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John Marshall High School

AALLUUMMNNII NewsletterFounded in 1993 by Hap Corbett, class of 1949

Volume 17, Number 3 September, 2009

Hap Corbett isn’t just playing around

A recent issue of the Morris CountyRecord highlighted Hap Corbett ’49who has been bringing joy to nurs-ing homes and senior centers withhis piano playing. Hap, who is thefounding editor of the John Mar-shall High School Alumni Newslet-ter, began entertaining folks innursing homes when his ownmother was in a nursing home.

As a youngster Hap began play-ing the piano at the age of four. Hisfascination with the piano camefrom sing-alongs his family had inthe evenings. Although he receivedformal training playing the pianofor about six months, Hap was ableto “play by ear” and could learnsongs after hearing them played.

During the 1940s, Hap playedclarinet in the famous St. LawrenceMarching Band. Many of us havefond memories of that band whichnot only marched but also danceddown the streets and won numerousawards. At Marshall High Hap

added cheerleading to his list ofskills.

After graduating from MarshallHigh, Corbett served in the KoreanWar. He returned to Minneapoliswhere he worked for the Min-neapolis Argus and became the as-sistant news editor.

Hap married Doris Knopps in1958 and they moved to Staples,Minnesota where they purchased acafé. They named the café Happy’sand ran it for six years. While rais-ing eight children, Hap was also in-volved in the insurance andinvestment sales business and didadvertising on KNSP Radio in Sta-ples.

In retirement Hap started twonewsletters, the John Marshall HighSchool Alumni Newsletter and theChristian Response. He began play-ing the piano at the Greater StaplesCare Center. Before long Hapfound that he was in demand atother senior centers and nursinghomes. Hap plays gospel, boogiewoogie, Dixieland, and jazz in ad-dition to the old standard tunes. Hapsays, “God has given me a talent. Ihave to share it with others.”

TMD

Ruth Stone Stewart,One of Marshall’sGreatest GenerationWhen we speak of the “GreatestGeneration,” we are talking aboutthose Americans who grew to matu-rity and faced the issues of theGreat Depression, World War II,and the 1950s. Ruth Stone Stewartis one of those people: daughter,sister, student, scout leader, teacher,wife, mother, homemaker, caregiver,and friend.

Ruth was born on August 30,1921 in La Moure, North Dakota,the fourth child of Arthur and ErmaStone. The Stone family moved to709 8th Avenue in Southeast Min-neapolis in 1926. Ruth remembersfondly Miss Mattson her first gradeteacher at Marcy Grade School.“She was very kind and very sweetto me,” Ruth said. Four years later

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VERY IMPORTANT:The Web site: www.ds.umn.edu/

has undergone a styling change. Theaddress is the same and the new design isnice. The Marshall links are quite obvious.Continue to look for the ALUMNI NEWS onSeptember 1, January 1, and May 1.

the Stones moved to 93 SE Bedfordand Ruth attended Sidney Prattfrom fourth grade through eighthgrade. Elsenpeter’s Drug Store wasthe place to buy ice cream conesand Zipoy’s Grocery Store suppliedmeat and groceries for many fami-lies in Prospect Park. Marty Zipoywas a good friend of Ruth’s brotherand she remembered him workingin the meat department at Zipoy’s.

Ruth has fond memories ofTower Hill, going there with hersled in winter, speeding down thelong curving run that ended nearUniversity Avenue, playing tennisand having picnics there.

Ruth was the baby of her family.When she was born her brotherCharles was 16 years old, her sisterSally was 14 years old and herbrother Jim was 9 years old. Sallywas almost like a second mother toher. Ruth remembers with a smileher brother Jim calling her “theMutt.” “Where’s the Mutt?” hewould ask. She graduated from Sidney Pratt in 1935 and fromMarshall in June, 1939.

It was in grade school that Ruthbegan a long involvement with theGirl Scouts. Ruth began as a scoutand continued on to become a campcounselor through her high schooland college years and an adultleader for many years while teach-ing.

At Marshall Ruth took Latin andFrench in addition to the requiredcourses. She remembers takingEnglish from Mrs. Leemhuis andMiss Skalbeck, social studies fromMrs. Montank (“I was scared todeath of her.”) P.J. Burningham forchoir, and Miss Stevning for physi-cal education.

