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14 Life on the Mississippi Sustainability efforts at St. Cloud State benefit its neighbors upstream, downstream and everywhere in between

Cover photo: Evan Parkhouse ‘12 paddles through the rapid-moving spring season waters of the Mississippi River. Photograph by Neil Andersen ’96

Departments

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Advanced Preparation Program reunion highlights 25 years of opportunities

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Students become broadcasters Ashli Gerdes and Ian Luhm gain real-world experience through experiential learning opportunities

10 Focused on safety The Minnesota Highway Safety and Research Center’s guiding principle is to reduce traffic accidents and their traumatic effects

12 Preparing for the race and beyond

St. Cloud State University news Achievement highlights from outstanding students, faculty and staff as well as other campus news

17 Husky Athletics Heather Weems, St. Cloud State’s Athletic Director, shares her passion for the student athlete experience and highlights of recent news about the men’s and women’s hockey teams

18 Alumni class notes Careers, changes, couples, children — catch up on what other alumni are accomplishing

Nestled in a basement space of Halenbeck Hall, the Human Performance Lab offers testing for on and off-campus community members

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Editor Loren J. Boone Managing Editor Adam Hammer ’05 Art Direction and Design Marie Novak Madgwick ’91 St. Cloud State Information Marsha Shoemaker Jeff Wood ’81 ’87 ’95 University Advancement Craig C. Wruck Terri Mische Kristin Hatten Athletic Information Anne Abicht ’06 Tom Nelson

From the President

Supporting community well-being St. Cloud State embraces a unique role that calls upon the university to help create more livable communities, stronger economies and a more inclusive society. Many of our peers refer to this role as being “a steward of place” — an agent responsible for the well-being of the communities entrusted to our care. On the pages of this Outlook you will read about faculty and staff who take this role seriously. They have become excellent role models of stewardship, i.e., public engagement that has wide-reaching benefits.

Among these benefits is the way in which we prepare our students for life, work and citizenship. We enable and encourage our students to participate in beyond-theclassroom experiences that allow them to apply what they have learned in the classroom in “real-world” settings.

Often these experiences have been developed through university/community relationships.

As a vital component of the region’s economic and cultural well-being, St. Cloud State actively pursues external associations with businesses, organizations and other partners that benefit multiple parties, including students. Some examples include: »» Collaborations with businesses such as Algaedyne Corporation, a leading Minnesota-based technology firm focused on commercializing fast crop cycling algae-based products that could help meet the growing demand for energy.

»» Programs that support and exchange expertise with businesses that are building Minnesota’s economy, such as the trio of Master of Science programs St. Cloud State offers in support of the state’s fastgrowing medical device industry. »» Internships that benefit Minnesota businesses with student expertise and in turn benefit thousands of students with hands-on experiences. More than 1,800 internship sites have offered our students opportunities to enhance their education with work experience in their fields. For example, St. Cloud State students fill 40 percent of Xcel Energy’s intern force at the company’s Monticello and Sherco power plants. »» Partnerships with area public schools, incorporating St. Cloud State’s nationally-acclaimed co-teaching model. More than 1,200 education students are involved in field experiences at 185 area schools each year.

These and many more examples of St. Cloud State’s commitment to stewardship of place are helping us fulfill our core purpose to graduate people who have developed their potential to succeed in all aspects of work and life.

HEED Award

SCSU Survey

Tekne finalist

Nate Silver, statistitian and blogger for the New York Times, included the SCSU Survey in his top 3 election surveys polling likely voters one to five times during the last 21 days of campaigning.

The SCSU Survey accurately predicted Obama would win the state by about 8 percent.

Since 1980, Minnesota’s leading academic poll conducted

by SCSU has sampled the state’s public opinion under the direction of student directors and faculty directors, including founder Stephen Frank, professor of political science.

St. Cloud State’s Mobile Lab Program, which includes the Science Express, was a finalist for the 13th annual Tekne Awards from the Minnesota High Tech Association (MHTA).

The University was one of four contenders for the EdTech Award, which recognizes the development of innovative technologies that enhance teaching and learning.

Science Express is expanding to include a Technology & Engineering Express, an equipment-lending program and professional development for teachers.

St. Cloud State University is recognized for its commitment to diversity and inclusion in the December issue of Insight Into Diversity magazine.

The University is honored along with 47 other Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) award recipients for its ongoing efforts to include all aspects of diversity such as gender, race, ethnicity, veterans, people with disabilities and members of the LGBT community.

Read more about the HEED award on page 5.

Militaryfriendly status St. Cloud State is named to two military-friendly schools lists for 2013.

The University was again named one of the most militaryfriendly schools in America by Victory Media, publisher of G.I. Jobs magazine and the Military Friendly Schools list. St. Cloud State serves more than 525 enrolled military students and veterans.

The University also was named to Military Advanced Education’s 2013 Guide to Top Military-Friendly Colleges and Universities.

Earl H. Potter III, President

About Distinctions The oak leaf has long been the symbol for life and learning at St. Cloud State University, where growth and change are as constant as the flowing waters of the Mississippi River that runs along its oak-crowned banks. It is the natural choice to stand as an icon signifying the honors, awards, distinctions and other high accomplishments that we point to with pride. Look for this oak leaf throughout Outlook and online at www.stcloudstate.edu.

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University news

WPA wall restored and dedicated

Brian Kostreba, Kostreba Tuckpointing & Roofing, Rice, mortars into place the last element of the restored First Avenue walls. Photo by Adam Hammer ’05

A crowd of about 100 onlookers watched Oct. 30 as master mason Brian Kostreba mortared into place a granite sign that reads “WPA 1936” as the final element of a two-month, $200,000 restoration project to help preserve St. Cloud State’s First Avenue Walls.

Built by the Works Progress Administration (WPA), the walls line the sidewalk on the east side of First Avenue from 8th Street south to University Bridge.

The vast majority of the rough granite facing stones and polished granite capstones in the First Avenue Walls remain original material.

“We knew we had to respect the character of the walls,” said John Frischmann, facilities construction coordinator.

The Great Depression federal relief WPA program created $11 billion in public works projects between 1935 and 1943, according to Bill Morgan, professor emeritus of American Studies who spoke at the dedication event.

Watch video of Bill Morgan’s remarks during the dedication event: scsu.mn/Qjhciw

Construction on track Renovation of the half-century-old Case-Hill residence hall is delivering more student-friendly comfort, features and space. The $12 million project, completed in August, returned 326 beds to service, ahead of schedule and under budget. Among the many updates are larger, more private bathrooms and air-handling equipment that improved air quality and control of room temperatures.

Get more information at http://scsu.mn/TfKm1l.

The Integrated Science and Engineering Laboratory Facility (ISELF) is enclosed and on track for use in August 2013.

“As we move toward completion of our $45 million Integrated Science and Engineering Laboratory Facility, it will be important to equip its new classrooms and labs with tools that will help prepare students and to transform St. Cloud State into the Minnesota leader in science education and science business collaboration,” President Earl H. Potter III said.

St. Cloud State received $120,000 in state funds in September for an X-ray diffractometer valued at $365,198 that will allow students and faculty in undergraduate and graduate programs to gain a deeper and more practical understanding of X-ray diffraction techniques. The University will raise $140,000 in matching contributions for the remainder of the cost and receive $105,000 in vendor discounts.

View the ISELF web cam at http://scsu.mn/T5e060.

The $14.7 million renovation and expansion of the National Hockey & Event Center is expected to be complete in April. The four-story glass atrium along Herb Brooks Way is enclosed. The SCSU Foundation and Husky Athletics are teaming to renovate the Husky Hockey locker rooms. Learn more about the NHEC, including the Alumni and Friends Locker Room Campaign at http://scsu.mn/QZx21X.

President Potter signs commitment to future statement St. Cloud State is one of 487 participating universities involved in the Project Degree Completion: A Public University Initiative with a commitment to increasing the number of undergraduate baccalaureate degrees granted by public universities and colleges by 3.8 million between now and 2025.

President Earl H. Potter III signed a commitment to the future statement as part of the initiative through the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) and the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU).

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“Project Degree Completion is an unprecedented initiative that will drive the instructional agenda of public universities and colleges in the years ahead,” said M. Peter McPherson, president of APLU. “Never before have public colleges and universities, and our two associations, formally come together around such an important and sustained effort. This initiative is an economic competitiveness imperative for the future of the country and the individuals involved.”

The project also calls for providing students with a quality education and

renewed partnership among public colleges and universities, the states and the federal government while working to achieve these goals.

Other portions of the Project Degree Completion commitment pledge support for student access and diversity; efforts to reduce the average “time to degree” for students; and closer partnerships with elementary and secondary schools and community colleges to prepare students to earn four-year degrees, particularly in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

University news

HEED award recognizes diversity and inclusion St. Cloud State University is recognized for its commitment to diversity and inclusion in the December issue of Insight Into Diversity magazine.

St. Cloud State is honored along with 47 other Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) award recipients for its ongoing efforts to include all aspects of diversity such as gender, race, ethnicity, veterans, people with disabilities and members of the LGBT community. Other Minnesota schools recognized are the University of Minnesota and the William Mitchell College of Law. “St. Cloud State understands the importance of having a diverse and inclusive student body and workforce, and is diligently working to accomplish their goals. We applaud their hard work and wish them much success,” said Lenore Pearlstein, publisher of Insight Into Diversity.

The University’s focus on providing a welcoming environment for all its students, faculty and staff is reflected in its mission, vision and learning commitments and in efforts to cultivate pride in the University as a catalyst for social change, growth and opportunity for all its students to succeed.

“Embracing diversity is a key to both personal and professional growth at St. Cloud State,” said President Earl H. Potter III. “The HEED award is a reminder that diversity and inclusion need to remain priorities as we prepare students to enter the workforce and a global society.”

This is the first year Insight Into Diversity, the oldest and largest higher education diversity-focused publication, is presenting the HEED awards.

“We looked for schools that had a broad diversity plan,” Pearlstein said, in

the December issue feature story. “We didn’t just look at the statistics schools submitted; in some cases we considered the improvement in the numbers over previous years. We wanted to ensure that diversity and inclusion are a part of the campus DNA of each award winner.”

