Notebook
November 22nd, 2024 by Gary Osberg

In 1998 Dad moved from his high-rise apartment in downtown St. Paul to my house in Upsala. He had been a city fellow for most of his adult life, but he was raised in Upsala. I was working in Minneapolis as a sales manager with the Xerox agency Albinson and I was gone most of […]

November 15th, 2024 by Gary Osberg

I do believe that the first non-profit board of directors that I was asked to join was the St. Cloud Community Arts Council.  Susan Dean was the person that asked me to join.  At the very first meeting, there was a suggestion by the Executive Director to change the name of the 30-year-old organization.  One […]

November 8th, 2024 by Gary Osberg

I was an army brat. Dad served in the Navy during the second world war and later he joined the Army. In 1950 he was a Sergeant in the 5th Army, stationed in Vienna, Austria. We lived on the second floor of a very nice apartment building at 41 Gregor Mendel Strasse. There were two […]