Classes from 1996-2000
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Trina (Keaunui) Byrd is working in Hilo, Hawaii as a skills trainer for students diagnosed with autism and is a foster parent. She also has a daughter who is six.
Kristen Jensen married Matthew Wall on September 4, 2004. They live in Denver, Colo.
Karla (Johnson) Storie and her husband, Toby, welcomed Zander Johnson Storie, on February 18, 2006. They also have a daughter, Mallory Ann, who was born in 2004.
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Catherine Grosz is teaching ESL at a Native American school in Puyallup, Wash. This summer she will travel with the Lutheran Association of Missionaries and Pilots to far northern Alaska.
Rhonda (Spencer) Hwang is working on her doctorate in epidemiology at Loma Linda University in Calif.
Julie (Bascom) Inberg teaches and lives in Tualatin Ore. She and her husband, Frank, have two children, Tyler and Molly.
Neill Twigg is a fourth grade teacher in the Hillsboro School District. He also coaches high school girls’ basketball and coordinates fourth through eighth grade girls’ competitive basketball teams.
Adam Weber requests your prayers as his health is failing.
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Don Shore writes, “CU brought me closer to my dreams — and made them come true with the support of God and Jesus on my side. My experience at Concordia was out of this world.”
Karina (Savage) Stranjord (MAT) ’02 and her husband, Joe, have two daughters Olivija and Sophia. Olivija is the 2004-06 March of Dimes Ambassador Child for Oregon and SW Washington.
Becky Henry-Van House joined Shannon & Wilson, Geotechnical & Environmental Consultants in Portland, Ore. as a marketing coordinator.
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Amanda Brewer wed Casey Huber on July 9, 2005. The couple resides in Wash.
Elizabeth “Liz” (Rupp) Barton is currently the Psychology Resident at Pacific Lutheran University’s Counseling and Testing center.
Sheryl Bell writes, “I finally finished my master’s degree.”
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Jeanne (Webber) Al-Ghamdi writes, “Adel and I finally got married in February.”
Rob Borngrebe writes, “(I am) very happy to hear enrollment at CU is up — praise the Lord. In these times CU must reach out.”
Judy Bottita is a patient care manager for Kaiser Permanente at the Central and South Interstate clinics. She is thrilled to be in this new position.
Shirley Fitzgerald is president of Portland’s MedLegal Consulting, Inc. and “(is) seeking others to help turn my vision for rural healthcare into a non-profit corporate reality.”
Christine (Stoecklin) Hamlin (MEd) ’05 and her husband, Jeff, are both licensed as Real Estate Brokers and are working for Willamette Realty Group in the Pearl District selling homes and condos. They encourage you to “check us out” at PearlDistrictCondos.com.
Vincente Harrison is a Sales and Operations supervisor for Coast Industries, Inc. He wed Rachel Ann on October 1, 2005.
Julianna Montgomery lives aboard a 42’ motoryacht in Seattle, Wash. with her husband and dog. She owns BooJu Productions, a music and event company.
Leslie (Whiting) Henning writes, “since moving to Minnesota our family has grown by one daughter-in-law Debbie, two grandchildren Anthony and Ashley, and one daughter Grace.” Leslie substitute taught for three years and is looking forward to homeschool.