All Posts for the Class of 1978

Mr. Gullickson’s performance experience includes symphonic, operatic, chamber music, and solo recitals. He has played in numerous local professional ensembles as well as the Grand Teton Music Festival and the American Wind Symphony Orchestra of Pittsburgh. Mr. Gullickson’s teachers have included Herbert Winslow, Kendall Betts, Philip Farkas and David Kamminga

LARS CRABO, M.D. (President of Northwest Radiologists)

Undergraduate Degree: Bachelor of Science, Biochemistry, Minnesota

Medical Degree: Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts

Internship: Internal Medicine, Waterbury Hospital, Connecticut

Residency: Radiology,University of Washington, Washington

Fellowship: Abdominal Imaging,University of Washington, Washington

Areas of interest: Nuclear Medicine,Body Imaging and Mammography

Rick Marshall, Dwayne Bleninger, Tim Wolters, Andy Collins still hold the school record for the 4x100 Meter Relay Record. There time was 44.0.

Charles Radmann passed away on October 18, 1978. If you have any memories of Charlie that you would like to share, please click on comments below.

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Did you know that since 1995 the Mounds View Alumni Association has been recognizing distinguished graduates of Mounds View? There have also been 3 people from our graduating class that have been recognized. They are:

Dan Buettner
Jack Ohman
Lynda Morrison

Our class has more distinguished alumni that have been recognized than any other graduating class.

If you feel that anyone in our class should also be inducted in this group, you can nominate them by clicking on this link
http://www.moundsviewschools.org/pdf/alumninom.pdf

Lynda A. Morrison, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Washington University, 1988

Lynda Morrison, Ph.D. is a medical research scientist with an interest in Herpes. As Assistant Professor of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at Saint Louis University School of Medicine, Dr. Morrison has published numerous articles on herpes and vaccines. Her website demonstrates her deep involvement with the science of herpes.

Can you believe it has been almost 30 years since we graduated?

The reunion committee is looking for volunteers to help plan our next reunion.

There is no date, time or location selected yet.

If you are interested in volunteering, please use the Contact 78 button on the left and let the committee know that you are interested.

Marc Asmus is a registered architect living in St. Paul, Minnesota. After being a Founding partner in Yunker/Asmus Architecture, Inc. for twelve years, Marc established Marc Asmus Architects, Inc. in 2004. Later that year, Marc also became a founding partner of Hive modular, LLC with Paul Stankey and Bryan Meyer. Like Marc's former company, Marc Asmus Architects, Inc. is an architecture and interiors office With an emphasis on fine residential architecture. Hive Modular is a modern, modular home design and contracting company providing a line of prefabricated home designs. Hive modular specializes in diverse types of prefabricated construction, from modular to shipping containers to precast concrete

Marc holds an architecture degree from the University of Minnesota (1986). He has worked on a diverse range of commercial, institutional and residential projects with several firms and as a founding partner of Yunker/Asmus Architecture, Inc. Early, experimental work was produced as a founding partner in AnArch, a, collaborative architecture and public art studio. Marc has collaborated with other public artists on several large-scale works, including projects with artists Richard Posner and Cliff Garten.

Marc's work has focused on thoughtful projects with attention to fine detail and has been published in Metropolitan Home, Renovation Style, Progressive Architecture, Midwest Home and Design, and Architecture Minnesota. Awards include Minnesota AIA Honor Awards for the Pillsbury Conservatory, General Mills Employee Recognition Court and Cowles Farmhouse while at MS&R architects (1988-1992) and for the YA office building and Windsong Farms Golf Club while at Yunker/Asmus Architecture (2002, 2005). Marc Also received a Minnesota Brick Institute Award for the Woodhill Country Club Poolhouse (1996).

Brad manages Ciceron’s finances and oversees day-to-day operations. Brad’s 20 years of experience in finance and business management give him the necessary insight and skills to facilitate Ciceron's aggressive growth. His in-depth understanding of financial analysis, accounting, operational best practices and risk management ensures Ciceron’s financial well-being through the ups and downs of the always changing economy.

Brad earned his B.S. from St. Cloud State University, is a Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter and a Certified Management Accountant candidate. He also serves on the board of directors of the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre in Minneapolis.

