THE MAGAZINE OF CARROLL UNIVERSITY SUMMER 2017

A Conversation with Doug Hastad, Carroll's Outgoing President FORWARD

Jumping for Joy Sold-out audiences greeted the Carroll Players' spring production, “Legally Blonde, the Musical.” The play, based on the hit 2001 film, was a true campus-wide production, featuring a cast of students, faculty and staff.

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For institutions as well as people, goodbyes can be tough. “Parting is such sweet sorrow,” wrote Shakespeare. F1RST Magazine tells the stories of pioneers, of Wisconsin’s first university Of course, for Juliet it was only temporary— and of the resolute, creative and fearless she anticipated seeing her Romeo the next morning. men and women who push it forward— the alumni, students, faculty and staff of Carroll University—through truly But even the thought of a few hours apart was a source of much sadness. So, what do you pioneering content and design. say of a more permanent parting of ways? How do you adequately express your feelings Carroll University is Wisconsin’s first when such a large part of your recent life takes leave? four-year institution of higher learning. This independent, co-educational In a month or so, Doug Hastad and his wife, Nancy, will depart campus one last time, comprehensive university is grounded driving off in the direction of the Mississippi River and their retirement. They leave behind in the Presbyterian heritage and liberal arts tradition. The Office of a place forever altered by their time here. During Hastad’s presidency, Carroll has added Communications and Marketing numerous programs, renovated buildings and constructed new facilities as it continues publishes F1RST for alumni, faculty, its legacy as Wisconsin’s pioneer university. It is a different place from the one Hastad staff, students and friends of the surreptitiously visited while he interviewed for the president’s position, 11 years ago. university. The opinions expressed do not necessarily represent the opinions 15 But not everything has undergone a transformation. In our conversation in this issue of of the editors or the official policies of Carroll University. We welcome your F1RST, Hastad described what attracted him to Carroll: the warmth and commitment of the comments to [email protected] people he met, who uniformly raved about this place. And that hasn’t changed. From staff, to administration, to faculty, to students and to alumni across the world, there are common EDITORIAL UNIVERSITY characteristics among the people who inhabit Carroll. STAFF CONTACTS Jeannine Sherman General We see those traits expressed annually by faculty and students at our academic fair, Director of 1.800.CArroll Celebrate Carroll, as they present research that may one day change the world. They’re Communications carrollu.edu 12 and Marketing also apparent in alumni, who pursue their dreams to make the world a better place with Alumni Engagement 12 / Easing the Way Malcolm 262.524.7237 Highlights determination and single-mindedness, like siblings Imran Ahmed ’10 and Hina Altaf ’10. We McDowell Woods Carroll’s pre-college programs welcome first-generation, even recognize them in high school students participating in Carroll’s pre-college programs, Editor Institutional Foremost Advancement university-bound students 5 / New Hall Gets New Name driven by their hopes to be the first in their families to earn college degrees. ART DIRECTION 262.524.7234 AND DESIGN 7 / Rankin Renovation Next Those traits combined make up the personality of a pioneer—a mix of curiosity, ambition Bryce M. Ulmer Undergraduate 8 / For Christ and Learning Admission 15 / Celebrate Carroll and compassion. A true pioneer isn’t driven solely by the need to reach new horizons, Photography 262.524.7220 Destination but to experience the journey, to walk his or her own path. When the journey itself is the Ryan Drake Graduate Admission Students and faculty present their research 10 / Rat Research destination, then each twist and turn becomes just another experience to cherish. 262.524.7220 comments at annual idea fair 10 / Office Hours And goodbyes? Well, goodbyes mark new journeys. Goodbyes become celebrations. [email protected] Athletics 11 / Homebrewers On Campus 262.574.7321 So, thank you, Doug and Nancy Hastad, for walking with us these past 11 years. class notes Pioneers Best wishes on your next pioneer adventure. You leave Carroll transformed, [email protected] Box Office 16 / A Parting Conversation 262.524.7633 24 / Alumni Honored and in good hands. MAIL Center for Retiring President Doug Hastad sits down for a question 26 / Change Agents Office of Graduate Studies 28 / Where Did Pete Go? Communications 262.951.3253 and answer session and Marketing With Pioneer Pride, 100 N. East Avenue Todd Wehr Waukesha, WI 53186 Memorial Library 262.524.7175

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GRANT STUDENT HOUSING TALKING ABOUT IT Grants promote a safer campus A $10,000 grant will help Dr. NEW NAME Barbra Beck, associate professor Two new grants further Carroll’s efforts to prevent sexual assault of public health, and her Guns, FOR NEW HALL and domestic violence on campus Grief and Grace (GGG) Coalition colleagues develop a resource to A $300,000 grant from the U.S. officers, with comprehensive interpersonal help communities discuss the issue Department of Justice Office on Violence violence response training. of gun violence. INSTITUTIONAL AWARDS Against Women (OVW) will create A $100,000 grant from the Aurora Health The Change Incubator Grant FACULTY AND STAFF programming that works toward reducing Care Better Together Fund will enhance from the Healthier Wisconsin RECOGNIZED sexual assault, domestic violence, dating Partnership Program will help the staff resources to combat sexual assault Three faculty and one staff violence and stalking on campus. The three- coalition develop an online tool kit violence, encourage bystander intervention member were recognized by the year grant allows the university to customize that community leaders can use to and offer response training to staff. The university for teaching excellence its programming in the areas of greatest lead discussions about gun violence. grant began in January and runs through and service to the school. need at Carroll. A project coordinator and December 2021. PRESIDENTIAL SEARCH The group will create guides that graduate assistant were recently hired to communities across the country Dr. Sara Deprey, associate The Aurora Health Care Better Together MOVING FORWARD staff an office of victim services. can use to foster a sustained, public professor and chair of physical Fund is a contribution to help community- The search for a new president to health dialogue on gun violence. therapy, has been given the “This grant will help us enhance the based providers expand primary care and replace Doug Hastad, who will be Benjamin F. Richason, Jr. Faculty education and resources needed to ensure behavioral health services, as well as sexual retiring at the end of June 2017, is in Award. With eight peer-reviewed the campus community has the necessary assault and domestic violence prevention and full swing. articles, numerous conference tools to prevent and/or report acts of treatment programs. Through this fund, grant According to trustee Jim DeJong presentations and nine grant- interpersonal violence on campus,” said Abby recipients are able to serve their communities ’73, chair of the presidential search funded research projects, Deprey’s Shirley Hilger spent 33 years traveling the Meddaugh, director of student conduct. with better access to health care so all can impact extends far beyond the committee, the renewed search world to recruit students to become Pioneers As part of the focus on campus and live well. is being conducted by the Myers classroom. She has taught at Carroll community engagement, Carroll will work Carroll will use the funds to pay for a part- McRae Executive Search and since 2000. and attend Carroll just as she did, graduating in with The Women’s Center of Waukesha and time graduate assistant position to help plan and Consulting firm, with hopes of Dr. Jessica R. Boll, assistant 1943. She was beloved by many FACELIFT Waukesha Police Department to provide deliver prevention services, and train campus quickly finding a candidate. “Myers professor of Spanish, received the because of her lively spirit and campus staff, including first responders, student leaders on campus to prevent sexual MURAL HIGHLIGHTS McRae has assigned the firm’s Norman and Louise Allhiser Award enthusiasm for higher education. Title IX investigators and public safety assault, domestic violence and harassment. CEO, Emily Myers, along with its HERITAGE for Teaching Excellence. In addition president, Dr. Alan Meddars, as It’s subtle, but some spaces in to her teaching and research work, As director of admissions, Hilger the principal consultants on this the Campus Center received an Boll has served as the associate was responsible for recruiting HILGER search,” noted DeJong. “Myers updated look recently, all part of director of the Honors Program thousands of students over the McRae is confident that the the university-wide rebranding and director of SALUD (Science course of her career, including noteworthy president’s position at Carroll will effort. Most noticeably, a large and Language Undergraduate attract top candidates, including mural on the first floor across from Development) at Carroll since 2015. graduates like Dr. Howard Fuller ’62, former many applicants and referrals the Information Desk highlights Dr. Kimberly Redding, associate superintendent of Milwaukee Public Schools; who were not active in the first a proud Carroll tradition: the professor of history, and Cynara Ricardo Diaz ’74, executive director of the phase of our search. Based on our bagpipe-led march students take on (Cyd) Fode, administrative United Community Center; and José Olivieri discussions with Myers McRae, the Commencement Day. assistant in the office of general ’78, partner at Michael Best and current chair of search committee believes there is a education, are the 2017 recipients very good possibility that the search of the Exemplary Contributions Carroll University’s Board of Trustees. will be successfully completed ETHOS in Service Award. Redding has To honor her commitment to Carroll and prior to the end of Carroll’s spring LIVING IT served on multiple committees semester.” Carroll University recently at Carroll since her arrival in tireless work to enroll some of the brightest The renewed search follows adopted an Ethos Statement. Ethos 2001 and shepherded National students from around the globe, the New Hall the announcement by Dr. Sara is a Greek word meaning character. History Day activities on residence building will be renamed the Shirley Stoelinga in mid-February that she It is often used to describe the campus. Fode, instrumental in Hilger Hall this fall. A dedication ceremony would remain at the University guiding beliefs of a person, group or developing domestic cross-cultural of Chicago’s Urban Education organization. See the statement at experiences for Carroll students, is is planned for Homecoming Weekend 2017 Institute. carrollu.edu/about/ethos.asp also a tireless volunteer. and all are invited to attend.

