College Magazine | Summer 2013

Socially Connected The business of putting new media to work

Recommended Reading Irresistible summer books, professor-approved Reflecting the mission of the college, St. Norbert College Magazine links the institution’s past and present by Contents chronicling its academic, cultural, spiritual and co-curricular life. ST. NORBERT COLLEGE MAGAZINE

In Print Online Vol. 45, No. 2, Summer 2013 A sampling of related content available at snc.edu/magazine. Cover Story

Page 8 Page 14 In living color: Prospective students meet “These days, it takes almost as much the St. Norbert college experience, 2013-style work to reach Devil’s Island as it did A Knight’s Tale (page 6), in this fast-paced video. for France’s most notorious prisoner “Norby is all over the place in my to gain freedom from it.” – Tom world,” says Nick Patton ’03 In retrospect: A look back over the careers Conner (Modern Languages and (Communications). of St. Norbert’s eight living alumni generals Literatures) The illustrator’s (page 6). new children’s book features a In pictures: Commencement 2013; a proud charming story day (Page 9). of vocational Page 22 questing – and In some detail: John Gordon (Art) and the Faculty members share their current it all takes place iconic Green Bay Packers “G”(page 10): reading – a selection that includes a right here at a St. Norbert story from start to finish. few surprise topics among interests St. Norbert. more closely related to their individual fields of study. In season: Seems that, as soon as May arrives, it’s time to don, in turn: flip-flops and Page 16 shorts (for the arrival of spring); a studious air (for finals week); and a winning attitude (for Socially Connected campus golf and more). Our photographers were there to capture it all (page 11). Page 29 Social media has come of age. Once The flamboyant cuttlefish, a rare reserved for after-hours use, it’s now a In prospect: Bridget Krage O’Connor ’93 and spectacular species, is making a legitimate professional tool. The field reflects on the lay of the land in higher comeback in aquariums around the itself offers a maturing career path, and many St. Norbert alums are among those education in 2013, and the challenges ahead world, thanks to the skill of Monterey (page 13). Bay’s Bret Grasse ’08. engaged in the business of putting new media to work. Page 20 In touch: Marketing maven Dana Vanden On our cover: St. Norbert itself is Heuvel ’99 (page 16) considers the “mobile- recognized as a frontrunner in its The Theology of Hospitality social generation” and the way we buy now. creative use of emerging communication Departments tools. You can read more, from the A capstone course challenged four seniors to college’s own social media specialist, on marry the Gospel message of hospitality with In conversation & song: Gerard Edery, 4 President’s Message page 19. practical concerns facing cities like Green a specialist in the music of the Sephardic Bay: a place where God’s poor sometimes Jews worldwide, is a master musician himself. 5 News of St. Norbert overflow available provision and those with 25 News of Alumni no homes occasionally seek shelter amid our own college community. Keep an eye open throughout this edition 30 Connection snc.edu/magazine for more links to content on the web. Follow us on your favorite social media channel, too. Just search for St. Norbert College. In My Words / President Tom Kunkel News OF ST. NORBERT COLLEGE

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Noted in the margins The move is on Cranes on When you empty out a science building, campus One of the few downsides of my job is the serious you can expect some crimp it puts into recreational reading. The lengthy unusual challenges. onstruction barriers, heavy treatises I routinely peruse about “Is College Worth Among the items machinery and piles of building It?” or the rise of massive online courses, while Facilities staff were materials in the parking certainly important, are not exactly what you would charged with removing: Clot are generally regarded less as call pleasurable. inconveniences and more as indicators When my schedule does open up a bit, I try to • A stuffed water of good health on a college campus. Joseph Mitchell 1908-96 buffalo, along with a sneak in a book or two from my swelling wish-list With cranes to the east of it and cranes of titles. (As you’ll see in “The Word on Summer flock of stuffed avian

to the west, evidently the prognosis at NEWS companions. Tom Kunkel Reads,” page 22, apparently so do many of my SNC would enter the picture. As it happens, though, Joe St. Norbert is a fine one. colleagues.) Over last winter’s midterm break, for • Rocks – property Mitchell had what one might call a very Norbertine of the geology Most visible from the street is the instance, I devoured two books by Hilary Mantel, outlook on life and people. His subjects were conversion of the former St. John’s “An excavator of lost “Wolf Hall” and “Bring Up the Bodies” – delicious department. Church building into the Cassandra OF ST. NORBERT souls and eccentric neither glamorous nor rich. On the contrary, they • A 1,200-pound fictional accounts of the marital machinations of Voss Center, which comes into being as visionaries, [Joseph were marked by their flaws, often self-inflicted optical table, loaded the money. I think when we put up a Work continues on Henry VIII. I anxiously await her impending third the result of one of the largest-ever gift the largest single Mitchell’s] genius lay foibles, and bad luck – in a word, their humanity. with sensitive building, we get a lot for our dollar.” and final volume. Who will keep their heads? construction project partly in a natural Yet for all that, they prevailed. And Joe related their research-grade totals for gender programming in higher Other construction on campus may With summer, I typically would be cadging some optical elements. ever undertaken ability to connect with stories with empathy, great humor, and not a little education. This building is destined to be be less conspicuous but demonstrates additional reading time from around our planning • Donor plaques – at St. Norbert. The those living on the wisdom. One of his best-known portraits was of a the new home for the Women’s Center, a similar approach to stewardship. Gehl-Mulva Science for fall semester. But – with one notable exeption each one carefully margins of society.” bearded circus performer named Lady Olga, who the Men’s Initiative, and the women’s and Remodeling in Cofrin earlier this Center takes shape (see page 14) – not this year. unscrewed from its – Erin Overbey, writing worked the sideshows all her life. Joe closed the gender studies discipline. semester helped bring most of the staff under the steeple of You see, I’ve been busy – finishing my own book. spot and placed in Old St. Joe’s: fitting in The New Yorker story by quizzing Olga about what it was like to be Meanwhile, across the academic in the new information technology For longer than I care to admit, I’ve been working the keeping of Nancy guardian for a project heart of campus, the largest project ever services division under one roof. And on a biography of an iconic figure in American considered a freak. But she would have none of it. Malaczewski (Donor that will further undertaken by the college is under way this summer sees the finishing of the letters, Joseph Mitchell. Mitchell, who died in 1996, “If the truth was known,” she tells him, “we’re all Relations). an educational as JMS undergoes its transformation into hitherto unoccupied lower level of mission based on was a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine for freaks together.” • An herbarium Why do educators – even college presidents – assembled by one of the 150,000-square-foot Gehl-Mulva the Mulva Library into a studio-style three venerable most of his life, and from the Thirties through the Science Center. Ground was officially traditions – Catholic, write books and do research? Well, we think it’s the college’s earliest learning environment. mid-Sixties he turned out some of the most indelible broken May 10. This 27-month project Norbertine, liberal imperative for creative people to stay creative. This biologists, the Rev. “The space is designed to meet portraits in the nonfiction canon. If you love to read will be completed in phases, with the arts. keeps our faculty’s outlook in their disciplines fresh, Anselm Keefe, the need students have expressed for but have never encountered the Greenwich Village first phase seeing additions to both the and it helps ensure that their teaching is as current O.Praem., Class of space to spread out with computers, gadfly Joe Gould, or Mazie the Bowery ticket-taker, 1916. east and west ends of the building. as possible. information, and projects – whether or cemetery-tender George Hunter, there is a void • A TV studio in its Space for science is expensive, with Besides, the best teaching is always by example, individually or in small clusters,” in your life waiting to be filled. entirety. its special requirements for services explains (Library). They’ll is it not? Kristin Vogel I got to know Joe in person 20 years ago, when I • Close to 20 like ventilation, explains John Barnes find comfortable, dynamic space that So I have spent my summer toiling to get a final was working on another biography – this one about refrigerators. (Facilities). So one of the focuses of the supports academic curiosities, engaged manuscript to my publisher by Labor Day. And with the man who founded The New Yorker, Harold Science is cool! transformation is the removal of office minds and understanding of how to a little luck, by next summer I’ll again be doing more Ross. Ross hired Mitchell as a staff writer in 1938, space from the “scientific core” of the harness the power of information.” Plans and they were close. Joe could not have been more reading – and less typing! building to its new ancillary spaces. at snc.edu/go/studio give a sense of the helpful to me, and several books later, when I was “It’s going to be a nice building space, which will also serve as the new settling on my next project, I hit on the idea of You can watch Kunkel in conversation with David when it’s done,” says Barnes. “It’s really home of the college’s TV studio – an profiling Joe himself. Remnick and New Yorker staffers about Joseph a refocus on science in the existing amenity available to students as one This was, of course, long before St. Norbert Mitchell’s New York at snc.edu/go/newyorker. building. One of the things I’m proud more option for disseminating the results of is, we build a lot of building for of their work.

