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alumni return to campus for
April 14 Alumni Awards Night
There is still time to make a reservation for the annual Alumni Association
awards night reception and dinner on Saturday evening, April 14, at the
Weidner Center.
Receiving the Distinguished Alumni Award are Kathleen
Christensen ‘73, Mike Jackson ‘76, and Wayne
Micksch ‘74. Christensen, an urban analysis grad, is director
of the Workplace, Work Force and Working Families Program with the Alfred
P. Sloan Foundation in New York. Jackson, president and chief operating
officer for Supervalu Stores, Inc. in Eden Prairie, Minn., is a managerial
systems graduate, as is Micksch, who is president of Quality Insulation
and Asbestos Removal, Inc., Green Bay.
Joseph Carroll ‘97 and Manee Moua ‘99
will receive the awards for Outstanding Recent Alumni. Carroll, a human
biology major, is an associate professor at the Medical College of Wisconsin
and a rising researcher in the field of color blindness. Moua, philosophy,
is an assistant attorney general with the Wisconsin Department of Justice.
For more information, contact the Office of Alumni Relations
at alumni@uwgb.edu.
Sketchy spring weather
Last Monday’s record heat (nearly 80 degrees in March!) sent some
UW-Green Bay art students outdoors, where they scattered across campus
to sketch landscape scenes for their drawing class. They weren’t
there a few days later, when temperatures dipped back into the 0s.
Happy birthday, Bruce!
A surprise birthday party — the surprise being Cyndie Shepard’s
campuswide invitation to all students, staff, faculty and friends of the
University — made for a fun time last Wednesday noon. Well-wishers
stopped by to congratulate Cyndie’s husband, Chancellor Bruce Shepard,
on doing what an impressive list of prominent, leading-edge Baby Boomers
(David Bowie, Hillary Clinton, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Arnold Schwarzenegger,
David Letterman, Farah Fawcett, Billy Crystal and Glenn Close, just to
name a few) are also doing this year: turning 60 years of age.
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 “This
is a family event. It’s a one-on-one opportunity you can’t
get on the Internet or at home watching TV. Children are our future —
our children are with us throughout — they drum, they dance, they
sing. That’s why we encourage all people to come to the
Pow-wow, to bring their children, whether native or non-native, and experience
the culture.”
Marjorie
Murray, president of the Intertribal Student Council, which is hosting
the annual UW-Green Bay Pow-wow on Saturday, April 14, at the Phoenix
Sports Center.
Digging in for a bigger, better University Union
With shovels in hand, UW-Green Bay students and staff commenced a project
to convert the University Union into one that will meet the 21st-century
needs of students. The $6.2 million expansion and renovation will be funded
entirely by program revenue and student fees. Completion is expected in
spring 2008, with about 18,000 square feet of new space and about that
much in remodeling. Improved dining facilities and consolidated campus
retail operations — the Phoenix Bookstore will relocate from the
Cofrin Library plaza — will be key additions. Ceremonial shovelers
at the March ground-breaking included Vice Chancellor Tom Maki (second
from left), with student leaders Matt Rieckmann, Ryan Smith, Bob Kranzusch,
Trista Seubert, Crystal Jushka and Amber Delasky.
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