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John Berdahl, son of Al and Joan Berdahl, Hills, graduated Saturday from Mayo Medical School in Rochester. John will begin general practice for a year and then will transfer to ophthalmology. Al and Joan Berdahl went to Rochester on Friday to attend John’s graduation on Saturday. He will practice a year at the Mayo Medical School in Scottsdale, Ariz. Wendell and Kathryn Erickson attended the graduation of their granddaughter, Ericka Anderson, from Pitzer College in Claremont, Calif., on Sunday, May 16. Ericka is the daughter of Kirsten and Pat Anderson of Sioux Falls. She graduated with honor in media studies. Also present at the ceremony was a friend, Siri Dysjaland, and her mother from Stavanger, Norway. Siri was an exchange student who spent a year with the Ericksons in 1980. They visited the Erickson’s in Hills Thursday and Friday morning. Supper guests on Thursday were Margaret Erickson, Worthington, and Kirsten and Pat Anderson.Vi Van Wyhe met Maurine Uhre, Mitchell, S.D., for lunch in Sioux Falls last Tuesday. Dick and Audrey Heidenson spent from Thursday the 13th to Tuesday the 18th at Battle Lake with their son Steve and family who have a resort there. Jon and Twila Heigre and children, Teresa, Erik and Dina, Sandnes, Norway, arrived last Tuesday, May 18, to spend a couple of weeks in the home of her parents, Jim and Sharon Boeve, and to attend the high school graduation of Alissa Hoyme. Last Monday afternoon, Cena Tilstra, Steen, Henrietta Elbers, Luverne, Nelvina Kroese, Hull, Iowa, Jean Wood, Sioux Falls, Betty Elbers, Lizzie Elbers, Tuff Home, and Lorraine Jiskoot, gathered at Tuff Home to honor Ruth Verbrugge of Worthington on her birthday. Wednesday afternoon Vi Van Wyhe entertained the Rebekah Circle of United Methodist Church in Luverne at her home. Last Thursday, Don and Edyth Briggs went to St. Cloud to attend the Grand Sessions and lunch of the Arch Masons and Cryptic Masons on Friday and Saturday. Saturday afternoon Cliff and Vi VanWyhe attended Lindsey DeWit’s garden party in Sioux Falls and later attended her graduation from Augustana College at the Arena. Tuesday afternoon Betty Elbers attended the birthday luncheon in the home of Hendrene Veldkamp in honor of Betty Boeve’s birthday. On Wednesday evening, Chuck and Rheta DeBoer attended the graduation of Doon Christian School and saw their daughter Rachel’s kindergarten class graduate. Mark and Karen Sandager, Tommy and Katie, were Sunday dinner guests of Vic and Fran Sandager at Tuff Village. Betty Elbers joined her sisters at a noon luncheon Saturday at the Calumet in Pipestone in honor of Dorothy Petersen’s birthday. Chuck and Rheta DeBoer attended the Tulip Festival celebration Tuesday in Orange City, Iowa.

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