The Augustana: Autumn/Winter 2013

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VOLUME 4 • ISSUE 1

THE MAGAZINE FOR ALUMNI, PARENTS AND FRIENDS OF AUGUSTANA COLLEGE

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Autumn/Winter 2013

VIEW FROM SUMMIT AVENUE To say “it’s an interesting time in higher education” might be the understatement of the century.

Higher education as we know it, my friends, is caught within a massive sea change brought on by colliding storm fronts: the media, technology, the economy and new consumer behaviors following the Great Recession and, ultimately, graduate outcomes.

If you review current media coverage of higher education in the U.S., you’ll likely read and hear that “new college graduates are $100,000 in debt; students don’t learn anything and most never graduate; and, if they do graduate, 50 percent can’t get jobs.”

Those make for great headlines and sound bites. Unfortunately, it’s hard to break through the many myths out there to share the real story, which in our case is this: Augustana graduates of the class of 2012 had average federal loan indebtedness of $25,795; approximately one out of four of our students graduated without any debt; our job placement rate was 98 percent; and 28 percent of graduates are enrolled in, or are planning to enroll in, graduate school. Of those, the majority are pursuing professional degrees in medicine and law.

As I’ve said many times before: College is an investment. Yet, at the same time, a college education has never been a more important asset than it is today.

According to industry analysis, in 2011, the average annual earnings of college graduates were 65 percent higher than the average for high school graduates. With a master’s degree, the average rises to nearly 100 percent higher – in other words, double the income. And, with a professional degree, earnings are 260 percent higher. So, college is an important investment and one that brings tremendous returns.

So, why is college so expensive?

Here’s the reality: cost structures of educational institutions are driven by the fact that they are a people enterprise. Our “product” is education and only people – highly educated, passionate, driven, caring and curious people – can deliver it for us.

At Augustana, we employ technology in our classrooms and our laboratories to deliver online and hybrid classes; in our residence halls; our library; and for administrative activities. But the best teaching happens when professors are engaged with students in a live (not virtual) setting. As an institution, our

largest investment each year is in people, both in salaries for those who teach and in scholarships for good students who come here to learn. And frankly, I believe that’s how it should be.

As a private college, we receive no state funding, which means it’s up to us to raise the money necessary to pay faculty salaries, enrich the academic program, cover operating expenses and fund capital improvements.

Being a private college also means we make our own decisions. We’re intentional about keeping our class sizes small so we can create the best student-professor experiences for students.

In addition, we’re focused on creating opportunities for undergraduate research, internships, community engagement, leadership and study abroad because we know that experiences outside of the classroom contribute greatly to successful job placement and admission to graduate school.

In making our own decisions, we believe we have the power to chart a bold new course to ensure Augustana’s future while maintaining its reputation as one of America’s premier church-related colleges.

For the past six months, Augustana has been working to create an updated strategic plan.

Throughout the process we’ve analyzed the competitive landscape, explored demographic predictions, and conducted focus group testing and interviews of alumni, community members, current students, and students who chose not to attend the College.

From surveying our alumni, we learned we’re doing many things right: • 95 percent of survey respondents agreed or strongly agreed with the statement that said “I feel I received a solid education from Augustana.”

• Among recent grads, nearly 95 percent of survey respondents agreed or strongly agreed with the statement that said “If I were to do it all over again, I would choose to attend Augustana.”

• 95 percent of respondents agreed or strongly agreed with the statement that said Augustana’s experiential programs (student teaching, internships, study abroad opportunities, undergraduate research, clinical rotations, etc.) “was beneficial to my graduate studies, career and/or overall development.”

• Among the College’s top strengths, respondents listed “professors,” “academic rigor” and “liberal arts as a foundation.”

We also identified some opportunities: • The top two items respondents advised Augustana to consider as it develops its strategic plan were “building partnerships with employers” and “improving career planning services.”

• Among recent alumni surveyed, “facility or building improvement projects” and “a revised tuition model” were the top two items respondents recommended the College consider.

We know that our competition is not standing still. We also know that in order to remain competitive in the higher education marketplace, we not only have to define a bold plan of action but effectively execute it in a timely manner. We will need to prioritize projects and programs, allocate our human and financial resources, and discern implementation timelines.

Finally, we know this: our graduates have told us their Augustana education was among the best investments they’d ever made. After four years here, our graduates are highly knowledgeable individuals with the critical thinking and communication skills necessary to succeed in the career of their choosing.

Augustana graduates are also empowered by a foundation built from studying the liberal arts, which means they have the skills to navigate change, think creatively, and solve problems. They have an appreciation for art and music; an understanding of other cultures; a deeper faith; and knowledge of the global community. Augustana alumni understand how to live a life of meaning and purpose.

In this issue, we feature some “faces” of our alumni who are doing just that.

The individuals you’ll meet in this issue are living out their dreams and making a difference in the world through contributions in a variety of sectors.

On behalf of Augustana, Angie and I wish you God’s blessings of good health and happiness in 2014. Please pray for the campus community as we embark on this new journey. In the coming year as we adopt our new strategic plan, our goal will be to ensure the legacy of the “Augustana like always” while we explore and implement new ideas to create the “Augustana like never before.”

Yours, for Augustana, Rob Oliver President

CONTENTS

THE AUGUSTANA The Augustana is published three times per year for alumni, parents and friends of Augustana College by the Office of Advancement.

In 2010, the year of Augustana’s Sesquicentennial, the magazine was named The Augustana, in honor of the College’s first student newspaper, first published in 1908 in Canton, S.D. The Augustana, as it was then, contained essays, news items, humor pages and articles of general interest.

It aimed to “develop a healthy school spirit, be a true exponent of school life, and be an interesting medium between the school and its friends.” It remained the official publication of the College until 1918.

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MISSION AND VISION

2. The Extraordinary Life of Carl Grupp All it really takes to change the course of history is one brief moment in time, being in just the right place at precisely the right second. Then, magic. For Carl Grupp, professor emeritus of art, that moment – his moment – happened inside a Sunshine grocery store. It was unexpected. And delightful. And unforgettable. Just like Grupp himself. stana 8. Faces of Our Alumni Today, more than 25,000 Augustana alumni are working in places around the globe doing amazing things. These are some of their stories.

22. Viking Days 2013 From the parade to the pancake feed, the game, Viking Varieties, worship and more, it was a great weekend to be an Augustana Viking!

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FEATURES

26. Setting the Pace With Augustana senior Paul Yak leading the way, the men’s cross country team finished the season in historic fashion.

ON THE COVER: Self portrait in watercolor by Carl Grupp.

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Self portrait in watercolor by Carl Grupp.

the extraordinary life of

carl grupp

All it really takes to change the course of history is one brief moment in time, being in just the right place at precisely the right second.

Then, magic.

For Carl Grupp, professor emeritus of art, that moment – his moment – happened inside a Sunshine grocery store.

Yes, a grocery store.

It was unexpected.

And delightful.

And unforgettable.

Just like Grupp himself.

Self portrait in watercolor by Carl Grupp.

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arl Grupp’s story really begins in the late 1950s when he was a red-haired teenager with thick glasses who watched “Dick Tracy” cartoons on TV, listened to “The Lone Ranger” shows on the radio, and dreamed of becoming a cartoonist.

As a senior at Washington High School, he was admittedly a poor student. After some gentle nudging from a journalism teacher, he began working for the Orange & Black, the student newspaper, drawing cartoons.

After school and on the weekends, he worked at Sunshine Foods, stocking shelves and bagging groceries for 45 cents an hour.

He didn’t have any big plans for life after high school. He figured maybe he’d keep working at the grocery store. He’d made some good friends there and he was good at his job.

He was working in the store one afternoon during his senior year when he heard a familiar voice ask, “Carl, are you

credits the two with helping him discover his passion and love for art.

“They were really influential. I found out that I loved art. I found out that an artist was not just something that you saw in an encyclopedia ... but it was something you could really be. I found I had an aptitude for drawing.”

Grupp studied at Augustana for a year before leaving for the School of Associated Arts in St. Paul, Minn. After forming a friendship with a student from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, he made the decision to enroll there. Grupp majored in painting, minored in printmaking and worked his way through school as a gas station attendant and a restaurant dishwasher.

“I’d bring home leftovers from the restaurant – prime rib. My roommates and I ate like kings,” Grupp said, laughing.

He eventually earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and was awarded the prestigious Ethel Morrison VanDerlip Fellowship, a cash award given to an outstanding senior. Grupp would later use

interviewed with then President Charles Balcer.

“I met with [President Balcer] and the dean and told them what I’d need, in terms of a lithopress and stones to be able to start the lithography and printmaking department,” Grupp said. “I also told them I wanted to be able to teach figure drawing. For a long time, [Augustana was] the only school in the state that taught with nude models.”

His first office was in the old barracks building, next to a retired freezer. Grupp recalls the space with humor.

“There was no heat in my room, but I had a little space heater. I’d teach classes wearing overshoes and a coat. It was pretty bleak. I used to buy these chuck roasts at the grocery store. If they were grilled they tasted pretty good. I’d grab the leftover bone from the roast before I came to work the next day and keep it in a plastic bag. I’d have it for lunch. At one point, I was sitting on the floor in my office by the space heater, wearing my overshoes and coat, chewing on a bone

“As an artist, you’re a conduit for things that are happening in your life.

I’ve always tried to be a good conduit.”

– Carl Grupp going to college next year?”

He looked up to see his high school civics teacher.

“No, I don’t think I’m college material,” Grupp answered.

“Well, you really should go,” the teacher replied.

It was one brief moment – the one Grupp needed.

“Because of him, I changed my mind and tried to go to school,” Grupp said.

“I started out part time at Augie taking English and art. I thought it was amazing that he would tell me that. I wasn’t a great student in high school. I’d be lucky if I got a C in civics class. You just never know where the encouragement you need is going to come from.”

“I called him up some years back and thanked him for changing my life – for encouraging me.”

Little did that civics teacher know that the red-haired kid he encouraged that day would go on to become an award-winning artist and teacher who is today one of Augustana’s most revered, impactful and beloved figures.

Learning From the Great Ones When Grupp came to campus in 1957, he studied under Augustana art icons Palmer Eide and Ogden Dalrymple. He

the money to travel to Europe.

After graduating, he spent a year working as a teaching assistant for a printmaking class before traveling abroad. His first stop was Amsterdam “to see the Rembrandts and the Van Goghs.” He went on to tour Italy, Germany and France before returning to Amsterdam, where he spent time working on his art at the Vrije Academie in The Hague.

Grupp eventually ran out of money and was forced to return home to the U.S. “I sold some pieces to get enough money to fly back to the states and got a job teaching adult education classes for the University of Minnesota,” he said.

Wanting to grow more as an artist, Grupp applied for and received a fellowship to Indiana University in Bloomington. After earning his M.F.A. in art with a major in printmaking, Grupp says, frankly, that he didn’t know what his future held.

“I didn’t know what would be next. I figured maybe I’d go back to the gas station,” he says with a laugh.

Returning to Augustana Grupp didn’t go back to pumping gas.

After receiving a call from his former art professor Palmer Eide, he returned to Augustana in 1969 to interview for a job teaching for the art department. He

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and I thought, ‘Well, I finally made it. I’m a college professor.’”

In the beginning, Grupp taught printmaking, drawing and painting. He rose to the rank of full professor and served as the chair of the art department from 19861995 and from 1996-2002.

“The nice thing about being an art teacher is working one-on-one with people. I feel very lucky to have worked with such incredible students,” he said.

“A colleague in another department once said to me, ‘I envy you, Carl, because I go home and think about how well I delivered my lecture. But you see the students grow and evolve and you know what’s happening with them.’”

Those who had the chance to study under Grupp say they are the lucky ones.

Jim Cambronne, class of 1976, went on to the Yale School of Art after Augustana.

An award-winning artist, today Cambronne serves as a professor at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. He shared his thoughts on Grupp as an artist and a teacher for the 2004 Grupp Retrospective, “The Wonder of Life,” presented by the Eide/Dalrymple Gallery and the University of South Dakota.

“He asked us to read, draw and draw and draw and paint and sculpt, and to work in as many mediums as we could.

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He wanted us to see and know as many artists as possible. He encouraged us to listen to criticism without personal offense and to experience film, theater, music and dance,” Cambronne wrote. “… to this day I am still asked whom I studied with and where I went to school. I am proud to say that I studied with Carl Grupp at Augustana College. … Most of us are indebted and thankful for Carl’s example. Carl Grupp, the consummate storyteller, has enriched our lives and the visual culture of South Dakota.”

Grupp spent countless hours building the printmaking area within the department and later served as founder of the Eide/Dalrymple Gallery.

The seeds of the gallery, which is today housed inside the Center for Visual Arts, began with a project he worked on with Doris Huseboe, then student activities director.

Huseboe wanted to create an exhibit in honor of Fine Arts Month, so she asked Grupp to display some of his work inside the Morrison Commons (in what is today the Siverson Lounge).

Grupp agreed and displayed some of his pieces alongside some sculptures done

by Minneapolis artist Paul Grandlund. It was the first exhibit of many held inside the Commons.

“I felt it was really important for our students to see original art. I knew a lot of artists that I was able to tap in order to create exhibits. I’d drive to get the art, then students would help me frame the pieces and hang them,” Grupp remembers.

While the exhibits were gaining momentum, the central location of each display created challenges since many pieces featured nudes.

“The first year was difficult. People couldn’t get past the nudity. At that time, it was just the way it was,” Grupp remembers. “The location in the Commons was so public. People going through there weren’t expecting to see nude figures.”

The exhibits were eventually moved to one of the art buildings before finding a more permanent home inside Old Main.

“We started the gallery in Old Main. I asked the students, ‘What should we call it?’ Brian Hanson ‘73, who’s now an architect in St. Paul, Minn., said ‘Let’s call it the Eide/Dalrymple Gallery.’ So, I said, ‘OK, that’s what we’ll call it.’ And that’s how it got its name.”

The Eide/Dalrymple Gallery later moved to what is now the Archeology Lab Annex before moving to the CVA in 2006.

Grupp was also key in building what is today known as the Carl Grupp Permanent Collection, an assembly of 3,500 pieces, including works by Picasso, Chagall, Winslow Homer, Whistler, Matisse, Rouault, Andy Warhol and others, housed on campus for the purpose of teaching.

“I felt it was really important to build up a collection so students could see original art all the time,” he said. “I found opportunities to buy original art for the College and the collection grew over time.”

Dr. Lindsay Twa, assistant professor of

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Carl Grupp at his home in Sioux Falls in September.

art and director of the Eide/Dalrymple Gallery, agrees.

“The opportunity to see changing exhibitions of current artists is incredibly important for our students. The opportunity to see examples of works from master artists from centuries past, however, is invaluable,” Twa said. “To study an original etching by Winslow Homer, for example, allows a student to see the hand of the artist and his mind at work. It demystifies what great art is, and reveals to the attentive looker that art is a process of constant inquiry and disciplined work — something that our young students can strive for and dedicate themselves to. In turn, for students and visitors who are not visual artists, the study and contemplation of works of art in the Carl Grupp permanent collection can help illuminate the past in ways not possible through lectures and video. More importantly, it also builds an appreciation for the quality of original artwork and hopefully encourages them to support the artists of today by buying art and supporting museums and galleries locally and wherever they travel.”

Grupp, the Artist “I think my work is like jazz. With an eight-bar theme, you get up and improvise,” Grupp once said.

Clearly for Grupp, improvising works.

Since 1961, Grupp has participated in more than 100 regional, national, and international art exhibitions, with dozens of one-man shows. This fall, the Eide/Dalrymple Gallery and the Center for Western Studies presented a retrospective of his work, titled “Why Are We? Carl Grupp – A Retrospective of a Life Half Finished.”

The exhibit featured 120 works, many of which had never before been displayed — pieces Grupp had considered “half finished” or too experimental to show.

These works, Twa says, reveal Grupp’s development, working methods, and his relentlessly searching mind.

Dr. L. Adrien Hannus, professor of

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anthropology and former director of the Eide/Dalrymple Gallery, calls Grupp a “true renaissance scholar.”

“The amazing breadth and depth of his knowledge of the arts, literature, music and history is reflected in his prodigious body of work,” Hannus said. “Carl brought these multi-faceted spheres of intellect to his teaching as well as to his own art.

His keen sense of the links between the diverse and eclectic realms that comprise our universe and his holistic approach to creating art were the gems that attracted students and, in turn, helped mold their visions of the world.”

Today at 74 years old, Grupp continues to create art, calling watercolors his favorite tool as of late. His home is filled with his own work, along with hundreds of books, CDs, photographs and his white fluffy cat, named Charmin Ultra. He has also begun writing short stories, which he is working to publish.

His signature piece, a triptych intaglio on paper titled “Diogenes’ Dream: The Human Condition, Changing, Illusions” hangs over his dining room table.

He says it illustrates the story of the breakdown of his marriage.