View the Insight Into Diversity digital edition: scsu.mn/Up7RAP

Former President Clinton visits held about 1,100 attendees. Hundreds in overflow watched the presentation on large screens set up outside of Atwood.

According to reports from local media, crowd members spanned the political landscape — some were in support of the campaign while others flocked just for a chance to see a president speak.

Clinton, along with Sen. Al Franken and 6th Congressional District candidate Jim Graves ’74, greeted outdoor viewers before taking the stage in the Ballroom.

Graves, an SCSU graduate and hotel magnate, narrowly lost to incumbent Michele Bachmann in the election.

A select handful of St. Cloud State faculty, staff, alumni and public leaders, including President Earl H. Potter III, met briefly with Clinton before the event.

A line of about 4,000 campus and community members snaked through Atwood Memorial Center and past the Miller Center just days before the November election to see former President Bill Clinton speak on behalf of President Barack Obama’s Minnesota campaign.

The grassroots gathering was the first time a former or sitting president has used St. Cloud State’s facilities for an event. While on the campaign trail in 1952, Dwight D. Eisenhower crowned Joyce Pearson as St. Cloud State’s homecoming queen on the steps of the Stearns County courthouse before 6,000 spectators. Eisenhower became president in 1953.

Obama’s Minnesota campaign rented the Atwood Memorial Center Ballroom for the last-minute event, which

Far left: Former President Bill Clinton speaks to the crowd in the Atwood Ballroom.

Left: Hundreds in overflow outside of Atwood cheer for Clinton’s appearance.

Photos by Adam Hammer ‘05

Watch video from UTVS about the crowds and student impact: scsu.mn/YYzoPw

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University news Multimedia Services wins Telly Award

Watch the awardwinning video: scsu.mn/ZJF5B8

St. Cloud State was a winner of a 2012 Telly Award for the video entry “Earth Science Here and Abroad” featuring Kate Pound, associate professor of atmospheric and hydrologic sciences. The online commercial highlighted Pound’s core sampling research in Antarctica.

The Multimedia Services department produced the promotional piece, earning an Online Video Bronze award. The University’s video production team, headed by Jim Bertram ’88, producer and director, works with campus clients to plan, direct and produce teaching and promotional videos.

“Earth Science Here and Abroad” focused on Pound’s participation in ANDRILL (ANtarctic geological DRILLing), a deep drilling project undertaken by a multinational group of scientists, educators and students.

“The real excitement for me was translating that science. Finding ways to bring exciting science into the classroom,” Pound said.

Shawn Jarvis publishes anthology

Shawn Jarvis, professor of German and chair of the foreign languages department, has compiled a 368-page hardcover book of 19th century fairy tales written by German women writers. “In the Realm of Wishes” (“Im Reich der Wünsche”) is a collection of tales with classic motifs.

“The history of the German fairy tale is being rewritten in this anthology,” according to C.H. Beck publishing house of Germany. “Its publication coincides with the 200th anniversary of the publication of Grimms’ fairy tales.”

Jarvis credits her husband, Roland Specht-Jarvis, also a St. Cloud State professor of German, for his help in gathering photographic and archival materials for the book.

Education Prof Kathy Johnson attends CGI

Kathy Johnson, associate professor in the Department of Special Education, recently accompanied Zhao Chin Li, known to many as Angel, to the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) annual meeting in New York City. They attended the CGI meeting on behalf of Ginkgo Academy Partnership, a P-16 community initiative among Minnetonka Schools, St. Cloud State, Yangshuo Mountain Retreat creator Chris Barclay and others who work to support the advancement of opportunities for children with disabilities.

Born with brittle bone disease and dwarfism, Angel was unable to attend school as a child. She was locked in hiding during President Bill Clinton’s visit to China in 1998.

Against odds, she has connected with American politicians Angel (center) with former President Bill Clinton (right), CEO of Starkey and educators who have championed her cause.

Hearing Foundation Bill Austin (left) “Angel was the highlight of the session,” Johnson said. and her husband Mo En Yao. Among those visibly moved was Clinton, who recounted meeting Angel for the first time on stage during the Closing Plenary Session.

“It was really one of the most life affirming experiences I’ve ever had,” Clinton said. “For the rest of my life, in every down moment, I will seek to remember this beautiful woman.”

Afterwards, Johnson and Angel were invited backstage to discuss plans for building a bi-lingual school for children with disabilities in China, where many disabled children are denied an education.

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Douglas H. Vinzant named vice president

President Earl H. Potter III named Douglas H. Vinzant, a veteran administrator, as the next vice president for finance and administration.

Vinzant replaces Steve Ludwig who retired in June after 25 years of service with seven years as vice president. Len Sippel has filled the vice president position as an interim.

Vinzant has more than 25 years of experience in public higher education leading budget, strategic planning, administration and finance, and information technology operations at universities across the country. He served as vice president for administration at the University of Wyoming from 2009-2012 and has held administrative roles at the University of Illinois, Arizona State University, Eastern Washington University and Central Washington University.

Most recently, he was a senior consulting associate with the Pappas Consulting Group.

Story By Marsha Shoemaker | Photographs by Kay Printy

Advanded Preparation Program (APP) alumni and current students gather during the APP 25th anniversary.

Support in numbers

APP reunion highlights 25 years of opportunities

When freshman Darryl Howard arrived on campus from Tampa, Fla., last summer for the 25th annual Advanced Preparation Program class, he had a unique advantage over other classmates newly far from home.

His mother, an alumnus of the acclaimed program that is one of many St. Cloud State resources to support student success, had clued him in on the advantages his APP experience would offer.

“She told me it would give me a good head start for college,” said Howard, a psychology major who runs track for the Huskies and works part time in the Multicultural Student Services office. “She was right. APP helped me get used to campus and decide what college was all about. I learned how to manage my time and be positive. I got to meet a lot of people like the president. I made friends.”

When Howard’s mom, Stephanie Kelley ’99, arrived at St. Cloud State from Rockford, Ill., in 1995 she experienced the pangs of loneliness and anxiety most freshman have when they leave friends, family and the familiarity of their hometowns for college life. And like the other 600-plus freshmen who have participated in APP she quickly assimilated, learning her way around campus and how to juggle classes and activities. She developed lasting friendships.

When it came time for her son to choose a college, Kelley wanted Howard to have the same advantages of being part of a close community of students who feel comfortable and welcome within the broader campus community.

Kelley was among the 60 APP alumni who returned to campus Aug. 3 for the 25th anniversary reunion of the award-winning Multicultural Student Services program that helps incoming firstyear students — many of them students of color — make a smoother transition to college life. For most it was a life-altering experience.

Saengmany Ratsabout ’04 and his wife Gao Lee ’04, Brooklyn Park, have APP to thank for their life as a couple. They met as members of the class of 2000 and eventually married. They brought their son and daughter to the reunion. Another couple, Blia (Thor) Xiong ’09 and Dan Xiong, now from Blaine, also married as a result of their shared experience in the 2004 APP class.

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Story and Photographs by Tim Johnson ’11

Also among the program’s 600 alumni are numerous siblings and others with family ties. Like Kelley, they passed along to younger family members their APP memories.

Those memories were hot topics at the reunion as alumni renewed friendships with fellow APP participants from as far back as the first class in 1988. They mingled with Darryl and the 48 other members of the 2012 APP class of incoming students and discovered how much they had in common. The vast majority of alumni and students had the same answer when asked what their most memorable APP experience had been: “The Camping Trip” that was a first for many.

“APP gave me a better understanding of my own identity,” said BernaDette Wilson-Suwareh ’93 ’96, director of the Intercultural Center and Student Human Rights Office at the College of Saint Benedict and member of the 1988 class. “It helped me become the person I am now,” said Wilson-Suwareh, who previously served as associate vice president for Student Life and Development at St. Cloud State.

“APP helped me build confidence, accept who I was and work with other people.”

The APP program was started in 1988 by the late Robert Broadus.

“The foundation has remained the same,” said Multicultural Student Services Director Shahzad Ahmad ’90 ’03. “It works.”

“It’s amazing how much of a difference three or four weeks can make in the transition from high school to university mindset,” Ahmad said of the program. “It just happens.”

For Jenny Yang, 2012 APP class member and first in her family to go to school outside her home town of St. Paul, APP was a tremendous bridge experience. “At first I was really scared,” she said. “The first night I called my boyfriend at 4 a.m. and cried. But after a while I started connecting with friends. APP taught me to discipline myself.

It taught us everything is really up to me. I had a great time.”

“I’m glad I came,” said Akosua (Nana) Adu Danwa, Bloomington, who packed a lot of learning into the program’s three weeks. “I made friends with Dr. (Luke) Tripp and other faculty and staff. They taught me study habits. I improved my writing. I didn’t know how to swim when I came, but I learned how to float. I met a lot of people from other countries. I made a friend.”

Brianna Walker, an incoming freshman from Oahu, Hawaii, said her three-week experience of taking classes, getting familiar with the campus and launching lifetime friendships has taught her what college can do for her. “I’ve always been a reserved person,” she said. “College is about growing — realizing that making a change is being the change.”

Gao Lee ‘04 and her husband Saengmany Ratsabout ‘04, Brooklyn Park, met in the APP program.

They returned to the anniversary with their children Zakarin and Maekalah.

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Students become broadcasters

while finishing their degrees

I can’t get a job without experience, but I can’t get experience without a job.

This conundrum has confounded college graduates for decades, but many St. Cloud State students don’t have that problem.

Through experiential learning opportunities on-campus and off, St. Cloud State students are able to connect to their community, get real-world experience and land that first job after college.

Students like Ashli Gerdes and Ian Luhm aren’t waiting until after college. They’re shining examples of how a St. Cloud State education pays off in the “real world” before they even graduate.

Both connect to their communities as communicators on radio and television.

But they’re not alone. Students from many disciplines seek opportunities to learn and grow outside the classroom with similar results.

Read these success stories, but know that they’re unfinished. They’ve only just begun.

