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st.olaf<br />
WINTER 2012<br />
Um! Ha! Ha! LIVE FROM NEW YORK It’s satUrday NIgHt ComINg Home<br />
ON THE COVER:<br />
Shelly Gossman '99<br />
Photographed by Michael<br />
Sofronski in Times Square<br />
S T. O L A F M A G A Z I N E<br />
WINTER 2012<br />
Volume 59 · No. 1<br />
Carole Leigh Engblom<br />
EDITOR<br />
Don Bratland '87,<br />
Holmes Design<br />
ART DIRECTOR<br />
Laura Hamilton Waxman<br />
COPY EDITOR<br />
James Daly '13, Suzy Frisch,<br />
Marla Hill Holt '88, Jessica<br />
Moes '14, Catherine Monson '12,<br />
Jeff Sauve, Kari VanDerVeen,<br />
David McKay Wilson<br />
CONTRIBUTING WRITERS<br />
Thomas Dunning '15,<br />
David Gonnerman '90, Mike<br />
Ludwig '01, Tom Roster, Michael<br />
Sofronski, Steven Wett '15<br />
CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS<br />
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<a title="StOlafMag_2012winter page 2" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/0df768e3?page=2"> ON THE COVER: Shelly Gossman '99 Photographed by </a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2012winter page 3" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/0df768e3?page=3"> 6 st.olaf features 6 A Century of Singing </a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2012winter page 4" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/0df768e3?page=4"> the first word F R </a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2012winter page 5" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/0df768e3?page=5"> on the hill A Royal Norwegian Visit S </a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2012winter page 6" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/0df768e3?page=6"> on the hill A Prairie Home Companion at St. Olaf</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2012winter page 7" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/0df768e3?page=7"> on the hill FALL 2011 O l e '01 LUDWIG MIKE BY</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2012winter page 8" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/0df768e3?page=8"> the st. olaf choir, 1911 Widely traveled and i</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2012winter page 9" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/0df768e3?page=9"> delight audiences, enrich student musicians, an</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2012winter page 10" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/0df768e3?page=10"> M </a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2012winter page 11" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/0df768e3?page=11"> From its first tour of the Midwest in 1912 to late</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2012winter page 12" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/0df768e3?page=12"> for — some critics of the time described the choi</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2012winter page 13" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/0df768e3?page=13"> Yet Jennings was ready for the challenge of</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2012winter page 14" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/0df768e3?page=14"> Clockwise from above: Anton Armstrong '78 conduct</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2012winter page 15" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/0df768e3?page=15"> St. Olaf Choir Centennial Reunion Celebration PH</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2012winter page 16" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/0df768e3?page=16"> After A long dAy of AcAdemics, A little uninhibit</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2012winter page 17" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/0df768e3?page=17"> time is just whAt these ole improvisers need</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2012winter page 18" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/0df768e3?page=18"> LAURA BRETHEIM '14 DREAMS OF WRITING FOR SATURDAY</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2012winter page 19" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/0df768e3?page=19"> The Scriptless troupe meets twice a week in Vikin</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2012winter page 20" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/0df768e3?page=20"> 1 8 S T . O L A F M A G A Z I N E</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2012winter page 21" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/0df768e3?page=21"> OLE PARENT STEVE HIGGINS BRINGS HIS </a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2012winter page 22" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/0df768e3?page=22"> L aughter, says Anna</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2012winter page 23" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/0df768e3?page=23"> in terms of humor, and understand where the other</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2012winter page 24" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/0df768e3?page=24"> I FROM ST. OLAF TO SECOND CITY TO SATURDAY NIGHT</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2012winter page 25" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/0df768e3?page=25"> WINTER 2012 23</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2012winter page 26" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/0df768e3?page=26"> O n the set of Saturday Night Li</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2012winter page 27" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/0df768e3?page=27"> </a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2012winter page 28" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/0df768e3?page=28"> “I set out to write a paper arguing that Germany’</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2012winter page 29" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/0df768e3?page=29"> funny in the world, still dreaming of making the </a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2012winter page 30" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/0df768e3?page=30"> Coming Home Through weekly letters to Garrison Ke</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2012winter page 31" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/0df768e3?page=31"> WINTER 2012 29</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2012winter page 32" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/0df768e3?page=32"> She began writing at age nine, jotting her </a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2012winter page 33" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/0df768e3?page=33"> in snowmobile suits and mittens, sliding around i</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2012winter page 34" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/0df768e3?page=34"> alumninews The St. Olaf Board of Regents welcome</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2012winter page 35" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/0df768e3?page=35"> stolaf.edu/alumni Meet St. Olaf Regent Rev. Dr.</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2012winter page 36" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/0df768e3?page=36"> alumni news Meet St. Olaf Regent Katherine Bol</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2012winter page 37" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/0df768e3?page=37"> You have told us you want options. You are enthus</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2012winter page 38" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/0df768e3?page=38"> alumni news Your Alumni Board: Balancing Tradit</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2012winter page 39" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/0df768e3?page=39"> stolaf.edu/alumni recently become involved with </a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2012winter page 40" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/0df768e3?page=40"> alumni news Blame the Messenger T </a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2012winter page 41" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/0df768e3?page=41"> stolaf.edu/alumni Ole Fulbright scholars learn, </a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2012winter page 42" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/0df768e3?page=42"> advancing the mission Stepping Up Douglas Gree</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2012winter page 43" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/0df768e3?page=43"> class notes Editor's Note: The content for class </a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2012winter page 44" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/0df768e3?page=44"> on the shelf Books by St. Olaf alumni and faculty</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2012winter page 45" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/0df768e3?page=45"> stolaf.edu/alumni/classifieds 1990 Marin Tollefs</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2012winter page 46" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/0df768e3?page=46"> class notes music based on Julia's poems. The wo</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2012winter page 47" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/0df768e3?page=47"> stolaf.edu/alumni/classifieds and Sunday morning</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2012winter page 48" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/0df768e3?page=48"> milestones future oles Christine and Steffen Joh</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2012winter page 49" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/0df768e3?page=49"> milestones *Robert DeWyze '49, Palatine, Ill., F</a>
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