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Tag: 1978

  • Gustie Shine with USA Bandy Team

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    pkauffma

    On December 22 the USA Women’s National Bandy Team and men’s elite team Bandolier played their second annual holiday game. The Bandolier have 7 former Gusties – The WNT has 8 former Gusties – Coach of both Bandolier and WNT is a Gustie – The Head referee is a Gustie – The founder of USA…

  • Peter Ruggles ’78

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    Gustavus Alumni

    Peter Ruggles ’78 celebrated 30 years in ordained ministry in the ELCA. He has been serving at Good Shepherd Lutheran, Marshfield, WI for 22 yrs.

  • Jill Meyer ’78

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    Gustavus Alumni

    In 1990 Donna Salisbury and Jill Meyer (both ’78) rode in the MS TRAM (The Ride Across Minnesota to raise money for MS). They decided it was time to do it again!

  • Three Gusties in Cuba

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    pkauffma

    On a recent Yoga Retreat in Havana, Cuba, Kathryn Day ’78 and her sister, Barbara Day ’75 ran into a 3rd Gustie in their small group of 20!!  Left to right:  Isabel Cifuentes ’96, Kathryn Day and Barbara Day.

  • Jon Hachfeld ’78

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    Gustavus Alumni

    Jon Hachfeld ’78 is a certified financial planner at Ameriprise Financial, Inc in Arden Hills, MN.  He was recently awarded the Five Star Professional award for the 10th consecutive year and is beginning his 30th year of practice as a financial planner in the Twin Cities area.

  • Dakota County Public Health

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    pkauffma

    Dakota County Public Health is proud to have 5 Gustie nurses working in the department!  Gustavus nursing alumni and nursing students pictured: Front left to right: Amy Schilman Mimm ’95; Rose Omodt Jost ’63; Bonnie Madsen Brueshoff ’79; Mary Hassinger Retzlaff ’78; Sue Roos Spector ‘77 Back left to right; Lori MacKinnon ’82;  and nursing…

  • Jane Swanson ’78

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    Gustavus Alumni

    Jane Swanson of Carbondale, Illinois, will spend approximately three weeks partnering with African communities to provide fresh water sources to more than 2500 villages in remote areas of Malawi, Zambia & Tanzania. Swanson will leave for Africa on September 16th, her second mission trip with Marion Medical Mission. Forty U.S. volunteers will work in remote…

  • Brent E. Larson ’78

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    Robyn Rost

    Brent E. Larson ’78 was been elected the 2016-17 secretary-treasurer of the American Association of Orthodontists (AAO), the world’s oldest and largest dental specialty organization, at its annual meeting in May. Dr. Larson is the Director of the Division of Orthodontics and associate professor of orthodontics at the University of Minnesota School of Dentistry.  He has…

  • LORI LARSON ’78

    LORI LARSON ’78

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    Gustavus Alumni

    Looking for adventure, two Gusties got a surprise as well as they traveled to Cuba this past January 2016. They were assigned as roommates shortly before the trip and didn’t discover their Gustie connection until unpacking the very first night. They are even sorority sisters in Alpha Phi Rho. Karen Noren Talle ’62 hails from Denver,…

  • John Bergstrand ’78

    John Bergstrand ’78

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    Gustavus Alumni

    Friends from the Gustavus class of 1978 met for breakfast recently in Minneapolis. Pictures from left are Jon Hachfeld, Bill Satterness, John Bergstrand, Brad Bostrom, and Eric Zilley.