Ruth and her friends fromProspect Park walked to and fromschool most days. She and 13 of hergirl friends started a club, the Altrus. It was like having their ownsorority. They met once a month.They enjoyed walking past the fra-ternities and sororities on Univer-sity Avenue, feeling very specialand imagining themselves as coedsat the U.

Unlike many families, Ruth’sfamily was not badly hurt duringthe Depression. Her father was con-tinuously employed as an investi-gator for the federal government.He always had a car and traveled agreat deal. However, Ruth did havea good friend whose father wasoften out of work and as a result thefamily was forced to move againand again.

After graduating from Marshall,Ruth went on to the University ofMinnesota majoring in physical ed-ucation and minoring in science.Ruth met her future husband, JerryStewart, at the University. He wasmajoring in physical educationalso. Ruth graduated from the Uni-versity in 1943 and got a teachingjob at Fairmont, Minnesota. Mean-while, Jerry left the University to

join the Air Force where he becamea pilot and spent two years trainingother pilots.

At Fairmont Ruth and four otheryoung women rented a house to-gether. They had no car, but theymade do by walking to work andhelping each other with chores likegrocery shopping. Ruth taughtphysical education and science fortwo years at Fairmont High.

In 1945 Jerry was able to get amonth’s leave and Ruth was able toget a month off from her teachingjob. They got married at the court-house in downtown Minneapolisand were able to spend the rest ofthe month together before Jerry hadto go back to the Air Force.

Until the war ended and Jerrywas discharged from the service,Ruth traveled by bus to his base onweekends so that they could be to-gether. After the war Ruth and Jerrymoved in with her folks while hefinished his degree at the Univer-sity. Jerry went on to teach physicaleducation in the MinneapolisSchools and coached park boardsports. Regarding those first yearsof marriage, Ruth said, “We didn’thave much money, but we hadfriends.” They got together withtheir friends almost every weekendoften playing card games likecanasta which became very popularin those years. Frequently theywent to the movies and Ruth starteda collection of movie star’s signedphotos.

When they began to have a fam-ily, Ruth stopped teaching and be-came a full time mom. They hadfour children. Their first child,Betsy, died in infancy, and their sonJohn died at 34 in a construction ac-cident. But their son Jim anddaughter Peggy are doing fine, livein Eden Prairie and are a great help

Ruth Stone Stewart in a recent“always cheerful” pose

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and consolation to Ruth. “They takegood care of me,” she said.

After 15 years as a homemaker,Ruth went back to teaching physi-cal education and coaching golf and tennis with the MinneapolisSchools, mostly at Southwest. Alto-gether Ruth taught for more than 20years. Looking back on her teach-ing career Ruth is pleased that shewas one the teachers who studentsoften turned to when they had prob-lems.

After so many years of teachingand coaching, it seemed that Ruthand Jerry deserved to have manycarefree years in retirement, proba-bly playing golf. They were mem-bers of the Minnesota ValleyCountry Club and had many friendsthere.

Unfortunately in 1983 Jerry suf-fered the first of a series of strokes.He lost the use of his right leg andhad to have it amputated above theknee. Another stroke made his leftarm useless. He was not one to giveup and he worked hard to regain asmuch of his faculties as he could.Ruth meanwhile was thrust into therole of caregiver and did her best tohelp Jerry live as normally as pos-sible. With her help and the help ofhis golf buddies Jerry was able tocontinue playing golf at MinnesotaValley where he was known as theclub’s only “one armed, one leggedgolfer.”

Jerry Stewart passed away in2000. After 17 years as a caregiver,Ruth has continued on with the support of her children and herfriends. She now lives in her ownapartment at Summit Place in EdenPrairie and takes part in many ac-tivities there. In addition, Ruth con-tinues to be an active member of theMarshall High Class of 1939 and

serves on the MAEF committeewhich deals with scholarship fundsfor disabled students at the Univer-sity of Minnesota. It is a pleasure tobe a friend of Ruth Stone Stewart.

TMD

Marshall City Champions in Tennis

in 1961In 1961, the senior team of RayBecker, Bob Henze, Keith Johnson,Bill Krahn, Frank Pohl, and VictorYu finished their season with a re-spectable 6 - 5 record. In the CityChampionship team tournament, areshuffling of First Singles playerJohnson and Second Doubles playerHenze led to Marshall's entry intothe tournament as an unseeded dou-bles team. They faced the #1 seedof an undefeated Roosevelt doublesteam. In a thrilling match whichwent 3 sets, they won 7-5, 0 - 6, 7-5.

Several victories later, Marshallwon the City Championship. Thisduplicated the feat of the 1958 dou-bles team of John Desmond andDon Cooper; the 1958 team went onthe win the State championship.Below are the minibios of BobHenze and Keith Johnson.

Robert HenzeClass of 1961I started playing tennis the summerof 1958. Before that I played tabletennis with Richard Rose at his

house. That summer going out fortennis, I played Joe Arnold, the ten-nis coach, and beat him.

My 10th grade record was 5 winsplaying with DeWayne Walker. Thematch Keith Johnson and I playedagainst the Roosevelt Guys was-GREAT. They said we had nochance – but we won the CityChampionship. And, we also wonthe City Parks that summer. Trav-eling as a team was fun.

Following high school and col-lege I worked for 3M Company inSt Paul as a mechanical designer forMicrographic Lab for 17 years. Imanaged the manufacturing of ra-dioactive Iodine seeds for prostatecancer for 4 years and a salespersonfor 3M Scotch Brite products for 4years. I left 3M in 1991 to get intotelephone sales. Today I own myown telephone sales company. Wesell Comdial Telephones and we area distributor for ATT & GlobalCom.

I’m still playing a lot of tennis –about 2.5 times a week all yearlong. I played in the corporate ten-nis leagues for both tennis and tabletennis for 21 years. I was #1 inTable Tennis at 3M for 18 of thoseyears.

I have been living with my girl-friend (Jo Ellen Reed) who is thelove of my life since 1989. I havetwo sons and 3 grandsons. Jo Ellenand I live in Lincoln Park. We havea sail boat on Lake Michigan and abeagle dog. We sail a lot when weare not playing tennis. Life is great.

I met a lot of good people at Mar-shall. I wished that I could havestayed in better touch with them.See you in 3 years at the 50th

Bob HenzeClass of 1961

bhenze@americantec.com

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MHS Graduate BiographiesA periodic feature of MHS Alumni News

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Keith JohnsonClass of 1961During the 1961 tennis season ourthoughts of how well we would farewere focused more around the ideaof avoiding abject failure thangrandeur. We looked a little shabbyand our only uniform was a whitetennis shirt with a Cardinal on it.The Cardinal had a sorrowful lookon its face as if to portend our pos-sible season ending record. We per-severed, and practiced at the TowerHill courts and nearby park courtsand met there each day after ourfifth hour of class, as we got outearly to practice. It really wasn’tmuch of a practice as it only en-tailed playing pick-up games witheach other and the coach, Joe“tomato face” Arnold. One daycoach Arnold asked where BillKrahn was, and one of us said:“He’s still up at his car getting intohis gear and finishing his lastscrewdriver”. Rules and regula-tions were not applied as vigorouslyas they are today.

All things considered, the teamperformed fairly well and ourrecord in our senior year was 5-5 or6-5 if you count a win over Univer-sity High. Of course, they played instreet shoes and were not familiarwith athletics and/or anything notrelated to academics. They suffereda crushing defeat at the hands of ourwarriors. In thinking back, I believeour record was better than all of theother Marshall teams that year. Youknow, maybe that Cardinal on ouruniform had started smiling at theend of the season. I don’t know. Iwas having a screwdriver withKrahn at the time and basking in allthe glory and girls.

Shortly after the adulation dieddown, Bob Henze and I played inthe district and city championships

and knocked off Roosevelt to winthe City Championship. From therewe went on to the state tournamentwhere we were beaten by the sameRoosevelt duo in the first round.The Cardinal on our shirt had begunweeping profusely. Ah, what couldhave been. The tourney was playedat the University of Minnesota ten-nis courts behind Williams arena.The only fan we had that day wasone of our own, Bill Krahn. Laterthat summer Bob and I won theMinneapolis Public Parks TennisTournament, a national qualifyingtournament that was to be held inCalifornia. The catch was that youhad to pay for your airfare and lodg-ing. Minnesota’s loss? Nah! Wewould have been eaten by thoseother states. We were just “seat ofour pants players”, not much style,but hustlers.

