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Gary L. Miller is driving for an innovating, transforming and regionally focused UW-Green Bay • MAY 2015 • 50 years, and the Powers of the Phoenix

Greetings!

In fall 2015, UW-Green Bay will celebrate its 50th anniversary.

We’re planning reunions, an open house and programs on campus and in the community that will recall our history and fix coat thank our supporters. We’ll offer fun ways for 32,000 alumni to reconnect and for 6,500 current students to embrace tradition. We’ll welcome back founding faculty and our earliest graduates, and we’ll marvel together at how Edward Weidner’s dream has become a modern, highly respected university.

Our 50th isn’t merely about nostalgia, however. It’s about the future.

At its founding in 1965, UW-Green Bay was one of America’s most innovative institutions, organized around the idea that students should tackle great problems. In the global knowledge economy of today, we must reinvest in our innovative roots to power education and economic prosperity for our region and the nation.

We’ll do this by focusing our energies on the three Powers of the Phoenix: the Power of Innovation, the Power of Transformation and the Power of Place. You’ll be hearing more about this vision and our progress in the coming year.

With inspiration from our past and from the Phoenix itself — a mythical bird that is periodically reborn or regenerated — we at UW-Green Bay will use our anniversary as an opportunity to reshape our University for the future.

Go Phoenix!

Gary L. Miller Chancellor

Innovation • Transformation • Place INSIDE THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - GREEN BAY

INSIDE UW-GREEN BAY May 2015 Volume 41, No. 2 Features EDITOR Christopher Sampson FINALLY, ENGINEERING! CONTRIBUTING 5 Three new bachelor’s degrees have WRITERS local industries revved up with excitement Sue Bodilly ’87 & ’03 Daniele Frechette ’11 Katelyn Staaben ’15 Kate Akerboom ’17 CAT ISLAND TALE 6 How UW-Green Bay and a new DESIGNER breakwater spanning half the bay Yvonne Splan relate to environmental progress

PHOTOGRAPHER Eric Miller THE BEST IN STUDENT RESEARCH 20 Profiling the stars of Posters in the Rotunda 2015 CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS Kimberly Vlies Daniele Frechette ’11 Samantha Zingsheim ’15 32 ALUMNI MEMORIES Association has big plans to • celebrate 50 years of UWGB Inside UW-Green Bay is published by the Office of University Advancement and departments its Marketing and Communication unit. We welcome your comments. 13 23 31 Email them to log@uwgb. on the cover edu; or address them to: The newly remodeled headquarters of InitiativeOne were Inside UW-Green Bay Editor, the setting in late April for a gathering of business and C A A Cofrin Library Suite 820, at political leaders who heard UW-Green Bay Chancellor the street address below. A L L For change of address, mail Gary L. Miller announce details of a partnership that M U U notification to: Inside, Cofrin gives the University a presence in downtown Green Bay. P Library Suite 805, University M M of Wisconsin-Green Bay, U N N 2420 Nicolet Drive, S I I Green Bay, WI 54311-7001. N N N E W O E S T W VISIT INSIDE E S ON THE WEB AT S http://blog.uwgb.edu/inside/ 2 UWGB INSIDE l May 2015 Innovation, Transformation, Place He’s an experienced administrator, outspoken advocate for higher ed and polished presenter.

One other thing: Gary L. Miller He has asked for more and better data-driven stays on message. analysis of the way his new school, UW-Green Bay, deploys its resources. From his initial weeks as chancellor and first major From business practices to student recruitment to speech last fall through to his congratulatory remarks the way Academic Affairs delivers programs, he to this May’s graduating seniors, Miller has adhered directed a critical review of current practices. He to a message and vision now familiar to those on floated a new plan for academic dean reporting campus, local news media and many in the Green lines. Bay community. He stirred the pot with a campus essay suggest- The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, he says, for ing the time was right to think about moving on reasons both external and internal, is soon to be a from UW-Green Bay’s traditionally untraditional different institution than it is today. academic structure. (He was questioning admin- It will be bolder, more nimble and, ultimately, larger. istrative configuration, not the foundational idea It will arrive there by harnessing what he calls the that student and faculty inquiry be unrestricted by “Powers of the Phoenix” — innovation, transforma- disciplinary boundaries. Nevertheless, the essay tion and place. prompted plenty of discussion.) Not even the specter of a record budget cut obscures “To teach our students to be innovative, we must the long-term vision. be innovative ourselves,” Miller says. “Doing things differently isn’t necessarily a bad thing.” When the fiscal year begins July 1 UW-Green Bay is likely to have a $4 million hole to patch, its share of In a mid-May memo to employees, he said he is the hotly debated plan introduced by the governor to likely to announce executive-level reorganiza- slash up to $300 million from the annual UW System tion by the end of June affecting external opera- budget. tions, marketing, communication, development and, down the line, student affairs. With an eye Miller has been blunt in advising the campus commu- on enrollment and growth, Miller suggested the nity that layoffs, program consolidations and service Enrollment Services and Adult Access units could reductions are all but unavoidable. At the same time, see changes. The way faculty time is apportioned he invariably adds a note of reassurance. for student advising and unit leadership is being “We’re going to get through this,” he’ll say, “and reviewed. emerge stronger.” Transformation Innovation Today, more than 60 percent of the students who We are living in an interdependent world and a join us at UW-Green Bay come from families growing innovation economy. To prosper, our stu- with no tradition in higher education. We serve dents must be entrepreneurs in their careers. They over 600 returning adults… more than 300 must exhibit extraordinary creativity, collaborative veterans… the Phuture Phoenix program is an abilities and flexibility. They must not fear the world opportunity for us to transform the lives of hun- and its complexity. dreds more underserved students in our region… the need for access to the opportunity at UWGB — Miller inauguration remarks, November 2014 is immense... Miller joined UW-Green Bay last August after serv- Miller speaks often of the great transformative ing previously as the chancellor of the University of power of higher education, and the role of UW- North Carolina Wilmington. One of his first actions in Green Bay in helping its region navigate change. Green Bay was to appoint a University Planning and The University helps students reach their poten- Innovation Council, similar to the internal faculty/staff tial and transform themselves and their world. advisory panel he had at Wilmington.

May 2015 l INSIDE UWGB 3 Miller, continued…

Northeastern Wisconsin needs more of this, InitiativeOne, downtown, and engage local industry departures will yield temporary salary savings that not less. in three newly added, long-sought majors in engi- buy time to restructure programs and positions for neering technology (see stories facing page). the long term. “The University is going to get bigger,” Miller says. “There will be a great, energizing diversity “You’re going to see a wave of community engage- Miller has been visiting academic units and meet- from people who don’t normally go to college, ment for this University,” Miller told an audience of ing with various employee groups this spring to or haven’t in the past, or not in the numbers we civic and business leaders recently. continue soliciting creative cost-saving and reve- expect in the future.” nue-enhancing ideas. He thanked faculty and staff Longtime local executive Tim Weyenberg agrees, for their “courage and optimistic spirit” and concern The growth is likely to be fueled by returning saying “Initiative One is just the start… there are for the impact on students and co-workers. adults, transfers seeking to finish degrees or a number of other things in the pipeline, downtown add a new credential, people of color who will and elsewhere.” “I understand the anxiety,” the chancellor told a make up a greater share of the region’s demo- campuswide forum in February. “It’s hard to talk Weyenberg should know. Appointed last year as graphic mix, and those attracted by an updated openly with a challenge this big. But we have to do the first Executive-in-Residence for the Austin E. program array. that if we want to come through this with most of us Cofrin School of Business, he’s a resource for fac- here, with a University that can grow, and a Univer- University leaders have identified programs ulty, students and administrators and a key liaison sity that can continue to be a great university." related to health care and data science as to the community. demonstrated growth areas. The Cofrin School Student government president Hannah Stepp, a “It’s obvious this chancellor understands that UW- of Business, already with the most majors on member of the campus planning team, is encour- Green Bay’s role in regional economic develop- campus, is another. “Our business school is aged. "He's always asking, 'How will this affect stu- ment is crucial and core,” Weyenberg says. “He’s small for an MSA (Metropolitan Statistical Area) dents?' As the student rep, that's gratifying to hear." the real deal in understanding the need to reach of this size,” Miller says. out to the business community. Some of that has Miller says he is confident the UW-Green Bay He also mentions programs across campus happened in the past, of course, but now there’s a Foundation Board and Council of Trustees, an influ- — Theatre and Music as just two examples — greater sense of urgency and action.” ential, 30-member group of business executives, where strong facilities, faculty or other factors civic leaders and alumni, some with national and might provide competitive advantages. Overcoming the challenges even international profiles, will remain a strength. Even during spring Commencement week, prob- Place Chairperson Lou LeCalsey praises Miller’s busi- ably the happiest time of the year on the UW-Green nesslike approach and leadership. This is a place with special potential. The Bay campus — a record 950 or so students are UWGB of the future will embrace Green Bay celebrating degrees this May — there’s a mood of “In my view, he’s handled a serious situation well,” and this region. We will look outward. anxiety among employees. LeCalsey observes,” by preparing for the worst- case scenario — significant cuts that could dam- Miller drew extended applause at his first major Veteran faculty and staff have been through previ- age the University — all the while looking for ways campus/community address, six months ago at ous rounds of belt-tightening. This time, given the to preserves the institution’s ability to recover, and the Weidner Center, when he turned to Mayor magnitude of the likely reduction, concerns about continuing to make the case for budget relief. Jim Schmitt, a previous speaker seated on downsizing are more widespread. A freeze on “We’ve had more than 50 separate meetings involv- stage, and pledged his commitment to “extend- filling vacant positions, in effect since February, ing Trustees and legislators, where we’re advo- ing our physical presence in some way to a has stretched some departments thin. Voluntary cating for the University and asking our elected vibrant and growing downtown Green Bay.” separation packages were offered in April to 150 employees over the age of 55, about one-quarter of officials to reconsider the level of these cuts. There Since then, the University has moved quickly to the workforce. Thirty-eight expressed interest. Any is tremendous support for UW-Green Bay." roll out a new business school partnership with — Christopher Sampson

“This community has huge expectations. People are interested in the programs we offer, the experiences our students get here, our ability to reach out in the community, and the capacity of our graduates to contribute to their businesses, organizations and neighborhoods.” — Chancellor Gary L. Miller

