Wendy Quade of Duluth has been named "Alum of the Month" for April 2007 at The College of St. Scholastica.
The Alum of the Month designation recognizes alumni who are role models to current students and an inspiration to St. Scholastica alumni.
Quade graduated from St. Scholastica in 2001 with a bachelor's degree in social sciences secondary education and Ojibwe language and culture.
During her junior year, Quade was chosen as a McNair Scholar, an honor reserved for low-income, first-generation college students who achieve high academic standing.
Quade received her master's degree in teaching and learning from St. Mary's University and has spent time at an Ojibwe language immersion camp in Canada. Last summer she received her Indian name, Biitekamigok, an experience she calls "profound and life-changing."
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Currently, Quade teaches 10th grade U.S. history and Ojibwe language at Cloquet Senior High School.
While at St. Scholastica, Quade was a nontraditional student, raising three sons and attending college full time. Her teachers and mentors "understood the hardship of what I was trying to do," she said, "yet they expected excellence."
These individuals, she said, also taught her "how to be a dedicated teacher, that rigor paid off, to humanize my daily interactions with my students, and that students need good teachers."
