The Trumpeter

In This Issue Address Changes-pg. 2 Baptism-pg. 2 Birthdays, Baptism Birthdays,

Anniversaries-pg. 4 Calendar-pg. 7 Church Cleaning-pg. 5 Daylight Saving Time-pg. 2 Easter Lily Form– pg. 4 Flower Chart-pg. 5 From the Pastor-pg. 1 If You Are Hospitalized-pg. 4 In Memoriam-pg. 4 Lent Continues-pg. 3 Lenten Giving-pg. 6 MoM’s Thrift Store-pg. 2 New Members-pg. 3 Remember in Prayer-pg. 2 Resurrection of Our Lord-pg.

3 and pg. 6 Seder Meal-pg. 2 Soup Kitchen Wish List-pg. 6 USD Concert-pg. 1 Worship Assistants and Other

Servers-pg. 5

From the Pastor Lent began on Valentine’s Day. A day of the cele-bration of love complete with greeting cards, flowers, and other gifts offered a tie-in with Jesus’ love for us. The kids who came Ash Wednesday service got a Val-entine card from God to remind them of how much God

loves us all. Easter is on April Fools’ Day. The last time this happened was

1956. The irony of this occurrence is too good to let go. (Please see the article on page 6 which contains thoughts from Miles Townes and me.) Although I’m way past the age of playing April Fools’ jokes on others, I am amenable to being the brunt of such jokes on me.

God’s love is a serious thing, of course, but many American churches have begun using an old Easter custom begun by the ear-ly Greek Christians: “Bright Sunday” or “Holy Humor Sunday.” These celebrations take place on the Sunday after Easter. For cen-turies in all Christian traditions, the week following Easter Sunday was observed by the faithful as “days of joy and laughter with par-ties and picnics to celebrate Jesus’ Resurrection.

We won’t be doing this at Augustana, but our worship is far from gloomy on any given Sunday or other special service. Why? Because of the events of Holy Week...including the parade on Palm Sunday; the Meal, foot-washing, languish of Jesus in Gethsemane, the betrayal kiss, the arrest, and the kangaroo court on Thursday; the Crucifixion on Friday; Jesus’ descent to the place of the dead (Hades) on Saturday; and his triumphant victory over death on Sun-day.

Blessings for the rest of Lent and into Resurrection!

Augustana Lutheran Church, Sioux City, Iowa March 2018—Volume 26 Issue 3

USD Chamber Singers Return to Augustana The nationally-recognized University of South Dakota Chamber Singers and their conductor, David Hold-husen, Ph.D., will be participating in a weeklong concert tour during the university’s spring break from March

2-9. The ensemble will perform on Friday, March 2 at 7:30 p.m. at Augustana. Admission is free to all of the Chamber Singers’ perfor-mances; however, a freewill offering will be collected at each venue. This year’s musical program, “Journey of Enlightenment” includes classical and contemporary musical selections spanning a variety of languages and cultures. During the course of the concert, the choir will sing a wide variety of styles and languages, as well as traditional choral music, folksongs and spirituals. The program also includes sev-eral selections from cultures around the world, including, Brazil, Cuba, Russia, Korea, and Africa with songs in nine different languages.

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Remember in prayer. . . Oriah Boling-Ellens, Glenna Brockhaus, Chase Broyhill, Shaun Broyhill, Ken File, Kris Grunig, Pau-la Hebron, Ron Houske, Elysha Iversen, Olivia Kallaos, Mackenzie Keith, Dave Kellen, Michael Kochen, Greg LaScala, Brock Lindgren, David Lindgren, Peter Macfar-lane, Trevor & Nicholle Mammen and family, Dorothy Mid-land, Janice Mohan, the family of Marion Moline, Jacob Muckey, Chad Muecke, Denise Nurse, Tom Peterson, Wendy Pohl, Lenona Raymond, Bev Robinson, the family of Maria Schweim, Alice Sea, Adam Smith, Dorothy Swen-son, Dennis Travis, the family of Jack & Jane Ward, Cindy Washinowski, Brianne Wilson, Jackson Wynn, Carol Ya-neff, Tami Zerr, Larry Zinke, and those affected by disas-ters throughout the world.

Each week we pray for some of the families in the con-gregation.

March 4—Jarred & Leigh, Kaden and Brecken Schossow; Skip & Sheila Schossow; Kevin & Beth, Ben and Tara Schwaderer; Dick & Alice Sea.

March 11—Doug Sea; Marty Sea; Lavina Sewalson; Vir-ginia Sewalson; Gloria Smith.

