Alumni News
MARI HENDERSON is a marketer for Thomson Reuters in Eagan, Minn.
KATIE TERHUNE teaches second grade at Prairie Seeds Academy in Brooklyn Park, Minn.
ELOISE HOEGH is recruiting coordinator for RealFoundation in New York, N.Y.
KIFLU TESFAYE is assistant director of finance and accounting at Marriott International in Coronado Island, Calif.
KATE (PATTERSON) MASON is digital marketing associate for HealthPartners in Bloomington, Minn. ALLISON MOEN works in administration for Northern Arizona Healthcare in Flagstaff. JOSH PATTERSON is business attraction coordinator for the Rockford (Ill.) Area Economic Development Council. RACHEL RUDEEN is telecounseling coordinator and senior admissions counselor at Iowa State University in Ames. SARAH STADIE is administrative assistant/communications at Redeemer Lutheran Church in Minneapolis. LEAH (JENSEN) and MIKE SWITZER ’10 live in Nairobi, Kenya. She is a year-one teacher at Braeburn School. He is general manager of Karibu Loo.
COLLIN THOMPSON is farm manager and program instructor for Michigan State University’s Upper Peninsula Research and Extension Center in Chatham. WHITNEY (KELTNER) WESSELS earned a master’s degree in social work from the University of St. Thomas and St. Catherine University. She is pediatric hematology/ oncology social worker for the University of Minnesota Medical Center in Minneapolis.
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earned a master’s degree in social work from the University of St. Thomas and St. Catherine University. She is a mental health practitioner for the ISD 197 TEA Program in Apple Valley, Minn. BRANDON BOLES is a sports reporter for the Fort Morgan (Colo.) Times. He is also sports blogger/ MMA correspondent for Full Scale Sports.
Unit School District. JASPER KANGE is a graphic designer for Greenspring Media in Minneapolis. MOLLY KLINE is scholarships program assistant for Think Small in St. Paul, Minn. DAVID KORT is building materials sales representative for Menards Inc. in Eau Claire, Wis. KRISTA (CANOY) KRUEGER is office support specialist for Fox River Mills in Osage, Iowa. ANDREW LINDERMAN teaches high school chemistry at Carmen Middle/High School of Science in Milwaukee. MICHELLE MCCOY earned a master’s degree in school counseling from Winona State University. She is a school counselor at Faribault (Minn.) Senior High School.
TYLER MCCUBBIN ’11 competed at the Gay Games 9 in Cleveland, Ohio, winning the gold medal for the 3,000-meter steeplechase and finishing 16th overall in the 10K road race. The games are held every four years to give LGBT athletes and allies a chance to compete at the international level and meet athletes from around the world. While there, he connected with BECKY (ECKERMAN) SUMMERFIELD ’10.
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NICK FISHER is agriculture extensionist for the Peace Corps in Asuncion, Paraguay. BEN GARDNER is director for the Oneota Film Festival in Decorah. CARAH (CLAFLIN) and MICHAEL HART ’11 live in Edina, Minn. She teaches elementary music for Hopkins School District. He is vice president of Northland Securities Inc. MEREDITH (MACDONALD) HIGHMARK teaches fourth grade for the Geneva (Ill.) Community
ALICIA VERMEER earned a master’s degree in religious studies from the University of Iowa. She is office manager for Heartland Community Church in North Liberty, Iowa. BENELL WEATHERSPOON is a registered nurse at Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center in Charlotte, N.C. KRISTI WIETECHA teaches eighthgrade English for the Pine Island (Minn.) Public Schools. DALLAS WULF earned a master’s degree in physics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he is a graduate research assistant.
MELISSA SCHLARMANN is a teacher associate for the Decorah School District.
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DALEN DIRTH teaches health and physical education at Apple Valley (Minn.) High School.
JEFF EMERSON is laboratory technician for Eurofins Scientific in Des Moines, Iowa.
ALICIA (WOOCK) STEELE is service coordinator for the Kohler Company in Kohler, Wis.
MIKE MORAN owns Jolly Woofers in Boulder, Colo.
NICK DEVINE is billing analyst for SPS Commerce in Minneapolis.
SETH DUIN is external relations associate for College Possible in St. Paul, Minn.
EMMA SPOON is a Winona State University teacher preparation collaborative intern at Century High School in Rochester, Minn.
INGRID SCOTT is a member of Pi Kappa Lambda (music honor society) as well as Golden Key International Honour Society. She received a master of music degree in flute performance from Florida State University, where she performed in the University Symphony Orchestra. In the spring of 2013, the orchestra recorded Dohnanyi’s Symphony no.2 in E Major, op. 40, for Naxos Music Library. Scott has been invited to play a recital and teach a masterclass in her hometown of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, this year. In November 2014 she performed Antonio Vivaldi’s Concerto in D Major RV 428 for Flute and Orchestra with the Camerata Washington Heights Chamber Orchestra in the Aaron Davis Hall-Theater B at City College of New York in New York.
received an award for first place at the University of Iowa and third place in the National 2014 Lasker Foundation Essay Contest: Supporting Medical Research for his essay “Crowdsourcing a Medical Research Donation Database.” The contest was open to medical school students and fellows; doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows in biomedical research; graduate students in public health programs; and graduate students in other health professions programs. The foundation received 167 essays. Nick is a second-year medical student at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine in Iowa City. SAMI BECHTEL is a registered nurse in colorectal and general surgery at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.