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POLITICAL SCIENCE Forbes LEADERSHIP recently 111-YEAR-OLD RANKIN HALL UP NEXT GOREN HEADED published PRESIDENT HASTAD TO GERMANY ON a list of RECOGNIZED meaningful CONSTRUCTION AND FULBRIGHT GRANT jobs that pay Outgoing President Doug Dr. Lilly Goren, professor of well. It was no Hastad received the Council RENOVATION UPDATES political science, has received surprise for Advancement and Support to us, but a Fulbright grant to teach two of Education (CASE) District V Carroll offers Executive Leadership Award at the Work continues on the Doug and Nancy Hastad Hall. interdisciplinary courses on paths to political science at the University of nearly all of organization’s annual conference in The project, with construction slated to be completed this Bonn in Bonn, Germany. the careers. Chicago last December. December, will open for the spring 2018 semester. Doug and “Dr. Hastad has more than Goren has been invited to join Listed below are Nancy Hastad Hall will house the nursing, physics/engineering the University of Bonn’s North the professions, fulfilled the criteria of the award American Studies Program as an their average by articulating a compelling vision and exercise science programs, as well as provide space salary and the expert collaborator during the percentage of for Carroll and inspiring all of for other academic classroom needs. Two challenge grants summer of 2018. She will teach people holding our constituents to be engaged have been issued for the new building, including a $1 million a course on Politics and Popular the job who find in the process,” said Steve Kuhn, it meaningful. Culture as well as one on Nostalgia vice president for institutional challenge grant provided by two trustees, Joseph Zvesper ’76 advancement. “A tireless in the Age of Anxiety: Political Dentist NURSING and Timothy Sullivan ’75, which will help fund project costs. In Culture, Emotion and Citizenship, $128,700 | 89% cheerleader, he has moved Carroll addition, a $1 million challenge grant was issued by the Bucyrus UCC HONORS to new levels of success across the both at the graduate level. Chief Executive $128,000 | 75% STUDENTS institution, encouraged risk-taking Foundation of the Greater Milwaukee Foundation. The funds Congratulations are in order and has created a more robust from that challenge will be designated for the construction of MEN’S LACROSSE Pharmacist profile for the University in the $114,500 | 75% for students in Carroll’s nursing the Bucyrus Center for Applied Physics and Engineering. FOR THE WIN program, who daily demonstrate Midwest and beyond.” Physicist the university’s commitment to CASE is a professional association The path to Brian Nowak’s latest $102,500 | 79% job was a quick walk down the hall. community service. They have been serving educational institutions This January, he left his former Physician named one of the United Community and the advancement professionals In the Home Stretch Assistant position as assistant coach for Center’s (UCC) Volunteer Groups who work on their behalf in Doug and Nancy Hastad Hall $89,500 | 86% will be completed in December Carroll’s women’s lacrosse team of the Year for their contributions alumni relations, communications, to take over head coaching duties Education toward ensuring students stay development, marketing and allied Administrator healthy and in their classrooms areas. Take a Peek Inside for the men’s squad. The path to $77,200 | 94% the team’s first-ever victory was throughout the school year. If you’re anything like us, equally short. In Nowak’s first game Physical For the past two years, students CROSS COUNTRY you’re chomping at the bit Therapist at the helm, the team defeated the $74,000 | 91% in the Carroll University Nursing ALL-ACADEMIC to explore the new Hastad Hall. University of Northwestern. Program have supported more than Luckily, we’ve got a walk-through Commercial HONORS Pilot 1,300 students annually at the UCC’s at bit.ly/HastadHall2 For the past two years, Nowak Both Carroll’s men’s and women’s $71,800 | 71% in-school Health Center, where has assisted head women’s coach cross country teams were named Health Services they educate staff and students on Michael Hodge, who he met while Division III All-Academic teams Manager diabetes, asthma, allergy awareness attending the State by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Next up, a $10 million renovation project for 111-year-old $70,900 | 83% and prevention, playground safety, University of New Country Coaches Association Rankin Hall. Because of the historical nature of the building York in Canton, Veterinarian bullying and basic first aid. In 2016, $70,400 | 86% (USTFCCCA) in February. N.Y. Hodge was they handled a total of 4,615 student and its listing on the National Register of Historic Places, major The Carroll men’s cross country an assistant visits and contributed more than renovations and upgrades will be reserved for the interior. They team finished with a 3.5 GPA, women’s coach 2,400 volunteer hours. The UCC while the women’s cross country include new operational systems such as heating and cooling, there and Nowak provides programs to Hispanics and team finished with an overall GPA a member of the near south-side residents of all races classrooms and faculty offices, as well as the addition of of 3.48. men’s team. and ages in education, cultural arts, collaborative spaces for students. The architectural firm hired community development, and health Megan Ludke, a sophomore from and human services in an effort West Bend, Wis. was individually to design both Doug and Nancy Hastad Hall and Rankin Hall is to help individuals achieve honored as a Division III All- BWBR, a design solutions firm. Construction oversight for the their highest potential. Academic individual. two buildings is provided by Gilbane Building Company.

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From Carroll Chaplain, the Rev. Elizabeth McCord FOR CHRIST AND LEARNING For Christ and Learning is the English Translation of “Christo et Litteris,” Carroll University’s motto.

“Then they wept aloud again. Orpah kissed her This year, we are saying another goodbye. We and weep. After much back and forth, Orpah mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her.” are sending Doug and Nancy Hastad off into finally leaves Naomi’s side; Ruth continues on —Ruth 1:14 their own sea of new beginnings. This goodbye with her mother-in-law to a future unknown. reaches far beyond campus to the many alumni, Goodbyes are like this. Some relationships are It is the nature of working at a place like community leaders and friends of Carroll who lost; others are retained. Sometimes we let go Carroll that we say a lot of goodbyes. Each May, have come to know these two. Doug and Nancy of people we love; other times we disconnect hundreds of students we have taught, mentored, are graduating in their own right, stepping back from the places we know. Either way, goodbyes, encouraged, nurtured and loved walk across from the many demands their work at Carroll even joyful ones, call for some grief. They need the stage, move their tassels from one side of has put on their lives. They will now watch to be acknowledged with rituals of celebration, their mortarboards to the other, and bid their from a distance as the garden they have tended with tears of gratitude, and occasionally with a collegiate years adieu. Faculty and staff cheer continues to bear fruit for years to come. Their champagne toast. the graduates’ triumph as we acknowledge this mark is everywhere in our community, from the Don’t let the goodbyes in life pass too quickly. bittersweet ritual of farewells. These students, beams of the new Hastad Hall to relationships Don’t watch passively as each chapter of this our students, have struggled and succeeded, they have nurtured in their home. Truly, this is sacred life closes. Savor the endings as much as stretched their minds and strengthened their another bittersweet farewell. the beginnings. Take time to say what’s in your skills, matured and prepared for lives of purpose. In the book of Ruth from the Hebrew Bible, heart. Be grateful for connections and courageous Our work with them is complete, and we watch Naomi comes to a time when she must say when the letting go is hard. Bless one another them sail into the horizon of possibilities, trusting goodbye to her two daughters-in-law, Ruth and with holy goodbyes, because this moment will their sterns are solid and their sails are ready. Orpah. The three women cling to one another not pass our way again.

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3+3 PROGRAM STRANGE SCIENCE ACCREDITATION MCW PARTNERSHIP PROF FEATURED PUBLIC COMMENT An agreement with the Medical Dr. Lara Karpenko, associate Carroll University is seeking public College of Wisconsin provides professor of English, had a comment about the University Carroll students seeking a doctor of Carroll Athletics publication, Strange Science: in preparation for its periodic shines in new pharmacy degree with a local option. Investigating the Limits of evaluation by its regional accrediting “Go Pioneers” The new dual degree program allows video Knowledge in the Victorian Age, agency. Submit comments to: students participating in Carroll’s featured in the University of As part of the Public Comments on Carroll University Target Health Science Program to roll out of the Michigan Press. The book was Higher Learning Commission earn both a bachelor's degree at new Athletics co-edited with Dr. Shalyn Claggett 230 South LaSalle Street, Suite 7-500 Carroll and a Doctor of Pharmacy branding this of Mississippi State University. Chicago, IL 60604-1411 degree at the MCW School of fall and winter, If you graduated in a year ending in a 2 or 7, it’s your reunion year. the Office of The essays in Strange Science Comments must address Pharmacy in six years. Communications examine marginal, fringe and substantive matters related to the Your class reunion invitation will arrive this summer—watch your mailbox! and Marketing The program is comprised of unconventional forms of scientific quality of the institution or its created a hype three years of undergraduate study inquiry, as well as their cultural academic programs. Comments In addition to the football game and reunion activities, there are many affinity-based reunions all weekend long. video. The video Come home to Carroll and celebrate with your classmates—and make some new friends. at Carroll followed by three years in can be viewed at: representations, in the Victorian must be in writing and received the PharmD curriculum at MCW. bit.ly/GoPios period. by Aug. 18, 2017.

