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In keeping with the editor's decision to mail to alumni graduating in the past seventeen years, we include here all faculty who have retired in that period.
Milt Brostrom, who retired in 1991, graduated from Gustavus in 1949 as a mathematics major. After teaching math and physics at Dana College in Blair, Nebraska, and at Luther Junior College in Wahoo, Nebraska, for five years, he returned to teach math at Gustavus in 1955.
Milt received an MA in math from the University of Minnesota in 1958, and did further work in mathematics and computer science at the University of Kansas on a sabbatical from 1962 to 1964.
During 1970-73 Milt left the Math Department to set up the computer system on campus under an NSF COSIP grant. In 1974 he returned to the Math Department, serving three years as chairman. During his tenure at Gustavus Milt served as faculty athletic representative for 24 years, and also was faculty marshal for many years.
Since retirement he has kept busy traveling, playing keyboard with the Flood Plain Four, working on seven houses with Habitat for Humanity, serving on the Gustavus Athletics Hall of Fame Board, and presently as vice-president of the Gustavus Alumni Association. Since the tornado, he has been helping with the restoration of Resurrection Cemetery.
Steve Hilding, who retired in 1998, received his BA from Gustavus in 1958, his Masters from Kansas State University in 1960, and a Doctorate from the University of Michigan in 1965. He has also (Continued on next page)
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