Ashli Gerdes is at the controls for Townsquare Media in St. Cloud on Rev 96.7 and WJON.

Ian Luhm is earning real-world experience as an on-air meteorologist at WDIO-TV in Duluth.

Ashli Gerdes

Ian Luhm – Meteorology

It was a locked door that led to Ashli Gerdes’ radio career. “I didn’t ever expect to do radio,” said the mass communications senior.

But a locked door at the University Chronicle in 2009 had the then-first-year student wandering into the studios of KVSC 88.1 FM, where she met production director Ryan Connelly ’10. Three weeks later, she was on the air.

“I absolutely fell in love with it,” she said.

Gerdes has since written columns for the Chronicle, anchored newscasts and been web director for UTVS, was program director for KVSC and interned at KMXK Mix 94.9 in St. Cloud. Those experiences led to her current job, one that really connects her to the community. She’s the night host (7 p.m.midnight, Monday-Friday) for Rev 96.7 in St. Cloud. She’s also an online content specialist, anchor and reporter for 1240 WJON. Both stations (as well as KMXK) are owned by Townsquare Media. She does all of this while attending classes at St. Cloud State.

Jim Maurice, news director at Townsquare Media, sees Gerdes as an asset. “She covers community event-type stories, stories we wouldn’t have been able to cover in the past,” he said. Gerdes enjoys telling those stories, she said. “Radio helps people get their messages out. We make people aware of what’s going on in the community,” she said.

She hopes she can help others find their passion a little less accidentally than she found hers. “I help people find their passion in a way, by making them aware. Kind of the same way I found mine.”

It is a passion for weather that brought Ian Luhm to St. Cloud State. It was watching broadcasters on Duluth TV when he was growing up that led to that passion.

The meteorology major and mass communications minor landed a job shadow opportunity at WDIO-TV in Duluth during summer 2011. That job shadowing foot in the door paid off. “Then I got a call.” Ian said. The call was WDIO Chief Meteorologist Justin Liles ’02. They wanted him to fill in on Christmas Eve. He’s already come a long way since that first on-air experience in his hometown.

“My entire body froze for about three seconds,” he said, despite a crash training “I never would have course and about two weeks to mentally gotten the job prepare. He credits his time at UTVS for had it not been for helping him be ready. “I never would have UTVS. … I got the gotten the job had it not been for UTVS. … I got the basics of being on camera. basics of being on Without that, people can get shell-shocked.” camera. Without UTVS may have helped him prepare for that, people can his on-air performance, but it was another get shell-shocked.” passion that helped Ian deal with some of the off-camera challenges of being on TV. - Ian Luhm A former hockey player, Luhm officiates youth hockey games in Duluth. There are days when he’ll officiate hockey games in the morning and early afternoon, then present the weather on the 6 and 10 p.m. news. “I received critique emails from viewers, and my officiating taught me not to take it personally,” he said, explaining that parents sometimes have less-than-stellar things to say to referees.

“Ian has been a great asset to our staff,” Liles said. He lauded Luhm for helping at community events and noted that as a Duluth native, Luhm knows the Duluth area’s weather intangibles “very well.” Luhm fills in on weekends and has earned real on-air experience, according to Liles. That hands-on experience, his community work and his education at St. Cloud State will have him well on his way when he graduates this spring.

Being on TV in his hometown and allowing him to further connect to his community is a dream come true for Ian Luhm. Friends and former teachers are often excited to see him on TV. “That’s the neatest part,” he said.

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safety

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With wheels-on-the-ground training for nearly 38,000 private and professional drivers each year, the Minnesota Highway Safety and Research Center (MHSRC) carries out its mission to reduce traffic accidents and the human trauma they cause.

In 1974 the St. Cloud State facility, then known as the Minnesota Highway Safety Center, opened and quickly became the state’s premier provider of advanced training skills for law enforcement and other emergency responders. Over the years the center has extended its education options to other segments of the population, including senior drivers and, most recently, teen drivers.

For each of its target markets, the center — a self-sustaining arm of the University’s Center for Continuing Studies — provides drivers the opportunity to experience real-life scenarios in a controlled environment with training that’s tailored to their unique needs.

For drivers involved in law enforcement, fire and emergency medical services, one-day training courses act largely as a refresher in advanced driving techniques related to their profession.

“The one thing these professional responders do each day is drive, so it makes sense we would reinforce that part of their jobs with skills-based training,” said Larry Nadeau ’89, the

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MHSRC director of outreach. “We give them practical training in applying safety skills to activities such as pursuit of suspects, collision avoidance, skid control and light and siren use.”

The center also offers specialty classes, including training for law enforcement in “pursuit intervention.”

“What we see officers doing in pursuit on television can seem very simple, but it’s a skill that’s developed through many hours of classroom and skills training at our facility,” Nadeau said.

This year the center has resumed specialized driver and roadway scene safety training for firefighters. MHSRC is a recognized provider of Advanced Fire Apparatus Driver Training by the Minnesota Board of Fire Training and Education.

One of the center’s most successful programs has been the Driver Improvement Program for senior drivers 55 and older. “Keeping senior drivers safe is a critical issue,” Nadeau said. “By 2025 one in five drivers will be over 65.”

The Driver Improvement Program benefits from a longtime partnership with American Automobile Association

(AAA) which provides learning materials and the use of its well-known name in return for royalties and advertising resources.

Drivers who take the two-session course save an estimated $100 a year on insurance rates, but the benefits of the course go far beyond reduced insurance premiums.

“Seniors’ quality of life really is affected by the ability to drive,” said Gail Weinholzer, public relations director for AAA Minnesota-Iowa.

“Maintaining their ability to be safe drivers benefits them personally and benefits society as a whole.”

Just as seniors benefit from driver education that could save their lives, the newest MHSRC initiative, the Teen Driver Crash Avoidance Program, has the potential to alter the grim fatality statistics related to young drivers.

Traffic crashes are the leading killer of Minnesota teens ages 15-19. In 2011, teen drivers were involved in 12,139 crashes that resulted in 39 deaths and 3,921 injuries.

The initial Teen Driver Crash Avoidance Program sessions Aug. 11 and 12 sold out. Co-sponsored by the

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Minnesota Highway Safety and Research Center by the numbers: More than

200 Police Officers from 85 departments participated in a ride and drive program in April 2012

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Teenagers and 211 of their parents participated in the Teen Driver Crash Avoidance Programs Aug. 11 and 12

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Minnesota Highway Safety Association, the Governor’s Highway Safety Association and Ford Motor Company, the two classes trained 219 teens and 211 parents at no cost to participants. Sessions also were offered in September and November.

“It’s a challenge to find funding sources to continue this initiative,” Nadeau said. “We’d like to make this training affordable for young drivers and their families.” After a local State Farm Insurance agent told his corporate office about the Teen Driver Crash Avoidance program, the company contributed $2,500 to continue these efforts.

“The exciting thing was we provide young drivers skills-based training that directly targets high-risk factors most likely to cause accidents,” Nadeau said. “Teens drive specially-equipped vehicles on a closed road course under the supervision of professional instructors. The course takes them through scenarios aimed at improving crucial safe driving skills such as speed selection, obstacle avoidance, skid control, off-road recovery and in-car distractions.”

Accident prevention training may be most important for teens who live in outstate Minnesota, Nadeau said.

“Crashes tend to be more severe in rural settings, and there tends to be less compliance with seat belt usage.”

What’s next for the Minnesota Highway Safety and Research Center? “We continue to look at developing new ways to help the average citizen and private fleets to improve driving skills and prevent accidents,” Nadeau said.

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3 miles of asphalt track and two and a half miles of gravel track added

Responded to needs analysis for driver training and roadway scene safety training to fire service. Fifrty percent of line-of-duty firefighter deaths in Minnesota since 2000 have been vehicle related.

Inaugurated Teen Driver Crash Avoidance Program

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Story By Char Hopela ’87 Photographs by Adam Hammer ’05

Preparing for the race and beyond The basement of Halenbeck Hall is home to the Human Performance Lab, a space overfilled with exercise test equipment and health screening stations. The warren of windowless rooms is affectionately referred to as “the dungeon” by graduates who fondly remember the worn furnishings and warm collegial atmosphere of the lab.

For four decades, the Human Performance Lab has offered specialized testing for St. Cloud State athletes seeking to maximize their physical performance. Aerobic capacity and lactate threshold tests are among the services provided gratis to student athletes. The lab is also open to the community and regularly works with individuals to provide wellness evaluations for nominal fees.

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Above: Nancy Holden ‘85 runs tests at the Human Performance Lab with graduate students Kasara Little, Eyota, (left) and Becca McCoy, LaCrescent, (right) and lab director David Bacharach. Holden has been coming to the Human Performance Lab since she was a student.

Below: McCoy checks Holden’s heart rate before beginning tests.

Off campus, the lab routinely works with local employers, offering training sessions on workplace wellness issues. Lab faculty members assist K-12 and college instructors in integrating health and sports science experiences into their classrooms. And the lab welcomes opportunities to participate in local health fairs.

By promoting common sense fitness concepts in a variety of settings, the HPL is helping the community embrace better health choices.

Curtis Ghylin ’77, an MBA graduate of St. Cloud State, has been a participant in the Human Performance Lab since the early 1970s.

“I find the testing and the advice that the people at the Human Performance Lab — students and staff — give me is very valuable to my conditioning,” Ghylin said.

A long distance runner, the 74-year-old returns to the lab each fall.

Ghylin worked in the University’s computer center from 1975-2003 and used the lab along with Halenbeck Hall’s facilities to keep active during long days at the office.

“The Human Performance Lab, and the fact that Halenbeck Hall was available at noon hour for use, allowed me to stay in shape, even though my work sometimes consisted of long hours at the desk and very little physical movement,” Ghylin said.

The lab’s adult fitness program is designed to improve health behaviors. Evaluations can include a nutrition consult, flexibility and core strength assessments, and other health monitoring tests. As a package, the fitness assessment and diet and exercise prescriptions provide participants with a starting point for better health.