Brad lives in Shoreview with his wife Sonia, two teenage daughters, two dogs, two cats and two parakeets.

Lynne Eldridge, M.D.
Dr. Eldridge graduated from the University of Minnesota Medical School with prestigious Alpha Omega Alpha honors. She completed her residency through the U of M with time spent in Hawaii studying health risks related to human exposure to pesticides. Dr. Eldridge practiced family medicine with a passionate emphasis on prevention for over 15 years in the Twin Cities, Minnesota, before devoting herself full time to researching and speaking internationally on cancer prevention and nutrition. Lynne, who is David Borgeson's older sister, lives with her family in Shoreview, Minnesota.

Katherine Brown

Kate Brown began her career in the Oregon Legislature in 1991. After serving two terms in the House of Representatives, Kate was elected to the Senate in 1996, representing portions of Northeast and Southeast Portland and Milwaukie. In 1998, Senator Brown was elected Democratic Leader. Senator Brown worked for over eight years to lead the Senate Democrats from a 10-20 minority to an 18-12 majority.

When Senate Democrats took control in 2004, Brown was selected by her caucus to serve as Oregon’s first woman Senate Majority Leader.

After spending most of her childhood in Minnesota, Senator Brown earned a B.A. in Environmental Conservation with a certificate in Women’s Studies from the University of Colorado at Boulder. After college, she went on to earn her law degree and Certificate in Environmental Law from the Northwestern School of Law at Lewis and Clark College. Professionally, Senator Brown has taught at Portland State University, and practiced family and juvenile law. During 2006 Senator Brown will be working for the Juvenile Rights Project.

Throughout her career, Kate has been praised for her ability to thoughtfully consider difficult issues and find the consensus needed to move the state forward. Senator Brown took the lead in negotiating the historic “Memorandum of Understanding,” which facilitated a bi-partisan power –sharing arrangement in the evenly divided 2003 Senate, and she was instrumental in negotiating the end of session policy and budget package.

In the 2005 legislative session, Brown led successful efforts to make Oregon’s state government open and accessible by taking legislative committee meetings to communities around the state, ensuring funding for a comprehensive review of Oregon’s ethics laws, and spearheading legislation creating a searchable online database of campaign contributions and expenditures, which The Oregonian called the best campaign finance disclosure law in the country.

Additionally, Brown led the Senate Democrats in their efforts to reduce the skyrocketing costs of health care, ensure that Oregon’s education dollars reach the classroom, and protect Oregon’s uniquely livable communities.

Recent awards and distinctions for Senator Brown include the National Public and Community Service Award from the American Mental Health Counselors Association and being elected Chair of the Council of State Governments West.

Previous awards for Senator Brown include the "Profiles in Courage" Award from Basic Rights Oregon, Legislator of the Year Award from the Oregon Psychological Association, the award for Outstanding Achievement by the Oregon Family Support Network, and the Woman of Achievement Award from the Oregon Commission for Women.

In her time away from the Capitol, Kate enjoys horseback riding and yoga, as well as skiing and hiking around the Northwest with her husband Dan, his children Dylan and Jessie, and the family’s black lab Lili.

Catherine Piela, OTR is an occupational therapist with extensive experience in industrial rehabilitation including work hardening, functional assessment, return to work consultation and ergonomic job analysis. Catherine obtained her B.S. degree from the College of St. Catherine and is in private practice at Saunders Therapy Centers. Ms. Piela's past experience includes Polinsky Functional Assessments faculty member and trainer, Sister Kenny Institute industrial rehabilitation senior therapist, and CARF surveyor. She is co-author of Functional Capacity Evaluation, Techniques for Success, and has published in the WORK Journal.

Michael Childs passed away on May 23, 1988. Please share your memories of Mike by clicking on comments below.

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Dean comes from one of the famous fishing families in the state.
His father, Ted, an inductee of the Minnesota Fishing Hall of Fame, is one of the best tournament anglers in the state.
His brother Tony, along with Dean, can be seen on the weekly television show, Capra's Outdoor Frontiers, on Fox Sports Net and many other networks.
Dean has been fishing tournaments for 28 years.

