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Places of
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A grand reopening of a
renovated Taylor Hall
marks one of many
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A Publication for UW Oshkosh Alumni, Faculty, Staff and Friends
F E A T U R E S
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Places of Distinction
State-of-the-art facilities, instructional programming
and student lifestyles force the campus to
grow in new and exciting ways. With special
segments on instructional technology, page 12,
and science facilities, page 16.
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International
Education
International students from
across the globe find a home
at UW Oshkosh.
19
Alumni at Work
From Peabody Awards
to frightful feats, UW
Oshkosh alumni are
making their mark.
20
People of Pride
Behind the scenes, Jo Ann Rife and
Chuck Hermes help create a better
campus.
STUDENT NEWS 3 CAMPUS NEWS 5 ACHIEVEMENTS 21 TITAN SPORTS 24 CAMPUS CALENDAR 28 ALUMNI NEWS 29
Chancellor
Richard H. Wells
Editors
Natalie Johnson
Heidi Heidenreich ’92
Provost &
Vice Chancellor
Lane R. Earns
U n i v e r s i t y M A G A Z I N E S T A F F
Art Director
Sara A. Jolin ’95
Foundation President &
Executive Director of
University Advancement
Thomas W. Keefe
Susan Neitzel
Photographer
Dylan Stolley ’98
Interim Director
University Relations
Natalie Johnson
Director
Alumni Affairs
Christine M. Gantner
Contributors
Frank Church, Sheryl Hanson, Lori Kroening ’89,
Marie Martin ’00, Susan Nuernberg, Grace McMurtrie,
Joshua Ranger
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From the CHANCELLOR
his issue of UW Oshkosh Magazine
features UW Oshkosh as a Place of
Distinction. One of our guiding,
strategic directions at UW Oshkosh is to
enhance the scholarly and physical environment
we provide for teaching excellence,
active learning and dynamic curricular programs.
I would like to share with you a few
examples of how enhancing UW Oshkosh’s
infrastructure has benefited people, places
and programs.
We recently remodeled the Polk Library Archives to add a
new reading room and to expand storage space. The enhancement
of this facility makes it easier for patrons to use our collections of
old newspapers, photographs, maps and other historical materials
about our community.
A new partnership between the Wisconsin Historic Records
Advisory Board and UW Oshkosh has resulted in the creation of
the Wisconsin Archives Mentoring Service (WAMS), which
matches volunteer archivists with Wisconsin libraries, museums,
local historical societies, art galleries, private firms and other
institutions that hold historical collections. By helping individuals,
organizations and institutions to improve the preservation of
their historical collections, the new WAMS partnership heightens
our ability to extend the reach of our intellectual and specialized
capabilities
The facility, once known as Titan Stadium, is being transformed
into the Oshkosh Sports Complex for football, soccer,
track and field, baseball, softball and intramural competition.
Through a partnership between UW Oshkosh, the Oshkosh Area
School District and the Unified Catholic Schools of Oshkosh, the
facility will become home to Oshkosh’s middle school, high school
and collegiate athletes who will benefit from this distinctive, multiseasonal,
multipurpose, lighted complex.
As an added bonus to Oshkosh and the Fox River Valley,
the Oshkosh Sports Complex recently was chosen as the 2007
and 2008 home for the NCAA Division III men’s and women’s
outdoor track and field national championships. We anticipate
attracting other regional and national athletic championships and
events to the new complex in the future.
In an historic first, the city of Oshkosh’s industrial development
corporation, Chamco, has agreed to assist UW Oshkosh with
the purchase of the vacant Cub Foods store on Witzel Avenue.
This acquisition allows us to move our Facilities Management Center
to the Fox River’s opposite side, making room for the construction
of a new $48-million academic building on campus.
The partnership between UW Oshkosh and Chamco is
mutually beneficial. It enables the University to move ahead with
plans for the new building that we need to help offset a shortage of
214,000 square feet of campus academic space. Since the University
is the city’s largest employer, its enhanced scholarly and physical
environment will ensure that it continues to provide a highly
educated workforce for Oshkosh and the Fox Valley.
I hope you will take pride in reading about our engagement in
these community projects and agree with me that they make UW
Oshkosh—the Fox Valley’s public service University—a Place of
Distinction.
Richard H. Wells, Chancellor
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he new Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Petra
Roter, center, is just one of many the recent
additions to the campus community. Roter saw
the investment in building projects as one of many good
reasons to be at UW Oshkosh, both from a faculty and a
student perspective. Shown with her are two students of
distinction, Eric Stetler and Sarah Edbauer, in front of
the newly renovated Taylor Hall.
Stetler, a junior from Blue River, is triple majoring in
accounting, finance and Spanish. A four-year Academic
Excellence Scholar
and a member of the
Honors Program,
Stetler represents UW
Oshkosh as a College
of Business Ambassador
and an Odyssey
Captain for the
orientation program.
While maintaining
his impressive 3.94
grade-point average, he
works about 35 hours
per week in a local real
estate investment firm
and as a management
universiTy
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A grand reopening of a
renovated Taylor Hall
marks one of many
physical changes on
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information office computer technician. He recently was
awarded the John E. Kerrigan Scholarship.
Edbauer, a junior from Kingsford, Mich., is an
elementary education major with minors in math and
French. She chose UW Oshkosh for its outstanding
education program. In addition to being a University
Honors Program student on the Dean’s List for four
semesters, she was awarded the Excellence in French
Language Award for 2004-2005 and was inducted into
Kappa Delta Pi, the education honor society, in 2004.
Edbauer works as a Residence Life leadership development
specialist, a University Honors Student Association
activities director, a Big Brothers/Big Sisters School-
Based mentor and as a volunteer at South Park Middle
School.
UW Oshkosh is committed to following
“green,” or earth-friendly, principles.
In October, the University hosted
the largest Earth Charter community
summit in the world. Everything
from expos on clean energy and “green” business
to wolves in Wisconsin and “Wars, Energy, Global
Climate Change and the Environment” were part of
the fifth annual event.
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UW Oshkosh helps Katrina victims
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ive students attending universities closed by Hurricane
Katrina have been guaranteed admission
and a residence hall room at UW Oshkosh. The
university has hardship funding to cover the out-of-state
portion of the tuition for up to 12 students displaced by
the storm.
In addition, the UW Oshkosh
Foundation has set up a
Student Hurricane Katrina
Relief Fund to help students
transferring to UW Oshkosh
because of the hurricane.
In September, UWO violinist
Klara Bahcall and pianist
Eli Kalman, Madison,
presented an evening of
“Arts for Life” to raise
funds for hurricane victims.
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Amanda Wolf, center, a junior from Antigo majoring in
biology, and Stacy Isferding, a junior from Burlington
majoring in chemistry, take a study break with Chancellor
Richard H. Wells, during the spring 2005 Chancellor’s
Midnight Breakfast at Blackhawk Commons.
More than 160 UW Oshkosh student leaders and staff
volunteered to help 16 community programs as part of
the annual Residence Life Day of Service. The day was
fueled in part by a spring 2005 student survey that said
UWO students want to volunteer even more. The agencies
assisted by student volunteers included Winnebago
County Literacy Council, Oshkosh Recreation Department,
Oshkosh Humane Society, UW Oshkosh Head
Start, Oshkosh Meals on Wheels, Oshkosh Public
Library and Lutheran Homes of Oshkosh-Bethel Home.
Managers of a UW Oshkosh student-investment fund
must have learned something when the high-tech
bubble burst four years ago. Their Student-Managed
Endowment Fund has outperformed the Standard and
Poor’s 500 for the last three years. Student-Managed
Investment Fund managers are Adam Bremberger,
West Bend; Andrew Debroux, Fond du Lac; Melanie
Degener, Kenosha; Anna Kovalenko and Cliff Moll,
Oshkosh; Matt Stolen, Edgerton; and Erin Walterman,
Racine.
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UW Oshkosh physics students soared above most
of the competition in the Wisconsin Space Grant
Consortium’s first Student Rocket Design Competition
in spring 2005. UW Oshkosh was the only team
to get a perfect 15-point score for performance. Team
members constructed a two-stage missile that was
launched more than a mile into the sky and parachuted
safely back to earth. Three students received a $1,000
grant from the consortium to build the two-stage missile.
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In May, the philosophy department presented students
Benjamin Zamzow, Green Bay, and Tabitha Zehms,
De Pere, with the 2005 Socratic Award. Philosophy
faculty, from left, included Alice Kyburg, Larry
Herzberg, Ronald Cordero, David Gilboa, Larry
Carlin and Marshall Missner.
Four UW Oshkosh students have been awarded a 2005
Chancellor’s Award for Excellence. Bridget Bell
of Green Bay is a biology/premedicine major with a
minor in Spanish. She wants to become a pediatrician
who cares for children with cancer or blood disorders.
Nardalyn Johnson of Oshkosh has excelled academically
in management information systems and nursing.
She graduated in May with degrees in both majors. She
enrolled in the College of Nursing’s intensive, one-year
accelerated nursing program while completing work
in the accelerated nursing assistant program with the
Center for Community Partnerships. James Rudolph
of Oshkosh received bachelor’s degrees in education and
athletic training in May. His goal is to become a high
school science teacher and athletic trainer. Rudolph has
been inducted into the international education honor
society, Kappa Delta Pi, and recognized on the Dean’s
List or Honor Roll every semester. Hoang Tran of
Milwaukee is majoring in business administration, with
an emphasis in computer science. Inducted into Beta
Gamma Sigma in 2003, he received the business honor
society’s scholarship the following year. He has received
the College of Business Alumni Association Scholarship
and has been on the Dean’s List for eight semesters.
Seniors with high academic and leadership qualities are
eligible for the award.
Eighteen UW Oshkosh graduating seniors each received
a 2005 UW Oshkosh Leadership Award. Selection
is based on a minimum grade-point average of 3.0 and
involvement in at least five campus and community
activities. Recipients included: Jessica Berndt, Oxford;
Jennifer Biddick, Madison; Stacey Boehnlein, Antigo;
Melanie Degener, Kenosha; Stephanie Doepker,
Appleton; Linda Garbisch, Granton; Loribeth Golner,
Waukesha; Jack Jenke, Brookfield; Kelly Michelle
Kent, Oakfield; Michael Perry, Janesville; Tracy Reich,
Mishicot; James Patrick Rudolph, Oshkosh; Nicholas
Rusch, Brownsville; Michael Stevens, Oshkosh;
Ali Mahmood Syed, Nyderabad, Pakistan; Hoang
Minh Tran, Milwaukee; Lindsey Wolf, Franklin; and
Tabitha Zehms, De Pere.
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UW Oshkosh geology professor Daniel Lehrmann, left,
with researcher Hiroyoshi Sano of Kyushu University
and some of the rocks they collected with UW Oshkosh
student David Follett and a researcher from Harvard
during field work last winter in Japan. Lehrmann and his
student researchers have collected data showing that a
sudden increase of carbon dioxide, probably caused by a
massive eruption of volcanoes, caused the greatest mass
extinction of life in world history. Lehrmann’s cuttingedge
research also has taken him and his students to
China, Turkey and Indonesia.
Beth Heuer, director of affirmative
action and human resources at UW
Oshkosh, received the 2005 Regents
Academic Staff Award for Excellence
from the UW System Board of
Regents in Madison. Her efforts in
sexual harassment awareness training
and fostering diversity have helped
unite the campus.
The new Living Healthy Community Clinic held its
grand opening on June 8. It is the result of a unique
collaboration that included hundreds of thousands of
dollars in support from Mercy Health Foundation,
Affinity, Aurora and ThedaCare. The clinic, which has
served the uninsured of Winnebago County for 10 years
outgrew its former location on the UWO campus. The
unique collaboration has created a clinic with seven, fully
equipped exam rooms, a lab room and teaching space.
Petra Roter was named UW Oshkosh’s
vice chancellor for student
affairs. Roter had been dean of
student development and academic
services at UW-La Crosse since 2000,
leading 13 campus units, with nearly
180 staff members and an annual
budget of more than $15 million.
She also served as dean of students.
Before that, she was director of student life programs
from 1995 to 2000 at Indiana State University in Terra
Haute.
Biology/microbiology Department
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utstanding achievements have earned the UW
Oshkosh biology and microbiology department
the 2005 UW System Board of Regents Teaching
Excellence Award for departments and programs.
The department’s faculty members have brought millions
of dollars in lab improvements, research grants and
contracts to UW Oshkosh for projects that have helped
communities throughout Wisconsin. Teaching and
research in the department has prepared students to excel
at international conferences, rise to the top in graduate
school and quickly advance in careers. The honor
includes $5,000 for professional development. It is the
sixth Teaching Excellence Award won by UW Oshkosh
faculty members and departments since the award was
established in 1992.
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UW Oshkosh theatre department playwright Richard
Kalinoski’s play Beast on the Moon was named one of
five must-see plays by the New York Daily News. The
play has earned rave reviews, and its run at New York’s
Century Theater was extended through Labor Day. The
New York Times commented on the play’s importance
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other student and community volunteers, staged the
successful event.
Frederick Yeo has been named dean
of UW Oshkosh’s College of Education
and Human Services. Yeo had
been the department chair at Southeast
Missouri State since 2000 and an
education faculty member there since
1996, when he earned a doctorate in
education at the University of North
Carolina Greensboro.
Longtime Kimberly-Clark Corp.
executive Linda Bartelt has been
named director of the UW Oshkosh
Center for Community Partnerships.
The appointment is a significant
development for the nonprofit
organization serving the university
and region. Bartelt also will teach in
the university’s College of Business.
The UW System has approved a UW Oshkosh proposal
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Recent issues of UW Oshkosh Magazine have explored
our campus’s distinctiveness as it manifests itself
through our alumni, faculty and colleges. But anyone
who has spent any time at UW Oshkosh
in recent years can see that
we are building distinction
through our surroundings,
too. As we explore
the physical
structures that
define us,
we find that
we’ve carved
out many . . .
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BY HEIDI M. HEIDENREICH
On UW campuses statewide,
there is a definite flavor to the
buildings. Built as baby boomers began
their exodus from home to higher
education, many classrooms and
residence halls sprang up in the 1950s
and 1960s to meet growing demand.
By 1970, the population exploded to
about 10,250 students from the 1950
enrollment of 792, at what was then
called Wisconsin State University
Oshkosh.
In the decades that followed,
building project funds simply were
unavailable to modernize, expand and
adjust with the times. The buildings
started to feel dated, and members of
the campus community found themselves
surveying their surroundings
to declare, “We need a campus that
reflects our promise and culture!”
Some daunting challenges faced
UW Oshkosh. Over time, class offerings
expanded, and normal wear and
tear began to take its toll. More savvy
students demanded better facilities and
greater amenities. Campus parking became
an issue for students and faculty
alike. And drastic budget cuts loomed
ominously over each biennium. If UW
Oshkosh was going to build itself into
a campus worthy of the 21st century
and six Regents Distinguished Teaching
Awards, there were serious hurdles
to clear.
Growing pains had hit the campus.
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Oshkosh State Normal
Oshkosh Normal
Built 1871
Expanded 1894,1900
Destroyed by fire 1916
In addition to donating the land, the city
of Oshkosh gave $30,000 toward the
construction of the building, paid for
through a special tax levy. The balance
of the $43,000 building was paid for by
the state through the sale of state-owned
swamp and overflowed lands. Local
architect William Waters, who designed
the Oviatt House, the Wall House and
the Grand Opera House among many
others, designed the original building.
The building funds did not provide
enough to furnish and run the school,
however, so the building sat vacant for a
year. For most of its 46 years, it served
the majority of the school’s needs, with
many additions turning it into an unyielding
structure of twisted hallways and
stairwells. Most of the building was slated
for demolition before a fire destroyed it.
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“At UW Oshkosh, we embrace
the integration of the three Ps:
people, place and program,” Chancellor
Richard H. Wells said. “We are
always striving to provide first-rate
facilities for our quality people and
programs.”
Quality programs and innovative
services bring credibility to the
campus, but also pose challenges. For
instance, the College of Nursing’s
Living Healthy Community Clinic
(LHCC), which provides primary care
services for Winnebago County’s uninsured,
saw huge growth
in the number of patients
served over recent years.
While the people served
received needed medical
and nursing attention and
the students involved got
great hands-on service,
the facility—cramped and
hard to find in a remote
corner of the Nursing
Education building’s basement—struggled
to be
enough for all people.
Beyond the actual
space in the facility, patients
struggled with what
so many on campus find
a primary problem: parking.
And patient surveys
revealed that they felt
intimidated if they had to
reach their appointment in
between classes when students
swarmed the halls.
So a new, off-campus facility,
placed in an unused healthcare office
on Doctor’s Court, offered plenty of
parking and a building that allows
patients a covered drop-off space.
Moreover, there is no concern about a
mob of students hurrying to their next
class.
Although one healthcare facility
replaced another, logistical and
structural changes were necessary. Like
so many other “campus” buildings,
the new Living Healthy Community
Clinic needed to have updates to
comply with Americans with the Disabilities
Act (ADA) and other codes.
Simply widening doors to make them
handicapped accessible meant relocating
electrical service or plumbing,
which meant moving cabinetry and
countertops.
What should have been simple
updating turned into major overhauls.
Facilities management is accustomed
to these challenges, which make their
jobs exciting.