“We used to call people involved in the program ‘Kelly’s heroes,’” said Glenn Street ’79 ’83, professor of kinesiology with 25 years of Human Performance Lab experience. The reference to lab founder Jack Kelly and the 1970 ragtag war film, “Kelly’s Heroes,” captured the spirit of lab participants who sought out health advice in an unconventional setting.

The lab also serves as a place to advance scholarship and engineer new equipment within the fields of biomechanics and exercise physiology. Near an exercise treadmill, a bookcase holds a row of bound volumes of program graduates’ master’s theses. The hardcovers attest to decades of hands-on research performed within the lab. In 1983 as he was working on his master’s degree, Street developed a flywheel ergometer

to measure the upper body power of U.S. Olympic skiers.

Street holds three patents on product designs that were tested and refined within the lab setting.

Research is ongoing at the lab. Currently underway is a graduate thesis study on exercise-induced asthma. While gathering data, the HPL is conducting tests of student athletes to uncover the condition and counsel individuals on how to minimize effects while exercising. Street emphasizes the lab’s commitment to helping participants live healthier lives.

Many who utilize the lab as students continue to seek out its services after graduation.

“The adult fitness program has really touched a lot of people’s lives here in the community,” Street said. “We have some people in their 70s and 80s who are still coming for check-ups. It’s an individualized service they really appreciate.”

Graduates of the program have gone on to careers in medicine, research, teaching and fitness coaching. Andrew Gray ’08, a former Human Performance Lab graduate assistant, is now senior human relations coordinator and corporate fitness specialist at Capital One in St. Cloud. Gray gained practical experience by conducting stress tests with exercise science equipment. He also learned valuable lessons on the importance of motivation as a determining factor in fitness.

“Apart from the lab education, the most important part was the personal interaction — the one-on-one,” Gray said.

“For me that was the greatest takeaway: learning not to push too hard.”

Bruce Johnson ’83, professor of medicine at Mayo Clinic, was an early graduate of the Human Performance Lab’s evolving program in exercise science. “The program was outstanding,” Johnson said. “It opened many doors going forward.”

After earning his graduate degree, he worked for the Department of Defense in altitude physiology. He later earned a PhD, which led to a clinical role at Mayo Clinic, where he now runs the Human Integrative and Environmental Physiology Laboratory. The position allows him to chase science and question accepted dogma, he said, as he gains insights into the body’s response to hypoxia, high altitude and exercise in a variety of rugged settings.

A recent expedition funded by the National Science Foundation gave Johnson the opportunity to gather data on altitude sickness at the South Pole Station. Because the station is situated atop nearly two miles of ice, it provides a unique setting to study the effects of high altitude exposure.

In April, Johnson led a team of scientists, staffers and expedition sponsors to Nepal, home to the world’s highest mountain peaks. Johnson set up a clinical laboratory at Mount Everest’s base camp and monitored participants’ heart rates. His fieldwork could eventually benefit patients with heart and lung diseases.

Johnson calls his adventures “an interesting path” and plans upcoming research trips to Bolivia and the North Pole.

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Life

Story By Marsha Shoemaker | Photograph by Steve Woit ’75

on the Mississippi

When he came to St. Cloud State Ivan Bartha brought with him strong feelings of reverence and responsibility for the Mississippi River waters that flow through campus and community.

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“One of the reasons I took this job is that I am really and truly captivated and fascinated by the Mississippi River,” said Bartha, who is coordinator for Experiential Programs for Campus Recreation and oversees Outdoor Endeavors at St. Cloud State.

If he had his way, Bartha’s enthusiasm for sustaining the river he is so enamored with would spill over onto others who study, live and work next to these world-famous waters.

“It is arguably our country’s most significant geographic landmark,” Bartha said. “Folks come to St. Cloud State in delegations from all over the world, and every one of those groups wants to paddle down the Mississippi while they’re here.”

A passionate advocate for recreation and development issues involving the river, Bartha is a leading force for sustainability efforts in the community and is a past board of trustees member for the Wilderness Education Association. He also is an effective mentor who utilizes innovative ways to develop in students a sense of stewardship of the waters and lands around them.

Bartha is a strong believer in the shared ownership that stewardship implies. He makes it his business to help students understand that they have a huge impact – economic and otherwise – on the community.

His advocacy for sustaining the river has become a tool for teaching the importance of active learning and community engagement.

“He makes us look at everything a little differently,” senior Matthew Coleman, Elbow Lake, said of Bartha’s leadership. “I’m in criminal justice, not a biology major. When I started working at Outdoor Endeavors it was just a job. Then I started listening to Ivan talk about everything he does. That’s when I started to think about how it all fits together.”

“One of the big things we learn in criminal justice is to serve the community first,” Coleman said. He began to connect criminal justice with what he was doing at Outdoor Endeavors, a campus-based program that offers a wide variety of experiences and equipment to help students and others on campus and in the community discover their outdoor skills.

Coleman went on to take part in the Leave No Trace Master Educators program, the widely accepted outdoor ethics program used on public lands, as well as other advocacy activities that fanned his growing appreciation for the environment.

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Adopt-a-river by the numbers Since 2005

When he came to St. Cloud State in 2005, Bartha was surprised by the separation between the city and the University, and even more shocked by the lack of interest in celebrating the presence of the river. “It just blew my mind. There had been no effort to Pounds of garbage volunteers donated promote stewardship of our bank. removed from hours “One of the first things I did was enroll Mississippi river Campus Recreation in the Minnesota Adopt A River Program,” Bartha said. “Given our proximity to the Mississippi River it made sense and was, and still is, the right thing to do.”

Every first Saturday in October Adopt A River hosts a riverbank cleanup from the north to south ends of campus. “This year 25 students gathered 42 bags of garbage along with many pieces of steel and assorted big items like televisions and child seats. We were able to recycle close to half of what was gathered. It’s kind of amazing what a few people can do.”

This fall Bartha was reminded of the impact the Adopt A River program makes when he received an email from the Minnesota Department of Natural Students gather Resources, Division of Parks and Trails, thanking him for around the campfire during his report of the most recent cleanup and his dedication to their fall break Minnesota’s waters. backpacking experience in “What started out as a little grassroots effort has not only the Porcupine made a difference for our campus, it also reminds us how our Mountains Wilderness Park efforts affect everyone who lives downstream,” Bartha said. in Michigan.

Through Bartha’s leadership, Outdoor Endeavors has branched out into other activities to encourage community engagement and sustainability efforts. Since 2009 it has partnered with the St. Cloud community to operate summer paddleboat, canoe and kayak rentals at Lake George near downtown St. Cloud.

Bartha also teaches an Honors Program course in the deep The Lake George project offers more opportunities for students to have jobs that help them relate their other learning exploration of the river that he believes offers a wide range of learning opportunities. “Education is an adventure with a experiences to their role in the community. wide variety of outcomes,” Bartha said.

Bartha also is hopeful that St. Cloud will be included in “The entire course is focused on our stretch of the river,” the Urban Wilderness Canoe Adventures program that has he said. He brings in elements of environmental science as been giving canoe experiences to 12,000 to 13,000 kids in well as an exploration of social issues and literature related the summer in the Twin Cities. Wilderness Inquiry to the river. He also has students photograph the river. The has awarded $453,000 to expand this program outside result is a gallery of images that provides visual proof of their Minnesota’s metro area. newfound appreciation for the strength and beauty of the “We were the group outside the metro that was paddle river. View the latest gallery, visit: http://scsu.mn/RxC8Pr. ready,” Bartha said. “The funding would create more jobs for In his course description Bartha quotes another Mississippi students that will make a difference in their lives.”

River devotee, Mark Twain, who also believed these famous Another way Bartha is changing students’ perspectives waters have life lessons to teach: “Twenty years from now you about stewardship of the land and waters is the two-credit will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do course he leads over fall break, a backpacking and camping than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail experience at Porcupine Mountains Wilderness Park in away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your Michigan. “The concept is to build resilience in an outdoor sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” laboratory utilizing interdisciplinary learning,” he said.

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Weems is quick to make her voice heard To listen to Director of Athletics Heather Weems speak is to hear her passion for the student athlete experience.

Since stepping into her new role six months ago at St. Cloud State, Weems’ days and evenings have been filled with meetings from greeting her coaches and staff to introductory sessions with individual teams, campus and community members and booster groups.

Weems began her journey to athletics director as the coordinator of student athlete support services at the University of Denver. She became an assistant athletics director for student athlete support services and later was associate athletics director for internal operations and later for student services and compliance. By the time she left Denver in 2008 she was the associate athletics director for student services and compliance. In January of 2009, she landed in her home state of Iowa as the associate athletics director/senior woman administrator at Drake University.

She said she became an athletic administrator to change lives and thought she could make the most impact in collegiate athletics

Director of Athletics Heather Weems gives out free tickets outside of Brothers on Fifth Avenue in St. Cloud with Blizzard during a Ticket Tuesday giveaway event.

working directly with the student athletes.

“My a-ha moment came when I realized it was the coaches who changed the lives of student athletes. It was the coaches who, day to day, three to four hours a day, and on weekends traveling with the team, made the biggest impact,” Weems said.

If she can help the coaches do their best, then ultimately she has had an impact on the student athletes.

“I consider myself a coaches’ administrator because I believe in what they do. I believe my job is to facilitate and empower them to do theirs.”

Weems loves college athletics

because at the end of the day, student athletes are touchable. “They are real and different from what you see in professional sports. Fans and young people can come up, say hello to them, get an autograph, and see that our student athletes are balancing their academic, social and athletic lives, and do it in a positive way.”

A native of Adel, Iowa, Weems holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Iowa and a master’s degree from the University of Denver. She was a member for the University of Iowa rowing team, earning Academic All-Big Ten Conference honors from 1995-97.

Huskies in the news Locks of Love

Super Storm Sandy

A group of six St. Cloud State University men’s hockey players are going with the “flow” this season and letting their hair grow out. The end result will be a hair donation to the Locks of Love program when they reach the proper length of 10 inches in a pony tail.

Locks of Love provides supplies for hairpieces and wigs for those going through cancer treatment.

Junior forward Nic Dowd, Huntsville, Ala., was the first to start growing his hair out near the end of the 2011-12 season.

