Category: Alumni Story
Each year, the Young Alumni Award goes to a Luther graduate who has attained significant personal achievements, demonstrated leadership abilities and provided service to Luther or society.
Katy Dane ’03, has been named the 2022 recipient of the Music Educator Award by The National Association for Music Education and the Barbershop Harmony Society.
Luther alumnus Chris Norton is returning to Decorah to speak about his new book, “The Seven Longest Yards.”
Vicar Amalia Vagts, a 1995 Luther graduate, is a candidate for word and sacrament ministry in the Northeastern Iowa Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran church in America (ELCA.) All candidates studying to become pastors in the ELCA complete a year of pastoral internship. Vagts’ internship is a collaboration between the Luther College student congregation with supervisor Pastor Anne Edison-Albright and two area congregations: Bethany Lutheran Church in Elkader, Iowa and Emanuel Lutheran Church in Strawberry Point, Iowa with supervisor Pastor Susan Friedrich.
Luther College has awarded Cynthia Kamikazi the Young Alumni Award recipient for 2018. The Young Alumni Award recognizes Luther alumni who have graduated in the past 15 years who have rendered notable services to their profession and society in their vocation or avocation.
As part of Luther College’s Black Student Union Reunion Weekend, Luther alumna Maxie (Jones) Rockymore ’82, is serving as the keynote speaker for the annual Don Kemp Memorial Lecture at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, April 25, in the Shirley Baker Commons on Luther’s campus.
The daughter of a former Botswanian president Quett Ketumile Masire, Luther College alumna Gaone Masire, class of 1983, will reflect on her career in the Lucille Brickner Brown Price Lecture on women in leadership.
Juan Tony Guzmán, Luther College class of 1990 and current professor of music, is the 2018 recipient of the Dr. Carlo A. Sperati award.
Luther College alumnus Paul Gulsvig of St. Paul, Minnesota, is the recipient of the 2018 Weston Noble Award.
Eight Luther College alumni will kick off homecoming weekend festivities with being bestowed the Luther Distinguished Service Awards by Luther President Paula Carlson.