Les Malkerson - M Club Hall of Fame - University of Minnesota Athletics

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Feb 15

2:00 PM

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Feb 15

5:00 PM

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at Wisconsin

Feb 17

9:30 PM

Men's Basketball

at Oregon

Les Malkerson
Lifetime Achievement Award
HOF Class of 1996

Les Malkerson, who played Gopher hockey in 1935 and graduated that year with a degree in agricultural engineering, embarked on a life marked by generosity and civic-mindedness.

Malkerson served as a Regent Emeritus of the University for 26 years, from 1951 to 1977, was a trustee of the University of Minnesota Foundation, and was a member of the University’s Development Advisory Board.

He also served as a trustee of the Hopkins-based Blake School and was a deacon of the Plymouth Congregational Church; a U.S. delegate to the United Nationals Commission on East-West Trade, in Geneva, Switzerland; and a member of the Citizens Committee for Peace with Freedom in Vietnam, a non-partisan organization founded in 1967 by private citizens including Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower.