Media Appearances of 2007

Months are listed in reverse order.

October · September · August · July ·
June · May · April · March · February · January

October

Michael Huber ‘90 and John H. Butler ’91 were mentioned in a New York Times October 3 article about the future big names in investment, hedge funds, private equity, and venture capital firms at Wall Street.

Dan Ettinger ’03 was featured in a Star Tribune October 4 article for his bike trip across the country.
Also appeared in St. Paul Pioneer Press, October 4

David Bogen ’82 was featured in the Providence Business News (Providence, RI), October 1, for being named associate provost at Rhode Island School of Design

Rev. Dr. Gordon M. Torgersen ’38 died on October 1 and the news was included in the obituaries section of the Telegram and Gazette (Worcester, MA), October 4.

Jason Shannon ’01 and Keenan Sue ’01 were mentioned The Patriot-News (Harrisburg, PA) October 9 article about guy friendships and why they are hard to establish.
Also appeared in Sunday Messenger (Athens, OH), September 30.
Also appeared in Macomb Daily (Mt. Clemens, MI), September 30.
Also appeared in Santa Cruz Sentinel (Santa Cruz, CA), September 28.
Also appeared in Register-Herald (Beckley, WV), September 30.

George Wemeier ’52 was recognized in the Waconia Patriot (Waconia, MN), October 25, for being selected for the Minneapolis Washburn High School hall of fame.

September

Cara Welch ’89 was mentioned as a contributor to Design-Build Dateline (Washington, DC), September 2007.

Warren Anderson ’83 was listed among the candidates for St. Paul City Council Ward 5 in an East Side Review (North St. Paul, MN) September 3 “Voters Guide”
Also appeared in Star Tribune, September 5.

Gary Marvin ‘72 and Lonna Riedinger ’73 were mentioned in a Star Tribune September 6 article about preserving the culture of writing letters and specifically for their initiative to connect letter writers nationwide and overseas.

Danny Schwartzman ’04 was mentioned in a Star Tribune September 7 article about the ten best college hang out places in the Twin Cities.

Tim O’Brien ’68 was mentioned in the Daily Freeman (Kingston, NY), September 21, for being selected as the William Starr Distinguished Lecturer for the Class of 2011 at Vassar College.
Also appeared in Poughkeepsie Journal (Poughkeepsie, NY), September 27.

Michael Jensen ’62 was featured in a New York Times September 28 article for changing his views on high compensations for corporate CEOs in America and claiming that they first have to prove they earned the rewards.
Also appeared in International Herald Tribune (Paris, France), September 27.

August

Jackie DeLuca ’07 was mentioned in a Voices (Southbury, CT) August 1 about her receiving an Honorable Mention All-America in Division III by the American Water Polo Association.

Katherine Lechner ’06 was recognized in the Westfield Leader (Westfield, NJ), August 2, on her acceptance to the Peace Corps and departure to Mali.
Also appeared in Scotch Plains-Fanwood Times (Scotch Plains, NJ), August 2.

Shá Cage ’95 was quoted in the August 8-21 issue of Minnesota Women’s Press as one of the founders of Mama Mosaic Theater Company, Cage being the artistic director.

Melvin Collins ’75 was featured in the Insight (Southside Edition), August 8, for receiving the 2007 Catharine Lealtad Service to Society Award at this year’s Macalester alumni association awards convocation.
Also appeared in Insight (Minneapolis, MN), August 6
Also appeared in Insight (Saint Paul Edition), August 7
Also appeared in South-West Review (North St. Paul, MN), September 2
Also appeared in Minnesota Spokesman – Recorder (Minneapolis, MN), September 6

Charles Locks ’68 was featured in a Sunday Republican (Waterbury, CT) August 12, article about his reading from his debut novel, Greater Trouble in the Lesser Antilles.

Paul Raushenbush ’86 was featured in a Cape Cod Chronicle (Chatham, MA) August 16 article for publishing “Christianity and the Social Crisis in the 21st Century”, a new version of his great-grandfather’s influential 1907 book “Christianity and the Social Crisis”.

Jessica Buendia ’04 featured in The Sacramento Bee (Sacramento, CA) August 19 article on Emily’s List efforts in encouraging more women to run for office and its support for Clinton’s presidential bid.

