April 2004

Chamber Music at Green Bay features vocal works

GREEN BAY - Soprano Mimmi Fulmer, Madison, will perform the final concert in the Chamber Music at Green Bay series at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 6 in Fort Howard Hall of the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts on the campus at 2420 Nicolet Dr.

Fulmer, who is professor of voice and opera at UW-Madison, performs repertoire ranging from early music to premieres of music written especially for her. She is active in oratorio, opera and recital and is noted especially for her performance of new music. She has premiered dozens of works written for her, including eight roles in seven operas. Fulmer has received two awards at UW-Madison to support her pursuit of 20th century American music.

Fulmer graduated from Princeton University and the New England Conservatory of Music. She has been a guest soloist at the Aspen Festival, Kennedy Center, Walker Art Center and numerous new music concerts around the country. She has released three recordings.

Fulmer's program includes works by Schumann, Poulenc, Monteverdi, Dvorak, and Mendelssohn, and 20th century composers including John Cage, and living composers Milton Babbitt, Lee Hoiby, Joseph Dubiel and Maura Bosch. She'll also perform songs by Stephen Foster and George Gershwin.

On works by Monteverdi and Mendelssohn, Fulmer will be joined by countertenor Gerrod Pagenkopf. Pagenkopf, a native of Cecil, has won numerous awards and scholarships for his work. A graduate of UW-Madison, he has performed with many choirs, in operas, and with the UW-Madison Early Music Ensemble, as well as performing as a soloist. He had the role of Oberon in Britten's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" with the Florentine Opera in Milwaukee. Pagenkopf will begin master's degree studies in fall 2004.

Accompanist Martha Fischer is head of the Collaborative Piano Program at UW-Madison School of Music. She has collaborated with many noted singers and instrumentalists throughout the United States. Fischer holds degrees in piano performance from the New England Conservatory of Music and Oberlin College Conservatory of Music.

Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for students. UW-Green Bay students with identification are admitted free. The numbers for tickets are (920) 465-2217 or (800) 328-8587.

(04-92 / 29 April 2004 / VCD)

UW-Green Bay jazz groups set spring concert

GREEN BAY - The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Jazz Ensemble I, Jazz Ensemble II and Vocal Jazz Ensemble will perform in concert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 4 in University Theater located in Theater Hall directly east of the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts on the campus at 2420 Nicolet Dr.

John Salerno directs Jazz Ensemble I, Paul Bhasin directs Jazz Ensemble II, and Chris Salerno directs Vocal Jazz Ensemble.

Vocal Jazz Ensemble will join Jazz Ensemble I in numbers by Tommy Dorsey and Eric Clapton. Former UW-Green Bay Director of Jazz Studies Lovell Ives transcribed Dorsey's "Sunny Side of the Street." John and Chris Salerno's arrangement of Clapton's "Tears in Heaven" will feature soloists Jamie Kearns, Dave Bloomstrand, Melissa Staley, Eileen McCormick, Leala Cyr and Ricardo Vogt.

Vocal Jazz also will perform James Taylor's "How Sweet It Is," with soloists Staley, Cyr and Andy VanSistine, and Rodgers and Hammerstein's "If I Loved You," with Lauran Kolar, Kearns and Staley. Ricardo Vogt arranged and will solo on "Papel Marche/Anjo De Mim."

Chris Salerno will be featured on piano along with Ryan Sette on guitar with Jazz Ensemble I on Chico O'Farrill's "Pianitis."

The Jazz Ensemble I program includes Bob Washut's "Of Courage and Spirit," with Neil Free on saxophone and conducting. John Salerno arranged the Beatles' "Got to Get You Into My Life," featuring Ryan Sette on guitar, Josh Swanson on saxophone and Cyr and Vogt on vocals.

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

(04-91 / 29 April 2004 / VCD)

UW-Green Bay alumni, students, friends to join in statewide "Spirit Day"

GREEN BAY - Alumni, students and other members of the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay community will join graduates of all UW System campuses Friday, May 7 in celebrating their contributions to Wisconsin.

The first "UW Spirit Day" will celebrate and showcase the contributions of the nearly 500,000 UW alumni who live and work in Wisconsin. UW-Green Bay has about 22,000 graduates, including more than 16,300 who live in the state.

Alumni, faculty, staff, students, parents and friends are encouraged to wear their home campus colors, logo wear and/or a "spirit badge" May 7 to show their UW connection to communities throughout the state.

UW-Green Bay alumni relations director Mark Brunette urged alumni of UW-Green Bay and other campuses to show their UW pride on "Spirit Day."

"Spirit Day is an opportunity for UW-Green Bay alumni, and all other UW graduates, to celebrate their degrees and to heighten awareness of the impact UW graduates have on business and industry throughout Northeastern Wisconsin and the state," Brunette said.

Green Bay will get a head start on "Spirit Day" when Oxford's Cafe and Pub, 217 N. Washington St., hosts a reception from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Thursday, May 6 for all UW System alumni and friends. The reception will feature hors d'oeuvres and door prizes.

From now through Spirit Day, the Phoenix Bookstore at UW-Green Bay is offering a 25 percent discount for alumni on all apparel and gifts.

The bookstore is located on the ground floor (plaza level) of the David A. Cofrin Library on the UW-Green Bay campus, 2420 Nicolet Drive. The bookstore is open Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. with extended hours on Thursday to 6 p.m. Saturday hours are 8:30 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. when school is in session. UW-Green Bay apparel, memorabilia and other gifts also are available online at http://www.thephoenixbookstore.com.

More details about "UW Spirit Day" and downloadable spirit badges are available through the UW-Green Bay alumni office or on the Web at http://www.wisconsin.edu/spirit.

(04-90 / 28 April 2004 / SH)

UW-Green Bay granted charter for business honor society

GREEN BAY - The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay has been granted a charter for Sigma Beta Delta, an international honor society for business and accounting students.

The UW-Green Bay chapter will induct its first members at a ceremony at 5:30 p.m. Friday (April 30) at the Ecumenical Center. The organization also will induct Robert Gallagher, chairman of Associated Banc-Corp, and Diane Ford, controller and chief accounting officer at Wisconsin Public Service Corp, as honorary community members.

