Archive for 2009Page 4

Danny George (’08)

Danny George (’08) is teaching English in South Korea during the 2008-09 year.

John Hallsten

John Hallsten is retired but enjoyed several “different lives” during his professional life; parish pastor in several parishes;  Lutheran University Pastor (NLCM) at CSU in Ft. Collins, Colorado;  clinical psychologist at UAF in Fairbanks, Alaska;  Clinical Supervisor, Yukon–Tanana Region of the Tanana Chiefs in Interior Alaska; and private practice in Fairbanks, Alaska. John notes that “Memories I have […]

Kaaren Williamsen (’95)

Kaaren Williamsen, a 1995 graduate of Gustavus, is the Director of the Gender, Women and Sexuality Center at Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota. You can still find Kaaren’s senior thesis on our department webpage.

Kara Barnette (’05)

2005 graduate Kara Barnette is a member of the philosophy department at Westminster College in Salt Lake City Utah. Kara’s path took her first to graduate school at the University of Oregon, and then to a stint teaching back in her old department at Gustavus. While her teachers-then-colleagues miss her, we’re delighted that she found […]

Jeanie Reese (’92)

Jeanie Reese (’92) is the mother of another philosophy department graduate; Don McNeil (’85).

Chris Marshall (’90)

Chris Marshall (’90) is Field Editor for Woodworker’s Journal. He lives in rural Ohio on a ten acre farm, where, he reports, “I build things from wood, write about them, photograph the process and am always there at the end of the driveway at the end of the day to get my kids off the […]

Erica Lucast Stonestreet (2000)

Erica Lucast Stonestreet (2000) is assistant professor of philosophy at the College of St. Benedict. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. You can find her senior thesis on our webpage.

Mary Stone

Mary Stone is studying at University of Denver’s School of Social Work, where she will receive an MSW in animal-assisted social work.

Kristen Richardson Wilcox (’96)

Kristen Richardson Wilcox (’96) is a lawyer who is presently negotiating fulltime with her two children in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where she is a “Domestic Goddess.”

Happy Birthday, Ghana!

Today, the West African nation of Ghana celebrates its fifty-second  independence day. Ghana  is  the first African nation to declare its idependence from colonial rule, which it did in 1957. The nation holds a particular significance for some philosophers, because its first leader, Kwame Nkrumah, was himself a philosopher. Nkrumah studied in the United States, […]