WINONA, Minn. — When Max Kauphusman walks across the commencement stage Friday at Winona State, he’ll be creating a family tradition, His degree will be in composites engineering. Thirty years ago Max’s father Scott Kauphusman was in the university’s first class in the then new composites curriculum.

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Kauphusman. From Chippewa Falls in Wisconsin.