February 2002

Honorary society inducts new members

GREEN BAY -- Seventy-three students and recent graduates and 10 faculty members are the newest members of the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay chapter of Phi Kappa Phi, a national honorary society that recognizes outstanding achievement in all disciplines. The chapter inducts new members once each year.

Faculty members initiated are: Professors Phillip Clampitt, Information Science; William Conley, John Harris and Marilyn Sagrillo, all of Business Administration; Carol Emmons, Communication and the Arts; William Laatsch, Urban and Regional Studies; E. Nicole Meyer, Humanistic Studies; John Stoll, Public and Environmental Affairs; Joan Thron, Education; and Lynn Walter, Social Change and Development.

Junior and senior students and recent graduates inducted include:

WISCONSIN
Clayton-Jennifer Polzon; Colgate-Rebecca Burch; Delavan-Michael Heine; De Pere-Matthew Khoury, Amy Melcher, Michael Nelson, Nicole Schill, Lynn Sternhagen; Elkhorn-Randy Greving; Green Bay-Susan Esch, Laurie Falk, Britt Hall, Brennan Haworth, Nicole Hylok, Danessa Johnson, Karen Katers, Derek Kosmicki, Richard LaFromboise, Marc Lambrecht, Judith Roskom, Janis Schneider, Ellen Urbanovitch, Kelly Vaile, Nicole Wargin.

Greenleaf-Devin Marie Miller; Greenwood-Suzanne Johnson; Hartland-Dana Eng; Hilbert-Melinda Propson; Jackson-Amy Mangan; Kiel-Corey Stoeckigt; Krakow-Jennifer Bohm; Luxemburg-Molly Ernst; Manitowoc-Holly Revolinsky, Michelle Shea; Marinette-Sally Hasenfus, Nicole Laundree, Susan Stripling, Ronald Winters.

Marion-Heather Mielke; Medford-Craig Tlusty; Menomonee Falls-Melissa Schweinert; Mercer-Susan Williams; Montfort-Vanessa Vesperman; Montreal-Carrie Carnes; Mosinee- Christopher Jones; Mountain-Gretchen Holdener; New Franken-Rebecca Zingler; Niagara-Sheila Mott, Theresa Stockel; Oshkosh-Anna Haley, Kristie McMillen.

Park Falls-Timothy Patterson; Phelps-Linda Busch; Sheboygan Falls-Tanya Zimmerman; South Milwaukee-Sarah Danek; Sussex-Stephanie Kendziorski; Tomahawk-Natalie Stelter; Two Rivers-Nicole Funk, Sara Hildebrand; Waukesha-Jane Graham; Wausau-Katie Gebert, Jennifer Meyer; West Allis-Jeffery Zellner.

FLORIDA
Land O'Lakes-Cherry Pfau.

INDIANA
Mishawaka-Gregg Babcock.

ILLINOIS
Des Plaines-Morgan Fantetti.

IOWA
Clermont-Nicole Heller.

MICHIGAN
Iron River-Nancy Ponozzo; Ludington-Amanda Stowe; Menominee-John Olson, Kathy Przwrocki; Wakefield-Shannon Pikka.

MINNESOTA
Roseville-Gordon Dietzman.

Phi Kappa Phi was founded in 1887 and presently has chapters in 49 states, the District of Columbia, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico. Prof. Alla Wilson, Business Administration, is president of the UW-Green Bay chapter.

GREEN BAY -- Registration is open for Theatre Academy, a new University of Wisconsin-Green Bay summer camp that will hold all of its sessions at the historic, newly renovated Meyer Theatre in downtown Green Bay.

The camp for students entering grades nine through 12 in fall 2002 is scheduled for Monday through Friday, July 22-26. Early registration is encouraged because the camp is limited to 20 students.

Camp director is Laura Riddle, professor of Communication and the Arts and chair of the Theatre program at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. Riddle, who has a certificate from the Second City Training Center in Chicago and a Master of Fine Arts degree in acting from DePaul University, has been a member of the UW-Green Bay faculty since 1993. At UW-Green Bay, Riddle teaches, directs plays, supervises student internships and serves as a mentor.

Other faculty members include Mike Eserkaln, performer, playwright, and founder of Green Bay's Comedy City club and Milk Dogs ensemble, and Peggy Eserkaln, public school teacher, performer, and founder of Out of the Box, which offers educational improvisation training for businesses and other settings.

The Meyer Theatre originally opened as the Fox Theatre on Valentine's Day 1930 and renovation has brought it back to its original grandeur. Theatre Academy will have the sole use of the space for the entire camp week.

Students can attend Theatre Academy as commuters, providing their own daily transportation, or as residents on the UW-Green Bay campus. Residential students will arrive on Sunday, July 21. Transportation will be provided from campus to the Meyer Theatre for residents.

The numbers for information about Theatre Academy are (920) 465-2267 or 1-800-892-2118. The World Wide Web address is www.uwgb.edu/outreach/camps.

GREEN BAY --"Sustaining Educational Change: Viewing Change Through a Multi-Disciplinary Lens," is a one-day conference scheduled for Wednesday, May 1 in the University Union at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 2420 Nicolet Dr. Conference start time is 8 a.m., with the program beginning at 8:30 a.m. and concluding at 3 p.m.

