The Alumni Magazine of the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

Volume 7, Number 2 TODAYSummer 2005

Meet Chancellor Carlos Santiago

NO MORE DUES! See page 2 NO MORE DUES! All graduates of UWM are now members of the

UWM Alumni Association PETE AMLAND

up to $400, and to new “Sustaining raduates of UWM are prouder What benefits will I receive Contributors.” than ever these days, and the as a member? • Access to child care at UWM’s GUWM Alumni Association is Who is a ‘Sustaining Contributor’? welcoming these Panther backers into an Children’s Center * • Discounted men’s and women’s Sustaining Contributors make a one- organization that is now “dues-free”! The Panther basketball tickets time $500 donation to the Alumni UWMAA Board of Trustees has voted to • Special pricing at Peck School of the Association’s Student Scholarship Fund. make more than 111,000 living UWM Arts events In addition to Klotsche Center discounts, alumni permanent, lifetime members of • Discounts on auto and health library borrowing privileges, and the the Alumni Association. To make it insurance, car rentals and Internet other UWMAA membership benefits, official, membership cards will be mailed access these contributors also receive an later this year. • Access and discounts at: UWM invitation to an annual UWMAA VIP In going “dues -free,” the UWMAA Union Theatre; Craft Center; reception hosted by Chancellor Carlos follows a growing trend among Recreation Center; Sailing Club Santiago. universities around the country. UWM • US Bank/UWMAA Visa credit card All ORIGINAL Life Members and Alumni Association Board President Joe (see page 25) existing Life Installment Plan Members Czarnezki explains that this new policy • Career counseling and networking automatically become Sustaining will transform the association from a events Contributors and remain eligible for the group that concentrated on gaining and • UWM Today alumni magazine Klotsche Center and Library benefits as maintaining membership to an (published three times a year) well as the annual VIP reception with the organization with a new vision. *Service is subject to availability Chancellor. “It will focus on raising money for To become a Sustaining Contributor, scholarships for current and future Detailed information about all of the call the Alumni Association at 414-906- students,” Czarnezki says. “It will focus on benefits is available online at the UWM 4640 or toll-free at 1-877-564-6896. programming that provides alumni with Alumni Association website, professional services for networking and http://www.alumni.uwm.edu. ‘No more dues,’ much more career counseling. And, it will focus on opportunity making our graduates powerful What about discounts at the “It’s an exciting time for the UWM advocates for the work of the university.” Klotsche Center and borrowing Alumni Association,” says Tom Luljak privileges at the Golda Meir (’95), vice chancellor for university How will the UWMAA operate Library? relations and communications. “The without dues income? Because the UWMAA has just association’s new focus not only In recent years, the UWMAA has been increased from 10,000 members to more strengthens the ties of alumni to the generating income through affinity than 111,000 members, there are two university and to each other, but also programs with corporate partners. benefits that it is unable to offer to strengthens the future of UWM through Sponsorships, advertising and special- everyone. The Klotsche Center and advocacy and scholarships. Scholarships event programming now account for the Golda Meir Library do not have the make a difference. When the UWM majority of the association’s income. The budgets or capacity to accommodate the Alumni Association was incorporated new “dues-free” model eliminates the enormous number of new, lifetime 40 years ago, tuition was under $600. enormous expenses associated with the members, and therefore the association Today, it is approaching $6,000. It is no processing of thousands of invoices and is unable to offer membership discounts longer possible to pay for college with a reminder letters each year. and borrowing privileges to everyone. summer job. Perhaps most important, the UWM These two benefits are reserved for “‘No more dues’ means much more Foundation has made a very generous individuals who purchased the original opportunity for current and future commitment to help support the work of Life Memberships that had been alumni.” the UWMAA and guarantee its long-term available for a one-time dues payment of financial viability.

2 For all the latest UWM news and events, COMING UP visit our Web site at: www.uwm.edu PANTHERS PROWL AT WISCONSIN STATE FAIR AUG. 4-14 anther Power will be on display at UWM’s booth in the Wisconsin Products Pavilion at the Wisconsin State Fair, Aug. 4-14. Stop by the booth and relive the Pexcitement of the men’s basketball team’s march to the NCAA Sweet Sixteen TABLE OF CONTENTS (see page 16). The range of academic programs offered by the university also will be a special focus. 2 NO MORE DUES! For planning ahead, this is the place to get the latest info on athletic team schedules, 3 COMING UP UWM’s 2005 homecoming, the annual fall Open House, and other special events and arts performances. 4 NEWS & NOTES UWM logo caps and apparel will be available so you can show off your Panther Pride on the midway, at the Pig Races, and while eating cream puffs. 8 MEET CARLOS SANTIAGO UWM DAY AT MILLER PARK 12 INAUGURATION HIGHLIGHTS AUG. 28 14 WISCONSIN INSTITUTE FOR he UWM Alumni Association hosts its annual UWM Day at BIOMEDICAL AND HEALTH TMiller Park on Sunday, Aug. TECHNOLOGIES 28. Appropriately, the event is part 16 THE PANTHERS' SWEET SUCCESS of “Bernie’s Back to School Day” this year. A pre-game event begins at 20 SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS 11:30 a.m. in the Helfaer Field HONORED youth sports complex, featuring live entertainment, free soda and the 21 FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES chance for everyone to play kickball NEW BOARD MEMBERS on the Helfaer Field diamond. The UWM cheerleaders and Victor E. 22 UWM ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Panther will be on hand to help TEACHING AWARDS greet the fans. The Brewers take on the Atlanta 23 CLASS NOTES Braves in a 1:05 p.m. contest. UWM PETE AMLAND will again be featured during pre- game ceremonies on the field. The Panther cheerleaders performed at last year’s UWM UWM alumni, students, faculty, Day at Miller Park. TODAY staff and friends will be able to Vol. 7, No. 2, Summer 2005 purchase special ticket packages for this event at the UWM Bookstore. Full details will be announced later in the summer on the UWM Alumni Association website at Chancellor: Carlos Santiago www.alumni.uwm.edu. Vice Chancellor for Development and PANTHERFEST 2005 OCT. 10-16 Lucia Petrie Executive Director of the UWM Foundation: he Panthers are back, and they’ll be in a “Fest-ive” mood this fall. PantherFest Vice Chancellor for University Relations and Communications: 2005 – Oct. 10-16 – will bring back a variety of favorite homecoming activities Tom Luljak (’95) Tas well as some brand new fun for students, alumni, faculty, staff and Editor: Nancy A. Mack (’71) community friends. Assistant Editor: Laura L. Hunt New this year is a 5K run/walk, the “Panther Prowl,” on Sunday, Oct. 16, to raise Designer: Ellen Homb (’82), e & company money for UWM scholarships. The event – a revival of the UWM Alumni Association Photography: Pete Amland, Deb Generotzky (’85, ’89), Scholarship Run that was popular in the 1980s – will start on the UWM campus and run/walk its way through nearby Lake Park and back. Alan Magayne-Roshak (’72), UWM Visual Imaging Also new this year is men’s basketball Head Coach Rob Jeter, who’ll meet UWM fans at the annual Midnight Mayhem, Friday, Oct. 14. Both the men’s and UWM TODAY is published three times a year for alumni and women’s teams and coaching staffs will be there to rally students and alumni for other friends of the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. another “Sweet” and exciting season. Send correspondence and address changes to: UWM TODAY, The Wisconsin State College, Milwaukee, Class of 1955 will celebrate its 50th reunion Alumni House, P.O. Box 413, Milwaukee, WI 53201-0413. during the weekend. Adults and children will enjoy fun and learning with Alumni Phone 414-906-4640 (toll-free 877-564-6896). College, College for Kids, and athletic camps on Saturday. As usual, there will be cookouts, dances and other fun activities throughout the week ISSN: 1550-9583 for students and alumni, as well as varsity and club sports and a celebration of art. Mark your calendars for Oct. 10-16 and join us for PantherFest 2005! Not printed at taxpayer expense.

Cover photography by Pete Amland

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CHENG APPOINTED PROVOST OURMAZD NAMED FIRST VICE BRITZ IS NEW INFORMATION AND VICE CHANCELLOR CHANCELLOR FOR RESEARCH STUDIES DEAN ita Cheng has been named bbas Ourmazd has been named ohannes Britz has been appointed provost and vice chancellor of the first vice dean of the School of Information Racademic affairs for UWM. She Achancellor for JStudies, effective July 1. Britz, who has served in the position, which is the research and dean of came to UWM from South Africa as a second highest on campus the Graduate School. visiting professor in 2001, has been and reports directly to the Ourmazd currently serving as acting associate dean of the chancellor, on an interim holds a distinguished school. basis since January 2005. faculty appointment at “I am very excited Cheng, who joined UWM the Brandenburg about the challenges of in 1988, has served the Technical University the new position and the university in several high- in Germany, serving as chair. He also is opportunity to build on level administrative chairman of Lesswire AG, a high-tech the internal strengths of capacities in recent years. She was the company founded in 1999. the school to achieve our interim dean of the School of Ourmazd has published more than vision,” says Britz. Continuing Education in 2004 and 2005, 130 papers in refereed journals, and Some of the school’s associate vice chancellor for academic holds 10 patents. He has served as CEO key assets are its strong distance affairs from 2002-05, and associate dean of Communicant Semiconductor education program and its international of the School of Business Administration Technologies, AG; has been the director faculty, he adds. UWM’s online MLIS from 1998-2003. of IHP, a German national laboratory; (Master of Library and Information Within the School of Business and has been head of microphysics Science) was recognized by U.S. News & Administration, she was the A.O. Smith research at Bell Laboratories. World Report as one of the top online professor of accounting, first as an Ourmazd, who holds an M.A. and a programs of its type in the country. associate professor from 1994-2002 and doctorate from the University of Oxford Britz received a combined doctorate then as a professor from 2002-04. She and was a Fellow of Merton College, in information science and theology also was special assistant to the dean for Oxford, will also hold a tenured faculty from the University of Pretoria in South affirmative action from 1994-2003. Her position in the Department of Physics Africa. With his own international Ph.D. is from the Temple University and the Department of Electrical background, he says he would like to School of Business and Management. Engineering and Computer Science. He take advantage of distance education and Cheng is the ninth person and second will begin at UWM on July 1. new information technologies to help woman to serve as the provost since the UWM reach out internationally. university was established in 1956.

