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Helga Stipa Madlandwas born in Upper Silesia in 1939 and moved to the United States with her parents, Hubert and Ann, sister Ingrid, and brother B. Michael in 1953.  She has three children, Kathy, Mike and Pat, their spouses,Bob, Lisa and Bobbie and six grandchildren, Bobby, Sydney, Alex, Colin, Atticus and Melozie, and lives with her husband, Richard Beck, who teaches Ancient Greek at the University of Oklahoma, two dogs, and four cats in Norman, Oklahoma.  Helga Madland has a Ph.D. in German literature with a minor in Spanish, and taught German at OU from 1981 to 2005.  She is now Professor Emeritus of Modern Languages at the University of Oklahoma.