Year: 2013

Gustavus Adolphus College Professor Emeritus Bruce McClain taught in the College’s Art and Art History Department for 46 years from 1965 to 2011. On Thursday, June 20, Mankato Free Press reporter Tanner Kent featured McClain and a current exhibition of his work that is on display at the Waseca Arts Center.

Gustavus Adolphus College has named Charles Aydt as head coach of its gymnastics team. Aydt brings over 35 years of coaching experience to Gustavus, where he will be the fifth head coach in the program’s history. He takes over for Katie Olson who served as interim head coach for the 2012-13 school year.

Sunny skies and temperatures in the low 70s graced the Gustavus Adolphus College campus on Sunday, June 3, just in time for the College’s 2013 commencement ceremony. Five hundred and forty five seniors walked across the stage and received their degrees at Hollingsworth Field.

Lydia Benge Briggs was one of 545 Gustavus students who earned their bachelor’s degree on Sunday, June 2, at the College’s 2013 commencement ceremony. The Grantsburg, Wisconsin native graduated Summa Cum Laude with a degree in communication studies. She has been hired by Boom Lab, a company that hires talented and promising recent college graduates…

Associate Professor and Chair of the English Department at Gustavus Adolphus College, received the 2013 Edgar M. Carlson Award for Distinguished Teaching during the College’s commencement exercises on Sunday, June 2. Fremo began teaching at Gustavus in 2000 after earning her Ph.D. in English from Ohio State University. She directed the College’s Writing Center for…

Brendan Loney came to Gustavus Adolphus College in the fall of 2007 as part of the class of 2011. His life was changed and his academic studies were put on hold in 2009 due to a spinal cord injury, but on Sunday, June 2, Loney will earn his bachelor’s degree along with 550 other Gustavus…

At 2 p.m. Sunday, June 2, the class of 2013 will receive their bachelor of arts degrees from Gustavus Adolphus College during commencement exercises at Hollingsworth Field. Senior Julia Tindell, who will receive her degree in English, will deliver this year’s commencement address.

Junior James Trevathan ’14 has been named a Rossing Physics Scholar for the 2013-14 academic year. Earlier this spring, the physics major from Apple Valley received a Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship.