Phoenix 3.0 University marks milestone (We’re 40!) and welcomes its third generation

Andrew Mulloy compares notes (his on a laptop, hers in a textbook) with his grandmother, Kathryn VerKuilen ’70, one of UW-Green Bay’s first ‘returning adult’ grads

APRIL 2010 Notes from 2420 Nicolet… Students shine for UW-Green Bay

Greetings from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay!

One of my roles as chancellor is being an ambassador for this University. It’s something I enjoy and find relatively easy to do; we have plenty of success stories to share.

There are times, though, when I am reminded I am not this University’s best ambassador. That distinction rests instead with our students and graduates.

The ninth annual Academic Excellence Symposium illustrates this perfectly. It was an absolute delight to browse the exhibits, chat with some of our top students and see the high level of academic achievement in their research projects, independent studies and artistic achievements. I took great pride in seeing these students so confidently display their work to campus and community visitors.

Another proud moment came not here, but in Ames, Iowa, with the UW-Green Bay women’s basketball team in the NCAA Tournament. The Phoenix came within an eyelash of the Sweet 16. As important, the players and coaches, pep band, cheer squad and fans represented us with spirit and class, winning admira- tion for their sportsmanship. We’re still fielding compliments directed their way.

Among the best stories told during “March Madness” was one away from the court, regarding Phoenix guard Celeste Hoewisch and her ongoing work with special fan Zach Heugel of Green Bay (photo below). Celeste was a star of her team’s upset win over Virginia. If you saw coverage on TV or on our website, however, you know her greatest contributions will have more to do with her studies in biology and exercise science, and her absolute commitment to helping others.

One other story you might have seen involved “green” ink in Green Bay. When our Computing and Information Technology division announced a move to a less ink-intensive font as our default typeface, it became national news. The attention was timely as we approach the 40th anniversary of the first Earth Day, and alumni return for a major conference celebrating the occasion.

It has been a great spring for your University. Thank you for your continuing interest, and Go Phoenix!

Thomas Harden Chancellor FEATURES

Inside UW-Green Bay Mr. Housing 9 April 2010 9 Honors for Class of ’70 grad Volume 36, No. 2

Editor 2020 vision Chris Sampson 1 6 Ideas for UW-Green Bay’s future Editorial Staff Chris Sampson Phuture is now Sue Bodilly 17 First alumna arrives on compus Contributing Writers Terry Anderson Long-lost games Paul Mee 1 8 Coach‘s gift preserves memories Jennifer Klein

Designer Yvonne Splan 17 Photographer DEPARTMENTS Eric Miller

Contributing 13 Campus news 18 Photographer Adam Koenig 18 Alumni notes • Inside UW-Green Bay is published by the Office of 23 Association news University Advancement and its Marketing and Communi- cation unit. We welcome your comments. Address them to: 16 Inside UW-Green Bay Editor, Cofrin Library Suite 815, fax (920) 465-2340, or e-mail [email protected]. Mail change of address notification to Inside UW- Green Bay, Cofrin Library Suite 820, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 2420 Nicolet Drive, Green Bay, WI 54311-7001. Visit Inside on the web at www.uwgb.edu/inside/ In 1970, new campus meant new life

Forty years old, a stay-at-home mother and suddenly widowed with four children ages 4 through 16, Kathryn VerKuilen surveyed her options. Something happening across town, on Green Bay’s east side, caught her eye. It was early 1968 and ground had been bro- ken on a new four-year university. At the time, the Green Bay Center on Deckner Avenue offered only freshman/sophomore-level classes as a feeder to the main University of Wiscon- sin campus in Madison, 140 miles away. The placebound VerKuilen had never been much interested in the Center. Having started school in Madison before starting a family, she already had two years of college. When she looked to the construction on Nicolet Drive, though, she saw a future. “I had to do something, I had to find a job,” she says now. “I had volunteered a lot at Jack- son School where my kids went to school and I thought, I’ll go back and finish my degree and become a teacher. Plus, I’d be off when the children were off.” then

VerKuilen enrolled as one of UWGB’s first stu- who grew up on a South Dakota reservation dents. She got her bachelor’s from the College and spoke so reverently of native culture. of Community Science in December 1970. “That first year it was a small school and the “I think I was the oldest one in that class,” she students and faculty were very close,” she recalls. “The younger kids were all very nice... says. “In my anthropology class, we thought it professors, staff… a wonderful experience.” would be fun to have a dinner, and I said ‘Why doesn’t everybody come over to my house?’ Within a month of graduation she had a job, at Morgan L. Martin Elementary. A year later, “I set up card tables all over the house, and she transferred to the new MacArthur School all the college-age students and the professor closer to her west side home. She taught there and his wife came, too. They were from India, About that Phoenix for more than 20 years before retiring. and she was wearing a beautiful saari and had In May it will be 40 years since the student the ornamental (bindi) dot on her forehead, Each of her own children went on to graduate vote that gave UW-Green Bay the Phoenix. and we enjoyed each other’s company and from college. Two grandchildren including Dean Tremble, a retired military officer cultures. I’ll always remember that evening.” now living in Sparta, wrote recently to attach one at UW-Green Bay (facing page) are follow- a name to a longstanding mystery. He said ing her lead into education careers. VerKuilen still has some of her old textbooks. She hauled out a favorite, Earth and Man, for a he and Omega Kappa buddy Fred Bloedhorn VerKuilen’s UWGB memories include a speech photo prop. It was written by a favorite UWGB contributed the idea and art behind the entry course with Prof. Jack Frisch that first summer submitted anonymously to the contest. Trem- professor, Frank Byrne, on a topic she enjoyed after her husband’s death. She recalls lectures ble’s inspiration was that, from the humble old studying, geology. Deckner Avenue campus, a great new univer- by transportation expert Donald Gandre, who sity on the bayshore would arise out of the described the tradeoff of precious farmland Actually, there were few classes she didn’t ashes. “Every time I see the Phoenix on TV, I being paved over by the region’s first four-lane enjoy. It was, after all, her new life. highways. She remembers an independent have to say, ‘That was my idea,’” Tremble says. “There were just a lot of really good people. It “My little claim to fame.” study with economics professor Jim Murray, was a perfect fit.”

2 April 2010 Names of June 1, 1970 graduates listed in program:

John Beauchamp, Managerial Systems Deceased Barbara Ward Belschner Humanism & Cultural Change resides today in Tulsa, Okla. Richard Berceau, Humanism & Cultural Change, Prior Lake, Minn. Cynthia Manders Besson Modernization Processes, Green Bay Pat Sturchio Bhatt, Communication & the Arts, Chino Hills, Calif. Margaret Kirschling Borremans, HCC Dale Buckmaster, Managerial Systems Middleton, Wis. R. Scott Burkhardt, Environmental Control, Oconto, Wis. Virginia Carpentier, Communication & the Arts, Green Bay Yvonne Nortwen Chambers, Humanism & Cultural Change, Conover, Wis. Robert Cherry, Humanism & Cultural Change, Milwaukee Patricia Koester Davis Humanism & Cultural Change Future teacher follows in now grandmother’s footsteps Mulloy transferred in after Joyce Herlache DeBauche, Human Biology UW-Green Bay has been Deceased around long enough that two- attending the University of generation Phoenix families are St. Thomas in the Twin Cities. Gary DeGrave, Regional Analysis common. Now, it’s time for a He’s on track to student teach UW-Green Bay is perfect for Corpus Christi, Tex. third generation. in fall and receive a bachelor’s him, too, He’s saving expenses John DePauw, Ecosystems Analysis in Education with a minor in this semester by living at her Green Bay When Drew Mulloy ’10 recently Environmental Sciences. home. He also has the benefit took his grandmother, Kathryn Nancy Ably DePrey, Regional Analysis of homework help from a tal- VerKuilen ’70, on a driving He plans a career in elementary Green Bay ented grad with professional tour of his school, it was also education, inspired partly by expertise in his chosen field. Florence Killsdonk Doverspike her school. And she couldn’t his grandmother (story on fac- Humanism & Cultural Change, Antigo believe all the changes. ing page). Widowed young but “It’s fun because we’re always Kathleen McDonough Gerds intent on a better life for her comparing what has changed, “The whole time we were driv- Humanism & Cultural Change, Pulaski family, she built upon credits the different teaching methods. ing around, she went on and on earned many years previous How do you handle challenging Eugene Geurts about all the new buildings and Ecosystems Analysis, De Pere, Wis. and persevered to graduation. students? How do you teach how different everything was,” reading? She’s interested in Helen Halpern Glickman Mulloy says. “I have always admired how all the new methods, and I’m Humanism & Cultural Change, Green Bay strong she was for doing that,” While their alma mater has interested that in many areas Mulloy says. “I also appreciate Janet Hart, Modernization Processes changed radically — in 1970 the pendulum seems to have how perfect it was for her that Deceased there were only three buildings gone back to methods from her this university opened in her — there’s a family resemblance days in college.” John Harvey, Managerial Systems city at just the right time.” Burnsville, Minn. in their Green Bay experiences.

April 2010 3 Card games, Shorewood and draft-lottery memories

Kicking back at the old Shorewood Club. Playing cards in the Deckner Center caf- eteria. That’s what a few of UW-Green Bay’s first graduates remember about student life that first year at the new University. Harold Baker ’70 says his student job was as a bartender. It was an era when it was legal for 18-year-olds to consume beer. Baker worked the bar at Shorewood, which was the old clubhouse of the former private golf course on the site. “Shorewood hosted dances, some bands and the like,” says Baker. “My main memory was the day (Dec. 1, 1969) when we watched the very first military draft lottery on TV at the club. There were cheers, and probably tears, as each birth date was drawn from the tub and was assigned the next priority number to be drafted.” Keith Pamperin ’70 says Shorewood “really was the place to meet and greet after class and school functions, serving as our student union.” Baker, who went on to a 30-year career with Thrivent Financial for Lutherans after receiving his Managerial Systems degree,

“For those of us who were there, it’s hard to believe that it’s going to be our 40th!” then Michael McDaniel, MGS Sedona, Ariz. takes it a step further. For many students, tickets to students to express their opin- the club was the new campus. ions with a maul or sledgehammer. Politics Retired airline captain and civil-rights issues also played out in “That first year, some of us pretty much did student theatre productions of the era, all our class work at the Deckner campus,” Hobbies: Hiking, skiing, motor- Opicka remembers. Baker recalls. “To be sure, we spent very cycles, travel and volunteering at little time at the new site, other than being Readings and teach-ins, either at Shore- the Animal Shelter at the Shorewood Club.” wood or the Deckner Center (above) would draw attentive student audiences. Ron Opicka ’70 remembers the cafeteria at the Deckner Avenue center filled with Another early campus fixture was the classmates intently focused on… their “Bluewhale Coffeehouse.” It was little more cards. “Sheepshead, cribbage, a lot of than a makeshift stage and wooden sign William Hearden chess, and bridge was popular at the time,” for a backdrop, set up on Saturday nights Urban Analysis, Green Bay he says. at the old Shorewood Club, but it anchored the student music scene. The “Whale” went Kenneth Hogg, Humanism Other memories include the popular away by 1987 when the old clubhouse was & Cultural Change, Duluth fundraiser of spray-painting a junker car torn down and the new union expanded. Robert Hyde, Humanism & with slogans or drawings and then selling Cultural Change, Three Lakes The coffeehouse music scene has revived this decade with the Common Grounds Philip Ihlenfeldt, Managerial Coffeehouse proving popular at the Uni- Systems, Green Bay versity Union. Marjorie Brick Jehle, Modern- ization Processes, Manitowoc Dale Johnson, Managerial Systems, Neenah

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Rock concert publicists. That’s the assignment students Josh Braun and Kassie Schnell are embracing in their roles with the Good Times Programming student organization.

E-vote calls the tunes UW-Green Bay students are Actually, in a sign of the times, stoked about an April 24 concert Good Times used the internet by a red-hot band at the 4,000- and an e-mail survey even Finances got you down? seat Kress Events Center. before booking the concert, to Comics git ‘er done gauge student preference as The band is called The Red This spring’s Weidner Center lineup confirms a trend: Standup to big-name acts. (Sorry, Owl Jumpsuit Apparatus, or RJA, and shows by Larry the Cable Guy on May 16, a visit by sketch-com- City, Cartel, Flyleaf, Motion City their music is described as a “mix edy legend Tim Conway on May 22, and a “No Reservations” Soundtrack and Jack’s Manne- of pop-punk, pop, screamo, and evening June 11 with the funny-in-a-sardonic-way Anthony quin, but in the student vote, the Bourdain are selling tickets. metal.” Big songs include “Pen Apparatus owned you.) and Paper” and “Face Down,” “There’s a definite increase in comedic programming which made Billboard’s Top 25. The April 24 show will be the first this year, and maybe people are looking for laughs major student-booked concert because of the economy,” says Weidner Center The promoter is the student in two-and-a-half years since Presents, Inc. president Katie Green, Class organization Good Times Switchfoot and Relient K rocked of 1999. Programming. The big-time show a sold-out Kress Center (inset means valuable professional-level Comedy has always played well on cam- photo above). That show kicled experience for PR coordinator pus, she adds, with George Carlin, Lewis off grand opening festivities in Josh Braun and special events Black, Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Cosby, and Jeff November 2007. Foxworthy as previous draws. director Kassie Schnell. They’re using posters, press releases, “Most of our ticket-buyers are drawn from internet channels and word of the community, but we also see a good num- mouth to push ticket sales. ber of UW-Green Bay students,” Green says.

April 2010 5 First across the stage: Memories of June 1,1970

Most of today’s graduates began their studies in the Center System. When it became definitely known about two years ago that UWGB was to open offi- cially in September 1969, they were moved by their interest and pride in the new institution to seek to become its first graduates. Today’s ceremony, then, is a tribute to their pioneering spirit and determination. — Text from first Commencement booklet Forty years ago this spring, on the first Monday of June 1970, 78 “pioneers” received the first degrees awarded by the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. The event capped UW-Green Bay’s inaugural year at its bayshore location and second since upper-level courses debuted at the former freshman/sophomore Deckner campus. Scheduled for the plaza above the Instruc- tional Services Building, the ceremony was moved by iffy weather to the gym at Deckner a few miles away. Gary Kuchenbecker ’70 remembers walking down the aisle to shake hands with Chancellor Edward Weidner and Gov. Warren Knowles, who just five years earlier had signed the legislation that would create UWGB. Knowles would deliver a speech lauding the institution

“Of roughly 1,200 graduates I have taught in my 36 years, I have 10 science doctorates from Tigerton — then I’m very proud of that… As for fond for representing “a new wave of educational Nancy Leicht Lambeau, niece of the Packers memories… fall of 1969, walking thought” and being “destined to become a founder. Max Lerner of the New York Times into the Lab Sciences Building with truly great university.” (“world-wide syndicated columnist”) was flown As for Kuchenbecker, “I was just happy to be in to deliver the commencement address. paint cans, ladders and construction graduating,” he recalls. “But looking back There was no student speaker. tools strewn all over… I remember now at it being Year One, that was simply Ron Retherford ’70 remembers the day for pounding noises during the first lec- downright neat.” its music. While the official record notes a prelude concert and triumphant recessional tures, and although I can’t remember Many of the graduates were 30 or older. About half were married. A newspaper clip records by the Concert Band under the direction of what course it was (probably genetics that Mrs. Helen H. Glickman of Green Bay, the Robert J. Bauer, Retherford maintains that at some point a little barbershop harmony burst with Dr. Ihrke), I remember two guys senior member of the class at age 47, had first started college in 1940. forth. knocking on the door, interrupting Processing in alphabetical order, Nancy C. “Since we had no school song, Ken Hogg and the lecture, asking when the room Ably of Green Bay was the first to receive her two other graduates and I wrote, rehearsed, and sang the first ‘official’ graduation song,” would be free because they had to degree, in regional analysis. Ably, now Nancy Deprey and a retired educator, has returned he says. “The song was unusual, but represen- put up some more blackboards. to campus many times since — including the tative of the kind of silliness and fun we had as the first graduating class of our brand new — What a hoot! 2008 commencement ceremony when she helped the Alumni Association welcome the and also unusual —college.” Gary Kuchenbecker, ECA institution’s 25,000th graduate. As Retherford and Hogg tell the story — and with his “Creative Communication” degree Tigerton, Wis. Ably’s sister Peggy was in the same graduating class. Befitting the first graduating class in and status as an ordained Methodist minister, Science teacher, Tigerton H.S. Green Bay, the cohort included a Lambeau, who could doubt Retherford? — the student quartet donned Shakey’s Pizza Parlor straw

6 April 2010 Eric Johnson Humanism & Cultural Change resides today in Seattle Harry Katch, Regional Analysis Deceased Patricia Warne Kluth Regional Analysis, Green Bay Lennie Mecca Kramer, Moderniza- tion Processes, Cottage Grove, Wis Gary Kuchenbecker, Ecosystems Analysis, Tigerton, Wis. Gerald Lange Humanism & Cultural Change Marina Del Rey, Calif. Steven Lauson Managerial Systems, Manitowoc Ronald Lodes, Managerial Systems Retired from career in industrial advertising in the automotive aftermarket, Racine, Wis. Nancy Leicht Lambeau Makuen Humanism & Cultural Change Estero, Fla. Michael McDaniel, Managerial Systems, Sedona, Ariz. Theodore McQuiston, Managerial Systems, Fredericksburg, Va. Neoma Seidl Michalski Modernization Processes, deceased Mary Munsinger Mollica, Manawa Humanism & Cultural Change

hats and held up huge cardboard letters, Press Gazette, with a picture of me and a U-W-G-B, to deliver their ditty: classmate explaining why we would forgo the caps and gowns, and then replace them with U is for the happiness YOU bring me pants versus the much more appropriate and W means twice as much to me, to me, conventional skirt.” G we’re glad you’re here So together we can B (To see the newsclip, visit Inside online.) now (To hear an audio file of the “first school Those were different times, certainly, but song,” go to Inside online.) Broadwater says her appreciation only increases with distance. There would be another UW-Green Bay commencement in December, with all of the “We were idealistic… I often tell others of degrees but little of the hoopla. With only the experience I had on that first Earth Day 40 graduating, the ceremony was held in at Eco-U… I also have great memories of my Spring Commencement 2010 the Preble High School auditorium and the time in the ‘warehouse’ art studio. I learned seniors agreed to dispense with formality, to love clay and made many friends in that • Saturday, May 15, 11:30 a.m. including caps and gowns. drafty old place…. The first trip to London? I • Kress Events Center (capacity of was there. I was married and my husband fully That non-traditional approach raised a few 5,000 with floor seating) supported and encouraged me to go, but my eyebrows, recalls Deb Gibson Broadwater, married friends just couldn’t understand how • Record graduating class of class of ’70, now a retired U.S. Army colonel I could leave home and husband for even a living in Virginia. nearly 750 short time. “In today’s world it’s difficult to believe, but • Total alumni will top 27,000 “They just didn’t understand the spirit of when a few of the graduating young women UWGB and the opportunities to think outside decided to wear ‘pant suits’ it was considered the box, at a time when most universities were revolutionary,” she says. “It even made the wallowing in traditionalism.” April 2010 7 ‘A sea of oozing slime’ at birth of campus housing Forty years ago this summer, construction of the Bay Apartment complex put nine two-story buildings with the capacity to house nearly 600 students right next door to the new UW-Green Bay. And a prolonged rainy spell put the first tenants ankle-deep in mud. “It was just a sea of oozing slime out there. No landscap- ing, just mud and straw,” recalled Class of ’71 grad David Kohn, who moved into one of the units in August 1970 and snapped these photos. “Construction wasn’t even complete on many of the units, and I had to sleep on the floor of someone else’s place until mine was finished.” “The Bay Apts” began as a commercial operation man- aged by Inland Steel Development Corp. Their devel- oper, David Carley, an anti-war candidate for Wisconsin governor, was a public figure in those days; in March 1971 students celebrated the opening of a coffeehouse in the Building 107 basement by naming it Carley’s Place in their then-landlord’s honor. By 1980 the apartments were purchased on behalf of the University, providing the core for new residence hall and apartment-suites buildings and today’s Residence Life complex of nearly 2,100 beds. Worth noting: The yellow school bus in the 1970 photo was most likely the “Deckner Shuttle,” which trans- ported students between the new Shorewood site and the downtown UW Center campus on Deckner Avenue, where many classes still were held.

“I ended up being good friends with founding chancellor Ed Weidner. He was just brilliant.” then Kathleen McDonough Gerds Pulaski H.S. teacher, adviser ‘Eco U’ claim to fame: Helped organize first Earth Day extrava- Pamperin Hall ganza at Brown County Arena for • Three stories, 51,000 square college honors project feet, $8 million cost • 32 suites housing 126 students Marilyn Neitzel Moore Modernization Processes • Precast concrete and steel resides today in Green Bay construction Ronald Opicka Ecosystems Analysis, Casco • Each suite has living room Michel Paque, Regional and kitchen, private bedrooms, Analysis, Oklahoma City toilet and shower rooms Bernard Petras, Modernization Processes, Green Bay • Rental rate approximately Mary Lucci Quarters, Green Bay Humanism & Cultural Change $4,350/year for a private room

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The Bay Apartments opened in 1970, his senior year. He was selected a “resource student” and provided an efficiency apartment, which he shared with Resource Student Patrick Madden (later an Iron County judge and distinguished alumnus, himself), until Madden’s apartment was completed. “My building was named after the diplomat Dag Hammarskjold,” Pamperin recalls. “Back then there were no sidewalks, and we walked planks through the construction mud to get to our apartments… It was a small, tightly knit group. At some point in the day you probably saw every student attending the University.” When Pamperin graduated in 1970 with a B.S. in Urban Analysis, he had every intention of return- ing to UW-Milwaukee for grad school. But before he could take a single class, he received a call from the city of Green Bay and a job offer. They needed someone in the Planning Department who could work with property acquisition and develop a newly mandated housing relocation plan for the Don A. Tilleman (Mason Street) Bridge and the Gregby downtown redevelopment plan. An original tenant then, Pamperin, who received UW-Green Bay’s Distinguished Alumni Award for community service in 1994, retired last year after 38 years today Pamperin has Hall of his own with the Green Bay and Brown County Housing It’s appropriate that the newest residence University Village Housing. Of UW-Green Bay’s Authorities but remains active in community and hall nearing completion on the University of 6,500 students, 2,100 will live on campus. University affairs. He is a director on the boards Wisconsin-Green Bay campus be named in honor of a dozen organizations ranging from University “I feel so very honored, and I am excited that this of Keith A. Pamperin. No other alumnus has been Village Housing Inc. to the Wisconsin Wildlife new building is as close to a ‘green building’ as is as instrumental in furthering UW-Green Bay as a Federation, NeighborWorks Green Bay and the practical to build,” Pamperin said. “This dorm will residential campus. NEW Community Shelter. be centrally located and includes features that Pamperin ’70 lived in the first housing unit on students have requested.” “I think the most fun back then was that we were campus. Later, as a community development the grass roots, creating a campus,” he said. “It A Green Bay East High School graduate, Pam- specialist for Green Bay and Brown County, he was a great opportunity for student involvement. perin began his college career in Milwaukee but worked with Chancellor Edward Weidner and I was part of the Chancellor’s Student Advisory returned home to recuperate following a serious Associate Chancellor Donald Harden to develop Committee and we would have monthly meetings motor-scooter accident and an 8-month hospi- a bond/financing process that paved the way at the Chancellor’s home and he would share with talization. He enrolled part time at UW-Green for University Village Housing Inc., a private, us his vision for the University. Bay and discovered he liked being a student not-for-profit corporation, to build high-quality on the ground floor of a developing university “When I see today how the campus has grown, residential facilities on campus. dubbed “Eco U.” Still on crutches, he enjoyed the the academic buildings, the Weidner Center, the When it welcomes its first residents Aug. 31 on ease of getting from class to class on a compact Kress Events Center and student housing, it’s fall move-in day, Keith Pamperin Hall — a 126- campus, and the fact that “as juniors and seniors amazing how much it has followed that original bed, apartment-style residence hall — will be we had classes with nationally recognized full pro- vision. I’ve been blessed to be a part of the the 17th residential building built and owned by fessors, and fewer than a dozen students.” University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and this (Pamperin Hall) is a wonderful honor.”

April 2010 9 ‘Green Innovations’ marks Earth Day 40th at Eco U UW-Green Bay will celebrate sustainability during Earth Week with Green Innovations 2010. The two-day conference begins Thursday, April 22, with keynote speaker David Wann addressing “The New Normal: Finding Real Wealth in a Sustainable Lifestyle.” Wann is co- author of the best-selling book Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic. His presentation at 7 p.m. in the Phoenix Room of the University Union is free and open to the public. Green Innovations continues on April 23 at The Meadows Conference Center, Kepler Drive, Green Bay, with a full day of breakout sessions on sustainability in transportation, wind energy, regional health and regional sustainability. The conference and appearance by Wann (photo below) coincide with the week’s anniversary of the first Earth Day in 1970. The sponsor is UW-Green Bay’s Environmental Management and Business Institute. EMBI is a vehicle for reaffirming the University’s leadership in environmental initiatives, bridging gaps between sci- ence, public policy and business; and keeping the green in UW-Green Bay, an institution known as ‘Eco U’ long before being green became trendy. The conference fee for Friday’s sessions covers materials and lunch. Registration info is available online at www.uwgb.edu/embi/workshop, or by request at (920) 496-2117.

A closing reception for Green Innovations 2010 will take place from 4 to 5 p.m. Friday, April 23. Alumni and friends of the University are invited to join the gathering, free of charge, with then Alumnus to earn first an advance RSVP to Alumni Relations Director Mark Brunette ‘Earth Caretaker Award’ at [email protected]. New at this year’s Green Innovations conference will be presentation of the first Earth Caretaker Award. The honor recog- A new state law banning used oil filters and absorbent nizes a UW-Green Bay graduate who has materials from landfill disposal got a major boost from a Changing gone on to make contributions in his or student at UW-Green Bay. her field of study and to the environment. the system, Graduate student Adam Snippen (photo, left) and Prof. and closing an John Katers helped champion Assembly Bill 256, which goes into effect on December 10, 2010. State recycling oily loophole law already prohibited the disposal into landfills of steel, paper and oil, but the old rules never directly addressed 40 years of memories… used oil filters. What are yours? Two years ago, Snippen revisited an earlier report and Memories are meaningful and meant to recalculated how much waste oil may be going into state be shared. Take a walk down memory lane landfills as part of his work with the UW-Extension Solid — in this case, 2420 Nicolet Drive — by and Hazardous Waste Education Center. Not only did enjoying some of the early photographic Snippen gather the data, he was called upon to testify images from campus. If they trigger a about his findings before the Assembly Committee on memory, or you can identify place, time, and Natural Resources. people, we’d certainly enjoy hearing about “I like getting turned loose on a subject and having to it, and sharing with Inside readers in the problem solve,” Snippen said. “I took a look at high and future. Take a look: low estimates and found that on the high end there could www.uwgb.edu/inside/1004/vintage-photos be up to a million gallons of oil getting into landfills.”

10 April 2010 Ronald Retherford Humanism & Cultural Change resides today in New Berlin, Wis. Rick Riehl, Humanism & Cultural Change, West Bend Associate Athletics Director, SID Concordia University Marilyn Krause Rotter, Humanism and Cultural Change, Green Bay, returning adult student who graduated at 33, still active with volunteer work Harry Schaefer, Modernization Processes, Manitowoc Lucille Ely Schwarz, Managerial Systems, Cheyenne, Wyo.

“I think I must be one of the few 1970 grads still working.” Ronald Opicka Ecosystems Analysis CEO of East Shore Industries Favorite faculty: Al Loomer, Paul Sager, Chuck Rhyner, George Petrie, Lloyd Nesberg

Student sustainability intern says, ‘Watch your waste’ now Aerosol cans, print toners and ness of recycling here… and batteries have joined paper, the price we pay if we don’t. cans and plastics as must- “Paper, disposable cups and recycle items at UW-Green Bay. silverware, and packaging all In many ways, history is repeat- have a price,” Collard said. “The Still charged up about recycling ing itself at a place that helped less we use, the less we pay for.” model recyling as one of the Camera batteries, watch batteries, car batteries… 9v, AA, Collard believes that by raising AAA, C, D… lithium, nickel cadmium, lead-acid and more. When region’s first major institutions awareness and competing this to embrace the practice 40 batteries have given their last spark of energy to the University spring in a national competi- and re-charging isn’t an option, there’s now a safe place they years ago (photo on facing tion involving schools nation- page, above). can call home. UW-Green Bay wide, UW-Green Bay lives out support staff members and the As the sustainability intern at its environmental mission. Classified Staff Advisory Council UW-Green Bay, Molly Collard “We were founded on environ- have been promoting a new bat- (above) has focused her atten- mental principles, and were tery recycling program with drop- tion on spreading the word of once known as Eco U,” Collard off points across campus. The “RecycleMania” to the campus. said. “Being vigilant about batteries — bagged in plastic or Collard is looking, along with recycling is a great way to show with terminals taped to minimize the University’s Sustainability we still are striving to live up to fire hazard, leakage and corrosion Committee, to heighten aware- that mission.” — are then gathered for recycling.

April 2010 11 For first grads, UW-Green Bay meant something different

UW-Green Bay began life as an experimental university with a highly innovative curriculum. Interdisciplinary research and problem solving were founding principles. The first grads, however, experienced a blend. “We were a transition class,” recalls one December grad, Harold Baker ’70. “We started in a two-year school that was changed to a

then now

four-year school while we were there, so we Mary Renn Shaw actually followed the Madison curriculum. The Modernization Processes “Memories? The bed and breakfast owner one exception was that we did complete twelve Lincoln Park area, Chicago feeling that we were getting a credits of LES, Liberal Education Seminars.” Helen Siebers, Humanism small, private-college atmosphere Incoming students didn’t have majors, & Cultural Change, Sun Prairie they had “concentrations” with names like at state college prices. Sitting in Communication-Action, Ecosystems Analysis, Maxine Lichterman Smith Modernization Processes, deceased the lecture hall while they were Environmental Control, Growth and Develop- ment, Modernization Processes, Population Kathleen Hunkele Sosnouski still hammering and sawing in the Dynamics and the famous Analysis-Synthesis. Modernization Processes,Fitchburg rooms next door. How miserably (Many thought its institutional abbreviation, Scott Storm, Managerial Systems freezing it was to walk from the ANAL SYN, was naughtily amusing.) Jan Swokowski, Communication While that early terminology has evolved, & the Arts, Mishicot, Wis. parking lot to the buildings when interdisciplinarity and problem solving remain Michael Thor the winter winds were blowing in cornerstones. And early grads still swear by it. Managerial Systems, deceased off the bay. Brrrrrrr!... “ “I tell everyone that the broad-based educa- Kathleen Seymour Vander Velden tion I got at UWGB was the best preparation Urban Analysis, Appleton Kathleen Seymour Vander Velden possible,” says Sherry M. Steffel ’70, today an environmental attorney for the state of Wis- Linda Vanderloop, Humanism Urban Analysis, Class of 1970 & Cultural Change, deceased consin. She studied ecology here, then earned Chaplain at Bethel Home, master’s in limnology and land-use planning, Mary Van Slyke Wink, Growth and a law degree, from UW-Madison. “When & Development, Appleton Oshkosh all my friends from high school went off to Alice Raith Yoder-Whitmore college, I stayed in Green Bay, my home town. Humanism & Cultural Change The best decision I ever made.”

