The University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD) is a regional branch of the University of Minnesota system

University of Minnesota system

The University of Minnesota is a large university with several campuses spread throughout the U.S. state of Minnesota. There are five primary campuses in the Twin Cities, Duluth, Crookston, Morris, and Rochester. A campus was open in Waseca for a time. The university also operates several...

 located in Duluth, Minnesota

Duluth, Minnesota

Duluth is a port city in the U.S. state of Minnesota and is the county seat of Saint Louis County. The fourth largest city in Minnesota, Duluth had a total population of 86,265 in the 2010 census. Duluth is also the second largest city that is located on Lake Superior after Thunder Bay, Ontario,...

, USA. As Duluth's public research university, UMD offers 13 bachelor's degree

Bachelor's degree

A bachelor's degree is usually an academic degree awarded for an undergraduate course or major that generally lasts for three or four years, but can range anywhere from two to six years depending on the region of the world...

s in 74 majors

Academic major

In the United States and Canada, an academic major or major concentration is the academic discipline to which an undergraduate student formally commits....

, graduate programs in 24 different fields, a two-year program at the School of Medicine, a four-year College of Pharmacy program, and a Doctor of Education program.

The chief executive officer of UMD is Chancellor Dr. Lendley C. Black

Lendley C. Black

Dr. Lendley C. Black began his tenure as Chancellor of the University of Minnesota Duluth on August 1, 2010. Before becoming Chancellor at UMD he worked for Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Georgia, where he served as vice president for academic affairs from 2002 until he was promoted in...

. Black began his tenure on August 1, 2010. The previous chancellor, Kathryn A. Martin, served from 1995-2010.

History

Although the University of Minnesota Duluth didn’t officially make its appearance until 1947, plans for a strong college in the Duluth area were made in the 1890s. The state legislature planned for a teaching school for women (then referred to as a normal school

Normal school

A normal school is a school created to train high school graduates to be teachers. Its purpose is to establish teaching standards or norms, hence its name...

) and in 1895 they announced the formation of the Duluth Normal School. In 1896, the City of Duluth donated 6 acres (2.4 ha) of land to serve as a foundation for the Duluth Normal School, and the state legislature donated additional funds for the construction costs for the main building, which was built in 1900. In February 1901, a fire caused extensive damage to the school and the following year, the school was rebuilt.

In April 1901, Eugene W. Bohannon was appointed president of the Duluth Normal School. In 1902, women came to the school to be trained for a degree in education. By 1903, the first seven women received their diplomas from Duluth Normal School. In 1906, the first dormitories were opened, costing the school around $35,000 to build. Room and board were offered at cost, between fourteen and fifteen dollars a month. Throughout the next few years, more dormitories, two new wings, and an auditorium were added to the school. Requirements, such as having a high school diploma, were instituted. Students who signed a pledge to teach after graduation attended for free; others were required to pay $30 per year.

The 1906 Bulletin of the State Normal School describes the school at that time:

The building is thoroughly modern in construction and equipment. It is located in one of the most attractive parts of the city, overlooking the waters of Lake Superior from a height of more than three hundred feet. The laboratories are large and well arranged. The furniture and apparatus are new and excellent in every way. The present equipment of the several laboratories represents an expenditure of not less than $7,500, and is entirely adequate for the needs of the school. A large and well-lighted room has been equipped for manual training. It is supplied with twenty benches of the most approved make and all of the necessary tools and instruments.

Enrollment for 1903 was 127 and by 1906 it had increased to 202. A Model School with kindergarten through grade eight was maintained for "practice teaching". The 1906 bulletin reports, "At the opening of the school four years ago it was somewhat doubtful whether the number of children to attend would be sufficient to constitute a model school in any proper sense. Only three teachers were needed to take charge of the pupils at that time, while five are required now and the number of children seeking admission is greatly in excess of the limit fixed for the several grades.

In 1921, the Duluth Normal School was renamed to the Duluth State Teachers College or DSTC. The change in status allowed bachelor’s degrees and four-year degree programs to be added to the school. In 1929 the school became co-ed, and the first sports teams were instituted, including hockey, football, and basketball. By 1937, the community supported a change from DSTC to a branch campus of the University of Minnesota. In 1947 the DSTC became part of the University of Minnesota system and was again renamed, this time to the University of Minnesota Duluth, or UMD.

Campus

The UMD campus consists of more than 50 buildings on 244 acres (98.7 ha) overlooking Lake Superior

Lake Superior

Lake Superior is the largest of the five traditionally-demarcated Great Lakes of North America. It is bounded to the north by the Canadian province of Ontario and the U.S. state of Minnesota, and to the south by the U.S. states of Wisconsin and Michigan. It is the largest freshwater lake in the...

. Most UMD buildings are connected by concourses or hallways. UMD is also home to the Tweed Museum of Art

Tweed Museum of Art

The Tweed Museum of Art is a museum located on the campus of the University of Minnesota Duluth, in Duluth, Minnesota.It has a permanent collection of over 6,000 works covering a range of periods and cultures in art history, with particular strengths in American landscape painting. The Tweed was...

, the Marshall W. Alworth Planetarium, Weber Music Hall, and the Marshall Performing Arts Center. Other UMD facilities include Glensheen Historic Estate

Glensheen Historic Estate

The Glensheen Historic Estate is a historic mansion on Lake Superior owned by the University of Minnesota Duluth. Glensheen sits on of lake front property, has 38 rooms and is built in the Jacobean architectural tradition, inspired by the Beaux-Arts styles of the era. The mansion was...

, Chester Park School which houses Minnesota Sea Grant and the Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic, the Natural Resources Research Institute, the Research and Field Studies Center, and the Lower Campus which houses the Large Lakes Observatory.

UMD has substantially expanded its facilities beginning in 2000 with the completion of a new library

Library

In a traditional sense, a library is a large collection of books, and can refer to the place in which the collection is housed. Today, the term can refer to any collection, including digital sources, resources, and services...

. Additional recent buildings include the Weber Music Hall (2002), Kirby Plaza (2004), James I. Swenson Science Building (2005), Sports and Health Center addition (2006), Life Science Renovation (2006), Labovitz School of Business & Economics (2008), Bagley Environmental Classroom (2009), and the Civil Engineering Building (2010).

New art on campus came along with the construction of the new buildings. All new public building projects in Minnesota must comply with the state's “One Percent for Art” law, passed by the State Legislature

Minnesota Legislature

The Minnesota Legislature is the legislative branch of government in the U.S. state of Minnesota. It is a bicameral legislature located at the Minnesota Capitol in Saint Paul and it consists of two houses: the lower Minnesota House of Representatives and the Minnesota Senate...

 in 1984, which mandates that all such projects in Minnesota costing over $500,000 must devote at least 1% of their total construction budget towards incorporating public art

Public art

The term public art properly refers to works of art in any media that have been planned and executed with the specific intention of being sited or staged in the physical public domain, usually outside and accessible to all...

 into these building's public spaces. A little over 1% of the library's $28 million construction costs went toward the purchase and installation of a glass sculpture by Dale Chihuly

Dale Chihuly

Dale Chihuly is an American glass sculptor and entrepreneur.-Biography:Chihuly graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in Tacoma, Washington. He enrolled at the College of the Puget Sound in 1959...

 that hangs from the ceiling of the two-story library lobby. An 89 feet (27.1 m) outdoor sculpture

Sculpture

Sculpture is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard materials—typically stone such as marble—or metal, glass, or wood. Softer materials can also be used, such as clay, textiles, plastics, polymers and softer metals...

 adjacent to the Swenson Science Building makes reference to elements of Duluth's surrounding native American Ojibwe culture. The sculpture, "Wild Ricing Moon," was designed by John David Mooneyand represents the traditional wild rice

Wild rice

Wild rice is four species of grasses forming the genus Zizania, and the grain which can be harvested from them. The grain was historically gathered and eaten in both North America and China...

 harvest.

