Northwestern College | Classic magazine - Winter 2004-05 - Vol. 76 ...

Class notesNorthwestern ClassicAlumninews’95Chad Noble works as an actuarialanalyst at Capital Card Services inSioux Falls.’96Kevin Kroeze works as a police officerin Visalia, Calif.Jason Lief earned a master’s degreein theology from Wheaton CollegeGraduate School last December. Hecontinues to teach and coach atPella Christian High School whilealso lay preaching at churches inthe area. His wife, Tammy (DeHoogh), is a stay-at-home mom.Caroline Rogers serves as the magicalgatherings resort operationsmanager at Walt Disney World inOrlando, Fla. She has been selectedto be on the task force team forHong Kong Disneyland in 2005.She also operates her own Internetnetwork marketing business. Amember of the lay leadership teamat St. Luke’s Methodist Church, shevolunteers her time to assist charitiessuch as the Cystic FibrosisFoundation and St. Jude Children’sResearch Hospital.Michelle (Meendering) Tomkins teachessecond and third grades at OviattElementary in Norwalk, Iowa. Herhusband, Trevor, is serving a tour ofduty in Iraq with the 2168th NationalGuard unit based in Sheldon.’97Jeff Beekhuizen is a second-year residentat the University of KansasSchool of Medicine-Wichita FamilyResidency Program.Kristi Bootsma received an M.B.A.from the University of Nebraska-Omaha in May. She now serves asmanager of finance at the NebraskaMedical Center in Omaha.Laura Hibma serves as a missionaryat the International ChristianSchool of Lima in Peru.Candy (Volkers) Kiesz is starting aday care in Sioux Falls. Her husband,Erik, works for CitiCard.Delia (Pini) Perry and her husband,Chris, have moved to Sylvania,Ohio. Chris finished his ear, noseand throat residency and has takena full-time position with a group inthe Toledo area.Deb Schleusener is joining the staffof International Students Inc. andwill work at the University ofWashington in Seattle. She is raisingsupport and hopes to be on staff inWashington by January. She previouslyworked for Navigators at theirretreat center, Glen Eyrie, inColorado Springs for several years.’98Kenda Hallman is developmentmanager in the office of communyarts partnerships at ColumbiaCollege Chicago. She previouslywas manager of prospect tracking atNorthwestern University. She alsohas been acting in Chicago since1998.Brad Kehn is the pastor/president ofYouth Alive Inc., a ministry thatprovides youth camps, conferencesand leadership training retreats forchurches and leaders from theMinnesota and Wisconsin area. Hiswife, Cheryl (Jamieson ’98), is a stayat-homemom. The Kehns live inHammond, Wis.Stacey (Harman) Schmidt teacheshistory at Sioux Falls ChristianHigh School.Amber (Soldan) Widstrom is acertified physician’s assistant atthe University of Nebraska MedicalCenter in Omaha. She works inthe pulmonary and sleep medicinesection.’99Jake Killinger is working as theyouth pastor at Hope EvangelicalCelebrating their 25th reunion were these members of the class of 1979: (front row,left to right) Orv Otten, Ev Otten, Pam Voss, Mark Voss, Susan (Elman) Risius,Steve Risius; second row: Arden Keune, Jodi (Pennings ’78) Kleinjan, WillisKleinjan, Connie Smith, John Smith, Carol (Vander Ploeg) Law, Greg Law; thirdrow: Earl Woudstra ’78, Karen (De Boer) Woudstra, Diane Westenberg, WayneWestenberg and Sharon (Schoon) Carroll.Free Church in Springfield, Ill. Hiswife, Becky (Vugteveen), volunteerson the youth staff and manages aHallmark store.Thanks to Oprah and Pontiac,Susan (Menning) Nelson owns a newcar. Susan, her boss and another coworkerat Wheaton College wereattending the taping of Oprah’s seasonpremiere in September when all276 audience members were givennew Pontiac G6s. A few days later,a photograph of Susan, other carwinners and Oprah was publishedin People magazine.Josh Pyle, Cedar Falls, Iowa, continuesto work as a loss preventionand safety manager for Younkers.His wife, Amy, is employed by theDunkerton Community SchoolDistrict.Stephanie Timmerman is educationprogram manager for the AlaskaNative Heritage Center inAnchorage.The Rev. Aaron Vis graduated fromWestern Theological Seminary withan M.Div. degree in May and wasordained in June. He now pastorsCovenant Community Church inHudsonville, Mich.’00Karinda (Trumble) de Boom lives inSioux Falls and teaches art atVermillion Middle School. Sheearned a master’s degree in educationat Augustana College.Anne (Neerhof) and AustinHellbusch are living in Sioux City.Austin teaches sixth grade scienceand serves as head coach of theboys’ varsity basketball team atDakota Valley High School in NorthSioux City. Anne is in her first yearof residency in family medicine atthe Siouxland Medical EducationFoundation.Colette Johnson earned an M.F.A.degree in playwriting from NewSchool University in New York City.She remains in the Big Apple,where she works for Kaplan TestPrep and is pursuing a career inwriting. One of her scripts is beingmade into a short film through theNew School University’s KZ Filmsand Guerrilla Video CollaborationStudio.Nichole South, Grand Mound, Iowa,serves as the director of marketingfor an assisted living facility thatspecializes in serving those whohave Alzheimer’s disease. She previouslywas the director of socialservices at a nursing center.Dr. Kelly Van Haaften graduatedwith honors from the Illinois33 ▲ Winter 2004-05