Category Archives: Alumni

Alumni, Students Connect at Leadership Event

LeadNow’s Fuel the Fire conference heated things up Jan. 19 as students sparked their leadership potential. Fuel the Fire is an annual conference where students learn some valuable leadership skills, as well as complete two LeadNow® sessions in one day. … Continue reading

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Helping Animals Help People

Animal-assisted therapy has interested Hannah Erickson ’12, Fargo, N.D., for a long time. It started when she watched a documentary about dolphins and children with autism several years ago. Then she volunteered at a therapeutic horseback-riding program. So when Erickson … Continue reading

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Miss North Dakota Reigns from Concordia

Last summer, Rosie Sauvageau ’10 was still pretty new to the pageant scene. In fact, she had competed in her very first pageant just two years prior. “I have a really good friend who was always bugging me to do … Continue reading

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Cobber Gives Back for Birthday

Chantell Sampson ’10 wanted to do something special for her 25th birthday. “I wanted to do something different besides the typical, ‘Let’s get together and have dinner and buy gifts that I don’t need,’” she says. “I love making people … Continue reading

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Juggling Success

For the father-daughter team of Bill and Tricia Sorensen ’13 of Bismarck, N. D., this is a story of the apple not falling far from the tree with a good measure of ‘whatever you can do, I can do better.’ … Continue reading

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Christmas Concert Mural is Bound for Minneapolis

Minneapolis will have a little more Christmas cheer this year. For the first time in seven years, the Concordia Christmas Concert mural will be traveling to the Twin Cities. Fourteen of the 44 mural panels will make their way east … Continue reading

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Preserving Our Nation’s History

Serving the country is a tradition in Alisa Whitley’s family. Now the 2002 Concordia graduate is preserving the history of our nation’s veterans as an archivist for the United States Marine Corps Archives.

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Put a Ring On It

It’s Cobber Ring day for a slew of Concordia juniors and seniors. Watch the excitement unfold with Storify. [<a href="http://storify.com/Concordia_MN/cobber-ring-day-fall-2012" target="_blank">View the story "Cobber Ring Day - Fall 2012" on Storify</a>]

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Alumnus Recounts Spectacular Archeological Find

Mike Jeseritz ’93 remembers the moment 19 years ago like it was yesterday. After reaching into a stone expecting to pull out a handful of dirt, he found himself holding several bright, shiny gold Roman coins. “It was total shock … Continue reading

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Sculpting Music

Nicole Roberts Hoiland ’97 and Beth (Johnson) Winterfeldt ’94 share a strong friendship. Both are active in the arts scene across Minnesota. Hoiland is a sculptor and Winterfeldt is a pianist. They recently realized that their artistic mediums also share … Continue reading

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