The colleges and schools at the University of Minnesota Duluth are:

• College of Liberal Arts
• Swenson College of Science and Engineering
• School of Fine Arts
• Labovitz School of Business and Economics
• College of Education & Human Service Professions
• Graduate School
• Medical School
• College of Pharmacy

Buildings

Weber Music Hall

The Weber Music Hall, built in 2002 and designed by architect César Pelli

César Pelli

César Pelli is an Argentine architect known for designing some of the world's tallest buildings and other major urban landmarks. In 1991, the American Institute of Architects listed Pelli among the ten most influential living American architects...

, is considered the "gem" of UMD. The hall has state-of-the-art acoustics and can seat 350 people.

Tweed Museum of Art

The Tweed Museum of Art's history began in the 1920s when George and Alice Tweed first began collecting pieces of 19th and 20th American and European art including examples of the French Barbizon School and Impressionist influenced American Landscape painting. After the death of Mr. Tweed in 1946, Mrs. Tweed saw the potential of the Tweed collection as a resource for the community. She generously developed the funding for the present building which was dedicated in 1958. Today the museum holds over 7,000 works of art. The collection features artists including David Ericson, Gilbert Munger, Eastman Johnson, William Hart, John Twachtman, Homer Dodge Martin, and Childe Hassam. The Hudson River Valley School collection, the Potlatch Company Royal Canadian Mounted Police painting collection, the Glenn C. Nelson pottery collection and an extensive American Indian artifacts and artworks collection are especially noteworthy. Besides the museum's permanent collection the Tweed hosts exhibitions that feature both international and local artists.

Marshall Performing Arts Center

Marshall Performing Arts Center was built in the 1970s and is a 715-seat flexible thrust/proscenium theatre presenting an array of theatre and dance events. It was named after the parents of Julia and Caroline Marshall and Jessica Marshall Spencer (Albert and Julia N. Marshall) who were donors to the university. The Dudley Experimental Theatre (a black-box theatre within MPAC) was named for another donor, Marjorie Congdon Dudley.

Marshall W. Alworth Planetarium

The construction of the Marshall W. Alworth Planetarium

Planetarium

A planetarium is a theatre built primarily for presenting educational and entertaining shows about astronomy and the night sky, or for training in celestial navigation...

 was supported by Marshall W. Alworth. Alworth grew up in Duluth and attended Duluth Central High School

Central High School (Duluth, Minnesota)

Central High School was a secondary school located in Duluth, Minnesota which educated students in grades nine through twelve. The school first opened in 1893. The mascot of the school was the Trojan...

 and later Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences...

. He also donated funds towards scholarships which today are valued at over $35 million.

The Marshall W. Alworth Planetarium has a 30 ft (9.1 m) dome and a Spitz A3P star machine. The planetarium can seat up to 70 people and projects approximately 1500 stars. The planetarium holds a historical telescope that once belonged to John H. Darling

Darling's Observatory

Darling's Observatory was a private observatory built by Mr. J. H. Darling in Duluth, Minnesota. The site of the observatory was on West 3rd St. between 9th and 10th avenues in Duluth, MN, and sat about 325 feet above Lake Superior . Plans for the building were drawn by Richard E. Schmidt of...

.

Centers, Institutes, and Research Labs

Bureau of Business and Economic Research (BBER): Conducts economic and business research, providing unbiased data and analysis concerning the economic viability of building, expanding or relocating businesses in the region.

Center for Community and Regional Research: Community-based education providing faculty and students in the social and natural sciences the opportunity to work with local and regional community organizations.

Center for Economic Development: A consulting program with one-on-one services for business start-ups and existing businesses focusing on feasibility studies, market research, surveys, business plan development, loan packaging, operational assistance, procurement assistance, manufacturing, management, compliance (EPA, OSHA, Revenue and Tax), problem solving, and information technology.

Center for Genocide, Holocaust, and Human Rights Studies: The Center engages students, staff and the wider public by offering a lecture series and workshops.

Center for Regional and Tribal Child Welfare Studies: Advances the well-being of children by strengthening families and communities through social work education, research, and outreach in the region.

Center for Water and Environment: Committed to understanding problems and developing tools for solving problems that impede environmentally sound development of the economy.

Great Lakes Maritime Research Institute (GLMRI): GLMRI is dedicated to developing and improving economically and environmentally sustainable maritime commerce by researching marine transportation, logistics, economics, engineering, environmental planning, and port management.

Large Lakes Observatory (LLO): As the only institute in the country dedicated to the study of large lakes throughout the world, LLO focuses on the global implications of aquatic chemistry, circulation dynamics, geochemistry, acoustic remote sensing, plankton dynamics, sedimentology, and paleoclimatology.

Minnesota Sea Grant Program: Facilitates interaction between university scientists and the public. Scientists work to enhance the communities, the environment and the economies along Lake Superior and Minnesota's inland waters.

Natural Resource Research Institute: The institute helps launch promising small businesses and provides ongoing research and development assistance, especially in the areas of forest products, and taconite ore mining. Environmental program areas include: water resources, land resources, land-water interactions, and environmental chemistry.

The Northland Advanced Transportation Systems Research Laboratory: Develops innovative technologies for safe, productive, and sustainable transportation systems in northern areas.

Royal D. Alworth Institute for International Studies: The Institute aims to engage students, staff and the wider public with open discussion for educational, social and democratic purposes by introducing a wide range of international issues that have domestic implications.

Visualization and Digital Imaging Lab: A multi-disciplinary lab that focuses on the integration of information and emerging visual technologies and the distribution of knowledge to the public.

Athletics

UMD's athletic teams were named the Bulldogs in 1933. Their colors are maroon and gold. The school competes at the NCAA

National Collegiate Athletic Association

The National Collegiate Athletic Association is a semi-voluntary association of 1,281 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletic programs of many colleges and universities in the United States...

 Division II level in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference

Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference

The Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference is a college athletic conference which operates in the Midwestern United States. Nine of its members are in Minnesota, with two members in South Dakota and one member each in the states of Iowa, Nebraska and North Dakota. It participates in the NCAA's...

 (NSIC) in all sports except ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

. Both the men's and women's hockey programs compete in the Division I Western Collegiate Hockey Association

Western Collegiate Hockey Association

The Western Collegiate Hockey Association is a college athletic conference which operates over a wide area of the Midwestern and Western United States. It participates in the NCAA's Division I as an ice hockey-only conference....

.

On 13 December 2008, the undefeated Bulldogs won the NCAA Division II National Football Championship

NCAA Division II national football championship

The NCAA Division II National Football Championship began in 1973. Prior to 1973, four regional bowl games were played in order to provide postseason action for what was then called the NCAA College Division and a poll determined the final champion....

