{"id":3320,"date":"2013-08-14T19:20:02","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T19:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/?p=3320"},"modified":"2016-02-15T15:37:51","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T15:37:51","slug":"in-memoriam-e-milton-kleven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/2013\/08\/14\/in-memoriam-e-milton-kleven\/","title":{"rendered":"In memoriam: E. Milton Kleven"},"content":{"rendered":"
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E. Milton “Milt” Kleven ’46<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

E. Milton \u201cMilt\u201d Kleven \u201946, active Augsburg alumnus, generous scholarship benefactor, teacher, businessman, Navy Reserve commander, and friend of Augsburg College, passed away April 11.<\/p>\n

Kleven, son of a Norwegian immigrant mother and a Norwegian-American father, grew up two blocks south of Augsburg College. He enrolled in the College in 1940, but his studies were interrupted by World War II. Kleven returned to Augsburg after the war and graduated with a bachelor\u2019s degree in mathematics and a minor in physical education. He later earned a master\u2019s degree in vocational education from the University of Minnesota.<\/p>\n

Kleven began his career teaching mathematics in the Minneapolis Public School District in 1946. He was an educator in Minneapolis for 34 years. In 1947, he founded Kleven Flooring Service, a hardwood flooring company that he led for more than 60 years.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe impact on Augsburg students\u2014past, present, and future\u2014of Milt\u2019s incredible generosity will be felt for generations to come,\u201d said Augsburg College President Paul C. Pribbenow. \u201cGrowing up and teaching in Minneapolis, Milt understood what a full scholarship could mean to students from low-income families. He loved getting to know the students his family supported, and he was a strong advocate among his peers for greater scholarship funding for even more students.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kleven and his wife, Dorothy, who met at Augsburg in 1943, were generous supporters of the College and student scholarships for more than 50 years. In 2001, he established the Dorothy Lijsing Kleven Scholarship in Choral Music, the College\u2019s first endowed President\u2019s Scholarship, providing a full scholarship to students interested in choral music. Dorothy was interested in choral music throughout her life. In 2007, the Kleven family created two additional endowed President\u2019s Scholarships: one in memory of Milt\u2019s and Dorothy\u2019s parents, Magnus and Kristofa Kleven, and David\u00a0and Florence Lijsing; and a second in Milt\u2019s name\u2014the E. Milton Kleven Scholarship in Public Service.<\/p>\n

Kleven also helped to facilitate two other scholarships. The Margaret E. Andrews Scholarship was established by Kleven and his fellow trade and industry coordinators in the Minneapolis Public Schools to honor Andrews, who founded the district\u2019s Cooperative Education Training program. The Reverend Donald C. Carlson Scholarship, through the Normandale Lutheran Church Foundation, is named for Normandale\u2019s founding pastor, a 1942 Augsburg alumnus. This scholarship supports students from Normandale who attend Augsburg College. The Klevens also provided major support for the construction of the James G. Lindell Library. Kleven joined with Glen Person \u201947 and Dick \u201cPork Chop\u201d Thompson \u201961 to provide funding to name the Jeroy C. Carlson \u201948 A-Club Hospitality\/Classroom in the Kennedy Center, in honor of Carlson, their longtime friend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

E. Milton \u201cMilt\u201d Kleven \u201946, active Augsburg alumnus, generous scholarship benefactor, teacher, businessman, Navy Reserve commander, and friend of Augsburg College, passed away April 11. Kleven, son of a Norwegian immigrant mother and a Norwegian-American father, grew up two blocks south of Augsburg College. He enrolled in the College in 1940, but his studies were <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6289,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[56],"class_list":["post-3320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-memoriam","tag-summer-2013"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3320","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3320"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6494,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3320\/revisions\/6494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}