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Published: 12 February 2018

Love Story Nearly Lost to the Ages Shared on KARE TV Minneapolis Feb. 12

   In honor of the upcoming Valentine’s Day holiday, the story of Frenchman Marcel Heuzé was highlighted on KARE 11 in Minneapolis on Mon., Feb. 12 during the 4 p.m. newscast.

   Marcel was a French civilian forced laborer imprisoned in a German labor camp during World War II. During his time making Panther tanks at a Daimler plant in Berlin, he lovingly wrote letters home to his wife and daughters in France. The letters contain gentle words of fatherly advice to his young daughters, and beautiful expressions of love to his wife. He ended the letters to his wife with lines such as, “your big guy who only dreams of you,” or “for you, my little treasure, your big guy who loves you more than ever sends you his most tender kisses.”

   Fast forward nearly sixty years. Marcel’s original letters were for sale in an antique shop in Stillwater, Minn. where they were discovered by graphic designer and type designer Carolyn Porter. Porter used the handwritten letters as inspiration for a font she designed called P22 Marcel Script. Out of curiosity, Porter had the letters translated from French, a language she does not speak, to English, which is when she learned they had been mailed from a labor camp.

   Unable to let her discovery—or her curiosity—rest, Porter went to great lengths to track down answers to the mysteries of Marcel’s life. Her journey is detailed in the book, Marcel’s Letters: A Font and the Search for One Man’s Fate, recently named one of the 35 Best Books of 2017 by Writer’s Bone.
  Porter has a number of upcoming public events in the Twin Cities. Learn more at www.carolyn-porter.com.

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Published: 11 February 2018

Most Psychologically Healthy Workplace Awards Program Promoted on Duluth TV Feb. 12

   Do your employees enjoy coming to work every day? Are there programs in place to help them grow and feel fulfilled? And does your company go out of its way to make sure employees feel appreciated? If so, yours may be a company well deserving of recognition in the Minnesota Psychological Association’s annual Psychologically Healthy Workplace Awards competition.      
   Nominations for the awards program, which is now entering its 12th year, were open through Feb. 16, 2018. The awards program recognizes organizations that make a commitment to programs and policies that foster employee health and well-being while enhancing organizational performance and productivity.
   Award-committee chair Jennifer Pollard appeared on KQDS-TV in Duluth on Mon., Feb. 12 to promote the contest. She was also interviewed on KCAJ-AM in Roseau-Warroad, Minn., on Feb. 13.
   More information about the award program can be found at www.apaexcellence.org/applynow.