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[ alumni news & notes ]


MNU Tuesdays are coming back!


They’re back by popular demand


– MNU Tuesdays luncheons! These are great opportunities to network


with other MNU alumni and friends, as well as learn from


interesting speakers.


Check the


calendar of upcoming


alumni events


on page 23 of Accent for details on the September MNU Tuesdays


event. For details on other upcoming MNU Tuesdays, visit www.mnu.


edu/alumniandfriends to view the calendar.


Karleskint named Arkansas Tech coach


Arkansas Tech University has named Doug Karleskint (’03) as its men’s basketball head coach. Karleskint


was promoted after serving as the top


assistant at Tech.


Karleskint takes the


reins of a pro- gram coming


off one of its most successful seasons ever as Tech won 30 games and


advanced to the NCAA Div. II Tourna- ment for the second straight year.


Prior to Tech, he was an assis- tant coach at Stephen F. Austin in


Nacogdoches, Texas, and served as a graduate assistant coach at North- west Missouri State University.


Before NMSU, Karleskint spent the 2003-04 season as an assistant at


Fort Scott Community College in Fort Scott, Kan., and then spent the 2004- 05 season as an assistant coach on


Happy Osborne’s staff at Georgetown College in Georgetown, Ky.


Karleskint and his wife, Kyla (Boots, ’02), have a son, Jadin.


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Alum now Olathe fire chief and adjunct professor at MNU Olathe’s new fire chief Jeff DeGraffenreid,


Ed.D. (’96, ’99) is now an adjunct professor in the Master of Science in Nursing program at MNU. His varied experience makes DeGraffenreid an expert that students are fortunate to learn from, according to Karen Wiegman, Ph.D., R.N., department chair of Graduate Studies in Nursing.


“Jeff has recent experience working in the


area of international medicine, and interact- ing with people from various countries and cultures,” Wiegman says. “Coupled with his emergency services expertise, it makes him a natural choice to teach our Health Promotion for a Global Society course. We are so very fortunate to be able to learn from someone with Jeff’s unique back- ground.”


In March, DeGraffen-


reid was named fire chief and director of emergency management


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for the City of Olathe. DeGraffenreid started his career with Johnson County Med-Act, ris- ing to division chief.


He then joined the Overland Park Fire and Rescue Department, where he worked as a duty officer and was in charge of emergency services training and management for the Overland Park training center.


In 2005 he joined Heart to Heart Internation- al of Olathe where he directed all operations for the disaster relief nonprofit organization.


DeGraffenreid said Heart to Heart gave him


more experience in emergency service because the organization concentrates on providing emergency re- lief during times of disaster in more than 50 countries.


DeGraffenreid attended the National Fire Academy and the University of Mis- souri’s Fire Service Leader- ship Enhancement Program. In addition to his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from MidAmerica, he earned a doctorate in policy and leadership from Saint Louis University.


DeGraffenreid and his


wife, Paula (Lash ’92), have three children.


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