Teammates senior Ben Hanowski, Little Falls, freshman David Morley, Richmond Hills, Ontario, sophomore Tim Daly, Maple Ridge, British Columbia, junior Cory Thorson, Crystal, and junior Nick Jensen, Rogers, all opted to join the good cause in the summer.

The unique story has caught the interest of the media with stories on Twin Cities television and in the St. Cloud Times.

Thanks to Super Storm Sandy the St. Cloud State women’s hockey team members were beneficiaries of an extended stay in Providence, R.I. The Huskies played Providence College in a nonconference series and were scheduled to leave Oct. 29.

As the team loaded the bus for Boston’s Logan Airport, they learned it had been closed and all flights cancelled.

The teams spent the next two nights at the hotel riding out what head coach Jeff Giesen described as “a never ending thunderstorm.” The team passed the time playing cards, studying and even trying their skills as amateur weather reporters and posting the videos to YouTube.

The team returned to St. Cloud to a media frenzy in time to prepare for its home opener against The Ohio State University.

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Alumni events and happenings

The Alumni Association and Multicultural Student Services grilled hamburgers and hotdogs for hungry Husky alumni and friends during the fall Celebrate!

St. Cloud State tailgating event Sept. 29.

Husky alumni and friends enjoy appetizers and drinks at Pizza Lucé before the Huskies vs. University of Minnesota-Duluth hockey game Nov. 24 in Duluth.

Transitions

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Allstate Premier Service Agent for 2012.

Creek, Ariz., was recognized by the Arizona City/County Management Association with the Jack De Bolske Award, their highest honor.

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Linda (Larson) Roth, Mankato,

received the 2012 Minnesota Educators of the Gifted and Talented, Friend of the Gifted Award. Linda recently retired as the gifted specialist for St. Peter Public Schools in St. Peter and halftime teacher on special assignment for Minnesota State UniversityMankato.

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Valerie (Chelgren) Rogosheske,

St. Cloud, was recognized by The Boston Athletic Association during a series of pre-marathon events and media appearances for the Boston Marathon’s 40th anniversary celebrations. Rogosheske finished the Boston Marathon in 1972, the first year women were officially allowed to compete in the race.

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Bernadyne Sykora, Sartell, was

named deacon in the Women Priest Roman Catholic Church. Sykora is a part of Mary Magdalene First Apostle Roman Catholic Women Priest Community in St. Cloud.

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Catherine (Cooksey) Nault, Nisswa,

retired as principal after 26 years at the Riverside Elementary School in Brainerd. Nault also is a member of the Essentia Health St. Joseph’s Medical Center board.

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Robert Trisko, Waite Park, won the

Jewelry Award at an art fair in New Buffalo, Mich.

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Charles Bush, Waverly, retired after 41 years of teaching English

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at Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted High School. • Dean Urdahl, Grove City, spoke about his latest novel, “Uprising” about the Dakota War of 1862 in the Minnesota River Valley, and other books he has written at the Redwood Falls Public Library.

Urdahl’s other novels include “Pursuit” and “Retribution.”

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Maria (Maccario) King, Andover, wrote “Promises to Keep,” a book detailing the origin of St. Patrick Catholic Church of Cedar Creek in Oak Grove. The church is celebrating its sesquicentennial this year. King is a former teacher and Anoka County Historical Society worker. • Skipper Pearson, St. Cloud, retired after 21 years as a district court judge for Stearns County.

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William Knese, Watertown,

S.D., is Institute of Management Accountants (IMA) chairman-elect and will become chair in 2013. As chairman-elect, he is a member of the governance committee and will chair IMA’s planning and development committee. Knese is vice president, finance and administration and chief financial officer of Angus Industries, Inc., in Watertown, S.D.

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Sandra Johnson, Mason, Ohio,

published “Paul Hindemath’s Philosophy and the Role of the Four Temperaments” in the College Music Symposium 51 Journal.

Johnson is a visiting professor at Miami University of Ohio, Hamilton Regional Campus, where she teaches music history.

Mark Sniezek, St. Cloud, is an

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Paula (Imholte) Erdmann, Clear Lake, is chairwoman of the St. Cloud Federal Credit Union’s Board of Directors. • Victor Spadaccini, Grand Rapids, sold S.P.I.K.E. Performance Camps, the volleyball camps he founded in 2006, and retired. • John Stumpf, San Francisco, Calif., was profiled by Stock Market Digital as one of the distinguished CEOs of an American multinational diversified financial services company. Stumpf is the chairman and CEO for Wells Fargo.

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Susan (Ramacher) Durant,

St. Cloud, is administrative support at Independent Lifestyles in St. Cloud. Durant has been with Independent Lifestyles for four years.

Cynthia Seelhammer, Queen

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Anthony Sjogren, Sartell, is second vice chairman of the St. Cloud Federal Credit Union’s Board of Directors.

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Andre Sundgaard, Stillwater, is senior vice president of property management at the Minneapolis office of Cassidy Turley. Sundgaard recently served as senior vice president of business development at Cushman & Wakefield/NorthMarq.

• Joseph Tarvin, Minnetonka, was hired to Pragmatek’s Vocollect sales and consulting Team.

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Glenn Miller, Brooten, is vice

Daniel Vogt, Brainerd, retired after 23 years as Brainerd’s city administrator. Vogt previously worked in Rogers and Shorewood.

president of integration/operations at American Solutions for Business.

Miller spent 19 years at Fingerhut, and most recently worked as a sales manager for CHR Solutions of Houston, Texas.

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Terrence Brandt, Plymouth, is

executive vice president and director of the Lockton Alliance for Ministry Protection practice in San Francisco, Lockton’s non-profit and religious organization practice.

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Mary Flekke, Lakeland, Fla.,

published a bibliography, “Telling Our Stories: Oral and Family History” through Heritage Books.

Flekke is retired.

Mark Barth and his brother Dan Barth ’89, St. Cloud, purchased D.B.

Searle’s. The Barths also own nearby Pioneer Place on Fifth and the Veranda Lounge.

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Gregory Vandal, Sauk Rapids, was appointed to the Stearns-Benton Workforce Council.

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Jeffrey Bertram, Paynesville, was recognized by the Stearns County Board of Commissioners for nine

Unless otherwise noted, all cities listed in class notes are in Minnesota.

Alumni class notes years of service on Stearns County Planning Commission. He was recently appointed to the County Shoreline Review Panel by the Board and also serves on the Paynesville City Council. • Dwight Boyum, Rochester, is an editorial writer for the Post-Bulletin daily newspaper.

Boyum has been a copy editor for the Post-Bulletin for 22 years. He also has worked for the Fargo Forum, the Brainerd Dispatch, the International Falls Daily Journal and the St. Cloud Times. • John Hornibrook, Seatac, Wash., is system chief pilot/managing director of line flying at Alaska Airlines after 21 years of service with them as a line captain. • William Trunk, Washington, D.C., published his first book “Follow My Dream,” a collection of monthly email letters sent to family and friends where he was a Peace Corps volunteer in Albania from 2007-09. Trunk is a finance manager for the American Red Cross.

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Clifford Borgerding, Avon, is Stearns

County Volunteer of the Year.

Borgerding has worked to develop and expand the Lake Wobegon Trail and connections to the trail.

Borgerding also was involved in the formation of the Camp Ripley Minnesota Veterans Trail. • J. Daniel Cairns, Rice, was named a 2012 Blue Partner by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota for sales and service excellence. Cairns works for

Northwestern Mutual. • Bonnie Henrickson, Lawrence, Kan., was

the Show Me Brass of Columbia and is a staff reviewer of recordings for the International Trumpet Guild Journal. • Timothy Tormoen, Columbia Heights, is director of Volunteer Programs and Outreach at the University of Maryland.

inducted into the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference Hall of Fame. Henrickson was a standout on the St. Cloud State women’s basketball team from 1981-85.

Henrickson was inducted into the St. Cloud State Athletic Hall of Fame in 1996. • Julie (Younger) Roeder, Clearwater, was designated an Allstate Premier Service Agent for 2012.

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April Williams, Minneapolis, wrote

the short fiction “GQ” published

by Sic Semper Serpent. This story is included in the first edition of the literary magazine “The Fugue.”

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Karen (Leyendecker) Imholte, St. Cloud, is a winner of the St. Cloud Sidewalk Poetry Contest.

Imholte’s poem, “If I Were,” will be printed on a sidewalk in St. Cloud.

Brian Belski, St. Paul, is chief

investment strategist at BMO Capital Markets. Belski will be part of the Equity Research Team and work out of both the New York and Toronto offices. • Timothy Hennagir, St. Joseph, is managing editor at The Monticello Times. Hennagir spent the last six years as the editor of the Blaine Spring Lake Park Life.

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Scott Christensen, Savage, was

appointed controller and chief accounting officer of Universal Hospital Services, Inc. • Leonard Kirscht, Rogers, is vice president of business banking serving KleinBank’s northwest market.

• Thomas Offerdahl, Sartell, is the Sartell Citizen of the Year for his volunteer work. Offerdahl works for and is an active member of St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Sartell. • John Perkins, Columbia, Mo., performed as principle trumpet in his 14th season with the Skippensburg Festival Orchestra and played with the Missouri Symphony. Perkins is also a member of the Pinnacte Brass Quintet and

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Michelle (Nordby) Kangas, Baxter, is registrar at Central Lakes College (CLC). Kangas has been a senior customer service specialist at CLC since 2004 and from 1997-2004 was a cashier. • Dave Kleis, St. Cloud, is mayor and chairman of the St. Cloud Area Planning Organization Board (APO). The APO is the federally designated Metropolitan Planning Organization for the St. Cloud area. • Brian Ryks, Wrenshall, is executive director of

Alum receives Paul and Sheila Wellstone Award received the 10th annual Paul and Sheila Wellstone Social Justice Award in October for his efforts to keep mental health services available in Willmar.

