English Graduates - May 2002
|Berendes|Castor|Cates|Ceronsky|Crowley|Dixon|Doll|Flaherty|Forester|Francis|Frerich|Furlong|
|Gawne-Mark|Gecsei|N. Gottfried|S. Gottfried|Hanson|Hiatt|Hoffarth|Hoffman|Howe|Jipson|C. Johnson|
|S. Johnson|Kelly|Keiger|Lally|Lees|Leis|Lindquist|Louwagie|Lucas|Markwardt|McCarney|Mohs|
|Morrisette|Nagel|Olson|Orthun|Penkala|Perske|Pragman|Renner|Schmidt|Siebenaler|Sinness|
|Spielman|Staples|St. Clair|Stein|Stenberg|Stender|Studer|Walters|Williams|Wyne|
Charles Anton Berendes
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Major: English
Major 2: Peace Studies
Minor:
Special Achievements:
St. John's Senate Jan. 99-Dec. 00 . . . St. John's Graduation Speaker . . . Rat Pack.
Immediate plans after graduation:
Hopefully going to California.
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Rachel Castor
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Major: English
Special Achievements:
Committing myself to taking action and creating discourse in areas of social justice and women's issues, culminating in serving as the Social Justice and Women's Issues Representative of the St. Ben's Senate and a co-chair of the women's week planning committee in 2002
Receiving the Service Scholarship in 2001 by redefining service to include speaking truth to power through protesting and civil disobedience.
Taking the risk of writing opinion columns twice a month for the Record where I put my ideas and writing on display and learned from the sometimes critical responses.
Creating spaces for community in the classroom. living space, and wilderness; and learning from the beautiful souls that emerge.
Immediate plans after graduation:
I will be training to become an environmental education instructor. My internship is at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry's Camp Kiwanalong on the northern coast of Oregon.
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Joseph Cates
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Major: English
Minor:
Special Achievements:
Immediate plans after graduation:
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Anne Ceronsky
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Major: English
Minor: Secondary Education
Special Achievements:
Dean's List, Cross Country and Track assistant coach, involvement with various volunteer activities.
Immediate plans after graduation:
To live and work in St. Paul, MN. I am currently looking for an English teaching position with middle or high school students.
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Tricia Crowley
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Major: English
Major 2: Spanish
Minor:
Special Achievements:
Dean's List, Studied Abroad in Spain Spring 2001, Writing Center Tutor for 3 years.
Immediate plans after graduation:
I will temping Through Jeane Thorne, Inc. until August 2003 when I will marry my best friend, Michael Tempel. That fall I will either begin a master's program for public policy at the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute or live abroad with my new husband.
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Julie Dixon
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Major: English
Minor:
Special Achievements:
Immediate plans after graduation:
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Chris Doll
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Major: English
Minor:
- Special Achievements:
Studied abroad in London 2001, Meinz scholarship 1999-2001, Captain of the Cross Country and Track and Field teams.
Immediate plans after graduation:
Teaching English in South Korea for a year.
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Amy Flaherty
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Major: English
Major 2: Communication
- Special Achievements:
- -Dean's List 4 times
- -Co-President Communication Club 2001-2002
- -Ireland Study Abroad Participant 2000
Immediate plans after graduation:
At an AmeriCorps site, I am volunteering for at least one year in Nome, Alaska. I will be working at a Catholic radio station, KNOM FM, in the area of news, while servicing the remote Eskimo villages. I’ll try my hand at interviewing, writing, editing, and broadcasting. My future abode is the station’s volunteer house next door to the station with six other volunteers. I hope to check out Russia and convince someone to visit me by dog sled!
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Melissa Forster
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Major: English
Major 2: Communications
Minor:
Special Achievements:
Studied Abroad at the University of Notre Dame - Australia, Spring 2002; survived as a R.A. in a first-year residence hall; Made friends and had experiences that will be with me for the rest of my life.
Immediate plans after graduation:
I am currently searching for employment.
