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22 Uniquely Human By Jenny Price ’96 and Maggie Ginsberg-Schutz ’97 A UW professor guides those who have been seriously harmed by others along a path to forgiveness. And a UW alumna encourages leaders to take a new approach to conflict: honoring dignity.

32 College 101 By Vikki Ortiz Healy ’97 A special partnership with the UW introduces ninth-graders to the notion of a degree following high school. 36 36 Getting Torched? By Eric Goldscheider Economist Andrew Zimbalist ’69 argues that big-time sports and big-time stadiums are not necessarily a boon for cities.

42 Imagination, Inc. By Jenny Price ’96 The devil’s in the details, as a young grad has discovered in her job with the animation studio Pixar.

44 Rowing to Extremes By John Allen Oceans, mountains, car accidents, continents — über-athlete Sonya Baumstein ’07 has yet to meet the obstacle that can stop her. 42

Departments 5 Inside Story 8 Posts 10 Scene 32 12 News & Notes 18 Q&A 19 Classroom 20 Sports Cover: Looking within yourself is a 48 Traditions necessary first step on the journey to 51 Badger Connections forgive or to treat others with dignity. 63 Sifting & Winnowing Illustration by Edel Rodriguez. 66 Flashback SPRING 2013 3 INNOV V TION Photo of Mark Cook courtesy of WARF. Egg photo by iStock. by photo WARF. Egg of courtesy Cook Mark of Photo

The Chicken or the Egg? For UW–Madison Professor Mark Cook, it’s both. He combined two lines of his research — how chickens transfer natural antibodies to eggs, and how eggs added to livestock feed could enhance growth. The results: more than 20 patents, the creation of Wisconsin- UW–MADISON ARCHIVES based agricultural biotechnology, and chickens, pigs, calves, cattle, and even fish around the world benefiting from this UW innovation.

yearofinnovation.wisc.edu4 ON WISCONSIN insidestory EDEL RODRIGUEZ George Washington On Wisconsin had the right idea. SPRING 2013 “Every Action done in Company, Publisher ought to be with Some Sign Wisconsin Alumni Association of Respect, to those that are 650 North Lake Street, Madison, WI 53706 Present,” he wrote in a journal Voice: (608) 262-2551 • Toll-free: (888) WIS-ALUM • Fax: (608) 265-8771 when he was a teenager, putting Email: [email protected] to paper more than one hundred Website: onwisconsin.uwalumni.com rules of civility. Co-Editors Niki Denison, Wisconsin Alumni Association We’re saying the same today, Cindy Foss, University Communications albeit with different words. Calls Senior Editor for civility came daily during John Allen, Wisconsin Alumni Association the recent American campaign Senior Writer season, it seemed. It was within Jenny Price ’96, University Communications that milieu that featuring a UW During times of pain and uncertainty, forgiveness and dignity offer a way forward. Art Director professor’s research and a Earl J. Madden MFA’82, University Communications former student’s work on two human qualities — forgivenesss and dignity — had particular appeal to us at Production Editor Eileen Fitzgerald ’79, On Wisconsin. University Communications When I turned to online sources to confirm that treating others respectfully was Class Notes Editor a trending topic, I was richly rewarded. I discovered the National Civility Center, the Paula Apfelbach ’83, Wisconsin Alumni Association; Editorial Intern: Aimee Katz x’13 Civility Project, the Institute for Civility in Government — even the Civility School (although that link took me to a web page that mentions cotillions and mastering Design, Layout, and Production Barry Carlsen MFA’83; Toni Good ’76, MA’89; chopsticks). Kent Hamele ’78, University Communications Then I saw a news headline reporting “Grandmothers Seek More Civility from Campus Advisers Congress,” and I knew this was serious business. Paula Bonner MS’78, President and CEO, These days our discourse can devolve into an exchange more combative than and Mary DeNiro MBA’11, Executive Vice President and COO, Wisconsin Alumni civil. We are so determined to use our mouths to argue that we forget to use our ears Association • Amy E. Toburen ’80, Executive to listen to other points of view. Apparently powerful forces, such as grandmas and Director, University Communications and Marketing • Lynne Johnson, Senior Director of hurricanes, are needed to convince us to work through our differences. Communications, UW Foundation As we struggle with these differences, our coverage of Robert Enright and Donna Advertising Representatives Hicks (see page 22) explains how they are finding ways to deal with tremendously Madison Magazine: (608) 270-3600 difficult circumstances: helping those who have experienced horrific personal injury Big Ten Alumni Alliance and entire countries that are at war. National Accounts Manager Susan Tauster: (630) 858-1558 Conflict has always been part of humankind, but thanks to Enright and Hicks, we see a way forward. We can apply their lessons to our own lives, pledging to forgive, to Alumni Name, Address, Phone, and Email Changes • Death Notices value dignity, and to demonstrate civility as we navigate our complex world. Madison area: (608) 262-9648 Toll-free: (888) 947-2586 Cindy Foss Email: [email protected] Co-Editor Quarterly production of On Wisconsin is supported by financial gifts from alumni and friends. To make a gift to UW-Madison, please visit supportuw.org.

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Some of the and Vaughn Monroe (I think). The Thayer (Ted) Thompson ’60 in 1964 for my MS program in more auspicious-minded appli- football team didn’t do too well, Sedalia, Missouri rural sociology, I was a Filipino cants we see every day arrive but it was fun to watch anyway, Fulbright-Hays scholar and a U.S. straight from Tirupati with freshly and to be introduced on the field The article about the Little Agricultural Development Council shaved heads. Rest assured, at halftime as king and queen. Free Libraries is really informa- fellow. Now I reside in Juneau, though, that all the outstanding Jill Floden DeYoung ’47 tive, interesting, and inspiring. 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SPRING 2013 9 scene Images from UW-Madison’s account on Instagram, an online service for viewing and sharing photos: On Wisconsin selected this batch on January 22, 2013. See more at http://instagram.com/UWMadison. news ¬es

An Ill Wind Superstorm Sandy shows the capacity of UW satellite science.

Last October, as Superstorm Sandy bore down on the coast of New York and New Jersey, national weather services relied on the UW’s Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) to get the satellite data that would help them analyze the storm’s behavior. Because meteorologists expected the storm to be so severe, SSEC asked the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to activate an offline satellite to follow Sandy exclusively, and send back minute-by-minute images. The result was an unprecedented dataset of a single storm’s lifecycle. “We anticipated this potentially epic event coming up,” says senior scientist Christopher Velden. “So we asked NOAA if we could put one of our existing satellites into a special, rapid-scanning mode. They smartly agreed, and now we’ve documented this historical storm with continual, one-minute image sampling that provides a fascinating account of Sandy’s evolution.” SSEC hosts the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS), formed in partnership among the UW, NASA, and NOAA. CIMSS scientists conduct mete- orological research using images and information from satellites. “Minutes after a satellite picture is taken, it’s downloaded at SSEC and made available to the scientists here,” Velden says. The CIMSS team is then able to process the images into products that can help fore- casters better predict what storm systems will do — such as charting the path that Sandy took out into the North Atlantic, and then back onto the shores of New York and New Jersey. “We took the satellite imagery and turned it into hard data to help the Hurricane Center analyze the storm in real time,” Velden says. “We use the images to derive wind shear, steering currents, things like that. And that’s also the type of data that our [meteorological] computer models assimilate to predict the future storm track and intensity.” Sandy also provided an opportunity to show what the satellites of the future will be able to do. Velden says the next generation of satellites — scheduled to launch in the next two to three years — will be able to routinely transmit such images at any time. This will enable meteorologists to home in on the factors that shape and direct severe weather systems, making forecasts more accurate. John Allen

quick takes UW researchers helped achieve the The UW’s College of Engineering has between North Hall and Bascom Hall, has second-biggest scientific breakthrough of named Ian Robertson as its new dean. a plaque with a quotation from former UW 2012, according to the journal Science. Formerly a professor at the University of President Charles Van Hise: “I shall never be Physics professor Karsten Heeger led Illinois, Willett succeeds Paul Peercy, who content until the beneficent influence of the a team that made precise measure- served as dean since 1999. university reaches every home in the state.” ments of anti-neutrinos, nearly massless subatomic particles, and this work may help The Class of 2012 has given the UW Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson researchers understand why the universe is a gift to honor the Wisconsin Idea: a boulder may have had a hit with A Star Is Born, but dominated by matter rather than antimatter. proclaiming that university tradition of service. UW researcher Alyson Brooks has topped The number-one discovery, according to The boulder, them. She’s created a video that shows Science, was the Higgs boson, another which is the birth of an entire galaxy. The NASA finding for which UW scientists played a located computer model of the creation of a disk key role. galaxy is available online at youtube.com/ watch?v=_Ssc1GsqHds.

12 ON WISCONSIN NASA GOES PROJECT; BELOW L TO R: DENNIS CHAPTMAN, JEFF MILLER, MILLER

This image of Sandy was taken by one of NASA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites on October 29, as the storm neared the coast of New York and New Jersey. To see a time-lapse view of the storm’s development, visit www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgrllVs2DDw.

Michael Fiore, The magazine Kiplinger’s ranks nearly doubling the $5.4 million raised in 2011. director of the UW-Madison thirteenth among the top 100 Annual fund dollars are unrestricted and can UW’s Center for universities for best value. National Taiwan be spent on what the university deems its Tobacco Research University ranks the UW twenty-second in areas of greatest need. and Intervention, has the world for research output. been elected to the This year’s incoming freshman class — Institute of Medicine, The UW’s annual fund the incipient Class of 2016 — was the largest one of the nation’s campaign reached its in UW history, with 6,279 students. premier scientific financial goal of raising organizations. Fiore $10 million in 2012 — was featured in the and even surpassed Winter 2005 issue of it. The campaign, called On Wisconsin. Share the Wonderful, brought in $10.2 million,

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Flat-Screen Rivalry TV competes with children for parental attention.

It seems that little Bobby and would be in a room where the old — played in a room with and dropped significantly. Suzie don’t need to worry about TV is off. This is significant, as without television, and how their “Until they’re two, two-and- the new baby taking Mom and children spend, on average, four parents interacted. The children a-half years old, kids aren’t very Dad’s attention. They should hours a day with television on in and parents were observed for interested in most types of tele- worry about Alex Trebek, instead. the background. an hour. For thirty minutes, the vision,” Kirkorian says. “So they Heather Kirkorian, an Kirkorian studies childhood television was turned off; for the didn’t really look at the TV all assistant professor in the School development, particularly with other half-hour, the television that often, about 5 percent of of Human Ecology, has found respect to parent-child interac- was on, airing programs such as the time it was on. But for the that when a television is on, tion and video-based learning. Jeopardy! Though the children parents, there was a robust effect parents — whether watching it or In one study, she and colleagues paid little attention to the TV, the on the quantity and quality of not — become far less interac- looked at how young children parents found it hard to ignore, interaction.” tive with their children than they — between one and three years and interaction with children John Allen

STUDENT WATCH

The clink of glasses and the smell of garlic fill the senses as you walk into this house during the lunch hour. In the dining room, students and community members are sharing a meal with a twist: no one in the room is speaking a word of English. La Maison Française, or the French House, is home to twenty students, both those studying French and native speakers. Julissa Oquendo x’13 lived there for a semester before she studied abroad in Paris. “I didn’t know I was so fluent until I came [to French House],” she says. “Mixing native speakers and interaction with French culture makes this a really special community.” Andrew Irving MA’91, PhD’97, French House director, oversees French 301/302, a one-credit class for which students go to the house weekly for lunch. Colin Delannoy x’14 of Marseille, France, chose to live in the house to speak French and learn more about American culture, and he says that he loves the time he spends with fellow francophones and exploring the city. Irving says that participating in lunches and conver- sation at the house is an effective complement to what’s taught in French classrooms. “I really enjoy seeing my students communicate in real-life situations,” he says. “Students have the unique opportunity to talk genuinely and follow where conversation takes them. It’s physically tiring at first, but seeing the students’ confidence in natural and spontaneous conversation by the end of the semester makes it all worth it.” Aimee Katz x’13

14 ON WISCONSIN BRYCE RICHTER BRYCE “Leopold had done something that, as far as I know, no one else even attempted, and that was to take detailed enough notes on the sounds that he was hearing that you could use them as a score to re-create that sound.”

The Sounds of Aldo Ecologists re-create the sound of a morning with Leopold.

The world remembers Aldo Leopold as one of history’s great ecologists: a teacher, author, forester, and founder of the science of wildlife management. But the former UW professor was also a meticulous — almost compulsive — ARCHIVES UW-MADISON note-taker. His habit of jotting down data on early morning birdsong has enabled Stanley Temple and Chris Bocast PhDx’14 to re-create the soundscape Leopold woke to in 1940, even though the environment has changed signifi- cantly since his death. Just as the term landscape refers to the totality of a place’s geography — its hills, valleys, forests, waterways, and buildings — a soundscape is a place’s total auditory experience: the compila- tion of the noises made by wind, water, birds, animals, people, and machinery. In the 1940s, Leopold was working on a hypothesis that birds sing in response to daylight — that each species begins to sing when light reaches a certain brightness. To test the idea, he went to his shack in rural Sauk County, Wisconsin. In an era before tape recorders were available, he would wake before dawn, take his journal and a light meter outdoors, and write down the time and brightness when each species began to sing. He also noted the “If you listen in stereo,” Temple says, “the birdsongs that come frequency of calls and where they came from. from the left are the birds associated with the fields and prairies. On Leopold died before he could publish the results of that study, but the right are the birds associated with woods and forests. The birds in his journals were archived at the UW’s Steenbock Library. the middle are the birds associated with the edge between them.” Decades later, Temple, a UW professor of forest and wildlife The area around Leopold’s shack is much different today than ecology, examined those journals. He worked with Bocast, a graduate it was seven decades ago. There are fewer farms, and Interstate student at the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and an audio 90 runs nearby. As a result, the bird populations are different, and engineer, to bring Leopold’s notes to life. Working with digital record- there’s much more human-generated noise. To get background sound ings of birdsong from Cornell University’s Lab of Ornithology, the two that was free of the roar of cars and trucks, Temple and Bocast had created the soundscape at Leopold’s shack on the morning of June 1, to record wind and water at rural property that Temple owns near 1940. Each species of bird sings in the order Leopold recorded. Mazomanie. “I realized that he had done something that, as far as I know, A five-minute selection of the soundscape is available online at no one else even attempted,” Temple says, “and that was to take news.wisc.edu/21058, and it has generated considerable interest. detailed enough notes on the sounds that he was hearing that you “I think people are increasingly aware of how pervasive human- could use them as a score to re-create that sound.” generated sound has become,” he says, “so it’s refreshing to be able The notes are so exact, in fact, that Bocast could use stereo to hear a more natural soundscape from the past.” recording to give an approximate location for each bird species. J.A.

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Destination Troy UW experts in classics, physics, and more will explore the ancient site.

Although continuously occupied ISTOCK for more than four thousand years until its abandonment in the thir- teenth century, the fabled city of Troy was lost in time and myth until rediscovered in the 1870s by the eccentric and worldly Heinrich Schliemann, a German businessman and amateur archaeologist. The outlines of the lost city have emerged from the dust through a series of archae- ological expeditions, mostly German, mounted off and on since Schliemann’s day. But Troy and its envi- rons remain, for the most part, unexplored. The Troy site, in modern-day Turkey, is actually a layer cake of cities, with at least ten ancient metropolises super- imposed one atop the other. Some bear evidence of violent destruction, giving heft to the idea that Homer and Virgil were writing about actual historical events when they wrote about the of powerful, new scientific tech- classics professor and the orga- the most comprehensive yet. adventures of Achilles, Odysseus, niques to wring more information nizer of the new expedition, which Wisconsin researchers — from and Aeneas. from artifacts and the very ground will be conducted under the fields such as physics, medical Beginning this year, Troy may of Troy itself. auspices of Turkey’s Çanakkale microbiology, soils, and biochem- give up more of its secrets as UW “Although the site has been Onsekiz Mart University. istry — are aligning to explore the scholars launch a broad, inter- excavated in the past, there is The foray to Troy, which will fragmented physical record of an disciplinary expedition to the much yet to be discovered,” be covered in a future issue of ancient crossroads. ancient site and deploy a suite explains William Aylward, a UW On Wisconsin, promises to be Terry Devitt ’78, MA’85

by the numbers The number of applicants for the job of head coach of the Wisconsin football team. The list includes a Fed Ex driver, a pharmacist, an attorney who has excelled in fantasy baseball and football leagues, and a candidate who candidly wrote in his application, according to sports website Deadspin, “I have no football coaching experience at any level. It would be a huge mistake to hire me for this position.” The group includes former Utah State coach Gary Andersen, who was ultimately 54 offered and accepted the job in December.

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Something Old, Something New Taking advantage of peaceful surroundings, students settle in to study in a third-floor space near a roof terrace in Nancy Nicholas Hall. Opened last fall, the hall represents a renovation and expansion of the School of Human Ecology building on Linden Drive. The 200,000-square-foot project incorporates significant nods to the past: features include old wood flooring and a fireplace salvaged from the colonial house (featured in On Wisconsin, Spring 2009) that once served as a lab for the home economics department and later as offices for the Department of Human Development and Family Studies.

The number of applicants for the job of UW-Madison’s next chancellor. A search-and-screen committee (see related story, page 53) is recommending finalists to UW System President Kevin Reilly and a special committee of the board of regents. The full board is expected to vote in April on its selection to 70 succeed Interim Chancellor David Ward MS’62, PhD’63.

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David Krakauer This research institute director’s recipe for success? Collaboration and a dash of humor.

David Krakauer compares the university’s Wisconsin Institute for Discovery (WID) to a greenhouse, a transdisciplinary place to exper- iment with hybrid ideas not cultivated elsewhere. And while some of these risky ideas may thrive as transplants outside the university, others may not. WID is an environment where success, failure, and learning are all in the mix. “A lot of our projects may not work,” he says. “If everything we do is playing it safe, I’m probably not doing my job.” Since taking over in December 2011 as the first permanent director at WID — the public half of a partnership with the privately run Morgridge Institute for Research — Krakauer has focused on building a culture of collaboration that engages creative minds on and off campus, including some unconventional events and programs. For example, a film series kicked off last year with movies about cloning, apocalyptic zombies, and “mad scientists,” exploring the paradox of a culture that is suspicious about science, yet loves movies about the subject. WID is also home to “distinguished scholars,” including Emmy-award-winning you to push at boundaries, and also it just makes you happier. I want travel journalist Peter Greenberg ’72, who helps researchers commu- to break down [the notion of], “Work is where I’m serious, and home is nicate their work to wider audiences. where I get to play.”

