Alumni Blog

Month: March 2015

  • Kelly Keith ’05

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    Kelly Keith ’05 is working as a Clinical Team Lead/Dietitian Health Coach for Cigna HealthCare in Plano, TX.

  • Katie MacQueen Rogstad ’05, Stephanie Handahl Benson ’05, Kelly Biondich Small ’05, Alysen Farran Pratt ’05, Kelly Keith ’05 and Angie Rolle Thompson ’05

    Katie MacQueen Rogstad ’05, Stephanie Handahl Benson ’05, Kelly Biondich Small ’05, Alysen Farran Pratt ’05, Kelly Keith ’05 and Angie Rolle Thompson ’05

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    Senior Gustie roommates reconnect 10 years and 6 kids later. Katie MacQueen Rogstad ’05, Stephanie Handahl Benson ’05, Kelly Biondich Small ’05, Alysen Farran Pratt ’05, Kelly Keith ’05 and Angie Rolle Thompson ’05.

  • Bruce Atwater ’06

    Bruce Atwater ’06

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    Bruce Atwater ’06, his mother, Star Marie Anderson and several members of the Anderson family gathered on campus on Friday, March 6, 2015 to award the first Anderson Summer Scholar Award to Anna Krieger ’17. The award was established with an initial gift from the Estate of Barbara K. Anderson and a gift from Star…

  • Cory Weller ’11

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    Cory Weller ’11 writes, “I’m currently in my second year of graduate school, pursuing my PhD with the Biology Department at the University of Virginia. I’ve recently published my first paper in the journal Evolution, a product of my rotation work in the field of Bioinformatics. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/evo.12597/abstract I’ve also just been awarded a fellowship through…

  • Andy Odden ’03

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    Andy Odden was named associate chief of medicine at the Ann Arbor VA in December 2014 and continues as chief of hospital medicine. He is an assistant professor of internal medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School.

  • Julia Tjornhom Velasquez ’82

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    Julia Tjornhom Velasquez ’82 writes, for the last seven years, I’ve led the mitigation of construction risk for the Minneapolis commercial office of First American Title Insurance Company. During four of those years, I also attended William Mitchell College of Law, graduated in May of 2014, and obtained my license to practice law in October.

  • Addie Ryan ’08

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    Addie Ryan ’08 moved to Jakarta, Indonesia to serve as the Finance and Operations Manager for DAI’s USAID-funded project, “ASEAN-U.S. Partnership for Good Governance, Equitable and Sustainable Development and Security”.

  • Maggie Sotos ’09

    Maggie Sotos ’09

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    Gustie grad Maggie K. Sotos (Class of 2009) once again combines her History major/ English and Theater minors in her upcoming production, “Manners and Misconduct: Improvised Jane Austen” at the Bryant Lake Bowl, March 13-28. Sotos and her all-female cast will be performing a two-act romantic comedy in the style of an Austen novel, based…

  • Andrea Wellman Kath ’04 and Brent Kath ’04

    Andrea Wellman Kath ’04 and Brent Kath ’04

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    27 Gusties went down to Playa del Carmen to celebrate Andrea (Wellman) Kath ’04 and Brent Kath’s ’04 wedding!!

  • Laura Palzer Dahlstrom ’05

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    Laura Palzer Dahlstrom ’05 is now working as a licensed therapist at the Minnesota Center for Psychology in St. Paul, MN.