Phoenix 3.0 by UW-Green Bay Inside Magazine

Phoenix 3.0 University marks milestone (We’re 40!) and welcomes its third generation

Andrew Mulloy compares notes (his on a laptop, hers in a textbook) with his grandmother, Kathryn VerKuilen ’70, one of UW-Green Bay’s first ‘returning adult’ grads

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Notes from 2420 Nicolet…

Students shine for UW-Green Bay Greetings from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay! One of my roles as chancellor is being an ambassador for this University. It’s something I enjoy and find relatively easy to do; we have plenty of success stories to share. There are times, though, when I am reminded I am not this University’s best ambassador. That distinction rests instead with our students and graduates. The ninth annual Academic Excellence Symposium illustrates this perfectly. It was an absolute delight to browse the exhibits, chat with some of our top students and see the high level of academic achievement in their research projects, independent studies and artistic achievements. I took great pride in seeing these students so confidently display their work to campus and community visitors. Another proud moment came not here, but in Ames, Iowa, with the UW-Green Bay women’s basketball team in the NCAA Tournament. The Phoenix came within an eyelash of the Sweet 16. As important, the players and coaches, pep band, cheer squad and fans represented us with spirit and class, winning admiration for their sportsmanship. We’re still fielding compliments directed their way. Among the best stories told during “March Madness” was one away from the court, regarding Phoenix guard Celeste Hoewisch and her ongoing work with special fan Zach Heugel of Green Bay (photo below). Celeste was a star of her team’s upset win over Virginia. If you saw coverage on TV or on our website, however, you know her greatest contributions will have more to do with her studies in biology and exercise science, and her absolute commitment to helping others. One other story you might have seen involved “green” ink in Green Bay. When our Computing and Information Technology division announced a move to a less ink-intensive font as our default typeface, it became national news. The attention was timely as we approach the 40th anniversary of the first Earth Day, and alumni return for a major conference celebrating the occasion. It has been a great spring for your University. Thank you for your continuing interest, and Go Phoenix!

Thomas Harden Chancellor

FEATURES Inside UW-Green Bay April 2010 Volume 36, No. 2 Editor Chris Sampson Editorial Staff Chris Sampson Sue Bodilly Contributing Writers Terry Anderson Paul Mee Jennifer Klein

Mr. Housing

Honors for Class of ’70 grad

16 2020 vision

Ideas for UW-Green Bay’s future

17 Phuture is now

First alumna arrives on compus

18 Long-lost games

Coach‘s gift preserves memories

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In 1970, new campus meant new life Forty years old, a stay-at-home mother and suddenly widowed with four children ages 4 through 16, Kathryn VerKuilen surveyed her options. Something happening across town, on Green Bay’s east side, caught her eye. It was early 1968 and ground had been broken on a new four-year university. At the time, the Green Bay Center on Deckner Avenue offered only freshman/sophomore-level classes as a feeder to the main University of Wisconsin campus in Madison, 140 miles away. The placebound VerKuilen had never been much interested in the Center. Having started school in Madison before starting a family, she already had two years of college. When she looked to the construction on Nicolet Drive, though, she saw a future. “I had to do something, I had to find a job,” she says now. “I had volunteered a lot at Jackson School where my kids went to school and I thought, I’ll go back and finish my degree and become a teacher. Plus, I’d be off when the children were off.”

then VerKuilen enrolled as one of UWGB’s first students. She got her bachelor’s from the College of Community Science in December 1970. “I think I was the oldest one in that class,” she recalls. “The younger kids were all very nice... professors, staff… a wonderful experience.”

About that Phoenix In May it will be 40 years since the student vote that gave UW-Green Bay the Phoenix. Dean Tremble, a retired military officer now living in Sparta, wrote recently to attach a name to a longstanding mystery. He said he and Omega Kappa buddy Fred Bloedhorn contributed the idea and art behind the entry submitted anonymously to the contest. Tremble’s inspiration was that, from the humble old Deckner Avenue campus, a great new university on the bayshore would arise out of the ashes. “Every time I see the Phoenix on TV, I have to say, ‘That was my idea,’” Tremble says. “My little claim to fame.” 2

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Within a month of graduation she had a job, at Morgan L. Martin Elementary. A year later, she transferred to the new MacArthur School closer to her west side home. She taught there for more than 20 years before retiring. Each of her own children went on to graduate from college. Two grandchildren including one at UW-Green Bay (facing page) are following her lead into education careers. VerKuilen’s UWGB memories include a speech course with Prof. Jack Frisch that first summer after her husband’s death. She recalls lectures by transportation expert Donald Gandre, who described the tradeoff of precious farmland being paved over by the region’s first four-lane highways. She remembers an independent study with economics professor Jim Murray,

who grew up on a South Dakota reservation and spoke so reverently of native culture. “That first year it was a small school and the students and faculty were very close,” she says. “In my anthropology class, we thought it would be fun to have a dinner, and I said ‘Why doesn’t everybody come over to my house?’ “I set up card tables all over the house, and all the college-age students and the professor and his wife came, too. They were from India, and she was wearing a beautiful saari and had the ornamental (bindi) dot on her forehead, and we enjoyed each other’s company and cultures. I’ll always remember that evening.” VerKuilen still has some of her old textbooks. She hauled out a favorite, Earth and Man, for a photo prop. It was written by a favorite UWGB professor, Frank Byrne, on a topic she enjoyed studying, geology. Actually, there were few classes she didn’t enjoy. It was, after all, her new life. “There were just a lot of really good people. It was a perfect fit.”

Names of June 1, 1970 graduates listed in program: John Beauchamp, Managerial Systems Deceased Barbara Ward Belschner Humanism & Cultural Change resides today in Tulsa, Okla. Richard Berceau, Humanism & Cultural Change, Prior Lake, Minn. Cynthia Manders Besson Modernization Processes, Green Bay Pat Sturchio Bhatt, Communication & the Arts, Chino Hills, Calif. Margaret Kirschling Borremans, HCC Dale Buckmaster, Managerial Systems Middleton, Wis. R. Scott Burkhardt, Environmental Control, Oconto, Wis. Virginia Carpentier, Communication & the Arts, Green Bay Yvonne Nortwen Chambers, Humanism & Cultural Change, Conover, Wis. Robert Cherry, Humanism & Cultural Change, Milwaukee Patricia Koester Davis Humanism & Cultural Change

Future teacher follows in grandmother’s footsteps UW-Green Bay has been around long enough that twogeneration Phoenix families are common. Now, it’s time for a third generation. When Drew Mulloy ’10 recently took his grandmother, Kathryn VerKuilen ’70, on a driving tour of his school, it was also her school. And she couldn’t believe all the changes. “The whole time we were driving around, she went on and on about all the new buildings and how different everything was,” Mulloy says. While their alma mater has changed radically — in 1970 there were only three buildings — there’s a family resemblance in their Green Bay experiences.

Mulloy transferred in after attending the University of St. Thomas in the Twin Cities. He’s on track to student teach in fall and receive a bachelor’s in Education with a minor in Environmental Sciences. He plans a career in elementary education, inspired partly by his grandmother (story on facing page). Widowed young but intent on a better life for her family, she built upon credits earned many years previous and persevered to graduation. “I have always admired how strong she was for doing that,” Mulloy says. “I also appreciate how perfect it was for her that this university opened in her city at just the right time.”

now Joyce Herlache DeBauche, Human Biology Deceased

UW-Green Bay is perfect for him, too, He’s saving expenses this semester by living at her home. He also has the benefit of homework help from a talented grad with professional expertise in his chosen field. “It’s fun because we’re always comparing what has changed, the different teaching methods. How do you handle challenging students? How do you teach reading? She’s interested in all the new methods, and I’m interested that in many areas the pendulum seems to have gone back to methods from her days in college.”

Gary DeGrave, Regional Analysis Corpus Christi, Tex. John DePauw, Ecosystems Analysis Green Bay Nancy Ably DePrey, Regional Analysis Green Bay Florence Killsdonk Doverspike Humanism & Cultural Change, Antigo Kathleen McDonough Gerds Humanism & Cultural Change, Pulaski Eugene Geurts Ecosystems Analysis, De Pere, Wis. Helen Halpern Glickman Humanism & Cultural Change, Green Bay Janet Hart, Modernization Processes Deceased John Harvey, Managerial Systems Burnsville, Minn.

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Card games, Shorewood and draft-lottery memories Kicking back at the old Shorewood Club. Playing cards in the Deckner Center cafeteria. That’s what a few of UW-Green Bay’s first graduates remember about student life that first year at the new University. Harold Baker ’70 says his student job was as a bartender. It was an era when it was legal for 18-year-olds to consume beer. Baker worked the bar at Shorewood, which was the old clubhouse of the former private golf course on the site. “Shorewood hosted dances, some bands and the like,” says Baker. “My main memory was the day (Dec. 1, 1969) when we watched the very first military draft lottery on TV at the club. There were cheers, and probably tears, as each birth date was drawn from the tub and was assigned the next priority number to be drafted.” Keith Pamperin ’70 says Shorewood “really was the place to meet and greet after class and school functions, serving as our student union.” Baker, who went on to a 30-year career with Thrivent Financial for Lutherans after receiving his Managerial Systems degree,

“For those of us who were there, it’s hard to believe that it’s going to be our 40th!” Michael McDaniel, MGS Sedona, Ariz. Retired airline captain

takes it a step further. For many students, the club was the new campus.

Hobbies: Hiking, skiing, motorcycles, travel and volunteering at the Animal Shelter

“That first year, some of us pretty much did all our class work at the Deckner campus,” Baker recalls. “To be sure, we spent very little time at the new site, other than being at the Shorewood Club.”

William Hearden Urban Analysis, Green Bay

Ron Opicka ’70 remembers the cafeteria at the Deckner Avenue center filled with classmates intently focused on… their cards. “Sheepshead, cribbage, a lot of chess, and bridge was popular at the time,” he says.