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Retiree group looks ahead to history, scholarships Photographic recall The Retiree Association and the Alumni Association are gearing up for a major effort that could finally attach names, dates and details to hundreds of photographs from UW- Green Bay’s early years. The University was diligent in documenting facilities, people, events and activities of the late 1960s and 1970s. From film When about 75 UW-Green Bay its $5 per year membership fee curriculum. Committee members negatives to black-and-white retirees and their guests met this July 1, when all current and are combing the Cofrin Library’s prints to color slides, those last fall in the Phoenix Room future retirees will automatically collections. Interviews are under images have been preserved to reflect on 40 years at their become members. way with the help of a UW- and protected. Few, however, favorite institution, it was a blend Madison oral-history specialist. of old and new. The group’s president, Ken carry captions or subject IDs. Fleurant, also announced that “The hope is to tap into the An initial selection of photos The “old” was the dinner itself the Association would award its memories of our early faculty and — retirees have held an annual first student scholarship ($500) will be archived to the web as staff,” Fleurant said, “and have reunion at UW-Green Bay for this semester. those memories preserved.” a forerunner to a larger and more than a decade — but the more systematic project. Your “new” describes a number of Perhaps the biggest develop- Retiree Association officers are help in ID’ing familiar faces and major initiatives. ment involves the launch of an Fleurant, Mike Murphy, Betty scenes is welcome. You can oral history project. Chaired Brown, Sally Mancoske, Dennis For starters, the UW-Green Bay by Betty Baer, it will focus on check in on the project at www. Rader, Beverly Hendricks and Retiree Association, founded UW-Green Bay’s first decade and Barbara McClure-Lukens. Their uwgb.edu/alumni/. in 2008, has elected to drop the creation of the distinctive website is www.uwgb.edu/retiree/.

Any Phoenix treasures in your attic? Sheepshead Review, UW-Green Bay’s student- published journal of the arts since 1975, is pulling We know it’s unlikely anyone still together a special alumni edition, and they’re also has the original mascot costume looking to add alumni content to their website. stowed away… but maybe you Paging your memories: hold rare Year One souvenirs like “If you held a position with the journal or were pub- the Bay Badgers pennant on our lished‘Sheepshead’ in any issue, we want torevisited hear from you,” says back cover. Don’t sell it on e-Bay. Jennifer Stallsmith, this year’s editor-in-chief. Special Collections in the Cofrin The collection of fiction, poetry and visual art was an Library is always on the lookout annual project for 25 years before dropping out of circu- for items of possible historic lation in 1999. It re-launched in 2003 with a dedicated interest. E-mail our librarian/ core of students and a modified title (Review instead of curator Deb Anderson (ander- Revue). Today, the number of active contributors exceeds [email protected]) if you think your 40 and content has expanded to include creative nonfiction pieces, find might be one-of-a-kind. acclaimed author interviews, and special theme sections. Alumni inter- ested in re-engaging should visit www.uwgb.edu/sheepshead.

April 2010 13 CAMPUS NEWS Fans, team celebrate special season for Phoenix women “Our strength coach would be happy because my vertical increased by two feet,” junior Heather Golden said at the time. “I practically jumped through the roof.” The players hadn’t been optimistic after an upset loss in the Horizon League tournament, but the NCAA bid was a mark of respect. That judgment was validated when Green Bay upset ACC power Vir- ginia 69-67 in the tournament’s first round.

They won their first 16 games. They Yet, in a season of special moments Absolute pandemonium rose to No. 17 in the AP rankings for UW-Green Bay women’s bas- broke out when UW-Green and No. 14 in the USA Today/ESPN ketball, the wildest celebration Bay’s name appeared on the coaches’ poll. They finished 28-5, took place off the court, in the De TV screen with a surprising came within a game of the Sweet Pere living room of assistant coach at-large invitation to “The Big 16 and earned the program’s 10th Mike Divilbiss. Dance.” A video of the screaming, NCAA Tournament bid in 13 years, That’s where players and coaches leaping, deliriously happy players and second in three seasons under gathered March 15 to watch the continues to get hits on the Phoe- head coach Matt Bollant. NCAA selection show on ESPN. nix Athletics website. Ad Scientiam Renovandam That’s the new Latin motto for Renovandam comes from a verb UW-Green Bay, recently approved that means “to renew,” “re-create,” by the Faculty Senate. Ad means or “innovate.” The phrase ties in to “toward” or “for.” Scientiam is the the University’s original innova- source of the word “science,” but in tive focus but also to the Phoenix the Latin of ancient Rome it meant re-emerging from the ashes. The both “learning” and “knowledge,” phrase could find use in academic Bauer-Dantoin Clark Staco and thus spans the teaching and ceremony and on official institu- research aspects of academic life. tional documents.

Like The Phoenix, Building 109 Rises Again UW-Green Bay faculty, staff “We were all so pleased with the Seven months after sustaining heavy damage by fire, Building 109, and students — like many generosity,” said Prof. Angela one of UW-Green Bay’s original apartment buildings, was rebuilt and Americans — responded with Bauer-Dantoin, who assisted and reopened in time for spring semester. An early-morning electrical fire personal donations following advised the drive. in the unoccupied building — vacant for summer — gutted a good January’s ‘Dash devastating for earth Cash’- Also approach garnering attention was portion of the structure last June 25. The incident took 17 units and quake in Haiti. the facsinating online blog and 63 beds off-line for fall, but some students opted to live off-campus The campusbrings community tookhelp cross-countryfor Haiti quest of former for the semester while others were accommodated by doubling up in the additional step of mobi- Phoenix runner Abe Clark ’09. apartment-suite units nearby. lizing a “UWGB Stands With On Feb. 15 he set off from Ocean- Haiti” group response. Students side, Calif., pledges in hand, from the Pre-Med Club, the headed for a June 30 finish in Social Work Club and the stu- Atlantic City, N.J. His 2,800-mile dent chapter of the Wisconsin run is raising money for an aid Education Association staffed organization repairing quake- donation tables and also fanned damaged wells in Haiti. out during timeouts at Phoenix Another recent graduate, basketball games in “dash for Carl-Eric Staco ’08, a native of cash” collections. They raised Haiti, e-mailed on-the-ground nearly $5,000 for the medical perspective in the days after the relief agency Partners in Health. disaster.

14 April 2010 CAMPUS NEWS Student chefs have recipe for success Students Leah Korger and Rhianna Kunes — the “Edible Alchemy” team — took home top honors in UW-Green Bay’s first Iron Chef-style competition at the Cloud Commons dining room. Their creations included tomato slices lightly breaded and fried, served with an avocado sauce; seared flank steak with pine-nut- infused couscous and asparagus; and spiced apple slices topped with coriander whipped cream and caramel. Runner-up teams were “Small Hall, Big Flavor,” “The Cheesy Macs” and “We’re Golden, Not Burnt.” NASCAR? IN THE DINING ROOM? TO PROMOTE ECOLOGY? YES It had to be one of the most pop- pus appearance by eco-activist speed. Both NASCAR and Indy ular lunchtime specials in the long and NASCAR hopeful Leilani Car teams are well-positioned to and colorful history of the Uni- Munter. pilot projects involving alternative versity Union’s Cloud Commons Munter, an accomplished racer fuels and clean energy, she said. (formerly the Nicolet Room). and stunt driver, shared her mes- Munter’s visit was hosted by the An oversized model racing layout sage that even drivers and rac- Office of Student Life as part of drew participants and spectators ing fans can achieve sustainable, UW-Green Bay’s yearlong Com- to the Commons on March 2. The carbon-neutral lifestyles, despite mon Theme focus on sustainabil- track was used to promote a cam- their high-octane passion for ity and environmental awareness. FACULTY and STAFF Whether trying to recreate the armor awarded single-semester releases. In January, UW-Green Bay granted Teaching of Psychology, which has that made Alexander’s armies great, “Emerging Intelligence in Artificial emeritus status to 11 newly retired more than 4,000 members nationwide. or sifting through centuries-old Neural Networks and Genetic members of the faculty and academic He will become president in 2011. Roman trash, Humanistic Studies Prof. Programming” is the topic of Peter staff. Those honored for long and History Prof. Andrew Kersten has Gregory Aldrete is gaining national Breznay of Information and Comput- distinguished careers were William been awarded the Frankenthal Profes- recognition. ing Science. Heidi Fencl will develop Conley, Business Administration; sorship for a five-year term through When Aldrete an online tutorial for introductory Sue Keihn, former dean of students; 2014. Recipients receive a stipend for received a 2009 college physics. Cheryl Grosso ’78 geographer William Laatsch; Craig research expenses or special projects Excellence in of Arts and Visual Design (music) will Lockard, Social Change and Develop- benefitting students or service to the Teaching Award pursue new compositions and develop ment; Barbara McClure-Lukens, community. Kersten is the seventh UW- from the Ameri- an interdisciplinary course on the a staff member in Outreach and Green Bay faculty member (and second can Philological work of avant garde composer John Extension; economist Larry Smith; Kersten) to be awarded the title. His Association, he Cage. Laurel Phoenix of Public and Sandra Stokes of the Education father, Prof. Emeritus Frederick I. Ker- was named “best Environmental Affairs will examine faculty and the Women’s and Gender sten, was a philosophy and humanities classics professor environmental policies of the eight Studies unit; former Counseling and scholar who held the Frankenthal from Aldrete in the nation” states and two Canadian provinces Health Services director Karen Swan; 1984 through 1988. by the leading that border the Great Lakes, and her poet and Humanistic Studies faculty association of classics professors. He colleague Denise Scheberle will member Denise Sweet; Jan Thornton, One of UW-Green Bay’s founding also traveled to Rome to share his complete a book of case studies for use longtime leader of Outreach and Adult faculty members and most well-known analysis for the documentary series in her Environmental Law class. Access; and Lynn Walter of the Social personalities, Prof. Ganga Nair, died March 10 in Green “Trashopolis” on the ways sanitation Homer Simpson Change and Development faculty. Bay at age 80. Nair and garbage have influenced the Marches on Wash- The Green Bay Area Chamber of Com- was an interna- world’s great cities. ington: Dissent merce selected two from UW-Green tionally known To enhance their teaching, three through American Bay for its 2010 “People You Should researcher who professors have been granted full Popular Culture is Know” list in Bay Business Journal advised the United sabbaticals by the UW System Board the eye-catching magazine. Credited with making Nations and of Regents for 2010-11. Historian title of a new significant contributions to their forestry organiza- Clifton Ganyard of Humanistic book co-edited by professions were Associate Provost for tions worldwide Studies will investigate the secret state Prof. Tim Dale, Information Services Kathy Pletcher on tree diseases police forces in Germany and Japan Social Change and Director Christina Trombley Nair and deforestation during the 1930s and 1940s. Warren and Development. The book examines of UW-Green Bay’s Small Business issues. Also pass- Johnson of Human Biology will pro- how dissenting voices have become Development Center. ing away earlier this year was longtime duce a textbook on biotechnology for pop-culture staples — from televi- Karen Lacey, senior lecturer in typist and secretary Marie Garot, non-science majors. E. Nicole Meyer sion sitcoms to talk shows to hip-hop Human Biology and director of the familiar to students and alumni in the of Humanistic Studies will develop music. Also recently published is the Dietetic Program, is president-elect of College of Creative Communication, a Great Works course and complete Encyclopedia of Urban Studies; Prof. Ray the Wisconsin Dietetic Association. and the Rev. Charles Mocco, a Catho- a manuscript regarding childhood, Hutchison of Urban and Regional lic priest who served at the Ecumenical family and autobiography in French Studies contributed content and Prof. Regan A.R. Gurung of Human Center in the 1990s. literature. Five faculty members were served as general editor. Development and psychology is president-elect of the Society for

