THE MAGAZINE OF CARROLL UNIVERSITY SPRING 2018
The Lives of Animals
CARROLL LAUNCHES REFRESHED, MOBILE-FRIENDLY WEBSITE
Touchdown Alumnus always made sure Lombardi’s Packers got to the game on time FORWARD
Come on in Incoming first-year students get a Pioneer welcome during a ceremony before the start of the fall semester. PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
Where can a Carroll education can take you? It’s inspiring to me to think that in the 171 years since
F1RST Magazine tells the stories of our founding, we have been a significant part of literally pioneers, of Wisconsin’s first university and of the resolute, creative and fearless tens of thousands of Pioneer journeys. men and women who push it forward— the alumni, students, faculty and staff Each and every one of those stories has its roots here, and has been shaped by the distinct of Carroll University—through truly focus on innovative thinking and personal attention that sets Carroll apart. pioneering content and design. Students learn in a variety of ways and those ways change over time. Today’s college Carroll University is Wisconsin’s first experience is far different than it was even a decade ago. Finding new and better ways four-year institution of higher learning. to connect with and actively engage students in the learning process is critical. Not only This independent, co-educational does it enrich and add value to the academic experience, it sets the stage for becoming comprehensive university is grounded in the Presbyterian heritage and lifelong learners. liberal arts tradition. The Office of That may mean traveling hundreds of years into the past to better understand the present. Communications and Marketing publishes F1RST for alumni, faculty, In this issue, we’ll introduce you to “Reacting to the Past,” a role-playing game in which staff, students and friends of the faculty engage our students in re-enacting famous events from history over several classes. university. The opinions expressed do Carroll hosted a regional conference this fall that offered opportunities for faculty not necessarily represent the opinions 10 at other institutions to learn more about this teaching methodology and how to incorporate of the editors or the official policies of this immersive learning experience into their own classrooms. At Carroll, the program Carroll University. We welcome your comments to [email protected] is expanding to include not only history, but philosophy, psychology and a possible adaptation for nursing as well.
EDITORIAL UNIVERSITY Believe it or not, education can take you to places even wilder than time travel. STAFF CONTACTS Students studying animal behavior at Carroll recently journeyed more than 8,000 miles Jeannine Sherman General Director of 1.800.CArroll to Africa in less than 20 minutes. We’re the only university in the area that partners Communications carrollu.edu 18 with the Milwaukee County Zoo to offer our students opportunities to work alongside and Marketing Alumni Engagement zoo staff on semester-long research studies. Malcolm 262.524.7237 Highlights McDowell Woods 10 | Online and Updated Sometimes education brings you back full circle, as it has for Michaela Johnson ’21. Editor Institutional Foremost Michaela, who is a member of Carroll’s women’s lacrosse team, has roots in Pioneer Advancement University launches an entirely re-imagined website 5 | (in)sight: a portrait project ART DIRECTION 262.524.7234 athletics that go back to the 1940s and 1950s, when her grandfather, F.J. “Mickey” AND DESIGN 6 | Strategic Planning Begins McCormick, coached football here. Other times, education helps you begin a legacy, as it has Chris Smith Undergraduate 9 | For Christ and Learning for Rachel Van Sluys ’19, a member of our women’s soccer team who was named women’s Bryce M. Ulmer Admission 14 | Past Lives College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin (CCIW) player of the year. 262.524.7220 Destination Photography Graduate Admission History is being (re)made in classrooms across campus Ryan Drake 12 | Office Hours Education can also take you to places you would never expect. Just ask alumnus 262.524.7220 David Barclay, Jr. ’50, who ended up being body-passed through an airplane by Comments Athletics Pioneers football players and serving soft drinks to Coach Vince Lombardi’s wife during his [email protected] 262.650.4847 18 | Watching Over the Animals 22 | So Many Touchdowns tenure with the Green Bay Packers. 24 | Life Goals Class notes Box Office At the Milwaukee County Zoo, Carroll students take a There’s no denying that a Carroll education is the beginning of a journey that can [email protected] 262.524.7633 26 | Homecoming 2017 lead to just about anywhere…and everywhere. It could start by traveling back in Center for walk on the wild side 28 | Remembering Veterans MAIL Graduate Studies time, coming face-to-face with a giraffe or rising to meet a challenge on the field Office of 262.951.3253 of competition. That’s one of the things I enjoy about meeting Pioneers. They Communications and Marketing Todd Wehr always have an interesting back story, and inevitably it begins with Carroll. 100 N. East Avenue Memorial Library Waukesha, WI 53186 262.524.7175 14 First, foremost, forward, Cindy Gnadinger President
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PRESIDENT Campus Event Focuses INAUGURATION SET on Suicide Prevention We’re beaming with #PioPride for our It was an arresting sight—Carroll’s Main Anxiety, depression and other issues have class of 2017 nursing Lawn covered with hundreds upon hundreds of become more and more prominent on college program backpacks, each with a short note attached. campuses throughout the country. According to graduates— There were, in fact, 1,100 backpacks scattered Ivette Alvarado, a therapist at the Walter Young their NCLEX across the grass, each one representing a Center, the majority of young adults do not seek (National Council college student lost to suicide on U.S. campuses treatment for depression even though it is a Carroll will celebrate the Licensure treatable condition. Alvarado stated, “Each year, inauguration of Dr. Cindy each year. The display, a nationally recognized Examination) traveling exhibition, hosted by the organization 5,491 young people die by suicide at a rate of one Gnadinger as the institution’s pass rate th Active Minds, was designed to raise awareness suicide every two hours. Additionally, about 1,100 15 president in a series of events was officially about the incidence and impact of suicide and suicides occur on campuses each year of which from March 10–16, 2018. 100 percent! Our rankings inspire action for suicide prevention. 40 percent are undergraduate freshmen, usually Please check the inauguration from April– ON THE FACE OF IT with alcohol or drug use problems.” Representatives from the Center for Suicide website for updated information: September Awareness and National Alliance on Mental The event generated a lot of buzz on campus. carrollu.edu/inauguration 2017: (IN)SIGHT PROJECT SEEKS Illness (NAMI) Waukesha as well as Carroll’s Members from Active Minds spent all day talking Walter Young Center, orientation mentors, with students and faculty encouraging them to TO FOSTER COMMUNITY resident assistants and Public Safety were also in take some time to read the stories of students attendance to serve as resources for students. who lost their lives to suicide. SAVE THE DATE #1 Over the course of several hours one day this September, renowned Dutch ON THE LINKS Out of all sculptor Saskia de Rooy scraped, poked and pressed a ball of clay into a likeness of 37 Programs Carroll President Cindy Gnadinger. The mid-day session, with Gnadinger sitting as in our jurisdiction a model, occurred as onlookers passed through the busy Campus Center. By day’s end, a finished sculpture was on display.