And the programming and
outreach rewards for their efforts are
plentiful. North of Milwaukee, UW
Oshkosh’s LHCC is the only such
Steve Arndt inspects the steam line and condensate
construction project along High Avenue.
clinic to offer total healthcare planned
and managed by nurses and nurse
practitioners. Although medical doctors
and other volunteers collaborate
to make the program successful, most
healthcare decisions are between the
nurse practitioners and their patients.
With great space in which to practice,
the nursing practitioners offer invaluable
experience to the students studying
with them.
“The students can’t buy the
experience they get interning with us,”
said Leona Whitman, director of the
Health Place Nursing Center. “This
clinic provides a unique academic
role for the students to work with
clients who come from all walks of life,
from the homeless to workers without
benefits—a population that often
presents multiple health concerns.”
This kind of community service,
educational opportunity and citywide
outreach exemplifies the university
mission, and offers tangible rewards
for the capital funds invested.
But the new Living Healthy
Community Clinic is just one need
among many—many programs, many
students, many buildings. In order
to best serve the community and the
students, changes needed to be made.
And the challenge of which program
and facility most needs attention can
be daunting.
Steve Arndt, director of facilities
management, says that for decades
little attention had been given to the
physical needs of campus beyond
necessary maintenance. The UW
System’s budget simply was stretched
too thin for the state’s 13 campuses
to address their needs for much-needed
physical infrastructure. As a result,
UW Oshkosh’s last major new building
was Kolf Sports Center in 1971.
Even “simple” projects, like the relocation of the Living
Healthy Community Clinic to unused space on Doctor’s
Court, can involve plenty of expense and logistics.
At left, the waiting room undergoes a makeover to
become an attractive space (below).
“Each new building, which costs
$30-$50 million, requires the UW
System to carefully evaluate the needs
and priorities of each campus and the
System as a whole,” Arndt said. “There
just are not the funds to fulfill every
need.”
So the Space Planning Committee,
made up of UW Oshkosh deans and
senior administrators, was formed to
help get decision-makers more closely
linked to the challenges at hand. This
group of visionaries makes decisions
about the direction campus buildings
need to take to meet educational and
community objectives.
While the money for new buildings
comes from the capital funds
accounts, all agency funding provides
$10-$12 million annually for repairs
and renovations to existing facilities.
These funds help to address the
ADA shortfalls, such as remodeling
the Nursing Education Building’s
restrooms that did not allow wheelchair
accessibility, a project this past
summer; cosmetics, like replacing the
metal fascia on Kolf Sports Center;
Auditorium
Built 1888
Demolished 1933
This structure was initially built as a gym,
the first of its kind in the Wisconsin
Normal System. It was later used for
classrooms, then storage, until the 1916
fire pressed it into service as the school’s
auditorium.
Gymnasium
Built 1907
Demolished 1961
When opened in 1909, it was the state’s
second largest gymnasium. For a period
after the 1916 fire, it was used as classroom
space. The building was torn down
to make room for Polk Library.
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Harrington Hall
Built 1912
Renovated 1937, 1947 and 1964
Built to address what was seen as a
need to increase industrial education in
the U.S., the building was used to teach
drafting, woodworking, metallurgy and
electricity. In 1912, Industrial Education
became its own department in the
school. The program closed in 1937,
when Stout Institute strengthened its
role as the state’s preeminent manual
training facility. Harrington was used as
a science classroom facility—until Halsey
was opened in 1964—when it was renovated
for geography and geology.
The Barracks
Built 1917
Demolished 1928
This temporary building was quickly built
after the 1916 fire. It was originally used
for primary and intermediate grades of
practice school and later used as barracks
for the Oshkosh unit of Students’
Army Training Corps on campus. It was
condemned after Gov. Fred Zimmerman
toured the building during a rainstorm,
only to witness students moving their
desks to avoid substantial leaks from the
ceiling.
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Teaching with Technology
by Lori Kroening
In his 30-plus years of teaching instructional technology in the UW Oshkosh College of Education and
Human Services, Henry Winterfeldt’s typical classroom equipment has evolved from filmstrip
and slide projectors to scanners and laptops. Winterfeldt lobbied for purchase of the first computers
in the college years ago, recognizing their potential for classroom use.
College funding and UW System support to modernize labs helped those first computer stations develop
into a well-equipped facility on the second floor of the Nursing/Education Building. Here, Winterfeldt
continues to teach his instructional technology class and write grants to keep the resources
up to date, as does his colleague Susan Cramer. Methodology courses in specific disciplines also
are taught in this room.
Emphasis is not placed on learning how to operate the equipment, which includes computers, scanners,
DVD burners, laserdisc players, a VCR, 15 workstations and 10 laptops. “Today’s students
certainly know how to operate a VCR … but there is such a ‘disconnect’ between the technology
students use at home and the amount they use in the classroom,” Cramer said.
The courses taught here focus on “how to integrate technology into lessons and into the curriculum,”
Winterfeldt explained. The future teachers learn to create WebQuest projects that require
their students to use both Web-based and traditional materials to gather information. They may ask
their pupils to research how to create a refuge for an endangered native animal, including the correct
dimensions of an enclosure, habitat, proper diet, activities common to the animal, and a budget for
keeping the refuge up to date.
Cramer has taught the instructional
technology class
in another computer lab,
but finds the unique design
and flexibility of the N/E 202
classroom key to its value.
Long tables in the center
of the room provide work
space, while a ring of tables
around the perimeter hold
computers with ample room
for collaborative work. An
instructor at the front of the
room can see all the computer
monitors, observing
each student’s progress.
Given the ever-advancing
field of technology, Winterfeldt
and Cramer try to
replace the equipment in the
classroom every three years
in order to stay current.
Henry Winterfeldt shows senior Lindsay Pascarella, a special
education major from Oshkosh, how technology can enhance
teaching methods.
Many students wish they had taken the class sooner so they could have applied their newfound skills
in their other classes. Some software programs, like iMovie, which allows students to create their
own movies, are so addicting they are deliberately introduced later in the semester.
In addition to learning technical skills, students’ creativity is stimulated. Cramer described one
student’s foreign language tutorial project—suitable for language students of any age—that used the
face of a cat. As the user clicks on various parts of the cat’s face, the corresponding Spanish word is
displayed, along with a helpful audio of the correct pronunciation.
Examples of student projects can be viewed on Susan Cramer’s website at http://asimov.coehs.uwosh.
edu/~cramer/
and safety, like the sprinklers
and elevators installed in the
high-rise residence halls, Gruenhagen
and Scott.
“These jobs are not as exciting as a
brand-new building, but the upgrades
are necessary, regardless,” Arndt said.
A driving force in long-range
facility planning is accommodating
the needs of contemporary students.
When their parents went to college,
they counted themselves fortunate if
they had an electric
typewriter; word
processors, if they
were available at all,
were largely located
in a few scattered
campus computer
labs. Modern
students are raised
to be wired every
moment of the day
with cell phones,
personal digital
assistants, iPods
and laptops. The
days have come
when not only do
incoming freshmen
have to adapt to
life at college, the
university needs to
address the lives of
those freshmen and
the student body as
a whole.
The problem does not end with
meeting students’ needs outside the
classroom. The campus also strives to
address curriculum-driven changes, too.
When athletic training became
a major in 2002, Kolf Sports Center
was renovated, specifically designed
to provide state-of-the-art facilities
for students studying in the program.
While UW Oshkosh had offered
a minor in athletic training since
1977, more stringent requirements to
become involved in this allied health
field required stepped up curriculum
to become an accredited program,
preparing our students to pass the
board-certified exam necessary to get
employment.
Student Grace McMurtrie buys a
cappuccino from Mi Taza To Go,
Clow’s “grab and go” café. Convenience
and lifestyle are considered in building
expenditures, and UW Oshkosh
administration works to cater to
changing student needs.
Upgrading the space created
a facility designed to support the
major. And the top-notch facility has
increased the attention—and enrollment—of
well-qualified, high school
and transfer students across the state.
The major, with coursework
that focuses on human anatomy and
physiology, attracts these ambitious
students. Their presence in general
education classes affects the motivation
and work quality of their peers.
By raising the bar
of achievement in
the classroom, the
athletic training
majors create a
domino effect of
excellence.
“The enrollment
of first-year
majors has doubled
for our program,”
said Hal Strough,
director of athletic
training education.
“Most visiting
students, parents
and other athletic
teams specifically
mention the
facility as firstrate.
I’ve seen the
quality of students
improve each year
with regards to
their ACT scores,
grade-point averages, life experiences
and desire to be at UW Oshkosh
before other schools.”
The new facility offers clinical
space and offices that are located near
each other, a major concern for the
faculty and students in the program.
Strough said that the facility has
simplified his job considerably. He can
recruit potential majors more easily
and give them the proper attention
when they are enrolled in the program.
Enrollment is at more than 100
students.
“Facilities are a significant factor
in a program like ours: Our facility
conveys that students will get a quality
experience,” Strough said.
Dempsey Hall
Built in three sections:
1917, 1918 and 1969.
Dempsey was built after the 1916 fire.
The frontage seen along Algoma Boulevard
was the first section built—the
foundation apparently was in place
prior to the fire—for the science and
administration wing. The second wing
was the library wing. The war effort,
which banned state building construction
unless it supported the war, may have
delayed the final construction phase for
the northeast part of the building.
1928 Oshkosh State
Teachers College
Swart Hall
Built 1926–1928
Renovated 1967 and 1990
Built as a practice school and theater, the
building worked to remedy the decaying
classroom facilities on campus. Amid
controversy of too few funds available
to properly heat and furnish the building,
it was finally opened as a state-of-theart
facility—noted as one of the top
six training schools in the U. S. The
building served as home to more than
1,000 Army Air Corps recruits between
1942-1943.
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1951 Wisconsin State
College Oshkosh
Albee Hall
Built 1954–1955
Renovated 1990–1991
Albee was built by the state in response
to a big shift in the school’s mission
when it broadened its curriculum beyond
teacher training to liberal arts and preprofessional
programs.
Reeve Memorial Union
Donated 1949
Renovated 1959, 1963–1964,
1988 and 2001
Mary Fraker donated her family home
to campus to be used as a social center
that would be named after her father,
Thomas T. Reeve. When it opened in
September 1951, it had a snack bar
and small bookstore, a lounge with a
television and radio and four dormitory
rooms for female students. In 1956, the
front of the current building on Algoma
was constructed. Increasing campus
population necessitated tripling the size
in 1963-1964 with 60 new rooms and a
bowling alley. In 1988, meeting and dining
areas as well as the mall entrance were
updated. The 2001 renovation offered
a state-of-the-art facility with expanded
amenities, dining, improved bookstore
and expanded, flexible meeting spaces.
The university’s commitment
to becoming an environmentally
friendly campus adds another
facet to the building and updating
initiatives. Looking to protect the environment
and conserve resources, UW
Oshkosh works to be a green leader
within the Division of State Facilities.
These efforts may be as simple as
replacing conventional light switches
with daylight-sensitive switches or as
complex as building plans that include
intricate storm water runoff and utility
plans and provisions for recycling old
building materials, such as the asphalt
from the tennis courts being ground
up for the parking ramp that will be
built next year.
“People commonly
think that going ‘green’
adds significant costs to
a project, but it really
doesn’t,” Arndt said.
“And when we redesign
rather than rebuild, as
we did with the recent
updates to the Taylor
Hall project, we have a
great building that does
what we need it to do at
half the cost of starting
over.”
When Reeve Memorial
Union celebrated its renovation
and reopening in 2002, its expansion
from 98,000 to 163,000 square
feet showed exactly what $19.5 million
and a vision could do for an existing
building. The expanded union blossomed
into a cultural and social center
for the campus community, offering
a student involvement and leadership
center, bookstore, copy center,
theater/teleconference center, 730-seat
multi-purpose room, art gallery, new
food court, credit union office, coffee
house, massage center and hair salon.
These sorts of facilities offer the
amenities and environment that encourage
prospective students and faculty
to want to be part of this campus.
No longer rushing interviewing job
candidates and high school juniors and
seniors past dimly lit bowling alleys
Residence Halls
1952 Radford Women
1957 Webster Women
1960 Clemans Men
1962 Breese Men
1962 Donner Women
1963 Taylor Women
1964 Fletcher Men
1965 Evans Women
1965 Nelson Men
1965 Stewart Women
1966 Gruenhagen Coed
1967 Scott Coed
in the dark recesses of the old union,
those charged with bringing newcomers
to campus can take pride in the
growth and development.
“The campus building projects and
expansions of facilities open the door
to many new and exciting possibilities
for the campus and its students,” said
Petra Roter, the new vice chancellor
of student affairs.
Taylor Hall, which opened its
doors this fall to a $13-million renovation,
is the first of the nine residence
halls to be renovated. Taylor needed
to be brought up to code and updated
for today’s students. In addition to
adding an elevator to make the building
handicapped-accessible and new
recap
fire alarms and sprinklers, Taylor Hall
has thermostat controls in each room,
and—unlike any of the other residence
halls—air conditioning. The updates
offer contemporary, airy common
spaces and much more livable rooms at
half of the cost of a new building.
“The Residence Life program at
UW Oshkosh has an outstanding
national reputation and is known for
being student-centered and developing
an engaging community in the halls,”
Roter said. “The refurbishment and
retrofitting of Taylor Hall and future
plans for other projects is further proof
of how the campus understands and
responds to changing student needs.”
Recognizing the needs of the
students and how UW Oshkosh was
addressing them was one of the attractions
for Roter herself in taking on
Liz Cannon, left, Women’s Center director, enjoys a conversation with students Erika Stueber, center,
and Lori Hardgrove. The new Women’s Center, designed with plenty of warm and inviting open areas
for meeting and study, is part of what used to be the Newman Center. Now called the Foundation
Center, it also is home to the Division of Academic Support.
her new role at the University. The
value of this investment impressed her
and made her want to be a part of the
changes.
“We plan to work our way through
the residence halls,” Arndt said. “We
have $14.5 million in renovations
planned for Fletcher Hall similar to
the Taylor project. Scott and Gruenhagen
halls’ new sprinkler and elevator
installations, projects that cost $4.7
million, offered the first step in our
plans to make the halls safer for and
more appealing to their occupants.”
The Foundation Center, which
opened in 2004 in the former Newman
Center building, offers tasteful
and flexible space for both the Division
of Academic Support and the
Women’s Center, providing gathering
and study spaces to support students.
Other campus projects, either
planned or ongoing, include continued
improvement to the Oshkosh Sports
Complex (see page 24), a new 430-
space, parking ramp on the site of the
current tennis courts, a student support,
development and referral center
and a student recreation and wellness
center.
“Students expect that we will
strive to provide the most modern
and up-to-date facilities that we can,
and our planning efforts respond to
this expectation,” Arndt said. “The
planned student support center offers
a robust response to student concerns
in advising and counseling, and the
new student recreation and wellness
center will address the fitness amenities—weights,
aerobics, dance, exercise
track—that students look for.”
The most ambitious project on
the horizon, however, is a $48-million
academic building. The 150,000 squarefoot
building will be built along the
Fox River and become home to the
College of Business and several College
of Letters and Science departments.
Polk Library
Built 1961–1962 (80,524 sq. ft.),
1969 (122,667 sq. ft)
Built to replace the library housed on
the second and third floors of Dempsey’s
southwest corner, it was designed for 10
years of growth. The population growth,
however, forced the addition’s construction
to begin early. This building also
finalized the idea of a central pedestrian
mall running across campus.
Halsey Science Center
Built 1962–1964, 1966
(Buckstaff Planetarium), 1969
Renovated 2003
Halsey was the first building solely
dedicated to instruction since Swart. In
1965, funds were approved to add the
northern section, as well as additions
to Polk and Dempsey and construction
of Kolf and the Fine Arts Building (Arts
and Communications Building), all part
of a $52.5-million system construction
program.
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University Oshkosh
Clow Social Science
Center and Clow Faculty
Built 1965–1966
Three years after being named a full state
university with a master’s program and
15 years after its expansion into liberal
arts, the Oshkosh campus was finally able
to construct a building to help support
the huge change in academic mission, and
it doubled the number of classrooms on
campus.
Grants fund science success
by Frank Church
The world needs scientists—to discover new medicines, save the environment and advance technology,
among other things—and UW Oshkosh has the right stuff to train them: outstanding science programs and
state-of-the-art research equipment.
Since 1997, two UW Oshkosh departments have won the prestigious UW System Board of Regents Teaching
Excellence Award. Chemistry won it in 1997. The biology and microbiology department won it this year.
Just two examples of new science research facilities at UW Oshkosh are:
• the National Science Foundation/Robert E. Moore Proteomics and Functional Genomics Core Facility, and
• the new Aquatic Research Laboratory.
Both include equipment funded by the
NSF’s Major Research Instrumentation
Program, which is highly competitive.
It’s rare for a school the size of UW
Oshkosh to win two such grants so
close to one another.
Established in 2003, the proteomics
facility received $400,000 from the
NSF. It has become a center in the Fox
Valley for the exploration of the next
frontier of genomics research.
“Few undergraduate institutions have
these types of research tools,” Todd
Sandrin, microbiology professor, said.
“In many ways, it puts us in a league of
our own.”
The new tools include a mass spectrometer
that identifies and characterizes
proteins, a key element of genetics
research. In Wisconsin, only UW
doctoral campuses in Madison and
Milwaukee have similar instruments.
UW Oshkosh microbiologist Todd Sandrin, left, and recent
microbiology graduate Eric Kracht at the matrix-assisted,
laser desorption-time of flight-mass spectrometer, part of
the university’s National Science Foundation/Robert E.
