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When the grass near Control Data's \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/topics\/places\/bloomington.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBloomington\u003c\/a\u003e complex appeared anemic CEO and ex-farmer Bill Norris addressed the matter simply. \"Hell! Spread some manure!\" It was done and the grass got greener.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Text_Body\"\u003e\"Hall's well-written story describes a period of immense wealth creation with benefits that were widespread.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Text_Body\"\u003e\"Along the way though things did change. People elsewhere learned to do what only the energetic Minnesotans had figured out. Some people retired or went on to start other companies. Leaders with high levels of firsthand technical competence gradually gave way to a more bureaucratic group - skilled in meetings but unfamiliar with technology products markets suppliers or customers. Profits declined and in some cases disappeared. With the declines of major industrial employers Minnesota changed from being stellar to near average.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Text_Body\"\u003e\"In his very detailed description of booms and busts Hall makes the thoughtful observation that even pierced bubbles have silver linings. True some of the companies most influential in Minnesota's glory years of technical achievement are no longer with us. Control Data with its 60 000 employees is gone along with Univac ComTen Data 100 and a host of others. NCS Possis ADC and much of Honeywell have been acquired and in many cases greatly downsized. Even some of the medical device companies find themselves consolidated or no longer alone with leading technologies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Text_Body\"\u003e\"Minnesota's earlier prosperity unfolded because a cadre of daring forward-looking people attempted the accomplishment of exceedingly difficult tasks - a sound premise for prosperity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Text_Body\"\u003e\"Minnesota now needs new science-based industries to restore the prosperity of earlier periods. There are so many world problems in need of technical accomplishment. Two billion people lack potable water. There are food shortages. Pollution is rampant worldwide.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Fortunately Minnesota still has some fine companies involved in the solution of major problems: \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/topics\/entities\/3m.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e3M\u003c\/a\u003e Pentair \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/topics\/entities\/cargill.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eCargill\u003c\/a\u003e and others. But shouldn't we be striving to create such a more robust economy again?\" \u003cem\u003e-- \u003cstrong\u003eFred Zimmerman\u003c\/strong\u003eis professor emeritus of engineering and management at the University of St. Thomas. Starting as an IBM field engineer in 1955 he served in technical and managerial positions with IBM Control Data and NCS and he has served on the boards of directors of many companies.\u003c\/em\u003e [\u003cem\u003eMinneapolis Star Tribune Business Forum: Minnesota's homegrown prosperity\u003c\/em\u003e (March 30 2014)]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Text_Body\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In the October 2006 client letter I wrote a lengthy paragraph about the passing of William C. (Bill) Norris the founder of Control Data here in Minneapolis. I noted that the Twin Cities has three major economic segments which have propelled our growth over the years-food products medical technology and computer technology. The food industry I noted went back to the Pillsburys and the Bell family of General Mills medical technology to Earl Bakken of Medtronic and computer technology to Bill Norris of Control Data. You could refer to page 9 of that October \u0026amp;lsquo06 letter in the client letter archive on our website to read what I said then having just read it again myself I find it as interesting as when I wrote it. The founding of Control Data in 1957 really marked the beginning of an era in the Twin Cities that made history as it was unique and probably not duplicated again until the Boston Route 128 or Silicon Valley VC era many years later. All this has been laid out in compelling fashion in a new book titled \u003cem\u003eGeneration of Wealth\u003c\/em\u003e by Donald M. Hall. Do yourself a favor and get this book which will be available from Amazon Barnes \u0026amp;amp Noble and most other booksellers by the time you read this. Let Don take you back to that time nearly 60 years ago when a few talented men in search of independence from a large bureaucratic organization called Sperry Rand started Control Data raising start-up funds without a broker sponsor at $1 per share literally door to door and with gatherings of friends like a Tupperware party. It was indeed the beginning of an era written by a man who lived through much of it. Don Hall now 76 worked as a young man as an analyst at Control Data and then for 20 years in the local securities industry. Some of you reading this will remember him from the old days of RJ Steichen a brokerage which he owned part of with the late Jack Feltl.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"But let's step back a bit. I was there too at that time. Well almost. I graduated from the University of Wisconsin with an MBA in 1956 and went to work as a securities analyst at the American National Bank and Trust Company on LaSalle Street in Chicago. That is a long story most suited for my own book someday. In early 1959 I relocated to Rochester MN as the junior member of a team managing the Mayo Foundation dollars. This was two years after the event referred to as the beginning of an era when Norris and others had raised capital to put Control Data on its way. So also was the stock on its way a subject of coffee shop talk even at the Mayo Clinic where the spectacular rise in the price of the stock was discussed almost daily because it was indeed like a rocket ship. By 1961 or so the stock had gone to $100 but ultimately adjusted for splits that $1 stock became worth well over $700 per share. Millions were made even by those who sold along the way to buy what became a very expensive car or house!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"But I digress too much. As I said I was there and lived through most of it. 