Major General (Ret.) Doyle Larson ’52 and the legacy he left after his August 13 death was featured in a Burnsville Sun-Current (Burnsville, MN) article, August 23.
This story also appeared in Star Tribune, September 2.

Andrea Myklebust ’95 was featured along with Art Professor Stanton Gray Sears, in the Republican Eagle Weekend, August 26, a for an art project called “Art + Fire”, involving a large fire sculpture of a Viking longboat.

July

Johnny Hill ’87 wrote an article in the July issue of Lightwave (Nashua, NH) titled “Carriers weigh upgrade strategies for FTTH networks”.

Centenarian Irene Penk ’28 was featured in a July 11 Fairfax Standard (Fairfax, Minn.) article as the oldest living graduate of Gibbon High School to attend the all-school reunion.

Megan Sheenan ’05 was featured in a The Sentinel (Lewistown, PA) July 14 issue together with her boyfriend in an article about their sightseeing bike trips across the country.

Gloria Perez Jordan ’88 was featured in the July 17 Star Tribune as the CEO of the Jeremiah Program, a Twin Cities-based housing and life-skills program.

Paul Raushenbush ’86, associate dean of religious life and the chapel at Princeton University, was mentioned in an Observer (Dinkirk, NY) July 21 article about a series of religion lectures on the future of the Middle East.
Also appeared in Sunday Post (Jamestown, NY), July 22

Melissa Kemperman ’99 was interviewed in the Grand Forks Herald (Grand Forks, ND) July 22 issue on the prevention of the West Nile disease.

 

Katherine Kelley ’97, an assistant research professor at University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography, traveled three miles below the surface of the Pacific Ocean in a mini-submarine for a nine-day research expedition last September according to a July 31 press release. She and two others traveled two-and-a-half hours in the untethered vessel to the southern end of the Mariana Trench near Guam, one of the deepest places in any ocean on Earth, to study how continents are built. The expedition collected rocks from the subduction zone—where one tectonic plate is moving under another—representing every layer of the Earth’s crust. Kelley continues to analyze the samples from the September expedition and has identified boninite, a rock type identified with the very early stages of tectonic subduction. She is planning follow-up trip to the Santa Rosa Bank, another area of the subduction zone in the Mariana Trench, in the summer of 2008.
Read full press release at uri.edu »

June

J. J. Allaire ’91 was featured in a June 4 Pioneer Press as the primary creator of a popular blog designing program.

JoAnne Bird ’72 was featured in The Pioneer (Bemidji, MN) June 8 issue in an article about the selection of her sculpture for the 2007 Bemidji Sculpture Walk.

Donald A. Gemberling ’64 wrote an op-ed for the Star Tribune on June 9 discounting Katherine Kersten’s June 7 column as a “superficial analysis” that “not only rewrites or ignores history, but also shows little understanding of the ebb and flow of history.”

James A. Williams ’77, who began his acting career at the Guthrie and Penumbra Theatre, made his Broadway debut in “Radio Golf,” garnering three Tony Award nominations, the Star Tribune reported June 10.

Stephanie Weeks ’01 was mentioned in a New York Times, June 13, for her part as Socrates in “Dinner Party”, an adaptation of Plato’s play “Symposium”.

Chaplain Crist Langelett ’59 wrote an op-ed for the June 17 South-West Review (North St. Paul, Minn.) praising Bemidji’s Oak Hills Christian College.

Lucia D. Wocial ’82 was promoted to nursing ethics program leader at Clarian Health Partners, reported The Indianapolis Star (Indianapolis, Ind.) on June 18.

Jeff Graves ’81 was reported as missing after hiking with his family in Mount Rainier National Park, the Star Tribune reported June 19. Grave’s close friend, Andy Yee ’80, was quoted in the article.

Celia Forrest ’00 was mentioned in a St. Paul Pioneer Press June 20 preview of a new play, “Fat Pig” where she plays a major role.

Rachel Anne Jones ’07 will teach secondary school English classes in Cameroon as a member of the Peace Corps, the Times-Courier (Charleston, Ill.) reported on June 29.
Also appeared in Mattoon Journal-Gazette (Mattoon, Ill.) June 29.

May

Erin Cole ’03 was featured as an artist at the Susquehanna Art Museum’s statewide photo exhibit in a May Harrisburg Magazine (Harrisburg, Penn.) article.