YOU CAN HELP MAKE ASTROPHYSICS HISTORY WITH EINSTEIN@HOME hat’s your computer doing while you sleep or go to work? Scientists at UWM, the California Institute of WTechnology and the Albert Einstein Institute want to use that extra computing power in a quest to make history in the field of astrophysics. In a project called “Einstein@Home,” anyone with a home computer and high-speed Internet connection can participate in an astrophysical treasure hunt. Einstein@Home borrows idle “cycles” (computer power available when no one is using it) to scan massive amounts of data collected by gravitational wave detectors originating from three observatories – two in the U.S. (called LIGO) and one in Germany. The objective is to find the first physical evidence of one of

Einstein’s greatest predictions – the existence of gravitational PETE AMLAND waves. Bruce Allen, professor of physics, is principal investigator Bruce Allen, professor of physics, is principal investigator on the federally on the federally funded project. funded “Einstein@Home” project. To learn more, go to http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/ or http://www.physics2005.org/.

4 PLANNED GIFT WILL ENHANCE A ‘NATIONAL TREASURE’ By Kathy Quirk

eography is more than computer publish related materials, expand simulations and satellite maps. It’s acquisitions, and help make the Gdiaries, old photos, rare research collection available digitally, says works and unique maps. And, says Robert Christopher Baruth, curator of the McColl, it’s a knowledge of places and AGS Library. The McColls are also people at all times, from all times, from making a number of current gifts to ancient to contemporary. enable the AGSL to initiate several That belief is why McColl, professor projects right away. emeritus of geography and East Asian THE ‘RENAISSANCE SUBJECT’ studies at the University of Kansas, gave his own unique collection of Chinese “We are most grateful for the geographic materials to UWM’s American McColls’ generosity, which is Geographical Society Library (AGSL) five establishing a legacy that will years ago, and why he and his wife, support researchers for years to Suzanne Ecke McColl, recently made a come,” says Ewa Barczyk, interim commitment to provide a seven-figure director of the UWM Libraries. bequest to the AGSL. McColl, a California native, fell in “Essentially, the AGS Library is a love with the subject of geography national treasure,” says McColl. Housed at after receiving an undergraduate

UWM since 1978, the library contains degree in East Asian Studies. “I got WRENCE, KS more than one million items, including into geography by accident,” he maps, atlases, books, journals, pamphlets, says. “I’d never taken a geography photos, Landsat images and digital spatial course before.” data. After earning a fellowship to do “Geography is about people and land graduate work, he found geography and history,” says McColl, and the AGSL was the “Renaissance subject.” It was TRACY RASMUSSEN / LA collection paints that broad picture. “You perfect, he says, for exploring all Robert McColl and Suzanne Ecke McColl recently made a can look at the clothes people are wearing the topics he was interested in – commitment to provide a seven-figure bequest to the American in old pictures, trace climate changes, and “politics, history, natural science.” Geographical Society Library at UWM. more.” Much of his research and writing has focused on political geography. found many works and maps that might A WORLDWIDE RESOURCE After earning his doctorate, he began have been produced in limited quantities “The AGS Library has done the most for teaching, researching and traveling or pulled off the market. “The Chinese the country in providing and conserving extensively, particularly in China. He publishers were always happy to see me.” material that is useful both for retired from the University of Kansas in He also found rare books, sometimes government and scholarship,” says McColl. 2003. bound in silk, in flea markets. “People Its collection is “much more substantive” “We still love to travel,” notes Suzanne were selling them for food.” than any other in the country and has a McColl. The McColls were leaving for “Bob McColl is a geographer of the significant history because of its ties to the Spain right after our interview, then highest standing as well as a longtime American Geographical Society, founded heading out to North Africa. They have friend of the American Geographical in the 1850s. two grown sons, Ian and Kevin. Society Library,” says Baruth. The The AGSL collection, one of the largest collection of items he donated to UWM INSPIRING OTHERS TO CONTRIBUTE and most valuable of its kind in the world, was one of the best personal collections of was transferred to the UWM Libraries As a scholar himself, McColl says he is Chinese materials in the world. Many of from the society’s headquarters in New pleased that the AGSL collection has the items are not available elsewhere, even York, and serves as a resource to found a home at a university that is in the Library of Congress, says McColl. geographers worldwide. McColl says he committed to sustaining it. He had “We want our commitment to would like to see the AGS Library become previously donated his own extensive and encourage others who have collections of “the Alexandria Library of geography,” rare collection of Chinese maps, photos, maps and materials of other areas of the reaching the legendary status of the research and books on geography to the world to consider donating them to the ancient world’s most famous library. AGSL in 1998. AGS Library so they can be preserved for The McColls’ bequest will be used to “I went to China early enough that I the future,” says McColl. He adds that the offer enhanced fellowship programs, bring found some items that are terribly unique, planned gift is also intended to inspire in scholars from around the country and that might have disappeared otherwise,” others to contribute to that “national around the world, hold symposia and he says. Through his contacts in China, he treasure” housed at UWM.

5 NEWS&NOTES HUNGER CLEANUP DAY WELCOME, COACH JETER! SETS A RECORD former assistant basketball coach at UWM returns WM students aimed higher than from Madison to take the head coach’s seat. Robert the Sweet 16 in volunteerism on AJeter, who has spent the last four years as the associate UApril 16. That day – the fifth head coach of the University of Wisconsin–Madison Badgers annual national Hunger Cleanup Day – under Bo Ryan, was named head coach of the Panthers was designed to encourage college basketball team in April, replacing Bruce Pearl. students to become involved in Jeter is the team’s fifth coach since the Panthers joined community service as well as call Division I ball in 1990. Before stints as assistant coach at attention to hunger and homelessness. UW–Platteville and at UWM in 1999-2001, Jeter played This year, UWM had 344 student, professional basketball in Portugal for a year. As a student, he staff, and faculty volunteers who PETE AMLAND was captain of the UW–Platteville team that won the 1991 worked at more than 30 sites and NCAA Division III National Championship. raised more than $4,700, making this At a news conference on April 12, Jeter began his remarks by passing the spotlight and the most successful volunteer day in leading two rounds of applause for members of the men’s basketball team. school history. The event was co- “The eyes of the country are on these guys for what they have accomplished (at the sponsored by UWM’s Center for NCAA tournament) this year,” Jeter said. “I feel very fortunate to be chosen to lead them. Volunteerism and You don’t know how proud I am to be the new head coach.” Student Leadership, Jeter also said he wasn’t intimidated to follow Pearl’s record-breaking season. the UWM Student “I know many of these young men. They had a great run. And we’re going to go out Association, and do it again,” he said, adding, “I don’t see it as pressure. I see it as a chance to keep a WISPIRG good thing going.” (Wisconsin Student Public Interest Research DEB GENEROTZKY '85, '89 Group) and the campus UWM SCHOLARSHIP NIGHT AT THE BUCKS GAME chapter of wo Milwaukee high school seniors, Jessica Games (Juneau High School) and Habitat for Terrell Ayala (North Division), were presented with $1,000 scholarships during Humanity. Thalftime ceremonies at the fourth annual UWM Scholarship Night at the Bucks Game on April 13. Chancellor Carlos Santiago and UWM Alumni Association Board President Joe Czarnezki presented the scholarships, cheered on by new UWM men’s basketball Head Coach Rob Jeter and members of the “Sweet 16” team, UWM mascot Victor E. Panther and the Bucks’ Bango, the university’s Pep Band and cheerleading squad, and the crowd of alumni, students, faculty, staff and friends in the stands. The Pep Band also performed before the game on the Milwaukee Bucks/UWM Showcase Stage, and student Jeremy Scott played the National Anthem on sax. The Bucks lost to the Celtics, but it was close – 111 to 108. High school administrators from throughout southeastern Wisconsin nominated students for the UWM Alumni Association scholarships, based on criteria including leadership, character and academic performance. The scholarship awardees must qualify DEB GENEROTZKY '85, '89 to attend UWM and then enroll to receive the scholarships.