You’ve said we need to move into a world where we don’t think What can a researcher do with WID’s space that just isn’t about science as an isolated enterprise. How does WID embody possible in another campus lab? that philosophy? At a place like this that is early in the life cycle of research, or ideas, we The big picture is that universities and their structures, departments, want to reward collaboration. So we’re trying to make it known to the and disciplines were invented long before we were born, and they were [campus] community that we want people working together. We’re even invented to solve problems — many of which have since been solved. building rituals that support that goal. For example, the first thing I did In fact, you could argue that many of the big problems, [the] big chal- when I arrived was have a tea every day at three [o’clock] that everyone lenges, are compounded by the structures that we have in place. For in the building goes to. [Otherwise], you’re in a big building, you don’t instance, we don’t think you can talk about energy without talking see anybody. You go in, you sit in your room, you go to lunch on your about physics, chemistry, economics, sociology, and so forth. That’s own, and then you go back to your room and you go home. That’s not really the approach we’re creating here. what this is.

What’s the most important thing you’ve learned about breaking What is your dream for WID for five years from now? down those barriers at the university? Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery, and so we want to The university is so large and excels in so many areas that it’s not measure that. If other universities, other companies, are coming to us always easy for people with similar interests to connect. What if you and [asking], “How do you build a truly transdisciplinary institute?” could use the university’s enormity and scope to its own advantage? — that is success for me, because you’re having an influence, you’re We’re learning that so many people on campus want to collaborate, making a mark. Why would they do it? I think they would do it because but don’t necessarily have a place to plug into. We’re trying to be that we’re doing science better than anyone else. We [also] want to crack network for them. the science-humanities problem. Success for us would be having those communities working together seamlessly, never referring to One community leader says you bring both intellectual vigor themselves as scientists or humanists. In five years’ time, there would and humor to WID. Why humor? be a number of very effective programs, widely emulated, that have One of my advisers in England, a very prominent scientist, once said, changed the way courses are taught on campus, that have engaged “There’s only one reason you do anything, and it’s for fun.” I think business and other academic institutes in our culture. That’s the five- humor, a sense of playfulness, allows you to explore possibilities that year horizon, and I think we’ll hit it in three. you couldn’t otherwise. It allows you to challenge authority without being offensive. There’s something in human playfulness that allows Interview conducted and edited by Jenny Price ’96

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Complicated Compounds The cruelest course on campus may not live up to its legend.

Harder than teaching a dog how to “Bucky,” more terrifying than losing Paul Bunyan’s axe, able to crush dreams in a single semester. The most infamous class on campus is now … not that bad? For decades, generations of Badgers have lived in fear of one class in particular: organic chem- istry (or “Evil O. Chem,” as it is not-so-fondly called). Attending a fifty-minute lecture three days a week, UW students in introductory organic chemistry (Chemistry 341 and 343) learn the basics about carbon compounds. A pre- requisite for many majoring in a science or medical field, this course also coordinates with a lab and weekly discussion sections. After hearing nothing posi- tive about organic chemistry from fellow students, Alex Kelsey x’14, a psychology major at UW-Madison, believed the A student’s answer on an organic chemistry worksheet: this is a depiction of a reaction mechanism course’s infamous reputation. “I (an SN1 reaction, for those in the know) with curved arrows showing how electrons “move” and was absolutely terrified to enroll change from one compound to another. Not every notation (e.g., “Hypersomething”) is correct. in organic chemistry,” he says. “I actually considered changing of discussion sections led by “The truth is that, yes, it’s a class’s bad rap. career plans to avoid taking the teaching assistants (TAs). In the difficult class, and some people “[Students] come in expecting class.” past, students had only one option are more adept at understanding to have a bad time,” explains But some things aren’t as for getting help outside of the the concepts than others. But Bowman. “And because of that, bad as rumored. Perhaps the regular lectures: attending profes- there are plenty of resources some of them are not surprised — hellish reputation this course has sors’ office hours. The discussion available to help students,” says they have a bad time.” is outdated — rooted in ways of sections allow students to meet Alexandra Douglas x’13. Perhaps the secret to teaching that are now obsolete. with a TA and ask questions, Bowman realizes that most success in organic chemistry is “Students have been afraid review problems, or get tips on students come to an organic to not believe its reputation. “The of organic chemistry for forever,” how to solve equations. chemistry class believing it is class did not live up to the hype, explains lecturer Matt Bowman. The online tool Learn@UW is going to be awful, thanks to all and it is actually my favorite class “Maybe it’s because of the way it another resource today’s students the negative hype that surrounds to date,” says Kelsey. “My opin- used to be taught, where it was can use to understand organic it. And, despite added resources ions of organic chemistry now memorize this, memorize that; it’s chemistry. “I can post my TAs’ to help students succeed, most are drastically different from not taught that way anymore.” notes from my lecture and my own chemistry classes maintain a what they were before I took the Bowman attributes this notes so students can see different retention rate of only 80 percent class.” change in part to the addition examples,” explains Bowman. — a fact that he attributes to the Libby Blanchette

SPRING 2013 19 sports

TEAM PLAYER Daria Kryuchkova

When a growth spurt takes you to new heights at six feet three, and your mother played professional basketball in Russia, your sport of choice is pretty obvious, right? Not for Daria Kryuchkova x’14 (KRY-ooch-ko-va). “I loved swimming,” she says. It wasn’t until the age of thirteen, after one of her mom’s former teammates convinced her to take up the game, that Kryuchkova finally hit the hardwood. “I had pretty good statistics during my high school years,” she recalls. But her first big shot came while working at a hotel in Moscow. “The coaches from Jacksonville College in Texas randomly found my online profile and called me at work to ask if I wanted to come and play for them,” she says. Even though she was reluctant to leave Moscow (“When you watch Russian movies about the United States,” she says, “it’s all gangsters and stuff”), Kryuchkova went on to play forward at the junior college, averaging 4.8 points and 7.7 rebounds per game as a sophomore in 2011–12. She was also a member of the President’s List at Jacksonville, posting a 4.0 grade point average. Numbers like those caught the eye of Badger head coach Bobbie Kelsey as she was putting together her first recruiting class. The only problem was, Kryuchkova had never heard of UW-Madison, and wasn’t sure about transferring. “Everyone I mentioned it to told me I had to visit Madison because it’s such a prestigious school,” she says. After that initial visit, she adds, “Something clicked. I felt right at home here.” There was an adjustment, however, going from playing in Russia and at the junior college level to playing in the Big Ten. “In high school, I was taught just to rebound,” she says. “But here, coach Bobbie is teaching me to be more mobile. I love that the coaches are trying to make me better.” Brian Klatt

“Everyone I mentioned it to told me I had to visit Madison because it’s such a prestigious school. Something clicked. I felt right at home here.” JEFF MILLER

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Sound Minds, Sound Bodies Longtime trainer takes a holistic approach with Badger student athletes.

Going to work every morning is Bruesewitz x’13 suffered a hardly a chore for Henry Perez- serious injury during a basketball Guerra, an athletic trainer for team workout in October 2012, the UW Badgers. After growing Perez-Guerra demonstrated how up around his father, a physician, he has earned the reputation as a it felt natural to Perez-Guerra to compassionate figure in athletes’ combine medicine with his love lives: by saying the very thing of sports. they don’t want to hear. As he works with student “Part of our job is to say no athletes each day, his role in their or to slow them down and speed lives is not limited to maintaining them up,” says Perez-Guerra of strength and caring for athletic student athletes, acknowledging injuries. “I think athletic training is that it’s one of the most diffi- a multi-faceted position,” he says. cult aspects of his profession. “I’m dealing with students who “[Bruesewitz] wants to be on the are eighteen, nineteen, twenty floor and help his teammates, so years old, and you have to help I had to tell him he had to back them out like any other college down a bit to get better.” students. … They have other Putting on the brakes in a Perez-Guerra builds relationships with student athletes to ensure issues going on.” situation when an athlete is highly they will listen when he tells them they need to slow down to heal. Now in his twenty-first year as motivated to compete requires a UW athletic trainer, Perez-Guerra Perez-Guerra to build a relation- hear about] their families and that “[Perez-Guerra] is unbeliev- is known for caring about students’ ship — and doing so also builds everything is going well for them.” able,” says Bo Ryan, head coach physical and mental health. “Most trust that lasts long after college. The relationships he develops for men’s basketball. “If he isn’t in of the people I work with are very “It’s always a pleasure when over time is the most rewarding the [Badger] Nation, I don’t know competitive individuals,” he says. [student athletes] come back to part of the job, he says, adding that who is. I’ve seen him handle so “You have to help them integrate say hi,” he says. “You spend four he sees himself as someone who many things well. He does so athletics with school and taking years of your life with them and is available to student athletes, much for our student athletes, care of their bodies.” they move on, but I get to see what whether they need help with and we’re lucky to have him.” When senior forward Mike they’ve accomplished in life, [and athletics or their personal lives. Aimee Katz x’13

BADGER SPORTS TICKER

Basketball journalist Andy Katz ’90 is the host of new ESPNU The UW set a record for the sale of trademarked merchandise program Katz Korner. Katz has been with the ESPN family of networks last year. In fiscal 2011–12, the university received gross royalties of since 1999, and his weekly show airing on Tuesday afternoons features more than $3.7 million, a 12.8 percent increase over the previous high. interviews with analysts, coaches, and players. ESPNU is a cable network that focuses entirely on college athletics. An online poll for Sports Illustrated declared the UW’s “Jump Around” the number-one tradition in college football. At the start of the The UW football team ended the 2012 season ranked seven- fourth quarter of home games, students jump up and down while the teenth nationally in financial value. The estimate comes from a finance stadium plays the song “Jump Around” by House of Pain. professor at Indiana University-Purdue University Columbus, and combines revenues, expenses, growth projections, and other data. The Badger men’s cross country team won its fourteenth-consec- With an estimated worth of $296.1 million, the Badgers came in sixth in utive Big Ten title last October. That’s the longest streak of conference the Big Ten and nearly half a billion dollars behind national number-one championships that any Big Ten team has ever won. Coach Mick Byrne JEFF MILLER Texas’s value of $761.7 million. earned his fifth-straight coach of the year award.

SPRING 2013 21 Uniquely Human The scholarship of Robert Enright and Donna Hicks is like the branches of a family tree. Enright, an educational psychology professor renowned for his exploration into the role of forgiveness, was Hicks’s adviser while she worked on her doctoral degree at UW-Madison. As Enright continued his ground- breaking work on forgiveness, Hicks began studying the equally complex and emotional topic of dignity. While their work may have taken root at different times, their subjects are unquestionably connected within the context of human experience. On Wisconsin talks to this teacher and his student, now peers, both of whom demonstrate a willingness to examine the dark places within us, and a commitment to bring them into the light. ISTOCK

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Personal Peace Robert Enright believes that learning to forgive is not a weakness at all – but a powerful act that brings healing and happiness.

By Jenny Price ’96

24 ON WISCONSIN Robert Enright is locked in an existential A Twenty-Step Program evening, Rosen was giving her one-year- battle with a dead, but very influential, old daughter a bath and had a severe German philosopher. Marianne Rosen was a communication panic attack. Her mother, visiting from Friedrich Nietzsche equated arts graduate student at the UW in the Chicago, had to take over. “I was suddenly forgiveness with weakness, calling it 1990s when she spotted an ad in the Daily remembering what it was like to be a very “sublimated resentment.” That way of Cardinal seeking participants for a blind young child and to have been abused by thinking persists today in our culture, study. Whoever wrote it, she thought, my father. It was just overwhelming for where power and winning are celebrated, knew what she had been through. me,” she says. “That certainly wasn’t an and showing mercy to those who have Were you a victim of abuse, and do you isolated incident.” done us wrong is seen as condoning still harbor anger at your perpetrator? With hope for a better way forward, their crimes. But that thinking is quite The question jumped from the pages Rosen joined a fourteen-month forgive- the opposite of what drives Enright, a of the newspaper, because it tapped into ness intervention program for incest UW-Madison professor of educational feelings that still weighed heavily on survivors designed by Enright and then- psychology. Rosen more than twenty years after the graduate student Suzanne Freedman “It takes great strength to be merciful death of her father, who sexually and MS’91, PhD’94, who was conducting the toward someone who has wounded us,” emotionally abused her as a child. “I study as her dissertation research. The he says. was just tired of hating him, and I didn’t women in the study were experiencing Enright has spent more than twenty- know any other way to react to what had depression, low self-esteem, and high five years researching and proving a happened to me,” Rosen says. anxiety. hypothesis some colleagues thought She was happily married with two Rosen met weekly with Freedman lacked academic merit: that forgiveness young children and enjoying her work for hour-long sessions to work through is an achievable virtue and a powerful as a teaching assistant, but the past her pain, grief, and anger over the abuse act that can help people let go of anger still got in the way of the present. One — early steps in the forgiveness process. toward those who have caused pain, At one of those meetings, Freedman allowing them to embark on a path to asked Rosen to draw herself at age eight healing and happiness. Time and again, What does it or nine. The resulting portrait showed with different people in different circum- mean to live the a girl in a bed with two eyes and a nose, stances, his research — supported in forgiving life? but no mouth, while another girl, her part by private donors — has shown that facial features intact, floated above. “It’s forgiveness works. “You realize this: most people very common for children who have been walking around are the walking “There’s so much injustice in the abused to sort of disassociate themselves wounded,” says Robert Enright, an world, so much imperfection, and just from what was happening,” Rosen says. expert on the practice of forgiving. living in the world means people disap- “Almost every human being on this “I just felt so sorry for that little girl and point us and people will be unfair to us,” planet has significant emotional everything that she had gone through. It he says. “And we need a response to that, wounds or scars from being treated was one of the most powerful experiences and it shouldn’t always be to fight them.” unjustly. And when we realize that, I had had.” Enright’s work resides in the most we end up respecting others more The forgiveness education program difficult places of human experience, for what they have been through. has twenty steps, divided into four phases where there is endless pain, loss, and And let’s face it, most of us don’t that represent a road map to forgiveness: suffering. He has worked with and see that deeply into the psychology uncovering anger, deciding to forgive, studied adult survivors of incest and of people we meet casually, or working on forgiveness, and discovery even people we work with or even schoolchildren on opposite sides of and release from emotional prison. (See live with. And so, as you lead the deep-seated religious conflict in Belfast, sidebar, page 27.) None of the steps are forgiving life, you realize we’ve all Northern Ireland. His more recent been wounded on some level … quick or easy. Admitting the injury and efforts focus on making forgiveness part which softens us toward others, dealing with the emotional pain that of everyday life — not just when some- because we appreciate the struggle resulted — both steps in the process — thing unspeakable occurs — and a lens each person is going through today.” are some of the biggest roadblocks to through which we can view the world. forgiveness.

SPRING 2013 25 “We’re a society that really wants to yourself], ‘Okay, I’m justified in my anger, a survivor to see the greater context cast off our pain,” says Freedman, now an but what’s it doing for me?’ ” surrounding the injury. associate professor at the University of One of the most essential parts of Releasing her anger opened the door Northern Iowa who continues to study the process for Rosen was addressing the for Rosen to recognize the events in her forgiveness and believes firmly in its anger about the abuse that she carried father’s childhood that had contributed to power. “We keep ourselves so busy, we with her. “Anger is kind of self-perpet- who he was as a person and how he acted. don’t have to deal with our past. We use uating,” she explains. “You can be angry “The whole process of learning to drugs [and] alcohol to numb ourselves.” with somebody, and then you’re just kind look at things from a distance and see a Years before she contemplated the of feeding into that anger and being an bigger picture has allowed me to be very idea of forgiving her father, Rosen felt angry person inside.” mindful. And I think mindfulness can lead only relief when she learned of his suicide. Freedman says that for many survi- you to gratitude, which is also, I believe, “I never cried,” she recalls. She looked at vors, finding out that their abusers what forgiveness is about,” Rosen says. her mother, who relayed the news, asked, were abused themselves or had difficult “Yes, what happened to me should not “So?” and walked away. She was eleven childhoods in other ways reframes the have happened. It shouldn’t happen to years old. situation, leading to feelings of empathy any child … I can’t say, ‘Oh, yay, so glad I and compassion toward them. However, went through that.’ But thank goodness I she notes, reframing doesn’t mean was introduced to this concept.” A Powerful Act excusing behavior or saying that what Before the study, there was no specific The concept of forgiving someone for an happened was okay. Instead, it allows acknowledged treatment in the field of unthinkable act is not without its detrac- psychology for helping victims of incest tors. Critics who don’t understand how to heal, Enright says. After completing the process works call it a quick fix, and Who is the the intervention program, members of some suggest that forgiving somehow most difficult to his experimental group were no longer condones the wrongdoing or promotes clinically depressed and no longer highly reconciliation. forgive? anxious. They had hope for the future, “We don’t develop moral amnesia. “You know [who] is the hardest to their self-esteem rose, and their relation- … I’ve never worked with anybody who forgive? Hands down, yourself,” ships with others improved — and that says Robert Enright, forgiveness forgets the atrocities that have been was still the case in a follow-up study researcher. “Forgiving oneself is the perpetrated on them,” Enright says. “You conducted fifteen years later. roughest, because we tend to be can forgive someone you don’t trust. hardest on ourselves. When we let Right after completing the program, You can forgive someone you don’t trust ourselves down, our conscience, of Rosen drove from Madison to her father’s and not let them babysit your children. course, keeps whispering, and we burial site in Chicago. In the Jewish tradi- … When you forgive, you don’t throw don’t want to let ourselves off the tion, she placed a pebble on top of his justice out the window.” hook. My counsel to people is this: gravestone to signify her visit. Others have gone as far as calling ask, ‘Have you forgiven others?’ “I sat there and I just sobbed, and I forgiveness anti-feminist, arguing that The answer almost always is, ‘Yes.’ said, ‘I understand, I understand, and I’m it makes women give away their power What does that involve? Well, it so sorry that happened, I wish we’d had a by asking them to let go of anger. But involves gentleness toward the other. chance to talk.’ I haven’t been back since,” It involves seeing them as having anger is critical to forgiveness. In fact, she says. “But that’s the power of forgive- worth … and having mercy on [them], confronting anger is one of the earliest ness, of putting things in perspective and because they are special, unique, and steps in the lengthy and arduous process. irreplaceable — not because of what moving on.” “Research talks about how debili- they’ve done, but in spite of it. So Today, Rosen works as a high school tating anger is,” Freedman says. “At first, then I say, ‘Now go and do for your- teacher and debate coach in southern it feels powerful, because you know self what you have done for others. California. “I don’t think it’s merely coin- you’re in the right and the person hurt Turn that gentleness on yourself.’ ” cidental that I teach children how to have you. But after a while, it gets old. [You ask a voice,” she says.

