1940 | 1950 | 1960 | 1970 | 1980 | 1990 | 2000

1940

Helen (Fox) Glazer ‘45 wrote for Potomac Magazine, which was a section of the The Washington Post, and also for the Southeast Missourian. Now her only publication is a weekly report  that goes to family and friends.

1950

Max Heeb ‘50 was honored to receive the 2009 Alumni Merit Award from the  College of Science and Mathematics at Southeast. Presenting a talk to the pre-med students was icing on the cake for him. Max and wife Marianna are enjoying sailing at their winter home in Cape Coral, Fla.

Stephen N. Limbaugh, Sr. ‘50 retired after serving 25 years as a U.S. District judge. He is now senior counsel with Armstrong, Teasdale LLP in St. Louis, Mo.,  engaged in litigation, arbitration and mediation.

Marjorie (Kramme) Robinson ‘56 and her husband, Stokes, will be celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary in June of this year.

1960

Spencer Brown ‘60,  served over 27 years as the executive director of the Indianapolis
Education Association and is now a financial service professional with West Point Financial Group in Indianapolis, Ind.

Frank Wurtz ‘61 and his wife Betty celebrated 50 years of marriage on Dec. 26, 2009.

Ronald Eaglin ‘62 is retired to South Carolina with his wife, Bonnie (Clinton) ‘63, after serving 13 years as president of Morehead State University and seven years as president of Coastal Carolina University.

Mark Hopkins ‘62 served as president of three colleges over a 30-year career in higher education. He continues to serve as executive director of a consulting organization that provides services to colleges and universities. Mark and his wife, Ruth (Kight) ‘63, live in Anderson, S.C.

Fred Moore ‘62 is retired from careers in broadcasting and college teaching. He volunteers with the local Red Cross chapter and has two children.

Phyllis (Bach) Moutray ‘63 is retired after 20 years at the Chester Mental Health Center, a maximum security, forensic psychiatric facility in Chester, Ill.

James Hale ‘65 retired from television, having served as a news anchor in St. Louis, Boston, Dallas and Cleveland. He is an adjunct professor of communications at Montgomery County Community College in Pennsylvania.

Jerry Ward ‘65 retired as athletic director of Yakima Valley Community College in 2004 and was elected to the Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges Hall of Fame in 2005. He is planning a visit to Cape for the 2010 Homecoming and is looking to make contact with former football teammates from his playing days in the early 1960s at Southeast.

Rita (Meyer) Brumfield ‘66 serves as chief nursing officer at Ste. Genevieve County Memorial Hospital.

Byron Luber ‘66 was presented with the “Theodore McMillian Award of Judicial Excellence” by the Missouri Bar Association. The award is presented for leadership in advancing the administration of justice by providing outstanding public and community service to the people of Missouri and for being a person of the highest character, integrity and honor.

Thomas Wood ‘66 retired in 2009 after a 42-year career in the newspaper field, including nearly 25 years with American City Business Journals, the nation’s largest publisher of local business newspapers and a large sports publisher. He and his wife, Julie (Evans) ‘66, live in Chesterfield, Mo.

Fonda (Brigance) Davis ‘67 is partially retired now. Her work includes occasional substitute teaching, working part-time at the county library and volunteering at church. She is also a certified Holy Yoga instructor, teaching classses every week.

Susan (Harris) Cooper ‘68 recently retired from Northern Arizona University where she was director of the Institute for Future Workforce Development. She continues to work part-time as executive director of the Western Maricopa County Tech Prep Consortium in the Phoenix area. Susan and her husband, Bob ’66, spend time with their children and grandchildren, travel and enjoy other hobbies and interests.

Sandra (Wilmesher) Hechst ‘68 is currently enjoying working at Grant’s Farm in St. Louis, Mo. She has two delightful grandchildren.

Randall Pierce ‘68 has practiced law in Memphis for more than 35 years and is in the process of moving his practice to Franklin, Tenn.  He intends to wind things down over the course of the next few years in order to spend more time with his five children and two grandchildren.

Allen Brickhaus ‘69 and his wife, Kathy, are leaving in July for three days in London and nine days in Germany. The Passion Play in Oberammergau is one of their main goals.