6 Express-ed Generosity GIFT FURNISHES NEW SPORTS COMPLEX By Laura L. Hunt

hen the Panthers move into their home in the new sports Wcomplex adjacent to the Klotsche Center, they can really feel at home thanks to a generous donation from Corporate Express. The company recently donated approximately $125,000 of stylish office furniture and design upgrades to the facility. Corporate Express is revamping Athletic Director Bud Haidet’s office as well as the Men’s and Women’s Basketball Suite, which includes the offices of head coaches Rob Jeter and Sandy Botham and the basketball assistant coaches. In addition, the company is providing furnishings for the Athletics Department’s reception area and seating for a student commons area located near the atrium entrance connecting the new building and the Klotsche Center. “The Corporate Express gift is very significant and appreciated because it will upgrade previously planned furniture to a much higher level,” said Haidet. “The enhanced furnishings will be more attractive and comfortable, and will provide an inviting environment that’s more appealing to players, recruits, their families and potential donors or sponsors of Panther Athletics.” “When we approached UWM with the idea, there were a lot of smiles,” said Rick Buckley, Corporate Express Wisconsin Division president, whose son is currently an undergraduate student at UWM. “We YNE-ROSHAK '72 felt UWM was the perfect recipient because of its impact on the community. The university is raising its profile, and the ALAN MAGA quality of its students has captured the located in Wauwatosa, is the state’s largest Corporate Express “chair-men” include (from left) Rick attention of many local business leaders business-to-business supplier of essential Buckley, president of Corporate Express Wisconsin who are seeking competent, creative office and computer products, office Division; Rob Stenson, division furniture sales employees. UWM’s students are the key to furniture, business machines and service, manager; and Toby Bronson, vice president of sales. our future.” janitorial supplies and distribution Rob Stenson, division furniture sales services. The company also provides its rising. We are proud to highlight what we manager, has worked on the project from customers with certified design services. can do – from design to installation – in start to finish, coordinating with the UWM “The idea for the gift began to take such a highly visible and important Athletics Department, Facilities Planning shape when a news article about the new venue.” and the project’s architectural firm, facility mentioned a need for furnishings,” “It’s fabulous that Corporate Express Venture Architects. “From a design aspect, says Toby Bronson, vice president of sales stepped forward to furnish these areas,” the project is very exciting. We are at Corporate Express. Bronson already says Associate Athletic Director Deanna working together to make improvements knew about the renovation project, D’Abbraccio. “It’s a lovely gift.” that will create a warmer feel and a more because his wife is working on her The new offices are expected to be inviting environment.” doctoral degree in education at UWM. ready for occupancy in the fall. Corporate Express Wisconsin Division, “It’s nice to assist a campus whose star is

7 Real-life collaborative experiences guide Chancellor Santiago forward by Brad Stratton

eople working collaboratively UWM/inauguration/.) very well if they couldn’t adapt to toward a greater good. That How did the idea of people change.” Pconcept has been a central working collaboratively toward a Carlos said he believes these theme for Carlos E. Santiago since greater good become so much a experiences also shaped his he became chancellor of the part of Carlos Santiago’s life? Many academic interests: “International University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee influences can be found in the development and international on July 15, 2004. As should have stages of his life that preceded his issues were always something that I been expected, then, this theme arrival at UWM. had an interest in. I continued was apparent throughout the traveling abroad as part of my Chancellor’s April 29, 2005, THE WORLD AS SEEN academic work and educational inaugural address. FROM ARMY BASES administrative work.” “While we are brought together Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in As he finished high school, there today by my inauguration as 1952, Carlos didn’t spend very much was no question what the next step chancellor,” he said, “I want you to of his childhood in any one place. in his life would be. “My parents… know that we truly come to His father, José, was constantly on instilled in their children a thirst for celebrate UWM. We celebrate the the move in the U.S. Army, serving knowledge,” he said. “The question tremendous work done every day by in World War II, Korea and for me and my siblings was not our faculty, staff and students who Vietnam. In Puerto Rico, his whether we would go to college, but make UWM the vibrant, diverse mother, Irma, raised the four when and where.” community that it is.” Santiago children with strong José, supported by the G.I Bill, The beneficiaries of the public support from her parents. But many had earned a degree from the university’s work, he stressed, years were spent on Army bases in University of Miami, while Irma, as include the entire community – not Georgia, Oklahoma, Germany, her high school’s valedictorian, had just individuals who earn degrees. Massachusetts and Panama. received a full scholarship to the Universities develop human capital, “You begin wondering, ‘Where’s University of Puerto Rico. “They generate new knowledge, equalize home?’” Carlos said. “I can’t think came from very low-income families, access and opportunity, foster of any childhood friends…. You’re and it was quite remarkable for artistic and intellectual vitality and not around long enough to grow up them, in that day and age, to be spur economic growth. With with childhood friends.” able to complete college,” said broader knowledge of and The experiences of his youth Carlos, who also would earn degrees appreciation for these public developed lessons for his life. “You from both of those universities benefits, society can better become very resilient,” he said. “You before traveling north to Cornell understand and value universities become very adaptive to different University in Ithaca, N.Y., to earn a and support investment in them. settings, different cultures, different second master’s degree and a (The complete text and video of the people. It’s pretty good preparation doctorate. All of his degrees are in address is online at www.uwm.edu/ for change. Someone would not economics. handle an environment like that

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INITIAL EXPERIENCES IN interim and – after a national search – strengths that are complemented by area ACADEMIA permanent Provost and Vice President higher education institutions – as After earning his second master’s for Academic Affairs. The responsibilities excellent prospects for regional degree and while working toward his of the provost position – the second- development. doctorate, Carlos accepted his first highest on campus in charge of, To support this development and academic position, as an assistant essentially, all internal operations – coordinate efforts across the region, professor in the Department of proved to be excellent preparation for UWM was among the founding members Economics at Wayne State University in coming to UWM. and leading organizers of the Biomedical Detroit. His early research focused on “As chief operating officer,” he said, “I Technology Alliance (BTA), which seeks labor market issues, international knew student affairs, I knew development, to enhance collaboration between development and economic I knew research … I knew about academic researchers and industry. (See development. construction projects, I knew about the article about the BTA on page 14.) In 1988, he was part of a team from student discipline, I knew about the Carlos sees the BTA as being among the World Bank and the U.S. Agency for academic side…. It was about as good an the most significant university International Development working in education as you could get in a relatively developments during his first year in the African nation of Malawi. It was and short period of time.” Milwaukee. “We are now really talking continues to be among the poorest and about regional economic development – least-developed nations in the world. A BILLION DOLLAR INVESTMENT I think that’s a very, very important “That was a real eye-opener,” Carlos said. What would happen next at Albany positive,” he said. “And it’s not only “I had seen poverty before, but that was was a fantastically fortuitous series of UWM, but it’s a wide consortium of at a scale I had never seen. Food security events. Officials at UWM, the University political leaders, private-sector leaders was a major issue. In other words, people of Wisconsin System and the State of and institutions that are talking about were starving.” Wisconsin all hope something similar collaborations.” That year also saw Carlos’s move to the might happen here – and have started Internally, steps taken to support University at Albany, State University of working toward making it happen. expansion in these areas include the New York. In addition to teaching and Albany is located about midway redefining of the position of dean of research, it was in Albany that Carlos between a $2 billion microchip UWM’s Graduate School and the hiring took on his first leadership positions, first fabrication plant IBM was building in of David Gilbert as Senior Advisor to the as chair of the University Budget Panel East Fishkill, N.Y., and another it had in Chancellor. Gilbert served as Vice (“An experience that allowed me to see Burlington, Vt. That made Albany a President of Outreach at Albany, the institution as more than just one perfect location for a training and formulating and implementing campus- department…at a very, very difficult research facility for students who could wide strategic and economic budget time”) and then as chair of the eventually become the key employees of development initiatives. Abbas Ourmazd university’s Department of Latin these factories. IBM already was hiring a has joined UWM as its first Vice American and Caribbean Studies. majority of the university’s physics Chancellor for Research and Dean of the While at Albany, he was named a graduates. In following years, IBM, Graduate School. Prior to his July 1 Fulbright Scholar for 1993-94. As part of Sematech and Tokyo Electron Ltd. arrival at UWM, he held a distinguished the agency’s South America Today invested $500 million in the University at faculty appointment at the Brandenburg Program, Carlos traveled with about a Albany, and the State of New York Technical University in Germany. dozen academicians to five countries in matched the investments to create As more and broader collaborations six weeks. They talked to local and Albany Nanotech and the College of are built across campus and community, national government officials and NanoScale Science and Engineering at Carlos suggests tracking the success of academicians about the many economic the University at Albany. the university’s initiatives by monitoring and social issues relating to the growth of Carlos plays down his role in the items such as research expenditures and oil fields in the western Amazon region. project, saying it was the result of several leveraged research funding (such as the There were several lessons from the factors and excellent cooperation at all new Wisconsin Institute for Biomedical trip, some of which influenced Carlos’s levels: university, private industry and and Health Technologies, which this year academic career in Latin American and government. He does say, however, that received an initial university investment Caribbean studies. They included better the university president charged him with of $1 million and initial commitments understanding of the complexity of creating the appropriate academic from outside partners of approximately nations even though they are neighbors. structure for these changes to occur. $15 million). He cites other indicators, “They can be side by side, but they have including an increase in the number of different histories and different political COLLABORATING FOR SUCCESS IN doctoral programs and graduate structures,” he said. “When you talk MILWAUKEE students, and patent activity by faculty about South America or Central America What will it take for UWM to have a and staff. or Latin America, it’s not one big similarly successful effort? Already during Considering Carlos’s experience homogeneous group – even within the his first year in Milwaukee, Carlos and working with broad constituencies, it various countries.” the UWM administrative team have would appear the university has just the At the University at Albany, Carlos identified biomedical imaging, medical right person to bring it all together. advanced to Associate Provost and Dean informatics, and biomechanics and of Graduate Studies before serving as rehabilitation – all regional economic

