Concordia College

Alumni Travel from Twin Cities to Help

Megan Dimich ’06 had the flood on her mind Monday. While teaching her music students in the Twin Cities, her thoughts were really on friends and family back in her college town.

So she called her husband, Matt ’05, at work. He was thinking the same thing.

That night they packed up their gear, grabbed their friend and fellow Cobber Jason Miller ’06 and headed to Moorhead. They spent Tuesday sandbagging along Rivershore Drive, moving from house to house as they were needed.

“It’s crazy,” Matt says while looking at the clay and sandbag dikes nearby. “It brings back memories of 1997.”

As she filled dozens of sandbags that morning, Megan was happy she’d made the decision to come to Moorhead.

“I thought, I don’t need to be at school,” she says. “My students can learn music without me. We’re young and can leave at a moment’s notice.”

With the help of her cousin, Zan Thrasher ’09, and Cobbers Jen Mulder ’08 and Julia Freyberg ’09, Megan worked steadily filling bags to help the home of a complete stranger. Miller, Matt and more than a dozen other Cobbers joined the bagging lines to build a dike from the ground up.

“The thing I really like seeing is the sense of community,” says Thrasher, daughter of music assistant professor Lucy Thrasher ’76.

Megan agrees.

“It’s neat to see all of these people,” she says. “They just go where they’re needed.”