Distinguished Achievement

Norman A. Sterrie '39 - of Minneapolis is a distinguished pediatrician and pediatric allergist, practicing from 1953 to 1980 at St. Louis Park Medical Center (now Park-Nicollet Medical Center). He was president and board chairman there from 1970 to 1975. In 1998 he received the University of Minnesota Department of Pediatrics' Gold-Headed Cane Award. Sterrie, a retired Naval Reserve captain, received three Navy Crosses, the Distinguished Flying Cross, and three air medals for his heroism as a World War II torpedo bombing pilot. He is also an accomplished musician, playing clarinet, saxophone, oboe and bassoon. He and his late wife, Betsy Bullis Sterrie '39, have two children; he has been active in Carleton events for decades and has four other relatives who are Carleton alumni.

Mary Garst '49 - of Coon Rapids, Iowa, has been manager of he cattle department for the Garst Company since 1969. In 1977 her enterprise was named Commercial Beef Producer of North America. Besides prospering in the traditionally male-dominated profession of cattle management, Garst has been a civic activist, volunteer extraordinaire, and board member of many institutions, including Carleton, the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank, Planned Parenthood, and Northwestern Bell Telephone. in 1979 she received an honorary doctorate from Carleton, and in 1983 she was named to the Iowa Women's Hall of Fame. Garst and her husband, Stephen, have six children.

Willam R. Frazer '54 - of Berkeley, Calif., is a respected physicist and university administrator. Frazer is currently a senior scientist ant the Berkeley National Laboratory, professor emeritus of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, and vice-president of the Aspen Center for Physics. He began his career at the University of California, San Diego, leaving there in 1981 as a full professor and adviser to the university chancellor. He has written two text books on the theoretical physics of elementary particles. From 1981 to 1991, Frazer was senior vice president of the University of California's nine-campus system and supervised the scientific programs of the Los Alamos, Livermore, and Berkeley National Laboratories. He and his wife, Jane, have two children.

Dixon Bond '59 - of Northfield is an independent management consultant whose success in assisting nonprofit organizations, and the selflessness with which he devotes himself to his work, are notable. Bond is credited with saving the Laura Baker School (a not-for-profit multiservices agency for the developmentally disabled) in Northfield during the early 1990s. Earlier in his career, he played a key role in the facilities development of important Minneapolis art and theater institutions, and he was the first president of St. Paul's Ordway Music Theatre from 1985 to 1989. Bond also is an active Carleton volunteer, a founder of the Carleton Singing Knights, and a 1986 Alumni Association Exceptional Service award recipient. He has two sons.

Shannon (Voss) Griffin '59 - of New Brighton, Minn., is an educator whose innovative work has earned her kudos from kids, teachers, and education experts. Since 1995 Griffin has been principal of Olson Middle School in Minneapolis, and in 1998 she was named Secondary Principal of the Year by her school district peers. Her school, featured on the cover of Time magazine's October 1997 issue as one of three "shining examples" of a good urban school, is used as a model for other Minneapolis middle schools. A leader in district and professional association committees, Griffin also has been a Carleton volunteer. She has two children; her sisters are Carolyn (Voss) Copeland '57 and Heather (Voss) Tueffel '61.

Peter D. Rowley '64 - of Henderson, Nev., is an elite field geologist who is known for his significant and extensive work in geologic mapping, and also for his outstanding mentorship and support of undergraduate and graduate geology students. At the 1995 American Association of Petroleum Geologists meeting, Rowley received the prestigious Dibblee Award from the Thomas Wilson Dibblee Jr. Geological Foundation. He has made more than 54 geological maps, most in rugged territory, and published more than 80 articles and 30 abstracts of his work. Since 1986 his mapping efforts have been concentrated in the Caliente Depression in Nevada. Rowley has been a Carleton convocation speaker and guest lecturer. He has two children.

