MAJOR JOHN DONOVAN ’88 threw out the ceremonial first pitch at the Minnesota Twins game Sept. 1 at Rally Caps for Recovery Night at Target Field. As a person in long-term recovery, and a leader in recovery advocacy efforts in the State and local community, Major Donovan was selected to participate in a special ceremony.
’88 BRADLEY WHEELOCK, St. Cloud, was ranked among the top 1 percent of wealth advisers in the nation for the seventh year by Barron’s magazine. Barron’s is published by Dow Jones & Co., which also publishes The Wall Street Journal.
Aurora, Colorado, founded Earth Index, a tech startup in the oil and gas industry.
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’00 Gregory Bates and Kristyn Bates, Green Bay, Wisconsin, daughter, Bailey, 5/13/2015. / ’00 Kristin Perkins, St. Francis, is at WSB & Associates in municipal structures group. She also had a son, Liam James, 3/7/2015. / ’01 Darin Amundson, St. Cloud, is senior vice president-wealth management at UBS Financial Services Inc. / ’01 ’04 Christina (Turchin) Van Slooten, Sartell, is vice president-wealth management at UBS Financial Services Inc. / ’01 ’04 Leanne (Wegner) Kruger
and Jared Kruger, Wabasha, son, Conway Bruno, 7/23/2014. / ’03 ’05 Kristin Modrow, St. Cloud, presented “The Dymistification of Experiential Pedagogy” at the University of
Athens, Greece. / ’02 Jennifer (Harren) Bayha and Benjamin
Bayha, Apple Valley, daughter, Maizie, 3/6/2015. / ’02 Darren Luepke and ’07 Stephanie (Flater) Luepke, Lakeville, son, Henry Lawrence, 12/26/2014. / ’03 Matthew Nikodym, St. Augusta, is first vice president for wealth management at UBS Financial Services Inc. / ’03 Jeremy Olsen, Ramsey, son, Kellen, 1/23/2015. / ’03 Marianne (Manley) Walters and Scott Walters, Portland, Oregon, son, Chase Logan, 4/18/2015. / ’04 ’05 Luke Lamprecht and ’08 Mary (Dravland) Lamprecht, Plainview, daughter, Allison Susan, 7/23/2015. / ’04 Julia (Freese) Solomonson and Ryan Solomonson, Richfield, daughter, Anna Elizabeth, 3/21/2015. / ’04 Kelly (Drexler) Travis, St. Cloud, earned the Realtor Association Certified Executive designation from the National Association of Realtors.
GRETA (PERSKE) HOKANSON ’13 appeared on Ellen Dec. 8 with Danny Daniels, the bone marrow donor who saved her life. She invited him to dance with her at her wedding this October. Perske was diagnosed with Leukemia in 2006. Inspired by the nurses who cared for her while she was sick, she is now a nurse at United Hospital in St. Paul. Watch video: http://scsu.mn/1O0M9oW
/ ’04 ’11 ’14 John Muenich, Duluth, had his research “A study of how secondary principals in Minnesota perceive the evaluation of their performance” printed in the National Association of Secondary School Principals bulletin. / ’05 Jennifer Fielder and Thomas Dostal, Minneapolis, 5/31/2014. / ’05 Beth Olson and Firat Kezer, Grand Forks, North Dakota, were married 10/25/2014 and had a son, William Osman, 8/16/2014. / ’05 Amy (Garner) Sanborn and Jason Sanborn, Blaine, son, William Wayne, 4/3/2015. / ’05 Brent Skaja and Ellen (Isaacson) Skaja, Mahtomedi, daughter, Betty Lee, 5/20/2015. / ’06 Shannon (Grinsell) Brade and Scott Brade, Quincy, California, daughter, Emidio Mike, 6/13/2015. / ’06 Cassandra (Peterson) Brinkman and Ryan Brinkman,
Rochester, daughter, Natalie
Grace, 2/20/2015. / ’06 Garrity Gerber, Sartell, is a sales manager at Heartland Glass. / ’06 Brooke (Gravley) Heilman, Spicer, is a project manager at Adventure Advertising. / ’06 Michele (Arko) Parker and Daniel Parker, Rochester, were married 10/26/2013 and had a son, Jackson John, 5/1/2015. / ’06 Laura (Vaala) Thomson and Cody Thomson, Appleton, son, Layton Ryan, 8/6/2014. / ’07 Debra Burch, St. Cloud, is a neonatal nurse practitioner in the St. Cloud Hospital Intensive Care Unit. / ’07 Cynthia (Herold) Fitzthum, Sartell, was accepted in the Economic Education and Entrepreneurship graduate program at the University of Delaware. / ’07 ’14 Benjamin Gill, Appleton, Wisconsin, is head coach of swimming and diving at Loras College. / ’08 Jenna (Bottelberghe) Dyba, St. Michael, opened Amethyst Lane, an online women’s
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