The registration deadline is April 19.

James A. Ray, director of organizational effectiveness for Inforte Corp., Chicago, is the keynote speaker on the topic, "Creating Positive Change in Your Organization: What's New in the Field of Change." Ray has consulted with global organizations such as Accenture, Coca-Cola, Conoco and Exxon to help them manage organizational changes introduced by technology, reorganization or privatization.

After the opening session, Ray and other experts will lead several concurrent sessions on various aspects of change.

Alem Asres, director of Institutional and Racial Diversity at Northeast Wisconsin Technical College will speak during the luncheon on "Why Value and Promote Diversity: Implications for Education and Change."

Don Ziegelbauer, Sturgeon Bay High School, and Jim Adams, Sevastopol High School, and their students will demonstrate "Systems Thinking in the Classroom" in the final afternoon session.

The conference is supported for the most part by a grant from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Research Council. The fee to attendees is $10. Lunch, parking and all conference materials are provided.

Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction Equivalency Clock Hours have been applied for.

The numbers for information are (920) 465-2480 or 1-800-892-2118.

GREEN BAY -- The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Vocal Ensemble, Women's Chorus and Concert Choir will perform in concert at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, March 10 in the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts on the campus at 2420 Nicolet Dr.

The concert includes the premiere performance of a new composition by musicologist and UW-Green Bay faculty member Terence O'Grady. "Agnus Dei" for choir, clarinet and vibraphone will be performed by the Concert Choir with Rachel Gajeski on clarinet and Ellen Simon on vibraphone.

William Witwer, director of choral activities, directs the Concert Choir and the Vocal Ensemble. Faculty member John Plier directs the University Chorus.

The Vocal Ensemble will perform four psalm settings by J.S. Bach and predecessors Thomas Tomkins, Jan Pietersoon Sweelinck and Heinrich SchŸtz in German, English, French and Latin. Accompaniment on Bach's "Lobet den Herrn" will be provided by faculty member Catherine Henze, viola da gamba, and student Sarah Zickert, pipe organ.

Three 20th century compositions are on the University Chorus program. They'll perform "Rise Up, My Love," from Eleanor Daley's "Song of Solomon," "O Taste and See," by Ralph Vaughn Williams and "Inscription of Hope," by Z. Randall Stroope. The text for the latter was taken from an inscription on cellar walls where Jews were hiding from Nazis during World War II in Cologne, Germany.

"Mass Across the Ages" is the Concert Choir theme. They'll perform selections from five different historical eras. The earliest composer, Tom‡s Luis de Victoria, died about 1611, and the program progresses through works by Vivaldi, Haydn and Gounod, ending with the O'Grady composition. Tenor Plier will be the soloist on Gounod's "Sanctus." Faculty member Janice Cusano accompanies the group.

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

GREEN BAY - As the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay men's basketball team bids farewell to the Brown County Veterans Memorial Arena, the University affirmed its long-term commitment to the new Resch Center.

The men's basketball team plays its final game at the Brown County arena tonight against in-state rival UW-Milwaukee. The UW-Green Bay men's team will move to the Resch Center next November.

The University and PMI signed a six-year agreement that commits the men's basketball team to play at the new community arena through the 2007-08 season. PMI manages the Resch Center, which is part of the Brown County Expo Centre Complex.

UW-Green Bay Chancellor Bruce Shepard said the lease agreement signals the University's intention to have the Phoenix men's basketball team play at the Resch Center for years to come. "With the Resch Center, the new Lambeau Field and the Atrium, this community will have a world-class sports and entertainment complex," Shepard said. "UW-Green Bay will be part of that."

Ken Bothof, UW-Green Bay director of intercollegiate athletics, said the move to the Resch Center will add to the energy and excitement at the University. "It will be an important part of revitalizing our men's basketball program," Bothof said.

Shepard and Bothof said the Brown County arena has served UW-Green Bay well during the past 33 years. But they described the Resch Center as a marvelous facility that will meet the future needs of the men's basketball program. The Resch Center will have a seating capacity of more than 10,000 for basketball.

Shepard also said the University continues to develop plans for a renovated and expanded on-campus Student Sports and Events Center. He noted that the on-campus facility will complement rather than compete with the Resch Center.

The Student Sports and Events Center will provide new and expanded facilities for use by UW-Green Bay's general student population as well as the NCAA Division I athletics program, including the highly successful women's basketball team.

Bothof said the Resch Center and a new on-campus facility will transform UW-Green Bay's athletics facilities from some of the worst in the Horizon League to some of the best.

GREEN BAY -- The annual University of Wisconsin-Green Bay heirloom vegetable plant sale will be moved forward to the weekend of May 11 and 12, sale coordinator Prof. Jeff Nekola announced today. Typically, the sale has been the third weekend of the month.

Nekola says he considered the mild winter and the spring-like rains in February and decided, "We have to follow the weather." The sale start time remains 9 a.m. and the place is the Environmental Sciences greenhouse on the campus at 2420 Nicolet Dr.

Nekola says the 2002 sale will expand to include a few additional vegetables such as lettuces, some herbs, and a limited number of heirloom flowers. "Still, 90 percent of what we offer will be tomatoes and peppers," he says. "We'll experiment to see what people want."

