April 2000

Faculty soloists, organ accompanist join in choral concert

GREEN BAY - The season's final University of Wisconsin-Green Bay choral concert will feature a performance of twentieth century composer Maurice Durufle's "Requiem," at 7:30 p.m. Monday, May 8 in the Weidner Center on the campus at 2420 Nicolet Drive.

Director of choral activities William Witwer will direct the Concert Choir in the work featuring two faculty soloists. They are mezzo-soprano Sarah Meredith and baritone Jeffrey McGhee. Meredith, who joined the UW-Green Bay faculty in 1988, has performed as a soloist and recitalist throughout the Midwest and in western and eastern Europe. She has served as an adjudicator in the International Dvorak Voice Competition in the Czech Republic. McGhee, who joined the faculty for the semester, is completing a Doctor of Musical Arts in voice at UW-Madison. He is an experienced performer of art song, opera, oratorio, gospel, and musical theater.

Organist James Martell, Marinette, will accompany the performance on the Weidner Center's Wood Family Casavant organ. Martell studied organ with Miriam Clapp Duncan at Lawrence University and is organist and music director of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Marinette, and accompanist for the West Shore Chorale at the UW-Marinette. He is a member of the Northeast Wisconsin Chapter of the American Guild of Organists.

Though he worked in this century, composer Durufle looked to the past for inspiration to liturgical chant and to the great French composers such as Debussy, Ravel, Faure, and Dukas for models. He composed for organ and orchestra. The composer was himself a concert organist, says Witwer.

The UW-Green Bay Vocal Ensemble will perform five works under Witwer's direction. They'll sing two different settings of the biblical text, "When David Heard That Absolom Was Slain." The first is by late Renaissance English composer Thomas Weelkes, and the second by late eighteenth century New England composer William Billings. They'll also perform two "Kyrie" settings: by William Byrd and Ariel Ramirez. Their set ends with Rene Clausen's "Set Me as a Seal."

McGhee will direct the 28-member Women's Chorus in selections including "Laudate Pueri Dominum" (Ye Sons of Israel) by Felix Mendelssohn, and an Israeli folk song, "Ma Navu." They'll also perform "Tanzen und Springen," by Hans Leo Hassler and "You Are the New Day," by John David.

General admission tickets are $6 for adults and $3 for students. The numbers for tickets are (920) 465-2217 or 1-800-328-8587.

GREEN BAY - Music by the Beatles and other Beatles-era musicians will dominate the program in the last jazz concert of the season at 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 5 in University Theater at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 2420 Nicolet Drive.

Jazz Ensemble I, directed by John Salerno, and the Vocal Jazz Emsemble, directed by Chris Salerno will perform Beatles-era material, and Jazz Ensemble II, directed by Thomas Pfotenhauer, will include a funk version of the Beatles' "Lady Madonna," along with other selections.

Guest vocalists Todd Buffa, Woody Mankowski, and Chris Salerno will be featured in the Jazz Ensemble I "Classic Hits of Rock and Roll" set.

Buffa will solo on the Jim Croce number, "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown," and Chris Salerno is featured on the Beatles' "If I Fell." The two will team up on "Got to Get You Into My Life," arranged by John Salerno. Mankowski will do the vocals on Blood, Sweat, and Tears' "Nuclear Blues." Mankowski and the Vocal Jazz Ensemble will join in on Michael Jackson's "Man in the Mirror," also featuring student Kristin Sponcia and area high school student Katie Scovell.

The program includes George Harrison's "Something," featuring Tyler Terrell on trumpet; Frank Zappa's "The Little House We Used to Live In," with Doug Rifleman on guitar; and two other Beatles selections, "A Hard Day's Night," arranged by alumnus Shawn Postel; and "A Day in the Life," arranged by student Sarah Salentine.

In her final UW-Green Bay concert, graduating pianist Kristin Sponcia will perform her arrangement of "For No One," from the Beatles' "Revolver" album, with a combo.

Three Beatles numbers are on the program for Vocal Jazz Ensemble. Kelly Shoemaker and Kristin Sponcia will be featured on "Blackbird," Andy Ruh will solo on "Ticket to Ride," and ReneŽ Millard will solo on "Here, There, and Everywhere."

Chris Salerno arranged the Stevie Wonder number, "Signed, Sealed, and Delivered," which will feature Steve Johnson, with John Salerno on alto saxophone.