Sigma Beta Delta was established in 1994 to recognize outstanding academic achievement by regionally accredited higher education institutions. Its purpose is to "promote higher scholarship in education for business and to recognize and reward scholastic achievement in business subjects."

UW-Green Bay students being inducted into Sigma Beta Delta are juniors Brian Gnadt, Tiffany Haslow, Karin Heesacker, Paul Skoraczewski, and Sarah Tebon. Senior inductees are Tina Arkens, Joshua Bastianello, Elizabeth Bauer, Lisa Bretl, Jill Ciszewski, Andrew Farrell, Ryan Foote, Stephanie Hunter, Bruce Juchniewich, Jayme Kaddatz, Michelle Kalcec, Krista Karl, Andrew Kettlewell, Sara Kleinschmidt, Mark Klessig, Hope Krepline, Andrew Long, Alan Meyer, C.W. Mitten IV, Jennifer Neuser, Angela Paul, David Peter, Jessica Rew, Lindsey Rodefer, Diane Schneider, Brent Schroeder, Jeff Servais, Diana St. Mary, Leah Szott, Don Tepsa, Aaron Timmerman, Bailey Williams, and Nicholas Vogel. Master's of Management students being inducted are Mark Hanstedt, John Liebmann, Michael Nelson, and James Streed.

Officers of the UW-Green Bay chapter of Sigma Beta Delta are Joy Benson, president, Sally Dresdow, vice president, and Robert Nagy, secretary/treasurer. All are faculty in Business Administration.

(04-89 / 26 April 2004 / SH)

UW-Green Bay Opera Theater Workshop to present "The Magic Flute"

GREEN BAY - The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Opera Theater Workshop will present "The Magic Flute," an opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, on Tuesday (April 27) and Thursday (April 29).

Both performances take place at 7:30 p.m. in Studio Two of the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts at UW-Green Bay. Admission is $6 for adults and $3 for students.

The opera is directed by UW-Green Bay music faculty member John Plier. The work is accompanied by faculty member Ellen Rosewall on piano and student Stephany McCabe on flute.

"The Magic Flute" lends itself to many interpretations. In the UW-Green Bay adaptation, the plot is moved to the 1960s and features various players in the lead character's world of fantasy and hallucination.

The stage is filled with visions of the 1960s: tie-dyes, peace symbols and hippie cultural symbols. The cast and crew built their sets and designed their costumes.

(04-88 / 23 April 2004 / SH)

UW-Green Bay choral concert features world music, guest choir

GREEN BAY - University of Wisconsin-Green Bay choral groups, joined by the Middleton High School Concert Choir will present a concert, "Let All the World in Every Corner Sing!" at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, April 25 in the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts on the campus at 2420 Nicolet Dr.

The choirs will combine to open the program with an arrangement of a Nigerian song accompanied by traditional instruments featuring Erik Tietyen on gankogul; Jemma Lund on axatse; Rebecca Ostermann on clave; Aaron Roecker on tumba; and Laura Betchner on conga.

Debra Drumm will direct the University Chorus in an American spiritual; an arrangement of the Irish song, "Danny Boy," featuring Claire Weinstein as soloist; and Sanctus from "Mass for Many Nations" by Canadian Rupert Lang. Karen Rafn is their accompanist.

The Concert Choir will perform American music, including arrangements of two spirituals; "The Eyes of All Wait Upon Thee," by Jean Berger, who was born in Germany but became an American citizen; and "Alleluia," by Randall Thompson. John Plier directs.

William Witwer will direct the Phoenix Chorale in selections from five nations. Their program includes "Verano Porteno," by Argentinian Astor Piazzolla; "Hine e Hine," a New Zealand song; "Train," by Canadian Stephen Chatman; "Salmo" by Brazilian Ernani Aguiar; and an arrangement of the Shaker hymn, "Not One Sparrow is Forgotten."

Witwer also will conduct a Men's Chorus in an Irish composition, "Isle of Hope, Isle of Tears." They'll be accompanied by Richard Perry.

The UW-Green Bay Collegium Musicum, directed by Terence O'Grady, will contribute selections at three intervals. They will perform primarily music from the 13th and 14th centuries from Italy, Spain, France and England. They will be accompanied by appropriate instruments, including recorders, lute, viola da gamba and guitar played by faculty members and students. In the group's final set, vocal soloists will include mezzo soprano Katie Covi on "The Peacefull Westerne Winde" by Thomas Campion; bass Kerry Kuplic on "Now is the Month of Maying," by Thomas Morley; and soprano Melissa Staley on "Shall I Sue, Shall I Seeke for Grace," by John Dowland.

The Middleton High School Concert Choir directed by Tom Mielke, will perform selections by composers from the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Venezuela, the U.S. and England. Their accompanist, Ellen Hancheck formerly taught at UW-Green Bay.

The Middleton group and the Phoenix Chorale will join to end the concert with "Praise His Holy Name," by American Keith Hampton.

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

(04-87 / 21 April 2004 / VCD)

Shantytown will raise awareness of homelessness in Green Bay

GREEN BAY - The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay chapter of Habitat for Humanity will build awareness of the problem of homelessness at its annual Shantytown on Friday night (April 23).

The event is from 7 p.m. Friday to 8 a.m. Saturday in the parking lot of First United Methodist Church at Monroe and Howe streets in downtown Green Bay.

UW-Green Bay students will sleep outside in cardboard boxes to focus public attention on homelessness. Green Bay Packaging is donating the boxes.

Chapter president Matt Bonson said he expects about 50 participants to sleep overnight in the cardboard boxes. Throughout the evening, speakers will talk about problems related to homelessness in Green Bay, the involvement of youth in the community and what people can do about homelessness.

The Shantytown event also will include a food and clothing drive. Students and community members are invited to bring items of food and clothing, which will be donated to charity.

Anyone interested in participating in the Shantytown should e-mail UW-Green Bay's Habitat for Humanity chapter at habitat@uwgb.edu.