8 carrollu.edu DESTINATION Faculty Fermenters Create A Unique TOASTING CARROLL TWO RATS We asked our professorial panel Community at Carroll to recommend a few brewskis that WALK INTO pair well with the Pioneer life. A LAB... Student Research into Rodent Behavior CELEBRATING COMMENCEMENT is a Ticklish Affair Commencement deserves a bright, sparkly wheat beer or hefeweizen, It’s midday, but in the topsy-turvy such as Dancing Man Wheat by the world of the vivarium in the lower level Wisconsin-exclusive New Glarus Brewing Co. of the Michael and Mary Jaharis Science Office of Student Affairs Yolanda Medina '16, administrative assistant to the vice president for student affairs Laboratories, it is near midnight and senior and veteran's services coordinator Taylor Kalmus is busy, tickling rats. CHEERING AT Not just for fun (though these albino rats Back in 1846, when Carroll admitted its first green freshmen, the beers that HOMECOMING are pretty cute and highly social), but for Tailgating in the early fall chill science. Kalmus is a biology and psychology made Milwaukee famous were at best microbreweries. The forerunner of at Carroll’s Homecoming calls double major, and she’s involved in a for a warmer seasonal brew such research project for Psychology 414: Pabst, Best and Company, began brewing beer in 1844. Blatz started up in 1851. as this Oktoberfest by Chicago’s Research Methods in Behavior Analysis. Revolution Brewing. Frederick Miller arrived from Germany in 1854 (carrying his own yeast from Rats, which are nocturnal animals in the Office Hours wild, are kept on a schedule 12 hours off in Knickknacks on her desk actually led to new job responsibilities Germany!). And Joseph Schlitz opened his namesake brewery in 1858. the lab. It makes them more active during TOASTING OUR the day when students can conduct for Yolanda Medina, administrative assistant to the vice president FOUNDERS research. Kalmus’ research is for student affairs. One day, a student veteran, noticing the many If Carroll’s founding fathers toasted designed to see whether the rats, It was clearly a pretty good time for their new school, they probably did U.S. Marine Corps-related items in her workspace, asked her startups. Carroll is going strong, 171 it with a crisp pilsner-style beer like which previously have been König Pilsner from König-Brauerei conditioned to laugh advice. (Medina, a student at Carroll in the 1980s, left to join the years later. And those beers? They GmbH in Germany. whenever they hear a certain made Milwaukee famous and became tone, can be taught to Marines. She resumed her studies and graduated last year.) It led known far and wide. suppress that laughter through her to become an advocate and resource for veterans attending DOWNING A instrumental conditioning. Everything moves in cycles, PONZA ROTTA Carroll, a role formalized now in her second job title, as veteran’s though, even beer. Today If the rat remains silent after Admit it, you still get a hankering hearing the tone, it gets tickled. services coordinator. microbrews are once again in vogue, for a ponza from Jimmy’s Grotto Will the rats learn to suppress brewing startups abound and more every now and then. A hoppy IPA, their guffaws? Don’t bother than a few budding braumeisters Milwaukee Brewing Co.'s Hop Happy will cut that cheesy goodness. trying to listen for the are tapping into the DIY trend. Even laughter; this is Carroll faculty. Photo illustration of our faculty homebrewers. dog-whistle stuff, an ultrasonic sound that can When Dr. Tom St. George, an assistant LISTENING TO only be registered by professor of mathematics, arrived at Carroll Schuder and Tom Pahnke, a clinical associate BAGPIPES sophisticated equipment. three years ago, he discovered that a couple professor in physical therapy. “Most of us have A nod to our bagpiping tradition A handful of rats currently of his colleagues were home brewers. scientific minds,” St. George said. “We’re quite here at Carroll, this malty, dark interested in the process, not just the outcome.” amber Scottish Ale hails straight reside in the vivarium, one “I jumped into it as a way to get to know some from the source, Belhaven Brewery of a number of research spaces Stiletto Vase Marine Corps Display Harrier Model of the people here,” he said. Well, that, Of course, the outcome is beer. So, it’s like in Scotland. in the sparkling new Jaharis When she finished her tour U.S. Marine Corps Medina was an airplane and he likes beer. Laboratories building. of duty in the Marines, paraphernalia such as mechanic in the Marines and a cool chemistry experiment you get to drink. Medina vowed never this Iwo Jima display worked on the real thing. St. George notes that Carroll’s home And these faculty members do. Symms noted They’ll be re-homed with SHOWING SOME to wear boots again. dominate Medina’s workspace. The Harrier is well-known brewers are mostly from the mathematics that they get together informally to talk beer loving families when their tour She’s known for her Medina and her late husband for its vertical take-off LOVE of duty ends. In the meantime, flashy footwear. were both Marines. capability. and chemistry departments. In his own and have, on occasion, sampled each other’s This smooth, creamy milk stout they’ll be hanging around, mathematics department, associate creations. Pahnke, who at 22 years and counting, from Left Hand Brewing in Colorado eating occasional reward treats professors Dr. David Feil and Dr. John Symms is a home brewing elder, said the topic often is a favorite of your F1RST editorial Correction: —and giggling. were brewing, as were associate chemistry comes up before or after campus meetings. staff. Nitrogen bubbles make for a We mistakenly placed the subject of last issue’s Office Hours profile, Jon Gordon, in the wrong silky drink. department. Jon is a senior lecturer in the communication department. professors Dr. Kevin McMahon and Dr. Michael “It’s always fun to hear what others are doing.”

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program would be helpful.” And has it? “Yes. It’s made me even more excited about college.” Here, she has gotten a taste of the independence of college life, learning from the program’s mentors—current Carroll students— about the ins and outs of the college experience. She’s also made friends and notes that the Saturday group is quite diverse—she’s met and befriended people outside of her prior social circles. Moving outside of bubbles and embracing diversity is one of the goals of the program, and the participants appreciate it. “Being here, I got to meet and develop relationships with people who aren’t like me, which is pretty cool,” said Deja Smith, a junior at the Milwaukee Collegiate Academy. Like Maciel, Smith is hoping to be the first in her immediate • family to attend college. Carroll’s “This program helps me get to know myself Pre-College better,” she explained. “I may know what I want Programs focus on to do, but Project Pioneer helps me learn how diversity to do it.” and first- That self-awareness translates into self- generation confidence, as participants develop their social college students skills during the course of the program. Anayeli Jaimes, a sophomore at Waukesha South High School, describes herself as shy, but you’d have a hard time believing that from her easy smile and self-assured manner. It may be that Just like college students. Which, really, is students will participate in a variety of activities the programs attract students who already the whole point. Because these teens are designed to sharpen their academic skills and have extra drive and ambition, but each one high schoolers, gathered from several schools prepare them for college. They’ll visit several interviewed credited their experiences as in Milwaukee and Waukesha counties and college campuses in addition to their base at making them more confident. brought to Carroll for a day of college-like Carroll, attend cultural activities, learn about activities. They are mostly students of color college majors and the financial aid process and LIVING IT and most are from neighborhoods that don’t network. In addition, they’ll develop new friends, typically send a lot of people off to post- gain self-confidence, and, it is hoped, realize that Project Pioneer is one of several Carroll secondary education. a college education is within reach for them. initiatives to reach out to an underrepresented population. The Horizontes program, now in They are at Carroll for Project Pioneer, a series Rosaisela Santoyo Maciel is a freshman at its 17th year, attracts more than 60 high school Carmen High School of Science and Technology of Saturday sessions stretched over the school students from as far away as Harlem, N.Y., for a in Milwaukee. She’s got her sights set on year, designed to provide an introduction to week-long stay on campus each summer. university life for these 35 students. It’s one of college—and to be the first in her family to Participants, from grades nine through 12, On a chilly Saturday afternoon in late February, the ghosts in Main Hall scatter several innovative programs Carroll operates to attend. She’s passionate about aerospace sleep in dorms, eat at the Main Dining Room familiarize diverse populations of high school and robotics and is currently learning to code. in the Campus Center and otherwise act pretty to the far corners, as several dozen teens clatter in to separate classrooms spread students with college. She found out about Project Pioneer from a much like college students. Each is paired with counselor at her school. Halfway through this, “In our Project Pioneer recruiting, we focus a mentor, a Carroll student. Again, the goal is to over two floors. With packs on their backs and cell phones in hands, they look just like her first year in the program, she said she’s on first generation families,” said Maria make college less intimidating and more familiar. planning to attend all four years. any other group of college students, chatting and joking as they settle into their chairs. Ramirez, director of pre-college programs at In a typical day, students may attend mock Carroll. “This is all about exposure for these “College is obviously something I’m very college classes, take field trips to places Some cluster together and gossip noisily, others stretch sleepily at their desks. students.” During the Saturday sessions, the excited about,” she noted. “I thought this such as the Medical College of Wisconsin, •

