Rolf Groseth:  

November, 2013 Hinsdale has never left my life. My mentor was Art Sandeen (HTHS '56 whose brother John was in our '64 class). Art was the Head resident in Wilson Hall at Michigan State in my freshman year. Bill Scott, Diane Dickinson and Richard Harrison were also there and Jim Rose came later. I stayed in touch with Art and when, after graduating, I was in Vietnam in 1971, he wrote and told me that I would be coming to Iowa State, where he had gone as Dean of Students, when I got out. It became number one on my previously non-existent list of post-Vietnam options. I went to graduate school there got a Masters Degree and job at Georgetown running a residence hall complex starting with the 1972-73 academic year. At the end of that year, Art called to ask me to apply for a position as director of a Veterans program at the University of Florida, where he was then V.P. for Student Affairs. I went there and worked in the Dean of Students Office and worked on my PhD from 1973-77. Art was on my doctoral committee. I saw him last in January of 2013 when I went to Gainesville for the reunion of a monthly poker group of which Art is still a part. In 1977, I moved to Bozeman, Montana to begin work at Montana State University. The university president, who started on the same day, was Bill Tietz, HTHS '46. I met Jaynee Drange there and we were married in 1979. we have two sons, Peder, born in 1982 and Anders, born in 1986. I have had a wonderful career, mostly on the Bozeman campus of Montana State. I retired as Chancellor of Montana State University in May of 2014 and Jaynee and I are living in Bozeman. In 1977, I decided that Florida was too hot for me and I thought I’d like to live in the mountains. I was fortunate to get a position at Montana State University in Bozeman. I started there the same day as the then new president, Bill Tietz, HTHS ‘46. He and I embarrassed oursel...Expand for more