Alumni Blog

Author: Erin Wilken

  • Groundbreaking Photos

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    Erin Wilken

    Groundbreaking for the new academic building was held on a beautiful, windy day at Gustavus.

  • Megan Dobratz ’01

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    Erin Wilken

    New job… Owner and photographer of Minneapolis based studioTart. www.studiotart.com also working as an independent sustainable business and green building consultant. Thanks! Megan

  • Alumni Association Challenge!

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    Erin Wilken

    Hey Classes of 2009, 2008, 2007, and 2006! Your participation in giving to the Gustavus Annual Fund is more important than ever! When you give a gift of any size to the Annual Fund, our alumni participation increases which helps improve the College’s national rankings and increases the value of your education. The Alumni Association…

  • Karen Moorman Beach ’65

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    Erin Wilken

    I retired in 2006 after teaching in the medical lab sciences for 30 years at Rochester Institute of Technology (in NY). I have 3 children and 6 grandchildren. My husband passed away a few years ago, so when I retired I moved to FL (the Sarasota area) where I live in the winter. The remainder…

  • Ed Drenttel ’81

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    Erin Wilken

    Gustavus Adolphus graduate, Edward J. Drenttel ’81, was recently selected by his peers for inclusion in the 2010 edition of Best Lawyers Lawyers in American ® (Copyright 2009 by Woodward/White, Inc., Aiken, SC).  Drenttel is a Partner at Winthrop & Weinstine, P.A., in Minneapolis, Minn. First published in 1983, Best Lawyers is not only the…

  • Tania Schueller ’09

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    Erin Wilken

    Tania Schueller ’09 is an Academic Assistant for the Comprehensive Examination and Dissertation Support group at Capella University in Minneapolis.

  • Alumni Perspective 2000

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    Erin Wilken

    Hafa Adai fellow members of the class of 2000, As I write this “alumni perspective” from my modest second story balcony, I can hear the waves crashing into the coral cliffs of Lao Lao Bay. It is dark out so I can’t actually see the water, but its gentle rhythm reminds me that it’s there.…

  • Michelle Price ’08

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    Erin Wilken

    Michelle Price ’08 has been awarded an NSF pre-doctoral fellowship.

  • Jen Borer Bayley ’95

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    Erin Wilken

    Started my Master’s Degree in Educational Leadership with Argosy University.

  • Jamie Alsleben ’93

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    Erin Wilken

    While many of his Eden Prairie students spent their Spring Break in warm and exotic places, Jamie Alsleben spent his break as a “Mystery Reader” in the Kindergarten classrooms of his K-12 alma mater. Alsleben, a Director on the Glencoe/Silver Lake School Board, read Harvey Potter’s Balloon Farm to a captivated audience of kindergartners .…