GREEN BAY -- A high school honors jazz ensemble will join with the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Jazz Ensemble I and Vocal Jazz Ensemble in a concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 8 in the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts at UW-Green Bay, 2420 Nicolet Dr.

UW-Green Bay Director of Jazz Studies John Salerno directs Jazz Ensemble I. Their program opens with "Caravan," with soloists Neil Free on tuba, Michael Ehr on trumpet, and Jenny Schmitz on baritone saxophone. George Ohm is piano soloist for "Alice in Wonderland."

Faculty member Thomas Pfotenhauer, trumpet, joins A.J. Kluth and Becky Fleming, saxophones, in solos on "Silverado." Faculty members take solo roles in two other numbers. Terence O'Grady plays vibes and marimba and Bob Balsley is the guitarist on "Cabana en El Sol." Chris Salerno is featured vocalist in a John Salerno arrangement of "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square."

Vocal Jazz Ensemble, directed by Chris Salerno, will perform "Mr. Flat Five," with Caskey Hunsader as soloist and Sara Perry, Katie Covi, Jamie Kearns and Luke Thomas on scat solos. Thomas solos again on "I Get Along Without You Very Well." In a John Salerno arrangement of "The Hand Song," Kearns, Covi and Lisa Klenke solo, and Thomas provides a guitar solo. The Ensemble also will perform a Chris Salerno arrangement of "I Can't Give You Anything But Love."

High School Honors Jazz Band members were selected based on their individual performances during the annual UW-Green Bay Jazz Fest in January. Pfotenhauer directs the group. They'll perform numbers by Thelonius Monk, Fred Sturm, Fred Stride and Horace Silver.

Personnel in the High School Honors Jazz Band are:

Denmark High School-John Davis, trumpet; Tim Pletcher, trombone.

De Pere High School-Kyle Hopson, trumpet; Kevin Neary, piano.

Manitowoc Lincoln High School-Josh Swanson, tenor saxophone; Catherine Koralewsky, baritone saxophone; Luke Check, trumpet.

New London High School-Venus Cooper, tenor saxophone; Ryan Krenke, trumpet; Aaron Burg, drums.

Pulaski High School-Ashley Swopes, alto saxophone; Max Kiesner, trumpet; Matt Baeb and Evan Marlowe, trombones; Liz Berndt, piano; Lee Kobielak, drums.

Rhinelander High School-Caleb Mattison, trombone; Scott Kirby, bass.

Shawano Community High School-Christopher Felts, alto saxophone.

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

GREEN BAY -- Former advertising executive Rachel Gaunt will speak on "Badvertising: Advertising's Distorted Image of Women and Girls," at the annual Women's Recognition Luncheon at noon, Wednesday, March 6 in the Phoenix Rooms of University Union at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 2420 Nicolet Dr.

Tickets are $10 for community members. The number to reserve tickets is (920) 465-2200, extension 40, or tickets may be picked up at the University Union information center. The event is free for UW-Green Bay students, faculty and staff, but tickets are required.

Gaunt began a career in advertising in London in 1980, working with clients such as Procter & Gamble, Cadbury's, Heinz, Gallo Wine and the Milk Marketing Board at Young & Rubicam. In 1988, she was voted one of the "top ten people most likely to succeed" by Campaign magazine. In 1990, Gaunt joined Saatchi & Saatchi and moved to San Francisco to manage the agency's biggest client, Hewlett Packard.

Disillusioned with mainstream advertising, Gaunt left Saatchi four years later to form Ozone Advertising, a small agency committed to socially responsible communication. In 1998, she left advertising altogether to study at the Naropa Institute. She presently is completing her master's thesis entitled, "Does cosmetic surgery damage your soul?"

Gaunt works with the Just Think Foundation, a nonprofit organization that helps young people to understand the words and images used by the media and to think independently.

The UW-Green Bay Student Government Association will make its annual Woman of the Year awards during the luncheon event.

GREEN BAY - Educators have until March 22 to apply for $70,000 in research grants through the Institute for Learning Partnership at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. The grants are available to educators for school-based action research projects in 2002-2003 and the projects must directly impact teaching and learning.

Proposals may be classroom-specific as well as multi-school or multi-district collaborations. Institute Director John Crubaugh says that funding teacher directed, school-based research is important because it gives educators, especially classroom teachers, an opportunity to practice applying research in their own classrooms with potential for both immediate and long-term impact on their students.

Last year educators in the school districts of Algoma, Clintonville, Denmark, Green Bay, Kohler, Manitowoc, Mishicot, Oconto Falls, Oostburg, Pulaski, Sturgeon Bay, Wausaukee and West De Pere; and Cooperative Educational Service Agency (CESA) 7, received grants.

Crubaugh says the Institute likely will fund one to three projects in the $5,000 to $10,000 range; four to six projects from $3,000 to $5,000; five to ten projects from $1,500 to $3,000; and 10 to 15 projects under $1,500. One grant of up to $10,000 may be awarded to support developing a proposal to an external funding agency for a project involving collaboration between public school and UW-Green Bay personnel.

Application requirements and forms are available at the Institute for Learning Partnership, Wood Hall 416, UW-Green Bay, 2420 Nicolet Drive, Green Bay, WI 54311. Forms can be downloaded from the Institute's World Wide Web page at www.uwgb.edu/learnpart/. Names of last year's grant recipients and their project titles also are listed there. The phone number for information is (920) 465-5555.

