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Wanted: Your News & Photos!


Morningside Alumni,

The Morningsider alumni magazine invites you to send in your latest news and photos to the alumni editor for your class listed below.

A big thank you to our class editors for their willingness to participate. If no editor is listed for your class, please contact us if you would like to become one! 

Information may also be sent to:

Karen Dreessen

Administrative Assistant

Alumni Relations
MORNINGSIDE COLLEGE
1501 Morningside Ave.
Sioux City, IA  51106
alumni@morningside.edu
712-274-5107


CLASS EDITORS


1943

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.


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 16 years.

Send your notes to: loweregister@msn.com


1959

Dick Daily has been retired since 2000.  However, he is works part time for the city of Blue Springs, Mo., volunteers at Union Station and is a Stephen Minister for his church. 

Send your notes to: rcdaily@comcast.net or 3813 S.W. Jackson St., Blue Springs, MO 64015.


1960

John Gilbert and his wife, Carlene, enjoy traveling, spending time with family, bicycling, and fishing. They joined the Morningside College choir, political science students, faculty, administration and other alumni on the choir's tour of China that took place in May.  They had a great time visiting all of the sites, enjoying the concerts and interacting with all of the attendees.

Send your notes to: jdgilbert@prodigy.net or 12313 Long St., Overland Park, KS 66213-2210.


1961 & 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 245 S. 56th St. No. 195, Mesa, AZ 85206.


1963

Don Hill is assistant headmaster for External Affairs at Mercersburg Academy, a boarding preparatory school in Mercersburg, Pa.  He and his wife, the former Linda Lockard, have two children and four grandchildren. 

Send your notes to: hilld@mercersburg.edu.


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 .


1967 & 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: bdanger@ties2.net or 13222 Spencer Sweet Pea Lane, Eden Prairie, MN 55347.


1972
Donna (Tack) Ricks lives in Hudson, Iowa, with her husband Al Ricks 1973.  Donna retired in June from her position teaching English and speech at Dike-New Hartford High School. 
Send your notes to: djrteach@msn.com or Box 268, Hudson, IA 50643.


1973
Kris (Toyne) O'Clair
has a doctorate in education leadership and policy studies from the University of Denver.

She is the mathematics intervention coordinator with Teaching and Learning in the Denver Public Schools.  She and her husband, Tim 1972, have a daughter, Shelby 2000, and a son, Ryan.  Shelby and her husband, James Snyder, are parents of James Lloyd Scott, born June 23, 2008.  Shelby is the theatre teacher at George Washington High School, James is the administrative education liaison at Tennyson Center for Children, both located in Denver, Colorado.  Ryan lives in Portland, Ore..

Send your notes to: kkoclair@comcast.net or 7655 S. Holland Way, Littleton, CO 80128-5154.


1980
Cynthia (Salasek) Marlette
, of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, is director of worship and development, as well as organist, for First Presbyterian Church in Coeur d'Alene.

Send your notes to: cynthia.marlette@gmail.com.


1981, 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: mpmadsen@sbcglobal.net.


1989

Penny May, of Laurel, Neb., works for Nebraska Central Railroad in the customer service department.
Send your class notes to: pjmfrg@yahoo.com.


1990

Tom Gerking is currently serving as the director of choral activities at Westwood Community School in Sloan, Iowa.  His program includes the 130-voice high school mixed chorus, two award-winning show choirs and several other outstanding performing ensembles.  He also serves on several in-school and state committees and is advisor to the Westwood High School Student Council. 

Send your notes to: tgerk@hotmail.com or Box 337, Sloan, IA 51055.


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: sparkstroy@sbcglobal.net.


1992

Jami (Walquist) McCuddin currently resides in New Virgina, 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.


1993

Eric Wylie lives in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, with his wife, Krista, and children, Nathan and Rachel.  He owns Eric Wylie Productions.  His Web site is:  www.ewproductions.com.
Send your notes to: eric@ewproductions.com.


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.  She had two pieces of her artwork, "Destination Unknown" and "Joseph Gatzemeyer Home," published in teh premiere issue of Somerset Digital Studio, a publication of Stampington & Company.  "Destination Unknown" was on the cover.

Send your notes to: nennikers@hotmail.com or 1005 55th Street, West Des Moines, Iowa 50266-7534.


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 long-time 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.


1997

Brian M. Clarke is director of sales for ConAgra Foods, a leading branded foods company.  Brian lives in the San Francisco bay area with his wife, Jane, and their children.

Send your notes to: bclarke@comcast.net or 256 Snider Court, Livermore, CA 94550.


1998

Amber (Ellerbroek) Hegarty, of Sioux City, Ia , is an associate with the law firm of Berenstein, Moore, Berenstein, Heffernan & Moeller LLP in Sioux City. 

Send your notes to: alh_52241@yahoo.com.


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.


2001

Allison (Hallquist) Newman is a financial consultant/analyst with Wells Fargo Financial in Des Moines, Iowa. 

Send your notes to: allisonknewman@yahoo.com.


2002 & 2003

Michael and Tasha (Segebart) Eldridge live in Red Oak, Iowa.  Michael is the eighth- through 12th-grade vocal music instructor for the Red Oak Community School District.  Tasha is a kindergarten through sixth-grade music instructor for the Farragut and Sidney public schools.  Tasha earned a master's degree in education and curriculum in May 2007 from Montana State University, and Mike is pursuing a master's degree in administration through Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. 

Send your notes to: meldridge@iowatelecom.net.


2004
Erin Mulvany
received a master's degree in theatre, with an emphasis in directing, from the University of Nebraska at Omaha in May of 2007.  She is currently on staff for the Two Chairs Theatre Company in Grand Junction, Colo. She also works full time for St. Mary's Hosptial, also in Grand Junction.
Send your notes to: erinmulvany@hotmail.com.


2007
Brian Hamilton is working at Wal-Mart as a sales associate in the electronics department until the right job comes along.  He enjoys the outdoors and watching the Kansas City Chiefs every football season.
Send your notes to: hamilton.bham@gmail.com.


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