Bored yet? All in all, the Mar-shall memories are some of themost happy I have, due mostly toour friendships and class cohesive-ness fostered by attending the sameschool building for six years ratherthan having a middle school in be-tween. At first, idolizing the seniorsand then progressing through thegrades together and becoming BIGSENIORS and the owners of thecoveted top floor halls. We were notthe richest nor the most stylish, butwe did value loyalty, fellowship,and true friendships. Damn! Didn’twe have some great parties and allaround fun times? I wouldn’t tradeour time at Marshall with any otherclass or school.

As for me, I retired a few yearsago. Most of my career was spent insales management, traveling, andspending too much time in airports,rental cars, and hotels. After that Ipurchased a retail establishment andspent more time at home in Min-nesota. Lately, after selling the busi-ness and property, I took a part timejob at a fitness club and find it getsme out of the house a couple times

a week and interacting again. I havebeen traveling a little, getting to Eu-rope a couple of times and finding itso interesting and rewarding. Ihope I will be hearing from otherclassmates in the Alumni newslet-ter.

Keith JohnsonClass of 61

rockyspa@hotmail.com

John DawesClass of 1955My years at Marshall started inSept. 1951, the same year I lost myhearing. I had to travel each schoolday from my home in Robbinsdaleto Marshall by streetcar or bus, tooka while.

It was a totally new experiencefor me, new school, new faces andthe anticipation of starting HS. Thisadded up to anxiety on my part.Marshall put me at ease veryquickly. The teachers were greatbut it was the friendly students thathelped me adjust. I enjoyed goingto sporting events, especially bas-ketball and football games. Seeingall the attraction those sport guysgot from the girls I decided that wasthe way to go. Not wanting anybroken ribs playing football I wentout for the tennis team. Mr. Pattenwas the coach. After watching mehit the balls out of the court most ofthe first season he made an astuteremark to me. “Practice this sum-mer and try to get more balls insidethe fence next year”.

During my Junior and Senioryears I worked summers and allsales at Dayton’s so had to go di-rectly from school to work. Thatdid crimp my extracurricular activ-ities.

After Marshall I started at St.Thomas Collage. They had a two

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year pre-engineering course whichwas followed by 3 years at the U ofM. In 1960 armed with my BSCEdegree I ventured out in the worldand went as far as St. Paul and theMN Dept. of Transportation whereI stayed for 38 years. It’s not like Ididn’t move around, I changeddesk’s 4 or 5 times!!

I met my wife, Judy, at a com-pany picnic. They had a softballgame and I was playing 2nd basewhen Judy got a hit. She rounded1st and they threw the ball to me.That was a mistake #1. Mistake #2was holding the ball ready for thetag instead of running for my life.The next thing I knew was lookingup at the sky. That’s when I said Ihave to know her, needed a strongperson to take care of those meanTwin Cities thugs.

We married and had two beauti-ful daughters, both wed hard hats(construction guys), and four won-derful grandchildren, ages 4 to 7.Both families are now living inGuam. It all started when onedaughter graduated with a teachingdegree and couldn’t find a job here.She was told about the need forteachers @ the Air force base inGuam and unending parties. Sothat’s where she went and that ledto meeting her future husband, aguy from Montana.

A few years later she urged myother daughter to come to the landof sun, coral reefs and unendingparties. So off she went and got ajob managing a transportation com-pany and that is where she met herhusband, a bloke from N.Z/Aus-tralia. So to see all of them wetravel half way around the worldand in the process we visit manyAsian countries as well as Europe.

We both enjoy many outdoorsports such as biking, in-line skat-ing, running and especially skiing.

I was a ski patroller for 27 years,mostly at Afton Alps Ski Area, MN.

Since retiring I have kept busydoing volunteer work. Mostly formy wife who has an unending listof jobs but also building homes forHabitat for Humanity, groceryshopping for the home bound anddoing taxes as part of an AARP pro-gram.

I have enjoyed continuedfriendship with several MarshallAlumni .John Dawes

Class of 55

Editor’s note: It was the first dayof Typing Class. I wasn’t paying at-tention when the teacher (Mr.Hume?) gave some instruction. Iturned around to the new kid behindme and asked what had been said.The kid responded “speak a littleslower, I am deaf, but can readlips”. That was the start of myfriendship with Jack Dawes thatcontinues to this day.