The Institute for Learning Partnership represents districts 7 and 8 of the Northeast Wisconsin Cooperative Educational Service Agencies (CESA), regional school boards, PK-16 educators and administrators, Wisconsin Education Association Council, Northeast Wisconsin Technical College, regional community and business leadership and the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. Its purpose is to improve the quality of education for all learners in the region.

GREEN BAY - Green Bay area educators recently received certification in the Institute for Learning Partnership's Professional Development Certificate (PDC) program. Mary Ellen (Mimi) Dobbins from Langlade Elementary School; Gerald Schwan from Baird, McAuliffe and Wilder elementary schools; Betsy Winske, from East High School; Julie Srenaski from Franklin Middle School; and Erin Quinn from West DePere High, were five of 10 Northeast Wisconsin educators honored for the accomplishment at September 2001 and January 2002 recognition ceremonies.

The PDC program, which relies heavily on a classroom-based research requirement, has supported the self-directed professional growth of 83 educators in six school districts. Educators from Two Rivers and Manitowoc were also recognized. The Institute's PDC was the first program if its kind endorsed by the Wisconsin Education Association Professional Development Academy.

Dobbins, a first-grade teacher, used her research to help teach writing skills to her first-grade students using the Six Trait model for instruction and assessment. Results indicate Six Trait instruction made a positive affect on the writing skills of her first graders. Langlade has adopted the Six Trait model for two years, in part because of the results of her research.

Winske, a Realizing Educational and Personal Objectives (REPO) teacher, used her research to increase the academic success of students who were previously failing by using Dimension of Learning's Habits of Mind (involving self-regulation, critical thinking and creative thinking). She measured level of success in attendance, performance in school and work, and self-evaluation for continuous self-assessment. Results observed by both Winske and students' parents show an increase in students' performance both at school and at work and marked improvement in academic performance, attitude, attendance and job performance.

Schwan, a social worker, investigated the use of videotaped playback to enhance self-direction in elementary students. His study utilizes small group sessions with students to help them focus on self-control as defined by district learning standards. He is seeing measurable progress with students who have difficulty with impulse control, anger management, hyperactivity and other behavior problems.

Srenaski, a sixth-grade teacher, used her research to show the effectiveness of brain-based learning strategies on students' enthusiasm toward learning and understanding of content.

Quinn, a French teacher, investigated how a teacher can create a climate of immersion in a foreign language classroom at the high school level. She and another language teacher conducted their research on the same focus question and have found similar results — a significant decrease in the amount of English spoken by the focus group participants and overall increase in ease and proficiency. Their research has allowed them to develop a highly effective strategy that creates a climate of immersion.

Others receiving certification were Phil Franko, health teacher at Two Rivers' Washington High School; Cheryl Gorsuch, and Gina (Seubert) Wagner, language teachers at Manitowoc Lincoln High School; and Pamela Aikens and Christine Lehrer-Rosenberg, history and English teachers at Manitowoc's Washington Junior High.

GREEN BAY -- The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay on Friday, March 1 will stop accepting applications from undergraduate transfer students for the fall 2002 semester.

With continuing improvement in retaining students and a strong flow of applications throughout the fall, UW-Green Bay must curtail incoming transfer applications or run the risk of exceeding enrollment targets by an unacceptable margin.

Steven Neiheisel, UW-Green Bay assistant dean for enrollment services, said the University is cutting off transfer applications four months earlier than ever before. "What we're dealing with is a stable pie with increasing demand on multiple fronts," he said. "The demand is increasing when the overall enrollment can't."

Enrollment pressures reflect growing interest in the University's programs and services, Neiheisel said.

UW-Green Bay has a state-approved target of 4,357 full-time equivalent students for fall 2002. The FTE enrollment is based on the number of credits taken and is used in measuring the University's capacity. The enrollment target was established for the purpose of balancing enrollment and available resources, including adequate class sections and student services.

UW-Green Bay had a record FTE enrollment in the fall 2001 semester. The University's enrollment of 4,550 full-time equivalent students was 4.4 percent above the enrollment target. UW-Green Bay also reported its largest-ever enrollment for a spring semester with 4,178 FTE students in spring 2002.

The University cut off applications for fall 2002 semester classes from most new freshmen Feb. 15. The application cutoff for new freshmen was one of the earliest on record for the University.

UW-Green Bay will make some exceptions to the March 1 cutoff for transfer applications on a case-by-case basis. In general, exceptions will be considered for students whose presence would uniquely enrich the University community through special talents or cultural or ethnic diversity.

Applications will continue to be accepted from students in various programs and categories, including Extended Degree, graduate, special, nursing completion and UW College Associate Degree programs.

For more information about the UW-Green Bay application process, contact the Admissions and Orientation Office at (920) 465-2111.

GREEN BAY -- University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Theater opens its production of "Smash" at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 1 in University Theater, located in Theater Hall on the campus at 2420 Nicolet Dr. Performances repeat on Saturday, March 2 and Thursday through Saturday March 7 through 9.

A comic farce, "Smash" is "virtually" a George Bernard Shaw play, says Director John Mariano.

