1980-89

Russ & Kim (Anderson) Anderson, '85 & '87 (Lakeville, MN) Kim has advanced from stay-at-home mom to in-the-minivan mom, taking their two children to various activities. Russ is still a "computer geek" at Silicon Graphics Inc. and recently received a U.S. patent for "Partitioning a distributed shared memory multiprocessor computer to facilitate selective hardware maintenance."

Michael Ericson, '86 (Maplewood, MN) authored an article in the September 2003 edition of Public Management, the trade magazine of the International City/County Management Association. His article, "International Pilot Program Takes Off: The First Minnesota/Sweden Exchange Program for Managers" featured the shared experiences that city managers from Minnesota and Sweden learned from studying one another's municipal governments.

Patrick Sheehy, '86 (Rochester, MN) has been promoted to solutions manager for the Compliance line-of-business at Kingland Systems Corporation in Rochester. As solution manager, he has entrepreneurial responsibility, business, technical and personnel, for all of Kingland's compliance offerings. He directs all product lifecycle activities, including marketing, strategy, budget, sales, product-release content, resource allocation, development, deployment, and customer service. Patrick married Jeanne Busse in October 2003, in Fountain City, Wis.