Chancellor Miller with wife, Georgia, and students at a University Union event

4 UWGB INSIDE l May 2015 Engineering Technology UW-Green Bay has industrial-strength fan base makes a move

Added UW-Green Bay’s Miller, Downtown “These are great degrees. I’ve had them at previous institutions… It is fairly well documented that When UW-Green Bay Chancellor engineering is a driver for eco- Gary L. Miller signed an agreement nomic growth.” last month with the leadership Community support for engineer- consulting firm InitiativeOne, the ing technology is deep, evident deal amplified the University’s in consistent support as the pro- stated goal of putting more posal advanced through the UW expertise and energy into partner- System approval process. ship with local business. There is financial backing, too. For what is believed to be the first It also proclaimed support for time in UW-Green Bay’s history, ongoing revitalization of Downtown donors have stepped forward to fund student scholarships even Green Bay. The InitiativeOne before the program and its stu- partnership gives UW-Green Bay dents arrived. access to offices and classrooms at The executives, educators, plant managers, One of the companies supporting the firm’s headquarters in remod- scholarships is Superior Diesel, eled space at the corner of Adams industrial designers and engineers filling the based in Rhinelander. It’s the and Walnut streets. presentation room turned their attention to largest value-added distributor of John Deere engines in the world, UW-Green Bay Chancellor Gary L. Miller as he Students in the Cofrin School of customizing industrial-grade die- stepped forward to begin his briefing. sels (photo, left) for commercial Business will have the opportu- users for whom there’s no such nity to be placed in internships Miller paused at the outset to mark the moment. thing as one-size-fits-all. with InitiativeOne as well as with “Every chancellor in the history of UW-Green Bay has wanted engineering, President Brian Wendt is a pro- companies and non-profits on the and worked to get it,” he began, sharing credit with predecessors and partners. gram fan. Partly in appreciation firm’s extensive national client list. “Well, finally, here we have it.” of his growing company’s local InitiativeOne will push increased roots, partly anticipating the need To be precise, the University has engineering technology — and a trio of newly awareness of UW-Green Bay, its for future engineering, purchas- approved majors that, beginning this fall, will enroll students pursuing engi- ing, sales, accounting, produc- people and resources. neering technology bachelor’s degrees in electrical, mechanical and environ- tion and product-support people, mental engineering. Wendt and Superior have estab- “If we go into a large corporate The April informational session, on location at the De Pere-based engineering lished two endowed scholarship setting that needs some specific and science firm Foth, attracted about 60 participants and was the second of funds at UW-Green Bay. expertise, we are going to tap into two well-attended community sessions this spring. Industry partners asked Superior Diesel isn’t alone. A the UW-Green Bay faculty for questions and offered input on curriculum. They were reminded of opportuni- half-dozen others have funded ties to host internships, to consider joint projects with faculty and students, and providing real-life solutions,” CEO engineering technology scholar- to publicize the program’s availability to their workforce. Fred Johnson said at the news con- ships. John and Lisa Dykema. “We have faculty who are strong teachers and who also have the desire to be Faith Technologies. The NEW ference announcing the agreement. on the factory floor, out in the engineering environment,” Miller said. “It is very Manufacturing Alliance. Susan The InitiativeOne announcement beneficial to have them out there working and connecting to business.” Finco and Ed Kralovec. Beth and The new program promises seamless transfers and multiple points of entry Dick Gochnauer. Lee and Kathy came within months of Chancellor from member schools of the region’s NEW ERA consortium. An important UW- Anderson. American Transmis- Miller’s pledge, at his installation as Green Bay partner is Northeast Wisconsin Technical College, which has an sion Company. UW-Green Bay chancellor in existing two-year program and what Miller describes as “some of the finest Manufacturing and technology November, that the University was engineering teaching facilities you’ll see.” remain big in Wisconsin. committed to extending its physical Mark Weber, NWTC dean of trades and engineering technology, estimated “The demand is here, and these presence to downtown Green Bay.” there are more than a thousand working professionals in engineering technol- are good jobs,” Wendt explains. ogy and related careers in the region, and a solid pool of potential bachelor’s “Young people used to think of degree applicants. industry as being dark and dirty, Weber described engineering technology as a field with a focus on applied, oil and smokestacks, and it’s hands-on, problem-solving skills. Increasingly, he said, employers are building much more tech-driven now… design staffs by hiring equal numbers of engineering tech grads and those with clean, creative, challenging.” bachelor’s of engineering preparation. — CS

May 2015 l INSIDE UWGB 5 Area of Concern?

Actually, Cat Island work, UWGB research UW-Green Bay, in partnership with The Nature Conservancy, is getting $471,000 from the U.S. demonstrate big new optimism on lower bay Environmental Protection Agency and the Wis- consin Department of Natural Resources to pass judgment on the waterway’s health, and recom- These are upbeat times on the body of water that gives the mendations moving forward. city of Green Bay and its public four-year university their The Howe-Wolf team includes staff and more than a dozen undergraduate and graduate stu- names. There is work under way that has birdwatchers and dents (the sort of high-level student involvement fish managers, student and faculty researchers, private that is a source of pride for UWGB faculty) who citizens and water-quality experts excited and eager to see will divvy up the workload. what comes next. They’ll look at field data, access previous studies, analyze the historical record, go in-depth in documenting the current state of the bay includ- There is optimism about nature restoration being ing what has worked and what hasn’t, and tie it given a boost by man and machine in the form together for a recommendation regarding de- of a stone wave barrier reaching two-and-a-half listing. There’s a sense the Green Bay process miles into the lower bay — a mega-scale project can be a model. $22 million and 30 years of planning in the making. “Although the ‘Area of Concern’ is still clearly There is quiet confidence UW-Green Bay, the degraded, more and more evidence has shown original “Eco U,” is today making scientific contri- that this is a world-class site for freshwater fish, butions as valuable as any in its rich, 50-year his- colonial and migratory birds, and other wildlife tory of working to restore and ensure the health species,” says Howe, who is among many who of one of America’s most ecologically significant believe a healthier bay means a healthier North- freshwater estuaries. eastern Wisconsin. At UW-Green Bay, one of this year’s budget “I view Green Bay as comparable to Chesapeake bright spots came when Profs. Bob Howe and Bay on the East Coast and San Francisco Bay Amy Wolf of Natural and Applied Sciences heard on the West Coast — places where natural yes on their application for external funding for a resources have experienced degradation, but comprehensive assessment of the bay. places where these resources are still very much alive and are vital to the future local economy and At the heart of the matter is “de-listing,” potential quality of life.” removal of AOC (Area of Concern) designation applied to the southern bay and Fox River below the dam with respect to fish and wildlife popula- “This project is important tions. The local site is one of 43 Great Lakes Areas of Concern designated by the International for our region because it will Joint Commission of Canada and the United yield one of the most, if not States in a 1987 water quality agreement. the most, specific plans for improving fish and wildlife habitat in the bay and river.” — Professor Bob Howe, with co-investigator Amy Wolf Cat Island Chain 1960

Cat Island Chain 1978

6 UWGB INSIDE l May 2015 Wanted: a new Cat Island Chain Proposals to rebuild the barrier islands began to Another UWGB project gives nature a boost The bay is an ecosystem that, whatever the new emerge by the late 1980s, with the DNR, U.S. The southern bay is resilient, but recovery isn’t AOC analysis reveals, has come a long way. Army Corps of Engineers and the federal Fish assured… at least without help. and Wildlife Service expressing interest. It would For most of the 1900s, even though the Fox and take until 2012, however, for an agreement that A 2013 sampling in the vicinity of the new break- other tributaries delivered industrial, municipal would allow construction. water found little vegetation and a virtually and agricultural waste and runoff by the ton, the bankrupt seed bank of desirable species. Native vast lower bay was resilient. Eventually, swim- Long-term plans: Breakwall into islands plants including bulrush, water celery and wild ming would become iffy (the city closed Bay Because of distance and low-lying shoreline, rice might be slow to reestablish, if at all. Beach by the 1940s) but hunting and fishing what is for now the state’s longest open-water Enter, again, a UW-Green Bay research team. remained productive. Areas just offshore were breakwall is a little hard to see. One of the principal investigators, Associate Prof. alive with submergent and emergent aquatic veg- It’s easily visible, of course, to passing planes Matt Dornbush, told Wisconsin Public Radio the etation and vast flocks of migratory waterfowl. and also boaters (who are kept at a respectful scope of the challenge makes for “amazingly In 1973, though, wildlife habitat absorbed a hit still distance by shallow water). Distant glimpses are unique” science. felt today. possible from heights on the far shore including “This type of stuff really hasn’t been done,” Dorn- the upper floors of the UW-Green Bay Cofrin A late-spring snowstorm with gale-force winds bush said. “What we’re hoping to do is really try to Library or, closer, from passing vehicles on the pounded floodwaters into Green Bay’s northeast develop restoration strategies. How do you actu- I-43 harbor bridge. side neighborhoods. The millions in property ally restore these marsh communities to an area damage prompted an immediate fix: public-works Birders hoping for nature hikes along the barrier, this big?” construction of a protective dike along the bay- or a prime perch to get up-close with rarely seen They’ll start by planting and monitoring. They shore from the mouth of the Fox River to Mahon species making a return, are so far disappointed. need to determine what size plantings are opti- Creek near UW-Green Bay. The gravel road is posted and gated. State and mal, at what water depths, and the best methods federal agencies are managing the site as a There was no such protection out on the bay, of (seeding or plugs) for re-establishing native spe- limited-disturbance refuge, for now. course. Little noticed and arguably under-appre- cies. ciated at the time was the washout of most of the Over the next decade, additional rip-rap will be Dornbush, Howe, Wolf and UW-Extension’s historic Cat Island Chain — a string of low-lying trucked out to create a series of cells that will link Patrick Robinson are the primary researchers, barriers guarding the mouth of the Fox. Sub- to the breakwater like charms from a bracelet. with UW-Green Bay students again taking part. sequent years of rising water levels, along with Clean dredge spoils from the outer harbor will The work is possible through a $225,000 federal wave and ice scouring, finished the job. be piped in as fill. The cells will be topped off in grant to the University in partnership with Ducks order, from farthest to nearest, with connecting With wave action unchecked, the huge stands of Unlimited, courtesy of the U.S. Department of the sections of the breakwater removed and the road rushes and cattails at the bay’s southwest corner Interior and the Fish and Wildlife Service. severed as work progresses toward shore. — near the mouth of Duck Creek, still bearing the local name “Peats Lake” on some maps — were Once complete, the restoration will create hun- doomed. Over-abundant carp rooting the bottom dreds of acres of islands and at least two square continued… for food muddied the water and further inhibited miles of potential shallow-water fish nursery and submerged plant growth. wildlife habitat on the protected south side.

May 2015 l INSIDE UWGB 7 continued… Return of the birds “The foxes and coyotes haven’t figured it out yet,” Tom Prestby’s trail camera and in-person Prestby says, “which is good, because until those observations have already confirmed the Cat road sections are removed, nesting fledglings Island restoration is a bonanza for birds. would be like an all-you-can-eat buffet. Hopefully they will continue to shy away from making the trek Over two seasons, the UW-Green Bay gradu- out to the islands.” ate student in Environmental Science and Policy has found 30 species of shorebirds and For UW-Green Bay, bay research is natural 150 total species using the manmade point. The UW-Green Bay review of whether the That’s double or triple the numbers recorded time is right to de-list lower Green Bay will take at other sites he monitors along the bay. until August 2016. It will keep Howe, Wolf, their students, and staff members Erin Giese, Michael Piping plovers, red knots and Hudsonian god- Stiefvater, Kimberlee McKeefry, Bobbie Webster wits — rare shorebirds that are endangered, and graduate assistant Stephanie Beilke busy on threatened and declining — are back. The 35 top of other, ongoing duties. nesting pairs of Forster’s terns in 2014 were the first lower bay colony in decades. Prestby It also keeps them on a path long-traveled by cam- has added the parasitic jaeger, red phala- pus researchers. rope, longtailed duck, red-necked grebe and As far back as the 1960s, Prof. Emeriti Bud Har- eared grebe to his list. ris and Paul Sager compiled baseline research Last winter, at least 15 different snowy owls on the bay’s health, and Robert Wenger and Jack habituated the Cat Island zone. Bald eagles, Day, among others, contributed important systems “They had been gone from that too, at least 50, were in the area, sometimes analysis and mathematical modeling. river for at least one hundred feeding on ducks clustered in spots kept ice- Harris helped craft the first remedial action plan, free by current or warmwater discharge. and he was local coordinator of a $13 million EPA years… It was exciting for Allowed access for his research, Prestby study that tracked the dispersal of toxic pollutants our students to be part of that has spent at least 400 hours counting birds through the ecosystem. The findings — that PCBs in-person, and countless more examining the could not be brought under control until contami- research. ” 80,000-plus images captured by his trail cam, nated upstream sediments were addressed — led pre-set to photograph every five minutes. to Fox River dredging work only now nearing com- – Professor Patrick Forsythe, pletion. By carefully comparing his in-person records Green Bay researcher with the trail-cam evidence shortly before Over time, the work of Harris, Sager, Wenger, Day and after his visits, Prestby might also give and later, the late David Dolan served to counter site managers a basis for an eventual deci- what was once common public sentiment around sion on how much public access is optimal, the time of the 1972 Clean Water Act: water pollu- raise concerns about sporadic, seasonal “dead especially for rare or reclusive species during tion was primarily a point-source, industrial prob- zones” that send fish fleeing. The web of partners breeding season. lem. includes UW-Green Bay, UW Sea Grant, the DNR, UW-Milwaukee and the metropolitan sewerage They and current-day researchers including (For his part, over a thousand visits, Prestby district’s research arm, NEW Water. (Our October Dornbush, Paul Baumgart, Kevin Fermanich and says no matter how quietly he closed the car 2013 magazine spotlighted those connections and Michael Zorn (the latter two with their own $225,000 door or stealthily approached the remote the exhaustive research of NEW Water’s Tracy grant) have advanced a watershed message urging viewing spot, he invariably put at least a few Valenta, a UWGB alumna. It’s archived at Inside private citizens to be mindful of runoff in their own birds on the move.) Online.) towns and backyards, even miles inland. In any event, Prestby is grateful species such Meanwhile — in keeping with veteran professor Today, the focus is finding best practices to as American white pelicans, Caspian terns Howe’s assessment of the prolific, damaged yet reduce phosphorous-rich sediment from reach- and gulls are abundant and, so far, predators rebounding ecosystem as a glass half-full — still ing the bay, where oxygen-robbing algae blooms are not. another UWGB researcher and his students are netting new surprises. Assistant Prof. Patrick Forsythe, hired three years ago to start a fisheries program, is finding evidence the bay’s recovery extends beyond the trophy mus- kellunge, walleye and smallmouth bass fishing that already draws anglers nationwide. Testing Green Bay tributaries this April, Forsythe, post-doc Chris Houghton and their students were the first to capture tiny, wriggling, larval evidence that another cornerstone species, lake whitefish, has fully returned to the Menominee River. “They had been gone from that river for at least one hundred years,” Forsythe says. “The last few years, it has been apparent that adult whitefish were making a comeback and attempting spawning runs. Now, we’ve documented that those runs are succeeding. It was exciting for our students to be part of that research.” — Christopher Sampson, with Sue Bodilly