 -- the first Division II championship in any sport at the school.
On December 18, 2010, the Bulldogs won their second NCAA Division II National Football Championship

NCAA Division II national football championship

The NCAA Division II National Football Championship began in 1973. Prior to 1973, four regional bowl games were played in order to provide postseason action for what was then called the NCAA College Division and a poll determined the final champion....

 in a 3 year span, and their second in school history beating Delta State University

Delta State University

Delta State University, also known as DSU, is a regional public university located in Cleveland, Mississippi, United States, in the heart of the Mississippi Delta...

.

On April 9, 2011, the Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs men's ice hockey team defeated the University of Michigan 3-2 in overtime for the NCAA Division I men's hockey national title, their first. The Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs women's ice hockey team has won five NCAA Division I national titles (2001, 2002, 2003, 2008 and 2010.)

Facilities

UMD's Football, Soccer and Track and Field teams compete at Griggs Field in James S. Malosky Stadium. Hockey is played off campus at Amsoil Arena in the DECC.
Basketball and Volleyball teams play in Romano Gymnasium on campus. Baseball is played in Bulldog Park and softball is played in Junction Avenue Field

Greek life

There are several Greek organizations that UMD students can join, ranging from local to national, service and social.
Sororities include Gamma Sigma Sigma

Gamma Sigma Sigma

Gamma Sigma Sigma is a national service sorority founded in October 1952 at Beekman Tower in New York City by representatives of Boston University, Brooklyn College, Drexel Institute of Technology, Los Angeles City College, New York University, Queens College, and the University of Houston. ...

, Beta Lambda Psi, Phi Sigma Sigma

Phi Sigma Sigma

Phi Sigma Sigma , colloquially known as "Phi Sig," was the first collegiate nonsectarian fraternity, welcoming women of all faiths and backgrounds...

, and Kappa Beta Gamma

Kappa Beta Gamma

Kappa Beta Gamma was founded at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Currently, there are 15 active chapters and two in the process of colonization; the sorority is recruiting both inactive and new chapters to expand the sorority's ideals and provide more leadership opportunities for...

. Fraternities include Phi Kappa Psi

Phi Kappa Psi

Phi Kappa Psi is an American collegiate social fraternity founded at Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania on February 19, 1852. There are over a hundred chapters and colonies at accredited four year colleges and universities throughout the United States. More than 112,000 men have been...

, Alpha Phi Omega

Alpha Phi Omega

Alpha Phi Omega is the largest collegiate fraternity in the United States, with chapters at over 350 campuses, an active membership of approximately 17,000 students, and over 350,000 alumni members...

, Tau Kappa Epsilon

Tau Kappa Epsilon

Tau Kappa Epsilon is a college fraternity founded on January 10, 1899 at Illinois Wesleyan University with chapters in the United States, and Canada, and affiliation with a German fraternity system known as the Corps of the Weinheimer Senioren Convent...

, and Alpha Nu Omega (this is a local fraternity and is not to be confused with the Alpha Nu Omega

Alpha Nu Omega

Alpha Nu Omega is a national Greek letter organization founded in 1988 that comprises both a fraternity and sorority under one Constitution. The Constitution mandates that both branches of ANQ are Christian social Greek letter organizations.-History:...

, a National Christian Fraternity and Sorority). Students must be an active member of a fraternity or sorority in good standing before serving on Greek Council. The organizations have recently made a great comeback in enrollment since falling off in the 1990s. Greek Life has strong involvement in both the university and community doing events such as Phi Kappa Psi's Charity Poker Tournament or Phi Sigma Sigma's Dance marathon. The UMD Greek system is run like a senate body where all organizations are represented by two delegates. Although the council had financial disagreements involving the membership fee which lead to the departure of Alpha Phi Omega

Alpha Phi Omega

Alpha Phi Omega is the largest collegiate fraternity in the United States, with chapters at over 350 campuses, an active membership of approximately 17,000 students, and over 350,000 alumni members...

 in the fall of 2009, they have since rejoined.

Recreational Sports Outdoor Program

Intramurals

Soccer, Softball, Volleyball, Flag Football, Ultimate Frisbee, Bowling, Inner Tube Water Polo, Golf, Table Tennis, Broomball, Hockey (4 on 4), Basketball (Co-Rec., 3 on 3), Curling, Volleyball (4 on 4)

Sports Clubs

There are many UMD organized sports clubs that both men and women may join together. Some of the clubs include: Alpine Skiing, Badminton

Badminton

Badminton is a racquet sport played by either two opposing players or two opposing pairs , who take positions on opposite halves of a rectangular court that is divided by a net. Players score points by striking a shuttlecock with their racquet so that it passes over the net and lands in their...

, Dance Team, Synchronized Skating, snowboard, Dodgeball, Martial Arts, Rowing, and Table Tennis. Men's clubs include: Lacrosse, Wrestling, Hockey, Rugby Football, Soccer. Women's clubs include: Ice Hockey, Lacrosse, Rugby.

Outdoor Clubs

Rod & Gun Club, Bike Club, Kayak & Canoe Club, North Shore Climbers, Outdoor Educators Club, and Wuda Wooch!

Outdoor Trips/Events/Races

Examples of past trips include: Paddling the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, Climbing the Devil’s Tower National Monument in Wyoming, backpacking the Porcupine Mountains in Michigan. Events and races on campus in UMD's Bagley Nature Area have included the Rock Hill Adventure where participants run, canoe or kayak and the Homecoming 5K Trail Run.

Fitness

There are a variety of group fitness programs at UMD. These programs are open to students, faculty, staff, and community members. Fitness passes grant entry to classes including; Butts & Gutts, Cardio Mix, Circuit City, Hip Hop, Kardio Kick, Pilates, Piloga, Pump & Tone, Power Yoga, Spin & Core, Step, Step & Sculp, Vinyasa Yoga, and Yoga Inspired Stretch. Massage therapy, personal training, tri teams, and kinesis are also available at UMD.

Military

• Bruce A. Carlson
  Bruce A. Carlson
  Bruce Allen Carlson is the current Director, National Reconnaissance Office. He was a former four-star general in the United States Air Force and served as the sixth Commander, Air Force Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio...
  
   - Current director of the National Reconnaissance Office
  National Reconnaissance Office
  The National Reconnaissance Office , located in Chantilly, Virginia, is one of the 16 U.S. intelligence agencies. It designs, builds, and operates the spy satellites of the United States government.-Mission:...
  
   and former four-star general in the Air Force

Politics

• Michael S. Berman
  Michael S. Berman
  Michael S. Berman is a long-time Washington lawyer and lobbyist. He is currently the President of The Duberstein Group, a prominent Washington lobbying firm. Berman is the brother of California Democratic Congressman Howard Berman....
  
   - Longtime Washington lawyer and lobbyist, deputy chief of staff for Walter Mondale.
• Mike Hatch
  Mike Hatch
  Michael Allen Hatch is an American politician, and was Attorney General of Minnesota from 1999 to 2007. In 2006, he was the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party nominee for governor of Minnesota...
  
   - former Minnesota Attorney General (1999 - 2007) and 2006 candidate for Governor
  Minnesota gubernatorial election, 2006
  The 2006 Minnesota gubernatorial election took place on November 7, 2006. Incumbent Tim Pawlenty was endorsed by the state Republican convention on June 2, 2006, while the state Democratic-Farmer-Labor convention endorsed Mike Hatch on June 10, 2006...
  
  
• Don Ness
  Don Ness
  Don Ness is an American politician from Duluth, Minnesota, and the current mayor of that city. He is a member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party.-Early life and education:...
  