LIFE LESSONS Carroll GREEK LIFE COMMENCEMENT The next morning, de Rooy lifted the still wet clay and, pushing EXECUTIVE IN University SORORITIES FOR MOM and pulling at the sculpture, erased Gnadinger’s visage, leaving a celebrated its #1 nondescript lump of earth, and began again with a new model. RESIDENCE SERIES second annual HONORED OUT of ALL “Thank a De Rooy’s visit to Carroll kicked off a new, multi-faceted and Christy L. Brown, the CEO of Girl Carroll’s Panhellenic Council, 785 similar DE ROOY Carroll Donor programs year-long art project, called (in)sight: a portrait project. The artist Scouts of Wisconsin Southeast, Day” on comprised of the Greek sororities across every spent a week at Carroll this September, during which she worked and re-worked delivered an address to Carroll jurisdiction Nov. 8. on campus, has been honored the same piece of clay into several portraits, beginning with Gnadinger. According students, faculty and staff as part On-campus by the National Panhellenic to the artist, the reworking of each portrait into a new sculpture was meant to of the Executive in Residence celebrations Conference (NPC). The The 2018 edition of the Pioneer resulted in emphasize our humanity despite our differences—we are all the same inside. speaker series at Carroll this past organization bestowed its Award Golf Classic will be held Monday, over 400 November. De Rooy is Carroll’s artist in residence for the 2017-18 academic year. Her portrait thank you of Achievement upon the Carroll June 18, 2018 at The Legend at #1 project, in collaboration with Carroll faculty and students, will highlight the faces Brown spoke on “Insights Into cards that Panhellenic Council, one of 22 Merrill Hills. The 6,728-yard, OUT OF all 1,899 and narratives of members in the Carroll community and seek to demonstrate how the Life Lessons of a Leader.” were sent to such awards given out across the 18-hole championship golf course programs our amazing across all the arts can help build community. The project is supported in part by the Mary L. In addition to serving on the country. Councils are scored on is located in Waukesha, Wis. and CU donors. jurisdictions! Nohl Fund of the Greater Milwaukee Foundation. Carroll University Board of seven criteria of value to all college features traditional, tree-lined Trustees, Brown is on the board of campuses, including recruiting, course architecture and The next phases of the project will be carried out throughout the spring semester, Big changes are on the way for the Northwestern Mutual Series communication and academics. challenging terrain. Connect beginning with a return visit from de Rooy in January where she will be assisting 2018, as Carroll’s commencement with Carroll art students with the start of their own portrait projects. As the students finalize Fund, Inc., and a member of the NPC, one of the largest Discover it for yourself during the THANK ceremony moves from a Sunday to on Facebook their projects, an April showcase will be scheduled where students will be able to Wisconsin State Bar, TEMPO organizations advocating for Pioneer Golf Classic and support a Saturday, allowing mothers and present their portraits to the entire Carroll community. Milwaukee, the International Carroll athletics at the same time! YOU! women, is the umbrella group their new graduates family time on Women’s Forum and the Rotary 399 for 26 national and international Mother’s Day. Commencement will Register online at carrollu.edu/ Club of Milwaukee. sororities. take place on Saturday, May 12, 2018. alumni/events/golf Like Image / Shutterstock.com
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The new strategic THE ART OF INNOVATION NEW STRATEGIC PLANNING INITIATIVE UNDERWAY planning process NEW OFFICE TO OVERSEE will be guided by the COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS following five strategic Mapping Carroll’s Future questions: Dr. Jane Hopp has moved again. In her 23 years with Carroll, she has inhabited 1 What shall be the ideal several different offices, as well as positions. enrollment size, rate of annual An associate professor of physical therapy, enrollment growth, and mix Hopp most recently served as dean of the our endowment and financial stability. This is Checking out the lay of the land, eyes steady of student population including College of Health Sciences until the fall of the perfect time for our Carroll community to on the horizon, adjusting course while still diversity, geography, academic 2017, when she was named the university’s pause and decide what direction we’d like to go moving forward—that’s what pioneers do. And area of study and degree level first-ever associate vice president of in over the next 7–10 years to ensure we build that’s just what Wisconsin’s pioneer university to optimize the academic/financial partnerships and innovation. is doing as it embarks on a strategic planning on our past success and move forward with a potential of Carroll University It’s a new position, heading up a new office process. focused plan and clear outcomes to guide us.” while maintaining the at Carroll, in the Discovery House on Wright Gnadinger will be responsible for overseeing Dr. Jane Hopp A committee, chaired by Provost Dr. Joanne “Carroll culture?” Street. Hopp has a staff, student workers, a the development and implementation of this Passaro, has begun a year-long information- desk and a flexible vision of her new job. gathering project that will result in a new 7- to plan. She asked Provost Passaro to serve 2 What broad areas of academic “This will be all about the exploration of 10-year strategic plan for the university. The as chair of the Strategic Planning Steering excellence should be enhanced and various partnerships that will enhance the committee was created by the board of trustees, Committee. expanded to maximize the regional leading educational institutions, which had quality of education programming here and which tasked the 15-member strategic plan “This allows me to step back and observe the recognition of academic leadership, created similar posts. “The feedback I got possibly extend that into the community,” steering committee with seeking answers to five process,” noted Gnadinger. “I am able to watch differentiated market position and gave me quite a bit of confidence.” academic/financial potential of she explained. “That could mean new areas, strategic questions. They ask about everything and listen carefully during meetings, which has It’s no surprise that Hopp begins her Carroll’s last comprehensive strategic Carroll University? new programs, new formats—such as online from the school’s ideal enrollment size, to allowed me to learn what matters to the Carroll new responsibilities just as the university planning process started in May 2004, and courses and boot camps, for example, even potential academic programs, to managing the community. Once we gather information from embarks on a year-long strategic planning resulted in Pioneering our Future: Carroll 3 Shall we develop academic potentially new locations.” institution’s endowment and more. our constituent groups, I will assist our steering process. Both are forward-looking endeavors College 2007–2012 Strategic Plan, which was programs and innovative delivery If that sounds a bit vague, well, that’s the More than 30 focus group meetings with committee in developing the plan. Afterward, I attempting to position the university to meet approved after former president Doug Hastad systems that will expand student idea. Successful innovation depends upon faculty, staff, alumni, students and local will oversee its implementation.” community needs and remain relevant. took office in July 2006. Key objectives of the learning on and off campus, provide agility. “The world around us is moving pretty business leaders were conducted this fall. Focus groups have been ongoing during the 2007–12 plan that have been achieved are: access beyond traditional 18-22 fast,” noted Hopp. “It’s hard for me to say “This and our strategic planning process Results of those meetings will be reported to fall semester and more are planned in spring. year-old students and increase where this really goes. That’s the nature of eventually fold together,” said Hopp. “Right the board in 2018. Comments on the process may be directed to • Construction of a new science facility— revenue and/or reduce costs? innovation—looking into the future.” now, if you look at southeastern Wisconsin, According to President Gnadinger, it’s time [email protected]. the Michael and Mary Jaharis Science you see big changes. You just have to look 4 The job and office arose in discussions soon for the campus to engage in such an effort. “We hope to have a clear plan, (I consider it Laboratories Shall we leverage affiliations, at Foxconn and digital technology, analytics, partnerships and acquisitions after Dr. Cindy Gnadinger arrived. “Our former president, Dr. Hastad, oversaw a roadmap) that will chart our direction for • Significant enhancements in academic artificial intelligence, machine learning, etc. on a broader geographic scale to “As the story is told, she asked where our and implemented the last strategic plan the next 7–10 years,” noted Gnadinger. “It will advising and academic support services, There’s a really major movement in here to enhance academic quality, expand office of partnership and innovation was and during his 11 years here. The result of that likely provide broad goals rather than specifics, such as a new Center for Academic Advising, partner with communities and educational market reach, increase cost everyone sort of looked at each other,” Hopp successful work is evident and includes an in terms of target enrollments, student a new Office of Student Success and ongoing institutions to train tomorrow’s workforce. It’s effectiveness and improve student/ said. While Carroll has numerous community expansion of our physical campus, a growth in demographics, endowment goals and direction improvements to the Learning Commons and not that we’ll become something else, but a family value? partnerships and has rolled out innovative academic programs, a significant increase in for academic programming.” Career Services question of how do we capitalize on these programs in the past, there had been no developments in the region—building upon • The new Pioneer Core general education 5 Shall we expand the funding single overseeing, guiding force. what we have now.” curriculum from internal operations and all Hopp, who had already done a lot of external funding sources to grow Whichever direction that future might lie • Expansion of technology infrastructure community outreach for the sciences the endowment from $16,000 per in, Hopp is confident in Carroll’s pioneering • An increase in grant funding and health sciences, was offered the job. enrolled student ($58 million at ability to blaze a trail. “We know that 30+ 7–10 YEARS 2006 But undertaking a wholly new job has its • Enhanced student success: increase in current enrollment) to $30,000 liberal arts, STEM (science, engineering, By the focus group meetings the new strategic plan the last strategic plan challenges. Where does one start? with faculty, staff, will chart the direction was instituted at the freshman-sophomore retention to 80% per enrolled student for future technology and math) classes and a good alumni, students and of carroll university beginning of president and increase in the six-year graduation Hopp began with research. She discovered general education curriculum are going to be Numbers: local business leaders into the 2020s hastad’s tenure Carroll University development rate to 65.6% and improved long-term financial that a position like hers was becoming critical. This will help us ferret out these new • Increased engagement with alumni sustainability? standard in industry and gaining favor among opportunities.”