Moore Proteomics and Functional Genomics Core Facility.
Kracht is a research microbiologist with a local company.
Looking to create an environment
that encourages student
and faculty collaboration, the design
plans promise a graceful, timeless
design and state-of-the-art classrooms
and labs. The facility will build for
academics what the updated Reeve
Memorial Union and J. J. Keller Field
at Titan Stadium did for the social and
athletic sides of campus life: a sense of
pride and purpose.
With all the development—
residence halls, health and wellness,
clinical space, social gathering spots,
athletics and advising—it seems only
appropriate that the new academic
building should serve as UW Oshkosh’s
crown jewel.
“Not only will the new academic
building provide state-of-the-art
classrooms and labs for students and
faculty campuswide, but the additional
space also will mean opportunities for
expansion and renovation of current
facilities to benefit the entire campus
community,” said Sue Neitzel, Interim
Foundation President. “The project
is an investment for the future—the
future of UW Oshkosh, our community,
northeastern Wisconsin and the
state.”
Chancellor Wells’ vision of UW
Oshkosh as a quality place for education
is coming alive with the demolition
and rebuilding of old structures
and ambitious plans for new ones.
That vision is turning into reality—
a very distinct place, indeed.
1971 University of
Wisconsin Oshkosh
Arts and Communication
Building/Frederick March
Theatre
Built 1971
This building presented unique challenges
to planners and designers. The faculty,
which had been improperly housed
across campus, were eager to ensure
their programs proper space and facilities.
Two full years of discussion with the
architect were required before the various,
unique needs of musical programs,
different art media, speech therapies,
dramatics and broadcast programming
were cast into a design that suited them.
With another $260,000 grant from a different NSF fund, UW Oshkosh this year began a summer research
program at the proteomics facility for undergraduates. Nearly 50 students from campuses nationwide applied
for nine spots. Most came from Wisconsin, but others came from Missouri, Illinois and Montana.
Nursing/Education Building
Built 1970
The creation of the new nursing major in
1968 was paired with a decision to build
the program a facility. A federal grant
helped with the construction funds. The
nursing sections of the building were
designed to duplicate hospital and clinic
environments and were opened in 1971.
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The students worked with UW Oshkosh scientists and a biochemist from Lawrence on current research.
“This was one of the most rewarding experiences I’ve had, because so many of these students are at a crossroads
in their lives and in their education,” Sandrin said. “Some said the experience here was life-changing, in
terms of their future education and training.”
Some also said they want to enroll as undergraduate or graduate students at UW Oshkosh.
With more than $500,000 from NSF and the state, the first of a two-phase remodeling project was completed
this fall at the Aquatic Research Lab. Director Michael Lizotte hopes funding for a second, $300,000 phase will
be approved soon by the State Building Commission.
About half the equipment for the lab has been purchased, but most of it will remain at Halsey Science Center
until the second phase is finished. It includes sophisticated units that use sound waves and laser beams to
measure water flow and particles in streams and rivers. Both will help monitor pollution and explain changes
in aquatic food chains that could help preserve fish populations.
“When it’s finished, the lab not only will advance research to help area communities but also educate people
of all ages about area waterways and even incubate waterway business development,” Lizotte said.
Sue Neitzel, interim Foundation president , is proud
of the future of UW Oshkosh,
especially when it means additions to the campus like the new
academic building, shown here in artist’s rendering.
Kolf Sports Center
Built 1970–1971
Renovation 2002
When Albee was built, enrollment was
just below 1,400 students; by the time
Kolf was opened, it had exploded to
almost 12,000. At first, Kolf was used for
men’s sports and Albee was dedicated to
women’s sports.
Special thanks to Joshua Ranger, university
archivist, for creating this timeline. Ranger’s website
that features UW Oshkosh’s historic homes is at:
http://www.uwosh.edu/archives/househistory/
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International students from across the globe find a home at UW Oshkosh.
hey come from 46
countries, and each
of the 75 international
students attending
UW Oshkosh has a different
story to tell. But there’s
one thing you can say about
all of them.
“They’re something
special for our students,”
said Bryan Mylrea, international
student adviser.
Most students come from
within 200 miles of
Oshkosh, he said, and
may not ever have been
further away from home
than ‘Up North.’
“Students from Pakistan,
Japan and Rwanda
bring a much different
experience,” Mylrea said.
“Knowing them can make
the world a little bit smaller for our students.”
That’s why the campus is making such an effort
to attract more international students. Mylrea and the
university’s new Office of International Education are
stepping up efforts to get the word overseas on what a
good educational opportunity UW Oshkosh offers.
They also are taking steps to make the campus more
inviting to international students, including educational
sessions where faculty and others can learn about the
special challenges facing students from overseas. Mylrea
and the International Student Association (ISA) are
increasing efforts to help students who encounter problems
when they get here.
“The biggest challenge we face is letting people
abroad know we’re here and how great our programs
are,” Mylrea said. Steps being considered include advertising
in overseas publications, giving materials to the
increasing number of UW Oshkosh students and faculty
studying overseas to distribute to prospective students
and setting up recruiting tours for foreign students.
Alex Zinoviev came to the U.S. five years ago from
just north of Vladivostok in far eastern Russia. Living
with a host family, he adjusted quickly as an exchange
student at Oshkosh West High. After graduation, he
enrolled at UW Oshkosh, despite getting scholarship
From left, Bintou Cole, a nursing major from The Gambia;
Mayumi Yamasaki, an English major from Japan; and Florin Hae,
an operations management major from Romania, share information
about their homelands during International Student Association
Week activities at Reeve Memorial Union in April.
offers from several schools,
so that he could remain
with his host family and
save money.
As an exchange student,
adjustment was easier for
Zinoviev. An “A” student,
his biggest challenge at UW
Oshkosh has been getting
too involved. He’s in activities
all over campus, and he
takes a lot of extra classes.
“I’ve squeezed everything
I could possibly
squeeze out of this place!”
said the senior marketing
student, who plans to
attend graduate school.
Akiko Sinozaki came
from Japan in 1998 as an
exchange student in Beaver
Dam, and she studied in
Iowa before transferring to
UW Oshkosh to major in social work. She now works as
an intern for state Sen. Carol Roessler of Oshkosh.
“My experience here has been great,” she said.
“People are very understanding, and I was surprised how
many know about Japan and its culture.”
Both Sinozaki and Zinoviev have been heavily involved
with the ISA. Not so much because they needed
the guidance and mentoring of other ISA students, but
because they knew how important it was for students
new to Oshkosh.
As president of ISA, Zinoviev organized social activities
for new students. With Sinozaki as ISA president
last year, the group held an International Education
Week, International Week activities for Asian Heritage
Month, trips to Chicago and Appleton, cookouts and
other social events.
“Both international and American students get
involved,” she said. “It’s a great place to get to know
people, a really fun organization.”
International students aren’t just having fun at UW
Oshkosh.
“In general, these students are the cream of the
crop,” Mylrea said. “They have a nearly 100-percent
graduation rate. All-in-all, we have a group of very welladjusted
international students here.” —Frank Church
Interior Architect
Jo Ann Rife, facility designer
Fluorescent lights,
not the limelight,
define Jo Ann Rife’s
work. And furniture,
ergonomics, ADA
compliance, durable
and chemical resistant
fabrics and finishes.
As a facility
designer, Rife plans
and oversees some of
the interior spaces on
campus. And with all the renovation and expansion, this
is no small feat.
A facility designer looks at the interior structure and
creates plans to best implement functional space, while
complying with building codes, the Americans with
Disabilities Act (ADA) regulations and challenging
budgets. While her responsibilities may include choosing
fabrics and furniture that will be functional and
aesthetic, Rife decidedly is not an interior decorator.
“I work more like an interior architect.” Rife said.
Redesigning the space can be something as simple as
changing out cabinets or as complex as knocking down
walls and relocating electrical and plumbing.
“Each day is different,” Rife enthused. “I redesign a
faculty office space one day and help construct a healthcare
facility the next. Each day has new challenges.”
She has worked on the athletic training facility, the
Women’s Center and the registrar’s and advisement
center’s redesign.
Rife was an integral part of redesigning the new
Living Healthy Community Clinic that opened recently
on Doctor’s Court. While it seems a simple process—
opening a clinic in what had previously been used as a
medical building—it was actually quite an undertaking.
“Just one issue at the new facility was that the doors
were not ADA compliant,” Rife said. “To make the
doors wide enough, we had to relocate them. Which
meant that we had to relocate the cabinets and countertops,
electrical and plumbing.”
Steve Arndt, director of facilities management, has
many dedicated people in his planning department. “Jo
Ann is a perfect example of the work ethic and dedication
shown by the department as a whole,” he said.
—Heidi M. Heidenreich
People of Pride
Building Super
Chuck Hermes, building and grounds superintendent
It doesn’t even
remotely rival what
happened along
the Gulf Coast, but
Mother Nature also
paid a nasty visit to
UW Oshkosh this
summer.
Luckily, Chuck
Hermes was in charge
of that relief effort.
When a downpour
hit Oshkosh and flooded Kolf Sports Center, it
did plenty of damage. Acting quickly, superintendent
of buildings and grounds Hermes got his crews working,
found a used transformer to replace one that was
disabled in the storm and fixed the damage.
Later in the summer, a construction project shut
down bathrooms in the Nursing Education Building.
That’s bad enough, but then a waterline for Clow Social
Science Center and Clow Faculty ruptured and the elevator
in Clow Social Science Center went out, both just
before fall classes were scheduled to begin in September.
Some might have called in the National Guard, but
not Hermes!
It took a few days to find and install a new motor for
the elevator, a few more to get the waterline fixed. But
it all got done before classes began. The only inconvenience:
staff had to walk further for a bathroom.
Emergencies happen, but Hermes and his crew,
numbering about 110, are good at coming to the rescue.
“He’s got a great attitude in a very demanding job,”
said Steve Arndt.
Hermes, 47, worked as an electrician at Kiel & Warner,
Neenah, and UW-Madison before coming to UW
Oshkosh in 1989. He moved up fast, becoming superintendent
about six years ago.
“He’s gotten where he has because of his outstanding
work ethic and because he works so well with people,”
Arndt said. “He’s very good at dealing with contractors
so they provide the campus with quality work.”
Thankfully, the Little Chute native also likes a challenge.
“I’ve asked him to do many things, and he’s never
once objected,” Arndt said. “He’s eager to learn and
improve.” —Frank Church
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TV-film alumni are
shooting for the stars in
California.
At least 35 alumni in California
are bolstering the business of
major networks and companies,
such as ESPN, Sony Imageworks,
Dreamworks, Paramount
Pictures, Turner Network
Television and Universal Studios
on productions like Hollywood
Squares, Fear Factor, Extra! and
The Howie Mandel Show.
Married in spring 2005,
grads Brad Carr (’01) and
Deborah Nelson Carr (’00) are
freelancers in television and film
production.
Deborah, a native of Sand
Creek near Eau Claire, recently
hit it big as the coordinating
producer for the Peabody Award-winning film, Rwanda:
Do Scars Ever Fade?, which documents the 1994 genocide
in Rwanda and the challenge of reconciliation its
people face 10 years later.
“What is so bracing about Deb’s success and the
success of alumni like Bill Povletich, who pack a social
or political charge to their work, is that it proves you
can be rewarded for following your conscience instead
of ignoring it,” said radio-TV-film program coordinator
Doug Heil.
The Bill Brummel Productions crew produced
Rwanda for The History Channel and was honored
on May 16 at the 64th Annual Peabody Awards. Carr
and her husband attended the star-studded event with
the production company executives and other History
Channel executives.
The Peabody Award, considered the broadcast and
cable industry’s most prestigious prize, recognizes distinguished
achievement and meritorious public service
by stations, networks, producing organizations and
individuals.
Carr’s “happy mix” of responsibilities for the
documentary that received one of 32 Peabody awards included
lining up interviews, working with Kinyarwanda
translators, reviewing scripts and tracking down and
securing footage and photographs.
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Picture perfect success at Peabody Awards
At the 64th Annual Peabody Awards, Paul Freeman, left,
producer; Deb Nelson Carr (’00), coordinating producer;
and Bill Brummel, executive producer, were honored for
their work on Rwanda: Do Scars Ever Fade?
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William Povletich, a native
of Mequon, and a 1995 graduate,
served as the supervising
producer for the film. Povletich,
a 2003 recipient of the Outstanding
Young Alumni Award,
has been involved in several
award-winning productions.
Hired as an associate producer
for Fear Factor in 2001,
Brad Carr, a native of Oshkosh,
coordinates the more than
100-person crew on location.
“Today we’re in Los Angeles,
and tomorrow we’re in Long
Beach,” Brad said, “We’re constantly
moving.”
Fear Factor entered its sixth
season, with 125 episodes, and
has reached nationwide syndication.
Brad has tested some
famous Fear Factor stunts, even
riding a dirt bike on a highway between oncoming
semitrailers. He also
has worked on the
sets of Judging Amy,
Street Smarts and
Dismissed.
Brad and another
alum, Kevin
Wehrenberg (’93)
of Eau Claire, were
honorary marshals
for the Oct. 22 UW
Oshkosh Homecoming
Parade.
Wehrenberg, who
also bolsters Fear
Factor’s success, is
Fear Factor associate producer Brad
Carr (’01), left, and Kevin Wehrenberg
(’93) at Homecoming 2005.
a 2002 recipient of the Outstanding Young Alumni
Award.
Deborah advises students pursuing a career in radio,
television or film, to be active. “Who you know will get
you in the door, but the work ethic keeps you there,”
she said, “Seize the resources and opportunities at UW
Oshkosh. Don’t wait until your senior year. Explore!”
—Marie Martin
Publications
Joyce Andrews, professor, music, wrote review-essays on the following books:
The Cambridge Companion to the Lied, James Parsons ed.; Shakespeare’s Songbook,
by Ross Duffin; C.P.E. Bach and the Rebirth of the Strophic Song, by
William H. Youngren; and The Dickinson Songs of Aaron Copland, by Larry
Starr in Symposium, College Music Society, Vol. 45, fall 2005.
Laurence Carlin, assistant professor, philosophy, published “Leibniz and
Berkeley on Teleological Intelligibility” in History of Philosophy Quarterly,
Newport, R.I., fall 2005.
Michael Ford, associate dean, Education and Human Services, wrote “Light on
the Think; Heavy on the Tank: Confronting Pseudoscience in Advocating for
Best” in The Wisconsin State Reading Association Journal, spring 2005; also wrote
“Sinking Boats and Bad Haircuts: A Critical Look at the Relationship Between
(ADD) Pedagogy, Policy, Politics and Profits,” in The Wisconsin State Reading
Association Journal, winter 2005.
Michael Godfrey, assistant professor, operations management, coauthored
“Connect Time Limits and Customer Service Levels In A Dial-Up Modem
System” in the Journal of Network and Systems Management, summer 2005; also
coauthored with Brent Bandy, associate professor, operations management,
“Applying Little’s Law and the Theory of Constraints in Six Sigma and Lean
Projects To Improve Operations” in Six Sigma Forum Magazine, winter 2005.
Martin Gruberg, professor, political science, wrote chapters for The Encyclopedia
of the Supreme Court, David Schultz (ed.), Facts on File, Inc., 2005; “The
Politics of Disasters,” in Wisconsin Political Scientist, summer 2004, and chapters
for the Encyclopedia of Civil Liberties, eds. John Vile and David Schultz, Sage,
2005.
Margaret Hostetler, associate professor, English, wrote “The Characterized
Reader in Hali Meidhad and Resisting Reader of Feminist Discourse on
Medieval Devotional Texts” in The Journal of Historical Pragmatics, fall 2005;
and “‘Nimað eow bysne be þyssere Iudith’: Deictic Shifting and Didactic Christian
Discourse in Ælfric’s Judith” in Studia Neophilologica, 76, 1-13, 2005.
Jakob Iversen, assistant professor, information systems, coauthored “Problems
in Measuring Effectiveness in Software Process Improvement” in International
Journal of Information Management, winter 2005; also coauthored Measuring
Information Systems Delivery Quality, Evan W. Duggan (ed.), 2005.
Marianne Johnson, associate professor, economics, coauthored “Gender,
Expectations and Grades in Microeconomics” in Feminist Economics, Vol. 11,
No. 1, 2005.
Thomas Lammers, associate professor, biology and microbiology, coauthored
“Distributional Notes for the Flora of Wisconsin” in the Michigan Botanist 44:
1-7, 2005; also wrote “Revision of Delissea (Campanulaceae-Lobelioideae)” in
Systematic Botany Monographs, Christiane Anderson (ed.), Ann Arbor, Mich.,
fall 2005.
Daniel Lehrmann, professor, geology, coauthored “Permian and Triassic
Depositional History of the Yangtze Platform and Great Bank of Guizhou in
the Nanpanjiang Basin of Guizhou and Guangxi” in the South China Albertiana,
Vol. 33, pp.147-166, spring 2005.
Craig Maher, assistant professor, public affairs, coauthored “Categorical Municipal
Expenditures with a Focus on the Flypaper Effect” in Public Budgeting
and Finance, fall 2005.
Marie Martin, office operations associate, University Relations, wrote poem,
“Wrapped,” in The Fence, No. 6, Toronto, Canada, October 2005.
Ava McCall, professor, curriculum and instruction, wrote “SSH! We Don’t
Want to Mention it: Resistance To Addressing Poverty in Teaching” in the
Finding Solutions Newsletter, fall 2005.