   - Current Mayor of Duluth (2008 - Present)
• Elwyn Tinklenberg
  Elwyn Tinklenberg
  Elwyn "El" Tinklenberg is an American politician, and was the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party nominee and Independence Party of Minnesota endorsee for U.S. Congress in Minnesota's 6th District elections in 2008...
  
   - Former Minnesota Department of Transportation
  Minnesota Department of Transportation
  The Minnesota Department of Transportation oversees transportation by land, water, and air in the U.S. state of Minnesota. The cabinet-level agency is responsible for maintaining the state's trunk highway system The Minnesota Department of Transportation (Mn/DOT, pronounced "min-dot") oversees...
  
   Commissioner and 2008 congressional candidate for Minnesota's 6th Congressional District
  Minnesota's 6th congressional district
  Minnesota's 6th congressional district includes most or all of Benton, Sherburne, Stearns, Wright, Anoka, and Washington counties. The district is Republican-leaning with a CPVI of R + 7. It is currently represented by Republican Michele Bachmann....
  
  
• Yvonne Prettner Solon
  Yvonne Prettner Solon
  Yvonne Prettner Solon is the 47th and current Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota. She is the sixth consecutive woman to serve in that capacity and is a member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party.-Education:...
  
   - Current Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota (2011 - Present)

Business

• Bill Aho
  Bill Aho
  Bill Aho is an American businessman who is a partner with The SagePoint Group, a management consulting firm. He is the former CEO of the movie-filtering company ClearPlay. He received his B.A. from the University of Minnesota-Duluth and an MBA from the Brigham Young University Marriott School of...
  
   - Former CEO of ClearPlay
  ClearPlay
  ClearPlay is an advanced parental control DVD player that allows content filtering of ordinary DVD films, purchased or rented. ClearPlay is the technology that automatically and seamlessly skips over or mutes undesirable content such as profanity, graphic violence, drug and adult-oriented content,...
  
   and played an instrumental role turning around Red Lobster
  Red Lobster
  Red Lobster is a U.S. chain of seafood restaurants. It also operates in Canada, the UAE and Japan . It is aimed at the mid-level "casual dining" segment of the market...
  
   while a Senior Vice President for Darden Restaurants
  Darden Restaurants
  Darden Restaurants, Inc. is a multi-brand restaurant operator headquartered in an unincorporated area in Orange County, Florida, near Orlando. The firm owns several casual dining restaurant chains, most notably Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse, and Red Lobster...
  
  .
• David Oreck
  David Oreck
  David Oreck is an American salesman, entrepreneur, and businessman. He is the founder of the Oreck Corporation, makers of vacuum cleaners and air purifiers, and is known through his appearances as a spokesman in Oreck television commercials and infomercials.-Early life:David Oreck was born close...
  
   - Founder of the Oreck Corporation
• Robert Senkler
  Robert Senkler
  Robert Senkler is the current Chairman and CEO of Securian Financial Group, and has served as CEO since 1994. Robert started with Minnesota Life - Securian Financial Group as an actuarial trainee in 1974, and eventually worked his way up to vice president in 1984. He currently serves on the...
  
   - Current Chairman and CEO of Securian Financial Group

Men's Hockey

• Greg Andrusak
  Greg Andrusak
  Greg Andrusak is a retired professional ice hockey player.Andrusak played 43 games in the National Hockey League for the Pittsburgh Penguins and Toronto Maple Leafs. He scored a goal and scored seven points.- References :...
  
   - NHL player with the Pittsburgh Penguins
  Pittsburgh Penguins
  The Pittsburgh Penguins are a professional ice hockey team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League . The franchise was founded in 1967 as one of the first expansion teams during the league's original...
  
  , Toronto Maple Leafs
  Toronto Maple Leafs
  The Toronto Maple Leafs are a professional ice hockey team based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. They are members of the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League...
  
  , and San Jose Sharks
  San Jose Sharks
  The San Jose Sharks are a professional ice hockey team based in San Jose, California, United States. They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League...
  
  
• Pat Boutette
  Pat Boutette
  Patrick Michael Boutette is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey centre.-Playing career:Boutette retired from the NHL following 752 games, recording 171 goals and 282 assists for 453 points as well as 1354 penalty minutes.-Awards and achievements:*WCHA Second All-Star Team *NCAA West First...
  
   - NHL player with the Toronto Maple Leafs
  Toronto Maple Leafs
  The Toronto Maple Leafs are a professional ice hockey team based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. They are members of the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League...
  
  , Hartford Whalers
  Hartford Whalers
  The Hartford Whalers were a professional ice hockey team based for most of its existence in Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.A.. The club played in the World Hockey Association from 1972–79 and in the National Hockey League from 1979–97...
  
  , and Pittsburgh Penguins
  Pittsburgh Penguins
  The Pittsburgh Penguins are a professional ice hockey team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League . The franchise was founded in 1967 as one of the first expansion teams during the league's original...
  
  
• Chad Erickson
  Chad Erickson
  Chad Carlyle Erickson is a retired ice hockey goaltender who played two games in the National Hockey League, both for the New Jersey Devils in 1991–92. He won one game, lost the other and had a 4.50 goals against average. He never returned to the NHL, but played for numerous minor league teams...
  
   - NHL player with the New Jersey Devils
  New Jersey Devils
  The New Jersey Devils are a professional ice hockey team based in Newark, New Jersey, United States. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League...
  
  
• Jesse Fibiger
  Jesse Fibiger
  Jesse Fibiger is a professional ice hockey defenceman who played sixteen games with the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League during the 2001–02 NHL season. Fibiger was held without a point in those games and registered two penalty minutes...
  
   - NHL player with the San Jose Sharks
  San Jose Sharks
  The San Jose Sharks are a professional ice hockey team based in San Jose, California, United States. They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League...
  
  
• Rusty Fitzgerald
  Rusty Fitzgerald
  Russell John Fitzgerald is a former professional ice hockey center. He was drafted in the second round, 38th overall, by the Pittsburgh Penguins in the 1991 NHL Entry Draft....
  
   - NHL player with the Pittsburgh Penguins
  Pittsburgh Penguins
  The Pittsburgh Penguins are a professional ice hockey team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League . The franchise was founded in 1967 as one of the first expansion teams during the league's original...
  
  
• Jason Garrison
  Jason Garrison
  Jason John Maxwell Garrison is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman for the Florida Panthers of the National Hockey League.-Playing career:...
  
   - NHL player with the Florida Panthers
  Florida Panthers
  The Florida Panthers are a professional ice hockey team based in Sunrise, Florida, in the Miami metropolitan area. They are members of the Southeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League . They play their games at the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise and are the...
  
  
• Curt Giles
  Curt Giles
  Curtis Jon Giles is a retired Canadian ice hockey defenceman.Selected by the Minnesota North Stars in the 1978 NHL Entry Draft, Giles had two tours with the North Stars . During each tour, his steady defensive play helped guide the North Stars to finals appearances in 1981 and 1991. Giles also...
  
   - NHL player with the Minnesota North Stars
  Minnesota North Stars
  The Minnesota North Stars were a professional ice hockey team in the National Hockey League for 26 seasons, from 1967 to 1993. The North Stars played their home games at the Met Center in Bloomington, and the team's colors for most of its history were green, yellow, gold and white...
  