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PARTNERSHIP HEALTH SCIENCE MUSIC LIBRARIAN STUDENT WINS PROHEALTH HONORED STATEWIDE SINGING From Carroll Chaplain, the Rev. Elizabeth McCord COMPETITION CARE AND Quinn Balz ’18 won first place in FOR CHRIST AND LEARNING the category for “Upper College For Christ and Learning is the English Translation of “Christo et Litteris,” Carroll University’s motto. Music Theater Women” at the CARROLL Last October, I traveled with four Carroll students LGBTQ rights, death penalty, gun control and sexual are ruining the next generation. But it seems to Wisconsin Chapter of the National to the 40th annual College Ethics Symposium in harassment. The goal of these exchanges is not to me that we American “adults”—those of us in Waukesha-based ProHealth Care will provide sports Association of Teachers of Singing South Carolina. Coordinated by the Low Country solve the problems presented in the cases or for positions of power—aren’t doing a very good job at medicine services to student-athletes, faculty, coaches (NATS) Student Auditions in Men and Women of the Church and held at First the groups to come to consensus. Rather, the goal civil discourse either. As various gaps in our country and staff of the university’s recreational and organized sports. November. Presbyterian Church on Hilton Head Island, the is for students to engage respectfully in purposeful expand, so, too, does a spirit of enmity. It is difficult Under an agreement announced this summer, ProHealth Barb Ruggeri, life and health The Stratford, Wis. native is symposium hosts student delegations from nearly conversation about difficult and pertinent issues. to respect or trust those we do not understand, and Care’s sports medicine physicians, physical therapists pursuing a double major in music sciences librarian, has been 20 colleges and universities. Throughout the For 40 years, the symposium has been asking it’s difficult to understand those we don’t want to and athletic trainers will be responsible for helping Carroll and educational studies with a minor awarded Librarian of the Year by three-day event, attendees experience meaningful college students to share their opinions and to get to know. The Ethics Symposium is one step athletes and others prevent sports injuries. They also in theatre. the Wisconsin Health Science discussion, inspiring speakers and lots of Southern root those opinions in particular values and ethical toward repairing this breach and restoring the will provide initial treatment for athletic injuries and Library Association (WHSLA). The NATS is the largest hospitality, all generously provided by dozens of principles. The symposium asks students to listen nation where we live. comprehensive rehabilitation and reconditioning services Ruggeri began her role at professional association of teachers donors and volunteers from the area. to one another, to ask open-ended questions, to The symposium invites students to engage for injured athletes. Carroll in July 2017 and supports of singing in the world with nearly The mission of the symposium is “to foster ethical challenge each other and to expand their own across the sometimes treacherous gaps dividing “Providing these services to Carroll University is a natural students and faculty through 7,000 members. decision making by utilizing Christian as well as horizons. The need for students to develop skills our country. This meaningful dialogue was possible extension of our sports medicine program,” said Julie research consultations, information other faiths’ moral values.” Students spend most for ethically informed self-reflection and respectful because our hosts intentionally created an Jackson, ProHealth Care’s vice president of operations. literacy sessions, literature MEN’S BASKETBALL of their time in small group discussions facilitated dialogue couldn’t be more timely. environment of genuine welcome, and the students “Our team is highly trained in multi-level care that includes reviews, and grant support. She HITTING THE BOOKS by business professionals, attorneys and civic I often hear “adults” disparage today’s youth and reciprocated that welcome in their engagement prevention, diagnosis, emergency care and rehabilitation of is interested in outcomes-based leaders. Presented in a case study format, the young adults for being socially inept and civically with one another. It reminded me how meaningful a injuries and medical conditions.” library services, evidence-based topics are not light or easy: private business and disinterested. There is tremendous fear that social difficult conversation can be when approached with ProHealth Care is expected to serve more than 550 practice in the health sciences and birth control coverage, religious freedom and media and the ever-changing trends of technology a spirit of mutual hospitality. student athletes, faculty and staff members, including multidisciplinary teamwork. people involved in 22 sponsored NCAA Division III teams, Citing her extensive background said Joe Baker, director of intercollegiate athletics at Carroll in medical librarianship, the award University. noted her teamwork activities when MEN’S SOCCER HASTAD HALL COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP “The ProHealth Care services will help us continue to employed at Children’s Hospital of MOBLEY STEPS DOWN OPEN FOR BUSINESS TEACHING compete at the highest level possible and ensure that our Wisconsin and her term as a past After 19 seasons as head coach of ENVIRONMENTAL Before they took to the court this athletes remain at the top of their game,” Baker said. president of WHSLA, where she the Carroll men’s soccer team, Rick past fall, members of the men’s STEWARDSHIP revitalized communication among ProHealth Care provides sports medicine basketball team did a little reading. Mobley announced his resignation members and provided online Carroll is teaming up with the services to St. John’s Northwestern Military following the conclusion of the learning opportunities. As part of the “Reading with the Waukesha School District and Academy in Delafield and numerous 2017 season. The purpose of WHSLA is to Pioneers” program, members of the Waukesha County to develop area high schools. It has been a Mobley became the head coach promote the development of health team visited Whittier Elementary environmental curricula for the leading health care provider in of the Pioneers in 1999 following his As the fall semester wound down, sciences libraries and librarianship School in Waukesha this past school district. Waukesha County and the professional soccer career, which a migration was about to begin on in Wisconsin. October and spent time reading Our first class surrounding area for more The program will ultimately with the students. The program included seven seasons with the campus, as faculty and staff began of Master of than a century. provide environmental education kicks off a partnership with Milwaukee Wave. He was inducted moving furnishings and equipment Occupational Therapy to students from kindergarten SHARP Literacy to highlight the into the Milwaukee Wave Hall to outfit Doug and Nancy graduates through high school and utilize importance of reading in Waukesha of Fame in 2013. Hastad Hall. scored a 100% resources such as Carroll’s Prairie schools. Players will make school Under his guidance, Carroll Hastad Hall is to house the nursing, first-time visits throughout the year to won the Midwest Conference physics/engineering and exercise pass rate on Springs Environmental Education the National promote literacy. Center. The goal of the program is tournament in 2007, 2008, 2010, science programs as well as provide Board for In addition to “Reading with the 2011, 2012 and 2014. The 2009 space for other academic classroom Certification in to create the next generation Pioneers,” Carroll University and team rose as high as #12 in national needs. Following a mid-January Occupational of environmental stewards. It’s Therapy exam. SHARP Literacy will partner on rankings. Mobley finishes with 2018 ribbon cutting ceremony, the hoped the curriculum will be Woo-hoo! additional projects throughout the an overall record of 184 wins, 138 building is set to open to classes in spread to other school districts in school year. losses and 29 ties. the spring semester. Waukesha County.
carrollu.edu F1RST | Spring 2018 9 DESTINATION A DIGITAL REVOLUTION Refreshed carrollu.edu launched after year and a half of work
It’s more than one thousand pages long and contains almost three thousand images. But it’s no book. It’s Carroll’s new website, launched on October 11 after more than a year and a half of preparation and work. The new site has been designed to cater to a variety of users— from prospective to current students, alumni, parents, the media and the general public. Careful attention was paid to creating a more navigable user experience—essential in light of the more than one thousand pages. The site features a more visually interesting design and incorporates a greater use of images and video to help tell the story of the university and its students. A key to the new website is the adoption of responsive design. Responsive web design makes web pages which render well on a variety of screen sizes and resolutions. Nearly one-third of the visits to Carroll’s site are made via smartphone or other mobile devices, so creating pages that display properly across platforms was critical. Early figures show that visitors are spending considerably more time on the site and viewing more pages than previously.
