Tag: Alumni

Ciara Shuttleworth, a 2000 alumna of Gustavus Adolphus College and a third-year graduate student at the University of Idaho, has learned that her poem, “Sestina,” has been accepted for publication in The New Yorker, arguably the most prestigious literary and cultural publication in the world.

Gustavus Adolphus College alumnus Ian Grant ’91 and his television show The Relic Hunter with Ian Grant have been awarded a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Special Class Series.

Longtime Gustavus Adolphus College concert choir director and Professor Emeritus of Music Philip F. Knautz ’48 – known to a generation of student singers as “Mr. K” – died April 26 in Colby, Wis., at the age of 86.

Joy Lintelman, a 1980 alumna of Gustavus Adolphus College, received a Minnesota Book Award on Saturday, April 17 at St. Paul’s Crowne Plaza Hotel. Lintelman won in the General Nonfiction category for her book I Go to America: Swedish Women and Life of Mina Anderson.

Christian Gilbert ’98 and his colleague Brian Honkomp have a love for the outdoors and have found a way to help educate students while climbing some of the tallest mountains in the world.

“Who We Are: Sight, Silence, War,” an exhibition featuring 14 watercolor portraits of current Gustavus Adolphus College students who participate in the Army Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC), is now on display in the upstairs hallway of the C. Charles Jackson Campus Center at Gustavus. The paintings will be on display until May 8.

Four graduates of Gustavus Adolphus College have worked together on one coaching staff this season to help lead a high school to its first ever appearance in the Minnesota girls’ basketball state tournament.

Marcia Grann O’Brien, a 1962 graduate of Gustavus Adolphus College is featured in a new book titled Letters to Jackie: Condolences From a Grieving Nation.

Peter Krause, a 1987 graduate of Gustavus Adolphus College, will star in the new NBC one-hour drama Parenthood, which premieres at 9 p.m. Central Time Tuesday, March 2.