Donna Champion is a former State Master of the State Grange of Minnesota. Arne Engstrom is Master of Sunbeam Grange # 2 and a member of the State Grange Executive Committee. John Kuester is a member of the State Grange Executive Committee. Don and Shelley Sherper are long-time members of Sunbeam Grange # 2. Cumulatively, these five authors have been active in the Grange at the state and/or local level for 220 years.