Jazz Ensemble II salutes the Beatles with the Lennon-McCartney song, "Lady Madonna." Their program includes a composition, "Beneath the Underdog," by University of Minnesota composer Dean Sorenson, who has taught several times at UW-Green Bay summer jazz camps. They'll also perform Frank Mantooth's "In Retrospect," and a Duke Ellington-Billy Strayhorn cool jazz piece, "Half the Fun."

Tickets are $6 for adults and $3 for students. The number for tickets is (920) 465-2217 or 1-800-328-8587.

GREEN BAY - Seven University of Wisconsin-Green Bay art students will exhibit their work in Senior Exhibition II, opening with a reception from 2 to 4 p.m. on Sunday, April 30 in the Lawton Gallery on the campus at 2420 Nicolet Dr. Winners of art scholarships for 2000-2001 will be announced during the reception.

The artists and the medium in which they'll exhibit are:

Tom Grimm, Green Bay, photography; Carol Harold, Maribel, printmaking; Sara Huens, Oneida, painting; Brent Krause, Green Bay, mixed-media sculpture; Ellyn Kurtz, Green Bay, photography; Sarah Peterson, Appleton, photography; and Wane Wanek, Green Bay, photography.

The exhibit continues through May 13. The Lawton Gallery is located in Theater Hall directly east of the Weidner Center. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.

GREEN BAY - Two student jazz combos will present a spring concert at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 3 in the Phoenix Rooms of University Union at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. The program is free and open to the public.

Prof. Thomas Pfotenhauer directs the student combos.

Drummer Kevin Baker will have an original composition performed by each combo. The "Where's Becky" combo will play "In the Dark," and the "Procrastination" Combo will perform "In the Rain." Baker plays with both groups. The "Procrastination" group will perform a composition by pianist Kristin Sponcia, "At the Crossroads."

The other five numbers performed by "Where's Becky" were arranged by combo members. Guitarist Luke Thomas contributed two arrangements, and saxophonists Becky Fleming and A.J. Kluth, and drummer Baker each provided one. Tyler Terrell is the group's bass player and Katie Schwarz is pianist.

The "Procrastination" group will perform a Sponcia-arranged Lennon/McCartney tune, "For No One." Baker and saxophonist Andy Theile each contributed an arrangement for "Procrastination." Thomas provides the bass for this group, and ReneŽ Millard plays trumpet.

GREEN BAY - Five musicians who teach at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, will be joined by an Appleton musician in "Chamber Music at UW-Green Bay" at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, April 30 in Fort Howard Hall of the Weidner Center on the campus at 2420 Nicolet Drive.

The program is free and open to the public.

Performers include Arthur Cohrs, piano; Nancy Collins, flute; Linda Halloin, piano; Laura Kenny-Schang, cello; John Perkins, oboe; and Scott Wright, clarinet. Kenny-Schang, Appleton, is principal cellist with the Green Bay Civic Symphony and the Fox Valley Symphony. All of the others are members of the teaching faculty and staff at UW-Green Bay.

The program will open with the multi-movement "Divertimento for Flute, Oboe and Clarinet," by the English composer, Malcolm Arnold. It will be followed by one of Claude Debussy's lesser known compositions, "Six Epigraphes Antiques," a four-hand piano piece performed by Cohrs and Halloin. Also on the program is Trio in E-flat Major for piano, clarinet, and cello, by 19th century French composer Louise Farrenc.

Wright will close each program half by performing a contemporary composition for solo clarinet. They include "Wings," by Joan Tower, and "Sanctus for Clarinet and Stereophonic Tape," by Robert Onofrey.

GREEN BAY - The new Cofrin Arboretum Center for Biodiversity and the Friends of the Cofrin Library at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay will introduce a new resource for educators, land managers, farmers, gardeners, businesses, nature lovers, and others interested in the northeastern Wisconsin environment with a program from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 4. The public is invited to the event at Rose Hall Room 250 on the campus at 2420 Nicolet Drive. There is no admission charge, but a donation is suggested.

The program will showcase the Biodiversity Center's Worldwide Web site, featuring information about animals and plants, places of interest, geological history, and important ecological characteristics of the western Great Lakes Region. The event includes exhibits and opportunities for audience members to ask questions and offer comments.

Director Robert W. Howe, a professor of Natural and Applied Sciences at UW-Green Bay, says the Center for Biodiversity is an effort to develop a "grassroots" information center about biodiversity of this region. "Audience advice about the ways in which we can provide meaningful public information will be extremely valuable," he says. Future plans call for establishing "community affiliates" who will meet regularly to advise the Biodiversity Center staff. "We're hoping to plant the seeds for this group at the May 4 event," Howe adds.

