For almost 50 years I’ve remembered Mark Tungseth as a high school junior member of the 1974 Hillcrest Academy Comet basketball team. They won the National Christian High School Invitational
James “Jim” Johnson was born in Perham, MN on March 21, 1949 to Erwin E. and Mayme J. (Strand) Johnson. Jim attended elementary school in Corliss and was taught by, among others, his mother, who he said held him more accountable than other students. He graduated from Perham High School and furthered his education at Fergus Falls Community College and Moorhead State University attaining a BA with a biology major and a chemistry minor.
As a young man, Bob Bigwood worked on his family’s farm in rural North Dakota but dreamed of attending college. It’s fitting, then, that a new endowment created by his