Staff members Ed Drury and Peggy Wolfe have moved on from CURA, and we will miss them. Ed and Peggy both retired from the University of Minnesota several years ago, but continued on at CURA under contract on a part-time basis to help us and to serve your needs. Both decided to completely retire during 2005.
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Ed Drury |
Ed Drury started working at CURA in 1972. He was skilled both at conducting research and in working with students and community organizations. Throughout his 30+ years with CURA, Ed was the person we would go to to get something done. His early work focused on inventorying and evaluating higher education programs in state and federal correctional institutions with significant results.
For the past two decades, Ed was responsible for directing CURA’s Communiversity Program, placing graduate student assistants with organizations and agencies serving diverse communities throughout the state. In addition, Ed administered our Local Planning and State Agency Internship Programs for more than a decade before they were suspended in 2003 because of budget reductions to the University. These programs awarded graduate internships on a competitive basis, providing students with handson learning experience and state and local agencies with invaluable research and technical assistance.
Ed cared deeply about the students and organizations with which he worked, and their research projects were better because of his attentive involvement.
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| Peggy Wolfe |
Peggy Wolfe started at the University of Minnesota in 1969 as librarian of the Urban Transportation Collection, when interdisciplinary urban transportation research at the University was coordinated out of the Department of Civil Engineering and operated under the CURA umbrella. The transportation collection was eventually transferred to the Minnesota Department of Transportation, and Peggy moved to CURA’s main office in 1982. She managed our internal library, cataloguing and housing every publication produced by CURA, now numbering more than 2,000 documents.
Among her many contributions, Peggy was instrumental in converting our internal catalog of CURA publications to a searchable online database publicly accessible via the CURA website. She also served as a resource person for many CURA projects. Her highest profile work was in compiling inventories of key University efforts, including a catalog of “Courses on the Environment,” an “Inventory of Public Policy Research Related to Greater Minnesota,” the “Guide to Courses in GIS and Land-Related Studies,” the “Environmental Events Calendar,” and a bibliography of “CURA Research Reports on Underrepresented Groups.” No one was more tenacious or better at doing this work.
Ed and Peggy have both been an important part of CURA’s heritage. We thank them for their many years of faithful service and wish them well in their retirement.
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