Alumni Blog

Author: Erin Wilken

  • Amanda Simons ’06

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    Erin Wilken

    Amanda Kimmet Simons ’06 was ordained into the ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church on August 3rd, 2013. She is currently serving as associate pastor at Gustavus Adolphus Lutheran Church in St. Paul, MN. Her new congregation recently hired another Gustie grad, Brit Barkholtz ’12, as their administrative assistant. Together Amanda and Brit bring their…

  • Deborah Sweet ’92

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    Erin Wilken

    Deborah Sweet ’92 started my own small animal mobile veterinary practice called Home Sweet Home Veterinary Care based out of Stoughton, WI. She also works part time at Edgerton Veterinary Clinic in Edgerton, WI.

  • Sarah Talbott Parkin ’85

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    Erin Wilken

    Sarah Talbott Parkin ’85 passed on December 5th after a two year battle with breast cancer. She never gave up on living. Sarah is survived by her husband David, daughter Ellen, and son Thomas.

  • Kendra Ractliffe ’06

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    Erin Wilken

    Gusties training Gusties! On July 12th, 2013 Kendra Ractliffe ’06 completed her Ph.D. in clinical psychology at the University of South Dakota. Another former Gustie, Dr. Michael Granaas ’81 served on her dissertation committee.

  • Yoshikazu and Ava Suzuki-Lambrecht ’08 ’08

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    Erin Wilken

    Yoshikazu Suzuki ’08 married Ava Lambrecht ’08 on May 25, 2013.

  • Leslie Newman ’01

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    Erin Wilken

    Leslie Newman ’01 married Aaron Thomas Smith, October 6, 2013 in Minneapolis, MN.

  • Kappa Sigs from Class of 1988

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    Erin Wilken

    1988 Kappa Sigs having their own 25 year class reunion in Kansas City in November 2013. Matthew Miller ’88, Robert Miller ’88, Dean Kease ’88, Mark Norton ’88, Dave Moll ’88 and Scott Jordan ’88 with their wives, Trish, Alice, Heather, Kim (missing), Cindy and Francoise, respectively, feasting at the American Restaurant in K.C. A good…

  • Ed Frickson ’87

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    Erin Wilken

    Ed Frickson ’87 is executive director at Family Innovations, Inc., a counseling clinic with offices in Minnesota and Wisconsin, providing mental health therapy to infants, toddlers, school age youth, families, couples and individuals.

  • Amy Beightol ’05

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    Erin Wilken

    Amy Beightol ’05 is now the Assistant to the Vice President and a Project Coordinator for the Economic Studies division of The Brookings Institution in Washington, DC.

  • Christa Saeger ’08

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    Erin Wilken

    Christa Saeger ’08 is the new Director of Orchestra, Chamber Music, and Applied Strings at Morton College in Cicero, Illinois. She will act as Interim Professor of Cello at Illinois Wesleyan University this Spring 2014.