Alumni Notes —
1970s
Dominic Miller ’78, guitarist for Sting, appeared on Good Morning America on October 14th alongside Sting and Melody Gardot. They played their new single, Little Things.
1990s
Eden (Bradshaw) Kaiser ’99 started her own copyediting business and finally feels like she may have found her dream job. “It all started with those Upper School grammar lessons, courtesy of the inimitable Diane Breach.”
2000s
In December, John Tate ’03, Chair of the State Parole Commission, was named one of Wisconsin’s 51 Most Influential Black Leaders by Madison365. Prior to his appointment by Governor Tony Evers, Tate served as Third District Alderman in Racine. Amanda (Sta Romana) Von Horn ’03 and Steven Von Horn ’03 live in Boston with their two daughters. Upon finishing her training in General Psychiatry and Addiction Psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine, she accepted a position at Tufts University Medical Center as an Addiction Psychiatrist and Associate Professor of Psychiatry. Amanda was recently featured in an Alumni Catch-Up segment on the Carthage College athletics website. At Carthage, Amanda was named first-team All-CCIW three straight years from 2005 to 2007. Paolo Pahm ’09 is currently pursuing his MBA from the University of Virginia Darden School of Business. Pahm is also an Operations Officer with the U.S. Army National Guard. He served as a battle captain while deployed to the United States Capitol Building in the wake of the civil unrest following the riot at the Capitol in January. Pahm and his story were profiled in the story “After Defending US Capital, UVA Darden Student Balancing Classes, Recruiting, National Guard Duties,” which
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ran in the Feb. 22nd issue of The Darden Report. The story reads, “Pahm was able to draw on his military and professional experience in balancing obligations. A Wisconsin native, Pahm enlisted in the U.S. Army shortly after graduating from Michigan State. After basic training and infantry school, he returned to Michigan State for a master’s degree and accepted a full scholarship with the school’s ROTC program. Pahm said he decided to pursue an MBA out of a desire to round out his skillset and learn the technical side of business following his experience training to be a human resources partner with Dow. The Darden MBA program seemed to promise what he sought.” At Michigan State, he earned his Bachelor of Science in Psychology and his Master of Science in Human Resources and Labor Relations. Bobby Schuessler ’06 is the Senior Fashion Editor for Who What Wear, an international online fashion company. His content is regularly featured on Yahoo.com. In early February, Molly Lofquist Johnson, Prairie’s Senior Director of Admission, happened to come across his story on winter boot trends. It made her week!
2010s
Justina Stern ’10 earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree from St. Olaf College in 2014 and her Master Of Education Degree from Augsburg University in 2020. Taylor Goelz ’16 earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Information and Analytics and a Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing from the University of Denver. She is a Tax Technology Associate at KPMG in Denver. Courtney (Owsley) Ketterer ’12, a 1st Grade teacher at Anthony Elementary School in Anthony, Texas, was named Teacher of the Year – her first in the district – for 2020.
2020s
Rebecca Kann ’21 is pursuing Environmental Health in the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. As a Student Ambassador in Rollins’ Earn and Learn (REAL) program, she is a research assistant for the domestic WASH epidemiology branch at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Her current work includes a COVID sewage surveillance study in the Center for Global Safe Wash. [A]