Lois (Burchett) Blackwood ’71 was presented with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award in Jan. 2019 by Marquis Who’s Who, the world’s premier publisher of biographical profiles, for her many contributions to the teaching and consulting profession.
Class Notes
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Anahita (Nemat) Renner '03 and husband Christopher welcomed their son, Christopher Waldo Renner, on Mar. 9, 2019.
Taylor Swanson OD ’17 was recently welcomed to the Brainerd (Minn.) Eyecare Center team, joining his wife, Alicia Archibald-Swanson OD ’17, who has been practicing there since June 2017.
McKenna Davidson ’16 was recently featured in The Irish Times, a daily newspaper in Ireland, for the efforts she has invested into pursuing her dreams playing soccer.
Chelsea Van Dyke Reich PA ’15 recently joined the Essentia Health-Moorhead Clinic team in Moorhead, Minn., as a physician assistant.
Shane Feuerbach ’14 was sworn into the Ceres (Calif.) Fire Department on March 20.
Melodie Bolt MFA ’11 was recently invited to speak at a monthly event for Witches Tea Flint, in Flint, Mich.
Abby Murray MFA ’09 won the 2019 Perugia Press Prize for her debut poetry collection, Hail and Farewell, forthcoming in Sept. 2019.
Paul Gutzler MAT ’05 was selected to be the next principal of Methow Valley Elementary School in Winthrop, Wash.
Carl Boeck ’75 graduated from the Southern California College of Optometry at Marshall B. Ketchum University after Pacific.