(04-86 / 21 April 2004 / SH)

"Posters in the Rotunda" to feature research of 14 UW-Green Bay students

GREEN BAY - Fourteen University of Wisconsin-Green Bay undergraduate students will display research projects Tuesday, April 27 at the Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison.

The students will participate in the first "Posters in the Rotunda: A Celebration of Undergraduate Research." The event will bring students and faculty from across the UW System to share research findings with state elected officials, federal research representatives, and members of the public.

"Posters in the Rotunda" will be held from 11 a.m to 2 p.m. in the Capitol Rotunda. A short program will take place at noon.

The event will highlight the extent, quality and value of undergraduate involvement in faculty-guided research projects. Undergraduate research is a major priority within the UW System, according to Cora Marrett, UW System senior vice president for academic affairs.

In declaring the week of April 26 "Undergraduate Research Week," Gov. Jim Doyle said students, faculty and UW System institutions make substantial contributions to advancing knowledge and addressing critical problems confronting our state and nation.

UW-Green Bay projects on display will include a study of the connection between growth in literary skills and self-esteem, a study of the effects of age and culture on social relationships and life goals, and studies of small mammals, deer browsing, breeding birds, and frogs of Great Lakes coastal wetlands.

The following are UW-Green Bay students participating in the event and the research projects they will display:

• Rachel Delebreau, Algoma; Lori Duval, Green Bay, Christina Potter, Black Creek - "Increasing At-Risk Pre-Kindergarten Children's Reading Success."

• Nick Walton, Fort Atkinson - Bird Monitoring in Carara National Park, Costa Rica.

• Gregory Pouliot, Luxemburg; Sylvia Malcore, Luxemburg - "Social Relationships and Life-Goals: Effects of Age and Culture."

• Aimee Monhead, Green Bay - Assessing the morphology of rocks within an area of the Mars Pathfinder landing site known as the Rock Garden, calculating indices and mapping the distribution to fully characterize the local morphology.

• Nathaniel Fillipan, Green Bay - Analyzing selected aqueous materials such as sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, copper and cadmium metals in water.

• Jill West, Grafton - "Watch What You Wear: Exploring Sexism."

• Nick Walton, Fort Atkinson; Amanda Malueg, Green Bay; Katie Hemauer, Stockbridge; Jennifer Powell, Two Rivers; Amanda Carroll, Green Bay; Daniel Joppe, Green Bay - Sponsored by the Cofrin Center for Biodiversity, several projects on studies of small mammals, deer browsing, soil microenvironment, breeding birds, and frogs of Great Lakes coastal wetlands.

(04-85 / 21 April 2004 / SH)

Historian to speak on "Remembering Haymarket" at UW-Green Bay

GREEN BAY - James Green, professor of history at the University of Massachusetts Boston, will speak on "Remembering Haymarket: Chicago's Labor Martyrs and their Memorial Legacy" on Friday, April 30 at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.

Green's lecture is at 10 a.m. in the Christie Theater of the University Union on the UW-Green Bay campus, 2420 Nicolet Drive. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Green is the author of numerous books on the history of labor and social movements, including Taking History to Heart: The Power of the Past in Building Social Movements and Commonwealth of Toil: Chapters from the History of Massachusetts Workers and their Unions (co-authored with Tom Juravich and William Hartford). Green currently is working on Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago and the Great Upheaval, which is scheduled for publication in 2006.

Green's academic and professional activities include a Research Fellowship at the Newberry Library, Chicago, and Fulbright Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Genoa, Italy.

His lecture is part of the Historical Perspectives Lecture Series sponsored by the Center for History and Social Change at UW-Green Bay.

The lecture caps a busy month for the series. Jeremi Suri, assistant professor of history at UW-Madison, speaks on "Global Revolution and the Rise of Detente" at 10 a.m. Friday, April 23. Suri's lecture, which also is free and open to the public, is in Room 210 of Mary Ann Cofrin Hall on the UW-Green Bay campus.

(04-84 / 21 April 2004 / SH)

Northeastern Wisconsin Regional History Day winners advance to state competition

GREEN BAY - Top-scoring students who competed in the annual Northeastern Wisconsin Regional History Day on April 3 at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay have advanced to state competition in Madison next month.

Students who qualified for state competition May 1 are from Denmark, Manitowoc and Sheboygan. Winners at the state level will qualify for national competition in June in Washington, D.C.

Eighty-six high school and middle school students participated in the regional History Day competition at UW-Green Bay. Regional competitors qualified by winning local competitions.

The goal of History Day is to provide students with creative methods — performances, documentaries, exhibits and research papers — to learn about history. The History Day theme for 2004 is "Exploration, Encounter, Exchange in History."

Northeastern Wisconsin students advancing to state competition in various categories are:

• Junior paper: Cassie Dins, "Adolf Hitler: World's Encounter with a Dangerous Mind"; Kaitlyn Kozak, "Exploration Routes of Sir Francis Drake"; and J.D. Graff, "Exploring the Life of Peter the Great." All are students at Sheboygan Horace Mann Middle School.

• Senior paper: Nahira Young, Manitowoc Wilson Junior High School, "Nazi Skokie"; Jamie Dworak, Denmark High School, "The Vietnam War: Through a Soldier's Eye and the Hollywood Big Screen"; and Ashley Kvitek, Denmark High School, "A Soldier and a Reporter in the Korean War."

• Senior Individual Documentary: Doug Shultz, "Smallpox: the Deadliest Weapon"; Stefanie Lindsley, "Mummification: An Encounter with Death"; JoAnna Thiel, "Hatshepsat's Expedition to the Land of Punt." All are students at Sheboygan North High School.

• Senior Group Documentary: Jacob Kapellen, Joe Luebke, "The Khmer Rouge: A Holocaust of the East"; Adam Kultgen, Tegan Hemb, "Galileo: Exploration, Encounter, and Exchange"; Adam Kapellen, Katrina Shaw, "Egypt: Exploration, Encounter, and Exchange." All are students at Sheboygan North High School.