“As an artist, you’re a conduit for things that are happening in your life. I’ve always tried to be a good conduit. This piece ... it’s very personal. The human condition is changing illusions.”

“I used to depict myself as the juggler.

I did all these paintings of the juggler. I saw myself as trying to be a teacher, artist, father, husband – trying to do all these things and then dropping the ball all the time, and try to collect them all again and keep going.”

Today, the juggling is easier. It’s clear that Grupp has found his balance.

“I like to think of my life as a series of going up the rollercoaster – something comes out as significant, then you crash, and then you climb again.”

NOTES FROM THE GREEN

Huntsman Discusses Geopolitics of China and U.S. at 2013 Boe Forum Former U.S. Ambassador to China and Singapore Gov. Jon Huntsman discussed the “Geopolitics of China and the U.S.” before a crowd of nearly 2,000 at the 18th Boe Forum on Public Affairs on Monday, Nov. 4, in the Elmen Center.

Prior to the event, he also took time to talk with Augustana and area high school students on campus.

During his visit, Huntsman, former governor of Utah and a 2012 presidential candidate, said the rise of China to superpower status and how the United States reacts to it will likely be the biggest story of the century.

He also detailed how China’s changing demographics will impact the U.S. “Look at the economic disparity, the maleto-female population differences, the migration of people to urban settings. All of these put stress on China’s infrastructure, its air quality and its livability. And all of those put stress on its domestic security,” he told students.

“You’re probably going to see 10 years of the most significant change we’ve seen,” Huntsman said.

Dr. Harry Thompson, executive director of the Center for Western Studies, said as the world continues to “grow smaller,” students and members of the broader community were impacted by Gov. Huntsman’s perspectives on global engagement.

“The relationship

Augustana Earns Top Marks Augustana has earned top marks from key college- and university-ranking publications and organizations: U.S. NEWS For the third year in a row, U.S. News ranked Augustana among the best colleges in the Midwest.

The College is ranked No. 3 among the “Best Regional Colleges in the Midwest” according to its “Best Colleges 2014.”

The College also received high rankings in the report’s analysis of schools that offer students the best value.

Among the regional colleges listed in the “Best Value Schools” study, Augustana is ranked No. 2 in the Midwest.

Gov. Huntsman addresses the crowd at the Boe Forum.

THE PRINCETON REVIEW The Princeton Review, a nationally known education services company, again ranked Augustana among the best colleges in the Midwest in its 2013 “Best in the Midwest” list.

MILITARY FRIENDLY Victory Media, the media entity for military personnel transitioning into civilian life, named Augustana to its list of 2014 Military Friendly Schools, a distinction honoring the top 15 percent of colleges, universities and trade schools in the country who are doing the most to embrace America’s military service members, veterans, and spouses as students and ensuring their success on campus.

Ahead of the Boe Forum, Gov. Huntsman visited with Augustana and area students while Dr. Janet Blank-Libra, English and journalism professor, moderated questions.

between U.S. and China – two of the world’s largest superpowers – is one that will define the future. Last year alone, more than $500 billion worth of goods were exchanged between the two countries. As a former U.S. ambassador to China, Gov. Huntsman is uniquely qualified to discuss how that relationship will impact global politics. It was a pleasure to have him on campus,” Thompson said.

Center for Western Studies Upcoming Events

• January 17: Deadline for Call for Art in observance of South Dakota’s 125th Anniversary • February 14-16: Artists of the Plains Art Show and Sale • April 25-26: Dakota Conference on the World War I Era

FORBES Forbes included Augustana among its recent “America’s Top Colleges” rankings for 2013, a listing of the nation’s 650 top schools based on student satisfaction, post-graduate success, student debt, graduation rates and nationally competitive awards.

NATIONAL COLLEGIATE SCOUTING ASSOCIATION (NCSA) Augustana ranks high in both academics and athletics in the 11th annual NCSA Athletic Recruiting Collegiate Power Rankings. The College is ranked eighth among NCAA Division II schools, No. 85 among 1,066 active NCAA member schools and is the only school listed in the overall top 100 from South Dakota.

Learn more at www.augie.edu/cws

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OF OUR ALUMNI Today, more than 25,000 Augustana alumni are working in places around the globe doing amazing things.

These are some of their stories.

After studying under Augustana’s Scott Parsons, Audrey Stommes ‘10 is making her own art and teaching budding artists .

Like many students heading off to college, Audrey Stommes got some words of advice from her parents: Be an artist.

“My parents sat me down and said, ‘Art is a strong point for you and there is a career in that,’” Stommes recalls.

As an undergraduate at Augustana, Stommes, class of 2010, studied graphic design, printmaking and drawing in the initial hopes of becoming a graphic designer. That all changed when her advisor and professor Scott Parsons shared information on a residency and internship program at the New York Center for Art and Media Studies in Manhattan. Stommes leapt at the chance which paired her with a working artist in NYC. “It really allowed me to see that this kind of lifestyle was possible,” Stommes said. “I went to New York and I realized I could be a fine artist.”

Stommes completed her M.F.A. in studio art at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln this spring. Having already established her skill at figure drawing while at Augustana, she was seeking inspiration when her graduate committee recommended the zoology lab on campus. She started a collaboration with Dr. Patricia Freeman, professor and curator of zoology at the University of Nebraska State Museum. Stommes was given access to work with the preserved specimens and found herself pulled to one particular species: bats.

“Bats have a similar anatomy to humans which ties back into my undergraduate work on the figure,” said Stommes.

“It allowed me to start experimenting with materials and become more abstract with it.” Her time in the lab culmi10

nated in her first solo exhibit, “Origins,” held at the Natural History Museum in Lincoln, Neb., in 2011.

At this time, Stommes was living in a tiny apartment barely big enough to hold a bed and a few necessities. Still, it served as a sanctuary where she could crawl beneath the covers on a cold Nebraska night. She spent most of her time in her studio on campus trying to deconstruct anatomical figures into their essential parts and being brought ineluctably back to the human form.

Stommes has an eye for fine detail and form but it was preventing her from moving past life-like, indentifiable figures, so she decided to try something new: bed-sized sheets of paper and Tyvek whose lines and shapes would involve whole body movements. In order to work on such a monumental scale, she would lay the sheet on the floor with a drawing board on it. To reach the center, she would crawl around on top.

What started to show up on the pages surprised her: figures of human limbs wrapped in cloth. Stommes recalls intentionally putting blankets into the picture in order to obscure and abstract the form, but something about the figures nestled in fabric reminded her of her own tiny apartment.

“I realized after I started making these things that it was me,” Stommes said.

Intrigued by the forms she was creating and their personal significance, Stommes started other pieces along the same lines of invoking figures caught in “the moment before falling asleep where the conscious and subconscious

“Strawberry Swing” by Audrey Stommes.

meet.” She would work all day in her studio for weeks on each “dream state,” establishing the forms in ink and layering translucent acrylic glaze over the top. Switching between the works in progress until the piece felt right, she would frequently retreat to her bed for inspiration. “Towards the end of the semester my walls were just filled with these huge drawings,” she recalled, ruefully noting that they were too big to frame.

This fall Stommes returned to Augustana for her first major solo exhibition at the Eide/ Dalrymple gallery. “Wrapped Up: Recent Works by Audrey Stommes” showcased her large-scale works on paper from her M.F.A. thesis and other recent pieces. Too big

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to frame, the pieces hung from the ceiling and appeared to float on the wall moving ever so slightly in the air. Her dreams had become a reality.

Looking forward, Stommes is sharing her love of art with her students as a new adjunct professor of art foundations, drawing and design at the University of Wisconsin-Stout.

At the same time, it’s no surprise to anyone who knows her that Stommes continues to make art. Still working with the human form, she is working on a smaller scale to retain mobility.

“I like drawing because it’s immediate. I can do it anywhere,” she noted, after a pause. “I don’t need a huge studio. I need to make art all the time.”

Dominick Washington ‘00 is communications director for the Bush Foundation, St. Paul, Minn.

At 22 years old, Sioux Falls native Dominick Washington was sitting at Nutty’s pub with classmate David Johnson ’00 as they both neared their graduation from Augustana.

That conversation in a bar led to a life-changing decision.

Johnson was interviewing for a job in U.S. Sen. Tom Daschle’s office in Washington, D.C., and he encouraged his friend to apply there instead of to law school. At the time, Augustana alumna Nancy Erickson ‘84 – now the secretary of the Senate – worked in Daschle’s office. Dr. James Meader (Government/International Affairs, former chair of the Social Science Division) connected Washington with Erickson, and he got the job.

Yes, Mr. Washington went to Washington.

He has since worked on Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign in Minnesota, followed by communications jobs in health insurance and higher education in Chicago. He recently was named communications director for the Bush Foundation, a nonprofit headquartered in Minnesota. Now 35, he recently spoke with Augustana about what he does, why he started college on a theatre scholarship, and how a senator ruined his birthday.

Q. What are your major responsibilities at the Bush Foundation?

A. The foundation is in its 60th year of existence, and really, over the course of those 60 years, what’s really distinguished it is that it’s focused on great ideas and the people who power them. The work, which is super gratifying for me, is focused on North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, and 23 native nations that

share its geography. What we’re really known for is the Bush Fellowship – really, investments in people. The Bush Fellowship is awarded annually, and it’s really a way to help develop and support leaders to be better networked, better supported, and improve their communities. People tell us what they need to be better leaders, and we help make that happen. We provide that support – to pursue an academic degree, or a self-designed experiential program.

My responsibilities are for the foundation’s external and internal communications – at its most basic, I’m the person responsible for ensuring that we are able to broadly and effectively communicate who we are, what we do and why we do it. I might be developing annual reports, or executing rollout starts for various grant or fellowship programs, but really at the end of the day, it’s amplifying the impact of the work.”

Q. Greatest accomplishment of your career so far, and why?

A. It seems with every new job I take, I move into a new sector, so it’s been diverse. When I look back on it, among the accomplishments I’m the most proud of is working on President Obama’s campaign as political director in Minnesota for his 2008 campaign, and also working in Sen. Daschle’s office after graduating from Augie and going out there (to Washington, D.C.). Without that experience, I don’t think I would’ve been able to go on to do the great things I’ve been able to do.

The 2000 presidential election went into overtime. With the Senate split 50-50, Sen. Jim Jeffords switched parties on

my birthday, so he sort of stole my thunder. I was in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 11. I was in Sen. Daschle’s office when the anthrax letter was opened. My office was right across from the mailroom, but I happened to move two weeks earlier.

I got to be part of historic moments in the history of our government, really the history of our nation. And I met my wife (Summer Martins) there.”

Q. Favorite professor at Augustana and why?

A. When I think about the professors at Augie who really shaped me, three come to mind: Heather Aldridge (Bart) (communications), Mike Mullin (history) – his lectures taught me as much about communication as history, just the way he was able to create narratives by piecing together moments in time – and of course Peter Schotten, really the entire government department at that time: (Dennis) Stevens, (James) Meader, (Joseph) Dondelinger.”

Q. Favorite class?

A. Constitutional Law. As government majors, that was sort of the class that you aspired to get to. I remember majors a couple years ahead

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of me. I thought, ‘You guys are so smart and so brilliant, and I can’t wait to be in that class. I can’t wait for people to think I’m smart and brilliant.’

That’s where the cool kids landed! That class, more than any other class, appealed to the way that I learned and my strengths. The way Dr. Schotten taught the class, in true Socratic Method, challenged your assumptions and your beliefs about what was right and what was wrong, forcing you to be rigorous in developing your own perspective and conclusions in anything, really.”

Q. Looking ahead, what’s next for you? Professional goals, personal plans, etc.

A. I just started here at the Bush Foundation, so eventually I’ll find the coffee maker.

So that’s a big goal. I really feel fortunate to be here at the foundation as a steward of resources that can have a real impact both here in Minnesota and South Dakota, places that I love. That’s what I’m focused on now. I’m intrigued by the possibility of running for elected office in the future, but where, what and when are to be determined. Likely when my daughters (Charlotte, 4, and Elsa, 2) are a little older.

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Laura (Pfeifer) Vardoulakis ’02 is a user experience researcher at Google’s Silicon Valley headquarters.

Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson competed in the fictionalized Google internship program in the summer movie “The Internship.” Well, they got the uniform right, and Laura (Pfeifer) Vardoulakis ’02 should know. She donned the new employee beanie earlier this year when she joined the user experience research team at Google’s Silicon Valley headquarters.

Vardoulakis majored in computer science at Augie and completed her Ph.D. in computer science, with an emphasis in human-computer interaction, from Northeastern University in Boston in March.

She is a user experience researcher at Google and lives in California.

Q: Have you seen the movie “The Internship” with Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson? Or heard the term “nooglers”?

A: Of course! While the depiction of Google’s internship program was not super accurate, they did get a lot of things right (nap pods really exist! and the food is all free!).

The term “nooglers” is also a real thing.

Q: Google seems like the ultimate place for computer science graduates. How did you feel on your first day on the job?

A: My first day as a noogler, I was completely in awe. Of course, I knew that Google’s technology was amazing, but now I got to see some of the behind-the-scenes magic, and I was totally blown away. It’s safe to say that I’m blown away by something at my job every

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single day. I feel super lucky to work at a place with the scale and impact that Google has on people’s lives.

Q: What exactly is a user experience researcher?

A: Everyone at Google thinks about the user first and foremost — it’s one of our core values. In my job, I’m 100 percent focused on the user.

I work with designers and engineers to build products that people love. My job as a researcher is to conduct lab experiments, field studies, surveys, interviews (and more!) to truly understand our users and to help Google build great products.

Q: What was your own experience with the Internet in college?

A: As a freshman at Augie, we still used a terminal-based email system called Pine. Netscape was the best browser of the day, and Napster was in full force. Ah, memories.

Q: How did Augustana prepare you for this job?

A: While at Augie, I was mentored by (the late) Dr. Dan Swets. He introduced me to the world of academic research and I was able to work with him for several semesters on a research project in collaboration with EROS Data Center.

He always inspired me and was a huge reason why I decided to get my Ph.D. I will be forever grateful that he nudged me into research. The tight-knit Computer Science community at Augie was fantastic. Dr. Swets, Dr. Marcia Entwistle, and Dr. Stephen Shum were some of the best teachers I had.

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Augustana’s campus is 1,360 miles away from the sights and sounds of Broadway. For Sean McCain ‘09, it’s been the journey of a lifetime.

Since graduating, McCain about the life of Raoul Wallenhas been part of 35 different berg — an actual person who theatre projects, most of them saved an estimated 100,000 in New York City, where he’s Jews within a six-month lived for the last four years. period during the Holocaust.

Q. Can you tell us about It’s such an epic story with your career? beautiful music, and there is a A. Two years ago I had lot of momentum behind this the opportunity to join the project which will hopefully reActors’ Equity Association, the sult in a Broadway production. union for professional actors I also recently worked on “Jack: and stage managers, which A dramatic Musical About the opened a lot of doors for me, Life of JFK,” which will hopefuland allowed me to earn a ly also have another life in the living wage doing what I love: future. Most recently, I stage stage managing. managed a developmental I particularly enjoy stage workshop of a new musical managing new works. They adaptation of “Percy Jackson add an additional challenge, as and the Lightning Thief,” which I have to also maintain script will being going on tour with revisions and rewrites. Plus, Theatreworks USA sometime the dynamic of having the in the next year or so. The 2014 playwright in the rehearsal Winter/Spring season brings room truly makes it one of the some more stability for me, as most collaborative kinds of I am going to be working on projects to work on. two new plays Off-Broadway Q. What are stage managers at City Center, with The Womtasked with doing? en’s Project Theater. Other A. It really is hard to describe than that, I plan to continue exactly what my job is. Some living and stage managing in would say that my job is to NYC, or wherever else my work send out reports, manage the might take me. rehearsal schedule, coordinate Q. What are your memories the backstage crew, run the from your time at Augustana? show during performances, A. My experience at Augie and oversee the general was fantastic. The theatre deday-to-day operations of the partment at Augie is special in production. While that is all that I wasn’t pigeon-holed into very true, I like to think of it a just acting or just stage manbit more big-picture. I facilitate aging. The theatre department the collaborative process and is designed to give students a ensure the process is smooth well-rounded theatre educaand that everything comes to- tion, which ultimately makes gether to make one cohesive their students more marketproduction that is true to the able in the theatre job market. director’s vision.

Theatre students who have a Q. What’s been your greatstrong desire to specialize in a est achievement so far? And, particular area have fantastic what’s next for you? faculty who can guide them A. In my line of business, into a deeper, more specialnot even a crystal ball can tell ized study one-on-one. you what is coming up next.

During my time in the Recently, I have been involved Augie theatre department, I in some really exciting readings was able to learn carpentry, of new musicals including “Wal- lighting, props design, sound lenberg: the Musical,” which is engineering, acting, stage

management, scenic painting, costume construction, stage makeup, and the list goes on and on. All of these skills help me be a better, more informed stage manager when I communicate with my production teams. I have been in their shoes, so I understand what can help them the most. My time there was invaluable, and I know I wouldn’t be where I am without the skills I learned at Augie.

