FLIPPABLE: Steve Sandell for MN-HD53B
Steve had to stay in a crowded room with some other kids for a few days after he was born in June 1940 at Swedish Hospital in Minneapolis until he and his mom could move with his dad to an apartment in south Minneapolis. They lived there until December 1941 when his dad enlisted in the Navy. When his dad came back from the South Pacific, the family settled in Minneapolis.
Steve attended Minneapolis public schools and graduated from University High School. He went to Brown University to earn his undergraduate degree, Macalester College for his teaching certification and Stanford University to study education and public policy for a master's degree.
He has taught in the St. Paul Public Schools, the Anglo-American School in Stockholm, Sweden and at Visitation School in Mendota Heights. He served as Head of Education for the Minnesota Historical Society and director of the Humphrey Forum, a museum of government and politics at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey School of Public Affairs. He is the author of Northern Lights: Going to the Sources, a textbook of Minnesota history, and articles for the Minnesota Historical Society's Roots Magazine.
Steve received a Bush Foundation Leadership Fellowship, the University of Minnesota's award as Outstanding Staff Member, the Governor's Commendation for Outstanding Teaching, and the Minnesota Academic Excellence Foundation's Education Hero award.
Steve married Eunice Nelson, of Wood Lake, Minnesota, in 1968. They have two adult children, Astrid and Stig, who attended St. Paul Public Schools, and two grandchildren who are in the Stillwater schools. Prior to moving to Woodbury, Steve was a PTA president; coach and manager of youth hockey and soccer teams; coached high school hockey, tennis, cross country and lacrosse teams; served as secretary of the Minnesota Council for the Social Studies; and was a member of the YMCA Camp Warren Board of Directors.
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