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After Learning Leadership Techniques,
Rural Residents Rebuild Communities
ruary; followed by a two-day
workshop at a casino hotel operated by the Mille Lacs Band
in Hinckley, Minn., in May; and
a final day at a resort in On-amia, Minn., in August to wrap
things up. Their veteran outside
trainers, Ann Glumac and Victor Klimoski, led them through
exercises designed to get them
to think strategically about how
to achieve a goal.
The sessions were sometimes
difficult for Ms. Roeschlein, who
says the group exercises and
the contact with people like Ms.
Sam left her with conflicting
feelings about the battles over
Indian sovereignty.
“In my heart, I want harmony,” she says. “But I also want a
job. So where is my line?”
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Learning to Collaborate
The trainers did not discuss
the racial conflicts but focused
on getting the participants to
think about ways to work together to build a healthier community. (Mr. Klimoski says
Blandin is considering developing a program, however, that
more directly focuses on hostili-ties that can arise in “border
communities,” or those adjoining an Indian reservation.)
Ms. Sam says she was de-
lighted by the outcome: “A lot of
barriers were broken down,” she
says. “A lot of relationships have
been established.”
Responding to the deaths of
several young Mille Lacs Band
members in recent months,
participants agreed to pro-
mote efforts around the lake
to combat gang violence, she
says. Over the summer, a mem-
ber of the Blandin group, Kev-
in Armbrust, directed a play
that brought together students
from a tribal school with stu-
dents from two other school dis-
tricts.
‘Star’ Graduate
Blandin, which has an endowment of $309-million and a 2010
budget of $18.6-million, will
spend $2.4-million this year on
its leadership programs.
Blandin intentionally separates the leadership program
from its grant-making activities because it does not want
participants to be motivated by
the possibility of winning money, Mr. Hoolihan says.
It relies heavily on alumni to
help select future participants
and otherwise keep the program
alive in their communities. One
of their “star” graduates is Bonnie Rietz, a civic activist and
former mayor and city council
member in Austin, Minn., who
now serves on Blandin’s board.
Ms. Rietz participated in
the community-leadership pro-
gram in 1988, when Austin was
bitterly divided over a recent
strike at the Hormel meatpack-
ing plant, the town’s largest
employer. Ms. Rietz recalls that
two of the participants—a Hor-
mel vice president and a labor-
union officer—were not speak-
ing to each other at the time.
But they became good friends,
which “made a big difference in
those years as those contracts
were settled,” she says.
NOTABLE GIFTS
Investment Banker Leaves $11.5-Million
to Private School in Maine
Who gave it: Bion R. Cram, an investment banker who died in 2008.
Who got it: Fryeburg Academy, a private secondary school in Maine.
The bequest will support financial aid and pay for laboratory equipment and other items to support instruction.
How much: $11.5-million
The donor’s connection to the school: Mr. Cram graduated from
the school as a scholarship student in 1933. Before he died, he donated $3.5-million to Fryeburg,.
How the gift came about: Daniel Lee, the school’s master, said that
after Mr. Cram donated $500,000 toward the construction of a library
in 2002, he hinted that more money was to come. Mr. Cram, he notes,
“was saying thank you to the folks that made this possible for him in
the 1930s.”
Bion R. Cram
attended Fryeburg
Academy as a boy.
Other bequest beneficiaries: Mr. Cram left $10-million to his alma
mater, Bowdoin College. His partner of 59 years, John A. McCoy, who died 19 days before him,
also left the college $2.3- million. —CAROLINE BERMUDEZ
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