CLASS NOTES 1998
2008
Heidi (Knutson) Hohn to Joel Bradshaw in September; they live in Moorhead. Searle Swedlund to Emmy Isaackson ’04 in August; they live in Valley City, N.D.
Corene Knutson to Tyler Freeman ’07 in June; they live in Fargo, N.D. Julie Soppeland to Randy Coffman in June; they live in Princeton, Minn.
1999
2009
Karin McKenzie to Nick Brinkhoff in July; they live in Maple Grove, Minn. Rebeccah Stavenger to Jesse Tollefson in May; they live in Rosemount, Minn. Melissa Wollin to David Hanna in September 2012; they live in Minnetonka, Minn.
Kaley Hanson to Jake Krause ’10 in September 2012; they live in Richfield, Minn. Kristen Hokenstad to Neil McKeone in August; they live in Shakopee, Minn. Kali Messer to Jonathan Swift ’10 in July; they live in Sioux Falls, S.D. Katie Quitney to Luke Okland in September 2012; they live in Willmar, Minn. Andrea Voorhees to David Dinneen in September 2012; they live in West Fargo, N.D.
2001 Kristen Abbott to Miles Harris in June; they live in Federal Way, Wash.
2003
Future Roommates Anna Marcusen, along with Josie and Riley Pris, played together at a 10-year reunion in Montana for their mothers, Emily (Malm) Marcusen ‘03 and Kelly (Thuesen) Pris ‘03, who were roommates at Concordia all four years. Emily and Kelly’s husbands, Nathan Marcusen and Jeremy Pris, are also 2003 graduates.
1990 Shelly Streich, Farmington, Minn., received a Teacher of Excellence Award from BestPrep, Brooklyn Park; she is the business education coordinator at Eden Prairie High School.
1992 Sara Meslow, Lake Elmo, Minn., was one of 10 individuals named as a 2013 Bakken Invitation honoree; she is the founder and executive director of Camp Odayin, the only camp in the Midwest for children with heart disease.
1995 Heidi (Storbakken) Johnson, Duluth, Minn., received the Max H. Lavine Award for Teaching Excellence, The College of St. Scholastica’s highest award given to faculty in recognition of excellent teaching.
2003 Dustin Little, Silver Spring, Md., was honored with the Joint Service Commendation Medal from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda. Treavor Peterson, Moorhead, was honored by the National Association of Electrical Distributors as one of tED Magazine’s 30 Under 35 Rising Stars for outstanding excellence, superior performance and notable accomplishment. Marija (Haugrud) Reiff, Coralville, Iowa, was awarded the Balch Prize for Best Master of Arts Thesis in English by the English department at the U of Virginia, Charlottesville.
2005 Michelle Urberg, Urbana, Ill., received the Martin Marty Junior Fellowship from the Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study
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of Religion, U of Chicago Divinity School, for showing promise on integrating research into teaching.
2009 Thomas Beadle, Fargo, N.D., was awarded the 2013 BILLD Fellowship (Bowhay Institute for Legislative Leadership Development) for promising new legislators in the Midwest by the Council of State Governments Midwest; he is a representative in the North Dakota State Legislature.
2012 Elise Tweten, St. Paul, Minn., received a Presidential Scholarship and a Fund for Leaders Scholarship from Luther Seminary and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
Kelsey Myhre to Ryan Moran in December 2012; they live in Plymouth, Minn. Ashley Sternhagen to Jonathan Riches in March; they live in Porthcawl, U.K. Melissa Zimmerman to Erik Whittemore in March; they live in Donnelly, Minn.
2004 Meghan Gunderson to Brian Robertson in April; they live in Cloquet, Minn. Lacey Igo to Matthew Gasper in July; they live in Moorhead. Brandy Norris to David Riddle in April; they live in Bothel, Wash.
2005 Andrew Gunderson to Julie Hardin in July; they live in Grand Rapids, Mich. Kristine Nelson to Eric Martens ‘07 in April; they live in West Fargo, N.D.
2007 Calan Hofland to Amanda Huggett in June; they live in Fargo, N.D.
2010 Alyssa Graber to Austin McCabe-Juhnke in June; they live in Columbus, Ohio. Erin Johnson to Jared Loucks in October 2012; they live in Minot, N.D.
2011 Kristina Loken to Brian Lankow in September 2012; they live in Brookings, S.D. Anna Rohlfing to Jesse Tucker in August; they live in St. Paul, Minn.
2012 Kendal Christensen to Kirk Bjella ’10 in June; they live in Bismarck, N.D. Nicole Rutt to Michael Eikmeier in August; they live in Lafayette, Ind.
Births 1991 A girl, Kari, to Juan and Corine (Knutson) Borrero, Succasunna, N.J., in April.
Marriages 1975 Lori Grindland to Steve DeLaney in May; they live in Long Beach, Calif.
1981 Neil Gladen to Rosalva Vargas in June; they live in Palo Alto, Calif.
1985 Blair Moe to Shelly Silvernail in June; they live in St. Louis Park, Minn.
1994 Kari Green to Kit Basso in July; they live in Marysville, Ohio.
1997 Benjamin Bjorge to Renata Cardoso in March; they live in Glyndon, Minn.
Two Families Intertwined The Slette and Ranum families are bound in maroon and gold. Mike Ranum and Mike Slette were roommates at Concordia, and their eldest daughters, Ruth Ranum and Kristin (Houdek) Slette, were also roommates. The Ranums’ younger daughter, Emma, roomed with the Slettes’ future daughter-in-law, Morgan Christian, and graduated with the Slettes’ son, Erik. The Slettes’ younger daughter, Anne, recently ordered her Cobber ring, so her finger was bare. (l-r): Mike Ranum ‘79, Mary (Sorenson) Ranum ‘78, Ruth Ranum ‘11, Emma Ranum ‘13, Erik Slette ‘13, Morgan Christian ‘14, Anne Slette ‘15, Kristin (Houdek) Slette ‘10, Kim (Remark) Slette ‘79, Mike Slette ‘79