• Junior Individual Exhibit: Brittany Stolzmann, "An Encounter with Elie Wiesel"; Meagan Siehr, "The Warsaw Ghetto"; Brenda Herman, "The Exchange of Conflict between Japan and the U.S." All are students at Sheboygan Horace Mann Middle School.

• Junior Group Exhibit: Kayla Behling, Valerie Klessig, "Oskar Schindler"; Vanessa Hauch, Nicole Schmidt, "Auschwitz"; Ben Raleigh, Neil Schmitt, "NASA." All are students at Sheboygan Horace Mann Middle School.

• Senior Individual Exhibit: Bethany Ratzlaff, "The Art of Raphael Sanzio"; Anna Verhulst, "Bantu Migration"; Kim Koleno, "Travelin' Down Freedom's Main Lane." All are students at Sheboygan North High School.

• Senior Group Exhibit: Andrew Prigge, Peter Michel, "Galileo Galilei"; Woody Hanson, Patrick Phillips, "The Black Plague"; Jennifer Stielow, Katie Bartholomew, "The Black Death in Europe." All are students at Sheboygan North High School.

• Junior Group Performance: Lindsey Pozenel, Melissa Harms, Sheboygan Horace Mann Middle School, "Cruel Times in Colonial America."

• Senior Individual Performance: Katie Belitz, Sheboygan North High School, "Sneak Peek at the City Dionysus."

• Senior Group Performance: Ruth McDonald, Mary McDonald, Alexandra Angoli, Denmark High School, "Man on the Moon?"

(04-83 / 20 April 2004 / SH)

UW-Green Bay clarinet, brass ensembles set recital

GREEN BAY - Students in brass instrument and clarinet ensembles will perform in recital at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 28 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.

Rebecca Tout directs the Clarinet Studio and Paul Bhasin directs the Brass Ensemble.

As a group, Clarinet Studio students will perform "Trois Divertissements" by Henri Tomasi, "Four for Tango," by Astor Piazzolla, and Scherzetto by Gordon Jacob.

Several clarinet students also will perform solo works. They include Abbe Jueds, Marion; Corey Bauman, Germantown; Brandon Meulroek, Sheboygan; Kristina Minor, Madison; and Sarah Boknevitz, Milwaukee. They'll be accompanied on piano by Mary Slovic, Green Bay. Matt Boreen, Green Bay, will perform "A Set for Clarinet," by Donald Martino, a work for clarinet alone.

The Brass Ensemble will perform works from the Renaissance through the 20th century. Bhasin says the instrumentation is based on that made popular in the 1970s by the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble of London, which was comprised of the best brass players from the London Symphony, London Philharmonic, and Royal Opera Orchestras.

Members of the Brass Ensemble are Laura Mullins, Madison, trumpet; Ben Perthel, Colgate, horn; Brandon Wirth, New Berlin, trumpet; Shawn Reince, Green Bay, trumpet; Andy Eshbaugh, Greenfield, trumpet; Nick Winkler, Ripon, trombone; Bill Burroughs, Milwaukee, trombone; Matt Becker, Rhinelander, trumpet; and Steve Lambert, Sheboygan, percussion.

(04-82 / 19 April 2004 / VCD)

UW-Green Bay campus to be site of numerous Earth Week activities

GREEN BAY - A talk by a former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ombudsman, an "eco fair," and a campus cleanup are among the highlights of Earth Week 2004 activities at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.

Numerous presentations and activities will take place on campus throughout the week as the UW-Green Bay community observes Earth Week, which was founded by former U.S. Sen. Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin.

Robert Martin, a former ombudsman at the Environmental Protection Agency, will speak from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday (April 20) in the University Union's Christie Theatre.

Martin served as ombudsman for the EPA's hazardous waste office for nearly a decade. He resigned in 2002 after a long feud with senior EPA officials. He frequently clashed with EPA political appointees in the Bush and Clinton administrations over federal Superfund cleanup standards.

Other Earth Week activities at UW-Green Bay include:

• a bird walk Monday (April 19) from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. in the Cofrin Memorial Arboretum. The walk will be led by Nick Walton, a UW-Green Bay Environmental Sciences student who has experience with bird surveys in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

• Earth Week-related talks Monday by UW-Green Bay Public and Environmental Affairs faculty members. Prof. Troy Abel will speak in the Christie Theatre from 2 to 3:15 p.m., and Prof. Michael Kraft will speak in the Christie Theatre from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.

• a talk by Casey Klingbeil on elephant poaching from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Wednesday (April 21) in the Niagara B Room of the University Union.

• an Adopt-a-Highway cleanup from 4 to 6 p.m. Wednesday at Highways 54/57 and Bay Settlement Road.

• an Eco Fair featuring environmental contributions of local businesses from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday (April 22) in Phoenix Room C of the University Union.

• a Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary presentation from 12:30 to 2 p.m. Thursday in Phoenix Room A of the University Union.

• a tree-planting event from 2 to 6 p.m. Friday (April 23). Participants will meet in the Mary Ann Cofrin Hall parking lot.

• a campus cleanup from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday (April 24). Participants will meet in the Mary Ann Cofrin Hall Wintergarden.

(04-81 / 16 April 2004 / SH)

UW-Green Bay Senior Art Exhibit opens April 25

GREEN BAY - Seven senior art students at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay will open an exhibit of their work with a reception from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, April 25 in the Lawton Gallery located in Theater Hall Room 249 on the campus at 2420 Nicolet Dr.

Exhibitors and their media are:

Michael Cepress, Wausau, mixed media sculpture; Jodi Lieburn, Quinnesec, Mich., sculptural textiles; Elizabeth Meissner, Sturgeon Bay, photography and metals; Jean Meissner, Green Bay, mixed media installation; Natalie K. Meyer, De Pere, printmaking; Mindy Sue Meyers, Florence, textiles and installation; and Steve Richer, Green Bay, video installation.

The exhibit continues through May 8. It is the second of two senior exhibits at UW-Green Bay this spring. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.

