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’43 group gathers Six graduates from the class of ’43 have gotten together for the past decade to reminisce their days at La Crosse State. The group includes, from left, Marge (Craig) Reinhard, Watertown; Roselee (Wheeler) Belden, Racine; Jane Gray, Marshfield; Maxine (Gunderson) Nobiensky, Janesville; Marge (Brandt) Kerr, Portage; and Georgia (Storzer) Gipp, Naples, Fla. ’62Louise Regelin, Genesse, Idaho, has been elected 2002-03 governor-elect of the Pacific Northwest District Kiwanis. George Schubert, Waupaca, had a chapter published in the book, “Cooperstown 2002, Baseball & the American Culture.” Joan (Barwind) Hinchcliffe, Elm Grove, is semiretired from Marquette University where she is a supervisor for student teachers. ’64Fred Peterson, Wausau, retired in June of 2002 after 38 years of teaching fifth and sixth grade at John Marshall Elementary School in Wausau. Parsram Thakur, Berbice, Guyana, recently retired as a professor of psychology at the New England Community College of Rhode Island. He was asked to be the director of the University of Guyana Berbice campus, his native area. He is accompanied by his wife, Jean Marie (Lemke) Thakur, who is from La Crosse. ’66Kaye Knutson, Sturgeon Bay, celebrated her second year with Target Co. after retiring from Wisconsin Rapids School District after 35 years. ’69Ruth (Brozek) Rush, Valparaiso, Ind., has retired from teaching physical education at the School Town of Highland (Ind.) after 34 years. Karen Cowles, San Rafael, Calif., has started her own human resource consulting practice, Interim Solution, after a 23-year career with a global firm in San Francisco. Michael, ’69, and Sandra (Dahl), ’71, Manegold, have moved from Texas to Clinton, Conn. Michael is a global product manager for Henkel Loctite Electronics. Jim Finn, ’60 & ’70, La Crosse, was promoted to director of financial aid at UW-La Crosse in 2002 after serving as interim director for 18 months and associate director since 1976. ’70Jacqueline Glassman, San Francisco, Calif., is still living and working in San Francisco and watches the Green Bay Packer games at the “Bus Stop.” ’71Michelle (Mushy) Kegel has retired from teaching 7th grade science and is on her way recovering from a life-changing, closed-head injury. She winters in Arizona and would love to hear from La Crosse friends. ’72Tony Tanke, Davis, Calif., has been elected to the California Academy of Appellate Lawyers, an organization of about 100 active attorneys who specialize in arguing cases in the higher courts. Debra (Huebner) Martin, has moved back from Florida and built a new house among family and friends in Wisconsin. ’75Mike Miller, Oconomowoc, is a full-time anchor/reporter for WISN TV, channel 12, in Milwaukee. He co-anchors the weekend early evening and late newscasts, and provides special reports for the weeknight newscasts and local programming projects. Miller joined WISN as a La Crosse Ties Renewing state college ties These alumni received two-year rural teaching certificates from La Crosse State Teachers College in 1948. In July, they returned to La Crosse to reminisce and catch up on the 55 years since they left. Those able to attend included, from left, Floyd Larson, Taylor; Ruth (Salzwedel) Everson, Sparta; Mary Lou (Zeman) Brown, Black River Falls; Grace Zastoupil, Tomah; Betty (Smith) Blystad, La Crosse; Adolph Lindahl, La Crosse; Elaine Schmitt, Steuben; Loris (Waldenberger) Griffin, West Salem; Delores (Hesselberg) Olson, Bangor; and Grace (Oedsma) Richardson, Holmen. summer fill-in anchor in June, following a 13-year stint as morning and midday co-anchor at WTMJ-TV, channel 4. Marcia Stribling, ’75 & ’85, Las Vegas, Nev., has been employed by the State Bar of Nevada since Sept. 2003 as a law-related education coordinator. Kathy Mount McKinley, Grand Junction, Colo., is starting a new career with Polk City Directories and will be the field representative for Mesa County. ’76Deanna (Lutz) Loewenhagen, Waunakee, has been named “Professional of the Year” for 2002 by the International Right of Way Association, Badger Chapter 17. A relocation specialist for the state of Wisconsin Commerce Department since 2000, Loewenhagen helps agencies comply with Commerce Code 202. Loewenhagen was an advanced real estate specialist in the Bureau of Real Estate at the Department of Transportation from 1985 to 2000. ‘Queens’ for the day Alumnae from the class of ’62 where the “queens” for the day when they boarded the Mississippi paddlewheeler, the La Crosse Queen. The group returned in July for a mini-reunion. They included: Bonnie (Shockey) Michaelis, Baraboo; Sherry Smith, Milwaukee; Corine Hill, Lodi; Anita (Vita) Myette, Kirkland, Wash.; Bette (Reinicke) Kroeber, Green Bay; Judy (Smith) Ristow, Eau Claire; and Karen (Bach) McDowell, Dallas, Texas. UW-La Crosse Alumnus/Winter 2003-04 21
