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Home > News & Events > CLA Today Archive : Spring 2005

CLA Today Spring 2005

From the Dean
Keeping the academic torch burning: Saving public higher education.

Family stories
CLA researchers are creating and sharing new knowledge about families.

• M.J. Maynes: Turning Families Inside Out
• Ascan Koerner: Negotiating Family Relationships
• Phyllis Moen: Life's Obstacle Course
• Kathleen Hull: With This Ring: Marrying Research & Changing Families
• Richard Lee: Connecting Cultures
• Penny Edgell: Edgell Spreads the Word
• Lisa Norling: Searching for Ahab's Wife
• Susanne Jones: Messages of Comfort

In this issue
Legacies, Celebrating CLA Families

Awards and accolades
CLA faculty, students, and alumni/ae, make their marks on CLA, Minnesota, and the world.

Notable alumni/ae
Bert and Susan Gross are carrying the family tradition beyond the gridiron. Richard Beeson is banking on a strong U.

Philanthropy with vision
Doug Freeman honors his late wife's legacy with a gift to students. Elayne Wolfenson perfects the art of giving.

CLA Today, College of Liberal Arts
Spring 2005

CLA Today is published 3 times a year by the University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts for alumni/ae, faculty, staff and friends of the college.

Dean—Steven J. Rosenstone
Director of external relations—Mary Hicks
Director of media & public relations—Susan Banovetz
Director of communications & executive editor—Eugenia Smith

Writers—Joel Hoekstra, Melissa Martinson, Mary Shafer, Judy Woodward

Send correspondence to the editor at e-smit@umn.edu.

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