Riddle-Griddle NostalgiaJudy Boelter Jorgensen, Class of 1959 writes:Just wanted you to know how muchI’ve enjoyed the Alumni News, es-pecially the “Reflections in the Mir-ror” about Riddle-Griddle. Boy, didthat bring back some memories.

I was 7 years old and a secondgrader at Sidney Pratt when ourRosebush Bluebird Group visitedRiddle-Griddle and I was chosen tobe on the program. I rememberreading my riddle (“How long is apiece of string? Two times one-halfthe length of it”) and Jimmy Valen-tine asked me if I knew what itmeant. My answer was “No, butmy daddy told me it’s a good one!”I still have a picture taken that day.

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PERPETUATE KINDNESS & GENEROSITY–TODAY IS THE DAY YOU

can make a difference in thelife of a student with disabili-

ties. Let!s all remember that Marshall

High School invented main-streaming. Those who at-

tended our schoolweren!t disabled...they were

classmates!!Please contribute to the

Marshall AccessEducation Fund.

Mail tax-deductiblecontribution to:

MAEFCM9407

P.O. Box 70870

JMHS Alumni Newsletter180 McNamara Alumni Center

200 Oak Street SEMinneapolis, MN 55455

•Disability Services,

University of Minnesotaare the manager!s of "MAEF# &providers of the JMHS Alumni

News web site.

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Class of 1939 Celebrates 70 Years!

By Tom Daly ‘55The Class of 1939 celebrated their70th anniversary reunion on June 17at the Old Country Buffet in Rich-field. Organized by Harvey John-son, the reunion went off without ahitch beginning at 11:30 a.m. andrunning until 1:30 p.m.

Tom Daly and Otto Lausten wereinvited to be guest speakers. Tomspoke about how he and Bob Hayesvolunteered to be co-editors of theMarshall High School AlumniNewsletter after Hap Corbett suf-fered a stroke and asked for helpwith the newsletter. Otto spokeabout how the production and de-livery of the newsletter haschanged over the last threeyears so that now it isavailable over the in-ternet on the Dis-ability Services

website (www.ds.umn.edu/). The 25participants included a sprinkling ofMarshallites from the 1940s in ad-dition to the youngsters from the1950s. Everyone appeared to have avery good time and enjoyed sharingmemories of Marshall and growingup in Southeast Minneapolis.

Harvey Johnson was the finalspeaker. Harvey told how the Classof 1939 began the Marshall Accessand Education Fund with less than$300 following their 50th reunion.Now 20 years later, MAEF is anendowed scholarship at the Univer-sity of Minnesota with more than$50,000 and has begun to grantfunds to disabled students at the

university. Harvey asked thatfolks

continue to contribute to MAEF sothat more students with disabilitieswill be helped in the future.

Tax-deductible contributions canbe sent to MAEF at CM9407, P.O.Box 70870, Minneapolis, MN55455.REUNION PARTICIPANTS INCLUDED: 1939 Class: Harvey R. Johnson, RobertRiley, Betsy Ross Lang, Elna KlavenKemnitz, Elinor Holmquist Davison, RuthStone Stewart, Arthur Platakis Parker

1937 Class: Doris Homquist Northfelt1938 Class: Stanley Eyberg, LeonaD’Aoust Gramling, Bjorn Johnson1943 Class: Jean Holmquist Ottoson, JeanHolmquist HustadOthers attending: Jean Johnson–Bjornswife, Esther Eyberg–Stan’s wife, MikeOndov, Gary Davison–husband of Elinor,Kathy Brandt, Betty Ouelette McCauley,Muriel Wennerstrom Malarky, DonSchroedl, Kim Norlien–artist, Tom

Daly–Alumni News editor, OttoLausten–Alumni News produc-

tion person.

REUNION CELEBRATIONS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Additional 70th Reunion PhotosCourtesy of Tom Daly

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Upcoming Reunions:

Reunion Celebrations:

Class of 1955The Marshall class of 1955 is going to partner with theAll-School Reunion Saturday, August 28, 2010. Seepage 8 for details. Ya’ll come–bring the family to town.

Class of 1960The Marshall class of 1960 has begun planning fortheir 50th Reunion to be held in 2010.Please contact Terry Christensen via email:terypirate@gmail.comSend Terry as much contact information as possible.