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or his inaugural speech in April 2005, Chancellor Carlos E. FSantiago worked for weeks on getting all the words right. Among the many words about the future of UWM was a comparatively short segment about his family. Some of those words came easily, but he gave considerable thought to the words he would use to introduce his spouse. It was clear he believed the word “wife” was deeply insufficient. Carlos Santiago met Azara Rivera in 11th grade. It was a fortunate coincidence, because both had spent long periods of their lives away from Puerto Rico as their fathers were assigned to one U.S. Army base after another. Azara, in fact, was born in Georgia

while her father was stationed there. PETE AMLAND Carlos and Azara married in 1974 and Life partners Carlos Santiago and Azara Santiago-Rivera relaxing at the have three daughters. Two – Lourdes and Chancellor’s Residence (above) and waltzing at the 2005 Grand Viennese Ball. Damaris – have earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from New York public “because when we’ve decided to move Center on Milwaukee’s South Side to co- universities. The third, Alexis, begins high to another institution, we’ve always made design a research project to study school this fall. sure that both of us were moving to that depression in Latino adults. Funding for Both Carlos and Azara hold doctoral institution.” the study is being sought through the degrees, but they worked on them at At UWM, Azara is an associate National Institute of Mental Health. different times. While one family member professor in the Department of Azara also is president of the National was making the time-consuming Educational Psychology within the School Latino/a Psychological Association, an commitment to a Ph.D., the other was of Education. Her courses help graduate- affiliate of the American Psychological working full time. His is in economics level students develop effective Association. Other previous professional from Cornell and hers is in counseling counseling skills and best practices for organization positions include serving as from Wayne State University. That they their work. Her latest research project is vice president of the Latino Interest both used their degrees to work at co-authoring a textbook about Network of the Association of universities has been helpful, he said, multicultural competencies in the Multicultural Counseling and counseling profession. Development and the president of Previously, she co- Counselors for Social Justice within the authored the books “The American Counseling Association. Puerto Rican Diaspora: Raising three daughters over the past Its History and two decades has provided a wide variety Contributions” and of challenges for the couple. “In all “Counseling Latinos and partnerships, you have your stresses,” la familia.” Carlos said, “but you always find ways She shows her to make agreements, compromises.” commitment to working And what was the result of the time with diverse community Carlos invested in his inaugural speech groups through her introduction of Azara? After introducing board memberships with all other family members in attendance, Planned Parenthood of he said: Wisconsin and Latino “And last but never least, I want to Arts Inc. Since arriving in acknowledge my life partner, Azara, who Milwaukee, she has has spent the last 31 years tolerating me

YNE-ROSHAK ’72 been collaborating with and making sure that I do the right things the Sixteenth Street for the right reasons.” Community Health ALAN MAGA

11 UW System President Kevin Reilly (at podium) congratulates Carlos E. Santiago after his investiture as seventh chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. An overflow crowd packed the Zelazo Center for Santiago’s inauguration on April 29.

12 Carlos E. Santiago inaugurated as UWM chancellor By Brad Stratton Photography by Alan Magayne-Roshak ’72

n front of an overflow crowd of UWM students, faculty and Executive Scott Walker and Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett. staff, and honored guests from across the United States, Carlos Performances from the students and faculty of the UWM Peck IE. Santiago was inaugurated the seventh chancellor of the School of the Arts highlighted the afternoon. The UWM Wind University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee on April 29. The investiture of Ensemble and University Choir performed, as did student vocalist the chancellor was conducted by UW System President Kevin Annie Thompson, alumnus dancer Korey Jackson and classical Reilly, with the assistance of Board of Regents President Toby guitarist and lecturer Rene Izquierdo. Marcovich and UWM Professor Mark Schwartz. Regent Jose The Friends of the Golda Meir Library continued a tradition of Olivieri was the master of ceremonies. making a special contribution to the UWM Libraries in the name Speaking in the Helen Bader Concert Hall in the Helene of the new chancellor. The organization acquired a rare hand- Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, Chancellor Santiago called drawn map – “Plano de la Isla de Puerto Rico Para el Sor,” made for the nationwide creation of Knowledge-Economy Grants. The in 1790 in Spain – and donated it to the collection of the grants would be similar to the land grant concept on which public American Geographical Society Library, housed at UWM. U.S. higher education was founded in the 19th century. The The inaugural ceremony was followed by a reception in the grants would focus on investments in public universities that serve UWM Union Ballroom. areas where there are the greatest disparities between work force A video of the inaugural program and the full text of the needs and educational attainment. chancellor’s comments are on the UWM website at Among the many dignitaries welcoming Chancellor Santiago http://www.uwm.edu/UWM/inauguration/. The site also were Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Barbara Lawton, Milwaukee County includes a photo gallery. New UWM institute at the forefront of THE REVOLUTION IN MEDICINE By Laura L. Hunt

ilestones in human genomics, medical imaging and Minformation technology have begun sweeping changes in health care not seen since the turn of the century, said researchers at a May 2 conference on biomedical technology at the UWM School of Continuing Education. “We are seeing a revolution happening in medicine, where predictive models fed with individualized health information can determine who’s at risk for developing a disease before they show symptoms,” said Bob Armstrong (’94 EMBA), general manager of functional and computed tomography engineering at GE Healthcare Technologies. Biomedical imaging and medical records management systems in particular present unprecedented opportunities for collaborative research. Capitalizing on these, Gov. Jim Doyle,

UWM Chancellor Carlos Santiago, and YNE-ROSHAK ’72 T. Michael Bolger, president of the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW), announced at the conference an ALAN MAGA interdisciplinary institute to collaborate At the May 2 meeting of the Biomedical Technology Alliance, Gov. Jim Doyle (right photo) announces on research that will boost the state’s UWM’s new research partnership, the Wisconsin Institute for Biomedical and Health Technologies knowledge-based economy and improve (WIBHT). V. Kanti Prasad, dean of UWM's College of Engineering and Applied Science (left photo, on the patient care at the same time. right) chats with Milwaukee attorney Cory Nettles (center) and Suzanne Kelley, regional manager for The Wisconsin Institute for Biomedical government relations at GE. Chancellor Carlos Santiago is in the background. and Health Technologies (WIBHT) at UWM will champion research from and Science, Nursing, and Business “By creating an environment in which industry and academia at the frontiers of Administration – and include nearly 65 our faculty and academic researchers can inquiry in biomedical engineering, health researchers from UWM and MCW. work alongside experts from industry,” said care informatics, and clinical research on The seed money will be used primarily Santiago, “we will speed up the transfer of patient outcomes and treatment efficacy. to attract a world-class director and his or new technology into the hospitals, clinics The institute’s areas of research her research team to UWM. and treatment centers where health is represent economic and intellectual Based on preliminary discussions improved and lives are saved.” strengths in southeastern Wisconsin, says among the partners, university officials Aurora Health Care, nationally Santiago. And it links UWM and the estimate the value of private-sector and recognized for efforts to improve the Medical College with GE Healthcare federal support for the institute at $15 quality of health care, has a long history of Technologies, Aurora Health Care System million in the first three years. It will be collaboration with UWM. and the Cerner Corporation. housed initially at the Cozzens & Cudahy A major collaborative research focus is Backed by a $1 million seed grant from Research Center, currently home to nursing informatics, in which UWM, UWM, the institute will involve five UWM UWM’s Milwaukee Industrial Innovation Aurora and the Cerner Corporation, a schools and colleges – Engineering and Center, at 9200 N. Swan Road in health care information technology Applied Science, Health Sciences, Letters Milwaukee. company based in Kansas City, Mo., have

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single faculty member joins forces with • Develop intellectual property that can TechStar to create a new company,” said translate into the creation of new jobs Santiago. “With the WIBHT, we could and businesses through ramp that up exponentially by building a commercialization backing by the critical mass of targeted resources in the Milwaukee Industrial Innovation region. That’s the point of the institute.” Center; the Bostrom Center for Other goals of the institute include: Business Competitiveness, Innovation • Provide educational training and Entrepreneurship; WiSys; and opportunities in cross-disciplinary TechStar. areas of engineering, physics, • Expand collaborative graduate degree medicine, nursing, health sciences programs. and business. • Serve as a model for academic/ industry partnerships.

