2018 Hall of Fame Inductee
Dick Anshus - class of 1965
Richard Cameron Anshus was born on 29 November 1947 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He grew up on Victory Memorial Drive, a pleasant place of grass and trees where Dick and his friends could run and play ball. He attended Loring Elementary School which was within walking distance of his home and close enough to come home for lunch. He enjoyed a happy childhood of school activities and family support.
Dick graduated from Patrick Henry High School in Minneapolis in 1965. While in high school, he was active in Hi-Y for six years, played clarinet in the band for six years, and swam an individual medley on the swim team for four years. He was chosen as captain of the swim team his senior year.
After high school, Dick became a cadet at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. In addition to a demanding academic, military, and physical training regimen, he played Division I water polo for all four years. He was a member of the Fine Arts Club (3 years), the Military Affairs Club (2 years), and the Behavioral Science Club (2 years). During his plebe (freshman) year, he was a broadcaster for plebe hockey games over KDET, the Academy radio station. Dick also played goat/engineer inter mural football during his junior year. Dick graduated from West Point in 1969 and was commissioned into the United States Army as a second lieutenant.
After graduating from West Point and before going to Vietnam, Dick completed the Infantry Officer Basic Course, Ranger School, Airborne School, and Jump Master training – all at Fort Benning, Georgia. He also completed Jungle Warfare School in Panama and served as a platoon leader with the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Arriving in Vietnam in September of 1970, Dick served as a platoon leader, company commander, and operations officer with the Americal Division for seven months before being shot down by enemy fire on 8 March 1971. He was riding in an OH-6 helicopter while doing reconnaissance over the Demilitarized Zone. Dick was flown to Hanoi in an AN-2 Colt where he resided in the Zoo, Plantation Gardens, and Hilton Prisoner of War camps for twenty-five months. He was released with other American prisoners of war on 27 March 1973.
Upon repatriation, Dick resumed his Army career by completing the Infantry Officer Advanced Course and Pathfinder School at Fort Benning, Georgia. He then served for three years with the 1/509th Airborne Battalion Combat Team in Vicenza, Italy, where he worked as an intelligence officer and company commander. In 1978 Dick received a Master of Science degree in Computer Systems Management from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. This was followed by a utilization assignment with the Army Corps of Engineers in Portland, Oregon, where he worked with emergency management on the Mt. St. Helens volcanic explosion clean-up.
After completing the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, in 1982, Dick was assigned to Fort Bragg, North Carolina for the next seven years. He served as operations officer for the 2/325th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division; as GLO (Ground Liaison Officer) to the 317th Tactical Airlift Wing at Pope Air Force Base, North Carolina; and as G-3 Air for the 18th Airborne Corps. While GLO, Dick served as the Army Air Liaison to the Commander of Airlift Forces during the Grenada invasion for which he was awarded a Bronze Star.
After recovery from a cerebral hemorrhage in 1984, he completed his tour at Fort Bragg at the JFK Special Warfare Center and School as Desk Officer for Middle East operations. From 1989 to 1997, Dick was the Army Liaison Officer to the Air Mobility Command at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, where he retired in June of 1997 as a lieutenant colonel.
Dick has been awarded the following medals: 3 Bronze Star Medals, 2 Purple Hearts, 2 Meritorious Service Medals, 3 Air Medals, 2 Army Commendation Medals, and a Prisoner of War Medal. During Dick's retirement years, he has been active in his community of O'Fallon, Illinois. He is a lifetime member of the O'Fallon Sportsmen's Club, a member of the First United Methodist Church, and a member of the O'Fallon Noon Rotary Club. He was selected as Rotarian of the Year in 2001, received the Rotary Service Above Self Award in 2003, and was given the Rotary Outstanding Vocational Service Award in 2005.
He enjoys fishing, traveling, and watching major league baseball and professional football. Dick and his wife Sylvia (Flo) of Bricelyn, Minnesota, were married in 1973. Through the years, Sylvia has supported her family's activities and worked as a guidance counselor and English teacher. Their daughter Christina was born in 1978 and works as a chiropractor and office manager in O'Fallon.
2018 Hall of Fame Inductee
robert lund - class of 1960
I was born in Minneapolis in 1942 and came to Patrick Henry through Loring grade school on 44th and Thomas. In high school I think I was considered a bit of a nerd ( and rightly so) because I spent a lot of time studying. I have always enjoyed learning about all sorts of things and I have become an avid life long student and learner.
That “nerd” quality must have come out in other ways as well, because many years later when my 10 year old son decided to go out for Halloween as a “Nerd”, he asked if he could go through my closet to find a costume. I was never much of an athlete, but did enjoy participation in track, cross-country and Tennis, eventually earning a letter. I served on the orator staff and enjoyed Science Club and Student Council. I was honored to serve as president of the Band, and National Honor Society in my senior year. In Hi-Y, I belonged to the Viscounts group and was elected all-school Hi-Y Chaplain.
