In the Spirit of Carleton Award Recipient

Christopher F. Kratt '92 of Warren, N.J., and his brother, Martin, have won recognition internationally for their award-winning educational children's television series, Kratts' Creatures and Zoboomafoo. The shows air in 34 countries; Kratts' Creatures has received the Parents' Choice Award, the Genesis Award, and the International Wildlife Film Festival Merit Award. Zoboomafoo garnered a Parents' Choice Silver Honor Award in October 2001. A founder of Kratt Brothers' Creature Heroes, a nonprofit society dedicated to enabling children to help the world's wild animals, Kratt received the Award of Appreciation from U.S. Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt in 1999. Kratt and his wife, Tanya, are expecting their first child.

Exceptional Service Award Recipient

Donald R. Cooper '62 of Black Mountain, N.C., initiated an unprecedented volunteer effort in 1985 in preparation for the Class of 1962's 25th reunion, resulting in a still-unsurpassed $1.4 million 25th-reunion gift-with 70 percent of the class participating-and a new standard for Carleton reunion giving. In 1995 Cooper introduced a reunion-giving model by offering up to $1 million as a challenge to ignite Alumni Annual Fund growth, which has since grown an average of 12 percent annually. Cooper was a Carleton trustee from 1988 to 1991 and is a past Alumni Annual Fund solicitor, assistant class agent, and reunion gift committee member. He is currently a consultant to Citigroup and leads a nonprofit corporation, CooperRiis, with his wife, Lisbeth Riis Cooper. He has two children.

Distinguished Achievement Award Recipients

James A. Gusweller '47 of Equinunk, Pa., has spent his life as a champion of social justice. He was rector of the Church of St. Matthew & St. Timothy on New York's West 84th Street from 1955 to 1973. The book Shepherd of the Streets by John Ehle chronicles Gusweller's work to establish a housing corporation, a day-care center, and remedial reading and youth programs in the rundown neighborhood. Confrontations with narcotics dealers led to his church being burned down, but he rebuilt it. From 1973 to 1989 Gusweller was executive director of the Episcopal Mission Society of the Diocese of New York. He holds an S.T.B. degree and an honorary degree from General Theological Seminary. He and the late Suzanne Heagey '48 have four adopted children; he remarried in 1997.

Lloyd P. Johnson '52 of Wayzata, Minn., was president, chair, and CEO of Norwest Corporation from 1985 until he retired in 1993. In recognition of his leadership and achievements, Corporate Report named him 1991 Executive of the Year. Johnson earned an M.B.A. degree at Stanford University in 1954. He rose rapidly through the ranks of California's Security Pacific National Bank Corporation, serving as its vice chair and a member of the office of the chief executive from 1978 to 1984. Throughout his career, Johnson has also served as a member of the Federal Reserve System (1989-90), a Carleton trustee (1974-99), and cochair of Carleton's Assuring Excellence campaign. He and his late wife, Rosie Gesner Johnson '54, have three children.

Mary Hulings Rice '62 of Bayfield, Wis., owned and operated Thrice (now Cooks of Crocus Hill) on St. Paul's Grand Avenue from 1973 to 1980. In 1974 Rice nearly single-handedly started Grand Old Days, which has since become the largest one-day street festival in the Upper Midwest. Upon moving to Wisconsin in 1980, Rice began opening restaurants and businesses, now including Maggie's, Mount Ashwabay Ski Resort, Big Top Chautauqua, and Wild Rice. She is a director of the Madeline Island Ferry, a trustee of Northland College, a founder of Madeline Island Music Camp, and a director and vice president of the HRK Foundation. Katherine Rice '92 is one of her two daughters.

Robert H. Alsdorf '67 of Seattle is an internationally respected lawyer and jurist who, since 1990, has been a Washington State Superior Court trial judge. He has three times been named Judge of the Year: in 2002 by the King County Bar Association, in 2001 by the Washington State Trial Lawyers' Association, and in 2001 by the Washington Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates. Washington Women Lawyers gave him the 2000 Vanguard Award for "courage on the bench and for promoting fair treatment of women and minorities in court." Alsdorf served two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Sierra Leone before earning both a master's degree in American history and a J.D. degree from Yale University in 1973. He and his wife, Sarah Schlick Alsdorf '68, have two sons.

Gary L. Sundem '67 of Seattle has written several textbooks that are college accounting mainstays on an international level; two are best-sellers. He received the 1977 AICPTA/AAA Award for Notable Contribution to Accounting Literature. At Stanford University, Sundem earned M.B.A. and Ph.D. degrees in business. In 1969 he joined the University of Washington Business School faculty, where he is the Julius A. Roller Professor of Accounting, past chair of the Department of Accounting, and associate dean for master's programs. He was chosen Outstanding Accounting Educator in 1987 by the Washington Society of CPAs. In 1998 he was the American Accounting Association's Outstanding Accounting Educator. He and his wife, Elizabeth Weikart Sundem '68, have four sons.

Carlos Rene Gonzales '77 of Nogales, Ariz., was named the Arizona Family Physician of the Year in 1997, and in 1998 he was a finalist for National Family Physician of the Year. He has many other honors to his credit, including a 15-year Exceptional Service Award from the National Health Service Corps and a Commitment to Underserved Peoples (CUP): Founder's CUP Award from the University of Arizona College of Medicine (2000). Since 1993 Gonzales has been a primary care provider at the rural Patagonia Family Health Center; from 1985 to 1993, he was with the El Rio Santa Cruz Neighborhood Health Center, where he was chief of medical staff and medical director. Gonzales, an active Carleton volunteer, and his wife, Debbie, have four children.

Catherine S. Manegold '77 has covered international affairs, politics, social issues, and wars for the New York Times, Newsweek, and the Philadelphia Inquirer. She is a seven-time Pulitzer Prize nominee and was part of the Times' team awarded the Pulitzer for its coverage of the 1993 terrorist bombing of the World Trade Center. She was the Inquirer's Southeast Asia bureau chief and helped write and coordinate Newsweek's coverage of the Tiananmen Square massacre and the Berlin Wall collapse. She wrote In Glory's Shadow: Shannon Faulkner, The Citadel and a Changing America, which was cited by the Los Angeles Times on its list of "Best Nonfiction of 2000." Now a professor at Emory University, she holds the James M. Cox Chair in Journalism. She and her partner, Kathy Newton, live in Decatur, Ga.

Eric R. Simonson '77 of Tacoma and Ashford, Wash., is a world-famous professional mountain climber and guide who organized and led the 1999 expedition to Mount Everest that discovered the body of English explorer George Mallory. He is coauthor of a book about the trip titled Ghosts of Everest, which the BBC and Nova used as the subject of a television documentary. He led a second Mallory research expedition in 2001; his book Detectives on Everest was published in 2002. In 1981 Simonson started International Mountain Guides and became a co-owner of Mount Rainier Alpine Guides. He has led more than 85 expeditions to mountains around the world. He is married to Erin Copland Simonson and has three children.