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generation college students admitted and enrolled at Carroll. These students, too, are likely trailblazers, the first in their families to attend college. The trepidation and anxiety any incoming student faces can be greatly compounded by a lack of tradition or cultural knowledge. “Each of these programs tries to teach students that college is more than a series of classes,” said Ramirez. That’s because being successful here will take more than acing an exam. Fitting in, finding • a play-study balance, eating well, budgeting Carroll finances properly, even developing a social life University in a more culturally diverse environment are all offers several skills essential to success in college. pre-college For E’mari Zollicoffer, the meaningful programs, connections she has made with her mentor drawing and program instructors have helped her students from as far confidence, taught her patience and helped Much to Celebrate away as her better understand her own abilities. “The Harlem, N.Y. program has helped me so much this year,” she Celebrate Carroll is the university’s signature academic showcase event. said. “It really is aimed at being the best ‘you’ one can be, and that starts with understanding Since 2005, the university community has set aside a day each spring to celebrate and helping others.” and highlight the academic and scholarly achievements of Carroll students and “The bridge program taught me great skills,” faculty. This year, on April 19, the entire campus came alive with presentations, • attend presentations discussing the college acknowledged first year student Alvaro admissions process and financial aid, and even Rodriguez, “like knowing my way around posters, art exhibits and more. Here’s a look at the day. work on homework, before selecting from campus, having great study techniques and how A pre-college enrichment program for area various social activities in the evening. to manage my finances.” high school students. Sessions run on Jaimes attended Horizontes last summer, For Rodriguez, who dreams of becoming a Saturdays over three month-long academies following in her sister’s footsteps. “You meet music therapist, those learned lessons and during the year. Four faculty members Student exhibits covered a broad spectrum people from different places and cultures. I the self-confidence boost they gave him made presented their research: of topics, including: made new friends who came from New York.” his dream seem much more possible. “The Not that it’s all fun and games. Jaimes is most helpful part of the program was the mock Invasive Species and the Ecological The Effects of Parent’s Age and Tattoos Tadpole Shrimp from Temporary Ponds very interested in the health care field—she’s college classes. We got our first taste of having Junk Food Diet on Perceptions of Parenting Styles Exhibit Changing Salinity Tolerance Across Life currently got her sights set on a career in a college level class and got to understand —Dr. Susan Lewis History Stages The Effects of Provider Type and Bedside dermatology or plastic surgery—and both how a college class would work. It’s made us A summer week-long residential program for Manner on Overall Patient Trust An Analysis of the Process and Interpretation high school students, aimed to familiarize Horizontes and Project Pioneer have given her a better students now. I also got a lot of chances Anterior Knee Pain in Youth: of Conflict-Based Mass News Media Broadcast them with college life and expectations. considerable leg up on networking. to become a leader. I was able to work on my A Survey on Sleep, Sports Participation communication skills with fellow students and Quality of Life The Effects of Mindfulness-Based Stress “This is going to help me on my résumé,” Pokemon Go: How Players Collaborate with while trying to get a task done in a timely and —Dr. David Bazett-Jones Reduction (MBSR) on Stress and Fatigue she said. Strangers and the Depths of Their Relationships efficient manner.” in Cancer Patients and Survivors Negotiating Assent: Creating Shared MAKING THE TRANSITION “But it also gave me far more than that—all the Investigating the Synthesis and Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome in a Female Meaning between Physical Therapy friends I made during the program are friends I Functionalization of Silver Nanoparticles Collegiate Lacrosse Player Carroll‘s efforts to reach out to and provide Graduate Students and their Patients A partnership between Carroll and the support for first-generation college students see now on a daily basis. I know that the people for Use in SERS (surface-enhanced Raman Waukesha County Department of Health and —Dr. Rebecca Imes continues for students who arrive at Carroll. I met in the program have my back at all times.” scattering) Detection Assays Identifying How College Students Express Human Services, connecting Carroll students their Political Views Using Facebook as their with at-risk youth in the community through a Pioneer Bridge, which is funded by the PNC Rodriguez may not know it yet, but those Hatred, an Underrated Virtue The Human Effect on Potentially Toxic Metal Social Medium series of activities throughout the year. Foundation, attempts to ease the transition connections, like those skills, will last a lifetime. —Dr. Kevin Guilfoy Concentrations in the Soils of Scotland with a week-long series of activities just There are thousands of Carroll alumni who can before the academic year. It’s open to first vouch for this.

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n the hubbub of his last several Minnesota, so many of our dear friends months on the job—there were were there. We were not looking in any still alumni to visit, construction way, shape or form to move. We were and renovation projects to oversee happy, we were content. But there was a and budgets to plan, not to persistent consultant who urged me to Stepping Out mention the personal details of planning take a look at this and reluctantly I just a move across the state to a new house— sent him something. I guess that makes he sat down with us to answer a few the rest kind of history. But the reason for questions about his time here at Carroll. the move was, one, we were able to stay This was a reflective president, in Wisconsin, we’re Midwesterners at beginning to take measure of the heart. Number two, it was an opportunity numerous changes he had seen during to go back, to private higher education. his tenure. Yet, as is his nature, Hastad So it was different enough to get us both of the Spotlight was always eager to share the credit interested in this. And I was hoping to and to reposition the spotlight, onto finish my career where I started—in a the university’s students, faculty, staff, small private institution. And the issues alumni, the community and, finally, were very intriguing here. There were a to his wife, Nancy. lot of things going on, a lot of challenges. And as I viewed it, an abundance of This summer, Carroll University President Doug Hastad F1RST: Let’s go back to 11 years ago. opportunities. Why come to Carroll? Why did you take Can I tell you the other side of this up this challenge? story? I had my first interview at the and his wife, Nancy, will walk out of the President’s House HASTAD: Well, I was very comfortable airport in December of 2005 and during in my position as chancellor at the the course of that interview with the on South East Avenue one last time and close the door University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. I’d search and screen committee I was asked been there for 17 years. I’d been a dean, why I was interested in this job and I said a provost and then the chancellor. My I didn’t think I was. Still, I was asked to go on their 11 years at the university. Much has changed wife, Nancy, had a wonderful job with the back for a second interview in January of La Crosse public schools. Our children 2006, again at the airport. So I decided at Carroll in those 11 years, almost all of it under the weren’t born there, but they were raised to spend three hours on campus before I there, graduated from high school there went to the airport. I came in jeans and a guidance of the thoughtful, affable Hastad. and then went on to the University of sweatshirt with a backpack and •

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Welcoming students during opening convocation

• a baseball hat and I talked to 31 people, F1RST: What’s your favorite day of the F1RST: Can you take a broader look, from Frank the custodian to students to year on campus? not just from your perspective at Carroll, faculty to Linda the librarian, and I said, HASTAD: Probably move-in day, but as a leader of several institutions, and I wasn’t lying, because I did have two historically. Such energy. And related at the ways higher education has changed in the last decade? children and they were college-age (they to that, how our students, from move- both happened to be at the University of in week on, volunteer in the greater HASTAD: In the most recent years, certainly Dr. Hastad with Minnesota at the time, so it was a bit of students in 2011 community. That’s a culture of service businesses like the University of Phoenix, a stretch), why should my children come that begins on day one and remains with the true for-profit privates, have impacted to school here? And all 31 people raved them, hopefully the rest of their lives. how higher education operates in this about the place. That was at a time when And then I can’t ignore commencement country, but I think more importantly, there weren’t many people raving publicly which is, without question, a powerful, more impactful, going forward, is for about the place. moving and transformational experience. private schools, as well as public schools, universities and colleges, to pay attention My goal was to obtain firsthand F1RST: We’ve compiled dozens of PIONEERING now. Initially, it was such a struggle to So, bookends: move-in day and MOMENTS to the consumer. That’s a word a lot of information about the campus Pioneering Moments during your tenure get people to say we want to require a commencement. people dislike. But the consumer would be environment. If nobody knows that I am —events or accomplishments that have We've been cross-cultural experience and to study F1RST: You were hired to be president. the student and their parents. And they’re a candidate for the presidency, you know, occurred here on campus under your watch. highlighting and abroad and we all know what it has turned reflecting on Nancy wasn’t hired, but you’ve had a pretty beginning to ask very interesting questions if they think I’m just a parent of a college Does any one stand above the rest? into now. I remember traveling with Dan transformative strong partner behind you who has had an about higher education. Is it worth it? Is age student, they’re going to tell me what HASTAD: If you are forcing me to identify Becker, assistant professor and director changes and incredible presence on campus. Can you a four-year degree ever going to pay back they think. I remember my conversation just one thing, I would say I’m most of graphic communication, on his very achievements speak a little bit about that? the dividends that it used to pay back? proud of how people have come together first time abroad and we went to France Having a conversation with two students outside of the library. during Dr. Hastad's Can my son or daughter get the same and Germany and he was just not looking HASTAD: One of the things that is so with an alumnus in 2014 I asked, what do you like about this to advance this institution in so many tenure. Here are kind of experience, maybe even greater forward to the trip at all. Now Dan is one of special to me is the manner in which place? “Well, we love the small classes.” different ways. Look at what we’ve been a couple of our access to a job on a two-year campus? Is favorites: the strongest advocates. He takes students she does her “job.” She is exceptional at They both were business majors. And able to do with new academic programs it worth assuming that (cost) over time? to Japan! So, again, people pulling together managing the President’s House, which Sharing a post-pie they said you really get to know your at the undergraduate level. Minimally, I think people are learning how to ask the to do remarkable things is the single thing I we try to open up as many times as kiss at Spring Fling professors and then one said to the other, we’ve added 24 programs in the last last year right questions, which makes it terribly 3 am proudest of. It’s a great source of pride possible. She is just a wonderful host. well that’s not always good because decade, maybe a few more, and equally challenging to stay competitive in this large to watch other people succeed, knowing I’ve heard from virtually every corner of sometimes you get to know them too divided between the two colleges, which GRADUATE marketplace. Going forward, institutions that your fingerprints are somewhere in campus how impressed they are with well and you can’t even argue with them I find fascinating. Take a look at how we CENTER GETS like Carroll need to be sensitive to that, NEW DIGS their successes. Nancy and how she is so comfortable anymore. So it gave me a perspective have raised the bar relative to the quality need to be careful how they raise tuition, with people in the house, how everybody that you would never get if you were of the student, both in terms of ACT The Center for Then there are bricks and mortar how they increase their costs, and how feels at home, so to speak, when they there as a candidate. Because when you scores and high school class rank. And Graduate Studies successes. New buildings and renovations they ensure that the student is not only opened in the come to the house. And then she does come as a candidate everyone looks at how we’ve gained, in some cases, national abound. What an incredible climate finishing in a reasonable time frame, four fall of 2010 about you differently. I was just this father. It recognition for our academic programs. of giving here at Carroll now. So many so many things that are under the radar. three miles east years, but has access to vocational success Take nursing, for example. They went generous donors and what they’ve She serves on several local women’s was a great visit and highly positive. of Carroll's main in the workplace. To me, these are the from one of the poorest performers in service groups. She served on the board I learned a great deal about Carroll. campus. allowed us to achieve. Whole new biggest issues. • the state to one of the best performers buildings! Look at what we’ve done of the Waukesha Civic Theater and the in the country. That’s not bad. They did in student affairs. You know, from Wisconsin Philharmonic. She volunteers that. They chose to do that. Take a look at every Wednesday at the surgical waiting 6 intercollegiate athletics to the residence room at the Waukesha Memorial some of our boutique majors—actuarial STUDENTS halls. It wouldn’t be fair for me to just science, animal behavior. Look what GIVE BACK TO pick one. Because it’s been so many Hospital and she does it without any they’ve accomplished. I mean, actuarial START SCHOOL things. It’s been a collective effort to fanfare or expectations. She’s engaged science was just ranked in the top 30 in YEAR advance an institution that happens to be with St. Luke’s Lutheran Church and the country. That’s really kind of cool. I Freshman Day the first in the state of Wisconsin. And recently served on its building renovation Doug brought a dominating leadership to Carroll across the board am proud of the growth and quality of the of Service began that’s a source of pride. Sorry I rambled committee. She’s just a great community without changing the ‘personality’ or affable nature of the school. He took graduate programs. Physical therapy is in 2008 when but there are so many stories, so many member, both on campus and in the one of the best in the country, physician first-year students Pioneering Moments. Oh, I almost forgot. greater Waukesha community. She’s over an ‘average’ institution and made it a star because of superb staffing and volunteered a assistant, their passage rate on the We completed our first ever $50 million very special. And that’s a role that she st collective 2,000 a curriculum now compatible with the 21 Century. But most important of all, exam is quite high. We’ve increased our comprehensive campaign. The campaign understands. But she chooses to play it in graduate enrollment by over 300 percent. hours of service a very unassuming way. across the also resulted in our first ever all-gift and the sundry components—faculty, board, students, administration— And the list goes on. Waukesha and grant building, the Michael and Mary (Editor’s Note: Read more about became one team, bent on Carroll’s quality and success.” Jaharis Science Laboratories. And then we Nancy and Doug on Then in the midst of all this, again, on greater Milwaukee Nancy and her interactions on campus Move-In Day in 2012 the academic side, the cross-cultural areas over the created the Prairie Springs Environmental and in the community on page 21’s — P.E. MacAllister ’40, chair emeritus, board of trustees experience is something I can smirk about course of one day. Education Center. “Always an Open Door.”)

