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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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The Voice of Luther
In his deep radio voice, Bruce Larson recites the once-standard station break of KWLC: “You’re in tune to the radio voice of Luther College, KWLC, Decorah.” Larson, who is on staff as the station...
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Imagine Fellowships
If you had $5,000 to design a learning experience for yourself anywhere in the world, what would you do?This is the question posed to the 10 students that Luther selects as Imagine Fellows each year....
View ArticleClass Notes, 2000–2016
2000–2009 / 2010–20162000Erin (Meyer) Bockoven-Troll of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is an intermediate accountant for Transamerica Life Insurance.Norah Bringer and Dave Wake live in Washington, D.C. She is an...
View ArticleClass Notes, 1938–1999
1938–1939 / 1950–1959 / 1960–1969 / 1970–1979 / 1980–1989 / 1990–19991938Minnard “Dusty” Hanson recently celebrated his 101st birthday in Burr Ridge, Ill. He sold his retail business of 44 years and...
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Somewhere behind the rainbow
In the understatement of the year, Molly Goodwin ’02 says, “It’s not a little job.” As production stage manager for the touring production of The Wizard of Oz, Goodwin is responsible for calling out...
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Studying Aztalan
This summer, like the three summers before it, Sissel Schroeder ’83 found herself digging trenches—methodical, razor-straight trenches from which dirt was excavated by shovel and Marshalltown trowel....
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Spurring student success
For nearly three decades, Rufus Glasper ’74 has held the catbird seat on evolving higher education trends in this country. As chancellor emeritus of Arizona’s Maricopa Community Colleges, one of the...
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Karibu Loo
Heading out the door for a run one evening in 2014, Michael Switzer ’10 called to wife Leah (Jensen) Switzer ’11, “I think we should move to Africa.”“I thought, What? Get back in here, you can’t leave...
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Lars-Erik Larson '10 gains traction with jazz quartet Mancrush
Anyone’s first question to jazz drummer Lars-Erik Larson ’10 might be: Why is your jazz quartet called Mancrush? Answer: It’s the name you give to a group of serious professional musicians as a joke;...
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On grammar “cops” and “criminals”
Last fall, Luther’s English Department hired Mike Garcia and his wife, Marie Drews ’02, to help with writing instruction and program development in Paideia and the first-year writing courses. Garcia...
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Going high-tech in Greece
If you think archeological work is all kneeling in a trench, brushing ancient dust off potsherds, think again. As Dan Davis, Luther assistant professor of classics, points out, digging up artifacts is...
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