Kenneth Hogg, Humanism & Cultural Change, Duluth Robert Hyde, Humanism & Cultural Change, Three Lakes Philip Ihlenfeldt, Managerial Systems, Green Bay Marjorie Brick Jehle, Modernization Processes, Manitowoc Dale Johnson, Managerial Systems, Neenah

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Other memories include the popular fundraiser of spray-painting a junker car with slogans or drawings and then selling

tickets to students to express their opinions with a maul or sledgehammer. Politics and civil-rights issues also played out in student theatre productions of the era, Opicka remembers. Readings and teach-ins, either at Shorewood or the Deckner Center (above) would draw attentive student audiences. Another early campus fixture was the “Bluewhale Coffeehouse.” It was little more than a makeshift stage and wooden sign for a backdrop, set up on Saturday nights at the old Shorewood Club, but it anchored the student music scene. The “Whale” went away by 1987 when the old clubhouse was torn down and the new union expanded. The coffeehouse music scene has revived this decade with the Common Grounds Coffeehouse proving popular at the University Union.

now Rock concert publicists. That’s the assignment students Josh Braun and Kassie Schnell are embracing in their roles with the Good Times Programming student organization.

E-vote calls the tunes UW-Green Bay students are stoked about an April 24 concert by a red-hot band at the 4,000seat Kress Events Center. The band is called The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, or RJA, and their music is described as a “mix of pop-punk, pop, screamo, and metal.” Big songs include “Pen and Paper” and “Face Down,” which made Billboard’s Top 25. The promoter is the student organization Good Times Programming. The big-time show means valuable professional-level experience for PR coordinator Josh Braun and special events director Kassie Schnell. They’re using posters, press releases, internet channels and word of mouth to push ticket sales.

Actually, in a sign of the times, Good Times used the internet and an e-mail survey even before booking the concert, to gauge student preference as to big-name acts. (Sorry, Owl City, Cartel, Flyleaf, Motion City Soundtrack and Jack’s Mannequin, but in the student vote, the Apparatus owned you.) The April 24 show will be the first major student-booked concert in two-and-a-half years since Switchfoot and Relient K rocked a sold-out Kress Center (inset photo above). That show kicled off grand opening festivities in November 2007.

Finances got you down? Comics git ‘er done

This spring’s Weidner Center lineup confirms a trend: Standup shows by Larry the Cable Guy on May 16, a visit by sketch-comedy legend Tim Conway on May 22, and a “No Reservations” evening June 11 with the funny-in-a-sardonic-way Anthony Bourdain are selling tickets. “There’s a definite increase in comedic programming this year, and maybe people are looking for laughs because of the economy,” says Weidner Center Presents, Inc. president Katie Green, Class of 1999. Comedy has always played well on campus, she adds, with George Carlin, Lewis Black, Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Cosby, and Jeff Foxworthy as previous draws. “Most of our ticket-buyers are drawn from the community, but we also see a good number of UW-Green Bay students,” Green says. April 2010

First across the stage: Memories of June 1,1970 Most of today’s graduates began their studies in the Center System. When it became definitely known about two years ago that UWGB was to open officially in September 1969, they were moved by their interest and pride in the new institution to seek to become its first graduates. Today’s ceremony, then, is a tribute to their pioneering spirit and determination. — Text from first Commencement booklet Forty years ago this spring, on the first Monday of June 1970, 78 “pioneers” received the first degrees awarded by the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. The event capped UW-Green Bay’s inaugural year at its bayshore location and second since upper-level courses debuted at the former freshman/sophomore Deckner campus. Scheduled for the plaza above the Instructional Services Building, the ceremony was moved by iffy weather to the gym at Deckner a few miles away. Gary Kuchenbecker ’70 remembers walking down the aisle to shake hands with Chancellor Edward Weidner and Gov. Warren Knowles, who just five years earlier had signed the legislation that would create UWGB. Knowles would deliver a speech lauding the institution

“Of roughly 1,200 graduates I have taught in my 36 years, I have 10 science doctorates from Tigerton — I’m very proud of that… As for fond memories… fall of 1969, walking into the Lab Sciences Building with paint cans, ladders and construction tools strewn all over… I remember pounding noises during the first lectures, and although I can’t remember what course it was (probably genetics with Dr. Ihrke), I remember two guys knocking on the door, interrupting the lecture, asking when the room would be free because they had to put up some more blackboards. What a hoot! Gary Kuchenbecker, ECA Tigerton, Wis. Science teacher, Tigerton H.S. 6

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then for representing “a new wave of educational thought” and being “destined to become a truly great university.” As for Kuchenbecker, “I was just happy to be graduating,” he recalls. “But looking back now at it being Year One, that was simply downright neat.” Many of the graduates were 30 or older. About half were married. A newspaper clip records that Mrs. Helen H. Glickman of Green Bay, the senior member of the class at age 47, had first started college in 1940. Processing in alphabetical order, Nancy C. Ably of Green Bay was the first to receive her degree, in regional analysis. Ably, now Nancy Deprey and a retired educator, has returned to campus many times since — including the 2008 commencement ceremony when she helped the Alumni Association welcome the institution’s 25,000th graduate. Ably’s sister Peggy was in the same graduating class. Befitting the first graduating class in Green Bay, the cohort included a Lambeau,

Nancy Leicht Lambeau, niece of the Packers founder. Max Lerner of the New York Times (“world-wide syndicated columnist”) was flown in to deliver the commencement address. There was no student speaker. Ron Retherford ’70 remembers the day for its music. While the official record notes a prelude concert and triumphant recessional by the Concert Band under the direction of Robert J. Bauer, Retherford maintains that at some point a little barbershop harmony burst forth. “Since we had no school song, Ken Hogg and two other graduates and I wrote, rehearsed, and sang the first ‘official’ graduation song,” he says. “The song was unusual, but representative of the kind of silliness and fun we had as the first graduating class of our brand new — and also unusual —college.” As Retherford and Hogg tell the story — and with his “Creative Communication” degree and status as an ordained Methodist minister, who could doubt Retherford? — the student quartet donned Shakey’s Pizza Parlor straw

Eric Johnson Humanism & Cultural Change resides today in Seattle Harry Katch, Regional Analysis Deceased Patricia Warne Kluth Regional Analysis, Green Bay Lennie Mecca Kramer, Modernization Processes, Cottage Grove, Wis Gary Kuchenbecker, Ecosystems Analysis, Tigerton, Wis. Gerald Lange Humanism & Cultural Change Marina Del Rey, Calif. Steven Lauson Managerial Systems, Manitowoc Ronald Lodes, Managerial Systems Retired from career in industrial advertising in the automotive aftermarket, Racine, Wis. Nancy Leicht Lambeau Makuen Humanism & Cultural Change Estero, Fla. Michael McDaniel, Managerial Systems, Sedona, Ariz. Theodore McQuiston, Managerial Systems, Fredericksburg, Va. Neoma Seidl Michalski Modernization Processes, deceased Mary Munsinger Mollica, Manawa Humanism & Cultural Change

hats and held up huge cardboard letters, U-W-G-B, to deliver their ditty: U is for the happiness YOU bring me W means twice as much to me, to me, G we’re glad you’re here So together we can B (To hear an audio file of the “first school song,” go to Inside online.) There would be another UW-Green Bay commencement in December, with all of the degrees but little of the hoopla. With only 40 graduating, the ceremony was held in the Preble High School auditorium and the seniors agreed to dispense with formality, including caps and gowns. That non-traditional approach raised a few eyebrows, recalls Deb Gibson Broadwater, class of ’70, now a retired U.S. Army colonel living in Virginia. “In today’s world it’s difficult to believe, but when a few of the graduating young women decided to wear ‘pant suits’ it was considered revolutionary,” she says. “It even made the

Press Gazette, with a picture of me and a classmate explaining why we would forgo the caps and gowns, and then replace them with pants versus the much more appropriate and conventional skirt.” (To see the newsclip, visit Inside online.)

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Those were different times, certainly, but Broadwater says her appreciation only increases with distance. “We were idealistic… I often tell others of the experience I had on that first Earth Day at Eco-U… I also have great memories of my time in the ‘warehouse’ art studio. I learned to love clay and made many friends in that drafty old place…. The first trip to London? I was there. I was married and my husband fully supported and encouraged me to go, but my married friends just couldn’t understand how I could leave home and husband for even a short time. “They just didn’t understand the spirit of UWGB and the opportunities to think outside the box, at a time when most universities were wallowing in traditionalism.”

Spring Commencement 2010 • Saturday, May 15, 11:30 a.m. • Kress Events Center (capacity of 5,000 with floor seating) • Record graduating class of nearly 750 • Total alumni will top 27,000

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‘A sea of oozing slime’ at birth of campus housing Forty years ago this summer, construction of the Bay Apartment complex put nine two-story buildings with the capacity to house nearly 600 students right next door to the new UW-Green Bay. And a prolonged rainy spell put the first tenants ankle-deep in mud. “It was just a sea of oozing slime out there. No landscaping, just mud and straw,” recalled Class of ’71 grad David Kohn, who moved into one of the units in August 1970 and snapped these photos. “Construction wasn’t even complete on many of the units, and I had to sleep on the floor of someone else’s place until mine was finished.” “The Bay Apts” began as a commercial operation managed by Inland Steel Development Corp. Their developer, David Carley, an anti-war candidate for Wisconsin governor, was a public figure in those days; in March 1971 students celebrated the opening of a coffeehouse in the Building 107 basement by naming it Carley’s Place in their then-landlord’s honor. By 1980 the apartments were purchased on behalf of the University, providing the core for new residence hall and apartment-suites buildings and today’s Residence Life complex of nearly 2,100 beds. Worth noting: The yellow school bus in the 1970 photo was most likely the “Deckner Shuttle,” which transported students between the new Shorewood site and the downtown UW Center campus on Deckner Avenue, where many classes still were held.

“I ended up being good friends with founding chancellor Ed Weidner. He was just brilliant.”

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Kathleen McDonough Gerds Pulaski H.S. teacher, adviser ‘Eco U’ claim to fame: Helped organize first Earth Day extravaganza at Brown County Arena for college honors project

Pamperin Hall • Three stories, 51,000 square feet, $8 million cost • 32 suites housing 126 students

Marilyn Neitzel Moore Modernization Processes resides today in Green Bay Ronald Opicka Ecosystems Analysis, Casco Michel Paque, Regional Analysis, Oklahoma City Bernard Petras, Modernization Processes, Green Bay Mary Lucci Quarters, Green Bay Humanism & Cultural Change

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• Precast concrete and steel construction • Each suite has living room and kitchen, private bedrooms, toilet and shower rooms • Rental rate approximately $4,350/year for a private room

now The Bay Apartments opened in 1970, his senior year. He was selected a “resource student” and provided an efficiency apartment, which he shared with Resource Student Patrick Madden (later an Iron County judge and distinguished alumnus, himself), until Madden’s apartment was completed. “My building was named after the diplomat Dag Hammarskjold,” Pamperin recalls. “Back then there were no sidewalks, and we walked planks through the construction mud to get to our apartments… It was a small, tightly knit group. At some point in the day you probably saw every student attending the University.”