8 UWGB INSIDE l May 2015 In his own words: Wisconsin’s top prof talks teaching

UW-Green Bay Frankenthal Professor of History Gregory S. Aldrete thanked his students, happened, trying to understand colleagues and his wife, Alicia, when he received the 2015 statewide Teaching Excellence Award how earlier events influenced later ones. We look at history at the UW System Board of Regents meeting in Waukesha on April 10. He also shared a lesson not as an inevitable succession on the value of history and the humanities. In receiving the prestigious award, Aldrete joined other of discrete events, but rather as esteemed UW-Green Bay faculty similarly honored in recent years: Clifton Ganyard, Human- a complex network of interre- istic Studies (2014) and Regan A.R. Gurung, Human Development (2011). The UW-Green Bay lated paths taken and not taken. Professional Program in Education received the UW System department of the year honors in 2011. Discussion, argument, and analysis play a key role in these investigations, and I always try to encourage lively debate in the Excerpts of Aldrete’s prepared remarks to the Regents: classroom. I’m an ancient historian, and I’d like to begin my brief comments by studying. And when I read these There are three fundamental sets sharing a bit of trivia about antiquity and the discipline of history itself. ancient texts with my students, of skills that I try to emphasize we are not passively absorbing The very first time that the word history was used with its current defi- in all classes: First, information information. We actively engage nition of “a record of past events” was by the Greek writer Herodotus, management: how to collect, the texts, we aggressively inter- who lived over 2,000 years ago, in the opening sentence of his famous organize, and assess informa- rogate them, we rip them apart account of the wars between Greece and Persia. However, the Greek tion. Second, communication and look both for the meanings word that he (used), “historia,” did not originally mean “a record of the skills: how to express yourself that the author intended to con- past.” Prior to Herodotus’ usage in that sentence, “historia” had simply clearly and persuasively, both in vey as well as those he or she did meant “asking questions.” I have always been very strongly attracted speech and in writing. Third, criti- not. We consider issues of bias, to this original meaning of history as an act of asking questions, and, cal thinking: developing the habit and think about what sources the in fact, view it as being squarely at the core of my philosophy, both of of constantly evaluating infor- author had to draw upon, and teaching and of doing research. mation according to rigorous, we always ask, "Can we believe objective standards, and being To me, the essence of teaching is the methodology pioneered by what the author says, and why, or open to re-assessing your own another famous person from the ancient world, Socrates, whose peda- why not?" gogy consisted entirely of posing questions to his students and getting beliefs according to those same When we begin to examine them to formulate and defend arguments. standards. historical events, it is not a matter These are skills that are essential I employ no textbooks in my classes. In all of them, the reading of memorizing what happened, and useful in any career, not just consists entirely of material written by the actual people that we are but rather exploring WHY things ones directly related to history or the humanities, and even more than that, these are valuable and beneficial to being an engaged, happy, and productive citizen, and making a positive contribu- tion as a member of society gen- erally. As you are all too well aware, we live in a moment when, across the nation, the value of a university education, and especially, the value of the humanities within that education, is being challenged. You are the Board of Regents, and the future of the UW System is in your hands. In whatever ways this wonderful education system ends up being transformed or changed over the coming years and decades, I hope that we never lose sight of the original core function of the university, which was to be a place in which informed, thoughtful citizens are forged, and above all, as a place, where questions are asked. Thank you for your time.

May 2015 l INSIDE UWGB 9 Skogens share lessons, success with UW-Green Bay

10 UWGB INSIDE l May 2015 Father and son Dave and Mark Skogen have piloted the growth of Festival Dave published a book in 2013, Boomerang! Leadership Principles Foods from relatively humble beginnings to 22 stores with more than 5,000 that Bring the Customer Back. He shared his wisdom with students employees today. Dave took over the business from his father, Paul, and as keynote speaker at UW-Green Bay’s Business Week dinner this transformed what was a small chain of IGA stores into Festival Foods in spring. Mark serves as a member of the UW-Green Bay Foundation 1990. Mark became President and CEO in 2006, and through his leadership, Board and also with the boards of the Green Bay Packers, Greater the company has grown into an industry leader. Dave, now Chairman of the Green Bay Community Foundation and Boys and Girls Club of Board, was named “Wisconsin Grocer of the Year” in 2005, and he and his Green Bay. He is a devoted Phoenix fan and active member of the wife, Barb, were named their region’s Outstanding Philanthropists for 2007. Phoenix Fund.

What is the biggest What about a great Biggest challenge Some would say obstacle you have leader? How do in keeping your brand loyalty had to overcome? you identify company nimble? is dying. future leaders? Do you agree? MARK: The transition from the small MARK: Empowerment. We have always Skogen’s IGA grocery store format to MARK: A great leader can rally the used the word in the past but it’s just MARK: There are so many more the Festival Foods format in 1989 was hearts and minds of associates around a word until others believe they are choices for shoppers today, (but)… not easy. We went from 25,000 square a goal that is identified as being good for empowered to make decisions… We will if you listen to guests to understand feet stores to 60,000 square feet. It’s a all concerned. The leader needs to be be focusing more and more on showing what they need, stay on top of industry different kind of operation that we had to a good listener and good at organizing the team it’s OK to make decisions on trends and maintain a strong dedica- learn on the fly. It was a bold move and priorities. In retail there are so many their own. If mistakes are made along tion to customer service, why would a catalyst to our growth. moving parts that prioritizing goals can the way we will support the decision guest not return? We know there are maker and use it as an opportunity to DAVE: For 35 years of our existence be harder than you may think. A great choices and that shoppers may check coach on how their next decision can be we were a small store operator. In 1990, leader cannot be afraid of holding others out other retailers, but we believe that even better. I despise the sluggishness we decided the “big box” model was accountable. if we maintain focus on what we do of bureaucracy and will do what it takes going to be our future niche. There was best, our guests will come back. DAVE: Humble, honest, forgiving, fear- to keep things moving quickly. a huge learning curve, but it ended up less, kind… more of a plow horse than a DAVE: Disagree. I believe those who being a nearly seamless transition. show horse. DAVE: Coaching our teammates on feel differently aren’t in the trenches the importance of change… The old enough with their antenna up. When paradigm was “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix you build relationships, you’re building To what do you What have you it.” The new paradigm involves continu- loyalty. ous improvement. owe your success? learned from each other, working MARK: I believe I owe my success to Why Festival is known my parents, who set the great founda- together through Wisconsin? tion in which I grew up. I recognized the years? for its response to the amazing career opportunity they community needs MARK: We’ve been successful here provided me without being told I had MARK: Do whatever it takes to make because of a culture that puts people to get into the business. Sports were and philanthropy. the guest happy — there is rarely a step first. Find the best teammates and also important. Basketball in particular my dad won’t take to satisfy a guest. Why? take care of them in a way that they taught me so much about drive, determi- Be passionate about the business. My won’t be taken care of elsewhere… nation, and the desire to win… I learned dad gives 100 percent when it comes MARK: Community involvement is one I wouldn’t say we won’t ever have a how to work hard and find ways to be to thinking about ways to improve and of our five values at Festival. We have store in another state but controlled successful with a team full of different raise our game to the next level. I have the support of our guests and we feel growth has always been important personalities. also learned a lot about giving back in it’s right to give that support back out to us. DAVE: Focus, passion and luck. If our communities. to the community. We want to be more DAVE: We diligently study the mar- you don’t attribute luck, you’re giving DAVE: When businesses are passed on than a grocery store; we want to make kets we serve, and we’re reasonably yourself too much credit. through generations, a lot of times you an impact in the cities where we do patient to not get ahead of ourselves. hear that the next generation doesn’t business. The old corner grocery store We’re not just throwing darts at cities. have the same qualities… the business in the ‘40s had an importance that was Out-of-state stores? Probably not What are the changes, and not for the better. Through greater than just selling groceries. in my time. There are still plenty of passing on the business to Mark, I’ve qualities of a The stores are bigger today but we still opportunities in Wisconsin. learned that the children can be as want to be a place the community can great employee? good, or better. Mark took what we built and he continues to make it better than count on. MARK: A bounce in their step and an If I had to do what it was. DAVE: Giving isn’t a choice, it’s an energy level that is ready to take on any obligation. We are born takers — babies this all over challenge the day may bring. We always and children take. Only when we are again, I would... say we hire great attitudes and will train taught to give do we learn to give. The the skills. only choice we have is, will we give to MARK: Change very little. We can all DAVE: In two words, character (our our capacity, or as little as we can? name little things that we would like to moral maturity) and humility (from the have played out differently over time, Greek “close to the ground”). but we also learn a lot from things that don’t go well.

DAVE: Learn how to fly a small plane, for personal and business use.

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May 2015 l INSIDE UWGB 11 Gary L. Miller, who stressed the importance of healthcare to Northeastern Wisconsin’s economy and quality of life. Miller also noted the Sandmire gift comes at an important juncture, as UW-Green Bay partners on the new Medical College of Wis- consin satellite campus at St. Norbert Col- lege. “Many of our students wish to remain in the area, and the new MCW campus will allow them to do that,” the chancellor said. “Herb and Crystal’s generosity will help these students pursue their dreams, which truly benefits us all.” The Sandmire donation tied a record for the University’s largest-ever single scholarship donation. In 2008, the family of Capt. Craig A. Mueller gave $1 million for scholarships, in accordance with the late alumnus’ wishes. An award-winning doctor of obstetrics and gynecology, Dr. Sandmire was a UW-Green Bay community lecturer in Human Biology from 1968 to 1989. “I have always been impressed with the quality of this institution’s faculty,” Herb Sandmire said, “and the many students who have gone through the laboratory instruction and pursued careers in the health sciences or medicine.” Photo by photography intern Sam Zingsheim Crystal started college in her youth at UW- Madison and stopped out until her five children left for college themselves. She enrolled Rx for scholarships at UWGB as a returning adult student and earned her Communication and the Arts Donors since 1969, couple raises the bar

Dr. Herbert and Crystal Sandmire are active ambassadors for UW-Green Bay, its students and programs. They’re also quiet “We know it’s going for a exemplars of the idea that private citizens can be terrific differ- ence-makers for public higher education. good cause. When I started The couple announced last fall a $1 million scholarship gift for college I had two scholar- continuing UW-Green Bay students who intend to pursue careers ships, so I have always in medicine or related medical fields. That it attracted local media attention wasn’t the point, but it did serve a larger purpose. known how important they “Quite a few people have approached us to talk about it,” Crystal can be. Education is para- says. “Whether at church, out in the community, with neighbors, at family gatherings… we’re happy because it draws attention not mount.” to us but to UWGB and the students. — Crystal Sandmire, Class of “It’s a chance to talk about the students and programs there. Also, if it happens to prompt someone else to think about what they can do to support the community and University, that’s 1980, and co-author of a a positive, too.” $1 million scholarship gift The Sandmires aren’t done, either. Later this year, they will make their annual donation to their hometown university. It will mark an amazing 47 consecutive years of charitable giving to benefit UW-Green Bay, since 1969. It’s the longest uninterrupted string of annual giving among the thousands of private individuals degree in 1980. She was a charter member who have supported the University and its students over the years. and officer of the UW-Green Bay Founders Association. The million-dollar scholarship donation supplements their earlier contributions to the Herbert F. and Crystal J. Sandmire Scholarship, established in 1987. The seven-figure addition is The Sandmires received UW-Green Bay’s expected to yield dozens of new scholarship awards annually. highest community honor, the Chancellor’s Award, in 2006. “This gift provides a tremendous boost for our Human Biology program and related areas in helping to prepare the medical professionals of tomorrow,” said UW-Green Bay Chancellor – CS

