Class of 1972 Newsletter

Pure Enjoyment What am I doing for pure enjoyment? Lately I have been really tickled to watch our young dog Zola race toward me full tilt on the “ZOLA HERE!”…

Visit the 1972 Events page for more information and the Zoom links for the events. Thursday, Aug. 19, 5 pm (CDT) Joan Baez at Spring Hill College / Professor Emeritus…

Heartfelt thanks to all classmates who responded to the 50th reunion program committee survey. We heard from 108 of our 387 classmates (28%). We appreciate your feedback on the program content and format, suggestions for topics, and willingness to share your expertise and that of your classmates…

What Gives Us Joy What are you doing for pure enjoyment?” we asked. “How did you find your avocation and would it surprise your younger self?” What follows is a…

I have been legally blind my whole life, and so my visual world has been much hazier than that of my sighted friends. Growing up I knew that there were dandelions, lilacs, roses, and even “flocks” (I later found it was phlox), but plants and their flowers were largely undifferentiated in my mind. Though I learned a few more things over the next 35 years, my ignorance of plant life remained profound.

While I was in Puerto Rico during the winter quarter of our sophomore year, attending a seminar for Carleton sociology students led by Byron Fox, I bought an amphora-shaped earthenware vase with yellow and green glaze dripping down its outside…

Confession: I am two of the 70+ members of the Class of 1972 Facebook group. I am Nancy Ashmore, whose 250 friends include family, high school and college classmates, and Minnesota friends and neighbors. I am also Medora MacDougall (a Facebook alias), whose 315 friends include several hundred authors and readers of lesbian romances, mysteries, and science fiction…

Tango is about connection and grace, sadness and hope, and moments of believing there is nothing else…

I will always be grateful to Professor Davis Taylor (English Dept.) for noticing that I actually spent more time in studio art classes than I did in science labs. He asked me if I’d considered going into dentistry instead of medicine, since part of doing dentistry is artistic…

I am winding down from 40 years as a corporate and securities lawyer, with a mixture of non-profit board participation as well, pro bono activities in immigration law, mediation, working with at-risk youth, and, more recently, election protection work…