College Magazine | Fall/Winter 2019

Ahead of the game New ways to celebrate a storied tradition Reflecting the mission of the college, St. Norbert College Magazine links the institution’s past and present by Contents chronicling its academic, cultural, spiritual and co-curricular life. ST. NORBERT COLLEGE MAGAZINE

In Print Online Vol. 51, No. 3, Fall/Winter 2019 A sampling of related content available at snc.edu/magazine. Cover Story Page 13 In friendship and charity: “Father De Peaux came to St. Norbert Paul Wadell (Theology & RS, Emeritus) reflects following his high school graduation in (page 7) June 1944. It’s basically been his home on ways we can help St. Norbert ever since. … There’s no question that College to be a place where all can flourish. he’s a treasure here at St. Norbert, and In Spanish: La identidad norbertina a we treasure him.” – Todd Danen ’77 través de las estatuas de SNC (página 8). Page 27 In hindsight: Memories from eight decades at home at St. Norbert (page 13). Among those who make up the SNC community – including students, faculty, Page 20 In seeking ye shall find: With one staff, Norbertines and community partners sacred object already recovered (page 14), – alumni are by far the largest group. We The Long-Lost Books metal detectorist Mike Counter M.L.S. take a look at how that vast network is ’14 (Communications) is continuing his shaping up. of Tongerlo survey of the grounds of St. Norbert Page 23 Centuries ago, they helped identify the abbey. liturgy of the Norbertine order. Today, The Banner Years some of these ancient volumes are In team colors: Our gallery tracks each Page 31 available at St. Norbert College. varsity sport (page 23) from its first year A series of banner-style images chronicle to its newest Green Knights. It was the summer of 2000. Music each varsity sport from its origins to the education major David Baine ’01 was latest intake of Green Knights. In the company of friends: The Knight working checkpoint security at Austin Lights program (page 32) offers alumnae Straubel International Airport, dreaming On our cover: Brianna Braeger ’20 women in northeast Wisconsin an oppor- of the day when he’d be in front of the says that playing varsity softball at tunity for fun and fellowship along with a classroom. And then a French horn came St. Nobert will always hold a special place glimpse behind the scenes of businesses gliding through the baggage scanner. in her heart: “It simply doesn’t compare run by their classmates. to the ‘woo’ any other sport team has brought to me throughout my athletic In recognition: Learn more about our endeavors. You’re treated with gracious 2019 Alumni Award Winners (page 33) respect, support and fan love, like no and their service to the greater good. other.” Braeger, with footballer Walter McBride IV ’20, represent their sports in In return for a $5 bill: Coin-op connois- Departments a compelling new photo series installed in seurs acquire original pieces of art – via the Mulva Family Fitness & Sports Center. vending machine (page 34). 6 President’s Message Page 16 7 News of St. Norbert Will This Be on the Final? 27 Alumni of St. Norbert It’s the little rituals as much as the syllabus that create community in the classroom – Keep an eye open throughout this edition for 34 Connection and SNC professors embrace them! more links to content on the web. Follow us snc.edu/magazine on your favorite social media channel, too. Just search for St. Norbert College. Tales of the riverbank A new day dawns, full of September possibilities. Our drone hovers over the Fox to capture the Ray Van Den Heuvel Family Campus Center and the Ed & Sally Thompson Marina – a lovely sight that reminds us once more of our deep gratitude to those who have loved this college and have generously shared their gifts.

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4 St. Norbert College Magazine | Fall/Winter 2019 snc.edu/magazine 5 In My Words / President Brian J. Bruess ’90 News OF ST. NORBERT COLLEGE

QUOTED About the speakers Paul Wadell joined A place of friendship and flourishing “Communio is the theology and not about erasing religious studies differences, denying discipline in 1998 and differences or flatten- retired in May. His Glancing around the room on this warm late- pay attention to them. Across the generations, our ing differences. main areas of interest August day – faculty and staff gathering to prepare alums regularly and eagerly name the professors, the Communio is about are Christian ethics for a launch of our new academic year – I was struck coaches, the staff people who have shaped how they welcoming [differ- and the theology of by the sea of warm, attentive faces, heads nodding. It think and how they now lead their own lives. Like ences], affirming the church, and he them, embracing has been fascinated was almost as if I could hear hearts opening, each of recent grad Molly Gallahue, currently getting her them and being us awakening in the profound message of Professor Ph.D. in earth and planetary sciences at Northwestern for many years with enriched by them. … the role of friendship Emeritus Paul Wadell’s opening address. University: “The graduate school process was stressful, Academic institutions in the Christian life. Dr. Wadell, recently retired after a distinguished but it was reassuring to know that I had a handful of can be very hierarchi- Among his many career, spoke of how each one of us is responsible professors I could turn to for advice. I had several life cal. But we need to publications are resist that because, for creating a culture of friendship and charity – chats with various professors as I tried to figure out “Friendship & the The topic for this issue’s when hierarchy pre- Moral Life” (1989) and NEWS message from President essential work if we want everyone to flourish here. In what I wanted to do, where I wanted to go or what vails, communio dies. Dr. Wadell’s words: “St. Augustine believed that human life had in store for me. Professor Flood connected “Becoming Friends: Brian Bruess ’90 (above) And it dies because Worship, Justice & the was sparked by words beings are not creatures who can go it alone, but me with several alumni of SNC who were in graduate what is missing is the Practice of Christian

from an address given by radically social beings who, if they are to have a good school … so I could network and ask questions.” justice and respect,

Friendship” (2002). OF ST. NORBERT Paul Wadell (Theology life, need to learn how to live and work well together Like 2019 grad Hunter Van Asten who just began the acceptance George Mehaffy and affirmation, that & RS, Emeritus) to faculty in all the various settings of their lives. He believed law school at the University of Notre Dame this fall: has served as the and staff at the opening makes everyone feel that the deep meaning of society is that people should “My advisor was Professor Charley Jacobs, and he’s vice president for of this academic year. welcome. … academic leadership Wadell said SNC will not live as friends together, and took this to be true not been awesome. One, he’s really great in class. Then, “At its heart, com- Call to a flourishing future and change at the just be a good place, but only in our personal lives, but also in our institutional he takes an interest in all his students, and when you munio describes an With the 2019-20 academic year joined as one in what they took to be the AASCU for 17 years. a holy place when we can environment where settings. … For him, communio was not a nifty idea, sit down you feel like he is trying to make this the best about to begin, the campus community fundamental calling of their lives.” His 40 years of di- honestly say, “love lives but was God’s plan for humanity; so we’d better get it for you and do what’s right for you.” everyone – not just verse experiences a lucky few – can responded to new calls to community Later the same day, after the start-of- here.” Read more about right, because not to get it right is not to have lived in And recent grad Kelly Heniff who just this fall include more than Wadell’s charge to the flourish. from two dynamic and well-regarded the year address from President Brian any true and rich sense of the word. We are created for joined Teach for America in Memphis: “I received a 20 years of teaching campus community on “It all comes down speakers – one already well known to Bruess ’90, George Mehaffy of the and administration. communio and therefore need to experience it across lot of support and encouragement from Prof. Tynisha to the question of page 7, opposite. them, one visiting from the American AASCU chal-lenged the community to Most recently, he our lives. Communio comes into being in settings Meidl. She is a Teach for America alumna herself, and whether we are willing Association of State Colleges & consider its individual and collective roles organized a national where people support and encourage one another, lift she spoke to me often about how emotionally fulfilling to risk love, in every effort to transform the area of life. If we are, Universities (AASCU). in driving change at the college. He said, of one another up and help each other along. Communio and rewarding it was. Prof. Meidl also played a role in first year of college, St. Norbert College Keynoting the 33rd annual faculty colleges like SNC: “If I could change only Re-Imagining the happens only when we flourish together.” bringing me to St. Norbert in the first place: When I will not just be a good Flourishing is something I’ve talked about many was looking at schools, I sat in on one of her classes, development conference, Paul Wadell one thing, I would change the way that we First Year, a project place to be, but a holy with 44 AASCU times since arriving back here with Carol at our be- and I found it so interesting and inspiring that it really place. It will be a holy (Theology & RS, Emeritus) led his see this institution. I would beg each of colleagues into a critical conversation you to see this institution through the eyes member institutions. loved alma mater. It’s a thrill to see the college exper- helped me make up my mind to come here.” And place because no one iencing uncommon success and pure joy seeing, day 2018 alum Alex Sage, currently earning a doctorate at will be overlooked, for- about the college’s institutional and of the first-year students who arrive on gotten or taken for in and day out, countless examples of students thriving Kent State University’s School of Podiatry. “One of my personal missions. campus – scared, uncertain, not clear why More from granted. … It will be Wadell cited St. Augustine, whose we’re here, not sure what all this means. Paul Wadell and flourishing, themselves achieving uncommon references [for med school] was Father Jim Neilson, a holy place because theology of friendship held that friendship And the number of students who will be on friendship and successes. When Dr. Wadell named one of the essen- whom I never even had for a class. I just had so many everyone, everyday, flourishing is avail- tial elements required for creating such flourishing conversations and other interactions with him during will be treated justly. was relevant everywhere. In the communi- that way will increase in the years to come able at snc.edu/ – that of “cultivating the virtue of attentiveness” – my time here that I asked him to be a character It will be a holy place ty surrounding this early doctor of the as our population gets more diverse.” magazine. something clicked for me. “I think one of our most reference, of sorts, and he gladly agreed.” because love lives church, the differences among his friends As SNC launched “a year of renewal here.” – Paul Wadell basic callings as human beings – but also one of the When I hear these testimonies, I’m not surprised. enriched their life together because they and refocusing” – a year that will see hardest things to do – is to pay attention. With the The reality of communio – the paying attention to all did agree on what mattered. “Like any gathering momentum in the 2016-21 virtue of attentiveness, we open our eyes to see what others and what matters to them – is more than real community, it was an assortment of strategic plan and its new “More Than life might be asking of us each day.” rhetoric at SNC. It’s a reality lived out by each person unique individuals that hardly agreed on Numbers” initiative focused on the student Indeed, at St. Norbert College, students flourish who contributes to our collective friendship, and thus anything,” Wadell said. “They were able experience – Bruess cued Mehaffy’s because of the very unique ways the faculty and staff our individual and collective flourishing. to live together well because they were insights as particularly timely.

