Exceptional Service Award

Katharine "Tinker" Angell Roe '36 of Sunfish Lake, Minn., assisted with planning and coordination of each reunion her class has celebrated. She also was an instrumental gift committee member for her class's 60th reunion. From 1976 to 1978 Roe served as a Carleton Alumni Board director. She helped raise funds during a capital campaign and, with her late husband, John H. Roe Jr. '36, has been a regular donor to Carleton over the past 65 years. She has served as a class agent since 1995. For several years, Roe was the volunteer director at Presbyterian Homes of Minnesota. She cowrote Sunfish Lake Village-Past and Present. One of her five children, John H. Roe III, is a Carleton trustee.

Ray Asp '50 and Marian "Meem" Wahlquist Asp '51 of Edina, Minn., were cochairs of their respective 45th and 50th reunion committees, and Meem also was a 40th reunion cochair. With Ray's leadership, the Class of '50 presented to Carleton in 2000 the largest reunion gift the College has received to date. In 1974-75 the Asps were cochairs of the alumni parents committee, and both have served as phonathon volunteers. Meem was an Alumni Board member in 1975, while Ray has served on the Casey Jarchow memorial golf committee. In 1981 Ray was inducted into the 'C' Club Hall of Fame for his college football and baseball achievements. Two of the Asps' four children-Steve '76 and Peggy '77-attended Carleton, and their grandson Ernie is in the Class of '04. The Asps are members of Carleton's Heywood Society.

Richard "Dick" C. Nordholm '51 of Rio Verde, Ariz., was the first president of the Alumni Annual Fund, serving from 1988 to 1990, and was one of the fund's originators. He was a member of Carleton's Alumni Board from 1986 to 1992 and was the board's president from 1990 to 1992. From 1992 to 1996 Nordholm was a Carleton Alumni Trustee. In the 1970s he chaired the Duluth Carleton Club and the San Francisco Carleton Club. During the 1960s Nordholm was a class agent. He also has been an alumni admissions representative. He cochaired his 50th reunion publicity committee, has been an Annual Fund leadership solicitor, and he and his wife, Marianne Hughes Nordholm '52, are Heywood Society members. His other Carleton connections include son Bradford Nordholm '78, brother-in-law Thomas Hughes '47, and sister Marjorie (Nordholm) Saunders '52.

Marion "Mo" Ostrom Robertson '56 of Chevy Chase, Md., was a class agent from 1956 to 1973, and again from 1989 to 1998. In 1996, as a reunion gift committee member, she led her class to break records in giving and participation (a remarkable 71 percent). Since 1998 Robertson has been the 1950s decade director for the Alumni Annual Fund. She served on the Carleton Fund Steering Committee from 1984 to 1988, was an Alumni Board director from 1983 to 1986, and also has been a leadership solicitor and phonathon coordinator. In addition, Robertson was a Washington, D.C., Carleton Club steering committee member from 1978 to 1983. Robertson and her husband, Donald, have four children, including Stephen Robertson '83. Other Carleton connections include her mother, an aunt, her sister, a daughter-in-law, and two nephews.

Dennis "Denny" L. Jarvela '66, who died of cancer in December 1999, received the award posthumously. Jarvela chaired his class's 25th reunion committee and was a chief organizer for his 30th reunion, serving as gift committee chair. He was involved with plans for his 35th reunion until his death. From 1992 to 1997 Jarvela was a Carleton Alumni Board member, serving as president for 1995-96. In 1996 he began service as the Alumni Annual Fund 1960s decade director; he was also a leadership solicitor and an assistant class agent during much of the 1990s. Throughout his legal career, Jarvela was a mentor and guide for Carleton undergraduates interested in becoming lawyers. He was also an alumni admissions representative. Jarvela is survived by his wife, Ann, of Maumee, Ohio, and two daughters.

