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Alumni family members brew up Decorah business
What do you get when you mix four Luther alumni with a love for Decorah and craft beer? Pulpit Rock Brewing Company, which officially opened its doors last August.Pulpit Rock is not only an alumni...
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Hoda Hersi ’06 works with BBC to help Somalis engage with communities, social...
“My dream job” is how Hoda Hersi ’06 describes her position as project manager with BBC Media Action in Hargeisa, Somaliland, an autonomous region of Somalia.“I love my work because I know I am making...
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A Cantopop sensation
When Eric Monson ’92 formed the four-man vocal group Metro in 1998, he had no idea that a decade later he’d be singing Cantonese pop—and garnering more than a million page views for it.Monson hails...
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Telling Vesterheim’s universal stories
The year 2025 will mark the 200th anniversary of the first organized immigration of Norwegians to the United States. With that in mind, Decorah’s Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum is launching a...
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Angela (Oldenburg) Kueny '02 furthers healthcare with research among Amish
Amish families living with chronic disease face many hurdles to treatment, and because they come from tightknit, faith-based, low-tech communities, they often feel alienated in a clinical setting,...
View ArticleClass Notes, 2000–2015
2000–2009 / 2010–20152000RYAN BIES is a shareholder at Dougherty, Molenda, Solfest, Hills & Bauer P.A. in Apple Valley, Minn.MATTHEW ERPELDING is the director of choral activities for Lebanon...
View ArticleClass Notes, 1954–1999
1954–1959 / 1960–1969 / 1970–1979 / 1980–1989 / 1990–19991954MAYNARD ANDERSON is president of the Arcadia Institute Inc. in Arlington, Va. He serves as chairman on the board of directors for Leave No...
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They found true love at Luther
Joyce Everson ’56 and Robert E. Lee ’50Providential Love?by Joyce (Everson) LeeAs a Boscobel, Wis., high school freshman, I attended the very first Dorian Music Festival in 1950. I distinctly remember...
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Learning through immersion
Erika Balk ’16 studied in Luther’s Malta Program in spring 2015. She shot this photo in Santorini, Greece, during spring break. “The white buildings clashed against the bright blue sky and were like...
View ArticleClass Notes, 2000–2015
2000–2009 / 2010–20152000Matthew Brant earned a master of theology degree from Dallas Theological Seminary. He is pastor at North Scott Baptist Church in Pardeeville, Wis.Chris Kjonaas is the associate...
View ArticleClass Notes, 1943–1999
1943–1949 / 1950–1959 / 1960–1969 / 1970–1979 / 1980–1989 / 1990–19991943Albert Nassen of Dallas celebrated 70 years of ordination last September.1952Harold Peterson sings in the ALC Celebration Choir...
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Elmore ’09 founds orphan care center in Zambia
When she visited missionary friends in Kenya in 2013, Megan Elmore ’09 felt called. She was working at a mortgage bankruptcy law firm at the time. “The day I returned to America,” she says, “we were...
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Hanewall ’78 racks up the laughs
In 1996 John Hanewall Jr. ’78 and his wife, Luan, were looking for something to do as a couple. Instead of turning to traditional partner hobbies like cooking or ballroom dance, they donned colored...
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A message from the presidentI’d like to extend my deeply felt thanks to all of the leadership donors in this President’s Council roster, who contribute in so many ways to Luther College. Through their...
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Revisiting the Christian retreat Hothorpe Hall
While vacationing in England last fall, my wife, Donna, and I returned to Hothorpe Hall, where I was honored to have spent a year (1966–67) as a Luther volunteer. Hothorpe is an English manor house...
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Alumni help at-risk youth find paths to safety and success
At 10 years old, Amir became the resident bee expert in his low-income neighborhood in Des Moines, Iowa. The fifth-grader could tell his friends and neighbors what bees do and how they pollinate and...
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Cycling trip to the “end of the earth” helps build houses through Winneshiek...
Ben Harney ’15, Jon Williams ’15, and Kai Ashland ’14 became violently ill in Mexico, biked in seemingly endless triple-digit heat in Guatemala, and battled freezing temperatures in the mountains of...
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Karen Martin-Schramm looks back on her years with the President’s Office
There is laughter, and there are tears. But mostly there is gratitude as Karen Martin-Schramm reflects on two decades of service as executive assistant to three Luther presidents: Jeffrey Baker,...
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Jones projects focus on the small and artful
English professor Lise Kildegaard has fostered a celebration of great art in small packages through her Dennis M. Jones Distinguished Teaching Professorship in the Humanities. Two of the projects...
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Balancing academics and athletics for the win
Slagel credits balance, team support for success in the poolClare Slagel ’16, a biology major and champion swimmer from Hempstead High School in Dubuque, Iowa, is a 10-time All-American with two...
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