6 St. Norbert College Magazine | Fall/Winter 2019 snc.edu/magazine 7 Noted / For the Common Good SNC Day / Body of Work

Celebrating the Year Appointed Within Accounting The White House Programs” at the of Norbertine Women has confirmed Midwest Business Administration the appointment Association Inter- of Lucy Arendt national Conference. (Management) to the With Paul Bursik Leaves from the book of history Advisory Committee (Finance & Financial on Earthquake A gingko sapling grown from the seed of a tree Management), Huegel Hazard Reduction, that survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima also presented on part of the National in 1945 now grows on campus. The tree is a gift “Corporate Tax from Green Legacy Hiroshima, which has been Earthquake Hazards Changes of 2017, collecting seeds from a 300-year-old ginkgo Reduction Program. Capital Expenditures that survived the blast and distributing them all Arendt has also & Debt Utilization: over the world. “We planted it between Boyle been named to the An Industry Analysis.” Hall and GMS with the hope that, like the fragile FEMA/NIST Project but tenacious peace it represents, it will flourish Technical Panel Catching greatness for generations,” said the Norman Miller Center working to define Green Knight rowers for Peace, Justice & Public Understanding in a and operationalize Facebook post on the day of the planting. functional recovery welcomed an Olympic gold medalist into their The gingko carries additional symbolism following an midst in September. for the college, from which many have visited earthquake. Martin Sinkovic, the the ancient gingko planted at the Norbertine Jim Harris convent of Doksany in the Czech Republic.

world champion NEWS (Marketing) has been Croatian oarsman – That tree marks a resting place for the 1627 designated an expert- and avid Green Bay recovery party charged with moving the earthly in-residence with the Packers fan – visited remains of St. Norbert – the peacemaker – to The Center for Norbertine Studies Packers Protégé- Strahov Abbey in Prague, where the saint now the Green Bay area Mentor Program. OF ST. NORBERT is partnering with the Cassandra Voss to catch a couple of lies buried. The small business Center for a yearlong celebration of football games. Our gingko leaf illustration by Brother Martin initiative recently Norbertine women past and present. He spent some Erspamer, O.S.B., comes from “Man on Fire,” launched a Milwaukee the new biography of Norbert by President Yvonne Seale, a Premonstratensian time rowing with branch, in which Emeritus Tom Kunkel. St. Norbert Crew, and scholar at SUNY Geneseo, visited Harris also plays an OF ST. NORBERT OF ST. Oct. 8 to speak on “The Lost Women shared with the team active role. and the community status in occupational ways in which their of Prémontré: Finding and Following what it’s like to train therapy, physical college remembers in the Footsteps of Medieval Women.” Published and compete at an therapy and physician its own legacy. The Alexa Trumpy international level. assistant programs at women, students in NEWS Game changer (Sociology) recently Concordia. Students, the special-topics published “You Lead Honored and alumni who course on Memory & A highly engineered helmet new on Like a Girl: Gender & Recipients of the have completed their Identity taught by the market has the attention of Green Children’s Leadership Founder’s Award for undergraduate degree Katie Ginsbach Development” can come from any Knight Football. The team is trialing five 2019 were: Maddie (Spanish), were in Sociological major. Three students interested in how of the VICIS helmets, which have a LeBrun ’20, Ernesto Perspectives. Beltran Gonzalez will be admitted into St. Norbert maintains deformable outer shell and a unique Jacob Laubacher ’20, Karen Suárez- each program each its traditions and layer designed to slow impact forces. (Math) published Jiménez ’20, year. keeps its central ideas “Instead of absorbing all that impact, and “Classifying Character Omobolade Delano- alive by remembering all of that energy going to brain tissue, Degree Graphs Oriaran (Education), Legado its past. They worked they’re able to deflect,” says David Bailey With Six Vertices” in Bridgit Martin After studying with the Rev. Jim the German journal (Biology). “And to have a helmet that’s (Multicultural Student the different Neilson ’88 (Art) on Beiträge zur Algebra Services), and Paula able to deform and then to recoil, and ways that the distant understanding the und Geometrie Verheyen (Dining past is remembered most significant and then do that again, is very impressive.” (Contributions to Services). in contemporary consistently used Delicate operation Coach Dan McCarty (Football) would Algebra & Geometry). Spain through cultural symbols that Visitors to SNC Day, the college’s popular annual open house, like to outfit his whole team with the Partnered symbols and narra- represent the could play an oversized game of Operation at the Gehl-Mulva helmets and is planning a fundraiser to Presented A partnership with tives of national college’s heritage Science Center or acquire more sophisticated dissection skills on help cover the hefty price tag. McCarty Ben Huegel Concordia University identity, Karissa on campus. the 3D state-of-the-art anatomage table offered by the Medical says, “We’ve got to do the best we can to (Accounting) spoke on Wisconsin School of Majeski ’19, Lauren See the college College of Wisconsin. An in-real-life hands-on anatomy experience put our kids in the best equipment to “Cultural Intelligence: Health Professions Gray ’20 and Elisha through their eyes – also gave the community a chance to learn more about the human Exploring a Model gives SNC grads Jaeke ’20 turned their and, in Spanish! snc. body and its organs. protect them from any head injury.” of Development priority admission critical gaze to the edu/magazine

8 St. Norbert College Magazine | Fall/Winter 2019 snc.edu/magazine 9 Personally Speaking / Sarah Parks Gallery / Into the Streets

Lifelong learning for a perfect landing Landing the plane. A skill not often called for from It would be hard for me to articulate all the a choral director. And yet, for me, this analogy from emotions experienced by the conductors throughout another profession was one of the most significant the three weeks. The choir rehearsed daily for three takeaways from the three weeks I spent in France. to seven hours and the conducting scholars met When a pilot departs for an assigned destination, for an additional two-hour seminar each evening. he or she needs to rely on a sense of professional We were often given specific rehearsal parameters, timing. Many factors can interfere with a perfect only to be stopped on the podium and asked to flight; minutes spent waiting in the runway queue, change the direction of the rehearsal. Our individual flight conditions, altitude, wind speed, weather techniques were challenged, plans were pulled away, patterns and airport traffic all have the potential arms were raised or lowered. We all felt moments of to affect the timing of the journey – as well as the fear, frustration and anger and often were left with no quality of the flight. Similarly, when preparing for choice but to dig in our heels, spending hours outside a performance, the conductor of a choral ensemble of rehearsals designing the perfect 10-minute plan. must take into consideration all that is needed for We also received several private lessons taught a timely “musical flight.” How many pieces can be by the four nationally recognized choral masters NEWS programmed in a concert that strives to balance who provided the professional leadership for the the expectations of the audience with the time symposium. This was a highlight. We were given the and talents of the ensemble? How long should chance to hear multiple perspectives on technique,

a conductor spend on each piece before the interpretation and performance practice. OF ST. NORBERT ensemble loses the momentum that keeps In the end, the eight of us successfully managed our them most productive? What parts of each landings. Much of the triumph was due to our own piece will come naturally to the singers and hard work, but the performance would not have been which will need to be broken down to assist possible without the commitment and support of an

OF ST. NORBERT OF ST. intelligent and empathetic choir. It was a pleasure, them in perfecting the music? Questions such as these are a constant part of a conductor’s too, to meet and work with the two guest composers daily work. They are also what inspired me and sing for them as part of our concert audience. to spend three weeks of this year’s summer Our concerts featured music by the Welsh composer NEWS vacation hard at work in Aix-en-Provence. and conductor Paul Mealor (best known for his “Ubi The Aix program was designed specifically Caritas” performed at the wedding of Prince William for choral singers and conductors with the goal to Catherine Middleton) and the world premiere of Service-minded from the start of challenging participants and assisting them “Vita nuova: A New Life,” by the young American Incoming first-year students get an to hone their artistic craft. Eight conducting composer John Frederick Hudson. immersive lesson in communio when they scholars, including myself, were selected for A few weeks before I left for the France symposium, venture out into the Greater Green Bay the program by audition, and together we I had been part of another wonderful musical memory. community during Into the Streets, a one-day The St. Norbert choirs had been invited to perform service event during the students’ first week on discussed and applied rehearsal strategies campus. This year, service sites included Baird and conducting techniques that would help at Carnegie Hall under the direction of composer Creek Preservation Foundation, where some us land our assigned “musical planes.” The and conductor John Rutter. The choirs had already members of the class of 2023 worked to clear 50-voice choir was comprised of talented performed the required repertoire at St. Norbert out buckthorn, and Green Bay’s Art Street, singers from around the world. Ensemble members, Abbey, so we were well prepared ahead of the limited where others embraced their inner child setting up arts and crafts in the children’s zone. including the eight conducting scholars, had received rehearsal time we had with the maestro. Since my own the concert repertoire a few weeks prior to our arrival “landing” in France, I have come to an even greater re- in France. This catalog included more than 30 pieces spect for artists like Rutter who must make astute and that would be performed in four public concerts. efficient decisions regarding programming, rehearsal Each conducting scholar was allotted 10 minutes strategies and time management in order to ensure a from seven of the practice periods to rehearse their level of performance worthy of their own genius and two assigned musical selections. That gave us about worthy of the world’s most prestigious concert stages. 35 minutes of rehearsal per piece to move it Sarah Parks joined the music faculty in 2009. Her choirs tour regionally from a first read to a polished performance. and internationally, most recently to New York City and South Africa.