4 St. Norbert College Magazine | Summer 2013 snc.edu/magazine 5 Noted / Contributing to Their Field

Seen Work by Brandon Bauer (Art) was included in the “Celebrate People’s History” poster exhibition at the Irregular Rhythm Virtually there Asylum Gallery in Tokyo, Japan, and in the “Guns vs. Butter” exhibition at the Future Tenant Gallery in Pittsburgh, Pa. The college search can challenge A piece by Katie Killian ’13, “Sticky Fingered Fellows,” prospective students and their parents has won a gold ADDY and Student-Judge’s Choice Award logistically and financially. To ease at the district level of the American Advertising Federation’s the process, the admission office is annual competition. The awards, in one of the world’s largest embracing technology that brings them advertising contests, recognize excellence in design and to campus virtually. advertising. Killian competed against entries from Wisconsin, Take Info Knights, online information Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota. sessions that Jim Stamatakos (Admissions) offers as an alternative to high school visits. In his experience, Booked Epistemology” encountered on ranking officer, those daytime meetings frequently Newly published in “A Companion this trip – not only accepted an excluded parents, who often have by Bob Kramer to Buddhist in the humble honorary degree questions of their own. (History), The Philosophy” leader of the on behalf of St. Norbert’s eight Stamatakos holds Info Knights in Historical Dictionary (Wiley Blackwell church worldwide, Publishers); by but in each other surviving alumni the evening via Google Plus’ webcam- of the Sudan, 4th Michael Lovano on the trip and who have earned enabled Hangout, which lets him edition (Scarecrow Press); by Blake (History), a chapter in the abbots the rank of general facilitate real-time conversations with up Henson (Music) on “Rome: A Story and priors that in the United States to nine families at once. The format saves with Gerald Custer, of Conflict” in The welcomed us into military. Along with these families and the college time and “The Composer’s Oxford Handbook their communities, Campbell, the list money spent traveling. Craft: A Practical of Warfare in the was moving.” includes Maj. Gen. Virtual college fairs hold similar Guide for Students Classical World While in the Raphael Hallada savings potential. International and Teachers” (Oxford University Vatican, the ’58, Maj. Gen. James “Jay” Lison recruitment officerMichelle Flood (GIA Publications); Press). group was also Jr. ’42, Maj. Gen. OF ST. NORBERT OF ST. (Admissions) and her colleagues by Wolfgang received by the William O’Leksy recently participated in such a fair Grassl (Business Blessed abbot general of Administration), the Norbertine ’54, Brig. Gen. on the CollegeWeekLive website. St. Norbert faculty “Property,” a order, the Most John Hanley ’79, and staff on this For three hours, St. Norbert volume in the Rev. Thomas Brig. Gen. Francis NEWS year’s study tour of admissions officers fielded 225 live Christian Social Handgrätinger, Linsmeier ’50, video inquiries from all over the world. Thought Series Norbertine abbeys O.Praem. Brig. Gen. Bruce Their one-day “virtual booth” was part (Acton Institute); in Europe were able Miketinac ’63 to attend a general and Brig. Gen. of a three-week event promoted by by Raechelle Appointed Clemmons audience with Pope Carl Newhouse EducationUSA, an arm of the U.S. State Laura Neary (Information Francis I when in ’55. Through its Department. More than 180 institutions (English) is Technology Vatican City. Shaun Reserve Army of higher education participated. serving as the Services), Johnson (Campus Officer Training “Where students are looking is really new director of “Classroom Ministry) logged the Corps (ROTC) web-based,” Flood says. By meeting them the Writing Center. Technologies: experience in the program, the Krissy Lukens ’92 online, she can connect with prospective Upgrading travel blog, “Where college has (Education) has students from Afghanistan to Liberia – Classroom Norbert Is, There graduated a total been appointed places her recruiting trips might never Technology to Too Is Augustine.” of 12 officers who as director of take her. Support Today’s He wrote: “The have attained the Teaching atmosphere was instructional rank of general. Prospective students meet the St. and Learning absolutely jolted technology. Norbert experience, 2013-style, in this Approaches” with the feeling of A look at fast-paced video. snc.edu/magazine Honored (CDW); by the Spirit moving the careers of John Holder in our hearts At Commencement St. Norbert’s eight (Philosophy), and the hearts of 2013, Gen. Bill living alumni “A Survey of all present. The Campbell ’62, the generals. snc.edu/ Early Buddhist holiness that we college’s highest- magazine

6 St. Norbert College Magazine | Summer 2013 Treasure / Carved by Hands Unknown

William Hyland Director, Center for Norbertine Studies

There is a power in wood that has always attracted me. Whether in the solidity of a door or the polished elegance of an ancient choir stall or pew, beautiful wood has always drawn me into its rich embrace. I first saw this wooden statue of Norbert – carved more than 200 years ago and based on a still-extant 17th-century original in a German abbey choir stall – in the then Todd Wehr Library. It sat there, perched somewhat forlornly out of place near the reference area, hardly noticed by the busy passersby. I always thought it beautiful. When the nascent Center for Norbertine Studies was given a space on the second floor of the library, I requested that the statue be moved there. As plans were realized for a large and lovely NEWS space for the center in the new library, I knew that this statue would finally have the dwelling place it so richly deserved. Former college curator

Donald Taylor cleaned, polished and repaired the OF ST. NORBERT more fragile parts. Facilities staff offered creative help, too, so that the wooden statue of our patron saint now stands protected but highly visible in the center’s reading room. There, Norbert greets every visitor with calm gaze. Beams of sunlight illuminate the gentle nuances of the wood, the monstrance and archbishop’s cross held aloft by delicate hands. In the saint’s wonderfully expressive countenance, we grasp the sadness that his work as a peacemaker is never done; in the Eucharist and cross he holds, we understand his belief about the source of true and lasting peace. I never have been able to find out the name of the person who carved this statue, but I am grateful to him or her, and the others who have lovingly cared for it and passed it down to be enjoyed by generations present and still to come, in this lovely place. Like the Norbertine heritage itself, born and cultivated in Europe and transplanted to this fertile land, the statue provides continuity with the past and vision, looking to the future.

As William Hyland, founding director of the college’s Center for Norbertine Studies, departs St. Norbert to teach church history at Scotland’s University of St. Andrews, he says he will cherish his memories of his wonderful friends and colleagues in De Pere. He takes with him lessons gleaned from the college’s patron saint – peace, communio and the mysteries of faith.

snc.edu/magazine 7 Personally Speaking / Tom Conner Exile in a dubious paradise ne year ago I was standing on the beach in Kourou, more pleasant than elsewhere in French Guiana, thanks French Guiana, across from the base of the Troisième to the gentle trade winds that helped reduce the presence Régiment Étranger d’Infanterie (Foreign Legion), of infectious diseases and improved prisoners’ chances of Owhere I was staying courtesy of an old college chum. The survival. The strong sunlight enhances the natural colors of sun was setting but it was still possible to make out the the islands: the overpowering green foliage, the mighty blue silhouette of the Salvation Islands, 15 nautical miles off the ocean, the black volcanic rock. The palm and coconut trees South American coast. I had made the nine-hour flight from add an exotic touch, and breathtaking views of the water do Paris, where I was spending my sabbatical, to visit the most their part, too, to create an idyllic ambiance. notorious of these former penal colonies: Devil’s Island. By 1948, the warders’ mess on the neighboring Île Royale This was an emotional moment had been transformed into an inn. Today this facility boasts for me. The island where I now stood several dozen air-conditioned rooms for less than 100 euros was once the solitary prison-in-exile a night. The camp church, decorated by a former inmate- of Capt. Alfred Dreyfus who, in 1894, cum-artist, has also been restored and attracts couples from was falsely convicted of high treason. metropolitan France. Visitors can relax on the patio, enjoy an A project of my own that had begun apéritif and watch children at play where the guillotine once as a chapter in a two-volume tome on stood – its cement supports in the ground still firmly in place. committed French intellectuals had The position of head executioner was much sought after by become a book in its own right, dealing inmates, and small wonder: he did not have to work, lived in Tom Conner with the officer’s struggle for justice his own quarters, and received the princely sum of 100 francs in an affair that shook all of France. per head. One famous executioner fancied himself a poet, and For more than a decade, friends and foes of the unfortunate excerpts from his oeuvre are available in the hotel bookshop. Dreyfus did battle before justice finally prevailed. In 1899, However, poetry could not save this sensitive brute from the Dreyfus received an official pardon but was not rehabilitated guillotine, and one day he, too, was sentenced to death and until 1906. quickly dispatched by a newly appointed bourreau. OF ST. NORBERT OF ST. Devil’s Island is the smallest of the three volcanic islands The business card of my boat rental company eloquently that make up the Salvation Islands and has an area of only proclaims: “What yesterday was Hell … today is a paradise.” 34.6 acres. When France established the Kourou Space Center I came and I saw, but part of me felt ashamed that I, too, had in French Guiana during the 1960s and sent the Foreign let myself be carried away by the mystique of the place. NEWS Legion to guard it, the fortunes of the outpost suddenly At a certain point during my two-day odyssey in the improved. The government took over Devil’s Island and, in footsteps of Captain Dreyfus, I felt saturated and started to the process of installing remote cameras to monitor rocket question the charm of vacationing in a former penal colony. flight paths, someone also decided to restore Dreyfus’s cabin. I saw little effort made to celebrate the life of a significant The island has since been closed to ordinary tourists but figure in French history who deserves to be remembered as visitors who pass by at sea can catch a glimpse of this forlorn both a hero and a martyr. The natural beauty of the islands hut. There is nothing much else to see. Dreyfus’s “bench” is is striking, but real people lived and, more often than not, still there, though: some rough stones, 100 feet or so above died here, in horrible circumstances. At what point does the the majestic sea below, that the prisoner had assembled into penchant for the bizarre and outlandish in “theme tourism” a makeshift seat. There, he was allowed to while away his become obscene? I realize that the whole world cannot time, dreaming of faraway France. become a museum to past injustices. Preserving the horrors Naturally, rumors abound about the true purpose of the of the past should be for the primary purpose of educating government installations on this minuscule island and include future generations, but is not incompatible with responsible the preposterous theory that medical experiments are being tourism. conducted on monkeys. When I visited Devil’s Island, I was reminded of James Bond in “Dr. No.” Imagine swimming there Tom Conner, professor of modern languages and literatures, was born and being greeted by Ursula Andress! Instead I arrived with a and raised in Sweden but educated in France and in the United States. He burly légionnaire escort in khaki shorts who made sure I did joined the St. Norbert faculty in 1987. His latest book, “The Dreyfus Affair not take any pictures. and the Rise of the French Intellectual, 1898-1914,” will be published by The climate in the Salvation Islands actually is much McFarland this fall.

8 St. Norbert College Magazine | Summer 2013 A Moment in Time / Commencement 2013 NEWS OF ST. NORBERT

Proud! As families gather in Schuldes to celebrate the four-year achievement of their own particular undergrad, the excitement is palpable. It’s a day to congregate, celebrate, commemorate. And, this year, for the first time, the on-campus guests were joined by a virtual audience – friends and family members around the world who tuned in to watch via live streaming video.

