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  • Gusties Take Over the Phoenix Police Department

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    Gusties are taking over the Phoenix Police Department. Lieutenant Brian Thatcher ’01 attended the promotion of Jon Scott ’07 to Sergeant within the Phoenix Police Department. #MakeYourLifeCount

  • Andrea (Wentzel) Dalton ’02

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    Andrea Wentzel Dalton ’02 is a Vice President-elect at American Music Therapy Association. The American Music Therapy Association is the professional membership organization for music therapists in the United States.. Andrea Dalton, MA, MT-BC, was voted in by the membership as Vice President-elect of the American Music Therapy Association. Her term as VP-elect began January…

  • Samuel Eckberg ’08

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    Samuel Eckberg graduated last spring with a Master of Arts in Music Education with a choral focus from the University of St. Thomas. Sam is entering his sixth year as a choir director at Rogers High school. He and his wife, Allison, live in Champlin MN with their two children.

  • Gusties Perform At Band & Orchestra Conference

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    Four Gustie alumni were honored to perform in a concert with the Grand Symphonic Winds at The Midwest Clinic International Band and Orchestra Conference on December 20, 2019 in Chicago, IL. Pictured from left to right are: Amy Koskela Gullikson 04′, Kari Mattson Ball 88′, Andy Jensen, 08′ and Justin Schramm 07′.

  • David Knoll ’83

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    David Knoll ’83 is a President / CEO at Prairie Restorations, Inc. in Princeton, MN. Prairie Restorations is an ecological services company that provides design, installation, and land management services for natural landscape settings such as prairies, woodlands, and wetlands. Check us out at www.prairieresto.com. I assumed the organizational leadership role beginning in July 2019…

  • Andreas Aarsvold ’10

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    Greta Hanson and Andreas Aarsvold ’10, were married on 12/07/2019, in Minneapolis.

  • Sarah (Volz) Claussen ’04

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    Sarah Volz Claussen ’04 writes, “as we prepared for our wedding last May, we began the usual search for an officiant. My husband, Sam Claussen works as a history professor at California Lutheran University and one option we considered was Dr. Lisa Dahill ’85, a religion professor and a Lutheran minister. I had met Lisa…

  • Kelly Morrell ’90

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    Kelly Morrell ’90, shared a couple of lifetime highlights, “1. May 12th 2018 Minnesota Fishing Opener – I had the honor of being the Official Fishing Guide for Governor Dayton. I also hosted; Majority Leader Paul Gazelka, Speaker of the House – Kurt Doudt, Minority Leader – Melissa Hortmann, Josh Gazelka (Senator Gazelka’s son). Attached…

  • Rodney Hokenson ’53 and Helen Hokenson ’54

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    Rodney Hokenson ’53 and Helen (Forsgren) Hokenson ’54 have moved to Kalamazoo to a senior independent living facility, Fountains of Bronson.

  • David Silseth ’60

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    David Silseth ’60, and his wife, Ruth, are living in a retirement community in Maryville, TN. “Our home is about a mile from the 200 year old Presbyterian, Maryville College, so we experience some of the benefits of being near a small liberal arts college. We just returned from a wonderful cruise from Athens to…