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What is your vision of the Uni- versity’s future? Where do you see a competitive advantage… a strategic oppor- tunity… an exist- ing initiative or areaUW-Green that deserves Bay seeks community, alumni input on plan increased atten- tion? UW-Green Bay has scheduled a series of open- forum opportuni- ties for citizens and stakeholders to include a pair of community- and-alumni ori- ented sessions. The second is set for Saturday, April 24, from 9 to 11 a.m. in the 1965 Room of the University Union on campus. The University is seeking input as it prepares a strategic plan to guide institutional priorities over Harden emphasized that the Uni- “Strategic planning is a compo- cise, but promised the UW-Green the coming decade. versity’s growth agenda will con- nent of the growth agenda. We Bay strategic planning process will “I need your help in identifying tinue to explore ways to support need to find more ways to gradu- yield a blueprint for action. “We major areas for enhancement, “moderate” growth. In that vein ate more students,” he said. simply don’t have time to waste on Harden noted that a major push something we’re not going to use,” advancement and investment,” In remarks to faculty and staff, he at the local and national level is to Harden said. Harden said in extending his invi- noted he has participated in, or produce more college graduates. tation to campus and community. led, strategic planning at previ- To join the conversation, alumni Just as America has lost ground in “These are the big ideas that pro- ous institutions and seen it done and others may access the Chan- being the world’s most educated vide the basis for a shared vision. well, very well and not so well. He cellor’s web page at www.uwgb. nation, Northeastern Wisconsin What are your dreams for this acknowledged the general skepti- edu/chancellor/. has lagged behind much of the University?” cism that sometimes accompanies state in producing college grads. any institutional planning exer-

OPTIMISM RULES THE DAY AT JOB/INTERNSHIP FAIR

With resumes polished and hopes undimin- ished by a sluggish economy, there was a solid turnout — of both employers and potential employees — at the 2010 Spring Job and Internship Fair held in early March at UW- The annual and always- Green Bay. popular spring reception of According to Linda Peacock-Landrum, director the UW-Green Bay Founders of Career Services, it was a positive day for Association is scheduled for the steady stream of students who took the Tuesday, May 4. The gather- opportunity to meet with business recruiters. ing will take place from 5:30 to More than 60 employers were on hand to talk 7:30 p.m. in the Grand Foyer with prospective employees and interns. That of the Weidner Center for the number compares favorably with previous Performing Arts. Invitations to fairs, despite the nationwide economic down- Founders members were to be turn many have called the worst in decades. mailed by mid-April; to RSVP, contact Shane Kohl in the Peacock-Landrum said many local employ- Office of University Advance- ers continue to actively recruit prospective ment at (920) 465-2018, or employees, either for current hiring or expan- [email protected]. sion as the economic outlook improves.

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Phuture is now for first Phreshman Ka Vang is the fresh face of the Phuture Phoenix program. In fall, members of the original fifth-grade cohort are sched- uled to arrive as new freshmen. As a mid-year graduate of Preble High School, however, Vang beat them to the door. The daughter of Hmong immi- grants who spoke little English, WPS Weyers gift helps power college dreams she was 11 when she made that Leaders of the Phuture Phoenix program at UW- The Phuture Phoenix program is a university/com- first visit: “I remember the tour Green Bay were ecstatic to receive word of a large munity enterprise inspiring at-risk, underprivileged and it was fun, but I can’t say gift earlier this year from the Wisconsin Public youth to attend college. The program has already that I knew at that moment I was Service Foundation, but not surprised by the name served more than 10,000 students in its seven-year going to college. I suppose it was it honors. history with campus visits, tutoring and mentoring planting a seed.” That’s because former CEO and WPS president partnerships. Vang, a Human Development emeritus Larry Weyers has long been associated With the first participants now reaching college-age, major, was greeted here by her with the support and promotion of education in the importance of scholarships grows. In total, about Phuture Phoenix mentor and the region, and the gift seemed like a natural fit. 20 renewable scholarships of $1,000 each are avail- friend, Kacey Thomson (above). The Larry L. Weyers Phuture Phoenix Scholarship able to assist the first Phuture Phoenix arrivals. For For more on Vang’s trailblazing will provide 31 scholarships over five years to assist more on the Weyers scholarship and previous major success, see Inside online. students attending UW-Green Bay. gifts to the endowment, visit Inside online.

New Founders president grateful for ‘gift’ Scholarship recalls Bayfest creator Arts Management students will benefit from a new scholarship in memory of Tim R. Quigley, Bayfest founder and longtime Extra Points promotions director for Phoenix A $4,000 grant from the Athletics, who died last April at Green Bay Packers Founda- age 68. He acted in early theatre tion will help kick off a productions and studied ceram- spring program for parents ics at UW-Green Bay, and built Scott Wochos knows quality in higher education. A Duke University grad of Phuture Phoenix students. a national reputation as a festi- with a Harvard law degree, he can also be considered this community’s The initiative will make a val director who celebrated the No. 1 booster of UW-Green Bay. Wochos is incoming president of the point of bringing parents arts, culture and community. school’s Founders Association, succeeding John Heugel on July 1. to campus for a tour and His daughter, Tina Quigley ’90, consultation with Financial “Last year, we had something like 2,000 individuals contribute to our heads Arts Events, Inc., a local Aid and Admissions staff. efforts,” he said in remarks on campus. “Faculty, staff, students, alumni... organization partnering on the Says Phuture Phoenix staffer and people like me who live here and want to see UW-Green Bay succeed. scholarship. To make a gift to Stephanie Cataldo-Pabich This University is an absolute gift to have in this city.” Wochos is senior the fund, contact Lisa DeLeeuw ’91, “Parent involvement is an vice president and general counsel for Green Bay Packaging, Inc. For more at [email protected]. essential component.” on his remarks about the Founders Association, visit Inside online.

April 2010 17 ALUMNI NOTES 1970s Daniel Keegan ’72 communica- tions, director of the Milwaukee Art Museum, delivered the December commence- ment address Keegan and shared early UWGB memories. He told the 400 graduates: “What- ever you do from this day forward, make yourself indispensable… You are stepping into a world that is vastly different, … in an economic environment stressed like no other in recent memory. But ladies and gentlemen, that is precisely your opportunity. If everything were going along beautifully why would the world need you?... You are the future. And the world needs you.” Russ Roland ’72 managerial sys- tems, was featured in The Business News for his work starting Bay Lakes Commercial Realtors in Green Bay, which recently marked 31 years in business. Diana Brown ’76 growth and development, has won accolades Pictured above, the 1969-70 Bay Badgers basketball team, seated from for her work with N.E.W. Curative left: Bob DeVos, Bob Popp, Ray Willis, Dennis Woelffer, Bruce Johnson, Rehabilitation, in particular her Wayne Wilson; back row: Assistant Coach Chuck Aslakson, Marc work with seniors and individu- Schmidt, Terry Schott, Jim Hafeman, Bud Mocco, Coach Dave Buss. als with disabilities. She founded the agency’s Adult Day Programs to serve families and individuals affected by dementia, and created Long-lost films bring 1969 team into focus a new class for those in the early stages of memory loss. She earned the Ruth Von Berhen Award from Former University of Wiscon- “Back then we shot 16 mm her national professional associa- sin-Green Bay head basketball films of the games and it was tion in recognition of this work. coach Dave Buss didn’t want the really expensive,” said Buss, now Paul Wozniak ’78 science and Phoenix program’s first seasons retired and living in Horseshoe environmental change and ’94 to fade into obscurity. Bay, Texas, a community about master’s of environmental science, 50 miles west of Austin. “This has accepted the position of senior Thanks to his generosity, more was the only recorded evidence consultant-energy practice with than 100 long-forgotten game Navigant Con- of their playing careers and the films from the earliest seasons sulting, based film was deteriorating. I thought of the men’s basketball program in Madison. His if we don’t save it now, it’s not responsibilities have been converted into digi- going to be preserved.” include measur- tal format and will be available ing impacts from for public viewing through the The collection includes the Uni- energy efficiency University Archives at Cofrin versity’s very first game, a 99-70 improvements in Library. defeat of Milton College on Dec. homes and busi- nesses. Wozniak 3, 1969. Guard Dave Haglund scored the program’s first bas- James Olds ’76 communication and the arts, Dane County juvenile ket, taking a pass from Ray Willis court commissioner, retired in on a cut down the lane. Interested in ordering a copy of one December having presided over 25,000 juvenile cases in 22 years. or more of these Buss Era games? You You can view a list of games can contact the UW-Green Bay special available on DVD, and a brief Bryan Boettcher ’78 regional clip of Haglund’s historic bas- analysis, of Quick Signs, Green Bay, collections unit within the Cofrin Library is the 2009 board of director’s vice at (920) 465-2539, or ket, online at http://blog.uwgb. president for The Military Avenue [email protected]. Each disc is $7. edu/inside/index.php/featured/ Business Association. Other board giving-back/02/25/vintage- members include Michael Cuene basketball/ ’89 business administration and economics, of Broadway Automotive in Green Bay, and Dan Burich ’90 business administration, of Bay Motel and Restaurant. 18 April 2010 ALUMNI NOTES

