Category: Alumni Story

A young person wearing an orange shirt holds up a painting of a woman with long reddish-brown hair surrounded by several barn owls.

The International Owl Center’s Ukrainian Art for Ukrainian Kids fundraiser is a major success.

June 9, 2022
A stone entrance sign for Luther College, founded 1861, stands in a grassy field next to a highway. In the background, a large wind turbine rises above a lush, forested hillside under a clear sky.

Alessandro Raniolo, Leah Vriesman and Liang Chee Wee will join the Luther College Board of Regents.

June 8, 2022
A smiling college student wearing glasses and a brown jacket stands in front of the U.S. Capitol building.

Luther College has a long tradition of producing Rossing Physics Scholars. In the last 10 years, 12 scholarships have been awarded to Luther physics students.

June 6, 2022
Godson Sowah receives an award at Luther College Commencement

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.

May 24, 2022
Close-up headshot of a smiling person with shoulder-length brunette hair and brown eyes against a blurred outdoor background.

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.

February 16, 2022
Bride and groom during a wedding ceremony.

Luther alumnus Chris Norton is returning to Decorah to speak about his new book, “The Seven Longest Yards.”

June 24, 2019
Headshot of Vicar Amalia Vagts

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.

June 18, 2019
Cynthia Kamikazi

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.

June 13, 2019
Headshot of Maxie Rockymore

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.

April 15, 2019
Gaone Masire speaking

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.

November 21, 2018