Alumni class notes Builders Club for the Minnesota Farm Bureau Federation. Vanderpool signed 73 members in 2011 and has been a Farm Bureau Insurance agent for 5 years.
’91 grad plays lead in Toronto opera
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Prentiss Foster, St. Cloud, is second vice president for the Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Minnesota. Foster is retired from St. Cloud Parks & Recreation. • Randal Zimmer, Milaca, resigned as wrestling coach at Milaca High School after 24 years. Zimmer moved Milaca to the state team tournament 10 times, including this past season when the Wolves won Class AA consolation honors. His program produced five state individual champions and 39 other wrestlers who returned to Milaca with ribbons.
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Gregory Koenigs, Clearwater, is human resources director for Tri-Country Action Program Inc. Koenigs has more than 30 years of human resources experience. • David Yantes, St. Michael, is vice president of sales and marketing at Viking Coca-Cola. Yantes has worked in the Coca-Cola business for 23 years, most recently as cold drink and on premise director at Viking CocaCola.
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Denise Fandel, Omaha, Neb., was
inducted into the Nebraska State Athletic Trainers’ Association Hall of Fame. Fandel, who currently serves as Executive Director of the Board of Certification, Inc., was honored at the NSATA’s state business meeting in conjunction with the district event.
Peggy Kriha Dye ’91 performs the title role in the opera “Armide.” Photo by Bruce Zinger for Opera Atelier, Toronto.
performed the lead role in the April production of Jean-Baptiste Lully’s “Armide” at the Opera Atelier in Toronto. The Toronto daily newspaper, the Globe and Mail, gave Dye a glowing review: “Opera Atelier couldn’t have done better, for the title role, than soprano Peggy Kriha Dye. Her talents come as no surprise: This is her 10th production with the company, and she’s well known for her command of baroque style. Her phrases were well shaped, intonation was excellent in all registers and her sheer stamina was impressive. (She’s on stage, singing, for most of this opera’s five acts.) Adding to all this was her dramatic mastery of this complex role. Her Armide was wary yet trusting, impervious yet vulnerable, and fearsome yet pitiable – all at the same time.” Dye, who grew up in Brainerd, followed her St. Cloud State music education with stints at the Manhattan School of Music and Julliard Opera Center.
Peggy (Kriha) Dye ’91
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Recent grad is top 10 sportscaster
Heights, was appointed principal at Spring Lake Park High School where she most recently was the assistant principal. She is the first woman principal at the high school.
Former KVSC sports director Zack Fisch ’12 was ranked ninth on the Sportscasters Talent Agency of America’s All-America Program and is now the broadcasting and media relations director for the Dubuque, Iowa, Fighting Saints in the United States Hockey League. Fisch, an Olathe, Kan., native, is well-known in Central Minnesota as the voice of St. Cloud State University Husky Hockey on KVSC 88.1 FM. During his four years with KVSC he also served as television play-by-play announcer for UTVS Husky Productions, the Granite City Lumberjacks Hockey Club, the Rochester Honkers and St. Cloud Rox baseball teams and Fox Sports North Prep Zone. “It’s quite humbling to receive this honor. There are a lot of sports broadcasters around the nation, and to know you’re among the best is very exciting,” Fisch said. “This isn’t just big for me, but for St. Cloud State as well, because it’s the first time SCSU has had an all-American. So, hopefully it helps show how good our mass communications program is.” Fellow Husky Productions announcer Mike Doyle ’11 also made strides in his professional career by being named digital media coordinator for the Minnesota Wild. Doyle’s job duties include coordinating feature content on Wild.com, writing feature and news stories, photography of hockey games and Wild events, and updating the team’s Facebook page.
Jane Stevenson, Inver Grove
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James Bullard, St. Louis, Mo.,
presented the 2012 George S. Eccles Distinguished Lecture in April at Utah State University. An economist and monetary policy scholar, Bullard has been with the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis since 1990 and has been president and CEO since 2008. • Paul Fleissner, Rochester, along with 11 other human service directors in southeastern Minnesota
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