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facilities, the academic program array, F1RST: There are a number of diversity 14 the solid Pioneer Core, the commitment efforts going on now, particularly with the Working with Doug and Nancy has been a PIOS GO GLOBAL to cross-cultural experience, yada, yada, pre-college programs. Do you imagine those yada. The graduate programs will be creating a more diverse student body? tremendous joy for me both personally and professionally. The adoption of the even more important to the success of Pioneer Core, a new HASTAD: I hope so. If we look at the Their effusive spirit, compassion and commitment to general education this institution. You will likely see some changing demographics of our country’s two-year programs created to help those Carroll has left our beloved school in a better place as a curriculum, and a population, that will naturally occur. But requirement that all families who find it difficult to afford the focused efforts we’ve made with our result of their support. I will miss them tremendously.” students undergo a four-year degree and other two-year pre-college programs and in particular a Cross-Cultural programs that complement existing our relationship with United Community Experience, or CCE, — Dorval Carter ’79, vice-chair, board of trustees undergraduate and graduate programs. So Center (UCC) in Milwaukee will make a began in fall 2011. that can feed into the four-year programs significant impact on how this campus and can easily transition into the graduate looks and feels. One of the things that programs. we’ve wanted all along is for a Wisconsin 25 I think you’ll see a stabilization of student to walk across this campus ON THE WRIGHT TRACK the traditional undergraduate student and feel as though he or she is part of numbers. If you look at the demographics the real world. So you have geographic Beginning in of high school students across the country, Always an Open Door diversity, you have students from around we’re proud of that. The transformation 2007, houses on • F1RST: Looking ahead to the next decade, that number is getting smaller. Going back the world, you have cultural diversity and of the liberal arts into being the critical Wright Street have what’s the biggest challenge facing to my point about the savvy consumers, you have economic diversity. You really at all,” said Nancy. “It felt like home right away. piece of the Pioneer Core has assured been converted Nancy Hastad doesn’t mind Carroll itself? they are going to be questioning the value can leave this place knowing you have And we want people to feel comfortable here. them a place but I think many of those into functional company. Good thing, because HASTAD: Well, I don’t think Carroll’s university facilities. of a college degree even more. If fewer experienced a bit of the world while you We’re not formal people, we’re casual people.” programs will need to find other ways unique. I think that private colleges in The renovations students are available, and more people were here. But the relationship with UCC she’s had hundreds of to demonstrate that their programs are Nancy’s impact extends much further particular need to price themselves right serve as a way to are questioning the value, you really have and the opportunity to physically have a a pathway to the workforce. Because houseguests each year for the than hosting events. She has maintained a and make sure students can finish in four preserve historic to be able to identify yourself in such presence on that campus, to physically whether we like it or not, education is busy schedule volunteering for a variety of years, hopefully with two majors, and architecture while a way that there’s a clear brand. I think contribute to that community through past decade or so. about, more so than before, preparing community organizations. She still volunteers can move into the work force. Because simultaneously we’re well positioned. One of our great providing nurses and health care, and to students for vocational success. outfitting Carroll one morning a week in the surgical waiting that, at the end of the day, is how I think assets is our geographic location. We are have access to those students, has the with up-to-date Nancy is the wife of retiring Carroll room at Waukesha Memorial Hospital the only four-year campus in Waukesha students and their parents are looking amenities. potential to truly transform this place. President Doug Hastad. And though she has and belongs to two community service F1RST: How does Carroll look a decade at education. Is there a value to it? Is County, which is one of the most highly no official title at Carroll, she has her own organizations. During the past 11 years, from now? there an end product to all of this? And educated, fastest-growing, healthiest F1RST: We’ve heard about this tradition business cards and is a familiar and beloved she has also served on the boards for the I’m very pleased with the direction we HASTAD: Well, I’m pleased to say and READ MORE and wealthiest counties in Wisconsin. that the outgoing U.S. president leaves a presence around campus and in the greater Waukesha Civic Theater and the Wisconsin have established in the health science proud to say that we’ve changed a lot in PIONEERING It’s 25 minutes from Milwaukee, it’s two letter, a heartfelt, apolitical letter, for his Waukesha community. Next winter, her name Philharmonic. No doubt, civic organizations programs, the business programs and this past decade. We’ve made changes MOMENTS hours from Chicago. It’s perfect. Many successor. If you’re leaving a letter in the will be alongside Doug’s on a new building: in the La Crosse area will hear from her soon. other professional programs. We’ve that will benefit the institution long Visit carrollu.edu/ positive opportunities for Carroll reside president’s desk for your successor, what the Doug and Nancy Hastad Hall. “I’ll miss just about everything here–being created easy access to the workplace and term. Graduate programs, upgraded pioneering-moments in this area! kinds of things might you write? When Carroll University hired Doug Hastad on campus, seeing the students, traveling with HASTAD: One thing I would say is that as its president, he and Nancy packed up their Doug and being able to be a part of his life you chose wisely. The next thing I would belongings and moved into the President’s here. I’ll miss all the wonderful people we’ve say is that the institution chose wisely. House on South East Avenue. “The first thing hosted in our house. But as I tell Doug, we’ll Maintain the momentum. Accept change Nancy said was, this may be the President’s just be a couple hours away.” as constant. Be willing to think out of the House, but it’s also our home,” recalled Doug. New residence halls First, though, there is packing, and then all box. Take on unique issues and continue And so the house became a home that easily under construction the goodbyes to be said. Nancy seems slightly in 2010 to strengthen the campus as a significant reflected Nancy’s warmth and amiability. player in the broader community. uncomfortable and fairly emotional about all Be humble. With great students, great “I was a little nervous at first about moving the fuss. “Forget all this fanfare,” she joked. faculty and great staff, a good deal into a house on campus, that it might feel like “Just stand on the corner and wave bye to us can be accomplished. Get on with it! living in a fishbowl, but it hasn’t felt that way when the time comes.”

