All about Moder from Northfield

Hello fellow library students,
My name is Dawn and I live in Northfield. This is my third year in the Master's program at St. Catherine's, I hope to graduate in December.
Education: I have a bachelor's in Clothing, Textiles and Design (apparel manufacturing) from UW-Stout. I worked for many years in that field. I was an Assistant Engineer at Butwin Sportswear, a Pattern Maker and Grader at Pioneer Wear in Albuquerque, New Mexico and a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer at Fingerhut. An interesting fact about all of these employers is they have all gone out of business! I got a Library Associate job at St. Olaf a year before Fingerhut closed. I have been at St. Olaf since June, 2001. My job duties include; Acquisitions, Circulation supervisor, copy cataloger, online music streaming reserves and bindery consultant. I have taken a master's course in Music Preservation at the University of Rochester in New York, at the Eastman school of music, but wasn't in library school at the time and did not take it for credit (dumb!).
Most of my life revolves around my family. My husband, of almost 23 years, Chuck, is a Senior Corporate Quality Engineer at Malt-O-Meal cereals. My daughter Justine (right side of family photo), is a Junior at UW-LaCrosse. She has four majors: Biology (Biomedical concentration), Spanish, University Honors and Pre-Physicians Assistant (PA) studies, plus a Chemistry minor. The great part is she'll finish in 4 years! The next step will be grad school for the PA masters. My youngest daughter Whitney (left in family photo) will soon be a senior in high school. She was diagnosed with Autism just shy of her 4th birthday. Whitney is on the high functioning end of the spectrum. She is a fabulous artist and has an incredible memory. Lastly, we have a cat named Edy (like the ice cream). She is queen of the castle. Until next Saturday . . .