Indique – Untold Stories of Contemporary India, a television series by filmmaker Simone Ahuja ’90, was highlighted in the May 4 Star Tribune as a “critic’s choice”. Episodes of Indique aired on Twin Cities Public Television (TPT) throughout May 2007 and taking viewers to a Bollywood acting school and exploring the rise of rugby in India. Additional episodes are expected to air on TPT in September and October. Ahuja told Macalester’s Alumni Office that Indique is also being shown on Northwest Airlines, Jet Airways (India) and Virgin Atlantic.
View a segment from Indique at blood-orange.com »

John (Jack) Laidlaw Frarey ’50, a physicist and engineer who served on the Board of Directors at the Vibration Institute and taught physics at Macalester, died at age 80 on April 20, the Daily Gazette (Schenectady, N.Y.) reported May 2 & 3.

Melissa Kemperman ’99 was quoted in a May 5 Pioneer Press article that warns about the increasing number of tick-borne diseases.

Ixia Helmueller ’86 was mentioned in reference to a Cinco de Mayo parade, the Pioneer Press reported on May 6.

Julie Tedoff ’90 was interviewed in a May 6 New York Times article about house-hunting in the City.

Alex McDowell ’92 was cited as a nonprofit fundraiser in public television in the Bucks County Courier Times (Levittown, Penn.) on May 10.

Laura Kerr ’07 co-wrote an op-ed with William Moseley, Geography, about the problems facing local Hmong farmers in the Star Tribune on May 18.

Richard Graves ’06 wrote an op-ed on May 23 for It’s Getting Hot in Here (itsgettinghotinhere.org) discussing the environmental innovations occurring on Minnesota campuses, praising Carleton and St. Olaf’s windmills and mentioning Macalester’s turbine.

Rapper Casey Golden ’00 was featured in a May 25 Star Tribune music article regarding the backup vocals from Fergie (of Black Eyed Peas fame) on his new album.

Dave Zirin ’96 wrote an op-ed in the Pioneer Press on May 27 defending Barry Bonds and publicizing his forthcoming book, “Welcome to the Terrordrome: The Pain, Politics and Promise of Sports.”

Amy K. Amundson ’98 was featured as an “Up & Coming Attorney” in the May 28 Minnesota Laywer (Minneapolis, Minn.).

Emily Roragen ’06 was featured in the May 30 Brainerd Dispatch (Brainerd, Minn.) as the city’s newly appointed Main Street Coordinator.

April

Lisa Sanditz ’95 was featured in an April Art News (New York, N.Y.) article titled “Strip Malls in Paradise.”

Paul Singh ’05 compiled an index illustrating St. Paul neighborhoods’ potential for historical preservation as part of his graduate research in urban planning at the University of Minnesota, Geoplace.com (Chicago, Ill.) reported on April 17.

The Honorable Walter F. Mondale ’50 and trustee Joan Mondale ’52 received International Citizen Awards on April 25 from the Minneapolis-based International Leadership Institute, recognizing their significant contributions to policy formation, political reform, and support for the arts.

March

Jim Blair ’85 was featured in a March 31 Globe Gazette (Mason City, Iowa) in connection to renewable fuel sources and the biodiesel industry.

Lincoln Cornell ’79 was highlighted as a prominent regional boy’s hockey coach in the March 29 Town Crier (Weston Edition) (Wayland, Mass.).

Stephen M. Kowalczyk ’97, who set three swimming and diving records at Macalester, died by small-arms fire in Iraq on March 14, reported the Journal News (North Edition) (White Plains, N.Y.) on April 8.

February

Jeb Middlebrook ’03 was featured in a February 19 Austin Daily Herald (Austin, Tex.) regarding his participation in the VH1 reality series, “The (White) Rapper Show.”

January

Dr. Joan Velasquez ’63 and her husband Segundo, founders of the non-profit, Mano a Mano, were featured in a story aired by Minnesota Public Radio during its program, Morning Edition. Mano a Mano sends new and used medical supplies discarded by U.S. hospitals to 72 clinics serving some of the neediest communities in Bolivia. The couple is devoting their retirement years to the organization they started more than a decade ago.
Listen to the story at minnesota.publicradio.org »

The performance of Stephanie Weeks ’01, one of the five actors cast in director David Herskovits’ contemporary take on Euipides’ The Suppliant, As Yet Thou Art Young and Rash was described as "luminous” in a review published in the January 16 edition of The New York Times. The Target Margin Theater production also received critical acclaim in the New York Sun and Time Out New York.
Read the review at nytimes.com »