10 St. Norbert College Magazine | Fall/Winter 2019 snc.edu/magazine 11 Noted / Green Knight Athletics Treasure / Father De Peaux FAST FACTS Old friends, new roles n The retirement of Four new coaches women’s basketball are, in fact, longtime coach Connie Tilley, Green Knights who who served SNC for are taking up new 42 seasons, created positions. a key vacancy in A.J. Aitken, athletics at SNC. women’s hockey: Other openings came He has served two from career transitions tours as associate and time crunches Father Rowland De Peaux ’48 head coach for the for part-time coaches Our alumni chaplain is a true college treasure. SNC men’s hockey who had other He is celebrated here by Todd Danen ’77. program, seeing nine obligations. NCAA Division III Father De Peaux came to St. Norbert following his Frozen Four berths n Finding this many high school graduation in June 1944. It’s basically been and three NCAA new coaches at one his home ever since. I never had a class with him when Division III national time presents a chal- I was a student but even then he was a striking figure on championships. lenge to the athletics From 2012-15, he campus. Always very debonair. He liked to have fun, but director. “You always was head coach of he was always very proper. (That’s the European in him.) look for the best the men’s hockey He’s credited with sending the first student abroad. He’s candidate that you New coaches lead the charge program at Marian sure meant a lot to the Sigma Nu Chi/Sigma Tau Gamma can get, especially Tim Bald is in his 16th year as four Upper Midwest Athletic Conference College. Natalie fraternity. He’s married many of them, been present at in the part-time posi- NEWS Wheeler ’15, dance: family funerals, baptized their children … tions,” says Tim Bald. St. Norbert College athletics director, but championships and earning All-UMAC She was a member We met and became close friends when I returned to Those part-time he’s never seen anything like this. Seven honors in 2009 and 2010. of the Green Knights the campus in 2008, through his role as chaplain to the employees – coaches new head coaches in one year, plus a new “St. Norbert is a beautiful place with alumni board. He can work a room like a good politician. dance team. She

who have jobs outside OF ST. NORBERT strength and performance coach to boot. a great reputation in our community,” previously served as He just always seems to know everyone. He brings such of their coaching “We’re on a path I’ve never had,” Bald says. Dean says. “I believe with our full effort, an assistant to SNC storytelling to the group. He doesn’t appreciate it when I responsibilities – cheer coach Ashley exaggerate! Everything has to be accurate. must have career and “I don’t think I’ve had more than three a positive attitude, and having good Appleton ’14. John It’s just been a treat. He’s become very close to our personal flexibility to (hires) in any one year.” Luckily, with a sportsmanship we can only add to that Sabo ’07, women’s family. There’s no question that he’s a treasure here at travel out of area for highly regarded athletics program like reputation.” golf (College St. Norbert, and we treasure him. OF ST. NORBERT OF ST. games or tourna- St. Norbert’s, it’s not hard to recruit the Advancement): He ments, to recruit Amanda Leonhard-Perry, women’s best. Meet the newest of the new faces: was an assistant Todd Danen (College Advancement) met De Peaux student-athletes basketball: A legacy of success at Univer- coach for the Green when he returned to campus 11 years ago to direct from a wide swath Hannah Saiz, men’s and women’s sity of Wisconsin-Green Bay follows Knights’ men’s golf alumni and parent relations. of Wisconsin and the NEWS swimming and diving: Saiz comes to Leonhard-Perry to SNC. In 11 seasons program for three upper Midwest, and seasons, helping to keep their SNC SNC from Kenyon College where she as assistant coach for the UWGB women, take the 2017 team Memories from eight decades at home programs successful. was an assistant coach for three seasons the Phoenix boasted a 333-62 record, at her own alma mater. Saiz was the 2013 10 regular-season Horizon League titles, to the Midwest at St. Norbert. snc.edu/magazine Conference title. Bob n Seven of the eight NCAA Division III national champion in eight Horizon League tournament titles, Rickards, women’s new SNC hires will the 200-yard butterfly. She also competed nine NCAA Tournament appearances and soccer (College lead women’s sports; Advancement): He one of those will in the 2016 Olympic trials and won the two berths in the WNIT. Leonhard-Perry comes to SNC soccer coach both women’s United States Open championship in played four years on UWGB teams that after a long career as and men’s swimming the 200 butterfly. During her time on the had three NCAA Division I Tournament boys’ and girls’ soccer and diving; Davin 2016-17 U.S. National Team, Saiz was bids and four regular-season league cham- coach at Green Bay’s Roach, as strength ranked in the top 50 in the world. pionships. She led the Phoenix in scoring Notre Dame Academy and performance where his teams took coach, will work with and was a first-team all-conference choice Tim Dean, women’s tennis: A former three state champion- athletes in all sports as a sophomore. Leonhard-Perry was also head women’s and men’s tennis coach at ships. He was named except hockey. a two-time academic all-conference the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Wisconsin Soccer selection. (2016-18), Dean is a tennis professional Coaches Association at two Green Bay clubs. At UWGB, Dean’s Division 3 Girls’ Coach Davin Roach, strength and of the Year in 2015 men’s team earned a Horizon League performance: Originally from Colorado, and 2018. second-place finish in 2017 and advanced Roach is a graduate of Coe College, where to the semifinals of the 2018 Horizon he played football. Most recently, he League Tournament. Dean himself played served as an assistant coach at Montana at the College of St. Scholastica, winning State University.

12 St. Norbert College Magazine | Fall/Winter 2019 snc.edu/magazine 13 Norbertine Now / Holy Medal Farewells / Passages GROUNDED Working in harmony JERALD HAUSER 1941-2019

The college remembers Jerry Hauser, who died Aug. 6, 2019, at the age of 78. Hauser, professor emeritus of teacher education, taught at St. Norbert College The newly acquired from 1984 to 2006. Abbey Pond Field “Jerry was a very Station on the compassionate person, grounds of St. Norbert a very caring person, and was relentlessly positive, Abbey will serve always working for the best for students,” shares Reid college scientists Riggle (Education). “He was important to the fabric of for short-term and who we are now.” Hauser took on a variety of roles in long-term research the teacher-education discipline during his tenure, and projects and course- the student projects he created still impact the education related activities. The program today, Riggle says. “He had really interesting station, generously and innovative ways to get students thinking at a higher made available by the level.” Hauser attended St. Frances de Sales Seminary,

Norbertine community then pursued a master’s degree at the University of NEWS and the Izaac Walton Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He taught at Cardinal Stritch League, was last used College before joining St. Norbert College. He spent his as a bird-feed store. retirement writing and sharing his poetry. What once was lost and now is found It is now stocked with Sabbaticals can be solitary endeavors, such a big test: this idea that we had to be He is survived by his wife, Carol; two daughters, OF ST. NORBERT two duck-hunting When a seminarian lost a devotional medal “It’s very cool,” Parker told the diocesan as faculty work to write books or conduct perfect. When you practice, it’s not hard. including Lori Allaire ’90; and four stepdaughters. boats and additional 37 years ago, he never expected to see it again. newspaper, which featured the find. “It looks like it’s experiments in labs. But for Yi-Lan Niu It’s hard to work with other people. You equipment to serve its But when the sacred object was recently unearthed, been in the ground for 37 years. I’m surprised there new use. (Music), it was a collaborative journey. have to learn how to trust each other.” JIM KRESS 1929-2019 it was immediately recognized by a friend who The abbey pond is is this much left of it.” Niu’s sabbatical project was two parts: That trust stretched further as Niu remembered the day it was lost. OF ST. NORBERT OF ST. already the focus of a Shillcox told local TV station WBAY-TV, “I just

Produce a music album and develop a made plans to market and distribute her long-term biodiversity It was August 1981 when Dave Parker and his The college community remember thinking that it was sad at the time that website for promotion – the latter being album. She worked with Brian Pirman says farewell to study. teammate, both then in the novitiate, set out to play Jim a memento Dave’s family gave him when he entered something her students frequently ask (Art), who designed the album cover, and Kress, who died May football on the St. Norbert Abbey grounds. Some [the abbey] got lost, that someday that’s got to be for help with, but, until now, she didn’t with Taylor Jadin, Ben Hommerding 12, 2019, at the age NEWS Above par four decades on, Parker – who left the order before found.” have experience to share. Throughout the and Susan Ashley in Information of 89. Jim Kress joined “Golf can be a deeply ordination – is now a deacon of the church living in Green Bay Packaging, The experience was unique and gratifying for project, Niu found support from several Technology Services to build a website. spiritual experience as Pulaski, Wis. His friend, the Rev. Tim Shillcox, went the company founded well as a reminder of Counter as well. “Most things, you have no way of on to profess solemn vows and now serves as pastor areas of the St. Norbert community. Building an online presence to by his father, in 1963. the limitations in our at St. Mary in Bear Creek, Wis. returning,” he explains. “You have no idea who lost The recording of Niu’s album, featur- showcase a portfolio is an important part He became chairman humanity,” says the it or how. Being able to give [Parker] back his medal ing 14 sacred songs from the collections of self-promotion, a skill Niu’s students in 1995. Kress, trustee Norbertine Center for Enter Mike Counter M.L.S. ’14. Counter, media emeritus, received the St. Norbert College President’s Spirituality. Its Aug. 17 relations director at St. Norbert College, is an avid was really special. It meant a lot to him. That was a of 19th-century French composer have an interest in learning. Niu also took Medal in 1997, and he and his wife, Julie-Ann Kress Golf Retreat offered a neat feeling.” Charles Gounod, was funded by the the time to reflect and journal during metal-detectorist who has been prospecting the (Trustee), received honorary degrees from the college in morning of reflection college and St. Norbert Abbey. Niu her sabbatical, giving her another way to abbey grounds. He unearthed the medal along Counter, who sought permission from the abbot 2009. The Kresses have been instrumental to numerous and prayer followed with other finds this summer. When Shillcox saw before metal-detecting at the abbey, is working enlisted the help and talent of Elaine share her experiences with her students. SNC projects, including the Jim Kress Gymnasium in – of course – by 18 Moss (Music) as accompanist. The pair “If my students are going through holes at De Pere’s Counter’s trove on the local news, he immediately in collaboration with the Rev. Jim Neilson ’88 to the Mulva Family Fitness & Sports Center. St. Norbert Hilly Haven Golf noticed the once-treasured object. The Norbertine create a work of art that will include items found met for two hours a day over an eight- the same challenges, I now have the College’s relationship with the George Kress Foundation, Course. recognized the design of the medal and reached out during his explorations. His discoveries to date week period before heading into the knowledge to help them,” Niu says. “This named for Jim’s father, dates back to 1959. In their honorary degree citation, Donald Salmon, to his friend. Parker confirmed the identification and recording phase of the project, when Niu whole process has made me much more include a variety of coins, medals and rings of vice president emeritus for college advancement, wrote, and Moss learned firsthand the pain- humble and appreciative of so many was able to visit the abbey, where Shillcox happily various ages. The artwork created from his finds will “If the students graduating today make even a part of restored the item to its rightful owner. be displayed in 2020 as part of celebrations for the staking process of recording an album. different people.” the commitment Jim and Julie-Anne Kress have made The medal has great sentimental value, says 900th anniversary of the Norbertine order. “It’s not about the music anymore, The album, “Chanter et Souffrir,” is in to work and service, this society will become what it was Parker; it was a gift from his parents to mark his it’s about the making of the music. We post-production with Centaur Records, a always meant to be – a fit place for human beings to grow and flourish.” entry to the Norbertine order. The day of its return With one find now returned to its rightful owner, had 20 takes for just three pages on one classical music label in the U.S. It’s slated Kress is survived by his wife, four children and five coincided with a planned knee surgery (to repair an Mike Counter (Communications) is continuing his piece,” Niu says. “Those moments were to be released early next year and will stepchildren. His grandchildren include Francesca old football injury!) and the deacon planned to take exploration of the grounds and expects to uncover further really hard because both of us put our be available at the college bookstore and Kress ’10. it with him for the procedure. interesting finds. snc.edu/magazine skill, our faith, our musicianship through through Spotify, iTunes and Amazon.

