Tag: Alumni

Recent Gustavus Adolphus College graduate Melissa Mackley ’10, a four-year standout for the Gustavus women’s hockey team, has been named one of 30 finalists for the 2010 NCAA Woman of the Year Award.

Brian Evans, a 2007 alumnus of Gustavus Adolphus College, now in his fourth season with the Stuart Pimsler Dance & Theater Company, has won the 2010 SAGE Award in the category of “Outstanding Performer.” The winners were announced at the annual Minnesota SAGE Awards Dinner on Sept. 14 at the Southern Theatre in Minneapolis.

Stuart Pimsler Dance & Theater (SPDT) will perform four works from its nationally-acclaimed repertory Saturday, Sept. 11 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, Sept. 12 at 2 p.m. at Gustavus Adolphus College’s Anderson Theatre.

Gustavus Adolphus College alumnus Eric Butorac ’03 is the No. 38 ranked doubles player in the world with seven career ATP doubles titles to his name. On Tuesday, Sept. 2, Butorac was featured on the New York Times tennis blog “Straight Sets.” Click here to read Thomas Lin’s story about Butorac, which also features a…

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.