Playwright Jeffrey Hatcher based the work on Shaw's 1884 novel, "An Unsocial Socialist." In both Shaw novel and Hatcher play, a young man of means pursues socialist causes and breaks hearts in the process. But, says Mariano, the tone of the play is "much more farcical" than the novel. "It's a comedy of both manners and language," he adds.

Mariano says the play retains the late 19th century language and costume of the original novel, but contemporary sensibilities give the play relevance today.

Todd Dively, Green Bay, portrays Sidney, the activist who infiltrates a girls' school, hoping to overthrow the British government.

Three of the production design credits for the play go to students. Kim Cook, Green Bay, who worked in the wardrobe department in summer 2001 for the Utah Shakespeare Festival, is the costume designer. Lighting design is by Zachariah Viviano, Green Bay, whose technical theater credits have included Pamiro Opera in Green Bay and a touring company in Omaha, Neb. Dustin Haugen, a sophomore from Windom, Minn., is the sound designer.

Scenic design is by Jeffrey Entwistle and R. Michael Ingraham is the technical director. Both are members of the faculty.

Julie Hopkins, a graduating senior from Oak Creek with a long list of UW-Green Bay technical theater credits, is stage manager.

Hatcher was commissioned to write "Smash" by Carleton College in 1995 while he was aVisiting Artist Fellow at the Minnesota institution. It was first performed in 1996 in Seattle. Hatcher also has written a play based on the Henry James novel, "The Turn of the Screw."

Tickets are $12 in advance and $15 at the door for adults and $10 in advance and $12 at the door for seniors and students. The numbers for tickets are (920) 465-2217 or 1-800-328-8587.

GREEN BAY-Forty-two artists from seven states will exhibit in "Click: Midwest Print Invitational, Digital Focus" which opens Thursday, Feb. 28 in the Lawton Gallery, located in Theater Hall room 230 at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 2420 Nicolet Dr.

A reception is scheduled from 4:30 to 7 p.m. on Friday, March 1 in the gallery. Co-curators Prof. Christine Style and Curator of Art Stephen Perkins, both from UW-Green Bay, will present awards and give a gallery talk at 5:30 p.m.

The reception coincides with a conference, "Click: Digital Print, Issues and Ideas," on Friday and Saturday, March 1 and 2 at UW-Green Bay. Style is the conference coordinator.

All of the works in the gallery exhibit employ printmaking or photographic processes in which the computer had some role. "The digital medium is still young, but it has already become an indispensable and vital partner in the mainstream of the visual arts," say Style and Perkins.

The exhibit continues through March 29.

Artists in the exhibit include:

WISCONSIN-Brillion, Bonnie de Arteaga; New Franken, Norbert Kox; DeForest, Yvone Ashen; Eau Claire, Mary Laventure; Madison, Jonas Angelet, Michael Connors, John Hitchcock, Adelle Roberts, Lenore Thomas; Menomonie, Sally Bowker; Mequon, Karen Gunderman; Milwaukee, Leslie Bellavance, Nancy McGee, and Lisa Moline and Lane Hall; Racine, Alan Goldsmith; Shorewood, Cheryl Olson-Sklar, Marna Goldstein Brauner; Waukesha, Stephanie Copoulos-Selle; Whitewater, Max White.

IOWA-Cedar Falls, Philip Fass; Iowa City, Robert Glasgow, Chen Wang; West Branch, Jon Lee.

ILLINOIS-Charleston, William Hubschmitt; Chicago, Jessica Gondek, Monica Ong, Ed Paschke; Sycamore, Joel Peck.

INDIANA-Bloomington, Stuart Hyatt; Mishawaka, Beth Parin; Muncie, John Fillwalk.

MICHIGAN-Midland, Clark Most; Mt. Pleasant, James Williams.

MINNESOTA-Duluth, Gloria DeFilipps-Brush; Northfield, Patrick Kelley; St. Paul, Carol Padberg.

OHIO-Bowling Green, Dena Elisabeth Eber; Cleveland, Thomas Canale; Columbus, Ardine Nelson; Toledo, Michael Arrigo, Debra Davis, Heather Elliott.

Lawton Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. The number for information about the exhibit is (920) 465-2271.

For information about the March 1 and 2 conference, the number is (920) 465-2294.

GREEN BAY -- The Pro Arte Quartet of the UW-Madison School of Music will perform at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 28 in Fort Howard Hall of the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 2420 Nicolet Dr.

The concert is the second in the 2001-2002 season of the Chamber Music at Green Bay series initiated in 2000 by UW-Green Bay Prof. Scott Wright.

The Pro Arte Quartet has the distinction of being the first ensemble-in-residence at a major American university. Founded in 1912 in Europe, the organization early on was the Court Quartet to Queen Elizabeth of Belgium. On one of its many tours to the United States, the group became stranded here in 1940 by the outbreak of World War II. The Quartet accepted an invitation to residency at UW-Madison and has been based there since. The quartet's long history includes many recordings and a number of commissions and close collaborations with contemporary composers.

Present Quartet members are violinists David Perry and Suzanne Beia, violist Sally Chisholm and cellist Parry Karp.

They'll perform String Quartet in D Major, op. 76, no. 5 by Haydn; String Quartet in F Major, op. 135, by Beethoven; and String Quartet in A Minor, op. 13, by Mendelssohn.

