UMAA CEO Kicks Off Stadium Tour
4/28/2006 | | Tim Wensman, board member of the Rotary Club of St. Cloud, UMAA CEO Margaret S. Carlson, and former U Regent Stanley Sahlstrom, the founding provost of the U of M Crookston, posed after the first stop on Carlson's tour around the state. |
Taking the University of Minnesota’s Gopher stadium rallying effort on the road, Margaret Sughrue Carlson, the CEO of the U of M Alumni Association, will address Rotary Clubs in St. Cloud, Hibbing, Red Wing and Willmar over the course of the next two weeks. Carlson will discuss the need for the Minnesota State Senate to take quick action on the Gopher stadium bill in order to make a new Gopher stadium a reality in 2009.
Carlson’s schedule is as follows:
Tuesday, May 2: 12 noon to 1:15 p.m. Rotary Club of St. Cloud. Location: St. Cloud Radisson Hotel, 404 W. St. Germain St., St. Cloud.
Thursday, May 4: 12 noon to 1 p.m. Hibbing Noon Rotary Club. Location: Hibbing Park Hotel, 1402 East Howard St., Hibbing.
Tuesday, May 9: 12 noon to 1 p.m. Red Wing Rotary. Location: St. James Hotel, 406 Main Street, Red Wing.
Wednesday, May 10: Noon to 1 p.m. Willmar Rotary Club. Location: Kandi Entertainment Center, 500 19th Ave. S.E., Willmar.
“One of my favorite U of M memories is stepping on campus for the first time in the fall of 1966 and going to a Gopher football game in Memorial Stadium,” Carlson said. “My fellow Gopher fans and I look forward to rekindling that unique atmosphere in the fall of 2009. I urge our legislators to take quick action and return Gopher football to its true home - on campus!”
Carlson has been a leading advocate for the proposed new on-campus Gopher football stadium. The alumni association made the first major gift of $1 million to the university to jumpstart stadium planning and is now rallying support for this $248 million facility, which will open in 2009 if approved this year by the Minnesota Legislature.
The stadium would be located at the site of the university’s Huron Boulevard parking complex, just north of University Avenue and east of Oak Street. It would seat 50,000 people (expandable to 80,000 seats) and would have a collegiate look and feel, with a brick façade and two landscaped plazas. Existing, new and State Fairgrounds parking would accommodate projected game-day requirements of about 17,000 spaces.
Carlson has been chief executive officer of the University of Minnesota Alumni Association, a 60,000-member organization, and associate vice president of the university since 1985. She is a long-time member and past president of Minneapolis Rotary Club #9.
 | | | |  | | Two More Stops Added | | In addition ot the dates and locations below, margaret Carlson will also discuss the stadium at the following meetings:
7:30 a.m., Thursday, May 11, at the Hastings Rotary Meeting, Point Restaurant, Highway 61 & 10, Hastings
7 p.m., Wednesday, May 17, at the Rochester Area Alumni and Friends of the Univeristy of Minnesota Spring Alumni Meeting. Click here for event details.
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