Susan McFadden, professor, psychology, wrote “Creating and Sustaining Selfhood:
Autobiographical Memories From Early Childhood Through Old Age”
in The Gerontologist, 2005.
Soo-Young Moon, associate professor, marketing, wrote “An Analysis of Global
Retail Strategies: A Case of U.S. Based Retailers” in the American Academy of
Business, Cambridge, winter 2005.
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Baron Perlman and Lee McCann, professors, psychology, coauthored “Undergraduate
Research Experiences in Psychology: A National Study of Courses and
Curricula” and “Voices of Experience: Memorable Talks From the National
Institute on the Teaching of Psychology” in Teaching of Psychology, Washington,
D.C., fall 2005.
Kenneth Price, associate professor, mathematics, wrote “Generic Lie Color
Algebras” in the Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society, fall 2005.
Kenneth Price and Romain Coulibaly, associate professor and undergraduate
student, respectively, mathematics, wrote “Factorization in Quantum Planes” in
the Missouri Journal of Mathematics, fall 2005.
Barbara Rau, associate professor, human resources and interim associate vice
chancellor for Academic Affairs, wrote “Organizational Attraction of Retirees”
in the Bridge Employment Journal of Organizational Behavior, spring 2005.
Kelli Saginak and Alan Saginak, assistant professors, counselor education,
wrote “Balancing Work and Family: Equity, Gender and Marital Satisfaction”
in The Family Journal, spring 2005.
Stanley Sibley, professor, marketing, wrote “Readership of Free Community
Papers as a Source of Advertising Information: A Uses and Gratification Perspective”
in the Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, spring 2005.
Joan Lea Simmons, associate professor, reading education, and Joan Naomi
Steiner, assistant professor, reading education, with public school representatives
wrote “Reading Specialists as Change Agents: Practical Implications for PI
34 and Educator Standards,” Wisconsin State Reading Association Journal, spring
2005.
Quintin Sullivan, chair, social work, coauthored “TV Characters at Work:
Television’s Role in the Occupational Aspirations of Economically Disadvantaged
Youth” in the Journal of Career Development, winter 2005.
James Tsao and Gary Coll, professors, journalism, wrote “To Give or Not
To Give: Factors Determining Alumni Intent To Make Donations as a PR
Outcome” in the Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, 2005.
Michael Umlor, assistant professor, physics and astronomy, wrote “Uniaxial
Magnetic Anisotropy in Cobalt Films Induced by Oblique Deposition of an
Ultrathin Cobalt Underlayer” in the Journal of Applied Physics Letters, fall 2005.
Dana Vaughan, associate professor, biology, coauthored “Light-Induced
Exacerbation of Retinal Degeneration in a Rat Model of Smith-Lemli-Opitz
Syndrome” in Experimental Eye Research; also coauthored “Neural Plasticity
Revealed by Light-Induced Photoreceptor lesions” in the Proceedings of the
Ninth International Symposium on Retinal Degeneration, fall 2005.
William Wacholtz and Matthew W. Dodge, professor and undergraduate
student, chemistry, coauthored “Structural Characterization and Excited State
Properties of Luminescent Tris (3-methyl-5-trifluoromethylpyrazolato) Trigold
(I)” in the Journal of Chemical Crystallography, winter 2005.
William Wacholtz, professor, chemistry, coauthored “Structural Characterization
and Photophysical Properties of a Luminescent Trinuclear Zinc (II) Complex
Exhibiting Multiple Coordination Geometries” in the Journal of Chemical
Crystallography, spring 2005.
Robert Weber, professor, kinesiology and health, wrote “Fishing: A Lifetime
of Leisure Activity That Has No Boundaries,” and three articles all in Palaestra,
fall 2005.
Kam Wong, associate professor, public affairs, “From White-Collar Crime
to Organizational Crime: An Intellectual History” in the Murdoch University
Electronic Journal of Law, Vol. 12, No.1 and 2, 2005; “Computer Crime and
Control in Hong Kong” in the 14 Pacific Rim Law and Policy Journal, 337-382,
2005; and “The Discovery of Computer Crime in Hong Kong: A Case Study of
the Crime Creation Process” in The Journal of Information, Law and Technology,
2005.
William Wresch, professor, management information systems, coauthored
“National Competitive Advantage in E-Commerce Efforts: A Report From Five
Caribbean Nations Perspectives on Global Development and Technology,” fall
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William Wresch, professor, management information systems, coauthored with
J. Ben Arbaugh, professor, management, wrote “International Online Management
Education Courses: A Study of Participation Patterns” in The Internet and
Higher Education, spring 2005.
Awards and Honors
James Alderson, technical director, theatre, was elected vice president of the
Midwest section of the United States Institute for Theatre Technology, May
2005.
Bryan L. Bain, assistant director, undergraduate advising resource center, was
elected Council Member to the Oshkosh Common Council, April 2005.
Karen Bowen, student academic affairs officer, Letters and Science, was elected
to third term of the State Superintendent’s Charter School Advisory Committee
by the state superintendant, fall 2005.
Laurence Carlin, assistant professor, philosophy, won the Colin and Ailsa
Turbayne International Berkeley Essay Prize Competition sponsored by the
International Berkeley Society, fall 2005.
Sharon Chappy, assistant professor, nursing, won the Writer’s Contest Award
in the research category from the Association of PeriOperative Registered
Nurses (AORN), New Orleans, La., spring 2005.
Martin Gruberg, professor, political science, was a delegate at the Biennial
Convention of the American Civil Liberties Union, New Orleans, La., summer
2005.
Robert Hayashi, assistant professor, English, was elected to the panel on
“Innovations in Stewardship: What Stories Do We Tell?” at the National Park
Service Pacific West Region General Conference, Portland, Ore., summer 2005.
Daniel Lehrmann, professor, geology, awarded the SNC Manufacturing, Inc.
endowed professorship, Oshkosh, fall 2005.
Marie Martin, office operations associate, University Relations, was elected vice
president for programs, American Association of University Women, Oshkosh
branch, May 2005.
William Mode, professor, geology, was appointed to the Joint Board of Professional
Geologists, Hydrologists and Soil Scientists of the State Department of
Regulation and Licensing by Governor James Doyle, spring 2005; he also was
appointed a member of the Mapping Advisory Committee of the Wisconsin
Geological and Natural History Survey by State Geologist James Robertson, fall
2004.
Gail Panske, professor and department chair, art, had her piece “Templum:
Sequences” accepted for exhibition at Bakalar Gallery, Boston, Mass., fall 2005.
Kelli Saginak, assistant professor, counselor education, was elected vice president
elect of post-secondary education by the Wisconsin School Counseling
Association, 2005.
Burk Tower, professor, management and entrepreneurship, was named a Wisconsin
Idea Professor by the UW-System, fall 2005; also was given the American
Association for Leisure and Recreation Tommy Wilson Award, fall 2005.
Robert Weber, associate professor, kinesiology and health, was awarded the
Tommy Wilson Award for outstanding contributions to recreational programming
for individuals with disabilities at the American Alliance for Health,
Physical Education, Recreation and Dance National Convention, Chicago, Ill.,
spring 2005.
Presentations
James Alderson, technical director, theatre, presented “Tricks and Tips for
Teaching Stagecraft” at the annual meeting of the United States Institute for
Theatre Technology, Toronto, Ontario, spring 2005.
J. Ben Arbaugh, professor, management, presented “Nature or Nurture? Testing
the Direct and Interaction Effects of Entrepreneurial Orientation, National
Culture and Growth Strategy on Value Creation” at the annual Babson Kauffman
Entrepreneurship Research Conference, Wellesley, Mass., summer 2005.
Michael Ford, associate dean, Education and Human Services, presented “Successfully
Reaching All Readers: Differentiated Instruction in Literacy Programs”
at the Rearden Literacy Professional Development Workshop, Dubai United
Arab Emirates; “Are You Listening? Listening Comprehension as the Missing
Link to Reading Comprehension” at the International Reading Association
annual meeting, San Antonio, Texas., spring 2005; “Learning from Exemplary
Teachers” and “Success For All Readers: Differentiating Instruction through
Flexible Grouping,” at the annual NESA International School Teacher Conference,
Istanbul, Turkey, summer 2005.
Michael Godfrey, assistant professor, operations management, presented
“Teaching Supply Chain Coordination with Excel Solver” at the 16th Annual
Production and Operations Management Society, Chicago, Ill., spring 2005.
Martin Gruberg, professor, political science, presented “Lessons from Disasters”
and “Lenny Bruce and Howard Stern: The Politics of Being Offensive”
at the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences annual meeting; “Death from the
Air” at the Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting, Chicago, Ill.,
spring 2005; “Whither James Jeffords?: The Politics of Bolting” at the American
Political Science Association annual meeting, Chicago, Ill.; and “Faulty Intelligence”
at the annual American Political Science Association, Washington,
D.C., fall 2005.
Martin Gruberg, professor, political science, co-presented “People’s Choice
and Legislative Proscription” at the Wisconsin Political Science Association,
Milwaukee annual meeting, fall 2005.
Willis Hagen, professor, business law, presented “Theory and Techniques
for the Distribution of Income for Taxation of Multinational Enterprises” at
American Society of Business and Behavioral Sciences annual meeting, Las
Vegas, Nev., winter 2005; “Let’s Change the Alternative Minimum Tax” at the
North Atlantic Regional Business Law Association annual meeting, Boston,
Mass., spring 2005.
Marilyn Hart, professor, operations management, presented “Can I Trust the
Accuracy of Statistical Results from the Computer? How To Test the Accuracy
of SPC Software” at the Wester Decision Science Institute, Vancouver, Canada,
spring 2005.
Marianne Johnson, associate professor, economics, presented “Charitable
Organizations as a Substitute for Government: A Comparative Survey of the
U.S. and Estonia” at the annual Tartu Conference on North American Studies,
Tartu, Estonia, spring 2005.
Judy Lambert, professor, reading education, presented “Conceptually Driven
Assessment Implemented Throughout an Advanced Graduate Reading Program”
at the International Reading Association annual meeting, San Antonio,
Texas; and “Raising Literacy Standards: A Team Approach” at the annual Silver
Lake College Special Education Conference, Manitowoc, spring 2005.
Michael Lizotte, director, Aquatic Research Laboratory, presented “Exopolymer
Production in Arctic Sea Ice Diatoms” for the American Society for
Limnology and Oceanography annual meeting, Santiago de Compostela, Spain,
summer 2005.
Ronald Marks and Stanley Sibley, professors, marketing, “Distance Education
and Learning Styles: Some Interesting Results” at the International Applied
Business Research Conference, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, winter 2005.
William McConkey, director, marketing and community relations for Lifelong
Learning and Community Engagement, presented “Professional Interpersonal
Communication in the Workplace” and “In Teams We Are All Leaders: Principles
of Leadership, Leading People and Leading Changes” at Lutheran Social
Services, Appleton; “Bringing Out the Best in Other People” to Wisconsin
Funeral Directors Association, Sturgeon Bay; “Office Politics of Professional
Communication” to Mercury Marine executives, Green Lake, summer 2005;
and “Staying Positive” for Project Management Institute, Kimberly, fall 2005.
Susan McFadden, professor, psychology, presented “Dementia, Creativity and
the Defiant Power of the Human Spirit” at the First International Conference
on Creative Expression, Communication and Dementia, Vancouver, British
Columbia, spring 2005.
Jennifer Mihalick, associate professor, chemistry, presented “Thermochemistry
in Environmental/Biogeochemical Research: Metal Binding by Polysaccharides”
twice at the American Chemical Society annual meeting; once to the general
assembly and once to the Division of Physical Chemistry, San Diego, Calif.,
spring 2005.
William Mode, professor, geology, co-presented “A Sedimentary Record of
Late Glacial Events in the Fox River Lowland, East-Central Wisconsin” and
“A Diatom-Based Paleolimnological Study of Rush Lake, Wisconsin” at the
North-Central Section of the Geological Society of America annual meeting,
Minneapolis, Minn., spring 2005.
Soo-Young Moon, associate professor, marketing, presented “An Exploratory
Investigation on the Impact of Price in the Retail Grocery Market” at the Fifth
Annual Hawaii International Conference on Business, Honolulu, Hawaii,
spring 2005.
Jan Norton, director, Center for Academic Resources, presented “13 Ways
of Looking at a Learning Center” at the National College Learning Centers
Association Summer Institute for Directors of Tutorial Programs and Learning
Centers, Kenosha, summer 2005.
Jean Peterson, lecturer, mathematics, presented “Using an Animated Power-
Point Presentation to Teach Transformations of Functions” at the annual
Hawaii International Conference on Statistics, Honolulu, Hawaii, winter 2005.
Kenneth Price, associate professor, mathematics, presented “Math Majors in
Jeopardy!” at the Joint Meetings of the Mathematical Association of America
and American Mathematical Society, Atlanta, Ga., winter 2005; and “Generic
Lie Color Algebras” at Groups, Rings and Algebras: A conference in honor of
Donald S. Passman’s 65th birthday, Madison, spring 2005.
Barbara Rau, human resources and interim associate vice chancellor for Academic
Affairs, presented “Student Expectations and Preferences for Internship
Experiences: A Cross-Functional Analysis of Human Resources Versus Other
Business Majors” at the Fourth Conference on Innovative Teaching in Human
Resources and Industrial Relations, Salt Lake City, Utah, spring 2005.
Kelli Saginak, assistant professor, counselor education, presented “Support for
Transforming Your Program” and “Leadership with Administration: Securing
Administrative,” at the American School Counseling Association annual meeting,
Orlando, Fla., 2005.
James Simmons, professor, political science, co-presented “The Social Architecture
of Political Segmentation” at the Midwest Political Science Association
annual meeting, Chicago, Ill., fall 2005.
Joan Naomi Steiner, assistant professor, and Joan Lea Simmons, associate
professor, reading education, along with public school representatives, presented
“Reading Professionals as Change Agents: Practical Implications of PI 34 and
Educator Standards” at the Wisconsin State Reading Association annual meeting,
February 2005.
Robert Stelzer, assistant professor, biology and microbiology, and student Tara
Kent, presented “The Effects of Deposited Fine Sediment on the Growth and
Behavior of Physa Snails” at the North American Benthological Society annual
meeting, New Orleans, La., spring 2005.
Burk Tower, professor, management and entrepreneurship, and Susan
Schierstedt, director, Wisconsin Family Business Forum, presented “Do Family
Meetings Really Matter? Their Relationship To Planning and Performance
Outcomes” at the United States Association for Small Business and Enterprise
annual conference, Palm Springs, Calif., winter 2005.
James Tsao, professor and chairman, journalism, presented “Predictors for
Internet Usage of Adolescents” at the United States International Association for
Media and Communication Research annual meeting, Taipei, Taiwan, fall 2005.
Michael Umlor, assistant professor, physics and astronomy, presented “Magnetic
Anisotropy Induced by Deposition Angle” for the American Physical
Society annual meeting, Los Angeles, Calif., spring 2005.
Dana Vaughan, associate professor, biology, presented “Methanol Retinotoxicity
in the Cone-Dominant Ground Squirrel Retina,” “Effect of a Y9944 on
the Cone-Dominant Ground Squirrel Retina” and “Vulnerability of Rods and
Cones to Oxidant Stress May Be Related to Low Levels of Glutathione” to the
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology annual meeting, Ft.
Lauderdale, Fla., spring 2005.
Elizabeth Wade-Sirabian, associate professor, foreign languages and literatures,
presented “Deviled Eggs: In the Kitchen With a Late-Medieval Student of the
Darker Arts” at the 40th International Congress on Medieval Studies annual
meeting, Kalamazoo, Mich., spring 2005.
Robert Weber, associate professor, kinesiology and health, presented “Fishing:
A Lifetime Leisure Transitional Skill for Participants and an Opportunity for
University Students To Learn Administrative Skills” and “Kinematic Analysis
of the Jumping Pattern of a Female With Maple Syrup Urine Disease: A
Case Study” at the International Symposium on Adapted Physical Activity,
Verona, Italy, summer 2005; “Fishing: A Lifetime Leisure Activity That Has
NO Boundaries,” “Kinematic Analysis of the Jumping Pattern of a Male With
Sanfilippo B Syndrome” at the 34 th Midwest Symposium on Therapeutic
Recreation and Adapted Physical Activity, Springfield, Ill., spring 2005;
“Engagement: Student Learning While Serving Leading to Research” at the
American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance
National Convention, Chicago, Ill., spring 2005.
Peter Westort, associate professor, accounting, presented “The Impact of
Tax Preparers on Horizontal Equity” at the annual Western Region American
Accounting Association Meeting, Sacramento, Calif., spring 2005.
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William Wresch, professor, management information systems, presented
“I.T. Foundations for E-Commerce: A Survey of Executives in Five Carribean
Countries” at the 11th Annual Americas Conference on Information Systems,
Omaha, Neb., summer 2005.
Grants
The grants listed began between Dec. 31, 2004 and June 1, 2005, and represent
those projects that have received funding for $5,000 or more. They are listed by
project director.
Stephen Bentivenga, biology/microbiology, Plants and Soil Microbes, Year 2,
$21,695, National Science Foundation/University of Pennsylvania.
Lori Carrell, communication, UW System Office of Professional and Instructional
Development (OPID) Teaching Forum, $5,000, UW System OPID.
Rebecca Cleveland, nursing, Wisconsin Youth in Nursing, $7,400, Northeast
Wisconsin Area Health Education Center.