In my junior year, Augie brought Anne Hamilton, a dramaturge from New York City, to help finish developing former theatre professor Dr. Ivan Fuller’s play “Eating Into the Fabric.”

During her time at Augie, Anne and I talked about my plans to move to New York.

She gave me advice and suggestions as to how to go about it. Anne and I kept in touch, and when I moved to

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New York, she asked for my assistance as a stagehand for a short play festival for The League of Professional Theatre Women.

That festival introduced me to the producer who gave me an internship at The Broadway League, and who ultimately got me my union card. Despite being so far removed from major theatre cities, Augie brought in numerous artists to Augie during my time, which ultimately expanded my network and helped lay the groundwork to my career in New York.

Q. Any advice for future graduates of Augustana?

A. Don’t give up on your dreams because it is easier to be comfortable. It might be scary, but in the end, you’ll end up having the adventure of a lifetime and will learn so much about yourself, which makes it all worth it.

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But, how reliable is it?

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hen Encyclopædia Britannica announced in March 2012 that it was ceasing production of its print edition after 244 years, Editor-in-Chief Dale Hoiberg, class of 1971, took a deep breath and braced for the reaction.

“I’m sorry I was unfaithful to you, EB,” one Britannica loyalist tweeted. “Wikipedia was just there, and convenient. It meant nothing. Please come back.”

What most people didn’t realize, Hoiberg says, was that Britannica’s decision to move its content entirely online was not a rash one.

“That day had been in the making. It had been coming for about 25 years,” he said.

trouble that it takes. It’s a hard sell among some people, because as we know, for many people, close enough is good enough. Close enough is not something we strive for.”

From Augustana to Britannica A native of Devils Lake, N.D., Hoiberg majored in comparative literature and philosophy at Augustana and today counts Dr. Don Fryxell, professor of English and former chair of the English department, among his most influential professors.

Hoiberg’s roommate during

understanding instilled in undergraduates at Augustana provided him with the solid footing he needed to persevere in graduate school.

“That’s one of the things that was so true about Augustana: There’s an optimism, the positive attitude that you can really do a lot of things if you can set your mind to it. I found that I was really well-prepared for graduate school,” he said.

Hoiberg joined Encyclopædia Britannica in 1978 as an index editor. In 1982, he was promoted to senior index editor. He went on to serve as liaison to the Encyclopædia of China in Beijing, People’s Republic of China, during the development of the Concise Encyclopædia Britannica in Chinese; senior editor for Asian Products; and director of Asian Product Develop-

also spoke at the Mountain Plains Library Association conference.

He said the business peaked in 1990, thanks to its 2,000plus member sales force who sold the product the old school way: door-to-door.

That year, Britannica sold more than 100,000 sets in the U.S alone.

A year later, Hoiberg said the landscape began to change.

“Door-to-door selling became more problematic – we could see it. Less and less people wanted to open the door up to somebody that was there to sell them something.”

In addition, consumers were beginning to purchase personal computers.

“At the time, probably nobody really understood what that would mean. We certainly didn’t. It was a big

“For many people, close enough is good enough.

Close enough is not something we strive for.”

– And, while it did mark the end of an era, it also gave way to a new beginning.

In response to the tweet, Encyclopædia Britannica is indeed back. In fact, it never left. And today, it’s serving a growing number of users around the globe who rely on expertly researched, vetted and timely electronic information on everything and everyone from A-Z. As for Hoiberg? He is optimistic and realistic.

“Change itself is not the problem; it’s inevitable. From there it’s deciding what your value proposition is and sticking to it. You have to convince people that content that is fact-checked and vetted and thoroughly fits within a framework of knowledge is worth paying for, worth the

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his sophomore year was an engineering student from Hong Kong who read Chinese literature as a way to escape the demands of his intense courses. Hoiberg said his roommate would often read the works out loud.

That year marked the beginning of his fascination with the Chinese language.

He would go on to spend the next two summers in California studying Chinese.

After graduating in 1971, he went on to earn his A.M. and Ph.D. in Chinese literature from the University of Chicago. His A.M. thesis was on the modern Chinese poet Xu Zhimo, and his Ph.D. dissertation was on the traditional Chinese opera “The Broken-Down Kiln.”

He said the strong foundation of knowledge and

ment, respectively.

In 1993, Hoiberg was promoted to vice president, international product development. He became editor-in-chief in 1997 and was promoted to senior vice president in 2001.

Today, as senior vice president and editor-in-chief, Hoiberg is responsible for the revision and maintenance of Britannica’s 55-million-word core content. He has been a driving force behind the expansion of the company’s product line in both electronic and print publishing.

Britannica’s Digital Revolution Hoiberg returned to Augustana this fall to discuss Britannica’s digital revolution at an Augustana Thought Leader Forum. While here, he

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factor. The reference industry, try, encyclopedias especially, was about to become one of the first real targets of the technology revolution. And it happened fast.”

The first major blow came in 1993 when Microsoft published its own encyclopedia, Encarta, and began bundling it with its PCs. The next year, Hoiberg said, Britannica offered its content on CD for the first time. Its price: $1,200, the same as the print set.

Britannica’s print sales continued to decline. In 1996, only about 3,000 sets were sold in the United States.

Later that year, door-to-door sales were eliminated.

In 1999, amid the dot-com era, the company introduced a free, online model called Britannica.com, which was de-

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signed to be ad- and e-commerce supported. User traffic to the site skyrocketed, but ad sales didn’t take off. In 2001, Britannica.com changed its model to become fee-based.

As technology pushed the Britannica team to consider new models, it also gave way to new competitors.

“We’d always been in competition with Encyclopedia Americana, or World Book, and we watched them carefully and we tried to compete effectively against them.

Suddenly, they weren’t really our competitor anymore.

Microsoft was our competitor.

Google was our competitor.

Ultimately, Wikipedia became a kind of a competitor,” Hoiberg said.

Key words: kind of.

“There’s been a sort of transition in our reaction to Wikipedia. At first, we made it clear they weren’t a competitor; rather they’re another initiative completely. We’ve seen, however, a remarkable change in attitude towards user-generated content.

Today, we feel, Wikipedia has some good articles; there’s no question about that. Yet schools generally do not want their students using them.

Because of the fact that all of our works are edited and factchecked, we are preferred by schools and most parents.”

“The other thing that happened is the plethora of free content on the internet. It’s a problem, not just for us, but for all of us, in many ways. You have to convince people that content that is fact-checked and vetted and thoroughly fits within a framework of knowledge is worth paying for, worth the trouble that it takes.”

To operate competitively, Britannica had to make major organizational changes.

“On the editorial side, some big changes had to take place.

We were used to revision cycles based on print. Our whole editorial schedule revolved around that. There was a printing once, sometimes twice a year [which] dictated everything. However, as the 16

The Encyclopaedia Britannica headquarters building in Chicago.

print set began to become less important for us, we began looking at our work not as revision based on print cycles but [as a] database – a database from which many products can be made.”

In addition, Hoiberg said, day-to-day tasks also changed. Editors were asked to do more than just research and write; they are now required to make changes directly into the database, collaborate with web developers, understand web coding and track and place images.

Britannica also had to make changes to meet user expectations. “[Users demand] frequent, regular updating. Today, we feel that we have to reflect [important events] as fast as we can. This is definitely a change in user expectation from the days of books, but it’s also a change in what we, as Encyclopædia editors, saw as our job. We saw, as our job, more or less, the providing of context, from a stepped-back point of view. We weren’t there to be a news anchor or magazine, or report on something until we could clearly

tell what that something actually meant. We still cling to that, whenever we can, because people come to the Encyclopædia for that – for context. However, we feel now that we have to make changes as instantly as we can.”

The need to provide rapid publishing helped shape the organization of the editorial department.

“It had been a tradition at Britannica for many years to employ generalist editors – editors who could edit anything. Today, our editors now all have Ph.D.s or M.A.s in subject areas [along with] common editorial skills,” Hoiberg said.

In addition to organizational changes, the Britannica team had to organize plans to convert massive amounts of content for digital consumption. The team chose 15,000 photos and hundreds of essential maps to be digitized and arranged for more than 2,000 pieces of line art to be redrawn and digitized.

The team also embarked on a project to divide long articles to serve users who “are just looking for a fact or two.”

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Today, Hoiberg said 100 million people have access to Britannica’s institutional sites around the world (most notably K-12 schools and higher education institutions) while about 10 million users visit its consumer site each month.

Looking ahead, Hoiberg is cautiously optimistic.

“We don’t know everything that’s going to come next.

The world is changing so quickly. We have returned to the curriculum development business. That’s going to be an important direction for us.”

“We’ve made some mistakes, but we’ve also done some things right, one of those things being that we sat down and had long conversations about what is the value of what we do for people.

If everything else changes, what needs to remain the same? We decided that it’s the quality of our content and the process that gets us there. We think it’s right. We determined that was the one thing that needs to stay. Media could change, everything could change, but the quality is essential.”

Jackie Just ‘99, is a designer and business owner living in Minneapolis, Minn.

Jackie (Freeberg) Just ’99, who majored in business with a marketing emphasis at Augustana, is the owner and principal designer at Just Bloomed — a Minneapolis floral design company focusing primarily on weddings and lavish social events. She plans and designs events and works with clients on what she calls “bringing their floral vision full circle.” She is the lead contact for the vendors Just Bloomed works with, and she sources flowers from all over the world.

Q. How has the popularity of Pinterest changed your interactions with clients?

A. When we started Just Bloomed almost 10 years ago we were armed with magazine clippings and 3x5 glossy photos of previous work to show a client the direction we were suggesting for their wedding floral and overall design. Enter Pinterest — not only one of the fastest growing websites, but a major player in the world of current brides. They’ve all heard of it, and chances are, they likely have a ‘wedding’ board with ideas already pinned to it before they even meet with our company. This new wave of wedding inspiration has been mostly positive. We get a snapshot into their style immediately and have found the development process much less time-consuming in today’s age. We do on occasion get a bride with the trigger-finger, pinning everything wedding with no rhyme or reason, but we will gladly help them navigate through it all and get them in a direction that best reflects the couple and what they are trying to accomplish on their big day.

And even in this instance,

we’d rather have something to start with than nothing at all.

We use old-school tactics in this process, like keeping up on which colors Pantone is forecasting for the upcoming year and which colors we are seeing in clothing and textiles for the following season. But truth be told, much of where we find our inspiration and current trends are from the time spent monitoring and using Pinterest.”

Q. Your sister (Jennie Sewell of Sewell Photography) is a professional photographer.

How much have you two collaborated on events?

A. We share a studio in Minneapolis, so by default our clients will see both of our work. So we are lucky that, while we are separate businesses, we do end up with the same clients from time to time. I find a lot of inspiration from Jennie’s work.

Q. How did you end up choosing Augustana?

A. I was very involved with both the vocal program at my high school as well as the captain of our tennis team. Augustana had both, and when I came for the music scholarship weekend, I just loved the feel of the school and the size of the community.

Q. Best memory from your time on campus?

A. Dorm life. My girlfriends and I decided to live on campus all four years, and developing that bond with those ladies is something I still cherish today. I also met my husband (David Just ‘99) that first day on campus. I told my roommate that day, ‘I’d like to marry a guy like that someday.’ We started dating our junior year at Augie and

wed three years later. And recently we renewed our vows after 10 years of marriage.

Q. Favorite professor and why?

A. Without hesitation, Jaciel Keltgen (business administration). She had just started with Augustana when I was there, and I loved how much real-world experience she brought to class. She connected me with so many great people along the way.”

Q. How did Augustana prepare you for your career?

A. Internships were such

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a focus for Jaciel, and I’m so grateful for that. The internship I did with Lawrence & Schiller prepared me for the marketing and public relations career in Minneapolis that was a large part of my early career and shaped even the event business I own today.”

Q. What’s next for you?

A. I am constantly looking for the right balance between motherhood and business ownership. It’s an ever-evolving process for me that I work diligently towards.

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Lowell Kruse ’65 doesn’t mind being called audacious.

After all, he’s working to change the world, one community at a time. What’s more audacious than that?

Lowell Kruse was in his early 50s and at the height of his career in health care administration when he made an offer that would radically change the course of his life.

As CEO of Heartland Health in St. Joseph, Mo., an award-winning health care system serving an economically and culturally diverse community, he’d been reflecting on his work over the last 30 years.

Since earning his bachelor’s degree from Augustana in 1965 and later his master’s degree in health care administration from the University of Minnesota, he’d held executive leadership roles at small hospitals and major health care systems throughout the U.S. He’d seen medicine from all sides – from the view of administrators tasked with balancing budgets; of physicians, nurses and other care providers; of patients seeking care; and of the communities each considered home – towns and cities charged with educating their youth, sustaining their economies and serving those in need.

From Kruse’s perspective, there were cracks in the system. Cracks he wanted to help repair.

So he approached his Board of Directors with a proposition: After his retirement, would the board work with him on efforts to build healthy communities?

The board’s response: “Absolutely.”

Board members even offered to provide him with office space and administrative support.

After retiring in 2010, Kruse and a team of like-minded individuals formed Communities of Excellence 2026, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to address “grand challenges facing the nation in the inextricably interwoven sectors of health care, education and economic vitality.”

The ultimate goal is to employ principles of community performance excellence and foster collaboration and integration among the various generations and multiple sectors that make up a community, with specific emphasis on our health, education and business sectors, in order to create stronger communities for future generations.

“Hospitals are essential, so ultimately I’m a big fan of hospi-

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tals. But, I truly believe, in some respects, we lost our way in terms of focusing so much on competition – so much on the business and measuring success by how many patients a day we see or how much market share we have,” Kruse said during a visit to campus this fall.

“It’s important, as a country, that we refocus some of our efforts by placing more attention on the ‘public good’ and move back a bit more to serving our public interest.

In particular, I believe there are three sectors of society that exist to serve public interest: education, government and health care.

Clearly the leadership of those sectors has to think in terms of running very high quality organizations – cost-effective, good quality services. But we, together, have to serve the public interest, that is, to produce healthy, productive, well-educated citizens so that they can perform the activities that create a good, strong economy.”

The key to building strong communities, he says, is education.

“It takes about 20 years to produce an entry level young adult,” he said. “At about 20 years old, you’re going to school, you’re doing service, you’re in your first job, but you’re just starting. You’ve got to work and find out what you like and what you don’t like. It takes another 20 years to produce an emerging leader. My thought is, everything has to go right during that first 20 years. It’s 20 years just to get started. We have about 4 million babies born in the U.S. every year and about 40 percent of those births are paid for by Medicaid – meaning there are a lot of kids born into poverty. In some communities, take inner cities for example, upwards of 80 percent of births are paid for by Medicaid.”

“Of those 4 million babies, approximately 1 million won’t graduate from high school. Of the 3 million that will graduate, many won’t go on to develop or improve themselves unless the community they call home offers them opportunities. We also know from research that 80 percent of brain development happens within the first four years of life.”

What’s needed, Kruse says, is a new focus on bringing all the sec-

tors of a community together using quality principles.

“We need a whole new way of leading communities. We need a new generation of leaders that think in a more holistic way.”

Communities of Excellence intends to test its model of creating that new way of thinking in four “pilot” communities: Lake City, Iowa; Rochester, Minn.; an 18-county area in northwest Missouri, including St. Joseph; and a large, urban area yet to be identified.

Kruse and his team will start by asking leaders in each community to identify key stakeholders to the project, including elected officials, major employers, content experts in health care, education and business, safety and law enforcement officials, church leaders, social service agencies, and representatives from the arts and culture.

From there, steering committees will emerge and an overall vision and process will be identified specific to each community.

Once the pilot work begins, a community coach will be assigned.

Kruse and his team will continue to provide training and education, modeled after the Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence, a program managed by the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology. According to its website, the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program is designed to “raise awareness about the importance of performance excellence in driving the U.S. and global economy, provide organizational assessment tools and criteria, and educate leaders in businesses, schools, health care organizations and government and nonprofit organizations about the practices of national role models.”

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communities of excellence will be no small task. But, he said, history has shown that the status quo does not breed the kind of change America needs.

“Look at the history of America.

Look at the founding fathers – they established the principles of democracy out of nothing. Somebody had to think that up, write it down, and have the courage to do something about it. They signed our Declaration of Independence and put in motion this thing called democracy. For the last 250 years, we’ve been in the process of perfecting that, and we’re far from perfect. There’s nothing that says our country will continue to grow and prosper for the next 250 years so we need to talk about being audacious like these people were back in 1776. We’re trying to change the course of human events, and for the next 250 years, we need to put in place a new generation of leaders who think and work differently and operate under new levels of collaboration. That’s what I’m going to spend the rest of my life doing.”

“For the most part, I believe people do understand that we have to do something different in order for our country to continue to grow and prosper during its next 250 years. At the end of the day it’s relatively clear that children are educated in communities, that jobs are created in communities, that people lead healthy lives (or unhealthy lives) in communities.

