Adam Bartelt ’08 has an affinity for the Des Moines area—as a Grimes native and marketing project manager at Orchestrate Hospitality, a leading hospitality management […]
Aug 5, 2013
Junior athletic training major Katelyn Paul interned with the Auburn University gymnastics team and the Kennedy Space Center.
May 17, 2013
Desmond Breadon ’03 got through some hard times with the help of his Central family—eventually going on to coach high school football and open a fitness center.
May 17, 2013
Sarah Newman ’01 treats both athletes and soldiers as an athletic trainer. She works with the U.S. Paralympic Alpine Ski Team and the Marine Corps Wounded Warrior Battalion.
May 17, 2013
Dr. Barbara Pettitt ’72 put on a suture workshop for Central students interested in medical school—providing hands-on practice sewing and tying for the future doctors.
May 4, 2013 | 1 Comment
Inspired by a railroad magnate and his city’s history, first-year Zach Russell saved the 19th century Apple Trees building in his native Burlington.
Apr 26, 2013
Four Central alumni and three current students work at Everybody Wins! Iowa, a children’s literacy and mentoring organization.
Apr 11, 2013
Abigail Sparks ’12 works as a tax accountant for Hormel Foods, a job she earned after interning there during her Central career.
Mar 27, 2013
After discovering his love for design at Central, Tyler Cobb ’07 now works as a graphic designer for a single-A baseball team in Lexington, Ky.
Mar 27, 2013 | 1 Comment
Justin Tiarks ’06 is a fifth grade teacher and chair of the board of the directors at a charter school for underprivileged students in St. Paul, Minn., making him his boss’s boss.
Feb 23, 2013
Paul Richardson ’84 is editor of Russian Life magazine and runs Russian Information Services. He has also published a novel about Russia and a collection about running.
Feb 20, 2013
Darius Joseph ’89 took a chance on Central—and then on his own company. Now he owns a successful IT consulting firm in Fort Myers, Fla.
Feb 20, 2013 | 2 Comments
Ellen Du Pre, professor of biology, is working with students to study the effects of triclosan on heart rate. She has dedicated her career to guiding students through the health sciences.
Feb 18, 2013
Gregory Christiano ’69, a Bronx-born author of five books, writes about Central culture during the 1960s, one of the 20th century’s most influential decades.
Nov 27, 2012 | 3 Comments
Junior Katie Zellmar interned at The Battle Flag Lab at the State Historical Society in Des Moines, restoring a WWI, 126th field artillery flag.
Nov 14, 2012
After studying abroad on two continents in college, David Vonnahme ’10 taught English in Brazil and has now moved on to China.
Oct 30, 2012
Curtis Brobst ’09 teaches science with the Peace Corps in Kenya, 300 miles from the nearest paved road.
Sep 11, 2012 | 6 Comments
After making a promise to a dying friend, former baseball star Adam Duerfeldt ’06 turned his sights toward cancer research. He recently received an American Cancer Society fellowship.
Sep 4, 2012 | 1 Comment
A Central professor and her education students bring an orphan from Africa for medical treatment. Their lives were forever changed.
Sep 1, 2012 | 1 Comment
Dallas Hakeman ’68 has faced many changes in agriculture over the years—fancier equipment, urban sprawl and rising land prices. His take: it’s neither good nor bad, just different.
May 8, 2012 | 1 Comment
Esther Streed’s daughter Angi inspired her years of activism for children with developmental disabilities.
May 8, 2012 | 1 Comment
Ben Justman ’07 got a lot more from his history major than a list of memorized dates. Just five years after graduating, he is the director of a museum with deep roots in American history.
Apr 19, 2012 | 1 Comment
Professor of history Chia Ning grew up in China during the Cultural Revolution. She has faced many struggles in her life—not least of which was surviving in the U.S.—but she remains committed to the ideals of global education.
Feb 16, 2012 | 2 Comments
Linda Laine, associate professor of communication, spent her sabbatical developing a course in the field of health communication.
Feb 16, 2012
Alida Droppert, assistant professor of education, reviews “Lady Leader” by Mary Stier, who came to campus in the fall to talk about women’s leadership.
Feb 16, 2012
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