Kenneth Heise ‘69 retired from Sears management in 2003. He was in Germany in 2002, with Operation Enduring Freedom in support of Afghanistan. He retired from Air Force/Air National Guard in 2006 and from CenWood Appliance Distributors in 2009.

Michael Stacy ‘69 is a forensic psychologist, operating out of Columbia, Mo.  He has two sons and a daughter, Ben, Matt and Anne. Anne is the mother of his first grandchild, Clayton, born Oct. 7, 2009. Michael just moved to a house on two private lakes in west Columbia and loves it.

1970

Susan (Koeln) Koch ‘70 is the principal of Simi Elementary in Simi Valley, Calif. She has been married to Richard for 39 years, has three children and two grandchildren.

George Miller ‘70 retired from Anheuser-Busch Cos., Inc. in December 2008.

Vernon Taylor ‘70 was elected as president of the Greater Tampa Association of Realtors for 2010. Greater Tampa is the fifth largest association in the state of Florida and the 30th in the United States.

David Cozby ‘71 retired on June 3, 2009 after spending 34 years as a public school teacher in Southern Illinois. Most of those years were spent teaching music.

Wayne Holtmeier ‘71 has retired after being a CPA for 33 years and is moving into a retirement community in Florida.

Beth (Cox) Kaiser ‘71 retired after 35 years in the field of elementary education in Arkansas and moved to the hills of Tennessee with her husband, Richard ’72. Rich still does some disaster relief training with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Life is good.

David Little ‘71 is semi-retired after 34 years with USDA and running three businesses. He is currently writing articles for examiner.com. The articles deal with disability issues in the workplace and finding jobs for people with disabilities.

Edward Roth ‘71 is celebrating 10 happy years of retirement, living large in South Carolina.

Dennis Sommer ‘71 recently celebrated his 25th anniversary as president & CEO of Alliance Credit Union. The company has grown from one office in 1985 when he was hired to four branch offices and two “Home Loan Offices” – all in the greater St. Louis area. As of Dec. 31, 2009, Alliance was the tenth largest credit union in Missouri with assets of $188 million.

James Truesdell ‘71 was the president of Brauer Supply Company, an industrial wholesale company with 12 midwest locations. He is a professor in Saint Louis University’s MBA program, teaching an introductory course “Legal, Ethical and Professional Environment of Business.”

Steven Wuertz ‘71 is finishing his final year as a teacher/librarian in the Parkway School District. He has been at Parkway West Middle as librarian for the past 34 years. He began as an assistant librarian at Northwest High School in House Springs, Mo. It was the joy of his life working with young men and women and having great association with his fellow teachers, parents and administrators. As James Taylor said in one of his songs, “Oh, what a lovely ride!”

Ronald Baese ‘72 is the owner of Baese Music, B.M.I., which provides original country/country pop music available to license for demos, showcase, commerical projects and publishing.

Dale (Kretchmar) Humphries ‘72 retired on April 1, 2008 and has been enjoying traveling, volunteer work and working out. In July 2009, she began working part-time for 4-Sight Counseling in Cape Girardeau, Mo.

Joseph Pappas ‘72 is now serving as associate director of bands at Southeast Missouri State. He still serves the music department at Jefferson College and owns his own music publishing company, JPM Music Publications. He and his wife, Cheryl, reside in Festus, Mo. They have three children and four grandchildren.

Susan Vaughn ‘72 retired from the State of Missouri in 2002. She  currently serves as director of public policy for the National Association of State Head Injury Administrators, consults on brain injury service delivery, writes a column on legistlative issues for the quarterly professional magazine for the North American Brain Injury Society and co-authoried a chapter for Textbook of Traumatic Brain Injury, Second Edition to be published by American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc. In her spare time, she travels and volunteers for various nonprofit organizations.

Charles Williams ‘72 says, “As we all turn 60 it was an enjoyable ride thru the years with Southeast being the foundation for our professional life. Best of success to all in our retirement years.”

Karen Kiser ‘73 is proud to announce the publication of her textbook, Clinical Laboratory Microbiology.

Sharon (Helms) Hall ‘74 and her husband moved to Mississippi, and she is now in her third career–teaching second graders in Jackson after more than 20 years of being at home, raising and home schooling her children.

Diane (Drury) Livingston ‘74 teaches math at Hazelwood Central High School and lives in Florissant, Mo., with her husband of 35 years, Carl. She recently opened a Scentchips store on historic Main Street in St. Charles, Mo.

