CLASS NOTES
Eric Eitrheim
of Oklahoma City is an assistant professor of chemistry in the College of Mathematics and Science at the University of Central Oklahoma. He was named a Virtual, Inorganic, Pedagogical, Electronic Resource (VIPEr) Fellow in an innovative national study. The study will use classroom observations, analysis of student work, student surveys and faculty interviews to study how changes in the classroom affect student learning, interest and motivation.
Jeff Emerson
is research associate II at Kemin Industries in Des Moines, Iowa.
Kristi (Holmberg) Grieder
graduated from Wartburg Theological Seminary and is pastro at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Waterloo, Iowa.
Erik Hageness
is home sales counselor at Plus Relocation Services in Minneapolis.
Shelby Klein
is a licensed alcohol and drug counselor at Zumbro Valley Health Center in Rochester, Minn.
Augie Lindmark
earned the medical doctorate from the University of Minnesota Medical School and completed an Oryema Fellowship in social medicine. He also received a Nicholas Skala Health Activist Award for work related to health reform and Medicare for All advocacy. He is a resident physician in primary care and HIV medicine at Yale New Haven Hospital in New Haven, Conn.
Samantha McAllister
earned the MS degree in genetic counseling from Augustana University, and is a licensed genetic counselor at Integrated Genetics in Los Angeles.
Heidi (Darrington)
and
Bryce Muenchow ‘15
live in Horicon, Wis. She is youth and family leader at First Evangelical Lutheran Church, and he teaches grades 6-12 music for the Dodgeland School District.
Erin Mykleby
earned a master’s degree in sports management from the University of Iowa. She is assistant athletics director for development at New Mexico State University in Carlsbad, N.M.
Daniel Ridenour
earned the MS degree in exercise science from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He is senior performance specialist at Ignition Athletic Performance group, and director of athletic performance at Wilmington College in Wilmington, Ohio.
John Stender
earned the MM degree in organ and sacred music from Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music. He is director of music at First Presbyterian Church in Rochester, Minn.
Jessica Streeter
earned a doctor of nursing practice degree from the University of Iowa and completed a postgraduate family nurse practitioner program at the University of Cincinnati. She is practicing at the Pella Regional Health Center’s Diabetes Management Clinic in Pella, Iowa.
Jake Wittman
is a PhD student in entomology at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.
MARRIAGES
EMILY BERKELAND and Logan Van Scoyk, Nov. 23, 2019
MELISSA ERICKSON and MICHAEL CROWE '13, Oct. 26, 2019
KATRINA HOUMES and Sean Atwell, Oct. 12, 2019
MELANIE KIRK and Matthew Gibbs, Sept. 14, 2019
ABBY KRIENER and Alex Abreu, July 28, 2018
KATIE MOAN and T.J. Dexter, Aug. 3, 2019
KAYLA NORMAN and CHRIS NEVALA-PLAGEMANN '11, Aug. 24, 2019
AMY SANDAGER and Mark Lobas, July 5, 2019
DREW WOJCIEHOWSKI and Rebecca Rabideaux, Oct. 5, 2019
BIRTHS/ADOPTIONS
Ben Erik, in October 2019, child of KATE (DOTY) and Jarrod Batchelder
Lottie Marie, in November 2019, child of CASSIE (TYSLAND) '10 and JACOB FOUTS
Taygan, in July 2019, child of ASHLIE (PATTEN) LEE and CORY LEE '09
Parker Jerome, in September 2019, child of MANDIE (MICKELSON) and GREG SIEMS
Oliver Dean, in May 2018, child of Kalee and ALLAN SWEET