Class News

Mary Jo (Hanson) Boman ’57 resides in Highlands Ranch, Colo. Her email address is geboman@aol.com Connie (Nilssen) Nyhus ’58 resides in Forest City. Her email address is quiltercn@wctatel.net Dorothy (Weinrebe) Masteller ’59 resides in St. Joseph, Mo. Her email address is surveygeekdot@aol.com

Janice “Jan” (Edwards) Korver ’62 resides in Sioux City. Jan says: “My husband, David, an optometrist, and I are both retired in Sioux City. We had 4 children, 14 grandchildren and 6 great grandchildren. Our children are an educator, Otorhinolaryngologist- head and neck surgeon, Chiropractor, and a Christian Director of Worship (a former Miss South Dakota). Our grandchildren (have 8 over age 21) include 2 Optometrists, a Christian Therapist, 3 small business owners, an educator, and an attorney that works for Governor Kim Reynolds! We have 2 high schoolers, a middle schooler, and 3 in elementary school. I taught school and taught our children the importance of Education. I so enjoyed my years at Waldorf and therefore get an education then you can be anything the Lord has for you! I loved Dr. Jacob Tanner and I knew being a Christian was the most important job I wanted to succeed at and any more than that was a bonus. So, at age 78 I have been so blessed! Hello to all that remember me! God meant for us to journey together those two years between 1960 and 1962.” Jan’s email address is jankorver@yahoo.com. Barbara (Souder) Donohue ’64 resides in Gahanna, Ohio. Her email address is bedonohue@wowway.com Jan (Pedersen) Schiff ’65 resides in Palm Desert, Calif. Jan writes “Retired from conducting choruses of Singers Marin after 30+ years in Mill Valley, CA. My husband Tom Schiff passed away in Dec 2019, so last fall I made the move to Palm Desert, CA and am enjoying this fresh new start.” Her email address is jnpschiff@gmail.com. Donna (Stille) Schoenwetter ’66 resides in Clear Lake. Donna writes “After living in Forest City for 40 plus years, we have retired in Clear Lake.” Her email address is dendon46@juno.com. Robert Siemsen ’66 resides in Medford, N.Y. His email address is robertsiemsen@hotmail.com Dallas Olson ’67 resides in Lakeville, Minn. His email address is dalolson@usinternet.com Kathryn (Boyd) Zipf ’68 writes: “After 49 years of wonderful marriage to my husband, Dan, he was suddenly called home to be with the Lord on August 18, 2020. I am retired now, after many years teaching music in Hershey, Penn. I enjoy leading a small discipleship group of women at Hershey Free Church. I am active in Moms in Prayer and weekly Bible study, and love having friends in for lunch. I am an avid quilter, and love to cook and make homemade bread. There seem to be endless opportunities to serve the Lord right on my street with neighbors. God is giving me new hope to look for ways to build bridges of love and friendship. Our four grown sons and nine grandchildren keep me full of joy visiting them on the East Coast. Although life is very different now, without my soulmate, I am finding God to be faithful each day.” Michael (Mike) ’69 & Denise (Anderson) Anderson ’69 celebrated their 50th Anniversary July 25, 2020. They currently reside in Colorado Springs, Colo. Attending their 50th class reunion at Waldorf brought back many fond memories of the many good friends and wonderful education they had while attending Waldorf from ’67-’69. Carolyn (Hegge) Borseth ’69 retired in January 2017 and resides in University Place, Wash. Her email address is cbors44438@comcast.net. Cathie (Thompson) Rustebakke ’69 resides in Cedar Rapids. Cathie writes: “Married to Paul Rustebakke for 42 years. We live in Cedar Rapids where Paul works in technical support for Schneider Electric. Cathie does volunteer work for a nonprofit organization. We have 4 adult children who also live in Cedar Rapids area except for our youngest who resides in Atlanta, Georgia. Six lovely grandchildren delight our lives regularly. Perhaps our greatest delight for the past 19 years has been teaching English to businesspeople in Czech Republic. It is a delight to learn about their culture and to help assist Czech students in learning many new concepts.” Her email address is Cathryn.lynn@gmail.com. Steven Sondall ’69 resides in Norwalk. Steven says: “We celebrated our 50th Anniversary in June 2020. I retired in July 2020. We have 3 daughters, 2 sons-inlaw, 6 grandsons, one granddaughter, and 9 granddogs. Great memories: playing basketball for Coach Bolsdorf and baseball for Coach Thosiem. Awesome memories.” Steven’s email is sncsondall70@gmail.com. CLASS UPDATES: 1970'S