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Alyssa Francis
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Major: English
Minor: History
- Special Achievements:
Dean's List, Writing Center Tutor, Studied Abroad in France.
Immediate plans after graduation:
During the summer I'm going to be traveling to China and California, and after that I really have no idea. I am considering volunteering in the U.S. or teaching English in Japan or China, but nothing's definete.
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Stephanie Frerich
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Major: English
Minor:
- Special Achievements:
Immediate plans after graduation:
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Erin Bridget Furlong
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Major: English
Minor: Political Science
Special Achievements:
Dean's list, Alpha Kappa Sigma Service Sorority President, Co-chair College Dems, and Graduating Magna Cum Laude.
Immediate plans after graduation:
Attending the University of Minnesota Law School & the School of Public Health pursuing the Joint Degree in Law and the Master's in Public Health Administration (Beginning Fall 2002).
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Devin GawneMark
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Major: English
Major 2: History
Minor:
- Special Achievements:
Graduating Magna Cum Laude, Dean's List, TA for English 311: Writing Essays, Student Employee of the Year Nominee.
Immediate plans after graduation:
Getting Married to the enchanting Chelsie Hanson and starting our lives together in St. Paul.
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Kendall Gecsei
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Major: English
Minor: Theology
- Special Achievements:
Obtained first degree black belt in taekwondo and trainee instructor certification.
- Student coordinator of Student Advocates Against Sexual Violence.
Immediate plans after graduation:
I will be an Education Director with the Eastside Boys and Girls Club in St. Cloud, MN.
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Nathan Gotfried
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Major: English
Major 2: Peace Studies
- Special Achievements:
- -St. John's Senator in 2001, Public Relations
- Representative
- -Resident Assistant, 1999-2000
- -Caritas Award Winner
Immediate plans after graduation:
I'm looking forward to getting away from the college scene a bit and find out what the rest of the "real world" feels like, and then go back into graduate school when I have a better sense of what I'd like to do with the rest of my life.
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Sarah Gottfried
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Major: English
Minor: It was philosophy, but I had to drop it because I wanted to take an English course instead.
- Special Achievements:
Immediate plans after graduation:
Moving to Minneapolis
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Chelsie Hanson
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Major: English
Minor:
Special Achievements:
Attended the Iowa Writers Conference for Poetry under the poet Jorie Graham as a 2nd year student here (got an A, was one of the 12 choosen from 950 applications.) LSLR Editor in Chief 2001-2002 (head poetry editor 2000-2001, poetry editor 1999-2000)the 1st to win the Capston Press Scholarship, one of the four CSB/SJU Profile Students
Immediate plans after graduation:
Will persue a MFA in creative writing in poetry, then a PhD in Literature. (I plan to be an English Professor and a poet)
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Justin Hiatt
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Major: English
Minor:
- Special Achievements:
Immediate plans after graduation:
Get a job in the corporate world and make money, then head to Boston for law school.
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Sonya Hoffarth
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Major: English
Minor: Secondary Education
Special Achievements:
Dean's List 6 times, Kidstop volunteer, and a Presidential Scholarship Recipient.
Immediate plans after graduation:
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Matthew Hoffman
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Major: English
Minor:
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Immediate plans after graduation:
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Dustin Howe
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Major: English
Minor:
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Joshua Jipson
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Major: English
- Special Achievements:
- --Fall 2000 Greco-Roman study abroad participant
--Took all my English classes in either writing or literature courses-no pop culture/cultural studies courses
--Associate Editor, Unit for the Study of Personality in Politics, 2000-2001
Immediate plans after graduation:
I’m fighting forest fires for the state of California beginning May 15.
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Carissa Johnson
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Major: English
Minor:
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Immediate plans after graduation:
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Sara Johnson
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Major: English
Minor: French
- Special Achievements:
2002 CSB Student Employee of the Year.
2002 State of Minnesota Student Employee of the Year.
Graduating with All-College Honors and a Distinction in English.
