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ALUMNI NEWS


Sixties
1964

James L. Cuttell retired as president of George State Bank in George, Iowa, on Dec. 31, 2008.  He ahd his wife, Charlene (Strand) Cuttell 1964, have lived in George for 38 years and have three daughters and four grandchildren.

1967

Marlys (Merrill) Conrad retired in 2005 following a 38-year career as a music teacher for the Red Oak Community School District in Iowa.  Conrad still resides in Red Oak, where she is a substitute teacher, directs the Red Oak Presbyterian Church Choir, and works part-time at a local funeral home.

Seventies

1974

Jerry Foxhoven was appointed as executive director of the Drake Legal Clinic at the Drake University Law School in Des Moines, Iowa. In addition to his new position, Foxhoven continues to serve as director of the Joan & Lyle Middleton Center for Children’s Rights at the law school.

1977

Bob Kirschbaum accepted a position as regional fund development associate for the American Red Cross – Siouxland Area Chapter. He is responsible for fundraising and public relations activities. Kirschbaum’s new position comes after a long career in public school administration, most recently in Spencer, Iowa, where he was elementary principal. He was named Iowa Reading Administrator of the Year in 2001.

Eighties

1980

Lynn (Acker) Pelton, a registered nurse, is a founding member and director of Greatest Goal Ministries in Bellevue, Wash. This organization was founded in May 2007 and is dedicated to responding to the various economic, physical, social and spiritual needs of the nearly 10,000 amputee survivors of a decade-long civil

war in Sierra Leone, West Africa. The mission is finding sustainable ways to reintegrate them back into society.  The amputations occurred not by land mines but by the brutality of machetes and guns. More information about Greatest Goal Ministries is available online at www.ggmusa.org. Pelton is currently an otology and otoneurotology clinic coordinator at Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle, Wash.

1982

Lori (Herzberg) Strohm accepted a position as the high ability learner coordinator for the Blair Community School District in Blair, Neb.

1985

Roger Jansen, head football coach at Sioux City Bishop Heelan High School, guided the Crusaders to a 14-0 record and Iowa’s Class 3A state championship during the 2008 season. Heelan defeated Decorah 35-10 in

the state championship game. Jerry Steffen 1986 was Heelan’s defensive coordinator.

Nineties

1993

David Harris is branch manager for the North Sioux City, S.D., office of Siouxland Federal Credit Union. Harris has over eight years of banking experience, along with several years of experience in customer service and retail management.


Two Thousand

2000

Jeremy Bullock is part of the finance team for Berkley Technology Services in Des Moines, Iowa. He started working for Berkley Technology Services in August of 2008.

2006

Megan (Donohoe) Cross is executive operations manager and executive assistant to the president and CEO

of Opportunities Unlimited in Sioux City.


DEATHS - In Loving Memory


1942

U.S. Air Force Col. Robert E. Hamel, Annandale, Va., died Dec. 19, 2007.

1949
Louis Blecher, Bergenfield, N.J., died Nov. 25, 2008.

1953
Richard C. Clements Sr., St. Louis, Mo., died March 12, 2009.

1972
Mary Kathryn (Faltemier) Aldrich, Papillion, Neb., died May 31, 2001.



BIRTHS - Future Morningsiders


1997
Lisa (Johnson) Ducommun and her husband, Daryl, Larrabee, Iowa, a daughter, Danika Marie, July 31, 2008.

2001
Charles Brommer and his wife, Jennifer, Rochester, Minn., a son, Mason James, Oct. 22, 2008.

 


MARRIAGES - Newlyweds


2003
Beth Herbst and Aaron Kolbo 2003, July 19, 2008, St. Joseph Key West Catholic Church, Key West, Iowa. At home in Sioux City.

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