Mary (True) Stamm ‘74 taught school from 1975-80 and took an early retirement offer from AT&T in 2008 after 28 years as training designer/developer.

David Stiles ‘74 has semi-retired in Melbourne, Fla., and would like to contact old classmates in the area!

Janet (Perez) Eckles ‘75, writer and author, is again featured in the next best-selling Chicken Soup for the Soul title, Thanks Dad, to be released in April 2010. As an international conference speaker, she has extended her Christian ministry to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico and Mindanao, Phillippines.

Belinda Fender ‘75 lives in Columbia, Mo., with her husband, Frank Engley III, and is a staff pathologist for Boyce and Bynum Pathology Laboratories.

Anita Joggerst ‘75 is a technical writer and freelance garden writer living in Kirkwood, Mo. She wrote the “Beginning Gardener” column in the Saturday edition of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for over five years. She is also the co-author of the Best Garden Plants for Missouri.

Teresa (Macey) Ainsworth ’76 is currently an emergency and occupational physician in the Rochester, N.Y. area.

Steven Hubele ‘76 has a newly released book titled, Almost Full Circle – A Tribute to Dad.

James Stephens ‘76 is a Professional Business Coaches Alliance (PBCA) licensed professional business coach. It is his privilege to work with small business owners in helping them manage their business more efficiently, effectively and more profitably.

David Lorino ‘77 has worked for the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) for 26 years and is currently located in the Chicago division. He remarried in 2003 to the love of his life, Lourdes, and has never been happier. He has two adult children and a new daughter, Alexandra, who is five.

Linda (Smith) Crowe ‘78 has been a board recognized specialist in child language since January of 2004, as approved by the Council for Clinical Specialty Recognition of the American Speech-Language Hearing Association. In May of 2009, she became chair and program director of the communication disorders department at the University of Nebraska at Kearney.

Michael Nelson ‘78 retired from the U.S. Air Force in 1995 and has been with Hodges University for 10 years. He was recently named dean of the school of technology with responsibility for programs in computer information technology, information systems management, digital design and drafting and two master’s degrees. Hodges University is a small private school in southwest Florida with about 2,700 students.

David Ainsworth ‘79 has a new position as information systems engineer for Summit Federal Credit Union in Rochester, N.Y. He lives with his wife, Teresa, and son, Austin, on a small farm in Honeoyo Falls, N.Y. David enjoys small farm weekend cultivation. His daughter, Aspen, is a first-year medical student.

Susan (White) Bucholtz ‘79 has been with the Marlette School District in Michigan for 16 years, the last three as the director of bands. She and her husband have three children, have been active in community service projects and enjoy riding motorcyles together.

1980

Stanley Murray ‘80 received his MBA from Southeast in December 2009.

Renee (Meyer) Richards ‘80 started a new company in 2010–Home Inventory Resources of Missouri, LLC.

Rose Weidenbenner ‘80 relocated from St. Louis to New Orleans to work with Galilee Housing Initiative & Community Development Corporation. She continued service as a member of the board of directors of the Sisters of Mercy Health System, St. Louis, Mo.

Nancy (Regelsperger) Board ‘81 moved to Brisbane, Australia in November for an ex-pat work assignment and will be based in Sydney from July through the remainder of 2010. As VP of global services for PPC Worldwide, she travels the globe assisting with business opportunities for multi-nationals and developing global strategies.

Peter Hay ‘81 married Pamela Vance on December 26, 2009 in a small wedding at his sister’s home in Wentzville, Mo.

Rose Grossius ‘82 has been a practicing RN with her bachelor’s degree since  she graduated from Southeast. She has recently made the decision to further her education in the nursing field. She has decided to increase her knowledge and autonomy, hone her skills and travel to third/fourth world countries to improve the lives of the poorest of citizens in this world. She is excited and nervous to continue this path, but this is what she was meant to do. She has been married for 28 years and her husband plans to travel with her on medical missions. They have three daughters and two beagle puppies.

Doliska (McDaniel) Hanrahan ‘82 lost her husband, Robert, to pancreatic cancer in May of 2009. Her grandson, Tylor Brock, is on the Southeast football team.