The Commencement 2013 experience, in pictures. snc.edu/magazine

snc.edu/magazine 9 Noted / Another Banner Year for the Knights All business, on and off the diamond InfielderTravis Mason ’14 has been named to the first team of the Capital One NCAA Division III Baseball Academic All-America team. Mason, who holds a perfect 4.0 grade point average with a major in business administration, finished the 2013 The St. Norbert women celebrate their first O’Brien Cup championship. Kathy M. Helgeson/UW-River Falls Communications season with a .327 batting average while hitting four he Green Knights notched the second-most Green Knights scored on a breakaway goal by home runs with 36 wins in school history this year, winning Karissa Anderson ’14 in overtime for a thrilling runs batted in. nearly 65 percent of their contests and 3-2 win for their first O’Brien Cup championship. Trecording a 192-103-9 overall record. St. Norbert then fell to No. 1-ranked Plattsburgh On fire in Chicago 2012-13 saw St. Norbert send five teams to the State University 5-2 in the quarterfinals of the St. Norbert College NCAA Division III Tournament. A total of 16 of NCAA Division III Tournament. will open its 2013 St. Norbert’s 20 sports finished in the top three of Men’s golf also won their first Midwest football season the Midwest Conference and Northern Collegiate Conference title and advanced to the NCAA against John Hockey Association standings. No team finished Division III Championship in May in Florida, Carroll University at Toyota Park in the lower than fifth in conference standings. finishing in a tie for 34th place. St. Norbert also Chicago suburb of St. Norbert also claimed this year’s Midwest saw its first Midwest Conference individual Bridgeview, Ill. Conference men’s all-sports trophy for the second champion when Nic Vrubley ’15 topped the 45- OF ST. NORBERT OF ST. Toyota Park time in school history. The Green Knights totaled man field. is a $98 million, 85.5 points to nip Grinnell College by one point. Men’s ice hockey totaled a 23-6-1 record and 20,000-seat facility St. Norbert won championships in football, claimed its 11th NCHA Peters Cup Playoffs that opened in 2006 basketball and golf, and placed second in indoor championship. The Green Knights fell 3-1 in with Major League NEWS track, outdoor track and baseball. St. Norbert’s the quarterfinals of the NCAA Division III Soccer’s Chicago women’s teams posted 82 points, four points shy Tournament to eventual national champion UW- Fire as the primary tenant. The Sept. of Monmouth College, to finish second in the Eau Claire. 7 game marks the women’s all-sports trophy race. The Green Knights Men’s basketball fashioned a 20-6 record second consecutive did not claim a conference title but finished second and won the Midwest Conference title for the year St. Norbert will in volleyball, cross country, soccer and indoor third time in four years, and also won the MWC meet John Carroll track. Tournament in front of exuberant crowds at to open the season. Two teams – women’s ice hockey and men’s Schuldes Sports Center. The Green Knights The Blue Streaks golf – advanced to their respective NCAA Division dropped a heartbreaking 59-58 decision to defeated the Green III tournaments for the first time. Women’s ice Wheaton College in the first round of the NCAA Knights 40-3 last hockey was sitting with a 5-8-2 record entering Division III Tournament. Aug. 31 in Dublin, play on Jan. 18, but got red-hot down the stretch, Football claimed a share of its 14th Midwest Ireland. winning 13 of their next 14 games. St. Norbert Conference title with a 20-10 win over Lake Forest won both games in an NCHA O’Brien Cup College in the last game of the regular season, and John Gordon Playoffs quarterfinal series against UW-Superior was ousted from the first round of the (Art) and the by one goal each, and then tipped the College of NCAA Division III Playoffs by the University of iconic Packers “G”: St. Scholastica 2-1 in a semifinal game. St. Norbert St. Thomas. a St. Norbert story from trailed UW-River Falls 2-0 with two minutes Overall, St. Norbert has won at least 180 games start to finish.snc. remaining in regulation time before scoring a in six of the last seven years, with a school-record edu/magazine pair of extra-attacker goals to force overtime. The 202 wins in 2009-10.

10 St. Norbert College Magazine | Summer 2013 Gallery / Finals Week

➊ Sunny side Quiet corners, comfortable study spots: The Mulva Library is the place to be any time, day or night, during the rigors of finals week.

➋ Study break Spring came late to De Pere this year, so Finals Week coincided with the first really summery days on ➊ campus. Never mind: fresh air and exercise also stimulate the brain! NEWS

➌ Pretty in pink With the rest of Creation showing just what it’s capable OF ST. NORBERT of, there’s plenty of inspiration to be found here for the studious, as well.

➍ Group think Thank goodness for friends. Everything tends to go better when several fine minds work together.

➎ Comfort first Whatever your position on your subject, you’ll find the individual study habits that work ➋ ➌ best for you.

For more glimpses of finals week, fine weather on campus and end-of-semester fun, visit our online photo galleries. snc. edu/magazine ➍ ➎

snc.edu/magazine 11 Norbertine Now / A Continuing Presence here on campus

The current community of religious on campus The Rev. Mike Weber, O.Praem. (Religious Studies) and Sister Laura Zelten, O.S.F., ’79 (Parish) also includes Norbertine fathers John Bostwick ’68 (Religious Studies), Worlds of experience back on campus Jay Fostner ’84 lthough the Rev. Mike Weber, O.Praem. oak leaf clusters for meritorious service before (Mission & Student (Religious Studies) and Sister Laura retiring in 2011 as a lieutenant colonel, after 23 Affairs), Jim (Parish) took different years of service. Neilson ’88 (Art) Zelten, O.S.F., ’79 and alumni chaplain Apaths to St. Norbert College, their lives have In class he says he can draw from his military Rowland De Peaux some parallels. Both have served in the United or clinical experiences to amplify certain concepts. ’48. Joining them States and abroad: Weber, as a teacher, campus “As a general rule, the more experiences one has this summer will minister, hospital chaplain and Air Force chaplain, in a variety of situations, I think the better teacher be Andrew Ciferni and Zelten as a teacher, campus minister and you become.” ’64. Residents missionary in Nicaragua. Zelten, a native of De Pere, serves with the of the priory Both draw on their experiences for their current Revs. John Tourangeau, O.Praem., ’81, pastor, and OF ST. NORBERT OF ST. include Norbertine work, while providing the witness of a religious Sal Cuccia, O.Praem., ’63, associate pastor. She professors emeritus presence on campus. Weber will teach the focuses on parish council, social justice, outreach Al McBride ’50, Gery Meehan psychology of religion and spirituality this summer and caring for elderly parishioners – active and for the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program. retired faculty and staff, and their families. Zelten NEWS ’57 and Brendan McKeough ’47, Zelten is a part-time pastoral associate at estimates she spends 5 percent of her time visiting who share their St. Norbert College Parish, and is also director hospitals and nursing homes, and helping families campus home with of vocations for her community. during and after funerals. their confreres Ken Weber, a Norbertine for more than 40 years, She sees her role “as being a welcoming, caring DeGroot ’58, Brian taught psychology and was a campus minister at and nurturing person” who listens to people’s Prunty ’61, Conrad St. Norbert in the late 1970s before deciding “to problems and joys and helps them discern how Kratz ’70, Dane broaden my horizons in a way, putting myself in to grow in their relationship to God. Part of Radecki ’72, Pete situations that would be challenging to me, in that includes using the Spanish from her days in Renard ’64 and Tim Shillcox. experiences that would not be comfortable to me Nicaragua. And she cited the Knitters for Peace initially.” baby blankets given to families at baptisms to First came hospital chaplaincy, where he symbolize the parish community wrapping the learned to minister in an emergency room and family in prayer and love. She says their popularity trauma center. This included assisting victims and shows people long for signs and symbols. families of the cyanide-laced Tylenol poisonings Zelten enjoys the intellectual element, that killed seven people in 1982. opportunities to lead prayers, being a visible Later, service in the military brought with it presence at graduation and around campus, and physical training, rigid structure and the dangers helping young people and staff discern how God of combat. In the Air Force, his service included is calling them. “All these pieces create that whole deployments to Panama, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, sense of communio that is part of the Norbertine Turkey and twice to Afghanistan. He received four tradition.”

12 St. Norbert College Magazine | Summer 2013 Departures / New Chapters Running down a dream Add up all the distance Louis Ayensu-Mensah ’13 has run on the soccer field or doing the 100-meter and 200-meter dash events and it would equal just a fraction of the journey that brought a shy kid from Ghana, Africa, to St. Norbert College. The two-sport athlete began that Jack Williamsen ’60 Cindi Barnett journey nine years ago, when his family Close to a century of of St. Andrews, Scotland; made the trip to New Jersey in the fall combined service that Bridget Krage O’Connor of 2004 so his father could continue his has significantly shaped ’93, the first vice- schooling to become a pastor. the college of today is president of enrollment Ayensu-Mensah, who turned 15 celebrated along with management and years old shortly after getting to the this summer’s crop of communications at United States, struggled with English new beginnings. St. Norbert, who will next and the new surroundings, but adjusted Retiring are advise the president Jack Williamsen on special initiatives quickly. He took up soccer – a sport he NEWS ’60 (Institutional while developing had already experienced because of its Effectiveness), who her own strategic popularity in Ghana. The eighth-grader has seen more than 57 communications was less familiar with another sport he years at the college as consultancy. encountered at his new school: track student, faculty and “Every one of the OF ST. NORBERT and field. “The track coach there asked staff member, having people here have had served as founding a dramatic, positive me to try out to see it,” Ayensu-Mensah programs: “I love being in sports, but says. “I did, and really enjoyed it.” director of both impact on SNC,” it’s secondary to academics and things Graduating with a 4.0 grade point counseling center and says President Tom of that nature. I really appreciate that.” advisement system; . “Mike and average and excelling in sports, Ayensu- Kunkel Ayansu-Mensah was offered a Cindi Barnett (Campus Jack in advancing our Mensah was well-placed to continue on Life), who aligned our academic program; to college. But qualifying for financial scholarship that covered half his tuition, and earned a leadership grant. To save conduct and judicial Cindi, who touched the assistance was a different matter. His affairs practices with lives of so many of our father was in the country on a student on housing, he stayed with the Pliska our mission and worked students – indeed, of all visa, so Ayensu-Mensah did not qualify family. He also drew the attention of diligently to found the of us; Joe in making the for Pell grants, for many scholarships or St. Norbert benefactor Patricia Baer, Women’s Center; Joe college a major player even for in-state tuition rates. an aide and mentor to Louis until her Tullbane (International in international Linda Pliska, a St. Norbert parent death. Eventually Ayansu-Mensah Education), a driving higher education; force in establishing Bill in preserving who knew the family through their received permanent-resident status and St. Norbert as a and promoting our church, arranged for Ayensu-Mensah qualified for the loans and Pell grants leader in international Norbertine heritage; to visit the school. The family has that helped him finish his education. education; Michael and Bridget in doing so maintained its college connections: Ayansu-Mensah graduated in May Marsden (English, much to produce our Pliska’s daughter Gay Pliska ’88 and with a degree in chemistry, a passion Dean Emeritus), who record enrollments and son-in-law Stephen Matyshak live a he discovered during his studies at served as dean 2003- let the wider world know few miles from campus, and Stephen is 10. Moving on are Bill about the special things St. Norbert: “The more I took, the more the son of Stanley Matyshak (English, Hyland (Center for going on here in De I liked it.” Emeritus). Norbertine Studies), who Pere. We have been so “When I came to St. Norbert to visit, This fall he begins his doctoral will be joining his wife fortunate to have them Sabine at the University as colleagues.” I really liked the atmosphere,” Ayensu- studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Mensah says. “Also the international- Institute in Troy, N.Y., assisted by a students recruiting office made me feel fellowship and a full scholarship. It’s Bridget Krage O’Connor ’93 surveys the field of higher ed and identifies very welcome to the place.” He also a move that’s particularly gratifying to topics steering the continuing conversation liked that the school stressed academic the Pliskas: Linda’s husband, Michael, at St. Norbert, too. snc.edu/magazine success along with the athletic is a Rensselaer grad himself.

snc.edu/magazine 13 After a busy day as college mascot, Sir Norby Knight enjoys quiet time with his favorite storyteller, Nick Patton ’03.