Alan C. Thiel '71 of Minneapolis was a Carleton Alumni Board member from 1993 to 1999 and served as board president for 1997-98. Thiel has been an alumni admissions representative for more than 20 years, and he played a key role in creating the proposal to establish the Alumni Admissions Board. From 1995 to 1997 Thiel was the alumni representative to the College Council. He has been a Career Explorations host numerous times and has chaired committees for his 20th, 25th, and 30th reunions. Thiel is currently an assistant class agent and a Heywood Society member, and he has been an Alumni Annual Fund leadership solicitor. Thiel and his wife, Jean Watson Thiel '74, have two sons. His other Carleton connections include his brothers, John Thiel '65 and Robert Thiel '67, and his mother-in-law, Naurine (Northrup) Watson '44.

Duane A. Schrader '76 of Clive, Iowa, was a volunteer coach for the Carleton men's rugby club since 1985, and for the women's rugby club since 1990. He left both posts in 2001. Since 1980 Schrader has spearheaded semiannual student-alumni rugby matches. Schrader has worked on behalf of the Carleton Career Center, both through the Career Network as an alumni business resource and mentor, and as an informal career counselor. During his 1990-95 Alumni Board tenure, Schrader chaired the careers committee and was on the student-alumni relations committee. For two years in the 1990s Schrader also was the alumni representative to the College Council. Schrader has been involved with organizing each of his class reunions to date, and most recently was a cochair of his 25th reunion committee. He and his wife, Nancy, have two daughters.

In the Spirit of Carleton Award

Gary Ruskin '86 of Portland, Ore., has gained national prominence as an advocate for fairness and greater integrity in public life. Since 1993 the New York City native has directed the Washington, D.C. -based Congressional Accountability Project, which is devoted to opposing corruption in the U.S. Congress. Since 1998 Ruskin has been executive director of Commercial Alert, which he founded with Ralph Nader in an attempt to "keep the commercial culture within its proper sphere, and to prevent it from exploiting children or subverting the higher values of family, community, environmental integrity, and democracy." In that role, he has led a large bipartisan effort to limit commercialism in schools. Ruskin received a master's degree in public policy in 1992 from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Distinguished Achievement Award Recipients

Kiyoaki Murata '46 of Tokyo began in 1949 to build the Japan Times into the most influential English-language journal in Japan. He was named managing editor in 1971 and executive editor in 1976, and was editor-in-chief from 1977 until his retirement in 1983. In 1957 Murata received the Vaughn Prize for Outstanding International Journalism from the Japan Newspaper Publishers and Editors Association. In 1978-79 he was a special adviser to the Japanese delegation to the United Nations. Murata has written several books, including An Enemy among Friends, published in 1991. He also has been a visiting lecturer at several Japanese universities. From 1989 to 1993 Murata served on Carleton's Board of Trustees. In 1984 he received an honorary doctor of laws degree from Carleton. He and his wife have three children.

Edgar H. Brenner '51 of Washington, D.C., is cofounder and codirector since 1992 of the Inter-University Center for Legal Studies, which educates policymakers on critical international issues of war and peace, especially international terrorism. He helped found the Institute for Behavioral Research (IBR) in 1960 and since 1989 has served as national director of its Behavioral Law Center. The Experimental College of IBR awarded him an honorary doctor of laws degree in 1988. Brenner is currently president and CEO of the Stella and Charles Guttman Foundation of New York and has been on its board since 1962. From 1957 to 1989 he was an associate and senior partner at Arnold & Porter of Washington, D.C. He and his wife have three children, including Charles Brenner '76.

Earle R. Gister '56 of New Haven, Conn., widely recognized as one of America's finest acting teachers, has spent more than 30 years training young actors. In 1999 Gister retired from Yale University's School of Drama, where for 19 years he was associate dean of academic affairs and chair of the acting program. He was named the first Lloyd Richards Adjunct Professor of Drama in 1994. In 1991 Gister shared a Tony Award on behalf of the Yale School of Drama and the Yale Repertory Theatre. He was a founding member of the League of Professional Theatre Training Programs, a member of the National Theatre Conference since 1967, a Tony nominating committee member in 1980, and a member the first grants award panel in theater for the National Endowment for the Arts. He and his wife have three sons.

