In 1966, seven women moved into French House, a Minneapolis building adjacent to Augsburg\u2019s campus that housed the remaining incoming first-year women who could not be accommodated in the residential housing on campus. They called themselves \u201cthe leftovers\u201d and became fast friends who still get together at least once a year.<\/p>\n
The French House Friends traveled twice to Washington, where Linda Larson \u201970 <\/strong>lives, and Larson has traveled annually to Minnesota, where the other six women live. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the group has gathered monthly via Zoom videoconferencing, and they are eager to gather in Minnesota this fall.<\/p>\n \u201cAugsburg fostered quality friendships that have remained with me today,\u201d said Mary (Loken) Veiseth \u201970<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Top image:<\/em> Pictured in 2018 [front, L to R]: Diane Lempke \u201969<\/strong>, Mary (Loken) Veiseth \u201970<\/strong>, Linda (Radtke) Karkhoff \u201970<\/strong>, Paulette (Olson) Odegaard \u201970<\/strong>. [Back, L to R]: Susan (Olson) Williams \u201970<\/strong>, Mary Ellen Buss \u201970<\/strong>, Linda Larson \u201970<\/strong>. (Courtesy photo)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In 1966, seven women moved into French House, a Minneapolis building adjacent to Augsburg\u2019s campus that housed the remaining incoming first-year women who could not be accommodated in the residential housing on campus. They called themselves \u201cthe leftovers\u201d and became fast friends who still get together at least once a year. The French House Friends <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":439,"featured_media":11575,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[111,175,174,103,164],"class_list":["post-11494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-auggies-connect","tag-alumni-news-and-updates","tag-class-of-1969","tag-class-of-1970","tag-covid-19","tag-spring-summer-2021"],"wps_subtitle":"Auggies foster connections since they met in 1966","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/439"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11494"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11577,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11494\/revisions\/11577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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