Alumni Corner
Michelle Voigts ’11, attended the 2008 National Conference for College Women Student Leaders June 5-7 at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. Michelle was sponsored by the Clarion, Iowa branch of the American Association of University Women. For more information about the conference, visit http://www.aauw.org/nccwsl/2008/.
Adam Matz ’00, graduated from Drake University in Des Moines with a doctor of pharmacy degree. He is currently working for Target Pharmacy in the Des Moines area.
Chris (Schweizer) Johnson ’87, is one of three Beloit College choreographers collaborating for the Chicago premiere of Chelonia Dance Friday-Saturday, July 18-19 at 8 p.m. in the Ruth Page Center for the Arts in Chicago.
The 24-member Chelonia Dance will feature Beloit College faculty and dance students as well as graduates of the program and members of several professional companies in the Chicago area.
The program will include seven works, five new to Chicago, by Beloit College choreographers Johnson, Dmitri Peskov and Kate Corby.
Johnson, director of the Beloit College dance program, has performed and choreographed professionally in California, Wisconsin and Illinois and was awarded the Laureate and Grand Prix at the Seventh International Competition: Festival of Choreographic Collectives in Moscow in 2004.
Chelonia Dance will perform two of her works new to Chicago: Holding Patterns, a visceral exploration of the theme found in its title, in which five women hold back, down, off and hold each other up. Selected for the 2003 Gala at the American College Dance Festival Association Regional Festival (ACDFA), the piece features Chicago dancers Kate Corby, Allyson Esposito, Maggie Koller, Allisa-Zee Hartmann and Leah Raffanti. Held/Accountable is her gut-wrenching and evocative commentary on the AIDS pandemic, which was performed by her students at the 2005 ACDFA Gala.
A reception at the Ruth Page Center will follow the Friday evening performance to celebrate this new event on the Chicago dance calendar.
Chelonia Dance performs Friday and Saturday, July 18 and 19 at 8 p.m. at the Ruth Page Center for the Arts, 1016 N. Dearborn Parkway, in Chicago. Tickets are $20, $15 for students/seniors, and are on sale at ticketweb.com and at the Ruth Page Center box office, (312) 337-6543.
Dave Weinrich ’ 74, planetarium coordinator at Minnesota State University Moorhead, is in Accra, Ghana helping to establish the first public planetarium in West Africa. More info is available at http://ghanascienceproject.net/.
Paul Hesterman ’73, has been named Interim Vice-President of Student Affairs at Metropolitan State University, Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn.
Senator Dave Senjem ’64, R-Rochester, recently completed his sixth session in the Minnesota Senate and his second session as Senate Minority Leader. In addition to his duties as Minority Leader, Sen. Senjem serves on the following committees: Taxes, Rules and Administration, Capital Investment, Energy and Environment, and Higher Education. Senjem resides in Rochester and is in his 44th year with Mayo Clinic.