Alumni Blog

Month: May 2015

  • Addie Ryan ’08

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    Addie Ryan ’08 is the Finance and Operations Manager for the USAID-funded “ASEAN-U.S. Partnership for Good Governance, Equitable and Sustainable Developement and Security” program in Jakarta, Indonesia.

  • Shawna MullenEardley ’08

    Shawna MullenEardley ’08

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    Shawna MullenEardley ’08 was named “bicycle friendly business champion of the year” by the Bicycle Alliance of Minnesota at the group’s annual meeting in May 2015. (Read the article in Duluth News Tribune.) Also at the meeting, Shawna sat on a panel with fellow Gustie Maren Anderson Webb ’07, discussing the topic of Bicycle Friendly Businesses in Minnesota.…

  • Kristine McLean ’14

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    Kristine McLean writes, “I graduated last spring from Gustavus at the age of only 21. Just 2 months following graduation I began my first year of law school at William Mitchell. As the youngest law student in my class, I just successfully completed my first year at William Mitchell.”

  • Landon Zinda ’07

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    Landon Zinda ’07 is Legislative Counsel for Representative Tom Emmer (MN-6).

  • Ingrid Vick Schwingler ’07

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    Ingrid Vick Schwingler ’07 is now Policy & Regulatory Coordinator with the national nonprofit GRID Alternatives.

  • Bethany Schulz ’14

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    Bethany Schulz ’14 just completed her first year of graduate work in the Leadership in Student Affairs program at the University of St. Thomas. In addition to her current graduate assistantship at UST, she will be interning with the office of Campus Activities at Gustavus next fall.

  • Mike Jirik ’12

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    Mike Jirik ’12 graduated this spring with a M.A. degree from the Department of History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His Master’s thesis won the Caldwell Writing Prize, which is awarded to the best Master’s Thesis in the History Department. Mike was also accepted into the PhD program at UMass and will continue his studies…

  • Kimberly Johnson Lo ’11

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    Gustavus Alumni

    Kimberly Johnson Lo ’11 is currently on the Caribbean island of Saba so that her husband can attend medical school at Saba University School of Medicine.

  • Sally Petersen Dietzenbach ’07

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    Sally Petersen married Keith Dietzenbach at Mount Olivet Church on June 28, 2014.

  • Andrew Evenson ’09

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    Gustavus Alumni

    Andrew Evenson ’09 has accepted a tax associate position at the accounting firm of Grant Thornton LLP in its Minneapolis office. His position will be focused on international tax and transfer pricing.