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NEW PHOENIX COACH arrives with SYKES fullcourt, shoot-first championship offense EYES NBA Linc Darner knows about everyone to win the NCAA Division II Championship. Darner‘s former team- Former defense. He played Big Ten Darner was named Coach of the Year. mates at Purdue include Phoenix basketball for Gene Keady Darner become a hot prospect for open D-I positions and NBA star Glenn Robin- star Keifer at Purdue, after all. the No. 1 choice of UW-Green Bay Athletics Director Mary son and current NCAA Sykes He knows the UW-Green Ellen Gillespie as the seventh coach in Phoenix history. coaches Matt Painter will have (Purdue) and Cuonzo a better Bay program he inherits "From the very start of our search process, Linc’s experi- has a rich defensive tradi- Martin (California Bears). idea of his ence as a head coach impressed all of us," Gillespie said. Painter thinks Green Bay future on June 25 when the tion. The winningest sea- "He has had tremendous success as a basketball coach sons in 46 years of Phoenix made a great hire. NBA holds its annual player and will be an outstanding coach and mentor for our stu- draft. men’s basketball, after all, dent-athletes. He is a proven winner, and on top of the wins, "He has been a proven came with Dave Buss and he runs outstanding programs." winner at every stop in Sykes averaged 18.6 points, his matchup zone in Divi- his career," Painter says. 4.5 rebounds and four Darner, 43, has 292 career victories and a .714 winning per- sion II and Dick Bennett and "He will bring an exciting assists per game in leading centage in 13 seasons. He transformed Florida Southern his suffocating man-to-man brand of basketball to the Phoenix to a 24-9 into a national power, making the NCAA tourney eight out in Division I. More recently, Green Bay." record. He won his second of nine years, and enjoyed similar success in his four years straight conference MVP Green Bay won 24 games "I‘m a basketball junkie with St. Joseph’s College in Indiana. award and was honorable and made the NIT each of and I watch college bas- mention All-America. the last two years with a Darner replaces Brian Wardle, who compiled a 95-65 ketball," Darner says. defense ranked among the record and one Horizon League regular-season title in five "Growing up in the Mid- The super-quick, high- best in the Horizon League. seasons before accepting the top job at Bradley. west, I know how good flying point guard from Darner is confident his Wardle’s best Phoenix teams liked to run, but Darner’s blue- the Horizon League is, Chicago finished with 2,096 teams’ style of defend- print is unlike anything seen previously at the Resch Center how good the teams points in four seasons, ing — pressing, attacking or, before that, at the Brown County Veterans Memorial are, so when the Green second only to Tony Bennett and disruptive — can be Arena. Bay job opened up I just on the career scoring list. equally effective, and a Last year, Florida Southern averaged 88 points per game thought it would be a With a 45-inch vertical leap, perfect complement to and 10 three-pointers per 40 minutes. In an era when both perfect fit." Sykes popped up regularly fast-breaking, up-tempo, critics and fans think slow play might be hurting college Darner will be joined in on ESPN and YouTube and bombs-away offense. basketball‘s popularity, a faster tempo stands out. Green Bay by his wife earned a berth in the State Farm college slam That combination worked "It’s a great style to coach, because we let guys play," Kristen, their daughter, dunk competition at sea- so well at Florida Southern Darner says. "If guys are open and it‘s a good shot for them, Layne (14), and son, son’s end, where he claimed College this past season we let them shoot it. We don‘t say you have to make five, Tate (9). second place. that the Moccasins went six, seven passes first… The style we play has been a great – CS 36-1 and ran away from attraction for the kids."

May 2015 l INSIDE UWGB 13 CAMPUS NEWS Apps from city climb thanks to donors, Phuture Phoenix

Through the generosity of from local schools into private donors, more than the early summer. 100 high school students The application offer is from the city of Green Bay funded by several long- have applied to UW-Green time donors and friends Bay for free this year. of Phuture Phoenix. Since the fall 2015 appli- It’s the latest initiative cation period opened, the for the award-winning standard $44 application program, which already fee has been waived for sponsors fall tour days students at three Phuture to bring fifth-graders from Phoenix partner schools – Title I schools through- Green Bay East, West, and out Northeastern Wis- Preble. Students were also consin to campus, and able to take advantage of arranges mentoring for “Hit Submit” application students in grades 6-12. assistance sessions, lunch UW-Green Bay has events and other programs seen significant gains designed to make it easier from East and West high for students to apply to col- schools. Applications leges and universities. from West total more Photo by photography intern Sam Zingsheim The numbers are rising, than 50 this year, double too, as UW-Green Bay last year’s total. Lambeau Field tours help expects more applications SEAL the DEAL for newcomers

UW-Green Bay is get- UW-Green Bay and other colleges and universities in ting some much-valued the Upper Midwest have been dealing with a falloff of recruiting assistance from traditional-age freshmen in recent years as a tempo- a powerful teammate with rary demographic dip moves through the high school a championship reputa- pipeline. This year, with a concerted recruitment effort, tion and winning record: the UW-Green Bay Admissions Office reports prog- The Green Bay Packers. ress in reversing that trend. Admits are up more than 5 percent. A Lambeau Field tour complete with skybox The Phoenix Night at Lambeau attracted about 100 stop (above) and locker visitors. Reaction was positive. room visit was made possible in April for high One parent of a potential freshman wrote back in an school students who email the next day, “My daughter is now very excited PH.D. FOR FOUNDING have been admitted to about attending UW-Green Bay in the fall. I was pleas- the University but won’t antly surprised by all of the faculty, staff and students PHUTURE PHOENIX be official until they reg- who were there sharing their experience and excite- ister for classes in June. ment for our campus... after all of the encouragement UW-Green Bay awarded an honorary doctoral degree The idea is to make this and her ability to see how much she can be a part of the to community advocate Virginia (Ginny) Riopelle dur- fall’s new freshmen feel campus, my daughter is very happy with her decision.” ing the University’s commencement ceremonies in welcome, to generate December at the Weidner Center. Riopelle, a longtime Chancellor Gary and Georgia Miller hosted the recep- a little Titletown excite- UW-Green Bay Trustee, fundraising leader and the tion, held in partnership with the Packers on the fourth ment, and also to ensure co-founder of the University’s award-winning Phuture floor balcony overlooking the Lambeau Atrium. Staff that applicants accepted Phoenix program, received a framed Doctor of Laws members from UW-Green Bay’s offices of financial aid, by multiple schools fol- degree from Chancellor Gary L. Miller (right) and registration, orientation, study abroad, athletics, diver- low through and enroll at Associate Provost Greg Davis. The citation noted that sity and others were part of the resource team and fair. Green Bay. in the years since earning her teaching certification The president and CEO of the Packers, Mark Murphy, at UWGB, Riopelle has been a tireless champion for is a strong supporter of UW-Green Bay and serves on students in K-12 and higher education. Most notably, the Foundation Board and Council of Trustees. Murphy she is the creator and co-founder of Phuture Phoenix, says the Packers view UW-Green Bay as an important which in little more than a decade has shown more ally in maintaining and building a strong economy in the than 15,000 local schoolchildren that education mat- team’s home city. ters, and college is possible.

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Best College Towns to Find a Job? Try Green Bay SINGING THE PRAISES The California-based jobs service ZipRecruiter posted its research this spring on America’s top twenty college towns for finding a job. Green Bay, Wis., was No. 5 OF STUDENT WORKER on the list! ZipRecruiter says it looked at its database of millions of job postings, It was a busy and eventful ment, Spanish, and Vocal calculated the ratio of job applicants to open positions, and ranked U.S. college year for UW-Green Bay Performance. She had the towns according to the level of competition. ZipRecruiter’s top five, in order, are senior Cassie Alfheim. The honor of being chosen to Fargo (North Dakota State), Boise, Idaho (Boise State), Fort Collins (Colorado Green Bay native learned perform at May 2015 com- State), Madison (UW-Madison) and Green Bay (UW-Green Bay). in April of her selection as mencement at the Kress both the UW-Green Bay Events Center, singing both Student Employee of the the “Star-Spangled Ban- Year and the state winner ner” to open the program of the same recognition. and the “UW-Green Bay Alfheim works in the cam- Alma Mater” to close it. BY THE NUMBERS: 17 straight, pus Grants and Research Office, where she assists 28-5, 600, No. 2 in academics professional staff in ensuring timely and smooth Even with 17 straight conference titles and a 15th trip One more point of transmission of all grant to the NCAA tournament, it never gets old for the UW- pride for 2014-15: The proposals and serves as Green Bay women’s basketball team. national publication a lead liaison for the UW Inside Higher Ed put Each year brings a new crop of players. This year it was System Posters in the its annual twist on the a relatively young Phoenix team that went 28-5, flirted Rotunda event in Madi- Field of 64 by judging with the AP Top 25 all year and gave Kevin Borseth his son (see page 20). Alfheim each game in the tour- 600th career win. majored in Arts Manage- nament on academics Youth prevailed in the Horizon League Championship as measured by the game at the Kress in March as the Phoenix took the NCAA’s team-by-team gold ball and the automatic NCAA bid with an overtime classroom performance thriller vs. Wright State. Tournament MVP Tesha Buck, metric, and the gradua- TENNIS POWERS TO NCAAS a sophomore, had 24 points, and two reserves — fresh- tion success rate. The The Green Bay men’s tennis team continues to make man Allie LeClaire (17) and sophomore Sam Terry (16) Phoenix swept through inroads at the NCAA’s highest levels. The Phoenix won — came up big, as well. to the finals, finishing another Horizon League title to claim the program’s sec- second only to DePaul In the NCAA tournament, Green Bay gave undefeated ond straight bid to the Division I Tournament. For the first among the 64 major- Princeton (31-0) all it could handle but fell late, 80-70. time, a Phoenix player — senior Michael Tenzer of Neur- college schools that Sophomore Mehryn Kraker had a game-high 21 points ied, Germany — cracked the national rankings of the top qualified for the NCAA and junior Kaili Lukan added 17. The Phoenix loses only 100 singles players. Tenzer and Leopold Gomez Islinger tournament. two seniors, Megan Lukan and Ellen Edison, from this were first-team all-conference. Coach Mark Thomas’s year’s roster. team had a distinct international flair, with five players from Germany, two from England and one from Spain on the 10-man squad.

First Fan takes in first Phoenix game was seated with fans from Princeton, where his niece is a reserve forward. Phoe- nix coach Kevin Borseth shook hands with the POTUS – “I thought it was pretty cool” – just before tipoff, and ESPN cut away often to presidential reaction shots. Phoenix star Mehryn Kraker tried to make sure Obama’s pres- President Barack Obama ence wasn’t a distraction. was in the house March “We just said ‘focus.’ A cou- 21 for the opening game ple of our freshmen were of the 2015 NCAA tourna- a little starry-eyed coming ment between No. 8 seed out, and we were like, ‘let’s Princeton and No. 9 Green go!’ It’s a big deal, don’t get Bay at the Xfinity Center in me wrong, but we needed College Park, Md. Obama to focus on the game.”

May 2015 l INSIDE UWGB 15 CAMPUS NEWS Artwork provides window to REFLECT ON 'FLAG'

When student Gena Selby affixed appears gray in daylight adhesive vinyl to the exterior win- but pops out in vivid detail dows of the Mary Ann Cofrin Hall when viewed through atrium to create her public art night-vision goggles. installation, titled simply “Flag,” it Responds Selby, “I didn’t made an oversized statement in design it with the IR flag one of the University’s most heav- in mind, but I am pleased ily-trafficked areas. to count this interpretation among the many possible The giant representation — measuring 30 feet long responses.” PR champions! by 16 feet high — grew out of Selby’s own history of UW-Green Bay Communication students earned military service and an assignment in Assistant Prof. Selby knows the military top prize in one of the region’s most prestigious Alison Stehlik’s Intermediate Sculpture class. life well. She deployed to both Iraq and Afghani- student public relations competitions earlier this Once her professor cleared the project with campus stan, and around the spring. The campus chapter of the Public Rela- Facilities Management, designer Selby and family 432nd Civil Affairs Battal- tions Student Society of America was judged to be members cut vinyl on-site, climbed ladders and devoted ion she’s known as Major No. 1 at the Edelman Case Studies Competition in three days in April to installing the piece. Chicago hosted by Loyola University and Columbia Selby, commander of C College. During the case study competition, stu- Her choice of a matte-black finish was intentional, of Company. course, “in order to invite the viewer to pause and con- dents competed in teams to find the best solution A senior pursuing double sider their response to flag imagery.” for the proposed client. Teams then presented to majors in Art and Arts a judging panel of executives from Edelman Public In her artist’s notes, Selby observes that the U.S. flag is Management, she was Relations, the world’s largest public relations firm. an unmistakable icon the world over, evoking powerful selected to exhibit at this Communication major Taylor Thomson, president emotions pro and con. Even in the United States, the spring’s Academic Excel- of the UW-Green Bay PRSSA chapter, headed a widely shared view that the flag symbolizes the great lence Symposium, spot- team that included executive board and chapter “land of opportunity” is tempered by concern in some lighting the research and members William Canzoneri, Leah Christianson, quarters that social inequality is a rising problem. What- creative abilities of top Sally Henne, Michael Kinscher, Emily Schuh, Kate- ever the perspective, Selby writes, “Flag” dominates its UW-Green Bay students. lyn Staaben and Katie Vlachina. Faculty adviser is space, and passers-by see themselves reflected in the There she showed prints Danielle Bina. window (and flag) as they view the work. and etchings inspired by industrial landscapes of Some veterans were reminded of a combat soldier’s the city of Green Bay. infrared (IR) flag patch, an identification aid that — CS UWGB STUDENTS TOP ADDY AWARDS UW-Green Bay Art and Design students scored big at the local Addy Awards program hosted earlier this spring by the Fox River Ad Club chapter of the American Advertis- ing Federation. Graphic design student Logan Sprangers — who has freelanced professionally in motion graphics and cinematography — won three awards, including two Gold Awards for animated promotional spots. Design and web intern Neil Ropson snared a Silver Ball for his conceptualization of an illustrated brand package for a hypothetical line of Converse sneakers (left).