All four members have lengthy performing credits in chamber music, with orchestras and as soloists.

Karp, who joined the Quartet in 1976, has the longest tenure with the group. He is professor of music, artist-in-residence and director of the string chamber music program at UW-Madison. Karp has recorded 10 records and five CDs and has performed in the premieres of 19 new works.

Perry joined the Quartet and UW-Madison in 1995. He has performed chamber music in more than 20 countries and has been concertmaster and faculty member at the Aspen Music Festival since 1991. He has an lengthy list of recordings.

Beia and Chisholm both have extensive chamber music experience. Beia made her solo debut at age 14 with the North Lake Tahoe Symphony. Before joining Pro Arte, she was principal second violin in the Wichita Symphony and had held concertmaster positions in several other orchestras. Chisholm, professor of viola at UW-Madison, is a founding member of the Thouvenel Quartet of Texas which is internationally known for its commissioning of great American composers. She also is a founding member of the Chamber Music Society of Minnesota.

Tickets are $8 for adults, $4 for students and seniors, and $2 for UW-Green Bay students with UW-Green Bay identification. The numbers for tickets are (920) 465-2217 or 1-800-328-8587.

GREEN BAY -- Registration is open for "Raising Heirloom Plants," a workshop from 8:45 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, March 23 in the University Union at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 2420 Nicolet Dr.

The sessions on cultivation and history of heirloom vegetables, flowers and herbs are for all who enjoy gardening. The event is the first annual "Thoughtful Gardener" symposium sponsored cooperatively by the Green Bay Botanical Garden, the Friends of the Cofrin Library and the Cofrin Arboretum Center for Biodiversity, both located at UW-Green Bay, and UW-Green Bay Outreach and Extension.

Kent Whealy, executive director of Seed Savers Exchange, Decorah, Iowa, is the keynote speaker. An early leader in heirloom preservation , he'll talk on "The Heirloom Gardening Movement" and describe the work at Heritage Farms, the home of Seed Savers Exchange.

Don Rakow, the Elizabeth Newman Wilds director at Cornell Plantations, Ithaca, N.Y., will conclude the workshop. In "Heirloom Gardening: Putting It Into Practice," he'll talk about the Pounder Heritage Garden which has four separate gardens demonstrating vegetables grown in early 18th century gardens, in late 18th century gardens, in World War I and II victory gardens, and today.

Other speakers include Diane Whealy, co-director of Seed Savers, who'll talk on "Heirloom Flowers and Herbs: How to Grow Them," and Elizabeth Adelman, proprietor of Heritage Flower Farm, Mukwonago, whose topic is "Heirloom Flowers: Their Stories in History." Prof. Jeff Nekola, Natural and Applied Sciences, a plant ecologist and coordinator of the annual UW-Green Bay heirloom vegetable plant sale, will lead sessions on heirloom peppers and tomatoes. Rakow will present a genetic history of tomatoes and Kent Whealy will explain seed-saving techniques.

The event includes exhibits and opportunity to tour the Cofrin Arboretum Center for Biodiversity.

The registration fee of $70 includes handouts, refreshments, lunch and parking. The fee is reduced to $60 for members of the Green Bay Botanical Garden, Friends of the Cofrin Library and Friends of Toft Point.

The numbers for information are (920) 465-2642 or 1-800-292-2118. Registration is available on-line at www.uwgb.edu/outreach/proofed.

GREEN BAY -- Charles Mathewes, assistant professor of religious studies at the University of Virginia, will speak on "Evil and the Contemporary Language of Evil" at 10 a.m. Friday, March 1 in Phoenix Rooms A and B, located in the University Union at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 2420 Nicolet Dr. The lecture is free and open to the public.

"What do we mean when we use the word 'evil'?" Mathewes asks. He'll discuss the current moral language in use in our culture about "evil," particularly in the wake of last September's terrorist attacks on the United States.

Mathewes' first book, Evil and the Augustinian Tradition was published last year by Cambridge University Press. He teaches courses in theology, ethics, culture and politics, and is a permanent Fellow at the Center on Religion and Democracy at the University of Virginia. Mathewes is at work on a new book exploring a theological reading of public life. He earned his Ph.D. in religion from the University of Chicago.

GREEN BAY -- Jonathan Middleton will receive the 2001 Outstanding Thesis award at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. The Presque Isle native earned his master's degree in Environmental Science and Policy.

Middleton will receive a certificate and a stipend. The award will be acknowledged at the UW-Green Bay Alumni Association annual Alumni Awards Night on Feb. 23. All theses completed between August 2000 and May 2001 were eligible for the award.

Middleton's topic was "International Environmental Agreements: A Review of Compliance and Effectiveness. A Case Study of the Convention on International Trade of Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)." Prof. Michael E. Kraft, Public and Environmental Affairs, was chair of his thesis committee.

Middleton presently lives in Seattle, Wash., where he is an environmental and ecological consultant with URS Consultants, Inc. He completed his bachelor's degree at Colorado State University, Fort Collins.

GREEN BAY -- The schedule for free income tax help provided by University of Wisconsin-Green Bay accounting and business students has been revised to cancel sessions at the Northeast Family Resource Center, 1309 Elm St., and add more hours at the Fort Howard Family Resource Center, 520 Dousman St.