F1RST ONLINE EASIER NAVIGATION STORY-TELLING CONTENT current and archived stories, bonus An organized MEGA MENU, STICKY Carroll university’s story is photos and video from the pages NAVIGATION, CLEAR CALLS TO ACTION communicated through a new campus of F1rst magazine are available at and consistent styling help guide and student life section, student carrollu.edu/magazine users easily through pages testimonials and social media feeds
10 carrollu.edu F1RST | Spring 2018 11 DESTINATION TELL US HOW YOU FEEL, HOW YOU REALLY, REALLY FEEL. “Thinker” Statuette The first large scale bronze cast of Rodin’s ‘The Thinker’ is We want to hear from you, our alumni. In order to best serve a growing network at the University of Louisville, of over 22,000 alumni across all 50 states and 33 countries, the Office of Alumni Engagement Gnadinger’s alma mater. is hosting an all-alumni survey online from Feb. 1–March 31. We ask alumni in our Carroll family to consider taking a moment to share feedback and ideas on how Carroll can best engage, support and connect you to Carroll and fellow Pioneers. To take the online survey or for more information, visit carrollu.edu/alumni
Wendell Berry Poem Berry, a famed Kentucky writer and activist, gave Gnadinger this personalized poem when she became president of Voorhees Hall 201 St. Catharine College in 2015. Dr. Cindy Gnadinger, Carroll University president Office Hours The first six months on the job have gone by quickly for Dr. Cindy Gnadinger, Carroll’s fifteenth president. Gnadinger has hit the ground running at Carroll, overseeing building projects and helping to launch a university-wide Apple Sculpture This apple symbolizes strategic planning process, in addition to getting acclimated to the Gnadinger’s life passion as an educator. university and Wisconsin climate.
Julie j. DOUG H. Michelle j. Amazing. We didn’t have to lift a finger. A very special time for families!!! Can’t say enough about how smoothly HELPING Everything was moved to our daughter’s everything went. Our jam-packed van room by volunteers!! Thank you for jen E. was empty in less than 10 minutes, making this transition so easy for You guys are amazing! Thank you so and we didn’t carry one box up to the HANDS th freshman parents!! much for a wonderful, fast move in. 5 floor thanks to all the amazing help! The family feeling was evident with Way to go Carroll students and staff! The Carroll tradition of faculty, TRACEY V. everyone who welcomed us to campus. staff and students helping on Most amazing move-in ever....my car What a special place! Thanks again! Michael b. was empty of all its contents in less What an amazing tradition, this dad is move-in day inspired a lot of than 30 seconds. Well done Carroll shelly H-P. so grateful. gratitude on social media. Thank you for making this transition so smooth! It was awesome to feel so Georgia d. welcomed to Carroll! Go Pioneers!! What an amazing day! You guys rock!
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On this bright, fall afternoon, “I love history because of the personal stories embedded within it,” she explained. room Main Hall 301 has been “These games teach students that actual transformed into Polly’s, a noisy people lived this and were affected by it. When you take a traditional survey course working-class diner in 1913 you often don’t get those personal stories.” Greenwich Village. In recreating pivotal events in history and portraying other people, students may be Polly Holladay, the restaurant’s owner asked to adopt or confront positions and and a noted anarchist, holds court. values that may be antithetical to their own. This is a lively, raucous salon, where labor organizers, anarchists, intellectuals, “That’s one of the challenges,” said writers and suffragettes guzzle coffee, Markwyn. “The fact that students may rub shoulders and jostle for support from be assigned a position contrary to their neighborhood residents, socialites and own values is valuable as well in what other activists who regularly show up. it teaches us. Being forced to defend or voice a value which differs from your The walls of the diner are bedecked with own builds empathy.” a variety of posters boosting women’s right to vote and the labor movement. Meyer herself described that lesson as Over the course of several sessions, the a powerful element of the game. “A lot of place is visited by notables such as Max the roles are uncompromising and that Eastman, the editor of The Masses, a radical can frustrate students,” she noted. Game publication; W.E.B. Du Bois, a Harvard- instructions might prevent a character educated historian and African-American from changing their opinion or even activist; “Big Bill” Haywood, labor leader compromising. “But at the end of the day, and founder of the Industrial Workers of the you see what would have been the value of compromise.” Students Across Campus Are Making History. World; Margaret Sanger, an early proponent The game they are playing is part of an This October, a regional Reacting to of birth control; and Inez Milholland, a innovative teaching methodology called the Past conference was held at Carroll, Professors lead a full debriefing session Literally. wealthy suffragette, among others. Reacting to the Past. First developed by attracting teachers from the region, and following each game, giving students a The crowd at the diner has been hearing a history professor at Barnard College in games were featured in several classes chance to express their own experiences pleas seeking support from representatives 1995, the role-playing games have been across the campus this fall. playing a character and to better of both the labor and women’s suffrage embraced by more than 300 colleges and It’s immersive learning. The students understand how that particular piece of movement and on this day, they are to vote, universities across the globe. In these spend the full class session (the game can history happened. Even games that end up throwing their lot in with one movement or complex games, students portray a mix of continue over several weeks) in character. having gone in a very different direction the other. actual and fictional characters as they deal than actual events can teach a lot. “Oh yes,” The games are also mostly student- with a historic situation. said Markwyn, “you learn that history is a A late edition of The Masses has been run—the instructor hands out character series of decisions and not an inevitability.” published and distributed. Last speeches “This isn’t re-enacting history,” according to assignments and then largely stays out are made. Finally, ballots are distributed Dr. Abigail Markwyn, an associate professor of the way. “After the game gets rolling, Meyer, who is pursuing a minor in and votes cast. of history and advocate for the program—it’s the teacher really takes a back seat,” said secondary education and hopes to teach social studies one day, sees value in the As is often the case in a classroom, her honors class in American history since Markwyn. A textbook that accompanies Greenwich Village 1877 that took on the Greenwich Village the game includes instructions for various games beyond how they illuminate history. New York City, 1913 students are gathered in small groups, chatting and reviewing notes. But the game. “The students here re-create history. characters and outlines activities for each “For people skeptical about the game groups here reflect the common interests History happens because people make class session. playing, or who have problems with the choices. This teaches that lesson.” of the characters the students have been In Markwyn’s class, the game is led by rigidness of the characters, I’d urge them assigned to play. In speeches, writing It’s a lesson more and more students are gamemaster Rachael Meyer, playing Polly, to look beyond the game itself,” she said. assignments and other activities during receiving. In the 20-plus years since the the restaurateur. Meyer, a history major, “The pedagogy is very effective in teaching the run of this game, the students first games were developed, universities is in the class assisting Markwyn as part speaking, reading and writing skills. And have explored the ideas, events and across the country have embraced of an independent study project. She first it teaches better critical thinking skills. All personalities that fueled these pivotal them, and this year a number of Carroll participated in a role-playing game in a those skills that are becoming increasingly moments and shaped American history. professors added them to the curriculum. history class last year and was intrigued. relevant today.” •
