Horizons Spring 2001 - Bemidji State University

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Horizons Page 6 Alumni Choir BSU Alumni Choir (Continued from page 5) Bank ... Lyn Hart (’87) of Apalachin, NY, recently became associate principal at Alice Freeman Palmer Elementary School in Windsor, NY ... Lori Kaufman (’89) was honored last year as the recipient of the Phoebe Apperson Hearst Outstanding Educator Award from the National Parent Teachers Association. Kaufman has been leading the Princess Nahienaena troupe at Na Mele O Maui for eight years. Over the past several competitions, the Princess groups have risen to the top, capped by an outstanding performance in 1999 that netted two first place awards, a second and a third among the Maui County Schools. Na Mele was started more than 20 years ago as a Hawaiian song competition for Maui’s school children and has grown to be one of the outstanding showcases of youth talent in the state ... Rebecca Novak (’87) of Mankato works for the Minnesota Department of Transportation and enjoys volunteering at church and participating in community theater projects ... Judith Endresen (’81) of Stuart, FL, recently passed the National Academy of Certified Case Manager test and now has her Care Manager Certification ... Fred Wesely (’87) of Elk River practices pharmacy in Princeton. His hobbies include collecting minerals and building wooden humidors ... Craig Stubbins (’81) of Eden Prairie recently accepted a job as a principal engineer at a corporation based in Eden Prairie ... Jill Radeke (’83) and her husband, Jim Allroggen, of Crystal announce the Oct. 24 birth of a daughter, Ava ... Laurie Baughn (’85) of St. Paul is assistant director of the AMBA and day MBA programs at the University of St. Thomas Graduate School of Business ... Daniel Swalve (’87) of Inver Grove Heights is married and has two children, Morgan, 7, and The BSU Alumni Choir will hold two concerts this spring and is looking for vocalists who wish to join the ensemble as well as those who want to enjoy the events as part of the audience. The initial performance is the group’s third annual concert, scheduled for April 29 at 3 p.m. in the Minnetonka Lutheran Church located at 16023 Minnetonka Blvd. The conductors for the choir will again be Dr. Paul Brandvik, BSU professor emeritus, and Sarah Aamot-Lundin, BSU alumna. There will be a BSU alumni reception immediately following the concert in the lobby of the church. Tickets for the concert are $8 for adults, $5 for students and $3 for seniors and children under 12. Schedules Concerts Proceeds from the concert will go to support the Bemidji Alumni Choir. The Alumni Choir will present a second concert on May 5 as part of a joint scholarship fundraiser with Hennepin Technical College (HTC). The choir will again be directed by Brandvik and Aamot-Lundin. The concert will be held at the HTC Auditorium located on campus at 9000 Brooklyn Blvd, in Brooklyn Park. Proceeds from the concert will be split between the BSU and HTC foundations with the Bemidji State portion supporting the Paul Brandvik Choral Scholarship. The evening will begin with hors d’ouerves prepared by HTC culinary arts students, followed by a performance by the BSU Bemidji State University Alumni Association PRESENTS EXCITING TRIPS FROM MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL Where We Are ... What We’re Doing Nolan, 5 ... Marcia Bahr (’87) lives in Mankato ... Wanita Huerd (’88) is a computer programmer for the Department of Human Services child support division and works both at her home office in Williams and in departmental offices in St. Paul ... Karla Knutson Tansey (’82) of Houston, TX, was promoted in April to controller of Texas Orthopedic Hospital in April, 2000 ... Joan Vant Hof (’89) of Merrifield has retired from Brainerd Regional Human Services Center and is now tackling the new challenge of parish nursing at Christ Community Church in Nisswa. Retirement travels have included a cruise to Alaska in 1999 and another to Europe in 2000 ... Heather Patterson Candels (’81) of Norwalk, CT, is teaching middle school English in Wilton, CT ... Lisa (Howe) Larson (’87) of Albertville works in the systems department of Wells Fargo Brokerage Services. She is married and has a daughter, Megan, 1 ... Sheila (Reinhart) Luce (’85) of Tampa, FL, is employed as an executive recruiter at the firm of Armand, Powers, Jullian & Jackson in Tampa. She received her MBA last year from Florida Metropolitan University. She’s married and has two children, Jennifer, 12, and Michelle, 6 ... James Kochendorfer (’84) of Plymouth still swims competitively and writes that he recently broke Minnesota records in the 50 and 200 yard breaststroke for his age group in the master’s swimming program ... Diane Sidoroff (’86) lives in McAllen, TX ... Brad Fevold (’85) of Roseau has been working for Marvin Windows for 11 years and is currently director of research and development. He’s been married for 16 years, has five children and is working towards his MBA ... Jill (Johnson) Meskan (’84) and Paul Meskan (’86) live in Minneapolis where Jill is approaching her 15 Lisa Habeck 