14 snc.edu/magazine 15 By its nature, academic life is a series of beginnings and ends – a four- part calendar of fall semesters, winter breaks, spring semesters and summer breaks. The start of each semester is a beginning of new relationships and new opportunities; the end is a flying-from-the-nest with sights set far ahead. At St. Norbert, many mark the occasions in special ways that over the years have become ritual and tradition. New beGinnings

Welcoming Q&A Barb Stoll (Gateway Seminar) asks her first-year students to walk around the Jamie Lynch (Sociology) looks for answers to quirky questions to facilitate room anonymously answering questions discussion on the first day. Some queries that ask about their study habits, why they Setting the tone in his repertoire: “What interests you want to attend college, and what they’re You’ve heard it before: “You don’t get a more: flavored shirts or candy with most excited about as they begin their second chance to make a first impression,” sleeves?” “If tomatoes are a fruit, does that college careers. (Meeting new people, and and that’s true for a college course on the first day of the semester. That’s why make ketchup a smoothie?” “What animal Dining Services’ cafeteria food, topped the list for that question). first-day-of-class rituals and activities would you ride into battle?” Some answers: can be so important, says psychologist “Everyone wants to ride a giraffe into First things first Sarah Rose Cavanagh in her book “The battle for some reason! Candy sleeves are Spark of Learning: Energizing the College a big winner,” Lynch says. Parisa Meymand (English) preps for Classroom With the Science of Emotion.” “On the first few days of class, students will (English) the year by doing some back-to-school AnaMaria Seglie Clawson be forming their impressions of you, and asks students to arrange themselves in shopping for herself, usually in the form this impression may be more important concentric circles, with one circle of of new clothes and items that help her than much of what you do later.” students facing the other. They answer office feel more welcoming and organized. agree-or-disagree questions and are given “This year, I bought a small succulent plant 60 seconds per question before the circles for my window to help bring some nature By Hannah O’Brien rotate and each student faces another back in my workspace!” do as a campus community. It is hard in partner and another question. Carolyne Roepke ’20 looks forward to getting to know new classmates’ names in these polarized times.” (CVC, Women’s & courses led by Katie Ries (Art). “She has Karlyn Crowley everyone stand up and get in a circle to get Gender Studies) makes sure her students the creative juices flowing. She will then understand her own background before proceed to tell us that we must come up they embark on a new semester together: with an action or pose for our name, and “I always tell my own origin story about when it comes time to state your name, why I love whatever it is I’m teaching, and you will do your action,” Roepke says. what it was like when I was their age and “After everyone has done their action, she encountered it. I believe in reminding will start again and go around the circle; students that professors are learners also however, this time around you have to and had a start somewhere.” do the actions and state the names of Getting straight to work … everyone who went before you as well as your own. … I think that this is such Carrie Kissman (Biology) takes her a creative and unique way to get to know students outside for a walk through everyone in your class.” campus, encouraging them to look at Angel Saavedra Cisneros (Political things through an ecological lens that Science) and his American Multicultural allows them to notice for the first time the Politics students start the course by patterns and systems that surround them. going over the SNC Civility Statement, Before speaking another word, Ed “exploring it carefully and pondering Risden (English) gets students guessing its implications,” Cisneros says. “Since by reciting “Caedmon’s Hymn” in Old Convocation has just happened, I like to English to show students that English is a remind students of what we all pledged to Germanic language, not a Romantic one,

16 St. Norbert College Magazine | Fall/Winter 2019 snc.edu/magazine 17 and so they can get a sense for how president’s annual ice cream social on end of the season, they’ll have written “One of the most impactful traditions container of cream cheese from the table.” much the language has changed over Baer Mall. So during a break from lab at least eight such letters. comes at the end of the year when we After Global Seminars abroad, time. “They usually enjoy the recitation, work, Brekke makes sure to include a Kate Ludwig ’22 takes a photo of gather for our final meal together with our Rosemary Sands (CNS) invites students or seem to,” he says. “They get into its walk for ice cream each fall semester. herself each school year wearing the student staff,” saysSusan Angoli (Sturzl over to cook the cuisines they experienced rhythm and musicality.” same outfit on both the first and last Center). During the meal, students share during their trips. They learned to cook Looking to the past day of class. It’s something she’s done a reflection on the year and seniors pass homemade pasta after a trip to Italy and … but keeping it sweet since eighth grade. “I wanted to see down any wisdom or insights they’ve plan to make Spanish tortilla after walking Before each conference meet, Coach how I myself was changing, how I was gained. the Camino de Santiago in Spain. Erik Brekke (Physics) often leads one Don Augustine (Track & Field, Cross progressing.” The lateTom Faase (Sociology, of the first lab sessions of the semester Country) asks his athletes to write a Making it a family affair – which happens to conflict with the thank-you letter to someone who has Emeritus) and his wife Debra Faase (Education) would invite students to sweetest first-day tradition at SNC: the helped them on their journey. By the Dave Wegge (Political Science, Emeritus) surprised his classes with Ben share meals with their family. “I can still & Jerry’s ice cream and a visit from his picture the dining table and kitchen and Providing closure wife, daughter and grandchildren “to show plates of Tom and Debbie Faase, and their little ones at the time, Chelsea Faase ’08 Over the course of a semester, students suStenanCe that there is so much more to life than and the faculty who lead their classes [GLAD Camp], Morgan Faase and Noah classwork.” create an individual community, and Faase running around, helping prepare for the JourNey Kodee Zarnke ’21 enjoys the end- research shows it’s important to provide food, showing us their rooms, and then of-semester celebrations with Deirdre closure when it comes time for that Continuing the work – types of treats. “We were learning about (English), who invites students sitting to eat and talk with all of us,” community to disband. “After a great deal Egan-Ryan of time developing a sense of comfort but sweetening the deal fruits at the same time the semester was to her home for brunch with her family. remembers Carol (Sessler) Bruess ’90. “That was one of my favorite, most and community in the classroom, ignoring winding down. Then, in our following lab, “We celebrate the end of the semester with class endings seems awkward and Joel Mann (Philosophy) brings distinct memories from 30 years ago.” in Greek food, including baklava, Dr. Feirer brought in an example of every coffee, bagels, fruit and the company of her abrupt to both students and faculty,” say for students to enjoy while he type of fruit and passed them around,” dog, Digger, who both times nabbed the psychologists Tami Eggleston and Gabie E. Smith. End-of-semester activities also gives a “whirlwind tour of the she says. “We had a bigger lab section, but that didn’t stop us from bonding over provide an opportunity to stimulate interest Hellenistic philosophy zoo.” in the topic area, wrap up the class in fruit as one of our final labs. It really made Ana Seglie Clawson builds ways that add to students’ semester-long a trivia game from course for a fun experience, and we got a healthy lasTing iMpreSsions experience and sense of accomplishment, material, and students play in snack out of it, too!” and increase the connection between faculty and students. teams while eating cookies. Celebrating over a meal Ending on a high of her student staff at the beginning and Gratzia Villaroel (Interna- end of each year. When they graduate, tional Studies) hosts a pizza party After preparing for and presenting Mark “Coach” Glantz (Communi- cation & Media Studies) and his classes Lahti sends each of them a custom- while students present their end- at the State of the Economy address, designed mug featuring their photos from of-semester projects. Marc Schaffer takes students working play “Le Beanbag,” a review game in which students toss around a stuffed Norby throughout their time with the center. Mya McDaniel ’21 says Russ in the Center for Business & Economic what do you leave behind?” Answers range doll. “It’s always fun, as is everything with “I always order an extra mug for myself Feirer (Biology) made a final lab session Analysis to a celebratory dinner at a nice from funny to profound, she says. “I always Coach,” says Addy Bink ’20. so that I can remember all of the ALIVE memorable when he brought in special restaurant. answer, too. It’s one of my favorite parts of Eric Hagedorn (Philosophy) always students I’ve had the pleasure of working the whole semester.” ends his Philosophical Foundations in the with over the years,” she says. “I just had to And, back in the art department, Study of Human Nature course with a start a new shelf for [year] No. 10.” Katie Ries and her students spend their reading of “The Value of Philosophy” by In Introduction to Women’s & Gender last class of the semester cleaning the Bertrand Russell – inviting his students Studies, students write a letter to their studios or printshops together, listening to reflect on what they did and did not future selves about what they want to to music while they scrub tables, sweep Daily rituals find valuable about their experience remember from the course. Karlyn floors, repaint surfaces and “generally of the course. “I also give a short Crowley mails the letters to each student Rituals don’t just operate on a semester or yearly basis. Marquis Weatherall restore order,” Ries says. “It reminds me of ’22 makes sure to get each day off to a good start by listening to music every concluding lecture/apology, the next semester, “when everything seems cleaning a garden for winter: making way morning. which students apparently long forgotten.” for the things to come.” Katie Ries (Art) takes attendance at the beginning of each class by asking appreciate,” he says. students to sketch a self-portrait on a 3-by-5-inch index card. An added bonus: Looking to the future Ries hands back the stack of index cards at the end of the semester, allowing Not saying If these classroom practices spark memories students to see how their skills evolved. Kathleen Gallagher Elkins (Theology goodbye just yet of rituals that were meaningful for you during Sara (Fenlon) Zelewske ’05 (Careers) remembers Jim Neuliep (Communication & Religions Studies) borrowed her end-of- your time at St. Norbert, we’d love to hear from & Media Studies) beginning each class with what she calls “monologue-style jokes” For the past semester activity from her graduate school you! Share them via [email protected] or that occasionally needed to be explained in order for the class to find the humor in message St. Norbert College Magazine on them, “which made it even funnier – to me, at least,” she says. 10 years, Rebecca advisor. She asks her students to answer Lahti ’00 (Emmaus two questions: “When you leave this Facebook. Center) has taken photos course, what do you take with you? And The Long-Lost Books of TONGERLO Tongerlo: Centuries of Norbertine service Founded 891 years ago (1128) in Westerlo, Belgium – less than 30 miles from Antwerp – Tongerlo Abbey is a monastery steeped in history, tradition and service. Centuries ago, they helped identify the liturgy of the Norbertine order. The roots of the abbey were planted relatively late in the life of Norbert of Xanten - still known in some quarters as Today, some of these ancient volumes are available at St. Norbert College. the Apostle of Antwerp for his successful opposition to the eucharistic heresy of Tanchelm who had adherents in that By Dan Flannery area even after his death. By that time, Norbert had gained followers in Belgium, o hear the Rev. Andrew Ciferni ’64 tell it, the adventure hoping to find a new and appropriate home for them in De Pere. France, Germany and Transylvania. was nothing like a movie scene. “We know Father Andrew quite well, as he visited our abbey By the mid-16th century, Tongerlo was The attic in Tongerlo Abbey – a Norbertine monastery many times,” explains the Rev. Michiel Meeusen, librarian at known as an education hub and had a Tnear Antwerp, Belgium – was unheated, damp and cluttered Tongerlo. “He is a loveable confrère, and when he selected the large library. with books, most of them created centuries ago. books, I admired his expertise.” Today, Tongerlo is the site of a Leonardo Da Vinci museum that boasts So, you might not cast Tom Hanks (as in “The Da Vinci , SNC’s librarian for archives and special collec- Sarah Titus an important 16th-century copy of Code”) as Ciferni, director emeritus of the Center for Norbertine tions, opened boxes of Ciferni’s Tongerlo picks with a combina- Da Vinci’s “The Last Supper.” While most Studies (CNS) and a college trustee. And you wouldn’t get the tion of wonder and gratefulness. scholars believe the copy was created just-so-perfect lighting, impossibly focused on a page containing “They’re just filled to the brim with these beautiful older texts,” by Da Vinci’s students, some evidence the secrets of the foundation of the Norbertine order. Titus says, “… and they’ve lived full lives in their time that the points to the master’s own hand in the But, in shaping the story, you might still be overwhelmed by [Tongerlo] Abbey had them. We found artifacts tucked inside: work. the offer fromAbbot Jeroen De Cuyper of Tongerlo that came prayer cards, ribbons to mark the place of the people who owned The Tongerlo community now numbers to Ciferni on his 2017 visit to the Belgian abbey. them originally; and those tiny, tiny stories in those pages are 38 clergy, with the Rev. Jeroen “I was there for 10 days,” Ciferni recalls, “and the abbot says fascinating to me. So, I get very, very excited, thinking about all De Cuyper as abbot. For more on Tongerlo and its to me one day, ‘You know, I’m very impressed with what you’re the places the books have been, the people who held them, and significant history in an order that will doing at the center. We have a room up in the attic part of the the impact that they had in their communities and kind of how celebrate its 900th anniversary in 2021: abbey with books, and they’re all doubles, and you can take they’re tied to broader events.” tongerlo.org. whatever you want.’ ” That’s not to mention the undeniable faith of those who These were not run-of-the-mill religious textbooks. These crafted the books, initially relied on the books, and were served were special liturgical works, centuries old. So it was fitting – by the books. “Indeed, the books are mainly liturgical in nature, even if not totally predictable – that the CNS, international locus but there are other books which pertain to the spiritual life within for Norbertine studies, should come into guardianship of these the order or books on other subjects written by Premonstraten- The rich heritage bestowed by the Norbertine treasures just as the order approaches its 900th anniversary. sians,” Meeusen writes. “Very likely, they were books in the hands order is preserved for successive generations by those who curate it. In our photo, the Rev. “We’re talking about 16th-, 17th-, 18th-century books,” Ciferni of confrères living as parish priests outside the abbey. Upon their Andrew Ciferni ’64, director emeritus of the says. “We’re always looking for books that we use for singing the passing aways, they must have come to the abbey.” Center for Norbertine Studies, shares treasures liturgy, or books about the history of the order, or books by But if anything is certain about faith in a higher power, it is from the center’s archives with current director Norbertine authors.” that patience is often tested. In this case, the trials were born Rosemary Sands. Ciferni parceled up dozens of Tongerlo’s duplicate volumes, in the darkness and dampness of that abbey attic in Belgium.