Rocio Cortes, foreign languages and literatures, Mexica-Tenochca Projections
and Reflections in the Colonial Period, $7,000, UW System-Institute on Race
and Ethnicity.
Craig Fiedler, special education, Refugee Teacher Training, $25,000, Wisconsin
Department of Public Instruction.
Michael Ford, Education and Human Services, UW System PK-16 TQI,
$19,304; Accelerated Licensing Program for Early Childhood Professionals,
$10,000, UW System.
Muriel Hawkins, division of Academic Support, PreCollege Programs,
$157,000, Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.
Toivo Kallas, biology/microbiology, Redox Regulation and Function-Quinone
Reductase Site, $119,826, National Science Foundation.
Stephen Kercher, history, Teaching American History, $55,982, CESA 6.
Greg Kleinheinz, biology/microbiology, Door County Beach Contamination
Project, $39,720; Door County Soil and Water Conservation Department;
$56,000, Door County Health Department; Transient Non-Community Well
Testing, $28,480, Vilas County Public Health Department; $5,280, Ashland
County Health Department; Beach Monitoring of Kewaunee, Ashland, Bayfield,
$33,450, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.
Richard Krueger, Center for Community Partnerships, UW Extension Small
Business Development Center, $84,556, UW Extension/Small Business Administration/
Small Business Development Center.
Mark Lattery, physics/astronomy, Modeling Physical Science, $56,702, UW
Systems/Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title II.
Michael Lizotte, biology/microbiology, Training Citizens for Self-Help Monitoring
of the Winnebago Pool, $11,866, Wisconsin Department of Natural
Resources.
Byron Malsin, $102,708, Fox Valley Workforce Development Board;
$939,573, Wisconsin Division of Workforce Development; $46,000, Oshkosh
Area School District; $36,857, Milwaukee County Department of Health and
Human Services; $30,000, Kimberly-Clark; $55,501 and $18,500, Winnebago
Department of Health and Human Services; $67,521, Winnebago County;
and grants in the amounts of $16,000, $134,000, $1,852,636, $37,238 and
$1,338,620 from the Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services.
Susannah Sandrin, Women and Science, Children’s Literature and Science
Program, $66,899, UW System–Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
Todd Sandrin, biology/microbiology, MentorNet Training Meeting, $5,622,
National Science Foundation/Wisconsin Alliance Participation.
Todd Sandrin and Lisa Dorn, biology/microbiology, Understanding Viruses:
The Next Generation Undergraduate Virology Textbook, $75,000, National
Science Foundation.
Jennifer Wenner, geology, Teaching Quantitative Skills-Geosciences, $5,725,
Carleton College/National Science Foundation.
Leona Whitman, nursing, Living Healthy Community Clinic, $13,747,
Oshkosh United Way; $130,000, Winnebago County Human Services;
$160,000, Mercy Foundation.
Robert Wise, biology/microbiology, Monitoring Leaf Temperature Dynamics
During Stress, $14,368, U.S. Department of Agriculture.

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Top left: James Keller celebrates with the UW Oshkosh
Titan football team.
Bottom right: John Keller, Darryl Sims, Coach Phil Meyer
and James Keller spend a moment on the new J. J. Keller
Field at Titan Stadium.
Oshkosh Sports Complex
Championing Winners
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n a sunny afternoon in early September, the
dedication of the newly renovated football field
at the Oshkosh Sports Complex brought the
$5.7-million renovation project another step closer to
completion.
Sophomore quarterback Joe Patek led the UW
Oshkosh Titans to a 41-13 victory over Concordia
University, as the crowd of more than 5,000 cheered.
“We were honored to be with John Keller and his
family prior to the game to dedicate the field,” said Phil
Meyer, Titan head football coach. “Our players were
excited to play at J. J. Keller Field and bring home a
victory in front of a great crowd at the Oshkosh Sports
Complex.”
Before the kickoff, UW Oshkosh and the Titans recognized
J. J. Keller & Associates Inc. as a major contributor
and private donor to the Oshkosh Sports Complex
by dedicating the new football field as J. J. Keller Field
at Titan Stadium.
“J. J. Keller has proven to be a generous benefactor,
dedicated investor and significant employer of UW Oshkosh
alumni,” said Darryl Sims, UW Oshkosh athletics
advancement officer.
The million-dollar contribution made by the Keller
family marks the largest to date in UW Oshkosh’s
history and has been instrumental in facilitating the
renovation project at the Oshkosh Sports Complex.
“J. J. Keller’s contribution means so much because
the complex and its track, football, baseball and soccer
facilities will be a huge sports attraction for the entire
Fox Valley,” said Sims, who was a first-round draft pick
of the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1985. “It’s our belief that if
we help each other, we’ll all benefit.”
As the facility formerly known as Titan Stadium is
transformed into the Oshkosh Sports Complex, it is also
From left, James Keller, John Keller and Robert Keller receive recognition
for J. J. Keller & Associates’ contribution to the Oshkosh Sports Complex.
evolving into an exceptional venue for football, soccer,
track and field, baseball, softball and intramural competition.
Through a unique partnership among UW Oshkosh,
the Oshkosh Area School District and Unified Catholic
Schools of Oshkosh, the new track and sports complex
will become the home for many of the city’s middle and
high school and collegiate athletes.
Funded entirely through private donations, the
ambitious project is entering its third phase, which
includes updating locker rooms, team meeting rooms,
coaches’ rooms and restroom facilities.
Sims said the UW Oshkosh Foundation still needs
more community support to complete the project. “‘We
are not done!’ has become our rallying call as we enter
into the most critical component of the entire project,”
he said. “The next phase will allow us the flexibility to
hold events at the complex, events that could generate
more than $30 million annually. We still
have a lot to do to bring the complex to
completion. We’re gearing up to finish it as
soon as the resources are available to move
forward,” Sims said.
For more information about the Oshkosh
Sports Complex, visit www.osc.uwosh.edu or
contact the Foundation at (920) 424-2178.
—Marie Martin
Titans Earn Share of WIAC Title
UW Oshkosh earned a piece of the 2005 WIAC
women’s volleyball championship by defeating
UW-La Crosse, 3-0, on Oct. 19 in La Crosse.
The Titans won games of 30-22, 30-16 and 30-26
to finish WIAC play tied for first place in the league
standings with UW-Whitewater. UW Oshkosh and
UW-Whitewater both won seven of their eight WIAC
contests, with the Warhawks grabbing their portion of
the league’s prize by defeating UW-Platteville, 3-1.
UW Oshkosh’s WIAC women’s volleyball championship
is the seventh in school history. The Titans, who
were picked to finish seventh in this year’s WIAC race,
also captured league titles in 1982, 1990, 1991, 1994,
1995 and 2001.
UW Oshkosh (26-2), ranked seventh in the NCAA
Division III by the American Volleyball Coaches
Association, led 19-17 in game one before going on
a 9-1 scoring run to lead 28-18. The second game was
tied 6-6 before the Titans went on a 12-3 scoring run.
UW-La Crosse (16-7/4-4 WIAC) led 17-15 in the
third game before UW Oshkosh rallied to take a 24-14
advantage. The Eagles cut their deficit to 27-26, but the
Titans scored the final three points of the contest.
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news
Keefe Accepts Post at
Saint Louis University
F
oundation President Thomas Keefe has accepted
the position of vice president of development and
university relations at Saint Louis University. He
resigned his UW Oshkosh post, effective Nov. 25.
“Tom has given us four, great years,” said Chancellor
Richard H. Wells. “Under his leadership, the Foundation
has achieved record levels of giving and has been a
catalyst for positive campus growth at a time of major
reductions in state funding.”
Wells noted the major role Keefe and the UW
Oshkosh Foundation have played in increased funding
for student scholarships and faculty research, along with
launching the Oshkosh Sports Complex project, acquiring
the Foundation Center and advancing efforts to
build a major new academic building at UW Oshkosh.
“We are grateful for his many contributions,” Wells
said. “Now, he is being given an opportunity he cannot
pass up. We wish him continued success.”
Saint Louis University is a Jesuit, Catholic university
ranked among the top research institutions in the nation,
with 11,500 students on campuses in St. Louis and
Spain.
“I would not have this opportunity if it were not for
the professional growth opportunities that have been
provided by UW Oshkosh,” Keefe said. “It has been a
wonderful experience, seeing UW Oshkosh grow and
prosper.”
New Funds and Scholarships
4imprint Inc. and Adventures in Advertising
Graphic Art Scholarship is awarded to graphic arts
students with 75 or more credits and a grade-point
average of at least 3.0.
AnchorBank Scholarship is granted to business
majors with 75 or more credits, a minimum grade-point
average of 3.0 and financial need.
Linda L. and Jeffrey D. Bartelt Fund will support
scholarships for business students with an interest in
entrepreneurship, small business and/or family business.
Linda (MBA ’94) was recently named director of UW
Oshkosh’s Center for Community Partnerships.
Arnold Peterson Chalberg and Charlene Barr
Chalberg Memorial Scholarship will be awarded to
finance majors. The scholarship was funded through
bequests from Arnold and Charlene Barr Chalberg
(’59 and MST ’69) of Oshkosh and a contribution
from the Barbara and Roderick Barr Fund of the Greater
Cincinnati Foundation.
Jeff Chambers Award for Clinical Excellence in
Athletic Training, named for the man who was instrumental
in creating the UWO athletic training program,
will be awarded to the top senior or junior clinical
student.
Gary R. Coll Journalism Fellowship was established
in honor of Coll’s retirement after 36 years at UWO.
The fellowship will provide funding for student participation
in internships, conferences or competitions.
FEI Outstanding Finance Senior Award Fund was
established by the Financial Executives Institute for
finance majors who demonstrate leadership skills in
student organizations or other extracurricular activities.
Department of Geology Endowed Research Fund,
established by an anonymous donor and supplemented
by alumni and patron contributions, will support students
engaged in geological research.
2004-2005 foundation fiscal facts
Number of donors: 6,667
Number of gifts: 8,644
Number of new donors: 1,435
Average gift size, excluding
bequests: $374.65
Alumni contributions increased
23 percent.
Contributions from businesses
more than doubled, surpassing
$1.3 million.
Thomas and Pamela Kell Fund was established by
Thomas Kell (’71) and his wife, Pamela (Lewis) Kell
(’72) to support initiatives of the College of Business
dean, including establishment of a student-run business
and a Center for Family Business Research.
Robert and Lynne Keller Scholarship will support
academic excellence scholarships. Robert Keller (’69),
president and chief executive officer of J. J. Keller &
Associates Inc. of Neenah, received the Distinguished
Alumni Award in 2004.
Elmer Leach Endowed Nursing Scholarship
was created with a $350,000 contribution by the Elmer
Leach Foundation to endow the nursing scholarships
the Leach Foundation first began supporting in 1982.
Cheryl Mellenthin Nursing Scholarship will be
awarded to entering students pursuing a nursing degree
and may be renewed for four years. Mellentin (’79) is a
former registered nurse.
Partnership for Co-Teaching Fund supports a program
in which local K-12 teachers co-teach the UWO
elementary science methods class, better preparing
students to become licensed teachers.
Charles P. Savino Family Scholarship was created
by Savino (’67) to support undergraduate biology and
microbiology majors who demonstrate financial need
and academic achievement.
The Shakespeare Fund was created to allow students
to experience Shakespeare’s work in a liberal arts context
by funding outside performers and collaboration with
community arts organizations.
Barbara Greenwood Sniffen Faculty Governance
Award Fund was created in memory of the retired
history professor who dedicated her professional life to
promoting faculty governance and academic freedom.
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Tax Executives Institute, Northeast Wisconsin
Chapter Scholarship Fund was created to support
students studying accounting, particularly those with an
interest in taxation.
Mark L. Tremble Scholarship Fund was established
by J. J. Keller & Associates Inc. of Neenah, in memory
of Tremble (’73), a former senior vice president. The
fund will support academic excellence scholarships.
Evelyn H. Uehling Scholarship was established
through a bequest from Uehling (’27), a former teacher.
The scholarship will support undergraduate education
students with financial need.
Eugene and Nancy Winkler Scholarship will be
awarded to Wisconsin residents with either a declared
major in the College of Education and Human Services
or a parent who is or was a teacher. Eugene (’59) and
Nancy (’63 and MSE ’90) are former educators.
Rose Legacy Society
There is still time to become a charter
member of the Rose Legacy Society.
The society was formed to recognize
those individuals who have designated
the Foundation as the recipient of a
bequest or other planned gift. Please
contact the Foundation at (920) 424-2178
or visit us at www.uwosh.edu/foundation
for more information.
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to alumni@uwosh.edu or by mail
news
to: UW Oshkosh Alumni Association
800 Algoma Blvd., Oshkosh, WI 54901
Nov. 21 8 p.m., Salzburg Hyperion Ensemble, Chamber Arts
Series, Music Hall, Arts and Communication Center.
(920) 424-4224.
Nov. 22–Dec. 16 Abstract Paintings: Nuances of Landscape by
Derrick Buisch, Steinhilber Art Gallery, Reeve Memorial Union.
(920) 424-2242.
Nov. 29–Dec. 2 Fine Arts Senior Exhibition, Allen Priebe Art
Gallery. (920) 424-2235.
Nov. 30 7 p.m., Nausicaa of the Valley of the Winds, International
Film Series, directed by Hayao Miyazaki, Halsey Science
Center, Room 109. (920) 424-7308.
Dec. 2 7 p.m., “Christmas Nights,” Planetarium Show,
Buckstaff Planetarium. (920) 424-0287.
Dec. 6 8 p.m., UW Oshkosh Jazz Ensemble, Music Hall, Arts
and Communication Center. (920) 424-4224.
Dec. 7 7 p.m., Slasher, International Film Series, directed
by John Landis, Halsey Science Center, Room 109.
(920) 424-7308.
Dec. 8 8 p.m., UW Oshkosh Choirs, Music Hall, Arts and
Communication Center. (920) 424-4224.
Dec. 11 3 p.m., UW Oshkosh Wind Ensemble and Symphonic
Band, Music Hall, Arts and Communication Center.
(920) 424-4224.
Dec. 11 7 p.m., University Symphony Orchestra, Music Hall,
Arts and Communication Center. (920) 424-4224.
Dec. 17 9:30 a.m., Undergraduate and Graduate Commencment,
Kolf Sports Center. (920) 424-0344
Dec. 29 7 p.m., Kiss Me Kate, Broadway on a Budget Film
Series, Grand Opera House. (920) 424-1131.
Jan. 13 7 p.m., “Starry Nights—Winter Skies,” Planetarium
Show, Buckstaff Planetarium. (920) 424-0287.
Feb. 8 8 p.m., UW Oshkosh Speaker Series, Daryl Davis,
“Klan-Destine Relationships,” Reeve Ballroom. (920) 424-1230.
Jan. 5 7 p.m., All the President’s Men, Screen Scene Film Series,
Grand Opera House. (920) 424-1131.
Jan. 30–March 10 “Junction: An Installation of Prints and
Poetry by Erin Tapley and Pam Gemin,” Steinhilber Art Gallery,
Reeve Memorial Union. (920) 424-2242.
Feb. 2–16 Fifth Annual UW Oshkosh Student Honors
Exhibition, Allen Priebe Art Gallery. (920) 424-2235.
Feb. 9 7–9 p.m., Fifth Annual UW Oshkosh Student Honors
Exhibition, Artists’ Reception, Allen Priebe Art Gallery.
(920) 424-2235.
Feb. 9–11, 16–18, 7:30 p.m., The Visit, Fredric March Theatre.
(920) 424-7042.
Feb. 10 7 p.m., “Earth in the Solar System,” Planetarium Show,
Buckstaff Planetarium. (920) 424-0287.
Feb. 12, 19 2 p.m., The Visit, Fredric March Theatre.
(920) 424-7042.
Feb. 22 8 p.m., UW Oshkosh Speaker Series, Kevin Roberts,
“The Munchies,” Reeve Ballroom. (920) 424-1230.
March 2–4 7:30 p.m., Student Directed One-Acts, Experimental
Theatre. (920) 424-7042.
March 3–23 High School Art Exhibit, Allen Priebe Art Gallery
(920) 424-2235.
March 9 5:30 p.m., Erin Tapley and Pam Gemin, Artist’s
Reception and Poetry Reading, Steinhilber Art Gallery, Reeve
Memorial Union. (920) 424-2242.
March 21–April 21 UW Madison MFA Exhibition, Steinhilber
Art Gallery, Reeve Memorial Union. (920) 424-2242.
March 23 8:30–10:30 a.m., High School Art Day, Allen Priebe
Art Gallery. (920) 424-2235.
March 24 7 p.m., “A Deeper Look,” Planetarium Show,
Buckstaff Planetarium. (920) 424-0278.
March 28 8 p.m., Matt Glowacki, “Expectation,” UW Oshkosh
Speaker Series, Reeve Ballroom. (920) 424-1230.
March 29–April 22 “Pete Poplaski and Rika Deryckere: Yankee
Realist and Flemish Expressionist,” Allen Priebe Art Gallery.
(920) 424-2235.
April 5 7–9 p.m., “Pete Poplaski and Rika Deryckere: Yankee
Realist and Flemish Expressionist,” Artists’ Reception, Allen
Priebe Art Gallery. (920) 424-2235.
April 12 8 p.m., Dan Zevin, “Life After College,” UW Oshkosh
Speaker Series, Reeve Ballroom. (920) 424-1230.
April 20–22, 27–29, 7:30 p.m., Zombies from the Beyond,
Fredric March Theatre. (920) 424-7042.