A Knight’s By Jeff Kurowski

ometimes artistic inspiration strikes when least expected. the mascot costume and, last year, a Norby plush figure. This In March 2012, Nick Patton ’03 (Communications)Tale summer, “Norby the College Mascot,” written and illustrated by came across a feature story tied to the NCAA basketball Patton, was published by St. Norbert College Press. Stournament. A husband and wife in Missouri were on opposite The story focuses on a very Norbertine idea: finding one’s sides of the first-round matchup between Wisconsin and calling in life. “It provides an opportunity to talk about what Montana, their respective alma maters. The story showcased you want to be when you grow up and how to get there,” says how each had previously written a children’s book about their Patton. “Like Norby, who changes his mind, you are probably school’s mascot – Bucky Badger and Monte the Grizzly. going to change your mind about what you want as you learn Patton immediately thought, “How about a book featuring about different job opportunities, different career paths or Norby?” vocations.” Two years earlier, Norby Knight had made his debut on The book is designed for ages 3 to 8, but Patton included campus. In fact, it was Patton who had developed the mascot elements that will resonate with students and alumni, too. character to embody Green Knight spirit in De Pere. A graphic “When doing the illustrations, you might as well entertain,” designer in the college’s office of communications, he designed he says. “There is a picture of the president’s cabinet in the

14 St. Norbert College Magazine | Summer 2013 ➊ Sketch Pencil sketch is scanned. ➋ Background Reference photos are used to digitally paint the scene.

➌ Characters Images are created on layers separate from the background. ➍ Fine-tuning Digital illustrations can be changed without starting over.

book where Norby is telling them about his ice-cream idea. a knighting ceremony where Norby All the reference photos are from St. Norbert photography. If knights the child. a kid picks this up and thinks it’s him, it’s probably him if he’s “The great thing about doing a book been in one of our photo shoots. That was fun. I live in the like this is the community aspect. photo archive for St. Norbert, so I know that archive very well. There is already an audience that loves Getting reference for this book was very easy.” St. Norbert College. There is already Iconic campus images are found throughout the pages. an audience that loves Norby, so to be They include Main Hall, the Campus Center and the library. able to show St. Norbert and Norby in The book is a highlight of a nine-year journey for Patton, a format like this is exciting.” who in 2004 began pursuing his interest in becoming an Patton is happy to be linked to the author/illustrator. character: “I was able to form the way “The first thing I did was take a storytelling class,” he says. he looks and, with the story, I had the “That taught me how to understand story and story structure. opportunity to form the way he thinks From there, I’ve been working on stories, doing illustrations, Learn more about and some of his character, which was Norby, his book putting together packages, pitching them out and having them ($14.95) and rejected.” fun,” he said. “Norby is all over the place in my world.” the plush toy Patton describes his style as “more of a painter” than a Norby ($12.95) Patton emphasized that the sketch artist. His favorite children’s book illustrator is Loren at snc.edu/go/ Long. His favorite storyteller is Mo Willems. charging knight on horseback will norbybook While Patton created the book, he quickly points out that continue to serve as the primary “it’s Norby’s show.” He hopes the mascot can help promote symbol for Green Knight athletics. the college through appearances at book readings at schools, “Norby is geared to a completely different audience,” he says. libraries and special events, including SNC Day on Sept. 21. “For athletics, that charging knight is their mark. When you “We are going to make a stamp so Norby can put his stamp switch over to more fun, childlike spirit stuff, then Norby is the on the book,” explains Patton, “and, for little kids, we will have character we use.”

snc.edu/magazine 15 ay back in the mid-2000s or integrate Twitter into other marketing “I tell clients that if they’re going to blog, – close to forever ago in strategies. My job now is connecting they have to commit to me that they’ll W Internet years – social channels to create a consistent message write three blog posts per week or do five media sites were often, and too easily, across the web, social media, print, Twitter posts per week. If you don’t do dismissed as time-consuming diversions search engine optimization – wherever that, you’re missing out. If you get your that robbed users of productivity and a customer comes in contact with us.” clients excited, but you’re not providing frustrated organizations. Today, they Two key factors behind the dramatic content on a regular basis, you’re not have evolved into significant business increase in social media usage are mobile doing your fans a service.” tools for everyone from major brands technology and the fact that older users to the kid next door, with real-world are joining the party at a remarkable rate. Millennial generation applications and career paths barely There has been a 60 percent increase in imagined less than a decade ago. mobile phone use in just the past two finds its niche The potential of social media as a years, giving more people increased Like Odabasi, Chris ’08 and Pam legitimate communication tool has access to the Internet and social media. (Ripp) Schmitz ’08 are members become impossible to ignore in the face The fastest-growing demographics for of the age group that helped shape socially of a groundswell of engagement that major social media sites include the 55- social media. Chris now works as an reached 1 billion people worldwide in 64 age group for Twitter and the 45-54 independent contractor focusing on web 2012 and continues to climb. age group for Facebook and Google+. application development. Twitter is his Phenomenally popular sites such social media format of choice to connect as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Strategy powers the with other professionals in his industry. YouTube still claim their share of time “People are posting more professional from the attention span-challenged social media engine things than personal things in my circle. By Mike Dauplaise ’84 typical web surfer, which is good connected I get work from all over the place, and it’s news for those who have learned to Chris Remington ’87 is vice been easier to connect with the people leverage this connectivity for a variety president of client strategy and business I need to on Twitter. If I was looking for of benefits. From generating buzz for development at Trivera Interactive in more full-time work, I’d be more active products, services and entertainment Menomonee Falls, Wis. He equates on LinkedIn, because recruiters to sharing real-time information on an a social media strategy to taking at corporations are scouring that.” endless stream of business topics, social occupation of the second circle on Pam leverages a Facebook business media is supercharging the ability to a target, with the inside bull’s-eye page to help promote The Creamery, a communicate with a target audience consisting of an effective website coffee shop, bakery and catering business while drawing more fans into the fray. powered by attractive keywords, plus she opened Feb. 1 on the outskirts of “Social media no longer stands calls to action to generate leads. De Pere. Twitter and Instagram also are on its own,” says Suzan (Odabasi) “Once you get that done, then you can effective, since hers is a visual product Brinker ’09. “Companies are becoming get into social media and generate some and people love to see pictures of more strategic in thinking about interest,” he says. “The goal is to drive cupcakes. “We have used social media how to integrate social media into an traffic back to the website. But if your almost exclusively for our marketing overarching business strategy.” Brinker, website is less than what the customer so far,” Pam says. “We post a couple a freelance social media consultant expects, you’re shooting yourself in the times per day, letting people know what since her undergraduate years and now foot. We liken it to going to a dinner cupcake flavors we have, promotions e-commerce marketing coordinator for party and shouting, ‘Come buy my stuff!’ such as Cupcake Friday, and gaining Woolrich, a Pennsylvania-based outdoor First you need to interact and listen to customer feedback.” clothing company, became attracted to your market, and then at the appropriate social media when jobs continued to time, start putting your message out evaporate in the journalism career she there.” The word is out on had envisioned. Having a social media strategy is careers in social media “When I graduated from St. Norbert, crucial, Remington notes, because these social media marketing was not interactions impact every aspect of the Adam Van Fossen ’10, in business something people were doing yet,” she customer experience. Doing social media development and strategy at Reverb, says. “At least in the Green Bay area, well also takes a considerable amount of leverages the San Mateo, Calif., nobody knew how to use social media for resources. “It requires a lot of effort, and company’s word-powered technology business, and they didn’t have anyone on companies need to understand this is to help magazines and digital publishers staff to build a Facebook business page another task they’ll have to do,” he says. distribute and share their content to

16 St. Norbert College Magazine | Summer 2013 snc.edu/magazine 17 “Dialog is happening on social media with or without you. Your brand is not your logo; it’s the promise of an experience. You need to engage and be sensitive to that when interacting on social media.” – Chris Remington ’87

the most relevant audiences on mobile an unforeseen career. and Tumblr are becoming increasingly platforms and social media. “I went from using social media popular and useful for brands. They “While it is advantageous to be in a like any normal 20-something college are becoming more popular in general, technology hub like Silicon Valley,” he student to realizing the value it has for which means brands have to learn says, “many non-tech businesses all over your personal brand,” she says. “I also how to serve those audiences on those the country are seeing the value of social learned quickly the power it has as a platforms.” media for marketing and building brand marketing tool. I was shocked to learn It’s a fast-changing career in which awareness. Many companies have great that at Maryland, there were no classes it is crucial to stay nimble. Remington, social media marketing internships for dedicated solely to teaching social media who remembers that he and his peers in recent grads.” best practices or learning about social school didn’t even have computers, says: It was an internship, in fact, that media as it pertains to journalism.” “To be working in an industry that didn’t even exist then is interesting. It illustrates helped bring Brooke Auxier ’10 to Auxier went on to write her why you need to make sure you have the her present position as social media master’s thesis on how social media is skill set to not only get your first job, but coordinator for two networks at being taught in journalism and mass also prepare you for the jobs you’ll have Discovery Communications: TLC and communications programs across the five, 10, 15 years down the road – that Discovery Fit & Health. Like Brinker, country. In her free time, she studied don’t exist yet.” Auxier also hoped a journalism career social media masters and brands on was part of her future when she enrolled social platforms, and took a social media Dana Vanden Heuvel ’99, founder at the University of Maryland College internship at the Travel Channel. of The MarketingSavant Group, says the Park for graduate school. It wasn’t long “Facebook and Twitter are the big highly-connected habits of the “mobile-social” before a fascination with social media two and will be for a while,” Auxier generation are changing the way we buy. drew her into a whole new world – and says. “However, sites like Pinterest, Vine snc.edu/magazine Like, comment, share ... vote he Democratic Party provided a lesson in leveraging “It’s getting to the point where there’s an expectation social media on their way to helping Barack Obama out there that social media will be used and used properly,” T retain the White House in 2012, and the rest of the Crevier says. “We have a Twitter and Facebook account in world took notice. “After Digital Defeat, GOP Puts Its Faith the ITS division, and anytime we have an outage or a server in Facebook Engineer” read the nbcnews.com headline after goes down, we Tweet about it and post on Facebook. People the Republican National Committee recruited the social expect that, and that’s what we do now.” media giant’s former engineering manager Andy Barkett Crevier is finding that his constituents appreciate the as its chief technology officer. Among those reporting to ability to comment on city council actions and air their Barkett during his time at Facebook was May (Rosichan) opinions, even if it often is behind the protection of an Van Fossen ’10. Van Fossen, who supports three directors of anonymous Twitter handle. engineering, joined the company straight from St. Norbert. “It’s a very efficient way to connect with folks,” he She advises others interested in careers in the field, “Be notes. “Next April I will run for re-election, and I will driven, work hard and don’t underestimate the power of rest comfortably knowing they can read about the issues your own social network to help you land in the right place.” because I’ve written about them. I had people tell me they Local politicians also are leveraging the connectivity voted for me because they were able to find information powers of the digital age, and Scott Crevier (Information about me online and they found nothing on my opponent. Technology) makes great use of Twitter in his role on the It’s a different world, whether you like it or not. I can’t De Pere City Council. imagine running for a public office without it.”