The students, who are members of the UW-Green Bay chapter of Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA), are providing the service now through March 15 and from March 25 through April 15.

Scheduled hours for the free tax assistance are:

Fort Howard Family Resource Center
(Fort Howard Elementary School)
520 Dousman St.
Mondays AND Wednesdays, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.

Salvation Army
626 Union Court
Mondays AND Wednesdays, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.

University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
2420 Nicolet Dr.
Cofrin Library, first floor (lower level) alcove
Mondays and Wednesdays, noon to 2 p.m.
Saturdays, 1 - 3 p.m.

GREEN BAY -- Faculty members Andrew Fiala, Humanistic Studies; Scott Furlong, Public and Environmental Affairs; and Dean Von Dras, Human Development; have received "Creative Approaches to Teaching" awards for fall semester 2001 at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. Each received a certificate and an honorarium.

The awards program, founded in 1996 by the Faculty Development Council, recognizes faculty members for specific creative teaching or evaluation strategies. Award recipients share their strategies with the entire faculty by distributing paper copies and by posting on a World Wide Web site.

Fiala, who joined the faculty in 1999, and Von Dras, who assumed his position in 2000, are assistant professors. Furlong, an associate professor, has been on the faculty since 1993.

GREEN BAY -- Soprano Andrea Wiltzius will present her senior recital at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 24 in Fort Howard Hall of the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 2420 Nicolet Dr. The event is free and open to the public.

She will perform three selections from "Eleven Songs" by Duparc; "Erwartung," op. 2 by Schoenberg; "Steal Me, Sweet Thief," from Menotti's opera "The Old Maid and the Thief"; and "Tu, che di gel sei cinta," from Puccini's opera "Turandot." With tenor John Plier, her vocal teacher, Wiltzius will present Act one, Scene two from Puccini's "La Boheme." Plier and Sandra Stevens are accompanists for the recital.

Wiltzius was named "Most Promising Young Artist" in the Eastern Wisconsin District Metropolitan Opera National Council auditions in October 2001. She also was selected to audition for the Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. In fall 2000, Wiltzius traveled to the Czech Republic to participate in an international Dvorak competition.

Wiltzius has studied since 1998 at UW-Green Bay where she performed in the Concert Choir, Vocal Ensemble, Vocal Jazz Ensemble and New Music Ensemble. She'll graduate in May. The daughter of Peter Wiltzius of Kohler and the late Kathleen Wiltzius, she is a 1997 graduate of Kohler High School.

GREEN BAY -- "Jim Crow Humiliations: Racial Performance, Class, and Politics Since 1941" is the topic of a lecture by Jonathan Holloway at 4 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 21 in the Phoenix rooms of University Union at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 2420 Nicolet Dr. The event is free and open to the public.

Holloway teaches in the departments of African-American Studies and History at Yale University. His lecture is based on a series of essays published by Negro Digest magazine in the 1940s entitled, "My Most Humiliating Jim Crow Experience." Holloway looks at the strategic value in publicly revealing racial humiliations and shows how the negative effects of racial discrimination also have conferred some political and social benefits upon certain groups in Black America.

Holloway's first book, Confronting the Veil: Abram Harris Jr., E. Franklin Frazier and Ralph Bunche, 1919-1941, was published in 2001 by University of North Carolina Press. The book is an intellectual and social history of three radical scholar-activists who taught at Howard University during the New Deal era. Holloway is working on a future book on the roots and rise of the Black elected official.

Holloway earned his Ph.D. degree in history at Yale and taught at the University of California, San Diego, before returning to Yale to teach.

Holloway's lecture is co-sponsored by the Center for History and Social Change and the Office of Student Life.

GREEN BAY -- Registration is open for a conference for artists, art teachers and students, "Click: Digital Print Issues and Ideas," Friday and Saturday, March 1 and 2 at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.

The conference fee is $75 if received by Friday, Feb. 15 and $90 if received after Feb. 15. The fee for students is $30.

The conference is being held in conjunction with an exhibit, "Click, Midwest Print Invitational: Digital Focus," from Feb. 28 through March 29 in the University's Lawton Gallery. The exhibit features the work of 42 artists from Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin, all of whom use digital technology in their work.

Conference keynote speaker is Marilyn Kushner, curator of prints and drawings and department chair at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, who will talk on "Digital Revolutions in Printmaking." Kushner organized the "Digital Printmaking Now" exhibit shown during summer 2001 at the Brooklyn Museum of Art.

Dan Weldon, a printmaker from Sag Harbor, N.Y., and author of "Printmaking in the Sun," will give a demonstration and workshop on solar plate printmaking. Weldon originated the process. A separate fee of $25 is required for the hands-on workshop and registration is limited.

Other presenters include Michael Connors, assistant professor of art at UW-Madison, printmakers Cheryl Olson-Sklar, a lecturer at UW-Milwaukee, and Kate Clapper, a graduate student at UW-Madison, and Leslie Bellavance, a professor of art at UW-Milwaukee. The conference includes a print exchange and an open portfolio session.

The opening reception for the "Click" exhibit is from 4:30 to 7 p.m. Friday, March 1, with a gallery talk by the co-curators, Prof. Christine Style and Curator of Art Stephen Perkins, both of UW-Green Bay.

