Family:
My wife Mary
E. Steen is chair of the Department
of English at St. Olaf College, where she has taught since 1965. In addition to teaching
regular courses in first year and creative writing, she has taught writing courses
on the theme of "chance and choice" and, more recently, courses on the literature
of New Zealand and Australia. In the 1980s we team-taught a course in science writing in which
students wrote and presented to each other short expository essays on topics in
natural, mathematical, social, or behavioral sciences.
Mary is a member of the Board of Directors of the Minnesota
League of Women Voters (LWV-MN). From 1998 to 2005 she served as editor of
The Voter, the newsletter of LWV-MN. In 1995
she attended the World Conference on Women in Beijing and
in 1999 she visited Northern Ireland as part of a delegation preparing
for a February 2000 Peace Prize Forum at St. Olaf focused on the
1998 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Northern Irish political leaders
John Hume and David Trimble. Subsequently she served on the planning committee for the
2004 Forum that
honored the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jimmy Carter.
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Our older daughter Margaret E. Steen is a free-lance writer whose specialties include
workplace issues, economics, non-profits, and parenting. Previously she reported on business, real estate, and philanthropy
for the San Jose Mercury News, the largest daily newspaper in Silicon Valley. Her
husband David Webster works for
Yahoo where he is responsible for maintaining their business servers.
They have two sons: Clark and Harrison.
Our younger daughter Catherine Wille, the mother of Justin, Jonathan,
and Joshua, lives in Frisco, Texas, just north of Dallas. Her husband Jason Wille is a computer programmer who telecommutes
to work on various enterprise software products.
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