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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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