An original tenant then, today Pamperin has Hall of his own It’s appropriate that the newest residence hall nearing completion on the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay campus be named in honor of Keith A. Pamperin. No other alumnus has been as instrumental in furthering UW-Green Bay as a residential campus. Pamperin ’70 lived in the first housing unit on campus. Later, as a community development specialist for Green Bay and Brown County, he worked with Chancellor Edward Weidner and Associate Chancellor Donald Harden to develop a bond/financing process that paved the way for University Village Housing Inc., a private, not-for-profit corporation, to build high-quality residential facilities on campus. When it welcomes its first residents Aug. 31 on fall move-in day, Keith Pamperin Hall — a 126bed, apartment-style residence hall — will be the 17th residential building built and owned by

University Village Housing. Of UW-Green Bay’s 6,500 students, 2,100 will live on campus. “I feel so very honored, and I am excited that this new building is as close to a ‘green building’ as is practical to build,” Pamperin said. “This dorm will be centrally located and includes features that students have requested.” A Green Bay East High School graduate, Pamperin began his college career in Milwaukee but returned home to recuperate following a serious motor-scooter accident and an 8-month hospitalization. He enrolled part time at UW-Green Bay and discovered he liked being a student on the ground floor of a developing university dubbed “Eco U.” Still on crutches, he enjoyed the ease of getting from class to class on a compact campus, and the fact that “as juniors and seniors we had classes with nationally recognized full professors, and fewer than a dozen students.”

When Pamperin graduated in 1970 with a B.S. in Urban Analysis, he had every intention of returning to UW-Milwaukee for grad school. But before he could take a single class, he received a call from the city of Green Bay and a job offer. They needed someone in the Planning Department who could work with property acquisition and develop a newly mandated housing relocation plan for the Don A. Tilleman (Mason Street) Bridge and the Gregby downtown redevelopment plan. Pamperin, who received UW-Green Bay’s Distinguished Alumni Award for community service in 1994, retired last year after 38 years with the Green Bay and Brown County Housing Authorities but remains active in community and University affairs. He is a director on the boards of a dozen organizations ranging from University Village Housing Inc. to the Wisconsin Wildlife Federation, NeighborWorks Green Bay and the NEW Community Shelter. “I think the most fun back then was that we were the grass roots, creating a campus,” he said. “It was a great opportunity for student involvement. I was part of the Chancellor’s Student Advisory Committee and we would have monthly meetings at the Chancellor’s home and he would share with us his vision for the University. “When I see today how the campus has grown, the academic buildings, the Weidner Center, the Kress Events Center and student housing, it’s amazing how much it has followed that original vision. I’ve been blessed to be a part of the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and this (Pamperin Hall) is a wonderful honor.” April 2010

‘Green Innovations’ marks Earth Day 40th at Eco U UW-Green Bay will celebrate sustainability during Earth Week with Green Innovations 2010. The two-day conference begins Thursday, April 22, with keynote speaker David Wann addressing “The New Normal: Finding Real Wealth in a Sustainable Lifestyle.” Wann is coauthor of the best-selling book Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic. His presentation at 7 p.m. in the Phoenix Room of the University Union is free and open to the public. Green Innovations continues on April 23 at The Meadows Conference Center, Kepler Drive, Green Bay, with a full day of breakout sessions on sustainability in transportation, wind energy, regional health and regional sustainability. The conference and appearance by Wann (photo below) coincide with the week’s anniversary of the first Earth Day in 1970. The sponsor is UW-Green Bay’s Environmental Management and Business Institute. EMBI is a vehicle for reaffirming the University’s leadership in environmental initiatives, bridging gaps between science, public policy and business; and keeping the green in UW-Green Bay, an institution known as ‘Eco U’ long before being green became trendy. The conference fee for Friday’s sessions covers materials and lunch. Registration info is available online at www.uwgb.edu/embi/workshop, or by request at (920) 496-2117.

A closing reception for Green Innovations 2010 will take place from 4 to 5 p.m. Friday, April 23. Alumni and friends of the University are invited to join the gathering, free of charge, with an advance RSVP to Alumni Relations Director Mark Brunette at alumni@uwgb.edu.

Changing the system, and closing an oily loophole

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A new state law banning used oil filters and absorbent materials from landfill disposal got a major boost from a student at UW-Green Bay. Graduate student Adam Snippen (photo, left) and Prof. John Katers helped champion Assembly Bill 256, which goes into effect on December 10, 2010. State recycling law already prohibited the disposal into landfills of steel, paper and oil, but the old rules never directly addressed used oil filters. Two years ago, Snippen revisited an earlier report and recalculated how much waste oil may be going into state landfills as part of his work with the UW-Extension Solid and Hazardous Waste Education Center. Not only did Snippen gather the data, he was called upon to testify about his findings before the Assembly Committee on Natural Resources. “I like getting turned loose on a subject and having to problem solve,” Snippen said. “I took a look at high and low estimates and found that on the high end there could be up to a million gallons of oil getting into landfills.”

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Alumnus to earn first ‘Earth Caretaker Award’ New at this year’s Green Innovations conference will be presentation of the first Earth Caretaker Award. The honor recognizes a UW-Green Bay graduate who has gone on to make contributions in his or her field of study and to the environment.

40 years of memories… What are yours? Memories are meaningful and meant to be shared. Take a walk down memory lane — in this case, 2420 Nicolet Drive — by enjoying some of the early photographic images from campus. If they trigger a memory, or you can identify place, time, and people, we’d certainly enjoy hearing about it, and sharing with Inside readers in the future. Take a look: www.uwgb.edu/inside/1004/vintage-photos

Ronald Retherford Humanism & Cultural Change resides today in New Berlin, Wis. Rick Riehl, Humanism & Cultural Change, West Bend Associate Athletics Director, SID Concordia University Marilyn Krause Rotter, Humanism and Cultural Change, Green Bay, returning adult student who graduated at 33, still active with volunteer work Harry Schaefer, Modernization Processes, Manitowoc Lucille Ely Schwarz, Managerial Systems, Cheyenne, Wyo.

“I think I must be one of the few 1970 grads still working.” Ronald Opicka Ecosystems Analysis CEO of East Shore Industries Favorite faculty: Al Loomer, Paul Sager, Chuck Rhyner, George Petrie, Lloyd Nesberg

Student sustainability intern says, ‘Watch your waste’ Aerosol cans, print toners and batteries have joined paper, cans and plastics as mustrecycle items at UW-Green Bay. In many ways, history is repeating itself at a place that helped model recyling as one of the region’s first major institutions to embrace the practice 40 years ago (photo on facing page, above). As the sustainability intern at UW-Green Bay, Molly Collard (above) has focused her attention on spreading the word of “RecycleMania” to the campus. Collard is looking, along with the University’s Sustainability Committee, to heighten aware-

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ness of recycling here… and the price we pay if we don’t. “Paper, disposable cups and silverware, and packaging all have a price,” Collard said. “The less we use, the less we pay for.” Collard believes that by raising awareness and competing this spring in a national competition involving schools nationwide, UW-Green Bay lives out its environmental mission. “We were founded on environmental principles, and were once known as Eco U,” Collard said. “Being vigilant about recycling is a great way to show we still are striving to live up to that mission.”

Still charged up about recycling Camera batteries, watch batteries, car batteries… 9v, AA, AAA, C, D… lithium, nickel cadmium, lead-acid and more. When batteries have given their last spark of energy to the University and re-charging isn’t an option, there’s now a safe place they can call home. UW-Green Bay support staff members and the Classified Staff Advisory Council have been promoting a new battery recycling program with dropoff points across campus. The batteries — bagged in plastic or with terminals taped to minimize fire hazard, leakage and corrosion — are then gathered for recycling. April 2010

For first grads, UW-Green Bay meant something different UW-Green Bay began life as an experimental university with a highly innovative curriculum. Interdisciplinary research and problem solving were founding principles. The first grads, however, experienced a blend. “We were a transition class,” recalls one December grad, Harold Baker ’70. “We started in a two-year school that was changed to a

then Mary Renn Shaw Modernization Processes bed and breakfast owner Lincoln Park area, Chicago Helen Siebers, Humanism & Cultural Change, Sun Prairie Maxine Lichterman Smith Modernization Processes, deceased Kathleen Hunkele Sosnouski Modernization Processes,Fitchburg Scott Storm, Managerial Systems Jan Swokowski, Communication & the Arts, Mishicot, Wis. Michael Thor Managerial Systems, deceased Kathleen Seymour Vander Velden Urban Analysis, Appleton Linda Vanderloop, Humanism & Cultural Change, deceased Mary Van Slyke Wink, Growth & Development, Appleton Alice Raith Yoder-Whitmore Humanism & Cultural Change

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now “Memories? The feeling that we were getting a small, private-college atmosphere at state college prices. Sitting in the lecture hall while they were still hammering and sawing in the rooms next door. How miserably freezing it was to walk from the parking lot to the buildings when the winter winds were blowing in off the bay. Brrrrrrr!... “ Kathleen Seymour Vander Velden Urban Analysis, Class of 1970 Chaplain at Bethel Home, Oshkosh

four-year school while we were there, so we actually followed the Madison curriculum. The one exception was that we did complete twelve credits of LES, Liberal Education Seminars.” Incoming students didn’t have majors, they had “concentrations” with names like Communication-Action, Ecosystems Analysis, Environmental Control, Growth and Development, Modernization Processes, Population Dynamics and the famous Analysis-Synthesis. (Many thought its institutional abbreviation, ANAL SYN, was naughtily amusing.) While that early terminology has evolved, interdisciplinarity and problem solving remain cornerstones. And early grads still swear by it. “I tell everyone that the broad-based education I got at UWGB was the best preparation possible,” says Sherry M. Steffel ’70, today an environmental attorney for the state of Wisconsin. She studied ecology here, then earned master’s in limnology and land-use planning, and a law degree, from UW-Madison. “When all my friends from high school went off to college, I stayed in Green Bay, my home town. The best decision I ever made.”