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Stand-up comedy plays well in Green Bay, a trend the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts anticipates this summer with three major acts in succession. It starts with the down-home humor of Rodney Carrington on Saturday night, May 30. Comic Tim Hawkins, who mixes standup and song parodies while graciously proclaiming, “If you can’t laugh at yourself, laugh at other people,” is booked for Sunday, July 19. Finally, there’s big interest in the Aug. 6 show featuring Miranda Sings; YouTube fans will recognize Miranda Sings Pound for pound, biology student as the alter ego of comedic actress Colleen Ballinger, among AMERICA’S STRONGEST whose manic stage creation is an epically It’s not a secret, but named the meet’s best female lifter for her pound-for- bad singer and dancer. according to Human Biol- pound performance. For the Weidner Center, ogy major Kimmy John- “Everything seemed to fall into place perfectly even the summer acts arrive son, most people don’t though it was my first time competing out of state,” says on the heels of one of the know about her success Johnson, who with her win earned an invite to repre- venue’s strongest seasons outside the classroom. in years. Shows by John sent America in an international meet in the Czech Mellencamp, Bo Burnham, This April, Johnson tested Republic in September. herself against some the “Mythbusters” guys, Johnson took up powerlifting in high school to gain of America’s top power Gabriel (Fluffy) Iglesias strength for softball. She placed fourth in state her lifters in the USAPL and the Army Field Band junior year and then took gold at the prep powerlifting Collegiate Powerlifting were top draws. nationals her senior year. National Championships in Atlanta, competing in Johnson works at the Kress Events Center as a weight the 57 kg (125 pound) room attendant, group fitness instructor and personal weight class. trainer, and she’s active across campus in the Dietetics Club and student fitness club. With travel for competi- With a bench press of 240 tions, it’s a hectic schedule. CHANCELLOR, AD EARN pounds, roughly twice her weight, and a dead lift of “My professors helped me move my test dates because KEY NCAA POSITIONS 385 (you do the math), I had to miss a few for Nationals,” she says. “Other than she not only took first in that, I don’t think many people know what I do.” In the coming years, UW-Green Bay will be repre- her weight class, she was sented on two influential NCAA committees — the After graduating in December 2016, Johnson hopes to one that passes judgment on possible rules violations use her experiences to help others improve their health. and the one that selects the field for the NCAA wom- — KS ’15 en’s basketball tournament. Chancellor Gary L. Miller learned in May that he has been appointed to a three- year term on the Committee on Infractions, which is charged with deciding infraction cases involving D-I member institutions and their employees. Earlier this Diverse programming finds an audience year, Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Mary Ellen In a year in which UW-Green Bay is enrolling record numbers of students of color — Gillespie was appointed to the NCAA Division I Wom- about 800, or 12 percent of total enrollment — programs aimed at promoting diversity are en’s Basketball Committee. Her five-year term on the finding an audience. Justin Mallet, the University’s director of diversity, intends to expand 10-member panel will begin Sept. 1. Miller called the the capacity of the next Soul Food Dinner to 325 because this February’s event hosted appointments “fantastic recognition” for UW-Green by the Black Student Union was at capacity. The Intertribal Student Council’s Pow Wow Bay and Phoenix Athletics. in April generated good attendance. Also at or near capacity was an April panel discussion on “Race Relations and the Local Police,” which yielded positive media coverage.

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WPS helps brighten the Weidner HISTORY Chancellor Gary L. Miller poses with Chuck Cloninger, REMAINS president of Wisconsin Public Service Corporation, to The Green Bay Symphony celebrate the latest act in the Green Bay-based util- Orchestra’s 100-year ity’s long record of support for the Weidner Center collection of music scores and UW-Green Bay. The Wisconsin Public Service will remain available for Foundation donated $100,000 that will go toward tech- community use via the nology upgrades for the high-performance theatrical Cofrin Library’s Area lighting in the 2,000-seat Cofrin Family Hall. Research Center. The youth and orchestral music libraries were purchased and donated by physician Herb Coussons SWEET YEAR for after the GBSO disbanded as a professional organization. The Youth Sym- UW-Green Bay scholarships phony, Civic Symphony and music programs at UWGB and St. Norbert The UW-Green Bay Foundation, Inc., had another banner It’s customary for grate- College retain access to year in 2014, collecting $5.7 million in private philanthropic ful recipients to write the collection that also support for the University, and $2 million in pledges. thank-you cards to their includes photos, news donors, but Marty made One growth area has been donor-endowed scholarships, clippings, season program an additional gesture. where a flurry of gifts has boosted the named-and-annual books and historic audio He presented Nair’s scholarship payout to more than one-half million dollars. recordings of concerts. widow with a Mason-jar Spread over several hundred deserving recipients, the of pure honey collected scholarship program typically provides awards in the on campus through the $500 to $1,500 range, although some are more. For new student beekeep- ‘BIG DATA’ BRINGS most, the money isn’t enough to cover all or even half of a ing club, of which he’s a semester’s tuition, but it can help with the cost of books, member. DATA SCIENCE MASTER’S free up time for studying by allowing students to cut back “I did it because it was on outside earnings, and add the prestige of scholarship UW-Green Bay has partnered with UW-Extension and difficult to express my selection to a resume. five other campuses on a new 36-credit online master’s feelings of gratitude by degree in data science. Grads will help decision-makers Student Jordan Marty, a senior Biology major from Green words alone,” Marty make better use of the flood of information from a grow- Bay, is among this year’s recipients. Marty earned the says. “This was my first ing number of sources: online user-input data, computer- Ganga and Elizabeth Nair Endowed Scholarship for Natu- scholarship award, so generated log data, supplemental databases accessible ral Science, established in 2010 in memory of longtime I hadn’t experienced from external sources and the web, and a rapidly expand- UW-Green Bay professor and world-renowned forest that kind of generosity ing network of remote electronic sensors now commonly pathologist Ganga Nair. before.” embedded in strategic locations, products or systems.

MSW ENTERS NEW ERA UW-Green Bay, operating for the first time as its own free- standing program, will enroll approximately 85 students this fall in the “new” Master of Social Work program. The degree isn’t exactly new, though: For a dozen years previous, UW-Green Bay partnered on a collaborative MSW with UW-Oshkosh. New this year, and thanks to the success of the joint venture, the UW Regents authorized each school to operate independently.

Cofrin School of Business, Nursing get positive reviews The Cofrin School of Business, pursuing elite recognition with accreditation by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, had its self-study report approved, a key step in a multi-year process. Also this spring, reviewers from the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education reacted favorably to the Nursing program’s bid for re-accreditation at the undergraduate level and initial accreditation for the online master’s in Nursing Leadership and Management in Health Systems. Photo by photography intern Sam Zingsheim

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UW-GREEN BAY FACULTY, GRADS EAGER FOR MEDICAL COLLEGE DEBUT

Professors including Amanda Nelson and Craig will use MCW facili- Hanke (above, with student) are eagerly antici- ties at Bellin College. “We have a shortage of pating, even more so than usual, the start of fall When students begin primary-care physicians in semester classes. their clinical rotations, The twist is that they’ll begin teaching in August, they will receive train- this area… This (program) is and not at UW-Green Bay but across town in ing at partner loca- going to keep some of our best De Pere, at the location of the new Medical Col- tions including Bellin lege of Wisconsin-Green Bay. Health, Hospital Sis- students in the area, right in ters Health System, Nelson and Hanke are counted among the ten Prevea Health, and our own backyard.” UW-Green Bay faculty members who will join the U.S. Dept. of Vet- five from St. Norbert College in teaching part erans Affairs Milo C. – Professor Amanda Nelson time with MCW-Green Bay, the medical col- Huempfner Outpatient Clinic. MCW has also lege’s first branch campus outside Milwaukee. recruited instructors and mentors from among and cuts down the time and cost to students “I think there is a lot of excitement,” says Hanke, the ranks of local physicians. earning a medical degree. who will continue to spend the majority of his UW-Green Bay officials note that the Universi- UW-Green Bay faculty members selected to time teaching physiology and neurobiology ty’s four-year undergraduate program in Human teach in the MCW-Green Bay program are: for UW-Green Bay’s Human Biology program. Biology has a long and successful track record “Our students here recognize an opportunity for in preparing graduates for healthcare careers • Craig Hanke, Ph.D., Human Biology more seats in medical programs, and we have and medical school admission. a lot of students who apply to medical school. • Dennis Lorenz, Ph.D., Psychology Scott Furlong, dean of the College of Liberal To be able to go to medical school in a region • James Marker, Ph.D., Human Biology where they’ve grown up and potentially to tran- Arts and Sciences, says UW-Green Bay faculty sition right into a clinically-based practice in this teaching at MCW will have even greater insight • Daniel Meinhardt, Ph.D., Human Biology area, makes it that much more exciting.” to share with bachelor’s degree students here who are contemplating medical careers. • Brian Merkel, Ph.D., Human Biology Nelson, who teaches courses in anatomy, physiology and kinesiology at UW-Green Bay, About 400 new physicians graduate annually • Amanda Nelson, Ph.D., Human Biology from Wisconsin’s two medical schools, MCW sees benefits not only for current students who • Debra Pearson, Ph.D., RD, Nutrition are interested in med school, but for the region and the University of Wisconsin School of as a whole. Medicine. MCW reported earlier this year that it • Uwe Pott, Ph.D., Human Biology already had 7,000 students apply for admission The first cohort of about two dozen students to the highly rigorous and selective program. • Dean Von Dras, Ph.D., Psychology arrives in July, and classes begin in August MCW Green Bay will use an entirely new, accel- The MCW-Green Bay classrooms will be housed • Sarah VanderZanden, DVM, Human Biology erated model that eliminates summer breaks on the St. Norbert campus, but students also and practicing veterinarian

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STUDENTS ENJOY CAPITOL OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE RESEARCH FINDINGS

Seven hand-picked student researchers from UW-Green Bay joined more than 125 other undergraduates from across the state in exhibiting at the 12th Annual Posters in the Rotunda spotlight event at the State Capitol in Madison on April 22. The UW-Green Bay students posed pre-event with faculty and administrators making the trip including Chancellor Gary L. Miller and Profs. Gabriel Saxton-Ruiz and Jennifer Lanter (top row, above). Undergraduates from each of the System’s 26 campuses filled the rotunda with poster displays to share the findings of their diverse research subjects which, in many cases, are the culmination of multiple academic years of study and collaboration with faculty mentors and community partners throughout Wisconsin. UW System officials say the event demonstrates to legislators, state leaders, alumni and others that the state’s public universities are national leaders in undergraduate research, Lidia Nonn, director of the Office of Grants and Research at UW-Green Bay, has been to every “Posters” since its inception in 2004. She said this year’s UWGB delegation was again strong – the University prides itself on its problem-focused curriculum – and the students selected rep- resented a variety of academic interests. (See profiles on these pages.) “The legislators who visited, the alumni, and people from other campuses who browsed the exhibits came away impressed by the range of subjects, Bilingualism in healthcare and the depth and quality of our students’ work,” Nonn said. Julia Rose Shariff, a graduating senior from Green Bay double UW System President Ray Cross made a point of visiting each presenter majoring in Human Biology and Spanish, presented her research and engaging the students in discussion about their projects. on the topic The Lost Connection: Benefits of Being a Bilingual “With every year, and at every UW System institution, research becomes Professional in the U.S. Healthcare System. Shariff has been a more essential part of our students’ experience and success,” Cross accepted into the first-year cohort at the Medical College of told a reporter. “The state of Wisconsin grows and benefits, too.” Wisconsin-Green Bay. Faculty adviser: Cristina Ortiz, – CS Humanistic Studies.

