CLASS NOTES
CSB MILESTONES 1983 Donna Davis Oliver retired after 30+ years of service with Amtrak, Sept. ’21.
1984 Jamie Stanton Moloney was hired as director of pastoral outreach by The Catholic Cemeteries in the Twin Cities to promote them as the preferred parish resource for training, catechesis, consulting services and programs related to the end of life continuum, Oct. ’21.
1986 Wendy Wencl Ryan was hired as the director of surgical services at Riverwood Healthcare Center (Minnesota), Sept. ’21.
1988
Michelle Kujawa Isham was reappointed to the Commission of the Deaf, DeafBlind and Hard of Hearing’s East Central Advisory Committee in St. Paul, Sept. ’21.
1990 Suanne Drews Barthol earned a Doctor of Business Administration from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Dec. ’20. She is employed as an assistant professor at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio. Terri Giyan Kallsen was elected to a three-year term, beginning Jan. ’22, with the board of directors for Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc., Nov. ’21. The board is the policymaking and oversight body of CFP Board and acts on behalf of the public, CFP professionals and other stakeholders.
1991
Robin Balder-Lanoue won the BreakingBarriers award in the National Girls & Women in Sports Day event in St. Paul, Dec. ’21.
1998 Dena Meyer started a new position as president of Lifestyle Communities (Minnesota), a company focused on real estate development, Sept. ’21.
1999 Carrie Abfalter is the director of donor relations for the Central Minnesota Community Foundation in St. Cloud, Minnesota, Sept. ’21. Amy Karlson Frie graduated with a master’s degree in Romance languages from the University of New Orleans, Dec. ’21.
1999 Donniel Johnson Robinson was hired by the Initiative Foundation as its entrepreneurship programs officer in Little Falls, Minnesota, Dec. ’21.
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2000 Maxine Storr-Seymour was sworn in as a senator in the Bahamas, Oct. ’21.
2002 Katie Studer Roers has been honored with the 2021 Top Women in Finance award for Minneapolis, Sept. ’21. Katie is employed with Variant Insurance.
2005 Andrea Dowd started a two-year term as president of the board of APRA-MN (Association for Professional Researchers for Advancement) in St. Paul, Dec. ’21. Johanna Hatch earned a Master of Science in nursing from Frontier Nursing University in Versailles, Kentucky, and was certified by the American Midwifery Certification Board as a certified nurse midwife, July ’21. Sara Palmitessa earned a Master of Business Administration degree from St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Dec. ’21.
2006 JaNae Altepeter Teer completed her Ph.D. from the University of WisconsinMilwaukee and is currently a postdoctoral clinical psychology fellow at Fraser in Bloomington, Minnesota, Oct. ’21.
2007 Tara Fasciana Durheim was promoted to marketing director of the Liturgical Press in Collegeville, Minnesota, Oct. ’21. Chelsey Jo Huisman earned a Doctor of Philosophy in business studies from Uppsala University (Sweden), Dec. ’21. The title of her monograph thesis was “Transforming the City of Kiruna: Stabilizing Change and Changing Stability.” Chelsey Jo continues to study organizational and interorganizational change processes, teach at the bachelor and master level, and support practitioners in municipalities in developing their innovative capacity.
2009 Kristen Smude Houle was promoted to signing director at CliftonLarsonAllen LLP in St. Cloud, Minnesota, Nov. ’21. Ashleigh Leitch is an associate general counsel at Jamf in Minneapolis, Sept. ’21.
2012 Lainie Steffen Bailen is retail brand manager-feed and nutrition at Cargill, Inc., in Minnesota, Aug. ’21.
2013 Hudda Ibrahim, co-founder of Filsan Talent Partners, helped write the curriculum for the Somali Heritage Language Program, which helps Somali
students to retain the Somali language, learn about their cultural identity, and also learn English.
2014 Ashley Welters Kruse was promoted to director at CliftonLarsonAllen LLP in St. Cloud, Minnesota, Nov. ’21. Bridgette Springer graduated with a Master of Science degree in international educational development from the University of Pennsylvania, Dec. ’21.
2015 Erin Wilson Wee created saint images to emphasize the diversity of saints for Nativity of Mary Church in Bloomington, Minnesota, Nov. ’21.
2017 Nicole Argudin was accepted into the Master of Divinity program at Loyola University Chicago, Fall ’20.
2018 Bailey Fowler was recognized as teacher of the year at Grandview Middle School in Mound, Minnesota, Nov. ’21. Morgan Kessler Russek is a part of the Rural Physician Associate Program for Welia Health, Mora, Minnesota, Nov. ’21.
2020 Regan Haegele was promoted to talent advisor at Katapult Network in Minneapolis, Dec. ’21.
2021 Anne Marie Griebie was awarded the Minnesota Psychological Association’s 2021 Donald G. Paterson Undergraduate Award in Psychology, Sept. ’21.
CSB MARRIAGES 1975 Mary Ann Becker to Arthur Lindeland, June ’21
2000 Katrina Lusty to Daniel Daly, Oct. ’20 2011 Pa Nhia Lee to Yeng Yang ’11, April ’21 Megan Wolf to Zachary King, June ’21
2012 Heather Hamilton to Jo Simonett, Aug. ’21 Abby Hansen to Brett Landrum, Aug. ’21 Heather Jaqua to Christopher Stevermer, Sept. ’21
2013 Melissa Mehaffey to Kyle Larsen, May ’21 Gretchen Osdoba to David Kirkhoff, Aug. ’21
2014 Meghan Battista to Andrew Mueller ’14, Oct. ’21 Meghan Carda to Ben Hueper, Oct. ’21 Brittney Poganski to Jon Kraayenbrink, May ’21