26 ON WISCONSIN Forgive Daily Enright has successfully tested his program FORGIVENESS: The Twenty Steps with a number of groups, including Robert Enright and his graduate students at the time developed third-graders in Milwaukee’s central city this four-phase, twenty-step program, which he regards as and Belfast; college students; drug rehab essential for achieving the forgiving life. participants; and adult children of alco- holics. More recently, the curriculum he Preliminary questions developed for schools to teach kids about Who hurt you? How deeply were you hurt? On what specific incident forgiveness has been adopted by the will you focus? What were the circumstances at the time? Was it government of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, pres- morning or afternoon? Cloudy or sunny? What was said? ident of Liberia and Nobel Peace Prize How did you respond? winner, in an effort to move the country beyond a fourteen-year civil war. PHASE ONE — Uncovering your anger Enright believes forgiveness is a virtue • How have you avoided dealing with anger? that should be embraced — not just by • Have you faced your anger? people who have endured grave injustice • Are you afraid to expose your shame or guilt? and suffering, but also in smaller moments • Has your anger affected your health? where we feel slighted, overlooked, or even • Have you been obsessed about the injury or the offender? annoyed by spouses, parents, or friends. • Do you compare your situation with that of the offender? It takes time and commitment to be what • Has the injury caused a permanent change in your life? Enright calls “forgivingly fit.” He compares • Has the injury changed your worldview? it to rehabbing a blown-out knee, because he wants people to understand that work — and pain — are involved. PHASE TWO — Deciding to forgive “ Anyone who practices rigorous, • Decide that what you have been doing hasn’t worked. physical exercise regularly will tell you that • Be willing to begin the forgiveness process. it is part of their identity. It’s part of who • Decide to forgive. they are, and if they cannot exercise for a while, it’s uncomfortable,” he says. “It’s the PHASE THREE — Working on forgiveness same thing with the forgiving life. As you • Work toward understanding. make it part of the exercise of your life, it • Work toward compassion. gradually becomes part of who you are.” • Accept the pain. So what does that mean in a practical • Give the offender a “gift” [a merciful act, such as a smile, phone sense? It means that you must learn to call, or prayer]. forgive daily, Enright says. “It does not make you weak,” he says. PHASE FOUR — Discovery and release from emotional prison “The love you cultivate and develop in • Discover the meaning of suffering. your heart is stronger than any injustices • Discover your need for forgiveness. anyone can ever throw against you. And • Discover that you are not alone. once you live that, you realize how very, • Discover the purpose of your life. very strong you can be, because that’s a • Discover the freedom of forgiveness. buffer against all of the poison that unfor- tunately visits us just by being alive.” n Source: The Forgiving Life: A Pathway to Overcoming Resentment and Creating a Legacy of Love (2012), by Robert Enright Jenny Price ’96 is senior writer for On Wisconsin.

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World Peace Donna Hicks has found that the simple concept of honoring human dignity has the power to achieve reconciliation when nothing else can.

By Maggie Ginsberg-Schutz ’97

28 ON WISCONSIN On a steamy tropical morning in a “Far more significant than any bution that I feel I made around this Latin American country in 2003, Donna advice given is the driving awareness that work is to name something — to name Hicks PhD’91 entered a room packed permeates this book,” writes Tutu, “that something that each and every one of with government and military leaders in in the concept of human dignity we have us knows deep in our soul, but we rarely crisis. She was there to lead the partici- in our hands, as it were, the key to the talk about it.” pants, entrenched in intractable conflict, conundrum of the ages: How can peace in a communications workshop. The on earth be found?” president of the country hadn’t planned In an interview with On Wisconsin, Fight or Flight to stay until Hicks, acting on instinct, Hicks talks about the dignity model — Citing research by neuroscientists, Hicks suddenly asked his permission to shift where it came from, why it works, and asserts that the human brain experiences the focus to another topic altogether, what it’s like to now count Tutu as a dignity violations in the same way it one she’d been theorizing about for friend. interprets a threat from a knife-wielding years: dignity. The president canceled his attacker, triggering the fight-or-flight meetings and pulled up a chair. response that prompts us to react with Afterward, one high-ranking general Naming It overpowering emotion. This explains told Hicks she not only helped the Dignity is one of those words most of the shaking, the sweating, the rapid people in the room, but she also saved us have a gut feeling about, but when breathing, and the other symptoms trig- his marriage. As Hicks recalls, that was asked to define it, we can’t quite pin gered by emotional abuse or a heated the day the dignity model was born — it down — a concept Hicks explores argument with a loved one. When our a tool for conflict resolution that she in her book. She draws a distinction dignity is violated, we are physically would eventually outline in a book titled between similar words such as respect incapable of moving forward, unless that Dignity, which was published in 2011 by or, conversely, humiliation. “Dignity is violation is acknowledged. Yale University Press. an internal state of peace that comes “The evolutionary part, that is Since then, Hicks, who spent fifteen with the recognition and acceptance of probably the biggest bonanza,” says years in Madison and earned her PhD the value and vulnerability of all living Hicks. “When I was doing my research, under UW Professor Robert Enright things,” writes Hicks. I came across evolutionary psychology before taking a job with Harvard’s While it’s not a new concept, and evolutionary biology. So much Weatherhead Center for International Hicks’s model seems to have slid neatly is being written about it now, but it’s Affairs, has applied the model success- into an unexpectedly large void. “At not in the schools. I teach a class at fully everywhere from Northern Ireland the time I was writing this book, there Columbia every semester, and half of to corporate board rooms, always elic- was nothing else written on dignity,” the students aren’t even aware of what iting the same, awed reaction. “It’s not she says. One of the biggest challenges it is I’m writing about. That’s why we’re just a political issue that I uncovered,” was “unlearning how to write like so sensitive and we so easily hurt one says Hicks. “This is an issue that every an academic,” which she combatted another: because we have a twenty- single human being, no matter where I with narrative nonfiction courses over first-century human experience with am in the world, says, ‘That’s it!’ ” the seven years she spent writing. hardware that was meant for our early The premise is deceptively simple: Drawing from psychology, neurosci- ancestors one hundred thousand the human brain experiences dignity ence, evolutionary biology, and decades years ago.” violations in the same way it interprets of observation and experience in the a physical threat. With an awareness international conflict field, Hicks has of how we violate the dignity of others identified ten essential elements of Not Just for Women and how our own dignity is violated, dignity — and the model has catapulted In the male-dominated world of global we can resolve even the most lengthy, her conflict-resolution work into a leaders and warring parties, the dignity brutal, seemingly hopeless conflict. whole new stratosphere. [See sidebar, model could be dismissed as … well, Sound hyperbolic? Not according to page 30.] feminine. Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the South “I feel like I’ve opened up a door that However, says Hicks, “The thing that African human-rights activist, who wrote had been previously closed, yet every I never expected was how much men are the foreword to Hicks’s book — and single one of us knows what I’m talking gravitating to this. I think women might called her a prophet. about,” she says. “The major contri- have a better grasp of it, you know, a

SPRING 2013 29 more intuitive grasp of it. But the men feel it, I’m telling you.” As a psychologist, Hicks had DIGNITY: always been sensitive to the emotional The Ten Essential Elements undercurrents raging through every Donna Hicks has identified ten essential elements that help negotiation she’d ever facilitated; she define dignity, and encourages others to become aware of also knew it didn’t work to walk into a them in order to honor the dignity of others. “Treating others room of tense, embattled higher-ups — with dignity, then,” writes Hicks, “becomes the baseline for especially men — and ask them to talk our interactions.” Most dignity violations involve a combination about their feelings. of several overlapping elements. “One day, I remember thinking, ‘If we could only get people talking Acceptance of Identity about those emotional experiences Approach people as neither inferior nor superior to you. that they’re stuck in,’ ” says Hicks. “I could see that these were really brilliant Recognition people, and yet, when they sat down at a Validate others for who they are. Give them credit and be negotiating table, it was as if that part of generous with praise. them just vanished.” But when Hicks began to reframe Acknowledgment the discussion from feelings to dignity, Validate and respond to people’s concerns and what they have the wall of silence instantly crumbled. been through. “If I said, ‘Tell me a time when you felt your dignity was violated’. ... Inclusion Everybody had a story,” says Hicks. Make others feel that they belong. “Everybody had a million stories. So there was something legitimizing about Safety using that word. … They didn’t feel Make people feel comfortable, both physically and psychologically. the shame of admitting that they were Fairness emotionally incapable of solving this problem.” Treat people justly, with equality, and in an evenhanded way. Independence Encouragement Empower people to act on their own behalf so that they feel in from Tutu control of their lives. Back in 2005, Hicks was recruited by the Understanding BBC for a three-part television docu- Don’t rush to judgment; seek a deeper understanding of others’ mentary, Facing the Truth, which brought perspectives. together Catholic and Protestant victims and perpetrators of conflict in Northern Benefit of the Doubt Ireland for face-to-face encounters. It Treat people as though they have a good reason why they do what was an opportunity to flex the muscles they do. of the dignity model on a televised stage. Accountability Filming took place at an estate outside Apologize when you have wronged others and change the Belfast, and Archbishop Tutu chaired a hurtful behavior. small team of project facilitators. The two quickly developed what Hicks today Copyright © 2008 by Donna Hicks calls “such a deep bond.”

30 ON WISCONSIN The human brain experiences dignity violations in to rest rather than seek revenge. “They’re first cousins, dignity and the same way it interprets a threat from a knife- forgiveness,” says Hicks. “In fact, I feel like one of the greatest dignified acts one wielding attacker, triggering the fight-or-flight can do is to forgive.” response that prompts us to react with overpowering As for her early mentor, “[Enright] had such integrity,” she says. “Looking emotion. This explains the shaking, the sweating, the back, what I am just so grateful to him for is that now I have the words to rapid breathing, and the other symptoms triggered by describe it: he had such dignity.” emotional abuse or a heated argument with a loved one. When our dignity is violated, we are A Dignity State? Hicks is now in high demand as a physically incapable of moving forward, speaker and facilitator, addressing and unless that violation is acknowledged. working with people across the globe — not only in the political context, but also within corporations, schools, churches, “He is a moral authority for the whole essential elements of the dignity model nonprofits, and other organizations. world,” says Hicks. “In terms of dignity, — acknowledgment — was in play She’s developing a training manual so he just seems to embody it for me.” during the public reconciliation. that other dignity advocates can continue Hicks and Tutu have continued to her work. And she has written a short work together during the years since. The Dignity and Forgiveness document, “The Declaration of Dignity” two email and call, they’ve been guests (declaredignity.com), that essentially asks in each other’s homes, and he helped her It’s only with hindsight that Hicks can everyone to pledge to live consciously with the book before writing the fore- see how brilliantly her dignity model in a way that honors the dignity of all word. “When the book was finished, he harmonizes with the forgiveness work people to end suffering in the world. said, ‘Look, this is your baby, and you of Robert Enright. “I was interested She would also like to develop a dignity- have put this out into the world,’ ” says in international conflict, but I was based curriculum for school systems. Hicks, who does not have children. “ ‘You also interested in how people create “I’m a bit overwhelmed, to tell you gave birth to a beautiful thing, and I want meaning around conflict,” says Hicks, the truth,” Hicks says. “I never imag- you to feel proud of it.’ ” who worked closely with Enright in the ined it would have such an impact. This In 2012, news photographers late eighties before earning her PhD. book basically has a life of its own now.” captured a pivotal moment when Queen “I was drawn to his exploration of the On Christmas Eve 2011, John Elizabeth II of England shook hands deeper philosophical meaning behind Mitchell, an Episcopalian priest in with Northern Ireland’s deputy first conflict. Looking back on it, he was Manchester, Vermont, gave a sermon on minister, Martin McGuinness, a former such a mentor, because he really under- the dignity model, then invited Hicks to IRA commander. “We — including the stood this stuff in a way I didn’t.” visit and address the town. He invited BBC producers — like to think that Twenty years and a lifetime of expe- everyone, including the local rabbi and Facing the Truth might have played a little rience would pass between the time the headmasters of the area schools. He role in paving the way for this handshake when Hicks worked with Enright and signed the pledge and is attempting to to happen,” says Hicks. the year she published Dignity, but the get everyone else to sign it, too. Afterward, a spokesman for Sinn intersections between their work then “He’s decided that he wants to Fein, the political branch of the IRA, and now are undeniable. Hicks says both create a dignity community,” says Hicks, released the following statement: dignity work and forgiveness work focus grinning. “Who knows, Vermont may “[McGuinness] emphasized the need on the desire to understand the context become the first Dignity State. Isn’t to acknowledge the pain of all victims of the perpetrator, the larger life experi- that fabulous?” n of the conflict and their families.” ence that led a person to act out. She Perhaps without realizing it, McGuin- says they’re both “paths to reconcilia- Maggie Ginsberg-Schutz is a Madison- ness was affirming that one of the ten tion” — tools to help people put the past based freelance writer.

SPRING 2013 31 College In a unique arrangement, a high school’s entire freshman class sees a campus for the first time — and envisions what’s possible.

32 ON WISCONSIN By Vikki Ortiz Healy ’97 A student union is like a campus The giant class trip, spread over five College living room, Longo told the group, visits in September, is the largest group Photos By Jeff Miller which began its walking tour on a sunny tour conducted by Visitor & Informa- Most of the high school students day last fall on the sprawling patio tion Programs each year, and it has outside Union South. Camp Randall become a campus tradition of its own. trailing behind Alex Longo x’13 Stadium is where the Badgers play Students working as campus tour guides had never set foot on a college football, she continued, pointing to its feel honored to be chosen to show the campus before, so she explained massive concrete frame in the backdrop Illinois teens around for a day, says Jessica UW-Madison’s landmarks in terms as they crossed University Avenue. It’s McCarty ’05, visitor relations coordinator. also where the entire student section The guides see it as a unique chance to she knew they would understand. jumps up and down on the bleachers reach high school students long before during the song “Jump Around” by the stress of taking the SAT and sending House of Pain, she added, bouncing her college applications begins. head cheerfully for a visual. “It’s always fun to see the energy that “You’re going to see a lot of things comes off the bus, “ McCarty says. “Not that are different,” said Longo before everybody rides two and a half hours on leading students through Henry Mall, the interstate to get here.” past Agricultural Hall, up to Observatory Drive, and down Bascom Hill. And that is exactly what administra- The partnership between tors at Addison Trail High School in Addison Trail and UW-Madison was suburban Chicago have counted on since formed when the high school’s admin- 2006, when they began sending their istrators returned from a trip to Boston, entire freshman class — some five hundred where they had learned about the value students — to the UW for a glimpse of of smaller learning communities and what’s possible after graduation. saw promise for their students. Once a

Taking part in a long-standing campus tradition (left), students from an Illinois high school rub a foot on the Abraham Lincoln statue on Bascom Hill. A second tour group, led by Alex Longo x’13 (at right, above), stops on the hill while learning more about life in college.

SPRING 2013 33 “Many of our students are going to be the first in their families to go to college, so the importance of getting them on a college campus and understanding the require- ments and the steps necessary to get into college is imperative,” Cibulka says. It’s a conclusion that more and more of those working with young people have drawn in recent years, as college admissions offices have come to expect applicants to demonstrate tireless extracur- ricular involvement and volunteer work along with good grades and test scores. Evidence of this, McCarty says, can be seen in the way requests for custom- ized tours — coming from Boy Scout troops, day care centers, and other groups I’ve never seen not immediately college bound — have I wished to such “buildings spiked recently. Just six years ago, her just“ become office welcomed nearly nineteen thou- before. I thought sand visitors annually. As the end of 2012 successful in life neared, she estimated that campus visitors the campus would participating in customized tours would and to go to a surpass thirty thousand for the year. be more close Some of this growth can be traced to good college. increased marketing, coupled with prac- together. tical changes in the logistics of student RYAN ZYGOWICZ ALONDRA ESTRADA tours, now launched from the expansive and newly opened Union South instead suggested that they try UW-Madison — of smaller offices near Bascom Hill. But where his daughter attended school and requests from those who want to give worked part time as a tour guide — they predominantly white student body, today’s young people access to a college setting figured it was worth a try. two thousand students are 55 percent are also a primary driving force for the Each year, Addison Trail has sent Hispanic/Latino, 35 percent white, growth, McCarty says. a caravan of yellow school buses filled and 52 percent low income, says Adam “A lot of schools and after-school with one hundred freshmen at a time Cibulka, Addison Trail’s principal. But the clubs and community organizations to UW-Madison for a ninety-minute 2010 census statistic that really captured are calling us and saying, ‘We want our custom tour, followed by lunch at the the attention of officials was this: only schools exposed to higher education in Memorial Union. Even in times of budget 21 percent of the school’s surrounding some way,’ ” she says. “They’re kind of cutbacks, the visits remain a high priority community aged twenty-five and above planting the seed that if this is a place for the school. While the tours are free, had a bachelor’s degree or higher. where you want to come, then this is what the bus fees are paid for with the school Administrators in Addison, a middle- you have to do.” district’s foundation funds and a contri- class community not far from O’Hare Addison Trail administrators origi- bution of ten dollars from each student, International Airport, knew that if nally tried to find a Chicago-area college Principal Cibulka says. they wanted their students to aspire to or university to host its freshman class continue their education past high school, for a day, but local colleges repeatedly they needed to show them not only said they couldn’t accommodate such On the crisp fall morning what college looks like, but also what it a large group. So when Kurt Haberl, a when fourteen-year-old Alondra Estrada requires to get there. now-retired teacher at the high school, stepped off one such bus, she looked

34 ON WISCONSIN the part of a seasoned college student in When she graduates this spring, she her gray fleece zip-up jacket, jeans, and hopes to land a job in public relations. comfortable white tennis shoes. But her “I was exactly in you guys’ shoes,” wide-eyed surveillance of her surround- Longo told the Addison Trail students on ings as she crunched through the leaves the fourth of five visits scheduled last fall. along campus paths gave away her true “They take you on this field trip so you background. can start with an end in mind.” The daughter of Mexican immi- School officials know of at least six grants, Estrada had never visited a college students since 2006 who enrolled at campus before. Her father, who owns a UW-Madison after graduation. cleaning service, didn’t attend college. Based on the success of the part- Her mother, a clerk at a department store, nership, Addison Trail expanded its received an associate’s degree from the required college visit program this year. community college a few miles away from Now, in addition to the freshman trip, the family’s home in Addison. sophomores at the high school take a “I’ve never seen such buildings mandatory field trip to Illinois State before,” said Estrada. “I thought the University as a contrast to a large public campus would be more close together.” Me and my friend, university. Juniors and seniors at the Her classmates viewed the campus we’re “like, ‘They college are invited to join smaller groups with similar awe, peppering tour guides touring campuses that include North- with a wide range of questions: How have really nice western University, the University of much time do they give you in between Chicago, the University of Iowa, and your classes? Is living in a dorm just like grass’ — and I Elmhurst College. a big sleepover? How much do you have But the UW-Madison visit remains to study? What’s that building with the love grass. the flagship field trip for the high school, columns? ALONDRA AVITIA (left) with no plans for change in the near Alondra Avitia and Jacara Mackley, future. both fourteen, giggled as they observed students lounging with open textbooks on Bascom Hill. The students are At one of the last stops “Me and my friend, we’re like, ‘They on a recent tour, a cluster of Addison have really nice grass’ — and I love grass,” really fashionable. Trail students stood in front of Bascom Avitia said. Hall as tour guides explained the history “And [the students are] really fashion- They make sweat- and legend behind the Abraham Lincoln able,” Mackley chimed in. “They make shirts look really statue. When a guide explained how some sweatshirts look really pretty with jewelry students believe that rubbing Abe’s foot and stuff.” pretty with jewelry brings good luck, the high schoolers’ Addison Trail officials say they already faces brightened. Several took off running see the partnership with UW-Madison and stuff. at full speed to jump up and touch the making a difference: in 2012, 88 percent statue in a quest for good fortune. JACARA MACKLEY (right) of the graduating class went on to college, Addison freshman Ryan Zygowicz compared to approximately 80 percent reached the statue first and rubbed Abe’s before the program started. foot purposefully before climbing down Longo, who expects to graduate she knew nothing about college life, and to catch his breath and share his hope. from UW-Madison in the spring with a she hadn’t given any thought to what it “I wished to just become successful in degree in communications, is considered would take to be admitted to a university. life and to go to a good college,” he said. n another success story. She was a member Today, she wears her red tour guide attire of the first Addison Trail freshman class proudly, giving two or three campus tours Vikki Ortiz Healy ’97 is a reporter and that toured UW-Madison. At the time, per week, scheduled around her classes. columnist at the Chicago Tribune.