April 21 7 p.m., “Starry Nights—Spring Skies,” Planetarium
Show, Buckstaff Planetarium. (920) 424-0287.
April 23, 30 2 p.m., Zombies from the Beyond, Fredric March
Theatre. (920) 424-7042.
April 27 5:30 p.m., Celebration of Scholarship-Student
Research Day, Reeve Memorial Union. (920) 424-3215.
May 5 Seventh Annual UW System Symposium for Undergraduate
Research and Creative Activity, UW-Stout.
(920) 424-1195.
A Message from the UW Oshkosh
Alumni Director
Greetings from your alma
mater. Have you seen
Alumni eNews yet?
Hundreds of alumni have told our
office how much they enjoy our
new electronic alumni publication.
It comes out every other week
and includes alumni profiles, class
notes, events calendar and campus
news.
eNews is an important resource. It allows us to share
news and information of interest to our alumni on a
regular basis. Although UW Oshkosh Magazine is an
excellent publication, it is expensive to produce. We are
currently able to send it just twice per year. eNews is extremely
cost effective and space is not an issue. So send
us your news or share a tip on a grad you know who is
doing great work. We’d love to include it in one of our
upcoming issues.
More than 20,000 alumni are receiving eNews, but
our goal is to reach even more of you. Why not give it a
look today? We will keep your e-mail address confidential
and won’t bombard you with other unwanted mail.
Find the link to eNews online at www.uwosh.edu/
alumni/enews/public_html/.
Wishing you and your family a special holiday
season.
Warmest regards,
Christine Gantner
Director of Alumni Relations
Where Have You
Shown Your
Titan Pride?
Sandra Gutierrez,
’04, and Katie Parsons,
’04, recently visited Florence,
Italy, where Parsons
sported a UW Oshkosh T-
shirt on the Ponte Vecchio
bridge.
Picture yourself here! The next time you travel, pack
your UW Oshkosh attire and wear it in a photo. Mail
the photo to UW Oshkosh Alumni Relations, 800 Algoma
Blvd., Oshkosh, WI 54901. Please include where
and when you traveled.
New Services for Job Seekers
Alumni Career Adviser Frank Holmes, ’94, MSE
’01, announces two exciting additions to the Titan
GOLD Online Career Connection.
EmployOn, the largest jobs database in the industry,
is four times larger than its nearest competitor, Monster.
ReferenceUSA, an online database, offers access to
detailed information about more than 12 million U.S.
businesses—perfect for researching a company prior to
applying or interviewing.
Titan GOLD requires a one-time
fee of $25. Holmes also offers complimentary
career services, such as cover
letter and resume advising, job search
preparation, informational and mock
interviewing and job shadowing.
To sign up for Titan GOLD or to
make an appointment with Holmes,
call (920) 424-0743 or (877) 896-
2586, or e-mail holmes@uwosh.edu.
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Alumni Calendar of Events
Check out our line-up of 2006 alumni activities
below, and please spread the word. Make this the year
you reunite with some of your college friends. Remember,
the Alumni Office can help you gather addresses of
friends you have “lost.”
For more information about these events, contact
Alumni Director Christine Gantner toll free at
(877) UWO-ALUM—(877) 896-2586—or e-mail
alumni@uwosh.edu.
Jan. 14, Women’s
Basketball Reunion
Jan. 17, Fond du Lac Area
Alumni Reception
Feb. 2-3, Alumni Reception
at the Wisconsin State Reading
Association Convention,
Milwaukee
Future
Homecoming
Dates
Oct. 14, 2006
Oct. 6, 2007
Oct. 18, 2008
Feb. 9, Phoenix/North Scottsdale Alumni Reception
Feb. 11, Men’s Basketball Reunion
Feb. 23, Alumni Reception at the Wisconsin State
Counselors’ Association Convention, Stevens Point
April 28-29, Alumni Weekend in Wisconsin Dells,
Wilderness Resort (see page 39) (800)867-9453
April 29-May 7, Alumni Travel Opportunity–Best of
the Alps www.globalholidays.com/uwok/
Sept. 15-23, Alumni Travel Opportunity–Treasures of
Italy www.globalholidays.com/uwok/
Oct. 13, Reunion Luncheon—Classes of 1956 and
1966, and Golden Titans; Alumni Awards Dinner
Oct. 14, Homecoming 2006
Austria, Tuscany Tours Planned
Experience Kitzbuhel in the Austrian Alps with
the Alumni Association from April 29 to May 7.
Kitzbuhel is one of Austria’s most famous international
resorts. Near Innsbruck and Salzburg, the
town boasts magnificent mountains and alpine lakes.
The Alumni Association is also planning a trip
to Italy’s colorful Tuscan hills and Fiuggi, only 40
miles east of Rome from Sept. 15 to 23.
Price of the Austrian trip is $1,799, and Italy
is $1,699. Both are per person plus taxes, based on
double occupancy.
These opportunities are offered in partnership
with group travel provider Global Holidays. To
learn more, visit www.gholidays.com/uwok/ or call
Global Holidays at (800) 842-9023.
Class of 1965
Seated from the left: Judith Wuerch Roblee, Gail Floether Steinhilber,
Patricia Johnson Rose, Harold Pelton, Harriet Lewandowski
Napierkowski and Doris Schumacher. Standing: Dean Moede, Judy
Marks Moede, Jim Ziarnik, Howard Frimark, Douglas Merrill,
Patrick Quan and James Andersen. In attendance, but not pictured:
Gerald Carpenter.
Golden Titans
Seated from the left: Arlene Pankratz Newhouse, ’52; Diane Hayward Herb, ’55; Alice Asplund Kuehn, ’55; Lorraine Bergquist Behlendorf, ’55;
Barbara Brown Bidwell, ’55; Susan Reible Curry, ’55; Alice Jacques, ’55; Margaret (Peg) Kollath Watson,’55; Berniece Jacobs Duvall, ’33; Arlene
Kellerman Drews, ’47; and Janet Schattschneider Beuthin, ’55. Standing: Fred Behlendorf, ’55; Lyle Bruss,’54; Arnita Scharf Bruss, ’54; Lois
Mathia Kotlowski, ’55; John Newhouse, ’54; Coach Russ Tiedemann, ’55; Francis Schmitz, ’55; John Armstrong, ’55; Charles Cobb, ’55; Virginia
Evans, ’55; John Evans, ’54 and MSE ’74; Jean Mix Knorr, ’55; Larry Zarnott, ’53; Robert Jesse, ’51; Frank Macknick, ’53; Gordon Kubiak, ’53;
and Richard Schumacher, ’50. In attendance, but not pictured: Jean Goodwin Nelson, ’49; and Jack Steinhilber, ’50.
Despite rainy weather, hundreds of alumni enjoyed
reuniting and visiting campus Oct. 22 for Homecoming
2005.
Many alumni, students, staff and community members
gathered at Pollock Alumni House for the parade.
The UW Oshkosh Alumni Association float featured the
Winneconne Band and the 2005 alumni award recipients.
Grand marshals were Kevin Wehrenberg, ’93, and
Brad Carr, ’01, producer and associate producer of the
hit NBC series Fear Factor.
After the parade, the party
moved to the pregame celebration
tents south of the Oshkosh
Sports Complex. An enormous
crowd turned out to watch
Titan Factor, a UW Oshkosh
version of a popular NBC show.
Twenty-four contestants,
divided into six teams, tried
their best to reach the top of a
rock-climbing wall to retrieve
flags, but the slippery surface
Homecoming 2005
Titan Factor, Young Alumni Reception bring huge crowds.
Dean Moede, ’65
made the journey slow and difficult. Later they ate delicacies,
such as squid ink cake and a stuffed habanera–the
world’s hottest pepper.
The final contest was a relay involving transferring
pigs’ feet by mouth, retrieving keys submerged in a vat
of worms and carrying oiled, dead fish. In the end, UW
Oshkosh students Reed Tyriver, Whitney Tyriver, Carlyn
Cooley and Sarah Lemahieu took home the $500
cash prize, courtesy of the UW Oshkosh Credit Union.
At the main alumni tent, the Mama Dig Down
Brass Band wowed the crowd, playing popular jazz
songs. Alumni and friends enjoyed food and beverages
courtesy of local businesses. The Alumni Association
thanks them
for their
support: Jim
Miazga, ’74,
president of
Oneida Sales
& Service,
Pizza Hut,
Quizno’s
Subs, Subway,
Wingers, the
UW Oshkosh
Credit Union and Zion Lutheran Church.
Other goodies at the tent were Chancellor Richard
H. Wells and Christie Charbonneau Wells’ familyrecipe
meatballs, and new Vice Chancellor for Student
Affairs Petra Roter’s famous dirt cake. At the College of
Education and Human Services tent, the new dean Fred
Yeo served caramel apples.
The Titan football team scored a big win, 23-20,
over UW-Stevens Point, making their record 6-1.
Many alumni affinity groups rekindled friendships
during the Homecoming celebration. Baseball alumni
from 1968 to
1988 reunited
with former
Titans Baseball
Coach Russ
Tiedemann
during a special
celebration
after the game.
The young alumni reception in Titan
Underground drew more than 100.
Other alumni
groups included
Delta Sigma
Phi, Pericleans, Reeve Union Board, Oshkosh Student
Association and Residence Life.
A first annual young alumni reception, featuring live
music by Old Mil, rocked the Titan Underground in
Reeve Union Saturday evening. More than 100 alumni
attended to hear band members Jim Jacobs, ’98, Steven
Chmielewski, ’98, and Eric Darnell, ’98.
If you’d like to plan a reunion and need help finding
former classmates, contact the Alumni Relations Office
by calling (877) UWO-ALUM or send an e-mail to
alumni@uwosh.edu.
—Sheryl Hanson
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Eight Receive 2005 Alumni Awards
Eight UW Oshkosh alumni were honored for outstanding
professional and civic accomplishments during
the university’s Homecoming celebration. An awards
dinner was held Oct. 21 in Reeve Memorial Union.
Distinguished Alumni
Recipients of the 2005 Distinguished Alumni
Award, the Alumni Association’s highest honor:
Crystal (Hielsberg) Gorwitz, ’80, Hortonville Middle
School physical education and health teacher, was
the 2004 National Association for Sport and Physical
Education (NASPE) Middle School Physical Education
Teacher of the Year.
She is respected as a national leader in the fight
against childhood obesity and has garnered praise for
inspiring students to remain physically fit for life.
In 2001, Gorwitz and two colleagues won a
$233,000 grant to revamp the Hortonville School
District’s physical education program. The district was
one of only 18 in the country to earn the grant.
With the grant money, Gorwitz and her colleagues
took a fresh approach to physical education curriculum
in Hortonville, where students can now choose exercise
options, such as snowshoeing, mountain biking, in-line
skating and backpacking. The curriculum has drawn
national attention, including a 2004 Sports Illustrated
article and a 2005 NBC Nightly News segment. Both
detailed Gorwitz’ “outside the box” class offerings.
She also uses technology in the classroom—heartrate
monitors, computerized fitness testing equipment
and personal digital assistants. Gorwitz has presented
programs about her physical education program across
the country.
Gorwitz received the 2005 Citation Award from the
Wisconsin Association of Physical Education Recreation
and Dance, and was named a 2005 Wal-Mart Teacher
of the Year. She regularly returns to UW Oshkosh as a
guest lecturer.
P. Scott Hassett, ’74, Wisconsin Department of
Natural Resources (DNR) secretary, joined the agency in
2003. Previously, he worked for Lawton & Cates, S.C.,
a Madison law firm where he spent 22 years handling
civil, criminal, employment and environmental litigation
cases.
As DNR secretary, he has worked to secure sustainability
certification for Wisconsin’s state, county and
managed forest law programs. This certification helps
ensure forests will continue to be renewed—instead of
simply harvested—for future generations.
He started the “Bring Back the Rivers” initiative,
2005 Distinguished Alumni were recognized Oct. 21 at
Reeve Memorial Union. From the left: Patrick Roetzer,
’70; P. Scott Hassett, ’74; Michael Monroe,’69; and
Crystal (Hielsberg) Gorwitz, ’80.
aimed at restoring the aesthetic and ecological integrity
of urban river ways. He also has continued efforts to
contain and eradicate chronic wasting disease in Wisconsin’s
whitetail deer herd.
By leading the DNR’s acquisition of land under the
state’s stewardship program, Hassett has emphasized
controlling invasive species and assuring outdoor recreational
opportunities for hunters and anglers. He also is
credited with streamlining permitting processes.
Hassett was editor-in-chief of the Oshkosh Advance-
Titan in 1973. During his time on the editorial staff,
the newspaper won the Pacemaker Award as the top
college weekly in the nation. He graduated in 1974, and
landed a job as managing editor at the Jefferson Banner
in Jefferson, Wis. During his two years there, he won
an investigative reporting award for a story relating to
groundwater pollution.
In 1980, he earned a law degree from Rutgers
University and joined Lawton & Cates, S.C. He later
became a partner. Hassett is originally from Madison,
the city he still calls home.
Michael Monroe, ’69, is the operations unit manager
of the Milwaukee Flight Standards District Office,
Federal Aviation Administration. He lives in Racine.
In 1967, Monroe became the first black resident
assistant at UW Oshkosh. After graduating with a
bachelor’s degree in history and political science, he
attended the U. S. Marine Corps Officer Candidates
School in Quantico, Va. He was commissioned a second
lieutenant in 1970. In 1976, he earned a master of arts
degree from Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif.
Until his honorable discharge in 1982 at the rank of
captain, Monroe served the Marine Corps all over the
world in aviation, infantry and intelligence assignments.
His final assignment was battalion executive officer,
normally held by a major.
Monroe joined the Federal Aviation Administration’s
Flight Standards Division as an aviation standards
inspector in 1989. In 2004, he began his current position
as manager of the operations certificate management
unit, staffed with aviation safety inspectors.
He is responsible for the FAA’s oversight of flightrelated
operations at most airports in Wisconsin, including
General Mitchell Field in Milwaukee and Oshkosh’s
Wittman Field—the busiest airport in the world each
summer during the annual Experimental Aircraft Association
AirVenture convention.
Monroe’s wife, Susan, earned a master’s degree in
special education from UW Oshkosh in 1970.
Patrick Roetzer, ’70, is a consultant in restorative
dentistry at the Veteran’s Administration Medical Center
in Martinez, Calif. He is a dentist and inventor who
holds seven patents for products and materials used in
restorative dentistry.
One patent is for a resin sculpting system, which
helps dental professionals sculpt natural-looking surfaces
with resin. Through this and other dental product development,
he is credited with helping bring dentistry out
of the “dark ages” of amalgam-based (mercury) restorative
materials to tooth-shade, biologically and environmentally
friendly epoxy and glass composite filling
materials.
Roetzer also is committed to helping his colleagues
stay current in the field. In 1992, Roetzer established
the North Bay Dental Education Center to provide
continuing education for dentists and their staffs.
He also lectures nationally and internationally on a
variety of dental topics, such as restorative dentistry and
infection control. He serves as a consultant to various
dental manufacturers on product development.
Roetzer has been featured on CNN, BBC radio, the
Discovery Channel’s Beyond 2000 and in numerous
newspaper articles. He has qualified as an expert witness
in the San Francisco and Alameda County Superior
Court systems.
A native of Marinette, Roetzer earned a bachelor’s
degree in psychology from UW Oshkosh. In 1974, he
earned a degree in dentistry from Marquette University.
He lives in Benicia, Calif. —Sheryl Hanson
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Alumni Anniversary Award
The Alumni Anniversary Award recognizes professional
and civic achievements of a member of the
50th anniversary class.
This year’s recipient is Francis L. Schmitz, ’55.
Schmitz dedicated his career to higher education.
Described by former students as “tough but fair,” he is
a professor emeritus at the department
of physics and astronomy,
UW-Stevens Point.
As one of the first liberal arts
graduates of UW Oshkosh—previously
a teacher education school—
Schmitz majored in physics and
chemistry and minored in mathematics.
He later earned master’s
and doctorate degrees in physics
and physics education from UW- Francis Schmitz, ’55
Madison.
He taught briefly at UW Oshkosh before joining
UW-Stevens Point in 1959. Schmitz chaired the department
between 1972 and 1993.
During most of his tenure at UW-Stevens Point,
he taught introduction to physics, a required course for
physics, math, chemistry, paper science and preengineering
majors.
In 1974, he led the expansion of his department—
formerly known as physics—to physics and astronomy.
He helped develop a minor in microelectronics, which
taught primarily pre-engineering students to develop interface
equipment for industry. He also helped develop a
physics course for natural resource majors.
Schmitz was state representative to the National
Council of the American Association of Physics Teachers
for 15 years, and served three terms as president of
the Wisconsin Association of Physics Teachers.
After retiring as a full professor in 1996, he was
granted the title professor emeritus. He now lives in
Johnsburg, where he tutors fourth-, fifth- and sixthgraders
in math and reading. He serves his community
in civic projects and is a trustee of his parish.
Call for Nominations
Nominations for 2006 Distinguished Alumni and
Outstanding Young Alumni awards will close April 1.
Distinguished Alumni nominees must be active
in their field and widely recognized for their career or
civic accomplishments. Outstanding Young Alumni
nominees need to be UW Oshkosh undergraduate or
graduate alumni of the past 15 years. Selection is based
on professional or civic accomplishments and future
promise.
For more information, visit www.uwosh.edu/
alumni/alumni_awards.php or call (877) 896-2586.
