My favorite professors were Agnes Larson, who taught a wonderful course in American history, and Theodore Jorgenson, who taught The Plays of Henrik Ibsen — a course required at the time for students of 100 percent Norwegian heritage. Courtland Agre’s biochemistry class is also where I first met my future wife Nathalie Peterson Ensrud ’49.

One of my favorite memories doesn’t have anything to do with classes, though. In the autumn of 1946, longtime dean of men (and former hall of game quarterback) Carl “Cully” Swanson 1925 lived in an apartment on the first floor of the “Old Ytterboe Hall.” The homecoming football game that year was against Carleton College. The frosh were assigned to guard the St. Olaf bonfire on Old Main Hill. Late Friday night, the frosh came running into Ytterboe yelling “The Carls are coming!” Ytterboe emptied in less than five minutes, while Cully stood in the hallway trying to stop us. The Carls did not “get” our bonfire, and the next day the Oles beat the Carls in football 14-13 thanks to extra point kicks by “The Tulsa Toe” John Sibole ’49.