WIBHT TO FOCUS ON THREE AREAS INITIALLY nstead of giving Superman X-ray vision, David Klemer, UWM associate professor of electrical engineering, says the superhero would be better off with “near IR imaging Iability” because it can probe more deeply. Some of Klemer’s research involves optical imaging at near-infrared wavelengths, using materials that fluoresce to signal changes in tissue at the molecular level. He says there’s plenty of room for development of new imaging technology along the electromagnetic spectrum. Medical imaging and other biomedical engineering is one of three areas that the new Wisconsin Institute for Biomedical Health Technology (WIBHT) will focus on initially. been involved since last year, said Susan Ela, Another research priority will be to find ways to manage the sea of information that senior clinical vice president for Aurora. new technology generates and to design IT systems that will provide that data in more The project uses Cerner technology at useful and accessible forms, while also ensuring privacy. Aurora health facilities to capture patient Medical imaging has improved so much in the last decade that the number of pictures information so that the UWM College of Nursing can suggest improvements that a health care professional gets from a typical brain CT scan exceeds 2,200. That’s a lot will promote best practices and reduce of pictures to retrieve and look at. costs. It illustrates what health care professionals are up against as the amount of new The institute also will investigate new knowledge created by technology outpaces the ability of practitioners to shuffle, analyze medical imaging technology, with some and share the data in a timely manner. projects being done in concert with GE The same problem exists in managing patient records (medical informatics). Healthcare Technologies. Research is expected to focus on system integration, changing the basic structure of a Adding the commercialization medical IT system from a transaction model to one based on electronic searching or component to the institute is TechStar, a southeastern Wisconsin technology aggregation of data. transfer organization. Already, TechStar But it also will contribute to intelligent clinical documentation systems – computer has successfully helped launch eight programs that could offer quick access to best practices for specific illnesses. Another companies that grew out of such research; avenue of inquiry is intelligent human maintenance systems (bioprognostics), which are examples include NovaScan (UWM) and models that can predict the progression of a disease in an individual. Neurognostics (MCW). – Laura L. Hunt “NovaScan and Neurognostics are good examples of what can happen when a

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PANTHERS TAKE UWM TO THE PROMISED LAND By Brad Stratton

March 8 Horizon League Championship vs. Detroit March 19 NCAA Tournament Round 2 March 17 vs. Boston NCAA Tournament Round 1 vs. Alabama

TAKE UWM TO MISED LAND ad Stratton

he Panthers men’s basketball team may have finally lost a game in March, but the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee emerged Tas the great winner from the 2005 NCAA Basketball Championship experience. There were weeks of positive media coverage of Head Coach Bruce Pearl and his record-breaking student-athletes. Reports that ran in magazines and newspapers, and on the Web, television and radio, meant people around the world learned more about the Sweet 16 underdogs from Wisconsin’s lesser- known Division I athletic program. Chancellor Carlos E. Santiago helped lead the hundreds of Panther faithful who journeyed to Cleveland to witness the team’s upsets over two nationally ranked conference champions and also to March 24 Rosemont, Ill., where the season finally ended against the nation’s NCAA Sweet 16 vs. Illinois top-ranked team from the University of Illinois. At the rally for 350 t Round 2 Panther fanatics that preceded the final game, the Chancellor welcomed to the stage Gov. Jim Doyle, Mayor Tom Barrett and County Executive Scott Walker. “This has been just fantastic,” said Santiago. “My mail, voicemail and email boxes have been filled with notes from well-wishers from all over the country, many of them alumni, who are so thrilled to see this success on one of the nation’s brightest stages. We are very proud of this athletic program, the coaches and staff, and especially the student-athletes.” Somewhat overshadowed by the men’s team was another positive year for the women’s basketball program under Head Coach Sandy Botham. The women achieved another second-place finish in the Horizon League, and the team has already received commitments from four outstanding high school athletes who will help the Panthers work toward a return to the Women’s NCAA Championship, which was achieved by the team in the 2000-01 season. The men’s basketball team finished the season with 26 victories – the most ever for the basketball program that played its first game in 1895. “This was tens of millions of dollars worth of national exposure for our university,” said Tom Luljak, vice chancellor of university relations and communications. “UWM has never had this attention before, nor could we ever afford to buy it. People who had never heard of our university now are singing our praises. “Now our challenge is to translate that awareness into a deeper understanding of the university and its well-established history of academic excellence.”

Special thanks to our Horizon League Championship/NCAA Tournament photographers: Pete Amland, David Bernacchi, Krysta Chapin, Deb Generotzky ’85, ’89, Alan Magayne-Roshak ’72 and Trevor Thompson

PANTHERS STARS MAKE TRACKS IN EUROPE By David Driver

BUDAPEST, HUNGARY – In the early part of this past Viall was one of at least basketball season, there were just four Americans four former Panthers who playing in the top women's professional league in played pro hoops overseas Hungary. this past season. On the men’s side, Dylan Page But in the late part of the season, there were just two: was in Greece and ex-WNBA standout Kedra Holland-Corn, and former Nathan Mielke played UWM star Maria Viall (’04). in Estonia. Clay Tucker briefly joined Page in MARIA VIALL Europe was under Communist control Maria Viall came home to Wisconsin until the early 1990s. It is not as Greece before returning for 10 days during the winter holidays, “advanced” as some of its neighbors to Stateside. then went back to Hungary to finish the the west, notably Austria. The trains, for 2004-05 season in the town of example, are not new and shiny like Zalaegerszeg. those in Slovenia and Austria, and litter DYLAN PAGE “I think when I first came back after is a problem in some places. Dylan Page, a 6-9 forward, averaged the break, I had to readjust a little bit,” “It is a different life style. It seems it is 20.9 points, 6.6 rebounds and 1.2 assists she said. “Of course it was a little easier. I a more simple life,” Viall said of life in per game for the Panthers as a senior in knew the town. I knew the way around. I Hungary, which has around 10 million 2003-04. He was named to the All- felt a little more comfortable. I think I people and is about the size of Indiana. Horizon League regular-season and am more self-assured in my position “Everyone walks everywhere here, which tournament teams in 2003 and 2004. here. It was hard [to leave] my parents I think is great. It seems people [here] Page majored in business marketing, and and boyfriend.” are more friendly toward each said he is about 15 credits shy of his While in Hungary, Viall kept in touch other. I learned from them degree. with UWM women’s head coach Sandy and they learned from me.” Interviewed in March, just hours after Botham and assistant coaches Jen Greger Viall, an Academic All- the Panthers gained an NCAA and Joe Conroy via email. Conroy was American for the Panthers, tournament berth, Page said that he not surprised that Viall returned after averaged a team-high 18.2 took part in camps in Virginia and the holidays. It is not uncommon for points and 10.9 rebounds Chicago last summer, and that gave him some American basketball players in per game as a senior in 2003- exposure to European scouts. He signed Europe to go home for the holidays 04. She started all 29 games, with a team in Greece, which made and not return, be it averaged a team-high better offers than squads in Italy, Spain, homesickness or other 33.2 minutes per and Poland. reasons that keep them in game, and was “It is the third-best league in Europe,” the States. named the said Page. “It was a great opportunity, so “Maria is a person who Horizon League I took it.” (The consensus, he added, is makes commitments and Player of the that Italy and France are the top two sticks to them,” Conroy Year. She is the leagues.) wrote in March. “That leading Page said he was averaging about 17 is the reason she is women’s scorer points and 6.5 rebounds per game, and doing so well and has in school that placed him among the league not left. She also is history. leaders in March. very open, so fitting “My goal is to play at the highest level, into a new culture which is the NBA,” Page said. He was in would not be a free agent summer minicamp with the problem for her.” Bucks two days in 2004, and he hoped to That is not to say that play for an NBA team in a summer living in Hungary is easy. league this year. “Hopefully this year will The country in central raise my profile a little bit,” he said.

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What has been the biggest adjustment aside from that,“I had never heard of CLAY TUCKER on the court in Greece? Estonia. It is pretty cold. The winters are Clay Tucker was a four-year starter at “Probably the style of play. The pretty comparable to the Midwest’s. The UWM, leading the Panthers to the 2003 traveling (walking) rules they have over days are a lot longer.” NCAA Tournament. He is UWM’s all- here are far different than at home,” said Regati, the capital, has about 400,000 time leader in scoring, field goals made Page, who added that the ball must be people in a country of about one and three-point field goals made, and clearly put on the floor before making a million. The only other American on the was named the 2003 Horizon League crossover move. team was guard Howard Frier, who Tournament Most Valuable Player. The Amherst, Wis., product, in his first played at the University of Colorado. Tucker played this past year for the 17 pro games for MENT in Greece, had Mielke played in Mexico earlier last American Basketball Association’s Utah 289 points and year before Snowbears before catching on this 103 rebounds. going to summer with the Nebraska Cranes of the The other Europe. He United States Basketball League. Tucker American on NATHAN MIELKE hopes to repeat also played two games this year with his team was that process Page’s MENT squad in Greece. former Western again in 2005. Tucker spent the 2003-04 season in Kentucky “In Mexico, Sweden, averaging 20 points per game standout Nigel there is a lot of for the Sundsvall Dragons. Tucker also Dixon, who was good played for the Southern Crescent in training competition Lightning of the World Basketball camp with the because there Association, a startup developmental Detroit Pistons are three league in the U.S. His team won the prior to the foreigners on league championship. 2004-05 season. each team,” he Page led the said. And most Editor's note: David Driver, a free-lance writer from Panther men to of them were Maryland, has spent the past two academic years with their first-ever Americans who his family in Szeged, Hungary, where his wife is an English literature professor. He writes about Horizon were starters. American basketball players in Europe for North League regular- American magazines, and can be reached at season [email protected]. championship and a first-ever berth in the NIT. For his efforts, he was named Horizon League Player of the Year, becoming the first Panther ever to win the honor, and claimed honorable mention Associated Press All-America honors. His team, like most in Europe, practiced in the morning and CLAY TUCKER evening. He spent his free time in the afternoon on the Internet and watching television and movies. Page, like most top Americans in Europe, was provided the free use of a newer model car and an apartment by his team.

