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around the quadPartners in the parkMurphy Square, the three acres that sit squarely in the middle ofAugsburg’s campus, is the oldest park in the city of Minneapolis.It was given to the city by Edward Murphy in 1857, when he platted“Murphy’s Addition.” At that time, however, this firstcity park was quite far from the small settlementsin St. Anthony and Minneapolis, and for 20years or more the park served mostly as cowpasture.As Augsburg grew, the park became moreand more surrounded by the College and incorporatedinto college life and traditions.Homecoming parades have flowedaround it, science contraptionshave been launched in the annualAgre Challenge, tents haveheld formal receptions for commencementsand inaugurations,and many games ofFrisbee, grills of hotdogs, andhours of sunbathing have takenplace in the park.On October 16 at Homecoming, a formal partnership with theMinneapolis Park and Recreation Board was celebrated in whichAugsburg assumes responsibility for the maintenance of the park.The partnership serves as the foundation for further cooperativeefforts and engagement with the park board as Augsburg movesforward with campus master planning, including a proposedsweeping green landscape across campus.New Board of Regents members electedAt their fall meeting in September, the Augsburg CorporationGoverning Board elected four new members to the AugsburgBoard of Regents, and re-elected three members to second terms.Elected for first, four-year terms are:Cynthia Jones ’81 Toby Piper LaBelle ’96LaJune Thomas LangeRev. David TiedeCynthia Jones ’81, SeniorTechnical Advisor forNuclear Security, U.S.Nuclear RegulatoryCommissionToby Piper LaBelle ’96,Senior Vice President,Northland SecuritiesLaJune Thomas Lange,Judge (retired), FourthJudicial District ofMinnesotaRev. David Tiede, InterimPresident, WartburgTheological Seminary;Bernhard M. ChristensenProfessor Emeritus ofReligion and VocationElected to second, four-year terms are:Richard C. Hartnack, Vice Chairman, Consumer Banking, U.S.BancorpAndré Lewis ’73, President (retired), RBC Dain Rauscher FoundationRev. Norman Wahl ’75, Bethel Lutheran Church, Rochester, Minn.Bruce Rowe, groundskeeper, begins his day beautifying Murphy Square.ChristensenSymposium 2010On October 3, Gracia Grindal ’65presented the life and legacy ofBernhard Christensen, “DevoutlyWould He Teach.” On October 4,the symposium continued withthe inauguration of MarthaStortz as the Bernhard M.Christensen Professor of Religionand Vocation (see page 18).Read Grindal’s address atwww.augsburg.edu/now.2Augsburg Now