Alumni Blog

Month: September 2013

  • Erin Schliep ’06

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    Erin Wilken

    Erin Schliep ’06 graduated from Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado with a PhD in Statistics. She is now a postdoctoral fellow at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.

  • Peter Ford ’84

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    Erin Wilken

    I retired as a Lieutenant Colonel after serving for 32 years in the U.S. Army Reserves and National Guard. I started out as a private in the Virginia National Guard and was the only ROTC Cadet commissioned at Gustavus (I performed my military drill in Mankato) in 1984. During my career, I was called to…

  • Becky Strobel ’09

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    Erin Wilken

    Becky Strobel ’09 has recently moved to North Mankato, MN and is beginning a new job as general music teacher and director of bands for the Janesville-Waldorf-Pemberton school district in Janesville, MN.

  • Mike “Duebs” Dueber ’89

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    Erin Wilken

    Mike “Duebs” Dueber ’89 is still running his consulting company, Dueber Consulting Inc, but is also a part-time MBA candidate at the College of St. Scholastica in Saint Paul, MN.

  • Liz Ackert ’01

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    Erin Wilken

    Liz Ackert ’01 married Cory Molzahn on July 27, 2013 in Leavenworth, WA. Photo of some Gusties that were at the wedding: Emily Orling (’01), Niki Schultz Dummann (’02), Erin Dana Eger (’01), Liz Ackert (’01), Arno Merkle (’01), Cory Molzahn, Phil Eckels (’02), Bethany Mueller (’03), Ambryn Melius (’03).

  • Beth Boser ’04

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    Erin Wilken

    Beth Boser ’04 completed her PhD in Communication at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School, August ’13. Beth is now employed as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the College of Wooster, in Ohio.

  • Dylan Blumentritt ’02

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    Erin Wilken

    Dylan Blumentritt ’02 married to Erin Martinson on May 11, 2012. He also recently completed his PhD in Earth Sciences from University of Minnesota and moved to northern New York in August, 2013 to be an Assistant Professor at the State University of New York at Potsdam.

  • Jon Grossardt ’73

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    Erin Wilken

    Jon Grossardt ’73 has been in Winona for the past 34 years, now working on third career. Jon is currently Operations Manager for a fairly new start-up dealing with large animal nutritional supplements, primarily with product development and manufacturing. He also has his own business supplying the re-enacting, veterans and law enforcement communities with blank ammunition.

  • Spencer and Maureen McNary Campion ’10 ’09

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    Erin Wilken

    Maureen McNary ’09 and Spencer Campion ’10 were married on July 26, 2013.

  • Richard Vallery ’90

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    Erin Wilken

    Richard Vallery ’90 has been awarded tenure and promoted to Associate Professor at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, MI. He has also been appointed chair of the Department of Physics.