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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 atĀ Mentor Morning, anĀ 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 atĀ 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.”

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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 ArtsĀ Darcey Engen ā€™88Ā and her husband, Luverne Seifert ā€™83 — brought aĀ production of ā€œHoopla Train (with Yard Master Yip and his Polkastra)ā€Ā to 14 historic ballrooms in different Minnesota citiesĀ includingĀ Barrett, McGregor, Nisswa, and Sleepy Eye.

Engen and Seifert shared the stage with a troupe of performers to put on the production billed as ā€œLawrence Welk meets ā€˜Hee-Haw.ā€™ā€ The Sod House TheaterĀ project began in 2011 when Engen and Seifert collaborated to create the condensed version of Anton Chekhovā€™s play “The Cherry Orchard” with Twin Cities colleagues includingĀ Sarah Myers, associateĀ 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
  • —Ā Summer is showtime for Sod House, Minnesota’s whistle-stop theater
  • —Ā All aboard the ‘Hoopla Train’ bound for Faribault
  • Rochester Post-Bulletin —Ā ‘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
  • —Ā ‘Hoopla’ brings old-fashioned fun to outstate Minnesota