  , St. Louis Blues, and New York Rangers
  New York Rangers
  The New York Rangers are a professional ice hockey team based in the borough of Manhattan in New York, New York, USA. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League . Playing their home games at Madison Square Garden, the Rangers are one of the...
  
  
• John Harrington - member of 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey gold-medal team that beat the USSR in the Miracle on Ice
  Miracle on Ice
  The "Miracle on Ice" is the name in American popular culture for a medal-round men's ice hockey game during the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, New York, on Friday, February 22...
  
   game.
• Brett Hull
  Brett Hull
  Brett Andrew Hull is a former Canadian-American NHL player and the former Executive Vice President of the Dallas Stars. He is the son of Bobby Hull and nephew of Dennis Hull, both former NHL players. Hull is also known as "The Golden Brett," which is a play off of his father's nickname, "The...
  
   - NHL Player with Calgary Flames
  Calgary Flames
  The Calgary Flames are a professional ice hockey team based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. They are members of the Northwest Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League . The club is the third major-professional ice hockey team to represent the city of Calgary, following the...
  
  , St. Louis Blues, Dallas Stars
  Dallas Stars
  The Dallas Stars are a professional ice hockey team based in Dallas, Texas. They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League . The team was founded during the 1967 NHL expansion as the Minnesota North Stars, based in Bloomington, Minnesota. The...
  
  , Detroit Red Wings
  Detroit Red Wings
  The Detroit Red Wings are a professional ice hockey team based in Detroit, Michigan. They are members of the Central Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League , and are one of the Original Six teams of the NHL, along with the Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens, New York...
  
  , and Phoenix Coyotes
  Phoenix Coyotes
  The Phoenix Coyotes are a professional ice hockey team based in Glendale, Arizona. They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League . They play their home games at Jobing.com Arena....
  
  . Hull is 3rd all time in the NHL with 741 goals.
• Jim Johnson
  Jim Johnson (ice hockey b. 1962)
  For the 1960s and 1970s Philadelphia Flyers / Minnesota Fighting Saints forward, see Jim Johnson James Erik Johnson who graduated from Robbinsdale Cooper High School in 1980, is an assistant coach for the Washington Capitals, and a former American ice hockey player...
  
   - NHL player with the Pittsburgh Penguins
  Pittsburgh Penguins
  The Pittsburgh Penguins are a professional ice hockey team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League . The franchise was founded in 1967 as one of the first expansion teams during the league's original...
  
  , Minnesota North Stars
  Minnesota North Stars
  The Minnesota North Stars were a professional ice hockey team in the National Hockey League for 26 seasons, from 1967 to 1993. The North Stars played their home games at the Met Center in Bloomington, and the team's colors for most of its history were green, yellow, gold and white...
  
  ' Washington Capitals
  Washington Capitals
  The Washington Capitals are a professional ice hockey team based in Washington, D.C. They are members of the Southeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League . Since their founding in 1974, "The Caps" have won one conference championship to reach the 1998 Stanley Cup...
  
  , and Phoenix Coyotes
  Phoenix Coyotes
  The Phoenix Coyotes are a professional ice hockey team based in Glendale, Arizona. They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League . They play their home games at Jobing.com Arena....
  
  
• Tom Kurvers
  Tom Kurvers
  Thomas James Kurvers is a retired professional ice hockey defenseman who spent 11 seasons in the National Hockey League between 1984 and 1995. He was a member of the 1986 Stanley Cup Champion Montreal Canadiens...
  
   - Hobey Baker Award
  Hobey Baker Award
  The Hobey Baker Award is an annual award given to the top National Collegiate Athletic Association men's ice hockey player.It is named for hockey player and World War I veteran Hobey Baker, who played collegiately at Princeton University and learned the game at St...
  
   winner in 1983, and long-time NHL player
• Dave Langevin
  Dave Langevin
  David Richard "Bam Bam" Langevin is a retired American ice hockey defenseman who played 216 games for the WHA Edmonton Oilers as well as 513 games for the NHL New York Islanders, Minnesota North Stars and Los Angeles Kings between 1977 and 1987...
  
  - NHL Player most notably with the New York Islanders
  New York Islanders
  The New York Islanders are a professional ice hockey team based in Uniondale, New York. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League...
  
  
• Junior Lessard
  Junior Lessard
  Lucien Lessard, Jr known as Junior Lessard is a professional ice hockey player currently playing for Idaho Steelheads of the ECHL.-Playing career:...
  
   - Hobey Baker Award
  Hobey Baker Award
  The Hobey Baker Award is an annual award given to the top National Collegiate Athletic Association men's ice hockey player.It is named for hockey player and World War I veteran Hobey Baker, who played collegiately at Princeton University and learned the game at St...
  
   NHL Player with the Dallas Stars
  Dallas Stars
  The Dallas Stars are a professional ice hockey team based in Dallas, Texas. They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League . The team was founded during the 1967 NHL expansion as the Minnesota North Stars, based in Bloomington, Minnesota. The...
  
  , Atlanta Thrashers
  Atlanta Thrashers
  The Atlanta Thrashers were a professional ice hockey team based in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Atlanta was granted a franchise in the National Hockey League on June 25, 1997, and became the league's 28th franchise when it began play in the 1999–2000 NHL season...
  
  , and Tampa Bay Lightning
  Tampa Bay Lightning
  The Tampa Bay Lightning are a professional ice hockey team based in Tampa, Florida. They are members of the Southeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League . They have one Stanley Cup championship in their history, in 2003–04. They are often referred to as the...
  
  
• Chris Marinucci
  Chris Marinucci
  Christopher Jon Marinucci is a American retired ice hockey player who played briefly in the NHL with the Los Angeles Kings and the New York Islanders...
  
   - Hobey Baker Award
  Hobey Baker Award
  The Hobey Baker Award is an annual award given to the top National Collegiate Athletic Association men's ice hockey player.It is named for hockey player and World War I veteran Hobey Baker, who played collegiately at Princeton University and learned the game at St...
  
   winner in 1994 and player with the Los Angeles Kings
  Los Angeles Kings
  The Los Angeles Kings are a professional ice hockey team based in Los Angeles, California. They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League...
  
   and New York Islanders
  New York Islanders
  The New York Islanders are a professional ice hockey team based in Uniondale, New York. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League...
  
  
• Bob Mason
  Bob Mason
  Robert Thomas Mason is a retired American ice hockey goaltender.A member of the 1984 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team, Mason's professional career began when he was signed as a free agent by the Washington Capitals. He had two stints with the Capitals...
  
   - NHL player with the Washington Capitals
  Washington Capitals
  The Washington Capitals are a professional ice hockey team based in Washington, D.C. They are members of the Southeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League . Since their founding in 1974, "The Caps" have won one conference championship to reach the 1998 Stanley Cup...
  
  , Chicago Blackhawks
  Chicago Blackhawks
  The Chicago Blackhawks are a professional ice hockey team based in Chicago, Illinois. They are members of the Central Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League . They have won four Stanley Cup championships since their founding in 1926, most recently coming in 2009-10...
  
  , Quebec Nordiques
  Quebec Nordiques
  The Quebec Nordiques were a professional ice hockey team based in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. The Nordiques played in the World Hockey Association and the National Hockey League...
  
  , and Vancouver Canucks
  Vancouver Canucks
  The Vancouver Canucks are a professional ice hockey team based in Vancouver, :British Columbia, Canada. They are members of the Northwest Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League . The Canucks play their home games at Rogers Arena, formerly known as General Motors Place,...
  