March 18—Bob & Jennifer, Charlie and Annie Stewart; Doug & Susie Strohbeen; Drew & Heidi, and Isabella Strohbeen; Bob & Marge Swanson; Judy Swanson.

March 25—Amy and Elliott Swenson; Rick Swenson; Leo & Barb Torticill; Derek & Alicia, Dominic, Dawson, and Ari-anna Trobaugh; Steve & Mindy Trobaugh.

Thank You To the Members of Augustana, Thank you so much for your generous donation to the Mission of the Messiah! We really appreciate it and are blessed to be able to continue helping the Siouxland Com-munity. Thanks again for thinking of us! For his glory, Allison Ingenthron and all of the volunteers at MoM’s.

Address Changes Mike & Kathie and Whitney Lindgren 604 152nd St., Space 132 South Sioux City, NE 68776

Denny Usher 604 152nd St., Space 5 South Sioux City, NE 68776

Please look at your listing in the membership directory. Is it correct? Do we have a landline that you no longer use? Willing to share your cell number?

Contact Bobbi at 255-7694 or churchad-min@augustanasc.org to get us the correc-tions. Thank you.

Baptized Into Christ Whitney Elizabeth Lindgren became a Child of God through the waters of Holy Bap-tism on February 4, 2018. Whitney is the daughter of Mike and Kathie Lindgren and granddaughter of David and Linda Lindgren. Whitney’s baptismal sponsor is Monica Mattoon. Welcome to the family, Whitney.

Interfaith Community Passover Seder Congregation Beth Shalom is offering to the Christian community an opportunity to experience an authentic Jew-ish Passover Seder. Call 255-1990 for $10 tickets which includes the Seder, Hagga-dah (the liturgy of the meal), and light meal. Seating is available from 3:00-4:00 on March 11. 2018.

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Lent Continues into Holy Week On March 4, the Third Sunday in Lent, we hear

the story of the cleansing of the Temple. On March 11, the Fourth Sunday in Lent, we hear the story of the lifting up of the Son of Man. On March 16, the Fifth Sunday in Lent, Jesus teaches us that a grain of wheat must die in the earth to create a new plant.

Midweek Lenten services continue on March 7, 14, and 21 at 7:00 PM each Wednesday.

Holy Week begins on March 25 on the day we call Palm Sunday/Sunday of the Passion. Although Palm Sunday stood alone in older lectionaries, the decrease in people attending Good Friday worship led to people getting an incomplete story. Those only attending on Sunday, celebrated a parade with Jesus entering Jeru-salem, but missed the Last Supper and Jesus’ arrest on Maundy Thursday and the Crucifixion on Good Fri-day. When they showed up on Easter, they only heard about the Resurrection of Jesus without recalling those two other important components to the story.

On both Maundy Thursday, March 29, and Good Friday, March 30, people have two opportunities to worship: noon and 7:00 PM.

Augustana will celebrate the Resurrection of Our Lord: Easter Vigil at 7:00 PM on Saturday, March 31.

Please join us and invite others to worship with us for all these services which lead to the Queen of Festi-vals, the Resurrection of Our Lord: Easter Day.

Resurrection of Our Lord, Easter Day No fooling!! Easter is April 1 this year. The purple veils covering the processional

cross, the “He Is Risen” painting, and three statues in the reredos are gone. We celebrate that death has been defeated by the Crucifixion and Resurrec-tion of Jesus!

The “alleluia,” which has been suppressed dur-ing Lent will once again break forth in our hymns and responses.

Both the 8:00 and 10:15 worship services will be held upstairs in the nave.

To those who have fill the Lenten baskets, please bring them to either service where we will bless the contents for use throughout the city.

Easter breakfast will be served from 8:00-9:45.

Please invite family and friends to join you

New Members Dennis Usher joined Augustana on January 28. He has worked for the City of Sioux City at the Auditorium and Convention Center as a sound tech, crew leader, and event coordinator. Denny also caters. He was the 1982 River Cade Commodore. He has a sister, Teresa Dickson and was a life-long member of Our Savior Lutheran Church until it closed. Denny most recently was a member of St. Luke Lutheran Church. Welcome, Denny. Michael, Katherine, and Whitney Lindgren joined Augustana on February 11. Mike is a Ne-

braska Cornhuskers fan who likes to go camping and spending time with family. He likes to cook, especially on the grill. A hobby of his is eating hot peppers. “The hotter the better.” Kathie likes shopping...all the time. She also enjoys reading and watching movies. She enjoys camping and spending time with family, friends, and her dogs, Lilly and Chloe. Whitney enjoys singing, playing basketball, and going camping. She loves spending time with family and friends and playing with her dogs. Welcome, Mike, Kathie, and Whitney.