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Tracking birds at a lakeshore refuge Lindsay Hansen of Kiel, a graduating senior in Biology, displayed a poster describing her ornithology research at ecologically important sites along the Lake Michigan shoreline. Its title: Monitoring the Importance of River Mouth and Shoreline Habitats for Migratory Birds at Kingfisher Farm and Nearby Natural Areas in Manitowoc County. Faculty adviser: Robert Howe, Natural and Applied Sciences.

Replicating a cancer- fighting compound Seniors Lauren Anderson of Green Bay and Noel Craig of Shawano shared the results of their chemistry-focused Efforts Directed Toward the Synthesis of Obo- lactone, part of ongoing work to mimic an anti-cancer compound found naturally in a tree native to Southeast Asia. Faculty adviser: Julie Wondergem, Natural and Applied Sciences.

Photo by photography intern Sam Zingsheim

Mapping Marinette-area groundwater How do children learn plurals? Christa Kananen of Sobieski, a May graduating senior in Geoscience, Katharine Bright of Green Bay and Kayla Hucke of Hartland, shared her research poster Drawdown of the Potentiometric Surface graduating seniors in Human Development and Psychology, pursued in the Cambrian-Ordovician Aquifer in Marinette County. Her work their joint project by way of child’s play — and serious research with earned this year’s UW-Green Bay Sager Scholarship for Scientific toddlers — at the UW-Green Bay Language Learning Lab. Their poster Writing presented to the undergraduate who best demonstrates excel- was Impact of Phonology and Number on Children’s Novel Plural lence in scientific writing. Faculty adviser: John Luczaj, Natural and Production. Faculty adviser: Jennifer Lanter, Human Development. Applied Sciences.

May 2015 l INSIDE UWGB 21 IN THE CLASSROOM Education master’s takes to the road (and finds success) following Act 10 shakeup

Two years ago, the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Master’s Program in Applied Leadership for Teaching and Learning and Office of Outreach had to adapt in the wake of Wisconsin Act 10. The legislation rewrote the relationship between the state’s local school districts and teachers unions. District funding of professional development, and pay scales that rewarded post-baccau- laureate degrees, were no longer guaranteed. For UW-Green Bay, the answer was a new model: Take your education master’s on the road and on-site, partnering with the Plym- outh School District as a pilot. Fast-forward to this spring. About From left: school board members Jamie Gambrell, Sally Isley and Bob Travis; Dan Mella, Plymouth School District assistant 15 teachers from the first cohort at superintendent; Claire Emley, adjunct instructor, UW-Green Bay Outreach and Adult Access; Timothy Kaufman and Linda Plymouth graduates have finished Tabers-Kwak, UW-Green Bay associate professors of Education; Carrie Dassow, Plymouth superintendent; Todd Hunt, Plymouth, principal of Horizon Elementary. Not present: Carmen Leuthner, Outreach and Adult Access. their master’s degrees, and a dozen more expected to complete Meanwhile, Plymouth has commit- Carmen Leuthner, Amy Bartelme “The board and the Plymouth dis- their degrees over the summer. ted to another cohort of 20 begin- and Mary Valitchka. trict committed to paying the tuition In all, the 33 educators receiving ning in fall of 2015. There was no attrition from the 27 and to building in incentives,” graduate degrees in May were the “It went unbelievably well,” said educators who started two years Kaufman said. “Since the candi- largest-ever graduating class for Tim Kaufman, former chair of ago — Pre-K to 12th grade teach- dates were doing actual school the Master’s in Applied Leadership UWGB’s education program, who ers, social workers, psychologists research, they fit very nicely into for Teaching and Learning. worked with faculty member Linda and student services personnel, school and district goals.” Tabers-Kwak and staff members as well. – SB faculty/staff regional award, the Kennedy Center effort to gauge student success by “learn- Directions for the Twenty-First Century, NOTES Gold Medallion. A member of the Theatre ing outcomes and proficiencies.” co-edited by Prof. Emeritus Michael E. and Dance faculty, she was lauded for Kraft, marking the 25th anniversary of its Two retiring academic staff members her extraordinary contributions to the first edition. Another popular text updated were granted emeritus status. Gary Few- teaching and production of theatre and for for new audiences was the fifth edition of less, longtime lecturer and curator of the dedication to ACTF. Since 1993 she has The New Urban Sociology, co-authored University Herbarium — now renamed directed more than 30 productions includ- by Sociology Prof. Ray Hutchison of in his honor — was recognized for his ing seven invited to regional competition, Urban and Regional Studies. Hutchison “unrivaled devotion to science, students most recently Avenue Q in 2014. is coordinating an international confer- and the priceless environmental diversity ence this July in Florence, Italy, that will Regan A. R. Gurung, professor of of our region.” Former Registrar and address rapidly increasing diversity and Human Development and Psychology, academic adviser Michael Herrity was urbanization in metropolitan areas. has been selected to serve on the honored for service to students, commu- American Psychological Association com- nity and “the power of higher education.” Coral Lee Mackey, academic adviser mittee charged with identifying models from 1971 through her retirement in 1998, Lucy Arendt, associate professor and for improving undergraduate education in died April 7 in Milwaukee at age 86. director of the Cofrin School of Business, In January, management professor David psychology nationwide. Donna Dacey, longtime assistant man- is co-author with Prof. Emeritus Daniel Radosevich of Business Administration ager and textbook director for the campus Elected to a three-year term on the J. Alesch of the book Long-Term Com- became the first UW-Green Bay faculty bookstore, passed away Dec. 25 at the national Council for Undergraduate munity Recovery from Natural Disasters. member awarded the prestigious Austin age of 89. John O. Kalies, 77, a power Research is Jennifer Lanter, an associ- The 2014 book The Fight For the Four E. Cofrin Chair in Business. The endowed plant operator for 30 years starting when ate professor in Human Development and Freedoms: What Made FDR and the chair supports work honoring the innova- the Shorewood site was new, died Dec. Psychology. Greatest Generation Truly Great by tive legacy of Austin E. Cofrin, founder of 9. Former Wisconsin Poet Laureate Ellen Prof. Harvey J. Kaye of Democracy and Fort Howard Paper Company. Physics Prof. Heidi Fencl of Natural and Kort, 79, an ad hoc poetry instructor, died Justice Studies was named to Bill Moyers’ Applied Sciences is among six faculty April 21 in Appleton. Prof. Laura Riddle has been honored year-end list of important reads. Getting members from across the state selected with the Kennedy Center American a ninth printing just in time for Earth to lead the UW System’s Faculty Collab- College Theatre Festival’s highest Day was Environmental Policy: New oratives project, part of a larger national

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Life behind camera CLICKS for former paratrooper

After a “horrendous” From there, he took an entirely new path — one that led His introduction to the field came when a VA rehabilitation high school career, back to his hometown university and a 2004 UW-Green counselor told him the military was in need of journalists and would pay for a camera, so he gave it a shot. A visual Justin Connaher found Bay degree in Communication and came full circle with his award-winning work as a military photojournalist. competency course at UW-Green Bay opened his eyes meaning in his life by to his own passion and aptitude for good photography. joining the military. He Connaher was selected the 2012 and 2014 Air Force Civilian Photographer of the Year. The Army challenged him physically; his education at loved the structure, and UW-Green Bay challenged him intellectually. the challenge of being a Headquartered with the 673rd Air Base Wing, public affairs division, at the Elmendorf-Richardson base in “My favorite class at UWGB was photography with Prof. parachute infantryman. Anchorage, Alaska, Connaher works for all five branches Sarah Detweiler. It was a rewarding experience because Connaher’s visions of service. His photos have been featured on the Air she pushed me to communicate visually. I learned the of a long U.S. Army Force, Army, and Department of Defense websites, in true science behind photography and that to be a great external publications and the Military Times newspapers, photographer, you had to hold a true understanding of career ended abruptly and in national and international media, print, broadcast, how to use and develop film,” Connaher says. in 1997, however, when and online editions. He captures images that tell the story Connaher joined the staff of the Fond du Lac Reporter a serious parachuting and stir emotion. and earned more than two dozen Gannett, state and accident left him partly “If people don’t feel something when they look at your national awards before he accepted the Elmendorf-Rich- disabled. work, what was the point? If they feel nothing, you have ardson job in 2011. failed,” Connaher says. — Daniele Frechette ’11

A half dozen UW-Green Bay Deborah (Rosenthal) Hood 1970s l alumni now serve in the Wiscon- ’77 population dynamics, has Nancy J. Makuen ’70 sin State Legislature. The vet- co-authored chapters in two communication, who was erans of the group are Senators new books: Bringing Better Nancy Leicht Lambeau when Dave Hansen ’71 (D-Green Bay) Healthcare to the Community: she joined 77 classmates and and Rob Cowles ’75 (R-Allouez), Lessons from a Public-Private Lasee Krug Quinn Vorpagel crossed the stage at UWGB’s who are midway through their Partnership for Cancer Care first commencement, died Nov. latest four-year terms. Frank and Dyad Leadership: When 30 in Ellison Bay at 89. She car- Lasee ’86 (R-Ledgeview) won Assembly was state Rep. Scott (R-Plymouth). Quinn, 24, is the 1+1 Equals More Than 2. ried the famous Lambeau name a second Senate term last fall. Krug ’09 (R-Rome). Newly former mayor of Rice Lake. Vor- She retired as VP of the through her marriage to Curly’s Also re-elected in November elected to the Assembly were pagel was previously an aide to National Oncology Service Line son. A guidance counselor, she to a third, two-year term in the Romaine R. Quinn ’14 (R-Rice U.S. Rep. Tom Petri. for Catholic Health Initiatives, later married Don Makuen, a Lake) and Tyler Vorpagel ’07 Denver. UWGB administrator.

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Energy, good writing POWER her success

If power industry execu- cooperatives and municipalities in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nick got the job, and finished her bachelor’s with a major tive and children’s book Iowa and Illinois. in Communication and minor in Business Administration. author Barbara (Biel- Nationwide, she’s one of only a few female chief execu- Years afterward, she would complete Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program. meier) Nick ’83 ever tives in her industry. Her start in the tech-heavy field, 35 years ago, also sets her apart. It came in communica- At WPS, she was a fast learner and rose through the pens a memoir about her tions. ranks, ultimately becoming senior vice president of atypical career arc, the At UW-Green Bay, Nick tutored in the writing skills lab, energy delivery and customer service. When she left, in chapter on her college worked as a linguistics researcher with Prof. Donald 2014, she edited a management book, Lenses of Leader- experience will be cen- Larmouth, and offered English-as-a-Second-Language ship, A Call to Action, and wrote two Bella the Dragon tral to the story. assistance to international students. children’s books. (For the latter, she cites the inspiration of former Prof. Joan Thron of the Education faculty.) Her Nick is CEO and president In 1981, she saw a card posted on the job board in the “retirement” was brief, however, when Dairyland offered of Dairyland Power Coop- Student Services Building. Wisconsin Public Service a new opportunity. erative, La Crosse, which Corp., the local utility, was looking for a technical writer. provides wholesale elec- Having studied with the exacting Larmouth, she knew she “I love the industry, especially the people — they’re tricity to 40-plus member was qualified. extremely smart, very technical and capable — and the service we provide is so important to our customers, members and their communities.” — CS

David Kriebel ’77 human Karen (Chervenka) Derbique natural landscaping. The former Liza (Grosskopf) Schneider biology, visited 1980s l ’81 associate of arts, is the classroom teacher turned ’84 human development, owns campus in March associated director of financial anti-lawn crusader will lead a her own history/writing service, Mona Christensen ’80 to receive the aid for St. Norbert College, workshop on the advantages Escrivez par la Baie, Green Bay. music and ’96 2015 Earth De Pere. of “yardening” this June at the administrative Caretaker Award Midwest Renewable Energy Nadine ‘Dene” Hellman ’85 science, has presented by the Margaret Mary Gerhard ’81 Association’s annual fair in extended degree, is the author been appointed Kriebel Environmental master’s of Custer, Wis. of The People Under the House, executive Management and Business environmental which tells the story of her late director of Birch Institute. Director of the Lowell arts and sci- Nancy (Rose) Sweetland ’83 husband, a Nazi death camp Christensen Creek Music Center for Sustainable Produc- ences, continues bachelor of general studies, is survivor, their marriage and his Performance Center in Door tion, Kriebel has been on the to make appear- a freelance writer with Writing post-traumatic stress disorder. County. As director of camps faculty of the University of Mas- ances in her That Works, Green Bay, and She started the book three and conferences for UW-Green Gerhard sachusetts Lowell since 1988, “Mother Nature” an instructor for the Institute decades ago when Prof. Peter Bay she contributed to the where he teaches courses in persona as an educator and of Children’s Literature. She Kellogg requested students growth of the school’s popular epidemiology, risk assessment, advocate for recycling, smart recently published her third write a memoir for class. She summer youth camp program. and research synthesis. land and water use, and novel, The House on the Dunes. lives in Winston-Salem, N.C.