Thibault, a registered nurse consultant with a bachelor’s in psychology from St. Cloud State, works for Minnesota Specialty Health System (MSHS). The program serves adults with severe mental illness who have been turned down by other intensive residential treatment programs. Thibault oversees medical care and helps patients reach their rehabilitation goals with an emphasis on returning patients to the community.

“We help them secure housing, link to community mental health services and provide family-based mental health education,” Thibault said.

When funding for the program was cut from the state budget in 2011, Thibault led an effort to contact every state legislator in a marathon calling session followed by letters, emails and a trip to the capitol to meet with key legislators and aides. Funding was restored when lawmakers were presented with Thibault’s argument that MSHS’s approach to complex medical cases was less expensive than standard hospital care.

Thibault has worked in the field for 24 years and finds inspiration in his patients.

“In my years of working with persons with mental illness, I’ve been struck by their courage in the face of their losses,” Thibault said. “They find ways to cope and survive under some of the most destructive circumstances and in a culture that stigmatizes mental illness.”

Similarly, Cara (Osterberg) Ruff ‘92 won a Paul and Sheila Wellstone Social Justice Award in 2004 for her work on behalf of disabled adults.

Patrick Thibault ’80

the Gerald R. Ford International Airport in Grand Rapids, Mich.

Ryks was executive director of the Duluth Airport Authority for more than 10 years.

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George Morris, Cold Spring, is

medical director for CentraCare Clinic. Morris is board certified in family and sports medicine.

• Richard Rodgers, Excelsior, is the executive vice president, chief financial officer and co-founder of Tesaro. Rodgers most recently served as senior vice president and chief financial officer at Abraxis BioScience.

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David Borash, Baxter, was a

Minnesota Teacher of the Year finalist. Borash teaches social studies to grades 11 and 12 at Brainerd High School. • Luann (Gammon) Deering, Little Falls, joined Lakewood Health System’s psychiatry team. Gammon has a special interest in child and adolescent anxiety and depression and children’s mental health.

• Dawn Evans, Brainerd, coaches baseball for the Rockies in the Brainerd area. She is the only female coach in the Baxter Mustang League.

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Carmen (Pidde) Cook, Prior Lake, is an assistant professor in Early Childhood Studies in the Psychology Department, College of Health, Community and Professional Studies

Distinguished Alumni Hall of Fame group named

by Tech High School, St. Cloud • ’59 ’69 Richard Skewes, Faribault.

• ’75 Vicki (Eastman) Landwehr, Sauk Rapids.

• ’77 Glen Hentges, Oakland, Calif.

• ’78 Daniel Severson, Sauk Rapids

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• Jane (Brown) King, Plymouth, is director of finance at Tonka Bay Equity Partners.

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Barry Kirchoff, St. Cloud, is part of the St. Cloud Federal Credit Union’s Board of Directors.

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Jonathan Beagle, East Longmeadow,

Mass., received the Excellence in Teaching award at Western New England University. He is an associate professor of history and has been teaching at the university since 2003. • Barbara (Dettler) DettlerPetermeier, Melrose, is an art teacher at Melrose Public Schools. As a community artist, she has created murals and logos for area businesses and the community garden.

• Paul Jacobsen, New Brighton, began a four-year term in January to the New Brighton City Council.

Jacobsen serves as a council representative for the city’s Parks, Recreation and Environmental Commission. Jacobsen is an

implementation project manager for Optum, a division of UnitedHealth Group. • Jennifer (Urie) Larva, Cloquet, is interim principal at South Terrace Elementary School in Carlton. • Mary (Loehr) Spanier, Big Lake, is an authorized engagement director at CliftonLarsonAllen certified public accounting and consulting firm.

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Courtney Miller, Lake Mary, Fla., coached the Seminole State College Raiders softball team into the NJCAA Division I tournament for the first time. Miller has won more than 600 games at Seminole State since 1995 and more than 700 in her career.

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Chastidy Anderson, St. Paul, won the

2012 Leaders in Public Policy Top Legislative Staffer award. Anderson serves as executive director of the GOP caucus in the Minnesota House. • Renee Balken, Montevideo, is Montevideo’s Teacher of the Year.

Balken has taught Early Childhood

Special Education in the Montevideo school system for 24 years. •

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Jensen also is a member of the Air Force Special Operations Weather Team. He has been deployed six times to Iraq and Afghanistan and is stationed in Stuttgart, Germany, as part of the United States Africa Command.

superintendent of the Caledonia Area School District and principal at Caledonia Elementary School.

Barton was principal in La Crescent for seven years. • R. Josh Holly, Minneapolis, is senior director of new business development at SMS Market Research in Eden Prairie.

• Daniel Williamson, Alexandria, is sports director on Eyewitness News at WDIO-TV.

Matthew Jensen is a major in the Air Force.

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Erich Martens, Sartell, is Central

Jonathon Blissenbach, Sauk Rapids, is vice president of product and business development for Atomic Learning. Blissenbach has been with the company for six years.

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Jennifer Furan Super, Crystal, is the associate director of Public Safety at St. Cloud State University after being the director of Public Safety for North Hennepin Community College for two years.

Eric Gapinski, Becker, was named director of collections for The Affiliated Group. • Craig Theis, Cold Spring, is vice president for public finance at Minneapolis’ Dougherty & Company.

Jennifer (Schiltgen) Halvorson, Alexandria, is a long-term substitute teacher in second grade for Osakis Public Schools. Halvorson has taught off and on at the Osakis schools for the past six years.

• Robert Hudson, Missoula, Mont., is evening co-anchor at WDAZ-TV in Fargo, N.D. • Bradley Hunter, Oshkosh, Wis., was honored as one of Oshkosh’s Four Under 40 emerging business leaders by the Oshkosh Northwestern newspaper.

Hunter is a chiropractor at BelvilleFletcher Chiropractic. • Laura Kennedy, Fridley, is a kindergarten teacher in Westwood Intermediate School’s Spanish immersion program and is 2012 Teacher of the Year at the elementary level. • Mandi (Lighthizer) Lighthizer-Schmidt, Austin, is executive director of the United Way of Austin.

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Eddie Crawford, Duluth, is assistant superintendent for the Duluth school district. • Aaron Kleist, St. Augustine, Fla., is vice president and banking center manager for the North St. Augustine office of Prosperity Bank.

Jill (Gohmann) Hoffmann, St. Joseph,

is part of the supervisory committee for the St. Cloud Federal Credit Union.

Mark Roelike, Freeport, is security operations specialist at the Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant.

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’02 ’09

Minnesota’s Principal of the Year serving Sauk Rapids-Rice High School. Martens has been a school administrator for the past 13 years and has spent eight years in the Sauk Rapids-Rice school district.

’00

you

Benjamin Barton, La Crescent, is

Insurance by Lundgren. Karki is owner of ProGrowth Insurance Agency. • Christopher Keller, Big Lake, is the spring 2012 outstanding graduate student in Metropolitan State University’s College of Management. Keller, who earned an M.B.A., is the chief financial officer with Sportech in Elk River.

• Lori Larsen, Brainerd, is a full-time English instructor at Central Lakes College. • Kimberley Nordin, Cary, Ill., is owner of whEAT REAL, which teaches how to cook with whole grains. • Matthew Steinbrink, Hugo, is associate attorney at Sieben, Grose, Von Holtum & Carey in their personal injury practice.

Erik Book, Waverly, Iowa, is the

associate athletic director/ticket operations at Texas Tech University.

Book was previously assistant athletic director/ticket operations at the University of Miami. • Elizabeth (Stawarski) Brenckman, N.Y., is an associate at Fish & Richardson with a focus on trademark law. • Nicole (Storkamp) Folkerts, St. Joseph, is an engagement director at CliftonLarsonAllen certified public accounting and consulting firm.

• Mynul Khan, Minneapolis, is CEO of Field Nation, a leading provider of independent field service technicians.

Unless otherwise noted, all cities listed in class notes are in Minnesota.

Alumni class notes

Nicole Middendorf ’98 is a Female Entrepreneur of the Year

’05

’09

Grove, is director of marketing for Northwestern Mutual, The Columns Resource Group, of Minneapolis.

• Michael Ceynowa, Duluth, is a sergeant in the Duluth Police Department and commander of the Violent Crimes Unit where he has worked as patrol supervisor and the crime scene investigation unit.

• Lana Kozak, St. Cloud, was honored as an Excellent Beginnings Program Achiever by lia sophia, a jewelry direct-sales business.

• Melanie Pudsey, Kearney, Ontario, became part of the first group of Royal Canadian Air Force pilots to earn their fighter pilot wings in the United States. • Joseph Reed, Fargo, N.D., is a business services loan officer at Mid-Minnesota Federal Credit Union. • Travis Williams, Coralville, Iowa, is an internal medicine hospitalist physician at the St. Cloud Hospital after finishing his internal medicine residency at the University of Iowa.

Mo., graduated with a Master of Arts degree in counseling from Assemblies of God Theological Seminary.

• Jenna (Wundrow) Lee, Toledo, Ohio, is morning anchor and investigative reporter at Toledo News Now. • Patrick McCabe, Sauk Rapids, is the athletic media relations director for the College of Saint Benedict Blazer athletic department.

• Jeb Willis, Rice, is a consumer adn mortgage lender at Stearns Bank.

Kristin (Vassallo) Baker, Maple

Nicole (VanDerGriff) Middendorf ’98 was

awarded a Stevie Award for Women in Business at a Nov. 9 ceremony and gala in New York City.

The Stevie Awards for Women in Business are recognized among the world’s top honors for female entrepreneurs, executives and the organizations they run. More than 1,200 nominations — representing organizations of all sizes and in virtually every industry — were submitted for the 2012 awards.

The former Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal 40 Under Forty honoree is CEO of Prosperwell Financial, a Plymouthbased wealth management firm that concentrates on retirement planning, college education savings, estate planning, asset management, insurance and financial planning in the event of divorce.

Middendorf holds a bachelor’s degree in international business from St. Cloud State. She is a Twin Cities news television contributor and wrote a 2008 book called “Simple Answers: Life Is More Than Just about Money.”

She is a board member of the Minnesota affiliate of the Alliance for Women in Media.

