Alumni News
BRAD THOMPSON was inducted as a fellow in the American College of Radiology. Brad is associate professor and chief of cardiovascular and pulmonary radiology at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.
CHRIS (ALTHUIS) SCHAFER earned a doctorate in leadership from the University of St. Thomas. She is the college librarian and director of the Vogel Library at Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa.
1981 PAUL DYBDAHL and
his wife, Jill, are owners of Dybdahl Design Group in Middleton, Wis. DONITA (HOOK) JOENS is the superintendent of River-Valley Community Schools in Correctionville, Iowa.
1982
JAY GANSKE is senior vice president at Mutual of Omaha Bank in Scottsdale, Ariz. ELIZABETH (WIENER) GRUBISICH is an alternative high school science teacher in the Valley View School District in Bolingbrook, Ill. MARK PENNING is founder of Root River Brewers LLC in Northfield, Minn., and cofounder of Cannon Valley Brewers LLC. He is also CFO for Stebgo Metals Inc. CHARLES PREIS, along with his Northeast Middle School Concert Band from Minneapolis, presented a clinic for the 2012 Minnesota Music Educators Association Convention. Preis also directs the band at Century College and the adult handbell choir at St. Michael’s Lutheran Church.
1983 STEVE NOMELAND was named Business Person of the Year by the Chamberlain-Oacoma Area Chamber of Commerce and Lake Francis Case Development Corporation in Chamberlain, S.D. Nomeland is president of Great Western Bank in Chamberlain. JOAN (ROHLF) PETERSON is director of human resources at Interfaith Youth Core in Chicago.
KRIS (WURTZEL) CHURCH of Wayzata, Minn., was invited as a panel presenter to the Children’s Book Council in New York. JANEAN (GARDNER) KLEIST is assistant professor of accounting and finance at the College of St. Benedict and St. John’s University in Collegeville, Minn. MARY (PETERSON) MURILLO retired from teaching elementary school in Ankeny, Iowa. BILL RAMETTE is a wealth adviser for Morgan Stanley in Chicago.
1984
JOEL FELDKAMP is an independent financial advisor for K-F Financial in Woodbury, Minn.
DAVID SWENSON was inducted into the Austin High School Music Hall of Fame for his outstanding teaching and conducting efforts in Boone, Iowa.
DAN KUESTER is a marketing communications specialist for Becker Underwood in Ames, Iowa. JEFFREY SWIGGUM is a narrator on the shortwave and Internet radio program Let’s Read the NIKKEI WEEKLY, as well as a writer for NHK TV English educational programs in Tokyo, Japan.
On the road to adventure in Spain The Luther College Camino de Santiago Adventure tour in July took participants along the route to Spain’s Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, where legend has it the remains of St. James the Apostle are buried. Luisa and Peter Forsgren ’82 led the tour. (Front, left to right) Ken Meyer ’79, Theresa Meyer, Diane Jokinen ’82, Lindsey Levorson ’08, Eda Morsch ’08. (Back, left to right) Luisa Forsgren, Pat Duffie, Eva Forsgren, Margaret Sadeghpour-Kramer, Bob Forsgren, Kathleen Ausen ’71, Mitra Sadeghpour ’94, Gary McKercher ’71, Peter Forsgren.
1985
KARL AREND is a project manager and sales representative for Art’s Way Scientific in Monona, Iowa, and owner of Arend’s Moving and Storage in Decorah.
KRIS (MADSON) FOLSOM is marketing director at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens in Boothbay, Maine. JULIE GROTNES is the business initiatives manager/HR policy and ER with Wells Fargo in Des Moines, Iowa. JANE (JOHNSON) JACOBS is senior manager of enterprise operations change implementation at Allianz Life in Minneapolis. MARCIE VAAGE earned a master’s degree in professional accountancy from the University of Wisconsin–Whitewater. She is director of finance at Attic Angel Association in Middleton, Wis.
MICHELLE (WALL) and ERIC BIERSTEDT live in Sioux Falls, S.D. She is a substitute teacher in the Sioux Falls School District. He is a software engineer at Citibank. KRISTAN (HARDY) BOURESTOM is executive coordinator for the Dallas Fort Worth American Marketing Association. JANE (JORGENSEN) BURNETT is an attorney and business manager at Bean, Smith & Burnett in Crossville, Tenn. JEFF CARDEN is director of commercial industrial sales for Leviton Manufacturing Company in Chesterfield, Mo.
1986
THERESA KASEL is an administrative assistant at CalciMedica in La Jolla, Calif.
1987
ANDY ANDERSON is a partner at Faegre Baker Daniels in Des Moines, Iowa. ARNE ANDERSON is an academic adviser and instructor at the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Ill.
DENNIS CLARK is a physical therapist at Northwoods Therapy Associates in Eau Claire, Wis. RENEE (SOJKA) CUNNINGHAM is the director of liturgy and music at St. Stephen, Martyr, Catholic Church in Chesapeake, Va.
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