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A Gift from Alumni to the University Alumni Park by the Numbers A GIFT FROM ALUMNI TO THE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI PARK BY THE NUMBERS CONTENTS 1.3 Size of the park in acres 7,877 Trees, shrubs, grasses, and Park Yourself Here ..................................................................................2–3 perennials planted A Plan 109 Years in the Making ................................................................4–5 500 Linear feet of improved shoreline Content and Conversation...................................................................... 6–7 50 Park exhibits, including Make a Splash .........................................................................................8–9 sculptures, statues, panels, and inscriptions The Bucky Statue ...................................................................................10–11 4,000 Donors who contributed to the Your Guide to the Lights ...................................................................... 12–13 creation of Alumni Park and One Alumni Place Your Home Base ................................................................................... 14–15 17 Number of boat slips at the World Wide Park ...................................................................................16–17 Goodspeed Family Pier UW Alumni Featured in the Park .......................................................... 18–21 207 Alumni names inscribed in the park: 123 featured alumni Thank You, Friends of Alumni Park ..................................................... 22–28 plus 84 donors and contributors 4 Number of alumni Nobel Prize laureates featured in park exhibits Photo credits: page 2: Spencer Micka Photography; pages 4, 7, 8, 15, 16: Andy Manis Photo; page 11: courtesy of Douwe Blumberg; pages 12, 13: Ralph Appelbaum Associates Alumni ParkTM is a special use park on University of Wisconsin-Madison lands which welcomes alumni, campus and the public and is managed by the Wisconsin Alumni Association® (WAA) in collaboration with the university and the Wisconsin Union. 2 3 PARK YOURSELF HERE A LETTER FROM PAULA BONNER Dear Friends, As far as I know, this is the only park UW–Madison education — rather, of its kind in the world. And as you we’re starting a discussion and Welcome to Alumni Park! Here, walk through the park — and as you invite you to be a part of it. between Lake Mendota and Langdon read through this book — I hope Street, between Memorial Union and Join me in exploring the park. Make you’ll take away three messages: the Red Gym, you’ll find a place that the space your own by starting new celebrates you and our extraordinary • Thank you. I’m grateful for all traditions here: photos with the university. the support that Alumni Park has Bucky statue, picnics on the green, received from donors, advisers, nighttime strolls by the Badger Pride In the pages of this book, you’ll learn campus colleagues, and alumni Wall, long gazes across the lake from more about how Alumni Park came around the world. Progress Point. to be. It’s a beautiful space. • Congratulations. This park is a Thank you for helping us to make But the park is more than beauty. It product of your efforts, and it’s the Alumni Park a reality. Now, go out also says something. Alumni Park accomplishment of more than a there and enjoy it! tells the story of what it means to century of hope. be a Badger. It’s an art gallery and On, Wisconsin! a museum and a storehouse for • Join the conversation. Alumni Park the memories and achievements is a place to be inspired by all that that Badgers have created in the 17 UW alumni have done to make the decades since this great university world a better place and to consider held its first class. what’s possible in our own lives. Paula Bonner MS’78 But we don’t mean to have the final President Emerita word on the positive impact of a Wisconsin Alumni Association As the force behind Alumni Park, Paula Bonner advocated for creating a space that celebrates Badger ideals. 4 5 GIVE IT A SPIN The Loading Dock If Paula Bonner’s vision gave a spiritual foundation to Alumni A PLAN Park, its literal foundation required a bit of engineering. Not long ago, the park site was a parking lot that provided freight 109 YEARS IN loading for Memorial Union’s food-service operation, as well as for the Pyle Center and the Below Alumni Center. These functions were vital, but the THE MAKING park would get in their way. An THE EAST CAMPUS GATEWAY anonymous donor provided funds to move the loading operation underground. This not only created a covered facility for moving materials in and out, Alumni Park opens in October 2017. proposed an east-campus gateway But that’s hardly the beginning of the stretching from Lake Mendota to it also gave a base to the park. story. The first seed of the idea that the Kohl Center. Then–WAA presi- grew into Alumni Park was planted dent Paula Bonner MS’78 took up the But the underground loading more than a century ago. In the early challenge of giving that gateway a dock would be tight on space. 