SPRING 2013 35 Getting Torched Andrew Zimbalist ’69 has an inside track on the finances that drive Olympic bids and stadium? deals. But are they a boon or a bust for the host cities?

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By Eric Goldscheider

ndrew Zimbalist ’69 will never forget the time that National Basket- ball Association Commissioner David Stern accused him of single-handedly trying to destroy the American sports industry. It was part of a rant that erupted, Zimbalist recalls, when he was advising the ANational Basketball Players Association opposite Stern at a negotiating table at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City. In 1998, NBA owners and players were battling in a lockout that slashed the regular season to fifty games. Zimbalist, an economics professor, had a reputation for sharp analyses that often shattered accepted wisdom. He and his group arrived early for the meeting and were sitting with their backs to high-rise windows in a room

The Olympic Stadium in London’s Olympic with commanding views of midtown Manhattan. Park is pictured prior to the 2012 Games. The last to enter was Stern, and the commissioner’s As an example of the sums of money that nations can spend on the worldwide eyes remained fixed on the floor as he took his place at contests, the opening ceremony alone for the 2014 Olympics in Sochi is expected to one end of the table. Billy Hunter, the players’ union chief, cost Russia about $52 million. suggested they begin, when Stern intoned, “I see you have a new member on your side of the table.” After Hunter introduced “our economist,” Stern went into a diatribe that impugned him and a colleague, and, according to Zimbalist, culminated in a twenty-second crescendo during which Stern stood up and pumped the air with his arm, practically yelling, “If Zimbalist is on your side of the table, we might as well all take off our clothes, get on horses, and march down Fifth Avenue.”

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This 2012 photo shows discarded fencing outside the Olympic indoor pool and the OAKA sports hall, leftovers from the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece. It’s not unusual for such facilities to fall into disrepair when cities can’t afford to maintain them.

The room went silent and Zimbalist in Northampton, Massachusetts, is no tion of college sports, to how Title IX has felt like he had fallen into an alterna- stranger to the ire of powerful people. affected society, to the internal dynamics tive universe. “I’m saying, ‘Holy Toledo! In the two decades since his career of leagues. What’s going on here?’ ” He later learned took a sharp turn toward analyzing the It began in 1990, when a clash that Stern was known to berate individ- enormous lucre surrounding sports, the between baseball players and owners led uals as a strategy to divide the opposition. field of sports economics has grown to a thirty-two-day lockout that all but “I’m sure he was trying to intimidate me,” considerably. As one of its preeminent eliminated spring training. American says Zimbalist, adding, “David and I get members, Zimbalist often testifies as an fans were rivted, and Zimbalist’s eleven- along now. He is a brilliant commissioner, expert witness in court cases, acts as a year-old son Jeff was no exception. “I’m and I have great respect for him.” consultant, and serves as a media expert. putting him to bed, and he says, ‘Dad, Zimbalist, the Robert A. Woods He has published at a prodigious rate on I don’t think I’m going to play Little Professor of Economics at Smith College topics ranging from the commercializa- League this year,’ ” Zimbalist recalls.

38 ON WISCONSIN Because the pros weren’t playing, Jeff the rules surrounding free agency. The f Zimbalist is concerned about assumed the lack of a season extended to players won. the effects of such sports his team. In time, Zimbalist was called to testify mania on cities, he’s even more “I didn’t know a heck of a lot about before Congress and state legislatures concerned about the effects baseball economics, but I knew that on public policy issues relating to sports, on entire nations. His critique wasn’t true,” Zimbalist says. From there encountering people such as George W. Iof mega sporting events — notably, the ensued a discussion about the distinc- Bush (then a baseball team owner), then- Summer and Winter Olympic Games and tions between the Major and the Little baseball commissioner Fay Vincent, and the quadrennial World Cup, governed by Leagues. U.S. Senator Howard Metzenbaum. He the Fédération Internationale de Foot- Then Jeff said, “Hey, Dad, you’re got into tangles with powerful owners ball Association (FIFA) — is biting. In an economist, you like baseball, you just and politicians, including then-New economic terms, he sees both organiza- finished your book on Panama. Why York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who tions as monopolists that use that position don’t you write a book on the economics was leading the charge for a new Yankee to fuel bidding frenzies among cities of baseball?” That was a Thursday night, Stadium and was incensed by Zimbalist’s vying for a turn on the world stage. and Zimbalist didn’t teach the next day, number crunching. The way this tends to play out, he so he went to the basement of Smith’s Sports economics was a brand new says, is that local organizing commit- Neilson Library and discovered two field, and Zimbalist’s models showed that tees form that are initially made up of things: first, nobody had written about more often than not, stadiums and arenas construction firms joined by labor unions baseball economics in an accessible way, built at public expense ended up wreaking and architects. Soon lawyers and bankers and second, “baseball had an antitrust havoc with local budgets. The enormous come on board, and together they grow exemption they got from the Supreme Court in 1922,” he says. The realization started a churning Zimbalist knew he had stumbled on a story process in Zimbalist’s mind. An acquain- tance had recently spoken highly about about how powerful interests were leveraging Steve Fraser, an editor at Basic Books who liked the confluence of academic an anachronistic privilege to profit handsomely and popular writing. Zimbalist knew he had stumbled on a story about how from the national pastime. “On a lark,” he powerful interests were leveraging an recalls, he dashed off a two-page book proposal anachronistic privilege to profit hand- somely from the national pastime. that afternoon, thinking he would never get a “On a lark,” he recalls, he dashed off a two-page book proposal that afternoon, response. Three weeks later, he had an advance thinking he would never get a response. Three weeks later, he had an advance to to write Baseball and Billions. write Baseball and Billions, which became a business best seller. hype around stadium projects — especially into a big enough coalition for politicians The book clearly hit a nerve. Within when owners threatened to leave one city to become enamored of their lustrous minutes after Zimbalist did a public in favor of another — muddied rational plans. This core group stands to gain a radio interview in New York to plug it, evaluation of the real costs and benefits. great deal from a civic project that requires someone came into the studio holding up “Sports is this massive thing in our the construction of massive sporting facili- a sign saying that a big international law culture and in many cultures around the ties, as well as infrastructure improvements firm was on the phone. Weil, Gotshal & world, and it gets an enormous amount capable of housing, feeding, transporting, Manges was looking to enlist Zimbalist of media attention,” says Zimbalist. This protecting, and communicating with fans as an expert witness on behalf of Jets helps create what he calls “a natural, and media expected to flood the city for running back Freeman McNeil and the uncritical expectation” that wooing seventeen days. NFL Players Association in an antitrust teams is “an unquestioned boon to the At this stage, Zimbalist maintains, suit against the league. At stake were community.” the International Olympic Committee

SPRING 2013 39 DICK FISH/SMITH COLLEGE cial turmoil in Greece, according to aspirations and results. “The overriding Zimbalist. Initially budgeted at about impression left as a result of the Beijing $2 billion, he says, the cost of the games Olympics is that it’s an impossible place ended up at $16 billion. Most of the to live and that they have unbearably venues built for the games now stand as thick pollution,” he says. decaying and eerily forlorn monuments A city must also consider whether to the hangover from a party that turned the influx of sports tourists drives away out to be too good. Plans to turn the those who might otherwise have visited. Olympic Village into a community were Zimbalist cites studies showing that never brought to fruition, says Zimbalist, skiers avoided Utah during the 2002 and money to convert athletic facilities Winter Olympics and that passenger for local use evaporated. traffic at the Atlanta airport during the The most plausible argument for 1996 games was on par with previous hosting a mega event is that it brings and subsequent years. The theater in money from outside the country or district in London this past summer was region that can — in theory — boost the “like a ghost town” while the Olympics local economy. The problem is an irra- were happening in another part of the tional bidding process, says Zimbalist, city, he says. that is driven by a monopolist on one There are also significant land- side and local organizing committees use issues that must be added into the that have successfully “hijacked” the Andrew Zimbalist became a sports econo- analysis. What could have been built in mist when the field was in its infancy. political process on the other. Good East London instead of an Olympics economic models don’t look only at the complex? Prime urban land is a scarce (IOC) or FIFA play the role of glamorous upsides of these events; they also weigh commodity, and a thorough economic sophisticate, challenging suitors to keep them against the downsides. analysis must encompass questions about upping the ante by adding big-name Zimbalist and others in the field he opportunity costs, such as whether an architects to build dazzling structures helped to pioneer look at aspects such as arts complex, office buildings, or even a in an attempt to outdo their rivals. This whether the imperative to build quickly public park might be more beneficial in adds up to even more temptation for the drives up labor costs, in turn leading the long run. moneyed interests who stand to profit to cost overruns and compromises that “Leakage” is another consideration, mightily, whether or not the games result in shoddy construction that ends Zimbalist notes. The postmortem on ultimately benefit the community as a up requiring significantly higher mainte- the Atlanta games showed that in spite whole. In the meantime, the suitors spend nance expenditures over time. The actual of flat overall tourism, hotel prices went lavishly on making a case based on civic cost of the 2008 Beijing Olympics was up. But rather than benefiting the local pride and the virtue of sports, on a public $40 billion; the original budget was economy, that money mostly went to relations campaign, and on hardball $5 billion to $6 billion. large concerns not based in the city. backroom dealings. The city of Chicago, Then there is the less tangible benefit Zimbalist says, spent $100 million on a a host city derives from projecting an losing Olympic bid. image and gaining more prominence. The problem is that a dispassionate “They all say that,” scoffs Zimbalist, but imbalist doesn’t mind and honest economic analysis — not in reality, the cities have limited control being pilloried by tycoons, the kind of slick puff pieces dutifully over the impact of the publicity. A worst- instead treating the produced by name-brand consulting case scenario is Munich 1972, which outbursts directed at firms at a hefty price — shows that, ultimately branded the city as the site of him as a badge of honor. except under rare circumstances, these an atrocity when terrorists took Israeli ZBut it wasn’t always that way. From the mega sporting events end up hurting athletes hostage in the Olympic village time he earned his degree at Wisconsin the city or the country as a whole. The and later killed them. until that bedtime chat with his son, Athens Summer Olympics in 2004 may Zimbalist ticks off a list of less Zimbalist mainly concerned himself with have contributed to the current finan- dramatic discrepancies between comparing economic systems. He did his

40 ON WISCONSIN Harvard University doctoral dissertation Selig ’56 to sort out issues of revenue bidding processes, Zimbalist responds, on enterprise management in Salvador sharing. “Sports leagues are always “The ability of the private interests Allende’s Chile, a country he chose based trying to have some balance between the to co-opt the public interests, I think, on a tip from one of his undergraduate big city teams and the small city teams, is more limited when the public sees professors, UW economist John so there’s ongoing interest in the compe- that there is no strong evidence of an Strasma, that it had the most reliable and tition,” Zimbalist explains. “The question economic payoff.” At the same time, comprehensive statistical data in Latin America. He had also published a book measuring economic performance in The Athens Summer Olympics in 2004 may socialist Cuba. While at UW-Madison, Zimbalist have contributed to the current financial originally intended to major in French, until he enrolled in a literature class turmoil in Greece. Initially budgeted at in which he was the only male among forty-two students. And when he discov- about $2 billion, the games ended up at ered that he was the only male student to apply for a study-abroad program in Aix- $16 billion. Most of the venues now stand en-Provence, France, he quickly backed out. “The thought of going abroad as decaying and eerily forlorn monuments. with thirty-five or forty females was too Plans to turn the Olympic Village into a intimidating for my young soul at the time,” he says. community were never brought to fruition. In his first sixteen years, his academic focus was on global macroeconomics, systems, and development. His interest is, ‘How do you structure that transfer of he hopes that members of FIFA and in athletics was just in passing. “I can’t money in a way [so as] not to blunt the the IOC can be moved not only by the say I was the biggest sports nut going, incentives?’ ” The economist also wrote lures of grandiosity, but also by moral but I was an American male who paid a book on his fellow alum called In the considerations. attention to that stuff,” Zimbalist says. Best Interests of Baseball? The Revolutionary “One would hope that they get the But he found that he enjoyed the new Reign of Bud Selig. message and downscale some of this direction his career took: “As somebody Zimbalist co-edited his most recent crazy bidding that goes on,” he says. who had basically studied the economies book, International Handbook on the “There are some smart people and of the rest of the world all my life, I got Economics of Mega Sporting Events, with sensitive people who have a sense of very turned on to the idea of studying Wolfgang Maennig, an economist at social responsibility and responsibility the U.S. political economy through the the University of Hamburg and gold to humanity. They know that there are lens of sports.” medalist in rowing at the 1988 games sustainability issues when they build like While on campus, he briefly became in Seoul. The publication may have crazy things that are not going to last. a history major before being captivated an impact on the decision now facing ... Maybe members of the IOC execu- by a lecture given by Robert Lampman the IOC over which of the remaining tive committee will step forward and say, ’42, PhD’50, an economics professor contenders — Istanbul, Madrid, and ‘We should be re-evaluating our model; who had worked for President Kennedy’s Tokyo — will host the 2020 summer we could still be a bureaucracy and be Council of Economic Advisers. “He was games. Zimbalist believes Brazil has socially responsible, and that will be our a lovely man who became a role model taken on too much economic risk in source of kudos, that will be our source for me,” says Zimbalist. He promptly seeking and winning both the 2014 of gratification.’ changed his major and became president World Cup, which will take place in “Maybe,” says Zimbalist, “but I of the Economics Student Association. seven cities, and the 2016 Summer wouldn’t predict that.” n These days, Zimbalist has been Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. working on projects such as an initia- Asked whether he thinks his schol- Eric Goldscheider is a freelance writer based tive with Commissioner of Baseball Bud arship will have an effect on future in Amherst, Massachusetts.

SPRING 2013 41 imagination, inc.

Before a Pixar movie hits the theaters, a Badger is working behind the scenes to help bring those animated characters to life.

42 ON WISCONSIN By Jenny Price ’96 was a proving ground. “It was a little bit overwhelming for me to be thrown into Mike and Sully. Lightning this forty-thousand-[student] university,” she says. “No one’s holding your hand.”

COURTESY OF PIXAR ANIMATIONCOURTESY STUDIOS McQueen. Buzz and Woody. A self-described “control freak,” Nelson imagination, inc. These characters are real to movie- appreciates how animation allows film- goers who become deeply invested in their makers to avoid issues such as the weather. onscreen journeys, as much as they would “Everything is in the computer; you can with protagonists played by flesh-and-blood control everything, for the most part … as actors. And when that happens, it means opposed to if you’re doing live action and it that Allison Nelson ’08 has done her job. rains one day,” she explains. Nelson works on the production team So it’s not surprising that her favorite at Pixar Animation Studios, the force Pixar character is Edna Mode, the exacting behind movies such as Toy Story that are designer of “super suits” for the superhero wildly popular among both children and characters in The Incredibles. To make an their parents. Behind the artistry and imag- animated film, one has to be like Mode: ination, each shot of a Pixar film is a “giant focused on the details and relentless in math problem” of many layers that have to pursuing a vision. be put together, she says. A ninety-minute film averages about When she started as an intern at 1,600 shots built using computers. Each Pixar in January 2009, just weeks after shot of the film travels — often simultane- graduation, Nelson expected a to-do list of ously — through multiple departments, ordering lunches and making coffee. But including sets, characters, effects, anima- on her first day, she was handed a spread- tion, simulation, and crowds. “It’s a giant sheet and thrown into the technical aspects checklist,” Nelson says. of making Toy Story 3. She works in the place where all the “I was so surprised and grateful that pieces ultimately come together — the they were trusting me with things that sweatbox, so named during the early days were actually relevant to the film,” she says. of animated films, when Walt Disney Pixar has features that many workplaces crammed his team into a tiny, hot room to don’t, including a soccer field, basketball critique rough shots of movies. court, and cereal bar. “They know that Nelson works daily with each depart- you’re here and you’re going to get work ment, ensuring that the shots are on time, done,” she says. “But they also understand artistically and technically correct, and that that you’re human and you need to blow they maintain continuity, before moving on off steam sometimes.” to the director to finalize the film. Nelson moved into a permanent She’d love to become a producer position after only three months, working someday. But, for now, she’s focused on as a production coordinator on Cars 2. learning the roles that are critical in the Her current project, Monsters University, process of making movies. is a prequel to Monsters, Inc., and tells the “Some of my friends and roommates story of how Mike and Sully (voiced by now are changing jobs all the time, and Billy Crystal and John Goodman) became Shades of Bascom Hill? Allison Nelson ’08 they don’t really know what they want to can feel right at home working on Pixar’s friends during their college years. do,” she says. “I’m pretty happy doing what next release, Monsters University. During her own college years, Nelson I’m doing now, and I realize that that’s very made live-action movies as a film and tele- rare for people my age.” ■ vision production student and worked as a production assistant on Wisconsin Public Jenny Price ’96 is still waiting for a sequel to Television documentaries. For her, campus The Incredibles, her favorite Pixar movie.