NATHAN MIELKE Nathan Mielke, from Iowa, averaged 3.7 points and 3.2 rebounds in 2003-04 for the Panthers as a 6-11 forward. He graduated last summer with a degree in business marketing, and played in the all-star game in Estonia earlier this year. Estonia, like Hungary, was once under Communist control. Mielke said he had once seen a movie that DYLAN PAGE had a character from Estonia, but

UWM Foundation honors WELCOME, NEW BOARD MEMBERS scholarship winners The UWM Foundation is proud to introduce these new members of its Board By Gretchen Miller, Scholarship Coordinator, UWM Office of Development of Directors:

DANIEL J. BADER Daniel J. Bader is president of the Helen Bader Foundation Inc., established in 1992. The foundation has awarded more than $118 million in grants in Wisconsin and Israel in the areas of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia, economic development, early childhood development in Israel, Jewish life and learning, and Sankofa-Youth development. PETE AMLAND Bader also is chairman of Granite Chancellor Carlos Santiago (back row, center) joined UWM Foundation scholarship recipients Microsystems Inc., Mequon, and serves as a at a Feb. 16 reception. director of Cedarburg Pharmaceuticals, Grafton. He was a member of the miles of pleasure, pride and Campaign for UWM Planning Committee gratitude were in abundance at a and serves on the Dean’s Cabinet of the SFeb. 16 reception honoring Helen Bader School of Social Welfare. Currently he chairs the Greater Milwaukee UWM Foundation scholarship donors Committee and serves on the boards of and recipients. The event highlighted the American Jewish Joint Distribution the academic achievements of 30 Committee, Donors Forum of Wisconsin, students receiving scholarships in 2004- Milwaukee Jewish Federation, National 05, and provided an opportunity for 13 Center for Family Philanthropy, Rochester UWM Foundation donors to meet the Institute of Technology and Queen’s students who receive their scholarships. University (Kingston, Ontario). He visits The program included remarks by Israel several times a year to research Alfred Bader, whose Sullivan-Spaights programs for potential funding. Scholarship has provided support for He has a bachelor’s degree in business tuition, books and other educational At the reception, Sullivan-Spaights administration from the Rochester expenses to UWM students since 1999. Scholarship donor Alfred Bader announced Institute of Technology. Bader surprised everyone by that he and his wife, Isabel, will fund an Bader and his wife Linda live on announcing that he and his wife, Isabel, additional four scholarships for 2005-06. Milwaukee’s East Side with their three had just decided to fund an additional children. four scholarships for 2005-06. acknowledged the pivotal role the “Isabel and I were motivated to F. WILLIAM (BILL) HABERMAN scholarship has played in her education. double the number of scholarships we Bill Haberman, an attorney with Many of UWM’s schools and colleges fund after learning that so many UWM Michael Best & Friedrich, is a partner in hold similar receptions honoring students qualify for this assistance,” the Wealth Planning Services Group. He scholarship donors and recipients in Bader said at the reception. “We are also serves as specific disciplines. Because the eager to make it possible for these president and scholarships highlighted on Feb. 16 are outstanding students to achieve their manager of the not restricted to one particular educational goals, and we look forward Richard and academic discipline, students who to meeting our new scholarship Ethel Herzfeld attended were broadly representative of recipients at next year’s reception.” Foundation. He disciplines throughout the university. Graduating senior Diana De La Cruz is a member of also took the podium to encourage her the American Bar fellow students to persist in realizing Association, the their educational goals. De La Cruz, Wisconsin Bar one of seven students currently Association and receiving scholarship support from Northwestern Mutual Foundation,

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the Milwaukee Bar Association, and was Center of Milwaukee and the Mom/Baby HARRIS J. TURER admitted to the bar in both Wisconsin Unit of St. Mary’s Hospital. Harris J. Turer is president of (1965) and Florida (1993). Haberman is Peterson received a BA (Mathematics Hometown Property Management Inc., a Fellow of the American College of and Economics) in 1989 from Mount which operates area apartment units. He Trust and Estate Counsel, a member of Holyoke heads the group of local investors who the Greater Milwaukee Committee, a College, where recently purchased the Milwaukee board member of The Peters Foundation she served as Admirals hockey team, and is a member and a trustee of the Public Policy Forum. the Asian of the new ownership group of the He was a board member of the students Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club. He Milwaukee Repertory Theater and a recruitment also serves on the Milwaukee Brewers director of First Supply Group Inc. representative. Board of Directors. Turer has been an Haberman received his undergraduate She earned her active member of the Boys & Girls Clubs degree from the University of Master of of Greater Wisconsin–Madison (1962, Phi Beta Management Milwaukee for Kappa) and his law degree from Harvard degree in several years, and University Law School (1965). Finance, Marketing and Real Estate from is a former Bill and his wife Carmen reside in the J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of member of the Shorewood. Management at Northwestern University Children’s Outing in 1994. Association Board. DAVID O. NICHOLAS Shaunna and her husband Steven live He is an avid David O. Nicholas is president and in Shorewood with their children, golfer. chief investment officer of Nicholas Christian and Isabella, who both attend Turer received a Company Inc., and portfolio manager of the UWM Children’s Center. BBA (Marketing) the Nicholas Family of Funds. His father, from UWM in 1988. Albert (“Ab”) Nicholas, founded the firm ALLEN M. TAYLOR He and his spouse Dani live in in 1967. David Nicholas is a member of Allen M. Taylor is vice president and Whitefish Bay with their son and the UWM School of Business secretary of the Chipstone Foundation, daughter. Administration Advisory Council, and a which supports American decorative arts Life Member of of the Colonial period. He is retired DARYL J. WASZAK the UWM chairman of the board of the Bradley Daryl J. Waszak is senior vice president Alumni Foundation, and retired senior partner in the Wealth Management Division at Association. He at the law firm of Foley & Lardner. He Marshall & Ilsley Trust Company. He serves on the previously served on the UWM previously worked at Fifth Third Bank, board of the Foundation Board (1992-97). He also Chicago; Old Kent Financial Mequon- served on the Campaign for UWM Corporation, Grand Rapids, Mich., and Thiensville Planning Committee and the Peck at Unibanctrust Company, Chicago. Education School of the Arts Performing Arts Hall Waszak is a member of the CFA Institute, Foundation, is a Campaign Cabinet (Cornerstone the Investment Analysts Society of member of the project). Taylor participated in several Chicago, the Milwaukee Yacht Club, Milwaukee Investment Analysts Society law-related professional organizations. Elmhurst College Planned Giving and is a trustee of the Nicholas Family His membership and leadership roles in Committee, Foundation. Nicholas is a basketball and civic and charitable organizations has Elmhurst sports enthusiast, and he also coaches. covered service in varied areas, including Memorial Hospital He received a BBA (Finance) from higher education, medical education, Foundation Board UW–Madison in 1983 and an MS hospitals, health organizations, economic and the DuPage (Finance and Investments) from UWM development, policy research, United County (Ill.) Elder in 1987. Way, the Milwaukee Symphony, the Abuse Task Force. David and his wife Lori reside in Boerner Botanical Gardens and the He earned a BA Mequon. Their daughter Katie played on Milwaukee Art Museum. from the the Homestead High School (Mequon) Taylor University of basketball team. received his Illinois–Chicago in AB from 1973, attended DePaul University SHAUNNA L. PETERSON Princeton Graduate School of Business from 1976 Shaunna L. Peterson is the director of University in to 1980 and became a Chartered global business development at Rockwell 1946 and his Financial Analyst in 1988. Automation. Previously, she was director LLB from He and his wife Stephanie live in of business development, distribution Yale Law Milwaukee and Chicago. and rental at CNH Global NV (formerly School in Case Corporation). Peterson also has 1949. worked for Cleary Gull Reiland & He lives on McDevitt Inc. and Northwestern Mutual. Milwaukee’s East Side with his wife, She has been a volunteer at the UWM Marilyn L. Taylor (MA 1985, PhD 1991, Children’s Center, serving on the both from UWM), an adjunct assistant Fundraising Committee and as chairman professor, emerita, in the UWM of the center’s Review Board. She also Department of English and Milwaukee’s has been active in the AIDS Resource current poet laureate.

