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This Day in Minnesota History

December 26, 1990

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Sister Mary Giovanni Gourhan, founder in 1963 of Guadalupe Area Project alternative school, dies. A native of West St. Paul active in that neighborhood's Chicano community, Gourhan ran an unorthodox school, teaching the basics as well as Mexican history and effective living and meditation techniques.

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