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Alumni are invited to send in their latest news and photos for publication in
The
Morningsider
to their class editor (listed below).
If no class editor is listed for your class year,
please contact or mail
your information to:
Karen Dreessen
Administrative Assistant
Alumni Relations Office
MORNINGSIDE COLLEGE
1501 Morningside Ave.
Sioux City, IA 51106
alumni@morningside.edu
712-274-5107
A big THANK YOU to our class editors who help us collect alumni information!
Class of 1943
Dr. Mary (Cruikshank) Grefe recently retired after serving 12 years on the Morningside College Board of Directors.
She currently resides in Des Moines, Iowa.
Send your notes
to: marygrefe@aol.com.
Class of 1953
Bruce Norris lives in Council Bluffs, Iowa, with his wife, Dione. He taught in the public schools and at the
junior college level for 38 years. He has been doing volunteer work at Lewis Central High School in Council
Bluffs for the past 18 years.
Send your notes to: loweregister@msn.com.
Class of 1960
John Gilbert and his wife, Carlene, enjoy traveling, spending time with family, bicycling and fishing.
Send your notes to: jdgilbert1937@gmail.com or 12313 Long St., Overland Park, KS 66213-2210.
Classes of 1961 and 1962
Earl Parsons retired in 2001, after more than 35 years in the health care industry - nursing homes, specifically. He was involved in building, owning and operating buildings in Iowa, Nebraska, Arizona and California. Being father to three wonderful girls and grandfather to identical twin girls, all living in the Denver area, has led to a
lot of traveling, Parsons says, "If I knew grandfathering was going to be this cool, I would have skipped parenting and gone right to grandparenting!"
Send your notes to: jephasarrived1@cox.net or 2601 W. Romley Ave., Phoenix, AZ 85041.
Class of 1963
Send your notes to Don Hill:
hilld@mercersburg.edu.
Class of 1965
Wayne Shively
of Sioux City is currently a part-time employee of the Community Action Agency of Siouxland.
He is retired after teaching
English and language arts for 33 years.
Send your notes to:
shively130@aol.com.
Classes of 1967 and 1968
Barbara (Kubiatowicz)
Danger retired in 2001 after a 34-year career teaching
English and working as a
media specialist. She hopes to hear
from classmates from both the classes of 1967 and 1968 because
she started at Morningside with the class of 1968 and graduated early in 1967.
Send your notes to:
barbaradanger@comcast.net or 13222 Spencer Sweet Pea Lane, Eden Prairie,
MN 55347.
Class of 1972
Donna (Tack) Ricks lives in Grinnell, Iowa, with her husband, Al Ricks 1973. She retired in 2008 from her
position as a speech coach and English and speech teacher at Dike-New Hartford High School in Dike, Iowa.
She loves being a grandmother to Ella and Tyce, who are the children of daughter Sarah, and son-in-law,
Shane VanWaardhuizen. She continues to be active in the Iowa High School Speech Association (IHSSA),
judging contests and serving as a consultant to area schools and as secretary of IHSSA Hall of Fame.
Send your notes to: djrteach@msn.com or 1698 E. 142nd St. S., Grinnell, IA 50112.
Class of 1980
The Rev. Dale Schoening is pastor of the United Methodist Churches in three Iowa communities: Bussey, Hamilton and Lovilla. He holds a Master of Divinity degree from Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
in Evanston, Ill. He also plays trombone in the Boone Municipal Band, collects license plates, and serves
as consulting editor and Facebook page moderator for The Joyful Noiseletter, which is published by the
Fellowship of Merry Christians. His wife, Mitzi, graduated from Morningside with a master's degree in
education in 2010. She is a special education instructor in the Colo-Nesco Community Schools.
Send your notes to: daschoening@gmail.com.
Classes of 1981 and 1982
Michael Madsen
of Chicago, Ill., currently works in the Finance Service Center at the Chicago Tribune.
Previously, he was with Midas International and
Bankers Insurance Company, after 10 years in college
sports information positions.
Send your notes to:
mpmadsen1@att.net.
Class of 1989
Penny May, of Laurel, Neb., moved in January from the customer service office at Nebraska Central Railroad
to the dispatch office. She is now a dispatcher there.
Send your class notes to: pjmfrg@yahoo.com.
Class of 1990
Tom Gerking
is currently in his 22nd year serving as director of choral activities at Westwood Community
School in Sloan, Iowa, where the vocal music program continues to maintain excellence. He also serves as
a choreographer for several show choirs throughout the state of Iowa, and he serves as an adjudicator at
music competitions and festivals throughout the country.
