2023
Daniel Grossman ’03
Distinguished Alumni Award
Daniel Grossman is an emergency medicine physician and business leader who currently serves as the chief growth and strategy officer for Mayo Collaborative Services.
Julie Paulsen Keller ’88
Alumni Achievement Award
Julie Paulsen Keller is the president of the Mama Ada Foundation, a nonprofit she co-founded in 2008 to provide economic empowerment opportunities to people living in Kenya.
Renée Jones Schneider ’01
Alumni Achievement Award
Renée Jones Schneider is a multimedia photographer at the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
Rachel Sattler ’03
Alumni Achievement Award
Rachel Sattler is the senior managing attorney at LOTUS Legal Clinic and the founder of the nonprofit DaneMAC, and a tech start-up, OurMAP, LLC.
2022
Anna Palmer ’04
Distinguished Alumni Award
Anna Palmer is CEO and founder of Punchbowl News, a media organization focused on power, people, and politics.
Anne Dobmeyer ’93
Alumni Achievement Award
Anne Dobmeyer serves as an active duty psychologist in the United States Public Health Service, providing leadership for the implementation of primary care behavioral health programs across the Department of Defense.
Louise Matson ’89
Alumni Achievement Award
Louise Matson, a member of the White Earth Band Of Ojibwe, is the executive director of the Division of Indian Work.
Mark Murakami ’02
Alumni Achievement Award
Mark Murakami is an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and an independent investigator in the Division of Hematologic Neoplasia at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
Nils Snyder ’99
Outstanding Service Award
Nils Snyder is a Partner with Kenwood Commercial Real Estate.
2021
Jason DeRose ’97
Distinguished Alumni Award
National Public Radio Western Bureau Chief Jason DeRose of the Class of 1997 overseeing and editing the network’s news coverage from reporters in California, Washington, Oregon, Alaska, and Hawaii, as well as NPR’s nationwide coverage of religion and LGBTQ rights
Tony Miller ’89
Alumni Achievement Award
Founder and managing partner of Lemhi Ventures
David Rose ’89
Alumni Achievement Award
Tech entrepreneur and expert in digital product innovation for the Internet of things
Kristen Rosdahl Ehresmann ’84
Outstanding Service Award
Director of the Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Prevention, and Control Division of the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH)
2020
Utit Choomuang ’75
Distinguished Alumni Award
Distinguished artist and animator
Amanda Cox ’01
Alumni Achievement Award
Data editor for the New York Times
Nicholas Epley ’96
Alumni Achievement Award
The John Templeton Keller Professor of Behavioral Science, Neubauer Family Faculty Fellow, and faculty director of the Center for Decision Research at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Branden Moriarity ’07
Alumni Achievement Award
Associate professor in the Department of Pediatrics/Division of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology at the University of Minnesota Medical School
Michael Solhaug ’67
Outstanding Service Award
Distinguished career in pediatric medicine as a clinician at Children’s Hospital of the Kings Daughters (CHKD) in Norfolk, Virginia, and as an educator and administrator at Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS)
2019
Nathan Lindgren ’63
Distinguished Alumni Award
Physicist and renowned researcher of radar technologies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Lincoln Laboratory
Karine Swensen Moe ’85
Alumni Achievement Award
Provost and dean of the faculty at Macalester College
Jerry Appeldoorn ’67, Douglas Tate ’70, Robert Gehringer ’71, John Mittelsteadt ’81
Outstanding Service Award
Four service-minded medical professionals who have shared their expertise in the health sciences and mentored scores of St. Olaf students through St. Olaf’s Peruvian Medical Experience
2018
Wendy Helgemo ’91
Distinguished Alumni Award
Advocate for Native Americans in the areas of public health, education, housing, and economic security
Washington, D.C.
