Success Stories Archive - Hastings College

Reaching across the divide: Q&A with Rev. Greg Allen-Pickett

December 22, 2025

Rev. Greg Allen-Pickett is senior pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Hastings and a member of Hastings College’s Board of Trustees and ASPIRE Faith Advisory Council. In addition to pastoral leadership experience, he has leadership and management experience in for-profit and nonprofit contexts, as well as executive leadership experience at the Presbyterian Church (USA) denominational […]

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Investing in Civic Life: The Doerr Center at Hastings College

December 22, 2025

When Karen (Gilmore) ’75 and Roger Doerr committed $600,000 over five years to establish the Doerr Center for Civic Engagement at Hastings College, they weren’t simply writing a check. They were planting a seed that they believe will grow into a permanent part of the College’s culture and prepare students to become engaged citizens in

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From evergreens to espresso: Kindig ’16 embraces entrepreneurship

December 12, 2025

On a chilly Friday in December, kids scamper among the evergreens at Pine Patch Tree Farm in Hastings while owner Joe Kindig ’16 prepares a seven-foot spruce for one delighted family. With a practiced rhythm, he guides the tree into a shaker that rattles loose needles and debris before he trims a one-inch puck from

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Madera ’19 bridges cultures through music

December 11, 2025

By weaving his Latin American heritage into the choral music he creates, Hugo Madera ’19 – conductor, composer and educator – builds a harmonious bridge between two cultures: his roots in Jalisco, Mexico, and the musical training he refined at Hastings College. “My diverse background in Latin American and, ultimately, American music provides a door

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What happened on the way to the manger? Koepp fills gap in Nativity story

December 10, 2025

In the traditional Nativity story, angels appear to the shepherds, telling them to go pay homage to the newborn King. The next thing we see is the shepherds at the manger, but what happens on the journey there? Rosalie Koepp ‘15, director of christian education at First Presbyterian Church in Hastings, reimagined the Nativity from

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Huxtables leave a legacy of learning and giving

November 17, 2025

“Fifty years goes by, bringing joys and heartaches. Life is that way. My 50 years has been full of what happens to everyone, but there have been moments very precious to me. The fact that I could be proud of my alumni, my alma mater, and the fine people on its faculty and the students

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Christenson bringing history, stories of the Plains to life

November 4, 2025

Kylie (Luth) Christenson ’19 leads a visitor up the elegant curving staircase of the Stuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer in Grand Island, Nebraska. On the second level, she gestures toward a few artifacts lining the stark white walls — a printing press once used at the Hastings Tribune, a dog-powered treadmill that operated a

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Librarian’s family honors her Hastings College legacy

August 14, 2025

Alice (Coates) Harris was a respected librarian, educator and volunteer in the city of South Pasadena, California. To those closest to her, she was much more than that. She was a beloved wife, mother, grandmother and sister. When Harris passed away in 2016, her family decided that Hastings College – nearly 1,500 miles from her

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Mathematics major turns equations into relations to help others understand numbers

July 23, 2025

Hastings College student Lucy Reid highlights the power of numbers in order to gain a deeper understanding during their summer internship at the Scott Data Center in Omaha, Nebraska. “I’ve always been interested in understanding how people are attached to numbers. I want to be able to take and analyze data in a way that

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Karr spending summer scouting fields — and careers

July 22, 2025

Standing in a patchwork of Nebraska farmland, Hastings College senior Brock Karr is spending his summer digging deeper into the roots of agriculture — this time, not just as a farm kid from Bladen, Nebraska, but as an agronomy intern helping farmers maximize their yields. Karr has always wanted to dive deeper into the business

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