Explorer and National Geographic writer Dan Buettner is the founder of Quest Network, Inc. and has produced more than a dozen interactive expeditions. His Quests are real-time expeditions designed to enlist an online audience's participation in solving some of science's biggest questions. The Quests have generated more than two billion media impressions and garnered an online educational audience of 12 million students in 80,000 classrooms.

Buettner has biked more than 120,000 miles around the globe, holds three Guinness World Records in long distance cycling and has been accepted into the Explorer's Club. He is considered the father of the interactive expedition, and the Washington Post has called his Quests "the most successful experiment in interactive education to date."

To read more about Dan click on this link.

http://www.bluezones.com/dan-buettner/biography/

I am in love with color, and with the gifts of function and natural forms, whether a piece is decorative, as a colorful scarf to wear and delight in, or a hand-bound blank journal that welcomes you to write and draw your inmost thoughts in.

The daughter of a fiber artist and teacher of color theory and design, I grew up surrounded by and immersed in a world of creating art and playing with light. Some of the techniques I use today I learned at my mother's knee, and I have never stopped learning new forms. Continuing to explore familiar themes such as natural figures in each new technique I learn, continues deepening and enriching my visual work and ongoing explorations in new work.

Beautiful silk scarves are handpainted in a centuries-old Japanese technique, being explored by modern artists worldwide: Arashi Shibori. Silk is folded and wrapped around a core, then scrunched to make a pattern of mountain-and-valley folds. The manipulated silk is then hand painted with dyes, the palette of colors mixing further in the brushstrokes and in the drying process. Heatset to be colorfast, the scarves are then given a final rinse and ironed. I choose to honor those I learned from and artists in this medium who came before me by choosing the best materials to work with. May my love for this work shine in each piece and add to your enjoyment!

Kemper passed away on January 19, 1988 in Los Angeles, CA. Share a memory with us by clicking on comments below.

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If anyone has a memory that they care to share with us, please click on comments below.

If anyone has a copy of Cheryl's obituary, could you please click on the "Contact 78" button on the left side and share the information with our class?

Jeff passed away on October 3, 1987 in an accident. Please share your memories of Jeff by clicking on comments below.

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Lanette Lorsung, Andover MN. Female entrepreneur and owner of "Cottage Elements", Vintage designer of home decor. Past owner of two retail locations, a home decor store and a tea room, wanting more time at home with her family started her own business. Now on her own & flying high with vintage flea market finds restored.

Her creative works can be seen at "The Round Barn".

Randi Helen (Raymond) Leyk, 43, born August 1st, 1960 in Minnesota, Died Feb 8th, 2004 from breast cancer. Please share a memory with us by clicking on comments below.

Grove Guy Jonathan "Jonny", gifted troubadour, no longer "bound to this raging world." Born 8-7-1959, died peacefully at home 11-24-2003, surrounded by his family, after a long courageous battle with kidney cancer. Beloved son of Guy "Buz" and Jaci Grove; cherished brother of Jim (Lori), David (Stephanie), Tom (Clara) and Amy (Todd Boss). Loving uncle of Bradley, Joe, Andrew, Caroline, Jessica, Eric, Nick, Sophie and Theodor. Deeply mourned by special friend, Christine; and many other friends from around the world. Jon received his education at the U of MN receiving a BA in Political Science, AA in French and AA in Theatre. Owner of Fur Seal Records and Carriage House Studio in Mpls. Deep appreciation to Dr. Steve Elias, Romaine Hauth and all the wonderful people from HealthEast Hospice Care. Visitation Friday 4:00-7:00 PM in the HOLCOMB-HENRY-BOOM NORTH CHAPEL, 515 Hwy 96 W. at Mackubin, Shoreview, and at the church on Saturday from 9:30 AM until time of service. Funeral Service Saturday 10:30 AM at NORTH HEIGHTS LUTHERAN CHURCH, 2701 N. Rice Street, Roseville. Interment Roselawn Cemetery. Memorials preferred to National Kidney Foundation of Minnesota, American Cancer Society or HealthEast Hospice. 651-482-7606
Published in the Star Tribune on 11/26/2003.

