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Good morning from Collegeville,

Nine of the twenty-nine members of the 1957 Upsala Cardinal foot ball team showed up for their induction to the Sports Hall of Fame. One of the guys, Dave Chuba. came all the way from Ohio. I was the only freshman who was there and Ralph Nelson was the only sophomore. Our quarterback, Bob Soltis, lives in Upsala, but he was not up to it. This is the second year that inductees were chosen. Bob’s brother Ralph was chosen last year and another brother John was a junior on the 1957 football team.

Bob was chosen as one of the four inductees this year, so brother John accepted his award for him. Bob, class of 1958, was the first Upsala athlete to be chosen to the All State Football Team. Kristi Pangrac, class of 2003, was an All State Volleyball player with 1011 kills and the final inductee was Neal Swanson, class of 1955. Neal was a two-sport athlete who was the first to sink a jump shot in the Upsala gym. It was a fun evening plus the Upsala basketball team won the game. Go Cardinals!

The APHC show this week is a re-broadcast of a show that was first broadcast in January of 2013 from the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco. Special guests include Elvin Bishop and his band plus singers Michael Tilson Thomas and Laurie Lewis. The News From Lake Wobegon includes a story about texting during a choir concert.

“Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.”
Thomas Carlyle