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son Mandela at the annual Nobel Peace Prize Forum at Augsburg College in Minneapolis.
HELEN (HUBIN) MYERS is senior information security manager at Dow Chemical in Midland, Mich.
BRET LEWISON is associate general counsel at HNI Corp./Hearth & Home Technologies in Lakeville, Minn.
SUSIE PAINE is a land management officer for the Municipality of Anchorage (Alaska).
MARY (SNOW) PILLE is an executive adviser for the Principal Financial Group in Des Moines, Iowa. FRED VENABLE, senior financial analyst at Genesis Health System in Davenport, Iowa, was elected to serve on the ASK Resource Center board of directors.
1981 MARK EVANS is rector at Trinity Episcopal Church in Lincoln, Ill. MARTY HERTEL is a mental health technician at Spring Mountain Treatment Center in Las Vegas, Nev. SARAH (BAGAASON) KISE is a CPA at Lottsa Tax and Accounting Services, Inc. in Minneapolis. LAURA (NELSON) SCHROEDER earned a master’s degree in business administration from Augsburg College. She is supervisor of physical medicine and rehabilitation therapy services for Methodist Hospital and Charter House in Rochester, Minn.
Mary Sundet Jones ’81 (far left) with (left to right) her father, Wally Sundet ’58; her son, Sam Jones ’14; and Allen Hightower, Nordic Choir director, following the choir’s Jan. 27 concert in Des Moines, Iowa. Sam is the third generation of the Sundet family to sing in Nordic Choir; Mary was a three-year member and Wally a four-year member under Weston Noble ’43, choir director from 1948–2005. at the Northern Quest Resort and Casino in Airway Heights, Wash.
KRISTI (SORTEBERG) REIERSON is vice president of human resources at the Orthopedic Institute in Sioux Falls, S.D.
DOUG KNUTSON is a professional photographer in Minneapolis. He was featured in the Jan. 8 issue of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune for his work photographing Nobel Peace Prize winners. He has photographed 21 laureates, including Elie Wiesel, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and the Dalai Lama. On March 3, Knutson photographed Frederik Willem de Klerk, the 75-year-old former South African president who oversaw the dismantling of apartheid with Nel-
JIM WHITESELL is assistant men’s basketball coach at St. Louis University. Coaching alongside Rick Majerus, he helped lead the Billikens to a 25–7 record this season and a berth in the 2012 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament.
1983 LISA (NEWCOMER) VAIL earned a doctorate of nursing practice (DNP) from the University of Kansas. She is vice president/chief nursing officer at Liberty (Mo.) Hospital. THOMAS WHITESELL is senior vice president at Lowe Enterprises Investors in Los Angeles.
1982 CHERYL “CHARLIE” BUSCH is project manager at CIGNA Healthcare and an affiliate faculty member at Regis University in Denver. PAUL McCARTHY is franchise development manager for Interstate Batteries in Dallas.
1985 SONJA (BARRINGER) CARLSON is a self-employed marketing and communications consultant specializing in health care and nonprofits in Minneapolis. ERIC RINGLIEN is a direct care professional at Trempealeau County Health Center in Whitehall, Wis. He is also a substitute teacher at Whitehall Memorial High School. MIKE SCHEETZ is vice president of group marketing at Ameritas Group in Lincoln, Neb. MARK SCHMIDT is a process development engineer at Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation in South Portland, Maine.
PETER DELIA is CEO of Ricston, Ltd. in Mosta, Malta. EARL MOLLERUD is an entrepreneur at Pikop Stone, LLC, in Minneapolis. KARLA (LUEDER) ORGANIST is the transportation and community planning department head at Upper Explorerland Regional Planning Commission in Decorah.
1984 ERIC FRYDENLUND is a site inspector and field researcher at Minnesota Abstract and Title in Albert Lea, Minn.
A trio of Luther alumni—(left to right) Kelsey Bruso ’81, Rodolfo Nieto ’04, and Brian Jorgensen ’80—sang in the world premiere of the Minnesota Opera’s Silent Night. The opera tells the story of the Christmas Eve 1914 truce among French, German, and Scottish troops fighting in World War I.
KURT GOMER is food and beverage area manager for the daily operations of 14 restaurants and lounges
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