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Meet the Team
Seniors - Class of 2010
Alex Brakke, Mary Cunningham, Christopher Hunt, Emma Moreau, Paula Wiggam
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| Name: | Alex Brakke |
| Hometown: | Alma, WI |
| Major: | Communication Studies |
| Email Address: | abrakke@gustavus.edu |
| Categories: | Prose, Drama, Duo |
| Best Speech Memory: | Staying up all night at the Los Angeles airport talking with Emma ...I was not tired one bit! |
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| Name: | Mary Cunningham |
| Hometown: | Maplewood, MN |
| Major: | Communication Studies and History |
| Email Address: | mcunnin2@gustavus.edu |
| Categories: | Persuasion, Informative, Extemporaneous Speaking, Impromptu, Poetry, Drama, Communication, Analysis, Parliamentary Debate |
| Favorite Quote: | "I can do everything through him who gives me strength". -Philippians 4:13 |
| Best Speech Memory: | The Ride home from SDSU in which everyone had a lot of laughs and got to know way to much about several people in the van. |
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| Name: | Christopher Hunt |
| Hometown: | Shoreview, MN |
| Major: | Physics, Music Minor |
| Email Address: | chunt@gustavus.edu |
| Categories: | Prose, Drama, POI, After Dinner Speaking, Duo, Poetry |
| Favorite Quote: | "Self improvement is masturbation. Now self-destruction..." - Fight Club |
| Best Speech Memory: | Breaking through semis to finals in prose junior year at Mankato. Also...IMPROMPTU DUOS! |
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| Name: | Miss Emma Margaret Moreau |
| Hometown: | Saint Paul , MN |
| Major: | Communication Studies and Spanish |
| Email Address: | emoreau@gustavus.edu |
| Categories: | Prose, Drama, After Dinner Speaking, Persuasion, Impromptu, Duo, POI |
| Favorite Quote: | "Speaking of guacamole..." |
| Best Speech Memory: | Rocking out to Michael Jackson in the vans...ALWAYS. |
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| Name: | Paula Wiggam |
| Hometown: | Cheyenne, Wyoming |
| Major: | Classics and Russian Studies |
| Email Address: | pwiggam@gustavus.edu |
| Categories: | POI, Drama, Duo, Prose, Impromptu |
| Favorite Quote: | "I have vision and the rest of the world wears bifocals." - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid |
| Best Speech Memory: | The van ride back from Bradley and nationals in Ohio last year! |
Juniors - Class of 2011
Marie Bushnell, Briana Clark, Eric Cronin, Phil Helt, Claire Sagstuen
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| Name: | Marie Bushnell |
| Hometown: | Elmhurst, Illinois |
| Major: | Political Science and History |
| Email Address: | mbushnel@gustavus.edu |
| Categories: | Prose, Impromptu, POI, Poetry, Duo, Parliamentary Debate |
| Favorite Quote: | "Life is a book and those who do not travel only read one page". -St. Augustine |
| Best Speech Memory: | The bus ride home after the first tournament. |
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| Name: | Briana Clark |
| Hometown: | May Township, MN |
| Major: | Communication Studies and English |
| Email Address: | bclark@gustavus.edu |
| Categories: | Extemporaneous Speaking, Informative, Impromptu, Parliamentary Debate |
| Favorite Quote: | "The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become." - Harold Taylor |
| Best Speech Memory: | Taking 2nd in discussion at the 2006 MSHSL State Tournament. |
| Random Fact: | I can use all five senses when I dream. |
| Name: | Eric Cronin |
| Hometown: | Milaca, MN |
| Major: | History |
| Email Address: | ecronin@gustavus.edu |
| Categories: | Impromptu, Drama, ADS, POI |
| Favorite Quote: | "It is called a bone cutting knife ma'am". |
| Best Speech Memory: | The story of the boning knife, told by a Minnesota State University-Mankato coach on the bus to Bradley University. |
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| Name: | Phil Helt |
| Hometown: | Gladstone, Missouri |
| Major: | Communication Studies and History |
| Email Address: | phelt@gustavus.edu |
| Categories: | Persuasion, Prose, Informative, Extemporaneous Speaking, After Dinner Speaking, Communication Analysis |
| Favorite Quote: | "Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!" - Mame Dennis (Rosalind Russell), Auntie Mame (1958) |
| Best Speech Memory: | Breaking to quarterfinals in CA and ADS at the 2009 AFA-NIET in Ohio. |
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| Name: | Claire Sagstuen |
| Hometown: | Eagan, MN |
| Major: | Religion and History |
| Email Address: | csagstue@gustavus.edu |
| Categories: | Informative, Persuasion, Impromptu, Extemporaneous Speaking, CA, Poetry, Parliamentary Debate |
| Favorite Quote: | "All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber. -Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse V |
| Best Speech Memory: | Watching the seniors get our 18th place trophy at nationals, I know they are the reason we got that placement and I miss them all dearly. |
Sophomores - Class of 2012
