Alumni Blog

Month: August 2015

  • Ashley Gibbs Paul ’09

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    Ashley Gibbs married Ian Paul on July 31, 2015. Ashley teaches kindergarten at Plymouth Creek Elementary, having received an M.A. in Education from Saint Mary’s University in April 2015.

  • Brandon Hirdler ’12

    Brandon Hirdler ’12

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    A group of Gustavus alumni traveled to the Boundary Waters this past summer! The group included Brandon Hirdler ’12, Erick Kunkel ’12, Ben Meyer ’12, Scott Broady ’09, Ryan Dobbs ’09, Blake Gust ’13, and Peter Rocky ’11.

  • Sarah Opseth Rowe ’01

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    Sarah Opseth Rowe ’01 graduated from St Catherine University in December 2014 with a BSN and now works for Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis, MN as an RN in the Cardiac Renal unit.

  • Adam Risland ’09

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    Adam Risland ’09 married Katie Putnam ’09 on July 13th, 2015 at Breezy Point Resort.

  • Laura Russell ’11

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    Laura Russell ’11 completed her program requirements at Saint Mary’s University in August and now has a Master of Arts degree in Counseling & Psychological Services. She is beginning the two-year process of becoming a licensed mental health professional. In June, she started working at Fraser as an Adult Rehabilitative Mental Health Services (ARMHS) Mental Health Practitioner. 

  • Vicki Fladland Hoien ’80

    Vicki Fladland Hoien ’80

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    Past, present, and future Gusties skydive in Winsted, MN on August 11, 2015. Left to right are Vicki Fladland Hoien ’80, David Hoien ’16, and Marina Chapman ’19.

  • Andrew Bennett ’05

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    Andrew Bennett ’05 writes, “I received a M.S. in Cultural Foundations of Education from Syracuse University in 2012. I interned with the Department of Defense Educational Activity in Alexandria, Virginia last summer.”

  • Matthew McCafferty Brown ’96

    Matthew McCafferty Brown ’96

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      South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard has appointed Magistrate Judge Matthew McCafferty Brown of Custer ’96 as a circuit court judge in South Dakota’s Seventh Circuit Court in Rapid City. Brown will fill a new judgeship in the Seventh Circuit, which includes Custer, Fall River, Oglala Lakota and Pennington counties, that was created by the 2015 State Legislature. Brown…

  • Cheri Bishop O’Hagan ’87

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    Cheri Bishop O’Hagan ’87 recently completed an Endorsement in Education of the Gifted and will teach art at Spirit Lake Middle School and Gifted/Talented at Spirit Lake Elementary. She’ll also be the director for the middles school musical.

  • Laura Gosewisch ’09

    Laura Gosewisch ’09

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    Annette Broner Dehler  ’08 and Laura Gosewisch ’09 are now working together at Anaplan in San Francisco. Laura shares, “We were both Gustie Greeters and love to share that fact with our coworkers. Annette always adds in that being a Greeter was required passing quite a selective process…ha!” Here is a photo of them sporting Minneapolis shirts…