{"id":1140,"date":"2023-08-07T01:04:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T01:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andydawkins.com\/?p=1140"},"modified":"2023-08-06T18:03:45","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T18:03:45","slug":"margie-rocky-david","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/andydawkins.com\/?p=1140","title":{"rendered":"Tribute # 1: Margie, Rocky & David"},"content":{"rendered":"

Margie, Rocky & David <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

(The first in a series of 20 chapters tributing my friends)<\/em><\/p>\n

All through my college years it was the constancy of summers off and then back to school; and – if she ever reads this – Marjorie<\/b> Stennes<\/b> is going to be surprised she is the first \u201csteerer\u201d in my adult life.<\/p>\n

It was the first week of senior year at Hamline Univ., 1971, and Margie gave me a copy of the Compendium entitled \u201cThe Movement Toward a New America,\u201d 752 pages of photos and stories about 1960s political activism across America.  (Fifty-two years later it still has a prominent place on my bookshelf.) \"\"<\/p>\n

Having realized that I was never going to have another summer off and then back to school, that compendium steered me to what I wanted to do with my life – join The Movement.  You knew me well – Thank you, Margie!\"IMG_2906\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Before finding my way into The Movement, two other college friends have to be mentioned.  Rocky<\/b>Barfuss<\/b> was a sophomore, a party animal, and a member of the TKE frat house – just the kind of person I told my parents I would try to avoid while turning over a new leaf in college.  My second week as a Hamline freshman, Rocky showed-up at my dorm to recruit for the fraternity and invited me to go with him to Project Give-a-Damn, a fraternity-sponsored tutoring program in the Frogtown neighborhood of Saint Paul.  Rocky became a life-long friend and showed me all sorts of ways to have fun and still give a damn.  Frogtown eventually became my life-long neighborhood and the area I represented in the state legislature.\"IMG_2923\"<\/p>\n

caption:  Rocky & Family – Rocky in the middle; wife Nancy to his left; sister Anne & her 2 kids to his right; sister Gail behind him.  Rocky, Nancy, Anne and Gail all died young.<\/em><\/p>\n

      David<\/b> Ilse<\/b> was another TKE, another all-American guy – still is, always has been.  Years later, once I returned to Minnesota to be a lawyer and he was working full-time in child protection, he co-signed for my first car when I didn’t have any credit.  Dave and his wife Sherokee retired to Tucson, AZ, but we catch up every now and then.<\/p>\n

Back to the last day of summer vacation before the start of senior year, a really hot day.  On the spur of the moment, David and I decided to go on a motorcycle trip for a dip in Lake Superior’s cold waters.  That’s 150 miles one way.  Thought we found a private spot behind a sand dune, stripped, raced to the water, jumped in, but . . . once in the water, discovered it was a crowded<\/em> beach!  Had to wade back in, chagrinned.  Just a one minute dip and we were headed back to Saint Paul.<\/p>\n

For me, it was quite a “trip.”  On the way home, it dawned on me this was the last day my life was going to be one of \u201cback-to-school-in-the-fall,\u201d and hence the importance of Margie\u2019s gift of the Compendium a few days later.\"IMG_2922\"<\/a><\/p>\n

caption:  David & Sherokee on their honeymoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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