Craig Hella Johnson ’84
Alumni Achievement Award
Renowned choral conductor, composer, and educator
Austin, TX
Jon Hallberg ’88
Outstanding Service Award
Medical director of the University of Minnesota Physicians Mill City Clinic and associate professor of family medicine and community health
Minneapolis, MN
2017
Siri Hustvedt ’77
Distinguished Alumni Award
Internationally recognized author, feminist, and scholar
Monthian Buntan ’90
Alumni Achievement Award
Senator, Upper House of the Royal Thai Parliament and President of the Thailand Association of the Blind
René Clausen ’74
Alumni Achievement Award
Composer and music educator, Concordia College
Mary Reid Kelley ’01
Alumni Achievement Award
Visual Artist and MacArthur Genius Fellow
Ruth ’81 and Arne Sorenson
Outstanding Service Award
Ruth is a music educator at Chevy Chase-Bethesda Community Children’s Center
Arne is president and CEO of Marriott International
2016
William T. Collins ’84
Distinguished Alumni Award
Mobilization Assistant to the Commander, North American Aerospace Defense Command and President & COO, CSI Aviation
Dean Maki ’87
Alumni Achievement Award
Managing Director and Chief Economist, Point72 Asset Management
Douglas and Jane Baker Koons ’71
Outstanding Service Award
Educators
Joseph M. Shaw ’49
Outstanding Service Award
Professor Emeritus of Religion and Historian of St. Olaf College
2015
David L. Tiede ’62
Distinguished Alumni Award
Retired professor of New Testament and president of Luther Seminary, the Bernhard M. Christensen Professor of Religion and Vocation at Augsburg College, and interim president of Wartburg Theological Seminary and Luther College
John J. Marty ’78
Alumni Achievement Award
Minnesota State Senator, elected in 1986 and currently serving his ninth term
Alan C. Shepard ’83
Alumni Achievement Award
President of Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, and former provost and chief operating officer of Ryerson University in Toronto
2014
Elizabeth Guenthner Nabel ’74
Alumni Achievement Award
President Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Co-founder CardioGene Therapeutics, Inc., St. Olaf Board of Regents 2009-2014
Lynn M. Anderson ’75
Outstanding Service Award
Executive Vice President and General Counsel Holiday Companies, Alumni Board Member 1986-1989
Thomas F. Nelson ’69
Outstanding Service Award
Partner Stinson Leonard Street LLP, Hennepin County Board Association President, Alumni Board Member 1996-2000
2013
Diane V. Havlir ’80
Alumni Achievement Award
Professor of Medicine and physician at UCSF and Chief of the HIV/AIDS Division at San Francisco General Hospital
2012
Samuel L. Hanson ’61
Distinguished Alumni Award
Briggs and Morgan, P.A. Attorney, Former President and Vice-President
Mark B. Brown ’78
Distinguished Alumni Award
Lutheran World Federation Regional Representative in Jerusalem & West Bank
Steven H. Miles ’72
Alumni Achievement Award
University of Minnesota Professor and Maas Family Endowed Chair in Bioethics, Center for Bioethics Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School
2011
John Haugen ’86, Vice President of Health and Wellness General Mills
Alison L. Smith ’03 (GOLD), Medical Student
David Stephen Boe ’58 (Alumni Achievement Award), Organ Professor and Dean
Ian C. Kelly ’77 (Alumni Achievement Award), Senior Foreign Service Officer (with rank of Ambassador)
Virginia K. Olsen Molgaard ’61 (Alumni Achievement Award), Emerita Associate Professor
Mark A. Peterson ’66 (Alumni Achievement Award), President/Chief Executive Officer
Paul H. Christenson ’55 and Lois Wold Christenson ’55 (Distinguished Service Award), Retired Pastor and Bishop; Retired Nurse
Paul Martinson ’57 (Distinguished Service Award), Founder and Vice President China Service Ventures