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Retiree group looks ahead to history, scholarships

Photographic recall The Retiree Association and the Alumni Association are gearing up for a major effort that could finally attach names, dates and details to hundreds of photographs from UWGreen Bay’s early years. The University was diligent in documenting facilities, people, events and activities of the late 1960s and 1970s. From film negatives to black-and-white prints to color slides, those images have been preserved and protected. Few, however, carry captions or subject IDs. An initial selection of photos will be archived to the web as a forerunner to a larger and more systematic project. Your help in ID’ing familiar faces and scenes is welcome. You can check in on the project at www. uwgb.edu/alumni/.

When about 75 UW-Green Bay retirees and their guests met last fall in the Phoenix Room to reflect on 40 years at their favorite institution, it was a blend of old and new. The “old” was the dinner itself — retirees have held an annual reunion at UW-Green Bay for more than a decade — but the “new” describes a number of major initiatives. For starters, the UW-Green Bay Retiree Association, founded in 2008, has elected to drop

Any Phoenix treasures in your attic? We know it’s unlikely anyone still has the original mascot costume stowed away… but maybe you hold rare Year One souvenirs like the Bay Badgers pennant on our back cover. Don’t sell it on e-Bay. Special Collections in the Cofrin Library is always on the lookout for items of possible historic interest. E-mail our librarian/ curator Deb Anderson (andersod@uwgb.edu) if you think your find might be one-of-a-kind.

its $5 per year membership fee this July 1, when all current and future retirees will automatically become members. The group’s president, Ken Fleurant, also announced that the Association would award its first student scholarship ($500) this semester. Perhaps the biggest development involves the launch of an oral history project. Chaired by Betty Baer, it will focus on UW-Green Bay’s first decade and the creation of the distinctive

curriculum. Committee members are combing the Cofrin Library’s collections. Interviews are under way with the help of a UWMadison oral-history specialist. “The hope is to tap into the memories of our early faculty and staff,” Fleurant said, “and have those memories preserved.” Retiree Association officers are Fleurant, Mike Murphy, Betty Brown, Sally Mancoske, Dennis Rader, Beverly Hendricks and Barbara McClure-Lukens. Their website is www.uwgb.edu/retiree/.

Paging your memories: ‘Sheepshead’ revisited Sheepshead Review, UW-Green Bay’s studentpublished journal of the arts since 1975, is pulling together a special alumni edition, and they’re also looking to add alumni content to their website. “If you held a position with the journal or were published in any issue, we want to hear from you,” says Jennifer Stallsmith, this year’s editor-in-chief. The collection of fiction, poetry and visual art was an annual project for 25 years before dropping out of circulation in 1999. It re-launched in 2003 with a dedicated core of students and a modified title (Review instead of Revue). Today, the number of active contributors exceeds 40 and content has expanded to include creative nonfiction pieces, acclaimed author interviews, and special theme sections. Alumni interested in re-engaging should visit www.uwgb.edu/sheepshead. April 2010

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Fans, team celebrate special season for Phoenix women “Our strength coach would be happy because my vertical increased by two feet,” junior Heather Golden said at the time. “I practically jumped through the roof.” The players hadn’t been optimistic after an upset loss in the Horizon League tournament, but the NCAA bid was a mark of respect. That judgment was validated when Green Bay upset ACC power Virginia 69-67 in the tournament’s first round.

They won their first 16 games. They rose to No. 17 in the AP rankings and No. 14 in the USA Today/ESPN coaches’ poll. They finished 28-5, came within a game of the Sweet 16 and earned the program’s 10th NCAA Tournament bid in 13 years, and second in three seasons under head coach Matt Bollant.

Yet, in a season of special moments for UW-Green Bay women’s basketball, the wildest celebration took place off the court, in the De Pere living room of assistant coach Mike Divilbiss. That’s where players and coaches gathered March 15 to watch the NCAA selection show on ESPN.

Absolute pandemonium broke out when UW-Green Bay’s name appeared on the TV screen with a surprising at-large invitation to “The Big Dance.” A video of the screaming, leaping, deliriously happy players continues to get hits on the Phoenix Athletics website.

Ad Scientiam Renovandam That’s the new Latin motto for UW-Green Bay, recently approved by the Faculty Senate. Ad means “toward” or “for.” Scientiam is the source of the word “science,” but in the Latin of ancient Rome it meant both “learning” and “knowledge,” and thus spans the teaching and research aspects of academic life.

Renovandam comes from a verb that means “to renew,” “re-create,” or “innovate.” The phrase ties in to the University’s original innovative focus but also to the Phoenix re-emerging from the ashes. The phrase could find use in academic ceremony and on official institutional documents.

Like The Phoenix, Building 109 Rises Again Seven months after sustaining heavy damage by fire, Building 109, one of UW-Green Bay’s original apartment buildings, was rebuilt and reopened in time for spring semester. An early-morning electrical fire in the unoccupied building — vacant for summer — gutted a good portion of the structure last June 25. The incident took 17 units and 63 beds off-line for fall, but some students opted to live off-campus for the semester while others were accommodated by doubling up in apartment-suite units nearby.

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‘Dash for Cash’ approach brings help for Haiti UW-Green Bay faculty, staff and students — like many Americans — responded with personal donations following January’s devastating earthquake in Haiti. The campus community took the additional step of mobilizing a “UWGB Stands With Haiti” group response. Students from the Pre-Med Club, the Social Work Club and the student chapter of the Wisconsin Education Association staffed donation tables and also fanned out during timeouts at Phoenix basketball games in “dash for cash” collections. They raised nearly $5,000 for the medical relief agency Partners in Health.

“We were all so pleased with the generosity,” said Prof. Angela Bauer-Dantoin, who assisted and advised the drive. Also garnering attention was the facsinating online blog and cross-country quest of former Phoenix runner Abe Clark ’09. On Feb. 15 he set off from Oceanside, Calif., pledges in hand, headed for a June 30 finish in Atlantic City, N.J. His 2,800-mile run is raising money for an aid organization repairing quakedamaged wells in Haiti. Another recent graduate, Carl-Eric Staco ’08, a native of Haiti, e-mailed on-the-ground perspective in the days after the disaster.

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Student chefs have recipe for success Students Leah Korger and Rhianna Kunes — the “Edible Alchemy” team — took home top honors in UW-Green Bay’s first Iron Chef-style competition at the Cloud Commons dining room.

NASCAR? IN THE DINING ROOM? TO PROMOTE ECOLOGY? YES It had to be one of the most popular lunchtime specials in the long and colorful history of the University Union’s Cloud Commons (formerly the Nicolet Room). An oversized model racing layout drew participants and spectators to the Commons on March 2. The track was used to promote a cam-

pus appearance by eco-activist and NASCAR hopeful Leilani Munter. Munter, an accomplished racer and stunt driver, shared her message that even drivers and racing fans can achieve sustainable, carbon-neutral lifestyles, despite their high-octane passion for

Their creations included tomato slices lightly breaded and fried, served with an avocado sauce; seared flank steak with pine-nutinfused couscous and asparagus; and spiced apple slices topped with coriander whipped cream and caramel. Runner-up teams were “Small Hall, Big Flavor,” “The Cheesy Macs” and “We’re Golden, Not Burnt.”

speed. Both NASCAR and Indy Car teams are well-positioned to pilot projects involving alternative fuels and clean energy, she said. Munter’s visit was hosted by the Office of Student Life as part of UW-Green Bay’s yearlong Common Theme focus on sustainability and environmental awareness.

FACULTY and STAFF Whether trying to recreate the armor that made Alexander’s armies great, or sifting through centuries-old Roman trash, Humanistic Studies Prof. Gregory Aldrete is gaining national recognition. When Aldrete received a 2009 Excellence in Teaching Award from the American Philological Association, he was named “best classics professor Aldrete in the nation” by the leading association of classics professors. He also traveled to Rome to share his analysis for the documentary series “Trashopolis” on the ways sanitation and garbage have influenced the world’s great cities. To enhance their teaching, three professors have been granted full sabbaticals by the UW System Board of Regents for 2010-11. Historian Clifton Ganyard of Humanistic Studies will investigate the secret state police forces in Germany and Japan during the 1930s and 1940s. Warren Johnson of Human Biology will produce a textbook on biotechnology for non-science majors. E. Nicole Meyer of Humanistic Studies will develop a Great Works course and complete a manuscript regarding childhood, family and autobiography in French literature. Five faculty members were

awarded single-semester releases. “Emerging Intelligence in Artificial Neural Networks and Genetic Programming” is the topic of Peter Breznay of Information and Computing Science. Heidi Fencl will develop an online tutorial for introductory college physics. Cheryl Grosso ’78 of Arts and Visual Design (music) will pursue new compositions and develop an interdisciplinary course on the work of avant garde composer John Cage. Laurel Phoenix of Public and Environmental Affairs will examine environmental policies of the eight states and two Canadian provinces that border the Great Lakes, and her colleague Denise Scheberle will complete a book of case studies for use in her Environmental Law class. Homer Simpson Marches on Washington: Dissent through American Popular Culture is the eye-catching title of a new book co-edited by Prof. Tim Dale, Social Change and Development. The book examines how dissenting voices have become pop-culture staples — from television sitcoms to talk shows to hip-hop music. Also recently published is the Encyclopedia of Urban Studies; Prof. Ray Hutchison of Urban and Regional Studies contributed content and served as general editor.