’06

James Peterson, Minneapolis, is the weekday morning meteorologist at KAAL-TV where he was most recently the weekend meteorologist.

• Katrina Pierson, Sauk Rapids, is a member of The Center for Nonprofit Excellence and Social Innovation Board of Directors. Pierson is a partner and principal at HBH Consultants.

North Star Press authors exhibit new works

’07

Colleen (O’Shaughnessy) Frein,

at St. Cloud Downtown Art Crawl • ’66 John Roscoe, Sartell, co-authored “Legacies of Faith: The Catholic Churches of Stearns County.”

• ’72 Carla Hagen, St. Paul, authored “Hand Me Down My Walking Cane.”

• ’77 Lawrence Schug, Avon, authored “Caution: Thin Ice,” “The Turning of Wheels, Nails,” “Arrogant Bones” and “Scales Out of Balance.”

• ’92 Joyce (Dullinger) Mrosla, St. Joseph, authored “Minnesota Loons.”

• ’09 Kathryn Knutson, Granite Falls, authored “The Possession of Cassie Quinn.”

Waterloo, Iowa, is KWWL-TV’s multi-media journalist. She reports on politics, education, community issues and the military. • Andrew Overby, Sartell, invented Safety Slap, a silicone slap bracelet with an embedded QR code. The safety band combines a QR code with a mobile website to assist in reconnecting lost children with their parents and can communicate medical conditions.

’08

Andrew Sandholm, Astoria, N.Y., is a producer at CNBC. • Jay Timmerman, Middleton, Wis., published “Far Distant Echo,” a book that is part adventure and part travel memoir from a canoe expedition that began on Lake Superior and ended in York Factory on Hudson Bay. • Travis Weldon, St. Cloud, was promoted to senior recovery agent by Preferred Credit Inc.

Three named to accounting staff

by Schlenner Wenner & Co. • ’07 Mark Ebensteiner, Becker, is a senior accountant in the accounting and audit department.

• ’11 Timothy Beyl, Waite Park, is a tax and accounting staff accountant.

• ’11 Jonathan Latcham, Paynesville, is a tax and accounting staff accountant.

Darlene Anthonisen, Springfield,

’09 ’11

Leah (Kranick) Palmer, Rush City,

is teaching grades 7-12 special education at Braham Area High School.

’10

Misty Granholm, St. Cloud, is

part of the recruiting team at Pace Analytical Services, Inc. • Heather Miller, New York, N.Y., qualified for USA Olympic heptathlon trials.

• Justin Montbriand, St. Cloud, is a risk analyst with US Bancorp.

Montbriand is working towards completing his master’s degree in the applied economics program at St. Cloud State. • John Sherwin, Rochester, is captain of the Rochester Police Department in charge of the patrol division. • Julie Tappe, Staples, is publishing her first novel, “Little Falls,” in a series set as a Nook book. • Frederick Williams, Milwaukee, Wis., plays football for the San Jose SaberCats in the AFL. • Leigh Wright, Duluth, will attend a 12-week leadership development program at the FBI National Academy in Quantico, Va., in January.

’11

Amy Denneson, Buffalo, is the principal and director of teaching and learning for the Rockford Middle School Center for Environmental Studies. • Rachel Hanson, Norwood Young America, is teaching special education at Central Elementary School.

• Aaron Holthaus, Buffalo, is co-owner of Cone Castle in St. Joseph. • Samantha Johnson, Bemidji, is an assistant account manager at Karwoski & Courage Public Relations. • Trista LaFontaine, St. Cloud, is a dancer with the Minnesota Dance Ensemble.

• Manking Lee, Sioux Falls, S.D., is a senior survey technician in the public works division at Bartlett & West Inc. • Nicholas Lenz, Lake Crystal, is a weekend sports anchor at KDLT-TV in Sioux Falls, S.D.

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Alumni class notes • Robin Sand, Freeport, graduated from basic combat training at Fort Sill, Lawton, Okla., and earned the Pvt. Louis Birtz Award for exceptional meritorious achievement.

• Rhonda (Leonard) Zimmerman, Albany, is completing plant and bird surveys in Wildwood County Park during the 2012-13 summers as part of her master’s research that will influence how the park is developed.

’12

Reuben Aleckson, Burtrum, is

an outside salesman and account manager for Fastenal Company.

• Matthew Evens, Cold Spring, is a data analyst at Jefferson Capital Systems, LLC. • Christopher Foley, Sauk Rapids, is a surveyor with Kadrmas, Lee & Jackson, an engineering, surveying and planning firm, in the Brainerd office.

• Andrew Godziek, Maple Grove, is pursuing a Master of Arts in international studies at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver.

• Joshua Hautala, Hibbing, is an engineer technician with Kadrmas, Lee & Jackson in the Bismarck, N.D., office. • Brittney Moffatt, Coon Rapids, participated in Run Free, a 200-mile border-to-border journey across the state of Minnesota as part of Venture Expeditions Just+Hope Campaign. • Samuel Swedberg, Owatonna, is a financial analyst for IBM. • Elisa Traut, St. Cloud, is an account manager at Leighton Interactive. • Mathew Welinski, Sauk Rapids, is a surveyor with Kadrmas, Lee & Jackson in the Brainerd office.

Six alumni connected to Family Business Awards

Marriages and Commitments ’02 ’05 Jorna (Priddy) Chapple and

Joseph Chapple, Champlin, 10/16/2010. ’03 Elizabeth (Koehler) Lochen and Mathew Lochen, Zimmerman, 5/19/2012. ’04 Danielle (Simons) Bitz and ’05 Joshua Bitz, Brooklyn Park, 12/10/2011. ’08 Chance Glasford and ’09 Kelly (Platzer) Glasford, Cottage Grove, 6/2/2012. ’10 Amy (Bosiacki) Hilsgen and ’10 Clint Hilsgen, Albertville, 9/29/2012.

Births and Adoptions ’90 Lynn Heltemes Harris and Jack

Harris, Brooklyn Park, daughter, Erin, son, Jack, 8/19/2012. ’91 Sheri (Mandell) Carlson and Marc Carlson, Woodbury, son, Bode, 11/29/2011. ’92 Teresa (Fasching) Jagodzinski

and Wade Jagodzinski, Howard Lake, son, Luke, 6/8/2012. ’93 Dannielle Favreau and Robb Strong, Maple Plain, daughter, Lauren, 1/21/2012. ’93 Dennis Mergen and ’03 Virginia (Reinarz) Mergen, Albany, son, Owen, 7/19/2012. ’94 Gina (Caton) Koonce and Shane Koonce, Lake Forest, Ill., son, Gage, 1/20/2012. ’96 Vicki (Peterson) Novak and William Novak, Foley, son, Daniel, 7/14/2011. ’97 Shannon (Koshiol) Swanson and Carl Swanson, Loveland, Colo., daughter, Ulli, 8/8/2011. ’98 Michael Loween and Kelly Loween, Marshall, son, Ashton, 7/9/2012.

St. Cloud State alumni are heavily represented in this year’s line-up of Minnesota Family Business Award honorees and finalists. Recipients were honored for balancing financial success with community service at the Minnesota Family Business Awards Nov. 8. The awards were presented by Twin Cities Business magazine and Hubler for Business Families.

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’98 Katie (Shannon) Olafson and

Grant Olafson, Woodbury, daughter, Brynley, 4/25/2012. ’98 Thomas Popp and Jessica Popp, Montgomery, son, Trevin, 7/26/2012. ’98 Joel Roelofs and Kelly Roelofs, Rockford, son, Reese, 8/15/2012. ’99 Melyssa (Breth) Sakry and Matthew Sakry, Bowlus, son, Joseph, 9/28/2011. ’00 Joseph Bruntmyer and Heather Bruntmyer, Round Lake Beach, Ill., son, August, 5/16/2012. ’00 James Huneke and Erica Huneke, Quincy, Ill., daughter, Grace, 4/11/2012. ’00 Emily (King) Manthe and ’03 Eric Manthe, Minnetonka, daughter, Paige, 6/6/2012. ’00 Cynthia (Elifrits) Peterson and Kent Peterson, Salem, S.D., son, Alexander, 6/20/2012. ’02 Matthew Lisbeth and ’03 Merissa (Winter) Winter-Lisbeth, Cudahy, Wis. daughter, Samantha, 7/16/2012. ’02 ’05 Jorna (Priddy) Chapple and Joseph Chapple, Champlin, son, Jackson, 6/20/2012. ’03 Kristy (Jones) Barhorst and Rick Barhorst, Sauk Rapids, son, Derrick, 4/13/2012. ’03 Kirsten (Gardner) Curtis and Shad Curtis, Montrose, son, Tyler, 6/6/2012. ’03 Pamela (Wilkes) Hurdt and Danny Hurdt, Rice, son, Justin, 1/10/2012. ’03 Danielle (Smelter) Kelm and Timothy Kelm, St. Michael, son, Davis, 10/9/2011. ’03 Michael Sicard and Emily Sicard, Plymouth, daughter, Rachel, 4/2/2012.

’03 Monica (Swant) Theisen and ’04 Erik Theisen, Eden Prairie,

daughter, Anna, 4/3/2012.

’03 Jennifer (Rakow) Stumpf and

Osse Stumpf, Pierz, son, Carter, 5/9/2012. ’04 Rachel (Luthi) Bjerketvedt and Adam Bjerketvedt, Hancock, son, Silas, 5/17/2012. ’04 Julie (Murman) Keenan and Ashley Keenan, Zimmerman, daughter, Emily, 4/19/2012. ’04 Eathan Senogles and ’04 Jacquelyn (Webb) Senogles, Mounds View, son, Ryan, 7/13/2012. ’04 Julia (Freese) Solomonson and Ryan Solomonson, Richfield, son, Peter, 8/28/2012. ’04 ’07 Amanda (Wacker) Stade and Kristopher Stade, Blackduck, son, Jackson, 5/12/2011. ’04 Linnea (Woetzel) Wilhelm and Nathan Wilhelm, Burnsville, son, Ezra, 7/16/2011. ’05 Eric Olson and LeeAnn Olson, Eden Prairie, daughter, Kaitlyn, 9/11/2012. ’05 Jennifer (Johnson) Smith and Eric Smith, Virginia, son, Noah, 5/13/2012. ’05 Scott Urbanski and ’07 Katie (Frost) Urbanski, Chaska, son, Aiden, 9/22/2011. ’05 ’10 Nicole (Del Castillo) Dold and Greg Dold, St. Cloud, daughter, Grace, 10/3/2011.

