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Doug Moe: A letter’s lasting legacy

Gretchen Lundstrom was walking into the student union at St. Olaf College in Minnesota, having just finished a history class, when another student, David Minge, saw her and blurted the news. ?Kennedy has been shot!? … Eventually, of course, life went on. David Minge ran successfully for Congress in Minnesota. Gretchen Lundstrom married a Madison native, Dan Farwell, became Gretchen Farwell and enjoyed a long career as a librarian at UW-Madison.