Class Notes

Notices received as of April 5, 2022

1981

Diane Uddenberg Sturek was promoted to senior lecturer in accounting at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University in Indianapolis. She is the chair-elect of the Indiana CPA Society and serves on the Leadership Council of the AICPA.

1983

Gary Boblett retired from his 40-year banking career in 2020, last serving as president of SouthernTrust Bank in Marion, Ill. He recently began his second career as math interventionist and student supervisor at Carterville Intermediate School, Carterville, Ill.

1987

Beth Miller Swanson was named a University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Communication and Sciences Disorders Department Women in Leadership Honoree. She is the co-director of the Chatter Matters camp, which provides a top-level practicum experience for the graduate students in communication sciences and disorders.

1998

Robert Istad won a Grammy on April 3, 2022, for Best Choral Performance with a team of conductors and chorus masters for their recording of “Mahler: Symphony No. 8, ‘Symphony of a Thousand.’” Istad is director of choral studies at California State University, Fullerton, and the conductor and the director of the Pacific Chorale in Orange County, Calif.

2005

Shawn McDowell is servant leader at Waste Connections, an integrated solid waste services company with locations across the United States.

2006

Mark and Lauren Martin Hill had a son, Graham Robert Hill, on March 22, 2022. Mark is the vice president and general counsel with Digital Solutions at Johnson Controls. They live in Schaffhausen, Switzerland.

2013

Hannah Durbin is a marketing specialist with the OIA Global team, which is a supply chain management company.

Kyle Kappler received the McDonald’s Presidents’ Award for 2021, which recognizes the outstanding achievements of the top 1% of corporate, segment and market staff employees globally.

Shannon Kelly is a marketing manager at Ace Hardware Corporation in Oak Brook, Ill.

Jennifer Schroder is a marketing communications specialist at UnityPoint Health-Trinity.

2015

Kimberly Khuen Kuechenberg is the product manager at Tablecraft in Gurnee, Ill.

Hannah Sundwall is the senior coordinator of media services for the Chicago White Sox.

2016

Martha Murray is a senior people specialist at Maven Wave, a digital consulting company.

2017

Marvin Agyeben graduated with a doctorate in pharmacy from Midwestern University – Chicago College of Pharmacy in Downers Grove, Ill.

Chelsea Mentado is an event marketing specialist at Zipline, a retail operations platform.

Cait Slone has joined AT&T in Washington, D.C., as digital content manager for global public policy.

2019

Shelby Kuepker is the coordinator of organizations and activities in the Office of Student Involvement and Leadership at the University of Houston-Clear Lake. She was recently featured in unversity’s newspaper, The Signal, as part of its celebration of Women’s History Month.

Kim Phan won the Postbaccalaureate Award for the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Young Investigators' Day Program. This program was established in 1978 to recognize outstanding research contributions.

Montserrat Ricossa is the 11 a.m. anchor at Telemundo Wisconsin WDJT-TV 58 in Milwaukee.

Nick Zammuto is an associate attorney with Swisher & Cohrt, P.L.C., in Waterloo, Iowa.

2020

Nadia Ayensah was named to the board of the University of Florida College of Law Alternative Dispute Resolution Team.

Sean Cavanaugh is a director–candidate development for Major, Lindsey & Africa legal search firm.

Destiny Payne is the assistant director of new student programs at Elon University.

Catherine Priebe will intern remotely at The Mediation Center of the Coastal Empire in Savannah, Ga., this summer. She is a law student at Mercer University in Macon, Ga.

Kenneth Schoenig will be an administrative fellow with Franciscan Health in Chicago after completing his master’s in health care administration at the University of Illinois-Chicago in May.

2021

Tyler Andrews is a flight attendant with United Airlines.

Xavier Dent is the event sales manager at Encore, an event technology and production services company in Schiller Park, Ill.

Alison Ng is the people operations specialist at ALE Solutions, a FLEETCOR company specializing in temporary housing placements.

Jack Olsen is a social media coordinator at the University of Iowa.

Celina Rippel is the development coordinator at the Humane Society of Scott County.

Sriram Sugumaran will attend the University of Washington School of Medicine this fall.

Kaitlyn Watkins will serve as a judicial extern this summer for Judge Alison Conlon in the Circuit Court of Cook County.

Deaths

Notices received as of April 5, 2022

Ethel Dahlquist ’50 Fairchild on Nov. 6, 2020.

Barbara Wangelin ’51 Crangle on March 14, 2022.

Juanita Henley ’56 Kordosky on Nov. 16, 2020.

Mary Hull ’56 Mohr on April 1, 2021.

Marilyn Palmquist ’56 Witkop on Feb. 26, 2022.

Robert Peterson ’57 on March 14, 2022.

Karlette Nelson ’58 Hultman on March 15, 2022.

Richard Staack ’59 on July 21, 2019.

Karline Samuelson ’63 Feller on Feb. 26, 2022.

Caroline Hinze ’63 Lang on Jan. 28, 2022.

Robert Anderson ’64 on Jan. 2, 2022.    

Max Gricevich ’65 on Nov. 16, 2021.

Karen Lundquist ’65 Van Epps on March 14, 2022.

Ronald Boyd ’67 on Feb. 8, 2022.

Craig Cutbirth ’70 on March 23, 2022.    

Daniel Shoemaker ’70 on Feb. 14, 2018.     

Sandra Church ’70 Wall on Dec. 24, 2021.    

Richard O'Connor ’72 on March 10, 2022.    

Gemma Sciuto-Alverson ’10 on April 1, 2018.