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alumni class notesRev. Lloyd Kallevig was forced50to move when his home inWadena, Minn., was destroyed by atornado in June.Dennis Kalpin was one of the61retired teachers who sharedtheir memories in the countryschoolhouse at the Douglas County(Minn.) fair in August. His career included40 years of teaching, 47years of coaching football, plus basketball,softball, track, and baseball.Alice (Heikkila) Kinnunen,62Hancock, Mich., and her husband,Eldon, have spent 18 years inretirement working in Reynosa, Mexico,each winter, building homes forthe poor, distributing goods, helpingwith medical care, schooling, etc.Rev. Marv Repinski, Austin,64Minn., retired from theMethodist ministry six years ago,and is currently serving as interimpastor at Lansing Methodist Church,his fifth interim appointment. Healso teaches world religion at RiverlandCommunity College in Owatonna,and serves on the board ofthe Austin Symphony Orchestra.Paul Sedio retired after 3670years with Wells Fargo Bank.David Ulvin, Edina, Minn., served asthe senior commodore for the 2010Minneapolis Aquatennial. He retiredfrom teaching music in the St. Paulschool system and now invests inmulti-family residential real estate.Marti Lybeck’s dissertation on73female homosexuality in Germanywas named the State Universityof New York best dissertation inqueer studies last year. She teacheshistory at University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse.Rev. Gary Wollersheim was reelectedto a third six-year term asbishop of the Northern Illinois Synodof the ELCA. He serves as co-chairmanof the Illinois Council ofChurches and chairman of the RegionFive ELCA bishops.Rev. David Halaas, Williston,76N.D., joined the staff ofLutheran Social Services of NorthDakota last summer and works fromits Minot program office. He washonored by the Western NorthDakota Synod Assembly of the ELCAfor 30 years of ordained ministry.Bill Reyer, Tiffin, Ohio, is pro-and chair of the English77fessorDepartment at Heidelberg University.He is a member of the TiffinGlass Collectors Club and he volunteersat the Tiffin Glass Museum,giving tours and providing informationabout the glass production.Judy (Carson) Houck ’10 MSW,80Woodbury, Minn., received aHartford Scholarship in social work.She and her husband, Lee ’78, awaittheir first grandchild in January.Kevin Kuntz joined TopLine FederalCredit Union in Maple Grove, Minn.,as senior vice president of sales andservice. Most recently, he was seniorvice president and director of relationshipbanking at TCF Bank.52Rev. Len Dalberg, and his wife,Annabelle (Hanson) ’51,Solvang, Calif., were honored bytheir 4 children and 11 grandchildrenon their 60th anniversary at aseaside restaurant family dinner. Lenis a visitation pastor at BethaniaLutheran Church in Solvang in hisretirement.Diane (Peterson) Kachel,82Woodbury, Minn., receivedher Master of Biological Science degreefrom the University of Minnesotain April 2010. For the pastfour years, she has been assistantdirector of the Center for Lung Scienceand Health at the universitywhile completing her degree. Sheand her husband are blessed withthree adult sons and a daughter-inlaw,all in the metro area.Janice Aune serves on the88board of Caring Bridge.Devoney Looser, professor of89English at University of Missouri,was recently featured in theuniversity’s research magazine, Illuminations,about her book project, aCarolyn E. Johnson, Fullerton, Calif., traveled to Nigeria in the63summer to celebrate the completion of a water well that providesclean drinking water to the village of Okigwe. She is active in the FullertonSunrise Rotary Club, which received funding from the Rotary Foundationfor the project. She is an associate professor of communicationsat California State University-Fullerton and has also taught in Belize asa Rotary teacher. “It was an enlightening and gratifying experience!”Since reconnecting some years ago, several women from the75Class of 1975 have been getting together during the year, especiallyat Advent Vespers and the Auggie Night at the Races. Here, theyenjoy a potluck dinner last summer at Brenda (Hoppes) Cattadoris’house in Brooklyn Park, Minn. (L to R) Jo Koester, Jennie Hakes, Shirley(Christianson) Nickel, Brenda (Salberg) Peterson, and Brenda (Hoppes)Cattadoris.48Augsburg Now