Alumni Blog

Month: March 2020

  • Gusties Gather at Pearl Jam’s Homeless Benefit Concert

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    Gusties Gather at Pearl Jam’s Homeless Benefit Concert. These nine Gusties met up in Seattle, Washington to help raise money for the city’s homeless crisis. In the back, from left to right, stand Jason Kivo ’95, Hugo Meyer ’96, Jon Knutson ’95, Karl Dexheimer ’95, Ray Peterson ’95, Todd Whalen ’95, and Scott Hoss ’95,…

  • Paige (Hoehn) Zimmerman ’13

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    Paige Hoehn Zimmerman ’13 has started a position as an Executive Legal Assistant at Fredrikson & Byron, P.A. in Mankato, MN.

  • Julie (Elvestrom) Kuehn ’88

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    Friends from the class of 1988 celebrated birthdays together on Anna Maria Island, FL in January. Pictured from left to right are Kari Hubbard, Julie Elvestrom Kuehn, Anne Sarkinen White, Mary Schoenfelder Lee, Kristen Amundson Gritters and JoAnn Wackerfuss Quackenbush.

  • Amanda (Croonquist ) Nagel ’13

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    Gusties gathered for marriage, of Ethan Nagel and Amanda (Croonquist) Nagel ’13, on 09/28/2019, in Minneapolis, MN.

  • Lynnea Myers ’05

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    Lynnea Myers ’05 recently completed a second Ph.D. at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden on November 22, 2019. Lynnea’s Ph.D. thesis was titled “Morphological Variants in Neurodevelopmental Disorders” and resulted in manuscripts (3 published, 1 under review, 1 pending submission) on the identification of morphological variants in a unique cohort of twins recruited from…

  • Rikka Holiday ’08

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    Rikka Holiday ’08 is a Client Success Manager at Foundant Technologies in Bozeman, MT. Foundant Technologies specializes exclusively in making philanthropy easier and more impactful through intuitive technology solutions. All of our cloud-based solutions focus on grantmaker, grantseeker, scholarship provider and community foundation needs with the goal to make day-to-day tasks streamlined and help maximize…

  • Bryce Kroells ’14

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    Bryce completed the MBA program at the University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management in December 2019.

  • Samantha (Engh) Chadwick ’06

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    Birth, of Matheo Haakon, was born to Samantha Engh Chadwick ’06 and Matthew Chadwick,  on 11/12/2019 Matheo joins his older brother Cassidy and sister, Evey. In addition to parenting, Samantha continues to work as the Deputy Campaign Manager for Save the Boundary Waters.

  • Erin (Holloway) Wilken ’02

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    Erin Holloway Wilken ’02 is a Chief Operating Officer at Good Leadership Enterprises in Minneapolis, MN. Good Leadership Enterprises is a leadership consulting firm that believes goodness pays. The firm’s four core values: rewarding excellence, living generously, promoting fairness and spreading positivity.  In her role as COO, Erin will ensure that Good Leadership Enterprises has…

  • Lana Johnson ’00

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    Lana Johnson ’00 is a RT(R)(BD)(CT) at Presbyterian Healthcare Services in Albuquerque, NM. PHS is the largest healthcare provider in the state of New Mexico. She has accepted a position at Presbyterian Hospital in Downtown Albuquerque as a Staff CT Technologist.