(04-80 / 15 April 2004 / VCD)

Dinner, entertainment on menu for UW-Green Bay international event

GREEN BAY - Tickets are on sale now for the 28th annual International Dinner beginning with a social hour at 6 p.m. on Saturday, April 24 in the Phoenix Rooms of University Union at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 2420 Nicolet Dr. The 28th annual dinner sponsored by the UW-Green Bay International Student Club will offer foods from Mexico, western Europe, Hong Kong, Greece and Cyprus, western Africa, Nepal, Russia, Pakistan and Taiwan.

Entertainment begins at 7 p.m. followed by dinner, more entertainment, and a dance at 10 p.m. Tickets are $20 for community members and UW-Green Bay faculty and staff, and $10 for students. They may be purchased at the University Union information center located on the lower level of the union building. The information number is (920) 465-2400.

International hors d'oeuvres begin the meal, followed by salads from Mexico and Hong Kong. Main dishes include rice pilaf with spinach; vegetable fritters; biryani, a layered vegetable and puff pastry dish; golubtsy, which incorporates rice, vegetables, pork and beef; korma, a spicy beef stew; and five-spice duck and chicken. Dessert offerings are kaakiri, a sweet couscous, raisin and milk pudding from western Africa, American sweet potato pie and German chocolate cake.

International Student Club President Avinash Thadani notes that international students and students from the U.S. will join together to entertain guests with dancing, music and a "fashion show" of costumes from around the world. The dances especially will be international. For example, students from Bulgaria, Japan, Mexico, Kenya and Turkey will join to present Balkan dances, and natives of Spain, Mexico, the U.S., Japan, and Holland will salsa dance.

The 2004 International Dinner theme is The International Awards, a take-off on The Academy Awards.

(04-79 / 15 April 2004 / VCD)

Spring theme, Honors Band highlight UW-Green Bay bands concert

GREEN BAY - The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Wind Ensemble and the Symphonic Band will perform in a concert subtitled, "Sunshine, Thunder and "Shades" at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 21 in the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts on the campus at 2420 Nicolet Dr.

The concert will include a special performance by an invited 140-member State Bound High School Honors Band. The band includes students from 30 high schools who received the highest ratings for solo performances at the Wisconsin School Music Association or Michigan School Band and Orchestra Association district solo and ensemble festivals. Their performance will be the concert finale.

The Wind Ensemble directed by Kevin Collins will perform Frank Ticheli's "Blue Shades," a tribute to the composer's New Orleans roots and to jazz musicians. Matt Boreen will be the clarinet soloist. The group also will present a trombone feature from the golden era of bands, Fillmore's "Rolling Thunder," and a transcription of Elgar's "Enigma Variations."

Trumpet instructor Paul Bhasin will be featured in the virtuoso trumpet solo composition, "Carnival of Venice."

Ticheli also appears on the Symphonic Band program. Rebecca Tout will direct the group in his "Sun Dance," a piece the composer found to suggest a town festival on a warm, sun-washed day.

Symphonic Band also will present Antonio de Cabezon's "Prelude in the Dorian Mode," a 16th century piece scored for wind band in the early 20th century; Alfred Reed's "Punchinello," subtitled, "Overture to a Romantic Comedy for Concert Band"; and a Spanish march, "Amparito Roca," by Jaime Texidor.

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

(04-78 / 15 April 2004 / VCD)

Architects chosen for UW-Green Bay sports and events center project

GREEN BAY - Two architectural firms with extensive experience on sports, recreation and events centers have been selected to design the renovation and expansion of the Phoenix Sports Center at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.

The team of Venture Architects of Milwaukee and Moody-Nolan of Columbus, Ohio, will design the sports and events center at UW-Green Bay. The state Department of Administration was in charge of the selection process.

Architects immediately will begin work that will lead to the development of design concepts for the Student Sports and Events Center project.

Previous work by Venture includes the Bradley Center in Milwaukee, the Klotsche Center at UW-Milwaukee and the Kohl Center at UW-Madison. Moody-Nolan has been involved in the design of Value City Arena at the Jerome Schottenstein Center at Ohio State, the Student Center at Hampton University, the Student Recreation Center at West Virginia University, and a variety of other classroom, laboratory and recreation centers.

UW-Green Bay's plans for the Student Sports and Events Center will nearly triple the size of the 76,000-square-foot Phoenix Sports Center. Plans call for the upgraded sports and events center to include a central area with a seating capacity in the range of 3,000 to 4,000. Its multipurpose playing surface will be the home court for the women's basketball and volleyball teams.

Newly constructed and renovated areas also will include state-of-the-art facilities for cardiovascular and aerobic activities, practice courts for the men's basketball team, indoor running facilities, multipurpose courts for racquet sports, volleyball and intramural basketball, and swimming and diving pools.

The Student Sports and Events Center will accommodate important campus events such as summer orientation, commencement, student career fairs, festivals, multicultural activities and other forms of student entertainment.

UW-Green Bay students have committed $15 million to the project through higher fees. The state of Wisconsin has committed an additional $7.5 million of state-supported bonding in the 2005-07 biennium as long as other funding pieces are in place. The remaining $10 million is being sought through private fundraising.

If all goes as planned, ground will be broken for the Student Sports and Events Center in fall 2005 and the doors will open by fall 2007.

(04-77 / 14 April 2004 / SH)

Lecturer at UW-Green Bay to speak on global revolution, detente

GREEN BAY - Jeremi Suri, assistant professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will speak on "Global Revolution and the Rise of Detente" Friday, April 23 at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.

Suri, a fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University in 2003-04, will speak at 10 a.m. in Room 210 of Mary Ann Cofrin Hall at UW-Green Bay, 2420 Nicolet Drive. The event is free and open to the public.

Suri is the author of "Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Detente." The book won Suri the 2003 Phi Alpha Theta Best First Book Award. He currently is working on "Henry Kissinger and the American Century." Another book by Suri, "America in the World," is scheduled for publication in 2008.

He has a long list of published articles, book chapters, reviews and presentations on detente, the Cold War, U.S. foreign policy, and issues related to diplomatic history.

Suri's lecture is part of the Historical Perspectives Lecture Series sponsored by the Center for History and Social Change at UW-Green Bay.

