Brookhaven Courier

Issue date: 4/2/07 Section: News

Media Credit: Chris Vivero Senior Adult Program students Sara and Alex Lundsteen rest in Commons Courtyard.

Sara Lundsteen wrote in her poem titled "Creation and the Quiet Art Class," "Be well-composed. Be large. Be bold. Be light. Be dark. Be varied. Be inventive ... Be everything."

She is a student in the Senior Adult Program at Brookhaven College, along with being a poet, she is an artist, a singer, a teacher, a wife, a student and an actress.

Sara has taken piano classes, computer classes, acting classes and writing classes, to name a few from the list totaling 47.

Sara said, "The Senior Adult Program makes life worth living." She is taking guitar lessons, singing lessons and ceramics this semester. She said her singing lessons with Dr. Susan Wyatt would keep anyone feeling young.

Both Sara and her husband, Alex, are involved with the Senior Adult Program.

"We are both highly grateful for what the Senior Adult Program and Brookhaven have done to enrich our lives," they said. "If one is looking for a worthy institution to support, they need look no further than here."

This couple met in Paris while Sara was studying at the Sorbonne and Alex at Alliance Francaise.

"I always had a propensity for blonds," said Sara about her Swedish husband who grew up in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Their first date was to see Walt Disney's "Fantasia." They married in Copenhagen soon after their stay in Paris.

They said they do have kids: two dogs and two cats.

Sara grew up drawing, but as a senior adult student at Brookhaven she has dedicated much of her time to painting. She entered one of her paintings titled "911 Howl," in a national competition.

The Lundsteens have lived in Texas and California on and off for most of their married life.

Sara has been a professor at the University of California in Berkley and Santa Barbara as well as at the University of North Texas and the University of Texas at Austin. She wrote several textbooks in childhood developmental learning, and illustrated some of these textbooks.

Sara retired from UNT in 2002 as a regents professor emerita. Alex retired in 1998 as vice president of finance for Lone Star Steel.

Both have been with the Brookhaven Senior Adult Program since their retirement years.

Page 1 of 1

Article Tools