Immediate plans after graduation:
Don't know yet
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Bridget Kelly
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Major: English
Major 2: Communications
Minor: Spanish
- Special Achievements:
News editor of The Record for two semesters, features editor for one, lived it up for four solid years.
Immediate plans after graduation:
Move home to my parents house in St. Paul and make the best of being able to live rent- free in the Cities for a bit. I might also try to find a job at some point.
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Callie Kieger
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Major: English
Minor: Secondary Education
- Special Achievements:
Writing an Opinion column for The Record, volunteering as a Confirmation small group leader at Sacred Heart Parish in Sauk Rapids, student teaching at Tech High School and South Junior High School in St. Cloud, MN.
Immediate plans after graduation:
I will be volunteering for a GED program through Edmundite Mission Corps in Selma, Alabama for 10 months, and then I will proceed to find a teaching position in MN.
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Kevin Lally
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Major: English
Minor:
- Special Achievements:
Wrote a play. Can hold breath for almost 2 minutes.
Immediate plans after graduation:
I will work next year in whatever part to full time job I can find and spend my time writing.
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Brian Lees
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Major: English
Minor:
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Immediate plans after graduation:
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Nathaniel Leis
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Major: English
Minor:
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Jen Lindquist
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Major: English
Minor: Computer Science
- Special Achievements:
I studied abroad in South Africa, thesis completion, and forming the best friendships of my life.
Immediate plans after graduation:
I will be teaching English in Japan through the JET program.
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Lacey A. Louwagie
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Major: English
Minor: Psychology
Special Achievements:
Recipient of the Capstone Press Scholarship for the year 2002-2003
Member of Studio 1 Literary Staff for 2002
Recipient of the Ethiopian Cataloguing Assistant Internship for Summer 2002
Immediate plans after graduation:
Cataloguing Assistant of Ethiopian Manuscripts [Internship]
Getachew Haile and Matthew Heintzelman
Bush Center
PO Box 7300
Cellegeville, MN 56321
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Kate Lucas
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Major: English
Minor: Peace Studies
Special Achievements:
Gaining a love and passion for poetry and other new invigorating intellectual and creative pursuits.
Living in community with strong, amazing women-and making it work.
Traveling to distant places, in both physical and intellectual spheres, in both North and Latin America.
Immediate plans after graduation:
Near future: volunteer and/or non-profit work.
Long-term: maybe a high school English teacher.
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Jeff Markwardt
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Major: English
Minor:
- Special Achievements:
Completed a four credit independent study project titled "Microcredit's Community and Economic Development in the Lake Atitlán Region of Guatemala" through HECUA's 2002 EECLA program.
- Ran on both the SJU cross country and track teams.
- Designed both the Creativity Conference Logo and the 2000 Pinestock t-shirts.
Immediate plans after graduation:
Volunteering with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps in Seattle
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Anne McCarney
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Major: English
Minor:
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Immediate plans after graduation:
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Peter James Mohs
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Major: English
Minor: Communication
- Special Achievements:
- I studied abroad in London, Spring 2001; Recorded songs on the first two Campus Groove Recordings CDs; worked for the greatest department on campus which allowed me to work on this web site.
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- Immediate plans after graduation:
- I'm living at home for now, at least until I can round up a full time job. Otherwise I'll keep playing music with my band and correcting people's grammar.
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Steve Morrissette
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Major: English
Minor:
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Mark Nagle |
Major: English
Minor:
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Scott Olson
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Major: English
Major 2: Communication
- Special Achievements:
- -Making the Dean's List twice
- -Being a member of the study abroad trip to Ireland in
- the fall of my junior year
Immediate plans after graduation:
I'm still looking for a job but I'm not sure what I'm going to do. I would like to go into human resources or public relations where I can utilize what I've learned in the past four years.
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Michael Orthun
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Major: English
Minor:
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Immediate plans after graduation:
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Kathleen Rose Penkala
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Major: English
Major 2: Philosophy
Minor:
- Special Achievements:
Spring 2001 Study Abroad Program in London.