Video of all 2011 Award Recipients
2010
Russell A. Anderson ’64, Retired Chief Justice Minnesota Supreme Court
Linda Olson Keller ’74, Clinical Associate Professor
Helen Piwnica-Worms ’79 (Alumni Achievement Award), Professor, Research Scientist Washington University School of Medicine
Charles W. Bates ’52 (Alumni Achievement Award), Retired Commissioner of Social Services
Robert M. Fossum ’59 (Alumni Achievement Award), Professor Emeritus of Mathematics
Rev. Charles D. Anderson ’56 and Shirley Wilson Anderson ’56 (Distinguished Service Award)
2009
Robert N. Munson ’64, Retired director of emergency services for the American Red Cross
Richard Rortvedt ’69, International agricultural cooperation and development official, Department of Agriculture
Ronald Caple ’60 (Alumni Achievement Award), Professor Emeritus of Chemistry
Jean Leppen Kinsey ’63 (Alumni Achievement Award), Professor of Applied Economics and Director of the Food Industry Center
Norman L. Cadman ’49 (Distinguished Service Award), Medical doctor
Glenn W. Jeffrey ’71 (Distinguished Service Award), Founder and Chair,Life Coaches for Kids®
2008
Malcolm Gimse ’58, Professor of Art
Mark Dimunation ’74 (Alumni Achievement Award), Chief, Library of Congress’ Rare Book and Special Collections Division
Jane Leland Iverson ’70 (Alumni Achievement Award), Choir Director and Organist
S. Paul Sandrock ’73 (Alumni Achievement Award), World Language Education Consultant
David L. Brye ’60 (Distinguished Service Award), International Programs/Service Learning Consultant
Ruth Froiland Hansen ’45 (Distinguished Service Award), Former High School Teacher, College Volunteer
Ruth Gerber Hiddleson ’58 (Distinguished Service Award), Former Member of the St. Olaf Alumni Board, College Volunteer
2007
George L. Kelling ’56, Creater of “Broken Windows” theory of crime management
Robert J. Angelici ’59 (Alumni Achievement Award), Professor at Iowa State University
Christopher S. Raschka ’81 (Alumni Achievement Award), Caldecott Medal Winner
Gregory A. Carlson ’82 (Distinguished Service Award), Founder of Carlson Capital Management
2006
David A. Nasby ’63, Exec. Director of The City, a community service and advocacy organization in Minneapolis
Charles D. Infelt ’66, pastor, founder of Cabrini Alive Youth Development Programs
Ann Williams Garwick ’71, nurse, educator, marriage and family therapist
Charles Barker ’75 (Alumni Achievement Award), violinist, conductor, founder of the American Chamber Orchestra
William Scott ’75 (Alumni Achievement Award), violin-maker
Virgnia Rifenbary Nelson ’47 ( Distinguished Service Award ), teacher, volunteer
2005
Helen Gabler Ramsammy ’44, occupational therapist, Captain, U.S. PublicHealth Service
Duane Engstrom ’53, doctor, medical director, Fairview Hospital
Glen H. Gronlund ’55, pastor, counselor
Patricia Preston Henke ’57, international teacher
Gaylan Rockswold ’62, chief of neurosurgery, Hennepin County Medical Center
Maynard Atik ’63, pastor (Alumni Achievement Award)
Allen Bishop ’75, orthopedic surgeon (Alumni Achievement Award)
David Hagman ’74, special education teacher (Alumni Achievement Award)
2004
Craig S. Dean ’78, financial adviser
Maynard Dorow ’51, pastor
Kenneth L. Jennings ’50, music professor, conductor
Laura R. Jervis ’70, pastor, founder of West Side Federation for Senior and Supportive Housing
2003
Gene Skibbe ’52, pastor; author
Robert Tengdin ’52, investment banker
Mark W. Olson ’65, Federal Reserve Board governor
Kathryn Voss Vigen ’56, nursing administration-education
2002
Grace Mittermaier Allen, community service and outreach
Shoonie Donhowe Hartwig ’57, educator; director of the Mwangaza Education for Partnership ELCT/ELCA in Arusha, Tanzania
Brock D. Nelson ’73, CEO, Children’s Hospitals and Clinics (Minneapolis/St.Paul, Minn.)
