Dale Sanderson Jr.

* **Name:** Dale Earnhardt Sanderson Jr.
* **Position:** Chief Information Officer, Kilbourne Urban Design; Vice Chairman of the Bluemont Lakes Homeowner's Association; Treasurer Grace Lutheran Church
* **Metatype:** Human (*Homo sapiens sapiens*)
* **Education:** Masters of Matrix Sciences, North Dakota State University, class of ‘48
* **DOB:** 2/28/2026, Fargo, ND, USA (now Region 3, RRDMZ)
* **Family:** Dale Sanderson Sr. (father, Glyndon, MN, UCAS), Natalie [Klieman] Sanderson (mother, Glyndon, MN, UCAS), Maddy [Weiler] Sandrson (wife, Fargo, Region 3), Warren Weiler (father-in-law, Grand Forks, Region 2 RRDMZ), Olivia [Douthit] Weiler (mother-in-law, Grand Forks, Region 2 RRDMZ) Marcus ‘Marc’ Sanderson (cousin, Fargo, ND, UCAS), Cade Sanderson (son, Fargo, Region 3), *Dale Sanderson III (son, deceased)*, Jolene Sanderson (daughter, Fargo, Region 3)

Dale Sanderson Jr. is one of those rare examples of a guy who’s worked his way all the way up the corporate ladder from the ranks. After a number of professional and family tragedies, he has clawed his way back to the top of the local business anthill through a combination of hard work, faith and keen intelligence. Stern, obsessively driven and famously uncompromising, he has made himself useful to the powerful and they have rewarded him for it, until today when he has been appointed as the new Chief Information Officer for Kilbourne Urban Design.

Dale Jr.’s tale is a real riches-to-rags-to-riches story. The son of a successful Project Manager with a major software vendor, the family's fortunes took a huge dive when he was still a small child and the Crash of ‘29 ruined his father’s employer, as it did for so many companies. His mother, an artist, struggled to hold the family together, while his father bounced from one failed opportunity to another.

Driven by his father’s tales of his early success versus their current instability and anchored, even at this early date, by his fundamentalist Missouri-synod Lutheran faith, Dale Jr. from an early age strove to restore his family to its rightful place. He worked nights all through High School, was Salutatorian for the Class of ‘44 and went to NDSU’s computer program on a scholarship and the backing of his congregation. He was recruited to Fuchi’s Great Plains Campus right out of college, as a Junior Coder. He excelled there to the point he was sent to executive training at Fuchi’s Boston campus, where he stayed for a couple of years before returning to Fargo to serve as a team lead on the Network Maintenance team at Great Plains campus. He also returns to Grace Lutheran, and its there he meets the daughter of a family friend, Maddy Sanderson, who he marries a year after returning to Fargo, and they start a family of their own, giving Dale a chance to undo his father’s failures.

Never a lazy man, Dale now devoted himself wholly to his career and rose quickly through the Fuchi ranks, and making careful, but canny investments of what they paid him. By the time his first son was born, he was already Jr. VP to Jill McQueen, head of Fargo’s Data Transfer section. He flourished at Fuchi and with the new money, he started the work of putting the Sandersons back where they belonged, starting by moving his parents into a top-level retirement community in the Glyndon Dome, and moving his own family into the exclusive Bluemont Lakes neighborhood. He named his second son after himself ‘Dale III’, to indicate the legacy he was building to pass down. Even the dissolution of Fuchi itself was only another opportunity for him, and when Novatech took over the Great Plains Campus, he inherited McQueen’s old job as the head of DT/P (Data Transfer Protocols) section.

After his meteoric rise in the 2050’s, the 60’s were a rough patch for the Sanderson family (and everybody else on the planet). Starting with the troubled third pregnancy and issues surrounding the birth of his third child, a daughter much to his disappointment. His wife’s postpartum issues only inspired him to spend even more time and energy on his work, hiring household help to lighten the burden of raising their children. His standing within the church suffered from rumors surrounding Maddy’s increasing isolation from the congregation. Then, in ‘64, the Second Crash did its damage, and Dale Jr. found his entire team rendered obsolete in the new Matrix 2.0. Then, after several years of learning the new coding and picking up the contract and consulting work that he could to maintain a steady income stream, until he finally built up the contacts to get a position at Bank of the Red’s IT department in the late ‘60’s. Even this wasn’t the unalloyed victory it could have been as it coincided with his darling Dale III’s mysterious passing, the son he’d hoped would succeed him in Matrix Science.

His time at Bank of the Red was short-lived (water-cooler gossip connects it to a rivalry with up-and-comer Brett White), and he found himself finding a home at the IT section of Kilbourne Urban Design as second only to the CIO himself, Brock Danielson. It was widely known that it was Sanderson’s hard work that supported his politically-connected boss’ career. When Danielson was killed in the Murder Minute over new years 2076, Sanderson was the logical man to replace him...

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