20 St. Norbert College Magazine | Fall/Winter 2019 Ciferni says, “The problem that arose is that these books have were identified as needing special care. Ciferni took those texts been … in an unheated attic room and that was, you know, with him to Daylesford Abbey (Paoli, Pa.), where he was called in sometimes damp and sometimes humid and not aired very well.” 2016 and continues to serve. Other books from Ciferni’s Tongerlo Titus says three large boxes were shipped overnight from excursion, unaffected and in better shape, have already been Belgium. One box, upon arrival at the Mulva Library, opened to placed in the CNS collection. Rosemary Sands, current director a waft of mold smell. There were 24 books in that box (just about of the Center for Norbertine Studies, says: “They can be pulled and one-third of the total from Father Andrew), all of which were put in the reading room for someone to look at. We do avail our temporarily moved to a suitable office for segregated storage. collection to any scholars who would want to come in. They would After sending them on for analysis from a vendor, it was be – because of the age and the condition of the books there – realized the books were too delicate for the more standard mold locked down in the Rare Books & Special Collections room, which procedures. They were old enough and delicate enough to require is temperature-controlled.” Other volumes of this nature remain at the attention of a bookbinder. Tongerlo, Meeusen says, and they too could have value to others. All books that have survived for centuries have some damage: Access to venerable printed material in the European abbeys is holes from burrowing insect larva (that’s where the term ‘book- often problematic, says Sands, who does most of her research in worm’ comes from), worn-out or broken spines, warped pages Spain. “There’s one convent of Norbertine cloistered nuns in Spain and sometimes mold. – the male order disappeared; all of the male houses disappeared “Mold cannot be killed,” Titus explains, “but can be deacti- in 1835 when the government shut down all monasteries of every vated, so as long as the infected item is kept cool and dry, the religious order – and the sisters have their archives in a room mold won’t reactivate. Bookbinders have several processes that that’s not temperature-controlled,” Sands says. “The books are can save books from severe damage or mold, ranging from just sitting on the shelf and you know that they crumble right building clamshell [fitted] boxes to quarantine the item all the before your eyes. You touch them and they crumble. And this is way to deconstructing the book and bathing each page in special common across Europe: There are just so many old books and old chemical solution before rebinding and building the book back documents that to keep up with them is nearly impossible.” up, good as new.” While the Tongerlo books are impressive in their age and their A series of banner-style images According to Meeusen, while the books are hundreds of years addition to CNS’ support of Norbertine research, Sands notes old, the attic-storage solution was likely to be a relatively recent that they are far from the oldest works in the center’s collection. installed in the Mulva Family Fitness & decision. “I am not sure, but it certainly happened after 1980,” he The oldest dates to 1491 and is known as an “incunable,” identi- Sports Center chronicles 23 storied writes. “Where they were before, I do not know, and where they fying it as a printed work created before 1501. came from is also unknown to me.” varsity sports from the date of their The CNS and the Mulva Library agreed that they couldn’t fund the bookbinding approach to restore 24 significant texts that origin to their current intake of Green Knight stalwarts.

Shhhhh! The librarian is speaking Sarah Titus, librarian for archives and special collections at the Mulva Library, handles centuries-old books for the college’s collection, including those within the Center for Norbertine Studies. She says: • The Rev. Andrew Ciferni ’64 has been able to add 744 books to the CNS collection, in addition to many other books contributed to other Mulva Library collections. The CNS collection of texts from European Norbertine abbeys, though small at this date, has given rise to many opportunities for intersection between the college and the five Norbertine houses in the United States. • All library holdings pass through the collection management BRIANNA BRAEGER ’20 (Softball): “Being department. Metadata specialist Rochelle Van Erem handles each item as it enters the library. Special collections can be a unique a Green Knight athlete, it simply doesn’t challenge, especially if texts are in other languages or if identifying compare to the ‘woo’ any other sport team information (and maybe even the title page) is missing or damaged. has brought to me throughout my athletic • Cataloging special collections requires searching international endeavors. You’re treated with gracious databases. If no other record is found, the Mulva creates its own before adding the book to the collection. respect, support and fan love, like no other.”

snc.edu/magazine 23 By Dan Flannery team (1986-90). He says: “What we’re really doing in Division Tim Bald, Green Knight athletics director, is succinct: “That’s n a corridor in the Mulva Family Fitness & Sports Center III athletics is that we have three goals for our scholar-athletes. the philosophy of Division III: It gets you in and out in four years filled with natural light they assert their grace and power: One is that they exceed expectations academically. Two, that and gives the best athletic and academic experience that they can JONNIE WINKLER ’21 (Soccer): 23 current student-athletes, photographed, each representing the coaches and programs build character and sense of self. And have.” “Coach Rhodes is intense on the field Itheir sports in larger-than-life-size images. On permanent three, that our scholar-athletes, both individually and as a team because he has the winning mentality display, the banner-style murals – one for each varsity sport – and as a whole program, have a championship experience.” It takes a team to decorate the halls of fame Those championship experiences have happened with that drives a great program, but at speak to the commitment of the campus to the student and of the Patton and Wilson collaborated to create the 23 photo banners regularity at St. Norbert, according to Dan Lukes, assistant athlete to the challenge of their chosen sport. that represent St. Norbert’s current varsity athletics programs, the end of the day he’s a friend. He athletics director for athletics communications. “We have Since 1916, when St. Norbert first offered intercollegiate using images of athletes from each sport. loves his team and the people won 123 conference championships since joining the Midwest sports, much has been celebrated – dozens of cham- “We were given a blank slate with this project,” Patton says. that make the St. Norbert Conference in 1983,” he says, “and we have won 16 league pionships, academic excellence in classrooms and “On several occasions, Tim Bald and I would walk around the soccer program.” titles since joining the NCHA (Northern Collegiate Hockey a calling to personal growth. building talking about the spaces, how they were used and what Association) in 1994. Our student-athletes have been named “This hallway is used by our student-athletes, we could do to enhance the atmosphere.” Academic All-America 76 times. [Since 1983] St. Norbert has so we wanted to celebrate them and represent all Wilson, a former photojournalist with experience in sports earned the Midwest Conference’s Ralph Shively All-Sports the sports,” says Nick Patton ’03, senior graphic photography, captured 50 to 100 images of each SNC student- Championships a total of 21 times – 16 women’s and five men’s.” designer at SNC, who created the banners using athlete for the banner project. Relatively few SNC student-athletes – with exceptions from photography by Corey Wilson. “I wanted to create crisp, clean, high-impact images that the men’s hockey program – have advanced to the professional St. Norbert competes in the National Colle- would really jump off the walls,” Wilson says. “The key was to giate Athletic Association’s Division III, where level. But the mission of the SNC student-athletes depicted in the athletics are intentionally part of a balanced MFFSC corridor is to hone personal and professional skills and to experience for students. “Participants are develop as a human being. integrated on campus and treated like all “All those skills and abilities of interpersonal skills, conflict other members of the student body, keeping resolution and team development and working toward a goal – them focused on being a student first,” all those outcomes that come from athletics are really important,” states the NCAA. Bruess says. “Just having a certain amount of structure in the life It’s a philosophy that plays beautifully of a college student is a prerequisite for academic achievement.” into how SNC president Brian Bruess ’90 has come to view athletics in the larger scheme, and in his role as a leader in higher education. Walter McBride IV ’20 Bruess is a former Green Knight student- (Football) represents the Green athlete himself, with four years on the basketball Knights on the gridiron. Our gallery includes all 23 of the MFFSC mural images. snc.edu/magazine