Barbara (Gibson) McKay ‘82 graduated from University of Missouri – St. Louis in December 2009 with a Master of Education in secondary education with an emphasis in reading.

James Palen ‘82 has been notified by the American Board of Family Medicine that he has achieved specialty status with the board and now may carry the title of “Diplomate American Board of Family Medicine.” He has joined his father in practice and is currently accepting patients at Riverside Family Practice in Cape Girardeau, Mo.

Thomas Stewart ‘82 accepted a full-time position at St. Louis University School of Law in August 2009.

Douglas Cannon ‘83 spent 25-plus years on the radio and is now the account manger for OME Corp. He has lived in Springfield, Mo., for 20 years and is the  proud dad to budding thespian Delaney Cannon.

Lori Kimminau ‘83 is married to Tom Kimminau and has two children, ages 19 and 16. She teaches eighth grade language arts at St. Francis Borgia Grade School in Washington, Mo.

Phillip Milligan ‘83 is in his second year as the principal of Bernard Middle School. He has presented on various educational topics at the Powerful Learning Conference, Missouri Middle School Conference, Missouri Music Educator’s Association Conference and various schools in Missouri.

Donnie Shelton ‘83 started his own maintenance business in the summer of 2009.

Elzena (Bradshaw) Simmons ‘83 graduated with honors with her M.A. degree in TESOL in June 2009 and is in her fifth year of teaching English as a second language at Central Middle School, as well as Franklin and Jefferson Elementary Schools in Cape Girardeau, Mo.

Tracy (Winiger) Deyo ‘85 is still in Atlanta, Ga. and has started her 16th year at Verizon, managing an accounting organization. She has four children who keep her busy and young.

Laura Muir ‘85 lives in Crestwood, Mo. She is an avid St. Louis Cardinals baseball fan and loves to play golf. Laura is interested in contacting Dearmont residents ‘81-’85.

Robyn (Stetson) Gray ‘86 is in her 25th year of teaching high school mathematics. Over her career, she has been honored as Hazelwood District teacher of the year in 2004-2005. Robyn has been married to Tom Gray for 17 years and together they have four children.

Kathy (Griffin) Julio ‘86 received a Master of Arts in counseling and guidance at the University of Missouri-Kansas City in the fall of 2009. She is currently a counseling pyschology doctoral student at UMKC and works as a bilingual therapist serving at-risk Latino youth, in particular youth involved in gangs. She and her husband will celebrate 20 years of marriage in 2010.

Kathleen Kandalaft ‘86 retired from teaching in Sikeston. She lives in Dexter and is married to Dr. Floyd Northington. They spend time visiting her daughters in Memphis, Seattle, Springfield and Germany. Kathleen has seven grandchildren.

Cynthia Fleck ‘87 is married to former world-class athlete and Southeast student, Joe Leuchtmann, a certified financial planner and president of Marathon Financial Planning in St. Louis, Mo. Cynthia graduated in June 2009 with a master’s degree of nursing science. She is currently employed as the director of patient placement and nursing managers at St. John’s Mercy Medical Center. She has published more than 175 peer-reviewed and clinical articles and chapters and has presented more than 400 programs and seminars thoughtout the world. A sought after speaker, author and consultant, she has been an invited lecturer at university, national and international programs and symposiums. She served as past president and chairperson of the Board of the American Academy of Wound Management (AAWM), the premiere multidisciplinary board certification for Certified Wound Specialists (CWS); past nurse  board member of the Association for the Advancement of Wound Care (AAWC), where she serves as a columnist and membership chair; diplomat of the American Professional Wound Care Association, where she serves on the Medical Advisory Board; Wound Educators Advisory Panel; and is named in Who’s Who in American Nursing. She is on the editorial advisory and peer review boards for The American Journal of Certified Wound Specialists,  Advance your Practice and Advance for Long-Term Care Management, where she is also a regular columnist. In addition, she authors the “Frequently Asked Questions” column for the peer reviewed and indexed journal, Advance in Skin and Wound Care.   She would like to send a warm “hello” to fellow Southeast nursing alumni including Tim McDowell, Kirsten Hartzel, Alecia Schlosser, Gina Sheeler and Gina Buffe. “Thanks to the outstanding College of Nursing for preparing me for a career I love!”

