’91 Steven Helget, Montgomery, is the Norwood Young America city administrator. ’92 ’98 Kevin Babcock, St. Cloud, is principal at Janesville-Waldorf-Pemberton. ’92 Sally (Schornack) Peine, Roseville, is business development manager for Digital People in Minneapolis-St. Paul. ’92 ’11 Sonja Gidlow, Avon, is a project manager for the Greater St. Cloud Development Corporation’s wellness, innovation and
’80 Carol (Wawrzyniak) Anderson, Foley, was appointed to the Minnesota Rural Finance Authority through Jan. 17, 2014. Patti (Allen) Gartland, St. Cloud, was recognized by the Coalition of Greater Minnesota Cities during its summer conference in Bemidji for her distinguished rural leadership. Gartland recently left city government to become president of the Greater St. Cloud
’70 Edward Brophy, St. Joseph, celebrated 45 years of Shamrock Leathers. Van Nelson, South St. Paul, was inducted into the NSIC Hall of Fame. Nelson was a four-year letterwinner in cross country and track from 1964-68. ’70 ’78 Robert Trisko, Waite Park, won the second place jewelry award at the Port Clinton Art Festival. ’71
Foley early childhood special education teacher Kathi Sims ’80 ’95 is one of five teachers in the country to receive the Horace Mann Award for Teaching Excellence for 2014. Sims has been a teacher at Foley Elementary School for 25 years. Earlier this year she was one of 36 teachers to receive the National Education
About a dozen St. Cloud police officers received classroom and behind-the-wheel training at the Minnesota Highway Safety and Research Center to learn the limitations of its new armored SWAT vehicle, how it drives and the safest way to operate it. The officers were trained and certified on the military surplus armored personnel carrier using a
Julie K. Peters, owner and president of It’s Never Over…the business of learning, a leadership training and development company based in St. Cloud, was awarded the 2013 Outstanding Adjunct Teacher Award by the Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota. Peters is a 30-year adjunct professor of communication studies.
Associate professor Mark Muñiz and his team of anthropologists have tested soil samples in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness that challenge previous beliefs that glacier-led flooding in northern Minnesota caused the earliest humans to inhabit the south. Their discovery leads them to believe the site was home to a settlement 16,400 years ago, which
Never has our university’s mission resonated so well with our campus community as with the slogan the university has emblazoned on banners, t-shirts and signs across campus, as well as in commercials and billboards around the state: “Think. Do. Make a difference.” These action words have created a buzz around campus that says “we get
St. Cloud State has long served as a cultural and entertainment hub for St. Cloud and Central Minnesota. Grand spaces, intimate stages and outdoor venues are among the settings for entertaining evenings. Many departments add unique programming to a campus calendar filled with concerts, interactive entertainment and sporting events. Related links » Explore the events
Paul “Stretch” Diethelm ’03 has had a long career in rock ‘n’ roll that has taken him from local St. Cloud stages to the White House and around the world. Here is a collection of photos from Stretch’s personal albums that provides a glimpse into his rock ‘n’ roll accomplishments.
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