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• They were all on display a few weeks the classes engage in following the later, in another classroom, this one in conclusion can be great learning Education Hall. Students in Dr. Allison opportunities. As students consider how Malcom’s History 105 class were their actions altered events, they can’t engaged in a vigorous debate about help but acknowledge that it is often “The understanding is that they are as actors in a play, trying to slavery. The occasion was a dinner those sorts of actions that shaped history hosted by Samuel Morse in honor of John in the first place. understand the mindset of the roles they are playing, both for good Reacting to the Past began as a teaching Calhoun. Morse, the noted inventor (yes, Malcom pointed to an incident during and for bad. And this class is raucous... I’d never have this many students idea by Barnard College Professor of Morse code), was also politically active a previous semester, when her students History Mark Carnes. Today, the program as a leader of the anti-Catholic and anti- were participating in a game set during participating in a typical classroom discussion of abolition.” has been implemented by more than 300 immigrant movements in the 1840s colleges and universities and the Reacting the American revolution. — dr. Allison Malcom and a defender of slavery. Adjunct Lecturer of history to the Past website lists a number of “There were some moments in my Calhoun, a South Carolina senator and games currently available and more in American Revolution game when it got various stages of development, including: former vice president, was in fine form very silly—specifically when the mob at the dinner, sipping whiskey (apple actions occurred. But at one point my • Charles Darwin, the Copley Medal juice) and slapping down speeches from student playing Isaac Sears was arrested and the Rise of Naturalism, 1861–64 abolitionists present at the party. for inciting riots. ‘When did I do that?’ he • Confucianism and the Succession Crisis “The understanding is that they are as said, looking hurriedly through his role of the Wanli Emperor, 1587 actors in a play, trying to understand the sheet. ’Friday, in this class,’ I said. We all • The Constitutional Convention of 1787: mindset of the roles they are playing, both laughed, but I think it stuck with the class Constructing the American Republic for good and for bad,” said Malcom. And that historical actions have consequences. • Defining a Nation: India on the this class is raucous. There are numerous And after that game was over I showed Eve of Independence, 1945 speeches, a song, tête-á-têtes, arguing them the tar and feathering clip from the • Greenwich Village, 1913: Suffrage, Labor and prodding. While some students are HBO miniseries John Adams to illustrate and the New Woman definitely more fully inhabiting their roles, what a mob action actually looked • Henry VIII and the Reformation Parliament all seem intent on the proceedings. like—which was terrible and violent and • Kentucky, 1861: Loyalty, State and Nation without remorse on the part of Sam “I’d never have this many students • Patriots, Loyalists and Revolution participating in a typical classroom Adams (who was a similar character in New York City, 1775–76 to Sears). Had I showed them that clip discussion of abolition,” noted Malcom. • Red Clay, 1835: Cherokee Removal and the outside of the context of the game, they Before the hour has finished, there is Meaning of Sovereignty would have gotten that it is serious a kidnapping, as a pro-slavery group • Rousseau, Burke and Revolution in France, 1791 and history can be violent and awful. hauls away Frederick Douglass, followed But I’m not sure they would remember • The Threshold of Democracy: by an assassination attempt, during Athens in 403 B.C. why or how mobs happened. In the which an abolitionist is killed. Pivotal game, despite the giggling, they realized • The Trial of Anne Hutchinson: Liberty, Law moments such as these are often met in and Intolerance in Puritan New England that there was a huge disenfranchised the games with the roll of a dice. Though group of people whose only power was • The Trial of Galileo: Aristotelianism, the students’ actions are quite constrained “New Cosmology” and the Catholic Church, spontaneous mobbing. They realized by the beliefs of their character and the 1616–33 that leadership can be both fearful of times in which they lived, the games do • The Collapse of Apartheid and the and condescending toward that mass of offer some leeway, and can venture away Dawn of Democracy in South Africa, 1993 people, and occasionally can use those from actual history, as the kidnapping • Constantine and the Council of Nicaea: mobs for their own ends.” demonstrates. Defining Orthodoxy and Heresy in Christianity, 325 CE And that’s OK. Again, the purpose More than 100 years ago, the Spanish philosopher George Santayana wrote that • Environmental Science and International here isn’t to accurately recreate history. Politics: Acid Rain in Europe, 1979–1989 Outcomes that differ drastically from “Those who cannot remember the past are and Climate Change in Copenhagen, 2009 condemned to repeat it.” actual events beg the question, why? • Modernism vs. Traditionalism: What happened in the re-enactment Turns out that repeating it, at least Art in Paris 1888–1889 that brought about a different outcome? in an educational setting, might have • Stages of Power: Marlowe and Shakespeare, Markwyn said the debriefings that some value, too. 1592
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been bringing her students to the zoo for as long as she’s taught at Carroll— more than 20 years. It’s a unique relationship, according to Kari Williams, the sustainability, conservation and research coordinator at the zoo. “Nothing else we do with other schools is on the scale of the research observations performed by Carroll students.” It’s a relationship grounded in the zoo’s mission. Hamerkop nest Milwaukee County Zoo “The zoo is an important institution in the community,” said Mary Kazmierczak, librarian and information specialist at the zoo. “This is the only place students can observe endangered and other exotic animals. Zoos don’t exist simply as entertainment venues. Education is a very important role.” Students in Lewis’ course began the semester with a meeting with zoo staff, where ideas for research projects are bandied about. A visit to the zoo is a peculiar thing if WATCHING OVER Occasionally, zoo keepers may have study you think about it: a quick glimpse of the THE ANIMALS requests for the students. In some cases, the wilder, natural world usually beyond the 20+ students perform important work for zoo staff, reach of our everyday, sheltered lives. year partnership between The nest is a good three-feet wide and nearly who can’t commit several hours at a time to as tall, a covered, saucer-shaped assemblage of Zebras and lions and bears and more. carroll university and the observe a specific animal. milwaukee county zoo twigs, branches and other scavenged detritus. In Beasts and birds and fish we generally “We always solicit research project ideas the wild, in the wetlands of Sub-Saharan Africa, A WALK wouldn’t ever come across. We peer from the zoo staff,” said Lewis. “I think it is very these nests can top 50 pounds in weight and important to serve the research needs of the zoo through the bars of a cage or the thick glass contain 8,000 pieces of sticks and other material. of the exhibit window and bear witness to 374 as much as we possibly can.” This particular one is under construction on The experience is certainly useful for students, the exotic and otherworldly. For most of different species represented the far west side of Milwaukee County, in the many of whom may be headed on to graduate us, outside of our dogs and cats, this is as at the milwaukee county zoo; Herb and Nada Mahler Family Aviary building 3,342 specimens school or to careers in which this experience in close as we get to another species. at the Milwaukee County Zoo. It’s being pieced the research process will be invaluable. • This brief walk past a simulated African together by the zoo’s only pair of hamerkops, ON THE plain or Central American jungle is our medium-sized waterbirds with long beaks and walk on the wild side. 1892 sharp crests at the back of their heads. Zoos were once sideshow material— founding of the milwaukee The nest building is a huge undertaking for collections of curiosities accumulated by county zoo—that’s only these birds and a bonding process for a mated the powerful or wealthy. Over time, the 46 years after carroll! pair. The zoo’s duo has not yet had offspring, role of zoos evolved, from entertainment but the birds are being watched closely, and the person doing the watching is Elizabeth Alagna, to education and ultimately, even to a senior animal behavior major at Carroll conservation. Today, teaching us about 1.3 million University. these wild lives and helping to preserve zoo visitors in 2016 Alagna is at the zoo as part of Dr. Susan them is crucial to the mission of most zoos, Lewis’ behavioral ecology class. The course including the Milwaukee County Zoo. investigates the biological basis of animals’ And, for more than 20 years now, social behavior and requires that students students from Carroll’s biology and animal 190 undertake a semester-long research project. For behavior programs have been conducting acres comprise the Zoo’s this project, students will spend time over seven SIDE research at the Milwaukee County Zoo. Bluemound Drive location weeks observing animals at the zoo. Lewis has 18 F1RST | Spring 2018 EXPLORATION