Brian Summers ‘87 received his second bachelor’s degree in actuarial science in May 2009 from Maryville University and is presently employed at Midwest Employer’s Casualty Company in Chesterfield, Mo.

Archibald Bruns ‘88 will assume command of the 65th Mission Support Group at Lajes Field, Azores, Portugal, on April 16, 2010.

Stephen Crain ‘88 retired from healthcare as CEO. He now teaches economics and associated subjects at Lindenwood University’s Belleville campus and at Missouri’s Jefferson College’s three campuses.

Melinda Hannis ‘88 will be retiring from the U.S. Army Reserves as a senior captain. She also works with the Iowa Department of Veterans Affairs. She would love to hear from her old Dearmont dorm buddies as well as the Det 437 Air Force ROTC groupies.

Susumu Uchiyama ‘88 has been the deputy director of 5th Air Force A7S (Security Forces) at Yokota Air Base, Tokyo, Japan for almost four years. He went to Iraq on combat deployment twice and was augmented to U.S. Central Command CCJ-3 as biometric forensic action officer. He is glad to be in his hometown of Tokyo, which helped him bring his family together. However, he will depart from there in July for a yet unknown assignment.

1990

Martha (Jackson) Cook ‘90 completed her Ph.D. in rehabilitation at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale in December 2009.

Kirk Anderson ‘91 married his wife Jennifer in 2005. He is flying the Airbus 319, 320 and 321 all over North America and Costa Rica. He is enjoying life and looking forward to the 20-year reunion.

Lynne (Mickle) Smaczny ‘92 recently became the assistant to the director at the Glessner House Museum in the Prairie Avenue Historic District of Chicago, Ill. She and her husband, Dan, live in the western suburbs with their twin daughters.

Brad Elfrink ‘93 has been self-employed for several years, creating one-of-a-kind and limited edition collectible art jewelry and other carved collectibles.

Stacy (Busch) Heisserer ‘94 married Chris Heisserer Aug. 8, 2009, on the beach in Navarre Beach, Fla. She has an online pet supply store that opened October 2008 and is planning to open a retail location in Cape Girardeau sometime in 2010. Stacy also has a growing petsitting business in the Cape Girardeau and Jackson area.

Kathy (Rigdon) Kufskie ‘94 recently graduated with the dual emphasis Ph.D. from the University of Missouri-St. Louis in December 2009. She has a Ph.D. in education with an emphasis in counseling and an emphasis in educational psychology.

Amy (Barker) Kearby ‘95 was transfered to the operating room (OR) as a circulator after working as a staff nurse on a post-op floor for five years. She has been employed by The Surgery Center of Poplar Bluff for the past six  years. She was promoted to OR supervisor two years ago and loves her job.  She is married to her high school sweetheart and has four children.

Lisa Kraxner ‘96 purchased five corporate H&R Block offices in St. Joseph and Savannah, Mo., in September 2009. She opened a sixth office in St. Joseph in January 2010.

Jeffrey Barker ‘97 has taken a position as a quality engineer with Kilgore Flares Company in Toone, Tenn. Kilgore is part of the world-wide Chemring Group of companies that produce countermeasures and other energetics for the United States and its allies.

Gabriel Hinkebein ‘97 announces the opening of The Hinkebein Law Firm, LLC. The firm, based in Kansas City, Mo., handles all general legal practice matters and provides representation throughout the Midwest. He previously was an attorney with The Wirken Law Group, P.C. in Kansas City and prior to that, completed two active duty tours in the United States Army Judge Adovocate General’s Corps (JAG).

Christopher Robertson ‘97 completed a fellowship at Harvard Law School. He is starting a new job as associate professor at the James E. Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona.

Catherine (Mahoney) Wissehr ‘97 graduated from Southeast with her master’s degree in science education. She taught fifth and sixth grade students in Altenburg Public School for seven years. In 2009 she earned a Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction with a focus on science education from the University of Missouri. She now serves on the faculty of the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville as an assistant professor of science education.

Travis Hux ‘98 was promoted to assistant superintendent for support services within Raytown School District in Kansas City, Mo.

Andrea (Crites) Nenninger ‘98 gave birth to a baby girl on Jan. 21, 2010.

Justin Buck ‘99 was appointed the executive vice president and CEO of the Pi Kappa Alpha International Fraternity on April 1, 2009.