86 th year as a senior graphic designer with Short Elliott Hendrickson (previously RCM), a multi-disciplined engineering firm. Paul is in his 14th year with the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Department and for the past three years has been assigned to the Minnesota Gang Strike Force. The couple has five-year-old twin daughters as well as a daughter who is six months old ... William Brunelle (’88) and his wife, Wendy, of Cass Lake announce the Nov. 29 birth of a daughter ... Wayne Beaman (’83) and Louise (Gadbois) Beaman (’81) live in St. Paul Park and have five children ranging in age from three to 15. Wayne has started his own art business after teaching art and coaching for 12 years. Louise has been a metro volleyball official for 11 years and a stay-at-home mom ... Tom Wivinis (’85) of Downers Grove, IL, is in his seventh year of employment with People’s Energy and has two sons, Tyler, 11, and Matthew, 7 ... Nellie Wegscheid (’80) of Wadena has a quilting business and has become an avid golfer ... Lynda Tarbuck (’86) of Upsala has been teaching K-12 visual art for Upsala Area Schools for the past 10 years ... Lisa Habeck (’86) is in her fourth season of performing Amahl in the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra’s production of Amahl and the Night Visitors. Habeck, a Alumni Choir. Intermission will again feature the culinary arts students with a host of dessert stations set up in the lobby. Tickets to this fundraising event are $30 and are available by calling the HTC Foundation at 763-425-3800. Vocalists who were part of the Bemidji Choir under the direction of Carl Thompson, Brandvik or Dr. Brad Logan can still join the choir by contacting either Sarah Aamot- Lundin (651-459-1845, email at lund0651@earthlink.net) or Gia DesLauriers (Gia_deslauriers @hotmail.com). The group will welcome any voice parts, but are in need of tenors and basses. Rehearsals this season are held on Thursday evenings through May 3, from 7-10 p.m. at the Minnetonka Lutheran Church. soprano, has sung and toured with many ensembles including the New York renaissance vocal ensemble Pomerium and Opera New England. Highlights of her current season include a concert of French Baroque music with Ensemble 392 and a recital of “Airs de Cour” with lutenist Philip Rukavina ... Stella Nelson (’86) of Chapel Hill, NC, has accepted a new position with UNC Hospitals Surgical Services as an assistant to the vice-president doing project management and education ... Susan (Barsness) Barutt (’85) recently finished her teaching degree and is teaching math at St. Francis Catholic School in Brainerd. She lives in Deerwood with her husband, Jim, and their eight-yearold twins, Cory and Ashley ... Jim Retka (’88) of St. Hilaire recently accepted a position with Northland College in Thief River Falls as a manufacturing specialist teaching “the incumbent workforce at business & industry in northwestern Minnesota,” a manufacturing curriculum. He also works in conjunction with BSU’s Center for Research and Innovation and is a former mayor of St. Hilaire. He and his wife, Diane, have two children, Carsen, 3, and Erin, 1. Retka had previously worked for Arctic Cat Inc. for eight years ... Jeannette Rieger-Borer (’86) owns a native grass and flower seed company and works as an accounting manager for an Annandale company. She lives with her husband, Tony, and their three children in Annandale ... Bruce Kranig (’88) of Bloomington recently began a new career in the American Red Cross ... Brenda Windahl (’85) of Warroad has been teaching fourth grade for 16 years in Warroad. Her husband, Wayne, works for Marvin Windows. They Faecke Accepts Position in United Arab Emirates Tom Faecke, vice president for administrative affairs at Bemidji State University, has accepted a position to serve as the director of finance and administration for the Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT) in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) starting in July. Since February of 1982, Faecke has served as the BSU vice president with management responsibilities in such areas as accounting, computing, procurement, security, financial aid, student union, food services, environmental health, physical plant, and intercollegiate athletics. Founded in 1988 to provide post-secondary education to citizens of the United Arab Emirates, HCT enrolls almost 10,000 students in 11 college campuses. The education provided is designed to prepare Emirati nationals for professional as well as technological careers in all sectors of the rapidly developing economy and society of the UAE. In his new position, Faecke will direct the finance, purchasing, human resources, information and telecommunication services, facilities, community relations, quality development and several other functions for the HCT. The United Arab Emirates was established in December of 1971 as a federation of seven states. Faecke came to Bemidji State after serving as controller at Washington State University for four years. He received his undergraduate degree from Bemidji State and a master’s from Sonoma State University in California. have two children, Brittany, 12, and Jeremy, 9 ... Monica Larson (’85) and her husband, Kevin, of Solway announce the December 27 birth of a daughter. 