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Couple in front of a Christmas tree

Property Gift to Provide Scholarships

Alumni Carol and Don Buckman donate property for scholarship

…a vacation home retreat in 1957 on Gull Lake. With sixty-eight acres of forest and 2,200 feet of shoreline, they spent many weekends there, operating a camp for boys age nine to fifteen. “But when Don became principal, our summers were too short to continue the operation,” Carol said. The…

Northland College alum Jennifer Granick

Veterinarian & Prof of Small Animal Internal Medicine

…Northland education still resonate? Many of us were drawn to Northland because of its setting. In the 90s we affectionately referred to the college as “Camp Northland.” After a recent canoe trip with another family, my friend asked, “Did you grow up camping and canoeing?” And while I did have…

Northland College alum Mitzi Peine paddling a canoe

From the Yukon to Cuba and Back

Mitzi Peine '14

Calling themselves the Paddlin Madelines, high school camp friends Mitzi Peine ‘14 and Emma Burgeson made up the first all-women canoe team in 2014 to attempt the Yukon 1000, the world’s longest paddling race on the Yukon River in Alaska. Five hundred miles in, they made the decision to withdraw…

Peter Annin at beach

Q & A with "Great Lakes Water Wars" Author Peter Annin

…your favorite place or experience on Lake Superior. A. Several years ago my wife and I were wilderness camping on a remote uninhabited island in Lake Superior with our two sons, who were quite young at the time. We were far off the grid, a long way from the ambient…