SPRING 2013 43 ROWING TO EXTREMES Sonya Baumstein’s rowing career didn’t end when she was hit by a car — it just became a lot less conventional.

By John Allen strength to row a tiny boat to safety in herself into and out of extreme situa- San Francisco and trying not to die. tions. This will be the second ocean she’s If everything goes according to plan, four- Now, things don’t always go rowed — she crossed the Atlantic in teen months from now Sonya Baumstein according to plan with Sonya, but I’m an open boat in the winter of 2011–12. ’07 will be somewhere east of Tokyo, afloat confident she will be on that ocean, Then she biked across the United States. on the Pacific Ocean, pulling with all her because she’s shown a knack for getting Then she kayaked up the Inside Passage,

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Sonya Baumstein takes a turn at the oars in the Limited Intelligence during her row across the Atlantic. The craft was deco- rated with inspirational quotes such as a line by the French writer André Gide: “In order to discover new lands, one must be willing to lose sight of the shore.”

fies me. This stuff is dangerous. She could one keeps count. These days, it’s hard to die. But she won’t be stopped. Once find an adventure in death-defiance that she decides to do something, she’s on a retains novelty. powerful mission.” Ocean-rowing could be that adven- So why suffer pain and risk death in ture, though more people have done it pursuit of something so unnecessary? than you might think. The website ocean- After all, if one wants to cross an ocean, rowing.com documents 331 boats that there are easier, faster, and less dangerous have been rowed from one side of a sea to ways, including standing on shore and the other without the assistance of sails or hoping a cyclone will come along and machinery between 1896 and 2012. Some blow you across. Maybe, I thought, Sonya have been solo efforts; others have been does this because she is crazy. When I veritable galleys with crews of a dozen. spoke with her, I floated that theory, and But most of those people spend years she objected — kind of. training for their effort. Sonya trained for “I guess people who do this sort of the Talisker Whisky Challenge for about stuff have a compulsive personality to some ten months. Still, it was hardly her first extent,” she says. “I don’t think I’m obses- time in a boat. She fell in love with rowing sive-compulsive by any means. But I can’t at a young age — with, that is, the normal, explain it, because it’s not fun all the time.” competitive rowing one sees on college Still, she believes that confronting campuses, the kind with sculls and shells danger gives her life meaning. “[That’s] and coxswains keeping time. That’s what probably a huge reason why I want to do made this Orlando, Florida, native a Badger. it,” she says. “It’s still an open challenge Despite all the attention that the to conquer. Sure, I may be homeless, football and basketball Badgers receive, broke, and physically incapacitated for rowing is the UW’s oldest sport, and months once [the ocean row is] all over, arguably its most successful, with nine- but accomplishing that will be one of the teen national championships won by the biggest highlights of my life.” men’s and women’s teams. And rowers are from Seattle to Juneau. So the Pacific arguably the most passionate about their row, which she plans to do with just one sport. (See pages 48 and 63.) person (British captain and author Lia Broken and Mended Sonya rowed in high school and, Ditton) for company, is just another leg In another age — in the days when though she was recruited by Princeton, on her long, improbable journey. George Mallory was trying to scale Mount chose UW-Madison, where she enrolled It was Sonya’s mother, Debra, who Everest, for instance, or Robert Scott in fall 2003. The women’s rowing team called and alerted me to Sonya’s first was racing to the South Pole, or Amelia won national titles in Varsity 8 in 2004 nautical adventure while she was still at Earhart set out to fly around the globe — and 2005 and in lightweight in 2004, sea. Sonya, Debra told me, was a former people would have treated Sonya as a hero, 2005, and 2006. But Sonya wasn’t UW athlete and was taking part in the marking down her words for inspiration. destined to be part of that success. Talisker Whisky Challenge, a race from But what were once great adventures On July 18, 2004, in the summer after La Gomera in Spain’s Canary Islands to are commonplace today. In the eighty- her freshman year, Sonya was at home in Port St. Charles in Barbados. Knowing nine years since Mallory famously told Orlando. That night, she was out with two that On Wisconsin’s readers like learning the New York Times that he was trying to friends, and while walking across a six-lane about Badger athletes, I said I’d be happy climb Everest because it is there (then road, a car bore down on the three of them. to speak with Sonya. went off and died during his attempt), Sonya managed to push one friend out of After I hung up, however, I wondered: more than three thousand people have the way, and the other took only a glancing why would someone do this? It certainly successfully reached the world’s highest blow. The car, traveling at forty-five miles wasn’t to please her parents. peak, some more than once. Cruise ships an hour, hit Sonya square on. She bounced “To be honest,” Sonya’s father, Darryl stop in Antarctica, and so many people up over the hood, shattered the wind- Baumstein, told me later, “that girl terri- have flown across so many oceans that no shield, and then was thrown thirty feet.

SPRING 2013 45 Sonya’s 400 Challenge began with a row across the Atlantic, from the Canary Islands to Barbados. She then flew to California, biked to Washington, and kayaked to Alaska. She intended to hike south through the Cascade Mountains but ran out of time.

“We got a call in the middle of the The triathlon never materialized. After or skip the hike, and the kayak was some- night telling us to come to the Orlando graduation, Sonya went to the University thing I was really looking forward to. I Medical Center,” says Darryl. “I’m terri- of Central Florida, where she earned a felt a sense of completion doing that.” fied. Her mother is terrified. And all master’s degree in — and then taught — And so we sat, and she told me about they’ll tell us is she’s not dying. We start nonprofit and volunteer management. And her adventures, describing them as “a walking down the hall toward the room she coached high school rowing. It was a lot of monotonous work highlighted by where Sonya is, and I hear her shout at fellow rowing coach who told her about awesome moments.” her friend, ‘Would you stop crying? You the Talisker Whisky Challenge, and that She told me how to train for a row didn’t even get hit!’ And that’s when I opened Sonya’s eyes to what she wanted across the ocean. knew she was going to be fine.” to do with her life: she would become a “Beer,” Sonya said, “and bacon.” Still, fine is relative. Sonya had a professional adventurer. She made plans Pushing calories is important when collapsed lung and thirteen broken for what she calls the 400 Challenge, one is preparing to row approximately bones, including her skull, tibia, and attempting four extreme adventures 2,550 nautical miles (or 4,700 kilome- fibula. Surgeons had to implant a rod in (rowing the Atlantic, biking from the ters, if you prefer), especially when one her leg and insert forty staples to hold Mexican border to Seattle, paddling a anticipates spending that time eating her flesh together, plus eighty stitches in kayak up the Northwest coast from Seattle nothing but lightweight, easily stored her head alone. So much shattered glass to Alaska, and hiking the Pacific Crest foods: dried potatoes, stuffing, oatmeal, was embedded in Sonya’s arm that it Trail) within four hundred days. She nuts, granola, and pudding. took five years before it all came out. formed a website to follow her quest, and But there’s also practice. Sonya says Her parents told her to take a year called it Epoch Expeditions. she jogged, lifted weights, and swam, off and recover. Instead, Sonya returned “I chose the word epoch,” she says, “for and spent two hours a day on an “erg,” a to Madison in August. She studied its definition of a period of time marked rowing machine, set to the highest resis- art history. She worked out with the by extreme change. That’s what this was tance level to simulate the weight of the athletic department. going to be for me and what I wanted it to craft she’d use on her voyage. Two hours a “I got great physical therapy be for others.” day may sound like a lot. But what she was from Wisconsin,” she says. “I did a about to attempt was to spend twenty-four lot of water therapy — I never want hours every day in a rowboat. While she to aqua-jog again. But if I hadn’t had The Voyage of wouldn’t be pulling at the oars continu- that option, I don’t think I would have ously, she’d be on them half of each day, or healed as well as I did — the team at Limited Intelligence six times what she was practicing. Wisco was great.” “The hard thing about all this,” Sonya “The reality is you can’t train for The accident finished her collegiate says, “was convincing people that I an ocean row,” Sonya says. “You can do rowing career, but not her competitive [could] do it. Nobody believed that a girl your best, but the only way to prepare drive. So Sonya decided she would take like me could do any of these things.” for an ocean row is to get in a boat and part in an Ironman triathlon — a combi- When she told me this, we were start rowing. It’s just preparing mentally, nation running, swimming, and biking sitting in the Rathskeller. It was the end because it hurts the whole time. And race. She jogged every day. But whereas of September, and she was in town to when you think it might get better, it just before her accident, a ten-mile run was visit a friend — all of her friends, she said, hurts more.” easy, afterward it seemed impossible. were getting engaged, married, pregnant. She told me how difficult it was to “I found that I was hitting a wall at She, however, had just brought an end to line up sponsors to defray the cost of eight miles,” she says. “And I was falling the 400 Challenge, having successfully the adventures, and how she’d had to spontaneously — it felt like my knee completed three parts — the row, the ride, sink the money from her accident settle- was breaking backwards. It turned out I and the paddle. She’d had to give up on ment into the plan, using it to buy a used had no ACL [anterior cruciate ligament] the hike down the Pacific Crest Trail. Each ocean-going rowboat — a thousand- in my knee. I had to go through three stage had taken longer than expected, and pound, twenty-seven-foot-long vessel progressive surgeries over the next three the weather was no longer favorable for a with two tiny cabins. Its previous owners, years — three years of being on crutches five-month-long walk in the mountains. members of the British military, had pretty much constantly did a lot of nerve “I had to make a decision,” she says. called it the Limited Intelligence, a name damage to my arms and back.” “It was either cut the kayak [trip] in half Sonya felt was fitting and kept.

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She told me how she’d gone online Afterward, Levick and the Crane and recruited near strangers for her crew- brothers decided they’d had enough, Preparation mates: Oliver Levick and twin brothers but Sonya carried on. She found new The last time I spoke with Sonya, she Chris and Jonathan Crane. companions and then lost them: she was in the mountains of Washington “I think we developed a strong mutual biked with Florida friends, paddled State taking wilderness EMT training — respect for each other,” she says of her with a man from Omaha who’d never pretending to rescue people who were fellow adventurers, “though I’m only been in a kayak, and then replaced him pretending to be hurt. She believes it really on speaking terms with one of them with a man she met along Canada’s will help with her next enterprise, Epoch right now. [The ocean row] was really Pacific coast. Ultimately, she finished Expeditions. She’s turning her desire for stressful on all of us. You’re sharing a alone. adventure into a nonprofit business helping twenty-foot space with three other people She told me about having bikes others experience their own extreme chal- for fifty-six days, after all.” stolen in San Francisco and waiting a lenges or just teaching them how to camp. In total, it was fifty-six days, nine month for replacements. She told me She’d already set up ten short treks for hours, and twenty minutes that they how the cyclists she’d met called her — 2013 — hikes, bike rides, kayak paddles, spent at sea — time that the little crew with a mix of respect and derision — a and even a two-week extreme row across had divided into 682 two-hour shifts, “NoBo,” meaning a north-bounder. The the Gulf of Mexico. Her EMT training, Sonya and Levick rowing while the prevailing winds along the coast blow naturally, would give her the skills to handle Crane brothers slept and vice versa. north to south at an average of twenty a medical emergency, should one come up. She told me about navigation in miles per hour, making a NoBo’s ride And it would prepare her for an illness or forty-foot waves and in calm seas; about extra difficult. injury that might occur on her Pacific row, seeing only six other vessels, none She told me of the people she which may take six months to complete, closer than five miles; about the sharks met along the coast when she started triple the time she spent on the Atlantic. and whales that came within fifteen paddling — “I don’t think there’s a Prepare within limits, anyway — she’d feet of the boat; and about the death of single bad person who’s a boater,” she still be miles at sea, far from doctors and batteries and hand-pumping a desali- says. But it wasn’t just people she met: hospitals and help of any kind. But the nator for an hour each day just to make she heard bears at night while she was prospect of mortal danger doesn’t deter two liters of drinkable water. kayaking through the islands of British Sonya, who aims to be the first American And she confessed that the four- Columbia, and one morning while she to row the Pacific (and depending on some didn’t wear life jackets, or much was camping alone, she was awakened whether she or Ditton sits in the front of else — continually sprayed by waves, by a pod of whales passing by. All the the boat, the first woman). clothing collected salt as the water while she was driven by a satisfaction “You can die doing anything at any mo- evaporated. Because of the endless, found in experiencing intensity, in ment,” she says. “I was walking across a road repetitive rowing motion, their clothes driving her body and mind beyond in the center of town and could have died. scraped them raw, and then literally their limits. People have died after sustaining much less rubbed salt in their wounds. “I never had patience before I tried injury than I did. If I’m going to die, I hope She told me about the tendinitis something like this,” Sonya says. “At it’s doing something that’s exhilarating and she suffered after the trip, so severe she the risk of sounding cheesy, I didn’t inspires others to do the same.” n couldn’t stand for a week without pain, know how much I could learn about John Allen, senior editor of On Wisconsin, or open her hands for a month. myself.” keeps his limited intelligence on shore.

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The sacrifice? Heading to practice long before the campus comes to life. The reward? Seeing the sun rise and knowing you’ve done your best. JEFF MILLER Early Morning Rowing Practice For five years, six days a week, Bryan Hanson ’88 relied on the same Timex Ironman watch alarm to wake him up at 5:30 a.m. He walked to rowing practice in the dark, encountering students still making their way home wearing yesterday’s clothes. Early morning practices are the stuff of legend for UW rowers, who bond with Lake Mendota, and one another, during the hours logged on the water at dawn. Crews began hitting the lake before sunrise more regularly in the 1970s, when the introduction of women’s teams led to gridlock at the boat- house and on the docks. Joel Berger ’01 proudly notes that before most students had hit the snooze button, he and his teammates had “already put in a day’s worth of pain and suffering.” The grueling sessions are emblematic of the sport: athletes pushing their physical and mental limits to little or no fanfare. The good days, when bodies synchronize and boats glide evenly across the water, offer moments that help crews forget the bad days, when the water and the ride are choppy. (See related essay, page 63.) On the coldest mornings, the oars cut through skim ice, cracking the surface “like crème brûlée,” recalls Tessa Michaelson Schmidt ’00, MS’05. For some rowers, including Matthew Tucker ’98, a certain olfactory memory remains strong: the “meat goo” aroma wafting from Oscar Mayer. “I will never forget that smell,” he says. From the team’s docks near the Lakeshore residence halls, coaches direct the coxswains to steer boats using landmarks, including the governor’s lakefront mansion. In the 1950s, a governor reading the morning newspaper on his terrace called to complain, taking issue with the harsh language a coach was using to instruct a rower. Some years later, Langdon Street fraternity members who didn’t appreciate having their slumber disrupted used rubber-band launchers to fire full beer cans at startled rowers, including Mark Rowell ’84. In return, Rowell says, then-men’s coach Randy Jablonic ’60 was fond of blaring John Philip Sousa marches over his bullhorn, “just to let the students know we were enjoying our morning row.”

Jenny Price ’96

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52 Alumni Association Warm Hearts, Warmer Climate News A couple enjoys the benefits of record warmth near the Union Terrace. This photo was taken on 54 Class Notes March 20, 2012, a spring equinox that felt more like mid-summer. Temperatures soared into the eight- ies, more than thirty degrees above normal. 61 Bookshelf

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Having a Ball at the Bowl WAA tour gives Badger fans that rosy feeling. JEFF MILLER (2) Loyal Badger fans made the trek to California to re-paint Pasadena red over New Year’s, as the UW football team won its third straight Big Ten title and became the first squad in UW history to reach the Rose Bowl for three years in a row. Many of those fans traveled on the Official Badger Bowl Tour, presented by WAA and Wisconsin Athletics. Cumulatively, WAA has taken nearly 5,000 alumni and friends to Rose Bowl games since 2011. And though a rose by any other name might smell as sweet, a Rose Bowl victory would have been sweeter — but the 2013 team lost to Stanford, as the previous teams had lost to Texas Christian and Oregon in 2011 and 2012, respectively. “Despite the game, I think this was the best of the Rose Bowl trips I’ve been on,” says traveler Jack Hinnendael ’80. “WAA did a wonderful job, and [its representatives] were great hosts.” This year’s WAA travelers had a more immersive experience than in past bowl trips. In addition to the Tournament of Roses Parade and the game, participants in the official tour stayed at the team hotel, giving them the opportunity to mingle with players and coaches in the days leading up to the game. At a New Year’s Eve reception, attendees had a chance to meet incoming football coach Gary Andersen, who succeeds Bret Bielema. Above: The football Badgers’ new coach, Gary Andersen, meets with alumni at a reception the night before the Rose Bowl game. It was enough to have fans California dreaming — and hoping a Below: Fans cheer as the Badgers try to push the ball across the fourth time will be the charm. goal line. The Badgers came up short on this drive and in the Brian Klatt game, losing 20-14.