(04-76 / 14 April 2004 / SH)

Registration still open for April 23 workshop on infant/toddler care

GREEN BAY - Registration is still available for a one-day workshop designed for teachers and other professionals serving infants, toddlers and their families.

The Tenth Annual Current Issues in Infant/Toddler Development and Care workshop will be held Friday, April 23 at the Radisson Hotel in Green Bay. The workshop runs from 8:15 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The conference theme is "First Relationships: Building Secure Bonds in Infant/Toddler Care."

Co-sponsors of the workshop are University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Outreach and Extension, Brown County UW-Extension, and the Wisconsin Early Childhood Association.

Keynote speakers for the conference are:

• James Elicker, associate professor and chair of undergraduate studies, Child Development and Family Studies, Purdue University. Elicker teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in child development, early childhood education and research methods.

• Linn Veen, director, Purdue Child Care Program. Veen has 30 years of experience with programs for children and families. She has been an infant and toddler caregiver, college instructor and child-care center director.

• Jane Harvey, supervisor of field experience, Department of Child Development and Family Studies, Purdue University. Harvey has experience as a caregiver, program director and college instructor.

The workshop is designed for infant/toddler specialists, including college and university faculty, teachers and caregivers, family child-care providers, early intervention specialists and technical college instructors.

The conference fee is $80 on or before Friday, April 16 and $90 after April 16. The fee covers handouts, lunch, refreshment breaks, continuing-education certificate and parking.

For more information, call (920) 465-2642 or (800) 892-2118. Online registration is available at www.uwgb.edu/outreach/profed.

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Tickets available for bus trip to view "Treasures of Ancient Egypt"

GREEN BAY - Tickets are still available for a University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Outreach trip Saturday (April 17) to view the exhibition "The Quest for Immortality: Treasures of Ancient Egypt" at the Milwaukee Public Museum.

The exhibition, acclaimed by The New York Times as a "visual knockout," features the largest selection of antiquities ever loaned by Egypt and includes more than 100 artifacts from the tombs of kings and nobles.

Visitors will stand within inches of massive stone carvings, intricately painted coffins, gold death masks and exquisite jewelry. The treasures open a window into the oldest civilization in recorded history.

The bus will leave the UW-Green Bay Studio Arts (Blue) parking lot at 8 a.m. and arrive back at UW-Green Bay at about 9:30 p.m.

The cost of the trip is $49. For more information, call (920) 465-2642 or (800) 892-2118. Online registration is available at www.uwgb.edu/outreach/profed.

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Wildlife and unusual pet care workshop rescheduled to April 17

GREEN BAY - A workshop on Veterinary Care of Wildlife and Unusual Pets originally set for March 20 has been rescheduled to Saturday, April 17 from 9 a.m. to noon at the Cofrin Center for Biodiversity located in Mary Ann Cofrin Hall suite 212 at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 2420 Nicolet Dr.

Dr. Chris Katz, an adjunct assistant professor in the UW-Green Bay graduate program in Environmental Science and Policy and owner of Two Rivers Veterinary Clinic, will discuss care of diverse animals. Katz also lectures at the UW-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine.

The workshop is free, but because space is limited, pre-registration is required. The number to register is (920) 465-5032 or registration may be made by e-mail to wolfa@uwgb.edu.

Katz has been a wildlife veterinarian for 20 years, and frequently treats unusual pets. His pet patients have included hedgehogs, pythons, venomous snakes, and sugar gliders, which are small marsupials from Southeast Asia. Katz often is called in to care for wild animals such as deer and bats that have entered human spaces. He recently treated an owl with cataracts. Katz also provides veterinary services for animals in zoos.

Katz is the lead researcher on a UW-Green Bay-U.S. Forest Service study of bears in Oconto and Forest Counties that began last fall. The five-year study will benefit both bears and people by documenting the movements of bears in relation to people and landscape and comparing the health of bears in an area of high human density to that of bears in an area where few people live.

The workshop is part an on-going series of natural history workshops sponsored by the Cofrin Center for Biodiversity at UW-Green Bay.

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Miss Green Bay Area to promote Phuture Phoenix

GREEN BAY - Melissa Staley, Miss Green Bay Area 2004, is teaming up with Texas Roadhouse to promote and raise money for the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay's Phuture Phoenix program.

Staley will appear at the Texas Roadhouse, 2375 S. Oneida St., from 5 to 9 p.m. Wednesday (April 14) to promote the Phuture Phoenix program.

For a contribution of $1 or more, children will receive a card they can color and have displayed at the restaurant. Prizes, including a free dinner and UW-Green Bay stuffed animals, will be awarded for the best card.

Proceeds from the event will benefit the Phuture Phoenix program. Phuture Phoenix is a comprehensive, year-round effort to encourage elementary and middle-school students to excel in school and aim high with dreams of college and careers.

The program helps children "create the future" by bringing them to the UW-Green Bay campus, pairing them with college-age mentors and providing scholarships. The annual Phuture Phoenix Day brings about 600 fifth-graders to the campus for tours and activities.

Staley, a UW-Green Bay music education student, has been involved with Phuture Phoenix as a student mentor.

Cyndie Shepard, who founded the Phuture Phoenix program, expressed her gratitude for Staley's support of the program.

"I'm very honored that she's a part of Phuture Phoenix," Shepard said. "She was a Phuture Phoenix mentor before she was Miss Green Bay. I'm just thrilled that mentoring children is her platform."

Staley won the Miss Green Bay Area 2004 title in February. She will represent the area in the Miss Wisconsin pageant in Oshkosh in June.

Her platform is "Go to the HEAD of the Class." HEAD stands for Higher Education Achieves Dreams.

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UW-Green Bay to showcase academic excellence Wednesday, April 14

GREEN BAY - University of Wisconsin-Green Bay students will present their outstanding scholarly and creative work to the public Wednesday, April 14 at the University's annual Academic Excellence Symposium.

About 100 UW-Green Bay students will exhibit 46 projects at the Symposium. The event runs from 1 to 3 p.m. in the Phoenix Rooms of the University Union.

Students will set up poster displays and computer presentations to showcase their exceptional research, academic achievements and creative work.

