<br />
FALL 2013<br />
OLES<br />
ROCK<br />
BEARING WITNESS WORLD VIEWS 2013 COMMON GROUND<br />
ON THE COVER:<br />
Chris Koza '01, lead singer<br />
and songwriter for the<br />
band Rogue Valley, performs<br />
at a recent outdoor<br />
concert in the Twin Cities.<br />
PHOTOGRAPHED BY TOM ROSTER<br />
S T. O L A F M A G A Z I N E<br />
FA L L 2 0 1 3<br />
Volume 60 · No. 3<br />
Carole Leigh Engblom<br />
EDITOR<br />
Don Bratland '87,<br />
Holmes Design<br />
ART DIRECTOR<br />
Laura Hamilton Waxman 6<br />
COPY EDITOR<br />
Samantha Botz '14, Greg Breining,<br />
Marla Hill Holt '88, Rachel<br />
Palermo '15, Erin Peterson,<br />
Jeff Sauve, Leyen Trang '14,<br />
Kari VanDerVeen<br />
CONTRIBUTING WRITERS<br />
Tom Roster, Jared Cruce (Oregon),<br />
Mike Ludwig<br />
CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS<br />
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Spring, Fall) <a title="StOlafMag_2013fall page 1" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e4dfd07d?page=1"> FALL 2013 </a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2013fall page 2" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e4dfd07d?page=2"> ON THE COVER: Chris Koza '01, lead singer and s</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2013fall page 3" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e4dfd07d?page=3"> features 8 Common Ground </a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2013fall page 4" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e4dfd07d?page=4"> the first word Individuals an</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2013fall page 5" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e4dfd07d?page=5"> on the hill St. Olaf partners with Posse Foundat</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2013fall page 6" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e4dfd07d?page=6"> on the hill A Summer of Hands-on Learning Throu</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2013fall page 7" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e4dfd07d?page=7"> on the hill Ole Athletic Highlights DAVE HAU</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2013fall page 8" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e4dfd07d?page=8"> norway tour 2013 </a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2013fall page 9" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e4dfd07d?page=9"> stolaf.edu/norwaytour2013 </a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2013fall page 10" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e4dfd07d?page=10"> common ground After more than a century of sha</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2013fall page 11" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e4dfd07d?page=11"> FALL 2013 9</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2013fall page 12" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e4dfd07d?page=12"> “Collaboration tends to be more successfu</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2013fall page 13" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e4dfd07d?page=13"> librarians, and IT instructional technologists fr</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2013fall page 14" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e4dfd07d?page=14"> A dministrative </a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2013fall page 15" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e4dfd07d?page=15"> athletic competition to take place, the units wou</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2013fall page 16" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e4dfd07d?page=16"> including integrating their departments' extracur</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2013fall page 17" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e4dfd07d?page=17"> project culminated in student presentations of th</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2013fall page 18" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e4dfd07d?page=18"> Setting down roots in the idyllic Willamette Rive</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2013fall page 19" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e4dfd07d?page=19"> By Greg Breining Photographed by Jared Cruce</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2013fall page 20" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e4dfd07d?page=20"> L ATEONESUNDAY veterinaryantib</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2013fall page 21" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e4dfd07d?page=21"> “I said to Carolyn, this is so Rockwellia</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2013fall page 22" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e4dfd07d?page=22"> speaks of coincidence — of “interlooping things,”</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2013fall page 23" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e4dfd07d?page=23"> plates that created the Coast Range and Cascades,</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2013fall page 24" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e4dfd07d?page=24"> 22 ST.OLAF MAGAZINE</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2013fall page 25" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e4dfd07d?page=25"> amount of labor involved.” Grapevines require pru</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2013fall page 26" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e4dfd07d?page=26"> require adding employees and expenses. “Then pret</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2013fall page 27" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e4dfd07d?page=27"> FALL 2013 25</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2013fall page 28" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e4dfd07d?page=28"> WORLD VIEWS THE 30TH ANNUAL GIMSE INTERNATION</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2013fall page 29" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e4dfd07d?page=29"> E. ach year, hundreds of St. Olaf </a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2013fall page 30" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e4dfd07d?page=30"> Indian School Girl · Tiruvannamalai, India · Cori</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2013fall page 31" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e4dfd07d?page=31"> There is a sheep in my kitchen! · Fez, Morocco Me</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2013fall page 32" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e4dfd07d?page=32"> Greek Wisdom · Aegina, Greece · Sophie Dekker '15</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2013fall page 33" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e4dfd07d?page=33"> Solitary Prince · Serengeti National Park, Tanzan</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2013fall page 34" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e4dfd07d?page=34"> ST. OLAF MAY HAVE A REPUTATION FOR BEING A HOT</a>
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<a title="StOlafMag_2013fall page 36" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e4dfd07d?page=36"> F or generations, St.</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2013fall page 37" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e4dfd07d?page=37"> FALL 2013 35</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2013fall page 38" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e4dfd07d?page=38"> ROGUE VALLEY ROGUE OLES Peter Sieve, Luk</a>
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<a title="StOlafMag_2013fall page 40" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e4dfd07d?page=40"> Jenny Kochsiek Kapernick, left, and Bethany Kochs</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2013fall page 41" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e4dfd07d?page=41"> the Ericksons, a name that was not only a nod to </a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2013fall page 42" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e4dfd07d?page=42"> 40 ST.OLAF MAGAZINE</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2013fall page 43" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e4dfd07d?page=43"> Storyhill's Chris Cunningham '94, </a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2013fall page 44" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e4dfd07d?page=44"> instruments. But their pace of writing, performin</a>
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<a title="StOlafMag_2013fall page 46" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e4dfd07d?page=46"> ELLIS KAREN ROWAN E </a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2013fall page 47" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e4dfd07d?page=47"> class notes A message from Alumni and Parent Rela</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2013fall page 48" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e4dfd07d?page=48"> “In 2011, Mary and I established a permanent </a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2013fall page 49" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e4dfd07d?page=49"> 1980 Erin Hart and her husband, Paddy O'Brien, me</a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2013fall page 50" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e4dfd07d?page=50"> class notes Dolores Huerta : A Hero to Migrant </a>
<a title="StOlafMag_2013fall page 51" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e4dfd07d?page=51"> class notes 2010 Hannah Langholz has completed </a>
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<a title="StOlafMag_2013fall page 53" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e4dfd07d?page=53"> milestones *Kenneth Nordaune '58, Lakeville, Min</a>
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