52 ON WISCONSIN How to Choose a Chancellor A member of the search committee explains what the UW needs.

After UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin C&N PHOTOGRAPHY the next leader of the University of PhD’85 departed in 2010, former Chancellor Wisconsin? David Ward MS’62, PhD’63 stepped in on It’s an incredibly complex job, so he or she an interim basis. Dave Florin ’92, recent has to have a vision for how the Wisconsin Wisconsin Alumni Association board chair, Idea will come to life in the future. … The is serving as an alumni representative on the ideal candidate will possess tremendous search committee appointed to recommend leadership skills; the collaborative commu- a successor. He recently talked with On nication style needed to build trust both Wisconsin about what the UW wants — on and off campus very quickly; a great and needs — in its next chief executive. amount of physical and mental stamina, as this is not an easy job by any means; and What unique perspective do you bring an open mind to find the solutions required to the search committee? for continuing to deliver the world-class As a UW-Madison alumnus, I am looking at academic and research experience we are the process as a representative of a broad known for. community of 396,000 of my fellow gradu- ates all over the world. What’s next? After narrowing the field of top candi- Why do you feel it’s important for dates, the search committee is presenting alumni to stay connected and aware the finalists to a selection committee of the of the search for the next UW-Madison University of Wisconsin System Board of chancellor? Dave Florin served as chair of the Wisconsin Alumni Association in the Regents. That committee and UW System The university is at a critical juncture right 2011–12 academic year. President Kevin Reilly will recommend a now, and plays an incredibly impactful role final candidate to the full board of regents. A within the entire state, if not the country. leader, and a tremendous amount of vision board vote to appoint the next chancellor is … We’re also at a point where, as a to maintain the level of leadership the expected in April 2013, with a start date of percentage of revenue, state support is at people of this state demand. July 1. its lowest levels in history. This chancellor will have to navigate through some really What qualities are you looking for Interview conducted and condensed challenging times that require a dynamic in these candidates, and ultimately, by Wendy Krause Hathaway ’04 BADGER TRACKS

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40s–50s “pioneering historical studies of gone to John Anderson ’66 the photon concept and nuclear for his dedication to promoting At a November 2011 ceremony physics,” as well as for his lead- Japanese culture and cultivating We’re in the News Business … in Washington, D.C., to honor ership in bringing physicists into Japan-U.S. friendship. The senior Wouldn’t you like to share some? Japanese-American veterans, writing the history of physics. He partner of Anderson Enterprises, You can direct the (brief, please) Togue Uchida ’41 received the lives in St. Paul, Minnesota. he’s also the founder of the details of your recent accomplish- Congressional Gold Medal for Anderson Japanese Gardens ments, significant goings-on, his service as a staff sergeant in Rockford, Illinois — widely and life transitions by email to with the 442nd Regimental 60s considered to be the finest of [email protected]; by Combat Team. He owns Uchida their kind in North America. mail to Class Notes, Wisconsin Photography in Nashville, Now leading the Lasell College When professor emeritus Alumni Association, 650 North Tennessee, where he’s lived for board of trustees as its new William Oltman ’66 retired in Lake Street, Madison, WI 53706- sixty years. chair is Richard Blankstein ’60 2009 after thirty-five years with 1476; or by fax to 608-265-8771. John Kasper ’47, MS’49, of Newton, Massachusetts — the Seattle University School of We’d love to publish all of the a St. Cloud [Minnesota] State also home to the college. He’s a Law, it honored his legacy by submissions that we receive, University professor emer- founding partner of the Boston creating the William C. Oltman but space restrictions prevent it. itus, sent this reminiscence and law firm of Posternak Blankstein Professorship of Teaching Don’t be dissuaded, however — update: “Playing for [baseball & Lund, a lecturer on legal topics, Excellence. He’s the co-author of we’d love to hear from you. coach] Dynie [Mansfield] in 1942, and an adjunct faculty member at the leading treatise on wills and I won the Big Ten Conference Boston University Law School. trusts under Washington law. Please email death notices and batting title with a .431 average. In recognition of his abili- “Since its founding by John all address, name, telephone, and On October 24, 2012, celebrated ties as a “distinguished arbitrator Adams, James Bowdoin, John email updates to alumnichanges@ with my wife, Evie, our seventieth providing dignity, fairness, and Hancock, and other scholar- uwalumni.com; mail them to wedding anniversary!” Alumni Changes, Wisconsin This year the Wisconsin Alumni Association, 650 North Conservation Hall of Fame “I never forget that the UW trained me well.” Lake Street, Madison, WI 53706- inducted two brothers who have — Viveca Chan ’76 1476; fax them to 608-262-3332; dedicated a combined sixty-nine or call them in to 608-262-9648 years of service to the state’s cooperative processes in collec- patriots, the American Academy or toll free to 888-947-2586 Department of Natural Resources tive bargaining,” Chicagoan has elected leading ‘thinkers and (WIS-ALUM). as wildlife biologists: Richard Charles Fischbach ’60, JD’67 doers’ from each generation.” So Hunt ’50, MS’58 of Fall River has received an Award of says the American Academy of The vast majority of obituary and Robert Hunt ’58, MS’59 of Distinction from the Federal Arts and Sciences, and its most listings of Wisconsin Alumni Waupaca. Richard is esteemed Mediation and Conciliation recent inductees are no excep- Association (WAA) members for his work with waterfowl and Service. He’s also recently tion. They include James Lake and friends appear in our trian- wetlands, while Robert was completed his service as commis- PhD’67, a distinguished professor nual publication for members, hailed during the induction cere- sioner of the City of Chicago’s of molecular, cell, and devel- the Badger Insider. If you’re mony as “Wisconsin’s preeminent Commission on Human Relations, opmental biology and human not already a WAA member, we trout stream biologist.” We thank which resolves civil-rights genetics at UCLA; David Blight look forward to welcoming you Cyndy Hunt Luzinski MS’92 discrimination complaints. PhD’85, a professor of American aboard. Just visit uwalumni.com/ of Windsor, Colorado, for letting Milwaukeean Dennis Lange history and director of the Gilder membership. us know. ’60, MA’67 writes that the years Lehrman Center for the Study of Rudy Cherkasky ’54 1956 through 1960 were “prob- Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition x-planation: An x preceding a expanded on a point we made ably the best time of my life.” He’s at Yale University; and Matthew degree year indicates that the in our Winter 2012 piece about shared some short stories and Wilson MS’86, an MIT professor individual did not complete, Milwaukee cheesemaster Bob a memoir called Badger Boxers of neuroscience. All signed the or has not yet completed, that Wills MS’81, PhD’83, JD’91 about his adventures — both in book of members — a tradition degree at UW-Madison. founding and running Wisconsin’s and out of the ring — with his since 1780. first urban cheese factory. apartment mate Al Hansen ’59. Hearty congratulations are Cherkasky and his family made Lange dedicates Badger Boxers due Donald Leo Bach ’68, JD’74 cheddar at Quaker Dairy (these to Charlie Mohr, a UW boxer on several counts: he received days, a bakery) in Appleton in the whose 1960 death after an NCAA the 2011 Goldberg Distinguished 1950s and ’60s. tournament bout caused the UW Service Award from the Wisconsin This year’s $10,000 Pais Prize to abolish boxing as a sport, with Law Foundation; he’s now joined for History of Physics, established the NCAA following suit. Lange its roster of fellows; and his article The Wisconsin Alumni by the American Physical Society retired in 1994 after thirty-four “The Rapanos Rap: Grappling Association® (WAA) encourages and the American Institute of years of teaching art in West Allis, with Plurality Decisions” was diversity, inclusivity, nondiscrim- Physics, is in the hands of Roger Wisconsin. recently published in Bloomberg ination, and participation by all Stuewer ’58, MS’64, PhD’68. The Order of the Rising Sun, BNA’s The United States Law alumni, students, and friends of He’s a University of Minnesota Gold and Silver Rays — an honor Week Case Alert & Legal News. UW-Madison in its activities. professor emeritus of physics and bestowed by the emperor of Bach, a partner in the Madison history of science and technology. Japan, and one of the highest office of DeWitt Ross & Stevens, Stuewer was lauded for his given to foreign nationals — has has assisted the Wisconsin state

54 ON WISCONSIN named acting vice provost and Rich Varda ’75: A Sustainable Target dean of the undergraduate school at the University of Maryland When you want to reduce TIM GRUBER University College in Adelphi. your energy consumption, you Davis has been the school’s might swap an incandescent associate dean for academic light bulb for a more efficient affairs since 1999, overseeing the compact fluorescent. But Rich development of more than thirty Varda ’75 thinks bigger — bachelor’s degrees. much bigger. Anssi Siukosaari MS’69 As the senior vice pres- sent warm greetings recently to ident of store design for the “the famous Wisconsin Alumni retailer Target, green design Association” (aw, shucks) from is a critical component of his Espoo, Finland, where he’s been work. “We’ve retrofitted the “so happy and blessed” with bulk of our stores — about his “second life”: the chance to ten square miles in building switch his profession from agri- area — with lamps that reduce cultural engineering to journalism, energy consumption by 10 PR, and communication. He percent,” he says. thanks his late Professors Scott With a staff of 280 to Cutlip MPh’41 and Richard maintain and modify Target Powers MS’52, PhD’57 for their Rich Varda is helping the Target retail chain adopt green design. He store prototypes, Varda has sees his position as a way to make a difference on a large scale, inspiration. Now retired from helped to develop Chicago given the company’s 1,800 stores. Drum Communications, which he stores with green roofs and founded in 1987, Siukosaari has has added solar photovoltaic installations (technology that converts sunlight to energy) to 25 stores. been teaching communications This year, when Target opens 135 stores in Canada, he expects more than 80 percent of the buildings to and PR in the public and private receive the rigorous Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification. Under Varda’s sectors and at the University watch, Target has also become a member of the steering committee for the U.S. Department of Energy’s of Helsinki and the Helsinki Retail Energy Alliance, which nudges manufacturers toward more sustainable practices and products. School of Economics. He was Before beginning this post in 2001, Varda was a principal at the Minneapolis architectural firms of also delighted to attend the UW’s Ellerbe Beckett and RSP Architects, where he designed an array of award-winning buildings, including 2008 commencement ceremony. the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix. When Target recruited him, he saw an opportunity to make a difference on a massive scale. Next on his to-do list is finding more efficient refrigeration methods, an opportunity that has become 70s more critical as Target has added a wider selection of groceries to many of its stores. Because current refrigeration technologies gobble up vast amounts of energy, the company has invested heavily in research Attorney Neal Cohen ’72 has and development, and has also teamed up with the U.S. Department of Energy and the Environmental gone west. Previously with Bryan Protection Agency to test out new refrigerants and refrigeration methods. Cave, he’s a new partner with Fox While sustainability has become a hot topic in the past decade or so, Varda says he’s long had an Rothschild and part of a team edge over his contemporaries, because he was steeped in its practices as a landscape architecture that’s establishing a Denver office student at the UW more than thirty-five years ago. for the law firm. Cohen has “The landscape architecture department was way ahead of its time in philosophies that reflect the also competed on two national- ideas of sustainability,” he says. “The department’s approach to everything — to use what is sustainable champion foil-fencing teams. and natural, and to understand the science behind it — wasn’t something you found in a lot of schools. Gordon Govier ’73, a board Now it’s a buzzword. But for me, it just made sense.” member of Madison’s profes- Erin Peterson sional chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), alerted us to an upcoming summer event to commem- government in many capacities. the University of Wisconsin by a kilt, a British pith helmet, and orate the centennial of SPJ’s After Robert “Mills” Miller writing term papers.” Now retired sometimes a sword to hundreds second national convention, held ’68 drew on his Vietnam War in Pensacola, Florida, Miller held of Badger sporting events. So in Madison in 1913. At that gath- experiences as a decorated many domestic and overseas outstanding is this Mukwonago, ering, SPJ chose Chester Wells combat engineer officer to write assignments during his thirty-six Wisconsin, resident that he was 1913 — whom the Wisconsin Warrior, Wayfarer (CreateSpace) years with John Deere. a contender this fall for the inau- State Journal called “one of the — a “historical fiction account of If you’ve ever seen Ken gural ESPN Hall of Fans contest. most conspicuously honored and a civilian-at-heart thrust into the Werner ’68, you’d remember Our super fan wasn’t inducted active men of his class” and “the futility of war … in turn satirical, him: he’s the gent who was in 2012, but we hope to see him leader in all journalistic activities” lyrical, visceral, and humorous” — married on the fifty-yard line of back in the running next time. — as its second national presi- he shared with the Racine Journal a 1991 Badger football game Best wishes to Cynthia Davis dent while he was a UW senior. Times how he became interested and has worn his highly deco- MA’69, PhD’72 as she carries Wells died a few months later, in writing: “I squeezed through rated wedding tuxedo jacket, out a new challenge: she’s been but his influence continues: SPJ’s

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highest honor for service to the society is the Wells Memorial Key. Carolyn Smith ’87: Pushing the Limits The law firm of Quarles & ANDY MANIS Brady has honored a partner in its Carolyn Smith ’87’s calves have powered her through Chicago office, Janine Landow- more grueling miles than most people can even Esser ’73, with its President’s fathom. She ran her first marathon while a student at Lifetime Volunteer Service Award UW-Madison, and now she’s a record-setting ultrama- in partnership with Keep Chicago rathoner who can clock more than eighty miles in half Beautiful. She’s also been named a day. one of the Power 100 Advocates “I like pushing myself,” she says. “How far can the by On Being a Black Lawyer, a body go, how much can it endure?” social media, news, and resource In her case, it’s a lot. In a twelve-hour ultramara- center. These advocates are non- thon in 2011, she set the national age-group record and black attorneys who are powerful won the overall race, beating her competitors by nearly voices for diversity in the legal twenty miles. She was part of the U.S. team that won profession. Landow-Esser has gold medals in the 100-Kilometer World Championship co-chaired the firm’s Diversity and in 2009 and 2012, and once raced across Death Valley Inclusion Committee with Quarles in blistering, 120-degree heat that actually melted her & Brady chair John Daniels, Jr. running shoes. MS’72 since 2008. Smith’s addiction to the sport started at age thir- New to the Ashland teen, and she later ran cross-country and track at [Wisconsin] County Board is Jim UW-Madison under legendary coach Peter Tegen. In Oakley MA’75, a retired teacher 2002, she tried her first ultramarathon, which is defined who still substitutes and provides as any race over thirty-one miles. She has since run Spanish instruction at the more than two dozen. Wisconsin Indianhead Technical “One thing I’m most proud of with my running is College. He’s a former presi- not necessarily my success, but my longevity,” she dent of the Wisconsin Association says. “I’ve been doing it for this long, and it’s still fun.” A record-setting ultramarathoner, Carolyn For Language Teachers and a A seven-time member of the U.S. running team Smith can run more than 80 miles in 12 hours. member of Madison’s chapter who competes all over the world, she recently of the Returned Peace Corps co-authored the book Running for Women: Your Complete Guide for a Lifetime of Running (Human Volunteers of Wisconsin. Kinetics). As one of Advertising Age Running isn’t just for the young, says Smith, who is forty-seven. “If you look at the statistics, the magazine’s 100 Most Influential number of older women who are participating in running is increasing exponentially. There are women in Women in Advertising — lumi- their sixties and seventies who are having tremendous success. They’re setting age-group records and naries past, present, and future doing these pretty phenomenal things. … We’ve come a long way since women could participate only in — Viveca Chan ’76 says she the half-mile [event] in the Olympics.” In terms of numbers of competitors, women now dominate every is “very honored to be listed category of races except marathons, she says. amongst icons including Coco Smith’s own daily schedule is a bit of a marathon. She’s executive director of Marquette University’s Chanel, Oprah Winfrey, Evelyn Student Health Service, the head medical team physician for the university’s nearly three hundred inter- Lauder … and the only repre- collegiate athletes, and an instructor in the Department of Physical Therapy. By the time she pulls on her sentative from an Asian-based running shoes, it’s often 8 or 9 p.m., except when she runs the 26-mile round-trip route to and from work. company!” Chan founded WE And then Smith tries to fit in two or three ultramarathons a year. It’s no wonder her running shoes wear out Marketing Group in 2005, and every six to eight weeks. now, as its chair and CEO, she Next, she’s hoping to compete in the world championship in South Korea in October 2013. “I’m oversees four offices in mainland getting close to where I’m ready to stop international competition, but I’d like to go out on a race that I’m China and one in Hong Kong. “I proud of,” she says. never forget [that the] UW trained And Smith is eager to achieve another goal before hanging up her sneakers for good. “My finale event me well,” she notes, “to help me will be running from one end of the continent to the other,” she says with a smile. That means racing from become a ‘Groundbreaker’ [her Washington state to Delaware, 30 to 50 miles a day, for 80 days. Until then, she will continue to ponder the award category] in the industry.” question that has fascinated her for most of her life: what are the limits of human endurance? Richard Heuser MD’76, the “I don’t think we know,” Smith concludes, “but I’m going to keep testing.” chief of cardiology at St. Luke’s Nicole Sweeney Etter Medical Center in Phoenix and a professor of medicine at the University of Arizona College plasty procedures worldwide, Publishers). development: legislation, regu- of Medicine, was the first to and he co-invented the covered Olha Holoyda ’76 of Toronto lation, transparency, corporate describe a catheter treatment stent that’s used in every cath has received a 2012–13 U.S. governance, public-private part- for mitral valve leakage and the lab that performs angioplasty Embassy Policy Specialist nerships, and more. use of balloon angioplasty in and stenting. He’s recently edited Program fellowship to provide When you read about cardiogenic shock. Heuser also his fifth textbook, Mitral Valve technical, legal, and business Tom (E. Thomas) Smiley ’77 co-developed a hydrophilic wire Disease: Diagnosis, Treatment guidance in Ukraine in areas — a researcher with Bartlett that’s used in 20 percent of angio- and Future Therapy (Nova that will enhance economic Tree Research Laboratories in

