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Diana Pierce ’15 MAL to keynote Mentor Morning event

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Augsburg College alumna and KARE 11 news anchor Diana Pierce ’15 MAL will deliver a keynote address at聽Mentor Morning, an聽event to introduce young women to some of central Minnesota’s most powerful women leaders. Mentor Morning includes general networking opportunities and Pierce’s speech, which will focus on the importance of finding and working with mentors.

Pierce recently completed her master’s degree in leadership at聽Augsburg and believes mentoring is key to help develop upcoming leaders, according to a recent St. Cloud Times story on Mentor Morning.

“You’re always going to be in a position of leadership or being lead,” Pierce said in the article. “So the more tools you have in your tool kit the better off you are.”

搁别补诲:听聽on the St. Cloud Times website.

Augsburg alumni bring ‘Hoopla Train’ to rural Minnesota

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sodhouseThis summer, Sod House — a theater company founded by Augsburg College Chair of Theater Arts聽Darcey Engen 鈥�88聽and her husband, Luverne Seifert 鈥�83 — brought a聽production of 鈥淗oopla Train (with Yard Master Yip and his Polkastra)鈥澛爐o 14 historic ballrooms in different Minnesota cities聽including聽Barrett, McGregor, Nisswa, and Sleepy Eye.

Engen and Seifert shared the stage with a troupe of performers to put on the production billed as 鈥淟awrence Welk meets 鈥楬ee-Haw.鈥欌�� The Sod House Theater聽project began in 2011 when Engen and Seifert collaborated to create the condensed version of Anton Chekhov鈥檚 play “The Cherry Orchard” with Twin Cities colleagues including聽Sarah Myers, associate聽professor of theater at Augsburg.

This year the “Hoopla Train” has garnered the attention of media outlets across Minnesota, including the following organizations and stories:

  • BringMeTheNews — Hoopla Train: The touring theater variety show coming to a stage near you
  • —聽Summer is showtime for Sod House, Minnesota’s whistle-stop theater
  • —聽All aboard the ‘Hoopla Train’ bound for Faribault
  • Rochester Post-Bulletin —聽‘Hoopla Train’ pulls into town
  • — Professional Twin Cities Theater Troupe to perform at the American Legion in Nisswa
  • Sleepy Eye Herald-Dispatch — ‘Hoopla Train’ show coming to Sleepy Eye next week
  • —聽‘Hoopla’ brings old-fashioned fun to outstate Minnesota