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Thanks Dennis Carlson for planning a “Get Together” for the Brady High School Basketball team. A great evening visiting with old Friends who are still young at heart. There were many stories and much laughter!

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3/6/2018
BRADY CLASS OF 1968 REUNION — We still need a little help
BRADY CLASS OF 1968 REUNION — We still need a little help for the 50th Reunion ... there are (21) now 17 classmates that we still CAN NOT find. Please take a look at the list and if you know . . .  Continued

2/9/2017
Brady High School Class of 1968 50th Reunion.
We should consider planning our 50th reunion, now if there is interest. The website http://classreport.org/main/office.asp?dname=/usa/mn/west_st_paul/bhs/&clid=728075&cl=1968&hs=BHS&clr1=bl . . .  Continued

4/1/2016
JoAnne P. Murray
Murray, JoAnne P. Age 75, of Mpls. passed away on Easter Sunday, March 27, 2016, surrounded by her family. JoAnne Murray lived a life fueled by curiosity, humor, and compassion. These sparks . . .  Continued

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  ',would like to thank those who organize

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  I am here in Colorado, Sandy and would b

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  Let's have a Colorado mini-reunion! Sandy Boerger Dixon

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  Currently living in St. Paul MN.

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  I just received some very saddening news

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Steven Tufenk


“Tuey”
Hockey…Track…Future steamfitter…Remembers “the lousy vending machines”…”54 Plymouth jeep.

When Steven Tufenk got a phone call in April saying he had been named the recipient of Saint Paul College’s 2005 Alumni Wall of Fame Award, he was overwhelmed. Although he has served the college in a variety of capacities during the past two decades, he has done so in an effort to give back, he says, not to be recognized. Nonetheless, he was proud to receive the prestigious award, which recognizes outstanding alumni, at a ceremony on April 25. It was a fitting denouement for Tufenk’s career. After 35 years in the pipefitting industry he had retired just three months earlier.
Steve Tufenk

Tufenk took the first steps toward his career as a welder and pipefitter in 1968, after graduating from Archbishop Brady High in West St. Paul, when he enrolled in what was then the St. Paul Vocational Technical Institute and today is Saint Paul College. His career choice was not surprising. Tufenk’s father, Zaven, was head of the welding department at the College and also served as president of the St. Paul Pipefitters/Steam Fitters Local 455, a union that Tufenk also would serve for 14 years, first as president for a pair of three-year terms, then as an agent and later as business manager. His older brother also was a pipefitter, and a younger brother later followed in their footsteps.

After six years of intense study, including on-the-job training in the apprenticeship program, Tufenk earned his license. “I went to school during the day for one year, then worked in the field as an apprentice while going to school two nights a week for five years,” he says. “I made some lifelong friends there, people I’m still in touch with.”

In the years that followed, he worked on an eclectic mix of projects, including at the Prairie Island nuclear plant some three decades ago, where he spent 18 months as an apprentice welder. “There was a shortage of heli-arc welders, so we got on-the-job training in that type of welding,” he says. “I also worked on a power plant in Mandan, N.D., and on projects in northern and southern Minnesota.”

That training also provided Tufenk the opportunity to work on other, equally impressive projects, including the Alaska pipeline. “I had to pass six welding tests before I could take that job,” he recalls. “I worked in Alaska two different times for six months each time. I was 25 years old the first time and met people from all over the world. I was an outdoors person and it was like heaven on earth to be in that vast wilderness. My goal was to retire in Alaska but as I got older I realized I didn’t want to be away from my family. I’ve got three children and seven grandchildren.”

These days, he’s content to spend time at his cabin in the woods near Mora, where he hunts, fishes, and enjoys the scenery. A self-described sports fanatic, he’s also looking forward to taking some baseball stadium junkets to Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Louis, and other cities. And, of course, a trip or two to Alaska also is on the agenda.

At the time he retired, Tufenk had completed a seven-year run as president of the Minnesota Pipe Trades Association, an organization whose membership roster consists of 5,000 plumbers, pipefitters, gas fitters, and sprinkler fitters. In his role as president, he lobbied on labor issues, negotiated contracts, and settled disputes.

Tufenk also made time during the past two decades to serve Saint Paul College—an institution that, he says, allowed him to have a successful career. He continues to serve as a member of the College’s foundation board and its General Advisory Council. “It’s important for me to be able to give back to the school that helped me succeed,” he says. “The foundation raises money and provides scholarships. The Council oversees all the College’s programs, from watchmaking and pipefitting to plumbing and nursing. Representatives on the Council work to make sure they have what they need to continue to meet the needs of the students and the industries.”

Tufenk is thankful for the education and the industry that provided him with steady work, travel opportunities, valued friendships, and the opportunity to retire at age 55. He will continue his connection with Saint Paul College in hopes of helping to provide others with similar opportunities. It is, he says, a labor of love, payback for the education he received and the impact that education has had on his life. “It all started at the College,” he says. “Life is good.”


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