• “When students conduct their own research, Keeper’s Forum, where it may influence similar school and hasn’t settled on a career yet, though they develop a better understanding of the decisions in other zoos as well. she knows she wants to work with animals. For • Reproductive Effort and Nesting Behaviors processes that lead to the published research Even studies that may go unpublished can add her, like many of the students involved in the of a Hamerkop Mating Pair they read and they improve their ability to to the general knowledge about a species. For research at the zoo, it’s the skills the project Elizabeth Alagna critically analyze that work,” explained Lewis. Alagna, that has meant hours watching the pair builds that are most valuable. • Factors Influencing Pacing in Cheetahs “It also prepares them to do more involved of hamerkops build their nest and interact with “Students talk about these skills in job Bridget Turrisi research in the future. Regardless of their one another. She estimates the female has done interviews or in applications…and their research future careers, being involved in a research 80 percent of the work and noted that the birds projects give them concrete examples of their • Age Differences in Mother Offspring project builds a wide range of transferable have moved on to more pronounced mating success,” said Lewis. Interactions of Bactrian Camels skills: problem solving, critical and creative behaviors. “They spend a lot of time engaging Perhaps an egg will never appear; perhaps the Laura Jones, Mikaela Shepard thinking, time management, oral and written in mating behaviors and I have witnessed them monkeys’ behavior won’t noticeably change. and Marisa Weidephul communication.” copulate multiple times. Alagna has already Perhaps the polar bear or seals or tigers or • Observing Male and Female Fennec Foxes’ decided to extend her research into the spring giraffes or any of the other creatures watched Interactions Based on Number of Visitors semester in hopes that eggs will be laid. She’s over won’t provide any startling behaviors. Madeline Glubka curious to see if the distribution of parental care Perhaps the voluminous notes taken by the and effort switches roles once a chick enters the students this semester won’t record any • Social Interaction of Adult Captive Giraffes picture. groundbreaking insights. Kelsey Pflum Alagna plans on continuing on to graduate That’s all right. The students have learned how • Development of Social Relationships Amber Grezinski school for a master’s in conservation biology. Her to slow down, observe and be attentive. They Through Interactions in Giraffes at her station, in front career goals are focused in wildlife conservation of an exhibit of a pair have turned their gaze for a while to the other— Veronica Chavez of small New World and management. “A major part of wildlife to a wilder world removed from smart phones monkeys management is field research so this course has and screens, figuratively, to a distant country. • Effects of Visitor Intensity, Density and Activity on Jaguar Behavior definitely prepared me for my future and taught And their discoveries may have at least as much Tabetha Corrigan me how to collect and synthesize data. I have a to do with themselves. specific interest in birds so that is why I chose • Measuring the Integration of Two Groups to work with the hamerkops and this study has Near the end of the semester, students will of Macaques One Year After Initial helped build my avian knowledge for graduate present their research at the zoo, with large Introduction school.” posters documenting their findings. “Everyone Neil Driscoll from the zoo director to the keepers to Zoo Pride In another building at the zoo, fourth-year • Comparison of Sex Differences in Social student Amber Grezinski is at her station, in volunteers will come and can ask the students Behavior Between Goeldi Monkeys front of an exhibit of goeldi monkeys, a pair of about their work,” said Kazmierczak. “It’s an and Cotton-top Tamarins important opportunity for everyone here.” small New World monkeys a little smaller than Amber Grezinski a typical house cat. Grezinski, another animal Lewis agrees. “The poster symposium is behavior major, is studying both the goeldi • Effect of Temperature on Stereotypic Behavior consistently amazing! Zoo staff are curious about monkeys and nearby cotton-top tamarins. Both in Polar Bears the students’ findings and the conversations sets of monkeys are male/female pairs, and Carroll students kept watch over more than a dozen exhibits Sarah Stock around the research are always lively. It’s very Grezinski is trying to determine which gender rewarding for the students to be able to give at the Milwaukee County Zoo during the fall semester, • Use of Climbing Exhibit Structures drives more social interaction. back. The zoo staff really care about the studies, conducting the following research studies: for Shade by Red Pandas they are really interested.” Whatever the findings, the research process is Kaitlin Williams certainly beneficial to Grezinski. Several students have had research projects • How Enrichment Affects Use of Space “I think this class will benefit me by giving published and a study last year resulted in actual in the Black Rhinoceros changes at the zoo. Two students investigated me more experience in animal behavior and Ashley Gnadt how a change in exhibit lighting from blue- firsthand experience in the field,” she said. “It hued to red-hued lights in the nocturnal house has taught me the complexities of studying • Exhibit Utilization Across Age Groups affected the behavior of the potto and the animal behavior and all the hard work that goes in Harbor Seals springhaas. into it. This research has helped me learn how to Travis Neils manage my time, record detailed observations The quantitative data they collected was • Scent Enrichment: Effects on Play Behavior and interpret my data in order to answer my instrumental in the zoo’s decision to change the and Stereotypic Behavior lighting throughout the nocturnal house. The research question.” Nicole Miller, Claudia Orman work is also slated to be published in Animal Grezinski has no immediate plans for graduate and Carly Rosenthal
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1980 CLASS Sally Mohr Lunde ’80 recently joined For several years, David Barclay, Jr. ’50 the Waukesha-based Law Offices made sure the Packers got to their games on time of David J. Carlson, S.C., where she NOTES will be focusing on probate and trust administration, estate planning Please send news of weddings, and guardianship law. Lunde was births, deaths; new jobs and the recipient of the 2017 Lifetime promotions; academic and Achievement Award from the Waukesha County Bar Association, professional degrees; church and and recipient of a Commendation GREEN AND GOLD community service activities; from the Wisconsin Supreme Court awards and achievements; for services rendered in the areas and changes of address to the of probate, guardianship and model Office of Alumni Engagement at form creation. [email protected] or via mail 1985 AND THE WILD BLUE YONDER to Carroll University, 100 N. East Ave., Waukesha, WI 53186. Kit Van Stelle ’85 was recently promoted to the title of distinguished researcher in the UW School of Medicine and Public The 2017–18 NFL and I just made sure that the airline He said the time with the Packers was laughing and carrying on. That was • In August of 1959, two men tackled 1958 Health. Van Stelle’s collaborative season served up a was not a “major part of my work something that stuck in my memory.” new challenges with Wisconsin’s schedule department would darn well Eunice (Hoffman) Fisher ’58 married evaluation research has included pair of interesting Green Bay Packers. One was the new come up with an airplane.” experience” with United, where he He said the Packers “took such good Karen Rhoades Welling, a retired efforts partnering with Native travel-related worked for 38 years. Because most United Methodist minister, American Indian tribes, the Great coach that year, Vince Lombardi, who stories: David studied English and history care of me” but it also helped that he of the Packers’ travel came on the on Aug. 17, 2016. They now live Lakes Inter-Tribal Council, the took on a team that had not seen a at Carroll after serving two years in paid attention to Marie Lombardi, the weekends, the responsibilities he in St. Petersburg, Fla. Office of the State Public Defender, winning season in more than a decade. the U.S. Navy. As a young boy, he coach’s wife. He said anywhere the the Wisconsin Department of fulfilled were primarily on his own The other was David Barclay, Jr., a 1950 developed a love of travel while looking coach went, she was there. And so 1974 Corrections, the Wisconsin Carroll alumnus working for United time. Although it did allow him the was David, who made sure to bring Department of Justice, the at maps and figuring out time tables for Tom Fick ’74 will be inducted The New England opportunity to travel, he did lament Wisconsin Department of Health Airlines in Milwaukee when the Packers trains. His parents, David Sr. and Ruth, her a Coke in the bleachers, always in into the University of Wisconsin- Patriots purchased the hours away from his wife and three and Human Services, various county sought help to cover the team’s travel. the owner’s section, where she would Whitewater Athletics Hall of Fame. two Boeing 767s raised six children, including Dorothy, health and human service agencies, children. Among those three children Tom served as sports information David took on that challenge. for team travel; David’s twin sister, who also attended invite him to watch the game, he said. school districts and private health was the youngest, Dr. Ellen Barclay, director at the university from 1976– becoming the only Carroll. While at Carroll, David had Ellen Barclay recalled that her care providers. He had started his career with United team in the league who was born in 1960. Today, Ellen is 2014. He earned a College Sports a part-time job that allowed him father had great respect for coach Airlines at General Mitchell Field, now to own their own associate dean and director of general Information Directors of America supplemental income outside of the G.I. Lombardi. “My dad really respected Lifetime Achievement Award and a 1996 General Mitchell International Airport, planes. education at Carroll. Bill helping to fund his education. With