The sustainable children’s clothing brand, Chickadee, Daeya Shealy designed for her capstone project was exhibited in April at RIT City Art Space in downtown Rochester.
Daeya Shealy ’21 (Industrial Design) has long held an affinity for Germany. She grew up learning the country’s native language and about its culture in great depth.
Her knowledge can be traced back to fourth grade in her native Atlanta, where she started taking German classes. Not long after, she began attending Concordia Language Villages’ German cultural immersion program, continuing every summer through high school as first a camper and then a counselor.
Both experiences led to Shealy becoming highly proficient in German. It’s a skill that will be especially beneficial as she prepares for her first professional maneuver after graduating this spring from RIT’s Industrial Design program. She was awarded a fellowship through the Cultural Vistas Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange for Young Professio
And so it is, one of Those Lutheran Ladies has gone to reunite with her Music Man. This is Most Certainly True.
Suzann Bendetta (Johnson) Nelson passed away suddenly March 14, 2021 at the age of 74 in Grand Rapids, Minn.
Suzann was born in Alexandria, Minn. on October 31 (of course!), 1946, to the most amazing parentsâTheodore and Bendetta Johnson. She, along with her older brothers Deloyd and Arlynn, were raised as solid, hard-working farm kids in rural Evansville. Suzann later âmoved to town, thenâ to become a graduate of Evansville High School in 1964.
Suzann next ventured out to The Cities as a Scandinavian Studies Major at Augsburg College. While there, she met one of the best, Ronald Nelson, who undoubtedly wooed her with his versatile voice, guitar skills, and wavy red hair. In March 1967 the two were united in marriage, only three months after feisty and tenacious Suzann proposed to Ron in order to liven up a âboring New Yearâs Eveâ party. The
Helene Alice Kahlstorf
Helene Alice Short Kahlstorf was born October 9, 1939, in Black River Falls, Wisconsin, to Rev D. Robert Short and Helen E.M. Stuve Short. Her father was a Free Methodist pastor and college science professor, and her mother was a Registered Nurse. During her earliest years, the Short family lived in Barron, Wisconsin, but with the American entry into World War II, they moved to the South Side of Chicago while her father worked for the Civil Air Patrol. After the war was over, the Shorts moved to various parishes in rural eastern South Dakota, including Brookings and Ortley. Helene attended high school and her first couple of years of college at Wessington Springs [SD] Academy and Junior College, where her father taught science. She spent a brief but enjoyable time at Seattle Pacific College before returning to Brookings, SD to complete her Bachelor of Science in Nursing. While in college at Wessington Springs, Helene met Kenneth Kahlstorf, and the two we