Displays and refreshments begin at 4:30 p.m. In addition to exhibits from UW-Green Bay natural history collections, exhibitors include the northeastern Wisconsin chapter of the Audubon Society, the Baird Creek Parkway Foundation, the Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary, the Green Bay Botanical Garden, Wild Ones, and the UW-Green Bay Heirloom Vegetable Plant sale.

The formal program begins at 5 p.m. with remarks by Ron Kazmierczak, director of the Northeast Wisconsin Region of the Department of Natural Resources. Howe will demonstrate the Web Site, discuss its potential, and invite audience response. Displays continue after the program.

The event is approved for one hour of Staff Development Credit by the Green Bay Public School System.

The Center for Biodiversity and the Friends of the Cofrin Library at UW-Green Bay are co-sponsoring the event. The University's Cofrin Library offers many resources on the natural world and the environment which also are available to the public.

Contacts:
Elizabeth Esterkamp
NursingCenter.com
(212) 886-1353
eesterka@lww.com
and
Doug Bradley
UW Learning Innovations
(608) 265-0548
bradley@learn.uwsa.edu

SALT LAKE CITY, UT, April 18, 2000 - A strategic partnership that will revolutionize the way registered nurses access education was announced at the National Student Nurses Association Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah. A new online degree program, BSN-LINC, established through a cooperative effort between the University of Wisconsin Learning Innovations (UWLI), University of Wisconsin-Green Bay (UWGB) and NursingCenter.com, allows registered nurses to earn a Bachelor of Science degree (BSN) in nursing almost exclusively over the Internet.

BSN-LINC represents the first time that an educational institution has partnered with a nursing web site to offer an online degree where the services of each combine to enrich the learning experience. Through the NursingCenter.com web site, registered nurses can bundle access to Continuing Education (CE) courses and credits with the university registration fee, at no increased cost, providing a value-added to the nurse. NursingCenter.com will also supply course packs with full-text journal articles, as chosen by faculty, to students in their customized electronic "file drawer," as well as a full spectrum of searchable nursing reference materials.

Administered through the Professional Program in Nursing at UWGB, BSN-LINC allows registered nurses in any state that have graduated with a 2.5 grade point average from an associate degree or nursing diploma program to earn a bachelor of science degree in nursing.

"A professional degree enhances marketability and mobility for talented and dedicated nurses," said Donna Hilton, B.S.N., R.N., Director of NursingCenter.com. "Particularly in a complex healthcare environment, it is clear that the demand for well-educated registered nurses will only increase."

The program is accredited by the National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission and has preliminary approval by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education. Objectives and educational methods in the program are designed by UWGB to meet the needs of adult learners and practicing registered nurses.

According to Jane Muhl, Ph.D., R.N., Associate Professor and Chairperson of the Professional Program in Nursing at UW-Green Bay, the partnership will increase access nationwide to top-quality nursing education. The faculty in the nursing program at UWGB are dedicated to adult learners who balance employment, family responsibilities and community obligations with their own continued lifelong learning. Further, BSN-LINC's instructional design focuses on collaborative learning and team-based problem solving.

"BSN-LINC provides tremendous flexibility for registered nurses because they can enter the program while still maintaining a full- or part-time work schedule, which allows them to fit their study time around individual schedules, as well as to continue participating in other activities," said Dr. Muhl. "Geographic boundaries will no longer prevent anyone from completing the degree."

Added Hilton, "UWGB and NursingCenter.com have come together to create a groundbreaking program that combines the best of what each group has to offer. The combination of the University's educational expertise with NursingCenter.com's technological and nursing resources will lead to a more robust learning experience."

BSN-LINC complements NursingCenter.com's existing professional development services, which provide nurses with a single reliable source for content, community, connectivity and commerce. The site offers users original CE and access to a wide variety of nursing journals, and fosters a sense of community through such offerings as interactive forums and a career center. Additionally, the site connects users to the nursing "universe" through an extensive database of web resources, and has established MarketPlace, which provides nurses with access to a wide array of e-commerce and shopping opportunities at substantial cost savings.

GREEN BAY - The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay will observe National Poetry Month with the first in a promised series of annual poetry readings from 6:45 to 9 p.m. Thursday, April 27 in the 1965 Room of the University Union on the campus at 2420 Nicolet Drive. The free, public event will be followed by a reception.

Readings will include selections from short fiction, novels, and creative non-fiction, in addition to poetry.