Carolyn Schuetz Baysdorfer '56 of Alameda, Calif., has been a leading force in international humanitarian efforts sponsored by Rotary International over the past several years. Baysdorfer has written numerous grants that have had a positive effect on the quality of life for many in Mexico, Honduras, Ghana, India, and other countries. She has traveled the globe on behalf of Rotary. In 1996-97 Baysdorfer was one of the first women in the United States to be a Rotary district governor. During her tenure, Baysdorfer raised more than $400,000 for the Rotary Foundation. She has been a member of Hayward South Rotary since December 1987 and was the club's secretary in 1991-92 and its president in 1993-94. Professionally, she has been a career counselor and is currently a consultant in that field.

John R. Brandenberger '61 of Appleton, Wis., has had a distinguished 33-year teaching career at Lawrence University and also has played a leading role in developing one of the nation's most extensive undergraduate programs in laser physics. Brandenberger joined the Lawrence faculty in 1968; in 1995 he received Lawrence's Excellence in Teaching Award. He was made an American Physical Society fellow in 1999, an honor going to one half of 1 percent of APS members annually. Brandenberger has assembled more than $500,000 worth of research-grade equipment at Lawrence and distributed it among four laboratories. He has conducted extensive research in laser physics, saturation and quantum-beat spectroscopy, optovoltaic and Hanle-effect investigations, and more. He and his wife have two sons; a cousin and sister are also Carleton alumni.

Parker J. Palmer '61 of Madison, Wis., is a noted writer, teacher, and activist who has received honorary degrees from six institutions. In 1998 the Leadership Project named Palmer one of the 30 "most influential senior leaders" in higher education and one of the 10 key "agenda-setters" of the past decade. He has received several awards for his writing and has published more than 100 essays and six widely used books, including The Courage to Teach (1997). He is senior associate of the American Association of Higher Education, senior adviser to the Fetzer Institute, and senior adviser to the Center for Teacher Formation. Palmer has three children.

Barrie M. Osborne '66 of Seatoun, Wellington, New Zealand, is a film producer who has been involved with more than 48 motion picture productions in 31 years. Osborne is currently producing three movies simultaneously: J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy. The first, The Fellowship of the Ring, is scheduled for release in December 2001. After spending four years in the Army Corps of Engineers in Korea, Osborne entered the film industry in 1970 as an apprentice editor and assistant production manager. From 1985 to 1987 he was vice president for feature production at Walt Disney Pictures. Since 1987 Osborne has been the executive producer of several films, including Dick Tracy, Face/Off, and 1999's The Matrix, which won Academy Awards in four categories. He and his partner, Carol Kim, have one daughter.

Robert A. Elhai '81 of Minneapolis is a composer and award-winning orchestrator for theater productions and film scores. In 1998 Elhai received a Drama Desk and Tony Award nomination for his work as the supervising orchestrator on the stage production of The Lion King (he was also the incidental and dance music arranger). A few of the movies whose scores Elhai has orchestrated are 101 Dalmatians, Time to Kill, Interview with the Vampire, Batman Forever, The Sixth Sense, and Tomb Raider. Vampire won an Academy Award nomination. He also orchestrated the score for the April 2001 ABC-TV production of South Pacific. Elhai has lectured on orchestration and film music at Carleton. He and his wife, Laura Hoyt '81, have two sons.

Hall of Fame

The Carleton 'C' Club Hall of Fame welcomed three of Carleton's most decorated student-athletes during its induction ceremony during Reunion week. Baseball and football standout John Nielson '91, swimmer Greg Sampson '91, and track and field stalwart Jennifer Streefland Henry '91 were recognized.

Nielson was a four-time all-conference performer in baseball and a two-time all-league pick in football. He is Carleton's only baseball All-American.

Sampson racked up more than 20 all-conference citations and nine All-America citations. He won five individual national titles-a school record.

Streefland Henry twice earned All-America honors in the heptathlon and missed a third by a mere three points her sophomore season. She garnered 24 all-conference citations, graduated with nine school records, and was the MIAC's outstanding performer in outdoor track and field in 1990 and 1991.

The trio joins the 93 individuals and two teams already in the 'C' Club.