The session will be open to students, faculty, staff and community members. It will allow viewers to study and review exhibits and discuss them with presenters.

Projects to be displayed include research projects in natural and biological sciences, human development, business administration, education, humanistic studies, social change and development, information and computing science, public and environmental affairs, and urban and regional studies. Numerous art, theater and music projects also will be on display.

Faculty members nominated students for the Symposium. Participating students will receive certificates of academic excellence.

This marks the third consecutive year that the Academic Excellence Symposium has been held at UW-Green Bay. It provides the campus and community with an opportunity to learn more about the interesting work being done across campus.

The Symposium is sponsored by the honor societies of Phi Kappa Phi and Phi Eta Sigma and the offices of the Provost and Academic Deans.

(04-71 / 8 April 2004 / SH)

Meredith recital at UW-Green Bay features 'Casa Guidi'

GREEN BAY - Mezzo soprano Sarah Meredith will present a discussion and performance of Dominick Argento's "Casa Guidi" at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 13 in Fort Howard Hall of the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 2420 Nicolet Dr. The program is free and the public is invited.

Pianist Linda Halloin will accompany Meredith.

"Casa Guidi" is a cycle of songs based on texts from letters written between 1846 and 1859 by poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning from her home in Florence, Italy, to her sister, Henrietta, in England.

Meredith will present the work as a lecture-performance, giving analyses of both music and text based on her own research and her interview with the composer.

American composer Argento writes most of his compositions for voice. He has 13 operas to his credit. His song cycle, "From the Diary of Virginia Woolf" won a Pulitzer Prize in 1975.

The five songs in "Casa Guidi" are "Casa Guidi," depicting the physical setting of the house in Florence; "The Italian Cook and the English Maid," telling of the relationships between the domestic help and between Elizabeth and her husband Robert Browning; "Robert Browning," speaking of Elizabeth's awe and love for her husband; "The Death of Mr. Barrett," dealing with her relationship with her father; and "Domesticity," describing the ideal relationship between the Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning and their home life in Casa Guidi.

"Casa Guidi" was first performed in 1985 by mezzo soprano Frederica von Stade with The Minnesota Orchestra. A recording by von Stade with the Minnesota Orchestra conducted by Eiji Oue featuring the work won the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Classical Contemporary Composition.

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Comedy at UW-Green Bay gives glimpse of goofs on-stage and off

GREEN BAY - University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Theater will present "Noises Off," the acclaimed comedy by British playwright Michael Frayn, at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, April 23 and 24 and Thursday through Saturday, April 29-30 and May 1 in University Theater located in Theater Hall on the campus at 2420 Nicolet Dr.

"It's the funniest play I have ever seen in the theater," says director Laura Riddle, a member of the UW-Green Bay faculty.

The play shows everything that can go wrong when a troupe of inept actors tours a play called "Nothing On." The audience sees the goofs on-stage and off-stage.

The UW-Green Bay production presents the play as a U.S. tour by a British director and a troupe of American actors who use British accents.

"It's a wonderfully constructed play," says Riddle. In the first act, the audience sees a disastrous dress rehearsal; in the second act, the real audience sees the play fall apart in front of an audience; and in the third act, the set turns to reveal what happened backstage while things went badly on stage. Riddle says the moveable set not only reveals to the audience things audiences usually don't get to see, but poses a challenge for set design and construction.

Jeffrey Entwistle is the scenic designer, and R. Michael Ingraham is technical director and lighting designer. Kaiome Malloy designed the costumes. All are members of the faculty. Student Christopher Woller is the sound designer.

"Noises Off" first opened in London in 1982 where it ran for four years and won an Evening Standard award for Best Comedy of the Year. It opened in the U.S. in 1983 and was nominated for a Tony Award the following year. A new production of the play opened on Broadway in 2001.

Riddle says the play is entirely meant for fun. "There's nothing to learn," she adds.

Tickets are $12 in advance and $15 at the door for adults, and $10 in advance and $12 at the door for seniors and those under 17. The numbers for tickets are (920) 465-2217 or (800) 328-8586. Group rates are available for parties of 20 or more.

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'Right-Wing Propaganda' is lecture topic at UW-Green Bay

GREEN BAY - Journalist and author Joe Conason will speak on "The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine" at 10 a.m. Friday, April 16 in the Christie Theater of University Union at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 2420 Nicolet Dr. The event is free and open to the public.

Conason has written a popular political column for the New York Observer since 1992, and served as the newspaper's executive editor from 1992 to 1997. He also writes "Joe Conason's Journal," a daily weblog that is among widely read features on Salon.com, the Internet magazine.

Before joining the Observer, Conason spent two years as editor-at-large for Details magazine. From 1978 to 1990, he was a columnist, staff writer and national correspondent for The Village Voice. During his tenure at the Voice, he covered beats including national political campaigns, City Hall scandals, the Iran-Contra affair, and major foreign stories in the Philippines and China.

In 1985, Conason co-wrote the Voice expose of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos's hidden Manhattan real estate holdings that led to Congressional hearings and provoked the election that preceded the Philippine dictator's overthrow. He made trips to the Philippines to cover that election and two coup attempts against President Corazon Aquino. In 1989, he arrived in Beijing the night after the Tianamen Square massacre and reported on the aftermath for the Voice.

A winner of the New York Press Club Byline award, Conason has covered every American presidential election since 1980. His reporting on Whitewater and the Clinton presidency brought him national media attention. He is co-author of "The Hunting of the President: The Ten-Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton," which appeared on both The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times bestseller lists. His articles have appeared in Harper's, The Nation, The New Republic, The Guardian (London), and the New Yorker, among other periodicals. He appears frequently as a commentator on television and radio.

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

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Journalism group honors Fourth Estate with staff, individual awards

GREEN BAY - The Fourth Estate, the student newspaper at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, has received another prestigious award for overall excellence in student journalism.

The Society of Professional Journalists awarded the UW-Green Bay student newspaper the second-place prize in the category of best all-around non-daily newspaper in the Society's Region Six. The region includes Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota.