MADELINE LEBRUN ’20 (Track & Field): “Athletics is the leadership opportunity I never Lessons for a bright future really signed up for. As I got older and stronger, As our student-athletes do battle, they recognize that they’re also preparing for the next great contest in the people started expecting more from me – to show game of life. There are certain lessons from playing a team sport that are hard to learn elsewhere, says Zach up (early!), to speak up more, to train harder, to act Krysiak ’20 (ACHA Club Hockey). He says, “A ‘hates-to-lose’ mindset; having teammates and coaches push with integrity and to show confidence that I didn’t you past your limit; and developing teamwork are just some aspects of playing a team sport that you can’t get really feel like I had to begin with. I like to think anywhere else.” Those teams may be bigger than they seem. Clare Santas ’22 (Swimming & Diving) notes I’ve done what I can to deliver.” activities that draw different teams together, like the annual Blessing of the Athletes, all-sports conditioning in the off-season and volunteering with Special Olympics. “Knowing that I’m a part of not only a team that is much bigger than me, but an entire college of athletes, is exciting,” she says. “We all have the same goal of doing good for others and being the best version of ourselves possible.” Anna Tristiani ’21 (Women’s Soccer) adds: “Many of our alumni volunteer at practices, become assistant coaches, and participate in our alumni ANAIS AURARD ’21 (Hockey): “I will forever have game. Although someone may have graduated: once part of the team, always part of the team.” Leaving the the heart of a Knight. I will forever remember what I college doesn’t mean leaving the glory days behind. did here and who impacted me.”

snc.edu/magazine 25 ALUMNI OF ST. NORBERT 27 magazine snc.edu/ National reach Thanks to our alumni, St. Norbert College extends its reach throughout the United States and the world. The majority of our U.S.-based alumni call the Midwest their home. %% 22 % % 4,600 4,374 4,293 6.5 6.5 3,535 2,994 Alaska 19 Hawaii 12 Military (Alaska and Pacific) 2 %% 2,126 85.785.7 1,300 %% 500 292 102 56 24,172 Total 5.85.8 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s GRADUATES OF SNC BY DECADE GRADUATES Pre-1920 Among those who make up the SNC community – including students, faculty, staff,Norbertinesand students, faculty, – including SNC community the up make thosewho Among In good company largest SNC alumni the 20,000, the by far group. at more than are already And, partnerscommunity alumni – network to grow continues a look take at how vast with up. that each class. graduating network is shaping We

Alumni snc.edu/ alumni St. Norbert connect with their alma mater in a variety of ways. Check out the Alumni Impact Report to see how alumni contribute to the life of the college. go/impact Psychology Sociology OF ST. NORBERT COLLEGE NORBERT OF ST. Major change The needs of the workplace have changed remarkably in the last 50 years, and with them so have St. Norbert’s top majors. TOP MAJORS 1969 Business administration Elementary education Sociology English History TOP MAJORS 2019 Biology Business administration Communication and media studies

(Swimming & (Swimming BEN STOLBERG ’22 BEN STOLBERG I were weeks where Diving): “There 7 at from 8 till about wouldn’t stop that these nights taught me night, but to I should expect, and this is what my time.” get better at handling The student-athlete experience of 2019 is played out across Academic All-Americans and Hall of Famers are all honored in the Mulva Family Fitness & Sports Center. 23 intercollegiate sports – more than at any other time in the Almost 30 percent of the student population college’s history. of roughly 2,100 are student-athletes. Since 1916, when SNC offered its first intercollegiate sport – basketball – varsity athletes and their fans have shared in the trials, triumphs and sheer joy of the team experiance. St. Norbert’s

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, of , of , of Carmel, , of Corpus Christi, Kenneth Dr. George Dr. William Maronek William John Minsky John Ritchay at the age of 89. He served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. He worked as a funeral director for more than 50 years and owned the Krohn & Berard Funeral Home in Wisconsin Rapids and the Feldner Funeral Home in He is Nekoosa, Wis. survived by five children. 1954 St. Johns, Mich., died March 16, 2019, at the age of 90. He served in the U.S. Army in Japan. He worked for Charmin Paper in Marquette, and Cheboygan, Wis., Mich., before teaching Mich., in Mackinaw City, and St. Johns (Mich.) Middle School. He is survived by his wife, Arline, two children and three stepchildren. 1951 Wis., of Stevens Point, 21, 2019,died March He 90. at the age of Air U.S. served in the Force. He worked at Hardware Mutual and later for Sentry He is survivedInsurance. by his wife, Patricia, and his daughters. 1951 Flood died April 14, Texas, 2019, at the age of 89. He served in the U.S. Navy Medical Corps at Great Lakes Naval Hospital. He opened his own pediatric practice, then worked as a developmental pediatrician at Driscoll Children’s Hospital. He is survived by his wife, Ellen, and seven children. 1952 Sepersky Calif., died Feb. 20, 2019, at the age of 90. He served in the U.S. Army in both Japan and Korea. He worked with National Cash Register, MAI/Basic 4 and Sytec. He is survived by his former wife, Barbara, and four children. 1952 Wisconsin Rapids, Wis., died May 19, 2019,

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Abbygaile Ali (Parker) Hope Kovala Jordan Zeni Elizabeth AJ Hoth Emily Perszyk Emily Corey Klein ’08 Colin Finn ’10 2002 and Aileen Gilroy, Aug. 4, 2018. They live Wis. in Whitefish Bay, 2006 and June 7, 2019. They live in Milwaukee. 2019. 2013 Mushero Jadin ’14 Natalie a daughter, Wis., Jane, May 22, 2019. 2014 and Joey a daughter, Green Bay, July 2, Tiana Diane, 2019. 2015 Paul Scotia, a son, Bennett Robert, July 9, 2019. 2015 (Liming) Sanderfoot Naomi a daughter, Wis., Rose, July 23, 2019. 2016 (Pfantz) Hokamp a son, James Wis., Arthur Joseph, March 22, 2019. Marriages 2012 and Springs, Ill., a Western Dec.son, Jack Martin, joins4, 2018. Jack 2. brother Conor, 2012 and Ricky a Ashland, Wis., Louise, Everly daughter, March 20, 2019. 2012 John Iowa, a son, Jack 2019. Michael, May 24, 2012 Chesbro a son, Bennett Wis., July 5, 2019. Andrew, 2013 Daniel Sjoquist ’11 Mich., a son, Superior, Cameron, April 10,

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Alex Hoffman Wilkin Mason Wesenberg Mason Wesenberg , West Bend, Wis., Bend, Wis., , West a , Green Bay, , Falls Church, Va., Handel) Kanowitz a son, Carter James, June 22, 2019. Carter 4. joins sister Everly, 2011 Mugnaini Amelia a daughter, Wis., Marie, July 22, 2019. Bell, June 21, 2019. joins brother Vivienne Jack, 2. 2010 and Nicholas Kinney, a son, KitPere, De May 13, 2019. Kinney, 2010 (Gaztambide) Joe Robert, Ill., a son, Wade June 1, 2019. 2010 and ’10 Sunny a daughter, June 28, 2019. Victoria, 2011 Edward Rekowski ’12 Alice Pamela daughter, Marie, Jan. 4, 2019. 2011 and ’11 Colette a daughter, 2019. May 17, Ashley, 2011 2007 2007 Adam March a son, Fletcher, is26, 2019. Fletcher by sisterwatched over Fiona in heaven. 2008 and Adam Hobart, a Wis., daughter, Maria, Jan. 9, 2019. 2008 Tison a son, Cameron Wis., 2019. April 15, Oliver, Cameron joins brother Andrix, 3. 2008 and Zack Lake, Ill., a son, Jax Joseph, July 14, 2019. 2009 Julianna Vivienne a daughter,

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Greg Kaye ’05 a daughter, Elizabeth, a daughter, May 28, 2018. Elizabeth joins brothers Bennett, 5, and Patrick, 3. 2006 and Jacob a Kaukauna, Wis., Marie, Lydia daughter, July 19, 2019. Lydia 4. joins brother Bennett, 2006 (Deluhery) Hankamp and Menomonee Falls, Wis., May Molly, a daughter, 7, 2019. Molly joins brothers Charlie, 7, 2. and Cooper, 2005 Ingrid a son, Beau Wis., Bay, 2019. Sterling, July 11, Beau joins siblings Trygg, 3, and Augusta, 2. 2006 Wilson Hutchison 2003 Umphres Leatherman Adele a daughter, Wis., Catherine, March 9, 2019. Adele joins siblings Florie, 5, and Micah, 3. 2003 Katie Pleasant, Mich., a son, Chase Charles, July 22, 2019. Chase joins brothers Luke, 2, and 2. Parker, 2005 Adoptions 2001 and Matthew a daughter, Green Bay, Aria, Feb. 2, 2019. Aria joins brother Lucas, 3. 2001 and Darren a daughter, Prairie, Wis., June Kinsley Harper, 24, 2019. Kinsley joins siblings McKenna, Xander and Graydon. Noted Noted Births/ Lydia joins sister Lydia Lauren, 2. Ill., a daughter, Lydia Lydia Ill., a daughter, Jane, July 20, 2019. Coach Fall/Winter 2019 Fall/Winter

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“It was really special to have so many“It was really special to have team- former a track-and-field team mates at our wedding because says is family,” marriage!” having multiple weddings and being called out at the wedding services by the priest during the No I have decided to amend the rule: homily, team dating unless it is guaranteed to end in a after a couple broke up and there was the inevitable awkwardness that followed,” he says. years of being at St. Norbert, “[But] after 10-plus “no team dating” rule that Augustine once had in place for his athletes. field athletes tied the knot in the past year, field athletes tied the knot in the past year, making wedding season a busy one for Don Augustine couples: nuptial ceremonies of 12 heels – and they aren’t competing in the poleheels – and they aren’t vault. Wedding bells Wedding St. Norbert College Magazine Norbert St. or go on an adventure? Share your news with us at

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magazine snc.edu/ Members accepted In the Navy now In the Navy The U.S. Navy oper- ates two preferentially staffed bands: the U.S. Navy Band and the Naval Academy Band. These bands are permanently sta- tioned in Washington, D.C., and at the U.S. Naval Academy, The Navy respectively. also has nine fleet bands, which are stationed around the world. into the preferentially staffed bands remain in the same location for the duration of their careers. Musi- cians in the fleet bands rotate location every three to four years.