In January, UW-Green Bay granted emeritus status to 11 newly retired members of the faculty and academic staff. Those honored for long and distinguished careers were William Conley, Business Administration; Sue Keihn, former dean of students; geographer William Laatsch; Craig Lockard, Social Change and Development; Barbara McClure-Lukens, a staff member in Outreach and Extension; economist Larry Smith; Sandra Stokes of the Education faculty and the Women’s and Gender Studies unit; former Counseling and Health Services director Karen Swan; poet and Humanistic Studies faculty member Denise Sweet; Jan Thornton, longtime leader of Outreach and Adult Access; and Lynn Walter of the Social Change and Development faculty. The Green Bay Area Chamber of Commerce selected two from UW-Green Bay for its 2010 “People You Should Know” list in Bay Business Journal magazine. Credited with making significant contributions to their professions were Associate Provost for Information Services Kathy Pletcher and Director Christina Trombley of UW-Green Bay’s Small Business Development Center. Karen Lacey, senior lecturer in Human Biology and director of the Dietetic Program, is president-elect of the Wisconsin Dietetic Association. Prof. Regan A.R. Gurung of Human Development and psychology is president-elect of the Society for

Teaching of Psychology, which has more than 4,000 members nationwide. He will become president in 2011. History Prof. Andrew Kersten has been awarded the Frankenthal Professorship for a five-year term through 2014. Recipients receive a stipend for research expenses or special projects benefitting students or service to the community. Kersten is the seventh UWGreen Bay faculty member (and second Kersten) to be awarded the title. His father, Prof. Emeritus Frederick I. Kersten, was a philosophy and humanities scholar who held the Frankenthal from 1984 through 1988. One of UW-Green Bay’s founding faculty members and most well-known personalities, Prof. Ganga Nair, died March 10 in Green Bay at age 80. Nair was an internationally known researcher who advised the United Nations and forestry organizations worldwide on tree diseases Nair and deforestation issues. Also passing away earlier this year was longtime typist and secretary Marie Garot, familiar to students and alumni in the College of Creative Communication, and the Rev. Charles Mocco, a Catholic priest who served at the Ecumenical Center in the 1990s.

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UW-Green Bay seeks community, alumni input on plan What is your vision of the University’s future? Where do you see a competitive advantage… a strategic opportunity… an existing initiative or area that deserves increased attention? UW-Green Bay has scheduled a series of openforum opportunities for citizens and stakeholders to include a pair of communityand-alumni oriented sessions. The second is set for Saturday, April 24, from 9 to 11 a.m. in the 1965 Room of the University Union on campus. The University is seeking input as it prepares a strategic plan to guide institutional priorities over the coming decade. “I need your help in identifying major areas for enhancement, advancement and investment,” Harden said in extending his invitation to campus and community. “These are the big ideas that provide the basis for a shared vision. What are your dreams for this University?”

Harden emphasized that the University’s growth agenda will continue to explore ways to support “moderate” growth. In that vein Harden noted that a major push at the local and national level is to produce more college graduates. Just as America has lost ground in being the world’s most educated nation, Northeastern Wisconsin has lagged behind much of the state in producing college grads.

“Strategic planning is a component of the growth agenda. We need to find more ways to graduate more students,” he said. In remarks to faculty and staff, he noted he has participated in, or led, strategic planning at previous institutions and seen it done well, very well and not so well. He acknowledged the general skepticism that sometimes accompanies any institutional planning exer-

cise, but promised the UW-Green Bay strategic planning process will yield a blueprint for action. “We simply don’t have time to waste on something we’re not going to use,” Harden said. To join the conversation, alumni and others may access the Chancellor’s web page at www.uwgb. edu/chancellor/.

OPTIMISM RULES THE DAY AT JOB/INTERNSHIP FAIR With resumes polished and hopes undiminished by a sluggish economy, there was a solid turnout — of both employers and potential employees — at the 2010 Spring Job and Internship Fair held in early March at UWGreen Bay. According to Linda Peacock-Landrum, director of Career Services, it was a positive day for the steady stream of students who took the opportunity to meet with business recruiters. More than 60 employers were on hand to talk with prospective employees and interns. That number compares favorably with previous fairs, despite the nationwide economic downturn many have called the worst in decades. Peacock-Landrum said many local employers continue to actively recruit prospective employees, either for current hiring or expansion as the economic outlook improves. 16

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The annual and alwayspopular spring reception of the UW-Green Bay Founders Association is scheduled for Tuesday, May 4. The gathering will take place from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the Grand Foyer of the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts. Invitations to Founders members were to be mailed by mid-April; to RSVP, contact Shane Kohl in the Office of University Advancement at (920) 465-2018, or Kohls@uwgb.edu.

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Phuture is now for first Phreshman Ka Vang is the fresh face of the Phuture Phoenix program. In fall, members of the original fifth-grade cohort are scheduled to arrive as new freshmen. As a mid-year graduate of Preble High School, however, Vang beat them to the door. The daughter of Hmong immigrants who spoke little English, she was 11 when she made that first visit: “I remember the tour and it was fun, but I can’t say that I knew at that moment I was going to college. I suppose it was planting a seed.” Vang, a Human Development major, was greeted here by her Phuture Phoenix mentor and friend, Kacey Thomson (above). For more on Vang’s trailblazing success, see Inside online.

Scholarship recalls Bayfest creator Arts Management students will benefit from a new scholarship in memory of Tim R. Quigley, Bayfest founder and longtime promotions director for Phoenix Athletics, who died last April at age 68. He acted in early theatre productions and studied ceramics at UW-Green Bay, and built a national reputation as a festival director who celebrated the arts, culture and community. His daughter, Tina Quigley ’90, heads Arts Events, Inc., a local organization partnering on the scholarship. To make a gift to the fund, contact Lisa DeLeeuw at deleeuwl@uwgb.edu.

WPS Weyers gift helps power college dreams Leaders of the Phuture Phoenix program at UWGreen Bay were ecstatic to receive word of a large gift earlier this year from the Wisconsin Public Service Foundation, but not surprised by the name it honors. That’s because former CEO and WPS president emeritus Larry Weyers has long been associated with the support and promotion of education in the region, and the gift seemed like a natural fit. The Larry L. Weyers Phuture Phoenix Scholarship will provide 31 scholarships over five years to assist students attending UW-Green Bay.

The Phuture Phoenix program is a university/community enterprise inspiring at-risk, underprivileged youth to attend college. The program has already served more than 10,000 students in its seven-year history with campus visits, tutoring and mentoring partnerships. With the first participants now reaching college-age, the importance of scholarships grows. In total, about 20 renewable scholarships of $1,000 each are available to assist the first Phuture Phoenix arrivals. For more on the Weyers scholarship and previous major gifts to the endowment, visit Inside online.

New Founders president grateful for ‘gift’

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Scott Wochos knows quality in higher education. A Duke University grad with a Harvard law degree, he can also be considered this community’s No. 1 booster of UW-Green Bay. Wochos is incoming president of the school’s Founders Association, succeeding John Heugel on July 1. “Last year, we had something like 2,000 individuals contribute to our efforts,” he said in remarks on campus. “Faculty, staff, students, alumni... and people like me who live here and want to see UW-Green Bay succeed. This University is an absolute gift to have in this city.” Wochos is senior vice president and general counsel for Green Bay Packaging, Inc. For more on his remarks about the Founders Association, visit Inside online.

A $4,000 grant from the Green Bay Packers Foundation will help kick off a spring program for parents of Phuture Phoenix students. The initiative will make a point of bringing parents to campus for a tour and consultation with Financial Aid and Admissions staff. Says Phuture Phoenix staffer Stephanie Cataldo-Pabich ’91, “Parent involvement is an essential component.” April 2010

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1970s Daniel Keegan ’72 communications, director of the Milwaukee Art Museum, delivered the December commencement address Keegan and shared early UWGB memories. He told the 400 graduates: “Whatever you do from this day forward, make yourself indispensable… You are stepping into a world that is vastly different, … in an economic environment stressed like no other in recent memory. But ladies and gentlemen, that is precisely your opportunity. If everything were going along beautifully why would the world need you?... You are the future. And the world needs you.” Russ Roland ’72 managerial systems, was featured in The Business News for his work starting Bay Lakes Commercial Realtors in Green Bay, which recently marked 31 years in business.

Pictured above, the 1969-70 Bay Badgers basketball team, seated from left: Bob DeVos, Bob Popp, Ray Willis, Dennis Woelffer, Bruce Johnson, Wayne Wilson; back row: Assistant Coach Chuck Aslakson, Marc Schmidt, Terry Schott, Jim Hafeman, Bud Mocco, Coach Dave Buss.

Long-lost films bring 1969 team into focus Former University of Wisconsin-Green Bay head basketball coach Dave Buss didn’t want the Phoenix program’s first seasons to fade into obscurity. Thanks to his generosity, more than 100 long-forgotten game films from the earliest seasons of the men’s basketball program have been converted into digital format and will be available for public viewing through the University Archives at Cofrin Library.

Interested in ordering a copy of one or more of these Buss Era games? You can contact the UW-Green Bay special collections unit within the Cofrin Library at (920) 465-2539, or speccoll@uwgb.edu. Each disc is $7.

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“Back then we shot 16 mm films of the games and it was really expensive,” said Buss, now retired and living in Horseshoe Bay, Texas, a community about 50 miles west of Austin. “This was the only recorded evidence of their playing careers and the film was deteriorating. I thought if we don’t save it now, it’s not going to be preserved.” The collection includes the University’s very first game, a 99-70 defeat of Milton College on Dec. 3, 1969. Guard Dave Haglund scored the program’s first basket, taking a pass from Ray Willis on a cut down the lane. You can view a list of games available on DVD, and a brief clip of Haglund’s historic basket, online at http://blog.uwgb. edu/inside/index.php/featured/ giving-back /02/25/vintagebasketball/

Diana Brown ’76 growth and development, has won accolades for her work with N.E.W. Curative Rehabilitation, in particular her work with seniors and individuals with disabilities. She founded the agency’s Adult Day Programs to serve families and individuals affected by dementia, and created a new class for those in the early stages of memory loss. She earned the Ruth Von Berhen Award from her national professional association in recognition of this work. Paul Wozniak ’78 science and environmental change and ’94 master’s of environmental science, has accepted the position of senior consultant-energy practice with Navigant Consulting, based in Madison. His responsibilities include measuring impacts from energy efficiency improvements in homes and busiWozniak nesses. James Olds ’76 communication and the arts, Dane County juvenile court commissioner, retired in December having presided over 25,000 juvenile cases in 22 years. Bryan Boettcher ’78 regional analysis, of Quick Signs, Green Bay, is the 2009 board of director’s vice president for The Military Avenue Business Association. Other board members include Michael Cuene ’89 business administration and economics, of Broadway Automotive in Green Bay, and Dan Burich ’90 business administration, of Bay Motel and Restaurant.

ALUMNI NOTES Cheri Ebert-Sheehy ’79 communication and the arts with a special interest in music, is a music specialist for the La Crosse Public Schools. Laura (Bogard) Griffin ’80 communication and the arts, is an art therapist for RCS Empowers, Inc., Sheboygan.

