Sue
Sue Salm
d. May 5, 2017
Sue Salm, '57, Born December 3, 1934 in Kenosha, WI, passed on May 5, 2017, in Minneapolis, MN.
Sue (born Dec. 3, 1934) moved to Holt, MI with her parents, George and Margaret Salm, and only sister Rosanne (Salm) Eberbach. She attended public schools of Holt, Michigan, Albion College (BA '57), and graduate school at the University of Chicago
She was a Junior Year Abroad student at the International Christian University in Tokyo. She worked in church and academic office in New York, Chicago, and Minneapolis. In offices, she worked as a secretary or as an assistant in publishing, including jobs at the National Council of Churches; for Prof. Richard McKeon (philosopher and classicist) and for the University of Chicago Press (between 1962 and 1977); at the University of Minnesota; and as graphic designer for a hospital in Shakopee, MN. She volunteered in Democratic Party politics and in organizing the clerical workers' union (AFSCME) at the Univ. of Minn. (Before retiring to Blue Hill, ME, in 2000, she lived with her mother in Holt, MI.) Always engaged in sports, music, & typography, she pursued interests in history, philosophy, and poetry. She printed her own poems in small books titled Poems & Type. Originally a Methodist, she was active in the Episcopal Church and in Holy Trinity Lutheran Church (ELCA) after returning to Minneapolis in 2009.
Most who knew Sue, know that she pursued her love of writing through creating signs, cards, shirts, and monograms; also as a life-long writer of letters to family, friends and editors, and in later years as a writer of poetry. She infused her courage, passion, and her determination to be 100% herself into her art and into the heart of her family and friends.
She was an early and ardent feminist and a DFL precinct captain in the early 1980s when she was helping to organize the clerical workers' union at the University of Minnesota. (Recently she advocated using her invented set of singular, non-gendered pronouns, E/ris/rem, to fill the gap of such missing words.)
In sports, she was skilled in fast-pitch softball and pick-up basketball, she made canoe trips in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area and a solo hike up Isle Royale. She enjoyed bicycling around Minneapolis lakes and skiing in county parks and Itasca State Park. Her activity was curtailed by a stroke in December 2014.
She was a member of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Minneapolis, next to Trinity Apartments where she lived 2009-2017. Sue engaged in mutual support with families of her sister, her friends and her church parishes -- Methodists, Episcopalians, and Lutherans.
She is survived by her sister, two nieces, a nephew, twelve great nieces and nephews and a loving network of dear friends.
Those who are moved to make memorial donations may contribute to Holy Trinity Lutheran Church or a library of their choice.
Sue (born Dec. 3, 1934) moved to Holt, MI with her parents, George and Margaret Salm, and only sister Rosanne (Salm) Eberbach. She attended public schools of Holt, Michigan, Albion College (BA '57), and graduate school at the University of Chicago
She was a Junior Year Abroad student at the International Christian University in Tokyo. She worked in church and academic office in New York, Chicago, and Minneapolis. In offices, she worked as a secretary or as an assistant in publishing, including jobs at the National Council of Churches; for Prof. Richard McKeon (philosopher and classicist) and for the University of Chicago Press (between 1962 and 1977); at the University of Minnesota; and as graphic designer for a hospital in Shakopee, MN. She volunteered in Democratic Party politics and in organizing the clerical workers' union (AFSCME) at the Univ. of Minn. (Before retiring to Blue Hill, ME, in 2000, she lived with her mother in Holt, MI.) Always engaged in sports, music, & typography, she pursued interests in history, philosophy, and poetry. She printed her own poems in small books titled Poems & Type. Originally a Methodist, she was active in the Episcopal Church and in Holy Trinity Lutheran Church (ELCA) after returning to Minneapolis in 2009.
Most who knew Sue, know that she pursued her love of writing through creating signs, cards, shirts, and monograms; also as a life-long writer of letters to family, friends and editors, and in later years as a writer of poetry. She infused her courage, passion, and her determination to be 100% herself into her art and into the heart of her family and friends.
She was an early and ardent feminist and a DFL precinct captain in the early 1980s when she was helping to organize the clerical workers' union at the University of Minnesota. (Recently she advocated using her invented set of singular, non-gendered pronouns, E/ris/rem, to fill the gap of such missing words.)
In sports, she was skilled in fast-pitch softball and pick-up basketball, she made canoe trips in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area and a solo hike up Isle Royale. She enjoyed bicycling around Minneapolis lakes and skiing in county parks and Itasca State Park. Her activity was curtailed by a stroke in December 2014.
She was a member of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Minneapolis, next to Trinity Apartments where she lived 2009-2017. Sue engaged in mutual support with families of her sister, her friends and her church parishes -- Methodists, Episcopalians, and Lutherans.
She is survived by her sister, two nieces, a nephew, twelve great nieces and nephews and a loving network of dear friends.
Those who are moved to make memorial donations may contribute to Holy Trinity Lutheran Church or a library of their choice.
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