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Jack Ohman became the youngest cartoonist ever to be nationally syndicated when he joined the Tribune Media Services roster while still in college. Today, Ohman is one of the most widely syndicated political cartoonists in the U.S. He is the editorial cartoonist for The Oregonian, a job he has held since 1983.
His work appears regularly in The Washington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, The Seattle Times and scores of other major newspapers. His work has also been known to appear in such magazines as Newsweek and National Review. Ohman contributed drawings to “ABC News Nightline” from 1984 to 1986. People magazine has called Ohman's cartoons "uncompromising, the most wicked and the most pointedly funny” on today’s op-ed pages.

In 2002, Ohman received the National Headliners Award for editorial cartooning from the Press Club of Atlantic City. In 1996, he received the Overseas Press Club Award. Ohman has also won the national Mark of Excellence Award and Sigma Delta Chi Award from the Society of Professional Journalists. He also received the Exceptional Merit Media Award from the National Women’s Political Caucus.

Ohman entered the political fray early as an aide to a Minnesota congressional candidate and as a bus driver for Walter Mondale’s and Jimmy Carter’s motorcades in the Twin Cities. He began his career as an editorial cartoonist at the Minnesota Daily (University of Minnesota). Before he joined The Oregonian, Ohman was the cartoonist for The Columbus Dispatch and Detroit Free Press.

Ohman is also the creator of the syndicated comic strip Mixed Media, currently drawn and written by Scott Willis. Ohman is an accomplished author of eight books: Back To The ‘80s, Drawing Conclusions, Fear of Fly Fishing, Fishing Bass-Ackwards, Why Johnny Can’t Putt (all published by Simon and Schuster), Do I Have To Draw You A Picture? (Pelican), Get The Net! (Willow Creek Press) and Media Mania (MacMillan).
Ohman has a B.A. in history from Portland State University Honors Program. He lives in Portland with his wife Janice Dunham Ohman, a public relations executive, and their three children.

John Lerdahl, a landfill application specialist for EPG Companies Inc, passed away Saturday June 4, 2005 from prostate cancer. John had worked with EPG Companies for nearly 15 years serving as a dependable employee with a deep knowledge of landfill systems operation, integration and process control equipment. As an application specialist, John had a direct impact on EPG becoming the leader in landfill equipment manufacturing. We are grateful for the time, energy and customer-focused sales/service support he brought to EPG as well as for the knowledge and troubleshooting expertise he taught every year at EPG’s SWANA accredited Pumps and Controls Service School.

Hundreds, if not thousands of individuals were touched in some way by John’s devoted service. We all will miss his good-natured advice, personal stories and professional expertise.

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Mr. Keith Hansen, a U.S. national, assumed his current position in February 2002. He is responsible for the overall policy direction of the Bank's HIV/AIDS work in Africa and for overseeing the ongoing implementation of its regional HIV/AIDS strategy. In particular, he leads ACTafrica's efforts to facilitate implementation of the Multi-Country HIV/AIDS Program (MAP) for Africa. He also manages the Africa Department's relations with UNAIDS, donors, and other partners. He has been with the ACTafrica team since its inception, when he served as Deputy Manager. He is one of the principal architects of the MAP.
Prior to this, he managed health and education projects in southern Africa, served as Special Assistant to the Vice President for Africa, and worked on environmental issues in Latin America.

Mr. Hansen has a Bachelor's degree in Political Science from Yale University, a graduate degree in Public Affairs from Princeton University and a Law degree from Stanford University.

He teaches courses on AIDS as a development issue, and on the impact of development assistance at Princeton University.

Work hard, fight hard
Posted December 31, 2002 in ALS News
Copyright © 2002, Chicago Tribune By Janet Kidd Stewart Chicago Tribune staff reporter December 30, 2002
Against enormous odds, Bob Basten always chose his destinations. Now, destiny has found him.

Orphaned at 16, the Northbrook native lived alone while finishing his sophomore year at Glenbrook North before moving in with relatives in Minnesota, where he then studied hard enough to earn an academic scholarship to St. John's University.

Coming from a small, Division III school didn't stop the nearly 6-foot, 5-inch defensive tackle from walking into tryouts with the Minnesota Vikings after graduation. He signed as a free agent and played a season on the practice squad.