2000-2001 Assistant Managing Editor of VIVO Sport Magazine.
My involvement in such activities as, a Might to Fight Cancer Participant, Birthline, Big Sister/Little Sister. AIDS Quilt and MN AIDS Project.
Immediate plans after graduation:
Volunteering at an Americorps site. I will be working for the National AIDS Fund in Detroit, Michigan. I will be working with different AIDS outreach programs as a counselor. I also plan to pursue my Masters Degree in Counseling.
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Chris Perske
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Major: English
Major 2: Humanities
Minor: German
- Special Achievements:
- Dean’s list 2x, Siehl Scholarship 99-02
Immediate plans after graduation:
William Mitchell College of Law
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Alison Pragman
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Major: English
Major 2: Psychology
Minor: None
- Special Achievements:
Studied Abroad in London, Spring 2001
- My involvement in volunteer activities such as, Upward Bound Mentor, Shared Minister, a Night to Fight Cancer Participant, and Admissions Ambassador.
Immediate plans after graduation:
I am currently looking for a job in the Twin Cities area.
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C. J. Renner
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Major: English
Minor: Secondary Education
- Special Achievements:
Immediate plans after graduation:
Student Teaching
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Andrew J. Schmidt
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Major: English
Minor:
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Alex Siebenaler
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Major: English
Minor:
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Joe Sinness
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Major: English
Major 2: Art
- Special Achievements:
Editor of Studio One - 2001 issue. I have found ways to incorporate my studies of English Literature into my senior art exhibition by utilizing the fine book arts program. I have mastered the art of doodling.
Immediate plans after graduation:
Summer: working at a bait shop or driving a sandwich truck across the tri-state area.
Fall: Volunteer English teacher for the Maryknoll program in China - exact location still unknown.
Future: Graduate school for studio arts - then I may possibly become a professor and go to school forever.
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Polly Spielman
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Major: English
Minor: Spanish
- Special Achievements:
Studying Abroad in Spain, teaching English to a Hispanic High School student, and just living a balanced college career.
Immediate plans after graduation:
I will work as a camp counselor this summer for Upward Bound, then move to Madison, WI where I will substitute teach for awhile and . . . who knows? But I'm optimistic.
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Katie Staples
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Major: English
Minor:
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Immediate plans after graduation:
Administrative Assistant for Staff Term Care Group Affiliated - Eden Prairie.
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Nicole St. Clair
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Major: English
Minor: Secondary Education
- Special Achievements:
Dean's List, Regent's/Trustee Scholar
Captain of the Cross Country Team
Studied Abroad in London
Immediate plans after graduation:
I hope to teach middle school language arts in a city.
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Mary Stein
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Major: English
Minor:
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Immediate plans after graduation:
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Erik Stenberg
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Major: English
Major 2: History
- Special Achievements:
Immediate plans after graduation:
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Jeffrey Stender
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Major: English
Major 2: Business
Minor:
- Special Achievements:
Merril Lynch Service and Leadership Scholar, Leadership Initiative Volunteer, Alternative Spring Break Co-Leader.
Immediate plans after graduation:
Intern with e-partnerships for Carlson Consumer Group
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Linda Studer
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Major: English
Minor:
- Special Achievements:
Immediate plans after graduation:
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Anne Marie Walters
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Major: English
Minor: Communication
- Special Achievements:
Co-Chair Cultural Affairs Board (sophomore year), organizing concerts and working with musicians with Campus Groove Recordings, meeting some amazing friends.
Immediate plans after graduation:
I will be doing some freelance work for bands in Minneapolis/St. Paul, and hopefully hanging out in some coffee shops, listening to music.
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Scott Williams
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Major: English
Minor:
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Immediate plans after graduation:
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Keith Edward Wyne
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Major: English
Minor:
- Special Achievements:
Member and Coordinator of the Peer Resource Program
Intentional Joe Hall Community - Social Awareness 99-00
SJU Cross Country - 2 years
Immediate plans after graduation:
Volunteering in Portland, OR - Metro Center
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