F1RST: So, what’s next? HASTAD: That’s the most popular question. “Nancy, Doug, what are you going to do Nancy, thank you for being the special person you are, for becoming a valuable now?” And the answer is very simple. and personable part of our Waukesha community, and for being the ‘other’ face of Carroll “We will do something. We just don’t know University and representing it and all its ideals and history so well. It has been a privilege to know you, and I hope that all the blessings Nancy and Doug have brought to Carroll Rendering of nursing lab what it is.” We’ll move back to the La return to them many-fold in the years to come.” in new Hastad Hall Crosse area and live in Onalaska. We will get settled there, and then we will • – Suzanne Frank , immediate past president, Wisconsin Philharmonic

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A Moment of Reflection and Expression of Gratitude

It was February 2006. We were visiting campus Building and renovation initiatives have flourished for the final stages of the interview process. During during the past decade. Three new residence halls, a large group session, someone asks: “As president, a Center for Graduate Studies, the Prairie Springs what circumstances generate the greatest amount Environmental Education Center, the Crofts of professional pride?” Important question. Today, Morava Pavilion and the Michael and Mary Jaharis as we prepare to depart Carroll, this same question Science Laboratories are prominent new structures. • begin to seek opportunities to engage is asked frequently. The answer remains unchanged Additionally, the campus proudly restored in the community in some meaningful from 11 years ago. numerous historic homes and completed significant way. We lived there for 17 years, we have renovations of many indoor and outdoor spaces. Witnessing colleagues enjoy success as they work many friends there. We want to find a way These significant investments will pay dividends for • Interior and exterior renovations of Ganfield Gymnasium on behalf of the institution is an unsurpassed source to contribute to that broader community. years to come. • Acquisition of Grounds Building at 301 N. Grand Avenue And we will travel. Our son is in Los of professional fulfillment. Question answered! Doug the Builder • Purchase and redevelopment of Haertel Field Realizing that your fingerprints may be found The list of noteworthy advancements during this Angeles, our daughter and her husband • Investment in Hartwell Avenue Apartments are in Salt Lake City. So we will be out to somewhere amidst these triumphs is cause to smile. past decade seems never-ending. Surpassing the goal of the first-ever $50 million comprehensive • Development of Student Health Services on Wright Street visit them. Oh, we plan on spending much During the past decade, numerous members campaign. Cutting the ribbon for our first-ever all • Kilgour Softball Field redevelopment more time on the golf course, playing a of this campus community directed their talents During Doug Hastad’s presidency, Carroll gift/grant building. Returning to the highly regarded • Main Dining Room renovation in the Campus Center game we both love. and energies to transform Carroll in so many Collegiate Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin. has invested more than $125 million in • Renovations of the Pioneer Indoor Terrace and Pioneer Outdoor Terrace positive ways. We are especially gratified that these Receiving three financial upgrades by Standard • New seating in Shattuck Auditorium F1RST: There will be a building dedication achievements impacted a full range of campus major building projects like the Michael and Poor’s. Dramatically increasing the clinical and • Completion of exterior master plan at some point. I’m sure you’ll be visiting programs, as well as the extensive Waukesha service outreach to our many friends in the broader and Mary Jaharis Science Laboratories and • Math House creation at 202 College Avenue Carroll for that. and Milwaukee area communities. Waukesha and Milwaukee communities. Whew! • Demolition of Maxon Hall and Lowry Hall HASTAD: I was asked at one of the alumni the residences along Grand Avenue. For example, the undergraduate program array The list could go on and on. • Cleaning of New Hall exterior events we had in Florida if I’d stay was intentionally broadened and greatly enhanced. These projects changed the skyline, and • Remodel of Otteson Theatre connected to Carroll. Well, the answer is As our time here comes to a close, we want to let As a result, an ever increasing number of multi- other updates and renovations reshaped • Updated media management systems in Physical Therapy Building physically not, because I don’t think that all know that it has been a true joy to be part of the talented students find their way to Carroll. • Construction of Quad/Graphics Team Center is fair to the next president. I’m going to Carroll family during this particular piece of the Once enrolled, these students become linked historic buildings for today’s needs. • Resurfacing of courts at Kilgour-Trailblazer Tennis Center campus’ storied history. We feel truly blessed to keep my distance. If the new president to strong advising, the Office of Student Success, • Opening of Michael and Mary Jaharis Science Laboratories have worked with such a talented array of students, Here’s an extensive list of the changes: wants to call and ask me a question, I’ll the Learning Commons, and a gifted faculty and • New turf, scoreboard, goalposts and netting at Schneider Stadium faculty, staff, trustees, alumni and members of the happily be there, but I’m not going to pick staff. These resources make sure that students • Development of classrooms and art studios at Sentry Drive Building broader communities. For this opportunity, we up the phone and call the president. But flourish academically. • Painting and roofing at Sneeden House would like to express a sincere thank you! we really will look forward to the ribbon • Acquisition and renovation of 310 N. East Avenue • Todd Wehr Memorial Library developments including Second Cup, The creation of the Pioneer Core is another source cutting. We will come back for that. When Proudly, • Development of classroom space in Bergstrom Hall new front entrance and Learning Commons area of pride. This required array of undergraduate Nancy and I learned of this board decision • Opening Wisconsin’s first Au Bon Pain • Van Male Field House renovations and branding projects courses guarantees exposure to the liberal arts. A to put our names on a building, we were • Creation of Joyce Paddock Bliss Gallery in Main Hall • Remodeling of Voorhees Hall including the addition of a historically- unique feature of the Pioneer Core is the Cross- shocked, surprised, very honored and • Renovation of Business Hall at 239 S. East Avenue accurate porch, lobby renovation, floor refinishing, interior painting Cultural Experience. This popular learning deeply humbled. But to have your name • MacAllister boardroom remodel and new lighting experience ensures that students will be exposed on that, especially Nancy’s name, with Doug and Nancy Hastad • New windows for Bergstrom Hall • Purchase of 114 S. East Avenue for Student Affairs’ offices meaningfully to a culture other than their own. mine. Rephrase that, my name with • Purchase of off-campus Carroll Street Apartments • Faculty offices at 206 N. Charles Avenue More and more frequently, this translates into a Nancy’s, is a source of tremendous pride. • Carroll University YMCA satellite branch • Renovation of 204 N. Charles Avenue for Human Resources’ offices study abroad opportunity. When you do what I’ve been fortunate • Purchase and renovation of the Center for Graduate Studies • Creation of Wright House for Greek Life to do for 11 years you get to know literally Dramatic growth of graduate programs is • Creation of Center for Technology Innovations (CETI) in New Hall • A. Paul Jones Scholars Hall at 120 Wright Street every nook and cranny on campus, you another reason to smile. Several of these programs • Charles Street Hall renovation to office space • Betty Lou Tikalsky House renovations get to meet, if not know, most of the demonstrate a level of excellence that places them • Construction of the Crofts Morava Pavilion • Development of Academic Advising Center at 125 Wright Street people, and it’s just been a joy to me. And among the best in the country. Our regional health • Installation of Presbyterian cross on exterior of Shattuck Music Center • Purchase of 202 Wright Street for Philosophy and Religious Studies House to watch what people have been able to care systems, K–12 schools, and businesses • Opening of the Dennis Punches Track & Field Complex • Renovation of 208 Wright Street into Public Safety House do to advance this institution has been are particularly grateful for what these Carroll • Development of the Prairie Springs Environmental Education Center, • Research and Development House at 209 Wright Street very rewarding. Godspeed to all. students bring to their workforce. the Paul Fleckenstein Research Laboratory and Guest House • Purchase of the Smart family house at 239 College Avenue • Frontier Hall, Pioneer Hall and Prairie Hall construction • Doug and Nancy Hastad Hall construction