Bruce Sanford Brook '69 - of Concord, N.H., is an architect, artist and civic leader who consistently puts his talents to work for good causes. From 1970 to 1973, as a conscientious objector , he designed and helped construct several buildings at Minnesota's Camp New Hope, a camp for mentally disabled children. In 1992 he designed Carleton's Alumni Guest House and Johnson House complex. From 1993 to 1998, his architectural firm completed more than 75 projects, including schools, libraries, child care facilities, retail centers, and affordable housing. he has co-taught classes on designing appropriate child care environments, and his art has been included in several exhibits. he and his wife, Laurel Wood Brook '72, and their son are currently in Italy. Other family Carls are brother Charles Brook '65 and sister-in-law Robin Wood Nelson '70.

Lila Abu-Lughod '74 - of New York City is a respected anthropologist , ethnologist, and author. A noted professor of anthropology and Middle East studies at New York University since 1991, Abu-Lughod specializes in Middle East women's studies and since 1994 has been co-director of the university's Program to Internationalize Women's Studies. She has spent much time doing research in Egypt. Her books, Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories and Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society, are critically acclaimed award-winners. Abu-Lughod has two more books in progress. She and her husband, Timothy Mitchell, have two children.

Daniel Teberg Spencer '79 - of Des Moines, Iowa, is an associate professor of religion and ethics at Drake University, where he was named 1998 Arts and Sciences Teacher of the Year. He also is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ. A magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi Carleton geology graduate, he has a Ph.D. in Christian ethics and a master of divinity degree. Spencer has taught classes on environmental ethics , bio-medical ethics and faith, and lesbian and gay spirituality and theology. He is a frequent speaker at conferences, churches, community forums, and workshops, and has led or been a translator for human rights/study seminars to Latin America numerous times. His father is Lorin Spencer '48; his aunt is Hazel Spencer Hastings '48.

Exceptional Service

Robert G. Lockwood '49 - of St. Paul was the 1949 class agent for several years in the 1970s. He served as assistant class agent from 1995 to 1997, when he again assumed the class agent role. On his watch, the '49ers enjoyed 60 percent participation and raised more than $60,000 in fiscal 1998 for the Alumni Annual Fund. From February 1997 to June 1999, he was on the 1949 50th reunion gift committee, and he is a past member of the Twin Cities Carleton Club steering committee. Professionally, he was a polymer research and development scientist for 3M for 38 years and helped develop PET plastic. Lockwood also was mayor of Mendota Heights, Minn., for 10 years and a local and regional Jaycees leader. He and his wife, Josephine, have two children; there are five Carls in his family.

Jack M. Thurnblad '49 - of Northfield spent 29 years at Carleton, starting in 1960 as basketball coach and ending as the College's athletic director, men's physical education department chair, and professor emeritus. He also coached men's golf over the years, but perhaps is best known for the way in which he positively influenced the young people with whom he worked. In 1974, he helped establish Carleton's 'C' Club Hall of Fame; he was inducted into it in 1975. He has helped plan many class of '49 reunions, including this year's 50th. In 1996 he and his wife, Jinny White Thurnblad '48, started an annual golf event in Casey Jarchow's memory; they have four children, including Timothy Thurnblad '76.

In the Spirit of Carleton

Douglas A. Kenshol '89 - of Evanston, Ill., was a Peace Corps volunteer in Wa, Ghana, from 1989 to 1991, teaching high school physics and creating an award-winning science club. From 1992 to 1993, he headed the science department and taught physics at Chicago's Academy of the Sacred Heart, and participated in the a project to redesign the Cabrini Green Housing Complex. While an AmeriCorps member in Washington D.C., from 1993 to 1995, he founded and directed Through the World's Eyes and earned an M.A. at American University. From 1995 to 1996 he was again in Wa, Ghana, as a Fulbright Scholar. He earned a master's degree at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management in spring 1999 and has been a social entrepreneurship intern at Northwestern.Evanston Business Incubator.