Debra Carlsen Wilkinson ’75, public and community service
John M. Wilkinson ’73, family physician, Mayo Clinic; educator, Mayo Medical School
2001
W. David Benton ’73, stem cell researcher; instrumental in the Human Genome Project
Robert A. Flaten ’56, American Foreign Service, U.S. Ambassador to Rwanda
DeLores Hinrichs Henehan ’41, mayor of Britton, S.D.
Ruth Kelly Hustad ’55, president, Hustad Real Estate and Huston Development Corp.
Jeanne L. Kunau Narum ’57, educator; pioneer in science and mathematics reform in undergraduate education; founder, Project Kaleidoscope
Herbert M. Stellner, Jr. ’50, senior vice president, Marquette Bank;development officer, Mayo Foundation
Steven A. Sviggum ’73, speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives
2000
Jerry A. Evenrud ’51, ministry of music and the arts
Marjorie Coltvet Jamieson ’57, nurse; missionary
Timothy I. Maudlin ’73, leader in medical innovation products
David H. Olson ’62, developed the “Circumplex Model of Marriage and Family Systems” and the “Prepare/Enrich” premarital programs; educator, University of Minnesota
Howard E. Sandum ’51, literary agent
1999
Karen Lee Anderson ’77, medical missionary
Gerhard M. Cartford ’48, founder, Lutheran Society for Worship, Music and the Arts
Mark D. Johnson ’82, entrepreneur; businessman
John A. Meslow ’60, senior vice president, Medtronic Inc. and president of Medtronic’s Neurological Business component
1998
Thomas Dedricks ’62, senior executive of operations, finance and management information for General Instrument of Taiwan, Ltd. (Taipei)
Ember Reichgott Junge ’74, youngest woman elected to the Minnesota State Senate; first woman to serve as senate assistant majority leader
Loretta Lepisto Norgon ’73, music specialist
Donald N. Rudrud ’61, pastor, urban and multicultural ministry, Minneapolis Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church
*Alfred “Steve” E. Syverud ’32, pastor; church and business administrator
*Philip V. Livdahl ’45, made significant contributions to the fields of particle physics and accelerator science as a physicist, administrator, researcher, scholar and author
1997
Sandra Runck Edwardson ’63, dean of the School of Nursing, University of Minnesota
Robert J. Hoyle ’61, refugee resettlement pioneer; executive director, International Institute of Minnesota; one of the first Peace Corps volunteers from Minnesota
Janet Barrows Stotts ’77, director of the Alaska Children’s Choir
1996
Brenda G. Berkman ’73, firefighter, New York City
*Paul H. Groth ’41, paper industry executive
*Neil A. Kjos ’53, publisher of music books and sheet music for piano education
Paul A. Lee ’53, an advocate for the homeless; educator
B. Kristine Olson Johnson ’73, Medtronic Inc.; president and general manager of Medtronic’s vascular organization, Tachyarrhythmia Management Business
*Robert M. Wulff ’51, founded four leper colonies in northern Thailand
1995
Kathryn Wilker Megyeri ’65, educator; writer
Edward A. Sovik ’39, architect
Gary H. Rasmusson ’58, medicinal chemist in basic research, Merck & Co.;head of Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia Project; international authority onsteroid chemistry and male hormone action
*Thomas M. Torgerson ’32, physician, cardiac and pulmonary disease; established the first coronary care unit in northern California
1994
K. Ann Brownlow Rabie ’56, nurse-midwife
Karen Nelson Hoyle ’58, children’s literature curator; educator, University of Minnesota
Kenneth M. Petersen ’62, physician; administrator and CEO, Alaska Native Hospital; senior clinician, Pediatrics/Indian Health Services
1993
*Chauncey G. Bly ’41, physician; surgeon; researcher, National Institute of Health/National Cancer Institute