  
• Bryan McGregor
  Bryan McGregor
  Bryan McGregor is a Canadian professional ice hockey player. He played with HC Oceláři Třinec in the Czech Extraliga for parts of the 2010–11 and 2011–12 seasons....
  
   - Czech Extraliga
  Czech Extraliga
  The Czech Extraliga is the highest-level ice hockey league in the Czech Republic. As of 2009, it is ranked by the IIHF as the third strongest league in Europe....
  
   player with HC Oceláři Třinec
  HC Ocelári Trinec
  HC Oceláři Třinec is an ice hockey team who play in the Czech Extraliga, the top tier of Czech ice hockey. Their home arena is Werk Arena in Třinec...
  
  
• Rick Mrozik
  Rick Mrozik
  Richard Donald Mrozik is a retired American ice hockey player who played two games in the National Hockey League for the Calgary Flames in 2002–03. Mrozik was drafted by the Dallas Stars in the 6th round, 136th overall, in the 1993 NHL Entry Draft...
  
   - NHL player with the Calgary Flames
  Calgary Flames
  The Calgary Flames are a professional ice hockey team based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. They are members of the Northwest Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League . The club is the third major-professional ice hockey team to represent the city of Calgary, following the...
  
  
• Matt Niskanen
  Matt Niskanen
  Matthew Norman Niskanen is an American professional ice hockey defenseman currently playing for the Pittsburgh Penguins in the National Hockey League. He was drafted by the Dallas Stars in the first round, 28th overall, in the 2005 NHL Entry Draft.-Amateur career:Niskanen attended the University...
  
   - NHL player with the Dallas Stars
  Dallas Stars
  The Dallas Stars are a professional ice hockey team based in Dallas, Texas. They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League . The team was founded during the 1967 NHL expansion as the Minnesota North Stars, based in Bloomington, Minnesota. The...
  
   and Pittsburgh Penguins
  Pittsburgh Penguins
  The Pittsburgh Penguins are a professional ice hockey team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League . The franchise was founded in 1967 as one of the first expansion teams during the league's original...
  
  
• Evan Oberg
  Evan Oberg
  Evan Oberg is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman for the Florida Panthers of the National Hockey League . Oberg played college hockey for the University of Minnesota-Duluth, where he spent two seasons after spending his junior career with the Camrose Kodiaks of the Alberta Junior...
  
   - NHL player with the Vancouver Canucks
  Vancouver Canucks
  The Vancouver Canucks are a professional ice hockey team based in Vancouver, :British Columbia, Canada. They are members of the Northwest Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League . The Canucks play their home games at Rogers Arena, formerly known as General Motors Place,...
  
   and Florida Panthers
  Florida Panthers
  The Florida Panthers are a professional ice hockey team based in Sunrise, Florida, in the Miami metropolitan area. They are members of the Southeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League . They play their games at the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise and are the...
  
  .
• Mark Pavelich
  Mark Pavelich
  Mark Thomas Pavelich is a retired US professional ice hockey forward who played 355 regular season games in the NHL for the New York Rangers, Minnesota North Stars and San Jose Sharks between 1981 and 1992 and was a member of the 1980 U.S...
  
   - member of 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey gold-medal team that beat the USSR in the Miracle on Ice
  Miracle on Ice
  The "Miracle on Ice" is the name in American popular culture for a medal-round men's ice hockey game during the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, New York, on Friday, February 22...
  
   game. Also Played in the NHL with the New York Rangers
  New York Rangers
  The New York Rangers are a professional ice hockey team based in the borough of Manhattan in New York, New York, USA. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League . Playing their home games at Madison Square Garden, the Rangers are one of the...
  
  , Minnesota North Stars
  Minnesota North Stars
  The Minnesota North Stars were a professional ice hockey team in the National Hockey League for 26 seasons, from 1967 to 1993. The North Stars played their home games at the Met Center in Bloomington, and the team's colors for most of its history were green, yellow, gold and white...
  
  , and San Jose Sharks
  San Jose Sharks
  The San Jose Sharks are a professional ice hockey team based in San Jose, California, United States. They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League...
  
  
• Mike Peluso
  Mike Peluso (ice hockey b. 1974)
  Mike "Loose" Peluso is an American former professional ice hockey right winger who played 38 games in the National Hockey League for the Chicago Blackhawks and Philadelphia Flyers. Peluso was raised in Hibbing, Minnesota....
  
   - Played in the NHL with the Chicago Blackhawks
  Chicago Blackhawks
  The Chicago Blackhawks are a professional ice hockey team based in Chicago, Illinois. They are members of the Central Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League . They have won four Stanley Cup championships since their founding in 1926, most recently coming in 2009-10...
  
  . Not to be confused with the noted tough guy Mike Peluso
  Mike David Peluso
  Michael David Peluso, is an American former professional ice hockey player. Peluso was known primarily as an enforcer throughout his National Hockey League career. Peluso played in the NHL from 1990 until 1998...
  
   who also played with the Chicago Blackhawks
  Chicago Blackhawks
  The Chicago Blackhawks are a professional ice hockey team based in Chicago, Illinois. They are members of the Central Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League . They have won four Stanley Cup championships since their founding in 1926, most recently coming in 2009-10...
  
  .
• Derek Plante
  Derek Plante
  Derek John Plante is an American ice hockey coach and former professional ice hockey player. Plante played eight seasons in the National Hockey League for the Buffalo Sabres, Dallas Stars, Chicago Blackhawks and Philadelphia Flyers. He was a member of the 1999 Stanley Cup champion Dallas Stars...
  
   - NHL player with Buffalo Sabres
  Buffalo Sabres
  The Buffalo Sabres are a professional ice hockey team based in Buffalo, New York. They are members of the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League .-Founding and early success: 1970-71—1980-81:...
  
  , Dallas Stars
  Dallas Stars
  The Dallas Stars are a professional ice hockey team based in Dallas, Texas. They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League . The team was founded during the 1967 NHL expansion as the Minnesota North Stars, based in Bloomington, Minnesota. The...
  
  , and the Philadelphia Flyers
  Philadelphia Flyers
  The Philadelphia Flyers are a professional ice hockey team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League...
  
  
• Shjon Podein
  Shjon Podein
  Shjon Podein is an American former professional ice hockey left winger who played 11 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Edmonton Oilers, Philadelphia Flyers, Colorado Avalanche and St. Louis Blues....
  
   - NHL player with the Edmonton Oilers
  Edmonton Oilers
  The Edmonton Oilers are a professional ice hockey team based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. They are members of the Northwest Division in the Western Conference of the National Hockey League ....
  
  , Philadelphia Flyers
  Philadelphia Flyers
  The Philadelphia Flyers are a professional ice hockey team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League...
  
  , Colorado Avalanche
  Colorado Avalanche
  The Colorado Avalanche are a professional ice hockey team based in Denver, Colorado, United States. They are members of the Northwest Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League . The Avalanche have won the Stanley Cup twice, in 1995–96 and 2000–01. The franchise...
  
  , St. Louis Blues. Stanley Cup winner in 2000–01 with Colorado Avalanche
  Colorado Avalanche
  The Colorado Avalanche are a professional ice hockey team based in Denver, Colorado, United States. They are members of the Northwest Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League . The Avalanche have won the Stanley Cup twice, in 1995–96 and 2000–01. The franchise...
  