Said another way: For America to maintain its vitality and prosperity over the long term, it’s essential that our communities maintain their vitality and prosperity. It all starts in communities. America truly succeeds one community at a time, just as communities succeed one person at a time.”

NEWS FROM THE HUDDLE

Travel Host Rick Steves Speaks at Augustana

Longtime Athletic Director Bill Gross Steps Down

In September, the Augustana Library Associates hosted internationally known author, public television and radio host, and producer Rick Steves for a discussion on “Travel as a Political Act.” Steves also spoke at the Mountain Plains Library Association conference, an event which brought Music Camp 8.5 x 5.5:Layout 1

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After 28 years at the helm of the Augustana athletic department, Director of Athletics Bill Gross is stepping down and will take a position in Augustana’s Advancement Office as a Senior Major Gifts Officer.

Gross made the announcement at a news conference in November alongside President Rob Oliver. A national search for a replacement is currently underway.

“Augustana has benefited from Bill’s leadership in both program and facility development, leading to outstanding achievement by our student-athletes, coaches, and athletic administrators,” Oliver said. “Bill has also been instrumental in Augustana’s culture of assuring that our student-athletes maintain a proper balance between academics and athletics. We have much to be proud of in the performance of our programs, and we have Bill Gross to thank for that.”

Gross, class of 1973, has spent 35 years as a member of the athletic staff and has played a role in all aspects of the department, student-athlete, coach and administrator.

He played basketball at Augustana from 1969-1973 and was an All-NCC Selection three times and still remains in the top 10 of numerous statistical categories.

“I want to thank the leadership at Augustana for providing me the opportunity to be the Director of Athletics for all these years,” Gross said. “I also want to thank our student-athletes, staff, donors and fans for their loyalty and support. It has truly been a rewarding experience to work as a member of the Augustana family. I look forward to the challenge ahead as I join the Advancement team at the College.”

Gross spent nine seasons as the head coach of the Augustana men’s basketball team where he posted a 154-103 record, including eight winning seasons. Augustana has won 40 conference championships while Gross has been the director of athletics, including 17 North Central Conference titles and 23 as members of the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference.

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IN THE SPOTLIGHT

Great Professors; Great Accomplishments Dr. Pamela A. Schroeder (Nursing) was selected for membership in The International Nurses Association, Worldwide Leaders in Healthcare.

Membership is limited to professionals who have demonstrated leadership and achievement in the field of nursing in creating new possibilities in the treatment and diagnosis of disease and improvement of the quality of life across the borders of humanity. In addition, Dr. Schroeder, Dr. Deborah Letcher, Jean Herrmann and Mary Nelson (Nursing) presented “Culture of Caring: Cultivating a Transformative Education-Practice Partnership” during the poster presentation at the fifth annual Sanford Fall Nursing Research and Evidence-based Practice Conference.

Dr. Julie Ashworth (Education) spent a month in India lecturing and participating in the international graduate program, Teachers for Peace, Doctrine and Practice of Ahimsa for K-12 Teachers, affiliated with the International School for Jain Studies at Claremont University and Mangalayatan University in India. She has been asked to co-direct the program for summer 2014.

Dr. Nathan Grau (Physics) has been awarded a three-year, $149,312 physics grant from the National Science Foundation. The grant will support three students each summer from 2014-2016, including a month at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York.

Dr. Sandra Looney (English/Journalism) was recognized as the South Dakota Library Association’s 2013 Friend of the Library at the SDLA/ NDLA/MPLA Tri-conference in September.

Dr. Laurie Jungling (Religion/Philosophy/ Classics) and Dr. Rocki Wentzel (Religion/ Philosophy/Classics) co-authored an essay for the book “Augustine on Beauty, Bodies, and the Apocalypse,” in Augustine and the Apocalyptic in the series: “Augustine in Conversation: Tradition and Innovation.” Edited by Doody, Kloos and Paffenroth. New York: Lexington Books.

Dr. Leigh Vicens (Philosophy) had a paper accepted for publication titled, “Physical Causal Closure and Non-Coincidental Mental Causation” in Philosophia. Dr. Vicens also presented a paper at the Central States Philosophical Association titled: “Divine Impeccability, Human Sin, and the Nature of Human Freedom.” In addition, she gave comments on a paper by Philip Osborne, “Skeptical Theism and Skepticism about Philosophy.”

Dr. Michael Rueter (Modern Foreign Languages) presented the paper “The Prophetic Sensibility of Some Aljamiado Texts: Motives and Topoi” at the 2013 European Studies Conference in Omaha, Neb. At the 2013 South Central Modern Language Association (SCMLA) conference in New Orleans, La., Dr. Scott Fish (Modern Foreign Languages) chaired the session “French in North America” and also chaired the executive board meeting of Pi Delta Phi, the National

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French Honor Society, for which he is serving a second term as national president.

tional Opera Association’s 2012-13 Professional Opera Production Competition.

Dr. Mike Mullin (History) presented a paper titled “Progressivism and Its Association with the South Dakota Academy of Science’s Creation” at the 2013 Northern Great Plains Conference at the University of Wisconsin. Dr. Mullin also gave three lectures at the library in Watertown, S.D., focused on Abraham Lincoln. The discussions were titled “Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War.” The National Constitution Center and the American Library Association Public Programs Office organized the exhibit with the help of a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH): Great Ideas Brought to Life.

Dr. Patrick Hicks (English & Journalism) was a featured reader at the John R. Milton Conference at the University of South Dakota. He was also on a panel discussion titled, “Is South Dakota Experiencing a Literary Renaissance?”

Dr. Landon Karr (Anthropology) presented an invited paper titled “Taphonomy, Bone Fracture, and Archaeological Interpretation: Assessing the Use and Reuse of Megafaunal Bones in North America” in Tel Aviv, Israel, at a conference on “The Origins of Recycling: A Palaeolithic Perspective.”

Dr. Geoff Dipple (History) presented a paper titled “Dutch Mennonites and the Anabaptist Contribution to Religious Toleration” at the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico. In addition, he also organized four panels for the conference and served as chair for one panel.

Beth Karel (Nursing) and May 2013 Nursing graduates Brandon Varilek, Whitney Steenstra, Jordan Tanis-Heyenga, and Amanda Wagner, presented “Insights from Healthcare Professionals Regarding Palliative Care Options on South Dakota Reservations” at the 39th annual Conference of the Transcultural Nursing Society in Albuquerque, N.M.; at the Avera McKennan Nursing EBP/Research Conference in Sioux Falls; and at the fifth annual Sanford Fall Nursing Research and Evidence-based Practice Conference.

Dr. Lindsay Twa (Art) delivered the eighth annual Orland J. Rourke Lecture in the Philosophy and History of Art at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minn. Her talk was titled “Evil Dictators, Cannibalism and Zombies: American Visions of Haiti in the 1920s, ‘30s, and Beyond.”

Dr. Scott Klungseth (HPER) provided a twohour professional development workshop to the elementary classroom teachers, aids, and special area teachers of the Beresford School District on implementing Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move Active Schools program.

Dr. John Pennington (Music) premiered a new work by composer Philip Parker for flute, English horn, and percussion in Little Rock, Ark., at the University of Central Arkansas, Arkansas Tech, and St. Luke’s Episcopal Church.

Sounds of South Dakota’s 2012 opera production of W. A. Mozart’s “The Magic Flute,” staged and directed by Augustana’s Dr. Lisa Grevlos (Music) was awarded second prize in the Na-

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In December, Nature Communications, published an article by researchers from Augustana, Kansas State University, the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics and the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany, detailing an improved feedback technique to help in building new molecules. Augustana students Chris Rallis ’11, Bethany Jochim ’11 and Phillip Andrews were part of the project.

“The ability of these undergraduate students to provide a significant contribution to a problem at the forefront of the field demonstrates, once again, the excellent students and impressive opportunities we have here at Augustana,” said Dr. Eric Wells, associate professor of physics at Augustana.

Augustana’s chapter of the Society of Physics Students was recently named a “Distinguished SPS Chapter” by the Society of Physics Students (SPS). Designation as a “Distinguished” chapter is based on an assessment of the depth and breadth of SPS activities in areas including physics research, public science outreach, participation in community service, physics tutoring programs, and participation in SPS regional and national level programs. According to SPS Director Toni Sauncy, Augustana’s SPS chapter is among the top 20 percent of all SPS Chapters in the United States. Dr. Drew Alton, associate professor of physics, serves as faculty sponsor for the Augustana chapter and senior Audrey Burkart (Monument, Colo.) is president of the chapter.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Sanford Research and Augustana College a three-year, $320,000 grant to establish a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site for the exploration of topics in cellular and molecular biology. The NSF-REU grant will offer $5,000 stipends to 10 students for participation in 10-week research programs.

Campus housing is provided and participants will also receive a $750 travel stipend to attend national cellular and molecular biology conferences where they can display their research and learn from other scientists and research This summer, 70 Augustana students worked alongside faculty researchers on campus and with research partners in laboratories, hospitals and research institutions throughout the U.S. While Augustana has been an NSF grant recipient in the past, this NSF grant is the first in Sanford Research’s history. The REU site at Sanford Research and Augustana is just the sixth established in South Dakota and one of only 47 in cell biology across the nation.

Q&A WITH OUR NEW FACULTY Dr. Lindsay A. Erickson, assistant professor of mathematics, received her B.A. and Ph.D. in mathematics from North Dakota State University where she completed her dissertation titled “The Game of Nim on Graphs.” She has been the recipient of numerous fellowships including three from the National Science Foundation—one of which placed her at the Alfred Renyi Institute in Budapest, Hungary, as a Mathematics Research Fellow studying combinatorics in 2010. Prior to coming to Augustana, Erickson served as a visiting assistant professor in mathematics at Concordia College in Moorhead.

Q: You completed your dissertation on the game of Nim on graphs. What is graph theory and what made you want to study it?

A. Graph theory is, simply put, a bunch of dots (vertices) with lines (edges) connecting two dots; and the study of these connections. I study Combinatorial Game Theory on graphs, which is the study of finding solutions of combinatorial games. Combinatorial games are games of perfect information with no chance moves. I try to look at how the structural properties of graphs affect the outcome of the game. There are a few requirements that distinguish it from economic game theory. For one, there has to be a clear winner and loser and an absolute solution – though you may not know what the absolute solution is yet. (For example, chess has a solution, but nobody’s figured it out yet.) You also have “perfect information” of the game meaning you can see the opponent’s every move. In addition, the moves must be decision-driven not based on chance. The game of Nim has already been solved, but Nim on graphs is different. I first heard about it at a conference as an undergraduate and chose it for my senior seminar topic as an undergrad. I studied the game of Nim on graphs which is an adaptation of Nim translated to graphs where the players move through the graph eliminating weight on the edges until eventually a player gets stuck at a vertex. I’ve always loved games and graph theory is very visual which appealed to me.

Dr. Daniel Gerling, assistant professor of English, received his B.A. in philosophy and M.A. in English at Eastern Illinois University and spent significant time in the Netherlands and Mexico before completing his Ph.D. in American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century American culture and its effect on U.S. foreign relations, and he is developing his doctoral dissertation, “American Wasteland: A Social and Cultural History of Excrement, 1860-1920,” into a book. Gerling joined Augustana last fall and this semester began serving as the director of the Writing Center, Augustana’s nationally-certified peer tutoring program.

Q: You also run the campus Writing Center. How do you view the importance of the program?

A. I firmly believe that for students in any discipline, learning to write well is the most important skill they will take from their college experience. From an educational perspective, writing and thinking go hand in hand; so learning to write effectively inevitably helps one to think more effectively.

From a bottom line perspective, one can either learn to write and communicate well or work for someone who can. I taught writing to engineers during graduate school and quickly learned that a student (or a Ph.D. for that matter) can possess genius, but that genius is wasted if they can’t communicate their ideas effectively to others. In the Writing Center we help students from all disciplines, and, in fact, our tutors come from a number of different disciplines as well. But they all share a passion for writing and for helping their peers learn to improve, develop, and refine the essential steps in the writing process. I can’t say enough about how energetic and positive our tutors are. Additionally, our international student presence has continued to grow, to the benefit of the entire campus.

I’m very excited about the future of the Writing Center and adapting and expanding our services to take advantage of new technologies and increasing our reach to even more of the Augustana student population.

Dr. Javier González, assistant professor of Spanish, received his B.A. in philosophy from the University of Northern Colorado and his M.A. in jazz historiography and research from Rutgers-Newark before completing his Ph.D. in Latin American Literature and Culture at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His dissertation explored the influence of rock music and pop culture on Latin American writers of the 1960s and 1970s which he is working on expanding and developing into a book.

A native of San Juan, Argentina, González has been teaching various levels of Spanish since 2000 and has extensive experience as an interpreter and translator. He was also one of several recipients of the University of Colorado’s GPTI (Graduate Part-Time Instructors) Teaching Excellence Award from the University of Colorado, Boulder, this spring.

Q: In addition to Latin American literature and culture, you’ve studied philosophy and jazz historiography. Do these fields inform your work at all and, if so, in what ways have they influenced you?

A. In 2009 I published a paper in Uruguay on the Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges and how one of his most famous stories (“The Library of Babel”) relates directly with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’s metaphysics. Though I am not pursuing that type of research now, I still find it to be fascinating in how the ideas are transposed from one discipline to another can add a whole new layer of meaning to a work. Regarding the latter, in my first stint in graduate school at Rutgers-Newark, I was fortunate enough to meet several living figures whose music had shaped me in my own musical endeavors. I interviewed several of them and got to know a couple of them quite well. This opened the door to many insights and has made me appreciate the art of interviewing and the candid, crucial information that they can reveal about an artist. I hope to interview the three living authors in my dissertation at some point, especially Ignácio de Loyola Brandão in Brazil.

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Dr. Abbas Shilabin, visiting assistant professor of chemistry, received his Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the Institute of Organic Chemistry at Clausthal University of Technology, Germany, completing his dissertation on pyrrolobenzodiazepine alkaloids derived from natural products Circumdatin A and B. He has performed several post-doctoral research studies at the University of Mississippi, Temple University, and Wesleyan University and served as an assistant professor at the University of New Haven, Wesleyan University and the University of Maine before coming to Augustana. His current research interest is focused on the synthetic/medicinal chemistry and drug discovery of new non-β-lactam antibiotics via design, synthesis, and evaluation of inhibitory activity on β-Lactamase and DD-Peptidase inhibitors.

Q: What prompted you to pursue chemistry as a career?

A: Science was always my favorite subject even in elementary school.

I was inspired by the life of famous scientists like Louis Pasteur, Alexander Fleming, and Albert Einstein. I wanted to dedicate my professional life to the discovery of new drugs that would treat incurable diseases.

I was hoping the outcome of my research could save lives.

Q: What encouraged your studies in Europe and what prompted you to continue your post-doctoral research in America?

A: Germany has a great history in chemistry. I could come up with many names of German scientists that laid down foundations of modern chemistry. Germany is also in the heart of Europe. It is a beautiful country with wonderful culture and traditions. After getting my doctoral degree I decided to come to the U.S. for my postdoctoral research. U.S. research without any doubt is the greatest in the world. You can tell it easily by just tracking the number of Nobel prizes that are awarded to American scientists every year. You can also check the world list of top universities. I was always tempted by the possibility of working with the world’s best specialists in my field and access to the best facilities and equipment.

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From the parade to the pancake feed, the game, Viking Varieties, worship and more, it was a great weekend to be an Augustana Viking!

Members of the Union Board of Governors dressed as Vikings for the parade.

Parade-goers enjoyed pancakes before the festivities.

More than 250 participated in the second annual Langskip 5K. Proceeds from student entries benefit the South Dakota Special Olympics.

Viking Days Queen Amanda Strenge and King Matt Anderson.

Members of the 2013 Viking Days Committee showed their Navy and Gold spirit.

Members of the Augustana Pep Band on their float.

Nursing students designed their float to illustrate the history and caring associated with the profession.

Members of the Outdoor Club reminded parade-goers to “leave no trace.�

This fall, Rec Services celebrated its 25th anniversary with a reunion on campus.

Thousands filled Kirkeby-Over Stadium to watch the Vikings topple Upper Iowa 35-6.

Nearly 2,000 alumni and friends filled the Washington Pavilion’s Great Hall to see the 60th anniversary celebration of Viking Varieties, featuring the Augustana Orchestra, led by Dr. Christopher Stanichar, and more than 200 student and alumni performers.

LEFT: Matt Johnson ’93 (left) and Gregg Gohl ‘93 rapped and brought back the Augie Doggie for a cameo appearance. CENTER: Emcees Rebecca Hjelle ‘03 (left) and Todd Manion ‘04 (right) had fun with pom-poms. RIGHT: Along with a cast of students, Cami Becker-Burns ‘98 sang the lead in “Joyful, Joyful.”

LEFT: The Augustana Percussion Ensemble performed a number using push brooms. RIGHT: Ellen Ferry ‘15, Julia Blue ‘14 and Brittany Dardis ‘15 sing “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy.”