Faculty readers include David Galaty, professor and chair of Humanistic Studies; Ellen Kort, lecturer in English; Richard Logan, professor of Human Development; Patrick Moran, lecturer in Composition; Brian Sutton, associate professor of Humanistic Studies and director of Composition; and Thomas Williams, assistant professor of Humanistic Studies. Several members of the Advanced Poetry Workshop class will read selections from their work also.

William Witwer and Daniel Weaver, of the music faculty and staff, and Catherine Henze, of the Humanistic Studies faculty, will perform Renaissance music.

Denise Sweet and Michael Murphy will introduce the performers. Sweet, a poet, is associate professor of Humanistic Studies and chair of American Indian Studies, and Murphy is associate dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Sweet also is adviser to the student Writers Union organization.

The event is sponsored by the Writers Union, the Humanistic Studies department, and the Office of Student Life.

GREEN BAY - Nelson Lichtenstein, professor of history at the University of Virginia, will speak on "American Labor Today" at 10 a.m. Friday, April 28, in the Christie Theater located in the University Union at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 2420 Nicolet Drive. The event is free and open to the public.

Lichtenstein is the author of The 'Labor Question': a Twentieth Century History, scheduled for publication in 2001. His previous books are Walter Reuther: The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit (1997), and Labor's War at Home: The CIO in World War II (1982).

Lichtenstein has held fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations and was a Fulbright Scholar in Helsinki, Finland. He is on the editorial board of Labor History and frequently writes for Dissent, New Labor Forum, The Los Angeles Times, and The New York Times Book Review.

Lichtenstein also is co-editor of three books: On the Line: Essays in the History of Auto Work, Major Problems in the History of American Workers, and Industrial Democracy in America: the Ambiguous Promise.

The lecture is part of the historical perspectives series sponsored by the Center for History and Social Change at UW-Green Bay.

GREEN BAY - Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has made a name for himself as an environmental attorney and a resolute defender of clean air, land and water, will present "Our Environmental Destiny," at 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 26, in the Phoenix Room of the University Union at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.

Kennedy is the son of the late Robert F. Kennedy, who was a senator and presidential hopeful when assassinated in 1968. Kennedy is currently the senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council. His reputation as an environmental defender stems from a litany of successful legal actions: prosecuting governments and companies for polluting the Hudson River and the Long Island Sound; arguing cases to expand citizen access to the shoreline; and suing sewage treatment plants to force compliance with the Clean Water Act.

He is also credited with leading the fight to protect New York City's water supply. The New York City watershed agreement, which he negotiated on behalf of environmentalists and New York City watershed consumers, is regarded as an international model in stakeholder consensus negotiations and sustainable development.

Kennedy has assisted several indigenous tribes in Latin America and Canada in successfully negotiating treaties protecting traditional homelands.

Among his published books is the best selling The Riverkeepers. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Atlantic Monthly, The Wall Street Journal and Pace Environmental Law Review.

A graduate of Harvard University, Kennedy studied at the London School of Economics and received his law degree from the University of Virginia Law School. He received a master's degree in environmental law from Pace University School of Law.

The event, sponsored by UW-Green Bay Good Times Programming Board, is free and open to the public. A reception will follow the program. For more information contact Gregg Sweger at 920-465-2405.

GREEN BAY - Cristina Ortiz, associate professor of Humanistic Studies and Spanish, has been appointed to the position of Director of International Education at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.

The appointment was announced by Carol Pollis, Dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Ortiz succeeds Joyce Salisbury who is returning to a full-time faculty position in Humanistic Studies and history. Ortiz will assume the directorship in August.

Ortiz, who has a Ph.D. and M.A. in Latin American and Peninsular Literatures from the University of Cincinnati, has substantial experience in international education. She has organized travel courses to Yucatan, Mexico and Spain, and has been involved in numerous international programming activities. She was an undergraduate in her native Spain, traveling to the U.S. for her graduate studies. She also studied languages in England, France and Germany.

"Being a person who left her country of origin (Spain) to expand her educational horizons, I can attest from my personal experience the benefit of studying abroad," Ortiz says. "I am an advocate of learning other languages and about other cultures, since it is my understanding that building bridges among cultures is the best way to end stereotypes. Nothing has proved more gratifying in my career than seeing the impact on our students' lives from traveling and becoming acquainted with people and cultures different than their own."

Ortiz hopes to expand UW-Green Bay's existing exchanges with foreign universities; encourage more faculty visits; work on the creation of programs and campus activities that help bring together international and national students; and foster projects to create connections between the Office of International Education and the community.

