalled that he went bobsledding there from the time he was eight until he was 18 years old. Some people had bobsleds that could carry 8 to 12 people at a time.

John said that there were three bobsled runs that all started near Tower Hill. One run began at the intersection of Orlin and Seymour. It ran down Orlin, passed by Sidney Pratt School and turned right (north) on Arthur and ended almost at University Avenue.

The second run began in the same place and went down Orlin. But instead of turning right on Arthur, it went left (southwest) on Arthur.

The third run was the longest. It began on Seymour about a block from the intersection with Orlin. It ran down Seymour all the way to Franklin Avenue. If the conditions were right, the bobsled could turn right on Franklin and continue all

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the way down Franklin and out onto the old Franklin Avenue Bridge

John said that you didn’t have to own a bobsled; there were plenty of people who did. All you had to do was go up by Tower Hill and people practically begged you to ride down. Of course there was one hitch; you had to help pull the bobsled back to the top of the run. Nevertheless, it was great fun and many winter evenings were spent bobsledding near Tower Hill.The Cowboy Detective Dogcatchers had lots of adventures that ranged from fashioning ovens in banks of clay and baking potatoes there, to hitching rides with their sleds by attaching them to horse drawn sleighs on University Avenue, to running on the tops of boxcars that were standing on the Northern Pacific Railway tracks north of 4th Street.

John Daly particularly remem-bered Edmund Lawrence Bristol; everyone call him Bud. He was kind of the Huck Finn of the neighborhood. “Bud Bristol,” John said, “could out-fight, out-swim, out-dive and just about out-everything else that boys might dare each other to do.”

John recalled that his family had a garden behind their house that included about 20 hills of corn. One day Dave Mizner’s horses got loose and they got into the garden where they spent the night eating the corn.

The Dalys told Old Dave about what the horses had done, and he said, “I’ll take care of that for you.”

Two or three days later, Old Dave brought the Dalys three or four bushels of popcorn. John said, “Why we were eating popcorn every night, all winter.”

Old Dave had two principal horses that he kept most of the time: a white horse that he called Bill and a roan mare that he called Lady. He would turn them loose in a pasture that was on the St. Paul side of the city limits (just down Territorial Road about a block or two). Sometimes he would hire some of the neighborhood kids to help him with the horses.

One day Old Dave sent a couple of the kids over to the pasture to chase Bill and Lady home. The kids were a little too enthusiastic about it; Bill went down a steep hill, fell and broke his leg. The kids went back and told Old Dave about what had happened

He said that Bill would have to be shot. He went to the pasture and put Bill out of his misery. Everyone in the neighborhood felt very bad about that.

The next day Old Dave got someone with a horse and wagon to come to haul Bill’s body away. But they had difficulty getting Bill into the wagon because his front legs had stiffened up and he wouldn’t fit. So Old Dave took an ax and cut Bill’s legs off at the knees so he’d fit in the wagon. John Daly said, “I think the kids in the neighborhood felt worse about seeing Bill’s legs cut off than they did about having him shot.”

The Cowboy Detective Dog-

TRUDEAU SCHOOL FOLLOW-UPWe received the following thank you for the Trudeau article from Kathy Kusnier Green ‘68.“Just a note to let you know how much I enjoyed your article about Trudeau School. My mom, Marian (Crampton) Kusnier (MHS-Class of ’42) atten-ded Trudeau. She was the skinny, sickly kid in her family. The friends she made at Trudeau became life-long friends.

I remember hearing her sing the song you mentioned…Your article described the school the same as mom did.

Some of her treasured belong-ings included an autograph book from Trudeau, and her photo albums from the reunions were held. She passed away in 2007 at age 83. Although she continued to suffer with lung issues throughout her life, she lived it the fullest…”

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catchers were really a pretty tender hearted group of boys. They eventually changed their club’s name because they didn’t like dogcatchers. They renamed their club, the American Cowboy Detectives; that seemed friendlier to dogs and more patriotic.

