Category: Current

J.R. Roever graduated in 2001 and went on to receive and M.A. in philosophy and a J.D. from Marquette University. He’s now an attorney for Halloin Murdock in Milwaukee.

Gabe Ormsby (1993) worked for many years in the nonprofit sector. His last job was “equal parts webmaster, database administrator, ‘help desk,’ and general techie at Friends of the Mississippi River in historic downtown Saint Paul.” Recently, Gabe has made the move to higher ed; he now works for the University of Minnesota as a…

Jonathan Olson, who graduated in June 2007, spent the following year working in East St. Paul as   a VISTA volunteer, “helping flesh out the mayor’s ‘second shift’ initiative, doing after school activities for kids.  In my free time after work, I’ve been exploring the city by bike, bus, and foot.  It’s surprising to find…

Don McNeil (’85) is a trial lawyer, working in business litigation. He reports that “I take on some cases for a cause just to keep things a little on the edge. I would imagine the latter is true for most Philosophy majors.”

Cory Mehan, a 1999 graduate, reports that he spent seven years working in the public sector on housing issues, before making the move to United Health Group Information Technology, where he works as a business analyst.

Christine (Eilertson) Bronson (’94) is the Deputy Commissioner of the Department of Human Services for the State of Minnesota.

The movie Bella begins with a line, “If you want to make god laugh, tell him you plans.” This line neatly sums up Dave’s experience in the nearly 20 years since graduating from Gustavus. Since graduating, Dave studied philosophy in a wonderful MA program in Ireland under a wise and fatherly advisor. This was followed…

Sean Kirkland (’90) is a philosophy professor at DePaul University, Chicago. He received his Ph.D. from SUNY Stony Brook. Sean came back in the spring of 2006 to deliver a paper entitled “Letting the Good Appear More Clearly: The Phenomenological Ethics of Aristotle’s Rhetoric”

Ward Moberg (’69) is retired from 29 years as a fifth grade teacher in Osceola, Wisconsin. You can find Ward’s speech about the role philosophy has played in his life elsewhere on our website, under “why study philosophy?”

Larry Cartford (’59) “sort of stumbled on a philosophy major; I liked many of the courses, so kept taking them, then saw the numbers and thought, ‘why not?’ so part of my triple major was philosophy. I became a pastor, did an STM on the existential theology of Paul Tillich, went into the parish, couldn’t…