Alumni Blog

Month: October 2012

  • Kathy Reid Walker ’80

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    Erin Wilken

    Kathy Reid Walker ’80 has recently opened a private practice as a professional/pastoral counselor. Milwaukee Integrative Counseling is located within an office complex that houses 30 holistic healing practitioners. This summer, Kathy’s article, “The Misunderstood Pastoral Counselor: Knowledge and Religiosity as Factors Affecting the Client’s Choice”, was published in VISTAS, the online journal of the American…

  • Kerstin Blazina ’02

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    Erin Wilken

    Kerstin Blazina ’02 has a cat. His name is Catstevens.

  • Jon Bakken ’78

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    Erin Wilken

    Jon Bakken ’78  is following another Gustie Jeff Weiland ’89 as President of the Minnesota Football Coaches Association.

  • Emily Bulling Bryan ’09

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    Erin Wilken

    Emily Bulling ’09 married Austen Bryan in Lincoln, Nebraska on August 11, 2012.

  • Vanja Duric ’00

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    Erin Wilken

    Vanja Duric ’00 of Urbandale, Iowa, was recently hired as Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology at Des Moines University in Des Moines, Iowa.

  • The Sixty Chicks, Class of 1969

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    Erin Wilken

    The Sixty Chicks, class of ’69, reunited to celebrate their 65th birthday in Park City, Utah. Shown here from left to right are Cathy Carlson Jacobson, Chris Pearson Floss, Darlene Gustavson Nielsen, Karen Alrick Jafvert (seated), Julena Lind, Jeanne Taylor Erickson, Sue McNamara Showalter (hidden), Mary Sue Hanson Taylor, Dianne Johnson (seated), Chris Frommelt Nelson.…

  • Nikki Green ’12

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    Erin Wilken

    For the next year (till mid-August 2013) I’ll be traveling throughout the midwestern/western US with a youth ministry team called Captive Free (Central Plains team) sponsored by a non-profit organization called Youth Encounter. I will be sharing Christ through music and testimonies with four other team members. My team is one of 4 national teams.…

  • Diana Jensen Cramer ’90

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    Erin Wilken

    Diana Jensen Cramer ’90 graduated in May 2012 with a JD from Gonzaga University School of Law.

  • Jennifer Lopez ’02

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    Erin Wilken

    Jenni Lopez ’02 is now working as a Preschool Teacher at Mini Mustangs in Mora, MN

  • Nurses from the Class of 1964

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    Erin Wilken

    In September, fifteen members of the Gustavus Nursing Class of 1964 celebrated their 70th birthdays in Door County, Wisconsin. All but two of our classmates were able to be together for this wonderful time. Those pictured: Top Row, Left to Right: Carolyn Kruger, Helen Heslie Jacobson, Carol Woods Blaeser, Carla Johnson Stoneberg, Joan Carlstrom Morehouse,…