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1995 Dick Woosencraft ’69 2010 CLASS Laura (Lopez) Gutierrez ’95 has Distinguished Alumnus Award for Professional Achievement been appointed secretary of the A champion for children, Dick Woosencraft had a long, successful tenure as principal of Wisconsin Department of Safety and Menomonee Falls High School. Until his 2004 retirement, he ensured that every student had an NOTES Professional Services by Governor advocate. His direct involvement made a lasting impression on students as they struggled to make Scott Walker. She had been vice- decisions about their future. Respected and beloved by his community, Woosencraft now has a Please send news of weddings, president of academic affairs at births, deaths; new jobs and St. Anthony School in Milwaukee. street named after him in Menomonee Falls. Woosencraft Drive leads straight to the high school. promotions; academics and Prior to her tenure at St. Anthony, Today, Woosencraft continues to be a community leader. Engaged academically at local • Adam ’10 and Lauren (Pierson) professional degrees; church and Gutierrez had served as principal universities, including Carroll, he assists student teachers and mentors young educators. He is an Scanlan ’10 welcomed their third and director for instruction at active member of the Menomonee Falls Optimist Club, having served as president (1982–83) and community service activities; child, Maxwell Henry Clark, Bruce-Guadalupe Community the Falls Cable Access Corporation. He graduated from Carroll in 1969 with a bachelor’s degree in awards and achievements; and School at the United Community on Nov. 18, 2016. history and physical education. He continues to live in Menomonee Falls with his wife Christine, changes of address to the Office Center. who is also a Carroll graduate from the class of 1971. They have two adult sons: Kirk, who is a 1993 of Alumni Engagement, Carroll 2011 graduate of Menomonee Falls High School, and currently serves as assistant principal there; and 2000 Jennifer (Beres) Lange ’11 and her University, 100 N. East Ave., David, who is a 1997 Menomonee Falls grad, and currently an anesthesiologist in Chicago. Waukesha, WI 53186; Kevin Schalk ’00 was named one of husband, Ryan, welcomed a baby Email: [email protected] the Business Journal’s 40 under 40 girl, Magnolia Grace, on Nov. 11, for 2017. The annual list represents The Rev. Dr. Deborah A. Block ’74 2016. P.E. Macallister distinguished alumna award for service to carroll the future of community leadership in southeastern Wisconsin, The Rev. Dr. Deborah Block recalls her years as at Carroll as a time when her professors said, Faculty and Staff 1963 according to the publication. Kevin “Yes” while others discouraged her pursuit of a non-traditional vocation for women. She enrolled in Jane Lee Hamman ’63 has been is a partner at Baker Tilly Virchow religious studies and looked toward a life of ministry in a world where she found support at Carroll. installed as the Daughters of the Krause LLP, an accounting and She has been saying, “Yes” to her alma mater ever since those student days. She presently serves American Revolution Montana State advisory firm in Milwaukee. He Regent for 2016–19. She also serves graduated from Carroll with a as a member on Carroll’s Board of Trustees and has willingly given her time and talent as a member on the organization’s National Board bachelor’s degree in accounting and of numerous committees. Her terms on the board include 1998-07 and 2008 to present. of Management. business administration. Dr. Block graduated from Carroll in 1974 with a bachelor’s degree in religious studies. She received a master’s degree from Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary in 1977 and a 1967 2001 doctorate from McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago in 1989. She is the pastor and head • Jill (Foytik) Groskreutz '99, Ryan Dziadowicz ’67 is living in of staff at Immanuel Presbyterian Church in Milwaukee. director of traditional admission, Hartland, Wis., with his wife and her husband, Greg '98, Rebecca (Cochrane) ’73. He welcomed a baby boy, Will Daniel, graduated from Kent State Cynthia L. Rold ’83 on Nov. 17, 2016. He joins a brother, distinguished alumna award for community service University with a master’s degree Jack, and sister, Grace. in education in 1969. He taught Cindy Rold has been volunteering since she was a child, sometimes through groups like the Girl psychology and social studies, and Scouts and Job’s Daughters and other times completely on her own. At 12, she decided to walk 20 coached wrestling, football and miles in the March of Dimes Walk-a-Thon. At 14, she became a candy striper because she was track in the West Allis school system • Nicole (Robinson) Hanson ’01 and interested in medicine. Volunteerism continued at Carroll, where Rold was involved in numerous for 31 years. After retiring in 2000, her husband, David, welcomed a baby student organizations. Following graduation, she served on Carroll’s Alumni Council. he supervised student teachers at boy, Elijah James, on Sept. 28, 2016. Carroll for two years, then worked A graduate of the Northwestern University School of Law, Rold has given tirelessly to a variety of in recruitment for Ohio Technical 2004 What do a beloved principal with causes throughout her life. College in Cleveland, Ohio, until Valerie (Gappa) Knapp ’04 and her a street named after him, a tireless Rold graduated from Carroll in 1983 with a bachelor’s degree in political science. She currently 2015. While there, he served as • Dr. Sue Hanson, distinguished husband, Nate, welcomed twins, lives in Littleton, Colo. For the past 15 years, Rold has worked as an executive coach, helping a regional manager and national lecturer in health and medicine, and Aubrey Anne and Noah Nathaniel, volunteer, a trailblazing female pastor individuals from over 30 countries be more successful in their personal and professional lives. director of racing for five years, her husband, Karl, welcomed a baby on April 9, 2016. promoting scholarships for students and an innovative educator have in girl, Robyn Kate, on Dec. 21, 2016. desiring to attend Ohio Tech. common? If you guessed Carroll, Elizabeth Jorgensen M.Ed. ’09 She joins sisters Anna and Molly. 2005 Graduate of the last decade award 1984 you’re right! The four alumni were Elizabeth Jorgensen currently works in the English Language Arts department at Arrowhead High Abby Jo Lorenz ’84, is currently honored at the annual Celebrate School in Hartland, where she teaches in a way that captures attention and inspires students to work on improving their overall writing skills. serving as the president of the Success event on campus April 25. Wisconsin Philharmonic Board Jorgensen has received over 30 awards and honors. She was recognized by PBS for her of Directors and as the director of innovation in Language Arts and English, and was inducted into the CBS and Walmart Teachers’ (Left to right) Cynthia L. Rold ’83, the Civic Broadway Singers. She Hall of Fame. She was also named Arrowhead High School's 2014–15 Teacher of the Year. has also been named second vice Dick Woosencraft ’69, Elizabeth Jorgensen ’09 Jorgensen has kept her ties to Carroll strong, involving herself in the Project Pioneer program president of the General Federation • Melissa McGraw ’05 and Thomas and the Rev. Dr. Deborah A. Block ’74 • Kendra Zimdars, coordinator of and Horizontes en Carroll, as an instructor helping to increase college readiness. She received her of Women’s Clubs. Gloudeman were married on Sept. academic affairs, and her husband, 4, 2016. They live in Madison, Wis. Full profiles and videos are available online bachelor’s degree in journalism and education from Marquette University in 2005 and obtained Anthony, welcomed a baby boy, Photo by Jas McDaniel Photography. at carrollu.edu/alumni/awards her master’s degree in education from Carroll in 2009. Ezekiel Warren, on Nov. 30, 2016.

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Martha J. Lutz ’66 passed away

