Alumni News
KURT HEINECKE is a freelance composer, working on video projects for VeggieTales, scoring the Superbook show for the CBN network, and occasionally performing on soundtracks for Disney parks. ERIC JOHNSON is a professor in the School of Music at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Ill. He has given lectures and demonstrations on Israeli choral music at both the National Collegiate Choral Organization national convention and the American Choral Directors Association Central Division Choral Organization convention.
1989
AMY (HALVORSON) HOLZWORTH earned a master’s degree in library science from the University of Denver. She is a librarian at the Poudre River Public Library District in Fort Collins, Colo. MARIA MICKELSON earned a master’s degree in literacy and mathematics from the University of Minnesota. She is an elementary school teacher at Neveln School in Austin, Minn.
JOHN MATTHEIS is assistant professor of family medicine at McLeod Family Medicine in Florence, S.D.
(Left to right) Chad McShane ’93, Gregg Luther ’90, and Aaron Romine ’91 competed as Team Norse in the Littlefoot Triathlon in Morrison, Colo., Sept. 8, 2012, placing first overall. McShane cycled, Luther swam, and Romine ran.
DEAN PRIBBENOW is vice president for academic affairs at Edgewood College in Madison, Wis. ROB VEATCH of Dassel, Minn. is regional sales manager for Superior Vision. ANNA WETTERLING is the supervisory information management specialist for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in St. Paul, Minn.
MARTY MONSON (above) was named CEO and executive director of the Barbershop Harmony Society in Nashville, Tenn.
ERICA GILBERTSON is a public service faculty member for the University of Georgia College of Education in Athens. NOELLE (COLLINS) HOFER is a postpartum doula and infant care specialist for Smooth Transitions in Centennial, Colo.
1988
STUART AREY III is a physics teacher at Robert College of Istanbul in Turkey. KATIE (NIETERT) JOHNSON owns Built to Last Masonry LLC in Lansing, W.Va.
1990
ANN ELISE (MONSON) SCHOENECKER is assistant professor of music at Viterbo University in La Crosse, Wis. She teaches diction, song and opera literature, and voice.
1991
MUKESH AGARWAL is the senior director of information strategy and architecture for OptumHealth at UnitedHealth Group in Minnetonka, Minn.
Jim Tripp ’04 and Mira Canion ’90 attended the International Forum on Language Teaching in Breckenridge, Colo., in July 2012, where they each presented sessions. Both have recently published materials for language teachers and learners.
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PAUL BLOM is nonmedical health care CEO of Right at Home, an organization that provides elderly clients with in-home care. Right at Home was ranked first in the Minneapolis Star Tribune’s 2012 survey of top-ranked workplaces.
JOHN HATLE is associate professor of biology at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville. His article “What Grasshoppers Can Teach Us about Food, Sex, and Aging,” based on his research on the effects of reducing feeding and reproduction on lifespan, was published by the Huffington Post. Hatle’s findings indicate that the reduction of one or both decreases aging and increases lifespan in animals such as mice, worms, and grasshoppers. DAVID HEINE is a family physician at the Family Care Clinic in Decorah. He was recognized by Telligen for his efforts and leadership in the transition from paper to electronic medical health records nationwide.
1992
DIRK BUETTNER is the team manager at Bank of America in Westlake Village, Calif. JON FRESE is director of information technology for the Advanced Group of Companies in Chicago.
DEBORAH (DEWEERTH) HOFLAND is executive director at Philips Academy in Charlotte, N.C.
MELINDA (GREEN) HUGDAHL (above) received the 2012 National Secretaries of State Medallion Award from the Minnesota Secretary of State, Mark Ritchie, for her outstanding contributions to Minnesota’s Safe at Home Address Confidentiality Program. She was one of four to receive this distinguished honor. Hugdahl is an attorney with the Legal Services Advocacy Project in St. Paul, Minn.