First in Nancy's Collected Stories of Extended Family Members

This was a published story from the Minneapolis Tribune regarding the daughter of Leonard Rudstrom. Leonard was the son of Carrie Lundwall, sister of our grandfather Oscar Lundwall.

Copied from Astrid Thunander's Book of Clippings 9/28/92 by Aunt Nancy

Girl 13, Finishes High School But She's Too Young for Prom
by Barbara Flanagan (Minneapolis Tribune Staff Writer)

Little Marais, Minnesota --

Rosemary Ryan Rudstrom didn't go to the senior prom with the rest of her graduating class."We were required to go with boys, and I'm to young for that yet," she said Sunday. Rosemary, a winsome 13-year-old plans to wait with her dating until she's 15. Then she'll be a college junior.

Last week, Rosemary, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Rudstrom Little Marais, was graduated from Stanbrook Hall High School, Duluth, Minnesota. The youngest graduate ever to receive a diploma at Stanbrook, she will be next September, one of the youngest college freshmen in the United States. Rosemary, who was 13 March 7th, started school in 1942. During her four high school years, she's maintained "A" and "B" averages.

If I have a photographic memory, I don't know it," said Rosemary, and she giggled. "I just learned to read when I was 5 and kept on reading," she said. One of her favorites is "Little Women," a book she first read when she was 5. Some of her 13-year-old friends are just getting around to read it now. "I read more adult things now," she said, "particularly travel books by Richard Halliburton." Rosemary always skims over the review of books for 13-year-olds, "But they seem kind of childish, so I never read the books," she said.

For her college career, Rosemary plans to attend a junior college for girls next fall. She plans to spend her junior and senior college years at Middleburg College, iddleburg, Vermont.

"Daddy would like me to go there," she said. Rudstrom, a civil engineer for the Lakehead Pipeline Co., Superior, Wisconsin, worked in the east during World War II.

Four years of college won't be enough for Rosemary, however. "After I get my Bachelor's degree, I plan to go to Cornell University for their course in hotel and restaurant management. Then she'll return home and help her mother manage the Little Marais Lodge, which the Rudstrom's operate. By then Rosemary will be an "old woman" of 18 and ready for work.

Note by Nancy A.

Rosemary went on to become an Attorney in Wisconsin, licensed to practice law for over 51 years.