1900s, not long after the UW campus focus. When she began to plan WAA’s To enable large trucks to turn extended east beyond Park Street, 150th-anniversary celebrations, she around, it includes a giant campus leaders started thinking of determined to create Alumni Park. turntable. Trucks can enter, a way to develop a green, welcoming The park gives the UW a green space main entry: what today we call the drive onto the rotating floor, that celebrates the university’s most East Campus Gateway. and then back up to whichever hallowed tradition: the Wiscon- facility they need to deliver to In a 1908 campus plan, UW leaders sin Idea. Over the next eight years, or pick up from. The entire dock laid out a vision for a green, wel- Bonner led efforts to build excite- coming eastern entry to campus. But ment among alumni, faculty, staff, required 3,123 cubic yards of their desire outstripped resources, students, and the larger community. concrete, none of which you’ll and as decades passed, the dream of see unless you’re invited into This was the spiritual foundation for a park was deferred again and again. Alumni Park, honoring the idea on the loading dock. That’s what it It was revived in 2005, when then- which the UW’s reputation stands. takes to keep the green space chancellor John Wiley MS’65, PhD’68 green — and still fully functional. provided a new campus plan that Tucked throughout the park are the words of UW alumni, inspiring visitors to live out the Wisconsin Idea. 6 7 CONTENT AND CONVERSATION ALUMNI PARK CONTENT AND DESIGN There are 123 alumni names listed in Creating the park’s content took Alumni Park — 207 if you count do- many months. Bonner first con- This historic university seal of an upturned eye surrounded nors and those listed in One Alumni vened focus groups of faculty and by converging rays is featured in marble in Alumni Park. Place — and no matter who you are, staff from around campus, asking when you graduated, or what your them what they thought were the • Kelli Trumble ’79, inaugural • Brian Mattmiller ’86, Morgridge • John Wiley MS’65, PhD’68 degree is in, you’ll agree: that’s not best expressions of the Wisconsin THE CONTENT-AND-DESIGN WAA President’s Alumni Institute for Research enough. UW–Madison’s alumni have Idea. She then assembled a content- COMMITTEE • Carolyn “Biddy” Martin PhD’85 Advisory Council Chair achieved so many things in so many and-design committee involving • Becci Menghini MS’99, Office of fields that no park could ever do alumni, the city, the state, and repre- • David Ward MS’62, PhD’63 Concept-and-Design Committee, the Chancellor justice to the entirety of their accom- sentatives of campus and the Office We at WAA thank the following Content Selection Committee, • Rebecca Blank plishments. of the Chancellor. alumni and friends for giving • David Null, University Archives Campus Consultants input, advice, and support in the Campus Advisers: That’s okay: Paula Bonner MS’78 has That committee sought input from • Daniel Okoli, Capital Planning always said that the park isn’t meant the UW’s various schools, colleges, effort to develop park content that • Megan Costello ’07, MA’13, and Development • Gary Brown ’84, Campus to be the final word in the conversa- interdisciplinary centers, libraries, represents more than a century College of Letters & Science Planning and Landscape tion about which Badgers are most and others to generate a list of hun- and a half of the Wisconsin Idea: • Lis Owens ’78, MA’88, • Cindy Foss, University Architecture significant. dreds of alumni who had achieved UW Libraries important things in Wisconsin or Steering Committee: Communications “Actually, it’s meant to start that con- • Mark Guthier, around the globe. • Norma Saldivar, UW Arts Institute versation,” she says. “The Wisconsin • Nancy Ballsrud MBA’75 • Scott Freres ’86, The Lakota Wisconsin Union Idea goes to the heart of what UW– The result is the park you see today, Steering Committee Chair, Group • Susan Lampert Smith ’82, • John Lucas, University Madison stands for, and yet a lot of with a plan that allows exhibits and Fundraising Cochair UW Hospital and Clinics our graduates leave campus without alumni stories to be updated. And you • Irwin Goldman PhD’91, College of Communications learning what it means. We hope are part of the park’s story, as much • Jeffrey Wiesner ’83 Agricultural and Life Sciences • Tom Zinnen PhD’85, • Patricia Nolan MA’98, that, as people start thinking about as the alumni featured in the exhib- Fundraising Cochair UW–Extension and • Peter Gorman, University of University Marketing what alumni are most ‘important’, its. We invite you to tell us about your UW Science Alliance they’ll learn more about the Wiscon- alumni journey and which Badgers • Kathy Dwyer Southern ’68, MA’72 Wisconsin Digital Collections sin Idea, the many ways the univer- have inspired you. Be sure to send Concept-and-Design Committee • Heidi Zoerb MA’00, College of • Sara Guyer, Center for the sity and its graduates have made a your list to AlumniPark.com.
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