1990s Dan Carter (’91) was hired this fall by Northwest Technical College in Wadena as its new electronics/ computer systems instructor ... Jamison Englund (’95) has joined Gina M. Benassi Chiropractic Inc., High Pointe Health Campus in Lake Elmo. He is a July 2000 graduate of Northwestern College of Chiropractic in Bloomington ... Thea Monson (’95) has accepted a call to serve St. Paul’s Lutheran Church of Hackensack, a congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America. Monson was ordained into the ministry Oct. 1 at Salem Lutheran Church in Longville and was installed Oct. 8 as pastor at St. Paul’s. She graduated in May from Luther Seminary in Minneapolis with a master of divinity degree and had served as intern pastor at the North Star Mission Cluster of Puposky and Pinewood and at Health East-St. Joseph’s in St. Paul. She and her husband, John, who is pastor at Salem Lutheran Church in Longville, live on Mule Lake with their two children ... Bryan Sathre (’99) was hired this fall by Cass Lake- Bena Schools to teach high school physical education, strength and conditioning and to serve as assistant varsity football coach. He’d worked the previous year in Cass Lake-Bena district as a full-time substitute teacher ... Ron Kjensmo (’93) is teaching high school English at Cass Lake-Bena Schools. His first teaching job was in Texas near the Mexican border. He is single ... Ryan Kezar (’99) is a recent addition to the Thief River Falls
The Margaret H. Johnson Scholarship Margaret H. Johnson, class of 1942, recently presented a $40,000 gift to the Bemidji State University Foundation to establish the Margaret H. Johnson Scholarship for Education. Margaret was born in Stockholm, Sweden, and, at the age of five, came to America with her parents and sister. Margaret remembers the boat trip to America when other passengers enjoyed watching her and her sister curtsy and speak Swedish. The Johnson family lived in northern Minnesota where Margaret graduated from Northome High School. She then attended and graduated from Bemidji State Teacher’s College. Prior to retiring in 1972, she taught junior high mathematics in Brainerd for 42 years. She also enjoyed traveling and, in addition to trips across the United States, made numerous journeys to Sweden to visit relatives. Education has always been very important to Margaret. In addition to having many fond memories of Bemidji State Teachers College, she feels the education she received was excellent and provided her with the tools necessary to pursue and live out her life’s dream, to be a good teacher. Now, at the age of 92, Margaret feels that by making a donation to Margaret H. Johnson Police Department. Previously he’d worked as a 911 dispatcher for Pennington County and as a substitute teacher in Thief River Falls and Red Lake Falls. Hobbies include hunting, fishing, refereeing football games and spending time at his cabin ... John Ott (’96) was hired this fall as a physical education teacher at Newfolden Elementary. He’s also a football coach at MCC and assistant girls basketball coach. He and his wife, Liz, who’s employed at the Thief River Falls Times, live in Newfolden with their sons, Hayden, 2, and Neyland, 1 ... Jannelle Knott (’97) is a fifth- and sixth-grade teacher in language arts and math with Win-E-Mac School District where she’s also coaching seventh- and eighthgrade volleyball. She and her husband, Jason, live in Red Lake Falls, where his is employed as an electrician ... Susan Anderson (’97) of Ely was hired this fall as an art teacher at Tower ... Karla Weishalla (’97) is teaching seventh-, eighth- and ninth-grade science at the Bertha-Hewitt School. She lives with her husband, John, in Bertha ... Jason Foster (’99) was hired in October as the chief of police in Nevis. He’d previously worked with the Hubbard County Sheriff’s Department since the spring of 2000 ... Caara Holmstrom (’93) and her husband, Roger, own Paul Bunyan’s Animal Land, located 10 miles west of Cass Lake on Highway 2 East. The operation is a combination petting zoo, wildlife park and gift shop ... Amy Bowers (’97) is teaching fifth-grade math and reading in Zumbrota. She’d previously taught at Longfellow Elementary in Rochester. Her husband, Wayne, is employed with IBM ... Eric Ganske (’99) is teaching physical education and adaptive physical education at Crossroads Learning LegacyBuilders This column is a regular feature of HORIZONS. The column will highlight major gifts made by individuals or organizations to the University that support the mission of Bemidji State and build a legacy for the future. the BSU Foundation and creating the scholarship she is giving back and, in doing so, will be assisting future education students in pursing their educational goals. Additionally, Margaret has made a generous bequest to the BSU Foundation in her will so eventually her endowment fund will grow, thereby allowing for more scholarships to be provided. Alex Milowski Honors Father with Scholarship Alex