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Tag: 1979

  • Charles Skalbeck

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    Charles Skalbeck ’79 after 42 years and over 26,000 hours aloft, retired from his role as Captain on the Boeing 737NG for Delta Air Lines in Atlanta, GA. Delta Air Lines is the largest airline in the world by revenue and second by passengers carried. In 1979, Charles Skalbeck joined Northwest Airlines as a Flight…

  • 1974 and 1979 Gusties Gather in Minneapolis

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    Gusties gathered at the home of Peg (Bronkala) and Lee Skold in Minneapolis, for an early 2019 New Year’s Eve party.  Some of these classmates hadn’t seen each other since college days – good fun was had by all! Pictured Front L to R:  Sandra Wheat Ingaldson ’79, Sue Swanson Kimitch ’74, Cherie Wheat Schweiger…

  • Linda Carlyon ’79

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    Linda Carlyon ’79 is a nursing faculty at North Hennepin Community College in Brooklyn Park, MN.

  • Renee (Rule) Greer ’79

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    Renee Greer ’79 was selected to serve as the Chief Nursing Officer of the 2019 World Scout Jamboree to be hosted by Scouts Canada, Scouts Mexico and the Boy Scouts of America.

  • Mary Jo (Dusek) Briggs ’79

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    Mary Jo Dusek Briggs ’79 is a Director of Quality at Community Health Plan of Washington in Seattle, WA. Leading a group of talented health improvement and care improvement professionals serving federally qualified healthcare centers and under served populations across WA State. My husband Jeff and I relocated back to Seattle last year after spending…

  • Kelly Coleman ’79

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    Kelly Coleman ’79, of Maple Grove, MN,  is a Distinguished Scientist at Medtronic in Minneapolis and was inducted into the company’s Bakken Society on August 10, 2017. Named for Medtronic founder Earl Bakken, the Bakken Society is an honorary organization established in 1979 to formally recognize Medtronic employees who have distinguished themselves in furthering the…

  • Karen (Jones) Wojahn ’79

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    Gustavus Alumni

    A group of ’79 education majors gathered in Red Wing, MN to celebrate 40 years of friendship and marked the occasion with a professional photo session.  Clockwise from top: Kim Anderson Schutt, Joy Peterson Sietsema, Deb Vetter, Heidi Palmquist Larson, Karen Jones Wojahn, Mary Anne Carlson Korsch.

  • Dakota County Public Health

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    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…

  • Hallee Adamsheck ’14

    Hallee Adamsheck ’14

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    Gustavus Alumni

    Hallee Adamsheck (2014) graduated this spring with a master of genetic counselor studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  Present at her thesis presentation are two proud Gusties, her father, Jeff Adamsheck (1979) and assistant program director, Laura Birkeland (2000).

  • Dawn Krabbenhoft Stapleton ’01

    Dawn Krabbenhoft Stapleton ’01

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    Drs. James Turner ’73, Kevin Bjork ’79, and Dawn Krabbenhoft Stapleton ’01 traveled to Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala for a medical mission trip in January of 2016. Many surgeries were performed over the week, as well as some projects to improve the Hospilito Atitlan. A large team was involved with the mission included past alumni Martha…