56 ON WISCONSIN Charlotte, North Carolina; an Three decades after grad- a new offering of Orange Howell, She’s Milwaukeean Melinda adjunct professor at Clemson uating from one UW, Vicky her design, jewelry, and giftware Myers MS’86: a certified arborist, University; and one of the most Scharlau ’82 has graduated business, she started with actual former radio host of The Plant sought-after experts in the from another: she completed her pasta in many shapes — tapping Doctor, past TV host of Great industry — it becomes clear master’s in public administration into childhood memories of gluing Lakes Gardener, author of more how much he cares about trees at the University of Washington’s pieces together — to create than twenty books, and long- and educating others about Evans School of Public Affairs models and then molds to cast time horticulture instructor. She them. It’s only natural then and was a class speaker for ornaments in lead-free pewter also educates through her epon- that the International Society convocation. Scharlau owns plated with silver and gold. “It’s a ymous company’s print columns, of Arboriculture has honored 501 Consultants in Cashmere, food whose time has come as an Melinda’s Garden Moment broad- Smiley’s deep commitment with Washington, a firm that offers ornament,” she says, and hopes cast segments, and speaking its Shigo Award for Excellence in management services to the that nostalgia will keep her O.h. engagements. One Hall of Fame Arboricultural Education. nonprofit sector. Macaroni collection going strong. committee member declared, American Red Cross In November, UCLA’s Miriam Lonski Falk JD’85 “Melinda Myers is the face and senior vice president Charley Hammer Museum hosted is fighting sexual assault as voice of horticulture in Wisconsin.” Shimanski ’79 of Washington, “Strangers in a Strange Land: Art, an assistant district attorney Tae-Je Seong MS’86, D.C., appeared on the Weather Aesthetics and Displacement,” a in the Sensitive Crimes Unit of PhD’88 holds a very influential Channel in advance of post as the new president of the Superstorm Sandy this fall. He “It’s a food whose time has come as Korea Institute for Curriculum and offered tips on planning ahead Evaluation in Seoul. The govern- and shared news about the Red an ornament.” — Paula Zanger ’84 ment-supported entity oversees Cross’s weather-emergency the national curriculum, text- phone app. two-day symposium that brought the Milwaukee County District book authorization, educational together renowned humanities Attorney’s Office, and she’s been achievement assessment, and scholars to “consider questions of doubly honored for her work. Falk nationwide testing programs. 80s dispossession, displacement, and has been named the Wisconsin Lori Popkewitz Alper ’87 the exilic imagination in modern District Attorneys Association’s of Bedford, Massachusetts, Mark Gilbertson ’81 of Arlington, art and aesthetic thinking.” (WDAA) 2012 State Assistant describes herself as a “green- Virginia, has a key leadership Among them was (Muhammad) District Attorney of the Year living enthusiast and lifestyle role in the world’s largest nuclear Iftikhar Dadi ’83, an associate and has earned the Wisconsin writer, consultant, mother, border- cleanup program as the deputy professor and art department Coalition Against Sexual Assault’s line vegan, and recovering assistant secretary for site resto- chair at Cornell University in Voices of Courage Award for 2012 attorney.” Indeed, after many ration in the U.S. Department of Ithaca, New York. in the criminal justice category. years of practicing law, she Energy’s Office of Environmental Which Badger did the She tried a staggering twenty now provides eco-living consul- Management. To reduce the American Public Works jury trials last year. Daniel Cary tations and has founded a inherent risk and uncertainty Association name as one of its JD’94, Monroe County’s district green-lifestyle blog called Groovy of the department’s projects, Top Ten Public Works Leaders attorney, was WDAA’s choice for Green Livin. She’s also initiated Gilbertson and his staff provide of 2012? He was Tom Grisa ’84, its 2012 State District Attorney petitions asking major corpora- solutions where none exist, who earned this national award of the Year. He served in the U.S. tions to remove toxic chemicals improve existing solutions, or for his professionalism, exper- Marine Corps from 1972 until from their products. create alternatives. tise, and dedication to improving 1992, rising to the rank of captain. Among the new Certified Beth Zupec-Kania ’81 of the quality of life in Brookfield, Unlike some conferences Martha Beck Life Coaches is Elm Grove, Wisconsin, is a regis- Wisconsin, where he’s the city’s you’ve been to, the eighth annual Nancy Kalina ’87, the owner tered dietitian who advocates director of public works. Grisa Collaboration Innovation Summit of Safe Space Life Coaching in globally for the Ketogenic Diet, is also a fellow of the American was probably very interesting Bloomington, Indiana. She works which has been extremely effec- Society of Civil Engineers. indeed: Mashable proclaimed with a diverse set of issues in tive in curing epilepsy and is After years spent as an it to be “one of the top seven person and by phone, and says, now showing positive signs for English professor and depart- places to see great minds in “I love my life coach practice.” treating brain tumors, early- ment chair at the University of action.” Hosted this fall by the The journal Labor History onset Alzheimer’s, and autism. North Carolina-Charlotte, Malin Business Innovation Factory, has awarded The Trial of the Film director Jim Abrahams x’66 Goodman Walther Pereira ’84, which believes in the power Haymarket Anarchists: Terrorism created the Charlie Foundation MA’86, PhD’92 is the new exec- of stories, the two-day “story- and Justice in the Gilded Age in the 1990s after the diet cured utive director of the university’s telling jam” featured thirty-two (Palgrave Macmillan) its prize his son Charlie’s epilepsy when Honors College and collaborates presenters from around the globe, for Best Book in Labor History other treatment options had with Chancellor Philip DuBois including our very own Tom for 2012. The work by Timothy failed. Zupec-Kania created a keto MA’74, PhD’78. Pereira’s latest Yorton ’85, CEO of The Second Messer-Kruse ’88, MA’90, program at Milwaukee’s Children’s book is Into a Light Both Brilliant City Communications, and David PhD’94 — a Bowling Green [Ohio] Hospital in 1993, invented the and Unseen: Conversations Stull MMusic’03, dean of the State University professor, chair Keto Calculator to help people with Contemporary Black Poets Conservatory of Music at Oberlin of ethnic studies, interim vice correctly administer the diet, and (University of Georgia Press). [Ohio] College and Conservatory. provost for academic programs, today is the Charlie Foundation’s Macaroni inspires Paula The Wisconsin Green Industry and dean of the Graduate College diet consultant and chair of its Zanger ’84, who’s lived in New Federation has inducted the first — has “revised a century of inter- scientific advisory board. York City since she graduated. As woman into its Hall of Fame. pretations on one of American

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labor history’s most significant seat vacated by Democratic The Philippine media organi- most amazing Bucky Badger events.” The author adds that his Senator Herb Kohl ’56, who’s zation ABS-CBN News reported Halloween costume for her son most recent work, The Haymarket retired after twenty-four years this fall that a Filipina serves as this past fall, and (of course) he Conspiracy: Transatlantic in the position. Baldwin has chief of staff in the Washington, was a smashing success: “During Anarchist Networks (University of served in the U.S. House of D.C., office of Paul Ryan, the trick-or-treating,” she writes, “he Illinois Press), “should continue to Representatives since 1999 and former Republican vice presiden- had little kids running up to him stir the pot.” has become the first openly gay tial candidate and current House screaming, ‘Bucky! Bucky!’ He As a lifelong chain smoker U.S. senator. Thompson is a member. Joyce Yamat Meyer ’93 had to pose for many photos, as who lost his parents to smoking- former Wisconsin governor and and Ryan have worked together we have quite a few alumni in our related causes, Steve Milin ’88 a former secretary of health and in several offices since 1995, and neighborhood.” (Recipients of had an epiphany in 2008: he real- human services under President he asked her to be his legisla- Badger Insider, WAA’s member ized that his cigarettes, plus the George W. Bush. tive director in 1998 when he was publication, can see a photo of the medications he was taking to The 2012 Underkofler Award elected to Congress. costume in the Spring 2013 issue.) combat the health issues they for Excellence in Undergraduate David Kung ’94, MA’96, Haen-Darden worked for the UW’s caused, were costing him $30,000 Teaching, bestowed by Ripon PhD’00 is leading a new program Cross-College Advising Service per year. “I knew that not only was [Wisconsin] College, is in the at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, for many years and proclaims, I going to die from smoking,” he deserving hands of Kurt Dietrich where he’s a math professor. “Badgers — faculty, staff, and says, but “I was actually paying students — are phenomenal! to kill myself.” Eight months There is nothing like the UW!” later, he launched Vapor4Life, a “I was actually paying to kill myself.” Thomas Walker, Jr. JD’94 Northbrook, Illinois-based distrib- — Steve Milin ’88 has taken on a big task: the Baker utor of a “personal vaporizer Tilly Virchow Krause partner has e-cigarette” known as the Original DMA’89, a professor of music Working with a five-year, been promoted to managing Vapor King. and the De Frees Chair in the $598,000 grant from the National partner for all of the firm’s Illinois Military Fly Moms: Sharing Performing Arts. He’s taught at Science Foundation, the Science, offices. He’s served as Baker Memories, Building Legacies, Ripon for thirty-two years and Technology, Engineering, and Tilly’s leader of private equity and Inspiring Hope (Tannenbaum conducts the jazz and symphonic Mathematics (STEM) Navigators transaction services and recently Publishing) is a collection of wind ensembles. project seeks to provide scholar- joined its board of partners. The seventy-one stories by women ships to underserved populations firm provides accounting, tax, and who are (or were) both military pursuing STEM degrees and to advisory services. aviatrixes and mothers, and navy 90s help them graduate. Attorney Carrie Risatti captain and flight officer Jean As is the case in many orga- ’95 has joined the Chicago Condie O’Brien ’88 is among “It seems remarkable to us” is nizations, fellowship is among office of Greenberg Traurig as them. She was the first female how Madison K-9 unit police the highest forms of recog- a shareholder in the real estate naval flight officer to join VP-16, officer Carren Corcoran ’90 nition given by the American practice. In addition, Risatti has a combat patrol squadron that summed up a very long and hot Speech-Language-Hearing been elected to the executive flew the P-3 Orion aircraft, as well summer pursuit. She followed Association, and Gregory Lof committee of the International as the first woman to qualify as a her partner, a German Shepherd PhD’94 has earned it. He’s a Alliance of Law Firms, whose tactical coordinator in that plane. named Slim, for three hours and professor at the MGH Institute marketing committee she will Now living in Flemington, New nearly four miles — with only the of Health Professions in Boston also chair. Jersey, she commands a reserve scent from a flip-flop to go on and chair of its Department of Colorado State University unit in Baltimore. — to track a murder suspect to Communication Sciences and (CSU) assistant professor If you ever need an expert a residence where he had been Disorders. Lof was the keynote of anthropology and geog- accounting testifier, keep some hours earlier. What’s even speaker at the International raphy Stephen Leisz MS’96 Chicagoan Robert Wentland ’88 more amazing is that their trail Velo-Cardio-Facial Syndrome writes that he and fellow CSU in mind. As a managing director cut through the site of Madison’s Association conference in 2011 associate professor of anthro- in Navigant Consulting’s disputes Rhythm & Booms fireworks and at Speech Pathology- pology Christopher Fisher and investigations practice, display, where up to one hundred Australia in 2010. MA’95, PhD’00 have “combined he’s also a consulting expert for thousand people had been just Nancy Arms Simon ’94 skills [that] we mastered at commercial litigation, internal and hours before. writes that she “finally realized UW-Madison to, arguably, government accounting investi- Among the newest staff her mother was right and began discover a previously unknown gations, and tax controversies. members at GEI Consultants’ teaching.” She’s now a lecturer in pre-Hispanic urban area/city in Wentland is a new trustee as well Green Bay, Wisconsin, office museum studies at San Francisco western Mexico.” Their work for Navigant’s charitable Lending are senior professional Dale [California] State University, involves a laser-based, remote- a Hand Foundation, and he sits Lane ’90, MS’92, who’s also “guiding graduate students sensing technology called LiDAR on the board of the Chicago Bar an associate lecturer on waste through the hands-on experience that has helped them to docu- Foundation. geotechnics at UW-Madison; and of creating museum/archive exhi- ment the existence of the city of Wisconsin Democrat Tammy principal engineer John Trast ’91, bitions in the newly renovated Angamuco. As you can imagine, Baldwin JD’89 emerged victo- MS’93. GEI is a national geotech- campus library.” Her motto is, their find has been receiving rious from her recent run against nical, environmental, water “The earth without art is just ‘eh.’ ” plenty of press. Republican Tommy Thompson resources, and ecological science Stacie Haen-Darden ’94 On the day of Osama bin ’63, JD’66 for the U.S. Senate and engineering firm. of Naperville, Illinois, created the Laden’s death in 2011, the

58 ON WISCONSIN Boston Globe asked passen- support the Edelman practice’s Jonathan Stone ’05, MS’05 decided to found his own — gers at Boston’s Logan Airport global expansion. is a new associate attorney at with lots of help from friends about their reactions — and Quarles & Brady in its Milwaukee and family such as Uncle Dan fears of possible retaliation — intellectual property group, and Brethorst ’86. The new Port as they flew through the same 2000s Stacy Wieczorek Alexejun ’06 Huron Brewing Company in airport from which two of the and Rachel Graham JD’08 are Wisconsin Dells is named after four planes involved in 9/11 had Have you heard of Séura? No, both new to the firm’s commer- Tanner’s grandfather’s 1917 Port departed. Among those inter- it’s not a new cosmetic product cial litigation group in Madison. Huron steam traction engine: a viewed in a Globe video (youtube. — it’s a Green Bay, Wisconsin, And finally, Evgenia Goryshina mighty tractor that’s still oper- com/watch?v=UmOV96DyZbw) manufacturer that specializes in ’09 has joined the Boston firm of ating, and whose picture graces was New Yorker Tash Imdad innovative television products, Davis, Malm & D’Agostine as an the beer’s labels. MA’97, who spoke lovingly about including the vanishing televi- associate in its business law and The son-in-law/father-in-law America and the friends he lost sion mirror and waterproof TVs. litigation practice areas. team of Christopher Goldberg on 9/11. Interviews that Imdad The spousal team of Tim ’00 and Joel Zaslofsky ’01 of ’03 and Bruce Gendelman ’76, and his mother provided to the Gretchen Cavil ’01 Gilbertson Minneapolis has had what JD’78 wants to make life easier creators of the 9/11 memo- — UW Spirit Squad alumni — he calls a “Madison-inspired for small-business owners. rial may also be part of its oral founded the company in 2003 and personal renaissance.” It led to So, working through Bruce history exhibit. He’s a project and ran it out of their garage. Now, quitting a lucrative corporate Gendelman Insurance Services in program manager at the infor- several facilities later, the Custom job to found Value of Simple, a Palm Beach, Florida, they’ve built mation technology and services InsureMyCompany.net to provide company EMC. instant insurance quotes to small Kathleen Lorden ’98 “During trick-or-treating, he had little kids businesses. “Our experiences of Chicago has snared 2012 running up to him screaming, ‘Bucky! Bucky!’ ” and education at UW-Madison CLIO, ADDY, and Association gave us the analytical tools to of Independent Commercial — Stacie Haen-Darden ’94 target and execute this trans- Producers awards, as well as a formative concept into reality,” 2012 Young Director’s Award in Electronic Design & Installation website that offers a wealth of Goldberg says. Cannes, for the commercial she Association has named Séura’s resources to help people spark Darcey Nett ’03 seeks to wrote, directed, and produced Storm Outdoor Television one of their own personal renaissances. provide “lifestyles for seniors, for Kia’s Soul — all while earning the ten Best New Products for Zaslofsky says that the lessons comfort for their families” as the her master’s degree at Art Center 2012. Thanks to Katy Gertz ’06, he learned at the UW still apply to owner and president of her new College of Design in Pasadena, part of Séura’s marketing team, his life and work today. in-home care and assisted-living California. The edgy spot is for letting us know. If you listen to SiriusXM’s placement business, Always called “Funeral” (https://vimeo. There’s no shortage of Mad Dog Radio channel, keep Best Care Senior Services. “I’m com/37024466). news from 2000s grads who your ears open for New Yorker fortunate to be doing what I love Best wishes to three became attorneys! Natalie Evan Cohen ’02 as he hosts the — helping others and connecting Badgers as they pursue their Kartes Remington ’00, of the sports talk show Evan & Phillips resources in Madison — every academic careers: Eric Carter Milwaukee office of Quarles & in the Morning with former New day!” she says. Nett is certified MS’99, PhD’05 is a new assis- Brady, has joined the Wisconsin York Mets general manager through the Society of Certified tant professor of geography and Supreme Court’s Appointment Steve Phillips. The worst day of Senior Advisors. the Edens Professor in Global Selection Committee. Anthony Cohen’s life as a Mets devotee The first female navy subma- Health at Macalester College Cotton ’02, of Kuchler & Cotton descended when the team lost rine supply officer to earn her in St. Paul, Minnesota; Lesley in Waukesha, Wisconsin, has Game 7 of the 2006 National “dolphins pin” — denoting her Lavery MA’08, PhD’11 has joined entered his second term on the League Championship Series to qualifications to work aboard Carter at Macalester as an assis- board of the National Association the Cardinals. subs — is Britta Christianson tant professor of political science; of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Six women who “demon- ’04, who was already a naval and Elizabeth Landis PhD’10 Michael Best & Friedrich strate excellence and promise flight officer and surface supply has made her debut as an assis- in Madison has welcomed in early stages of their careers” officer. She’s one of the first tant professor of chemistry at Benjamin Evans ’04, JD’07 as an have each earned the 2012 Rona twenty-four women to take part the College of the Holy Cross in associate in its intellectual prop- Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award in submarine officer training after Worcester, Massachusetts. erty practice group. Courtney and its prize of thirty thousand the 2010 reversal of the navy’s The Chicago-based crisis- Lawrence ’05, of Schwebel, dollars. Among them is fiction ban on women serving on subs. and-risk practice of Edelman, Goetz & Sieben in Minneapolis, writer Rachel Swearingen ’02. Christianson did a six-month the world’s largest public rela- has been named a Rising Star by Currently a visiting assistant sub deployment as part of her tions firm, has welcomed Brad Minnesota Super Lawyers maga- professor in English at Kalamazoo training; she’s served on the Jaffe ’99 as a new senior vice zine, while at the Rhinelander, [Michigan] College, she hopes to guided-missile submarine U.S.S. president. He was most recently Stevens Point, and Wausau use her award to devote a year of Ohio; and she’s been stationed in the founder and president of offices of Habush Habush & full-time work to a novel about the Afghanistan, where she’s helped the issues- and crisis-manage- Rottier, associate Peter Young inhabitants of Frogtown, a neigh- to refurbish schools for girls. ment firm Skelly & Monroe in ’05 has been named one of the borhood in St. Paul, Minnesota. The American Public Singapore. Jaffe’s experiences Up and Coming Lawyers of 2012 After stints at several brew- University System is all the spanning six continents will by the Wisconsin Law Journal. eries, Tanner Brethorst ’03 stronger for the recent addi-