After football, he turned to business. By age 33, Basten was running American Express Tax & Business Services, a Minneapolis-based arm of the financial giant that was consolidating the accounting industry--at times against its will.

Always a risk taker, Basten was on to a new challenge by the time he was 36: forming one of the nation's largest middle-market accounting firms by rolling up several private regional companies and taking them public with an initial public offering.

When the 1999 effort failed at the 11th hour, he spurned a few solid job offers back in corporate America, deciding instead to try to convince his partner firms to form a private company, despite the IPO failure. It worked.

Today, Basten's brainchild, Centerprise Advisors, is a $170 million operation based in the Loop. The company, which has more than 1,000 employees across the country, caters to midsize corporate clients, most of them private companies. It is the nation's 14th-largest accounting and professional services firm--a list that includes the major U.S. public accounting firms. And its division that does forensic accounting for big, public companies is exploding in the wake of the corporate governance disaster--Tyco and Enron are former clients.

In June, Basten, 42, was sitting atop a profitable company that had increased revenues more than 10 percent in each of its first two years in existence. He was just beginning to relax a bit when his next great challenge hit him squarely in the foot. For about a year, he'd been bothered by a drop foot, and then he started losing muscle control in his hand and shoulder.

Diagnosed at the end of June with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or ALS, known commonly as Lou Gehrig's disease, Basten has just a few years of life left, by most estimates.

The degenerative disease, according to Dr. Teepu Siddique of Northwestern University, strikes one in every 600 men and one in every 800 women, a fairly high incidence rate, but only about 200,000 people in the world have it at any given moment because it is always fatal, usually within five years. It attacks the brain's motor neurons, causing progressive weakness, loss of muscle control, paralysis and, finally, death. The mind and the senses, however, remain intact throughout the progression of the disease.

Though the famous baseball player had the disease six decades ago, remarkably little is yet known about its cause, and there is no cure.

Upon hearing the news, the confirmed workaholic took his first two-week vacation ever, a trip through France and Italy with his wife, Faith, and their two children: Emily, 15, and Jack, 12. He didn't cry when he told the family about the disease, but he wept Aug. 8 at a special company board meeting to announce the news to his investors and board members.

"While I have always believed that it would be naive to assume that I wouldn't get some bad along with all the good I've received in my life, I admit that this news was tough to take," Basten wrote in a memo to his staff days later. "Thankfully, I've come to realize that life is full of choices and that life itself is only 5 percent the cards we're dealt and 95 percent how we play them. As a result, I choose to play to win."

Playing to win

Basten has now committed all of his entrepreneurial skills to raising money for ALS research in hopes a cure can be found in time to help him, or at least help those who follow him.

He's the first to admit slogans like "playing to win" can ring corny and hollow. Gehrig's life, and the movie, have already been done, after all. But the sayings ring hollow only until one considers the way Basten lived his life before he had the disease. Even then, he never seemed to have time to play it safe.

As he led the effort at American Express to consolidate the accounting industry, he walked headlong into opposition from longtime independent accountants who viewed consolidation as selling out to corporate America.

And when he ventured out on his own with several financial backers, he encountered similar resistance at first and myriad setbacks, including the pulling of the IPO just hours before it was ready to hit the stock market in 1999.

After an initial inquiry about the rollup agreement, the Securities and Exchange Commission cleared the venture for pricing, but the deal was scuttled because backers didn't think it would draw enough investors, who were enamored at the time largely with Internet-related start-ups.

"He faced a very skeptical audience in the accounting industry," said Julie Lindy, editor of Bowman's Accounting Report, an industry publication that recently named Centerprise to its "Best of the Best" list for, among other things, the firm's profit record.

It is the first industry rollup to be named to the list. "There was a perception at the time he started acquiring firms that you were selling out the profession if you joined. There was a stigma of disloyalty almost, but he got some of the most prestigious firms in the business to join him," Lindy said.

A certain chemistry

Charm. Charisma. A certain kind of chemistry. They don't teach that in business school, but it is clearly what set Basten apart, even at an early age.

Often the social ringleader in school, Basten was always a great storyteller and many times the instigator of pranks, recalls college buddy Joe Kiley, who also was a former AmEx colleague and still works for the firm in Minneapolis.