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Birthdays

1 Kevin Schwaderer Klara Winter 3 Aubrey Sea 5 Craig Walsh 6 Lois Irwin Whitney Lindgren 7 Nancy Brockshus 7 Margaret Johnson 8 Ellie Lindgren Judy Swanson 9 Connie Larson 11 Lindsey Rixner 12 Erik Lundin 14 Kurt Peterson 14 Jean Turner 16 Kim Bullock Brenna Jennings 17 Ellie Frisch 18 Kathie Lindgren Andrew Moreland 19 Susie Strohbeen Barb Torticill 20 Abbie Dickman Ellie Dickman DeeAnn Sales 25 Gemma Harry 26 Lois Daniels Matt Heck 28 Diane Gross 31 Greer Macfarlane Bryce Matsuo

March Celebrations

Wedding Anniversary 16 Kurt & Shannon Peterson

If you see a missing name or incor-rect date, please advise the office.

In Memoriam It has pleased Almighty God to re-ceive unto himself the soul of our sis-ter Maria Viktoria (Muller) Schweim on February 18, 2018. Her memorial service was held in St. Erik's Chapel on Saturday, February 24.

Rest eternal, grant her, O Lord, And let light perpetual shine upon

her.

It has pleased Almighty God to re-ceive unto himself the soul of our sis-ter Marion Carol (Larson) Moline on February 21, 2018. A memorial ser-vice will take place at Bickford Cot-tage on March 6 and another memo-rial service will be held later this year.

Rest eternal, grant her, O Lord, And let light perpetual shine upon

her.

If You are Hospitalized... If you are or a family member is hospitalized and you want Pastor Del to come visit, please call the office (712-255-7694) or Pastor Del’s cell (712-490-6510). Neither hospital is calling the church with names of those admitted, some-times even when you ask them to!

Baptism Birthdays 1 Mike Larson 2 Lexy Baier 3 Jackson Wynn 9 Nic McGlothlen 16 Sean McAllister 17 Kristi Husted Blake Lindgren Derek Trobaugh 18 Dawson Trobaugh 20 David Mohan 21 Sydnee Wynn 22 Dick Erickson 23 Amy Swenson Anne Winter 24 Nancy Brockshus 25 Abbie Parker 26 Aiden Garbe Spencer Gough 28 Myrna Burg 30 Ben Fegenbush Madeline Hexom 31 Brenna Jennings

Easter lilies may be purchased to decorate the nave for Easter. Each plant is $8.00. Orders must be placed

by Wednesday, March 25, 2018. (Use extra paper if necessary)

Name:________________________________________________

I would like to give _________ plant(s) at $8.00 each. I have enclosed $ ________

My plant(s) is/are given to the Glory of God.___

My plant(s) is/are given in memory of

_________________________________________________________

My plant(s) is/are given in honor of

___________________________________________________________

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Ushers for March Skip Schossow (Captain), Mike Moos, Jean Huff, and David Midland

Funeral Helpers The following are asked to bake a cake or help in the kitchen for funerals during the month. The Funeral Coordina-tor will contact you if needed. Ginny Ericson, Rosemary Forsling, Heidi Graben, Linda Lindgren, Janet Maxwell, Jennifer Stewart.

Worship assistants, you are responsible for serving on the day they are scheduled. If you are unable to

serve on a date scheduled, please arrange for a substitute and notify the office so the correct names may be entered in the bulletin.

Sunday March 4, 2018—10:15 am Acolytes—Mia Hall and Abbie Dickman Greeters—Bob & Marge Swanson Assisting Minister—Matt Rixner Communion Assistants— Susie Strohbeen and Jackson Wynn (B) Technical Assistant—Marlene Levine Eucharistic Ministers—Nancy Van Meter and Linda Nygard

Sunday, March 11, 2018—10:15 am Acolytes—Trevor Welp and Madalyn Welp Greeters—Baier Family Assisting Minister—Abby Whitsel. Communion Assistants—Darrel Bullock and Christi Bullock (B) Technical Assistant—Emily Fleckenstein

Sunday March 18, 2018—10:15 am Acolytes—Alyson Heck and Trevor Welp Greeters—Terry & Debbie McAllister Assisting Minister—Russ Wooley Communion Assistants—Marian Erickson and Judy Swanson (B) Technical Assistant—Blake Lindgren Eucharistic Ministers—Marian Erickson and Judy Swanson

Sunday, March 25, 2018—10:15 am Acolytes—Lexy Baier and Mason Heck Greeters—JoAnn Dickman and Welp Family Assisting Minister—Caleb Christopherson Communion Assistants—Ollie Nygard and Debbie McAllister (B) Technical Assistant—Josh Midland