Cheri Ebert-Sheehy ’79 commu- Sherry (Bardouche) Berg ’85 Maria (Fisher) Lasecki ’89 psy- International Basketball Association nication and the arts with a special managerial chology and human development, and American Basketball Associa- interest in music, is a music special- accounting, is a is the operations manager with the tion. He resides today with his fam- ist for the La Crosse Public Schools. CPA and partner NEW Zoo of Brown County. ily in Fort Wayne, Ind., and works at Anderson, Tack- for the financial software company Laura (Bogard) Griffin ’80 com- man & Co., PLC, Investigo. munication and the arts, is an art a regional firm therapist for RCS Empowers, Inc., 1990s Stacy (Davister) Bouche ’95 busi- headquartered in ness administration and economics Sheboygan. Terri Bonino ’92 communication Green Bay. and a 20-year veteran of the bank- and the arts and communication Berg ing industry, is the mortgage sales processes, is a member-at-large manager at Baylake Bank’s Luxem- with the Lakeshore Area Human 1980s Yue Rong ’86 Master’s in environ- burg Financial Center. mental science Resources Association and works William Seleen ’80 humanistic and policy, works for ABR Employment Services, Dr. Vickie Marie Cloutier ’95 studies, is a local director for Habi- with groundwater Manitowoc. human biology and psychology, is tat for Humanity. He oversees the contamination a family practitioner at ThedaCare organizations “ReStore” in Green Kenda (Gerbers) Brunette ’93 issues as program Physicians-Shawano. Bay, which accepts donations of communication processes and manager for new and used building materials business administration, is a sales Tim Dunne ’95 communication the California with proceeds benefitting Habitat associate for Coldwell Banker, The processes and human development, Regional Water projects. Real Estate Group Inc., Green Bay. is a senior field sales engineer with Quality Control Baldor Dodge Reliance, an interna- Rong Tom Eggert ’93 business adminis- Ivan Delbecchi ’82 business Board, Los Ange- tional manufacturer and distributor tration and human development, is administration, has been named les region. He serves on the scien- of industrial electric motors, trans- an account executive for FulfillNet, managing director of Baylake Insur- tific advisory board for the annual missions, drives and generators. ance Agency Inc., Green Bay. conference of the Association of Green Bay. Environmental Health and Sciences. Holly (Terrien) Daniel Conley ’83 masters of David Meyer ’93 business admin- Rong also is associate editor for the Rottier ’95 music environmental sci- istration and economics, is a senior peer-reviewed journal Soil and Sedi- and secondary ence, a professor financial advisor for Ameriprise ment Contamination and the Journal education, was at Lund University Financial, Marshfield. of Environmental Forensics. In 2008, appointed last in Sweden, has he was re-elected board president Tania (LeCloux) Meyer ’93 busi- summer as schools been awarded a of the Southern California Chinese ness administration and managerial director for the 2010 Pew Fellow- American Environmental Profes- accounting, is a financial advisor for Catholic Diocese ship in Marine sional Association. Ameriprise Financial in Marshfield. of Green Bay, with Conservation to Rottier responsibility for Jay Wille ’93 business adminis- examine solutions David Wage ’86 physics, is the 62 schools. She was formerly princi- Conley tration and political science, of for reducing recipient of his local Chamber pal of a Catholic elementary school MetLife Greater Wisconsin, was nutrients in the of Commerce “Speak Up Award, in Little Chute. Baltic Sea. The award provides “acknowledging his support for vari- awarded the Life Underwriters Conley $150,000 for a three-year ous Manitowoc County causes and Training Council Fellow designa- Penny Schampers ’95 accounting study of so-called “dead zones” organizations. He and his wife are tion. and business administration, is a where oxygen depletion has all co-owners of HFM Innovations and CPA with Hawkins, Ash, Baptie & Scott Jaeger ’94 communication but eradicated marine life. A Fort Heavy Metal Fabricators. He has Company, LLP, serving as chair- and the arts and communication Lauderdale, Fla. native who earned been chamber chairman, and been person of the firm’s not-for-profit processes, is a videographer for his undergraduate degree at Tulane involved with the “Thunder on the division. Discover Mediaworks. He has shot University before earning his mas- Lakeshore” air show, the MetroJam for programs including Discover Amanda Johnson-Vergara ’96 ter’s in Green Bay, he went on for festival and other Lakeshore-area Wisconsin, Into the Outdoors, Trail communication and the arts, a Ph.D. in chemical oceanography events. “I love our community … it Nation, American Snowmobiler, and psychology and women’s studies, at the University of Michigan. For is a wonderful place to live and raise Family, Inc. is the team manager of Bank of more on Conley and his work, see a family,” Wage says. America’s Home Retention Division Inside online. Patricia (Intribus) Montour ’94 Tom Feld ’87 science and environ- in California. accounting and business adminis- Chuck Stark ’83 business admin- mental change, joined Foxwood tration, is a CPA currently employed Ryan Kauth ’96 human biology, is istration, is a sales and service rep- Associates Inc., a Green Bay-based as controller for Castle Rock Renew- a business banker at Investors Com- resentative for Lifetouch National management-advisory company, as able Fuels, LLC, Necedah. munity Bank in Manitowoc. School Studios in Eau Claire. an adviser within Foxwood’s finan- cial services practice. Nicole (Merkel) Reetz ’94 English Navy Lt. James Stockman ’96 Michael Dempsey ’84 communica- and humanistic studies, has been human biology, is a Navy public tion and the arts, is a designer and Diane (Engel) Mier ’87 managerial working through AmeriCorps Vista affairs officer at U.S. Africa Com- the director of technical training accounting, is a quantitative risk for the Stockbridge Munsee Family mand located at Kelly Barracks, for the Pacific Conservatory for analyst with Integrys Business Sup- Services in the after-school pro- Stuttgart, Germany. Africa Com- the Performing Arts in Santa Maria port, LLC in De Pere. gram and teen mentoring program. mand has administrative respon- Calif. He designs scenes, lighting Chee Ong ’87 business administra- sibility for U.S. military support to and costumes for the professional Logan Vander Velden ’94 Regional tion and economics, is an executive U.S. government policy in Africa, conservatory theatre. He is also Analysis, returned to campus for director with UOB Kay Hian Pte and includes military-to-military the immediate past national chair an alumni event earlier this year. Ltd., an amalgamation of eight relationships with 53 African of design for the He spent a half-season on the stockbroking houses in Singapore. nations. Kennedy Center Los Angeles Clippers roster and American College Martin Webber ’87 business appeared in 15 games for the NBA Kelley Hinton ’97 English and Theatre Festival. administration and communication team in 1995-96. His international secondary education, is an aca- His work has processes, is a self-employed com- playing career was much longer demic librarian and one of five at been published in modities trader. and included a year in Switzerland UW-Waukesha named an Arthur M. recent editions of and overseas in Portugal, Japan, Kaplan Fellow for 2009-10, recog- Carol (Sweetland) Karls ’89 the textbook Scene Venezuela, Uruguay and Chile, and nizing outstanding contributions Design and Stage communication and the arts, is the back in the United States with the to education made by UW Colleges Lighting. Dempsey business and community develop- Continental Basketball Association, faculty and staff. ment manager at Wisconsin Public Service in Green Bay.

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Greg Babcock ’03 political science and public administration, is now with Wanezek & Jaekels of Green Bay, specializing in family law, civil For Vickie Dansbury ’06, pursuing litigation and general practice. her UW-Green Bay degree meant Rachel Galetka ’03 business weekends away from home and on administration and communication the road. and the arts, is the senior staffing specialist for Flex-Staff, Inc. in Eau The Beloit resident used the Uni- Claire. versity’s Adult Degree option to Andy Gurka ’03 completeAdult much of her coursework Degree via grad has drive to excel communication the internet. Still, there were many processes and times she would leave her job at the political science, Dane County Mental Health Center is the director of in Madison on a Friday night, drive to Living Learning Green Bay for Saturday classes, and Programs for the make the three-hour commute home University of Rich- on Sunday. mond. Gurka Bryan Hermus ’03 business admin- That persistence paid off. Dansbury istration and psychology, is the vice earned her bachelor’s in interdisci- president of sales at Louis Hoffmann plinary studies in December 2006. Co., an ornamental-metal manufac- (That’s her, at right, celebrating with turer in Menomonee Falls. friend and UW-Green Bay mentor Education, service to others, and the Vickie’s parents, born in the 1920s Marcus Reitz ’03 communication Dottie Stepian.) desire to address community needs and from a time when few African- processes, is the director of client Dansbury later followed up with are motivating factors. Americans could even consider higher satisfaction for FulfillNet, Green Bay. a master’s in marriage and family With her own education, she cites her education, had never before seen a Lori Wachter ’03 nursing, is the counseling from Edgewood College, husband, Robert, for helping her re- college commencement. consumer safety officer for the Madison. She is now a member of the start a journey begun decades ear- “I think that watching me graduate, Department of Health and Human Services in Silver Spring, Md. Board of Directors for the Wisconsin lier. Robert proudly rented a bus so they ‘got it.’ They understood why I Association of Marriage and Family dozens of family members and friends had been gone all those weekends,” Heidi Kleinhans ’04 communica- Therapists. from southern Wisconsin could see Vickie recalls. tion processes, is the marketing her graduate from UW-Green Bay. planner and coordinator for Nsight Telservices, Green Bay. Jennifer (Hallam) Nelson ’04 Matt Schueller ’97 nutritional Veronica Brieno-Rankin ’99 earth Michelle Shea ’01 human develop- social change and sciences, is senior vice president of science, recently ment, is a case manager for the Hol- development, is the marketing for Enzymatic Therapy. A returned from a iday House of Manitowoc County, executive director recent profile in a Green Bay Area 10-day field pro- Inc., which provides services to for Literacy Green Chamber of Commerce publication gram, the “Research individuals with disabilities. Bay, Inc. and was noted his success in anticipating Experience in Car- Mathew Bartkowiak ’02 individual recognized as one trends in the marketplace including bon Sequestration.” major, is an assistant professor of of Green Bay’s “40 a new product line, organic dietary She is president of English at UW-Marshfield. His first Under 40 People supplements. GeoSeq Interna- book, The MC5 and Social Change: You Should Know,” tional, an energy Nelson Bill Milne ’98 business administra- Rankin A Study in Rock and Revolution, was in 2009. She also consulting firm tion, economics and Spanish, has published in 2009 and his second serves on the Brown County Plan- South Range, Mich. joined the law firm of Weld, Riley, book, Sounds of the Future: Essays on ning Commission on Transportation. Prenn and Ricci S.C. in Eau Claire. He KaraLynne Moore ’99 business Music in Science Fiction Film, will be Adam Seitz ’04 urban studies, is an is a member of the firm’s business, real administration, joined the business out this year. apprentice for Azco industrial con- estate and estate planning section. services team of Community First Michael Brown ’02 urban and struction services in Appleton. Credit Union, headquartered in Women in Management-Fox Cities regional studies and ‘04 master’s of Appleton. Maria (Goin) Seitz ’04 psychology, Chapter announced appointments science in environmental science is a training specialist for Prospera of three UW-Green Bay graduates: Ryan Ruzziconi ’99 political sci- and policy, is a planner for the vil- Credit Union in Appleton. Cully Sheahan ’86 communica- ence and public administration, is lage of Montgomery, Ill. tion and the arts, general counsel for Diplomat Spe- Amanda (Bergene) Sitkiewitz Brian DeBauche ’02 business of Robert W. Baird cialty Pharmacy, Inc., in its Schwartz ’04 Spanish, was singled out by administration and social work, & Co. as president; Creek, Mich., headquarters. the Manitowoc County Chamber’s is an advanced business process Mandy Soland ’98 young professionals organization as analyst for Thrivent Financial for human develop- a “Future 15” person to watch. She is 2000s Lutherans in Appleton. ment and psychol- a branch manager-commercial loan ogy, of Elexco Inc. Kathryn Goffard ’00 environmen- Alissa (Huntley) Langenberg officer for Shoreline Credit Union. as the awards chair; tal policy and planning, is a new ’02 business administration, is an Cathy (Wagner) Vosters ’04 busi- Amy Austin ’07 employee of Fox Valley Technical account relationship specialist for Sheahan ness administration, is a treasury elementary educa- College as a medical/administrative Gannett Wisconsin. She earned management sales representative for tion, of Prospera Credit Union as coding instructor. company Pinnacle Advertising Citizens Bank in Green Bay. treasurer. Awards for March and December Jerome Morris ’00 political science, last year. Amanda Zeman ’04 business admin- Michael Zahn ’98 business admin- coordinates the state GEAR UP (Gain- istration, was named manager of the istration and economics, is the ing an Early Awareness and Readiness Kristy Watzlawick-Hensley ’02 tax team of Kroening, Stangel, Swetlik owner of the Truyman-Haase-Zahn for Undergraduate Programs) services business administration, is a career & Zinkel LLP CPAs in Manitowoc. insurance agency of Green Bay. for the Newton-Conover (N.C.) City services specialist for ITT-Technical Schools. He is also a music minister Institute in Carmel, Ind. Elizabeth Zeman ’04 urban studies, for Greater Faith Missionary Baptist works as a grants coordinator for the Church. Rawhide Boys Ranch in New London. 20 April 2010 ALUMNI NEWS