Milowski recently presented $73,000 to the Bemidji State University Foundation to establish the Raymond S. Milowski Endowed Scholarship in honor of his father who retired from Bemidji State University in 1996 after 32 years of service. While at BSU, Dr. Ray Milowski served as professor of English, teaching American literature and humanities courses, and as coordinator of the Humanities Program. He also taught one year at the Minnesota state university campus operated in Akita, Japan. Prior to coming to BSU, Ray Milowski spent four years at the University of Minnesota as an assistant professor of American studies and communication programs. The Raymond S. Milowski Endowed Scholarship will be awarded each year to Bemidji State University juniors or seniors with preference given to those majoring in the humanities or in English. Alex Milowski graduated from Bemidji High School and received his associate degree from Bemidji State University in 1989. He then attended the University of Minnesota where he graduated in 1992 with a degree in mathematics and a minor in philosophy from the Institute of Technology. While at the University of Minnesota, he worked as a computer programmer for the Minnesota Daily and later at Merrill Corporation in St. Paul. Center, an alternative school in Sandstone. The previous year he’d worked as a youth treatment specialist at Woodland Hills, Duluth ... Dan Johnson (’98) of Hinckley is teaching third grade at Finlayson Elementary School. He spent the previous school year teaching Title I in Verndale ... Terese Ahrenholz (’99) began her first full-time teaching position this fall at MACCRAY schools in Clara City ... Sally Beito (’90) is an SLD teacher for first- through seventh-grades at Badger Schools. She also serves as the speech coach for grades 7- 12 and as the seventh-grade advisor. She’d previously taught in the Greenbush/Middle River and Mentor schools as well as at Paul Bunyan Elementary in Bemidji. She and her husband Peter live on their farm in Juneberry and have four children ... John Weishalla (’97) began teaching physical education at Wadena-Deer Creek schools this fall. He’d previously taught physical education for two years in Martin County West schools. Weishalla is originally from Bertha and is married to Karla ... Tiffany Whalen (’96) is teaching this year at the school in Plummer. She teaches current events and At Merrill, he was involved in the development of EDGAR with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and designed and built the first non-government software to submit financial disclosure documents to the SEC. It was there where he started working with SGML—an international standard for the electronic structuring of text. In 1995, he founded Copernican Solutions, a consulting and software company focusing on applications of SGML. Around that time XML — a subset of SGML — was being developed for use on the Internet and Alex was involved at the very beginning in the development of that standard. Copernican Solutions was one of a handful of companies that created software technology implementing XML in those early years. XML is now a fundamental technology for e-commerce on the Internet. Copernican Solutions was acquired by Veo Systems in 1998, all of which later became part of Commerce One, a global business-tobusiness systems provider. After the acquisition of Copernican Solutions, Alex moved to San Francisco to work for Veo Systems and later was chief architect for another startup company in the area. He now is working on Ray, Alex, and Carol Milowski consumer economics and works with special education students in kindergarten through sixth grade. Previous experience includes two years of teaching at Badger. She’s single and enjoys many hobbies including playing volleyball, camping and reading ... Mary Zika (’90) is employed with Tower-Soudan-Cook schools as a special education instructor. She’d previously spent two years teaching special education in Duluth, four years teaching at the Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig School near Bena and a year teaching in Laredo, TX. She fulfilled her student teaching requirements in England, where she taught at the Royal Albert and Alexandria School south of London ... Stephanie Dailey (’99) was hired this fall as the junior and senior high choir director at Mahnomen High School. She also works with sixth-grade music classes and seventh-grade general music classes. Her husband, Mike (’98), is the instrumental and band instructor in the same school district and the couple lives in Detroit Lakes ... Ann Marie Vossler (’92) is employed at the Barnum Public Schools in the Special Education Department working with grades K-12. She lives in the Moose Lake his next technology venture. “Alex was self-taught on computers,” stated Ray. “We bought an Apple IIE computer in our home when Alex was 8 years old and he learned by doing.” Alex admits that this is true, but added that they were not allowed to have games with those first computers, which were meant for other activities. “I wanted to play games and use the computer, so I had to write my own,” he remembered. “I don’t