Members of the Class of 1963 returned to campus in celebration of their 50th class reunion, including: Nyla (Reetz) Amundson, Orrin Anderson, Ronald Anderson, Karen (Reemts) Anderson, Lynn Aspaas, Barbara (Jensen) Aspaas, Andrejs Austrums, Leroy Benson, Jim Berry, Arlene (Jessen) Bich , Lois (Schlund) Feistner, Carol (Dreyer) Feuerstein, Melvin Feuerstein, Sue (Roney) Fitzgerald, Richard Foster, Dave Gellerman, Marlene (Lane) Gellerman, Dellas Gjerde, Don Gohl, Dee (Reyelts) Granholm, Jerry Hanson, Glenyta (Stalheim) Hanson, Arlen Hauge, James Hausman, Nancy (Bergan) Hotzler, David Hove, Jim Hubbart, Mary (Schellenberg) Hunt, Phyllis (Ehresmann) Jacobson, Don Johnson, Karen (Jessen) Johnson, Claude Jones, Reggie Knight, Verlyn Larsen, Harriet Lerdal, Cynthia (Stevens) Loveland, Mary (Andrews) McCaleb, Bob McGaughey, Marilyn (Olson) Mitchell, Barb (Aust) Montgomery, John Myklebust, Fran (Halverson) Noteboom, Arlyce (Christopherson) Oosterhuis, Elaine (Pearson) Pearson-Young, Marilyn (Knudson) Pedersen, LaMoyne Pederson, Judy (Pulcher) Regan, Steve Rye, Marie (Anderson) Sanborn, Carolyn Thiessen, Tom Thompson, Donna (Rist) Torvik, Dick Unruh, Karen (Boekelheide) Van Lier, Stanley Vik, Harvey Vogel, Jeri (Reichert) Weber, Julia (Kanning) Westby, Mary (Wickstrom) Williams, Ruth (Ablin) Wood and Don Zellmer.

The 2013 Alumni Achievement Awards were presented at the Blue and Gold Gala to: LEFT TO RIGHT: Jackie Pederson-Kriens ‘89, Linda Ballard Hofstad ‘70, Richard Gregerson ‘57, Nate White ‘00 (Horizon Award recipient), Evan Nolte ‘65 and Jeff Fylling ‘78.

Allison Shankland, Megan Wolle, Anne Madison Flemming, Erin Larsen, Amber Brown Roth and Shannon Brantley McCutcheon, members of the class of 2003, had fun with the photobooth at the Afterglow, the all-class party following Varieties at the Washington Pavilion.

“The Dancing Divas” performed “My Kind of Town” at the Nostalgic Nickels talent show, organized and starring members of the class of 1958.

Viking Days Worship featured liturgical dancing by Sami Rost ‘15 and Jackie Pederson-Kriens ‘89 with the sermon by Rev. Jeff Barrow ‘73, bishop of the Greater Milwaukee Synod, ELCA.

VIEW MORE PHOTOS! View more photos from Viking Days 2013 at www.augie.edu/vikingdays.

In 2013, Augustana senior Paul Yak and the men’s cross country team were ...

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Members of the men’s cross country team rally before a meet earlier this fall.

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heir season was a historic one.

Led by Paul Yak’s sixth-place finish, the Augustana men’s cross country team placed third at the NCAA Championships in November, a program best, with three runners earning All-America honors. In addition, the women’s team placed an impressive fifth.

“I looked at the scoreboard and saw Augustana in third place on the men, the women placing fifth; it’s just awesome!” said head coach Tracy Hellman.

“You want your teams to peak at the right time, at the end of the season.

That’s what we did and I am so proud of all of these men and women.”

On top of leading the men’s team to the best men’s team finish in school history, Yak etched his name in the Augustana record books with his sixthplace finish. In a time of 30:20.2 on the 10K course, Yak became the highest finisher in men’s cross country history at Augustana.

Joining Yak as All-Americans were the brothers Karbo. Tom Karbo placed 11th and younger brother Harald Karbo finished 19th after moving up at least 14 spots after the first 5,000-meters.

“At this level, there are such tough individuals,” said Hellman. “For us to get [Yak] near that top five and he was with the lead pack near the end, shows how great of a runner he truly is. The Karbo brothers ran exceptionally well too and that was a key point for our team score.”

The team at the NSIC Championships.

Adam Braun and T.J. Gleason placed 58th and 59th to round out the Vikings’ scoring. John Klecker jumped up 22 spots after the 5K mark and Jordan Slusser finished his career as part of the historic Viking squad.

Hellman was thrilled with how his teams finished this year, and how they’ve become a nationally-known program over the years.

“We are now a top team year-in and year-out,” said Hellman. “Last year, we were second and fourth, year before, first and sixth; and now this year, fifth and third. I can’t tell you how proud

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I am of this group. I think what really happened is this team just really came together at the right time.”

For the second time in three years, the Vikings have journeyed to Spokane and come away with a historic performance.

Hellman believes that this can be a regular occurrence, regardless of where the national championship meet is held.

“Spokane has been very good to us,” Hellman said. “But now we have this confidence that wherever we are at, we can run with the best of them.”

The Vikings certainly have proven that.

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Five Inducted into Athletic Hall of Fame The following alumni were inducted into the 2013 class of the Augustana Hall of Fame over Viking Days weekend:

Holly Hafemeyer

Hafemeyer Recognized In mid-December, Augustana senior Holly Hafemeyer earned American Volleyball Coaches Association first team All-America honors. This is Hafemeyer’s second consecutive year being listed as an All-America recipient – she earned third team honors last year. In addition, junior Courtney Ysker was named an All-America honorable mention.

A middle blocker from Faribault, Minn., Hafemeyer became the seventh Viking to earn All-America honors one season ago, and now becomes the sixth Viking to earn first team All-America honors, and the third Viking to earn a spot on the AVCA All-America team in consecutive years. Hafemeyer was named to the AVCA All-Central Region first team, Daktronics All-Central Region first team, Daktronics All-America second team and All-Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference first team for her performance this season.

After her four years as a Viking, Hafemeyer has her named littered throughout the Augustana record books. With 1,193 career kills, Hafemeyer became the 21st Viking to hit 1,000 kills in her career kills and she ranks ninth all-time. Her career attack percentage of .330 ranks second and her career mark of 3.59 kills per set ranks third in the Augustana annals. Hafemeyer’s 1.01 blocks per set is sixth and she is tied for 10th with 335 total blocks in her career. Hafemeyer tallied 1,386.5 points in her career and ranks second all-time with 4.26 points per set.

The Vikings finished the 2013 season 22-8 overall, 14-6 in the NSIC which placed them in a tie for fourth, the highest conference finish since 2008. Augustana was ranked ninth in the final NCAA Central Region rankings, one spot from earning a bid to the NCAA Central Region tournament.

Augustana’s Graduation Rate for Student-Athletes Exceeds National Average Augustana’s graduation rate for student-athletes is well above the national average.

According to the most recent Academic Success Rate data on Division II institutions, as published by the NCAA, the federal rate for the 2006 entering class of student-athletes was 54 percent. In compairson, Augustana’s Student-Athlete Academic Success Rate for students who entered the College in 2006 was 86 percent.

The graduation-rate data is based on a six-year cohort prescribed by the U.S. Department of Education.

Each individual sport at Augustana had an Academic Success Rate of at least 75 percent, including women’s basketball and soccer that had 100 percent Academic Success Rate.

The NCAA developed the success rates in response to college and university presidents who wanted graduation data that more accurately reflect the mobility among all college students today.

The Academic Success Rate accounts for the academic outcomes of student-athletes who transfer from one institution to another. The rate compiled using the federal government’s methodology does not count transfers in and counts transfers out as graduation failures. Regardless of which rate is used, student-athletes are shown to graduate at a higher rate than their peers in the general student body.

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Lindsay (Voss) Wilber ‘03, a powerful outside hitter from Lakefield, Minn., was chosen to the American Volleyball Coaches Association All-America team three times. She also earned All-North Central Conference recognition three times. Augustana won the NCC title in 2000 with a 15-3 record and Voss paced the league in digs. In 1999, Voss led the league in kills per game and service aces per game. Currently she is second on Augustana’s career charts for kills, third for attacks, fifth for digs, and eighth for service aces. Her play was a key to Augustana’s appearance in the 2000 NCAA Division II title match.

As a right guard, Jon Vik ‘89 helped Augustana to its first appearance in the NCAA Division II football playoffs. The Vikings finished the 1988 season with an 8-4 record and shared runner-up honors in the North Central Conference regular season standings. Vik, 6’3”, 250 pounds, was one of three Vikings named to the all-conference first team. The team also established school records for total offense (4,359 yards), rushing yards (1,974), and first downs (239). At the conclusion of the season, Vik was chosen to the NCAA Division II All-America first team by Don Hansen’s Football Gazette.

Paula U’Ren ‘96 caught some of the best pitchers in Augustana’s storied softball program. The Vikings compiled a 207-45 record with U’Ren in the lineup as she was among the top 10 nationally in batting average, home runs, and RBI. She was named to All-North Central Conference, All-Central Region, and All-America teams three times each.

During the 1995 season she ripped opposing pitchers for 16 home runs, drove in 67 runs, and hit a team-leading .494. Also in 1995, U’ren had a fielding percentage of .994 and was walked 26 times. She was voted the Outstanding Player in the NCC in 1995.

Outfielder Neil Matthiesen ‘94 was named to the All-North Central Conference baseball team in 1993 and 1994. On the Vikings’ career charts he is tied for first in triples (12), fourth in highest batting average (.392), and fourth in highest slugging percentage (.633). In 1994, the Vikings set a school record for wins (27), won eight of their first nine games, and were runners-up in the NCC Southern Division. Matthiesen set season records for hits (60), RBI (47), and triples in a game (2). He was named to the All-Central Region second team and was chosen NCC player of the week for May 2, 1994.

Bill Reitter ‘77 was a two-sport standout for the Vikings. The 1976 baseball team set season records for most hits and runs, and Reitter set the pace in home runs with five. At 6’1” and 245 pounds, “Big Daddy” played offensive tackle on the 1975 football team, finishing the regular season with an overall record of 7-3 and 5-2 in the North Central Conference. Reitter received honorable mention recognition on the all-conference team. He was part of an offensive line head coach Ralph Starenko ranked as his “best ever.”

Also honored were Matt Musiel ‘89 (Ole Odney Award), Les Carson (Lefty Olson Award), and Kent ‘58 and Judy Morstad (Milt & Clara Harvey Award).

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CLASS OF 2014 Aaryona Schilling married Jason Nedved on June 29, 2013.

Drew Trahms competed in the Miss Minnesota pageant, and received the Miss America Academic Scholarship, an award given to one contestant at every state-level associated pageant. She was also awarded one of five Quality of Life scholarships given at the pageant.

CLASS OF 2013 Paul Berndt married KayLa Gerlach on July 13, 2013. Paul is attending medical school at the University of South Dakota, and KayLa is employed at Avera McKennan Hospital in Sioux Falls.

Patrick Carroll is a marketing manager at SeQuel Response in Minnesota.

Carrie Hemeyer married Andre Zachariahs on August 3, 2013.

Kristina Johnson is an account coordinator at Click Rain, a digital marketing agency in Sioux Falls.

Hannah Kuelbs is the account service coordinator at Fresh Produce in Sioux Falls.

Carmen Mercy is the head of marketing at PuroClean in Sioux Falls.

Kevin Ricke married Samantha Stageberg ‘12 on June 29, 2013.

Maria Truex is a portfolio analyst at Premier Bankcard.

CLASS OF 2012 Christopher Borchardt is the assistant director of bands at Washington High School in Sioux Falls.

Chelsey Illg married Tyler Coverdale on July 20, 2012.

Dillon DeBoer is an auditor with the South Dakota Department of Legislative Audit.

Jacqueline Mayasich married John Haanon August 16, 2013. She works as a registered nurse at Avera McKennan.

Lisa Karst and Allen Myhra were married on June 21, 2013. They are currently living in Lincoln, Neb. Jenelle Michaelson married Caleb Van Otterloo on June 8, 2013. She works at Le Mars Physical Therapy.

Matthew Morris married Jacqueline Christensen ‘11 on August 17, 2013.

Faith Tinklenberg married Leif Nomeland on July 27, 2013 in Pipestone, Minn.

Rollie Steck married Hannah Weise ‘12 on September 14, 2013.

Kate Schleusener married Simon Ferrell ‘05 on June 9, 2013.

Melanie Twait married Ryan Huber on June 15, 2013. Melanie is a registered nurse at Sanford Health on the cardiology unit and in the emergency department.

Samantha Stageberg married Kevin Ricke ‘13 on June 29, 2013.

Hannah Weise and Rollie Steck ‘11 were married on September 14, 2013.

Sawyer VandenHeuvel was named to the Top 20 Community Banker Influencers on Twitter by the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA).

Allyson Wingert is the office manager of Social Bug, a creative social media and marketing management company.

CLASS OF 2011 Noel Bentele married Blake Sunne on July 6, 2013.

Chris Bohlen married Ashley Mercer ‘08 on July 6, 2013. Chris is an account executive at Midcontinent Business Solutions. Ashley is the catering manager for Augustana.

Pearl Wigdahl married Brock Aldrich on September 14, 2013. She works as a registered nurse at Sanford Health in the Birth Place.

Megan Ziemek married Matthew Abel ‘09 on September 29, 2012.

CLASS OF 2010 Crystal (Dvoracek) Bahnson is a nurse with Sanford Children’s pediatric surgery and is pursuing her doctor of nursing practice.

Sara Bortscheller is an assistant athletic trainer at Louisburg College in Louisburg, N.C. Pamela Botzet and Ryan Hemme were married on August 11, 2012. They welcomed Kendall Lena to their family on September 4, 2013.

Matthew Braithwaite married Caitlin Polgreen ‘10 on December 30, 2012.

Andrea Krogstad married Nathan Chase on August 24, 2013. She graduated from the University of Iowa College of Law in May 2013 and is now an associate at Spencer, Fane, Britt, & Browne in Kansas City, Mo.

Jacqueline Christensen married Matthew Morris ‘12 on August 17, 2013.

Elizabeth Spaans married Andy Coday on May 18, 2013.

Derek Daly completed a master’s degree in healthcare administration from the University of Iowa in May, 2013.

Karin Costin is a physical therapist at Nebraska Methodist Health System. She graduated from Creighton University with a doctorate in physical therapy in 2013.

Heidi Dreyer is a financial institution specialist at FDIC in Minneapolis, Minn.

Danielle Hauge married Rob Fluth in Sioux Falls on July 7, 2012.

Katharine Demke married Nathaniel Hults ‘10 on March 24, 2012.

Maren Larson married Max Jensen on August 24, 2013.

Kelsey (Hourscht) Kroger graduated with a BSN from the University of Sioux Falls. She is a registered nurse at Sanford Health’s Birth Place in Sioux Falls.

Trey Manitz married Micole Jones on June 22, 2013. Trey is a second grade teacher at West Central Elementary School in Hartford, S.D. Kasey (Loeslie) Nikkel and husband Bryan, welcomed baby girl, Sloan Lucille, on Oct.16, 2013. Kasey is an admission counselor at Augustana College.

Tonya Olson is pursuing a master’s in library and information studies at the University of Alabama.

Emma Werling and Mark Nelsen were married on June 21, 2013. Emma is attending the University of South Dakota to obtain a master’s degree in school counseling. Mark is teaching fifth grade at Oscar Howe Elementary in Sioux Falls.

Joanna Qualm joined the Augustana College advancement team as donor relations coordinator.

Cody Nesbitt married Jennifer Gerry on June 8, 2013.

Katelin Smith married Erik Henriksen ‘10 on July 19, 2013.

Lauren Beaumont married Blake Ridgway on March 2, 2013. They live in Omaha, Neb.

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Sonia Halbach is a digital sales associate for PBS.org in New York City.

Marie Halvorson married Chris Nelson on September 1, 2013. Marie works at Cerner Corporation in Kansas City, Mo., where she does marketing and communication for Cerner’s internal health and wellness programs.

Matt Heesch and Mauri (Becker) Heesch welcomed their first son, Miles Jameson, on October 28, 2013.

Ashley (Feller) Hellstrom and Derek Hellstrom are living in Sioux Falls. Ashley is the OST coordinator of Peace C.A.R.E at Peace Lutheran Church. Derek is a software engineer at Fiserv in Sioux Falls.

John Hemingson and his wife, Meagan (Booth) Hemingson ‘07, had their second child, Audrey, in January. John is attending Life University in Georgia through their doctor of chiropractic program.

Erik Henriksen married Katelin Smith ‘11 on July 19, 2013.

Nathaniel Hults married Katharine Demke ‘11 on March 24, 2012.

Jenni (Simmons) Jervik and husband, Ryan, welcomed their daughter, Emma Ann, on August 4, 2013.