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Outstanding Young Alumni
Recipients of the 2005 Outstanding Young
Alumni Award, which recognizes the professional
accomplishments and future promise of alumni
who graduated in the past 15 years:
Steven Endries, ’91, is the second-generation
president of Endries International, a global industrial
distributor and provider of vendor-managed inventory
services in Brillion.
In two years as president, he has led the company
across the globe, opening sales and sourcing operations
in China and Taiwan. Under Endries, the company is
focused on using technology and lean business principles
to increase efficiency and reduce costs.
The company ranks 32nd largest in its field in the
U.S., has 70 branches worldwide and generates more
than $150 million in annual revenues. Among the items
it distributes are fasteners, pipes, valves, fittings, electrical
components, drill bits, abrasives and chemicals.
The company’s vendor-managed, inventory service—currently
90 percent of its business—keeps a
manufacturer’s stock of hardware and related items
constantly replenished.
Endries succeeded his father and company founder,
Bob Endries, as president in 2004. The young Endries
spent 15 years working in nearly all areas of the company—including
sweeping floors and mowing the lawn
in high school—before taking the reins as president.
A resident of Appleton, he served as a mentor at Brillion
High School. He also has served as president of the
National Fastener Distributors Association.
Lorrie Keating Heinemann, MBA ’92, is the cabinet
secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Financial
Institutions. Appointed by Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle,
she is the state’s banking and securities commissioner.
Heinemann is responsible for regulating Wisconsin’s
state banking and securities industries, licensing financial
service providers, maintaining the state’s corporate
filings and administering the Wisconsin Consumer Act.
She oversees 150 employees and a $26-million agency
budget. As part of Doyle’s GROW Wisconsin plan,
Heinemann is a strong advocate for motivating venture
capitalists to make investments in Wisconsin companies.
Previously Heinemann worked for 18 years in the
banking and securities industries. She earned a bachelor’s
degree in business administration from UW-Eau
Claire in 1983.
A native of Thorp, Heinemann lives in Oshkosh,
where she is active in the Oshkosh Area Community
Foundation, Oshkosh Community YMCA and the Oshkosh
Public Museum.
Three were honored Oct. 21 as Outstanding Young
Alumni. From the left: Lorrie Keating Heinemann, MBA
’92; Jeffrey Swenty, ’98; and Steven Endries, ’91.
Jeffrey Swenty, ’98, is head of the motion capture
department of Neversoft, a video game development
company in Woodland Hills, Calif.
He previously was head of production for Motion
Analysis Studio (MAS) of Culver City, Calif., a pioneer
in the motion capture industry. He supervised motion
capture for movies, such as I Robot, Sky Captain and the
World of Tomorrow and Constantine. He also worked on
the upcoming King Kong.
Swenty’s work is comparable to that of a motion
picture director. He works with actors, supervising their
preparations and directing their scenes. Swenty and his
team turn the data into 3-D versions, with the actors’
motion applied to their digital doubles. That data is
sent to animators who complete production.
MAS broke new ground in the motion capture field
with its work on last year’s Nike Gridiron television
commercial, which featured a digital football arena,
complete with snow and a fantasy football team of
growling opponents.
A DePere native, Swenty majored in radio-TV-film.
He lives in Toluca Lake, Calif. —Sheryl Hanson
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Class Notes
49 Sharon (Jann) Lynch (EHS) has been elected president
of the Milwaukee Branch of American Association of University
Women for 2005-2007. She earned a degree in arts management
and business from the University of Tampa, and is now retired
as a fund development officer and arts appraiser. Sharon and her
husband, Norm, are parents of seven children.
60 Roderick Bahr (LS) retired as a wildlife biologist from
the State of Wisconsin.
63 Larry Didlo (EHS) has returned to graduate school and
is pursuing a second master’s degree in education at age 64. He is
focusing on multicultural studies with an emphasis on English as
a second language and Hmong studies.
Delane Jome (EHS) recently retired from the Green Bay
School District, where she taught in three schools for a total of
33 years. She continues to volunteer in church, schools and local
libraries.
David Riese (LS) and his wife are enjoying semi-retirement
and recently vacationed in Hawaii.
64 Marie (Schnitzler) Peterson (EHS) recently retired as
music ministries director of St. Anne’s Parish in Escanaba, Mich.
She was director of music ministries since 1976 and director of
the choirs since 1966.
65 Lynn (Krueger) Bowles (EHS) joined Pawnee Mental
Health as a parent support education coordinator.
Louis Glasnapp (LS) retired as a programmer/analyst in
administrative computing/information technology from UW
Oshkosh, where he worked for 35 years.
66 Norris Dalton (LS) taught a continuing education
ceramics course at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville for 17
years. He retired in 2002, but continues to be active in ceramics.
His work has been published in three recent books.
Reid Schoonover (EHS) retired two years ago from teaching
on the Menominee Indian Reservation. Since then, he has joined
the ceramics faculty at UW Oshkosh.
Dale F. VanDyke (LS) recently became a partner in Child
and Family Therapeutic Systems, an outpatient behavioral health
clinic.
68 John R. Collins (EHS) was appointed deputy secretary
of the Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions in 2003.
He previously served 12 years as Kenosha County executive.
69 Patrick Wheeler (LS) became chief executive officer of
Digital Connex in September.
70 Hans P. Kohlhoff (EHS) is president and chief executive
officer for Beep International Inc. and Beep International
Multilingual Institute Inc., which he recently founded. For more
information about the corporations visit www.beepintl.com. He
retired in 2004 from the Fond du Lac School District, after 33
years. Hans and his wife, Paula, primarily reside in Phoenix.
71 Patrick Gaughan (LS) received the Robert O. Johnson
Good Government Award June 30 from the City of Jacksonville,
Fla. The award is given annually to one City of Jacksonville employee
who exemplifies service to the city council and the citizens.
72 Robert Barabe (EHS), ’75 MSE, was elected president of
the Big Ring Flyers Bicycle Club in Hudson. The club competes
in cycling races. He recently captured the Wisport Cycling Series
Total Points Competition for the second consecutive year. An
elementary school counselor for the past 30 years, he works in the
Hudson School District with his wife, Kathy.
Clyde Gorsuch (LS) retired from Clemson University in May
2004, after 26 years as an extension entomologist.
Julian Isham (LS) was reappointed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger
to the California State Mining and Geology Board. The
board oversees the California Geologic Survey, the State Office
of Mine Reclamation, the mining industry and seismic safety and
geohazards in California.
Linda Jagielo (EHS) earned a doctorate in curriculum and
instruction with an emphasis in early childhood teacher education
from Kent State University in August 2004. She was awarded a
national Head Start fellowship last year.
Lynne (Cardwell) Keasling (LS),’84 MSE, was reelected
regent and registrar of the local Daughters of the American Revolution.
She also has published a book, The Earliest Death Notices
from Harrison Co., Ind. Newspapers.
Dwight D. Schafer (N) presented a paper during the fifth
U.S.-Russian Nursing Conference in July. The paper explained
how U.S. and Russian nurses are bridging cultures to enhance
healthcare.
Thomas Sphatt (LS) was appointed by the U.S. Bankruptcy
Court for the Southern District of West Virginia as the chairman
and chief executive officer of Park Crest Holdings Inc., a nursing
home and outpatient therapy company in Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
He lives in Charleston, W.Va.
Scott Zechel (EHS), MSE ’74, who retired from teaching in
2004, now works part time making rustic furniture. He lives in
Baraboo with his wife, Janet.
73 Edward Anderson, Jr., MSE, has specialized in working
with self-injuring adolescents for the past five years. With a
colleague, he runs groups and provides in-services for teachers,
social workers and school psychologists.
Scott Ney (B) is vice president and treasurer of Oshkosh Truck
Corporation. He has worked for the company for 32 years.
Steve Weina (EHS) was promoted to director of mortgage
services at the Kohler Credit Union.
74 John Dimond (EHS) is a physical education and health
teacher in the Jefferson School District. He developed an innovative
exercise program, “Run Across America,” which has won
state awards from the Wisconsin Association for Health, Physical
Recreation and Dance.
Ann (Fergot) Neumann (LS) married James Neumann in
August 2004.
Keith Patt (EHS) was appointed executive director of the
Green Bay Education Association. Previously, he served three
years as president. He also has served as a middle school teacher in
the Green Bay Area Public Schools since 1974.
Edith “Edie” Raether, MSE, is a keynote speaker, trainer,
coach and author. As a keynote speaker, she has served more than
3,000 professional associations and Fortune 500 companies, such
as IBM, General Motors and Oscar Mayer.
Gregory Schroeder (B) was promoted to president of the
United Way in Savannah, Ga.
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75 Frank Boschi (LS) earned a doctorate in higher education
administration from Montana State University, Bozeman, in
August.
Jeannie (Steiner) Hannemann (EHS), ’94 MA, is founder
of Elizabeth Ministry International, an outreach to women and
their families during childbearing years. She recently began an
executive position as senior mission director for Relevant Radio.
She also is a regular radio show host and guest on several Relevant
Radio programs.
76 Linda Godfrey (EHS) has coauthored a book with
Richard Hendricks titled Weird Wisconsin, Your Travel Guide to
Wisconsin’s Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets, published by Barnes
& Noble.
77 Theodore Pierce (EHS) is completing a master’s degree
in instrumental education at VanderCook College, Chicago. He
also performs with Dorf Kapelle New Century Dance Orchestra
and other local bands and combos. His wife, Ellen (Jakus) Pierce
(EHS),’78, is choir director at Reedsville High School. They live
in Chilton and have two daughters in college.
78 Brian McCarthy (B) is senior project director at Missouri
Enterprise in Kansas City, Mo. He is pursuing a master’s degree in
engineering management at the University of Kansas. He and his
wife, Paula, have two sons and live in Lenexa, Kan.
80 Beverly Martin (N) completed a master’s degree in nursing
from Wichita State University in 2003. She has been working
as a psychiatric nurse practitioner.
Ingrid Olson (N) has become a certified hospice nurse, after
taking the National Board for Certification of Hospice and Palliative
Nurses, accredited by the American Board of Nursing Specialties.
She works at Upland Hills Health in Platteville.
81 Tim Jahnke (B) was promoted to group president, Home
and Family Group, of Newell Rubbermaid Corporation, Atlanta.
Previously, he served as senior vice president of human resources.
Jeremy Mathers (LS) served as lead author of a paper in the
veterinary science journal Avian Diseases. The article examines
exposure to some feed antibiotics, and how it can block the uptake
of resistance-coding DNA. He is senior manager in product support
microbiology at Alpharma Inc.’s Animal Health Division,
Chicago Heights, Ill.
82 Gloria Smith Blackwell (B), ’89 MBA, became a widow
on Jan. 17, 2004, when her husband, Harry M. Blackwell, died
after a lengthy illness. Retired from Kimberly-Clark since 1998,
she lives in Knoxville, Tenn.
83 Michael Endrizzi (LS) owns an information security
company in Minneapolis, Minn.
Cindy (Hull) Laabs (N) received a master’s degree in nursing
from Arizona State University in May. She is a neonatal nurse
practitioner.
Helene Mock (LS) works as a neuro-feedback technician and is
studying to become trained in neurologic music therapy. She also
performs music with the Academy of St. Giles under the direction
of Joe Baldassarre of Boise State University’s music department.
Their performances involve medieval and Renaissance music on
percussion, recorders and cornetto.
Connie (Propp) Walker (LS) is news director of WUNC, a
public radio station, in Chapel Hill, N.C.
Timothy Walters (B) has been stationed in Germany since
1992, as a U.S. Army officer and is the chief of a joint staff group.
He is responsible for operational and strategic level planning and
support provided by the Defense Logistics Agency to the United
States and allied military forces and other government agencies
throughout Europe, Russia, the Caucasus and Africa.
84 Dave Kelley (LS) is a motivational speaker, humorist and
trainer for the collegiate market. He recently had an article published
in the Student Activities Journal, the official publication of the
Association for the Promotion of Campus Activities.
Joye Moon (LS), an Oshkosh artist, recently jurored an exhibit
with the Visual Arts Society of Texas. She traveled to Florida, Colorado,
Spain and France this year to work with fellow artists. Visit
her watercolor and collage exhibit at www.joyemoon.com.
85 Randall Bennett (LS) chairs the Wisconsin State Bar’s
Intellectual Property Section Board. He earned a law degree from
UW-Madison in 1988. He is the legal services director for Plexus
Corp., Neenah.
86 Lawrence S. O’Brien II (LS) is vice president and director
of the public relations group of Bader Rutter and Associates
Inc., Brookfield.
87 Scott Bartol (EHS) is an elementary school principal in the
Berlin School District. He previously taught at both the elementary
and middle schools in Berlin.
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Kim Beck, MA, celebrated his 50th birthday
by completing his first marathon in Longford,
Ireland, which is only 10 miles from where his
great-grandfather, Patrick Dunleavy, was born.
88 Lynette (Kreuser) Anderson (EHS)
wrote and published a textbook for third-grade
students in the Kenosha schools. The book,
Kenosha: Harboring the Past, Present and Future,
has been nominated by the Wisconsin State
Historical Society for Book of the Year.
Sheryl (Jansen) Rycerz (LS), ’95 MBA, is advertising
revenue manager for the Bradenton Herald in Bradenton, Fla., a
Knight Ridder publication. She previously worked for the Duluth
News Tribune.
89 Mark G. Dilley (EHS) enrolled in the graduate program
for educational leadership and policy analysis at UW-Madison
after 15 years of secondary-level teaching and coaching.
Brian Lovett (LS), former editor of Turkey & Turkey Hunting,
served as editor for The Turkey Hunters, a compilation of stories
from America’s top outdoors writers. He resides in Oshkosh with
his wife, Jennifer.
Thomas Pamperin (B) was promoted to president/chief
executive officer at Premier Community Bank of Marion and its
holding company, MSB Bancorporation Inc.
Wenda (Will) Roycraft (B) joined Associated Bank–Fox
Valley Region as vice president in business banking.
Rochelle (Rutz) Rogan (EHS) and her husband, Mike,
welcomed their first child, Christian Jeffrey, in March 2004.
Christian is the first grandchild for UW Oshkosh graduates Russ
Rutz (EHS), ’69, and Sue (Wozny) Rutz (EHS), ’71, and the
first nephew of UW Oshkosh graduate Ryan Rutz (EHS), ’03.
Nick Watson (B) was promoted to information technology
director for Medtronic’s Image Guided Surgery business in Boulder,
Colo.
90 Bruce Schultz (LS) was promoted to dean of students at
the University of Alaska-Anchorage.
Robert F. Schumacher (LS) relocated from Salt Lake City,
Utah, to Davenport, Fla., where he is an independent contractor
with RFS Productions. He works in video and on feature-length
films. His clients include Disney, AVW and Fox Sports.
Ron Willis (LS) ran the LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon
Oct. 9 to benefit the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s Team
In Training. He ran in honor of friend and former Kenosha News
coworker Rosemary Poplar, who died in March after a two-year
battle with cancer. Willis lives in Kenosha.
92 Greg Haag (LS) coauthored the film script Hail Mary,
which recently won second place in the Wisconsin Screenwriter
Forum screenwriting contest. He is writing three other scripts.
Mary Lynn (Hughlett) Leipski (LS) is a software developer
for Quad Graphics. She and her husband, Mark, have two
children, Ashley, 5, and Justin, 1. They live in Waukesha.
David Penepent (LS) was elected president of the Finger
Lakes Funeral Directors’ Association. He is manager/funeral
director of the Herson Funeral Home in Ithaca, N.Y. He and his
wife, Susan, have three children. He has completed a master’s degree
in organizational management at the University of Phoenix.
Alumni and friends enjoyed a tour of Leinie Lodge in Chippewa
Falls during an alumni reception May 26 hosted by Tom Kell, ’71,
and Pam (Lewis) Kell,’72.
Heidi (Mathweg) Wallace (LS) became the first event director
in Wisconsin to achieve placement in the National Founders
Club for Spa Destinations, a company that teaches people how to
pamper themselves in their own home. She also is a medical social
worker at Columbus Community Hospital.
Thomas Weber (LS) is operations supervisor and technical
coordinator at Time Warner Cable, Milwaukee. He has been with
the company since 1993.
93 Jane (Maas) Crawford (EHS) relocated from Oconto to
Minnesota due to her husband’s new position as youth director at
Zion Lutheran Church, Buffalo, Minn.
Sheree (Harke) Garvey (EHS) completed her first year as
associate principal at Roosevelt Middle School, Appleton. She is
married to Donald Garvey (B), ’96, and has two children.
Brian Kargus (LS) and his wife, Amy, welcomed their second
child, Sam, in January. Their first son, Mike, is 6.
Tim A. Olson (B), ’98 MBA, took a new position as controller
at ThedaCare in Appleton.
Suzanne (Weber) Porath (EHS), MSE ’99, is a middle
school generalist at the International School of Aruba, Dutch
Caribbean, with her husband, Chris Porath, who is the school’s
technology coordinator.
94 Matthew Crawford (LS) is the director of admissions
at Anoka-Ramsey Community College in Cambridge, Minn. He
earned a master’s degree in student personnel administration from
Concordia University. He previously worked at the Milwaukee
School of Engineering and Concordia University.
Susan (Hoppe) Kirkham (B) is an instructor for the Center
for New Learning and the Department of Speech Communication
at UW Oshkosh.