"Under Professor Joyce Salisbury's direction we have seen the Office of International Education grow and international educational opportunities increased. I hope to continue working in that direction," says Ortiz.

Her service includes membership on the International Education Board of Advisors and the Chancellor's Diversity Advisory Committee. She is currently Acting Chair of Modern Languages, Advisor for the Spanish Program and Advisor for the Spanish student organization at UW-Green Bay.

GREEN BAY - Authentic dishes from Mexico, Spain, Puerto Rico, China, the Caribbean and France will be served at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay International Dinner Saturday, April 22, in the Phoenix Room of the University Union.

The annual event is planned and staged by UW-Green Bay international students, who share their culture along with their cuisine. Festivities begin at 6:30 p.m. with a cash bar and music by UW-Green Bay students and Professor Marcelo Cruz.

Dinner at 7 p.m. begins with appetizers that include a Caribbean crab spread with assorted crackers and a Spanish omelette. A tossed green salad with Mediterranean dressing precedes the main course which offers a choice of French Poulet Basquaise (chicken and tomatoes); Puerto Rican pink beans and white rice; Chinese stir fry and fresh baked dinner rolls.

Ecuadorian three milk cake and Brazilian little coconut cakes are the dessert choices.

All the recipes were supplied by international students and presented for their taste testing by chef Jay Larson of University Dining Services, who will prepare the meal.

Natalie Archie, a junior accounting major from Trinidad and Tobago, and Milos Sainovic, a sophomore computer science major from Yugoslavia, are student co-chairs of the program. They have arranged an after-dinner program that offers a fashion parade; poetry from the Caribbean; and dancing and music from Italy, the Middle East, Africa and Brazil. There will also be presentation that highlights the current international students' native countries.

This semester, 77 international students attend UW-Green Bay representing 30 countries. Angela Bauer-Dantoin, assistant professor of human biology and James Doering, assistant professor of business administration, serve as faculty advisers to the International Club.

International Dinner tickets can be reserved or purchased at the University Union Main Desk, 465-2400. Ticket prices are $16 per person for community members; $14 for UW-Green Bay faculty and staff; and $9 for students.

GREEN BAY - The audience is invited to "magic" when the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay musical, Pippin, opens Friday, April 28 at the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts on the campus at 2420 Nicolet Drive. Performances are scheduled for 7:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, the 28th and 29th, and 2 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, the 29th and 30th.

The musical is a play-within-a-play. With the song, "Magic to Do," the players invite the audience to watch the story of Pippin, son of Charlemagne, King of the Holy Roman Empire, as he searches for direction and meaning in his life after finishing his university studies.

Chicago-based guest artist Rachel Rockwell has the role of the Leading Player, who serves as master of ceremonies for the troupe presenting "Pippin, His Life and Times." The role originally was portrayed by Ben Vereen. Rockwell has a long list of credits, including the Chicago company and the first national tour of Hal Prince's Showboat. She just completed a stint in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the Lincolnshire Theatre. Rockwell is a member of Actors Equity.

"Pippin is a classic coming of age story," says director and Theater Department chair Laura Riddle. "Although the play is set over a century ago, the message is very contemporary. Society promises fulfillment in material pleasures, but the result is often an emptiness of spirit."

Steve Marzolf portrays Pippin and Christopher Hibbard is Charlemagne. Other major roles are portrayed by Jill Eggers, as Pippin's stepmother; Shayne Steliga, as Pippin's half-brother; Molly Mix, as a young widow; Michael Mineau, as the widow's son; and Nicole Desjarlais, as Pippin's grandmother.

Musical direction is shared by Kevin Collins, instrumental music, and Jeffery McGhee, vocal music. Denise Carlson-Gardner is the choreographer. All three are members of the UW-Green Bay faculty and staff.

Faculty designer Jeffrey Entwistle is set designer, and Chicago-based Shifra Werch is guest costume designer. Michael Ingraham of the faculty is lighting designer.

Pippin, which opened in New York in 1972, originally was directed and choreographed for Broadway by Bob Fosse, whose work has gained renewed interest. Fosse, which showcases his choreography, won the 1999 Tony Award for Best Musical. A touring production of Fosse is scheduled into the Weidner Center in late August and early September.

Pippin's music and lyrics are by Stephen Schwartz, also the composer and lyricist for Godspell, which the UW-Green Bay Theater and Music Departments presented in 1998.

Tickets are $20 for adults and $15 for seniors and non-UW-Green Bay students in the orchestra; and $15 for adults and $12 for seniors and non-UW-Green Bay students in the mezzanine and balcony. The numbers for tickets are (920) 465-2217 or 1-800-328-8587.

