Steve Morgan, '91

After Carleton, I went off to Madison, WI to complete an MA in Mathematics.  While there, I also took some classes in the Finance Department which led to a slight career shift.  I have lived in New Orleans since 1995 and have spent most of my time in financial services including over 10 years as a Financial Advisor and a couple of years in a (now shuttered) online financial start up.  (I've also spend a lot of that time involved with test prep and lecturing on the side.) I'm currently Product Manager for Capital One Asset Management (yes, with the Visigoths) and enjoy a nice view of the Mississippi out my window.  I also live a few houses from the corner of Royal St. and Frenchmen St., the start of probably the most exciting stretch of live music clubs in the city.

Randy Niemiec, '94

I live in Minneapolis.  After graduating I tried teaching high school for two years.  I decided I didn't like it and took a job as an actuary with the MN Department of Commerce.  After two years I realized I didn't like working in a cubicle and missed teaching.  I've been teaching ever since, with the last 9 at South High School in Minneapolis.  I started an AP Statistics program at South 6 years ago and also teach Geometry.

Beth (Bartkowski) Blumhoefer, '95

I have been working as a tax accountant since graduation, currently with Novartis in Parsippany, New Jersey.  Jerry and I live in Denville, NJ with our two children August and Jackie.  We enjoy hanging out at the lake, watching the kids' sports, and traveling.

Alex Galt, '95

I work at Edina High School teaching math.  Currently I teach AP Calculus AB and Advanced Algebra and Statistics.  Some of my students love mathematics and some of them are less fond of it, but we try to have fun in the classroom anyway.  On the day I teach volume of revolution using cylindrical shells, I bring in a bundt cake and cut it into thin cylinders around the axis of revolution.  It's an appropriate manipulative for my cake-eating students.

I also recently married a fellow geek, Patrick McAvey, and we have hung out matching high school math letters in our dining room.  We are expecting our first child in late summer.

Gaio Lakin, '95

I went into engineering after college.  I finished an MS in biomedical engineering in 1998, studying motion analysis, and then worked for three years in Birmingham, Alabama doing motion analysis at a hospital.  Then in 2001 I moved back to Minneapolis for grad school in mechanics (most universities call it engineering mechanics).  I finished a PhD in 2007.  I teach engineering and physics at Normandale Community College, and do some motion analysis work at Gillette Children's too.  I've been married five years to Amy Thorsen, and we have a two year old son named Jack.

Kurt Wolf, '95

Life since Carleton has been a whirlwind: I worked 3 years at Deloitte Consulting in Minneapolis, quite and co-founded a health plan (Definity Health).  After two years at Definity, I got married, and moved to Palo Alto, CA to get my MBA.  After grad school, I worked 3 years at an activist fund in San Diego, moved back to MN to work at Definity again (for 1 year).  I left Definity to start a health care VC fund (Lemhi Ventures), which I left after a year.  I then moved to Orange County, CA to work at another hedge fund.  After 18 months, my wife and I, along with our 4 kids (Aidan, 6; Madeline, 5; Lily, 3; and Liam, 21 mos.) moved back to Eden Prairie, MN.  I now manage a hedge fund, Hestia Capital, and pray never to change jobs or move again.

Dwayne Lundtvedt, '96

I graduated in 1996.  I am currently self-employed at a convenience store called Nordic Express, Inc. and a restaurant called Burl's in Decorah, IA.  I am married - to my high school sweetheart and have 3 children, all girls - Janaye age 9, Jenn - age 6 and Jayden - 6 months.

Kari Hay, '96

After some years in finance and computers.  I'm now teaching math!  I'm a high school math teacher, teaching Algebra to incoming frosh and AP Statistics to outgoing seniors.  Love it, love curriculum development, love expressing math in creative ways.  Am contemplating a way to get further degreed in statistics somehow, but trying to do it without relocating and/or going nuts.

Ian Taylor, '97

After teaching high school math in Zimbabwe with the Peace Corps, I became interested in applying math to environmental problems.  I got a PhD from the University of Washington's interdisciplinary program in Quantitative Ecology and Resource Management in 2008 and now work with the National Marine Fisheries Service modeling fish populations.  It's interesting and fulfilling work and we need more mathematically trained people doing it.

John Weiss, '99

Wow, how to summarize ten years?  Actually, it's not so hard:  six years of grad school at CU-Boulder for Astrophysics later, and I'm up a PhD in a remarkably useless (but interesting) field.  Add four and a half years of working on the Cassini mission to Saturn as a member of the Imaging Team planning observations and doing first-science with the data, sometimes hours after it hit the ground, and that's most of my decade right there.  However, six months ago I was encouraged to apply for a one-year visiting professorship in the Physics and Astronomy Department at Carleton, and here I am with a (temporary) nice view of the CMC from Olin.  It's really exciting to be back to teaching and to be working with such fun students and such committed and helpful faculty.  Next up:  finding a tenure-track position so I can stop moving and settle down.  I won't tempt fate by asking "How hard can that be?"

Jonathan Kish, '99

I'm a fifth year graduate student in the Mathematics Department at the University of Colorado at Boulder.  I've passed my written and oral exams, so I guess that means I'm officially a PhD candidate!  Despite liking (and being better at) algebra while at Carleton, I'm doing research in analytic number theory.  Before graduate school (but post-Carleton) I was a Peace Corps volunteer in Mongolia.