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Kenize O’Keefe was recently
named Editor and Publisher of NorthNews Community Newspaper. Founded in 1991, NorthNews is a monthly paper serving the North Minneapolis community. Ariella Rotenberg left her role as research associate in U.S. foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations this year for a new research position at The ImPat, a start-up social impact investing company. Outside of work, she tries to spend as much time as she can with her fellow Class of 2008 classmates in NYC! Parker Cook has received a Fulbright Research Grant to conduct manuscript work in Bursa and Istanbul, Turkey for 2016-2017. Parkers’s time in Turkey will be spent on research for his dissertation on the Ottoman Sufi Ismail Hakki Bursevi as a part of his pursuit of a Ph.D. in Islamic Civilizations’ Studies at Emory University.
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The Class of 2014 is looking for Class Agents! Please contact alumni@spa.edu or 651-696-1302.
Katherine Labuza klabuza@gmail.com
s Ben Greenwald participated in the Pac-12 vs. Big 10 Team Challenge this spring in Arizona where he competed in the 4x400 meter relay (pictured) and the open 400 meter race. This is Ben’s second and final year running for the University of California, Berkeley after transferring from the University of Vermont.
s Annie Hart made her World Cup cross country ski debut on the Ski Tour of Canada, comprised of eight races in four different Canadian cities from March 1-12, 2016. She earned her Canadian World Cup start spots based on strong domestic results this season. Overall, Annie completed all eight Tour races and achieved best result finishes in two races at Canmore, Alberta—34th in the 15K skiathlon and 36th in a classic sprint. SPA Nordic teammate Caroline Daniels was present at one of the races in Quebec City, Quebec.
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s In March 2016, David Ristau, Peter Wood, and Danny O’Shea had a mini-Reunion while traveling in Costa Rica over spring break. s In January 2016, a group of basketball alumni from class years 2009-15 returned to face off against SPA’s current Spartan hoops team. The alumni won in a close game, 74-70.
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s Harrisen Egly is the profile of a lengthy profile in the April 18, 2016 issue of the Columbia Spectator, the newspaper of Columbia University where Harrisen is finishing his sophomore year. The profile, entitled “Egly’s rise to anchoring the bullpen and beyond,” is an overview of Harrisen’s baseball career at Columbia. “As a closer, the sophomore utilizes both a fastball and a breaking ball as his primary pitches. His tall stance on the mound, combined with the velocity he’s developed since last season, have converted into a solid 23 strikeouts over 19.2 innings pitched and a 2.29 ERA over the season thus far,” the article reports.