18 St. Norbert College Magazine | Summer 2013 St. Norbert joins the conversation By Nina Nolan Rouse ’07 of their brands, and worried that Senior Web and Social Media Specialist potential negative interactions would gain enough traction to derail business. n 2005, I was a 19-year-old sophomore Most businesses were still sitting on the living in Mary Minahan McCormick sidelines, waiting to see how the tools Hall. Busy on my laptop one day, I would evolve. Ireceived an email invitation to join the Having just made the transition from St. Norbert College Facebook network student to young professional, I was from my classmate Micaela Diedrick less convinced that the risk everyone ’07. Confused but curious, I created an was fretting about was truly perilous – institutions monitored and comes in at account and logged in. especially when weighed against the gains the top of all Wisconsin schools.) Who knew then that managing social to be had. Wading slowly, we created The fun part of the job is seeing media for my alma mater would become an institutional presence for the college immediate engagement with our posts. a line in my job description and part of on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. I love seeing the “Likes,” “Shares” and my formal title? It was evident that if we didn’t create retweets. It’s neat to see how sharing a When I first jumped in, Facebook our own presences on these accounts, was little more than a digital yearbook. photo can create such nostalgia in our someone else would create them for us I couldn’t have predicted that I would alums and pride in our current students. and then we would truly lose control. It be involved in the creation of emerging Equally interesting, if more challenging, was also undeniable that social media media strategies for my alma mater; I had is steering multiple efforts across campus could aid us in our day-to-day charge – no sense of the ways in which new social as new entities jump in, each speaking to building relationships with the campus platforms would revolutionize human their own targeted audience. It becomes communication. community, prospective students, our my job to connect with units early in After completing my art major, alumni and others. So it was that we their planning and to help them make plus an internship in the office of began meeting our audiences in the media good decisions about which, if any, where they themselves were increasingly communications at St. Norbert, I was tools might be effective. I’m constantly spending their time. ready to step up to the challenge. Soon reminding the campus that social media On St. Norbert’s new social media after graduation, I excitedly accepted is not a 9-to-5 commitment. It brings platforms, alumni were responding my first job, that of managing the with it an expectation of regular, real-time warmly and the office of admission was college’s electronic communications. It engagement. learning from prospective students didn’t take me long to realize that there We are continually tweaking our that our social media updates were was a very large gap in our electronic strategy to deliver better content through communications strategy. This was 2007, contributing, for them, to a more our current channels on Facebook, and not only Facebook but Twitter and complete picture of the college. What’s Twitter, Pinterest, YouTube and Flickr. YouTube were slowly being embraced by more, local businesses and nonprofits And, we’re always hungry for new and corporations and institutions of higher were turning to us for advice and counsel better ways to tell the St. Norbert College education. on how and where to target their efforts Emerging technologies were opening – additional confirmation that we must story. For this reason, I am careful to stay up direct connections between businesses be doing something right. And, in 2011, abreast of new channels as they emerge to and their constituents. They were StudentAdvisor named St. Norbert see whether we can create value for our also opening up connections among among its Top 100 Social Media Colleges. audiences there, too. consumers themselves. This meant The college appeared among the leaders in that one angry customer could share a a list headed by Harvard, Johns Hopkins, If you haven’t already, find us, friend negative perception or experience for the United States Military Academy and us and/or follow us by accessing our others to see and react to. Companies Carnegie Mellon. (The college currently emerging media accounts at snc.edu/go/ were fearful that they would lose control lands on the list at number 56 out of 6,000 socialmedia.

snc.edu/magazine 19 This winter, the gym in Pennings Activity Center provided overnight shelter to some of Green Bay’s homeless population. Bridget Burke Ravizza (left) engaged Nick Acosta ’13, Andrew Ollmann ’13, Zac Haney ’13 and Katlyn Cashman ’13 in a study of the issues. A theology

By Melanie Radzickiof McManus ’83hospitality

ospitality was a subject Andrew Ollmann ’13 never Katlyn Cashman ’13 was thrilled. Just a few months earlier, really thought too much about. At least not in the she’d been studying abroad in Uganda, a country where way Bridget Burke Ravizza (Religious Studies) hospitality is integral to the culture. Cashman had to learn to was proposing. Sure, he knew all about things like graciously accept the hospitality of her host parents, which being a welcoming dinner host, but he hadn’t really considered included sleeping in the parents’ bed and eating “fancier” Hhospitality through an ethical, theological lens. And that’s food than their 13 children were given. “Their hospitality was exactly what he and three other seniors in Burke Ravizza’s incredibly humbling,” she says, and indeed was such a powerful religious studies capstone course would be studying. experience that she wanted to learn more about the concept.

20 St. Norbert College Magazine | Summer 2013 “We are humbly reminded that as humans we are finite and fragile.” – Katlyn Cashman ’13

Burke Ravizza’s students spent the first part of the semester proper Christian path doesn’t always present itself as practical doing a lot of reading and discussion, focusing particularly or possible. Schmitt says citizens generally want good jobs, to on how hospitality can be applied to various populations – live in a peaceful, pretty neighborhood and to enjoy top-quality populations such as immigrants, those with disabilities and city services, all while paying relatively low taxes. Throw in the homeless. Central to the discussion was the book “Making the problem of homelessness, currently a major issue across Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition” (1999) America, and pair it with alcohol addiction ­– common among by Christine D. Pohl. One of the points Pohl makes in her the homeless – and things get quite complicated. “It was book, Ollmann said, was that people living on the margins important the students saw how hard the city is working on have a better sense of how to be hospitable to one another than all of these issues,” says Schmitt. “We’re the only community the rest of us, because unfortunately, so often they’re treated with homeless shelters in the entire county. We’re making a inhospitably. “That notion, to me, was very intriguing,” he says. bigger effort than any other community. But there are multiple Once the students had solid grounding in the ethical and levels of need out there, coupled with a tremendous amount of theological aspects of hospitality – a core Norbertine value, underlying issues. It’s a continuous process.” incidentally – their real work began. The group was assigned Cushman, who has a double minor in peace and justice a research project on the efforts St. John the Evangelist Parish and sociology, admitted she was pretty biased going into the was making to practice hospitality in Green Bay. Since 2007, project, immediately feeling an affinity with the homeless and the Catholic parish has undertaken the operation of an their need for a shelter: “By looking at what the Church and emergency homeless shelter on its grounds downtown. It opens Scripture teach us about hospitality,” she wrote in her final six months of the year, from Nov. 1 through April 30, so no one paper, “it is clear what our response should be to the homeless has to spend a night out in the potentially life-threatening cold. as Christians. Jesus’ acts … get to the heart of recognizing Unlike Green Bay’s other two homeless shelters, at St. John’s the “other” and being hospitable to them. Repeatedly Jesus everyone is welcome, even if they’re inebriated or on drugs, as dined with dishonorable people. He broke down the social long as they’re not a threat to others or themselves. Currently, boundaries that were in place to ignore and marginalize these the shelter is seeking to expand the number of people it serves, vulnerable people. …By recognizing these individuals and a move that is controversial and has fostered opposition from seeing them as humans instead of just someone struggling with some citizens and elected officials. homelessness, disabilities and substance abuse issues, we are Under Burke Ravizza’s guidance, the students toured humbly reminded that as humans we are finite and fragile.” the homeless shelter and met with several key players. But after all of Cushman’s research, study and interviews, They included Deacon Tim Reilly, who was instrumental in she understood how complicated the solution is. The city is establishing the shelter as a corporation of the Diocese of grappling with numerous other important issues in addition to Green Bay, and Green Bay mayor Jim Schmitt ’80. They also homelessness, and has limited resources. “I don’t think this is met with Dan Robinson M.T.S. ’06 (Mission & Student Affairs) an issue of choosing sides so much as thinking creatively about and his wife, Laura, both shelter board members. From these the problem,” she says. “My eyes were opened to the shortage various conversations, the students learned it’s not always easy of low-income housing in Green Bay, and issues of city versus to practice hospitality. county responsibility. We need to look at this differently so we Reilly says he “took a lot of flak” from various city officials can see what the city is responsible for and capable of doing, for stepping in and opening St. John’s when the previous shelter while keeping as many people’s needs in mind as possible.” was in trouble. “The church could have done nothing, but it Burke Ravizza knew her students wouldn’t find clear- was clear we needed to do something,” he said, noting St. John’s cut answers to practicing hospitality. “We do have a certain has always been focused on taking in the homeless who are responsibility, but we also have to think about limits and ineligible to stay at other shelters, or who have no place to go balances,” she says. because other shelters are full. (In fact, over winter break, the The most critical point for the students to learn – and one college was able to open the doors of Pennings Activity Center Burke Ravizza thinks they did come to understand – is that to house an overflow from St. John’s itself.) The students were hospitality is a call for every Christian, and everyone can use surprised to learn there was resistance to the shelter and its it as a lens to make daily choices. “We need to always look at expansion from some in the community, Reilly says, since they who’s included and who’s excluded, and to figure out how we saw that St. John’s, in a responsible, professional manner, was can be more inclusive,” she said. “We need to recognize the trying to do something positive for their fellow human beings. dignity and humanity of each person so they know they’re But the students also learned that what may seem to be the loved. That was crucial to the ministry of Jesus.”

