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Alf Houkom ’57

57_AlfHoukom_NOn Aug. 22, 2013, a group gathered to honor Alf Houkom’s whole career in choral music.  He was a composer and a director at Cornell College in Iowa.  The gathering was set on Lake Pepin in Lake City, Minn., at the home of Jerry Narveson and Charlotte Roe. Pictured, left to right: John Hanson ’58, Alf Houkom ’57, Arlen Erdahl ’53, Paul Peterson ’56, Beverly Derscheid Sorenson ’57, Don Miller, Mary Anne Bender Miller ’57, Charlotte “Shoonie” Donhowe Hartwig ’57, Lois Wold Christenson ’55, Jerome Narveson ’57, Charlotte Roe ’57, Norma Smith Seashore ’57, Paul Christenson ’55, Margaret Halvorson Heglund ’57, Stephen Swanson ’54, Ruth Stime Erickson ’63, David Erickson ’58, Judith Seleen Swanson ’57, and Gene Heglund ’57.