Jan Selvig:  

After 10 years in the Bloomington school system (3 at Valley View, 2 at Humboldt Heights, 1 at Riverside, 3 at Portland Jr. High, and 1 at Kennedy) my family moved to Burnsville where I completed my last two years of high school. While at Burnsville, I played varsity tennis (Mr. Heunisch, coach (then a rookie teacher and already retired)) and captained the chess team (Mr. Sorteberg, coach (and math teacher.)) I commuted to the U of M for five years, having started as a EE major and a Naval ROTC walk-on. Then, when the Computer Science department was created, I switched majors and dropped ROTC (my draft lottery number was 342.) In September of 1974, after graduating from the Institute of Technology at the U of M, I married Liz Feuk, a 1973 BHS graduate, then in her second year as a journalism major at the U of M. We lived in Richfield for about 2 years while I worked for the Postal Service in the computer room at the Bulk Mail Center in Eagan. In 1976 we bought a little house in Apple Valley, then Liz bought a horse, and my life changed forever. In the fall of 1976 I went to work for Sperry Univac (my organization has, over the years, evolved into a part of Leidos) just down the road from the Bulk Mail Center. We bought about 5 acres in the rural community of Webster, MN (about halfway between Northfield and New Prague) and with the help of Waconia Homes, built a new house in 1979-1980, where we still live. We spent 1980 in Bremen, West Germany, 1987 in...Expand for more