Thomas Hansen ’70 resides in Bend, Ore. His email address is 56glasspar@gmail.com. Faye (Stientjes) Lourenso ’70 resides in Mastic, N.Y. She retired from Suffolk County Community College in January, 2020. Before retiring she was a professor of graphic design and academic chair at the Eastern Campus, one of the campuses at the largest state university of New York Community College Marlys (Boler) Nail ’70 resides in Webster City. Marlys writes: “Will be totally retired from substitute teaching in February 2022. Due to COVID, I have hardly done any subbing this year. Our two grandsons are in 4th and 1st grade AAU wresting. Enjoy going to their wrestling meets. Love being retired and enjoying the freedom of life doing whatever comes along to participate in. Her email address is mjmcnail24@msn.com Tamara (Shelton) Anderson ’71 resides in West Des Moines. Her email address is tamara.anderson@mchsi.com. Kathy (Hanson) Handeland ’71 resides in Indian Land, S.C. Her email address is khandeland70@icloud.com Claudia (Freeman) Ross ’71 resides in Des Moines. Claudia writes: “I retired from the Iowa Bankers Association June 26, 2020 after 40 years and 11 months. Bill and I celebrated our 39th anniversary in May 2021. Looking forward to traveling to Colorado and Texas to visit our daughter Whitney and son Brody and families.” Her email address is claudia.ross1969@gmail.com. Sandra Vold ’71 resides in Kenyon, Minn. Her email address is vold.sandra@gmail.com. Charles Etzen ’72 resides in Gilbert, Ariz. He retired in 2018 after 44 years of teaching and coaching at Bayard, Forest City, and Smith Jr High in Mesa, Ariz. His email address is cetzen@gmail.com Reginald Harris ’74 resides in Checotah, Okla. His email address is quantico84@yahoo.com

Geneva (Bradford) Reed ’74 resides in Waterloo. She was married to Walter Reed, Jr. for 35 years until his death in 2018. Geneva retired from Hawkeye Community College in June 2012 (Employment Training Specialist) after 16 plus years of employment. Walter and Geneva had 7 beautiful children with the oldest passing away March 2012 from colon cancer. She currently spends precious time with her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. Geneva also enjoys doing endless craft projects with her 13-year-old granddaughter. Geneva’s email address is genevareed1974@gmail.com. Lynette (Wiele) Muhlenbruch ’75 resides in Clarion. Lynette has 3 children and 3 grandchildren. She was the elementary school secretary at the Dows Community School in Dows, IA and at Clarion-GoldfieldDows Comm. School in Clarion, IA for 23 years and retired at the end of June 2020 Julie (Burgardt) Banker ’76 resides in Cedar Rapids. Her email address is bnkrmom247@gmail.com. Suzanne (Grimm) Abel ’77 resides in Cedar Rapids. Suzanne is working as Human Resources Manager for Profol Americas Inc. in Cedar Rapids for past 20 years. Her husband is a teacher at Kirkwood Community College – where they met. She has 2 granddaughters, 5 and 2 that live in Marion. She plans to retire in 2023. Her email address is msabel@southslope.net. Bryan Benson ’77 resides in Cedar Falls. . Bryan writes “Married in 1977. Divorced in 2020! What a year! I hope all is well with you and yours!” His email address is bryanbenson@cfu.net Rev. Brad Ulgenes ’77 resides in Helena, Mont. He currently serves as Pastor at St. John’s Lutheran. Brad and his wife Elaine had their first grandchild, Mara Hanlon, born Feb. 16, 2021. His email address is ulgeb@msn.com. CLASS UPDATES: 1980'S