The Fourth Estate received the award for its Dec. 4, 2003, issue, which covered the UW-Green Bay Phoenix volleyball team qualifying for the NCAA tournament, Democratic presidential candidate Wesley Clark's visit to the campus and other topics.

The award is the newspaper's second overall excellence award of the 2003-04 academic year. In February, the Associated Collegiate Press also honored the Fourth Estate with an honorable mention in overall excellence in the category of four-year school newspapers of tabloid size.

The Society of Professional Journalists also honored Fourth Estate Editor in Chief N. Ryan Bandoch, Wausau, with a first-place award in the sports-writing category. Bandoch received the award for his Dec. 4, 2003, article "Phoenix edge Panthers in conference tournament."

The Society, whose mission is to protect the First Amendment and the open flow of information, presented the awards at a conference March 26-28 in Minneapolis.

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12th annual UW-Green Bay Powwow set for April 10

GREEN BAY - The 12th annual University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Powwow will be held Saturday, April 10 at the Phoenix Sports Center on the UW-Green Bay campus, 2420 Nicolet Drive. Grand entries will begin at 1 p.m. and again at 6 p.m. Admission is free.

Wind Eagle Singers, Menominee, will be the host drum. Invited drums are Cumberland Singers, St. Croix Ojibway; Sacred Leader Singers, Oneida; Four Nations Singers, Stockbridge-Munsee; and Junior Deadgrass, Menominee.

The head dancers are UW-Green Bay students Darwin Dick, Menominee, and Kyla Newbanks, Oneida.

Veterans groups representing the Oneida, Menominee, Stockbridge-Munsee and Lac Du Flambeau Ojibway tribes also will participate.

Mike Peltier, Oneida, will be master of ceremonies, and Patrick Madrid, Oneida, will be arena director.

Vendors will have food, various arts and crafts, and other items for sale.

The Powwow is organized by the Intertribal Student Council at UW-Green Bay. The community event's popularity prompted its expansion to afternoon and evening grand entries in 2002.

For more information about the Powwow, contact the UW-Green Bay American Intercultural Center at (920) 465-2720.

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Area students to compete in Northeastern Wisconsin Regional History Day

GREEN BAY - Eighty-six high school and middle school students will participate Saturday (April 3) in the annual Northeastern Wisconsin Regional History Day, an academic competition promoting the study of history.

The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay will host the competition, which provides students with creative methods — performances, documentaries, exhibits and research papers — to learn about history.

Students and teachers from Denmark, Manitowoc and Sheboygan will compete in the regional event. They qualified by winning local competitions and are aiming to move on to state and national competition. The first Northeastern Wisconsin Regional History Day, held in 2003, produced three projects that advanced to national competition.

The goal of History Day is to provide students with creative methods to learn about history. Students are given opportunities to use the rich historical resources found in their communities and throughout the state.

This year's History Day theme is "Exploration, Encounter, Exchange in History." Among the entries are:

• a performance entitled Man on the Moon?, which suggests the 1969 moon landing was a hoax.

• an exhibit entitled Welcome to Milwaukee, Now Get Out, Thank You for Your Time.

• a documentary on the evolution of video games.

• papers exploring topics from the First Crusade and Islam to Africa's AIDS epidemic.

• an exhibit about advertising and the smoking industry.

The event at UW-Green Bay's University Union starts at 9 a.m. and concludes with an awards ceremony at 2:30 p.m.

Performances will take place in the Union's Christie Theater from 9:30 to 10:45 a.m. Exhibits will be on display in the Union's Nicolet Room, with public viewing times from 11:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. and from 1:50 to 2:30 p.m. Papers will be judged in the Union's Heritage Room and Point Sable Room.

Northeastern Wisconsin Regional History Day is made possible by a three-year $822,000 Teaching American History Grant from the U.S. Department of Education. The grant also supports summer institutes in American history for middle and high school history teachers in Northeastern Wisconsin.

For more information about the History Day event, contact Debra Anderson of the UW-Green Bay Area Research Center by phone at (920) 465-2539 or by e-mail at andersod@uwgb.edu.

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UW-Green Bay's Extended Degree Program celebrates 25th anniversary

GREEN BAY - Students, alumni, faculty and staff of the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay's Extended Degree Program will gather on campus Saturday (April 3) to celebrate a milestone in the program's history.

They will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the innovative program, which has provided a higher education to students who otherwise would not have had the opportunity.

The anniversary ceremony will be highlighted by the dedication of the William G. Laatsch Geography Room in UW-Green Bay's Mary Ann Cofrin Hall. Laatsch, UW-Green Bay professor of urban and regional studies, has long been a popular instructor in the Extended Degree Program. Extended Degree alumni began the campaign to donate money to the University in Laatsch's honor.

The dedication will take place at 11:30 a.m. in Mary Ann Cofrin Hall's Winter Garden area. A luncheon and program will follow.

The Extended Degree Program uses distance learning delivery methods to accommodate the needs of returning adult students. Students attend Saturday classes and work independently between classes. Classes also are offered online and through audio and videotape.

Dottie Stepien, director of the UW-Green Bay Extended Degree Program, said alumni and students from all over the state will celebrate their accomplishments at the ceremony. She said the program's students have had to juggle their schoolwork with employment, family and community responsibilities.

"These are dedicated students who overcame huge obstacles to education," Stepien said.

Extended Degree began 25 years ago to enhance the "Wisconsin Idea" to provide access to higher education for all Wisconsin citizens from border to border. In 1997, the program began delivering some courses totally on the Internet.

More than 135 people are expected to attend the anniversary event. The program will include greetings from alumna Sandie Scott, pathway staff writer/corporate letter specialist for American Medical Security, and current student Ken Seipel, vice president of stores for Old Navy. Larry Weyers, chairman, president and CEO of WPS Resources, will offer greetings as an employer of Extended Degree students.

Stepien said she is proud of the accomplishments of a program that began as a unique idea.

"We are so excited to celebrate the contributions of the students and the program to the community," she said. "Distance education is the wave of the future, and we were among the first to be part of it."

(04-64 / 1 April 2004 / SH)