The UW-Green Bay Art Department, along with the student Art Agency and the Office of Outreach and Extension, sponsors the conference.

The $75 or $90 fee includes access to presentations, demonstrations, open portfolio session, refreshments, lunch on March 2, "Click" exhibit catalog, and printed handouts for talks and demonstrations. There are no partial attendance rates.

Numbers for registration information are (920) 465-2642 or 1-800-892-2118. Registration may be accomplished online at www.uwgb.edu/outreach/profed.

GREEN BAY - The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay has announced that it will stop accepting most new-freshman applications for the fall 2002 semester on Friday, Feb. 15.

Facing strong demand for a UW-Green Bay education, the University must stop accepting applications from incoming freshmen or run the risk of exceeding enrollment targets by an unacceptable margin.

The application cutoff is one of the earliest on record for UW-Green Bay. One year ago, the University stopped accepting applications Feb. 16. In most years, the application period has remained open until late spring or summer.

"We don't have much choice," said Steven Neiheisel, UW-Green Bay assistant dean for enrollment services. "We have strong demand. Applications are up for freshmen, and we're looking at approximately the same size freshman class as we had in fall 2001."

UW-Green Bay received 2,338 new-freshman applications through the end of January. That's up 8 percent from the same time one year ago. The University is projecting slightly more than 900 spots in the fall 2002 freshman class.

UW-Green Bay has a state-approved target of 4,357 full-time equivalent students for fall 2002. The FTE enrollment is based on the number of credits taken and is used in measuring the University's capacity. The enrollment target was established for the purpose of balancing enrollment and available resources, including adequate class sections and student services.

Neiheisel said enrollment pressures reflect growing interest in UW-Green Bay's programs and services. "I guess we're not a well-kept secret any more," he said. "Good things are going on here in lots of places."

UW-Green Bay had a record FTE enrollment in the fall 2001 semester. The University's enrollment of 4,550 full-time equivalent students was 4.4 percent above the enrollment target.

The University will make some exceptions to the Feb. 15 application cutoff. In general, exceptions will be considered for students whose presence would uniquely enrich the University community through special talents or cultural or ethnic diversity.

UW-Green Bay officials also are considering an early cutoff of applications from undergraduate transfer students. A March 1 closing of transfer applications is under review, Neiheisel said.

For more information about the UW-Green Bay application process, contact the Admissions and Orientation Office at (920) 465-2111.

GREEN BAY -- Registration is closed for a Feb. 21 workshop at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay by Ruby K. Payne, author of the book, "A Framework for Understanding Poverty." Barbara McClure-Lukens, coordinator of continuing professional education for the Office of Outreach and Extension, says the workshop is enrolled to capacity and registrations being received now are put on a waiting list. The numbers for information are (920) 465-2642 or 1-800-292-2118.

GREEN BAY -- Registration is open for a workshop by the author of the best-selling book, "Raising Your Spirited Child," scheduled from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 15 in University Union at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 2420 Nicolet Dr.

"Kids, Parents and Power Struggle: Conflict Management with Adolescents" is the title of the workshop with Mary Sheedy Kurcinka. The subtitle of her popular book is "A Guide for Parents Whose Child is More: Intense, Sensitive, Perceptive, Persistent, and Energetic."

Kurcinka's newest book is "Kids, Parents and Power Struggles: Winning for a Lifetime." She is a family educator and licensed early childhood teacher. Her articles have appeared in "Working Mother," Parents Magazine," and "Good Housekeeping," and she has appeared nationally on radio and television. Kurcinka received the 1998 Family Choice Award.

The workshop is part of the Critical Issues in Social Work Education series sponsored by the Northeast Wisconsin Alliance for Social Worker Continuing Education, a collaboration between the Social Work and Outreach and Extension departments at UW-Green Bay and UW-Oshkosh.

The workshop fee of $95 includes handouts, refreshment breaks, continuing education hours certificate and parking. Numbers for information are (920) 465-2642 or 1-800-892-2118.

GREEN BAY -- The Kenwood Academy Concert Choir of Chicago will perform in a return concert at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay at 6 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 17 in the Phoenix Rooms of University Union on the campus at 2420 Nicolet Dr. Admission is free.

Kenneth Moore Lenon directs the choir that appeared with UW-Green Bay choral groups last May in a concert at the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts.

The choir, whose repertoire ranges from Mozart to traditional spirituals to music by 20th century composers, has earned several awards. The group has performed widely in the Midwest, in the South and East, and in Switzerland.

Lenon has received awards for teaching and human relations. In addition to directing the choir, he chairs the music department and coordinates student activities at Kenwood Academy. He served as director of music for 20 years for St. Edmund's Episcopal Church and for 10 years was a member of the Liturgy Commission of the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago. Presently he is staff development coordinator for the Bureau of Cultural Arts of the Chicago Public Schools. Lenon has taught vocal music in the Chicago Public Schools for 25 years.

Kenwood Academy is a neighborhood high school serving an academically and culturally diverse population in Hyde Park and surrounding communities.

The concert is sponsored by the UW-Green Bay offices of Student Life, Assistant Dean for Student Development, Educational Support Services and Admissions, and the American Intercultural Center.