PART TEN
ORAL
HISTORIES
Introduction
It is my intention to provide the reader with more than one history
of Reformed Druidism by presenting the reader with transcripts of
oral interviews with prominent Reformed Druids. Their viewpoints
should provide more balance than my voice alone could provide.
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David Frangquist, ’66
Deborah Gavrin Frangquist, ’67
October 31, 1993
Eric:
This is Eric Hilleman, the Archivist at Carleton Col-
lege, and I’m conducting an interview today with David
Frangquist, class of 1966, and his wife, Deborah Gavrin
Frangquist, class of 1967. The Frangquists have both
been very involved with the Carleton Druids, and we’re
expecting that to be the main topic of discussion today,
but I think I’d begin by asking you, David, to tell us
something about your own personal background, how
you got to Carleton College, and then we’ll get into the
founding of the Druids right after that.
David:
I was born in Chicago in 1944 and grew up in the
North Shore Suburbs, Lake Forest specifically. As far
as coming to Carleton: about the middle of my junior
year in high school, we started, as juniors do, thinking
about colleges. I think actually Carleton first came to
my attention in an article in the Chicago Tribune about
quality liberal arts colleges in the Midwest. I suffered
from childhood asthma, and so one of my concerns
was to be as far north as possible to get away from the
ragweed areas, so we drew a line through, oh, about
Milwaukee and looked at places north of that. Carleton
really seemed to be the outstanding school in that area.
I did visit other schools that were at that time in the
same conference as Carleton; I looked at Ripon and
Lawrence and visited Macalester, but Carleton was the
place where I just felt most at home. Carleton seemed
to have it together better than the other places that I
visited, and Carleton was the only place I applied.
Eric:
For this tape, actually, I think it would also be relevant
if you wanted to say something about your r