John Daly grew up to be a chemist and spent his career working for the Minneapolis Gas Company. Frank (Francis) Daly grew up to be a civil engineer and spent most of his career working for the Corps of Engineers at the district office in St. Paul. He and his wife, Dorothy, raised their family of four boys in the house on 4th Street. When the house was sold in 1993, no one except Dalys had lived there for 85 years. TMD

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Four of the Cowboy Detective Dogcatchers, circa 1912

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Movies of YesteryearMovies were a main source of entertainment when I was of school age. My older sister Sherry and I lived on Oak and Fulton Streets, three short blocks from the Campus Theater, within easy walking dis-tance, where we saw most of our movies. Going to the movies was a social event, meeting our friends there and a health benefit, offering relief from the summer heat with air conditioning.

The language was clean, sex was by innuendo and violence was not graphic. The worst words heard were ‘give them hell’ in a war movie. Although, I do remember learning a questionable word; it was punctuated by the loud gasp from Mrs. Schoephoerster in the audience of ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’, when Stanley called Blanche a ‘slut’. The beach scene in ‘From Here to Eternity’ was probably the most suggestive. People getting killed, were always bloodless. Actors were always smoking.

The price of admission was twelve cents and we spent many hours at the movies, munching popcorn, eating Milk Duds or a Slow Poke and socializing. A box of popcorn for ten cents was a must when watching a movie (it still is for my wife, Dianne). Besides, it gave me an excuse to talk to the concession and box office girls: Vera at the Campus and Anne and Millie at the Varsity. I ate my popcorn by ripping an opening at the top of the narrow side of the box, tipping the box upside down and taking one kernel out at a time with my tongue. The popcorn lasted longer and I did not get my hands sticky with butter and salt. When we would arrive late after the feature had started, we would stay for the next showing to watch what we had missed.

The Varsity Theater, on the opposite side of the U of M campus

from us, showed Saturday matinees. For 25 cents we would watch thirteen cartoons, a serial, like Buck Rogers and the feature, usually a western. Also on occasion, there would be a yo-yo demonstration on stage by professionals to sell Duncan yo-yos later in the lobby. Going downtown to the Orpheum or Radio City Theaters was always a special treat and usually ended with malts, or sometimes a lalapalooza, at Bridgeman’s.

Many of the movies I saw as a ‘kid’ were memorable: ‘Song of the South’, ‘Pinocchio’, ‘Snow White…‘, ‘The Boy With Green Hair’, ‘National Velvet’, ‘A Tree Grows in Brooklyn’, Abbott and Costello movies, ‘Wizard of Oz’ – later years we met Margaret Hamilton, the wicked witch and had lunch with some of the munchkins.

Some movies were really scary: ‘The Snake Pit’, ‘Picture of Dorian Gray’ and ‘The Thing’. Fortunately we did not have a shower at home, to fear getting into, after watching ‘Psycho’.

During WW II the theater would give away dishes at the movies and sell war bonds.

The feature movie would be preceded by ‘Movietone News’ showing what was happening in the war overseas, slanted in the allies favor, of course. This was followed by a cartoon. Sometimes the feature was a war movie, still a favorite genre of mine: ‘Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo’, ‘Sands of Iwo Jima’, ‘They Were Expendable’, God is My Co-pilot’, ‘Flying Tigers’ and ‘Flying Leathernecks’.

Remember the epics: ‘The Robe’ and ‘David and Bathsheba’. Remember 3-D movies: ‘Bwana Devil’ and ‘House of Wax’. Drive-in movies “passion pits” were great. I do not remember what movies I saw, but a fun time was had by all.

I especially remember the movies that had a theme song running through

them: ‘Laura’, ‘High Noon’, ‘The High and the Mighty’, ‘Holiday Inn’ introducing ‘White Christmas’, ‘Picnic’ and ‘Friendly Persuasion’.

–My Favorites–• ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’, a

family Christmas tradition.• ‘Miracle on 34th Street’, a

family Thanksgiving tradition.• ‘Meet Me in St. Louis’,

introducing ‘Have Your Self a Merry Little Christmas’.

• ‘Casablanca’, ‘play it again, Sam’.

• ‘Citizen Kane’, Rosebud. • ‘Singing in the Rain’, Gene

Kelly stomping in the puddles.• ‘Margie’, Jeanne Crain lost her

bloomers. RKH

In the January, 2011 Alumni News we published a story and photos of the devasating Armistice Day Storm of 1940. The following experience gives another look as–

“ We Shoveled Out Memorial Stadium”–By John S. Merrick, Class of ‘42

“I was a junior at John Marshall high school in southeast Minneapolis. For boys my age about our only source of income during the winter months was shoveling snow. The University of Minnesota still had one or two football games to be played before the season was completed and Memorial Stadium seemed half full of snow. Three of my friends and I skipped school for three days and shoveled out the stadium, as part of a crew of about 200. We could work all the hours we wanted and were paid 50 cents an hour. I think I made more money during those few days than I did all the rest of the year . . . and was glad to have the work.”

