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Theatre
brings 'Wit' to reflections on living, dying
A partnership involving numerous UW-Green Bay programs and Unity Hospice of
Green Bay is taking a theatrical approach to exploring end-of-life issues. In
a unique connection of education and the arts, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play
“Wit” will be staged to coincide with the “Power of Wit”
workshop on Oct. 17 for professionals who deal with end-of-life issues. Amy
McKenzie (both photos), a stage and film actress well-known through her work
with the Peninsula Players, will make the transformation to play 50-year-old
English professor Vivian Bearing, who has been diagnosed with ovarian cancer.
Public performances are at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 10 and 11 at the University Theatre
and at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 16 and 17 at the Meyer Theatre downtown.
Campus readies to host
Phuture Phoenix II
The popular and successful Phuture Phoenix program returns to campus on Tuesday,
Oct. 28. With the success of last year’s pilot effort, organizers are reprising
the come-tour-the-campus day for a new crop of local fifth-graders. About 600
children are expected. The idea is to introduce them to college-age mentors
and orient students as young as elementary-school age that academic success
— and college — can be part of their lives.
'To Kill a Mockingbird'
is first choice for new book club
“To Kill a Mockingbird,” by Harper Lee is the first selection in the
new “One Book, One Campus” book club.
&nbps; Organized by the Friends of the Cofrin Library, the club
is open to anyone at UW-Green Bay or in the community. A variety of free programs
organized around “To Kill a Mockingbird,” including discussion groups
and other activities, are being announced on campus.
The special events begin with a Southern-theme "Mockingbird"
meal in the Nicolet Room on Oct. 6, continue through the fall, and conclude
shortly before Thanksgiving with a showing of the film starring Gregory Peck.
For the latest on scheduled activities, visit the Friends of the Cofrin Library
Web site at www.uwgb.edu/library/friends.html.
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'Miss
UW-Green Bay' is nearly Miss America
Tina Marie Sauerhammer, Miss Wisconsin, dazzled the judges with intelligence,
talent and elegance and nearly claimed the Miss America crown at the nationally
televised competition in Atlantic City, N.J. She was second runner-up and received
a $30,000 scholarship.
Sauerhammer, 22, was a proud UW-Green Bay graduate well before
all the hoopla. At age 18, she became the University’s youngest-ever graduate
and was co-recipient of the Outstanding Student Award. She left Green Bay for
medical school at UW-Madison where this year she became that school’s youngest
graduate. She intends to start her medical residency in pediatric surgery in
the months ahead.
She had hoped to become Miss America to promote organ-donor
awareness. Her father, Randall, died on his 45th birthday in January 2002 after
a decade-long battle with an autoimmune disease and a four-year wait for a kidney
transplant that never came. Sauerhammer expressed satisfaction following the
competition, saying her top-three finish will enhance her reign as Miss Wisconsin
and help raise awareness of her cause.
Awaiting her is a full calendar of statewide speaking engagements
— many involving appearances before medical community audiences —
and UW-Green Bay officials are hopeful she will accept an invitation to speak
on campus in the coming year.
"My
scholarship has allowed me to focus on staying strong academically and enjoying
the college experience. I want the Founders' investment to pay off, not only
for me personally, but in what I can give back to the community."
Erica Tande
Sophomore, Business Administration
Interviewed on her selection to receive a Founders Association scholarship
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