Connie Lunde grew up on a dairy farm in west central Minnesota near the City of Elbow Lake. Having grown up with an older sibling, Lunde was able to experience what school meant before she was ever a student. "I have a sister who is a year older, and when she came home from school, I would erase all her papers, and then she would be very kind and compliant. She would play school with me," explained Lunde. "I would be the teacher. The passion for teaching is kind of a 'forever' thing. Both of us became teachers...