—Excerpt from “All Hell Broke Loose” by William H. Hull

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Marshall-U High, Class of 197140th Reunion

September 23, 2011 • 6:00-9:00 p.m.

2725 University Ave. S.E.$15 per person

Dear Classmates,It’s hard to believe that it’s been 40 years since graduation! It is surely time for us to gather and commemorate our years together, celebrate the present, and make a toast to those no longer with us. Please join us for an informal Friday evening dinner, September 23, 2011, at the U Garden Restaurant (www.ugardenrestaurant.com), just a few blocks from Stadium Village. The restau-rant is on University Avenue with ample parking and bus service (http://www.metrotransit.org). The U Garden was used for a 1970s reception last summer at the all-year reunion and everyone was pleased with the venue. The restaurant offers a large Chinese dinner buffet with vegetarian, meat and fish items available. (An alternative menu can be made available to those who need it.) The $15 charge includes food, tax and tip. A cash bar will also be available.

This will be a casual event with the focus on catching up with classmates from Marshall-U, Mar-shall, and U-High. Spouses, significant others, and families, and buddies from other classes are welcome. We will periodically publish a list of the people who plan to attend. Since this is a Fri-day evening we still have the possibility of planning an additional event on Saturday. This could be a picnic in the afternoon, getting together at a bar Saturday night or something else. If anyone has a suggestion and the energy to help organize the event please get back to us.

Please respond to this email to let us know that you would like to attend. Include the number of people that will come with you. We will collect payment on September 23rd at the event, how-ever, we need to have a head count for them, and we will be making a deposit on the room. We will continue to try to contact as many classmates as possible over the next two months. An-other email will be sent soon with the list of those people with good contact information and those for whom we are missing contact information.(See pages 6, 7, and 8 for additional Reunion Announcements!)

See you on September 23!

CLASS REUNION ANNOUNCEMENTS:

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! The 8th Casino, located just ninety miles south of Las Vegas in Laughlin, Nevada. The committee has met and prices for the event and rooms have been set. The registration fee is $75.00 per person and includes the Hors s Welcome party on Monday evening, a Boat ride on Tuesday afternoon and a Buffet dinner on Wednesday evening. A hospitality room is available each day for coffee, cookies and conversation. This room is a nice place to gather and share stories and memories from our Marshall days. The Riverside Hotel room rate remains the same as the 2009 rate at $39.00 per night for a double room. You are responsible for your room and airline reservations. We are hoping to have two flights available through the Riverside Resort Travel Department. Please contact the Riverside Resort and Casino for best hotel/flight packages at 800-227-3849 and use the code C/MARSR. You can contact either Sharon Butler Padula or Shirley Stemper Rasmussen if you need assistance. Additional updates will be available in the May 2011 through January 2012 issues of this newsletter, which will include a registration form you can copy and give to your friends. If anyone has information regarding upcoming class reunions, luncheons or small gatherings in the following months, please contact any of the committee members and we will be happy to provide flyers for distribution at your event. The Marshall / Marshall U Laughlin All Class Reunion committee members are

Nancy Matheny Abrahamson 763-516-2157 Ardell Swenson Lilja 763-427-2736 Marion Manning Bartz 612-789-0761 Bee Manning McFee 651-780-4599 Kevin Erickson 612-781-7352 Sharon Butler Padula 763-485-9141 Andy Janos 651-604-0061 Shirley Stemper Rasmussen 763-493-4562 Mary Jane Larson LaCombe 612-721-2657 Lyman Swenson 763-441-1401 Vernon LaCombe 612-721-2657

Please look in future issues of the JMHS Alumni Newsletter on-line at

www.ds.umn.edu (go to the Resource link and click on John Marshall Alumni Newsletter) for updates and to get a copy of the registration form.

See you in Laughlin March 5-7, 2012.

