Small World Dept.

Photo by Stan Rolfsrud

Curt Lindberg has settled into Welcome Home, the group home on Kell Avenue where Stan's Mom lives. It wasn't long before Curt and Beverly had discovered an amazing coincidence in the small world department.
It seems that in 1941 Curt was a freshman at Concordia College in Moorhead, and had a part-time job in the college dining hall. It wasn't a cafeteria back then, they served meals family style, with the food brought to the tables by student waiters.

Concordia grads,
Erling and Beverly Rolfsrud

The moment Grace was finished and the prayer leader had said "Amen," Curt and the other waiters burst through the swinging kitchen doors with heaping bowls and platters and headed for their assigned tables. Seated daily at one of those tables was the first married woman to graduate Concordia, none other than Mrs. Erling Rolfsrud. Though they didn't know each other then (she was a married senior, after all, he but a lowly freshman), there can be no doubt that at one time or other, Curt served Mom mashed potatoes and gravy.
They chatted about it today over a fine noon meal, brought to the table this time by Marcia, with everyone thinking about the roads both have traveled those many years, only to meet again at Kell Avenue in Bloomington.
Curt spent a year at Concordia, then after Pearl Harbor, joined the Navy, where he received a commission and then an engineering degree at the University of Minnesota. He briefly taught school in North Dakota, then Minnesota, then spent four ink-stained years at the Karlstad printing and newspaper company.
He finally got a job as an honest-to-goodness engineer at Honeywell and became a legend with co-workers and others for his brilliant, inventive work there. This we know because, in another small world occurrence, Stan's brother Virg golfs regularly with some retired Honeywell folks, and they all know, admire and have stories to tell about this same talented gentleman -- who started his career as a waiter in the Concordia College dining hall.