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Megan “MJ” Johnson ’18
“In rejecting the ‘have to’ script, I have become the change I wished to see in myself.” The first year was a bit of a rough start for this first-generation college student. “I came to Gustavus feeling like an incredibly serious student. I felt like there were things I had to do, like study communications […]
Mula Lay ’22
“All you need is a microphone to make a podcast. And some editing software. And some stories. And a student champion with a great voice for radio.” His first major was computer science. But like so many Gusties before him, Lay questioned his first choice when the poetry and stories he was writing were competing […]
Matt Rasmussen ’98
“Studying And Writing Literature Felt Superfluous Like a Hobby. At Gustavus, I Learned It Was My Passion.” I was a hockey player jock in high school, and I wanted to play in college. When I applied to Gustavus, I included a poem in my application. I don’t know why. Maybe I thought I wasn’t smart […]
Cheryl Downey ’66
“Be resilient. Have faith in yourself.” “I was very aware of being a pioneer,” Downey says. One of the first women in the Directors Guild of America two-year apprenticeship program, she started as the second assistant director for the 1976 Western The Missouri Breaks, starring Marlon Brando and Jack Nicholson. She was the first woman […]
Faculty Spotlight: Elizabeth Baer
Elizabeth Baer (English, retired) gave the Lazaroff Lecture in Jewish History at Ohio University on April 13. Her Talk was entitled “Sex, Racial Purity, and Imperialism: German Genocide in Africa and the Third Reich.” Earlier in the month, on April 4, Dr. Baer gave a talk for the Richmond, VA Jewish Community Council entitled “The […]
Faculty Spotlight: Florence Amamoto
Florence Amamoto (English) was an invited speaker on a featured panel “Vocation and the Religiously (In)Different Student” at the 2022 NetVUE (Network for Vocation in Undergraduate Education) conference in Dallas, Texas, March 24-26. She was also a facilitator at the “Orientation Session for Those New to NetVUE” and the plenary session “Interreligious Scriptural Reasoning as […]
Bryant ’73 Wins 2021 Carlson Award for Distinguished Teaching
English and African Studies professor Phil Bryant ’73 was named the winner of the 2021 Edgar M. Carlson Award for Distinguished Teaching at the Gustavus Adolphus College Class of 2021 commencement ceremony on Thursday, May 13. “I feel very humbled and very privileged to receive this award,” Bryant said. “Not for myself, but for the […]
Get to Know a Gustie: Damon Larson ’84
Current Company/Organization: Librarian/Research Coach at Chaparral High School, Parker, Colorado Grad Year: 1984 Major: English & Psychology Hometown: Longmont, Colorado Current City: Denver, Colorado What is your first Gustavus memory? I remember meeting my fellow freshmen on 4th North during Freshman Orientation. A number of these good men became lifelong friends. What was your favorite class […]
Buxbaum ’14 Brings Storytelling Potential to Alaska
The Alaskan publisher and author will launch her first short story collection The Birthday Picture (and Other Stories) on Aug. 31.
Philip Bryant, 2021 Carlson Award Winner, English Department
Thank you, students, for masking up so that I could be here to present the 2021 Edgar M. Carlson Award for Distinguished Teaching. You made it possible for all of us to be here, and I am sincerely grateful. This is the highest honor a Gustavus faculty member can receive. Nominations come from students, faculty, […]