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Eric Holtan ’93
Eric Holtan ’93 is the founder and music director of True Concord Voices and Orchestra in Tucson, AZ. He conducted the group’s album Far in the Heavens: Choral Music of Stephen Paulus, which is nominated for Grammy award in the Best Choral Performance category.
Elizabeth Braun Harstad ’08
Elizabeth (Braun) Harstad ’08 was recently named Greater Mankato Growth’s Young Professional of the Year. The award recognizes an individual between the ages of 21-39 who has made outstanding contributions to the community through their demonstrated leadership and service. After graduating from Gustavus as a history major, Elizabeth earned her master’s in social work and […]
Grant Boulanger ’97
Grant Boulanger ’97, a Spanish teacher at Skyview Middle School in the North Saint Paul, Maplewood, Oakdale District (ISD 622), has been selected as the recipient of the Minnesota World Language Teacher of the Year Award for 2015 from the Minnesota Council on the Teaching of Languages and Cultures (MCTLC).This is one of the organization’s highest […]
Kyia Knutson Hedershott ’12
Kyia Knutson ’12 married Jack Hendershott ’12 on August 29, 2015. There was a patio full of Gusties in attendance.
Milo Lundblad ’76
Milo is on the bottom right, in the blue shirt. Milo Lundblad ’76 completed his 31st Race to Mackinac yacht competition in July 2015. He and his crew won the Tartan Ten (T-Ten) section in the race, the first out of 22 boats. The Race to Mackinac is 333 miles, from Chicago to Mackinac Island, […]
Andrew Soleim ’09
Andrew Soleim ’09 has been named a 2015 Woodrow Wilson Indiana Teaching Fellows. The fellows program, administered by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, recruits both recent graduates and career changers with strong backgrounds in science, technology, engineering, and math—the STEM fields—and prepares them specifically to teach in high-need secondary schools in Indiana. Each fellow receives $30,000 […]
Carmen Westerberg ’97
Carmen Westerberg ’97 was awarded the 2015 Presidential Seminar Award at Texas State University (San Marco, TX). Carmen is assistant professor of psychology, where she researches memory failures from a cognitive neuroscience perspective. After Gustavus, Carmen earned her PhD in cognitive neuroscience from the University of Minnesota and was a post-doctoral fellow at Northwestern University. She has […]