CLASS NOTES
MILESTONES
Carliene Quist founded and launched
Carliene S. Quist Enterprises, LLC, a coaching and consulting business that empowers historically underrepresented college students to more fully engage in and reap benefits of their undergraduate experience. Current initiatives include academic internships for CSB and SJU students and the “Bridging Boundaries” coaching program, Nov. ’21.
Barbara Jane Houle raised money to 1985
collect and ship a container of 22,000 books to Swaziland for her project, “Read to Recovery,” which provides books to be distributed to hospitals and health care centers, April ’22.
Jane Kuebelbeck Williams was named 1988
chief financial officer of the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Feb. ’22.
Lucille Sieve Rehm serves on the Chanhassen (Minnesota) city council as well as the Carver County Sheriff’s Crucial Conversations team – a group formed to build relationships with underrepresented communities after the murder of George Floyd. She is running for the Minnesota legislature to represent residents in the city of Chanhassen and the eastern side of Chaska in District 48B of the Minnesota State House of Representatives, March ’22.
1992
aren Swearingen Richard was elected K to the Minnesota Public Radio Board of Trustees, Feb. ’22.
Donnelle Privette Poling was named 1995
2008
Megan Deutschman defended her dissertation titled, “Wrestling with Whiteness: Complexities and Contexts of White Educator Identities” and obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota’s Comparative and International Development Education program, April ’22. Nicole Knight Schrupp was published in Vol. 33 of the Law Journal of Public Policy and Practice and was selected to be next year’s Vol. 44 editor-in-chief, April ’22. Melanie Miesen Griffith graduated from 2011 the University of Minnesota Law School with a Juris Doctor degree, May ’21 and began a one-year judicial clerkship at the Minnesota Supreme Court with Chief Justice Lorie S. Gildea, Aug. ’21.
grant director of a $1 million grant for the Saint John’s School of Theology and Seminary’s initiative “Conversatio: Creating a Culture of Encounter,” Jan. ’22.
Alicia Peters was awarded 2021-22 1996
rittney Helmbrecht Schoephoerster B and her spouse, Alex Schoephoerster ’11 were recognized at state level for going above and beyond as mentors in the Big Brothers and Big Sisters program and awarded 2022 Central Minnesota Big Duo of the Year.
Minnesota Higher Education Art Educator of the Year by Art Educators of Minnesota, Jan. ’22.
2000 2001
ndrina LaBelle Weis is the vice president A of human resources at Reell Precision Manufacturing, St. Paul, April ’22.
Michelle Johnson was appointed senior partner in health care practice at WittKieffer, Minneapolis, April ’22.
2005
athryn Enger Enke received the 2022 K Award for Professional Achievement from the National Association of Presidential Assistants in Higher Education, March ’22.
2007
Brita Thielen earned a Ph.D. in English (writing history and theory) from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, in 2021. Her dissertation was titled: “Setting the Table: Ethos-asRelationship in Food Writing.” Furthermore, “Consuming the Past: Food Metaphors in the Intergenerational Food Memoir,” a chapter written by Brita, was published in the edited collection Consumption and the Literary Cookbook (Routledge 2021).
Felicia Ochs is a member of the charter school board of Change Health Charter School, which focuses on outdoor and experiential learning, Alberta, Canada, March ’22.
2003
ndrea Wise Meyer was named one of A the Top 100 Women in PowerSports by DealerNews magazine, Feb. ’22.
E mily Coborn was named vice president of retail services, overseeing pharmacy, liquor and e-commerce operations for Coborn’s Inc. in St. Cloud, Minnesota, Jan. ’22.
2012
hannon McEvoy started a weekly S bilingual (Spanish and English) podcast about murals, related to her experience with murals and public art projects, March ’22.
2014
Bridgette Springer graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with an M.S.Ed. in international educational development, Dec. ’21.
Clare Johnston earned a Ph.D. in 2015
chemistry from the University of Minnesota. Her thesis was titled “The Influence of Aluminum Substitution on the Synthesis, Transformation, Reactivity, and Oxidative Mineral Growth of Iron Oxide Minerals,” Feb. ’22.
Kaitlyn LaVoie received a $10,000 grant from the Henrico Education Foundation to purchase new diverse books for all English classrooms at Short Pump Middle School, Henrico, Virginia, March ’22.
2016
Erin Ryan-Mosley was featured in the Minneapolis StarTribune for her coffee shop, Third Space Cafe, Jan. ’22.
Mariah Odgen-Kellington was hired as 2019
a police officer for the Lakeville Police Department, Lakeville, Minnesota, Feb. ’22.
2020
Amanda Bjerke published the book, Opening Your Eyes: Becoming Self-Aware as a Young Adult in the 21st Century, March ’22.
Jill Oldakowski was recognized by Big Brothers and Big Sisters for going above and beyond as a mentor and awarded the 2022 Central Minnesota Big Sister of the Year. Anja Wuolu published a collection of poems titled “Space Between Pages,” which details life in the pandemic and how to make the best of it, Jan. ’22.
MARRIAGES Rachel Daly to Paul Schiller, Jan. ’22 1991 Courtney Jacobson to Gary Spence, 1998 Oct. ’21 Christine Donnell to Bobby Sederstrom, 2008 Oct. ’21
Margaret Johnson to Ronald Jewett, June ’21 Laura Beach to Kaitlyn Ashner, Sept. ’21 2010 Laura Sienko to Grady Sloan ’11, Oct. ’21 2011 Kelly Bechtold to Bradley Trapp, Sept. ’21 2013 Maura Flaherty to Kent McBreen, May ’21 Kayla Grack to Daniel Hertog, June ’21
2014
rittany Billiet to Joshua Erickson ’14, B Jan. ’21
2015
anón Gammon-Deering to Maxwell M Kuzara ’17, Aug. ’21
Mary Cherne to Garett Schoenfelder, 2016 Nov. ’21
Marissa Lucio to Eric Kropp, Sept. ’21
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