snc.edu/magazine 21 Vicky Tashjian The Rev. John (History) Bostwick,

Great read in my field O.Praem., ’68 I love Iris Origo’s “War in (Religious Studies) Val D’Orcia: An Italian War Diary, 1943-1944” for Great read in my field the insight it affords into Michael Plekon’s “Saints daily life in rural Tuscany as They Really Are” both during the world-turned- energized me and brought The upside-down time when me to tears. The excitement the Germans and a fascist comes from his opening up domestic government of the notion of holiness to controlled the region. include all sorts of people, Reading this book while not only religious celebrities. traveling in the Val D’Orcia What brought me to tears this past January enriched was the recognition of toxic that experience and led me religion: How institutional David Poister on summer reads to think in unexpected ways religion can become word (Chemistry) about this beautiful valley Bonnie McVey ’82 dysfunctional, an obstacle to and its not always peaceful a persons’ spiritual growth. Great read in my field (Computer Science) It is important that someone, rowse someone’s books, and you browse past. “The Phenomenon of someone who is faithful, can their life. We are what we read! The pile Great read in my field Man” by Pierre Teilhard Next on my nightstand recognize these difficulties. de Chardin. As an of books on someone’s nightstand can tell “The Annotated Turing” by Adina Hoffman and Peter environmental chemist you a lot about who they are, what they believe Charles Petzold. From the B Cole’s “Sacred Trash: The Next on my nightstand working at a Catholic back cover: “Before digital and where their passions lie. Lost and Found World of the When I am not reading computers ever existed, college, I’ve become Books not only reveal our interests, they also Cairo Geniza.” I am looking spiritual or theological Alan Turing envisioned particularly intrigued by bring us together – in discussion, in learning forward to reading this as a works, I am likely to be their power and versatility the ideas that form at the follow-up to Janet Soskice’s found with a murder and in understanding. A shared reading ... but also proved what confluence of science and “The Sisters of Sinai: How mystery. “Death in Holy experience can inform our mutual work, inspire computers could never do.” religion. I must admit that Two Lady Adventurers Orders” by P. D. James our collective imaginations and shape our Remarkably, this seminal this philosopher’s writings Discovered the Hidden is a favorite. Set in an perceptions of humanity. paper on computability can be a bit dense for a Gospels.” Both relate Anglo-Catholic seminary in and the imaginary Turing simple-minded scientist What better time than the lazy days of 19th-century discoveries of remote England, it appeals Machine was written in such as myself but this is summer to seek information and inspiration critically important religious to my churchly tastes. The 1936. one of the books that has from a good book? And what better source documents, yet also delight complex plot keeps one had a big impact on my of summer reading recommendations than as compelling real-life tales guessing … no obvious Next on my nightstand synthesis of these two areas. members of our very own faculty – those of exploration, intellectual villain here. And characters “Zen and the Art of discovery and derring-do that are “characters,” who guide us in discussion, learning and Motorcycle Maintenance Next on my nightstand by two lady adventurers human and unique. I’m understanding? - An Inquiry into Values” Sarah Vowell’s “The Wordy who outdid the preeminent looking forward to reading it We asked some of our professors to by Robert Pirsig. Years Shipmates” is a hilarious Oxbridge scholars of their again. recommend two irresistible books: one, a great ago, before I owned a and informative look at day. For lighter but still (but accessible) read in their field of study; the motorcycle, a graduate New England Puritans and beautifully written fare, I student at Ball State their influence on American other, the book that’s on top of their nightstand recommend Louise Penny’s University gave me his copy culture. And my secret – the one they’re itching to read next, no matter Inspector Gamache of this book. The copy was vice is the novels of P. G. what the topic. Their selections let you learn a mysteries. They feature annotated with his personal Wodehouse. His books are little more about them, and you’ll learn from wonderfully rendered and thoughts, so I quit reading pure silliness and they never them again, too – no matter how long it is since psychologically complex it. But I recently bought my fail to lift my spirits. characters that elevate the you were last on campus. own copy with the plan of genre. reading it this summer. And yes, I have performed basic maintenance on my Harley.

22 St. Norbert College Magazine | Summer 2013 snc.edu/magazine 23 Laura Neary Alumni (Writing Center) OF ST. NORBERT COLLEGE Great read in my field “Out Stealing Horses” by Per Petterson. I liked this Charley Jacobs well-written book because of its quiet voice and (Political Science) atmosphere. Here’s an excerpt from the book, Great read in my field where the main character, a “The Hollow Hope: Can 15-year-old boy at the time, Courts Bring About Social is cutting grass with his Wausau Change?” by Gerald N. father: De Pere Rosenberg. Rosenberg “Why not cut down the Minneapolis/St. Paul Neenah reviews Supreme Court nettles?” he said. cases regarding civil rights, I looked down at the short abortion and women’s Madison Milwaukee scythe handle and across at rights, the environment, Sarah Parks the tall nettles. reapportionment, and “It will hurt,” I said. Then (Music) criminal justice and finds Chicago

he looked at me with half a ALUMNI that, absent help from other smile and a little shake of Great read in my field government actors, the the head. “Johannes Brahms: Life and judiciary is too weak to bring “You decide for yourself Letters.” The weaving of this about the transformation Mark Bockenhauer The president when it will hurt,” he said. biography is unique in that sought by litigants. He (Geography) is at the door the warp is the annotations suggests that individuals SNC in your neck of the woods

During a recent road OF ST. NORBERT by editor Styra Avins, Next on my nightstand Great read in my field and groups would be trip, President Tom One gathering, one night, multiple locations planned an average of 20 off-campus events; in which frame the significant “Gulp” by Mary Roach. A long-time favorite is by better served utilizing their Kunkel and Phil Oswald across the Upper Midwest: It’s the newest way the 2012 that increased to 28. This year, 33 events are historical events of Brahms’ I loved her previous Yi-Fu Tuan, an amazing resources to bring about (College Advancement) life, and the weft is the voice books “Stiff” and “Spook,” geographer-philosopher who college stays connected and engaged with its alums, scheduled, ranging from golf outings to Packer change outside of the paid a surprise visit to of Brahms, experienced which humorously inform is still, I believe, professor and an innovative way to welcome the most recent parties to Sunday Mass/brunch events to cocktail courtroom. an alumni couple in Mill through his translated readers about unpopular emeritus at UW-Madison. graduating class into the alumni association. hours to baseball games – all in your neck of the Valley, California. letters. Did Brahms feel subject matter, and I’m One of his lovely books is As the college continually strives to cast a Next on my nightstand Mary Alice woods. a deep, unrequited love hoping this one is similar in called “The Good Life.” ”Unbroken: A World War II (Cunningham) Kirincic wider net, says Todd Danen ’77 (Alumni & Parent Former SGA president Joe Susag ’12, who for Clara Schumann? The its humor. (I think you have Years ago, I recommended Story of Survival, Resilience answered the knock Relations), he and his team find they are more often attended the Welcome event in Minneapolis, letters leave interesting to have a somewhat twisted it for the Honors Reading, and Redemption” by Laura at the door. When she taking to the road. clues. sensibility to enjoy her and Professor Tuan actually was pleasantly surprised to find there were more Hillenbrand. As a former realized the president The Welcome Class of 2012 event drew crowds books, but you’ll learn a lot!) came to campus and spoke. alumni and more alumni events in the area than he competitive college runner of St. Norbert College of nearly 50 alumni in Chicago, Milwaukee, the Next on my nightstand He even had pizza with the anticipated. That first night, he was able to connect and son of a World War was standing on her Twin Cities and De Pere. This year’s Welcome “The Hunchback of Notre- II veteran, I’m interested students and signed their with current trustee Betsy Buckley ’69. front porch, she laughed Class of 2013 event will be held Sept. 5, with added Dame,” by Victor Hugo. in this true story of Louis copies! He says, “Meeting with Betsy was an incredible Hugo’s novel has been the and welcomed Kunkel locations in Madison, Neenah and Wausau. Zamperini. A member of the and Oswald into her opportunity. She encouraged me to reach higher in inspiration for several films, Next on my nightstand In several cities, gatherings will take place in 1936 U.S. Olympic team home. Minutes later, her my search for jobs after AmeriCorps and helped me including one by Disney, “The Tiger,” by venues actually owned or co-owned by alumni: who competed in the 5,000 husband, Paul “Kuner” but they all tend to stray John Vaillant. It was to identify and analyze some of my strengths and meters and later nearly Kirincic ’72, appeared Lizzie McNeill’s Irish Pub in Chicago is owned by from the authentic story. recommended to me by weaknesses.” broke the 4-minute mile, to greet the guests – by Patrick O’Brien ’02, Nicky’s Lionhead Tavern in Key characters are cut, a friend who knows I Molly Maher ’12 also attended the Welcome Zamperini also served as coincidence, sporting his De Pere is owned by Tom Nick ’77, Leff’s Lucky personalities are altered like environmental and a bombardier on a B-24 in St. Norbert baseball hat. Town in Milwaukee is owned by C Class of 2012 gathering in Minneapolis. Having and endings changed. geographical topics – just hris Leffler ’91 the Pacific theater of war. Paul and Mary Alice moved to Minnesota after living in Green Bay her The original text is a great started it! and Greene’s Pour House in Neenah is owned by He and the pilot of the plane are part of a group of whole life, Maher was interested in networking and study of human behavior that he manned survived in Mary Greene ’92. with themes of love, loss, six alumni fraternity At least two college representatives will staff reconnecting with people from home. a raft for seven weeks after brothers and their licentiousness, disdain, being shot down. They were each location. John Sabo ’07 (Alumni & Parent “I got to see familiar faces of staff members that desolation and self-sacrifice. wives who regularly I had gotten to know through my dad, Tripp Maher eventually pulled from the rendezvous around the Relations), the overall coordinator, plans to keep the (College Advancement), and through Knights ocean by the Japanese, country. community in the loop through live Tweeting. And ’80 who interred them for the a personal message from President Tom Kunkel will On Broadway, as well as some of my classmates. remainder of the war. be relayed to each location Being in a room full of alumni was like being in a In past years, Alumni & Parent Relations has room full of my family.”

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Vannieuwenhoven ’09, Oshkosh, Wis., a Cory Cosentino ’07, the Korean War. He is survived by his wife, worked in their real Handling Equipment Births ’99, Verona, Wis., daughter, Loa Grace, Oct. 6, 2012. They live worked at Green Bay Grace Ann. estate development and Distributors Association a daughter, Sloan Dec. 3, 2012. in Chicago. Packaging, retiring as management company. executive committee. Liz Garvey ’77 1997 Kelly Margaret, Sept. 10, executive vice president 1957 James White, of He is survived by his (Langenecker) and 2012. 2009 Kat (Reyment) 2009 Rachel and chief financial Tarpon Springs, Fla., wife and their two 1977 Patrick Faster Coleman Peiffer, and Yates Vanden Wollersheim and Steve officer. Wakeman died Nov. 14, 2012, at children. has been re-elected Waukesha, Wis., a son, 2002 Tammy (Evers) Heuvel, Appleton, Wis., Bessert ’06, Nov. 10, served as president of the age of 77. White president of the Asphalt William James, Sept. 12, and Nate Weyenberg, a son, Jack Judd, Feb. 2012. They live in De the St. Norbert College owned real estate 1970 Susan Recycling & Reclaiming 2012. William joins sister Appleton, Wis., a son, 8, 2013. Jack joins Pere. Alumni Board. He is businesses in Green (Anderson) Freed, of Association for the Quinn Elizabeth, 2. Dane Allen, Nov. 15, brother Luke, 1. survived by his wife, Bay and Tampa, Fla. He Bloomington, Ill., died 2013-14 term. Faster is 2012. Dane joins sister 2010 Geralyn Daniels Carol, and their four is survived by his two Nov. 4, 2012, at age 63. national sales director 1997 Lisa (Zimmer) Adele, 3. 2010 Jessica and Eric DeSalvo ’11, children. children. Freed was a professor for Gallagher Asphalt and Jeremy Thyssen, (Schadrie) and Travis Nov. 3, 2012. They live of computer science Corporation. Appleton, Wis., a 2003 Kristy (Tracy) Vanden Heuvel ’09, De in Fort Meade, Md. 1950 Chester 1957 Frank De Jong, at Illinois Wesleyan daughter, Emily, Jan. 9, and Robert Busam Pere, a daughter, Faith “Chet” McDonald, of of Pound, Wis., died University. An avid 1981 Tom Hlava has 2013. ’03, Lake Forest, Elizabeth, June 22, Luxemburg, Wis., died Dec. 12, 2012, at the knitter, she authored been promoted to Ill., a daughter, Jane 2012. Dec. 30, 2012, at the age of 77. De Jong several books on that senior vice president Homecoming weekend 1998 Lisa (Girdaukas) Elizabeth, Sept. 20, Deaths age of 84. McDonald is made his career as an subject as well as in for Guaranteed Rate and Kurt Cornielsen, 2012. Jane joins sisters 1948 Peter “The Chief” survived by his wife of accountant. Co-founder her academic field. Mortgage Corporation. = sibling reunion Lincolnshire, Ill., a Kacey, 4, Madelyn, 2, Laux, of Williamsville, 62 years, Sally Ann, and of the Freedom Athletic She is survived by her daughter, McKinley Marriages St. Norbert campus is common ground and Brooke, 2. N.Y., died Nov. 13, his three children. Association, he umpired husband, John, and her 1982 Cheryl Christee, April 14, 2010. for the Buerger family. Siblings 1998 Kara Pliscott and 2012, at the age of many games. He is daughter. Schoenhaar has been Keeps things sweet Carol McKinley joins brother 2003 Jennifer (Stay) John Weber III, Nov. 90. Laux served in the 1951 John “Jack” survived by his wife, hired as director for the (Buerger) Damit ’87, Cathy (Buerger) Finnegan Gregory, 4. Liz Garvey is co-owner of Wilmar