1980s William Seleen ’80 humanistic studies, is a local director for Habitat for Humanity. He oversees the organizations “ReStore” in Green Bay, which accepts donations of new and used building materials with proceeds benefitting Habitat projects. Ivan Delbecchi ’82 business administration, has been named managing director of Baylake Insurance Agency Inc., Green Bay. Daniel Conley ’83 masters of environmental science, a professor at Lund University in Sweden, has been awarded a 2010 Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation to examine solutions Conley for reducing nutrients in the Baltic Sea. The award provides Conley $150,000 for a three-year study of so-called “dead zones” where oxygen depletion has all but eradicated marine life. A Fort Lauderdale, Fla. native who earned his undergraduate degree at Tulane University before earning his master’s in Green Bay, he went on for a Ph.D. in chemical oceanography at the University of Michigan. For more on Conley and his work, see Inside online. Chuck Stark ’83 business administration, is a sales and service representative for Lifetouch National School Studios in Eau Claire. Michael Dempsey ’84 communication and the arts, is a designer and the director of technical training for the Pacific Conservatory for the Performing Arts in Santa Maria Calif. He designs scenes, lighting and costumes for the professional conservatory theatre. He is also the immediate past national chair of design for the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. His work has been published in recent editions of the textbook Scene Design and Stage Dempsey Lighting.

Sherry (Bardouche) Berg ’85 managerial accounting, is a CPA and partner at Anderson, Tackman & Co., PLC, a regional firm headquartered in Green Bay. Berg Yue Rong ’86 Master’s in environmental science and policy, works with groundwater contamination issues as program manager for the California Regional Water Quality Control Rong Board, Los Angeles region. He serves on the scientific advisory board for the annual conference of the Association of Environmental Health and Sciences. Rong also is associate editor for the peer-reviewed journal Soil and Sediment Contamination and the Journal of Environmental Forensics. In 2008, he was re-elected board president of the Southern California Chinese American Environmental Professional Association. David Wage ’86 physics, is the recipient of his local Chamber of Commerce “Speak Up Award, “acknowledging his support for various Manitowoc County causes and organizations. He and his wife are co-owners of HFM Innovations and Heavy Metal Fabricators. He has been chamber chairman, and been involved with the “Thunder on the Lakeshore” air show, the MetroJam festival and other Lakeshore-area events. “I love our community … it is a wonderful place to live and raise a family,” Wage says. Tom Feld ’87 science and environmental change, joined Foxwood Associates Inc., a Green Bay-based management-advisory company, as an adviser within Foxwood’s financial services practice. Diane (Engel) Mier ’87 managerial accounting, is a quantitative risk analyst with Integrys Business Support, LLC in De Pere. Chee Ong ’87 business administration and economics, is an executive director with UOB Kay Hian Pte Ltd., an amalgamation of eight stockbroking houses in Singapore. Martin Webber ’87 business administration and communication processes, is a self-employed commodities trader. Carol (Sweetland) Karls ’89 communication and the arts, is the business and community development manager at Wisconsin Public Service in Green Bay.

Maria (Fisher) Lasecki ’89 psychology and human development, is the operations manager with the NEW Zoo of Brown County.

1990s Terri Bonino ’92 communication and the arts and communication processes, is a member-at-large with the Lakeshore Area Human Resources Association and works for ABR Employment Services, Manitowoc. Kenda (Gerbers) Brunette ’93 communication processes and business administration, is a sales associate for Coldwell Banker, The Real Estate Group Inc., Green Bay. Tom Eggert ’93 business administration and human development, is an account executive for FulfillNet, Green Bay. David Meyer ’93 business administration and economics, is a senior financial advisor for Ameriprise Financial, Marshfield. Tania (LeCloux) Meyer ’93 business administration and managerial accounting, is a financial advisor for Ameriprise Financial in Marshfield. Jay Wille ’93 business administration and political science, of MetLife Greater Wisconsin, was awarded the Life Underwriters Training Council Fellow designation. Scott Jaeger ’94 communication and the arts and communication processes, is a videographer for Discover Mediaworks. He has shot for programs including Discover Wisconsin, Into the Outdoors, Trail Nation, American Snowmobiler, and Family, Inc. Patricia (Intribus) Montour ’94 accounting and business administration, is a CPA currently employed as controller for Castle Rock Renewable Fuels, LLC, Necedah. Nicole (Merkel) Reetz ’94 English and humanistic studies, has been working through AmeriCorps Vista for the Stockbridge Munsee Family Services in the after-school program and teen mentoring program. Logan Vander Velden ’94 Regional Analysis, returned to campus for an alumni event earlier this year. He spent a half-season on the Los Angeles Clippers roster and appeared in 15 games for the NBA team in 1995-96. His international playing career was much longer and included a year in Switzerland and overseas in Portugal, Japan, Venezuela, Uruguay and Chile, and back in the United States with the Continental Basketball Association,

International Basketball Association and American Basketball Association. He resides today with his family in Fort Wayne, Ind., and works for the financial software company Investigo. Stacy (Davister) Bouche ’95 business administration and economics and a 20-year veteran of the banking industry, is the mortgage sales manager at Baylake Bank’s Luxemburg Financial Center. Dr. Vickie Marie Cloutier ’95 human biology and psychology, is a family practitioner at ThedaCare Physicians-Shawano. Tim Dunne ’95 communication processes and human development, is a senior field sales engineer with Baldor Dodge Reliance, an international manufacturer and distributor of industrial electric motors, transmissions, drives and generators. Holly (Terrien) Rottier ’95 music and secondary education, was appointed last summer as schools director for the Catholic Diocese of Green Bay, with Rottier responsibility for 62 schools. She was formerly principal of a Catholic elementary school in Little Chute. Penny Schampers ’95 accounting and business administration, is a CPA with Hawkins, Ash, Baptie & Company, LLP, serving as chairperson of the firm’s not-for-profit division. Amanda Johnson-Vergara ’96 communication and the arts, psychology and women’s studies, is the team manager of Bank of America’s Home Retention Division in California. Ryan Kauth ’96 human biology, is a business banker at Investors Community Bank in Manitowoc. Navy Lt. James Stockman ’96 human biology, is a Navy public affairs officer at U.S. Africa Command located at Kelly Barracks, Stuttgart, Germany. Africa Command has administrative responsibility for U.S. military support to U.S. government policy in Africa, and includes military-to-military relationships with 53 African nations. Kelley Hinton ’97 English and secondary education, is an academic librarian and one of five at UW-Waukesha named an Arthur M. Kaplan Fellow for 2009-10, recognizing outstanding contributions to education made by UW Colleges faculty and staff.

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Adult Degree grad has drive to excel For Vickie Dansbury ’06, pursuing her UW-Green Bay degree meant weekends away from home and on the road.

Rachel Galetka ’03 business administration and communication and the arts, is the senior staffing specialist for Flex-Staff, Inc. in Eau Claire.

The Beloit resident used the University’s Adult Degree option to complete much of her coursework via the internet. Still, there were many times she would leave her job at the Dane County Mental Health Center in Madison on a Friday night, drive to Green Bay for Saturday classes, and make the three-hour commute home on Sunday. That persistence paid off. Dansbury earned her bachelor’s in interdisciplinary studies in December 2006. (That’s her, at right, celebrating with friend and UW-Green Bay mentor Dottie Stepian.) Dansbury later followed up with a master’s in marriage and family counseling from Edgewood College, Madison. She is now a member of the Board of Directors for the Wisconsin Association of Marriage and Family Therapists.

Matt Schueller ’97 nutritional sciences, is senior vice president of marketing for Enzymatic Therapy. A recent profile in a Green Bay Area Chamber of Commerce publication noted his success in anticipating trends in the marketplace including a new product line, organic dietary supplements. Bill Milne ’98 business administration, economics and Spanish, has joined the law firm of Weld, Riley, Prenn and Ricci S.C. in Eau Claire. He is a member of the firm’s business, real estate and estate planning section. Women in Management-Fox Cities Chapter announced appointments of three UW-Green Bay graduates: Cully Sheahan ’86 communication and the arts, of Robert W. Baird & Co. as president; Mandy Soland ’98 human development and psychology, of Elexco Inc. as the awards chair; Amy Austin ’07 Sheahan elementary education, of Prospera Credit Union as treasurer. Michael Zahn ’98 business administration and economics, is the owner of the Truyman-Haase-Zahn insurance agency of Green Bay.

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Greg Babcock ’03 political science and public administration, is now with Wanezek & Jaekels of Green Bay, specializing in family law, civil litigation and general practice.

Andy Gurka ’03 communication processes and political science, is the director of Living Learning Programs for the University of Richmond.

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Bryan Hermus ’03 business administration and psychology, is the vice president of sales at Louis Hoffmann Co., an ornamental-metal manufacturer in Menomonee Falls.

Education, service to others, and the desire to address community needs are motivating factors. With her own education, she cites her husband, Robert, for helping her restart a journey begun decades earlier. Robert proudly rented a bus so dozens of family members and friends from southern Wisconsin could see her graduate from UW-Green Bay. Veronica Brieno-Rankin ’99 earth science, recently returned from a 10-day field program, the “Research Experience in Carbon Sequestration.” She is president of GeoSeq International, an energy Rankin consulting firm South Range, Mich. KaraLynne Moore ’99 business administration, joined the business services team of Community First Credit Union, headquartered in Appleton. Ryan Ruzziconi ’99 political science and public administration, is general counsel for Diplomat Specialty Pharmacy, Inc., in its Schwartz Creek, Mich., headquarters.

2000s Kathryn Goffard ’00 environmental policy and planning, is a new employee of Fox Valley Technical College as a medical/administrative coding instructor. Jerome Morris ’00 political science, coordinates the state GEAR UP (Gaining an Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs) services for the Newton-Conover (N.C.) City Schools. He is also a music minister for Greater Faith Missionary Baptist Church.

Vickie’s parents, born in the 1920s and from a time when few AfricanAmericans could even consider higher education, had never before seen a college commencement. “I think that watching me graduate, they ‘got it.’ They understood why I had been gone all those weekends,” Vickie recalls.