WIAC Special Recognition Award in after taking a summer off for a road Vince Lombardi—his ethics and his his pay, he booked low-budget spring “Vince Lombardi was really wonderful values, the way he demanded a lot 2014. He lives in Fort Atkinson, Wis. trip with his parents following his Fick also volunteered in a media break trips to places like New York and to my dad,” she said. “If there was from his players, both on and off the college graduation. As a station agent relations role for several Olympics. Florida to feed his love of travel. any event the team was doing while for United, he was a jack-of-all-trades, field, but at the same time supported Ravens fans sensed they traveled, Vince Lombardi always doing everything from reservations to Ironically, David actually wasn’t a them wholeheartedly and refused to 1975 something fishy invited my dad. He has all these stories checking in customers for flights, to Packers fan before he took the job as let anyone discriminate against any of when the team about those days.” loading and unloading passengers. By announced plans the team’s travel coordinator. Honestly, them. That had a big impact on my dad.” • Tonya (Kjos) Chandler ’96 has the time 1959 came around, he had on April 1 to travel he wasn’t even a sports fan, he said. David said of Lombardi, “For some He worked with the team through been named vice president of sales via cruise ship to reason, he liked me. One of the and marketing for Anue Water sort of “aced” his job, he said, and was “I’m just not much of a jock and I the early ’60s. A few years later, he their match-up in assistant coaches said, ‘David, why is it Technologies. promoted and relocated to an office in London. They took didn’t follow football at all. I learned transferred to Washington D.C. you’re the only one the coach likes?’” downtown Milwaukee. a plane instead. an awful lot, including the names of all “It was a job, one I took seriously 1998 of the key players on the team. I was a The players liked him, too, so much “The Packers threw out their schedule and enjoyed,” he said. • 1975 alumnae (back row, from Paige Larson ’98 has been working that one of his memories includes and I was really driven,” recalled David, quick learner,” David said. Soon enough, left) Pat (Metzger) Wickert, Barbara as one of several team physical now 91, and living in the Pewaukee, Wis., he had become “a die-hard fan.” being passed down the plane aisle by (Hopkins) Braden, Darlene Janes, therapists for United States Figure defensive tackle Dave “Hawg” Hanner Skating, having traveled with Team area with his wife, Carol. “I don’t know 8,064 He said stats of plays were prepared Ellen (Quinn) Lehman, Debbie (Cleveland) Cassettari, Kathy USA to major events in China, Japan how it became so important to me. I just Total miles that the and running back Paul Hornung. on-site at the games. He liked to get • Blohm, and ( front row from left) and Russia. She will be traveling Packers traveled wouldn’t let it get away. We even had to a copy of the stats delivered to the “Two or three of them picked me up David Barclay, Jr. Kathy (Andes) Wojs, Lura (Balsom) with them again next March to the during the 2017–18 change a travel day a couple times when and stretched me out and passed me ’50 had a friendly Bonzelet and Karen Johnson World Junior Championships in regular season— airplane, where he would review them relationship with reunited near Milwaukee for a night Sofia, Bulgaria. they wanted to travel because I couldn’t ranking 30th of the and then have the opportunity to from the front of the plane to the back Frank Romeo / Shutterstock.com Romeo Frank legendary Green Bay of food, drinks and memories. get an airplane. I took it as a challenge league’s 32 teams. of the plane,” he said. “At the time, I engage players after the games. Packers head coach Vince Lombardi.
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2002 2008 Jay Wendland ’08 published a book titled “Campaigns that Matter.” Wendland is currently an assistant professor of history and political science at Daemen College in Amherst, N.Y.
• Becki (Emerson) Matteson 2009 ’02, ’03, and her husband, David, Jackie Messler ’09 has been Life Goals welcomed a baby boy, Samuel, on appointed to serve on the board of Jan. 17, 2017. He joins sister, Kirsten. directors of Girls on The Run of Southeastern Wisconsin. MAKING A DIFFERENCE BUILDING HER OWN LEGACY 2003 When a game is on the line, it’s a good feeling knowing you have They say family roots run deep and strong but for Michaela Johnson, 2012 a player who can change the outcome at any time. Rachel Van Sluys a first-year lacrosse player from Mukwonago, Carroll family roots run a Evan James ’12 and Lauren Sroka ’12 is that special player. little deeper than the average Pioneer. You see, her family tree consists have announced their engagement. of six Carroll alumni. They began dating at Carroll during As a junior, she’s the reigning women’s their senior year and have been soccer CCIW Player of the Year, has earned first It’s understandable that a person might feel a little pressured to together ever since. team all-conference honors in both the Midwest follow in their footsteps, even more so when some of those steps Conference and the CCIW (twice) and was named were taken by a great-grandfather. Johnson’s just happens to be F.J. 2015 • Tim Wolf ’03 and Shauna to the 2016 First-Team All-Central Region. You can “Mickey” McCormick, a 1984 Hall of Fame Inductee and Carroll’s head (Connell) Wolf ’04 welcomed a Rachel Simmons ’15 married bet opposing defenses know the type of player she is; football coach from 1949 to 1957. Despite this, Johnson has her eyes baby girl, Reagan Mary, on June 7, Logan Soich on June 10, 2017, in a resilient, hard-working and flat-out dominant player set on creating her own legacy; one that includes elevating the lacrosse Milwaukee. 2017. She joins sister, Addison, and who will stop at nothing until the clock hits zero. program much like her great-grandfather did with the football program. brother, Jace. Faculty and Staff But for Van Sluys, the clock never truly hits zero. Growing up, Johnson always seemed to find her way back to Carroll. 2006 She has no off switch; her hard work doesn’t stop on She attended multiple lacrosse clinics at Carroll’s Schneider Stadium, Emily (Minnig) Sonnenburg ’06 and the soccer field. On the contrary, she gives it her all in drove past campus on a regular basis and even stood up at her aunt’s her husband, Chris, welcomed a every aspect of her life; she calls it being “all-in.” And wedding, which took place in the Humphrey Memorial Chapel. She baby boy, Matthew Gary, on May that’s what sets her apart. That all-in mentality paired may not have known it at the time, but one day she would call Carroll 23, 2017. He joins brother, Luke, and with her selfless, kind-hearted and team-first attitude her home away from home. It also really helps that her grandmother, sister, Sarah. has spread across the soccer program. Kathleen (McCormick) Ley ’65, lives a block away from Carroll’s campus. Head coach Susan Foster says she figured Van Sluys as the Away from the lacrosse field, Johnson has her hands full as a student in 2007 • Dr. Laila Azam, clinical assistant professor in public health, and her epitome of a Pioneer long before she ever scored a goal for the Pioneers. the honors program and a double major in business administration and husband, Ahmed, welcomed a baby Foster recalls meeting Van Sluys after watching her play and thinking information technology, with a minor in Spanish. boy, Bilal Ahmed, on July 14, 2017. “she was a tremendous person, student and soccer player who could be a This is nothing new to her, though, as she has been a student-athlete He joins a brother, Ayah, and a sister, difference maker for our program.” Foster, too, was all-in on Van Sluys. for as long as she can remember. In fact, she says she thrives in the Sofia. However, Van Sluys’ journey in the soccer program hit a road block pressure of being a student-athlete. Johnson hopes to use her deep during her first year on campus. The night before tryouts, her best friend family connection to Carroll as a way to further push herself, both suffered a house fire. Van Sluys skipped the soccer tryouts to be by her athletically and academically, as she begins her Carroll journey. • Kyle ’07 and Jessica (Abbott) friend’s side. After all, it’s a family tradition. Mair ’07 welcomed a baby boy, Paxton Bradley, on June 18, 2017. Through it all, Coach Foster, the entire soccer team and Van Sluys all He joins a sister, Paisley Jane. kept a close connection. The following year, Van Sluys described her tryout Rachel Van Sluys as already having “found a place with the family” and because of that, her Junior | Women’s Soccer commitment was to do whatever she needed to do to make the team. The Follow your Carroll University • Erin Hoppenworth, director rest, as they say, is history. of university budget and capital Pioneers throughout the spring projects, and husband, Scott, Van Sluys has one more season as a Pioneer soccer player and is on welcomed a baby girl, pace to graduate with a degree in physical education. A few years from semester at gopios.com Teigen Quinn, on Aug. 18, 2017. Michaela Johnson Freshman | Women’s Lacrosse now, you should be able to find her teaching kids the joy, commitment and importance that sports can bring to their lives. But one thing is for certain, • Emily (Barber) Zwieg ’07, with no matter where she goes or what she does, you can bet she’s all-in. husband Andrew and daughter Cora, welcomed baby boy Nolan Andrew on May 5, 2017.
