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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1980

None (Newly appointed Ambassador to Norway, out-going St. Olaf PresidentSidney Rand and Lois Rand were honored during alumni weekend.)

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

1982

Irene Gubrud Finch ’66, opera singer

*H. K. Helseth ’56, physician; surgeon; chief of thoracic surgery at HennepinCounty 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’

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

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

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, Deputy General Secretary, World Council of Churches

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.

1987

Florence Stroebel Kahn ’60, whose work for Courage Center and withpeople 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

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

Philip V. Livdahl ’45, made significant contributions to the fields of particlephysics and accelerator science as a physicist, administrator, researcher, scholar and author

*Frances Avonne Olson ’55, education director of the Mount Hope FamilyCenter 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

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

*Ruth Johnson Sovik ’50, general secretary, World YWCA; associate general secretary, World Council of Churches (Geneva, Switzerland)

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

1991

Dorothy A. Berge ’45, sculptor

Sharon Moe Miranda ’64, composer; musician

Wayne G. Sanstead ’57, lieutenant governor of North Dakota

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

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

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

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

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

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

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, science research

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

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

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

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

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

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

2005

Helen Gabler Ramsammy ’44, occupational therapist, Captain, U.S. PublicHealth Service

E. 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

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Maynard Atik ’63 (AAA), pastor

Allen Bishop ’75 (AAA), orthopedic surgeon

David Hagman ’74 (AAA), special education teacher

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

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Charles Barker ’75 (AAA), violinist, conductor, founder of the American Chamber Orchestra

William Scott ’75 (AAA), violin-maker

Virgnia Rifenbary Nelson ’47 (DSA), teacher, volunteer

2007

George L. Kelling '56

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Robert J. Angelici '59 (AAA)

Christopher S. Raschka '81 (AAA)

Gregory A. Carlson '82 (DSA)

2008

Malcolm Gimse ’58

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Mark Dimunation ’74 (AAA)

Jane Leland Iverson ’70 (AAA)

S. Paul Sandrock ’73 (AAA)

David L. Brye ’60 (DSA)

Ruth Froiland Hansen ’45 (DSA)

Ruth Gerber Hiddleson ’58 (DSA)

*deceased