Josh Bayer ’05 human biology, is a Aubrey (Sutter) Brennan ’07 music, Angela Walschinski ’07 busi- Caitlin (Olsen) Fraser ’08 theatre, staff pharmacist with King Soopers is a volunteer and site coordinator for ness administration, an account is helping to start a company, Corporation in Longmont, Colo. the Green Bay Botanical Gardens. assistant with Leonard & Finco Chamber Theater, in Santa Fe, N.M. Public Relations, Inc., was named James Boeck ’05 computer science, Ashlie DuChateau ’07 public Shiyanke Goonetilleke ’08 com- by the Green Bay Area Chamber of is a senior multi-disciplined engi- administration, is assistant market- munications, is a Commerce as one of 10 rising pro- neer for Raytheon Missile Systems, ing coordinator with Vorpahl Fire graduate student fessionals to watch out for in 2010. Tucson, Ariz. and Safety, Green Bay. in the college She won praise for her professional counseling and Ben Elsner ’05 business admin- Megan Karas ’07 psychology, is achievements as well as for organiz- student develop- istration, is a provider claims a second-year ing a clothing drive for the needy in ment program at resolution specialist for United AmeriCorps member Brown County. St. Cloud State Healthcare in Green Bay. and serves on the WIARC board, which Heather Workman ’07 human (Minn.) University. biology, is a registered dietitian. He is the service- Orin Kipp ’05 business administra- involves 700 Ame- Shiyanke tion, graduated from William Mitchell riCorps members in She received her master’s degree learning, events College of Law in May and passed the Wisconsin. She has in public health nutrition from the and marketing graduate assistant for Minnesota Bar Exam in October. The won recognition for University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. the institution’s Volunteer Connec- Stillwater native practices real estate tion office, and a coordinator for the her Project Youth Bill Curtis ’08 political science, law with his father at Kipp & Kipp, LLC. Karas Gender Violence Prevention Program. efforts with at-risk youth and families is deputy director for Winnebago Mike Klemens ’05 urban studies, in Sheboygan County. County Emergency Management. Daniel Keiser ’08 mathematics, is is a transportation liaison for the Debbie Lucas ’07 social work, com- He is completing his master’s a foreign exchange specialist for M&I Will County Governmental League pleted a year-long term with OeDae degree with studies in threat and Marshall & Ilsley Bank in Milwaukee. in Joliet, Ill. Language Institute in South Korea response management at the Uni- Kayla (Gries) Kiehl ’08 business where she taught English. versity of Chicago. Robert Logemann III ’05 business administration, is a personal banker administration, is a lead teller for Vanessa (Sobeck) Molly (Cox) Demrow ’08 elemen- for Community Bank & Trust in Harbor Credit Union in Green Bay. Moran, ’07 elemen- tary education, is a kindergarten Plymouth. tary education, teacher for the Oshkosh Area Troy Smits ’05 human development Samuel Pecard ’08 communication teaches third grade School District. and psychology, is the head cheer- in the Howard- and the arts, graduated from the U.S. leading coach at DePaul University Suamico School Lawrence Eslinger ’08 master’s in Coast Guard Recruit Training Center and is also an adviser trainer for District at Meadow- environmental science and policy, in Cape May, N.J. Aveda at the John Hancock Center a research assistant at UW-Green brook Elementary Kevin Panzarella ’08 business in downtown Chicago. Bay, was appointed aquatic invasive School. administration, is a disability insur- species coordinator for Oneida Katie (Legler) Wagoner ’05 human Moran ance underwriting specialist for Debra Niesen ’07 County in northern Wisconsin’s biology, is a health promotion the Northwestern Mutual Financial nursing, is an allied health instructor lakes region. consultant for Franciscan Skemp at Fox Valley Technical College. Network in Franklin. Health Solutions in La Crosse. Jessica Allen ’06 business admin- istration, is working in human resources with AEI Dish in Seymour. Margaret Bendzick ’06 humanistic studies, is the associate dean of stu- dents and faculty for the Minnesota School of Business, Richfield campus. Brian Dimmer ’06 social change and development, graduated from Marquette Law School in 2009 and began work for Petit & Dommershausen, S.C. as an associate attorney focusing TV reporter returns on criminal defense and criminal appel- home to a winner Dimmer late law. Andrew Mertig ’06 communications, Jill Wunrow, a 2002 UW-Green “Big Dance” and claimed its high- is a resident director for Concordia Bay communications graduate est national ranking, 14th in the University in Mequon. and former sportscaster, picked coaches’ poll, midway through the right time to return home to the season. Throw in big years for Her boss and colleague, Phoenix SID Kelly Samz, ’06 human biology, is her alma mater. men’s basketball (another 20-win Drew Harris, says Wunrow shares the dietitian for Shady Lane Nursing campaign and newfound tour- much of the credit for helping posi- Care Center and Laurel Grove Assisted Wunrow joined the Phoenix Ath- nament success) and women’s Living and Sunrise Rehabilitation, letics staff last August as assis- tion the UW-Green Bay program as swimming and diving with a sixth Manitowoc. She is responsible for tant sports information director a leader in video and internet expo- straight Horizon League champi- quality assurance and the nutrition and an in-studio host for the sure. Her “Monday Minute” weekly onship, and it has been a publi- assessments including the creation and program’s internet TV shows. It’s wrapup show generated thousands cist’s dream. monitoring of nutritional care plans for been a win-win — or better said, of hits for the site. residents. She earned a master’s degree a win, win, win — ever since. Wunrow interned at the Phoenix For an expanded version of this story, in food and nutritional sciences from Sports Information Office during The men’s soccer team made its www.uwgb.edu/inside/1004/wunrow UW-Stout. A member of the Wisconsin college, and graduated to jobs as Dietetic Association, she serves as the first NCAA tournament appear- a television sportscaster, photog- — Story by Lauren Muench ’09 new-member communications repre- ance in 30 years. The women’s rapher, and reporter in the Green sentative. basketball team won 28 games, Bay, Peoria, and Wausau markets. Danielle Behrle ’07 communica- earned its customary bid to the tions, is a designer with the corporate offices of Shopko stores in Green Bay. April 2010 21 ALUMNI NOTES

Jennifer Schanen ’08 social Abe Clark ’09 communication Ryan D. Miller ’09 business admin- work, graduated from AmeriCorps and the arts, set off Feb. 15 from istration, is a credit analyst at The Marriages & National Civilian Community Corps Oceanside, Calif., on a five-month, Business Bank, Appleton. (AmeriCorps NCCC) Pacific Region, 2,860-mile run to Atlantic City, N.J. Wade Moder ’09 environmental Unions wrapping up ten month of commu- A former Phoenix cross-country policy and plan- nity service nationwide. She is now runner, Clark is raising money for ning, began a Maria Fisher ’89 to the community outreach specialist Living Water International, a Chris- six-month term for Chad Lasecki with Wise Women Gathering Place tian organization dedicated to help- Wisconservation in Green Bay. ing communities secure clean water. Laura Anderson ’01 to Corps in Madison. The beneficiary will be residents Jerry Kaczmarek Brian Bar ’09 psychology, was part He serves on the of Haiti where the organization is of a team of AmeriCorps NCCC board of directors repairing hand pumps damaged by Kristy Watzlawick ’02 to (National Civilian Community for Yahara River the January earthquake. Clark was James Hensley Corps) members responding to a Grocery Coopera- documenting his epic journey at flooding disaster in Greater Atlanta. tive in Stoughton. Moder Lori Wachter ’03 to http://www.runningwater.cc/. His team removed five tons of Gerald Podskalny JoAnna (Marineau) Monfils ’09 debris, gutted five houses, sanitized Terry Evans ’09 human develop- chemistry and human biology, three houses, and coordinated 34 ment, is enjoying Kim Gregory ’04 to works in research and development volunteers. a spectacular Ivan Jaquez as an encapsys lab technician for season, as could Sarah Benzshawel ’09 business Appleton Papers, Inc. Laura Neuens ’06 to be expected, as administration, works with WS Eric Studee ’06 an American Kimberly Vickman ’09 environ- Packaging Group, Inc. in Green Bay. basketball import mental sciences, is a laboratory Courtney Hendricksen ’07 Elizabeth (Chapin) Breitenfeldt with the RSV technician for Food Safety Net to Warren Wippert ’09 accounting and business Stahnsdorf club in Services in Green Bay. administration, is an associate the German pro Molly Cox ’08 to Evans Steven Wicks ’09 human develop- accountant at Integrys Business league’s second Eric Demrow ’06 ment and psychology, has enrolled Support in Green Bay. division. A club webpage, translated in the Ph.D. track in human from German, suggests that the Kayla Gries ’08 to Autumn Brown ’09 development and family studies at former Phoenix standout has been Casey Kiehl communications, Oregon State University, and serves one of the team’s top rebounders, is employed by The as a graduate teaching assistant in Melissa Kemps ’08 to and it also reported that in one win, Diamond Factory the subject of human sexuality. Bradley Zuleger ’08 “Terry Evans opened the game with LLC jewelry store in a dunking.” Gabrielle Zander ’09 communica- Green Bay. Caitlin Olsen ’08 to tions, works two jobs at Columbus Nicholas Hitt ’09 communications, John Fraser (Wis.) Community Hospital. One of is a veteran service representa- her jobs there is as a switchboard Elizabeth Chapin ’09 to tive for the Department of Veteran Brown operator and registering patients at Seth Breitenfeldt Affairs in Milwaukee. night. She was just hired as a mar- A.J. Kasten ’09 social change and keting and foundation assistant/ Ashley Ferraro ’09 to development, works with LTE Resi- event planner. She is also a phar- Mathew Gruentzel dence Services and the Office of macy technician at a drug store. Residence Life for UW-Green Bay. The Lean Team: UW-Green Bay crew helps kids eat right