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Paul Knepper ’85 social Michael Heidger ’94 bachelor Chad Jacobson ’97 business change and development, is a 1990s l of general studies, is a human administration, is a global 2000s l professor of criminology in the resources manager for the product marketing manager for Christopher Renard ’90 Lisa (Cornelissen) Bos ’01 School of Law at the University Crosby Group in Longview, Tex. portables at Tyco Fire Protec- business administration, is the human development and psy- of Sheffield, in England. His tion Products, Marinette. owner of Renard’s Cheese in chology, is a human resources academic specialty involves Shelly (Wozniak) Rosenquist Door County. business partner for Schneider the history of criminal justice, ’95 art, is an instructor and Joel Zwicky ’97 psychology, senior communication specialist continued to make headlines National, Green Bay. particularly in frontier and Luc Francillon ’91 accounting, at UW-Milwaukee. She paints in 2014 as Green Bay’s colonial contexts and the rise of returned to campus last fall to Andrew Lautenbach ’01 Ger- and exhibits at art shows and "skateboard cop" and for his crime as an international issue. talk about his career as chief man, is on the music faculty of exhibits across Wisconsin. work reaching out to teens with He is the editor of the European financial officer for a division of Paekche Institute of the Arts, autism. Journal of Criminology, and has Mars, Inc. James Stockman ’96 human South Korea. been a visiting fellow at Oxford, biology, has been promoted Todd Hassenfelt ’98 business Tony Bennett ’92 humanistic Dr. Laura Rammer ’01 the University of Malta and the to the rank of commander and administration, is Midwest studies, had his Virginia Cava- mathematics, University of Lausanne. director of the U.S. Navy Office regional vice president for Bal- liers men’s basketball team has continued of Community Outreach, which lantyne Brands. Cristina Danforth ’88 social in the AP top five most of the to accumulate helps ensure that "Americans work, delivered season. The team finished 30-4 accolades since outside Fleet concentration Brian Simons ’98 history, the commence- and earned Bennett ACC coach receiving the areas have the opportunity has returned to ment address in of the year honors for a second Alumni Associa- to connect with their Navy." Green Bay with December, shar- straight year — not bad in a Rammertion’s Outstanding Stockman spent five years his appointment ing an Oneida conference that includes Mike Recent Alumni Award in 2012. overseas, based in Germany as director perspective and Krzyzewski, Roy Williams, Jim Rammer, who owns and Danforth and Japan, as a public affairs of the Brown encouraging Boeheim and Rick Pitino. operates her own dentistry officer. County Library grads to give back to their com- Simons System. He was practice in Sheboygan, was Sarah (Osterberg) Inman munities. A recap can be found Dr. Joseph J. Carroll ’97 previously director of the award- named an Outstanding Young ’92 political science, is the at http://bit.ly/danforthGB human biology, is a co-principal winning Verona Public Library. Wisconsinite by the Jaycees of vice president of community investigator of Wisconsin, and inducted as a Kimberly Kampschroer ’89 investment and strategic impact a four-year, $2 Alfred Bellile ’99 human fellow into the International Col- social work, is the supervisor of for Brown County United Way, million grant biology, is a clinical systems lege of Dentistry in 2013. In her school social work services for Green Bay. from the National analyst at Hospital Sisters spare time she has achieved Milwaukee Public Schools. Health System, Green Bay. April VandenPlas ’92 Spanish, Eye Institute to success raising and exhibiting Alison (Van Duyse) Walker is an engineering technician for research vision show-quality Holstein and Carroll ’89 psychology, is a vice presi- the city of Mankato, Minn. She’s loss in albinism. Jersey dairy cattle including dent and financial adviser for also one-half of The Sassy- Carroll is the Richard O. best-in-class champions at the Baylake Bank in Sturgeon Bay. pants Sisters, a "pirate wench Schultz, MD/Ruth Works Pro- prestigious World Dairy Expo. comedy duo" that made its fessor at the Medical College debut at the 2014 Des Moines of Wisconsin and the director of Renaissance Faire. MCW’s advanced ocular imag- ing program. Always Climb Higher, and a gold-medal career Jeff Pagels’ success as an inspirational author, speaker, Olympic-caliber athlete and natural-resource manager is fueled by his love for the outdoors and his determination to rise above life’s challenges. Pagels has used a wheelchair since 1984 when an encounter with a falling tree left him a T-10 paraplegic. He returned to school after the accident — “I needed something to take my mind off my injury, and going to school was the strong medicine I needed.” He chose UWGB for its proximity, master’s in Environmental Science and Policy and wheelchair-friendly concourses. He landed rewarding professional work with the state DNR, administering grant programs and advocating for nature lovers with disabilities. His fierce competitive spirit found an outlet in handcycle racing, skiing, sled hockey, rafting and mountain climbing. His 13 gold medals and three silvers in international competition are highlighted by wins in the world 5K and 10K ski races held in conjunction with the 1992 Olympics in Albertville, France. A year later he and another wheelchair athlete became the first to cross the Sierra Nevada on sit skis, conquering a 55-mile route and 10,000-foot elevations. In 2014, Pagel wrote the book Always Climb Higher about his comeback from spinal cord injury. For more on Pagels, see Inside Online. — DF

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Misty Brueckner ’02 psychol- Tammy (Rosenow) Michelle Lambert ’06 political Jill Leisgang ’07 English, is a Amanda Gilpatrick ’09 politi- ogy and human development, is Wyrobeck ’04 accounting, science, is a counsel for State 7th and 8th grade language arts cal science, is a paralegal for a program coordinator for Howe is the chief financial officer for Farm in Bloomington, Ill. She and social studies teacher for Mallory, Lapka, Scott & Selin in Community Resource Center in Mohican North Star Casino is on the board of directors for Darlington (Wis.) Community Lansing, Mich. Green Bay. Resort, near Bowler, Wis. the McLean County Chamber of Schools. Commerce. Lavesa Glover ’09 com- Andrea (Fischer) Pope ’02 Joshua Keeran ’05 urban Michelle (Backhaus) Neuber- munication, is human biology, is a clinical studies, is a firefighter and Jason Mattison ’06 nursing, ger ’07 human development, is an assistant researcher with the Center for paramedic with the Chicago is an RN and current master’s a talent acquisition coordinator basketball coach International Blood and Marrow Fire Department. of nursing student honored for Rockwell Automation in for Southeast Transplant Research in Mus- with the 2014 Carol and Robert Menomonee Falls. Missouri State kego, Wis. She received her Dana Langhoff ’05 business Bush Excellence in Nursing University. Glover master’s in criminal justice from administration, is the facility Award presented by Bellin Molly Aylward ’08 English, is Boston University in 2007. operations manager at Floral Health. Mattison joined the an 8th grade language arts and Kari (Petrashek) Hagenow ’09 Plant Growers LLC in Denmark. Bellin intensive care unit as a reading teacher for the Green ’12 biology and environmental Jill (Wunrow) Walsh ’02 com- Bay Area Public School District. science and master’s in envi- Rachel (Kraemer) Monfils staff nurse in 2007. munication processes, is a gift ronmental science and policy, is ’05 and ’12 social work and Justin Bingham ’08 political processing and development Melyssa (Keil) Behnke ’07 a Door Peninsula land steward master’s in social work, is an science, is a commercial lines coordinator for the Pat Tillman and ’13 human development, for the Nature Conservancy in intensive permanence services underwriter for Acuity Insurance Foundation in Chicago. psychology, and arts manage- Sturgeon Bay. specialist for Anu Family ment, is a box office manager in Sheboygan. He earned his Sandra (Hayes) Elvebak ’03 Services, Green Bay. and volunteer coordinator MBA at Lakeland College. Adam Hopfensperger ’09 business administration, is the humanistic studies, is with Stephanie Blavat-Vesely ’06 for the Capitol Civic Centre, Molly (Waldschmidt) Jaster director of human resources Agency Technology LLC, a business administration, is the Manitowoc. ’08 communication, is an online at Options Residential, Inc. in travel management software director of marketing and busi- marketing account manager for Burnsville, Minn. Molly (Weber) Canan ’07 company, based in Denver. ness development for Simon communication, E-Power Marketing in Oshkosh. Adam Hatfield ’03 political Property Group-Bay Park Jessica (Maass) Hopp ’09 is special events Timothy Kowols ’08 com- science, is the manager of Square Mall in Green Bay. communications, is the alumni manager for the munication, works in news media and communication for and development coordinator Terrence Brennan ’06 music, Milwaukee Art and social media for Nicolet Gundersen Health System, Museum. for Bellin College in Green Bay. La Crosse. is communications coordinator Broadcasting’s Door County for Faith Lutheran Church and Daily News. Canan Rebecka Oswald ’09 elemen- the performing and creative tary education, is a cognitive Shelley (Damos) DeGrave ’09 arts coordinator for the Ray and Jennifer Feyen ’07 elementary disabilities special education music, is an elementary music Joan Kroc Corps Community education, is a kindergarten teacher for grades 5-8 for the teacher for the Green Bay Area Center, Green Bay. teacher with the CPES consoli- Valders Area School District. Public Schools. dated parochial school district She earned her cross-category serving the "Holyland" area of special education degree from east central Wisconsin. St. Joseph’s University in 2014.

Phoenix pride? Davis ’81 wears it on his sleeve Doubt his passion for higher education, his hometown or its public university and Greg Davis delivers a visual forearm smash to anyone who could possibly question his loyalties. Davis custom-designed the new Phoe- nix tattoo prominently visible whenever he rolls up his sleeves and gets down to work — which is every day in his busy leadership role as UW-Green Bay’s interim provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs. His bird isn’t an exact replica of any past or current Uni- versity emblem. Instead, its greens, reds, yellows and oranges are drawn from family birthstone colors. He chose the inscriptions “Improve the Human Condition” and “Search for Truth” from the famed Wisconsin Idea rallying call that the UW must benefit every citizen. A Green Bay native, Davis received his UWGB bachelor’s in 1981 and earned master’s and Ph.D. from Northwest- ern University. He joined the faculty at his alma mater in 1987, and taught courses in math and environmental sciences for nearly three decades before accepting his administrative appointment last summer — CS. Photo by photography intern Sam Zingsheim

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WATER SCHOLAR goes with the flow: NY to UWGB to Mexico to Texas to SoCal

