Boxer, UND graduate, fighter pilot – and 'a good man': The …
Her father, Capt. Carl "Cully" Ekstrom, was a University of North Dakota graduate who died on Dec. 30, 1943, while flying a combat mission over France. He was born in Minneapolis and came to UND on a boxing scholarship. Ekstrom won the National Collegiate Featherweight Golden Gloves championship in 1937; he was posthumously …