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PINNED Most Navy per- “Becoming an necessarily inherent to [everyone’s] job,” Master Chief Petty Officer Russ Smith says in a Navy Times article. “It’s just a sign they want to take their skill, knowledge and understanding to the next level.” “Chief Musician (surface warfare)” is his official title. And it’s a rare one for a musician. The surface warfare parenthetical notation signifies David Baine ’01 earned the Navy’s Enlisted Surface Specialist Warfare (ESWS) pin. sonnel stationed on warships above the surface are required to earn this military badge, but musicians are exempt. But in 2009, when Baine was on board the USS Robert G. Bradley (FFG-49), he decided he wanted to earn the insignia And so he anyway. did. Enlisted Surface Warfare or Aviation Specialist isn’t something that’s

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1968 died of Manitowoc, Wis., July 16, 2019, at the age of 74. He founded the UW-Manitowoc Lakeshore Big Band and Lakeshore Wind Ensemble, and he was a music teacher at where UW-Manitowoc, Deleware. He is survived by his father. 1967 (Sorenson) Mott died Milwaukee, May 23, 2019, at the age of 79. She worked as a child- welfare social worker in Brown County and taught anthropology at UW- UW-Milwaukee, Madison, Northwestern University and Joliet Junior College. She supervised the molecular-genetics research laboratory at the University of Chicago and worked as a genetics counselor in a Chicago-area hospital. She is survived by her and husband, Tom, three children. 1968 died of Sheboygan, Wis., April 23, 2019, at the He practiced age of 72. He dentistry for 46 years. is survived by his wife, Maggi, and two children. Co. and Quality FurnaceCo. and Quality Oil. He is& Standard two children. survived by 1967 Zielinski, O.Praem. died Palos Heights, Ill., at the March 24, 2019, age of 78. He taught and served as campus minister and dean of student life at Bishop Neumann High School, then chaired the religion department at Padua Academy in Delaware. He was campus minister of Archmere Academy in Delaware, superior of St. Norbert Priory in Pennsylvania and of Immaculate Conception Priory in Delaware, and served on the abbot’s council at Dayles- ford Abbey and as bookkeeper for the Norbertine Fathers of ,

. , of , of , of Tampa, , of Tampa, Donald Smith Jeanne Jean Sr. John John Russert , of Libertyville, Ill., Weinbrenner Shoe Co., Weinbrenner Oconomowoc Canning years at Illinois middle and high schools in Springfield, Carlinville, Morrisonville, Chicago and Elgin before retiring to serve her Dominican sisters. She later served as pastoral minister at Our Lady of Grace Parish in Chicago. She is survived by nieces and nephews. 1966 died of Merrill, Wis., July 2, 2019, at the age of 75. He worked at at Wisconsin middle at Wisconsin and high schools in Kaukauna, Sun Prairie and Sheboygan Falls. She also taught English to Spanish-speaking adults at Lakeshore College and Technical the Literacy Council of Sheboygan. She is survived by two children. 1966 Constantine Springfield, Ill., died Nov. 29, 2016, at the age of 91. She taught for 36 Corps in Germany. Corps in Germany. He had a career in corporate human resources and held positions in executive outplacement and career management. He is survived by his wife, Kathleen, and four children, including Megan Jansen ’02 1965 (Begotka) Neels died Sheboygan, Wis., 2019, at the May 1, age of 75. She taught Fla., died March 16,Fla., died March age of 78.2019, at the the U.S.He served in as aAir Force, retiring colonel. He worked at Booz Allen Hamilton and Gemini Industries. He is survived by his wife, Joyce; five children; and a stepdaughter. 1965 Jr. died March 3, 2019, at the age of 75. He served in the U.S. Army Transportation 1963 Parcelewicz

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and held research anesthesiologist, attorney, taught a development and attorney for contested in the classroom. 2007 Amy 2011 Mark Knapp has 2015 Kaley Allard has professorships at she worked as a course on the origin and overall sales. matters at Ascension, Kimmel will work with (Heusterberg) Over-subscribed? accepted a position as accepted a position as a Alumni Award the University of full partner of the evolution of the Bill of the world’s largest 10 elementary schools Richards received Readers, we’d like development director for news producer at KSNV Washington’s College of Milwaukee Metropolitan Rights, presented by 1989 Sheri Kasper Catholic health system. in Wauwatosa, Wis., the 2018-19 English to be sure we’re Three Harbors Council. in Las Vegas. Forest Resources and in Anesthesiologists group. Fe University. Hank joins Amerhart and will lead STEM High School Teacher sending you the He formerly served as Winners 2019 the biology department She is survived by her Limited’s board of 1998 Sara (Hansen) experiences and of Excellence award correct number of resource development 2018 Marcus Ruch St. Norbert College annually celebrates from the Wisconsin at the University of New husband, Gregg, and 1971 Mary Jo (Rostal) directors in Sun Prairie, Pasterski is the enhance curriculum. copies of St. Norbert and marketing director began his role as an Council of Teachers. alumni who exemplify Norbertine ideals Mexico. He is survived three daughters. Laabs is now a Wis., as corporate author of a new College Magazine. at the Boys & Girls Club insurance agent at by his sister, Patricia licensed pastor at the counsel and trainer. book, “Even When: 2005 Adam Jahns has She is one of 16 English in their daily lives. If you find you’re of Door County, Wis. As McNamara & Thiel Hitt ’70. 2010 Callie Zipple, Community United Rejoicing in God’s accepted a position as teachers nationwide development director, he receiving more Insurance Agency in of Kenosha, Wis., died Church of Christ in 1990 Mark Mathys Faithfulness through a senior sports writer for who was recognized will lead the United Way copies than there Fond du Lac, Wis. Alma Mater Award 1987 Samuel Wilson, Sept. 12, 2019, at the Medford, Wis. has received the Elite Life’s Uncertainty, The Athletic. He covers at the National Council partnership and a variety are subscribers of Green Bay, died age of 32. She spent Lawyer Award. He Disappointment, and the Chicago Bears for of Teachers of English of campaigns and annual at your address, 2019 Josie Rolfs Patrick J. Kelly ’77 March 21, 2019, at her career in human 1975 Steve was recognized as a Loss.” In the memoir, the subscription-based convention. events. has taken a volunteer Richards, who please let us know has made numerous the age of 54. He resources where she Scherschel has top-rated attorney who Pasterski leads readers sports website. He position as a teacher teaches at Bay Port at [email protected]. worked as an assistant worked at the Society graduated from Loyola displays a high level through life events previously worked at 2012 Capt. Austin and youth developer contributions during High School in Howard- We’ll be happy to manager at Meadows of Human Resources University Chicago’s of competence and including the abrupt the Chicago Sun-Times. McGuine recently in Quito, Ecuador. his more than 20 years North Associates. He is Management as a field Institute of Pastoral outstanding service loss of a parent, Suamico, Wis., says the adjust our records. returned from his services director. She honor is a result of a of service to the college, survived by four siblings. Studies with a master’s in his practice. the heartache and 2005 Justin Heinzen deployment to Poland, n Former SNC also worked to develop degree in pastoral has accepted a position team effort. “It feels nice and technology team helping to reimagine a disappointment of where he received student-athletes and 1989 Cheryl the podcast “Honest counseling. He entered 1992 Thomas Dorgan infertility, and repeated at Carmeuse Lime & to be acknowledged, but at the Pew Research an award from the staff newly inducted more modern, more fiscally strong Calewarts, of Green HR.” She is survived by the three-year program has been named uncertainty of moving Stone as the site it’s not an isolated effort. Center in Washington, commander of the Polish into the St. Norbert Bay, died March 25, her husband, Shane, of study in 2016 after principal of Nicolet High throughout the U.S. operations manager. I’ve got great people D.C. Auxier was featured and always-welcoming campus. 9th Armored Cavalry College Department of 2019, at the age of 61. and a stepson. retiring from a 37-year School in Milwaukee. He previously worked with me,” she says in in the Spring 2019 Brigade for efforts Intercollegiate Athletics She worked for Peoples career in sales and 2000 Todd Wellman for TAMKO Building an interview with The magazine, available at during the U.S.-Polish Distinguished Achievement Hall of Fame include Marine Bank before business development. 1995 The Hon. Patrick has been chosen as Products. Press Times. snc.edu/magazine/ joint training operation Russ Schmelzer Award in Public Service starting a career in He says he hopes this Goggins has been a Lambda Literary “I think this is the archives.html. in support of Operation Class Notes ’81, athletics training auditing with Associated second career will allow appointed district court 2019 Emerging Writers 2005 Katie (Ledesma) most challenging thing Atlantic Resolve. Roberta “Bertie” Burns staff; Stacy (Ritter) Bank. She is survived 1956 The Rev. Steve him the opportunity judge in the First Judicial Retreat fellow. Heinzen has accepted I could find myself doing 2010 Cassandra McGuine is part of the has built an impressive each day, in that we’re Shaske ’03, women’s ’99 by her parents and three Rossey of St. Norbert to give back through District of Minnesota. a position at the Produc- Burns Schneider 12th Cavalry Regiment, trying to grow ideas in basketball; Abbey career within the U.S. siblings. Abbey was awarded the service to underserved Goggins was a partner 2002 Ray Gabriel tion Farm as the lead has been named 1st Armored Brigade our students that aren’t Sutherland Geschke 2018 Norbert Medal of populations. at Wornson Goggins has been named area program therapist. She associate principal of Combat Team in the 1st State Department, proving necessarily our own and Ashwaubenon (Wis.) 1990 Michael Archmere Academy, law firm in New Prague, general manager of previously worked at Cavalry Division based ’04, women’s volleyball; herself to be a trouble- that we’re trying to guide High School. She O’Callaghan, of the college-preparatory 1982 Steven Vogel Minn., and was defense Oldcastle Infrastructure Phillips County Hospital at Fort Hood, Texas. Andrew Winters ’07, Green Bay, died Feb. high school and has retired from Inver counsel at Le Sueur in Colorado. in Phillipsburg, Kan., them through a process previously taught math men’s soccer and shooter and tireless worker without giving all the at the school. 24, 2019, at the age Norbertine apostolate Grove Community County Drug Court. where she was the lead 2013 Jeff Dahlke tennis; Kyle Jones for public safety, security and welfare. exact steps that might of 58. He worked for where he taught until Schools – ISD No. 199 Goggins is following 2002 Kara (Owens) therapist in the intensive has completed his ’08, men’s hockey; and