Susan (Fairbanks) Thomas ‘99 is an adjunct faculty for the Master of Science in nursing health care systems management
program at Loyola University in New Orleans, La.

2000

Stephen Bauer ‘00 was recently promoted to director of external relations at American Humanics. He and his wife Laura welcomed their second son, Isaac Anthony, into the world on Feb. 5, 2010. He joins his three-year-old brother, Spenser Lewis.

Andrew Griffin ‘00 was recently selected as president-elect of the Missouri Association for College Admissions Counseling.

James Mohrman ‘00 is working for his family business, Wallpaper, Paint and More. There are two locations in Missouri, one in South St. Louis County and one in Fenton.  He and his wife of three years,

Kerri (Koehrer) ‘01 celebrated their son’s first birthday in March.

Joanna (Maybry) Shaver ‘00 and husband, Phillip ‘02 had their first daughter, Maybry Caroline, on August 15, 2009.

Colissa Brogden ‘01 is in her ninth year of teaching. She works for the largest vocational education career district in the country. She will receive her Master’s of Education in curriculum and instruction from Ashland University in May.  She lives in Cincinnati, Ohio with her husband, Steve, and two children, Heaven and Dimitrius.

Tanya (Efken) Griffin ‘01 was promoted from an admission counselor position to manager of student services at Saint Louis University’s evening, weekend and online division. She assists adult learners in their transition back to college and manages the advision team.

Malia (Roberts) Nordman ‘01 and husband, E. Todd ‘99, welcomed daughter Taylor Makena on Jan. 19, 2010. Todd was recently promoted to a captain in the U.S. Marine corps. He is stationed at Pearl Harbor. They reside in Kaneohe, Hawaii.

Lona Skaggs ‘01 graduated from Walden University in February 2010 with a Master of Science in general psychology.

Linda (Schumer) Buerck ‘02 earned a Ph.D. from Southern Illinois University in curriculum and instruction. Her dissertation defense date was Nov. 12, 2009. Dissertation title is “The Effects of Enrollment in Co-Teaching Classes on the Academic Achievement of Students Without Disabilites.”

Susan Johnson ‘02 has accepted the position of performance services coordinator/Weis Center stage manager at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pa.

Jeremy Wells ‘02 graduated in May 2009 with a Ph.D. in environmental design and planning from Clemson University and was hired in June 2009 as the lead for the historic preservation program for the City and County of Denver, Colo.

Rachael (Pointer) Beard ‘03 works for the St. Louis VA Medical Center as the health education coordinator. She is a doctoral candidate at the University of Missouri-Columbia studying the effects of social support on physical activity interventions. She anticipates completing her Ph.D. in the fall of 2011.   She and her husband welcomed their first child, Cole, in October 2009.

Lisa Johnson ‘03 has been working as an operating room (OR) circulating registered nurse since February 2004. She has been working for Memorial Hermann for three and a half years, and in October 2009, she was promoted to orthopedics coordinator for the OR.

Kelly (Beahon) Keller ‘03 and husband, Kris ‘05, welcomed their daughter, Brooklyn Kay, on Aug. 12, 2009.

Lawrence Scheiter ‘03 welcomed the birth of son Lawrence Francis Scheiter IV on Jan. 5, 2010.

Rachel (Sigel) Thomas ‘03 married her husband Clint in September 2009 and now has a great 11-year-old stepson.

Holly (Lowes) Archambault ‘04 and her husband, Brett  ‘02, welcomed the birth of their daughter Avery on Oct. 2, 2009.

Thomas Farden ‘04 is the assistant gymnastic coach at the University of Arkansas.

Chris Krueger ‘04 is in his fifth year at Windsor C-1 School District. He teaches third through fifth grade physcial education and coaches junior varsity boys soccer and eighth grade boys basketball.

Angela Price ‘04 graduated December 2009 from University of Tennessee Health Science Center (Memphis) with a master’s degree in nursing with an anesthesia option. She is working with Medical Anesthesia Group in Memphis, Tenn., as a CRNA.

Wendy (Stott) Berry ‘05 will be graduating from Antioch University New England Graduate School in May with a M.S. in environmental studies with a concentration in advocacy for sustainability and social justice. Upon graduating she will be moving to Washington D.C., where she has been selected for a fellowship with the Congressional Progressive Caucus. She will be working out of the office of one of the co-chairs of the caucus, Congressman Raul Grijalva.