Lowell O. Erdahl ’53, pastor; author; bishop in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America
Carol Syvertsen Erdahl ’54, businesswoman; co-owner of the children’s bookstore The Red Balloon
*Clara J. Jones ’37, nurse-missionary in China and Taiwan
E. Elise Ayers Sanguinetti ’46, author
Stephen A. Schendel ’69, physician; dentist; pioneer in craniomaxillo-facial surgery
1992
Ruth Norland Cline ’50, educator, University of Colorado
Fern Olson Cole ’53, missionary; director, Navajo Evangelical Lutheran Mission
Wallace B. Cole ’54, missionary; director, Navajo Evangelical Lutheran Mission
*Wallace J. Jorgenson ’45, administrator, American Red Cross and Lutheran Church of America’s Office of Communication
Judith Seleen Swanson ’57, artist; graphic designer
Warren J. Warwick ’50, professor of pediatrics, University of Minnesota Medical School; director, Cystic Fibrosis Research Center, University of Minnesota hospital and clinics
1991
*Dorothy A. Berge ’45, sculptor
Sharon Moe Miranda ’64, composer; musician
Wayne G. Sanstead ’57, lieutenant governor of North Dakota
1990
Donald L. Bottemiller ’61, president and CEO, Homecrest Industries, Inc.,casual and outdoor furniture manufacturer
Kathryn L. Tweeten Fraser ’47, marriage and family counselor
*Paul A. Hanson ’47, pastor; administrator, Division for Life and Mission, ALC
*Elmer Clarence Paulson ’33, radiologist who pioneered the practice of nuclear medicine in the Twin Cities; educator, University of Minnesota
Janet Larson Schultheis ’54, educator, public schools
1989
*Stuart E. Barstad ’51, chief of chaplains, U.S. Air Force
*Beatrice Steen Boe ’31, church musician
*D. Jacqueline Fleming ’49, psychiatric social work; corrections facility superintendent
*Milton L. Nesvig ’37, chaplain in the U.S. Navy and Naval Reserve; public relations, Pacific Lutheran University
1988
*Andrew S. Burgess ‘ 19, missionary; educator; author
*Neil T. Eckstein ’47, founder and director of the Winchester Academy, a learning center dedicated to educational outreach
*Frances Avonne Olson ’55, education director of the Mount Hope Family Center at the University of Rochester, N.Y.
Marilee Thompson Tollefson ’64, nursing consultant and clinical nurse specialist, Children’s Hospital, Washington D.C.
Dale E. Warland ’54, founder and conductor of The Dale Warland Singers
1987
*Florence Stroebel Kahn ’60, whose work for Courage Center and with people with disabilities combined her interests in nursing and education
*David E. Johnson ’38, senior vice president, St. Olaf College
Osmund R. Overby ’53, architectural historian; professor of art history, director of the Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri
*Arthur L. Rustad ’15, pastor; chaplain
*Mark S. Slen ’49, hospital administrator, authority on healthcare economics
1986
*Louise Peterson Guhl ’29, private piano teacher
Barbara J. Knutson ’62, first woman to serve in a full-time position on the American Lutheran Church district staff
*John A. Ronning ’42, dentist
Charles H. Solem ’50, owner and CEO, International Building Services;founded N Street Village, a community serving homeless women and low-income families in Washington D.C.
1985
*Robert G. Borgwardt ’44, pastor; author
Anne Knutson Kanten ’49, assistant commissioner of agriculture for the State of Minnesota
Norman E. Midthun ’52, airline pilot
*Arthur Nelson ’28, chemist
*Ruth Johnson Sovik ’50, general secretary, World YWCA; associate general secretary, World Council of Churches (Geneva, Switzerland)
1984
Gary J. N. Aamodt ’59, publisher of historical music
*Carlos W. Luis ’40, attorney; vice president, 3M Corp.