Send your notes to:
tgerk@hotmail.com or Box 337, Sloan, IA 51055.
Class of 1991
Troy A. Sparks
is a letter carrier who resides in Milwaukee, Wis. He also works in television production and
as a sports writer for several community newspapers.
Send your notes to:
troysparks45@yahoo.com.
Class of 1992
Jami (Walquist)
McCuddin resides in New Virginia, Iowa,
with her husband, Mike, and three children:
Brennon, Alex and Jenna. She is a licensed massage therapist, and she and her husband
own Step One
Fitness, a small fitness center.
Send your notes to:
macjr@iowatelecom.net.
Class of 1993
Eric Wylie lives in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, with his wife, Krista, and children: Nathan and Rachel. He owns
Wylie Creative Communications. His Web site is: www.wyliecc.com.
Send your notes to: eric@wyliecc.com.
Class of 1995
Jennifer (Rice)
LeMar and her husband, Joel, are the parents of three children: Elizabeth, Sam and Ben. Previously she worked in the information technology industry in Des Moines, Iowa, and Dallas, Texas. Now
she stays home with the kids and dabbles in a second career as a "digital artist" at www.scrapartist.com.
Send your notes to:
nennikers@hotmail.com or 1005 55th Street, West Des Moines, IA 50266-7534.
Class of 1996
Kristin Johnson
is an associate editor with the Iowa Geriatric Education
Center at the University of Iowa. She
lives in Iowa City
with her husband, Dan Brock 1996. She is a
longtime volunteer with the Iowa City Animal
Care
and Adoption Center.
Send your notes to:
kjohnson8779@msn.com.
Lynn Kogelmann is also serving as a class editor for the class
of 1996. She is a counselor at Courtland Elementary School in Spotsylvania, VA.
Send your notes to:
lkogelma@yahoo.com.
Class of 1997
Brian M. Clarke
is director of sales for ConAgra Foods, a leading consumer foods company, and lives in the
San Francisco Bay area.
Send your notes to: bclarke@comcast.net or 5050 Hacienda Drive #1331, Dublin, CA 94568.
Class of 1998
Amber (Ellerbroek)
Hegarty, of Sioux City, Iowa, is an associate with the law firm of Berenstein, Moore, Berenstein, Heffernan, Moeller & Johnson LLP in Sioux City.
Send your notes to:
alh_52241@yahoo.com.
Class of 1999
Jami (Wheatcraft) Langholdt is an assistant vice president in the lending department at the Singing Hills
office of Iowa-Nebraska State Bank. She shares her Morningside roots with her grandfather, James
Moser
1965.
Send your notes to:
txjami@yahoo.com or
3513 Virginia St., Sioux City, IA 51104.
Class of 2001
Allison (Hallquist) Newman is a financial consultant with Wells Fargo Home Mortgage in West Des Moines,
Iowa. She lives in Urbandale, Iowa with her husband, Andrew, and their son, Tyler.
Send your notes to: allisonknewman@yahoo.com.
Classes of 2002 and 2003
Michael and
Tasha (Segebart) Eldridge live in Red Oak, Iowa. Mike the 6th-12th grade principal at Sidney Community School in Sidney, Iowa. Tasha is the elementary music teacher in Farragut and Sidney, Iowa.
She also is a certified Jazzercise instructor. Mike and Tasha have one son, Nathaniel.
Send your notes to:
meldridge@iowatelecom.net.
Class of 2004
Erin Mulvany earned a master's degree in theatre, with an emphasis in directing, from the University of
Nebraska at Omaha in May of 2007. She has been working for the University of Texas Health Science Center
at San Antonio since August of 2010.
Send your notes to: mulvany.e@gmail.com.
Class of 2007
Brian Hamilton is working at Walmart in Spencer, Iowa. He enjoys the outdoors and watching the Kansas
City Chiefs play every football season.
Send your notes to: hamilton.bham@gmail.com.
Class of 2009
Trey K. Blackburn is pursuing a Master of Fine Arts degree in acting from The New School for Drama in
New York City.
Send your notes to: treykblackburn@gmail.com.
Class of 2011
Tennessee Bryant is residing in Farragut, Tenn., and still looking for the right job. Currently he is taking care
of his family's property and relaxing.
Send your notes to: tennesseebryant@live.com.
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