CLASS NOTES
CLASS NOTES
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THE 2020s CLASS OF 2021 Moriah Goddard is a registered nurse with Sanford USD Medical Center in Sioux Falls. Noah Wicks joined the Agri-Pulse editorial team as an associate editor in June. AgriPulse is a resource for farm and rural policy information in Washington, D.C.
CLASS OF 2020 Keeley Meier has joined the Augustana University Strategic Communications & Marketing team as the university writer.
THE 2010s CLASS OF 2019 Cheyenne Chontos is the library technology coordinator/senior librarian at the South Dakota State Library. Jeffrey Glassburner is the campaign manager for Virginia attorney general candidate Leslie Haley. Hope Maunders and Evan Meyer ’17 were married on Oct. 3, 2020. Julie Plonsky and Chet Peerenboom ’18 were married on June 12. Julie is a labor & delivery nurse at Sanford Health in Sioux Falls.
CLASS OF 2018 Austin Jordan and Jensyn Rickenbach ’17 were married at Shipwreck Beach in Kauai, Hawaii, on June 30. Austin is a wrestling coach at Stillwater Area High School and trainer at Functional Pattern Minnesota. Karliana Kelly is attending the University of South Dakota working toward her Ed.S. degree in school psychology. Her anticipated graduation is May 2022.
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Chet Peerenboom and Julie Plonsky ’19 were married on June 12. Chet is a risk & compliance coordinator for First Premier Bank Treasury Services in Sioux Falls. Zach Reeg and Brittany Cech ’17 were married on Sept. 26, 2020. Zach is employed as the director of wealth management at IAMS Wealth Management in Elkhorn, Nebraska. Summer Smith and Jason Greenway ’16 were married on June 12. Rachel Wisner married Yohannes Gulelat on Oct. 30, 2020.
CLASS OF 2017 Brittany Cech and Zach Reeg ’18 were married on Sept. 26, 2020. Denae Doornink married Matthew Bigelow on Feb. 20. Ashley Grussing married Jordan Kivel on Oct. 2, 2020. Clarissa (Petersen) Lindstad is a science teacher at Brandon Valley Middle School in Brandon, South Dakota. She and husband, Lars Lindstad ’15, are parents to daughter, Vidaleen Kari, born in October 2019. Nathan Merriman was promoted to the position of immunology, dermatology, biologics sales specialist for AbbVie Inc. on Jan. 4, after spending two years as a general medicine clinical representative. Evan Meyer and Hope Maunders ’19 were married on Oct. 3, 2020. Jensyn Rickenbach and Austin Jordan ’18 were married at Shipwreck Beach in Kauai, Hawaii, on June 30. Jensyn is a teacher at Partnership Academy in Richfield, Minnesota. Mason Van Essen is an account executive with HenkinSchultz in Sioux Falls.
CLASS OF 2016 T.J. Davis and Kayla (Wallerich) Davis ’14 welcomed daughter, Cora Marie, in February. Jason Greenway and Summer Smith ’18 were married on June 12.
C.J. Ham and Stephanie (Stevens) Ham ’15 welcomed a son, Cortez Thaddeus “Trip,” in February. Katie (Connor) Mans and husband, Tanner, welcomed son, Connor Reid, in May.
CLASS OF 2015 Kyle Gilbert and Kennedy Schatz welcomed daughter, Asher Elizabeth, in May. Stephanie (Stevens) Ham and C.J. Ham ’16 welcomed son, Cortez Thaddeus “Trip,” in February. Hayley (Burggraff) Hansen and husband, Jacob, welcomed son, Jack Henry, in April 2020. Hayley is a behavior analyst at SWWC Educational Learning Center (ELC) in Pipestone, Minnesota. Carly (Klaassen) Herum is working for Iowa State University Extension & Outreach in Lyon County as an agriculture program coordinator. Carly and husband, Bryan, welcomed son, Clay Phillip, in July 2020. Megan (Kalda) Kuipers and husband, Audie, welcomed daughter, Claire Dolores, in February. Mitch Noyes is a counselor at Children’s Home Society in Sioux Falls. Zachary Serrano is a producer and partnerships director at IPIC Theaters in Florida.
CLASS OF 2014 Melissa (Tuschen) Braun is a speechlanguage pathologist in the Watertown School District in South Dakota. She and husband, Kyle, are parents to son, Baker Darrell, born in August 2019. Kayla (Wallerich) Davis and T.J. Davis ’16 welcomed daughter, Cora Marie, in February. Jessica Hovland married Reed McEwen on June 5. Jessica earned her master’s degree in clinical rehabilitation counseling at South Dakota State University in 2021, and is a vocational rehabilitation counselor at the Texas Workforce Commission in Abilene.