94 Karen (Hegberg) Larsen (LS) married Kenneth Larsen
on May 7. She is a sales representative at Badger Press Inc., in Fort
Atkinson.
Nathan Moon (LS) is a senior attorney with the Office of the
State Courts Administrator in Florida. In July, he was selected as
lead staff to the Florida Supreme Court’s Steering Committee on
Families and Children in the Court.
95 Joel Bateman (LS) is a detective for the Oak Creek Police
Department Investigative Bureau. He also serves as an entry team
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member, specializing in close quarter battle and explosive breaching
for the Oak Creek Police Emergency Response Unit. He and
his wife, Sarah, have two sons.
Kathy Dalsing-Kong (B, LS) received a master’s degree in
business administration from UW-Whitewater in May.
Shawn Piotter (LS) accepted a position with Protein Design
Labs in Brooklyn Park, Minn. The pharmaceutical manufacturing
operation is in the start-up phase.
John Wollner, MBA ’95, director of corporate
relations for Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, has
returned to Thrivent Financial’s Appleton office
following three years leading the organization’s community
programs from Minneapolis.
Jamie (Wasserman) Zehren (EHS) moved to Janesville
with her husband. She is program manager of a group home for
Lutheran Social Services.
96 Bradley Heutmaker (LS) recently returned to Arizona
from Washington, D.C., where he spent four years with the
University of Phoenix. He is now an insurance agent for Farmers
Insurance in Tempe, Ariz.
Joseph Linder (B) opened CNC Consulting, LLC, a software
solutions business in Fond du Lac.
Sunny Nicholson (LS) is a sales executive for KFXO FOX 39
TV broadcast in Bend, Ore. She is married to David Allen and has
a four-year-old son, Cody.
96 Gina Rodriguez (B) is in graduate school at the University
of Maryland for a dual online master’s degree in accounting
and information technology, and accounting and financial management.
She is the president and owner of Accounting & Tax
Consulting, LLC, Oshkosh.
97 Sara Allsage (EHS) teaches in a developmental preschool
program in Peoria, Ariz.
Cindy (Gabert) Borgen (B), ’99 MBA, is the senior credit
officer at First National Bank–Fox Valley. She lives with her
husband in Omro.
Michael Buck (LS) has established the Jackson area’s first eye
care clinic, the Jackson Vision Center. He earned a doctor of optometry
degree from the Michigan College of Optometry in 2002.
Amy (Algiers) Ciepluch (LS) works for the national law firm
Quarles & Brady LLP as an associate in the employee benefits
group. She lives in Milwaukee.
Pamela (Hodkiewicz) Pillar (LS) works at JanSport Inc., as
a production artist. She previously worked for the Department of
Natural Resources as a hydrogeologist. Her husband, Kristoffer
Pillar (LS), ’94, works at Charter Communication in Fond du
Lac, as a broadband customer care supervisor.
John Rathman, MPA, is deputy director for the Outagamie
County Department of Health and Human Services in Appleton.
He leads a staff of more than 300 individuals. He also serves
on state and county advisory committees of the Department of
Workforce Development, the Department of Health and Family
Services and the Department of Administration.
Troy Schoultz (LS) held one of four lead roles in the UW-
Marshfield/Wood County Campus production of Terrence
McNally’s Lips Together, Teeth Apart in August.
Rene (Homa) Smits (LS) is a Lia Sophia independent jewelry
adviser. She lives in Kaukauna with her husband Todd Smits (B),
’95, and their two sons.
Thomas Swigert (LS) was promoted to Web team manager at
CBS 5 WFRV-TV in Green Bay. He previously was operations
manager. He resides in Appleton with his wife, Greta Swigert, ‘97
(LS), and their three children.
98 Michelle Borgwardt (LS) is news editor for Verde Valley
Newspapers in Cottonwood, Ariz. She was awarded first place for
excellence in writing in the nondaily division of her company’s
editorial contest in 2002-2003.
Cassandre (Bezold) Hetzer (LS) recently purchased Mayville
Vision Center, Mayville. She is a doctor of optometry.
Dennis Ruedinger (EHS), boys basketball coach at Oshkosh
Lourdes, led his team to the 2005 WIAA state tournament in
Madison. His team placed second in the Division IV state championship
game. Ruedinger was all-American in his senior season
as a basketball player at UW Oshkosh. He and his wife, Kellie
(Helms) Ruedinger (EHS), ’98 and MS ’05, live in Oshkosh with
their son, Preston.
99 Melissa (Meyers) Campbell (LS) married
Garrett Campbell on July 9. He is from Placentia,
Calif., and is an assistant football coach at Carthage
College in Kenosha, where Melissa also works as a
graphic designer.
Gayle Lenz (EHS) teaches English as a second language and
Spanish for the Watertown Unified School District, after teaching
at a bilingual school in Mexico for the past two years.
Elizabeth O’Donnell, MSE, is completing a doctorate in
urban education with an emphasis in counseling at Cleveland
State University. She has a successful psychotherapy practice, RPT
Foundation Inc., in Westlake, Ohio. She specializes in infertility
with an interest in integrating complementary and traditional
forms of mind/body medicine. She also is a physical therapist and
registered yoga teacher.
Kelly Warnke (LS), ’03 MSE, left UW Oshkosh to become
assistant women’s basketball and head women’s golf coach at
Baldwin Wallace College, Berea, Ohio.
Shelley (Garbisch) Warwick (LS) and her husband, Michael,
welcomed the arrival of their first child, Lillian Meghan, on
Dec. 24, 2004.
00 Nicole (Johnson) Bricker (LS) and her husband,
Aaron, welcomed the arrival of a son, Keiran Wright, on Jan. 20,
2005, in Chandler, Ariz.
Suzanne Hoehne (LS) is an environmental scientist with the
Louisville, Ky. office of Biohabitats Inc., an ecological restoration
consulting firm.
Gretchen Koch, MSE, is a member of the ad hoc faculty at
UW Oshkosh in the counselor education department. She began
a doctorate of education program at Northern Illinois University
in June.
Amy (Blank) Williams (B) married Nicholas Williams (B),
’99, in November 2004, in the U.S. Virgin Islands. She joined
Edward Jones after five years in the financial services industry.
01 Amy (Glasheen) Behrendt (LS) works at Wisconsin
Bakers Association of Milwaukee as a journalism and communications
specialist. She married Jerry Behrendt on April 24, 2004.
Chandra Lynn Millay (LS) joined News/Talk 1310 WIBA in
February 2004, where she helps produce Madison in the Morning
and covers morning news for sister stations 101.5 WIBA-FM and
96.3 WMAD and mid-morning news on WIBA. She also helps in
the promotions department for 1310 and ESPN 1070.
Lewis Pagel (LS) graduated from Northwestern College of
Chiropractic in November 2004. He opened a chiropractic clinic,
Pagel Chiropractic Healthcare in Owatonna, Minn.
Laura Jean (Eberle) Wilson (N), and her husband, Kyle,
welcomed a daughter, Emma, in June. Their son, Karson, was
born in September 2002. Kyle works at GE Healthcare in Milwaukee
in import compliance. The family lives in Waukesha.
02 Sara Barta (LS) will marry Christopher
Bartolone on Feb. 11, 2006. An assistant manager
for Sanofi Aventis Pharmacutical Companies
fitness center, she manages incentive programs
that keep employees motivated to exercise. She is
working to earn teaching certification in physical
education and health from West Chester University
of Pennsylvania.
Kelly (Hauschildt) Butzen (LS) and her husband, Carl
Butzen IV, ’99 (LS), welcomed daughter Sarah on July 5. They
live in Oshkosh.
Laura Charette (B) is a corporate recruiter in the human
resources office at Wisconsin Public Service Corporation in Green
Bay. She previously worked at Northwestern Mutual as an office
manager.
Donald G. Ellingson, MBA ’02, is credit manager at Alliance
Laundry Systems. He and his wife, Kim, relocated from Marinette
to the Oshkosh area.
Alisa Garbisch (EHS) is a residence hall director at UW-
Stevens Point. She earned a master’s degree in college student
personnel adminstration in May 2004.
Derek Keyeski (LS) is producer and videographer for Builder’s
Showcase in Madison and Milwaukee, and Westridge Lifestyles in
Milwaukee.
Jon Krawczyk (B) was promoted to a sales position in employee
benefits at Security Insurance Services Inc. in New Berlin.
Rosette (Buening) Morrey (N) and her husband, Jim, had
their first child, Kylie Rose, on Feb. 24.
Jenessa Oberstadt (EHS) and her husband, Scott, welcomed
their first child, Ian Scott, in December 2004. She is an elementary
teacher in the New London School District.
Katy Olson (N) practices in internal medicine at Froedtert
Hospital of Milwaukee and is a staff registered nurse educator for
internal medicine and palliative care. She earned her credentials as
certified medical surgical registered nurse in March.
Courtney Perlino (LS) received a master’s degree in public
policy from George Washington University and was promoted to
health policy analyst at the American Public Health Association in
Washington, D.C.
03 Omar Humadi (LS) graduated from Virginia Commonwealth
University with a master’s degree in public administration.
He attends law school at Suffolk University School of Law
in Boston. He assisted his father, who is the Secretary General of
Iraq, with his work in the new government, including helping him
with presentations.
Melissa (Zimmerman) Jorsch (LS) is the district sales manager
for the Chippewa Herald in Chippewa Falls. Her husband,
Andrew Jorsch (LS), ’03, is a classified advertising and marketing
manager for the Chippewa Herald.
Justin Miller (LS) graduated from the University of Iowa in
December 2004 with a master’s degree in computer science and
began working at U.S. Bank in Oshkosh.
Jenny (Schuster) Shattuck (EHS) is a second-grade teacher
in the Fontana Joint 8 School District, Fontana. She was married
last summer in Green Lake.
04 Daniel Bush (LS) is the member services director for the
Wisconsin Assisted Living Association, a nonprofit statewide trade
association for assisted living providers and partners. He is engaged
to Rebecca McCulley (LS), ’05, who has an administrative position
with ElderSpan Management of Madison.
Kimberly Dicke (LS) completed her first year at a broadcast
television studio in Milwaukee, WB18 and UPN24.
Erin De Leon (B) is engaged to Greg Cherney and plans to
marry on June 2, 2007.
Timothy Goeckerman (B) is a finance and insurance manager
at Bergstrom in Oshkosh. He lives in Fond du Lac with his
wife, Melanie, and daughter, Zoey.
Angela Goetsch (B) was promoted to accounting supervisor at
Sheboygan Paper Box Co.
Katelyn Gumm (EHS) is a special education teacher in the
Green Bay Public School District.
Andrea Plueddeman (B) is a corporate sales manager at the
Heidel House Resort in Green Lake.
Bethany Schneider (EHS) is an autism and learning disabilities
teacher at Appleton East High School.
05 Beth Ann Freund (N) is a graduate nurse in the surgical/pediatrics
unit of Agnesian Health Care, Fond du Lac. She will
marry Dennis M. Koenings on July 29, 2006.
Brenda McBain (LS) joined Rehab Plus, Manitowoc, as a
performance enhancement specialist in February. She also is an exercise
physiologist in a cardiac and pulmonary unit at St. Nicholas
Hospital, Sheboygan.
Chad G. Selenske, MBA, is a physician liaison with the
Marshfield Clinic’s Eastern Division headquartered in Wausau.
Beth Thompson (EHS) is a hall coordinator at the University
of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls.
Meet Us in Wisconsin Dells
The second annual Alumni Weekend at the
Wilderness Resort in the Wisconsin Dells will be
held April 28 and 29, 2006.
A reception is planned for April 29 from
7 to 8:30 p.m. in the Giddy Up Mezzanine.
The Wilderness is offering a special room rate
for UW Oshkosh alumni and friends of $109 per
night. For reservations, call (800) 867-9453.
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In Memoriam
20s
Millicent (Corning) Calvert (EHS), ’29, Benton,
Feb. 4, 2005
Margaret (Nebel) Pugh (EHS), ’29, Campbellsport,
July 3, 2005
30s
Jeanette (Topp) Barlowe (EHS), ’34, ’35 and ’37, East
Lansing, Mich., Feb. 23, 2004
Eric Becker (EHS), ’39, Beaver Dam, May 28, 2004
Ione (Herrmann) Dorn (EHS), ’39 and ’40, Black Creek,
June 6, 2005
Pronase (DeKeyser) Goymerac (EHS), ’33 and ’36, Rapid
River, Mich., June 12, 2005
Joseph Hough, ’32, Minneapolis, Minn., Feb. 18, 2005
Wilma (Blechl) Kalous (EHS), ’37 and ’43, Duxbury, Mass.,
May 9, 2004
William Lentz (EHS), ’38, Carson City, Nev., April 4, 2005
Elizabeth Rojahn (EHS), ’38, Oshkosh, Feb. 16, 2005
Alice (Shea) Short (EHS), ’39, Midland, N.C., Feb. 21, 2005
Dorothy (Harvey) Williams (EHS), ’30, Wild Rose,
Feb. 28, 2005
40s
Ruth (Haugan) Anthes (EHS), ’45 and ’46, Cerritos, Calif.,
July 20, 2005
Stanley Botz, ’40, Tucson, Ariz., April 17, 2004
Marjorie (Liner) Gozinske (EHS), ’44 and ’46, Ripon,
Jan. 24, 2005
George Lehner (EHS), ’40, Whitewater, July 8, 2005
Creighton Spear (EHS), ’41, Green Bay, June 15, 2005
Harry Wood (EHS), ’40, Gulfport, Miss., March 20, 2005
50s
Carla Bloomer, ’59, Mishawaka, Ind., Nov. 6, 2004
Joyce (Broadway) Cavanaugh (EHS), ’52 and ’63,
Brandon, Feb. 3, 2005
Richard Davis (EHS), ’59, Sterling, Ill., July 29, 2005
Richard Getchius (EHS), ’56 and MSE ’68, Redgranite,
March 28, 2005
Janet (Bell) Heckmann (EHS), ’59, Newton, July 28, 2005
Robert Loppnow (EHS), ’50, Hartland, Nov. 8, 2004
Leneil Meyers (EHS), ’53, Greenwood, May 2, 2005
Paul Murphy (EHS), ’59, Ripon, June 23, 2005
Bradley Nielsen (EHS), ’52, Sarasota, Fla., Aug. 24, 2004
Eleanor (Patchett) Simmonds (EHS), ’52 and ’56,
Oshkosh, Nov. 27, 2004
Robert Sternitzky, ’54, Appleton, July 22, 2005
John (Jack) Wippich (EHS), ’57, Appleton, July 2, 2005
Eunice Zacharias (EHS), ’55, La Crosse, Sept. 21, 2004
Nancy (Peterik) Zarnott, ’50, Berlin, Jan. 31, 2005
60s
George DeJarlais (EHS), ’61, Mukwonago, May 12, 2005
Julius Drover (EHS), ’67, Berlin, Feb. 27, 2005
David Early (LS), ’69, Shawano, May 2, 2005
Jack Gudden (LS), ’63, Oshkosh, Feb. 17, 2005
Irene Hanson (EHS), ’61, Dousman, June 24, 2005
Karen Heidel (EHS), ’66, Holmen, Feb. 1, 2005
Janet Kentner (EHS), ’65, Howe, Ind., May 20, 2005
David Moore (LS), ’65, Oshkosh, May 28, 2005
Mary Ninneman (EHS), ’64, Ripon, July 20, 2005
John Page (LS), ’68, Bellevue, Wash., July 24, 2004
Marlyn Ziemer (LS), ’61, Schofield, May 16, 2005
70s
Frank Berkovitz (EHS), ’73, West Allis, May 2, 2005
James Bowman (LS), ’71, Peoria, Ill., Oct. 29, 2004
Inez Cherry (EHS), ’71, Crivitz, June 28, 2005
William Hobbins, MBA ’76, Schofield, May 8, 2004
Victoria Lamers (EHS), ’70, Little Chute, July 27, 2005
Michael Mason (B), ’77 and MBA ’85, Neenah, June 19, 2005
Harold Orlofske (B), ’73 and MBA ’82, Stoughton,
Aug. 18, 2005
Robert Tohulka (LS), ’72 and MSE ’75, Milwaukee,
July 6, 2005
Cynthia Wilson (EHS), ’76, Appleton, June 3, 2005
80s
Patricia Crockett (EHS), ’81, Neenah, May 6, 2005
Joann Forster (EHS), ’88, Appleton, Oct. 9, 2004
Joseph Kaczmarski (B), ’83, Madison, Feb. 2, 2005
Rick Reuther (B), ’81, Omro, June 3, 2005
90s
Benjamin Jansky (EHS), ’99, Oshkosh, July 27, 2005
Annette Lamers, MBA ’96, Eden Prairie, Minn.,
January 2005
Brian Lickman (LS), ’92, West Bend, June 1, 2005
Josephine Redemann (N), ’93, Oshkosh, Feb. 6, 2005
Ann (Weyenberg) Ridgley (LS), ’94, Kaukauna,
Feb. 20, 2005
John Schultz (EHS), ’90, Pardeeville, July 3, 2005
00s
Andrew Wallace (EHS), ’03, Oshkosh, died Sept. 26, 2005.
Former Faculty and Friends
Ronald Crane, English, 1959-1992, died April 19, 2005
Karen Fonstad, geography, 1993-1998, died March 11, 2005
John Harris, criminology, 1999-2005, died July 20, 2005
Delmar Hawkins, facilities management, died Oct. 24, 2005
Joseph Starr, history, 1965-1999, died Oct. 6, 2005
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