Michelle Shea ’01 human development, is a case manager for the Holiday House of Manitowoc County, Inc., which provides services to individuals with disabilities. Mathew Bartkowiak ’02 individual major, is an assistant professor of English at UW-Marshfield. His first book, The MC5 and Social Change: A Study in Rock and Revolution, was published in 2009 and his second book, Sounds of the Future: Essays on Music in Science Fiction Film, will be out this year. Michael Brown ’02 urban and regional studies and ‘04 master’s of science in environmental science and policy, is a planner for the village of Montgomery, Ill. Brian DeBauche ’02 business administration and social work, is an advanced business process analyst for Thrivent Financial for Lutherans in Appleton. Alissa (Huntley) Langenberg ’02 business administration, is an account relationship specialist for Gannett Wisconsin. She earned company Pinnacle Advertising Awards for March and December last year. Kristy Watzlawick-Hensley ’02 business administration, is a career services specialist for ITT-Technical Institute in Carmel, Ind.

Marcus Reitz ’03 communication processes, is the director of client satisfaction for FulfillNet, Green Bay. Lori Wachter ’03 nursing, is the consumer safety officer for the Department of Health and Human Services in Silver Spring, Md. Heidi Kleinhans ’04 communication processes, is the marketing planner and coordinator for Nsight Telservices, Green Bay. Jennifer (Hallam) Nelson ’04 social change and development, is the executive director for Literacy Green Bay, Inc. and was recognized as one of Green Bay’s “40 Under 40 People Nelson You Should Know,” in 2009. She also serves on the Brown County Planning Commission on Transportation. Adam Seitz ’04 urban studies, is an apprentice for Azco industrial construction services in Appleton. Maria (Goin) Seitz ’04 psychology, is a training specialist for Prospera Credit Union in Appleton. Amanda (Bergene) Sitkiewitz ’04 Spanish, was singled out by the Manitowoc County Chamber’s young professionals organization as a “Future 15” person to watch. She is a branch manager-commercial loan officer for Shoreline Credit Union. Cathy (Wagner) Vosters ’04 business administration, is a treasury management sales representative for Citizens Bank in Green Bay. Amanda Zeman ’04 business administration, was named manager of the tax team of Kroening, Stangel, Swetlik & Zinkel LLP CPAs in Manitowoc. Elizabeth Zeman ’04 urban studies, works as a grants coordinator for the Rawhide Boys Ranch in New London.

ALUMNI NEWS Josh Bayer ’05 human biology, is a staff pharmacist with King Soopers Corporation in Longmont, Colo.

Aubrey (Sutter) Brennan ’07 music, is a volunteer and site coordinator for the Green Bay Botanical Gardens.

James Boeck ’05 computer science, is a senior multi-disciplined engineer for Raytheon Missile Systems, Tucson, Ariz.

Ashlie DuChateau ’07 public administration, is assistant marketing coordinator with Vorpahl Fire and Safety, Green Bay.

Ben Elsner ’05 business administration, is a provider claims resolution specialist for United Healthcare in Green Bay.

Megan Karas ’07 psychology, is a second-year AmeriCorps member and serves on the WIARC board, which involves 700 AmeriCorps members in Wisconsin. She has won recognition for her Project Youth Karas efforts with at-risk youth and families in Sheboygan County.

Orin Kipp ’05 business administration, graduated from William Mitchell College of Law in May and passed the Minnesota Bar Exam in October. The Stillwater native practices real estate law with his father at Kipp & Kipp, LLC. Mike Klemens ’05 urban studies, is a transportation liaison for the Will County Governmental League in Joliet, Ill. Robert Logemann III ’05 business administration, is a lead teller for Harbor Credit Union in Green Bay. Troy Smits ’05 human development and psychology, is the head cheerleading coach at DePaul University and is also an adviser trainer for Aveda at the John Hancock Center in downtown Chicago. Katie (Legler) Wagoner ’05 human biology, is a health promotion consultant for Franciscan Skemp Health Solutions in La Crosse.

Debbie Lucas ’07 social work, completed a year-long term with OeDae Language Institute in South Korea where she taught English. Vanessa (Sobeck) Moran, ’07 elementary education, teaches third grade in the HowardSuamico School District at Meadowbrook Elementary School.

Moran Debra Niesen ’07 nursing, is an allied health instructor at Fox Valley Technical College.

Angela Walschinski ’07 business administration, an account assistant with Leonard & Finco Public Relations, Inc., was named by the Green Bay Area Chamber of Commerce as one of 10 rising professionals to watch out for in 2010. She won praise for her professional achievements as well as for organizing a clothing drive for the needy in Brown County. Heather Workman ’07 human biology, is a registered dietitian. She received her master’s degree in public health nutrition from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. Bill Curtis ’08 political science, is deputy director for Winnebago County Emergency Management. He is completing his master’s degree with studies in threat and response management at the University of Chicago. Molly (Cox) Demrow ’08 elementary education, is a kindergarten teacher for the Oshkosh Area School District. Lawrence Eslinger ’08 master’s in environmental science and policy, a research assistant at UW-Green Bay, was appointed aquatic invasive species coordinator for Oneida County in northern Wisconsin’s lakes region.

Caitlin (Olsen) Fraser ’08 theatre, is helping to start a company, Chamber Theater, in Santa Fe, N.M. Shiyanke Goonetilleke ’08 communications, is a graduate student in the college counseling and student development program at St. Cloud State (Minn.) University. Shiyanke He is the servicelearning, events and marketing graduate assistant for the institution’s Volunteer Connection office, and a coordinator for the Gender Violence Prevention Program. Daniel Keiser ’08 mathematics, is a foreign exchange specialist for M&I Marshall & Ilsley Bank in Milwaukee. Kayla (Gries) Kiehl ’08 business administration, is a personal banker for Community Bank & Trust in Plymouth. Samuel Pecard ’08 communication and the arts, graduated from the U.S. Coast Guard Recruit Training Center in Cape May, N.J. Kevin Panzarella ’08 business administration, is a disability insurance underwriting specialist for the Northwestern Mutual Financial Network in Franklin.

Jessica Allen ’06 business administration, is working in human resources with AEI Dish in Seymour. Margaret Bendzick ’06 humanistic studies, is the associate dean of students and faculty for the Minnesota School of Business, Richfield campus. Brian Dimmer ’06 social change and development, graduated from Marquette Law School in 2009 and began work for Petit & Dommershausen, S.C. as an associate attorney focusing on criminal defense and criminal appelDimmer late law. Andrew Mertig ’06 communications, is a resident director for Concordia University in Mequon. Kelly Samz, ’06 human biology, is the dietitian for Shady Lane Nursing Care Center and Laurel Grove Assisted Living and Sunrise Rehabilitation, Manitowoc. She is responsible for quality assurance and the nutrition assessments including the creation and monitoring of nutritional care plans for residents. She earned a master’s degree in food and nutritional sciences from UW-Stout. A member of the Wisconsin Dietetic Association, she serves as the new-member communications representative. Danielle Behrle ’07 communications, is a designer with the corporate offices of Shopko stores in Green Bay.

TV reporter returns home to a winner Jill Wunrow, a 2002 UW-Green Bay communications graduate and former sportscaster, picked the right time to return home to her alma mater. Wunrow joined the Phoenix Athletics staff last August as assistant sports information director and an in-studio host for the program’s internet TV shows. It’s been a win-win — or better said, a win, win, win — ever since. The men’s soccer team made its first NCAA tournament appearance in 30 years. The women’s basketball team won 28 games, earned its customary bid to the

“Big Dance” and claimed its highest national ranking, 14th in the coaches’ poll, midway through the season. Throw in big years for men’s basketball (another 20-win campaign and newfound tournament success) and women’s swimming and diving with a sixth straight Horizon League championship, and it has been a publicist’s dream. Wunrow interned at the Phoenix Sports Information Office during college, and graduated to jobs as a television sportscaster, photographer, and reporter in the Green Bay, Peoria, and Wausau markets.

Her boss and colleague, Phoenix SID Drew Harris, says Wunrow shares much of the credit for helping position the UW-Green Bay program as a leader in video and internet exposure. Her “Monday Minute” weekly wrapup show generated thousands of hits for the site. For an expanded version of this story, www.uwgb.edu/inside/1004/wunrow — Story by Lauren Muench ’09

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ALUMNI NOTES Jennifer Schanen ’08 social work, graduated from AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps (AmeriCorps NCCC) Pacific Region, wrapping up ten month of community service nationwide. She is now the community outreach specialist with Wise Women Gathering Place in Green Bay. Brian Bar ’09 psychology, was part of a team of AmeriCorps NCCC (National Civilian Community Corps) members responding to a flooding disaster in Greater Atlanta. His team removed five tons of debris, gutted five houses, sanitized three houses, and coordinated 34 volunteers. Sarah Benzshawel ’09 business administration, works with WS Packaging Group, Inc. in Green Bay. Elizabeth (Chapin) Breitenfeldt ’09 accounting and business administration, is an associate accountant at Integrys Business Support in Green Bay. Autumn Brown ’09 communications, is employed by The Diamond Factory LLC jewelry store in Green Bay.

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Abe Clark ’09 communication and the arts, set off Feb. 15 from Oceanside, Calif., on a five-month, 2,860-mile run to Atlantic City, N.J. A former Phoenix cross-country runner, Clark is raising money for Living Water International, a Christian organization dedicated to helping communities secure clean water. The beneficiary will be residents of Haiti where the organization is repairing hand pumps damaged by the January earthquake. Clark was documenting his epic journey at http://www.runningwater.cc/. Terry Evans ’09 human development, is enjoying a spectacular season, as could be expected, as an American basketball import with the RSV Stahnsdorf club in Evans the German pro league’s second division. A club webpage, translated from German, suggests that the former Phoenix standout has been one of the team’s top rebounders, and it also reported that in one win, “Terry Evans opened the game with a dunking.” Nicholas Hitt ’09 communications, is a veteran service representative for the Department of Veteran Affairs in Milwaukee. A.J. Kasten ’09 social change and development, works with LTE Residence Services and the Office of Residence Life for UW-Green Bay.

