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BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Jean Czekalski
Staff Representative

Duane Helmer


Doug Johnson
Treasurer

John Kannas


Tom Newman


Robin Omberg


Paula Nix-Vroman
Vice President

Tony Snetsinger
President

Art Toms
Secretary

EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS
Beth Anderson
Alumni Director

Mary Richie
Development Director

Mike Johnson
Provost

 
MISSION STATEMENT
The Itasca Community College Alumni Association promotes and maintains
mutually beneficial relations between the college and its alumni.
Alumni Profile


Austin G. Anderson
Class of 1950


Austin G. Anderson is the Principal and Shareholder of Austin Anderson Consulting and Past-President of the Network of Leading Law Firms. He attended Itasca Junior College in Coleraine with the Class of 1950. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Minnesota and his Juris Doctor from the University of Minnesota Law School. For 20 years he served as the Director of the Institute on Law Firm Management and the Institute of Continuing Legal Education at the University of Michigan Law School in Ann Arbor, Mich.

His practice management experience was gained while practicing with a four lawyer law firm and while serving as the Administrative Partner of a major Minneapolis law firm prior to joining the University of Michigan Law School. His consulting practice and teaching efforts include succession planning, strategic planning; financial, practice group and general firm management; mergers and acquisitions; marketing; lawyer development including coaching; succession planning/transitioning; and counseling lawyers and others with significant firm management responsibilities. He is active on the lecture trail, teaching lawyers and other members of the legal service team how to manage, plan and market their practices.

Admitted to practice in Michigan, Minnesota and Illinois, he is a member of the bar associations in those states, the American Bar Association and the International Bar Association. He is a member of the College of Law Practice Management and is past Chair of the American Bar Association’s and State Bar of Michigan’s Law Practice Management Sections. He served as a Class Representative for the University of Minnesota Law School for 10 years. Austin is a member of the State Bar of Michigan and American Bar Association Foundations. He is Chair of the Michigan Fellows of the ABF. He is a member the ABA Senior Lawyer, General Practice and Solo and Small Law Firm and Law Practice Management Sections. He is the past Chair of the Economics of Tort and Insurance Practice Committee of the ABA Torts and Insurance Practice Section(TIPS).

He currently serves as the Special Advisor to The Standing Committee on Continuing Legal Education, the American Bar Association. As an active writer, in addition to 60 articles on law practice management, he has co-authored The Effective Associate Training and Development Program, Second Edition (2006), Associate Retention: Keeping Our Best and Brightest (June, 2002), and Improving Firm Performance, Profitability and Partners: The Effective Associate Training Program, (1999), each for the American Bar Association Center for Continuing Legal Education. He has also served as contributing editor of Merriam-Webster’s Legal Secretaries Handbook (1981) and as consulting editor of the revised edition (1996). He was co-editor of the Lawyer’s Handbook, Third Edition (1992), published by the Institute of Continuing Legal Education and the American Bar Association.

He is author of Marketing Your Practice: A Practical Guide to Client Development (1986) and A Plan for Lawyer Development (1986), both published by the American Bar Association. He is recognized in Who’s Who in the Midwest, Who’s Who in American Education, Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in American Law and Who’s Who in the World. Austin and his wife, Catherine, now live in Ann Arbor, Michigan.



Alumni Update

What have you done since you left Itasca? Tell us about your families,
jobs, achievements and adventures so we can share the news with
your classmates.

Terrance Strater, RN, MPH Class of 1979
Graduated from Itasca’s LPN program; Private, U.S. Army National Guard sponsored student

Advanced Education: Registered Nurse, Regents College, The University of the State of New York, 1984 Bachelor of Science in History & Psychology, Regents College, 1990 Masters in Public Health, University of South Carolina, 1998

Military: Commissioned officer in the Army Reserve as an Army Nurse; retired in 2004 with the rank of Major; served on active duty in Operation Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom

Occupation: Education and Research Director, Kershaw Community Health Education Center, Kershaw SC, a collaboration of the University of South Carolina School of Medicine and the Town of Kershaw



Alumni Facts

• Database lists approximately 11,000 alumni names
• 6,500 known addresses
• Known alumni addresses in 48 states; only Rhode Island and Delaware
not listed in database
• Alumni range in age from 100 years old to 18 years old
• Alumni attending the All-Class Reunion came from Arizona, Wisconsin,
  North Dakota, Minnesota, Ohio, Florida, South Carolina, Michigan,
  California, Colorado, Texas, North Carolina, Kentucky, Maryland,
  Montana, Washington, Oklahoma
• Occupations of those attending All-Class Reunion were teacher,
  doctor, nurse, financial manager, attorney, businessperson, engineer,
  banker, medical technologist, public relations specialist, college
  administrator, model, business owner, administrative assistant,
  chiropractor, school administrator, social worker, accountant,
  college professor, mortician, human resources professional,
  author, dentist


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