Katie Asfeld, Allegra Birdseye, Chloe Goldade, Sam Hemmerich, Patrick Perish, Chloe Radcliffe, Lucas Youngvorst
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| Name: | Katie Asfeld |
| Hometown: | Clarissa, MN |
| Major: | Communication Studies |
| Email Address: | kasfeld@gustavus.edu |
| Categories: | Prose, Drama, Duo, POI, Poetry |
| Favorite Quote: | "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." |
| Best Speech Memory: | Placing 2nd at State in duo my senior year of high school. |
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| Name: | Allegra Birdseye |
| Hometown: | Duluth, MN |
| Major: | Political Science |
| Email Address: | abirdsey@gustavus.edu |
| Categories: | Persuade, Informative, ADS, Impromptu, Extemporaneous Speaking, Parliamentary Debate |
| Favorite Quote: | "Be yourself because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss |
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| Name: | Chloe Goldade |
| Hometown: | Sioux Falls, SD |
| Major: | Communication Studies |
| Email Address: | cgoldade@gustavus.edu |
| Categories: | Prose, Drama, ADS, Persuade, POI |
| Favorite Quote: | "If God didn't want smoke, he never would have told us to burn witches" - Stephen Colbert |
| Best Speech Memory: | The entire team sitting in IC during a thunderstorm, and all of us on individual laptops... apparently we weren't afraid of being electrocuted. |
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| Name: | Sam Hemmerich |
| Hometown: | Milaca, MN |
| Major: | Biology, Studio Art Minor |
| Email Address: | shemmeri@gustavus.edu |
| Categories: | Prose, Drama, POI, Duo, Info, Poetry |
| Favorite Quote: | "Is it ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care!" |
| Best Speech Memory: | First year Nationals (of course). Especially watching Tasha in quarter-finals and seeing the postings! |
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| Name: | Patrick Perish |
| Hometown: | Clarissa, MN |
| Email Address: | pperish@gustavus.edu |
| Categories: | Prose, POI, Duo |
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| Name: | Chloe Radcliffe |
| Hometown: | Prior Lake, MN |
| Major: | Undecided |
| Email Address: | cradclif@gustavus.edu |
| Categories: | Prose, Drama, Duo, ADS, CA, POI, Impromptu |
| Favorite Quote: | "This is the coat I'm wearing." |
| Best Speech Memory: | Warm-ups at GAC-SSI |
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| Name: | Lucas Youngvorst |
| Hometown: | Staples, MN |
| Major: | Biology and Psychology |
| Email Address: | lyoungvo@gustavus.edu |
| Categories: | Informative, Impromptu, Persuade, Extemp, Drama |
| Favorite Quote: | "I do not Identify with any one thing, But with what I have inside." |
| Best Speech Memory: | When 4 of us went through the McDonalds Drive through..."I've got build-up!" |
First Years - Class of 2013
Kate Bissen, Kaitlin Burlingame, Vanessa Condon, Hannah Engel, Kevin Fortuna, Eric Halvorson, Christopher Moua
| Name: | Kate Bissen |
| Hometown: | Eden Prairie, MN |
| Major: | Political Science and English |
| Email Address: | kbissen@gustavus.edu |
| Categories: | Prose, Extemp, Persuade |
| Favorite Quote: | "Trust, but verify." - Ronald Reagan |
| Best Speech Memory: | Root Beer floats at Kris' house on the first night of Work Week. |
| Name: | Kaitlin Burlingame |
| Hometown: | Paynesville, MN |
| Major: | Communication Studies |
| Email Address: | kburling@gustavus.edu |
| Categories: | Prose, Drama, Poetry, POI, ADS |
| Favorite Quote: | "Well-behaved women rarely make history." - Marilyn Monroe |
| Best Speech Memory: | Attending 2 summer camps in high school and taking 2nd at State senior year! |
| Name: | Vanessa Condon |
| Hometown: | Mound, MN |
| Major: | Communication Studies and English |
| Email Address: | vcondon@gustavus.edu |
| Categories: | POI and Prose |
| Favorite Quote: | "What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Best Speech Memory: | Playing Loaded Questions with the Team |
| Name: | Hannah Engel |
| Hometown: | St. Anthony Village, MN |
| Major: | Undecided |
| Email Address: | hengel@gustavus.edu |
| Categories: | Persuade, Prose |
| Favorite Quote: | "Failure is success if we learn from it." - Malcolm Forbes |
| Best Speech Memory: | Getting to meet my new teammates this year. |
| Name: | Kevin Fortuna |
| Hometown: | Lafayette, CA |
| Email Address: | kfortuna@gustavus.edu |
| Categories: | Informative |
| Name: | Eric Halvorson |
| Hometown: | West Fargo, ND |
| Email Address: | ehalvors@gustavus.edu |
| Categories: | Prose, Impromptu |
| Name: | Christopher Moua |
| Hometown: | Oakdale, MN |
| Major: | Undecided |
| Email Address: | cmoua3@gustavus.edu |
| Categories: | Persuade, Informative, Impromptu, Extemp |
| Favorite Quote: | "The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision." - Helen Keller |
| Best Speech Memory: | My high school speech team's annual trip to the MSU speech tournament. |
Events
Department Chairs Meeting
November 10
Meditation with Bhante Sathi
November 10
Men's Basketball at Southwest Minnesota State (Exhibition)
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