Stewart Ohrtman ’80 resides in Ringsted. His email address is stewartohrtman@gmail.com. Cynthia (Paulsen) Fuerniss ’81 resides in Lonsdale, Minn. Her email address is cynthiafuerniss@me.com George (Joe) Peters ’81 resides in Cedar Rapids. Joe writes “Retired June 1, 2020 after 33 years of teaching, the last 19 years was at Mt. Vernon High School in Mt. Vernon. I’m still coaching football, this next fall will be my 38th year of coaching football. The last 7 years I coached at Coe College in Cedar Rapids as Defensive Line Coach. This next fall I am going back to coaching high school football. I’m still working part time and coaching. Staying active and with my wife of 34 years, Beth, we are busy traveling to see children and grandchildren. Life is good, God has blessed my family and me”. His email address is gjpeters1983@gmail.com Steve Mueller ’83 resides in Urbandale. His email address is muelles1Steve@gmail.com Shannon “Moose” Knudtson ’87 resides in Frisco, Texas. His email address is umpnref@gmail.com Suzie (Doane) Anderson ’88 resides in Des Moines. Her email address is suzie.anderson@msn.com. Amy (Bartleson) Balcam ’88 resides in Bloomington, Ind. Her email address is aab0928@yahoo.com Laura (Houwen) Honken ’89 resides in Lismore, Minn. She is married with three sons and seven grandchildren. Her email address is lhonken25@gmail.com.

Pastor Julie Wright ’91 serves as Director of Church Partnerships and Volunteerism at Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota. She and her spouse recently adopted a puppy, Charlie. This June, Julie will preside at the wedding of her only child, Haley, a licensed social worker, and fiancée Kyle, who is studying to be a physical therapist. Their cat Kiki will be the ring bearer. Lane Larson ’98 resides in Bettendorf. His email address is larsonl21@hotmail.com Jenni (Waldron) Nixt ’99 resides in Earlham. She graduated from Simpson College in 2001 and married Eric in 2004. Jenni worked in social work from 2001-2011. Her first daughter was born in 2007 and her daughter and son (twins) were born in 2010.

Kristy (Sheppard) Tokheim ’00 resides in Mankato, Minn. Her email address is aktokheim@gmail.com Derrick Elman ’01 resides in Humboldt. Derrick teaches 5th grade and is the head football coach for the Humboldt Community School District. He and his wife Amy have 2 children, Payton age 13 and Noah age 11. His email address is de59@yahoo.com. Becky Bodurtha ’02 is currently a Senior Lecturer in Costume Design at Stanford University. She is a professional costume designer with regional, international and New York credits Megan (Martin) Lietzau ’06 resides in Gainesville, Fla. Megan graduated with her PhD in social and behavioral sciences in November 2020. She works as an autism specialist in the psychiatry department at the University of Florida Center for Autism and Related Disabilities. Her email address is meganthorntonphd@gmail.com. Casey Klunder ’07 was recently named the new head baseball coach at Central College in Pella Jill (Minkel) McGinn ’07 resides in Boone. She has two children: a daughter, Sadie and a son, Carter Bryan Bjorklund ’09 was hired as the new head football coach for the Charles City Comets. In addition to being the new head coach Bjorkland will also teach computer science.

Jeffrey Peterson ’11 resides in Golden Valley, Minn. Jeffrey recently received Tenure at Robbinsdale Area Schools after three years of working at Neill Elementary located in the northwest metro of Minneapolis. His email address is jpete9776@gmail.com. Steven Cross ’12 resides in Christiana, Tenn. His email address is s tevenecross64@gmail.com Ariel Hall Jones ’12 resides in Riverside, Calif. Her email address is hallariel15@yahoo.com Jon Aguilar ’13 resides in Dubuque. His email address is Jonathan.r.aguilar@gmail.com. Antonio Murray ’13 resides in Milledgeville, Ga. His email address is Antonio.murray76@gmail.com. Thomas “Rick” Rary ’14 resides in Port St. Joe, Fla. His email address is rraryjr@att.net. Emily (Walker) Cantrelle ’16 resides in Bogalusa, La. Her email address is ecantrelle@bogsschools.org Donald Gurney ’16 resides in Norwalk, Ohio. His email address is jagdag03@aol.com.