When the Green Bay Boys and that is both nutritious and tasty, and Girls Club expanded its fitness easy for them to make at home. The program to include lessons in good goal is to provide tools and motiva- nutrition, it called on UW-Green tion for children to make healthy Bay’s dietetic internship program choices, and not just “because mom to help. told me to.” Every Tuesday, Casey McKenzie As a dietetic intern, McKenzie is and three of her fellow students prepping for the Registered Dietitian lead kids in an evening of games, Exam. The 37-week internship pro- physical activities and simple les- gram is but one aspect of a rigorous sons on healthy living. “We try not certification process. to structure the classes like a lec- UW-Green Bay assigns its students ture — they get enough of that at to settings that include hospitals, school,” says McKenzie. “Our main long-term care facilities, a college focus is to help them understand cafeteria, public school food-service the link between eating the right operations, community health clinics, foods and staying active.” a Native American health center, and She makes sure that when the UW-Cooperative Extension agen- youngsters snack, it’s something cies. Areas of study include medical nutrition therapy, food service and community nutrition. Sarah Jadin, Casey McKenzie, Kim Beyer and Jessica Schroeder try to get local school- — Story by Paul Mee, editorial intern, children to realize that eating right and exercising can be fun. The four are students in Marketing and University Communication UW-Green Bay’s dietetic internship program.

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Just add water: Alumni volunteers aid 8,000 runners

Join us Sunday, May 16, as approximately 8,000 marathon- ers and half-marathoners pass our way during Green Bay’s Cellcom Marathon. The Alumni Associa- tion staffs a water station from 7 to 10 a.m. before we head to the finish line for food and refresh- ments. It’s a great time, and vol- unteers receive a free t-shirt. Call or e-mail to volunteer, at (920) 465-2586 or [email protected].

It’s time for the annual Scholarship Golf Outing To affinity…and beyond! Enjoy a day of golf and fun with fellow graduates and friends The Alumni Association partners with nationally recognized, in the 30th annual Scholarship Golf Outing. Proceeds benefit pre-approved companies to offer discounted products and services student scholarships. The event is Friday, June 11, at Royal Scot to UW-Green Bay graduates. These are called affinity programs. Golf Course in New Franken. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. The Often, when a graduate takes advantage of the offer, a fee/dona- cost is $80 for an individual and $320 for a foursome. We can pair tion is made to the Alumni Association from the partner company. you up, if needed. The day includes a putting contest, 18 holes Plus, the personal savings can be substantial. Find out more at of golf with power cart, www.uwgb.edu/alumni/benefits.html. To name just a few: lunch, raffle, hole events, hors d’oeuvres reception • Go Next Travel – first-class overseas trips to and more. Prizes awarded Europe and Asia for team play, low gross and • Bank of America – credit card low net (using a handicap www.uwgb.edu/alumni/creditcard.html scoring system). Want to donate a prize or sponsor • Liberty Mutual – home and auto insurance a golf hole? Contact the Alumni Office at (920) • American Insurance Administrators – group life insurance, 465-2586, or alumni@ health insurance and financial services plans uwgb.edu. • Phoenix Bookstore – 10% off in-store and online See you at the ballpark gift apparel purchases Your Alumni Association will be gathering for two baseball games • Three Green Bay Area hotels – offer discounted rates this summer: A scholarship for your little Phoenix? Apply by July • The Wisconsin Timber Rattlers host the Burlington Bees at UW-Green Bay-bound students who are following in the footsteps Fox Cities Stadium, Grand Chute, at 6:35 p.m., Saturday, June of their parents, step-parents, legal guardians or grandparents 26. Tickets are $8.50 each. Tailgating in Grid #9. can apply for the Alumni Association’s Legacy Scholarship. One • Tuesday, Aug. 10 is UWGB Alumni Night at Joannes Stadium, $2,000 scholarship starting the 2010-11 academic year will Green Bay. The Bullfrogs host the Wisconsin Woodchucks be awarded. The application is due at 4 p.m. Friday, July 30. at 7 p.m. Tickets are $10 each and include your admission, Selection will be made by Friday, August 6, 2010. All application a Bullfrogs hat, and a hot dog and soda voucher. materials are subject to verification by the Alumni Association. Call (920) 465-2586, or e-mail [email protected] with any Watch the alumni calendar of events for details and updates. questions. Award criteria and an application can be found at Or contact the Alumni Office at (920) 465-2586, or www.uwgb.edu/alumni/benefits/scholarships.asp. [email protected].

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Congratulations to ‘distinguished’ and ‘outstanding’ alumni honorees

Three UW-Green Bay alumni were Jason Hellwig ’96, an attorney with local and statewide organizations; selected for recognition as “distin- Winston & Strawn Law Office in New Betty Amuzu, M.D. ’83, an associate guished” and two young alumni were York, and Sam Huber ’03, a teacher professor of obstetrics and gynecol- deemed “outstanding” in advance of in the Milwaukee area school ogy with the UW Medical School the 2010 Alumni Awards Night on district and founder and president and long-time friend to UW-Green campus Saturday April 17. of Eco-Runner, are the outstanding Bay; and Tim Nixon ’87, an attorney recent alumni. Selected to receive and shareholder in the Green Bay distinguished-alumni status were law firm Godfrey & Kahn and a Patricia Finder-Stone ’73, a retired team leader of business finance and nurse and community activist in restructuring practice group.

Band gigs, video game design, Find us on Facebook and LinkedIn surgery? It’s all new for you with Don’t be left out. Your Alumni Association is using Facebook and LinkedIn in a big way. Jobs, networking, events, photo sharing summer camps for all ages and more. The first step is to visit our website and sign up for the Is summer your favorite time of year? It UWGB alumni group. is for alumna Mona Christensen ’80 and ’96, UW-Green Bay director of camps and conferences. She says to watch for new class opportunities in the music and art camps including adding drum- mers to Guitar Camp so students can experience ‘real-life’ band gigs, and the additions of Video Game Design and APRIL Silk Painting to Art Camp. Innovation Sat. 17 – Alumni Awards Night, Weidner Center and Inventors’ Camp and Life’s a Lab Camp will bring exposure to trends in Fri. 23 – Alumni Earth Caretaker Award innovation and careers in medical sci- Upcomingpresentation, Alumni The Meadows events ence. In Life’s a Lab Camp, with partner MAY Bellin College, students will take biol- Fri.-Sun. 7-9 – Alumni Family and Friends Weekend, ogy and anatomy classes in the morning Wilderness Resort, Wisconsin Dells and take tours of an emergency room, radiology clinic, physical therapy Sat. 15 – Commencement Reception, 8 to 10 p.m. Titletown Brewing, Green Bay and sports medicine facilities, and if scheduling allows, a viewing of a live surgery. Sun. 16 – Alumni Association at the Cellcom Marathon, 7 to 10 a.m. Adult camps include Grandparents University, Arts Enrichment for Adults, and Spanish Immersion for Professionals. For more on JUNE all of the Outreach and Extension sponsored camps, visit their Fri. 11 – Alumni Association Annual Scholarship website, www.uwgbsummercamps.com. Golf Outing, Royal Scot Golf Course Stay connected! Sat. June 26 – Alumni and Friends at the Timber Rattlers New job? Change of address? Got married? Update us on your Baseball Game latest happenings. It’s just a click away --- www.uwgb.edu/ JULY alumni/updates/ or send us your information by mail, attention Thurs.-Fri. 8-9 – Grandparent’s University Mark Brunette. Don’t be a lost alum! Fri. 30 – Alumni legacy Scholarship Application Due AUGUST — Alumni notes written by Jennifer Klein Tues. 10 – Alumni and Friends at the Bullfrogs Game

24 April 2010 Endowment gives life to library A new endowment will provide needed financial assistance to the heart of UW-Green Bay — the David A. Cofrin Library.

Strategically located at the heart of the University, the Cofrin Library was established as the lifeblood of learning on the UW-Green Dr. Debra Bay campus. Now, an endowment created by Ann Reilly Dr. Debra Ann Reilly, sister of UW-Green Bay Prof. Clif Ganyard, and his wife, Cofrin Library Director Paula Ganyard, will help secure its viability for years to come.

To read the full story about the Robert L. Do you have a love of libraries and learning? Ganyard Library Endowment, the vision for its Please consider a gift to help grow the use, and the man behind the heartfelt gift, go to Robert L. Ganyard Library Endowment. www.uwgb.edu/inside/1004/ganyard www.uwgb.edu/giving University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Nonprofit Org. 2420 Nicolet Drive U.S. Postage Green Bay, WI 54311-7001 PAID Green Bay, WI Permit No. 66

P.P. S S . .

‘Bay Badgers,’ anyone? Exactly forty years ago, UWGB students chose the fiery Phoenix (inset) as the new school’s permanent mascot. Sent to the ash can were the Bay Badgers nickname and the weird, water-skiing Bucky logo, which survives in the UW-Green Bay archives only as a single, felt pennant. Is there any pre-Phoenix memorabilia in your attic? We’d love to see it. See page 13.

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