Other hi-lites include my surprising election as senior class president, and the great time I had playing straight man off Steve Neff as we co-emceed the homecoming program in 1959. The senior class play in 1960 was “January Thaw” and I was pleased to have a role in it with many of my classmates. All my “nerdiness” payed off at graduation when I was given the honor of addressing our class, parents and guests as valedictorian of the class of 1960.
In high school I was always known as “Bob”. At home with family I was “Rob”. Starting college is a new beginning and so I began asking people to call me Rob, and It has stuck ever since. I attended St. Olaf College in Northfield Minnesota and in 1964, graduated Magna Cum Laude with election to Phi Beta Kappa and the Blue Key National Honor Fraternity. My major was in psychology with minors in philosophy and religion.
I was fortunate that spring to receive a Rockefeller Theological Fellowship, and in the fall packed off to Yale Divinity School in New Haven, Connecticut. Seminary was a wonderful and formative year for me. I made life long friends and enjoyed my studies thoroughly. I also made an important discovery and decision. I wanted a career in Medicine. I returned to Minneapolis in the spring of 1965 to enter summer school at the University and continued through the next school year earning my pre-med credits. True to my life long learning bent, I also took a variety of other liberal arts courses that year that I missed in college. To round it out, I worked as a orderly on orthopedics at the University Hospital.
In the fall of 1967 I entered medical school at the University of Minnesota, graduating with my MD degree in 1970. During this time I was married and our first child born following an internship year at Harbor General Hospital in Los Angeles. I returned to Minnesota for a residency program in Diagnostic Radiology and a fellowship in Nuclear Medicine at the U of M and VA Hospitals. I was board certified in both specialties in 1975. Subsequently I was appointed Clinical Professor of Radiology at the U of M and worked at the Hennepin County Medical Center.
In 1979 I joined the private practice of Suburban Radiologic Consultants, which provides imaging services to Fairview hospitals, Unity and Mercy hospitals and and to several private offices. Sadly, in my training years my first marriage crumbled and dissolved finally in 1985. Happily, I found and married my wife, Sally, and we have recently celebrated 30 years of doing life together. She is certainly the love of my life and I owe much of my success to her love, support, encouragement and wisdom about many things. We each entered the marriage with 2 children and have raised them together. We now have 8 grandchildren that greatly enliven our lives and bring us joy! In my career,
I served as Department Chair of Radiology at Fairview Ridges Hospital in Burnsville and was chosen Chief of Staff there for 1992-93. Subsequently I served my group as Radiology Department Chair at Fairview Lakes Hospital in Wyoming Minnesota. The top formal honor of my career was my nomination by the radiologists of Minnesota to be considered for the honor of Fellowship in the American College of Radiology. In October 2002 I was conferred the Honorary Degree of Fellow in the American College of Radiology at a formal cap and gown ceremony in Florida. It was a high point of my career and indeed a humbling honor.
As seemingly impressive as formal honors are, I still hold more dear in my memories the experiences I had over the years serving my patients. Physicians are given a special permission to enter intimate aspects of people’s lives. This is the most humbling honor of all. It is sacred ground. It is often very hard, yet at the same time rewarding in unique ways. I have delivered the tragic news of a fetal demise to frightened pregnant women. I have given the happy news that the lump is benign. I have prayed with patients, cried with patients and laughed with them too. These are by far my most cherished memories of medical practice.
I am a believing Christian and active member of Christ Presbyterian Church in Edina. I have served as a Deacon and an Elder, continuing in what we call our College of Elders. I volunteer to do senior visitation, small group facilitation, church building maintenance and to help in other capacities as the need arises. I retired from Radilogy in 2005, but have not had a dull moment since. Sally and I love to travel and have been fortunate to have enjoyed visiting many interesting places around the globe. Happily there has been lots of quality time to participate in the lives of our growing and developing grandchildren.
Retirement also affords more time for my love of reading and I have further indulged my appetite for learning through many not-for-credit college courses taken in a wide variety of subjects. My retirement passion has been leading a culture development program in respectful workplace behavior for Suburban Radiology and the hospital departments where I worked. About 10 years ago, this program was adopted by the Fairview Southdale Hospital Board of Directors and was instituted throughout all the hospital departments where it has had lasting success.
I believe that in the work-a-day world, it is not profit, not market share or efficiency that matters most. It is people that really matter, and how we treat each other. My efforts in improving workplace culture wherever I have influence grow out of this belief. I also help lead a small non-profit, The Behavior at Work Collaborative, which is a broader metropolitan group of people in diverse careers, all of whom have expertise in the area of workplace culture. We meet regularly, sponsor conferences and initiate other ongoing events on this topic.
I am indeed pleased and honored to be given this place in the Henry High School Hall of Fame. Thank You!
2018 Hall of Fame Inductee
Lawrence McKenzie - class of 2005
Lawrence McKenzie Patrick Henry class of 2003 devoted his high school career to bringing fame to Henry on the basketball court. Lawrence brought home four consecutive Minnesota Class AAA State Championships. He graduated as the all time leading scorer, was the Minneapolis City Conference Player of the Year 2003, and earned All Conference, All Metro, and All State honors.
