Alumni News
THADDAEUS MORELOCK is the front house supervisor at Mei’s Kitchen in Chicago.
JUSTIN SANDS earned a master’s degree in music education from the VanderCook College of Music. He is director of choirs at College Community Schools in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
ELISE (BIERI) and JEFF PATZKE live in Kasson, Minn. She earned a master’s degree in health and human services administration from St. Mary’s University of Minnesota. She is a transfusion medicine quality specialist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. He is broadband care supervisor with Charter Communications.
COURTNEY (SCHUBERT) STANGL works at St. Luke’s Child Life Ministries in Waukesha, Wis. ARVID VON TAUBE is an associate attorney at Masterman, Culbert, and Tully LLP in Boston.
SUSIE PETTINGER is a paraeducator at Hastings (Minn.) Senior High School.
TIM ZICK is the math department chair at Fox Valley Technical College in Appleton, Wis.
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BRET ASKELAND is a senior software engineer at Allscrips in Raleigh, N.C. LAUREN CHRISTEL teaches firstgrade English at the International School of the Peninsula in Palo Alto, Calif. LINDSAY COLWELL earned a master’s degree of theology from Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minn. ANNA (PLAGMAN) DAVIS is band director at Remsen St. Mary’s School in Remsen, Iowa. LISA FRANEK is marketing manager at Korn/Ferry International, Leadership and Talent Consulting in Minneapolis. AMY FRYE is acting director of the Centre for Sustainable Food Systems at UBC Farm in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. TYLER HESSELTINE is AA sales representative at Davey Tree in Minneapolis. RACHEL MILLER-BLEICH and DAVID BLEICH live in Arlington, Va. She earned a master’s degree in organizational science with a concentration in organizational management from George Washington University. He is a clerk for the Caucus on International Narcotics Control in Washington, D.C. TERYL (PRICE) and JAMES RUSSEL ’02 live in Cross Plains, Wis. They each earned a master’s degree from Buffalo (N.Y.) State University. She teaches seventhgrade English in the Middleton– Cross Plains Area School District. He teaches sixth-grade U.S. history in the River Valley School District.
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Seven Luther alumni reunited—with babies in tow—in July 2012. Pictured are (children, left to right): Linnea Carlson, Everett Barker, Gavin Getchius, Ian Barker, and Amelia Winter; (middle) Becky (Weaver) Carlson ’05, Jackie (Denison) Getchius ’05, Christy (Patchin) Barker ’05, and Annie Winter; (back) Jeromy Carlson ’05, Tom Getchius ’05, Marshall Barker ’04, and Aaron Winter ’05. NICOLE SCHULT is an attorney for the Uptown People’s Law Center in Chicago.
HELEN (GRIESE) HANDLEY is a stay-at-home mom in Lake Zurich, Ill.
AMY (HOODJER) UPDEGRAFF is an elementary teacher in the Pleasantville (Iowa) Community Schools.
BRADLEY HARRIS is director of operations at Blue Stars Performing Arts for Youth Inc. in La Crosse, Wis.
ERICK WEEG is the senior analyst for Abbot Downing, a Wells Fargo business in Minneapolis. REBECCA (SCHARPE) and CHRIS WENTHOLD ’02 live in Minneapolis. She is a registered nurse at Allina-United Hospital. He is a manager and a retail software specialist at Accenture.
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GABRIELLE ATWOOD is an e-learning education coordinator at Ottobock Healthcare, a German prosthetic, orthotic, and mobility company with North American headquarters in Plymouth, Minn.
JON HOFFMAN is visiting lecturer of rhetoric at the University of Maryland in Adelphi. KATIE (SCHAEFER) HOM is a graduate teaching assistant in choral pedagogy at the University of Kansas School of Music in Lawrence. ALISA (WHITE) MAGALLÓN is a regular chorister and teacher artist at the Houston Grand Opera. She also teaches an introduction-toopera course for children titled Once upon an Opera.
BRET POWELL is resident physician of family medicine at Duke University in Durham, N.C. KRISTIN RICE of Kingsford, Mich., earned a master of divinity degree from Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago. BETHANY SCHIEFELBEIN and MATTHEW BURNS live in Monona, Iowa. Bethany is a registered nurse at Prairie du Chien (Wis.) Memorial Hospital. Matthew is a special agent for the Iowa Department of Public Safety. TIANA (TOSO) STINSON is the e-mail marketing designer for MagnetStreet in Blaine, Minn. JOSEPH THERING teaches music in the Des Moines (Iowa) Public Schools. MEGAN (MINNIHAN) TORKELSON is program manager at Midwest Arts Conference in Minneapolis. JON TRULLINGER earned a master’s degree in chemistry from the University of North Carolina. He is
DANIEL CARLSON is a graduate student at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary in Berkeley, Calif. ANA (MEYER) ELIASON is a career and internship specialist at Augsburg College in Minneapolis. KELLY GIERLUS earned a doctorate in physical chemistry from the University of Iowa. She is assistant professor of chemistry at St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa.
Katie Lane ’06, John Still ’06, and Ana Eliason ’05 all graduated from St. Thomas University with master’s degrees in the Leadership Affairs program.