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Morningside Alumni,
The
Morningsider alumni magazine invites you to send in your latest news
and photos to the alumni editor for your class listed below.
A big thank you to our class editors for their willingness to participate. If no editor is listed for your class, please contact us if you would like to become one!
Information may also be sent to:
Karen Dreessen
Administrative Assistant
Alumni Relations
MORNINGSIDE COLLEGE
1501 Morningside Ave.
Sioux City, IA 51106
alumni@morningside.edu
712-274-5107
1943
Mary (Cruikshank) Grefe
recently retired after serving 12 years on the Morningside College Board of Directors.
She currently resides in Des Moines, Iowa.
Send your notes
to: marygrefe@aol.com.
1953
Bruce Norris lives in Council Bluffs, Iowa, with his wife, Dione. He taught in the public schools and at the junior college level for 38 years. He has been doing volunteer work at Lewis Central High School in Council Bluffs for the past 16 years.
Send your notes to: loweregister@msn.com
1960
John Gilbert and his wife, Carlene, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in 2009. They enjoy traveling, spending time with family, bicycling and fishing. John also volunteers with AARP doing taxes for the elderly and with Johnson County Area Agency on Aging, helping with Medicare and Medicaid questions and/or problems.
Send your notes to:
jdgilbert@prodigy.net or 12313 Long St., Overland Park, KS 66213-2210.
1961 & 1962
Earl Parsons retired in 2001, after more than 35 years in the health care industry - nursing homes, specifically. He was involved in building, owning and operating buildings in Iowa, Nebraska, Arizona and California. Being father to three wonderful girls and grandfather to identical twin girls, all living in the Denver area, has led to a lot of traveling, Parsons says, "If I knew grandfathering was going to be this cool, I would have skipped parenting and gone right to grandparenting!"
Send your notes to: jephasarrived1@cox.net or 2601 W. Romley Ave., Phoenix, AZ 85041.
1963
Send your notes to Don Hill:
hilld@mercersburg.edu.
1965
Wayne Shively
of Sioux City is currently a part-time employee of the Community Action Agency of Siouxland. He is retired after teaching
English and language arts for 33 years.
Send your notes to:
shively130@aol.com.
1967 & 1968
Barbara (Kubiatowicz)
Danger retired in 2001 after a 34-year career teaching
English and working as a media specialist. She hopes to hear
from classmates from both the classes of 1967 and 1968, because
she started at Morningside with the class of 1968 and graduated early in 1967.
Send your notes to:
barbaradanger@comcast.net or 13222 Spencer Sweet Pea Lane, Eden Prairie, MN 55347.
1972
Donna (Tack) Ricks lives in Hudson, Iowa, with her husband, Al Ricks 1973. Donna retired in 2008 from her position teaching English and speech and coaching contest speech at Dike-New Hartford High School in Dike, Iowa. Al recently accepted a position as Iowa State University Extension director of a six-county region, including Black Hawk County where they reside. Donna and Al are the parents of Sarah Van Waardhuizen, who resides in Johnston, Iowa, with her husband, Shane, and 2-year old daughter, Ella. A new grandchild will be welcomed sometime this month. Sarah is the chair of the vocal music department at Johnston High School, where she directs concert choirs, madrigal and show choir. Donna continues to remain active as a speech contest judge and office manager, as well as an active member of the Iowa High School Speech Association Hall of Fame.
Send your notes to: djrteach@msn.com or Box 268, Hudson, IA 50643.
1973
Dr. Kris (Toyne) O'Clair has a doctorate in education leadership and policy studies from the University of Denver.
She is the mathematics intervention coordinator with Teaching and Learning in the Denver Public Schools. She and her husband, Tim 1972, have a daughter, Shelby 2000, and a son, Ryan. Shelby and her husband, James Snyder, are parents of James Lloyd Scott, born June 23, 2008. Shelby is the theatre teacher at George Washington High School, and James is the administrative education liaison at Tennyson Center for Children, both located in Denver, Colorado. Ryan lives in Portland, Ore.
Send your notes to:
kkoclair@comcast.net or
7655 S. Holland Way, Littleton, CO 80128-5154.
1980
Cynthia (Salasek) Marlette, of Coeur d'Alene,
Idaho, is director of worship and development, as well as organist, for First Presbyterian Church in Coeur D'Alene.
Send your notes to:
cynthia.marlette@gmail.com.
1981, 1982
Michael Madsen
of Chicago, Ill., currently works in the Finance Service Center at the Chicago Tribune. Previously, he was with Midas International and
Bankers Insurance Company, after 10 years in college sports information positions.
Send your notes to:
mpmadsen@sbcglobal.net.
1989
Penny May, of Laurel, Neb., works for Nebraska Central Railroad in the customer service department.
Send your class notes to: pjmfrg@yahoo.com.
1990
Tom Gerking
is currently serving as the director of choral activities at Westwood Community School in Sloan, Iowa. His program includes the 130-voice high school mixed chorus, two award-winning show choirs and several other outstanding performing ensembles. He also serves on several in-school and state committees and is advisor to the Westwood High School Student Council.
Send your notes to:
tgerk@hotmail.com or Box 337, Sloan, IA 51055.
1991
Troy A. Sparks
is a letter carrier who resides in Milwaukee, Wis. He also works in television production and as a sports writer for several community newspapers.
Send your notes to:
sparkstroy@sbcglobal.net.
1992
Jami (Walquist)
McCudden resides in New Virginia, Iowa,
with her husband, Mike, and three children, Brennon, Alex and Jenna. She is a licensed massage therapist, and she and her husband
own Step One Fitness, a small fitness center.
Send your notes to:
macjr@iowatelecom.net.
1993
Eric Wylie lives in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, with his wife, Krista, and children, Nathan and Rachel. He owns Wylie Creative Communications. His Web site is: www.wyliecc.com.
Send your notes to: eric@wyliecc.com.
1995
Jennifer (Rice)
LeMar and her husband, Joel, are the parents of three children, Elizabeth, Sam and Ben. Previously she worked in the information technology industry in Des Moines, Iowa, and Dallas, Texas. Now she stays home with the kids and dabbles in a second career as a "digital artist" at www.scrapartist.com.
Send your notes to:
nennikers@hotmail.com or 1005 55th Street, West Des Moines, Iowa 50266-7534.
1996
Kristin Johnson
is an associate editor with the Iowa Geriatric Education
Center at the University of Iowa. She lives in Iowa City
with her husband, Dan Brock 1996. She is a
longtime volunteer with the Iowa City Animal Care
and Adoption Center.
Send your notes to:
kjohnson8779@msn.com.
Lynn Kogelmann
is also serving as a class editor for the class
of 1996. She is a counselor at Courtland Elementary School in Spotsylvania, Va.
Send your notes to:
lkogelma@yahoo.com.
1997
Brian M. Clarke
is director of sales for ConAgra Foods, a leading branded foods company. Brian lives in the San Francisco bay area with his wife, Jane, and their children.
Send your notes to: bclarke@comcast.net or 256 Snider Court, Livermore, CA 94550.
1998
Amber (Ellerbroek)
Hegarty, of Sioux City, Iowa, is an associate with the law firm of Berenstein, Moore, Heffernan, Moeller & Johnson LLP in Sioux City.
Send your notes to:
alh_52241@yahoo.com.
1999
Jami (Wheatcraft) Langholdt is an assistant vice president in the lending department at the Singing Hills office of Iowa-Nebraska State Bank. She shares her Morningside roots with her grandfather, James
Moser 1965.
Send your notes to:
txjami@yahoo.com or
3513 Virginia St., Sioux City, IA 51104.
2001
Allison (Hallquist) Newman is a financial consultant/analyst with Wells Fargo Financial in Des Moines, Iowa.
Send your notes to: allisonknewman@yahoo.com.
2002 & 2003
Michael and
Tasha (Segebart) Eldridge live in Red Oak, Iowa. Mike graduated from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, with a master's degree in educational leadership. He is now the 6th - 12th grade principal for the Sidney Community School District in Sidney, Iowa. Tasha is an elementary music teacher in Sidney and Farragut, Iowa. She is also a certified jazzercise instructor.
Send your notes to:
meldridge@iowatelecom.net.
2004
Erin Mulvany received a master's degree in theatre, with an emphasis in directing, from the University of Nebraska at Omaha in May of 2007. She is currently on staff for the Two Chairs Theatre Company in Grand Junction, Colo. She also works full time for St. Mary's Hospital, also in Grand Junction.
Send your notes to: erinmulvany@hotmail.com.
2007
Brian Hamilton is working at Wal-Mart as a sales associate in the electronics department until the right job comes along. He enjoys the outdoors and watching the Kansas City Chiefs play every football season.
Send your notes to: hamilton.bham@gmail.com.
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