Following my junior year in high school, I went on a camping trip through Russia in a group led by Horst Momber, a young language teacher from Roosevelt. – Peter Agre
My brother Jim and I spent many wonderful summers working on dairy farms in Wisconsin owned by Moms cousins, and as members of our local Boy Scout troop. – Peter Agre
We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible. – Peter Agre
Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of the American Chemical Society education committee, where he sat on the committee with Linus Pauling, who had authored a very phenomenally important textbook of chemistry. – Peter Agre