FALL SUPPLEMENT 2024
CLASS NOTES LET US KNOW WHAT YOU’RE UP TO!
Update us online at whitworth.edu/alumni-update, email us at alumni@whitworth.edu, or write us at Alumni & Parent Engagement Team, Whitworth University, 300 W. Hawthorne Road, Spokane, WA 99251. Submissions received March 1-Sept. 30, 2024, appear in the fall supplement of Whitworth Today. All cities listed are located in Washington state unless otherwise noted.
2020s-10s
2024
Feven Christiansen is an operations assistant at FreshVue, a strategic design and organizational development company in Spokane that is owned by Eva (Glenn) Marquette ’08. Emily (Lyonnais) McDonald M.Ed. is an art instructor at Mead High School in Spokane after working for six years as a production designer at Whitworth University.
2022
Nick Jahde and Sarah Quinn ’23 were married on Aug. 3. The couple lives in Spokane where Nick teaches piano and Sarah is an assistant at a veterinary clinic.
2021
Andrew Wiebers teaches science and coaches cross country and track at North Central High School in Spokane. He is doing a grant-funded, multiyear research project with Whitworth Assistant Professor of Engineering & Physics David Schipf.
2020
Roland Báez was selected as an Erasmus Mundus Fellow 2024-26 by the European Union and is pursuing his master’s degree in international humanitarian action at the University of Deusto, Spain, and the University of Malta. Lauren Bergman has returned home to Walla Walla after a year in Germany with the Congress-Bundestag
Youth Exchange for Young Professionals. The program included study and an internship. Michaela (Scheer) Breadon and Benjamin Breadon were married on Aug. 12, 2023, and live in Grand Rapids, Mich. Liah Gingerich is a realtor in Honolulu, Hawaii. Bryn Redal is studying environmental health science at Yale University and works for the university’s climate change communication program. She conducted research in Heidelberg, Germany, in summer 2024.
and live in Spokane. Keenan Marianno moved to San Francisco with his spouse, Celeste, to attend the University of the Pacific Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry. Josh Tuttle and Karlin Andersen Tuttle earned their Ph.D.s from The Pennsylvania State University. They live in Chicago, where Josh is an assistant professor of English at Concordia University Chicago and Karlin is pursuing a job in marketing and teaches online courses for Penn State.
2019
Isabel Hoggatt and Faith Lopez-Flores were married on Sept. 7, 2023. Isabel is a program manager for Arizona Food Bank Network in Phoenix and Faith is a physician associate in internal medicine at Mountain Park Health Center. Nathan Mumford and Shelby (Damron) Mumford were married on Sept. 17, 2023, and live in Seattle. Sydney (Weiler) Woolley is an occupational therapist at Inspire Physical & Hand Therapy in Spokane.
2018
Peter Borg is a deputy with the Shoshone County Sheriff’s Office in Wallace, Idaho. Devon Clements and Sonia Klouse are engaged and live in Kansas City, Mo., where Devon is a copywriter at VML. Ripley, the couple’s cat, is doing well but misbehaves as always. John-Robert Woolley is a physical therapist at Summit Rehabilitation Associates in Spokane.
2017
Who Changed Your Life? We want to hear about the Whitworthian (professor, staff member, coach, classmate) who changed your life. Send your story to today@whitworth.edu. We’ll share a selection of stories in the spring issue of Whitworth Today.
Andrea (Golden) Locati and Spencer Locati ’18 were married on June 29, 2019, 1