Category: Magazine
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Fit to lead: Harris uses personal experience to keep next generation on track
By Emily Christensen Russell Harris ’10 never wanted to be an educator. He came to Wartburg to study business and run track. When business…
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Teaching through research
By Emily Christensen | Photos Julie Drewes ’90 Whether it’s discovering the connection between gut bacteria and Alzheimer’s disease or analyzing how college students…
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Taking Christianity to Cambodia
By Emily Christensen | Photos Julie Pagel Drewes ’90 Kelsey Wilson ’11 was in middle school the first time she told her mother she…
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The doc who rocks: Alumnus joins with fellow physicians to raise money for charity
By Emily Schmitt Counts ’11 HIS CLIENTS KNOW HIM AS DR. HARRIS. His fans know him as a doctor of rock. Jim Harris ’75…
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Taking flight: Entrepreneur finds success in communication, fashion industries
By Suzanne Heseman Behnke ’97 ALYSSA CONNELL ’02 GREW UP IN A TRAILER off the ramp of an airport. Her grandfather is a flight…
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For the kids: Wartburg College Dance Marathon to sponsor room in new UI children’s hospital
By Carly Kinning ’19 For three years, Avery Mason ’16 watched his brother, Conner, wage a courageous battle against brain cancer. The 17-year-old’s death…
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Fast break: Oswald uses Wartburg connections to get a start in the NBA
By Emily Christensen WHILE OTHER 10-YEAR-OLD BOYS were dreaming of the day they would make it big in the NBA, Jacob Oswald ’10 was…
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In the hunt: Welsch lands job assisting CEO of major sports ownership group
By Clint Riese ’05 LAMAR HUNT, SON OF A TEXAS OIL MAGNATE, brought the Chiefs to Kansas City, helped launch Major League Soccer, and…
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Double play: New pavilion improves experience for athletes, fans
By Alan Simmer ’07 GAVIN TIMP ’19 WATCHED THE PITCHER, tracking his arm movements through the windup. As the ball screamed toward him, he…
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The last of the Clinton Hall housemothers
By Alan Simmer ’07 Florence Hutson sent her son, David ’65, to Wartburg in 1961. Little did she know she’d be following in his…
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Housemothers through history
By Alan Simmer ’07 The history of housemothers runs deep at Wartburg—all the way back to 1861 and the St. Sebald campus. That year,…
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Tomsons recognized for support of Lutheran colleges
By Emily Christensen PATRICIA TOMSON REMEMBERS THE FIRST TIME she was able to give back. The college senior gifted $10 to her class gift…