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2005 UWM Alumni Association Teaching Excellence Awards

Chancellor Carlos Santiago (left) congratulates teaching excellence award recipients Belle Rose Ragins and Mark Zoromski at the UWM Alumni Association’s annual Awards Ceremony in May. Ragins and Zoromski also were honored at the UWMAA’s Annual Meeting and at Spring Commencement. YNE-ROSHAK ’72 ALAN MAGA

AWARD FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE: TEACHING EXCELLENCE AWARD FOR NON-TENURE-TRACK BELLE ROSE RAGINS INSTRUCTORS: MARK ZOROMSKI elle Rose Ragins is professor of human resource ark Zoromski’s contributions to the Department of management in UWM’s School of Business Journalism and Mass Communication have greatly BAdministration. Menhanced the coursework and experiences of UWM She is nationally recognized for her pioneering and high- students going into broadcast journalism. impact work in diversity, mentoring and gender issues in Drawing from his own background in television news directing organizations. She has been awarded Fellow status in four of and production, Zoromski, a senior lecturer in the department, psychology’s most prestigious associations and has received completely revamped the capstone broadcast class to include the nine national awards for her research. production of a weekly television newscast called UWM Ragins’ work led to the establishment of the Milwaukee Center PantherVision. PantherVision is available to 300,000 households in for Workplace Diversity, renamed the Institute for Diversity southeastern Wisconsin via Time Warner’s Higher Education Cable Education and Leadership, or IDEAL. The first of its kind, the Consortium channel. institute has become a national model for university/community He also created a partnership with UWM’s Department of partnerships and is a source for support, leadership and education Atmospheric Sciences, so that students interested in broadcast for Milwaukee employers seeking to attract, retain and promote a meteorology careers could prepare and present the weather diverse work force. segment on PantherVision. Ragins developed and implemented a “Diversity in In addition to PantherVision, Zoromski has guided his students to Organizations” course that has become a national model for create other programming that gives them an opportunity to teaching diversity. Her students consistently rank her a top produce sports, documentaries and even a live debate between instructor with an amazing passion and dedication for teaching, Republican and Democratic candidates for the Fourth modifying course content to meet individual student needs. Congressional District. Students cite how Ragins inspired them and changed their lives, On the heels of PantherVision, Zoromski duplicated the both personally and professionally. experience for students in radio broadcasting by establishing Maria Nicholas-Graves, a former student in the “Diversity in PantherCast. Organizations” course, wrote: Then he revised the department’s professional internship classes. “…Through videos, media, lectures, meaningful statistics, guest He met with internship coordinators at Milwaukee-area professional speakers, classroom conversations, class exercises, student organizations, developed a data base of internship sites and helped presentations, informal mentoring and out-of-class scholarly codify the department’s requirements for sponsoring organizations. research, Dr. Ragins brought to light the truth and reality about He also has helped boost enrollment in broadcast journalism by diversity. We heard, saw and experienced when and where diversity teaching a 100-level class carrying GER credit that serves as a is seen as negative and racism and bias come out. We also learned recruitment class for the higher-level broadcast journalism courses. why and how diversity should be brought out, celebrated and used His dedication has paid off and has improved student strategically in workplaces and communities in America today. preparation to enter the field. In the past four years, his students Dr. Ragins taught us how to be part of the solution and not the have won 16 first-place journalistic excellence awards and countless problem. Instead of theory, Belle taught us ACTION!” second- and third-place awards. PantherVision was named best collegiate newscast in six states by the Northwest Broadcast News Association in 2004.

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1960s affiliation that brings together Patrick J. Teicher (’68 MS Michael Sargent (’73 MBA James P. Behling (’65 BS professionals Exceptional Education, ’65 Finance) has joined Mass Communication), from a variety BS Elementary Education) Milwaukee Area Technical president and general of disciplines has retired after 37 years of College as a vice president of manager of WNDU-TV in to provide public school teaching and finance. He served as vice South pro-bono administration, most recently president of finance at Bend, Ind., services on as the assistant Astronautics Corporation of is retiring selected superintendent for student America for 15 years. Most in August public Douglas King services of the Northside recently he was an after 12 interest issues. Independent School District independent business years with in San Antonio, Texas. He consultant. Peter Kuhfittig the (’67 MS, ’65 teaches part time at a local BS Mathematical Sciences) university. Kwadwo Anokwa (’75 BA University James P. Behling of Notre was the guest speaker and Journalism & Mass Dame received an honorary Doctor 1970s Communication) is a station. He has also worked at of Engineering degree at the Jacqueline L. Haessly (’71 professor and director of the WCGV-TV and WITI-TV, both Milwaukee School of BS, ’76 MS Education) heads Eugene S. Pulliam School of in Milwaukee, KMOX-TV in Engineering’s Winter 2005 Peacemaking Associates and Journalism at Butler St. Louis and KTNV-TV in Commencement. He retired The Milwaukee Peace University in Indianapolis. Las Vegas. from MSOE in 2001 after 33 Education Resource Center, years of teaching math and 15 both of which celebrated Michael K. Connor (’76 MS Douglas King (’67 BS years as the Mathematics their 30th anniversary last Cultural Foundations of Sociology) has retired after Department chair. He year. She currently serves on Education) has been named a 30-year career in public continues work on another the adjunct faculty at Cardinal principal of South Milwaukee service, most recently as passion, worm-hole research Stritch University. Middle School beginning executive director of the State related to theoretical time July 1. The school is part of a of Wisconsin Land travel. grade 6-12 campus with a Information Board. He is middle school population of currently heading up The about 750. Madison Group, a nonprofit

BARBARA FLINT MOVES TO DEVELOPMENT OFFICE arbara J. Flint, UWM’s director of alumni relations since 1997, resigned her post this spring to become the regional development director for the UWM BOffice of Development. In her new position, Flint will be the office’s main contact for alumni and friends residing in the greater Chicago area. The newly created position fills a need for more outreach to alumni living outside of Wisconsin, says Lucia Petrie, vice chancellor for development, especially as the university gears up for a major comprehensive campaign. An estimated 3,000 alums live in the 10-county greater Chicago area. “I am excited about this new opportunity to continue alumni relationship-building for UWM,” says Flint. “It’s the best job on campus because I am involved with connecting the past, present and future of UWM through its students, alumni and staff.” The response has already been quite positive, she adds, even before the first official event. (A reception featuring UWM Chancellor Carlos Santiago will be held in at the Chicago University Club on Oct. 26.) “Alumni have asked me, ‘Where has UWM DEB GENEROTZKY '85, '89 been?’” says Flint. “But until now, we just haven’t had a person to focus on Chicago.” Barbara Flint (left) was honored for her many Flint came to UWM from Alverno College, where she directed alumni relations. She years of service as director of alumni relations at also has had significant experience with local nonprofit organizations, including the UWMAA Annual Meeting in April. Flint was presented with a Citation of Distinguished Channel 10/36 Friends, the Milwaukee Public Museum and the United Performing Service by Alumni Association Board President Arts Fund. Joe Czarnezki and Immediate Past President Alums can reach Flint at 414-229-6116 or [email protected]. Phyllis King. A search for a new director is under way.

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Martha Fingleton (’76 BS Don Rosenberg (’76 MS Marie Kohler (’79 MA Luci Klebar (’80 BA A profitable way to support student scholarships Nursing) appeared on the hit Clinical Psychology) is English), a Milwaukee Economics) is senior vice game show “Jeopardy” in May president of Shorehaven playwright, was featured in a president and general By Laura L. Hunt 2004, just a Counseling Associates, March 13 Milwaukee Journal manager at the career few weeks and was named one of Sentinel article about management firm Lee Hecht before Ken Milwaukee’s best “Boswell’s Dreams,” her new Harrison in southeastern Jennings psychotherapists by play on 18th century writer Wisconsin. appeared Milwaukee Magazine. James Boswell. Renaissance and began Theaterworks opened her Susan M. his record- Charles Savard (’76 BA play at Milwaukee’s Off- Hapka (’81 breaking Geosciences) is a hydrologist Broadway Theatre in March. BS Clinical Martha Fingleton winning with the U.S. Geological Laboratory streak. Survey in Henderson, Nev. Charles Maris (’79 BBA Sciences) is a Fingleton had to take several Marketing), an estate lawyer with “pre-tests” as part of the Alan Konetzki (’77 MBA planning and real estate Sutin Thayer audition process. She placed Management) has been attorney, has joined the & Browne Susan M. Hapka second during her one named senior vice president Brookfield office of Davis & P.C. of appearance and donated part of trust and investment at Kuelthau as a shareholder. He Albuquerque, N.M., and has of her winnings to the UWM Community Bank & Trust, was recently elected president been promoted to departments of Philosophy Sheboygan. He previously of the Waukesha Estate shareholder in the firm. and Comparative Literature, held positions at US Bank, Planning Council. where she is currently Bank One and J.P. Morgan. James Rice (’81 BA enrolled. David Struve (’79 BA History) is deputy special Phyllis R. (Jackson) Dixon’s Political Science) is senior assistant, military support, in Sean Lanphier (’76 BA (’78 BBA Marketing) first vice president of sales for the office of the Secretary of English) is a partner at the novel, “Forty MedLine Inc. in Boulder City, the U.S. Army in Alexandria, Mallery & Zimmerman law Acres,” was Nev. He has been with the Va. firm in Milwaukee. recently company for 20 years. named a Steve Rudman (’81 MS, ’77 Dennis R. McBride (’76 BA finalist 1980s BA Anthropology) is senior Mass Communication) has (No. 2) for Savas C. Danos (’80 MS technical manager for been appointed by Wisconsin Best Black Botany) is the general Netscape Communications, Gov. James Doyle to a five-year Fiction 2004 manager at Littleton (Mass.) San Francisco. He presented a Phyllis R. Dixon term on the Wisconsin by Urban Electric Light and Water. paper about technical Retirement Board. McBride is Spectrum documentation at the a senior trial attorney and magazine. She William Gershan (’80 BS Professional Communication former supervisory trial lives in Memphis. Biological Sciences) is an Society meeting in Milan, attorney in the U.S. Equal www.phyllisrdixon.com associate professor of Italy. Employment Opportunity pediatrics, director of the Commission’s Milwaukee Gary Nosacek (’78 BA Mass pediatric pulmonary Mark Ryan (’81 BA District Office. He also serves Communication) and his fellowship program, and a Political Science) was re- as chairman of the City of wife, Cindy Jones-Nosacek, member of the admissions elected Milwaukee County Wauwatosa Civil Service turned down an offer to committee at the Medical Clerk in the last election with Commission. appear on the ABC-TV series College of Wisconsin. He also 81 percent of the vote. “Wife Swap,” in which they is a pediatric pulmonologist at Patrick E. McBride, M.D. would switch partners with Children’s Hospital of Kathy Sternberg (’81 BA (’76 BS), is associate dean for another couple they didn’t Wisconsin. L&S) is the manager of public students at the University of know for 10 days. Quips affairs at Washington Gas, the Wisconsin Medical School. He Nosacek: “Thirty years of Dan Jones (’80 BA natural gas utility in also serves as professor in the broadcast experience, and Journalism & Mass Washington, D.C. Department of Medicine’s this is the network offer Communication) is a Section on Cardiovascular I get!” producer at Milwaukee Public Jeff Brand (’82 MA Medicine, and in the Television. Economics) is sales forecast Department of Family analyst at Harley-Davidson. Medicine. McBride also He also is head coach of the directs the UW Hospital Badger Speed Skating Club and Clinics’ Preventive and announcer for the U.S. Cardiology program. National Speed Skating www.med.wisc.edu/about/ Championships. mcbride.php