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Ilse wrote to her Swedish friend Lilian who lived in London and from 1939 also to her older son whom the Webers sent to Lilian on a Kindertransport. In 1942 Ilse her husband and younger son were deported to the Thersienstadt ghetto. Working there in the children's infirmary Ilse eased the daily suffering of her patients and fellow inmates with songs she wrote and set to music accompanying herself on her contraband guitar. These more than 60 songs and poems that trace Ilse's last years have been performed by various artists and ensembles from around the world having become symbols of ghetto life under Nazi occupation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTranslated from the German and Foreword by Michal Schwartz\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIlse Weber\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in1903 in Vítkovice in northern Czechoslovakia. A Jewish poet she wrote in German and published children's books and radio scripts. In 1930 she married Willi Weber. In 1931 she gave birth to her first son \u003cspan data-title-id=\"50265383\" id=\"titleId\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHanuš\u003c\/span\u003e and in 1934 to Tommy. In 1938 Hitler's Third Reich annexed Vítkovice and soon after it occupied all of Czechoslovakia. In the spring of 1939 the Webers sent \u003cspan data-title-id=\"50265383\" id=\"titleId\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHanuš\u003c\/span\u003e with a Kindertransport to England. In 1942 Ilse Willi and Tommy were deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto. Ilse worked there with sick children and in 1944 as the entire infirmary was deported she refused to abandon the children and voluntarily registered to the transport to Auschwitz where she and her younger son were murdered. Ilse's husband survived and retrieved her poems. The letters were fortuitously discovered decades later when a London attic was emptied.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This sobering respectful collection brings a haunting legacy out of the viciousness of the war.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDancing on a Powder Keg\u003c\/em\u003e elucidates one Jewish woman's experience in Czechoslovakia during the Holocaust. Translated from the German by Michal Schwartz Ilse Weber's brave reflections reveal the effort to keep artistic practice alive while raising young children in dark times. Historic unsettling and beautifully composed these writings add a crucial note to existing scholarship on the Holocaust.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA writer for radio lyricist children's book author and later a nurse on the children's ward at the Theresienstadt concentration camp (which was also called the Theresienstadt Ghetto) Weber turns everyday events into lively descriptions through letters that span 1933 -1944. The majority are written to Weber's friend in England Lilian Lilian's mother Gertrude who sheltered Weber's eldest son in Sweden during the war and to her son. Germany's growing threat is drawn through mentions of scarce finances the plights of friends pogroms and divisions among the Czech people and all while Weber persisted with household duties. Affectionate portraits of her children rapidly give way to accounts of anti-Semitism and fear. In the absence of Lilian's replies these letters become a personal record of losing freedom and keeping faith. Questions linger unanswered. They build with urgency turn briefer and rarer then suddenly cease.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA useful note by Ruth Bondy on Theresienstadt and an afterword by Ulrike Migdal provide background. Biographical details and the story of how Weber's writings were preserved add necessary context. The account of her surviving son \u003cspan data-title-id=\"50265383\" id=\"titleId\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHanuš\u003c\/span\u003e is particularly fine. It balances between the tragedy of a young son who was separated from his family-and who at the time remained unaware of their ordeal in the camps-and the adult who later learned the truth. It's here in the unspoken weight of such knowledge that the full impact of Weber's death comes to rest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWeber was known for her compassion toward children in the camp. Her lullabies and poetry portray their longing with staunch intelligence. Spare images depict the pain of imprisonment and horror of transports even as they hope for an end to suffering. This sobering respectful collection brings a haunting legacy out of the viciousness of the war.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eKaren Rigby\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cem\u003eForeward Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"disclosure\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: x-small;\"\u003eDisclosure: This article is not an endorsement but a review. The author of this book provided free copies of the book to have their book reviewed by a professional reviewer. No fee was paid by the author for this review. Foreword Reviews only recommends books that we love. Foreword Magazine Inc. is disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission's 16 CFR Part 255.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the back cover:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The literature about Theresienstadt (Terezin) and the fate of Czech Jewry during the Holocaust is voluminous but Ilse Weber's story is unique. A tremendously gifted young woman a poetess and musician a son who is rescued to Britain and Sweden a devoted husband and many of whose wonderful poems have been miraculously rescued form a unique testimony. Ilse Weber worked as a nurse in a children's sick-room in Theresienstadt and refused to abandon her charges when they were transported to Auschwitz. Miraculously again her last spoken words at the entrance to the gas chamber were preserved. Her husband survived and her older son finally made this publication possible. I have read many accounts but this account by someone who did not survive and whose story has been reconstructed is exceptional.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eProf. Yehuda Bauer\u003c\/strong\u003e academic adviser to Yad Vashem academic adviser to the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Task_Force_for_International_Cooperation_on_Holocaust_Education%20_Remembrance%20_and_Research\"\u003eTask Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education Remembrance and Research\u003c\/a\u003e and senior adviser to the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Swedish_Government\"\u003eSwedish Government\u003c\/a\u003e on the International Forum on Genocide Prevention. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOf the numerous reviews for Ilse Weber's letters and poems' German edition below is a translated selection of the most significant German-language newspapers.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"\u003c\/strong\u003e...Ilse's charismatic and helpful personality made these poems not only popular but for many inmates they became more important than \"water and bread \" as they restored their courage to face life pride and hope... the book's story and the fate of its protagonists finally wrested from oblivion,,, is absolutely touching... it necessitates a filming of Ilse Weber's life... it must be recognized by future generations as one of the most important testimonies of the Shoa.\"\u003cstrong\u003e - \u003c\/strong\u003eFlorian Hunger \u003cem\u003eJümldische Zeitung\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"...with her smuggled guitar this charismatic woman made music secretly half night through... Ilse became a legendary figure among the survivors of Theresienstadt.\" - Oliver Pfohlmann \u003cem\u003eNeue Z\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eüml\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003ercher Zeitung \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Reading these [letters ] today one remains speechless. Likewise the straightforward and visually expressive poems. 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