Judith Andre Ryan ’58, nurse; executive director, American Nurses Association
Gretchen Hansen Quie ’49, former first lady of the State of Minnesota;painter; author
1983
*Clayton L. LeFevere ’44, attorney, co-founder, president of the Minneapolis law firm of LeFevere, Lefler, Kennedy, O’Brian and Drawtz
Sonya L. Pedersen Margerum ’52, mayor of West Lafayette, Ind.
Martha Ann Rossing Robert ’53, businesswoman, restaurateur
*Richard W. Solberg ’38, administrator, Lutheran Church of America
Dennis V. Griffin ’55, pastor
1982
Irene Gubrud Finch ’66, opera singer
*H. K. Helseth ’56, physician; surgeon; chief of thoracic surgery at Hennepin County General Hospital (Minneapolis, Minn.)
*Gladys Edwardson Rice ’31, educator, public schools
Gordon M. Sprenger ’59, president, Abbott Northwestern Hospital (Minneapolis, Minn.)
*Conrad M. Thompson ’39, radio ministry, the ‘voice of Lutheran Vespers’
1981
*Hildahl Burtness ’25, medical researcher
*Dale Dodson ’49, osteopathic physician; surgeon
Marlene Hustad Engstrom ’54, church administration; first lay person and woman elected to chair the Luther Theological Seminary board of regents
Marguerite L. Johnson ’55, associate editor, Time magazine
*Karsten J. Ohnstad ’37, writer; teacher; first blind graduate of St. Olaf
1980
None (Newly appointed Ambassador to Norway, out-going St. Olaf President Sidney Rand and Lois Rand were honored during alumni weekend.)
1979
Arnold S. Anderson ’39, physician, administrator, Children’s Health Center (Minneapolis, Minn.)
Kristine Moore Gebbie ’65, nurse; health services; White House AIDS policy coordinator
Richard C. Nelson ’54, educator; director of Biomechanics Laboratory, Pennsylvania State University
*Osmon R. Springsted ’41, economist; attorney
*Gjermund S. Thompson ’27, pastor
1978
George E. Aker ’58, president, Nevada National Bancorporation
*Gordon M. Donhowe ’51, vice president and treasurer, Pillsbury Co. (Minneapolis, Minn.)
Mary Ann Christensen Johnson ’51, public relations
*Harry M. Malm ’43, administrator, Lutheran Hospitals
Alene Halvorson Moris ’49, co-founder, director of Individual Development Center, Inc. (Seattle, Wash.)
*Mary Nelson Ryland ’47, educator; business
1977
*Jean Foss Anderson ’48, vice president, Clinton E. Frank Advertising Agency (Skokie, Ill.)
*Maynard B. Iverson ’41, pastor
*Richard W. Hemstad ’55, attorney; educator, University of Puget Sound School of Law (Tacoma, Wash.)
Albert C. Samuelson ’40, vice president, finance, Getty Refining (Tulsa, Okla.)
*Inez Weeks Schaefer ’28, businesswoman
1976
*Elmer C. Larsen ’34, vice president and general manager, coatings and resins division of PPG Industries Inc. (Pa.)
*Josephine Bjornson Nelson ’27, educator, University of Minnesota
Oliver H. Peterson ’45, obstetrician, gynecologist
*Sigved T. Sampson ’39, president and general manager, Midland Cooperatives Inc. (Minneapolis, Minn.)
Richard E. Sieber ’50, musician; educator, University of Minnesota
*Rolf A. Syrdal ’24, pastor; missionary; educator
1975
*Agnes O. Hanson ’27, administrator, Cleveland Public Library
David J. Hardy ’53, attorney; administrative partner, Winston & Strawn (Chicago, Ill.)