David Bell ’65 was one of seven professionals from the advertising industry to be inducted by American Advertising Federation (AAF) into the Advertisers Hall of Fame (website) at a ceremony to be held March 20 at the Astoria-Waldorf Hotel in New York City, according to a January 10 AAF press release. Bell is chairperson emeritus of Interpublic Group and was recognized by AAF for “Serving as one of advertising's most effective ambassadors and tirelessly leading industry organizations including the American Association of Advertising Agencies, Ad Council, Advertising Educational Foundation, AAF and National Advertising Review Council.” This award is the most prestigious in the industry, honoring individuals who have significantly raised the standard of advertising excellence. Beginning in 1948, the Advertising Hall of Fame has recognized 181 advertising legends including Bill Bernbach, Leo Burnett, Katharine Graham, Robert L. Johnson, Henry Luce, David Ogilvy, William Paley, Ted Turner and Mary Wells Lawrence.
Read David Bell's profile at AdvertisingHallofFame.org »

Andrew Borene ’98, a former intelligence officer for the Marines, was one of two Iraq War veterans responding to President Bush’s recently announced plan to send 21,000 additional troops to Iraq on the January 10 episode of CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360°. Cooper asked Borene how he thought Bush has handled the war and if his opinion has changed. Borene replied that he supported Bush in 2000, but after serving a tour of duty in Iraq in 2003, he came to believe “[The war has] been mismanaged from jump.” Answering Cooper’s final question about his confidence in Iraqi forces, Borene closed his remarks by saying, “… until an Iraqi teenager or an Iraqi young man has more economic incentive to take a job with the Iraqi government or in private business than he does to plant a roadside bomb, we're going to continue making more insurgents than we kill. And at the end of the day this is becoming Shiite versus Sunni. This is no longer U.S. versus Iraqi.”
Read the transcript at CNN.com »

The Chronicle of Higher Education has awarded its fourth annual David W. Miller Award for Student Journalists to Eliot Brown '06, former editor of The Mac Weekly. The $2,500 prize was given to Brown for three articles he wrote for The Mac Weekly last year. According to January 8 article in The Chronicle, Brown's reporting explained “different aspects of the complex financial issues that face American colleges in general, and small colleges like Macalester in particular.” The three articles reported on the many roles of Macalester’s Board of Trustees ("Wealth, giving and the Board of Trustees"), a St. Paul city council member’s plan to charge colleges a $25-per-student fee ("St. Paul considers fee on students"), and the financial pressures faced by Macalester and other small liberal arts colleges ("Under Pressure"). Brown has just completed an internship at the Journal Star (Peoria, Ill.) and will start an internship at The New York Sun later this month.
Read the story on Chronicle.com »

A reflection about Election 2006 by Minneapolis-based author, Charles Baxter ’69, was published in the Op-Ed pages of the Sunday-edition of The New York Times on Jan. 7. In it, he paraphrases a conversation he recently had with two friends over breakfast about what Amy Klobuchar’s successful bid for U.S. Senate means for Minnesota and the nation. “It’s safer to drive now,” Baxter quotes one of the friends, “After the last elections, people were so angry that they were driving 80 or 90 miles an hour on I-35. They’ve calmed down a little.” 
Read it at NYT.com (may require login) »

Inell Coeseta Rosario ’87, MD, was recognized as one of the Top Doctors in the Mpls/St. Paul Magazine Top Doctor issue. Rosario specializes in Otolaryngology and practices medicine through the clinics of the Midwest Ear, Nose & Throat Specialists. The magazine selects 600 top doctors practicing in the Twin Cities every year based on a random survey of 2,500 licensed physicians and practical nurses in the ten-county metro area.
Read it at mspmag.com »

Migdalia Loyola Melendez ’96, the Latino community education manager at Planned Parenthood of Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota, was featured in the January edition of Twin Cities Business magazine as one of 25 Latinos making a difference in Minnesota. The Hispanic Chamber of Commerce compiled the “25 on the Rise” list to recognize Latino men and women who have accomplished great things before the age of 40. Loyola was included for her work training Latino community educators to teach about HIV prevention, domestic violence and family planning and has developed programs to empower the community in making decisions regarding personal and family health.