OF ST. NORBERT OF ST. be best for them.” 2010 Mark Ostlund WS Packaging and 1984. in Inver Grove Heights, a family tradition: His Leiterman has earned outpatient program. Ph.D. in industrial Ashley Graybill Akins

Distinguished Achievement has joined the Prior Schneider National Rossey was Minn., where he was father is a retired First a Master of Science in and organizational ’09, women’s track and 2008 Gina Hilbert Lake, Minn., law firm of Award in Education before becoming IT recognized for founding an elementary music District judge, and his organizational leader- 2006 Amber (Wene) psychology at the field and cross country. Ziegelbauer has joined Huemoeller, Gontarek director for the Unified Archmere’s visual arts teacher for 31 years. sister currently serves ship and business Okray has taken a University of Minnesota. the law offices of Steimle & Cheskis as a partner. Bernadette “Bernie” School District of department, for his He continues to play as a First District judge. administration from position as a general He has accepted a n New hires at De Pere. He is survived artistic and aesthetic the piano and organ Concordia University of music teacher with the Birschbach LLC. Her Ostlund will practice real St. Norbert College Bach B.A. ’79 MBA ’15 practice will revolve position as a research by his wife, Cheryll; contributions to the at St. Patrick’s Church 1996 Amy (Verwiel) Wisconsin. Leiterman Neenah (Wis.) Joint estate, municipal and include Sara (Fenlon) has made a significant and ALUMNI around matters of estate estate transactions, scientist with the four children, including school community, and is serving as Kline has earned is a public relations School District. Human Resources Zelewske ’05, manager tangible impact in the field Lauren ’06; and siblings and for his role in the accompanist for the National Board Certifi- and communications and Medicaid planning. and litigation. Research Organization of employer relations of education, generating Mary Hamiter ’81, research and restoration local middle- and high- cation, the highest manager at Northeast 2006 Erin Gibbons in the office of career 2008 Steve Strohmaier 2010 Michael Lampe in Alexandria, Va. Joan ’83 and John ’84. of the family home on school choirs this fall. professional distinction Wisconsin Technical is co-author of a French and professional life-improving changes the 38-acre estate that available in education, in College. textbook, “Entre Cultures has been promoted to has accepted a position petty officer second at the University of 2013 Hannah development; Billy for students across the state of 1994 Dr. Laura became Archmere 1989 Matthew Demet the area of library media 2,” from Wayside Publish- Loppnow accepted Korinko ’09, assistant (Watkins) Bubolz, has been promoted to 2004 Beth (Franke) ing. Gibbons, who class within the U.S. Colorado Skaggs New Mexico. Academy in 1932. – early childhood through an administrative director of the Cassandra of Mequon, Wis., senior vice president of young adulthood. Kimmel has been teaches at Barrington Coast Guard and will School of Pharmacy assistant position at the Voss Center and died March 13, 1966 Sam Spectrum Investment promoted to elementary (Ill.) High School, has transfer to Seattle as a & Pharmaceutical International Foundation women’s and gender Distinguished Achievement 2019, at the age of Filippo, defense Advisors Inc., leading 1996 Matt Moran innovation specialist taught French for more public affairs liaison with Sciences as senior of Employee Benefit studies lecturer; Annika Award in Education 47. A board-certified and prosecuting strategic business has been named lead after 14 years teaching than 13 years. the Pacific Northwest instructional designer. Plans in Brookfield, Wis. region. He previously He previously worked for Osell ’19, AmeriCorps Cathy Toll ’79 and her served as a public affairs the University of South program manager and six books on educational Under the Knight Lights representative for the Carolina Upstate. 2015 Anna Miller volunteer coordinator has accepted a The SNC women’s network is gearing up for its third season with events slated for February Coast Guard in New at the Cassandra Voss coaching – as well as a York. He has served 2010 Victor Newberg position as donor Center; and Megan and April. Knight Lights participants last year headed to Breakthrough, where they heard from book for principals on the Coast Guard for has been named men’s relations coordinator Yeo ’19, Children’s a panel of St. Norbert College alumnae who work at the company, and tried their hand at floral seven years. soccer coach at Goshen at the Lisle, Ill., Morton Center teacher. leadership of learning – arranging at Branching Out & Co., owned by Casee (Meach) Hawkins ’04. College. He previously Arboretum, where have set the standard for “We are getting behind-the-scenes access to some businesses in the Greater Green Bay 2010 Brooke Auxier served as assistant she manages events Share your news! school practices across the country and has earned a Ph.D. in men’s soccer coach and is the lead writer community and in the Fox Valley community that are owned by, run by St. Norbert alum women, Submit your item at journalism studies with at Trine University. for the development around the world. and that in and of itself is pretty special,” says Brenda Busch B.B.A. ’93 M.L.A. ’13. snc.edu/go/keepintouch. department. “Not only do we all have in common the St. Norbert College connection, which instantly a focus on social media and information studies 2011 Anthony Nanne Keep track and Read more about our award winners. brings us together, we’re attending the Knight Lights event because we want to be available 2015 Rebecca (Liming) from the University of has been promoted connect with fellow snc.edu/magazine to other women, to encourage them, to support them,” Busch adds. Sanderfoot has earned Maryland, College Park. to vice president of alumni on Facebook. Guests and event hosts talk about the program at snc.edu/magazine. her Master of Education She works as a research investment banking at facebook.com/sncalumni associate on the internet Piper Jaffray & Co. from UW-Stout.

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One more for the ages Recommended viewing: Each year, just before the semester begins, the $5 masterpieces sell out fast SNC and seven college president hosts a welcome-back dinner In return for a $5 bill or less, coin-op for all faculty and staff. The highlight of the evening connoisseurs visiting this semester’s “Why We of the greatest comes at the end of the meal, when tiny chocolate Collect” exhibit were able to acquire original When we checked out the NFL’s 100 Greatest cups of Frigolet – a Norbertine liqueur – are served pieces of art for their own collection – via Photos, we did not expect to encounter so to each table and the Norbertines present lead us vending machine. The creatively stocked outlet many old friends among the photographers. in a traditional Flanders drinking song: the “Vivat.” was filled with the output of working artists, Iconic images by Vern Biever ’48 accounted This year, it was Father Rowland De Peaux among them some of St. Norbert’s own faculty, for three of the photos on the list. Vern’s sons ’48, now in his 10th decade, who stood to do the students and staff. John and Jim took three more between them. honors. College curator Shan Bryan-Hanson And Mike Roemer, one of the college’s current We’re a magazine for an audience across (Art) and friends from the art discipline were go-to photographers, rounded out the seven multiple generations, but one produced in an exploring, and perhaps subverting, the very with his 2012 went-viral image of Donald environment that, by its very nature, is almost notion of collecting by using this unusual space Driver’s Lambeau Leap. Seven out of 100 completely populated by the 18- to 65-year-old to purvey collages, prints, zines and more. Find ain’t bad! crowd. We love covering the doings of young out more at youtube.com/stnorbertcollege. The league published its top-100 list as part adults – our students – and of the working Biever photos used with kind permission; Roemer of the celebrations marking its 100th season. population in higher-ed – our faculty and staff. But photo courtesy Mike Roemer on assignment for the The list of gridiron greats captured by the SNC- Associated Press. their constantly innovating, constantly producing connected included Bart Starr, Jim Taylor, Jerry presence poses something of a challenge if Kramer, Fuzzy Thurston, Reggie White, Chris we hope to depict the full spectrum of human Zorich, Paul Hornung and Rich Karlis. flourishing. That’s why it’s such a delight when we have the chance to feature young children or seniors within our pages. Our photo features this issue span the decades, thanks to a young visitor to SNC Day (on page 9) and, of course, to our very Calendar own Father De Peaux (on page 13). He, who has called our campus home for longer than any other books and other paper materials in the collection of the Mulva Library – resident, still actively serves in his role as chaplain 10 years old this year.9 Serial subscriptions,6 (100,960), e-books (89,890) November to the alumni board. Vivat! 4 2and more bring total resources close to half9 a million.4 18 SNC Bell Choir & String Ensemble Concert 20 Pilgrim Forum: “The Spirit as the Source Picking up the thread of All Life” Participants at the Cassandra Voss Center 23 Opera Workshop got in touch with their heritage while creating beadwork with visiting artist Waqnahwew Ben Soccer great Abby Wambach got Grignon. Grignon, an educator and activist December in on the picture after an annual WORDS & PICTURES committed to the preservation of indigenous 6 Festival of Christmas Concert Ringing in the events Editor: Susan Allen Art Director: Laura Treichel mini-reunion of women’s basketball language and culture through the arts, kicked 11 Digital Transformation Series: “Bitcoin vs. on our winter calendar Alumni Editor: Hannah O’Brien Contributors: alums in September. The leading off the CVC’s 2019-20 theme “UNinvisible” with Organic Tomato – The Promises and this year, the SNC Bell Mike Counter M.L.S. ’14, John Devroy, Erika lectures and educational activities, showing that Challenges of Blockchain” all-time international scorer Choir heralds the holiday Ditzman ’21, Dan Flannery, Susan Korntved, artwork can help people reflect on memories of 12-15, 17 Christmas With the Knights retweeted a photo of the “30-Year season. It performs with Hannah Kruse ’18, Melanie (Radzicki) McManus relatives and tell stories of their ancestors. the string ensemble on ’83, Rachel Mueller ’14, Emilie Smith ’20, Corey Wolfpack” after Julie Masino Nov. 18. Wilson. ’88 had gifted each of them a January copy of Wambach’s book. Cathy 2-Feb. 21 “Fragments of the Acceleration”: new work College President: Brian J. Bruess ’90 Clarksen ’89 said, “30 years from Brandon Bauer (Art) Vice President for Enrollment Management ago we supported one another 29-Feb. 2 Knight Theatre presents “Tuck Everlasting” & Communications: Edward J. Lamm on the court. Today we support one another through life. God February TALK TO US! is good! Love this year’s 5-April 1 Lecture Series: Great Decisions 2020 We love to hear from you, and rely on you memories!” Coach Connie Tilley, 16 Winter BandFest Concert 2020 to keep us posted. You can find us at newly retired, joined the friends snc.edu/magazine, on Facebook, via as a first-timer at the event. [email protected] or 920-403-3048, or at: For details of March these events and 6-7 Green Bay Film Festival on the St. Norbert Office of Communications at St. Norbert College, more, visit snc.edu/ campus 100 Grant St., De Pere, WI 54115-2099 calendar. 11 CNS lecture: “Norbertine Women Today” Printed by Independent Inc., De Pere 100 Grant Street De Pere, WI 54115-2099 St. Norbert College Magazine

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