Alumni Blog

Category: Submitted

  • Mackenzie Cripe ’12

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    Mackenzie Cripe ’12 is a recruiter at Aerotek staffing firm in Tempe, AZ.

  • Victoria Ektnitphong ’12

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    Victoria Ektnitphong ’12 will be graduating from Colorado State University with a Master’s in Microbiology and Immunology on May 16, 2014. She’ll begin working as a Research Associate in Dr. Ramesh Akkina’s HIV lab at Colorado State University.

  • Mike Jirik ’12

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    Gustavus Alumni

    Mike Jirik ’12 has completed his first year of graduate study at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the Department of History’s M.A. program.

  • Steven Dow ’12

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    Steven Dow ’12 graduated from Minnesota State University, Mankato in May with a Master’s Degree in Sports Management.

  • Kristin Olson ’12

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    Kristin Olson ’12 will be starting her 3rd year of medical school in August, which will consist of clinical rotations in Denver, Colorado.

  • Melissa Barkalow ’02

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    2013 was a year of big changes for me. The changes started when a friend and I decided to go out on our own and start our own Real Estate Brokerage. Our new firm is called; R&R Residential Brokerage and we are licensed in Washington DC, Maryland and Virginia and help customers find homes to…

  • Kristy Howell-Streckert ’99

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    Kristy Howell ’99 married David Streckert on November 30th, 2012. She continues to work as a Services Specialist, now focused on Foster Home Licensing Recruitment and Retention, at the Department of Human Services in Iron Mountain, Michigan.

  • Alec Sonsteby ’02

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    Alec Sonsteby ’02, a reference and instruction librarian at Metropolitan State University, Saint Paul, MN, since 2009, was granted tenure and promoted to the rank of associate professor.

  • Joel Beachey ’08

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    Joel Beachey ’08 graduated May 10, 2014 with his Doctor of Medicine from the University of North Dakota. He will begin residency training this June in Internal Medicine at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. Joel is pictured below with wife and fellow Gustavus alum, Erin Beachey ’08.

  • Charlotte Van Zee ’07

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    Charlotte Van Zee ’07 was recently admitted into Mt. Holyoke’s post-baccalaureate pre-medical program, starting the journey to become a physician.