Huskies in the news

Both Dick Glatzmaier (SCSU Class of ’74) and Jim Glatzmaier (Class of ’75) went on to play baseball at St. Cloud State, where Jim also played football. They remain big Huskies baseball supporters, and established the Joe & Marie Glatzmaier Baseball Scholarship which is awarded annually at SCSU.

The Nisswa¬stämman is highlighting Arnold Anderson ’69, and his group, Stoney Brook Fiddlers. The 16th annual Nisswa-stämman Scandinavian Folk Music Festival will be June 12-13 at the Nisswa Pioneer Village.

Former Blaine Bengal and St. Cloud State Husky is a pretty patriotic guy, so when he got the call to be Captain of Team USA at the IIHF World Championships, it was the thrill of a lifetime.

Kanabec County Times — Pine Technical and Community College’s next president, Joe Mulford ’95, will start on July 1, but he spent May 27 meeting with community members and college staff in Pine City.

George Wilkes ’81 is the new president of American Time & Signal, a Dassel company that bills itself as the world’s largest manufacturer of system clocks and wireless-clock systems and market leader in integrated time solutions for education, healthcare, government and manufacturing organizations.

Mary (Brennan) Michaud ’84 is one-fourth of a fundraising team of cancer survivors called the Marrow Maniacs.

Adding more land and creating more opportunity to utilize Friedrich Park are key to St. Cloud’s request for bonding dollars.

Lt. Col. Jeff Howe ’98, Minnesota Army National Guard logistics officer, spoke at the St. Cloud Area Metropolitan Veterans Council Memorial Day parade and ceremony.

Well Fargo CEO John Stumpf ’76 told graduates of the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota that in order to transition from knowledge to wisdom, they’ll need to make some mistakes.

Wit, a grasp of statistics and ability to relate to an audience seem to be prerequisites for teaching driving courses to seniors.

George Smilanich ’49, the son of a miner, became a tank driver. His armored division helped Gen. George Patton race English Gen. Bernard Montgomery across Sicily. From there he went to Europe, where he landed on Omaha Beach three days after D-Day.

This summer, the St. Cloud-area youth marching band has a new name, and a new mission: Forget about competition; it’s about fun.

Christenson is a 5th grade teacher at Mississippi Heights Elementary School and is retiring this spring. She says she decided to be a teacher at an early age and that it’s one of the most rewarding jobs out there.

I’ve learned to differentiate between debate and dialogue from observing the work of Eddah M. Mutua, associate professor of intercultural communication at St. Cloud State University.

It’s an honor to stand here today. I’ve been dreaming of this moment for a while now.

The Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology honored Robert Boatz ’75 with its outstanding teacher award earlier this month.

Schweinfurter credited her last college course, a history elective at St. Cloud State University, for her interest in researching her roots. The professor encouraged students to learn more about their families.

The Thursday event is part of KVSC-FM’s spring programming. The event used to mark the St. Cloud State University radio station’s birthday, but now the timing is a little off.

Wednesday night marks the final show for David Letterman. And over the decades, there have been at least a few casual connections to St. Cloud (and St. Cloud State).

It will be hard for the St. Cloud State baseball team to ever match what it did in 2015.

The video game industry reels in billions of dollars per year. A leading chronicler of it lives in St. Cloud and is a professor at St. Cloud State.

The third season of Granite City Radio Theatre will wrap up Wednesday at Pioneer Place on Fifth.

Henderson State’s Hayden Lessenberry hit a walk-off RBI single in the bottom of the 10th inning to lift the sixth-seeded Reddies to an 8-7, 10-inning win over top-ranked St. Cloud State in the Division II Central Region championship game Sunday night at Joe Faber Field.

St. Cloud is asking for state money to help with park and downtown accessibility improvements. On Monday, the St. Cloud City Council approved two bonding requests to send to the Legislature. The city is asking for $6 million to improve George Friedrich Park and $2 million for accessibility improvements downtown.

Joe DeRose ’05 and his wife Christina ’05 are entering their fourth summer running Riverside Resort on Cedar Island Lake in Richmond.