’06 Nicole (Hendrickson) Ebensteiner and ’07 Mark Ebensteiner,

Becker, daughter, Zoe, 6/22/2012.

’06 Terri (Cleveland) Gauerke and

Gregory Gauerke, Appleton, Wis., son, Peter, 5/18/2012.

Minnesota Family Business Award honorees:

Anderson Trucking Service, Inc. (Innovation category) • ’75 Jim Anderson, principal owner.

• ’97 ’03 Scott Anderson, principal owner and vice president of safety and risk management.

• ’75 ’92 Barbara Anderson, wife of principal owner and CEO Rollie Anderson.

• Catallia Mexican Foods, LLC (Diversity category) ’10 Daniel Gooch, retail sales manager.

• Marvin Windows and Doors of Warroad (Community category) Frank R. Marvin, Marvin Lumber vice-chair, non-grad alum.

• Orion Associates of Golden Valley (Finalist) ’81 ’83 Rebecca Susan Thomley, president and CEO.

Unless otherwise noted, all cities listed in class notes are in Minnesota.

Alumni class notes ’06 Sara (Deal) Peterson and Lucas

Peterson, Andover, son, Lincoln, 7/8/2012. ’06 Marie (Norton) Ray and Shane Ray, North Branch, son, Grant, 7/28/2012. ’06 ’12 Aaron Cole and ’07 Kimberly (Gill) Cole, Ramsey, son, Grayson, 7/17/2012. ’07 Jennifer (Thrun) Bethke and Aaron Bethke, Monticello, son, Aaden, 8/31/2012. ’07 Abby (Smith) Everaerts and ’07 Ken Everaerts, Stillwater, son, Eli. ’08 Christopher Lence and ’08 Kayla (Klimek) Lence, Carlos, son, Blakely, 3/30/2012. ’09 Megen (Galoff) Hines and Chad Hines, Eau Claire, Wis., son, Owen, 12/10/2011. ’10 Alex Sutherland and ’11 Briana (Holm) Sutherland, Big Lake, daughter, Addison, 5/30/12. ’10 ’12 Mark Gucinski and Anne Gucinski, Sartell, son, Henry, 6/25/2012. ’11 DeAnna (Warme) Dobratz and Ryan Dobratz, Hutchinson, son, Eliot, 7/7/2012.

’50 Donald Harsh, 85, Lake Park ’50 Inez (Bagne) Hendrickson, 81,

’69 Katherine (Conroy) Brown, 79,

Marshall

Patricia (Ertl) Hartkopf, 71, Becker Dorothy (Dockendorf) Kippley, 81,

Clearwater

John Laakso, 97, South Haven Richard McDermott, 84, St. Paul Howard Vreeland, 83, Waite Park Elmer Zirbes, Cold Spring ’36 Eva Cook Jones, 95, Morris ’79 ’90 Mercedes (Hallberg) Horgan,

’69 James Seufert, 64, Brooklyn Park ’70 Eleanor (Schultz) Hammond, 88,

’50 Paul Jorgensen, 90, Osakis ’50 Betty (Schneider) Viehauser, 87,

Holdingford

’50 Eldon Wolhart, 83, Muncie, Ind. ’50 ’69 Eva (Allen) Sova, 82, Sauk

’71 ’72 ’81 Janice (Lagergren) Hastings, 62, Stockton, Calif. ’71 David Martin, 65, Paso Robles,

’51 Richard Ostergaard, 83, Austin ’51 Edgar Ozmon, 89, Great Falls,

’71 Ronald Seaver, 79, Plymouth ’71 ’75 Roger Culhane, 63,

Rapids

Calif.

Mont.

Morristown

’51 George Rivers, 88, Maplewood ’51 ’71 Arlene (Booth) Johnson, 80,

’72 Kenneth Barclay, 77, Brainerd ’72 Gloria (Anderson) Samelian, 82,

’52 Orlan Cox, 81, Golden, Colo. ’52 ’61 Carol (Ware) Rickheim, 80,

’74 Archer Martin, 60, Eagle Bend ’74 John Morley, 62, Minneapolis ’75 Patrick Smith, 64, Sauk Rapids ’76 Patrick Olberding, 60, St. Cloud ’76 Eileen Theis, 84, Little Falls ’77 John Boettcher, 64, St. Cloud ’77 Diane (Mruz) Mruz-Clute, 59,

Litchfield

Minneapolis

Austin

’53 James Grettum, 84, Little Falls ’53 John Pavelich, 81, Crosby ’54 Donald Loban, 81, Moose Lake ’54 Roger Poganski, 81, St. Cloud ’55 Duane Paulson, 82, Denver,

St. Cloud

’55 Mildred (Evert) White, 94,

’77 William Pettitt, 71, Sauk Rapids ’77 Joseph Wisdorf, 60, Plano, Texas ’78 David Carlson, 57, Waite Park ’78 ’89 Kenneth Dickinson, 64,

’56 Warren Russell, 84, Oroville,

’78 ’93 Leon Lechner, 58, Sauk

’57 Richard Peterson, 76, Henning ’58 John Battenberg, 80, Scottsdale,

’79 John Hynes, 59, Little Falls ’79 Dennis Monahan, 54, Tucson,

Caledonia

’58 ’60 Walter Nottingham, Hilo,

Grand Forks

’59 Norma (Erickson) Bruncke, 75,

’82 Sherri Greenan, 52, Minnetonka ’82 Paula (Sutton) Lamberg, 64,

We remember ’31 Arletta (Soltau) Rupp, 101, ’36 Iris (Lien) Carlson, 100, East ’36 Marcella (Schaedler) Curran, 97,

Grand Rapids

’36 ’54 Eva (Cook) Cook Jones, 95,

Morris

’39 Willard Kottke, 95, Sun City

West, Ariz.

’39 Iris (Vanstrom) Slettom, 94,

Aitkin

’40 Edith Anderson, 94, Minnetonka ’40 Phyllis (Baird) Nelson, 92, Red

Wing

’43 August Gehrke, 93, Burnsville ’43 Edith (Emmel) Wallace, 90,

Crandon, Wis.

’44 Marian (Pearson) Landby, 89,

Warroad

’45 Myrtle (Krogstad) Olson, 87,

Custer, S.D.

’46 Merced (Hellickson) Christopherson, 86, Little Falls ’46 Stanley Nordin, 92, Slayton ’47 Gertrude (Beacom) Kessler, 87,

Pine City

’47 Daniel Mestnik, 89, Marquette,

Mich.

’47 Dorothy (Kleven) Pabst, 85, Salt

Lake City, Utah.

’48 ’69 Elmer Cremers, 90, St. Cloud ’49 Donna (Herman) Esselman, 82,

Roseville

’50 Joseph Bergstrom, 90, Burnsville

Colo.

’55 Dorothy (Nelson) Sandstrom, 78,

Virginia

St. Cloud

Pillager

Calif.

Rapids

Ariz.

Ariz.

Hawaii

Pound, Wis.

’82 ’85 Bernice (Zurawski) Marohn,

Lincoln City, Ore. ’60 Kenneth Derr, 73, Sauk Rapids ’60 Rubell (Thayer) Sutton, 85, St. Cloud ’61 Dean Ellis, 82, Longmont, Colo. ’61 Karen Pollock, 72, Ormond Beach, Fla. ’62 Betty (Anderson) Beach, 87, Broomfield, Colo. ’62 Gretchen (Boatman) Dykhuizen, 73, Sartell ’63 Richard Kamla, 72, Maplewood ’63 Michael Maas, 70, Chico, Calif. ’64 Judith (White) Hoard, 69, Mesquite, Texas ’65 Beatrice (Weisser) Compton, 94, Sauk Rapids ’66 David Bizal, 75, Savage ’66 Carmen (Graupmann) Holum, 90, Ketchikan, Alaska ’66 Margaret (Folsom) Theis, 86, Brooklyn Park ’67 Geraldine (Peterson) Bennett, 68, St. Cloud ’68 Frances (Richtsmeier) Engstrom, 75, Minneapolis ’68 Lawrence Rosati, 69, Bethlehem, Pa. ’68 Larry Tepley, 73, Waite Park ’68 Jerome Thurnbeck, 70, Huron, S.D.

FAculty/staff We remember

Red Wing

St. Cloud

87, Waite Park

’81 Ardis (Johnson) Falk, 79,

St. Cloud

’92 ’02 Martin Sundvall, 46,

St. Cloud

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75, Annandale

’82 ’93 Mary (Wedl) Keenan, 74,

Richmond

’83 Phyllis (Nehring) Peterson, 85,

Mora

’85 Michael Nelson, 49, St. Paul ’86 Heidi (Armstrong) Neis, 52,

St. Cloud

’87 Janet (Bauman) Hance, 64,

Monticello

’90 Randall Ceaglske, 46, Barronett,

Wis.

’90 Suzanne (Ressemann) Reinert,

46, St. Cloud

’91 Kristin (Barsness) Cote, 48, Edina ’91 Michael Lizotte, 45, Lindstrom ’92 Anita (Strenge) Figallo, 68, Foley ’92 LyAnn (Boser) Girtz, 73, Brooklyn

Park

’92 Michael Hayes, 47, Big Lake ’92 Deborah (Thielke) Hilleren, 59,

Future alum Addison Sutherland modeling her Husky pup shirt. Proud parents are Alex Sutherland ’10 and Briana (Holm) Sutherland ’11.

Barnum

’93 John Crandall, 55, Brooklyn Park ’95 Michelle (Benson) Hoffman, 40,

Atwater

’98 Dion Pollock, 37, Bowlus ’99 Jon Nelson, 36, Hayfield ’03 Mary (Samuelson) Smith, 67,

Alexandria

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