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Lillian (Schaupp) and Jonathon Josten welcomed daughter, Lillian “Millie,” on April 22, 2013. In May, 2013, Jon graduated with a Master’s degree in education from the University of Sioux Falls. The family has now moved to Corvallis, Ore., where Jon will be pursuing a Master’s degree in English from Oregon State University.

Rachel (McAllister) Philips is teaching art in the Sioux Falls School District at Discovery Elementary School.

Dillon Karras earned his J.D. from the University of South Dakota School of Law in May 2013.

Nathan Strenge is a math instructor at the St. Paul Conservatory for Performing Artists in downtown St. Paul, Minn.

Kara Kingma married Todd Neu on June 22, 2013.

Daniel Mickelson married Kristina Mickelson on June 30, 2012.

David Missal married Sarah Wyffels on Aug. 10, 2013.

Per Nestingen works as a youth director at Light of Christ Lutheran Church in Delano, Minn.

Kayla Peek married Joseph Lang on September 14, 2013.

Caitlin Polgreen and Matthew Braithwaite ‘11 married on December 30, 2012.

Chris Ward and Jessica (Pierson) Ward ‘10 welcomed their son, Elijah, to the world on March 16, 2013.

Andy Zell and Anne Zell, assistant professor of social psychology at Augustana College, welcomed baby boy, Abraham Frederick, to their family on August 15, 2013.

CLASS OF 2009 THE Matthew Abel married Megan Ziemek ‘11 on September 29, 2012.

After earning his juris doctor and master’s of public administration degrees from the University of South Dakota in 2012, Matthew began working as a judicial law clerk for the State of South Dakota.

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Erica (Dorr) DeBoer received the Patricia K. Van Wyhe Nurse of the Year award from Sanford Hospital.

Miranda Bolen was married to Brian Fox ‘05 on October 8, 2011. The couple resides in Sioux Falls.

Ryan Gardner is a senior financial specialist at Lawrence & Schiller in Sioux Falls.

In 2013, Sara (Eiseland) Gillis graduated from the University of South Dakota with a master’s of arts in English literature. She has been working as an instructor of English at Southeast Technical Institute in Sioux Falls since July 2012.

Tom Hill married Ashley Shaver on August 10, 2013.

Katie Kuyper is a media specialist at Lawrence & Schiller in Sioux Falls.

Ryan Larson married Emily Glueckstein on Sept. 13, 2013.

Jessica Maske is a pastor at Faith United Evangelical Lutheran Church in Nescopek, Pa. after graduating from the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia.

Braedan McCluskey is working at the Antarctic Peninsula studying the genetics of bone mineralization. Read about his journey in his blog, “Brady in Antarctica: a Boat, a Pole and Some Fish.”

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Matt Schafer married Nichole Gilbert on June 15, 2003.

Rebecca Schmig married Terry Egerstrom on August 3, 2013.

In August 2012, Clarissa Thompson began graduate school at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Ill., in the historical administration program. During the fall of 2013, she is working at the Siouxland Heritage Museums in Sioux Falls as a graduate intern.

Jessica Vogelaar graduated from the University of Minnesota Medical School in May 2013. She will begin her pediatric residency at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester.

Bethany Jones married Levi Windingstad on May 25, 2013. Bethany is a registered nurse at the Avera Heart Hospital in Sioux Falls.

CLASS OF 2008 BryAnn Becker married Andrew Knecht on September 7, 2013. She received her master’s of arts in English from the University of South Dakota in August 2013.

Mark and Lindsey (Schultz) Booth welcomed baby girl, McKenna Grace, on March 15, 2013.

Mark is a certified financial planner for a Minneapolis financial group. Lindsey works as a nanny.

Kelsey (Aakre) Buchholz received her master’s degree in education with an emphasis on teaching, learning, and leadership from Southwest Minnesota State University in May 2013.

Kelsey, along with her husband, Cory, and son, Colton, welcomed Caylix Jack Buchholz to their family on March 27, 2013.

Ben Eisele married Kristen Wilcox on August 24, 2013.

Ashley Holiday married Brent Fjeldheim on June 22, 2013. She works at Mercy Medical in New Hampton, Iowa.

Andrew Kightlinger’s new film “Dust of War,” an independent film shot in South Dakota, was shown at San Diego’s Comic-Con in July.

Kari Kintner married James Welbes on November 26, 2011.

Chase Kramer accepted a position as architectural graduate at TSP in Sioux Falls.

Tom Lynch is currently pursuing a doctorate from the University of Iowa in the anatomy and cell biology department following the molecular medicine and gene therapy track.

Emily (Johnson) Maurice, and husband, Jeremy, welcomed Kiersten Victoria Rose to their family on March 11, 2013, in Sioux Falls.

Ashley Mercer married Chris Bohlen ‘11 on July 6, 2013. Ashley is the catering manager at Augustana College.

CLASS OF 2007 Michael Amolins and wife Miriah celebrated

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the birth of their son Henry Frederick on Sept.

19. On the very same day, he learned he was selected chemistry teacher of the year for the Midwest Region of the American Chemical Society. He continues to teach high school science in Harrisburg, S.D. and is working to complete his doctorate of education at the University of South Dakota.

Jeremy Aylward married Andrea Carder on Aug. 17, 2013. Jeremy is the director of business operations and financial specialist for the University of South Dakota School of Health Sciences Department of Nursing. They live in Sioux Falls.

Maren (Gilbertson) Bahler and Zach Bahler welcomed Henry Lee on May 26, 2013.

Shelly (Chozen) Condon and her husband, Dan, welcomed baby girl, Cora Michelle, on November 2, 2012.

Tom Flyger is a private mortgage banker at Wells Fargo in Sioux Falls.

Bobbie Quade married Ryan Goeken on September 7, 2013.

Christina Hausman is the executive director of the Voyageurs National Park Association.

Meagan (Booth) Hemingson and husband John Hemingson ‘10 had their second child, Audrey, in January. John is also attending Life University in Georgia through in their doctor of chiropractic program.

Lucas Kramer and Kelly Spillman-Kramer welcomed baby boy, Ryan Lucas, on June 6, 2013.

Brandon Rolloff is a senior account executive at Metro Sales.

Katie Jo (Selvog) Swaggert is an account executive at UPS in Alexandria, Minn.

Emily (Nielsen) Wiederich and husband, Dave Wiederich, welcomed a baby boy, Dylan Jerome, to their family on July 18, 2013.

Jess Winter is a journalism teacher with Omaha Public Schools.

Jade (Nelson) Withers and James Withers ‘06 welcomed baby girl, Kate Petrine, to their family on June 7, 2013.

Dr. Jessica (Paumen) Zierke and husband, Ben Zierke ‘07, welcomed baby boy, Owen Wesley, on June 8, 2013.

CLASS OF 2006 William Buchanan is working for Enovex Corp out of St. John, NB, Canada.

Joshua Feala graduated from Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minn., earning a master of divinity degree on May 19, 2013. After being ordained on August 24, he is serving as the pastor for Augustana Lutheran Church in Genoa, Neb. Mary Fodstad married Daniel Anderson on July 13, 2013. Mary is working as an HR business partner with Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis, Minn.

Tracey Fredrick is working at Minnesota IT Services as a client relations manager.

Christy Hallenbeck is serving as an intern pastor in Oro Valley, Ariz.

Denise (Dunn) Hebert and her husband, Mike, welcomed a daughter, Emerson Louise, on May 19, 2013.

Ian Horsted and Kristina (Strand) Horsted ‘04 welcomed Ian Jackson to their family on September 19, 2012.

Jeri Light graduated from the University of Alabama with a masters in library and information science in August and is employed with Siouxland Libraries in Sioux Falls at the newly opened Prairie West library branch.

Laura (Beatty) Sammon and husband, Alex, welcomed baby girl, Quinn Anne, on Aug. 1, 2013.

Becky (Fischer) Seavey and husband, Curt, welcomed baby boy, Lincoln, to their family on May 8, 2013.

Eric Villa is an assistant professor at Creighton University.

James Withers and Jade (Nelson) Withers ‘07 welcomed baby girl, Kate Petrine, to their family on June 7, 2013.

CLASS OF 2005 Jaci (Sutton) and Micah ‘04 Aberson welcomed a new baby to their family. Sutton Elizabeth was born on Aug. 16, 2013.

Holly (Sturzenbecher) Ahlers received her master of science degree in healthcare administration from the University of South Dakota in May 2013.

John Anderson and his wife Taryn welcomed twins to their family on August 22, 2013.

Emmett Jacob and Selah Ann join big brother Evan. The family lives in Mitchell, S.D. Rachel Black is a counselor at Sioux Falls Roosevelt High School.

Julie (Gifford) Cusher and Aaron Cusher ‘02 welcomed baby boy, Deacon Craig, to their family on September 17, 2013.

Chris McClure is a family law attorney with Swier Law Firm in Sioux Falls.

Julie Newbrough married Bret Evers on September 21, 2013.

Ian Horsted ‘06 and Kristina (Strand) Horsted welcomed Ian Jackson to their family on September 19, 2012.

Ben Iverson and wife, Stephanie, welcomed Will Allen to their family on October 28, 2013.

On Aug. 14, 2013, Naomi Pearl was born to Mackenzie (Martin) Jones and Adam Jones.

She joins big sister Evangeline at home in Lake Crystal, Minn. Mackenzie Jones is the adoption and bid administrator for Capstone Publishers in North Mankato, Minn.

Elisa (Cyre) Salmon and husband, Stephen, welcomed baby girl, Abilene Inez, on May 16, 2013.

John Schmitz and Angela Mattke ‘05 welcomed son, Griffin Mattke, on August 23, 2012.

Brenda (Henning) Wurdeman and husband, Daniel, welcomed baby boy, Ethan Roy, to their family on June 12, 2013.

CLASS OF 2002 Aaron Cusher and wife Julie (Gifford) Cusher ‘04 welcomed baby boy, Deacon Craig, to their family on September 17, 2013.

Leah Dickmann is a sales representative for Stryker Instruments. She lives in College Station, Texas.

Jordan Estes married Ashley Weisz on Sept. 21, 2013. He is currently the owner/operator of a hotel in Cheyenne.

Lars Gjerde received his doctor of musical arts degree in organ performance from the Eastman School of Music in May 2013. He serves as music director at Bethesda Lutheran Church in New Haven, Conn., and has been appointed regional convention coordinator, chapter dean, and regional convener of the American Guild of Organists.

Callie (Benson) Goehring graduated with a master’s in education, differentiated instruction, in 2013.

Andrew Ellsworth and Laura (Vogt) Ellsworth welcomed daughter, Lydia Joy, on May 13, 2013. Andrew completed his residency in 2012 and practices family medicine with obstetrics at the Brookings Avera Medical Group in Brookings, S.D.

Sonja (Obermoller) Olson is the director of residence life at Mount Marty College.

Kristin (Piel) Hill and family moved to Sheridan, Wyo. in August 2012. She works at Sheridan College as an ETSS (Employment & Training for Self-Sufficiency) Grant Case Manager/Student Mentor with low-income parents pursuing a degree in a technical field. She also freelance edits for Throne Publishing in Sioux Falls and Champions Publishing in Bozeman, Mont.

Rhea Staniszewski is a forensic interviewer for the Detroit, Washtenaw and Jackson Child Advocacy Centers.

Katie (McKee) Jenkins and husband, Ryan, welcomed baby girl, Emily Katie, to their family on July 17, 2013.

Simon Ferrell married Kate Schleusener ’12 on June 9, 2013.

CLASS OF 2003 Karen (Butler) Hansen and husband, Josh, welcomed baby boy, Karsten Dennis, to their family on June 20, 2013.

Michelle Gartner and Dan Kochanek were married on June 16, 2012.

Alissa (Denke) Martinka married Jeff Martinka on June 2, 2012.

Brian Fox married Miranda Bolen ‘09 on October 8, 2011. The couple resides in Sioux Falls.

Lindsay Spaans married Chris Leahy on September 28, 2013. She is a business manager at Kiewit Corp.

Angela Mattke and John Schmitz ‘03 welcomed son, Griffin Mattke, on August 23, 2012.

Kelly (Larson) Mroczek and husband, Phillip, welcomed a new baby, Anja Clara, on October 5, 2013. Anja joins big sister Emika.

Don Olmstead graduated from the California Western School of Law in San Diego, Calif. He is currently the assistant general counsel for the Florida Department of Health.

Heather (Wassom) Peacock and husband, Joshua, welcomed Liam Ryder to their family on July 12, 2013.

Matthew Peirce is the planning intern at City of Altoona, Iowa.

Jessica (Iverson) Trygstad, Eric Trygstad and big sister, Tessa, welcomed Alexa Josephine on June 29, 2013.

CLASS OF 2004 Micah and Jaci (Sutton) ‘05 Aberson welcomed a new baby to their family. Sutton Elizabeth was born on August 16, 2013.

Phil Lang is the vice president of programming at Bamm.tv, a company responsible for curating, producing, and distributing HD music video content of emerging bands.

Jana Hanson married Kevin McComb on November 3, 2012. She is a research analyst at Kirkwood Community College in Iowa. Jana earned her Ph.D. in higher education and student affairs from the University of Iowa.

Heidi Franken married Thomas Pettit in Boston, Mass., on August 4, 2012. On October 26, 2013, they welcomed baby Henry John to their family.

Brytten (Hoefs) Rice, husband, Nick, and big brother, Theo, welcomed Peter Nicholas on Aug. 8, 2013.

Jackie (Feistner) Kulbel and Justin Kulbel welcomed their first child, Emelia Grace, on April 3, 2013.

Tayt Rinehardt and wife, Nathalie, welcomed Toren Mark Rinehardt to their family on July 24, 2013.

Kristin (Barnett) Lewis and husband, Jeff, welcomed twin girls to the world on Oct. 7, 2013. Atley Michelle and Elyn Marie joined big brother, Parker, in the Lewis home.

Brekke Valerio married Josh Carter on June 29, 2012.

Erick Lutt works at Biotechnology Industry Organization as director of policy for the industrial and environmental section. He and his wife, Angie, live in Washington D.C. Tami (Lanners) Peterson and husband, Josh, welcomed Leo Harlan to their family on May 24, 2013.

Ruth Aartun married Eric Raveling on September 14, 2012. They live in Pierre, S.D., where Ruth is an information specialist at the South Dakota Department of Education.

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Laura (Pfeifer) Vardoulakis completed her Ph.D. in computer science from Northeastern University in Boston, Mass., in March 2013. She is a user experience researcher at Google and lives in California with her husband, Dimitris.

CLASS OF 2001 Emily (Breitag) Anderson and husband, Jeremy welcomed daughter, Clara Joy, to their family on July 26, 2013.

Sarah (Christiansen) Coughlin and her husband, Matt, welcomed baby boy, Ezekiel Andrew, on January 18, 2013.

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Rebecca (Johnson) Forrest had her second child, Harper Ruth, on May 4, 2013.

Jillian (Brown) Klein and her husband, Dave, welcomed a daughter, Penelope Jean, into the world on November 3, 2013.

Paula (Groeneveld) Vogel and husband, Bryan, welcomed Madison Joanne on March 5, 2013.

CLASS OF 2000 Heidi Gage married Eric Kronebusch on September 13, 2013. She has worked in banking for about 12 years and is currently a loan officer at Mayo Employees Federal Credit Union.

Ann (Puthoff) Gooley is the music director at St. Michael’s Catholic Church in Sioux Falls.

Adrienne (Hoverstadt) McKeown has been elected to serve a three-year term as Alderwoman, Ward 1, for the city of Harrisburg, S.D. She was sworn into office on May 6, 2013.

Jana (Lungren) Palmquist and husband, Keith, welcomed baby boy, Lucas David, to their family on October 9, 2013.

Dominick Washington was named the communications director of the Bush Foundation.

CLASS OF 1999 THE John Berdahl was awarded the Outstanding Young Physician Award by the South Dakota State Medical Association.

1990s

Jenny (Enstad) Eggert and her husband, Joel, welcomed son, Roy Walter, June 27,2013. He joins big sister Frances. Jenny is a nurse manager at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis, Minn.

Justin Pfeiffer is a realtor at Hegg Realty.

Kathy Ann Schroeder, 37, passed away on August 23, 2013 in Woodbury, Minn.

Sara (Thalacker) Turner and husband, Kile, welcomed Lillian Elizabeth Turner on June 11, 2013.

CLASS OF 1998 Elizabeth (Westby) Bunch was voted the 2013 Family Medicine Teacher of the Year for Mayo Clinic, Rochester.

Eric Hallstrom was recently appointed to serve as Special Counsel to the Solicitor of Labor at the U.S. Department of Labor. He lives in Arlington, Va., with his wife, Jessica.

Cori (Kuehn) Holt and husband, Jeremy, welcomed baby Zoe Somerby on August 10, 2013.

Carmen Kock is the campaign administrative assistant for the Sioux Empire United Way. Angela (Reister) Wawrzynaik and husband, Kent, welcomed baby boy, Carson Rowan, to their family on July 22.