and Greg Bastien, 10, 2012. They live in ALUMNI Daniels ’88, Tim Buerger ’92 and Coast Guard in World McGuire, of Green Joyce, and three sons. 1976 Janet Cesar, of Town Hall Library in Green Bay, a son, Chicago. War II. He worked as Bay and Fort Myers, Waukegan, Ill., died North Lake, Wis. Chocolates. She lives in Appleton, Wis., 1998 Laura (Ziegler) Christine (Buerger) Sitter ’97 are all alums. Parker John, Oct. 13, the director of the library Fla., died Dec. 5, 1957 Robert Buechler, Sept. 22, 2012, at the with her husband Hugh Bayer, two kids and Michael Arends, (Their parents, Joan and Bill Buerger, 2012. 2000 James and at Canisius College. He 2012, at the age of of Wrightstown, Wis., 1982 Herman Shakopee, Minn., a age of 58. She was a (mostly out), two cats (mostly in). received the 1997 SNC President’s Award, Rhonda Bott, Nov. 23, was preceded in death 83. McGuire worked died Dec. 13, 2012, at Vandenberg was daughter, Leah, Feb. 8, teacher at Greenwood 2004 Renee 2012. They live in De by his wife, Bernice, and in the automobile and the age of 77. Buechler, promoted to vice for having sent four children through SNC.) 2013. Leah joins sister Elementary School Words to chew on “The way to (Speck) and Shawn Pere. real estate industries a veteran of the United president–treasurer/ The Buerger siblings’ four spouses are also Emily, 2, and brother one son. He is survived for 18 years. She become a chocolate expert is to taste a lot Offenbacher, LaGrange, by eight children. in Green Bay. He is States Army, worked at is survived by her corporate controller OF ST. NORBERT graduates: Mark Damit ’88, Mark Daniels Brenden, 4. 2003 Timothy and Lynn Ill., a daughter, Maeve, survived by his wife, Valley Cabinet for more husband, Bob, and her by Church Mutual of chocolate.” I’m not sure whose words Sept. 10, 2012. Maeve Decker, Sept. 22, 2012. ’89, Karyn (Lange) Buerger ’93 and Dan 1949 Kenneth Sippel, Marge, and three sons. than 40 years. He was two children. Insurance Company. these are, but they hang on the wall of my Sitter ’97 respectively. All eight attended 1999 Patrick Cantwell joins brother Tucker, 3. They live in Fort Irwin, and Jennifer Cantwell, of Mount Calvary, Wis., preceded in death by office and make it possible for me to eat 2012 Homecoming Weekend, which Calif. died Nov. 24, 2012, at 1951 Col. (Ret.) his wife, Judith, and is 1992 Doug Brenwall, 1985 Claire (Heskin) Chaska, Minn., a 2005 Jennifer chocolate every day without feeling guilty. doubled as a sibling reunion. the age of 85. Sippel, Norman Le Mere, of survived by his seven of De Pere, died Jan. Kowalczyk has OF ST. NORBERT OF ST. daughter, Tenley, May (Edwards) and Adam 2004 Kristin a veteran of the United Killeen, Texas, died Jan. children. 9, 2013, at the age of accepted a position I’m simply a lifelong student, diligently Carol thought to make Homecoming a 13, 2011. Kurzynski, Huntley, Ill., Kapfhamer and Travis States Army, served 3, 2013, at the age of 42. Brenwall worked at as principal of Lincoln family affair after she and husband Mark a son, Nathan James, Koske, Sept. 28, 2012. doing my homework. as an attorney until his 87. His service with 1961 Wilbur “Buzz” Bay Valley Foods as a Elementary in Highland 1999 Dana (Parlier) July 18, 2012. They live in De Pere. Sugar and spice are not the only attended in 2011, thinking that was their retirement in 1994. the United States Army Beaton Jr., of cost accountant and, for Park, Ill. She is also th and Eric Pease, 25 reunion. She says: “When we got there, Sippel was preceded encompassed World Holcombe, Wis., died the last two years of his pursuing a doctorate in things that sweeten my life I love to read Schofield, Wis., a 2006 Jennifer (Heger) 2006 Meredith in death by his wife, War II, the Korean War Nov. 9, 2012, at the age educational leadership we discovered we were a year early! But daughter, Susannah, and Brent Esch, Whiteley and Joseph life, had been running books, fiction or non-fiction. I resisted the Lucille, and is survived and the Vietnam War. of 75. Beaton served his own business, from Roosevelt ALUMNI we had such a blast hanging out with our Nov. 7, 2011. Susannah Waukesha, Wis., a Porior ’02, Nov. 3, Kindle for a long time. Now I’m a convert. by his five children. He later served as in the United States University. friends that were a year ahead of us that joins brothers Jake, 7, daughter, Sarah Audrey, 2012. They live in West Firehouse Subs. He is principal of St. Joseph military for 35 years, Nothing like immediate gratification … I called all my siblings and in-laws and and Nate, 5, and sister Dec. 24, 2012. Palm Beach, Fla. survived by his wife, Carley, 2. 1949 Raymond School. He is survived retiring as a master Shelia, daughter and 1987 Marifran a new book in 20 seconds! I also enjoy said, ‘We’re all going next year so put it on , of (Simon) Mattson has 2007 Nicole (Dixon) 2006 Rachel Costello Kalinosky by his sisters. sergeant at the Office of stepsons. hitting tennis balls with anyone I can coax been promoted to full the calendar!’” It doesn’t appear that they 2001 Becky (Fenske) and Andy Schemmel and Tim Pridgen, Nov. Menomonee Falls, Special Investigation in professor at Purdue unto the court. It’s a great way to use up all took much convincing. Cathy says: “Those and Rex Corr, Parker, ’07, Madison, Wis., 23, 2012. They live in Wis., died Nov. 27, 1954 Col. (Ret.) Oscar 1996. He later worked University. She has those homework calories. four years carry some very important Colo., a son, Tyson Lee, a daughter, Adelaide Downers Grove, Ill. 2012, at the age of 91. Goeben, of Colorado as a private investigative Class Notes young adult friendships, memories July 11, 2012. Ty joins Grace, March 29, 2012. Kalinosky served in the Springs, Colo., died Jan. officer. He is survived by been on the faculty of Two best books I ever read on brother Tommy, 3. 2007 Jennifer Brice 95th Infantry Division 2, 2013, at the age of his wife, Francesca, and 1967 Brother Terry the Brian Lamb School The classic primer, “Chocolate, and experiences for all of us. Why not of the United States 80. Goeben gave 37 his three sons. Lauerman, O.Praem., of Communication since chocolate 2007 Kristen and Adam Vander the Consuming Passion,” by Sandra celebrate?”Dodging puddles on their way 2002 Mary (Janus) and (Buettner) and Zanden, Oct. 20, Army during World War years of military and has been recognized 1995. across campus, the Buerger clan made the Matthew Royce, Orland Collin Jeanquart ’06, 2012. They live in II. He was employed civilian service with the 1961 Myron Skaleski, for his volunteer work at Boynton; and the shamelessly romantic most of the rainy weekend. They visited Park, Ill., a daughter, Sturgeon Bay, Wis., a Wrightstown, Wis. as an accountant at United States Army of Green Bay, died Nov. the Bay Area Humane 1987 Tony Werner has “Chocolat,” by Joanne Harris. Boynton’s Old St. Joe’s, updated their SNC wardrobes Finola Judith-Gorman, daughter, Kenzie, Nov. the Medical College Finance Corps, retiring 28, 2012, at the age of Society. been named president as comptroller. He is 74. Skaleski worked for and chief executive book makes me laugh. Harris’s book at the bookstore, ate at the new Michels May 25, 2012. Finola 16, 2012. 2007 Don and Nicole of Wisconsin. He is joins sister Olive, 4. , Dec. 8, 2012. survived by his wife, survived by his wife of more than 35 years as 1971 Tom Olejniczak officer of Children’s makes me cry. Commons, and cheered on the Knights at Norwick 2008 Annie (Maher) They live in South Doris, and his five 43 years, Elfriede, and an insurance inspector. has received Hospital of Michigan One way to make it like Wilmar the football game until the rain drove them Wisconsin Business Foundation. 2002 Kory Kaltenberg and Matt Gajewski Milwaukee, Wis. children. his four children. He is survived by his Try new foods, new recipes, new to the drier ground of The Abbey Bar. and April Tofte, Sun ’07, Green Bay, a son, wife, Jan, and two sons. Development’s Darwin Mark your calendars for Homecoming Prairie, Wis., a son, Patrick William, June 2008 Nicole Weiskirch 1950 Frederick “Fred” 1957 Bernard Nelson Community 1988 Royce Bedward combinations of flavors and always, always Emery Jacob, July 10, Wakeman, of Green Kartheiser, of Chicago, 1969 Stephen James Service Award. was recently promoted 2013, Oct. 11-13. More at snc.edu/ 22, 2012. and Nicholas Albert use fresh butter, cream, fruit and nuts 2012. ’09, Sept. 28, 2012. Bay, died Dec. 23, died Nov. 9, 2012, Classon, of De Pere, to corporate vice liberally when you’re in the kitchen. Cover alumni/event/homecoming. 2008 Morgan They live in Marietta, Ga. 2012, at the age of 84. at the age of 84. He died Nov. 19, 2012, at 1976 Jerry Weidmann president, general 2002 Noel (Sattergren) and He served in the United was a veteran of the the age of 65. Classon has been named counsel and secretary it all in chocolate. (Sheehan) and Troy Scott Vanderloop 2008 Mary Berls and States Army during United States Army. He and his wife, Karen, president of the Material at Hospira Inc.