La Crosse Ties Sorority holds reunion The Zeta Omicron chapter of Delta Zeta Sorority of UW-L celebrated its first reunion Aug. 1-3, 2003, with representatives from nearly every pledge class in its history on campus. Around 80 alums and family members traveled to La Crosse to reminisce with sorority sisters who joined Delta Zeta as far back as 1961. Organized to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Delta Zeta National Sorority, the reunion was considered to be a remarkable feat because the Zeta Omicron chapter has been closed at the UW-L campus since 1986, says Debra (Gruszecki) Brown, ’76. With no sorority house and scattered records, it took nearly three years to assemble the group. The gathering included a banquet, ceremony, golf scramble, boat cruise on the Mississippi River, campus tour, night on Third Street, a hike and a farewell brunch. Because the Zeta Omicron Chapter Association of the Delta Zeta National Sorority is ongoing at UW-L, sorority members decided to hold a reunion Karen Malmquist, Mc Donough, Ga., is associate director of career services at Georgia State University. She loves her move to the south and reports “no more stiff joints from the cold!” Debbie Hinchcliffe, Beecher, Ill., continues to teach at Homewood-Flossmore High School in Illinois. ’77Margaret Ewert, New Port Richey, Fla., has retired from teaching in Wisconsin after 36 years of art education. She has moved to Flordia to relax and start free-lance writing and drawing. Linda L. Miller, Onalaska, has been inducted into the Wisconsin High School Golf Coaches Association Hall of Fame after coaching boys golf for six years and girls golf for 24 years at Onalaska High School. Linda and her son, Brad, won the state of Wisconsin Mother and Son Golf Tournament in 2002 and 2003. Gregg Yowell, Overland Park, Kan., has entered private law practice in Lawrence, Kan. after 11 years with Apple Computer. Brock, his son, is a first year cadet at the U.S. Air Force Academy. ’78 Bart, ’78 & ’83, and Pamela (Johnson), ’83 & ’89, Gray, have moved to Kansas City. Bart is athletic director and head track and cross country coach at McPherson College. He had been athletic director at Peru (Neb.) State College. In June 2003, he was named the Midlands Collegiate Athletic Conference Athletic Director of the Year. Pam has been a physical education professor at Peru State for two years and was named 22 UW-La Crosse Alumnus/Winter 2003-04 Duncan license plate holder Duncan Cameron, ’69, sports UW-La Crosse on his 2004 Porsche Cayenne. Although the Iowa resident can’t have UW-L vanity plates like his Wisconsin classmates, he can have a university license plate holder. Cameron, CEO and chairman of Vanguard Distributing Corp. in Davenport, serves on the UW-L Foundation Board of Directors. head cross country coach there in 2002. As assistant track and cross country coach at Lindenwood University in 2001, she coached a national champion in the NAIA Men’s Marathon. Still a competitive runner, Pam is one of the top female runners in the Midwest. In October of 2001 she won the Gobbler Grind Marathon in Kansas City, Mo. ’79Scott Gilbertson, Galveston, Texas, has become the Robert A. Welch Distinguished University Chair in Chemistry and director of the program in chemical biology at the University of Texas Medical Branch. ’80Greg Biese, Appleton, is currently employed by Jabas Group Inc. and has been promoted to senior benefits consultant. Richard Hinchcliffe, Jr., Greeley, Colo., is Battalion Chief for the Greely County fire department. Sharon Krueger, Earlysville, Va., has been hired as assistant men/women’s swim coach at the on the first week of August every three years. Heidi (Mierendorf) Ludkey, ’73, and Beckey (Robinson) Romanesko, ’69, spearheaded committees to make the reunion possible. “Smaller groups of our sisters have reunited over the years, but this weekend was Zeta Omicron’s first big affirmation that Delta Zeta is forever,” says Ludkey. “Personally, I just missed seeing my sisters, and knew that any efforts to reunite us would be time well spent. I underestimated the rewards.” University of Virginia. Both programs are top in the nation and are currently training three postgraduates for the 2004 Olympic games. Sam Robinson, Waunakee, left the position of band director at Waunakee High School, and was associate principal at Lodi High School for a year. But, he missed music and the classroom and has returned to his previous position of band director at Waunakee. ’81Dan Saftig (see photo) became president and CEO of the Iowa State University Foundation July 1. He had been vice president of marketing and communications for the Minnesota Medical Foundation at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. Dan Saftig Milwaukee alums remain loyal to La Crosse A group of alumni living in Milwaukee has been getting together monthly for the past 26 years. The “La Crosse GNO (Girl’s Night Out) Group includes: Front, from left, Cindy (Chimiel) Kinzel, Jane (Habicht) Mandli and Pat (Greenwaldt) Grulke, all ’76; Back, from left, Cathy (Butrym) Kwapick, ’77; Linda (Rice) Lasser, ’76; Karli (Willi) Markel, ’77; Diane Knake, ’76; and Darlene (Smith) Markle, ’76. Three — Lasser, Markle and Grulke — have daughters currently attending UW-L.
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