L. Bruce Laingen ’44, American Foreign Service, U.S. deputy assistant secretary of State for European Affairs
Paul G. Quie ’50, educator, Department of Pediatrics and Microbiology, University of Minnesota
*Phyllis Vevle Clausen ’42, social service; adoption services
1974
*Mary MacCornack Forsythe ’42, representative, Minnesota House of Representatives
*O.I. Hertsgaard ’08, insurance businessman
*Mabel Jacobs ’13, opera singer, educator
*Daniel H. Kjeldgaard ’31, banker; rancher
*Sanford L. Haugen ’38, turkey farmer
Harold W. Heiberg ’43, pianist; music editor and translator
Stanley R. Nelson ’48, hospital administrator
*Virginia M. Paulson ’47, nurse; hospital administrator
Barbara Ebright Varenhorst ’50, psychologist; educator; counselor
*Lawrence S. Wright ’43, dentist; dental research
1973
*Edel Ytterboe Ayers ’20, author
*Roger O. Grimsby ’50, news reporter, ABC Eyewitness News anchor
Lloyd E. Jacobson ’46, dentist; church administrator
*Norman O. Olson ’43, certified public accountant
*Rolf W. Stageberg ’29, social work; administrator; prison reform
*Stanford O. Tostengard ’47, economic and statistical analyst
1972
*Harold R. Enestvedt ’28, public school administrator
Arlen I. Erdahl ’53, Minnesota Secretary of State; chairman of the House of Labor Relations, Minnesota House of Representatives
*Rhoda Berge Lund ’26, civil and political leader
*John M. Mason ’31, pastor; administrator, American Association of Homes for the Aging
*Michael J. Stolee ’52, associate dean and professor of education, University of Miami
1971
*Oscar A. Anderson ’38, pastor; Augsburg College president
*Reuben A. Benson ’26, physician, surgeon
*Theodor S. Slen ’12, senior counselor for the State of Minnesota; probate and juvenile judge
Keith V. Textor ’43, composer; arranger; performer; co-founder of Scott-Textor Productions Inc., an organization preparing music and lyrics for advertisers, television shows and recordings
1970
*Albert E. Anderson ’44, executive director, American Lutheran Church board of publication
*Georgia E. Garlid ’28, music education
*Earle H. Greene ’43, president, Cargill Grain Company, Ltd.
*Erling G. Hestenes ’34, missionary; physician
*John Raymond Ylitalo ’37, American Foreign Service, U.S. Ambassador to Paraguay
1969
*Elsworth R. Buskirk ’50, physiologist, National Institute of Health
*Ernest O. Melby ’13, professor and dean, New York University; chancellor, University of Montana; president, Montana State University; distinguishedprofessor of education, Michigan State University; professor, Northwestern University and the University of Minnesota
*Paul M. Mikelson ’50, banker
*Arna I. Njaa ’25, leader of American Lutheran Church Women
1968
*Robert A. Forsythe ’47, chief counsel of the U.S. State Senate Select Committee on Small Business; U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare
*Rueben M. Monson ’42, U.S. press attaché (Norway, Iceland), foreign correspondent (Vietnam)
*Edmund S. Nasset ’25, national authority in physiology and nutrition
*Newell N. Nelson ’20, attorney; businessman
*Frederic M. Norstad ’35, pastor; military chaplain
1967
*Ivan H. Hinderaker ’38, political scientist, educator, chancellor of Universityof California, Riverside
*Arthur O. Lee ’20, businessman, Lutheran Brotherhood
Ronald A. Nelson ’49, minister of music
*Kenneth L. Pederson ’28, public school administrator
Brynhild C. Rowberg ’39, American Foreign Service, Office of Korean Affairs for the Dept. of State, Washington D.C.
1966
*Philip S. Dybvig ’23, administrator, Evangelical Lutheran Church and American Lutheran Church
*Everett E. Hagen’27, educator, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ham A. Muus ’51, pastor; founder of the Plymouth Youth Center (Minneapolis, Minn.)
