http://www.pietisten.org/spring00/ http://www.pietisten.org/spring00/ Pietisten - Vol, XV, No. 1 (Spring 2000) en-us http://www.pietisten.org/spring00/reader.html http://www.pietisten.org/spring00/reader.html A good story must capture our attention and hold it. This is accomplished as much by the artful telling of it as by the content. A good story, told badly, becomes an uninteresting story. In contrast, an ordinary story told well can be very engaging. http://www.pietisten.org/spring00/cp.html http://www.pietisten.org/spring00/cp.html It was well past midnight. With a towel around my waist and a toothbrush sticking out the corner of my mouth, I stepped quietly out of my room, and made a beeline for the second floor bathroom at Burgh Hall. I nearly made it when I heard a voice behind me. "So Chief, where ya’ been?" http://www.pietisten.org/spring00/college.html http://www.pietisten.org/spring00/college.html On a sunny, late summer morning in 1954, a crew-cut 17-year-old with two cardboard suitcases boarded the Hiawatha Zephyr in St. Paul, Minnesota. He took a seat by the window as the train pulled smoothly away from the station and began to glide down the tracks toward Chicago. http://www.pietisten.org/spring00/news.html http://www.pietisten.org/spring00/news.html Engagement; Ivar Wistrom; Per-Lars Blomgren, Pietisten Reader, Wins Wrestling Title; North Park establishes two biology prizes to honor Profs; Pietisten Crew at Work; Elizabeth Johanna Katter; On-Line Report http://www.pietisten.org/spring00/dome.html http://www.pietisten.org/spring00/dome.html Hans Blomgren and I were stuck in traffic on our way to see the historic King-dome implosion. Angry trucks loomed in our rearview as Hans searched for a short cut to San Jose Park, our prospective vantage point. It was 7:55 a.m. and the Dome was scheduled to blow at 8:30. http://www.pietisten.org/spring00/rosenius.html http://www.pietisten.org/spring00/rosenius.html When I read your letter through, I knew only, that the more I loved you the more misery the letter revealed. Oh, my dear brother, I see so well how it is with you. I know your nature partly through personal contact and partly through your letters which clearly reflect your entire being. http://www.pietisten.org/spring00/waldenstrom.html http://www.pietisten.org/spring00/waldenstrom.html http://www.pietisten.org/spring00/ellen.html http://www.pietisten.org/spring00/ellen.html I got the funniest reactions from people when I told them about my New Year’s plans. They all thought I had gone completely insane. 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