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<br /> s<br /> t.olaf<br /> S<br /> PRING 2012<br /> CALLOFTHEWILD<br /> COUNTER BALANCE PEACE MAKERS CAREER CONNECTIONS<br /> O N T H E C O V E R : Alaska's<br /> Bristol Bay region is the world's<br /> best wild salmon habitat and the<br /> proposed location of one of the<br /> world's largest gold and copper<br /> mining operations. Photograph<br /> © 2012 Robert Glenn Ketchum<br /> S T. O L A F M A G A Z I N E<br /> SPRING 2012<br /> Volume 59 · No. 2<br /> Carole Leigh Engblom<br /> EDITOR<br /> Don Bratland '87,<br /> Holmes Design<br /> ART DIRECTOR<br /> Laura Hamilton Waxman<br /> COPY EDITOR<br /> Greg Breining, Claire<br /> Carlson '12, James Daly '13,<br /> Suzy Frisch, Amy Lohmann '14,<br /> J. Trout Lowen, Jessica Moes '14,<br /> Catherine Monson '12, Jon<br /> Rondestvedt '61, Jeff Sauve,<br /> Amelia Schoeneman '12, Kari<br /> VanDerVeen, David McKay Wilson<br /> CONTRIBUTING WRITERS<br /> 26<br /> David Gonnerman '<a title="St. Olaf Magazine page 1" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a1bdbe2b?page=1"> s t.olaf S PRING 2012 </a> <a title="St. Olaf Magazine page 2" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a1bdbe2b?page=2"> O N T H E C O V E R : Alaska's Bristol Bay region</a> <a title="St. Olaf Magazine page 3" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a1bdbe2b?page=3"> 30 st.olaf features 12 Counter Balance </a> <a title="St. Olaf Magazine page 4" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a1bdbe2b?page=4"> the first word F R </a> <a title="St. Olaf Magazine page 5" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a1bdbe2b?page=5"> on the hill Oles win 2012 Rube Goldberg competi</a> <a title="St. Olaf Magazine page 6" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a1bdbe2b?page=6"> on the hill Ole Athletic Highlights MEN'S BASKET</a> <a title="St. Olaf Magazine page 7" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a1bdbe2b?page=7"> on the hill Farewell, Friends! Twelve St. Olaf f</a> <a title="St. Olaf Magazine page 8" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a1bdbe2b?page=8"> on the hill times. She has been recognized numer</a> <a title="St. Olaf Magazine page 9" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a1bdbe2b?page=9"> on the hill students, working with athletes and </a> <a title="St. Olaf Magazine page 10" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a1bdbe2b?page=10"> on the hill “I wanted to do research and</a> <a title="St. Olaf Magazine page 11" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a1bdbe2b?page=11"> on the hill teaching. “The idea of liberal educa</a> <a title="St. Olaf Magazine page 12" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a1bdbe2b?page=12"> on the hill who want to be social workers would </a> <a title="St. Olaf Magazine page 13" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a1bdbe2b?page=13"> on the hill taught advanced courses on Norwegian</a> <a title="St. Olaf Magazine page 14" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a1bdbe2b?page=14"> PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING JOURNALIST GRETCHEN MOR</a> <a title="St. Olaf Magazine page 15" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a1bdbe2b?page=15"> S P R I N G 2 0 1 2 1 3</a> <a title="St. Olaf Magazine page 16" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a1bdbe2b?page=16"> G RETCHEN MORGENSON </a> <a title="St. Olaf Magazine page 17" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a1bdbe2b?page=17"> through it. Morgenson herself breaks into a broad</a> <a title="St. Olaf Magazine page 18" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a1bdbe2b?page=18"> New York papers, including the Times, but she had</a> <a title="St. Olaf Magazine page 19" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a1bdbe2b?page=19"> Though she had sources who kept her informe</a> <a title="St. Olaf Magazine page 20" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a1bdbe2b?page=20"> An Alaskan coastal brown bear fishes for spawning </a> <a title="St. Olaf Magazine page 21" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a1bdbe2b?page=21"> CALLOFTHE Wild SCOTT HED '90 IS FIGHTING </a> <a title="St. Olaf Magazine page 22" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a1bdbe2b?page=22"> “IF A PLACE LIKE BRISTOL BAY CAN BE LOST, I THINK</a> <a title="St. Olaf Magazine page 23" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a1bdbe2b?page=23"> Most recently, the stakes have risen. Hed h</a> <a title="St. Olaf Magazine page 24" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a1bdbe2b?page=24"> But he went to D.C. And he found he enjoyed</a> <a title="St. Olaf Magazine page 25" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a1bdbe2b?page=25"> 500 hunting and fishing organizations across the c</a> <a title="St. Olaf Magazine page 26" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a1bdbe2b?page=26"> Salmon is the most valuable commercia</a> <a title="St. Olaf Magazine page 27" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a1bdbe2b?page=27"> turn the streams themselves the color of blood. </a> <a title="St. Olaf Magazine page 28" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a1bdbe2b?page=28"> SUSAN THOMPSON '61 | PEACE CORPS VOLUNTEER IN ALI</a> <a title="St. Olaf Magazine page 29" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a1bdbe2b?page=29"> portrait </a> <a title="St. Olaf Magazine page 30" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a1bdbe2b?page=30"> Thompson was enjoying college life atop Man</a> <a title="St. Olaf Magazine page 31" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a1bdbe2b?page=31"> learn to speak better English and gain a great un</a> <a title="St. Olaf Magazine page 32" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a1bdbe2b?page=32"> 3 0 S T . O L A F M A G A Z I N E</a> <a title="St. Olaf Magazine page 33" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a1bdbe2b?page=33"> Peace MAKERS IN 2011, THE PEACE CORPS MARKED</a> <a title="St. Olaf Magazine page 34" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a1bdbe2b?page=34"> S ince the first group </a> <a title="St. Olaf Magazine page 35" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a1bdbe2b?page=35"> Danielle Stoermer '08 KAYEMOR, SENEGAL · 2009–201</a> <a title="St. Olaf Magazine page 36" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a1bdbe2b?page=36"> Andrew Tompsett '07 MAVALA, TANZANIA · 2007–2010 </a> <a title="St. Olaf Magazine page 37" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a1bdbe2b?page=37"> Craig R. Johnson '91 and Tina Swanson Johnson '91</a> <a title="St. Olaf Magazine page 38" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a1bdbe2b?page=38"> David Leege '86 MAURITANIA, NORTH AFRICA · 1987–1</a> <a title="St. Olaf Magazine page 39" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a1bdbe2b?page=39"> David Sauter '78 VAVA'U, TONGA · 1979–1980 A </a> <a title="St. Olaf Magazine page 40" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a1bdbe2b?page=40"> By Kari VanDerVeen W </a> <a title="St. Olaf Magazine page 41" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a1bdbe2b?page=41"> Cofell-Dwyer also suggested that Raun take a</a> <a title="St. Olaf Magazine page 42" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a1bdbe2b?page=42"> alumni news Outstanding Accomplishment Before ev</a> <a title="St. Olaf Magazine page 43" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a1bdbe2b?page=43"> wintergala2012 </a> <a title="St. Olaf Magazine page 44" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a1bdbe2b?page=44"> reunionpreview Special Gift, Special Place </a> <a title="St. Olaf Magazine page 45" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a1bdbe2b?page=45"> 1 2 3 6 4 5 7 SPRING 2012 43</a> <a title="St. Olaf Magazine page 46" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a1bdbe2b?page=46"> advancing the mission Paying it Forward Blake '</a> <a title="St. Olaf Magazine page 47" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a1bdbe2b?page=47"> class notes REUNION weekend is almost H 7ERE7 ! </a> <a title="St. Olaf Magazine page 48" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a1bdbe2b?page=48"> class notes 1955 With Reunion Weekend fast appro</a> <a title="St. Olaf Magazine page 49" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a1bdbe2b?page=49"> on the shelf NEW BOOKS BY ST. 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