1950s March 2, 2016. IN Fay (Wittbold) Melville ’50 passed By Linda Spice ’89 away Dec. 27, 2016, in the Town of Judith A. (Matheis) Wedemeyer ’66 MEMORIAM Waukesha at the age of 88. She met passed away March 8, 2017, at the her future husband, Lee Melville ’50, age of 72 in Brown Deer, Wis. A at Carroll, where she was voted one music major at Carroll, she met her of six Hinky Honies in 1948. future husband, Charles Wedemeyer 1940s ’65, in the Carroll choir. Music Milton Peckarsky ’41 passed away Dr. David L. Morris ’50 passed away remained a passion throughout her CHANGE AGENTS Feb. 10, 2017, in Whitefish Bay., Wis., Feb. 1, 2017, in Onalaska, Wis., at the life, as a music and voice teacher, BLIND SIBLINGS’ DREAM FOR THEIR PAKISTANI HOME TRANSFORMED CARROLL at the age of 96. An accomplished age of 87. It was at Carroll that he met choir director and performer in pianist who performed at Carnegie Sacia Brewer ’50, whom he married numerous community theater Hall, he taught music at Alverno in 1951. Morris founded Allergy productions and the Milwaukee Imran Ahmed and Hina Altaf remember how An American pen pal, also blind, helped “They were really College and for the Milwaukee Associates of LaCrosse in 1970 and Opera Company. Public School District. conceived pioneering treatments frightened their parents were as the siblings them to find a sponsor in the United States for talented and smart for allergy sufferers, which drew Johnson McCarting Burdge IV ’67 prepared to set out on their journey to Carroll the first year of tuition at Carroll, a school they and if it just takes a Nancy L. (Black) Kark ’44 passed patients from around the country. He passed away Feb. 11, 2017, in Lake 11 years ago. It was a long way from Pakistan learned about from relatives in the area. Support little extra effort to away Sept. 22, 2016, in Fort Meyers, also established the Morris Institute Nebagamon, Wis., at the age of Fla., at the age of 94. to Waukesha—and the brother and sister were within the local Pakistani community helped help them overcome of Respiratory Research at the 71. He had long taught in the Wauwatosa School District. both blind. Ultimately though, the siblings’ with tuition for the next three years. what they needed to Margaret J. (Richards) Smith ’44 University of Wisconsin-Madison. passed away Nov. 25, 2016, in Pioneer journey was transformative. Their goals helped fuel that support: To build overcome, that was Edward A. Solie ’50 passed away Joyce M. Johnson ’67 passed away kind of a no brainer,” Lexington, Ky., at the age of 95. She Dec. 3, 2016, at the age of 92 Feb. 18, 2017, at the age of 72 in In 2010, they received Carroll’s first-ever a library within Pakistan for the visually impaired Konemann said. met her future husband, Melvin in Payson, Utah. East Peoria, Ill. A Peoria native, Information Technology degrees. Along the way, and develop software with their IT skills to assist Smith, at Carroll. Johnson spent her career working others living with blindness. Dr. David Block ‘76, Donald Kelley ’51 passed away at the Peoria Public Library until they learned more about themselves and they Beverly (Hogan) Troth ’44 passed said he was amazed at Jan. 14, 2017. retirement. taught Carroll a few lessons on how to better “A lot of people don’t know English back away Feb. 20, 2017, at the age of 95 how the siblings mapped out the steps between Coral Lee (Anderson) MacKay ’51, accommodate students with disabilities. home but still want to use the computer to be Imran Ahmed in Sioux Falls, S.D. Her husband, buildings to learn their way around campus, a a longtime resident of Green Bay, 1970s independent. I knew getting a degree in computer and Hina Altaf John Troth, who she met at a Both were born without sight, 1½ years apart. Wis., passed away April 7, 2015, in skill he could appreciate as a geographer. after their 2010 Carroll dance, passed away eight William H. Morris III ’71 passed away Hina explained that she and her brother did not science was critical in achieving that mission,” Milwaukee at the age of 86. She “I think they taught a lot to the students about graduation. hours after Beverly. Jan. 14, 2017, in Tulsa, Okla., at the Imran said. “Technology is leveling the playing was born during a blizzard in understand much about their blindness while The Pakastani age of 67. how, even with a disability, you can not only Arthur “Art” Rizzi Jr. ’45 passed Sturgeon Bay, Wis. on March 8, 1929, growing up. Eventually, an American doctor field so we can accomplish things like other siblings were persevere but excel,” Block said. away June 2, 2016, in Eau Claire, weighing just 2 pounds, 3 ounces, Grace (Koprowski) Meyer ’73 passed provided a diagnosis: leber congenital amaurosis people. We might do it differently. Ultimately, Carroll’s first Wis., at the age of 94. He studied and was written about as a “miracle away Nov. 3, 2016, in Two Rivers, we’re all moving in the same direction.” Hina is now an assistive technology Information (LCA), an inherited retinal degenerative disease engineering at Carroll, and was a baby” in a medical journal. Wis., at the age of 78. that causes loss of vision at birth. Carroll partnered with several organizations specialist for the Center for Sight and Hearing Technology multi-sport athlete, playing baseball, graduates. that support blind students, providing an in Rockford, Ill. She earned her master’s basketball and football. He left Richard Erdmann ’52 passed away 2000s When Imran and Hina landed in Chicago's school to join the Army and fought Dec. 1, 2016, at the age of 85 extensive on-campus orientation for Imran and degree in associative technology and human Sarah Lasee ’04, of Jacksonport, O’Hare International Airport in August 2006, in Europe in WWII. Following the in Kalamazoo, Mich. services online from California State University ———————— Wis., passed away Dec. 27, 2016, Roger Smith ’02, Carroll’s international, non- Hina. And Elmbrook Church connected them war, he enrolled at the University Northridge. Married and with a son, Ayaan, age Marlene Ann (Halada) Carmitchell at the age of 35. with the local Pakistani community, allowing of Wisconsin-Madison and was a traditional and part-time admission counselor as ’56 passed away March 9, 2017, 4, she is pursuing American citizenship. member of the Big Ten champion well as the university’s assistant cultural diversity them to find support so far away from home. The Office for at the age of 82 in Suamico, Mich. Imran became a U.S. citizen in 2014. He Badgers basketball team in 1947. 2010s director, was there to pick them up. Smith asked At Carroll, Hina and Imran advocated for Services for Students with Catherine (Hanson) Reed ’59 passed Matthew Busse ’13 passed away is married and has two sons, Zarian, age Philip Bouzeos ’47 passed away if they were scared from their first-ever plane books in computer science and math to be Disabilities, away Dec. 7, 2016, at the age of 78 in Feb. 14, 2017, at the age of 26 22 months, and Azaan, age 5. He works for Jan. 19, 2017, at the age of 96 in ride. No, they were not. The long trip had not provided in Braille, and found a new ally when located in Deerfield, Ill. in Denver, Colo. Bosma Enterprises in Indianapolis, Ind., as an Oak Brook, Ill. A tight end for exhausted them. They wanted to stay up to talk. President Doug Hastad came to campus. the Walter accessibility consultant and is pursuing his Carroll’s football team, Bouzeos was Young Center, 1960s Faculty and Staff “They were passionate about what they were “If we had a recommendation, he would try to master’s in business administration at Indiana provides free equipment manager of the Chicago Eva (Ivanka) Longbrake ’62 passed Leesley “Buzz” Hardy passed away doing,” said Smith, now director of parent and listen,” Hina said. Wesleyan University. and confidential Cardinals football team that won services to the NFL championship in 1947. away Sept. 23, 2008. Nov. 8, 2016, in Milwaukee at the family giving at Colorado College in Colorado Carroll installed screen readers, allowing The siblings’ journey has taken them far from age of 88. Hardy, a fourth generation students with Charles Kennel ’48 passed away Robert B. Furgason Jr. ’63 passed Springs, Colo. “With that determination that them better access to the classroom and at the their Pakistani home but ever closer to realizing Waukesha resident, was a lifetime all permanent June 1, 2016, at the age of 89 away Jan. 6, 2017 in New Brunswick, they had, that in itself, I think boded so well for Campus Center switchboard, where they both their dream to improve the lives of those living documented honorary member of the Carroll in Eagle, Wis. N.J., at the age of 75. University Board of Trustees. them as far as how they were able to deal with worked. Talking signs at traffic lights allowed in Pakistan with visual impairment. disabilities. transitions, changes, the new environment.” them to cross streets safely. Professors spent Disability Smith, their former admissions counselor, Services provides extra time to help them to succeed. Both had been seeking master’s degrees back said they were both catalysts. He said, “Carroll housing and in Pakistan. She was 23. He was 21. They wanted Mike Konemann ‘76, an associate professor ended up better off as an institution but there classroom Thank you to all of the Carroll University alumni and friends who answered the call of our mission more: more education, more opportunities, of computer science, said the program has not were some growing pains, getting all of these accommodations under the of service and participated in this year’s Annual National Service Project. As of our publishing more independence away from home, where seen many people with the extreme challenges resources together that paved the way for Americans with deadline, we are well on our way to reaching our 40,000 meal goal. their parents took care of most of their needs. Imran and Hina faced. future generations of blind students.” Disabilities Act.

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ALUMNI EVENTS Carroll Alumni Host Regional Gatherings We’d love to see you in the future at one or more of the following Pioneer alumni events. If you have Jeffrey Bonvallet ’72 and Laura Fisher-Bonvallet ’74 look questions or an event idea, reach forward to welcoming Carroll alumni to their Green Bay home out at [email protected] in June. They hope to fill a recently expanded backyard with fellow Pioneers ready to reconnect and catch up with Carroll Thursday, June 8 University. Green Bay Area Alumni and Friends Like the good pioneer he is, Carroll's mascot, Like other alumni around the country, the Bonvallets open Gathering their home to host alumni as another way to help support Hosted by Jeff Bonvallet '72 Pio Pete, is always hankering for adventure. and Laura Fisher-Bonvallet '74 Carroll. Visits from the university president at each event, 5–8 p.m. This past spring, Pios brought a ‘Flat Pete’ along stories from students in attendance, and a chance to meet and Oneida, Wis. socialize with fellow alumni living in the area have boosted on their Alternative Spring Break trips across the U.S. Carroll’s outreach nationwide in the last few years, as local Monday, June 19 hosts help to champion regional events. Pioneer Golf Classic The Legend at Merrill Hills “The simple strategy has been to create opportunities to get Waukesha, Wis. to know and meet as many alumni as possible,” said Dolores Ocampo Brown '99, senior director of alumni engagement at Summer TBD Downtown Milwaukee Event Carroll. “Any time we can develop relationships, it’s going to help advance Carroll, whether with students, with faculty, or August TBD with our office.” Alumnae Leadership Luncheon Center for Graduate Studies Steve Kuhn, Carroll’s vice president of institutional advancement, said, “We are deeply appreciative of the people October 5–8 who take the time, effort and financial support to host these Homecoming and Reunion Weekend events. It makes a big difference.” Campus The Bonvallets said they have been impressed with Carroll’s progress since they were students. The alumni events attract a “We both feel that we got a very good start at Carroll and spectrum of generations, with different as well as shared Carroll remember our professors fondly and feel that they challenged experiences. us. We’d like to see Carroll University continue,” she said. “I think most people are pretty impressed with what Carroll “Maintaining a connection with Carroll seemed like a good thing has become in the last ten years and I think we all share a strong and an important thing to do.” belief in the mission of a liberal arts education,” Laura said. Andrea Tevlin ’75 wasn’t certain that her condo would be the Jeff added: “It has been our personal mission in giving, to do proper venue to host Carroll’s San Diego, Calif., crowd in 2016 Sunday, October 8 our little part. We’re not of the means to fund somebody’s entire but it “turned out being ideal” because it offered a personal Athletic Hall of Fame Induction education forever or anything like that, but every little bit helps.” touch and was a way that she could help the university. She said Ceremony and Luncheon Honoring Kristin (Igielski) Brown ’04, Ann (Leighton) Von Hoff ’70 said she’s added to her she has enjoyed hosting and would do it again. Verallyn Cline (coach from 1972–80), Christmas card list after she and her husband, Dr. Dan Von “As time has gone on, I recognized how much I owed to Nathan Drury ’07 and Darnell Hoff ’69, hosted Arizona alumni several times. Living more Carroll and where I am today. I’m here because of my great Marshall ’90 than 1,800 miles from campus rules out mentoring students education and my liberal arts education and should be more 11:30 a.m. Stackner Ballroom or visiting classrooms, Ann said, so hosting an event allows appreciative of that, quite frankly,” Andrea said. “I started her and her husband to maintain Carroll connections from afar making more financial donations and went back for a reunion GET YOUR OWN 'FLAT PETE' while connecting with fellow alumni who are near. last fall. It’s part of a feeling like, I need to pay back.” The Office of Communications and Marketing has a limited number of ‘Flat Petes’ just itching to go on an adventure with you! Email [email protected] to claim yours Contact the Office of Alumni Engagement at [email protected] for more information about regional gatherings! while supplies last. Please include your mailing address in your email.

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FROM THE CARROLL ARCHIVES Great Debate This debate medal was awarded to George Weaver in December 1884. Just a little more than a month later, the school’s original Main Hall would go up in flames.