1950 Grads Love to Sing

It is amazing how many of the reunion attendees have
been engaged in singing or musical activities ever since 
high school! 

Martin Kienitz - credits his fourth grade teacher at 

Pratt school with starting him on a lifetime of singing; 

it was part of the Minneapolis curriculum to teach 

music sight-reading using the do-re-mi method. No 

matter where he has lived, he has belonged to one or

more singing groups and he married a music teacher.  

Martin Kienitz - by EF

Bob Summers - went to the same school as Martin,.  He doesn't

remember the singing lessons but has sung his whole life.  He

remembers most the penmanship lessons.  Bob traveled the most

round-about way to the reunion.  There was a snowstorm in the

mountains so he had to drive many hundreds of miles out of the

way in order in order to catch a plane in California to get to

Minnesota. 

Marty & Bob Summers - by DT

Ruth Sundberg Donhowe talked about being on the board of the
Weisman Art Museum.**  She passed around pictures of Frank
Gehry's initial drawing/plan and pictures of the finished building.
It has been called ,"the largest sculpture in the Twin Cities." (The
original plan looked like something a five year-old would scribble.)
**see picture at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weisman_Art_Museum

Ruth spends a lot of time painting at her University Avenue studio.
She's also a gardener (herbs, wild flowers and prairie flowers) and
sings in her church choir.

Ruth Sundberg Donhowe & Jane Fellows Buffington - by DT

Ted Anderson sings in a church choir and a Norwegian men's choir
and the Augsburg Centennial Singers (all male group that tours
Tucson, Arizona each winter.) He telephoned MANY U High grads
urging them to come to the reunion.  He even convinced Dick

Ted Anderson & Connie Matson's daughter, Ellen Ferwerda

Thompson to come and form the band behind him.