Meet the North Branch banker who is helping put 100 students through college - Star Tribune

Meet the North Branch banker who is helping put 100 students through college  Star Tribune

Dennis Frandsen, 85, has worked for only himself. And it's worked out better than he dreamed. Dennis Frandsen passed on an “office boy” job at 3M Co. after graduating from high school in 1951. Instead, Frandsen, who grew up on an 80-acre dairy farm near Luck, Wis., harvested some of the farm's hardwood trees for his dad. He then offered his services to neighboring farmers, paying $30 for every $100 he made on their logs. He sold the wood to a yo-yo manufacturer. By 1956, Frandsen, a newlywed, was living above a furniture store in Rush City, Minn., with his wife, Jeannette, trying to raise $...

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