Maundy Thursday, March 29, 2018—7:00 pm Acolytes—Abby Whitsel and Mason Heck Assisting Minister—Emily Fleckenstein Communion Assistants—Beth Schwaderer and Marian Erickson (B) Technical Assistant—Matt Rixner

Good Friday, March 30, 2018—7:00 pm Assisting Minister—Dave Madsen Technical Assistant—Pete Iversen

Easter Vigil, Saturday, March31, 2018—7:00 pm Acolytes—Mia Hall, and Alyson Heck Assisting Minister—Dick Lindblom Communion Assistants—Nicole McGlothlen and Josh Midland (B) Technical Assistant—Marlene Levine

Easter Sunday April 1, 2018—10:15 am Acolytes—Trevor Welp, Noah Dickman, Madalyn Welp, Abbie

Dickman, and Ellie Dickman Greeters—Skip & Sheila Schossow Assisting Minister—Shelley Hexom Communion Assistants— Deb Fegenbush and Jane Olivier (B) Technical Assistant—TBA

2018 Flower Chart The 2018 flower chart has been posted in the narthex by the north en-trance to the nave. Please sign up if and when you are willing to donate bouquets that adorn the reredos. The cost for a beautiful bouquet is $35.

Old Fashioned Church Cleaning Saturday, March 24, 9 AM-3 PM

Lunch will be served. Please bring buckets, sponges, vac-

uum cleaners with attachments, drying towels, etc.

Activities include dusting, washing, polishing and cleaning.

All ages of people will have tasks they can do!

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Lenten Giving What if, during Lent 2018, we practice serving all people and striving for justice and peace by giving some-thing up...daily or weekly? Here's a possibility. Small plastic baskets are available for people to take home and use. (Please, one basket per family!) As a family, de-cide how often an object will be placed in the basket (at least weekly is suggested). Look for small items to place in the basket and talk about how people might like to receive that item. Per-haps you would choose a toiletry item or an indi-vidually wrapped food item. Pray that God would use these gifts for people who need them, but who are unable to purchase them for them-selves. Bring the baskets (or plastic sacks need-ed to hold more items) to church on Easter morning when they will be blessed. During Easter week, we will sort the items and get them to the appropriate agency for distribution. Fami-lies may participate in this event even if we run out of baskets and you need to use plastic bags. A few baskets remain. Is one of them for your family?

Wish List from the Soup Kitchen Can you help out? The Siouxland Soup Kitchen has need for the following items: onions carrots celery salmon eggs disposable salt and pepper shakers jelly potatoes napkins rubber gloves Gravy Master (browning sauce) hot sauce cheese milk They are also in need of some new mi-crowave ovens be-cause the old ones are nearing the end of their usefulness.

Easter on April 1...No Fooling! (The following is an excerpt from an article in The Christian Century written by Miles Townes as well as thoughts from Pastor Del.)

Preachers often begin their sermons with a joke. These jokes are ornaments, brightening up a somber sermon. They don’t generally serve a deeper purpose.

What will preachers do this Easter—April 1, 2018? Will they make a joke in passing, before dig-ging into the serious stuff? Or will they embrace the opportunity to do something more?

For a long time I believed otherwise, that the Bible was all heavy stuff. I based my ideal of Christian disci-pleship on a very serious Jesus, and I tried to be a very serious Christian. But in college, I happened to read Kurt Vonnegut’s essay “Palm Sunday.” Vonnegut was not a Christian, yet he was invited to preach at an Episcopal church on Palm Sunday, 1980 (alas, March 30). Vonnegut takes on Matthew 26, in which Jesus says, “For you always have the poor with you”—a text that is notoriously problematic for all sorts of Chris-tians.

Vonnegut argues that Jesus is not dismissing Ju-das’ concern for the poor, but rather making a joke at Judas’ expense. To make the joke clearer, Vonnegut paraphrases it: “Judas, don’t worry about it. There will be plenty of poor people left long after I ’m gone.”

This, Vonnegut says, is a “divine black joke, well suited to the occasion. It says everything about hypoc-risy and nothing about the poor. It is a Christian joke, which allows Jesus to remain civil, but to chide Judas about his hypocrisy just the same.”

I found this idea revelatory; it changed how I read the Bible. And not just this passage—when you know what to look for, Jesus jokes all the time. The Bible is full of jokes.

One reason we miss jokes in the Bible is our Puri-tan tradition of disdain for levity, which tends to frame the things Jesus says as pithy comebacks or clever clichés—but not jokes. There is a logic to this: we have no problem being fully human but struggle to be godly, so we should focus on what is godly about Je-sus.

Miles Townes is a writer, teacher, and an elder in the Presbyterian Church USA. As a preacher, I sometimes do begin with a joke, although it’s not a common practice of mine. But celebrat-ing the Resurrection of Jesus on April Fools’ Day is a perfect opportunity to point out God’s sense of humor. I imag-ine a laughing Jesus departing the tomb, because death has been destroyed to make way for eternal life with our Triune God!

Who’s laughing now?

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Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

. 1 7:30 am Sxld Mental Health

5-9pm Just for Kix

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7pm Universi-ty of South Dakota Choir Concert

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9am-3pm Worship Plan-ning and Leadership

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3rd Sunday in Lent Quarter Sunday

2-6 pm STH

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9 am Staff meeting

9:15 am Music staff

5-9pm JfK

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2:30 pm Me-morial Service at Bickford

5-9 pm JfK

6 pm Pack Backpacks

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10 am Wom-en’s Bible Study

7 pm Worship Service

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5-9pm JfK

6:45 pm Council Mtg

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6-7 pm Soccer

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10-am AWE Rehearsal

11 4th Sunday in Lent

2pm Magic Club 2-6 pm STH 3-5 pm Bap-tism Class

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9 am Staff meeting

9:15 am Music staff

10:30 am Piece Corps

5-9 pm JfK

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5-9 pm JfK

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7 pm Worship Service

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5-9 pm JfK

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6-7 pm Soccer

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18 5th Sunday in Lent

2-6 pm STH 3-5 pm Com-munion Class

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9 am Staff meeting

9:15 am Music staff

5-9 pm JfK

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5-9 pm JfK

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3:30 pm Bick-ford Cottage 7 pm Worship Service

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5-9 pm JfK

23 6-7 pm Soccer

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9 am Prepare for Holy Week 9 am—3 pm Clean Church

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Palm Sunday/ Sunday of the Passion 1-5 pm Levine Family in gym

26 9 am Staff meeting 10:30 am Piece Corps

5-9 pm JfK

27 9 am Organ tuning

5-9 pm JfK

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29 Maundy Thursday Noon Worship 7 pm Worship

30 Good Friday Noon Worship 7 pm Worship

31 Vigil of Easter

9 am Decorate for Easter

11 am Music rehearsal

7 pm Worship

Sunday mornings: 8:00—Holy Communion, 9:00—Adult Education, Music with Mrs. Wooley,

9:15—Celebration Choir Rehearsal, Sunday School, 10:15—Holy Communion.

March 2018

Augustana Lutheran Church

600 Court St.

Sioux City, IA 51101

RETURN SERVICE REQUESTED

Office hours Mon-Fri 9:00 am-1:00 pm Pastor—The Rev. Del Olivier

Phone: 712-255-7694 Director of Music—Diana Wooley

Email: augustana1875@augustanasc.org Organists—Bob Barry and Shannon Peterson

Web site: www.augustanasc.org Pianists—Bob Barry, Heidi Graben,

Facebook: Augustana Lutheran, Sioux City Angela Iversen, and Shannon Peterson

Mark Kochen—Sexton

March 2018 Office Administrator—Bobbi Laskowske

Sunday Schedule:

8:00 Holy Communion Worship

9:00 Adult Education, Music with

Mrs. Wooley

9:15 Celebration Choir Rehearsal,

Sunday School

10:15 Holy Communion Worship

—unstaffed nursery available

—handicap accessible

—free taxi to worship—277-0000

Mission Statements:

Church: A welcoming, caring con-

gregation offering opportunities

for worship, spiritual growth, and

fellowship. We express our faith

and love to others in the name of

Jesus Christ.

Staff: We are called to work to-

gether to enhance the community

of Augustana Lutheran Church as

we share our ministry of witness-

ing to the living God in Jesus

Christ, facilitating the gifts and

talents of people.

Augustana Congregation Council: Christi

Bullock (‘20); Caleb Christopherson, Presi-

dent (‘18); Adam Frisch (‘19); Pete Iversen

(‘20); Jeff Levine (‘20); Marlene Levine, Sec-

retary; Linda Lindgren (‘19); David Midland

(‘18); The Rev. Del Olivier, Pastor; Lila

Plambeck (‘20); Martin Sea, Vice President

(‘19); Bob Swanson, Treasurer.

Augustana Foundation Board: Jeanne Em-

mons, Vice President (‘19); Carla Glass (‘20);

Fred Hexom (‘21); Kurt Peterson (‘21); Matt

Rixner, President (’19); Bob Stewart (‘19);

Judy Swanson, Secretary.