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  • Susan (Widstrom) Gamelin ’65

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    Susan Gamelin ’65, shared that she and her husband, Tim Gamelin ’63, live in Denver, and have moved to a retirement complex in one of the suburbs. “We get to sit on our sixth floor balcony and enjoy the Rockies. We live close to a son and his family, and are part of a wonderful…

  • Thomas Koch ’69

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    Thomas Koch ’69 recently retired from his career as a trial attorney, and celebrated by hiking around Mont Blanc and a trip to New Zealand. He is busy with volunteer work, four terrific grandchildren and is looking forward to a mission trip to Guatemala.

  • Rebecca Ninke ’94

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    Rebecca Ninke ’94 co-wrote a book with her ten-year old daughter, Kate Watson, that was published by Beaming Books in Feb. 2019.

  • Grant Boulanger ’97

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    Robyn Rost

    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…

  • Laurie Lindemeier ’85

    Laurie Lindemeier ’85

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    Laurie Lindemeier ’85 is moving from Dallas to Fort Worth, TX, at the end of October. She works for Alcon Laboratories as a compliance proof editor. She is also a contract singer for Cathedral of Hope and performs with Opera on Tap. Laurie is watercolor fine artist and has successfully raised daughter, Vianna (22) and son,…

  • Hannah Wunsch Ryan ’09

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    Hannah Wunsch ’09 and Peter Ryan were married on July 25, 2015 in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Hallie Wunsch Kamesch ’06 was the matron of honor and Shawn Kamesch ’06 provided a reading for the ceremony. Hannah has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Virginia’s College at Wise, where she…

  • John R Nord ’72

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    John R Nord ’72 started Adler Graduate School in Feb ’15 to earn a MA in Marriage, and Family Therapy. He married Sally Beck on July 11, 2015.

  • Jackie Winfree ’06

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    Gustavus Alumni

    Jackie Winfree ’06 writes: “I am the new Chapter Administrator for the Dayton, OH chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals. I have been an Educator for Learning Tree Farm, also in Dayton, since 2013 and became the Marketing Coordinator in early 2015. I also volunteer for local public TV station ThinkTV where I enter their…

  • Vicki Fladland Hoien ’80

    Vicki Fladland Hoien ’80

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    Gustavus Alumni

    Past, present, and future Gusties skydive in Winsted, MN on August 11, 2015. Left to right are Vicki Fladland Hoien ’80, David Hoien ’16, and Marina Chapman ’19.

  • Matthew McCafferty Brown ’96

    Matthew McCafferty Brown ’96

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    Gustavus Alumni

      South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard has appointed Magistrate Judge Matthew McCafferty Brown of Custer ’96 as a circuit court judge in South Dakota’s Seventh Circuit Court in Rapid City. Brown will fill a new judgeship in the Seventh Circuit, which includes Custer, Fall River, Oglala Lakota and Pennington counties, that was created by the 2015 State Legislature. Brown…