Author: sash
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Incoming First-Years: Here’s what to bring.
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We asked the experts (Gustavus students and alumni). They answered, with good ideas, total surprises, and the totally bizarre. (Dentist chair?) If you’ve never been to college before, or have never been to Gustavus for college before, here’s what alumni suggest you pack in your suitcase/duffle bag/cardboard box/knotted bedsheet for Move-In Day. Pool noodles or tennis…
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Mentor Pair: Randy Lee ’84 and Jack Anderson ’16
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Jack Anderson ’16 Management and political science Randy Lee ’84 President of McCally-Lee Entertainment Not a parent, not a professor, but something supportive to help students launch post-college. That’s how Lee, who has had five Gustie mentees, describes his role. “If the student takes advantage of it, if he or she is not afraid to expose vulnerability,…
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Mentor Pair: Courtney West ’11 and Haley Coller ’16
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Courtney West ’11,JD, MBA Associate of corporate strategy, Land O’Lakes Haley Coller ’16, business Committed to asset management at Goldman Sachs in New York City, January, 2017 Where the mentoring relationship between West and Coller mattered most was in the little things that matter. “She didn’t need help with building her resume or preparing for…
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My Gustavus: Ben Brueshoff ’05
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(My Gustavus profiles showcase an alum telling his or her Gustavus story.) “The 9/11 terrorist attacks happened the fall I started, just days after freshman orientation.” My parents are alums. They met in the Co-Ed laundry room. Growing up I heard stories about Gustavus, and I helped do some of the tornado cleanup when I was a sophomore…
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Shine: Eric Dugdale
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(Shine profiles celebrate members of the Gustavus community who are shining examples of one of the Gustavus core values.) How do we learn empathy? The short answer is from trying to understand the feelings of others. The long answer is worth a lifetime of reflection. Few would answer, “from the Greek tragedies.” But classics professor…
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Happy Graduation, From the Top of Old Main
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“The young people that found and shall find inexhaustible treasures here, shall exhort their friends to come, seek, and find what they need for a happy life.”—Lars Lundgren, class of 1890 Somewhere in Gustavus history, prior to 1920, it is May and it is 12:30 p.m. Commencement will begin soon. For the graduating seniors of…
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Shine: Siri Erickson
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(Shine profiles celebrate members of the Gustavus community who are shining examples of one of the Gustavus core values.) “I was going to be a scientist.” But when Gustavus chaplain Siri Erickson took an undergraduate course at Carleton College titled “Women in Religion” with Sister Rosemary Rader, a Benedictine nun, everything changed. She ended up…
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Where Minnesota Gusties Work
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Healthcare, education, government, finance, big brands—we’re there. Gusties are everywhere. But we are in some places more than others. One of those places is Minnesota (obviously). Minnesota Gusties are working hard to make Minnesota’s economy one of the healthiest in the nation. As a state, Minnesota has more Fortune 500 companies per capita than any other, so…
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Remembering Ellery Peterson ’49
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Ellery Olof Peterson ’49, a professor emeritus of accounting who taught at Gustavus for 35 years, passed away on November 18, 2015. Peterson had a long history of service and giving to the College beyond his professorship. He set up a scholarship endowment with his first wife, Aileen, and worked with alumni to set up endowments.…
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Shine: Kendra Frey
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(Shine profiles celebrate members of the Gustavus community who are shining examples of one of the Gustavus core values.) Music and science. Concertmaster in the symphony orchestra. Genetic tagger of yeast proteins using fluorescent markers. Soloist in the Gustavus Symphony Orchestra’s season finale. Seven semesters of Russian. “I’m conversational,” she says. It seems impossible that an undergrad…