CLASS OF 1997 Jason Glaser’s newest novel, “Double Jump,” was published in November 2013. His book, “The Prospect,” was also selected by the Young Adult Library Services Association for their 2013 quick pick list for reluctant readers.

Tiffany (Malcom) Roiseland is an ELL teacher at West High School in Iowa City, Iowa.

Karen (Saalfeld) Tolliver and husband, Michael, welcomed their fifth child, Hosanna Bell, on January 4, 2013. The family lives in Sibley, Iowa.

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CLASS OF 1996 Tanya (Engbers) Brazones is the director of children’s ministry at Calvary Church in Minneapolis, Minn.

Clara Joy Basel was born May 24, 2013, in Sioux Falls, to Dayna Groskruetz and David Basel.

Kristi Stelter is employed at Wells Fargo Education Financial Services and also teaches private piano lessons in Sioux Falls. In addition, she is the music coordinator at Westside Lutheran Church, a new mission congregation of the S.D. ELCA Synod. Kristi earned a master’s degree in christian leadership from Sioux Falls Seminary.

CLASS OF 1995 Matthew Williams, 69, died June 12, 2013 in Vermillion, S.D. CLASS OF 1994 Jason Aanenson was recently inducted into the International College of Dentists. The ICD is the preeminent honorary dental organization in the world.

Lesley (Ronning) Kunz works at CenturyLink.

Kristin (Schmidt) Larson earned an MBA in international business from the University of Scranton.

CLASS OF 1993 Diana (Stanley) Baschnagel spent the 20112012 school year homeschooling her two children while living in Macau, a special administrative republic of China, where her husband worked for Galaxy Entertainment. She recently moved to Rapid City and is now working at Kirby Health Care.

Angela (Peck) Campbell is a medical officer in the influenza division of the Centers for Disease Control.

Carrie Grev has moved to the Philippines from Hong Kong and is starting her second 2-year contract with the International School Manila teaching middle school drama and high school show choir. Her son, Jacob, was born in Hong Kong in 2011.

CLASS OF 1992 Korine (Larsen) Land is an attorney for LeVander, Gillen & Miller, P.A. She currently serves as city attorney for the cities of West St. Paul, South St. Paul and Randolph, Minn., as well as general counsel to the South Metro Fire Department.

Aaron Roth is the director of sales and marketing at Burl Oaks Golf Club, Minnetrista, Minn.

CLASS OF 1991 Greg Handel has been named acting director of the Mrs. H.D. Dear School of Creative and Performing Arts at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, La. Jason Allen Schellhouse, 46, died on Aug. 16, 2013, in Sioux Falls.

Michelle (Gjerde) Siebert is the corporate communications and media relations manager at Digi-Key Corporation in the Grand Forks, N.D. area.

CLASS OF 1990 Sandy (Ballenger) Pohlmann is the secretary in the dean of students office at Augustana College.

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1980s

CLASS OF 1989 Kevin Koetthas graduated from Moorhead State University with an Ed.D. in educational leadership.

While Chris Rossing still works for Delta Airlines as a First Officer on the Airbus A320 aircraft, this spring he had the opportunity to come back on active duty as a Navy Reservist for six months and serve as the Deputy Chief Safety Officer for U.S. Forces during exercise Talisman Saber 2013 with the Australian Defense Force.

CLASS OF 1988 Sonya (Nelson) Fossum was selected as one of South Dakota’s 2014 Regional Teachers of the Year. She is a first grade teacher in the Mitchell School District.

CLASS OF 1985 Randy and Shelly (Lage) Gehring ‘85 have moved to Sioux Falls where Randy is serving as Senior Pastor at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church.

Wendy Hirsch teaches special education to students with vision impairments in Lincoln, Neb. Gayle Moe, 51, died April 8, 2013, in Hartford, S.D. CLASS OF 1984 Susan (Nelson) Colvin is a coordinator of special initiatives in the Omaha Public Schools.

CLASS OF 1982 Julie (Swanson) Plummer, 53, died August 15, 2013, in Brandon, S.D. CLASS OF 1981 Randy Bury is the chief operating officer for the Health Services Division in the Sioux Falls region at Sanford Health.

Ann Peterson is a Medical Case Manager for Travelers Insurance.

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1970s

CLASS OF 1979 Nathan Norem, 56, died September 12, 2013, in Houston, Texas.

CLASS OF 1978 Jeff Fylling is the director of community and sports relations for Sanford Health in Sioux Falls.

Karin Hamann is a cardiology research nurse coordinator at Children’s National Medical Center.

Page (Duroe) Kern completed the Racquetball U.S. Open, the largest international tournament.

She finished 2nd in women’s doubles, age division 45-plus.

Rodger Lee, 63, died August 27, 2013, at the V.A. Hospital in Sioux Falls.

Jim Simons was inducted into the South Dakota Physical Therapy Association Hall of Fame.

Simons is currently the Custer Regional Hospital director of rehabilitation services, a physical therapist, and an orthopedic clinical specialist.

CLASS OF 1977 Karen (Forsline) Krebs retired from her position as a second grade teacher at the White Bear Lake School District on June 6, 2013.

CLASS OF 1976 Carol (Erickson) Scissons is a teacher at Peace Lutheran Preschool in Faribault, Minn.

CLASS OF 1975 Bob Anderson, 60, died July 25, 2013 in Sioux Falls.

Joanne (McGinn) Johnson, 79, died July 31, 2013, in Sioux Falls.

CLASS OF 1974 Timothy Church is a full professor in the Division of Environmental Health Sciences of the University of Minnesota School of Public Health.

Rebecca (Kronlokken) Phipps, 60, passed away October 1, 2013, at the Cancer Center of America in Zion, Ill. Cynthia (Mellom) Porter, 61, died September 13, in Willmar, Minn.

CLASS OF 1973 Dennis Holzwarth has retired after 39 years as portfolio manager in the Private Client Reserve and Ascent Capital Management with U.S. Bank.

Barbara Peterson retired on June 7, 2013, after 12 years at Cigna Home Delivery Pharmacy.

CLASS OF 1972 Dean Emmans married Donna Karn on September 28, 2013.

Wendell Faulken, 83, died October 4, 2013, in Sioux Falls.

Dianne Williams completed her master’s in gerontology from Bethel University in St. Paul in June. She is working to restore a 12-acre farm site near St. Peter, Minn., for respite ministry and hopes to do ministry for seniors part-time.

CLASS OF 1971 Douglas L. Johnson, 63, passed away May 29, 2013, in Glen Ellyn, Ill. CLASS OF 1970 Carl Miller has retired as chaplain from the correctional supermax prison in Illinois. He continues to teach at Shawnee Community College.

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1960s

CLASS OF 1969 Charles Hultner, 65, passed away July 1, 2013, in Excelsior, Minn.

CLASS OF 1968 Eline (Grosfield) Knudson, 66, passed away on May 31, 2013, in St. Paul, Minn.

Sylvia (Wosje) Muilenburg, 66, passed away August 24, 2013, in Bloomington, Minn.

Elsie (Floren) Oksol, 96, passed away August 3, 2013, in Sioux Falls.

CLASS OF 1967 Hollis Elkins, 68, passed away on Sept. 26, 2013, in Watertown, S.D. Sheryl (Marten) Yahner, 70, passed away on July 28, 2013, in Stillwater, Minn.

CLASS OF 1966 Charles Glood, 93, died September 14, 2013, in Viborg, S.D. CLASS OF 1964 Dennis Norlin, 71, of Michigan, died June 7, 2013.

CLASS OF 1963 Ronald Brugger, 72, passed away September 12, 2013, in Sioux Falls.

LeRoy Hanson, 86, passed away March 24, 2013, in Rapid City, S.D. CLASS OF 1962 John Blomquist was named the new chairman of the board of directors for 2013 at APG Federal Credit Union’s 76th annual meeting.

John Stene received the distinguished alumni award during the 2013 Augustana Academy reunion in recognition of his 31 years on the faculty of Mount Marty College as chairman of the natural sciences division and the department of mathematics.

CLASS OF 1961 James Herrick, 76, passed away June 15, 2013, in Webster, S.D.

CLASS OF 1960 Carol (Leopold) Aden, 74, died at the Wymore Good Samaritan Center on June 2, 2013, in Wymore, Neb. Gene Brodland received the distinguished alumni award during the 2013 Augustana Academy reunion in recognition of his career in social work and psychiatry.

Arley Fadness has published his eighth book, “Balloons Aloft: Flying South Dakota Skies.”

Rodney Inberg, 83,passed away August 6, 2013, in Beresford, S.D.

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1950s

CLASS OF 1959 Clara (Lura) Clemetson, 97, died June 17, 2013, in Sioux Falls.

CLASS OF 1957 Dale Delzer, 79, passed away June 9, 2013, in Palm Harbor, Fla. James Query, 80, passed away on May 31, 2013, in Brainerd, Minn.

Gladys (Dahl) Spenny, 79, passed away October 11, 2013, in Columbia Heights, Minn.

CLASS OF 1956 Shirley (Matthews) Cope, 78, died August 21, 2013, in Dawson, N.D. Lloyd Muilenburg, 85, died June 9, 2013, in Topeka, Kan. CLASS OF 1955 Arlis (Pedersen) Werner, 80, passed away on Aug. 11, 2013 in Pipestone, Minn.

CLASS OF 1953 Arvilla H. Clemmetson, 89, died February 25, 2013, in Emmons, Minn.

Lola Fedde and Robert Fedde ‘52 received an invitation to attend the 40th anniversary of the Suburban Lutheran Parish of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on August 25, 2013 where Robert was the founding pastor. They are residents of Prairie Creek senior living campus in Sioux Falls.

TRAVEL WITH AUGUSTANA Join fellow alumni and current Augustana students on these exciting faculty-led educational journeys:

Spain: May 25-June 6, 2014 Germany: June 5-15, 2014 Israel: January 2015 China: January 2015

(with the Augustana Band)

www.augie.edu/travel

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With Deepest Augustana thanks these generous individuals who have made

Gift Commitments of $1 Million to $5 Million

Augustana Advocate James ‘54* and Eloise ‘61 Elmen Robert ‘52 and Rita Elmen Sanford Health Dr. Gregory ‘74 and Karen ‘75 Schultz Sodexo America, LLC.

Gift Commitments of $250,000 to $500,000

Howard ‘50 and Eunice ‘50 Hovland Paul ‘72 and Julie Mohrman Dr. Joyce Nelson^ Dr. Craig ‘73 and Karen ‘73 Pfeifer Dr. Robert ‘72 and Marilyn ‘74 Van Demark Rev. L. James ‘55 and Myrna ‘57 Wylie

Gift Commitments of $100,000 to $249,000

Augustana Advocate Estate of Lyle G. Christensen The Family of Ron Hoiberg ‘71* Robert Locken Lee ‘67 and Diane ‘65 Madetzke Dr. Jeffrey ‘78 and Mary Jo Murray The Nef Family Foundation Robert^ and Angela Oliver Dr. Michael ‘72 and Deborah ‘73 Olson Dr. John ‘74* and Deborah VanderWoude Gift Commitments of $50,000 to $99,999

Dr. Jason ‘94 and Jill ‘93 Aanenson Augustana Advocate Augustana Advocate Estate of Verna Berg ‘51^ Bentson Foundation Richard Bland ‘68 Dr. Thomas ‘78 Braithwaite and Tacey ‘76 Eneboe-Braithwaite Dr. Mary ‘62^ and Gary ‘62 Brendtro Dr. John Bylsma^ Thomas ‘83 and Leisa Davis Kirk* and Stephanie Dean Dr. David ‘72 and Sharon Detert Steven ‘80 and Brenda ‘81 Dronen Altie Domsitz ‘36 Ronald “Skip” Graff ‘67 Doris Gjervik ‘44 Dr. John ‘72 and Julie Hamre Kathryn ‘75 and Dr. William Harris Eloise ‘64 and Ronald Hefty Dr. Eugene ‘72 and Gloria ‘73 Hoyme Dr. Maureen Diggins-Hutcheson^ and Dr. H.L. Hutcheson

Gifts received as of December 17, 2013.

David ‘74 and Janet ‘75 Johnson Gilmore and Dorothy Koepsell Leelan ‘68 and Karen ‘67 Larsen Drs. Steven ‘79 Lillehaug and Tanya ‘82 Oyos Dr. James ‘72 and Carol ‘71^ Oakland Jim ‘77 and Sonja ‘78 Odland Lowell ‘80 and Debra ‘77 Stortz Lee ‘76 and John^ Thomas Dr. Reuben Tieszen Dr. Loren ‘64 and Jean ‘65 Tschetter Robert ‘71 and Sandra Wagner Gift Commitments of $25,000 to $49,999

Augustana Advocate Augustana Advocate Larry Aarsby ‘75 Dr. Douglas R. Anderson ‘89 Dr. Doug ‘80 and Gaye ‘82 Bell Dr. Dan ‘81 and Becky ‘81 Blue Ron ‘63 and Becky ‘65 Brakke Dr. Barney ‘74 and Mary ‘74 Brandenburg Henry and Eleanor Carlson Dr. Milton ‘60^ and Marjorie ‘61 Hanson Dr. Mark ‘77 and Ann Holm Drs. Greg and Corrine ‘72 Ganske James ‘82 and Barbara Grond Wilford and Jean Johnson Dr. Eric Klawiter ‘00 and Erika Anderson ‘99 Darrell ‘63 and Aileen Knudson Patrick ‘81 and Patti McAdaragh Dr. Jon ‘97 and Dot McAreavey Patrick ‘74 and Kay McNerney Marilyn and Thomas^ Meyer Dr. Verlyn and Lisa Nykamp Dr. Dale ‘60 and Camille ‘64 Peterson Rev. Valerie ‘82 and Dr. Wesley Putnam Drs. David ‘66 and Barbara Quissell Dr. Gayle ‘74 and T.J. Reardon Dr. Erwin ‘64 and Joan ‘64 Reimann Dr. Jeffrey ‘75 and Jacalyn ‘77 Thomas Jane ‘72 and Dr. Charles Zaloudek Gift Commitments of $10,000 to $24,999

Augustana Advocate Augustana Advocate R. Mark and Lisa Askew Dr. John ‘99 and Tamme Berdahl Nate^ and Mary Dally James ‘70 and Marcia ‘74 Fry Gil Haugan Construction, Inc. Dr. Ernest Gilbertson ‘54 Brent ‘78 and Nancy ‘78 Hoegh

leadership gifts or pledges

Dennis ‘73 and Patsy ‘74 Holzwarth Harriet Hybertson ‘45^ David ‘79 and Carole ‘83 Joyce Dr. Elmer ‘67 and Annette Kasperson Joe ‘75 and Jennifer ‘93 Kirby Donald ‘58 and Julie ‘60 Munson Dr. Carlyle ‘59 and Janet ‘57 Naessig Kristine ‘79 and Robert O’Connell Richard ‘73 and Laura ‘73 Olson The Family of Allan* and Adeline* Osmann Steven ‘82 and Dr. Gina ‘82 Pfeiffer Bob^ and Barb Preloger Dr. John ‘75 and Penny Ritterbusch Judith Schwerin ‘76 Thomas ‘89 and Melissa ‘90 Sebold Laurel ‘77 Prieb and Wendy Selig-Prieb Robert ‘67 and Susan ‘67 Simons John ‘77 and Michele Sturdevant Dr. Lloyd Svendsbye^ Robert ‘74 and Joan ‘74 Thimjon Dr. Jerel ‘71 and Nancy ‘74 Tieszen Dr. Arlen Viste^ Dr. Ralph^ and Susie^ Wagoner Dr. Michael ‘77 Williams and Valerie Armstead Todd ‘83 and Mary Williams Gift Commitments of $1,000 to $9,999

Augustana Advocate Dr. Aaron ‘98 and Jody Aadland Anita ‘78 and Randy Ahrendt Dennis ‘78 and Julie ‘79 Anderson Dr. Mary Auterman^ Les Baylor Ron Beck ‘61 Ronald ‘71 and Carol ‘70 Bergan Rev. Daniel ‘56 and Marjorie ‘55 Bergeland Marlin ‘72 and JoAnn Berkland Dr. Matt ‘92 and Darcie ‘92 Bien Dr. Jim^ and Susan^ Bies Earl and Helen Bohlen Ronald ‘76 and Carol Brandenburg Robert ‘55 and Rosalie ‘60 Brodin Dr. Elizabeth ‘98 and Jeff Bunch Kristin ‘00 and Aaron Canfield Dr. Marvin ‘61 and Diane Carlson Louise ‘69 and Dennis Chalupa Brent ‘74 and Terry Chozen Kay^ and Ronald Christensen Ray ‘69^ and Alice ‘71 Christensen Nancy Craig ‘68 William ‘81 and Nicole Dannehl

Gratitude...

in support of the Science Center Project, the most sophisticated building endeavor in our history.

Nancy Davidson^ Cara Davis ‘53 Drs. Tore ‘78 and Elizabeth ‘77 Detlie Dr. Geoffrey Dipple^ and Sharon Judd Daniel ‘84^ and Lisa Drenkow Janice ‘61 and Dr. Kent Eakins Rev. Norman ‘51 and Clarice ‘52 Eitrheim Dr. Marcia ‘83^ and Rick ‘83 Entwistle Eugene ‘55 and Betty^ Erickson W. Don ‘58 and Judith ‘58 Erickson Peder Fedde ‘84^ Mike^ and Sue^ Flynn Debra ‘76^ and Douglas Frederick Dr. Thomas ‘65 and Amy Froiland Shelly^ and Michael Gardner Wayne ‘57 and Carolyn Gildseth Don ‘63 and Judy ‘66 Gohl DeAnna ‘63 and Dr. Nels Granholm Dr. Glenn ‘64 and LaDonna Gravelle Dr. Carol ‘72 and Dr. Terrence Grimm Kim Gronewold ‘66 William ‘73^ and Sheree^ Gross Peter ‘68 and Ellen ‘70 Gugisberg David and Deb^ Hagemeier John ‘83 and Marcia ‘82 Haglund Nancy Hahn ‘78 Dr. Bruce ‘66^ and Nancy Hovasse Halverson Ron ‘62 and Joan ‘62 Halverson Kenneth ‘61 and Linda Halvorson Dr. Kimm ‘76 and Karin ‘78 Hamann Dale ‘74 and Jane ‘74 Harberts William Harvey ‘59 Dr. Susan^ Schneider Hasseler and Dr. Ken Hasseler Rickard ‘83 and Monica Hedeby Deborah Hendricks ‘74 Rodell ‘62 and Gretchen ‘65 Hofland Tim ‘81 and Dr. Pamela ‘81 Homan Dr. Jacquelyn Howell^ Dr. Charles ‘57 and Patty Howlin Dr. James ‘78 and Mary Hoyme Bradley and Rebecca Johnson Dr. Leland Johnson ‘59^ Dr. R.C. ‘68 and Jane Nutter ‘69 Johnson George ‘65 and Gay ‘67 Kapplinger Jeffery Kayl ’73 and Yuriko Anderson Barbara ‘61 and Basil Kilani Joshua ‘03 and Lindsay ‘03 King Dr. R. Roy^ and Helen Kintner Melvin^ and Carol Klein Dr. Delmar Knudson ‘56

Stan ‘75^ and Karen ‘77 Krebs Beverly ‘78 and Monte Krier Joni^ and Paul ‘97^ Krueger Lowell ‘65 and Leslie Kruse Dr. Terrence ‘62 and Julie Kullbom Jane^ and Dan Kuper Dr. Muriel Lamkee ‘49 Stephanie^ and Slade Larscheid Richard ‘60 and Shirley ‘61 Lauer Stephen ‘65 and Marilyn Lawrence Sara ‘82 and Eric Lee Dr. Paul ‘87 and Cora Limburg William ‘82 and Lorrae ‘82 Lindquist Dr. Lyle ‘68 and Rebecca ‘68 MacIver Ron and Karen^ Madsen Donald and Betty Maland Lois ‘85 and Thomas Martin Dr. Steven ‘90^ Matzner and Dr. Jetty^ Duffy-Matzner Dorothy ‘55 and Roy Mayeske Dr. Kenneth ‘67 and Sandy McClain Dr. Rhonda ‘85 McDowell and Dr. Robert Patton, Jr. Dr. Robert ‘53 and Glennys* ‘49 Meerdink Dr. Carole ‘79 and Ralph Miserendino Mark ‘80 and Barbara Morganfield Courtland ‘72 and Mitzi Nelson Dr. Margot Nelson ‘67^ Dr. Dan ‘76 and Diana Nelson Rev. Richard ‘42 and Deloris* ‘42 Nelson Dr. Reynold Nesiba^ and Rev. Dr. Anna Madsen^ Dr. Arlin ‘64 and Barbara Ness Evan ‘65 and Lesley Nolte Dr. Jeffrey ‘02 and Heather Oakland John Odney ‘65 Dr. David^ and Christina O’Hara Dr. Curtis^ and Lynda Olson Joyce Olson ‘46 Dr. Kenneth ‘70 and Alberta Olson Dr. David ‘71 and Katherine Overskei Jackie ‘97^ and Tory Payne Dr. LaMoyne ‘63^ and Karyn Pederson Dr. Edward ‘51 and Charlotte ‘51 Peters Scott ‘77 and Dr. Patricia ‘76 Peters Wayne ‘84 and Kelly Petersen Kristi ‘96 and Sean Peterson Dr. Janet^ and Rev. Frank Philipp Dr. Ellen ‘74 Pinholt and Rodney Michael Dr. Christina ‘93 Reimer and Brent Peters Bradley ‘73 and Agatha Reiners

Jason ‘98^ and Stacy Jo ‘97 Reitmeier Dr. William O. ‘56 and Ihlene ‘56 Rossing Dr. Paul ‘84 and Claire ‘84 Rud Rev. Kermit ‘54 and Doris ‘57 Rye Stephen and Jane Sahly Mark Sather ‘79 Jackie^ and Carl Schmidtman Dr. Peter^ and Bernice Schotten Paul Sichko ‘79 Lawrence ‘70 and Frances ‘69 Sittig Rev. Jon ‘71 and Jane ‘70 Skaar Dr. Rayburn ‘59 and Ardell ‘61 Skoglund Rev. Howard ‘66 and Kristin Skulstad Melinda Keith-Snell ‘89 and Norman Snell Carol^ and Michael Spillum Kelly^ and David Sprecher Dr. Ann ‘58 Stalheim-Smith and Dr. Christopher Smith Dr. Erik ‘79 and Lisa Stene Karen Streeter ‘64 Rev. Dr. Leslie ‘64 and Carolyn ‘66 Svendsen Cheryl^ and Rev. Dr. Richard^ Swanson Nancy ‘76 Swenson Dalldorf and Bob Dalldorf Thomas and Trudy Tamke Carolyn Thiessen ‘63 Dr. J.D. Thompson ‘55^ Dr. James ‘60 and Darlene Thompson Dr. Charles Toomajian, Jr. and Elizabeth Toomajian ‘77 Dr. Karel^ and Joyce Vander Lugt Dr. Mark Viste ‘92 Dr. Michael^ and Martha Wanous Ann ‘77 and Gerald ‘97 Weflen Chad ‘01 and Melissa ‘00 Welk Dr. Eric^ and Elizabeth Wells Christopher Wentzlaff ‘07 Darla ‘76^ and Michael Werner Donald Werner Rev. Greg ‘78 and Gail ‘78 Wilcox John Winslow Dr. Charles ‘52 and Delores ‘51 Wright Steven ‘71 and Adele Yorde Dr. Karen^ and Kent Younger

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Deceased Current and former Augustana Faculty/Staff

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To date, loyal Augustana alumni and friends have given $18.4 million in support of this important project.

To learn more about how you can support this initiative, contact Bob Preloger, VP for Advancement, at 605.274.4922.

Bernard Johnson, 82, passed away June 2, 2013, in Maplewood, Minn.

Walter Friedhoff, 89, passed away on Aug. 18, 2013, in Bloomington, Minn.

We recognize the following Augustana Legacy Families and welcome these students to the Augustana class of 2017:

Dan Slaight, 84, died August 23, 2013, in De Smet, S.D.

CLASS OF 1944 Ina Carlson, 92, passed away on Oct. 12, 2013, in Northfield, Minn.

Daniel Block, Pierre, S.D., son of Donald ‘82 & DeeAnn Block.

Christine Campbell, Irvine, Calif., daughter of Scott & Marlene (Vermeer) Campbell ’75.

Jacob Dancler, Tea, S.D., son of Larry & Cindy (Jan) Dancler ’80.

Alex Dixen, Sioux Falls, son of Jeffrey ‘85 & Julie Dixen.

Austin Erickson, Concord, N.H., son of Steven ‘89 & Kimberly (Forsch) Erickson ’90.

Nicole Grinager, Sioux Falls, S.D., daughter of Donn & Kristin (Sansgaard) Grinager ’97.

Joel Gullickson, Sioux Falls, son of Terry ‘82 & Lauri (Hough) Gullickson ’84.

Courtney Hardie, Watertown, S.D., daughter of Scott & Shelly (Knock) Hardie ’82.

Josh Hedeby, Phoenix, Ariz., son of Rickard ‘83 & Monica Hedeby.

Barbara Henke, Canton, S.D., daughter of Bruce ‘85 & Janet (Odland) Henke ’78.

Kiri Jacobsen, Sioux Falls, daughter of Todd ‘84 & Camilla Jacobsen.

Katelyn Johnson, Sioux Falls, daughter of Peter ‘85 & Sheryl Johnson.

Dan Knutson, Sioux Falls, son of Eric ‘88 & Amy (Schmidt) Knutson ’87.

Chelsea Kothe, Rapid City, S.D., daughter of Derek & Kathryn (Hauck) Kothe ’91.

Abby Krumrie, Claremont, Minn., daughter of Paul ‘82 & Jane Krumrie.

Natalie LeVan, Tea, S.D., daughter of Julie (Johannsen) LeVan ’84.

Marit Lhotzky, Sioux Falls, daughter of Stephan & Monica (Oyen) Lhotzky ’76.

Daniel Matzner, Sioux Falls, son of Steven Matzner ‘90 & Jetty Duffy-Matzner.

Hayley McCarron, Sioux Falls, daughter of Michael ‘93 & Andrea (DeVries) McCarron ’93.

Evan Meyer, Sioux Falls, son of Brian ‘85 & Sheila (Sherman) Meyer ’85.

Miranda Miller, Sioux Falls, daughter of Marshall ‘89 & Kathy Miller.

Anna Myrmoe, Aberdeen, daughter of Arlin Myrmoe ‘74 & Karine Pogosyan-Myrmoe.

Rachel Nevin, Sioux Falls, daughter of Joel ‘89 & Barbara (Gravgaard) Nevin ’85.

Carl Norquist, Pocahontas, Iowa, son of James Norquist & Joy Gonnerman ’85.

Courtney Olawsky, Sioux Falls, daughter of Ralph ‘77 & Susan (Froiland) Olawsky ’77.

Alex Pfeiffer, Sioux Falls, son of Steven ‘82 & Gina (Waltner) Pfeiffer ’82.

Liz Renner, Crooks, S.D., daughter of Timothy & Karin (Brendtro) Renner ’85.

Evan Richards, Le Mars, Iowa, son of Kevin ‘77 & Dawn (Acheson) Richards ‘78.

Jensyn Rickenbach, Sioux Falls, daughter of Steven & Trecia (Vant Hul) Rickenbach ’90.

Jess Roetman, Rock Rapids, Iowa, daughter of Michael ‘76 & Susan (Thoresen) Roetman ’76.

Jony Ross, Sioux Falls, son of Butch Ross ‘90 and Wanda (Buitendyk) Harris ’88 and Jason ‘90 .

Andie Sackreiter, Brenham, Texas, daughter of James ‘84 & Susan Sackreiter.

Matthew Schilling, Mitchell, S.D., son of Mark ‘88 & Ralyna Schilling.

Amber Sigler, Sioux Falls, daughter of Kim ‘75 & Gayle Sigler.

Tom Sittig, Baltic, S.D., son of Robert ‘78 & Ann Sittig.

Rebecca Sittig, Sioux Falls, daughter of Brian & Mary (Musgjerd) Sittig ’87.

Morgan Sorensen, Sioux Falls, daughter of Todd ‘91 & Pamela (Graham) Sorensen ’91.

Becca Toso, Canton, S.D., daughter of Jonathan ‘89 & Mary (McConahie) Toso ’90.

Sarah Unzicker, Sioux Falls, daughter of David ‘71 & Judy Unzicker.

Michael Viste, Sioux Falls, son of David ‘86 & Karen (Duffert) Viste ’85.

Lucas Wilber, Sioux Falls, son of Jeffrey ‘76 & Rhonda Wilber.

Ashley Wilson, Sioux Falls, daughter of Timothy & Cheryl (Paulsen) Wilson ’85.

Emily Wissink, Chisago City, Minn., daughter of Terry ‘83 & Barb Wissink.

Eli Yackel-Juleen, Windom, Minn., son of Mark & Margaret Yackel-Juleen ’81.

CLASS OF 1952 Robert Fedde and his wife, Lola ‘53, received an invitation to attend the 40th anniversary of the Suburban Lutheran Parish of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on August 25, 2013 where Robert was the founding pastor. They are residents of Prairie Creek senior living campus in Sioux Falls. Robert volunteers as a visitation pastor for Memorial Lutheran.

Donald Hagen, 84, died June 1, 2013, in Edina, Minn.

Harvey Johnson, 83, passed away August 9, 2013, in Spicer, Minn.

Louis Seubert, 82, died May 21, 2013, in California.

CLASS OF 1950 Clayton Bakke, age 86, died August 3, 2013, in Orange, Calif.

Elaine (Eidem) Hogseth, 85, died July 21, 2013, in Santa Anna, Calif.

Dolores (Bloom) Hoidal, 84, died March 19, 2013, in Sioux Falls.

Charles Mandsager, 86, died October 9, 2013, in Loveland, Colo.

THE

1940s

CLASS OF 1949 Raymond Bunkers, 91, passed away on May 8, 2013, in Sioux Falls.

Delbert Jones, 91, passed away September 19, 2013, in Evansville, Ind. Glennys (Lokken) Meerdink, 86, died Oct. 20, 2013, in Sioux Falls.

John Nash, 90, passed away July 29, 2013, in Coon Rapids, Minn.

CLASS OF 1948 Genevieve (Nash) Grau, 87, passed away on May 2, 2013, in Le Mars, Iowa.

LaVonne (Ersland) Prieb, 87, died July 6, 2013, in Aberdeen, S.D. Nancy (Johnson) Richardson, 87, died June 24, 2013, in Sioux Falls.

Durand Young, 86, passed away on June 28, 2013, in Bentonville, Ark. CLASS OF 1946 Arlein (Rekstad) Fransen, 90, passed away on Oct. 3, 2013, in Wessington Springs, S.D. Betty (Johnson) Houske, 89, passed away on Aug. 2, 2013, in Prairie Village, Kan. Joyce (Hesla) Lee, 88, died on June 3, 2013, in Albuquerque, N.M. Adeline (Bailey) Nelson, 92, passed away Sept.

27, 2013, in Sioux Falls.

CLASS OF 1945 Marcella (Dosseth) Oden, 90, died on July 5, 2013, in Peoria, Ariz.

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Margaret (Eid) Haygeman, 92, died on Aug. 16, 2013, in Sioux Falls.

CLASS OF 1943 Tordis (Oien) Baird, age 91, died on Aug. 18, 2013, in Sunnyvale, Calif.

Eileen Folsland, 92, died September 25, 2013, in Rapid City, S.D. CLASS OF 1942 Dorothy (Norris) Dexter, 92, died June 25, 2013, in Sioux Falls.

CLASS OF 1941 Mildred (Hofstad) Prael, 93, passed away October 20, 2013, in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. CLASS OF 1940 Clarence Hagen, 95, passed away on October 9, 2013, in Appleton, Wisc.

THE

1930s

CLASS OF 1939 Selma (Haugland) Akland, 100, passed away January 17, 2013, in Viborg, S.D.

Vernon Kay, 96, passed away August14, 2013, on Okabena, Minn.

CLASS OF 1935 Dorothy (Fries) Novotny-Brandenburg, 98, passed away Jan.13, 2013, in Stratford, Ontario.

CLASS OF 1934 Emmett Myhre, 102, passed away June 4, 2013, in Kalispell, Mont.

IN MEMORIAM Herman Smidt, 87, of Sioux Falls, passed away on Sept. 22, 2013. He was a mailroom clerk at Augustana for 16 years.

Dorothy Smith, 86, of Sioux Falls, died August 29, 2013. She was employed from 1988 to 1996 at the Augustana Campus Learning Center as a cook.

Raymond Dunmire, 87, of Maylene, Ala., passed away May 24, 2013. He was Director of the Library and a charter member of the Center of Western Studies from 1969-83.

James Pentico,77, died September 13, 2013, in Sioux Falls. He taught Criminal Justice at Augustana from 1973 to 1987.

Michael Freidel, 57, died October 6, 2013, in Vermillion, S.D. He spent the majority of his professional career (1985-92 and 1996-2003) as defensive coordinator and assistant professor at Augustana. Memorial donations may be directed to the “Mike Freidel Football Scholarship Fund” at Augustana College.

The AUGUSTANA

Transfers Hannah Brindle, Watertown, S.D., daughter of Jeffrey & Sherri (Schultz) Brindle ’80.

Devin Marty, Sioux Falls, daughter of Dean & Lori (Shelquist) Marty ’81.

Audra Steinborn, Sioux Falls, daughter of Craig ‘76 & Kae Steinborn.

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