Alfred Smuda ’51Ron Kurash ’51

Marilyn Schardin Pierson ’51

Class of 1959The Class of 1959 held their 50th Reunion on June 26-28,2009. It was truly a success in everyway. We had class-mates who traveled from all over the U.S. and as far awayas Germany to attend the Reunion.

The Reunion started on Friday with a tour of MarshallHigh, followed by a gathering at Vescio’s for dinner. TheSaturday and Sunday events were held at Majestic OaksGolf Club in Ham Lake, MN. We had 85 classmates attendand with spouses, guests and teachers, we had 144 folksparticipate in the three day Reunion. We had four additionalclassmates registered that could not attend because of lastminute commitments.

The same comments and sentiments kept coming up -It was so nice to visit with classmates we hadn’t seen forfifty years. Yet, when we were together, it was as if we hadnever been apart. That is what it is like when you are almostlike family.

We grew up in a special time - the’50’s!—Jean Soderstrom

Class of 1951 LuncheonThe class of 1951 held a luncheon on Aug 27th at The OldCountry Buffet in Fridley. It was well attended by 50-somegraduates from the Twin Cities area.

It was great to see so many of our classmates, fun tohear what they are up to now and where they go for theirwinters. This was 58 years for our 1951 class and we are alllooking forward to more such luncheons throughout eachyear. —Ardie Swenson Lilja

Remembering — Obituaries:

All-School Reunion

Marshall/Marshall-University High School

1924 - 1982

Spread the word – we want everyone associated with Marshall/MUHS to join us

~Students, Staff, & Friends~

When: Saturday, August 28, 2010

Where: Radisson University Hotel U of M – Stadium Village

Information about how to register and the itinerary will be available at a later date.

Keep updated at Http://minneapolismarshall.blogspot.com

Or Facebook (search Marshall University)

Do you have particular interests/skills that you would like to use for the event or committees? Please let us know, we would love to have your help. Feel free to contact us with questions or info at minneapolis.marshall.u@gmail.com. We will contact you soon after.

Everyone is Welcome!

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All-School ReunionMarshall / Marshall-University

High School1924–1982

Spread the word—we want everyone associatedwith Marshall / MUHS to join us

~Students, Staff, & Friends~

When: Saturday, August 28, 2010

Where: Radisson University HotelU of M—Stadium Village

Information about how to register and theitinerary will be available at a later date.

Keep updated at:Http://minneapolismarshall.blogspot.com.

Or Facebook (search Marshall University Minneapolis)

Do you have particular interests / skills that you would like touse for the event or committees? Please let us know, wewould love to have your help. Feel free to contact us withquestions or info at: minneapolis.marshall.u@gmail.com.

We will contact you soon after.

Everyone is Welcome!

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For those of you who want a printedcopy of each Alumni News Bob

Hayes offers the following:

NEWSLETTER HARD COPY AVAILABLE

Hard copies of future MarshallAlumni Newsletters, in black &white, are now available through the U.S. Mail. A one year subscription, 3-issues, arriving in January, May & Septem-ber, is available at the cost of $5.00. To subscribe include your name andaddress with a $5.00 check made outto Bob Hayes and addressed to: BobHayes MHSN, 2520 Le Homme dieuHts #1, Alexandria, MN 56308.

Your newsletter mailing will beginon the next publication month

following receipt of your subscription.

Marshall UniversityHigh School

All-Class ReunionAugust 28, 2010

For More InformationAnd updates

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Minneapolis)

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want to be involved.

SIDNEY PRATT ON THECHOPPING BLOCK?Pratt, one of the few remainingschools that fed students into Mar-shall is, for the third time since2007, being threatened with clo-sure. In April of this year Min-neapolis Public School officialspresented their proposed restructur-ing to “ensure adequate-size pro-grams to increase efficiency”.These proposed changes includedclosing Pratt. At that meeting Prattparents and Prospect Park commu-nity members presented argumentsagainst closing Pratt. They wereable to forestall action and in theensuing follow-up meeting in July“…consensus was elusive and themeeting was emotionally charged…” resulting in the board headingback to the drawing board. A re-vised recommendation is scheduledfor early September. Pratt propo-nents are keeping their fingerscrossed. RKH

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