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<br /> 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 /> 14<br /> St. Olaf Magazine is published<br /> three times annually (Winter,<br /> Spring, Fall) by St. Olaf College,<br /> with editorial offices at th<a title="StOlafMag_2012winter page 1" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/0df768e3?page=1"> st.olaf WINTER 2012 </a> <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. 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