Well, welcome back!!!
After a year of shutdowns and no letter, let’s get down to business! I hope you all have been staying alive and working through the pandemic. The powers that be have jump-started the new letter program and I now expect to send one out again every six months or so. I hope you are all taking care of yourselves and hey! It’s getting close to reunion time and time to Escape!!!! Speaking of reunion. I would really like, no, I really need a bit of help and volunteers to help out a bit. This is my first to be in charge and I sure could use the help. If you could volunteer, please let me know. The rewards will be…. Let’s just say, knock on wood, Amazing!
Now, they say don’t look back, but hey, we’ve got a lot going on this semester for sure! Is anyone going canoeing down the Upper Iowa? Dawn Paulson, I know you are going.
Before I get too far into this letter, I have to address one thing. I would love to meet this Dewey fella that created the Dewey Decimal System. I have a big paper due this semester and am spending a lot of time in the library reading for research. I was there over the weekend and had a pile of books, notecards, and notebooks going through a stack of books for my paper. Seriously, is there anything easier than using the Dewey Decimal system to find books? It really makes it easy to find books on a given subject for sure. I already have a bunch of notecards with various information and just need to organize those. I keep forgetting to footnote so I need to go back and double check that after my rough draft. Then just a few hours on the typewriter and voila! My paper will be done! The great thing about using the Dewey Decimal system is, that I can see this is a skill I will be able to use the rest of my life!
Just saw Dave Burling and stopped to chat with him for awhile while taking a break. He’s trying to make a little magic on a paper and I swear that guy is just plain funny. Some of the stories he tells about his time as an RA. A pipe and a tie? If memory serves, I think he was an RA sophomore year? Anyone else have any RA stories?
I know it has been a while, but after my last letter, I did hear from a few folks:
Pam Helgerson-Dome wrote: My favorite band (and orchestra) memories would be the performances at Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis and our 1982 J-Term trip to California and Hawaii. Remembers Cat Stevens.
And Marilee Reinertson Torres said: I am on staff at St. Stephen's Lutheran Church in a part-time position known as Minister for Faith Life. I did go up to Decorah on the Friday of Homecoming Weekend this year. I had not been there since our reunion back in 2017. This time I brought all five of my grandchildren to come see the beauty of Decorah and Luther campus. We almost lost my oldest grandson to the caves at the top of Dunning's Spring, He wanted to stay there and explore. I think I lost more than a few afternoons exploring such wonders.
We are still interested in hearing about your favorite concert, moment, food, etc. So, keep those cards and letters coming! By the way, again, if you recognize your name in this letter, other than Pam or Marilee, sorry about that, or are the first to recognize the songs mentioned from our years at Luther, let me know and I will send you a little something.
Alright, dim all the lights! Anyone going to see Maria von Trapp at the CFL? Oh yeah, she was there! Hey, here’s a question for you! Does anyone know what ordering a pizza with Canadian bacon and no meat means?
It’s Wednesday! You know what that means! Time to take it on the run and head down to the Pub! It’s Pub Club time!!! Refill your pub mug for a whopping $.10 and pitchers are $1 or $1.25? Anyone else like the chuckwagon sandwich? Do they even make those anymore? After a night of a few beverages, those were tasty! And who could forget those bathrooms!! It’s one of those memories that once you walk in the door, you immediately have a recollection of where you are.
Here’s something I was wondering…. Did Jeff Doebler ever become the leader of the band? I always thought he would make a good one. Anyway, enough of this frivolity for now. Reunion is October 7-9, 2022. Plan to be there. It will be as memorable as our time at Luther was. In the meantime, I can’t do this without your love so keep those cards and letters coming. Send me some memories, thoughts, or just let me know what is on your mind. And if any of you feel in your heart that you can help make this reunion the best one ever, drop me a line.
Until then and always,
Your Headless Norseman
