Minnesota State University, Mankato TODAY Spring 2010

Today is a celebration for the AAA's. Our own Mary Hesla Huntley Professor Emerita is featured in, believe it or not her first centerfold! Mary's chapter "Laughing All The Way" is totally reprinted and beautifully illustrated on pages 16 and 17 of our college alumni magazine, TODAY. Aging is truly amazing as I look back at the history of the Blue Garter Gals. Eight of us started college at Mankato State College the fall of 1958, Georgia Koberoski, Jane Williams, Sandi Donaldson, Marlys Case, Carolyn Meyer, Peggy Vihstadt, Judy Piles, Mary Hesla and Judy Strand. Four years later most of us had graduated, were at work on our first jobs and many of us had wedding bands and new names as well! A couple of us even had given birth to our first child. Now we are grandmothers, many of us have retired from our professional employment and have packed away our diplomas. This year as we celebrate our 70th birthdays, we are off following our latent passions. The college has grown up too, multiplied seven times in enrollment; it has changed names at least twice since our graduations. Our hearts are warmed by the university's published list of professed values: Intregity, Diversity, Access, Responsibility and Excellence.