Erin Gibson comes from Marshfield, a city in central Wisconsin, but came to Valparaiso in 1995 to attend Valparaiso University (VU) where she graduated with a bachelor’s in social work. Gibson initially thought she’d go into international...
While originally from La Porte, Indiana, Aidan Ross is currently a senior at Valparaiso University (VU) where he’s been up to big things both in and out of the classroom. Ross began his studies in the school’s sports management department....
Matthew Ringenberg moved to Upland, Indiana, a small town of about 3,500 people. He grew up there, attending Eastbrook High School. He also stayed in his hometown to study at the undergraduate level at Taylor University, a liberal-arts college where...
Lucas and Connor Taylor are brothers who come from Valparaiso and are currently students in high school and college respectively. The older brother, Connor Taylor, is on the pre-med track at Indiana University Northwest (IUN). His younger brother,...
Jamie Martin grew up in the smaller town of Hamlet, Indiana. For her pre-college education, she attended schools in the Oregon-Davis district. When the time to take the next steps came, she started studying at Valparaiso University (VU), which really...
Sinéad Aherne is a massage therapist working at Mamabear Massage in Valparaiso. She’s been employed there for a little over a month. No stranger to the inherent art in her profession, she’s worked in roles similar to the one she’s in now for...
Donald A. Girouard was raised in southern Louisiana. His family’s spread out between there and Arkansas. His father was a truck driver, so he moved from place to place as a kid. He did wind up going to high school in Alexandria, joining the United...
Kevin Wallace grew up just an hour north of Columbus in Mansfield, Ohio. His undergraduate studies were completed at Grace College in Winona Lake, Indiana, near Warsaw. Currently, he is the fourth-grade teacher at Central Elementary School in...
Ashleigh Jett was born and raised in the small community of Lothian in Maryland. She came to Indiana after moving to Hammond around the time of her early teenage years. She graduated from Carmel High School near Indianapolis. She’s been a homemaker...
Jeffrey Hellmers used to live in Lincoln City down in Southern Indiana, hailing from the same region as Abraham Lincoln. He attended Heritage Hills High School. He was part of a play there that helped him understand his liking for working with the...
