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Inauguration:
"Creating Our Future Together"
You are invited to a community and campus celebration that will combine the
best of time-honored academic rituals with a series of public programs and open
houses at your region's University of Wisconsin campus. Formal ceremony, in
fact, will be only one small aspect of the larger celebration when Bruce Shepard
is officially installed Friday, Sept. 20, as UW-Green Bay's fourth chancellor.
The week leading up to the event will be marked by activities both fun (a campus
dance, a UW-Green Bay trivia contest) and symbolic (the unveiling of the institution's
long-lost cast of the famous "Sifting and Winnowing" plaque). More
details on the low-cost, low-key campuswide celebration — the theme is
"Creating our Future Together" — can be found on the Web. Hope
to see you on the 20th!
Thompson Hall welcomes
120 new friends
The University scheduled Thursday, Sept. 5, as the formal dedication day for
Ed Thompson Hall; the tenants have already moved in. Their new home, a 120-bed
"apartment suites" unit, is the 14th up-scale residence hall built on campus
via University Village Housing, Inc. (UVHI), a private, nonprofit corporation,
The name honors UVHI officer and business and community leader Ed Thompson,
formerly of Procter & Gamble and Schneider National. Two more, similar halls
will open by 2004. Current on-campus housing capacity stands at 1,670.
The other shoes drop
The late, lamented "Shoe Tree"? No word yet on plans to re-plant or
designate a successor to the hallowed old oak toppled by a windstorm this summer.
The Shoe Tree was a time-honored UW-Green Bay tradition as departing seniors
tossed their used, laces-knotted footwear high into the branches. Alumni have
discussed a "re-planting fund."
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Eye
on the Chancellor
At his previous institution, in Oregon, Bruce Shepard was known for "Provost
Cam." Now, UW-Green Bay has "Chancellor Cam" providing Web surfers
an around-the-clock view of his workspace. "The daily routine is likely
to look, well, routine," Shepard admits with a laugh. "I do hope,
however, that Chancellor Cam transmits the sense that I enjoy technology, having
a little fun and being part of an open administration." Click http://www.uwgb.edu/chancellor/webcam/index.htm
"It
was clear to me from reading the Chancellor's report back to the University
community that Bruce is a very good listener. I think he has an incredible ability
to take information, interpret it, and develop constructive meaning. . . It
shows he really has a finger on the pulse of this University."
 Lou
LeCalsey, president of UW-Green Bay's Council of Trustees, and CEO and president
of Tufco Technologies, Inc.
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