Galaway Foundation co-founder and President Andy Galaway ’90 has 10 years experience in child welfare services including child protection in rural Minnesota and with private child foster care agencies in Nevada and Colorado. He also is a founding member of WhimSpire child placement agency in Colorado. In 2013, the Galaway Foundation endowed a $300,000 scholarship
As the new executive director for Anna Marie’s Alliance, Charles Hempeck hopes to help meet the needs of marginalized women and children. Anna Marie’s focuses on six counties in Central Minnesota, but also serves the entire state. According to 2011-12 reports, the shelter served 1,703 adults and children. Hempeck graduated with a degree in music
Former St. Cloud State University student-athlete Talisha Barlow was recently sworn in as a first-in-her-field police officer. Barlow, a women’s basketball standout from 2007-2011, is the first black female officer on the St. Cloud Police force. Coach Lori Fish pinned Barlow’s newly minted police badge on her during the police department’s swearing-in ceremony. A four-year starter, Barlow
Beth Sorensen ’90 is the vice president of MakeMusic Inc., and a driving force behind Finale, the industry standard for music notation. Finale enables composers, arrangers, musicians, teachers, students and publishers to create, edit, audition, print and publish musical scores. It was used on the 2013 Oscar-winning pictures “Argo,” “Life of Pi” and “Lincoln,” among
Political science major Alfredo Oliveira believes in government and has a passion to teach. Oliveira, an Honors Program student, has represented both St. Cloud State and St. Cloud Technical and Community College as a student representative on the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities Board of Trustees. He also was an intern for Sen. Al Franken in Washington,
The 30 year military journey of Brig. Gen. Neal Loidolt ’88 has led him to several honors. His latest is being assigned commander of the 34th Red Bull Infantry Division. “It’s an inspiring opportunity that I could have never dreamed of when I was a Reserve Officer Training Corps. (ROTC) cadet at St. Cloud State
It’s widely known that George Clooney directed, co-wrote and stars in the film “The Monuments Men,” a depiction of a World War II platoon’s efforts to rescue art masterpieces from Nazi thieves and return them to their owners. What most don’t know is St. Cloud State’s George Selke, president from 1927-46, had a principal role in
In its first season in the National Collegiate Hockey Conference (NCHC), the 27 student-athletes of men’s Husky Hockey won the Penrose Cup league title. The Huskies defeated Colorado College 4-1 March 8 in Colorado Springs and were awarded the Penrose Cup in a locker room ceremony. Coach Bob Motzko ‘87 and the 21-8-5 Huskies finished
Public relations major and world-class Crashed Ice competitor Cameron Naasz, Lakeville, placed third during his home state downhill ice skating competition tour stop in St. Paul, and went on to finish third in the world championship standings. Naasz was in a heated race for first with Austria’s Marco Dallago since the Red Bull tour’s first stop
Haley O’Brien, a 2013-14 senior from Excelsior, has been crowned Miss Minnesota USA 2014. She competed for the Miss USA title during an NBC television broadcast June 8 live from Baton Rouge, La., and made it into the top 20. O’Brien is studying medical biology and psychology, with a minor in chemistry.
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