GREEN BAY - Events marking Sexual Assault Awareness Week April 10 through 14 have been announced on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.

The programs address sexual assault and violence awareness and prevention. Information tables will be staffed Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday (April 10, 11 and 12) outside the main campus dining area, the Nicolet Room on the second level of the University Union.

The program "Drawing the Shades" will be performed at 7 p.m. Wednesday (April 12) in the Christie Theatre on the lower level of the University Union. Student actors will portray sexual assault victims, and dramatize first-person accounts of surviving assault. The theatrical performance and awareness program includes a slide-media presentation, statistics on the scope of the problem, and an overview of sexual assault issues. Discussion will follow the event.

Members of the UW-Green Bay community will also take part in the Take Back the Night event, with this year's theme "Unlocking the Silence," at 6:30 p.m. Friday (April 14) on the grounds of the Brown County Courthouse in downtown Green Bay. Keynote speaker is Kellie Greene, a sexual assault survivor and leader on victims' rights issues. The rally features music, remarks and a march against sexual abuse and domestic violence, followed by a reception at the YWCA.

Sexual Assault Awareness Week is sponsored by the Counseling and Health Center and the COPE (Community, Outreach, Prevention and Education) program at UW-Green Bay. Kim Perry, assistant director of Residence Life, is a contact for additional information at (920) 465-2844/2040.

GREEN BAY - Pianist Arthur Cohrs will be featured soloist at a concert by the UW-Green Bay Wind Ensemble, the Symphonic Band, and a High School Honors Band made up of students who'll compete at the state-level Music Festival. The concert is set for 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 15 in the Weidner Center on the campus at 2420 Nicolet Drive.

Cohrs will perform George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" with the Wind Ensemble, directed by Kevin Collins.

Cohrs, who is well-known through a career of more than 30 years as a performer, teacher, and lecturer, will retire from teaching at UW-Green Bay at the end of the academic year.

Cohrs began teaching at the two-year Green Bay University of Wisconsin Center in 1966 and became part of the UW-Green Bay faculty when the four-year institution began offering classes in 1968. He previously had been chairman of the piano department at Concordia Teachers College, River Forest, Ill. A native of Merrill, Cohrs earned his bachelor's degree at UW-Madison, and his master's degree at Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester.

The Wind Ensemble program includes "Dance of the Jesters," a transcription of an orchestral work by Tchaikovsky, and "Golden Light," a work by contemporary composer David Maslanka, which reflects a mix of styles ranging from African-influenced melodies and rhythms, to medieval styles, to music reminiscent of Edgard Varese. UW-Green Bay musicians, along with guest soloists, performed Maslanka's Mass at the Weidner Center in November 1998.

Scott Wright will conduct the Symphonic Band in a march, "Barnum and Bailey's Favorite," by King, and the finale movement of Symphony no. 1 in G Minor by Kalinnikov. Members of the High School Honors Band will assist on the latter. The Symphonic Band program also includes selections from The Sound of Music, in observance of the 35th anniversary of the movie's Academy Award for "Best Film."

The second annual UW-Green Bay State-Bound High School Honors Band is made up of students who received "superior" ratings at the district level in Class A solo competitions and who qualify to complete in the State Music Festival. About 50 students will meet and rehearse on Friday and Saturday, April 14 and 15 in preparation for the concert on Saturday night. The UW-Green Bay effort gives superior high school musicians an opportunity to work together and to perform on the stage at the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts. Collins and Wright will conduct.

Tickets, at $6 for adults and $3 for students, are available at the door or in advance from the Weidner Center Box Office, (920) 465-2217.

GREEN BAY-The eighth annual traditional pow-wow at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay will be from 6 to 10 p.m. on Saturday, April 15 in the Phoenix Sports Center on the campus at 2420 Nicolet Drive.

Admission is free.

The event is sponsored by the UW-Green Bay Intertribal Student Council in observance of Native American Awareness month. The theme for this year's pow-wow is "Honor Our Graduates." About 1,500 attended the event in 1999.

The invited drums include Five Clan, the host drum, Duck Creek Crossing, and Smokeytown. Participating color guards will be from the Menominee, Lac Du Flambeau, Stockbridge-Munsee, and Oneida Nations. Lloyd Powless Jr. will serve as master of ceremonies and John Tucker Sr. is arena director. The head male and female dancers are Monroe Weso III and Lisa Lopez, who appear at many pow-wows and other events. Last November, they helped to lead Macy's Thanksgiving parade in New York City.