Ryan D. Miller ’09 business administration, is a credit analyst at The Business Bank, Appleton. Wade Moder ’09 environmental policy and planning, began a six-month term for Wisconservation Corps in Madison. He serves on the board of directors for Yahara River Grocery CooperaModer tive in Stoughton. JoAnna (Marineau) Monfils ’09 chemistry and human biology, works in research and development as an encapsys lab technician for Appleton Papers, Inc. Kimberly Vickman ’09 environmental sciences, is a laboratory technician for Food Safety Net Services in Green Bay. Steven Wicks ’09 human development and psychology, has enrolled in the Ph.D. track in human development and family studies at Oregon State University, and serves as a graduate teaching assistant in the subject of human sexuality. Gabrielle Zander ’09 communications, works two jobs at Columbus (Wis.) Community Hospital. One of her jobs there is as a switchboard operator and registering patients at night. She was just hired as a marketing and foundation assistant/ event planner. She is also a pharmacy technician at a drug store.

Marriages & Unions Maria Fisher ’89 to Chad Lasecki Laura Anderson ’01 to Jerry Kaczmarek Kristy Watzlawick ’02 to James Hensley Lori Wachter ’03 to Gerald Podskalny Kim Gregory ’04 to Ivan Jaquez Laura Neuens ’06 to Eric Studee ’06 Courtney Hendricksen ’07 to Warren Wippert Molly Cox ’08 to Eric Demrow ’06 Kayla Gries ’08 to Casey Kiehl Melissa Kemps ’08 to Bradley Zuleger ’08 Caitlin Olsen ’08 to John Fraser Elizabeth Chapin ’09 to Seth Breitenfeldt Ashley Ferraro ’09 to Mathew Gruentzel

The Lean Team: UW-Green Bay crew helps kids eat right When the Green Bay Boys and Girls Club expanded its fitness program to include lessons in good nutrition, it called on UW-Green Bay’s dietetic internship program to help.

that is both nutritious and tasty, and easy for them to make at home. The goal is to provide tools and motivation for children to make healthy choices, and not just “because mom told me to.”

Every Tuesday, Casey McKenzie and three of her fellow students lead kids in an evening of games, physical activities and simple lessons on healthy living. “We try not to structure the classes like a lecture — they get enough of that at school,” says McKenzie. “Our main focus is to help them understand the link between eating the right foods and staying active.”

As a dietetic intern, McKenzie is prepping for the Registered Dietitian Exam. The 37-week internship program is but one aspect of a rigorous certification process.

She makes sure that when the youngsters snack, it’s something

UW-Green Bay assigns its students to settings that include hospitals, long-term care facilities, a college cafeteria, public school food-service operations, community health clinics, a Native American health center, and UW-Cooperative Extension agencies. Areas of study include medical nutrition therapy, food service and community nutrition.

Sarah Jadin, Casey McKenzie, Kim Beyer and Jessica Schroeder try to get local school— Story by Paul Mee, editorial intern, children to realize that eating right and exercising can be fun. The four are students in Marketing and University Communication UW-Green Bay’s dietetic internship program.

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Just add water: Alumni volunteers aid 8,000 runners Join us Sunday, May 16, as approximately 8,000 marathoners and half-marathoners pass our way during Green Bay’s Cellcom Marathon. The Alumni Association staffs a water station from 7 to 10 a.m. before we head to the finish line for food and refreshments. It’s a great time, and volunteers receive a free t-shirt. Call or e-mail to volunteer, at (920) 465-2586 or alumni@uwgb.edu.

It’s time for the annual Scholarship Golf Outing Enjoy a day of golf and fun with fellow graduates and friends in the 30th annual Scholarship Golf Outing. Proceeds benefit student scholarships. The event is Friday, June 11, at Royal Scot Golf Course in New Franken. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. The cost is $80 for an individual and $320 for a foursome. We can pair you up, if needed. The day includes a putting contest, 18 holes of golf with power cart, lunch, raffle, hole events, hors d’oeuvres reception and more. Prizes awarded for team play, low gross and low net (using a handicap scoring system). Want to donate a prize or sponsor a golf hole? Contact the Alumni Office at (920) 465-2586, or alumni@ uwgb.edu.

See you at the ballpark Your Alumni Association will be gathering for two baseball games this summer: • The Wisconsin Timber Rattlers host the Burlington Bees at Fox Cities Stadium, Grand Chute, at 6:35 p.m., Saturday, June 26. Tickets are $8.50 each. Tailgating in Grid #9. • Tuesday, Aug. 10 is UWGB Alumni Night at Joannes Stadium, Green Bay. The Bullfrogs host the Wisconsin Woodchucks at 7 p.m. Tickets are $10 each and include your admission, a Bullfrogs hat, and a hot dog and soda voucher. Watch the alumni calendar of events for details and updates. Or contact the Alumni Office at (920) 465-2586, or alumni@uwgb.edu.

To affinity…and beyond! The Alumni Association partners with nationally recognized, pre-approved companies to offer discounted products and services to UW-Green Bay graduates. These are called affinity programs. Often, when a graduate takes advantage of the offer, a fee/donation is made to the Alumni Association from the partner company. Plus, the personal savings can be substantial. Find out more at www.uwgb.edu/alumni/benefits.html. To name just a few: • Go Next Travel – first-class overseas trips to Europe and Asia • Bank of America – credit card www.uwgb.edu/alumni/creditcard.html • Liberty Mutual – home and auto insurance • American Insurance Administrators – group life insurance, health insurance and financial services plans • Phoenix Bookstore – 10% off in-store and online gift apparel purchases • Three Green Bay Area hotels – offer discounted rates

A scholarship for your little Phoenix? Apply by July UW-Green Bay-bound students who are following in the footsteps of their parents, step-parents, legal guardians or grandparents can apply for the Alumni Association’s Legacy Scholarship. One $2,000 scholarship starting the 2010-11 academic year will be awarded. The application is due at 4 p.m. Friday, July 30. Selection will be made by Friday, August 6, 2010. All application materials are subject to verification by the Alumni Association. Call (920) 465-2586, or e-mail alumni@uwgb.edu with any questions. Award criteria and an application can be found at www.uwgb.edu/alumni/benefits/scholarships.asp.

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Congratulations to ‘distinguished’ and ‘outstanding’ alumni honorees

Three UW-Green Bay alumni were selected for recognition as “distinguished” and two young alumni were deemed “outstanding” in advance of the 2010 Alumni Awards Night on campus Saturday April 17.

Jason Hellwig ’96, an attorney with Winston & Strawn Law Office in New York, and Sam Huber ’03, a teacher in the Milwaukee area school district and founder and president of Eco-Runner, are the outstanding recent alumni. Selected to receive distinguished-alumni status were Patricia Finder-Stone ’73, a retired nurse and community activist in

Band gigs, video game design, surgery? It’s all new for you with summer camps for all ages Is summer your favorite time of year? It is for alumna Mona Christensen ’80 and ’96, UW-Green Bay director of camps and conferences. She says to watch for new class opportunities in the music and art camps including adding drummers to Guitar Camp so students can experience ‘real-life’ band gigs, and the additions of Video Game Design and Silk Painting to Art Camp. Innovation and Inventors’ Camp and Life’s a Lab Camp will bring exposure to trends in innovation and careers in medical science. In Life’s a Lab Camp, with partner Bellin College, students will take biology and anatomy classes in the morning and take tours of an emergency room, radiology clinic, physical therapy and sports medicine facilities, and if scheduling allows, a viewing of a live surgery. Adult camps include Grandparents University, Arts Enrichment for Adults, and Spanish Immersion for Professionals. For more on all of the Outreach and Extension sponsored camps, visit their website, www.uwgbsummercamps.com.

Stay connected! New job? Change of address? Got married? Update us on your latest happenings. It’s just a click away --- www.uwgb.edu/ alumni/updates/ or send us your information by mail, attention Mark Brunette. Don’t be a lost alum!

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local and statewide organizations; Betty Amuzu, M.D. ’83, an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology with the UW Medical School and long-time friend to UW-Green Bay; and Tim Nixon ’87, an attorney and shareholder in the Green Bay law firm Godfrey & Kahn and a team leader of business finance and restructuring practice group.

Find us on Facebook and LinkedIn Don’t be left out. Your Alumni Association is using Facebook and LinkedIn in a big way. Jobs, networking, events, photo sharing and more. The first step is to visit our website and sign up for the UWGB alumni group.

Upcoming Alumni events

APRIL Sat. 17 –

Alumni Awards Night, Weidner Center

Fri. 23 –

Alumni Earth Caretaker Award presentation, The Meadows

MAY Fri.-Sun. 7-9 – Alumni Family and Friends Weekend, Wilderness Resort, Wisconsin Dells Sat. 15 –

Commencement Reception, 8 to 10 p.m. Titletown Brewing, Green Bay

Sun. 16 –

Alumni Association at the Cellcom Marathon, 7 to 10 a.m.

JUNE Fri. 11 –

Alumni Association Annual Scholarship Golf Outing, Royal Scot Golf Course

Sat. June 26 –

Alumni and Friends at the Timber Rattlers Baseball Game

JULY Thurs.-Fri. 8-9 – Grandparent’s University Fri. 30 – Alumni legacy Scholarship Application Due AUGUST Tues. 10 –

Alumni and Friends at the Bullfrogs Game

Endowment gives life to library A new endowment will provide needed financial assistance to the heart of UW-Green Bay â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the David A. Cofrin Library.

Strategically located at the heart of the

University, the Cofrin Library was established as the lifeblood of learning on the UW-Green Bay campus. Now, an endowment created by

Dr. Debra

Ann Reilly

Dr. Debra Ann Reilly, sister of UW-Green Bay

Prof. Clif Ganyard, and his wife, Cofrin Library Director Paula Ganyard, will help secure its viability for years to come.

To read the full story about the Robert L.

Ganyard Library Endowment, the vision for its

use, and the man behind the heartfelt gift, go to www.uwgb.edu/inside/1004/ganyard

Do you have a love of libraries and learning? Please consider a gift to help grow the

Robert L. Ganyard Library Endowment.

www.uwgb.edu/giving

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. S . P ‘Bay Badgers,’ anyone? Exactly forty years ago, UWGB students chose the fiery Phoenix (inset) as the new school’s permanent mascot. Sent to the ash can were the Bay Badgers nickname and the weird, water-skiing Bucky logo, which survives in the UW-Green Bay archives only as a single, felt pennant. Is there any pre-Phoenix memorabilia in your attic? We’d love to see it. See page 13.

PARENTS: If this issue is addressed to your son or daughter who no longer lives at home, please notify UW-Green Bay Alumni Relations of the correct address. PHONE: (920) 465-2586 E-mail: alumni@uwgb.edu

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