  
• Mason Raymond
  Mason Raymond
  Mason Evan Raymond is a Canadian professional ice hockey winger currently playing for the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League . Born in Cochrane, Alberta, he played Junior A in the Alberta Junior Hockey League for two seasons, where he captured league and regional titles with the...
  
   - NHL player with the Vancouver Canucks
  Vancouver Canucks
  The Vancouver Canucks are a professional ice hockey team based in Vancouver, :British Columbia, Canada. They are members of the Northwest Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League . The Canucks play their home games at Rogers Arena, formerly known as General Motors Place,...
  
  
• Glen "Chico" Resch - NHL Goalie with the Colorado Rockies
  Colorado Rockies
  The Colorado Rockies are a Major League Baseball team based in Denver, Colorado. Established in 1991, they started play in 1993 and are in the West Division of the National League. The team is named after the Rocky Mountains...
  
  , New York Islanders
  New York Islanders
  The New York Islanders are a professional ice hockey team based in Uniondale, New York. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League...
  
   and New Jersey Devils
  New Jersey Devils
  The New Jersey Devils are a professional ice hockey team based in Newark, New Jersey, United States. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League...
  
  
• Jon Rohloff
  Jon Rohloff
  Jonathan Richard Rohloff is a former professional ice hockey defenseman. He was drafted in the ninth round, 186th overall, by the Boston Bruins in the 1988 NHL Entry Draft....
  
   - NHL player with the Boston Bruins
  Boston Bruins
  The Boston Bruins are a professional ice hockey team based in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. They are members of the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League . The team has been in existence since 1924, and is the league's third-oldest team and its oldest in the...
  
  
• Jay Rosehill
  Jay Rosehill
  Jay Rosehill is a Canadian ice hockey defenceman/forward for the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League. He was selected by the Tampa Bay Lightning in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft.-Playing career:...
  
   - NHL player with the Toronto Maple Leafs
  Toronto Maple Leafs
  The Toronto Maple Leafs are a professional ice hockey team based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. They are members of the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League...
  
  
• Alex Stalock
  Alex Stalock
  Alexander Joseph Stalock is an American professional ice hockey goaltender currently playing for the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League. He attended college at the University of Minnesota-Duluth, where he played college hockey for 3 years before starting his professional career.On...
  
   - NHL goaltender with the San Jose Sharks
  San Jose Sharks
  The San Jose Sharks are a professional ice hockey team based in San Jose, California, United States. They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League...
  
  
• Tim Stapleton
  Tim Stapleton
  Timothy Gabriel Stapleton is an American professional ice hockey center who is currently playing for the Winnipeg Jets of the National Hockey League .-Playing career:...
  
  - NHL player with the Toronto Maple Leafs
  Toronto Maple Leafs
  The Toronto Maple Leafs are a professional ice hockey team based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. They are members of the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League...
  
  , Atlanta Thrashers
  Atlanta Thrashers
  The Atlanta Thrashers were a professional ice hockey team based in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Atlanta was granted a franchise in the National Hockey League on June 25, 1997, and became the league's 28th franchise when it began play in the 1999–2000 NHL season...
  
  , and the relocated Atlanta team Winnipeg Jets
  Winnipeg Jets
  The Winnipeg Jets were a professional ice hockey team based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. They began play in the World Hockey Association in 1972, moving to the National Hockey League in 1979 following the collapse of the WHA...
  
  
• Dennis Vaske
  Dennis Vaske
  Dennis James Vaske is a retired American ice hockey defenseman.Vaske started his National Hockey League career with the New York Islanders in 1991. He also played for the Boston Bruins. He retired after the 1999 season. He is currently the head coach of the Chicago Fury's midget major...
  
   - NHL player with the New York Islanders
  New York Islanders
  The New York Islanders are a professional ice hockey team based in Uniondale, New York. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League...
  
  , Boston Bruins
  Boston Bruins
  The Boston Bruins are a professional ice hockey team based in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. They are members of the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League . The team has been in existence since 1924, and is the league's third-oldest team and its oldest in the...
  
  
• Bill Watson
  Bill Watson (ice hockey)
  William Charles Watson is a retired ice hockey player. Watson won the Hobey Baker Award in 1985 while playing for the University of Minnesota Duluth. He would go to play professionally in the National Hockey League for the Chicago Blackhawks.-External links:...
  
   - Hobey Baker Award
  Hobey Baker Award
  The Hobey Baker Award is an annual award given to the top National Collegiate Athletic Association men's ice hockey player.It is named for hockey player and World War I veteran Hobey Baker, who played collegiately at Princeton University and learned the game at St...
  
   winner in 1984 and NHL player with the Chicago Blackhawks
  Chicago Blackhawks
  The Chicago Blackhawks are a professional ice hockey team based in Chicago, Illinois. They are members of the Central Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League . They have won four Stanley Cup championships since their founding in 1926, most recently coming in 2009-10...
  
  
• Craig Weller
  Craig Weller
  Craig Weller is a professional ice hockey defenseman/right wing.-Playing career:Weller was the St. Louis Blues 5th round choice, 167th overall, in the 2000 NHL Draft...
  
   - NHL player with the Phoenix Coyotes
  Phoenix Coyotes
  The Phoenix Coyotes are a professional ice hockey team based in Glendale, Arizona. They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League . They play their home games at Jobing.com Arena....
  
  , and the Minnesota Wild
  Minnesota Wild
  The Minnesota Wild are a professional ice hockey team based in St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. They are members of the Northwest Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League ....
  
  
• Larry Wright
  Larry Wright (ice hockey)
  Larry Dale Wright is a retired professional ice hockey player. He played in 106 National Hockey League games over parts of five seasons with the Philadelphia Flyers, California Seals, and Detroit Red Wings....
  
   - NHL player with the Philadelphia Flyers
  Philadelphia Flyers
  The Philadelphia Flyers are a professional ice hockey team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League...
  
  , California Golden Seals
  California Golden Seals
  The California Golden Seals were a team in the National Hockey League from 1967–76. Initially named California Seals, the team was renamed Oakland Seals part-way through the 1967–68 season, and then to California Golden Seals in 1970. The Seals were one of six teams added to the league as part of...
  
  , and the Detroit Red Wings
  Detroit Red Wings
  The Detroit Red Wings are a professional ice hockey team based in Detroit, Michigan. They are members of the Central Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League , and are one of the Original Six teams of the NHL, along with the Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens, New York...
  
  

Women's Hockey

• Haley Irwin
  Haley Irwin
  Haley Irwin is a member of the 2009–10 Hockey Canada national women's team and also plays for the University of Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs.-Playing career:...
  
  
• Kim Martin
  Kim Martin
  Kim Kristine Martin is a goaltender for the Sweden women's national ice hockey team. She plays her club hockey with AIK's women's team and has also played with Hammarby IF's junior men's team...
  
  
• Caroline Ouellette
  Caroline Ouellette
  Caroline Ouellette is a Canadian ice hockey player. She is a member of the Canadian national women's ice hockey team and a member of Montreal Stars...
  
  
• Jenny Schmidgall-Potter
• Maria Rooth
  Maria Rooth
  Maria Rooth is a Swedish ice hockey player. She is the only University of Minnesota Duluth women’s hockey player to have her jersey retired above the ice of the Duluth Entertainment Convention Center...
  