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Riverside Resort and Casino, Laughlin, NV. Dates: March 5-7, 2012

REUNION HIGHLIGHTS:

Your registration fee includes– • Monday - Hors D’oeuvres Welcome Reception • Tuesday - Boat ride • Wednesday - Buffet Dinner • Cash Bar at each event • Hospitality Room - Open 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. daily for coffee, cookies and conversation, a great place to meet and share stories and memories of the good ‘ol Marshall days.

MARSHALL / MARSHALL UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOLALL CLASS REUNION

TRAVEL and ACCOMODATIONS:For Hotel and Flight reservations package contact: • Riverside Resort Travel Department • Phone: 1-800-227-3849 • Use code CMARSRIf you have questions or need assistance, please call Sharon Butler Padula or Shirley (Stemper) Rasmussen. Their Phone numbers are listed on the form below.

SPECIAL NEEDSIf you have special needs for a room or wheel chair,

etc., please call the Riverside Resort

Customer ServiceTWO weeks in advance.

PHONE: 1-800-227-3849

SUN & FUN

My reservation ______________________________________________ MHS/MUHS Class of_________ First name Last name

Address: ______________________________________________________________________________

Phone: _______________________________ email: __________________________________________

Submit a separate form and $75.00 for each person and mail to:

Sharon (Butler) Padula OR Shirley (Stemper) Rasmussen3818 Russell Ave. N. 8879 Monteque TerraceMinneapolis, MN 55412 Brooklyn Park, MN 55430

763-486-9141 763-493-4562

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CLASS REUNION ANNOUNCEMENTS (Continued from page 7)

(See separate article on pages 6-7 for the Laughlin Reunion planned for March 5-7, 2012.)

(See separate article on page five for the class of 1971

reunion.)

Class of 1948A reunion luncheon is scheduled at Jax Cafe on Wednesday, September 21, 2011. Social hour 12:00 p.m. with Luncheon following at 1:00 p.m. Jax Cafe is located @1928 University Ave. NE, Mpls. MN RSVP: Send a check for $27 per person to: Jim Patterson 4125 Sunset Trail N., Brooklyn Park, MN 55433. Any questions? Call Jim @763-433-8071.

Class of 1951The class of 1951 for their 60th reunion is planning a lunch at Jax Café on September 17th beginning at 1:00 pm. For more information call Ardelle Swenson Lilja at 763-427-2736 or Lois Torklidson Hendrickson at 763-788-0468.

Class of 1981The class of 1981 will hold a very informal get together to celebrate their 30 year reunion sometime this fall. For more information—Contact Lisa Robinson:

[email protected]

John Curren, January 22, 2011. John was the subject of the AN article “Becoming a parent the second time around” authored by his wife, Liz Jackson Curren, MHS class of ’55. Services were held in Bella Vista, AR and Lake Alexander, MN.

Sara Harriet (Teigen) Jones, Class of ’38. Passed away on August 4, 2011 in St. Louis, MO. She had been our newsletter’s contact for her class.

Dorothy (Kahlert) Reese, Class of ’40.

Betty (Ernest) Vandepas, Class of ’38. Passed away on August 9, 2011 in Albany, OR. She wasvocalist for Glad Olingers’s Band from 1938 to 1940.

George Uram, Class of ’44. Passed away on August 5, 2011 in Shorev-iew, MN. Joined the Navy during WWII, sailed around the world, but never learned to swim.

Jeanne Beverly (Hough) Henry Colby, Class of ’52. Passed away on July 10, 2011 in Friendswood, TX. Known as ‘Babe’ (the youngest of three sisters).

Betsy Ross Lang, class of 1939, passed away on June 10, 2011.

Margaret Caspersen Klobuchar, Class of 1955, passed away in Rochester, MN on August 11, 2011. Marg was laid to rest on August 13, 2011, following services at Gloria Dei Lutheran Church in Rochester. We remember Marg Caspersen as a very active member of our class. In successive years, Marg was voted “most talkative girl,” “best dancer,”and “keenest person-ality” in our class. She was active in the “Y” organizations, Junior class play, Cardinal staff, the choir, and was vice-president of the Senior class. We remember that she had an excellent voice and that her mom was a great cook. Following her years at Marshall, Margaret married Dick Klobuchar, moved to Rochester, and raised three children. Not surprisingly, Margaret was very involved in her community. She was an election judge, a member of the Robert Oudal Chorale, a member of the local Red Hat group, a garden club, and a sewing club. Margaret will be greatly missed by her family and her many friends.

TMD

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