His basketball passion continued as he made the All Big 12 Freshman team and led the Big 12 as a 3 point shooter as a sophomore at the University of Oklahoma. He then transferred to The University of Minnesota and was named All-Big Ten for two years.
Lawrence entered the professional realm and played in Macedonia and the NBA Development league out of LA. Off the court, he became very involved in Above the Rim Youth Sports Foundation which is a program organized by past athletes who are concerned about education. After a serious hip injury, Lawrence left the NBA to return to a childhood dream of being a musician.
Lawrence now writes, records and performs under the name of Mac Irv from his childhood nickname of Mac and the shortened version of the street where he grew up, Irving Avenue. Lawrence has combined two of his passions and released the “Minnesota March” a song that was used as the send off for the Gophers’ first NCAA tournament in 2013.
2018 Hall of Fame Inductee
Virg Senescall - class of 1967
Who is Virg Senescall? (as of August 1, 2018) “The more you help others in life, the more you will get out of life.”
Personal tidbits Born March 5th, 1949, the Oldest of 3 kids – 2 sisters Married to Bonnie for 36 years, delivered both of my sons, Chad in 1983 and Shane in 1985. (We have been in our current house in Bloomington for 33 years so far) Something unique – I have had my beard since June 1967 (51 years) after graduating from HS. Active in many sports throughout my entire life both as a player and as a volunteer leader, teacher and coach. Attended Patrick Henry HS from 7th through 12 grade
➢ 6 year president of my Junior and Senior Hi-Y Group
➢ All School President for Senior Hi-Y as a senior in high school
➢ 5 year letterman in Gymnastics
➢ 3 year letterman in Baseball
➢ 2 year letterman in Swimming - Captain as a Senior
➢ 1966-1967 Senior Class Hall Of Fame - Voted Most School Spirit
➢ Organize my PHHS 1967 class reunions every 5 years
After high school attended North Hennepin State Junior College (as it was called then). Played Short and Second on the baseball team and a Captain the second year. Graduated with a AA Degree in 1969. Graduated #2 in the class from Control Data Institute with a Programming Degree in December 1969. The only graduate to get a job as a programmer right out of school. Continued to play baseball in Chicago after starting my first job as a Programmer. Years later the baseball evolved into slow pitch softball until age 55. Started hunting with my father even before I could carry a firearm and still doing it. Started Golfing with my father right after high school and still doing it. Started playing boot Hockey as a teen ager which evolved into playing and running 4 different adult ice hockey groups each week. I am still playing today. Started bowling competitively in 1970 averaging 195 to 205 per game. Had to retire 35 years later. Inducted into the Bloomington Sports Hall of Fame in 2010.
Professional tidbits Started programming computers in 1969. Worked for multiple companies and migrated through the various roles including Project Manager until I was in full time management in the beginning of 1984. By 1991 I was in Senior Management as the Director of the entire IT department. In 2007 I decided to change careers and leave the corporate stress and pressure. I now own a business called VS Merchant Services LLC. I function as an Independent Consultant or Agent or Broker for the Merchant Services Industry representing any business that wants to or is already accepting credit cards as a payment form for their goods or services. Several volunteer functions related to business are in section below.
Volunteering or giving back is the largest part of my life A leader of YMCA groups from 1959 to 1970 A volunteer and leader for personal groups while growing up was the beginning of a life full of giving back (volunteering). The history is long and varied resulting in a commitment of at least 40 hours a week for the last 30 years. Following are some of the more significant efforts: Non-Business related
➢ Life Guarding (3 years)
➢ Teaching Swimming and Diving to kids (5 yrs)
➢ Leading YMCA Clubs as an adult (3 yrs)
➢ Running an Arts & Crafts Fair to raise money for charitable organizations (15 yrs)
➢ Baseball coach for kids (7 yrs) ➢ Running Golf Tournaments to raise money for individuals in need and for charitable organizations (15 yrs so far)
➢ Performing the Ice Coordination for 28 youth hockey teams (10 yrs)
➢ Coaching youth hockey (31 yrs), with the Jefferson HS Varsity (20 yrs)
➢ Teaching Downhill Skiing to kids ages 5 through 18 (30 yrs so far)
➢ Chairman of the Voyager Village Golf Committee (25 yrs so far)
➢ Director of Bloomington Athletic Association (BAA) Golf program for 250 kids (25 yrs so far)
➢ Executive Board Member, Announcer and supporting the Jefferson HS Swim/Dive Team (24 yrs so far)
➢ Volunteer about once a month for a variety of Charitable Organizations doing various functions that are needed at the time (5 yrs so far)
➢ Volunteer Board Member with the Education Foundation of Bloomington (4 yrs so far) Business related
➢ Ambassador for the Bloomington Chamber of Commerce (5 yrs so far) ➢ Volunteer with the Future Leaders Program for local HS Business students (5 yrs so far)
➢ Committee member for the Chamber Annual Gala and the Annual Golf Event (5 yrs so far)
➢ President and Treasurer for Business to Business Network Group (13 yrs so far)
➢ President and Treasurer for Twin Cities Networking Team (7 yrs)