Alumni News
BRITA NELSON is the technical assistant specialist for the Iowa Association of Community Providers in Urbandale, Iowa. She is also a partner at Driftless Edge Farm in Decorah.
BENJAMIN DRUFFEL earned a master’s degree in music from Minnesota State University, Mankato. He is a graduate student assistant at Rutgers University. RYAN GOESSL is a member of the Camarata Music Company in Seoul, South Korea. The group recently performed Seussical the Musical and Mendelssohn’s Elijah.
SUSAN (STOCKSETH) and MARK POTVIN ’01 live in Princeton, Minn. She is the band director at Saik Middle School. He is the vocal music instructor at Princeton High School and men’s choir conductor at St. Cloud State University. JAIMIE (RASMUSSEN) RUDOLPH is the claim quality assurance manager for American Family Insurance in Madison, Wis. ANGELA SADAT is a realtor for Keller Williams Premier Realty in Woodbury, Minn. BRENT SEAMANS teaches in the Prairie du Chien (Wis.) School District and serves as a fishing guide for Nushagak River Adventures. JONATHON STRUVE, Luther adjunct music faculty, gave a lecture recital at the 2012 Great Plains Regional Conference for the College Music Society and participated in the 2012 Iowa Arts Festival.
JAMES GREGG earned a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management.
Twelve best friends from Luther got together in Madison, Wis., to celebrate their 30th birthdays last year—eight years after their graduation in 2004. The women have gathered once a year in a different location, although not all have made it every year. (Bottom row, left to right) Carolyn (Younes) Almelien, Jessica (Welling) Seeley, Emily (Martz) Anderson, Aubrey Connolly, Alyson Doty. (Middle row, left to right) Ellie Dolan, Kelly (Hanly) Hubert, Lisa Franek, Sarah Henning. (Top row, left to right) Kelly Flynn Janson, Kaia (Nordal) Sherburne, Chelsey Remme. SEAN HOULIHAN is principal of Casey Community School in Gallon Jug, Belize.
AMANDA (BENEDICT) and JUSTIN OBENAUER live in Lakeville, Minn. She earned a master’s degree in counseling and psychological services from Saint Mary’s University, and is a program counselor for Empowered UCLA Extension. He is a portfolio manager in the Housing and Finance Agency for the State of Minnesota.
ADAM SYVERSON is a family physician with Allina Hospitals and Clinics in Minneapolis. ERICA (DENCER) and CHRIS WEISGRAM live in Plover, Wis. She is an associate professor at University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point. He is information coordinator for the Stevens Point Area Public School District. DEVON WHITEHEAD is a mental health practitioner at Central Minnesota Mental Health Center in St. Cloud.
2003
SAM CHENOWETH is Europe financial controller for Martin Engineering in Walluf, Germany. HANNE GULLIKSEN earned a bachelor’s degree in occupational therapy from Oslo University College. She is a multilingual medical information officer for Professional Medical Information in the United Kingdom. PETER HOESING is assistant professor of musicology and ethnomusicology at Claflin University in Orangeburg, S.C.
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ANDY NELSON is campus pastor at the Luther Center in Vermillion, S.D.
JANE (AGGREY-APPIAH) HUNTER (above) won an Emmy award for her work as producer and celebrity booker on the ABC talk show Windy City LIVE. Hunter produces segments in the field and instudio, including the highly rated regular segment Food Fight, which determines a theme and then sends contributors out to find the best food in that category in Chicago. EMILY JESTER earned a bachelor’s degree in nursing and graduated cum laude from the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. AMANDA LINDBERGAGANGA and DEVON AGANGA ’01 live in Ellicott City, Md. She is an attorney at the Maryland Office of the Public Defender. He is a physician at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
LINDSAY (LEHMANN) REITEN is the teaching assistant supervisor at the University of Wisconsin– Madison. MELISSA MAAS RICHARDSON earned a master’s degree in choral conducting from the Westminster College of the Arts at Rider University. She is director of choirs at the American School of the Hague in the Netherlands.
2004
SARA (GOUDSCHAAL) BLESSING is a graduate assistant in music at the University of Iowa in Iowa City. JANELLE (FEINE) and CHARLIE DAHL ’03 live in Jamestown, N.D. She is an obstetrics nurse at Jamestown Regional Medical Center. He is a biological technician at Northern Prairie Wildlife Reserve.
MATT HUCK is a department manager for Menards Inc. in Muscatine, Iowa. KIRSTEN (SPARKS) and BRAD PAULSRUD ’05 live in Hutchinson, Kan. She is a podiatrist at Hutchinson Clinic. He is a territory manager for Cybex. BECKY (KNOTT) PORTER of Eldridge, Iowa, is a business development associate for Spectranetics. ALICE SANDAHL and ANDY MEYER live in Seattle. She teaches French at the Perkins School. He teaches 10th- and 12th-grade humanities at the Northwest School. ANDREW TERRY completed an emergency medicine residency in Columbus, Ohio. He is an emergency medicine physician for Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines, Iowa.
2005
DREW BAHLMANN teaches English at Sigourney (Iowa) High School. LINDSAY BERNHAGEN was one of 10 recipients from a pool of 3,000 awarded the Graduate Associate Teaching Award at Ohio State University. STEPHANIE (NOVAK) BOND earned a master’s degree in forensic science from Arcadia University in Glenside, Pa. LIBBY CHMIELEWSKI teaches sixth grade for the Oregon (Wis.) Community School District. JENN COLLINS is associate pastor at St. Andrew Lutheran Church in Wausau, Wis. RACHEL FAUST earned a master’s degree in social work from Minnesota State University. She is a student