think I ever actually finished one, but I did know that computer inside and out, to the extent of writing my own font packages and programming language.” While at Bemidji State, Alex was part of group that founded the Association of Computer Enthusiasts, which is still active today, and was a member of Theta Tau Epsilon fraternity. Heltzers Celebrate Bemidji Connection with Scholarship Jim and Marilyn Heltzer of Bemidji have presented a $55,000 gift to the Bemidji State University Foundation to establish the Jim and Marilyn Heltzer Endowed Scholarships. Two $1,400 scholarships will be awarded to Bemidji High School Students who will attend BSU and major in education or political science. Both are active in the community and the Heltzers wanted the donation to be a gift to Bemidji. The gift is a result of a Charitable Remainder Trust that was established by Jim’s mother, who passed away last fall. The Heltzers moved to Bemidji in 1990 when Jim accepted the position of executive director of the Bemidji Housing and Redevelopment Authority while Marilyn served as the station manager of Minnesota Public Radio in Bemidji. The have both since retired with Jim now serving on the Beltrami County Board of Commissioners. area and enjoys outdoor activities, music, reading and movies ... John Thompson (’98) of Owatonna was recently transferred to the accounting department at Federated Insurance. He is engaged to Jennifer Mellum (’99) of Owatonna. She works as a graphic designer at Waller’s Publishing in Waseca ... Melissa (Baker) Warren (’91) and her husband, Mike, of Bloomington announce the November 1 birth of a son, Jacob Adam. They also have a daughter, Samantha, 3 ... Glenn Amundson (’91) of Grand Forks, ND, has been employed as sales manager at Hampton Ford Lincoln Mercury in Grand Forks for the past five years ... Jaeger Bellows (’97) of Bemidji has been employed as a police officer with the City of Bemidji for the past three years and has purchased a home in the area ... Jennifer (Kotten) Kelley (’94) is living in Robbinsdale ... Carl Rudi (’90) of Colfax, WI, is teaching seventh-grade math and serves as the head football coach at Colfax High School. He has two children, Alexis, 4, and Jarrod, 2 ... Kippy Knoblauch (’90) and her husband, Henry, of Bemidji announce the November 15 birth of a daughter Horizons Page 7 Jim and Marilyn have always been involved in public and community organizations in their professional lives and in volunteering. After graduating from the University of Minnesota, Jim taught junior and senior high school English and social studies in Beloit, WI, and Wayzata, MN, for 14 years when he also served as a councilman on the St. Louis Park City Council. In 1973 Jim was appointed by the governor to serve as the commissioner of the Department of Economic Development. He later served as the governmental affairs coordinator for the Dayton Hudson Corporation. He then became the executive director of the Minneapolis Community Development Agency, where he was responsible for administering a staff of 500 and managing projects over $1 billion. From 1992-1997 he served as the executive director of the Washington County Housing and Redevelopment Authority. Also a graduate of the University of Minnesota, Marilyn taught in an alternative education program in St. Louis Park. She then worked for Minnesota Public Radio, first as a volunteer and later as the vice president for programming. After moving to Bemidji in 1990, she continued to work for MPR as manager KCRB and KNBJ radio stations. Jim and Marilyn Heltzer ... Shane Chapman (’97) and his wife, Stacy, of Bemidji announce the November 14 birth of a son ... Chad Turner (’95) of Roosevelt has been employed with Marvin Windows for the past five years and is currently a financial analyst for the Warroad manufacturing facility and the Grafton, ND, plant. He and his wife, Shelia, have been married since September of 1997 and they have a two-year-old daughter, Remi ... Dan Prijatel (’91) has been named creative director with responsibilities that include supervision of the overall creative direction of JPG Communications Inc. in Ely. He also provides layout and design services, strategic development and creative staff supervision. He joined the corporation in May of 1995 ... Douglas Henrickson (’95) was hired in November as city administrator/treasurer for Littlefork. He lives in rural Littlefork and had previously worked as a U.S. immigration and naturalization officer for the Border Patrol in Pembina, ND. His wife, LuAnn Henrickson (’90) works as a teacher at the Littlfork-Big Falls Educational Center. The Henricksons have three children, Jessica, 11, Rylan, 4, and Liana, 1 ... Melissa Brelje (’92) is teaching seventh-grade English in Lake City ... Marti (Klinkner) Schroepfer (’91) of Sleepy Eye is enjoying staying home and caring for her children, Evan, 5, and Jena, 1. She also plays volleyball and softball ... Michelle Maas (’90) lives in Coon Rapids with her daughter, Kayla, 4. She works in Wayzata as an account executive for Baker Associates, a consumer graphic design firm ... 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