Home, sweet home UW-Green Bay halls and apartment buildings, noted here by style, affectionate student nicknames (‘I live in ‘Ted’), year opened, and capacity:
& now “These are tremendous facilities,” former housing director Glenn Gray told a reporter in 2009. “Truly state-of-the-art… the quality of the construction, the quality of the furnishings… the students just love it.” UW-Green Bay’s resident population exceeded 2,100 with the completion of 126-bed Keith Pamperin Hall in 2009.
In honoring UVHI contributor Pamperin, the project came full circle, in a sense. He was one of the first students to live on-campus, in the old Bay Apartments. He graduated from UW-Green Bay in 1970 with a degree in Urban Analysis.
amenities — a private bathroom for every two-person room — that gave UWGB’s Residence Life complex a competitive advantage. The first cluster of four halls opened in 1985. New freshmen enrollment increased 14 percent that fall, and total enrollment topped 5,000 for the first time. In the years that followed, with student rent proceeds fueling construction, six more 60-bed buildings went up, to be followed by seven more, even larger. The newer facilities offer apartment-style suites, each with private bedrooms, private bathrooms (of course), living room and kitchen.
The Shoe Tree It has long been tradition for graduating seniors to target a large oak tree near campus housing. They knot the laces and toss their used footwear high into the tree’s branches, symbolically leaving a “footprint” at UWGB.
Residence Halls Arlene Walter Hall ‘Arlene,’ 1985, 60 beds Josephine Lenfestey ‘Josie,’ 1985, 60 Byron Walter ‘Byron,’ 1985, 60 Ted Lenfestey ‘Ted,’ 1985, 60 R.E. Small 1987, 60 Cletus Vanderperren ‘Cletus,’ 1987, 60 Robert Warren 1987, 60 Donald Long 1989, 60 Bob Schaefer 1989, 60 James Temp 1989, 60 Roy Downham Hall ‘Roy,’ 1994, the original “super dorm with 194 beds Contemporary Apartments (“The Contemps”) John Robishaw Hall 1997, 113 Donald Harden 1998, 113 Ed Thompson 2002, 122 Richard Liebl 2003, 122 Tom Haevers 2004, 122 Keith Pamperin 2010, 126 Traditional Apartments “The Trads” opened fall 1970, 62 students per building. Originally numbered 101-109, they now have street addresses. 3312 3314 3316 3318 3322 3324 3326 3332 3334
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