Class Notes

Kyle Larson (’08 finance & accounting) has been promoted to transaction adviser with BCC Advisers in Des Moines.

Lee Ann DeReus (’86 pol sci) is the co-founder and chair of Panzi Foundation USA, an organization that raises awareness about the brutality against women in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

Four new members of the Ames, Iowa Chamber of Commerce team are all Iowa State grads. Edana Carlson Delagardelle (’06 restaurant, hotel, and instit mgmt.) is the director of client support services; Andrea Hammes Dodge (L)(’01 journalism, MEd ’08 higher ed) is director of public relations; Brandon Mumm (’13 mgmt/finance) is director of external business relations; and Calli Sandahl (’15 speech comm/comm studies) is director of program management.

Four new members of the Ames, Iowa Chamber of Commerce team are all Iowa State grads. Edana Carlson Delagardelle (’06 restaurant, hotel, and instit mgmt.) is the director of client support services; Andrea Hammes Dodge (L)(’01 journalism, MEd ’08 higher ed) is director of public relations; Brandon Mumm (’13 mgmt/finance) is director of external business relations; and Calli Sandahl (’15 speech comm/comm studies) is director of program management.

Four new members of the Ames, Iowa Chamber of Commerce team are all Iowa State grads. Edana Carlson Delagardelle (’06 restaurant, hotel, and instit mgmt.) is the director of client support services; Andrea Hammes Dodge (L)(’01 journalism, MEd ’08 higher ed) is director of public relations; Brandon Mumm (’13 mgmt/finance) is director of external business relations; and Calli Sandahl (’15 speech comm/comm studies) is director of program management.

Steven Churchill (L)(’85 pol sci) has accepted an appointment as senior advisor and chief of staff at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing to Ambassador Terry E. Branstad.

Melissa Martyr-Wagner (L)(’87 journalism, MEd ’91) has been named to the Century College Foundation 2017-2018 Board of Directors. She is currently the director of operations at NewStudio Architecture in White Bear Lake, Minn.

Tomas Gonzalez-Torres (’98 aero engr) has joined the Iowa State University faculty as a lecturer in aerospace engineering after previously serving as a NASA flight director.

Rita Cook (’10 public service and administration in ag, ag business) has been hired as an assistant vice president and ag loan officer at Green Belt Bank and Trust in Iowa Falls.

Shawn Bates (’93 stat, MS ’95) has been hired as the vice president of data science at LiftPoint Consulting in Eden Prairie, Minn. Bates joins the organization with 20 years of experience in applied analytics and predictive intelligence for retail business.

Curtis Chrystal (’81 entomology) has been named president and chief executive officer of Wisconsin Bank and Trust.

Dan Cwach (MS ’12 sustainable ag) has been hired as the high school physics and physical science educator at Vermillion Schools in Vermillion, S.D.

Kyle Behrens (’14 ag business) has been promoted to sales representative in the Ohio Valley Region for Hormel Foods.

Ashtin Walker (’16 animal science, ag and life sciences education), has been hired as an ISU Extension and Outreach youth outreach educator in Jefferson County.

Ashtin Walker (’16 animal science, ag and life sciences education), has been hired as an ISU Extension and Outreach youth outreach educator in Jefferson County.

Scott German (L)(’05 mgmt info sys) has been promoted to principal, consulting for the Des Moines office of RSM US LLP, the nation’s leading provider of audit, tax, and consulting services focused on the middle market. German previously led the company’s technology and management consulting practice for the infrastructure teams in Des Moines and Omaha.

Jennifer Holmes Latterell, D.O. (’00 biology) has been appointed associate dean for clinical affairs in Des Moines University’s College of Osteopathic Medicine. She will begin her new post Jan. 1, 2018.

Ryan Schon (L)(’95 agronomy) has been hired as senior manager of corporate development for Granular.

Byron Sleugh (L)(MS ’97 crop prod & physiology, PhD ’99) has been hired as a technical portfolio strategy leader for the pasture and land management agriculture division for Dow DuPont.

Corey Wagner (’05 an sci, MS ’07 meat sci) has been named director of technical services at Premium Iowa Pork, LLC.

Adam Fichter (’15 ag bus/international ag) has been hired as a financial officer with Farm Credit Services of America.

Todd Kennedy (’97 architecture) has been promoted to principal at Cottle Carr Yaw Architects (CCT) of Aspen, Colo. Kennedy has been with the CCY team since 2000.

Lori Ebbers Buzzetti (L)(’86 biochemistry) has left her OB-GYN practice to start a maternity home for pregnant women and their newborns: “Mountain House”: in Zionsville, Ind.

Eliza Briggs (A)(’11 criminology) is a federal criminal defense investigator for the District of Nevada – Las Vegas and Reno offices.

Albert Farr (A)(’00 English, MA ’02, PhD ’11 education) joins Des Moines Area Community College as the new associate provost of academic services at the urban campus.