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Corrine C. (Londo) Stiehl ’55 IN passed away Oct. 9, 2017, in Sturgeon Bay, Wis. HOMECOMING ’17 MEMORIAM Karen M. (Seitz) Shannon ’56 passed away Sept. 27, 2017, at the age of 82. Pioneers reconnected, celebrated, tailgated and cheered on Marilyn A (Osterling) Olin ’58 1940s passed away Oct. 15, 2017, in Elk the Pioneers at Carroll’s Homecoming Weekend, Oct. 5–8, Adah (Fritz) Jones ’40 passed away Grove Village, Ill., at the age of 81. 2017. We pulled together some memories from the weekend Jan. 26, 2017, at the age of 97 in for one more look at our 2017 celebration. Nekoosa, Wis. 1960s Virginia D. (Jahn) Hughes ’41 passed Betsy Ann (Buckland) Skrede ’60 • See a full recap of the weekend: away May 20, 2017, at the age of 98 passed away June 16, 2017, at the age of 78 in Naples, Fla. carrollu.edu/homecoming in Plymouth, Wis. She was preceded in death by her husband, James Shirley (Dzubay) Shaw ’63 passed R. Hughes ’39 whom she met at • For more, look for Carroll on Flickr: away in February 2017 in Brevard, Carroll. N.C. flickr.com/photos/carrolluniversity/albums Jean L. (Schultz) Malmstrom ’47 William B. “Billy” Yersin ’63 passed passed away Aug. 15, 2017, at the age away Oct. 13, 2017, at the age of 76. of 92 in East Troy, Wis. He served in the U.S. Air Force for Anthony C. “Tony” Borcich ’47 21 years, retiring from the Air Force passed away in March 2016 at Reserve in 1984. the age of 93. Tony’s wife, Mary Johanna (Steigleder) Moore- (Tatoole) Borcich ’47 also passed Baxandall ’66 passed away Aug. 11, away at the age of 93 in Sept. 2017. 2017, at the age of 89 in Oshkosh, Beverly J. (Baillies) Jones ’48 passed Wis. Johanna graduated from away Aug. 21, 2017, at the age of 91 in Carroll with a teaching degree and Muscoda, Wis. went on to earn her M.S. and Ph.D. in education at the University of Ralph R. Cartensen ’48 passed away Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Sept. 27, 2017, at the age of 93 in Hudson, Fla. Ralph was a World John Petersen ’68 passed away at War II veteran. the age of 70. Wallace “Wally” K. Reams ’49 1980s passed away Jan. 30, 2017, at the age Daniel J. Winter ’81 passed away Oct. of 93. Wally served his country in 4, 2017, at the age of 69 in Waukesha. the Pacific Theater with the Army Air Corps. He later went on to be a Kenneth Blue ’83 passed away Aug. social studies teacher and guidance 3, 2017, at the age of 53 in Richmond, counselor for over 30 years at Calif. Oconomowoc High School. Maxine R. Leenhouts ’85 passed Audrey (Klebenow) Papke ’49 away July 20, 2017, at the age of 90. passed away Feb. 12, 2017, at the age of 92 in Brookfield, Wis. 1990s Barbara E. Goane ’92 passed away 1950s Aug. 22, 2016, at the age of 78 William S. Engelson ’51 passed away. in Milwaukee. Patricia I. (Campbell) Norcross ’52 passed away Sept. 3, 2017, in Grand 2000s Rapids, Mich., at the age of 87. Chad C. Ronning ’00, originally from Brookfield, Wis., passed away Lloyd “Nick” B. Nice ’54 passed away March 3, 2017, at the age of 39. May 30, 2017, at the age of 85 in his hometown of Boscobel, Wis. Lloyd Scott A. Myren ’02 passed away SAVE THE DATE served his country for 26 years Sept. 16, 2017, at the age of 37. HOMECOMING & REUNION WEEKEND as a member of the U.S. Marine Corps, where he received the Navy OCTOBER 18-21, 2018 Commendation Medal.
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Veterans Day OUR GRATITUDE Tribute IS OVERFLOWING Ahead of Veterans Day, President Cindy Gnadinger was invited to visit a group of Our first-ever #GIVINGTUESDAY at Carroll was a huge success! More than 200 donors stepped up fourth graders at St. Anthony School in and contributed over $77,000 to support Carroll! Of course, that was just one day in November. Milwaukee to talk about the significance of Our year has been a parade of angels, donors just like you, who have helped keep our mission moving forward. the holiday and share her own personal story. To do that, she read her book The Man on the Wall, which tells the story of a family 24 States member who grew from a boy to a young man Alumni from Alaska, Arizona, and made the ultimate sacrifice during the Arkansas, California, Colorado, Vietnam War. Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, The connection to the school was made Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, through the students’ teacher, Haley Shaw Over $77k Raised Minnesota, New Jersey, ’04. “I invite guests to read to my class as New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, often as I can,” she shared. “Literacy is for student scholarships through Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, immensely important to me. It’s not only the Carroll Fund Texas, Vermont, Virginia needed for school, but is a vital piece to and Wisconsin donated! ensure that students are successful in their everyday lives.” 213 Total Donors 143 Alumni | 67 percent Alumni 39 Parents | 18 percent Two Countries Saturday, Feb. 17, 2018 Tuesday, April 10, 2018 31 Friends of the University from 37 undergraduate majors and Florida Alumni & Friends Gathering Cheers to Our Years Alumni/ 12 graduate programs contributed Japan | United States UPCOMING Hosted by Joe Zvesper ’76 Graduating Seniors Wine Tasting ALUMNI 15 percent 6–8 p.m. NOMINATIONS Sunday, Feb. 25, 2018 President’s Home EVENTS Annual Soul Food Dinner SOUGHT Keynote Speaker: Carl Meredith ’91 Thursday, April 19, 2018 We’d love to see you in the future 5 p.m. Chicago Area Alumni & Friends Nominations are being Thank you from all of us at Carroll University! at one or more of the following Stackner Ballroom Gathering sought now for 2019 alumni Look online now for our 2016–17 Honor Roll of Donors at carrollu.edu/giving-back/honor-roll-of-donors. Carroll events. If you have 5:30–8 p.m. awards. The honors recognize Friday, March 2, 2018 professional achievement, questions or an event idea, reach The Clubhouse Arizona Alumni & Friends Gathering Oak Brook, Ill. service to Carroll, community out at [email protected] Hosted by Tim ’75 and Vivian Sullivan service and the Graduate of the Tuesday, April 24, 2018 Last Decade. March 10–16, 2018 Celebrate Success Event You can submit nominations President Gnadinger’s Honoring 2018 Distinguished Alumni at carrollu.edu/alumni/awards/ Inauguration Week Award and Graduate of the Last distinguished Decade recipients April 1–30, 2018 5 p.m. National Service Project Stackner Ballroom
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FROM THE CARROLL ARCHIVES Cobwebs This photo illustration features a trip in the way back machine for an actual view of Carroll’s website, circa 1997. To read about Carroll’s new website, see the article on page 10.
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