Graduated:

    Skidmore College   Saratoga Springs NY  6/67

    St. Thomas St. Paul, MN    MAT    8/70

Married:

    Jim Mattsson  - Native of SW Mpls. –  Regional Biologist

                            US Fish & Wildlife Service

Taught:         

     Life science – Wayzata Jr. High 70-72

     Biology – Wayzata Sr. High 72-74

Children:   

    Brady – age 26 – married 8/2000, lives  in Athens, GA

    Monte – age 24 – Portland, OR

Lived in:

    Lansing, MI

    Bemidji, MN
    Thief River Falls, MN
    Quincy, IL
    Eagan, MN     1999 to the present

Career: 

    Teacher, stay at home mom

    YMCA Director

    Teacher Sylvan Learning Center

    Director of Big Brothers, Big Sisters – Quincy,  IL

                                           YMCA 90-98

Currently – Instructor part time at Sylvan  Learning  

                      Center in   Burnsville, MN

Hobbies:

     bridge, aerobics, travel, bird watching, hiking,  counted

     cross-stitch, golf

Travel:

      Mexico, Belize, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Europe and India

Parents:

     Art & Lorie still healthy retired in Naples, FL with summers

     in Cross Lake, MN

Siblings:

    Carol – retired in Jackson Hole, WY
    Sarah – paralegal in Coeur D’Alene, ID
    Susan – retired, Brainerd, MN
    Art – mortgage sales in Plymouth, MN

Mtka Memories:

     Chem. lab disasters with partner Brad Swanson

     Teacher - Mr. Thames

     English class with Mr. Chisholm – inspired by Henry David

           Thoreau – Walden Pond

     Stage dancing – lunch hour in Jr. High