The pow-wow begins at 6 p.m. with the grand entry, a colorful parade of participants and dancers who follow the color guard of honored veterans. The singers and dancers are invited to a feast preceding the pow-wow at 4:30 p.m. in the Ecumenical Center adjacent to the Sports Center.

GREEN BAY - Karen L. Bircher, a lecturer in the Education Department, is the recipient of the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Featured Faculty Award for spring semester 1999-2000. The Faculty Development Council, which makes the selection, recognized Bircher "for her dedication to the craft of teaching."

Bircher, of De Pere, began teaching in the Composition Program at UW-Green Bay in 1993 and in September 1999 moved to the Education Department, where she teaches language arts courses for prospective teachers. She has taught a course, "Writing About Education," for several years. v The nomination noted that student evaluations of Bircher's teaching composition often ranked above nine on a one-to-ten scale, "even though composition is something students take because they're required to, not because they're eager to." Said the nominator, "Students praise her for helping them to develop as writers and as future teachers; above all, they praise her for promoting a positive atmosphere in the classroom and caring about them as individuals."

The Featured Faculty program recognizes one outstanding faculty member each semester. The program was started in 1996 to showcase excellent teaching at the University.

GREEN BAY - David Brooks, a senior editor at the conservative, Washington, D.C.-based political weekly, The Weekly Standard, and a contributing editor at Newsweek, will speak on "The New Upper Class" at 10 a.m. Friday, April 14 in the Christie Theater located in the University Union at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. The event is free and open to the public.

Brooks is the author of a new book, Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There, due this month from Simon and Schuster. In the April 3 issue of Newsweek, Brooks explains that it used to be easy to distinguish between the bourgeoisie - the "square" ones - and the bohemians - the free spirits - but now, "you can't tell an espresso-sipping potter from a cappuccino-drinking banker." The book reports on his investigation of this new bourgeoisie-bohemian, or "Bobo," culture.

Brooks is a frequent commentator on National Public Radio programs and on Public Broadcasting System's "Newshour With Jim Lehrer."

Brooks joined The Weekly Standard when it began in 1995. He previously held a series of positions at The Wall Street Journal, including book review section editor, fill-in movie critic, European correspondent covering Russia, the Middle East, South Africa, and Europe, and editorial features editor. He has published in the Washington Post, the New York Times, and other newspapers, and his articles have appeared in periodicals including The New Yorker, The New Republic, The Public Interest, and others.

A University of Chicago graduate, Brooks began working as a police reporter for the City News Bureau operated by the Chicago Tribune and the Sun Times.

GREEN BAY - The Oneida Longhouse Singers will perform and teach traditional social dances from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday April 11 in the Dance Studio, Theater Hall Room 132 at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. The event is the first in a series of Native American Awareness Month activities on the UW-Green Bay campus at 2420 Nicolet Drive.

Community members are invited to join members of the UW-Green Bay community for the free event. American Intercultural Center Adviser Misty Davids says most of the dances are easy to learn by following the example of experienced dancers.

A dozen members of the Longhouse Singers group will perform the songs and teach the dances, to the accompaniment of hand drums and water drums.

GREEN BAY - The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay New Music and Hand Drumming Ensembles will perform mostly contemporary compositions at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 13 in University Theater on the campus at 2420 Nicolet Drive.

Faculty member Cheryl Grosso conducts both groups.

Works composed between 1943 and 1980 are on the program for the eight-member New Music Ensemble. Amores is a four-movement piece by John Cage in which movements one and four are written for solo prepared piano, and the inner two movements are scored for percussion trio. Student Dana Blodgett is the pianist. Cage invented the prepared piano, in which screws, nuts, bolts, and rubber strips are placed between the strings to create new sounds from the traditional instrument.

New Music Ensemble will perform several pieces composed in the 1970s, including "Clapping Music" by Steve Reich, written for two performers clapping their hands, and performed by Zac Schroeder and Kyle Swan; Edward Miller's "Around," in which the players surround the audience; "Rhythm Study I," by Michael Parsons, a piano duet performed by Blodgett and Kristin Sponcia; and "Paragons," written by Murray Houllif, and scored for solo marimba and five percussionists who play multiple instruments. Swan is the marimba soloist.

Their final selection is "Piru Bole" by John Bergamo, with whom Grosso studied at the California Institute of the Arts. The composition has its roots in the music of North India. Grosso explains that bols are spoken syllables intended to represent the sounds of tabla drums. Grosso has translated the bols for this performance to conga drum strokes, pitches on African xylophone and log drums, and assorted small percussion instruments.