  
• Shayla Rust
• Tuula Puputti
  Tuula Puputti
  Tuula Puputti is a Finnish female ice hockey player. She played on the women's ice hockey team for Finland at the 1998 Winter Olympics, and won a bronze medal.- References :...
  
  
• Hanne Sikio
  Hanne Sikiö
  Hanne Sikio is an ice hockey player that has competed for Finland in ice hockey at the 2002 Winter Olympics.-Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs:-Salt Lake 2002:-References:...
  
  
• Saara Tuominen
  Saara Tuominen
  Saara Elisa Tuominen has competed for Finland in ice hockey. At the 2006 Torino Olympics, Tuominen scored one goal and four assists...
  
  

Other Sports

• Bob Davidson
  Bob Davidson (umpire)
  Robert Allan Davidson is an umpire for Major League Baseball.-Early life:Bob Davidson graduated from Duluth East High School in Duluth, Minnesota in 1970. He attended the University of Minnesota-Duluth where he played baseball for two seasons. Davidson then left to pursue a professional umpiring...
  
  , Major League Baseball
  Major League Baseball
  Major League Baseball is the highest level of professional baseball in the United States and Canada, consisting of teams that play in the National League and the American League...
  
   umpire since 1982 (attended, but did not graduate)
• Dan Devine
  Dan Devine
  Daniel John Devine was an American football player and coach. He served as the head coach football coach at Arizona State University from 1955 to 1957, the University of Missouri from 1958 to 1970, and the University of Notre Dame from 1975 to 1980, compiling a career college football mark of...
  
   - head Football coach with the Missouri Tigers
  Missouri Tigers
  The Missouri Tigers athletics programs include the extramural and intramural sports teams of the University of Missouri, located in Columbia, Missouri, United States...
  
  , Green Bay Packers
  Green Bay Packers
  The Green Bay Packers are an American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The Packers are the current NFL champions...
  
   and Notre Dame Fighting Irish
  Notre Dame Fighting Irish
  Notre Dame's nickname is inherited from Irish immigrant soldiers who fought in the Civil War with the Union's Irish Brigade, , recollected among other places in the poetry of Joyce Kilmer who served with one of the Irish Brigade regiments during World War I...
  
  
• Jay Guidinger
  Jay Guidinger
  Jay Patrick Guidinger is a retired American professional basketball player for the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers.-Playing career:...
  
   - center with the Cleveland Cavaliers
  Cleveland Cavaliers
  The Cleveland Cavaliers are a professional basketball team based in Cleveland, Ohio. They began playing in the National Basketball Association in 1970 as an expansion team...
  
  
• Tod Kowalczyk
  Tod Kowalczyk
  Tod Kowalczyk is an American college basketball coach and current head men's basketball coach at the University of Toledo. He was the head coach at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay from 2002–10, before accepting the head coaching position at Toledo on March 30, 2010.- Career record...
  
   - UW - Green Bay and current Toledo head men's basketball coach
• Jeff Monson
  Jeff Monson
  Jeffrey William Monson is an American mixed martial artist from Olympia, Washington. He is a 2 time winner of the ADCC Submission Wrestling World Championship, and a No Gi Brazilian Jiu Jitsu World Champion. He currently holds the Heavyweight titles in the International Sport Karate Association...
  
   - Grappling and MMA fighter
• Andrea Strand - Professional Ice Road Trucker
• Dick Pesonen
  Dick Pesonen
  Dick Pesonen is a former defensive back in the National Football League. Pesonen first played with the Green Bay Packers during the 1960 NFL season. He was later selected in the 1961 NFL Expansion Draft by the Minnesota Vikings and played that season with the team. From there he played three...
  
   - NFL player
• John Shuster
  John Shuster
  John Shuster is an American curler and Olympic medalist from Chisholm, Minnesota. He received a bronze medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin...
  
   - Olympic Curling
  Curling
  Curling is a sport in which players slide stones across a sheet of ice towards a target area. It is related to bowls, boule and shuffleboard. Two teams, each of four players, take turns sliding heavy, polished granite stones, also called "rocks", across the ice curling sheet towards the house, a...
  
   medalist
• David Viaene
  David Viaene
  David Viaene was a player in the National Football League for the New England Patriots and Green Bay Packers in 1989, 1990, and 1992. He played at the collegiate level at the University of Minnesota-Duluth and the University of Wisconsin–Platteville...
  
   - NFL player with the New England Patriots
  New England Patriots
  The New England Patriots, commonly called the "Pats", are a professional football team based in the Greater Boston area, playing their home games in the town of Foxborough, Massachusetts at Gillette Stadium. The team is part of the East Division of the American Football Conference in the National...
  
   and Green Bay Packers
  Green Bay Packers
  The Green Bay Packers are an American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The Packers are the current NFL champions...
  
  

Arts

• Jim Brandenburg
  Jim Brandenburg
  Jim Brandenburg is an environmentalist and nature photographer and filmmaker based near Ely, Minnesota. His career includes over 10 years as a newspaper photojournalist, over 30 years as a contract photographer for the National Geographic Society, and commissions from such groups as the United...
  
   - renowned National Geographic nature photographer
• Joel McKinnon Miller
  Joel McKinnon Miller
  Joel McKinnon Miller, or sometimes credited as Joel McKinnon, is an American film and television actor who has been living in Los Angeles since 1991. His most significant role is that of Don Embry on HBO's drama series Big Love.-Life and career:...
  
   - actor on HBO's Big Love
  Big Love
  Big Love is an American television drama that aired on HBO between March 2006 and March 2011. The show is about a fictional fundamentalist Mormon family in Utah that practices polygamy...
  
  
• Miranda Marshall - renowned National Geographic photographer specializing in animal mating habits
• Lorenzo Music
  Lorenzo Music
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   - the voice of Garfield
  Garfield
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   and Carlton the Doorman on Rhoda
  Rhoda
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• Janelle Pierzina
  Janelle Pierzina
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   - contestant on sixth and all star seasons of Big Brother
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• Ann Royer
  Ann Royer
  Ann Royer is a painter and sculptor living and working in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Her work consists mostly of abstract nudes and horses. She was born in Sioux City, Iowa in 1933.-Education and work:...
  
  - painter and sculptor

James Swenson

James Swenson, a University of Minnesota Duluth Alumnus, has donated more than $21 million to the school, with his most recent donation of $10.7 million toward the College of Science and Engineering. $3 million of this was dedicated to the new civil engineering building and the remaining $7.7 million was given as scholarships for students in science and research programs. This donation helps to continue to support the scholarship programs the Swenson family started in 1994. Since the program began, UMD has awarded scholarships to over 200 students.
Because of his generous donations over the years, the school renamed the College of Science and Engineering to be the Swenson College of Science and Engineering. “It’s nice to have our names on buildings, but there’s a lot of gratification in helping these young people,” said Swenson.
The Swensons are natives of northern Superior, Wisc. and have since relocated to California. James completed his bachelor’s degree in chemistry in 1959 at UMD. He then worked in the computer industry with his circuit shop Details Inc., which he sold in 1997.

Joel Labovitz

Joel Labovitz is founder of Labovitz Enterprises, a diversified investment firm based in Duluth with a focus on the hospitality industry. Previously, Joel Labovitz was President and CEO of Maurices, the retail clothing company that was founded in 1931 in Duluth by his father, Maurice Labovitz.

External links

• Official website