"He always wanted to talk business, though, too. He loved it. The risks people take [in corporations] are nothing compared to what Bob is willing to take on. I remember when he decided he was going to take his shot going it alone, at the same time he did it he bought a new house. He just has tremendous self-confidence and is a natural-born leader."

Basten credits his mother, Janelle, with that.

"If I would get a canker sore, she'd say, now Bobby, don't complain, because only geniuses get canker sores," he recalls with a chuckle. (Basten's mother died of colon cancer. His father, Robert, died when Bob was in fourth grade, from heart failure. There is no family history of ALS.)

"He was innovative and sure of himself, even when he didn't deserve to be," said Mark Ernst, chairman of H&R Block, who hired Basten at American Express.

"Nothing was going to stop him. He was always willing to do whatever it took," said Ernst, who asked Basten and his family to move twice in 10 months right after joining American Express. When the Centerprise IPO failed, Ernst tried to convince Basten to give up and join H&R Block.

"He wouldn't even engage in discussions with me," Ernst recalls. "He couldn't leave those people."

Vulnerable at times

Even with an overwhelmingly positive attitude, Basten does admit to some very human moments.

"After I was diagnosed, I had to figure out what the hell I'm going to do. What am I going to do with my family? The business? What am I going to do personally? As much as I try not to, I define myself physically. I'm tall, athletic. And with this disease there's nothing wrong with your mind but you're trapped inside this body that dies. I'm thinking, 'This sucks.'

"I'd be lying to say it never bothers me. I see people walking down the street carrying a cup of coffee and balancing a briefcase in the other hand and I'm jealous. I don't get angry about it much, but occasionally I do."

He can still walk with the aid of a cane or walker and still drives. He dresses himself, though it takes up to an hour.

Having given up the day-to-day operating duties of the company to Rick Stein, one of the firm's founding partners, Basten remains chairman and still commutes to the Chicago home office regularly from his Minnesota home. He is helping to find a permanent successor, and has formed a charitable organization called Playing to Win for Life Foundation for ALS research. It has raised about $250,000 and hopes to bring in $1.5 million next year through several benefits and events.

Entrepreneurial bug

"I can't get this entrepreneurial thing out of me. This whole area of entrepreneurial philanthropy is where I am now--going after high-buck folks who have an interest in backing a research venture," he said.

He's on the board of governors at Johns Hopkins' ALS center, and keeps in contact with Siddique, the prominent Northwestern researcher who has made several ALS discoveries in recent years, including a research model in mice that is used throughout the country to work on a cure.

"We don't know what tomorrow will bring, but this is a very hopeful time," said Siddique.

Ernst recently had dinner with Basten, who calmly laid out his strategy for raising research money and fighting the disease until a cure is found.

"He talks about it like business," Ernst said. "He's figuring out all the steps."

What winners do

The man is the mission. There are no typical regrets about not spending more time smelling roses or about working too much.

"My family respects that having purpose is what it's all about," he said.

Faith, who is part owner in a bookstore, confirms that attitude.

"Maybe right at first I was a little angry at all the time he'd spent working," she said. "I felt like with this disease he was going to spend all his remaining energy on business and then I'd get what was left. But we're all so independent. Frankly, when he spends too much time at home he starts bugging us," she says with a laugh. "There are stressful times, of course, but I'm fine. And that has a lot to do with Bob. He just doesn't feel sorry for himself."

He has opened up more of his emotions, though, in business and in life, and he said that's helped in both endeavors.

"Financial-services commercials make me cry," he said. "I tend to tell people more how I feel and that I appreciate them. My style is a little warmer, and I've found it works well in business to drop that guard and be comfortable with who you are."

Today, Basten takes every opportunity to tell people they are winners.

"I was talking to a small group at the company the other day and I said, "What I see here is winners. In the face of unprecedented change in our industry, you have stepped up and made good out of it. This is a horrible economy, but it's our job to make clients more successful. Winners do that.'

"You know, forget business and do this same thing with your kids.

"I said to my son, Jack, after he lost a game. I said, forget this one baseball game, you are a total winner and I love winners. That's about building self-esteem in people, and it's a powerful thing."

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