Farewell Reception Feb. 17 for Kimberly Motes

A farewell reception will be held Wednesday, Feb. 17, for Kimberly Motes, who is stepping down from her position as senior vice president for institutional advancement at St. Thomas to become managing director of the Children’s Theater Company in Minneapolis.

All are welcome to the reception, from 4-5:30 p.m., in the Al and Brenda Iversen Hearth Room of Anderson Student Center. A brief program will begin at 4:30 p.m.

Motes, who began working at St. Thomas in July 2014, reorganized the Institutional Advancement division and led the development of the university’s new branding initiative launched earlier this month.