EVENTS HIGHLIGHTS
 We sponsor our own Twin Cities KATIE Alumnae/i Association Book Club. If you can't come, start your own Alumnae/i Book Club! Here's how...
Conversation with Books 2010 will be on January 25, 2010. The preliminary list of books to be discussed follows. More titles will be added.
- Dean, Debra. The Madonnas of Leningrad. Harper Perennial, 2006.
- Gooch, Brad. Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor. Little, Brown and Company, 2009.
- Joern, Pamela Carter. The Floor of the Sky. University of Nebraska Press, 2006.
- Strout, Elizabeth. Olive Kitteridge: Fiction. Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2008.
- Yang, Kao Kalia. The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir. Coffee House Press, 2008.
For the 2009 highlights...
PROFESSIONAL RESOURCES
 The Joys of Volunteering Abroad. If you are a new alum considering a year or two of service as a way to gain job experience in a tight market or an older alum considering volunteering abroad for the life satisfaction it brings, click here for encouragement and advice from experienced alums ...
 The International and Multicultural Group (IMAG) Offered Advice on Professionally Surviving and Thriving in the "Real World."
Noi (Susan) Keothammakhoun ’03, Business Administration/Marketing (Medtronic Human Resources) said: 'At Medtronic, forty percent of hires are by referrals. So network, and do informational interviews and internships, and maintain those relationships. Check in on them. Work on team projects with other companies. I was recruited from Wells Fargo because I had worked on a project with Medtronic recruiters who referred me and wanted me to work with them.' For more...
 Students Gain Networking Advice from Alumnae in Career Mingling Event
“I've learned to take advantage of any event St. Kate's puts together. You never know how much you will learn or who you may meet, but it’s always worth it.”
Lynn Wolander WEC '09
For more...
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FEATURE STORIES
Want to find out some of the interesting things alumnae/i are accomplishing? Click on each story, and there are more in the archives -- click on the link at the bottom of the page.
 Michele Cromer-Poire
SP '69, co-founder/owner of The Red Balloon Bookshop on Grand Avenue in St. Paul, has been awarded the 2009 Doc Chopp Award for her "tireless" community service to the Grand Avenue neighborhood area. She was the Grand Marshal at the Grand Old Day Parade on June 7. The Red Balloon celebrates 25 years too. For more on the Doc Chopp Award 2009 ...
 Emily Weich '07, an alumna of the St. Kate's fashion merchandising program, was one of the designers featured in the "Voltage: Fashion Amplified" event on Friday April 24 at First Avenue and she was profiled in this Star Tribune story.
 Winners of the 2009
DEW DROP DASH,
5K Walk/Run
Sunday morning June 21, 2009--
Linda Vinz and Michelle Langer
Rebuilding a war-torn nation
 St. Kate’s nurtures students “with a sense of leadership...and appreciation of a strong female community.” See how two alumnae are bringing this empowerment to the nonprofit center for women and youth they are helping to build in Sarajevo. More »
 Meet Minnesota Conservation Volunteer Editor Kathleen Weflen WEC '81. She's passionate about the natural world and editor-in-chief of one of Minnesota’s most popular magazines. More »
 Mayor of Burnsville, Elizabeth B. Langhilde Kautz WEC '82, Republican, was solicited by President Obama for advice because of her reputation for responsible and collaborative leadership. She's the second vice president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors. For more...
 U.S. Representative Betty McCollum SP '87, is honored with first annual Global Action Children's Champion Award. Representative Betty McCollum (D) and four other U.S. Congressional leaders were honored by Global Action for Children. More »
St. Kate's alumnae, the Bendel sisters (pictured with their father, also a doctor), were again named in the MPLS-ST.PAUL Magazine's annual "Top Doctors" issue. More »
Tamara Kittelson-Aldred SP '75 (center) works with a team of St. Kate's occupational therapist students to fit a chair to a young girl during the Eleanore's Project trip to Peru in March 2008. Eleanore's Project, Inc. was founded in 2004 by the Kittelson-Aldred family in memory of Eleanore, who died in 2001. “Her death just before her twelfth birthday forced our family to reorganize and we began thinking about how best to honor her short life,” said Tamara's daughter Julian Kittelson-Aldred SP ’08, one of Eleanore's two sisters. For more...
Patricia Hvidston SP '67, former vice president for development for the College of St. Catherine (CSC Medal of Honor Awardee, Trustee, and Centennial 100 member), was just named Senior Vice President for Development and Communications for Catholic Charities USA. For more...
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