The Hand Drumming Ensemble starts its set with a traditional Ewe piece from Ghana which Grosso learned from master drummer and composer Sowah Mensah.

The 15-member ensemble will perform three Grosso compositions, including the premiere performance of her first composition of the new millennium, "Rhythm Chant MM." The Hand Drummers also will perform her "Rhythm Chant 8" and "Rhythm Chant Cofrin." Grosso composed the latter in 1996 when the group's concert was held in Cofrin Family Hall at the Weidner Center.

The Ensemble also will perform a new composition by student Zac Schroeder, "What is." Schroeder, who will graduate in August, is a five-year veteran of Hand Drumming Ensemble.

The University Theater is located in Theatre Hall, directly east of the Weidner Center. General admission tickets are $5 for adults and $3 for students. The number for tickets is (920) 465-2217 or 1-800-328-8587.

GREEN BAY - UW-Green Bay faculty member Thomas Pfotenhauer will perform trumpet works and discuss the music's composer in a lecture-recital at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 14 in Fort Howard Hall of the Weidner Center on the campus at 2420 Nicolet Drive. The event is free and open to the public.

Pfotenhauer says he became interested in the music of Mary Jeanne van Appledorn while he was researching music for brass instruments written by female composers. Van Appledorn is a professor at Texas Tech University, where she has been on the faculty since 1950. She is an active composer and receives many commissions. Van Appledorn writes for band, orchestra, various chamber ensembles, and vocal pieces.

"She has written several compositions for the trumpet that present formidable challenges," says Pfotenhauer. He'll perform three.

In "Rhapsody for Trumpet and Harp," Pfotenhauer will be accompanied by harpist Tammy Naze, Algoma, who plays with the Green Bay Symphony Orchestra and performs in various engagements at the Weidner Center. Linda Halloin, of UW-Green Bay, will be the piano accompanist on van Appledorn's "Concerto," written for trumpet and piano. Pfotenhauer also will perform "Cornucopia," for unaccompanied trumpet.

Pfotenhauer's research on van Appledorn came during the course of work on his Ph.D. dissertation which focused on the music of American women composers. Pfotenhauer, who earned his bachelor's degree at UW-Green Bay, joined the faculty in 1997.

GREEN BAY - A soil ecologist who studies how nature recycles organic debris will speak at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 13 in Rose Hall 250 at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 2420 Nicolet Drive. The event is free and open to the public.

The speaker is David C. Coleman, research professor of ecology in the Institute of Ecology at the University of Georgia. His topic, "Detrital foodwebs: a unifying concept in community and ecosystem ecology," explains how nature processes the very large amount of organic debris that is produced in ecosystems.

He explains that more than 75 percent of plant growth in forests, grasslands, and agricultural fields often is not harvested and returns to the soil. The breakdown of this organic matter and the nutrients in it, such as nitrogen and phosphorus, are returned for further use in ecosystems. "How this recycling occurs and the biology involved, makes a fascinating story that needs to be more widely known," says Coleman.

Coleman is chief editor of Soil Biology and Biochemistry, regional editor of the European Journal of Soil Biology, co-editor of Pedobiologia, and associate editor of Advances in Agroecology. He is a fellow of the Soil Science Society of America. Coleman received the Professional Achievement Award in 1999 from the Soil Ecology Society and was honored with the 2000 Distinguished Ecosystem Scientist Award from the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory at Colorado State University. He formerly was a professor of zoology and entomology at CSU.

GREEN BAY - The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay is currently accepting registrations for its "Pre-Discovery" summer program.

This is the first summer a Summer Discovery course specially designed for children ages 4 and 5 has been offered. The program, guided by an experienced staff of kindergarten teachers and UW-Green Bay student teachers, will have a participant to staff ratio of no greater than 6 to 1.

Safe and natural environments of pond, field and forest along with a wide variety of art, music, literature, movement and inquiry projects will be explored by the children at or near the campus Ecumenical Center.

Children ages 4 and 5 years old (on or before Sept. 1, 2000) are eligible. For more information on class content and supervision, please contact Denise McFarlin at (920) 406-6058.

Registrations are also being accepted for Summer Discovery programs for schoolage children and Youth Camps for older students at UW-Green Bay. Summer arts studio, music camps and computer camp are a few of the programs offered.

For more information or to request brochures, visit the web site at http://www.uwgb.edu/outreach/camps or call (920) 465-2775, or 1-800-892-2118.