26 St. Norbert College Magazine | Summer 2013 snc.edu/magazine 27 Noted / Alumni Lives Profile /Bret Grasse ’08

at Vaughan Holland stationed at Fort Lewis, accepted a new position Iowa College of Law. has accepted a position It’s nice Consulting Inc. as Wash. at the Minnesota Previously, he worked as as driver business leader Wet at snc to be a Knight! national account Department of Natural a wilderness therapist. for Schneider National. Not your everyday story of cuttlefish manager. 1997 Amber Westerbur Resources, where she has been hired by will lead communication 2007 Kelly (Schauer) 2011 Spencer Ellena research and development they 1990 Mark Schmit the Minnesota DNR and marketing efforts for Wildenberg was recently has accepted a position has been appointed to lead Minnesota’s the State of Minnesota’s promoted to associate as an Illinois territory let us do,” Grasse says. “The executive director for Lake Superior Coastal boating and water safety business system analyst manager for Orascoptic last year and a half, we’ve been The Society for Human Program. Amber program. She was at Thrivent Financial for and Surgical Acuity. working to acquire every weird, Resource Management has worked with the previously employed Lutherans. Foundation. department since 2009. by the Minnesota 2011 Amanda Garrity bizarre species across the planet. Department of Public 2008 Marissa Greuel has been crowned Miss Cephalopods already are a 1991 Chris Corrado 1998 Elizabeth Safety. and two of her col- Heart of the Valley. super-strange group of animals, Looking for new ways has been named vice (Kremer) Flanigan has leagues were selected 2012 Chris Swietlik so it’s pretty cool to be able to to show your school president and general been named a Rising 2003 Meghan out of more than 1,150 has been hired by spirit? Take a look at manager of Retama Park Star by Super Lawyers. Umphres, who applicants to present take the lead on a show like this, C. Blohm & Associates some of these new racetrack in Texas. previously worked for their “Ring of Fire” especially since no one in the as a social media and options. 1998 Erika (Lagerquist) Booz Allen Hamilton course at the Florida world has done it before. I get 1991 Tammy (Cyr) Rutley published in San Diego, Calif., Educational Technology public relations account Through trial and coordinator. Knight Check: Basten has been her children’s book, has accepted a Conference. to be the pioneer with many of error, a great deal of Personal checks that appointed chancellor of “Adventures in Pup-A- position at Honeywell these species.” n Todd Bierowski ’95 independent research let you take your the Catholic Diocese of Dupping,” in January Aerospace in Phoenix, 2008 Ian McCann and Erica Van Boxel Grasse’s primary target for the and the trust of his ALUMNI St. Norbert pride to Green Bay. 2013. Ariz., as employee is enrolled in the ’04 participated in cephalopod show is the vampire the bank, at snc.edu/ communications chiropractic program professors – who gave a “Dancing with Our go/checks. 1991 Dave Habiger has 1999 Patrick Cantwell specialist. at Northwestern Health squid. “Go on YouTube and check him oversight of a small been appointed to the has been promoted to Sciences University’s Stars” fundraiser for the aquarium room in JMS American Red Cross. them out,” he says. “They’re just Knight Store: Shop board of directors for director, executive talent 2003 Leslie LaBonte graduate school. Photos courtesy Monterey Bay Aquarium – the undergraduate SNC at snc.edu/go/ Textura Corporation. acquisition for Best Buy has joined Ministry absolutely bizarre, demonic- n Elizabeth Grasse showed an early shop for constantly Corp., Richfield, Minn. Health Care as the new 2008 Nick Snyder’s looking creatures that feed on n the fast track to of hatching, it displays dark OF ST. NORBERT 1992 Tiffany (Stuth) (Swiecichowski) knack for his scholarly changing selections. He will lead corporate manager of volunteer film, “Damon,” has been superstardom in markings that contrast with its the marine snow that falls down O’Day has been and executive recruiting services at Ministry selected to be in the Kunstman ’00, passion. “He pretty Norby Knight: A promoted to sales for the organization. Saint Clare’s Hospital in Green Bay Film Festival. Pamela (Bakka) Sands saltwater aquaria brilliant tentacles. to deeper depths as microscopic much transformed the ’03, Megan (Fraaza) fully armored yet director by Sargento Weston, Wis. through his work with the Grasse’s use of soft-sided foods.” whole operation,” says Foods. 1999 Cher (Ostrowski) Oberstadt ’06, Andrea O huggable knight, the 2008 Carolyn Lee has fragile cuttlefish, tanks to protect the fragile Vampire squid live mid-water, Davis, who previously (Klika) Collins ’09, Bret Grasse Anindo Choudhury

OF ST. NORBERT OF ST. accepted a position as a new plush Sir Norby 2004 Steve Peterson where oxygen levels are 2 percent is now available at the 1995 Denise Ferkey worked for the American has been promoted to pricing analyst for FIS. Breanne Delahanty ’09, ’08 has found his methods so cuttlebone in the fish’s back is a (Biology). “That was the campus bookstore. has been promoted to Dental Association, has associate transportation Stephanie Krahn ’10 successful that he has become the significant factor in maintaining and the water temperature is tip of the spear for him, and Rachel Gunderson the rank of associate accepted a position planner for SRF 2008 Brett Buboltz has world’s go-to expert in culturing the populations. It is easy barely above freezing. Grasse and after that he just Social Knight: professor at University as a chemist with Consulting Group Inc. accepted a position as ’10 have been took off.” selected as Teachers of generations of cuttlefish. for cuttlefish to rupture that uses an ROV (remotely operated Gorgeous images of at Buffalo, The State the National Institute a sales representative at Grasse went on to campus, sized right University of New York. of Standards and 2005 Jerusha Agen has Belmark Inc. Distinction in the Golden “I was an especially huge mantle in captivity, acquire an underwater vehicle) to access Apple Awards. gain experience through ALUMNI for your Facebook Technology’s chemical signed a contract for a shark and fish nerd growing up,” infection and die. “We became their environment from the safety 1995 Michelle (Bougie) study-abroad programs page cover photo, sciences division in three-book series with 2009 Michael Dowden of a research vessel. “Using an are available for Topetzes has accepted Gaithersburg, Md. Write Integrity Press. has been named the n Heather (Henri) explains Grasse, a rising star at only the second aquarium in the and internships. “I download at snc.edu/ a position as a global Agen’s contemporary new boy’s basketball Faulkner ’05 and the world-renowned Monterey country to successfully breed ROV is like playing a big video figured there was no Maribeth Frinzi ’05 go/fbcoverphotos. e-marketing manager 1999 Eric Van De Yacht fiction series will debut coach for Big Foot High Bay Aquarium at the ripe age of them,” Grasse says. “We were game,” he says. way I could compete in for the Harley-Davidson and his family celebrated in August 2013 with her School. have received Current’s Aquariums in Singapore, marine biology against Motor Company. the 50th anniversary of first novel, “This Dance.” Future 15 Young 26. “I tell young people to follow so successful that we set up the 1988 Christine Loose their business, Leo Van 2010 Ben Hackbart has Professional award. their dream and do what you original aquarium with a new Japan, China, England, Spain and people who grew up has been promoted 1996 Trina (Salm) Ward De Yacht Well Drilling 2006 “Creole Belles,” accepted a position as want to do. I like fish, and I’m population when theirs crashed. others have called Grasse to ask in California,” Grasse to director of hotels at graduated in December Inc. an instrumental music video coordinator for The n Chris ’08 and Pam says. “I was kind of (Ripp) ’08 Schmitz going for it.” We are the first aquarium on the his advice. His work took him The American Club 2012 from the University arrangement by Citadel, Military College second-guessing myself Resort Hotel and Inn of Wisconsin-Milwaukee have opened a new Grasse’s work with the planet to raise both species of to an international conference 2000 Nick Vitrano has Jeremiah Eis, has been of the South. about trying to do this, on Woodlake. Loose with an interdisciplinary joined the Murphy in the published by PEL Music bakery/coffee shop, The common and pharaoh cuttlefish Metasepia (cuttlefish) through in Brazil last November. Grasse Creamery, located in but the more I did it, it was previously the Ph.D. in health sciences. Morning radio show on Publications. 2011 Eren Erdogan has led to approvals to work with multiple generations. We was the only attendee without resident manager of The WIXX. earned his Master’s in De Pere. just made sense and it American Club. 1996 Jeff Shere was 2006 Jeff Buehler Economics from the a particularly rare species: the knocked it out of the park.” a Ph.D. behind his name, yet made me happy. I knew promoted to lieutenant 2002 Mary (Janus) has accepted a sales University of Nebraska Share your news! flamboyant cuttlefish. He is now creating a presented twice on his work. “I right off the bat that I colonel in the United 1989 Susan (Kluck) Royce received her representative position Omaha. Submit your item at The flamboyant cuttlefish cephalopod show to highlight enjoy showing a whole different found what I wanted to Broberg has launched States Army in July Master of Arts in for Rockstar Inc. energy snc.edu/go/alumninotes Fantastic Finds Tours, 2012 after starting his School Counseling drink manufacturers in 2011 Allyce Rupp has remains stationary when octopus, squid and their cousins, world that 99 percent of people do, and I was passionate military career in the about it.” a business that features and Guidance from Wisconsin. accepted a position as Keep track and threatened, flashing its scheduled to open at the never get to see,” Grasse says. “It’s R.O.T.C. at St. Norbert food-themed bus tours Lewis University in May a creative production connect with fellow spectacular colors and pulsing its Monterey Bay, Calif., facility in great to inspire people to care in 1992. He is an across Wisconsin. 2011. She is a certified 2007 Teddy Fleming specialist for Shopko alumni on Facebook. army ophthalmologist has accepted admission fins. Half the size of its cousins March 2014. about the oceans and the animals professional counselor. Stores Inc. facebook.com/ specializing in retina to the Class of 2016 1989 Frank Morelli sncalumni at roughly 4 inches long, it lives “This aquarium is unique that reside there. I couldn’t be has accepted a position surgery, currently 2002 Kara Owens has at the University of 2011 Ashley Williams about one year. Within seconds in the amount of freedom for happier.”

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30 St. Norbert College Magazine | Summer 2013 snc.edu/magazine 31 Parting shot / Eventually, all things merge into one ... … and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world’s great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. – Norman Maclean