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<br /> FALL 2014<br /> ST.OLAF<br /> E<br /> N<br /> I<br /> Z<br /> A<br /> G<br /> A<br /> M<br /> SAVING THE<br /> WHITE PINE<br /> GLOBAL<br /> ENGAGEMENT<br /> CYBER<br /> VIGILANCE<br /> ON THE COVER:<br /> Towards Optimism, a once-in-a-lifetime<br /> sunset in Xingping Town and Li River,<br /> in the Guangxi Province of China.<br /> PHOTO BY KYLE OBERMANN '14<br /> S T. O L A F M A G A Z I N E<br /> FALL 2014<br /> Volume 61 · No. 3<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, Joel Hoekstra '92,<br /> Erin Peterson, Jeff Sauve,<br /> Andrew Wilder '15<br /> CONTRIBUTING WRITERS<br /> Gary Alan Nelson, Brian Peterson,<br /> Tom Roster, Jonathan Timmes,<br /> Andrew Wilder '15<br /> CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS<br /> Readers may send name/address<br /> changes and corrections to<br /> Advancement Services, St. Olaf<br<a title="StOlafMag_2014fall page 1" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f49fb4ef?page=1"> FALL 2014 ST.OLAF E N I Z A G A M SAVING THE W</a> <a title="StOlafMag_2014fall page 2" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f49fb4ef?page=2"> ON THE COVER: Towards Optimism, a once-in-a-lifet</a> <a title="StOlafMag_2014fall page 3" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f49fb4ef?page=3"> ST.OLAF MAGAZINE FALL 2014 CONTENTS 2 </a> <a title="StOlafMag_2014fall page 4" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f49fb4ef?page=4"> FROM THE DESK OF PRESIDEN</a> <a title="StOlafMag_2014fall page 5" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f49fb4ef?page=5"> SUMMER RESEARCH T his summer, mor</a> <a title="StOlafMag_2014fall page 6" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f49fb4ef?page=6"> Molly Murakami You Can't Say That series (Digital</a> <a title="StOlafMag_2014fall page 7" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f49fb4ef?page=7"> MOLLY MURAKAMI '14 is a Minneapolis freel</a> <a title="StOlafMag_2014fall page 8" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f49fb4ef?page=8"> Globally En The 2014 Gimse International and O</a> <a title="StOlafMag_2014fall page 9" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f49fb4ef?page=9"> gaged Studies photo contest </a> <a title="StOlafMag_2014fall page 10" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f49fb4ef?page=10"> “We visited Yorgos in his small bakery, where he,</a> <a title="StOlafMag_2014fall page 11" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f49fb4ef?page=11"> “Sometimes, to make a connection, yo</a> <a title="StOlafMag_2014fall page 12" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f49fb4ef?page=12"> HARE KRISHNA AND CONSTRUCTION ISKON Temple in Ban</a> <a title="StOlafMag_2014fall page 13" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f49fb4ef?page=13"> FALL 2014 11</a> <a title="StOlafMag_2014fall page 14" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f49fb4ef?page=14"> TRIDACNA MAXIMA (Giant Clam) · Heron Island, Grea</a> <a title="StOlafMag_2014fall page 15" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f49fb4ef?page=15"> “`What is a sacred place?' This question was the </a> <a title="StOlafMag_2014fall page 16" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f49fb4ef?page=16"> FLOWE</a> <a title="StOlafMag_2014fall page 17" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f49fb4ef?page=17"> “I imagined that at one time, this basketball cou</a> <a title="StOlafMag_2014fall page 18" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f49fb4ef?page=18"> 1 6 S T . 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I could dance from one</a> <a title="StOlafMag_2014fall page 30" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f49fb4ef?page=30"> This stately white pine on Jack Rajala's Wolf Lak</a> <a title="StOlafMag_2014fall page 31" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f49fb4ef?page=31"> SAVING THE WHITE P NE ALTHOUGH IT FACES AN </a> <a title="StOlafMag_2014fall page 32" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f49fb4ef?page=32"> I N THE BRILLIANT SUN, THE W</a> <a title="StOlafMag_2014fall page 33" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f49fb4ef?page=33"> To avoid damage by deer, the terminal bud of a wh</a> <a title="StOlafMag_2014fall page 34" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f49fb4ef?page=34"> The Rajala family's logging history in Minnesota </a> <a title="StOlafMag_2014fall page 35" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f49fb4ef?page=35"> PHOTO: LOGGING IN MINNESOTA, C. 1895, LIBRARY OF </a> <a title="StOlafMag_2014fall page 36" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f49fb4ef?page=36"> Jack Rajala, whose experience is rooted i</a> <a title="StOlafMag_2014fall page 37" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f49fb4ef?page=37"> And then, “My dad got sick, and I said, `</a> <a title="StOlafMag_2014fall page 38" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f49fb4ef?page=38"> PERHAPS NO OTHER TREE SO DEFINES THE IMAGE</a> <a title="StOlafMag_2014fall page 39" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f49fb4ef?page=39"> FALL 2014 37</a> <a title="StOlafMag_2014fall page 40" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f49fb4ef?page=40"> RAJALA FOUND A WAY TO AVOID PROBLEMS WIT</a> <a title="StOlafMag_2014fall page 41" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f49fb4ef?page=41"> O n this day, </a> <a title="StOlafMag_2014fall page 42" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f49fb4ef?page=42"> E ver since she formed the St. Ol</a> <a title="StOlafMag_2014fall page 43" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f49fb4ef?page=43"> F A L L 2 0 1 4 4 1</a> <a title="StOlafMag_2014fall page 44" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f49fb4ef?page=44"> To learn more about making a gift of real estate </a> <a title="StOlafMag_2014fall page 45" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f49fb4ef?page=45"> The Return of a Pilfered Pennant “W </a> <a title="StOlafMag_2014fall page 46" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f49fb4ef?page=46"> ALUMNI NEWS Alumni Introduce Students to the Wo</a> <a title="StOlafMag_2014fall page 47" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f49fb4ef?page=47"> ALUMNI NEWS Nominating an Ole for an Alumni Awa</a> <a title="StOlafMag_2014fall page 48" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f49fb4ef?page=48"> CLASS NOTES SUBMIT YOUR CLASS NOTES ONLINE! Ole</a> <a title="StOlafMag_2014fall page 49" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f49fb4ef?page=49"> Concurrent with his bar presidency, Tom will serv</a> <a title="StOlafMag_2014fall page 50" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f49fb4ef?page=50"> CLASS NOTES on the shelf NEW BOOKS BY ST.OLAF </a> <a title="StOlafMag_2014fall page 51" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f49fb4ef?page=51"> 2000 | Daniel Zillmann has been appointed directo</a> <a title="StOlafMag_2014fall page 52" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f49fb4ef?page=52"> Why Do We Travel? As Pico Iyer eloquently noted </a> <a title="StOlafMag_2014fall page 53" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f49fb4ef?page=53"> Ronald Nelson '49, Minneapolis, April 18, 2014 *W</a> <a title="StOlafMag_2014fall page 54" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f49fb4ef?page=54"> ALMANAC A Field of Rising Stars BY JEFF SAUVE P</a> <a title="StOlafMag_2014fall page 55" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f49fb4ef?page=55"> LOYALTY MATTERS “Students are educated e</a> <a title="StOlafMag_2014fall page 56" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f49fb4ef?page=56"> St. Olaf College 1520 St. Olaf Avenue Northfield, </a>