*Orlando K. Sattre ’15, banker
1965
*Paul A. Boe ’37, administrator, American Lutheran Church
*G. Norris Glasoe ’24, scientist, Brookhaven National Laboratories
*Orlando Ingvoldstad ’35, pastor, chaplain of U.S. 14th Naval District, Pearl Harbor
*Helen M. Thal ’38, public relations, Institute of Life Insurance, education division
1964
*Almeda Anderson Fossum ’29, first president of the American Lutheran Church Women
*Lewis O. Gunderson ‘ 19, research chemist
*Lawrence M. Stavig ’21, Augustana College president
*Donovan J. Thompson ’41, educator, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh
1963
*Randolph E. Haugan ’24, Augsburg Publishing general manager
Arne B. Sovik ’39, director of World Missions, Lutheran World Federation
*Daryle M. Feldmeir ’48, journalist; managing editor, Minneapolis Tribune
Albert H. Quie ’50, governor of Minnesota
1962
*Henry M. Halvorson ’25, textbook publisher
*Henrietta M. Larson ’18, one of six women to achieve the rank of full professor in the history of Harvard University
*Oscar R. Knutson ’24, chief justice, Minnesota Supreme Court
*Robert A. Mortvedt ’24, Pacific Lutheran University president
1961
*Ruby C. Benson ’25, social worker, Minn. Department of Public Welfare
*Eldred C. Nelson ’38, scientist (quantum mechanics, nuclear physics, hydrodynamics), director of the Intelligence Systems Laboratory, Thompson-Ramo-Wooldridge, Inc. (Los Angeles, Calif.)
*Joseph C. Norby ’04, school and hospital administrator
*Morris O. Wee ’28, pastor
*Lyle M. Wikre ’18, public school administrator
1960
*Kenneth Lindel Brown ’38, social worker
*Eldri L. Dieson ’27, social worker
*John R. Lavik ’03, pastor
*Herman Roe ’08, newspaper editor
*Herbert W. Schmidt ’26, physician; administrator, Mayo Clinic
1959
*Nelean D. Helland ’24, Blue Cross and Blue Shield administrator
*Melford S. Knutson ’27, pastor
*Roy L. Reierson ’26, vice president, Bankers Trust of New York
*Karl F. Rolvaag ’41, governor of Minnesota
1958
*Gerhard A. Ellestad ‘ 19, broad interests
*Marjorie I. Bly ’41, missionary nurse, American Lutheran Church, who worked with lepers on the Pescadores islands (Taiwan)
Jennings G. Feroe ’35, pastor
*Ernest Gulsrud ’33, businessman
1957
*August H. Andreson ’12, U.S. Congress representative
*Cora Helgeson Ormseth ’25, leader of the Women’s Missionary Federation, Evangelical Lutheran Church
*Hendrik J. Svien ’31, neurosurgeon, Mayo Clinic; educator, Mayo Foundation
*Bennett S. Ellefson ’32, scientist; researcher; vice president of Sylvania Electric Products
*E. Clifford Nelson ’33, pastor; author; Lutheran historian
1956
*Adolph G. Ensrud ’17, volunteer service
*Naurice M. Nesset ’31, scientist; researcher
*Olaf K. Skinsnes ’39, physician, scholar
*Gertrude S. Sovik ’31, service; mission work
1955
*Selmer H. Berg ’17, educator, public schools
*Carl F. Granrud ’18, attorney; president, Lutheran Brotherhood
*Gladys Grindland ’23, musician; educator
*Alfred D. Stefferud ’25, writer; book editor
1954
*Martin Anderson ’06, pastor
*Harold C. Hagen ’27, public service
*Jarle B. Leirfallom ’36, social welfare
*Oscar R. Overby ’21, poet; composer; arranger
*Ludwig I. Roe ’12, newspaper publisher
*Clara A. Storvick ’29, chemist; recognized for research in bio-chemistry
1953
*Herman E. Bakken ’15, scientist, industrial research
*Edith Hjertaas Charlston ’18, educator
*Nathanael Fedde ’08, physician
*Nordis Felland ’23, American Geographical Society librarian
*S.O. Simundson ’94, pastor
*Howell P. Skoglund ’25, president, North American Life and Casualty
*Deceased