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tion of online librarian Judith experience in Chicago that offers line someday, which would aid a Oceana in Washington, D.C. Jablonski PhD’06 of Wauwatosa, a “fun, relaxed, and stress-free current habit — “I don’t repeat an Specifically, Vorpahl works with Wisconsin. She’ll serve as a environment where your creative outfit for three years,” she told the Oceana’s Responsible Fishing subject specialist and faculty side can flourish.” There, an Times — as well as a TV show: Campaign, which raises aware- liaison in the humanities and instructor also guides painters “I want my name to be out there.” ness about the threats facing social sciences. Jablonski through a featured artwork, and Zell realizes that some of her sharks, sea turtles, and coral. has taught information orga- they need only honor the motto to traditional customers may think In case you don’t hear nization at the University of “Laugh, drink, and paint!” she’s too young and hip to help enough about Badgers here in Pittsburgh, UW-Madison, and David Rebedew ’09, a them, but, she concludes, “you’re the U.S., you can find a presence UW-Milwaukee. fourth-year student in the UW either born with style or not.” for UW-Madison on Sina Weibo Once a player on both School of Medicine and Public — the Chinese version of Twitter the Badger and NFL gridirons, Health, is one of five 2012 — courtesy of loyal (and quick- Brandon Williams x’06 is now Pisacano Scholars: outstanding 2010s thinking) grad Tuo Wang MS’10 a player in a different arena medical students who have of San Diego. The site he’s estab- as the founder of the Brandon committed to entering family Allen Bateman PhD’10, MPH’11 lished (weibo.com/badgers) offers Williams Economic Development medicine and who receive writes that he and his wife, links to the UW’s home page, Corporation in St. Louis, Missouri. scholarships of up to twenty- Jessica Thompson Bateman the Wisconsin China Initiative, In August, he hosted his first eight thousand dollars each. ’05, MPH’11, MS’11, “are taking the UW Foundation’s Share the Venture Draft conference: a gath- A highly accomplished under- the Wisconsin Idea global.” They Wonderful annual campaign, and ering of professional athletes, grad, Rebedew has continued have recently moved to Lusaka, photos of the new UW-Madison investors, and business leaders his astounding academic and Zambia, where he’s a postdoc- Shanghai Innovation Office. who sought to develop jobs for We intercepted this tweet athletes after life on the field while “I don’t repeat an outfit for three years.” from Steve Blagoue ’12: creating marketable opportunities “Thirty-five years after starting for small businesses. — Carly Zell ’09 at UW-Madison, I have finally When the National Poetry earned my degree. Not even Series’ 2012 Open Competition altruistic achievements in med toral scientist at the Center for Blutarsky was that slow.” And announced its results, Nathan school. During his residency, he Infectious Disease Research, and then a second tweet: “BBA in Hoks MA’07 learned that his plans to create a free clinic for the she’s an international develop- Finance. Left UW my senior year, second book of poems, The underserved in rural Wisconsin ment fellow with Catholic Relief 1980 (Dad was ill). This spring Narrow Circle, will be published and to advocate nationally for a Services. decided to finish degree and by Penguin Books this summer. decrease in childhood obesity. “I strongly believe that what completed coursework. Proud.” The poet is also an instructor at Zach Sundelius ’09 of Los you do in life should benefit We are, too. Congratulations! Columbia College, as well as an Angeles has been mighty busy society, and not just yourself,” editor and letterpress printer for since (and before, come to think affirms Brian Bell MPA’10. “I have Convulsive Editions, a Chicago of it) graduation: he announced always viewed public service as obituary micro-press that produces chap- sporting events and had a sports the best way to accomplish this. I books and broadsides. talk show on the UW’s student see military service as the easiest “Gerda Lerner was fierce, The Madison headquarters radio station, WSUM; worked way to have the greatest posi- brilliant, and unique,” says of Special Olympics Wisconsin for the fantasy sports website tive impact on the largest number activist Gloria Steinem about the has a new development assistant Rotowire as a UW sophomore of people.” Luckily, he’s able women’s studies pioneer and in Matthew Burr ’09. He’s also and beyond; and was a member, to do both. Bell, of Middleton, UW-Madison Edwards professor interned for former U.S. Senator and then coordinator, of the Wisconsin, became the elections emerita who who died in January Herb Kohl ’56 of Wisconsin Survivor Dream Team for three data manager for the Wisconsin in Madison. “She lived history by and worked for the U.S. Senate seasons — a group that helps to Government Accountability Board her bravery,” Steinem continues, Special Committee on Aging. build and test the challenges that in March 2012 — shortly before “restored history by her scholar- It’s painting. It’s drinking. Survivor contestants will face. In the state elections that drew ship, and democratized its study Splash Studio is both! At May 2012, Sundelius became a him to the job as a way to help by her activism.” William Cronon Milwaukee’s first “painting bar,” production assistant on The Jeff “explain and share this part of our ’76, an eminent UW professor co-founders (and spouses) Probst Show, which premiered in state history.” He’s also an army and president of the American Marla Hahn MBA’09 and David September. reserve first lieutenant who volun- Historical Association, adds, “We Poytinger MBA’10 offer three An August New York Times tarily deployed to Afghanistan, mourn … a true giant in the field. hours of guidance by a local artist article opined that Carly Zell where he led a platoon that found She created one of the world’s on a featured painting, all the ’09, the personal shopper at and neutralized IEDs. leading centers for the study necessary materials, and wine Loehmann’s (in Manhattan’s Amelia Vorpahl ’10 has of women’s and gender history or beer from their bar. They see Chelsea neighborhood), “could be always loved the water — long when she moved to UW-Madison Splash as a way to engage the the store’s secret weapon.” After days at the beach, her high [in 1980], and the program she community, showcase emerging the discount designer retail chain school swim team — and her and her colleagues built remains a artists, and promote the creative was purchased out of bankruptcy current aqua-passion is helping crown jewel of the university.” economy in the city’s historic recently, personal shoppers such to protect the world’s oceans Third Ward. Arts n Spirits, as Zell have become part of through her work as a commu- Class Notes compiler Paula Wagner co-owned by Jessica Hess ’97, its upscaling strategy. She can nications manager with the Apfelbach ’83 sometimes speaks at is a kindred-spirited (but BYOB) imagine having her own clothing international advocacy group a frequency that only dogs can hear.

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Redeeming Calcutta: A Portrait of India’s Communications, and an educator at New Imperial Capital (Oxford University Press). York University’s Center for Global Affairs. Raymer’s compelling photos and detailed text ■■ Tim Myers MA’76’s create an “inclusive and nuanced portrait” of new e-book is Glad to Be both decay and hope in the storied colonial Dad: A Call to Father- metropolis and cultural capital that seeks to hood (Familius). It’s a reclaim its past glory. realistic, humorous, practi- cal, and heartwarming ■■ Have you ever won- look at the realities facing dered about the people American families and the who stand behind great ways in which challenges people and help to make and opportunities are them great? Martin evolving for men and women. Myers writes Drapkin MA’70 of Cross children’s literature, poetry, songs, fiction, Plains, Wisconsin, nonfiction, and science fiction, and lectures at ■■ Tom Hager ’10 of Green Bay, Wiscon- explores such relation- Santa Clara [California] University. He can also sin, has written 368 pages of madness: a ships in his second book, whistle and hum at the same time. book on the history of the NCAA tournament a work of historical fiction ■■ Surely it won’t be long called The Ultimate Book of March Mad- called Ten Nobodies (and their before Jon Krampner ness: The Players, Games, and Cinderel- somebodies) (Dog Ear Publishing). In it, MA’77’s third book joins las that Captivated a Nation (MVP Books). Drapkin creates first-person narratives by the pantheon of pop- It’s a year-by-year look at the stories behind fictional “nobodies” such as Davy Crockett’s culture food histories, each tournament, plus a section on the one spiritual adviser, pirate Anne Bonny’s masseur, because Creamy and hundred greatest games of all time. “For a General Custer’s hair stylist, Marilyn Monroe’s Crunchy: An Informal [then] twenty-two-year-old — I graduated at fortune teller, Vince Lombardi’s spy, and more. History of Peanut twenty — to accomplish all of this [exhaustive Butter, the All-American research and a national book tour] reflects ■■ Seeing a need for a Food (Columbia University pretty well on the university,” he says. book that would provide businesspeople, manag- Press) is the first general-interest book on the ■■ From Frank Smoll ers, and students of subject. It’s been a long time in the making, MS’66, PhD’70 comes his business with proven, but for those who live in one of the 75 percent thirteenth book, Parenting practical answers to of American households where this comfort- Young Athletes: Devel- common problems, Eric food icon resides, it’s been worth the wait. oping Champions in Bolland ’74, MA’78 The book was the subject of a New Yorker Sports and Life (Rowman compiled and co-edited blog post in November and a praise-filled Los & Littlefield). It explores the work of fifteen of his Angeles Times review in December. The L.A.- both the joys and dangers business-faculty colleagues at Midway based author guarantees that the book will not of sports participation [Kentucky] College to publish Solutions: stick to the roof of your mouth. and translates the latest Business Problem Solving (Gower Publish- ■■ Residents of and wisdom on the subject into a practical, how-to ing). Bolland, chair of Midway’s business visitors to Wisconsin often guide that helps parents to ensure that their division, also authored several chapters. seek out its “thumb,” the children get the most out of the game. The picturesque Door County author is a psychology professor at the ■■ Bill Hewitt ’76 says peninsula. And when they University of Washington in Seattle. that his is “a story that do, Magill Weber JD’03’s ■■ Steve Raymer has not previously been Door County Outdoors: ’67, MA’71 writes that adequately told: the story A Guide to the Best he’s had “two long of the developments, Hiking, Biking, Paddling, careers”: twenty-four trends, and visionary Beaches, and Natural years as a National people who are, in many Places (University Geographic staff ways, mitigating the of Wisconsin Press) will be there to help. photographer, work- climate crisis and turning Her resource helps visitors to make the ing in more than one sustainable development most of the county’s 298 miles of Lake hundred countries; and the more recent, six- into reality, not just a grand concept.” He tells Michigan shoreline, state parks, cozy inns, teen-year stint as a professor of journalism at this story in A Newer World: Politics, Money, attractions, and “secret spots” with 125 Indiana University in Bloomington, and on the Technology, and What’s Really Being Done detailed maps and suggestions of more than faculty of its East European Institute and India to Solve the Climate Crisis (University of 150 scenic routes to explore. The author is a Studies Program. His fifth book since entering New Hampshire Press). Hewitt is an envi- project director for the Nature Conservancy academia is the five-year photographic project ronmentalist, activist, the principal of Hewitt in Phoenix.

SPRING 2013 61 ■■ Reece Stuntzner is the program coordi- did not allow them full access to figure in literature, natural history, Jones MS’04, nator and an assistant professor the American Dream, however, and taxonomy. The author is a PhD’08 seeks for the rehabilitation counseling their loyalty eroded; they sought visiting assistant professor of to demon- and human services program at empowerment through a broad comparative literature at Hamilton strate that the the University of Idaho-Coeur activist agenda; and they played College in Clinton, New York. “exclusion d’Alene. Her second book is a pivotal role in the UAW’s chal- ■■ Forever and violence Reflections from the Past: Life lenge to Ford’s interests. Bates, a Young: The necessary to Lessons for Better Living, and professor emerita at Wayne State Rock and secure the she’s at work on a third. University in the Motor City, con- Roll Pho- borders of the cludes that Ford and his company ■■ The trans- tography of modern state often undermine helped to kindle the civil-rights mission of Chuck Boyd the very ideals of freedom and movement in Detroit without the plague (Santa Mon- democracy they are meant to intending to do so. from marmots ica Press), protect” in Border Walls: Secu- to humans ■■ As a edited by rity and the War on Terror in in 1910 ulti- citizen of the Jeffrey Schwartz ’02, showcases the United States, India, and mately killed Cherokee the work of one of the entertain- Israel (Zed Books). Jones is an as many as Nation, and ment business’s most trusted associate professor and the chair sixty thou- collaborating and well-liked photographers, of graduate studies in the geogra- sand people with a group and captures the Zeitgeist of phy department of the University in less than a of elders, sto- rock during the 1960s and ’70s. of Hawaii-Manoa in Honolulu. year. Now author William rytellers, and Boyd passed away in 1991, leav- ■■ In addi- Summers ’61, PhD’67, MD’67 knowledge- ing behind nearly thirty thousand tion to host- has examined the actions and keepers, images; some of these have been ing a weekly interactions of the multinational Christopher Teuton MA’95, discovered only recently and are podcast physicians, politicians, and resi- PhD’03 has recorded the first included in the book. A lifelong with chef dents who responded to it — and collection of interwoven stories, musician, Schwartz is also a Andrew Zim- the lessons they provide for our conversations, and teachings music historian and the archive mern of the own age — in The Great Man- about Western Cherokee life, director for the Chuck Boyd Travel Chan- churian Plague of 1910–1911: beliefs, and the art of sharing oral Photo Collection in Santa Monica, nel series The Geopolitics of an Epidemic history in more than forty years: California. His first book was Bizarre Foods, Molly Mogren Disease (Yale University Press). Cherokee Stories of the Turtle The Rock & Roll Alphabet. ’05 has also co-written three Summers is a professor of the Island Liars’ Club (University ■■ Anyone who knows a family books with him. Their latest is history of science and medicine, of North Carolina Press). One in which a child — and therefore Andrew Zimmern’s Field Guide molecular biophysics and bio- reviewer called it “easily one of his or her parents — are living to Exceptionally Weird, Wild, chemistry, and therapeutic radi- the most important books on the with diabetes will relate to Linda & Wonderful Foods (Feiwel & ology at Yale University in New Cherokee worldview and tradition Rupnow Buzogany ’88, MS’93’s Friends), which is aimed at Haven, Connecticut. He’s taught ever written.” Teuton is an associ- The Superman Years: The kids but will please grown-ups, at Yale since 1968 and says he’s ate professor of American Studies Emotional Life of a Parent too. Mogren is the director of “still excited to be in the class- at the University of North Carolina Caring for a Child with Type communications at Food Works room and has no plans to retire.” at Chapel Hill. 1 Diabetes (CreateSpace). The in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. ■■ In The ■■ “Reha- Littleton, Colorado, author is a ■■ When Making of bilitating the psychotherapist and psychol- Susan Black Detroit lowly worm ogy professor who recounts her Stuntzner in the Age of into a power- family’s early experiences with PhD’07 Henry Ford ful aesthetic this daunting disease and offers injured her (University of trope, Janelle ways to cope with the long-term spine at age North Carolina Schwartz emotional and physical burdens. nineteen, Press), Beth [MA’01, One reviewer writes, “Finally, a there was little Tompkins PhD’08] book about what happens for the information Tiller Bates proposes a parent who is trying to keep her available to ’71 writes that in the 1920s, Henry new framework for understanding child alive.” her on how to adapt. Now her Ford hired thousands of African- such a strangely animate nature,” first book, Living with a Disabil- American men to fill jobs that says the University of Minnesota ity: Finding Peace amidst the initially seemed to offer them a Press about Schwartz’s new Hello, bibliophiles! You’ll find the rest of our Storm (Counseling Association of chance at greater economic secu- book, Worm Work: Recasting new-book news at India), fills that void so well that rity. When the workers came to Romanticism. In short, it exam- onwisconsin.uwalumni.com. it’s being adopted as a textbook. see that Ford’s anti-union stance ines the worm as an archetypal

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SPRING 2013 Rowing changed my life, how I thought I could live it, and what I Rowing changed my life, how I thought I could live it, and what I When ice took our lake captive, we transformed the boathouse intoWhen ice took our lake captive, we transformed at and oppressive Rowing was all consuming and obsessive — has led me to the Rhine River in Since my graduation, rowing fellow rower came from rowing My most important lesson from build endurance. I used that phrase to trick my mind into thinking that that out of the gate each time — that I was never so tired I was fresh do another piece. That mindset has served me well in all I couldn’t it with people every chance I get. aspects of my life, and I share thought I could do with it. And all because I am tall and had learned to swim. Charil Reis ’95 awakens every day to a captivating view of Wisconsin. Crescent Lake in Rhinelander, silhouette of the rower in front of me, I just closed my eyes and trusted in front silhouette of the rower that we’d pull ourselves forward. up winds that broke our winter palace. When spring storms unleashed unveiling. And when we we watched the water’s the ice-lined shores, white, and red finally issued our first race uniforms, bearing bold were I was awestruck with pride. demonstrate an innate and they together, of rowers times. Get a group soon feels excluded. These row to connect. Anyone who doesn’t desire they validate the to the rower: lifegiving are conversations, however, spent in a boathours, weeks, months, or even years and decades for the rower? Rewarding Conceited? Most definitely. going backward. Unquestionably. Pettit Lake, count Philadelphia, Idaho’s upstate New York, Germany, and other sports, and a coaching positions for rowing less races, three network of like-minded people. Rowing has given me confidence that I else. achieve or find anywhere couldn’t training. involved in pre-Olympics Biz Smith in 2000, when we were can always her best advice, she said, “You When I asked her to share do to to a race simulation that crews do another piece” — referring

be there. I was right. The be there. would

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When she warned hands, I believed — us that we’d get blistered It wasn’t always so glamorous. At the fall recruiting meeting, when At the fall recruiting always so glamorous. It wasn’t Because I row. Even now, nearly eighteen years after graduation, my waking Even now, I never think about my time at Wisconsin without thinking aboutI never think about my time at Wisconsin without “Where do I sign?” was my spontaneous response. And just like And just do I sign?” was my spontaneous response. “Where

to lower myself and my aching muscles. When I could only see a and sometimes the blisters covered half of my palms. When it came and sometimes the blisters covered time to make team cuts, I was thankful to be five feet ten. When we told to run stadiums, we did, and, for the next week, I used a were stall for the disabled, so I could use the steel handrails bathroom twenty of us who survived paid a great price, but we came away with twenty of us who survived paid a great so much more. our UW coach told 120 of us that the person on our left and the person come the end of the spring season, be there on our right wouldn’t I I also believed that I believed her. are my audience. I’m transported into a world where I command what my audience. I’m transported into a world where are of the day. happens for the rest and I’ve overslept, I grimace about a wasted opportunity, and I plot and I’ve overslept, I grimace about a wasted opportunity, to school, or in after sending my daughter off how to get in a row between meetings at work and emails that beg for answers. If I’m lucky eagles I own the lake, and the loons and enough to have awoken early, family away from home, and that’s what I needed. home, and that’s family away from [like] a mirror, thought is, “What does the water look like today?” If it’s on State Street, the football games, walking up and down Bascom Hill, the football games, walking up and on State Street, life, and climbing stairsattending classes, eating in the cafeterias, dorm of those images comes back every one Hise — but somehow, in Van team became my superimposed. The to me with some vision of rowing of my life as a student, other facets to remember difficult It’s rowing. the good times remember as I was so immersed in the sport. I strive to “You’re tall; you look strong. Can you swim?” look strong. tall; you “You’re suddenly changed thethat, a question asked during college orientation trajectory of my life. By Charil Reis ’95 Wisconsin: Where I Row Where Wisconsin: & 64 ON WISCONSIN Public Opening Events April 5th - Student Energy Career Fair - Innovation to Application: An Energy Symposium - Wisconsin Energy Institute We’re Moving Forward in Energy. Building Dedication

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