Coach Dan Dittmer will “never forget” one of Mr. Gilbertson’s letters

Coach Gilbertson was well known for his prolific letter-writing. It was how he kept in touch. From thanking people to congratulating them to encouraging them, he wrote a lot of letters. Here is a story from a reader whose life was forever changed by one of those letters: Mr. Gilbertson had graduated a year after my mother and a year …