Jessica (Knox) Crandell ‘05 was married on May 24, 2009 to her best friend, David. They shared a beautiful outside ceremony with family and close friends.

Shawn McLain ‘05 recently joined the law firm Rice, Spaeth, Summers & Heisserer, L.C. located in Cape Girardeau, Mo. He completed a concentration in civil litigation and a certification in employment law while in law school. McLain was also the recipient of The Honorable Teresa Tolle Award in Jurisprudence for academic excellence.

Tracy (Wheeler) Burke ‘06 owns her own hobby store, Hobby World, in Poplar Bluff, Mo. She was invited to exhibit her jewelry making skills at the Margaret Harwell Art Museum Fall Arts Festival on Oct. 3, 2009.

Rob Carr ‘06 is a police officer for St. Louis County. He was recognized in March 2010 by the South County Chapter of the Citizen’s Police Academy Alumni Association as a 2009 Outstanding Officer of the Quarter and nominee for the 2009 Officer of the Year Award.

Sarah (Fowler) Ezell ‘06 was married on Jan. 2, 2010, to Kyle. They enjoyed a honeymoon in Jamaica and live in New Madrid, Mo.

Eliza Graves ‘06 moved to the Kansas City area after getting married in 2008. She recently made the Kansas City Chiefs Cheerleaders for the second year and prior to that was a St. Louis Rams cheerleader for a year.

Nathan Morgan ‘06 supervises all aspects of meat market operations in 20 stores spanning four states.

Matthew Wortmann ‘06 is a seventh-grade geography teacher currently working to complete his master’s degree in elementary and secondary education at Southeast. He  plays roller hockey for the Southeast team. He is married to Tara (Allen) ‘99, and they have a daughter, Ali.

Gwenda (Bennett) Hawk ‘07 married her husband Shaun on Oct. 17, 2009.

Nicole Koehnemann ‘07 recently finished her master’s in public administration from Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville and was recently promoted to assistant to city administrator for the City of Crestwood.

Lauren Peranich ‘07 is an outpatient physical therapist at St. Anthony Medical Center in Rockford, Ill., and is a consultant for the Rockford Dance Company.

Leann (Walther) Stinson ‘07 and husband Shannon were married Sept. 19, 2009.

Carolyn Stupka ‘07 recently moved to St. Louis and is a sales designer at Dau Home Furnishings in Ballwin, Mo. She also does freelance interior design work.

Amanda Wozniak ‘07 will be graduating from Midwestern University in Glendale, Arizona with a Doctor of Pharmacy degree on June 18, 2010.

Angela (Hof) Zieres ‘07 and Mark ‘05 were married at St. Margaret of Scotland Catholic Church in St. Louis. Their wedding was followed by a reception at the historic Franklin Room in Soulard, Mo.

Alison Harris ‘08 is currently working at Lafayette High School in the Rockwood School District as a family and consumer sciences teacher.

Matthew Knickman ‘08 will graduate from the University of Central Missouri in May 2010 with a master’s degree in college student personnel administration.

Jacqueline Morris ‘08 sings in a gospel group called “UNIQUE” in Hayti, Mo. They have traveled all over the world spreading the gospel.

Alyssa Phares ‘08 was accepted to Savannah College of Art and Design’s historic preservation e-learning master’s program for the spring 2010 quarter.

Carolyn (Snyder) Robey ‘08 is currently showing artwork in the Arts Council of Southeast Missouri, Cape Girardeau. She is a member of the Arts Council Co-op.

Benjamin Stricklin ‘08 is currently getting his master’s degree at Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville. He is a former Southeast cheerleader, and that experience led him to Northwest, a competitive Division II squad. His team won the UCA Division II National Championship in January 2010 in Orlando, Fla.

Mallory (Bess) Lawson ‘09 was married the week after graduation and is a full-time substitue teacher.

Lindsey Grissom ‘09 started the master’s program in secondary administration.

Andrea (Snelson) Hao ‘09 left the state of Missouri immediately after graduation. She lives on the Space Coast of Florida and works in the office automation industry.  The weather is great and the business is booming, but I miss the snow days and how wonderful it felt when spring approached.