Alumni News
LISA MODRY is patient care coordinator for the 12th Street Dental Office in Rochester, Minn. BLAKE NELLIS of Minneapolis is a freelance artist, dancer, and choreographer. He teaches performing around the world and is also a visiting teaching associate in dance at Luther. KATIE (KRUSE) RATHER is director of development, College of Letters and Science, for the University of Wisconsin Foundation in Madison. TREVOR ROCKWELL teaches PS–8 physical education and grades 3–8 health for St. Benedict School in Decorah. DARA STULL is ministries coordinator for Christus Lutheran Church in Greenville, Wis. ERICA (SVIEN) SWENSON teaches special education for the Orono (Minn.) School District. JENNA SWAN is a media specialist for Novus Media Inc. in Plymouth, Minn. KELLY THORSEN is a mental health therapist for Headway Emotional Health Services in Richfield, Minn. SONJA TIMIAN is a speech-language pathologist at the Heights Community School for the St. Paul (Minn.) Public Schools. BRIANNA WASSINK is high school and elementary orchestra director for the Roseville (Minn.) Area Schools. LUKE WIGLE is a Washington Conservation Corps emergency response and training supervisor/natural resource specialist 1 for the Washington State Department of Ecology in Olympia, Wash.
LINDI (ARCHER) MAKOHONIUK is a crew member at Trader Joe’s and a resident adviser for Youth Emergency Services and Shelter in Des Moines, Iowa.
ANDREW BAILEY, AARON LURTH, JULIE SATRE SHOCKEY ’01, and GWEN (MOWRY) VAN GERPEN ’01 made up the champion team of the spring 2014 Luther Bookshop Wii Bowling Tournament. See photo, below. BRANDON BECKER teaches seventh-grade language arts for the Minnetonka (Minn.) Public Schools. KATIE BENSON earned a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Iowa. She teaches mathematics at Westminster College in Fulton, Mo. LINDSEY (BULGER) BINA is assistant director of annual giving programs at Hamline University in Minneapolis. F JUSTIN CARLSON is a chef for Travail Kitchen & Amusements in Minneapolis. MICHAEL FEDOTOVSKIKH is a supply specialist in the U.S. Army Reserves. He recently returned to Decorah after serving nine months in Afghanistan to aid the 322nd Engineer Company. RYAN FORDICE is a graduate student intern at the University of Chicago Spiritual Life Office and a campus ministry intern for Lutheran Campus Ministry of the University of Chicago. AJ GREGG earned a master’s degree in nutrition and functional medicine from the University of Western States. He is doctor of chiropractic at Hypo2 High Performance Sport Center in Flagstaff, Ariz.
KJERSTEN MATHSEN is education coordinator for Lutheran Family Services Rocky Mountains–Refugee and Asylee Programs in Albuquerque, N.M.
SPENCER KNAPP is an account sales executive with Hewlett-Packard in Dallas and serves as U.S. coordinating ambassador for One Young World.
JOE MCANDREW earned a master’s degree in community and regional planning from the University of Oregon. He is a legislative associate for Transportation America in Washington, D.C.
F LAUREN (LANGLEY) LANGWORTHY and her husband, Caleb, run a certified organic farm north of Menomonie, Wis. They have a community-supported agriculture program, sell produce and mushrooms to local food cooperatives, and have a pastured lamb and wool enterprise. “We’ve also been working with several local organizations to strengthen local food systems, transitioning land to the next generation of farmers and land access/tenure for beginning farmers,” Lauren says. Read her blog at BlueOxFarm.wordpress.com.
MEGAN (CRAVEN) MCCREESH is world language coordinator and teaches French for the Cherry Creek School District in Greenwood Village, Colo. LAURIE MEINHOLZ graduated from Palmer College of Chiropractic in Davenport, Iowa. She opened Nordic Chiropractic in Decorah.
TONY LARSON is an associate attorney with Gerald Miller PA in Minneapolis. LEIF MADSEN earned a master’s degree in athletic training from the University of Northern Iowa. He is an adjunct instructor of gross human anatomy, cadaver and dissection labs, care and prevention of athletic injuries, and therapeutic exercise in the Human Performance Center at the university in Cedar Falls, Iowa. He is also the goalkeeper coach for the Wartburg College men’s soccer team.
JOHN MEYER is CEO and cofounder of Lemonly, a visual marketing firm that specializes in infographics, data viz, and UI/UX design in Sioux Falls, S.D. He was named one of Entrepreneur Magazine’s top 10 emerging entrepreneurs of 2013 and the Small Business Administration’s young entrepreneur of the year in South Dakota 2013. MIKE OWENS is lead web engineer for the Fabricators & Manufacturers Association in Rockford, Ill.
JUSTIN ZEIGLER earned a master of divinity degree from St. Paul School of Theology. He is an AmeriCorps member working with AIDS United in Albuquerque, N.M.
GREG SORENSON earned a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and is senior chemist for 3M in Maplewood, Minn.
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ANTONELLO is senior specialist and executive assistant to the CEO at American College of Cardiology in Washington, D.C.
Aaron Lurth ’08, Julie Satre Shockey ’01, Gwen (Mowrey) Van Gerpen ’01, and Andrew Bailey ’08 with their Wii bowling trophy.
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KRISTEN (LEARMAN) STENGL is a ceramics instructor for the Annette Howell Turner Center for the Arts in Valdosta, Ga. She is also acting key spouse for the 41st Rescue Squadron at Moody Air Force Base. NICKI (SVESTKA) TERBEEST is a stay-at-home mom in Decorah.