Correspondents Association Dinner in May 2014: “As a journalist I was able to both attend the dinner and cover it the next morning on our show. It was truly a blast. Everyone under the sun was there all in one room, celebrities, politicians and journalists. I even bumped into Amy Klobuchar at a cocktail party beforehand who remembered me from a campaign rally at Macalester two years back. I got a photo with Martha Raddatz, who occasionally anchors our show, and of course, I saw fellow SPA alumna Rebecca Jarvis ’99 who is our Chief Business Correspondent at ABC. She and I have become friends at the network as she sometimes files for our show.”
as part of the 2+2 program. The 2+2 Program is a deferred admission process for current students, either in college or full-time masters programs. It is comprised of two years of professional work experience followed by two years in the HBS MBA Program.
’10 CLASS AGENTS Katherine Labuza klabuza@gmail.com Paige Owens-Kurtz owenskur@stolaf.edu
CLASS AGENTS
Alex Van Orsow has recently
been accepted to Harvard Business School (HBS) for his MBA. After working for two years at Medtronic in the Twin Cities, he will matriculate to HBS for the class of 2018
s Annie Hart earned the fifth and final All-America honor of her Nordic skiing career by placing eighth in the women’s 15K Freestyle at the 2014 NCAA Championships in Utah with a time of 41:28.7. Annie, who graduated from Dartmouth College in 2014, just missed out on All-America honors in the 5K Classical race by less than a second, placing 11th in the first
gives people a chance to feel comfortable to express and reveal their own traditions’.”
’12 CLASS AGENT
The Class of 2012 is looking for Class Agents! Please contact alumni@spa.edu to find out more.
Jenny Niedenfuehr, who
’09 Colin Cowles colin.cowles@gmail.com Grace Ferrara graceferrara2@gmail.com Atsuko A. Fukushi fuku0035@umn.edu Andrew Magne andrewtmagne@gmail.com
of her two races. A model of consistency throughout her career, Hart placed among the top ten 33 times and the top five 24 times with four victories in the final 35 races of her career. She also ran the Boston Marathon in April 2014 wearing lots of Spartan gear!
attends Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisc., is an Anthropology major and president of the rapidly growing Cultural Food Club (CFC). Jenny’s work with the CFC was recently featured in a profile on the Lawrence website: “According to Jenny, cooking is an essential life skill which can be honed and celebrated by making foods from other cultures. Not only that, but cooking food from other cultures can promote awareness of other people and how they live. She strongly believes that ‘promoting awareness of diversity prepares students to live in today’s global society. It enables students to understand and accept new cultures as well as learn to love them. It also
s Bayert Salverda was a member of the Saint John’s University rugby team that captured its second consecutive National Small College championship with a 37-25 win over New England College Sunday, April 27, 2014 at Infinity Park in Glendale, Colo. It was just the third time in the tournament’s history that a team has recorded back-to-back national championships.
’13 CLASS AGENT Sophia Myers -Kelley smyerskelley@gmail.com
Egly brothers boost local baseball team: Spencer Egly ’13 and Harrisen Egly ’14 were a big part of a local Edina baseball team’s success this past summer. An article in the August issue of the Edina Sun Current entitled “Egly brothers boost Edina Legion” describes the Spencer and Harrisen’s contribution to the team: “Spencer completed his fourth season of Edina Legion ball in 2014, while Harrisen completed his third season. They were among the statistical leaders in quite a few categories. Harrisen batted .400, the second-highest average among Edina’s regulars. Spencer hit .337 and tied for the team lead in RBIs with 24.” Spencer is now a sophomore at Washington University in St. Louis, and Harrisen has just begun his first year at Columbia University in New York; both play baseball for their universities.
s In August 2014, St. Olaf sophomore and soccer goalie Ben Braman was named one of the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference’s “Players to Watch” by the Pioneer Press.
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