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NEW CREDIT CARD PARTNERSHIP WITH US BANK A profitable way to support student scholarships

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im Schoewe (’71 BBA Industrial Relations) gets a particular There’s a UWMAA Visa Platinum Card to suit every preference. sense of satisfaction from carrying a US Bank-issued Panther • Visa Platinum Card: Receive a credit limit up to $15,000 with TVisa card. “It’s a great feeling to know that I can help out a no interest for the first 6 months. UWM student while doing something I do anyway – using my • Travel Rewards Visa Platinum Card: Earn one point for every credit card,” says Schoewe, incoming president of the UWM net purchase dollar charged, up to 10,000 points per month. Alumni Association Board of Trustees. Exchange points for free tickets on any airline, no blackout With the new Panther affinity credit card from US Bank, anyone dates, no seating restrictions, and no zone restrictions. Apply can show their Panther Pride. now and get 2,500 bonus points. It’s the only card that donates a percentage of every purchase to • Cash Rewards Visa Platinum Card: Earn up to 1 percent cash fund UWM scholarships, Alumni Association programs and other back on purchases. No annual fee, and no interest for the first projects at no additional cost to the cardholder. The campus and six months. its students benefit from every transaction that UWM supporters • College Rewards Visa Card: Earn one point for every net make on their cards, even if they only use them occasionally. purchase dollar charged, good for CDs, media rentals, movie “It’s an easy, continuous way to support the university,” says Tom tickets, electronics, restaurant certificates and much more. Plus, Luljak, vice chancellor for university relations and communications. online access lets you view, manage and redeem your points “And in today’s tight economy, where fewer state dollars are from the convenience of your PC. Apply now and get a 1,000 available for tuition assistance and educational programs at UWM, point enrollment bonus. the new credit card partnership is more valuable than ever.” US Bancorp, based in Minneapolis, is the country’s sixth-largest US Bank is an active booster of UWM and its athletics program. financial holding company and the parent company of US Bank. It In March, the company lit up windows in its 42-story downtown has assets of $195 billion, operates 2,370 banks and provides a tower to spell out “UWM” during the Panthers’ record-breaking run comprehensive line of banking, brokerage, insurance, investment at the NCAA tournament. and other services to consumers, businesses and institutions. The affinity credit card partnership is the latest method the For more information or to apply online, visit the website company has created to back the university. www.alumni.uwm.edu or call 1-800-853-5576, ext. 8382. Of course, cardholders receive all the benefits and protection offered by US Bank and Visa, including: • No annual fee • Low introductory rate Alumni Association board members (from • No balance transfer left) Felipe Rodriguez Jr., Timothy fees for six months Schoewe and Sarah Wilbur show • 24-hour card member off the three design options of service the new US Bank-issued • Liability protection for Panther Visa card. unauthorized purchases YNE-ROSHAK '72 ALAN MAGA

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he City of Milwaukee’s Cleveland Playground, 1020 W. Cleveland Ave., was recently renamed Modrzejewski Playground in honor of retired U.S. TMarine Col. Robert J. Modrzejewski, Vietnam War veteran and Congressional Medal of Honor recipient. Modrzejewski (’57 BS Upper Elementary Education) received a Distinguished Alumnus Award from the university last spring. “Col. Modrzejewski sets an example of athletics, outdoor recreation and patriotism that we can all follow,” said Mayor Tom Barrett, who attended the dedication on April 12. “Through his military career and dedication, he has defended our country and our freedom. Modrzejewski Playground will serve as a reminder of his accomplishments.” Speaking at the dedication, Modrzejewski said that he has been asked if all Medal of Honor recipients are heroes. He said that most recipients think of themselves as people who were “just doing our job.” For him, the real heroes Medal of Honor recipient (and Distinguished Alumnus) Robert J. were those who did not return, and “those who gave us loved ones.” Modrzejewski (center) with Wisconsin American Legion Commander As a child, Modrzejewski spent most of his spare time at Cleveland Playground, Alan M. Richards (left) and Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett. where he splashed around in the wading pool and later honed his athletic skills playing baseball and basketball. He attended James Whitcomb Riley School, Rutherford B. Hayes School and graduated from Pulaski High School in 1953 before going on to UWM. Modrzejewski joined the U.S. Marine Corps in 1957 and served as an officer commanding Marines in Vietnam. In the summer of 1966, then a captain, he commanded a Third Marine Division company pinned down by a much larger North Vietnamese force during Operation Hastings, an intense offensive spearheaded by seven Marine infantry battalions. Wounded, Modrzejewski crawled 200 meters to deliver vital ammunition to fellow Marines. Then, over the course of three days, he rallied his soldiers and repulsed the enemy, sometimes calling in dangerously close air and artillery strikes that devastated the North Vietnamese troops and drove them off. On March 12, 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson presented the Medal of Honor to Modrzejewski, making him the first Wisconsin citizen serving in Vietnam to receive the honor. After retiring as a colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps in 1986, Modrzejewski went on to teach, and is now retired and residing in San Diego. He is among only 126 living Medal of Honor recipients, and is secretary of the Board of Directors for the Congressional Medal of Honor Society.

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Architecture & Urban Studies, WMSE is a nonprofit, His sports journalism career ’95 BS Architectural Studies) noncommercial alternative Anthony Orlando (’92 BA began at UWM; he reports has been named design music station affiliated with Political Science) is a special that the year he covered associate with Eppstein Uhen the Milwaukee School of agent with the U.S. men’s basketball for the Architects, Milwaukee. Engineering. www.wmse.org Department of the Treasury. UWM Post, the Panthers went 3-24. “The Panthers sure have Mark P. Tilkens (’98 BS Nicole (Franz) Jansky Gregory Bromberg come a long way,” he says. Criminal Justice) has joined (’01 BA Journalism & Mass (’95 BA Journalism & Mass www.newspagedesigner.com/ the Litigation and Labor and Communication) is an Communication) is the portfolios/portfolio1.php?Use Employment practice groups account coordinator at CBS.SPORTSLINE.com senior rID=2570 at the law firm of Godfrey & Laughlin Constable, a website producer, covering Kahn S.C. He will be based at Milwaukee marketing the NFL, NBA and auto Melissa Dunbar the firm’s Madison office, communications firm. racing. (’98 BA Journalism & Mass LaFollette Godfrey & Kahn. Communication) is the Stephen LaPierre (’01 Dominique Coster (’95 morning news anchor at Neal Driscoll (’99 BBA EMBA) has been named PhD Chemistry) is a senior WOTV-TV, Channel 41 News Finance) has joined Liberty senior vice president for scientist and liaison agent for in Kalamazoo, Mich. Property Trust, Milwaukee, as claims management and Flat Glass Company in a leasing representative. policyholder services at the Brussels, Belgium. Claretta Y. Dupree long-term care insurer Penn (’98 PhD Nursing) has been James Lowder (’99 MA Treaty American Corp., based Melinda appointed assistant professor English) has signed on as a in Pennsylvania. He previously Heinritz of pediatrics at the Medical consulting fiction editor with worked as an LTC risk auditor (’96 MA College of Wisconsin and CDS Books in New York. He is and claims manager. Political director of also at work on his sixth Science) research novel, “Brotherhood of the was named for the Lost,” which is scheduled for managing palliative a late 2005 release. director Melinda Heinritz care of the program. Wisconsin Historical She also is A WAY TO CELEBRATE SPECIAL OCCASIONS Foundation in Madison. a Fellow onor a friend, colleague or family member on a of the Claretta Y. Dupree special occasion — Ellen Engseth (’97 MLIS Center Hgraduation, anniversary, Library Science & MA History, for Bioethics and Human retirement, birthday — and at the ’92 BA History) has joined Dignity in Bannockburn, Ill., same time enrich the UWM the UWM Libraries as an a captain in the U.S. Navy Libraries’ collections with valuable academic archivist. 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