Vivienne Bennett, Class of ’75, She built her dissertation and is a respected author, teacher, first book, The Politics of Water, on her experience in Monterey, Ph.D. and authority on water Mexico with water rationing that conflicts in the United States was ineffectively administered by and Latin America. local government. The California State University Her second book, Opposing Cur- San Marcos faculty member is rents, came two decades later and stressed the importance of also someone who views her successful water management work through an interdisciplin- and its relationship to gender bias ary lens. It’s a skill she learned and equity: Women in water-poor from her professors while regions of the world are often shut pursuing her Humanism and out of decision-making. Bennett has lectured on the topic at Cor- Cultural Change major at UW- nell University Law School and Green Bay. been a featured speaker at the Bennett grew up in New York as international Stockholm Water a first-generation American, the Symposium. daughter of Holocaust refugees Enduring Reform, Bennett’s lat- from southern France. She came est, published in December, to Wisconsin primarily as a favor examines corporate responses to her father’s best friend, Ija to progressive activism in Latin Korner, a professor recruited to America. It focuses on the value help start a public university in of bringing together businesses, Green Bay. social groups, and governments Korner lobbied Bennett to get to work within the system for away from the big city. She social change… something she agreed, but having been accepted first realized at UWGB. to both Williams and Middlebury “The Social Service Collateral colleges closer to home, planned was instrumental in teaching me to transfer back east. humility, patience, the value of lis- After Bennett’s first year at tening and observation. It showed UWGB, it never occurred to her to me that there can be real limits leave. The environment was excit- on what is possible in terms of ing and intellectually stimulating. social change and social justice… She noticed that with office space Another Korner favorite was the Social Services Collateral that served sometimes it simply is the wrong on the under-construction campus as Bennett’s minor. The program involved a full year of school, multiple moment for change to happen.” at a premium, it wasn’t uncommon faculty and teams of students volunteering 10 hours or more a week Bennett says her years at a fledg- for professors from different fields at local agencies of their choice, observing, working and advocat- ling university in Green Bay were to share a workspace. She loved ing improvements where possible. Bennett’s group chose the Brown good preparation for her current the idea of sharing knowledge. County shelter for runaway children. job in San Marcos (located just “It was a unique time, a once-in-a- Bennett worked alongside Edward Weidner’s daughter, Karen, and the north of San Diego), where she lifetime experience,” she recalls, two young women became friends and campus roommates. Spending has taught since 1994. She is and her parents’ friend was par- time with Karen at the chancellor’s residence on Bay View Drive, Ben- chair of the Academic Senate, ticularly influential. “Dr. Korner’s nett often crossed paths with UW-Green Bay faculty in a social and and has served as chair of the ideas were four decades ahead of less formal setting. liberal studies department. most traditional educators at the As graduation neared, Bennett took inventory. She knew three lan- “CSU-San Marcos is very much time.” guages — English, her parents’ French, and Spanish — and had like UW-Green Bay. It’s a univer- Korner’s “Experimental Learning enjoyed a UWGB trip to Mexico with Weidner, but had little interest at sity made up of motivated working Community” of 40 students had the time in becoming a teacher. Prof. Elmer Havens convinced her to class students. I was one of the Korner, Michael Murphy, Gary use her love of Spanish as a tool, not a focus. She pursued an indepen- original faculty members on this Greif, and Dave Galaty teaching dent study — and eventually, a personally designed major — based on campus, much like being one of as a team and working collab- her work with local migrant workers. the first cohorts at UWGB.” oratively with students — no rank Post-UWGB, Bennett worked for a year in southern Mexico, near the — DF pulling allowed — to devise the Guatemalan border. She enrolled at the University of Texas, Austin, curriculum. “the place to be for Latin American Studies,” and completed her master’s and doctoral degrees.

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CEO claims SLICE of success in dough business

The recipe for pizza dough Charles is CEO of Alive and Kickin’ (A & K) Pizza Crust, But in 1989, his father made Randy an offer he couldn’t is relatively simple… flour, a company steadily on the rise since its 1989 founding by refuse… return to Green Bay and help him build the com- Charles, his father and two other partners. Randy became pany (then Port City Bakery) from the bottom up. Now, his sugar, yeast, salt, water president in 1991 and CEO in 2011. The company has a days are filled with walking the balancing act of a CEO and a little olive oil. workforce of 300-plus and has expanded its sales through- — maintaining credibility with customers though diversity The recipe for a success- out North America. and quality of product, demonstrating company growth to his shareholders, ensuring a positive corporate culture, and ful and growing wholesale It is the continual development of product lines that keep the securing the company’s future. pizza-crust company is company growing and relevant. Charles calls it “customized manufacturing,” with expansion and diversification, particu- “What I continue to carry with me day-to-day from UWGB a bit more complicated. larly in products such as frozen self-rising, par-baked and are the courses that challenged me to view problems from Randy Charles, a 1987 deli take-and-bake crusts. multiple perspectives and across disciplines,” Charles says. UW-Green Bay Business “Even though I was a business student, I found other areas Charles had envisioned his career cutting a different path of study, such as the science requirement, both challenging Administration graduate, when he graduated three decades ago. His marketing and rewarding. The one-on-one attention of professors and keeps that recipe close to emphasis and classes with Prof. Robert Obenberger and the small class sizes allowed for great discussion and prob- the vest. Don McCartney inspired him to move to Milwaukee for grad lem-solving. It was an incredibly well-rounded education.” school and work in brand management. For more on Randy Charles ’87, see Inside online. — SB

Kimberly Vickman ’09 envi- Eric Plaushines ’10 psychol- Jessica (Hopp) Bar ’11 Stacy (Hehn) Dreweck ’11 Morgan Gantz ’12 environmen- ronmental science, is a health- ogy, is a training facilitator psychology and human devel- environmental policy and tal science, spent care sustainability specialist at with BMO Financial Group of opment, is a data analyst with planning, is an admissions most of 2014 at Stericycle in Pittsburgh. Wisconsin. NASPA Student Affairs Admin- counselor with UW Oshkosh. the Rice Lake istrators in Higher Education, and Tamarac Timothy Hansen ’10 business Valerie (Baughman) Roemer based in Washington, D.C. Jonathan Eckelberg ’12 com- wildlife refuges administration, is the executive ’10 human development, is the munication, is a in Minnesota as Gantz chef for the Wisconsin Timber talent acquisition coordinator Amy Brown ’11 economics, digital content a fellow with the Rattlers in Appleton. at Providence Health and is the contract sales project specialist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Services in Renton, Wash. manager for Wheeler Hardware state Department Darren Holzer ’10 elementary and the American Conservation Company in Roseville, Minn. of Tourism. He Experience program. education, is a second grade Tammi Schroeder ’10 busi- She is a chapter officer of the helps organize Eckelberg teacher at Random Lake ness administration, works in Door and Hardware Institute the annual Gover- Sui Generis ’12 social work, Elementary School in Random sales and brand development Northcentral Chapter. nor’s Conference on Tourism. is a medical care coordinator Lake, Wis. He was nominated for the Green Bay Packers. for the Community Involvement for the Woodrow Wilson Fellow- Programs in Minneapolis. ship program for administration.

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Kimberly (Connaher) Gould Mysty Kepler ’13 communica- Kimberly (Kosovich) Gehrig Jacob Ledvina ’14 environ- ’12 human biology, is a nutrition tion, is the marketing coordina- ’14 nursing, is a registered mental policy and planning, is coordinator for Elderly Services tor for DriSteem industrial nurse for Aurora Health Care, an insurance account represen- of Marinette County. She com- humidifier systems in Eden Milwaukee. tative for State Farm Insurance pleted her dietetic internship at Prairie, Minn. in Appleton. Vanderbilt University Medical Justin Grones ’14 communica- Center in June 2013. Jacob Leigh ’13 biology and tion, is a patrol officer for the Heidi Ross ’14 communica- environmental science, is an Fox Valley Metro Police Depart- tion, is a communication Chloe Scheller’12 communica- intern for Campus Crusade for ment, Little Chute. specialist for the UW-Madison tion, has joined Christ International. Department of Chemical and the staff of Samantha Haucke ’14 busi- Biological Engineering. Red Fan Com- Brittaney (Katers) Mertig ness administration munications, a ’13 elementary education, is is a marketing associate at Florencia Gutierrez ’14 Wanted: full-service public a kindergarten teacher for the Parallel 44 Vineyard and accounting, is a tax analyst relations firm in Oshkosh Area School District. Winery in Kewaunee. for The Manitowoc Company Memories Scheller in Manitowoc. Austin, Texas, as Andrew Thyes ’13 Christian Krah ’14 crossed Are you a UW-Green Bay an account executive. interdisciplinary studies, the Weidner Andrea Herrmann ’15 alumnus or friend of the is a transportation analyst for Center stage in business administration, is a Carly Smith ’12 business University? Were you Schreiber Foods, Green Bay. December as recruiting agent for Schneider administration, is the dining influenced by a specific room manager for Oneida Golf recipient of he National, Green Bay. Elizabeth (Heidtke) Boche faculty or staff member? and Country Club in Green Bay. first bachelor’s ’14 elementary education, is an degree awarded Valerie Hilkert ’15 communica- Do you have a vintage ESL teacher for the Green Bay Krah tion, is a service administrator Daniel Terrio ’12 and ’14 through UW- photo you’d like to share? interdisciplinary studies and Area Public School District. Green Bay’s new Health for Oshkosh Corporation A favorite memory of peo- master’s of science in applied Information Management and in Oshkosh. Alec Brown ’14 business ple, places or programs? leadership for teaching and administration, recovered Technology program. The Patricia Treptow ’15 integra- We’re encouraging con- learning, is the learning facilita- from a shoulder degree responds to growing tive leadership studies, is the tor at Humana in Green Bay. injury to play the demand for professionals able director of youth and family tributions for our website second half of to use new technology and data ministry at Emmanuel Lutheran and a commemorative Susan Exworthy ’13 and management tools to improve the NBA Devel- Church in Menominee, Mich. print edition of this mag- ’14 social work health care delivery. Krah’s and master’s opment League azine due out in August, season with the internship with a local hospital Nicole Whitty ’15 accounting in social work, just before UW-Green Brown Bakersfield Jam, helped develop software and business administration, is a substance applications to improve service is a financial accountant at Bay marks its 50th anni- abuse counselor the Phoenix Suns affiliate. to patients. Schreiber Foods, Inc. versary on Sept. 2, 2015. for Independent in Green Bay. Exworthy Assessment and Visit http://50.uwgb.edu Counseling, Green Bay. Email [email protected]

Biology grad finds homes for abandoned exotics Jamie Kozloski, a 2011 graduate in Biology, has a soft spot for birds…. and reptiles… amphibians, small animals and invertebrates, too. Kozloski is the founder of the non-profit organization KAEAR — Kingdom Animalia Exotic Animal Rescue — based in De Pere. She has taken in more than 900 animals and educated thousands of people on their care and conservation. She got hooked while attending UW-Green Bay, intern- ing at the NEW Zoo and serving as the Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary’s exotic animal resource. She gained experience as a pet store and animal control worker and then decided “to take my growing hobby and make it into my career.” Along with caring for animals, Kozloski uses them in educational programs communitywide. She promotes pet amnesty days where people can surrender their unwanted exotic and aquarium pets to a good home. Looking to the future, Kozloski thinks KAEAR could build a statewide name in rescue and education. The organization currently exists with the help of program fees, adoptions, donations and fundraisers. Go to www.kaear.org to learn more. — Story by intern Katelyn Staaben ’15

May 2015 l INSIDE UWGB 29 marriages& UNIONS Destination wedding, MAC style He’s not the first person to choose a scenic spot on UW-Green Bay’s beautiful campus for his wedding ceremony, but he certainly had the least distance to travel. Prof. Bryan Carr and his fiancée, Pang Yang, opted for Mary Ann Cofrin Hall’s airy Vista Confer- ence Room. The space overlooks campus and is mere steps down the hall from Carr’s office in the Information and Computing Science department. The couple had considered the county courthouse for their mid-day December ceremony but found a meaningful alternative in the Vista. Says Carr, “It has a beautiful view, a lot of sunlight, and it was conve- nient for my fellow faculty members to attend!”

Patricia Stoller ’85 to Ronald Zager ’83 Jill Wunrow ’02 to Thomas Walsh

Mary Basel ’03 to Elizabeth Heidtke ’14 to Alexander Christopher Jason Boche Julie Brockman ’05 to Stephanie Youngs ’14 to Adam Hafield ’03 Kyle Youngs ’13 Kathryn Dicke to Keith Brzozowski ’04 Morgan Holzer to Darren Holzer ’10 Colleen Howe to David Henrigillis ’14

Stephanie Blavat ’06 to Michael Vesely Michelle Legault ’06 to Jimmie Willing ’13 Nicole Schweitzer ’07 to Darrin Higgs Alyssa Doughty ’08 to Tony Matuszak Carrissa Pappas ’10 to Angela Kowalzek-Adrians ’09 Anna Kooiman ’11 to Kyler Hynes ’09 to Deanne Adrians ’96 Adam Heart Julie Pappas to Lynsy Beckett ’10 to Lauren Schatzman ’11 to Eric Ryer ’04 & ’06 Andrew Thyes ’13 Joseph Pirosko ’11 Melissa Lund Ziegler to Jaclyn Zwerg ’10 to Kimberly Connaher ’12 to Michael Lund Ziegler ’09 Eric June ’10 Shane Gould Stacy Hehn ’11 to Amy Manske ’12 to Beverly Pence ’12 to Zachary Dreweck ’10 Jonathan Eckelberg ’12 Stephen Mueller Brittaney Katers ’13 to Andrew Mertig ’06 Alex Swartz ’13 to James Sweetman ’12

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